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For two long-time Philadelphia institutions, Bassett's Ice Cream and Chestnut Hill Academy, this is a milestone year, with both the school and the company celebrating their 150th anniversaries in 2011. And with the added connection of Bassett's president Michael Strange (since 1983) being a CHA alumnus, what better way to celebrate the shared anniversary than to put students and ice cream together?
Which is exactly what happened last fall when Strange (the great-great-grandson of the founder of Bassett's, Lewis Dubois Bassett) visited CHA and challenged the students to design a signature ice cream flavor that Bassett's would produce in honor of the school's anniversary. On All School Day in October, students divided into teams and competed to create a name and ingredient mix for the anniversary flavor.
Some of the proposed names included "CHAcolate Devils Food Swirl," "Devil Berry Swirl," "Blue Devil CHA CHA," "Chocolate Hill," "Super Duper Blue Devil Monstrous Blast Supreme," and "Devil Mint Gummy Deluxe." The winning combination, voted on by the entire school community, was "Devil's Delight," in honor of the school's Blue Devil mascot, comprising chocolate and caramel swirls in a vanilla base, topped with light blue and dark blue M & Ms.
Recently, members of the student teams that won last fall's competition gathered to sample their creation when Strange brought a batch to school for an official taste test. Though the tasting was intended initially for those teams that had invented the winning name and ingredients, word soon got out, and long lines of students (and faculty!) formed to get a taste of the much-anticipated winning confection.
As part of their preview responsibilities, the students were asked to fill out a form rating the flavor on its taste, the proportion of caramel and chocolate swirl to the vanilla base, and the amount of M & Ms in each serving. The overwhelming opinion was highly favorable, though opinion differed on the appropriate quantity of M & Ms.
Mr. Strange will use the students' ratings to make final adjustments to the ice cream, which will make its official debut April 29 at the school's Blue and Blue Day, followed by another presentation May 14, when CHA hosts a spectacular gala to close its yearlong anniversary celebration.
Bassett's Ice Cream Company was founded in 1861, the year the Civil War began, when Lewis Dubois Bassett, a Quaker school teacher and farmer, began making ice cream in his Salem, NJ, backyard using a mule-turned churn. In 1885 he began selling his ice cream from a location at 5th and Market Streets in Philadelphia.
In 1893 The Reading Terminal Market opened, and Bassett's Ice Cream opened a retail store and moved production into the basement. Founder Lewis Dubois Bassett died in 1906. In 1925 Lewis Lafayette, Jr., the third generation, took over management of the ice cream store and production at the age of 21. In 1935 he shipped 10 quarts of ice cream, packed in dry ice, via freighter from New York through the Panama Canal to the American Embassy in Tokyo. The voyage took several weeks, but the ice cream arrived in perfect condition.
In 1959 L.L., Jr., produced 50 tubs of borscht sherbet for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. In 1973 production moved to 20th and Fairmount Streets, near the Art Museum. In 1974 Ann Bassett, great-granddaughter of the founder and daughter of L.L., Jr., joined the company. In 1976 she was named company president when L.L., Jr., retired after 51 years.
CHA alumnus Michael Strange, great-great-grandson of the founder, entered the family business in 1983. L.L., Jr., died in 1986 at the age of 82, and Michael was named president in 1989; Ann was CEO. In 2007 Michael became CEO when Ann retired after 33 years.
Today Bassett's offers more than 40 flavors of ice cream, sorbet and frozen yogurt. The 10 most popular flavors in order of their popularity are: Vanilla, French Vanilla, Chocolate, Mint Chocolate Chip, Strawberry, Coffee, Raspberry Sorbet, Cookies & Cream, Peanut Butter Swirl and Raspberry Truffle. More information at www.bassettsicecream.com.


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Jimmy Hoffa, the teamsters union leader, warmed up a Detroit crowd before Barack Obama took the stage by saying the following:
"We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They've got a war, they got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner. It's going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We're going to win that war," Hoffa told thousands of workers gathered for the annual event organized by the Detroit Labor Council.
"President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march…Everybody here's got a vote…Let's take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong," he concluded.
The response to Hoffa intrigues me. The Tea Party, of all people, condemned his words, saying they were "inappropriate and uncivil rhetoric," and that they have "no place in the public forum." This is the same Tea Party that since it's inception has been spitting vitriolic bile and is known for it's protesting signs that depict Obama as either a Nazi or a slave master. To this day, I have not seen one Tea Party leader call for condemning their own "inappropriate and uncivil rhetoric" that truly "has no place in the public forum."
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Samuel Dickstein (February 5, 1885 - April 22, 1954) was a Democratic Congressional Representative from New York, a New York State Supreme Court Justice, and a Soviet agent. He played a key role in establishing the committee that would become the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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Dickstein was born near Vilnius in present-day Lithuania, and immigrated to the United States in 1887 with his parents, who settled in New York City. There he attended public and private schools in New York City, the College of the City of New York, and graduated from the New York City Law School in 1906. He was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced law practice in New York City. He served as special deputy attorney general of the State of New York from 1911-1914, member of the board of aldermen in 1917, member of the State Assembly 1919-1922. He served as a member of the Democratic County Committee and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and was reelected eleven times. He resigned from Congress on December 30, 1945. He served as Chairman on the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses).
