Sensational Events Research Articles

War and Peace Journalism in Mass Shootings Coverage - Case Study of a School Shooting in the U.S. Uvalde

Research objective: Analysis of the problem of using the theory of war and peace journalism in reporting mass shootings in the American media on the example of a school shooting in Uvalde. 
 Problem and methods: The article answers the question whether theories about war and peace journalism can be helpful in the analysis of media coverage of mass shootings. The text analyzes how the leading media broadcasters in the U.S. (CNN and Fox News) use war- and peace-oriented mechanisms. The article uses research methods standard for social sciences and humanities, including content analysis with elements of framing analysis, comparative analysis and the case study. 
 Process of argumentation: The starting point for the research was the theories on war and peace journalism by Johan Galtung. The reason for undertaking the research was also the record number of mass shootings in the U.S. in 2021 and the significant importance of the Uvalde shooting in the American public debate on gun control in 2022. The article focuses on the first week of coverage of the shooting. 
 Results: American media use war journalism more often. Coverage is influenced by ideological profile and political affiliation. Political issues and the reconstruction of events come to the fore. Contexts such as victims, solutions, roots of the problem or fate of the perpetrator are discussed less frequently. The shooting in Uvalde became an instrument in the political conflict in which the media took part. 
 Conclusions, innovations, and recommendations: War journalism mechanisms favor media polarization in bipartisan conflict conditions and help show sensational events in a 24-hour cycle. In turn, the mechanisms of peace journalism support reporting on the perpetrator, victims and potential solutions. The article intends to increase awareness of various ways of publicizing extraordinary events and political conflicts and serve for more profound research in the future.

“Lucky Enough”: The Music and Stories That Make Vaughan's Lounge, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

“Lucky Enough”: The Music and Stories That Make Vaughan's Lounge, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

US Researchers' Discourse and Reinterpretation of International Relation Theory on the 5‧18 Democratization Movement

This essay reinterprets the United States Government s role and responsibility of 5·18 democratization movement on the basis of academic products and presents new topics and research methods. For this, I study and analyze the preceding materials such as books and articles about the relationship between 5·18 and the United States. And then, I analyze the attitude of the US Government toward the New Korean Military Force of 1980s from the angel of international relations. Through the analysis of the reference, the Government and Americans have different ideas about the condition there. This research of the relationship between the the Korean and US Government up to the date around the sensational events like 5·18 democratization movement is expected to illuminate the American pragmatic and realist policy rather than the democratic justice, which might be understandable on the condition of reciprocal interaction.

Poser, Norman S. The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick.

Poser, Norman S. <i>The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick</i>.

On the Margin of ”Satantango”. Some Remarks on Slow Cinema

Athough Satantango by Bela Tarr is usually regarded as a perfect representative of slow cinema and certainly deserves this reputation, it is worth remembering that it shares some features with other currents of modern cinema. Its networkish structure and unreliable narration place it close to puzzle films; its close affinity with the Krasznahorkai novel, on which it is based, makes it a form of impure – that is – hybrid cinema; due to an accumulation of evil deeds, tragic and sensational events, it resembles films of action. But, first of all, it is a paramount example of slow cinema, and as such it enables one to grasp the essential features of this genre. According to certain views, often built on the foundation of Andre Bazin theory, slow cinema imitates natural human perception and therefore is inherently realistic. This is not true, though. Instead of a reality effect, slow cinema produces rather a verfremdung effect, which in turn enhances the big potential of slow cinema in inducing transcendental or religious states in a viewer’s mind. Satantango explores this potential, drawing on the religious connotations of Krasznahorkai novel.

Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness inMiddlemarch

Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness in<i>Middlemarch</i>

Trademarks and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Analysis of Trademark Applications Including the Terms 'COVID,' 'Coronavirus,' 'Quarantine,' 'Social Distancing', 'Six Feet Apart,' and 'Shelter in Place'

