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The event combined a fundraising Walk for Salk 5K with free public tours of Salk Institute laboratories. Guests were treated to scientific talks and hands-on activities, including a kids zone and science booths.
A visit to colleagues of Sreekanth ("Shrek") Chalasani, assistant adjunct professor of neurobiology in UCSD's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, was a tour highlight.
"Disney stole my name," quipped Chalasani, noting he got his nickname because the popular animated character's name somewhat resembled his own, besides being a lot easier to say and spell.
Chalasani and his co-workers are busy exploring the inner "universe" of the mind, body and nervous system, the connection between them and how everything works Though it may not sound sexy, that mind-body connection is being explored with tests on C. elegans, a simple worm species.
"Very little is known about the human brain and its approximately 85 billion cells," said Chalasani, noting that the study of the human nervous system and its thousands of nerve connections is mind-boggling. By comparison, C. elegans' nervous system has only 302 neurons.
Chalasani explained how understanding a worm's nervous system might ultimately shed light on ways to treat, and perhaps someday cure, dread diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and Parkinson's.
"With a worm's neurons," Chalasani said, "we know every single one of them and how every one is connected with every other one. You can use the simple system to understand how a nervous system works and learns how to deal with things like stress, fear or anxiety."
Grad student Sarah Leinwand and research assistant Ada Tong in Chalasani's lab guided visitors through a microscopic look at C. elegans. Guests got to see how the worms reacted to stimuli like the introduction of salt and an actual video of a worm neuron "firing" as it strongly reacted to the salt.
Illustrating his research, Chalasani noted that dopamine, a neurotransmitter that helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers and helps regulate movement and emotional responses, is present in worms and humans. Dopamine deficiency, as it turns out, results in Parkinson's disease.
"It's really hard to figure out how neurons connect with each other as we struggle to understand how disease is caused or progresses and how to treat it," Chalasani said. "I can look at C. elegans, which has only eight dopamine neurons, and study how they affect the worm's brain."
Established in the 1960s by polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Vintage Mason Jars
I don't really know what I'm going to do with them, although I have lots of ideas running through my head. The small one would be pretty with a candle inside, especially if I was able to pick up a few more in that size--although supposedly that size is more desirable and thus harder to find...or so I've been told. I like the idea of tying ribbons around the necks of the jars and using them as a centerpiece. And of course they would make pretty vases for some flowers from the yard.
Look at the color--so pretty!!
I was reading Blanca's blog today and spied vintage mason jars on her kitchen table holding some silverware. That's an adorable idea, but my little ones are too little for that to work. It wouldn't be long before I encountered a baby doll with a fork jammed down her mouth. (Today I retrieved a cheerio from the mouth of Handsome's favorite doll--apparently he was giving her a snack and wedged a stray morsel in her mouth.)
I turned to Google for ideas and found quite a few--most of which centered around turning the jars into lamps, lights, drinking vessels, and soap dispensers...none of which really interest me. If I had more room on my counters, I think I would fill the jars with noodles and whatnot and actually *use* them rather than just display them...but my kitchen isn't big enough for that.
So, for now I just keep them and bring them out occasionally to admire them gleaming in the light. Hopefully by fall I'll figure out something to do with them--they just seem so "fall" to me for some reason!
8 comments:
- Jessica said...
Great jars...wish I had some fabulous ideas to share with you though....
- July 18, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Love the jars. Thanks for the sweet comment. Something will come to you, my jars sat empty for a while and then one day it just popped in my head.
Good luck and if I think of anything I will let you know.
- July 18, 2008 at 2:19 PM
- Kitty Scraps said...
I love the jars, I think they are beautiful on their own and when you come across the perfect thing to put into them, they will be prettier still.
- July 18, 2008 at 3:05 PM
- Susie from Bienvenue said...
I love the color of them too. Maybe they remind you of the fall cause thats when my Grandma started canning. It's kinda a fall thing... Wouldnt they look so cute filled with candy corn and those lil pumpkins... I just cant wait till fall... Susie h~
- July 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM
- Tausha said...
oooh super cute!! I love vintage bottles!! I am with you, I love the color! They don't make things like they used too!!
I am thinking what you could do with them. Do you have a place that you could put them in your bathroom? Maybe with cotton balls, makeup brushes, toothbruses, anything tall that you store. Just a thought. I have some shelves that I picked up at walmart for 10 bucks-I hung them above my toilet in the bathroom. It solves the storage problem, plus it fills the desire to decorate the bathroom!!
- July 20, 2008 at 7:26 PM
- Marie said...
I love your jars! I have a bunch of them. Some of my favorites were given to me by my husbands grandma. A few more I bought at antique fair in Lancaster, PA about 10 years ago. I always buy them when I see them for a good price. I don't actually USE them... though I should find a use or stop buying them. lol
- July 21, 2008 at 7:34 AM
- Shannon said...
I am always drawn to those jars. They are so pretty. I've never bought any though because I don't know what to do with them. :) Can't wait to see what you decide!
- July 21, 2008 at 8:30 AM
- Michelle said...
I recently found your blog and am digging through the archives. You are so inspirational to me as I venture out to decorate our home... finally! What did you ever end up doing with these jars. I bought some a few years back and they sit on a bookshelf attached to my fireplace. I'd love to see what you did with them!!!
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Cubs arrived at the campsite where there was already a blazing campfire in the campfire circle, and a firework display set up (and roped off) on the field.
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Key tests for Vega igniters
ESA's Vega launcher passed an important milestone last week with the successful completion of key tests on the solid rocket motor igniters.
After several months of preparation in the Netherlands plant of Aerospace Propulsion Products B.V. (APP) the second set of so-called 'Battleship' tests of the igniters has been carried out at the NAMMO explosives test range in the far north of Norway on 15 September. All the objectives of the test were fully met and development can go on to the next step.
The Vega Programme
Altogether seven ESA Member States are involved in the Vega Programme, with Italy, the largest contributor, playing a major role. The objective is to build a small single body launcher with three solid propulsion stages - P80, Zefiro 23 and Zefiro 9 - and an upper stage – the AVUM - powered by liquid propulsion.
Vega, 30 m tall and with a diameter of 3 m, will be able to place a 1.5 tonne payload into polar orbit. Once launched in 2007 this 'small' size launcher will be the perfect complement to the large Ariane 5 and the medium-class Soyuz that is due to start operating from Europe's Spaceport in 2007.
The P80 first solid propulsion stage is the result of a specific development programme. Not only Vega, but also the Ariane-5 programme will benefit from this new technology for its future versions. The other two solid rocket motors, Z23 and Z9, are conceived to take reciprocal advantage of the commonalities and synergies with P80 development activities and production plants. This innovative cycle of experience, resulting in added value, is a cornerstone of the Launchers' Programme and ensures long-term development and progress.
