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The Baudelaires make themselves comfortable in the unfinished bit of the hospital and try to figure out the notes that the Quagmires left for them. They decide that the best way to get to the bottom of all these mysteries is to locate and read the Snicket file. Due to Hal's strange filing system, and his assertion that they shouldn't read the files, this proves difficult. Things then go from bad to worse when Babs is replaced by Olaf, now calling himself Matthias. The Baudelaires are going to have to trick Hal into giving up his keys, but the question is, how?
Thoughts as I read:
This chapter picture is one of those clever ones that kind of plays with the words of 'Chapter Five'. This time it shows a hand holding a torch and the beam is shining onto the word like it's being lit up in the dark. No way of knowing whose hand it is though.
The children are all confused by something, not least Sunny who says (and I have to take a moment to make sure I get this all right) 'Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity' which means 'I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on'. Apparently the last time she said it was when she was brought home from the hospital and met her brother and sister for the first time, aww. At the moment, pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity either, but not for long.
It turns out that the children are trying to work out what Hal was going on about when he said 'the Snicket files'. They're settled down for the night in the unfinished half of the hospital; Violet's located torches so they have light, Klaus has found dropcloths to use as blankets, and Sunny has used her teeth to make fruit salad with the fruit from Hal's fruit bowl. I all can think to this last one is 'eww'; they're basically eating fruit that someone else has kind of chewed on.
The children are also wondering what the Snicket files might say about them and guessing that Hal doesn't know anything because he doesn't even read the files. Sunny says 'Seerg' meaning 'And I was afriad to ask him any more about it.' The children are terrified of being found out and arrested again and they're struggling to make sense of the Quagmires' notes.
There's a couplet from Isadora:
In photographs, and in each public place,
Snicket rarely shows his face.
Snicket rarely shows his face.
Which judging from the author photos at the back of the book are about Lemony Snicket, not Jacques.
The notes contain information which might relate to something the children already know, like a note about an apartment and a bit of a map which might link to the Squalors. Sunny adds 'Rabave' and shows them a bit of paper with names on it. One is Al Funcoot and the other is Ana Gram. I would expect Klaus to immediately cotton onto this but instead he and Violet debate if this was one of Olaf's cohorts. 'Orlando!' says Sunny, meaning 'Or the one who looks like neither a man nor a woman.' Hehe, this one makes me smile, Sunny's so smart.
As if their mood couldn't get any worse, Klaus finds a bit of paper with just the word 'fire' written on it. And Snicket then launches into a discourse of how certain words can make you think of all kinds of things:
The word "Beatrice" reminds me of a volunteer organization that was swarming with corruption, and the word "midnight" reminds me that I must keep writing this chapter very quickly, or else I will probably drown.
I love how none of these random comments by Snicket are ever actually explained.
Anyway, the word fire kind of reminds us of how many suspicious fires there have been; the one that killed the Baudelaire parents, the one that killed the Quagmire parents and Quigley. Violet is convinced that the Snicket file is the answer to all their questions, like who Jacques Snicket was, what V.F.D. actually stands for, and 'Us' says Sunny, which means 'And we need to know why there's a picture of us in the file.'
So the next morning they return to the Library of Records and try to sneak a peek at the mysterious Snicket file in between their actual filing work. But when Violet and Klaus attempt to check the S (for Snicket) and F (for Fires) aisles, Hal is there and they can't get access to them. Sunny does manage a glimpse in the B (for Baudelaires) cabinet, but it's completely empty, she reports back to her siblings with 'Nil'. Now that's a wee bit suspicious in itself, don't you think? Surely something would be filed under B, unless it's been removed from the library…
Violet wonders aloud if they should ask the librarian, that being Hal, for help. Klaus asks if they might be allowed to read one of the files in the library. There are some rules in this place it seems, one of which is that the files are not to be taken home to be perused by three children, unless there is 'a very important reason'. He's about to give an example of this when a familiar voice comes over the intercom. I'll give you three guesses at who it belongs to.
We are informed that Babs has resigned:
"She decided to pursue a career as a stuntwoman, and has begun throwing herself off buildings immediately…"
I didn't really like Babs, what little we saw (or rather heard) of her, but still, that's not a nice way to go.
This time around Olaf is playing the part of Matthias and he's going to inspect everyone at Heimlich Hospital. This basically means that someone is going to come and look at the Baudelaires and we all know how that will end. And so the children begin to panic. After all, Olaf has somehow figured out where they are, and despite Sunny saying 'Tell!' they realise that there's not really anyone they can tell. Everyone thinks he's dead and that they murdered him.
Violet decides that their only hope is to find the Snicket file and if they're lucky there will be evidence that will reveal Olaf for what he really is. It's a bit of a steep jump really. All the same, they try to figure out how they will be able to read the files when Hal is always in the way 'Night!' says Sunny. Once again, the youngest Baudelaire is solving the problems for her big brother and sister.
The only flaw in this plan to sneak back in the middle of the night is that Hal locks up the room and takes the filing cabinet keys with him at the end of the day. Sunny points out 'Deashew!' meaning 'And it takes me several hours to open one cabinet with my teeth!'
But as they sit there looking at the fruit (which earlier on in the chapter Hal had been unable to tell apart), a plan starts to form. They just need to make Hal think that one thing is actually another thing.
I wonder what that will be.


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Gérard Duhaime is a sociologist (economic sociology) and political scientist (political analysis). He conducts research programme on social change, the economy, development, mass consumption and indebtedness.
He has been teaching sociology at Université Laval since 1988, initially within consumer sciences programmes, and since 2002 with the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He supervises the work of several post-graduate students, most of whom are participating in major research projects.