True to its nature of a (hopefully) once in a lifetime event, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a tsunami of trademark applications including the terms “COVID,” “Coronavirus,” and other medical and pandemic-management related terms. This unprecedented number of applications has been highlighted by several commentators in general terms in the past months. In this Article, I examine these applications in detail. Notably, I present the first and most complete survey of the applications filed between the onset of the pandemic and the end of 2020, which include the following terms: “COVID,” “Coronavirus,” “Quarantine,” “Social Distancing,” “Six Feet Apart,” and “Shelter in Place.” The choice to include four additional terms related to the pandemic besides “COVID” and “Coronavirus” is to illustrate the broader effects of the pandemic on the trademark application process. The Article proceeds as follow. In Section II, I describe the methodology used to collect and examine the relevant “COVID-19 related” applications. In Section III, I present the data with specific details regarding the products for which the applications have been filed, the type of filing entities, the legal basis for filing, and the date of filing throughout the relevant period—the year 2020. In Section IV, I elaborate on the distinct legal challenges that the “COVID-19 related” applications may face in order to be registered, notably the possibility that the signs are found to be descriptive, generic, or misleading, or cannot function as marks. In Section V, I conclude and compare the data related to these applications with previous filings for signs including terms related to past sensational events, including pandemics. This comparison shows that the numbers of “COVID-19 related” applications are much higher than the filings submitted in the past. Moreover, 2020 saw a large increase in the numbers of trademark filings including other medical terms. This again illustrates the catalyst effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the trademark application system. For the interest of the readers, I include the complete dataset presented in the Article as Appendix.

Exploring Perceptions of Subsistence Farmers in Northwestern Zimbabwe Towards the African Lion (Panthera leo) in the Context of Local Conservation Actions

We explored the perceptions held by subsistence farmers (living in communal lands within the CAMPFIRE programme area in northwestern Zimbabwe) towards the African lion (Panthera leo) and related conservation interventions undertaken by management authorities. Conceptually guided by the cognitive hierarchy, we used a semi-structured, face-to-face interview format to collect data across three different farming communities bordering Hwange and Zambezi National Parks. Ordinal regression models were used to analyse the data. Our results illustrate that farmers' perceptions towards lions were strongly negative and appeared to be associated with the geographic location in which the farmer lived, as well as the farmer's ethnic group. We also found that perceptions towards lions were not associated with specific livestock losses or to the potential benefits farmers received from wildlife conservation, e.g. school classroom blocks or road improvements. Instead, we suggest that fear of lions and perceived risk to livestock or human wellbeing may play a stronger role in shaping farmers' perceptions compared to actual livestock losses. Moreover, we suggest that sharing information across farmer social networks within a community area, along with the potential for media attention over sensational events, may also influence perceptions towards lions. Our results contribute a baseline dataset for future applied research in this area, and provide insight into developing locally-meaningful conservation interventions, including the type of information to be shared, channels for communication, and the benefits derived from participating in wildlife conservation.

Directing O'Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Desire Under the Elms, Days Without End

Directing O'Neill: <i>Mourning Becomes Electra, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Desire Under the Elms, Days Without End</i>

Using Crime News Reporting Themes to Predict Image Inclusion in Newspaper Homicide Articles

ABSTRACTThe general public relies on news reports to guide their perceptions about crime. Previous research suggests that text elements in crime news reporting are framed in consistent packages for audience consumption, and that newspaper images exert a considerable influence on audience perception of news articles. The current study categorizes homicide articles into four themes and examines how thematic reporting relates to the likelihood of image inclusion. A sample of nearly 4,000 articles published in the Vancouver Sun was coded on a set of 107 variables relating to structural and content characteristics. Results show a significant relationship between image inclusion and the Sympathetic Victim theme, more so than for themes related to fear, sensational events, or media constructions of social issues.

Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shū sui and Japan's First AntiImperialist Movement by Robert Thomas Tierney

