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BRISTOL HOSTS MAJOR DEBATE ON THE FUTURE OF THE MEDIA ON MARCH 16th – PLUS EXCLUSIVE FILM SHOWING
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HARD PRESSED: Two events on the future of the media, March 16th, 2012
By Bristol NUJ and Bristol Festival of Ideas, supported by MediaAct and Mediawise
Hacked to bits: Restoring public trust in journalism
The 2012 Benn Debate, 7.30pm Friday March 16th, Arnolfini, Bristol. Tickets £6.50 and £5.00 concessions and NUJ members
The reputation of journalism is in tatters after revelations about phone hacking, still being unravelled by the Leveson Inquiry and several police investigations.
Soon the focus will shift onto how the press – and the online media – can be regulated in a rapidly-changing landscape.
No-one wants a repetition of the abuses unveiled recently. But many are fearful that more effective regulation will mean politicians can dictate how the media is run.
Bristol NUJ has brought together a remarkable panel of nationally-known figures to debate these vital issues
Lord Hunt – chairman of the Press Complaints Commission and former Conservative Cabinet minister
Christopher Jefferies – a happily retired school teacher until he was libelled by several newspapers over the Jo Yeates murder
Prof Epp Lauk – chair of the Estonian Press Council and an academic expert on press regulation and the culture of the press across Europe, with a particular focus on emerging democracies
Thais Portilho-Shrimpton – co-ordinator of the Hacked Off campaign against phone hacking, she has kept a close vigil on the Leveson Inquiry and knows many of the key figures who have given evidence
Richard Peppiatt – a former Daily Star reporter, he has spoken out about how he felt obliged to make up stories and how he felt the Star had an anti-Muslim agenda
PAGE ONE – Inside the New York Times: 5.30pm Friday March 16th, Arnolfini, Bristol. Tickets £6.50 and £5.00 concessions and NUJ members
First showing in Bristol of this remarkable fly-on-the-wall film about one of the world's great newspapers as it faces up to the challenges of a revolution in the needs of media consumers.
ATTEND BOTH EVENTS FOR £11.50 or £8.50 concessions and NUJ members
Venue Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, Avon BS1 4QA; 0117 917 230
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Are you wondering about the state of affairs in New Orleans? Has the "City That Care Forgot" managed to recover from the effects of Hurricane Katrina? Information on New Orleans recovery can now be easily accessed at the city's brand new "Recovery Projects Information" site.
It's been more than 2-1/2 years since the Big Easy was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The massive hurricane, complete with high winds and high waters, hit New Orleans on August, 29, 2005. Protective city levees broke, and the majority of the city was flooded. Luckily, one of New Orleans most popular historic areas, the French Quarter, was spared; that's where I am headed in a couple of weeks.
According to the Bush administration, it's expected that it will take a quarter century for New Orleans to fully recover from Katrina. But where tourism is concerned, it's business as usual. Read on . . .

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How to set up Two Factor Authentication with Google Authenticator
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== Installation ==
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First you will need to install three pieces of software:
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Google's 'Google Authenticator' is an excellent way to set up Two-Factor Authentication on an x10VPS, or indeed any system.
Enabling this extra security requires:
- a smartphone (Android, iPhone, or BlackBerry)
- the Google Authenticator app
N.B.: For the purposes of this tutorial we will be using Ubuntu, because that is the OS in use by the Author. 'Translations' to other package managers and any extra steps required may be added in due course by others.
N.B.: If you are not running as root you may need to prefix these commands with sudo.
First you will need to install three pieces of software:
- apt-get update
- apt-get install gcc git libpam0g-dev
Now, clone the repository and compile:
- cd ~
- git clone https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
- cd google-authenticator/libpam
- make install
You should see some text scrolling by ending similar to this:
- cp pam_google_authenticator.so /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security
- cp google-authenticator /usr/local/bin
System Configuration for Google Authenticator
First, edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the ChallengeResponseAuthentication from no to yes
- # Change to yes to enable challenge-response passwords (beware issues with
- # some PAM modules and threads)
- ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
Now, edit the /etc/pam.d/common-auth file to include the Google Authenticator module in the PAM configuration. Insert a new line between the comment and the first auth line:
- # here are the per-package modules (the "Primary" block)
- auth required pam_google_authenticator.so
- auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure
- # here's the fallback if no module succeeds
User Configuration for Google Authenticator
NOTE: Make sure you are logged in as you - this will need to be done for each user and is not a system wide change.
Run the command google-authenticator and follow the text extract below:
- Do you want authentication tokens to be time-based (y/n) y
- https://www.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&[...]
- Your new secret key is: [...]
- Your verification code is [...]
- Your emergency scratch codes are:
- [...]
- [...]
- [...]
- [...]
- [...]
- Do you want me to update your "/[username]/.google_authenticator" file (y/n) y
- Do you want to disallow multiple uses of the same authentication token? This restricts you to one login about every 30s, but it increases your chances to notice or even prevent man-in-the-middle attacks
- (y/n) y
- By default, tokens are good for 30 seconds and in order to compensate for possible time-skew between the client and the server, we allow an extra token before and after the current time. If you experience problems with poor time synchronization, you can increase the window from its default size of 1:30min to about 4min. Do you want to do so
- (y/n) y
- If the computer that you are logging into isn't hardened against brute-force login attempts, you can enable rate-limiting for the authentication module. By default, this limits attackers to no more than 3 login attempts every 30s.
- Do you want to enable rate-limiting (y/n) y
You must now open the link shown above the line with your secret key - this will show a QR code you can scan with the Google Authenticator app. If this does not work and / or you are unable to scan QR codes, you can set it up manually, account name is whatever will help you remember, and the code is the secret key. Make sure you specify that the key should be time based in the app.
Now, restart the SSH service. DO NOT CLOSE YOUR CURRENT SSH CONNECTION / WINDOW
- service ssh restart
When this completes (usually instantly), try to open a new SSH connection. You will be asked for your username, then the key from the Authenticator app, and finally your password.
Please note that x10Hosting cannot he held liable for any downtime, and that the SLA does not apply to any services used in connection with 2-step verification if the verification process fails. Please also note that, subject to proving your identity satisfactorily to the administration team, should there be an irrecoverable error caused, the administration team should be able to disable the Google Authenticator service on your behalf.


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Joe McPherson founded ZenKimchi in 2004. He has been featured and sourced in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, CNN, KBS, MBC, SBS, Le Figaro, Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, Harper's Bazaar Korea, The Chosun Weekly, and other Korean and international media. He has consulted for "Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain," The Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, the PBS documentary series "Kimchi Chronicles," and other projects in the UK, Canada, and Australia featuring celebrity chefs such as Gizzi Erskine and Gary Mehigan. Mr. McPherson has written for multiple Korean and international publications, including SEOUL Magazine, JoongAng Daily, The Korea Herald, Newsweek Korea and wrote the feature article for U.S. National publication Plate magazine's all-Korean food issue. He has acted as dining editor for 10 Magazine and was on the judging panel for Korea for the Miele Guide. He spoke at TEDx Seoul on Korean food globalization, at TED Worldwide Talent Search on the rise of Korean cuisine, and in New York City on Korean Buddhist temple cuisine. The company ZenKimchi International organizes food tours for tourists and corporations and acts as a media liaison for foreign and Korean media and local restaurants and producers.