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In 1934, Dickstein introduced the "Dickstein Resolution" (H.R. 198) calling for the establishment of a special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate "un-American activities."[1] Under the pretext of investigating U.S. fascists,[2] he used the so-called "McCormack-Dickstein committee" to launch a series of "witch hunts" or inquisitions, persecuting and smearing anti-Communist American businessmen,[3] Soviet refugees[4] and Trotskyites[5] (whom Stalin had labeled "agents of fascism").[6] Dickstein was a Soviet agent at the time,[7] code-named "Crook."[8] For his services, the NKVD paid him more than $12,000[9] in the depths of the Great Depression—equivalent to more than $180,000 today.[10]
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Dickstein was a spy for the Soviet Union while a sitting member of Congress. The Soviet NKVD case handlers code-named him "Crook" due to his greedy compensation demands. Dickstein gave Moscow information on fascist groups in the U.S. and war budget materials. He is the only Congressman known to have spied for the Soviet Union while a member of Congress. He was instrumental in establishing and serving as vice chairman of the temporary Select Committee on Un-American Activities (the Dies Committee) in 1938 to investigate fascist and Nazi groups in the United States. After the Nazi-Soviet pact, the same committee was made into a permanent committee of the House, renamed the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and expanded its attention to include Communist organizations. Dickstein was paid $1250 a month from 1937 to early 1940 by the Soviet spy agency the KGB, which hoped to get secret Congressional information of anti-Communist and pro-fascist forces. When Dickstein left the Committee the KGB dropped him from the payroll.[11]
Dickstein later served as a Justice on the New York State Supreme Court until his death in New York City.
- ↑ "On January 3, 1934, the opening day of the 73d Congress, Dickstein introduced a resolution calling for the formation of a special committee to probe into un-American activities in the United States." An Inventory to the Samuel Dickstein Papers, Manuscript Collection No. 8, 1923-1944. 12.1 Linear ft. (Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives)
- ↑ Alexander Vassiliev, Black Notebook, Original, p. 78; Translated, p. 155
- ↑ "National Affairs: Plot Without Plotters," Time, December 3, 1934
- ↑ Justin Raimondo, "Seeing Reds," The American Conservative, August 1, 2009
- ↑ John F. Fox Jr., "What the Spiders Did: U.S. and Soviet Counterintelligence before the Cold War," Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, Summer 2009, pp. 206-224. Cf. John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), ISBN 0300123906 475-476
- ↑ Michael A. Riff, Dictionary of modern political ideologies (Manchester University Press ND, 1990) ISBN 071903289X, p. 52
- ↑ Joseph E. Persico, "The Kremlin Connection," The New York Times, January 3, 1999
- ↑ Lynnley Browning, "Spy vs. spy vs. spy," The Boston Globe, February 14, 1999
- ↑ Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999), ISBN 0375755365, pp. 140-150
- ↑ Inflation Calculator, Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor
- ↑ Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies and Espionage, Alpha. April 1, 2003. ISBN 0028644182, p. 36: "Among the early Soviet recruits [was]...U.S. Congressman Samuel Dickstein, who demanded such high payments that the Soviets gave him the code name "Crook." Details of these and other Soviet spies were not revealed until decades later, when some of the archives of the KGB were made available to researchers.", p. 156-157: "Code-Name: Crook Another of the unusual cases was Congressman Samuel Dickstein. Dickstein headed the House Committee on Un-American activities in 1937, which then focused on the activities of fascist groups in in the United States. Dickstein met with the Soviet ambassador, and offered to sell information uncovered by the committee regarding pro-facist Russian groups in the United States. The KGB assigned Dickstein the code name Crook. Dickstein asked for $2,500 a month to supply information and after the Soviets offered $500 a month, he counter-offered at $1,250 a month. When Congress selected Martin Dies to head the committee, Dickstein's value to the Soviets fell off. After a series of arguments over the value of his continued services, the Soviets broke off contact with him in January 1940. Altogether, Dickstein (Crook) had received $12,000, estimated by historian Allen Weinstein, who published the story later in 1997, to be the equivalent of more than $133,000 in dollar value of that year...The activities of strange characters like Martha Dodd, Samuel Dickstein, and Michael Straight were not fully understood until years after their espionage careers, with the opening of Soviet archives and the research of diligent historians like Allen Weinstein", p. 274: "However, even if American traitors made amateurish spies, several of them inflicted serious damage to American security. Some, like Samuel Dickstein (Chapter 10) or John Walker (Chapter 17), went undiscovered for years."
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era (New York: Random House, 1999).
- Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy Testimony that the Dickstein Committee Suppressed, John Spivak, The New Masses, January 29, 1935.


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At a Glance: Komodo National Park
Reef type:
Pretty much everything from walls to coral gardens. Komodo has some of the most diverse diving on the planet. Manta rays are common and at certain times of the year you may see sunfish (mola mola.)
Great, averaging 20 to 30m. On good days over 40m.
