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You Only Live Twice Ch.8

Eddie Munson x Reader (Eventually)

Back to your regularly scheduled programming- the gang meets Suzie!

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After a final pit stop, Argyle was back behind the wheel. A long discussion with Mike about the importance of thinking plans through had occurred, but ended in him finding Suzie's address in a phone book at the gas station. You were just glad he remembered the girl's last name.

You couldn't help the relief that filled you as you pulled into the long driveway leading up to a lovely home. You were excited to see other people after being cooped up with the boys for hours. As everyone hopped out of the van, your gaze lingered on the house. You trailed behind them, lost in your own thoughts. The image was bittersweet to you; a stately brick fortress that protected its inhabitants. The toys strewn about the yard hinted at the fun the kids who lived there had. It was everything a home should be. It was everything you'd never had. The reminder made it hard to focus on Argyle talking about his butt.

Mike's knock on the door brought you back to reality. It swung open, revealing a short, half naked young boy with a toy bow. He was covered in dirt and possibly paint, you weren't quite sure.

"Oh," Mike seemed surprised, "Hey. Is Suzie here?"

The boy aimed his bow at Mike, releasing an arrow and a battle cry. The projectile stuck itself right on his forehead, causing him to cry out in pain. The child ran away with a scream.

Mike plucked the arrow off of his forehead, and tossed it to the side as he entered the house. The rest of you followed, only to be met with chaos. Two children dressed as Vikings stood on the dining room table and duked it out in a faux sword fight. You passed by them cautiously as Argyle brought up the rear.

"This is my kinda party," you heard him murmur.

In the next room a girl lay on the floor grasping at her throat.

"I've been bitten," she wheezed, "help! Help!" A boy followed her performance with a video camera, praising her acting. Jonathan interrupted their filming.

"Uh, excuse me," he started. Having not earned the boy's attention he continued, "uh, hey, we're looking for Suzie." The boy stopped rolling and stuck his fist out.

He turned towards Jonathan, "can you... not see... that we're filming?" He asked, dramatically. Jonathan rolled his eyes and starting walking towards another room. The children resumed their work, and you couldn't help but wonder if this was what every normal household was like. The rest of you caught up to Jonathan soon enough.

In the kitchen two children were busy at the stove, chopping away at some vegetables.

"Hi, we're looking for Suzie," Mike tried.

"Don't know, don't care," the girl said simply. She turned towards her brother, "that's too much salt Peter. Father's kidneys, father's kidneys!" You exchanged a look with Will at her words, clearly he found the happenings inside the household strange too.

The lights went out and someone scolded the culprit, "Cornelius!" An older girl came over and righted the electrical board. "How many times do I have to tell you?" She asked. "That is not a toy!" She pushed the boy who answered the door away from the circuit breaker. "Come on." She lead him right through you all, making eye contact with Argyle. The group of you followed her.

She placed the boy in time out, "you make another escape, I'm getting father." He hissed at her in response.

Finally she turned around, "who the hell are you?"

"Argyle," your friend looked at her with heart eyes, "uh, and you are?"

"Eden," she said simply.

"Like the Garden," he whispered.

Jonathan interrupted their romantic moment, "wow! Hey, uh, we're looking for Suzie."

"Do you know where she is?" Will asked over Argyle's shoulder.

"Third floor, second door on your left." Jonathan, Mike, and Will started running towards the stairs with you in tow.

"Thank you," you yelled behind you.

"You see her, you make sure to give that selfish little four-eyed shit a nice little shove for me," Eden replied.

"Absolutely," Argyle said, stumbling over his words. "I will shove her for you, I will do anything for you." You rolled your eyes at his mushy words as you rushed up the stairs.

Jonathan burst through the door to Suzie's room first, finding it empty. "Well, great," he sighed, "she's not here." Mike looked towards the open window.

"Give her a shove," he recalled Eden's words. The five of you all shoved your faces out of the window, looking for the girl. "Suzie," Mike called out when he spotted her. She was adjusting some sort of metal contraption when she turned around.

"Yeah?" Suzie called back. "Who the heck are you?" She didn't recognize your faces. "And what are you doing in my room?"

"Sorry, that's- that's fair," Mike stuttered, apologizing.

"No, listen," Will started, "we're Dustin's friends."

"Yeah!" Mike agreed. "We really need your help." He gave her what he hoped was a sweet smile. She tilted her head and sighed, resigning herself to the situation.

When Suzie came back inside, Mike crafted a hilariously false story about what exactly you all needed her help with.

“Okay, that is a lot to process,” she said. You could only imagine what her reaction would be to the real story. Suzie probably would’ve kicked you all out of her house. “I mean, that might be seriously the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.” You shook your head, suddenly appreciating Mike’s quick thinking and ability to lie on the spot.

“I know,” he said, “it’s hard to believe.”

“But it’s true,” Jonathan insisted, “all true.”

You agreed instantly, nodding your head, “absolutely.”

Suzie looked at the phone number Unknown Hero Agent Man had left you with. The one clue to help you find your sister. “I dial in to this computer and find a location, and at this location is the Nina Project?” She asked.

“Exactly,” Will said, and you nodded in support.

“And the Nina Project is the code name for a video game?” Suzie questioned you all, skeptical.

“Yes,” you said assuredly.

“Well, no,” Mike corrected, “it’s not just a video game. It’s a video game console.”

“It’s basically America’s answer to Nintendo.” Will explained.

“Americantendo,” Argyle suggested.

“Right, that,” you altered your answer.

“That’s a stupid name,” Suzie said.

“It’s not called that,” you tried again, “I’m sure.”

“You’re right, if it was called that it’d be a stupid name,” Mike looked at Argyle with scorn, and gave you a similar face, “but, Suzie, it’s 16-bit.” He said, trying to convince her to lend some assistance.

“Sixteen bit?!” She asked, shocked and impressed. “Why have I never heard of it?”

