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Reading and Writing in Prison: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Edinburgh Napier University
4-5 June 2010
This conference aims to bring together scholars, writers and practitioners to share their perspectives on the significance of reading and writing in prisons.
Writing about imprisonment raises key issues that go beyond an immediate concern with incarceration and its institutions, involving notions of subjectivity, citizenship and nationhood. Scholars and practitioners alike have long been arguing that opportunities for reading and writing in prisons can become a dignifying tool for prisoners to re-evaluate and reconstruct their lives, with positive impact on recidivism rates. The conference will act as a platform for exchange about existing scholarship and practice in the area, with the long-term goal of facilitating future research networks, publications and practical projects.
This event explicitly seeks conversations across the disciplines and between 'theory' and 'practice'. Contributors are invited to address reading, writing and imprisonment in any geographical location, in both historical and contemporary contexts. Some of the questions this conference wishes to address are: what defines the genre of prison literature or prison autobiography and how has it changed historically? How do institutional contexts and penal policies impact on reading and writing in prison? What effect do creative practice, prison education and reading groups have on groups of offenders and, conversely, society at large? What is the role of researchers and universities in contributing to debates around narratives of imprisonment, reading and writing in prison?
Possible topics include:
- Prison literature and prison (auto)biography as a genre
- The history and publishing context of prison writing
- Representations of prison reading and writing experiences
- Gender, class, ethnicity/race and age and their impact on reading and writing in prison
- Writing and political imprisonment
- Prison libraries and reading groups
- Creative writing in prisons: practice and problems
Invited speakers who have agreed to participate (subject to funding) include:
Ed Wiltse on student-prisoner reading groups and the object(s) of literary studies; Gowan Calder and Caspar Walsh on creative writing; Jenny Hartley and Rosalind Crone on prison reading in the nineteenth century; Sarah Turvey on prison reading groups; Bashabi Fraser on the imprisoned writer and the nation.
Contributors should submit an abstract of their proposed paper (250 words) and a brief biographical statement to email@example.com by 1 March 2010.
For further information, please contact the organiser:
Dr Anne Schwan
Email: email@example.com
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Fantastic post! I absolutely adore this film and haven't watched it in far too long so it was fun to remember some of these smaller moments instead of the bigger ones that usually come to mind.
Thanks Dan! Really glad you dig the post. I love those small moments in great movies... they really make it for me.Delete
One of the best films ever made. Though I prefer Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood. I challenge any filmmaker to come up with something like this. There's a lot of things in that film that I love such as Luis Guzman's cameo in the game show as well as some of the music that includes the use of Supertramp. It's a fucking perfect film and I will chew out any motherfucker who complains it was too long.ReplyDelete
Too long?! No way man. No. Way. I think I too prefer Boogie (and definitely TWBB), but yeah, no one will ever make a movie like Magnolia again. It's so confident and different. Nothing else similar will even come close.Delete
Melora Waters Deserves more roles! Yes, Yes, She does.ReplyDelete
Someone needs to hire you to go places and do shot-by-shot breakdowns of films with people. Like Ebert did. I'm serious.
The determination poster? Never noticed it. And Baker Hall's tear? Never saw it. Thank you. And it's so crazy, I just watched "Short Term 12" a couple weeks ago, and when I saw Melora Walters' name flash up in the opening credits I thought the exact same thing you just said.
I must admit, I have a blast putting these together, but I am always very very eager to hear what you'll have to say about these posts. That's my way of saying thank you for reading and always giving nice comments. I really appreciate it.
Man, I remember reading about Ebert's shot-by-shot breakdowns. I bet that is absolutely exhausting but mesmerizing. Do you think they paused on EVERY single shot and talked about it? I mean, even a back and forth conversation? So intense.
I just can't stress how much I love these! Brilliant work as always man!ReplyDelete
Thanks buddy! I so appreciate you reading!!Delete
"Seriously though, what the fuck is Tom Cruise wearing in this movie? Such excellent costume design." and his hair! He looked so silly :P
I really liked this movie, there something about it that always makes it feel so fresh even with many rewatches. I'm stunned how many people seem to hate Moore's performance here. That pharmacy scene is legendary.
People HATE Moore's performance? Really? That's insane, she's so damn good here.
Cruise's hair is so outrageous, I just love it. And I agree, this movie always feels fresh. Never dated, never old.
There were several polls about her on imdb lately and people always tend to choose her work in Magnolia as her worst or choose her as the weakest performance in the cast :/Delete
Who are worse: IMDd users or reddit people?Delete
reddit people, definitely!Delete
Some of those people, I mean... wow.Delete
You seriously made me want to watch this again. It's a movie that never once feels long when watching it. I love this movie and would love to see it back in cinemasReplyDelete
Oh I completely agree, it feels nowhere near 3 hours long. I would love to see this again on the big screen. It's so personal but so big at the same time.
Hope you get to rewatch it soon!
Another great list, Alex! My faves are the title card, the whole Cruise thing and most certainly Hall. A great actor who started in the business later in life....an absolute staple in Hollywood. Adore the PSHoffman p----whipped thing, too!ReplyDelete
Thanks Dawn! Hall really is a master. I just love the hell out of his craft. Jimmy Gator will always be my favorite performance of his. His final moments in this film are just devastating.Delete
Posted this last night and finding out about PSH....so terribly sad. It breaks my heart to think of how addiction ruins lives and how people have no idea of their own value and impact.Delete
It is heartbreaking, isn't it? A ruinous, unforgiving disease. PSH will be sorely missed.Delete
PSH just fucking died. WHAT THE FUCK.
I read this article 2 hours ago and now i find out he justi died. Life sucks SO hard.
I loved all his performances. He was just SO great. And Magnolia is one of PTA's best films and PSH's best performances.
I can't fucking believe it. What a crushing loss.
So damn odd that this was my most recent post, and then I wake up to the news of his passing... just awful.
I had just finished watching Magnolia of the first time last night and a few hours after it finished I heard he had died. The emotional bond that you develop with good actors while watching their films makes their death harder to bear.
So very true. Which makes this particular passing that much more devastating.Delete
shit good call on Pat Healy- i would have never put that togetherReplyDelete
Thanks man. I didn't even know that was him until recently. So good in Compliance.Delete
Magnolia is my favorite PTA film and one of my top ten films of all time. I feel like this movie was made for me.
