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By Stephanie Goldberg, CNN
(CNN) – Several years ago, Brendesha Tynes was taken aback when she received an e-mail from one of her former students.
The note directed her to a Facebook event for an all-night bar crawl – an event with which Tynes, an assistant professor at the time, had nothing to do. But it featured an offensive image and listed Tynes as the host; another former student had set it up.
As an educator and researcher, Tynes had spent years looking into cyberbullying. Now, she was a victim.
Tynes said she was prepared to tackle the eye rolls and sharp tongues that can come with molding young minds, but being publicly humiliated by a student wasn't in her lesson plan.
Reports from teachers say her case isn't an anomaly. A 2011 study, "Understanding and Preventing Violence Directed Against Teachers,"reported 80% of about 3,000 K-12 teachers surveyed felt victimized by students, students' parents or colleagues in the past year.
Teachers reported that students were most often behind the verbal intimidation, obscene gestures, cyberbullying, physical offenses, theft or damage to personal property.
But few teachers or researchers are talking about it.
"People are very eager to talk about (teacher victimization) amongst co-workers and amongst friends, but they're very hesitant to report it to authorities or to the media," Tynes said. "People want to protect their students, even though they're being victimized by them, and they're worried about the reputations of the schools they work at."
Dorothy Espelage, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ran the 2011 study and found little research available regarding violence directed toward teachers.
Only 14 studies have been conducted internationally about violence directed at teachers, Espelage wrote in a follow-up report published this year in the journal American Psychologist. In the new report, she suggests developing a national, anonymous database for teacher victimization to help researchers pinpoint "the how and the why" about violence against teachers, prevent it and better train educators.
Bullying among students and peer groups is a hot topic, Espelage said, but talking about teacher victimization is considered taboo.
According to her 2011 study, 57% of teachers surveyed said they brought an incident to the attention of administrators.
The study found that 44% of teachers said they've experienced physical victimization. Men who participated in the study were more likely than women to report obscene remarks and gestures, verbal threats and instances of weapons being pulled on them. Women, on the other hand, were more likely than men to report intimidation.
Educators: It's not just disrespect, it's bullying
Because there's so little information available, Espelage said she can only speculate about the gender differences: Male teachers might be more likely to break up fights between students, subjecting themselves to more acts of violence, while women might be victimized in other ways. Espelage said she's had students demean her gender, and make obscene gestures and sexual remarks to her. A student once wrote on an exam about having sex with her.
Despite feeling disrespected, Espelage said she, like the majority of teachers in her study, didn't report the "low-level stuff."
Staying quiet doesn't make sense for teachers, she said. Her research showed that the No. 1 reason teachers leave the profession is because "they can't handle the disrespect."
MetLife's 2012 Survey of the American Teacher revealed that job satisfaction is the lowest in more than 20 years. The survey reported that 29% of teachers said they are likely to leave the profession. That's 12% higher than the number of teachers who said they would leave in 2009.
"It's intimidating to walk in front of a group of students," said Bill Bond, a former teacher and high school principal who's now a specialist for safe schools with the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "They are going to challenge you academically, socially, and I hate to say it, but they will even challenge you physically. Kids just want to see where the limit is."
Bond said young teachers especially might be afraid to talk with a principal about being victimized in the classroom because they believe it means "they're being ineffective somewhere."
But a good principal or mentor will be there to help that teacher look at the issue at hand and correct it, he said.
Teachers aren't innocent, either, he said – it's more common for a teacher to humiliate or bully a student than the other way around. When students feel disrespected by a teacher, they'll start to challenge them and eventually, they'll make it personal, Bond said.
Mutual respect is key, he said.
"It's tough to take control of 30, 35 teenagers with their hormones raging and all their opinions," Bond said. "The key to surviving is having peers you can go to and help you master your craft."
Tynes, now an associate professor of educational psychology and psychology at the University of Southern California, said being cyberbullied in 2007 left her stressed and anxious. Tynes said a mentor helped her to report the incident, and the student who created the Facebook event was required to complete diversity training.
"People were incredibly supportive," she said.
Tynes said she has learned from experience that opening the lines of communication between teachers and students' parents can prevent teacher victimization by students – and by their parents. The 2011 study found that 37% of teachers who reported they'd been victimized felt that way because of a student's parent.
Keeping pupils engaged will also prevent an imbalance of power between teacher and student, she said. When a teacher constantly hands out work sheets and offers little support, she added, it can make students feel like the teacher doesn't care, and that's when they disconnect.
The cyberbullying experience fueled a desire to understand better how bullying affects young people. Through her research, she's found that young victims of cyberbullying often experience depressive symptoms and anxiety, just as she did once.
Despite the struggles, there's no better time than now to be a teacher, she said.
"We have so many technological tools and new media at our disposal," she said. "We can really enhance and promote learning in more ways than we could in the past."
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Program Overview
The Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Program at MGH is a training program established within the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology with the purpose of training the next generations of outstanding neuropsychiatrists and behavioral neurologists. The program core faculty body includes the program director, double-boarded in neurology and psychiatry, 7 neuropsychiatrists, 5 behavioral neurologists, 5 neurologists, 3 neuropsychologists and a biostatistician. The fellowship provides a multidisciplinary training environment with access to subspecialty clinics. These include the Outpatient Neuropsychiatry Clinic, the Fronto-Temporal Dementia Unit (Memory Disorders Unit), the Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, the Movement Disorders Unit, the Stroke Service, the Ataxia Unit, the Epilepsy Service, the OCD/Tourette's clinic, the Neuropsychology Clinic. All rotations will be in outpatient clinics.