“Because it’s top secret,” Mike interrupted her confusion.

“That’s why we’re doing this,” Will insisted.

“Yeah, right, it’s for-for the promotion,” Mike took this idea and ran with it, “the first people to find the secret location receive a…”

“Americantendo,” Argyle filled in.

You leaned towards Jonathan and whispered to him quickly. “Wouldn’t it just be easier for me to persuade her?”

He shook his head subtly and whispered back, “let’s give their way a shot.” You sighed but accepted his words, sitting back up in your original spot.

“So you drove 3,000 miles over your spring break so I can help you get a new video game console, no one has ever heard of?” She asked, plainly.

“Yes,” you all chorused in reply. She sighed in disbelief.

“But it’s not for us,” Will tried, “it’s for Dustin.”

“Right,” Mike agreed. “Exactly. It’s for Dustin.” He added on to Will’s idea, “it’s for Dustin’s birthday, actually, which is… uh”

“In two months, three days, and five hours,” Suzie supplied the answer. She perked up at the mention of her boyfriend.

“Suzie, I don’t know what you’re doing,” Eden burst in, “but I am not spending my entire day babysitting. Pull your damn weight!”

“Language!” Suzie scolded her.

“Oh no,” she replied sarcastically, “am I gonna burn in hell now?”

“Aw you tell her, Eden,” Argyle said quietly. You shot him a questioning look.

“Out of my room!” Suzie insisted, pushing her older sister through the door.

“Oh don’t touch me you little shit,” Eden argued as she left.

“Okay, so can you help?” Will asked, leaning on Suzie’s desk.

“I would do anything for Dustybun,” she started, “but I’m afraid there’s been an unfortunate development.” You let out a sigh, you weren’t sure their way would work after all. “After changing Dusty’s grade, I was wracked with the most awful guilt.” You couldn’t understand why something so simple would upset the girl, you’d done thousands of things worse than that. But you supposed Suzie’s situation was quite different from your own. “Father could see my soul was tortured, and he wrenched a confession out of me.” That part you understood at least, fathers were the worst. “Not only was I breaking the law, I was dating an agnostic. An agnostic!”

You turned towards Will, confused, “is that like… a hypnotist?” You asked him quietly. He shook his head.

“No, uh,” he replied quietly, “I’ll tell you later.” You shrugged gently and tuned back in to Suzie’s story.

“I’ve never seen father so angry,” she said. You got an image of the man who had once called himself your father but shook it quickly out of your head. Now was not the time for those kinds of memories. “Naturally, after learning the terrible truth, he confiscated my computer.” You were saddened by her words, according to the boys Suzie was very skilled with technology and greatly enjoyed using it. It was a shame she was parted from her passion. “And father is not one to change his mind. I’m as likely to see it again as I am my poor Dustybun,” she finished her tale of woe.

“Where is it?” Jonathan asked.

“His study,” she replied sadly, “he uses it for work now, and father’s always working. And his door is, like, permanently locked.” Will let out a huff. “I’m really sorry,” Suzie said, “truly. But it looks like you came all the way here for nothing.” You refused to accept this as the truth. As you went to refute her words the power shut off once again.

“Cornelius!” Eden shouted angrily. The boy shrieked and the lights turned back on.

“Unless…” Suzie said, coming up with an idea.

“Unless?” Mike asked excitedly.

“There might be a way,” she said, “but we’re gonna need help. And I mean a lot of help.” You exchanged a glance with Jonathan at this, and he gave you a small nod. Whatever she was planning would likely need your powers to ensure it went smoothly.

“All right,” Argyle agreed, and soon enough a plan began to form.

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venriliz · 11 months

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List 3 of your favorite sims from other simmers you enjoy and explain why (Send this to 10 other blogs 💖💖)

From the top of my head I can only think of two at the moment tbh O:

My favorite Sim is Cornelius Kidney from @squea because he's so unique and every time I see him I get very happy no matter how bad of a mood I'm in! :D

The other one is Leah by @aniraklova because she is a gorgeous creature and gives me badass mom vibes and I might have a little bit of a crush on her lmao :')

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Marlon Riggs

Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several documentary films, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs created aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films that examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.

Early life

Riggs was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 3, 1957. He was a child of civilian employees of the military and spent a great deal of his childhood traveling. He lived in Texas and Georgia before moving to West Germany at the age of 11 with his family. He was the son of Jean (mother) and Alvin Riggs (father) and also had a sibling named Sascha. Later in his life, Riggs recalled the ostracism and name-calling that he experienced at Hephzibah Junior High School in Hephzibah, Georgia. He stated that black and white students alike called him a "punk," a "faggot," and "Uncle Tom." He felt isolated from everyone at the school: "I was caught between these two worlds where the whites hated me and the blacks disparaged me. It was so painful."

Riggs excelled at Nurnberg American High School, where he played football and ran track, and was elected President of the Varsity Club while only a sophomore. He also performed a solo interpretive dance in the school's talent show depicting American slaves' experiences from Africa through emancipation. From 1973 to 1974 Riggs attended Ansbach American High School's opening year in Katterbach, Germany. He was elected student body president at the military dependents school. In 1974, Riggs returned to the United States to attend college. As an undergraduate, he studied history at Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude in 1978. While a student at Harvard, Riggs became conscious that he was gay. Because there were no courses that supported the study of homosexuality, he petitioned the history department and received approval to pursue independent study of the portrayal of "male homosexuality in American fiction and poetry". As he began studying the history of American racism and homophobia, Riggs became interested in communicating his ideas about these subjects through film.

After working for a local television station in Texas for about a year, he moved to Oakland, California, where he lived for 15 years with his life partner, Jack Vincent. Riggs entered graduate school and received his master's degree in journalism with a specialization in Documentary film in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley, having co-produced/co-directed with Peter Webster a master's thesis titled Long Train Running: The Story of the Oakland Blues, a half-hour video on the history of blues music in Oakland, California.