You're definitely right when you said that Melora Walters deserves more roles. In a film with half a dozen unbelievable performances, I feel like hers was the best. Any great actor can play a drug addict, that's been proven plenty of times before. However, there was so much more to Melora Walter's character in this movie than just a drug addict. Her desperation, self-deprecation and intensity make her my favorite character in this movie. She is such a pathetic character, but I sympathize with her so much.
This film also has one of the most underrated movie quotes, in my opinion. When asked by the Seduce & Destroy operator why Phil is calling him, Phil answers:
"I know this sounds silly... and I know that might sound ridiculous like this is the scene of the movie where the guy is trying to get a hold of the long lost son, y'know, but, this is that scene. This is that scene. And I think they have those scenes in movies because they're true... y'know, because they really happen. And you gotta believe me this is really happening."
The simple close-up shot, the way the music swells up when he says "this is that scene", the delivery from the great Philip Seymour Hoffman (may he rest in peace). I even have the exact time-stamp memorized for whenever I want to watch it (1:14:52).
I love this movie.
Ah, I adore that moment. It is such a risky scene to pull off. A movie referencing a cliched scene in movies by DOING that very cliched scene... I'm not sure anyone other than PTA could pull that off. But with Hoffman's fearless and determined performance, there's simply no looking back. He sells the whole situation beautifully. God, I'll miss that man.Delete
Alex, I love Magnolia so much. I feel like you could dig into this even further and still find so much to talk about with it. I don't even know where to start. The songs are amazing, the performances are some of the best from everyone (though I do think Moore over plays her scenes a bit), and I'm so attached to nearly everyone in it. The three hours fly by; it's one of the rare movies that I caught twice in the theaters within a week. Awesome post!ReplyDelete
Thanks Dan! I really love this movie too. I remember seeing it when I was pretty young and not fully "getting it." But it never left my mind, and I went back to the theater and saw it again a few weeks later. This one still floors me.Delete
This is a wonderful post -- a happy distraction as I struggle through writing a tribute post to Philip Seymour Hoffman. Magnolia is one of my favourite films of all time, for many of the reasons you cite. I would have also included "That Ain't Mine!" Marcy and the strange, touching sequence when everyone sings the same song together but in their own isolated places.
And, yes, that closing shot -- the smile -- one of my favourite closing shots of any movie ever.
I don't think I'll get used to the loss of PSH anytime soon. So good in this film and all others. Such a sad loss.
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting. Always love finding other fans of Magnolia.
didn't realize the dude on the phone was paul f tompkins, great comedian.ReplyDelete
Holy shit, man. I don't know how I missed this, but this is AMAZING. So many things on here that I didn't notice in the film, including Pat Healy. I knew that face looked familiar, and sure enough, he killed it in Compliance. It's just a shame that watching Magnolia won't ever be the same again... RIP Mr. Hoffman.ReplyDelete
Thanks Eric! It certainly won't ever be the same. PSH, rest in peace forever.Delete
I'm loving these posts. I find many awesome things I didn't pay much attention to, or others that I also loved but I've forgotten. There Will Be Blood was the first film from P.T. Anderson that I watched and since then I started watching all his films. It was a couple of years ago, so I watched Magnolia pretty recently, and I was blown out by it. I loved it. It's such a unique thing. I also loved Frank's costume and the way he shows his frustration, Cruise was perfect in those scenes. And loved Moore's pharmacy scene I think it's one of the highlights of the movie and you're right about Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, he looks always a bit frightened of her. How great he was…
I didn't realize about some details about Jim that you've pointed out, I loved that character and Melora Walters. And I thought the same after watching it. She and Moore totally stand out for me, and I was surprised at her not getting bigger roles. What a shame. I also loved the blue lightning on some of her scenes and how her flat is almost in shadows. Don't know why but I got the same vibe than with Naomi Watt's apartment on Mulholland Drive. It felt right as both characters are isolated and in emotional pain during some scenes.
Other things I loved, the way Hall is sitting on the couch and the single tear, wow. That character's progression as we start to find out things about him is awesome. And the "but it did happen" frame is fantastic.
So glad you like these!
How great PSH was. Yes. One of the all-time greats. He said that out of all the characters he played, Phil was most like his own personality. It required very little acting on his part, which is kind of remarkable.
I love your connection of apartments between Mulholland Dr. and Magnolia. They both have a very hollow, distinct LA vibe to them. I tried to capture that physical emptiness in my short film, Earrings. In fact, there's a lot of blue in Earrings, and I'm wondering if Magnolia subconsciously influenced that at all. Interesting though. Hmmm.
this movie is terrible. pretentious garbage for snooty white people (the worst type of people, which this movie is also full of). all the great performances and camera techniques and shit aren't enough to make a great movie.ReplyDelete
My vote for the worst type of people goes to child rapists, but I do agree that snooty white people are absolutely dreadful.Delete
I was wondering when a negative post would be posted! Hahaa - I was thinking to myself that I had never seen such positivity before in a comment section - until Anonymous showed-up. Thanks for balancing it out! ;) HUGE 'magnolia' Fan, btw. Ever notice the Biblical Verses advertised on the Bus Shelters on the Magnolia Street scenes? Exodus 8:2 - also a sign held up in the game show audience.ReplyDelete
I got such a kick out of that Anonymous comment. I often love troll comments, even if they're on my site. Glad you're a fan of this film, and yeah it is littered with 8:2 references. I always have fun trying to spot them. Thanks so much for the comment!Delete
You can see Melora Walters in The Master [if you watch the deleted/extra scenes and features] shes heard singing in the full movie. This was a fun little read, always enjoyed Magnolia, it was the first PTA film that I watched completely [not counting the many times I started watching There Will Be Blood half way through the movie, that being said I watched There will be Blood's last half so many times, and loved it each time].ReplyDelete
Ohh yeah I remember her in that. I love her acting so much, wish she was in more. She is incredible in Magnolia. Thanks so much for reading and commenting!Delete
oh and the 8:2 reference if only there because some big shot [producer?] im not sure who exactly, but somebody PTA either respected or HAD to respect, and this man brought up the fact about raining frogs being biblical, in reality, PTA's reasoning for the frog rain was it was the only way he could express the fucked up news about the death of his own father. Which i think is relieving, knowing he didnt write a movie based primarily on the bible. im ranting and also not going over what im typing out, heres hoping this all makes sense.ReplyDelete
Haha yes it makes sense! I remember hearing a version of that story as well. PTA, man. What a trip that guy is.Delete
This movie reminds me why I love films, it is so special and full of details.ReplyDelete
Totally agree. There's never a wrong time to put this one on.Delete
Tighty whitiesReplyDelete
"God, I get so jazzed at these seminars."Delete