Reviewed by: Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shū sui and Japan's First AntiImperialist Movement by Robert Thomas Tierney Max Ward (bio) Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan's First AntiImperialist Movement. By Robert Thomas Tierney. University of California Press, Oakland CA, 2015. viii, 267 pages. $70.00, cloth; $70.00, E-book. Japanese socialists and anarchists made important contributions to late Meiji politics and thought and, as Umemori Naoyuki has recently argued, were the "first self-conscious explorers" of the capitalist social formation in Japan, not solely as an economic system, but as a form of social domination [End Page 406] that permeated a variety of intellectual and cultural domains, including language, literature, subjectivity, and sexuality.1 Despite their wide-ranging contributions, however, the English-language scholarship on early socialists and anarchists in Japan has been disparate and often focused on a few sensational events or characters. Kōtoku Shū sui (1871–1911) takes a prominent place in this literature, both for his leadership in the early socialist movement and his arrest and execution in the notorious Great Treason Incident (Taigyaku Jiken) of 1910–11. Earlier scholarship on Kōtoku, such as F. G. Notehelfer's 1971 Kōtoku Shū sui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical, reduced the nuances of Kōtoku's politics to an attempt to translate premodern Confucian ethics into a modern political idiom, rendering Kōtoku and Japanese anarchism more generally as cultural anachronisms inadequate to political modernity.2 More recent scholarship has restored Japanese anarchists to their modern, global moment. For example, Sho Konishi has explored how the intellectual dialogue between Russian anarchists and Japanese thinkers produced a unique "temporality and corresponding order of knowledge and practice" across a variety of cultural fields that comprised an alternative modernity, what Konishi deems "cooperatist anarchist modernity."3 Although Konishi's book challenges the earlier modernization paradigm that informed Notehelfer's study, Konishi's intellectual history approach risks sacrificing anarchism's explicitly revolutionary politics to its cultural and intellectual permutations. This is where Robert Tierney's excellent new study and translation, Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement, makes an important intervention by foregrounding Kōtoku's theory of imperialism and illuminating the political legacies of early Japanese socialism in a global context. Tierney's Monster of the Twentieth Century is neither a history of Japanese anarchism nor a political biography of Kōtoku. Rather, it consists of an extended analysis and complete translation of Kōtoku's seminal 1901 text Teikokushugi: nijūseiki no kaibutsu (Imperialism: monster of the twentieth century). Kōtoku's work is often read as a proto-anarchist treatise and thus as a moralistic precursor to later, more "scientific," Marxian critiques of imperialism. However, Kōtoku did not come to anarchism until later (around 1905–6) and, as Tierney's study demonstrates, his anarchism developed from his analysis of imperialism. Tierney thus reverses the conventional association of imperialism and anarchism in Kōtoku's thought—wherein it was assumed the latter informed his critique of the former—and utilizes [End Page 407] Teikokushugi to explore the larger debates about nationalism, capitalist exploitation, and imperialism taking place in socialist circles at the time. By doing so, Tierney returns Kōtoku and his interlocutors to a larger global moment in which activists and intellectuals throughout the world debated the essence of imperialism and its relation to state power and capitalism. The first half of Monster consists of Tierney's extended analysis of Kōtoku's thought and political activities. In the introduction Tierney outlines the stakes of his analysis, positing that while it is necessary to acknowledge "Kōtoku's importance as an early Japanese socialist and anarchist," it is equally if not more important to recognize his role as a "leader of the anti-imperialist movement" and, by extension, the place of anti-imperialist movements in late-Meiji Japanese history (p. 3). In this way, Tierney connects Kōtoku to a wider, global moment of anti-imperialist activism and shows how international events and movements influenced Kōtoku's understanding of Japanese society and his increasing political...

The influence of Human consciousness on Media: media-psychological aspect

One of the important problems of our time is to identify ways of influencing the human conscious-ness against its will and developing protective mechanisms against them. &nbsp;With the help of psychological technology today it is not difficult to control the behavior, character and choice of each person. By manipulating consciousness, one can convince to make the necessary decision. The purpose of this article is to study the influence of technological approaches that govern the psychological attitude, behavior and freedom of choice of a person. The main focus of research is the study of communicative relationships in multicultural societies, their development under the influence of media psychological tools. &nbsp;The scientific and practical value of the research consists in the system consideration of psycho-logical phenomena and psychological approaches used in the mass media. The article provides a com-prehensive overview of the methods of manipulating the public consciousness, transforming facts and hiding the truth, simplifying the concept of reality and using sensational events. &nbsp;In the course of the analysis of the indicated topic, theoretical approaches based on the axioms of foreign scientists along with such empirical methods as description, control, and comparison were used. &nbsp;The main result of the article is the synthesis and analysis of ways of influencing human conscious-ness through media advertising through the media. With the help of anti-advertising technologies, hu-man sympathies can be changed in the opposite direction. At the same time, a person may not notice the change in their preferences. The conclusions of the article demonstrate the correctness of the hypothesis about the media aspects of media psychological approaches that influence the human consciousness. The value of the article is to demonstrate ways to protect against psychological technologies used in developed societies, explaining the importance of media psychological technologies. In the digital age, methods of influencing human consciousness are improved every year. Marketers, advertisers, and political alliances use advanced technology to preserve their influence on consumers, social groups, and society. Journalists should be aware of these technologies distributed through the media and how to protect against them. The value of the article is to demonstrate ways to protect against psychological technologies used in developed societies, explaining the importance of media psychological technologies. In the digital age, methods of influencing human consciousness are improved every year. Marketers, advertisers, and political alliances use advanced technology to preserve their influence on consumers, social groups, and society. Journalists should be aware of these technologies distributed through the media and how to protect against them.

Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist by William E. Ellis

Reviewed by: Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist by William E. Ellis John T. Kneebone (bio) Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist. By William E. Ellis. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. Pp. 274. $45.00 cloth; $45.00 ebook) Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb went home to Paducah, Kentucky, in December 1922 and guest-edited the local paper for a day. His fame was such that the stunt received press coverage across the country. Cobb gained wealth and renown as a journalist, an author of magazine stories and books, a humorist, a raconteur on radio, and an actor in the movies. Yet today, hardly anyone outside of Paducah remembers him—and of that number, even fewer have read his works. William E. Ellis, an emeritus professor at Eastern Kentucky University and experienced biographer, tells Cobb's story with much affection and some exasperation. Cobb flourished in a golden age of print journalism. He learned his craft at the Paducah Evening News and the Paducah Democrat, then to Louisville (home to four daily papers), and on to New York City and Pulitzer's Evening World. He made his reputation at the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Conference, with stories that Ellis describes as characteristically "verbose" but "interesting" (p. 18). As a journalist, Cobb reported sensational events at home and traveled to France to cover the Great War and then its aftermath. Despite what Ellis perceives as continuing insecurities about his origins, Cobb took his place among the city's (and the nation's) best-known writers, and like many of them turned to fiction for the mass-market magazines as a lucrative sideline. Soon, Cobb's prodigious output, first for the Saturday Evening Post and then for the Hearst magazines, made him as wealthy as well as famous. His suburban neighbor, publisher George Doran, reprinted the stories in collections that sold well, too. Ellis struggles to create drama in a life filled with steady hours at [End Page 95] the typewriter and such fame that "everything he wrote was published" (p. 122). Ellis wants Cobb to write a great novel and he prefers the "'grim' short stories" to Cobb's better-known humor (p. 56). However, Ellis also admits that Cobb tended toward the nostalgic and formulaic, and early writing at space rates encouraged a digressive approach even to short stories. Yet, Ellis likes Cobb and the scornful jabs at Cobb's writing from critic H. L. Mencken and others bug him, even though Cobb himself never seemed to care. Cobb's inclinations and opportunities led him toward "whatever was popular and lucrative," which meant radio and movies and California (pg. 173). There his friend Will Rogers starred in Judge Priest, the 1934 film version of Cobb's literary "gold mine," a Kentucky jurist featured in two novels and more than forty short stories (pg. 48). The Judge Priest stories and the movie were also suffused with racism, which makes the fiction hard to stomach and the movie unwatchable. Ellis is at his best in identifying the ways that race (and African Americans) functioned in Cobb's fiction—from casual bigotry to the more complex attempt at a novel about Jeff Poindexter, the judge's servant and a recurring character. Ellis notes that Cobb's racism was genteel rather than genocidal and his stories' popularity reveals the universality of racist assumptions shared by his white American middlebrow audience. Yet Cobb hated Prohibition and was indifferent, at best, to organized religion. This independence of mind made him a critic of the second Ku Klux Klan and makes the racism even more regrettable. Ellis concludes, convincingly, that Irvin S. Cobb might be unread today, but the poor boy from Paducah won fame and fortune in his own time. For that, and for what his popularity tells about mass media and audiences then, he ought to be remembered. [End Page 96] John T. Kneebone JOHN T. KNEEBONE is department chair and associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the co-creator of the digital history site "Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915–1940," which can be accessed through VCU Libraries' website. Copyright © 2019...

