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DOJ Report Details The Massive Amount Of Violence Committed By Rikers Island Staff Against Adolescent Inmates
from the the-infernal-machine deptLate in 2012, two mentally-ill minors were taken from their cells at Rikers and beaten by a shift captain and multiple guards, who took turns punching the two inmates while they were restrained. A jail clinician reported seeing one of them being punched in the head while handcuffed to a gurney. Another clinician said she saw staff striking the other while he screamed for them to stop hurting him. One of the two told consultants he was still spitting up blood "more than a month after the incident."
This was prompted by the inmates' refusal to "comply with earlier search procedures" and for "throwing urine" on guards. When questioned about this retaliatory beating by a prison physician, the captain said the inmates had banged their own heads against the wall. Other statements gathered infer that those involved pressured clinic staff to corroborate this story. The official report said simply: "The inmates were escorted to the clinic without further incident or force used."
We've long since dismissed the idea that the prison system offers any sort of reform or rehabilitation. Instead, it's a place where people are sent to be forgotten, broken down or completely destroyed. The Rikers Island prison in New York is no exception, but it does "offer" something many others don't. Because New York law treats everyone 16 and up as adults when it comes to criminal charges, minors are sent into the general population to co-exist with those with years or decades of criminal experience under their belts.
But there should be someone acting as a force of good, or at least neutrality, inside the prison: the guards. According to the DOJ's investigation of Rikers Island, those tasked with watching the prison population are indistinguishable from the long-term inhabitants. And those perceived as weakest -- the newly-imprisoned minors -- are targeted most frequently.
In the driest terms, the DOJ breaks down the problems at Rikers.
We conclude that there is a pattern and practice of conduct at Rikers that violates the constitutional rights of adolescent inmates. In particular, we find that adolescent inmates at Rikers are not adequately protected from harm, including serious physical harm from the rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force by DOC staff. In addition, adolescent inmates are not adequately protected from harm caused by violence inflicted by other inmates, including inmate-on-inmate fights. Indeed, we find that a deep-seated culture of violence is pervasive throughout the adolescent facilities at Rikers, and DOC staff routinely utilize force not as a last resort, but instead as a means to control the adolescent population and punish disorderly or disrespectful behavior. Moreover, DOC relies far too heavily on punitive segregation as a disciplinary measure, placing adolescent inmates—many of whom are mentally ill—in what amounts to solitary confinement at an alarming rate and for excessive periods of time.This opening statement is alarming, but the devil is in the details, as they say. And Rikers' staff are operating at near-Satanic levels.
Based on a review of Department 24-hour reports from October 2012 through early April 2014, we identified 64 incidents involving blows to an adolescent inmate's head or face. This is undoubtedly an underestimate of the number of headshots during this period, because 24hour reports contain only initial incident summaries prepared by staff themselves. Indeed, our review of incidents and witness interviews suggest that headshots were utilized far more frequently during this period. However, the fact that these summaries so often openly refer to headshots is disturbing.Those who intimately know the system know how to abuse it. The report details incident after incident that cannot be fully confirmed because it occurred out of view of the cameras. This is no accident. Inmate-on-guard violence can almost always be quantified because the inmate either doesn't know the camera's full scope or just doesn't care. But guards who want to hide their violent acts know where to go to escape the pervasive surveillance.
Our consultant reported that headshots are far more common at Rikers than at any other correctional institution he has observed. In many instances, correction officers readily admit hitting inmates but claim they acted in self-defense after being punched first by the inmate. As a threshold matter, even when an inmate strikes an officer, an immediate retaliatory strike to the head or face is inappropriate. Moreover, there is often reason to question the credibility of the officer's account. These incidents also disproportionately occur in locations without video surveillance, making it difficult to determine what transpired.
Where video exists, [there is a] failure to describe the events on the video. Often there is just a summary statement that the video was reviewed and consistent with officers' use of force reports. Because video recordings so frequently go missing, as described above, without an accurate and detailed description of the video recording, there is no longer any objective record of the incident.They also know how to deploy CYA phrases for beatings with witnesses, a little trick often used by abusive police officers.
While utilizing force, staff often yell "stop resisting" even though the adolescent has been completely subdued or, in many instances, was never resisting in the first place. This appears intended to establish a record that the continued use of force is necessary to control the inmate. Officers who witness the incident also frequently report that they heard the inmate was resisting, even though that is false.
In law enforcement, "stop resisting" is a mantra to be chanted while swinging fists, batons or anything else that might inflict pain. Rikers Island fits right in with its brothers on the outside.
This list neatly summarizes the brutal force that is the Rikers Island staff:
- force is used against adolescents at an alarming rate and violent inmate-on-inmate fights and assaults are commonplace, resulting in a striking number of serious injuries;
- correction officers resort to "headshots," or blows to an inmate's head or facial area, too frequently;
- force is used as punishment or retribution;
- force is used in response to inmates' verbal altercations with officers;
- use of force by specialized response teams within the jails is particularly brutal;
- correction officers attempt to justify use of force by yelling "stop resisting" even when the adolescent has been completely subdued or was never resisting in the first place; and
- use of force is particularly common in areas without video surveillance cameras.
The long report details numerous, extremely violent incidents, like this one:
In August 2013, four adolescent inmates were reportedly brutally beaten by multiple officers. Based on accounts provided by the inmates, several officers assaulted the inmates, punching and kicking them and striking them with radios, batons, and broomsticks. The beating continued for several minutes after the inmates already had been subdued and handcuffed. The inmates were then taken to holding pens near the clinic intake where they were beaten again by several DOC Gang Intelligence Unit members, who repeatedly punched and kicked them while the inmates were handcuffed. Two of the inmates reported that they had lost consciousness or blacked out during the incident. The officers' written statements assert that the inmates instigated the fight and they used force only to defend themselves. The Department's investigation of the incident was ongoing at the time this letter was prepared. The inmates sustained multiple injuries, including a broken nose, a perforated eardrum, head trauma, chest contusions, and contusions and injuries to the head and facial area.And chillingly matter-of-fact footnotes point to the pervasive culture of violence maintained by Rikers staff.
RNDC inmates suffered 22 jaw fractures during the first 5 ½ months of 2012 alone.The ultimate problem here is that the DOJ could investigate nearly every prison in the country and come away with reports nearly as damning. A severe imbalance of power, only occasionally addressed by very minimal checks or repercussions, leads directly to this sort of behavior.
The violence is abhorrent. That it's often directed at the weakest members of the prison population is even more so. And the staff knows what it's doing is completely wrong. The report shows that staff falsified reports, destroyed recordings, instructed clinic staff to corroborate their lies, told visiting teaching staff to "look away" from violent incidents (and keep their students from viewing these beatings as well) and failed to investigate questionable reports in a thorough or timely fashion.
Going to prison is never expected to be a pleasant experience, but one would hope they only needed to watch out for their fellow inmates. The Rikers staff's behavior ensures there is no safe haven inside its walls.
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There are many things
that I love about fishing in Ocean City, but what
I appreciate the most about our local fishery has to be its diversity. It
really is hard to get bored fishing around Ocean City. This is one of the
reasons it is such a great place to operate a charter business.
