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Probably the most famous piece of early feminist artart with a distinct uplift-the-gender messagewas Judy Chicago's 197479 The Dinner Party, the installation of Great Historical Vaginas now on permanent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. But Wittenberg introduces me to a group of female artists of the 1960s and '70s who pioneered the painting of sexually explicit images of men as well, and soon I discover that the art world is in the midst of a veritable ManSpoke renaissance. Early last year, the Dallas Contemporary mounted a retrospective called Black Sheep Feminism: The Art of Sexual Politics, while the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City featured 1960s-era antiwar artist Judith Bernstein under the title Dicks of Deathinspired by the scrawls on the walls of men's bathrooms, she drew cartoon penises shooting bullets or turning into giant menacing screws. Eventually I find my way to the Fight Censorship Group, a girl gang of '60s artists who put this cri de chatte in their manifesto: "If the erect penis is not wholesome enough to go into museums, it should not be considered wholesome enough to go into women."
But Wittenberg's love of sexual material goes deeper than politics or even lust. She's looking for fresh ways to engage art's long history of sexual imagery, from the first cave paintings 12,000 years ago to the lingams of ancient India and the phallic statues of ancient Greece to more modern provocations like Courbet's The Origin of the World, a close-up view of a woman's genitals that is still so upsetting it's been banned on Facebook. She's very interested in technical questions like the contrast between "image and surface," applying high style to subjects that many people consider vulgar. She's also responding to other current artists who are exploring the theme, from Salle and Jeff Koons to Marlene Dumas, a prominent Dutch painter whose earthy subjects range from childbirth to peep shows to, yes, impassioned men. In 2008 and 2009, a Dumas show called Measuring Your Own Grave made an influential splash at both the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. And of course, with frank sexual imagery now available on every laptop and with the porn industry outselling Hollywood, Wittenberg is engaging like a journalist with the hot topics and pressing issues (so to speak) of the modern world. As she puts it, "When you're thinking about sex all the time, it has a funny way of wandering into the picture."
It certainly doesn't hurt that her predecessors are finally starting to sell their paintings; this year, the Carnegie Museum paid $350,000 for a series of Bernstein's "screw drawings" from the Mary Boone show. Boone's director, Ron Warren, said that while male artists still find it easier to sell explicit work (it's considered "much more aggressive for females to use sexual imagery"), the message of Bernstein's workits critique of the link between militarism and machismomade it downright family-friendly. "I saw people bringing in their kids and explaining the work to them."
When I email Bernstein for perspective, I inadvertently stumble into a minefield of feminist politics by starting with a general question about women who paint sex. "Women who work with sexual imagery are often lumped together, when in essence their aesthetic and message are very different," she snaps. Maybe this is because I enthused a little too much about Wittenberg, who rejects "identity art" and the notion that a woman should paint from a female perspectivethe closest she's gotten to that is painting the Fox News building like a vaguely phallic still from a Leni Riefenstahl movie.
Wittenberg put me in touch with Betty Tompkins, who was more fun. Still sounding 25 at 68, she laughed her way through most of a two-hour visit to her SoHo studio. She found rejection by all the male-dominated galleries of the '70s "liberating" because she could focus on what she really wanted, which was explosive imagery. "That was in the back of my mind all the timea charged image. It was too late to do it like de Kooning and Hofmannthey were my heroesand I didn't want to be anybody's second place." One day she was flipping through her husband's porn collection, and she framed the shots with her fingers. "I said, 'Now that's a charged image.'"
By now, it's getting late. I've been in Wittenberg's studio for almost three hours. She never seems to tire. She never sits down. She has shown us paintings of a beautiful naked woman straddling a log and paintings of an orgy based on a porn video she found by searching "after school special"she likes to use weird search terms like "back to nature" or "grassy knoll" because they generate unusual images.
Once she lands on a video she likes, she'll print out 50 different stills at different moments and play with them, "meshing" one drawing to the next. "I'll spend days just, like, distancing myself from the photograph and living it, until the direction of the emotional content" sinks in. "I'd be like, Oh, that image really feels red. You know?" Sometimes she's chasing something as simple as a shadow, or a curl of the mouth.
Wittenberg takes us to her newest series: paintings of two men kissing so hard their faces almost merge into one. She's done drawings, monotypes, paintings in black and white and in red and white. The latest is the size of a small car and mostly yellow, with streaks of drippy red that look, in an oddly beautiful way, like oozing blood. She wants to express all the "conditions of the kiss: the unwanted kiss, the loving kiss, the kiss of death, the kiss of Judas, the eternal kiss of God." Eventually, she wants to do three faces kissing themselves into a single face.
Finally, at my request, she shows us the series of paintings that led to Red Handed, Again. She tells the story of the famous painter who first saw them. "I was fussing around, and he took the brush out of my hand and he just pulled it right up as one stroke'The dick is one thing,' he said. 'Part of painting is making a choice and sticking to it. Commit! Go with your gut!'"
This seems like the right time to ask the question that started this adventure. "You said to me it's the hardest thing in the world to sell these paintings," I say. "So what happened when you showed them to collectors and gallery owners?"
At last, she sits down. The very question seems to sap her energy. But her rat-a-tat answer reveals her true spiritrepeating her favorite word about 30 times in rapid succession, she says that art curators in both Miami and the Midwest asked for one of her paintings and insisted that Miami and the Midwest were ready for explicit male imagery, eager for it, hungry for it, drooling for it. So she sent a painting out and quickly got the message that Miami and the Midwest weren't quite so eager for it or hungry for it or drooling for it after all. "So it's been sent to Miami and back, and to the Midwest and back, and now this guy is calling me from Los Angeles for a show in October, and I'm inclined to send him the same dick."
"Decoration is still an important element for painting, and when you have something with an aggressive subject matter, it doesn't know its place."
Why?
"Because I feel like it's the most digestible one in the studioit has nice colors, it's kind of a softer image. It's slightly more decorative."
I look where she's pointing. It's one of her yellow ones, very pretty.
"There doesn't seem to be any real home for any of these," she continues a bit sadly. "It doesn't go in the kids' room; it doesn't go in the living room; it doesn't go in the dining room. Decoration is still an important element for painting, and when you have something with an aggressive subject matter, it doesn't know its place."
But does she intend to keep doing them, I ask, even if they don't sell?
"Yeah," she answers. "I mean, I might die with all these dicks, for all I care."
At that moment, her parrot lands on her shoulder,
and Wittenberg breaks into a smile. She takes the bird in her hand and pushes its feathers apart. "Look at those colors," she says.
This article originally appeared in the March 2017 issue of ELLE.
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Browse > Home / Headline News / McGill third-best in the world for anatomy, sixth for mining
Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017
By McGill Reporter Staff
McGill just keeps getting better. Thats the conclusion to be drawn from the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject released on March 8, 2017.
From a stunning third-place ranking for the Universitys program in anatomy and physiology (only Oxford and Cambridge were better) to a sixth-place rank for Mining and Metals Engineering, McGill had 32 subjects ranked in the Top 50 in the world and posted 23 improvements since last year, against only 12 declines and 10 subjects where the ranking didnt change.
The seventh edition of Quacquarelli Symondss analysis of subject-specific university performance lists the worlds best universities for the study of 46 different subjects. Anatomy & Physiology is one of four new subject categories introduced in this years listing.
We are extremely pleased to rank among the worlds top three universities in the study of anatomy and physiology, said David Eidelman, Vice-Principal of Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine at McGill. This is a direct outcome of the quality of our academics and staff in these departments, who I congratulate for their stellar and hard work on behalf of our students. I am also gratified to see McGills rankings rise this year in the medicine and pharmacology categories.
Dean of Engineering Jim Nicell was equally delighted with the results in Mining and Metals. We are very proud to be ranked so highly along with our counterparts in other Canadian institutions, he said. The mining industry is an essential part of the economy of Canada, so we must always do our best to stay at the forefront in our teaching and research in support of this sector.
McGills ranking in the Medicine subject category rose from 27th in 2016 to 22nd in the latest edition. In Pharmacology, McGill moved up to the 31st spot from 37th a year ago.
McGill was ranked in five subject areas and placed in the Top 50 in four of them Medicine (28), Arts & Humanities (43), Natural Sciences (46) and Social Sciences & Management (49). McGill ranked 63rd in Engineering.
QS evaluated 4,438 universities,qualified 3,098 and ranked 1,117 institutions in total. More than 127 million citations attributions were analyzed and the British firm verified the provision of more than 18,900 programs. This years QS rankings by subject feature a record 46 subjects, four more than the previous year.
McGill University now features amongst the worlds elite institutions in 40 of the 46 subjects and all five subject areas featured in this yearsQS World University Rankings by Subject, said Ben Sowter, Head of Division for the QS Intelligence Unit.
