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PREACH IT! Jesse James tries to make at least a few people forget about Bombshell McGee

May 20, 2010 |  8:35 pm

The amazingly slutty antics of Jesse James have been splashed all over every news outlet for months. But Sandra Bullock’s soon-to-be ex is still trying to shut people up about all that stuff. You know, like, all that chitchat involving Nazi paraphernalia. And about James’ No. 1 mistress, that Marilyn Manson look-alike with the tattoos on her face. That kind of stuff.

We here at the Ministry are still talking about it, of course, because we can, and because it’s fun, but if James has his way, no one will be discussing his personal past when he goes to court over a business matter in coming weeks.

The Los Angeles County Superior Court case pits James against a clothing company in a deal that apparently went sour. Now, James has filed papers indicating that his personal, um, troubles should be unmentionable during the trial.

Included in the list of verboten topics, as reported by TMZ:

James’ sexual behavior. The phrase "most hated man in America" in reference to James. The words "Nazi" or "Nazis" in reference to James. The terms monster, skinhead, racist, homophobe, prostitute, cheating or cheater. Sandra Bullock. Any allegation that Jesse engaged in "moral turpitude." Anything involving ...

... adoption. And, of course, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee.

It sounds like a steep demand, given that the whole world seems to know what went down with the Bullock marriage. But apparently, not so. The Ministry got on the blower with entertainment attorney Angela Agrusa, a partner at Liner Grode Stein, and she says that requests like James’ are not only common, but often successful.

“It’s likely the judge won’t want to cloud the courtroom with information that isn’t pertinent to the case,” she explains.

Even more amazingly, when we asked Agrusa whether James’ attorneys would be able to find 12 people who are unaware of a scandal so huge that it made the cover of People magazine, Agrusa answered yes.

Believe it or not, there are some people out there who do not obsess over stuff like Bullock's cheating husband. We assume, of course, that these poor folks are living like mole people under manholes in faraway sewer systems, and we hope they can be extracted for the purposes of James' trial without too much distress.

-- Leslie Gornstein

Photo: Have you seen this man? If not, please submit your name for jury duty in the Los Angeles County Superior Court system. Credit: Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times

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Serial killer Rodney Alcala reportedly indicted in slayings of 2 New York women

January 27, 2011 |  7:14 am

California serial killer Rodney Alcala has been indicted in the slayings of two New York women in the 1970s, New York City newspapers are reporting Thursday.

Both the New York Times and New York Post, citing anonymous sources, said Alcala, 57, was indicted by Manhattan prosecutors in the killings of Cornelia Crilley and Ellen Hover.

Authorities have long suspected that Alcala, who is now in a California prison under a death sentence, had struck outside of California.

The photographer and onetime "Dating Game" contestant was convicted last year of murdering four Los Angeles County women and a 12-year-old girl from Huntington Beach in the late 1970s. He was sentenced to death last March.

After his conviction, police detectives released a trove of photographs of women and children they seized more than 30 years ago from a storage locker Alcala rented just as police were closing in on him. Detectives said they wanted to know who these people were and whether they might have gone missing during Alcala's murder spree in the late 1970s.

Hundreds of people called police in response to the photos. But it's unclear if the photos played a role in the New York cases.

New York police have long considered Alcala a suspect in the slayings of three women there, apparently including Crilley and Hover. Alcala lived in New York during that period.

Seattle police have also investigated him in connection with some unsolved slayings.

LAPD reports new breaks in 'Grim Sleeper' serial-killer case

L.A. college professor arrested for alleged urinating on colleague's door

Pearl Harbor survivor found living in filth; caretaker arrested on suspicion of elder abuse

-- Shelby Grad

Photo: Alcala last year in court. Credit: L.A. Times

Alcalahicks1972 Alcala is convicted in the 1968 rape and beating of an 8-year-old girl.

Nov. 10, 1977 — The body of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb is found in the Hollywood Hills. She had been sexually assaulted, bludgeoned and strangled with a pair of blue pants.

Dec. 16, 1977 Georgia Wixted, 27, is found beaten to death at her home in Malibu. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

1978 Alcala appears in an episode of “The Dating Game” as Bachelor No. 1.

June 24, 1978 — Charlotte Lamb, a 32-year-old legal secretary from Santa Monica, is found in the laundry room of an El Segundo apartment complex. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a shoelace.

June 14, 1979 — Jill Parenteau, 21, of Burbank is found strangled on the floor of her Burbank apartment.

June 20, 1979 – Robin Samsoe, 12, disappears near the Huntington Beach Pier. Her body is found 12 days later in the Sierra Madre foothills.

http://50cases.freedomblogging.com/files/2009/11/alcalap0210.jpgJuly 24, 1979 — Rodney James Alcala, an unemployed photographer, is arrested at his parents’ Monterey Park home.

September 1980 – Alcala is convicted of the 1978 rape of a 15-year-old Riverside girl and sentenced to nine years in state prison.

June 20, 1980 — Orange County Superior Court Judge Philip E. Schwab sentences Alcala to death after he is convicted of Samsoe's murder.

July 11, 1980 — The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office files murder, burglary and sexual assault charges against Alcala in the slaying of Parenteau.

April 15, 1981 — The L.A. district attorney’s office tells a judge that prosecution of Alcala in the Parenteau case could not proceed because a key witness admitted that he had committed perjury in another case.

Aug. 23, 1984 — The state Supreme Court reversed Alcala’s murder conviction in connection with Samsoe, ruling that the jury was improperly told about Alcala’s prior sex crimes.

June 20, 1986 — For the second time, Alcala is convicted for Samsoe’s murder and sentenced to death in Orange County Superior Court.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04hnfQF8Wlafk/x160.jpgDec. 31, 1992 — The California Supreme Court unanimously upholds Alcala’s death sentence.

April 2, 2001 — A federal appellate court overturns Alcala’s death sentence in the Samsoe case, ruling that the Superior Court judge precluded the defense from presenting evidence “material to significant issues.”

June 5, 2003 — The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office files murder charges against Alcala alleging that he killed Wixted during a burglary and rape.

Sept. 19, 2005 — Additional murder charges are filed against Alcala in connection to the deaths of Barcomb, Wixted and Lamb.

Jan. 11, 2010 — Alcala’s trial for the five murders begins. He represents himself.

-- Kimi Yoshino

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Guilty verdict in slaying of Riverside police officer

May 11, 2012 |  2:18 pm

A Riverside jury has reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Earl Ellis Green, who was accused of shooting Riverside police officer Ryan Bonaminio at point-blank range as the officer pleaded for his life.

