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Trolling for Lake Erie Walleye: The Basics

So, your scrolling through your Facebook news feed and you see your friends constantly posting photos of some beautiful Lake Erie walleyes.  You think to yourself, “I’ve got a boat and I want to give this a try…but where do I start?”  If you start searching Google for some answers, you might get overwhelmed very quickly.  There are numerous tactics out there that are being used to catch walleye on Lake Erie and some are better than others, but we are here to help you get started the way we did: trolling dipsy divers.  This is a simple technique that will consistently put fish in the cooler.  We want to share this with you because we would hate to have a fellow Western New Yorker miss out on the unforgettable summer walleye bite that exists in our own backyards.

Before we get started, let’s discuss some of the basic facts about walleye:

  • Walleyes are schooling fish.  They hang out together in large groups when they are feeding and migrating.  This is very important on Lake Erie because the Eastern Basin of lake holds some of the deepest waters where the migrating schools end up in the month of July.
  • Walleyes school around large pockets of bait fish.  If you can find these pockets, there are usually walleyes around.
  • Walleyes will often suspend at various depths in the water column, often depending on water temperature and where the bait schools are located.
  • Walleyes are predatory fish.  They actively seek out prey and will chase down their meals.  This is why trolling works so well.
  • In the Spring, walleyes can be found in much shallower water than in mid-summer due to the spawn.

Now that you have some background information about walleye, let’s start with the basics on how to troll dipsy divers to put fish in the boat.

Setting up your boat

Since trolling for walleye requires some heavier-duty equipment than normal, you need to give yourself some ample space in the back of the boat.  Most of the work you are doing is going to take place back here and you don’t want to be tripping over things.  Make sure the floor is clear and you have enough space to work in.

Rod Holders

One of the most important pieces of equipment you need on your boat is a good set of rod holders.  Trolling Dipsy Divers and inline planer boards creates a significant amount of tension on your rods.  You want to invest in some rod holders that will be stable and can handle the constant strain.  When you are shopping around for some, be sure to ask questions and read lots of reviews to ensure that you are getting a quality product.  You also want to make sure that you mount the rod holders on a flat, stable surface on your boat; sometimes this requires some reinforcements.  Although many of the top walleye anglers in the area use several rods while trolling, we only use four and we still pull in our fair share of eyes; don’t be intimidated, it only takes one line in the water to catch a fish!

Trolling Speed

Next, you need to have a way to slow the boat down to an efficient trolling speed.  We like to stay between 1.5-2.5mph.  If you don’t have a smaller kicker motor, you can get a trolling plate to attach to your main motor or attach a rope to a couple of buckets and hang them over the side of the boat.  Again, do some research and see what works best for you.  We use buckets and they work just fine.

Rods and Reels

Now that you have your boat ready to troll, let’s talk about the rods and reels that are required.  If you are using divers, you need to get a rod that is made for them.  These rods truly take a beating and if you are not equipped with the correct type of rod, you might end up breaking them.  We started with the Cabela’s Depthmaster Trolling Combos and they have been working great for the past several years.  You want to be sure to have line counters on your reels so you know how deep your lures are running at all times.  This is critical in catching walleyes on Lake Erie.  Furthermore, it is important to have a long enough rod that will flex when under tension and to make it easy to net the fish when it approaches the boat.  We use rods that are 9′ or 10′ long.

Dipsy Divers

Dipsy Divers are a brand of diving devices that bring your lure to deeper depths when trolling.  They have a release mechanism on them that disengages when a fish bites the lure at the end of the line to allow you to fight the fish more efficiently.  See the diagram below to see how to use them:

Dipsy Diver

As you can see, several divers can be run at the same time because of the angle that you set the dipsy at.  You set this angle by using the indicator with the numbers that are on the bottom of the dipsy.  On the bottom of the dipsy, you will see L or R.  If you are running the dipsy on the RIGHT side of the boat (while facing the bow), you want to set the dipsy to the numbers on the side listed as R.  If you set the number at “1” the dipsy will not plane very far away from the boat and will dive deeper; the “3” setting will plane the diver away from the boat more, but it will not dive as deep.  A “0” setting will make the diver run straight down, which is good when running rods straight off the stern of the boat.  The more line you let out, the deeper it will dive.  When you purchase a Dipsy Diver, there will be a chart that explains this so you know what depth you are running your baits.  We use a variety of sizes depending on where the fish are.

Line and Leaders

When choosing line, we like to use PowerPro 30Lb. Braid.  Compared to monofilament, braided line reduces line stretch and allows for the dipsys to easily disengage when a fish hits.  Since this line is not cheap, it is a good idea to fill some of your spool with some inexpensive mono and then fill the remainder of the reel spool with the PowerPro.  We also use the Palomar knot when tying swivels on to ensure we do not lose our expensive equipment.

It is very necessary to use a leader that runs from the back of your dipsy diver to your lure of choice.  We use 15-20lb monofilament and keep our leaders about as long as the rod we are using.  The monofilament actually allows for a margin of stretching which assists in preventing the hook from pulling out of the walleye’s mouth.  The leader also helps to keep the lure away from the large dipsy diver.

Worm Harnesses

Worm harnesses are very productive for walleye on Lake Erie.  We like to employ a wide variety of colors until we find a color that is working best on that particular day.  Our worm harnesses are homemade by our uncles and have been proven to work since they showed us how to catch walleyes when we were young boys.  You can either make them yourself or purchase them at any WNY bait shop or outdoor store.

Stick Baits

We also use a wide variety of stickbaits.  There are many different brands on the market with new colors, different actions, and different diving depths.  Most them work very well.  We usually stick with the shallow runners because the dipsy diver does the work in getting the lure to the depth you need it.

There are many other lures like spoons and plugs that will catch some walleye, but we usually stick to the harnesses and sticks.

Fish Finder

Having a fish finder on board is a necessity when trolling for walleye on Lake Erie for many reasons.  You might think the first reason is so you can see where the fish are…that’s important, but I think paying attention to the depth is even more crucial. You aren’t going to see every fish that you troll over on the graph.  There have been many times where we have marked nothing on the screen and still caught fish.  Depth is important because there are some days when you only catch fish at one very specific depth.  Either way, a fish finder can help you significantly and it doesn’t have to be a fancy unit with all the bells and whistles.  While using your fish finder, look for schools of bait suspended in the water column.  They will look like big blobs on your screen.  Next, see if there are fish either mixed in or below those bait schools.  Walleyes will look like thin hooks and will sometimes be stacked on top of one another.  Use your GPS to continue trolling over these areas and try some different baits until you find a pattern that works.

