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DETROIT – Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said in an email to employees Tuesday that no U.S. production of Jeep vehicles will be moved to China and that U.S. production of Jeeps "will constitute the backbone of the brand," contradicting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who five days earlier had repeated a false report that suggested Jeep production could be moved to China.
Without citing Romney by name, Marchionne said Chrysler remains committed to "investing to improve and expand our entire U.S. operations, including our Jeep facilities," according to a company email obtained by the Detroit Free Press.
"It is inaccurate to suggest anything different," Marchionne said.
Romney, in a rally Thursday in Ohio, said he "saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China." His campaign later released a new TV ad saying that Jeep would make vehicles in China, but dropped the claim that U.S. jobs would be moved to China.
Obama's campaign released its own ad attacking Romney for his auto industry policies, including his 2008 New York Times op-ed piece headlined "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
In his company email, Marchionne confirmed the company's previous statements that it plans to eventually restart vehicle production in China because the market "would not otherwise be accessible" without making vehicles there. Chinese regulations make it very difficult to import foreign vehicles.
"This ultimately will help bolster the Jeep brand, and solidify the resilience of U.S. jobs," Marchionne said. "Jeep is one of our truly global brands with uniquely American roots. This will never change."
Chrysler is investing $1.7 billion to produce the successor to the Jeep Liberty sport-utility vehicle, including a $500 million expansion with 1,100 jobs at a second shift at the company's assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio. The automaker also has added 2,000 jobs since June 2009 at its Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit, including a third crew that started last week.
Overall, Marchionne said, the company has added more than 11,200 jobs in the U.S. since its government-financed bankruptcy reorganization in 2009.

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Pardon my French!
By ADRIAN TAHOURDIN
There was a very unfunny TV sitcom in the late 1970s called Mind Your Language. It was set in a language school and its basic thrust, as I vaguely recall, was that foreigners are inherently funny and fitting targets for comedy (as the photo of the cast above suggests), particularly as they struggle with the English language. As a nation we Brits are pretty good at laughing at foreigners of course (some would say we're quite good at laughing at ourselves too), never more so perhaps than in that other 70s sitcom Fawlty Towers – but that was a work of genius and so is exempt from criticism. I'm talking about unfunny mockery here.
Is there any correlation, I wonder, between our mild xenophobia (not so mild in the case of the 1980s Sun newspaper) as expressed in programmes like Mind Your Language and our generally poor language accomplishments? Britain must be one of the most monoglot nations on the planet, in spite of the influx of immigrants and foreign workers. I've sometimes been made to feel as if having a passing acquaintance with the language spoken by people who live 20 miles across the Channel is something to be embarrassed about. Pardon my French!
And I sense that few of our leading politicians, with the exception of Nick Clegg, have any sort of command of a second European language. Not David Cameron I'm sure, who is temperamentally anti-European I sense, or Ed Miliband, or our dogged foreign secretary William Hague. Clegg is a notable exception, but then he's a Liberal Democrat and therefore pro-European and of course his lawyer wife is Spanish. His progressive views (and broken electoral pledges) make him an easy target for the popular press but, to his credit, he seems happy to play the role of political punchbag. Viewers gave the UKIP leader Nigel Farage the edge over Clegg in their recent televised debates: Farage, the plain-spoken pub bore (who, being an MEP, I suspect must speak more than one European language but doesn't let on), bested Clegg the Europhile and slightly dry technocrat.
Where do these failings – if failings they are – begin? The Guardian recently published an article pointing out that "the number of students taking a language degree is at the lowest level in a decade", citing a 22% (22!) drop in numbers between the academic years 2010–11 and 2012–13. The figures are taken from a report put out by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, whose author Janet Ilieva writes: "A worrying fact is that the data has seen a fall in applications to foreign modern languages in 2013–14". John Worne, director of strategy at the British Council, is quoted as saying "While it's good to see more young British people going into higher education, it's disappointing that language courses aren't benefiting from this upward trend, with yet another dramatic decline in students taking languages". Disappointing indeed.