The panel deliberated for about three hours before returning Friday with the guilty verdict on first-degree murder with special circumstances that would make Green eligible for the death penalty.

The trial began with defense attorneys acknowledging that Green had fired the shots that killed Bonaminio in a church parking lot in November 2010 after Green led the officer on a foot chase through a Riverside's Fairmount Park. The attorneys had aimed at a conviction on a lesser charge that would not carry the death penalty.

The 46-year-old convicted felon, then on parole, jumped out of a stolen truck that was being pursued by police after it had been involved in a hit-and-run, police officials said. Bonaminio, 27, followed Green into the park. When the officer slipped in the mud near a stairwell, Green emerged and bludgeoned the officer with a metal pipe, prosecutors told the jury. Green then took the injured officer's .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun and chambered a new round, according to the prosecution.

Stephen J. McQueen, a homeless man who volunteered at the church, told the jury that he saw the shooting unfold as he smoked a cigarette in the parking lot. Bonaminio, hands up, told the killer, "Don't do it. Don't do it,'' McQueen testified. "Then there was three shots. One shot did not seem to affect the officer at all,'' said McQueen, who did not see the suspect well enough to identify Green as the killer. "The next two, there was movement, and then the officer began falling.''

In his opening statement, prosecutor MIchael Hestrin said Green's first two shots missed the officer. Green then walked up to Bonaminio, on his knees at the time, and fired at the back of the officer's head from a foot or so away, Hestrin said. "His life and blood poured out of him,'' Hestrin told the jury.

"He died there, on the cold and dirty asphalt.''

Among the evidence presented at the trial was Bonaminio's gun, which later showed traces of the officer's blood and DNA, and was found in a closet inside the home of Green's girlfriend. Green's DNA was found on a beer can inside the big rig, which had been stolen from a Penske rental lot, and his fingerprints were lifted from electrical tape he apparently used when hot-wiring the rig.

Bonaminio's blood and DNA were found in the same truck, according to Hestrin. After the shooting, Green walked back to the truck and drove off, according to prosecutors, who played a video taken from the officer's patrol car that showed a man fleeing the truck as a voice shouted for him to stop, then getting back in the truck and leaving about two minutes later.

Taxpayers' bill for Occupy L.A. protest rises to $4.7 million

Public tribute to Junior Seau tonight at Qualcomm Stadium

Autopsy report: Kendrec McDade shot point-blank by Pasadena police

-- Phil Willon

Photo: Joseph Bonaminio, father of Riverside Police Officer Ryan Bonaminio, looks down during a 2010 news conference as Police Chief Sergio Diaz announces that Earl Ellis Green of Rubidoux, whose image is at left, was arrested on suspicion of murdering the officer. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times


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The Freedom (Not) to Associate

The issue:  When does the First Amendment protect an organization's right to exclude certain persons as members?

The phrase "freedom of association" does not appear in the Constitution (although the First Amendment protects the right to peaceably assemble).  Nonetheless, the Court has recognized to separate types of association that are constitutionally protected: (1) intimate association (protected as an aspect of the right of privacy) and (2) expressive association (protected as as an aspect of the First Amendment's protection of free speech).

Freedom of association cases are interesting in that they bring into conflict two competing views of the world: rights-oriented liberalism that holds that a person's identity comes from individual choices (and that government ought to create a framework of laws that remove barriers to choice) and communitarianism, that holds that a person's identity comes from the communities of which an individual is a part (and that communities are an important buffer between the government and the individual).

The leading case on the right of an association to establish and apply its own membership rules is the 1984 case of Roberts v. United States Jaycees.  In Roberts, the Court recognized that the power to determine its own membership is central to the free speech rights of expressive organizations. (Imagine how the speech of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League might be affected if it could be forced to admit as members anti-Semites.)  Nonetheless, the Court in Roberts upheld a Minnesota public accomodations law requiring the Jaycees to admit women as members, in contravention of that organization's rules.  Justice Brennan, for the Court, found that Minnesota had a compelling interest in providing the women of Minnesota the economic benefits that came with membership in the Jaycees.  Justice O'Connor, in a concurring opinion, found that the Jaycees were a commercial organization and therefore subject to state regualtion of its membership.  On the other hand, according to O'Connor, a predominately expressive association has an absolute right to determine its own membership.  In subsequent cases in 1987 (Rotary International v Rotary Club of Duarte, 481 US 537) and 1988 (N. Y. State Club Ass'n v New York, 487 US 1), the Court concluded that state laws prohibiting sex discrimination could be applied to each of those private associations.

In January 2000, the Supreme Court decided a closely-watched case involving New Jersey's decision that the Boy Scouts of America are a public accomodation that can be compelled to admit homosexuals. A 5-4 majority of the Court found unconstitutional New Jersey's decision prohibiting the Boy Scouts from terminating the membership of a gay scoutmaster.  The Court held that the First Amendment protected the Boy Scouts, as an expressive organization promoting the view that homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle, from excluding scouts on that basis.  The four dissenters questioned whether views with respect to homosexuality were at all central to the Scouts' expressive purposes.

VIDEO: Gay Scouts Allowed, Gay Leaders Not (including interview with Jimmie Dale)(5/2013)

Also in 2000, in California Democratic Party v Jones, the Supreme Court ruled, 7 to 2, that California's "open primary" system violated the rights of the Democratic Party to exclude nonmembers from choosing their party's nominees for political office.  Under the open primary system, voters of any party could vote for any candidate on the primary ballot, thus allowing (say) Republicans to determine the Democratic Party's candidates for governor and other state offices.

Associational rights are viewed differently by the Court when an organization is not being denied outright the right to determine its own membership, but is only being denied public benefits because of its exclusionary policy.  In Christian Legal Society v Martinez (2010), the Court, on a 5 to 4 vote, upheld the decision of a public law school to deny funding and use of certain law school facilities to an organization that refused to accept as members students who "engaged in unrepentant homosexual conduct."

Roberts vs. United States Jaycees (1984)
Boy Scouts of America vs. Dale (2000)
Christian Legal Society v Martinez (2010)

Gay Scout James Dale after oral arguments in
 Boy Scouts of America vs Dale.

