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Richard Ayoade's Submarine is like an indie version of last year's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Both movies are coming-of-age stories that center on a lead character who views his world through the lens of his interests. But whereas Scott sees the world in shades of videogames and pop culture, Submarine's eccentric protagonist, 15-year-old Oliver Tate, brings a French New Wave and erudite nature to his world view. The film wisely grounds its lead character by having him grapple with simple but relatable problems: he doesn't know how to be a good boyfriend and his parents' marriage is disintegrating due in part to his mom's old flame moving in next door. Ayoade brings an enchanting and delightful visual style to his debut feature and compliments it with an impressive score and strong performances. While Submarine may not break any new ground or leave your head spinning, it's a grand announcement that Ayoade is a director you'll need to keep on your radar.
Divided into three chapters plus a prologue and epilogue, Submarine is the tale of Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts). Oliver is a pragmatist who imagines himself as a grand, enigmatic hero whose death would send the entire nation of Wales into an outpouring of grief. Oliver is determined to get a girlfriend and has set his sights on Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige). It's not that he finds her particularly attractive or likable. He simply sees her as attainable. It's a cold, calculating approach to romance, but Roberts' performance combined with Ayoade's comic timing makes Oliver's plan come off as charming.
While Oliver is developing his relationship with Jordana, the relationship between his parents is deteriorating. His father Lloyd (Noah Taylor) and mother Jill (Sally Hawkins) seem uninterested in sex (Oliver can tell by the setting on their bedroom's dimmer switch) and even less interested in each other. Matters become more complicated when their new neighbor Graham (Paddy Considine) is also Jill's old flame. It's humorous to see Oliver try to deal with these emotional situations in a pragmatic fashion until the emotional heart of the film begins to beat and Oliver discovers he's become emotionally invested in what he previously considered to be objective goals.
Some may watch Submarine and complain that Oliver doesn't seem like a real person. These people would do well to remember that Oliver, as the story's narrator and protagonist, is showing himself as he believes he actually is. When you see that Oliver has posters for Le Samourai and Le Circle Rouge in his bedroom, it makes sense that the film should have a French New Wave aesthetic. It also makes the film damn funny and clever. Yes, it's also quirky, but not for the sake of being so. The oddball humor is intended to compliment the character and it does so wonderfully.
The wit of Submarine is only exceeded by its magnificent visual style. While there are shades of Wes Anderson and a touch of Michel Gondry, Ayoade does wonderful work not only with the color template, but with capturing the scenery of Wales. Ayoade also has terrific shot selection which helps hammer home the dry comic wit of his screenplay. He then wraps it all together with a beautiful score from Andrew Hewitt.
Unfortunately, as the film begins to wear on into its third act, the simplistic premise begins to undermine Oliver's emotional awakening. While he's not shown to be a cold person (although there's one joke that, while funny, goes too far and makes him out to be a sociopath), having Oliver come to grips with the emotional conflict in his life somehow makes his story feel less significant. Previously, Oliver Tate was the hero of the Grand Epic of Oliver Tate. When he realizes that the story won't go his way and that his calculating logic has failed to yield the outcome he predicted, Submarine becomes a smaller film. The humor fades to the background and Oliver's problems no longer seem that weighty. I applaud Ayoade for not resting on his laurels and trying to challenge the tone of his story, but it results in a shaky finish.
Despite a slightly weak third act and emotional resolution, Submarine is a must-see film that will make you laugh, dazzle you with its visual prowess, and have you excited to see what Ayoade will do next.
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Friday, November 14, 2008
IEPS, the things special education teachers spend hour upon hour working on.
IEPs, Individual Education Plans--at least 12 of my geometry students have them.
IEPs, things I have never looked at and have no plans to look at.
IEPs, things I have no time to look at.
IEPs, time that could be better spent helping the students.
23 comments:
- NYC Educator said...
When I taught special ed., some woman from the Board came and told us to pick two goals for each student, the same two pretty much no matter what. I couldn't believe she was saying this aloud, had no training whatsoever in special ed, and no instructions either than these.
It was surreal.
- 5:12 PM, November 14, 2008
- Profesora de español said...
At our parent-teacher conferences, a mother handed me her son's 504 plan. I looked through it, handed it back to her, and said, "None of this applies to my class. Your son just doesn't do his homework." She tried to argue that he may not understand it, but kids who do not understand homework do not get A's and B's on their tests/quizzes. He doesn't need a 504 or IEP. He needs to stop being so lazy and do his homework!
IEPs and 504s are generally a waste of time and a parent's way of enabling his/her child. (Obviously excluding those children that REALLY have issues.)
- 7:17 PM, November 14, 2008
- mathmom said...
Ok, now *I'm* pissed off. >:(
If someone has taken the time to identify a student's learning differences, and identify strategies to help them succeed, don't you think you owe it to your students to at least read the document and see what you can do to help them succeed.
I'm sure some things in IEPs are unreasonable. I'm sure even some entire IEPs are unreasonable. But some are both reasonable and necessary. How you can tell which is which without looking at them is beyond me. You say the time would be better spent helping the student. You can help the student by reading and following his IEP.
If you were my kid's teacher, you would read his IEP. And you would follow it to the extent that would be reasonable for your class. Because following it would ultimately take less time than all the meetings I'd be calling with you and the administration if you didn't follow it.
I have 3 children. All of them high honors level. One of them requires an IEP. And it damn well better be followed.
- 8:09 PM, November 14, 2008
- Pissedoffteacher said...
All my special education students get the extended time they are entitled to, the different location, if they wish it and the reader or writer if it is on their IEP. I never deny them services. In fact, I encourage them to take advantage of what they are allowed.
But, I have 34 kids in a class and teach 6 classes. There is no way I can read these documents. And, there is no way I can provide them with individual help. Reading a paper is meaningless. Helping them is valuable. I'm sorry if you misinterpreted my lack of caring for these papers with lack of caring for your child. As a mainstream teacher, the services I mentioned are the only ones that affect me. Soemone else must provide reading, writing, location. I don't need to read an IEP to do this. Knowing a kid is in resource room, special ed or has a 504 is all the information I need. So, in answer, even if your child was in my class, I would not read his IEP.
- 10:09 PM, November 14, 2008
- The Bus Driver said...
ha... i cant tell you how much i totally agree with this statement. When i was in school, i had an IEP and recieved sped services. I had friends who were also recieving the same help i was, and were just using it as an excuse NOT to do work.
I refused to go to my own IEP meetings because i didnt want to miss class. The times i HAD to go, i was superbly pissed off because i actually gave a damn about my education.
- 10:31 PM, November 14, 2008
- mathmom said...
Well, fine, if you know what's in their IEP without reading it, and provide them with the appropriate accommodations, that's great.
