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I checked carefully and found that the story was a parody courtesy of The Onion News.
The distinction here between reality and parody is, alas, a subtle one. What scant media attention The President's visit to Israel has received and the critical response to the speeches he gave there have been polite at best, largely dismissive on the whole. For all that got made of Obama's failure to visit Israel in the course of his first term back during the election campaign, now his going there and what he had to say there seem to have barely registered with the American public — from pundits its mostly the droll sighs of those who would bother.
Andrew O'Hehir writing for salon.com examines The President's speech, credits Obama as being "on the top of his game rhetorically," all the while seeming to give Mitt Romney the edge for having the more realistic take on Israel and Palestine: "we kick the ball down the field and hope that, ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it."
O'Hehir suspects that Obama might secretly agree. President Obama did not arrive in Jerusalem with anything new, so goes the criticism, nothing to offer either party to the non-existent peace process.
But there may be something to what he was saying all along. If there is circumspection about the present possibility, that doesn't make the plain truth about the future any less —well, true. I remember it was Gershom Gorenberg, writing for slate.com early on in the Obama administration, who argued that it was The President's vision of a two state solution that could offer Israel and Zionism ultimate success.
Speaking to a group of Israeli students this past week, The President said it plainly once again:
"You can be the generation that permanently secures the Zionist dream, or you can face a growing challenge to its future. Given the demographics west of the Jordan River, the only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state is through the realization of an independent and viable Palestine… Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer. Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land."
The audience on hand for The President's speech did not take his remarks as an affront, as maybe a few politicians on the Right managed to. Dahlia Lithwick, writing for slate.com describes the scene thus:
In the most powerful moments of his speech Obama asked Israelis to put themselves in the shoes of the Palestinians who live under Israeli control. When he said "neither occupation nor expulsion" is the answer, the crowd applauded. He went off script to remind those listening that if any Israeli parent were to sit down with the Palestinian students he had met with recently, they would have the same reaction he did: "I want these kids to succeed. I want these kids to have the same opportunities as my kids."
The applause was thunderous…
I asked the students around me what they thought of the speech. Most were moved and inspired by the eloquence. Even more so, they were grateful that the President had made the effort to see their neighborhood through their eyes. Obama was asking them to make that same cognitive connection with their neighbors. He was modeling how it's done. Maybe that isn't enough. But as he made clear, without it, there can be no start.
Maybe this speaking to the Israeli youth is a way of "kicking the ball down field" —but maybe this is also a start —and with some amount of hope involved as well, I think it's worth noticing.


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- Hired test takers went to testing centers, showed fake licenses, passed exams
- Scheme lasted for 15 years in three Southern states
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — It was a brazen and surprisingly long-lived scheme, authorities said, to help aspiring public school teachers cheat on the tests they must pass to prove they are qualified to lead their classrooms.
For 15 years, teachers in three Southern states paid Clarence Mumford Sr. — himself a longtime educator — to send someone else to take the tests in their place, authorities said. Each time, Mumford received a fee of between $1,500 and $3,000 to send one of his test ringers with fake identification to the Praxis exam. In return, his customers got a passing grade and began their careers as cheaters, according to federal prosecutors in Memphis.
Authorities say the scheme affected hundreds — if not thousands — of public school students who ended up being taught by unqualified instructors.
Mumford faces more than 60 fraud and conspiracy charges that claim he created fake driver's licenses with the information of a teacher or an aspiring teacher and attached the photograph of a test-taker. Prospective teachers are accused of giving Mumford their Social Security numbers for him to make the fake identities.
The hired-test takers went to testing centers, showed the proctor the fake license, and passed the certification exam, prosecutors say. Then, the aspiring teacher used the test score to secure a job with a public school district, the indictment alleges. Fourteen people have been charged with mail and Social Security fraud, and four people have pleaded guilty to charges associated with the scheme.
Mumford "obtained tens of thousands of dollars" during the alleged conspiracy, which prosecutors say lasted from 1995 to 2010 in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Among those charged is former University of Tennessee and NFL wide receiver Cedrick Wilson, who is accused of employing a test-taker for a Praxis physical education exam. He was charged in late October with four counts of Social Security and mail fraud. He has pleaded not guilty and is out of jail on a $10,000 bond. He has been suspended by the Memphis City Schools system.
If convicted, Mumford could face between two and 20 years in prison on each count. The teachers face between two and 20 years in prison on each count if convicted.
Lawyers for Mumford and Wilson did not return calls for comment.
Prosecutors and standardized test experts say students were hurt the most by the scheme because they were being taught by unqualified teachers. It also sheds some light on the nature of cheating and the lengths people go to in order to get ahead.