The University is currently ranked 30th globally by QS, among the almost 1,000 universities surveyed for the annual report of world university rankings. McGill has been ranked as the top Canadian university for 11 of the 13 years that the QS/THE rankings have been published, apart from 2013 and 2014.
The full QS World University Rankings by Subject tables can be foundonline. The full methodology can be foundhere.
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Sara Ramirez, who is bisexual and played a bisexual surgeon on Greys Anatomy, had a bone to pick with The Real ONeals.
The actress blasted the sitcom Thursday over a Jan. 17 episode in which a gay character played by Noah Galvin likened bisexuality to having webbed toes or money problems, several outlets noted.
The 41-year-old actor, who came out last October, implored network ABC and The Real ONeals on Twitter to own and address the issue and empower LGBTQ youth with accurate positive reflections.
Ramirez said shes disappointed in the network for which she worked for 10 years on the doctor drama. She left the show in May. I will invest my brand where Im respected, she wrote.
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Galvin and Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, known as PFLAG and which partnered with The Real ONeals on the episode, issued apologieslast month for causing offense, the New York Daily News reported. A PFLAG spokeswoman said that the group blew it for not catching the comment earlier.
But in another tweet Ramirez called for a network response.
The actress also encouraged followers to sign a change.org petition protesting the show.
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The most famous name in celebrity nudity, Mr. Skin, has revealed the winners of his 18th Annual Anatomy Awards, with 43 categories ranging from Best Full Frontal to Best Flame Broiled Whoppers. Below please find just a sample of 2016's Top Film & TV Scenes That Didnt Require A Wardrobe Stylist:
Br**st Picture: White Girl Best TV Show: Westworld Best Full Frontal: Olivia Wilde in Vinyl Best Lesbian Scene: Rooney Mara & Cate Blanchett in Carol Nude Debut: Ashley Greene in Rogue Best Flame Broiled Whoppers: Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones Best A-Cup All Star: Ellen Page in Into the Forest Best Over 50: Monica Bellucci in Mozart in the Jungle Lifetime Skinchievement: Penelope Cruz
What began in 1980 as McBrides strange hobby of recording cable TV nude scenes on his parents VCR is now the worlds largest database for celebrity nudity featuring exclusive pics and videos of more than 24,000 actresses. Today, more than 75 Hollywood studios submit their sexiest clips to Mr. Skin in hopes of being featured, and with 10 million TV/movies fans flocking to his website each & every month, its easy to see why. Mr. Skin has been seen on Saturday Night Live, Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, and the Entourage movie.
Mr. Skin will return to the Howard Stern Show to talk Anatomy Award Winners on February 27th.
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Civil War Richard, Jackson, April and Catherine tackle a grueling trauma case intensified by hospital politics. Amelia finally faces her feelings about Owen, and Meredith gets caught between Nathan and Alex over a patient, on Greys Anatomy, THURSDAY, MARCH 9 (8:00-9:01 p.m. EST), on the ABC Television Network.
Greys Anatomy stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens Jr. as Richard Webber, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery, Sarah Drew as April Kepner, Caterina Scorsone as Amelia Shepherd, Camilla Luddington as Jo Wilson, Jerrika Hinton as Stephanie Edwards, Kelly McCreary as Maggie Pierce, Jason George as Ben Warren, Martin Henderson as Nathan Riggs and Giacomo Gianniotti as Andrew DeLuca.
Guest starring is Debbie Allen as Catherine Avery and Marika Dominczyk as Eliza Minnick.
Greys Anatomy was created and is executive produced by Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder), Betsy Beers (Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder), Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan) and Rob Corn (Chicago Hope). William Harper, Stacy McKee, Zoanne Clack and Debbie Allen are executive producers. Greys Anatomy is produced by ABC Studios.
Civil War was written by Elizabeth J.B. Klaviter and directed by Nicole Rubio.
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These are chaotic times for Americans. The nationwide cheese recall, I mean. (What did you think I was talking about?)
Several well-known cheese brandsincluding Sargento, Meijer, Santino, Amish Classics, Country Fresh, and Guggisberghave issued recalls of Colby, pepper jack, shredded taco, and cheddar cheeses among concerns about listeria contamination at a cheese factory in Indiana. No illnesses have yet been reported.
Listeriosis, the foodborne illness that the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria causes, is a particular danger for those with weakened immune systems. In pregnant women, listeria can cause premature labor, miscarriages, and stillbirth. Listeria is an especially resilient bacteriaunlike many other germs, it can keep growing in a cool fridge.
The danger of an infection is part of why cheese sellers have voluntarily recalled their products in this case. But, as is often the case, the recalls have trickled out over the course of the past week. The timing raises questions about how food safety is handled and discussed among manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and regulatorsand further questions still about how long it takes for consumers to be notified of possible contamination.
For cheese eaters, the questions are straightforward: Where did the contaminated cheese come from? And how do I know if the cheese I have in my refrigerator is safe to eat?
The answers arent always easy to find.
This recall began with Deutsch Kase Haus, a cheesemaker in Indiana that sells cheese to various companies which then package the cheese under different brand names. Deutsch Kase Haus issued a voluntary recall for products made at its factory between September 1, 2016 and January 27, 2017.
But we are a business-to-business provider, so we do not label anything under our brand, Mark Hubbard, a spokesman for Deutsch Kase Haus told me, which means we have a number of customers that fall under that productand each of those customers are the ones that actually initiate their own recalls that are put up on the FDA website.
In other words, its up to Deutsch Kase to notify its customers, like Sargento, of the possible contaminationthen its up to those brands to communicate next steps to the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the public. ( The FDA is inspecting the plant as part of a coordinated effort with the Indiana Board of Animal Health on the investigation, Peter Cassell, a spokesman for the FDA, told me.)
In some cases, brand-name companies will expand the recall to other products of theirs, in case the contamination spreads from, say, compromised cheese, to other products processed or packaged in the same facility. Once a food recall is issued, each company that's been affected has to then look at how contamination may have spread through its own plant. So more and more products may be pulled into the recall over time. And since each company has its own protocols to follow, they end up issuing their recalls on different timelines. Thats why its important for consumers to periodically check back to the FDA website to see how recalls change in scope, Hubbard told me.
All of this becomes more complicated still as supply chains grow longer and longer, and as agriculture and food companies consolidate. The globalization of food supply chains makes widespread outbreaks more likely, and in some ways more difficult to track. Already there are nearly 50 million foodborne infections in the United States each yearand they cause about 250,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to a 2012 paper published by the Institute of Medicine. Changes in the globalization of the food trade have important implications for food safety, the papers authors wrote. Mitigating the increased risks associated with a longer, globalized supply-chain will require robust capacity for public-health surveillance.
Such surveillance could involve cheap sensors, smart labels, real-time database sharing, temperature-reading packaging, and other tools to change the way people are notified of spoiled or recalled food.
The current cheese recall was initiated, Hubbard told me, out of an abundance of caution. Its still possible, officials hope, that no illnesses will occur as a result. For now, operations at Deutsch Kase are suspended entirely, while the FDA investigates, Hubbard said.
You have to be very careful, and you have to go beyond what you think could be happening, Hubbard said. Its good that word is getting out. We want people to be cautious.
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For more from T.R. Knight on his return to Shondaland, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday, orbuy it here now and subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW.
Nearly a decade after T.R. Knight endured a snowballing scandal and a dramatic exit from Greys Anatomy, hes back in the last place youd expect Shondaland.
Next month, Knight joins the cast of The Catch as the brother of Mireille Enos Alice Vaughan, landing him back in the land that made him a household name. But what has Knight been up to in the years since he left Greys Anatomy? Below is but a taste of what the actorhas done.
Law & Order: SVU (2011)
Knight took a dark turn as a set of twins on opposite ends of the spectrum one, a family man, the other, a serial rapist. One of the twins especially creeped the s out of me, frankly, Knight says. Everyone was lovely on the project, but that was yuck, what a horrible person that guy was. That was one [where] you want to have a hot shower afterward and just scrub with bleach.
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The Good Wife (2013)
That was crazy because we shot that about five blocks away from where I was living at the time in Brooklyn, says Knight, who calls scheming political operative Jordan Karahalios a s stirrer. Knight also jokes Jordan was likely adopted. My little weird face, theres not much that says Greek about that, he says. Alas, Knight has not been asked to appear on spinoff The Good Fight.
42 (2013)
Playing a real-life character in the Jackie Robinson flick meant researching the world of 1940s baseball to best honor the legacy of Dodgers publicity chief Harold Parrott. There are some jobs that just make you wake up in the morning and you cant believe that youre a part of it; that was one of those, Knight says.