Can be strong, tide dependent. Up and down currents.
What to Look For:
Mantas, Sharks, Eagle Rays, Tuna, Amphipods, Crinoids–Everything!
Travel Info
Some liveaboard trips to Komodo National Park begin and end in Bali, diving around Lombok and the north coast of Sumbawa along the way. Some depart from areas closer to Komodo and involve a short domestic flight from Bali. Either way, if you're going to Komodo, your first stop is Bali.
As you travel east, volcanoes give way to white sand beaches and coral reefs in warm water, 28º-30ºC (86-90ºF). Visibility is excellent at 20-40m (66-130ft). The reefs are healthy and diverse with large stands of corals and exotic animals. The diving is easy and night diving is good. Heading south to Komodo and Rinca islands, water temperatures drop to a chilly 20º-24ºC (70-78ºF). A 5mm wet suit with hood, at least, is recommended. The cooler Indian Ocean meets the warmer Flores Sea in the Sape and Lintah Straits, creating one of the richest marine environments in the world. Nutrient-rich upwellings rise while warmer waters sink dropping visibility to 5-20m (15-66ft). This process creates currents, whirlpools and thermoclines bringing in scores of fishes and filter-feeding invertebrates. The reef is dramatic with drop-offs, outcrops, canyons, pinnacles and boulders, bursting with color. Sea fans, soft corals, sponges, basket stars, sea apples, and feather stars cover all available substrate.
At a Glance: Raja Ampat
Reef type:
Limestone rock islands similar to Palau, mangrove and granite islands. Walls, coral slopes, and patch reefs are terrific for all-around diving. Island topography, too, is varied.
Great, averaging 20 to 30m. On good days over 40m.
Not a real big issue. Some dive sites are more advanced than others.
What to Look For:
The best feature of these islands is their diversity. Over 3000 species of fishes and over 300 species of corals have been identified here. Seas from the Philippines, Maluku Islands, and Australia meet here to support an incredibly prolific and diverse assortment of marine life.
Travel Info
In addition to the non-stop fishes, there are oddities like Wobbegongs, giant clams, and a variety of critters. Strong currents are good for drift diving and isolated lagoons are great for muck diving. There are coral cays and granite islands with steep walls. Some areas have hundreds of rock islands similar to those in Palau. Others are surrounded by mangrove forests. This area is not to be missed.
Trips normally depart and return to Sorong on West Papua, a five hour flight from Jakarta or Bali. You may dive this area all year, part of the year to the south, part of the year to the north. Most boats base their schedule on the Komodo season so start their trips eastward in November and return in May or June. So most of the trips are scheduled in the winter time.
The best time to dive the Raja Ampat is March to May and August to November, although the season is from March until December. Rainfall is well distributed throughout the year. Water temperatures run from 26º-32ºC (82-94ºF) and are most often 28º-29ºC (86-88ºF).
At a Glance: Banda and Alor
Reef type:
The Banda Sea stretches from Alor to the coast of West Papua. A string of islands in the south Maluku archipelago forms the southern border of the sea. Like Nusa Tenggara, these islands are part of the seismically active 'Ring of Fire.' The Banda Islands, formerly known as the Spice Islands, are in the central Banda Sea.
Great, averaging 20 to 30m. On good days over 40m.
Can be strong, tide dependent. Up and down currents. Cooler water.
What to Look For:
Beautiful corals, big tuna and overhangs with big sponges and sea fans are the highlight.
Travel Info
This little-visited area has some of the world's richest reefs bursting with unspoiled corals and pelagic fishes. The weather in this part of Indonesia is on a different cycle from the rest of the country. The best time to dive here is March-April and October-November when the water is calm and warm, 27º-30ºC (84-90ºF), and the visibility is 30-40m (100-130ft). The southeast monsoon (May-September) is wet, windy, and the water temperature drops to 25ºC (80ºF) due to strong upwellings in the area. Plankton blooms at this time reduce visibility to 15m (50ft). From December to February the wind is not as strong but it is strong enough to make boat travel uncomfortable.
Diving in the remote Banda Sea is possible only by liveaboard. The route to and from West Papua is convenient for sailing and diving along the way. Stopovers at Wetar Island, the Damar, Banda and Lucipara Islands, and Koon Island off the coast of Seram, guarantee a pristine diving experience. This little-visited area has some of the world's richest reefs bursting with unspoiled corals and pelagic fishes.
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posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 7:08 pm
I want to use Mplus to cope with the missing data problem and the categorical variables. I would appreciate your advice about the right statistical analysis.
I want to assess the effect of 2 independent Variables (6 and 2 levels) on 4 dependent variables with 16 repeated measures. Thus we get 12=6*2 experimental cells. Moreover the dependent dichotomous variables have a complex structure.
0 | 1 |***first DV
missing | 0 | 1 |***second DV
missing | missing| 0 | 1 |***third DV
missing | missing|miss|0|1|***4th DV
My main interest is about the "main effect" and the interaction over all wavesof the both independent variables. Additionally I am interested if the effect of the IDs is changing over the 16 waves (time effect). Possible moderators like sex and status should be taken into account.