"As technology keeps advancing, there are more and more ways to cheat on tests of this kind," said Neal Kingston, director of the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation at the University of Kansas. "There's a never-ending war between those who try to maintain standards and those who are looking out for their own interests."
Cheating on standardized tests is not new, and it can be as simple as looking at the other person's test sheet. The Internet and cell phones have made it easier for students to cheat in a variety of ways. In the past few years, investigations into cheating on standardized tests for K-12 students have surfaced in Atlanta, New York and El Paso, Texas.
Still, most of the recent test-taking scandals involved students taking tests, not people taking teacher certification exams. Cheating scams involving teacher certification tests are more unusual, said Robert Schaeffer, public education director for the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.
Schaeffer notes that a large-scale scandal involving teacher certification tests was discovered in 2000, also in the South. In that case, 52 teachers were charged with paying up to $1,000 apiece to a former Educational Testing Services proctor to ensure a passing grade on teacher certification tests.
Teachers from Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi took tests through Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., in 1998. The college was not accused of wrongdoing.
Educational Testing Services also writes and administers the Praxis examinations involved in the Memphis case. ETS spokesman Tom Ewing said the company discovered the cheating in June 2009, conducted an investigation and canceled scores. The company began meeting with authorities to turn over the information in late 2009, Ewing said.
"These cases are rare, but we consider them to be very serious and something we have to guard against happening for all the honest test-takers, students and teachers," Ewing said.
Ewing said ETS observes test-takers and reviews test scores to try to root out cheaters. ETS also has received anonymous tips that have led them to cheaters, Ewing said.
Prosecutors in the Mumford case say he, the teachers and test-takers used the Internet and the U.S. Postal Service to register and pay for the tests, and to receive payment. The indictment does not say how much he allegedly paid the test-takers.
An experienced educator, Mumford was working for Memphis City Schools when the alleged scam took place. Authorities say Mumford defrauded the three states by making the fake driver's licenses.
"What happens at many testing centers is that a whole bunch of test-takers show up simultaneously, early on a Saturday morning, and the proctors give only a cursory look to the identification," Schaeffer said. "It's not like going through airport security where a guy holds up a magnifying glass and puts our license under ultraviolet light to make sure it has not been tampered with."
Mumford was fired after news of the investigation came out, and others, like Wilson, have been suspended. But at least three teachers implicated in the scandal remain employed with their school district.
Kingston, the university professor, said prospective teachers may not be confident in their knowledge base to pass the test. Or, the cheaters may believe they are smart enough to pass on their own but also know they are poor test takers.
Kingston said his research has shown that cheating on exams is getting more prevalent.
"The propensity to cheat on exams both through college and for licensure and certification exams seems to be increasing over time," said Kingston. "People often don't see it as something wrong."
The pressure of passing the test could make people do things they normally would not do. And it could take a while for authorities and test-taking services to catch up with the cheaters.
"When people come up with a new method for cheating, it takes some time for folks to figure it out, partly because this has been an understudied area in the field of assessment," Kingston said.
Nina Monfredo, a 23-year-old history teacher at Power Center Academy in Memphis, has taken Praxis exams for history, geography, middle school content, and secondary teaching and learning.
Monfredo, who passed all her tests and is not involved in the fraud case, said the exams she took were relatively easy for someone who has a high school education. She said some people use study aids to prepare, but she didn't. And she didn't feel much pressure because it was her understanding that she could take the test again if she did not pass.
"If you feel like you can't pass and you hire someone it means you really didn't know what you were doing," she said. "I think it would be easier to just learn what's on the test."


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The tour continues through the back lot, where western desert canyons exist side by side with New York City brownstones. The tour's highlight is Catastrophe Canyon, an elaborate special-effects movie set where a thunderstorm, earthquake, oil-field fire, and flash flood are simulated.
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I was extremely disappointed to discover how much the Studio Backlot Tour at Disney Hollywood Studios has been shortened. The tram ride is hardly worth the time, as most of the Backlot is now gone. Catastrophe Canyon is tired and in need of refurbishment. The years of fires have caused significant black scarring on the attraction, which detracts from the realism of the effects. And the special-effects/behind-the-scenes walking tour, which I thought was a great experience when I was a young teen, is also no more.
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Because the Studio Backlot Tour is one of Disney's most efficient attractions, you will rarely wait more than 15 minutes (usually less than 10). Take the tour at your convenience, but preferably before 5 p.m., when the various workshops shut down for the day.
