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For 17 years, Wendy Walker stood solid in the shadows while Larry King thrived in the spotlight. As the senior executive producer on "Larry King Live," Walker was there for nearly every newsmaking interview and helmed one of the most successful news programs in history.
But that's just the latest chapter of a career that started more than three decades ago at ABC. In the intervening years, she has seen it all and is finally telling her story in her new book, "The Producer."
Read an excerpt from the book below, and then head to the "GMA" Library to find more good reads.
Chapter 1: Freaking Out Is Not an Option
My alarm clock woke me at 5:30 a.m., as usual. It was still dark outside as I reluctantly pulled back the covers, got up, and headed for the bathroom to wash my face and get ready for a new day. The digital readout on my clock told me it was Thursday, June 25, 2009, and I felt like I had a jump on the day.
The night before, when I went to bed, my staff and I had booked what I thought was a diverse and interesting Larry King Live show for tonight. I knew from experience over many years that if breaking news occurred anywhere in the world, we could and would shift our plans in an instant. That's always the case in the news business. But I was hoping for an easy day as I headed into my home of?ce off my bedroom to check my e-mails. They were arriving fast and furious since it was a little after 8:30 a.m. on the East Coast. I scanned my incoming box quickly and checked last night's ratings.
I love living on the West Coast, and in the blush of a promising summer sunrise, I scanned the wires and various reports from my East Coast staff to con?rm the morning headlines.
Then I went back to my e-mails. My production staff of forty across the country were streaming information to me from everywhere and would continue to do so—to the tune of at least two thousand e-mails daily. I know how impossible that sounds, but it's true.
Imagine taking a half-hour walk or driving a kid to school in the early morning and having more than two hundred new e-mails waiting when you get back home. That's how it is with me, as I scan thousands of e-mails every day, eliminating what I don't need and making sure I respond to what is necessary and hopefully not deleting something important.
While I started answering the messages, my staff kicked in. They do myriad jobs that are all important; it's the old it takes a village concept. Since ten of the forty producers are bookers, when we decide in which direction the show will go that night they make the calls and do the intense work of booking the guests. When we were in the midst of reporting the deadly earthquake in Haiti in February 2010, for example, we had to decide who we wanted to interview concerning a massive world tragedy. Everybody got on board with ideas and suggestions, and we came up with names.
Among our staff, one producer is assigned strictly to knowing all the books that come out and which authors might be right for the current show. Two producers are in charge of the ?fteen-minute water cooler stories, such as local tragedies that include people who are not normally in the news, which is how the Scott Peterson case began. Another producer handles celebrities and their agents and publicists. There are political bookers who work with Washington and the White House, and all of them have their A list: people we would have on at any time, such as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt or a sitting president.
In other words, we are always working simultaneously on whatever is going on today, the rest of the week, and way into the future. While we do this, one of the editorial producers does the research for the open of the show: Larry is extraordinarily well- versed since he watches news all day long, but he still needs speci?cs. So one producer writes the open, others produce the video components, and still others are in charge of the live show. That includes satellites, audio, graphics, phone calls, the rundown, content, remote locations, and breaking news during the show. There are publicists, cameramen, makeup artists; everyone is doing his or her individual job to create a live show.
And so each job is a piece of the whole, like a set of dominoes. It all has to ?t together in harmony because if one domino goes down, so do all the rest. Everyone has to know what everyone else is doing, and we perform this intricate dance every day, all day long. If the show changes suddenly in the middle of the day, which happens very often, we start the process all over again, with less time and more scurrying around. But we always get the job done.
So far so good for this particular day. It seemed that Larry King Live would go forward as planned. On our roster, we had conservative Ann Coulter, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, and Elizabeth Edwards, who was struggling with inoperable cancer and her ex-senator husband's stunning in?delity. I thought we might include some information on Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina who was also embroiled in an extra-marital scandal, so the show was off to a solid start.
I gave the go-ahead to check into the availability of Governor Sanford and a few others, but as executive producer I had to keep in mind that Barbara Walters was airing an ABC special about ailing actress Farrah Fawcett that night. In her advance publicity for the special, Barbara had suggested on Good Morning America that Farrah, who was struggling with the last stages of cancer, might not make it through the day. It sounded a little presumptuous on Barbara's part, but the actress had supposedly been at death's door for quite a while. If she died today, I would have to change the show. That was par for the course. I often changed the focus of a show when we were in the planning stages, since I had to respond to what was going on in the world at each moment. But I hoped I didn't have to.
I was in the middle of the morning booking call when, at 9:28 a.m., a ?ash showed up on my computer. Farrah had passed away. Barbara had been right and we had some adjusting to do.
Adjusting on a moment's notice is what this job has constantly demanded during the past seventeen years. Now we were facing the death of a beloved actress and we had to change the show. We did an about-face. There was no doubt that the show we originally planned was out. It was tough since we had to start from scratch again, but I didn't freak out. That would have taken up too much time and wasted too much valuable energy. We would replace show number one with show number two, which would be devoted to Farrah's death. We all got on the phone to reschedule our guests (we never cancel; we always reschedule) and round up the appropriate people for the tragic new show.
When a show suddenly turns on its head because something important supersedes our plans, each moment is crucial and we are ?lled with anxiety as we are required to book a whole new show in a very short period of time. It's not unusual for me to be ironing out the wrinkles of a show well into the late afternoon, which is edgy since we air at 6 p.m. on the West Coast. By the end of a day like the one I was presently facing, I have generally made hundreds of decisions, and the only way to do that is to remain calm. That would be the case today, I realized, reminding myself to breathe as we began drawing up lists of guests who knew Farrah, as well as checking their availability. Dreams of a simple day ?ew out the window as we began to prepare for show number two, but I had no idea how crazy the day would turn out.