He has published several books and papers, edited collective works, and given many conferences. His books include: Arctic Food Security (CCI Press, 2008), La vie à crédit, consommation et crise (PUL, 2003), Le Nord, Habitants et Mutations (PUL, 2001), De l'Iglou au HLM, Les Inuit sédentaires et l'État-Providence (CEN, 1985).
Former president of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), co-founder of the Circumpolar Arctic Social Sciences Ph.D. Network (CASS), member assigned by the International Council for Science to the International Polar Year Planning Committee, he played an important role in the integration of the social issues and communities of the North to the programme of the International Polar Year. He assumed many scientific and social responsibilities abroad (University of Lapland, Roskilde University), in Canada (University of Alberta) and in Quebec (Nunavik Commission). Finally, he held several positions in administration and scientific discussion at Université Laval before setting up the Louis-Edmond-Hamelin Chair for Nordic social sciences research, funds created for the purpose of supporting advanced studies, and being offered to create the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Aboriginal Conditions. The results of the work he directs are covered by the press on a regular basis. The magazines Innovation Canada, Québec Science and Revue Notre-Dame have devoted articles to his background and to his works.
Director of the databanks
Andrée Caron M.A. Sociology Phone: 418-656-2131 ext. 404730 firstname.lastname@example.com
Andrée Caron is the holder of a master degree in sociology. She has been working with the Chair since 2002, initially as a researcher and then as director of the ArcticStat and Nunivaat databanks, which she conceived and implemented in close collaboration with a team of computer specialists. She is responsible for the contents, development and update of the databanks. She directs a team of students charged with assisting her in this work. She is also responsible for the conception and implementation of the Chair's Internet site. Furthermore, she actively participates in several research projects conducted within the framework of the Chair's scientific programme, and she contributes to the academic supervision of the students.
Associated researchers
Roberson Édouard PhD. firstname.lastname@example.com
Roberson Édouard is working with the Chair in various capacities since 2004. He holds a doctorate in sociology of development (Université Laval, Québec). He teaches sociology and social sciences research methods at Université Laval, Université d'État d'Haiti and Cégep Garneau. For about ten years, he is studying various development issues including poverty, exclusion and violence. He has to his credit several books and articles, including Violences et ordre social en Haïti. Essai sur le vivre-ensemble dans une société postcoloniale (PUQ, 2013) ; Les soins de santé primaires. Critiques d'une orthodoxie (PUQ, 2010) ; Une société parallèle : la vocation du peuple? Essai sur le dédoublement de la société haïtienne (L'Harmattan, 2009).
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Jean Robitaille is an economist specializing in the econometric modeling of consumer behavior. It is also psychometer (measurement and evaluation). His research interests cover matters such as assessing the economic value of household non-paid domestic production, debt and the use of consumer credit and the development of methodologies for assessing the cost of life between different geographical regions.
Since 1998 he teaches quantitative methods and microeconomic theory of consumer at the department of food economy and consumer sciences at Université Laval. In 2000, he received an award of excellence from the American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI), together with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), for his research on the conceptual and empirical refinement of the methodological approach the opportunity cost for the assessment of the economic value of household production. He is the recipient of the teaching excellence award Paul-Gervais of 2002 and a teaching excellence award of North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) in 2003.
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Daniel Troy made career with the Correctional Service of Canada as a Parole Officer for almost thirty (30) years. Graduated from Université de Montréal in criminology (Bachelor degree), he worked as first-line speaker. For much of his career, he served as Liaison Officer with the Prison des femmes (Maison Tanguay), the Waseskun Center and the Mohawk community of Akwesasne. It was at this time he was introduced to the realities of Inuit and Aboriginal communities. Since his retirement in 2011, he conducted as a consultant, working with BDL firm on behalf of the Kativik Municipal Housing Bureau (KMHB), a full survey on the household composition in all Nunavik communities dwellings. Since September 2014, he works as a Research Associate and Field Coordinator for the survey Cost of Living in Nunavik.
Research professionals
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Sébastien Lévesque did his first and second tertiary level degree studies in sociology at Université Laval. His memoir entitled « Les inégalités sociales dans l'Inuit Nunangat – L'empreinte, le pic et la crevasse » was directly related to the Chair's research themes. Throughout his graduate education, he contributed to numerous studies done by the team. He now plays a dual role in the Chair: as a research professional, he works closely with the chairman and takes part in all stages of research; as an analyst, he meets documentary and statistical needs of the various stakeholders and partners affiliated with the Chair
Marileine Baribeau M.A Psychoeducation Phone: 418-656-2131 ext. 405614 firstname.lastname@example.com
Marileine Baribeau has been part of the Chair team since 2016. She holds a master's degree in psychoeducation from the Université de Montréal. After 7 years working in the health and social services sector, she completed 48 credits in the sociology master program at Université Laval, during which she joined the Chair as a student and research assistant, working in particular on the question of social housing in Nunavik. Since the fall of 2019, she is a professional researcher and works in collaboration with the chair holder, as well as with other professionals of the team, on the success of the various research projects of the Chair.
Enrico Guénard Bacc. Consumer Sciences Phone: 418-656-2131 ext. 405614 firstname.lastname@example.com
Enrico Guénard holds an undergraduate degree in Consumer Science from the Université Laval and is currently completing a Master degree in the same discipline. Interested in the factors influencing the consumption patterns of individuals, he works as a researcher in the Chair to better understand the distribution of household expenditures in Nunavik in a context of high cost of living.
