#Richard E. Feinberg

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After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he’s human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Stephanie Speck: Ally Sheedy Newton Crosby: Steve Guttenberg Ben Jabituya: Fisher Stevens Howard Marner: Austin Pendleton Skroeder: G.W. Bailey Frank: Brian McNamara Number 5 (voice): Tim Blaney Duke: Marvin J. McIntyre Otis: John Garber Mrs. Cepeda: Penny Santon General Washburne: Vernon Weddle Senator Mills: Barbara Tarbuck Howard Marner’s Aide: Tom Lawrence Norman: Fred Slyter Zack: Billy Ray Sharkey Reporter: Robert Krantz Reporter: Jan Speck Barmaid: Marguerite Happy Farmer: Howard Krick Farmer’s Wife: Marjorie Card Hughes Gate Guard: Herb Smith Party Guest: Jack Thompson Party Guest: William Striglos Party Guest: Mary Reckley Party Guest: Shay McLean Party Guest: Eleanor C. Heutschy Frank: Sergio Kato Film Crew: Producer: David Foster Producer: Lawrence Turman Director: John Badham Editor: Frank Morriss Art Direction: Dianne Wager Original Music Composer: David Shire Director of Photography: Nick McLean Second Unit Director: Gregg Champion Scenario Writer: S.S. Wilson Writer: Brent Maddock Location Manager: Mark Indig Casting: Jane Feinberg Script Supervisor: H. Bud Otto Co-Producer: Dennis E. Jones Title Designer: David Oliver Pfeil Casting: Mike Fenton Executive Producer: Mark Damon Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis Associate Producer: Dana Satler Hankins Associate Producer: Gary Foster Title Designer: Wayne Fitzgerald Executive Producer: John W. Hyde Casting: Judy Taylor Production Coordinator: Mary Cay Hollander Unit Production Manager: Steve Perry First Assistant Director: Jerry Ziesmer Second Assistant Director: Bryan Denegal Assistant Art Director: Donald B. Woodruff Camera Operator: Michael D. O’Shea Camera Operator: Steve Bridge First Assistant Camera: Michael A. Chavez Still Photographer: Bruce McBroom Sound Mixer: Willie D. Burton Boom Operator: Marvin E. Lewis Utility Sound: Robert W. Harris Supervising Sound Editor: William L. Manger Supervising Sound Editor: Milton C. Burrow Sound Editor: Richard Burrow Sound Editor: Scott Burrow Sound Editor: Richard Oswald Music Editor: Stan Witt Assistant Sound Editor: Kelly L. Manger Construction Coordinator: Michael Muscarella Construction Foreman: Joseph C. Fama Property Master: Gregg H. Bilson Assistant Property Master: Stan Cockerell Standby Painter: Jerry Gadette Greensman: Philip C. Hurst Makeup Artist: Tom Lucas Hairstylist: Damon Grill Gaffer: Colin J. Campbell Key Grip: Bill Young Dolly Grip: Donald L. Hartley Grip: Johnny London Jr. Leadman: Mark Woods Video Assist Operator: Richmond G. Cogswell Production Illustrator: Martin A. Kline Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Wayne Artman Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom E. Dahl Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Beckert Unit Publicist: Vic Heutschy Production Accountant: Jan Garner Negative Cutter: Donah Bassett Stunt Coordinator: Walter Scott Special Effects Coordinator: Chuck Gaspar Stunts: Freddie Hice Stunts: Christine Anne Baur Stunts: Brad Bovee Stunts: Vince Deadrick Sr. Stunts: Marguerite Happy Stunts: Clifford Happy Stunts: Danny Costa Stunts: Bob Harris Stunts: Loren Janes Stunts: Robert Jauregui Stunts: Ben Scott Stunts: John-Clay Scott Stunts: Sasha Jenson Stunts: Ted White Stunts: R.L. Tolbert Second Assistant Camera: Robert Samuels Movie Reviews:

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Hey, so I'm really really confused, I just recently discovered neopronouns and I'm thinking of using them but the thing is, everywhere online says that they're invalid and that only non dysphoric people can use them and I don't understand, and I don't know if you are able to help me?

hey!! with the current state of tumblr discourse, there’s a lot of hatred of neopronouns, and with that comes a lot of misinformation. i’ll try to explain some misconceptions about them and give a little history!! (apologies, neopronouns are a big special interest of mine, so i tend to ramble fjkdgs)

- first of all, neopronouns are not just used by nondysphoric folks! i’m dysphoric and i tend to prefer neopronouns over he/him most of the time, and i know plenty of other dysphoric folks who use them.

- they can be used by binary folks - both cis and trans - and nonbinary folks. if a person feels comfortable or happy using a set of neopronouns, they can use them!

- they’re not just used by teenagers and are not just used online/on tumblr! a great example of an older/irl neopronoun user is butch transgender lesbian leslie feinberg, author of stone butch blues. ze used different pronouns - ze/hir, she/her, or he/him - based on setting and context, stating ze preferred she/her to be used in non-trans settings and he/him in all-trans settings and that ze enjoyed the ambiguity of ze/hir.

- yes, they/them can be used as a singular gender-neutral pronoun. however, this does not mean that the english language has no need for another gender-neutral pronoun, nor does it suit every person who wants to use gender-neutral pronouns.

- neopronoun users are not inherently ableist (i see this argument a lot). if someone has a reason for having difficulty learning/using neopronouns, such as being neurodivergent or a non-native english speaker, most neopronoun users are happy to provide an alternative pronoun set (he, she, or they)!

- though they’re referred to as ‘neopronouns’, plenty of gender neutral non-they pronouns date back to decades or even centuries ago! here’s a (incomplete) timeline of older pronouns:

- 1789: william marshal wrote about the dialectical pronoun ‘ou’, which he traced back to middle english (~14th century) ‘(h)a’.

- 1884: charles crozat converse coined ‘thon’, a contraction of ‘that one’. this one actually was in an edition of webster’s dictionary!

- 1890: james rogers proposed the ‘e/em/es’ set, derived from ‘he’ and ‘them’, in response to the ‘thon’ set. this is the first form of what we now call the spivak set!

- 1920: in his novel a voyage to arcturus, david lindsay used the pronouns ‘ae’ and ‘aer’ for his alien race, which were born from air and of a third sex.

- 1970: mary orovan coined ‘co’, which some fec groups now use as gender-blind pronouns in their bylaws rather than ‘they’.

- 1973: don rickter coined the ‘xe/xem’ set. though others coined versions of this set at around the same time, rickter is typically cited as the creator. it has a lot of variations!

- 1975: christine elverson coined the set ‘ey/em/eir’ for a contest to find an alternative to he/she. these were formed by dropping the first two letters from 'they/them/their’, and are now known as the elverson set, the second version of spivak pronouns.

- 1980: new zealand writer keri hulme proposes the ‘ve/ver’ set. these are also used by greg egan for non-gendered ais in his 1998 novel diaspora.

- 1982: editor sasha newborn first uses the ‘hu/hum’, or ‘humanist’, set in a college humanities text.

- 1983: michael spivak, a mathematician, wrote an educational book in which he used the set ‘E/Em/Eir', capitalizing the ‘e’ each time. this is the spivak set! though it was coined after the other two related sets, they are all typically lumped together under the label ‘spivak’ because of roger crew’s addition of the gender ‘spivak’ on the site lambdamoo. choosing this gender option would cause the game to use ‘e/em/eir’ for the player, and though it was originally only put there to test the software, it was left in due to the amount of players who enjoyed the setting.

- 1997, 1998: the first two versions of ‘ze’/’zie’/’sie’ pronouns are recorded. ‘ze/mer’ by richard creel of the apa in 1997 and ‘ze (zie, sie)/hir’ in kate bornstein’s 1998 book my gender workbook. perhaps the most widely used/well-known variation of this set is ‘ze (zie, sie)/zir’, which was coined in 2013.

i am one of many who thinks that pronoun usage is up to the individual. explore your pronouns, find those that make you feel happy and that honor your gender/expression/etc, and use them!

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91st Academy Awards:  Who Will and Should Win

Well friends, here we are.  It’s time for The Big One.  Award show after award show, controversy after controversy, the 91st Academy Awards are tomorrow night.  The most prestigious award in the film industry will be handed out to winners across 24 categories.  Check out my picks for who will and should win in the major categories below the cut.

Best Picture

Will win:  Roma

Should win:  Roma

Dark Horse:  Black Panther

Since expanding the field of nominees starting with the 82nd Academy Awards, the Best Picture field has been harder to predict in recent years.  This year, a lack of consistency in winners has made it harder to predict who will win.  Last year’s winner, The Shape of Water, was the Producer’s Guild of America winner, which is usually a good predictor of the Best Picture winner.  This year’s winner at the PGA was Green Book.  But the controversies surrounding Green Book have left a sour taste in my mouth.  For Best Picture, I’m going with Roma.  Alfonso Cuaron paints a heart-wrenching picture of his time growing up in Mexico during the 1970′s.  It may be the first foreign language film to win Best Picture.  However, if there is to be an upset thanks to the Academy’s preferential voting system, I’d like to see Black Panther come out on top.

Best Director

Will win: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

Should win:  Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

Dark Horse:  Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War

This year, foreign language films are reigning supreme in major categories.  I don’t expect a major upset in the Best Director category as Cuaron has been sweeping the directing awards all season.  Pawel Pawlikowski’s surprise nomination (most likely edging out Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born) may be a threat of Cuaron but I’m still sticking to the creative force behind Roma.

Best Actor

Will win: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Should win:  Rami Malek OR Christian Bale, Vice

Dark Horse:  Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate

With just a minor blip at the Critics’ Choice Awards where Bale nabbed the Best Actor award, Rami Malek has been dominating award season.  The moment I saw a photo of Malek as Freddie Mercury (no film footage or trailer, just a photo), I pegged Malek as the Best Actor frontrunner.  Both men disappear into their roles and Bale’s haunting portrayal of Vice President Dick Cheney poses as a threat to Malek.  I’d be pleased with either winning as they are both deserving, but I would just be slightly sad if Bale edged out Malek.  We all know Bale is a talented and versatile actor.  The world still needs to know how great Malek is though, and for that, I’m choosing Malek as the winner.

Best Actress

Will win:  Glenn Close, The Wife

Should win:  Glenn Close OR Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born

Dark Horse:  Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Welcome to the “We’re sorry we took this long” Oscar!  A film veteran with a career spanning almost 40 years and seven (!!!) Academy Award nominations, it’s time for Glenn Close to get her due.  Call me biased or whatever, I still believe Lady Gaga is wholly deserving of the accolade as well but her Oscar will come in the Best Original Song category.  If anyone is a threat to them, it’s Olivia Colman for The Favourite.  Colman nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Actress, Musical/Comedy and the BAFTA for Leading Actress.  In my opinion, this is the most competitive category this year, but I am still sticking with Close as the winner.

Best Supporting Actor

Will win: Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Should win:  Mahershala Ali OR Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born

Dark Horse:  Adam Driver, BlackKklansman

As I mentioned above for Best Picture, the controversies surrounding Green Book have left a sour taste in my mouth but I know how talented of an actor Mahershala Ali is (i.e. House of Cards, Luke Cage, his Academy Award-winning performance in Moonlight, and True Detective JUST to name a few).  No missteps this awards season, Ali has been dominating the Supporting Actor category.  If there were to be an upset, it might be here.  Veteran actors Sam Elliott and Richard E. Grant both nabbed their first Oscar nominations of their careers.  If anyone were to edge out Ali, I’d give it to Elliott.  The look on his face as he backs up the truck after Jackson tells Bobby it was him he admired, not their dad sold it for me.

Best Supporting Actress

Will win: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Should win:  Regina King OR Amy Adams, Vice

Dark Horse:  Marina de Tavira, Roma

Here we have the oddball category that has been a mess all award season.  Regina King won the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice.  Neither voting body hold membership in the Academy.  If they do, it’s a very small percentage.  Rachel Weisz won the BAFTA, which is a given since she is British.  Emily Blunt (who isn’t even nominated in this category!!) won the SAG Award.  King failed to receive a SAG nomination which is a huge blow to her chances for the Oscar since the acting branch is the largest branch of the Academy.  And for Weisz and Emma Stone (both of whom received SAG AND Oscar nods), only Weisz was able to nab an accolade during award season.  Amy Adams is in the same boat as Leonardo DiCaprio once was.  Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.  King’s lack of SAG nomination could hurt her chances here and give Adams (who was just as great in Vice as Bale was) the win.  I am biased.  Amy Adams is one of my favorite actresses and her lack of Oscar irks me.  If she pulls a win, expect a high-pitched scream from me to be heard across the world.  But King does have other branches on her side so I’m thinking she’ll come out on top.

