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SEATTLE -- In discussing his starting rotation, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons admitted there isn't that "Katie bar the door" dominant No. 1, but there are five quality arms with an ace-in-progress with the arrival of rookie Marcus Stroman.
So, Gibbons was asked, if he had one game to win, which starter would he call upon.View Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- In discussing his starting rotation, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons admitted there isn't that "Katie bar the door" dominant No. 1, but there are five quality arms with an ace-in-progress with the arrival of rookie Marcus Stroman.
So, Gibbons was asked, if he had one game to win, which starter would he call upon.View Full Game Coverage
Gibbons smiled.
"Felix," he said.
As in Felix Hernandez, the ace of the Mariners' rotation. He is the guy who got Seattle started on its way to a three-game sweep of Toronto this week that culminated with a strong-armed effort by Hisashi Iwakuma in a 2-0 win on Wednesday night that left the Mariners in a virtual tie with Tigers for the No. 2 AL Wild Card spot and dropped the Jays to three games back.
And it's the presence of Hernandez, along with Iwakuma, that has the rest of the AL well aware that the Mariners are a team that could very much be a factor not only in the battle for a spot in the postseason, but in the postseason itself.
Oh, Seattle had to do some quick-fix work with the offense prior to the July 31 non-wavier Trade Deadline, providing some right-handed balance to the lineup, and a veteran influence for what has been a relatively youthful lineup.
And it was two of those July additions who provided the two runs the Mariners scored on Wednesday -- Austin Jackson leading off the first with a single and Kendrys Morales delivering a two-out home run three batters later.
It, however, is Seattle's pitching that makes two more than enough.
After the seven dominant innings from Hernandez in Monday's 11-1 victory, and a six-inning, one-run effort from Chris Young in Tuesday's 6-3 victory, it was 6 2/3 shutout innings from Iwakuma that provided the foundation for the Wednesday victory, which put the finishing touches on the Mariners' 8-1 homestand.
And now Seattle heads to Detroit on Friday to open a three-game series against the Tigers, looking to get an edge in the Wild Card race and counting on lefty James Paxton.
Paxton will making only his sixth start of the season and third start since coming off the disabled list, but already has caught the attention of manger Lloyd McClendon as a key for the Mariners' postseason hopes.
Seattle's staff has been eye-opening this year. With a 2.95 team ERA, the Mariners are on pace to obliterate the franchise record 3.54 set in 2001 and become the first AL team with a sub-3.00 ERA since the 1974 World Series champion Oakland A's.
Not only does Seattle lead the Major Leagues in overall ERA, but it is at the top of the AL in both bullpen (2.34) and rotation (3.24) ERA, and McClendon thinks things can get even better because of the return of Paxton, who spent nearly four months on the disabled list.
And the staff has extended its club record for consecutive games with three runs or fewer to 12, during which time the team is 9-3 and the staff has a 1.77 ERA.
The Mariners did suffer an eight-game losing streak back in April, but it is worth nothing that they not only had Paxton and Iwakuma on the disabled list at that time, but Elias was adjusting to the jump from Double-A to the big leagues. And Young wasn't even signed until the final week of Spring Training after missing the bulk of last season because of surgery to repair thoracic outlet syndrome.
Elias and Young adapted quickly and have become excellent accessories for Iwakuma and Hernandez.
The four are a combined 44-24 this year. Paxton is 2-0 in his five starts, but the five pitchers who filled in the rotation void while he was sidelined were a combined 3-11.
"This young man could be the glue to our rotation," said McClendon. "You don't find guys like Paxton very often. He's a 95-to-99 [mph] left-hander with a good changeup and breaking ball. He gives us the opportunity to carry over as far as being dominant. I think he's going to be special down the stretch."
The domination, however, starts with Hernandez -- who along with Young, are the only members of the rotation to make every start -- and Iwakuma, who spent the first month of the season on the disabled list.
Hernandez has run off a Major League record streak of 16 consecutive starts in which he has worked at least seven innings and allowed two runs or fewer. Impressive? Heck, that's an inning longer and a run less than the overhyped "quality start" criteria.
"When Felix is on the mound you figure your team is going to win," said McClendon.
How important is Hernandez to Seattle's overall psyche? So important that McClendon was willing to send Elias to the Minor Leagues for a 10-day stretch so that Hernandez could be pushed back a day in the rotation and draw that series-opening showdown with the Blue Jays.
And then there is Iwakuma, who is so good that he is called underrated, even though he did finish third in the AL Cy Young Award voting a year ago. He has started four of the Mariners' eight shutouts, is 6-2 with a 1.83 ERA in his past nine starts, and has gone 18-8 with a 2.53 ERA in 34 starts over the past 13 months.
"I feel pretty good," said McClendon.
Having the likes of Felix Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma can do that for a manager.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
KM Asia 2011
3 comments:
- Stuart French said...
Great to see my session fell outside the regular taxonomy. My aim was to stretch people's heads to think differently :)
- 11/15/2011
- Nimmy said...
Staurt: Please accept my apologies. I missed your block in the mind-map though I had been intending to add it as a separate piece under concepts/thought-leadership. Your initial session was enough to communicate the novelty of the idea but I wish I had had the opportunity to attend your workshop as that would have helped me understand its application in business. :-|
But, yes, your session most certainly fell out of the regular KM circle of topics...maybe that's why it slipped my mind. :-P
Next time around, I hope I can sign up for your workshop! :-)
- 11/15/2011
- Yellow converse high tops said...
This high level map looks more complex to me than my school geography tests(which i dreaded most).Anyway,thanks for saring.
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The archaeological site of Göbeklitepe is located in the north east of the Sanlıurfa city center (southeast Turkey), 18 km away from the city center and close to the village of Orencik. Göbeklitepe is situated on the summit of mountain range, defining the northern border of Harran Plain, and stands out from afar, as a feature dominating the landscape. It is approximately 800 m above the sea level. The size of the mound, which is consisted of man-made remains, is approximately 300x300 m and the rock plateau on which this knoll stands, approximately 1 km long, is full of quarries and workshops of Neolithic Period.
The site was discovered in 1963 and named V52 as a Neolithic settlement, during the surface surveys realized as a part of a Joint Project named "Prehistoric Research in Southeastern Anatolia" by Istanbul University in cooperation with Chicago University. It was first mentioned in Peter Benedict's article "Survey Work in Southeastern Anatolia", in 1980, but not recognized in its importance. In 1994 the site was visited and described by Klaus Schmidt, scientist at the University of Heidelberg. It was only then that the monumental character of the site was recognized and comprehensive archaeological work carried out since 1995, at first as a cooperation between the Sanlıurfa Museum and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), since 2007 as an excavation of the DAI directed by Klaus Schmidt.