You will spend time on each of these clinical services under the supervision of MGH faculty. The purpose of the rotations is to provide you with adequate experience in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry disorders including geriatric and neurodevelopmental neuropsychiatric disorders, mild cognitive impairment and dementias including Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal Dementia and Lewy- Body Dementia, movement disorders, cerebrovascular disorders, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and brain tumors. Fellows are expected to take part in at least 6 sessions/week face-to-face patient encounters.
In weekly clinical rounds, you will present cases to senior clinicians expanding your clinical knowledge on several aspects of behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry from patient care and system-based practice.
As part of your educational experience, you will attend formal didactics with a diverse curriculum of 40 one hour long classes distributed over the course of the academic year. Classes will cover topics that range from principles of neurobiology, to nervous system development and aging, higher cortical functions, anatomy and function of brain systems, learning and memory, sleep, theory of attachment, culture and cognition, clinical manifestations of brain behavior disorders with specific emphasis of major neuropsychiatric diagnostic categories (e.g. neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, mood and anxiety disorders, traumatic brain injury), the clinical assessment of patients with behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry conditions, the neuropsychological assessment, diagnostic studies (neurophysiology, neuroimaging, sleep studies), psychopharmacology, neurotherapeutics (e.g. deep brain stimulation, vagal nerve stimulation, rapid transcranial magnetic stimulation).
As part of your clinical training, you will also learn the fundamentals of neuropsychology testing administration and interpretation attending biweekly neuropsychology seminars, which will include case conferences and lectures in the major areas of neuropsychology, and assisting neuropsychologists during evaluations.
Integral to the core curriculum is the development of in-depth knowledge of diagnostic studies through attendance of weekly neuroradiology and neurophysiology rounds and monthly neuropathology case presentations.
Through your fellowship, the faculty will strongly encourage you to develop your own clinical and research interests as you access nationally and internationally recognized clinicians and researchers within MGH and in the neighboring Harvard/MIT Schools. Current areas of research available to fellows encompass basic neurobiology, neurobiology of neurodegenerative diseases, functional neuroimaging, neurophysiology, clinical trials in all psychiatry divisions, epidemiology, and international medicine.
Individual weekly supervision with behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry faculty will provide you with the opportunity to discuss clinical cases or specific topics more in depth. You will also meet with the program director to cover issues ranging from patient's care to career development. Emphasis will also be placed on personal well-being, academic growth as well as coping strategies to attend to the demands of training.
Your feedback on the program is crucial to the development of the training academic goals and you will be asked to provide faculty and curriculum evaluations. To maximize your learning experience, we think it would be helpful to familiarize yourself with the goals of the MGH BN-NP fellowship program, its organization and requirements, which are described on the next tab.
Specific goals of the fellowship
Goal 1: To develop clinical expertise and competence in the treatment and care of patients with disorders associated with brain dysfunction.
Fellows will further develop the clinical skills they acquired during residency and will learn to perform a thorough clinical assessment that will combine elements of both neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology data gathering appropriate for each individual case. Fellows will need to be proficient in the neurological and the mental status exam, the selection and administration of the appropriate neuropsychological testing, the use of diagnostic procedures with relevance to both behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, and the interpretation of their results.
Fellows will achieve this goal participating in supervised, direct patient care in the Core and Subspecialties Clinics at MGH. The program clinics are major referral sites for a wide range of conditions spanning from neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, Lewy-Bodies Dementia, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy), to developmental neuropsychiatry (including acquired and congenital developmental disorders such as Down's syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, ADHD and pervasive developmental disorders), movement disorders (Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, dystonia, Tourette's), stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, brain tumors.
Goal 2: To develop an in-depth knowledge of structural and functional neuroanatomy as they relate to behavior and cognition.
Fellows will achieve this goal through:
- attendance of formal didactics which will include the core curriculum classes, the neuroradiology and the neuropathology rounds and the neuropsychology seminars;
- clinical rounds and case presentations and discussions;
- reading and discussion of textbook chapters and research articles during supervision.
Fellows will develop an operational knowledge of structural and functional neuroanatomy and will learn to integrate data gathered through the clinical evaluation and the diagnostic studies in order to identify the brain system/s affected in each individual case.
Fellows are encouraged to improve specific areas through self-learning. To this purpose the Francis Countway Library at Harvard Medical School and the Treadwell Library at MGH offer access to a wide range of tutorials and online textbooks, which can help fellows develop their neuroanatomy knowledge covering areas of relative weakness.
Goal 3: To gain broad knowledge of the diagnostic categories of behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry.
Fellows will learn fundamentals of the major diagnostic categories of behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry including: epidemiology, genetics, neurobiology and neuroanatomy, clinical manifestations, diagnostic procedures, psychopharmacological treatment, psychotherapy, cognitive rehabilitation, and the roles of social work assessment and support, and family counseling and assistance. This goal will be accomplished through the supervised direct patient care, attendance to the didactics core program, supervision and self-directed learning.
Goal 4: To promote advanced understanding of neuropsychopharmacology including in depth knowledge of neurotransmitter systems, how they are affected in the conditions commonly seen in the behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry practice, and how they are modulated by psychoactive drugs.
Fellows will expand on previous knowledge on:
- neurotransmitter systems and their function in health and disease;
- principles of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drugdrug interactions for the major classes of psychoactive drugs including: antidepressants, anticonvulsants and mood stabilizers, sedatives and hypnotics, first and second generation antipsychotics, psychostimulants, cholinesterase inhibitors, NMDA antagonists.