Best Animated Feature Film

Will win:  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Should win:  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Dark Horse:  Ralph Breaks The Internet

Let’s give it up for Miles Morales!  Marvel may not be able to win a lot with Black Panther but let’s expect a win here for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.  It’s hard to believe Pixar may not nab the Oscar here but it’s a win for Disney either way as Pixar and Marvel are owned by them.

Best Foreign Language Film

Will win:  Roma

Should win:  Roma OR Cold War

Dark Horse:  None

Here’s where Roma’s Best Picture chances may hurt it in other categories.  Cold War has been its fiercest competitor and it may edge out Roma for Foreign Language Film, thus giving Roma the chance to win Best Picture.  However, I’m still sticking with Roma for the win.

Best Original Song

Will win: “Shallow”

Should win: “Shallow” OR “All The Stars”

Dark Horse:  “I’ll Fight”

It’s hard to believe any other song winning this category other than “Shallow.”  The lead single from A Star Is Born has swept award season and given redemption to Lady Gaga for her painful snub back in 2016 for “’Til It Happens To You.”  Though, everything works out in the end since “Shallow” is the stronger song and more deserving of the accolade.  If “Shallow” isn’t going to win, hopefully “All The Stars” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA pulls a win.

Best Original Score

Will win:  If Beale Street Could Talk 

Should win:  If Beale Street Could Talk OR Black Panther

Dark Horse:  Isle of Dogs

I’m very split in this category as I feel If Beale Street Could Talk and Black Panther are both deserving of the award.  Beale Street’s jazzy compositions are somewhat uplifting to contrast the bleak subject material of the film.  But Ludwig Goransson’s score for Black Panther did pick up a Grammy earlier this month which may have some overlap between the Recording Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  A win for either film would be fine with me.

Best Original Screenplay

Will win: The Favourite

Should win:  The Favourite

Dark Horse:  Vice

Taking a look at the 2019 Writers’ Guild Awards, the screenplay categories are just as much of a mess as the Best Supporting Actress category.  Green Book won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay (a category that meshes both original and adapted screenplays) but failed to win the WGA for Best Original Screenplay.  That accolade went to Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade, who isn’t even nominated (and wrongfully so).  The Favourite did win Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTAs so I’m picking a win for it here.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Will win:  BlackKklansman

Should win:  BlackKklansman

Dark Horse:  A Star Is Born

Can you believe Spike Lee has never won a competitive Oscar?  Lee has said that the Academy’s agenda to become more diverse in its voting body is what nabbed him three Oscar nominations for BlackKklansman, including his first nomination for Best Director.  And he’s not wrong.  Looking at the nominees (and potential winners) this year, some progress has been made.  A Star Is Born, which was consider a frontrunner very early in award season, has seemed to fizzle out.  What has Bradley Cooper done with the fourth incarnation of a film to make it stand out?  If it’s going to receive a major award (aside from Original Song), it may win here to finally give Cooper his first Oscar.  But after winning the BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay, it’s Lee’s time to shine.

To check out the rest of the my Oscar picks, check out my Oscar ballot below.  I took some cues from The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg and Tom McCarthy, which you can read here, but I took some risks in a few categories.

The 91st Academy Awards are tomorrow, February 24, at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST on ABC.

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A Joseph Agnello, Lad.118 Lt. Brian Ahearn, Bat.13 Eric Allen, Sqd.18 (D) Richard Allen, Lad.15 Cpt. James Amato, Sqd.1 Calixto Anaya Jr., Eng.4 Joseph Agnello, Lad.118 Lt. Brian Ahearn, Bat.13 Eric Allen, Sqd.18 (D) Richard Allen, Lad.15 Cpt. James Amato, Sqd.1 Calixto Anaya Jr., Eng.4 Joseph Angelini, Res.1 (D) Joseph Angelini Jr., Lad.4 Faustino Apostol Jr., Bat.2 David Arce, Eng.33 Louis Arena, Lad.5 (D) Carl Asaro, Bat.9 Lt. Gregg Atlas, Eng.10 Gerald Atwood, Lad.21

B Gerald Baptiste, Lad.9 A.C. Gerard Barbara, Cmd. Ctr. Matthew Barnes, Lad.25 Arthur Barry, Lad.15 Lt.Steven Bates, Eng.235 Carl Bedigian, Eng.214 Stephen Belson, Bat.7 John Bergin, Res.5 Paul Beyer, Eng.6 Peter Bielfeld, Lad.42 Brian Bilcher, Sqd.1 Carl Bini, Res.5 Christopher Blackwell, Res.3 Michael Bocchino, Bat.48 Frank Bonomo, Eng.230 Gary Box, Sqd.1 Michael Boyle, Eng.33 Kevin Bracken, Eng.40 Michael Brennan, Lad.4 Peter Brennan, Res.4 Cpt. Daniel Brethel, Lad.24 (D) Cpt. Patrick Brown, Lad.3 Andrew Brunn, Lad.5 (D) Cpt. Vincent Brunton, Lad.105 F.M. Ronald Bucca Greg Buck, Eng.201 Cpt. William Burke Jr., Eng.21 A.C. Donald Burns, Cmd. Ctr. John Burnside, Lad.20 Thomas Butler, Sqd.1 Patrick Byrne, Lad.101

C George Cain, Lad.7 Salvatore Calabro, Lad.101 Cpt. Frank Callahan, Lad.35 Michael Cammarata, Lad.11 Brian Cannizzaro, Lad.101 Dennis Carey, Hmc.1 Michael Carlo, Eng.230 Michael Carroll, Lad.3 Peter Carroll, Sqd.1 (D) Thomas Casoria, Eng.22 Michael Cawley, Lad.136 Vernon Cherry, Lad.118 Nicholas Chiofalo, Eng.235 John Chipura, Eng.219 Michael Clarke, Lad.2 Steven Coakley, Eng.217 Tarel Coleman, Sqd.252 John Collins, Lad.25 Robert Cordice, Sqd.1 Ruben Correa, Eng.74 James Coyle, Lad.3 Robert Crawford, Safety Lt. John Crisci, H.M. B.C. Dennis Cross, Bat.57 (D) Thomas Cullen III, Sqd. 41 Robert Curatolo, Lad.16 (D)

D Lt. Edward D'Atri, Sqd.1 Michael D'Auria, Eng.40 Scott Davidson, Lad.118 Edward Day, Lad.11 B.C. Thomas DeAngelis, Bat. 8 Manuel Delvalle, Eng.5 Martin DeMeo, H.M. 1 David DeRubbio, Eng.226 Lt. Andrew Desperito, Eng.1 (D) B.C. Dennis Devlin, Bat.9 Gerard Dewan, Lad.3 George DiPasquale, Lad.2 Lt. Kevin Donnelly, Lad.3 Lt. Kevin Dowdell, Res.4 B.C. Raymond Downey, Soc. Gerard Duffy, Lad.21

E Cpt. Martin Egan, Jr., Div.15 (D) Michael Elferis, Eng.22 Francis Esposito, Eng.235 Lt. Michael Esposito, Sqd.1 Robert Evans, Eng.33

F B.C. John Fanning, H.O. Cpt. Thomas Farino, Eng.26 Terrence Farrell, Res.4 Cpt. Joseph Farrelly, Div.1 Dep. Comm. William Feehan, (D) Lee Fehling, Eng.235 Alan Feinberg, Bat.9 Michael Fiore, Res.5 Lt. John Fischer, Lad.20 Andre Fletcher, Res.5 John Florio, Eng.214 Lt. Michael Fodor, Lad.21 Thomas Foley, Res.3 David Fontana, Sqd.1 Robert Foti, Lad.7 Andrew Fredericks, Sqd.18 Lt. Peter Freund, Eng.55

G Thomas Gambino Jr., Res.3 Chief of Dept. Peter Ganci, Jr. (D) Lt. Charles Garbarini, Bat.9 Thomas Gardner, Hmc.1 Matthew Garvey, Sqd.1 Bruce Gary, Eng.40 Gary Geidel, Res.1 B.C. Edward Geraghty, Bat.9 Dennis Germain, Lad.2 Lt. Vincent Giammona, Lad.5 James Giberson, Lad.35 Ronnie Gies, Sqd.288 Paul Gill, Eng.54 Lt. John Ginley, Eng.40 Jeffrey Giordano, Lad.3 John Giordano, Hmc.1 Keith Glascoe, Lad.21 James Gray, Lad.20 B.C. Joseph Grzelak, Bat.48 Jose Guadalupe, Eng.54 Lt. Geoffrey Guja, Bat.43 Lt. Joseph Gullickson, Lad.101

H David Halderman, Sqd.18 Lt. Vincent Halloran, Lad.8 Robert Hamilton, Sqd.41 Sean Hanley, Lad.20 (D) Thomas Hannafin, Lad.5 Dana Hannon, Eng.26 Daniel Harlin, Lad.2 Lt. Harvey Harrell, Res.5 Lt. Stephen Harrell, Bat.7 Cpt. Thomas Haskell, Jr., Div.15 Timothy Haskell, Sqd.18 (D) Cpt. Terence Hatton, Res.1 Michael Haub, Lad.4 Lt. Michael Healey, Sqd.41 John Hefferman, Lad.11 Ronnie Henderson, Eng.279 Joseph Henry, Lad.21 William Henry, Res.1 (D) Thomas Hetzel, Lad.13 Cpt. Brian Hickey, Res.4 Lt. Timothy Higgins, S.O.C. Jonathan Hohmann, Hmc.1 Thomas Holohan, Eng.6 Joseph Hunter, Sqd.288 Cpt. Walter Hynes, Lad.13 (D)

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J William Johnston, Eng.6 Andrew Jordan, Lad.132 Karl Joseph, Eng.207 Lt. Anthony Jovic, Bat.47 Angel Juarbe Jr., Lad.12 Mychal Judge, Chaplain (D)

K Vincent Kane, Eng.22 B.C. Charles Kasper, S.O.C. Paul Keating, Lad.5 Richard Kelly Jr., Lad.11 Thomas R. Kelly, Lad.15 Thomas W. Kelly, Lad.105 Thomas Kennedy, Lad.101 Lt. Ronald Kerwin, Sqd.288 Michael Kiefer, Lad.132 Robert King Jr., Eng.33 Scott Kopytko, Lad.15 William Krukowski, Lad.21 Kenneth Kumpel, Lad.25 Thomas Kuveikis, Sqd.252

L David LaForge, Lad.20 William Lake, Res.2 Robert Lane, Eng.55 Peter Langone, Sqd.252 Scott Larsen, Lad.15 Lt. Joseph Leavey, Lad.15 Neil Leavy, Eng.217 Daniel Libretti, Res.2 Carlos Lillo, Paramedic Robert Linnane, Lad.20 Michael Lynch, Eng.40 Michael Lynch, Lad.4 Michael Lyons, Sqd.41 Patrick Lyons, Sqd.252