The data, which were obtained as a result of the excavations continued uninterrupted since 1995 show that Göbeklitepe was a cult center, made by mankind and dated to approximately 12,000 years before present. It is composed of approximately 20 round and oval structures, reaching 30 m in diameter. 6 of them have been exposed in excavations and others were identified by surveys in geomagnetic and georadar methods. The results of excavations and surveys showed that Göbeklitepe was a 12,000 years old major meeting centre composed of monumental structures built for ceremonial purposes, instead of spaces of daily life.
There are two T shaped free-standing pillars of 5 meters long, formed throughout limestone, in the center of these round shaped structures. Smaller pillars in the same form were placed on interior walls of structures and directed to the pillars in the center. Animal motifs and various abstract symbols carved on pillars are findings of the remains of some kind of a communication system, a symbolic world, memory and messages of 12,000 years ago. Monumental structures of Göbeklitepe were deliberately filled with soil by the people of Neolithic period who built them. The last hunters, who had begun to change their lifestyle in this period, had covered and left their old identities, important beliefs of their hunter-gatherer lives and symbolic world. Therefore findings have survived without any damage.
Human beings realized the transition from the hunter gatherer lifestyle to agriculture for the first time in world history in the Upper Mesopotamia, around 10th and 9th millennia B.C. Unique temples' mountain Göbeklitepe can be defined as the meeting center of last hunters. Göbeklitepe delivers the data which rewrites the considered models and theories of the time period which is called Neolithic Period in the history of archeological research. Moreover, it conveys the monumental architecture and advanced symbolic world of the last hunter groups who were close to the stage of transition to production and a culture which has reached an unexpected level for this period.
Göbeklitepe is a unique sacred space and sacred meeting center of Neolithic Period in terms of its location, dimensions, dating and monumentality of architectural ruins and sculptural pieces. There are settlement areas dating to the same period with Göbeklitepe and the existence of a cultural communication can be detected through small findings but these settlements are much smaller in scale and have functions different from Göbeklitepe which manifests a differing archaeological record.
Göbeklitepe is a unique archaeological site which has been preserving its existence with an untouched natural environment for 12,000 years while displaying unique archaeological findings. These features make Göbeklitepe incomparable and preferential.
Criterion (i): The monumental architectural examples, construction of sacred space and symbolic motives found in Göbeklitepe are indicators for an advanced social system created by human beings 12,000 years ago. Before the results of Göbeklitepe excavations, the Neolithic lifestyle was interpreted according to simpler criteria. The infrastructure required for creation of large scale sculptural and architectural monuments, the ability to act in large groups, handcrafts and artistic skills of individuals and the ritual impulses and beliefs that should have incited all these mentioned activities show us that the people of the period lived in a complex social life and could organize for a specific purpose. All these indicators appear to be very important steps in the cultural history especially when the particular time period Göbeklitepe people lived in is taken into account. Therefore the cults of Göbeklitepe represent a masterpiece of human creative genious.
Criterion (ii): The Upper Mesopotamian Region witnessed the transition from hunter gatherer lifestyle to agriculture firstly in the world history around 10th and 9th millennia BC. This date is the oldest date for the mentioned progression when universal data is considered. Göbeklitepe states in the center of the region where this cultural progression had took place. The people, who acted the mentioned cultural transition in Göbeklitepe, realized the first built temples of, in the meantime. The architects and construction masters of these temples were raised the world history in the same community. Besides, a rich symbolic repertoire was created in Göbeklitepe, with advanced samples of sculpture and low relief arts. These symbols are not elements done for only ornamentation, but motifs bearing a story, a meaning and/or a message. These symbols, found in Göbeklitepe, were also appeared in the settlement sites of the period with the similar content but in smaller scales. The possibility of comparison reached after the archaeological excavations done in North Iraq and Syria, denotes that Göbeklitepe constituted the center, cultural interaction and exchange of humanitarian values in Neolithic Period.
Criterion (iii): The Neolithic period cult, which was appeared with monumental architectural structures, large scale sculptures, symbolic language of content-rich motifs in relief technique, ended around 8000 BC. After this date, Göbeklitepe abandoned by humans and have not used for similar or different purposes. Thus, Göbeklitepe represents a unique cult center which was created by hunter-gatherer lifestyle and its social system and used only for this period, had no repetition or continuation in the following eras.
Criterion (iv): Göbeklitepe houses the most ancient sacred structures built by human hands. In earlier times, humans had used ritual places for themselves but, in doing so they had used natural shelters like caves. On the other hand the sacred spaces of Göbeklitepe were built by manpower. Architecture at Göbeklitepe is distinctive due to the existence of larger curvilinear and smaller rectangular structures with megaliths in the form of T-shaped stone pillars. It is considered that the T-shaped pillars represent stylized anthropomorphic beings, the horizontal and vertical parts respectively being the head and body. The pillars were anthropomorphic 'beings' of some sort, most probably mythical ancestors or even the first Gods depicted in a monumental way in the history of mankind. Mentioned structures are unique pieces according to their monumental dimensions and the topography they were built on and date.
Criterion (vi): The traces of one of the World of Faith's oldest complex systems in Göbeklitepe prove that humans built monumental structures with the instincts of faith and divineness in the ancient times, unexpectedly. The humans related with Göbeklitepe, who lived all these progressions, were a part of a community that did not know ceramic or metal equipments, commence cereal cultivation, tame animals and start settled lifestyle including the production of food. Nevertheless, they were the creators of an extant and rich symbolic language composed of large scale sculptural monuments, temple structures and relief motifs.
Göbeklitepe Archaeological Site is under protection by the Turkish Legislation for Preservation of Cultural and Natural Property, Law No.: 2863. Sanlıurfa Regional Council for Conservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage has registered the site as 1st degree archaeological site with the decision dated 27.09.2005 and numbered 422.
The site is being surveyed, excavated and published since 1995 by members of the Museum of Sanlıurfa and the German Archaeological Institute. Research not only focuses on excavations but involves researching social traditions and spiritual world of Pre-Pottery Neolithic human groups and anthropological studies. This extensive research has yielded reliable scientific results that rewrite the Neolithic Revolution and its background.
During the Neolithic Period, Göbeklitepe Archaeological Site had abandoned and filled with earth, for unknown reasons. As a result Göbeklitepe's megalithic architecture was sealed and protected until its rediscovery in the mid-1990s. Therefore the impacts of deterioration were limited and Göbeklitepe's unique architecture features are in good condition and naturally protected from adverse effects of development and/or neglect. Yet, the site has been partly excavated and not been exposed to heavy tourism, which should be seen as a valuable opportunity. Together with the impressive landscape it is embedded in, it still comes across as "untouched" and offers an amazing feeling of discovery to the visitor. In recent years, site conservation applications are accelerated. A temporary roof structure (a metal shelter) was built over several of the excavated areas, a permanent roofing is planned to be built during the following season.