If you have a GPS on board that can track the route of your troll you will significantly increase your chances of catching more fish.  Like we stated earlier, walleye sometimes group together in very tight schools.  Once you find those schools, your GPS can help you target that area over and over again.  Having a GPS on board is also a great safety measure that can direct you back to shore if you happen to get disoriented on the lake.

Other Helpful Accessories

A quality net is essential to finishing the job when you’ve done all that work to bring the walleye to the boat.  Many walleyes are lost right at the back of the boat because the angler doesn’t have a long enough net or doesn’t have enough practice using it. Be sure that your net is long to make up for the extended leaders you are using with your divers.

Walleyes have teeth, treble hooks are sharp, and you need your hands; so make sure you have something to remove the hooks from the fish you bring in.  Removing hooks seems easy, but on Lake Erie, the waves can increase very quickly which makes it a bit trickier.

Clipping the gills of the walleye you plan to harvest is a great idea.  This allows the fish to bleed out and provides cleaner meat and a tidy filleting area.   Cut the gills and hang the fish off the side of the boat for a few minutes.

A cooler allows you to put your bled out walleye on ice right away which keeps your meat fresh.

This seems like a no brainer, but seriously, make sure you bring a sufficient amount of gas with you.  Check your fuel levels often to ensure you don’t troll through all of it and short yourself when heading back to the docks.

And lastly, make sure you have all of the required safety equipment on your vessel.  You can find that on the New York State DEC website.

Putting it all together

Trolling for walleye on Lake Erie is always an exciting adventure.  It is something that we have done since I can remember and is something I would never give up.  Yes, it is hard work, tiring, and challenging at times, but that’s what makes it worthwhile.

This article is only a brief description of how to get started with walleye fishing on Lake Erie and there are many other tactics being used to haul in these delicious fillets.  We presented what we think is a very simple way to get you started.  As you get further into the sport, you will end up gaining more and more information about how to increase your skills and knowledge.  We provided you with a solid first step, but now it is up to you to take it and troll with it.

Good Luck and let us know how you do!

Written by Chris Postle of Postletown Woods and Water

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My Early Home

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside. At the top of the meadow was a plantation of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.

While I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.

As soon as I was old enough to eat grass, my mother used to go out to work in the daytime and come back in the evening.

There were six young colts in the meadow besides me. They were older than I was; some were nearly as large as grown-up horses. I used to run with them, and had great fun; we used to gallop all together round and round the field, as hard as we could go. Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.

One day, when there was a good deal of kicking, my mother whinnied to me to come to her, and then she said:

"I wish you to pay attention to what I am going to say to you. The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are carthorse colts and, of course, they have not learned manners. You have been well bred and well born; your father has a great name in these parts, and your grandfather won the cup two years at the Newmarket races. Yourgrandmother had the sweetest temper of any horse I ever knew, and I think you have never seen me kick or bite. I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play."

I have never forgotten my mother's advice. I knew she was a wise old horse, and our master thought a great deal of her. Her name was Duchess, but he often called her Pet.

Our master was a good, kind man. He gave us good food, good lodging, and kind words; he spoke as kindly to us as he did to his little children. We were all fond of him, and my mother loved him very much. When she saw him at the gate, she would neigh with joy, and trot up to him. He would pat and stroke her and say, "Well, old Pet, and how is your little Darkie?" I was a dull black, so he called me Darkie, then he would give me a piece of bread, which was very good, and sometimes he brought a carrot for my mother. All the horses would come to him, but I think we were his favorites. My mother always took him to the town on a market day in a light gig.

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I was two years old when a circumstance happened which I have never forgotten. It was early in the spring; there had been a little frost in the night, and a light mist still hung over the plantations and meadows. I and the other colts were feeding at the lower part of the field when we heard, quite in the distance, what sounded like the cry of dogs. The oldest of the colts raised his head, pricked his ears, and said, "There are the hounds!" and immediately cantered off, followed by the rest of us to the upper part of the field, where we could look over the hedge and see several fields beyond. My mother and an old riding horse of our master's were also standing near, and seemed to know all about it.

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Chapter 1: The Hunt
Chapter 2: My Breaking In
Chapter 3: A Fair Start
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Chapter 8: A Ruined Horse
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The Pink Tide: Media Access and Political Power in Latin America

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Over the last two decades, military and authoritarian regimes in Latin America have receded as indigenous social movements and popular protests have demanded and won peaceful transitions to democratically-elected governments. Across the entire Southern hemisphere, democracy has developed with a radical flourish, bringing dramatic changes in politics, education, civil society, and the media. Historically, revolution in Latin America has been depicted as civil war, violent conflict, and armed resistance, but recent social change has resulted from the political power of mass social movements reflected in elections and government policy change rather than guerrilla insurgencies.
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The Pink Tide

Media Access and Political Power in Latin America

By Lee Artz

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Media, Power, and Democracy in Latin America

Lee Artz

In the last fifteen years, countries in Latin America have elected politically progressive governments. Beginning with the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998, an unprecedented succession of other populist presidents was elected, including Socialist Ricardo Lagos in Chile (2000); Workers Party (PT) labor leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil (2002); left-leaning Peronist Néstor Kirchner in Argentina (2003); Broad Front (FA) candidate Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay (2004); indigenous union and Movement for Socialism (MAS) leader Evo Morales in Bolivia (2005); FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) leader Daniel Ortega, reelected in Nicaragua (2006); left liberal Manuel Zelaya in Honduras (2006); Citizen's Alliance candidate Rafael Correa in Ecuador (2006); radical priest Fernando Lugo with the Alliance for Change in Paraguay (2008) and former FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) guerrilla fighter Mauricio Funes in El Salvador (2009); and Ollana Humala in Peru (2011). Citizens in several countries proceeded to reelect such progressive candidates several times, most consistently in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Brazil. Seven coups, a combination of military and parliamentary (TeleSUR 2016), as well as orchestrated disruption campaigns by elite opposition in most countries, continue to challenge the radical upsurges. In several countries, where social movements faltered — Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Peru, and Brazil — rightist forces have won national elections and regained control of the government.

