The Stadium : Your New Prisons
So, when’s the last time you been to the game?
Where? At the stadium?
Oh ya.
‘Who’s playing tonight’?
Yankee Stadium is installing people checking biometric software through “Clear” corporation
Florida Atlantic University’s stadium being converted into a prison
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) sells stadium naming rights to a prison company
“Tokyo #3, D3, “Nagaoka Shi, Yokohama Baseball Stadium, Niigata Ken [Prefecture], Hokuetsu.” The company served by prisoner slaves was ZOSHU
‘Remember your Tickets for the Game – and your Thumb’!
Yes, the stadium.
Like sports? Me too!
Hey, remember that Ebbets Field Game (Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller)
‘Biometrics’ is now part of the game.
The stadium is the new airport; with the shopping malls coming on board too as former public places are privatized ( or centralized)
Yankee Stadium is the third Major League Baseball park to implement the platform provided by Clear.
Stadium, coliseum, etc…
The Romans found good use for it – ‘and how about us today’?
If you’ve ever spent a long time in line outside a stadium, you know the frustration. You’ve already paid for a ticket, only to wait for the privilege of going inside—where you’ll probably spend more of your money. The New York Yankees know it too. And so the baseball club has partnered with the tech security company Clear to ease stadium entry.
Based in New York City, Clear calls itself a “secure identity platform” and uses biometrics—your fingerprint—for faster entry at airports and other venues. Here’s how it works: Skip the traditional line, step up to a screen or mounted tablet, and lay down your finger. Clear recognizes you and your information and authorizes entry. You still need to present your ticket to a ticketing agent, but you can skip the security line. (There are still random screenings.) Think of Clear as a TSA Pre-Check or Walt Disney FastPass for the ballpark.
Clear is available at 12 airports in the U.S. (including San Francisco, Denver and Las Vegas) but only began appearing in ball parks this season. After a “soft launch” with the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park last September, it officially debuted there at the beginning of this season. Since then, it launched at Coors Field (home to the Colorado Rockies) in late July, and now at Yankee Stadium beginning on Friday. The Yankees are putting Clear at only two gates to start—one of them is the entrance to the suites, the other is a public gate near the main lobby—but there will be tents this weekend where fans can sign up.
The technology continues to attract attention in the world of sports and entertainment. Clear CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker says the company is in talks with other ball parks as well as non-sports venues like concert halls. (Long lines, of course, are not exclusive to airports and baseball games). “It’s simple: this is a way for our fans to get inside more quickly,” Yankees SVP of strategic ventures Marty Greenspun tells Fortune. “We already knew that the Giants beta-tested it last year. Our hope now is that other venues in the marketplace also adopt the Clear model, and then there will be certain synergies that can happen.”
Those synergies would come with a cost. Fans can sign up for the baseball version of Clear (called Fast Access) for free, giving them access not just to Yankee Stadium events (including NYCFC soccer games and concerts) but to other Clear-equipped baseball venues, like AT&T Park. But the full Clear membership, which includes airports, costs $15 per month. There are currently 400,000 full members, all of whom get the stadium access without re-enrolling.
Seidman-Becker says that the Clear system appeals to ballparks for safety purposes as much as it does for fan experience. Clear is recognized as anti-terrorism technology by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “Sports stadiums are starting to look a lot like airports,” she says. “Yankee Stadium holds 49,000 people and the majority of those people show up 30-45 minutes within the start of a game. It’s a lot of traffic at once. Our technology enables them to get in safely and securely.” Clear’s ambitious goal: Installation in all major sports stadiums, domestically and internationally.
Many fans may not care to sign up for Clear, may not notice it, or may decide it won’t save them a significant amount of time. (You still need to do bag check if you have a bag; you still need to hand your ticket to a human being.) But the authentication technology could have bigger implications beyond entry. Other parts of a venue could use Clear systems to talk to each other and make other verification processes go faster, such as checking age for alcohol consumption or I.D for a souvenir purchase.
