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Cubs icon Santo, 70, passes away
Ron Santo's love for the Chicago Cubs stretched from his days as a standout third baseman who one season even jumped and clicked his heels to celebrate victories to the two decades he spent unabashedly pulling for his team as a broadcaster.
As much as his passion for the Cubbies soothed their long-suffering fans, his play and work in the broadcast booth helped him, too, through tough times and serious ailments, including a bout with diabetes that cost him both legs below the knees. He called the Cubs, simply, his therapy.
Santo, who had finished his 21st season broadcasting the Cubs in September, died Thursday night in Arizona from complications of bladder cancer, according to the team and WGN Radio, his longtime employer. He was 70.
"Ron was an inspiration to everyone as his life was defined by overcoming obstacles. It is a sad day for all of Chicago and everyone in the sports world," said Chicago Blackhawks president John McDonough, who spent 24 years in the Cubs organization as a marketing guru and later as president. "His incredible passion for the Cubs was unmatched. …Although we collectively are grieving over his passing, we should also celebrate his incredible life."
A nine-time all-star in his 15-year career, Santo hit .277 with 2,254 hits, 342 home runs and 1,331 runs batted in. He also won the Gold Glove award five times.
Santo was widely regarded as one of the best players never to gain induction into the Hall of Fame. The quiet sadness with which he met the news year after year that he hadn't been inducted helped cement his relationship with the fans.
"What a great loss for the Cubs and Cubs fan everywhere. Ron was such a wonderful person and friend. It is so unfortunate that he never became a Hall of Famer, as he should have long ago," Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman said.
Don Kessinger, who played shortstop with the Cubs from 1964-1975 and perhaps saw more of Santo's play at third base than anyone, said what he remembers most is how hard his teammate played every single day. He said Santo deserved to be in the Hall of Fame, and cannot understand why he was never voted in.
"It would have meant so much to Ron Santo to be elected," he said.
The Cubs' new owner, Tom Ricketts, praised Santo for his loyalty, courage and sense of humor. Commissioner Bud Selig called Santo a "magnificent, consistent ballplayer" – and a friend.
"Ron's playing and broadcasting careers shared a common thread: in both capacities, he was a staple of the Cubs' experience every single day," Selig said in a statement.
Santo never got to see his beloved Cubs win a World Series, something they haven't done since 1908, and their last appearance came in 1945, when Santo was 5. Yet he once said his association with the team probably prolonged his life.
"If I hadn't had this when my troubles started, I don't know if I would have survived," he said in September 2003. "I really mean that. It's therapy."
Nothing brought fans closer to Santo – or caused critics to roll their eyes more – than his work in the radio booth, where he made it clear that nobody rooted harder for the Cubs and nobody took it harder when they lost. Santo's groans of "Oh, nooo!" and "It's bad" when something bad happened to the Cubs, sometimes just minutes after he shouting, "YES! YES!" or "ALL RIGHT!" became part of team lore as the "Cubbies" came up short year after year.
"The emotion for me is strictly the love I have for this team," Santo told The Associated Press in August 2009. "I want them to win so bad."
Born Ronald Edward Santo in Seattle on Feb. 25, 1940, Santo was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes when he was 18. But he kept it from the team until he made his first All-Star game in 1963, and fans didn't know about his diabetes for years after that.
Santo was a fan favorite on a team that included Hall of Famers Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Ferguson Jenkins. Many taverns near Wrigley Field include photos of Santo, who spent 14 years with the Cubs and his final season across town with the White Sox. He hit .300 or better four times, had the best on-base percentage in the National League in 1964 and 1966 and led the league in walks four times.
As he starred, his team generally struggled. One of the few times the Cubs didn't wind up near the bottom of the standings was in 1969, when they finished second after leading the New York Mets by nine games as late as Aug. 16.
That year, a photograph was taken of Santo that became synonymous with both the team's failure and the supposed curses that have long haunted the team: There, in the on-deck circle at Shea Stadium, is Santo, a bat on his shoulder as a black cat scurries past. That was also the season that Santo clicked his heels after victories at Wrigley Field.
Santo's disappointment with being passed over for induction into the Hall of Fame was well known to viewers, who watched him receive the news on the phone in 2003 thanks to television cameras he allowed inside his house when he thought he would be getting in.
Santo battled serious medical problems after he retired as a player, having undergone surgery on his eyes, heart and bladder after doctors discovered cancer. On his legs alone, he underwent surgery more than a dozen times before they were ultimately amputated below the knees – the right one in 2001 and the left a year later. He showed up in spring training in 2003 with one of his protheses wrapped in Cubs' colors.
In 2003, he was honored by the Cubs, who retired his No. 10, hoisting it up the left-field foul pole, just below Banks' No. 14.
"This flag hanging down the left-field line means more to me than the Hall of Fame," Santo told the cheering crowd at Wrigley Field when his number was retired.
"This couldn't be any better," he said. "With the adversity that I have been through if it wasn't for all of you, I wouldn't be standing here right now."
Santo had been active in fundraising for diabetes research, with his Walk-for-the-Cure raising millions of dollars.
"Ronnie has been a friend of mine for more than 50 years and is like a brother to me," Banks said. "On the field, Ronnie was one of the greatest competitors I've ever seen. Off the field, he was as generous as anyone you would want to know. His work for diabetes research seemed unparalleled. Ronnie was always there for you, and through his struggles, he was always upbeat, positive and caring. I learned a lot about what it means to be a caring, decent human being from Ron Santo."
There will be a public visitation for Santo on Thursday at Holy Name Cathedral Parish in Chicago. The funeral will be next Friday at the Holy Name Cathedral Church.