In the midst of continent-wide turmoil and conflict, the sudden increase in the number of governments espousing varieties of socialism and social democracy and enacting programs to benefit labor, the urban poor, and indigenous groups (with an occasional veneer of anti-U.S.-intervention rhetoric) became widely known as the Pink Tide. "Pink Tide" (Onda Rosa in Spanish) seems to concisely, albeit insufficiently, characterize the appearance of a generally left political trajectory in Latin American. This was "pink" rather than "red," as Larry Rohter of the New York Times first opined. "Pink" indicating a lighter tone — not the "red" of communism, not socialism, but a softer shade of progressive, even radical politics, with considerable variation across nations. While "Pink Tide" cogently labels the leftward trend, more is needed to understand the complexity of what's really taking place in each country and the region as a whole. What is considered "left"? How do progressive governments relate to social movements and vice versa? And what do these changes mean on a regional level? Only a closer look at the social relations and political conditions in each nation can answer these questions because, while all have considerable interconnections, each must work out relations of power within their own polities. Still, while several of the candidates, and their successors, proclaimed socialist platforms, with the exception of Venezuela and Bolivia, most of these new governments did not explicitly advocate socialism; rather, their commitment to "equality, social justice, and popular participation" contributes to openings for radical social transformation (Levitsky and Roberts 2011, 3).

Although three-fourths of Latin American countries have had democratically elected progressive left-leaning presidents and legislatures since 1998, the rise of new social democratic and left-populist governments was poorly reported in the world's commercial media. Presenting disconnected and recurring exposés of one or another populist leader, commercial mass media obscured and misrepresented the remarkable historic changes that have occurred in Latin America in the last fifteen years. Criticisms by liberal academics, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and more radical-left organizations have further discouraged appreciation of the momentous changes occurring.

Undeterred by such dismissals, this writing offers a perspective to help analyze and evaluate "the extent to which the actors on the left today offer alternatives to neoliberalism" and "determin[e] to what extent parallelism," mass mobilizations, and political initiatives by governments and movements "go in the direction of ... decreasing inequality between the classes and countries, economic democracy, and environmental sustainability" (Rodriguez-Garavito, Barrett, and Chavez 2008, 23). The impulse for democracy, social justice, and social change embedded within social-movement actions against privatizations and deregulation of public interest highlight several interrelated conflicts, including: 1) the conditions and operations of power, 2) the meaning and practice of democracy, and 3) the interaction of social relations of power that are instrumental in civil society, the government, and the market. As the primary means of communication, media are implicated in power, democracy, and social movements. Thus, public access to media addresses each of these questions of power — and provides a measure of democracy within each society.

Here, public access does not refer to an anonymous audience to be serviced by media as with Britain's BBC or other public-service broadcasters, but asserts the democratic right of the public to produce and disseminate content. Public-access media affirms the democratic right to communication, including the right to have access to production and distribution technologies without restriction by commercial interests. Public, understood in all its complexities, is the sum of the multiple constituencies of each country, including among others, diverse sections of the working class from industrial, service, agricultural, and informal workers to those unemployed and underemployed, indigenous nations, ethnic groups, women, youth, community-based organizations, religious, environmental, cooperative, and other social, cultural, and political collectivities. In other words, the claim is that public access to media serves as both an indicator of the democratic commitment by a political leadership and a means for organizing the powers necessary to resist neoliberalism and transform the capitalist order. A primary measure of democracy and social justice must be the extent to which those popular forces have direct access and control of the means of communication.

Referring to the election of new left, socialist-leaning, and radical popular governments as the Pink Tide delivers an initial definition that should not short-circuit its historical significance. A more robust description necessarily includes recognition of the entrance of powerful radical social movements of indigenous and working classes organizing beyond industrial worksites — portending rising labor conflicts in China, India, and across Europe. (Worker protests in China reached record proportions in 2015; in 2016, tens of millions protested neoliberal reforms in India, while labor resistance to austerity has spread across Europe [China Labor Bulletin 2015; Khan 2016; Schmidt 2015].)

The political dynamics of these several Latin America countries are globally important because Latin America is no longer part of the periphery in global production or global politics. Latin America is part of the global South, but the entire global South from BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) to Mexico, Korea, Nigeria, and Eastern Europe can no longer be easily dismissed economically or politically. Industrial, agricultural, and financial corporations in Latin America are fully integrated into an emerging transnational capitalist economic and political order. The extraction and production of energy, agriculture, and finished industrial and consumer goods in Latin America, as well as the enormous consumer market that Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and the rest of the nations provide, are an integral part of the global economy (Robinson 2008).

For decades, Latin America played a prominent role in world history and the development of capitalism as a supplier of agricultural products and raw materials, a consumer market, and a source of cheap labor. "The continent where neoliberalism was first applied — in Chile and Bolivia" — it was also "the site of the greatest resistance to that same neoliberalism, and of the most developed alternatives to it" (Sader 2011, 2).

Unsurprisingly, Latin American alternatives to neoliberal privatization directly challenge the transnational capitalist system, raising real-life examples that might be emulated and advanced elsewhere. In each case, the capitalist state and its social relations survived the elections, but a change in governmental power brought new social programs — to the exact extent that the new government relied on and organized mass organization and political mobilization. Those "left" governments that blocked mass participation and substituted their own political bureaucracies (as in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile) shied away from dedicated social change and instead accommodated the capitalist order, in a vain attempt to compromise and avoid social confrontation.

The Pink Tide is not a coordinated, intentional political project; rather, it is the unfolding outcome of uneven successes of social movements resisting similar material and social conditions within specific and fairly unique national and cultural contexts. The initial actions by the new governments in each country varied widely: from modest reforms raising the minimum wage and protecting pensions to more radical structural adjustments that redistributed wealth, introduced land reform, and nationalized industries and natural resources. Moreover, the diverse social programs of each government reflect the wide range of political agendas for equality, social justice, and multiculturalism by the various "left" politicians. Neither Kirchner nor Lula da Silva opened doors to power for the working class, but "after the Movement for Socialism (MAS) took national office in 2006, Bolivian national sovereignty took a decidedly egalitarian turn: hydrocarbon resources were nationalized and participatory democracy moved beyond electoral politics to collective self-management of public services" (Tapia 2008, 224–25).

As the theme of this book proposes, some of the clearest indications of each government's commitment to equality are the changes to media practices, the new laws, regulations, and in some cases constitutional guarantees affording citizens the democratic right to communication, including access to media production, largely corresponding to each "left" governments' orientation and commitment to full democracy.

In short, the political expression embodied in the Pink Tide is a powerful but unexplored marker of the culmination of mass mobilizations that have achieved some semblance of political power through populist and socialist electoral successes and fairly progressive reforms in policies and programs of governments of the "left."