1. What are the differences between the approached taken by Justices Brennan and O'Connor in their opinions in Roberts?  Which approach is better?  Why?
2.  Would Justice O'Connor be more likely to categorize the Boy Scouts as a predominately commercial organization or as a predominately expressive organization?
3.  Was it really of "compelling" importance to the economic well-being of women in Minnesota that the Jaycees be opened to  membership by women?
4.  Does Roberts encourage organizations restricting membership to take strong positions opposing in some way the interests of persons in the category restricted from membership?
5.  What are the two types of association protected by the Constitution?  What are examples of entities, relationships, or organizations that might be recognized as protected under the right of intimate association?
6.  What should Roberts mean for golf clubs, fraternities, and other social organizations that exclude members based on race, religion, sex, or sexual preference?
7.  Would Dale have come out differently if Dale had been a fourteen-year-old scout, rather than a college-aged scoutmaster?
8.  How central to the Scouts' expressive purposes do whatever views it may have on homosexuality appear to be?
9.  Would the Scouts case have come out differently if the official view of the Scouts being challenged was an objection to inter-racial dating, and the exclusion of a scout for inter-racial dating were the issue before the Court?  Why or why not?
10. Would it violate the associational rights of a private expressive association if a city were to deny the association a liquor license because of its discriminatory membership policy?  If it were to refuse to provide water service?  If it warned the association that it could not expect police or fire protection?

 Further Reading
Douglas Linder, Freedom of Association After Roberts v. United States Jaycees,
82 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1878 (August, 1984).

Jimmie Dale, "Why Did I Challenge the Boy Scouts' Anti-Gay Policy?"

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Monday, November 26, 2012

DACA and Your Workplace Rights

The National Immigration Law Center has received many questions about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Many of them are about your rights in the workplace, both when you are applying for deferred action and after your application has been approved. This FAQ is intended to answer your questions about DACA and your workplace rights and to provide information that may be helpful when you apply for and after you’ve been granted deferred action under the DACA program.

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McFarlane on Exclusionary Redevelopment

Audrey McFarlane (University of Baltimore - School of Law) has posted Who Fits the Profile?: Thoughts on Race, Class, Clusters and Redevelopment on SSRN.  Here's the abstract:

This essay shifts the discussion of gentrification and redevelopment to consider the mechanics of exclusion in the formulation and operation of today's commercial retail shopping venues typically included in today's urban redevelopment projects. In particular the essay discusses the exclusionary implications of geo-demographic cluster classification systems that use race and class to construct profiles of desirable customers for urban redevelopment schemes.

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Crayon Box Pleat Skirt: Tutorial Part 2

Today we are going to tackle the box pleats on our skirt.  In order to do so we need to determine the spacing measurements between pleats.  This skirt has six box pleats total, three on the front, and three on the back.  We want the spacing between each pleat to be equal.

To determine our pleat spacing you need to know your low waist measurement.  We will use 33" as an example.  Your low waist measurement should be the finished circumference of the skirt when pleats are taken in, at the bottom of the waistband.

Low Waist Measurement/Number of Box Pleats=pleat spacing     33"/6=5.5"

Because our skirt is sewn with two side seams, two of our pleat spacing segments will be on a seam.  We will be marking our pleats prior to sewing our side seams, so we need to divide our pleat segment by two and add a seam allowance to figure the spacing on our seam pleats.

Pleat Spacing/2=Side Pleat Spacing                   5.5"/2=2.75"

Side Pleat Spacing+Seam Allowance=Final Side Pleat Measurement  2.75"+.625"=3.375" (or 3 3/8")

 Marking Your Pleats
Now we are ready to mark our skirt panels for pleats.  I recommend marking them along both the top and bottom edges of your skirt panels. We will be making five marks to indicate each pleat, with fifteen marks total per panel. Each mark will be the pleat width (1.5") apart from one another.  Your Final Side Pleat Measurement (3 3/8") will be used to determine the spacing of the first and third groupings from the side seam edges.  Your Pleat Spacing Measurements will be used to determine the amount of space between your first and second, and second and third pleat group markings.

An attempt to clarify the process can be found below...

Start by marking in your Final Side Pleat Measurement (3 3/8") from  your side edge.  Using a fabric marking pencil or pen, make a small mark indicating your first pleat.  This will be the first of five marks to indicate your first pleat.  You will then make four additional marks, each 1.5" apart (or pleat width from day 1). There should be a total of five small markings to indicate your first pleat.

Next measure the distance of your pleat spacing (5.5"), and repeat making your five 1.5" pleat indicator markings. Measure another pleat spacing, and another five 1.5" pleat indicator marks, and you should be left with the distance of your final side pleat measurement on the end.

You would repeat this process on both skirt panels, along the top and bottom edges. When your fabric is completely marked, you should have fifteen marks along your skirt, three groupings of five.

Making Your Pleats

 A box pleat is  two basic pleats that meet at a center point.  Our five pleat indicator marks will help us form them properly.  Your first and fifth markings in each box pleat will meet up at the third mark.  The second and fourth markings will indicate the pleat width, and will be the inside fold of the pleat.

Take your first marking and meet it up with point three.  Pin in place.  Take your fifth marking and meet it up with point three.  Pin in place.  Repeat this process with each pleat.  Repeat along the bottom edge of the skirt panels as well.

Press along the length of the pleats.  You will want to achieve a nice clean press so that your pleats will wear well.

Baste your stitches in place, 3/8" away from the upper raw edge of the skirt panels.

Using a ruler and a straight pin, measure two inches down from each pleat.  Use a straight pin to indicate the marking, and keep the pleat closed.

 Stitch along each box pleat of the skirt to secure pleats.  Sew 1/8" away from the pleat folds, and pivoting your stitching line at the two inch mark.  Repeat on each of the six pleats.

Tucking the Waistband

Mark your tucks on the waistband pieces (not the waistband facings). Measure 1.25" from the top of the waistband and mark.  Measure and mark 5/8" from the first mark. Measure and mark an additional 5/8" away.  You should now have a total of three marks.  The three marks will create one tuck.  Repeat the measure and marking process, by measuring 1.25" from the last mark made.

You will want to transfer these marking to both sides of the waistband, and on both waistband pieces.  If you have a removable marking pencil, transferring your markings to the center of the waistband may be helpful. Accuracy in creating the tucks is key to having your tucks line up properly.

With the right side of the fabric up, fold along the center marking of each tuck.  You will fold the wrong sides of the fabric onto each other.  Using a 5/8" seam allowance, stitch along the tuck.  The seam allowance should be along your first marking line.

Repeat the process on the second tuck, and on the additional waistband piece.