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Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster - PS3
Release Date:March 18, 2014
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Overall Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remastered is a marvel of a game, well thought out, nice storyline and is bar far one of the best remakes in HD in the series.
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Final Fantasy X provided one of many firsts for the series of Final Fantasy; it marked the start of a shift in the series away from pre-rendered backgrounds and textbook chapters towards full 3D and voice acting. Back in 2001 players were in awe of the story which was fully voiced and of the camera that swooped and panned giving the game a realistic and comfortable feel. After playing this game I came away more excited than I did a decade earlier and that is quite some achievement considering how much I was struck by the original.
Part of the reason that people might be less excited about this HD Remaster is a general state of decay the franchise is currently experiencing; this state of decay in fact made me appreciate all the things that this game does that the series struggled to recapture recently, I think another part of it is that Final Fantasy X simply did so many things right the first time, but even I never fully appreciated that until now.
Within the first few hours the game confidently flaunts its 3D presentation, providing battles in a seamless integration, a voice dialogue and dynamic camera cuts while even showing lip syncing so accurate, that is if you are Japanese of course! This was, and still is, an impressive first introduction to battling in the game. Outside of the mini map in the top left hand corner there is little in the way of persistent user interface or button prompts on the field of battle. The user interface, although simple, works, the interface doesn't interrupt you giving obvious instructions. Initially it can be quite alienating to walk up to an interesting glyph or symbol on the wall and find that there's no exclamation mark or button prompt telling you to look there, but in a way it is also liberating at the same time.
One of the most important things about the high quality of game design of Final Fantasy X/X-2 is the fact that it continues all through the game, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD never pretends to be more than it is, it never confuses play with jargon you are expected to understand.
Final Fantasy X/X-2 has already given almost unrestricted access to every single character in game subsystem. It takes about fourteen hours to progress to the point that most RPG's take twice this time to reach. There are no awkward force detours in the story; it finds a way to leave it to the narrative in a way that adds rather than detracts or distracts from its core narrative. The pacing in Final Fantasy isnÂ't just fast but variable, it appreciates that the lows are just as important as the highs in creating an overall experience, one minute the game will provide you with the mission in raiding an enemy stronghold and then immediately follow up assuming control of a different character who has to fight alone.
The narrative doesn't linger on any one emotional landscape for too long and that, combined with the clever use of time, stops a player from feeling burnt out. Talking of emotional landscapes, Final Fantasy X/X-2 knows how to play on your emotions with almost merciless precision. You will laugh when it wants you to laugh, rejoice when it wants you to rejoice and when the developers want to twist the knife to make it hurt, it is going to hurt. Final Fantasy X/X-2 pulls this off in part mainly because of the marvelous quality of the voice work which is used to tell the the story and when talking to a load of characters, and I genuinely hope that the English release carries the same qualities.
Overall Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster is a marvel of a game, well thought out, nice storyline and is by far one of the best remakes in HD in the series. The game looks and plays very cleanly and overall is a pretty decent title.
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Congress starts looking into Bitcoin
A Senate committee is pressing federal regulators and law enforcement officials to explain how they plan to oversee Bitcoin and other virtual currencies as the issue gains increasing attention from government officials concerned about the role these new markets will play in the future.
The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Monday sent letters to several agencies requesting that they disclose their virtual currency policies, how they developed them, how agencies are coordinating and finally what they plan to do going forward.
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"The more folks that we talked to related to this issue, it became very clear to us that this is not a sort of technology that's going away," a committee aide said. "This isn't something that's a flash in the pan. It's something that's going to be with us."
The committee is planting its flag as state and federal officials step up scrutiny of the four-year-old, $1.2 billion Bitcoin marketplace, where a start-up industry is trying to navigate emerging government concerns related to money laundering, tax evasion and investment products.
Many regulators have yet to publicly state their views on whether virtual currencies need better oversight and the letters could force them to give their most comprehensive views yet on the subject.
Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and ranking member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) sent letters Monday, which ask for information on a range of virtual currencies while naming Bitcoin as an example, to the Homeland Security Department, Justice Department, Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Office of Management and Budget.
"As with all emerging technologies, the federal government must make sure that potential threats and risks are dealt with swiftly," the senators said in the letter. "However, we must also ensure that rash or uninformed actions don't stifle a potentially valuable technology."
The letters follow two months of committee interviews with government officials, academics and representatives from the finance and tech industries. The panel has not scheduled any hearings or settled on whether to draft legislation.
Officials who have talked to committee "seem to be having the right thoughts and right conversations" but some have made public comments over the past year "that seem not to be sort of in line with what another department said," the committee aide said.
The committee is concerned, according to the aide, that if regulators do not figure out a plan now for what to do about virtual currencies they will miss the opportunity early on to control risks that these markets pose. That could create a situation where agencies later overcompensate to address problems that arise, diminishing the benefits Bitcoin and other markets could provide to consumers.
"Talk to anyone in Silicon Valley or in New York — we don't have the best reputation here of being ahead of the curve on a lot of these issues," the aide said.


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, August 30, 2009
Loop-Loc is the leader in the swimming pool safety cover industry. Backed by a 12 year warranty and fabricated with impeccable craftsmanship, Loop-Loc covers have become common in the backyard. The quality of Loop-Loc safety covers are undisputable - but like all covers, are not indestructible and are known to get a hole from a fallen tree limb or a hungry rodent trying to burrow its way through the cover. I've seen deer damage, exhaust pipe damage, chemical damage. Some were repairable, some were not.
For those smaller holes under 3x6 inches, Loop-loc has provided mesh cover patches. This mesh cover repair patch, made by 3M is self adhesive and can be ordered in the same colors as your mesh cover. These patches are made to last. They will conceal your rip or hole, blending into the cover and at the same time prevent further tearing and fraying. Patching on both sides is recommended.
Mesh material can be adhered to the cover with rubber cement or Gorilla Glue. It is also recommended to patch on both sides of the cover. Cut your patches to a rounder shape, as patches with square corners tend to start to peel off more easily. For added strength, stitch an edge, using an awl and some fishing line or heavy cotton thread. Or, stitch all 4 sides with nylon strapping, double stitched and cross stitched on the corners, if you want a real professional repair.
Sometimes holes and tears cannot be patched over and the hole in the cover can become a security issue. Holes in a mesh pool cover will begin to fray more and more over time. Loop-Loc, of course, conveniently offers factory repairs. All the customer has to do is remove the springs, clean and pack the cover, and send it in for repairs.
Loop-loc has a price guide for repairs but the exact cost varies from cover to cover based on size. A custom quote is sent to you (through a Loop-Loc dealer) with repair cost, usually within 2-3 business days. A comparison replacement cost is also provided. The most common repairs are small patches, panel replacements and/or strap replacement. Turn around time is about 3 weeks this time of year.
Over many years of use the mesh safety cover will begin to show it's age. Harsh winter, chemical use, and ultra-violet rays will eventually contribute to the deterioration of your cover. To ensure that you get the most use out of your cover maintaining and cleaning it is a must. Make sure to remove debris and or standing water regularly. That is, when you see the water touching the underside of the cover ~ it's time to lower the water level 6-12" with a small pump or siphon.
When storing the cover always take some time to clean the cover as you remove it. If there is a lot of debris on the cover, loosen half of the straps and use a leaf net and pole to scoop off the big stuff. Then use a powerful garden hose and/or leaf blower to clean the cover off, as you remove it from the pool. Cleaning section by section, as the cover is folded, seems easiest.
I often come across covers that have been stored in a barn or outside area, and as we pull out the cover, mice run across our feet! A folded mesh cover makes a nice winter home for a growing rodent family. Field mice love to make a nest inside of the folds, and many times they chew holes through the material. When storing the cover, inside the house is best. A few moth balls or even better, a bag of Mouse Away, keeps them out if you want to store it outside in a pool house, shed or under the deck, even the garage.
Nothing lasts forever. When your cover has excessive tearing or fraying and or straps are broken and springs are damaged it might be time to consider purchasing a replacement Loop-loc cover. To order a replacement cover we try and locate information on file through Loop-loc to avoid any measuring and re-drilling.
Your original order number had been stitched into the cover on the underside, if made in the last 15 years. It is typically located on the shallow end on the shorter side of cover. Another method to getting exact replacement is to have us check with loop-Loc to see if they have you on file. Easiest is Invoice number or Cover number, but if you don't have that, we could use the year the cover was purchased, name of the customer who bought it and name of the Loop-Loc dealer that it was purchased through.
Loop-Loc will also take your old cover and use as a template for customers with nothing on file, or for other brand mesh covers. Just clean the cover (please), remove the springs (or cut off the straps) roll it up tightly, box it up and send it to Loop-Loc Ltd, 390 Motor Parkway, Hauppage, NY 11788. For those customers who have tossed their old cover and have no information on file, it may be necessary to A-B measure both your pool and the existing anchor points to have a cover made to match existing anchors.
If your Loop-loc mesh pool cover is a "Stock Cover", or one of their standard rectangle sizes, you can safely purchase a regular stock cover, with or without hardware, and it should fit most, if not all of the existing deck anchors. Most of the stock cover patterns have changed very little in the last 15-20 years. If you don't need new springs and anchors, Loop-Loc has what they call a Fitting Allowance, which deducts 50 cents per anchor, and/or $1 per spring not shipped with a cover.
So, there you have it, some lessons in the Care and Repair of Loop-Loc mesh pool covers (and other brands like Meyco, GLI, HPI, Merlin). If you are looking for Loop Loc cover parts, like Springs, Anchors, Tools, Bags, etc... we've got you covered!