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That website's General Cemeteries Page has listings for websites that have collections of cemetery burials for more than one state, including the Tombstone Transcription Project, Find-A-Grave and others.
Military Cemeteries
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Nationwide Gravesite Locator is a database of burials in national military cemeteries throughout the United States.
The Online Military Indexes and Records website lists some Civil War cemeteries that have online databases.
Jewish Cemeteries
The JewishGen website has a Worldwide Registry for Jewish Burials.
The New York City section of the Online Death Indexes website has listings for six Jewish cemeteries in Queens: Online New York City Death Indexes and Cemetery Burials.
Some individual Jewish cemeteries can be found listed throughout the Online Death Indexes website. See the first link above.
Catholic Cemeteries
The Online Death Indexes Directory has listings for online Catholic cemetery burials in Fresno and Orange County, California; Wilmington, Delaware; Palm Beach, Florida; Portland, Maine; St. Louis, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; Newark, New Jersey; Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio; Eugene and Portland, Oregon; Providence, Rhode Island; Seattle, Washington; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and other places. Some of these databases cover the entire Diocese or Archdiocese. See: Catholic Cemeteries with Online Burial Indexes in the USA
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CLEVELAND - First, the Cavaliers got LeBron James' word. Then they got his signature.
James signed a two-year, $42.1 million contract with the Cavs on Saturday, a day after he announced he was returning to play in Cleveland and try to end the city's 50-year championship drought.
The deal provides flexibility for the NBA's biggest star with the league's maximum salary expected to rise in the future.
A person familiar with the negotiations said James' contract includes an option for the four-time league MVP to become a free agent next summer. However, it is strictly "a business deal," according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team is not providing any details about the agreement.
By only signing for two years, James can get another contract with the Cavs before the 2016-17 season, when a new television deal is expected to push the maximum salary higher. The max contract for next season is $20.7 million. Until this deal, James had never been the highest paid player on his team in 11 seasons as a pro.
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It looks like Netflix will finally manage to get the small change to US privacy law that it's been seeking for nearly two years now. Last night, the Senate passed a reform to the Video Privacy Protection Act, or VPPA, that Netflix says it needs in order to integrate its services with Facebook.
Right now, the VPPA stops anyone's movie-rental history from being disclosed without specific written consent. Netflix expressed to its shareholders back in July 2011 [PDF] that the VPPA made it "ambiguous" how it could get consent from US users to allow a sharing function on Facebook. Given that online privacy has been a growing area of litigation in the past few years, the concern was warranted.
The reform bill that just passed, H.R. 6671, should clear up Netflix's concerns as well as those of other streaming-video providers that want to reach out to your inner over-sharer. It also shows the contours of what a Netflix sharing function, on Facebook or otherwise, might look like. The bill makes clear that: 1) consent for sharing video-watching history can be granted over the Internet; and 2) consent can be given for a whole period of time, up to two years, and doesn't need to be given every time sharing happens. It also specifies that the disclosure has to be in a "distinct" form. In other words, don't put it in the fine print. Consumers will be allowed to withdraw consent for sharing when they want to, on a case-by-case basis, or altogether.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) originally attached VPPA reform to a much larger bill that would force law enforcement to get warrants before snooping on e-mail, a change to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act long sought by privacy advocates. However, the video-rental-privacy part, which is relatively non-controversial, was stripped out of the ECPA bill so that it could be passed quickly according to Politico's Morning Tech (no link available).
The VPPA is something of an oddity in US law. It was passed after the 1988 US Senate debate over the confirmation of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Bork, who failed to get Senate approval to join the high court, passed away earlier this week.
During the hearings, a reporter from Washington DC's alt-weekly City Paper acquired the nominee's video-rental history from Bork's local video store, and published a story based on his selections.
Bork's movie-watching predilections were completely unremarkable. They included 12 Alfred Hitchcock flicks; solid Americana like On the Town, The Wild Bunch, and The Right Stuff; and British costume dramas such as The Private Life of Henry the Eighth.
The story got Congress' attention, though. It resulted in the passage of the VPPA, one of the most thorough privacy laws passed by the federal government. Violating the VPPA entails penalties of up to $2,500 per offense.
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Watching one of Lotte's commercials for its new Cheoum Cheoreom Cool (처음처럼 쿨) soju dozens of times…as one does…then many thoughts come to mind, but that it is being effectively marketed towards women isn't one of them. Yet weren't they the main reason low-alcohol soju brands were launched in the first place?