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quote:Originally posted by MTPromises: 10, I remember that happening with XKEM. Was that the reason Bob asked to start a new thread for FHAL? - to make sure the original thread could get locked and not have the a "tech glitch" occur and leave use without all that DD?
quote:Originally posted by 10of13: quote:Originally posted by : So much for the "engagement"...Bad!
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quote:Originally posted by Munchkin Man: Greetings To All:The Munchkin Man has a question.How does the Munchkin Man go about the process of applying to become a Moderator?Thanks in advance.Best Wishes,Munchkin Man
quote:Originally posted by ridethewave: ok tex.. i see that you are a nice person and I respect that. I just got little frustrated that i got locked out that's all. But I am cool now since i understand that it's usual practice in this board to save bandwidth. All I should have done yesterday is to take a nice cold beer to keep me straight:-)


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Democrats are hammering U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, for changing his vote at the last minute and opposing a Democratic idea about wildfire prevention.
Republicans said the amendment was meaningless and nothing but political smoke and mirrors.
It happened Tuesday in Washington, while back in Colorado firefighters were battling several major blazes, including the High Park Fire outside of Fort Collins, which soon could grow into the second-largest fire in state history.
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Golden, offered a brief amendment to a Republican public lands bill to give the federal government authority to contract with states to remove beetle-killed trees.
"We need to have that done to prevent forest fires in the future. It's as simple as that," Perlmutter said during debate in the House.
The amendment failed on a near party-line vote. Coverage of the 15-minute vote on C-Span showed a handful of Republicans initially voting yes and then voting no. The Congressional Record showed that Tipton, along with Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, and a California Republican switched their votes from yes to no with less than a minute left in the roll call.
Tipton, Coffman, and Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, issued a joint statement deriding Perlmutter's amendment as a "cheap political move" that would have no real-world effect.
"We are already working on measures in the House that, unlike this political stunt, would actually offer real solutions to the widespread bark beetle epidemic and catastrophic wildfires," the statement said. "Trying to score political points off families who have lost their homes is shameful."
Tipton's Democratic opponent, Sal Pace, said Tipton still didn't explain why he wavered on his vote.
"The blanket statement made by my opponent is yet another example of him having 'gone Washington' and does not explain why until the last second he was in favor of the motion," Pace said in a prepared statement. "There is possibly no issue more timely and crucial than the subject matter of forest fires and fire prevention, and it's completely reasonable to ask my opponent why he turned his back on his Colorado values."
Perlmutter's amendment also would have required gift shops in national parks to sell only goods made in the United States.
The second part hit especially close to home for Tipton. As the owner of Mesa Verde Pottery, he employs Native American crafters to create pottery for sale in national park gift shops.
Also on the House floor this week, Republicans passed an energy bill that included a provision sponsored by Tipton, called the Planning for American Energy Act.
Tipton's bill tells the U.S. Department of Energy to predict the country's energy needs for the next 30 years and then set four-year production plans for all types of energy.
"This legislation would establish production goals for a true all-of-the-above domestic energy plan that includes wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, oil shale, oil, natural gas, coal and minerals needed for energy development," Tipton said in a news release.
The bill now goes to the Senate. Republican legislation usually dies in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and vice-versa.


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"So is this the Royal and Very Illustrious Fraternity of the Holy Christ of the Expiration, the Virgin of the Greatest Pain and the Piarist Brotherhood of Jose de Calasanz", asks K, "or is it the Ferverous and Penitent Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of the Good Death and Our Lady of Love and Railworkers?"
I can't help chuckling to myself at her schoolgirl error.
"No, no you silly bean", I gently chide, patting the back of her hand.
I've been brushing up on the processions in my little Semana Santa booklet, complete with timetables, recommended viewing locations and little illustrations depicting the various get-ups that would identify the cofradias, or brotherhoods, and their penitent, pointy-hooded nazarenos. Apart from the colour of their costumes there would be nothing to distinguish one nazareno from another; all of them covered from head to foot, their identities concealed by capirote, capa and capuz. I recognized the conical yellow headwear and black túnica that we're looking at now immediately.
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In AP Climate Conference Coverage, Protest by 'a Few Hundred' Is News, Opposition Letter From 129 Scientists Is Not
In case you missed it, there's yet another United Nations climate conference in progress, this time in Doha Qatar. At the Associated Press, there is a story on a protest which organizers want to characterize as a "march for peace" by "a few hundred" climate activists demanding "climate justice." The AP's Karl Ritter warns readers that "Dangerous (global) warming effects could include flooding of coastal cities and island nations, disruptions to agriculture and drinking water, and the spread of diseases and the extinction of species" — even though there has been no net warming in 16 years. Another AP story suggest that "SOME WISH ISLAM WOULD INFORM CLIMATE DEBATE." I'll suggest that the referenced "some" includes a few AP and other journalists and almost no one else.
But there has been no room at the AP, as confirmed in a search on the world "climate" at the wire service's website at 3:30 p.m. ET and a review of possibly relevant articles, for discussion or even recognition of a November 29 open letter sent by over 125 scientists "qualified in climate-related matters" who have informed U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that "there is no substantiation" for the so-called "science" undergirding the U.N. meeting's agenda (produced in full after the jump; bold is in original):
SECRETARY-GENERAL: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125-plus scientists.
Policy actions that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to influence future climate. Policies need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events, however caused.
Mr. Secretary-General:
On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: "Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger climate shocks … and to reach a legally binding climate agreement by 2015 … This should be one of the main lessons of Hurricane Sandy."
On November 13 you said at Yale: "The science is clear; we should waste no more time on that debate."
The following day, in Al Gore's "Dirty Weather" Webcast, you spoke of "more severe storms, harsher droughts, greater floods", concluding: "Two weeks ago, Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern seaboard of the United States. A nation saw the reality of climate change. The recovery will cost tens of billions of dollars. The cost of inaction will be even higher. We must reduce our dependence on carbon emissions."
We the undersigned, qualified in climate-related matters, wish to state that current scientific knowledge does not substantiate your assertions.
The U.K. Met Office recently released data showing that there has been no statistically significant global warming for almost 16 years. During this period, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations rose by nearly 9% to now constitute 0.039% of the atmosphere. Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years. Whether, when and how atmospheric warming will resume is unknown. The science is unclear. Some scientists point out that near-term natural cooling, linked to variations in solar output, is also a distinct possibility.
The "even larger climate shocks" you have mentioned would be worse if the world cooled than if it warmed. Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence.
The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased. There is little evidence that dangerous weather-related events will occur more often in the future. The U.N.'s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in its Special Report on Extreme Weather (2012) that there is "an absence of an attributable climate change signal" in trends in extreme weather losses to date. The funds currently dedicated to trying to stop extreme weather should therefore be diverted to strengthening our infrastructure so as to be able to withstand these inevitable, natural events, and to helping communities rebuild after natural catastrophes such as tropical storm Sandy.
There is no sound reason for the costly, restrictive public policy decisions proposed at the U.N. climate conference in Qatar. Rigorous analysis of unbiased observational data does not support the projections of future global warming predicted by computer models now proven to exaggerate warming and its effects.
The NOAA "State of the Climate in 2008" report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now proven that the models are wrong by their creators' own criterion.
Based upon these considerations, we ask that you desist from exploiting the misery of the families of those who lost their lives or properties in tropical storm Sandy by making unsupportable claims that human influences caused that storm. They did not. We also ask that you acknowledge that policy actions by the U.N., or by the signatory nations to the UNFCCC, that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to exercise any significant influence on future climate. Climate policies therefore need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events however caused.
