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Essentially everything has been completed for Yellow Duck PR in terms of logo development and corporate identity, and the initial beginnings of a Brand + Graphics Standards guideline. But it didn't stop there... a customized brochure was integrated into the bigger picture, too. Clients tend to move on from designers once they get their logo files and initial graphics started, but they forget what they have access to when working with a designer specializing in graphics.
For instance, in the Yellow Duck PR brochure below, we didn't buy any photographic images. I created all custom infographics to visually tell the story, define the inner workings of the Yellow Duck PR process, and to reflect the overall nature of the brand. In addition, I was able to work with the client's copy and restructured the verbiage so it would better be effective in each spread. Light copywriting is just one of the many services that I offer as I design any project. I am about making the whole picture and content cohesive down to the very last period in a sentence.
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Joseph Trey Edward Swearingen Sentenced for his crimes being escorted off to a South Carolina Prison Kirkland Lee Correctional
The moment a man hears his sentence from a judge. His freedom ends in an instant; for the first time in his life his self-determination is taken from him. Life as he has known it ends and a future in which his every move is controlled begins,
Tanoura or El-Tanoura is an Egyptian folk dance usually performed in Egyptian Sufi festivals. The word "tannoura" may refer to the dance, the dancer, or the large skirt used in the performance.
The Tanoura dance is performed by Sufi men, Darawish. The dance is similar to the Sufi whirling . You can see man wear long colorful skirts, where each color on the skirt represents one Sufi order.
When the tanoura dancer moves himself, he is like the sun and the dancers around him like the planets. The dancer unties and removes four different skirts during the finale. Their various roundabouts symbolize the succession of the four seasons and their anti-clockwise movement is exactly like the movement around the "Kaaba" (the holy Shrine in Mecca). They also use glowing neon lights to add more drama and spectacle.
When the dancer raises his right arm up and points his left arm down, this represents the joining of earth and heaven together. When he turns himself around, it is said that he enters a trance-like state, trying to become light and go up to heaven. The performance of "El Tanoura" consists of parts: The introduction which is a demonstration of the various musicians and their instruments. The Tanoura presentation dance, which is a warm-up of sorts introducing the dancers, and finally the Sufic Tanoura dance.
Tanoura Dance is one the of main attractions at Desert Safari of Dubai. I found this more skillful and artistic than the famous Belly Dancing.
This dance depends mainly on the dancers showing off his skills in using the many unfolded costumes of the Tanura and his physique while corresponding to the musical sentences and the breath taking variable rhythm.
The philosophical basis for the spinning is from the Mawlawis who say that the movement in the world begins at a certain point and end at the same point, therefore the movement has to be circular.
Sentence of Consecration of the additional Burial Ground at Singleton by the Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Newcastle Dated [n.d.] day of November AD 1862. [Unsigned Draft] on vellum.
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Bodmin Gaol (alternatively Bodmin Jail) is an historic former prison situated in Bodmin, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Built in 1779 and closed in 1927, the large range of buildings is now largely in ruins, although parts of the prison have been turned into a tourist attraction.
Much of the jail remains in ruins. Some parts have been refurbished and these now form a tourist attraction with exhibitions telling of the history of the prison and of offenders imprisoned there.
The exhibits showcase gory mannequins accompanied with plaques, describing the offence committed by particular persons and their sentence, in their respective cells. Because of the style of exhibit, it has been likened to such attractions as The London Dungeon.
Alcatraz Island and Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay - © 2015 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Steven sat nervously on the edge of the examination table. He mused that time must crawl to a halt inside a doctor's office. It seemed that he had been sitting there for hours waiting to hear the bad news, when in fact he knew it must have only been five, ten minutes tops.
He had researched his symptoms endlessly: Loss of appetite, sleeplessness, headaches, and a general malaise that trailed him everywhere like an unwanted stray. It would be only moments before the doctor would confirm what he already knew: he had cancer... probably leukemia.
By preparing himself ahead of time, he figured he could skip the first four stages and go right to the last one: acceptance. He already planned out he would break the news to his friends and family. He would urge them not to cry for him and that he lived a full, albeit, shortened existence and they would just have to carry on without him the best they could. He would undoubtedly have to give up the partnership track at his accounting firm that he toiled over for the last few years so he could enjoy the few, remaining months he would have left. Probably his fiancee would be the hardest hit; he would break off the engagement knowing it was in her best interest not marry a man who had no future.
A cold breeze washed over him when the door to the examination room flew open. The doctor appeared, an elder man in his early seventies, chart in hand.
"Hey Steven. Well I've got your blood results here. Cholesterol...good, triglycerides...good, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, enzymes...all normal."
"In other words, you're healthy as a horse"
Steven shook his head in disbelief. "You mean I don't have cancer?"
"Cancer? What? No, of course not!"
"Nope, your going to live a long, healthy time on this planet. "
Before the doctor turned away, he added with a smile...