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"There are so many times in my life," filmmaker Rory Kennedy tells her sister Courtney in the movie "Ethel," "where people have said, 'I want to introduce Robert Kennedy's daughter. ..." To which her sibling replies: "Oh, it makes me so mad! What about the one who delivered us and carried us for nine months and then has been with us the last 40 years?"
"Ethel," the HBO documentary debuting Thursday about the wife of Robert F. Kennedy (and the mother of their 11 children) aims to remedy that to some extent, and last week Rory, along with her mother (now 84) and brother Christopher (who lives in Kenilworth with his wife and children) were in Chicago, drumming up interest at a preview screening.
At 43, Rory is the youngest sibling (born six months after her father's assassination), and she is an established documentarian with credits that include previous HBO projects "Thank You Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" and the Emmy-nominated "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib." This is the first time, however, that she has made a film about her own family. Her mother's story, she says early in the film, is a personal one — "but because her life was intertwined with history, more than that."
It is a family that continues to be intertwined with history — or at least news cycles. Two of Ethel's children have died. Also, Rory's cousin John F. Kennedy Jr. died in 1999 (along with his wife and sister-in-law) as he was flying to her wedding. Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of third-born Robert F. Kennedy Jr., committed suicide in the spring; their son Conor, a senior in high school, is currently dating pop star Taylor Swift, who attended a screening of "Ethel" at Sundance in January, prompting this observation from the Los Angeles Times: "After a handful of Ethel Kennedy's ... children posed for pictures, Swift came out to join her, gripping her arm as if she were one of Kennedy's own grandchildren."
The sixth of seven children, Ethel was born in Chicago, the daughter of coal baron George Skakel. As a family, they were — in her words — "conservative Republicans" — but just as sporty and larger-than-life as the Kennedys. Old home movies of Ethel and Robert reveal a couple destined to be together if for no other reason than their matching smiles: big, toothy and mirror images of each other.
"Lots of dancing, lots of dogs all over everything," Ethel says when Rory asks about their wedding in the film. By dint of personality or cultural upbringing, Ethel is not a forthcoming interview subject. "I wasn't a very deep thinker," she says, then adds dryly, "Like I am now. ..." Nor is she one for public introspection. There's an impenetrable veneer that she maintains, which keeps everything at arm's length, and Rory doesn't do anything out of the ordinary with her camera to counteract that or capture unguarded or unexpected moments. The movie only goes skin-deep. But her interview subjects hold your attention.
Stitched together as a series of talking heads (laced with archival footage), the film relies on Ethel's children to fill in the gaps. In it, Chris offers this observation: "Mummy's a Skakel, and as a Skakel, inherited a healthy disregard for authority in all its forms." RFK Jr. recalls his mother's lack of cooking skills, including the time she sauteed bananas in petroleum jelly. There's a terrific eccentricity that she seems to have brought to the household, whether she was carting her children to Capitol Hill to watch their father conduct Senate Rackets Committee Hearings, or amassing pets that at one point included 19 dogs, goats, chickens, horses and a seal.
Kathleen, the first-born, seems most comfortable reflecting back on the family: "Trying hard didn't cut it. People now say, 'Well, just try hard.' No. Win. That was important. Trying hard, not part of the culture. As well as the idea that Kennedys don't cry. You cannot show weakness — you always had to be tough."
When I sat down with Ethel, Rory and Chris, the trio proved expert at the art of deflection. No one is obligated to be introspective on demand, and the Kennedy family story isn't necessarily anyone's business. But then why make the film?
(The following is an edited version of a longer conversation.)
Q: Rory, a lot of your documentaries require journalistic skills. When you have a personal, emotional connection to the people you're talking to, how did that impact you as a filmmaker?
Rory: Well, I think I often have an emotional connection to the people in the stories in all my films.
Chris (to me): Probably just like you're having now with all of us. (Everybody laughs.)
Rory: I mean, this is different, obviously. But I guess I would say I bring a journalist's integrity to everything I do. But that's probably not really what you're looking for, which is: How is this film different? You know, this project was not something that I had pitched. It was something HBO and Sheila Nevins (who runs HBO Documentary Films) had come to me and asked me to make this film.
And I was resistant to it because ... it is personal, and it is about my family and I wasn't particularly interested in telling that story. But (Nevins) was very persistent. And at the time, we were really encouraging my mother to write a book, because I think we all felt like she has lived through so much and she's such a great character and she has these extraordinary stories. You know, she's so wonderful and she really hasn't shared herself with the rest of the world — and we all love her and adore her and know her. So she wasn't going to do (a book), that was clear. And so I did feel that this was a story that should be told, and it probably won't be told unless I told it.
I didn't think she would do a documentary, but I figured if she would, then I should do it. But I thought she would say no. And so I asked her and she very nicely said yes, which I think was largely because I asked her to do it, so ...
Ethel: Nina, this is so boring, you have to move it along.
Q: What do you mean?
Ethel: No, I adore her and love her, but ... (long silence).
Q: Right, you want to move it along. I get it! I have a few questions for you, are you ready?
Ethel: No!
Q: OK! Rory, when your mom agreed to do the film, were you taken aback?
Chris: Well, basically what happened was, HBO wanted to make the movie. Rory didn't want to say no to HBO because no one wants to say no to HBO. So she figured my mother would say no to HBO because she said no to everything else. And my mother said yes, and Rory had to make the movie. That was the deal.
Ethel: See, that's what I mean about moving it along.
Q: Rory, did you feel like you needed to get the OK from your brothers and sisters?
(Big laugh from the room.)
Rory: To do a film about my mother? No.
Chris: Apparently not.
Rory: No. I did not feel like I needed their approval to do a film about my mother.
Chris (joking): We have a family call every Thursday to discuss global Kennedy family issues.
Q: On the Bat Phone?
Chris: Right! Who's gonna run (for office) from where? That's what we talk about during those calls.
Rory: No, you know, at some point I decided — in looking through all the archival footage — that the kids were always in the footage, that I wanted their perspective, and I felt like it would add something.
Q: That makes sense. And everybody was automatically like, "Yeah, that sounds good"?
Rory: Yeah, everybody was really ... um ... I think ... I think it was, you know ... part of it is that there are a lot of wonderful things about our story, but there's also a lot of sadness, right? So it's hard to ask family members to revisit some of these more difficult moments. So that's a hard thing for me, and probably a hard thing for them, but I don't want to speak for them. But it's hard on that level. But I think everybody has so much respect and love and admiration for my mother that they wanted to help tell her story.
Q: I understand. Ethel, let me turn to you. I know your family is from Chicago. Tell me about your Chicago origins.
Ethel: I was born here, and I grew up here until I was 4 years old.
Q: Do you remember what part of town you lived in?
Ethel: The South Side. Drexel Boulevard.
Rory: You remember the parish, right?
Chris: St. Ambrose. And your neighbors from Drexel Boulevard came to the party tonight.
Q: Oh, wow.
Ethel: Yeah. The Dwyers. And I can remember their apartment — there was a little alley, and I remember their apartment pretty clearly.
Q: So Rory and Ethel, when you sat down for the interviews in the film, was that done on five consecutive days?
Rory: Yes.
Q: That had to have been intense. Ethel, at the end of each day, what sort of frame of mind were you in? What sort of things did you think about at night?
Ethel: Why did I do this?
Q: Did you ever think, "Tomorrow I'm going to tell Rory that we're done"?
Ethel: If what?
Chris (to his mother): Did you ever think of quitting? (To me): In her life, my mother's never thought of quitting.
Ethel: But did Nina ask if somebody came up and said would you do another one?
Chris: What would be your response?
Ethel: I'd take poison first!
Chris: "Ethel" the sequel!
Q: Ethel, how would you compare being on the campaign trail for the various campaigns you worked on with doing a campaign of sorts for this movie?
Ethel: The truth is, I don't remember being interviewed (during those early years). Are you sure about that?
Q: In the movie there's a clip of you talking with Edward R. Murrow and another of you talking with Jack Paar. And you reached out to a lot of people with those tea parties for John F. Kennedy's 1952 Senate race.
Ethel: Well, I speak to people!
Chris (joking): Just not reporters, who aren't people, quite frankly. I mean, other than you.
Q: I was struck by the way Jack Paar addressed you as "this lovely little girl here." I think you had seven children by that point.
Ethel: Maybe.
Q: You kind of laughed it off, and I think that's one instance where your sense of humor comes through in the movie. You also gave a great response to a reporter outside the courthouse after you were accused of horse thievery when you rescued some horses. The reporter asks you what your husband had to say, and you quipped, "I don't think he's going to let me off the property again."
Ethel: Nina, you are really scary. Why are you reading all this terrible —
Chris and Rory: She watched the movie!
Ethel: Oh. Sorry. (Noticing a gesture from a publicist) — what is she saying, it's over?
Q: Uh, not quite yet. Let's switch gears a little. Sometimes hindsight changes how we view past events. Ethel, did you find that your perspective changed at all as you were revisiting these different periods in your life?
Chris: What did she just ask you? What was that question?
Ethel (long pause): I don't think I'd do it again.
Chris: Your life? (Everybody laughs.)
Q: The impression I get is that you're not one to reminisce.
Ethel: True.
Q: So I would imagine that you haven't told many of these stories. Recounting them for the movie, did it spark a different perspective on anything?
Ethel: No. What happened happened.
Q: Fair enough. Can we talk about the bananas?
Ethel: What bananas?
In the film, one of your children talks about the time you cooked bananas in Vaseline.
Ethel (Looking at Chris): That would be typical of your brothers.
Chris: That was totally fabricated. Did he say she cooked with Vaseline?
He did!
(Long silence).
Rory: You guys are all being really helpful. Thank you for helping to promote my movie. (Everybody laughs.)
Chris: What was the question?
Q: Rory, I wonder if there was a desire to reach out to your mother's siblings who are still with us and get their impressions?
Chris: Like with a seance?
Sheila (Chris' wife): She said those who are still with us!
You guys are a tough crowd!
Rory: We have a very big family, so once you open it up beyond just the kids, then you're opening it up to a whole range of people. When I was initially thinking about it, it was just going to be an interview with mummy. And then I felt like it would benefit from having the kids' perspective, my brothers and sisters. But I wanted it to be really narrow. And I think coming from the siblings and myself and my mother is different than what the Skakels would bring to it, or what the Shrivers would bring to it.
Chris: It would have gone basically from a documentary to a series. "Week Three: The Shrivers' Perspective!"
(Tribune photographer Terrence James asks a question of Ethel): Which of the children is most like you?
(Long silence).
Ethel: Are you a reporter, suddenly? Or a photographer?
Q: OK, I'll ask it! Which of your children is most like you?
Ethel (jokingly equating my repeat of the question to cheating by using a reference to the lined paper used during college exams): That's looking at the other guy's blue book.
The documentary "Ethel" premieres 8 p.m. Thursday on HBO. For more info go to ethelmovie.com.
The stars of the 1987 Ritchie Valens biopic "La Bamba" come together for the 25th anniversary of the film this week. The panel discussion (moderated by WGN's Dean Richards) will include Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales and Elizabeth Pena. Presented by Columbia College Chicago, 7 p.m. Tuesday at AMC River East. (Admission is free, but registration is suggested.) Go to colum.edu/conversations.
Epic golf trip
About a year and a half ago, three middle-aged Chicago guys raised a few bucks on Kickstarter for a project described thusly: "Four buddies drive to the arctic to play golf. One of them is dead." After the death of their longtime friend Mike Allen, they conceived this epic 5,500-mile road trip (with Mike's ashes in tow) as a fitting send-off. Maudlin schmaudlin — this goofball trio of retirees (Vic Zast, Jim Thompson and Dan Johnson) brought a film crew along as they traveled by RV from Chicago to play golf together one last time on a rough-looking three-hole course just north of the Arctic Circle. The footage from their trip has been shaped into a six-episode TV series called "Our Longest Drive" debuting this week (9:30 p.m. Tuesdays) on the Golf Channel.
Horror fest
Horror movie fans have more than one 24-hour marathon to choose from this month, including one coming up Oct. 20 at the Portage Theater as well as another this weekend at the Music Box Theater, including in-person appearances by Sybil Danning (who will present her film "Howling II: Your Sister's a Werewolf") and Jeff Lieberman (who will screen his features "Squirm" and "Satan's Little Helper"). Other films on the lineup include "Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal." The marathon begins at noon Saturday and runs through noon Sunday. Go to musicboxtheatre.com.
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Yesterday, I posted a piece, written by my friends, that defended Carmelo Anthony. Shortly after, I received a rebuttal written by Keith Black (@therealkblack25). Here it is:
Here are the facts: It is Carmelo Anthony's 9th season in the league. He makes upwards of $18 million every year. He nearly disgraced himself and acted selfishly in Denver to force his way to New York in time to sign a hefty extension. He will turn 28 this year. And he had to actively ask Mike Woodson to hold him accountable.
Yes, a man with nearly a decade of experience in the NBA with a maximum contract needs to be monitored like a 6-year-old boy. How does a Melo fan rationalize that? I am not making up that Carmelo Anthony did not try under Coach D'Antoni – he actively admitted it. Where have we seen this sort of "I'm going to do what I want to do, and try when I feel like it" mentality in New York before? Stephon Marbury. Steph quit on Larry Brown and quit on Isiah Thomas – and yet always seemed to be absolved by the MSG faithful of any wrongdoing. We ignored Steph crying his way out of Minnesota when KG got paid more than him, we ignored how willing the Nets and the Suns were to get rid of a guy that was supposed to be superstar.
It was never Steph's fault. Always everybody else's. How's that for accountability?
And now we are seeing the same thing with Carmelo.
The fact that Carmelo lacks the self-motivation to actually give half of a crap on a defense reeks not only of the selfishness we saw from Steph, but of the selfishness we saw from Carmelo just over a year ago when he held the Denver Nuggets hostage to get a trade done.
Carmelo begged for this, he begged for the spotlight, he begged for the impatient nature of the New York media (really, guys, how many Knicks games have you really watched if you are begging for the media to show patience?). And what did Carmelo do when he got here?
He quit.
He gave up.
He stomped his feet until a new coach came in to monitor him. Like a child.
The fact that he needs monitoring, that he needs to be held accountable by some third party to actually give a damn is what is scary about Carmelo. Not the missed shots – eventually they should start falling just by simple regression to the mean. He is a professional athlete, an experienced one. Why should he "need" a tough coach to play well? If he's the superstar worth the bounty that the Knicks paid for him, shouldn't he be self motivated to actually care to win for the city he pushed to come to and he "grew up" in (I use the term "grew up" loosely – he moved away from New York at 8)?
I am sick of the excuses for Carmelo, just like I was sick of the excuses for Stephon Marbury. Carmelo has now quit on two of his previous coaches, one of whom took shots at him the second he stepped on the plane to New York. Eventually, we as fans have to realize: maybe the player is the problem, and not everybody else.
I want to believe Melo can turn it around, can get himself motivated, to want to be the superstar we all want him to be. But right now, he seems to care more about himself than he does the mental health and chemistry of the other 14 guys on the floor.
I wonder what the excuse will be when he quits on Mike Woodson.