I would appreciate any hint! Can I use Mplus to evaluate this and which analysis is appropriate?
would be a multilevel model a good idea?
What about multinomial logistic regression with repeated measures?
More over I wanted to evaluate this by LGC, but then I think I don't know which level or the ID is the best. But my main interest is not how the slope is changing over the time, but the mean effect of the time is different for the 12 experimental cells.
THANK you so much for helping me.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 5:15 pm
What do you mean by
missing | missing|miss|0|1|***4th DV
- what are the bars (|) separating? Are the 4 dichotomous DVs tied to each other, that is, have direct relations?
posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 10:58 pm
I just wanted to symbolize the structure of the DVs. All my dichotomous DVs represeant different kinds of participation behaviour such as "person responded"(DV2). So just if the participant has the value DV2=1 in wave x, the person can have any value for DV2, DV3,DV4 in wave x+1.Otherwise the person has a missing value in DV2 and in all other "nested" DVs.
I want to know if there is a main effect of my two IDs and where I can find the difference.
My first hypothesis were how the effect of these IDs on my DVs will change over the waves. For that I proposed LGC.
But now I am more interested in the "main effect" over the time since I want to be able to make a recommendation which "level" of the IDs is the best to get good participation behaviour.
a) I tried multinomial regression but I have a lot of missing values.(just 10 percent of the sample has a value in every DV for all waves)
b) is it possible to use LGC for that? It would be nice to have the additional "growth" information, even if it is not my main interest. I am more interested in the "niveau" of the different groups (cells) thant in the difference of "structure". But the intercept in the LGC does just take the first wave into account, doesn't it? Is it possible to evaluate my hypothesis by not restricting the paths from the intercept to 1? Do I miss something? or is LGC the wrong track?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 9:48 am
This is a very general question not really related specifically to Mplus. I think it would best be posted on a general discussion forum like, for example, SEMENT.
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People come to Damon Moore every day needing a lot of things - a job, help staying sober, a decent apartment. But mainly, they need help remembering how to live. Most have been behind bars long enough to have forgotten what it is like to put a paycheck in their pockets, decide what they want for breakfast or hold their child.
Moore helps run Network in the Community and Network in the Prisons, a set of programs for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers founded by Episcopal Social Services. At Moore's branch in East New York, former prisoners receive services ranging from job counseling to anger-management therapy - whatever they need to move forward.
"We try to change your system of thought," he said.
In a typical year, more than 25,000 New Yorkers walk out of prison into an unfamiliar world. Stigma and instability await them at every turn, and everything from opening a bank account to grocery shopping can be an alien experience.
Moore, 33, has traced that shaky path. He got involved with the network's prison-based programs in his 20s when he was imprisoned for armed robbery. The counseling he received helped him assess his own potential as an advocate. Inside, he spoke out for better conditions for prisoners. When he got out, he carried that social consciousness back to his community, while continuing to lean on the network to stabilize emotionally.
Today, in his work as a counselor with the network, Moore embodies a keystone of progressive reentry programs: enabling people who have been in prison to create new roles for themselves as community members.
"A lot of times," Moore said, "people say stuff like, 'Oh, Damon, you're different.' And I go forward and ask them, 'What makes me so different?' I mean, we all have this ability to change."
The Downside of Freedom
"When you come out here, to be free is painful," said Paulie Santos, 64, who was released in 2005 after serving time for murder. "'Cause you gotta be responsible. You gotta get up early. If you want to eat, you gotta go out there and earn the money. You decide when you're taking shower, when you go to the bathroom. In prison they tell you everything. So when you come out here... a lot of people can't deal with that."
Though the state prison system offers some transitional services, such as vocational training and substance-abuse treatment, former prisoners often come home to the same instability that drove them toward crime in the first place. The state Department of Correctional Services, which oversees the facilities that house most of state's incarcerated population, reported that among prisoners released in 2002, nearly four in ten returned to the system within three years.
People continue to stream out of prison into uncertainty. According to corrections authorities, about 26,400 people were released in 2006. Those leaving prison for the first time were mostly male, mostly from New York City, and disproportionately Black and Latino compared to the state population overall. The median time served was about two and a half years and the average age at release was 34.i
As part of a program to identify and address prisoners' needs, the corrections department assessed nearly 14,700 inmates and found that 85 percent needed substance abuse treatment, 67 percent needed further schooling, and 54 percent needed help controlling aggression.
Guiding a Seamless Transition
As the main lifeline for struggling former prisoners, community-based groups have worked to reintegrate people inside and outside prison walls.
Episcopal Social Services' network aims for a "seamless" transition by engaging prisoners well before their release. At nine state facilities and one city jail, prisoners voluntarily enter supportive communities within the prisons. They attend support groups led by the inmates and, when space is available, live in communally run housing. Once immersed in the program, people who have spent years staring at concrete and bars suddenly find themselves sharing chores and socializing with colleagues. The constant isolation of conventional prison is replaced by a mini-society centered around daily therapeutic meetings.
By giving the prisoners a sense of fellowship and purpose within a broader community, said program director Anne Williams, the network drives participants "to look for and meet the best part of themselves ... and exchange a dysfunctional lifestyle for a functional one."