Postdoctoral Fellow
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VERS UN RAPPORT SUR L'ÉCONOMIE DE L'ARCTIQUEUne entrevue publiée le 16 juin 2020 par le Conseil de l'Arctique expose les grandes lignes des défis qui attendent l'équipe du programme ECONOR, co-dirigée par la Chaire condition autochtone, dans la préparation de la quatrième édition du rapport.
IMPACT ÉCONOMIQUE DE LA COVID-19La Chaire de recherche du Canada a réalisé un portrait préliminaire de l'impact économique de la pandémie de COVID-19 dans l'Arctique canadien. Le document peut être consulté ici.
COLLOQUE DU CIERA 2020Le programme final du 18e Colloque annuel du CIÉRA est maintenant disponible. Cette édition, ayant pour thème La pertinence des épistémologies autochtones face à la crise climatique actuelle : enjeux de protection et de préservation du territoire, se déroulera « en ligne » du 29 au 30 avril 2020 sur Zoom et se fera sans inscription. Les liens d'accès Zoom seront uniquement disponibles sur demande, et ce à partir du lundi 26 avril à 16h.
ARCTIC COVID-19 TRACKERLe Arctic, Remote and Cold Territories Interdisciplinary Center (ARCTICenter), situé à l'University of Northern Iowa, a lancé le 26 mars 2020, le Arctic COVID-19 Tracker, une carte mise à jour quotidiennement permettant de suivre l'évolution des cas confirmés et des décès reliés au virus COVID-19 dans les régions arctiques circumpolaires.
ICASS X EST REPORTÉ D'UNE ANNÉEEn raison de la pandémie de COVID-19, le Conseil de l'International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), a décidé de reporter son dixième congrès (ICASS X) en juin 2021. Le congrès devait avoir lieu en juin 2020 en Russie. D'autres informations sont disponibles sur le site internet de l'association.


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Starts: May 31 @ 9:30am
Ends: May 31 @ 5:00pm
Address: The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens
Film and the Psycho-Cultural: Object, Relatedness, Process
Book tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-film-and-the-psycho-cultural-object-relatedness-process-tickets-11069734875?aff=eorg
This symposium sets out to explore the ways in which film and film-work play an important part in creating new spaces for engagement with emotional experience. Cinema has long been held up as a form of 'dream-screen' environment, allowing for the playing out of fantasy in relation to desire and forms of identity. However, film also sometimes serves as an object of the mind, an object to be used or taken in, in order better to navigate the complex terrain of feeling that cinema can evoke for us. In this way, films allow us to question patterns of relatedness in the world and to reflect on the importance of thinking about process as a way of understanding the realities of emotional life.
As with other projects in the Media and the Inner World network, this event is informed by object relations psychoanalysis and invites psychoanalysts and psychotherapists into dialogue with academics and media creatives.
SESSION 1: Perspectives from Film/Video Practice
Catherine Grant
Losing/finding/creating the (child) star: on online mourning and videographic objects
Michael Chanan
Video: Psychoanalysis under Dictatorship (Michael Chanan, 2013, 15mns)
SESSION 2 – Perspectives from Academic Criticism
Candida Yates
Masculinity and the objects of jealousy and flirtation in narrative cinema
Caroline Bainbridge
Lars von Trier's Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter
SESSION 3: Perspectives from the Clinic
Andrew Asibong
The Curse of the Cat People and the possibility of spectral therapeutic alliance
Smita Rajput Kemble
My Name is Khan: Alpha function after 9/11
This event is jointly organised by the Freud Museum and MiW and generously supported by the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures (CRFAC) at the University of Roehampton and the Psychosocial Studies Research Group at the University of East London.
The event will be followed by a book series launch and wine reception at the Freud Museum to which all delegates are welcome. This is to mark the launch of the 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture' book series, published by Karnac Books and edited by Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates.
Losing/finding/creating the (child) star: on online mourning and videographic objects
In much of the last decade, Catherine Grant has been exploring the production and circulation of user-generated media forms, like blogs and online video, through personal and professional practice in the contexts of film research and scholarship, and digital cinephile culture. One of the kinds of content that she, along with many others, has been drawn to producing are short tribute videos to film stars who have (just) died. In this talk, Grant will show and discuss some of these videos (including ones on Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Temple) and reflect on them in the context of object relations theories.
Psychoanalysis under Dictatorship (Video)
Drawn from Interrupted Memory, a documentary about memory and politics in Argentina and Chile, this short video raises questions about theoretical and clinical challenges facing psychoanalysis in the face of dictatorship, repression and trauma. Contributions come from an Argentine psychoanalyst forced into exile in 1976 and other survivors of the repression, and a young Chilean psychologist investigating the problems of psychoanalysis under the military. For details, see www.mchanan.com/interrupted-memory
Masculinity and the objects of jealousy and flirtation in narrative cinema
Candida Yates
The notion that Western masculinities are in crisis and undergoing some kind of cultural shift is a familiar one in film and psychosocial studies. The binary oppositions that once sustained the certainties of gender and sexual difference have been tested, and the old cinematic narratives of masculinity and what it means to be a man are no longer convincing. This has a number of implications for representations of masculinity in Western popular culture and cinema, where the prevalence of images of male suffering and emotional crisis are arguably part of a broader cultural 'undoing' of masculinity. In cinema, these shifts have implications for psycho-cultural processes of spectatorship and reception, as they challenge the mastery of the male gaze and undercut the certainties of masculinity in new ways. Using examples from Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011) and Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013), this paper develops the argument by discussing representations of masculinity and new intimacies in contemporary narrative cinema. In particular, it examines the shifting relationships between cinematic images of masculine jealousy and possession, where a jealous desire for certainty often dominate, and those which can be characterised as 'flirtatious' in style and content. The paper reflects on what these changing relationships to this might mean for new cultural formations of masculinity today.