M Joseph Maffeo, Lad.101 William Mahoney, Res 4 Joseph Maloney, Lad.3 (D) B.C. Joseph Marchbanks Jr, Bat.12 Lt. Charles Margiotta, Bat.22 Kenneth Marino, Res.1 John Marshall, Eng.23 Lt. Peter Martin, Res.2 Lt. Paul Martini, Eng.23 Joseph Mascali, T.S.U. 2 Keithroy Maynard, Eng.33 Brian McAleese, Eng.226 John McAvoy, Lad.3 Thomas McCann, Bat.8 Lt. William McGinn, Sqd.18 B.C. William McGovern, Bat.2 (D) Dennis McHugh, Lad.13 Robert McMahon, Lad.20 Robert McPadden, Eng.23 Terence McShane, Lad.101 Timothy McSweeney, Lad.3 Martin McWilliams, Eng.22 (D) Raymond Meisenheimer, Res.3 Charles Mendez, Lad.7 Steve Mercado, Eng.40 Douglas Miller, Res.5 Henry Miller Jr, Lad.105 Robert Minara, Lad.25 Thomas Mingione, Lad.132 Lt. Paul Mitchell, Bat.1 Capt. Louis Modafferi, Res.5 Lt. Dennis Mojica, Res.1 (D) Manuel Mojica, Sqd.18 (D) Carl Molinaro, Lad.2 Michael Montesi, Res.1 Capt. Thomas Moody, Div.1 B.C. John Moran, Bat.49 Vincent Morello, Lad.35 Christopher Mozzillo, Eng.55 Richard Muldowney Jr, Lad.07 Michael Mullan, Lad.12 Dennis Mulligan, Lad.2 Lt. Raymond Murphy, Lad.16

N Lt. Robert Nagel, Eng.58 John Napolitano, Res.2 Peter Nelson, Res.4 Gerard Nevins, Res.1

O Dennis O'Berg, Lad.105 Lt. Daniel O'Callaghan, Lad.4 Douglas Oelschlager, Lad.15 Joseph Ogren, Lad.3 Lt. Thomas O'Hagan, Bat.4 Samuel Oitice, Lad.4 Patrick O'Keefe, Res.1 Capt. William O'Keefe, Div.15 (D) Eric Olsen, Lad.15 Jeffery Olsen, Eng.10 Steven Olson, Lad.3 Kevin O'Rourke, Res.2 Michael Otten, Lad.35

P Jeffery Palazzo, Res.5 B.C. Orio Palmer, Bat.7 Frank Palombo, Lad.105 Paul Pansini, Eng.10 B.C. John Paolillo, Bat.11 James Pappageorge, Eng.23 Robert Parro, Eng.8 Durrell Pearsall, Res.4 Lt. Glenn Perry, Bat.12 Lt. Philip Petti, Bat.7 Lt. Kevin Pfeifer, Eng. 33 Lt. Kenneth Phelan, Bat.32 Christopher Pickford, Eng.201 Shawn Powell, Eng.207 Vincent Princiotta, Lad.7 Kevin Prior, Sqd.252 B.C. Richard Prunty, Bat.2 (D)

Q Lincoln Quappe, Res.2 Lt. Michael Quilty, Lad.11 Ricardo Quinn, Paramedic

R Leonard Ragaglia, Eng.54 Michael Ragusa, Eng.279 Edward Rall, Res.2 Adam Rand, Sqd.288 Donald Regan, Res.3 Lt. Robert Regan, Lad.118 Christian Regenhard, Lad.131 Kevin Reilly, Eng.207 Lt. Vernon Richard, Lad.7 James Riches, Eng.4 Joseph Rivelli, Lad.25 Michael Roberts, Eng.214 Michael E. Roberts, Lad.35 Anthony Rodriguez, Eng.279 Matthew Rogan, Lad.11 Nicholas Rossomando, Res.5 Paul Ruback, Lad.25 Stephen Russell, Eng.55 Lt. Michael Russo, S.O.C. B.C. Matthew Ryan, Bat.1

S Thomas Sabella, Lad.13 Christopher Santora, Eng.54 John Santore, Lad.5 (D) Gregory Saucedo, Lad.5 Dennis Scauso, H.M. 1 John Schardt, Eng.201 B.C. Fred Scheffold, Bat.12 Thomas Schoales, Eng.4 Gerard Schrang, Res.3 (D) Gregory Sikorsky, Sqd.41 Stephen Siller, Sqd.1 Stanley Smagala Jr, Eng.226 Kevin Smith, H.M. 1 Leon Smith Jr, Lad 118 Robert Spear Jr, Eng.26 Joseph Spor, Res.3 B.C. Lawrence Stack, Bat.50 Cpt. Timothy Stackpole, Div.11 (D) Gregory Stajk, Lad.13 Jeffery Stark, Eng.230 Benjamin Suarez, Lad.21 Daniel Suhr, Eng.216 (D) Lt. Christopher Sullivan, Lad.111 Brian Sweeney, Res.1

T Sean Tallon, Lad.10 Allan Tarasiewicz, Res.5 Paul Tegtmeier, Eng.4 John Tierney, Lad.9 John Tipping II, Lad.4 Hector Tirado Jr, Eng.23

V Richard Vanhine, Sqd.41 Peter Vega, Lad.118 Lawrence Veling, Eng.235 John Vigiano II, Lad.132 Sergio Villanueva, Lad.132 Lawrence Virgilio, Sqd.18 (D)

W Lt. Robert Wallace, Eng.205 Jeffery Walz, Lad. 9 Lt. Michael Warchola, Lad.5 (D) Capt. Patrick Waters, S.O.C. Kenneth Watson, Eng.214 Michael Weinberg, Eng.1 (D) David Weiss, Res.1 Timothy Welty, Sqd.288 Eugene Whelan, Eng.230 Edward White, Eng.230 Mark Whitford, Eng.23 Lt. Glenn Wilkinson, Eng.238 (D) B.C. John Williamson, Bat.6 (D) Capt. David Wooley, Lad.4

Y Raymond York, Eng.285 (D)

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España /Spain playlist

España  or Spain, either way, what a wonderful place in the world. The music, like classical guitar, flamenco, is unique in that area and I just had to make a Spanish playlist. Remember to turn it up loud for Teitenblood! To hear the songs, hit the link here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC18Ks-9LjNcIuaxQmaAsBV5R

Are there any songs I forgot to add to the list? Let me know. Gracias!

SPAIN

001 El toro de tu sueno - Pasodoble clasico taurino 002 Biréli Lagrène Sylvain Luc - Spain 003 Melanas - No puedo pensar 004 Paco de Lucia - Entre dos aguas   005 Locomia - locomia 006 Astor Piazzolla - Street Tango 007 The Night Flight Orchestra - Spanish Ghosts 008 Ataraxy - One Last Certainty   009 Gypsy Kings - Bamboleo Z 010 Kramp - Leather Warrior 011 Sacrificio - La marca del hereje 012 De Fabriek - Mina De Carbón Unser Fritz 013  Les Paul - Lady of Spain 014 Faith No More -  Matador 015 The Doors - Spanish Caravan 016 Tears for Fears - Raoul and the king of Spain 017 Deerhoof - Qui Dorm Només Somia   018 Aretha Franklin - Mister Spain 019 Falling Joys - Fiesta!   020 Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night 021 Cradle of Filth - Libertina Grimm 022 Mägo de Oz - Fiesta pagana 2.0 023 The Clash  - Spanish Bombs 024 Ictus - Los restos de la esfera 025 PAN & REGALIZ   - Thinking Of  Mary 026 Misty Grey - Spellbound 027 Laura Branigan - Spanish Eddie   028 Ravel - Bolero (original version) 029 ANTIGUO RÉGIMEN - Siega De Almas 030 Extreme Pamplona Sureta - Pamplona   031 Haemorrhage - Uncontrollable proliferation of Neoplasm 032 Herb Alpert the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea 033 Benise - Malaguena 034 The Gathering -  Pale Traces (alt. Spanish version) 035  Buio Mondo - Massacre Of The Troupe (Composta da Riz Ortolani) 036 Lewis and the Strange Magics - Sexadelic Galactic Voyage 037 KROSSFYRE - Fire Solution 038 Mecano - Madrid 039 Porcupine Tree - This Long Silence 040 Blackmores Night - Spanish Night (I Remember It Well) 041 Gipsy Kings - Volare 042 VHÄLDEMAR - Against All Kings 043 Brian Eno & John Cale - Cordoba Wrong Way Up 044 The Charlie Daniels  Band - El Toreador 045 Masaru Imada trio - Green Caterpillar   046 White Skull - Grand Inquisitor 047 Bob Dylan  - Boots of Spanish Leather 048 Miguel Rios - Vuelvo a Granada 049 GOLDEN EARRING - SNOT LOVE IN SPAIN 050 Ween -  Fiesta 051 Maniac Butcher - Zrada 052 Obus - Lios en el Congreso 053 Halford - Matador 054 Clutch -  El Jefe Speaks 055 Morrissey (the pansy) - The Bullfighter Dies 056 Proclamation - Morbid Lust 057 ZERO DOWN - No Limit to the Evil 058  Echo & the Bunnymen - Bombers Bay 059  David Hasselhoff - Torero Te Quiero 060 Zoroaster -  Matador 061 Altarage - Knowledge 062 Miguel A. Ruiz - Climatery 063 At the Drive-In - Alpha Centurai 064 Mantovani - Velencia 065 Tom Waits - Black market baby 066 Sangre de Muerdago - Longa Noite de Pedra 067 Faith No More -  Caralho Voador 068 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Rock of Gibraltar 069 Sweet Pills - Vertical 070 Miles Davis - Song of our country 071 Skyclad - Desperanto (A Song for Europe?) 072 Avulsed - Burnt But Not Carbonized 073 Dishammer - vintage addiction 074 Astor Piazzolla - Milonga Picaresque 075 Pans Labyrinth OST - A long, long time ago 076 Johnny Cash - El Matador 077 Teitanblood - Purging tongues 078 Yves Simon - Barcelone 079 David Lee Roth -  La Calle Del Tabaco 080 The NPG Orchestra  -  Barcelona 081 Manu Chao - La Rumba De Barcelona 082 The Travelers -  Spanish Moon 083 BARCELONA - Pasion 084 Sodom -  Exhibition bout 085 Ataraxy - under veiled skies 086 The Association -Requiem for the Masses 087 Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona (Album Version) 088 Vista Chino -  Barcelonian 089 Witchtower- better run 090 S to S - Stay of Victor Feinberg 091 Joan Manuel Serrat -  Barcelona i Jo 092 PERET - BARCELONA TIENE PODER 093 The Night Flight Orchestra -  Barcelona 094 Mano Negra - Indios De Barcelona 095 Mastodon - Crusher Destroyer 096 LINDA GUILALA - Mucho Mejor 097 Barcelona - Summer Songs 098 Joan Manuel Serrat - Mediterrano 099 Melenas - Una Tras Otra 100 Mr Bungle - Speak Spanish or die 101 Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - Utopia 102 Esplendor Geométrico - Moscú Esta Helado (Most Significant Beat Version) 103 Sartegos - Coraodo Seja (Trono Áureo) 104 Wastëland Riders - Mötorcharged Warriors 105 Chris Isaak -  Blue Spanish Sky 106 Los Bravos - Bring a Little Lovin' 107 Wormed - Remote Void 108 Rosy Finch - Lava 109 Los Manolos - Gitana Hechicera 110 Laurindo Almeida - Misirlou 111 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Solamente una Vez 112 Lola Florès - Ay España ! España mia 113 Rage -  Apuesto A Ganar (Spanish Version Of My Way) 114 Deep Purple - The Spanish archer 115 Coatul - L'edat de ferro 116 Sartegos - Sangue e Noite 117 Camaron de la isla & Paco de lucia - Bulerias 118 Madame Germen - As cicatrizes do paraiso 119 Ekkaia - Mientras dormimos 120 Josh Rouse - Valencia 121 Manolo García - A San Fernando, un ratito a pie y otro caminando 122 Graveyard - One With The Dead 123 Queens Of The Stone Age -  Gonna Leave You (Spanish version) 124 Sangre de Muerdago - Medianoite 125 SDH Semiotics Department Of Heteronyms - Tell Them 126 ROSY FINCH feat. Monty Peiró - Love 127 Teitanblood - Black Vertebrae 128 Metallica - for whom the bell tolls 129 Arany Zoltán - Deixame subir 130 Monty Python - Spanish Inquisition sound effect 666 Rammstein - Adios

Play the songs here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-iHPcxymC18Ks-9LjNcIuaxQmaAsBV5R

[khalilhumam]

Latin America yields to Trump’s pick to head regional bank

New Post has been published on http://khalilhumam.com/latin-america-yields-to-trumps-pick-to-head-regional-bank/

Latin America yields to Trump’s pick to head regional bank

By Richard E Feinberg For the first time in its 60-year history, the member nations that govern the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) — the Western Hemisphere’s premier multilateral development finance institution have selected an American to be its next president. And not just any American: A White House political appointee Mauricio Claver-Carone is a Cuban-American lawyer, an ally of Senator Marco Rubio, and former lobbyist who trafficked in highly partisan polemics. As an official at the National Security Council, Claver-Carone became known more for wielding punitive sanctions than for any deep expertise in development economics. How to explain the paradox of Latin American and Caribbean governments — that together control a majority of the voting power in the IDB board — elevating on September 12 the nominee of a U.S. president famous for his diatribes against Latin Americans, a president who stepped foot in the region only once (for an international meeting) during his nearly four years in office? This perplexing behavior reveals the geopolitical realities that characterize today’s inter-American relations. The United States demonstratively retains coercive powers in its traditional sphere of influence among the smaller states of Central America and the Caribbean. Within Latin America, countries are deeply divided among themselves along several cleavages, and cooperation among states has frayed. Overall, power has tilted back toward Washington as it seeks to counter rising Chinese influence in the region. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic wracking Latin America has depleted national energies and diverted attention away international relations. Sheltering in place, prospective candidates for the IDB job were denied the opportunity to mount effective, in-person region-wide campaigns.