Left is a broadly descriptive term indicating a general commitment to social equality, some redistribution of wealth, social welfare, an expansion of democratic rights, labor rights, civil rights, and the protection of disenfranchised groups. The "right" defends market capitalism and its political order; the "left" advocates radical democracy and social justice (Bobbio 1996; Levitsky and Roberts 2011). The left includes socialists, communists, anarchists, new social movements of resistance to neoliberalism, and radical indigenous, labor, environmental groups, among others. The left also encompasses the traditional social democratic parties, what Jorge Lanzaro (2011) calls "institutionalized parties, with socialist leanings and kinship to the labor movement, which have replaced their revolutionary ideologies with moderate reformism" (349). Some call the Pink Tide a "new" left to describe its disconnection from the traditional social democratic parties in Latin America, its distance from armed resistance, and its willingness to electorally vie for government power (Barrett, Chavez, and Rodriguez-Garavito 2008). The Pink Tide designation thus includes avowed reformists like Michelle Bachelet in Chile, Frente Amplio's Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay, Liberal Party president Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, Ecuador's radical progressive Rafael Correa, the Workers Party (PT) in Brazil, as well as those more explicitly socialist, like Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, and Evo Morales. The range of political strategies and policies from neoliberal reform to calls for 21st Century Socialism is as specific and varied as each new "left" government.

The fall of the Soviet system and electoral defeat of the Sandinistas has been recognized as the end of one era for the left and the beginning of a new one — in the most favorable light as the appearance of movements for 21st Century Socialism and socialist democracy based on broad participation of indigenous and subordinate classes. At the same moment that transnational capitalism celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall, the severe structural adjustment program meted out in Venezuela in 1989 released a massive popular reaction against neoliberalism and privatization in Caracas, Venezeula. Known as the "caracazo," the popular classes put international capitalism on notice that resistance was mounting against the accumulation of wealth by dispossession and theft of public resources. In Argentina, the monetary stabilization plan exploded as privatizations brutalized the working classes and poor: "one of the most advanced systems of economic and social integration, which linked economic growth to the extension of the domestic consumer market, was torn apart," disrupting mass support for Peronism and a "wide range of groups with doctrinaire politics and limited mass support. It was left to the organizations of the unemployed, known as "piqueteros," and of factory occupations to take the lead in resisting neoliberalism — a situation that was repeated in almost all of Latin America" (Sader 2011, 13).

Previously in Latin America, communist, social democratic, and nationalist movements organized political parties, while guerrilla groups and a social left of trade unions, peasant groups, and even Christian-based communities led mass protest movements. Each of these projects declined or was reconfigured by the "combined effects of rising unemployment, privatizations, the 'flexibilization' of labor regulations, rural bankruptcies and mass migrations to the cities, the growth of the informal economy, and financial crises that undermined the social bases of trade unionism" and social democratic reformist parties (Rodriguez-Garavito, Barrett, and Chavez 2008, 7). "In place of the formal work positions that were lost in the public and private sectors, enormous populations of chronically unemployed, informal, and migrant workers emerged, forming a dispersed working class distinct from the organized proletariat that had sustained trade unionism in earlier periods (Portes and Hoffman 2003, 7). At the end of the twentieth century, the material conditions for the left had shifted.

The rise of the rabid right under Pinochet, Reagan, and Thatcher was so startling and overwhelming that for a short while it appeared that there was no alternative. Negative growth and rising unemployment, inequality and poverty brought on by neoliberal shock therapy, and structural adjustment programs drove millions to resist in diverse ways, from the Zapatista autonomous zones and the Brazilian landless workers movement to the indigenous uprisings in Ecuador and Bolivia, the Bolivarian socialism project in Venezuela, and the resurgence of the Broad Front in Uruguay, while neoliberalism sputtered with the economic collapse of Argentina. Ironically, the return of the repressed working class in rising social protest movements and the tide of left-infused electoral victories caught the Latin American elite, leading transnational politicians, and commercial media off guard.

This "new" Pink Tide left signals neither the end of class contradictions, nor the reduction of the political centrality of the working class for social change. Rather, the contours of resistance indicate the political, economic, and structural changes wrought by the imposition of neoliberalism by national and transnational forces. Three effects of neoliberal privatizations on social-class relations are manifest in Latin America: 1) the restructuring of global production, 2) the restructuring of the Latin American working class, and 3) the subsequent weakening of the power and legitimacy of existing political parties.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Public Media Access, Democracy, and Power, Lee Artz / 2. Venezuela: Freedom of Expression, Public Access, and Participatory Democracy, George Ciccariello-Maher and Ewa Sapiezynska / 3. Bolivia: Power and Information Pluralism in Bolivia , Pascal Lupien / 4. Ecuador: The Citizens’ Revolution and Popular Communication, Philip Kitzberger / 5. Uruguay: Hidden in plain sight: obstacles to media reform in Uruguay, Evan Light / 6. Argentina: The Role of Alternative Media in Latin America’s Pink Tide , Summer Harlow, and Stuart H. Davis / 7. Brazil: From Tide to Ripple to Tsunami: The Brazilian Leftover, Gilson Schwartz / 8. Latin America: Communication Sovereignty: Media and Cultural Policies of ALBA, UNASUR, and CELAC, Katherine Reilly / 9. Change Through Power: Media Reform as Participatory Democracy, Lee Artz / Index

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Virtue Falls: A Novel

Virtue Falls: A Novel

by Christina Dodd

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Blockbuster bestselling author Christina Dodd delivers a novel that will leave readers breathlessly turning the pages in this "truly stunning work of mystery, danger, and romance" (RT Book Reviews).

Twenty-three years ago, in the coastal town of Virtue Falls, Washington, four-year-old Elizabeth Banner witnessed her mother's brutal murder. Elizabeth's father was convicted of killing Misty and sentenced to prison, and Elizabeth was sent to live with relatives. Now she is back in Virtue Falls, a geologist like her father, her life guided by logic and facts. But nothing can help her through the chaos that follows the return of her ex-husband, Garik Jacobsen, an FBI agent on probation and tortured by the guilt of his past deeds. Nor can it help her deal with her father, now stricken with Alzheimer's and haunted by Misty's ghost...

"Intense and suspenseful, with touches of romance, humor and mysticism."-Kirkus Reviews

When a massive earthquake reveals long-concealed secrets, Elizabeth soon discovers her father is innocent. Is the killer still at large, stalking ever closer to the one witness to Misty's murder? To Elizabeth herself? Elizabeth and Garik investigate, stirring old dark and deadly resentments that could provoke another bloody murder-Elizabeth's own.