The Vega SRM Igniters
The igniter is the element of a solid propellant motor that, after receiving a specific command from the onboard computer of the launcher ignites the motor, starting its firing phase. It is a very important and delicate component. On ignition of the P80 VEGA first stage, the launcher takes off.
The igniters of the three solid rocket motors are all based on the same design principle, having a first small pyrotechnic stage and a larger main charge. A new technology is applied for the casings of the main igniters. These casings will be made of a consumable composite structure, intended to be (partially) consumed during motor functioning.
All three igniters for the three Vega's solid propulsion stages – P80, Zefiro 23 and Zefiro 9 - are developed by Stork Co. APP, partially owned by Stork, specialises in the development and production of ignition systems and gas generators. Within the VEGA programme APP is responsible for the development, qualification and production of the igniters of the three solid rocket motors.
Igniter tests
The so-called 'Battleship' test is an ambient atmosphere test where the complete igniter is fired. The object of the test is to verify in safe conditions the correct functioning of the complete igniter and its ignition chain, as well as to measure and verify the most important functional parameters, like pressure curve inside the igniter case, the gas flow ejected from the exit nozzles, the nozzles erosion, etc.
The Development Plan of the Vega igniters includes takes advantage of the commonalities and similarities of the three motors and the resulting similarity of the igniters, allowing a reduced test matrix with a limited number of tests.
The next step, according to the igniter development plan, will be the firing test of the igniters (P80, Z23, Z9) which have been submitted to ageing and environmental tests. This will verify and validate both the performances and their reproducibility.
The final step will be igniter tests in real conditions, i.e. solid rocket motor firing tests.


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Friday, December 23, 2011
A Christmas Miracle Part 3
Robin sent the Facebook link to Diane. Overwhelmed with so many emotions, Diane sent a private message to K. After not getting a response and determined not to lose this opportunity, she took the risky chance of posting a few pictures on his wall.
One of those, was a picture of three little boys. The picture of him with his older brothers was familiar, and removed some of the doubt he had. He sent a response to Diane and they arranged a phone call. For the first time in her life, at 52 years of age, she spoke to her brother. As soon as that conversation ended there was a flurry of activity on Facebook with family connecting for the very first time.
Robin had to wait a couple of days to make her call because all she could do was cry every time she thought about talking to her brother. How wonderful it was for her to finally hear his voice and talk to him after all of these years. Emotions are still very raw and conversations with the other two brother's are waiting to be had, (they don't do Facebook). It will happen in time. There is so much for them to process.
This is where the story gets even more complicated because it is not mine to tell. So it must be told with great care out of respect for the brothers, their mother and the new relationships. (The fact that I am not a story teller or writer also complicates the matter greatly.)
K. was quite stunned to get this message from Diane and he was very confused! For you see, they had never known anything about their father or his whereabouts, the M. family or the name they carry, least of all, the fact that they had three older siblings. That thought had never crossed their minds. Their mother had refused to speak a word to them about it.
It has been shared that these boys grew up longing to know their father. They had a very difficult childhood and many are the emotional wounds they bear. It seems that they have gone to great lengths searching for their dad, and like the searches for them, they always came up empty handed. The impenetrable secrecy and unanswered questions have haunted them their entire lives.
From the responses read and heard, it is known that many prayers have been prayed over the years, both for them and by them, for answers to their many questions so that their hearts could be healed from the scars and wounds of childhood.
While the members of the M. family are thrilled that K, N, and A have finally been found, the real Christmas miracle is theirs. It is not by chance that these boys have never been forgotten or that family felt compelled to find them. No, they needed desperately to be found, and to be told that they had family all of these years that loved them and had searched for them! They needed to know that they were never forgotten.They needed to know about their dad and they needed closure and healing.
To be found was a "Christmas Miracle" indeed!
Thank you all for reading this and for your comments. It has been a very emotional few days. I wasn't sure how to write this story so that you could keep the people involved straight. I also needed to make it less personal as it was emotionally draining to do this.
We are so thankful for this opportunity to get to know our brothers and their families. Plans are already being made to see each other face to face. My brother Mike is very sick with his cancer and treatments and our three brothers are very anxious to meet him and offer him encouragement. If I can't make it down to Alabama when they go, they plan to come here to see me on their way back to New York. I look forward to seeing them face to face!.
While our parents, (whom we all love dearly), made some very bad choices that hurt us deeply as children and even as adults. We are moving forward and, with God's help, we will allow good to come from their mistakes.Uniting this family somehow rights at least part of the wrongs.
Thank you for reading our story!
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!
17 comments:
- Patricia said...
Wonderful!!! I know that this story is still unfolding, but what a beautiful example of reconciliation and forgiveness. I can't wait to read future chapters.
May you and your family have a most blessed Christmas weekend, Robin. May the joy of the Lord fill your heart and home.
- December 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM
- Hilary said...
What an absolutely beautiful gift of love for the holidays. A family. I'm so happy for you.
- December 23, 2011 at 12:47 PM
- Marilyn said...
You know God had a hand in all this! May He grant you all a new found PEACE this holiday season. Blessings to YOU and thank you for sharing the miracle of a loving family.♥♫
- December 23, 2011 at 1:49 PM
- Kay said...
This is wonderful..there is a story of similar details in my Mother's family..maybe I will write about it in time. Sometimes the human story is so full of tragedy and hope..thanks for sharing
- December 23, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- Carolyn said...
Thank you for sharing this touching story and may God grant all of you healing and comfort.I am so glad there is a happy ending!
Love,peace and joy to all of you!
- December 23, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- HolleyGarden said...
What a story! I can only imagine what a range of emotions this has all brought upon everyone involved. I hope the entire family has a very Merry Christmas, and many joyous times together in the New Year.
- December 23, 2011 at 3:12 PM
- Carolyn said...
Thank you for sharing your story of restoration to your brothers. I cannot imagine your joy! It has to be the best gift ever.
Merry Christmas to you and your
- December 23, 2011 at 3:19 PM
- Gardening in a Sandbox said...
What a roller coaster rider but what a wonderful ending. I am so happy that you are all going to be reunited. It is the best Christmas present. V
- December 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Ruth Hiebert said...
I do pray that much good will come from this. God has away of turning something not so good into something wonderful. I hope this is one of your best Christmases so far.
- December 23, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Vicki V @ blestnest.blogspot.com said...
What an awesome story! And the best part is it's true! Christmas blessings to you all. God is so good.
- December 23, 2011 at 11:01 PM
- debsgarden said...
What a Christmas story! I can only imagine the emotions you and other family members are having. Merry Christmas, and may you have a wonderful, blessed New Year!
- December 24, 2011 at 12:38 AM
- Rosemary said...