Disarray in Latin American diplomacy

The IDB was established in 1959, in response to pleas by Brazil for a regional economic development agency. A receptive Washington wanted to counter anti-U.S. sentiment — as experienced by then-Vice President Richard Nixon during a turbulent visit to Caracas in 1958 — and to prevent a repetition of the 1959 Cuban revolution. Unlike the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, where the United States and Europe guard their dominant shares and exclusive control over leadership, the IDB was established as a borrowers’ bank. The Latin Americans were awarded just over 50% of the voting shares and, by custom, the powerful presidency. Over its 60 years, all four presidents have hailed from the region; all four had distinguished records of public service before assuming the IDB leadership. But the United States, by far the largest donor and guarding 30% of the voting shares, retained a strong behind-the-scenes influence in the Washington-based agency. By custom, the executive vice president was an American. Ultimately, the bank’s evolving policy agenda and lending portfolio represented a careful balance among U.S. and Latin American preferences. The outgoing president, Colombian Luis Alberto Moreno, made clear early on his intention to step down this fall. But the Latin American governments failed to rally and nominate a unity candidate. Since the times of the independence hero Simón Bolívar, dreams of continental unity have been shattered by national divisions, ideological conflicts, and egotistic rivalries. But rarely has regional diplomacy been in such bad shape. Currently, the three largest Latin American countries — Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, controlling 6.91%, 10.75%, and 10.75% respectively of IDB voting shares — are inward-looking and bereft of international ambitions. The populist president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, shows remarkably little interest in international affairs, beyond placating Donald Trump. The conservative president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (a former military officer), has purposefully diminished Brazil’s international activism, preferring instead close alignment with Trump’s Washington. Hapless Argentina has been consumed by yet another debilitating default on its external debts. The governments of Mexico and Brazil share with Trump a distrust of educated expertise and of “deep state” professionals who served in previous administrations. Yet such experts make up the largest pool of potential candidates for the IDB leadership. Consequently, neither Mexico nor Brazil put forth a candidate. Argentina’s nominee lacked the requisite stature. Laura Chinchilla, a well-respected former president of Costa Rica, became the leading Latin American contender. In contrast to Claver-Carone, she boasted comprehensive, hands-on experience with managing the region’s development challenges. But Costa Rica has only 0.43% of the voting shares; Chinchilla could not even secure firm support from within her own Central American region, especially once the U.S. announced its own candidate.

Enter: Claver-Carone

Presumably noticing the lethargy and divisions in Latin America, Claver-Carone seized the moment in June to advance his own candidacy. Earlier and without public explanation, Moreno had rejected Claver-Carone’s application for the number-two slot traditionally reserved for the United States. Now he’d go for the top job. Consistent with Trump’s strong-arm tactics, Claver-Carone didn’t hesitate to imply linkages between future bilateral and multilateral assistance flows and a government’s IDB vote. Many of the smaller, more vulnerable nations of Central America and the Caribbean quickly fell into line. Two close U.S. allies, Colombia and Venezuela (that is, the opposition government that had been given control of the IDB seat), also announced their backing for Claver-Carone. Ecuador, Paraguay, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic joined the bandwagon as well. This Latin American support for Claver-Carone also reflected the region’s rightward shift. Voters had ousted nationalistic, left-leaning governments for failing to deliver sustained prosperity. According to opinion polls, Trump has been unpopular among the general population; nevertheless, the traditional elites now back in power do not identify with the poor, darker-skinned Mexican migrants that have been the targets of Trump’s lurid rhetoric and closed-door policies. On the contrary, many elites acknowledge Trump’s business background and are rather comfortable with his family favoritism, assertions of executive authority, and skirting of legal norms — features common to their own politics. Nor are these elites bothered by Claver-Carone’s passions for regime change in Cuba and Venezuela. Initially, not all Latin American governments acquiesced. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Peru withheld support, as did Canada and the European Union. Fatally, these dissenters failed to agree upon a common strategy nor did they rally behind a strong, common candidate. Favored by the U.S.’s substantial voting share and a divided, quiescent Latin America, Claver-Carone summoned the ballots to prevail, with 30 countries voting in his favor and 16 abstaining (other contenders withdrew before the vote). Weighed by capital shares, the vote was 66.80% for Claver-Carone, versus 31.23% abstaining.

Whither the IDB?

In retrospect, Claver-Carone’s campaign benefitted from an asymmetry of interests. From his perch at the National Security Council, he could wager a concerted campaign on behalf of his candidacy, at times calling upon the personal interventions of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Senator Rubio. In contrast, for many Latin American governments, the IDB barely registers. The bank’s annual lending volume of around $13 billion pales in comparison to the region’s annual GDP (2019) of $5.8 trillion. The larger countries now finance their capital needs on private markets, although some of the weaker, smaller economies still turn to the IDB for 10-15% of their long-term external financing. While generally respected, the IDB has become just one actor in an increasingly crowded development field populated by many other public and private lenders and investors and by other purveyors of economic assistance and advice. So when the White House pressed hard on a matter of secondary importance to Latin America, many governments were willing to bend. Should Joe Biden prevail in November, his administration could spearhead a recall of Claver-Carone, even at the risk of temporarily disrupting IDB operations. Hinting at such an outcome, Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz has remarked: “Trump’s nominee for the Inter-American Development Bank is like most of his appointees: overly ideological, underqualified and hunting for a new job after November.” In this event, it seems likely that many Latin American governments would follow signals from the new leadership in Washington to restore a Latin American as head of the bank. The region would still need to coalesce behind a worthy statesman (or woman) to guide the regional institution as it struggles to assist member nations ravished by COVID-19 and economic contraction.

[all-my-books]

2017 Reading

262 books read. 60% of new reads Non-fiction, authors from 55 unique countries, 35% of authors read from countries other than USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Asterisks denote re-reads, bolds are favorites. January: The Deeds of the Disturber – Elizabeth Peters The Wiregrass – Pam Webber Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi It Didn't Start With You – Mark Wolynn Facing the Lion – Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton Before We Visit the Goddess – Chitra Divakaruni Colored People – Henry Louis Gates Jr. My Khyber Marriage – Morag Murray Abdullah Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines – Margery Sharp Farewell to the East End – Jennifer Worth Fire and Air – Erik Vlaminck My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me – Jennifer Teege Catherine the Great – Robert K Massie My Mother's Sabbath Days – Chaim Grade Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me – Harvey Pekar, JT Waldman The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend – Katarina Bivald Stammered Songbook – Erwin Mortier Savushun – Simin Daneshvar The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran Beyond the Walls – Nazim Hikmet The Dressmaker of Khair Khana – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Newton Peck *

February: Bone Black – bell hooks Special Exits – Joyce Farmer Reading Like a Writer – Francine Prose Bright Dead Things – Ada Limon Middlemarch – George Eliot Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Thomas de Quincey Medusa's Gaze – Marina Belozerskaya Child of the Prophecy – Juliet Marillier * The File on H – Ismail Kadare The Motorcycle Diaries – Ernesto Che Guevara Passing – Nella Larsen Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers The Spiral Staircase – Karen Armstrong Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi Defiance – Nechama Tec

March: Yes, Chef – Marcus Samuelsson Discontent and its Civilizations – Mohsin Hamid The Gulag Archipelago Vol. 1 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Patience and Sarah – Isabel Miller Dying Light in Corduba – Lindsey Davis * Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman * The Shia Revival – Vali Nasr Girt – David Hunt Half Magic – Edward Eager * Dreams of Joy – Lisa See * Too Pretty to Live – Dennis Brooks West with the Night – Beryl Markham Little Fuzzy – H. Beam Piper *

April: Defying Hitler – Sebastian Haffner Monsters in Appalachia – Sheryl Monks Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho The Man Without a Face – Masha Gessen Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh Flory – Flory van Beek Why Soccer Matters – Pele The Zhivago Affair – Peter Finn, Petra Couvee The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake – Breece Pancake The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson Chasing Utopia – Nikki Giovanni The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer * Young Adults – Daniel Pinkwater Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel – John Stubbs Black Gun, Silver Star – Art T. Burton The Arab of the Future 2 – Riad Sattouf Hole in the Heart – Henny Beaumont MASH – Richard Hooker Forgotten Ally – Rana Mitter Zorro – Isabel Allende Flying Couch – Amy Kurzweil

May: The Bite of the Mango – Mariatu Kamara Mystic and Rider – Sharon Shinn * Freedom is a Constant Struggle – Angela Davis Capture – David A. Kessler Poor Cow – Nell Dunn My Father's Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett * Elmer and the Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett * The Dragons of Blueland – Ruth Stiles Gannett * Hetty Feather – Jacqueline Wilson In the Shadow of the Banyan – Vaddey Ratner The Last Camel Died at Noon – Elizabeth Peters Cannibalism – Bill Schutt The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry The Food of a Younger Land – Mark Kurlansky Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue Words on the Move – John McWhorter John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville – John Ransom Such a Lovely Little War – Marcelino Truong Child of All Nations – Irmgard Keun One Child – Mei Fong Country of Red Azaleas – Domnica Radulescu Between Two Worlds – Zainab Salbi Malinche – Julia Esquivel A Lucky Child – Thomas Buergenthal The Drackenberg Adventure – Lloyd Alexander Say You're One of Them – Uwem Akpan William Wells Brown – Ezra Greenspan

June: Partners In Crime – Agatha Christie The Chinese in America – Iris Chang The Great Escape – Kati Marton As Texas Goes... – Gail Collins Pavilion of Women – Pearl S. Buck Classic Chinese Stories – Lu Xun The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West The Slave Across the Street – Theresa Flores Miss Bianca in the Orient – Margery Sharp Boy Erased – Garrard Conley How to Be a Dictator – Mikal Hem A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini Tears of the Desert – Halima Bashir The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs The First Salute – Barbara Tuchman Come as You Are – Emily Nagoski The Want-Ad Killer – Ann Rule The Gulag Archipelago Vol 2 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

July: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz – L. Frank Baum * The Blazing World – Margaret Cavendish Madonna in a Fur Coat – Sabahattin Ali Duende – tracy k. smith The ACB With Honora Lee – Kate de Goldi Mountains of the Pharaohs – Zahi Hawass Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Chronicle of a Last Summer – Yasmine el Rashidi Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann Mister Monday – Garth Nix * Leaving Yuba City – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams A Corner of White – Jaclyn Moriarty * Circling the Sun – Paula McLain Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken Believe Me – Eddie Izzard The Cracks in the Kingdom – Jaclyn Moriarty * Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg * One Hundred and One Days – Asne Seierstad Grim Tuesday – Garth Nix * The Vanishing Velasquez – Laura Cumming Four Against the Arctic – David Roberts The Marriage Bureau – Penrose Halson The Jesuit and the Skull – Amir D Aczel Drowned Wednesday – Garth Nix * Roots, Radicals, and Rockers – Billy Bragg A Tangle of Gold – Jaclyn Moriarty * Lydia, Queen of Palestine – Uri Orlev *