Signed by (129 scientists).
Meeting such as these and their related agendas have long since lost any credibility with those interested in facts and science and uninterested in being fazed or intimidated by the politically correct globaloney crowd. The real agenda was expressed by a German official two years ago by Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist who at the time was "co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change." Plainly and simply, he said:
… "climate policy is redistributing the world's wealth" and that "it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization."
… Edenhofer claims "developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community" and so they must have their wealth expropriated and redistributed to the victims of their alleged crimes, the postage stamp countries of the world. He admits this "has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."
Longtime readers will be totally unsurprised that searches at the time on Edenhofer's last name at the Associated Press's main web site, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Los Angeles Times all came up empty.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.


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Monday, July 28, 2008
Welcome home - Hello Harvest
8:44 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
I got her from Taiwan. A friend of mine helped me to buy her and mailed her to me! I am so thankful to have a friend helped me so much! :) Thanks Shirley! When she arrived she was a little messy, the seller put tapes on her hair and legs. I was so unhappy about that because she should know better how to treat a doll when she's in a long journey like this, at least wrap her with bubble wrapper!!!! Anyway, I cleaned her up and she looks great now!! There are still places need to be fixed but I know that she will be happy in my home with the other girls together! :)
Labels: blythe, hello harvest, hh | 5 comments
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Orange Octopus
12:35 AM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
In the past few days I crochet this octopus! The pattern is from Lion Brand, click here! I used Caron Simply Soft Brites - Mango (colorway) to make the body, and use Rubine Red to stitch the mouth and all these suckers. My DH called this little guy ANCE Octopus! LOL! I have also used a pair of 9mm yellow eyes here. I think it matches the body color very well and it looks great! The only problem I have when I am making this little guy is after I crochet everything, trying to put the legs onto the body, it doesn't have enough space under the torso to put all 8 legs together! I have to force the last one into its place and overlap with the other leg a little bit! :p
Labels: 15mm black safety eyes, 9mm yellow eyes, Amigurumi, caron simply soft brites, Crochet, DIY, eye, mango, octopus, plastic eyes, round eyes, rubine red, yellow | 2 comments
Rusty the cat
12:26 AM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
Here I make another knitted cat with different yarns. This time I used Lion Brand - cotton ease! So far I like the feel of this yarn, but I think I like to crochet it better than knit it! I still like wool yarn the best, very easy to knit! Anyway, I still like how the cat turns out! On this cat, I have used a pair of 9 mm black eyes, and a 6 mm eye as a nose.
Labels: 6mm black eye, 9mm black eye, Amigurumi, black eye, Cat, cotton ease, craft eyes, eye, knitted cat, lion brand, plastic eyes, Rusty the cat, safety eyes, toy eyes | 0 comments
Friday, July 18, 2008
Blythe's Beret hat
5:10 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
I just got this cotton yarn (Lion Brand Cotton Ease) and I thought I would give it a try to make a Beret! This yarn is not easy to work with, it splitting quite a lot, however I like the color, finally the hat came out pretty good! Beret is a little bigger than I thought, next time I will use a smaller yarn and try that again! This hat took me about 5 hours to do it, I know, I am a slow crocheter! :)
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Big mouth Dog
9:36 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
I have used about a week to crochet this dog! It's not difficult to crochet, however, the legs are way too little for my big fingers. I can't imagine I will crochet something real small and little, I don't have the patience I think. Anyway, this pattern is from Amigurumi Collection Book Vol. 6. The dog is quite cute in the book, I don't know about this one I made, hopefully the kid that get it will be happy about this little doggie!
Labels: 12mm gold eyes, Amigurumi, amigurumi collection 6, brown, Crochet, DIY, dog | 3 comments
Monday, July 7, 2008
Kitty cat and a baby owl
10:39 AM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
Last week I made more animals, one is kitty cat. This cat pattern is so quick and easy. You will love it. The whole cat is made in Garter stitch with 3 pieces, head, body and tail. You don't have to do much sewing to get it done, the face expression has so much possibilities, you can use any kind of yarn to make the cat your own design, it's amazing! Here I used a pair of 9mm green pearl eyes and a 12mm nose. The cat size is about 4 inches tall and 5.5 inches long, I used Cascade 220 gray yarn and needle US6/4mm. The size is tiny, but it's very cute! I also made this baby owl, in the middle of the body, I changed the "single crochet" to "single crochet black loop only" and also at the top I changed it to "double crochet" to make it different looking than just an ordinary amigurumi, I like the look of different stitches together. I put a pair of 9mm owl eyes and sew on a beak and called it a lavender baby owl! :)
Labels: 12mm nose, 9mm cat eyes, 9mm owl eyes, Amigurumi, baby owl, Cat, Crochet, crochet cat, DIY, kitty, knitted animal, lavender | 4 comments
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Hulk the frog
11:23 AM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
I spent a few days to crochet this frog. It's not as easy as I thought! I mean it's easy to crochet each part, but to make its eyes like frog isn't that easy at all. I have positioned them in different locations, but they made the frog look like angry mob! haha! So finally I have placed the safety eyes in horizontal position and they look more friendly and realistic looking that way. Anyway, I am still learning how to make amigurumi looks cute, so this is not a bad try at all. Turn out after stuffing this frog, it look like the "HULK" so I am going to name him "HULK the frog". :P Pattern of this frog is came from Kristieskids from Etsy.
Labels: 15mm black safety eyes, 15mm cat eyes, Amigurumi, animals, charity, Crochet, DIY, frog | 0 comments
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Filipinos definitely want their daily dose of 'vitamin bee' brought to them by "The Singing Bee," as the hit musical game show has consistently ruled its timeslot and beat its rival program in the ratings game since it started airing on weekday mornings.
Viewers nationwide warmly welcomed "The Singing Bee" as the show hit an average national TV rating of 14.8% in its pilot week (Feb 24 to 28), or nine points higher than GMA's "Tunay Na Buhay" with only 5.6%, based on data from Kantar Media. It also debuted strongly last February 24, recording a national TV rating of 15.8%, or almost triple that of "Tunay Na Buhay's" 5.7%.
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News personalities Anthony Taberna, Doris Bigornia, Winnie Cordero, and Bernadette Sembrano will take a break from reporting hard news and will set off the fun on Tuesday (Mar 11).
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Apple Unveils 'Game Center' iPhone Gaming Network
The network might be launching alongside iPhone OS 4, which is scheduled for a "summer" release, but could be after the initial launch. The announced features are:
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Unfortunately, iPhone OS 4 will not work across all iPhone SO devices.
iPhone OS 4 will work with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod touch this summer, and with iPad in the fall. Not all features are compatible with all devices. For example, multitasking is available only with iPhone 3GS and the third-generation iPod touch (32GB and 64GB models from late 2009).
This has huge implications for iPhone gaming and a standardized social gaming network is something that I've wanted on the platform for a long time. The iPhone OS 4 SDK is available now to developers and will launch to consumers this summer. Other announced improvements include multitasking, an Apple-run advertising network, iBooks, folders and more.
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The New York Times seems to be concern trolling on the issue of Chinese investment in the Caribbean. To be fair, though, it's not just the NYT that's playing this game, but folks in the U.S. government. You've seen how this goes down in the media: first a "threat" is presented, always as a concern of others, and then later on in the article, there is an acknowledgement that the danger is either unfounded or the fear is premature.