Glad you shared this wonderful story. Merry Christmas to you.
- December 24, 2011 at 6:06 AM
- Corner Gardener Sue said...
I wonder how many other people like these there are who are wondering where their family members are.
Robin, I had a little trouble figuring out who was who. I'm thinking you are one of the children from the second family. Is that right?
God bless your 2013!
- December 27, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- deb mills said...
wow, robin...how amazing. this is so wonderful. thanks for sharing it. i will keep you and your family in my prayers...for reconciliation, healing, understanding and peace. i'm looking forward to future postings.
- December 28, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- cherry said...
Ahhhhhhhh what a perfect gift.. Enjoy every second of this wonderful adventure.. hugs and Happy, happy new year..Cherry
- December 29, 2011 at 6:52 PM
- Unknown said...
This is a beautiful story of determination and the bonds that tie us all together. Having not visited your blog for a while, I certainly didn't expect tears as I read these last few postings. A Christmas miracle indeed. Cherish every moment.
- January 1, 2012 at 4:14 PM
- The Giraffe Head Tree said...
Just now reading this Robin. A miracle indeed. I'm still processing the story and may re-read it. It is deeply moving. What a Happy New Year, eh? XO
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I've recently taking over raid slotting duties for my guild while the GM is away. No one ever promised me a rose garden, but I was honestly a little unprepared for how overwhelmingly lost I felt that first week. I remember turning to a fellow officer when it was done and saying, "I am never. Doing. That. Again." over the pint of Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream required to lift my spirits. I was convinced I'd publish that first roster and everyone that wasn't on it would hate me. More, that is.
Well, as it turns out… I hate raid leading more than I hate raid slotting, so building rosters has settled in my lap along with the bevy of other administrative tasks required to keep an officer team running smoothly. (Really, I don't know what they'd do without my spreadsheets.) I thought I'd use this week's column to give you a little insight into what goes into a raid roster. Whether your officers make their rosters on the fly based on who's logged in at raid time or ahead of time based on sign-ups, the same general principles (should) apply.
Tanks and healers are the foundation of the raid, so slot them first. A mix of classes/specs is a good idea, because every class/spec brings unique tools to the table. You want a good balance between tank healing and raid healing abilities, slightly weighted toward raid healing in most cases.
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Sounds pretty easy doesn't it? Well, it's not quite that simple. While you're filling in the DPS you have to keep raid composition in mind. When I say "raid composition" I don't just mean "melee vs ranged" I mean "make sure every buff/debuff you can cover is covered." This got a lot easier in Wrath, as many class buffs/debuffs are duplicated between the classes (whether or not this is a good thing or not is a whole other post). MMO Champion has a pretty nice Raid Composition Tool that you can use to help with this.
Yeah, that was the part where I started to get a little wide-eyed. Then I started to consider the human factor… more people than slots, and you don't want to sit any one person too often during the week (or too many weeks in a row) or they'll piss in your Cheerios™. What's more… you want to slot your strongest raiders for the "hard stuff" later in the week but they won't necessarily be keen on sitting out for the "easy stuff" that comes before it. Nonetheless, everyone has to sit sometimes and I've found that by and large folks are pretty understanding about it. Or maybe they're just afraid of me. One can hope.
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Here is a news report of a conference in Wellington to highlight the finds of a recent New-Zealand-wide search for legal historical records in private hands. In 2007, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Professor Richard Boast and Geoff McLay of Victoria University's Faculty of Law and Mark Hickford and Damen Ward from the Crown Law Office received a substantial grant from the New Zealand Law Foundation "to search attics, notebooks and family records for early legal history." Professor Dorsett explains that "some of the records lay in archives and with law societies, but some was in private collections - for example, judge's notebooks, an important source of information - are often handed down to family members." The search also turned up 2500 decisions of the New Zealand Supreme Court from 1841 to the mid-1860s.
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Similarly, Dr. Zoé Headley (EHESS, Paris) and Dr. R. Thanuja (Pondicherry University) have, with funding from Arcadia through the British Library's "Endangered Archives Programme," started a new project, "Rescuing Tamil Customary Law" under the auspices of the Institut Français de Pondichéry in India:
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Lent is a good time to call time-out on our First World feeding frenzy.
"Eat the world" is the slogan of the food court at a high-end Magnificent Mile mall in Chicago—and it delivers. From sushi to stir fry, pasta to pancakes, all that stands between an eater and a defenseless world is the cash to pay for it. Since the slogan was once plastered all over Chicago's buses, it was hard to escape. I still notice it most often during Lent, when I am supposed to be curtailing my own consumption of the goods of creation, though rarely with much success.
"Eat the world" could be applied well beyond the eateries of our capitals of consumption; shopping malls are merely symbols of our insatiable hunger to gobble up the earth. Whether it's the breakneck pace at which we're torching the planet's stored carbon, the catastrophic deforestation of the planet to grow plants for food and fuel, or the mounds of garbage that pile up the world over, consumption truly is the American way and becoming the global one as well.
But Lent's fasting always seems to bring us back specifically to food and the smorgasbord many in the developed world enjoy. Preachers often encourage fasting as a way of experiencing a taste of the daily fare of the truly hungry, whose meager diet is imposed rather than chosen.
I've always thought that approach a little disingenuous, though; I could stop eating for a week and never come close to the terror of truly not knowing where my or my family's next meal will come from—or if it will come at all. Between my bank account and the restaurants within a block of my home, a full belly is never far away.
That doesn't mean fasting shouldn't be part of Lent, of course, just that we ought to think differently about it—and take it more seriously. The late liturgical writer Peter Mazar argued that Lenten fasting wasn't so much about deprivation or social justice but about solidarity with all life: "The span of days from late winter to early spring is birthing season. Farm animals are born. Creation is at its most vulnerable," he wrote. "Lent's abstinence from meat sows empathy with this fledgling generation. We will not add to its struggles by butchering it."
Such a vision is far more holistic than a mere break from eating, even for the noble goal of raising awareness about world hunger. After all, much of the natural world has been pushed to a perpetual springtime of fragility under the strain of so many hungry human mouths. Soil is exhausted and eroded, fisheries have collapsed, water that can never be replaced is being tapped to grow crops in deserts. Like so many fields chewed to nubs by too many cattle, nature is barely able to recover from our feeding. We human beings are beginning to put locusts to shame.
Humanity is indeed in need of a fast, one more radical than a skipped meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday or fish sticks once a week. Perhaps it is time for Catholics to take up the ancient fast that was once observed by all Christians in both East and West and is still kept by some: No meat, dairy, or eggs—nothing derived from animals (including fish) for a full 40 days.