"I'm afraid it's a life sentence for you!"
Today was the first time ever I discussed verbs, nouns, and adjectives with the children. They got it in about two seconds flat. In Phoenix's case, he'd self-educated about it a bit, but as far as I know today was Halle's first time.
In Boston, about 45 demonstrators, including a dozen speakers, out for Pvt. Manning on the day of her sentencing. A number of speakers took up the PVT Manning Support Network's call to urge people to sign the petition at pardon.privatemanning.org that calls on President Obama to issue a pardon. Other speakers expressed the view that this approach will be ineffective and that other approaches need to be considered. Everyone who spoke agreed that the 35 year sentence for acts of whistle-blowing is excessive. A number of folks discussed the issues with onlookers and passers-by.
VIsit www.privatemanning.org to learn more about the heroic whistleblower.
Five members of United Cafeteria and Restaurant Workers union Local 471 are sentenced to six months in jail for clashes on the picket line during their 78-day strike in 1948.
The April 18, 1948 Washington Post article reports on the sentences that were given after the strike was settled.
As the article reports, the harsh sentences were designed to send a message to Local 471 and other unions.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm1ZnVra
For a deep dive into the 1948 cafeteria workers strike, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/against-the-cold...
The image is part of an article published in the Washington Post April 18, 1948.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Hildesheimer & Co. Ltd. of London and Manchester.
The card was posted in Great Yarmouth on Thursday the 23rd. August 1906 to:
Mrs. C. Ascher,
44, Oakhill Road,
Sutton,
Surrey.
The pencilled message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Grandma,
We went into these
gardens last night and
had a little dancing, but
it was too hot to keep
on long.
It's much cooler today.
How are you enjoying
yourself at Sutton?
Love from Emmie."
Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens
Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens (on the right) is a Grade II* listed building in Great Yarmouth, England. It was built of glass and iron in Torquay over the course of three years, starting in 1878.
It was moved by barge to Great Yarmouth in 1904, purportedly without the loss of a single pane of glass. Over the years, it has been used as ballroom, roller skating rink and beer garden.
In the 1990's it was converted into a nightclub by Jim Davidson, and has since been used as a family leisure venue. It is currently (2020) closed.
In 2018, it was named among the top ten endangered buildings of the Victorian and Edwardian eras in a survey released by the Victorian Society.
In July 2021 it received a £10 million National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to support its repair and reopening.
Johannes Thümmler
So what else happened on the day that Emmie posted the card to her grandmother?
Well, the 23rd. August 1906 marked the unfortunate birth of Johannes Hermann Thümmler, also known as Hans Thümmler.
Thümmler was a German Obersturmbannführer and Head of the Gestapo Chemnitz and Katowice, as well as leader of commando 16 group D Einsatzgruppen in Croatia.
-- The Years up to 1945
Johannes Thümmler was born on the 23rd. August 1906 in Chemnitz, Saxony, the son of publisher and bookseller Hermann Thümmler.
He studied law and graduated as a jurist. In 1932 Thümmler joined the NSDAP and in 1937 the SS. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, Thümmler initially worked at police headquarter Dresden and in Schwarzenberg.
Soon after, he was appointed deputy head of the Gestapo Dresden. In January 1941 he became head of the Gestapo Dresden, and in March 1941, he became head of the Gestapo in Chemnitz. On the 20th. April 1943 he was promoted to Obersturmbannführer.
From the 3rd. July 1943 to the 11th. September 1943 Thümmler led the Einsatzkommando 16 of Einsatzgruppe D in Croatia, based in Knin.
In September 1943 Thümmler returned and was appointed head of the Gestapo and the commander of the state police and the SD (KdS) in Katowice, Upper Silesia.
In this capacity, he also took over the leadership of the SS court martial for Upper Silesia. This court martial convened in Block 11 of the main camp of Auschwitz. After the conquest of the territories by the Red Army and the withdrawal of German troops, Thümmler took over at Easter 1945 for the last time a function at the KdS in Stuttgart.
-- Post War
After the war, Thümmler was initially in French captivity; in 1946 he was transferred to the detention center Ludwigsburg. At the detention center, he was the mayor of the camp self-government.
In the denazification he was classified in 1948 as "major offender" and sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor. The internment was credited to the sentence, therefore Thümmler was released in the same year.
In an appeal hearing, the punishment of Thümmler was decreased in 1949 to 180 days in labor camps and inclusion in the group of "tainted".
In October 1948, he took on a job in the optical factory Zeiss Württemberg Oberkochen.
-- The Auschwitz Trial
On the 2nd. November 1964 Thümmler said as a witness in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial that "several hundred" death sentences have been pronounced by the state court.
In 60% of cases, the death penalty had been pronounced, in other cases, a perpetual KZ-briefing. In his testimony, Thümmler stated:
"An acquittal was virtually eliminated.