Sometimes a child needs other accommodations than those that you listed. Sometimes it is a very simple thing that a teacher can do, that doesn't take any extra time or interfere with the learning experiences of the other students. It might take time to read the paperwork, but knowing how best to handle and teach the child will reap greater rewards and save time in the long run. If you understand something about how a child learns (and how they don't learn), then you can teach them more effectively by using strategies that are likely to work.
Obviously in a class of 30+ students, you can't cater to each of them all the time, but if a student asks a question or comes in for extra help, you will be more effective if you know something about their learning differences.
You don't really have to read the entire document to learn this. A lot of it is devoted to how they proved that the child needed an IEP to begin with. If you skip to the juicy parts, you can probably learn what you need to know in a minute or two per student.
You're busy, I get that. You still have an obligation to be aware of the parts of a student's IEP that impact his participation in your class.
- 11:07 PM, November 14, 2008
- Anonymous said...
It is simply a zero-sum game math mom. Not enough time to do it all. If pissed-off teacher had smaller classes or less of them there moght be time to do it all. But, lacking those resources she has to do the best she can with the time she can. She is is only doing what we all do vis a vis IEPs...thank her for the honesty of telling you.
- 6:20 AM, November 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Wow! you just have 12.
Granted your classes are larger. Our poor biology teacher had 10 in one class.
I agree IEP really don't help. "extra time, modified assignments..." since we have to document that we did modify my lesson plans had a check list at the bottom with a summation of the mods, I'd just check the one appropriate for the students in the class and they'd be right there for me to see.
- 8:16 AM, November 15, 2008
- JUSTICE not "just us" said...
I am a Special Education teacher and I can tell you that you should read the IEP. I have spent hours writing the the dam things and dam it you will read it!
Seriously, it is the responsibility of the adminstration to provide with copies of the dam thing for you to have in a secure place in your classroom. A well written IEP contains not only academic information on the child but health alerts that you may need to know like what medication he or she may be on which will of course effect his or her performance in your classroom. A well written IEP can give you insights into the child's personality and get you to understand him or her better. A well written IEP should contain a behavorial intervention plan that could help if the child is acting out in your classroom. Finally, an IEP that is well written and complete is just another tool in your teaching arsnal to help the special needs children in your classes.
Since most IEPs are badly written and incomplete and the adminstration violates Federal law by not providing them to the teacher and you have oversized classes which prevents you from individualizing instruction and you have the pressure of getting your students to perform on the state's Regents which prevents you from looking at new ways to present the material to accomdate different learning styles--NEVER MIND! JUST THOW THE IEPs into a file draw and let them gather dust like everybody else does including the teachers of self-contained Spec Ed classes with 15 students in the class and a paraprofessional. I know I have 20years experience.
On sabbatical from "teacher death row" this is....
- 8:17 AM, November 15, 2008
- Pissedoffteacher said...
I'm sorry mathmom but I have 34 students in each class and I am getting paid to help them all equally.
I don't think the IEP's are written with as much insight as you say. Our spepeical education teachers are overwhelmed. They have ahuge amount of paperwork and many times the IEP is completed just to be completed. There is nothing meaningful on them.
As for keeping a set in the classroom, I teach in multiple rooms and have no place to leave anything. The one time I left book receipts in a room, they were gone the next day. When the class ends, I leave that room so if I need to refer to something in that room, too bad. Besides, I don't have time to take out a sheet of paper to look at during class.
The psycho doc who evaluates kids in my school meets with them for around 1 hour and then he draws conclusions. He does not really know them or their disabilities. Years ago, I taught special ed and went to IEP conferences with him. We had major fights because he would not give the child services I knew were needed. Nothing he writes will help your child.
I don't know where you live but hopefully things are done differently in your schools. If these documents contained anything valuable I would use them.
As for helping yuor child, I would rather have a 5 minute phone call with you where you could tell me any relevant information than spend 40 minutes searching for some stupid piece of paper. (And I ahve had many of those conversations.)
- 10:05 AM, November 15, 2008
- mathmom said...
Since you're *not* my kid's teacher, I'm not going to waste any more time arguing about this.
But the claim that you're paid to help all students equally is a bit of a stretch. Some students always require and receive more attention from any teacher than others. My older and younger son, who catch on the first time something is taught and who have no disabilities, and who are generally cooperative, get way less than 1/34 of their teachers' time. My middle son will need more, and getting what he needs is his right under federal law. You are paid to *meet the needs* of all your students. I know from reading here that you put extra effort into helping and trying to get help for students in need of extra attention.
In any state, a parent who knows their child's rights can ensure that the child's IEP is a meaningful and useful document. Maybe the IEPs at your school are all meaningless and useless, though I'm not sure how you figured that out without reading them.
- 1:09 PM, November 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I have to say that I was never, ever included in any of my student's IEPs nor was I ever given a copy. However I was asked to supply my signature to many documents I never read which I
thought was unfair. I was also asked to be part of a student's follow-up appointment with the parent and SETTS teacher which of course I attended.
It's one thing if I refer a child, but when I receive a child with an IEP, I think it should be shared because I may or may not agree with the findings.
As for 504's...many parents have been abusing them so their kid can get extra time on tests including the SATs.
I can only speak on the Elementary level where a teacher can find time to work with each student if the class is a manageable size. However, I can see where HS would be difficult since you are not with the same students all day long.
- 1:12 PM, November 15, 2008
- Pissedoffteacher said...
Mathmom--in an ideal world you are right.
In my world you make due with what you ahve.
My AP Calculus students are all honor students but sometimes they need extra help too (lots of days they do) and they are entitled to the extra help too. I would never put one kid above another. There are just so many minutes in a day.
- 4:45 PM, November 15, 2008
- JUSTICE not "just us" said...
BTW Pissed I agree with everything you say. In our neck of the woods the IEP is worthless being that the DOE is out of compliance with state and federal mandates to serve these children.
We work in the jungle!!!!
- 5:19 PM, November 15, 2008
- mathmom said...
I don't mean to be judgmental. But surely you spend extra time on various students when they need it whether it's extra help in a class, or a letter of recommendation for college (which take up a huge amount of time, I know), or a problem at home that you need to know about to understand what's going on with your student. So, I really don't "get" why you won't spend 2 minutes to scan a student's IEP and figure out if there's anything there you need to spend more time reviewing. (Yes, I do realize that 2 minutes times scores of students on IEPs adds up to some real time.)
Many students need extra attention at different times and in different ways.
- 8:12 PM, November 15, 2008
- Mamacita (The REAL one) said...
Regarding your post, your opinion, your situation, your attitude, and your entire philosophy of education, well, all I can say is. . . .
AMEN. Bloody frickin' AMEN.
And I mean that religiously as well as merely an enthusiastic agreement.
And I say this with 26 years' worth of experience in a middle school classroom (grades 6, 7, & 8), with 7 academic classes daily each of which had 38 or more students. One year, I had a class of 46 non-participatory boys. In each of these large classes, AT LEAST 12 students had IEP's. I did the best I could, but what was I supposed to do? Say things like "Open your books to page 15. Not you. Here are the notes for the assigned novel. The rest of you have to make your own." "Pick any one of the five topics, and write a two-page paragraph stating your opinion about it. Except for you five. You only have to write two sentences."