Film career

Upon finishing graduate school, Riggs began working on many independent documentary productions in the Bay Area. He assisted documentary directors and producers initially as an assistant editor and later as a post-production supervisor, editor on documentaries about the American arms race, Nicaragua, Central America, sexism, and disability rights. Because of his proficiency in video technology, Riggs was the on-line editor for a video production company, Espresso Productions. In 1987, Riggs was hired as a part-time faculty member at the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley to teach documentary filmmaking. He became the youngest tenured professor at Berkeley shortly thereafter.

That same year he completed his first professional feature documentary Ethnic Notions. An independently produced documentary, the film received technical support (online editing) from KQED, a public television station in San Francisco, and aired on public television stations throughout the United States. In Ethnic Notions, Riggs sought to explore widespread and persistent stereotypes of black people – images of ugly, savage brutes and happy servants – in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Edited by Debbie Hoffmann, the film uses a narrative voice-over provided by African-American actress Esther Rolle in explaining striking film footage and historical stills which expose the blatant racism of the era immediately following the Civil War. The documentary also presents a set of contemporary interviews with expert commentators, including historians George Fredrickson and Larry Levine, cultural critic Barbara Christian, folklorist Patricia Turner, collector Jan Faulkner, and many others, who discuss the consequences of historical African-American stereotypes. This film expanded the commonly held assumptions about the parameters of documentary film aesthetics through its bold use of original performance, dance, and music to explore a historical narrative.

While Riggs continued working as an educator at Berkeley, he kept making his own films. The 1989 film Tongues Untied, a highly personalized and moving documentary about the life experiences of gay African-American men, was aired as part of the PBS television series P.O.V. The film employs autobiographical footage as well as performance, including monologues, songs, poems, and nonverbal gestures such as snapping, to convey an authentic and positive black gay identity. In order to demonstrate the harmful effects of silence on self-esteem, the film contrasts this image with negative representations of gay black men as comic-tragic stock caricatures and drag queens in contemporary American popular culture. The three principle voices of Tongues Untied are those of Riggs as well as gay rights activists and men infected with HIV Essex Hemphill and Joseph Beam. Riggs characterized the film as his legacy, his "last gift to the community," that displays him as both a filmmaker and a gay rights activist. Tongues Untied was so controversial, that its airing was a major event; some local public TV stations refused to put it on the air, while others celebrated its creation and originality. "Tongues Untied," held political backlash; Republican Senator Jesse Helms famously argued to defund the arts after its release. This documentary also paved the way for other films to come later such as Paris is Burning (1990). He described the production as his own personal "coming out" film celebrating black gay life experiences and that he ultimately became "the person, the vehicle, and the vessel" for these experiences. Riggs explained that Tongues Untied was a catharsis for him: "It was a release of a lot of decades-old, pent-up emotion, rage, guilt, feelings of impotence in the face of some of my experiences as a youth. . . It allowed me to move past all of those things that were bottled up inside me. . . I could finally let go."

In 1988, while working both on Color Adjustment and Tongues Untied, Riggs was diagnosed with HIV after undergoing treatment for near-fatal kidney failure at a hospital in Germany. The film shows the pain as well as the mentally and physically agonizing therapy that Riggs had to go through in order to deal with his kidney failure. But despite his deteriorating health, Riggs decided to continue to teach at Berkeley and make documentaries.

In the short 1990 piece Affirmations, Riggs further developed his critique of homophobia that he originally expressed in Tongues Untied. In Affirmations, a film made from the outtakes of Tongues Untied, Riggs explored the African-American males' sexuality and relationship with the African-American community at large. Voice overs of gay African-American men described their feelings of isolation from a community in which they were once raised with love and support. Some of the men expressed the lack of acceptance within the African-American community and the divide their sexual orientation caused. They vocalized they wanted to identify as both gay and African American with support from family, friends, and the African-American community. Riggs included a coming-out story of black gay writer Reginald T. Jackson and footage of black gay men marching in a Harlem African American Freedom Day Parade. In 1991, Riggs directed and produced Anthem, a short documentary about African-American male sexuality. The film includes a collage of erotic images of black men, hip-hop music, and a call to celebrate difference in sexuality.

In 1991, Marlon founded Signifyin' Works, a non-profit corporation whose mission is to produce films about African-American history and culture. The founding Board of Directors included Herman Gray, Vivian Kleiman, Cornelius Moore, and Patricia Turner.

The 1992 documentary Color Adjustment was Riggs's second film to air on the PBS television series P.O.V. The film Color Adjustment was Riggs's follow-up to Ethnic Notions, focusing on the representation of African Americans in American television from Amos 'n' Andy to the Cosby Show. However, unlike Ethnic Notions, which presents a putative, neutral stance on popular American representations of blacks, Color Adjustment presents a cultural criticism of these images through an African-American perspective on race. The film was produced with Vivian Kleiman, edited by Debbie Hoffmann, and narrated by actress Ruby Dee. It includes an original music score by Mary Watkins. Using contemporary interviews of television actors, directors, producers, and cultural commentators, the documentary conveys personal reflections and academic analyses of such television programs as Good Times and The Cosby Show.

In 1992, Riggs directed the film [Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret)], in which five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality. It was commissioned by Executive Producer Jonathan Lee as part of a series of documentaries on the AIDS crisis, The Fear of Disclosure Project. The series was screened in observation of World AIDS Day and Day Without Art. It included the participation of Phil Zwickler, David Wojnarowicz, Ellen Spiro, Vivian Kleiman, and others.

In 1993, Riggs received an honorary doctorate degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts. That same year, Riggs's experimental short Anthem was featured in a collection of short films entitled Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema.

