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Bronstein, Phil: Moscone administration
No full textPhil Bronstein: I think that George’s, probably his entire administration of two years, but certainly at the beginning it was a function of herding cats. Suddenly you had turned on the lights and opened the doors and invited all these people who had no voice in government and no power, and suddenly they’re all in City Hall. I think there was pretty early on the kind of thing that we’ve seen with the Obama administration to a certain extent where there was a high expectation among certain communities. That “Okay, now we have the power.” And that included the Gay community which did have a fair amount of power particularly after district elections. I think that you had all the unhappiness that evolved out of the election campaign and the other half of the city, the western half and downtown half of the city maybe, sort of beating on his head. Again, from a day to day perspective, I didn’t cover City Hall so it’s hard for me to sorta tell you what the intricacies and logistics and details were, but it struck me that George was having a hell of a time trying to corral all these personalities and strong personalities. Many of them diverging and conflicting of each other. How do you make that happen? I think he was a very good legislator, and very good legislators have not necessarily proven to be good administrators, and that’s true probably everywhere, but certainly in San Francisco. I think he was struggling with that
Bronstein, Phil: San Francisco\u27s political divide
No full textPhil Bronstein: Well I think that a lot of groups of different communities in San Francisco had really not had much of a voice in previous administrations. I can’t really speak personally prior to Alioto, but I think that powerful people ran the city and controlled the city. It wasn’t exactly Richard Daly, but it had the same effect. So you had a variety of communities. You had women becoming much more politically conscious and aggressive about the role that they wanted to play. You had the Black community. The Asian community, while growing, was I think probably still not ready to assert itself, and you had the Gay community which had become huge in a relatively short period of time. Mecca is the right word. And at the same time you had these friction points, and the Western Edition was a huge friction point because you had people from the Gay and Lesbian community kind of considering themselves pioneers in these bad neighborhoods. Let’s say Fillmore or somewhere [across street] in the Western Edition – that was previous a place you didn’t even want to get near because of the potential threat, menace, and crime and biases and so forth suddenly became a Gay [fern] bar which then started pushing Black people out of the Western Edition to Tenderloin to Bay View to Oakland. So that was going on. I think they were competing interests from groups and communities that none of had had a voice really in city politics. George had long championed the Gay community and gay issues. He signed a legislation with Willie when he was in the State Senate. I think that he was viewed as someone who was gonna bring these groups together somehow and give them a voice in government. I remember we had a news room. We had Barbagelata on one night and John Barbagelata was everything that was the opposite of that. I’ve since gotten to know one of his sons fairly well, but John was an irascible, for San Francisco, ultraconservative character. I remember that night, Belva Davis was the anchor I think, and I remember him literally coming across the table at me. I don’t remember the question, but it was some probing, inappropriate question I’m sure knowing me at that time. Very provocative, and maybe about real estate. I don’t know. It’s hard to imagine today, but the city was literally split down the middle, and that half of San Francisco, and if you went down to the western part of San Francisco this wouldn’t surprise you. Irish families and so forth as far as the eye can see socially more conservative, but it’s hard to imagine that John Barbagelata actually represented half of the city, and easy to imagine that George Moscone represented more than half of the city, but they split it
Bronstein, Phil: Open questions about Moscone
No full textPhil Bronstein: I guess as a journalist and a born skeptic, there was a lot going on with George. His personal life, there was at least one federal investigation. There were people – for instance high up in the police department – who thought that he and Willie represented the devil. That everything that was wrong and bad and corrupt about this libertine San Francisco society was held by George Moscone and Willie Brown, and they were really after that. I don’t know to what extend the federal investigation was just an outgrowth of that, but I know there were a lot of open questions that survived after George’s death. And of course his manner of dying and he sort of became an icon in many ways certainly in the Gay community much more than is represented today in terms of it’s all Harvey. George did a lot for people in San Francisco. His heart was definitely open, and I think he was driven a lot by that even more so than some of his peers in the Burton machinery. I think George genuinely seemed to feel that way, but he was also a very ambitious politician. A very ambitious politician
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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