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Paul Verhoevens RoboCop was not a film that needed to be remade. With its countless memorable lines and scenes, over-the-top violence, and awesome, original sci-fi world building, the 1987 movie remains an action classic to this day (even if some of the effects cant compare to what modern Hollywood can do). Its a shame that this will always remain a strike against the new RoboCop from director José Padilha, because with the exception of a few detrimental flaws, the remake actually plays with some legitimately interesting, different ideas that come together to create an attention-worthy entry in the science-fiction genre.
Taking the original plot and making the proper adjustments to make the movie a closer extension of our own world, the film takes audiences to the year 2028, where one of the most controversial issues around the globe is the increased use of robotic drones in both war zones and city streets. With the American people split on the issue -- many fearing that drones have no morality or value for human life -- robotics manufacturer OmniCorp, led by CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton), is forced to explore a new avenue: putting a man inside a machine.
Enter Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), an honest Detroit cop, husband and father who is blown to smithereens with a car bomb after beginning an investigation into one of the most powerful crime lords in the city. With the help of the brilliant Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman), the company is able to save Murphys life by putting what remains of him into a robotic suit of armor. It seems the solution to swaying the American people has been found that is, until the executives and scientists begin to change the titular heros dopamine levels, emotions and free will, leading the experiment down a dangerous rabbit hole of incredibly important and dangerous ethical implications.
Unlike most remakes, which simply work with the originals themes and ideas without much alteration, Padilhas RoboCop is not only different, but actually quite smart. Like all the best sci-fi out there, the film is an entertaining, thought-provoking reflection on issues were dealing with in our contemporary world - namely drone warfare - seen from a different angle. Its handled both seriously (such as when Dr. Norton struggles with the ethical implications of changing Murphys brain chemistry when in Battle Mode) and in satire (namely through a pro-robot TV news show called The Novak Element, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson), and comes together as a smart conversation starter.
Its in expressing these thoughts and ideas that RoboCop stumbles like an ED-209 on a flight of stairs. The film dedicates an important chunk of its 108 minute runtime towards the building of the titular cyborg and Murphys emotional and physical journey through the process, and as important as that is, it winds up harming the storys pacing and structure, the audience left waiting for Murphy to finally depart his training facility and head on to the streets of Detroit. This problem compounds as the film falls into the trap of telling instead of showing. Possibly handicapped by the PG-13 rating, the movie constantly has characters talking about how dangerous the world has become and the importance of technological advancement in law enforcement, but fails to ever actually show the threats on the streets or what RoboCop is doing to stop them (which, naturally, has a deep impact on the action sequences, which are too few and far between).
Doing their part to fortify the film is what actually amounts to a terrific ensemble performance by the entire cast. Stepping into the shoes of Peter Weller, Kinnaman puts on an impressive leading man turn, really nailing every emotional moment for his complex character. Likewise, Oldman who really deals with the most important moral decisions in the plot creates Dr. Norton to be both sympathetic and human. Really stealing the spotlight at every turn, however, is Keaton, who both brings a fun charisma to Sellars while also capturing the pitch-perfect moral ambiguity of a classic 80s corporate villain.
The end of the film suggests a future for the new RoboCop as a series, and while that didnt exactly work out too well in the 90s, there is some potential here. For all of its deep flaws, the movie Padilha and screenwriter Joshua Zetumer have crafted puts down an interesting groundwork, taking an old idea in a new direction and actually having something to say. Its not Verhoeven, but its a start.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Author and poet Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.
Wake Forest University announced Angelou's death in a news release Wednesday.
She gained acclaim for her first book, her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," making her one of the first African-American women to write a best-seller.
In 1998, she directed the film "Down in the Delta" about a drug-wrecked woman who returns to the home of her ancestors in the Mississippi Delta.
She was the poet chosen to read at President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993. She wrote and read an original composition, "On the Pulse of Morning," which became a million-seller.
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While sitting down to a meal of goat cooked in a peanut sauce over a bed of fufu (a starchy thick paste made from root vegetables) with a fizzy soda made from coconut juice on the side may be normal in parts of Africa, it is definitely less so in central Kentucky. Sav's Grill hopes to change that by offering Lexington's foodies a place to sample West African cuisine – a type of ethnic food that has not become as ubiquitous as the fare of more traditional Chinese, Mexican, and Italian restaurants.
The interior of the restaurant is pretty simple – there is a bar, behind which you can see the various stew pots simmering, where orders are placed and picked up (the time between ordering and eating is minimal, as the food has been cooking all day and is pulled out of the pot and placed on your plate) and a smattering of booths and tables. However, while the interior is a bit simple, the owner seems to fill it well with his presence – always smiling and walking around to talk with the customers.
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Principal Investigator(s): Page Valentine
Affiliate Investigator(s): Frank Almeida, NMFS, Woods Hole; Jeremy Collie, URI
Information Specialist(s): Page Valentine
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments, Biological Field Study: Surveys, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Visual Identification: Species ID
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Benthic habitat studies in closed areas on Georges Bank and in Great South Channel.
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2000-10-30
End Date: 2000-11-09
Equipment Used: Grab sampler, P-code GPS, SeaBOSS, Camera- deep sea, ARGO, Digital camera
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 19 stations; 10 sediment/invert bio, 3 dredges, 16 video/photo.
Staff: Dann Blackwood, Sarah Fuller, Barry Irwin, Tammie Middleton, Joseph S. Newell, Kenneth E. Parolski, Page Valentine, Charles Worley
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Notes: Mobe on Thurs/Fri, Oct. 26-27; depart on Mon, Oct. 30. Demobe on Friday AM Nov. 9. Original Center People field contained: Page Valentine, Dann Blackwood, Sarah Fuller, Tammie Middleton, and Chuck Worley; Mobe: Joe Newell, Ken Parolski, Barry Irwin.
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What's the Deal with the New York International Independent Film and
Video Fest?
Anthony Kaufman
Highly criticized in a Village Voice article in October 1997, the six-year-old NY International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF) looks to be unfazed, having just completed its first event of '99 last January. When indieWIRE writer Dave Ratzlow was sent to cover the now tri-annual event last September, he discovered a whole range of opinions on the fest, from a few satisfied customers to a number of disgruntled participants, the most serious of whom was filmmaker Will Lyman who contacted indieWIRE alleging the festival forged a check in his name for $1,200.
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Lyman's expensive dealings with the NYIIFVF began when he received a phone call from the festival, wanting to see his short film, "Leaving the Post." Lyman submitted it and the festival called back and told him they wanted it. But the entrance fee was $300. Lyman says they told him that "Miramax and CBS had gone to a preview screening and were very interested in it." Seduced by the big names, Lyman paid the money and geared up for his New York debut.
Then Lyman received a second call -- regarding the festival's webpage services. The festival promised "a designer, a PR person that would put materials together, a coordinated plan of attack," says Lyman. The top package, which included a webpage on the fest's site for three years among other services, would cost the filmmaker $1,200, according to Lyman. Lyman admits that he initially agreed, in this second call, to purchase the package, but says he never mailed in his check. In fact, he claims that the person he spoke with told him, "You don't have to send us the check until we get it up and running."
Lyman went to the 11-day event and says he was sorely disappointed. The opening night gala, billed as an "Exhibition and Gala Celebration at Madison Square Garden" was actually held in the neighboring Garden Bar and Grill, according to the filmmaker. Although scheduled as a convention that also celebrated artists and sculptors, Lyman described it as "a total waste of time, because nobody comes and all it's filled with is jugglers and craftspeople."