Before I got back on the phone, I shot off an e-mail to my friend Lisa Ling, special correspondent for CNN, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her sister, Laura Ling, and a colleague, Euna Lee, had been detained in North Korea since March 17, 2009, for entering the country without a visa. They had been covering a controversial story on human traf?cking, and on June 8 the women had been sentenced to twelve years of hard labor, having been found guilty of the "grave crime" of illegal entry into North Korea, even though they were told by their guide that it was safe to do so.
Lisa had been working day and night to try to bring her sister home, and we had booked her, her parents, and the husbands of the two detained journalists on the show to make a public appeal. I recall being very careful to accentuate Lisa's needs rather than making the show what we wanted it to be during that hour she talked with Larry. This was all about getting the women back, which overrode our desire for good ratings. All of Lisa's pleas and maneuverings needed to be handled with great delicacy because of how political and disturbing the situation was. I couldn't imagine how she was getting up in the mornings, so I e-mailed her daily, asking about her progress and if there was anything I could do. This morning, I wrote:
Hi. Have you heard anything more? How are you holding up?
Lisa wrote back:
Hey, Mama. [That's what she calls me.] I'm about to lose my mind. This is so frustrating. I'll be ok, just venting about bureaucracy...
Back to Farrah. Time was ?ying by as we contacted various principals in her life and tried to book them. So far, we had gotten Dick and Pat Van Patten, Candy Spelling, Joan Danger? eld, and my dear friend Suzanne Somers. It was coming together, but I stopped for a moment when a provocative e-mail landed in my in-box. The popular TMZ Web site, a huge leader in entertainment news, had posted the following information:
1:44 p.m. We've just learned that Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Los Angeles... we're told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance.
Oh, no. What was this? Please! I e-mailed the staff member who had sent it:
1:45 p.m. We might have to do something on this. Check it out please.
I got on a conference call with several of my producers while one of them phoned Jermaine Jackson, Michael's brother, to ? nd out what he knew. She sent me this:
1:47 p.m. I'm on with Jermaine's wife right now. They had no idea.
I immediately e-mailed Lisa Gregorisch, my close friend and executive producer of Extra. She always got the celebrity breaking news fast and we often validated our information with each other.
1:48 p.m. I am sure you know this. An insider just told me that an ambulance just went into the compound of Michael Jackson's home. No details or for what reason or for whom. Minutes ago, the ambulance just left Michael's home with sirens sounding.
Lisa wrote back:
1:49 p.m. Yes, it could be cardiac arrest.
My staff continued booking the show about Farrah and I told them to keep Larry off all press calls, at home and on his cell phone. We had to find out the truth about Michael Jackson before he said a word to anyone. What if Larry answered his phone, was asked a question, and made a comment that was not true? When I was sure Larry would not answer any calls, I placed a call to criminal attorney Mark Geragos, a regular on our show and a former lawyer to Michael. "Mark," I said, "we're hearing that Michael Jackson might be very sick. Or dead."
Mark said he would check it out. Five minutes later he called me back. "I've been told he's dead," Mark said, "but they're not confirming it yet."
What should we do about the show? It was a tough call, but my gut told me this was more than a rumor, partly because I knew that Geragos had reliable sources inside the LAPD. It was after 2 p.m. when my staff and I started booking an alternative show, just in case the rumors were true, which was looking more and more likely. Show number three would feature the deaths of both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. It's hard to book a show when you don't know if someone is alive or dead. Imagine the sensitivity required in asking someone to come on the show "if and when" their loved one dies. Or if he has already died. And still, we had to do it.
My anxiety was at a high pitch when we had four hours left and we weren't even sure what we were going to do that night. I could lose my composure, which would waste precious time, or I could follow my gut, which told me that a tragedy of some sort was occurring around Michael Jackson. I had come to trust my intuition after so many years of depending upon it, and besides, I reminded myself, if it was a rumor, why would it still be circulating this many hours later? I felt the immensity of the situation. If Michael was really dead, similar to the deaths of Elvis and Marilyn, it would touch everyone on an international level. But we had to find out the truth quickly so we could put together the right show.
At 2:50 p.m., we got another e-mail from the TMZ Web site:
We've just learned that Michael Jackson has died. He was 50. Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived, Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back. Since it was TMZ, a celebrity and gossip entertainment site, it was still considered a rumor, but it was getting much too real to ignore. Should I continue to book guests for Farrah as well as Michael? There was no one to ask, so I made a quick decision. While the buzz about Michael's death continued to escalate, I sent out the following e-mail to my staff:
3:08 p.m., PST. Assuming the news is true, we will be going live at 9 and possibly at midnight. Concentrate on Michael Jackson... it is a bigger story because it is a shock. Do not book any more guests for Farrah unless they know Michael. It is about Michael. Show number four was in the works, and the first order of business was to confirm that the rumors of Michael's death were true. Each of us made calls depending on whom we knew best. I called back Mark Geragos, who was getting the news from his sources. All of my producers and I were working in tandem with the network since they needed to get a production truck to the hospital and Jackson's home as we contacted every friend, colleague, and business associate of Michael's, putting out an APB on the guests we were trying to book at the last minute.