Its Only a Play (2015)
Reuniting with Nathan Lane after co-starring in the short-lived CBS sitcom Charlie Lawrence, Knight had to strip down to his skivvies for this Broadway play. Theres some exposed tuckus in that and not necessarily the most comfortable thing for me. Theres some people who get hired to take off their clothes and its not for laughs I dont know what thats like, Knight says with a chuckle. Youre not going to hire me to come out of the shower like Eric Dane.
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11/22/63 (2016)
Hulus James Franco-starring time-travel piece about the JFK assassination felt much like a play to Knight, as his character had one long scene they blocked in a single take. But what stuck with him was returning to that fateful location. We got to shoot on Dealey Plaza, which was a very eerie and emotional experience, Knight says.
When We Rise (2017)
In another case of playing a real-life figure, Knight has a role in ABCs upcoming Dustin Lance Black docudrama chronicling the struggle of the modern gay rights movement. To have a small part of telling that kind of epic story of gay rights, womens rights, and civil rights all coming together in this one story I cant wait to see it, Knight says, lauding co-star Guy Pearce. I just admire his work a lot. Hes a strong character and such a good guy. It was great to act with him.
The Catch (2017)
The Greys Anatomy alum morphs into the self-serving brother of Alice Vaughan for his triumphant return to Shondaland. We were doing our first Broadway shows at the same time, Knight says of Enos. I saw her in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and then, of course, through The Killing. Its nice when you have acting impressions of people, then you get to finally act with them; that made it very exciting for me.
The Catch returns Thursday, March 9 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC. Knight discusses his debut here.
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Ezekiel Gebissa, for Addis Standard
Addis Abeba, December 05/2019 In his Selections from Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci famously wrote in 1930: The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.1He was writing about the late 1920s, an era epitomized since by economic recession, the rise of fascism and an imminent world war. In his concept of interregnum, the old order had lost authority, and its successor had yet to re-engender a properly functioning society. During such an interregnum, society could experience myriad problems, even chaos, and, in some cases, political violence.
In December 2017, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), impelled by a persistent popular uprising in the Oromia region, embarked on a program it described as deep renewal. This ushered in a process exemplifying Gramscis interregnum. The EPRDF-designed political system, anchored by institutionalization of a dominant party in exchange for rapid economic growth, is dying. A new system remains unborn or even unimagined. Previously banned political forces remain inactive or unable to offer alternative models. Morbid symptoms have begun to appear.
What diagnosis do these symptoms suggest? Interregnums are dangerous particularly if accompanied by unwillingness to imagine new power structures. In Ethiopias case, leaders of the reformed EPRDF have proven unable to manage the difficult process of democratization. Political authority has fragmented; a general feeling of national drift has raised the specter of state collapse. That would be the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in the Horn of Africa.
There was indeed an unmistakable reformist shift, and relaxation of political tension; the specter of state collapse faded.
MorbidSymptoms
EPRDFs embrace of deep renewal promised a new political dispensation. In Ethiopia, power-holders would henceforth be accountable to citizens through regular free elections, protecting rather than violating human rights; state institutions would provide good governance rather than function as an arm of the dominant political party. There was indeed an unmistakable reformist shift, and relaxation of political tension; the specter of state collapse faded.
In March 2018, the ruling EPRDF designated a new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed; he was sworn in in April. He implemented reforms with speed and gusto, gaining a receptive audience among Ethiopians. He visited nearly all regions, and diaspora communities abroad, preaching love, forgiveness and national reconciliation. He won over Western leaders with fashionable reform measures (e.g. appointing women) and occasionally expressing endorsement of liberal economic tenets. There was a deep reservoir of public support for the expressed commitment to reform and effort to ensure a transition to democracy.
Twenty months later, those glimpses of liberalization and democratic transition have proven a mirage. Symptoms of dysfunction are multiplying. The ruling party of the last three decades has lost its cohesion. Centrifugal forces and jockeying for power have soured relations within the EPDRF coalition, as each member resorts to a separate identity. As a party, the EPRDF is suffering an identity crisis, unsure of the political ideology that once gave it the coherence to govern effectively.
Because the party is essentially moribund, governance has collapsed. The prime minister holds on to power by deploying the military and the politicized state machinery. The regional states are in disarray, each with distinct challenges. Tigray is isolated, Oromia largely ungoverned and experiencing violence, the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) is unsure of its future, and the Amhara Region is the scene (and source) of political violence.
Contrary to the official portrayal of robust growth, the economy is in trouble. Increasing unemployment, runaway inflation, a foreign currency crunch, mounting debt, and credit difficulties characterize the current economic landscape
Contrary to the official portrayal of robust growth, the economy is in trouble. Increasing unemployment, runaway inflation, a foreign currency crunch, mounting debt, and credit difficulties characterize the current economic landscape. The newly unveiled Homegrown Economic Reform, sporting the language of the discredited Washington Consensus, has not addressed existing economic challenges. Will it ever work? Its only purpose seems to be to repudiate the developmental-state model of the prime ministers predecessors.
The worst features of EPRDF rule, which precipitated mass uprisings in recent years, have now returned with a vengeance. Mass arrests, lengthy detention without charge and other infringement of citizens rights, including illegal searches, restrictions on assembly, expression and movement, are commonplace. Security forces use threats, online filtering and other forms of harassment to intimidate opponents. Political party leaders and their supporters are subjected to illegal detention, with allegations of physical beating, and torture. In its 2019 annual report, Freedom House ranked Ethiopia as not free, with an abysmal record on political and civil liberties. Ethiopia today looks less like an example of successful political transition than of how democratization fails.
Inherent Dangers
Transitionrequires skillful management. Liberalization, the opening up of anauthoritarian order, if not managed competently, can quickly foment insecurity,sacrificing the very legitimacy a new regime needs most. In Ethiopias case,fateful mistakes were made at the outset.Inherent dangers were ignored.
Rejection of a Roadmap
There were several reasons for thefailure of democratic transition. One was lack of a clear agenda for the post-authoritarianperiod. The history of successful democratization attests that broad agreement among elites on transitionalguidelines and on procedures for popular participation is essential. Without a program that bridges the receding and emergingpolitical orders, there is little chance of successful transition fromauthoritarian rule to democratic governance.
At thebeginning of the Ethiopian transition, the prime minister was implored toconvene the major political parties to design a roadmap for the complicatedprocess of change. His initial response?I will be thebridge that ensures a successful transition. When the calls increased,he dismissed them: theterm roadmap has no meaning in political economy. In the absence of guidelines, every political actor acted to maximizetheir political fortune. Supporters clashed, with fatalities and destruction ofproperty. Cases in point are the incidents of September 2017, following thereturn to the capital of the Patriotic Genbot 7 and the Oromo Liberation Front(OLF).
Despite these warning signs, the prime minister showed no inclination to offer a program of transition, though he always talked about peace, forgiveness and love as a way forward. These notions have now coalesced into meddemer (addition), offered as the ideology of reform and transition. Such as it was, it came too late. The transition had drifted rudderless, producing more conflicts. Neither personal bridge nor infantile philosophy could substitute for a roadmap for transition.
Return of the Old Guard
Another danger the EPDRF leadership ignoredhas been the old guards determination to return to power. Democratizationis naturally redistributive of political and economic power; it threatens elitepower and dominance. In 2014-18,when a revolutionary protest movement of the disenfranchised threatened EPDRFsmonopoly of power, the political elite joined the movement for change ratherthan continue to confront it. However, they remained focused on regaining theirgrip on power.
The new leadership assumed responsibilityfor leading the transition but did little to guard it against counter-revolution.With decision-making concentra
ted in the prime ministers office, the old elitein the capital easily returned to dominance, filling key positions with politicalloyalists and party apparatchiksadmittedly opposed to democratization. Thebusiness elite bought a place at the table, and donated millions to the primeministers favorite projects in exchange for kickbacks in government contracts.The business and political elites have indeed successfully mounted an internalcoup detat, hijacking the revolution and dislodging genuine agents of change.2
Strategic mistakes
Popular protests toppling authoritariansystems do not always succeed in establishing democratic systems. To succeed,the first order of business is assembling forces of change in support of transition.In Ethiopias case, either political miscalculation or failure to heed itsimportance was a strategic mistake, resulting in lack of support from theforces that brought about the transition.
In a speech at Bahir Dar University in April 2018, the prime minister retorted: Amhara nationalism is growing at an alarming speed. Please study it. Oromo nationalism has taken [Ethiopias] largest population and diminished it. Instead of thinking at a national or continental level, it has reduced the Oromo to village level politics. This failed to endear him to Amhara nationalists, whose objective was to ride the wave of rising Amhara nationalism to regain their long lost power. On the other hand, the supercilious description of Oromo nationalism enraged Oromo nationalists. In effect, the prime minister alienated the Amhara nationalists he sought to restrain and antagonized the Oromo nationalists who had catapulted him into office. The forces of counter-revolution were ushered in to take the reins of power, thus jeopardizing the transition at the outset.