Depending on the season,
we have equally awesome inshore and offshore fishing, and the diversity of the
fish species we target is spectacular. I doesn't matter who you are or what
kind of fish you like to target, Ocean City has something for you. Depending on
the time of the year, I could be dressed in my heavy-insulated slicker suit
fishing the Inlet for giant striped bass, or I could be offshore wearing flip
flops and board shorts while trolling for marlin or tuna.
With the end of July approaching, we are nearing the peak of our offshore
fishing season. The tuna have been biting now for almost two months, and the
marlin fishing will be at its peak sometime within the next few weeks. Every
year at this time, there is an excitement beginning to stir in the offshore
fishing community due to the upcoming White Marlin Open, the largest and must
lucrative fishing tournament in the world. It attracts fishermen from literally
all across the globe. This year hundreds of boats will enter the competition
and thousands of dollars will be spent by each boat entering the tournament and
its various divisions.
The tournament begins next week. So, if you are coming to town next week, or if
you've been here and just never experienced the tournament, I would greatly
recommend checking it out this year. Go down to the Inlet in the morning or
come down to the tournament weigh-in station in the afternoon. I promise you
will have a lot of fun, and it will be interesting to see if any of this year's
catches will rival those from last year's tournament.
But hey, it's still July and it's not tournament week yet. I have lots of
reports to cover from fishing around Ocean City this past week. So let's take a
look at them now.
Sue Foster at Oyster Bay Bait & Tackle reports, "What a week of hot
weather. Anglers fished early in the morning and late afternoon to beat the
heat. Many anglers fished at night on the beaches, Oceanic Pier, Route 50
Bridge and Ocean Pier with good success. Flounder were biting by day with lots
of lots of small ones mixed in with a few keepers. Anglers are doubling up
their minnow and shiner baits with Gulp to catch the bigger flounder. Small
spot and finger mullet are coming around. Anglers are catching them to catch
bigger flounder as well. Some really big bluefish hit the Route 50 Bridge this
week at night and early morning on Gotcha Plugs. One keeper striper was caught
from the surf in Ocean City that we heard of. Also a lot of sharks, kingfish,
and spot on the beach. Some croaker action at night. Triggerfish are here at
the inlets and bulkhead along with some tautog action. Offshore we have had
sharks, tuna, marlin and a good amount of dolphin. Sea bass fishing was up and
Everyone is talking about catching sharks on the beach at night or early in the
morning. Some anglers are getting break offs, and never get to see the catch.
Others are getting them in and releasing them. Big rays too. Sharks are
sandbar, dusky, and black tips mostly. With a couple spinner sharks thrown in. The
big ones take big baits such as chunks of bunker, mackerel, or whole kingfish
or spot heads."
Captain Bobby Gower on the Bay Bee reports, "Slower fishing this week than
last. A few keeper flounder were caught this week, with most days averaging 50
or 60 throwbacks. When the wind was really whipping and the water got dirty,
fishing slowed down. That's typical of flounder, which are sight feeders.
Everyone is waiting for a good croaker run which should begin at any time. They
are biting like crazy just south of us in Virginia."
JJ at the Oceanic Pier reports, "Good fishing this week, keeper flounder have
been caught every day along with the usual numerous throwbacks. There's lots of
little sea bass for the kids to catch on the edge. Just get worms and fish straight
down. At night, blues and shad are biting on Gotcha plugs, spec rigs, and shad
also take sabiki rigs. Some interesting fish were caught this week including a
monkfish, star gazors, and one little boy caught a sea horse."
Captain Drew Zerbe on the Tortuga reports, "This past week we continued to
catch high quantities of throw-back flounder with a few keepers mixed in.
Better fishing times were morning and evening the majority of the week with the
dirtiest conditions occurring mid-day on the latter end of the outgoing tide.
As of press time, overall conditions have improved and the better fishing times
seem to be morning and afternoon with water quality diminishing early evening.
It also appears that a fresh batch of larger fish have moved into the south bay
with higher numbers of keeper fish being seen both for us and other boats. Come
see us for a great day on the bay at Bahia Marina/Fish Tales 22nd St. and the
bay departing daily at 8 a.m., noon and 4 p.m."
Clark at Old Inlet in Delaware reports, "Surf – spot, blues, kingfish and
croakers on the beach. Reports of croakers just started on 3R's. Live and fake
bloodworms are the hot bait. The shark bite remains good on bluefish and fresh
bunker. We have fresh and frozen bluefish. Inlet – daytime, bluefish on the
incoming tide. A good flounder bite was reported mid week on Gulp baits. Look
for black drum and croakers to start biting in the inlet any day. The tautog
bite is steady with a few keepers in the mix. Inlet — nighttime, stripers on live eels during incoming tide. Dark
bucktails and swim shads are working too. Croakers should start to school up
just off the beach in 20-40 feet of water in the coming weeks. Flounder and
small trout are usually there with them. Seabassing on the Old Grounds (the are
between B and A buoy)is improving. A little further out dolphin are around the
Lightship. Bluefins in Masseys Canyon and the yellowfins are way north toward
the Spencer Canyon."
Bill's Sports Center reports, "Good croaker and spot fishing from the Cape Henelopen
Pier and in the Indian River and Rehoboth Bay on real or fake bloodworms. Bait
up spec rigs for good success from the pier or boat. Croaker in the Delaware
Bay as well. Lot of dolphin around the T-Cup and Elephant Trunk. Small dolphin
around the Lightship. Tuna has slowed up. Tautog and flounder in the Indian
River Inlet.
Captain Sean Welsh on the Restless Lady reports going offshore on July 26-27
for "the tuna, mahi bite and got the crap knocked out of us with 8-10 footers.
Limped inshore to see what we could find and crushed bluefish, almost 100 of
these choppers. All were caught on the troll, they were hungry biting anything
we put out. Caught them at 100 feet north of the Jackspot. Also reports from
our colleagues the sea bass bite is off the hook, just crushing them. Great
time for an inshore family trip, We fished the Baltimore 200 line and caught a
fat white and 30 Mahi, great day. Tuna bite is slow and most of the fleet is
preparing for the White Marlin Open. We're fishing the next four days and
Thursday night."
Here at Skip's Bait and Tackle we have seen another great week of fishing. The
weather wasn't too hot to be out in and we saw an increase in the amount of
keeper flounders being caught including two of which were brought in by Joe Sherrick
of Harrisburg, Pa., which he caught using live minnows while fishing behind
Assateaque. They measured 21 and 22 inches. Another flounder brought in was
caught by Anthony Cannuli of Ocean City that he caught while fishing just south
of the Route 50 Bridge using Berkley Gulp and live minnows.
If you are looking to jut get out and catch some fish, a couple local places
you might want to try to go is 2nd through 4th Street bulkhead or 9th St Pier.
If you plan on fishing at night, two hotspots are the Route 50 Bridge and the
Oceanic Pier casting gotcha plugs and soft body swim shads.
On Skip's Charter and Guide Service, we had a fun, productive week of fishing.
Most of our trips now are centered on flounder fishing with a little bit of
striper action and getting some quick action on the bluefish when they are
there. We also have been doing some clamming, which has been awesome. Crabbing
also has been great.
On Monday we went out with Ed McCormick from Enola, Pa. and caught a whole
bunch of flounder, one being a nice fish at 21 inches and a few short stripers.
On Thursday, Brooks
Fleming, his wife Heidi and his two sons Owen and Mason from Elderton, Pa.
chartered us for our four-hour special, starting out the day with clamming and
then some crabbing catching a whole bunch of clams and then finishing the day
with some flounder and striper fishing catching a lot of nice flounder and a
few stripers.