Kate Soffel's Life of Crime: A Gendered Journey from Warden's Wife to Criminal Actress

Kate Soffel's Life of CrimeA Gendered Journey from Warden's Wife to Criminal Actress Kristi Good (bio) Many residents of Pittsburgh are well acquainted with the story of the "Biddle Boys," Edward and John (Ed and Jack), who escaped from the Allegheny County Jail in winter 1902, with the help of the warden's wife, Kate Soffel. Their escape from the city and the ensuing horse-drawn sleigh chase across the snowy roads of Butler County thrilled newspaper readers across the country. The final confrontation between law enforcement and the "desperadoes," as journalists characterized them, was a bloody shoot-out that left the Biddles and Soffel on the brink of death. Soffel survived, but the public's excitement about her role in these events waned much more quickly than did their enthusiasm for the event itself. In Medea's Daughters: Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills, Jennifer Jones posits, "Idealized 'woman' has traditionally been constructed as self-sacrificing, passive, and nurturing; therefore, when actual women become violent, some sense must be made of their actions if the myth of feminine passivity is to be maintained."1 Jones cites as a major influence the work of Ann Jones, who, in her book Women Who Kill, analyzed how various historical murder trials have perpetuated the subordination of women. Jones builds on this feminist analysis by exploring the dramatic texts that spring from these criminal events and legal proceedings and argues that dramatic representations of female criminality serve as similar historical documentation to "contain and control cultural anxiety" regarding the abnormality of the criminal woman.2 The jailbreak itself was a public spectacle that held the interest of the American people from coast to coast, and a popular true-crime melodrama [End Page 53] by Theodore Kremer quickly followed the newspaper headlines. A Desperate Chance detailed the sensational events of the Biddle jailbreak and debuted in the same year as the escape. Kremer's play functions as Jones suggests: a morality play that warns women of "the dangers of self-determination" and encourages them to "embrace their submissive status."3 But Kremer wrote his play before Soffel served her jail time, and her determination to cultivate a public life for herself post incarceration was not consistent with the narrative of passive femininity that the media, the courts, and Kremer had constructed to assure society that this unnatural, criminal woman was no longer a moral threat. While A Desperate Chance played across the country for years following the crime, Soffel's attempt to reclaim her life through a career in the theatre was met with opposition, particularly in her home region. This article serves as an act of feminist reclamation by documenting Soffel's involvement with the Biddles as well as her attempt to reenter society, a period heretofore unexamined in her life, and intervenes in the current historical narrative by painting her as a model not of submissive femininity but of feminist subversion. Peter Soffel and Kate Dietrich were married in the German Evangelical Protestant Church in Pittsburgh on December 9, 1886.4 They started a family within the first years of marriage and had four children. Aside from her duties as a mother, Soffel regularly ministered to men incarcerated at the Allegheny County Jail, where her husband was the warden. This was how she came into contact with Ed and Jack Biddle in 1901, as they sat waiting for their execution dates. The Biddles were sentenced to execution for fatally shooting a Mount Washington grocer named Thomas Kahney during a robbery in April 1901. Police profiled the Biddles and an accomplice named Walter Dorman, who were understood to be members of a group of robbers known as the Chloroform Gang. The day following the shooting in Mount Washington, police arrested Dorman and his common-law wife, Jennie Seebers, at their residence. At another house nearby, authorities arrested Jack Biddle on the ground floor before a shoot-out began upstairs. By the end of the skirmish, a police officer was killed, Ed Biddle was in custody but close to death, and a woman named Jessie Bodyne was arrested while trying to flee.5 The Biddles were the only two of...

In memoriam: Dr. Andrew E. Czeizel (April 03, 1935–August 10, 2015)