While at the festival, Lyman explains he decided that if and when the festival organizers asked for their check, he would refuse. But he soon discovered that it was too late -- when he got back to his home in Boston, his bank statement showed a $1,200 debit. Soon after, he received from his bank a photocopy of the draft in the amount of $1,200 with a signature that wasn't his. It turned out that the signature belonged to NYIIFVF Executive Director, Stuart Alson.
Bank Boston, Lyman's bank, told the filmmaker that the debit -- called a "draft" -- was an accepted method of payment. However, although Lyman agreed to purchase the $1,200 package of services over the phone, he maintains that he never authorized a draft and has since had the bank cancel the $1,200 debit. Subsequently, Bank Boston refunded Lyman the money. Unfortunately, the whole process was repeated -- draft, withdrawal, cancellation, refund -- when a second $1,200 draft was cashed on his account. Lyman was then instructed by his bank to cancel his present checking account so that it wouldn't happen again.
indieWIRE verified with the Massachusetts and New York State Banking regulators that a bank may properly pay a draft (an order for payment) presented to the bank from a non-signatory of an account. A New York regulator further confirmed that a merchant may present such a draft, drawn on a consumer's account, so long as the merchant can prove their authorization to do so. Lyman maintains that he never gave written authorization for the process of the drafts, but the New York regulator indicated that phone authorization is often used by merchants to obtain permission for drafts. The burden of proof however, is on the merchant and the New York regulator indicated that a tape of the phone authorization, for example, would be acceptable.
Festival Answers Allegations
Festival Director Adam Zoblotsky, who says he handled the matter personally, says Lyman agreed to pay the money, but then later bounced his check. Zoblotsky says, "He paid over the phone with a check and then decided to cancel everything. He had a confirmation number, we had his account information, and most businesses do handle tele-check over the phone." Zoblotsky maintains that Lyman knew the transaction was taking place: "We agreed to it; he wanted booth space, I gave him booth space; he wanted a website, I gave him a website, and the guy just changed his mind. So he bounced a check and didn't pay for services rendered."
In a conversation with Zoblotsky following the September event, he responded to some questions about the generally high cost of those services, like expensive entrance and promotional fees. Zoblotsky insisted that no one was forced to pay anything above the $300 entrance fee. For higher-priced packages, filmmakers could receive, by Zoblotsky's account, a booth space at the Madison Square Garden event, the creation of websites or website links, trailers for the films (which are made on their own equipment and screened on monitors at the opening night), and additional promotion and PR for their films. Zoblotsky would not elaborate on the specifics of the festival's PR efforts.
When pressed about charging filmmakers an extra $300 for something as simple as linking a website, Zoblotsky justified the claim by stating their website offers "high visibility" for filmmakers. According to Zoblotsky, this visibility includes advertising the website on the Madison Square Garden Marquee, on the 7th and 8th avenue sides 3 times every hour, and the inclusion of the site on magazine advertisements, tickets, programs, and all promotional materials. Zoblotsky also said that the website, "depending on the season, gets between 10-15,000 hits per week."
Filmmakers's Testaments
Participating filmmakers in the Fall event offered a slew of differing opinions on the festival. Luciano Saber, producer, writer and star of the crime drama "Placebo Effect" considers himself one of the lucky ones to have gotten into the festival. "I was very satisfied with the festival. We had virtually a full house and I didn't expect that," he said. Immediately following the screening, he conducted half a dozen conversations with some press and producers and got quite a few business cards.
"At first, I was thrown off on how expensive it was to apply to the festival. I was aggravated," said Jim Kras, one of the producers of "Brokers." "But we definitely got our money's worth. After the fact, I couldn't complain." Kras explained that Stuart Alson helped the filmmakers get in contact with distributors, helped get people down to the screenings and got them an article in BackStage about the co-directors of the film, David Goldberg and Allie Dvorin. "I could definitely go to bat for him. He really took us under his wing," added Kras.
A publicist with recent experience at last Fall's event, however, felt sorry for the filmmakers who went to the NYIIFVF, without knowing what a "real festival" is like. "[NYIIFVF is] taking a lot of money from people who really don't have any," the publicist said. "It's a shame."
Jojoe Spaid, fresh from last month's January NYIIFVF, recently contacted indieWIRE with some concerns about the festival. Spaid, like Lyman, received a last minute call from Zoblotsky. "I was shocked by the hard sell," says Spaid. "Adam gave me a spiel about how I was a late entry, but I could still get the film in if I could pay him over the telephone. I did a really scary thing. I gave him my checking account number."
"Unfortunately, this festival serves a niche; it's a bottom feeder's festival," continues Spaid. "You need to know what you're getting into. And Adam and Stuart are not going to tell you. It's like a campaign of disinformation until you show up." However, Spaid explains, "If you can't get it screened anywhere else, okay -- 300 bucks and a lot of disorganization, and you have to be in charge of your film in riding Stuart and Adam, because they're probably going to shaft you when you're not looking."
The NYIIFVF website can be found at http://www.nyfilmvideo.com.
[Dave Ratzlow contributed to this article.]


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WBUR is remembering Sept. 11 through the stories of men and women from around Massachusetts whose lives were touched that day — those who lost loved ones, those who responded and those whose lives were affected in more unexpected ways.
Thomas Menino has been mayor of Boston for 18 years. On the morning of Sept. 11, 10 years ago, he was at a fundraising event at a florist shop in Brighton.
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I get a call from Police Commissioner (Paul) Evans, who was head of the Boston Police at the time, and I can remember him saying, "You better get back to City Hall." I said, "What's the matter?" He'd never said that before. He said, "A plane has just hit the World Trade Center." I said, "What?" He said, "Another one's going there." And I said, "Oh" — can't tell you what I said. Then I said, "I'm getting back there as quickly, meet me there."
So I immediately left the event, I explained to the folks there was an emergency and I went back to City Hall. And by that time the other tower was hit. And we're trying to figure out what's going on. Because we got these phone calls from the airport saying they didn't know how many planes left Logan Airport — two, four, six, they really didn't know — that went down to New York.
And that was definitely the toughest thing because everybody's looking to Boston, everybody thought I run the airport, I have no say in the airport, but all the news media is calling me and I felt useless because I couldn't tell you anything.
And so, you know, about two years before, we were asked by Washington to send some of my staff down to be trained for an emergency. I sent 78 of my top staff down there to be trained. And so I put them all together at the Eagle Room at City Hall and said, "What's our plan? You've all been trained." And I think we cleared about 1,400 hospital beds in a matter of hours.
You cleared out the hospital beds, fearing …
We didn't know where they were going — it could be the Federal Reserve Bank — who knows where they were going. Nobody knew, the president of the United States didn't know. So I wanted to make sure that we were prepared if something happened. We had to go to like John Hancock tower, Prudential tower and those places, clearing out the top floors. My wife, matter of fact, worked in John Hancock tower and she had to leave her office because of the threat of something happening.
Schools — do we let schools out, do we keep schools in? We kept schools in. People urged me to let the school kids go home. We'd have mass confusion out there. You know, so those are decisions you make. And some people didn't like that decision.
And also we had to try to get as much information as we could and calm the public because the public was really concerned that, you know, this never happened in America before. And also, there are Arabic communities out in West Roxbury, I went out and talked to them to reassure them we're still on their side, we're going to work with them, we're going to give them every protection we could — that's the most important thing you can do as mayor, you can't allow the city to be split.