In addition they will develop expertise in the use of psychoactive drugs in patients with brain dysfunction and several medical co-morbidities. The fellows will also learn elements of pharmacoeconomics and the importance and challenge of optimal drug choice in the care of complex conditions with high personal and community financial costs.
Goal 5: To promote understanding of the functions and the importance of an interdisciplinary team in the care and management of behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry patients.
Fellows will learn to work with and coordinate a multidisciplinary team to provide optimal care to their patients under the supervision of a faculty member. This team will most often comprise the fellow, a neuropsychologist, a psychotherapist, a social worker and at times a cognitive rehabilitation therapist, a vocational rehabilitation therapist, a genetic counselor, and a family therapist. Clinical Rounds, supervision, case presentations will offer a forum to discuss the different aspects of patient's care and the role of individual providers in a multidisciplinary team.
Goal 6: To promote and empower fellows in their respective areas of research or clinical interest as they move to build their career post-fellowship.
Fellows will have the opportunity to be mentored by world-renowned researchers at MGH to develop their research career if they elect to do so. All fellows will attend research statistics seminars in their first year of training to gain proficiency in research methods and statistical analysis.
Clinical Experience
Core faculty and clinicsSee list of core faculty for the fellowships
Scheduled Rotations
Core Clinics
Behavioral Neurology Clinic
Neuropsychiatry Clinic
Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Clinic
Fronto-Temporal Dementia Clinic
Movement Disorders Clinic
Psychological Assessment Center (Neuropsychology)
Tourette Disorder Clinic
Elective Clinics (not exhaustive)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Executive Function-Adult ADD Clinic
HomeBase- Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic
Stroke-Neurovascular Clinic
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinical Service
Weekly didactic activities include Behavioral Neurology rounds, Neuropsychiatry lecture series and individual supervision.
The Neuropsychiatry Interdisciplinary Conference happens monthly, where particularly challenging cases are presented by fellows and discussed with faculty from Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuropsychology and Radiology. In addition, the Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience journal club also takes place monthly.
Fellows will have 1 protected day per week for academic and research work. This can take place in the many laboratories and clinics at MGH, in addition to the larger Harvard system and Boston-area academic centers. Fellows are expected to produce at least one publishable manuscript during the course of the fellowship, and present it at a scientific or clinical meeting. The program has flexibility to accommodate motivated research-oriented individuals.
All rotations include supervised patient care, individual supervision, attendance of case conferences and self-directed learning. Fellows will have access to educational resources from MGH and Harvard University, including libraries and online resources, in addition to professional meetings. At the end of each rotation fellows will receive written evaluations to assess progress. Areas of weakness will be addressed with the help of the program director. Fellows will be individually supervised on each case they will provide care for.
The specifics of each rotation are available for more in-depth review upon request. Several electives are available. We aim to design the clinical and research rotations flexibly to maximize the learning experience and adapt to the individual fellow's interests.
How to Apply
Application Requirements
As part of your application, please include the following:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Personal Statement
- Three (3) letters of recommendations
Please mail hard copies of your application materials to the program director:
Zeina Chemali, MD, MPH
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
15 Parkman St., WACC 815
Boston, MA 02114
Applications will be reviewed by the Selection Committee throughout the year.
Prospective fellows will be invited to interview from the beginning of September to the end of October, and will start the fellowship in July of following year.
We thank you again for your interest and look forward to receiving your application.


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Alice C. (Holsten) Wright passed away peacefully on May 24, 2013, shortly before her 92nd birthday.
Alice was born at home in Roth, North Dakota, August 10, 1921, and grew up on a farm where she learned her life values and work ethic. After school Alice indulged in a bit of wanderlust, first traveling to Kansas City and later to Seattle with girlfriends to work.
In Seattle Alice worked for Boeing on America's war effort. It was on a downtown street corner in Seattle where she met a GI asking directions, who later become her husband of 56 years. Charles (Chuck) Wright and Alice were married in 1944 before he shipped out to the Pacific front. Chuck and Alice decided to make Seattle home after the war and began a family with the birth of a son and daughter. Later they moved to Woodinville, which they called home for 50+ years.
After raising the children, Alice became a postal clerk at the Woodinville Post Office where she watched the area grow and made many friends in the community. Later in life Alice enjoyed travel throughout the west with Chuck. She loved baking and cooking, and her wonderful cinnamon rolls and fruit pies were always a hit with family and friends. Alice was preceded in death by Chuck and is survived by daughter, Joyce Wright; son, Donald Wright (Christina) and grandsons, Justin Wright (Soleil), Christopher Wright (Alissa) and Devin Wright. At her request, no services will be held. She will be missed.


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Randstad names new CEO
10/31/2013 1:57amRandstad Holding NV, the second-largest global staffing company, has named Jacques van den Broek as new CEO beginning in February 2014, when he will replace longtime chief executive Ben Noteboom.
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10/31/2013 2:47amFrench oil company Total said Thursday that net income fell 10 percent in the July-to-September period, partially due to poor refining margins amid a sluggish European economy.
New drugs boost earnings at Germany's Bayer
10/31/2013 3:59amDrug and materials company Bayer AG says net profit rose 42 percent as sales increased for its new drugs aimed at preventing blood clots and treating the eye disease macular degeneration, while one-time expenses dropped.