Abstaining for so long would not only reveal just how dependent we are on our fellow creatures—and the cost in grain, water, and energy of producing so much animal protein—it would also force us to explore new, creative options of getting the nutrition we need. (Quinoa, anyone?) We may even find after Easter that our tastes have changed into something more sustainable, a diet that would leave enough to feed the rest of hungry humanity.
One ancient scriptural image of Lent is that of Noah and the animals in the ark. Half in jest, Mazar wrote of it, "What if [someone] had a sudden urge for a hamburger? It would have meant the end of cattle, forever."
It's time we remembered the truth of that ancient story: We earthly creatures are in this together, floating on a fragile, watery ark in a vast wasteland that extends to infinity. Though the planet and the life it sustains have incredible resilience, if we human beings are not careful, there may come a day when we have finally used up what has been entrusted to us.
Catholics have Lent as a yearly remedy to our all-you-can-eat attitudes. Perhaps this season's call to "repent and believe in the gospel" could be summarized a little more bluntly: Stop eating the world.
This article appeared in the March 2009 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 74, No. 3, page 8).


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Duck Baker is one of the most highly regarded fingerstyle guitarists of his generation. He is unique among jazz guitarists in that his repertoire spans the entire history of the music from ragtime through swing to modern masters like Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols to free improvisation. Baker's devotion to American music also encompasses more traditional forms like blues, gospel, and Appalachian music and its Scots-Irish ancestry. This catholicism has been likened to Europeans who perform the classical repertoire from renaissance through to modern music.
Duck was born Richard R. Baker IV in 1949 and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He passed his teenage years playing in rock and blues bands before becoming interested in acoustic blues. Local ragtime pianist Buck Evans was a major influence on Baker's evolution. By the time he moved to San Francisco in the early seventies, he was performing the wide range of material heard on his first record for the Kicking Mule label, "There's Something for Everyone in America". In addition to developing his solo style, Baker joined a bluegrass band and immersed himself in the local swing jazz scene, forming a duo with guitarist Thom Keats and performing with such Bay Area luminaries as Burt Bales and Robin Hodes. Baker remains active in this music, leading a trio with guitarist Bob Wilson and fiddler Tony Marcus.
Duck's most ambitious record, "Spinning Song", which is devoted to the music of Herbie Nichols, got rave reviews in Jazz Times, Cadence, Coda, and the New York Times, and helped establish Baker as an important voice in the world of fingerstyle jazz guitar. Various critics named "Spinning Song" among the best jazz records of 1997 in Cadence and Coda magazines, and it placed high on the Cadence reader's poll of that year. Acoustic Guitar magazine dubbed it "one of the best guitar records ever recorded – by anybody."


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Sally Field is officially set to portray Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's upcoming biopic Lincoln. After years of development, it looks like Spielberg is finally moving forward with the film. Daniel Day-Lewis is set to play Lincoln himself (long-attached Liam Neeson dropped out of the picture last summer). Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright/screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich) wrote the screenplay based on the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Spielberg had this to say regarding Field's casting:
"I'm excited to be working with Sally for the first time. I've admired her films and she has always been my first choice to portray all the fragility and complexity that was Mary Todd Lincoln."
Field had been mentioned with regards to the role for quite a while, but she's now officially signed on. The actress recently nabbed the role of Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man. Lincoln will focus on "the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War." Filming is set to begin this fall, with an eye towards a fourth-quarter 2012 release. This one just jumped to the top of my "most anticipated" list for 2012. Hit the jump to read the full press release.
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Los Angeles, CA (April 13, 2011) – Two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to the 16th President of the United States, in DreamWorks Studios' "Lincoln" to be directed by Steven Spielberg. The announcement was made today by Spielberg and Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman and CEO of DreamWorks Studios.
Sally Field joins Daniel Day-Lewis, who has been cast to play Abraham Lincoln in the Spielberg film.
"I'm excited to be working with Sally for the first time," said Steven Spielberg. "I've admired her films and she has always been my first choice to portray all the fragility and complexity that was Mary Todd Lincoln."
"To have the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis and to play one of the most complicated and colorful women in American history is simply as good as it gets," said Sally Field.
Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner. It will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg.
It is anticipated that the film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.
Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award winner as Best Actress in a Leading Role for her roles in "Places in the Heart" and ""Norma Rae." Field won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special for her role in "Sybil." She won her second Emmy for her guest starring role on the long-running drama, "E.R." Her other film credits include "Steel Magnolias," "Mrs. Doubtfire," and "Forrest Gump." Field currently stars in the ABC series "Brothers & Sisters" for which she won an Emmy in 2007.
Doris Kearns Goodwin won her Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time, the story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the home front in World War II. Kushner's prize was for his play Angels in America, which later became an Emmy Award-winning television special. He had previously worked with Spielberg on Munich for which he was nominated for an Oscar in the Adapted Screenplay category.
Filming is expected to begin in the fall of 2011 for release in the fourth quarter of 2012 through Disney's Touchstone distribution label.


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UPDATE: Contrary to rumors, David Itzikoff of the New York Times tweets that "Warner Bros. says 'no truth' to reports of new Dark Knight Rises prologue trailers going out with fixed Bane audio."
The hottest theater trailer currently running is the 6-minutye clip from "The Dark Knight Rises" that runs ahead of IMAX screenings of "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol." But it's also been the most vexing, as several folks have not unreasonably complained that the voice of new villain Bane (Tom Hardy), is all but impossible to understand. After having initially dismissed the complaints, it appears that director Chis Nolan may be relenting. Thank god.
"The Dark Knight" footage is great--truly exciting, original and eye-popping. But the simple fact is that Bane's dialog is unintelligible. There were similar complaints about the trailer that recently went online, but we were able to understand Bane easily enough.
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Nolan was unmoved by the outcry, telling The Hollywood Reporter "that it was OK for a moviegoer not to understand what was said at times, as long as the overall idea was conveyed."
And lest they upset their most reliable moneymaker (now that Harry Potter is over), Warner Bros. stood by their man, telling THR, "Chris wants the audience to catch up and participate rather than push everything at them. He doesn't dumb things down," says one high-level exec, declining to be named. "You've got to pedal faster to keep up."
What make's Nolan stance so frustrating is that it would be the easiest thing in the world to fix. They've already got the dialog recorded, they would just need to tweak the mix, not alter in any substantive way (Bane's mask covers his mouth, so you don't even have to worry about synching issues). Now it looks like cooler heads have prevailed, as a source has told Collider that a new soundtrack for the "TDKR" trailer has been delivered:
"A friend of mine who is an IMAX projectionist told me they received a new soundtrack for the Dark Knight Rises prologue. He said it's now a combo soundtrack with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, but the cool thing about this is that they've cleaned up the dialogue. They've gone in and lowered the background noise of the plane and other things, thus making Bane's dialogue clearer and more understandable. He asked some people after they left the movie if they could understand Bane and they all said they had no issue understanding him, and were excited for the movie."