Outside prison, the organization's close ties with parole officers encourage referrals for released individuals to the network's community-based sites in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn, linking them to long-term peer support and other services.
Of the hundreds of clients served by those community programs from 2004 to mid-2007, only 12 percent reentered the prison system-about a third of New York's overall three-year recidivism rate.
Beyond helping people meet basic needs, re-entry programming propels clients into advocacy work. Many become activists on prison-related issues like sentencing reform and HIV/AIDS prevention, or turn past struggles into a teaching example. Moore recently coordinated a gang prevention program in which former gang members spoke with at-risk youth about their experiences with crime and incarceration.
"We've taken a lot out of the community," Moore said. "It's time to put something back."
Finding a Home
From Crack House to Safe House
Softening the plunge into the "outside" world, programs for former prisoners offer support from peers dealing with similar challenges.
At a towering gothic landmark in West Harlem known as the Castle, the Fortune Society houses about 62 people who became homeless after prison. They're welcome to stay as long as they need, supported by counseling, employment assistance and legal help while preparing to live and work independently.
The building itself, a converted crack house, encapsulates its mission of redemption: It has harbored more than 500 men and women since 2002. Clients live in apartment-like housing with others going through similar transitions, along with former clients who have graduated to positions as service providers. Once anchored at the Castle, clients can receive various services, including GED classes and substance abuse treatment. Parents can engage in therapeutic programs to help reconnect with their children.
Glenn Martin, Fortune's associate vice president of policy and advocacy, who served time himself, said an acute housing shortage thrusts many former prisoners into the city's chaotic shelter system.
"I hear clients all the time saying that the city-run shelter system is worse than prison," he said.
Bad Rap
Rebuilding a life after prison means finding honest work, but employers often turn away people with conviction records. Despite statewide anti-discrimination protections, former prisoners face an extraordinarily high unemployment rate. In New York City, the mayor's office estimates that a criminal record undercuts an individual's chances of landing a job by 35 percent for whites and nearly 60 percent for blacks.
Santos, who earned a college degree during prison and has tutored residents of the Castle in computer skills, said joblessness drives many former prisoners into a familiar spiral of desperation.
"That's where the recidivism rate takes place," he said. "Because how long could you be out here, doing nothing? You need a roof over your head."
On the flip side, employment can vastly improve a former prisoner's chances of success. The New York-based Center for Employment Opportunities has placed about 10,000 formerly incarcerated people in full-time jobs over the past decade through targeted training . In transitional work-preparation programs, clients develop workplace cooperation and communications skills - qualities that can persuade employers to give former prisoners a chance . A recent independent evaluation found that, one year out, participants were reincarcerated at about half the rate of similar group of former prisoners who were not in the program.
But advocates say helping people navigate a biased job market only goes so far if the system is rigged. Groups like Fortune have pushed the state government to strengthen anti-discrimination protections for former prisoners, boost tax credits for employers who hire them and expand prison-based educational programs.
"It's great that we provide all these services," said Martin. "But sometimes it's a little bit like standing in the emergency room putting Band-Aids on cancer."
Prison Prevention
In an effort to curb incarceration, state correctional authorities have in recent years emphasized re-entry services, working closely with health and welfare agencies and local service providers. Still, relatively stagnant funding has left community organizations scrambling to catch up with the growing needs of freshly released prisoners.
Federal legislation passed earlier this year could provide additional resources. The Second Chance Act authorizes grants to states for reentry programs aimed at preventing recidivism. The law's actual impact, however, will depend on how much money Congress decides to pump into it. Re-entry service providers generally rely on yearly grants from state and local coffers.
But money can only chip away at the obstacles bombarding former prisoners. Activists point out that the fundamental problems that originally ensnared them in crime await them when they leave prison: violence, failing schools, chronic unemployment. To stem the cycle, some re-entry organizations operate alternative-sentencing programs in the courts, routing people away from prison and into drug treatment and other community-based programs.
"People are going back to the very neighborhoods that are hardest hit by poverty and racism, and ... incarceration itself has depleted them of social capital," said Marsha Weissman, executive director of the Center for Community Alternatives, which runs re-entry and alternative-sentencing programs in Syracuse and New York City. If incarceration patterns reflect deeper ills, she said, "Why do we only focus on the back end to address those issues?"
"We need to do more in terms of asking ourselves, what's going on in those communities?" Martin said. "What can we do better, so that people are making more appropriate decisions? The question to me is: Can we reinvest to get better outcomes?"


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来自拉丁词episcopus. 前缀epi-, 在...上,词根scope, 看,同spect, 字母p,c置换。指宗教的监督者,监管者。
A curious example of word-change, as effected by the genius of different tongues, is furnished by the English bishop and the French évêque. Both are from the same root, furnishing, perhaps the only example of two words from a common stem so modifying themselves in historical times as not to have a letter in common. (Of course many words from a far off Aryan stem are in the same condition.) The English strikes off the initial and terminal syllables, leaving only piscop, which the Saxon preference for the softer labial and hissing sounds modified into bishop. Évêque (formerly evesque) merely softens the p into v and drops the last syllable. [William S. Walsh, "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities," Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1892]Late Latin episcopus in Spanish became obispo. Cognate with Old Saxon biscop, Old High German biscof. The chess piece (formerly archer, before that alfin) was so called from 1560s.
