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Here are some items, formerly in my Sandbox, that I am not currently working on but still have interest in.HouseOfChange (talk) 20:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

  • See page history for when I moved things here from my working Sandbox. HouseOfChange (talk) 23:49, 21 January 2019 (UTC)


Drafting new article about Richard Smith (public historian) edit

Richard Smith is a public historian and writer known for his writings on New England history and for his living history interpretations of Henry David Thoreau.

Personal life edit

Smith was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] According to the LA Review of Books, "Richard grew up 'obsessed' with 19th-century American history, and his supportive parents took him to battlefields and historic houses on family vacations."[2] He graduated from the University of Akron with a B.A. in history in 1985[3] After college, he continued to study "the spiritual teachings of Native Americans" and Transcendentalists.[4] In his spare time, he took part in re-enactments of the American Civil War and Revolutionary War,[2] and performed with several punk rock bands.[5][6]

Professional life edit

Smith began his career as a public historian while working "as" an Ohio schoolmaster of 1848 for an Akron living history museum.[2] After reading about the life and works of Henry David Thoreau, Smith decided to visit Concord, Massachusetts,[4] where he then moved a year later, in 1999.[6]

In addition to writing and giving talks about his historical research, Smith also performs as a living history interpreter. In period costume as Henry David Thoreau, he gives public readings from Thoreau's works and responds in character as Thoreau to audience questions.[7][8]

Explaining his interest in living history work, Smith told an interviewer that "I want people to be aware of the fact that Thoreau was a living, breathing, funny, spiritual guy."[6]

At Thoreau-related sites such as Walden Pond or Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Smith sometimes does tour-guiding, often in character and costume.[2][9] His talks and readings, either in costume as Thoreau or as himself, have taken place around New England and beyond,[10][11] including work for CSPAN and Public Radio's Living on Earth.[12][7][13][14] He also expanded and presented his research on Native American history while he was scholar in residence at the Longfellow's Wayside Inn Museum.[15][16]

He is the author of eight books,[17] including Quotations of Henry David Thoreau (2017)[13] and A Short Biography of John Muir (2018).[18] He contributed a Foreword to The Other ‘Hermit’ of Thoreau’s Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham.[19]

External links edit

References

  1. ^ "A Day With the Father of Transcendentalism". Scituation. December 7, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2023. Smith argued that he is "a historian, not an actor," when being questioned about the origins of his interest in acting. He found himself agreeing with the basic principles of Thoreau's way of life.
  2. ^ a b c d "Town of the Living Dead". LA Review of Books. October 15, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2023. "I use the term 'historic interpreter' or 'living historian.' But when people say 'impersonator,' that doesn't bother me."
  3. ^ "Social Awareness: Thoreau and the Reform Movement" (PDF). The Thoreau Society. 2009. Retrieved December 17, 2023. Richard Smith received his BA in History from the University of Akron in 1985. For the last nine years he has lived and worked in the Concord area. Richard has appeared as Henry Thoreau at various sites in Concord, Boston, Maine, and Tennessee, as well as on C-Span and on the Boston television show "Chronicle" and is a regular at Walden Pond. He currently works for the Thoreau Society and is writing a book on 19th-century Concord.
  4. ^ a b Flanigan, Robin L. (March 23, 2017). "Why Richard Smith impersonates Thoreau". Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 17 December 2023. He got into hiking as a Boy Scout, and after college focused his personal studies on the spiritual teachings of Native Americans and Transcendentalists, who put a higher value on the inherent goodness of people and nature over the corruption that can come with social institutions.
  5. ^ Madrigal, Alexis C. (October 26, 2010). "The punk rocker who 'becomes' Thoreau". The Atlantic Monthly. But few people, not even the most dedicated greens enchanted by Thoreau's environmental ethics, can match Richard Smith's dedication to the man. Smith practices "living history," dressing up as and acting like Thoreau.
  6. ^ a b c Marovich, Beatrice (October 25, 2010). "Becoming Thoreau". Killing The Buddha. Retrieved December 17, 2023. A lot of old hippies like to say that Thoreau was the first hippie. But I like to say, sometimes, that he was the first punk rocker. He didn't care what people thought. He questioned the government. Hippies tend to be peacemakers, peace and love. But Thoreau saw nothing wrong with someone like John Brown trying to violently end slavery.
  7. ^ a b "Living on Earth". Living On Earth. July 7, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2024. Richard Smith does a professional impression of Henry David Thoreau, and all of a sudden it's a warm July day in 1847.
  8. ^ "Why Thoreau still matters". Boston Globe. January 4, 2017. Archived from the original on April 8, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2024. 'I'm as well as I deserve,' said Thoreau, as portrayed by historian Richard Smith, during a First Day hike Sunday at Walden Pond. Smith was seated by the woodstove inside the replica of the American philosopher's cabin in the shadow of the new visitors' center at Walden Pond State Reservation.
  9. ^ "'Wild and Noble Sites': A Walk to Egg Rock". Concord Land Conservation Trust. Retrieved January 13, 2024. Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States and 19th-Century American history and literature since 1995.
  10. ^ {{cite web |title=Thoreau is Alive and Visiting Bedford! |url=https://www.bedfordmahistory.org/newsletters/April%202013%20page%201-4.pdf |website=The Preservationist |publisher=Bedford MA Historical Society |quote=He also has appeared in some of the locations that Thoreau visited, including Lowell, Boston, Salem, Fitchburg, Framingham, Cape Cod, Brattleboro, Vermont and Moosehead Lake in Maine.}
  11. ^ "One Honest Walk". Thoreau Farm. October 11, 2016. I left Concord, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning, September 25th, 1850, for Quebec. … I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon. ~ Henry Thoreau, in his opening paragraph of A Yankee in Canada.
  12. ^ "Richard Smith". CSPAN. Retrieved January 13, 2024. Actor Richard Smith, portraying Henry David Thoreau, read Thoreau's "Slavery in Massachusetts". He then talked about the role of slavery in Thoreau's lifetime. Thoreau was an abolitionist who helped runaway slaves and worked to repeal the fugitive slave law. He answered questions from the audience.
  13. ^ a b "Transcendentalists, Abolitionists, John Brown and Beyond: How New England Writers Made John Brown a Hero". The Thoreau Society. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  14. ^ "A Conversation with Henry David Thoreau". WGBH. October 24, 2014. Step back in time to 1855 as Henry David Thoreau, the "Hermit of Walden Pond," visits Old South Meeting House! Was noted Transcendentalist, abolitionist and naturalist Thoreau really a hermit? What did he think of Boston, where he regularly visited the Athenaeum? Get the answers to these and other questions as you visit with Mr. Thoreau, portrayed by historian Richard Smith.
  15. ^ "'For Indian Deeds There Must Be Indian Memory': Native Peoples of 17th-Century Sudbury Before European Contact". The Wayside Inn (Sudbury). March 15, 2022. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  16. ^ "The Facts and Myths about Thoreau's First Year at Walden Pond with Richard Smith". The Jenks Center, Winchester, MA. January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 13, 2024. Richard Smith .. is the current Scholar in Residence for Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury.
  17. ^ ""SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL SOULS: LONGFELLOW AND THE CONCORD WRITERS" WITH RICHARD SMITH". Maine Historical Society. Retrieved January 12, 2024. Richard Smith has lectured on and written about antebellum United States history and 19th-century American literature since 1995. He has worked in Concord as a public historian and Living History Interpreter for 25 years and has portrayed Henry Thoreau at Walden Pond and around the country.
  18. ^ "Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir". Idaho Commission for Libraries. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  19. ^ "The Other 'Hermit' of Thoreau's Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham: A Review" (PDF). Thoreau Society Bulletin (308): 8. 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2024. In the Foreword to this book, Thoreau interpreter and historian Richard Smith argues that Hotham was not an imitator of Thoreau and that his sojourn at Walden Pond was distinct from Thoreau's earlier and more famous experience.

Collecting info on recent news about faked protest photos edit

  • Le Monde English article[1]
  • Le Monde French article[2]
  • DW.com "The aim of the staged demonstrations is, among other things, to create anti-Ukraine sentiment or to make Sweden's NATO accession more difficult, the news outlets reported.""Examples include a demonstration by alleged members of a Ukrainian community in Paris at the beginning of March, who demonstrated against Erdogan by using a Hitler salute and balaclava and also mocked the victims of the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria in February."[3]
  • SZ[4]

References

  1. ^ "How Russia is staging fake protests in Europe to discredit Ukraine". Le Monde. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023. On February 11, 2023, the Place de la République in Paris was full of people. Thousands of demonstrators had gathered against the pension reform. But, in the middle of the crowd, three men stood out. One of them held a sign, which read: "EU [European Union], America, stop financing the war in Ukraine."
  2. ^ "Pour discréditer l'Ukraine, la Russie organise de faux rassemblements en Europe (To discredit Ukraine, Russia organizes fake rallies in Europe)". Le Monde. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023. Le Monde a pu retracer plus d'une dizaine d'actions du même ordre dans plusieurs capitales européennes. A chaque fois, le message maladroit diffusé vise à discréditer l'Ukraine, l'Union européenne ou la Turquie. On y retrouve les mêmes pseudo-manifestants et le même type de publications sur les réseaux sociaux. A la manœuvre de cette opération : les services de renseignement russes. (The process is always the same: three men go to demonstrations unrelated to the war in Ukraine and photograph themselves among the crowd, with placards with identical messages, to the letter: "NATO, stop bombing Donetsk" and "Do not send any more weapons to Ukraine! Zelensky bombs Luhansk and Donetsk".)
  3. ^ "Russia staging protests for anti-Ukraine propaganda — report". 8 May 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023. The joint research by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, German broadcasters NDR and WDR, French paper Le Monde, Swedish paper Expressen and the Scandinavian broadcasters DR (Denmark), NRK (Norway) and SVT (Sweden) is based on leaked strategy papers that are said to have come from the Kremlin's security apparatus.
  4. ^ "Moskaus Taschengeld-Agenten – es fehlt nur die Reichweite (Moscow's pocket money agents - only the range is small)" (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023. Ein russischer Geheimdienst schickt offenbar Menschen unter falscher Flagge auf Demonstrationen. Die Absicht: Europa und die Türkei spalten sowie die Ukraine diskreditieren. Die Aktionen sind klein und billig - aber darauf, sagen Sicherheitsexperten, komme es gar nicht an. (A Russian secret service is apparently sending people to demonstrations under false flags. The intention: to divide Europe and Turkey, to discredit Ukraine. The campaigns are cheap and small - but security experts say that quality is not important)

Just some notes to myself, including my new userpage to move my DYK notices edit

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References

  1. ^ Thomas, Sarah (March 17, 2016). "Meet the Force Behind Ericsson's 5G". LightReading.com. Retrieved January 30, 2021. Mazur, who was recently named "the most powerful woman in digital" by Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer, has a PhD in electrical engineering and was an Associate Professor in fusion plasma physics. She owns 69 patents and literally wrote the book on adaptive antennas, so it's safe to say her interest in 5G is not to contribute to the hype, but to make it deliver from a practical and technological perspective.
  2. ^ a b xx, xx (December 7, 2018). [xx "xx"]. xx. Retrieved January 24, 2021. xx {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

Keeping a record of mystery accounts that change election results edit

Drafting new article, this one about GEC edit

 
Four Russian Intelligence Service Disinformation Outlets, per US Dept of Treasury 2021

The Global Engagement Center (GEC) is a division of the United States Department of State established in 2016 to oppose foreign propaganda efforts aimed at influencing US politics or undermining US security.

According to its official website, its core mission is:[1]

To direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.

Origins edit

Main article: Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act

The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act is a bipartisan bill that passed both House and Senate in December, 2016, and was signed into law by President Obama on December 23, 2016 as part of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.[2]

According to reporting by The New York Times in March, 2018, the State Department had not yet begun to spend the $120 million allocated to it, and not one of the 23 analysts working in the GEC could speak Russian.[3]


US State Department report (2020): "Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem" edit

In 2020, the US State Department described Russia's information outreach efforts as a "disinformation and propaganda ecosystem," where Russian state actors teamed with others whose connection to Russia was less clear, in order to get wide attention for their ideas.[4]

  • Strategic Culture Foundation:
  • Global Research:
  • New Eastern Outlook: 2020 report calls it "a pseudo-academic publication of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Oriental Studies that promotes disinformation and propaganda focused primarily on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa."
  • Newsfront is a website based in Russian-occupied Crimea. It describes itself as "a news agency that runs news in ten languages including Russian, German, English, Bulgarian, Georgian, French, and Spanish."[5] It was established in March, 2014 when masked gunmen took over the headquarters of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism.[6] According to NBC News:[7]

In 2021, a State Department official speaking on the basis of classified information told The Wall Street Journal that NewsFront "is guided by the FSB," Russia's successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

According to The Guardian, NewsFront's leader Konstantin Knyrik is also head of the pro-Putin political party Rodina.[8]

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Facebook removed profiles related to News Front and South Front [another Crimean media outlet] in 2020...Both websites have pushed misleading articles, questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election and the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. The State Department identified the websites as Russian disinformation outlets in a 2020 report.

In 2021 and again in 2022, the US Treasury announced sanctions against SouthFront, calling it in 2021 "an online disinformation site registered in Russia that ... attempts to appeal to military enthusiasts, veterans, and conspiracy theorists, all while going to great lengths to hide its connections to Russian intelligence."[9][10]

NYT on GEC 2020 report[11]

2021 reports on vaccine disinformation edit

In 2021, the GEC reported that sources linked to the Russian government had campaigned to question the development and safety of COVID-19 vaccines, promoting vaccine hesitancy. The State Department said that four websites in particular had "direct links to Russian intelligence and were used by the Russian government to mislead international opinion on a range of issues," saying that Russia’s foreign intelligence service directly controls both Oriental Review and New Eastern Outlook.[12]

Oriental Review is a Russia-based website at least some of whose content is said to be created by Russia's main intelligence directorate GRU.[13][14]

The State Department had mentioned New Eastern Outlook in its 2020 report, describing it there as "a pseudo-academic publication of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Oriental Studies that promotes disinformation and propaganda focused primarily on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa."[4]

A third Russian-disinformation site, also mentioned in the 2020 GEC report, was News Front, based in Russia-occupied Crimea. According to the 2021 report, it is "guided by" Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian successor to the Soviet Union's KGB.[12] The fourth site mentioned, Rebel Inside, had been run by the GRU but had stopped publishing at the time of the report.[12]

The aim of Russian disinformation changed over time. At first, the goal seemed to be promoting Russia's Sputnik vaccine by criticizing Pfizer, but later focus shifted to pushing "culture war debates over vaccine and mask mandates."[15]

Harmony Square edit

In 2021, the GEC published "Harmony Square," an online game based on "inoculation theory" where the player learns to use disinformation against a community.[16] According to two of the games, creators, "Instead of focusing on specific examples, also known as issue-based inoculation (which has been the standard in inoculation research), Harmony Square builds cognitive resistance against the techniques that underpin a whole range of political misinformation in an attempt to achieve broad-spectrum resistance against manipulation."[17]

Reviewing the game, the LA Review of Books described it as "well-intentioned" but with "many limits."[18]

2022 report edit

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Role of FSB in Ukraine invasion edit

Both Obama (2016) and Trump (2018) sanctioned FSB for interference in US politics. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/treasury-sanctions-putins-chef-other-russians-over-cyber-related-threats.html Wikilinks Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

  • Russian intelligence services GRU = military intelligence. "Security analysts credit Sergun with building up the GRU after it suffered drastic cuts, and the agency proved more effective on the ground in Ukraine [in 2014] than the FSB."[20]
  • In 2014, GRU were the champions[21]
  • 2014 GRU in Crimea 2014"The near-bloodless seizure of Crimea in March was based on plans drawn up by the General Staff’s Main Operations Directorate that relied heavily on GRU intelligence. The GRU had comprehensively surveyed the region, was watching Ukrainian forces based there, and was listening to their communications. The GRU didn’t only provide cover for the "little green men" who moved so quickly to seize strategic points on the peninsula before revealing themselves to be Russian troops. Many of those operatives were current or former GRU Spetsnaz."[22]
  • January 17, 2022 https://agentura.ru/investigations/neizvestnaja-razvedka/ by Andrey Soldatov. The Russian intelligence services have established special relationships with the former Soviet republics (except the Baltic states), and have helped them build their own intelligence services. In April 1992, the SVR signed an agreement with the intelligence services of Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and the states of Central Asia, agreeing not to conduct espionage against each other. The FSB, however, never signed such an agreement and felt free from any obligations....The FSB, according to the US Treasury Department, "participated in funding and supporting separatist activities in Crimea and eastern Ukraine."
  • February 21 "Dumb and lazy"[23]
  • February 25 According to the Royal United Services Institute, FSB's Department for Operational Information "is responsible for compiling data on Russia’s 'near abroad', having taken over the work of KGB’s Fifth Service, which ran counterintelligence inside territories of the Soviet Union.[43] [24]

"The KGB’s Fifth Service had been responsible for counterintelligence in the territories of the former Soviet Union. When the KGB became the FSB in the 1990s, and these territories became independent states, the Fifth Service transitioned into an intelligence agency targeting Russia’s neighbours. Its Department for Operational Information is responsible for compiling data on Russia’s ‘near abroad’, and the Ninth Directorate, targeting Ukraine, has been overseeing the gathering of intelligence on Ukrainian society to inform Russian decision-making. Its February 2022 surveys reveal much about how the Kremlin assessed the resilience of Ukrainian society." Royal United Services Institute founded by the Duke of Wellington!

  • March 3 FSB betrayed assassination attempts[25]
  • March 7 After February 25 invasion by Russia met stiff resistance, a whistleblower document allegedly leaked by an FSB operative said that FSB was being unfairly blamed for the failure of the invasion.[26] "The report said the FSB was being blamed for the failure of the invasion but had been given no warning of it and was unprepared to deal with the effects of crippling sanctions." Tom Ball, whistleblower leak
  • March 7 Embarrassing leak of Gerasimov call[27]
  • March 9 more Gerasimov and ERA[28]
  • March 9 xx.[29]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-infuriated-by-russian-intelligence-failures-in-ukraine-war-mmbmvhf2b
  • March 10 Also in early March, Ukraine intelligence reported that FSB members were leaking intelligence to them, including the location of the Chechen commandos sent to assassinate Zelensky.[30]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spies-accused-of-betraying-putins-chechen-units-537fj6lnr
  • March 11 by Irina Borogan and Andrey Soldatov published by Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).[31]
  • March 11 "The FSB unit that conducts foreign political analysis -- the Ninth Directorate of the Fifth Service – commissioned public opinion polls in Ukraine earlier in February, weeks before the war. According to the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank that said it reviewed the surveys, the polls showed widespread distrust among Ukrainians for government institutions, among other things. "It is notable that Putin, in his preinvasion televised address, spoke extensively about the failures of Ukrainian governance in terms that mirrored the picture painted by the FSB’s surveys," the RUSI report said. "While the FSB survey may have been accurate in measuring opinions at the time it was conducted, it told the Russians little about how sentiments would evolve in the aftermath of an invasion." ... On March 11, however, a report by another well-sourced Russian journalist said that the head of the FSB’s Fifth Service and his deputy had been arrested and suspected of embezzling funds earmarked for Ukraine operations.[32]

The report by Andrei Soldatov said they were also accused of knowingly feeding bad information about the political situation in Ukraine.