Göbeklitepe belongs to the period when the transition from hunting and gathering societies to food producing early village farming communities took place in South-eastern Anatolia during the 10th and 9th Millennia B.C., much earlier as in any other regions of the world. Today we know a lot about this pivotal period, and several sites are excavated like Cayönü, Nevalı Cori, Hallan Cemi or Körtik Tepe in Turkey, Nemrik and Qermez Dere in Northern Iraq and Mureybet, Jerf el Ahmar, Tell Abr and Tell Qaramel in Northern Syria. But no other site of this period yields all the elements discovered at Göbeklitepe.
Göbeklitepe is not only unique in its location on top of a huge hill: It is a landmark, overlooking the surrounding plains. The distinct character of the site is underlined by its architecture and diverse set of objects of art, ranging from small stone figurines through sculptures and statues of men and animals to large decorated megaliths. The dimensions of the megalithic stones of Göbeklitepe are similar with Stonehenge, but Göbeklitepe is 6000 years older than the famous British monument, and there is not only one circle, but many.
Göbeklitepe was not a settlement site, it had been a sanctuary. May be some people maintaining it had been living there all the time, but for reasons very different from the causes for early village life. Before the discovery of Göbeklitepe the common believe was that societies in the beginning of the Neolithic were organized into small bands of hunter-gatherers and that the first complex religious practices were developed by groups that had already mastered agriculture. The megalithic sanctuaries of Göbeklitepe, erected within the 10th Millennium B.C. by hunter-gatherers, prove that the earliest monumental architecture was possible before agriculture provided people with food surpluses. The architecture and art of Göbeklitepe, which was not possible without organizers and specialists, demonstrates that in Upper Mesopotamia within the society of early Holocene hunter-gatherers a powerful elite is observable, who is not visible in the former Palaeolithic societies.
Göbeklitepe does not stand alone, the material culture shows strong connections with several other sites of the same date, which are settlements and form a cultic community encircled Göbeklitepe. At Nevalı Cori, a settlement site flooded in 1992 by the Atatürk Dam, for the first time a cult building with T-shaped pillars has been uncovered in 1987. Some of these pillars are comparable with the smaller pillars that are known from the later phase of Göbeklitepe (9th Millennium B.C.), which consists of small rectangular buildings containing often only two small central pillars, or none at all.
In the immediate vicinity of Göbeklitepe there are three more sites with similar, small T-shaped pillars visible on the surface, but neither at Sefer Tepe nor at Karahan or Hamzan Tepe excavations was conducted so far. It is clear, that these places form an inner circle of sites belonging to the cultic community of Göbeklitepe, but this community was not constricted to these sites. Throughout Upper Mesopotamia hints at the religious ideology of Göbeklitepe can be found in the material culture of settlement sites, while the case of another exclusive sanctuary remains unknown. All these sites date to the PPNA/Early PPNB, in the second half of 10th and 9th Millennia B.C. and all can be described as settled hunter-gatherer settlement sites, with a spatial division of residential and specialized workshop areas and a growing importance given to "Sondergebäude" (special buildings) used for communal and ritual purposes, including open courtyards as communal space.
At Göbeklitepe, finds with images of symbolic value are not restricted to the reliefs on the monumental Tshaped pillars or to sculptures. Shaft straighteners, objects used for making arrows, often have incised decorations of animals and various symbols. Several examples from Jerf el Ahmar and Tell Qaramel bear rich combinations of motifs showing groups of animals like snakes and scorpions, quadrupeds, and birds. Very similar motifs and symbols were incised into the so-called plaquettes of Jerf el Ahmar type. In contrast to the shaft straighteners, which have been grooved deeply as a defining functional attribute, the plaquettes (often little more than coin size) show no indication of an obvious use for any specific function.
They probably were produced just for the purpose of bearing the symbols incised on them. These plaquettes have been discovered in significant numbers at Tell Qaramel, Tel Abr, and Jerf el Ahmar; only one example has been found so far at Göbekli Tepe. These images offer a new symbolic world, a symbolic language, which had commonalities among the residents of the PPN sites in Upper Mesopotamia, they are part of a system of symbols, which was crucial to the societies who used it to store there cultural knowledge.
Consequently, Göbeklitepe is a unique site: "unique" in its role as a sanctuary with monumental architecture, but at the same time as a centre of a cultic community, whose traces can be found throughout all Upper Mesopotamia. Therefore it is not an easy task to find comparable properties to illustrate similarities with other sites on the World Heritage List. But after 16 years of excavation it is obvious that this is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world.
While by all means comparable to such other large sites in meaning and cultural importance, the monumental architecture at Göbeklitepe stand out due to their age being the oldest known built sanctuaries in the world and the crucial period of change in human cultural development they mark and make tangible by illustrating a symbolic world and cosmology of hunting and gathering societies at the dawn of the transition to food producing early village farming communities.


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News that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcomed a new son was welcomed by crowds in London and covered by the global media. But will the little prince also provide the UK with economic baby bump? Economics reporter Ben Casselman says don't bet on it. Photo: Getty Images.
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It's the question that dogs every retirement-focused investor these days (and one that all personal-finance journalists have by now posted on a sticky note on their bathroom mirrors, or better yet, scrawled in Sharpie on their foreheads): In a low-interest rate environment, how are you supposed to squeeze a relatively safe, reliable income out of your portfolio? The Wall Street Journal assigned a whole squadron of reporters to tackle that question in articles that have run over the last few days. Some of the main lessons include:
How to get better yields without stretching too far. In The Great Yield Gamble, Ben Levisohn and Joe Light focus on four relatively risky moves that many income investors have been making over the last few years, and they offer savvier, less risky alternatives to each one. (Among their tips: In this market, 'leveraged loans' look better than junk bonds, while certain covered calls are a better alternative to structured notes.) Also valuable here: Advice about how to choose among dividend-paying stocks and closed-end mutual funds.
How to get better yields out of your mutual-fund holdings. The headline Scrounging for Income isn't exactly welcoming, but the tips from Michael A. Pollack are sharp. His thesis is that too many mutual fund investors try to get all their income from, say, one big bond fund. The better move, he argues, is to diversify your income search across several mutual and exchange-traded funds, and to look at funds that have a lot of flexibility in terms of what kind of assets to invest in, including "strategic income" bond funds and "conservative allocation" funds that mix stocks, bonds and other securities.
What to do with the rest of your portfolio, after you buy an annuity. You Bought an Annuity. Now What?, asks Dorianne Perucci. The short answer is: Put more of the rest of your nest egg in stocks, since you'll need their growth to decrease the likelihood that you'll outlive your savings.
Your annuity provider wants to buy you out; consider saying "no, thanks." Low interest rates are bad news for insurance companies that sell variable annuities, since it makes it harder and more expensive for them to meet their guaranteed-payment commitments. Many insurers are now offering lump sums to buy out annuity account-holders. But as Leslie Scism explains, a buyout is a bad deal for many investors, since they would struggle to find alternative investments that could deliver the same income.