I keep remembering the words of the woman from the State who came down to talk to us about inclusion, years ago. She said, and I quote:
"When you teach your basic students about how to measure the angles of a triangle, you can, at the same time, be explaining to your included students what a triangle IS!"
Like THAT'S going to happen.
In a class of 38 13-17-year-olds, with no aide, a teacher does the best she/he can. Period. Parents who require special treatment for their kids are going to have to understand that there are only so many hours in a day, and only so much one person can do. I refuse to ignore 31 students because 8 students have IEP's that mandate one-on-one instruction. In most classrooms, that's just not possible. Have pity on us. Walk in our shoes.
I am only one person, and I have only two arms. I can't give forty kids x seven periods x five days a week individualized instruction within the classroom. After school, even staying until five or six o'clock, I couldn't do it all. I don't think you could, either, mathmom. Nor could any other ONE person.
- 8:32 PM, November 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Math mom - do you realize how many tasks are vital and how often one might have to read and reread IEPs? The beauty of PO'd blog is that she is telling you how it really is. I teach social studies and out of the 120 teachers in my school I would say about one tenth read the IEPs one time and zero tenths remember the details beyond extended time or scribe instructions. Again, I would say this is how it is. If there was an IEP period each day or even every other day for reviewing and relearning the 35 so IEPs I have no doubt teachers would be happy to do it. The problem is that over the years more and more demands have been made on teachers' time and less and less time made available to fulfill the demands. Important and valuable tasks are left undone. As I noted before it is a zero sum game. I am sure PO does not have nap time or poker time at work so time spent on one important task is less time for another important task. Teachers have to make choices on how they spend their time. In my school we bounce from classroom to classroom and have one frantic prep and one additional lunch that becomes a frantic prep period. As a parent myself I recognize that my dreams of individualized instruction may remain unrealized.
P.O.T. this is the best blog I have ever read. I teach on Long Island and we have many of the same issues. Plus the wry humor is priceless.
- 8:33 PM, November 15, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Heh, I've been teaching since 1997 and I have yet to see an IEP. Of course, I'm "just" the music teacher, so it probably "doesn't matter". I see anywhere from 450-650 students a week (depending on if our school is overcrowded that year or not, and it usually is) and I bet at least a fifth of them have IEPs but I have yet to see one. We aren't told anything. I didn't even know I had a student with life threatening asthma attacks until he had an attack in my room and could not breathe. He ended up going to the hospital! And no one told me. You better believe if my kid had severe health issues I would personally make sure all his teachers know and not depend on "someone" to tell everyone!
Oh, well.
- 1:55 PM, November 16, 2008
- Pissedoffteacher said...
Kids without IEPs ahve severe health issues too. I had a kid with diabetes a few years ago who passed out in my class. It really sucked trying to get her help as it was late in the day and almost everyone was home by then.
- 6:40 PM, November 16, 2008
- Anonymous said...
I have 650* students give or take a few. The stack of yellow folders (IEP's and BIP's) and orange folders (504's) in my closet is very high - and I read them because I don't sign off on legal papers that I don't read.
Our IEP's are easy to read - because they are basically check list. Most of the accommodations are things that will help all learners - so I teach them all how to change the font type or color. We all learn how to use narrator and speech recognition.
- 8:38 PM, November 16, 2008
- Pissedoffteacher said...
I'm jealous--yuo have a closet!
We don't have to sign off on IEPs. I would never sign what I did not read.
- 8:43 PM, November 16, 2008
- Anonymous said...
mamacita, as a parent of a reg. ed. student who got stuck in mainstreamed for third & fifth grades, all I can say is Right On!
It took me three years of tutoring to make up for the twiddling my child was encouraged to do in mainstreaming, while the IEP'd were given three teachers each to help them (classroom, 1:1 aide, resource specialist) and my child wasn't allowed to do anything but twiddle, read or color & draw while the IEP'd were receiving extra help. The grade level math curriculum was not taught - the entire year each time was a repeat of basic skills from prior grades to benefit the IEP'd who had not acheived mastery.
What a crock, all in the name of 'fairness'. Fairness, in my book, is that EVERYONE learns from the lesson, not some learn and others twiddle for years waiting for the included to receive 'extra help' to catch up.
- 11:00 AM, November 17, 2008
- Anonymous said...
When I was a teacher, I never read IEPs..... because the Child Study Team refused to share them with us. According to them, allowing us teachers to read them could cause a breach of confidentiality. It was perfectly acceptable, however, to leave copies of 504's in our open mailboxes in the main office. Go figure!
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"Uncle Glen"
Dear James,
It was good to see you and talk with you last Sunday evening during your visit home. I am sorry we didn't have more time to talk after church. You brought up a good question that has had me thinking all this week.
Although your question deserves more of a response than I could give in your presence, I understand it wasn't so pressing as to keep you from socializing with your friends at the Millses' home. The spread that Debbie's mom provides after the evening service has certainly had my mouth watering when I've had to attend an impromptu session meeting to interview potential church members before going to the Millses.
Your question, as I understand it, is this: why doesn't our denomination commit more time and resources to evangelism? I presume the "spiritual emphasis" week at college brought a number of speakers to campus who are conducting fairly impressive forms of outreach. It's funny that you used the word impact in reference to evangelism. That was the word we also heard when I was a student. I would have thought the younger generation might come up with its own word to describe successful evangelism. Then again, the word cool seems to have no expiration date.
Let me suggest a couple of ways to think about our church's apparently weak efforts to evangelize. First, God uses a host of means to save his people. Parents, siblings, and friends often play a significant role in conversion. I once read that well over two-thirds of those who professed faith at Billy Graham's crusades attended with Christian family members or friends who were instrumental in their hearing the gospel. It seems that even the most acclaimed forms of evangelism rely on unrecognized forms of influence. So there may be more to successful evangelism than meets the eye. It could be that highly publicized forms are merely the fruit of seeds already planted by people not recognized as evangelists.
The other consideration that may help you is that throughout Scripture God constantly uses humble and ordinary means to achieve his purposes. Think of Joshua at Jericho and how odd (if not foolish) the Israelites must have looked and sounded as they walked around the city walls blowing their horns. Think of David, who was the youngest and least formidable of Jesse's sons, and yet became Israel's greatest king. Think too of the virgin Mary, an adolescent peasant girl from a seemingly inconsequential Jewish family whom God chose to bear his only begotten son. The disciples were a fairly rough crowd, probably not picked by their contemporaries to be highly influential people. As the apostle Paul himself admitted—a man who likely terrified more Christians initially than he impressed—God chose "earthen vessels" to accomplish his purposes. The reason is so that God, not men or their cleverness, will receive the glory.