As those objectified breasts and buttocks helpfully remind us, Cheoum Cheoreom Cool's alcohol content is 16.8%, so take the examples of the two closest brands in terms of alcohol content for instance: Daesun's Bom Bom (봄봄, 16.7%) launched in April, and Muhak's Joeunday (좋은데이, 16.9%) launched in November 2006 (see here for a helpful graphic comparing all three), and both of those were indeed aimed towards women.
Of the two, Bom Bom's marketing is the most of interest because Daesun took the very rare step of using a young, photogenic male in its advertisements. But while Muhak's own campaign was ultimately unsuccessful (commercials released after early-2007 are difficult to find, and Joeunday's website is no longer available, although the drink is still being produced), its use of then 28 and 36 year-old female and male entertainers Chae Yeon (채연) and Jung Jun-ho (정준호) respectively was also significant as a partial, albeit somewhat ambiguous attempt to appeal to a much older female demographic than all the other campaigns considered here.
( Source: Muhak )
Combined with the knowledge that only 30% of soju drinkers are women then, it would be very tempting to interpret the introduction of increasingly weaker soju drinks over the last decade in terms of a women-centered advertising narrative, with all the changes to Korean drinking culture, gender relations, and Korean women's body-images that that would imply. But that would be quite mistaken however, as simply saving on costly alcohol is just as powerful a motivator for soju companies, and actually the vast majority of new brands are still exclusively targeted towards men (take Bohae's Ipseju (잎새주; 19.5%), which I wrote about in April). In particular though, there is the fact that Lotte and Jinro take up 12.6% and 78% of the country's soju market respectively, and so regardless of the innovations of other companies, it is the logic behind the marketing campaigns of these companies that is the most important.
In that vein, the case of Jinro's J (제이, 18.5%) is very interesting: launched in October last year, I praised it for its original marketing, but it was still definitely aimed at 20-somethings of both sexes. In June this year though, a new marketing campaign specifically aimed towards getting women to associate the brand with staying slim was launched. In addition, when Lotte bought Doosan's liquor arm in January this year (after an unsuccessful attempt to buy Jinro in 2005), it inherited a contract with Lee Hyori (이효리) from November 2007, and the logic to her commercials for Cheoum Cheoreom (처음처럼) was similarly getting (female) consumers to associate the brand with her slim body.
Which is what made this latest effort from Lotte so confusing:
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In hindsight, it's actually a little derivative of Jinro's original effort, in which "1032" refers to the depth from which the water used to prepare the drink is taken from the sea:
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Granted, Lotte's video briefly objectifies men too. Not that that somehow justifies the objectification of women in it of course…or that I'll feign offense at either. Rather, it aroused me my interest because it reminded me of this:
…some advertisers, aware of the objections of the feminist movement to traditional images of women in ads, have incorporated the criticism into their ads, many of which now present an alternative stereotype of the cool, professional, liberated women…Some agencies trying to accommodate new attitudes in their campaigns, often miss the point and equate 'liberation' with a type of aggressive sexuality and very unliberated coy sexiness.
Dyer, G. (1982) Advertising as Communication, pp. 185-186, quoted in Strinati, D. (1995) An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture, pp. 187-188)
Is that what is occurring here? Deciding to investigate then, I was stuck by the Korean media's interest in the marketing campaign also, albeit for two entirely different reasons.
First, having an alcohol content under 17% means that commercials can be screened on television after 10pm, and hence that the alcohol content of soju drinks would eventually reach that level has long been predicted by industry analysts. Even more presciently though, back in March one said:
…if you go under 17% you blur the boundary with low-alcohol drinks. Because you gain the ability to have TV ads at less than 17%, you could be promoting drinking cultures and exposing teenagers to it, so the authorities may stop you."
And as this Korean source reveals, last week the rules were indeed changed. But Joeunday's commercials wouldn't have been particularly corrupting of Korean youth, nor Daesun's commercial below with Kang Dong-won (강원도), on Korean screens since August 1, so this was probably a direct reaction to the launch of Cheoum Cheoreom Cool in late August.
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Only Daeson suffered though, as in anticipation of the negative publicity and the government's intentions, spokespeople for Lotte said that they never decided not to make television commercials (see here and here). Which brings me to the second reason for the intense media interest in it: Lotte deciding not to use Lee Hyori to endorse the drink, despite her still easily being Korea's biggest sex-symbol, and notorious for always sexing-up advertisements and pushing the limits of Koreans' supposed Confucian reserve (see here and here). Apparently, in nearly 2 years promoting Cheoum Cheoreom, she hadn't brought around the turnaround in fortunes expected (update: these statistics dispute that).