Nolan has definitely earned our trust as a filmmaker, time and again, taking huge risks to bring his vision to life, with the payoff coming time and again. What's funny is that the one hard and fast criticism we have to Nolan's previous Batman films is the dopey growl that Christian Bale employs when he's in costume. It'd be great if Nolan was actually fixing this Bane issue before it became a part of the mythology.
What's gonna be awesome is when this movie hits home video and you can select "Intelligible Bane" or "Nolan's Bane."


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Zwelethu Mthethwa is the self-titled monograph by one of today's leading artists. This long-awaited first monograph provides a comprehensive overview of his work to date and features the stunning portraits that have brought him international acclaim. Since apartheid's fall in 1994, South African photography has exploded from the grip of censorship onto the world stage. A key figure in this movement is Zwelethu Mthethwa, whose work addresses the economic and political realities of present-day South Africa. Working in urban and rural industrial landscapes, Mthethwa documents multiple aspects of South Africa—from domestic life and the environment, to landscape and labor issues. His work challenges the conventions of both Western documentary work and African commercial studio photography, marking a transition away from the visually exotic and diseased—or "afro-pessimism," as curator Okwui Enwezor has referred to it—and employing a fresh approach marked by color and collaboration.
Zwelethu Mthethwa (born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 1960) received his BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, a then whites-only university he entered under special ministerial consent, and his master's degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Mthethwa has had over thirty-five international solo exhibitions and numerous group shows, including the 2005 Venice Biennale, and Snap Judgments at the International Center of Photography, New York. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Two families divided as Scott Gellatly appears in court
MILFORD -- They were two separate families.
One group wore dark sunglasses and sat behind State's Attorney Kevin Lawlor in state Superior Court Judge Frank Iannotti's courtroom.
They said want justice for the murder of Lori Gellatly, the shooting of her mother, Merry Jackson and the wounding of the family dog, Nika.
The others sat behind the accused shooter, Scott Gellatly, a rotund five-footer who shuffled into the courtroom with ankles shackled together, hands cuffed behind his back and his eyes averted from both groups.
They ask themselves why they didn't see this coming.
"It so devastating to have something like this divide two families that were so caring and loving," said Christine Lindeberg, who grew up with Gellatly, a former resident of Stratford and Bridgeport. "I'm shocked. I'm stunned. We're all grieving. We are praying for Merry Jackson and the children. They need everybody's prayers."
Around 5:30 a.m. on May 7, Gellatly broke into the Jackson home on Sioux Drive in Oxford, confronted his estranged wife in the kitchen and an argument ensued. He then pulled a pistol and shot her, her mother, Merry Jackson, and the dog before fleeing in his dying wife's car, according to State Police reports. The couple's twin toddlers were asleep in cribs upstairs.
Gellatly was found by another Oxford resident hours later sitting in a Winsted parking lot with his vehicle running and a garden hose pumping the exhaust inside. The man who owns the property called police, gave the license number and asked if he should pull out the hose, according to a source.
Instead troopers told him to back away, that Gellatly "was armed and dangerous" and "a suspect in a murder." Troopers arrived minutes later and arrested Gellatly as he was slipping into unconsciousness.
On Tuesday, Iannotti set June 3 for Gellatly's court appearance, maintained the $2 million-plus bond and kept him on suicide watch.
Gellatly, represented by Public Defender David Egan, was barred from having any contact with his 18-month old twins, Lilly and Noah.
As Gellatly shuffled out of the courtroom back to jail, one of his relatives shouted "We love you, Scott"
Gellatly is not expected to enter a plea on the charges -- murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, larceny of a motor vehicle, risk of injury to minors, third-degree assault and disorderly conduct -- until after a June 27 hearing.
In Connecticut, a murder conviction carries a minimum of 25 years in prison and a maximum of 60 years with no credit for good conduct.
At the time of the shootings, a judge had granted a temporary restraining order preventing Gellatly from coming near the family as a result of an April incident. A hearing had been scheduled on a permanent order when the shootings occurred.
All that while he posted rants on Facebook accusing his wife of infidelity.
Lindeberg said she knew nothing of those accusations until reading the Facebook postings.
"We all knew Lori as a great, wonderful and caring person. She was a phenomenal mom," Lindeberg said. "They were awesome together."
Then Lindeberg paused adding "we did not see this coming."
Lori Gellatly worked as an environmental analyst in the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's Bureau of Air Management. The couple married in 2009. It was Lori's first and Scott's second marriage. Scott, who is 14 years older than Lori, has two boys from his previous marriage.
Outside the courtroom, one of the three Jackson family members present offered no comment but asked the media to respect their privacy.
Lindeberg said she was chosen as the spokeswoman for the nearly dozen family members and friends who showed up on Gellatly's behalf.
"We love Scott. We are here to create a support network for him," Lindeberg said. But she said "we will let the state handle what they have to do."
Then there are the two 18-month old twins. Their mother is dead. Their father could be incarcerated for much of their lives.
"We're praying for those children," Lindeberg said. "We're going to let the courts decide how the children should finally be situated."
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President Barack Obama's second inauguration takes place Monday, and there's a lot going on. In an effort to keep you abreast of the action, we'll be bringing you a daily round-up of the coverage.
- Obviously an undertaking the size of an inauguration requires practice, but President Obama has other things to do this week. Meet U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Serpico D. Elliott, the man who's been serving as his stand-in.
- This year's inauguration will have a New York flavor, thanks to master of ceremonies Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has seen to it that everything from the water to the wine to the desserts and honey to be served all hail from the Empire State.
- If you think you're not being properly represented in Washington, you should try actually living in the District of Columbia, which has literally no representation in the halls of federal government, despite having to pay taxes. Close observers may notice that the president's limo on Monday will bear license plates that say "Taxation Without Representation," a nod to efforts to right that wrong.
- Never heard of the Black McDonald's Operators Association? Then you clearly haven't been keeping abreast of the people throwing parties this long weekend.
- If you're worried about the grass on the National Mall, which got trashed in 2009, fret not — new measures are being taken to keep it safe.
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As the countdown for Christmas approaches, Airservices has provided Santa with the latest weather forecast for his flight across Australia.
This year Airservices air traffic controllers will help guide Santa to his first stop in Hobart Tasmania, before he heads to the mainland and criss-crosses across the country making use of Australia's five different time zones.
To help ensure Santa has as smooth a ride as possible, Airservices National Operations Centre in Canberra will be providing Santa with up-to-date weather information throughout the evening.
Airservices Manager Corporate Communication, Rob Walker said that Airservices works closely with the Bureau of Meteorology to track the weather for Santa's visit.