"With this Nail-biting suspense...but the novel's sexy romantic core will still please [Dodd's] longtime fans."-Booklist (starred review)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250068309
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 06/30/2015
Series: Virtue Falls Series , #1
Pages: 544
Sales rank: 442,163
Product dimensions: 4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author CHRISTINA DODD builds worlds filled with suspense, romance and adventure and creates the most distinctive characters in fiction today. Her more than fifty novels include the “positively Hitchcockian” (Booklist) Virtue Falls series, and they have been translated into twenty-five languages, recorded on Books on Tape for the Blind, won Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart and RITA Awards, and been called the year's best by Library Journal. Dodd herself has been a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle.

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Virtue Falls, Washington State

August 14

6:15 p.m.

If Elizabeth Banner noticed the interest with which the townspeople talked about her in low tones behind her back, she gave no indication. And in fact, she didn’t notice. For as long as she could remember, she had always been the girl who had watched her father kill her mother with the scissors.

Although Elizabeth hadn’t set foot in Virtue Falls for twenty-three years, the memory of Misty Banner’s murder was still fresh in many people’s minds. That made Elizabeth a local celebrity of sorts, and the news of her return swept the small community as vigorously as the tsunami those crazy scientists were always predicting.

Townsfolk speculated that Elizabeth had come back to reunite with her father, but after one brief visit to the Honor Mountain Memory Care Facility, she hadn’t gone back. Instead she spent her time at the ongoing study of Pacific Rim tectonic plates and subduction zones, researching alluvial deposits.

Or something.

Which made sense—her father was Charles Banner, the man who had pioneered the study, and now here she was, a chip off the old block, a respected geologist at age twenty-seven with lots of official-sounding letters after her name.

A few nasty people in the town darkly muttered that they hoped she didn’t follow in her father’s footsteps in any matter beyond the sciences.

Most folks didn’t think she would; Elizabeth resembled her mother, not her father, with the same white-blond hair, the same wide blue eyes, the same curvy body and a walk to make a man abandon all sense.

Every straight guy in Virtue Falls had tried to catch her attention; she stared at them blankly, and talked about igneous rocks and cataclysmic earth events until even the most determined would-be lover conceded defeat.

Her online profile said she was divorced.

Most men said they knew why; she was boring.

Perversely, most men considered the guy who had let Elizabeth Banner get away to be the biggest dumbshit in the history of the world. It didn’t matter what she said. It was the way her full lips formed the words when she said them.

Now she sat at her usual table by the window at the Oceanview Café—when she first arrived, she had noted with interest that the ocean was nowhere in view from this part of town—reviewing her notes from the dig and occasionally sipping on a Fufu Berry Jones soda and wondering why she had ordered it.

She thought she had ordered a root beer. And what was a fufu berry, anyway? Something pink …

“Here you go, Elizabeth.” The waitress slid a plate under Elizabeth’s elbow. “Eat up while it’s hot.”

Elizabeth had finished work at the dig, gone home and showered, and changed into her brand-new Tory Burch sandals and her baby blue cotton jersey summer dress that was one size too big. She wore it like that on purpose. If she didn’t, men had a tendency to stare at her boobs.

Well. Men had a tendency to stare at her boobs no matter what, but when she wore loose-fitting clothes, they were sometimes able to meet her eyes.

Rainbow wiped her hands on her apron. “Are you missing your team?”

Elizabeth paused, a fry halfway from the ketchup to her mouth. “Why would I?”

“They’ve been gone for three days to that conference in Tahoe, and you’ve been working alone at the site. Three days in that isolated canyon with no one to talk to. Don’t you get lonely?”

“No.” Elizabeth shook her head for emphasis. “At any rate, the team will soon be back covered with accolades for their research. Andrew is a very capable, if not brilliant, scientific leader.”

“I don’t know that I would tell him he’s not brilliant,” Rainbow said.

“He knows that, or he wouldn’t lean so heavily on the intuitive suggestions of others.” With great precision, Elizabeth spread mustard to the edges of the homemade bun.

“Trust me on this one, honey. There’s a world of difference between knowing it and admitting it, and Andrew Marrero is already touchy about the fact he worked for your father and stands in his shadow.”

Elizabeth considered that. “Yes. I have read my father’s work. Charles Banner was, in fact, a gifted scientist, and I say that without prejudice of any kind. But why that would influence Marrero’s opinion of himself, I do not understand.”

“I know you don’t, honey. But take my word for it, I’m right.”

Elizabeth observed Rainbow, head tilted.

Rainbow sighed. “Okay, look. Marrero is a good-looking son-of-a-bitch. Dark hair, dark eyes, swarthy skin, the image of a Latin lover. But he’s short. He says five-nine, but he’s five-seven, maybe five-eight. Maybe. He’s well hung, but he can’t tell everybody that, so he wears lifts in his shoes. Short guys just have this attitude.”

Elizabeth was fascinated with this unsuspected side of Rainbow. “You’ve slept with Andrew Marrero?”

“He’s not my usual type, but it was interesting. I used to put him on and spin him.” Rainbow’s eyes half-closed in satisfied remembrance.

Elizabeth blurted, “I thought you were…” She stopped herself barely in time.

Rainbow’s eyes snapped open. “Gay?”

So … not barely in time.

“Hey, when you’re bi, you double your chance for a date on Saturday night.” Rainbow chortled, patted Elizabeth’s arm, and headed toward the lunch counter.

Elizabeth sank her teeth into the burger while she watched Rainbow charm three sunburned tourists who chattered with great excitement about their day at the beach.

Rainbow had apparently been the waitress here at the Oceanview when Elizabeth was a child. Twenty-three years later she was still the waitress, a fate Elizabeth considered worse than death. Of course, she couldn’t even remember whether she’d ordered a root beer or a fufu berry soda, so that was part of it, but being around people all day filled her with horror.

She liked rocks.

She didn’t like people. In her experience, most of them were spiteful, or thoughtless, or cruelly curious, and always, always impatient with her lack of interest in them.

But Rainbow interested her, because Rainbow seemed to be an entirely different species of human. For one thing, Rainbow was tall, with big bones, broad shoulders, and a head full of salt-and-pepper gray hair. She was hearty, cheerful, and she seemed honestly fascinated by her customers, tourist or local, always chatting, asking questions, giving unwanted advice.

At first Elizabeth hadn’t known what to do with her; every time Rainbow came to the table she would tell Elizabeth stuff. Stuff Elizabeth didn’t want to hear because it distracted her from her work.

But Rainbow never needed an invitation to talk. The first time Elizabeth came in for dinner, Rainbow told her, “A lot of people think my name is unfortunate for a woman my age. You know—I was born in sixty-eight in Haight-Ashbury, after the Summer of Love.” She paused and seemed to be waiting for something.