 Press the tucks down toward the bottom of the waistband. At this point it is helpful to baste the tucks along the sides of the waistband, 1/4" from the raw edges (I wish that I had).

 With right sides together, pin the waistband pieces along one side. Take care to align the tucks.

 Sew waistband seam. Trim seam, and press open.

Join the waistband facings in the same manner.

Alright, tomorrow we'll finish up the skirt. Get those invisible zipper and blind hem feet ready!

You can find the additional tutorial posts here: Part 1, Part 3

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

"Fall Into The Holidays" Craft Fair...Rigby Idaho

It's officially craft fair season. Can you feel the holiday shopping/crafting excitement?

 With a new baby I didn't know if I'd be up for many craft fairs, so this year, I limited myself to one craft fair.  I've been busy preparing for it since before August was born.  I chose to participate in my most profitable craft fair "Rigby: Fall Into The Holidays" from last year.  With over 100 vendors, it was well attended, and hopefully be this year as well.

Craft fairs are a ton of work, but they are so much fun.  Maybe it's because I'm normally trapped inside my home, attached to my sewing machine, but I love to get out and see people react to my products.

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I'll report more on the craft fair next week.  I'm trying out some new display ideas, and payment methods.  Hopefully it's successful, and helps pay for Christmas.

If you happen to be a South East Idaho local, stop by the Rigby Middle School Saturday November 9th between 9 and 5.  Say hello, and introduce yourself.  I love to meet readers.  Look for the blue and green striped awning, and come buy a bunch of scarves or leather bracelets.

Charity said...

Love the leather cuffs, and that first lace scarf is beautiful. Leather and lace are some of my favorite things. =)

Emily said...

Hope it went well! Sorry I missed it. :(


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Thatcher’s Legacy in Ireland

Margaret Thatcher was a hugely divisive figure in British politics. Her right wing politics saw Thatcher align herself with some of the most repressive and undemocratic regimes in the late 20th century – including apartheid South Africa and Chile’s Pinochet. Her description of the ANC and Mandela as terrorists was evidence of her ultra conservative view of the world.

She championed the deregulation of the financial institutions, cuts in public services and was vehemently anti-trade union. She set out to crush the trade union movement. The confrontation with the miners and the brutality of the British police was played out on television screens night after night for months. The current crisis in the banking institutions and the economic recession owe much to these policies. And she went to war in the Malvinas.

But for the people of Ireland, and especially the north, the Thatcher years were among some of the worst of the conflict. For longer than any other British Prime Minister her policy decisions entrenched sectarian divisions, handed draconian military powers over to the securocrats, and subverted basic human rights.

Thatcher refused to recognise the right of citizens to vote for representatives of their choice. She famously changed the law after Bobby Sands was elected in Fermanagh South Tyrone. And when I and several other Sinn Féin leaders were elected to the Assembly in 1982 we were barred from entry to Britain.

Margaret Thatcher’s government defended structured political and religious discrimination and political vetting in the north, legislated for political censorship   and institutionalised to a greater extent than ever before collusion between British state forces and unionist death squads.

It under her leadership that in 1982 that the Force Research Unit (FRU) was established as a unit within the British Army Intelligence Corps. This British Army agency recruited agents who were then used to kill citizens. Among them was loyalist Brian Nelson. He was a former British soldier and member of the Ulster Defence Association who was recruited by FRU in 1983. He became the UDA’s Senior Intelligence Officer and his associates in FRU helped him to update his intelligence files, including photo-montages of potential victims.
In the summer of 1985 Nelson travelled to South Africa where he helped negotiate a deal for that ultimately saw the UDA, UVF and Ulster Resistance acquire 200 AK47 automatic rifles, 90 Browning pistols, 500 fragmentation grenades, ammunition and 12 RPG rocket launchers. The shipment arrived in the north in late 1987 or early 1988.

The Thatcher government was across all the details of this shipment. Its impact on the streets of the north is evident in the statistics of death. In the three years prior to receiving this weapons shipment the loyalist death squads killed 34 people. In the three years after the shipment they killed 224 and wounded countless scores more.

The extent of the role of FRU in the killing of citizens is formidable. But it was the killing of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane in February 1989 that reveals the depth of the structured state collusion policy being pursued by the Thatcher government.

Pat was one of several lawyers targeted by unionist death squads at the behest of the RUC and British intelligence agencies. At every level of his killing British agents and agencies had a hand. The leader of the UDA group which carried out the killing was a Special Branch agent - Tommy Lyttle. The man who subsequently confessed to being the UDA gunman who killed Pat Finucane was Ken Barrett, also a Special Branch agent. The UDA man who supplied the gun was William Stobie, a Special Branch agent – later killed in 2001 by the UDA when he threatened to lift the lid on the Finucane case. And, of course, the man who provided the intelligence for the killing was Brian Nelson, a British army agent.

This is part of the Thatcher legacy in Ireland.

She will be especially remembered by many for her shameful role during the epic hunger strikes of 1980 and 81.

The Thatcher government believed that the criminalisation of the republican prisoners would break the republican struggle. It was not interested in a resolution.

This much is evident in government papers released two years ago. For example a report of a meeting at Chequers on May 27th, after the deaths of Bobby Sands, Francie Hughes, Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O Hara, describes Thatcher commenting that ‘the Government must be ‘rock solid’ against any concessions to the hunger strikers or PIRA.’

The following day on a visit to Belfast Thatcher declared that the hunger strike ‘may well be their [the IRA’s] last card.’

The events of that awful summer of '81 polarised Irish society, north and south.  It was a watershed moment in Irish politics. The Thatcher government policy during the 1980’s was little more than a war policy. All of the strategies issuing from that policy were aimed at defeating or isolating republicanism. This included the shallow and ineffectual 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement which was about creating a political alliance involving the Dublin establishment, the SDLP, and the British to defeat Irish republicanism. Margaret Thatcher was a prime mover in all of this.

Shoot-to-kill actions by British forces also significantly increased. This was most evident in the shooting dead of three unarmed IRA activists in Gibraltar in March 1988. It is my view that Thatcher authorised the killings at Gibraltar.

Later when the BBC and the IBA scheduled two programmes about Gibraltar Thatcher tried to stop them. She was “outraged” when the programmes went ahead. Later that year she introduced the Broadcasting Ban on Sinn Féin.

Two years later Thatcher authorised the then British Secretary of State Peter Brooke to reopen the back-channel with republicans. We were wary of this. However, for almost a decade Sinn Féin had been patently trying to build a peace process and unfolding events on the world stage, including the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, and the release of Mandela, were evidence that governments, and apparently intractable situations, could change. So we agreed to reactivate the back channel.