Also interesting this weekend: Paul Sullivan, the New York Times "Wealth Matters" columnist, wrote about the ultimate "catch up" plan for older workers who are behind on their retirement savings: A do-it-yourself pension. Under a wrinkle in the tax code, small business owners and some self-employed people can put away a very high amount of money – up to $255,000 a year, for people in their 50s – and deduct it as a business expense. There are plenty of downsides, of course: Since the plans are technically defined benefit plans, investors have to keep funding them even if they have a year where there income declines; and administrative expenses tend to be high. Sullivan delves into the details here.


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Apologies for the length of my introductory post on Thucydides. This next one is a lot shorter and requires much less setup.
I'm too lazy to rifle through 800 pages for the relevant quote, but I seem to recall that somewhere in his landmark work Diplomacy Henry Kissinger argued that the global order of the Cold War era was more stable than people realized — indeed, more stable than the global order of the early 90s. That's because a bipolar world is one in which states tend to gravitate towards one of two massive powers. Contrast that with pre-WWI Europe, a multipolar order maintained by a tangled network of alliances. That network is what allowed the chain reaction which turned a regional conflict into a continent-wide slaughter. A Cold War scenario lacks those complications; there are still wars, but they don't go global.
On a superficial level, Greece circa 435 BCE looks a lot like the world of the Cold War and not very much like pre-WWI Europe. You've got two great powers, roughly evenly matched, and the vast majority of the other Greek city states are allied with either one or the other. Two states as strong as Athens and Sparta are inevitably going to compete with one another — as the USSR and the US did — but not on a scale that would sink the rest of the city states into conflict.
Of course, we all know how that turns out. Because as much as Ancient Greece looks like a bipolar order, it's a lot more tangled and porous than you would expect. Case in point: Potidae.
Potidae is officially an Athenian client state, but they also have deep ties to Corinth. And while Corinth and Athens theoretically have a treaty, they just finished fighting a massive naval battle over the city-state of Corcyra. To make matters worth, Corinth is a member of Sparta's Peloponnesian League.
By now you should see how the dominoes are stacked. And the next one to fall is Potidae. The Athenians, not wanting the Potidaeans to defect to Corinth's side, order them "to raze the wall on the Pallene side of the city, to give hostages, to dismiss the Corinthian magistrates, and in future not to receive the persons sent from Corinth annually to succeed them." When Potidae demurs, Athens sends a military force. But by using the stick instead of the carrot, they only hasten Potidae's switch over to Team Corinth.
So all of a sudden the Athenians and Corinth (and Corinth's ally Macedonia) are fighting a war over the whole region surrounding Potidae. And while that's going on, Corinth goes to Sparta to urge that they get involved as well.
Back in February the foreign policy scholar Walter Russell Mead argued that Thucydides — long considered the patron saint of the realist school — was in fact anti-realist in very fundamental ways. He wrote:
Realism in political science is often tied to the idea that the behavior of states is determined by the structure of the international system and the balance of forces within it. In a famous analogy, realist theory takes states as "billiard balls" knocked about the geopolitical pool table by impersonal and predictable forces. Another analogy calls them "black boxes"; the analyst of international relations doesn't need to know what is going on inside the black box in its domestic politics in order to understand what the box is doing.
If we define realism this way, then Thucydides isn't a realist. In fact, he's the greatest possible enemy of this kind of theoretical realism. He mocks it, spits in its face, and gleefully dances on its grave.
For Thucydides, the internal politics of a state are crucial to understanding and anticipating the policies of that state. Sparta has a set of interests that are not dictated by the nature of the international system so much as by the structure of Spartan society.
And in fact that's exactly what we see when Corinthian emissaries demand a formal declaration of war from the Spartan assembly. King Archidamus of the Spartans urges caution, suggesting that his countrymen should prepare for war while delaying it further. If Sparta were a simple tyranny like some of its neighbors, he could just make it so, and we might remember the Peloponnesian War very differently. But he must defer to the assembly — the masses — and they vote for war, "because they feared the growth of the power of the Athenians, seeing most of Hellas already subject to them."
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An engaging and watchable indie US drama, Lily is especially distinctive due to Amy Grantham's often mesmeric performance as a young woman nearing the end of her treatment for breast cancer which is actually loosely based on Grantham's own real-experiences.
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With her elfin charm and lingering sense of wide-eyed vulnerability, Grantham delivers a nuanced and memorable performance, and while the film perhaps lacks the star quota or directorial drive to break-out, it is likely to feature strongly on the festival circuit, especially given the issues it raises. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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CNET Finally Reports On Its Own Fight With CBS Over Dish CES Award
from the a-bit-slow-out-the-gate deptRealizing that the longer it did nothing, the worse it looked, CNET itself has finally reported on the events that transpired last week when corporate boss CBS stepped into the middle of their editorial process and sought to deny CNET the ability to choose the product they thought was the best of CES, the Dish DVR with Hopper and Sling.
After the vote, we communicated the winners, as we always do, through normal channels. CNET immediately got down to the business of preparing for a massive stage show the following morning and preparing a press release.Of course, this is only coming out well after tons of other sources had reported on this -- and upstart competitor the Verge had already broken the story about how CBS didn't just tell CNET not to vote on the Dish device, but made them rescind the award that had already been chosen.
Later that evening, we were alerted to the legal conflict for CBS. All night and through to morning, my managers up and down CNET and I fought for two things: To honor the original vote and -- when it became clear that CBS Corporate did not accept that answer -- to issue a transparent statement regarding the original vote.
Ultimately, we were told that we must use the official statement and that we must follow corporate policy to defer all press requests to corporate communications.
The CNET post, by reviews Editor in Chief Lindsey Turrentine, suggests that most of the staff had no idea that CBS was in litigation with Dish and they were just doing what they were supposed to do. She also pushes back against the idea that she should resign:
We were in an impossible situation as journalists. The conflict of interest was real -- a legal case can impact the bottom line of our company and introduce the possibility of bias -- but the circumstances demanded more transparency and not hurried policy.The thing is, if she had quit, I would bet that many on her team would not have seen it as being abandoned, but actually as real leadership of someone supporting their editorial independence.
I could have quit right then. Maybe I should have. I decided that the best thing for my team was to get through the day as best we could and to fight the fight from the other side. Every single member of the CNET Reviews team is a dedicated, ethical, passionate technology critic. If I abandoned them now, I would be abandoning the ship.
She then goes on to insist that she'll fight to make sure this doesn't happen again -- but that seems difficult to believe since earlier in the existing story it suggests that she and others gave up the fight when CBS told them what they had to do:
If I had to face this dilemma again, I would not quit. I stand by my team and the years of work they have put into making CNET what it is. But I wish I could have overridden the decision not to reveal that Dish had won the vote in the trailer. For that I apologize to my staff and to CNET readers.Of course, the decision to quit is one that every individual has to make themselves. But completely taking it out of the realm of possibility gives CBS the easy power to do this again and again and again. She's signalling to CBS that it can continue to walk over CNET's editorial independence, and while the editor-in-chief may protest loudly, in the end, she won't leave. That's only going to add to the cloud over CNET's reviews going forward.