Was there fear out there when you went to talk to them?
There was some fear. They didn't know what was going to happen to them.
Did you feel vulnerable?
As mayor, I had to keep my upper lip, I had to be strong, I had to show the public that I was in control. That weekend it was so strange in the city, nobody was out and I walked most of the city that day, just so people see that I was walking around. I went to three or four restaurants just to be seen, because people were staying home, they weren't leaving their homes, they were afraid to leave their homes.
It was very difficult, but that was my job. I had to stand up and try to reassure the public that we were in control, we never lost control of the city, but you have inner feelings, you have feelings for people, you knew a couple of those folks. One of the kids on the plane was a hockey linemate of my son's.
You know, you get off your public piece and then you go in your back room — two different pieces, two different pieces of you. Because you go in your back room and you just sit there and you pray and you wonder, would we be the next place that was going to be attacked? And you did that for about five, six, seven, eight minutes, then you have to go back out and face the questions of folks and I have to make sure that they know what's going on.
I've always wondered one thing about the city in the 10 years since, and that is how we seem to have avoided much in the way of feeling collectively guilty about the fact that two of the planes that crashed in New York and took so many lives came from our own city here. How have we avoided feeling guilty about that?
Well it wasn't the city who did it. It was the airlines, we had nothing to do with it, it was the airport. I don't know how we can be blamed for it. I mean, we should never feel guilty. We've got to feel sorry for the families that lost their loved ones, and I think collectively we do in Boston. And like Commissioner Evans said that day, our lives have changed forever.
How did it change your life?
Well, I'm more aware today of this issue of public safety. Like, over the weekend, the FBI says well, small planes might be used to do some attack. So that we have to (have) our Police Department watch certain properties in the city of Boston. You know, we don't go out and tell the public what's going on. But we're aware of these situations and we have to try to do the best we can to keep control.
And also we work together with the seven or eight cities and towns around Boston, we never worked together on security issues before. Every public safety leader should understand they've got to work together. Alone they will not survive. But I as the mayor have to do the best I can for the people of our city. And during 9/11 I did it, and I'll do it again tomorrow if I have to do it.


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I would like to express my disgust about the race for the 19th Congressional seat.
It seems to me that the message Julian Schreibman, D-Stone Ridge, is sending is that our current Congressman Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, is solely responsible for the troubles our area is facing.
Check the record. Gibson is the only congressman in recent memory who time and time again has crossed party lines and voted against the wishes of the parties he represents.
Gibson's record speaks for itself.
I suggest that Schriebman and his cronies Downstate check the record before they make unsubstantiated comments regarding the congressman.
Gibson is the right person at the right time to effectively continue to represent the newly created 19th District. As the saying goes, "Uou can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time." Schriebman certainly can't fool me.
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The start date for Marvel Studio's Runaways is coming in March, and the first cast member has now been announced. Actress Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) revealed to Essence (via SlashFilm) that she has been offered a role in the movie.
I've had a nice little break with the steady TV show [True Jackson, VP] but I'm definitely ready to do some more films again. I was just asked to join a new Marvel comic project called, Runaways.
Runaways follows a group teenagers with superpowers who go on the run when they discover their parents are part of a super villains organization called The Pride. A recent casting notice revealed the four female lead roles of the movie, and neglected to include that one of the roles, Nico Minoru, was Asian American, despite including that an African-American male was being sought (for the role of Alex Wilder). Marvel quickly corrected the notice in an effort to "stay true to the legacy and story of the comic."
What role Palmer will play is unknown, though SuperHeroHype speculates that she could be Karolina Dean in the movie.
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College Hockey:Kessel breakaway in final minutes advances Gophers to WCHA semis
Touminen playmaking not enough to extend season of Buckeyes
MINNEAPOLIS — In the postseason, small differences produce vastly differing fates.
On the strength of an Amanda Kessel dash from the offensive blue line, the Minnesota Gophers earned a 3-2 victory, a sweep of their best-of-three series, and a spot in the WCHA Final Face-Off, while the Ohio State University Buckeyes offseason starts immediately. The Gophers (25-8-2 overall, 18-8-2 in the WCHA) will face Minnesota-Duluth in one semifinal of the conference tournament on Friday.
For the second straight day, the Buckeyes (14-19-3, 8-17-3) fell behind early and had to battle back, this time getting the game squared at 2-2 on senior Shannon Reilly's power-play goal at 6:21 of the final period. However, Kessel's unassisted goal 10 ½ minutes later effectively ended their season as she made a move and opened up the five hole.
"Kind of getting a little nervous toward the end, any time in a close game," Kessel said. "I just saw the puck loose, and I'd missed a breakaway earlier, so it was nice to put it in."
Minttu Touminen was the catalyst behind the OSU counterattack. Her pesky forecheck on the penalty kill caused a turnover behind the Gopher net, and she was able to get the puck to Paige Semenza in front before goalie Noora Räty could get back in position. She also had the only assist on Reilly's tying goal.
"We played five pretty good periods of hockey; I'll take out last night's first period," Buckeye head coach Jackie Barto said. "I didn't think we played that poorly in the first period tonight. They got a couple behind Lisa (Steffes), but I thought the kids played hard and left everything out on the ice."
Sarah Erickson put the first puck by Steffes at 10:48 of the first period off of a Kessel dish. Erickson carried between the circles and whipped it by Steffes' glove. The goal was the hundredth point in the junior wing's Minnesota career.
"I didn't even know about it until yesterday after the game, our equipment manager had mentioned it," Erickson said. "I guess it feels pretty good. I like to win more than I like to score, so as long as we're winning, I'm fine with that."
A minute later on a power play, Sarah Davis went airborne on a rush as she let go a shot that slid through the goaltender.
"The exact same situation happened last game," Davis said. "I kind of muffed that up, and I promised Kelly (Terry) I wouldn't rob her of an assist anymore. She just made a great pass to me, and I just saw that defender, went forward, froze, and cut to the middle. I don't know how I ended up in the air."
The Buckeyes while shorthanded got a good fore check from Touminen who got the puck out front to Semenza, catching Raty not yet squared up in her net.
"I think you have to give credit to Ohio State," Minnesota head coach Brad Frost said. "We played pretty well there, I thought."
After being outshot by the visitors through the first forty minutes, Minnesota largely controlled the action in the third apart from the Reilly tally and emerged with a 15-6 advantage in shots on goal.
"Overall, I thought it was a real gutty effort," Frost said. "It wasn't pretty, and in the playoffs, generally, it's not going to be."
Räty earned her 24th win this season, tying the mark Jody Horak established in 2004-05 for victories in a season by a Gopher goalie.
"I thought our girls played great," Bartow said. "They gave 110%, left everything out on the ice, and deserved a little better fate."
"We're proud of our seniors. We know they'll be successful, and just thank them for all they've done for the program for four years."
Minnesota looks ahead to Friday night, but only as a stepping-stone to a possible NCAA tournament opportunity.
"WCHA—we'd like to win it, but we're looking for the big one," Erickson said.
If her coach's assessment is accurate, perhaps the Gophers are poised for a playoff push.
"I like where we're at better this year than the last couple years, where we were kind of fiddling around at this time of year," Frost said.
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Answers are decidedly mixed. Among the companies taking part in a benchmarking study of succession management and planning -- cosponsored by the Center for Organizational Research (CFOR), a division of Linkage, Inc., and Development Dimensions International (DDI) -- seven do not tell high-potential employees that they've been labeled as such. Six do.