A second strategic mistake was the failure to recognize that the goal of transition was a state fulfilling longstanding demands for liberty, equality, justice and human dignity. For half a century, political struggle had focused against a centralized political system that excluded, marginalized and oppressed the majority of Ethiopians. But instead of envisioning a reconstructed state, EPRDFs reformist leaders thought in terms of restoring Ethiopias glorious past as a state. In political terms, the prime ministers vision of return was tantamount to repudiation of the sacrifices of the last five decades. Worse, glorification of the horrid Ethiopian state became an impediment to moving forward to a democratic state.
A third strategic mistake was the failure to recognize that the mandate is to serve as either a caretaker or a transitional government. Crucial to the caretaker function was rebuilding the state apparatus damaged during the protests. Whatever the reasons, the government proved unable to reconstitute the lower rungs of administration and failed even to gain control over the territory it was meant to govern. Public security, the most important responsibility of any government, broke down. Violence proliferated. For the first time in more than two decades, the regime itself looked vulnerable to implosion.
There are indications that the next national election, ostensibly the end of the transition process, was beset with problems even before the campaign could begin in earnest
As a transitional government, the regime hadto prepare for democratic elections. There are indications that the next national election,ostensibly the end of the transition process, was beset with problems even beforethe campaign could begin in earnest. The new electoral law was issued onlyeight months before the elections scheduled for May 2020. Complaints from theopposition include difficulties with party registration, opposition to elementsof the new electoral law itself, and questions about the impartiality of theelectoral commission. Electoral officers are not being recruited and trained.Polling logistics are not being organized. There are, in fact, no visiblepreparations for elections. A constitutional crisis is in the making.
Atthe federal level, the prime ministers centralizing decision making hasundermined institutional autonomy of government agencies and subvertedestablished processes. Federalentities are tasked with acting in the public interest, and while the executivehas an administrative supervising function, it has accumulated unchecked ad hocpowers. This has eroded the functional autonomy of government institutions anddegraded transparency and accountability. The failure to rebuild lower-level state institutions, and the primeministers personal decision-making style have paralyzed the delivery of publicservices, rendering the government utterly dysfunctional.
CurrentChallenges
The model of democratic transition adopted inEthiopia was in any case flawed from the very beginning. The process of designingand implementing a transitional roadmap did not include all political actors. Iteschewed broad social and political consensus for a new political system beforeholding elections. Empowerment of old-regime elites in the transition process, exclusionof nationalist parties, neglect of the protest movements demands, andantagonistic political forces have now doomed the democratic transition.
For many months the Abiy administration has looked for a coherent agenda for rallying the country. Instead, it has resorted to public relations stunts, including an urban sanitation campaign, a beautification project in Addis Abeba, tree planting to set a world record, palace renovation, and employing psychologists to conduct a national catharsis to cleanse citizens minds of ethnocentrism. Culminating this dreary grab bag were the prime ministers book launch festivities. Together or alone, these do not constitute a sustainable national project.
Flouting recognized processes and norms and circumventing established state institutions, which the prime minister has made his standard mode of operation, rewarded incompetence and destabilized the government
An ad hoc approach to governing leads tomistakes and wastes time on damage control. Flouting recognized processes andnorms and circumventing established state institutions, which the prime ministerhas made his standard mode of operation, rewarded incompetence and destabilizedthe government. Left to proceed withouta program, the transition has now unraveled, further diminishing the countrys alreadyfragile governing institutions. The states demonstrable vulnerability has emboldenedanti-reform forces, spelling disaster for the prospect of a successfultransition.
EPRDFs constituent members and associated parties are dissolving themselves into a single multinational party organized around the meddemer ideology. The Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) and the Amhara Democratic Party (ADP) have rushed the merger through their party echelons even though there is no consensus for merger. Suffice it to mention the very public rejection of both the party merger and so-called new ideology by Lemma Megerssa, ODPs deputy chairman. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) has rejected the merger for now, suggesting more pressing national issues to address. The merger frenzy has proceeded without the TPLF. This is tantamount to excluding the Tigray region, with grave consequences for the cohesion of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces. Clearly, the apparent merger is fraught with legal and constitutional problems, and is being rushed with no clear political purpose other than the party leaders singular interest in dismantling the EPRDF before the elections.
The country is thus in a dangerous interregnum. At a time when established political groups are in flux, new alliances and counter-alliances will make the political landscape more unstable. Given that the Ethiopian state is fast losing its monopoly on violence, with armed units roaming several states, what we have now is an emerging phantom state (a state without administration), teetering on the verge of collapse. If the state fails, others will step in to provide security for themselves. There is a clear danger that political maneu
verings might descend into predatory states (administration without a state) in the regions. AS
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EDs Note: Ezekiel Gebissa is a Professor of History and African Studies at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan. He can be reached at egebissa@kettering.edu
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1AntonioGramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci,ed. and trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (London: Lawrence &Wishart, 1971), 275-276.
2 For a detailed account of the players, methods, conflicts and hijacking of power and the process which sidelined nationalist party leaders and eventual triumph of the counter revolution, see, Mudhin Siraj, YeTetelfe Tigil [The Hijacked Revolution], Addis Abeba: Dinsho Printing Press, Hamle [July], 2019 Eth. C. The book is a true account according to insiders I was able to interview. It has not been refuted. In fact, it rattled Abiy Ahmed and his supporters to the extent that the book was subsequently bought back from the market at very high prices.
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Grey's Anatomy said goodbye to Justin Chambers' Alex Karev (sort of), but fans don't have to worry about another exityet.
Jesse Williams, Jackson Avery on the show since season six, will make his Broadway debut in the revival of Take Me Out in the spring of 2020. But that doesn't mean Williams is leaving the show or Jackson is leaving Grey Sloan Memorial.
"I've known since the beginning of the season and I've been able to plan [Jackson]'s storyline [accordingly]," executive producer Krista Vernoff told TVLine about any possible scheduling conflicts. "Jesse is able to fly back one day a week; we're just making it work [because] this was important to him."
Typically, Broadway shows are dark (meaning they don't run) one day out of the week. Rest easy, Grey's Anatomy fans. Jackson is sticking around...for now.
Meanwhile, the show has yet to fully explain Karev's exit aside from the fact that he's still visiting family. His character's last episode aired in November. Chambers has been with the show since the start.
"There's no good time to say goodbye to a show and character that's defined so much of my life for the past 15 years," Chambers said in a statement. "For some time now, however, I have hoped to diversify my acting roles and career choices. And, as I turn 50 and am blessed with my remarkable, supportive wife and five wonderful children, now is that time. As I move on from Grey's Anatomy, I want to thank the ABC family, Shonda Rimes, original cast members Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens, and the rest of the amazing cast and crew, both past and present, and, of course, the fans for an extraordinary ride."
What happens to Karev remains to be seen. As of now, his wife, Jo (Camilla Luddington) is still at work in Seattle and he's still visiting his mom out of state.
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The pathogen has already done a fair bit of damage. It has only been five days since the patient began exhibiting typical COVID-19 symptoms, but already, menacing shadows can be seen in the CT scans of the lungs.
"It's like frosted glass," is how Christian Strassburg, a professor of internal medicine at the Bonn University Hospital, describes the changes made visible by the scan. "The lung tissue is saturated with fluid." Secretions and dead cells are gumming up the walls of the pulmonary alveoli "like Jell-O," he says.
"It is extremely difficult for oxygen to permeate a layer like that to get from the lung into the bloodstream," the professor explains. It is a phenomenon he has been seeing frequently in recent weeks and it is caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The number of confirmed COVID-19 patients worldwide is now well over 4.2 million and the number of deaths is approaching 300,000. Meanwhile, doctors and biologists are doing all they can to gain a better understanding of the pathogen behind the pandemic.
SARS-CoV-2 behaves differently than almost any other virus that humans have faced before, and even now, several months into the pandemic, there is disagreement as to what percent of COVID-19 patients experience severe symptoms. Estimates tend to come in at around 5 percent of all infections. And in those cases, the virus unfolds unfathomable destructive power.
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The epicenter of such infections is almost always the lungs. But as medical professionals now realize, the virus can also affect other organs and tissues - including the heart, the brain, the kidneys and the bowels. In the worst case, the body begins attacking itself. When the immune system spins out of control like that, doctors call it a "cytokine storm," and when patients die as a result, multiple organ failure tends to be the cause.