August: Sir Thursday – Garth Nix * The Hoboken Chicken Emergency – Daniel Pinkwater * Lady Friday – Garth Nix * Freddy and the Perilous Adventure – Walter R. Brooks * Venice – Jan Morris China's Long March – Jean Fritz Trials of the Earth – Mary Mann Hamilton The Bully Pulpit – Doris Kearns Goodwin Final Exit – Derek Humphry The Book of Emma Reyes – Emma Reyes Freddy the Politician – Walter R. Brooks * Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey * What the Witch Left – Ruth Chew All Passion Spent – Vita Sackville-West The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde The Curse of the Blue Figurine – John Bellairs * When They Severed Earth From Sky – Elizabeth Wayland Barber Superior Saturday – Garth Nix * The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt – John Bellairs * Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal The Philadelphia Adventure – Lloyd Alexander * Lord Sunday – Garth Nix * The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull – John Bellairs * Five Little Pigs – Agatha Christie * Love in Vain – JM Dupont, Mezzo A Little History of the World – EH Gombrich Last Things – Marissa Moss Imagine Wanting Only This – Kristen Radtke Dinosaur Empire – Abby Howard The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett *

September: First Bite by Bee Wilson The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander Orientalism – Edward Said The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan – Carl Barks The Island on Bird Street – Uri Orlev * The Indifferent Stars Above – Daniel James Brown Beneath the Lion's Gaze – Maaza Mengiste The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde * The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi The Drunken Botanist – Amy Stewart The Turtle of Oman – Naomi Shahib Nye The Alleluia Files – Sharon Shinn * Gut Feelings – Gerd Gigerenzer The Secret of Hondorica – Carl Barks Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller The Abominable Mr. Seabrook – Joe Ollmann Black Flags – Joby Warrick

October: Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 – Naoki Higashida To the Bright Edge of the World – Eowyn Ivey Why? - Mario Livio Just One Damned Thing After Another – Jodi Taylor The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman Blindness – Jose Saramago The Book Thieves – Anders Rydell Reality is not What it Seems – Carlo Rovelli Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell * The Witch Family – Eleanor Estes * Sister Mine – Nalo Hopkinson La Vagabonde – Colette Becoming Nicole – Amy Ellis Nutt

November: The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing The Children's Book – A.S. Byatt The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta Who Killed These Girls? – Beverly Lowry Running for my Life – Lopez Lmong Radium Girls – Kate Moore News of the World – Paulette Jiles The Red Pony – John Steinbeck The Edible History of Humanity – Tom Standage A Woman in Arabia – Gertrude Bell and Georgina Howell Founding Gardeners – Andrea Wulf Anatomy of a Disapperance – Hisham Matar The Book of Night Women – Marlon James Ground Zero – Kevin J. Anderson * Acorna – Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball * A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel * The Age of the Vikings – Anders Winroth The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction – Helen Graham A General History of the Pyrates – Captain Charles Johnson (suspected Nathaniel Mist) Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L. Sayers * The Lonely City – Olivia Laing No Time for Tears – Judy Heath

December: The Unwomanly Face of War – Svetlana Alexievich Gay-Neck - Dhan Gopal Mukerji The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See Get Well Soon – Jennifer Wright The Testament of Mary – Colm Toibin The Roman Way – Edith Hamilton Understood Betsy – Dorothy Canfield Fisher * The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Vicente Blasco Ibanez Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O'Brien SPQR – Mary Beard Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild * Hogfather – Terry Pratchett * The Sorrow of War – Bao Ninh Drowned Hopes – Donald E. Westlake * Selected Essays – Michel de Montaigne Vietnam – Stanley Karnow The Snake, The Crocodile, and the Dog – Elizabeth Peters Guests of the Sheik – Elizabetha Warnok Fernea Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg Wicked Plants – Amy Stewart Life in a Medieval City – Joseph and Frances Gies Under the Sea Wind – Rachel Carson The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia – Mary and Brian Talbot Brat Farrar – Josephine Tey * The Treasure of the Ten Avatars – Don Rosa Escape From Forbidden Valley – Don Rosa Nightwood – Djuna Barnes Here Comes the Sun – Nicole Dennis-Benn Over My Dead Body – Rex Stout *

[boykeats]

do you have a queer reading list? or just some queer books/plays/etc that you'd recommend? (love the blog by the way 😊)

KEATON’S (ABRIDGED) QUEER READING LIST

Fiction: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, Peter Darling by Austin Chant, Maurice by E. M. Forster, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, The Charioteer & The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, Tipping the Velvet & Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Poetry: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, When My Brother Was An Aztec by Natalie Diaz, Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara, Crush by Richard Siken, Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, anything by Federico García Lorca, and this free collection at https://gumroad.com/l/rILws by Esdras Parra, trans. Jamie Berrout

Plays: The Captive by Édouard Bourdet, Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, and anything by Jean Cocteau or Tennessee Williams

Non-fiction: Auden in Love by Dorothy Farnan, Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, Gender Failure by Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote, and any collection of letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

[allbestnet]

500 Best Feminist Fiction

The list was compiled based on votes from the Goodreads community

Fiction of which feminism* is a primary theme. Stories about people challenging and overcoming gender roles, sexism, discrimination, etc.

*Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

4. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

5. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

6. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

7. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

8. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

9. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

10. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

11. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

12. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

13. Beloved by Toni Morrison

14. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

15. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

16. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

17. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

18. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

19. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

20. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

21. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

22. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

23. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

24. Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce

25. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

26. The Women’s Room by Marilyn French

27. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

28. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

29. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

30. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

31. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

32. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

33. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

34. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

35. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

36. Sula by Toni Morrison

37. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

38. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins

39. The V Girl by Mya Robarts

40. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

41. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

42. Lysistrata by Aristophanes

43. The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

44. Room by Emma Donoghue

45. Middlemarch by George Eliot

46. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

47. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

48. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins

49. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

50. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

51. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

52. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

53. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

54. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

55. The Clan of the Cave Bear, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, the Plains of Passage (Earth’s Children, #1–4) by Jean M. Auel

56. The Little House Collection (Little House, #1–9) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

57. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

58. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

59. Kerri’s War (The King Trilogy #3) by Stephen Douglass

60. The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) by Barbara Kingsolver

61. Paradise by Toni Morrison

62. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

63. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

64. Carrie by Stephen King

65. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

66. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

67. Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) by Kristin Cashore

68. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

69. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery

70. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

71. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

72. My Ántonia by Willa Cather

73. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

74. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

75. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

76. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

77. Free to Be…You and Me by Marlo Thomas

78. Lilith’s Brood (Xenogenesis, #1–3) by Octavia E. Butler

79. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

80. The Lover by Marguerite Duras

81. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

82. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

83. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

84. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

85. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

86. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1) by Ann Brashares

87. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

88. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

89. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

90. Dietland by Sarai Walker

91. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

92. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

93. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

94. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

95. Fire (Graceling Realm, #2) by Kristin Cashore

96. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

97. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi

98. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

99. Meridian by Alice Walker

100. The Telling (Hainish Cycle #8) by Ursula K. Le Guin

101. So Far from God by Ana Castillo

102. The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory

103. The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley

104. Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth

105. Deerskin by Robin McKinley

106. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

107. Lady of Avalon (Avalon, #3) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

108. Storm and Silence (Storm and Silence, #1) by Robert Thier

109. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

110. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) by Juliet Marillier

111. Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg

112. The Blue Sword (Damar, #1) by Robin McKinley

113. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

114. Trickster’s Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce

115. Chains (Seeds of America, #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson

116. The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1) by Philip Pullman

117. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

118. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

119. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

120. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan

121. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

122. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

123. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

124. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

125. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) by Terry Pratchett

126. Wired by Martha R. Carr

127. Kushiel’s Dart (Phèdre’s Trilogy, #1) by Jacqueline Carey

128. Push by Sapphire

129. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

130. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3) by Tamora Pierce

131. Island of the Blue Dolphins (Island of the Blue Dolphins, #1) by Scott O’Dell

132. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

133. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

134. Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) by Joanne Harris

135. The Song of the Lioness Quartet (Song of the Lioness, #1–4) by Tamora Pierce

136. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

137. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

138. The №1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (№1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith

139. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

140. Wise Child (Doran, #1) by Monica Furlong

141. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) by Terry Pratchett

142. Howards End by E.M. Forster

143. The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton

144. Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1) by Lisa See

145. Contact by Carl Sagan

146. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

147. In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2) by Tamora Pierce

148. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

149. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates

150. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

151. First Test (Protector of the Small, #1) by Tamora Pierce

152. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

153. Copygirl by Anna Mitchael

154. Freyja’s Daughter (Wild Women, #1) by Rachel Pudelek

155. White Oleander by Janet Fitch

156. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

157. The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2) by Robin McKinley

158. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin

159. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

160. Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper

161. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

162. Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

163. The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

164. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer

165. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson

166. Wild Magic (Immortals, #1) by Tamora Pierce

167. The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart, #3) by Philip Pullman

168. Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

169. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

170. True Grit by Charles Portis

171. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

172. Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon

173. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris

174. One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) by Janet Evanovich

175. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior #4) by Anaïs Nin

176. The Female Man by Joanna Russ

177. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

178. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

179. Odyssey In A Teacup by Paula Houseman

180. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

181. Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1) by Cherie Priest

182. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

183. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

184. Ice in My Veins by Kelli Sullivan

185. Baise-Moi by Virginie Despentes

186. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

187. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

188. Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1) by Patricia C. Wrede

189. Uglies (Uglies, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

190. Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust

191. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

192. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

193. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

194. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin

195. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé

196. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

197. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

198. Villette by Charlotte Brontë

199. Poems by Emily Dickinson

200. The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

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Broadway In Chicago Announce OSLO $25 Digital Lottery Tix