The one thing I want to clearly communicate to my team and to everyone at CNET and beyond is this: CNET does excellent work. Its family of writers is unbiased, focused, bright, and true. CNET will continue to do excellent good work. Of that I am certain. Going forward, I will do everything within my power to prevent this situation from happening again.
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Jodie Foster's winding, emotional acceptance speech upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes was one of the show's standout moments. The six-and-a-half-minute oration, in which Foster addressed her sexuality, her privacy, her career and her family, seemed to draw a unanimous reaction at first: one of sheer surprise.
After the initial shock subsided, two big questions hung in the air. Had Foster come out as gay? And had she announced her retirement?
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Reaction in the ballroom, and backstage, was strong, though interpretations varied.
"That was great, wasn't it?" said actor John Hawkes. "She handled herself with such grace and wit. It was really amazing." Lena Dunham said backstage: "I thought Jodie Foster's speech was mind blowingly beautiful. ... It was really a complex, interesting assessment of what it's like to have a creative career over a long period of time."
Jessica Chastain added: "I don't know what she was trying to relate, but I can tell you what I took from the speech, as an actress I struggle with the idea of privacy. …The actors who I respect are the ones who try hard to keep their privacy like Jodie Foster — I think when an actor is able to do that the audience is better able to accept them in different roles."


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Tonight, the Yreka High boys and girls varsity basketball teams open the Northern Athletic League season against Corning.The girls play at home while the boys are at Corning. Both games begin at 7:30 p.m.For both the boys and girls, the freshman game begins at 4:30 pm., and the junior varsity game starts at 6 p.m.
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Yreka comes into the NAL season with a 6-9 mark. Head coach Christian Birch has been pleased with the squads steady improvement and excellent team chemistry. He added the squad has been competitive for the most part in their losses and have steadily improved. He believes that with good team chemistry the Miners can be a surprise in league this year. Last season, the Miners won five games and have already surpassed that total.Corning is undefeated for the year at 16-0, but Birch said his team is heading into the game confident in their abilities and know they can upset the Cardinals. The key, he said, is if his team can execute their game plan and play consistently on both ends of the court.Birch said the team has had "pretty good practices" this week and are ready for tonight's contest.Birch said his team works well together and. likes the "strong leadership" on the Miners and the progress they have made. "It's been a great experience coaching this team," he said.With only one returning starter in senior Tyler Johnson, Birch has commended the several players who came up from JV for their contributions to the team this year. This includes leading scorer, sophomore Ty Curre, who is averaging more than 16 points er game. Junior Quaid Blanchard leads the team in rebounds with 107.After not winning a single league game last season, Birch believes his squad has the ability to win in league this year and be a surprise squad in a tough league. "I feel we can be competitive with every team in league," Birch said. He believes the games will be close in league and feels that it will come down to "execution" and the team that works together and does not make costly mistakes.
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Tonight, the Yreka High boys and girls varsity basketball teams open the Northern Athletic League season against Corning.The girls play at home while the boys are at Corning. Both games begin at 7:30 p.m.For both the boys and girls, the freshman game begins at 4:30 pm., and the junior varsity game starts at 6 p.m.


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Five Things You Need to Know: President Obama's Economic Team Faces the Limits of Fiscal Policy
There's only so much government can do to "fix" an economy... and policymakers know it.
1. President Obama's Economic Team Faces the Limits of Fiscal Policy
Austan Goolsbee looks like an economist. In fact, if you were to find yourself walking around Washington D.C. and by chance were to meet Goolsbee in the street, you'd think to yourself as a matter of course, "Ah, that guy must be an economist." And you'd be right. Goolsbee, President Barack Obama's soon-to-be-departing top economics adviser, has a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Which is not to say there's anything wrong with that, it's just that these days economists are pretty easy to pick out of a crowd. Like Goolsbee, they tend to gesture with their hands a lot when they talk, sometimes pressing their fingers into each side of their forehead as if competing against a migraine or struggling to make sense of something that is utterly without explanation. This behavior is completely normal. It happens to anyone who is forced by trade or by chance to make predictions about things that fall outside of experience.
Yesterday, only hours after word got out that he would be leaving his post in the administration to return to the University of Chicago where he has been on a temporary, three-year leave, Goolsbee sat in a room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington and attempted to explain to a small group of online business and finance journalists, including Minyanville, that had been assembled by the White House Office of Digital Strategy, things that defy explanation; among them, the recent jobs report showing the economy added a paltry 54,000 jobs last month.
"Don't make too much out of any one jobs report," Goolsbee told us with his hands, adding that the past three jobs reports had been "excellent," which is debatable but really beside the point. The jobs situation in the U.S. is driven by secular shifts that are impervious to monetary and fiscal policy. The Obama administration is clearly frustrated by this, but there's only so much fiscal policy can do for a devastated economy in transition. Real estate is not coming back. Construction jobs lost during the housing collapse will likely never return to 2006 levels in our lifetimes, nor should they.
The administration is not interested in stoking the dying embers of the prior economic boom. The focus is not on trying recreate the drivers of the last expansion, Goolsbee said. The jobs will come from elsewhere. The problem is no one is quite sure where that "elsewhere" is.
In the meantime, we wait. And the waiting is a grueling, job-starved, wageless endurance test. A CNN Poll yesterday showed that nearly half the country believes the economy will fall into a new depression within the next year-and-a-half; not recession, depression. Indeed, when asked about what many see as Washington's tepid response to the crisis, Goolsbee insisted "we do have a sense of crisis, but we're not panicking."
2. Is the Sense of Crisis Real?
I have no doubt the sense of crisis inside the administration is real. That probably explains why the President took time out yesterday to have an unscheduled 20-minute discussion with our group. But the issue of Washington's response to the economic crisis runs much deeper than merely having a "sense of crisis" and strikes at the very core of the emerging disconnect between Main Street, Wall Street and Washington.
The perception of Washington on Main Street is that there has never been, at any point, even going back as far as 2007, frank talk from Washington about how serious the economic crisis really is and the challenges that lie ahead. Policymakers have struggled mightily to explain to Americans what is happening, where we are in terms of the long process of exiting this crisis. Some of this struggle is related to the vague notion of confidence -- the fear that, "Well, we can't say that because it will undermine confidence."
The great irony is that the American people are searching desperately for someone to simply tell them the truth, painful though it may be, and the longer policymakers from the Federal Reserve, for example, continue to overstate the recovery in an effort to "build up and restore confidence," the more they will, over the longer-run, undermine it.