The hour was late and we were working on booking a long list of people when I pushed back from my desk, feeling light-headed. When was the last time I ate? I hadn't been this immersed in a story since Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his wife and his unborn child. I walked into the living room to second my daughter sitting on the couch, reading a magazine. Walker was on the floor beside her. "I'm pretty sure Michael Jackson is dead," I told them. "This is a moment you'll never forget."
I remembered exactly where I was when John Lennon, Marilyn Monroe, President Kennedy, and Princess Diana had died. I knew that if Michael really was gone, this was the same kind of monumental loss that would send the entire world into collective shock. But I had a show to book. I returned to my office and got back on the phone, so far removed from where I'd been when I woke up that morning, it was hard to believe it was the same day.
In the next half hour, the Los Angeles Times reported:
Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at the hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told the Times.
It wasn't long after this bulletin that I was e-mailed a photograph of Michael's head, presumably dead. The photographer wanted money for it. He was wasting his time. Soon after, CNN made the announcement that Michael had died. Now it was official.
I dove headfirst into the business of finding out who knew Michael best and who we could get on the show in just a few hours. Show number four was in full production mode, and still, I had to do my regular job when a crisis arose about something else altogether. An executive producer wears a lot of hats, and it seemed that Billy Ray Cyrus had been on the show June 12 and had concerns about his segments. It was a rare occurrence when a guest was less than satisfied—I couldn't even remember the last time—so I wrote Billy Ray an e-mail to the effect that I was a little busy with the current breaking news but I wanted to apologize. I followed that with a short explanation of what had occurred and why. In essence, I took the blame, fell on my sword, and sent the e-mail.
It's a good idea to avoid blaming the other guy. If you made a mistake, just admit it. It might feel uncomfortable at the time, but owning your mistake will make you look a far sight better than coming up with a lame excuse that nobody believes anyway. For this very intense moment in time, it worked with Billy Ray. I got an e-mail straight back from him, saying he couldn't believe that on a day that two icons had died, I was still concerned about him. He thought that was amazing and he wrote, "We'll always have this moment of sharing the tragedy of the death of Michael Jackson. He was so important to me and I am so sorry."
I exhaled. Back to the work at hand. My staff had the tough and highly delicate job of letting the Farrah people know that we were preempting her for the death of a more famous and celebrated star than the woman they loved so well. Then an e-mail arrived from Lisa Ling. One would expect her to be completely wrapped up in advocating for her sister, but she was caring enough to have moved outside of her own tragedy and thought of me:
I don't know if you know this, but Deepak was very close to Michael.
This was news to me. I shot out a thank-you e-mail to Lisa and got Deepak Chopra on the phone. I knew Deepak well, I respected him and his opinions, and he agreed to appear on the show the very next day. During that call, he stated to me in no uncertain terms, by the way, that he believed that drugs administered by licensed medical doctors had killed Michael. I scribbled down some of his comments as he told me that Michael had been taking a drug called Diprivan that was so powerful, it was only used in operating rooms. It created an effect that was about as close to dying as a person could get, and when someone was on the drug, they needed to be closely monitored in case they needed to be brought back from the throes of death. Deepak was furious at the doctors who he said he believed had administered such dangerous medications to Michael in his home without proper monitoring. He told me that Michael liked getting dangerously close to death and then brought back.
In a few minutes, Jonathan Klein, president of CNN, called me to confirm tonight's show and ask if we could run for a straight two hours with reruns at midnight and at 3 a.m. We agreed. This was a rare evening when I did not have dinner with my children. I stayed in my office and when Larry was ready to go on the air, we had booked enough star-studded guests, all stunned and upset by the death, to fill the show.
We started with Dr. Prediman K. Shah, Director of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Then we went on to singer-musicians Smokey Robinson, Céline Dion, Cher, Aaron Neville, Donna Summer, and J. C. Chasez. We had Tommy Mottola, former Sony music executive, Suzanne de Passe from Motown who had discovered the Jackson Five, and Shelly Berger, former manager of the Jackson Five. Larry also interviewed Kara Finnstrom, Ted Rowlands, and Richard Roth, all CNN correspondents, and Carlos Diaz, correspondent for Extra. Everyone had something to say.
We also had Thea Andrews from Entertainment Tonight.
KING: At the UCLA Medical Center, which is, by the way, a two-billion-dollar edifice, much of it named in honor of the late Ronald Reagan, Thea Andrews stands by. She's an Entertainment Tonight correspondent. Still crowds there?
ANDREWS: Many crowds, Larry. There are thousands of people here on all sides of the medical center. As you said, it's a huge facility. It takes up more than a whole city block. Getting here, trying to find your cameras was hard, because there are so many news people out here, thousands of crowds, helicopters buzzing overhead, and, of course, many supporters of Michael Jackson, many people devastated by this loss.
KING: What has the hospital said?
ANDREWS: The hospital has been mum. They haven't released a statement yet. What I can tell you is that ET has exclusively obtained the last photos of Michael Jackson, as he was being removed by paramedics from his home. As you heard earlier, it's very close to here, about six minutes away.
He was in full cardiac arrest. Paramedics attempted to revive him during transport here to the hospital, and they continued to attempt to revive him inside the emergency room. Obviously, they were not successful. But as you see the photo— I don't know if you have the photo up there, Larry. They're attempting to revive Michael. His eyes are closed.
KING: How did you get that photograph?
ANDREWS: I don't know, Larry. You'll have to ask my executive producer.
KING: That's a heck of a job of reporting. We'll be checking back with you.