The preaching of the word fits this same pattern of God's employing humble and ordinary methods to save his people. It is often forgotten as a means of salvation. According to many "experts" on soul winning and church growth, preaching is old-fashioned, even boring. Paul actually faced similar complaints in his day. The Greeks, the wisest people of the time, thought preaching was a foolish form of communication. Their perception has obviously not gone away. And yet it is precisely through the hearing of the word preached (Rom. 10:14–17) that God converts us. It is hard to accept, but sometimes the things we think are ineffective are actually what God has promised to bless. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God" (1 Cor. 1:28–29).
This means that every Lord's Day, at least, when every minister of our denomination preaches God's word, evangelism is taking place. As the Shorter Catechism says, the preaching of the word is "an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation" (Q. 89).
This does not mean that we as a church and as believers could not do more to tell others about the good news of Jesus Christ. We certainly can. But what is often missed is that we are already engaged in evangelism. Unfortunately, our high view of preaching and the way it informs our ministries in home and foreign missions doesn't count in the eyes of many because it lacks the pizzazz of contemporary ministries. From another angle, though, the faithful, weekly preaching of the word is just as evangelistic as the best-orchestrated and widely advertised rally or conference.
Of course, our form of evangelism may be as plain as a Fourth of July hamburger. But who said we needed to make our ministry of the word as appealing as Mrs. Mills' cooking? If it's any comfort, the Bible seems to indicate that our humdrum ways are in good company.
Glen Roberts
"Glen Roberts" is a pseudonym shared by two prominent ruling elders in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Reprinted from New Horizons, May 2008.
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Parmesan-roasted potatoes
These are a great addition to Christmas dinner, and perfect for Boxing Day bubble and squeak... if you have any left over
Nutrition and extra info
- Easily doubled / halved
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal339
- fat15g
- saturates5g
- carbs4g
- sugars2g
- fibre3g
- protein11g
- salt0.36g
- 1.8kg floury potatoes, cut in half, or quarters if large
The world's favourite root vegetable, the potato comes in innumerable varieties. A member of…
- 5 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 2 tsp plain flour
- 100g parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), finely grated
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
- handful parsley, finely chopped
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
- 4 rosemary sprigs, leaves finely chopped
Rosemary's intense, fragrant aroma has traditionally been paired with lamb, chicken and game…
- pinch of grated nutmeg
One of the most useful of spices for both sweet and savoury…
Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Place the potatoes into a pan of salted water, bring to the boil and simmer for 2 mins exactly. Drain well and toss in a little of the oil to coat.
Stir the flour, parmesan, herbs and nutmeg together in a dish with a small pinch of salt and toss the potatoes in the mix until evenly coated. Heat a good layer of oil in a shallow, non-stick roasting tray on a hob or in the oven, then carefully add the potatoes to the tray. Turn the potatoes to coat them in the oil and roast for 40 mins, turning once. If they feel like they are sticking to the pan, don't move them, just leave them for the full time. Roast until golden brown and crisp, and serve straight away.
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Why not try...HERBED ROSTI: For a change make a large potato rösti and cut it into wedges to serve. Boil 750g unpeeled potatoes in their skins for 15 mins, then drain and leave until cool enough to handle. Peel and coarsely grate potatoes, then mix with some chopped fresh rosemary, thyme and 100g soft butter. Season well, flatten the mix into a cake, then gently fry in a non-stick pan for about 20 mins, turning the mix and reshaping into a cake until crisp on both sides. Serve cut into wedges.


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West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 225 Belmont Ave., Bala Cynwyd, and the Boneyard Bookworms Book Club welcome award-winning author Janet Mason, author of "Tea Leaves," for a presentation, reception and book signing 1 p.m. Sunday, April 28.
"Tea Leaves" tells the story of mothers and daughters, embarking when the narrator's mother is diagnosed with fourth-stage cancer.
A dutiful daughter, the narrator proceeds to take care of her mother, 74-year-old Jane, and enters a deeper understanding of her own life through her mother's stories.
"Tea Leaves" is a story of gender and class, identity and sexuality but, most of all, it is about love, notes press information.
The afternoon will include a reading and Q&A session with Janet Mason as well as book signing and a dessert reception. The event will take place in the conservatory on the grounds of the cemetery.
There is no charge to attend but reservations are requested.
For more information or to make a reservation, visit http://www.boneyardbookworms.com/.
According to press information, Janet Mason is an award winning writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry whose literary commentary is regularly featured on "This Way Out," an international LGBT radio news syndicate based in Los Angeles and aired on more than 400 radio stations in the U.S. and abroad. She is also a blogger for The Huffington Post.
Her book,"Tea Leaves," a memoir of mothers and daughters was published by Bella Books in 2012. Moe information ins available in the "In The News" section of Janet's author blog—https://tealeavesamemoir.wordpress.com/tea-leaves-in-the-news/.
Incorporated in 1869, Historic West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a privately-owned, non-profit, non-denominational cemetery, a 187 acre arboretum and an outdoor sculpture garden with cultural and social history.


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I recently spoke with Eric Winter (ex-Rex Brady, Days of Our Lives) to congratulate him on his new role on the nighttime drama Brothers and Sisters (which stars Calista Flockhart, Sally Field and Rob Lowe, to name only a few), and he had some things he wanted to share with our readers:
Friday, March 16, 2007
Eric Winter Cast on Brothers and Sisters
I recently spoke with Eric Winter (ex-Rex Brady, Days of Our Lives) to congratulate him on his new role on the nighttime drama Brothers and Sisters (which stars Calista Flockhart, Sally Field and Rob Lowe, to name only a few), and he had some things he wanted to share with our readers:
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Interview With Scott Bryce
Yesterday I had the privilege of interviewing Scott Bryce - the new-improved, original Craig Montgomery of As the World Turns. It was such a fun interview. Scott has a terrific sense of humor and a wonderful passion for the role of Craig.
POLL: If I Could Vote on the Emmy Awards ...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
And the Nominees Are ...