Lars von Trier's Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter
Caroline Bainbridge
This talk takes up the ways in which filmmaker, Lars von Trier, has publically discussed his personal experience of depression and anxiety during the course of his career, suggesting that these experiences of mental ill health have influenced his cinematic work. In publicity generated by some of his most recent films, Antichrist (Denmark, 2009) and Melancholia (Denmark, 2011), much has been made of von Trier's claim that his engagement with film-making on these projects functioned as a form of therapy for him, providing spaces of reflection in which to work through emotional states with a view to staging a personal recovery. In each of these films, themes of mental illness, emotion and interpersonal relationships also dominate the narrative. Bainbridge explores this phase of von Trier's work and draws on the psychoanalytic ideas of Klein, Wilfred Bion and Winnicott to discuss the ways in which cinema provides spaces for such emotional work, not only for the filmmaker himself but also for the audience in the auditorium. By considering the claims made by von Trier alongside the thematic content of his work and the broader cultural reception of the films themselves, this chapter considers the role of cinema as an object of the internal mind and explores the extent to which we might argue that film works as therapy.
The Curse of the Cat People and the possibility of spectral therapeutic alliance
Andrew Asibong
One of the strangest film sequels ever made, Val Lewton's largely forgotten The Curse of the Cat People (1944) embeds a sophisticated set of psychodynamic procedures within its uncannily moving narrative. The story of a precociously intelligent and vaguely traumatized girl, Amy, whose friendship with the ghost of her father's stigmatized first wife, Irena, enables her to feel 'seen' for the first time — but at the cost of even greater alienation from her hyper-normative parents — the film is a radical cinematic examination of a dynamic captured by Ferenczi in his 'dream of the wise baby'. Amy's heightened perception of transpersonal phenomena and her unquenchable thirst for intense relationality emerge as symptoms of her unconscious awareness of the 'crypt' (cf. Abraham and Torok) she has introjected via her blank and disavowing parents. Lewton's film creates striking emotional spaces of connection, revelation and catharsis in which not only are Amy's various (un)dead internal objects released, but in which the spectator can experience his/her own remarkable working-through of unmourned loss and unprocessed affect. In this paper, I shall draw on Ferenczi's clinical diary in combination with an analysis of my own aesthetic and emotional responses to film and psychotherapy to show how The Curse of the Cat People functions as a ghostly playmate, mimetic of the figure of Irena herself, reaching out to the spectator's most deeply repressed need to be seen and believed, creating images and feelings of lasting alliance, relatedness and a sense of containment.
My Name is Khan: Alpha function after 9/11
Smita Rajput Kemble
My Name is Khan… and I am not a terrorist is an Indian mainstream film which tells the story of a young Muslim suffering from Asperger's Syndrome in the aftermath of 9/11 2001 in the US. When the social prejudice against Muslims affects his life in an incident with the neighbours, his Hindu wife tells him in a fit of sarcasm to go and tell the American President that 'though he is Muslim, he is not a terrorist'. Since he cannot understand sarcasm and because he takes things literally, he embarks on a journey to do just that-tell the American President that though his name is 'Khan', he is not a terrorist. The film's superstar Shah Rukh Khan, himself a Muslim married to a Hindu, explains in an interview : "It is not about a disabled man's fight against disability. It's a disabled man's fight against the disability that exists in the world-terrorism, hatred and fighting" (The Telegraph, Calcutta, Feb 13, 2010). The film brings out the autistic behaviour that society resorts to in order to escape, split off and evacuate threatening, unknown and unbearable bad feelings into the other. The film is not without its faults – the script is naive in parts, melodramatic according to western standards, and geographically and politically incorrect at times, as flagged up by American reviewers. However, its box office success proves that the film reached millions of mainstream cinegoers and helped us metabolise some of the toxic beta elements projected into yet another discriminated section of society.
Andrew Asibong is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, where is also co-director of the research centre Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC). His research is concerned with uncanny or fantastical aesthetics and the reconfiguration of subjectivity, kinship and community. He writes about these issues in relation to psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the moving image and contemporary French literature (especially the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye, about whom his book Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition was published in 2013 by Liverpool University Press). His most recent books and articles focus on blankness, dissociation and living death and the ways in which these emotional experiences are filtered through the matrices of class, 'race' and stigma and mediated or transfigured through film and fiction.
Caroline Bainbridge is Reader in Visual Culture at the University of Roehampton and a Director of the Media and the Inner World research network, which is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is Editor of the journal, Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics and author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and artifice (Wallflower Press, 2007) and A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, women and film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). She also co-edited Culture and the Unconscious (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-cultural perspectives (Karnac, 2013) and, most recently, Media and the Inner World: Psycho-cultural approaches to emotion, media and popular culture (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2014). Caroline has written widely on psychoanalysis, gender, film, television and popular culture. With Candida Yates, she is a series editor of the "Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture" book list published by Karnac Books.