Also that night, Larry interviewed Randy Jackson from American Idol, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and actor Corey Feldman. Two Jackson fans named Cheryl and Melvin came on the air, and musicians Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Sheryl Crow, and Kenny Rogers called in. It was an impressive lineup as we checked in with people from all over the country and the world who were devastated and shocked by the sudden death of the self-declared King of Pop.
Cher called in and said, "You know, I was just sitting here listening to you talk. And I'm having a million different reactions. Things that I didn't expect I would feel. When I think of him, I think of this young boy, that teenager that I first met. This adorable boy that I met who, you know, loved to look at my beaded socks. Yes, he was a great singer. You know, it's like God gives you certain gifts. And some people he gives different gifts, and some people he gives more gifts. And this child was just an extraordinary child, touched by this ability to have people feel him and feel people. And he just had that sense that you get, and you don't get it from a living person. You get it from someplace else. He had it."
Céline told Larry on the phone, "I am shocked like the rest of the world. It doesn't sink in right now. I'm overwhelmed by this tragedy. I have to say that Michael Jackson's been an idol for me all my life. I remember being in my house when I was very, very young and having his posters above my bed. He's been my idol all my life, I looked up to him, and my goal was to be maybe doing the same show business world as him."
And Liza Minnelli called in and said, "Oh, Larry, I couldn't believe it, honey. I got a call at two o'clock in the morning from a lawyer telling me that he's gone into cardiac arrest. They said he had been complaining of chest pains, you know? He changed show business. He hit with a force that was spectacular as he started to grow up. And then he grew and grew and grew. All the time. He grew all the time."
Talk about flying by the seat of our pants, we were actually booking guests while the show was on the air. Larry would say, "We just got this person on the phone," and he would launch into an interview with no preparation whatsoever. Michael's death finally felt real to me when I saw the live picture of the helicopter that was transporting his body to the morgue. And the news just kept on coming.
As the story unfolded, I noticed a rhythm that is often present when we are dealing with breaking news. It actually takes on a whole different feel than a prepared show has when you know exactly what you are covering and with whom. With breaking news, you are constantly getting new information and an energy takes over as the story unfolds in a natural way. That was the case with the Michael Jackson story as we began to let the incoming news items guide us.
Somewhere in the midst of all of this, I went to tuck my kids into bed. Then it was back to my office, but now I was using my large office in another portion of the house that had been converted into a state-of-the-art newsroom with a dozen screens that allowed me to check breaking news on all the cable and broadcast networks, national and international. The news about Michael was spreading fast all over the world, and global reactions were pouring in about the shocking and untimely death of this musical icon.
By 2 a.m. it was all over—at least for the day. This was a story that would not end with a single day of coverage or even a week. I knew it would go on and on as accusations of drug overdoses and finger-pointing at so-called unscrupulous doctors began to dominate the conversations, along with relentless reports of Michael's bizarre and unhealthy lifestyle. And then there were rumors about Debbie Rowe, one of Michael's ex-wives, the mother of his two oldest children.
I dropped into bed exhausted and amazed that, once again, I had made it through a day that dealt me so many dips and turns I should have gotten seasick. After all, I had awakened with one show in mind and had booked three more before Larry went on the air. I'd answered thousands of e-mails, much more than my usual number, I had taken care of my kids, and we had all done our jobs. And the show had gone on.
The next night Deepak was among our guests. Here is a segment of his interview, staggering in its directness and in Deepak's commitment to be the first person who dared to speak about this.
CHOPRA: In 1988, he [Michael] called me out of the blue and asked me to teach him meditation. I went to Neverland and we had a weekend together and became friends since that.
KING: What was he like?
CHOPRA: Magical. First time I met him, he was magic. He had a jukebox in his studio, with the traditional coins. So, we threw in a few coins and he said, choose the music. And I chose "Saturday Night Fever" and he started to dance...
KING: You complained, though, today about people around him. You've been very open and been critical of what?
CHOPRA: Well, in 2005, after the trial, Michael came and spent a week with me. And out of the blue he asked me for a prescription, knowing that I'm a doctor and I have a license, too. It was a prescription for a narcotic. I said, wait, why would you want a prescription for a narcotic? It suddenly dawned on me that he was getting a lot of prescriptions from a lot of people.
KING: Was he an addict?
CHOPRA: Yes, he was.
KING: Did people around him encourage that addiction?
CHOPRA: Yes, more so his doctors.
KING: Didn't he have migraine headaches, though? Wasn't he in a lot of pain?
CHOPRA: He was in pain. But there are many ways to manage pain. Even if you're on narcotics, there's a way to manage narcotics.
KING: Did he take a lot of pills and stuff?
CHOPRA: I know for a fact that he did. I saw bottles of OxyContin. I knew he was getting shots. I knew his doctors were enablers. What can I say? I confronted him many times with it. When I did, he would stop returning my calls until we changed the topic.
KING: Lisa Marie Presley, his ex-wife, writes on her MySpace blog that Michael once told her he was afraid he would end up like her father. Did he talk about that?
CHOPRA: He did... I'm discussing the problems in the medical profession which enables this kind of addiction. It's become a tradition in Hollywood.
KING: You're blaming the medical profession.
CHOPRA: Of course. There's a coterie of doctors right here in Hollywood that like to hang around celebrities. They perpetuate their habit. They make them drug addicts. We've got to really investigate this.