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Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is a rare condition in which tumors called
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Gastrin signals the stomach to produce more acid.
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ATLANTAThe FDA has granted accelerated approval to Bristol-Myers Squibb's Sprycel (dasatinib) Tablets for the treatment of adults in all phases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) (chronic, accelerated, or myeloid or lymphoid blast phase) with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy, including imatinib (Gleevec). Sprycel also received regular FDA approval for the treatment of adults with Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL) with resistance or intolerance to prior therapy.
The approval came shortly after the FDA's Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) signaled its support for the agent in a meeting held in Atlanta to coincide with ASCO's annual conference.
Dasatinib is an oral inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases, including BCR-ABL, SRC family, c-KIT, EPHA2, and PDGFRβ. It is promising because it is several hundred times more potent than imatinib at inhibiting the growth of cells harboring the BCR-ABL fusion gene and is effective in nearly all cells that have imatinib-resistant mutations, according to the sponsor.
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At the ODAC meeting, Claude Nicaise, MD, vice president, global development, Bristol-Myers Squibb, said, "We focused the development of dasatinib on the treatment of CML patients who failed imatinib because of
resistance or intolerance. These patients have limited therapeutic options, and dasatinib has the potential to fulfill this important unmet medical need."
Data on the drug come from six trials conducted at about 75 institutions worldwide in patients with all phases of CML who had imatinib resistance or intolerance and in patients with Ph+ ALL who had resistance or intolerance to prior therapy: a phase I dose-escalation trial, four single-arm phase II trials, and a randomized phase II trial pitting dasatinib against high-dose imatinib. (Data for the entire population in the randomized trial were presented at ASCO, see page 62.)
Efficacy analyses were based mainly on 529 patients enrolled in the phase I and single-arm phase II trials, which have a planned follow-up of 2 years. Most of these patients had CML in chronic phase (226 patients), accelerated phase (118), or myeloid blast phase (97); fewer had CML in lymphoid blast phase (47) or had Ph+ ALL (41). Only 94 patients (18%) overall had imatinib intolerance, and the majority of these were in the chronic phase CML group. Based on findings of the phase I trial, a dose of 70 mg twice daily was selected for use in the phase II trials, Dr. Nicaise said.
Efficacy results showed that among patients with chronic phase CML, 31% to 38% of imatinib-resistant patients and 73% to 75% of imatinib-intolerant patients had a major cytogenetic response, depending on the trial. Additionally, data from the first 36 patients enrolled in the randomized phase II trial, which was restricted to patients with chronic phase CML with imatinib resistance, showed a major cytogenetic response rate of 45% with dasatinib, compared with 21% with high-dose imatinib.