BNP Paribas makes profit, but revenue slips
10/31/2013 4:02amBNP Paribas, France's largest bank, said Thursday that profit held up in the third quarter despite a drop in revenue due to weak retail and investment banking activity.
Shell Q3 profits hit by lower production
10/31/2013 4:21amRoyal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, says third quarter earnings fell due to weaker demand for fuel and a drop in output, particularly in Nigeria, where attacks on pipelines have forced shutdowns.
Air France-KLM sees profit slide 50 percent
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Central banks give each other access to currency
10/31/2013 4:59amSix of the world's leading central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, say they will provide each other with ready supplies of their currencies on a standing basis, extending arrangements set up to steady the global financial system during post-2007 turbulence.
Lufthansa profits slide amid restructuring
10/31/2013 5:14amGerman airline Lufthansa says net profit for the first nine months of the year fell 65 percent, to 247 million euros ($340 million) from 697 million euros in the same period a year ago.
Crown Holdings buying Mivisa Envases for $1.64B
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Bud brewer AB Inbev's Q3 profits rise 31 percent
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Kraft to remove artificial dyes from 3 products
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Boeing to speed 737 production to 47 per month
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Tiffany gets $2.2M judgment in website lawsuit
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AstraZeneca profits and revenues fall
10/31/2013 11:06amBritish drugmaker AstraZeneca reported Thursday that third-quarter net profit fell 17.5 percent to 1.25 billion pounds ($200 billion) as the patents on older drugs expired.
FDA enlists companies to head off drug shortages
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Fliers face quirks using gadgets for entire flight
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Brazil's flamboyant playboy tycoon takes big fall
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This Thanksgiving season, U.S. farmers are being treated to something they don't hear every day: A message thanking them in the form of a commercial that is running in many of the major TV markets around the nation.
The commercial, which began appearing on the networks and local stations Monday, features a series of interviews with consumers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Des Moines, Iowa. The interviewees thank growers after being told that one American farmer now feeds 155 people.
One of the subjects calls that feat "amazing." Another thanks farmers for bringing so much food to the table "because without farmers we wouldn't have a table." And another thanks farmers "on behalf of all New Yorkers." A total of 250 "man-on-thre-street" interviews were conducted for the video.
The video clip, which is shown in a slightly longer version in the link that follows, contains only one commercial message. The Monsanto name and logo appear at the very end. To view it, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4vvPPNyQ5g.


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The Cleveland Browns' defensive playbook is apparently thinner than one might expect, given coach Mike Pettine's tutelage under the uber-creative Rex Ryan.
The lack of girth, Pettine told TheMMQB.com's Greg A. Bedard, is by design.
"I don't put a lot of graduate-level information in it," Pettine said. "We know in places like New England, it's only a matter of time that they somehow mysteriously end up with our playbook."
Teams guard playbooks as if the latter were the nuclear football. Players must return the playbooks before being cut, and nowadays teams can remotely wipe an iPad if a player digitally uploaded a playbook.
Still, Pettine told Bedard that at Wes Welker's wedding, Tom Brady bragged to former Jets outside linebackers coach Mike Smith (who was Welker's roommate at Texas Tech) about how the Patriots "may or may not have had possession" of a couple of Jets defensive playbooks.
"It didn't shock me because Rex would give them out like candy anyway," Pettine said. "He gave one out to (Alabama coach Nick) Saban and I was like, 'Don't you know Saban and Bill (Belichick) are pretty good friends? I have a feeling it's going to end up in New England.'"
Just to be sure key information doesn't end up in Foxboro again, Pettine will keep most of the high-level courses out of the original playbooks.
UPDATE: Belichick was asked if he's ever had a Jets playbook following Thursday's minicamp session.
"You've got to talk to Mike Pettine," Belichick said, per The Boston Globe. "I don't know."
Ryan later addressed Pettine's comments at the top of Thursday's news conference, telling reporters, "I don't understand what he's trying to gain by it."
Ryan continued. "... Everyone needs to talk to Mike Pettine 'cause he's got all the answers."
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the guys make the case that multiple teams have closed the gap on the Seahawks and 49ers in the NFC.


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The photo prompt for Sepia Saturday this week titled, "Autriche Vienne," is a glass negative under the by-line of pioneer French photojournalist and press agent Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, borrowed from the George Eastman House collection on Flickr, a resource that I've often referred to myself. It was chosen by Marilyn aka Little Nell who has been very capably caretaking Sepia Saturday for the last few weeks while our usual host Alan was away.
Belvedere Gardens, Wien, October 1989
Image © 1989 Brett Payne
Fellow contributer Rob from Amersfoort has confirmed what I already suspected, that it was taken in the magnificent Belvedere Gardens in Wien (Vienna), which I had the good fortune to visit in 1989 and again in 1993. The wall in the background is that of the Convent of the Salesian Sisters, the dome of which is clearly visible at the right of my photo. Apart from the conical conifers in the sunken garden which have disappeared, and some extra ivy on the wall, little has changed over the last century.
Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
Albumen on glass plate negative by F.W. Scarratt of Derby
(Image reversed) Collection of Brett Payne
Just as that image stirred memories, so did the recent purchase which I have as my contribution this week, although in a somewhat different manner. Like the photograph of a Viennese woman pushing her baby in an elaborate pram through the Belvedere gardens, mine too is an albumen on glass negative, showing children in a playground and including several prams or pushchairs. There are few clues to where it was taken - although it was accompanied by another glass slide clearly titled as being from Derby - and the view seemed very familiar. Once the purchase arrived I scanned it and started wading through the few books of Derby photographic views that I own, in particular the two volumes of WW Winter Collections, Maxwell Craven's Keene's Derby and Rod Jewell's Yesterday's Derby.
Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
Postcard No. 466 by F.W. Scarratt of Derby
Image © Rod Jewell from Yesterday's Derby
It didn't take long for me to locate the image I had remembered, and my purchase proved to be exactly the same scene as that of Normanton Recreation Ground in one of a series of four postcards (Nos. 465-468) produced by F.W. Scarratt in 1911. The playground was opened on 4 September 1909, and the photographs could been taken any time between then and their presumed 1911 publishing date. The example illustrated in Rod Jewell's book was posted on 30 August 1911, with this charming message:
Dear Daddy, Thank you for your PC, This is where I see-saw. I do so like it. With lots of love, Mary.
Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
Postcard No. 467 by F.W. Scarratt of Derby
Image © Rod Jewell from Yesterday's Derby
Postcard number 467 is a similar view of the same playground, probably taken just a few minutes before or after number 466. This image shows even more prams, including a rather small one in the foreground, presumably containing a doll, but I could find no no see-saws. Jewell notes that the boy in shorts on the right hand side must have been trespassing, as this was a "girls only" playground, and the boys' one was separate.
My grandfather Leslie Payne (1892-1975) grew up in New Normanton, but by 1909 he would have been a little old for playgrounds. His younger brother Harold Victor Payne (1898-1921) was then 11, so could easily have been in the boys' section nearby, while his cousins Harry Payne (1906-1974) and Clarence Benfield Payne (1907-1982) might well have been occupants of one of the prams, perhaps attended by one of their aunts Lily Payne (1882-1968) or Helen Payne (1883-1933). It seems likely my grandmother Ethel Brown (1894-1978) or one of her three younger brothers would also have been frequent visitors to the Normaton Rec.
Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
Postcard No. 468 by F.W. Scarratt of Derby
A third postcard in the series (I haven't yet found an image of number 466) has a more general view of the "Rec," as it was commonly termed. Young trees are widely spaced on either side of a broad path, bordered by a wide expanse of lawns, and with the park pavilion in the background. The view includes several women and children out for a stroll, the former wearing the wide-brimmed hats so fashionable in the pre-War years, and a man seated on a park bench who is either lifting is straw boater to the passing ladies or shielding his eyes from the low afternoon sun.
Detail of Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
I was a little surprised at the wide variety of perambulators seen in these images, demonstrating that the ornate versions seen in studio portraits weren't necessarily just studio props.
Detail of Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
The small pavilion at the back of the playground, looking suspiciously like a railway carriage - Midland Railways' carriage works were located not far away from Normanton Rec - is probably where the mothers are sheltering.
Detail of Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
I was also intrigued by the presence of another, slightly older, boy in this photograph. I think he's getting bored with being ordered around by those two bossy girls, and is about to poke his eye out with that large stick. Perhaps readers would like to come up with a caption or explanation of their own for this playground vignette?
Detail of Normanton Recreation Grounds, Derby, 1911
Judging by the "tab" visible at the left hand edge of this glass plate negative - probably an artefact from the camera used to take the photograph - I believe this must be one of Scarratt's originals, or possibly a roughly contemporary copy made from the original for production purposes. By 1911 Scarratt had been producing postcards for only eight years, but had built up an extensive catalogue of views to rival the much larger regional or nation-wide publishers. He was Derby's first picture postcard publisher, and was in business until 1938. How an original example of his work ended up on eBay, I've no idea, but I count myself fortunate to have chanced on this fragment of Derby's postcard history.


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Joe Torcivia and I had one of our largest differences of opinion regarding "Duckworth's Revolt" when it first aired. He loved it, while I, quite frankly, didn't know what to make of it. In the DUCKTALES INDEX, I did move a tad closer to Joe's position by noting that, if one could buy the premise of slave-driving vegetables capturing Duckworth and HD&L and the normally cool, calm, and, above all, content butler leading a Spartacus-style slave rebellion, then the ep was not without its peculiar harvest of rewards. One of the factors that led me to this refined position was a viewing of the notorious Lost in Space episode "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" (1968), the plot of which bears at least a superficial resemblance to "Revolt"'s. The kicker, of course, was that "TGVR" had long been regarded as one of the very worst LIS eps, the farther-than-far-fetched product of an overworked and burned-out writer who, by his own admission, "didn't have another goddamned idea in my head."
It was one thing to tongue-in-cheekishly "accept" "Revolt" as kooky camp; it was quite another to ignore the incredibly shaky elementary logic baked into some of the most basic aspects of the episode. Take the opening premise -- please. Scrooge fires the happy, non-materialistic Duckworth so that he can enjoy the "sheer ecstasy of making big [bucks]!" Even if one interprets Scrooge's move as a grotesque overreaction to Huey's contention that Duckworth is the old miser's "slave" and a late-blooming admission of guilt that Scrooge has never given Duckworth a "fair chance" to become a self-made man, this makes no sense at all from Scrooge's perspective itself. Duckworth appears to be far more than a mere factotum here; his rhapsodic comments about the glories of cleaning Scrooge's wallets, picking gum off of Scrooge's cane, preparing cheap meals, scrubbing floors, and taking out trash are not only amusing in and of themselves, they indicate that Duckworth willingly fills the roles of multiple servants. Not even Richie Rich's butler Cadbury did that. Is Scrooge likely to find another competent servant who will perform so many tasks so cheerily? Not bloody so. Scrooge at least partially redeems his idiocy by coming to the bus stop in the end to ask Duckworth to take his position back (technically, he asks Duckworth to put off his departure "until some later date," but that's the flimsiest of fig leaves), but boy, does this (still) come off as ultra-contrived, and a somewhat crude misreading of Scrooge's character besides.