Deepak was the first to tell it like he believed it to be. When he went on the air and said what he did about the medical profession, people were enraged at him and they wanted to kill the messenger. But it came out later that Michael had had countless interventions that clearly did no good at all. And in the end, when Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael's primary doctor, was arrested for involuntary manslaughter, everyone had to admit that Deepak's suspicions may not have been unfounded.
Over the next few weeks, while we continued to cover this monumental death, it seemed as if a never-ending flurry of celebrities were dying. The list includes: David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, Robert Novak, Ted Kennedy, Dominick Dunne, DJ AM, and Patrick Swayze. We covered these deaths as best we could on Larry King Live, making sure we were honoring most of the people on this long list. In fact, the viewing audience tuned in to our show for that very reason. With so many deaths occurring and so much public grieving, they needed a place where they knew their favorite personalities would be given their due. That was how people looked at our show.
And yet, a piece appeared in Vanity Fair magazine, in September 2009, written by James Wolcott, criticizing Larry. In a snarky, critical tone, this writer called the show "the funeral parlor for the gods." He called Larry "America's chief mourner and grief counselor," and criticized him for "assuming the indispensable role of designated mourner to the stars, tollbooth collector at the last stop before the Hereafter, pallbearer beyond compare."
By the end, the author conceded that we needed Larry to help us get through these things. I suppose it was a backhanded compliment to have an entire article devoted to us in Vanity Fair, but the nature of the article was so negative, it implied we were doing it incorrectly. And then, this writer only referred to the deaths of Farrah, Michael, David Carradine, and Ed McMahon. What if he had waited until all ten celebrities were gone? What would he have said then? While we honored the rest of the people who had passed, should we have left out Teddy Kennedy? Or what about Walter Cronkite?
The truth is that millions of viewers have their eyes and ears trained on our show every single evening. When someone of importance in this country dies, the public assumes that Larry will have something to say about it. I take it as a compliment and a responsibility. These deaths were very important to the general public.
No matter what occurs and when, there is no crystal ball to tell us which direction we should take. There is no instruction book to turn to or anyone who has the answers. It's basically up to me and my staff, so we have to keep up with everything all the time to make the best decisions we can. We try not to second- guess ourselves. I go with my gut (it's usually all I have), I depend on my staff, and we book the best show we can produce. When it all looks impossible, I try to be the calm in the midst of the storm. Our reward is that each day, whether last night's show was great or mediocre, the palette is clean and we get to start all over again, a little wiser for what we learned yesterday. And a little bit more trusting of ourselves.
Freaking Out Is Not an Option
When you have to make an important decision and there are a variety of ways to go, the only clear path is to channel your intuition. Check in with your gut. We all have that intuitive gift to some degree. My psychic friends assure me of this, and I know it's true. Some people just have it honed better than others.
So, when the stress-o-meter hits ten, remember that losing your cool is not going to help or change the situation. When things get confusing and you feel frazzled and upset, try taking a deep breath and calming yourself down. Do whatever it takes to accomplish this. You may need to leave the room, sit in a quiet place with no music where you can't be disturbed, and take a moment to go inside yourself. Then ask yourself, What do I really want here? What feels right?
When you lose your temper and freak out, that behavior negatively impacts others and can throw them off their game. Clearly, we all need to learn from our mistakes, and that includes reviewing the things that did not work, but it doesn't make sense to upset the apple cart when you're standing in the middle of it. You can't stop in the midst of a situation to figure out what happened in the past, because you have to be present and look forward. Once it's over, you can take the time to figure out what went wrong so it won't happen again. But screaming and freaking out will only take you further away from your goal of working things out. Losing it will intimidate people and push them away, which is counterproductive to what you are trying to achieve. The truth is that no one wants to work with a screamer, and that kind of negative energy never does any good for anyone.
When you take some time to get in touch with your feelings and you can hear yourself think, consider both the short-term and the long-term repercussions of any decision you might make. Ask yourself, What will this decision mean to me tomorrow, five days from now, five weeks from now, or five years from now? No matter the nature of the decision you need to make, go with your intuition. If it feels right, go with it. If it doesn't, walk away.
I once knew a woman who had five psychics at the ready whenever she needed advice. If the first one didn't tell her what she wanted to hear, she called the second one, and so on. At the end, she was still confused and she had no ability to make her own decisions.
Not that you should be isolated and never check with anyone else. Sometimes after you make a decision that feels right, you might want to clarify by checking with a smart friend who really knows you, understands your situation, and absolutely will tell you the truth. For the most part, however, when you go inside and trust yourself, you'll be amazed at how much easier deci-sions become. When you stay calm and take all the elements into consideration, a confusing situation will generally turn out a lot better than you might expect!
This is an excerpt from "PRODUCER: Lessons Shared from 30 Years in Television" by Wendy Walker. Copyright (c) 2010 by Wendy Walker. Reprinted by permission of Center Street, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. All rights reserved.


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PORTLAND, Ore. >> Once their careers end, Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash will soon enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as among the NBA's best backcourt players in this past generation.
But will they play again this season?
Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni expressed doubt on Monday about that prospect. Bryant has played in six games and hasn't appeared since December because of a fractured left knee. He won't be re-evaluated until next week, and will likely need a couple of weeks practice before returning in a game. Nash has played in only 10 games, but hasn't healed the nerve irritation in his back and left leg after a collision with Chicago guard Kirk Hinrich nearly three weeks ago.
Though they haven't gone on many of the team's recent trips, Bryant and Nash's time with the Lakers in Portland on Monday isn't considered significant. Bryant traveled mainly because of his endorsements with Nike, whose headquarters are based in nearby Beaverton. Nash has only advanced to light shooting and dribbling drills without any clarity when he will practice.