Dr. Andrew E. Czeizel and Zoltan Merhala Dr. Andrew E. Czeizel medical geneticist, teratologist, epidemiologist, and one of the world experts in human congenital anomalies passed away in Budapest, Hungary on August 10, 2015, after a valiant battle with myeloid leukemia (diagnosed in May 2013). He started his professional career in the National Institute of Hygiene (NIH) in 1959 and retired from there as the head of the Department of Human Genetics and Teratology in 1998. As a result of his professional achievements, the unit received the title of WHO Collaborating Centre for the Community Control of Hereditary Diseases from 1984 to 1998. In the period 1996–1998, he was the Chief Director of National Institute of Health Promotion and from 1998, he added the scientific directorship of the Foundation for the Community Control of Hereditary Diseases to his portfolio, a position which he held until his death. He published over 1,200 articles, half of which have appeared in international peer reviewed journals. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has recorded 12,481 citations of his works in journals with a cumulative impact factor of 671.5. I had the privilege of working next to Andrew as his scientific secretary for 25 years. Being an economist, his offer of this role came as a surprise to me, but I grabbed the opportunity instantly. His trust was inspiring, and he gave this trust to everyone. He treated everybody as his equal and his patients, colleagues and fellow scientists loved him. His hobby was the research on the genetic roots of the talented and genius. He has analyzed the genealogical tree of the great music composers, poets, artists, and Nobel prize winners with Hungarian origin. However, as is true for many high achievers − it was hard to live beside him. His life was precisely organized according to his own priorities. Each August he spent his yearly vacation at Lake Balaton to work on the book he planned for that year. Part of my job was to visit him weekly with the institute update, a task I was required to perform while accompanying him on his daily swim. I always looked apprehensively at the water, assessing how difficult the waves would make my task of updating Andrew. Similarly it was a challenge to deliver a selection of his scientific papers to a colleague he had met at the Congress of Human Genetics in Washington, but could not describe any better than “the blonde woman who was sitting on my left at the board meeting …” I learnt from him, what it is to serve a cause. It was easy to see the mission in the prevention of birth defects rather than measuring the success of science in the number of birth defects efficiently diagnosed prenatally which in most of the cases lead to the termination of pregnancies. He called this “Modern Taygetus” and in his lectures, he never failed to emphasize that as a protector of fetal lives, he was working for the prevention of congenital abnormalities to prevail instead of prenatal diagnosis. Many times he expressed regret that his achievements were not appreciated in his own country. It disturbed him that following the results of the study on periconceptional multivitamin supplementation, the United States had launched a public health campaign comparable to that for the prevention of polio while in his own country the recognition of this scientific breakthrough was limited. After the convincing results of the studies of periconceptional folic acid containing multivitamin supplementation, the USA and other countries have introduced the fortification of flour with folic acid, the major element in the prevention of neural tube defects and to some degree other birth defects. Calculations made to assess the impact of fortification of flour with folic acid worldwide suggest that for 30,000 newborns the prevention of anencephaly and spina bifida could have been achieved. This is one third of the number of children born in Hungary per year. It was uplifting to live these sensational events with him. Over the years we shared our problems and his advice not only led the way for me, but his serene, intelligent personality has given me guidance and self-confidence in my life. I miss you, Boss!

Towards a more Successful European Communication: Research Findings and Media Policy Recommendations

In the context of media developments world-wide including convergence of media system, journalism homogenization, diversification of political communication, it is important to understand how these processes will affect (trans)formation of the European public sphere. There has been no European news agenda across media in Europe so far, except for rare cases when European Union becomes an issue of top importance across Europe. Most often these are sensational events, crises or official meetings of the EU representatives. On the other hand, journalists are confronted with their audience, which is poorly informed and has inadequate knowledge about the EU. The aim of the article is to reassess the major challenges of European social imaginary by addressing key measures to be taken to communicate Europe effectively.

Stop the Presses

This is a collection of posters exhibited at San Francisco’s Mutiny Radio as San Francisco Eviction Times. The show was inspired by the late Mexican political printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada and a flyer of his that read “Esta hoja volante se publicará cuando los acontecimientos de sensación lo requieran" ("This broadside will be published when sensational events require it"). Artists were asked to create Posada-inspired posters about the anti-gentrification struggle in the Mission.

Unrelenting violence

Perceptions of violence are too often driven by individual sensational events, yet "routine" gunshot wound (GSW) injuries are largely underreported. Previous studies have mostly focused on fatal GSW. To illuminate this public health problem, we studied the health care burden of interpersonal GSW at a Level I trauma center. Retrospective analysis of GSW injuries (excluding self and law enforcement) treated from January 2000 to December 2011. Data collected included body regions injured, number of wounds per patient, and mortality. Costs were calculated using Medicare cost-charge modifiers. Geographic information system mapping of the incident location and home addresses were determined to identify hot spot locations and the characterization of those neighborhoods. A total of 6,322 patients were treated. There were significant increases in patients with three or more wounds (13-22%, p < 0.0001) and three or more body regions injured (6-16%, p < 0.0001). Mortality increased from 9% to 14% (p < 0.0001). Nineteen percent of the patients were never seen by the trauma service. Geographic information system mapping revealed significant clustering of GSWs. Five cities accounted for 85% of the GSWs, with rates per 100,000 ranging from 19 to 108 compared with a national rate of 20. Only 19% of the census tracts had no GSWs during the period, and 39% of the census tracts had at least one GSW per year for 12 years. Fifteen percent of the census tracts accounted for 50% of the GSWs. Seventy percent of the patients were shot in their home city, 25% within 168 m, and 55% within 1,600 m of their home. Total inpatient cost was $115 million, with cost per patient increasing more than three times over the course of the study; 75% were unreimbursed. GSW violence remains a significant public health problem, with escalating mortality and health costs. Relying on trauma registry data seriously underestimates GSW numbers. In contrast to episodic mass casualties, routine GSW violence is geographically restricted and not random. To combat this problem, policy makers must understand that the determinants of firearm violence reside at the community level. Epidemiologic study, level II.