CBS has dominated the soap categories for the 2007 Daytime Emmy nominations. One surprising omission was last year's winner for Outstanding Drama, "General Hospital." The nominees were announced on CBS's "The Early Show" this morning, Mar. 14, and the awards will be broadcast live Friday, June 15, on CBS. Here are the acting and show nominees for daytime dramas:
The Bold and the Beautiful, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, The Young and the Restless
Crystal Chappell (Olivia, "GL"), Maura West (Carly, "As the World Turns"), Kim Zimmer (Reva, "GL"), Jeanne Cooper (Katherine, "Y&R"), Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, "Y&R")
Michael Park (Jack, "ATWT"), Anthony Geary (Luke, "General Hospital"), Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus, "GL"), Peter Bergman (Jack, "Y&R"), Christian LeBlanc (Michael, "Y&R")
Lesli Kay (Felicia "B&B"), Genie Francis "(Laura, "GH"), Rebecca Herbst (Elizabeth, "GH"), Gina Tognoni (Dinah, "GL"), Renee Elise Goldsberry (Evangeline, "OLTL"), Heather Tom (Kelly, "OLTL")
Trent Dawson (Henry, "ATWT"), Rick Hearst (Rick, "GH"), Dan Gauthier (Kevin, "OLTL"), Greg Rikaart (Kevin, "Y&R"), Kristoff St. John (Neil, "Y&R")
Leven Rambin (Lily, "AMC"), Jennifer Landon (Gwen, "ATWT"), Alexandra Chando (Maddie, "ATWT"), Julie Berman (Lulu, "GH"), Stephanie Gatschet (Tammy, "GL")
Van Hansis (Luke, "ATWT"), Jesse Soffer (Will, "ATWT"), Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan, "GL"), James Stevenson (Jared, "Passions"), Bryton McClure (Devon, "Y&R")
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Shawn and Simone Take On Manhattan
Also on March 15th, Beemer will be signing autographs at the NBC Experience Store at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC at noon.
Monday, March 12, 2007
SPOILERS! Week of Mar. 12th
AMC: Adam finds JR's actions (or lack of) unforgiveable.
ATWT: Brad reforms his way of thinking, becoming Luke's biggest defender.
B&B: Jackie involves Hope in her plan to reunite Brooke and Nick.
Days: Steve becomes more unglued and takes Kayla hostage.
GH: Mr. Craig threatens Nik into doing his bidding.
GL: Beth uses her old friend Rick to try to get knocked up.
OLTL: Cristian turns to another woman after seeing Todd and Evangeline together.
Passions: Julian and Eve learn their son was abused.
Y&R: Cane and Jill are put through the ringer when the DNA results come back.


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My alma matre, Purdue University, won the Quidditch World Cup in their division!
Woooooooooooooooo, go Purdue! Boiler up!
What's that? How's our football team doing? What's the upcoming basketball season looking like? Hell if I know.
My alma matre, Purdue University, won the Quidditch World Cup in their division!
Woooooooooooooooo, go Purdue! Boiler up!
What's that? How's our football team doing? What's the upcoming basketball season looking like? Hell if I know.
Michelle says
The only sports I know anything about are Quidditch and Roller Derby. Go, Purdue!
Greg Laden says
I've yet to see the final movie. It came out the day after my daughter left for a long overseas trip. So I've been saving myself. Finally, the movie came on disk and it is sitting her unopened.
Julia returns from her travels upcountry tomorrow evening. Might be a late night.
WCLPeter says
So how does the game work, you don't happen to have any video do you?
I'd hate to be the guy carrying the snitch, you'd have to run faster than either seeker for the entire game (unless someone uses those nifty mini helicopters or something, though they only run for 5-8 minutes before the batteries run out — I suppose they could do quarters like the do in hockey?).
Laura-Ray says
My housemates are on Quidditch for my school. One of them is actually a fairly good snitch. But man, that is one helluva dangerous sport XD My housemates have gotten concussions, sprains, and after all the tournaments they each have at least one ginormous scrape from the brooms (or fingernails… those kids are vicious!)
N. Nescio says
I wonder if they showed that game during Breakfast Club at Harry's? Sometimes I miss West Lafayette, but then I realize I can feel that way because I moved *away* from Indiana.
Still can't find an italian beef sandwich out on the west coast, though. Hell, I had to *make* my own giardinera.
Vanessa says
The football team won against IU so they may be going to a bowl game, wooo. The basketball team sucks except for Robbie Hummel, of course. Now you're all caught up. XP
superhappyjen says
How does this game work? It's my understanding that it involves riding on broomsticks and attempts to catch a magical flying snitch. Without the magic, wouldn't it just be football?
Morgan says
Did some link-trawling from Jen's above to find information on the rules – ended up here.
It looks extremely silly and very fun.
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A couple of times in the last week, I've been confronted with some surprising assumptions about people who choose not to own cars. First, there was Knute Berger's unwarranted (and, I might add, illogical) attack on me and a few other extreme "bionauts" who, apparently, mooch off our neighbors while simultaneously looking down our noses at them. (To read rebuttals to Knute's argument, try Seattlest and The Stranger's Slog.)
And then there was the comment on one of my recent posts that ended on a less-than-positive note. After politely articulating his reasons for choosing to drive, the reader closed with this:
"And I'm really tired of the smug, sanctimonious sniveling of the car-free…"
So, I figured it was time to clear the air.
I can't speak for other car-free types, but the intent of this blog is not to judge people (OK, except maybe the occasional pervert), whether they own cars or not. Hey, some of my best friends drive cars. (In fact, my very best friend–since the 7th grade–has five children and drives an Excursion.) My intention in writing this blog is to share my life choice–admittedly in the hope that others might adopt it–not to ridicule someone else's.
So what's with the judgment and presumptions about bussers and bikers?
Here are some of my readers' thoughts on the subject:
From seabike_emily:
"…it is interesting that car users often protest a sense of sanctimony or superiority they perceive as coming from the car-independent. It's a familiar objection, and there is a certain defensiveness in it, which is probably a good thing because it indicates at least some recognition of the problems of car use. My own thinking has come a long way from the car-having assumption to the car-free adventure. "Smug" is just bad spin on "highly satisfied" (guilty as charged ;-)). But in the case of typical American car users, their everyday, oblivious choices deliver such heavy consequences to everyone…Once you free yourself, it's really hard to see all those negative consequences as being as justified as you once perceived them to be (when they remained in your, ahem, "blind spots"). And thus begin the smugness wars…
From ccitizen:
"My morning commute is in general very pleasant, but also includes everything from uninvited encounters with aggressive panhandlers to dangerous and frantic drivers. Smug attitude? Nah, I'm just really, really happy that I made it across the street alive."
And now, your thoughts. No direct questions from me today. Let 'em rip!


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Singer Jennifer Lopez called off a controversial show in the breakaway north of Cyprus, provoking celebrations by Greek Cypriots while Turkish Cypriots denounced the move.
Reports that Lopez would perform at a luxury hotel in the north on her 41st birthday this month triggered a Greek Cypriot online campaign pushing for cancellation.
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Turkish Cypriots called the cancellation part of a Greek Cypriot campaign to keep them isolated.
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SNEAK PREVIEW: 'Edge of Darkness' and other new movies -- Mel Gibson returns to the screen for the first time since his drunken tirade in 2006. The question is: will his fans still support him? By Al Alexander.
FLICKS: Flicks: Gibson embodies the dude movie -- There's little not to like about Mel Gibson, aside from the alcoholism (he had treatment!) and the anti-Semitism (um, a product of the media?) and so it's nice to see him back on the big screen. By John Meo.
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Jack "Murf the Surf" Murphy, artist, author, musician, sportsman and Christian motivator lives in Florida and travels the world as the International Director of "Champions for Life" Ministry.