  • March 11 State Dept says I dunno[33] His reply includes "I do not think that any political leader, military planner, strategist worth any salt would devise a plan that would be met with stiff opposition, that would be met with fierce and unified international opposition, and that would be met with almost universal global condemnation, and a plan that is now leading Russia into what is a strategic morass of its own making in terms of an economy in freefall, a financial system that has now given up the gains of integration over the past 30 years, and a strategic positioning in the world that is a far cry from what it might have been before this and, given our export controls, given the diplomatic isolation, given the financial and other economic measures, will be appreciably weaker for some time to come."
  • March 12, 2022 "The FSB, a successor to the KGB, told Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, that it had thoroughly penetrated Ukraine’s political and military leadership, and laid the groundwork for a pro-Russian regime—a key reason for the Kremlin’s war optimism. But the fsb grossly exaggerated its networks of agents in Ukrainian cities."[34]
  • March 19 WSJ; "Current and former U.S. officials say Russian intelligence agencies often shy away from telling their bosses bad news and may have reinforced Mr. Putin’s views, which he has expressed publicly, that Ukraine was a dysfunctional country whose leadership would rapidly collapse as some of its citizens welcomed Russian troops."[36]

Summarizing FSB failures: funding to NewsFront and SouthFront, claims Ukraine wouldn't fight, claims sanctions wouldn't hurt Russia, Whistleblower leak, failure of ERA system and death of Gerasimov, claims they leaked info on Chechen assassination squad. And now claims of arrests.

Extras and related edit

Poynter on UkraineFacts[37] Russia's efforts in Africa:[38][39][40][41] Detailed JSIS paper on Russian information warfare[42] Tsargrad TV news[43]

References edit

References

  1. ^ "Global Engagement Center". United States Department of State. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  2. ^ "S.2943 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017", Congress.gov, Library of Congress, 23 December 2016, retrieved December 29, 2016
  3. ^ "State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling. It Has Spent $0". New York Times. March 4, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2022. the State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy. As a result, not one of the 23 analysts working in the department's Global Engagement Center — which has been tasked with countering Moscow's disinformation campaign — speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has hindered efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the Russian efforts.
  4. ^ a b "GEC Special Report: August 2020: Pillars of Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem" (PDF). United States Department of State. 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2022. ...this report draws on publicly available reporting to provide an overview of Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem...[which] is the collection of official, proxy, and unattributed communication channels and platforms that Russia uses to create and amplify false narratives.
  5. ^ "A fake news lab Part II: A man from the Crimea". RISE Moldova. August 28, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2022. News Front's website...is property of the Russian firm OOO МедиаГрупп Ньюс Фронт (MediaGroup News Front Ltd, as translated from Russian), which is co-owned by two men: half of its equity capital is held by Konstantin Knyrik, a native of Bakhchisaray city in the Crimea, and half is held by Mikhail Sinelin, a Russian national who had worked in the secretariat of the Russian Government..
  6. ^ "Masked Gunmen Seize Crimean Investigative Journalism Center". Global Investigative Journalism Network. Retrieved March 6, 2022. As Russian troops streamed into Crimea, Ukraine, yesterday, masked gunmen broke into and seized the office of the Crimea1, a hub for independent media in the region, and the Crimean investigative center.
  7. ^ a b Collins, Ben; Kent, Jo Link (February 27, 2022). "Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians". NBC News. Retrieved February 27, 2022. Facebook removed profiles related to News Front and South Front in 2020, and the company confirmed to NBC News that the new group shared connections to the accounts that were previously banned. Both websites have pushed misleading articles, questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election and the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. The State Department identified the websites as Russian disinformation outlets in a 2020 report.
  8. ^ "Russia: the oligarchs and business figures on western sanction lists". The Guardian. March 4, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022. Konstantin Knyrik Said by the EU to be a pro-Russian activist running MediaGroup News Front Ltd, a news website registered in the illegally annexed Crimea, he is also chief of the Crimean division of the pro-Kremlin Rodina party.
  9. ^ "Treasury Escalates Sanctions Against the Russian Government's Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections". United States Department of the Treasury. April 15, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2022. Russian Intelligence Services, namely the Federal Security Service (FSB) ...directly operates disinformation outlets. SouthFront is an online disinformation site registered in Russia that receives taskings from the FSB. It attempts to appeal to military enthusiasts, veterans, and conspiracy theorists, all while going to great lengths to hide its connections to Russian intelligence. In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, SouthFront sought to promote perceptions of voter fraud by publishing content alleging that such activity took place during the 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle.
  10. ^ "Treasury Sanctions Russians Bankrolling Putin and Russia-Backed Influence Actors". United States Department of the Treasury. March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 6, 2022. SouthFront is a disinformation site that receives taskings from the FSB. Following the 2020 U.S. presidential election, SouthFront sought to promote perceptions of voter fraud during the 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle, and was designated pursuant to E.O. 13848, E.O. 13694, as amended, and E.O. 13382 on April 15, 2021, for having engaged in foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and being owned or controlled by, or for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the FSB.
  11. ^ Barnes, Julian E. (August 5, 2020). "State Dept. Traces Russian Disinformation Links". New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2022. Russia continues to use a network of proxy websites to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda.
  12. ^ a b c Gordon, Michael R.; Volz, Dustin (March 7, 2021). "Russian Disinformation Campaign Aims to Undermine Confidence in Pfizer, Other Covid-19 Vaccines, U.S. Officials Say". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 28, 2022. New Eastern Outlook and Oriental Review, the official said, are directed and controlled by the SVR, or Russia's foreign intelligence service. They present themselves as academic publications and are aimed at the Middle East, Asia and Africa, offering comment on the U.S.'s role in the world.
  13. ^ Poulsen, Kevin (September 5, 2018). "Alleged Russian Operatives Spreading Fake News Sneak Back Onto Facebook". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 28 February 2022. Some time between January and March of this year [2018], according to archives, Oriental Review changed the description on its about page, which originally described the site as 'an independent Moscow-based Internet journal.' The text now reads, 'an international e- journal' with no mention of Russia or Moscow.
  14. ^ "Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options". Washington Post. December 25, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2022. The FBI was tracking Donovan as part of a months-long counterintelligence operation code-named 'NorthernNight.' Internal bureau reports described her as a pseudonymous foot soldier in an army of Kremlin-led trolls seeking to undermine America's democratic institutions.
  15. ^ Barnes, Julian E. (August 5, 2021). "Russian Disinformation Targets Vaccines and the Biden Administration". New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2022. Earlier, forums like RT, a Kremlin-backed English-language site, were focused on promoting Russia's vaccine and denigrating Western vaccines. But more recently, Russia's state-run media has been 'really leaning into the culture war debates over vaccine and mask mandates,' said Bret Schafer, a disinformation expert at the Alliance for Securing Democracy.
  16. ^ Watts, Patricia (2021). "Global Engagement Center game counters foreign disinformation". US State Department. Retrieved March 1, 2022. This online game takes players through the steps of developing a disinformation campaign to sow division and disrupt the peace of a fictitious town square. Based on 'inoculation theory,' the game purposely engages players in the use of disinformation techniques with the goal of building mental defenses against those same techniques when they are eventually encountered on the internet.
  17. ^ "Breaking Harmony Square: A game that "inoculates" against political misinformation". Harvard Kennedy School. November 6, 2020. Retrieved March 1, 2022. We find that the game confers psychological resistance against manipulation techniques commonly used in political misinformation: players from around the world find social media content making use of these techniques significantly less reliable after playing, are more confident in their ability to spot such content, and less likely to report sharing it with others in their network.
  18. ^ "Whither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism". November 13, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2022. Yet as well intentioned as this 'social impact' game may be, we see many limits in Harmony Square. Implicitly grounded in assumptions that see conspiracism as an irrational emotive reaction that can be ameliorated by more and better facts, the game glosses over the broader social, cultural, and economic contexts of conspiracy movements.
  19. ^ "Kremlin-Funded Media: RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem" (PDF). United States Department of State. 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2022. A proxy site is an unofficial mouthpiece promoting disinformation and propaganda. In the context of Russian disinformation and propaganda, some proxy sites have direct links to the Russian state, some are enmeshed in Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem, and others are more loosely connected via the narratives they promote... RT and Sputnik have mutually beneficial relationships with writers for proxy sites, including ..Pepe Escobar
  20. ^ "Why Russia's GRU military intelligence service is so feared". BBC. April 19, 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2022. When the Soviet Union broke up, the GRU's great rival, the KGB secret police, split in two - a domestic version called the FSB (which Russian President Vladimir Putin once led) and a foreign service called the SVR - but the GRU remained intact.
  21. ^ "Putin's Secret Weapon". Foreign Policy. July 7, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2022. When the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia's domestic security agency, was allowed to run operations abroad openly in 2003, one insider told me that this was because "the GRU doesn't seem to know how to do anything in our neighborhood except count tanks."
  22. ^ "Russian GRU military spy chief Igor Sergun dies". BBC. January 5, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2022. But Russian military analyst Igor Sutyagin ...told the BBC that the FSB got its social analysis of Ukraine wrong in 2013-2014...The FSB had told Mr Putin that Ukrainians were "just waiting for him to liberate them from the 'fascists'," he said.
  23. ^ "'Dumb and lazy': the flawed films of Ukrainian 'attacks' made by Russia's 'fake factory'". The Guardian. February 21, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022. Ukraine's intelligence service believes the video is the work of the GRU, Russia's military spy agency, which has worked actively in Ukraine since the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the shooting down of the MH17 passenger plane.
  24. ^ "Ukraine Through Russia's Eyes". Royal United Services Institute. February 25, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2022. [FSB's] Ninth Directorate, targeting Ukraine, has been overseeing the gathering of intelligence on Ukrainian society to inform Russian decision-making. Its February 2022 surveys reveal much about how the Kremlin assessed the resilience of Ukrainian society.
  25. ^ Rana, Manveen (March 3, 2022). "Volodymyr Zelensky survives three assassination attempts in days". The Times. Retrieved March 14, 2022. Two different outfits have been sent to kill the Ukrainian president — mercenaries of the Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces. Both have been thwarted by anti-war elements within Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). Wagner mercenaries in Kyiv have sustained losses during their attempts and are said to have been alarmed by how accurately the Ukrainians had anticipated their moves.
  26. ^ "This war will be a total failure, FSB whistleblower says". The Times. March 7, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2022. A report thought to be by an analyst in the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB...said the FSB was being blamed for the failure of the invasion but had been given no warning of it and was unprepared to deal with the effects of crippling sanctions.
  27. ^ "Vitaly Gerasimov: second Russian general killed, Ukraine defence ministry claims". The Guardian. March 7, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022. In the call, you hear the Ukraine-based FSB officer ask his boss if he can talk via the secure Era system. The boss says Era is not working," Grozev said on Twitter. "Era is a super expensive cryptophone system that [Russia's defence ministry] introduced in 2021 with great fanfare.
  28. ^ "Russian Military Phones Hacked: Report". The Defense Post. March 9, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022. The Russian military had been using an encrypted communication system called "Era" to communicate with commanders and fellow soldiers to prevent eavesdropping. However, since the 3G/4G towers needed for Era to operate have been destroyed, Ukrainian intelligence has intercepted phone calls, including one made by a Federal Security Service (FSB) field officer informing officials in Russia of the death of Major General Vitaly Gerasimov.
  29. ^ Ball, Tom (March 9, 2022). "Putin infuriated by Russian intelligence failures in Ukraine war". The Times. Retrieved March 13, 2022. Since 2014, the agency had spent a lot of time and resources on attempts to foment unrest in western Ukraine among far-right groups, which ultimately came to nothing, Soldatov said. Their assessments of popular support among Ukrainians for a Russian invasion and the extent to which the country would resist were also 'terribly miscalculated'.
  30. ^ Ball, Tom (March 10, 2022). "Spies accused of betraying Putin's Chechen units". The Times. Retrieved March 13, 2022. Last week Ukrainian intelligence said that a Chechen hit squad sent to kill Zelensky had been eliminated in Kyiv after information was handed to them by Russian spies 'who do not want to take part in this bloody war'.
  31. ^ Borogan, Irina; Soldatov, Andrey (March 11, 2022). "Putin Places Spies Under House Arrest". CEPA. Retrieved March 13, 2022. Colonel-General Sergei Beseda, and his deputy were being held after allegations of misusing operational funds earmarked for subversive activities and for providing poor intelligence ahead of Russia's now-stuttering invasion. The operation has hit serious obstacles, not least fierce resistance by the Ukrainian armed forces and the unity of the population, including most Russian-speakers, behind President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his government.
  32. ^ "Russian Officials Predicted A Quick Triumph In Ukraine. Did Bad Intelligence Skew Kremlin Decision-Making?". Radio Free Europe. March 11, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022. The FSB unit that conducts foreign political analysis -- the Ninth Directorate of the Fifth Service – commissioned public opinion polls in Ukraine earlier in February, weeks before the war...The surveys suggest that Ukrainians' main concerns prior to the war were mundane things: food prices, energy prices, corruption.
  33. ^ "Department Press Briefing – March 11, 2022". US State Department. March 11, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022. My foreign desk is asking whether we have any confirmation of something that may have happened in Moscow, that the Fifth Directorate of the FSB – in charge of, as you know, foreign intelligence, including Ukraine – has been raided by the FSO, the Federal Protective Service of the Russian Federation, and by President Putin's own security service, and that some people may be under house arrest.
  34. ^ "Russian soldiers expecting to be welcomed to Ukraine were soon disabused". The Economist. March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022. The FSB, a successor to the KGB, told Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, that it had thoroughly penetrated Ukraine's political and military leadership, and laid the groundwork for a pro-Russian regime—a key reason for the Kremlin's war optimism. But the FSB grossly exaggerated its networks of agents in Ukrainian cities.
  35. ^ "Kremlin arrests FSB chiefs in fallout from Ukraine chaos". The Times. March 12, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022. A Russian spy chief is said to have been placed under house arrest in a sign that President Putin is seeking to blame the security services for the stalled invasion of Ukraine.
  36. ^ "Reported Detention of Russian Spy Boss Shows Tension Over Stalled Ukraine Invasion, U.S. Officials Say". The Wall Street Journal. March 19, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022. A U.S. official described as credible reports that the commander of the FSB intelligence agency's unit responsible for Ukraine had been placed under house arrest. The official, in an interview, also said bickering had broken out between the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Defense, two of the principal government units responsible for the preparation of the Feb. 24 invasion.
  37. ^ "Global fact-checkers unite to battle disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine". Poynter. March 2, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2022. The result is ukrainefacts.org, a database developed by Maldita that publishes fact checks on the mis/disinformation circulating in Ukraine. Also called #UkraineFacts, the collaborative effort of verified signatories of IFCN's Code of Principles is now available to the public for browsing.
  38. ^ "Blurring the lines of media authenticity: Prigozhin-linked group funding Libyan broadcast media". Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. March 20, 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2022. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian businessman with close ties to Vladimir Putin... may be trying to bring Gaddafi supporters to Haftar's camp, or simply playing multiple sides of the local power game by bolstering two likely presidential contenders.
  39. ^ "How a Russian Plan to Restore Qaddafi's Regime Backfired". Bloomberg. March 20, 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2022. This account of their meetings is based on notes taken by the Russians...The documents shed light on Russia's apparent efforts to build influence in the oil-rich North African state at a time of U.S. disengagement.
  40. ^ "Russian Disinformation Is Taking Hold in Africa". CIGI. November 17, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2022. The Kremlin's effectiveness in seeding its preferred vaccine narratives among African audiences underscores its wider concerted effort to undermine and discredit Western powers by pushing or tapping into anti-Western sentiment across the continent.
  41. ^ "Leaked documents reveal Russian effort to exert influence in Africa". The Guardian. June 11, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2022. The mission to increase Russian influence on the continent is being led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman based in St Petersburg who is a close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. One aim is to 'strong-arm' the US and the former colonial powers the UK and France out of the region. Another is to see off 'pro-western' uprisings, the documents say.
  42. ^ Cunningham, Conor (November 12, 2020). "A Russian Federation Information Warfare Primer". University of Washington. Retrieved March 3, 2022. the Kremlin sees itself in a contest for influence in a world order that is working to curb Russian objectives. Putin seeks to use cyberspace to his advantage by using both cyber and information operations to level out the playing field.
  43. ^ "U.S. charges Russian oligarch's TV producer with violating Crimea-related sanctions". Reuters. March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022. Tsargrad TV was involved in a protracted legal dispute with Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google after the channel said YouTube had blocked its account in July 2020 without providing a reason. Google said at the time it has a policy of suspending accounts found to violate sanctions or trade restriction rules.

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HouseOfChange/SandboxArchive 1
Parent companyColumbia University
Founded2015
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
DistributionPublishers Group West
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsglobalization, US foreign policy
No. of employees3
Official websiteglobalreports.columbia.edu

Columbia Global Reports (CGR) is a publishing imprint founded in 2015 by Columbia University and led by Nicholas Lemann, the emeritus dean Columbia's journalism school.[1]

Its mission is to produce "four to six ambitious works of journalism and analysis a year" on global issues, with each novella-length book available as paperback or e-book.[2] Columbia Journalism Review describes CGR's business model as "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher," saying:[3]

"Unlike most traditional book publishers (but like high-end magazines), Columbia Global Reports fact checks, pays writers’ expenses, and has a total production time, from signed contract to store shelves, that’s measured in months, not years."

According to Publishers Weekly, CGR gets most of its income from consumer sales (its books are distributed by Publishers Group West) but would not break even without support from Columbia and from foundations.[4]

References

  1. ^ Lemann, Nicholas (November 13, 2020). "Seeing the Book Biz from Both Sides Now". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 2, 2021. We began with a charge, and financial support, from Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, who was concerned about the severe contraction of the American press at a time when the immediacy of large international challenges was increasing.
  2. ^ "Columbia Global Reports: The Mission". Columbia Global Reports. December 7, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2021. Columbia Global Reports is a publishing imprint that's producing four to six ambitious works of journalism and analysis a year, each on a different underreported story in the world.
  3. ^ Murtha, Jack (September 22, 2015). "Could a university be the savior longform journalism has been looking for?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved January 2, 2021. The university-funded publisher aims to produce novella-length narratives, sprinkled with analysis, on underreported stories rooted in globalization...Unlike most traditional book publishers (but like high-end magazines), Columbia Global Reports fact checks, pays writers' expenses, and has a total production time, from signed contract to store shelves, that's measured in months, not years
  4. ^ Milliot, Jim (June 14, 2019). "Columbia Global Reports Goes Its Own Way". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 2, 2021. Based out of Columbia University and directed by Lemann, dean emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, the press publishes books that, on average, run 150 pages and come in a 5"-by-7.5" trim size...In addition to sales (including rights sales), CGR relies on support from Columbia and foundation grants.

Imran Mahmood novelist and barrister edit

User:HouseOfChange/Imran Mahmood Creating draft of possible article in draftspace

Shepard elephant edit

The Shepard elephant, also known as L'egs-istential Quandary or the impossible elephant is an impossible object type of optical illusion based on figure-ground confusion. As Shepard explains:[1]

The elephant…belongs to a class of objects that are truly impossible in that the object itself cannot be globally segregated from the nonobject or background. Parts of the object (in this case the elephant’s legs) become the background, and vice versa.