Meanwhile, the Lakers have only six weeks left in the season.
"Does he get back and play some games to get his rhythm back for next year or just wait?" D'Antoni said of Bryant. "I don't know."
Would Bryant benefit from returning this season?
"Not really," said D'Antoni. He then estimated it would take 40 games to evaluate how Bryant meshed with his teammates, which are mostly young players on expiring contracts. Bryant averaged 13.8 points on 42.5 percent shooting, 6.3 assists and 5.7 turnovers through six games.
D'Antoni also downplayed the importance Nash plays this season.
"We're not going to make the playoffs. So what's his objective in taking minutes away from the young guys that we're trying to develop?" D'Antoni said. "If Steve starts to feel better, then we'll see. It's always an ongoing process in talking to him, but it's not something that's on the horizon."
Nash remains intent on returning.
"I couldn't really make a prediction," Nash said. "If I get a chance, it'll be great."
Nash also expressed openness toward taking a reduced role to accommodate the Lakers' evaluation process on point guards Kendall Marsall and Jordan Farmar.
"I'm totally up to whatever they want to do," Nash said. "That's fine."
Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said recently he wants Bryant to stay patient with his recovery since his two-year, $48.5 million extension keeps him with the team through the 2015-16 season. Nash's future appears more uncertain.
Nash could be waived by Aug. 31 through the stretch provision, which would allow the Lakers to pay the $9.7 million owed to Nash through three seasons and ensure only $3 million counts against their salary cap annually. The Lakers could keep Nash since his salary would be removed from their books following the 2014-15 season.
"I want to come back," Nash said. "I was in a place where I was instructed, 'Don't screw it up while we're not together. If you wait and can get enough time together, you'll get through it. Let's not go too fast here.' With the reality that next year is not guaranteed, it made me realize I had to take more risks with my training."
Kupchak said that "it's really his decision" on whether Nash returns next season.
"You never know what the case is in a month or two weeks physically from a club standpoint and from my standpoint," said Nash, who averaged only 7.6 points on 36 percent shooting in 22.5 minutes through 10 games with the Lakers. "When you're looking at potentially the last few months of your career, I didn't want that to slide by without getting back on the court. It motivated me."

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Syria agreed to release more than 2,000 prisoners in exchange for 48 Iranians held by Syrian rebels, in a deal that highlighted Iran's sustained influence over the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Farnaz Fassihi and Andrew Tabler report. Photo: Getty Images.
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Establishing a right to food
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the "right to food has been recognized since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948." Article 25 Part 1 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states that, "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (adopted in 1966) adds that the "States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions."
While traditional studies on food security were focus mainly on the availability of food in terms of agriculture and crops, in the 1990s a wider idea of food insecurity is accepted. And in 1996, the FAO organized the World Food Summit which recognized a "multidimensional nature of food security and includes food access, availability, food use and stability."
In "US Approaches to Food and Nutrition Rights, 1976-2008" Ellen Messer and Marc J. Cohen note some "two hundred additional UN instruments and declarations address the right to adequate food and nutrition within civil-political, economic-social-cultural, development, indigenous, women's, and children's rights constructions."
Despite increasing recognition of food security as a human right, the concept is not universally supported. Lidija Knuth and Margret Vidar note in the 2011 FAO publication "Constitutional and Legal Protection of the Right to Food around the World," [PDF] that "56 constitutions protect the right to food either implicitly or explicitly as a justiciable right, or explicitly in the form of a directive principle of state. In addition, through the direct applicability of international treaties, the right to food is directly applicable, with a higher status than national legislation, in at least 51 countries, thus reaching a total of 106 countries in which the right to food is applicable." Further, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights has been signed by 160 countries – yet 54 nations, including the U.S., do not recognize the right to food as a human right.
Who is responsible?
Even among those who support a right to food, there are a number of perspectives on who or what should be responsible for establishing food security. Some believe that the actions of market forces are the solution. There are also programs supported by governments, efforts by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and efforts by faith-based organizations.
Market forces
Market-oriented scholars believed that food shortages can be leveled out by market forces. As the International Fund for Agriculture and Development argues, "In a primitive economy, a household ensures its food security mainly through subsistence production. As the economy grows and markets develop for a variety of products, subsistence production is gradually replaced by production for the market."
However some contend that the market has failed to prevent food insecurity. In "Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of food, but also from inequalities built into mechanisms for distributing food. Sen also argued that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up.
The United Nations Economical and Social Council amended article 11 of the International Covenant On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as following: "the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. The right to adequate food shall therefore not be interpreted in a narrow or restrictive sense which equates it with a minimum package of calories, proteins and other specific nutrients. The right to adequate food will have to be realized progressively. However, States have a core obligation to take the necessary action to mitigate and alleviate hunger as provided for in paragraph 2 of article 11, even in times of natural or other disasters."
Many developed nations have international cooperation initiatives that support programs in the field of food security.
Feed the Future, for example, "is the United States Government's global hunger and food security initiative. It supports country-driven approaches to address the root causes of hunger and poverty and forge long-term solutions to chronic food insecurity and undernutrition. Drawing upon resources and expertise of agencies across the U.S. Government, this Presidential Initiative is helping countries transform their own agriculture sectors to sustainably grow enough food to feed their people."