What are we left with? Usually the message in the headline, plus a vague sense of unease. In this case, the headline reads: "U.S. Alert as China's Cash Buys Inroads in Caribbean." Scary, no? This also feeds into the general uneasiness Americans are feeling about a rising China. Isn't this special?
A few specifics so you can see the game in action. Here's an opening gambit, setting out the "threat":
China's economic might has rolled up to America's doorstep in the Caribbean, with a flurry of loans from state banks, investments by companies and outright gifts from the government in the form of new stadiums, roads, official buildings, ports and resorts in a region where the United States has long been a prime benefactor.
The Chinese have flexed their economic prowess in nearly every corner of the world. But planting a flag so close to the United States has generated intense vetting — and some raised eyebrows — among diplomats, economists and investors.
Note the language. "China's economic might" — a threat in and of itself. This has "rolled up to America's doorstep" — China is spreading out across the globe like Nazi Germany in those old propaganda films, painting each country it taints an evil red color. America's doorstep of course is the Caribbean, whose proximity to the U.S. has been used for decades now to the detriment of the Cubans. The Chinese are "planting a flag" — a symbol of ownership that has somewhat of a colonial flavor to it. And finally, there are raised eyebrows among diplomats, economists and investors; important folks are very worried about all this.
I don't know about you, but I just got so scared I soiled my undergarments.
Apparently some idiots at the State Department are also nervous:
American diplomatic cables released through WikiLeaks and published in the British newspaper The Guardian quoted diplomats as being increasingly worried about the Chinese presence here "less than 190 miles from the United States" and speculating on its purpose. One theory, according to a 2003 cable, suggested that China was lining up allies as "a strategic move" for the eventual end of the Castro era in Cuba, with which it has strong relations.
My goodness. The Chinese are lending money, building roads and sports stadiums, and insinuating themselves with the locals. What on earth are they up to? Sounds like USSR/Cuba all over again. Sort of. Well, not at all really. I'm not sure if the State Department guys are up on the news, but the Chinese don't need to invest in the Caribbean to be close to the U.S. — they can invest in the U.S. directly! They don't need to "roll up" to America's doorstep, they've already been invited inside and asked if they wish to purchase any of the furniture.
The Times article does, later on in the article of course, point out the reasons why "China" (i.e. Chinese financial institutions, construction companies, commodities traders, etc.) are making moves in the Caribbean. First and foremost, there is money to be made. Imagine that. Second, the Caribbean is home to quite a few very small nations whose political loyalties can be purchased on the cheap. So if China lends a few million RMB to these guys, the next time an argument ensues regarding whether Taiwan should join an international organization as an independent country, China should be able to count on votes from the Caribbean. Third, indirectly, the U.S. hasn't been paying sufficient attention to the region.
"They are buying loyalty and taking up the vacuum left by the United States, Canada and other countries, particularly in infrastructure improvements," said Sir Ronald Sanders, a former diplomat from Antigua and Barbuda.
"If China continues to invest the way it is doing in the Caribbean, the U.S. is almost making itself irrelevant to the region," he added. "You don't leave your flank exposed."
"Leave your flank exposed"? Calm down, Field Marshal. We're talking about foreign aid and infrastructure construction, not the Franco-Prussian War.
You might think that if a group of nations on America's "doorstep" needed foreign aid, it would be the U.S., not China, that would be giving it. Apparently not — most Americans don't believe in foreign aid, and their government representatives are only keen if it goes to arms purchases by Israel and Egypt.
But I digress.
So what's the bottom line here? China has found an opportunity to make some money and find a few cheap friends. Unless the U.S. is willing to put up some cash, what's the problem with this? It's not like China is putting missile sites in Antigua or threatening to censor Jimmy Buffett's lyrics (the latter might actually be a good thing). Are these State Department goofballs worried that Chinese largess will push Jamaica over to the Communist camp? Domino Theory 2.0?
China in the Caribbean — sounds like a scary conspiracy, but the facts do not reveal a threat to America's shores. As the philosopher said: "Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine." I have no idea what that means, but China's position in the Caribbean is quite easy to discern.


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Alexander Payne makes movies about men on the brink — of a nervous breakdown, of personal or professional ruin and, ultimately, maybe even some hard-earned peace. That was true of Matthew Broderick's scheming teacher in "Election," Jack Nicholson's searching retiree in "About Schmidt" and Paul Giamatti's sloppy oenophile in "Sideways," and it's certainly true of George Clooney in "The Descendants."
As real-estate lawyer Matt King, he finds everything in his life is in flux and on the verge of collapse simultaneously. He isn't just functioning one day at a time, he's navigating the chaos one hour at a time. This isn't any easier even though he lives in Hawaii, a place that's supposed to be paradise.
Clooney being Clooney, though, he makes every stage of his character's arc believable, from grief through anger and eventual acceptance, and he gives a performance that's so understated as to appear effortless. Having long ago learned to jettison movie-star vanity to play varied, challenging parts — and having turned 50 this year — Clooney now seems comfortable portraying regular guys with regular problems. What Matt must endure cumulatively is extraordinary, but elements of his journey will surely resonate with ordinary folks.
Matt's wife, Elizabeth, is lying in a hospital bed in a coma following a boating accident. By all accounts, she's been a bit of a wild child her whole life, but now there isn't much hope that she's going to make it. Matt, who hasn't been the most available or hands-on father, must now take care of the couple's two daughters on his own: 17-year-old boarding school rebel Alexandra (Shailene Woodley) and 10-year-old troublemaker Scottie (Amara Miller).
Matt and the girls must make the rounds to friends and family to explain there isn't much time left for Elizabeth and to give them a chance to say their good-byes. This process would seem wrenching enough, but Alexandra insists on making it even more difficult by bringing along her idiot boyfriend, Sid (Nick Krause), for moral support.
Then she drops another bombshell on her father: Elizabeth was having an affair at the time of her accident. Matt is understandably incensed by the discovery, but he's also curious to find out who this guy is, and his bumbling attempts at casual stalking provide some much-needed comic relief.
As if all this weren't enough to handle, Matt's enormous family has put him in charge of deciding what to do with the 25,000 acres of pristine land on Kauai that they've inherited from their royal Hawaiian ancestors. A deadline is looming to choose whether to sell it to developers, and to whom, and for how much; this burden of privilege is what gives the film, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, its title. (Payne adapted the script with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.)
Matt wades through all these troubles, and while everything would seem to be at stake at once, Payne's pacing is often so languid that we don't feel the sort of mounting tension that we should. Maybe it has something to do with the laid-back setting (although it is novel to see this beautiful place through the eyes of everyday residents, rather than tourists). "The Descendants" also loses some of its power in the frequent use of voiceover, which tends to spell out too much.
But the story keeps you guessing as to where it will go, and it features some piercing moments of emotional truth. The casting of Matthew Lillard as the other man is an unexpected and inspired choice, and the inevitable confrontation with him takes some surprising turns; this is also true of the interactions with his wife, played by Judy Greer.
This is, of course, Clooney's show — he's in nearly every moment of the film, and he delivers a doozy of a moment-of-truth speech — but both young actresses who play his daughters hold their own beautifully with him. Woodley in particular shows a confident spark as her character believably develops from a state of bitter resentment to mature responsibility. The last shot indicates how all three of them have changed with quiet uplift.