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text: THE SURPRISE RETURN OF TEDDY—Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord) shocks everyone when she announces she won't be able to oversee Max's (guest star Josh Zuckerman) wedding because she has accepted a job in New York and will be leaving immediately. Teddy (guest star Trevor Donovan) comes back to town and Dixon (Tristan Wilds) rushes back from touring to give his relationship with Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes) another try, then fails to show up at their meeting spot. Meanwhile, Silver (Jessica Stroup) feels like she has to choose between Navid (Michael Steger) and Liam (Matt Lanter) and makes a life-changing decision. Gillian Zinser and Shenae Grimes also star.


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FINAL ROLL CALL – Officers Kocab and Curtis
I am almost sure, if we were to have listened just a bit closer, we'd have heard Jeff and Dave whisper as they were arriving at Heaven's gates, "Thanks, guys. We'll be standing watch from here now." Rest in the arms of your Father, officers. "Well done, good and faithful servants."


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MIAMI – Greg Oden has signed his contract with the two-time defending NBA champion Miami Heat.
The deal was completed Wednesday. The former No. 1 overall pick has already spent a few days in South Florida taking his physical and working out some contract language.
Oden announced Friday that he was accepting Miami's offer that will pay him about $1 million this coming year and includes a player option for the 2014-15 season. He last played in the NBA on Dec. 5, 2009, sidelined since by a series of major knee problems.
Heat managing general partner Micky Arison announced the deal, posting a tweet to congratulate Oden and saying "the journey continues."


text: AuthenTec, which Apple said in July it would acquire for $356 million, has introduced a government-grade data encryption platform for Android smartphones and tablets.MatrixDAR uses the core cryptographic functions of AuthenTec's SafeZone mobile security platform to encrypt all data on an Android device to meet Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140 certification. Along with full-disk encryption on the device, MatrixDAR also scrambles data on removable storage media, such as a flash drives or SD cards.FIPS 140 certification means the cryptographic module within a device meets standards for encrypting sensitive, but unclassified, information. The certification is required by federal agencies and regulated industries, such as healthcare and financial services.AuthenTec plans to sell MatrixDAR to device manufacturers, which would install the platform on their respective Android devices. "When it is present, the handset maker will typically provide a menu option that users can select to encrypt stored data," Simon Blake-Wilson, vice president of AuthenTec's Embedded Security Solutions, said on Tuesday in an email.[In depth:\u00a0What's the most secure smartphone?]The device manufacturer also has the option of configuring MatrixDAR, so it can be controlled through remote mobile device management software. The platform can be plugged into AuthenTec's virtual private network client, called QuickSec, which supports only Internet Protocol security (IPsec) connections.MatrixDAR is aimed at preventing sensitive data from being accessed on lost on stolen devices. In addition, the technology can be used to remotely wipe all data from a device."The announcement is an interesting step in improving the overall data security capabilities of Android devices," Charles Kolodgy, analyst for IDC, said. Demand for data-securing technology will likely increase as enterprises deploy more tablets.AuthenTec is not alone in selling such technology. Competitors include Mocana, which sells a product called NanoCrypto that is also installed by device manufacturers. "This is a larger suite that can be embedded in many devices, including Android," Kolodgy said of NanoCrypto. "The programming is a little more complicated, I believe, but for the device manufacturer shouldn't be too much of a burden."AuthenTec is expected to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, once the acquisition is completed. While no announcements have been made, analysts believe Apple is most interested in AuthenTec's fingerprint recognition technology for unlocking mobile devices. In addition, Apple is interested in AuthenTec's security chips that help prevent hackers from jailbreaking smartphones.If Apple combines anti-jailbreaking technology, FIPS 140 data encryption and fingerprint authentication in a mobile product, then it will have "a real, government-ready device," Kolodgy said.MatrixDAR does not provide protection against malware, a growing problem on Android devices. In the most recent outbreak, TrustGo Security Labs discovered sophisticated malware that has reportedly infected a half million Android devices in China. The malware, called Trojan!SMSZombie.A, exploits a flaw in China Mobile's SMS payment process to make unauthorized payments and steal bank card numbers.


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What do symphony orchestras and cigarette companies have in common? It's the age problem. How do you stay in business when your customers keep dying?
For orchestras, at least it's not their product that's lethal, though it might as well be. With the median age of concertgoers rising, fewer than one in 10 adults reported attending a classical concert in 2008, according to a periodic survey conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts, a 28 percent drop since 1982. The financial state of orchestras today is roughly comparable to that of Blockbuster Video post-Netflix. Ticket sales are dropping; layoffs and bankruptcies abound. In the past two years, the Honolulu, Syracuse, and New Mexico orchestras closed up shop entirely; the Philadelphia Orchestra, long revered as one of the five best in the country, filed for Chapter 11 protection in April.
But there is one group that still likes classical music and, what's more, pays to hear it performed: Asians. Of Asian-Americans ages 18-24 responding to the same survey, 14 percent reported attending a classical concert in the past year, more than any other demographic in that age group. Despite classical's deserved reputation as the whitest of genres, Asian attendance rates match or surpass the national average up through the 45- 54 age range. To put it one way, the younger the classical audience gets, the more Asian it becomes. To put it another, the only population that is disproportionately filling seats being vacated by old people dying off is Asians.
This reflects what can be observed at most American concert halls today: a sea of white hair, broken only by the black, unflattering bowl cut given to all Asian kids by their parents, who have dragged them to the symphony for their cultural enrichment. I know because I was one of those kids. I'm a hapa (mixed-race) Korean-American, with an American father and Korean mother. At age 5, I was given a quarter-size violin. Private lessons followed, with regular trips to the Kennedy Center to see the National Symphony Orchestra. By 12, I was concertmaster of my school orchestra and performing solo recitals. For a time, it was fun. At no point did I feel I had much of a choice in the matter.
"Music is a huge part of life for most Asian families," says violinist Sarah Chang. "Most Asian children I know start taking violin, piano, or cello lessons from an early age." If this sets them apart socially from their non-Asian classmates, Asian parents largely do not care. Their determination to raise musical kids can be single-minded and severe. One memorable passage in Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother has Amy Chua threatening her daughter during piano practice: "If the next time's not perfect, I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!" In Musicians From a Different Shore, University of Hawaii professor and pianist Mari Yoshihara describes her upbringing in postwar Japan. At the time, a confluence of mass production, rising incomes, and shrinking apartment sizes brought millions of upright pianos into urban households, where they became an emblem of middle-class status. Through her years of practice, she writes, "I never asked myself why I was learning music or whether I even liked playing the piano. Such questions never even occurred to me. Music was not something I had the option of liking or not liking; it was just there for me to do."
"There was a time when practically every major soloist was Jewish," says violinist Joshua Bell. "Every Jewish kid grew up wanting to play the violin. Now it's true among Asians." (Or at least among Asian parents.) This shift became apparent within conservatories and orchestras in the 1970s, when the ranks of Eastern European and Jewish musicians, who had long dominated the field, began to decline, while those of Asians started to swell. Asians make up just over 4 percent of the U.S. population, but 7 percent of U.S. orchestra musicians are Asian, and the figure rises to 20 percent for top orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic. At the elite Julliard School for music, one in five undergraduates—and one in three Ph.D. students—is Asian.
A word of caution: "Asian" in the American context encompasses a broad geography spanning Pakistan to Indonesia and including everyone ranging from fresh-off-the-boat immigrants to third-generation Asian-Americans and adoptees. In reality, the Asian classical phenomenon does not extend much beyond China, Japan, and Korea. Yet for East Asians at least, classical music is a genuine common thread, albeit a relatively young one. Its presence in the region goes back little more than a century, to the military bands brought to Japan by Commodore Perry's opening. The early association of Western music with military discipline and modernization set a precedent. Classical music became an aspirational totem for both newly industrializing Asian countries, whose governments subsidized music schools and orchestras, and parents, for whom having a musician in the family was marker of success.
But not just any musician. Asian and Asian-American performers gravitate almost exclusively to strings and piano: Those instruments which, within a genre that symbolizes class mobility in Asia, are at the top of the heap. Rarely does one encounter an Asian conservatory student playing the bassoon or trombone, or any instrument that does not afford the possibility of soloist superstardom.
The prestige Asians ascribe to classical music is, it should be noted, completely disproportionate to the actual salaries earned by professional musicians. And the Asian juggernaut has yet to move much beyond the orchestra pit. One area in which Asians do not dominate, Yoshihara notes, is orchestra management, which remains overwhelmingly white. The boards of most performing arts organizations are made up of wealthy corporate donors, who tend to recruit managers and other board members from within their own social circles. And in contrast to celebrity musicians like Yo-Yo Ma and Lang Lang, Asians haven't made much headway into conducting or composing. Asian music education is not famous for its music theory. The Suzuki method, Asia's most successful classical music export, is a highly mechanical training regimen based on drills and rote memorization, with no emphasis on "feeling" the music. It lends itself best to the equally mechanical works of the Baroque period, less to the Romantic era and not at all to contemporary classical.
However circumscribed the music may be, Asia is one place where classical artists can be genuine pop stars in ways long forgotten in Europe and North America. "Whenever I play in Korea, I feel like I'm at a rock concert," says Bell. If there's any irony to the most quintessentially Western music tradition being kept alive by the East, by now it's a moot point. Classical music is as Asian as tempura and Spam. Even if it eventually dies in the West, it will have an Asian afterlife, much in the way washed-up American rock bands can still pack stadiums in Manila.
Classical music probably won't ever disappear completely from our shores. If it survives, it will be thanks in large part to continued Asian immigration and an audience that is increasingly imported. Faced with the unenviable task of trying to make the most hidebound of music traditions hip and relevant to kids, the survival strategy of orchestras has mostly been to throw up their hands and pray that their remaining season ticket-holders cling to life another year. Instead, they might prepare for a future in which their subscribers look a lot different than they do today, and cultivate leadership, outreach and programming which reflect that.
As for me, I eventually grew tired of the violin and stopped playing. But I never lost my love for Mozart and Mahler. It's said that playing an instrument as a child is the greatest predictor of concert attendance as an adult. So I still go to those same concert halls I went to as a kid. Only now, I no longer have the bowl cut, and I attend by choice.
Michael Ahn Paarlberg (Slate) / February 2, 2012
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Texans take UConn OLB Trevardo Williams
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans have selected Connecticut outside linebacker Trevardo Williams in the fourth round of the NFL draft.
Williams was the 124th overall pick of the draft.
He had 42 tackles, including 13.5 for loss and 11.5 sacks in his senior season for Connecticut, following his junior season when he had 12.5 sacks, which was good for fifth in the country.
The Texans selected Clemson wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins with the 27th overall pick on Thursday.
Houston picked South Carolina safety D.J. Swearinger in the second round Friday and North Carolina offensive tackle Brennan Williams and LSU defensive end Sam Montgomery in the third round.