But in fairness to Lee Hyori, Doosan was in the midst of reorganizing itself into a holding company centered around heavy industries when it hired her, and in hindsight the same company that had just bought the world's biggest maker of construction equipment earlier that year was not necessarily the best one to transform the image of the drinks in the eyes of 20-somethings: see here and here for the ensuing advertising disasters. Hence the consternation caused earlier this week when it was revealed that while she would continue to promote Cheoum Cheoreom, relatively unknown UEE (유이) would be used for Cheoum Cheoreom Cool instead (but not replacing Lee Hyori, as this blog naturally but mistakenly stated), and with the combination of the two Lotte hopes to bring their market share up to 15%.
Which is why it is UEE that graces the front page of all Korean portal sites as I type this, and as it turns out, what I'd seen was merely one of many pre-launch commercials and advertisements based on the theme of "168 ," most of which were rather inane. Here then, is the commercial Lotte really wants you to remember:
In it, UEE begins with "오빠 나 쿨해, 내가 진짜 처음이야?", which roughly translates as (to the guys she's dating) "I'm cool…am I really your first?". After that, the first guy just mutters nonsense, and later she says "쿨하게 생각해!" or…er…"Think Cooly," and she finishes with "원샷. 어! 상쾌해!", or "One shot! Oh! It's sweet!".
Consider these accompanying advertisements also, released at the same time:
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(Source: Naver)
The text in the first reads: "Q: Honest. 남친이랑 여행할땐, 솔직히 말하는게 Cool 할걸까? MT 간다고 뻥치는게 Cool 할건까? A: Think Casual", or "When you travel with your boyfriend, which is cooler: admitting it to your parents, or lying and saying you're going on a trip with your university friends?". And in the second: "Q : Love 키스할때 눈을 감고 하는게 Cool 하니? 쳐다 보면서 하는게 Cool 하니? A : Think Casual", or "When you kiss, which is cooler? With your eyes closed or staring at your partner?". In addition, many bottles of the drink will be sold with blue or pink bottletops, with the above messages or similar ones printed on the labels (see the video here at 0:31 to see those). And despite the former ostensibly being directed towards women, one might speculate that the message with the blue text might actually appeal more to men, and only with the pink or red more to women.
And so considering: the bicep in the prelaunch advertisements and commercials; their kissing scenes (albeit no longer remarkable in Korean advertising); and now these, with the intention of showing "how cool women behave," then of course the marketing campaign is also aimed towards them. Even possibly the de rigueur "sexy dance" below too, as even though UEE was chosen because of her popularity among 20-something men, such dances are often used to advertise products to women also:
As an aside, several sources describe the dance as simultaneously sexy and pure and innocent, but without any apparent trace of irony: something that won't surprise Brian in Jeollanam-do, who has often criticized the bastardization of the word in the Korean language. I wonder though, if that adds to the argument that it is intended for both female and male consumption? Regardless, here's a video of the making of it also, and although I find personally find that they ruin the fantasy element to commercials myself, they are also important elements to marketing campaigns these days (and I speculate more popular among women than men):
By this stage then, you will probably not be surprised to find that most of the Korean sources I've linked to do in fact mention that the drink was aimed at both sexes (although one adds that it would have been more logical to exclusively aim it towards women). But rather than simply provide that information at the beginning, I decided to roughly replicate the process by which I came to find that information for myself, hopefully providing a good overview of the current state of soju advertising in the process (but which should definitely be read in conjunction with this one from June).
And also to resist my temptation to merely assume that the marketing campaign with UEE both reflects and/or is the harbinger of more sexually assertive images of women in Korean advertising. After all, considering that: the recession has already forced advertisers of all stripes to rely on consumers' basic instincts; soju companies have nothing but the profit incentive in mind; and if they don't see (hyper)objectification of women for a male gaze as incompatible with the commensurate goal of selling soju to women, confirming the suspicions that first came to mind as discussed, then that doesn't bode well for reducing Korean women's excessive worries about their appearances.
And yet regardless of the motivations behind them, one still can't help but reflect on all the changes to women's images in soju advertising in recent years, not all of which have been negative. Granted, I have often exaggerated the depth and positive impact of those changes in the past. But let me leave you with the fact that this alternate image of women was the norm less than two years ago:
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At the very least then, we can all agree on the pace of change…just one reason why Korean sociology is so interesting!


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Enid Blyton has been translated into more languages than anyone except Walt Disney Productions, Agatha Christie, Jules Verne and Shakespeare
The Famous Five: Five on a Hike Together. By Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen A. Soper. Hodder Children's Books, 196 pp., varied prices. Ages 12 and under.