Over 100 vaccine candidates are currently being developed worldwide to combat SARS-CoV-2, but in the worst-case scenario, it could take years before a vaccine is available. Until it is, the virus will still be with us. Even if the pandemic does weaken a bit, experts believe a second wave is just around the corner.
Early talk of COVID-19 as being mostly a mild illness has been proven to be "dangerously false," Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the medical journal The Lancet, has written. At the bedside, he says, it is "a story of terrible suffering, distress and utter bewilderment." U.S. cardiologist Harlan Krumholz described the ferocity of COVID-19 in the magazine Science as "breathtaking and humbling." The disease, he continued, "can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences."
The best way to learn more about SARS-CoV-2 is to start small. Coronaviruses are a mere 160 nanometers in size. In order to multiply, the tiny pathogens are reliant on the cells belonging to a different organism.
The novel coronavirus likely comes from bat viruses, and it is thought that, even before it made the jump to humans, it developed the mechanism allowing it to bind with human cells. Some bat viruses are able to bind to a receptor called ACE2. This molecule can be found on the surface of human cells and helps regulate blood pressure. But it also functions as a kind of doorway to the interstices of the cell, and viruses that have the key can get inside.
Researchers believe that bats carry around 3,200 different coronaviruses. Chance, time and opportunity fueled the creations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which ultimately managed to jump to humans.
But how exactly does the virus find its way into the human body? Internal medicine professor Strassburg is quite familiar with the process. At the Bonn University Hospital, he is currently in charge of between 10 and 20 COVID-19 patients. On one day recently, eight of them were intubated, having become so ill that they were forced to rely on ventilators. "Luckily, that is the minority," Strassburg says. "Most of those infected by the virus get away with only mild symptoms."
Early on, virologists thought that the novel coronavirus would spread only slowly, in part due to the similarities between SARS-CoV-2 and the SARS coronavirus that appeared in China in 2002. From November 2002 and July 2003, almost 800 people died of the disease, the full name of which is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. But then, the epidemic disappeared. It was a stroke of luck for humanity: That pathogen appears to have been more deadly than SARS-CoV-2, but it focused its attentions on the lungs. The virus multiplied deep within the body, making it less contagious. Furthermore, it was easy to identify and isolate those who had fallen ill from the virus.
Experts initially hoped that the same would hold true of SARS-CoV-2, but they were mistaken. The novel coronavirus doesn't just attack the lungs. Throat swabs from patients revealed early on that the pathogen first goes after the mucous membrane in the upper respiratory tract.
That is advantageous for the virus. The distance from one throat to another throat is much shorter than the distance from one person's lung to another. "That means that those carrying the virus are highly contagious," says Strassburg. A huge number of the viruses are found in the nasal cavity and pharynx, "even in people who aren't yet experiencing symptoms," he adds, "which is why the pathogen was able to circle the globe so quickly."
There are three stages in the attack on the human body. Initially, the coronavirus binds with club-shaped protein complexes on the ACE2 receptors of human cells. That opens up the host cell and allows genetic material from the pathogen to enter. The virus then converts the cell into a virus factory. Huge numbers of viruses thus produced then leave the host cell and attack other cells.
The SARS-CoV-2 Virus focuses its attack on the lungs. The delicate alveoli are most at risk.
The resulting viral load is enormous, particularly in the first week following infection. And initially, there are hardly any symptoms. Often, there is merely a dry cough, says Strassburg, with the body's temperature hardly rising at all. "Even patients who are more severely affected generally have a temperature below 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit)." That is a significant difference to the flu: "For influenza, a sudden rise in temperature is typical, along with a distinctive feeling of being sick. But that's not the case here."
In this initial phase of the illness, much depends on the patient's immune system. Immune cells attack the invaders, but because the body isn't yet familiar with the virus, the weapons at their disposal are relatively basic.
A battle of attrition ensues, one that determines whether the patient will quickly recover or whether the disease will get the upper hand. Will the immune system stop the attack in the upper respiratory tract? Or will the pathogen be able to find its way into the lungs? The answers to those questions determine whether the illness becomes life threatening or not.
Researchers are still trying to figure out why the virus is able to reach the lungs of some patients but is stopped short in others. One of the factors appears to be the number of pathogens that attack the body at the beginning. More than anything, though, patients with underlying medical conditions seem to have the most to fear from SARS-CoV-2. According to estimates, about a quarter of the population in Central Europe has such an underlying condition.
Those at risk include people suffering from obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. And smokers: "Their mucous membranes and lung ventilation are already impaired," says Strassburg. Tiny hair-like projections known as cilia, which normally help keep pathogens and mucous out of the lungs and respiratory tract, no longer function appropriately.
In such cases, there are hardly any hurdles for the virus on the way to the lungs. Gravity is sufficie
nt for the tiny pathogens to reach their target. Once the virus advances into the smaller, branch-like bronchioles, it meets a particularly vulnerable layer of cells, the membranes of which are also covered with ACE2 receptors. Directly in the pulmonary alveoli, the tiny sacs where oxygen is transferred into the bloodstream, SARS-CoV-2 finds perfect conditions.
To depict the precise damage the virus does in the lungs, thoracic surgeon Keith Mortman of George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., turned to computer modelling. The 3-D imagery from the clinic shows the lungs of a man in his late 50s. Yellow-tinged deposits can be seen in many areas within the organ.
"The damage we are seeing is not isolated to any one part of the lung," says Mortman. Initially, he says, the patient experienced a fever and a cough, before then developing serious breathing difficulties. He was intubated and attached to a ventilator, but when that proved insufficient, he was hooked up to a so-called ECMO machine.
The machine infuses blood with oxygen outside of the body before pumping it back inside. The hope is that the procedure will give the lungs the time they need to recover.
Doctors now have a deeper understanding of how SARS-CoV-2 damages lung tissue. White blood cells discover the virus and attract other immune cells to the site, which attack the infected lung cells and kill them. They leave behind cell detritus, which clog up the alveoli. If the body isn't able to gain control over the reaction to the infection, acute lung failure looms.
But other organs can also be damaged as a result of the infection. The more SARS-CoV-2 patients are treated around the world, the clearer it has become just how comprehensive the attack staged by the virus is.
According to data from China, around 20 percent of patients requiring hospitalization suffer damage to the heart. It remains unclear whether the virus goes after heart muscle cells directly or if damage to the coronary blood vessels is to blame. The blood clotting function is also disrupted, leading to clumps that could result in heart attacks, lung embolisms and strokes.
The kidneys of some hospitalized patients also come under attack, as evidenced by blood or protein in urine samples. As a result, dialysis machines have had to join ventilators in ICUs devoted to treating COVID-19 patients.
Doctors have likewise observed brain inflammation and seizures in some patients. The virus apparently advances all the way into the brain stem, where important control centers are located, such as the one responsible for breathing. The virus likely gets to the brain via the mucous membrane inside the nose and the olfactory nerve. This could also be the reason that many patients temporarily lose their sense of smell.
SARS-CoV-2 can also attack the digestive tract, with patients complaining of bloody diarrhea, nausea and abdominal pain.
Doctors have also reported a possible link between COVID-19 and a rare blood vessel syndrome in children called Kawasaki Disease. In Britain, the disease has even killed a few children who became infected with SARS-CoV-2. The disease involves the inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body and can damage the heart.
Doctors now believe that SARS-CoV-2 attacks tissue and organs virtually everywhere in the body. And the disease can also apparently leave behind long-term damage. Chinese researchers have examined the blood of patients and found that even after the infection has passed, certain blood values remain abnormal for an extended period. Despite the virus no longer being present in the body, for example, their livers still don't exhibit normal functionality.
The virus can make it all the way into the brain, triggering seizures and inflammation.
The lungs, too, likely suffer lasting damage in severe cases. "When inflammation does not subside with time, then it becomes essentially scarring in the lungs, creating long-term damage," says Mortman, the doctor from George Washington University Hospital.
It is still too early for a comprehensive understanding of the long-term consequences of COVID-19. But doctors are familiar with cytokine storms and acute lung failure from other severe infections. Some of the survivors of the first SARS epidemic, for example, experienced limited lung functionality for up to 15 years after the illness.
But why do some people emerge virtually unscathed from this multifaceted attack while others do not? Thus far, researchers do not have an answer to this question. There are indications that the virus - similar to the pathogen that causes AIDS is able to attack certain white blood cells, thus damaging precisely that line of defense that is supposed to stop the infection.
Are some patients more susceptible than others to that phenomenon for genetic reasons? The biotechnology company 23andMe intends to comb through the DNA of its 10 million customers in the search for sequences that could be predictive of their susceptibility to severe COVID-19.