"Santa has been in contact with our air traffic controllers ahead of the big night and has been provided with the forecasts to help him make any final adjustments to his flight path," Mr Walker said.
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Every day, the case for Laura's Law gets stronger
"Every day, Logan."
So begins another wrenching email, regular as Swiss clockwork, from the father of a troubled adult son.
A well-respected San Diego physician, he was writing the day of the Encinitas standoff suicide that left two sheriff's deputies wounded.
"I feel like a broken record repeating myself," echoed Judy Belinsky, a Rancho Santa Fe attorney with a personal stake in the fight for rational mental-health policy.
"Each and every time," Belinsky continued, "all of us who hear about these incidents feel so helpless as Laura's Law is an option to get some of these people into treatment. This (Encinitas) man's mother had pleaded with the court system to get help for her son just this month.
"We continually run into a wall through the county's reluctance to intervene. How many more times? It will not end, I assure you."
Last week, following the bloody Encinitas SWAT action, Sheriff Bill Gore vented his anger over the county's failure to take responsibility for the mental illness metastasizing mainly among young men.
Gore called the county's current policy "a gigantic mistake and we're paying for it with the violence."
A full quarter of the county jail population is on some sort of psychotropic drug, Gore said. Without chemical pacification, our jails might as well be renamed "bedlams."
In today's world, which doesn't always offer up the Hollywood ending of the endearing "Silver Linings Playbook," the hard-core criminal justice system too often fills the treatment void.
There is, however, a path toward sanity if we'd only start down it.
Passed in 2002 and named for a young woman killed by a mentally ill man who refused treatment, Laura's Law is notable for two things: 1. Its cost-saving success in remote Nevada County; and 2. the refusal of the rest of the state's counties (with the lone exception of Los Angeles, which has a pilot program) to adopt it.
Under Laura's Law, a parent would be able to petition the court to take charge of an adult child who's a threat to himself and others. A judge would decide if an individual's documented history warrants a county team to monitor outpatient treatment. If that effort fails, the court can order involuntary hospitalization.
In America's history, commitment no doubt has been abused. Forced lobotomies, excessive electroshock — they're the stuff of horror movies. In the '60s, however, the pendulum swung toward the civil rights of the mentally ill. Today, the pendulum needs to swing back to help sick individuals while preserving public safety.
In its finite wisdom, the county claims Laura's Law is too difficult and costly, opting instead to fund a voluntary mental-health program called IHOT that may have its merits but does not actively engage those hard cases who refuse treatment.
Nevertheless, Laura's Law doesn't have to bust the budget. Nevada County has proved that point. Some recent academic research supports the overall cost-effectiveness of involuntary treatment.
"I would be surprised if there were more than a couple of hundred of people that would be part of this program in our county," Belinsky speculates. "At a cost of about $20,000 per person, it is a lot less (money) than these people revolving in and out of the hospital, jail and using up court time and city resources.
"There are many trained attorneys in the county who have been serving the courts on a volunteer basis. I have been doing this for 15 years. I would be pleased to be trained and volunteer in the court system to help this segment of the population. There could be a presiding judge with a few volunteers that he/she supervises. It can be accomplished."
But only if we — you and me — help make the case. Keep the pressure on.
In Sacramento, four bills are being introduced to make it easier for counties to adopt Laura's Law. (The welcome push appears bipartisan: Two are authored by Democrats, the other two by Republicans.)
Locally, newly elected North County Supervisor Dave Roberts and East County Supervisor Dianne Jacob are jointly proposing a rigorous 90-day review of the county's current mental-health outreach and how it compares with Laura's Law in terms of policy, staffing and funding.
This welcome legislation, which will be considered March 19, could — and should — be the honest look in the mirror that leads to the implementation of Laura's Law or a policy that accomplishes the same goals.
"This is personal to me," Roberts told me last week, referring to mental-health intervention for suffering families.
For years, supervisors have been told that Laura's Law is a bridge too far.
Tell that to the grieving parents of Newtown.
Tell that to the local deputy who's recovering from a gunshot in his knee.
Tell that to the next family that's devastated by a young man beset by demons.
Tell that to the good doctor who scans the headlines, sighs, and writes:
Every day.


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Wandsworth cricketer Rory Hamilton-Brown has ended his three-year spell with Surrey after the club agreed to his request to be released from his contract.
The 25-year-old batsman, who led the club to promotion to Division One and the Clydesdale Bank 40 title in 2011 and scored 4,166 runs for Surrey in all competitions and took 21 wickets during his time at the Kia Oval.
Team director Chris Adams said: "Rory is a talented young cricketer. Achieving promotion and winning the CB40 trophy were both significant achievements and his weight of runs made a big contribution.
"Whilst at the club, he has also moved a lot closer to fulfilling his ambitions of playing on the International stage.
"The club has agreed to his request to leave so he can look to make a fresh start elsewhere. On a personal level I would like to wish Rory the best for the future and hope he is able to realise his potential at the highest level."
Hamilton'Brown was hit hard by the death of his close friend Tom Maynard in June this year and was granted indefinite compassionate leave from the club.
Although he returned to action in August, he struggled to return to his best form and made what would prove to be his final appearance for the club against Glamorgan in the Tom Maynard Tribute Match on August 21.
The former Weybridge Cricket Club player is a target for Somerset.


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The Anna Hazare fronted anti-corruption movement has been successful in pushing the locus of Indian politics to the right. Will it also succeed in defeating the Congress led United Progressive Alliance in the next general elections and putting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh backed Bharatiya Janata Party into power? That remains an open question. Read the rest of this entry »
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The microwave backhaul equipment market is expected to surpass US$12 B by 2016, according to the second edition of Maravedis' "Wireless Backhaul Market from an All-IP Perspective" report.
During 2010 the PtP microwave backhaul market reached $4.74 B, representing an 18.9 percent decrease year-over-year. During the next five years the microwave market will continuously grow, mainly driven by the need for operators to deploy new base stations to provide good quality of experience over LTE networks. Despite a recent slowdown in all-outdoor radio shipments, Maravedis believes those radios will see great market demand. "Compact-size 60 GHz radios will become a key asset for backhaul links between lampposts and the sides of buildings, where small cells will be installed," said Esteban Monturus, author of the report. "Assuming a growing percentage of the network will need the complement of several small cells per macrocell, the number of 60 GHz links is thus expected to grow to $792 M shipments by 2016."
Now that the evolution toward pure packet microwave technology is maturing, multiple enhancements are being introduced by vendors to leverage the flexibility of packet transmission. "New features, such as support for upper protocol layer compression, service-aware routing and G.8032 Ethernet resiliency, are now focusing the attention of vendors," said Maravedis Research Director Adlane Fellah.
Key Findings:
- CALA was the only region where microwave shipments increased in 2010, while EMEA continued to represent the largest share of microwave shipments (48.8 percent).