Roger Shepard first published this optical paradox in his 1990 book Mind Sights (page 79,) giving it the name "L’egs-istential Quandary." It is the first entry in his chapter on "Figure-ground impossibilities." The pen-and-ink drawing is based on a dream Shepard had in 1974, and on the pencil sketch he made when he woke up.[2]

The image is widely reproduced and discussed. Brad Honeycutt, author of Exceptional Eye Tricks, calls the Shepard elephant "one of the most famous and classic optical illusions."[3]

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences p 386 classifies it under "Illusions of Interpretation" as an example of "Impossible Pictures," saying, "Impossible figures embody conflicting 3D clues...Shepard's elephant (figure 2) confuses its legs with the spaces in between. Local votes about depth are not properly integrated."[4]

The Oxford Companion to Consciousness suggests as a way to understand "Shepard’s many-legged elephant": “try slowly uncovering the elephant from the top, or from the bottom.” (If you cover the bottom of the drawing, you see the top of an elephant with four legs. If you cover the drawing's top, you see four elephant feet, plus trunk and tail.) [5]

Al Seckel, who devotes Chapter 18 of his book Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion to Roger Shepard, draws a connection between Shepard's elephant and the impossible trident (aka the "blivet" or "Devil's tuning fork.") Although an impossible trident has a closed edge, Seckel says the "conspicuous line discontinuity" of the elephant's tail is necessary to avoid a "counting paradox": a blivet is an imaginary object, but everyone knows an elephant has exactly four legs and exactly four feet.[6]

The Shepard elephant has attracted interest outside scholarly sources. Author Clive Gifford included it in his 2013 book for children Eye Benders, and told The Guardian it is one of his favorites.[7]

Sometime before 2012, someone created a modified version of the Shepard elephant. The modified elephant has an extra hind leg, with foot attached, made by extending the curved line that Shepard left ambiguous (to look like either the top of a leg or the end of a tail.) This modified image, which now has four legs but five feet, was circulated as "How many legs does this elephant have?"[8][9][10]

The Shepard elephant has also inspired other derivative works on the Internet. Dutch psychologist Hugo Schouppe made a video, showing how GIMP can be used to move the elephant's feet.[11] The OpticalSpy website also cited the Shepard elephant as inspiration for manipulating a photograph of an Indian elephant to give it six legs. [12]

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  • In Mind Sights the elephant appears on p 79 with the legend "E1 L’egs-istential Quandary." It is the first item in Section E, "Figure-ground impossibilities," of which Shepard says on page 78 "On closer examination, however, the object defies perceptual segregation, as a whole, from the nonobject or background and thus illustrates the strongest case of an "impossible object."[1]
  • Clip and ref from current Shepard article: "figure-ground confusing elephant he calls "L'egs-istential quandary" (p. 79) .. also widely known.[7] Note second Guardian article including image is about book that won prize[5]
  • Maybe not RS but interesting short quote from page 143 of Mind Sights I should expand: "The elephant…belongs to a class of objects that are truly impossible in that the object itself cannot be globally segregated from the nonobject or background. Parts of the object (in this case the elephant’s legs) become the background, and vice versa."[13]
  • The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences p 386 classifies it under "Illusions of Interpretation" as an example of "Impossible Pictures," saying, "Impossible figures embody conflicting 3D clues...Shepard's elephant (figure 2) confuses its legs with the spaces in between. Local votes about depth are not properly integrated. Impossible objects cannot be consistently painted with colors."[4]
  • The Oxford Companion to Consciousness p 366 categorizes “Shepard’s many-legged elephant” as an “impossible figure” suggesting, “try slowly uncovering the elephant from the top, or from the bottom.” The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken. Oxford University Press, 2014 - Psychology - 672 pages.[5]
  • I bought an ebook online, which cites story about origin of elephant as follows in a note to page 137: "Shepard dream, from Shepard and Hut, “My Experience, Your Experience”; other material from Shepard interview." Story is that image came from dream in 1974. He made quick pencil sketch that became ink drawing later. The book is Dream: The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream by Andrea Rock. [2]
  • Book Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion by Al Seckel [6] has an entire Chapter (18) about Shepard, pp 285-294.[6]

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  • Review of Mind Sights by Gomberich, which mostly talks about Gomberich's own ideas[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Shepard, RN (1990). Mind Sights: Original visual illusions, ambiguities, and other anomalies, with a commentary on the play of mind in perception and art. W.H. Freeman and Company. p. 143. ISBN 978-0716721345. The elephant…belongs to a class of objects that are truly impossible in that the object itself cannot be globally segregated from the nonobject or background. Parts of the object (in this case the elephant's legs) become the background, and vice versa.
  2. ^ a b Rock, Andrea (2009). Dream: The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream. Basic Books. p. 137. ISBN 9780786739196. This drawing, entitled "L'egs-istential Quandary," sprang from a visual image that came to scientist Roger M. Shepard just before he awakened one morning in 1974. The quick pencil sketch he made when he awoke became the basis for this ink drawing, for which Shepard holds the copyright.
  3. ^ Honeycutt, Brad (March 9, 2012). "Impossible Elephant". AnOpticalIllusion.com. Retrieved March 11, 2019. ..one of the most famous and classic optical illusions of all time. While most people know it simply as the "impossible elephant," the actual title of the work is "L'egs-istential Quandary."
  4. ^ a b Wilson, Robert Andrew; Keil, Frank C (2001). The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. MIT Press. p. 386. ISBN 978-0262731447. Shepard's elephant (figure 2) confuses its legs with the spaces in between. Local votes about depth are not properly integrated. Impossible objects cannot be consistently painted with colors.
  5. ^ a b Bayne, Tim, ed. (2014). The Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford University Press. p. 366. ISBN 0198569513.
  6. ^ a b Seckel, Al. Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion. p. 291. ISBN 9781402751011. To avoid the counting paradox with the number of legs, Shepard introduced the more conspicuous line discontinuity at the far right.
  7. ^ a b Gifford, Clive (November 17, 2014). "The best optical illusions to bend your eyes and blow your mind – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved February 5, 2019. Famous impossible images include the Penrose staircase and this little beauty, courtesy of renowned cognitive scientist and author of Mind Sights, Roger Newland Shepard. With his usual love of a quick joke, Shepard entitled the illusion L'egs-istential Quandary.
  8. ^ Schouppe, Hugo (July 23, 2012). "The elephant illusion (R. Shepard)". CogPsy (archived). Retrieved March 11, 2019. On several websites, a slightly modified version of the [Shepard elephant] illusion is presented with the question "How many legs do you count?". After a few moments of thought, you certainly can figure out what is wrong and how the artist has done it. In fact, it's rather easy and Shepard gives us a clue by omitting the left back foot. Each foot is displaced to the left.
  9. ^ "The Elephant Illusion". BrainPages. Retrieved March 11, 2019. There's something not quite right about the elephant below. Can you see it? How many legs does it really have? The elephant illusion is an adaptation of the original which was created by Roger Shepard and published in his book Mind Sights (1990, WH Freeman & Co).
  10. ^ a b Shaw, Gabi (May 23, 2018). "20 classic optical illusions that stump everyone". Insider. Retrieved March 11, 2019. Can you tell how many legs this elephant has? If looking at the legs is giving you a headache, you're not alone.
  11. ^ Schouppe, Hugo (July 22, 2012). "Shepard's L'egs-istential Quandary (elephant) illusion". YouTube. Retrieved March 11, 2019. Famous cognitive illusion by Roger Shepard. Added interactivity by Hugo Schouppe.
  12. ^ "Elephant Illusion". OpticalSpy.com. December 7, 2018. Retrieved March 11, 2019. How many legs has this elephant got? Well six of course, it is a special six legged Indian elephant designed by us. We wondered what a real elephant would look like if it was similar to the old favourite optical illusion shown on the left here. So just for a bit of fun we made one.
  13. ^ xx, xx (December 7, 2018). "xx". xx. Retrieved March 9, 2019. xx
  14. ^ "The Elephant Illusion". BrainPages. Retrieved March 9, 2019.

Cristiane de Morais Smith edit

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Emmy Noether Prize 2019 [9]
Published by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research subsidiary FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) Interview
xxxx Hamburg bio Dresselhaus Prize
xxxx Hamburg Dresselhaus Prize event
xxxx Hamburg Dresselhaus Prize pdf
2018 "Possibly 'enormous revelation of physics': flat materials in magnet change when bent or dented" (nl) Volkskrant refers to paper in PRL[10]
xxxx PhysOrg 2015
xxxx Brazil on science
xxxx PhysOrg 2018
xxxx PhysOrg 2017
xxxx NRC 2018
xxxx APS paper
2018 Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal 2018 Science News

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Cristiane Morais Smith (born February 12, 1964) is a Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of condensed matter. She is a professor of condensed matter theory at Utrecht University. In 2016, she received the Mildred Dresselhaus Award "for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of topological phases in two-dimensional atomic and electronic systems."

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Recognition edit

In 2007 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research awarded Morais Smith a Vici grant, a competitive award for senior scientific researchers. [1]

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Google translation of article in nl-wiki

Cristiane Morais Smith is a Brazilian professor at Utrecht University. Morias Smith graduated in Brazil with the physicist Amir Caldeira. After her PhD she worked as a researcher at the ETH in Zurich. In 2001 she received a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2004 she was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University. In 2007 she received a VICI subsidy from the NWO. In 2016 she received the Mildred Dresselhaus Award. Prof. dr. Dr. C. Morais Smith contributed to dozens of articles in her field.

Sources, notes and / or references

CV at: uu.nl .
A Jewel of Equal Opportunities on cui.uni-hamburg.de .
PiCarta (for her publications).

From bio summary uu.nl[11]

C. Morais Smith is a worldwide recognised researcher working on the theory of strongly-correlated systems. She was recently awarded the Dresselhaus Prize “for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of topological phases in two-dimensional atomic and electronic systems”. Her research interests range from condensed-matter [1-8] to cold-atom systems [9-13]. Her group pioneered the development of a thermodynamic description of topological insulators and superconductors [5], as well as the use of a projected quantum electrodynamics (CQED and Pseudo QED) formulation to investigate topological phases driven by interactions [4,7]. The research done in her group involves mostly analytical techniques, such as quantum field theory, renormalization group, Schwinger-Dyson, Chern-Simons theory, etc.

From online cv[12]

Official Name: Prof. Cristiane de Morais Smith Lehner

Professional Name: Prof. C. Morais Smith
Birth date: February 12, 1964
Nationality: Brazilian
Female, married with Stefan Lehner (Swiss) on September 2002

References

  1. ^ "Vernieuwingsimpuls Vici(Innovation incentive Vici)". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Retrieved January 6, 2019. Vici is a financing instrument from the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. It gives senior researchers the opportunity to build their own research group, often in anticipation of a permanent professor position...Vici is focused on the excellent senior researcher who has demonstrated that he can successfully develop his own innovative research line and act as a coach for young researchers. (translated from Dutch)


Maybe WP:TOOSOON, but...Elizabeth Hargrave? edit

Update, November 2019, now there is an article about the game Wingspan. Take a look at the links below and see if all are already in the Wingspan article. Or another possibility, see if the examples below and others from the Wingspan article add up to significant coverage by independent sources. Because she is also known for Tussie Mussie, an award winner, this is not WP:1E. HouseOfChange (talk) 10:02, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

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Elizabeth Hargrave is an American game designer who whose game Wingspan won the the 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres for best connoisseur game of the year.[1] Her game Tussie-Mussie won the 2018 Button Shy - GenCan't Design contest.

Hargrave, who earned a master’s degree in public affairs, worked for many years as a public policy analyst at at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.[2] Described by the New York Times as "a spreadsheet geek," she lives in Silver Springs, Maryland with her husband landscape designer Matt Cohen.[2]

Hargrave meets regularly with others from the Washington, DC area to play board games.[2] She got the idea to start designing games based on themes from nature in 2014 at one such event, according to Audubon:[3]

Hargrave and her husband loved nature, and had recently started birding. All their friends were similarly outdoorsy. “Why,” she posed to the group, “are there no games about things we are into?”

Hargrave designed Wingspan using online data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and from the National Audubon Society.[2] She describes the game as "a card-based engine-building game about bringing birds into a nature preserve."[4] Hargrave pitched the game to three different publishers at Gen Con in 2016; it was bought by Stonemaier Games.[4] Published in 2019, the game sold 44,000 copies worldwide over three printings in its first two months of release,[2] with the publisher issuing a public apology for not having more copies available.[5] Wingspan won the 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres for best connoisseur game of the year.[6]

Hargrave created the game Tussie Mussie in 2018 during the month leading up to the 2018 Game Design contest of Gen Can't (an online unconference initially created as a joking alternative for people who can't attend Gen Con.)[4] Each game card shows a different flower, together with text describing its secret meaning in the Victorian "language of flowers." After winning the Gen Can't contest, the game was published by Button Shy games, funded by a Kickstarter campaign with a $1000 goal that instead brought in more than $80,000. [7]

Hargrave is also working on games about migrating monarch butterflies, mushroom, and the genetics of dog-fox hybrids.[8]

References edit

  • Tussie Mussie GGS https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257614/tussie-mussie http://www.gencant.com/gencant-2018-end/ http://www.gencant.com/gencant2018-game-design-winner/
  • "Tussie-Mussie won the 2018 Button Shy - GenCan't Design contest," said interviewer in Punchboard Media interview Jan 2019<ref name="PbMedia"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.punchboardmedia.com/home/2019/1/30/punchboard-media-in-focus-interview-with-elizabeth-hargrave |title=Punchboard Media: In Focus - Interview with Elizabeth Hargrave |last=Buscemi|first=Eric |publisher=Punchboard Media |quote=I spent a lot of time researching publishers and trying to think about who would be a good fit to take a chance on this theme. I pitched to three different publishers at GenCon 2016. At the time, Stonemaier had a set of GenCon events for pitches: you could just go online and get a ticket for a half-hour meeting without telling them what your game was up-front. With the other publishers it was a more direct interaction of emailing them, explaining the game, and asking for a meeting, which I think is more normal. |date=December 7, 2018 |accessdate=March 24, 2019}}</ref>
  • Girls Game Shelf interview January 2019 also talks about her game Tussie Mussie, which won a prize. <ref name="GGS"> {{Cite web |url=https://girlsgameshelf.com/2019/01/designing-women-elizabeth-hargrave/ |title=Designing Women: Elizabeth Hargrave |author=AnnaMaria |work=Girls Game Shelf |quote=I always wonder what the world of boardgames is missing out by having most designers fitting within such a limited demographic profile. I would love to help figure out how to get more women, genderqueer folks, and people of color over that initial hurdle of entering the design space. I don’t want to be too existentialist about it, but are we stuck in a chicken-and-egg cycle where there are fewer women designers because there are fewer women gamers, and there are fewer women gamers because a lot of the games designed by men don’t interest a lot of women? |date=January 15, 2019 |accessdate=December 23, 2019}}</ref>
  • Journal of Geek Studies February 2019[9]
  • NYT Elizabeth Hargrave game designer March 11 2019[2] {{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/science/wingspan-board-game-elizabeth-hargrave.html |title=She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off. |last= Roberts|first=Siobhan |work=NY Times |quote=Ms. Hargrave, a health-policy consultant in Silver Spring, Md., is an avid birder...A spreadsheet geek with a master’s degree in public affairs, she spent more than a decade as a policy analyst with NORC at the University of Chicago. There, she studied, among other things, prescription drug trends for the report to Congress by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. She is now self-employed...Ms. Hargrave also has a card game, Tussie Mussie, about the Victorian language of flowers, launching in May, and a game about monarch butterflies, with the working title Mariposas, due for release next year...Ms. Hargrave’s home habitat, which she shares with her landscape-designer husband, Matt Cohen |date=March 11, 2019 |accessdate=November 27, 2019}}
  • Geeks and Sundry https://geekandsundry.com/bird-and-gaming-enthusiasts-take-flight-in-wingspan/
  • Smithsonian March 12 2019[10]
  • Ars Technica review of Wingspan[11]
  • Nature story just points to NYT article[12]
  • Audubon about game <ref name="Audubon"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.audubon.org/news/birds-star-one-years-hottest-board-games-wingspan|title=Birds Star In One of This Year's Hottest Board Games |last=McLoughlin |first=Shaymus |work=Audubon |quote=Hargrave and her husband loved nature, and had recently started birding. All their friends were similarly outdoorsy. “Why,” she posed to the group, “are there no games about things we are into?” That conversation led Hargrave, a health policy consultant in Maryland, to a realization: She should make one. Now, her debut board game Wingspan is one of the industry’s hottest titles for 2019 and is netting rave reviews. |date=December 7, 2018 |accessdate=November 27, 2019}}</ref>
  • Hyattsville local paper interview about local birding as much as about game [13]

References

  1. ^ Zimmerman, Aaron (July 23, 2019). "2019's "Board Game of the Year" goes to Just One". ars technica. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Roberts, Siobhan (March 11, 2019). "She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It's Taking Off". NY Times. Retrieved November 27, 2019. Ms. Hargrave, a health-policy consultant in Silver Spring, Md., is an avid birder...A spreadsheet geek with a master's degree in public affairs, she spent more than a decade as a policy analyst with NORC at the University of Chicago.
  3. ^ McLoughlin, Shaymus (December 7, 2018). "Birds Star In One of This Year's Hottest Board Games". Audubon. Retrieved November 27, 2019. Hargrave and her husband loved nature, and had recently started birding. All their friends were similarly outdoorsy. "Why," she posed to the group, "are there no games about things we are into?" That conversation led Hargrave, a health policy consultant in Maryland, to a realization: She should make one. Now, her debut board game Wingspan is one of the industry's hottest titles for 2019 and is netting rave reviews.
  4. ^ a b c Buscemi, Eric (December 7, 2018). "Punchboard Media: In Focus - Interview with Elizabeth Hargrave". Punchboard Media. Retrieved March 24, 2019. I spent a lot of time researching publishers and trying to think about who would be a good fit to take a chance on this theme. I pitched to three different publishers at GenCon 2016.
  5. ^ Whipple, Tom (March 11, 2019). "Birdwatching game Wingspan flies off the shelves". The Times. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  6. ^ Pyttlik, Olaf (August 17, 2019). "Looking for a new game? Trust the judges". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  7. ^ "Tussie Mussie - by Elizabeth Hargrave (Wingspan)". Kickstarter. Retrieved December 23, 2019. Famous authors such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Emily Bronte all utilized the meaning of flowers in their writings, and now you can experience the language of flowers in this newest wallet game from Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave, artist Beth Sobel, and Button Shy Games.
  8. ^ AnnaMaria (January 15, 2019). "Designing Women: Elizabeth Hargrave". Girls Game Shelf. Retrieved December 23, 2019. I always wonder what the world of boardgames is missing out by having most designers fitting within such a limited demographic profile. I would love to help figure out how to get more women, genderqueer folks, and people of color over that initial hurdle of entering the design space.
  9. ^ "Wingspan: how birds colonized board games". Journal of Geek Studies. February 24, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2019. I've always been a nature lover and appreciated birds in general when I saw them, the same way I appreciated any other wildlife. I've always had a bird field guide and a pair of binoculars around. But I didn't really start intentionally birding – like, going out with birds as my primary purpose – until maybe 6 or 7 years ago.
  10. ^ xx, xx (December 7, 2018). "xx". xx. Retrieved March 24, 2019. xx
  11. ^ xx, xx (December 7, 2018). "xx". xx. Retrieved March 24, 2019. xx
  12. ^ xx, xx (December 7, 2018). "xx". xx. Retrieved March 24, 2019. xx
  13. ^ Beckwith, Ryan Teague (May 23, 2019). "An Interview With Designer Elizabeth Hargrave". Hyattsville Wire. Retrieved November 27, 2019. I also love keeping track of all the birds I see in the eBird app. It's just fun to look at your list and to be able to know, for example, that I've seen 78 bird species so far this year in Prince George's County. But best is to get out with more experienced birders who can help you along. It's a lot easier than having to look every single bird up! Prince George's Audubon Society has regular outings.

V.S. Ramachandran edit

Putting together RS for each area of Ramachandran's research.