In follow-up interviews, participants came up with a litany of reasons for not telling the employees. But other organizations that took part in the study -- including such highly regarded ones as TRW and Honeywell -- emphatically embrace a do-tell policy. "It used to be that companies guarded their succession plans like state secrets," says CFOR director Linda Murray. "But new technology is opening the way to greater information-sharing within the organization."
Why some companies stay mum
Allstate is typical of firms that routinely don't tell candidates they're in line for a promotion.
Nancy Lovendosk, who manages succession and performance management for the insurance company, sketches out a worst-case scenario: Manager A tells an employee that he is a candidate for a promotion, a conversation that the employee interprets as a promise or, in legal terms, an oral contract. Then Manager A leaves. Her replacement, Manager B, sizes up the same employee but fails to see as much potential as her predecessor did. The so-called promise "evaporates," says Lovendosk. That leaves the former up-and-comer somewhere between disappointed and hopping mad.
What can the employee do about it? One option is to go to a company that seems more appreciative of his talents, a move that is likely to be a loss for his current employer. Or he might retaliate by suing the company for breach of an oral contract.
That's the risk that many companies raise when asked why they don't share high-potential status with candidates. Yet none of the firms we interviewed had ever actually been sued in such a situation, nor did they know of any other companies that had been.
But even if such risk exposure is, in fact, corporate folklore, there are other downsides to setting expectations that you, the employer, may not be able to keep. Things change, says Lovendosk. This year's most-valued competencies or skill sets may become less important next year if business needs abruptly change. It's risky, therefore, to leave a candidate with the impression that there's any such thing as permanent high-potential status, or that he or she is definitely next in line for fill-in-the-blank position.
Professor Rothwell describes other ways in which telling an employee that she or he has been designated a high-potential candidate could, conceivably, come back and bite the manager.
Call it greenmail: the candidate who uses his status as a high-denomination bargaining chip. Perhaps he receives a job offer from another company and, emboldened by his elevated status, demands that his current employer gin up. Or perhaps a headhunter calls -- in that friendly, just-staying-in-touch kind of way -- and the employee mentions his special standing in the company lineup. Absent a non-compete agreement, what's to keep the recruiter from calling that company's competitor with a brash proposal? Hire away a top recruit and you can accomplish two things: bring in top talent and, at the same time, inflict major damage on your rival.
Or take this scenario. Rothwell calls it the Crown Prince(ess) Syndrome: When a high-potential employee hears she's under consideration for a higher position, she kicks back and starts taking it easy on the job. "I've got it in the bag," she thinks. "No matter what I do, I'm guaranteed that promotion."
At issue in each of these situations is not whether a manager should tell the person, says Rothwell, but how. What gets companies in trouble is the perception of a promise or guarantee. And managers have to be coached on how to avoid creating such false impressions (keep reading, we'll get to that).
The benefits of telling
Overall, Rothwell sides with the companies that believe managers should come clean to top employees about their prospects. "In the war for talent, telling candidates can be a retention strategy," he says. "Even if they're just told they're being considered, it's a major motivation to stick around when a headhunter calls and offers them extra bucks" to go someplace else.
Not only does telling employees encourage them to stay put, but it can also clear the way to having frank discussions about the areas in which they need to develop further, according to Michael Thiel, who heads up organization and professional development for TRW's 8,500-employee Space and Electronics unit. "If you're more up-front about their potential, it creates a better context for assessment and development," he says.
Once the cards are on the table, a manager can say, "That's why these three or four flat spots are worth paying attention to." It's a far more motivating conversation than if a manager simply says, "Why do you need to work on these developmental areas? Because you do."
Other companies in the study leave it up to managers to decide whether to tell employees that they've been tagged as high-potentials. CFOR research suggests that as more HR processes -- including succession planning -- move online, and as responsibility for those processes shifts back to the business unit, companies may lose their ability to keep succession tightly under wraps.
The impact of technology
Take Allstate. Within the next year, the company expects to roll out new proprietary software called Manager's Desktop, which "empowers managers to do more and HR to do less," says Lovendosk.
"Right now, succession is still fairly tightly held," she explains, describing a process that involves a limited number of people poring over large binders of information compiled by HR. With the new software, "individual managers will be able, on their own, to go in and make changes to their succession plan. You give that many people access," she predicts, "and it's going to change the complexity of the way we do succession." For example, managers may be more likely to decide for themselves whether to inform promising candidates that they're being targeted for bigger things.
Even TRW, which already embraces a do-tell policy, sees its succession process becoming "more transparent" as it relies more on technology. The company is now implementing a new Web-based tool, called the Management Resources Review (MRR), that collects information from selected employees for a variety of planning purposes, including succession.
Before MRR, a manager could change her mind about a candidate's skills and competencies and quietly update her notes or the succession chart. Now such changes can't be entered into the system without both the manager's and the employee's approval. As a result, more employees are becoming aware of succession-planning, says Thiel. "Our bias is to be open rather than closed." And the new system will make TRW more open, "even compared to two or three years earlier," says Thiel. "We pretty much don't have a choice anymore."
Advice for managers
To avoid the pitfalls and capture the benefits of sharing information with high-potential employees, consider the following recommendations, gleaned from the companies in these studies:
Make conversations about employees' career potential part of their annual performance review and development-planning process.
Teach managers how to communicate information regarding high-potential status to their direct reports.
Emphasize that the needs of the business change, often in unpredictable ways, which is why companies review and change their talent plans at least once a year.
Focus on potential rather than promises. Even replacement charts, if shared, should be viewed as hypothetical situations with no guarantee.


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The sleeping giant needs a wake-up call.
That's the mission of a group of community activists who have joined forces to help Arizona State find the financial means to become a player on the college-sports landscape.
Skepticism is understandable. Since 1947, when a group of well-known community figures formed the Sun Angel Foundation, the fundraising arm of ASU athletics has undergone a variety of makeovers.
This one feels different. It has legs. It has players. It has vision.
It should have our attention.
"Athletics does not work without community support," said Gregg Tryhus, president of the Sun Devil Club's board of directors. "And if this community has an expectation of success, you have to participate to earn that success. That's why we're doing this. "
Tryhus, president and owner of Grayhawk Development, is a reluctant spokesman. He wants it to be about "we," as in community, and hopes both alumni and area residents embrace the cause. But it says something that this prominent Valley businessman, who didn't even attend ASU as an undergraduate (the Southern Methodist product did secure his MBA in Tempe), is committed to being part of the charge.
The Sun Devil Club's belief is strength in numbers. Its goal is to encourage not only ASU's large alumni base but a good chunk of the community to make a $10-a-month or $100-a-year donation that will help give Sun Devils teams a competitive advantage.
Although former Athletic Director Kevin White brought fundraising back under the supervision of the athletic department, the Sun Devil Club is no longer "in house." This will help prevent some of the confusion that comes with a multitude of money-seeking campaigns for the university's many factions. It also will allow the group to reach out to more volunteers for help.
The organization features a nine-member executive committee that includes Tryhus, Lisa Love, the vice president of university athletics, and Stephen Ponder, a senior associate athletic director at ASU and the executive director of the Sun Devil Club. A collection of 18 committees, led by well-known Valley residents such as restaurateur Don Carson, will focus on specific tasks such as membership, legacy and game-day improvement.
The club's vision is a kind of pyramid of outreach, where one group might inspire another, say a collection of sorority sisters from the 1970s, to joins forces and spread the $10-a-month, $100-a-year message.