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce there will be a digital lottery for OSLO, which will play for a limited six-week engagement at Broadway In Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse (175 E. Chestnut) from September 10 through October 20, 2019. The Tony Award ® Best Play Winner OSLO will make its Chicago Premiere with TimeLine Theatre’s production at Broadway In Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse. The digital lottery will begin September 9 at 9AM, and 12 tickets will be sold for every performance at $25 each. The lottery will happen online only the day before each performance. Seat locations vary per performance. HOW TO ENTER THE DIGITAL LOTTERY Visit https://www.broadwayinchicago.com/show/oslo/   Follow the link “Click here for details and to enter the lottery” Click the “Enter Now” button for the performance you want to attend. Fill out the entry form including the number of tickets you would like (1 or 2). Patrons will receive a confirmation email once they have validated their email (one time only) and successfully entered the lottery. After the lottery closes, patrons will be notified via email within minutes as to whether they have won or not. Winners have 60 minutes from the time the lottery closes to pay online with a credit card. After payment has been received, patrons can pick up tickets at the Broadway Playhouse (175 E. Chestnut) no sooner than 30 minutes before show time with a valid photo ID. DIGITAL LOTTERY ADDITIONAL RULES Limit 1 entry per person, per performance. Multiple entries will not be accepted. Patrons must be 18 years old and have a valid, non-expired photo ID that matches the names used to enter. Tickets are non-transferable. All lottery prices include a $3.50 facility fee. Ticket limits and prices displayed are at the sole discretion of the show and are subject to change without notice. Lottery prices are not valid on prior purchases. Lottery ticket offer cannot be combined with any other offers or promotions. All sales final - no refunds or exchanges.  Lottery may be revoked or modified at any time without notice. No purchase necessary to enter or win.  A purchase will not improve your chances of winning. ABOUT OSLO TimeLine Theatre Company’s production of OSLO is the Chicago premiere. It premiered in fall 2016 in a sold-out run at New York’s Lincoln Center and opened on Broadway in April 2017. It then played at London’s Royal National Theatre in September 2017 before transferring to the West End in October 2017. OSLO received the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as New York Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and Obie awards—a sweep of the 2016-17 New York awards season—and was nominated for the Olivier and Evening Standard awards.  OSLO is a remarkable story about the unlikely friendships, quiet heroics, and sheer determination that pushed two foes to reach something neither thought truly possible—peace. When the Israeli prime minister and the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization shook hands on the White House lawn in 1993, the world had no idea what it took to orchestrate that momentous occasion. Behind the scenes, a Norwegian diplomat and her social scientist husband hatched an intricate, top secret, and sometimes comical scheme to gather an unexpected assortment of players at an idyllic estate just outside Oslo. Far from any international glare, mortal enemies were able to face each other not as adversaries, but as fellow human beings.  J.T. Rogers’ OSLO is a humorous, surprising, and inspiring true story about the people inside politics, and the incredible progress that is possible when we focus on what makes us human—together.            The cast will star Scott Parkinson as Terje Larsen and Bri Sudia as Mona Juul, with TimeLine Company Member Anish Jethmalani as Ahmed Qurie and Jed Feder as Uri Savir, and Bernard Balbot, Ron E. Rains, Amro Salama, Stef Tovar, Bassam Abdlefattah, Tom Hickey, Victor Holstein, and TimeLine Company Members Juliet Hart and David Parkes. The creative team includes J.T. Rogers (Playwright), Nick Bowling (Director), Jeffrey D. Kmiec (Scenic Designer), Jesse Klug (Lighting Designer), Christine Pascual (Costume Designer), Katie Cordts (Wig and Hair Designer), André Pluess (Sound Designer), Mike Tutaj (Projections Designer), Amy Peter (Properties Designer), Eva Breneman (Dialect Designer), Deborah Blumenthal (Co-Dramaturg), Maren Robinson (Co-Dramaturg), Jonathan Nook (Stage Manager) and Mary Zanger (Assistant Stage Manager). For more information, please visit TimeLineTheatre.com/events/oslo/ TICKET INFORMATION Individual tickets for OLSO are currently on-sale to the public and range in price from $35 - $90 with a select number of premium seats available. Individual tickets are available by calling the Broadway In Chicago Ticketline at (800) 775-2000 or by visiting BroadwayInChicago.com. Tickets are available now for groups 10 or more by calling Broadway In Chicago Group Sales at (312) 977-1710 or emailing GroupSales@BroadwayInChicago.com. For more information,visit BroadwayInChicago.com or timelinetheatre.com. ABOUT TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY TimeLine Theatre Company, recipient of the prestigious 2016 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, was founded in April 1997 with a mission to present stories inspired by history that connect with today's social and political issues. Launching its 23rd season with Oslo, to date TimeLine has presented 79 productions, including 10 world premieres and 35 Chicago premieres, and launched the Living History Education Program, now in its 12th year of bringing the company's mission to life for students in Chicago Public Schools. Recipient of the Alford-Axelson Award for Nonprofit Managerial Excellence and the Richard Goodman Strategic Planning Award from the Association for Strategic Planning, TimeLine has received 54 Jeff Awards, including an award for Outstanding Production 11 times. TimeLine is led by Artistic Director PJ Powers, Managing Director Elizabeth K. Auman and Board President Eileen LaCario. Company Members are Tyla Abercrumbie, Will Allan, Nick Bowling, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Wardell Julius Clark, Behzad Dabu, Charles Andrew Gardner, Lara Goetsch, Juliet Hart, Anish Jethmalani, Mildred Marie Langford, Mechelle Moe, David Parkes, Ron OJ Parson, PJ Powers, Maren Robinson and Benjamin Thiem. Major corporate, government and foundation supporters of TimeLine Theatre include Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, The Crown Family, Forum Fund, The Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, Laughing Acres Family Foundation, A.L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation, MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pauls Foundation, Polk Bros. Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. For more information, visit timelinetheatre.com or Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram (@TimeLineTheatre). ABOUT BROADWAY IN CHICAGO Broadway In Chicago was created in July 2000 and over the past 19 years has grown to be one of the largest commercial touring homes in the country.  A Nederlander Presentation, Broadway In Chicago lights up the Chicago Theater District entertaining more than 1.7 million people annually in five theatres. Broadway In Chicago presents a full range of entertainment, including musicals and plays, on the stages of five of the finest theatres in Chicago’s Loop including the Cadillac Palace Theatre, CIBC Theatre, James M. Nederlander Theatre, and just off the Magnificent Mile, the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place and presenting Broadway shows at the Auditorium Theatre. Broadway In Chicago proudly celebrates 2019 as the Year of Chicago Theatre. For more information, visit BroadwayInChicago.com. Facebook @BroadwayInChicago ● Twitter @broadwaychicago ● Instagram @broadwayinchicago ● #broadwayinchicago Read the full article

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One morning in mid-August, Americans woke up in what felt, to some, like an altered country. The week’s most notable political event had begun with hundreds of Americans carrying torches while chanting “Sieg heil” and “Jews will not replace us.” White supremacist radicals like these had been active and energized throughout the presidential campaign, but much of their energy had been restricted to the internet. The rally in Charlottesville was markedly different. It confronted America with an unlikely question: Was it possible the nation was seeing a burgeoning political faction of ... actual Nazis? People we should actually call Nazis?

“Nazi” is a remarkable example of the very different routes a word can take through the world. In this case, that word is the Latin name “Ignatius.” In Spanish, it followed a noble path: It became Ignacio, and then the nickname Nacho, and then — after a Mexican cook named Ignacio Anaya had a moment of inspiration — it became delicious, beloved nachos. In Bavaria, a much darker transformation took place. Ignatius became the common name Ignatz, or in its abbreviated form, Nazi. In the early 20th century, Bavarian peasants were frequent subjects of German mockery, and “Nazi” became the archetypal name for a comic figure: a bumbling, dimwitted yokel. “Just as Irish jokes always involve a man called Paddy,” the etymologist Mark Forsyth writes in his 2011 book “The Etymologicon,” “so Bavarian jokes always involved a peasant called Nazi.” When Adolf Hitler’s party emerged from Bavaria with a philosophy called “Nationalsozialismus,” two of that word’s syllables were quickly repurposed by Hitler’s cosmopolitan opponents. They started calling the new party Nazis — implying, to the Nazis’ great displeasure, that they were all backward rubes.

That original, taunting meaning of “Nazi” is now long gone, replaced forever by the image of history’s most despised regime. This is precisely why the word has resurfaced in American conversation, aimed at the white supremacist arm of the so-called alt-right: It is perhaps the single most potent condemnation in our language, a word that provides instant moral clarity. Not everyone, though, is entirely comfortable with this new usage. The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb finds “Nazi” insufficient as a label for American racists, because when we use it, he writes, “we summon the idea of the United States’ moral victories, and military ones” — references that make little sense when we’re talking about American-made moral failures. Lindsey E. Jones, a Ph.D. student of history in Charlottesville, tweeted that a long history of American racism is “conveniently erased” when figures like the white nationalist Richard Spencer are reduced to “Nazis.”

But if “Nazi” isn’t quite the right word for the fringe groups now attempting a takeover of national politics — if it’s sloppy and inexact and papers over just how widespread some of these bigotries are — then “Nazi” will, in a way, have returned to its roots. It began as a broad, imprecise and patronizing slur. Then it became a precise historical classification. (One that, you might argue, “conveniently erased” widespread anti-Semitism throughout Europe and America.) Now we find ourselves arguing over whether it can serve as a general epithet again — a name for a whole assortment of distasteful ideologies. Nearly 80 years after Kristallnacht, we are not exactly sure what a Nazi is, or should be.

Not so long ago, it seemed as though “Nazi” had lost much of its frightening power. A person with an abiding fervor for flawless syntax could quite casually be labeled a “grammar Nazi.” A comically exacting chef on “Seinfeld” could be called a “soup Nazi.” On right-wing radio, any woman with a challenging opinion could be called a “feminazi.” Some of these were jokes, others pointed accusations. But in each case, what the word described was a kind of outsize zealotry — a person who was too stern, too demanding, like an order-barking villain in a World War II movie.

This tradition has unexpected roots, too: It begins with surfers. Shortly after World War II, some surfers started toying with Nazi regalia, mainly out of a desire to offend. By the early ’60s, some young California surfers had begun wearing a Nazi-themed pendant called the Surfer’s Cross. (One teenager told Time magazine he liked it because “it really upsets your parents.”) Despite condemnations from the surfing press, this strange association eventually resulted in the term “surf Nazi” — which, oddly, didn’t describe beachside fascists but cultishly single-minded surfing fanatics.

Actual Nazism remained in circulation, becoming one of various extremist ideologies on the international fringes. In that sense, a Nazi was a very concrete entity. A Nazi was a believer in a very specific mythos. A Nazi was someone who murdered members of my distant family. At the same time, the word was also a frivolous way of comparing decidedly nongenocidal behavior — like using “whom” correctly or being persnickety about etiquette — to the best-known example of human wickedness. This double life was possible, in part, because professed Nazis had very little public voice; identifying as one disqualified you from mainstream conversation, a reality racist communities remain well aware of. As Wired’s Ashley Feinberg discovered, some members of the white supremacist forum Stormfront were concerned by the symbols used by marchers in Charlottesville: “Some were carrying swastikas and that isn’t good for our image, because of the propogabda [sic] embedded into everyone’s minds,” wrote one.

Hence one rhetorical strategy of the alt-right, which constantly gestures toward Nazism without actually assuming the designation. Just after the election, Richard Spencer told a crowd, “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail our victory,” and was saluted with outstretched arms in reply. Online forums have concocted an imaginary alt-right country called Kekistan, whose flag is basically a Nazi flag, only green, with a cluster of Ks instead of a swastika. This winking take on fascism has helped mainstream the alt-right, bringing us to a point at which President Trump might say that there were “many fine people” among the demonstrators in Charlottesville. (It has also brought us to the point at which there can be earnest argument over whether we should consider a sitting president a Nazi sympathizer.) This is one of the most remarkable results of the alt-right’s emergence into the national dialogue: Talking seriously about Nazis is part of the new normal.

It has long been a standard of political argument to liken your foes to the Third Reich — enough so that, in 1990, an annoyed attorney named Mike Godwin proposed what’s now called Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” This was intended as a critique of the level of argument on the internet. Now, as we half worry that swastika-wavers might seize some contemporary political power, such comparisons don’t seem quite as fanciful, as evidenced by a recent tweet from Godwin himself: “By all means, compare these [expletive] to Nazis. Again and again. I’m with you.”

One problem with calling American extremists Nazis is that the word carries an inevitable outlandishness. Nazis have a unique place in the cultural imagination; their image is a singularly terrifying and ridiculous thing. Applying that label to the alt-right runs the risk of making them seem like exotic cartoon villains. But the men and women marching in Charlottesville weren’t exotic; they were people’s neighbors, colleagues and study buddies. The racism of the Nazis wasn’t particularly exotic, either: The uncomfortable truth is that Nazi policy was itself influenced by American white supremacy, a heritage well documented in James Q. Whitman’s recent book “Hitler’s American Model.” The Germans admired, and borrowed from, the “distinctive legal techniques that Americans had developed to combat the menace of race mixing” — like the anti-miscegenation laws of Maryland, which mandated up to 10 years in prison for interracial marriage. At the time, no other country had such specific laws; they were an American innovation.

What term, then, is the right one? None — fascists, white nationalists, extremists — fully encompass the men and women in this mass. Watchdog groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center have spent decades tracing the intricate ideological differences among various fringe sects: neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, Klansmen and so on. Yet when these impulses collect into one group, it’s impossible to arrive at a simple, low-syllable explanation of their particular ugliness.

But that’s precisely why “Nazi” was, originally, such a useful word. It was never intended as an incisive diagnosis. It was a snappy, crude, unfussy insult, repurposed and wielded by people the Nazis intended to dominate, expel or kill. It contains a larger lesson, which is that we do not have to engage in linguistic diplomacy with people who want to destroy us. We don’t have to refer to them with their labels of choice. There is a time for splitting hairs over the philosophies of hateful extremists, but there’s also great value in unambiguously rejecting all of them at once with our most melodious, satisfying terminology. “Nazi” is not careful description. But careful description is a form of courtesy. “Nazi,” on the other hand, has always been a form of disrespect.