But for Thatcher it all ended in November 1990 when she was forced to resign by her party who perceived her to be no longer an electoral asset. She was evicted from Downing Street with all the ruthlessness, treachery and warped humanity of what passes for high politics.

Thatcher’s 12 years of dictating British policy in Ireland was a legacy of bitterness and entrenched division.  Her Irish policy failed miserably.

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We answer a question about the Everglades …

Play some music nominated for an Academy Award …

And report about an artist who builds boxes.

Joseph Cornell

Have you ever heard of art in a box? Joseph Cornell was an important artist best known for his beautifully constructed boxes. A large collection of his interesting artwork was shown recently at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Faith Lapidus tells us more.

You could say that Joseph Cornell became an artist because of his love of collecting. Cornell used to spend his free time exploring the street life of New York City in the nineteen twenties. He soon started collecting old books, prints, postcards and even three-dimensional objects that he found in stores that sold used books.

Cornell also attended many museum shows, gallery openings and dance performances. He was influenced by a group of artists called the Surrealists who combined images in unusual and often strange ways.

Joseph Cornell started making his own works by cutting out different pictures and putting them together in creative and magical combinations. Soon, he started making boxes inside of which were carefully arranged pictures and objects. He worked on his art at night after finishing his day job. Later, when his boxes and images started selling and receiving public recognition, he worked on his art full time.

Joseph Cornell died in nineteen seventy-two.The Smithsonian exhibit showed almost two hundred works made during his forty-year career. One work is called “Soap Bubble Set.” A box with a glass window shows a map of the moon, several pictures of sea creatures, two glass cups and two white pipes for smoking. In another box, Cornell combines an image of a cockatoo bird with a music box and watch faces.

Joseph Cornell once said his art was based on everyday experiences. He said that with his art he showed “the beauty of the commonplace.” Visitors who came to this special exhibit found magic in regular objects - and even saw beauty in a box.

The Everglades

Our listener question this week comes from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Nguyen Thanh Duc wants to know about the Everglades National Park in the southern state of Florida.

The Everglades National Park is the third largest national park in the mainland United States. President Harry S. Truman officially established the national park in nineteen forty-seven. He placed almost two hundred thousand hectares of land in the area under federal control.

The parkland has since been expanded several times. The United States now protects more than six hundred thousand hectares of the Everglades. This is only about twenty percent of the Everglades ecosystem.

The Everglades was the first national park established to protect only biological resources. The wetlands are famous around the world for their diversity of wildlife. The United Nations has called the area "a world biological treasure."

The Everglades is really a slow-moving, extremely shallow river that flows south to the ocean. It is filled with sharp, thin sawgrass. This is why the Everglades is sometimes called the River of Grass. The area was also once called the "liquid heart" of Florida.

Forests of palm, cypress, mangrove and pine are also a part of the Everglades. It is home to beautiful plants and sweet-smelling flowers. These include several kinds of the highly prized and rare flower, the orchid.

Many kinds of animals live in the Everglades. Many colorful birds and butterflies live there. So do snakes, frogs, foxes and even big cats, called Florida panthers. But the alligators and crocodiles are probably the animals most identified with the Everglades. No other place in the world is home to both.

However, the Everglades is one of the most endangered national parks in the United States. Human activities and development around the edges of the park threaten the area's health and future. Many of the animals are in danger of disappearing.

More than one million people visit the Everglades National Park each year. The park will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary next December.

Oscar Nominated Songs

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present its seventy-ninth yearly Academy Awards on Sunday. These awards are known as the Oscars. They honor writers, directors, actors and others who helped create the best motion pictures last year. They also honor songs written for those movies. Barbara Klein has more.

One of the five nominated songs was written by Randy Newman for the animated movie "Cars." It is called "Our Town," and is performed by James Taylor.

A second nominated song was written by Melissa Etheridge. It is called "I Need To Wake Up." It is from the documentary about global warming called "An Inconvenient Truth."

The final three nominated songs all were written by Henry Krieger for the musical movie “Dreamgirls.” The movie is about a group of female singers who become famous during the nineteen sixties. One of the songs is called “Listen.” Beyonce sings it in "Dreamgirls." This song is called "Patience." Eddie Murphy sings it in the movie.

We leave you now with the third song nominated from the movie "Dreamgirls." Jennifer Hudson sings "Love You I Do."

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The Rev. Canon Dr. Robert Crouse

The Holy Scriptures abound in stories of miracles, from the beginning to the end, from the first instant of creation, when God called all things out of nothingness, when the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, "Let there be light." [Gen.1]  From the beginning to the end, when God will make a new heaven and a new earth: "And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband...And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new."  [Rev. 21]  From beginning to end, miracles of creation and re-creation.  "I am Alpha and Omega, which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." [Rev. 1:8]

And between the beginning and the ending, there is the on-going miracle of existence and life and thought; for not an atom of creation and not a fragment of conscious life could for one instant continue if it were not sustained by that eternal thinking and willing which is God's providence.  Even in our folly and perversity, we are held in life.  "It is by the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed; for his compassions fail not, they are new every morning."  The celestial orbs proclaim that providence:

In reason's ear they all rejoice,

And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing, as they shine,
'The hand that made us is Divine.'"

                              [Joseph Addison, Paraphrase of Psalm 19]

All that is miracle: the being and acting of God in the world: and it is in the context of that recognition that we should understand all the miracle stories in the Scripture.  But the stories of the miracles of Jesus, have still deeper dimensions which we ought to consider.

Jesus' miracles are signs of God's presence and power in him, the divine Son and Messiah.  Remember how when John the Baptist, in prison, heard about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples to ask Jesus, Art thou he that should come or do we look for another?  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.  [Matt. ll.2f]  The miracles are signs of Christ's messiahship and the coming of God's Kingdom.

But the miracles of Jesus have yet a further dimension, when our attention is focussed not on the miraculous deed itself, but on its spiritual significance.  Thus, Jesus cured the blind and the deaf and the dumb, thereby signifying his power to open dull minds to the truth of God, and to rouse dumb spirits to speak God's praise.  He feeds the hungry multitude, and shows that he is the true bread, the word of God, to nourish fainting souls.  He heals the lame and shows God's power to speed our pilgrimage to him.  He stills the stormy seas of our confusions and despairs.  He heals the sick and raises the dead, and thereby shows that he is our re-birth, our health, our resurrection to new and endless life in the Spirit.