"The Descendants," a Fox Searchlight release, is rated R for language including some sexual references. Running time: 115 minutes. Three stars out of four.


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Saving lives at the University of Iowa
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a major story today on the suicides of two University of Iowa professors who were charged with sexual harassment and then committed suicide. The two cases were unrelated to each other. Both professors committed suicide days after the sexual harassment charges became public. Professor Mark Weiger committed suicide three months after the suicide of Professor Arthur Miller.
The CHE reported that after Professor Miller was banished from his classroom by the University that UI President, Sally Mason
"issued a statement saying she would not tolerate the kind of conduct Mr. Miller had been accused of. She also said the case had prompted her to make sexual-harassment -awareness training mandatory for all professors. And while she said that "every person is entitled to the presumption of innocence," she then went on to "applaud the courage of the student victims in coming forward" to charge Mr. Miller.
President Mason declined to answer questions about her statement, but Ms. (Dean) Maxson defends it, saying the president had to take a tough stand because Mr. Miller had been "accused of a very serious infraction of behavioral and legal rules." To the professor, his wife, and some of his colleagues, however, it felt like the president was pronouncing him guilty before he had even had a chance to defend himself.
Of course, in the dankprofessor's opinion, President Sally Mason was pronouncing Professor Miller guilty. She not only suspended him from the classroom, but ordered that all faculty go thru sexual harassment training as well as applauding the courage of student victims coming forward.
Maybe Mason should have drawn on some of her own courage to publicly call for the adherence of to the principle of the presumption of innocence. But such was not the case. And three months later when Professor Weiger's situation became public, Weiger knew what to expect and obviously could not deal with this kind of public degradation.
What boggles the mind of the dankprofessor is that President Mason instead of calling for mandating suicide prevention training after these two suicides, she mandates sexual harassment training. Certainly this gives insight into the values of the President. Sexual harassment trumps suicide in her hierarchy of values. The lethality of suicide simply is not as weighty as the effects of being sexually harassed.
In the CHE article, the UI administration stated that UI stays neutral in these sorts of cases. I guess neutrality means giving short shrift to having any sort of reaching out to the charged professors that would help them psychologically get thru these travails. I guess this would be considered to be coddling the sexual predator professor. Of course, one does not coddle the guilty, only the innocent. And it is obvious that the UI administration did not honor the presumption of innocence.
Helping those who are held to be victimized is expected. The UI is not neutral in such matters, they attempt to psychologically help the student victim but not the professor who they de facto treat as an offender.
For example, in December the Daily Iowan reported on the programs that were being implemented at the UI to help student victims of sexual misconduct-
To establish one point of contact for victims, the UI hired Monique DiCarlo from the Women's Resource Action Center to act as the school's coordinator for sexual-misconduct response.
Each school would also establish new victim-advocate positions. DiCarlo will assign a victim-advocate to each sexual-assault report.
"Having an advocate on hand at all times is crucial for any victim," said Cathlene Argento, a Women's Resource and Action Center volunteer. "It's great that victims can form a relationship with someone to help them through that event in their lives."
The mother of the alleged UI sexual-assault victim complained in a letter to UI President Sally Mason that she felt there were too few UI officials looking out for her daughter.
Parrott said the UI will now strongly encourage victims to take their sexual-assault allegations to the police as well as the UI.
Employing the rhetoric of Cathlene Agento, the Women's Resources and Action Center volunteer, wouldn't it be great if faculty and others so charged be able to "…form a relationship with someone to help them through that event in their lives." And if such a policy had been applied to the charged faculty at UI during the past year, maybe, just maybe, two faculty lives could have been saved.
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Sen. Marco Rubio appeared on CBS This Morning and was asked about his criticism of Newt Gingrich's ad calling Mitt Romney "anti-immigrant," a reference to Romney's harder line on illegal immigration. Rubio said Gingrich was correct to withdraw the ad.
But if he had room to lay on more criticism, Rubio did not take it. "I've known speaker Gingrich a long time. I'm an admirer of his," he said. "I think he made the right choice and I think he has a very positive message to offer -- not just to Hispanics, by the way, but all Americans and all Floridians."
Rubio declined to say which candidate appeals more to Hispanics, deemed the race "close" and brushed off the VP question.
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(CNN) - Governors, senators, members of Congress, and other political figures took to social media with Christmas greetings and to share their plans for the holiday.
Largely absent from their postings was politics, such as the views many have posted recently on the fiscal cliff, gun legislation and the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
See a selection of the postings below the jump.
President Barack Obama posted a photo of his dog, Bo, enjoying a snowfall outside the White House
Happy holidays! http://t.co/RioiEHcl—
Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 23, 2012
Texas Gov. Rick Perry posted the same photo:
Bo romping in snow at the White House...that is a great piece of art! 'Props to POTUS & FL. Merry Christmas to all. http://t.co/iCrSmShR—
Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) December 24, 2012
Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina was recently named by Gov. Nikki Haley as the successor to Sen. Jim DeMint, who plans to step down in January to lead the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours! As we celebrate today, keeping the brave men and women of our Armed Forces in our thoughts.—
Tim Scott (@RepTimScott) December 25, 2012
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic Party chairwoman, posted about what was on her December 25th menu.
Tomorrow, our family will continue a century-old Jewish tradition... bit.ly/ZvP6ET #happyholidays—
D Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) December 25, 2012
Several political figures - including Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut, Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia, Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas and Rep. Renee Ellmer of Kansas - posted messages noting military servicemen and women.
Keeping those serving in our military away from home in our thoughts..merry christmas!<3—
Kay Bailey Hutchison (@kaybaileyhutch) December 25, 2012
Happy Holidays! A special greeting from Sen. Murray to our #troops & their families serving overseas. youtube.com/watch?v=FcWjkn…—
Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) December 24, 2012
We especially send love & prayers to #CT's first responders & military overseas who on days like today sacrifice so much on our behalf—
Governor Dan Malloy (@GovMalloyOffice) December 25, 2012
Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, like many parents, was awoken early Christmas morning by her children:
Merry Christmas!! Two excited chidren at our house woke their parents up early to see if Santa came. I hope u have a happy and blessed day.—
Kelly Ayotte (@KellyAyotte) December 25, 2012
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota wrote about a classic Christmas cartoon.
One of my favorite scenes from Charlie Brown Christmas. Merry Christmas! youtube.com/watch?v=DKk9rv…—
Michele Bachmann (@MicheleBachmann) December 24, 2012
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska posted a video greeting to her constituents.
From my family, to yours, Merry #Christmas, Happy Holidays, & a Happy, Happy New Year m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=tn3m…—
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) December 24, 2012
Her Alaskan colleague, Sen. Mark Begich, posted about his Christmas Eve activities.
Dropped off hats&mittens @the Woodland Park Boys & Girls Club.Got to sing a few Christmas carols too yfrog.com/gyn13zlrj—
Senator Mark Begich (@SenatorBegich) December 25, 2012
Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado noted that his state had grown the tree seen by thousands of visitors to the Capitol this season.
I'm proud that #CO provided the @CapitolTree2012. Here's a highlight video from the lighting ceremony. Happy holidays! youtu.be/fveu2HqFDT0—
Mark Udall (@MarkUdall) December 24, 2012
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida and his wife offered their holiday greetings.