Michael Chanan is a seasoned documentarist, writer and Professor of Film & Video at the University of Roehampton. He has written extensively on film and video in Latin America, and filmed in most of the countries in the continent at intervals since the early 1980s. In 2011 he was the New Statesman's first video blogger, but most of his films over the last dozen years have been academically funded. See www.mchanan.net and his blog, Putney Debater (www.putneydebater.com)
Catherine Grant is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Author and editor of numerous film studies videos, as well as of written studies of intertextuality, film authorship, adaptation theories and world cinema, she runs the Film Studies For Free, Filmanalytical and Audiovisualcy websites and, in 2012, guest edited the inaugural issue of online cinema journal Frames on digital forms of film studies. She is the founding editor of the REFRAME digital publishing platform. Her article 'Déjà-Viewing? Videographic Experiments in Intertextual Film Studies', appeared in Mediascape, 2013, and she recently published 'The shudder of a cinephiliac idea? Videographic film studies practice as material thinking' in the inaugural issue of ANIKI, 2014.
Smita Rajput Kamble studied English Literature and worked as a journalist and copywriter in India. During her travels in the Far East, she taught English in an Indonesian international school and worked as a sitcom writer in Singapore Television. Her interest in the psyche and unconscious processes led to a psychodynamic counselling training after she immigrated to the UK. The course led to a psychoanalytic training in London. She lives and works in the UK and is interested in understanding Indian culture (including the Anglo Indian and British Asian), cinema and art as well as the Indian socio political landscape through a psychoanalytical lens.
Dr. Candida Yates is a Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is the Co-Director of the AHRC Research Network: Media and the Inner World (www.miwnet.org). She has published widely on the psycho-cultural relationships between cinema, emotion and popular culture and also teaches in that field. She is the Co-Editor of the journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics; a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; and Joint-Editor of the Karnac Book Series: Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture. Her publications include: Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), Culture and The Unconscious (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives, (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and Psychoanalysis and Television (co-edited, Karnac Books, 2013) and Media and The Inner World; Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, forthcoming). She is currently completing a monograph Emotion, Identity and Political Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
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So I'm playin' a little catch up...Here's a couple pics of the kiddos.
~Kaylea after her last ART class before Christmas. In her picture she is showing us her drawing of presents with bows. She had SO much fun doing this class & always loves a good coloring book page too!
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|Northern Soldier
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The Romney/Ryan campaign continues to implode as GOP Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan received loud and continuous boos for suggesting repeal of Obamacare at a senior citizens' event on Friday.
Paul Ryan, speaking at an AARP event in New Orleans, started attracting choruses of boos when he turned the subject to Medicare and Obamacare:
Ryan: The first step to a stronger Medicare is to repeal Obamacare…
Audience: Major boos
Ryan: …because it represents the worst of both worlds. I had a feeling there'd be a mixed reaction, so let's get into it. It weakens Medicare for today's seniors and puts it at risk for the next generation.
Audience: More Boos
Ryan: First, it funnels $716 billion dollars out of Medicare to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for.
Audience: Loud Boos
Ryan's being duplicitous: the $716 billion figure is not cut from seniors' benefits; it results from a reduced rate of growth in the payment rates made to health care providers. Ironically, the Romney/Ryan plan WOULD directly cut seniors' health benefits, by giving them a fixed amount to seek out their own private insurance. Currently, private health insurance plans have 25% higher health care costs than the rate Medicare pays to physicians. So, as insurance costs continue to mushroom, seniors would be left struggling to make up the difference in cost between the government voucher and actual health care costs as they age.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report today that said Obamacare (aka The Affordable Care Act) will save each Medicare recipient $5,000-$18,000 over a 12-year period.
The encounter continues:
Ryan: The law turned Medicare into a piggy bank for Obamacare.
Audience: Boos
Reducing fraud, waste, and slowing the rise in rates paid to physicians is hardly stealing from a piggybank. However, Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal WOULD cut Medicaid by one-third by 2022, according to economists at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Essentially, Ryan is sticking his hand in the piggybank that funds healthcare for needy children, disabled people, and the very poor to fund more tax cuts for the rich.In fact, Ryan's overall budget would cut taxes considerably for the rich, while raising taxes slightly on the poor.
And, finally:
Ryan: You see, Medicare's going bankrupt. Everyone understands this.
Audience: Boos. Someone shouts: You're wrong!
"Going bankrupt" means Medicare would be spending more than it's taking in, it doesn't mean that the program would be defunct. In addition, only Medicare Part A (hospital visits, nursing care) would have a shortfall in about twelve years; the fund for doctors' visits is separate. And, most importantly, Medicare Part A "going bankrupt" is a perennial problem, and not something Obama did. From the Washington Post fact-checker: The Part A fund has from its inception been on the brink of going "broke." A report by the Congressional Research Service shows that in 1970 experts predicted that Medicare would be "broke" in 1972.
All that we need to "fix" Medicare is for the the wealthy to pay a little more. Rolling back the Bush tax cuts for incomes over $250,000 would help solve the future Medicare shortfall and reduce the deficit. The New York Times reports that if the Bush tax cuts "expired as scheduled at the end of 2012, future deficits would be cut by about half, to sustainable levels."
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Countless questions regarding the role of musicians and artists in the Palestinian struggle have arisen over the past few decades, with much of the public sentiment understandably pointing towards them carrying, to some extent, a responsibility to uphold the cause.
However, this stereotype has been shattered by the influential and controversial musician Jowan Safadi. While a statement like this might imply that Jowan is willingly abstaining from taking a political stance with his work, this actually couldn't be further from the truth.
"I am a human being before I am a Palestinian," replied Jowan into the microphone when, during a gig at Cairo Jazz Club some five years ago, a girl angrily shouted: "Excuse me, but what is the message from Palestine?" Jowan instead prefers to share views that only stem from his personal experience, without instating himself as a moral or political authority of any sort. With his career starting out around 2000 in Israel's Beersheba, Safadi sought only to play music, without planning out whom to target his music towards.