Shortly after completing Color Adjustment, Riggs began work on what was to be his final film Black Is. . . Black Ain't, but he died at the age of 37 from complications caused by AIDS on April 5, 1994, before he could complete it. The project was completed posthumously by co-producer Nicole Atkinson, co-director/editor Christiane Badgley, and the Signifyin' Works Board of Directors. Much of the final text of Black Is. . . Black Ain't was recounted by Riggs in his hospital room. "It was as if the film were rolling before me," he said, "and I was just transcribing; I almost couldn't keep up." The film therefore contains many scenes of Riggs on his hospital bed. The documentary takes on the topic of African-American identity, including considerations of skin color, religion, politics, class stratification, sexuality, and gender difference that revolve around it. "In this film, Marlon Riggs meets a cross-section of African Americans grappling with the paradox of numerous, often contradictory definitions of blackness. He shows many who have felt uncomfortable and even silenced within the race because their complexion, class, sexuality, gender, or speech has rendered them "not black enough," or conversely, "too black." The film scrutinizes the identification of "blackness" with masculinity as well as sexism, patriarchy and homophobia in black America."

Poetry

Besides making documentaries and teaching at Berkeley, Riggs also wrote poetry from time to time, as evidenced in Tongues Untied, which contains several of his poems about his life experiences as a black gay man. In his poem "Tongues Untied," Riggs discusses the racism he encountered as a child while living in Georgia as well as coming out about his homosexuality. Riggs's poetry was inspired by friend, poet, and activist Essex Hemphill.

Writings

Riggs's writings were published during the late 1980s and early 1990s in various art and literary journals such as Black American Literature Forum, Art Journal, and High Performance as well as anthologies such as Brother to Brother: Collected Writings by Black Gay Men. The themes of his writings include filmmaking, free speech and censorship, and criticism of racism and homophobia.

In his noteworthy essay "Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a SNAP! Queen," Riggs discusses how representations of black gay men in the United States have been used to shape Americans' conceptions of race and sexuality. He argues that Americans' emphasis on the "black macho" figure – the warrior model of black masculinity based on a mythologized view of African history – signifies an exclusion of black homosexual males from the African-American community, which results in their dehumanization and rationalizes homophobia. Riggs makes a distinction between the black gay man's perception of himself and his representation in America as the "Negro faggot," an extreme displacement and distortion of black homosexuality. He explains that the "black macho" image is sustained through performances such as rap music, television shows, the films of Spike Lee, and the comedy routines of Eddie Murphy. According to Riggs, the black homosexual male is therefore defined as the deviant Other in relation to the African American community, and Riggs claims that this contemporary practice mirrors the historical racist constructions of the African-American identity: "Blacks are inferior because they are not white. Black gays are unnatural because they are not straight. Majority representations of both affirm the view that blackness and gayness constitute a fundamental rupture in the order of things, that our very existence is an affront to nature and humanity."

Themes and style

Riggs's films deal with representations of race and sexuality in the United States. Riggs was critical of American racism and homophobia. He used his films to show positive images of African-American culture as well as those of physical and emotional love between black men in order to challenge representations of African Americans and black gay men in popular culture. However, he recognized that the images he conveyed would cause resistance among many Americans: "People are often frightened of difference. . . that requires that they rethink their own beliefs, their own premises, their own sense of self, culture and history, and sense of belonging. When you present anything on the level of contention, you encounter resistance."

Riggs believed that being a filmmaker was a means to communicate his message, not an end in and of itself. Riggs explained that he did not become a filmmaker because he loved films as a child but because he wanted to communicate his message: "I didn't know anything about filmmaking when I decided to become a filmmaker. What drew me to film and video was that I wanted to communicate so much. . . I wanted to communicate to the broadest possible audience and for me that was television." Riggs strongly believed in speaking out about the topics he cared about through his films. He explained that whenever he became passionate about an issue, he could not stop himself from speaking out about it: "Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing."

As a graduate student at Berkeley, Riggs was educated in journalism and conventional documentary filmmaking, which stresses objectivity and employing an academic stance. But his film style quickly evolved to be rather personal and emotional. His first professional film Ethnic Notions, was composed of expert commentary, historical stills and film footage, and omniscient narration—standard elements for documentary films of the time. Yet at the same time, the film greatly departs from the norm of the day through its playful use of performance, satire and audio. Philip Brian Harper, an associate professor of English at New York University, explains that by challenging the norms of standard television documentary, Riggs was an innovator of television programming in America: "Riggs's work itself challenged television's generic boundaries. Riggs troubled broadcast convention, seen as implicitly under attack in the presentation of his work."

According to Nichols, Marlon Riggs used the Performative Mode for films such as Anthem and Tongues Untied. His use of poetry and performance conveys the affective and emotion-laden quality of performative documentary.

Awards and Recognition

Riggs's documentaries have received much critical acclaim. Riggs received a National Emmy Award in 1987 for Ethnic Notions. Tongues Untied was awarded the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival. The film also received recognition from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Documentary Film Festival, the American Film and Video Festival, and the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. In 1992, Riggs was awarded the Maya Daren Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Additionally, Color Adjustment won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians, the International Documentary Association Outstanding Achievement Award, and a premiere screening the Sundance Film Festival. "Color Adjustment" also garnered a nomination for a national Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Research. Riggs also received the Frameline Award from the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival for his film Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret). Moreover, Black is. . . Black Ain't won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and was praised by the Sundance Film Festival. Riggs also was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the California College for the Arts & Crafts in 1993.

Alongside Riggs's many film awards he has also been given the honor to have a building for low-income housing dedicated in his name. There is a section of a housing unit named The Marlon Riggs Apartments / Vernon Street located in Oakland, California. In 1996 a plaque with a picture of Marlon was hung inside of the building's lobby area to commemorate Riggs. At the time the housing unit was the first building constructed for low-income people with HIV/AIDS. This property is funded through The John Stewart Company and was awarded $2 million for its construction to help people living with HIV/AIDS have a stable environment.