Until the question is answered for sure, however, most patients can continue to rely on hope. After all, most people do not experience severe symptoms from the disease. "Among patients without underlying conditions, even severe cases have an 80 percent survival rate," estimates Christian Strassburg, the internal medicine specialist. Still, it is by no means time to let down our guard, he says, particularly now that restrictions on public life are increasingly being lifted. "The danger remains extremely high that a large number of patients will soon have to be treated in hospitals."
That will heap even more pressure on doctors and nurses. The condition of some patients, after all, can worsen dramatically within just a few days.
Should death be the ultimate result, it is often not the virus itself that causes it, but the immune system of the infected patient, which can disastrously overreact and attack the body.
In such instances, huge numbers of so-called cytokines are released. These chemical signaling molecules produced by the body trigger a cascade of biochemical reactions that affect the immune system. The development of a fever accelerates the metabolism and helps kill the virus. Blood vessel walls are made more permeable, allowing easier access for immune cells, such as phagocytes, to attack the virus. The heartrate speeds up.
"The reaction is actually quite sensible," says Strassburg. But in cases of severe infection, the immune system can overreact and trigger a cytokine storm.
"The result is a reaction that looks like a massive blood infection, but isn't one," says Strassburg. It can lead, however, to multiple organ failure. "If the immune system overreaction to the pathogen continues for too long or is too severe, it will kill the body."
Vast destruction is the result, as pathologists can attest. Johannes Friedmann is a professor at Ldenscheid Hospital just south of Dortmund and has examined the bodies of several patients who succumbed to COVID-19. In the alveoli of these patients, he has found epithelial cells in the lung that have been "scaled off" in addition to protein "deposits" in the blood resulting from blood vessels that have become permeable. He has also discovered cells with multiple or enlarged nuclei, a phenomenon that is typical of viral illnesses.
The walls of the vast majority of the alveoli in the lungs are "widened to many times their normal thickness," Friemann says, adding that the lungs of many COVID-19 casualties are "insufficiently inflated." That impedes oxygen transfer.
Friemann's findings have been consistent with those of medical professionals in Hamburg, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere: Most of those who died were sick before they came into contact with SARS-CoV-2. Friemann has found cases of liver cirrhosis, severe arterial sclerosis and extremely high blood pressure.
Did these patients die of SARS-CoV-2 or from other maladies? "You can't live with such a lung, so I would point to the virus as being the
cause of death," says Friemann. "Many of these people would still be alive without the infection."
Indeed, a recent calculation by British epidemiologists casts significant doubt on claims that most COVID-19 victims would have died soon anyway. They found that female victims of the disease lose an average of 11 years of life. For men, the number was 13 years.
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Warning:The following piece contains spoilers pertaining to the Season 13 finale ofGreys Anatomy.If youre still catching up on the latest season and have not caught the finale, you might want to bookmark this tab and check back after you finish the season!
After yet another eventful and emotional season,Greys Anatomyclosed the book on Season 13 with an finally that left us wanting more. Sure the fire was intense and provided plenty of entertainment, but compared to finales of years past (and the hype surrounding the finale) the bar was set high and the episode failed to live up to our hopes.
There were a few major revelations along the way including the return of Meganwhich sent Nathan rushing to her side after discovering she was alive and leaving his future with Meredith up in the air; Eliza was fired by Bailey; Stephanie announced that she was going to leave to pursue life outside the walls of a hospital; Owens PTSD started up again as Amelia stepped up to support him in wake of the news he received about his sisters fate; andwe discoveredMaggie has a thing for Jackson. All of this was on top of the seasons unresolved storylines including the future of Alex and Jo and that Japril hookup!
With so many questions left unanswered, fans are sure to be counting down the days until the new season begins but when exactly will that be? While an official premiere date has yet to be announced, all signs point towards Season 14 beginning on Thursday, September 28.
Dont miss the return ofGreys AnatomyThursdays this fall on ABC!
What are you most looking forward to from the next season ofGreys Anatomy? Do you think Minnicks firing will stick and are you prepared to see Nathan and Owen reconnecting with Megan?And what do you hope Season 14 holds for Meredith and the rest of the docs? Keep the conversation going in the comments section below!
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Actually, it was less an editorial than it was an apology. After former Attorney General and current candidate for Alabama Senate Jeff Sessions spoke at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the Daily Northwestern covered the ensuing student protests. The papers coverage was not, apparently, welcome by all of Northwesterns students, who, according to the editorial, found photos [of the protests] posted to reporters Twitter accounts retraumatizing and invasive. The students got mad, pitched fits, claimed trauma, and it didn't take long for the paper's editors to apologize and promise to do better.
There was more. The student reporters also used the university directory to contact protesters for comment, which, the editors wrote, they now realized was an invasion of privacy. The editors who signed the letterthere were nine, including two chairs of Diversity and Inclusionsaid that they had spoken will all the papers reporters on the correct way to reach out to students for stories. What that correct way is was left unstated, but for many working journalists, the fact that these editors would apologize for doing their jobs wasnt just idiotic, it was indicative of larger problems in education and the media as an industry. As soon as this piece was posted online, Media Twitter went off.
Its not hard to see why reporters were troubled. Not only do we love nothing more than talking about the failings of the younger generation, here were students from the top journalism school in the country actually apologizing for doing their job because some students were traumatized by getting unsolicited texts. We're used to college kids claiming harm over everything, but if the top journalism students in the countrythe people who will soon be staffing newspapers and websites and magazines across the U.S.apologize for doing their jobs, what does that say about the future of the free press? What does it say about us?
For me, this story checked every box: It wasnt just a juicy media story, it was a juicy media story plus a Kids Today story. It was the kind of thing I am highly attuned to pay attention to (call it my own personal confirmation bias), and, what's more, the apology showed a deep misunderstanding of the role of the press, which isnt to censor the news, its to report it. Media is under attack from all sides, from Trump screaming about fake news to corporate consolidation and the lack of local reporting, and here is the next generation of reporters promising to not do their jobs. This could have been an opportunity for aspiring journalists to educate the student body about what reporters do and the importance of reaching out to sources, even if they dont want to talk, but instead, these students took out the horsetails and started whipping themselves on the back. It was galling.
After the article first crossed my Twitter feed on Monday afternoon, I briefly considered the repercussions of tweeting about it. I didnt want to be a part of a pile-on, mostly because Im on the record as opposing social media call-outs (an ethical stance that continues to come back and haunt me). But, I rationalized, if theres ever a reason to join a call-out, its when a norm I personally hold dear has been violated. Besides, the target was an institution, not any one person, and I was about to get on an hour-long ferry and Id forgotten my book. This would entertain me until I lost service. So I tweeted about it, as did seemingly every other writer on Twitter.
The outrage machine whirred to life. First, there were the tweets like mineappalled, derisive, sure this editorial indicative of something bigger (which it is). And then, like clockwork, came the backlash to the backlash, as the more intersectional among us logged on to ask why we werent talking about the real problem (diversity in the media). And then came the Actually guys guys, announcing that the biggest problem is Sinclair, corporate consolidation, and the death of independent news. The hot takes almost write themselves, and, naturally, the story of this student newspaper has now been covered both by local and national press. Thats how the cycle works, and the crowd will move on entirely as soon as Trump logs on for his afternoon tweets and our attention shifts back to White House.
Watching students, no matter how idiotic, get dragged all across Twitter certainly takes the fun out of the cycle for me, but perhaps outrage, in this case, is warranted. The dean of the college addressed the controversy in a scathing rebuke of the student protesters who complained about the Dailys coverage: I understand why the Daily editors felt the need to issue their mea culpa, wrote Charles Whitaker in a statement. They were beat into submission by the vitriol and relentless public shaming they have been subjected to since the Sessions stories appeared. I think it is a testament to their sensitivity and sense of community responsibility that they convinced themselves that an apology would affect a measure of community healing.
Of course, it did not: Some students may have been pacified to have won a collective We're Sorry, but, Whitaker continued, their well-intentioned gesture sends a chilling message about journalism and its role in society. It suggests that we are not independent authors of the community narrative, but are prone to bowing to the loudest and most influential voices in our orbit.
And that, truly, is a problem, whether its coming from students or subscribers or people on Twitter. The system is creaking under the weight of reader feedback at the same time that ad money dries up and trusted institutions are replaced by Facebook and Twitter. Writers and editors and publishers are scared to piss off the public, and can anyone blame them? If an unsolicited text message leads to allegations of harm, trauma, and victimization, how can journalists do their jobs? The math just doesnt work.