- Shipments of radios in the 15 to 28 GHz range have been the greatest in 2010.
- Shipments of hybrid radios accounted for 72 percent of the total shipments.
- Ericsson remained the market leader with 26 percent market share in 2010.
- Shipments of TDM radios increased 16 percent and 27 percent in Q3 and Q4 2010, respectively, despite the IP migration trend.
- Pure packet will account for 90 percent of annual microwave radio shipments by 2016.
- Intensive integration efforts enable equipment vendors to double equipment reliability (measured by MTBF, mean time between failures). All the microwave vendors will be forced to follow this strategy to remain price competitive.
The report provides a complete quantitative and qualitative analysis of the wireless backhaul market, including vendor SWOT analysis for Alcatel-Lucent, Aviat, BridgeWave, Ceragon, DragonWave, E-Band Communications, ECI Telecom, Ericsson, Exalt, Huawei, Intracom, NEC, Nokia Siemens and Siklu.


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Title 22
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Any person engaging in any export, reexport, transfer, or retransfer of a defense article or defense service pursuant to an exemption must maintain records of each such export, reexport, transfer, or retransfer. The records shall, to the extent applicable to the transaction and consistent with the requirements of § 123.22 of this subchapter, include the following information: A description of the defense article, including technical data, or defense service; the name and address of the end-user and other available contact information (e.g., telephone number and electronic mail address); the name of the natural person responsible for the transaction; the stated end-use of the defense article or defense service; the date of the transaction; the Electronic Export Information (EEI) Internal Transaction Number (ITN); and the method of transmission. The person using or acting in reliance upon the exemption shall also comply with any additional recordkeeping requirements enumerated in the text of the regulations concerning such exemption (e.g., requirements specific to the Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties in § 126.16 and § 126.17 of this subchapter).[77 FR 16599, Mar. 21, 2012]


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Amiel Gahima, who survived the Rwandan genocide that claimed his wife and their unborn twins, will tell of his experiences on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 6:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel at Hope College.
The public is invited. A $2 freewill donation is being suggested in support of the non-profit relief organization that he has established, Life Lifting Hands.
Delivered from the perspective of his Christian faith, Gahima's address will speak of the history of Rwanda, the horrors of the genocide, and the impact of the events on his life. The address has been organized as a class project by the "Encounter with Cultures" class taught by Kim Douglas of the Hope English faculty.
Military and militia groups killed between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates during the Rwandan genocide that ran from April to July of 1994. When the attacks reached their village, Gahima and his family -- his pregnant wife and their two young children, ages three and six -- went into hiding, living on plantations and in the bush. The unbearable conditions ultimately drove them back home, where in June 1994 government troops took his wife away for questioning. He later learned that she was killed, the unborn twins cut from her womb and thrown into a mass grave.
Gahima immigrated to the United States in 1997, and his children joined him in 2000 with the help of the Paw PawSeventh-Day Adventist Church. He subsequently established Life Lifting Hands to help underprivileged individuals, families and communities, with a focus on Rwanda.
More about Gahima and Life Lifting Hands may be found online at www.lifeliftinghands.org
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Shonda Rhimes truly is a busy lady. Not only does she executive-produce two shows on the air — Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice — but her new political drama Scandal premieres next month, and she's got a period piece in contention at ABC. And while there's speculation her load could lighten should Grey's or Private fail to be renewed, Rhimes assures us that's not likely. TVGuide.com caught up with the showrunner for an uncensored look at everything on her plate, including actors' contracts, Private's move to Tuesdays and her upcoming projects.
You have two shows on the air with a third premiering next month and a fourth in development. What does a typical day look like?
Shonda Rhimes: It's busy, but oddly enough, with Grey's in Season 8, Private in Season 5, and Scandal wrapped for the season, I feel like I've learned my job well enough that I hope that's it not too taxing. It's mentally taxing, but somehow I feel like I've finally figured it out and hit a stride where everything clicks the way it should.
At the beginning of this production year on Grey's, there was some uncertainty about which actors would be continuing. How did it feel heading into what could have been the final season of Grey's Anatomy, or did you not even think of it that way?
Rhimes: No, the network has not allowed me to think of it as being the final season of Grey's Anatomy. That wasn't even a concern for me. I know that Grey's is going to live on past this season. So whether or not I feel like it could, it's going to.
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Will the next season be similar to what we've seen the last eight years or are you planning any major changes?
Rhimes: Honestly, I really don't know. I feel committed to staying with the show as long as it feels interesting. I have some interesting ideas.
Was it difficult writing episodes not knowing who might or might not be returning? Or did you just charge ahead like you would during a normal season?
Rhimes: No, we definitely didn't approach it the way I approach a normal season. But I like the challenge and that's been one of the things that's always been fun about getting to do this show; trying to figure out what the next challenge is going to be every season. This season the challenge was that we didn't know how the season was going to end. So in a way, it forced us to be creative in a different way. You want to keep it fresh after eight years and we were able to do that because we had this new problem to contend with.
The biggest question, obviously, is Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey. Do you have a back-up plan should they decide not to return?
Rhimes: I can't even begin to address that concept.
There are a lot of major milestones coming up, things fans have been waiting a long time for. First, the McMansion. How long have you been waiting for that moment when it would finally be finished?
Rhimes: I don't know if it's as big a moment for me as it's turned out to be for the fans. There were many times where we were like, "Oh, we should finish the house now." And it felt like we don't want to spend time dealing with the story of the house. There was a lot of that in some veins and then there were some moments in which it just didn't feel quite right. It does feel right to deal with it and talk about it and have it be done at the end of Season 8 when Meredith is graduating from being a resident.
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Speaking of, the original interns are in their final year of residency. Will their transition be a major part of the last few episodes?
Rhimes: Yeah, it really is and we've been feeling it in the writers' room. As we read the scripts, there's a strong sense of nostalgia because it really is an end of an era for these characters and that's a milestone for us. They're finishing their residency, they're going to be Attendings. I suppose you could keep them as residents forever but that just didn't feel right in terms of what we wanted to do.
The alt-reality episode was a good way to call back to a lot of those moments from the past seasons. Will there be more of those moments?
Rhimes: Yeah, I think there's a little bit of that. There are people coming full circle and it's really the time to look at them, see how they've grown and how they've changed from the people that we first met.
Not everyone can get a happy ending. Why did you choose Cristina and Owen to be the couple that hit the most rough patches?