I took soundings from modern language academics among TLS contributors (all of whom, by chance, happen to be teaching at Oxford) and was told that for Italian, Oxford and Cambridge are bucking the nationwide trend of falling numbers (and department closures). Where Spanish is concerned, meanwhile, according to Ben Bollig, Fellow and Tutor in Spanish at St Catherine's College, "We have no shortage of good applicant. Indeed there are many applicants who I'm sure are very good and potentially very worthy of a place, but we can't admit them all, sadly". He continues: "Given that a number of universities have reduced their provision or closed down language departments, it's probably there that we see the overall fall in numbers. Teaching modern languages is expensive in comparison to other arts and humanities subjects, in that you have to teach the language (normally in quite small groups) as well as the 'content'. But there are some encouraging signs elsewhere. Warwick opened a new Spanish department and Reading is doing so for 2015. I hear Spanish is doing very well at my previous employer, Leeds. Oxford is fortunate to be well resourced and through the collegiate system and the tutorial model able to offer precisely the sort of teaching that mod langs students require."
Meanwhile Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of German at Oxford, writes that "applications in Modern Languages are healthy, though (at least in the case of German) this requires a lot of dedicated outreach work". But Patrick McGuinness, Fellow of St Anne's, where he lectures in French, is rather less sanguine. He tells me that "from an Oxford perspective we spent about ten years thinking we were ok because our applications numbers held up. But probably we aren't in the long run . . . . The rot set in when they took literature out of GCSE and A level and concentrated on language skills unmoored from cultural and grammatical knowledge. The result is that people who used to do languages because they loved literature turned away from it (old A level combinations used to be English, history plus language or English plus two languages) and those who did it are not noticeably better at language than before. Also important to remember that teachers who like literature used to teach languages and that has also changed."
Back in the day when I read French and German at King's College London, the course was roughly – as I recall – 60 per cent literature and 40 per cent language (any more language would have been frankly intolerable). I regarded it as being like doing English but with a foreign language (or two) thrown in. Particularly where German was concerned it meant that I read texts that I would never otherwise have come across (see above) while assiduously avoiding others (anything medieval). I'm grateful to have had that exposure: it was good to get a sizeable amount of Thomas Mann's work under my belt, for example. Those Reclam editions I've pictured above, with their very yellow covers and tiny font size, cost 60p (one of them still has a price label on the back) from Grant & Cutler near the Strand (where it once was), or Dillon's in Gower Street. I recall one of my peers telling me immediately after Finals that he was taking his whole collection down to the bookshop to sell them! I can't imagine he would have got very much for them.
Meanwhile, my elder daughter is learning both French and Spanish at her Secondary academy, and loving it – which is great. So far, however, there has not been a literary text in sight, but that could change next year. I hope so.


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|Reviews for Right
| Ninna Boo chapter 1 . 8/2/2009
*Molly rocks*
| Abstractly Sydney chapter 1 . 8/2/2009
that was good!
| thegoodgirldoll chapter 1 . 8/2/2009
That was so refreshing, a nice little oneshot! Cute, fluffy, somewhat angsty, but gorgeous put together...nice little cocktail of post battle and moving on. I loved it! Molly was totally in character as was everyone else's reactions...and it was cute with George wanting to make it right for Fred...but maybe you can do one more short chapter with their marriage day. Not the whole thing, just end with, oh yes, george knew he wanted to marry her, or something with feeling/...i felt like george didnt really want to marry her fully, even though he might LIKE her...he needs to be sure and if you could do another chapter it would eb great for closur..thats the only thing it was somewhat lacking...i could say length, but i wont because it was a perfect size...any longer of a first chapter wouldve ruined the short, sweet, funny concept.
Great job!
Check out my stories if you get a chance!
God bless


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I'm biased and I admit it. In the past year or two, something wonderful (or terrible, depending on your point of view) has happened: lots of people are jumping on the "social" bandwagon. As someone who's been in the trenches pioneering the work to shift a big company to approaching all aspects of our work in a way that incorporates help from our customers, I respect other pioneers more than newcomers. I just do. I suspect the other "first movers" from big companies feel the same way, although no one actually comes right out and says so.