RS that describe several different areas of research
Early research on vision
  • 2011 early inspiration India Today: But his scientific temperament, possibly nurtured by his mathematician mother, was fired up by a book he read by Richard Gregory, psychologist and a leading scientist on visual perception. And he started experimenting on how the two eyes look harmoniously. In 1972, he sent a paper to the most-respected science journal, Nature, and to his amazement they published it immediately. "That's important in science," he says. "You get an early reinforcement and then you become cocky and bold."
2009 Colapinto. first experiment on retinal rivalry. Second, more ambitious on role of contours in stereopsis. Wrote to Cambridge, with some ideas. "Braddick and another researcher, Fergus Campbell, invited Ramachandran to visit Cambridge for a month, at the university’s expense, to conduct experiments. The results of one experiment, on which Braddick collaborated, were published as 'Orientation-Specific Learning in Stereopsis,'"
Phantom limbs
  • 1992 NYT[1]
  • 1993 Discover Magazine[2]
  • 2016 Qtips and MEG[3]
  • 2 review articles from 2018[4][5]
Mirror neurons
Mirror box
Broken mirror theory of autism

References

  1. ^ Blakeslee, Sandra (November 10, 1992). "Missing Limbs, Still Atingle, Are Clues to Changes In the Brain". NY Ties. Retrieved July 14, 2019. Until recently, scientists believed that nerve cells in the brain died if the body part they were connected to was lost. And they thought that sensations in "phantom" limbs resulted from stimulation of nerves near the missing limb's stump. Now, however, it seems that the brain does not have fixed circuits. Rather, in ways that are still unknown the adult brain appears to be capable of reorganizing and rewiring itself over incredibly large distances -- so that brain cells receiving inputs from the face and shoulder can trigger brain cells no longer receiving inputs from an arm.
  2. ^ Shreeve, James (June 1, 1993). "Touching the Phantom". Discover Magazine. Retrieved July 6, 2019. When Ramachandran saw Pons's paper, he began to wonder whether much the same sort of filling in was taking place in the tactile system of phantom limb sufferers. He recruited some amputees to help test his hypothesis.
  3. ^ Guenther, Katja (2016). "'It's All Done With Mirrors': V.S. Ramachandran and the Material Culture of Phantom Limb Research" (PDF). Medical History. doi:10.1017/mdh.2016.27. Retrieved July 6, 2019. Ramachandran subsequently confirmed these results in a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study. He and his co-workers mapped out the somato-sensory cortex of a patient whose arm had been amputated three inches below the elbow about ten years prior to the study. They took recordings from both hemispheres and, comparing them, found that the maps showed 'a striking asymmetry' caused, presumably, by the reorganised pathways in the left hemisphere. Most importantly, the 'hand' area in the left hemisphere was no longer visible and could be activated through touch on the newly mapped skin areas of the face and the arm above the line of amputation.
  4. ^ Collins, Kassondra L; Russell, Hannah G. (2018). "A review of current theories and treatments for phantom limb pain". J Clin Invest. 128 (6): 2168–2176. doi:10.1172/JCI94003. Retrieved July 14, 2019. Currently, the most commonly posited CNS theory is the cortical remapping theory (CRT), in which the brain is believed to respond to limb loss by reorganizing somatosensory maps (16)... While an amputation directly affects the PNS, the CNS is also affected due to changes in sensory and movement signaling. Debate still remains over the cause and maintaining factors of both phantom limbs and the associated pain.
  5. ^ Kaur, Amreet; Guan, Yuxi (2018). "Phantom limb pain: A literature review". Chin J Traumatol. 21 (6): 366–368. doi:10.1016/j.cjtee.2018.04.006. Retrieved July 14, 2019. It is unsurprising that with an amputation that such an intricate highway of information transport to and from the periphery may have the potential for problematic neurologic developments...Although phantom limb sensation has already been described and proposed by French military surgeon Ambroise Pare 500 years ago, there is still no detailed explanation of its mechanisms.

===Some informative quotes:

  • 2011 India Today profile:

    "I thought, if I could trick his brain into believing that it was moving, somehow the pain might go away." There were some mirrors lying around and he thought of putting those in a manner that if the patient moved his good arm, it gave the illusion of the phantom arm moving. A simple but startling experiment, as the patient shouted in relief. "For the first time in 10 years he felt that his phantom arm was moving. And that alleviated the pain." Ramachandran's intuition was later confirmed by brain imaging.

  • 2011, neuroplasticity paradigm shift [article]:

    The paradigm shift in neurology in recent years has been the adoption of a more flexible model of how the brain works. It used to be thought that there was a series of zones that governed separate hard-wired functions. But Ramachandran has helped revise that view. In the 90s, he conducted brain-imaging experiments that clearly demonstrated that damaged brains are able to transfer functions to healthy sections of the brain and, in so doing, reorganise the sensory map. Neuroplasticity, as it's called, gives us a much more acute understanding of how the brain works

Roger Shepard research edit

Stanford psychologist Roger N. Shepard, note that Lynne A Cooper has no article yet.[16][17] Neither has Jacqueline Metzler.

  • Shepard graduated from Stanford in 1951.[1]
  • More info about 2002 ranking in top 99. [2]

Generalization and representational spaces edit

 
Lanius bucephalus (eating Earthworm). 1987 Shepard paper gives example of bird deciding if a particular worm is edible or not, based on its experience with one previous worm.
  • Grad studies at Yale, 1955 thesis: "I was now convinced that the problem of generalization was the most fundamental problem confronting learning theory. Because we never encounter exactly the same total situation twice, no theory of learning can be complete without a law governing how what is learned in one situation generalizes to another."[3]
  • Postdocs--two years at Harvard, one at ONR[4]
  • Mental representations imagined as abstract multidimensional "representation space"[5]
  • Universal law of generalization 1987 paper[6][7][8]
  • Exponential decay

Non-metric multidimensional scaling edit

  • Bell Labs, starting 1958, there 8 years
  • Idea improved by colleague there
  • 1977 award especially for multidimensional scaling:[9]

Musical cognition, Shepard tones edit

  • 1964

Mental transformations, mental rotations edit

  • Stanford years
  • November 16, 1968 dream[3]
  • 1971 paper w J Metzler. Abstract: “The time required to recognize that two perspective drawings portray objects of the same three-dimensional shape is found to be (i) a linearly increasing function of the angular difference in the portrayed orientations of the two objects and (ii) no shorter for differences corresponding simply to a rigid rotation of one of the two-dimensional drawings in its own picture plane than for differences corresponding to a rotation of the three-dimensional object in depth.” [10]
  • Short descriptions[11][12]
  • 1982 book: Shepard, R.N. and Cooper, L. (1982), Mental Images and their Transformations, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. isbn 978-0262690997 MIT Press summary: "This book collects some of the most exciting pioneering work in perceptual and cognitive psychology. The authors' quantitative approach to the study of mental images and their representation is clearly depicted in this invaluable volume of research which presents, interprets, evaluates, and extends their work. The selections are preceded by a thorough review of the history of their experiments, and all of the articles have been updated with reviews of the current literature. The book's first part focuses on mental rotation; the second includes other, more complex transformations and sequences of transformations. A third part describes work on rotational transformations in the context of the perceptual illusion of "apparent motion."[18]
  • Review of 1982 book has a lot of useful info about rotation research:[13]

Discrimination time edit

  • threshold shortest time, then asymptotic as reciprocal distance

Optical illusions and ambiguous images edit

Evolutionary theory of mind edit

  • William James lectures at Harvard 1994
  • Why thought experiments work as well as they do


References

  1. ^ "University of California Hitchcock Lectures". UCSB. 1999. Retrieved February 15, 2019. Shepard graduated from Stanford in 1951, and received his doctorate from Yale. He then held positions at Bell Labs and at Harvard University before going to Stanford, where he has been a member of the faculty for over 30 years.
  2. ^ "Study ranks the top 20th century psychologists". APA Monitor. 2002. Retrieved February 15, 2019. The rankings were based on the frequency of three variables: journal citation, introductory psychology textbook citation and survey response. Surveys were sent to 1,725 members of the American Psychological Society, asking them to list the top psychologists of the century.
  3. ^ a b Shepard, Roger (2004). "How a cognitive psychologist came to seek universal laws" (PDF). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 11 (1): 1–23. Retrieved February 5, 2019. My investigations of mental transformations had a sudden beginning shortly after I arrived at Stanford. As I was drifting toward wakefulness early in the morning of November 16, 1968, I experienced a spontaneous hypnopompic image of three-dimensional objects majestically turning in space. Even before rising from bed, I had mentally worked out the design of the first experiment (Shepard & Metzler, 1971) in what was to becomea long-continuing series…
  4. ^ Shepard, Roger (1957). "Stimulus and response generalization: A stochastic model relating generalization to distance in psychological space". Psychometrika. 22 (4): 325–345. doi:10.1007/BF02288967. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  5. ^ Jones, Matt; Zhang, Jun (December 22, 2016). "Duality Between Feature and Similarity Models, Based on the Reproducing-Kernel Hilbert Space" (PDF). Retrieved February 12, 2019. Shepard's (1957, 1987) influential model of similarity and generalization holds that stimuli are represented in a multidimensional Cartesian space, x = (x1, . . . , xm) and that similarity is an exponential function of distance in that space
  6. ^ "What your cell phone camera tells you about your brain". ScienceDaily.com. September 19, 2018. Retrieved February 5, 2019. A canonical law of cognitive science -- the Universal Law of Generalization, introduced in a 1987 article also published in Science -- tells us that your brain makes perceptual decisions based on how similar the new stimulus is to previous experience. Specifically, the law states that the probability you will extend a past experience to new stimulus depends on the similarity between the two experiences, with an exponential decay in probability as similarity decreases. This empirical pattern has proven correct in hundreds of experiments across species including humans, pigeons, and even honeybees.
  7. ^ Sims, Chris (May 11, 2018). "Efficient coding explains the universal law of generalization in human perception". Science (journal). Retrieved February 5, 2019. Perceptual generalization and discrimination are fundamental cognitive abilities. For example, if a bird eats a poisonous butterfly, it will learn to avoid preying on that species again by generalizing its past experience to new perceptual stimuli. In cognitive science, the "universal law of generalization" seeks to explain this ability and states that generalization between stimuli will follow an exponential function of their distance in "psychological space."
  8. ^ Shepard, RN (September 11, 1987). "Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science". Science (journal). Retrieved February 5, 2019. A psychological space is established for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances between the stimuli such that the probability that a response learned to any stimulus will generalize to any other is an invariant monotonic function of the distance between them. To a good approximation, this probability of generalization (i) decays exponentially with this distance, and (ii) does so in accordance with one of two metrics, depending on the relation between the dimensions along which the stimuli vary.
  9. ^ "Roger N. Shepard: Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award". American Psychologist. 32 (1`): 62–67. 1977. Retrieved February 14, 2019. Recognizes the receipt of the American Psychological Association's 1976 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award by Roger N. Shepard. The award citation reads: 'For his pioneering work in cognitive structures, especially his invention of nonmetric multidimensional scaling, which has provided the social sciences with a tool of enormous power for uncovering metric structures from ordinal data on similarities. In addition, his novel studies in recognition memory and pitch perception, and his latest innovative work on mental rotations--operations that may well underlie our ability to read and to recognize objects--have all contributed materially to our understanding of cognitive processes. His style of research exhibits a beautiful combination of depth and simplicity.' {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  10. ^ Shepard, RN; Metzler, J (1971). "Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects". Science (journal). 171 (3972): 701–703. doi:10.1126/science.171.3972.701. Retrieved February 13, 2019. Each object consisted of ten solid cubes attached face-to-face to form a rigid armlike structure with exactly three right-angled "elbows"
  11. ^ Shepard, Shenna; Metzler, Douglas (1988). "Mental Rotation: Effects of Dimensionality of Objects and Type of Task" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Psychology. 14 (1): 3–11. Retrieved February 13, 2019. The initial studies of mental rotation were of two types: (a) those by Roger Shepard and Jacqueline Metzler using perspective views of three-dimensional objects and measuring the time to determine whether two simultaneously presented objects, though differing in their orientations, were of the same three-dimensional shape (J. Metzler. 1973; J. Metzler & R. Shepard, 1974; R. Shepard & J. Metzler, 1971) and (b) those by Lynn Cooper and her associates (including R. Shepard) using two-dimensional shapes (alphanumeric characters or random polygons) and measuring the time to determine whether a single object, though differing in orientation from a previously learned object, had the same intrinsic shape as that previously learned object (Cooper, 1975, 1976; Cooper & Podgorny, 1976; Cooper & R. Shepard, 1973). As is summarized in Table 1, the estimated rates of mental rotation were always much lower for the experiments of the first type (ranging between 20 and 140 deg/s) than for the experiments of the second type (ranging between 300 and 600 deg/s).
  12. ^ Kaltner, Sandra; Jansen, Petra (2016). "Developmental Changes in Mental Rotation: A Dissociation Between Object-Based and Egocentric Transformations". Adv Cog Psych. 12 (2): 67–78. doi:10.5709/acp-0187-y. Retrieved February 13, 2019. Mental rotation (MR) is a specific visuo-spatial ability which involves the process of imagining how a two- or three-dimensional object would look if rotated away from its original upright position (Shepard & Metzler, 1971). In the classic paradigm of Cooper and Shepard (1973) two stimuli are presented simultaneously next to each other on a screen and the participant has to decide as fast and accurately as possible if the right stimulus, presented under a certain angle of rotation, is the same or a mirror-reversed image of the left stimulus, the so called comparison figure.
  13. ^ Kubovy, Michael (1983). "Mental Imagery Majestically Transforming Cognitive Psychology". Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews. Retrieved February 13, 2019. Up to that day in 1968, mental transformations were no more accessible to psychological experimentation than were any other so-called private experiences. Shepard transformed a compelling and familiar experience into an experimentally tractable problem by injecting it into a problem-task that admits of a correct and incorrect answer (this problem is discussed in some depth by Pomerantz & Kubovy, 1981, pp. 426-427). I do not wish to claim that this methodological insight had no precursors, only that in this case its application had far-reaching consequences for the purview of cognitive psychology.
  14. ^ Shepard, RN (1990). Mind Sights: Original visual illusions, ambiguities, and other anomalies, with a commentary on the play of mind in perception and art. W.H. Freeman and Company. p. 128. ISBN 0716721341. Because the inference about orientation, depth, and length are provided automatically by underlying neuronal machinery, any knowledge or understanding of the illusion we may gain at the intellectual level remains virtually powerless to diminish the magnitude of the illusion.
  15. ^ Seckel, Al (2004). Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion. Sterling Publishing Company. p. 285. Roger Shepard was born in Palo Alto, California. His father, a professor in materials science at Stanford, greatly encouraged and stimulated his son's interest in science…

Nazo Dharejo edit

Nazo Dharejo also known as Naz Mukhtiar Dharejo and as Waderi Nazo Dharejo (born 1976/1977) is a Pakistani activist and politician. Her defense of her agricultural lands against male relatives inspired her nickname "Pakistan's toughest woman" and also the 2017 movie My Pure Land.[1]

Nazo Dharejo's father Haji Khuda Buksh Khan Dharejo was a landlord from a Zamindar family that owned agricultural land Pakistan's Sindh Province. Nazo Dharejo is his oldest daughter with his second wife Waderi Jamzadi. She was born in a haveli in Qazi Ahmed.[2][3]

Haji Khuda Baksh hired tutors for his daughters, so Nazo Dharejo learned Urdu and English in addition to Sindhi. She then earned her Bachelor of Arts in economics at Sindh University.[1]

Haji Khuda Baksh taught his daughters as well as his son to use firearms in case they might need to defend the family's land. The father of Haji Khuda Baksh (Nazo Dharejo's grandfather) had four wives and several other sons. The grandfather's death created strong disputes about inheritance. [2] After Nazo Dharejo's only brother was killed, and her father was jailed, some male relatives tried to take over the land where Nazo Derejo was living with her mother and sisters. Instead of yielding the land, Nazo Dharejo with her sisters and her husband Zulfiqar Dharejo (they are first cousins) defended themselves by shooting at their attackers.[2]

Then Nazo Dharejo's male relatives recruited 200 dacoits to attack the farm at night, in August, 2005. Nazo Dharejo led the armed defense against them, firing her Kalashnikov when they tried to approach the buildings. In legal battles that followed these armed attacks, Dharejo and her family won half a million rupees (S$6,459) in compensation.[1]

Nazo Dharejo has been active in politics with the PML-N party under the name Mukhtar Nazo Dharejo. In 2013, she was listed as one of the women on their reserved seats for Sindh.[4]

My Pure Land edit

Main article: My Pure Land

After reading a 2012 newsstory titled "Meet Nazo Dharejo: The toughest woman in Sindh," British-Pakistani filmmaker Sarmad Masud wanted to make a movie about her defense of her family's land. The movie was filmed in Urdu rather than Sindhi.[5] Sindhi classical dancer Suhaee Abro played the lead role of Nazo Dharejo. Masud describes the film as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan, based on the extraordinary true story of one woman and her family who defended their home and land from 200 bandits."[6]


Refs with quotes edit

  • 2012 article that was seed of movie. She was 36 on June 17, 2012. Quote "Nazo Dharejo was the first of three daughters born to Haji Khuda Buksh Khan Dharejo and his second wife, Waderi Jamzadi, in a haveli in Dedhan village, Qazi Ahmed." She learned to speak Urdu and English. She and her husband, who is her first cousin, have three daughters and a son.[2]
  • How filmmaker met Nazo due to 2012 article. As of 2 Oct 2017, ND was 41 years old. [5]
    • Other refs from previous article
  • 2013 she is PML-N politician. [4]
  • list of priority reserved seats includes "Mukhtiar Nazo Dharejo" under "Women seats (Sindh Assembly)" for PML-N.[7]
  • Can't access, website asks me to install Flash[8]
  • Can't access, host not resolved.[9]
    • Additional refs
  • Straits times interviewed her, tells some of story, when discussing film [1] Same text also here [19]
  • Photo gallery (same photos and apparently same text as Straits Times) Her husband's name is Zulfiqar Dharejo.[10]
  • Interview, calls her "Mukhtar Naz Dharejo" says she is from Zamindar family. [3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Story of Pakistani woman who faced down 200 armed men now bidding for Oscars glory". Straits Times. 25 November 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2019. A five-year legal battle over the land eventually saw her foes pay half a million rupees (S$6,459) in compensation and offer a public apology - an act of utmost disgrace in rural Pakistan...She persuaded her father to allow her and her sisters to study English, which paved the way for her to gain her Bachelor of Arts in economics at Sindh University, where she could study at home and appear in public only for the exams...Soon neighbours began to speak of her as "Waderi", a new feminine version of the male honorific "Wadera" meaning something akin to a feudal "Lady".
  2. ^ a b c d Imtiaz, Saba (17 June 2012). "Meet Nazo Dharejo: The toughest woman in Sindh". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 16 January 2019. He dressed the girls in men's clothing and gave them male names — Nazo's was Mukhtiar — and taught them how to use the guns he owned.
  3. ^ a b "Ms Mukhtar Naz Dharejo Interview". Rights Now Pakistan. 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2019. She is considered a local legend due to her bold stance on dealing with her ongoing battle to protect her land from people who are attempting to grab her agricultural land; She is always armed with a single Kalashnikov for her safety, whenever she makes rounds on her land. In the two decades she is looking after her land whilst supervising her workforce, making sure that land is productive and profitable. She is also taking part in politics and supports PML-N, her long term goal is to become the Chief Minister of Sindh.
  4. ^ a b Chandio, Ramzan (5 April 2013). "PML-N women workers burst against 'nepotism' in selections". NAWAIWAQT GROUP OF NEWSPAPERS. The Nation. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  5. ^ a b Safdar, Anealla (2 October 2017). "Sarmad Masud on feminism, My Pure Land, and Pakistan". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 7 December 2018. Hailed as a groundbreaking Pakistani feminist western, My Pure Land tells the tale of Nazo Dhajero, the most powerful force of a female trio fighting to protect the family home as her father and brother languish in jail.
  6. ^ Carter, Ashley (7 September 2017). "Interview: My Pure Land director Sam Masud". LeftLion. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  7. ^ (PML-N), Women seats (Sindh Assembly) (2 April 2013). "Priority list of political parties for women, minorities reserved seats" (PDF). Business Recorder. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  8. ^ "President for collective efforts to root out corruption". HURMAT GROUP OF PUBLICATIONS. Daily Pakistan Observer. November 19, 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  9. ^ "تبريز انڙ نقصان پهچائڻ چاهي ٿو، هٿياربند ساڻ ڪري ڀائٽيي تي فائرنگ ڪئي: نازو ڌاريجو". BBCSINDHI. http://www.bbcsindhi.com. November 30, 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2015. {{cite news}}: External link in |agency= (help)
  10. ^ "Photos: Film on 'Pakistan's toughest woman' makes a bid for the Oscars". Hindustan Times. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019. in 1992 my brother was also murdered.

Felix Marquardt edit

Drafting article edit

Felix Marquardt , born 5 January 1975 in Paris, is a journalist and a consultant in international relations. His Huffington Post biography describes him as "Executive Director of the think tank Youthonomics and CEO of mYgration." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/felix-marquardt

Note to self, he has been a regulat contributor to Huffpo since 2011, so once article is created add name to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Huffington_Post_writers_and_columnists ?