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Enid Blyton is the Agatha Christie of children's literature. Not all of her books are mysteries. But like Christie, she was born in Britain in the 1890s and achieved an unparalleled fame for her suspenseful plot-driven novels that remain popular worldwide with readers and filmmakers. And like Christie, she has drawn fire from critics who have accused her of perpetuating the stereotypes of her era and social class.
Blyton is best known for the 21 novels in her "Famous Five" series, most of which have been adapted for television. Each book involves three English siblings, their cousin, and a mutt named Timmy. Five on a Hike Together is the tenth, and it suggests why the novels still appeal to children: Blyton gives her young characters a freedom that if allowed by real-life parents might bring a visit from the Department of Youth and Family Services, if not an arrest.
In Five on a Hike Together the four children and their dog spend several days hiking unchaperoned on moors during a long weekend in October. They are undeterred by their discovery that the heather may shelter a convict who has escaped from a local jail. But they split up when Timmy gets hurt chasing a rabbit down a hole. Julian and Georgina, known as George, set out to find someone who can tend to the dog's injury, and Dick and Anne go off to look for Blue Pond Farmhouse, where all of them hope to spend the night. Nothing goes quite as expected. Dick and Anne get lost and end up at a ramshackle house where Dick gets a message from the escaped convict, who passes him a cryptic note through a broken window pane. All of the children realize when they reunite the next day that they must take the note to the authorities, but when a policeman scorns their efforts to help, they resolve to decipher the clue on their own. Soon the four are paddling a raft with Timmy on board in search of a treasure that may lie at the bottom of a lake.
Five on a Hike Together has several of Blyton's hallmarks — a fast pace, well-controlled suspense and little character development. The four children don't grow so much as carom from one exciting adventure to another, and their appeal lies partly in their enthusiasm for all of it. They are cheerful, intelligent, self-sufficient and generally kind and well-mannered. For all their limits, you can't help but agree when a policeman tells the children in the last pages, "You're the kind of kids we want in this country – plucky, sensible, responsible youngsters who use your brains and never give up!"
Best line: No. 1: "I say – this has boiled up into quite an adventure, hasn't it?" (A comment by Julian, the oldest of the Famous Five.) No. 2: "A wonderful smell came creeping into the little dining-room, followed by the inn-woman carrying a large tray. On it was a steaming tureen of porridge, a bowl of golden syrup, a jug of very thick cream, and a dish of bacon and eggs, all piled high on brown toast. Little mushrooms were on the same dish." Both lines suggest an appealing quality of the Famous Five: their infectious enthusiasm for their circumstances, whether they are lost on a moor or getting a good breakfast.
Worst line: Blyton wrote most of the "Famous Five" novels during the 1940s and 1950s, and they reflect their era. Julian, for example, tells his cousin Georgina, known as George: "You may look like a boy and behave like a boy, but you're a girl all the same. And like it or not, girls have got to be taken care of." George puts Julian in his place by telling him that he's "domineering" and she doesn't like being taken care of. But some critics see the series as sexist, though the girls of the "Famous Five" novels show far more courage than many contemporary heroines. Other books by Blyton have been faulted for racial characterizations that are today considered slurs.
Published: 1951 (first edition), 1997 (Hodder reprint).
About the author: Blyton is the fifth most widely translated writer in the world, according to UNESCO's Index Translationum Statistics. The five most often translated authors are "Walt Disney Productions," Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, Shakespeare, and Blyton, followed by Lenin, Barbara Cartland, Danielle Steel, Hans Christian Andersen, and Stephen King.
Furthermore: Helena Bonham Carter will star in a forthcoming BBC movie of Blyton's life.
Children's book reviews appear on this site on Saturdays.
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In Saturday's Los Angeles Times, I have a story about Getty Museum's efforts to find the true origins of its massive antiquities collection.
Here's how the story starts:
In the wake of a scandal over its acquisition of looted antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum is trying to verify the ownership histories of 45,000 antiquities and publish the results in the museum's online collections database.
The study, part of the museum's efforts to be more transparent about the origins of ancient art in its collection, began last summer, said Getty spokesman Ron Hartwig.
"In this effort, and in all our work, when we identify objects that warrant further discussion and research, we conduct the necessary research to determine whether an item should be returned," Hartwig said in a statement to The Times.
The review is likely to reveal that problems in the Getty's collection go far deeper than the nearly 50 looted objects returned since 2007, according to Getty records and interviews with antiquity dealers and former museum officials.
Hundreds of objects still in the collection were acquired with false ownership histories aimed at disguising their origins in the illicit antiquities trade, records and interviews show.