In my days, there was no innocent.
We asked the accused if they agree,
and they all said yes, yes."
The Court consisted of him as chairman and one representative of the Judicial Police and the SD as assessor. The accused were civilians who had been arrested by the Gestapo in Katowice. The arrests were made for alleged resistance activities and criminal activities such as smuggling, courier services or listening to enemy broadcasts.
Each trial lasted rarely longer than two minutes; the basis of the judgments were the previous "confessions" of the defendants.
As a witness in Frankfurt, Thümmler stated that he had not heard or known whether the "confessions" were made in "rigorous interrogations". Such interrogation methods by the Gestapo were associated with abuse.
Investigation against Thümmler did not lead to a conviction.
Thümmler died on the 28th. April 2002 in Eriskirch. He was 95 years of age when he died.
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Making a background, stamping, embossing, ironing and finishing. Describing this card in one sentence is easy but inventing it is a real challenge.
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The Barnwell Sentence, Riverside, Cambridge, 31 Mar 2015
When I first saw this I though it was clever street art.
When I saw it close up I realised somebody had been spending lots of money!
'The Barnwell Sentence' mural in Kingsley Walk was created in late 2014 by Lucy Skaer, and is on marble tiles.
The web site says that the artwork takes the form of a 100m ‘sentence', winding its way through the Cambridge Riverside development. It is made up of imprints that tell a story of this site and its proximity. The sculptures and pictograms include Carp fish, strawberries, and school blazers, the largest being a life-sized blue whale skeleton, marking the entrance to the site from Newmarket Road.
I don't speak Barnwell, so don't really understand the meaning of the blue whale. But it does have an exclamation mark!
Alisha Walker was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the stabbing death of Alan Filan, a teacher in a Catholic school. Filan had contracted Walker and another sex worker to come to his home for a sexual encounter.
According to Walker, Filan brandished a knife when he began to argue over the terms of the evening. Walker grabbed the knife during the struggle that broke out and by her account, stabbed him 14 times in self defense.
A group of Chicagoans gathered to denounce the 15 year sentence as a miscarriage of justice for a woman with a dangerous job who was only trying to defend herself.
These are my personal notes taken during a geology presentation. I give them here because they may be of some interest. Do not expect them to always be in complete sentences, etc.
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A Neoproterozoic Snowjob: Testing the Limits of the Snowball Earth Hypothesis
Presented by: Nicholas Christie-Blick (Columbia University, New York, New York, USA) (www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ncb/)
25 April 2002
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Paul Hoffman’s Snowball Earth Hypothesis doesn’t work very well. (www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/20900468815)
A classic locality for seeing Neoproterozoic tillite is in northern Namibia.
The most severe Ice Ages ever on Earth appear to be the Marinoan Ice Age (= Varanger Ice Age) at ~600 million years ago & the Sturtian Ice Age at ~750-700 million years ago.
Showed a photograph of a large dropstone deforming iron formation. (www.snowballearth.org/slides/Ch3-5.jpg)
Evidence for a cold climate at sea level ~600 million years ago: striated pavements, paleo-permafrost (sandstone frost wedges), adjacent to tidal bundles in sandstone.
The Elatina Formation in the central Flinders Ranges, South Australia has the best evidence for low-latitude glaciation at sea level - paleomag. shows this locality was at 7.5˚ North latitude (results are close to a primary position). Can see lots of magnetic reversals in the Neoproterozoic glacial interval of the Elatina Formation. This area really made the case for low-latitude glaciation.
The typical cap carbonate facies - occurs above Snowball Earth glacial sediments. (www.snowballearth.org/images/dating2.jpg) The cap carbonates are peculiar. In the late Precambrian, can see carbonates above the glacial interval. The cap carbonate sediments (deep water and a continuous interval) are event beds - turbidites (they have sole marks and flute casts) of finely-laminated, homogeneous dolomicrite. They directly overlie glacial rocks everywhere. They are present even in terrigenous sections. Most sections have a few meters only of cap carbonates, though Paul Hoffman focuses on the few sections that have 100s of meters of cap carbonates.
See Kennedy, Christie-Blick, & Prave (2001).
Low isotopic values in cap carbonates are perceived to be peculiar.
-5.5 to -6 δ13C (PDB) is the mantle carbon isotopic value. The modern world has C(organic) at about -28.5 and C(inorganic carbonate) of 0. We see mantle carbon values in Neoproterozoic cap carbonates - this implies zero C(organic) burial. This conclusion is the source of the proposed completely ice-covered oceans in Snowball Earth Hypothesis of Hoffman. δ13C curves go crazy during the Neoproterozoic, compared with pre-Neoproterozoic and the post-Neoproterozoic.
Snowball 101: the basic ideas of the Snowball Earth Hypothesis.