CNN Poll, June 3-7, 2011: Do you think it is very likely, somewhat likely, not very likely, or not likely at all that another depression like that will occur in the U.S. within the next 12 months?
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Somewhat likely 29%
Not very likely 32%
Not likely at all 19%
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3. Never Buying Stocks Again?
Meanwhile, the perception of Wall Street on Main Street continues to plumb new depths. A Prudential survey shows that a majority of individual investors say they've "lost faith in the stock market" with a staggering 44% saying they are unlikely to ever put more money into the market. Eric Schurenberg, Editor-in-Chief of BNET.com and Editorial Director of CBSMoneyWatch.com, mentioned this poll to me yesterday and I snickered at it as a contrary indicator, a reaction I regret. The issue is quite serious and threatens to morph into a generational error of underinvestment by individual investors.
The public's loss of faith in Wall Street is understandable. After all, it was less than a month ago that underwriters of the LinkedIn (LNKD) IPO, Bank of America (BAC), Morgan Stanley (MS) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM), dumped a $45 stock onto Main Street at $92 a share. Some suckers took shares at $122.
But lost in the ongoing and, apparently, unpunishable misbehavior of large banks is that for individual investors the stock market is not really about trading against computers or big bank prop desks or quants at Goldman Sachs (GS). Investing in the stock market is about providing capital to legitimate business and companies in exchange for potential growth of capital or a reasonable income stream in the form of dividend payments. This investment capital provides the foundation for economic growth. Not all companies are Bear Stearns, or Lehman Brothers or AIG.
4. The Economic Divide
The policy advisers I met with yesterday in some respects mirror the current economy. Those who were directly involved in figuring out the trajectory of the current economy, energy policy or fiscal policy seemed a bit beaten up and worn down. Anyone involved in technology, however, appeared on the opposite end of the spectrum, excited about opportunities out there and what I and other Minyanville professors, such as Conor Sen, see as a coming boom in innovation, and data-driven startups.
United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is in the optimistic camp. One of Chopra's tasks is overseeing the President's strategy for innovation, Startup America, which isn't a program with a capital P but a "call to action," thus avoiding the irony of government-mandated entrepreneurship. When talking about it, Chopra sounded more Wall Street than Washington, "Entrepreneurs will look at healthcare, energy and education not out of social concern but because there is money to be made," he said.
Nevertheless, because of where we are with respect to social mood, the administration's strategy for innovation initiative, which was first rolled out in 2009, is relatively easy to unfairly and cynically dismiss as a "Hail Mary, cross our fingers and hope for the best" platform. But Socionomics informs us of this perception and the value in that is it allows us to step outside of our herding behavior instincts to try to examine things from a more balanced, critical perspective. For example, a version of this initiative released in 1998, when social mood was trending positive, would have been greeted with far more enthusiasm. It only the White House had a Socionomics Adviser.
5. American Workers Increasingly Dragged Down by Pointlessness
Finally, while we all endure our current economy and wait for a recovery, take a look at these Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix identified by Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab and author of The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business. The most striking among them, and in perfect sync with our present social mood, is what he calls Pointlessness.
"Here's a statistic that ought to set your hair on fire: somewhere between 50 and 75% of "employees" are "disengaged" (depending on whose numbers you want to buy): they don't care much, if at all, about the work they do. But can you blame them? Perhaps they don't care not just because the work they do feels pointless, but because, in human terms, it mostly is. Designing new bottles for deodorants or energy drinks or finding a new loophole in the law isn't exactly helping design, craft, build, or maintain the Sistine Chapel. Yet it's what roughly about 75% of us do every weary day of our drab working lives. Forget the numbers and just ask yourself: if you were to walk into any corporation, would you find faces brimming over with deep fulfillment and authentic delight--or stonily asking themselves, "If it wasn't for the accursed paycheck, would I really let imprison myself in this dungeon of the human soul?"
This is part of what I call the increase in the valuation of intangibles over materials objects, possessions and material-directed work. Increasingly, we can expect social mood to direct us toward activities that emphasize a sense of purpose over pointlessness. Sure, our deodorant packaging may suffer, but I think that's something we can all leave with peaceably.
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Jim Henson's 75th Birthday: The Effect on the World
Bill Prady (co-creator of The Big Bang Theory): I began writing while working for Henson, so his impact on my life is profound. Lesson: write what truly amuses you--not others. I began my writing career at the Muppets. There's not a day that goes by when I don't miss Jim. Happy birthday, boss.
Neal Patrick Harris (via Twitter): Jim Henson would have been 75 today. I wish he were still around. I miss him.
Chris Hardwick, The Nerdist (via Twitter): Happy 75th Bday JIM HENSON!! Your indelible mark on our souls will live on forever.
Kelly Tindall: Is it too negative to say that I'd sacrifice every person from every reality show to a volcano for one more hour of Jim Henson T.V.?
Elizabeth Leary: Funny how someone you never met can have such an impact on you. No idea where I'd be/what I'd be doing without Jim Henson.
Jacqueline Yatko: He made believe there will always be a child in each of us no matter what age we are.
Stephen Christy (Editor-in-Chief of Archaia Comics): Working on Jim Henson's Tale of Sand has been almost a spiritual experience. We are definitely trying to channel Jim's creativity.
Lauri Sarah: Jim Henson made me feel safe when I was scared and smile when I felt like crying, and forever friends.
Lucas Ross: He got into my head at an early age and has a thumbprint on all I do now. I even named my oldest son "Henson." for real. I tried for Kermit, but didn't fly.
Jonathan Melville: I've realized from Jim that I need to be more creative, mediocre isn't an option. Not sure I've succeeded, but I'm trying!
Dave Hulteen, Jr (Muppet Fan Artist): Today would have been Jim Henson's 75th birthday, the most influential person to me who has inspired my art.
James V. Carrol (Muppet Fan Artist): At five years old, my parents took me to see the theatrical debut of The Muppet Movie and it greatly impacted my life. I remember everything about that day. The illusion was so real that I actually believed the Swedish Chef broke the projector in the middle of the movie. Most people mistake becoming rich and famous as the goal of the film, but it's about sharing your journey with other likeminded individuals who may be very different in every other aspect of their lives. That kind of positivity, no matter what the challenge, is how I always think of Jim Henson and is only a fraction of what his work continues to mean in my life.
Noel MacNeal (Muppet Performer): This says it all. (And not only don't you ever see Kermit's feet, it's FUNNIER not seeing his feet!)
Ryan Dosier: I was born after Jim Henson was gone. The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson aired a month after I was born. I love the fact that Muppet stuff continued and has continued all thanks to the legacy Jim Henson left us. We miss you, Jim. Thank you for leaving us your legacy so that we can carry it on in your memory. You inspire me every day, Jim Henson. I hope to do your legacy proud.