In 2006, Riggs was awarded into the NLGJA LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame

In 2014, Signifyin' Works donated $100,000 to create the Marlon T. Riggs Fellowship in Documentary Filmmaking at the UC Berkley Journalism for graduate students in documentary film. It is the first Fellowship named for a documentary filmmaker at a university in the United States.

In 2019, The Brooklyn Academy of Music featured Marlon Riggs's work with a show of Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs.

Controversy

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Riggs's production Tongues Untied triggered a national controversy surrounding the airing of the video on American public television stations. Along with his own funds, Riggs had financed the documentary with a $5,000 grant from the Western States Regional Arts Fund, a re-granting agency funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, an independent federal agency that provides funding and support for visual, literary, and performing artists. The film received much contention due to its depiction of men kissing.

News of the film's airing sparked a national debate about whether or not it is appropriate for the Federal government of the United States to fund artistic creations that offended some. Artists stressed their basic right of free speech, of representation on public airwaves, and vehemently opposed censorship of their art. However, several right-wing United States government policymakers and many conservative watchdog groups were against using taxpayer money to fund what they believed were repulsive artistic works. In the 1992 Republican presidential primaries, presidential candidate Pat Buchanan cited Tongues Untied as an example of how President George H. W. Bush was investing "our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art." Buchanan released an anti-Bush television advertisement for his campaign using re-edited clips from Tongues United. The ad was quickly removed from television channels after Riggs successfully demonstrated Buchanan's copyright infringement.

Reverend Donald E. Wildmon, the president of the American Family Association, opposed PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts for airing Tongues Untied but hoped that the film would be widely released, because he believed most Americans would find it offensive. "This will be the first time millions of Americans will have an opportunity to see the kinds of things their tax money is being spent on," he said. "This is the first time there is no third party telling them what is going on; they can see for themselves."

Riggs defended Tongues Untied for its ability to "shatter this nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference." He explained that the widespread attack on PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts in response to the film was predictable, since "any public institution caught deviating from their puritanical morality is inexorably blasted as contributing to the nation's social decay." In his defense, Riggs claimed that "implicit in the much overworked rhetoric about 'community standards' is the assumption of only one central community (patriarchal, heterosexual and usually white) and only one overarching cultural standard to which television programming must necessarily appeal." Riggs stated that ironically, the censorship campaign against Tongues Untied actually brought more publicity to the film than it would have otherwise received and thus allowed it to achieve its initial aim of challenging societal standards regarding depictions of race and sexuality.

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Choral Music Lovers Supports Robert Avafia

Lovers of Ghanaian choral music last week showed that their goodwill extends beyond a casual love for the output of our community’s creative minds, and to the creators themselves.

This afternoon, two groups, the Ghana Organist Guild and “all Choral Music Lovers” paid a courtesy call on Robert Eyram Avafia. Robert, a former organist at the Accra Ridge Church, has been suffering from the failure of both his kidneys for the last three months.

Among those present at the presentation were Ferdinand Reimmer, George Edzie, Cornelius Quarshie, Miss Laura Lartey, Mr Adjie Horlm and Hilda Cudjoe.

Mr. Avafia’s treatment includes dialysis twice a week, which costs him about 520 cedis. A total amount of 5,560 GHS was donated to help Robert meet these and other hospital bills.

#donation #choral music in ghana #choral music #kidney failure #dialysis #ridge church #Robert Avafia

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corneliuscornbreadchronicles · 3 years

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🦋 It’s me, Bea! I am like a butterfly — Bea•utiful to look at but so hard to catch. 😉 J/K Im actually easy to catch these days. 😹 Today I am showing off my whiskers for #ladieswhiskerswednesday in memory of sweet Daria @parker_the_californian_cat ⁣ ⁣ Meowm gave me a bath this past weekend and a furdo to help with my grooming and it made me feel like a new woman so I thought it was time to take a new photo! ⁣ ⁣ I have been having a much better couple of weeks. My appetite has improved so I’m eating better and I have the sparkle back in my eyes! ⁣ ⁣ I’ve lost a lot of weight though and am still dealing with 🤢 daily. I go for regular checkups every few weeks for my hyperthyroidism, chronic kidney disease and Bowen’s Disease and my pawrents are taking such good care of me. ⁣ ⁣ Love always,⁣ 👑 Bea•utiful Queen Bea 🐝 ⁣ ⁣ 🦋 Special thanks to our dear friends Jackie and Sweet Pea @lisaski64 for gifting us this bandana! ⁣⁣ ⁣ 💕Stay tuned for Cornelius’s meowvalous 👑 Crown and Paw Portrait!! In the meantime, check out @crownandpaw and be sure to use promo code 💰 CORNELIUS15 when ordering yours! #crownandpaw.⁣ ⁣ ✅ We are meowdels! 🐶🐱 Tap the link in our profile and save 15% off with 💰code Corny15 💙 mrsnowsbowties.com 💙❄️ @mrsnowsbowties⁣ ⁣ 💙Cofounder @pawshcatclub 🎩 #pawshcatclub⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ #topcatsclub #purrfectfelines #meowdaily #catfeaturesofig #meowdeling #featuredcats_ig #dailycatpic #allmeowphotos #whitecatsofig #sweetcatclub #whitecatsociety #fancycat #catsandkittens #pawsies_club #bestmeowdels #whitecatlove #themeowdaily #bestcatclub #catfeaturefriends #club_of_cats #meowbeauties #themeowlife #dailycats #whitecats #catladylife #whitecatsrule — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/32fpBLZ

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newsnextnow · 3 years

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Death of Nebraska man whose body was mistaken for Halloween prank in 2016 still unsolved To Kenneth and Diane Perry, their son Cornelius Hodges was always known as their angel. At just two years old, the tot became sick and suffered kidney failure, ultimately losing one of his kidneys which led to developmental disabilities.