Because the miracles are manifestations of the presence and saving power of God in Christ, we read the stories in the season of Epiphany: they manifest the power and wisdom of God for our salvation.  But we read them again in the Trinity season, because they have yet a further dimension of meaning.  As the first half of our Christian year sets before us what God in Christ has done for our salvation, so this second half of the year, this long Trinity season, is concerned with the realizing of that salvation in us, in the building up our our spiritual life as individuals and as community.  That is the point of all our Scripture lessons in this season, and that is a dimension of the miracle stories: they are not only signs of what God has done and does for us, but also indicators of how the grace of God is fruitfully received in our lives.

Finally, we should consider for a moment the implication of these stories for our own spiritual life, and really, the practical application is pretty obvious: we come as outsiders, as aliens, with nothing in our hands to purchase our salvation, but only trusting in God's mercy to heal the maladies of our sinful souls; we come, putting aside all pride of independence, and all preconception as to how God is to heal us, trusting only in his all-seeing wisdom.  And we are truly healed when we live our lives always to the glory of God, in thanksgiving.


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Cuba Begins Peforming State-Sponsored Sex-Change Operations

If the Republicans have their way, the United States will continue to have an inferior health care system when compared to Cuba:

HAVANA -- Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored sex-change operations after the government lifted a longtime ban on the procedure in 2007, President Raul Castro's daughter said Tuesday.
A sexologist and gay-rights advocate, Mariela Castro runs the Center for Sex Education, which prepares transsexuals for sex-change operations and identifies Cubans it deems ready for the procedure.
Speaking to reporters during the fifth Cuban Conference on Sexual Education, Orientation and Therapy, Castro said surgeries began in 2008 but would not specify exactly how many have been performed or how much they cost.  - Link to article

Did Scott Brown really win the Senate election in Massachusetts?

We do not think so. Massachusetts is a progressive state that has made gay marriage legal. It was a large educated population that is literate. It is simply simply unlikely that the majority of voters in Massachusetts would vote for a Republican who opposed economic and social reform. We ask that the Congress investigate this matter and this President Obama appointMartha Coakley as the acting Senator from Massachusetts until further notice.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Please vote for Martha Coakley in Massachusetts for U.S. Senate

Please vote for Martha Coakley tomorrow.  Her neocon opponent, Scott Brown, is trying to take Ted Kennedy's seat in the U.S. Senate.  He opposes health care, gay marriage, transgender rights, Evolution and President Obama's agenda of change and progress.  Please visit Martha Coakley's site and help anyway you can.  Thank you.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Monday, January 4, 2010

PROGRESS: President Obama Names Transgender Appointee to Commerce Department!

President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department.

In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equality's board of directors, said that "as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others."

While Simpson is clearly one of the first transgender presidential appointees, Democratic officials say they're unsure if she is the very first one.  Click here for the article!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Cuba understands that Health Care is a human right

"Even more revolutionary than the right to health care for all is the idea that an investment in health—or in clean water, adequate food or housing—could be more powerful, more effective at building security than bombers and aircraft carriers."

Give Brokeback Mountain the Oscar for Best Film this year

Love is a force of nature

Brokeback Mountain is one of the finest films ever made.  It is certainly the best mainstream American-made film during the past decade.   It is a film that defined a generation and touched hearts and minds all around the world.  It is watched and studied at schools and novel on which it is based, continues to be a best-seller.

And yet, this film was denied the Oscar for Best Film in 2007 because of homophobia.   What better way to correct this mistake in the Age of Obama than by giving Brokeback Mountain the honor and respect that it deserves?

Happy New Year! Let's have a very gay and TRANS-2010!

2009 was a good start for America's transformation into a progressive state.  Let's make 2010 an even better and TRANSformative year!


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That Animal Rights proponents have spent so much of their member's money and their own time to follow this up and keep following it up is a good thing.

That the law does not or cannot hear it does not mean that Ringling Bros. is NOT abusing their elephants (if abuse constitutes hitting the elephants with sharp objects (whatever they are called bullhooks ...or ticklers... they are designed to inflict pain thus compliance) or chaining them for lengthly periods. Elephants are complex, sentient, beings, we are alot like them. Social groups, problem solving skills, deep maternal care, far ranging in their natural habitat. The Elephants owned by Ringling Bros. deserve better than to be trucked about the country, beaten and forced to perform for the witless entertainment of uneducated patrons in medieval circuses. One day, the Animal Rights Groups will win because it IS right. (“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
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      Purchase a simple menorah and a box of Hanukkah candles. The children count (and strengthen their fingers) while placing the eight candles and the Shamash (the candle used to light the other ones) in the menorah. Because Hanukkah candles are typically many colors, you can also work on color matching, receptive and expressive color identification, and even patterning skills.
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The most popular bit of “medical conspiricism” — with 37 percent agreeing and another 31 percent on the fence — is that the FDA “is deliberately preventing the public from getting natural cures for cancer and other diseases because of pressure from drug companies.” The only other conspiracy to hit the 20 percent agreement mark is that “health officials know that cell phones cause cancer but are doing nothing to stop it because large corporations won’t let them.”

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Welcome! This is a digital library for Professor Crosby's essay on cinema history in HUM/FILM 109

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"For this assignment you must complete a three to five-page essay on a topic of your choosing as long as it relates to cinema, or uses cinema in an attempt to examine some aspect of culture, economics, politics or society."

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Start here! Choose your topic, narrow your topic, build background knowledge and learn key dates, concepts, names, and vocabulary before delving into more specific information.