The other major logical hole in the story involves HD&L's ride to the "rescue" of Duckworth while the latter is talking with Brigadier Broccoli. Holding a position of strength in the Vegedonians' garden control room, the Nephews suddenly decide to "save" Duckworth "just in case he needs saving." Wang Films' subsequent blowing of numerous spots involving the space car race and siege (how did Broccoli and Duckworth get knocked into a car with a closed top; why does the top keep appearing and disappearing; why is the speaker in the car connected to a general intercom, allowing Duckworth to address the other aliens laboring in the garden and encourage them to rebel; and so forth) are positively minor when compared to this far more fundamental SWERVE, which (1) comes completely out of nowhere with no motivation whatsoever and (2) essentially dictates the course of much of the rest of the plot, right down to the landing on the "gourdy green planet."
I still can't rate "Revolt" as one of the series' best eps, simply because I can't ignore such lazy writing at such key points of the story. I have, however, grown to respect "Revolt" far more than I once did. All the zaniness masks the simple fact that this is actually a pretty sober-sided story that features some surprisingly grim thematic and action elements. The "slavery" angle is central, of course, but we are also "treated" to such delights as physical whipping of adults and children, despair in the face of evil, cattle prods (what would be the vegetarian equivalent of a cow?), catastrophic climate change, the decimation of a civilization (Broccoli's use of the word "destroyed," like the use of all those euphemisms for death in Kimba the White Lion, isn't fooling anyone), characters appealing for help before they are killed (Duckworth used no euphemism there!), and a bone-crunching moral dilemma (are the Vegedonians, in their straitened and desperate circumstances, justified in turning to forced labor until they can find a new home? Could they be trusted to let their slaves go free after they have found said home?). All the "squish-squashes" and "corny" vegetable puns in the universe can't obscure the cruel reality that some serious stuff IS GOING -- ON -- HERE, as Brigadier Broccoli might put it in his most stentorian tone.
GeoX makes the important point that the ep is "admirably committed" to its outlandish premise of alien vegetables, but I think that his point can be extended to cover more territory. It is very easy to imagine "Revolt" being written like a syndicated Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, with ALL logic being thrown to the winds (with the proviso, of course, that there's actually no wind in space) and the silliness being piled on past all reason. Instead, we got something more like the far more respected Saturday morning version of the Sonic show, which was set in a post-apocalyptic world and with the characters playing for much higher stakes.
It won't surprise anyone to learn that I consider this to be Duckworth's highest heroic flight of the entire series, though I still prefer several other episodes insofar as the quality of banter with other characters (in particular, Scrooge) is concerned. Regarding the motivation for his switch to rebel leader, I'd like to think that Duckworth really was scared in the early going (though perhaps more so for HD&L than for himself) but decided to show, if not grow, a backbone after overhearing the boys' frustrated comments that he must actually like being a slave. I wouldn't be surprised if the leaders of a lot of real-world slave rebellions displayed the same combination of initial trepidation and subsequent "raw strength and courage."
My only real objection with the episode -- but it's a substantial objection -- is this: it flirts with asking questions about the morality of Duckworth's employment (what with the kids calling him a slave and all), but it never has the courage to follow through, instead contenting itself with assuring us that, well, he's not literally a slave, so there's no cause for concern. But that's so trivially true that if it's all you're gonna say, there was no point in bringing it up in the first place. Of course he's not literally forced to work for Scrooge--I mean, f***ing DUH. If you think this is an important question to address -- and I think it is; there's always the somewhat uncomfortable feeling in the comics that, notwithstanding all his "earning it square" talk, he's exploiting his employees as much as he possibly can -- you should bloody well address it. Otherwise, don't bother.
I can see Geo's point here, but I think that writer Dale Hale ignored the implications of the whole "real vs. wage slavery" business because he was so focused on Duckworth's own personal transformation from "yellow-bellied chicken" to rebel hero. From the beginning, Duckworth insisted that he was proud of being Scrooge's employee (and who wouldn't be proud of working for the world's richest, if also cheapest, duck?), and it was that pride that ultimately fueled his decision to lead the rebellion. This is definitely a case of the personal trumping the political.
I originally rated "Revolt" 2 1/2 stars out of 4; now, I'd have to give it at least a 3, though I would hesitate to go any farther because of the logical problems. (3 1/4, perhaps?) I've come to admire the boldness of the tackling of adult themes in such a surrealistic, thoroughly non-traditional episode. If nothing else, I can always fall back on my common defense of off-the-reservation Duck stories: If Carl Barks could see fit to dish up a story about 17-foot-tall teenage girls on Venus, then we shouldn't complain too much about an episode like "Duckworth's Revolt."
Some... interesting... people worked on this ep. Dale Hale has had his finger in too many pies (both printed and animated) to count during a career dating back to the 50s, but his most notable credit has to be the Dell and Gold Key PEANUTS comic books of the late 50s and early 60s. Charles Schulz drew the covers of those books, but Hale, a friend of Schulz', got the honor of drawing the original stories themselves, which often went VERY far afield from standard PEANUTS strip fare. I don't think that Charlie Brown and company ever met slave-driving alien vegetables during the life of these titles, but, if it were ever destined to happen, then it would have happened here.