We went fishing on Sunday with Joe Aita and caught a bunch of flounder but as
it goes there are a lot of shorts out there and we couldn't keep them off the
hook but we just couldn't seem to catch a keeper.
On Tuesday, we went out with Dr. Alex Sax and his family Jackie, Julie and
Daniel from Pittsburgh and had a great time out on the water catching flounder
and a striper. In addition, we got to see some of the cool sights around the
Ocean City bays.
We have come to the end
of a week filled with hot weather and it doesn't look like it is going to be
getting any cooler but there are still fish out there waiting to be caught. We
have a boat for every person's needs. From bay to Inlet, inshore to offshore,
with half-day and full-day trips available. Book now while the fishing is
great. We provide all rods and tackle as well as all the bait, so pack some
sunscreen and a few drinks and come on out for a memory-making day on the
water/ When you step on the boat, you are stepping on a boat that has over 40
years of fishing and boating experience. With some of Ocean City's top captains
working for "Skip's Charter and Guide Service" this year. Give me a call at the
tackle shop at 410-289-FISH (3474) or on my cell 410-430-5436 and lets talk
fishing. At the tackle shop we are open 6 a.m-9 p.m. If you have a report or
pictures you would like in The Dispatch or on www.oceancityfishing.com email me
at email@example.com or email@example.com.
Get out there and fish! Who knows? Maybe I'll be writing about you next week.
(Maguire is an outdoor writer and owner of Skip's Bait and Tackle and Skip's
Charter and Guide Service in Ocean City.)


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Andrew Baker highlighted a return to racing at Lancaster Super Speedway with a pair of wins Saturday, June 21.
Baker took checkers in the pro street and super street as racing resumed after LSS's annual vacation break.
After a week off from racing to allow race car drivers and fans to take a vacation with their families and friends, Lancaster Super Speedway roars back into action Saturday, June 21.
Lancaster Super Speedway is ready to resume action on the 2014 dirt racing season.
Lancaster Super Speedway is taking off this week for the annual summer vacation Saturday, June 14. LSS will resume racing June 21.
Following are the LSS points standings as of June 7. Listed are the position, driver, car number, hometown and points.
Hank Taylor debuted a new ride and cruised to the Deal 1 Crate Sportsman win at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday. June 7.
Taylor, in a new black car and silver car reminding fans of the late and great Dale Earnhardt, and ole eight-time time Jeffrey McGuirt were on the front row.
Lancaster Super Speedway will host six exciting divisions of racing Saturday, June 7.
The LSS card has the SECA Crate Late Models, Pro Street, Deal 1 Auto Sales Crate Sportsman, Super Street, M&M Garage Extreme 4 and U.S. Bonding Vintage.
It was Fergy time at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday, May 31.
Chris Ferguson, regarded as one of the country's hottest Super Late Model drivers, made his presence known Saturday night at Lancaster Super Speedway.
Lancaster Super Speedway will host the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series, paying $4,000 to the winner on Saturday, May 31.
Fans can expect to see some drivers from the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia competing in this major race at Lancaster Super Speedway.
Timbo Mangum continued his track success with a Late Model win at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday, May 24.
The Late Model Division, formerly known as Limited Late Models, had a front row of "The Rock Hill Bad Boy" Ben Watkins and Donnie Austin.
The Late Model Division, formerly known as Limited Late Models, returns to Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday, May 24.
Dirt track racing fans will also see some of the 525s here as well to run with the Late Models.
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State - INACTIVE
Protesters at Florida Capitol: 'We stay until we win'
When the young activists known as the Dream Defenders marched into Gov. Rick Scott's office last week, few observers expected the group to attract much attention.
But seven days later, the Dream Defenders have proven hard to ignore.
What began as a modest protest has morphed into a week-long occupation of the Florida Capitol. The organizers, most of whom are college students and young professionals, say they are prepared to stay for weeks or even months — as long as it takes for Scott to call a special session on racial profiling and the state's controversial Stand Your Ground law.
Nevermind that Scott has refused, making the odds of a special session almost non-existent.
"We stay until we win," said Gabriel Pendas, one of the group's co-founders.
Over the past week, the Dream Defenders have emerged as a well-organized coalition with the keen ability to remain in the news cycle. On Tuesday, they announced plans to hold weekly demonstrations in the Florida Capitol, a strategy akin to the Moral Monday protests taking place in North Carolina. The Dream Defenders news conference was broadcast live on the World Wide Web.
In the end, the Dream Defenders may not be able to win a special session. But they may succeed in prompting legislative action through another route.
Sen. Chris Smith, a Fort Lauderdale Democrat, is calling for a hearing on Stand Your Ground law when the Legislature holds its next committee week in September.
Democratic leaders in the House are on board with the idea.
"The kids have the right idea taking it right to the governor," House Minority Leader Perry Thurston said. "We're trying to have a compromise by having a common-sense conversation addressing those issues."
The Dream Defenders began their protest last Tuesday, three days after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old.
The activists, who are students and young professionals from across the state, are calling for legislation in Trayvon's name that would repeal the existing Stand Your Ground law, address racial profiling and eliminate zero tolerance policies in schools.
The group has taken an organized approach to the occupation that they say is sustainable for the next several weeks.
Taking a cue from Occupy Wall Street — at least one of their organizers spent time in Zuccotti Park — they have formed a half-dozen committees with different responsibilities. One committee is tasked with community outreach. Another handles the meals and sleeping arrangements. A separate team makes sure everyone is exercising, resting and staying clean.
Meals are an organized affair. Group members keeps tab on when food was donated, and make an effort to eat the perishables first.
They also keep a regular count of the toothbrushes, soaps, towels, vitamins, pillows and blankets they have in stock — and frequently update the list of supplies that they need.
"We have everything we need," Dream Defenders director Phillip Agnew said. "It's not like we're comfortable, but it's not supposed to be comfortable. We could stay here easily for the next few weeks."
The Capitol police have no plans to ask the Dream Defenders to leave, Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said Tuesday. So far, there have been no dust-ups with police, records show.
But the costs to the state have been adding up.
FDLE has spent about $37,000 in overtime for police officers at the Capitol, Plessinger said. And the FDLE's Tallahassee regional operational office has spent an additional $5,000 in management costs.
The Dream Defenders have themselves had a few hiccups.
On Monday, the group received a letter from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services saying they had not filed the necessary paperwork to solicit cash and in-kind donations, and may be facing fines.
They submitted the application Tuesday, Dream Defenders legal and policy director Ahmad Abuznaid said.
The group has also had to deflect allegations that they are pursuing a union-driven agenda.
The property services workers' union SEIU 32BJ pays Agnew a $29,000 salary to run the Dream Defenders. And Pendas was on the union payroll for several months last year.
But both deny that the union created the Dream Defenders, or has any control over the group's mission or policies.
"To say that some union is masterminding us is an insult," Agnew said. "Give a little more credit to the youth of Florida."
Eric Brakken, the union's leader in Florida, said the Dream Defenders are independent. "We are involved in all sorts of organizations to lift up the aspirations of people in Florida," he said.
Agnew said his group has not received any donations from labor unions — or any other political organizations.
"Since we started, our budget has basically been zero," Agnew said, noting that all of the other young staff members are volunteers, and most of the in-kind donations have come from individuals and local churches.