The depth of its problem was underscored in November, when the Getty published a catalog of 56 carved ambers, objects that the ancient Greeks and Etruscans used in amulets for the magical properties they were believed to possess.
At first look, "Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum" represents the museum at its finest — decades of scholarship published online in an illustrated catalog that engages the public in a rarely studied artifact of the ancient world.
But records — including internal Getty files — show that the ambers were almost certainly looted from tombs in northern Italy.
The relics passed through the smuggling network of Giacomo Medici, who has been convicted in Italy of trafficking in illegally excavated artifacts. Once in the United States, they were donated to the Getty as part of a tax fraud scheme that nearly brought the institution to its knees in the 1980s.
The catalog is silent on this history, which a Getty spokesman says the museum was not aware of at the time, but it does acknowledge the consequences. Because nothing is known of the context in which the ambers were found, little can be definitively concluded about their meaning to their ancient owners.
"Were they purchases, part of a dowry, heirlooms, or other kinds of gifts?" writes Faya Causey, author of the catalog. "Unfortunately, we can only speculate as to whether the ambers were actually possessions of the people with whom they were buried, how the objects were acquired, and in which cultic or other activity they played a part."
The ambers capture the dilemma that the Getty faces today. Having largely abandoned the purchase of ancient art, it is using its unparalleled resources to restore meaning to objects whose history it had a hand in destroying.
You can read the full LA Times story here.
The Getty's Study Collection
This is not the first time questions have been raised about the Getty's study collection, the tens of thousands of artifacts in the museum's collection deemed not worthy of display but held in storage for scholarly study.
In the 1990s, hundreds of pottery sherds and votive fragments in the collection were linked to a looted archaeological site in Francavilla Maritima. Under Marion True's leadership, the Getty conducted an exhaustive scholarly study of the material, then returned it to Italy.
Last year, the Getty quietly returned 150 marble fragments in the collection (88.AA.140 – 88.AA.144) to Italy after evidence emerged that they joined objects found in the same looted tombs of Ascoli Satriano that produced the Getty's Griffins and statue of Apollo, which were returned to Italy in 2007. The objects and fragments were acquired in the 1980s from London dealer Robin Symes.
Getty spokesman Ron Hartwig described the voluntary returns as the result of cooperative research with Italian archaeologists:
In his letter to Director General Luigi Malnati last January, Jim Cuno said, "The Getty acquired these objects as a gift in 1988, in the hope that they would be preserved and studied and eventually reconnected with other fragments of the same objects. Happily, careful scholarship has led to that result. Working with colleagues in Italy, Getty curators have determined that the fragments in our possession are very likely to match with vessels from Ascoli Satriano. It is our hope that the fragments can be examined to ascertain their pertinence, and rejoined to these vessels." Dr. Malnati invited [Getty antiquities curator] Claire Lyons to join a committee formed as a research collaboration to examine the pieces.
These returns are a reminder of the Getty's crooked collecting practices, but they also offer some reason for hope. Each return has contributed to important new insights about archaeological sites that were despoiled by looters. The process of joint investigation and return has helped re-create some of the lost context — something Lord Colin Renfrew once described as "Post-disjunctive forensic re-contextualisation."
Expect to see more if it in the year ahead. As noted in Saturday's story, a large part of the Getty's study collection was acquired in bulk donations in the 1970s and 1980s via the looting and tax fraud scheme we describe in Chapter 2 of Chasing Aprhodite. Records show that much of it passed through the smuggling networks of Medici, Hecht, Symes and Becchina, suggesting it will likely end up back in Italy sooner or later.
The ambers are the latest tip to surface of a very large iceberg. As David Gill noted in November, "the scale of the problem for the Getty is massive."


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Prayer Fatigue and the Search for Hope
Some weeks it's tough to keep up spiritually and emotionally with all that swirls around us. In the last couple of days we've seen images of devastation coming out of Oklahoma. We continue to be pummeled with disheartening world news and violence in our communities, even as many of us are still trying to process the Boston Marathon bombings, the explosion at a fertilizer factory in West, Texas, and the collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh.
As people of faith, our first response is prayer. Upon hearing about the latest tragedy or disaster we get down on our knees and pray. Or at least close our eyes for a moment at the next stoplight or post a prayer on Facebook. Sometimes we pray because we know it's what we're "supposed" to do; sometimes we pray because we can't thing of anything else to do; sometimes we pray because it's part of our ongoing and life-long conversation with God; and sometimes we pray because we know it matters.