In a year or two or four years from now, these journalism students will be entering a job market that doesnt want them: Theres news to cover, to be sure, but theres not enough money and too many content creators (ne reporters) vying for a smaller and smaller slice of the funding. So if I were advising the students of Northwestern or anywhere, Id say this: If you cant tolerate bothering peopleor even pissing them offlook for a career somewhere else. The job of the media isnt to appease the people, its to report on whats happening, whether the people involved like it or not. And if that doesnt work for you, thats fine as well. Careers in journalism may be scarce, but they seem to be booming in PR and marketing. I hear both Facebook and Twitter are hiring.
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The value of a benefits package for high performers goes beyond monetary incentives. What else should HR pay attention to in order to keep them motivated and engaged at work?
Industry pros will examine the most critical compensation & benefits components at Employee Benefits Asia, the regions biggest conference dedicated to compensation & benefits strategy happening in Hong Kong on 11 May, Malaysia on 16-17 May, and Singapore on 18-19 May.
Stellar business results only happen when people are happy with their jobs and free from health issues and personal stress, said Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor of Human Resources magazine.
Employee Benefits Asia 2017 will thoroughly discuss the elements that keep top talent eager to grow and stay, such as work-life balance, recognition, and career progression, she added.
Employee Benefits Asia 2017 will discuss the most pressing issues being faced by C&B professionals according to the latest HR research and explore the impact of talent rewards on business transformation.
Here is how one of the topics, the framework of an effective benefits package, will be presented at the event:
A panel session entitled How do you package the benefits into a cutting-edge compensation & benefits programme that is competitive? will identify the key considerations when aligning benefits to wellness.
It will also touch on how wellness programmes complement benefits programmes in Asia and how the shift from treatment to prevention affects corporate culture. Jeremy Broome, regional head of human resources for Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank, will be one of the panellists.
Additionally, the rationale behind flexible benefits will be scrutinised during the case study presentation entitled Adopting cost-effective flexible benefits without cutting corners. The speaker will reveal the challenges in implementation as well as their solutions, including key measurement of ROI and success factors.
Other topics that will be dealt with during panel discussions are the top benefits that are considered critical when recruiting and retaining talent and the different ways to cultivate employee satisfaction, from perks to career development opportunities.
Past Employee Benefits Asia attendees are top HR executives from leading and international companies in the region, such as CapitaLand, DHL, General Electric, Heineken, Maersk, The Waltz Disney Company, Rolls-Royce and many more. All presenters & panellists, such as Anita Zuo, HR director for rewards, recognition and HRIS at Electrolux, are director or vice president level HR professionals with regional responsibility.
Held in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in May 2017, Employee Benefits Asia is the regions biggest conference on compensation & benefits strategy. The event will unveil best practices and rewards strategies through an agenda dominated by case studies and global thought leaders and attracts a large audience of senior HR generalists and compensation & benefits specialists as well as and CEOs, CFOs and COOs closely involved in their companies compensation & benefits strategies.
To get a global and Pan-Asian regional view of compensation & benefits and expand your knowledge and skills across the rewards spectrum, reserve your seat for Employee Benefits Asia in May 2017.
To review the topics & agenda, check out http://www.employeebenefits.asia before its sold out. For more information please contact:
- For Hong Kong: Francis Lee, regional producer, francisl@humanresourcesonline.net, +852 2861 1882 For Malaysia: Sammi Zhang, regional head of production, sammiz@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329 For Singapore: Priya Veeriah, regional producer, priayv@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329
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NASCARs version of March Madness didnt involve a buzzer-beater and a small school few recognized toppling one of college basketballs blueblood programs. Nevertheless what transpired Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway certainly qualifies as an upset, a reminder of what can transpire when circumstances converge resulting in an unforeseen outcome.
If prior to the Camping World 500 you were to draw up a list of potential winners, Ryan Newmans name certainly would not have been among the first dozen or so chosen. Thats what happens when you havent won in 127 races, while your team, Richard Childress Racing, has gone winless in the past 112 races with neither showing much indication of snapping their streaks of futility.
For much of Sunday, the fourth Monster Energy Cup Series played out as expected. Pole-sitter Joey Logano dominated early in winning the first stage, with promising second-year driver Chase Elliott asserting himself in the second stage. Then, Kyle Busch seized control in the decisive final stage.
At no point before the final two laps did it appear Newmans name would be etched on the winners trophy.
But the race that had seemingly been so clear-cut took an entirely different focus when Loganos overheated right-front tire exploded, sending him crashing into the outside Turn 1 wall with four laps remaining. This placed the crew chiefs for Busch and others running up front in a difficult position where they had to choose between pitting for fresh tires and foregoing track position, or staying out on older tires.
Newman, who was seventh, thought it best to pit and take two tires. Crew chief Luke Lambert thought otherwise. He wanted to go for the win, figuring that with so few laps left their best chance stood if they stayed out, thereby placing Newman in a position where he would need to play defense.
It was the only opportunity we had to win the race, Lambert said. I felt like doing it was going to yield a better result than the other option. Ultimately that was the decision. He said he could make the car wide. He did.
It was now Newmans race to win or lose. The key would be the restart. If he could get away cleanly and not have those behind on fresh tires get a run entering Turn 1, he stood a chance.
Newmans mind flashed back to late restart in last falls playoff race at Phoenix, when leader Matt Kenseth found himself in a similar position. On that day, Alex Bowman had been able to get to the inside of Kenseth, who came down and clipped Bowman sending him spinning. Logano would go on to win, while Kenseth not only lost the race but was also eliminated from the playoffs.
You're on old tires, it's easy to screw up, Newman said. You got to get your tires cleaned off right. You got to get a good launch. You got to run through the gearbox right. Then you got to hold everybody off.
The stakes werent as high Sunday as they were in November when a berth in the championship finale was on the line, but for a driver and team in the midst of a three-year-plus dry spell, what was before them carried considerable importance.
Kyle Larson had been second before the caution and after pitting he would be fourth, the highest-placed among drivers on fresh tires, and in the preferred outside groove. He would likely be Newmans biggest threat provided he didnt get bogged down in traffic.
That didnt occur.
When the green flag waved Newman did his part and edged ahead, but as anticipated Larson got a terrific restart and was closing. However, instead of exercising patience, Larson attempted to swing low and to the inside of Newman. Unbeknownst to Larson, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was there and Larson cut across his nose just as Kenseth had done to Bowman last fall.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but I should have went a lane up in (Turns) 1 and 2, Larson said. I should have known to just stay close to Newman. That's what I wish I would have done.
To his credit, Larson didnt crash. The bobble, though, allowed Newman to build enough of a gap that there wasnt enough time to chase him down and make a pass.
For the first time since July 28, 2013, Newman was on his way to victory lane. And for the first time since Nov. 3, 2013, a RCR driver had picked up a Cup Series checkered flag.
Going a long time without winning, you have confidence in your mind that you can do it, Newman said. You just got to stay humble. This sport, you walk away from it, there's one guy that wins, 39 losers. You have to be humble walking into it that you're probably not going to win that day. Odds are against you.
On the surface it may appear as if Newman stole a race he had no business winning. That couldnt be farther from the truth.
It took a combination of sage strategy by Lambert and Newmans veteran savviness to make it happen. The other six teams ahead of Newman couldve employed the same strategy as Lambert and not pitted under the final caution. Yet, it was Lambert who made the correct call. And on worn tires, it wouldve really been easy for Newman to stumble on the restart.
Sunday may have been an upset, but dont think for a second that it wasnt earned.
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The other day someone called me a Bro-Witch online and mentioned that there were at least twenty other Bro-Witches out there in the universe. Now I have no idea what exactly at Bro-Witch is and who my Bro-Witching Brothers are, but apparently they are out there. Of course Bro-Witch was meant as an insult, and I took it that way, but after a little thought I decided that the title was absolutely hilarious.
According to the Urban Dictionary a bro is defined as:
An alpha male idiot. This is the derogatory sense of the word (common usage in the western US): white, 16-25 years old, inarticulate, belligerent, talks about nothing but chicks and beer, drives a jacked up truck thats plastered with stickers, has rich dad that owns a dealership or construction business and constantly tells this to chicks at parties, is into extreme sports that might be fun to do but are uncool to claim (wakeboarding, dirt biking, lacrosse), identifies excessively with brand names, spends a female amount of money on clothes and obsesses over his appearance to a degree that is not socially acceptable for a heterosexual male.
Sadly (though I guess I should probably be relieved) I live up to very little of that other than being white. Im way too old to fit the classic definition of a bro, hell I could most certainly be a Bro-Dad if Id ever had kids. I do talk incessantly about my wife, but Im allergic to beer. Now cider and whisky come up a lot in conversation, but only with people who care about such things. I dont feel as if Im all that belligerent, and while Im a pretty harsh critic of my own writing I do think I can share a coherent thought. My wife drives a Pontiac Vibe to work most days, while I tend to walk around everywhere I go or take the train.