Potential sources edit

  • Vanity Fair 2013 [20] e.g. "I met Felix Marquardt, an Austrian-American who owns a political-P.R. firm in Paris and was, this evening, hosting what he called an “Emerging Times Dinner.” He and the event kind of set the tone at Davos. Marquardt, 38, a former hip-hop producer who dropped out of Columbia and calls himself a “self-made rich kid,” looks like a younger, stubblier Ben Affleck. He wears fluorescent Nikes with his chic suits and oozes charm. His client list is classy and widely diverse: he works or has done work for two Nobel peace prize winners (José Ramos-Horta, from East Timor, who is currently the UN’s Special Representative in Guinea Bissau, and Bangladeshi microfinance wizard Muhammad Yunus); he is advisor to one of the most powerful men in France, Christophe de Margerie, CEO of the energy company Total (one of Europe’s top market caps); he acts or has acted as a top consultant to the presidents of Columbia, Georgia, and Panama as well as opposition leaders (and potential future prime ministers) from other countries such as Sam Rainsy, of Cambodia, and Anwar Ibrahim, of Malaysia. Marquardt’s firm, Marquardt & Marquardt—its slogan is “Beyond Influence”—has also done work for NGOs such as the Gates Foundation and Women for Women International...The son of a wealthy Austrian lawyer and an American-born Greek-Hungarian art gallerist, Marquardt said he was born 'with a silver spoon with diamonds in my mouth.” But he grew up hating the ambiance of wealth, choosing to make his friends among the rappers in Paris’s suburbs rather than the children of rich expats and Parisian elites. “I got kicked out of six schools, including Northfield Mount Hermon in the U.S.A.,” he says, almost proudly. His early business ventures, including hip-hop producing, backed by his father, went sour due to what he admits was his own poor management. In 2003, at the age of 28, he found himself jobless and without a future. “Suicidal, at rock bottom. / I had everything and lost it and had to re-build myself,” he told me. Which was the American in him talking. (Rather than second acts, failure in France more often leads to sulking and existential despair.) But he knew his future lay somewhere in exploiting his social skills and his contacts. He joined the International Herald Tribune as a communications director, where he quickly made a mark getting journalists on TV and on panels at global-elite gatherings such as Davos."
  • NYTimes oped 2013 [21] The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out, June 29, 2013. e.g. "To many French people, it’s a completely foreign notion that, around the world and throughout history, voting with one’s feet has been the most widely available means to vote at all. Leave that kind of voting to others, they think, to the Portuguese, the Italians, the Spaniards and the Africans — to all those waves of immigrants who came to France over the course of the last century. France has always been a land to which people dream of coming. Not leaving. When the journalist Mouloud Achour, the rapper Mokless and I published a column in the French daily Libération last September, arguing that France was a decrepit, overcentralized gerontocracy and that French youths should pack their bags and go find better opportunities elsewhere in the world, it caused an uproar."
  • Nov 2015 article in UK's The Telegraph: [22] Title "Paris terror attacks: We Muslims must hunt down these monsters who make a mockery of our religion: In the face of acts of horror, Muslims cannot remain quiet bystanders"
  • Huffpo article that resulted in death threats 2015 [23] Muslim Democrats of the World, Unite! 02/09/2015 e.g. "It is time we stop projecting cultural parochialisms onto religious dogma: muslims around the world should be able to understand much more clearly where Islam ends and where indigenous cultural practice begins. It is time we question the legitimacy and overbearing influence of certain politically and socially backward countries in deciding what is Islamic and what is not, who is a good Muslim and who is not. And just as importantly, it is time we give far more weight in the latter matter to Asian muslims, in no small measure more appeased, democratic and legitimate, by virtue of sheer demography, in the twenty-first century. The muslims of Asia, those of Europe, subsaharan Africa and the Americas are not second-class muslims. Too often, the opposition between Western and certain Arab governments has been masqueraded as one between Western and Muslim people. Whatever the nationality and religious creed, humans must be free to approach their citizenship and relation to religion as they see fit." coauthored with some very impressive coauthors
Felix Marquardt - Executive Director of the think tank Youthonomics and CEO of mYgration
Tariq Ramadan -Professor of Contemporary Islamic studies, Oxford; Author, ‘The Quest for Meaning’
Ghaleb Bencheikh - President of the World Conference for Religions for Peace
Anwar Ibrahim - Fmr. Vice Prime Minister of Malaysia, head of the national opposition and chairman of the World Forum for Muslim Democrats

Elizabeth Webb Wilson, American mathematician and economist (1896 - 1980) edit

I am surprised she does not have an article yet. I just checked Elizabeth_Wilson_(disambiguation) to make sure. I think the main reason I lost interest and stopped work on this was that she was such a foe of "socialized medicine," and maybe other wikipedians felt the same. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Papers at Harvard library http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00786 Extract: "EWW received her AM '20, Ph.D. '34 in economics from Radcliffe. She became an actuary, a calculator of insurance risks and premiums, and was the first woman ever selected to be a delegate to the International Congress of Acutaries (1927). An expert on health insurance, she vigorously opposed nationally financed health care on grounds of economic feasibility and quality of service. She published several articles and a book--Compulsory Health Insurance-- about this subject and conducted studies of the Rhode Island Cash Sickness Insurance System and socialized medicine in Europe. During WWI, EWW was chief computer of the Ballistics Unit of the Army's Ordinance Department and in WWII, she served as an actuary for the Social Security Board in Washington, D.C."

https://books.google.com/books?id=YTcDAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=elizabeth+webb+wilson+harvard&source=bl&ots=4y8VmTl-6_&sig=fu5MRVWQykRNudUbEfc3z4arBVI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fCiyVNffFNjeoATUt4KQCw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=elizabeth%20webb%20wilson%20harvard&f=false

When Computers Were Human (Google eBook)

David Alan Grier Princeton University Press, Nov 1, 2013 - Science - 424 pages 2 Reviews

"Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology."

p 138

1896 - 1980

daughter of a Washington physician, studied math at GWU, top math student in class, first to win the school's top math prize. In 1918, "When she heard that the federal government would employ women in war offices, she applied for a job that would "release a man for the front." It was the 'patriotic thing to do,' she recalled."

p. 152 postwar, after a year of seeking math employment in vain, she became a high school math teacher in DC.

Dr. Veblen Takes a Uniform Mathematics in the First World War David Alan Grier The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 108, No. 10 (Dec., 2001), pp. 922–931 (article consists of 10 pages) Published by: Mathematical Association of America DOI: 10.2307/2695415 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2695415

Quote (pages 928-929)

  • The only way to compute complete trajectories was to integrate the differential equations numerically. At the time, this procedure was known as the method of small arcs. The mathematical staff calculated only a few of the anti-aircraft trajectories them- selves before they started to delegate the work to others. By early summer, they estab- lished standard procedures for creating range tables, ballistics reports, and even tables of special functions. Rather than compute these tables themselves, they hired human computers. At Aberdeen, they were able to find enlisted men to do the calculations. In Washington, D. C., men were scarce and so Forest Moulton turned to women who had been mathematics majors in college.

By early summer, Moulton hired eight women. All had graduated from prominent universities during the prior two years. All had been mathematics majors. They came from University of Chicago, Brown University, Cornell University, Northwestern Uni- versity, Columbia University and the George Washington University. For these women, the war was an opportunity to play a role, perhaps only briefly, on the public stage.

  • The new ordnance computers were taking positions that were commonly held by men. Only one institution, the Harvard Observatory, hired large numbers of female computers before the war. The director of the observatory, Edward Pickering, justified this practice by noting that he could pay female computers half the salary earned by the male computers in government service. The women who worked for Moulton got their jobs, at least in part, because the military could not find enough men to fill their clerical positions. However, they identified their work with the women's suffrage movement,

which reached its climax during the year of the war. The same streets that carried war workers to their offices were also the sites of suffrage protests. Protesters ringed the White House and marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. A Congressional aide remem- bered seeing "cultured, intellectual women arrested and dragged off to prison because of their method of giving publicity to what they believed to be the truth." [lo,p. 1351

  • The first computer to join Moulton, Elizabeth Webb Wilson, had watched the suf- frage protests on her way to college. She had grown up in the District of Columbia and attended college at the George Washington University, next to the White House. She had been willing to sit out the war unless she found a job that made "sufficient use of her mathematical talent." [3] She rejected nine offers before accepting the computing job with the ordnance department. Her first assignment was to prepare a new range table for field artillery. She eventually became Moulton's assistant and the leader of the office computer.

Quote (page 930):

  • Even Elizabeth Webb Wilson was able to create a leadership role for herself, though the task was harder for her. Unlike her male co-workers, she had difficulty finding a job in the years that followed the war. She taught high school for a few years, trained as an actuary, and then completed an economics Ph.D. at Radcliffe. For three years in the late 1940s, she was a prominent figure in the debate over national health insurance. She authored a major study of health insurance of a proposed pre-cursor to Medi- care and testified to congressional committees. She wrote opinion pieces for The New

York Times. The editors of The Nation considered her the leading conservative critic of health insurance. During the 1950s, she was the unofficial hostess for American math- ematics. In her apartment, across Cambridge Square from the Harvard campus, she held dinner parties for visiting mathematicians, paying special attention to her former colleagues at the Army ballistics office.

Don Sherman, comedian edit

Don Sherman is the father of Amy Sherman-Palladino. I was mistaken in thinking her dad was Allan Sherman, one of the comedians my parents loved, and whose LP records I listened to many times in my childhood. But I still want to research Don Sherman.

* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792421/ "startiDon Sherman was born on March 1, 1932 in Meramec, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Rocky (1976), Rocky V (1990) and Rocky Balboa (2006). He was married to Maybin Hewes. He died on June 15, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA."
* http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-marvelous-mrs-maisel-sherman-palladino-20171129-story.html "The series also represents a homecoming of sorts for Sherman-Palladino. Her father, Don Sherman, a comedian from the Bronx, used to regale her with colorful anecdotes from his days in New York's early stand-up scene. / I was living in the San Fernando Valley — some cruel twist of fate stuck me there, and I would be hearing about this place that was all energy and comedy and intellect and politics," Sherman-Palladino says. "It sounded like Xanadu.""
* http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-with-don-sherman-part-one.html "Don Sherman: I had done a little performing in the army. They said if I got into special services I could avoid KP. At that time I had no idea I would be a professional stand-up comic, but it was personal therapy for me. These things would happen to me and they would be very funny, so when I was in the army I discussed the physical indoctrination and all you go through and people started to laugh. They eventually asked me to entertain some of the troops once when it was raining and we were in the back of a truck. They got me into special services and I started to entertain. I ran into the famous Robert Orben books. Robert Orben books helped stand-up comics. He would break down a monologue. He'd talk about driving to a nightclub and then he'd have down fifteen different driving jokes. Through that you would construct an act. When I got out of the army I really didn't have the courage to try and become a comic. Thankfully I was a young kid in New York and lot of the kids in New York worked in the Catskill mountains as busboys and waiters. I had a great feeling for comedy so I would rush to finish my job to go and see all these great comics like Alan King and Joey Bishop and those people." Paraphrasing, Joey Bishop invited Sherman to Vegas ca 1958-59. At the end, this interview has a great anecdote about Bob Newhart, also mentions many other big comic names.

Antoine Dufour (bishop) edit

H. Champion., 1864 - France, but it mentions only on p 284 Dufour's death in 1509, not very useful.

Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne.. ed by Cynthia Jane Brown. article by xx pp 68-69 Dufour quote in preface. "Pour ce que la plus commune partie des homme se adonnent `a blasmer les dame, tant di langue que de plume, et en ont composé des livres, comme Bocasse, Théophraste et ung tas d'aultres, j'ay bien voulu cercher par les ancienneds librairies `a celle fin de trouver aucun véritable acteur qui sagement, sagement, et loyallement parlast d'elles." (My English translation: "Because the most common part of mankind indulges in blaming the ladies, with both tongue and pen, and have composed books, such as Bocaccio, Theophrastus and a number of others, I have kindly sought out by the old libraries are for the purpose of finding any real actor who wisely, wisely, and loyally speaks of them."

Drafting article based on French wiki: Summary Antoine Dufour is a French Dominican who was the confessor of King Louis XII and Anne of Brittany, and Bishop of Marseilles.

Biography Originally from Orléans, Antoine Dufour entered this city's Dominican community, then continued his studies of theology at the convent of Saint Jacques in Paris . His erudition and his talents as an orator made him quickly known. King Louis XII and his wife Anne of Brittany took him to them as confessor.

(Unfortunately none of these claims have an online source.)

I think maybe instead of writing about Dufour himself, the book for which he is famous should get a wiki article. It is much more famous than he is. Or it might be a subsection in the bio of Anne of Bretagne, who commissioned it.

Kelly Frances edit

I saw this article at AfD. It had many problems but I thought the subject might become notable in the near future. I asked for it to be undeleted, and it was. I want to check back to review this bio's notability. If it increases, the not-very-good deleted draft was saved for me here: User:HouseOfChange/Kelly_Frances. It will really need a lot of work to be a good BLP.

Here is a good reference that could be used: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140626001215, which is in-depth coverage of KF by an independent source.

Robert Seyfarth (scientist) edit

His (now-deceased) wife and lifelong collaborator Dorothy Cheney has an article; Robert Seyfarth (scientist) should also. Lots of references in the article for her also will work for him.HouseOfChange (talk) 12:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Couldn't figure out procedure to submit draft, so I moved to mainspace as Robert Seyfarth (scientist).HouseOfChange (talk) 12:18, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Drafting article edit

Robert M. Seyfarth (born February 16, 1948)[1] is an American primatologist and author. With his collaborator Dorothy L. Cheney, he spent years studying the social behavior, communication, and cognition of wild primates in their natural habitat, including more than a decade of field work with baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Seyfarth, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement, is a member of both the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Background and career edit

Seyfarth grew up in Chicago, but fishing trips with his father to Canada and the Caribbean taught him "to enjoy the wilderness even when we didn’t catch fish." During his senior year at Phillips Exeter Academy, he became interested in science after a course on Darwin.[2] In 1970, he graduated from the honors program in Biological Anthropology at Harvard College. Fascinated by wild primates, Seyfarth then applied to work at Cambridge University with Robert Hinde, who had been the thesis advisor of Jane Goodall. Having been accepted by Hinde, Seyfarth then spent two years (1972-1974) in the field studying baboons in Mt. Zebra National Park in South Africa, together with Dorothy Cheney, whom he had recently married.[2] In 1976, Seyfarth received a doctorate from Cambridge.

After a four-year postdoc at Rockefeller University, and another four years at UCLA as assistant professors, Seyfarth and Cheney moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, where Seyfarth joined the Psychology Department.[3]

Research edit

Seyfarth's research and publications were largely based on longterm field studies of primates in the natural habitat, usually in partnership with Cheney. From 1977 to 1988, Seyfarth and Cheney studied the behavior and ecology of vervet monkeys, in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. This research was summarized in their book How Monkeys See the World (1990).[3] They showed that the alarm calls of vervet monkeys have specific semantic content, so that playing back a recording of one type of call makes monkeys look up in the sky for eagles, while playing back a different call makes monkeys scan the bushes for a snake. According to the Newsletter of the Animal Behavior Society,"These results were the first strong evidence that non-human vertebrates use signals to refer to things external to themselves, and as such revolutionized our understanding of the cognitive side of animal communication."[4]

From 1992 to 2008, Seyfarth and Cheney studied vocal communication and social structure of baboons, at the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. This research was summarized in their book Baboon Metaphysics (2007).[3] (The title is based on a comment by Charles Darwin: "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.")[5] Seyfarth and Cheney studied baboon vocalizations, social relationships, and social cognition, with a particular interest in factors that contribute to baboon fitness. Their research showed that baboons are acutely aware of hierarchies and relationships in the group they belong to. Baboon mothers who build good relationships with other adults greatly increase the chance of their offspring's survival. According to Seyfarth, the rules for successful baboons are like "a Jane Austen novel, be nice to your relatives and get in with the high-ranking relatives."[6]

The Animal Behavior Society has described Seyfarth and Cheney as "pre-eminent leaders not just in primate communication but in the field of animal communication as a whole."[4]

Honors edit

Seyfarth was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012[1] and to the National Academy of Science in 2017.[7]

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences awarded its 2010 Cozzarelli Prize, for the best article in the area of Behavioral and Social Sciences, to a paper about baboon collaboration coauthored by Cheney and Seyfarth.[8]

Representative publications edit

  • Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. (1990) How Monkeys See The World: Inside The Mind of Another Species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226102467
  • Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. (2007) Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226102443
  • Smuts, B., Cheney, D., Seyfarth, R., Wrangham, R. & Struhsaker, T. (1987) Primate Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226767161

Listing useful sources edit

(Note, I will move references up to the draft as I use them in it.)

PNAS profile of both DC and RS (2018) [2]
NAS directory profile of RS[3]
NYT obit of DC (2018)[9]
2007 NYT interview[5]
2009 report of talk by RS[6]
Announcement of NAS election (2017)[7]
Online CV (2018)[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "March 2018 Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Viegas, Jennifer (April 10, 2018). "Profile of Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth". PNAS. Retrieved November 20, 2018. For their achievements, Cheney and Seyfarth were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1999 and 2012, respectively. They also received honorary doctorates in 2013 from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and jointly received the American Society of Primatology's Distinguished Primatologist Award in 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Robert M. Seyfarth". NAS. Retrieved November 20, 2018. Robert Seyfarth studies the social behavior, vocal communication, and cognition of nonhuman primates in their natural habitat. His goal is to understand the evolution of social complexity, mind, and behavior in monkeys and apes. Seyfarth was born in 1948 and graduated in 1970 from Harvard College, where his major subject was Biological Anthropology. He received a PhD from Cambridge University in 1977, then spent four years as a post-doctoral fellow at Rockefeller University. After three years at UCLA, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been a member of the Psychology Department since 1985. Seyfarth has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and served as President of the Animal Behavior Society.
  4. ^ a b Searcy, William A (2016). "2016 Career Awards: Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award". Animal Behavior Society Newsletter. Retrieved November 23, 2018. Cheney and Seyfarth went on to study many other aspects of communication, such as vocal comprehension learning, individual recognition, and deception. As a consequence of this body of work, Cheney and Seyfarth have come to be recognized as among the pre-eminent leaders not just in primate communication but in the field of animal communication as a whole.
  5. ^ a b Wade, Nicholas (October 9, 2007). "How Baboons Think (Yes, Think)". New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2018. 'Monkey society is governed by the same two general rules that governed the behavior of women in so many 19th-century novels,' Dr. Cheney and Dr. Seyfarth write. 'Stay loyal to your relatives (though perhaps at a distance, if they are an impediment), but also try to ingratiate yourself with the members of high-ranking families.'
  6. ^ a b "Baboons Benefit From Strong Social Networks, Expert Says". University of Delaware. May 9, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2018. Monkey communication expert Robert Seyfarth began his lecture on May 5, the kick-off of the University of Delaware's Year of Darwin celebration, with a true story, documented in 1961, about a female baboon that herded goats in an African village. The baboon knew all of the relationships between the goats so well that at night she would carry a bleating kid from one barn directly to its mother in another barn.
  7. ^ a b "Seyfarth and Tishkoff elected to National Academy of Sciences publisher=University of Pennsylvania". June 26, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2018. Seyfarth, a professor of psychology who has retired but remains an active researcher, is a specialist in animal behavior and communication. With his wife, Dorothy Cheney, a professor of biology who was elected to the NAS in 2015 and who also recently retired, Seyfarth has conducted field studies of monkeys and apes in their natural habitats. Focusing on a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, he has worked to clarify how nonhuman primate relationships, communication, and cognition differ from humans and to explore how and why these animals form close social bonds. {{cite web}}: Missing pipe in: |title= (help)
  8. ^ "Drs. Cheney and Seyfarth Awarded the 2010 Cozzarelli Prize". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 21, 2018. Drs. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth's recent PNAS paper - Contingent cooperation between wild female baboons - was awarded the 2010 Cozzarelli prize for the best article in the area of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
  9. ^ Genzlinger, Nate (November 14, 2018). "Dorothy Cheney, Who Studied Primates Up Close, Dies at 68". NY Times. Retrieved November 20, 2018. Dr. Seyfarth, in an email interview, said theirs was not one of those partnerships in which each person has a defined role. 'Our scientific contributions are hard to separate because the genesis of our ideas and experiments quickly became lost in the mists of conversation..One of us had an idea, the other critiqued it, and back and forth it went until it finally took shape and neither of us remembered or cared who took credit for what.'
  10. ^ https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upenn.edu/dist/0/236/files/2016/10/CVRMS-1egxhyw.pdf


Project, create article based on Swedish wiki for teacher of Palmstedt edit

Draft based on rough translation of Swedish text edit

 
J E Carlberg

Johan Eberhard Carlberg, born February 24, 1683 in Gothenburg, Sweden, died October 22, 1773 in Stockholm, was a Swedish fortification officer and architect. He was Gothenburg's first city engineer, a position he held from 1717 until 1727. In 1727, he was appointed city architect in Stockholm, where he stayed for 45 years until 1772. He was an older brother of the engineer and architect Bengt Wilhelm Carlberg, who replaced him as a city engineer in Gothenburg when Johan Eberhard moved to Stockholm.