"I think it's really relevant about the whole message that if you want to make a difference, get involved," Ponder said. "Be plugged in, in some way, just like they were in 1947."
The strength-in-numbers approach is a response to a difficult reality the athletic department has had to face: The corporate dollar in this town is a tough get when you're fighting for attention with four professional sports teams.
That's not happening in Columbus, where Ohio State had an athletic budget of $123 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Education figures. ASU's was $57 million.
The Sun Devils' revenue was seventh among Pac-10 schools.
The athletic department is in need of a pick-me-up. The football team has not had a winning record the past three seasons, and the basketball team is coming off a 12-19 mark.
It's not simply about hiring a good coach anymore. A strong financial base translates to recruiting advantages, keeping assistant coaches around and better facilities.
To get there, the Sun Devil Club is taking an approach that is becoming more common around the country.
Ask less from more.
Think about this: Phoenix and its suburbs are home to 4.5 million people. ASU has an alumni base of approximately 300,000.
That's opportunity few athletic programs share.
It many ways, this is an exciting time for the Sun Devils. The leadership of Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott and revenue from the league's new TV deal will benefit ASU.
The football team is returning one of the more-experienced teams in the conference, and the men's basketball team has added for next season an exciting Valley product in Mesa High's Jahii Carson.
The Sun Devil Club - which has more than 5,100 members on sundevilclub.com - hopes to have 10,000 members by June and expects continued growth.
Will the approach work?
Hard to say. At the very least this group has vision, enhanced by its Rose Bowl-colored glasses.
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As employer health care cost increases have begun to stabilize, more companies are focused on engaging employees to become better consumers of health care, according to a Watson Wyatt/National Business Group on Health annual survey published Thursday, March 15.
Overall health care costs grew by 8 percent in 2006 and are expected to remain at that level in 2007 and 2008, representing sharp declines since 2002, when costs grew by 14.7 percent.
The drop can be attributed in part to employers refusing to absorb cost increases. Having already implemented simple ways to shift health care costs to employees, many employers are looking at longer-term cost containment strategies. The survey says, "Employers are establishing and maintaining a consistent cost-sharing relationship with employees."
Experts interviewed by Workforce Management for a special report on consumer-driven health care to be published April 9 have said that most employers have already implemented changes that shift costs to employees by increasing co-pays and premiums. According to the Watson Wyatt study, 84 percent of employers have a three-tiered prescription drug cost structure in which members pay more for a brand-name drug if a generic is available.
Long-term strategies employers are now looking at include high-deductible health plans as well as benefit designs that combine higher deductibles, which force employees to take an interest in the cost of their health care, with coverage of prescription drugs and visits to doctors.
To this end, employers continue to offer health management programs, such as health risk appraisals and programs that help reduce obesity.
The proportion of employers offering consumer-driven health plans has increased to 38 percent in 2007 from 33 percent in 2006.
"As long as cost trend goes two, three times inflation, there will be more consumer cost-sharing," Cochran says.
Though employers who offer consumer-driven health plans, which have a high deductible and a health savings account, say they help control costs and increase employee involvement in health care decision-making, employees are less satisfied with the plans, according to the study.
Experts attribute this to the newness of the plans and the lack of tools that support consumer decision-making, including reliable price and quality information about medical providers.
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If you're a parent with a video camera, you know the frustrations of trying to shoot good footage of your children. Your adorable three-year old decides to put on a show, so you get out your video camera out and start shooting, hoping to save this moment forever. But when you look back at the video, it's lacking the beauty you remember. Maybe your child keeps running out of the shot, or it's too shaky, or every time your child says something, all you hear is your own voice. Despite your most noble efforts, the memory has been lost.
While video cameras are a common site at playgrounds and ballet recitals, few people know how to use them properly to capture the joy and craziness of family life. When I worked as a broadcast television producer, one of the cardinal rules was never to shoot children or pets, because they are usually unpredictable. Now that I am a parent myself, and run a business that edits and produces family videos, I know how to use that unpredictability to my advantage!
After producing hundreds of family videos over the past four years, I have developed some surefire tips that will help you maximize your videotaping opportunities, whether you're shooting for an audience of one or one million.
1) Get down to their level. When you shoot kids, try to get eye-level with them, whether on your knees, the floor, or a low chair. This proximity is less intimidating, and it allows you to get closer and to have greater interaction with the children.
2) Let the camera roll As we always said in television, "Tape is cheap," so don't be in a rush to turn off the video camera. When you feel you have captured the dance or giggle, let the camera roll for another minute or two. Some of the best moments happen unexpectedly, so if you have the camera on and focused on the subject, you're more likely to get them on tape.
3) Don't use a lot of movement Feel free to adjust your shot according to the action, but don't zoom in out, or pan around too much. The subject should be providing the movement, not the camera. Try this: when you see something you want to videotape, pick up the camera and get a nice long shot of whatever is happening without any camera movement whatsoever. Then move in to adjust the shot and then let it roll for a while. This way you will have both a wideshot of the activity (something that shows all the action) and a close up.
4) Fill the frame This is a great tip for videotaping small babies. Some of the best video is where you can see the expressiveness in a baby's face when she is playing peek-a-boo, or her determination in trying to get the spoon from the cereal to her mouth. Don't be afraid to get really close and fill the frame with your baby's face. It's wonderful to be able to see every detail.


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From his lifetime study of the pamphlets, speeches, sermons, and newspaper commentaries that fueled the American Revolution, one of the conclusions Bernard Bailyn (the Harvard historian who was twice awarded a Pulitzer Prize, including for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution) reached was that "To the colonists the most important of these publicists and intellectual middlemen were those spokesmen for extreme libertarianism, John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (d. 1750)." According to Bailyn, in the colonies, the entire corpus of their work were
republished entire or in part again and again, 'quoted in every colonial newspaper from Boston to Savannah,' and referred to repeatedly in the pamphlet literature, the writings of Trenchard and Gordon ranked with the treatises of Locke as the most authoritative statement of nature of political liberty and above Locke as an exposition of the social sources of the threats it faced.
I emphasize the last part of that quote, because I have been trying to revive the original founding era idea that the rich are as much a danger to the survival of a republic as is a standing army. This is especially important now, as it we need desperately to repair the ideological foundations for taxing the rich as a means of redressing the great economic imbalances the they have created with their near monopoly on political power. In the Founding era of the United States, the Founders had developed a "political economy of aristocracy, as Professor James L. Huston explains in "The American Revolutionaries, the Political Economy of Aristocracy, and the American Concept of the Distribution of Wealth, 1765-19000" (The American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Oct., 1993), pp. 1079-1105):
The revolutionaries' concern over the distribution of wealth was prompted by a tenet in the broad and vague political philosophy of republicanism. In contrast to nations in which monarchs and aristocrats dominate the state, republics embodied the ideal of equality among citizens in political affairs, the equality taking the form of citizen participation in the election of officials who formulated the laws. Drawing largely on the work of seventeenth-century republican theorist James Harrington, Americans believed that if property were concentrated in the hands of a few in a republic, those few would use their wealth to control other citizens, seize political power, and warp the republic into an oligarchy. Thus to avoid descent into despotism or oligarchy, republics had to possess an equitable distribution of wealth....