With luck, Clear could even alleviate the mounting difficulty professional sports venues face in enticing fans to come to a game in the first place. The experience of watching at home has become so good, and the drawbacks of going live so many (high cost, transportation time, wait times at the door), that some fans don’t see the value of paying to go. Shorter lines could sweeten the deal.
“In general, getting in and out of a stadium, everyone grouses that it’s worse than it used to be,” says Seidman-Becker. “You’re seeing friction in this area in so many places, and our technology can be a great cure to the bottleneck. In a digital world where people are staying home on their computers, sports stadiums have to do better. Lots of baseball teams are seeing that now and reaching out to us. We love all of our baseball partners, but as a New York City company, we are especially ecstatic to be partnering with the Yankees.”
Credit: Daniel Roberts, Fortune, Aug 7, 2015
Think: Roman Empire. Different time. Different people. Same Game
Think NOT: GLADIATORS or HUNGER GAMES
See: NEXUS Cards
The Dirty War is not THERE it is HERE
Dissenters daring to ask questions of system were chased and arrested.
They were like mice being chased by cats.
Some people were not in opposition to the new regime. This did not help them…
“Wait what are you doing to me”?! Wait! I haven’t done anything?!”
‘This mattered not… for each one was arrested anyways.’
This was the ‘Dirty War‘ in Argentina.
The arrested were ‘thrown out like garbage’ by a determinist regime resolved on carrying out ‘a painful surgery’; not on outsiders; or foreigners, but instead from among their own people.
The name ‘The dirty war’ was coined by the military Junta itself and comes from the methods that were used to maintain the societal order the Junta saw as necessary. These methods were the use of widespread torture and rape against those who were openly opposed to the Junta which was then extended to many students, activists or anyone suspected of being a sympathiser. The population was kept in a state of terror and estimates are that somewhere between 12,000 and 30,000 people were killed or ‘disappeared’ during this period of ruthless repression.
‘Disappeared’ people were snatched off the streets or from their homes, often in broad daylight, and taken to secret detention centers to be tortured, beaten and raped. Many of the disappeared were put on planes and pushed out over the Atlantic Ocean.
(Source: Claire Sessions)
Some 30,000 opponents of Argentina’s dictatorship were kidnapped, tortured and killed by armed forces members loyal to the military junta during the late 1970s. Thousands of those rounded up still remain “missing” and an amnesty for culprits was only lifted in 2003, enabling prosecution.
Two of those responsible for the purges were finally brought to justice on Thursday when a Buenos Aires court convicted retired General Hector Gamen, 84, and Colonel Hugo Pascarelli, 81, of committing crimes against humanity at the feared “El Vesubio” prison, where 2,500 “subversives” were tortured between 1976 and 1978.
(Source: The Independent 16 July 2011)
Files Found!
It is not a difficult thing to be able to express grief or outrage long after a crime by some regime has been exposed and a story made clearer.
What is more of a challenge is to examine ourselves so as to to find and protect the image of God which is present in all human beings.
When one does so one is not so quick so as to dehumanize others at a time later when those others or that particular group might become persecuted.
The real effort is not to imagine if one will stand up in good times. Times when things and quiet and stable in the society. No. Instead the real effort is to work out how we will view others now so that when the crisis come and the labeling begins our vision of those others will be a picture of a higher, more noble order.
See: ‘The Night of the Pencils’
Also see article: ‘See you at the Game’
Contemplating Takwâkin ᑕᑳᐧᑭᐣ
takwâkin ᑕᑳᐧᑭᐣ
(It is Autumn)
“I try to keep the promise. The breeze was warm; yet a reduced warmth from what we had known just a month ago. The breeze rushed past us; lifting some leaves which swirled around us.”
A young girl parts the trees. Several leaves fall.
Alssome-Sokanon (meaning ‘Independent Rain’)
This name is not in italics. It is not a foreign name. Alssome emerges from the trees and wades through the brown, red and yellow leaves which rustle in their dryness.
“Astam”
“nôsisim” (‘great- grandaughter’) – “come on.”
Alssome-Sokanon lifts some leaves from off the ground, enjoying their sounds and the colours.