Life and works

 
Building plan for the Hobelinska house from 1767, signed by Eberhard Carlberg.

Carlberg began work in 1700 at the fortification in Marstrand, working at first as a volunteer but later (January 11, 1702 until 1703) as project leader. In 1703, Carlberg became a lieutenant in the Närkes and Värmlands reserve regiment (Swedish "tremänningsregementen"), participating in their field training in Latvia and Lithuania. In Gothenburg, Carlberg became a lieutenant at the fortification on November 19, 1709 and the city engineer on September 14, 1717. He resigned from the Gothenburg fortification with the rank of captain on February 18, 1721.

Carlberg took office on April 27, 1727 as a city architect in Stockholm, where he was responsible for the rebuilding of Slussen 1744-1753, the customs pavilions at Norrtull, the rebuilding of Alstavik on Långholmen, reconstruction of Danviken hospital, the church tower of Stockholm's Great Church, the reconstruction of the Bonde Palace and the Stora Sjötullen in Blockhusudden) in 1729. The Army's commissariat warehouse (1728-32 ) at Skeppsholmen is Carlberg's only fully preserved monumental building in Stockholm [1]. As city architect, he issued regulations intended to promote harmonious appearance of neighboring buildings and also established a "school" to train young architects. His critics, while praising Carlberg's "force and vigor" warned that "If you put more iron into the fire than you have time to watch over, many will get burned."[1] Erik Palmstedt was one of the students in Carlstadt's "school," which he entered when only 14 years old.[2]

Johan Eberhard Carlberg owned and lived in a house he inherited from his mother at the eastern side of Korsgatan and Vallgatan's north side in Gothenburg. The Carlbergsgatan street in the district of Gårda in Gothenburg is named for the Carlberg family. In the district of Överkikaren at Hornsgatan 24 in Södermalm, he designed and built a residential building in 1731-32 as his private residence (see Johan Eberhard Carlberg's house).

Family Carlberg's father was Johan Carlberg (1638-1701), bishop of Gothenburg 1689-1701. [2] Carlberg married three times: first, on June 24, 1708 with Magdalena von Seth (1686-1717), second, on 25th May 1718 with Birgitta Thingvall (1699-1732), and third, in 1733 with his second wife's cousin Christina Engel Geijer (1713-1781).

References

  1. ^ Josephson, R. "Johan Eberhard Carlberg: Fortifikationsofficer, Stadsarkitekt". Swedish National Archives. Retrieved November 6, 2018. Skolan började helt anspråkslöst med arkitektbiträden på kontoret, men sedermera sökte C. få in i sin instruktion undervisningen som en skyldighet, vilket dock byggningskollegiet, berömmande hans »force och vigeur», avstyrkte med ord, som ge klart besked om vad man i själva verket ansåg om arkitektens expansionslust: »när man flere järn haver i elden, än en hinner med att sköta, bliva många, kanske de mesta förbrända»
  2. ^ Malmström, Krister. "Erik Palmstedt". Dictionary of Swedish National Biography. Swedish National Archives. Retrieved November 7, 2018. Vid 14 års ålder inträdde P i det s k Informationsverket, den halvprivata arkitektskola som stadsarkitekten J E Carlberg drev i brist på reguljär undervisning. Carlberg och hans efterträdare C König (bd 21), den andre av P:s lärare, sökte härmed för den växande huvudstaden få fram arkitekter som behärskade både den stora arkitekturen och ingenjörskonsten.

Project: red links in Plague column article edit

(I have a project to get rid of redlinks in article about Plague Column, Vienna where German wiki had an article but en-wiki didn't.)

Donna Zakowska, costume designer edit

While hunting RS for Mrs Maisel, I discovered several with extensive quotes from costume designer Donna Zakowska, especially this one from EW[26]

Draft edit

Donna Zakowska is an award-winning costume designer. According to AMC, "Donna Zakowska has designed for film, theatre, circus, opera, music and puppet theatre, including nine seasons for the Big Apple Circus and a concert tour for Mick Jagger."[1] Her costume designs for John Adams (miniseries) won an Emmy Award in 2009. Her costumes for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel have been discussed in Vanity Fair and Vogue, among other outlets. Zakowska's costumes for The Marvelous Mrs Maisel have been nominated for a 2018 Emmy Award.

Life and early career edit

Donna Zakowska was born in Brooklyn in 1954. She attended Barnard College, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the Yale School of Drama.[2]

During her early career, according to Zakowska, "I began designing the Big Apple Circus and working as an assistant on Woody Allen films."[2]

Period costume, 18th century edit

Zakowska was head costume designer for HBO miniseries John Adams (2008). For her work on the series, she received an award from the Costume Designers Guild in 2008 and an Emmy in 2009.[1]

Zakowska later became head costume designer for the AMC drama Turn: Washington's Spies, also set in the 18th century. which aired on AMC for four seasons, from April 2014 to August, 2017.[3][4][5]

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel edit

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is set in New York City in 1958.[6] Zakowska describes her decision to work with series director Amy Sherman-Palladino as "instant chemistry. I’m a New Yorker and I loved the idea of working on a series about New York in the 50s. I've done eighteenth-century clothes, and earlier periods, but we have such clichés in our minds of what that period [the 1950s] looks like. It was a challenge to make this clothing interesting and exciting to people."[7]

Collecting RS about her edit

She has won Emmy Award and therefore is notable:

  • https://www.amc.com/shows/turn-2/cast-crew/donna-zakowska-costume-designer quote=Donna Zakowska – Costume Designer / Emmy Award-winning Donna Zakowska has designed for film, theatre, circus, opera, music and puppet theatre, including nine seasons for the Big Apple Circus and a concert tour for Mick Jagger. Zakowska began her film work with Woody Allen, John Turturro (Mac), and David Salle (Search and Destroy). Honored in 2009 by New York Women in Film and Television, Zakowska’s projects have included Harriet the Spy, The Pallbearer, Polish Wedding, Forces of Nature, Illuminata, One True Thing, Invisible Circus, Original Sin, Kate and Leopold, HBO’s Empire Falls, Romance and Cigarettes, Then She Found Me, HBO’s John Adams (for which she won both Costume Designer Guild and Emmy® Awards), Bunraku, Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Bless Me Ultima, The Iceman, Fading Gigolo and God’s Pocket. / Zakowska’s theater work has included projects with Eve Ensler, William H. Macy, and Julie Taymor, to name a few, and her designs have been seen at theaters throughout the world, including the Hebbel Theater in Berlin; London’s Barbizon and Royal Festival Hall; Bobigny, Châtelet and the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris; Rome’s Teatro Argentina; Teatro Mercadante in Naples; and BAM, Lincoln Center, and the Public Theater in New York. Her most recent projects include the miniseries Sons of Liberty, Martha Clarke’s Angel Reapers at the Joyce, Roman Paska’s Schoolboy Play at the National Theatre of Portugal, and Relatively Speaking (three plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen, and Elaine May, directed by John Turturro) on Broadway.Zakowska studied painting and dance at Columbia University and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.[1]
  • Very cool article, in-depth, talking about Maisel clothes[6]
  • Maisel hats [27]
  • Costume slideshow, Vanity Fair, for 2014 show on AMC called Turn.[3]
  • Two WaPo articles about Turn, historical research plus instinct.[4][5]
  • Born in Brooklyn and other in-depth info in fashion zine.Another quote "I began designing the Big Apple Circus and working as an assistant on Woody Allen films. It's great to be around someone who is a master of their craft."[2]
  • More on Maisel[7]
  • 2009 award costume design, Designing Women[28]
  • Those buggers! Vogue features a slide show of Maisel costumes in article that does not name Zakowska[29]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Donna Zakowska – Costume Designer". AMC. Retrieved July 20, 2018. Donna Zakowska has designed for film, theatre, circus, opera, music and puppet theatre, including nine seasons for the Big Apple Circus and a concert tour for Mick Jagger. Cite error: The named reference "AMC_Turn" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c Hambro, Tatiana (2018). "Career Files: Costume Design". Moda Operandi. Retrieved July 20, 2018. EDUCATION: Barnard College, École des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Yale Drama School. RESUME: (Recent) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), TURN (2014-15), God's Pocket (2014), Fading Gigolo (2013), The Iceman (2012), John Adams (2008)
  3. ^ a b Rao, Priya (April 25, 2014). "Can Revolutionary Fashion Be Sexy? Yes, says Turn Costume Designer Donna Zakowska". Vanity Fair. Retrieved July 19, 2018. The credit goes to costume designer Donna Zakowska, who already has an Emmy for her work on a miniseries set in the era, HBO's John Adams. "If you look at fashion today—Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Yohji Yamamoto—they often draw upon this period in a contemporary way," says Zakowska. "There is a lack of structure like there is in clothing today, which allows there to be a fluidity between the feminine and the masculine."
  4. ^ a b Stuever, Hank (April 1, 2018). "On the set of AMC's new drama 'Turn,' an updated sense and style of patriotism". Washington Post. Retrieved July 18, 2018. "Turn," Zakowska says, required her to think beyond the military uniforms and the more official garb we associate with the Founding Fathers. "You have the historical [drawings and paintings] and then to a certain degree, you have to use your instinct," she says.
  5. ^ a b Stuever, Hank (June 12, 2014). "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Washington Post. Retrieved July 18, 2018. When I visited the set of "Turn" back in January, my most fascinating chat was with Donna Zakowska, the show's hardworking costume designer. (She won an Emmy for her work on HBO's "John Adams.") If you saw her office there, you would see how much historical research goes into the costumes.
  6. ^ a b Lenker, Maureen Lee (December 4, 2017). "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel costume designer takes us inside the marvelous looks". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 18, 2018. In recreating New York in 1958, from the couture looks of the Upper West Side to the beatnik styles of the West Village, costumer Zakowska creates a rich tapestry of color and silhouettes with a keen eye for detail. Zakowska talked to EW about her design process and broke down the inspiration behind many of the show's iconic, period-appropriate looks that leave us with serious sartorial envy.
  7. ^ a b Kealey, Helena (January 31, 2018). "Sartorial secrets from The Marvelous Mrs Maisel: interview with Donna Zakowska". Culture Whisper. Retrieved July 20, 2018. The head of costume design, Donna Zakowska, previously won an Emmy and Costume Designers Guild Award for the 2008 miniseries John Adams, and yet one gets the feeling that The Marvelous Mrs Maisel will be her crowning accomplishment.


Lizzie Pannill Fletcher edit

Another Texas candidate for Congress, who came in first in the Democratic primary but still faces a runoff on May 22, against a candidate who got fewer primary votes in March primary but already has Wikipedia article, which was never nominated for Afd, Laura Moser.

Here are some references:

  • Update May 2018, Moser still has an article (but Fletcher who beat her by about 70% to 30% in runoff) does not.) I edited Moser's article to reduce POV and update information. Here are 3 references I found and used to do that:
  • DCCC action and defense of it[1]
  • DNC Perez disagrees.[2]
  • Our Revolution endorses Moser[3],
  • Runoff results [4]
  • November update: Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, who now has a (very short) Wikipedia article, beat her Republican opponent and will be going to Congress. I am going to add some recent references on topics that came up after the primary.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Diaz, Kevin (May 4, 2018). "DCCC head stands by attack on Laura Moser in Democratic primary runoff with Lizzie Fletcher". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved May 26, 2018. As he has in the past, Lujan said the DCCC's move was about promoting what party officials see as the most electable candidate to challenge Seventh Congressional District Republican incumbent John Culberson in November...Meanwhile, the DCCC has backed away from formally endorsing Fletcher.
  2. ^ Greenwood, Max (March 3, 2018). "DNC chair questions House campaign arm's attack on progressive candidate". The Hill. Retrieved May 26, 2018. I would have done it differently," he continued. "I think the DCCC has the ability to endorse in primaries, and they do that from time to time. But again, I would have done it differently."...The DCCC has framed Moser as an unelectable candidate in a critical race, pointing to concerns about her residency and accusations that her husband is improperly benefitting financially from her campaign. The Sanders-affiliated group called the DCCC's attacks "ridiculous.
  3. ^ Hagen, Lisa (March 1, 2018). "Sanders allies endorse Texas candidate attacked by DCCC". The Hill. Retrieved May 26, 2018. A progressive group allied with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) endorsed a Texas Democrat running in a crowded House primary on March 1, just days after House Democrats' campaign arm targeted the candidate.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Sean; Weigel, Dave (May 23, 2018). "Lizzie Fletcher defeats Laura Moser in bitter Democratic primary in Texas". Washington Post. Retrieved May 26, 2018. Moser still made it into a runoff against Fletcher but was unable to build momentum during the next two months.
  5. ^ Scherer, Jasper (November 7, 2018). "Lizzie Fletcher looks to legislate the way she won: in moderation". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved November 20, 2018. When Fletcher unseated Culberson Tuesday night by a relatively comfortable five points, however, she did so behind a Houston-centric campaign that emphasized her local roots and pulled in right-leaning independents and disillusioned Republicans. Now, having flipped a seat controlled for the last 52 years by Republicans, Fletcher heads to Washington with a target on her back, but also a desire to legislate with the same moderate approach she used to build her campaign.
  6. ^ Diaz, Kevin (November 16, 2018). "Lizzie Pannill Fletcher throws support behind Pelosi for House Speaker". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved November 20, 2018. The decision to back Pelosi is a key one for Fletcher ahead of a secret ballot vote among Democrats on Nov. 28. A pubic roll call is scheduled when the new Congress convenes on Jan. 3. She defeated nine-term incumbent Republican John Culberson by 5 points, a Democratic victory that helped flip two formerly Republican districts in Texas.

"Obama coalition" edit

Why this article? edit

Many WP:RS use this term in headlines as if everybody knows what it means, (more than 100,000 results for "obama+coalition".) But what is it? Is it the coalition that elected Obama in 2008? Does that differ from the coalition that elected him in 2012? Is it as WHYY claims in 2018, "educated white professionals and minorities"?[30] Or is it as the NYT claimed in 2016 "an alliance between black voters and Northern white voters"?[31] According to Medium's article, which also refers to the coalition as "Obama’s Big Tent", "President Obama’s supporters ran the gamut on age, race, religion, and ideology in 2012."[32] So I think this is interesting and worth exploring.

We have an article on the New Deal coalition that would be a good model for creating this one, I think.

Noah Berlatsky edit

Starting to draft an article edit

Noah Berlatsky is an American author and journalist who "edits the comics and culture website the Hooded Utilitarian." http://www.slate.com/authors.noah_berlatsky.html His book Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 was published by Rutgers University Press in 2015 http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Wonder-Woman,5280.aspx

References for Berlatsky edit

Noah Berlatsky is a notable blogger and journalist who should have an article, not a redlink. He writes for a lot of high-profile and notable sites including The Guardian and The Atlantic.

Here are some brief bio/contribution pages from places he writes for:

Here are some interesting articles by Noah Berlatsky:

Here are his website, his book, and some reviews

Here are some articles about him:

Redrafting material on Giordano and politics edit

Potential 2018 senatorial campaign (draft, early May) edit

In June 2016, journalists Joy-Ann Reid and Noah Berlatsky reported that Giordano planned to challenge independent Senator Bernie Sanders for his United States Senate seat from Vermont if Sanders failed to endorse Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Both Reid and Berlatsky regarded Giordano's decision as surprising, because of his leftwing politics and 2008 opposition to Hillary Clinton. [1][2]

Boston Magazine noted that Giordano was an early supporter when Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington, and for some years thereafter, but lost enthusiasm in 1994 when Sanders refused to "align with" Barney Frank and other Democrats then working together to oppose House Speaker Newt Gingrich.[3]

Giordano told both Reid and Berlatsky that he saw his candidacy as a way to defend the "Obama coalition." According to Berlatsky:[2]

Giordano thinks Sanders has disrupted that critical progressive coalition. The Vermont senator "has a blind spot on racial justice issues," Giordano argues. He is "exploiting racial and gender divisions... in a way that harms the movement." For instance, Sanders' comments about the illegitimacy of the primary process, and dismissal of Clinton's victories in Southern states, which were fueled by black voters, have "poisoned the well," Giordano says, and made unity against the Republicans difficult.

According to Reid, Giordano told her, "For me this is not about Hillary Clinton, who has her strengths and she has her flaws...This is about a coalition that has saved the United States and can keep saving it, and this is what needs to be protected. And so maybe it’s time for the Obama coalition to go to Vermont.”[1]

Later, however, Giordano said that he was battling cancer and so would not challenge Sanders for his seat.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Joy-Ann Reid (June 6, 2016). "Meet Al Giordano, the Man Who Wants to Take Bernie Down". The Daily Beast. Retrieved June 20, 2016. Giordano says the one thing that would stop him from running would be if Sanders changes his tone and makes a serious effort at unifying the party and bringing his supporters around in time for the Democratic National Convention.
  2. ^ a b Noah Berlatsky (June 9, 2016). "Could this political gadfly steal Bernie Sanders' Senate seat?". TheWeek. Retrieved June 20, 2016. Giordano, a 56-year-old journalist and organizer, began his career working against nuclear power plants in New England, then worked with Abby Hoffman through the 1980s. He wrote for The Nation in the 1990s, before leaving the U.S. to report on the Zapatistas in Mexico and on the ravages of the drug war. In 2008, Giordano was a vocal and animated supporter of Barack Obama — and an impassioned critic of Hillary Clinton. It wouldn't be crazy to suspect he has a "Feel the Bern" tattoo.
  3. ^ Clauss, Kyle Scott (June 8, 2016). "Former Boston Phoenix Reporter Wants to Take Bernie Sanders' Senate Seat". Boston Magazine. Retrieved June 16, 2016. To prepare for 2018, Giordano says he'll set up an "organizing academy in Vermont so that people can finally get the training that the Sanders campaign wouldn't give them." He'll seek small donations just as Sanders and President Obama did. He'll conduct a listening tour. And he won't be afraid to work with Democrats, whose party, Giordano argues, is being needlessly split in twain by Sanders' camp.
  4. ^ Giordano, Al (April 18, 2018) “@algiordano: I have said many times I am not a candidate for office. I am fighting cancer. Please make room for someone else to run by not mentioning me." Twitter.com

RE-draft, mid-May edit

Concerning the 2008 election, particularly the primaries, there is quite a bit of information online.

Concerning the 2016, much of the focus will be on Giordano's opposition to Bernie Sanders. Maybe the 2 subsections should be titled "Support of BO in 2008" and "Opposition to Bernie Sanders in 2016."