[musicoviniciusrodrigues]

125 livros essenciais para adultos, segundo a Biblioteca Pública de Nova York

A Biblioteca Pública de Nova York, mais conhecida como NYPL, está completando 125 anos em 2020. Fundada em 1985, é uma das mais importantes do mundo e abriga mais de 2,5 milhões de títulos em seu acervo. Em comemoração ao aniversário, o site da instituição publicou uma lista com 125 livros essenciais para adultos. A seleção conta com vários clássicos, como “Lolita” (1955), de Vladimir Nabokov, e “O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio” (1951), de J. D. Salinger; mas também possui alguns títulos recentes, como “A Visita Cruel do Tempo” (2012), de Jennifer Egan, e “A Amiga Genial” (2011), de Elena Ferrante.

1 — 1984, de George Orwell

2 — As Aventuras de Augie March, de Saul Bellow

3 — A Era da Ansiedade, de W. H. Auden

4 — Alexander Hamilton, de Ron Chernow

5 — Nada de Novo no Front, de Erich Maria Remarque

6 — Na Teia da Aranha, de James Patterson

7 — As Incríveis Aventuras de Kavalier e Clay, de Michael Chabon

8 — Deuses Americanos, de Neil Gaiman

9 — American Primitive, de Mary Oliver

10 — E Não Sobrou Nenhum, de Agatha Christie

11 — Argonautas, de Maggie Nelson

12 — Ariel, de Sylvia Plath

13 — Reparação, de Ian McEwan

14 — Autobiografia do Vermelho, Anne Carson

15 — Amada, de Toni Morrison

16 — O Sono Eterno, de Raymond Chandler

17 — A Fogueira das Vaidades, de Tom Wolfe

18 — Memórias de Brideshead, de Evelyn Waugh

19 — Brooklyn, de Colm Tóibín

20 — Ardil-22, de Joseph Heller

21 — O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio, de J. D. Salinger

22 — Citizen, de Claudia Rankine

23 — Cleópatra: Uma Biografia, de Stacy Schiff

24 — Atlas de Nuvens, de David Mitchell

25 — The Collected Poems of Langston Hugues, de Langston Hugues

26 — A Cor da Magia, de Terry Pratchett

27 — A Cor Púrpura, de Alice Walker

28 — O Diabo Veste Azul, de Walter Mosley

29 — O Demônio na Cidade Branca, de Erik Larson

30 — Duna, de Frank Herbert

31 — O Paciente Inglês, de Michael Ondaatje

32 — An Extraordinary Union, de Alyssa Cole

33 — Fahrenheit 451, de Ray Bradbury

34 — A Sociedade do Anel, de J. R. R. Tolkien

35 — A Quinta Estação, de N. K. Jemisin

36 — Fun Home: Uma Tragicomédia em Família, de Alison Bechdel

37 — A Guerra dos Tronos, de George R. R. Martin

38 — O Quarto de Giovanni, de James Baldwin

39 — O Deus das Pequenas Coisas, de Arundhati Roy

40 — Um Bom Homem é Difícil de Encontrar e Outras Histórias, de Flannery O’Connor

41 — Gotham, de Mike Wallace e Edwin G. Burrows

42 — As Vinhas da Ira, de John Steinbeck

43 — O Grande Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald

44 — O Conto da Aia, de Margaret Atwood

45 — Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal, de J. K. Rowling

46 — A Assombração da Casa da Colina, de Shirley Jackson

47 — O Coração é um Caçador Solitário, de Carson McCullers

48 — Uma Obra Enternecedora de Assombroso Génio, de Dave Eggers

49 — O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias, de Douglas Adams

50 — O Cão dos Baskervilles, de Arthur Conan Doyle

51 — Uma Casa Para o sr. Biswas, de Vidiadhar Naipaul

52 — A Casa da Alegria, de Edith Wharton

53 — Housekeeping, de Marilynne Robinson

54 — Uivo, de Allen Ginsberg

55 — Eu Sei Por que o Pássaro Canta na Gaiola, de Maya Angelou

56 — A Sangue Frio, de Truman Capote

57 — Índigo, de Beverly Jenkins

58 — Intérprete de Males, de Jhumpa Lahiri

59 — No Ar Rarefeito, de Jon Krakauer

60 — Homem Invisível, de Ralph Ellison

61 — Julian, de Gore Vidal

62 — O Caçador de Pipas, de Khaled Hosseini

63 — A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão, de Ursula K. Le Guin

64 — The Liars’ Club, de Mary Karr

65 — O Fio da Vida, de Kate Atkinson

66 — Life on Mars, de Tracy K. Smith

67 — Lolita, de Vladimir Nabokov

68 — Maus: a História de Um Sobrevivente, de Art Spiegelman

69 — Eu Falar Bonito Um Dia, de David Sedaris

70 — Meia-Noite no Jardim do Bem e do Mal, de John Berendt

71 — Os Filhos da Meia-Noite, de Salman Rushdie

72 — Dinheiro, de Martin Amis

73 — Moneyball: O Homem que Mudou o Jogo, de Michael Lewis

74 — Brooklyn sem Pai nem Mãe, de Jonathan Lethem

75 — Mrs. Dalloway, de Virgina Woolf

76 — A Amiga Genial, de Elena Ferrante

77 — Nudez Mortal, de J. D. Robb

78 — Filho Nativo, de Richard Wright

79 — Olive Kitteridge, de Elizabeth Strout

80 — On The Road, de Jack Kerouac

81 — Cem Anos de Solidão, de Gabriel García Márquez

82 — Laranjas Não São o Único Fruto, de Jeanette Winterson

83 — The Orphan Master’s Son, de Adam Johnson

84 — Cavalos Roubados, de Per Petterson

85 — A Parábola do Semeador, de Octavia E. Butler

86 — Persépolis, de Marjane Satrapi

87 — Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, de Annie Dillard

88 — O Complexo de Portnoy, de Philip Roth

89 — O Americano Tranquilo, de Graham Greene

90 — Rebecca: A Mulher Inesquecível, de Daphne du Maurier

91 — Os Vestígios do Dia, de Kazuo Ishiguro

92 — The Round House, de Louise Erdrich

93 — Regras de Cortesia, de Amor Towles

94 — Fugitiva, de Alice Munro

95 — Auto-Retrato Num Espelho Convexo, de John Ashbery

96 — O Iluminado, de Stephen King

97 — The Shipping News, de Annie Proulx

98 — Primavera Silenciosa, de Rachel Carson

99 — Slave to Sensation, de Nalini Singh

100 — Slouching Towards Bethlehem, de Joan Didion

101 — Stone Butch Blues, de Leslie Feinberg

102 — 28 Contos de John Cheever, de John Cheever

103 — O Estrangeiro, de Albert Camus

104 — O Sol Também se Levanta, de Ernest Hemingway

105 — O Talentoso Ripley, de Patricia Highsmith

106 — Dez de Dezembro, de George Saunders

107 — Seus Olhos Viam Deus, de Zora Neale Hurston

108 — O Mundo se Despedaça, de Chinua Achebe

109 — O Problema dos Três Corpos, de Cixin Liu

110 — O Sol é Para Todos, de Harper Lee

111 — Sonhos de Trem, de Denis Johnson

112 — A Volta do Parafuso, de Henry James

113 — A Insustentável Leveza do Ser, de Milan Kundera

114 — The Underground Railroad: Os Caminhos para a Liberdade, de Colson Whitehead

115 — Up In The Old Hotel, de Joseph Mitchell

116 — As Virgens Suicidas, de Jeffrey Eugenides

117 — A Visita Cruel do Tempo, de Jennifer Egan

118 — The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, de Isabel Wilkerson

119 — Watchmen, de Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons

120 — Do Que Falamos Quando Falamos de Amor, de Raymond Carver

121 — Ruído Branco, de Don DeLillo

122 — Dentes Brancos, de Zadie Smith

123 — Crônica do Pássaro de Corda, de Haruki Murakami

124 — Wolf Hall, de Hilary Mantel

125 — The Woman Warrior, de Maxine Hong Kingston

125 livros essenciais para adultos, segundo a Biblioteca Pública de Nova York publicado primeiro em https://www.revistabula.com

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As The Coronavirus Spreads, Americans Lose Ground Against Other Health Threats

For much of the 20th century, medical progress seemed limitless.

Antibiotics revolutionized the care of infections. Vaccines turned deadly childhood diseases into distant memories. Americans lived longer, healthier lives than their parents.

Yet today, some of the greatest success stories in public health are unraveling.

Even as the world struggles to control a mysterious new virus known as COVID-19, U.S. health officials are refighting battles they thought they had won, such as halting measles outbreaks, reducing deaths from heart disease and protecting young people from tobacco. These hard-fought victories are at risk as parents avoid vaccinating children, obesity rates climb, and vaping spreads like wildfire among teens.

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Things looked promising for American health in 2014, when life expectancy hit 78.9 years. Then, life expectancy declined for three straight years — the longest sustained drop since the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed about 675,000 Americans and 50 million people worldwide, said Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Although life expectancy inched up slightly in 2018, it hasn’t yet regained the lost ground, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“These trends show we’re going backwards,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

While the reasons for the backsliding are complex, many public health problems could have been avoided, experts say, through stronger action by federal regulators and more attention to prevention.

“We’ve had an overwhelming investment in doctors and medicine,” said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health. “We need to invest in prevention — safe housing, good schools, living wages, clean air and water.”

The country has split into two states of health, often living side by side, but with vastly different life expectancies. Americans in the fittest neighborhoods are living longer and better — hoping to live to 100 and beyond — while residents of the sickest communities are dying from preventable causes decades earlier, which pulls down life expectancy overall.

Superbugs — resistant to even the strongest antibiotics — threaten to turn back the clock on the treatment of infectious diseases. Resistance occurs when bacteria and fungi evolve in ways that let them survive and flourish, in spite of treatment with the best available drugs. Each year, resistant organisms cause more than 2.8 million infections and kill more than 35,000 people in the U.S.

With deadly new types of bacteria and fungi ever emerging, Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, said the world has entered a “post-antibiotic era.” Half of all new gonorrhea infections, for example, are resistant to at least one type of antibiotic, and the CDC warns that “little now stands between us and untreatable gonorrhea.”

That news comes as the CDC also reports a record number of combined cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, which were once so easily treated that they seemed like minor threats compared with HIV.

The United States has seen a resurgence of congenital syphilis, a scourge of the 19th century, which increases the risk of miscarriage, permanent disabilities and infant death. Although women and babies can be protected with early prenatal care, 1,306 newborns were born with congenital syphilis in 2018 and 94 of them died, according to the CDC.

Those numbers illustrate the “failure of American public health,” said Dr. Cornelius “Neil” Clancy, a spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. “It should be a global embarrassment.”

The proliferation of resistant microbes has been fueled by overuse, by doctors who write unnecessary prescriptions as well as farmers who give the drugs to livestock, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Although new medications are urgently needed, drug companies are reluctant to develop antibiotics because of the financial risk, said Clancy, noting that two developers of antibiotics recently went out of business. The federal government needs to do more to make sure patients have access to effective treatments, he said. “The antibiotic market is on life support,” Clancy said. “That shows the real perversion in how the health care system is set up.”

A Slow Decline

A closer look at the data shows that American health was beginning to suffer 30 years ago. Increases in life expectancy slowed as manufacturing jobs moved overseas and factory towns deteriorated, Woolf said.

By the 1990s, life expectancy in the United States was falling behind that of other developed countries.

The obesity epidemic, which began in the 1980s, is taking a toll on Americans in midlife, leading to diabetes and other chronic illnesses that deprive them of decades of life. Although novel drugs for cancer and other serious diseases give some patients additional months or even years, Khan said, “the gains we’re making at the tail end of life cannot make up for what’s happening in midlife.”

Progress against overall heart disease has stalled since 2010. Deaths from heart failure — which can be caused by high blood pressure and blocked arteries around the heart — are rising among middle-aged people. Deaths from high blood pressure, which can lead to kidney failure, also have increased since 1999.

“It’s not that we don’t have good blood pressure drugs,” Khan said. “But those drugs don’t do any good if people don’t have access to them.”

Addicting A New Generation

While the United States never declared victory over alcohol or drug addiction, the country has made enormous progress against tobacco. Just a few years ago, anti-smoking activists were optimistic enough to talk about the “tobacco endgame.”

Today, vaping has largely replaced smoking among teens, said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Although cigarette use among high school students fell from 36% in 1997 to 5.8% today, studies show 31% of seniors used electronic cigarettes in the previous month.