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squea · 5 months

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corn. fresh off the cob.

#he hasnt grown horns yet #i needed to test the vampire defaults on other age groups and then i got distracted!#cornelius kidney #ts4 #the sims 4

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misforgotten2 · 7 years

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Joffrey Baratheon liked to parade is kidney in front of unsuspecting courtiers.

The Human Body: What it is and How it Works by Mitchell Wilson illustrated by Cornelius de Witt 1959

#children's illustration #vintage illustration #medical illustration #scientific illustration #funny

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3creations · 5 years

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AIA - PR/Communications

I was a consultant for the AIA Group, helping them with PR, marketing and communications.

THE CHALLENGE

AIA required help forming and delivering effective, professional marketing communications. They needed an expert adviser to help devise and ideate key messages and deliver them to the general public and media.

THE SOLUTION

I was contracted to provide tailored communications support related to AIA’s core brand promise of helping people live healthier, longer, better lives - everything from digital assets to creative and media releases.

I have also been assigned speech-writing duties for the in-country and regional CEOs, ensuring they stay on-message when they are out presenting in public.

CREATIVE BRIEF

The ultimate aim of our communications strategy, that runs through all marketing, is to position AIA as a leader in promoting healthy lifestyles.

We worked in conjunction with key partners Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, a leading English Premier League team, and AIA Global Ambassador David Beckham, and utilise a variety of channels - social, digital, media and more.

RESULTS

EXAMPLE MEDIA RELEASE

Below you will find an example media release we did for the company’s 100-year celebrations, marked across all 18 of their markets.

AIA Cambodia Celebrates AIA Centennial: 100 Years with 1 Promise—Helping Cambodians Live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

In 1919 Cornelius Vander Starr began an insurance business in Shanghai, China. 100 years on from those early origins, AIA has become the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group. AIA Cambodia, as part of the AIA Group, is proud to be celebrating this significant 100-year milestone. It has been a courageous journey of pioneering spirit. A 100-year journey of extraordinary growth and success. And, of course, our journey continues.

AIA Cambodia held an all-day event at Phnom Penh’s Sokha Hotel & Residence yesterday in celebration of the insurance group’s AIA Centennial. With a theme of “100 Years with 1 Promise”, the event included a variety of activities to reinforce AIA’s commitment to helping people live healthier, longer, better lives.

AIA Cambodia CEO Richard Bates said: “We are proud to be celebrating an important milestone in the history of the AIA Group, a 100-year journey that has impacted millions of lives for the better. I’m also particularly excited to be marking our Centennial by rolling out our new 100 Football Fields initiative, which will provide 100 schools across Cambodia with improved playing fields and equipment to help instil a love of football and healthy living in the next generation.”

AIA Cambodia’s new Corporate & Social Responsibility initiative will provide 100 primary schools across the country with improved football fields, with each eligible school also receiving 2 goal posts, 4 A-boards, 10 footballs, 30 bibs and 40 cones. Primary schools can apply and learn more about the programme by going to the AIA Cambodia Facebook Page.

Attendees of the event were also offered a free health check-up and consultation to check their vital signs and markers for kidney and pancreas disease, two critical illnesses that have recently been added to AIA Cambodia’s first-of-its-kind life insurance product, Samrab Chivit. The plan also includes cover against a range of other critical illnesses, including cancer, stroke, liver disease and all major organ transplants.

Elsewhere there was a Healthy Living Gallery offering valuable tips on nutrition, physical fitness, mental wellbeing, work-life balance and living environment. There was also a Family Corner with colouring, statue painting, Twister, Air Hockey, Dunk Tank, Snag Golf, magic sessions, and exotic animal shows. The theme of healthy living was further enhanced by live football drills along with mountain climbing, trampolining and Yoga sessions led by qualified instructors.

The event centred around a 1KM run by a team of AIA100 Champions, a collection of special individuals affiliated with AIA, including staff, customers, doctors, nurses, athletes and celebrities, who each passed along the AIA Centennial Baton to symbolise the group’s 100-year journey.

The AIA Centennial Baton is a metaphor for AIA’s 100-year journey and will travel across all of AIA’s markets; from Cambodia, the youngest business, all the way back to Shanghai where the story began. The Centennial Baton features life policy no. 0001 issued by founder Cornelius Vander Starr as well as technology to track the steps and distance that the baton will travel.

AIA Group’s Regional Chief Executive Jacky Chan, who flew in specially for the event, said: “AIA’s origins can be traced back to 1919 in Shanghai, and to see the business flourishing in a new market like Cambodia makes everyone at AIA extremely proud. As we look to the next 100 years, we feel our commitment to helping people live healthier, longer, better lives could not be more relevant.”

FUTURE

The 2-year contract ended in October 2020.

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plinyknowsbest · 4 years

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Cornelius Cossus was contrived except the kidneys.

#plinyknowsbest

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gordonwilliamsweb · 4 years

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As The Coronavirus Spreads, Americans Lose Ground Against Other Health Threats

For much of the 20th century, medical progress seemed limitless.

Antibiotics revolutionized the care of infections. Vaccines turned deadly childhood diseases into distant memories. Americans lived longer, healthier lives than their parents.

Yet today, some of the greatest success stories in public health are unraveling.

Even as the world struggles to control a mysterious new virus known as COVID-19, U.S. health officials are refighting battles they thought they had won, such as halting measles outbreaks, reducing deaths from heart disease and protecting young people from tobacco. These hard-fought victories are at risk as parents avoid vaccinating children, obesity rates climb, and vaping spreads like wildfire among teens.

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Things looked promising for American health in 2014, when life expectancy hit 78.9 years. Then, life expectancy declined for three straight years — the longest sustained drop since the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed about 675,000 Americans and 50 million people worldwide, said Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Although life expectancy inched up slightly in 2018, it hasn’t yet regained the lost ground, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“These trends show we’re going backwards,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

While the reasons for the backsliding are complex, many public health problems could have been avoided, experts say, through stronger action by federal regulators and more attention to prevention.