Rhimes: That's interesting. I guess I don't look at it that way, like I'm not trying to make Cristina and Owen hit rough patches because not everyone can get a happy ending. I really look at the characters and think, "What is the journey that they're on? What do they still have left to learn? What struggles are they still juggling?" I try to look at them as people and it feels to me like Cristina still has a lot of unresolved issues. And more importantly, she's in love with a person who has some unresolved issues with her as well. But, to me, Cristina Yang is an extraordinarily gifted surgeon first before she's anything else. While she's expanded and grown in a lot of areas, that is still who she is and she fully expects and believes that if Owen's going to be in love with her, he's a man who's got to be in love with an extraordinarily gifted surgeon first and deal with all that comes with that.
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You've really gut-punched the audience a couple times this season with them.
Rhimes: I know, and I'm not really trying to. It truly isn't about playing with the audience. It really is about this journey for these characters and how to keep it honest. Sandra [Oh] and Kevin [McKidd] have been really engaged and they have to spend a lot of time together talking about this stuff. You have big arguments in terms of what we're going to do, because we all feel really passionately that they can all come to an agreement. After eight seasons to have a cast that's not phoning it in, it's the most exciting thing in the world.
There's been talk in the past of Derek, Addison and Mark in med school. Would you ever consider flashing back to that, not unlike the Ellis-Richard flashback episode?
Rhimes: Maybe. Possibly. We've actually talked about that. Frankly, the biggest problem with that is not finding a young Addison or a young Mark, although that would be difficult, it's finding a young Derek. Finding a young Derek is, to me, one of the hardest things in the world, so it just feels difficult to do.
What draws you to do episodes like the musical and the alt-reality? And are you already thinking of what you want to do next?
Rhimes: I don't think we think of it like, "Oh we want to do a musical!" The musical came out of, "What's the next challenge?" and also "What's the best way to tell this particular story?" Those things come because they feel organic, so there's no plan for what we're going to do next.
Having Scandal premiere on Thursday nights is bittersweet, I'm sure, because it pushes Private Practice to Tuesdays. How did you feel about that move?
Rhimes: It was difficult. It's an interesting moment for me because am I upset that Private Practice is losing its time slot? Damn straight. Am I thrilled that the network seems to think that Grey's Anatomy is still a strong show enough to launch a new series behind? Absolutely, that's wonderful. And am I glad that if we're going to launch a show we're going to put it in what they consider to be the strongest timeslot? Yes. I'm very excited for Scandal. But that's three different hats and there was a lot of... let's say heated discussion about this choice. I feel very strongly about Private Practice and really feel like that show has done its job for the network for a really long time and I should hope that we get to continue doing that job.
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Does the move to Tuesdays signal the end of Private Practice?
Rhimes: I wasn't seeing it as signaling the end of Private Practice. We'll see. I can't guarantee anything. I don't program the network, so that's not my job to even decide that.
What was your initial goal or vision when you spun Addison off and do you feel like she's on track with what you imagined?
Rhimes: Yes and no. My initial thought for sending her off was very different from what the show is just becoming. Because I feel like the show's evolved and it evolved into a thing that I really, really love. It started with her going to L.A. to say, "I want to have a baby." That really has been the journey of this character. We've been watching her navigate her world, figure out who she is and come into this world in which she stops thinking of herself as simply a cheater and finds her own redemption. Yeah, she's headed on the right path for that.
You've said before that audiences will be pleased with the Addison baby story line by the end of the season. Will there still be life for her after that?
Rhimes: Oh yeah, I absolutely think so.
Speaking of babies, next to Chandra Wilson — whose real-life pregnancy was written into Grey's second season — Caterina Scorsone's pregnancy is the only other one you've written into one of your shows. Why?
Rhimes: Here's what's interesting: We had a story line planned, and then I had a woman who told me she was pregnant and things dovetailed beautifully. I had been positive we were going to tell the story line, and Caterina telling me she was pregnant allowed us to tell it. It's not the story that people think. It's going to be a really interesting story, and it's been a really great challenge for Caterina as an actor, who is so versatile and so game for anything.
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Turning to Scandal, what made you want to dive into the political side of things?
Rhimes: I think it's because it's a far cry from what I've done before. I've really loved Grey's and Private, but at a certain point you want a new challenge. I get itchy and I start looking around for a new challenge and a new world. The thing that all my shows have in common are smart women, I like to believe anyway, and that's what Scandal has in common with these shows. I don't think the venue really matters so much, if it's medicine or politics, you're watching people playing at the top of their game.
I've asked Ellen, Kate Walsh and Kerry Washington the same question: What does it take to be a Shonda Rhimes leading lady? All three of them had the same answer: You would have to ask Shonda. So, what does it take?
Rhimes: Casting is a very interesting process. I feel like I cannot tell you what it is about a particular person or why. I just know it when I see it. Generally for me, I'm looking for women and men who spark my imagination, who make me think, "Oh I can't wait to tell this story with them," or, "They're versatile enough to do this many things with." That's really what it's about. I just like to work with women that I like. I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.
Which brings us to Gilded Lilys, which has a strong male perspective in the pilot. What was it like switching gears?
Rhimes: I'm producing it, but it's KJ Steinberg's show. I didn't have to switch any gears at all, I just have to stand back and say, "You know, that's really smartly written, I have this thought about Page 52." KJ came in and we were talking about ideas and I said, "God, I want a period show. I want to do a show where people are wearing corsets and where all of the sexuality is hidden and where everything is repressed." That's the opposite of what goes on now where everything's just out in the open. The idea of doing it in turn-of-the-century New York was even more intriguing because that's such an interesting time historically. I've never seen a show set in exactly that moment in time and so it was perfect. Betsy Beers and I have had the best time in the world working on this show.
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Is there any one thing you'd never do on one of your shows?
Rhimes: I can't possibly box myself in with a rule like that because I always said I would never allow Meredith to want a child until I figured out how to allow Meredith to want a child. So it's impossible for me to say that there's something I would never do.
Is there anything you did in one of your shows that you would have changed if you could go back?
Rhimes: Nope, and the only reason I say that is because you've got to live without regrets.
If someone said to you 10 years ago that someday you'd have three shows on the air with a fourth in development, how would you have responded?
Rhimes: I think I would have thought it was hilarious because I wasn't even considering working in television 10 years ago. My daughter is nine, she's going to be 10 in June. 10 years ago in June, when I was in my house with a small, small baby, that's when I started really watching television, that's when I first started to think, "God, all the good stuff is happening in TV."
What would you say is the greatest lesson you've learned from your years in the television business?
Rhimes: Television is truly a collaborative process. What most people instinctively do in this business is you get this show and you're so desperate to keep it on the air that people get afraid to actually seek the help of the people around them. So then you find yourself doing everything yourself and that is an exhausting process. Shawn Ryan actually said this once and I thought it was just a very clean way of saying it, "If you spend the time in the writers' room that you need to spend in the writers' room downloading your brain, your life goes so much easier. If you keep it all inside your head, you kill yourself."