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What is arguably the most sophisticated humanoid robot just got a present delivered by a SpaceX rocket: a set of legs.
Robonaut 2, which has been operating on the International Space Station for the past three years, has until now been just a torso with a head and arms planted on a pedestal with wheels.
Controlled by teams on the ground, Robonaut 2 humanoid robot holds an instrument to measure air velocity during another system check out in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
Designed to work in a human's world, Robonaut's head has cameras that work like human eyes. Its hands work like a human's to use the same tools that the astronauts do.
As envisioned, Robonaut would help people working in space "with the same interface systems as humans," said Robert Ambrose, chief of the Software, Robotics and Simulation Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center and a primary developer of Robonaut.
Robonaut even sent its first tweet on July 26, 2010, with the help of its team.
Robonaut can be programmed to perform tasks on its own, or a human can take direct control, viewing what the robot "sees" through its cameras and controlling its movements.
One of the major challenges in developing Robonaut was, of course, being able to replicate human movements. "A key challenge was being able to handle objects that were built for people," Ambrose said. "Most robots don't even have a thumb, right?"
Another hurdle was ensuring the safety of astronauts working next to Robonaut.
That challenge was addressed with the use of redundant sensors in Robonaut that detect contact. "If the robot is minding its own business and you bump into it, it can sense that," Ambrose said. "If it's in motion and bumps into something else with a force below a certain threshold, it pauses. Above a certain threshold, it shuts itself off."
"That's the biggest breakthrough for Robonaut," Ambrose said. "It is the first robot that is ever been allowed to operate right next to people where it is responsible for its own safety system."
Also, Ambrose added, "Robonaut is very smooth. A lot of robots have angles and sharp edges. We've been very careful to make everything smooth."
Robonaut's new legs will allow it to move about inside and outside the space station to perform tasks, such as checking the many air filters on the Space Station. In fact, Robonaut's legs, which have prehensile feet, will give it an edge over the humans on board, letting it climb ladders while its hands are free to work or hold objects.
Once fully developed, Ambrose said, the robot might be sent on missions ahead of humans, or be left behind as a caretaker, waiting for the next crew to arrive. "A robot doesn't mind being left behind," he noted. "It doesn't get lonely, so you can do things with a robot you would never do with the human crew."
"These robots are just going to get better and better," Ambrose said, adding that Robonaut will eventually have many terrestrial applications. "Robots will get more capable electrically and mechanically, but they're also going to get smarter."
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Weekly Poll: Have You Ever Used a Pre-Mac Apple Computer?
It's been 29 years since Apple unveiled the original Macintosh, long enough that the Macs most of us use today would seem like science fiction compared to the original Macintosh. But the story of Apple doesn't start with the Mac.
8 years earlier, Jobs and Wozniak demonstrated the Apple I, the computer that started it all, at the Homebrew Computer Club. Then, a year later, the Apple II was demonstrated, and it soon became one of the first computers to be released that was a mass success. The Macintosh came along, but it was still years before the Apple II computers had fully disappeared from Apple's lineup.
My own first Apple computer (of sorts) was decidedly not a Mac. Instead, it was the one Apple device that seems to be the early predecessor of Apple's real future as a mobile device company: the Newton.
So did you ever use an original Apple computer? If so, we'd love to hear about it in the comments below.
And if you're curious what Macs your fellow AppStorm readers are using, our giveaway from last week turned into an impromptu poll about that!