Greg) episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures, including an intriguing little confection called "Little Cake of Horrors" (1990) in which a dieting Hamton Pig is tormented by an evil talking cake who wants Hamton to eat it. Ethically dubious anthropomorphic foodstuffs... there couldn't possibly be a connection to "Revolt," could there?
George DiCenzo (died 2010), the voice of Brigadier Broccoli and several other minor characters, is best remembered for playing lawyer Vincent Bugliosi in the classic 1976 TV adaptation of Bugliosi's book about the "Manson Family" murder case, HELTER SKELTER. (I remember watching the show on its first run, when I was 13 years old. Looking back on it now, it was pretty amazing that my parents allowed me to watch it -- more so if you know anything about my parents.) For some reason, the juxtaposition of Broccoli and Bugliosi in DiCenzo's resume has always tickled me. Both characters are essentially "straight men" in the most bizarre of situations.
NOT likely to invite Charlie Manson in for a "nice hot cup of onion tea" anytime soon.
(Greg) We begin this one IN SPACE near a planet I don't know and don't care about. And then we get the CRAWL OF DOOM which looks really sloppy (Huh; a Star Wars crawl in a DTVA show?)
(Greg) Now remember Duckworth is on the meat hook and the nephews have leg irons on? Well... We get the scene changer of doom and we see Duckworth sleeping on top of a bunk bed with no leg irons and the nephews on the bottom bunk sulking without leg irons on. How about that?! How did they find the key for those things? Logic breaks #2 and #3 for the episode and the first ones I don't accept.
Maybe Duckworth and the boys were let out of their chains after being allowed to visit the little non-veggies' room...? No, a definite logic break here.
(Greg) Duckworth invokes the Gruffi pose to annoy me as [Brigadier] Broccoli sucks up and wants to chat over some nice onion tea. Now there's something that should be marketed in some way.
It's so easy to make from scratch that it's hard to say what would be gained from marketing it. I suppose that a manufacturer could produce a synthetic onion tea that got rid of some of the more disagreeable side effects of the real thing. The use of substitute ingredients would also answer GeoX's objection that the Vegedonians would regard the drinking of onion tea as cannibalism.
It's an open question as to what the Vegedonians actually eat. Some plants are clearly less welcome than others (else why kill weeds?), but perhaps there is some lower, non-sentient strain of plant life on which they are permitted to feed. Lieutenant Garlic and Sergeant Squash also appear willing to eat "plant food" made from alien (or at least duck) remains, which would seem to be even more ethically dicey than Soylent Green.
(Greg) Another barrel by the kangaroo alien on another leaf guard (there are two of them?!) with another good bump off-screen as the mob run like a mob and they are not going to take anymore crap anymore.
A reference to Peter Finch's famous slogan from Network. The "drum-beating watermelon" (it's too squat and large to be a zucchini) similarly invokes Ben-Hur.
(GeoX) "There comes a time when one must choose between trusting one's enemy or colliding with a gourdy green planet!" Words to live by.
The best part of this line is the part you left out -- the curiously calm "I have selected Choice #1." Along with the "And I thought elephants never forgot!/What's an elephant?/Forget it!" exchange between Huey and the Elephant Girl and HD&L's occasional references to the absent Launchpad, it's one of my favorite lines of the episode.
(GeoX) Vacation Van Honk!
Next: Episode 54, "Spies in Their Eyes."


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The chief financial officer of the Democratic National Committee apologized Saturday for the "insensitive" contents of an email leaked by the website WikiLeaks, which appears to refer to Bernie Sanders but does not name him directly.
The internal email, one of more than 19,000 emails released Friday, showed Brad Marshall questioning Sanders' Jewish faith, and suggested that painting the candidate as an atheist "could make several points difference" with his "Southern Baptist peeps [who] would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist."
In a Facebook post Saturday, Marshall said the emails were written in the heat of the moment.
"I deeply regret that my insensitive, emotional emails would cause embarrassment to the DNC, the chairwoman, and all of the staffers who worked hard to make the primary a fair and open process," Marshall said. "The comments expressed do not reflect my beliefs nor do they reflect the beliefs of the DNC and its employees. I apologize to those I offended."
Trump Booed Leaving New York Times
NBC News reached out to the DNC Saturday but did not receive a response.


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"This is totally not an April Fools joke guys, as Sony has confirmed that it is going to abolish Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and create a new organisation called Sony Computer Entertainment Japan/Asia."
Does this mean Asian stores like Singapore will get content just as good as the US store or will nothing change. I really hope it changes, our store sucks.
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On a similar note, Jessica Valenti delves into the downside of cosmetic surgery to help girls "feel competent."
This is a fucked-up country to grow up in, especially as a girl. And we all want to give young women the tools necessary to succeed. So let's teach girls to survive a misogynist culture with a fist, not a smile.
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Weird maybe... I don't consider ear flap glueing to be cosmetic surgery... in the conventional sense. I was born in the 60s in the boonies, and frankly, even in that small community, I knew several kids, boys equally to girls, who'd had their floppy ears stitched back, in a regular hospital, by a regular doctor, not a cosmetic surgeon. In the matter of floppy ears, it seems to be equal opportunity for both sexes, so I have no issue with this aspect.
I realise article deals with a lot more, but I just don't like to see multiple concepts clumpted together. The illusion of female beauty is a very real problem.
That sounds like an interesting book. Thanks for recommending it.