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This summary from a Better Buildings Residential Network peer exchange call focused on combining solar and home performance energy efficiency.
This presentation includes the brands, website addresses, and images for most of the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program partners.
This resource provides best practices and highlights case studies for how utilities, policymakers, building managers, and community stakeholders can improve access to energy usage data while working towards the goal of improving efficiency in their communities.
This summary report provides scientific results, lessons learned, and recommendations for driving energy efficiency in existing buildings on an urban scale. It includes program marketing lesson learned, such as: personal outreach and call to action events are critical marketing opportunities.
Quick summaries of strategies various programs have used to improve the efficiency of delivering efficiency.
In this video interview segment, Mick Dalrymple of Energize Phoenix shares how the program used information about its audience to create a fun and appealing brand.


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Toddler Safety
12–23 Months
At this age, children are little sponges—soaking up information and learning new skills at a fast pace. So much so that you may not even be aware they know how do certain things. And while bumps and bruises are normal parts of being a toddler, you want to make sure they don't suffer more serious injuries, like those from falls, drowning, poisonings and burns. Keep them safe with these toddler safety tips.


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The Yakima County sheriff's office says there were about 1,000 spectators at a cock fight inside a shop at an orchard in Zillah.
The spectators fled out windows and doors Saturday night as deputies arrived.
Deputies arrested a ranch foreman suspected of promoting the event. Several others were detained and could be charged with attending an animal fight.
The sheriff's office also says deputies recovered eight guns, cash and equipment used to outfit roosters for fighting.


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Explore the galleries, download wallpaper for your desktop, browse the Print Shop or order your own custom character portrait.
Enjoy your stay and be sure to visit again; new work is added frequently.
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Column: Ravens win is one for the ages
Just before the sixth quarter of one of the most fascinating and improbable NFL playoff games you'll ever see, Justin Tucker trotted out onto the field and did something you hardly ever see.
He practiced making a field goal. And for one of the few times on a frigid afternoon-turned-evening in Denver, something turned out exactly as planned.
The game that seemed like it was destined never to end finally did, much to the dismay of 76,732 shivering fans and a quarterback who had seemed destined to take the Denver Broncos to the Super Bowl. It was Peyton Manning's interception that gave the Baltimore Ravens their golden opportunity in the 38-35 win, though Manning could hardly be blamed for the Broncos being in that position to begin with.
He was still playing deep into overtime for the same reason Ray Lewis will go on to play at least one more game before calling it a career. Lewis was on the sideline probably rehearsing his farewell speech when a shocking collapse by the Denver secondary allowed a game tying touchdown on a 70-yard pass to Jacoby Jones with just 31 seconds left.
Up until then, it was just about how John Elway imagined things going when the Broncos courted Manning during the offseason and let the orange-clad faithful in Denver know that Tebowtime was over.
A frigid weekend in January. A big-time quarterback under center. And a fourth quarter drive engineered by Manning that appeared to wrap up this playoff win with a giant bow.
Except the Broncos aren't one step closer to the Super Bowl. The Ravens are flying to either Houston or New England, and the way they felt after Saturday's game they might not even need a plane.
It was tough enough to win it. Trying to describe it all afterward might have been even tougher.
''Thanks for bearing witness to one of the greatest football games you're ever going to see,'' Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. ''That football game did the game of football proud.''
Indeed it did, warts and all. Yes, the brilliant plays were all there - how many times have you seen a player start both halves with long kick returns for touchdowns as Denver's Trindon Holliday did? - but the miscues were almost as memorable and arguably more significant.
That begins with Manning, who was supposed to be the coolest one on a very cool field but had three turnovers that led directly to 17 points. It continues with Ravens punt and kickoff return teams that gave up scores that might have sunk any team that didn't believe like it was supposed to win no matter what happened.
''We never wavered, we never wavered,'' Lewis said. ''This will probably go down as one of the greatest wins in Ravens history.''
But the play that will be debated and dissected in Denver for far longer than Tebowmania ever lasted was the biggest gaffe of all. It came after standout cornerback Champ Bailey had already been beaten for two long touchdown passes, and everyone in the stadium was asking the person in the seat next to them what happened to the vaunted Broncos pass defense.
Eight men were playing off the line, knowing the game was theirs unless something freakishly horrible happened. Eight men who all knew a desperation pass was coming but somehow were unable to defend against it.
Eight men who could do nothing but watch as Jacoby strutted into the end zone with the tying score.
''You got to start taking shots at some point and it happened to work out,'' Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco said. ''It was pretty incredible.''
There were snow flurries on the field and the wind chill had dipped below zero when Manning and Lewis met again at midfield, this time for the coin flip for overtime. The two were always intertwined in this game and both had their moments, with Lewis getting a team-high 15 tackles and Manning throwing for three scores, the last of which seemingly secured the win for Denver.
Manning had come back from a lost season and a potentially career-ending neck injury to win 11 straight games for his new team. Lewis was calling it a career, and using his pending retirement as one more way to motivate his team to keep playing.
They played nearly 77 minutes before it was finally settled by a rookie kicker who after the end of the first overtime period went out on the field to practice a kick. Tucker made 30 of 33 during the regular season, and this one was perfect, touching off a celebration on the sidelines.
Manning went over and gave Lewis a hug before heading into a somber, stunned locker room. He showered and dressed in suit and tie before coming out to talk about how hard it was for everyone on the team to have their season come to such a shocking end.
''You want it to work and keep going and win, but that's not always the way it works,'' Manning said.
Lewis was just as philosophical in victory, talking about higher powers and things that happen when men come together. He said he was particularly inspired by a visit he made to a Baltimore hospital Thursday night, where he saw sick kids who will never be able to experience the joys he has in playing the game of football.
''I challenged my team this week to not listen to anything outside our building, to buy into everything we are as a team,'' Lewis said. ''When you get everybody to buy in, it's just so special to see it.''
Even more special might be to see the Ravens in the Super Bowl.
And after a win for the ages, a lot more people are beginning to believe that's just where they will end up.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org