The European Union has a Food Security Thematic Program (FSTP) that "aims to improve food security in favour of the poorest and the most vulnerable under a medium and longer term perspective and to lead to sustainable solutions. Based on Article 15 of the EU Regulation establishing the Development Co-operation Instrument (DCI), it addresses food security at global, continental and regional levels, complements the geographical programmes and comes to the fore where geographical instruments cannot fully operate."
Partnership between international organizations, states, and civil society
Although governments are most often held responsible for food security, it might not be feasible for all states, especially middle and low-income countries, to tackle the problem of hunger by themselves.
The right-based approach implies that to guarantee the right to food it is necessary to promote partnership between international organizations, states, and civil society, in order to promote all possible actions to promote access to adequate food for all.
The FAO Sustainable Development Department states "Potential partners span all sectors and exist at all levels of the global system. They range from inter-governmental organisations and international non-governmental organisations and business enterprises to village groups attempting to improve, for example, local irrigation management and even, a community's oldest resident, wizened by age and a lifetime's labour, yet the container for the experience and knowledge of this and former generations."
A number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), such as Stop Hunger Now, Oxfam have promoted initiatives to advocate for the right to food and implemented programs in support of people in need, as have faith based organizations (FBOs) such as Caritas International.
The Current State of Food Security Around the World
One might argue that very little in practice has been done to fight hunger. If there has been a remarkable development of the legal framework defining the concept of food as a human right, it is only in the 1990s that the international community started taking concrete steps towards the guarantee of such a right.
In 1996 FAO organized the World Food Summit, whose final outcome was the Rome Declaration and the World Food Summit Plan of Action. "The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015" and established mechanism to monitor progresses in the fulfillment of the proposed objectives.
Additionally, in 2004 the FAO adopted the Right to Food Guidelines to support States initiatives in defense of the right to food.
Finally, in 2000, the United Nations elaborated the Millennium Declaration, "189 nations made a promise to free people from extreme poverty and multiple deprivations. This pledge turned into the eight Millennium Development Goals." Actions to fight poverty and reduce world hunger were recognized and a world priority and put into the agenda of all UN Member States.
Nevertheless good intentions are not enough, and fulfilling right to food in practice is difficult both from a legal and practical way. The FAO "State of Food Insecurity in the World" Report states that "in 2011, 868 million people suffered from malnourishment, almost 2 billion people died for micronutrient deficiencies health consequences and almost 2.5 million children die every year for consequences of under nutrition."
Messner and Cohen explain that "(t)he U.S. government has consistently opposed formal right-to-food legislation, labeling it as overly burdensome and inconsistent with constitutional law."
In 2010 India considered establishing a constitutional right to food (See: "Should Food Be a Right for the Poor?") through socialist state-driven food subsides policies. Such a constitutional reform was may have been noble in its intentions, but could not be realized in practice.
Final Thoughts
Despite the challenges, we can find some reasons to be optimistic. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Millennium Development Goal number 1 set the objective to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. Even though due to the 2008 global economic crisis we are far from reaching the goal, most countries worldwide are on track and significant results in terms of reduction of food insecurity and mitigation of famine and food emergency have been put in place since the 1990s [PDF].
After long debates and slow, but constant improvement in the fight against hunger, a new approach is taking the stage: the idea of food sovereignty.
According to the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty,
"Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce, distribute and consume food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations. It defends the interests and inclusion of the next generation. It offers a strategy to resist and dismantle the current corporate trade and food regime, and directions for food, farming, pastoral and fisheries systems determined by local producers and users. Food sovereignty prioritises local and national economies and markets and empowers peasant and family farmer-driven agriculture, artisanal - fishing, pastoralist-led grazing, and food production, distribution and consumption based on environmental, social and economic sustainability."
Are we on the right track? Is the debate starting posing the right question to the problem looking for more effective and sustainable solutions?
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NASCAR's most popular driver began suffering headaches immediately after enduring a violent 25-car crash last Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. He crashed hard at Kansas Speedway during a tire test on Aug. 29th and that impact was later determined to measure 40 Gs.
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Codes PO 491 and PO 492 Secondary Air system
I've had the Check engine light on for the last 3-4 days and recently got the codes scanned at Schucks that say
PO491 Secondary Air Injection System Insuffiecient Flow (Bank 1)
PO492 Secondary Air Injection System Insufficient Flow (Bank 2)
I need help on trying to fix the problem myself before paying for a real mechanic. Any suggestions?
The car runs fine! Its a 2001 325xi wagon with about 34,000 miles.
I believe your seconday air injection pump has ..
gone bad. There was a post here a while ago with a picture of the air pump and in the pic the rivets that held it together had popped. The secondary air pump is located on the passenger side of the engine compartment just ahead of the strut tower - it is a round black can looking device that pumps air into the exhaust manifold for emissions purposes. It has a relay that engages it and valve of some sort where it pumps air into the exhaust manifold. Got this from the Bentley manual. Hope it helps DV
Another Possibility
I recently also had the PO492 code appear. Having had my secondary air pump fail on a '97 E39 I was fearing the worst (and a $200+ part!).
Turned out that the small black hose, 1/8 inch ID maybe, between the secondary air valve and the engine had hardened to the point of brittleness and had cracked. Replacing this hose seems to have fixed the problem.
I saw an earlier post where someone had replaced their secondary air pump and it did not fix the problem. You can see if the pump is running by having someone start a cold engine while you stand near the secondary air pump and listen (cylinder near the windshield washer fluid reservoir). Noise and vibration from the pump should be noticeable for a minute or so, after which is will shut off. In the case of my E39 (where it did fail) there was no sound upon startup.