Jerry Nelson (Muppet Performer): The first time I saw Jim Henson was 1956 at WOR. The NBC affiliate in the basement of the the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. I had just returned from military service and was working as a Page delivering mail and Tele-taped news updates to the newsroom and various departments of the station. He and Jane were rehearsing for that evening's show of Sam and Friends. Little did I know then that nine years later my life would be so intricately tied to the Muppets for so much of my career. A blessing that gave me the opportunity, though I did not know it at the time, to put into practice what I had trained for all of my life; to dance, sing, and play in the company of so many talented people. I thank my lucky stars Jim saw that potential in me when I finally met him in New York City.
And now we present an extremely special, personal thank you and look at how Jim Henson has affected the lives of the Barretta brothers: Bill and Gene.
On Jim Henson's 75th birthday, we're reflecting on what his life meant to us with a personal thank you. Our experiences are both solo and shared as brothers.
GENE: Jim made a tremendous impact on me early on. When I was 10, my cousin Gary and I discovered Bert and Ernie on TV--suddenly the world of puppetry came alive for us. I had to be very careful not to tell my junior high classmates I was watching Sesame Street. Eventually, we introduced my younger brother Billy to it and look where that led!
GENE & BILL: For many years after that, we, along with Gary, made frequent trips to the foam and fabric shop where we bought supplies to make our own "Muppets." There was an occasional puppet show at the Katzenbach School for the Deaf, thanks to one of their teachers, our Aunt Kathy. The shows were important to us, but making the puppets and fantasizing about what it might be like to one day work with Jim Henson was what it was all about.
BILL: Since I was four years younger than my brother and cousin, I got to be a part of the puppet shows by assisting them. I got to do things like, pull the string that released the confetti at the right moment. Helping them bring smiles to the deaf children's faces was something I'll never forget. And now, with what I've come to learn about Jim (through the people that were close to him), I think back on those early puppet shows and feel he would have really appreciated what we were doing. Especially how we placed the big speakers facing down onto the floor so that the deaf children could feel the vibrations of the music we played.
GENE: My first official encounter with Jim Henson was at age fourteen. I was not shy about sending him a fan letter to ask how he made his Muppets. It must have been his calm and generous demeanor that made me think it was ok to approach him. Not long after, guess what arrived in the mail? Not only a personal letter from Jim, but also a set of instructions on how to make Muppets! Would you expect anything else? That letter survived many decades in a ragged portfolio and is now hanging in my studio.
GENE & BILL: We were in his company three times after that. Once briefly when he showed up at Sesame Place, where we were working as summer employees alongside his son, Brian. A few years later we spent more time with Jim in his NY apartment during a visit with Brian. And our final honor was attending his memorial service in 1990.
BILL: I remember so vividly the day he came to Sesame Place. I happened to be working next to a brand new automated character attraction of "Oscar The Grouch" that they were testing. From where I was stationed, I looked up for a moment and just happened to see Jim walking into the park. He could have easily gone through some private VIP entrance, but instead, he entered the park just like everyone else. I immediately abandoned my post, ran up to him and said something corny like "Mr. Henson! Welcome to Sesame Place!" He said, in a low tone "Thanks. Do you know where the Oscar attraction is?" ...Did I? I basically spent the next half hour just staring at him as he observed Oscar and it's effects on the park guests. The fact that he preferred to be with the people and not with some VIP escort made a huge impact on me... such great humility.
GENE: I know that he made an impact on me because I think about him often–especially when I am working on one of my children's books. My manner with children was strongly influenced by watching Jim speak with them. I emphasize the word "with." He put children at ease when they were in his presence. He initiated a dialogue based on mutual respect. He made them feel as though he had nowhere more important to be during those moments. I strive to follow his lead.
BILL: And I guess I am following his lead as well. I'm always honored and amazed that I get to perform a few of Jim's characters. As a kid, and growing up, his characters seemed to jump out at me more than any others. The types of voices he created along with the pure and crazy, playful personas that went along with them, is something that feels close to me as a performer.
GENE: I can also thank Jim for helping me approach adulthood as an artist. Very early on, I recognized that he was a mature, responsible adult and parent who could also nurture a child-like innocence within. That was vital for his creative mind. I now know how important that is for my work (and life) as well. The trick though, is to not allow for the inner child to override maturity.
BILL: I actually prefer that my inner child take over. He's so much smarter and more fearless than me. Still searching for the balance I guess.
GENE & BILL: Finally, now that we both have a child, we hope to follow his lead as a parent. Look at his legacy. Jim and Jane raised five remarkable children. Speak with any of them and its clear that they experienced an inspired childhood filled with valuable life lessons. So, thank you, Jim. The best way to really thank you is to remain creative. And we will.
Chase Beecher: How could I pay tribute to Jim Henson? Well, there are not too many human beings that have affected my life the way that he has. Rumor has it, I had a Kermit doll in the womb with me, and that is when it all started. I have thought about this, and had Jim not been here, I know that I would probably want to be a school teacher or a doctor or something sane like that, rather than being a performer, trying to make millions of people happy. My sense of humor and wonder would radically be different. But more than that, I think the world would be radically different. The world is a lot lighter and happier and a lot greener for him having been here. I think the greatest and lasting tribute is not only the great men and women carrying on his legacy, but the great folks that I have met that share in my crazy love for the Muppets. We ourselves are a little like the Muppets: a fundamentally different group of individuals who have come together and cosmically understand one another on a deeper level.
Well, now that I have been all schmaltzy, I am going to go throw some Boomerang Fish. Just for the Halibut.
Do you wanna throw fish with Chase? Find him on Twitter @chasebeecher or at facebook.com/chasebeecher
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I am 33 years old and a proud Muppet fan. cannot wait for new Muppet movie, the kids will have to watch out as i will be sitting in the front row (probably singing along too) :-)ReplyDelete
My own thoughts on the man who was so influential to me growing up... Follow that Bird was my very first favorite movie, Sesame Street was my first favorite TV show and now I'm a TV and movie reviewer. http://www.justplainsomething.com/2011/09/muppets-dragon-tattoo-trailer-is-most.htmlReplyDelete
I grew up on Fraggle Rock- obsessed is a good description to describe my love of it as a child. Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas was one of my favorite movies as well, and loved the fact that my mom would watch it with me. As an adult I still watch and own these great pieces. I love the booklet that came with the fraggle Rock dvd, it shows Jim's creative process and is a neat glimpse at a mastermind at work.ReplyDelete
Jim Henson will always be an inspiration to me. Ever since I was little I have loved the Muppets, Muppet Babies and Sesame street. I was only about 8 when Jim Henson passed away but a year later I read an paper back biography book for kids about Jim Henson, and ever since then I have admired Jim Henson. I am teacher and I agree with Jim that children need imagination, and that we need to be more like children. :)ReplyDelete
I got hooked on the Muppets when I was in college and we would watch The Muppet Show every Friday night. My brother was in high school at an all boys boarding school and he said they had to dedicate one TV room every Friday night to The Muppet Show. And I got my 21 year old niece hooked on the Muppets when she was about 4 years old, she is still hooked!!! I can watch a Muppet Show and feel better immediately, if things are tough in my life. Thank you Jim Henson!!!ReplyDelete
***I was in a thrift store on September 23 and found, in pristine condition, the LIFE magazine featuring a goodbye to Jim Henson from July, 1990 for 29 cents. It sent shivers down my spine when I found out his 75th birthday was September 24.