1) Freezing phase - the entire ocean surface is frozen (even in the tropics) from a runaway albedo feedback. When sea ice reaches 30˚ latitude, the rest rapidly freezes over. Then, primary productivity in the oceans ceases, which accounts for mantle carbon values in cap carbonates. Then, atmospheric carbon dioxide gas (CO2) increases to ~120,000 ppm [parts per million] due to the shutdown of hydrologic cycle and the shutdown of silicate weathering (both are sinks for CO2). The increasing CO2 is coming from the mantle because there was continued volcanism from continuing plate tectonic processes.
2) Melting phase - catastrophic melting phase from the greenhouse effect, on a scale of hundreds of years - very rapid and very warm. This renews silicate weathering, resulting in a drawdown of atmospheric CO2, which delivers alkalinity and base cations to the ocean. The cap carbonates record the transfer of excess atmospheric CO2 to the ocean. The trend of decreasing carbon isotope depletion upward in cap carbonates is due to: 1) protracted shutdown of marine autotrophic activity; 2) high fractional burial of carbonate carbon; and 3) Rayleigh distillation.
This is the freeze-fry cycle of the Snowball Earth Hypothesis (see Hoffman, 2000). This freeze-fry cycle is on the order of 10 million years. This model is advocated by Paul Hoffman and others because it plausibly explains many paradoxes in the record.
How does one test the Snowball Earth Hypothesis?
Global climate model simulations - the catastrophic freeze over starting at 30˚ latitude is actually the result of an artifact in a previous climate model.
Look at carbon isotopes in synglacial carbonates (looking at non-eroded carbonates only, though).
Sr isotopic information - a measure of weathering influx.
Implications to evolution - what are the evolutionary responses and what about bottlenecks?
Continental locations - equatorially-located continents are “surprised” in the SEH model - the ice creeps toward them from the poles, then reaching 30˚ latitude, and quickly covers the remainder of the planet. Are the continents really all equatorially-located, though, at the required times?
Well, lots of modeling is going on now - each has different purposes, and it is difficult to compare them all. But, can you freeze over the whole ocean at all in climate models? Maybe, but it is very hard to do. The answer is "Not a chance", according to many people.
Models start off with CO2 at 315 ppm (corresponding with pre-industrial levels). In the Marinoan world, many continents are at low latitudes, including Australia. The models can’t get an ice sheet remotely close to Australia. What about changing solar luminosity? In the Neoproterozoic, sunlight intensity was less than now, estimated to ~94% of modern intensity. This value is based on astrophysicists’ estimates of a 30% fainter Sun at 4.5 billion years ago, and scaled forward to the late Neoproterozoic. No astrophysicist has yet argued for changes in the rate of solar luminosity increase. So, change the models to 94% of modern luminosity. Still can’t get ice at low latitude Australia in the Neoproterozoic. Add a lower CO2 value of 40 ppm to the model, can get oceanic ice sheets close to the tropics, but still don’t have an all frozen ocean - not close.
Look at synglacial carbonates - we now have data about this from four continents. Looked at marine cements, peloids, and oolites (all are in-situ carbonates deposited during the glacial interval). The values are scattered, but typically they are positive, +2 or +3, not -5 as the Snowball Earth Hypothesis says (these are supposed to be close to mantle carbon values, because all of Earth is frozen over, and the only carbon input is from the mantle, through plate tectonic-driven volcanism).
Strontium (Sr) ratios are ~invariant throughout the glacial to post-glacial interval. There is no evidence from Sr data for a thousand-fold variation in weathering rates, as expected in Hoffman’s Snowball Earth Hypothesis. The maximum weathering rate for an atmosphere with 120,000 ppm of CO2 is less than 50 times that of the present weathering rate.
Secondary hypotheses have been proposed to circumvent the Sr problem. They assert a substantially longer time scale, and they call upon weathering of carbonates, instead of weathering silicates. There are difficulties with these ideas. The longer timescale argument is inconsistent with high fractional burial of carbonate carbon, plus the cap carbonates likely represent ~1000 years years, plus carbonate weathering cannot draw down CO2. Silicate weathering can, but carbonate weathering can’t. So, the cap carbonates are not a product of CO2 drawdown, which is a key Hoffman idea. Carbonate weathering drives cap carbonate δ13C values into a positive upward trend.
The Pleistocene glacial maximum had sea level at 120 meters lower than now. 73 meters worth of sea level are trapped in glacial ice on Greenland and Antarctica.
Australian glacial facies and magnetic reversals indicate a glacial retreat over a time scale of 100,000 to 1 million years (= much longer than Hoffman’s SEH says).
Glacial-eustatic rise continued after glacial-isostatic rebound at low latitudes (the cap carbonates are late glacial, deposited when there was still ice somewhere on Earth).
Australia has a 30 meter thick cap carbonates section (they are event beds - turbidites).