In 1964 Murphy gained international notoriety when he and his partner stole the J. P. Morgan Gem Collections from a New York Museum. Included in that infamous "Crime of the Century" was the "Star of India Sapphire", the "DeLong Ruby", the "Eagle Diamond" and 26 other precious jewels.
A self-taught prison artist, Murphy found escape and tranquility from the surrounding world of cell block chaos through expression on canvas. His vivid imagination and extraordinary artistic talent bring beaches, boats, birds and blue skies alive with pulsating vitality. The sense of freedom Murphy has captured in the Florida Lights have made this brilliantly expressed series a much sought after collector's item.
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Folk tales and fairy tales are of interest to and part of the language arts curriculum for young learners. This lesson supports the study of this genre and the study of irregular patterns and letter-sound relationships related to decoding and spelling. After reading the folk tale Jack and the Beanstalk, students discuss the word giant and its beginning sound. Students then create their own lists of words that begin with the same sound. Then, students are introduced to words with the soft g sound and create a new list of words with this beginning sound. As a culminating activity, students work individually or in groups to categorize animal names into groups according to their beginning g sound.
Johnson, F.R. (2001). Spelling exceptions: Problems or possibilities? The Reading Teacher, 54, 372378.
- While consonants are more regular than vowels and more likely to correspond to just one sound, there are times when they do not. The letter g is an example, having both a hard and soft sound.
- Evidence shows that capable readers and spellers respond to patterns rather than rules, and recognition of these patterns can help students make sense of the English system.
- All five vowels influence the particular sound that g will have in a word. When followed by e, i (and y), the g tends to have the soft sound, whereas when followed by a, o, and u, the g tends to have the hard sound.


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Field Level Encryption
Fields within a document can be securely encrypted by the SDK, to support FIPS-140-2 compliance.
This is a client-side implementation, with key management and initialization of data encryption done during configuration of the SDK, which then exposes the API during runtime, for normal read/write operations.
Algorithm and Key Store
In Couchbase Data Platform 5.5, AES-256, AES-128, and RSA are all supported. Native Keystores (including Java Key Store and Windows Certificate Store) are supported, as well as an in-memory keystore for development and testing. More options for key stores and encryption algorithms may appear in future SDK releases.
Here is an example of an in-memory store for development and testing called the "InsecureKeyStore", to reflect its lack of security:
public class InsecureKeyProvider : IKeyProvider { private readonly Dictionary<string, string> _keys = new Dictionary<string, string>(); public string GetKey(string keyname) { return _keys[keyname]; } public void StoreKey(string keyname, string key) { _keys[keyname] = key; } }
The keys are stored by name in a dictionary and retrieved using the same name. See the sample code page for more secure code.
Field Encryption Format
Behind the API, the following format is used internally to encompass both the temporary field name used to hold the encrypted value, plus the additional metadata associated with the algorithm used and the public key:
__[PREFIX]_[FIELDNAME]" : { "kid" : "[KEY_IDENTIFIER]", "alg": "[ALGORITHM"], "ciphertext": "[BASE64_ENCRYPTED_DATA]", "sig": "[BASE64_HMAC_SIGNATURE]", "Iv" : ["INITIALIZATION_VECTOR"] }
This is how Couchbase stores the JSON internally, but it is exposed to the developer as a public API. For your preferred SDK, an API reference is available, linked from Install and Start Using the Java SDK with Couchbase Server as well as sample code.
Field Types
The encryption payload can be any object that comes after a key in a JSON document.
Data Safeguards
Under error conditions, to prevent data loss, an error in decryption or encryption in any part of an operation will cause the whole operation to fail with an exception, to prevent unnoticed loss of data.
It's important that encrypted fields be treated as "special" fields and not mutated by APIs other than through the Field Level Encryption (FLE) API. For example, for AES-HMAC-SHA256 the entire temporary field is signed; if any changes are made to any fields ("alg", "kid", "ciphertext", "sig" or "iv") then the decryption will fail because the signature has changed.


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Careers for astronomers outside academia
Our mission is to provide information on non-academia career paths for astronomers and astrophysicists who might or might not have postdoc experience. As this website grows we will try to collect information from different sources (scientists, organizations, companies, astronomical communities, ...) in order to provide a more complete view of the employment opportunities either in government institutions or industry. We would appreciate your support in the form of information, your personal experience outside of academia, or a referral to someone you know who is willing to provide us with further information.
Please circulate our 5-point questionnaire to anyone you know who used to be an astronomer and now works at a non-academic job.
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I' m an openshot user since it was appeared to Ubuntu. Now I'm a Sabayon KDE user and I needed to use a video editor. I decided to give KDEnlive a try, but I can run it only as root. The console error I get when trying to run it as user is:
The library libDeckLinkAPI.so exist in /usr/lib.
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libDeckLinkAPI.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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ISO 11343 Determination of Adhesive Bond Strength Under Impact (wedge-peel test)
Use of structural adhesives has increased as more manufacturers become aware of their advantages compared to conventional joining techniques. The increased use of these adhesives in industry, especially in safety-critical areas, makes it necessary to evaluate any possible decrease in performance when subjected to impacts. Adhesive wedge peel test methods have been developed to evaluate fracture behavior of adhesively bonded joints when subjected to impact. The wedge-peel test is an ISO-standardized test method used to measure the resistance of structural adhesives to cleavage fracture at various speeds and user defined temperatures. The test consists simply of a wedge, driven between two bonded surfaces under impact.
Impact testing to this standard can deliver vital information to aid manufacturers in the research and development of new adhesives. Additionally, an environmental chamber enables the user to test at low and high temperatures, from -70 to -150. Once a suitable product has been established, both manufacturer and end-user can implement a quality control program utilizing baseline data from the impact performance tests to provide ongoing process validation and quality control.
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Global Action Week - May 2-8, 2011
Millions of children and adults around the world can't read or write and will never reach their full potential because they have never been to school. Every year the Global Campaign for Education organizes Global Action Week to draw attention to the millions of children, youth and adults who cannot realize their human right to receive a quality education.
Global Action Week celebrates the anniversary of the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar where the Education for All (EFA) goals were affirmed.
The focus of Global Action Week 2011 is the plight of millions of girls and women from underdeveloped and developing countries who do not have access to quality education. Investing in a girl's education is an investment in a more prosperous future – not only for girls, but for entire communities and countries. Study after study shows that investing in the education of women and girls can reduce poverty, stimulate the economy, and lead to better health and nutrition outcomes for women and their families. And yet, more than half of the world's nearly 70 million out-of-school children are girls.
What You Can Do
Here are five ways you can participate in Global Action Week:
JOIN the Blue Ribbon Campaign
- Print out the Blue Ribbon Campaign ribbon sheet (3 ribbons per sheet).