“We’ve had an overwhelming investment in doctors and medicine,” said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health. “We need to invest in prevention — safe housing, good schools, living wages, clean air and water.”

The country has split into two states of health, often living side by side, but with vastly different life expectancies. Americans in the fittest neighborhoods are living longer and better — hoping to live to 100 and beyond — while residents of the sickest communities are dying from preventable causes decades earlier, which pulls down life expectancy overall.

Superbugs — resistant to even the strongest antibiotics — threaten to turn back the clock on the treatment of infectious diseases. Resistance occurs when bacteria and fungi evolve in ways that let them survive and flourish, in spite of treatment with the best available drugs. Each year, resistant organisms cause more than 2.8 million infections and kill more than 35,000 people in the U.S.

With deadly new types of bacteria and fungi ever emerging, Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, said the world has entered a “post-antibiotic era.” Half of all new gonorrhea infections, for example, are resistant to at least one type of antibiotic, and the CDC warns that “little now stands between us and untreatable gonorrhea.”

That news comes as the CDC also reports a record number of combined cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, which were once so easily treated that they seemed like minor threats compared with HIV.

The United States has seen a resurgence of congenital syphilis, a scourge of the 19th century, which increases the risk of miscarriage, permanent disabilities and infant death. Although women and babies can be protected with early prenatal care, 1,306 newborns were born with congenital syphilis in 2018 and 94 of them died, according to the CDC.

Those numbers illustrate the “failure of American public health,” said Dr. Cornelius “Neil” Clancy, a spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. “It should be a global embarrassment.”

The proliferation of resistant microbes has been fueled by overuse, by doctors who write unnecessary prescriptions as well as farmers who give the drugs to livestock, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Although new medications are urgently needed, drug companies are reluctant to develop antibiotics because of the financial risk, said Clancy, noting that two developers of antibiotics recently went out of business. The federal government needs to do more to make sure patients have access to effective treatments, he said. “The antibiotic market is on life support,” Clancy said. “That shows the real perversion in how the health care system is set up.”

A Slow Decline

A closer look at the data shows that American health was beginning to suffer 30 years ago. Increases in life expectancy slowed as manufacturing jobs moved overseas and factory towns deteriorated, Woolf said.

By the 1990s, life expectancy in the United States was falling behind that of other developed countries.

The obesity epidemic, which began in the 1980s, is taking a toll on Americans in midlife, leading to diabetes and other chronic illnesses that deprive them of decades of life. Although novel drugs for cancer and other serious diseases give some patients additional months or even years, Khan said, “the gains we’re making at the tail end of life cannot make up for what’s happening in midlife.”

Progress against overall heart disease has stalled since 2010. Deaths from heart failure — which can be caused by high blood pressure and blocked arteries around the heart — are rising among middle-aged people. Deaths from high blood pressure, which can lead to kidney failure, also have increased since 1999.

“It’s not that we don’t have good blood pressure drugs,” Khan said. “But those drugs don’t do any good if people don’t have access to them.”

Addicting A New Generation

While the United States never declared victory over alcohol or drug addiction, the country has made enormous progress against tobacco. Just a few years ago, anti-smoking activists were optimistic enough to talk about the “tobacco endgame.”

Today, vaping has largely replaced smoking among teens, said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Although cigarette use among high school students fell from 36% in 1997 to 5.8% today, studies show 31% of seniors used electronic cigarettes in the previous month.

FDA officials say they’ve taken “vigorous enforcement actions aimed at ensuring e-cigarettes and other tobacco products aren’t being marketed or sold to kids.” But Myers said FDA officials were slow to recognize the threat to children.

With more than 5 million teens using e-cigarettes, Myers said, “more kids are addicted to nicotine today than at any time in the past 20 years. If that trend isn’t reversed rapidly and dynamically, it threatens to undermine 40 years of progress.”

Ignoring Science

Where children live has long determined their risk of infectious disease. Around the world, children in the poorest countries often lack access to lifesaving vaccines.

Yet in the United States — where a federal program provides free vaccines — some of the lowest vaccination rates are in affluent communities, where some parents disregard the medical evidence that vaccinating kids is safe.

Studies show that vaccination rates are drastically lower in some private schools and “holistic kindergartens” than in public schools.

It could be argued that vaccines have been a victim of their own success.

Before the development of a vaccine in the 1960s, measles infected an estimated 4 million Americans a year, hospitalizing 48,000, causing brain inflammation in about 1,000 and killing 500, according to the CDC.

By 2000, measles cases had fallen to 86, and the United States declared that year that it had eliminated the routine spread of measles.

“Now, mothers say, ‘I don’t see any measles. Why do we have to keep vaccinating?’” Schaffner said. “When you don’t fear the disease, it becomes very hard to value the vaccine.”

Last year, a measles outbreak in New York communities with low vaccination rates spread to almost 1,300 people — the most in 25 years — and nearly cost the country its measles elimination status. “Measles is still out there,” Schaffner said. “It is our obligation to understand how fragile our victory is.”

Health-Wealth Disparities

To be sure, some aspects of American health are getting better.

Cancer death rates have fallen 27% in the past 25 years, according to the American Cancer Society. The teen birth rate is at an all-time low; teen pregnancy rates have dropped by half since 1991, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. And HIV, which was once a death sentence, can now be controlled with a single daily pill. With treatment, people with HIV can live into old age.

“It’s important to highlight the enormous successes,” Redfield said. “We’re on the verge of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in the next 10 years.”

Yet the health gap has grown wider in recent years. Life expectancy in some regions of the country grew by four years from 2001 to 2014, while it shrank by two years in others, according to a 2016 study in JAMA.