Alternative Hypotheses for the Origin of Cap Carbonates
1) Post-glacial upwelling (Kaufman et al., 1991). But, it is difficult to stratify a glacial ocean, and upwelling of nutrient-rich water leads to enhanced productivity.
2) Gas Hydrate Hypothesis - accounts for the source of light carbon seen in cap carbonates. Gas hydrates are ice that have methane in the lattice. They are common in continental shelves - buried frozen permafrost. Cap carbonates represent destabilization of permafrost methane hydrates during post-glacial flooding of continental margins and interior basins. The temperature increased, and methane was delivered into the water column. Need to have a methane source from a reservoir in shallower areas (a permafrost reservoir, for example). Deeper marine reservoirs of methane aren’t suitable sources for this because a sea level rise will increase pressure and will stabilize the deep ocean methane reservoirs.
Is there evidence for the gas hydrate hypothesis? Widespread features in cap carbonates (CC) are consistent with cold seep facies. Can see bedding expansion and cementation in deformed beds below the cap carbonates in Australia. Can see sheet cracks in cap carbonates - cement was growing into empty spaces. Can see tubes in cap carbonates - gas escape tubes? They are real tubes - can see sediment falling into them. Roll-up structures in sub-photic zone biohermal communities are present in cap carbonates. Can see barite and aragonite fans in cap carbonates - these are cold seep facies features.
So, the gas hydrate hypothesis calls upon a pulse addition of light carbon from permafrost methane, followed by steady state recovery. Cap carbonates represent ~10,000 years (rapid accumulation). Mass balance calculations show the plausibility of the gas hydrate hypothesis, using modern ocean constraints. Carbon introduced by methane release can account for a -5‰ shift - need about 3 x 10 to the 17th power moles of methane (CH4). How much carbon is buried in cap carbonates? It's estimated to be 8 x 10 to the 17th power moles of CaCO3. That's the same order of magnitude.
How big were the ice sheets in the Neoproterozoic? There is good evidence in Utah - incised paleovalley systems are present in a series of sections - rivers cut into marine sediments (~160 meters of cutting) - they are the same age as the glacial interval.
Apparent sea level change of 193 meters for the Pleistocene Ice Age (120 meters + 73 meters) - that is equivalent to a eustatic change of 130 m (need to multiply 193 m by a factor of 1.4 - this accounts for difference of sea level change values seen from islands, which experience water loading with sea level rise, compared with sea level changes that will be seen on the continents).
How many Neoproterozoic ice ages? All sections show only two. Multiple events or not? The multiple events idea seems to be based on miscorrelation of the two ice ages, especially in southern to northern Namibia. There were two main events, apparently. One is at 600 million years ago, and one is at ~750 million years ago. All workers agree that they were the most severe ice ages in history. There weren't more than two events.
Paul Hoffman's Snowball Earth Hypothesis is not consistent with C and Sr data together, or with eucaryotic evolution (some call on a soft snowball, versus Hoffman’s hard snowball, or a slushball hypothesis), or with the scale of ice-volume changes, or with the duration of glacial retreat (it was on a time scale greater than 100,000 years, not 100 years).
The gas hydrate hypothesis is consistent with climate models, outcrop evidence (including strange features in cap carbonates that have been unexplained for a long time), isotopic data, and biological evidence. Permafrost and associated hydrates should have been unusually widespread, because lots of glaciation occurred in the Neoproterozoic (which is an accepted idea by all researchers).
The upwelling hypothesis doesn’t work. Snowball Earth Hypothesis doesn’t work. Any other hypotheses out there? They are welcome.
Call any of these ideas “Snowball Earth” if you want - the name doesn’t matter.
The methane was coming from marine sedimentary basins.
There was lots of Precambrian organic carbon, including Precambrian oils and C(organic) isotopic values that hover around zero back to the Archean.
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This nifty, mid-century modern ("Googie") four-plus-one burned during Memorial Day weekend last year. I left for Michigan and returned to find it partially burned.
This morning, while walking to the Red Line, I witnessed a city employee affixing the red-X to its facade, indicating that it is slated for demolition.
I can see this building from my condo, and used to like the snowflake Christmas decorations which used to hang from its zig-zag overhang in winter.
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013.
Richmond: New re-entry center unveiled for former inmates
By Karina Ioffee
POSTED: 10/13/2015 05:31:40 PM PDT
RICHMOND -- When Edward Williams entered the prison system in 1984, the Internet was an unknown, and he'd never touched a computer.
Once his murder sentence was over three decades later and he arrived back home, Williams felt like he had been dropped on a new planet. Everyone jabbered on cellphones and talked about apps. Most of his relatives, and many friends, were dead, and he now had to think about how he would earn money instead of having tasks assigned to him.
"Everybody wants you to come home, jump into the race and take off, but that ain't going to happen," said Williams, now 74. "They don't understand that prison has its own rules and regulations than the outside, and when you have been gone so long, you have to relearn everything."