FDA officials say they’ve taken “vigorous enforcement actions aimed at ensuring e-cigarettes and other tobacco products aren’t being marketed or sold to kids.” But Myers said FDA officials were slow to recognize the threat to children.

With more than 5 million teens using e-cigarettes, Myers said, “more kids are addicted to nicotine today than at any time in the past 20 years. If that trend isn’t reversed rapidly and dynamically, it threatens to undermine 40 years of progress.”

Ignoring Science

Where children live has long determined their risk of infectious disease. Around the world, children in the poorest countries often lack access to lifesaving vaccines.

Yet in the United States — where a federal program provides free vaccines — some of the lowest vaccination rates are in affluent communities, where some parents disregard the medical evidence that vaccinating kids is safe.

Studies show that vaccination rates are drastically lower in some private schools and “holistic kindergartens” than in public schools.

It could be argued that vaccines have been a victim of their own success.

Before the development of a vaccine in the 1960s, measles infected an estimated 4 million Americans a year, hospitalizing 48,000, causing brain inflammation in about 1,000 and killing 500, according to the CDC.

By 2000, measles cases had fallen to 86, and the United States declared that year that it had eliminated the routine spread of measles.

“Now, mothers say, ‘I don’t see any measles. Why do we have to keep vaccinating?’” Schaffner said. “When you don’t fear the disease, it becomes very hard to value the vaccine.”

Last year, a measles outbreak in New York communities with low vaccination rates spread to almost 1,300 people — the most in 25 years — and nearly cost the country its measles elimination status. “Measles is still out there,” Schaffner said. “It is our obligation to understand how fragile our victory is.”

Health-Wealth Disparities

To be sure, some aspects of American health are getting better.

Cancer death rates have fallen 27% in the past 25 years, according to the American Cancer Society. The teen birth rate is at an all-time low; teen pregnancy rates have dropped by half since 1991, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. And HIV, which was once a death sentence, can now be controlled with a single daily pill. With treatment, people with HIV can live into old age.

“It’s important to highlight the enormous successes,” Redfield said. “We’re on the verge of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in the next 10 years.”

Yet the health gap has grown wider in recent years. Life expectancy in some regions of the country grew by four years from 2001 to 2014, while it shrank by two years in others, according to a 2016 study in JAMA.

The gap in life expectancy is strongly linked to income: The richest 1% of American men live 15 years longer than the poorest 1%; the richest women live 10 years longer than the poorest, according to the JAMA study.

“We’re not going to erase that difference by telling people to eat right and exercise,” said Dr. Richard Besser, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director of the CDC. “Personal choices are part of it. But the choices people make depend on the choices they’re given. For far too many people, their choices are extremely limited.”

The infant mortality rate of black babies is twice as high as that of white newborns, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Babies born to well-educated, middle-class black mothers are more likely to die before their 1st birthday than babies born to poor white mothers with less than a high school education, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.

In trying to improve American health, policymakers in recent years have focused largely on expanding access to medical care and encouraging healthy lifestyles. Today, many advocate taking a broader approach, calling for systemic change to lift families out of the poverty that erodes mental and physical health.

“So many of the changes in life expectancy are related to changes in opportunity,” Besser said. “Economic opportunity and health go hand in hand.”

Several policies have been shown to improve health.

Children who receive early childhood education, for example, have lower rates of obesity, child abuse and neglect, youth violence and emergency department visits, according to the CDC.

And earned income tax credits — which provide refunds to lower-income people — have been credited with keeping more families and children above the poverty line than any other federal, state or local program, according to the CDC. Among families who receive these tax credits, mothers have better mental health and babies have lower rates of infant mortality and weigh more at birth, a sign of health.

Improving a person’s environment has the potential to help them far more than writing a prescription, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health.

“If we think we can treat our way out of this, we will never solve the problem,” Auerbach said. “We need to look upstream at the underlying causes of poor health.”

As The Coronavirus Spreads, Americans Lose Ground Against Other Health Threats published first on https://nootropicspowdersupplier.tumblr.com/

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As The Coronavirus Spreads, Americans Lose Ground Against Other Health Threats

For much of the 20th century, medical progress seemed limitless.

Antibiotics revolutionized the care of infections. Vaccines turned deadly childhood diseases into distant memories. Americans lived longer, healthier lives than their parents.

Yet today, some of the greatest success stories in public health are unraveling.

Even as the world struggles to control a mysterious new virus known as COVID-19, U.S. health officials are refighting battles they thought they had won, such as halting measles outbreaks, reducing deaths from heart disease and protecting young people from tobacco. These hard-fought victories are at risk as parents avoid vaccinating children, obesity rates climb, and vaping spreads like wildfire among teens.

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Things looked promising for American health in 2014, when life expectancy hit 78.9 years. Then, life expectancy declined for three straight years — the longest sustained drop since the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed about 675,000 Americans and 50 million people worldwide, said Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Although life expectancy inched up slightly in 2018, it hasn’t yet regained the lost ground, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“These trends show we’re going backwards,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

While the reasons for the backsliding are complex, many public health problems could have been avoided, experts say, through stronger action by federal regulators and more attention to prevention.

“We’ve had an overwhelming investment in doctors and medicine,” said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health. “We need to invest in prevention — safe housing, good schools, living wages, clean air and water.”

The country has split into two states of health, often living side by side, but with vastly different life expectancies. Americans in the fittest neighborhoods are living longer and better — hoping to live to 100 and beyond — while residents of the sickest communities are dying from preventable causes decades earlier, which pulls down life expectancy overall.

Superbugs — resistant to even the strongest antibiotics — threaten to turn back the clock on the treatment of infectious diseases. Resistance occurs when bacteria and fungi evolve in ways that let them survive and flourish, in spite of treatment with the best available drugs. Each year, resistant organisms cause more than 2.8 million infections and kill more than 35,000 people in the U.S.

With deadly new types of bacteria and fungi ever emerging, Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, said the world has entered a “post-antibiotic era.” Half of all new gonorrhea infections, for example, are resistant to at least one type of antibiotic, and the CDC warns that “little now stands between us and untreatable gonorrhea.”

That news comes as the CDC also reports a record number of combined cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, which were once so easily treated that they seemed like minor threats compared with HIV.

The United States has seen a resurgence of congenital syphilis, a scourge of the 19th century, which increases the risk of miscarriage, permanent disabilities and infant death. Although women and babies can be protected with early prenatal care, 1,306 newborns were born with congenital syphilis in 2018 and 94 of them died, according to the CDC.

Those numbers illustrate the “failure of American public health,” said Dr. Cornelius “Neil” Clancy, a spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. “It should be a global embarrassment.”

The proliferation of resistant microbes has been fueled by overuse, by doctors who write unnecessary prescriptions as well as farmers who give the drugs to livestock, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Although new medications are urgently needed, drug companies are reluctant to develop antibiotics because of the financial risk, said Clancy, noting that two developers of antibiotics recently went out of business. The federal government needs to do more to make sure patients have access to effective treatments, he said. “The antibiotic market is on life support,” Clancy said. “That shows the real perversion in how the health care system is set up.”

A Slow Decline

A closer look at the data shows that American health was beginning to suffer 30 years ago. Increases in life expectancy slowed as manufacturing jobs moved overseas and factory towns deteriorated, Woolf said.

By the 1990s, life expectancy in the United States was falling behind that of other developed countries.

The obesity epidemic, which began in the 1980s, is taking a toll on Americans in midlife, leading to diabetes and other chronic illnesses that deprive them of decades of life. Although novel drugs for cancer and other serious diseases give some patients additional months or even years, Khan said, “the gains we’re making at the tail end of life cannot make up for what’s happening in midlife.”

Progress against overall heart disease has stalled since 2010. Deaths from heart failure — which can be caused by high blood pressure and blocked arteries around the heart — are rising among middle-aged people. Deaths from high blood pressure, which can lead to kidney failure, also have increased since 1999.

“It’s not that we don’t have good blood pressure drugs,” Khan said. “But those drugs don’t do any good if people don’t have access to them.”

Addicting A New Generation

While the United States never declared victory over alcohol or drug addiction, the country has made enormous progress against tobacco. Just a few years ago, anti-smoking activists were optimistic enough to talk about the “tobacco endgame.”

Today, vaping has largely replaced smoking among teens, said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Although cigarette use among high school students fell from 36% in 1997 to 5.8% today, studies show 31% of seniors used electronic cigarettes in the previous month.

FDA officials say they’ve taken “vigorous enforcement actions aimed at ensuring e-cigarettes and other tobacco products aren’t being marketed or sold to kids.” But Myers said FDA officials were slow to recognize the threat to children.

With more than 5 million teens using e-cigarettes, Myers said, “more kids are addicted to nicotine today than at any time in the past 20 years. If that trend isn’t reversed rapidly and dynamically, it threatens to undermine 40 years of progress.”

Ignoring Science

Where children live has long determined their risk of infectious disease. Around the world, children in the poorest countries often lack access to lifesaving vaccines.

Yet in the United States — where a federal program provides free vaccines — some of the lowest vaccination rates are in affluent communities, where some parents disregard the medical evidence that vaccinating kids is safe.

Studies show that vaccination rates are drastically lower in some private schools and “holistic kindergartens” than in public schools.

It could be argued that vaccines have been a victim of their own success.

Before the development of a vaccine in the 1960s, measles infected an estimated 4 million Americans a year, hospitalizing 48,000, causing brain inflammation in about 1,000 and killing 500, according to the CDC.

By 2000, measles cases had fallen to 86, and the United States declared that year that it had eliminated the routine spread of measles.

“Now, mothers say, ‘I don’t see any measles. Why do we have to keep vaccinating?’” Schaffner said. “When you don’t fear the disease, it becomes very hard to value the vaccine.”

Last year, a measles outbreak in New York communities with low vaccination rates spread to almost 1,300 people — the most in 25 years — and nearly cost the country its measles elimination status. “Measles is still out there,” Schaffner said. “It is our obligation to understand how fragile our victory is.”

Health-Wealth Disparities

To be sure, some aspects of American health are getting better.

Cancer death rates have fallen 27% in the past 25 years, according to the American Cancer Society. The teen birth rate is at an all-time low; teen pregnancy rates have dropped by half since 1991, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. And HIV, which was once a death sentence, can now be controlled with a single daily pill. With treatment, people with HIV can live into old age.

“It’s important to highlight the enormous successes,” Redfield said. “We’re on the verge of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in the next 10 years.”

Yet the health gap has grown wider in recent years. Life expectancy in some regions of the country grew by four years from 2001 to 2014, while it shrank by two years in others, according to a 2016 study in JAMA.

The gap in life expectancy is strongly linked to income: The richest 1% of American men live 15 years longer than the poorest 1%; the richest women live 10 years longer than the poorest, according to the JAMA study.

“We’re not going to erase that difference by telling people to eat right and exercise,” said Dr. Richard Besser, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director of the CDC. “Personal choices are part of it. But the choices people make depend on the choices they’re given. For far too many people, their choices are extremely limited.”

The infant mortality rate of black babies is twice as high as that of white newborns, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Babies born to well-educated, middle-class black mothers are more likely to die before their 1st birthday than babies born to poor white mothers with less than a high school education, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.

In trying to improve American health, policymakers in recent years have focused largely on expanding access to medical care and encouraging healthy lifestyles. Today, many advocate taking a broader approach, calling for systemic change to lift families out of the poverty that erodes mental and physical health.

“So many of the changes in life expectancy are related to changes in opportunity,” Besser said. “Economic opportunity and health go hand in hand.”

Several policies have been shown to improve health.

Children who receive early childhood education, for example, have lower rates of obesity, child abuse and neglect, youth violence and emergency department visits, according to the CDC.

And earned income tax credits — which provide refunds to lower-income people — have been credited with keeping more families and children above the poverty line than any other federal, state or local program, according to the CDC. Among families who receive these tax credits, mothers have better mental health and babies have lower rates of infant mortality and weigh more at birth, a sign of health.

Improving a person’s environment has the potential to help them far more than writing a prescription, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health.

“If we think we can treat our way out of this, we will never solve the problem,” Auerbach said. “We need to look upstream at the underlying causes of poor health.”

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