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Satyajit Ray's 1963 film The Big City, a.k.a. Mahangar, is another fascinating outing from India's great multi-hyphenate of cinema (he directed, wrote the screenplay, and composed the musical score). The sensitively filmed domestic drama details the slow-burning resentment that develops in a struggling lower-middle class family, after the wife takes a job and enjoys it - a window on the changing role of women in 1960s India. Criterion's astonishing Blu Ray edition is a good companion to Ray's The Music Room (1958), his evocative portrait of a 19th century feudal lord who is similarly alienated by India's changing values (like the husband and father-in-law in this movie).
The Big City centers around the Mazumders, a mixed-generation family living in a tiny apartment nestled in one of Calcutta's more densely-packed areas. The dad in the family, Subrata (Anil Chatterjee), is having a hard time managing the household on the small income his banking job brings in. Not only does he have to support his wife and son, the meager finances also need to provide for his parents and his young sister Bani (Jaya Bhaduri), who is enrolled in an expensive private school. Subrata's wife, Arati (Madhabi Murherjee), brings up the idea of her finding a job to help out, an action that Anil initially supports. Despite her limited education, she ends up being employed by a knitting machine manufacturer in the city, a modern company that uses women as door-to-door saleswomen to ply their products to customers in the wealthy suburbs. Arati finds herself liberated by the work, performing well enough to get high marks from her boss, Mr. Mukherjee (Haradhan Bannerjee). Befriending her Westernized co-worker, Edith (Vicky Redwood), Arati picks up traits previously forbidden to proper Bengali women, such as wearing lipstick. While Arati's happily employed status is an inconvenience to Subrata, it's mortifying to Subrata's aging father (Haren Chatterjee), a retired professor of medicine who cannot abide the idea of a respectable working woman. Eventually, Arati's self-confidence alienates her emasculated husband Subrata, who cautions her that "peace within the family is more important than money." Subrata and Arati need to put aside their differences, however, when the family finds itself involved in a new crisis.
As with a lot of Satyajit Ray's films, The Big City's simple premise is belied by its exquisite storytelling and thoughtful craftsmanship. Arati's transformation from meek housewife to self-sufficient modern woman is subtly and beautifully realized, gracefully played out by the fascinating performance of actress Madhabi Murherjee. Ray doesn't come down hard and fast on either side of the modernization debate, however, resulting in characters that are given a thoroughly human, realistic dimensionality. Anil Chatterjee's nuanced job as the father in the family makes his concerns seem valid without coming off as chauvinistic, while Haren Chatterjee brings a lot of poignancy to his portrayal of Arati's father-in-law. While very much of its time and place, the situations the characters find themselves in has a strange relevancy in today's recession-ravaged America, where the traditionally "male" jobs in construction and manufacturing have been decimated while the "female" fields of health care and education are thriving.
Besides the story and characters, there's a lot of other nuances to The Big City to enjoy. I loved how the film literally brightens up after Arati and her co-workers go out on their sales calls, moving from the dingy, cramped (but beautifully photographed) family apartment to the open suburbs flooded with daylight. There's also a lot of engrossing interplay between the Anglo-Indian Edith and the other characters, who are both fascinated and appalled by the woman's modern clothing, casual attitude, crude language and smoking. It exposes an aspect of Indian society that most Western viewers previously had no inkling of.
While it has a few minor flaws (the drama is extended too long, and the ending seems slightly too simplistic), The Big City is one of Satyajit Ray's key works, a worthwhile watch for anyone with an interest in great International cinema.
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Surprisingly for an Indian domestic drama mostly played out on small sets, The Big City's cinematography is gorgeous - and the digital remastering used on Criterion's edition truly brings out the warmth in the 35mm source print. The black and white 1.33:1 image shows a minimum of aging, with many scenes having a beautiful tonality that you could just dive into. Although the notes in the blu ray booklet say that some of the restoration was sourced from a secondary, inferior print, the film is given a remarkably consistent polish throughout.
The restored monoaural soundtrack is considerably less showy than the picture, but it's a fine job as well with clearly recorded, pleasant dialogue and little distortion (there's some raggedness present in the rare music-backed scenes). Considering that most vintage Indian films don't use the best recording methods, they did a sweet sounding job here. An optional subtitle track, newly translated in English, is also included.
Criterion has loaded this disc with worthwhile bonus content that puts the film in context. Many of it is produced exclusively for this edition:
Final Thoughts:
Humane contemporary drama from the great Indian director Satyajit Ray, The Big City is a low-key stunner that depicts the triumphs and heartbreak of an average Bengali family after the wife decides to work outside the home. The fact that Criterion's presentation is exemplary in just about every respect makes this one a logical addition to the DVD Talk Collectors Series.