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    Gale Virtual Reference Library contains college-level subject-specific encyclopedias; good starting point; get an overview of a topic and identify some keywords you can use to search for articles.
  • The Emergence of Cinema: The American Cinema to 1907
    "Provides an overview of the beginnings of cinema through the first boom in the specialized moving-picture theaters known as nickelodeons, looking at the initial years of projected motion pictures and their aural accompaniment from 1895 to the fall of 1907. Early American cinema is examined as an industry and as an influential cultural practice in the context of a centuries-long history of projected images."
  • The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915
    "Chronicles the history of the American film business from the days of the little store-show nickelodeon to the premiere of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of A Nation, looking at the imbalance of the "Griffith did it all" cliche by discussing the efforts of countless lesser-known figures who also helped to create Hollywood and shape the growing American film industry. The effect of the surroundings are all examined for their impact on the filmgoing experience."
  • An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928
    "Chronicles how theatrical feature films dominated newly developed movie palaces, how expressive film faces became household names, and how Hollywood became the center of film as a major growth industry."
  • The Talkies: America's Cinema Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
    "Chronicles the film industry's transition from silent films to sound cinema as it takes a critical step on its way to becoming the modern business enterprise of the 1930s."
  • Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939
    "Studies the advent of color, big musicals, the studio system and the beginning of institutionalized censorship which made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood, the decade that ended with 'The Greatest Year in Motion Pictures' - the year of 'Gone With the Wind', 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' and other classics."
  • Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s
    "Covers the period of 1939-1949, when the film industry came to grips with the development of the documentary, a shift to independent production, renewed government antitrust activity, and the emergence of television as a competitor."
  • Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959
    "Explores the challenges American cinema faced in the 1950's from the divorce of production companies from theater chains forced by an anti- trust decision, to the growth of television."
  • The Sixties: 1960-1969: History of the American Cinema
    "Examines the issues of this period, including competition with other leisure activities, transformation of the theater, changes in production, and the arrival of conglomerates."
  • Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
    "Looks at how the emergence of new technology, such as steadicam and Dolby sound, and a new generation of talent challenged the old ways, with films like 'Nashville' and 'Five Easy Pieces'."
  • A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989
    "Looks at the effects of video-cassettes and cable television on Hollywood, and the idiosyncratic visions of newcomers like Spike Lee and Tim Burton."
  • International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
    "Provides thorough coverage of films and filmmakers, including legendary films, actors and actresses, directors, writers and other production artists. Entries include a detailed essay written by an expert; biographies; filmographies; comprehensive credits; major awards; and updated bibliographies, as well as photographs. General and professional audiences."
  • Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
    "This reference provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to film and film studies, covering such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory and film history."

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  • Academic Search Complete
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  • SuperSearch
    SuperSearch provides an easy, yet powerful means of accessing most of the library’s information resources through a single search. Simply enter your search query to retrieve results from over thirty databases. SuperSearch is available through the MyCOM Portal, on the Library/Learning Resources tab.
  • America: History & Life
    America: History and Life with Full Text is an excellent database for finding information on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. In this database you will find: Magazine and journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews.
  • History Reference Center
    The History Reference Center database features full text for more than 200 leading history periodicals and over 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books. Includes 57,000 historical documents, more than 80,000 biographies of historical figures, historical photos & maps and more than 80 hours of historical video.

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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood - Neal Gabler
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Film Music: A Very Short Introduction - Kathryn Marie Kalinak
Call Number: ML2075 .K33 2010
Publication Date: 2010

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Hollywood: The First Hundred Years - Bruce Torrence
Call Number: F869.H74 T67 1982
Publication Date: 1982

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The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood - David Thomson
Call Number: PN1993.5.U65 T56 2005
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Book Digitization at the Ingalls Library

In addition to providing us with Facebook, Instagram, and cat videos galore, the digital revolution has allowed libraries and cultural institutions across the world to make their holdings available online. The Ingalls Library, thanks to the purchase of a state of the art book scanner, is pleased to participate in this trend toward digital scholarship with a book digitization program.

Emery May Holden Norweb, Grande Dame

Emery May Holden Norweb, who was known as a grande dame of Cleveland, was one of the most influential women in the history of the Cleveland Museum of Art. She was born on November 30, 1895 in Salt Lake City. Her grandfather, Liberty Holden, was the owner of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and her father was Albert Holden, a successful mining engineer. At the start of the First World War, Emery was driving ambulances and working in hospitals in France, and it was during this time that she married R. Henry Norweb. R. Henry Norweb was a United States diplomat, so throughout the couple’s marriage they lived in numerous places around the world, including Tokyo, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Portugal, and Cuba.

Celebrating Ohio winter holidays wouldn't be the same without snow, so what better image to share in December than Yamamoto Shōun's delightful Children Playing: Snowman? Look at these adorable children, rolling snow, blowing on their fingers, and creating their snowman with big eyes and a stick mouth! The baby perched shoulder high dangles a toy, as two others behind him roll a giant ball of snow into shape. The Japanese patterns on their clothing really catch the viewer's eye, as do the expressions on their faces.

The Cleveland Table Fountain: Inventories and Gothic Architecture

Reading Stephen Fliegel's insightful article, 'The Cleveland Table Fountain and Gothic Automata' in the 2002 issue of Cleveland Studies in the History of Art introduced this reader to known evidence of the existence of other fountains in the fourteenth century. What is this evidence? Inventories, especially those famous enough to bear reprinting in not so distant centuries.


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Monday, December 24, 2012

Ripper Book Review

Author: Amy Carol Reeves. Release date: 2012. Publisher:  Flux. ISBN: 9780738730721.

PhotobucketAnnotation: After her mother’s death, seventeen-year-old Arabella “Abbie” Sharp leaves her home in Dublin to live with her wealthy grandmother, Lady Westfield, in the Kensington neighborhood of London. In an effort to get her granddaughter to appreciate her new life of privilege, Lady Westfield volunteers Abbie to work at the women’s hospital in Whitechapel. Abbie finds that she enjoys tending to the poverty stricken residents of the East End, but her new found love of medicine is cut short when Jack the Ripper begins terrorizing the dark streets surrounding the hospital.

Personal thoughts: As I have said before, I am always ready to pounce on any novels that feature the brutal if intriguing Jack the Ripper case, so when I heard about Ripper I had to pick it up. I am also a fan of historical fiction, so I was able to enjoy Amy Carol Reeves’ story from both angles. Her knowledge and love of the time period is clear, and I definitely found some subtle and not-so-subtle references to classic novels that, hopefully, teen readers can pick up on as well. Although I found the supernatural components as well as the requisite love-triangle to somewhat detract from what I was really interested in, I think most teen readers will enjoy these aspects of the story, especially since so many young adult novels include them. I would easily recommend this book to a reader who wants historical fiction with a twist. I look forward to reading Renegade when it is released in 2013.