The answer to how the social system of aristocracy generated wealth inequality was easily found. American political leaders applied the labor theory of property or value; an unjust distribution resulted when a few were able to transfer the fruits of other persons' labor to themselves. Aristocrats (non-workers and therefore non-producers) stole the fruits of labor from the masses of toilers (laborers and therefore producers). Aristocrats effected the transference by political means. It was control of politics that enabled aristocrats to steal the fruits of labor, to enrich themselves and pauperize the multitudes. By the time of the writing of the Constitution, literate Americans had clearly voiced the idea that a misdistribution of wealth was almost entirely a political act.
So it is more than merely interesting, especially given our times of financial and economic crises, that Gordon's and Trenchard's Cato's Letters, were "a searing indictment of eighteenth-century English politics and society written in response to the South Sea Bubble crisis…" In other words,, one of the most important works of English political theory that inspired the American Revolution, was written in response to the world's largest financial fraud and crisis up to that time.
In The Machiavellian Moment,: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: 1975, reprinted 2003), (See also my Machiavelli and the survival of republics) J.G.A. Pocock observes that Cato's Letters and The Independent Whig (a weekly periodical founded in 1720 by Trenchard and Gordon), "formed some of the most widely distributed political reading of the contemporary American colonists. Cato was mainly bent on diagnosing and proposing to remedy the state of national corruption revealed by the failure of the South Sea Company…" (p 468) Further, Pocock writes, "It was neither accidental nor surprising that an old adversary of the standing army should find himself denouncing a gigantic job of the "monied interest" since the two were taken to be at bottom one and the same phenomena."
Back in December 2008, I wrote Need to be ruthless and punitive toward Wall Street. But, I'm not one of President Obama's advisers, and what we got instead was the President praising JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein as "savvy businessmen."
Obama's acceptance of these vicious financial predators as acceptable models of business acumen underscores the urgent need to revive the Revolutionary republican (with small "r") understanding of the political economy of oligarchy, and how the rich destroy a republic from within.
But we need to update and strengthen that understanding to fit our own times, by bringing together the idea of economic rent, with modern scientific understanding of our natural environment, and the limitations and constraints that environment imposes on economic activity. It is in any individual's self-interest to preserve that in which they are most invested; but the rich pose a particular danger because their self-interest often leads them to attempt to protect and preserve entire modes of economic activity that society needs to move past in order to avoid colliding with the limitations of natural resources inherent in any specific mode of technology. No more clear example can be imagined that the Koch family interest pouring hundreds of millions and billions of dollars into conservative think tanks and political lobbies that not only deny global climate change, but also actively oppose the development of clean energy technologies. But a more instructive example may be the Walton family interests, which seek to avoid the development of public understanding of how the Wal-Mart business model shifts much of its employment costs onto the government - a modern twist on the methods by which the wealthy "pauperize the multitudes" identified in the Founders' political economy of aristocracy.
The first line of defense of today's rich oligarchs is the conservative movement, which refuses to recognize the moral turpitude of the economic practices of speculation, rent-seeking, and usury. Just how dangerous the conservative movement is can be judged by the recent candidacy - for the higesth office in the republic - of Mitt Romney, a "private equity" scoundrel who conservatives rallied around and defended as a "job creator." It is in this light that I offer you the following quote, from the first few pages of Cato's letters; or, Essays on liberty, highlighting the fury of Trenchard and Gordon at the monied interests of their time. How much of it is polemical hyperbole is for you to judge, but as Chris Hedges has repeatedly noted, it used to be that financial speculators actually were hung. Remember, as noted at the beginning, Trenchard and Gordon were writing in reaction to the financial and economic crises caused by the South Sea Bubble.
…. Nations should be quick in their Resentments, and severe in their Judgments. As never Nation was more abused than ours has been of late by the dirty Race of Money Changers; so never Nation could, with a better Grace, with more Justice, or greater Security, take its full Vengeance, than ours can upon its detested Foes. Sometimes the Greatness and Popularity of the Offenders make strict Justice unadviseable, because unsafe; but here it is not so; you may, at present, load every Gallows in England with Directors and Stock Jobbers, without the Assistance of a Sheriff's Guard, or so much as a Sigh from an Old Woman, though accustomed perhaps to shed Tears at the untimely Demise of a common Felon or Murderer. A thousand Stock Jobbers, well trussed up, beside the diverting Sight, would be a cheap Sacrifice to the Manes of Trade; it would be one certain Expedient to soften the Rage of the People; and to convince them, that the future Direction of their Wealth and Estates shall be put into the Hands of those who, will as effectually study to promote the General Benefit and Publick Good, as others have, lately, most infamously sacrificed Both to their own private Advantage. Something is certainly due to both the former. The Resurrection of Honesty and Industry, can never be hoped for, while this Sort of Vermin is suffered to crawl about, tainting our Air, and putting every thing out of Course, subsisting by Lies, and practising vile Tricks, low in their Nature, and mischievous in their Consequences.
… A free People are kept so by no other Means than an equal Distribution of Property; every Man who has a Share of Property having a proportionable Share of Power; and the first Seeds of Anarchy, which for the most part ends in Tyranny, are produced from hence, that some are ungovernably rich, and many more are miserably poor; that is some are Masters of all Means of Oppression, and others want all the Means of Self-defence.
…. they are manifest Enemies to God and Man, no Man can call them his Neighbours: They are Rogues of Prey, they are Stock Jobbers, they are a Conspiracy of Stock Jobbers! A Name which carries along with it such a detestable and deadly Image, that it exceeds all human Invention to aggravate it; nor can Nature, with all her Variety and Stores, furnish out any Thing to illustrate its Deformities; nay, it gains visible Advantage by the worst comparisons that you can make. Your Terror lessens when you liken them to Crocodiles and Canibals who feed for Hunger on human Bodies.
….These Monsters therefore stand single in the Creation: They are Stock Jobbers; they have served a whole People as Satan served Job, and so far the Devil is injured, by any Analogy that you can make between him and them.
Well; but Monsters as they are, what would you do with them? The Answer is short and at hand, Hang them; for, whatever they deserve, I would have no new Tortures invented, nor any new Death devised. In this, I think I shew Moderation; let them only be hanged, but hanged speedily. As to their Wealth, as it is the manifest Plunder of the People, let it be restored to the People and let the Publick be their Heirs: the only Method by which the Publick is ever like to get Millions by them, or indeed any Thing.
But, say some, when did you ever See Rogues Covered with Wealth, brought to the Axe or the Gallows? I own that the Example is rare, more is the Shame of this Nation, which has had such rich Temptations, and such frequent Opportunities; we have had publiek Guilt in abundance, God knows often protected by Party, and often by Money. Faction on one Side, and Riches on the other, have, as it were made a Lane for the Great Criminals to escape...
What delicious historical irony that the financial vehicles created to rescue Wall Streeter from the crisis they created, was named for the alley behind Wall Street, Maiden Lane.
Hope it's picked up everywhere!
Lambert, this one should be stickied!
The Founders and Framers came from the propertied classes and the Constitutional system they instituted concentrated power in this class. The system of checks and balances was principally to restrict the power of the people and secondarily to prevent any one group of property owners dominating the propertied class as a whole. So even from the start, government was delivered into the hands of the rich, first as the owners of property, then labor, and now capital. The democratic promise of our country has never been realized.