Here's why: people who were on the boat from the beginning have a shared experience. Without saying so, I know we've all faced the same skepticism, rolling eyes, and outright sneers from co-workers we respect and admire. We've all experienced the joy that comes with seeing new people understand and adopt new practices that embrace customers. We understand that the wins you have as an innovator may not be the ones you expected, but you celebrate them nonetheless.
A few personal stories on why relationships between pioneers matter so deeply:
When I first met Seth Greenberg four years ago, I suspect we both felt like two guppies in a pond full of goldfish. Both recent hires from internet backgrounds, we found ourselves surrounded by some of the smartest people we'd ever met. And they all thought in a really different way than we did – the consumer packaged goods way. (for those unfamiliar with that approach it's traditional, disciplined, and steeped in decades of research and data) Our first meeting was at our then VP of Marketing's staff meeting – he had asked me to present our work with the Inner Circle. As I walked through the site, explaining how we partnered with customers to create our product, most of the room listened with varying degrees of interest. But not Seth. He lit up immediately, offering ideas of what we could do on the site to make it even more interactive. "Finally!" I remember thinking, "finally, someone I can talk to about this stuff."
Around this same time two product managers whose opinions I still deeply respect to this day were telling me to, in effect, get a real job because nothing was ever going to come of this social stuff. But not Seth. And when it was time to leave product management for my next career move, our shared experience helped pave the way to a brand new opportunity working for Seth. (Which was transforming for both of us, I think)
Just as surely I knew "social" was the direction to go four years ago, I know the "early majority" jumping on board now is a necessary thing – the next frontier. How can we scale our efforts without their help? We can't. And like Charlene Li states in her new book Open Leadership I need to find a way to enable even more adoption and still be a leader.
Next up: embracing the challenge of the unknown.


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Here's the first post-Labor Day chance for you to hear what the Republican candidates for Guv sound like live, unscripted and grilled by someone who knows how to ask questions: A "moderated conversation" at 9 a.m. Thursday on the highly-rated "Ronn Owens Program" on KGO (810 AM). And they'll be welcoming calls, too, so start dialing.
Well, most of the Republican candidates will be there. Ex-Rep. Tom Campbell and Insurance Commish Steve Poizner will show. Ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman won't. Here's a reminder about about all the backstage drama behind this.
Whitman's reason for blowing off one of the nation's most powerful talk show hosts? Camp Whitman's Sarah Pompei tells us Tuesday:
"Meg's schedule is set weeks in advance and we received this invitation with only one week's notice. We were not able to rearrange her schedule so that she could participate. Currently, we're working with Ronn Owens' producer to set up an interview so Meg and Ronn can discuss the important issues facing the state."
We asked what Meg will be doing instead during showtime Thursday, but have not heard back The schedule on Meg's website looks kinda empty.
Ronn O's producer, Mark Silverman, told us Tuesday that while nothing is in stone, the show may not revisit the race again until late in the year. Or maybe not until in January. Nothing personal, but it's a general interest show and they've got a lot of topics to cover and may not want to till the same ground so soon, sez Silverman.
The larger question: Does the Whitman camp — with a ton of cash in the bank, much of it courtesy of the billionaire — need "free media"? If Team Poiz doesn't raise enough cash by the next fundraising deadline gut check (at the end of September) to scare her, Whitman may feel little pressure to indulge such joint appearances in the future while she's still getting her political sea legs.
As for Thursday's gig, Silverman said not to expect any sort of rigid format or time limits on answers, etc. Ronn O has done enough of these that there has been little post-show candidate whining over the years.
The measure of success Thursday, sez Silverman: "If both sides end up pissed off at us, then we were doing something right."


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WWE announced today the roster for the new WWE 2K15 Video Game.
In addition to the roster, Renee Young told the WWE Universe that NXT will be featured in WWE 2K15's myCareer mode. Players will be able to start their career in WWE NXT and work their way up to the main roster.