.@FLAnnScott and I wish every Florida family a Merry Christmas.—
Rick Scott (@FLGovScott) December 24, 2012
And Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey showed his spirit with a video of a performance of a Christmas classic alongside the Boston Pops orchestra.
T'was the night before Christmas... You know how it goes but just in case you forgot, here's an oldie but goodie. youtube.com/watch?v=4tj0MO…—
Governor Christie (@GovChristie) December 24, 2012
There's NOTHING bipartisan, about Democrats. not even Christmas.
Rick McDaniel is a grinch....be happy today is Christmas and a day to celebrate New beginnings,New light, New growth and insights to make obsolete old tired rhetoric. Everyone of faith and everyone of non belief can come together in hope for understanding and cooperation ... continuing our progress as a great nation and loving people into our future.
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Let's all take time out to give Thanks to our Military men, Women and their families. It's hard for me to say Merry Xmas to those who have lost so much and are missed so much on this day.


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Could this be any cuter. I saw this DIY table on the Making Home Base blog and knew I had to run, not walk, to Target for a hamper. I did not find the exact base but one similar.
This is such an easy project.
I'll let the post above give the directions, after all Chelsea gets all the credit!!
Here is the wood round I bought it's 18 inches across. Purchased at Lowe's. I used Minwax Provincial stain. I used a foam brush to apply the stain and quickly wiped it off section by section. It makes for a lighter finish and dries super quickly.
Here is the Circo hamper from the kids department $19.99 at Target
Here is the stained top on the base
Here is the table in the room all finished.
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The pasta-making tradition in Torre Annunziata has ancient origins: everything began in the mid-sixteenth century, when D'Alagno family sold the Torre Annunziata feud to the Count of Sarno, Muzio Tuttavilla. The Count, after noting that the city of Naples was lacking of mills (there were only those of Castellammare di Stabia, Gragnano, Scafati and a few others along the Amalfi Coast), decided to create some of them in Torre Annunziata. Further, because this town is nearer to Naples, it would have been easy to transport and offer the flour to the Neapolitans at an advantageous price. The initiative had great success and was facilitated by a number of water works, such as the Count of Sarno channel, which were realized just to feed the mills.
Around 1850, with the availability of durum wheat semolina, the first pasta factories were born, obviously equipped with very simple machinery. They soon realized that the mild climate of this area, the lack of cold air, the sea in front and Vesuvius behind which functioned as a thermal regulator, made the outdoor drying process particularly easy (which took place on traditional bamboo canes placed along the streets and in the courts).


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Jordin Sparks is bringing the "Battlefield" to the "Circus."
The star will join the second leg of "The Circus Featuring Britney Spears" tour, Britney announced on her official Web site on Friday.
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The former "American Idol" champ will be a special guest on the U.S. portion of the tour, kicking off with three nights in New York City before heading to Los Angeles, Boston and more. The second leg concludes with a pair of shows in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
"Britney's show is incredible and for me to be a part of it is a great opportunity," Jordin said in a statement.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Jordin Sparks Visits Access Hollywood
The revamped "Circus" will also feature opening act Kristinia DeBarge as well as select performances by Girlicious and One Call.
Jordin is singing in support of her sophomore album, "Battlefield," which was released on July 21. The star, 19, just finished a tour with fellow teens the Jonas Brothers.
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Smallville is about to get magical. The DC Comics digital series based on the long-running TV show takes a supernatural sidetrack in a new storyline featuring Zatanna and John Constantine.
The magically powered Zatanna, best known for casting spells spoken backwards, returns to the world of Clark Kent and Co. in "Harbinger," a story beginning Friday that runs parallel to the comic's main narrative. Introduced in Season 8 of the TV show (played by Serinda Swan), Zatanna is now in London. "She's taken her show on the road, using her tour as a cover to run down and deal with all the messes/enchanted/cursed everythings her father left behind when he died," says Bryan Q. Miller, who writes the comic book extension of the TV series. "By the time we catch up with her in 'Harbinger,' she's closing in on the final item on that list."
Enter Constantine, the crass, chain-smoking British occult detective, who has a long, complicated history with Zatanna. "He and Zee butt heads over how to deal with her father's final cursed object," Miller teases of the popular DC character's first appearance in the Smallville universe. "It was stolen from Constantine and he wants it back... so he can sell it to the highest bidder."
New chapters of Smallville digital comics are available Fridays at readdcentertainment.com and via the DC Comics app, the iBookstore, Nook Store and Kindle Store. Printed collections are released monthly.
Below is artist Cat Staggs' cover for "Harbinger." For a preview of the first chapter (with art by Daniel HDR, Rodney Buchemi and Garry Henderson), click here.
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Zoning Code Update Packet #135
Contents of Update Packet #135 (effective 10/21/09)
This Code update is the result of the Remand of the 2003 Northwest Plan District.
Code Update Packet: 135
Effective Date: October 21, 2009
Contact: Al Burns, 503-823-7832
Amends Chapters: 33.562
Substantive Changes:
The Northwest Plan District was established in 2001 and substantially amended in 2003. After multiple appeals the adopting ordinance for the first of two sets of 2003 amendments was remanded to the city based on a single assigned error — unexamined effects of traffic generated by plan map and zone map changes north of Northwest Pettygrove. Because this ordinance did not have a severability clause every provision adopted by this ordinance became invalid — including all of the first set of 2003 amendments to the plan district regulations. The second set of 2003 amendments was adopted by a separate ordinance that was sustained on appeal. In October 2009 City Council adopted again all the provisions 2003 ordinance that were affirmed, or went unchallenged, in the earlier appeals and restored Section 300 of the 2001 version of the plan district.
Click here to download Zoning Code Update Pages #135. Subsequent updates may have modified some of these pages. The links to chapters in the chart below will provide the current version of the chapter.
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Call Alex: live SocialSpace with Alexander Gerst in orbit
Registration has closed.
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is sharing beautiful photographs from space on his social media pages. Is there something you want to ask him while he is orbiting our planet? On 22 August you could talk to him in person during ESA's SocialSpace event.
We are inviting 40 followers to join us at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany for a SocialSpace, with Alexander joining live through a video call from the International Space Station.
The SocialSpace will take place in the homebase for all of ESA's astronauts. As well as the main event, we will tour the premises to see how astronauts train for their missions.
The event will also include an introduction to the Station and Alex's Blue Dot mission by an ESA astronaut, and an opportunity to meet ESA's social media teams.
Think of what you would most like to ask Alexander in space. The 10 most interesting and original questions will be selected and will be posed directly to Alexander by the person who sent the question. People will be chosen based on their question and their presence on social media.
The most original and interesting questions will be chosen by ESA's social media team, so research your question – every astronaut has already answered "How do you go to the toilet in space?"
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Please complete the registration form to apply. Be sure to include your name and the question you would like to ask Alexander in English.
Registration is for one person only and is non-transferable. Please do not submit multiple applications. All registrants must be at least 18 years old on 22 August 2014. Please read the full Terms and Conditions before completing your application.
Please note that ESA will not cover travel, accommodation or food expenses. The event will be held in English.
Workspace, free broadband WiFi access and catering will be provided.
Registration closes on 1 August at 10:00 GMT (12:00 CEST).