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As unemployment rates increase and bills go unpaid, many spouses are turning on each other. Today's guests are a husband and wife, Jennifer and Ben, who are engaged in an ugly war. Contributing to the chaos is Ben's mother, Jamie, who lives with them. Can Dr. Phil help this family from cracking under the pressure?
Jennifer and Ben are desperate for help to save their family. They say they fight nonstop, often calling each other names, and are on the verge of divorce.
Dr. Phil cameras installed in their home capture their harsh reality.
Jennifer says she and Ben have always had conflict in their marriage, but the situation became unbearable when her mother-in-law, Jamie, moved in recently. Jamie says Jennifer goes out of her way to alienate her and makes her feel like a burden.
Does Jamie blur the boundaries and cross the line?
Jamie suffered an accident and was stuck in her home for four days before being rescued. Find out why she blames Ben for her predicament.
Dr. Phil tells the couple what they must do so their marriage will survive.
"You've got to be willing to say, 'I'm going to make the hard decisions and deal with reality.'"


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A San Diego student who was found guilty of stealing identities and passwords of fellow students to rig campus elections and win the presidency was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday.
Matthew Weaver, who ran for president of the Associated Students last year, tried to win the Cal State University San Marcos Associated Students presidency by stealing identities of more than 700 students. But just hours before the voting ended, employees found Weaver using a university computer to cast votes for himself and four friends.
The 22-year-old old Huntington Beach resident was arrested in February after the FBI led a year-long investigation of Weaver on suspicion of wire fraud and access device fraud.
If the plan had succeeded, Weaver and his friends would have received a total stipend of $36,000 for their work in the student government. He also would have been in charge of a $300,000 budget for CSUSM.
Weaver pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud, unauthorized access of a computer and identity theft. He also admitted that he used small electronic devices to steal 745 student passwords, using it to check student's email and Facebook accounts for passwords.
"Weaver determinedly and repeatedly spied on his classmates, stole their passwords, read their secrets, and usurped their votes – and he did it with his eyes wide open," read the sentencing memorandum. "Weaver actually researched the legality of his scheme beforehand…and then, when he knew it was completely illegal, he researched how to blame someone else."
U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said Weaver's behavior serves as a warning to others who believe they won't get caught for a similar crime.
"Weaver ran roughshod over the privacy rights of hundreds of people so that he could indulge his vanity," Duffy said in a statement. "If privacy is to mean anything in a digital age, it has to be protected."


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Mexico, 1927. My wife's grandmother, Maria Victoria Souza, and her family were gathered in their home praying for her brother, Joaquin. He was in bed and unconscious. The details are sketchy so we don't know what exactly was wrong with him but we do know that he was near death and had either entered his condition so unexpectedly or getting a priest to the house was so difficult that he slipped into a coma before one could come so that he hadn't received last rites.
Outside, the anti-Catholic persecution was in full force and priests and faithful Catholics were being martyred by the government for their Faith.
A knock came at the door. Everyone tensed because Victoria (it's Mexican tradition for women to go by their middle name), like the martyr St. Margaret Clithrow centuries before, hid priests in her home. A stranger stood at the door and handed Victoria a piece of bloody cloth with a note. "This is for the dying man," he said and left. No one knows who the stranger was or how he knew that Joaquin was on his deathbed.
Victoria took the cloth over to her brother and as she touched him with it she said that she felt as if she had been shocked. Joaquin revived long enough to receive last rites and died a few days later.
The note with the cloth said that the cloth had been used to soak up the blood of Blessed Miguel Pro after his execution a few days before.
Unfortunately, both the cloth and the note went missing during the chaos of 1920's Mexico but our family won't forget the martyr who quite possibly gave Joaquin the miracle to receive the graces of last rites before his death.
"Viva Christo Rey!"


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LONDON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Rafael Nadal edged by Stanislas Wawrinka for a win at the ATP World Tour Finals that assures Nadal of holding the No. 1 ranking at year's end.
Nadal defeated Wawrinka, the world No. 8, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6) in a 2-hour, 13-minute battle that was one of the tightest of the series between the two.
Nadal improved to 2-0 in Group A play and, with two straight-set wins, locked up a place in the tournament semifinals. He also closed out No. 2-ranked Novak Djokovic's chances of catching Nadal for the world No. 1 ranking this year.
Wawrinka drops to 1-1 in round-robin play and is tied with No. 6-ranked Tomas Berdych, who wrapped up Wednesday's play with a 6-4, 6-4 win over third-ranked David Ferrer. Ferrer is 0-2 in Group A with a match against Wawrinka left on his round-robin schedule.
Nadal hasn't lost in his 12 meetings against Wawrinka -- in fact, he hasn't dropped a set -- but none of the previous meetings was as close as Wednesday's match in which Nadal won 83 points and Wawrinka 80.
Nadal had break advantages in each set but Wawrinka answered both times and forced tiebreakers, which were both tied until the very late stages when Nadal managed to win back-to-back points and claim the sets.
Berdych played a very solid match against Ferrer, winning almost 80 percent of the points on serve and not allowing Ferrer a break opportunity. Berdych had plenty -- nine on the day -- and managed a break in each set.
Group B is to return to action Thursday with No. 7-ranked Roger Federer scheduled to go against ninth-ranked Richard Gasquet in the early match. Both dropped their first matches in the tournament. Djokovic is to face No. 5 Juan Martin del Potro in the late match Thursday.
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It seems like there could be some big change-ups in the world of daytime TV in the coming year. Joy Behar is definitely leaving ABC's The View and Elisabeth Hasselbeck is rumored to be out the door, as well. The rumor mill has been pretty busy lately, with news outlets also reporting NBC's Today host Matt Lauer may not get a contract renewal in early 2014. On Thursday, NBC spoke out about the potential dismissal, noting Lauer can stay as long as he wants.
Lauer's Q score has dropped along with the ratings for Today ever since NBC botched the removal of Ann Curry—a move that some blame Lauer for. Whether or not Lauer is at the heart of the Today changes, out of that acts ashes have come the rumors of the 55-year-old's removal, as well. However, NBC News executive Alex Wallace, who oversees Today, recently told the New York Times the rumors are nothing but smoke and mirrors.
"We are aware of all the ridiculous rumors and gossip. We would like Matt Lauer to be in the chair as long as he would like to be. We hope that's for many years to come."
NBC recently attempted to do some damage control for the network's leading man, stating he was against firing Ann Curry and even offered to resign after the ill will from viewers began. However, the press may have been too little, too late. Good Morning America is now the daytime ratings queen, and we'll have to wait and see whether Today is ever able to regain its crown.