Elizabeth belatedly picked up her cue. “Your parents were hippies?”

“Hippies? God, yes. The original hash-smoking, psychedelic-music-playing, free-love-practicing hippies.” Rainbow shook her head like a disapproving mom. “Still are, for that matter. After I was born, they decided the city wasn’t a good place to raise a baby, so they went into the Sierra Nevadas and learned weaving from a Native American woman who’d learned techniques from her great-grandmother. They’re pretty good at it. You’ve probably heard of them.”

“I don’t think so.”

“They’ve got one of the temporary exhibits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. My parents are Alder and Elf Breezewing.”

Elizabeth’s head was spinning. “Which one is Alder and which is Elf?”

“He’s Alder and she’s Elf, of course. It’s the Breezewing exhibit!”

Elizabeth blinked.

Rainbow put her broad hands on her broad hips. “You really don’t know a damned thing about anything except rocks, do you?”

“That is not true. I also understand alluvial deposits and am studying the recently mapped ocean floor off the coast of Virtue Falls for an understanding of why tsunamis are so massive in this area.” Elizabeth thought it an intelligent answer.

Rainbow stared at her as if she was speaking a foreign language. “Right. You’re like your father. I’ll get your dinner. I had the cook put an extra order of fries on the plate.”

Elizabeth wanted to ask what she meant about her father. Had Rainbow known him when they lived here?

But Elizabeth had learned, the hard way, never to talk about Charles, so instead she asked, “I asked for mashed potatoes. Didn’t I?”

“They’re coming, too. You need fattening up.”

Elizabeth knew for a fact she didn’t need fattening up. She was curvy. Very curvy. For a girl growing up in California, land of the svelte, being built like her was a disadvantage, not to mention it was hard to find clothes. If pants fit her hips, they were loose around her waist, and she hadn’t worn a button-up shirt since she was eleven and developed a C-cup. Her aunt said she was built like her mom. Her uncle said she was built like an exotic dancer. But he didn’t realize she’d heard him, so she would acquit him of malice. Her uncle wasn’t mean; he was overworked and didn’t have time for his own kids, much less a niece who never talked much even after she recovered her power of speech.

Elizabeth realized she had a bit of a disconnect from the rest of the world caused by the knowledge that humanity could turn on her in an instant. She recognized the fact she sabotaged her own relationships, and sometimes she really tried to join in with the general populace and talk about the weather. She just never got it right. Not even with Garik.

Especially not with Garik.

Best not to think of Garik.

She bent her head to her reports again, and didn’t notice when one of the town’s elderly inhabitants held court in the corner, pointed her out to the tourists, and regaled them with the tale of how Elizabeth Banner had seen her father kill her mother with a pair of scissors.

Copyright © 2014 by Christina Dodd

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Virtue Falls 4.6 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 66 reviews.
gamom56 More than 1 year ago
VIRTUE FALLS is Christina Dodd's newest release. It is a different direction from her usual writing, but every bit as good. This novel is loaded with suspense, mystery and romance. It kept me guessing all the way to the end.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Love, murder, mystery, relationships lost then found and natural disasters, oh my!!  This is the recipe for a very good book.  Ms. Dodd combines it all and ends up with a story that I wanted to continue as I turned the last page.  One of my favorite aspects of the book was how she weaved Alzheimers into the main story line and did it poignantly and realistically.  It never became an overpowering theme, yet felt its presence throughout the book. It's a heartbreaking condition brought into the spotlight.  I felt that I was experiencing it right alongside Elizabeth.  I enjoyed Ms. Dodd's novel and look forward to the next installment of the series.  I would liked to have given the book 4.5 stars, but gave it 4 since it took me a little while to truly get into it.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Christina Dodd has out done herself. The romance, suspense, drama, natural disaster with a touch of paranormal. It will keep you glued to the book. I just love how this book pulls you into the story and you feel you are living it with them. Want more info? GO BUY THE BOOK. You won't be disappointed. Tammy Cooper
debkayenm More than 1 year ago
As always, Christina Dodd NEVER fails to deliver!! I was so enthralled with this book that I couldn't put it down. This book hooks you from the very beginning to the last page which leaves you with great anticipation of the next book. I will be re-reading this book many, many, many times!!!
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
I really like the way the book is setup, where Christina Dodd uses the first few chapters, so that it is easier to follow along better as the story unfolds. The story captures your attention right from the beginning and holds your interest to the very end. I find the writing style to be somewhat different, yet still bears Christina Dodd stamp of attention to details and descriptions to paint vivid pictures in your head so you can be there right with the characters trying to find/hid the truth about the killer, than her other books that I have read in the past. You will enjoy reading this book and it will keep you guessing throughout it, right up to the ending. I look forward to reading the rest of her books in this series. Marisa Knecht
GGW More than 1 year ago
This book surprised me. I bought it because I have enjoyed Ms Dodd's recent works, but suspense isn't usually my thing. It is now -- at least as written by Christina Dodd.  The setting is spectacular, the secondary characters are well written, and I love the main characters. This is a definite "must read."
booksmom More than 1 year ago
I inhaled this book. Once I started I didn't want to put it down. I love that Elizabeth and Garik were able to open up to each other and repair their relationship. I am a sucker for a strong woman who is not afraid to stand up for herself. Can't wait to see what the next book brings them.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Loved it!  Will be sure to read the next one.
amyloulawrence More than 1 year ago
Ms. Dodd takes you on an amazing journey in this book! Romance, suspense, intrigue & triumph - you get it all with this wonderfully crafted tale. Her characters have depth, and a uniqueness that is thought provoking! I have always loved a good mystery, especially involving an FBI agent - but this story also grabbed me because of the science/geology story line. Quite an adventure to read! You have to know a story is excellent when it makes you want more, and I can't wait until the next tale!
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
To be honest, when I heard Christina Dodd had decided to venture into a new genre, I was a little nervous. My first choice is usually a historical romance and I love hers! My next choice is contempary romance and I've been slightly let down in some recent books. When I'm in the mood for a mystery, it is usually along the lines of Mary Higgins Clark and I wondered if this could compare. Yes, it could! I am certainly glad that I decided to venture out, take a chance and read this. The book was smart and obviously written by an intellegent woman! It kept me guessing who the murderer was until the very end. It was never predictable. In places it was Intense and suspenseful. The characters where well written and I enjoyed their flaws. Oh, I hate when smart characters make bad but real decisions! I enjoyed the instances of comedy and the description of the town and earthquake. I cannot wait for the next one! Gqqfier15
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First book I have read by this author. I would recommed. Can't wait to read more of her books.
thereadingchick More than 1 year ago
Twenty-three years ago Elizabeth Banner witnessed the murder of her mother, and her father was sent to jail for the crime. Now, Elizabeth is part of a geological team sent to Virtue Falls to continue the research her father had started while living in that area. While there, an earthquake strikes large enough to send a tsunami racing towards the town. Although injured from the quake, Elizabeth races to the cliffs to film the tsunami as it hits town. Garik Jacobsen, Elizabeth's ex husband and FBI Agent, races to Virtue Falls to make sure Elizabeth and his adopted mother are ok. Even though they are estranged, Elizabeth and Garik still have feelings for each other, and when someone begins to attack the citizens of Virtue Falls, they begin to investigate whether her father really killed her mother. This was a fantastic psychological exploration of both Elizabeth and Garik's feelings for each other and their relationships to all of the suspects in that town. Elizabeth was an interesting character. Very bright and totally blunt, she lacks the social skills that a woman with her looks would normally have. When she visits her father at the rest home he is interred at, she is shocked to find that none of the workers believe that he killed her mother. She still has the feelings of a little girl abandoned, and only with Garik's help does she start to open up and care for her father, seeing past the lable of murderer she'd always connected with him. Garik uses the emergency as a reason for living again, connecting with his ex and overcoming past behaviors that may have contributed to his current unhappiness. I did find his wanting of Elizabeth at times baffling. Yes, she's gorgeous, but her lack of common sense was kind of annoying. However, I loved the way the pair who were separated at the beginning of the book, came full circle, solving all of their problems, and all while tracking down a stalker-murderer no less. The mystery was great and the love story emotional. I enjoyed both of the main characters growth, with each other certainly, but most of all I loved how Elizabeth came to care for her father.
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The ending will surprise you when the who dunit comes to light. There is quite bit of sex between Elizabeth and Garik, I felt like it would have been excellent book even if there is only one sex scene or none.
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acorley84 More than 1 year ago
I did read the Novella, The Listener, prior to reading Virtue Falls and must admit that it was a great little teaser to get you started and interested in Virtue Falls (stay tuned for a review of The Listener). I do have to admit that the length of this book is what kept me from jumping right to it, as I can get pre-book jitters, especially if it's a long title! I felt that there were great, solid characters in this book, but I did feel like the story was a little more drawn out than it had to be. The premise of the story is wonderful though, a father that supposedly killed his wife, a daughter that was there but can't remember the murder...I mean, you can't go wrong with that! Throw in a little bit of my ex is still madly in love with me and is going to win me back and you've got a winning combination! I just think that winning combination could have been achieved a little quicker! I must admit that the storyline wasn't that of your usual storyline. You have the quirky/nerdy Elizabeth, that lives for her work, who just isn't your every day, run of the mill, suspense character, and I think that was refreshing. She was studying earthquakes, which is another thing that you really don't read much about in mystery novels, so I think Christina Dodd is on to something in trying to keep with traditional mystery but with refreshing new details! I hate when it comes down to actually rating a book, because I do feel like 3 stars is too low, however, I do feel like 4 stars was a little too much. I would probably settle for like, 3.75 stars, if that were possible! I liked that this story was different, that these characters were unique and different, I just wish the story weren't so lengthy. I think there were some parts that were overly descriptive, that could have been left out and wouldn't have taken away from the story at all! With that being said, I will continue on with this series, as I'm interested to see where Dodd is going with it! I see that next in line, The Relative, is another novella, which is absolutely thrilling to me because I can breeze through those, so I look forward to seeing where this goes!
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
This was drudgery. All those who wax on about how good this book is are obviously not reading the same book. I am a Christina Dodd fan and have her other books. This was boring and I was not invested in any of the characters.
Life_Long_Movie_Watcher More than 1 year ago
Virtue Falls just sadly reaffirmed why I quit reading Christina Dodd books. The book is over 500 pages in length and about 300 pages too long. This is sad because the story line has potential with good main characters, a mystery from 20 years past, and interesting side characters. But it just drags on. The ending was quite unsatisfactory -- not the ending to the main mystery, but a whole lot of things happen in a short period of time to the surrounding characters that never get resolved -- and they easily could have. I will stick with the older Christine Dodds that were better paced and wrapped up ALL the story lines: The Darkness Chosen series, Thigh High, Danger in a Red Dress, Trouble in High Heels
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
Loved this book! Couldn't get enough. Diologue was true to life. Best book written by this author.
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What a book! This has it all. Love, pain, forgiveness, redemption, and murder!
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For Many years I have worked off and on with the group Main Source. Founding members K-Kut and Large Professor have always supported my work and have taken part in my films.  Outside of the music we are friends.

2017 saw the 25 years Anniversary of the Classic Album Breaking Atoms, one of the best records ever made.  The Group flew me over to NYC to join them for the SOBS show.   My role was to help document the night.  It’s no secret that the groups history hasn’t been best one. Imagine they were 17 year olds with big ideas and talent that delivered songs that made them superstars they were under the spotlight, delivering classic 12 after 12.

25 years later, a lot older a lot wiser to the business,  both Large and K-Kut became Main Source again to perform for their fans, giving them the Main Source Experience.   This time was about friendships being rebuilt. I got to  witness and experience this moment as it happened.

2018 The group returned to the UK for a one off show at London’s Cargo.    We also made a guest appearance at Brixtons Hip Hop Chip Shop. Thank  to all that made the shows.

I left the following morning returning to the midlands, to continue my work on the Power of Now Project.  In the Evening XP called me and asked if I would like to Join him at a session at The Beatles Abbey Road Studios with the music Legend Nile Rodgers.  My first thought was your kidding, maybe you guys are drinking.  I’d love to but call me tomorrow, to let me know your serious.

Next day they called.  ‘We serious’ we want to do something for you’ they said.  So I drove to London and joined them.  I got the Studio and hour before them.  Both Large and Kev pulled up in a Taxi and together we entered the studio.  First thing I noticed was all the signs saying  ‘No photography’.  We was met by the manager of the studios who invited Large, He was a real fan of Main Source and wanted to meet him.  He went onto ask a few questions to the group then giving us a full tour of Abbey Road Studios, including The Beatles Room where there recording equipment is still kept.

We was then led to the top floor to join Nile Rodgers who was gracious and so happy to have us all there.  I sat there as he offered his services to the group, He would love to play on a Main Source Record .  It’s amazing to see how much Main Source’s music has had an impact on very serious musicians,  We were amongst people who worked on David Bowie’s music.  A number of great musicians and engineers.  I felt like a fly on the wall but infact they wanted me to part of the project.