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Every effective marketing strategy lives and dies by the ability to capture and communicate the strategies core point of differentiation in a simple, yet compelling, manner.
When your market can actually understand and perhaps even feel how your business is different from every other business that says it does what you do, then you have a recipe for both greater business and greater profit.
Lacking this, you have a recipe to compete on price, plain and simple.
Today's post in part three of a three-part series on marketing strategy. In the first post, we talked about finding your ideal client. In post number two we talked about finding your core point of difference. Today we are going to cover a tactic that will help you turn your point of difference into a simple core message or something I call your Talking Logo.
The Talking Logo Explained.
Like a traditional printed logo, a talking logo is a tool that allows you to communicate verbally the single greatest benefit of doing business with your firm. A talking logo is a short statement that quickly communicates your firm's position and ideally forces the listener to want to know more.
The talking logo is generally played in response to the comment, "So, tell me about your firm." Everyone has attended a networking event or Chamber of Commerce breakfast where you are given a minute to describe your firm – this a great place to whip out the Talking Logo.
When asked, the typical response for many is to list their title or industry . . . "I'm in the insurance business, I'm an architect, I'm a painting contractor or I'm a computer repair specialist." The only thing this type of response will get you is, "That's nice" A creative talking logo excites and tells more about what's in it for the listener than labeling what you do.
Consider these two examples: "So, Bill, what do you do for a living?" I'm a registered architect" or [Talking Logo] "I show contractors how to get paid faster." Now, which do you think is more compelling? If you're a contractor, you definitely want to know more about that second answer, don't you?
Your talking logo is created in two distinct parts. Part 1 addresses your target market, and Part 2 zeroes in on a problem, frustration or want that market has. Download our free Talking Logo template here.
You know you have a great talking logo when a person hears you deliver it and immediately says, "Really, how do you do that?"
Here's the pattern for getting started creating your Talking Logo: Action verb, (I show, I teach, I help) target market, (business owners, homeowners, teachers, divorced women, Fortune 500 companies) how to xxxx = solve a problem, get a result or meet a need.
A powerful Talking Logo alone can get you appointments, especially when most businesses who are looking for new business simply ask to meet so they can sell something. Who would you see, someone who wants to sell you his work or someone who wants to show you how to make more money?
In order to make your Talking Logo truly powerful, you'll need to have a complimentary statement that tells them just how you deliver on your promise when the listener inevitably asks to know more.
So let's return to our architect above to explain – "We have developed relationships with every zoning board in the metro area and by applying our zoning adjustment process we can make sure that projects don't get hung up by red tape, and that our clients get to that first pay request faster."
By starting from this very simple point you can expand and grow a core message that can be used in every possible setting and every form of communication.


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Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company.
Google has also agreed to give online advertisers more flexibility to manage advertising campaigns on Google's AdWords platform and on rival ad platforms, the FTC said Thursday. After a 19-month FTC investigation, Google also agreed to stop some of its "most troubling" search practices, including scraping Web content from rivals and allegedly passing it off as its own, said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.
Google has agreed to allow competitors access to standards-essential patents the company acquired along with its purchase of Motorola Mobility in 2012, the FTC said. The FTC raised concerns that Google had reneged on commitments to offer some mobile and Web patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, terms.
Without the patent agreement, a number of smartphone and gaming console devices were "under threat" of patent litigation, Leibowitz said during a press conference. "Today's action makes clear that the commitment to make patents available on reasonable terms matters, and that companies cannot make these commitments when it suits them ... and then behave opportunistically later," he said.
The agreement doesn't include a fine, but the FTC could fine Google up to US $16,000 per violation if the company violates the terms of the patent settlement, Leibowitz said. The agency will monitor Google's compliance with the settlement, he said.
The settlement also doesn't include an agreement on search bias because the FTC didn't find enough evidence to force an agreement, he said.
The FTC did see some evidence of search manipulation, but Google's actions "didn't violate the American antitrust laws," Leibowitz said.
The agency looked at allegations that Google threatened to remove websites from search results if they complained about the search giant scraping their content, Leibowitz. "If the allegations are accurate, they describe conduct that is clearly problematic and potentially harmful to competition because it undermines incentives to innovate," he said. "Why would you create a new site for restaurant reviews if someone else can take them and appropriate them as if they were their own?"
The settlement shows Google's services are "good for users and good for competition," David Drummond, Google's senior vice president and chief legal officer, wrote in a blog post..
The settlement will give websites the ability to opt out of Google's search results and allow advertisers to mix and copy their Google ad campaigns with third-party services that use Google AdWords APIs, Drummond wrote.
"We've always accepted that with success comes regulatory scrutiny," he added. "But we're pleased that the FTC and the other authorities that have looked at Google's business practices ... have concluded that we should be free to combine direct answers with web results."
The FTC began investigating Google for antitrust violations in its search and advertising businesses in mid-2011. The agency reportedly has looked into Google's relationship with Android handset makers and whether Google favors its own services in search results.
In December 2011, U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, and Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, asked the FTC to look into whether Google listed its products and services first in search results. Other lawmakers have urged the FTC to tread carefully in a dynamic tech industry.
Google competitors, including Microsoft, Oracle and other members of the FairSearch.org coalition, have accused Google of search "discrimination" by manipulating search results. Google has also used its dominance to force competitors out of the search marketplace, the group has said.
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is email@example.com.


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The Museum galleries only display a fraction of the wealth of our Institute: we have an estimated 38 million specimens in our vaults. That makes us one of the ten most important natural history collections in the world, as well as the largest in Europe after Paris and London. Treasures such as the Bernissart Iguanodons, the Spy Neanderthals, the Dautzenberg shell collection, the four fragments of moon rock, the thylacine (Tasmanian wolf), and Baron De Selys Longchamps' insect collections are unique in the world.
These collections, which are the result of many decades of exploration and research, help us to better understand the history of life on Earth and biodiversity, and to come up with better ways of protecting the environment. Today, with the aid of modern technology, scientists are making new discoveries about this natural heritage.
The collections can be roughly divided up into six categories: entomology, recent invertebrates, recent vertebrates, anthropology, palaeontology and geology. Click on the pictures below for a more detailed overview of the collection categories, the rare specimens, the importance of collections for science and find out more about the people whose job it is to conserve these natural treasures.
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When loaned collections are returned or when new ones are added, the specimens undergo treatment (eg. low temperature freezing). "Orphaned collections" are examined and assigned to a collection manager and are given a place in the collection.