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Mead & Hunt, a nationally recognized professional services consulting firm, is seeking a client focused problem-solver to join our collaborative and innovative water resources team. Responsibilities include designing water resources engineering projects; evaluating and analyzing existing projects; preparing reports, construction cost estimates/quantity take offs, specifications, design plans, schedules, studies, and permits. Travel will be required.
If you have strong communication and organizational skills, are self-motivated, and can work well both independently and as part of a team, complete the online application process for this job posting at www.meadhunt.com/careers OR submit your cover letter and resume (and the pdf application if possible) to the address below. The deadline to apply for this position is Thursday, November 14, 2019. Interviews are awarded on our review of your ability to meet the qualifications in the paragraphs describing the "successful" candidate and "ideal" candidate, so be sure to explain where indicated in the online application (or in your COVER LETTER, not just in your resume, if you are applying by mail) how you meet each qualification listed in the paragraphs above. Mead & Hunt will not sponsor a visa (H-1B, etc.) for this position.
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Last week I speculated about what might happen if all Unauthorized Practice of Law statutes disappeared overnight, thus allowing anyone to give legal advice. The focus last week was on the likely effect of such a change on people who can't afford to hire a lawyer. Today let's look at people who can, or who think they can.
How many folks who need legal advice with typical problems (e.g., family law, real estate, insurance, debt, estate planning, landlord-tenant, minor criminal offenses) and who could afford to hire a lawyer would instead consider not just anyone, but a non-lawyer expert? In my view, quite a few.
Would (Just) Anyone Get Hired?
Most people in the purportedly shrinking middle class who can afford to drop $1500 or more up-front to get a lawyer to start work on a typical case are probably smart enough to understand that there are lots of people out there who know a lot about a particular area of law and could offer good advice without the benefit of a law degree.
Americans generally don't believe they always need an expert to solve a complex problem. Many middle-class people sell their own homes—a complex transaction. People start new businesses all the time without consulting a lawyer. They trust software to do their taxes. The growth of online legal document services continues, despite controversy.
Why would these very same people, when facing a legal issue that they know lots of people have faced before, not at least check out the alternatives to lawyers? Experienced paralegals, court clerks, and legal secretaries could do a lot of this work well. These non-lawyer experts would also know when to refer potential clients to a lawyer. I am also convinced that high-quality advertising and marketing could effectively deliver the message that expertise gained through experience is more valuable than a law degree.
And, as with those who can't afford to even consider hiring a lawyer, middle-class people (particularly in the age of constant connection and communication) would spread the word quickly about which non-lawyer experts did good work. Referrals are everything, especially in a buyers' market. This would likely quickly weed out low-quality "predatory" providers, or at least reduce their numbers down to relative insignificance.


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The workshops will be available on request in Harlingen and Laredo via V-tel. Contact Susan Hunnicutt, Special Projects Librarian (email@example.com), for more information.


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Any registered user can monitor his/her finances in "My Domaza" → "My Finances". In the submenu "Accounts" you can check past and current payments for subscription packages or banner ads, real estate and more.
Your payments are arranged in the table "Accounts", which has the following fields:
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• Reason for payment - indicates the reason for payment. The basis for payment may be "Load Balance" or "Update dPanel". From the drop-down menu select the reason for the payment.
• Amount (EUR) - amount in euro to be paid or already paid, depending on the status.
• Date - displays the date and time of creation of the transaction. Place the cursor in one of the fields over the column and an automatic calendar will appear where you can easily select a date. Click "Search" and your bills from this date or time interval will be displayed.
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Anyone coming to the Venetian Riviera for a dose of jaw-dropping culture matched only by long sandy beaches will fall instantly and head over heels with Venice
The sheer concept of Venice – a city with canals instead of roads – is brilliant enough without the magic of the architecture, the music, the hotels and a carnival unlike any other. No wonder, then, that lovers of this magical place come back time and again.
Souvenir shops are as common a sight as gondolas in Venice, and your Euros can purchase you everything from mass-produced masks and plastic tat to high-class glassware, fabrics and handicrafts. Many of the outlets around the Rialto and St Mark's Square have near-identical stocks, but there are plenty of quality merchants to be found if you look elsewhere. A trip to the island of Burano gives a fantastic opportunity to buy lace items, for example, while the similarly named Murano is famed for its Venetian glassware. It's thought that glassmaking on the island dates back well over a millennium.
Food & Drink
Venice hides a whole host of culinary treats (and more than the occasional tourist trap) among its winding passageways. The takeaway fresh pasta at Alfredo's (Calle De La Casseleria 5324) is a near-legendary institution, while the simple but tasty offerings at Bacareto Da Lele (Campo Dei Tolentini 183) make it a perennial favourite among locals. For something more formal, the enviably located Quadri (Piazza San Marco 120) has had a sterling reputation for years, and the Terrazza Danieli (Riva degli Schiavoni 4196) has wonderful city views. Some would argue that no Venice trip is complete without a Bellini at Harry's Bar (Calle Vallaresso 1323).
Carnevale di Venezia
A masked ball of gargantuan proportions, Venice's world-famous Carnevale takes place in the run-up to Lent (10 days up to Shrove Tuesday), with St Mark's Square filling with costumed entertainers, live musicians and other performers. Private masked balls take place all over the city, alongside open-air alternatives.
Created as a reaction to the number of motorised vessels on the waterways, Vogalonga sees thousands of wooden boats and other human-powered craft compete in a rowing 'race' along a route stretching more than 30km. It always takes place on a Sunday.
Festa de San Piero de Casteo
An intimate week-long shindig that retains a small-town atmosphere with its puppet shows, fairground attractions, food stalls and live musical performances, all centred on the 'village green' outside the church of San Piero.
Venezia Jazz Festival
Venice's leading jazz festival draws leading names on the world scene to the City of Water, with trumpets tootling and saxes swinging not just in Venice but in the wider region too.
Venice International Film Festival
Rightly seen as one of the world's premier film festivals (it is in fact the oldest international festival of its kind anywhere), the Venice International Film Festival takes place on the Lido and sees films battle it out to win the prestigious Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion).
Few places rely on tourism quite so much as Venice – a destination so timeless and magnificent that it can sometimes appear more of a stage set than a living, breathing city. Unsurprisingly, the majority of its best hotels take Venice's rich heritage as inspiration for their d�cor, with properties like Hotel Antico Doge (Cannaregio 5643) and Corte di Gabriela (Calle degli Avvocati 3836) combining old-world elegance with modern comforts. Hotel Moresco (Sestiere Dorsoduro 3499) is an opulent hotel sitting five minutes' walk from Piazzale Roma, while the famous Hotel Cipriani (Giudecca 10) is located on the island on Giudecca, removing it from the hubbub of the main tourist areas.


text: I have the following question: Let $M$ smooth analytic manifold of dimension 4n. Assume furthermore that $M$ admits two foliations $A$, $B$, both with leaves of dimension 2n such that the leaves of $A$ are transvers to the leaves of $B$ at each point. Also the leaves of $A$ are $n$-dim complex manifolds with complex structure $J_{\alpha}$ (for a leaf $\alpha \in A$) which vary smoothly if $\alpha$ vary in $A$. The leaves of $B$ are $n-$dim complex manifolds with complex structure $J_{\beta}$ (for a leaf $\beta \in B$) which vary smoothly if $\beta$ vary in $B$. My question is now: Is it possible to define a complex structure on te manifold $M$ by: for $x \in M$ there exists exactly one leaf $\alpha \in A$ that contains $x$ and one leaf $\beta \in B$ that contain $x$ and set for the complex structure $J := J_{\alpha, x} + J_{\beta, x}$. This is an almost complex structure. Is this structure integrable, if $J_{\alpha}$ and $J_{\beta}$ are integrable on each leaf? If not what assumption do I need in order to make it integrable? I hope for a lot of answers. Thanks in advance.