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Here is an article I published on my website about fireworks photography. I hope it'll be useful to some of you in this forum.
5 Tips for Photographing Fireworks
by Gary Hendricks
Imagine youre at a celebration event, camera in hand, waiting for a fireworks display. Theres a certain excitement when you shoot pictures of fireworks. Maybe its because the lights move so fast. Maybe its because shooting these pictures require tricky exposure settings. In any case, I find shooting fireworks to be one of the most interesting types of photography. To help those who are new to this genre of photography, here are some good tips to follow.
A spectacular display of fireworks
Tip 1: Remove UV or Polarizing Filters
This is always my first tip to photographers shooting fireworks. Remove the UV or polarizing filters from your camera before the fireworks display. I have, on many occasions, forgotten to do this and the results were often disastrous. By the time I got the lenses off, Id have missed several minutes of the fireworks display.
Tip 2: Right Angles to the Wind
Try to position yourself at right angles to the wind. Positioning yourself in this manner ensures that the light bursts in the fireworks streak across you as you snap pictures. This creates the interesting fireworks streaking effect you see in so many photos out there. The other advantage is that smoke will be blown out of your frame faster, giving rise to nicer, cleaner shots.
Tip 3: Bring the Tripod
Fireworks (and night photography in general) require long exposures. As such, always remember to bring your tripod along for the occasion. Ensure that you set up the tripod and try out some sample exposure settings way before those fireworks come on.
Tip 4: Focusing
As the fireworks display comes on, I think its pretty important to focus on the first few bursts of fireworks. Taking the time to do this will ensure that you have nice, well-focused shots subsequently. Many amateurs tend to get excited once we see and hear the fireworks, and forget about focusing altogether.
Tip 5: Background
Another thing to look out for when photographing fireworks check the background of the picture. Ensure that there are no city lights or moon in the background. The presence of these lights will diminish the impact of the fireworks display.
In summary, fireworks are a beautiful thing to photograph. However, they do present a special challenge in that the lights come out for only a short time. Moreover, the exposure settings can be tricky. If you keep practicing though, Im sure that one day youll become an expert at photographing fireworks.


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Competition among fitness facilities has increased dramatically, with 12,000 more clubs operating in the United States since 2002. Some experts project another 1,000 clubs opening in the next year alone. Increased operating costs and the public's resistance to higher dues make club operation economically challenging. With limited capital available for remodeling or equipment upgrades, how can club operators effectively compete while still making ends meet?
A good place to start is by assessing if a club is targeting its best market segments. Market segmentation is a strategy that relies on the notion that all consumers are not alike. A market segment is a distinct collection of people sharing one or more characteristics and thus having similar needs. Certain programs, services and promotions are more appealing to various groups based on a variety of factors, including age, income, gender and behavior. Retention and acquisition effectiveness can be enhanced by adopting segmentation strategies.
Here are steps you can take to implement a market segmentation approach for your club:
- Analyze your membership. What isn't measured can't be changed. You must analyze your membership database to identify variables like age, gender and home location. More importantly, you must assess which segments leave or join your club most often. It would be important to know, for example, if 40-49-year-old women living in a few neighborhoods 10 minutes from your club are your largest and fastest growing member segment. Proper analysis of data enables such insights. Sometimes, what a club owner thinks is not exactly what the facts reveal.
- Assess program use. You must know if your programs are aligned to the needs of particular segments by understanding actual program utilization. Ask your staff and members what services are most popular and make certain you measure this objectively. For example, if your group fitness programs are not being well attended, you need to find out why. Is it unappealing to members or are you missing an opportunity through poor execution?
- Analyze the competition. Using online tools, identify your competitors within a 15- to 20-minute drive time of your club and do your best to determine dues structures, programs and services offered. Assess their membership base and their market position. Who are their customers and how do they compare to yours? Compile the total number of memberships you believe are serviced in your area and calculate your market share. Identify what amenities you offer that others do not and consider your unique proposition for the membership base you service. Are your programs and dues structure addressing needs that are not met?
- Obtain demographic information. Surveys indicate that convenience is the No. 1 membership driver, so understanding your trade area is important. Demographic information is available for a relevantly low cost online. Household incomes, ages and other information reflect the makeup of the community you serve. Many online resources generate maps showing household concentrations by various categories, as well as daytime populations related to business generators. This will assist you in targeting promotional efforts. As a general rule and depending on your particular facility, focus on household incomes above $40,000 a year. Also, use polygonal or drive-time reports, not radial analysis, which does not accurately reflect the trade area you serve, due to boundaries created by roads or other barriers. Consider how your base of members relates to the demographic of your market. Do your members represent a very small portion of the majority of the households you draw from? Is your area growing?
- Prepare a segmentation plan. Now that you have evaluated information, you need to decide which segments are the best opportunities. What is the core makeup of your existing membership? What are you offering that competitors are not? Which segments does your facility appeal to most and why? What pricing have you adopted? What marketing is optimal for each segment? By answering these questions with data in hand, you can map a smart path to focus your resources on the best market segments and promote your business accordingly. Additionally, you can tweak programming intelligently to impact results. For example, if competitors do not offer quality group fitness programs, and you have a significant membership base that finds this programming appealing, prioritize the delivery of world-class group fitness as a strategic move and promote it.
Remember to measure the results of your decisions when using market segmentation. Track membership information and measure program performance to determine if you are in fact improving retention and driving acquisition. Constant evaluation of results generated by market segmentation efforts is essential for continued success.


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