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from The Sunday Times, Culture (UK) / by Ryan Gilbey
Marion Cotillard's youthful exuberance made her seem an odd fit for the harrowing life story of Edith Piaf: not least to herself. But she succeeds brilliantly
Those familiar with the young French actress Marion Cotillard are likely to have dropped their croissants in surprise when it was announced that she had been cast as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan's biopic about the iconic chan-teuse. Not that she hadn't proved herself, in a mere handful of roles, to be one of cinema's most playful and thrilling new talents. Critics who spoke of her promise risked sounding almost churlish in the face of the accomplishment displayed by Cotillard in home-grown outings such as A Very Long Engagement, Innocence and Love Me If You Dare. Those performances, along with her American debut in Tim Burton's Big Fish, had left audiences eager to see what she would pull off next. But Piaf? Playing the lead in The Hattie Jacques Story would hardly have been less risky.
The picture was nominated for the Golden Bear in Berlin this year, where it opened the film festival and played in competition, but the real test was France. Happily, the country has embraced the film and its star. Le Monde declared that Cotillard "surpasses what is generally expected of an actress"; in its opening week, La Vie en Rose notched up more than 1.5m admissions – almost a third more than Amélie managed in its first seven days back in 2001.
It seemed entirely possible that, in taking on the "Kid Sparrow" and all the cultural baggage that comes with her, this spring chicken might be pecking off more than she could chew. Surprisingly, one of the loudest squeals of disbelief to greet the news of Cotillard's appointment came from Cotillard herself. "The idea of me as Piaf was completely crazy," the 31-year-old trills in an incredulous, high-pitched voice that makes the decanters sing in her London hotel suite. "But it seemed obvious to Olivier. I thought, 'Okay, he's crazy.' Then I read the script, and I wanted to be as crazy as him."
"Crazy" is a word Cotillard reaches for in practically every sentence. It might also be invoked to describe her personality – in the nicest way. When next year's awards season rolls around, and she nabs the best-actress prize that should by rights be hers for La Vie en Rose, her reaction on Oscar night could well make Roberto Benigni's notorious seat-vaulting incident look subdued, at least if her animated behaviour during our conversation is anything to go by.
When I enter the room, she is edged into the corner of her seat, hugging herself and generally looking small enough to slip down the back of the sofa like a piece of loose change. She may have chosen her blue cardigan-cum-shawl for the aura of protection and cosiness it brings her; certainly, there is a frailty in her posture, and something imploring in her big, hungry eyes. Perhaps that's why her casting as Piaf was met by some people with bewilderment. The two women share a physical slightness, but Piaf's voice and presence, not to mention the reputation she accrued, made her seem colossal. Could Cotillard perform the same miraculous reversal?
In a word – yes. She is positively volcanic in the film, and she's scarcely any different in person. If you find yourself in a room with her, my advice is to put on your protective eyewear and stand well back. Cotillard wastes no time in casting off her deceptively shy exterior. Over the course of the next hour, she guffaws frequently, cheers, hoots, punches the air occasionally, jumps to her feet and dances once or twice, and acts out the stories she is telling right there on the rug. (Her father once worked as a mime, which may explain that last part.)
In the film, she plays Piaf from the age of 19 through to her death, less than 30 years later. And, though the singer died at just 47, she looked at least 80, with her haggard, sunken face and that fiercely receded hairline. Indeed, if La Vie en Rose is primarily the triumph of Cotillard – whose stiff, jutting posture and spread-legged scuttle evoke the mix of strength and fragility in Piaf – praise should be reserved, too, for the astonishing endeavours of the make-up department that gave this impish, slightly sultry beauty the look of a haunted rag doll.
So crucial was that make-up to Dahan's conception that the entire production hung in the balance when it seemed the necessary effects would be impossible to achieve. The director had conceived the movie as an intimate portrait of a legend, rather than a lofty or reverential paean in the Hollywood tradition. Hence his demand for tight close-ups, which meant, in turn, that Cotillard's make-up would have to be flawless, lest any shortcomings be cruelly exposed by the camera's scrutiny. Watching the film, you can appreciate the value of Dahan's in-your-face approach. This is a biopic of an unusually grungy stripe.
On the first day of shooting, however, Cotillard feared that the camera might never start rolling. "We weren't prepared," she says, wincing at the memory. "The make-up artist and the director of photography were arguing with Olivier, telling him, 'It's not possible. She's only 30 – you can't come that close and still make her look old.' And Olivier was saying, 'I want to be close to her face. We will do this.' He pushed them to find a way." I ask Cotillard what she was doing while her collaborators were wrangling with one another. "I was crying!" she laughs, squeezing out a long, keening wail to illustrate the extent of her desperation. "I was telling them, 'Please, make me old!' It drove me crazy. And when they finally found a way …" She raises her arms in celebration. "Woooo-hoooo!"
That expression of relief hardly conveys the rigmarole that Cotillard went through in order to become the scrawny older Piaf. The veteran make-up artist Didier Lavergne, known for his work with Roman Polanski, transformed her face into a chalky kabuki mask with hollowed eyes. Her hairline was shaved back drastically; a wig resembling orange tumbleweed completed the ghastly ensemble.
Piaf hadn't played a big part in Cotillard's life before Dahan came calling. "I only knew three or four of her songs," she recalls. "For me, she was an amazing voice with a little black dress. I knew nothing of her tragic life." When Cotillard heard on the grapevine that Dahan was writing a script about Piaf, and that he was considering her for the part, she was level-headed enough to take no notice. She puts it more sweetly than that herself. "It entered straight into here," she says, pointing at her ear, "and was then directly rejected out of this one here." What a charmingly circuitous way of saying "in one ear and out the other". The interpreter, who is perched in the corner of the room in case the actress needs prompting with a word or two, smiles affectionately. (In fact, Cotillard calls on the interpreter's services only once, when she's discussing her acting teacher, and inquires, about the word "coach": "Est-ce que c'est une grande voiture?") Had Cotillard allowed herself to get excited about playing Piaf before the ink was dry on the first draft, she reasons, she could have been setting herself up for some serious disappointment. "Olivier might have changed his mind. And I'd be there with all my books and research, and the part would go to another woman, then I'd be, like, 'Oh, okay, bye … hey, wait, do you want my Piaf books?'" She ends this impromptu playlet, during which she has shuffled the length of the sofa, by extending a feeble hand to the imaginary rival who has just swiped the role from under her nose. Evidently, she has either experienced that scenario first hand or spends a lot of time in a fantasy world, dreaming up elaborate what-ifs. Possibly both.
It seems impossible now that her performance won't come to be seen as both the turning point in her career and a textbook example of how the greatest performers can disappear into a part. (It may even transpire to be her Raging Bull.) Multiplex audiences will recognise Cotillard from the larky Taxi trilogy, or from playing Russell Crowe's love interest in Ridley Scott's A Good Year, but, while she's perfectly agreeable in such confections, it is in La Vie en Rose that you experience her undiluted energy. There are any number of moments in the picture in which she will take your breath away – my own vote goes to the scene in which the mother who neglected her as a child comes begging for food, but receives a mouthful of a different sort.
When you leave the cinema, however, it's the inevitable show stopper – Cotillard, as Piaf, delivering a goosebump-inducing Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien at the Olympia, in Paris – that will linger in the memory, and not only because it is deferred almost until the end, in a classic case of saving the best for last. Sure, the actress is lip-synching, but the gusto with which she hurls herself into the rendition makes such details irrelevant. "When we shot that scene, it was a very special day," she says, visibly tingling, before correcting herself. "No. Not a special day. It was the special day. We were actually in l'Olympia. Piaf's soul lives somewhere in that place, I can tell you. And her best friend was in the audience, watching me and looking overwhelmed. I went on stage, and something happened. I didn't do anything. It was like I wasn't even there. I had lived with the character for several months. Piaf and I were like an old married couple: we communicated without speaking."