We was later invited to a session with David Bowie’s team.  Where later we was put under the spotlight and I got to ask the crew a few questions.

This turned out to be a incredible day.  On parting we joined Nile Rodgers in The Beatles Room where  we worked a  session, later we were left in the room to our devices to work.  I have some video but in respect to the Beatles I’m holding on to that.

I really appreciate the guys reaching out and asking me to join them.  I appreciate the friendship and respect they have for me. It means a lot.  I left there motivated.  It’s not a easy being an artist in the UK, every day its a feels like a battle but irrespective of all the challenges I /we, can not stop the inner drive and need to be busy and create.  Interesting I warned the organisers of the BMA’s after winning that, that I would not make it easy for anyone to follow in my  footsteps they unleashed a beast.

Returning to my home I had Former Beatminerz Producer Baby Paul staying at my home alongside Supa Emcee who people may remember from the movie 8 Mile battling Eminem.  I got to Listen and review their project.

Looking at Paul, I told him he’s got something big there.  The guy sleeping on my sofa has everything it takes to be the next big rap superstar.  totally out of my realm.

If marketed right, with some strong videos and visuals I’ll put money on him becoming a household name.  There is a gap in the market for him and i think it’s time the industry presented a new new face.

I’m going to watch their project closely, even though they asked if they can holla for me to review their progress.  I really wish them all the best.  I love to see my friends get productive and do well, to see them exercise their visions.  In this age of do it your self.  Everyday presents a challenge.  The challenge is to create the solution.  That is what motivates me and the people around me.

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If you want to preserve a global perspective on this, you might look at Haklev's dissertation on OCW in China, which is a fascinating study of how different cultural assumptions shaped the type of openness they got: I'm excited to read this book, and hope you write it!
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Also, possibly, MOOCs as support and community around traditional classes? Some portion of students from various sections of Bio 101 across the country become part of a Bio 101 MOOC that helps them supplement what they are getting in the classroom, or perhaps provides a degree of support for students for which the level of challenge is too high or too low.
I think the thing I see get lost in these conversations the most is that the major cost of education is not tuition, but time. Tuition is the way, in fact, that you protect that time investment in study. Tuition protects the investment in two ways. One: it provides support, classes, access to professors, libraries, etc. And secondly, it guarantees that that time ends up in a credential that gets them what they want out of the study. My point is that nobody really wants a free education -- they want an education that balances protection of their time investment with cost. Our cost is, in fact, nearing the limit of what is feasible for a number of reasons you mention, but it bothers me that Shirky uses a metaphor that doesn't account for sunk time cost to students. A better metaphor might be studio recording -- I've written a song, practiced it, and now would like to present it best I can. So that has changed over the past several years -- there's now a lot of options to get software and produce your music yourself. But to the extent the music means something to me and I have disposable income, I am not going to choose the cheapest option -- I'm going to balance these two things. I'll either buy moderately expensive recording equipment, or get someone to do the master, etc. It's not like an MP3 at all, or a book, or anything, because I have skin in the game...
One of my favorite books, and one of my favorite subjects. I got so interested in this subject I actually wrote a free textbook about it. The model we use in my statistical literacy class is called COMPARABLE and the basic outline is here: Under that framework: * Your question one is an "R" question (could this be nothingn but randomness at play?) * Your Question 2 is an O/L question (How were the variables defined/operationalized? and, Could a longitudinal analysis tell us more?) * Your question three is an "A1" question (What was accounted for/controlled for?) * Your question four is another "O" question (or maybe an "A2" -- What alternative measures can we think of that represent the same issue? Do they tell the same story as the measures chosen, or a different one?) Check out the link, I think you will like it. In any case, there are multiple reasons I got into teaching this, but one is the non-critical way that people deal with edtech. I'm a proponent of analytics, for instance, but I see time and time again that people put up a slide on Purdue's Course Signals project, and uncritically state a headline increase in retention. But a short dive into Purdue's own data shows that the bulk of retention increase had nothing to do with Course Signals at was an across the board increase... "Digital Natives" are also a great example. Do they use technology in a slightly more social pattern than adults because they are a different generation? Or could it be that all generations, when younger, use technology more socially (thinking of my youth and the time my sister spent on the telephone). Could it be that they use facebook more than twitter, not out of a generational preference, but because facebook serves the needs of a young person, and twitter serves the needs of a professional more? Etc. etc.
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40th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 4: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapportuer on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar

Oral Statement Delivered by Khin Ohmar on behalf of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
Monday, 11 March 2019

Mr. President, FORUM-ASIA welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar and echoes her calls for ‘concrete action to advance human rights, accountability and the democratic transition in Myanmar.’

We share the Special Rapporteur’s concerns on the shrinking democratic space and the pervasiveness of hate speech, as senior Government officials and the military continue to deploy hate speech against ethnic and religious minorities, particularly against the Rohingya. Incendiary materials promoting hate and racial superiority of Bamar-Buddhist majority have spread across the country, furthering the military’s state building project based on discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities, emboldened by its civilian wing, ultranationalist Buddhist organisations such as the Ma Ba Tha (Association for Protection of Race and Religion).

We are also gravely concerned at the escalation of the armed conflicts in Shan and Rakhine States and their impacts on Ta’ang, Shan, Rakhine and Chin ethnic civilians including forced displacement, death and arbitrary arrests while the situation of Rohingyas remain dire with no sign of safe, voluntary and dignified return.

We appreciate the Special Rapporteur’s assessment of human rights implications of military control over economic activities. Military-run conglomerates, such as the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (UMEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), provide off-budget financing to the military, while military controlled state-owned enterprises funnel vast revenues to “Other Accounts” outside the national budget with no transparency and accountability. Meanwhile, ethnic communities whose resource rich land these enterprises exploit and profit from suffer the consequences of unchecked extraction of natural resources and mega-development projects, including environmental destruction and forced mass displacement.

Coordinated international action on these enterprises is crucial as the military have greatly benefited from growing foreign investments in Myanmar’s rich natural resources through these enterprises while it continues to commit grave violations against the ethnic and religious minorities.

Mr. President, we welcome the Council’s decision in September 2018 to establish the Independent Investigative Mechanism as an important step towards justice and accountability. However, with Myanmar government’s lack of political will and the military’s continuous grave international crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, it is imperative that the Council and the international community act urgently to follow up on this decision with steps to immediately operationalise the IIM and refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Thank you.

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