There have been periods of limited pushback against oligarchy. I am thinking of Jackson, both Roosevelts, and Johnson, but we are now in an era of plain reaction against democracy and for the oligarchs and kleptocrats. We the People of the United States invoked in the Preamble to the Constitution but otherwise largely disenfranchized by the document itself can not afford billionaires. It has come down to them or us. This is the great contest of our times, one which the public, the People, have yet to key in on, but which will decide the fate of us all. The rich have stolen too much. They have produced too little. And they have damaged and destroyed too many. They are the great enemies and villains of our age. The mask of normalcy and entitlement must be torn from them as well as from our elites who enable and protect them. They must be shown as the corrupt criminals they are and treated accordingly. It is only then that we can truly create a nation, in the words of Lincoln, of the people, by the people, for the people.
Hugh writes:
It has come down to them or us. This is the great contest of our times, one which the public, the People, have yet to key in on, but which will decide the fate of us all. The rich have stolen too much. They have produced too little. And they have damaged and destroyed too many. They are the great enemies and villains of our age. The mask of normalcy and entitlement must be torn from them as well as from our elites who enable and protect them. They must be shown as the corrupt criminals they are and treated accordingly. It is only then that we can truly create a nation, in the words of Lincoln, of the people, by the people, for the people.
Which is why Obama, with his genius for corruption and community disorganization, is focusing on "the middle class."
I was going to link this from Reddit, but somebody already has. Well said.
Gibbets and pikes. Ah, for the days of gibbets and pikes....
And a citizenry angry enough and focused on the true miscreants.
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This was my favorite part -
"you may, at present, load every Gallows in England with Directors and Stock Jobbers, without the Assistance of a Sheriff's Guard, or so much as a Sigh from an Old Woman, though accustomed perhaps to shed Tears at the untimely Demise of a common Felon or Murderer. A thousand Stock Jobbers, well trussed up, beside the diverting Sight, would be a cheap Sacrifice to the Manes of Trade"


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All Half-True statements involving Republican Governors Association
Gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan supported 33 tax and fee increases as Senate Majority Leader.
— PolitiFact New Hampshire
Says "unemployment tripled" in Dane County due to Kathleen Falk's tax policies
— PolitiFact Wisconsin
Mayor Tom Barrett's policies drove unemployment up 27 percent in Milwaukee, pushing it to "one of America's 10 worst cities for unemployment."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin
Roy Barnes "made Georgia dead last in education" and Georgia "led the nation in job losses."
— PolitiFact Georgia
Roy Barnes is like Barack Obama because they're both doing a lot of apologizing.
— PolitiFact Georgia
"Ohio lost 400,000 jobs on his (Ted Strickland's) watch."
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Thirty years ago, "Trading Places," John Landis' classic comedy, premiered to critical and commercial success. Not only was it the 4th highest grossing film of 1983 (making over $90 million, behind "Flashdance," "Terms of Endearment," and "Return of the Jedi"), but the film also received praise from the likes of Roger Ebert ("This is good comedy") and Rex Reed ("Trading Places is an updated Frank Capra with four-letter words, and I can think of no higher praise than that"). The film is about two beyond-wealthy yet bored brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) who swap out a well-to-do finance guy in their employ (Dan Aykroyd) with a homeless conman (Eddie Murphy) just to watch the world burn, oh no, we mean to test the good old "nature vs. nurture" debate. Decades later, "Trading Places" is still hilarious, with its cutting commentary on class and race in America (regrettably still topical), legendary comedic performances by Murphy (way before "Triplets" talk and Murphy became the most overpaid actor in Hollywood) and Aykroyd (way before "Ghostbusters 3" talk and Aykroyd opened up about his belief in aliens), and so much more (Jamie Lee Curtis plays a hooker with a heart of gold, the 1% lose out in the end, and more).To mark the occasion, check out a few tidbits of trivia that you may not know about the film below and keep your eye on the frozen orange juice market. "Trading Places" is currently available on DVD and Blu-ray (we recommend the "Looking Good, Feeling Good" edition in either format), and can be seen on Netflix: what better time to watch than during this summer weekend (there's only so much sunshine and fresh air you can soak up), especially with some freshly squeezed orange juice (take that, Duke brothers!)?
1. It Was Originally Meant To Be A Richard Pryor-Gene Wilder Vehicle Called "Black And White"
After the uber-success of "Stir Crazy" (grossing over $100 million and ranking 3rd overall for 1980, although with mixed reviews), the team of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was a hot ticket. With comedic and literal gold in mind, the story for "Trading Places" was born, though with the slightly more blunt title of "Black and White." Too bad "Ebony and Ivory" was already taken. Remember, this was the early '80s and a to-be-rated R comedy, so subtlety and racial sensitivity were not high on the checklist (for some context, check out this landmark 'SNL' sketch). Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you feel about "Norbit"), Pryor was unable to do the film and the studio replaced him with Murphy. Rather than taking Pryor's reins, Murphy had Wilder re-cast and the rest is history. Being the 22-year-old comedian's second film role ("48 Hours" being his screen debut), Billy Ray Valentine "made him a phenomenon." A few years later, Pryor and Wilder would get the chance to work together again for the third time (first was the moderately-received "Silver Streak") in the critically panned and not-so-classic "See No Evil, Hear No Evil."
Although now we can't imagine anyone else but Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche playing the dastardly scheming Duke brothers, toying with people's lives and likelihoods (ahem *Koch brothers* ahem), the producers had a different pairing in mind. Ralph Bellamy ("The Awful Truth," "His Girl Friday") may have been the first choice for Randolph, but Don Ameche ("The Story of Alexander Graham Bell," "Midnight") wasn't for Mortimer. Apparently, that honor goes to Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend," "Dial M for Murder"), who had to decline because of being un-insurable due to age and health.
Milland wasn't the only English Oscar-winner up for a role in "Trading Places," Sir John Gielgud was in talks to play Coleman the butler, the part ultimately played by Denholm Elliott. This casting would have made almost too much sense, Coleman being a not-as-biting version of Hobson (the role Gielgud made iconic in the original "Arthur"). The similarities were so apparent that the Pittsburgh Press wrote that "Elliott has what will forevermore be thought of as the John Gielgud part: the effete, efficient and drolly contemptuous English butler." Funnily enough, Gielgud and Elliott would appear together onscreen later that year in the notoriously horrendous remake of "The Wicked Lady," with Gielgud playing the trusty butler Hogarth to Elliott's duped lord of the manor, Sir Ralph Skelton.
3. There Was Improv (But You Weren't Meant To See It)
Unintentionally, "Trading Places" includes some great improvisational scenes, mostly errors or goofs that were kept in the final cut just because they were so darn funny. For example, the whole bit about Ophelia's accent and outfit not matching on the train (Swedish accent with Austrian/German lederhosen) was improvised due to Jamie Lee Curtis not being able to do the assigned Austrian accent. Luckily for us, Landis kept it in and Curtis got to show her comedic chops (and we're not referring to her cleavage, though you try searching YouYube for clips of her in this movie and you'll rediscover that the Internet is full of pervs), letting her break out of the "Halloween" scream-queen mold.