She then stands up, turns, and asks “Was it always this way?”
Sorry nôsisim… what did you say”?
âniski-ohtâwîmâw (‘Great-Grandfather’) is aged and thus it is hard for him to hear; moreover, the wind is blowing.
“Moshom” (grandpa) , she asks her Mooshom.
“Was it always this way…?”
When I was younger you mean? he replies.
“Yes”.
“Well yes, it was very different then.”
There have been many changes since the Old Dominion.
Well, I can remember my Nokhum telling me about the ‘removal’. Actually, there were … ‘several’ removals.
You mean the Res School time?
There was that yes. But there were more.
The ‘first’ removal happened “under the sign of a cross.” It was a misuse of that symbol of course. Yet that’s what they used when they came to take away our people.
We had to look within ourselves to understand who to trust.
We learned that their words did not match their actions.
And the “Second” mooshom?
The second removal happened – ‘without a cross’.
Yet both times they said they were ‘helping’ us.
(the wind picks up)
And what about the ‘WestCorp Removal’?
Ah yes. I did mention that refer to that once by the lake.
No. That one was different.
That removal took the mihkokwayawêw . Those people would not agree to the masinihcikewin ᒪᓯᓂᐦᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ which began in the CondoCities.
This ‘taking’ took time. They used what were called LRTs. They used the big sport buildings to hold the “trouble makers”
Were they troublemakers?
Not really; they just wouldn’t go with the game.
The hearts of the CEOs – ‘were cold.’
The people were relocated into the big CondoCities.
Big towers where the people were watched all the time.
You mentioned on our walk last year a “peopletag”?
“What was that”?
Child. This is a painful memory. Mooshom winses; then there was a distant look in his eyes.
okimâskwêsis ( ᐅᑭᒫᐢᑫᐧᓯᐢ chief’s princess)… it was an implant which the people. No. The opamihiwew ᐅᐸᒥᐦᐃᐁᐧᐤ subjects) of WestCorp had to have inside them.
“For people to stay safe”?? “That’s what they told them, eh heh”
“It was to watch the people.”
They began to say to one another “He is “moyeyimaw ( ᒧᔦᔨᒪᐤ ).” (‘People are aware of him. He is under suspicion’)
“They turned on each other. They began to watch each other.”How long ago did I speak of this… what a mawinêhotowin ᒪᐃᐧᓀᐦᐅᑐᐃᐧᐣ challenge. The people were in kaskitipiskanohk (ᑲᐢᑭᑎᐱᐢᑲᓄᕁ in deep darkness)
Who?
Mainly the people in the south.
The ayisiyinowak and the otayamihâwak in the north said no to these ways.
The iyinisiw ᐃᔨᓂᓯᐤ (wise ones) knew that the simâkanis of the old Dominion had tried to do the same thing with the Inuit. I think it was in the 1930s up there…
(The sound of the browning leaves crunching beneath their feet)
I remember myself pondering Hmmm. Yes. How did it come to this…?”
How did this all come?
The southerners – were sleepwalking.
They traded their tipêyimisowin ᑎᐯᔨᒥᓱᐃᐧᐣ NI liberty, freedom; birthright – for a bowl of kîkisêpâ-mîciwin ᑮᑭᓭᐹ ᒦᒋᐃᐧᐣ (porridge).
“?”
So what did those Inuit do?
They said “no”.
“And the southerners”?
They did not understand.
Did not understand? Weren’t they all educated? I thought they all graduated from the unis? we learned.
They they went there.
“But they forgot who they were”
They did not remember where they had been.
They became “a people of no past and no future.’
‘In the Old Dominion’
The
Canada… It was a land of beautiful forests. Green; golden. Well, the forests are returning now.
The picture of the universe is already inside your heart. This picture is mirrored in those who have walked rightly. Observe them. Learn from them.
You must be spiritually discerning. “Don’t do ten times. Think ten times – but do once.”
Help them learn how to nisitohtamowin (ᓂᓯᑐᐦᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ understand).
“I have kept the promise. ‘I have told the story.”
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