Director Nicholas Alexander, center, cuts the ribbon during the grand opening of the Reentry Success Center in Richmond, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015.
Director Nicholas Alexander, center, cuts the ribbon during the grand opening of the Reentry Success Center in Richmond, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. To the left are Contra Costa County Board of Supervisor John Gioia, and Edward Williams, 74, far left, who was recently released from prison after serving 30 years for murder. The center, located in the historic Milens Jewelry Store building on Macdonald Avenue, is funded by realignment money from the state, and will offer former convicts classes, access to computers and other assistance with jobs and housing to help them reintegrate into society. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) ( JANE TYSKA )
On Tuesday, Williams shared his story at a ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Re-entry Success Center. Located in a former jewelry store in downtown Richmond, the center will help the formerly incarcerated find jobs and housing, access health services and get help with substance abuse and other issues, all under one roof. It formally opens Nov. 2 and will work primarily with people on parole and probation.
"In the past, someone in re-entry would have to go from place to place to get services," said Nicholas Alexander, the center's director. "What we've done is create a hub."
Inside the center, clients will be able to access computers, enroll in GED or college courses, get job-training or placement assistance and meet with a counselor to come up with a re-entry plan. More important, they will have access to a support network that is often missing when people first get out of prison, according to advocates.
"Re-entry is more than just about lowering the cost of ballooning prison costs," Alexander said. "It's about lowering the costs and the impacts to families and children. And it's about growing the workforce and the local economy."
The re-entry center is being funded by a yearly grant of $433,000 from the state, allocated by Assembly Bill 109, better known as "prison realignment." The legislation was passed 2011 as a way to reduce recidivism in California prisons and transfer nonviolent offenders to local jails to serve out the remainder of their sentences.
Another $93,000 per year is being spent by Rubicon Programs, a local organization that offers job training, counseling and other services and that will run the day-to-day operations of the center.
Currently, more than 3,000 people are either on parole or probation in Contra Costa County, according to Alexander, meaning that the demand for the center's work is high.
Advocates for the formerly incarcerated praised the center for being light, airy and not "institutional."
"This is the place we would want to come," said Edwina Perez- Santiago, the founder of Reach Fellowship International, a Richmond organization that offers pre-release and post-release services for women coming out of the prison system. "This is a place where all of our needs will be met. It feels like community."
Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia praised the center for being a model in re-entry services and said that it had been put together with the input of many former inmates who were able to use their experience to tailor the center's approach.
"Hundreds of organizations came together and understood that we need to invest money not just in county departments or law enforcement, but we need to invest in community-based organizations that are providing real-life services to people re-entering our community," Gioia said.
Contact Karina Ioffee at 510-262-2726 or kioffee@bayareanewsgroup.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/kioffee
Six Sentences, Volume 3
Edited by Lydia Davis
Third time's a charm! The international authors of "Six Sentences" are back, and this time, no subject matter is taboo, and everything - and everyone - is fair game. The collection features all-new work from some of the finest practitioners of the 6S genre, including Diane Brady, Brian Steel, Joseph Grant, Adam J. Whitlatch, Kim Tairi, Jeanette Cheezum, Kevin Michaels, Emily McPhillips, Rod Drake, Juliana Perry, Linda Simoni-Wastila, Richard M. Johnson, Crorey Lawton, Madam Z, and the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York, Hal Sirowitz.
Features my short story "The Twelve-Minute War"
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Young Duncan Renaldo was not quite so lucky, his wife Suzette filing a widely reported "alienation of affection" suit against co-star Edwina Booth immediately upon their return to Hollywood. To compound matters, the Rumanian-born actor was arrested on charges that he had entered the United States illegally and was eventually sentenced to two years in a federal prison. To most audiences, Duncan Renaldo will always be identified as film and TV's "The Cisco Kid." youtu.be/c0kvHIaGiWw
However, this role occurred late in his career, which consisted of much more than just this western character. Not much is known about Renaldo's early life. In fact, his date and place of birth is still questioned. The usual given birth date is April 23, 1904. His birthplace has been generally stated as Spain--he has said that his first memories as a child were in Spain--although Romania and even New Jersey have been mentioned as well. An orphan, he never knew his actual parents and was never able to ascertain the exact date and place of his birth. He was raised and educated in various European countries and arrived in the US in the early 1920s as a stoker on a Brazilian coal ship. Entering the country on a 90-day seaman's permit, he stayed when his ship caught fire at the dock and burned to the waterline. A paltry existence as a portrait painter forced him to seek other work, and he somehow found his way into films as a producer of short features, which in turn led to on-camera work as an actor with MGM in 1928. The studio capitalized on his dashing Hispanic looks and initially typed him as a "Latin lover", but it didn't last long. In the early 1930s his career was interrupted when he was arrested and faced deportation due to his illegal immigrant status. The actor was eventually pardoned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt--his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, had bought one of Renaldo's paintings, looked into his case and persuaded her husband to pardon him. He returned to minor films for both Republic and Monogram, alternating as heroic sidekick and villain. He co-starred as one of the Three Mesquiteers in the revamped film series, and showed up regularly in 1930s and 1940s cliffhangers, including The Painted Stallion (1937), Jungle Menace (1937), Zorro Rides Again (1937), King of the Mounties (1942), Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943) The Tiger Woman (1944). In 1945 he began the Cisco Kid film series and transferred the character successfully to TV in the early 1950s, with Leo Carrillo as faithful sidekick Pancho. Renaldo made the character clean-shaven and more of a do-gooder than the roguish bandit who actually was in the books.