- Sign your name in support of providing access to quality education in developing countries or ask students to write why going to school is important for all the world's children. Tape or staple ribbon to make a chain of paper ribbons.
- Send your chains to Washington, D.C. by April 18, 2011 to be included in a giant chain of blue ribbons from schools across the United States that will be displayed during Global Action Week. Send your chains to:
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SPREAD THE WORD on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media sites.
TAKE ACTION! Sign the petition calling on the President Obama to made education a development priority.
TEACH the Lesson for All in your classroom or community to raise awareness of the Education for All goals and help mobilize the public to create political will in the United States and internationally to improve education for children around the world. Access the Lesson for All teacher toolkit online or download the toolkit here (PDF, 734 KB, 22pp).
SHARE your photos and videos of students making Blue Ribbon Chains or ask students to send a video message to Congress on why they support access to quality public education and making Education for All a reality. Flickr site will be available after April 18, 2011.
"The Lesson for All is a much-needed resource to engage American students and educators in the global campaign to achieve Education for All. Our collective action can play a critical role in improving women's and girls' access to education, career opportunities, and economic independence in developing nations. Together we can make a difference by opening school doors to millions of children and giving every child the chance and hope in life that an education brings."
—Dennis Van Roekel, President, National Education Association
- Global Campaign for Education - U.S. Chapter (GCE-US)
- GCE-US Blue Ribbon Campaign
- Lesson for All: Teacher Toolkit
- Global Education Resources
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I am returning this jacket. It is a bit too small and a completely different color than I thought it would be. The material is decent but not what I expected. It is unfortunate that I have to order my clothes from an online site but I can't find pants, skirts, etc anywhere else that are long enough for me. I really wish that long tall sally would open more retail stores so that I could try on my purchases and not have to order online.


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If you follow Corey Simms or his dad, Jeff, on Twitter, it's clear that today, June 7, is a big day in the Teen Mom community. It's Corey's (second) wedding day! He is going to wed his gorgeous fiance, Miranda Patterson, tonight in West Virginia. And when we say gorgeous, we mean it. Look at her!
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Now that Corey's ex, Leah Messer, is happily married to Jeremy Calvert (and they even have another daughter, Adalynn, together!), we officially could not be happier for Corey that he's found someone too. And someone who the girls seem to love. She's adapting to step-mom life already, that Miranda.
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Opinion recap: A warning about competition
The Supreme Court labored on Tuesday to indicate that it was not making new law on when state and local governments can gain immunity from federal antitrust law when they let someone else act as a public proxy and competition suffers, but it did come up with a tightened legal formula. If a set-up to perform a public task, like providing hospital care through private entities, will harm competition, the Court said in Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, it is not enough to gain immunity if the harm to competition was "foreseeable." The state must do more to show that it sensed that the harm will occur, and that it has given an indication that it endorses that effect.
The decision, though, was somewhat opaque. On the one hand, the Court indicated that it was relying upon past precedents which had said that, to gain immunity for an anti-competitive public activity by a proxy agency or entity, a state legislature need not say — in so many words — that it intends to achieve harm to competition. On the other hand, the new formula said that "the state must have foreseen and implicitly endorsed the anti-competitive effects as consistent with its policy goals." It did not spell out with specificity what a legislature must do either to show that it sensed the harm that is in the offing, or how it would endorse that "implicitly."
The Court provided some hint, though, about the first part of that test — the awareness of the threat to competition. The opinion said that a state can express that awareness by some showing that "the displacement of competition was the inherent, logical, or ordinary result of the exercise of authority" delegated by the legislature.
A further complication in Tuesday's ruling was the Court's treatment of a 1985 opinion, in the case of Town of Hallie v. City of Eau Claire. In that decision, the Court had said that state-action immunity applies if the harm to competition was the "foreseeable result" of what the state legislature had authorized its proxy to do. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in fact, had applied that very analytical approach in finding immunity in this case.
Reacting, the Supreme Court said that the Eleventh Circuit had applied that test "too loosely." The opinion went on to say that mere foreseeability "falls well short of clearly articulating" a state policy to let a proxy displace competition.
What was fundamentally at issue in the new case was what is called the "state action" exemption to federal antitrust prosecution. In a 1943 decision, Parker v. Brown, the Court ruled that Congress in passing antitrust laws did not intend to restrict state governments in how they run their own, more local economies. So, when state action is present, anti-competitive conduct is allowed "as an act of government."
In later decisions, the Court has said that the state also can transfer that immunity to local governments, or even to private organizations or businesses, when it designates them to perform public tasks. The Court, though, cautioned in its new decision that "given the fundamental national values of free enterprise and economic competition that are embodied in the federal antitrust laws, state-action immunity is disfavored." Presumably, the new, somewhat more restrictive immunity formula was designed to reflect that sentiment.
The decision came in a case in which the state of Georgia had given local governments the authority to set up "hospital authorities" that would be designed to improve the delivery of health care to poor people in the state. An authority cannot operate on a for-profit basis, but it can take a corporate form and, as such, has the right to engage in many forms of ordinary business behavior, including entering contracts, engaging in building projects, or acquiring hospitals.
Under that state program, the city of Albany and surrounding Dougherty County set up a hospital authority. It bought, and operated for a time, the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany. The authority created two private corporations, both bearing the Phoebe Putney name. The hospital was leased to the parent of those corporations under a one-dollar-per-year lease. About two miles away from Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital was another institution, the Palmyra Medical Center. The Phoebe parent bought control of Palmyra, and the hospitals were merged. The result was a monopoly in the county over acute-care hospital services. The arrangement had been worked out largely by the private entities, with very little supervision or input from the local hospital authority.
The Federal Trade Commission objected to the arrangement, claiming it would stifle competition for such services in Dougherty County. The Commission sought to block the merger. A federal judge refused to stop the arrangement, concluding that the Georgia legislature had clearly spelled out an intent to displace competition through local hospital authorities, and that conferred immunity on the local entities involved in the deal. The FTC took the case on to the Eleventh Circuit, but it, too, ruled that the arrangement was insulated from antitrust inquiry under state-action immunity, concluding that harm to competition was the "foreseeable result" of the legislature's program of setting up proxies to run hospitals, with the power to acquire other hospitals.
The FTC took its challenge on to the Supreme Court. Two issues were at stake: whether the legislature had expressed its intentions clearly enough in allowing hospital proxies to operate in anti-competitive ways, and whether the local hospital arrangement did not have immunity because the hospital authority had played too little a role in the merger of the two hospitals. The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, answered the first, and thus said it would not rule on the second. The Court concluded that the state legislature "has not clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed a policy to allow hospital authorities to make acquisitions that substantially lessen competition."
The practical impact of the decision on the already-merged hospitals was unclear. The Eleventh Circuit had allowed the arrangement to go through, but the Sotomayor opinion noted that the case would be returned to the district court to proceed — presumably, without an immunity shelter for the hospital arrangement. The district court, the Court said, has the power to block the combined hospitals from "taking actions that would disturb the status quo" and prevent a final ruling on the FTC's challenge.