The WWE 2K15 roster includes the following names, and since revealing them WWE has announced a total of 92 roster spots for the game:
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The British Fashion Council (BFC), which organises the bi-annual event, had decided not to follow the lead of Madrid fashion week, which banned very thin models from the catwalk.
Instead it wrote to designers asking them to use only healthy looking girls aged over 16 in their shows. Speaking after the Paul Costelloe show yesterday, Hilary Riva, the BFC's chief executive, said the policy was having an impact: "The Irish designer's collection has been a positive start to the week ... What I think we saw there were great models. Very tall, and there wasn't one of them which I thought looked very young or excessively thin."
She said she had had a positive response from designers about the use of models aged over 16 but added that it was "unrealistic to expect changing behaviours and attitudes after a short space of time in something like this".
At the weekend Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, said models should undergo a medical check before appearing and she felt doctors should be on hand during the London event.
Yesterday Topshop was the first big name to show its Unique autumn-winter collection, in Covent Garden. The range, which included 1930s and 1940s inspired shapes, was more grown-up than usual.
Sir Philip Green, head of Arcadia, which owns Topshop, has an acute sense of responsibility regarding Topshop's choice of models. He insisted he was "committed to using only healthy models" and guaranteed that "only healthy size eight-10 girls" would appear.
The BFC is hoping that its recent tactic of inviting high-profile guests to London will succeed in garnering positive publicity for the event. Over the past two seasons visits from Anna Wintour, the influential editor of US Vogue, and Italian designer Giorgio Armani, invited to show by the BFC, have boosted London's profile.
On Friday Marc Jacobs will officially close fashion week with a presentation of his younger Marc By Marc Jacobs line. It will be the first time he has shown outside of New York.
Jacobs is a key player in the industry, known for his quirky clothes and A-list celebrity following.
Friday's guest list is a keenly guarded secret. But yesterday there was speculation that film director Sofia Coppola, the designer's muse, would be in the front row. Jacobs' office would only confirm that they were expecting several of "Marc's friends" to attend.
Friday will also see the official opening of Marc Jacobs' first London boutique in Mayfair. The presence of such a well-respected designer is viewed by most as an inspiration to London's home-grown designers, who historically have been strong on creativity but weak on commercial know-how.
Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue, said: "It's an honour for us to have the Marc show here ... The idea that star names are a distraction is nonsense - it only brings in more new people to check out the talent we already have here."


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Getting wine to work in Slackware64 (13.0)
I cannot for the life of me get wine to run properly on Slackware64. I've followed Alien's guide (http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...kware:multilib).
Every time I try to install steam for example, I get this error:
err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Failed writing PNG because unable to find libpng14.so.14
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
I'm still fairly new to Linux so please be understanding. :)
the very first line of your error message gives a string hint about where the problem is.
if you look at the end, it's telling you it can't find libpng yadda yadad.
Now, it's been ages since i've used slack... but in most distributions, when you are trying to compile a program, what you need is the seperate development ( -devel, -dev ) package.
Another tip: after you install your new libpng-dev, make sure to run ldconfig after you are done. Slackware tends to ( amazingly enough ) cut you NO SLACK in doing things!
I feel for ya. Installing wine... on slack.
Makes my blood pressure go up just thinking about it
Slackware has no -dev/-devel packages since it includes development headers along with the original package (as opposed to splitting them arbitrarily against upstream wishes).
Where did you get that version of WINE? libpng-1.4.3 is included with Slackware 13.1, but libpng-1.2.37 is included with 13.0 (and this is an incompatible change...programs must be recompiled to support one vs. the other). If you grabbed a 13.1 package from Alien Bob or elsewhere, you would have to recompile it (or find a binary compiled for 13.0). Alien Bob has a 13.0 wine package here in the event that you did accidentally grab the package for 13.1.
I actually just grabbed it from WineHQ. I grabbed the lastest version without thinking I'm using an older version of Slackware. I'll try the link you suggested right now to see if I can finally get this to work! I've been trying for two straight days now. :(
EDIT: Okay now I feel stupid, I can't for the life of me get this to install. Tried to untar then ./configure and nothing.