Hope that helps anyone searching this topic in the future.
'03 325iT 99k miles.
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Thats exactly whats wrong, little black hose that wires off the secondary pump may have cracked behind the engine, tight in there, if it is indeed cracked pulled the old one off and if a tiny bit stays on the nozzle, take a piece of sandpaper and rub it until it comes off. This little error happen to me but I did notice the hose was getting brittle and I ordered the hose and by the time it got it the car had starting throwing codes for the Secondary pump. Replaced and situation solved
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PO492 PO491 codes
On My 330 2001, it also turned out that the small 3-4 inch black hose (1/8 inch) between the secondary air valve that runs next to the valve cover had hardened to the point of brittleness and had cracked needed to be replaced.
For anyone else that gets these codes it could the pump, the air valve the hoses or the electronic valve or fuses???
But researching these codes I found this great detailed expanation of how this system works:
Once you get fault codes, it does not automatically mean that you have to replace parts. The FC's simply mean that you have problems in the circuits mentioned(in your case the secondary air systems in banks 1 & 2). You still have to diagnose the cause of the problem before you replace parts if needed.
Sometimes you do not even need to replace anything(like when you just cut a vacuum hose with a loose end provided it still reaches its destination, or you just plug a connector that got loose).
Your problem is with the secondary air pump system(the system in general since it involves both banks). At cold engine startup, the pump runs for about a minute to provide extra air into the exhaust system so that unburned gases gets burned off in the catalytic converter as part of the emissions system.
The general overview of the system is this:
1) the pump is turned on by the engine computer (DME) at cold startup
2) the DME switches on the pump relay (usually found behind the glove box) which turns on the pump. The DME does its work properly when the 5 fuses in the main electronic box are not blown(the fuses are housed in a small box of 5 fuses). The small fuse box in turn is housed inside the big black box either on the left or right side of the engine compartment.
3) if the pump does not turn on at cold startup then there may not be power at the connector to the pump or the pump itself is bad (or the pump may turn slower due to low voltage supply or due to a bad pump motor); you can feel and hear the pump running it is at the right somewhat front area of the engine compartment
4) when running, the pump provides the air output thru a hose to a valve which is switched on by a vacuum switch solenoid (thru a small vacuum hose), usually the hose gets wornout and can no longer switch on the valve, sometimes the solenoid switch goes bad (this is at the left side rear end of the engine), sometimes the valve itself goes bad (you can test this by removing the valve, looking for free movement and functional testing by supplying vacuum to it)
5) when the valve is working properly, then the air supplied by the pump goes into the exhaust manifold and then the catalytic converter
6) the oxygen sensors before and after the catalytic converter monitors the situation during the brief span that the pump works (at cold startup) and then gives an OK or stores a fault as needed.
So you see, it is not a simple matter. But with the above data you can diagnose the problem and find out for yourself what the car needs. It can be a fuse, relay, valve, solenoid switch, vacuum hose, or pump. But definitely not 02 sensors.
That Brittle black hose
Does anyone have a picture of the hose that I hear gets brittle. I'm getting the same codes and do have a cracked hose exposing wires but not sure if they're the same ones others are speaking of. And my belief is replacing just the hose will cure problem? Appreciate the help.Reply With Quote 22.214.171.124
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You're in luck (sort of). I just replaced that hose.
Here is a picture of the secondary air injection pump - the large black cylinder. Below it (toward the front of the car) is a small silver and brass cylinder - the vacuum powered valve that's part of the secondary air injection system.
Here is a closeup of the valve. The brass nipple sticking out from the right of the valve connects to the vacuum line.
Lastly, here is the entire vacuum line removed from the vehicle:
Note that the line is really 3 pieces. At each end are two traditional soft rubber vacuum hoses. The long middle is harder plastic, presumably more durable than rubber. I didn't realize that and removed the whole thing, replacing the entire thing with all rubber. It's likely you only need to replace the two short rubber pieces at each end, and not the long plastic tube.
Both the rubber pieces broke off when I tried to remove them from their nipples. Additionally, there was a crack in the piece at the rear of the engine where it connects to the intake manifold (or really, some part of that giant vacuum complex that includes the oil separator). The crack was about 50% of the hose circumference and was causing serious idle problems and engine misfires.
To access the hose at the rear of the engine, you will need to remove the fuel rail cover (one of the two plastic decorative engine covers), plus the cabin air filter and it's housing. I'd strongly also suggest removing the insulating panel between the engine compartment and the brake booster vacuum reserve. Otherwise, it's very difficult to access the nipple where the hose attaches.
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Big ups to this post.
I have a 2001 325i and had trouble passing inspection. I just spent over 4k over hauling my suspension and was over due inspection by 1yr. After leaving the mechanic i drove directly to the inspection facility only to fail due to the readiness codes. Called my mechanic, who is very good, was informed to drive the car for ?? miles its possible sec air pump, or some o2 sensors which were both expensive jobs. I drove the car for approx 120 miles when the service engine light comes on. I go back to the shop to reset the codes and mileage. I was instructed to drive 75 miles and return to have the readiness codes checked, so i returned at 88 or so. The readiness codes had changed but not where they needed to be for the state inspection Iguess (texas). Was informed to drive home and back in the morning, if the light did not return, i was clear for inspection..... Cranked the car this morning, BAM...
So I began to research the forums and came here. Just a random check this morning to check the hose referred and it cracked in half form a slight touch. Viola!!
I had to post a reply here. Great job!!Reply With Quote 22.214.171.124
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