This decision, in plain English:
Federal laws, dating back to 1890, generally seek to promote business competition, on the premise that this protects consumers from the harmful effects of monopolies, including inflated prices and other limits on consumer choice. Such laws also seek to keep the free-enterprise system functioning in an economically health way. The focus of those laws is not on protecting competitors, but on protecting competition. But seventy years ago, the Supreme Court had ruled that Congress, in passing those laws, did not mean to block state governments from entering into business operations, as a way of pursuing their policy goals. If the resulting operations interfere with competition, state governments — unlike ordinary private business companies — would not be subject to antitrust prosecution, if it is clear that the operation is in fact serving public policy goals. That was a tribute to the states as responsible for their own local economies.
In more recent years, the Supreme Court has decided that state governments can actually choose private business firms to act as their proxies in conducting such policy-fulfilling operations. If such an arrangement harms competition, then the proxy entity is not subject to antitrust prosecution, on the theory that it is doing the state's functions and thus helping to achieve policy goals.
The case decided by the Court on Tuesday involved a question of what a state had to do to confer antitrust immunity on such a local business proxy. The issue was tested in a case in which a local government "hospital authority" had allowed two private hospitals in Albany, Georgia, to merge, thus gaining a virtual monopoly over in-hospital patient treatment services. The Federal Trade Commission, one of the two parts of the federal government that enforce the antitrust laws, challenged this arrangement. It contended that the state of Georgia had not done enough to make the local hospitals' operation a genuine proxy for the state, and thus the virtual monopoly in hospital services was an antitrust violation.
The Supreme Court did not settle the case in a final way, but it did rule that the state of Georgia had not done enough to confer legal immunity on the hospital merger. The case now goes back to a federal trial court to sort out what happens to the hospital arrangement.
Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, Opinion recap: A warning about competition, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 19, 2013, 5:36 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/02/opinion-recap-a-warning-about-competition/


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Digital Signature for Adobe Acrobat/Reader plug-in can be Forged.
Get the details here.Adobe Acrobat Reader supports plug-ins, i.e. additional modules that extend the functionality of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader; plug-ins SDK and plug-ins certification (signing) mechanism are provided. By design, Adobe Acrobat (and Reader) should load only digitally signed plug-ins, while the key (for signing) is provided by Adobe itself -- to developers who has signed a special agreement with Adobe. Besides, some plug-ins is signed by Adobe using their own private Key, and there is a 'trusted' mode in Acrobat, when only Adobe-certified plug-ins is being loaded.


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Benefits of Group Fitness Class and Individual Fitness Training
Group fitness classes are exploding in popularity. From bootcamps to barre classes, many people are taking advantage of the competiveness and team aspect that classes offer. Personally, I am a big fan of group classes. I have found that I tend to push myself harder when I have other people watching me. For some, group fitness is the way to go, while others get the most out of working out on their own. Let's take…Read More


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Slacktivism vs. Judgmentalism
Amber Van Schooneveld:
We've all seen the videos, from your neighbor to Gwen Stefani dousing themselves in a bucket of ice water to raise money for ALS. And with the success of this grassroots campaign, some are crying foul or, rather, "Slacktivists!"
The idea behind "slacktivism" is that people make a minimal effort for a good cause and feel like they are doing something grand, while all they are really doing is lazily posting a link or promoting their own abs in a wet T-shirt contest parading as charity.
As a writer for a non-profit, I think a lot about the best ways we can motivate people to generosity. I genuinely dislike the term and concept of "slacktivism" for many reasons.
Redeemed to Perpetuate the Name
Jared Wilson:
Boaz is that rare man who does things because God is real (Ruth 3:13). So behind and within all of his provision and care for Ruth is the desire to glorify God. We see this even in his expressed motivation upon winning Naomi's land and Ruth's hand from the redeemer with first dibs. He says he has purchased them to perpetuate the names of dead relatives. Clearly Boaz is a "worthy man" (Ruth 2:1) and not just in the sense of financial means.
Ferguson and my white-looking son
Trillia Newbell:
My son may never experience what many young black boys and what most black men inevitably do. He will be treated as a white male. He has a privilege that many biracial children do not have (not being judged by the way he looks) because he looks like a white boy. I find myself constantly in an interesting position. I have a son who is essentially white. He has both a black and white parent, but he looks white. And so I think through a different lens about my children than many of my black brothers and sisters. I wonder what the world will be like for him as a child who could pass as white grappling with the injustice and continual racism against those who look like his mother. But as I've watched the outcry of many for the tragic loss of a young man, Michael Brown, I also wonder if my son will feel fearful, isolated, and alone.…
I find myself mourning the loss of a young man I've never known, grieving over the police and the looting and the racist undertones of comments found throughout social media, and thanking God that in time he will make all things new. And I'm processing this issue for young black boys and my young white-looking boy.
And here are my fears.
The Danger of 'Measurable Outcomes'
Os Guinness:
If the danger of the tyranny of numbers was evident in the 19th century, how much more so is it today? We are in the age of gargantuan numbers, truly instant information, ceaselessly hyperactive social media, when the worldwide web has become a flood-driven Niagara of raw, uninterpreted information and emotion that pounds down on us by the minute with its ceaseless roar and its drenching deluge. Who can hear themselves think, let alone make sense of it all with genuine reflection and seasoned judgments?
No wonder it is tempting to give up and go with the flow, rushing along with the crowds and swept past the best as we chase after the most. It is all too easy to get caught up in the sensational and forget the significant. Those who make this mistake miss the important for the urgent and become attuned to popular approval rather than divine authority. They count opinions rather than weigh them. The imprimatur they covet is to be called "in," "cool," "relevant," or better still, one of "the hundred most influential" or part of a new "emerging majority." For heaven's sake, read anything and everything that is "in" at the present moment. But we must pray always and unceasingly that we are never, God forbid, "out of fashion" or fear being caught on "the wrong side of history."
I forgive you, but please don't call it 'giving grace'
Megan Hill:
What should I do when my husband forgets to buy milk on the way home from work? When my kids leave their new bikes out in the rain? When fellow church members are curt or critical on Sunday mornings?Increasingly, I hear the godly action in these scenarios described as "giving grace." And, while I wholeheartedly applaud heart-motivations of love, and God-glorifying acts of mercy, words still matter. When I hear Reformed people urging me to give "grace" to others, I question whether this is the right use of that precious word.
Holding Fast to Jesus like a Teething Baby
Jeff Medders:
Watching Oliver clutch my shirt, whimpering from all of his teeth coming in, I saw myself in that moment, clinging to Jesus. Ollie needs comfort. He craves security. Are we beyond that? No way.
Oliver can only hold on to me because I'm holding on to him.
We can hold fast to Jesus because Jesus is holding us.