Assuming you grabbed Alien Bob's package here you would just have to navigate to the appropriate directory containing the newly downloaded file and run
upgradepkg --install-new wine-1.1.29-x86_64-1alien.tgz
err:process:create_process starting 64-bit process L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" not supported on this platform
err:process:start_wineboot failed to start wineboot, err 193
Any ideas?
Mind that 64bit wine does NOT support 32bit applications and vise versa; You need to get a 32bit wine on a multilib-bed 64bit Slackware to get it to run 32bit win-applications. If you need to run 64bit win applications, you need to get a 64bit wine.
They can be installed together, but there are some tricks involved to get that to work properly.
EDIT: For kicks I tried to install the i486 version hosted by Alien, and same error pops up. Also tried to run 32dev.sh (before running the wine installer) from compat32 and still nothing. :(
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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. — Franklin Whitehouse Jr., a New York Times reporter who began his career with the paper as a copy boy, died of a heart attack, it was announced Monday. He was 51.
He died at home Saturday.
Mr. Whitehouse joined the Times in 1958 as a copy boy and became a reporter in 1960, working on the paper`s city desk.


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My Neighbor Totoro (Novel)
Title: My Neighbor Totoro
Volume: Novel
Pages: 192
Distributor: Viz Media
Release date: 2013-10-01
Suggested retail price: $17.99
Age rating: ALL
Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei have moved to the country to be closer to their ailing mother. While their father is working, the girls explore their sprawling old house and the forest and fields that surround it. Soon, Satsuki and Mei discover Totoro, a magical forest spirit who takes them on fantastic adventures through the trees and the clouds - and teaches them a lesson about trusting one another.
The beloved animation classic by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Totoro is now retold in novel form. This prestige, hardcover edition features original illustrations by Miyazaki himself, accompanying a story written by Tsugiko Kubo.
Written by Tsugiko Kubo and Illustrated by Hayao Miyazaki.
(added on 2013-09-19, modified on 2013-09-19)
- Reviewed by Carlo Santos (October 20, 2013)
- Encyclopedia information about My Neighbor Totoro (movie)


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Soy-Scallion Flank Steak
A marinade of Asian ingredients adds new flavor to grilled steak.
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Level: Easy
Serves: 8
- ⅓ c. soy sauce
- 3 clove garlic
- 2 tbsp. grated peeled fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp. rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp. Asian sesame oil
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- ½ tsp. ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 1 bunch green onions
- 2½ lb. beef flank steak
- In medium bowl, whisk soy sauce, garlic, ginger, vinegar, oil, sugar, and ground red pepper until sugar dissolves. Reserve 2 tablespoons marinade; cover and set aside. Transfer remaining marinade to large self-sealing plastic bag.
- Thinly slice green onions; reserve 1/4 cup for garnish. Add steak and remaining green onions to bag, turning to coat. Seal bag, pressing out excess air. Place bag on plate and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight, turning over several times.
- Prepare outdoor grill for covered direct grilling on medium. Remove steak from marinade, scraping off excess solids, and place on hot grill grate. Discard marinade in bag. Cover grill and cook steak 12 to 14 minutes for medium-rare or until desired doneness, turning over once. Let steak stand 10 minutes to set juices for easier slicing.
- In small bowl, combine two tablespoons hot water with reserved marinade; drizzle over steak to serve and sprinkle with reserved green onion.
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Not too long ago, my husband and I had not one earthly thing to talk about. When we'd met, we shared a few common interests. Once we became parents, however, we had less time to enjoy those interests.
In our relationship, I'm the talker. He's the listener. After so many sleepless nights in a row, I stopped talking. Our communication ceased. Flash forward three years, to the middle of our marriage project. We still had very little to say to one another. Worse, he talked to people all day long and came home in need of silence. As a freelance writer, I went days without hearing the sound of another person's voice. I ended my workday in need of conversation.
Over time, I learned to satisfy my need for chatter with various social engagements and gave my husband his space when he arrived home from work. But when I needed him to talk, I got him to talk, and here are the topics and questions I used. Perhaps they will work for you as well.