In fact Safadi's first musical undertaking - his band Lenses - is often regarded as the first and only Arab-Jewish group to come out of the Middle East, and yet even that achievement was never intentional or meant as a sort of curated statement - the band just simply fell into place. Needless to say, Lenses found itself hitting their career ceiling fairly quickly, thanks to a lack of acceptance amongst the Israeli mainstream, owing to the band being led by an Arab, and similar intolerance in Palestine owing to the band having Jewish members.
Following the Second Intifada, Jowan could no longer afford political neutrality, and after Lenses disbanded in 2007, he went on to release his most controversial piece of work yet, Namrud. Released in 2011, the eight-track solo album featured songs like 'Poor Infidels', making Jowan the centre of attention in Palestine and the Arab world and eventually leading to his brief detention in Jordan on charges of blasphemy in between performances.
One would expect that he might slow down after facing hindrances of this calibre, but Jowan took things a step further when he released his provocative single, 'In the Arms of the Occupation" alongside his band, Fish Samak. Jowan was also the subject of a film by Spanish/Austrian director Fernando Romero, also called Namrud, which explored the father-son relationship between Safadi and his son Don and their heated battles relating to identity, belonging, status quo and freedom.
On March 22nd of this year, the Haifa-based musician dropped his second solo LP Stay Away From the Mid-Evil East and Sing For It, a name stemming from a twist on an old Arabic saying. The album featured the much anticipated release of 'The Police Song', a track that has been gaining huge traction since it was featured in the Namrud film and during live performances.
'The Police Song' carries a similar message to 'In the Arms of the Occupation', with Safadi exclaiming the fact neither the police, nor judges, nor presidents, are in no position to help their own citizens, but in fact enable and facilitate corruption. The organ clad production suits the song perfectly, with its heavy percussion and dreamy soundscape giving the song an escapist feel.
On the second and third tracks - 'All Conspired Against Us' and 'Father' - Jowan heads into grungier territory akin to his previous releases, while showing a tendency to utilise more electronic sounds. On 'Situation Uneven', meanwhile, Safadi rolls back his Western influences for a stripped down folklore-inspired song. And while it's quite upbeat, the lyrics explore the mass Arab sentiment of inequality, safety, freedom and bottled anger.
The next song on the album, 'I Wanted To Be', raises the age old idea of living free of labels and allegiances that only lead to conflict. Safadi delivers the song's moving lyrics with incredible emotion, hovering over the track's hauntingly minimal and spaced-out production for unrivaled melancholy.
Jowan then carries on in the same melancholic vein lyrically, but chooses to take the uplifting route musically. 'Tired' is as song that seems to be more of an attempt to vent than a story or a statement, and it's a staggeringly relaxing tune that does a little more than provide food for thought.
Overall this album is no coming of age story or journey. It's the culmination of years of experiences, influences and personal storytelling that come together in one complete piece of work that is a perfect reflection of Jowan as an artist, a Palestinian and ultimately as a human being.


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Teaching world history in a single year provides me with some exceptional challenges. We cover so much content in such a short time that I really have to remain on track and make tough decisions about what we can and can't cover. If you are teaching your own kids, I strongly recommend a four-year cycle for world history, as that will give you time to explore topics in much more depth.
Since I don't have that luxury, I aim to create rich, meaningful experiences my students will remember. Skimming across the surface of these events in a textbook just doesn't work, so we use lots of hands-on activities and project-based learning.
To keep track of all the content we are zinging through, the students construct a timeline and maintain it throughout the year, adding new people and events every couple of weeks. You can have kids do this online through a variety of formats, but I find it sinks in a little better when they have a physical project they can work with. Because this is a year-long project, each time they get it out to add new events, they look back at previous sections as well, which aids in long-term retention of the material.
To construct our timelines, we start by making a small paper box for a container. Then we make the timeline itself by taping together strips of paper. We have found that if we split a regular piece of construction paper into four strips along the short side (or "hamburger style" as the kids call it), we can fold each strip into thirds, and they fit perfectly into our box. We plan our timeline so that each square represents one century (three centuries per paper strip), and we make enough to go from 4000 BC to 2000 AD. Note that since each square contains a century, our last square begins at 2000 AD but includes all the years up to 2099, so the kids can put events from their own lifetime there as well.
We also color-code our timelines by era, as you can see below. Six thousand years of history stretches out pretty impressively across the room, but it all folds neatly into the box.
As students add events to their timelines, I give them autonomy in what they choose to include. They recall material from the class much more easily if they have to first decide what people and events are important, rather than copying a prescribed list. I require only that they include some information from every chapter that we cover, and that they integrate both text and images into their timelines. Some students may write about how the Sumerians developed the first system of levees and dams to control flooding. Others may choose to draw Gilgamesh slaying Humbaba. It's really up to them, and personality comes into play in a big way here. As long as each kid is taking away something they found interesting or important, we haven't wasted our time.
What creative ways have you documented student learning? If you document mainly for your own record-keeping, how can you adjust your system to also help your students with retention?


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The Events of November 18, 1973
Paragraphs 110 thru 111. - An Examination in Detail [Part 17] - Consideration of the evidence of Belmar & Andrews
110. Merely for convenience reference might here be made to the entry in the Central police station diary on November 19, 1973. The entry is as follows:
Corporal Simon gave evidence that he was the diarist on November 19, 1973. He assumed duty at 4:00 p.m. (1600) and handed over his diary duty at 1:35 a.m. on November 20, 1973, to Cpl. 74 Wildman. That entry was shown to Belmar. He said he won't doubt that he telephoned the station but asserted that he "don't believe that entry at all." His explanation was that a mistake could have been made and that he did not give those instructions. The fact, however, is that the three men were taken to the Central Station on the specific instructions of Belmar and even when an appeal for help was made by one of the men to the Commissioner of Police he was told that the matter was being handled by Belmar who would be coming over later that night to the Central Station.