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cisco 3005 and router ID error [7:57598] posted 11/18/2002
Hi All have a strange probelm with a new 3005 and hope that some one may be able to help, possibly a hardware problem though. I shutdown the sydney office in the early hours of saturday morning to get a new UPS installed for the server room. I restarted the vpn 3005, and what do you know, of all devices, this one failed to return to normal operating parameters. (even wwindows/exchange servers came back up no problem) However my bigger problem, and also my mistake, is that I also implemented a new 4006 however the loopback ip was the same as the 3005. I noticed this problem a few hours after. I tried to change the router id of the 3005, however at this stage I could not even get the box to boot properly, could not access it via any means. Today, I got it up to the point where I have it back on the network (still using the IP in conflict) and accessed it via html. I tried to change the router ID, however it kept stating that the operation was illegal (not a browser problem :>) I am now left with the option to see if the box is cactus, to change the loopback of the new core of the network, the loopback of the 4006, or come up with a solution to get the 3005 to flush all its routes, and let me change its router id.. Has any one come across this error, and if so how did they resolve it besides kicking it. for all those that actually read this far into the email, had an interesting time moving all static routes from the old HQ, to the new HQ and redistributing via OSPF. I made a very simple mistake, that cost me $1200AUD in a call to a ccie. What I was stuck on, was why the new core, the 4006 was not redistributing its static routes through-out the OSPF cloud. Answer, and it took the CCIE 5 minutes to solve it, was my use of the redistrubite static, where I really wanted to redistribute default information command. Oh well, thats a good lesson to learn. Hope you are all well and thanks for your time. Please disregard my huge disclaimer that is to follow. John Sydney Australia ********************************************************************** visit http://www.solution6.com UK Customers - http://www.solution6.co.uk ********************************************************************** The Solution 6 Head Office and Branch in Sydney is moving premises. >From Monday 25th November our Head Office and NSW Branch will be located at: Level 14, 383 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000. General Phone: 61 2 9278 0666 General Fax: 61 2 9278 0555 ********************************************************************** This email message (and attachments) may contain information that is confidential to Solution 6. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, distribute or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, please notify the sender by return email immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the official business of Solution 6 are neither given nor endorsed by it. ********************************************************************* Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=57598&t=57598 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Just saw on TV that NC State fired Coach Chuck Amato. Another team looking.
And so has ASU, just after they defeated the U of Arizona
good thing we have things wrapped up with Pollini.
Peep these Amato vids-- they are flippin sweet.
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Cal in the NFL - Week 8
Marvin Jones had a record-setting performance for the Cincinnati Bengals.
By Cal Athletics on Mon, October 28, 2013
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BERKELEY - Here's a look at the 34 former Cal players playing on Sundays. Top performances of Week 8 were delivered by Marvin Jones, Cameron Jordan, Aaron Rodgers, and Mychal Kendricks.
- Marvin Jones (WR), Cincinnati Bengals – Had eight receptions for 122 yards and four TDs, a Cincinnati record, in a 49-9 statement win over the Jets. Jones became the first NFL receiver with four touchdown catches in a game since Randy Moss and Terrell Owens did it in 2007. For more highlights of Jones's record-setting day and breakout season, check out: Marvin Jones Sets Bengals Record with Four Touchdown Catches.
- Cameron Jordan (DE), New Orleans Saints – Strip-sack and recovery in the first quarter led to the Saints' first scoring drive of the game and momentum for a 35-17 win over Buffalo. Jordan has six sacks and two forced fumbles on the season.
- Aaron Rodgers (QB), Green Bay Packers – Playing without three of his best receivers, Rodgers led the Packers to a 44-31 win over Minnesota, throwing for 285 yards and two TDs. Rodgers had his most efficient game of the season, completing 24 of 29 passes for an efficiency rating of 130.6. Rodgers also rushed six times for 31 yards, including a 14 yard scramble on a third down in Minnesota territory.
- Mychal Kendricks (LB), Philadelphia Eagles – Recorded a team-high 12 tackles, including one for loss, in a 15-7 loss to the Giants. Kendricks has become an anchor in the Eagles' linebacker corps in his sophomore season, playing 100% of the defensive snaps against the Giants.
- Tyson Alualu (DT), Jacksonville Jaguars – Recorded three tackles and a deflected pass in a 42-10 loss to San Francisco.
- C.J. Anderson (RB), Denver Broncos – Carried the ball four times for 22 yards in a 45-21 win over Washington in his NFL debut.
- Bryan Anger (P), Jacksonville Jaguars – Punted four times for an average of 44.5 yards in a 42-10 loss to San Francisco.
- Nnamdi Asomugha (CB), San Francisco 49ers – Did not play in a 42-10 win over Jacksonville.
- Brian De La Puente (C), New Orleans Saints – Protection allowed Drew Brees to throw for five TDs in a 35-17 win over Buffalo.
- Thomas DeCoud (S), Atlanta Falcons – Recorded three tackles in a 27-13 loss to Arizona.
- Justin Forsett (RB), Jacksonville Jaguars – Recorded three receptions for six yards and returned a kick return 21 yards in a 42-10 loss to San Francisco.
- Mike Gibson (T), Arizona Cardinals – Played in a 42-10 loss to San Francisco.
- Tony Gonzalez (TE), Atlanta Falcons – Had three receptions for 26 yards in a 27-13 loss to Arizona.
- DeSean Jackson (WR), Philadelphia Eagles – Had eight receptions for 63 yards in a 15-7 loss to the Giants.
- L.P. LaDouceur (LS), Dallas Cowboys – Played in a 31-30 loss to Detroit.
- Alex Mack (C), Cleveland Browns – Played in a 23-17 loss to Kansas City.
- Jeremy Ross (WR), Detroit Lions – Had one reception for three yards in a 31-30 win over Dallas.
- Mitchell Schwartz (T), Cleveland Browns – Played in a 23-17 loss to Kansas City.
- Will Ta'ufo'ou (FB), Jacksonville Jaguars – Had three receptions for three yards in a 42-10 loss to San Francisco.
Monday Night Football
- Matt Giordano (FS), St. Louis Rams
- Marshawn Lynch (RB), Seattle Seahawks
- Brandon Mebane (DT), Seattle Seahawks
BYE Week
- Keenan Allen (WR), San Diego Chargers
- Chris Conte (FS), Chicago Bears
- Mike Mohamed (LB), Tennessee Titans
- Brian Schwenke (C), Tennessee Titans
- Craig Stevens (TE), Tennessee Titans
- Lorenzo Alexander (LB), Arizona Cardinals
- Desmond Bishop (LB), Minnesota Vikings
- Nick Sundberg (LS), Washington Redskins
- Shane Vereen (RB), New England Patriots (Designated for Return)
- Steve Williams (CB), San Diego Chargers
- Justin Cheadle (G), Pittsburgh Steelers
Practice Squad
- D.J. Campbell (S), Miami Dolphins
For more detailed information on Cal's 34 players currently on NFL rosters, check out their bio pages at ESPN.com.


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Carved Caverns
This is my second finished "D20 Cartographer Adventure Map," the Underground Temple. These maps come on several 10 x 16 card stock panels, which have alternate map layouts on each side (so the edges of each panel should fit seamlessly with the edges of the next panel, no matter which sides you choose to use) resulting in several possible combination and a lot more re-usability than traditional game-mats. Basically I wanted some of the flexibility of dungeon tiles and the cohesive art and large scale of things like Paizo Flip-mats.
The Underground Temple is made up of six of these panels, so there are sixty-four possible combination. The full scale of this map set ends up being about 30" x 32" so it is really quite large. I will post one of the possible combinations here as an example
These projects are always done in 300DPI, purely in photoshop, and I often use Genetica Viewer for textures.
The official product page is here: http://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/...-adventure-map if you want to see some the other combinations. I always offer a free printable 8.5 x 11 sample map under 'downloads' which anyone is welcome to print and use in your campaigns at no charge.
You can also check out the "work in progress" in the subterranean/dungeon mapping forum.