Those Men in Saffron Robes

The sangha in Myanmar is often considered by some scholars to be a “loose,” “autonomous,” “democratic,” and “de-centralized” organization that does not resemble a “church” in the Western sense of the term. Yet, when it serves certain ideological purposes — particularly when many in saffron robes march against a government one does not like — then, the sangha suddenly becomes a cohesive and ideologically united organization. But when the crisis is over, and one wants it to be no longer monolithic — that is, when one desires to promote its anti-centralist nature and Government’s effeteness in controlling it — then it returns once again to being a “loosely” organized autonomous, and “democratic” organization. Scholarship on the Myanmar sangha needs far more consistent methodology, rigorous analysis, better use of original evidence, and a longer historical context in which to “locate” it than heretofore realized. This is particularly crucial when interpreting highly-charged, emotional, and sensational events such as the so-called “Saffron Revolution” of 2007, which turns out to be neither “saffron” nor “revolutionary.” This becomes most clear when the sangha , as in this article, is studied not in isolation and out of historical context, but within a long-term and intimate relationship with the state.

2013 Rho Chi Lecture: Writing the Headlines of Tomorrow

Headlines are a reflection of society, what people value or find interesting. They indicate sensational events as well as trends that affect important aspects of peoples' lives. While headlines originated in the print mass media, they remain important in our wired and digital world. headlines are about pharmacy, they provide a mirror to how we are perceived by society. Whether headlines are good or bad, they influence the course of our Recently the negative headlines about pharmacy unfortunately outnumbered the positive, mostly referring to the New England Compounding Center tragedy, and that is something the profession will need to work through to reestablish credibility and trust that was lost. We have seen many positive headlines that reflect how pharmacy is changing and moving to a patient-centered rather than product-centered On August 14, 2010, a headline on the front page of the New York Times (1) read do more than count pills. The story begins: Eloise Gelinas depends on a personal health coach. At Barney's Pharmacy, her local drugstore in Augusta, Ga., the pharmacist outlines all her medications, teaching her what times of day to take the drugs that will help control her diabetes. This is a lengthy story about Barney's Pharmacy and the who work there. They provide a wide range of wellness and clinical services in addition to traditional prescription services. Such a story in a prominent news source is a significant positive impact. In the December 15, 2012, edition of the New York Times, (3) on the editorial page, the headline read When the doctor is not and it goes on to describe the potential for (and other health professionals) to fill the big gap in primary care. It talks about how are underutilized given their education, training, and closeness to the community. Last week, on National Public Radio a nationally broadcast story was headlined Why The Hospital Wants the Pharmacist to Be Your Coach. It talked about how hospitals are partnering with community pharmacies to help keep patients out of the hospital by managing their medications. What will the headlines be 20 years from now? That will be in an era determined by your generation, not mine. I can imagine the good headlines: clinical services become a standard in health or Retirees demand medication therapy management by pharmacists or play major role in designing drug treatment regimens using genomics. And even the possible negative headlines, such as Importation and automation lead to demise of the pharmacy profession. I am and remain very optimistic about our future as and the roles that we will play in health care. Medications are much more commonly used, particularly for chronic diseases, and make up a greater portion of the national health care expense compared with 10 years ago. Medications are increasing as a portion of the national health care budget, the number of prescriptions will significantly increase, as will expenditures on prescription drugs. I think about the huge changes that the profession has gone through from the time I graduated in the late 1970s until now, I am confident that we will continue to progress as a There is so much that we know now about our profession that was not evident a decade ago. Years ago we talked about how much we needed the evidence for the effectiveness of in health care. The evidence is in and has been published in well-respected journals. Studies by Cab Bond showed that clinical working in hospitals are associated with lower mortality rates. (4) Pharmacists effectively manage patients with diabetes, as demonstrated in the Asheville Project, (5) and manage hypertension (6) and many other diseases and conditions. Pharmacists activities result in a significant savings in health care costs (approximately $5 for each dollar spent on clinical pharmacy services). …