The news: My husband reads the newspaper. I'd like to, I just never get around to it. So, I ask him to tell me about the important news of the day, and he does because he's the kind of guy who likes to be in the know and be the first to share such information.
Politics: He's an independent and I'm a Democrat, therefore we generally share the same views. Our discussions about politics are not heated; rather they turn into the, "Wow, you are so right," and "No, you are so right" type of discussions that all of us need from time to time.
Our daughter: Typical questions I might ask include:
Do you think we should ask her teachers not to let her nap at school? I don't think she needs one anymore.
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AS the countdown to Christmas Eve begins, the traditional toys of generations past appear to be the most popular still.
The remote-controlled vehicles and dolls, while now more technologically advanced, have been fast sellers in the malls and stores over the past weeks.
At Toymart, High Street, San Fernando, the best seller was a doll called Baby Alive.
Prices ranged from $399 and up.
The second best seller was the Beyblades, a top of different sizes and prices.
Shopper Melissa Ramsahai said yesterday she was searching for a truck or construction vehicle for her three-year-old son, Nathan Boxie.
She also has a six-year-old daughter who wanted a Bratz doll and a five-month-old baby who needed "baby things".
Customer Adrian Lezama said his five-year-old son Isaiah was very specific when he requested his Christmas gift from Santa Claus months ago.
"He wants a remote-controlled car. It must be chargeable and it must have rubber tyres. It must be red with a black stripe or black with a red stripe."
When asked how much he was willing to spend on such a gift, Lezama replied, "It does not matter."
Kelly Sookai, who was shopping with her son, three-year-old KJ Seeraj, at JD's Supercentre, said, "All he (Seeraj) wants is a choo-choo train."
At the Supercentre, Christmas trees were a major seller.
The store has sold at least 50 trees for the season and last week there were only about six left. The prices vary from $245 to $1,000.
Sandra Meade, supervisor at Ishmael M Khan and Sons Ltd, said shoppers were purchasing books more than toys and the main sellers were story books and inspirational books.
At Radio Shack, Port of Spain, salesman Keagan Taylor said the F150 monster truck, ranging in prices between $290 and $975, was the big seller, followed by helicopters.
At Radio Shack's La Romaine branch at the Gulf City Mall, iTune gift cards were hot sellers, along with helicopters, headphones and video games.
Salesman Sanjay Ramrattan said, by week's end, the truck would be the number-one seller.
At Rajendra's Toybox, San Fernando, bicycles were the main seller, followed by racing cars, dolls and action figures.
And at Ryan's Variety Store, salesperson Roopa Beharrysingh said customers were interested in movie and cartoon character toys, especially stuffed character toys, doll houses and scooters.


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The Himalayan Garden at Grewelthorpe has scooped first prize in a rhododendron competition during an RHS show at Harlow Carr in Harrogate.
The Royal Horticultural Society's Late Rhododendron Show ran alongside a two-day show organised by the Harlow Carr Rhododendron, Camellia and Magnolia group.
Hannah Wilson, resident plant researcher at the Himalayan Garden, said: "I am delighted to have scooped first place again, especially as the competition was much closer this year. The results reflect the range and quality of rhododendron now thriving at the gardens."
Highlights at the show included an advice stall, "best-of" displays by local gardens, guided woodland walks and a talk by rhododendron expert Peter Bland.
In addition to the Himalayan Garden, other top regional gardens exhibiting at the event included Newby Hall and the Yorkshire Arboretum.
The Himalayan Garden, which is open till June 8, has a collection of more than 500 different species of rhododendron alone, and more than 1,000 different hybrid rhododendron and azaleas planted in groups for maximum impact on the steep hillsides.
In addition to the rhododendron, there are 120 different magnolias ranging from popular cultivars to the more unusual large-leaved magnolia species, which are just starting to flower.
The gardens are open daily except Mondays, from 10am-4pm.
– A private guided tour of the Himalyan Garden led by Hannah on May 20 raised £434 for the Ripon branch of Yorkshire Cancer Research.