Support of BO in 2008 edit

In the 2008 Democratic primaries, Giordano was an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama, and an opponent of Hillary Clinton.[1][2]

Opposition to Bernie Sanders in 2016 edit

Giordano, who was introduced to Vermont politics when he became involved in activism against twin nuclear plants in Vernon, Vermont and Rowe, Massachusetts,[3] was an early supporter of Bernie Sanders when he ran for mayor of Burlington (1980), and for some years thereafter. Giordano lost enthusiasm in 1994, when Sanders refused to "align with" Barney Frank and other Democrats working together to oppose House Speaker Newt Gingrich.[4]

During Democratic primaries for 2016 presidential election, Giordano's negative comments about Sanders in his Twitter feed and newsletter provoked some angry responses from supporters of Sanders.[5] In June 2016, journalists Joy-Ann Reid, Noah Berlatsky, and others reported that Giordano planned to challenge independent Senator Bernie Sanders for his United States Senate seat from Vermont if Sanders failed to endorse Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Both Reid and Berlatsky regarded Giordano's decision as surprising, because of his leftwing politics and 2008 opposition to Hillary Clinton. [6][7][8]

Giordano told both Reid and Berlatsky that he saw his candidacy as a way to defend the "Obama coalition" against supporters of Bernie Sanders. According to Berlatsky:[7]

Giordano thinks Sanders has disrupted that critical progressive coalition. The Vermont senator "has a blind spot on racial justice issues," Giordano argues. He is "exploiting racial and gender divisions... in a way that harms the movement." For instance, Sanders' comments about the illegitimacy of the primary process, and dismissal of Clinton's victories in Southern states, which were fueled by black voters, have "poisoned the well," Giordano says, and made unity against the Republicans difficult.

According to Reid, Giordano told her, "For me this is not about Hillary Clinton, who has her strengths and she has her flaws...This is about a coalition that has saved the United States and can keep saving it, and this is what needs to be protected. And so maybe it’s time for the Obama coalition to go to Vermont.”[6]

Later, however, Giordano said that he was battling cancer and so would not challenge Sanders for his seat.[9]

Post-election articles on efforts vs Trump and GOP edit

  • Esquire on organizing work[10]
  • New Yorker on Doug Jones race.[11]

References

  1. ^ James Wolcott (June 15, 2008). "When Democrats Go Post-AL". Vanity Fair. Retrieved April 17, 2017. Al Giordano, whose blogging about the ground war on RuralVotes' "The Field" was one of the sensations of the primary season, was even more curt.
  2. ^ Giordano, Al (October 9, 2007). "Obama's army: Win or lose, Barack Obama's small donors may have already brought a revolution in campaign financing". San Diego City Beat. Retrieved May 15, 2018. Obama has not only out-raised the Clinton machine but also each of the Republican candidates. The era of supremacy by the well-heeled max-out donor is finally being chipped down to size, one small donation at a time. (For those wishing to do the math themselves, Opensecrets.org provides a wonderful online guide to following the money trail.) Win or lose, Obama-or, better said, his grassroots supporters-may have already brought a revolution in campaign financing that finally weans the process from it previous dependence on influence money.
  3. ^ "Al Giordano Collection: 1969-1996". U Mass Amherst. Retrieved May 12, 2018. Living in Rowe, Mass., he became a successful grassroots organizer beginning with his work opposing the twin power plants Yankee Rowe and Vermont Yankee, which straddled the Vermont border.
  4. ^ Clauss, Kyle Scott (June 8, 2016). "Former Boston Phoenix Reporter Wants to Take Bernie Sanders' Senate Seat". Boston Magazine. Retrieved May 12, 2018. To prepare for 2018, Giordano says he'll set up an "organizing academy in Vermont so that people can finally get the training that the Sanders campaign wouldn't give them." He'll seek small donations just as Sanders and President Obama did. He'll conduct a listening tour. And he won't be afraid to work with Democrats, whose party, Giordano argues, is being needlessly split in twain by Sanders' camp.
  5. ^ Higgins, Eoin (December 6, 2016). "Al Giordano's Enemies List". Paste Magazine. Retrieved May 10, 2018. This is the core group of "Alt-left," "Bernie Bro," "dirtbag left," Intercept, Jacobin, Bruenig boys, whatever name they go by.
  6. ^ a b Joy-Ann Reid (June 6, 2016). "Meet Al Giordano, the Man Who Wants to Take Bernie Down". The Daily Beast. Retrieved June 20, 2016. Giordano says the one thing that would stop him from running would be if Sanders changes his tone and makes a serious effort at unifying the party and bringing his supporters around in time for the Democratic National Convention.
  7. ^ a b Noah Berlatsky (June 9, 2016). "Could this political gadfly steal Bernie Sanders' Senate seat?". TheWeek. Retrieved June 20, 2016. Giordano, a 56-year-old journalist and organizer, began his career working against nuclear power plants in New England, then worked with Abby Hoffman through the 1980s. He wrote for The Nation in the 1990s, before leaving the U.S. to report on the Zapatistas in Mexico and on the ravages of the drug war. In 2008, Giordano was a vocal and animated supporter of Barack Obama — and an impassioned critic of Hillary Clinton. It wouldn't be crazy to suspect he has a "Feel the Bern" tattoo.
  8. ^ Kelly, Ray (June 6, 2016). "Former Valley Advocate writer, radio host Al Giordano mulls bid to unseat Bernie Sanders". Masslive.com. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  9. ^ Giordano, Al (April 18, 2018) “@algiordano: I have said many times I am not a candidate for office. I am fighting cancer. Please make room for someone else to run by not mentioning me." Twitter.com
  10. ^ Pierce, Charles P. (April 3 2017). "A Plea to Liberals as the Trump Administration Self-Destructs". Esquire. Retrieved May 13, 2018. Look, instead, to projects like what Al Giordano is doing with his School of Authentic Journalism. He's holding workshops to train organizers, and Al learned his political organizing in Mexico, where voicing the wrong opinion can get you far worse than a spanking on Twitter. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Bethea, Charles (December 15, 2017). "How the Trump resistance went pro in Alabama". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 13, 2018. A number of other progressive groups, both local and national, worked to propel Jones to his unlikely victory. Among them were Alabama's N.A.A.C.P. chapter, which, according to the journalist Al Giordano, instructed its local branches to call every registered Alabama voter who did not vote in the 2016 Presidential election.

Joy Ann Reid controversial section edit

As of May 1, 2018 edit

In 2017, a Twitter user reported finding posts written between 2007 and 2009 on Reid's former blog "Reid Report", suggesting Democratic Representative Charlie Crist (who was then the Republican governor of Florida) was a closeted homosexual.[1] Following criticism of the posts as homophobic, Reid apologized, calling the posts "tone deaf."[2] Crist responded thanking Reid for her apology.[3] In April 2018, the same Twitter user reported on additional posts from the defunct blog.[4] According to The New York Times, these posts included "claims that gay men prey on 'impressionable teens'".[5] Reid subsequently claimed the posts uncovered in April 2018 were fabricated, and planted by hackers.[5] CNN noted that journalists who had investigated Reid's hacking claims had called them into question,[6] and reported also a rebuttal from the Wayback Machine (which archived Reid's posts).[7] Reid's security consultant, Jonathan Nichols, responded that "at no time has Ms. Reid claimed that the Wayback Machine was hacked." He said Reid's team detected a "breach" of her blog but that it was unrelated to the "fraudulent" posts.[8]

Reid's employer, MSNBC, called her blog posts "offensive"[9] and said her writings and tweets were "harmful to the LGBT community."[10] Reid opened the April 28, 2018, edition of AM Joy with an apology, saying, "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. I've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. I own that. I get it. And for that, I am truly, truly sorry." She also said, "I hired cybersecurity experts to see if someone had manipulated my words or my former blog, and the reality is they have not been able to prove it."[11]

References

  1. ^ McAdams, Eric (December 1, 2017). "Twitter Unearths Joy Reid's Homophobic Blog Posts". pastemagazine.com. Paste (magazine). Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Nyren, Erin (3 December 2017). "Joy Reid Apologizes for Old Homophobic Blog Posts: They Were 'Insensitive, Tone Deaf and Dumb'". Variety.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Newsweek4Dec2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Flynn, Meagan (April 25, 2018). "MSNBC host Joy Reid once apologized for homophobic comments on her blog. Now she says she was hacked". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  5. ^ a b Stack, Liam (April 24, 2018). "Joy Reid Blames Hackers for Anti-Gay Blog Posts, but Questions Mount". The New York Times. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Kludt, Tom. "Why MSNBC host Joy Reid's hacking claims don't add up". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  7. ^ Kludt, Tom (2018). "MSNBC pushes findings that support Joy Reid's claim of fabricated homophobic blog posts". CNNMoney. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  8. ^ Caron, Christina (April 28, 2018). "Joy Reid Says She Did Not Write 'Hateful Things' but Cannot Prove Hacking". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  9. ^ "Watch MSNBC's Joy Reid address offensive blog posts". msnbc.com. MSNBC. April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  10. ^ "Joy Reid apologizes to LGBT community for tweets, posts". msnbc.com. MSNBC. April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  11. ^ Hayes, Christal (April 28, 2018). "Joy Reid: 'I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things'". usatoday.com. USA Today. Retrieved April 28, 2018.

Drafting better version edit

On November 30, 2017,[1] a Twitter user reported finding posts written between 2007 and 2009 on Reid's former blog "Reid Report", suggesting that Florida's then-Governor Charlie Crist was a closeted homosexual.[2] Following criticism of the posts as homophobic, Reid apologized, calling the posts "insensitive, tone deaf and dumb."[3] Crist responded thanking Reid for her apology.[1] After reviewing more posts from her old blog, which she did not remember making, Reid asked lawyers to investigate if her blog or its archives might have been hacked. [4]

In April 2018, the same Twitter user reported on additional posts from the defunct blog. According to The Nation, these posts expressed "Ridiculing and recirculating rumors about purportedly closeted politicians and celebrities...Using the trope of gay sex to mock politicians and journalists...Opposition to same-sex marriage...Revulsion at gay sex."[5] These new revelations prompted LGBT advocacy group PFLAG to rescind its plan to give Reid an award.[6]

Reid opened the April 28, 2018, edition of AM Joy with an apology, saying, "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. I've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. I own that. I get it. And for that, I am truly, truly sorry." She also said, "I hired cybersecurity experts to see if someone had manipulated my words or my former blog, and the reality is they have not been able to prove it."[7] Response to her apology was divided along partisan lines.[8][9]


  • Replace crappy Paste magazine article with better contemporaneous article

<ref name="salon1712>{{cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/2017/12/04/joy-reid-apologizes-for-attacking-florida-congressman-in-tone-deaf-homophobic-blog-posts/ |title=Joy Reid apologizes for attacking "Florida Congressman in “tone deaf” homophobic blog posts|last=Leah|first=Rachel|date=December 4, 2017|website=salon.com|publisher=[[Paste (magazine)]]|access-date=May 2, 2018|quote="In addition to friends and coworkers and viewers, I deeply apologize to Congressman Crist, who was the target of my thoughtlessness. My critique of anti-LGBT positions he once held but has since abandoned was legitimate in my view," Reid added. "My means of critiquing were not."}}</ref>

  • In earlier section, add relevant quote to Newsweek article, defined in an earlier section. They quote Charlie Crist's response via Twitter as "Long forgotten, but thank you, Joy. I appreciate you."

Improved by Kai Herman 0503 edit

On November 30, 2017,[1] a Twitter user reported finding posts written between 2007 and 2009 on Reid's former blog "Reid Report", suggesting that Florida's then-Governor Charlie Crist was a closeted homosexual.[2] Following criticism of the posts as homophobic, Reid apologized, calling the posts "insensitive, tone deaf and dumb."[3] Crist responded thanking Reid for her apology.[1] After reviewing more posts from her old blog, which she did not remember making, Reid asked lawyers to investigate if her blog or its archives might have been hacked. [4] The Wayback Machine, where the newly discovered posts had been found, said it detected no evidence of hacking in the archived versions of her site.[10]

In April 2018, the same Twitter user reported on additional posts from the defunct blog. According to The Nation, these posts expressed "Ridiculing and recirculating rumors about purportedly closeted politicians and celebrities...Using the trope of gay sex to mock politicians and journalists...Opposition to same-sex marriage...Revulsion at gay sex."[5] These new revelations prompted LGBT advocacy group PFLAG to rescind its plan to give Reid an award.[6]

Reid's employer, MSNBC, called her blog posts "offensive"[11] and said her writings and tweets were "harmful to the LGBT community."[12] Reid opened the April 28, 2018, edition of AM Joy with an apology, saying, "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. I've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. I own that. I get it. And for that, I am truly, truly sorry." She also said, "I hired cybersecurity experts to see if someone had manipulated my words or my former blog, and the reality is they have not been able to prove it."[13] Response to her apology was divided along partisan lines.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference Newsweek4Dec2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Leah, Rachel (December 4, 2017). "Joy Reid apologizes for attacking "Florida Congressman in "tone deaf" homophobic blog posts". salon.com. Salon. Retrieved May 2, 2018. In addition to friends and coworkers and viewers, I deeply apologize to Congressman Crist, who was the target of my thoughtlessness. My critique of anti-LGBT positions he once held but has since abandoned was legitimate in my view," Reid added. "My means of critiquing were not.
  3. ^ a b Nyren, Erin (3 December 2017). "Joy Reid Apologizes for Old Homophobic Blog Posts: They Were 'Insensitive, Tone Deaf and Dumb'". Variety. According to Mediaite, the statements, which were posted between 2007 and 2009 — The Reid Report has been shut down for several years — speculate on the sexuality of then-Florida governor Charlie Crist, who Reid refers to as "Miss Charlie" several times throughout. The posts mock him for supposedly being a closeted gay man, including the conspiracy theory that Crist married his then-wife Carole Rome in order to further his chances of becoming John McCain's running mate. Crist, at the time a conservative politician, was well-known for holding policy views against same-sex marriage, though he has since switched stances and political parties.
  4. ^ a b Stack, Liam (April 24, 2018). "Joy Reid Blames Hackers for Anti-Gay Blog Posts, but Questions Mount". The New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2018. Ms. Reid's lawyers alerted Google and the Internet Archive to the alleged hacking in December, shortly after her public apology but long before the latest batch of posts appeared on social media
  5. ^ a b >Kim, Richard (April 27, 2018). "The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts". The Nation. Retrieved May 2, 2018. I don't know if Reid wrote the posts in question, but it wouldn't surprise me if she, or any liberal blogger at the time, had.
  6. ^ a b "LGBT advocacy group rescinds award to Joy Reid". CBS News. April 27, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018. When we extended our invitation to Ms. Reid to honor her at our 45th anniversary celebration, we did so knowing about the blog posts from the late 2000s regarding Charlie Crist. We appreciated how she stepped up, took ownership, apologized for them, and did better—this is the behavior and approach we ask of any ally. However, in light of new information, and the ongoing investigation of that information, we must at this time rescind our award to Ms. Reid.
  7. ^ Hayes, Christal (April 28, 2018). "Joy Reid: 'I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things'". usatoday.com. USA Today. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  8. ^ a b Wang, Amy B (April 28, 2018). "Joy Reid apologizes for anti-LGBT posts, says she can't prove her blog was hacked". Washington Post. Retrieved May 2, 2018. Reid's apology received mixed reactions, split largely along party lines. The MSNBC host was widely panned by those on the right, who found her hacking claims flimsy and her apology halfhearted…Others, including Reid's colleagues at NBC as well as members of the LGBT community who appeared on her show after her open, praised Reid for taking responsibility for her actions and for vowing to do better.
  9. ^ a b Danner, Chas (April 28, 2018). "Joy Reid's Missed Opportunity". New York Magazine. Retrieved May 2, 2018. After her extended apology, Reid hosted a panel of LGBT activists and invited them to "grill" her over the controversy. The resulting discussion, which covered a range of issues affecting the LGBT community, was more sympathetic than adversarial when it came to Reid's remarks, however.
  10. ^ Kludt, Tom (2018). "MSNBC pushes findings that support Joy Reid's claim of fabricated homophobic blog posts". CNNMoney. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  11. ^ "Watch MSNBC's Joy Reid address offensive blog posts". msnbc.com. MSNBC. April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  12. ^ "Joy Reid apologizes to LGBT community for tweets, posts". msnbc.com. MSNBC. April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  13. ^ Hayes, Christal (April 28, 2018). "Joy Reid: 'I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things'". usatoday.com. USA Today. Retrieved April 28, 2018.

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  • <ref name="2006ishness"> >{{Cite web |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/the-very-specific-2006-ishness-of-those-alleged-joy-reid-posts/ |title=The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts |last=Kim |first=Richard |work=The Nation |quote=I don’t know if Reid wrote the posts in question, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she, or any liberal blogger at the time, had. |date=April 27, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref>
  • <ref name="NYMag0428"> >{{Cite web |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/joy-reids-missed-opportunity.html |title=Joy Reid's Missed Opportunity |last=Danner |first=Chas |work=New York Magazine |quote=After her extended apology, Reid hosted a panel of LGBT activists and invited them to “grill” her over the controversy. The resulting discussion, which covered a range of issues affecting the LGBT community, was more sympathetic than adversarial when it came to Reid’s remarks, however. |date=April 28, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref> Note this article includes clickable tweet by David Folkenflik saying "MSNBC executives remain supportive of Reid. They believe she did well in her statement on her show on Saturday and have noted the large outpouring of positive support she’s received." [https://twitter.com/davidfolkenflik/status/990572852595355649]
  • <ref name="Wapo0428"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/04/28/joy-reid-apologizes-for-anti-lgbt-posts-says-she-cant-prove-her-blog-was-hacked/?utm_term=.2c70632241d0 |title=Joy Reid apologizes for anti-LGBT posts, says she can’t prove her blog was hacked |last=Wang |first=Amy B |work=Washington Post |quote=Reid’s apology received mixed reactions, split largely along party lines. The MSNBC host was widely panned by those on the right, who found her hacking claims flimsy and her apology halfhearted…Others, including Reid’s colleagues at NBC as well as members of the LGBT community who appeared on her show after her open, praised Reid for taking responsibility for her actions and for vowing to do better. |date=April 28, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref>
  • <ref name="pflag"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbt-advocacy-group-rescinds-award-to-joy-reid/ |title=LGBT advocacy group rescinds award to Joy Reid |work=CBS News |quote=When we extended our invitation to Ms. Reid to honor her at our 45th anniversary celebration, we did so knowing about the blog posts from the late 2000s regarding Charlie Crist. We appreciated how she stepped up, took ownership, apologized for them, and did better—this is the behavior and approach we ask of any ally. However, in light of new information, and the ongoing investigation of that information, we must at this time rescind our award to Ms. Reid. |date=April 27, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref>

Colleen McGuinness edit

Drafting article edit

Happy to say I posted this article, which has survived and been improved at bit by others.

Colleen McGuinness is an American writer/producer of television comedies. After joining 30 Rock in 2012, she shared in its 2013 Emmy for best series as well as in its 2013 and 2014 WGA nominations.[1] Together with Game of Thrones executive producer Carolyn Strauss, she is currently working with HBO to develop a comedy series based on the novel Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld.[1]

According to IMDB, Colleen McGuinness was born in Killeen, Texas on May 21, 1977.[2] McGuinness, who is of Irish and Korean heritage, was raised by her grandparents on Long Island.[3] Variety, in a 2004 article calling McGuinness a "tyro scribe," said that McGuinness had been a tennis champion in high school.[4] Other early writing credits include story-editor work for prime-time soap opera North Shore and a staff writer position with Alicia Silverstone's "Miss Match."[4]

McGuinness was hired by 30 Rock in 2012 and served as producer, co-producer, and writer during the show's final two seasons. She wrote two of the show's 2012 episodes: "My Whole Life Is Thunder" and "St. Patrick's Day."[2]

After 30 Rock stopped production, McGuinness worked as a writer and supervising producer for About A Boy.[5] When Tina Fey started her new production company Little Stranger productions, her first sale was an untitled comedy to be written by McCullough and executive-produced by Fey and by former 30 Rock showrunner Robert Carlock.[6]

Article raw material edit

  • * From 2015 An actual article about Colleen McGuinness, in OZY Media. http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/taking-on-tv-comedy-from-the-outside-in/65970 "For Colleen McGuinness, it’s an almost obligatory punch line to every introduction: joking about the cultural confusion her name can cause. “People expect a leprechaun to show up,” says the 38-year-old comedy writer, who in fact is half-Irish by descent, but favors her Korean mom. Growing up in suburban Long Island surrounded by a sea of blond friends made her an outsider — and damn funny. Funny enough to get writing gigs with 30 Rock, Love Bites and About a Boy, among other TV series, and to partner on projects backed by boldface names like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Now she’s leveraging lessons from her life story for a new show in development with ABC, The Homefront. Drawing on her own experience is a savvy move at a time when “outsider” comedies like Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat — not to mention the gay couple on Modern Family — are bringing nontraditional stories set in suburban neighborhoods into view. It’s all part of a trend of embracing new perspectives on television, says Wenhong Chen, assistant professor of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas, one fueled by changes to TV distribution and new content providers like Netflix and Hulu..."Maybe it comes from writing for TV’s premier female comedy character, Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon, as McGuinness was part of a 30 Rock mafia that included Kay Cannon (screenwriter for the Pitch Perfect movies), Tracey Wigfield (The Mindy Project) and Donald Glover (Community)....