Starring Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu, Olive Golden. Directed by W.S. Van Dyke.
This production was an amazing undertaking in 1931. American filmmaking with sound and location shooting was unheard of and with the country still feeling the effects of the depression also quite a gamble. This is a fascinating tale of a real life adventure with a dose of Hollywood shenanigans thrown in.
The movie tells of the adventures of real-life trader and adventurer Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn on safari in Africa. The fictional part includes the discovery of a white blonde jungle queen, the lost daughter of a missionary, played by Miss Booth. The realistic part includes a scene in which Carey as Horn swings on a vine across a river filled with genuine crocodiles, one of which comes very close to taking his leg off.
The following review is by an anonymous writer.......I note a number of misconceptions about this great old flick, or maybe some viewers are missing a few things. Sure, Harry Carey refers to some of the tribes-people herein as savages. But, look, on a daily basis they will kill you, cook you, shrink your head, and eat what's left. If that isn't savage, I'd like to know what is. The tribes-people pictured here aren't the Dead End Kids waiting for a weekly visit from their case worker. Yes, Carey refers to his man Friday as a black so-and-so, but the so-and-so comes off looking highly noble in the script, and Carey pays him due tribute. As for Carey playing the part of a hardened Congo guide, he does a mighty fine job of rendering a realistic character, just as would John Wayne, Charleton Heston, or Clint Eastwood. In the War on Poverty days I could see some misguided soul casting Anthony Perkins in the role, but it seems to me Mr. Carey does a superb job. Another reviewer remarked Carey falls in love with the rescued captive; I disagree. Carey had pledged to protect her and return her to civilization. One person from whom he tries to protect her is the naive, erotically smitten Duncan Renaldo ("Peru"), whose character is the opposite of Trader Horn's. Trader Horn knows what's out there and what to watch for; Peru is a total newbie whose missteps could get everyone killed and cooked, including himself. I think this film's characters, story, and production handily outdo any jungle flick made since then. Kinda scary, too. So scary, in fact, and so real, I wouldn't recommend it for the kiddies. Revisionist historians stay clear; in 1931, this is really what Darkest Africa was like.
Summary:
Deep in the heart of Africa, famous hunter, explorer Aloysius Horn, known as Trader Horn due to his bartering skills, tells Peru, the son of his best friend, that he was the first white man to set eyes on the river on which they are sailing. When their boat approaches a small African village that is bustling with activity, the natives welcome the visitors, and Trader asks to be taken to the chief. Though Trader warns Peru of the savage nature of the natives, Peru is nevertheless shocked when he sees a human skeleton displayed on a public cross. The white men's visit is soon interrupted by the ominous sound of a distant drum beat, known as "ju-ju," which the Africans, as well as Trader, know signals the impending attack of the brutal Masai warriors. Trader explains to Peru that when the Masai and the Kukua tribes get together, "the devil is certainly involved," and suggests that they move on. That night, the men, with their African guide, Renchero, set up camp, but they are awakened by the unexpected arrival of the white missionary woman, Edith Trent. Edith, a friend of Trader, whom Trader calls the bravest woman in all of Africa, informs him that she intends to go above the Opanga Falls and into Isorgi country in order to find her missing daughter Nina, who is believed to be living among the Isorgi. Trader warns Edith of the dangers of traveling during ju-ju and offers to accompany her, but she refuses, claiming that the presence of a male with guns will only startle the warriors into violence. Edith consents, however, to allow Trader and his companions to follow her at a distance, on the condition that he continue her search if something should happen to her. Not long after the expedition begins, Trader and Peru discover Edith's body by the river. They proceed to bury it under rocks and mark it for witch doctors, who will later dig it up and make charms out of it. As they promised Edith, Trader and Peru take up her search for Nina, and on the trail find themselves in the company of giraffes, leopards, ostriches, warthogs, zebras and other creatures. After Trader and Peru finally locate Nina, they soon realize that she is the sadistic white goddess of the village in which she lives, and that she plans to sacrifice her new visitors by tying them to crosses and burning them. At the last minute, though, Nina has a change of heart, orders their release, and plans an escape with them from the bushmen, who have turned on her. The goddess escorts the men across the lake, and they brave the perils in their path, including a lion attack. During the course of their journey, Peru and Nina fall in love, and when they kiss, Trader insists that he separate from them for the remainder of the trip. The sound of the enemy tribe's approach sends them scattering, Peru with Nina, and Trader with Renchero. The next morning, Trader discovers that Renchero has sacrificed his life in order to protect him and mourns the loss of his friend. Meanwhile, Peru and Nina are shown to safety by a tribe of pygmies, and they are eventually reunited with Trader. Peru tells Trader that he is taking Nina back to civilization to educate her, and as they sail off, Trader sees an image of Renchero in the clouds on the horizon.