Agnew said the week had been a learning experience for the year-old organization.
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Jessica Lynn Anderson and Christopher Rich Clark have chosen March 4, 2011 to be married for time and all eternity in the Logan LDS Temple. A reception will be held in their honor that evening at the Morgan LDS Rock Church from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. In case of oversight, all are invited. Jessica is the daughter of Brent and Wendy Anderson of West Jordan, Utah. She graduated from West Jordan High School and Seminary in 2008 and is now attending Utah State University in Early Childhood Education. Christopher is the son of Brent and Cindy Clark of Morgan. He graduated from Morgan High School and LDS Seminary in the 2002. He then served an LDS mission in Russia, Vladivostok. After returning home, he completed degrees at Utah State in Agriculture Systems Technology and Agribusiness and now works at the American West Heritage Center in Wellsville. Chris and Jessica began their courtship after several chance meetings at Utah State. They enjoy riding and driving horses, skiing, hiking, and just being together. They will start their life together in Wellsville and hope to move to Morgan soon.
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Michael Douglas's performance as Liberace is half-hearted, but Matt Damon as Scott Thorson, Liberace's spurned young lover, is simply the best work the Cambridge lad has done in years.
His trademark was the candelabra, but that was about the only thing that held a candle to Liberace. He was the preeminent showman of his time. And his love of flamboyance and spectacle lives on through the likes of Elton John, David Bowie and Lady Gaga.
But you'd never know it witnessing Michael Douglas' half-hearted portrayal of the Queen of the Keyboard in Steven Soderbergh's otherwise stupendous "Behind the Candelabra," debuting Sunday night at 9 on HBO.
Douglas has the hair, the outrageous fashions and the unmistakable swish down pat. But his performance always seems hollow, like he's doing a skit on "Saturday Night Live," an impression fortified by the presence of Dan Aykroyd as Liberace's taciturn manager, Seymour Heller. But then, Douglas isn't really playing Liberace; he's playing Liberace as seen through the eyes of his spurned young lover, Scott Thorson. And what Scott sees is pretty ugly – a vain, sex-addicted anti-Semite who eventually honed fame more than virtuosity. Not that Scott was any great shakes, as we keenly observe through Matt Damon's sure-to-be Emmy-winning performance. It's simply the best work the Cambridge lad has done in years. And I'm not just saying that because he had the courage to make hot, naked love with Michael Douglas in scenes far more graphic than Damon's female fans probably care to witness.
No, it's more the impressive arc his character travels in evolving from a clueless sycophant to a shunned, drug-addicted spouse nearing his expiration date with his ruthless, power-wielding hubby. Like Liberace, Damon hits every note perfectly, tickling your ivories with loads of ironic humor and dramatic outbursts that are intense, yet far from emoting. And to prove he looks great in anything, Damon miraculously pulls off some of the gayest styles ever, whether it's hideous, chest-baring leisure suits or poufy blonde wigs or lip gloss. Most of the time, he's simply buck naked, flashing his fabulous backend tan lines. But there's nothing cheeky about the complexity he brings to a guy you empathize with but never respect. Simply put, Scott Thorson had no talent, little smarts and big cajones when it came to placing demands on the megastar that made him his full-time plaything.
It's a real education for Scott, a naïve wannabe veterinarian who grew up in foster homes far from his alcoholic mother. But it's an even bigger edification for us, as Soderbergh makes us privy to the sorts of juicy backstage secrets that rendered showbiz classics like "All About Eve" and "Sunset Boulevard" so tawdry and tantalizing. Credit much of that to screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, who adapts Thorson's same-titled tell-all into a riveting Shakespearean tale about a young man selling his soul to a piano-playing devil in the months leading up to the AIDS epidemic.
True, the insights are sparse, but then Liberace was a stickler about keeping everything concealed, especially his sexual orientation. That might be the most haunting aspect of "Behind the Candelabra": Liberace's necessity to live a heterosexual lie. And that constant need to disguise the truth finally takes its toll on Scott, the man alleged to have been the love of Liberace's life. Instead of joy, they build a life of bitterness and distrust, all because Liberace is so afraid of offending his biggest fan base – straight women.
Even his self-obsessed mother, hilariously played by an almost unrecognizable Debbie Reynolds, seems to turn a blind eye to her son's proclivities when she pops into his bodaciously gay Vegas mansion.
The irony, of course, is that in retrospect, Liberace's homosexuality was the worst kept secret in the history of surreptitiousness. Ditto for the many wigs and plastic surgeries he relied on to camouflage his advancing years.
Douglas, admirably, never shies from letting his hair (in this case, toupee) down or flashing a flabby gut. He really does give you Liberace, warts and all.
But because the story is told from Scott's point of view, Douglas is often forced to play Liberace as a user and abuser capable of turning on you at a moment's notice. Douglas, understandably, latches on to these darker elements because they are instincts he's cultivated over the years playing slimeballs like Gordon Gekko. It's the gay aspects where he struggles to be convincing.
That's not the case with Damon, who disappears so deeply into his role that you completely forget it's him behind the leather, feathers and silk. You don't need to like or dislike his version of Scott. You just need to be fascinated by him. And Damon more than delivers the goods.
Same for Rob Lowe, scary good as the unscrupulous plastic surgeon at the ready to give the boss a regular nip and tuck, or rebuild Scott's face into Liberace's image. Very creepy, as is Lowe. But the highest kudos are reserved for Soderbergh, who's managed to take something as hoary as a celebrity biopic and turn it into a magnificent opus composed of bold overtures and brassy melodies – all punctuated by the saddest of codas.
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Cast includes Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe, Debbie Reynolds, Dan Aykroyd. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Airs 9 p.m. Sunday on HBO and repeats throughout the month. Also available on On Demand beginning Monday. Grade: A-


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In no sense is that a fish.
It does appear to be a clapping Armadillo though.
In no sense is that a fish.
It does appear to be a clapping Armadillo though.
sturgeon are pretty hardcore
that sturgeon is dodgy hint
A young Benkei stalks the monster carp that ate his mother. From the series "New Forms of Thirty-six Ghosts". 芳年 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
kintaro riding the carp
国芳 Kuniyoshi「半上弾正忠影景雲州富田川の山椒魚」
very nice
my fish re-appeared today in my pond - amazing how they disappear completely during the cold weather, for about 5 months, but after just a couple of days of sunshine they're back in action and hungry again like nothing has happened.
I'd had a scare cos a couple died quite close to each other about a month ago (including my one and only goldfish - known as terminator), so I thought there might have been some kind of disease picking them off one by one. but after a couple more weeks with no deaths, I'm assuming they were the unlucky casualties of a heron attack.
you have a pond?< /envious>
yeah - nice natural pond - a big hole full of murky water, which the fish seem to thrive in because there's more natural food for them and the low visibility protects them from predators.
a couple of moorhens come and nest on the bank every year and have at least 5 chicks each time (not all survive though, but that's nature for you). this year there's a new addition in the neighbourhood who's suddenly appeared and settled down - a coot (picture below). it's very tame and happily hangs around while I'm out there feeding the fish.
i was educated on this only a couple of days ago by cheekybuddha who had a moorhen encounter recently (but that's another story)
for personal reasons i've always felt some affinity with moorhens, and so assumed that i knew the diff between them and coots.
turns out not
apparently moorhens have a red go-faster stripe on their beaks...coots don't
funky moorhen
more twitcher porno...
I assumed it was a moorhen at first, but saw it up close and noticed the differences.
moorhen = black feathers with white details, red beak with yellow tip, yellow legs and long, thin toes
coot = all black feathers, white beak that extends quite far up his head ("bald as a coot"), with white / grey legs and really interesting toes - each one has webbed segments hanging either side. if he gets startled he runs across the water surface - a very impressive trick.
he's quite slow on land compared to the moorhens, so I guess that's why he stays in the water when I'm around - his crazy feet and water-walking skills give him a better chance of escape if he's threatened while he's in the water.
I'm hoping a mate will turn up and they'll make a nest.
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admire the feet on your coot, they're hilarious
megalodorous giant catfish vs. amazon cichlid
เอาไปดู นี่แหละปลากดอเมซอน =amazon megalodoras
....& other catfishies
love the nonchalant smoking of cigarette while holding giant fish that threatens to submerge canoe of that last one... mmm... catfish grow to quite extraordinary sizes really...


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Stanford University researchers are looking for volunteers to participate in their experiment — by drinking chocolate milkshakes.
Children between the ages of 4 and 8 are needed for a study on how the brain responds to milkshakes to better understand how individual differences in anticipating and tasting pleasurable foods influence risks of becoming overweight or obese, researchers with Stanford's School of Medicine said.
The anticipation of a food can be more pleasurable than eating the food itself for adults with obesity, leading them to overeat, the researchers said. But to determine whether that discrepancy is the result of years of overeating or if it is present earlier in life, the researchers want to study children.
Participating children will have their brains scanned by an MRI while looking at a picture of a chocolate milkshake, then will receive a few drops of the milkshake in their mouths through a pacifier-like device, researchers said. The brain scan will indicate how the children respond to each stimulus.
Both boys and girls are welcome for the study, which will require them to lie still while in the MRI and make two visits to the Stanford campus.
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Apple looks to be already testing its next-generation iPhone hardware in the San Francisco area near its Cupertino headquarters, according to usage logs for the iBART public transit application. Usage logs like these revealed early testing of the iPhone 3GS last year, eight months before it launched this past summer. What the next revision of the iPhone may offer is still a matter of speculation and debate, but a recent job listing for a MapKit software engineer suggests a Maps revamp may be in the works.
The iBART app, which is used to navigate San Francisco's train system, uses Pinch Media analytics to log usage statistics such as iPhone model and software version number. Developers use these statistics in a variety of ways, such as deciding when to switch to iPhone OS 3.0-only programming APIs. iBART developer Pandav recently noticed that a model reporting as "iPhone3,1" began appearing in Pinch Media logs.
This reference follows Apple's model ID convention. The original iPhone was iPhone1,1; the iPhone 3G, considered to be a minor hardware revision, was iPhone1,2. The iPhone 3GS, which had significant internal hardware revisions, is referred to as iPhone2,1. iPhone3,1 would logically be a new iPhone model with significant hardware revision. References to this ID already appeared in early betas of iPhone OS 3.0 in March. It should come as no surprise when Apple launches a new iPhone model next June or July, as it has the past three years.
What changes we can expect are still unknown, though this could be the first iPhone that contains a PA Semi-designed ARM-based processor. Rumors continue to suggest a possible GSM/CDMA hybrid model that would work on CDMA networks like Verizon's, in addition to GSM/UTMS-based networks that the current iPhone models work with.
A recent job posting suggests that maps and geo-location services will see a revamp in the next model. Apple recently posted a job listing for an iPhone software engineer that would specialize in working with the Maps team. This team is responsible for the Maps and Compass applications, as well as the MapKit and CoreLocation frameworks used for location-based services. On the software side, we could expect use of the data integration APIs from Apple's Placebase acquisition. Nothing in the job listing suggests significantly revamped GPS or digital compass hardware, however.


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Look at the ease with which he grabs the ball and then hands it off to the woman sitting with him while he continues to eat during a Red Sox game earlier this week. He's acting with the blase attitude Red Sox fans now have about winning World Series titles.
This guy is cool. Yeah, he tipped it off with his retro Hartford Whalers jersey, but he proves he deserves it with a catch so casual you'd think he was a centerfielder hauling in a can of corn.


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Paula J. Schlax
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I am fascinated by a fundamental question in biology; How is regulation of gene expression as a response to external stimulus achieved? My laboratory is investigating the regulation of ribosomal protein synthesis and RNA polymerase subunit synthesis in diverse prokaryotes. I am particularly interested in the importance of the thermodynamics and kinetics of mRNA folding in translational regulation.
- PhD University of Wisconsin Madison 1994
- BS Clarkson University 1989
- Bates College, 1998-
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecturer, 1995
Selected Publications:
J. Matsunaga, P.J. Schlax, D. Haake, 2013, "A role for cis-acting RNA sequences in the temperature-dependent expression of the multiadhesive Lig proteins in Leptospira interrogans" J. Bacteriol. 195:22 5092-5101.
L. Archambault, J. S. Borchert*, J. Bergeron*, S. Snow*, P.J. Schlax, 2013, "Measurements of mRNA Degradation inBorrelia burgdorferi" J. Bacteriol. 195:21 4879-4887.
L. Archambault, J. Linscott*, N. Swerdlow*, K. Boyland*, E. Riley* and P.J. Schlax, 2013, "Translational Efficiency of rpoSmRNA from Borrelia burgdorferi: Effects of the Length and Sequence of the mRNA Leader Region" Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 433(1):73-8.
R. I. Koleva, C. A. Austin*, J. M. Kowaleski*, D.S. Neems*, L.Wang*, C.P.H. Vary and P.J. Schlax, 2006, "Interactions of Ribosomal Protein S1 with DsrA and rpoS mRNA" Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 348:662-668.
P.J. Schlax and D. J. Worhunsky* "Translational Repression Mechanisms in Prokaryotes", 2003, Mol. Microb, 48: 1157-1169.
D. J. Worhunsky*, K. Godek*, S. Litsch*, & P.J. Schlax "Interactions of the Non-Coding RNA DsrA and rpoS mRNA with the 30S Ribosomal Subunit", 2003, J. Biol. Chem., 278:15815-15824.


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VESTAL, N.Y. – Following a third place finish at last year's America East Championships, the UMBC men's cross country team wanted more. A year later, the Retrievers got it, winning the league title Saturday morning at Binghamton University.
Sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) led the way for the Retrievers for the third time this season, earning a third-place finish and a spot on the All-Conference squad by crossing the line in a time of 25:07.32. Senior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) joined Omar on the All-Conference team by placing tenth for UMBC with an 8k time of 25:20.35.
Paced by Omar and Smith, UMBC (58 pts.) edged out meet-host Binghamton (65 pts.) by just seven points after clipping the Bearcats by six points at the America East Pre-Conference Meet to start the season. Stony Brook (70 pts.) and New Hampshire (72 pts.) made it a crowded top end, taking third and fourth place. Maine (110 pts.) and Albany (162 pts.) took fifth and sixth with Vermont (200 pts.), UMass Lowell (224 pts.), and Hartford (253 pts.) finishing out the nine-team standings.
With the Retriever win, head coach Matt Gittermann and his staff were named the 2013 America East Coaching Staff of the Year.
New Hampshire's John Prizzi won the individual championship by completing the 8k course in a course-record time of 24:55.22.
Omar, who finished fourth at the Pre-Conference meet on the same course back on Sept. 7, improved his time by over half a minute (25:40.2) while Smith jumped from 13th to tenth with a near 46-second improvement (26:06.0).
Senior Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) just missed out on the top-ten, but continued his strong season by giving the Retrievers a 12th-place finish (25:25.27) on Saturday. Sophomore Austin Hayslett (Mount Airy, Md./Urbana) was just two spots back in 14th (25:28.94) while 2012 All-Conference member Brandan McGee (Hiram, Ohio/Crestwood) made sure all five UMBC scorers were in the top-20 by taking 19th (25:36.66).
Behind the scorers, senior Vinny DiSalvo (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville), junior Eric Schuler (Columbia, Md./Reservoir), and freshman Jon Luckin (Parkton, Md./Hereford) provided great cover for the Retrievers by all claiming top-30 spots.
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Happy Sunday! I've been stuck in bed all weekend with pneumonia. The meds are helping but I'm so ready for this sickness to be over with already. I managed to crawl out of bed to make this little card for my godson
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The following discussion offers a complete guide for optimizing your Büchi Rotary Evaporator application.Choosing the bath and condenser temperature (20-40-60 Rule) The first topic of discussion is the 20-40-60 Rule. The recommended water bath temperature is 60°C. This minimizes evaporation from the bath, reduces the risk of burns, and minimizes the loss of heat energy into the lab environment. The bath temperature should be 20°C higher than the vapor pressure temperature of the solvent. In this example, a vacuum pressure is chosen to produce a vapor pressure temperature of 40°C.
(Calculating vacuum pressure will be discussed in the next section.) The condenser temperature should be 20°C lower than the vapor pressure temperature of the solvent. In this example, the vapor pressure temperature is 40°C so the condenser temperature should be 20°C.
To conserve water and maintain lower condenser temperatures, Lauda® Chillers may be used as an alternative cooling method over standard tap water methods. (Choosing an appropriate Chiller will be discussed in later sections.)
The above example illustrates the 20-40-60 Rule for efficient use of rotary evaporators under ideal conditions. There are instances, however, when temperature-sensitive samples or high-/low-boiling solvents prohibit operation under these parameters. A more generalized rule is the 20°C ? T Rule, which states that the condenser should be 20°C lower than the vapor pressure temperature and the bath temperature should be 20°C higher than the vapor pressure temperature.
By following these simple guidelines, costs can be reduced and results can be optimized.
Choosing Vacuum Pressure
Vacuum Controllers play a critical role in regulating evaporation experiments: without one, experiments can only run at maximum vacuum pressure. Vacuum Controllers reduce the risks of sample loss and lab contamination, and they may be programmed to reduce bumping and foaming and perform automatic distillations.
Once a Vacuum Controller has become part of your lab set-up, how is the appropriate vacuum for the solvent calculated?
The vapor pressure temperature under vacuum of most common solvents can be calculated by using the following formula introduced by Reckhard1 in 1958. Refer to Table A for a listing of physical constants for common solvents.
|Log P = 3.006
|[Ts Tp]
[b Tp]
What vacuum pressure should be set for the evaporation of ethanol at a vapor pressure temperature of 40°C?
Bp = 78°C
Constant b = 0.159
|Log P = 3.006
|[Ts Tp]
[b Tp]
|Log P = 3.006
|[351 313]
[0.159 313]
= 2.24
The nomogram (Table B) can also be used to extrapolate the appropriate vacuum pressure for an application.
Calculating the rate of evaporation
The rate of evaporation is dependent on the difference between the vapor
pressure temperature (boiling point under vacuum) and the bath temperature
as well as the rotational speed of the evaporation flask. The rate of
evaporation of any solvent can be calculated by using the following formula:
|Evaporation rate of solvent =
|Evaporation rate of water (g/hr.) 2,260
Heat of vaporization of solvent (j/g)
When using a 20-liter Industrial Rotary Evaporator, what is the best expected evaporation rate for Hexane if the vapor pressure temperature is 40°C and the bath temperature is set to 60°C?
|Evaporation rate of solvent =
|Evaporation rate of water (g/hr.) 2,260
Heat of vaporization of solvent (j/g)
|Evaporation rate of solvent =
|2,000 g/hr. 2,260
371 j/g
|= 12,183 g/hr.
|12,183 g/hr.
.659 g/cm3
|= 18,487 cm3/h
Brinkmann Instruments offers a complete line of Lauda Recirculating Chillers to provide the necessary cooling capacity for any application. Recirculating Chillers offer lower cooling temperatures and higher heat removal capacity than tap water cooling.
What criteria should be considered when selecting a Lauda Recirculating Chiller?
The first consideration should be the outflow pressure. Büchi condensers are rated to withstand up to 1 Bar of positive pressure, therefore it is important that the Recirculating Chiller have a pressure reducer to limit the outflow pressure of the pump. Most Lauda WK Series Chillers have a built-in pressure reducer; however, an optional pressure reducer is available for Lauda Chillers that do not include this feature.
The second consideration, and perhaps the most important, is the heat removal capacity required by the system. Once the rate of evaporation is known, it is possible to calculate the necessary cooling capacity.
Heat Removal Capacity (BTU/hr.) = Rate of Evaporation (kg/hr.) x HvapSolvent(cal/g) x 3.97 BTU/hr.
Heat Removal Capacity (watts) = Heat Removal Capacity (BTU/hr.) x 0.293
|Heat Removal Capacity (watts) =
Rate of Evaporation (g/hr.) x HvapSolvent
From the previous example, we determined the rate of evaporation for Hexane to be 12,183 g/hr. The vapor pressure temperature in this example was assumed to be 40°C, therefore the condenser temperature should be 20°C.
What heat removal capacity is required for Hexane to be evaporated under these conditions?
|Heat Removal Capacity (watts) =
Rate of Evaporation (g/hr.) x HvapSolvent (joules/mol)
12,183 g/hr. x 31,912 j/mol
1,253 watts
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Royals' offense lacking charge of home run power
CLEVELAND -- The Royals did not hit a home run in Thursday's 5-1 loss to the Indians.
This was not particularly newsworthy, both in the context of the season and the game itself.View Full Game Coverage
CLEVELAND -- The Royals did not hit a home run in Thursday's 5-1 loss to the Indians.
This was not particularly newsworthy, both in the context of the season and the game itself.View Full Game Coverage
It was a cold day at Progressive Field (certainly not an uncommon occurrence), the wind was blowing in and Corey Kluber, whose home-runs-per-nine-innings rate dating to the beginning of 2013 is slightly below the league average, was on the mound.
In keeping with that context, the Royals got an unearned run in the seventh but, otherwise, looked pretty punchless and impatient at the plate, like a team with looming dinner reservations on getaway day.
"You can look at our offense today," said Alex Gordon, "and say we stunk."
And you can also say that Kluber, who tossed a complete-game gem, was an almost-untouchable, strike-throwing, emotionless assassin on this afternoon. So just put it in the past and move on.
Frustratingly, though, the lack of offensive sizzle also has not been all-that-uncommon an occurrence for the Royals in these early days of 2014. They rank in the lower rung in runs per game (3.6), with a slugging percentage 27 points below the AL norm. When they did have a small breakout on Wednesday night, with Salvador Perez and Mike Moustakas launching back-to-back solo shots (increasing, with two swings, the season home run total by 28.6 percent), it didn't impact the bottom line in a 5-3 loss.
Now, here's where we helpfully note that the sample size is, of course, smallish. And yes, the mere topic of the power outage is a negative one for a Royals team that does offer plenty of positives.
That said, those of us who like this Royals team enough to have picked it to win the AL Central this season did so on the premise that a young and multi-faceted lineup was ready to break out in a substantial way. And that obviously hasn't happened yet this season. All the Royals have done so far is prolong an upsetting organizational trend (Steve Balboni holds the club's single-season home run record ... with 36).
Nine team home runs in 21 games is not a binding statistic, by any means. But it is an early trend that's difficult to outright ignore.
So, do the Royals have considerably more power than they've shown, to date?
Or more to the point, is the early power outage a cause for concern?
"The whole object of the game is to score runs," Gordon said. "We want to drive the ball, but if we hit 20 singles in a game and score 10 runs, we're happy with it. Obviously, we want more power, but the whole point of the game is scoring runs. You can't come in here and focus on the negative. This game is a negative game. It's about being positive and staying within yourself, and knowing it's going to come."
A totally understandable assertion at this still-early juncture of a long season. But absent a string of those ultra-rare 20-single, 10-run games, the Royals certainly need to more frequently capitalize on opponent error.
"You can't ever go up there looking to uncork one," manager Ned Yost said. "In your approach, you want them aggressive, with a plan, and you want to take advantage of mistakes. [Danny] Salazar hung a split [Tuesday night], and Moose [Moustakas] deposited it. That's what we haven't been doing. When pitchers make mistakes, we're popping them up or rolling over on them instead of driving it out of the park. That will happen as the season goes on."
Yost insists the Royals will be fine, from the power perspective, and I, for one, am inclined to believe it's much better than they've shown, having seen first-hand the strength shown by Moustakas, by Gordon, by the still-homerless Eric Hosmer in BP (Yost joked that he's told team owner David Glass he needs to increase the BP ball budget as these young hitters mature). Billy Butler's power is not what it was in 2012, when he had a career-best .510 slugging percentage, but the ol' "water finds its level" argument would certainly lead you to believe he's substantially better than the .233 SLG mark he carries today.
And yes, the Royals do play their home games in a park that suppresses power. So there's that.
The slow slugging out of the chute, though, is a little bit alarming if taken in the context of historical precedent. The Royals are averaging a home run just once per 76.7 at-bats. Among AL teams in the designated hitter era, only 25 have finished March/April with a worse mark, and the AL average in that span is substantially better -- once every 35.9 at-bats.
In the expanded October field of the Wild Card era, no team has gone more than 51.3 at-bats between home runs in March/April and gone on to reach the postseason.
This seems like an awfully good time to introduce a little optimism into this picture, so here goes: The Royals are now en route to Baltimore's Camden Yards, a place that has promoted power from them in the recent past. Over the last three seasons, the Royals are averaging 47.1 at-bats between home runs, yet that mark decreases significantly to 19.2 at the home of the O's.
So maybe the big breakout will happen this weekend.
"It's going to come," Yost said.
History would seem to insist that time is of the essence.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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Here is my wish list for the season. I probably won't get all that I wish for. I never do but there have been many times that things have gone my way. So here is my Christmas wish list:
• That each child who wants to succeed have a mentor who can help him or her reach that goal.
• That battered and abused women will find the courage to say enough is enough and move beyond that relationship.
• That elected officials will put the what's best for everyone above their selfish motives.
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Kristy Schroeder Steps Down As UCSB Softball Head Coach
Schroeder led the Gauchos to three NCAA Tournament appearances in four years and three 30-win seasons in her six years at the helm of the program.
May 23, 2007
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Kristy Schroeder, UC Santa Barbara's head softball coach for the past six seasons, will step down Athletics Director Gary Cunningham officially announced Wednesday. Schroeder has decided to take a break from coaching as her family relocates to Stockton, Calif. where her husband, Peter Schroeder, a lecturer with the Department of Exercise and Sports Studies at UCSB, has taken a job at the University of Pacific.
"The decision was made out of my desire to spend more time with my kids. Pete has a great opportunity at Pacific, he has supported me for the past six years and I want to support him in furthering his career," said Schroeder.
"We have been happy here, but this provides a good opportunity to slow down a bit and focus on my family," she said. "The decision to leave was a real difficult one and I am saddened to leave my team especially since the program is in such a good place right now. I will miss the daily interaction with the players and the coaching staff in the department. Everyone in Santa Barbara has been so nice and we have met really good people here."
In her tenure at UCSB, Schroeder took a mediocre softball program and turned it into an annual contender for postseason play. In 2003, her second year with the Gauchos, she led UCSB to a 34-22 mark, the best overall record in school history. The following season Schroeder led the Gauchos to their second consecutive 30-win season, a tie for second place in the Big West Conference and their first-ever bid into the NCAA Tournament.
This spring, the former UCLA shortstop and two-time national champion with the Bruins, led UCSB to its third 30-win season after posting a 30-23 record and also coached the Gauchos to their third NCAA Tournament appearance in four years. Somewhat appropriately, Schroeder coached her last game with UCSB at her alma mater UCLA last weekend during the Los Angeles Regional of the NCAA Division I Softball Championships. She collected 173 wins in her six years with the Gauchos.
"I hope the program continues in a upward fashion and I want to make sure that the players continue to have a positive experience at UCSB," Schroeder stated. "I feel that players now come to UCSB for good softball in addition to good academics. I think I am leaving the team in a good place, the program is respectable and I hope that it continues to grow in that direction. Hopefully this won't be the end of my coaching career."
"Kristy will be deeply missed by our department. What she has done with our softball program has been tremendous," began Cunningham. "It took a very special person and coach to take the program from where it was when she arrived to where it is now. I appreciate everything Kristy has done for our department and wish her and her family the best of luck as they pursue new opportunities."
In her six seasons at the helm of the UCSB softball program, Kristy Schroeder recorded 173 victories with the Gauchos. (Photo by Tony Mastres)


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Psychol. Soc. no.41 Durban ene. 2011
Doubly damned: the experience of HIV-positive maternity
Tracy Morison
Department of psychology Rhodes University Grahamstown
Long, Carol (2009) Contradicting maternity: HIV-positive motherhood in South Africa. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. ISBN 978-1-86814-494-5 pbk. Pages vii + 231.
In Contradicting maternity, Carol Long argues that being both HIV-positive and a mother is a profoundly contradictory experience as the affirmative, idealised identity of mother collides with that of denigrated infected woman. She contends that the public portrayals of HIV-positive motherhood, which result in profound discomfort and negativity, have produced a caricature of maternal HIV that does not capture the complexity of the experiences of those who find themselves in this position. A major aim of the book, therefore, is to convey the complex and contradictory experiences of mothers who are HIV-positive and, importantly, to explore the topic from the point of view of the women themselves. It is based upon the experiences of "Black" South African HIV-positive mothers and mothers-to-be, many of whom discovered their status at the same time as hearing the news that they were pregnant. Long shows how these women's personal responses to both their pregnancy and diagnosis intertwine with powerful public discourses around motherhood and HIV, as the spectre of the HIV-positive mother looms always as an abject, maligned, and marginalised identity.