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It was over a year ago when we last wrote about Richard Prince, the famous appropriation artist who was sued by photographer Patrick Cariou, whose photos Prince had used in various collage paintings. In a very troubling ruling, the judge in that case rejected Prince's fair use defense in a summary judgement, and ordered all 30 relevant works be turned over to Cariou to be sold or destroyed as he saw fit. This was a shock to the art world, where appropriation art has been a popular and highly-respected art form for years, with Prince as one of its best-known practitioners.
Today, we get some good news: the appeals court has overturned the decision (pdf and embedded below) and found 25 of Prince's paintings to be fair use, while sending the other five back to the lower court so the fair use defense can be properly considered rather than summarily dismissed. There are a few oddities in the details, but overall this is a fantastic ruling that includes some excellent language about fair use.
One of the most disturbing parts about the earlier ruling was that the lower court completely dropped the ball on its interpretation of fair use, incorrectly stating that in order to qualify for fair use, a new work must be commenting on or criticizing the original work. That's plainly wrong, and the appeals judge set the matter straight:
The district court imposed a requirement that, to qualify for a fair use defense, a secondary use must "comment on, relate to the historical context of, or critically refer back to the original works." Cariou, 784 F. Supp. 2d at 348. Certainly, many types of fair use, such as satire and parody, invariably comment on an original work and/or on popular culture. For example, the rap group 2 Live Crew's parody of Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" "was clearly intended to ridicule the white-bread original." Campbell, 510 U.S. at 582 (quotation marks omitted). Much of Andy Warhol's work, including work incorporating appropriated images of Campbell's soup cans or of Marilyn Monroe, comments on consumer culture and explores the relationship between celebrity culture and advertising. As even Cariou concedes, however, the district court's legal premise was not correct. The law imposes no requirement that a work comment on the original or its author in order to be considered transformative, and a secondary work may constitute a fair use even if it serves some purpose other than those (criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research) identified in the preamble to the statute. Id. at 577; Harper & Row, 471 U.S. at 561. Instead, as the Supreme Court as well as decisions from our court have emphasized, to qualify as a fair use, a new work generally must alter the original with "new expression, meaning, or message."
Of course, even this judge seems to have a few facts muddled, considering "parody and satire" cannot be casually linked together like that in the context of U.S. copyright law — one is a well-established and codified form of fair use, the other enjoys no such protection. In fact, the initial court's talk of comment and criticism seems to have stemmed from confusion between the standards for fair use in general, and the standards for parody specifically (where commenting on the original is indeed a requirement).
There's more good stuff about fair use, including lots of citations, to be found in the ruling, which should be read by anyone who still claims that copyright is a natural right or that stronger copyright always means more creativity:
The purpose of the copyright law is "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 8. As Judge Pierre Leval of this court has explained, "[t]he copyright is not an inevitable, divine, or natural right that confers on authors the absolute ownership of their creations. It is designed rather to stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public." Pierre N. Leval, Toward a Fair Use Standard, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1105, 1107 (1990) (hereinafter "Leval"). Fair use is "necessary to fulfill [that] very purpose." Campbell, 510 U.S. at 575. Because "'excessively broad protection would stifle, rather than advance, the law's objective,'"
The "ultimate test of fair use ... is whether the copyright law's goal of 'promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts' ... would be better served by allowing the use than by preventing it." Castle Rock, 150 F.3d at 141
Since the court goes through a full fair use analysis, there's lots of good stuff on issues other than the transformative one too. The ruling clarifies that neither the "commercial use" aspect nor the "amount of work copied" aspect of fair use is determinative, and explains why Prince's work qualifies for fair use even though it is commercial and often uses Cariou's photos in their entirety.
But there's still a somewhat problematic side to this ruling, and that's the aforementioned distinction of five works from the rest. It brings us back to a problem we talked about a lot last year when this case was in the courts: judges playing art critic. The fact that fair use is so vague means that, every time it's tested, it starts to turn into an argument about whether a piece of art is "good" or "worthwhile" — a subjective standard if there ever was one. Among the five that have been sent back to the lower court is the most famous of them all (Cariou original on the left, Prince work on the right):
The ruling draws a distinction between that and one of the other works that it declared to be fair use (again Cariou left, Prince right):
In that comparison, it's not hard to see how the latter example changes the original "more" than the former. But that's where the obviousness ends. The true challenge is drawing that line, which the appeals court was not prepared to do:
As indicated above, there are five artworks that, upon our review, present closer questions. Specifically, Graduation, Meditation, Canal Zone (2008), Canal Zone (2007), and Charlie Company do not sufficiently differ from the photographs of Cariou's that they incorporate for us confidently to make a determination about their transformative nature as a matter of law. Although the minimal alterations that Prince made in those instances moved the work in a different direction from Cariou's classical portraiture and landscape photos, we can not say with certainty at this point whether those artworks present a "new expression, meaning, or message."
The problem is that I don't think anyone can say with "certainty" what the meaning of a piece of art is, and that includes the artist themselves. In some cases, it seems like the most sensible approach would be to rely on experts — in this case the many galleries around the world that have showcased Prince's art, and the many critics who have praised it (or, for that matter, condemned it — a new meaning doesn't have to be something people like). Of course, there are potential problems there, too: many an important art movement was rejected by the established community at its outset.