The following onscreen acknowledgment appears in the film's titles: "M-G-M acknowledges Governors and governmental officials of the Territory of Tanganyika, the Protectorate of Uganda, the Colony of Kenya, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, [and] the Belgian Congo, whose courtesy and cooperation made this picture possible...and the director offers his thanks for the courageous and efficient services of the White Hunters, Maj. W. V. D. Dickinson, A. S. Waller, Esq., J. H. Barnes, Esq., [and] H. R. Stanton, Esq., who were chiefly responsible for the expedition's ability to traverse 14,000 miles of African velt and jungle."
According to a FD news item, following its publication, Trader Horn became one of the best-selling books of its time. The film was the first non-documentary film to be shot almost entirely on location in Africa. A Jan 1930 AC article notes that the film was nearly half completed when the studio informed the crew in Africa that Hollywood was sending a sound crew to meet them. They were told that "the world was demanding its pictures all-talking." According to an Apr 1931 Photo article, M-G-M secretly sent a second unit to Tecate, Mexico, away from American laws that secured the ethical treatment of animals, to film scenes of animals fighting with each other, which they were unable to capture on film in Africa. In Mexico, lions were reportedly starved for several days in order to ensure immediate and particularly vicious attacks on hyenas, monkeys and deer.
Modern sources relate the following information about the film: Tim McCoy was originally chosen to play the title role; Thelma Todd was tested for the part of "Nina" and M-G-M production head Irving Thalberg reportedly considered Jeanette MacDonald for the part. During the filming of a scene in which white hunter Major W. V. D. Dickinson and director W. S. Van Dyke doubled for the leading men, a charging rhino nearly killed Dickinson, who incorrectly thought that the director was in distress and jumped into the rhino's path to protect him. During production, Van Dyke and many of his crew contracted malaria and were treated with quinine. Despite the British authorities' insistence that no one travel to the Murchison Falls, a known sleeping-sickness area, the director took his crew there for filming. The production was marred by at least two fatal disasters. In the first instance, a native crew member fell into a river and was eaten by a crocodile; in the other incident, which was captured on film, a native boy was struck by a charging rhino. Misfortunes of lesser consequence on the African location included flash floods, sunstroke, swarming locusts and tsetse-fly and ant attacks. Despite months of sound filming, almost all of the dialogue sequences in the film were re-shot on M-G-M's Culver City backlot after the troupe returned from Africa because of the poor quality of the location footage. As the script called for speaking scenes involving African natives Mutia Omoolu and Riano Tindama, they were brought back to Hollywood for additional shooting. With all the production activity in Culver City, rumors began circulating in Hollywood that the entire production was filmed on the M-G-M lot and that the African expedition did not take place. For this reason, the studio decided to scrap the backlot footage of Marjorie Rambeau, who had replaced Olive Golden as "Edith Trent." Modern sources add the following credits: Red Golden, Asst dir ; Josephine Chippo, Script clerk ; John McClain, Press agent and Miss Gordon, Hairdresser . Although modern sources indicate that the film was originally released with a short introduction in which director Cecil B. DeMille discusses the film's authenticity with author Alfred Aloysius Horn, and that the three-minute introduction was deleted from the negative in 1936, when the picture was re-issued, neither the viewed print nor the cutting continuity contain the introduction. The final production cost was pegged at $3,000,000.
Leading actor Harry Carey was married to actress Olive Golden. According to modern sources, following publicized rumors of an affair between stars Duncan Renaldo and Edwina Booth (formerly Josephine Woodruff) during production, Renaldo's wife, Suzette, filed for divorce and later filed a $50,000 lawsuit against Booth for "alienation of affection." On 17 Jan 1931, Duncan Renaldo was arrested on charges that he entered the United States illegally and was later sentenced to two years in federal prison. After serving less than two years, Renaldo received a pardon from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936, after which he left the country, re-entered legally and became a U. S. citizen. Booth contracted a rare tropical disease while filming in Africa that affected her nervous system and reportedly forced her to remain confined to a darkened room for the better part of six years.
Trader Horn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture of the 1930-31 season, and director W. S. Van Dyke was awarded the Red Cross Medal by the Japanese government for his outstanding achievement in direction.