111. Another example. Under cross-examination, he was asked whether he was aware that there was a meeting scheduled to be held on Sunday afternoon, November 18 at 3 p.m. (15:00) in the DeLuxe Cinema owned by Ramdhanny. Belmar vehemently denied that he ever knew of such a meeting. It was suggested that he had information from about Friday, November 16 that members of the New Jewel Movement had been invited to Grenville on that Sunday to address some businessmen there.
Later in his cross-examination it was pointed out that the Grenville Station diary recorded on Sunday, November 18, 1973, at 11:10 a.m. that Inspector Andrews had advised the Commissioner that the merchants and shopkeepers of Grenville were holding a meeting at the DeLuxe Cinema at 3 p.m. (15:00) and that the Commissioner had advised that the Grenville police should be around to see who attended the meeting. It was also pointed out to Belmar that the station diary recorded on Saturday, November 17, 1973, the Commissioner of Police had directed that with respect to Grenville "there will be no pass or off duty from today." Belmar only then admitted that the reason why the passes and leave were withheld was that the meeting of the merchants had been known about on Saturday, November 17, 1973. If this is true, as is evidently the case, the recruitment by Belmar of police aides, including Waldron, on Saturday November 17, becomes logical, as also does his evidence that about 100 police aides were on stand by duty at the Grenville station from the early hours of Sunday, November 18.


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Hottie Sunny Leone who has been away in Pondicherry, filming the reality show, Splitsvilla, is all set to kick off her next movie Tera Intezaar. The movie will also make the directorial debut of Rajeev Walia and Sunny will be seen romancing Arbaaz Khan. The source added,"Arbaaz had already been locked for the film. When Sunny heard the first narration, she signed on the dotted line immediately. This is the first time she will be seen in a film of this genre."
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Defending Government
I recently heard a commentary about the struggle between Republicans and Democrats on Vermont Public Radio that seemed counter intuitive, if not totally mistaken. In "Battle of the Titans", Bill Schubart argues that the battle in Washington: is not over … Continue reading
The Safety Net and New Hampshire Tradition
Mike Fernald in an article published in Blue Hampshire gives us a historical account of the safety net that is threatened by NH House and Senate Republican-Libertarians. If you follow New Hampshire politics you will recall the strong reaction to … Continue reading
Supply Side Economics — Is the Experiment Over?
David Kay Johnston wonders why the experiment isn't over: (complete article is here). You would think that whether this grand experiment worked would be settled after three decades. You would think the practitioners of the dismal science of economics would … Continue reading
Being Wrong — Overcoming Mistakes Ain't Easy (part 2)
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Discover the hidden treasures set in the maze of laneways that weave around the Macedon Ranges. Hesket Estate will be showcasing new release wines and will have their usual abundant menu on offer.
This year "Lilly Loves George" is travelling to Hesket Estate. Come and enjoy their signature calamari as well as our traditional duck and rabbit pie, Hesket Spring Lamb; all whilst listening to toe tapping jazz. Finish the day with Raphael's coffee and a homemade dessert.
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I've learned a lot through my many years of life about hundreds of things. But, in the interest of simplicity for this blog, I have narrowed my life list down significantly, so I could share with you what I call my…
5 NEVER categories of life.
- Never screw up a person's name.
- Never assume anything.
- Never be judgmental.
- Never forget who helped you in tough times.
- Never quit your dreams.
As you can see, my all-time number one "never" is about a seldom thought of category…your name. Names fly by us all day. Some people catch them on the fly…others let them fly by…still others seem to never get a name right. These folks I call "Name Droppers". They can't remember your name, because they don't want to remember you. I guess you were not memorable enough for them. But, for a small group of talented and lucky individuals…somehow, upon meeting a person, they lock that name into their memory bank and never let it escape. I call them "Name Soppers". They sop up your name like it's gravy on a plate and deposit it in their special place…for later perfect recall. I envy these folks. So organized, so disciplined.
I must tell you I used to be a Name Dropper. I would drop all names less than 5 seconds after I heard them. Why? I don't know. It's a brain spasm that spits out the info as an error and never can retrieve it no matter how hard I tried.
Perhaps the reason so many do this is because we are much more self- centered than we used to be. We like to take selfie pictures of our favorite person…ourselves. We like to post on Facebook about…you guessed it…ourselves. We post pictures on Instagram with new views of our favorite topic…us.
But, a name, I discovered, is the single most important thing to an individual. It is who they are. If you want to make a friend or new acquaintance you just met, smile, and just shout out their name. But please shout it out correctly. Don't mumble over it, without asking for the proper way to say it. Learn it and say it with pride. Nothing will bring on a bigger wider grin than someone hearing their name called out. Try it! See if it doesn't work for you. It's a great way to start a new friendship.
Why am I so hooked on the proper use and saying of names?
Here's the answer. I learned the hard way.
Years ago I had a daily radio show in Orlando on WDBO Radio. I interviewed hundreds of celebrities and wannabe celebrities from all over the world, live, on tape, and many times in person. They were hawking a book, or TV show, or local appearance. Most of the interviews went well. I would read the person's bio and press release and thought I was ready. I assumed I could pronounce everybody's name. After all I was a big Radio Star…in my mind.