The gap in life expectancy is strongly linked to income: The richest 1% of American men live 15 years longer than the poorest 1%; the richest women live 10 years longer than the poorest, according to the JAMA study.

“We’re not going to erase that difference by telling people to eat right and exercise,” said Dr. Richard Besser, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director of the CDC. “Personal choices are part of it. But the choices people make depend on the choices they’re given. For far too many people, their choices are extremely limited.”

The infant mortality rate of black babies is twice as high as that of white newborns, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Babies born to well-educated, middle-class black mothers are more likely to die before their 1st birthday than babies born to poor white mothers with less than a high school education, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.

In trying to improve American health, policymakers in recent years have focused largely on expanding access to medical care and encouraging healthy lifestyles. Today, many advocate taking a broader approach, calling for systemic change to lift families out of the poverty that erodes mental and physical health.

“So many of the changes in life expectancy are related to changes in opportunity,” Besser said. “Economic opportunity and health go hand in hand.”

Several policies have been shown to improve health.

Children who receive early childhood education, for example, have lower rates of obesity, child abuse and neglect, youth violence and emergency department visits, according to the CDC.

And earned income tax credits — which provide refunds to lower-income people — have been credited with keeping more families and children above the poverty line than any other federal, state or local program, according to the CDC. Among families who receive these tax credits, mothers have better mental health and babies have lower rates of infant mortality and weigh more at birth, a sign of health.

Improving a person’s environment has the potential to help them far more than writing a prescription, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health.

“If we think we can treat our way out of this, we will never solve the problem,” Auerbach said. “We need to look upstream at the underlying causes of poor health.”

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dinafbrownil · 4 years

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As The Coronavirus Spreads, Americans Lose Ground Against Other Health Threats

For much of the 20th century, medical progress seemed limitless.

Antibiotics revolutionized the care of infections. Vaccines turned deadly childhood diseases into distant memories. Americans lived longer, healthier lives than their parents.

Yet today, some of the greatest success stories in public health are unraveling.

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Although life expectancy inched up slightly in 2018, it hasn’t yet regained the lost ground, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“These trends show we’re going backwards,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

While the reasons for the backsliding are complex, many public health problems could have been avoided, experts say, through stronger action by federal regulators and more attention to prevention.

A Slow Decline

By the 1990s, life expectancy in the United States was falling behind that of other developed countries.

“It’s not that we don’t have good blood pressure drugs,” Khan said. “But those drugs don’t do any good if people don’t have access to them.”

Addicting A New Generation

Ignoring Science

Where children live has long determined their risk of infectious disease. Around the world, children in the poorest countries often lack access to lifesaving vaccines.

Studies show that vaccination rates are drastically lower in some private schools and “holistic kindergartens” than in public schools.

It could be argued that vaccines have been a victim of their own success.

By 2000, measles cases had fallen to 86, and the United States declared that year that it had eliminated the routine spread of measles.

“Now, mothers say, ‘I don’t see any measles. Why do we have to keep vaccinating?’” Schaffner said. “When you don’t fear the disease, it becomes very hard to value the vaccine.”

Health-Wealth Disparities

To be sure, some aspects of American health are getting better.

“It’s important to highlight the enormous successes,” Redfield said. “We’re on the verge of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in the next 10 years.”

“So many of the changes in life expectancy are related to changes in opportunity,” Besser said. “Economic opportunity and health go hand in hand.”

Several policies have been shown to improve health.

Children who receive early childhood education, for example, have lower rates of obesity, child abuse and neglect, youth violence and emergency department visits, according to the CDC.

Improving a person’s environment has the potential to help them far more than writing a prescription, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health.

“If we think we can treat our way out of this, we will never solve the problem,” Auerbach said. “We need to look upstream at the underlying causes of poor health.”

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stephenmccull · 4 years

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As The Coronavirus Spreads, Americans Lose Ground Against Other Health Threats

For much of the 20th century, medical progress seemed limitless.

Antibiotics revolutionized the care of infections. Vaccines turned deadly childhood diseases into distant memories. Americans lived longer, healthier lives than their parents.

Yet today, some of the greatest success stories in public health are unraveling.

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Although life expectancy inched up slightly in 2018, it hasn’t yet regained the lost ground, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“These trends show we’re going backwards,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an assistant professor of cardiology and epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

While the reasons for the backsliding are complex, many public health problems could have been avoided, experts say, through stronger action by federal regulators and more attention to prevention.

A Slow Decline

By the 1990s, life expectancy in the United States was falling behind that of other developed countries.

“It’s not that we don’t have good blood pressure drugs,” Khan said. “But those drugs don’t do any good if people don’t have access to them.”

Addicting A New Generation

Ignoring Science

Where children live has long determined their risk of infectious disease. Around the world, children in the poorest countries often lack access to lifesaving vaccines.

Studies show that vaccination rates are drastically lower in some private schools and “holistic kindergartens” than in public schools.

It could be argued that vaccines have been a victim of their own success.

By 2000, measles cases had fallen to 86, and the United States declared that year that it had eliminated the routine spread of measles.

“Now, mothers say, ‘I don’t see any measles. Why do we have to keep vaccinating?’” Schaffner said. “When you don’t fear the disease, it becomes very hard to value the vaccine.”

Health-Wealth Disparities

To be sure, some aspects of American health are getting better.

“It’s important to highlight the enormous successes,” Redfield said. “We’re on the verge of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in the next 10 years.”

“So many of the changes in life expectancy are related to changes in opportunity,” Besser said. “Economic opportunity and health go hand in hand.”

Several policies have been shown to improve health.

Children who receive early childhood education, for example, have lower rates of obesity, child abuse and neglect, youth violence and emergency department visits, according to the CDC.

Improving a person’s environment has the potential to help them far more than writing a prescription, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health.

“If we think we can treat our way out of this, we will never solve the problem,” Auerbach said. “We need to look upstream at the underlying causes of poor health.”

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