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The Phoenix Innovation Foundation is proud to announce that PIF is a new member of Local First Arizona. LFA works to "strengthen communities and local economies through supporting, maintaining, and celebrating locally owned businesses throughout the … [Read more]
A great year of events, with much more to come
The Phoenix Innovation's primary goal is to help grass-roots events in the Phoenix area, and the past year has been a great one. In 2012, LaidOff Camp Chandler taught people how to leverage social tools to stay competitive in their jobs and lay a … [Read more]
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It's time to check in with everyone! How are you all doing with reading Alienated by Melissa Landers? I wanted to post a short post and seeing if you all are enjoying the book or what you think so far.
I'm 86 pages in and so far I'm really enjoying this book. I can't wait to read more, but I'm trying to keep with 86 pages a week. Seeing as I have so many other books to read that is, but so far that's been a bit hard. I want to jump right back in and read what happens next. I love books when they are like that, the ones that you don't really want to put down even if you have to cook dinner. Doesn't happen too often, but when it does I usually fly through the book.
So what are your thoughts so far? Do you like the book?
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Bill Caswell became famous for telling Jalopnik of his adventures taking a $500 Craigslist car and beating $400K rally machines to stand on the podium at last year's Rally Mexico. Now he's doing LeMons in an E30.
It would be right to point out that winning a race in a $500 Craigslist car in a series of nothing but $500 cars isn't that impressive. Especially not with his experience and racing background… until you read his tale of dodging a moon buggy to beat out a motorcycle-engined Geo.
Per Caswell in one of his many hilarious emails:
I actually nearly cost us the race when a little moon buggy wandered across the track at turn one as I was passing around the outside. I ended up in the grass fast in 4 gear on the outside of a corner with a bridge coming. I got it back on track having passed the moon buggy in the grass but wheels off is a penalty in lemons.
But the second place car that assumed the lead, a motorcycle engined geo metro, made contact in the chicane thing and received the same penalty resetting the order which we held to the finish. That's POS racing's little "Greta" that won.
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Where are you from and where have you been?
Nick Whitehouse: I'm originally from Leeds in the UK, but over my career I have been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world and worked on shows in some amazing places with great people. A few years ago I finally settled down in North America.
How did you get into this business?
In my college years I spent more time in the school's theater playing with the sound and lights than in my lessons. From that point onwards I knew I wanted to make a career out of it. When I finished college I headed to London and spent the next four years taking any work that I could, to learn and gain experience in whatever way that I could. I did everything from pulling cables through the mud, to club installs, to being the new guy on a Lighting Crew. I met great people and learned as much as I could from everyone I worked with.
I had been fortunate enough to meet with a great LD (lighting designer), Bryan Leitch, who took me under his wings and gave me some great opportunities to learn. In early 2000 he got me my first LD job with a band called "StarSailor". It was a club and theater tour of the UK and Europe and it went really well! From there things grew steadily and with lots of hard work and passion and always a willingness to learn from the people around me, I managed to get to where I am now.


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Happy Halloween!
I wanted to test the October products for a little while longer this month, so I pushed back my review until the last possible moment!
"Complexion Companions" is the theme for the October box! All of this month's products (aside from the fragrance sample) are complexion-related.
This month's PLAY!BOOK features an adorable "get ready with me" series full of tips and tricks to prepare your face for the day.
Box Contents:
- Becca – First Light Filter Face Primer
- Make Up For Ever – Ultra HD Invisible Cover Foundation
- Laura Mercier – Translucent Powder
- Cover FX – Custom Enhancer Drops
- Make Up For Ever – Ultra HD Skin Booster
- Chanel – Gabrielle Chanel
- Drawstring Bag
Becca – First Light Filter Face Primer
You know me well enough by now to know how much I love trying new primers!
This Becca primer is the prettiest shade of lilac and is very thin and lightweight. The primer is so light that I actually think the bottle feels half empty.
There's nothing that excites me about this primer (aside from the color!) I don't love it enough to by the full size, but I will be finishing up this little tube.
Make Up For Ever – Ultra HD Invisible Cover Foundation in R230
I can't tell you how excited I was when I pulled this foundation sample out of my PLAY! bag. If you watched my IG Story a few weeks ago, you can attest that I was very pleased!
One of the two foundations that I currently switch off between each day is actually Make Up For Ever Ultra HD. I've been using it for several years now and absolutely love the formula and the coverage!
Unfortunately, the shade I received in this month's box doesn't work for me. However, my PLAY!BOOK says that I can go into a Sephora store with my PLAY!PASS and get a sample that's just right for me! (I wear shade Y235.) That is fantastic news!
Make Up For Ever – Ultra HD Skin Booster
As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I put off writing this review for a week or so because I wanted to really get an in-depth feel for a few of the products. This skin booster was one of the products that I needed a little more time with.
My PLAY!BOOK says that this product is "a skin-perfecting serum that plumps, smooths, and hydrates your skin for flawless makeup application."
I've used the skin booster several times and haven't noticed any difference in my makeup application. I think this might be one of those products that just doesn't work for me.
Laura Mercier – Translucent Powder
A few months back, I went on a mission to find my new, favorite setting powder. I used the Urban Decay loose powder for years and LOVED it. Over the last few years, it's become increasingly difficult to find. Because of that, I decided to abandon ship and find a powder that worked just as well but was easier to come by.
While on that mission, I tried the Laura Mercier Translucent Powder. I thought it was going to be my new favorite, but alas, I was wrong. This powder is a little chunkier and perhaps slightly more moist than I would like.
Eventually, I settled on the bareminerals Mineral Veil loose powder. Their powder is nice and fine and perfectly suits my needs.
Even though I didn't find the Laura Mercier powder to be my favorite, I'll still save this sample and use it in a pinch!
Cover FX – Custom Enhancer Drops in Moonlight
Cover FX drops have interested me for months now. I heard about their Custom Cover Drops at an in-store PLAY! event and have wanted to try them ever since.
These drops are slightly different but are still the same idea. All you have to do is add a few drops to your foundation and then apply to the areas of your face where you'd like a little highlight.
I'm not the best at highlighting my face. I usually stay away from contouring products, because I don't want to accidentally make myself look like a clown! However, these drops were super easy to use! I'm going to save them for special events when I want to add a little extra glow to my face.
Chanel – Gabrielle Chanel
You know by now that perfume and I don't get along! 😉
Sephora is at again with the adorable doodles! <3
Sephora did a fantastic job this month of picking a theme and sticking to it!
Do you subscribe to PLAY! by Sephora?!
What do you think of your October box?
<3 Natalie