"McGuinness’ own ridiculously complicated backstory surely adds perspective. Her soldier father met her mom while he was stationed in Korea. The two split up, she went back to Korea and her father “didn’t know what to do with the kids,” she says. She ended up in New York with her grandfather and step-grandmother (she calls them her parents). Her dad was in and out of the picture, but eight years after last seeing her, he called wanting to visit her while she was pregnant with her (now born) son, James. Imagining her former Green Beret father with her baby in suburban LA switched on a lightbulb. “I realized — that’s the show,” she says, and The Homefront was born. The personal’s always been present in McGuinness’ work. Back when she wrote for NBC’s Mercy, Schilling remembers, McGuinness would call her to explain her thinking about a script, sharing family stories while discussing plot points. “There was an intimacy that popped up out of nowhere,” Schilling says. That’s true again as McGuinness, in a purple dress and nerdy glasses, chats with me on the plush sofa in her Los Angeles home. She talks about anything and everything, telling stories that almost always end with a punch line. Like the time she worked at a production company, Castle Rock. One morning, the phone rang and a crazy-sounding guy threatened to come to the office to shoot Rob Reiner over his politics. She called HR. “If the guy arrives,” she says she was told, “just buzz up and tell us ‘Fed Ex is here.’” Don’t worry, he added: They’d be sure to get the stars out of the building."

"Her life’s more valuable now to the entertainment gods, but that doesn’t mean every door’s open to her. The story of TV development is trying — and failing — a lot. So far, none of her projects in two years of development have panned out. In general, only a few scripts ever make it to pilots or series, so even while The Homefront is in development at ABC, she’s pitching another comedy series for cable. It’s a tricky business getting the sign-off on a show, TV producer and writer Kit Boss says, with networks weighing everything from cost to whether a program matches its brand to if it can get the right cast. If her outsider credentials don’t do the trick, McGuinness has maybe the ultimate insider trait to call upon: a Harvard degree, something not so rare in writing and pitch rooms across Hollywood. And there’s that 30 Rock pedigree. It’s almost Halloween the day we meet, and ex-boss Tina Fey has sent McGuinness’ new baby a costume — the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Maybe a mini-metaphor for her own career."

  • Citing that article as ref name = ozy.

Other Sources edit

  • From IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1269432/ "Born: May 21, 1977 in Killeen, Texas, USA"
  • From 2016: http://deadline.com/2016/06/hbo-prep-curtis-sittenfeld-novel-comedy-tv-series-1201777334/ "HBO has acquired the rights to Curtis Sittenfeld’s bestselling debut novel Prep. It will be developed as a comedy series by former 30 Rock writer-producer Colleen McGuinness and Game of Thrones executive producer Carolyn Strauss... McGuinness will write the comedy series adaptation and will executive produce. Former HBO programming chief-turned-producer Strauss also will serve as executive producer. McGuinness, who shared in 30 Rock’s 2013 best series Emmy nomination, as well as 2013 and 2014 WGA nominations, is a co-executive producer on the upcoming Nick Stoller/Francesca Delbanco comedy series for Netflix."

Sittenfeld, McGuinness and Strauss are repped by WME. McGuinness is also repped by Hansen Jacobson and Strauss by Jackoway Tyerman." Citing this article as refname=deadline2016

  • From 2014: http://deadline.com/2014/10/ben-affleck-matt-damon-fox-comedy-colleen-mcguinness-864157/ Adding some quotes from this source: 30 Rock writer-producer Colleen McGuinness is having a big development season, selling a second high-profile project with A-list producers attached. Fox has put in development an untitled comedy from McGuinness, which is executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The single-camera half-hour comedy, which has a script commitment plus penalty, hails from Universal TV and Affleck and Damon’s Pearl Street Films. Written by McGuinnes, it centers on a 25-year-old woman who works at a frozen yogurt shop and whose life is going nowhere – until she discovers she is telekinetic. McGuinnes is executive producing with Affleck, Damon and Pearl Street’s Jennifer Todd. McGuinness, who was a writer on Seasons 6 and 7 of NBC’s Emmy-winning 30 Rock, also recently sold an untitled comedy to NBC, executive produced by 30 Rock showrunners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Last season,WME-repped McGuinnes was a supervising producer on Jason Katims’ About A Boy. WME-repped Pearl Street Films is currently producing a new season of the Emmy-nominated Project Greenlight for HBO and and is in pre-production on the feature Live By Night, based on the Dennis Lehane novel which Affleck is adapting, will star in and direct for 2015."
  • From 2015: http://deadline.com/2015/10/homefront-family-comedy-todd-hollands-abc-1201568848/ "In his first development season as solo principal of Dark Toy Entertainment, Emmy-winning director-producer Todd Holland has set up single-camera half-hour comedy The Homefront at ABC. It hails from ABC Studios, where Dark Toy is under a deal. Written by Colleen McGuinness (30 Rock), The Homefront is described as “Everybody Loves Raymond meets American Sniper.” Loosely based on the life of McGuinness, whose father is a retired Green Beret, it centers on a retired Green Beret who comes back to the U.S. and moves near his grown daughter and grandkids, only to find that it’s easier to face death every day than to live in the suburbs. McGuinness will write the script and will executive produce with Holland, who is set to direct. At Dark Toy, the project is overseen by executive Jason Serota."
  • Also from 2014, this one from Variety http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/fox-orders-comedy-script-produced-by-matt-damon-ben-affleck-1201341279/ "Fox has given a script order plus penalty for a comedy penned by”30 Rock” alum Colleen McGuinness. McGuinness has partnered with Pearl Street’s Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Todd to exec produce the untitled single-cam comedy set around the life of a 25-year-old frozen yogurt shop employee whose life is going nowhere — until she discovers that she is telekinetic. McGuinness previously worked as a writer and producer on “30 Rock,” and was a supervising producer on NBC’s “About A Boy.”"

" From 2013 http://deadline.com/2013/08/nbc-nabs-comedy-produced-by-30-rocks-tina-fey-robert-carlock-563615/ "WME-repped McGuinness joined 30 Rock during Season 6 and shared in the series’ WGA nomination earlier this year. Before that, she worked on NBC drama Mercy. In its last hurrah at the Emmys, 30 Rock, which wrapped its seven-year run in January, received 13 nominations, more than any other comedy, including for best comedy series."

  • from 2004 when McGuinness was a "tyro scribe" http://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/new-line-serves-laffer-1117907232/ "New Line Cinema has acquired “Baby Got Backhand” from tyro scribe Colleen McGuinness. The comedy is based on McGuinness’ experience as a Long Island high school tennis player who won a gold medal in the Empire State Games. McGuinness is a former assistant to New Line exec VP of production Richard Brener. She was previously a staff writer on Alicia Silverstone’s “Miss Match” for NBC and is a writer on Fox’s Hawaii-set drama “North Shore.”"[4]


Atlas Obscura edit

I notice that founder Joshua Foer has his own article, but I think that Atlas Obscura also is notable on its own.

For example, the following news stories:

http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/27/atlas-obscura-raises-2m-to-become-a-national-geographic-for-millennials/
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/04/interview-david-plotz-atlas-obscura-discovery-places-travel
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323469804578525242552243284
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/business/media/slates-former-top-editor-takes-helm-at-travel-site.html?_r=0

Drafting some content:

Atlas Obscura is a travel website founded in 2009 by author Joshua Foer and documentary film-maker Dylan Thuras.[7] It catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations, and relies heavily on user-generated content.[8]

Thuras and Foer met in 2007, and soon thereafter started discussing ideas for a different kind of atlas, featuring sites not commonly found in guidebooks. [9]

Thuras says Atlas Obscura has an additional goal: "Creating a real-world community who are engaging with us, each other and these places and getting away from their computers to actually see them."[9]

Atlas Obscura organizes frequent outings and one big annual international event known as Obscura Day.[10]

Australian Grains Genebank edit

Somebody just deleted a link form the Svalbard gene bank article to Australian Grains Genebank. I thought I would start drafting it here, but now I see there is already a draft article in wiki at [[33]]

So I will go over there to work on it, taking with me the one reference I quickly found with a search: [11]


Gina Ortiz Jones edit

She is a candidate for US House of Rep in Texas, one of 3 national candidates endorsed by DFA. I was looking for a Wikipedia article to learn more about her but there isn't one, yet. Here are some potential RS establishing her notability and details:

Texas Tribune 2017:

A graduate of John Jay High School in San Antonio, Jones attended Boston University on a ROTC scholarship and served in the Air Force from 2003-2006, deploying to Iraq. After a stint in the private sector, she went to work for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency in 2008, ultimately becoming a special adviser to the deputy director. In November, she moved to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she worked until June.

Also recent article

Winning a four-year Air Force ROTC scholarship from San Antonio’s John Jay High School sent Gina to Boston University for her BA & MA in Economics and a BA in East Asian Studies. Joined the US Air Force as an intelligence officer, deployed to Iraq under the US Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Active duty service was followed by a public service career in “national security, intelligence and defense” involving operations in Latin America and Africa. This included “advising on military operations supporting South Sudan’s independence referendum and serving in the Libyan Crisis Intelligence Unit. She also earned a graduate degree from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies.

  • Time Magazine mention http://time.com/magazine/us/5107476/january-29th-2018-vol-191-no-3-u-s/ quotes her

    Gina Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer who is challenging Republican Representative Will Hurd in Texas’ overwhelmingly Hispanic 23rd Congressional District (which Clinton won), puts it this way: “I’m sure a lot of people are saying, ‘Look, I can do at least as sh-tty of a job as that guy.'”

  • Local Texas paper interview https://bigbendgazette.com/2018/02/20/congressional-candidate-gina-ortiz-jones-gazette-interview/

    Gina Ortiz Jones graduated from Boston University and is a former Air Force intelligence officer. After serving in the Air Force, she worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency. She worked in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, during the Obama administration.

  • Local account of March 6 primary run up https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/23/texas-swing-district-sees-crowded-democratic-primary/

    Four Democrats are seriously vying for the seat in the March 6 primary: Judy Canales, a former Bill Clinton and Barack Obama appointee from Eagle Pass; Hulings, a former federal prosecutor from San Antonio; Gina Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer from San Antonio; and Rick Treviño, a former high school teacher from San Antonio who unsuccessfully ran for city council there before entering the TX-23 primary last year. A fifth Democrat, Angela "Angie" Villescaz, filed for the seat but does not appear to be running as active a campaign as the others.

  • Salty and colorful speaker, focused and down to earth (my private opinion after reading quotes from her in some of these articles.
  • Ballotpedia https://ballotpedia.org/Gina_Ortiz_Jones

    Congressional elections will take place in Texas in 2018. An open primary election took place on March 6, 2018.[3] A primary runoff election is on May 22, 2018.

  • Emily's List https://www.emilyslist.org/candidates/gina-ortiz-jones

    Gina is a trailblazer, and she’s proud to be a candidate who is “openly gay, openly first generation, openly veteran, openly Asian-American, openly everything,” she has said. “Right now is not the time to be closeted or be ashamed of who you are or who you love.”

  • Huffpo https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gina-ortiz-jones-will-hurd-texas-2018_us_5a4c069ce4b0b0e5a7a94c48

Since moving back to San Antonio in June, Jones has been living in the house she grew up in. Most people in her community are minorities. Many are low-income. As she’s traveled around the district, she’s met people in border towns living in rank poverty. Some have no running water. Some have no paved roads. Jones said the experience has been a stark reminder of how badly Congress needs diverse voices ― and that now is the time for her to throw her hat in.

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Gina Ortiz Jones is an Iraq War veteran and former Air Force intelligence officer who returned from DC to her hometown of San Antonio, Texas to run as a Democrat against Republican Representative Will Hurd in Texas's 23rd congressional district.

Personal history edit

Ortiz Jones grew up in San Antonio, Texas as the daughter of a single mother born in the Philippines. Her mother worked menial jobs in the US, despite having graduate degrees in her native country. Ortiz Jones describes herself as "openly gay, openly first generation, openly veteran, openly Asian-American, openly everything.”[12]

After winning a four-year Air Force ROTC scholarship while a student at San Antonio’s John Jay High School, she enrolled at Boston University, where she earned a BA & MA in Economics as well as a BA in East Asian Studies. After graduation, she joined the US Air Force as an intelligence officer, and deployed to Iraq under the US Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. [13]

The Texas Tribune, announcing Ortiz Jones's candidacy in August 2017, described her personal history as follows:[14]

A graduate of John Jay High School in San Antonio, Jones attended Boston University on a ROTC scholarship and served in the Air Force from 2003-2006, deploying to Iraq. After a stint in the private sector, she went to work for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency in 2008, ultimately becoming a special adviser to the deputy director. In November, she moved to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she worked until June.

Electoral history edit

In 2017, Ortiz Jones was the first Democrat to announce a challenge[14] to "Republican Representative Will Hurd in Texas’ overwhelmingly Hispanic 23rd Congressional District (which Clinton won.)"[15]

In the March 6, 2018 Democratic Primary, she faced a field of four other Democrats. Ortiz Jones captured 41% of the vote, with her closest Democratic rival Rick Treviño winning about 14%. Democrats will have a May 22, 2018 runoff election, pitting Ortiz Jones against Treviño, to determine which will be the Democratic candidate in the November 2018 election.[16]

According to a recent article in Teen Vogue,[17]

If Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer, ends up heading to Washington after the midterm elections, she would be breaking barriers as the first openly gay woman of color from Texas elected to Congress, as well as the first Iraq War veteran to represent Texas in Congress. She’d also be the first woman to represent Texas’s 23rd Congressional district.

Jaclyn Bradley Palmer (archiving Afd) edit

Jaclyn Bradley Palmer
Birth nameJaclyn Bradley
OriginLorain, Ohio
Genresfolk, americana, singer-songwriter
Occupation(s)Musician, singer-songwriter, music therapist, filmmaker
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar
Years active2005–present
Websitewww.jaclynbradleypalmer.com

Jaclyn Bradley Palmer (born Jaclyn Bradley) is an indie singer-songwriter and film producer from Lorain, Ohio. A contestant on the 8th season of The Voice of Holland.[18][19], she is also a board-certified music therapist, specializing in surgical music therapy research.[20][21]

She was chosen by Cleveland Magazine as one of the Most Interesting People of 2016.[22]

Musical performance edit

After earning a degree in classical music from Indiana University in 2001, Palmer moved to New York City where she lived and wrote music for two years before moving to LA in 2003.[23] She sang back-up for "Kid Rock protege" Ty Stone, [24] "Walking Dead" director, Michael Satrazemis, and Gretchen Bonaduce. [25]

She has appeared as a regular cast member on several television shows, namely The Voice of Holland and Vh1's "Breaking Bonaduce" (when she was Danny Bonaduce's personal assistant). [23] She performed several of her original songs with Gretchen Bonaduce on "Breaking Bonaduce." [26] [27] Her music has also been on other television shows, including Bravo's "Rachel Zoe Project" and TLC's "King of the Crown.[28] [29] She also helped to create a 12-episode voice lesson series on the Time Warmer show, "Random Acts of Music." [30] Since 2005, she has released three LP's and one EP. [31]

The Voice of Holland edit

On November 17, 2017, Jaclyn became a contestant on The Voice of Holland (season 8), the television program that originated the American show, The Voice.[32] She was successful with her audition as coach Sanne Hans also known in Holland as Miss Montreal turned around and claimed Jaclyn for her team.[33] Jaclyn is the only American featured on season 8.[34]

Film edit

In 2016, she produced and directed a documentary film Made of Gold: The Story of John Rozzano Jr. and the USS Indianapolis.[35] Bradley grew up hearing about her grandmother's young brother who was lost at sea when his ship was torpedoed and sunk in 1945. She spent 10 years interviewing survivors to learn more about his death. The film "pays honor to Rozzano and all fallen military personnel who don’t make it home from battle." [36] Rozzano now has a monument in Veteran's Park in Lorain. [35] The film won an "Award of Excellence" in the category "Feature Documentary" at the Hollywood Independent Documentary Awards film festival in June 2016.[37]

In 2017, her musical tribute to the victims of gun violence was an official selection at the 2017 Orlando Film Festival. [38] In 2018, her film, "Love the Bodies We're In" was made official selection at the L.A. Dances with Film festival and premiered at the Chinese Theaters in Hollywood." [39]

Music therapy edit

A board certified music therapist with a master's degree in music therapy, she studies the effect of music on surgery patients (MT-BC).[40] Her research has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology,[41][42] AORN,[43] and Music Therapy Perspectives. She conducted the largest music therapy study in history to employ the use of live music in the surgical arena.[44]

Personal life edit

She currently lives in the Netherlands[45] with her husband, Oliver, and their daughter. Their overseas move to Holland was chronicled on HGTV's House Hunters International in January 2017. [46][47]

Discography edit

ALBUMS
Year Album Type Location
2005 Bold LP US
2008 Hollywood be thy Name LP US
2016 The Dutch Sessions LP NL
2018 Be it Wild or Poetic EP NL

External links edit

Categories: 1979 births, Living people, Musicians from Cleveland, American female singer-songwriters and more.

References

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  3. ^ Libby Coleman (11 December 2015). "Taking on TV Comedy from the Outside In". OZY Media. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Harris, Dana (30 June 2004). "New Line serves laffer". Variety. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  5. ^ Weinstein, Shelli (30 June 2004). "Fox Orders Comedy Script Produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck". Variety. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
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  7. ^ Kaufman, Leslie (November 23, 2014). "Slate's Former Top Editor Takes Helm at Travel Site". New York Times. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  8. ^ Sawers, Paul (February 27, 2015). "Atlas Obscura raises $2M to become a National Geographic for millennials". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  9. ^ a b Cooper, Arnie (July 24, 2013). "Celebrating Obscurity". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
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  13. ^ Gomez, Buddy (February 9, 2018). [ps://news.abs-cbn.com/opinions/02/09/18/opinion-gina-ortiz-jones-american-journey "Opinion: Gina Ortiz Jones' American journey"]. ABS-CBN. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  14. ^ a b Svitek, Patrick (August 2, 2017). "U.S. Rep. Will Hurd gets first major Democratic challenger for 2018". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  15. ^ Alter, Charlotte (January 29, 2018). "A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office". Time Magazine. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  16. ^ "Gina Ortiz Jones". Ballotpedia. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  17. ^ Young, Lauren (March 5, 2018). "Gina Ortiz Jones is Running for Texas's 23rd District in March 6 Texas Primary". Teen Vogue. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  18. ^ Walton,Bruce "Lorain native Jaclyn Bradley Palmer advances on 'The Voice of Holland'", Chronicle Telegram, 17 November 2017. Retrieved on 30 November 2017.
  19. ^ den Blanken, Mark "Bijna 2,2 miljoen kijkers zien bikkelharde Anouk in The Voice'", AD, 16 December 2017. Retrieved on 13 June 2018.
  20. ^ Theiss, Evelyn, "Singer-songwriter Jaclyn Bradley Palmer uses music to help patients at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center", The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 25 September 2012. Retrieved on 30 November 2017
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