Plot summary: After her mother’s sudden death from dysentery, seventeen-year-old Arabella “Abbie” Sharp leaves the gritty streets of 1888 Dublin to live with her wealthy grandmother, Lady Westfield, in the well-to-do London neighborhood of Kensington. Before she was born, Lady Westfield disowned Abbie’s mother for eloping with a poor Frenchman, but now that Abbie has returned to her mother’s former privileged life, her grandmother is determined to ensure that Abbie doesn’t follow in her mother’s footsteps. In an effort to make her granddaughter appreciate her luxurious if dull new surroundings, Lady Westfield volunteers Abbie to work with family friend Dr. Bartlett at the women’s hospital in the impoverished Whitechapel neighborhood. Soon after beginning her work there, Abbie discovers a natural love of medicine and a genuine enjoyment of helping the poverty-stricken women of the East End. Her love of working in the hospital is brief, however, when Jack the Ripper begins his brutal killing spree, murdering women who were recently discharged from the hospital’s care. Like everyone, Abbie is terrified by the savage nature of the crimes, but she soon realizes that she and the Ripper have a connection: strange visions that show the Ripper’s victims just before their deaths. What is the link between Abbie, the Ripper and the Whitechapel Hospital, and can she discover it in time to save her own life?

Review: In her debut novel, author and 19th century British literature expert Amy Carol Reeves brings one of history’s most terrifying figures to life in Ripper. Although not the first young adult novel in recent years to feature Jack the Ripper, Abbie Sharp’s story is one of many layers in which the infamous murderer is just another component of a larger mystery. Abbie herself is a very likable character, trying to reconcile her new life of corsets and tea parties with the knife throwing skills and street smarts she picked up in Dublin. Her devotion and compassion for the patients she finds herself caring for at the Whitechapel Hospital is very believable, and will hopefully prompt readers to research more into what life was like for women living in poverty in the 19th century. Ripper fans will find some familiar faces, as Abbie meets and befriends several victims before they are brutally slain. The paranormal aspects of the story, from Abbie’s psychic visions to the increasingly obvious supernatural nature of the crimes, will also appeal to readers who want something more than just a simple historical fiction novel. As with all young adult novels, it seems, there is also a romance in the form of a love triangle between Abbie and two young physicians at the hospital. Since Ripper is the first book in a series, the love triangle will undoubtedly continue in the second installment, Renegade, which is set to be released in April 2013. Overall, Ripper proves to be an entertaining historical fiction novel that both Jack the Ripper fans and those not well acquainted with the killer can enjoy.

Genre:  Historical Fiction/Mystery

Reading level: Grade 8+

Similar titles: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson, The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman, Darker Still by Leanna Renee Hieber, Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey, Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury.

Themes:  Jack the Ripper, murder, mystery, conspiracy, secret societies, orphans, London, Victorian era.

Awards/Reviews:  Positive review from VOYA, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.

Series Information: First novel in Ripper series, second novel, Renegade, set to be released April 2013.

Discussion questions:
-        Were you familiar with Jack the Ripper before reading the novel? What did you learn about him?

-        Why do you think Abbie has such a hard time adjusting to life in Kensington?

-         Would you want to work at the Whitechapel Hospital? Why or why not?

-       How would you explain Abbie’s visions?

-      Who was your favorite character in the novel? Why?

-       What would you like to see happen in the sequel, Renegade?

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  1. Overall, this was a very interesting story concerning the identity of Jack the Ripper.

    Irene (Seattle Electrician)


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Saturday, May 03, 2014

Hostage of Ignorance

It was an odd call, to say the least. On the other end of the line was a nurse who works for my patient’s health insurance company. They were trying to decide whether or not to deny my patient’s insulin pump supplies.

Now this Patient has been on a pump for about seven years. She’s actually a type 2, but she might as well be one of us. Pre-pump she took multiple daily injections of two kinds of insulin. She’s brittle as hell. She struggles with her control. There’s a lot of variation in her BGLs, but her A1Cs generally run in the low sevens, not a bad outcome for her efforts.

Apparently the insurance company had been looking at a recent visit note. On that day, my patient had suffered a pod failure, and just like one of us, in a matter of a few hours her BGL had rocketed up, up, up to 463mg/dL. She had changed the pod, took a correction, and was waiting for the resumed flow of insulin to take effect. As a T2, her risk of DKA from a hyperglycemia this brief was nil, so her main health issue was that she was PISSED off. Madder than a wet hen, in fact.

But I guess the insurance nurse didn’t look at the most recent pump downloads that show my lady tests 6-8 times per day, that her numbers generally run between 80-250 with a good solid average of 130,  OR that less than 5% of her readings are above 250 mg/dL. Instead, the nurse at the insurance company was totally focused on this one high BLG reading, and told me they were wondering why they were paying so much money for insulin pump supplies if this was all the better the results were.

I was stunned for a moment. Everyone has a screaming high number now and again. That’s the cost of doing business with diabetes. Taking someone’s pump away isn’t likely to improve that. Probably, the opposite is true. So I pulled up the note, glanced over it, and explained to the insurance nurse that my patient had suffered a pod failure a few hours before, that’s all.

To which the nurse asked me: “What’s a pod?”

Oh. But it gets worse. It turns out this nurse knew pretty much nothing about insulin pumps of any kind. Actually, she didn’t seem to know very much about diabetes, either.

Well, at least she called to ask, rather than just getting out her red stamp pad. And, luckily, it all ended well. The nurse was polite and courteous to me, and I was able to lobby for the value of the supplies and she cleared them for shipment.

But in the course of the conversation she happened to mention she’d soon be attending her 50th reunion at her nursing school later in the month.

Let’s see…. 50 + probable student age of 20 is 70.

So a 70-plus-year-old nurse who knows nothing about pumps and diabetes is holding my patient’s supplies hostage? Not that there’s anything wrong with advanced age. Experience counts. And I plan to work well into my 90s, as I don’t have a dime saved for my retirement, but why was someone with no knowledge of pumps in a position to be making these kinds of decisions?

Blogger Scott E said...

That, I can't answer. But I do feel like earlier generations are taught to approach situations with more of a "do what's right" attitude, rather than a "do what's easiest" spirit. So I think you and your patient should be extremely thankful for getting this woman to review this case rather than someone who is anxious to red-stamp everything.

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Blogger DB said...

Everyday I continue to be shocked by the idiocy I encounter in dealing with vendors and retail. With SO MANY people looking for a job are these companies oblivious to the incompetence of the employees, too lazy to upgrade or paying so little they get what they pay for ?

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Somewhere along the line the workforce (thanks to management) has shifted from "doing the right thing" and using a bit of common sense to toeing the rule book created by overbearing micromanagement that has lost sight of what the job is about.

4:00 PM
Blogger Kate said...

Oh my word. This post gives me chills. Thank you for being her advocate. So very scary!

7:52 PM
Anonymous Colleen said...

Thank goodness she spoke with you and you had the notes to know what happened.

4:52 PM

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