I do have a couple of shirts with Gerald Gardner on them, and a few with Crowley too, so I guess I like the brand names! Another definition of bro I found online identified cargo shorts as a part of the bro uniform and Ill admit to being guilty on that end. After I finish writing this article Im going to get my hair done-take that as you will!
Since I was the one identified as a Bro-Witch I had to make my model sort of look like me. Which meant I couldnt give my Bro-Witch a beard or any tattoos but Im sure those exist on a few Bro-Witches in the wild. I think Im mostly making fun of myself in this article, so if you find yourself treading too closely to being a Bro-Witch, dont worry, so am I!
Anatomy of a Bro-Witch
1. Wears Horns on Their Head This is an absolute must because the Bro-Witch desperately wants to be identified as a Witch while out in the wild. The horns say I have a relationship with the Horned God and the Earth, and everyone should love me because of that. Traditional bros often wear hats, but the Bro-Witch turns that around and opts for the horns. Also horns allow the world to see the beautiful hair of the Bro-Witch.
2. A Pentacle or Other Form of Witch Necklace Just in case the horns dont say Witchcraft loudly enough, the obligatory necklace should do the trick. Most Bro-Witches go for the pentagram around their necks, but other versions are acceptable. Both hexagrams (Thelema) and the ten pointed star (found in some versions of the Anderson Feri tradition) say look at me Im a Witch dude! Bro-Witches who want to show their softer side may opt for a goddess symbol around their neck.
3. Skinny Arms The traditional bro often walks around shirtless and probably lifts weights, but not the Bro-Witch. The only heavy lifting Bro-Witches engage in are during cakes and ale, or perhaps when they get out the covens big sword to cast a circle. Underneath our Bro-Witches hoodie theres most likely some sort of tribal tattoo.
4. Designer Witchy Zip-Up Hoodie Brand identity is of utmost importance to the Bro-Witch, so he shows his love of Witchcraft by wearing a Robert Cochrane Traditional Shirtcraft hoodie. No Gucci or Michael Kors for the Witchiest of Bros, instead he wears his Craft allegiances on his sleeve. Other acceptable brands include Gerald Gardner Garb, Esbat Extraordinaire by Valiente, Hotfoot Jackson & Friends, and Sybils Stitches.
Note the Gerald Gardner Garb brand t-shirt on that Bro-Witch.
5. Cargo Shorts Todays Bro-Witch is always on the move, and ready to do ritual at the drop of a Witchs hat, so he carries around a portable collection of altar tools in the pockets of his cargo shorts. A Swiss Army knife makes for a great on the go athame, while his flask of whisky makes the perfect chalice. No candles and matches for the Bro-Witch, the mini-flashlight on his keyring does the job just fine. Loose change is the perfect symbolism for earth while a seashell and a pinecone represent the Lord & Lady.
Dont worry about ritual, hes got his Book of Shadows on a cellphone app all cued up and ready to go. Another app allows him to keep his best Witchcraft books on his phone too, perfect for when he needs to prove his Witchier Than Thouness to an outsider who doesnt get the Bro-Witch code.
Does the Bro-Witch wear underwear? Thats kind of a personal question, but sometimes youve got to get skyclad in a hurry so probably not!
6. Open Toed Sandals The Bro-Witch loves nature and wants to be out in it, but he doesnt want to be too close to it, which is why he wears sandals. The open toe allows him to feel the breeze over his toenails, but the soles of his sandals keep him from having to touch anything itchy or wet with his feet. Blessed be these sandals that have brought thee to the Old Ways! Indeed!
If you ever encounter a Bro-Witch in the wild and outside of a ritual circle, dont worry, most of them are pretty cool and just want to go about their Witchy work!
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Kevin Owens is awesome. Whether you first met him as Kevin Steen, or whether he pop-up power bombed his way into your consciousness as Kevin Owens, its no secret that the man is one of WWEs hottest players right now. And when he turned on his best friend Chris Jericho in Las Vegas, his hot streak only intensified. His show-opening promo the following week did not disappoint, in part because of the story being told but also because of the techniques he was using in order to make his promo that much more impactful.
First, the ring staging. KO sat on a steel chair in the very centre of the ring, a microphone in his right hand and his left hand curled around the rim of his championship belt. A single spotlight lit him in the ring. None of these were particularly subtle techniques, but the point was hammered home even before the man opened his mouth pay attention everyone, because at this moment in time, Kevin Owens is comfortable. Kevin Owens is the champion and Kevin Owns is the centre of the universe. This gave him the platform upon which to build a solid promo, a task he would have found much harder had the lights been up or the chair been missing.
His delivery was excellent, for a number of reasons. First, the majority of his promo was either delivered with his head bowed down and his eyes to the floor, or looking straight down the camera. Both of these positions disregarded the live audience, which sent the signal that what KO had to say transcended this crowd. There were no cheap, location-specific lines here for easy heat this promo felt important because it felt non-specific to one arena, and therefore more relevant to the entire WWE Universe.
Owens varied up both his pace, his volume and his intonation. Its speech-giving 101, but a point overlooked by a surprising number of WWE performers. Because of this, his promo followed the patterns of normal speech, and hence felt both natural and sincere and the audience loves nothing more than a man who believes his own hype. Imagine the impact the promo would have had (or lack thereof) had it all been delivered in a dull, steady monotone.
Note how KO acknowledged the crowd throughout. Not with his whole body, but just his head. This feeds in to a wider point about his promo, and thats how still he was throughout. By cutting down on the amount of physical movement in the segment, all the audience had to focus on were his words. And when he did choose to make a physical motion, such as standing up, it felt like a calculated movement which served a purpose instead of a random choice, all of which heightened the impression that here was a man in full control, a man with power and a man we should take interest in.
And he showed us exactly how to avoid the What chants so symptomatic of a typical WWE live crowd these days. By starting the first word of his next sentence in the same breath as his last, he often avoided the natural rhythm of sentence-WHAT-sentence-WHAT-sentence-WHAT that the WWE crowd so loves. His delivery of In fact, I never believed the hype. Even
He also peppered his promo with small, barely noticeable shakes of his head. It was the sort of confident gesture which implied that the audience just didnt get it, that he had a perspective the audience lacked, that he was in some way one step ahead of everyone else. By doing so he added another layer to his performance, which helped him more easily exude an air of confidence, power and control that ultimately held the audiences attention for the whole promo.
Will Kevin Owens drop the Universal title to Goldberg at Fastlane? Probably. Will he find a way to remain over with the crowd even without the gold? With in-ring work like his, sure. With promo skills like his, absolutely.
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GREY'S ANATOMY - "Civil War" - Richard, Jackson, April and Catherine tackle a grueling trauma case intensified by hospital politics. Amelia finally faces her feelings about Owen, and Meredith gets caught between Nathan and Alex over a patient, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, MARCH 9 (8:00-9:01 p.m. EST), on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Richard Cartwright) ELLEN POMPEO
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Obviously, shows need to go on breaks. Actors deserve breaks, production crews deserve breaks, etc. But I would be lying if I said I wasnt a little salty every time a show went on a hiatus even a little one. Especially knowing thatwere in the final stretch of the season, with only a handful of episodes left, and that theres still plenty to touch on.
For example, and I hate to bring it up again,but I cant believe they did the Amelia / Owen fanbase dirty like this. I mean, they ended season 12 with Amelia and Owens controversial marriage. (None of the other Shepherd family members showed up because everyones mean to Amelia, Ill never be over it.) Of course, they got married, and almost immediately after, Owen starts the conversation about babies in season 13. At one point, she mightve been pregnant, but that went away. Ultimately, thisresulted in their estrangement.
Now if youre any sort of Amelia fan, you know shes a carryover from Greys Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice, where she endured a storyline about losing her child. So I like that they didnt make her have a baby, but I dont like how it was handled. I really want Amelia back, so based on the synopsis, it looks like shes finally working herself into the fold once again.
So heres the synopsis for this weeks episode, Civil War:
A grueling trauma case is complicated by hospital politics. Meanwhile, Amelia confronts her feelings regarding Owen; and Meredith finds herself stuck in the middle as Nathan and Alex butt heads over a patient.
Also, to be fair, Owen needs someone much more stable. It wasnt Cristina, may not be Amelia Teddy? Any Teddy Altman fans in the house? Okay, we currently have six episodes on the board, taking us to episode 21. Greys Anatomy seasons generally go to 24, so we might have a solid nine more episodes to go.
Now, here are the details for the Greys Anatomy live stream:
Date:Thursday,March 9 Time:8p.m. ET Episode:Civil War Channel:ABC Live stream: Watch ABC
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