From the outset, Cotillard had based her performance on such intuition, rather than analysis or rehearsal. "I was afraid to rehearse. I didn't want to become stale or mechanical. But the whole time, I was working on everything internally, saving it for the set. When I felt pleasure inside, I knew I was on the good way." Once again, the interpreter correctly chooses not to interject with a humdrum translation such as "on the right track." We both know what Cotillard means, and we like the way she says it.
It's a pleasure to listen to her discussing acting. She manages to talk about her intuitive process without either dispelling the magic or lapsing into opacity. When it comes to accepting parts she likes, she makes it sound like falling in love. Take Tina Lombardi, the stylish, heartbroken femme fatale she played in A Very Long Engagement. She had all of eight minutes' screen time, yet she made the very most of it. "I knew Tina was special when I read the script," she purrs. "She fights for love, which is a beautiful thing to do. So, when the movie came out and lots of people loved her, I could understand that, because I loved her immediately too."
Whether Tina was killing a man by shooting at the mirrors over his bed or appearing on death row – where, unexpectedly frumpy for once, she announced: "I regret nothing except my hair" – it was impossible not to root for her. The performance won Cotillard a César for best supporting actress. "I was happy for that," she shrugs. Clearly, we have stumbled on one subject this candid woman is reluctant to discuss – her success. "Playing Tina was really the dream, and the César was a little cherry on top."
The mention of awards gives her the perfect excuse to change the subject and tell me about her father, the actor-director-teacher Jean-Claude Cotillard. "While I was on set playing Piaf, he won an award for directing a play. I was screaming and telling everyone about it." She springs into action and does a lap of honour around the sofa. "I was like, 'Woooooo! My father won an award!' All day. By the end, the whole crew wanted to kill me." I wouldn't like to say I know how they feel, but she does this whooping and cheering routine about her father's award a further three times during our conversation.
It turns out that every member of Cotillard's immediate family is artistic in some way. One of her younger twin brothers is a writer, the other a sculptor. Both her parents have acted, and she treasures memories of growing up in a bustling, creative household in the countryside near Orléans. "When I was little, there were so many people in my house," she reflects. "Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground." I ask if she realised then that not all children lived that way. "Yes, because my friends wanted to be at our house, where the fun was!"
Even the times when her parents went travelling with their acting troupe were a source of joy and excitement for her. "It was amazing to get letters from them when they were in Hong Kong or Peru or wherever. And when they came home, they would bring me ponchos and all sorts of gifts – it was magical." It's not hard to see the connection between the young Cotillard, pop-eyed over tales of her parents' exotic adventures, and the adult version, who says she likes to find roles that are as different as possible from one another, and to search for "pleasure and craziness". Even that cardigan-shawl she's wearing has an unmistakable touch of the poncho about it.
"My parents definitely sparked something in me," she says. "I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job." And now she's got it – right down to the insistence on having fun. "Playing Piaf took seven months, in total, day and night. It took over my life. I even dreamt about Piaf – we had some night meetings. Seven months of my life for the greatest pleasure I ever had doing my job." She gives a naughty, ecstatic laugh, as though she can't believe her luck. "And if I had to do it again – oh! – I would."
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Clock runs out on ABC's 'Zero Hour'
- ABC pulled the conspiracy thriller after Thursday%27s episode drew just 5.1 million viewers
- Remaining episodes of the Anthony Edwards drama could run this summer
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ABC has pulled the conspiracy thriller Zero Hour from its schedule after three low-rated broadcasts. Thursday's episode drew just 5.1 million viewers and did not fare well among advertiser-coveted young adults.
The time slot -- Thursday at 8 p.m. ET/PT -- has been a ratings challenge for ABC. Last Resort had a 13-episode run there earlier this season.
The remaining episodes of the Anthony Edwards drama could run in the summer, although ABC has not made a decision.
Repeats of Shark Tank will replace Hour for the next two Thursdays. The non-celebrity version of Wife Swap will then take over the time slot for seven weeks starting March 21, followed by Wipeout on May 9.


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The Story Mine
Sunday, 8:30 AM
- Hosted by Cathy Barker,
Small tales, tall tales and every kind of story in between.
Radio entertainment hosted by Cathy Barker and David Bullock, featuring stories as told by their authors and tellers from all over the world. Tall Tales, Folklore, Poetry, Cowboy Poets, Adventure, Historical and life experiences.
Storytellers for many years, Cathy and Dave have participated in many storytelling festivals throughout the West, including the Weber Storytelling Festival and the Timpanogoes Storytelling Festival. Dave has participated in programs at various schools. A dream was born shortly after they met to take their love of telling stories to a greater audience.
The mission of The Story Mine is to promote the Art of Storytelling. After all, everyone has a story to tell.
Our vision is to create an avenue where all may enjoy the power of story; where all may learn to listen more intently; where all may learn how to find and share their own stories with confidence.
The Story Mine is a 30-minute radio show on KPCW 91.7 FM in Park City, Utah can be streamed live at KPCW.org. This program will feature storytellers from around the world and their stories. Your hosts, Cathy and Dave, will bring to you a treasure of stories from The Story Mine. Gather your family around the radio on Sunday mornings at 8:30 AM (MTN). What a way to start your day. as our stories will bring a smile to your face or a tear to your eye. Stories are not just for children anymore!


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Valparaiso University head baseball coach Tracy Woodson has signed a four-year contract that will extend through the 2014 season Mark LaBarbera, director of athletics has announced.
"Tracy has built our program into a Horizon League contender," LaBarbera said. "The baseball team continues to succeed both on the field and in the classroom, and this is a direct result of Coach Woodson's leadership. We are excited to know that he will be here for the next several years."
Woodson just completed his fourth season at the helm of the Crusader program, arriving in August, 2006. Since his arrival, Valpo has finished third in the Horizon League Tournament twice, and recorded its first winning season since 1999 during the 2009 campaign.
Under Woodson's guidance, three Crusaders have been selected to the Horizon League's First Team while three others have garnered Second Team honors. Four players have been named to the conference's All-Newcomer Team with five individuals earning All-Tournament Team accolades. He has also produced a pair of Horizon League batting champions.
Three of Woodson's players have also been selected in the Major League Baseball draft, including for the first time in 31 years, two players selected this past June.
"I want to thank Mark LaBarbera and Valparaiso University for giving me the opportunity to continue what we started and set out to do with this baseball program," Woodson said. "I am excited about the talent we have returning next year, as well as the players that are coming into the program for the future. Our players and parents have made it a very exciting time for Valparaiso baseball, and I believe our best baseball is still in front of us, both in the Horizon League and overall."
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Looking for more retail and social media action? Well, it seems MSNBC can't give enough of it (link takes you to vide0). Toys "R" Us is pitching via both Facebook and Twitter as a way to communicate deals to the most loyal customers — i.e., those willing to become "friends with," "fans of" or "followers of" the company. Sears is following suit. In general, this has been a tool for building hype in advance of Black Friday, the hypest day of the retail year.
In general, there's a lot of action going on with retailers and tools like Facebook and Twitter. This is likely the "proof of concept" year for the technology. Next year, the stakes will be high, and the consequences of losing profound.
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