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The political claim—that women were or will be prosecuted or jailed under abortion laws—has been made so frequently by Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW over the past 40 years that it has become an urban legend. It shows the astonishing power of contemporary media to make a complete falsehood into a truism.
For 30 years, abortion advocates have claimed—without any evidence and contrary to the well-documented practice of ALL 50 states—that women were jailed before Roe and would be jailed if Roe falls (or if state abortion prohibitions are reinstated).
This claim rests on not one but two falsehoods:
First, the almost uniform state policy before Roe was that abortion laws targeted abortionists, not women. Abortion laws targeted those who performed abortion, not women. In fact, the states expressly treated women as the second "victim" of abortion; state courts expressly called the woman a second "victim." Abortionists were the exclusive target of the law.
Second, the myth that women will be jailed relies, however, on the myth that "overturning" Roe will result in the immediate re-criminalization of abortion. If Roe was overturned today, abortion would be legal in at least 42-43 states tomorrow, and likely all 50 states, for the simple reason that nearly all of the state abortion prohibitions have been either repealed or are blocked by state versions of Roe adopted by state courts. The issue is entirely academic. The legislatures of the states would have to enact new abortion laws—and these would almost certainly continue the uniform state policy before Roe that abortion laws targeted abortionists and treated women as the second victim of abortion. There will be no prosecutions of abortionists unless the states pass new laws after Roe is overturned.
This political claim is not an abstract question that is left to speculation—there is a long record of states treating women as the second victim of abortion in the law that can be found and read. To state the policy in legal terms, the states prosecuted the principal (the abortionist) and did not prosecute someone who might be considered an accomplice (the woman) in order to more effectively enforce the law against the principal. And that will most certainly be the state policy if the abortion issue is returned to the states.
Why did the states target abortionists and treat women as a victim of the abortionist?
It was based on three policy judgments: the point of abortion law is effective enforcement against abortionists, the woman is the second victim of the abortionist, and prosecuting women is counterproductive to the goal of effective enforcement of the law against abortionists.
The irony is that, instead of states prosecuting women, the exact opposite is true. To protect their own hide, it was abortionists (like the cult hero and abortionist Ruth Barnett when Oregon last prosecuted her in 1968), who, when they were prosecuted, sought to haul the women they aborted into court. As a matter of criminal evidentiary law, if the court treated the woman as an accomplice, she could not testify against the abortionist, and the case against the abortionist would be thrown out.
There are "only two cases in which a woman was charged in any State with participating in her own abortion": from Pennsylvania in 19111 and from Texas in 1922.2 There is no documented case since 1922 in which a woman has been charged in an abortion in the United States.
Based on this record—spanning 50 states over the century before Roe v. Wade—it is even more certain that the political claim that any woman might be questioned or prosecuted for a spontaneous miscarriage has no record in history and will certainly not be the policy of any state in the future.
How was abortion law enforced?
Going back as far as English and colonial law, the criminal law classified those involved in crimes as principals and accomplices. A principal is "the person whose acts directly brought about the criminal result." An accomplice aids or abets the crime.
States did not treat women who had the abortion as either principals or accomplices. As the Oregon Supreme Court held as late as 1968, the abortionist commits the act, and the woman aborted is the object of that act. "A reading of the statute indicates that the acts prohibited are those which are performed upon the mother rather than any action taken by her. She is the object of the acts prohibited rather than the actor."3
As one legal scholar in the 1980s who studied this issue concluded after surveying the 50 states, women "were never charged with murder, only seldom were named co-conspirators, and still more rarely were regarded as accomplices."4
While some women were prosecuted for their abortions under the English common law, by the 1870s or 1880s, most American states came to recognize that the better policy was to not prosecute women. That was the position of New York by 1885.5
With the exception of [four] state cases, the vast majority of the states with reported cases that discussed this issue determined that states could not prosecute women under any theory of criminal liability.
States relied on various techniques of statutory interpretation, along with the generally held belief that women were victims of their abortions, to support their decisions to refrain from prosecuting women. As the appeals court in the District of Columbia wrote in 1901, "[b]y its terms, [D.C. Code Ann. § 809 (1901)] applies to the person or persons committing the act which produces the miscarriage, and not to the person upon whom it is committed, notwithstanding it may be done with her knowledge and consent. Not being liable to indictment thereunder, she is not an accomplice in the legal sense."6
Based on the fact that abortion was dangerous and often fatal up to the 19th century, women were seen as victims.
In addition, another main reason for the non-prosecution of women is that relieving women from criminal liability provided states with a better chance of achieving convictions against abortionists—the principal.
While the reported cases in a minority of the states arrived at an opposite conclusion—as a matter of technical legal principle—even these states never took advantage of the opportunity they allotted to themselves to actually prosecute women.
This was expressly affirmed by the Maryland Supreme Court and by the Minnesota Supreme Court in almost identical terms.
Maryland: "While it may seem illogical to hold that a pregnant woman who solicits the commission of an abortion and willingly submits to its commission upon her own person is not an accomplice in the commission of the crime, yet many courts in the United States have adopted this rule, asserting that public policy demands its application and that its exception from the general rule is justified by the wisdom of experience."7
Minnesota: "As a first impression, it may seem to be an unsound rule that one who solicits the commission of an offense, and willingly submits to its being committed upon her own person, should not be deemed an accomplice, while those whom she has thus solicited should be deemed principal criminals in the transaction. But in cases of this kind the public welfare demands the application of this rule, and its exception from the general rule seems to be justified by the wisdom of experience."8
The target of abortion law was the abortionist—the principal in the crime.
The courts expressly affirmed that the statutes targeted the abortionist with their language. The Arkansas Supreme Court write in 1970: "Our own statute, … is directed toward the person who administers or prescribes medicine or drugs to any woman with child, with intent to produce an abortion, or to produce or attempt to produce an abortion by any other means."9
The Oregon Supreme Court expressed the same conclusion in 1968: "A reading of the statute indicates that the acts prohibited are those which are performed upon the mother rather than any action taken by her. She is the object of the acts prohibited rather than the actor. The class of persons against whom the statute is directed does not include those upon whom abortions are performed. Most similar state statutes are so construed."10
Are there any known cases of a woman being indicted or tried for having an abortion in the U.S.?
No. Not since 1922. There are "only two cases in which a woman was charged in any State with participating in her own abortion: from Pennsylvania in 191111 and from Texas in 1922.12
There is no documented case since 1922 in which a woman was even charged in an abortion in the United States.
Were women ever prosecuted for self-abortion?
No woman in the US has been prosecuted for self-abortion in the past century, since the early 20th century. As Villanova Law Professor Joseph Dellapenna, author of the encyclopedic book, Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History, has demonstrated, "in the entire history of Anglo-American law, it appears that the only woman to have been charged with a crime for self-abortion was Margaret Webb—in 1599."
Iowa, as early as 1863, held that a woman could not be indicted for a self-abortion.13
Dellapenna also demonstrates that "while several states (including California, Connecticut, Indiana, New Hampshire, and New York) made self-abortion a crime, they did not prosecute any women—they enacted an exception to the accomplice evidence rule or granted women immunity from prosecution in order to obtain her testimony against the abortionist."
As the Michigan Supreme Court held in 1963, "The majority view is that not only may she not be held for abortion upon herself but neither as an accomplice."14