Overall, the most important part of this ruling is that it overturns the ridiculous assertion that comment and criticism is the only form of fair use — but other than that, it fails to provide much clarity. I'm not certain any court could. There's no way to guess what the lower court will decide once it goes through the fair use test with the remaining five works, to the point that the question is almost entirely a matter of opinion, and it's not hard to envision a ruling in either direction. Whenever you have that much uncertainty on a point of law, something needs to be fixed.
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Much love to you Marksgurl2621...I can not imagine the pain you must be feeling...I pray for all who are living what you are right now.
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i no, its horrible, how can pple even do such a thing? in what mind? its so disgusting my heart just broke when i heard about it.... i just wanna give my condonesents 2 the family of those poor innocent people who have died 2-day and may they rest in peace. we will never 4-get u.
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This is so unbelieveable. I can't believe how horrible those people who did this are. All of those people dying is just horrible.
I want everyone to know that if you were affected by this tragedy you are in my prayers! And to anyone who lost loved ones, my condolences and may they rest in peace.
I'm so sorry everyone has to go thourgh this. I hope we find the people who planned this whole terrorism thing and get them in the a**. They deserve it more than any words can describe.
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You know what? Know it just doesn't seem real, you know? Like I keep watching this movie, over and over, but I can't turn it off. And its becoming kind of... well comical I guess. Not hahaha, roflmao, but maybe not comical, but unreal, I guess is the word. Like it happend in some other country, or in another time. Does that make sense?
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Yeah. I keep pinching myself figuratively, like I can wake up from this. This simply cannot be real. It's got to be a movie or something. F'ing Armageddon. Only the thing is, that was natural causes, and this is evil PEOPLE. I feel nauseous.
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It is true. Im very very sad about it.Just imagine: The war number 3!!!! Is very sad. Im worry about ya... Im brazilian!!! Im see in tv and Cry!!!! Well, im jus say... Pray for War3 not happening... Please!!! It is very very serious.
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hey guys i live in ny and this is just pure madness i got to college in downtown brooklyn which only has a bridge between nyc and brooklyn. the smoke was awful you could even smell it. they shut doewn everything! i took me 3 hrs to get home for a 45 min train ride. they actually closed the bridge and had people covered in sut walking across the brooklyn bridge. this is by far the scariest time..... as we speak war ships are pulling into manhattan. i am so scared
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Has there been any new developments? All I can understand is the basics. (Twin towers collapsing, pentagon, building 7, etc)
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Mariah, unfortunately, certain factions of the Middle East, who have long shouted 'death to America' are the happy ones tonight. They sure don't serve the same God I do, if they think He is going to smile on them for this.
I've heard anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 people died in the trade center attack along. That doesn't count the Pentagon or t he other crashes. Over 260 people died in the 4 jet planes, too.
I think this is worse than Pear Harbor, because they used civilian passenger planes as weapons to hit civillian targets, without our continental shores. Some Senators have already said this means war, but we have to find the thugs who did this first.
I usually wish I had children, but today, I'm glad I don't.
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This is worse than Pearl Harbour. Japan had already declared war on the US before sending out their fighter planes. They targeted an offshore military base. I'm not sure if any WW2 veterans would agree with me, but at least they followed the 'accepted' rules of war.
The attack today was made on mainland soil. Innocent civilians were deliberately targeted, with no thought to loss of life. It was a cowardly and despicable act.
I understand the anger that everyone feels, but now is a time for holding hands and pulling together, not for fighting. Show these groups that Americans (and those who have adopted America as a home)are not so easily intimidated. Know that, one way or another, whoever is responsible will get their own back one day.
Meanwhile, please, donate blood (especially NY residents) or money to the Red Cross. They are doing an amazing job, under very difficult circumstances.
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Well...morning now,11 am in Spain...I've been checking news out.Europe's leaders are holding meetings showing their support to the United States to fight against terrorism.
Many persons are beeing pulled out from the collpased towers.People are calling from their cell phones to be spotted.
I went to sleep last night thinking about them...I was in my bed comfortable...I feel so awful.This is a nightmare.I hope the day of today turns out positive somehow...
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I couldn't even speak yesterday. I heard the news while I was driving and I had to pull off the road. It's so unbelievable! I have been glued to CNN. How human beings are capable of this I will never understand! Watching the rescue efforts has restored some of my faith in humanity though. It was absolutely amzing to see people pull together in this tragedy. I live in Canada and quite far from this tragedy but we are feeling it. This has not just happened to the American people but people of the world. Our blood donor clinics were overflowing last night and will be today. People just want to help no matter where htey are. My prayers are with everyone involved. God Bless!!
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Hi, everyone. I havent posted on here in a long while but I just felt that I had to come on and see how everybody is.
I live in the UK so this has not affected me as closely as it has some of you, but the shock and devastation of it is also being deeply felt over here, and Tony Blair has promised to stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with America to fight these terroists.
I hope that everybody is OK (physically that is)and that so are all your families. My heart and thoughts are with you all and the victims of this terrible tragedy.
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