Well, one day I learned a name lesson for life that has stuck with me to this day. This memorable mistake taught me the importance of taking the time to know and correctly pronounce each person's name that I met.
An upcoming on-air radio guest of mine was a person who had been a regular on one of the most popular TV shows and series of movies of all time…Star Trek. As always, I prepared for the interview in my usual way – a quick and cursory look at his bio, press release, and book title. I never read the books – ever…no time.
This interview would be taped the day before it aired. The scheduled day of the taping I finished my on-air show an hour before the scheduled interview at 1PM. About 12:30, I headed into the production studio to get ready for my appointment. The gentleman was in California and it was not unusual to work with other time zones for these interviews.
When he called, we briefly exchanged pleasantries and then the tape rolled. I casually intoned, "We have a very special guest today that I know all of you will be very familiar with. He starred on TV and in subsequent movies as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the mega hit show Star Trek. Let's all say hello to actor James Doohan". Here is where I made my first and deadly mistake. Unbeknownst to me, I had badly mispronounced his name. Mr. Doohan(not pronounced DOO-HAN) as I had said, immediately called me out for my error. "My name is DOO-IN", he quickly yelled.
I could sense his angst and irritation at…for the umpteenth time, having his name slaughtered by some local yokel. I apologized, but the damage was done. My chance to have a grand, fun conversation with "Scotty" from Star Trek was going down in flames.
I hardly remember what we discussed. I was so embarrassed to have forgotten one of the cardinal rules in any communication. Never…Never screw up a person's name.
Their name, whatever it is, and whoever they are, is their birthright. It is who they are, where they came from and represents their life journey.
I had learned another life lesson the hard way, and now had a new number one for my "Never" list.
Shakespeare once wrote in his play Romeo and Juliet, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
James DO-IN (Doohan) would not agree.


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Concept Smoke Screen
We have been working with Concept Smoke Screen for well over a decade now. Selling innovative security systems requires dynamic marketing and design.
Together we have created a formidable brand that has stayed strides ahead of the competition in the challenging world of B2B security marketing.
We've helped them refine their brand over this time. More recently we've gone right back to basics. A few days of Golden Circle marketing discussion and reflection in the Lake District and we had the building blocks of a new company philosophy. It was vital to get to the very root of what drives Smoke Screen, why they do what they do.
'We believe that a feeling of safety and security is a basic human right.'
From there we were able to create a new Tone of Voice for the company and feel that their message is now much more cohesive. In turn the ToV guidelines helped craft new copy for them, copy which has been used to apply for (and win!) industry awards.
Over the years we have been their one-stop-shop providing web design and development, branding and tone of voice, graphic design, photography and videography, online marketing, SEO and PPC management.
We have developed their ongoing website iterations, always employing the latest techniques and software. The growth of their global distributor network prompted us to conceive a corporate website clone system. This allows efficient creation of foreign language versions for overseas partners, further protecting and strengthening the brand. And a simple spreadsheet-fed database template cuts down vastly on implementation time and cost.
It's always great working with forward-looking companies who don't
shy away from pushing every boundary. Concept Smoke Screen are instantly
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the stand has comprised performance cars, (Very, Very Short Heist) movie stars,
the ultimate retail smoke machine (The Mirage) and even
three-dimensional holograms.
It's not just the company that constantly evolves, they innovate with their generators have too. Product design is an exciting and collaborative affair. Smoke Screen's technical expertise and our spatial creativity has helped bring some truly amazing fog machines to bear - the idea for The Mirage seemed crazy at first, but the resultant prototype generated a lot of interest. A few years later we worked on conceptual layouts for a new generator which formed the basis of the current Sentinel range. To see your design work brought to life in physical print is one thing, to see it as a functioning device quite another.
New products must be marketed, and that's where our video and photo services come in - standard stills and activation footage are a staple, we've also shot funny shorts and abstract animations for the more notional offerings.
Our flexible, bespoke retainer system enables us to plan major events, carry out ongoing work and still have provision for reactive unplanned work. It's important to have this flexibility when you consider that Smoke Screen and their distributors attend the world's biggest security exhibitions. These shows are the meeting ground for building relations and acquiring new clients. Take Concept Smoke Screen Brazil for example. They were attending Expo Seguridad aware that one of Brazil's national banks had been showing a great deal of interest in security fog as a solution to violent ATM attacks. They wanted to generate significant buzz and within six weeks we had gone from beer mat sketches to a full-blown Portuguese yearbook and an unforgettable stand design.
It's been a long and fruitful journey and long may it continue. We've essentially grown up together and it's been amazing to see their position cemented as market leader and watch their reach extend globally.
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Substitute Teacher Professional Development
In accordance with the State of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) and in order to continue to maintain compliance with CTC Regulations, Sutter County Superintendent of Schools will be announcing the 2019-20 schedule of courses for the issuance of the Teaching Permit for Statutory Leave for substitute teachers.
The TPSL program consists of eight courses offered at the Foundational, Intermediate and Proficient Level. Each level meets the 45-hour requirement set forth by CTC. In addition, completion of all levels of classes (135 hours) satisfies the pre-course requirements for eligibility for enrollment in a teacher intern program.
The preparation requirements for the first three issuances of the TPSL permit include 45 hours of focused preparation to prepare the permit holder for service as the interim teacher of record beyond 20 or 30 days.
This preparation must be completed in 45 hour increments prior to the LEA's submission of an application.
For more information please contact Jami (Rollins) Paul, Credential Analyst at (530) 822-2904 or firstname.lastname@example.com.