I grew up on Jim Henson and for as long as I can remember he was my comfort, inspiration, love, and laughs. I will never forget when he became ill and his death that followed. It was like my best friend died. I always dreamed of showing up on the doorsteps of the Henson studios, bag in hand - willing to do ANYTHING as long as it was for Jim Henson. At 41 I still have that dream ((sigh))...Jim made the magic of life visible.ReplyDelete
Great article and wonderful tribute guys!ReplyDelete
Miss him, miss him, miss him. He was a genius with a golden heart. I'm 30 and I still watch Fraggle Rock from time to time. Can't wait for my son to enjoy Jim's creations.ReplyDelete


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Buddy Harston wonders how a 4-year-old orphan wandering the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa could find himself spending Christmas in America seven years later with a new family. He has only one answer - God's providence.
Harston's wife, Julie, reference librarian at Lipscomb's Beaman Library, arrived in South Africa Monday. She will spend the next four weeks in Durban getting to know her new son, Aphiwe, who lives in the Lily of the Valley Children's Village in Mophela, South Africa. She will live at the village and attend to paperwork and court dates to finalize an adoption process that has taken approximately 2 1/2 years.
Harston, 57, admits that it was not in his plans to adopt a child at this stage in his life. Again, Buddy saw God's hands in the plan.
"I don't feel like I'm doing it," Buddy said. "Buddy wouldn't do it. But I gave it over to God.
"The Buddy in my head would be saying `you can't do this'. Then I would be talking and saying we were going to do this. I started thinking what is going on. It had to be the Holy Spirit changing us. "
The idea started with Palmer and Taylor, the Harstons' daughters. Palmer was an Ingram Scholar as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt. She was required during the summers to spend seven-to-eight weeks on a service project. Palmer chose to spend two summers in South Africa working at a Christian orphanage in Durban which primarily accepted babies afflicted with HIV. Taylor, 23, accompanied her older sister on the second trip.
"They fell in love with the children in South Africa," Buddy said. "Many of the children are sick. Most of them have nothing. But they have a smile on their face all of the time."
Palmer, 25, was accepted to law school at Vanderbilt, but she took some time off before entering school to spend several months at Lily of the Valley which accepted children aged from two to 18.
"When Palmer came home she told us she wanted to adopt a couple of kids from South Africa," Buddy said. "We told her we would help her, but that she needed to finish law school first."
Back in Nashville Palmer began working with a lawyer who specialized in international adoptions. She discovered that United States citizens had been approved to adopt orphans from South Africa.
"Palmer just wouldn't let it go," Buddy said. "She said that we needed a new adventure. She wanted us to start the adoption process."
When Buddy, a 1974 graduate and golf coach for both the men's and women's teams at Lipscomb, expressed his reluctance Palmer urged her family to pray about it. One of the points of emphasis in those prayers was how the more than $30,000 in funding for the adoption was going to be provided.
"We didn't have it," Buddy said. "So we prayed to God if this was what He wanted to do that we would do it. And we would trust in God to help us to get the money."
God once again came through. Harpeth Hills Church of Christ started a program to fund adoptions. A family friend bought Julie's airplane ticket. Lipscomb's athletic department announced its Adoption Rally program where all of the gate receipts, with the exception of season tickets and advanced groups sales will be given to a family to assist with adoption expenses. The Harstons will be the first beneficiaries of the new program as part of the Bisons' game with Austin Peay Nov. 28.
"When we started this process there wasn't an adoption program at Harpeth Hills.," Buddy said. "And then, out of nowhere, the adoption program at the basketball games was started. It's been pretty amazing really."
But God wasn't finished. The Harstons weren't allowed to pick the child they wanted. But when they were told it would be Aphiwe, Palmer was even more thrilled. Palmer taught English and math at the village. Aphiwe had spent almost every afternoon at her house working on his homework.
Aphiwe's parents died before he was 2. His grandmother cared for him for a brief time but she was unable to continue. His only option was the street until he was rescued by Lily of the Valley.
"He is one of Palmer's favorites," Buddy said. "It was incredible that he happened to be the one that was selected. Taylor had also spent a couple of weeks at Lily of the Valley and she knew Aphiwe as well.
"We found out in the summer that we would be getting Aphiwe," Harston said. "We did a video Skype for him. Because he was over the age of 8 he could have said no. He was elated once he found out that we were the parents of Palmer and Taylor."
The Harstons are looking forward to raising a third child and they once again anticipate that God will be part of the process.
"A lot of this is just on faith," Buddy said. "It was on faith as to who they were going to give us. Palmer says that Aphiwe has such an incredibly kind spirit.
"We want to offer a God-centered family to this child. God is going to take care of us."
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Justin Bieber Pulled Over + Ticketed in Ferrari
Justin Bieber may need to go back to driving school. The 'Beauty and a Beat' singer got pulled over yet again last night (Nov. 13), this time while joyriding in his Ferrari. (We're a little jealous. Just a little.)
TMZ reports that Biebs was driving around with a guy pal in the passenger seat when he was pulled over at about 6:30 PM PT in West Hollywood. A Los Angeles County Sheriff's cruiser flashed its lights and blared its sirens, forcing the teen pop prince to pull over -- which Bieber actually took a photo of and posted to his Instagram!
Biebs was said to be cooperative and polite when dealing with the po-pos ... but he still got a ticket. It's unclear what the offense actually was at this time, but if his iPhone was handy enough to photograph the cop car, then maybe a cell phone charge had something to do with it. (That would make him a bit of a hypocrite if the case, no?)
This stop is only the latest in a pretty checkered driving record for Biebs, who, at 18, hasn't been behind the wheel for long. When he first got his now infamous Fisker Karma, there was a chance he could have been ticketed for its purple lights and tinted windows, though those are rarely primary offenses (but if he were pulled over for something else, like speeding, they may have been added to the ticket). Back in September, he inadvertently caused a crash between two overly aggressive paparazzi, and over the summer he was involved in a high speed chase so dangerous that a new law may be put in place to keep photogs at bay.
All that and a breakup with Selena Gomez? It's a rough week for the Biebs. Keep your chin up (and your eyes on the road)!
Update: According to a report from ET (via Yahoo), Bieber was pulled over in West Hollywood at 6:25 PM on Nov. 13 for making an unsafe left turn and having expired registration. He was ticketed and sent on his way.
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