In an attempt to capture women's experiences, Long addresses the general tendency to efface HIV-positive mothers while simultaneously prioritising children and their wellbeing. This tendency is strikingly illustrated in the introductory chapter where Long presents a series of published photographs by acclaimed photographers that deal with the subject of HIV-positive maternity. In some of these images, the mothers themselves are rendered marginal in comparison to their (often suffering) children, or their faces and identities are obscured. In others, mothers are notably absent. The implication is that the HIV-positive mother is an absent presence that haunts many of these images. Importantly, however, Long argues that the marginalisation of mothers with HIV amplifies the experience of all mothers. Mothers in general are routinely placed second to children's interests and needs. No mother can ever fully live up to the idealised cultural image of sacrificial Motherhood, and so all mothers tread the fine line between the subject positions of "Good Enough Mother" and "Bad Mother" (Nanako Glenn, 1994). Yet, for a mother who is HIV-positive, the maternal experience is publicly and privately mediated by "fantasies of abjection, infection, blame, and guilt" (Long, 2009: 18).
The aim of foregrounding and exploring maternal experience is interwoven throughout the book and realised in various ways. In chapter one, Long draws attention to the absence of the HIV-positive mother and in subsequent chapters reinserts this absent presence, calling attention to it in various ways. Continuing with this project of "facing the HIV-positive mother" in chapter two, Long contextualises her study and introduces readers to some of the participants and it is their voices that frame what is to come. She describes her participants as "Black" women, aged 21 to 38, most of whom were unemployed, with some level of formal education, and had discovered their HIV status after falling pregnant. The work therefore draws attention to poorer "Black" women's experiences and sense-making in relation to being both HIV-positive and mothers (or mothers-to be) within a particular discursive setting, showing how public discourses come to bear upon their personal accounts.
Changing tack somewhat, chapters three and four are scholarly and deal with the academic literature on motherhood. Chapter three includes a review of feminist, psychodynamic, and South African perspectives on motherhood, while chapter four focuses more specifically on South African research on HIV-positive maternity. In chapter three, Long takes a critical stance, presenting HIV-positive mothering as one particular instance of motherhood, albeit overshadowed by illness. Chapter four consists of two parts. Part one concentrates on how this particular variety of motherhood has been dealt with in the small body of South African research. She reads this work through a psychodynamic and discursive lens, highlighting the common trend in research to concentrate on the negative or damaging influence that mothers with HIV have on their children. In reading this literature, Long employs a psychoanalytic frame, in her own words, "listening for slips of the tongue . . . with an eye to gaps and points of irrationality in order to understand the specific anxieties that the figure of the HIV-positive mother evokes in the scientific imagination" (p 21). Long highlights slippages in the research and, with varying degrees of success, uses an alternate font to comment on these. Part two of this chapter includes an exposition of the theoretical and methodological framework which Long used to analyse her interview data. Her infusion of discourse analytic methodology with psychoanalytic insight is done with finesse and careful consideration. This is reflected in Long's analysis.
Each analysis chapter foregrounds the mother. In these chapters, Long investigates mothers' interactions with their child's body and their fantasies and fears that centre on the child's body (chapter 5); the mother-infant dyad and selflessness in relation to maternal care, especially breastfeeding (chapter 6); the mother's subjectivity in relation to maternal embodiment (chapter 7); and maternal identity from the mother's viewpoint, paying particular attention to mothers' voices (chapter 8). The particular strength of this work lies in the complexity of the analysis, which is rich, multi-layered and provides a nuanced account of the experience of being a mother who is HIV-positive. In particular, the combination of discourse analysis and psychoanalytic theory allows for a reading of the interview data that is cognisant of women's agency and their active negotiation within their particular discursive context. For instance, the analysis shows how discourses of motherhood shape the participants' narratives, particularly of their maternal practices, in which their child's wellbeing is made central and care-taking is described as dedicated, meticulous, and obsessive even. This clearly shows the force of the powerful and broad-ranging discourse of idealised intensive motherhood. At the same time, however, attention is drawn to accounts of maternal pleasure. Included in the analysis are women's descriptions of the enjoyment and satisfaction that they derive from the fastidious and focused care-giving. Long suggests that these accounts then are as much about women's own needs as they are about their child's.
Long ends by synthesising her findings and examining their implications for HIV-positive maternal subjectivity. She makes no grand pronouncements to neatly sew up this issue, however, preferring instead to allow her readers to "encounter the book through their own subjectivity" (p 20) and for each one to "find his/her own way to read the book" (p 21). It is for this reason, perhaps, that she herself does not explicitly discuss the politics of hetero/sexual reproductive partnerships. Mention is made of male partners and presumably the women interviewed are heterosexual. Such silence around sexual orientation could be seen as part of a general heterocentric tendency in research literature (where sexual orientation is only made explicit if it is not heterosexual); however, Long does deal with the issue of sexuality elsewhere (see Long, 2009a).
Taking up Long's invitation to encounter the book in various ways, what is apparent to me is that if HIV-positive mothers are virtually invisible, as Long contends, then fathersHIV-positive or otherwiseare practically non-existent. Long makes this explicit in the first chapter where she points out that men and fathers are not portrayed in the images which she presents, "despite their crucial role in the family drama of HIV/AIDS" (p 18). This is borne out in the stories told by Long's participants. On one hand, the mother-child dyad is central to most accounts; men/fathers are largely absent. On the other hand, when male partners are mentioned by the participants, it is often in relation to the sexual double standard, where male infidelity is tolerated and goes unpunished, or in relation to the abandonment and recrimination of female partners. This drives home the fact that it is mothers who most often bear the greater burden of parenting and, furthermore, who are stigmatised as vectors of dis/ease. It is mothers who are the centre of scorn, blame, shame, and intervention as they are directly implicated in (at least the possibility of) transmitting infection to the unborn. This is captured by the stigmatising term "mother-tochild transmission"rather than simply "vertical transmission"implying "that mothers are the source of the virus, rather than the latest link in a long chain of transmission" (Lewis & Donovan, 2009: iv). Women are, therefore, doubly damned, since infecting their child is at odds with the maternal mandate, while the men who should be part of this picture, many of whom purportedly infected their partners, are invisible.
Whether the book is indeed accessible to the general reader, as Long suggests, is up for debate. The work is scholarly, presenting a thorough academic treatment of the subject, but it is also highly engaging as the voices of pregnant women and mothers are allowed to speak. Contradicting maternity makes a fine and much-needed contribution to South African literature on motherhood, highlighting that for these particular women, parenthood is more complicated and multi-layered than allowed by dominant discourses of HIV-positive maternity, and the disempowering caricatures they create. It will certainly be of interest to scholars working on the topics of motherhood, family studies, HIV/AIDS, and gender studies.
Lewis, S & Donovan, P (2009) Preface. http://www.aidstreatmentaccess.org/mtt7_final.pdf [ Links ]
Long, C (2009a) 'I don't know who to blame': HIV-positive South African women navigating heterosexual infection. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33(3), 321-333. [ Links ]
Nanako Glenn, E (1994) Social constructions of mothering: A thematic overview, in Nanako Glenn, E, Chang, G, & Rennie Forcey, L (eds) Mothering: Ideology, experience, agency. London & New York: Routledge. [ Links ]