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Pale and Drawn
I was sort of admiring the queasy sepia tones of Walerian Borowczyk's LITTLE THEATRE OF MR AND MRS KABAL, when I realized that in fact I was looking at an Eastmancolor type print which had faded to pink. Almost totally.
In this day and age, when even some of the worst Jesus Franco movies have had loving digital restorations, old Boro is still ill-served. There are obscure editions of his early animations, and some of the later pornos are out there in nice quality copies, but, for instance, his dark masterpiece DR JEKYLL AND THE WOMEN, can be seen only via bootleg dubs of a hard-subbed VHS. And maybe it's just the fact that I love old stuff, but I'd say that DECASIA-style nitrate decomposition makes for a far superior aesthetic effect than Eastmancolor pinking.
Here's a live action shot from KABAL —
Boro's rainbow family harem are now unified in puce. Alack!
More on KABAL at The Forgotten, courtesy of The Daily Notebook, soon — but my editor is currently
whooping it up hard at work in Cannes, so there may be some slight delay.
Update — The Forgotten on Borowczyk.
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It used to be that television got a bad rap for corroding people's minds and producing too much stupidity, sex, violence, etc.
As the song goes, don't know what you got till it's gone: Parents are increasingly worried by the amount of time that their kids are spending online, a study shows. This time, it's not just that parents are scared of what the kids are viewing -- it's the sheer amount of hours that they are spending on their computers, phones, etc.
Whether it's around the dinner table or just in front of the TV, U.S. families say they are spending less time together.The decline in family time coincides with a rise in Internet use and the popularity of social networks...
This may well be the first time that watching television is described as a shared family activity like sitting down at dinner together.
TV has historically been seen as something negative in American culture -- at best, a vast "cultural wasteland" or, at worst, a purveyor of material offensive to the right (sex) and the left (violence).
But the idea that television is something unifying is a fact. The golden age of television (roughly from the '50s through the mid-70s roughly tracked the growing and early adult years of the baby boomers -- from "I Love Lucy" and "The Andy Griffith Show" to "Gilligan's Island" and "All In The Family"; from "Gunsmoke" and "Peyton Place" to "Star Trek" and "Dallas." It continued somewhat into the '80s with "The Cosby Show", "Cheers, etc., before the explosion of cable created more options and a more diverse and diffuse audience.
Those eras created a shared societal hearth, around which families gathered. Today's shows, even those watched by all members of the family inevitably are seen at different times because of DVRs or online or on iPods. That old so-called "idiot box", in retrospect, doesn't seem so stupid now.
Its successor as the ubiquitous technological tool -- the personal computer -- may be the doorway to the information age, but it sure doesn't lead to a shared cultural experience.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.


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France's Senate upper house has voted in favour of same-sex marriage, paving the way for it to enter law after street marches rallied hundreds of thousands of demonstrators both for and against it.
The move is France's most important social reform since the 1981 abolition of the death penalty and was a keynote campaign pledge by president Francois Hollande's ruling socialists.
But it is opposed by social conservatives in the majority Catholic country, and by many French Muslims and evangelical Christians.
The bill, approved by a show of hands with minor amendments, returns in May to the National Assembly lower house where the socialists have an absolute majority.
After final approval there, it is due to take effect mid-year.
France joins 11 other countries including Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway and South Africa where same-sex marriage is legal.
French upper house passes same-sex marriage law - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Truly inspirational! Eddie the Eagle is an inspiring biopic about following your dreams despite the world trying to pull you down. The movie justifies all those maxims you might have come across growing up like – "Follow your dreams!", "Never give up!" and all those perseverance clichés. But the most important one that I take out from the movie is – "Celebrate every little success".
Looking at the bright insightful eyes of young Eddie where dreams skulked somewhere deep down, scouring persistently for his life's true objective, your heart might end up brimming up with empathy for the poor lad. Also, looking at his gusto to settle on a dream, his constant search as he zeroes in on what he truly wants to become might leave you disappointed in yourself.
Did you once have a passion you were never able give a proper form to? Something that made you so happy, and yet you decided to listen to those who inadvertently stopped you from doing it? Well Eddie never listened to anybody but his heart, and that made all the difference.
Eddie the Eagle tries to weigh in on the biopic of the real Michael Edwards in a delightful mien. It will let you bag all the good feels as the movie goes on jumping around in them Eddie shoes. The journey starts off in a pleasant manner but there is that hurdle in the form of Terry, Eddie's dad played by Keith Allen who constantly tries to dissuade him from doing what Eddie really loves.
"Are you trying to tell me you never had a dream when you were a kid, Dad?"
He is instantly reflective of the world, something that is trying to stop one from achieving one's ultimate goal. Our lives are inundated with such characters who are pressing us constantly to steer from our path. It is a good thing that Terry is there in the movie and that he never approved of him that makes Eddie the Eagle further powerful as he says he loves to prove people wrong.
Eddie the Eagle struggles profusely as he tries in his own candid way to get himself the spot everybody denies him. But there was no stopping him, the perseverance he shows to achieve is worth commendable.
There are plenty of brilliant acts in the movie. A pleasant side-plot that Hugh Jackman runs is endearing to watch. Christopher Walken and Jim Broadbent cameo were lovely.
One short parley with Matti Nykänen played by Edvin Endre is downright outstanding. Beautiful lines lurk in their confab, and you can't help but marvel at the colossal importance of it.
If we do less than our best with the whole world watching, it will kill us inside.
The movie's melodrama is a bit questionable. It doesn't fling anything gut-wrenching at you. Hugh Jackman's bar fight scene looks like strangely concocted in a clichéd fashion. Taron Egerton often goes in and out of his character multiple times. However does create his version of Eddie beautifully with that constant frown and that wide jaw framing.
Another thing that cannot be completely overlooked is that the beauty of the sport hasn't been milked enough. For a guy who has set his eyes on something so huge as ski-jumping there has to be a story to it, or if there isn't, we needed a better screenplay coming from Eddie The Eagle justifying his love for the sport. The film misses both. It goes too light for a dream so big.
Also, eventually as the movie comes to fruition it vexes the viewers into questioning whether Eddie the Eagle was crazy or completely sane. The way the movie was depicted right from the start would have you believe that he was alright but then afterwards it was kind of hard to tell.
It also, in an attempt to deliberately dodge the question of Eddie's progress, fails to show where Eddie really stood. The fact that it's okay to come last should have been milked more because that was actually the crux on which the movie was based. Celebrating defeating himself, his own personal record was what overjoyed him more, which I think required more screen time.
Also, there was a lot of fact changing going on that distorted the real Eddie the Eagle, Michael Edward. As Michael Edward puts it that it clicked with his life only 5% which raises brows at its accuracy.
Eddie the Eagle might not be a hero one hunts for in a movie, as he always ends up coming last, but there is a lot of heroism one could derive from him, with his free spirit, his perseverance, his attitude, and his constant pursuit for the stars.
You can check out the trailer of Eddie the Eagle here: