Sacheen Littlefeather invites you to a special celebration of live Native American performances featuring a long-awaited statement of apology from the Academy.
The event is sold out at the Academy Museum and will be livestreamed here on SEPTEMBER 17, 2022, at 5pm PDT. The livestream will be available on this channel for a week following the event, then replaced by a trimmed version for documentation.
*About Sacheen Littlefeather*
In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather (Apache/Yaqui/AZ), a member of the Screen Actors Guild, became the first Native woman to stand onstage at the Academy Awards ceremony, on behalf of Marlon Brando. Sacheen did not accept his Best Actor award for THE GODFATHER (1972). She gave a passionate and moving 60-second speech regarding the stereotypes of Native Americans in the entertainment industry. She also brought attention to the 1973 Wounded Knee South Dakota protest. This historic television moment is significantly highlighted in the museum’s Academy Awards History gallery. As a result, Sacheen was professionally boycotted, personally harassed and attacked, and discriminated against for the last fifty years.
*About the Event*
Sacheen invites you to a special celebration of live Native American performances featuring a long-awaited statement of apology from the Academy. The evening’s program will include a land acknowledgement courtesy of Virginia Carmelo (Tongva/So. CA), and a conversation between Sacheen and Academy Member, producer, and co-chair of the Academy’s Indigenous Alliance Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache/NM). Additional performers and speakers will include Academy CEO Bill Kramer, traditional vocalist and singer Calina Lawrence (Suquamish/WA), former Academy President David Rubin, current Academy President Janet Yang, emcee Earl Neconie (Kiowa/OK), emcee Jacqueline Stewart, Michael Bellanger (Ojibiway/MN & Kickapoo/OK) and the All Nation Singers and Dancers, Steve Bohay (Kiowa/OK) and the Sooner Nation Singers and Dancers, and the White Mountain Apache Crown Dancers (Apache/AZ).
*About the Academy Museum*
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is the largest museum in the United States devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking. Global in outlook and grounded in the unparalleled collections and expertise of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy Museum offers exceptional exhibitions, screenings, and programs that illuminate the world of cinema for film lovers of all ages.
In addition to ongoing film series such as Family Matinees, Oscar® Sundays, Available Space, and Branch Selects, the museum also features limited series and spotlight screenings that explore specific exhibitions, film artists, genres, and more.
Ongoing education and family programs include youth programs, family drop-in tours and workshops, and school tours.
Monthly accommodative programs include ASL Interpreted Tours for our Deaf and hard of hearing communities, Visual Description Tours for our blind and partially sighted communities, and Calm Mornings with accommodative family film screenings for neurodivergent visitors.
She’s wrong on the facts: Climate change is real, and the devastation it’s causing is not good. But politics requires stories about how things could keep getting better. We do have such a story. Unlike Marjorie Taylor Greene’s story, ours is true. It goes like this: By addressing the climate crisis, we are making the world better. With every policy step we take away from fossil fuels, we are cleaning up the air and water, creating new clean industries in which humans can thrive, making our cities greener, more beautiful, cooler, and full of life. People will live longer lives, evading heat waves and devastating storms. Indeed, our children could well have a future that is more pregnant with exciting possibility than the world we live in now.
A bit of history from the plaintiffs (likely written prior to the appointment of Fitz Johnson by Brian Kemp):
“Commissioners have been chosen by statewide election since 1906. Yet no African American has ever been elected to the Public Service Commission without having first been appointed by the governor. And even then, only one African American has ever served on the Commission.”
Why was the 1998 law passed?
The ruling by Judge Grimberg cites, among others, the 1998 reform of PSC elections from being fully-statewide to having to run statewide from residency districts. This summary from the 1998 session of the Georgia General Assembly cites that year’s HB 95 as that legislation.
The General Assembly passed HB 95 on April 7, 1998, and Governor Zell Miller signed the bill into law on April 23.
As documented here, HB 95 was co-sponsored in the House by speaker Tom Murphy (D), Reps. Terry Coleman (D), Newt Hudson (D), Larry Walker (D, the House Majority Leader), Jimmy Skipper (D, Majority Whip), and LaNett Stanley-Turner (D, Majority Caucus Secretary).
“In its original form, H.B. 95 would have prevented Commissioners Bobby Baker [R] and Dave Baker [R] from seeking re-election. The Senate, in a bipartisan effort authored by Senators Chuck Clay [R] and Charles Walker [D], amended the bill so as not to affect sitting Public Service Commissioners. Split along party lines, the House disagreed with the Senate, but in the last hour of the session accepted the Senate version.” The House version was blatantly partisan. I still question district qualification for a statewide office, but at least this version is fair to all involved,” said Commissioner Dave Baker. The legislation was first introduced in 1996 – just one year after Republicans for the first time became the majority on the PSC.”
So HB 95 seems like legislation which was not fully thought out by its authors, who also could not seek an amendment to the state constitution to establish actual districts and district-exclusive elections (since it takes 2/3 of both chambers to send a proposed amendment to the ballot). This seems like it was meant to protect Democratic incumbents on the commission from eventual defeat and (initially) force two Republican commissioners to run again for their seats, especially if Tom Murphy was involved as a sponsor.
Only in 1998 did Democrats decide to pursue this statutory change to end the fully-statewide election of PSC members, but only through a half-measure which ended up screwing over Democratic candidates for PSC in the 2000s as they hemorrhaged their remaining White rural voting base.
Will this change require a constitutional amendment or a statute law change?
Article IV Section I of the Georgia State Constitution states in full:
Paragraph I. Public Service Commission.(a) There shall be a Public Service Commission for the regulation of utilities which shall consist of five members who shall be elected by the people. The Commissioners in office on June 30, 1983, shall serve until December 31 after the general election at which the successor of each member is elected. Thereafter, all succeeding terms of members shall be for six years. Members shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. A chairman shall be selected by the members of the commission from its membership. (b) The commission shall be vested with such jurisdiction, powers, and duties as provided by law. (c) The filling of vacancies and manner and time of election of members of the commission shall be as provided by law.
Define “by the people”. Can statute law interpret that “by the people” can apply to “the people of each district”?
The Georgia Public Service Commission shall consist of five members to be elected as provided in this Code section. The members in office on January 1, 2012, and any member appointed or elected to fill a vacancy in such membership prior to the expiration of a term of office shall continue to serve out their respective terms of office. As terms of office expire, new members elected to the commission shall be required to be residents of one of five Public Service Commission Districts as hereafter provided, but each member of the commission shall be elected state wide by the qualified voters of this state who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly. Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, the election shall be held under the same rules and regulations as apply to the election of Governor. The Commissioners, who shall give their entire time to the duties of their offices, shall be elected at the general election next preceding the expiration of the terms of office of the respective incumbents. Their terms of office shall be six years and shall expire on December 31.
In order to be elected as a member of the commission from a Public Service Commission District, a person shall have resided in that district for at least 12 months prior to election thereto. A person elected as a member of the commission from a Public Service Commission District by the voters of Georgia shall continue to reside in that district during the person’s term of office, or that office shall thereupon become vacant.
When will the General Assembly work on this change?
Usually, a special session may be called in the lame duck period between election and inauguration, so I wouldn’t be surprised by this. Or this could be handled in the 2023 session.
What changes could be made to PSC elections?
What I can think of:
Single-winner District-exclusive partisan elections (as done in Mississippi, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico); or
Straight at-large election of all members and abolishing the residency districts (as done in Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota);
Partisan or non-partisan?
Remove PSC from directly-elected to governor-appointed?
Of course, New Mexico (a Democratic-majority government) passed a 2020 referendum which shrinks their Public Regulation Commission from five to three seats and shifts it from elected to gubernatorially-appointed, among other things. The changes take effect on January 1, 2023.
I can at least say that five statewide elections will be taken off the ballot, with voters having only one section reserved for PSC candidates rather than two (if they live in a district which is up for election).
Who won each district in past PSC elections?
Based on data, we do know that Democratic nominees David Burgess (2006), Stephen Oppenheimer (2012), and Lindy Miller (2018) would all have won District 3 under a district-based election method for PSC. However, I couldn’t say that District 2, the next-closest district, would see strong performances by Democratic nominees Mac Barber (2004), Keith Moffett (2010), or a hypothetical Democrat in 2016. Furthermore, the General Assembly’s removal of Gwinnett County from District 2 in 2022 would have foreclosed on a Democrat winning this district under a directly-elected system.
How will this affect independent and third-party candidates?
From my conversation with Colin McKinney, a Libertarian who was on the ballot for PSC District 2 until the election was cancelled, this will not be good for third-party and independent candidates. Libertarians, the only third party on the Georgia general ballot, usually only appear on statewide ballots for office because they are able to solicit enough petition signatures statewide to appear on the ballot in election years. This development means that Libertarians will be harder pressed to find petition signatures in each district.
How will the future PSC map comply with the VRA and other federal law?
The map will have to be drawn by Republicans to barely be compliant with the VRA, whether or not it they decide to comply with current state law mandating that PSC districts must be drawn around whole counties. How much does the 2022 map comply with the VRA’s requirements?
SCOTUS and other bodies controlled by the Federalist Society are hostile to the VRA. What do they gain from this case?
The Federalist Society cult (yes, “cult”) has a knack for using seemingly-innocuous rulings to build up larger assaults on society, and repeatedly doing so until they end up with a Shelby or Dobbs. Remember that this decision is a temporary ruling to force the 11th Circuit to reconsider their stay on Grimberg’s decision. We have no idea when SCOTUS could lift this ruling.
But we do know that the disdain for the VRA among conservatives will spur them to file cases attacking the legitimacy of the VRA. Stay woke and all that.
What will this mean for Georgia Democrats?
I expect that more Democrats (especially outgoing legislators in “safe blue” Metro Atlanta) will consider running for a PSC seat or two. Expect more competitive Democratic primaries for PSC in Metro Atlanta.
Democrats will have a few less statewide seats to compete for on the primary and general election ballot. Maybe that will help them focus on competing for 8 statewide executive seats and U.S. Senate, though.
Like, how do North Carolina Democrats, competing for U.S. Senate and 10 statewide executive seats, have such a better time competing for statewide executive elections than Georgia Democrats?
Possible that service on the PSC could me a springboard for higher office, since the PSC (currently) has larger districts than congressional or legislative districts. However, unlike Louisiana, this has not been the case for past GA PSC members. To date, only one GAPSC member has been subsequently elected governor. Those who retire early from the GAPSC often get jobs in the private sector.
There is still the possibility that the PSC could be moved from elected to appointed. In such a case, I would still see the silver lining of a stronger focus on 1+8 statewides.
Maybe this should be a time to enact stronger ethics and professional safeguards for this office.
What implications could this have for other cases?
There is a VRA case from Mississippi challenging the election of their State Supreme Court. While it’s not statewide, the current system requires that 3 justices each are elected at-large from only three districts (which also concurrently serve as the districts for their three-member Public Service Commission). As a result, only four African-Americans have ever served on the State Supreme Court in its history. With this ruling from Georgia, I wonder how this Mississippi ruling will play out.
Rose could also allow someone to challenge Alabama’s statewide at-large PSC elections. Alabama has seven statewide executive officers not including the three PSC members, but also a large Black population. Let’s see.
A record number of cities and wards enacted partnership registries on a single day (1 April)
Tokyo is set to (finally) establish a prefecture-wide partnership registry on 1 November
Saga and Fukuoka prefectures, both on Kyushu, established a mutual recognition agreement (18 August), the first between prefectures.
Crystal ball notes:
I would not be surprised if mutual recognition between prefectural governments becomes more of a thing in lieu of any national-level recognition
In Taiwan’s spree of local registries from 2015 to 2018 prior to same-sex marriage, at least one agreement was made, this being between Taipei and Kaohsiung city governments.
While Shibuya in Tokyo was the first in Japan to create a partnership registry, the city of Fukuoka was the first to establish a mutual recognition agreement with other cities, and has done so mostly with other cities’ registries on the island of Kyushu.
Most other cities which have established these mutual recognition agreements have mostly done so within the same prefecture.
This agreement between Saga and Fukuoka is likely to do a lot of advancement for the cause of same-sex civil recognition in Japan, cutting some red tape.
Saga and Fukuoka are two of eight prefectures with same-sex partnerships created since 2019, with three others (Tochigi, Shizuoka and Tokyo) joining throughout the autumn. Saga and Fukuoka are also two prefectures with registries which border each other.
Aomori and Akita, which also have registries, also border each other in Northern Honshu, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they also make an agreement soon.
With Tochigi enacting their registry on 1 September, I wouldn’t be surprised at a mutual agreement between Tochigi, Ibaraki and Gunma.
Based on the above, why are Saitama and Kanagawa holding out on prefectural registries?
I like to think of this as the whole sky always being “there”, but the Earth blocks about half of it ALL THE TIME! Alternately, if we look straight “up”, we’re always pointed towards a different part of same sky. I made these reprocessed spherical timelapses to hopefully communicate these perspectives. I think it’s pretty incredible how the sky acts like an ever-changing window on our universe.
I shot this timelapse over the course of about a week. (the camera was pretty tired and I went through a bunch of 64BG SD cards…) I ended up finally capturing one good 24-hour span with the camera pointed up, and one good 24-hour span with the camera pointed down.
I was using a circular fisheye lens with a 185 degree field of view to capture the entire sky in a single photograph. I also flipped the camera over to take a picture of the ground and capture a full spherical image (albeit separated by a day). I did a whole lot of math and editing in Lightroom (twice for each of the “up” images), Matlab for color temporal smoothing, Davinci Resolve for stabilization and looping, back to Matlab for spherical “unfolding”, back to Resolve for compositing the top and bottom images, back to Matlab again for redistorting into the “tiny planet”, and finally back into resolve again for a final render. I also passed a few frames through Imagej in order to measure some angles I needed for the polar alignment and “star stabilization”. After all that I think it turned out pretty cool!
Camera:
Sony A6000 – Aperture priority, auto-ISO, AWB
Lensbaby circular fisheye (E-mount) – adjusted aperture at sunrise and sunset to control light)
External intervalometer set to 1:20/frame (enough time to process a max 30 second exposure and associated dark frame)
Case-relay power system (plugged into the wall, you can see the orange cable on the ground…)
Dreaming in 432Hz by Unicorn Heads is licensed under a Creative Commons license
Graphics Credits:
Northern hemisphere star chart overlay – Couldn’t locate original author, shows up all over tineye…
Textures I used to make the intro 3D render:
Mercator projection of the world between 82°S and 82°N – by Strebe, Creative Commons
Solar rectilinear projection – https://ift.tt/nTYZuVw
Night sky rectilinear map – NASA Tycho Skymap https://ift.tt/Uck9fyT
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Writing by Sam Denby and Tristan Purdy
Editing by Alexander Williard
Animation led by Josh Sherrington
Sound by Graham Haerther
Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster
Seoul is the capital and largest city in South Korea. It’s considered a megacity because it has a population of over ten million people.
Seoul also has the third largest metropolitan population among Asian cities, and is the fifth largest in the world, with 26 million people.
Seoul has been continuously settled for over 2,000 years, due to the fact The Capital Area occupies a plain in the Han River valley.
It contains some of the most fertile land on the Korean peninsula, although relatively little of it is used for agriculture today.
The framework for modern-day Seoul began to emerge as the construction of electrical facilities, railroads, streetcar tracks, parks, waterworks systems, schools, and hospitals commenced at the end of the 19th century with the opening of the port.
By the 1950s the population was around 1 million people which grew 10-fold by the end of the century
During the 1960s and 70s Seoul experienced serious urban issues due to extensive population inflow, such as traffic congestion, environmental pollution, formation of illegal settlement areas, and housing shortages.
However in just 50 years, Seoul has managed to turn this around by resolving various urban problems to grow and advance into a smart city where 10 million people live comfortably today and it is considered one of the greenest megacities in the world with 27.80% public parks and gardens.
This can be considered major accomplishment for any city especially for Seoul which ranks number 7 in most densely populated cities in the world.
In comparison Tokyo only has 7.5% green spaces, despite having less than half the population density of Seoul City.
In this video we are going to show how Seoul city has transformed a traffic congested multi lane highway by restoring 5.84 km riverside into a walkable urban green space.
Making the Chengygheon river restoration on of the most successful urban green mega projects in the world.
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Due to construction, the pedestrian tube of the Maastunnel is temporarily closed. But pedestrians are not allowed to just use the bicycle path instead. Let’s see why.
UPDATE: The bikes are now stored downstairs:
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THIS EPISODE ► Wren explains the most scientifically difficult visual effect to pull off – light caustics. But what exactly makes caustics so difficult to simulate?