Those states with statutes on the books that prohibited women from aborting [self-abortion] did not prosecute.
As researcher Paul Linton has pointed out, "[a]lthough more than one-third of the States [including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming] had statutes prohibiting a woman from aborting her own pregnancy [self-abortion] or submitting to an abortion performed on her by another, no prosecutions were reported under any of those statutes."15
In the 1911 case in Pennsylvania, the trial court threw out the charge and the Pennsylvania Superior Court concurred, stating that "in the absence of clear statutory authority, 'the woman who commits an abortion on herself is regarded rather as the victim than the perpetrator of the crime.'"
Based on this review of the 50 states, Linton concluded, "no American court has ever upheld the conviction of a woman for self-abortion or consenting to an abortion and, with the exception of [the Pennsylvania case from 1911 and Texas case from 1922], there is no record of a woman even being charged with either offence as a principal or as an accessory."16
Which States treated women as victims?
At least: California, the District of Columbia, Iowa, Maryland, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.
As long ago as 1880, a Texas court affirmed that the woman was a victim, not rhetorically but in the law: "The rule that she does not stand legally in the situation of an accomplice, but should rather be regarded as the victim than the perpetrator of the crime, is one which commends itself to our sense of justice and right, and there is certainly nothing in our law of accomplices which should be held to contravene it."17
Many other state courts said the same thing:
- California: "The abortee is considered the victim of the crime."18
- Delaware: Zutz v. State, 52 Del. 492, 160 A.2d 727 (1960).
- District of Columbia (DC): "She is regarded as his victim, rather than an accomplice."19
- Idaho: State v. Rose, 75 Idaho 59, 267 P.2d 109 (1954).
- Kentucky: Richmond v. Commonwealth, 370 S.W.2d 399 (KY 1963).
- Maryland: "In Maryland a woman upon whom an abortion has been performed is regarded by the law as a victim of the crime, rather than a participant in it."20
- Minnesota: "in cases of this kind the public welfare demands the application of this rule, and its exception from the general rule seems to be justified by the wisdom of experience…She was the victim of a cruel act."21
- South Dakota (1924): "She does not, by consenting to the unlawful operation, become an accomplice in the crime. She should be regarded as the victim of the crime, rather than a participant in it."22
Which states did not treat women as an accomplice?
At least 30: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.
As long ago as 1915, one Texas court held, "It has been so many times decided by this court that the woman upon whom an abortion is committed is not an accomplice that we regard the question as settled."23
As late as 1960, the Delaware Supreme Court wrote: "It is generally held in most states that a woman in an abortion case is not an accomplice. [citing Commonwealth v. Fisher, 189 Pa. Super. 13, 149 A. 2d 666 (1959); State v. Montifoire, 95 Vt. 508, 116 A. 77 (1921); State v. Hyer, 39 N. J. L. 598 (1877)] The reasoning of the courts seems to be that the woman is generally regarded as the victim of the crime rather than a participant in it." [citing Wilson v. State, 36 Okla. Cr. 148, 252 P. 1106 (1927); Smart v. State, 112 Tenn. 539, 80 S. W. 586 (1904)]).24
Basoff v. State, 208 Md. 643, 653-654, 119 A. 2d 917, 923 (1956) ("it is also held in this State that a pregnant woman upon whom an abortion is produced is not an accomplice of the person who administers the substance or performs the operation to produce the abortion…In Maryland, a woman upon whom an abortion has been performed is regarded by the law as a victim of the crime, rather than as a participant in it."25
See Thompson v. United States, 30 App. D.C. 352, 362-363 (1908) at 364 ("As the victim of an unlawfully procured miscarriage was not an accessory before the fact, she is not indictable as a principal offender…").
Which states did treat a woman as an accomplice?
There were 20 states in which statutes technically made it a crime for the woman to participate in her own abortion: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. However, these were not enforced or applied against women. There is no record of any prosecution of a woman as an accomplice even in these states.
Alabama: In 1916, an appeals court held that, as an evidentiary matter, the woman was considered an accomplice, but the woman's guilt was not actually at issue in the case.26
Some states did treat the woman as a conspirator.
Technically, courts in a handful of states treated the woman as a possible conspirator: Colorado, Iowa, New York, North Dakota,27 and Wisconsin.
Even in these states, however, the issue in the recorded cases was not the woman's guilt—no woman was charged or was a co-defendant in the cases—but the admissibility of evidence against the abortionist. No woman was prosecuted.
Other states rejected treating the woman as a conspirator: California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
But statutes in these states have been repealed, and the legislatures would have to enact wholly new legislation to address abortion.
Some states had statutes prohibiting solicitation of abortion—under the general rule that solicitation of any crime is a crime—but these were evenhandedly applied to men and women.
At least Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, South Dakota, and Utah.
For example, South Dakota had an anti-solicitation law for abortion. S.D. Compiled Laws Ann. 22-17-2 (1967).
However, there's no record of any woman being prosecuted under this law, let alone convicted.
Even pro-abortion historians admit this record.
The pro-abortion historian Leslie Reagan, in her 1997 book When Abortion Was A Crime, admits that states did not prosecute women for their abortions and that women did not face criminal liability as principals, accomplices, conspirators, solicitors, or murderers, and concedes that the purpose behind that law was not to degrade women but to protect them.
The wisdom of not prosecuting women was based on extensive practical law enforcement experience in many states, over many years.
It will certainly be influential with prosecutors and state policy makers when Roe is overturned, and that should be the policy of legislators who are interested in the effective enforcement of abortion law.
Based on the 50-state record of enforcing abortion law for more than a century before Roe, Linton concluded that "if Roe is overruled, no woman would be prosecuted for self-abortion or consenting to an abortion, even in those few States where abortion prohibitions would be enforceable."
Prolife legislators and pro-life leaders do not support the prosecution of women and will not push for such a policy when Roe is overturned. This is demonstrated by abortion regulations enacted in the past 20 years—like the federal partial birth abortion ban—in which women are expressly excluded from any possible prosecution. Instead, pro-life legislators are advocating laws that defend the unborn and protect women from the negative impact of abortion.
1. Commonwealth v. Weible, 45 Pa. Super. 207 (1911).
2. Crissman v. State, 93 Tex. Crim. 15, 245 S.W. 438 (Tex. Crim. App. 1922).
3. State v. Barnett, 249 Or. 226, 228, 437 P.2d 821, 822 (1968).
4. Paul D. Wohlers, J.D., Women and Abortion: Prospects of Criminal Charges (published in
People v. Vedder, 98 N.Y. 630, 632 (1885) ("It is quite clear that the woman spoken of in the statute is not regarded as one of the persons who could be guilty of the crime described in the 294th section and that she could not, therefore, be indicted under that section.")
5. Thompson v. United States, 30 App. D.C. 352, 362-363 (1908).
6. Basoff v. State, 208 Md. at 654, 119 A. 2d at 923.
7. State v. Pearce, 56 Minn. 226, 231 57 N.W. 652, 653.
8. Heath v. State, 249 Ark. 217, 219, 459 S.W. 2d 420, 422 (1970) (citing Ark. Stat. Ann. §41-303 (Supp. 1969), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 910 (1971).
9. State v. Barnett, 249 Or. 226, 229, 437 P. 2d 821, 822 (1968) (emphasis added).
10. Commonwealth v. Weible, 45 Pa. Super. 207 (1911).
11. Crissman v. State, 93 Tex. Crim. 15, 245 S.W. 438 (Tex. Crim. App. 1922).
12. Hatfield v. Gano, 15 Iowa 177 (1863).
13. Petition of Vickers, 371 Mich. 114, 115, 123 N.W.2d 253, 254 (1963).
14. Paul Benjamin Linton, The Legal Status of Abortion in the States if Roe v. Wade is Overruled, 23 Issues in Law & Medicine 3, 6 n.15 (2007).
15. Paul Benjamin Linton, The Legal Status of Abortion in the States if Roe v. Wade is Overruled, 23 Issues in Law & Medicine 3, 6 n.15 (2007).
16. Watson v. State, 9 Tex. Ct. App. 237, 244 (1880).
17. People v. Reinard, 33 Cal.Rptr. 908, 912, 220 Cal.App.2d 720, 724 (1963). See also People v. Gibson, 33 Cal.App. 459, 166 P. 585 (1917).
18. Thompson v. United States, 30 App.D.C. 352, 363 (1908).
19. Basoff v. State, 208 Md. 643, 654, 118 A.2d 917, 923 (1956). This was the policy of Maryland as early as 1912. Meno v.
20. State, 117 Md. 435, 83 A. 759 (1912).
21. State v. Pearce, 56 Minn. 226, 230, 57 N.W. 652, 653 (1894).
22. State v. Burlingame, 47 S.D. 332, 198 N.W. 824 (1924).
23. Gray v. State, 77 Tex. Crim. 221, 229, 178 S.W. 337, 341 (1915).
24. Zutz v. State, 52 Del. 492, 496-497, 160 A. 2d 727, 729 (1960).
25. Meno v. State, 117 Md. 435, 83 A. 759 (1912).
26. Trent v. State, 15 Ala.App. 485, 73 So. 834 (1916).
27. State v. Mattson, 53 N.D. 486, 206 N.W. 778 (1925); State v. Reilly, 25 N.D. 339, 141 N.W. 720 (1913).


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