Yet it's hard not to feel overwhelmed to the point of "prayer fatigue." We're bombarded on all sides by tragic news, horrific images, and interviews with the bereaved, all of which contribute to an overall feeling of helplessness. As many of us are discovering, there's only so much capacity the human brain has to respond to grief, sadness, and traumatic events. We could become hermits and spend all our days in prayer and, still, it wouldn't be enough. We'd just be scratching the surface of the world's needs. As we seemingly face crisis after crisis it's easy to feel that prayer doesn't matter or that it doesn't change anything.
The 24-hour news cycle doesn't help as images of natural disaster, war, and abject poverty assault our senses and our sensibilities. Nor does social media which, in the face of tragedy, serves as an echo chamber. That's not to say we should all go off the grid when tragedy strikes — there's tremendous value in connecting with others, offering prayers and resources, and even raising money as a way to "do something." Rapid response online donations in the wake of tragedy (at least the ones that warrant media coverage) are becoming part of the national grieving process and perhaps even a secular form of prayer. But it still never feels like enough — there's always the next tragedy, the next disaster, the next shooting.
The good news is that the world's peace and harmony doesn't depend exclusively upon us. That's God's realm, not ours. Once we realize this, it takes the pressure off of us to get the words right or say the proper number of prayers to "fix" everything. We don't even need words — they're usually inadequate anyway. We can weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn while leaving the big picture to the God who cares for us as a mother cares for her children. This doesn't mean that tragedy won't continue to pervade our lives — it's part of the human condition — but we're not in this alone. Jesus, who knew something about tragedy, is with us at every step of the journey.
This weekend we mark Trinity Sunday and revel in the fullness of God even as we pray for hope and healing and reconciliation. There is, perhaps, no better time to do just that.


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Free To Not Choose
Posted by The Situationist Staff on July 12, 2008
In February, John Tierney wrote a great column in February for the New York Times about Dan Ariely's new book, Predictably Irrational. We already posted about Ariely's book last week (see here). In this post, we simply wanted to highlight Tierney's excellent summary of some of Ariely's experiments.
In a series of experiments, hundreds of students could not bear to let their options vanish . . . .
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They played a computer game that paid real cash to look for money behind three doors on the screen. . . . After they opened a door by clicking on it, each subsequent click earned a little money, with the sum varying each time.
As each player went through the 100 allotted clicks, he could switch rooms to search for higher payoffs, but each switch used up a click to open the new door. The best strategy was to quickly check out the three rooms and settle in the one with the highest rewards.
Even after students got the hang of the game by practicing it, they were flummoxed when a new visual feature was introduced. If they stayed out of any room, its door would start shrinking and eventually disappear.
They should have ignored those disappearing doors, but the students couldn't. They wasted so many clicks rushing back to reopen doors that their earnings dropped 15 percent. Even when the penalties for switching grew stiffer — besides losing a click, the players had to pay a cash fee — the students kept losing money by frantically keeping all their doors open.
Why were they so attached to those doors? The players . . . say they were just trying to keep future options open. But that's not the real reason, according to Dr. Ariely and his collaborator in the experiments, Jiwoong Shin, an economist who is now at Yale.
They plumbed the players' motivations by introducing yet another twist. This time, even if a door vanished from the screen, players could make it reappear whenever they wanted. But even when they knew it would not cost anything to make the door reappear, they still kept frantically trying to prevent doors from vanishing.
Apparently they did not care so much about maintaining flexibility in the future. What really motivated them was the desire to avoid the immediate pain of watching a door close.
"Closing a door on an option is experienced as a loss, and people are willing to pay a price to avoid the emotion of loss," Dr. Ariely says.
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To read the entire column, which is terrific, click here To play the three-door game, click here. For related Situationist posts, see "The Situation of Regret," "Why You Bought That," "Just Choose It," and "Can't Get No Satisfaction" (Part 2).
Finally, below you can find a fifty-minute video of Ariely discussing and answering questions about his book.
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3 Responses to "Free To Not Choose"
July 16, 2008 at 1:09 pm
This is one of the most clever and interesting experiments I've read about in a long time – thanks!
August 14, 2008 at 8:28 pm
This was a great read. It really is true that we have an unhealthy attachment to keeping doors open, even when it's illogical. I just read another interesting blog post about this experiment too.


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In the longest playoff game in history, Chris Burke's homer in the 18th sent Houston to the NLCS with a 7-6 thriller over Atlanta. The Braves' Adam LaRoche hit a grand slam, but Lance Berkman crushed a slam in the eighth and Brad Ausmus tied it with a two-out homer in the ninth. Wrap | Full Coverage >
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