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Mythgard on LOTRO
Do you play The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO)? Do you want to start? Here's how you can join in the fun while diving (further) into the depths of Tolkien's world of Middle-earth.
|In Game
|On the Web
|Join the Mythgard Kinship (Landroval)
|Facebook Group
|Exploring The Lord of the Rings – Tuesdays @ 9:30pm ET (various servers)
|Signum University Twitch Stream
What is LOTRO and why is Mythgard involved?!
The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Turbine with a commitment to remaining as consistent as possible with Tolkien's original work. In the game, players participate in quests that follow the story of the trilogy and cross paths with members of the Fellowship as the story progresses.
Along the way, LOTRO players take part important scenes of the story. For example, as part of the Epic Quest line, players can witness the breaking of the Fellowship or take part in epic battles, such as the Battle of Helm's Deep.
One of the coolest aspects of the game, however, is not merely the adherence to the plot of the original story, but the extrapolation and adaptation that the Turbine team has brought to the world. Players can participate in important events that happen tangentially to the trek of the Fellowship through Middle-earth. For example, one quest has players searching for the missing Rider after the flooding of the Fords of Bruinen, while a series of other quests allow players to muster the Grey Company and join them in their ride south.
Mythgard Participation and Kinship
Given the quality of the adaptation that Turbine developers and storymasters have developed in the LOTRO virtual world of Middle-earth, Mythgard Institute has found LOTRO to be a unique and exciting place to study Tolkien's work – not only as an adaptation and development of Tolkien's own subcreation, but also as a forum for "other minds and hands" to (sub)create their own in-world fellowships and express themselves artistically.
Since creating his first "alt" in LOTRO, Dr. Corey Olsen – founder and president of Signum University and self-dubbed Tolkien Professor – has become an active LOTRO player. With the help of some more experience players, he started the Mythgard Kinship where Mythgardians and others who are interested in a deeper understanding of Tolkien's stories could join to quest, fellowship, and talk lore together during both scheduled and unscheduled events. Most events are open for participation by any player, not just Mythgard kin members.
As the Mythgard Kin has grown, we have also had opportunities to collaborate and join with other kins in the game. Unlike some other games which promote competition and aggression against other players and groups, LOTRO is set up to foster cooperation. In that spirit, Mythgard plans to develop additional collaborations in the future with other kins for a variety of activities.
The Mythgard Kinship is based in LOTRO's Landroval server. However, in 2017, Dr. Olsen will be scheduling regular discussions and quests on other servers, so that others can experience the educational approach that Mythgard brings to the game.
Mythgard and Signum on Twitch.tv
As desire developed for a more disciplined approach to exploring the hidden gems of LOTRO, so Dr. Olsen began broadcasting the play of one of his alts – Gryfflet, the hobbit burglar – as he followed the quests that align with main story of the trilogy. During special occasions, such as the Signum University Annual Fund Drive, Dr. Olsen would also broadcast extended marathons with Wigend, another of his characters.
Mythgard Institute, through its parent institution Signum University, is the only institution of higher learning currently on Twitch.tv, a website dedicated to streaming gaming videos. Both players and non-players can watch live or archived sessions of Dr. Olsen and others as they play story-based games and discuss the lore behind the game.
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text: stephen at cerebralmaelstrom.com wrote: > I need a Dictionary who's order is perdictable and/or settable; e.g. > FIFO/LILO... For instance, if I do: dict['A'] = 1, dict['C'] = 2, dict > ['B'] = 3, then dict.keys() would return ('A','C','B'), always. :) The seqdict module is available from http://home.germany.net/100-366919/Python/Modules/Modules.html Hamish Lawson Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.


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Bower (bower.io) is quickly becoming the "npm" of client side code such as backbone, angular, and jquery. While some of these modules are also published to npm, an increasing number of them are showing up only in the bower.io repository.
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Wanted to inform you, we have submitted a pull request to the Bower project to support Artifactory through Bower client.
You can review the pull request here: https://github.com/bower/bower/pull/1686, feel free to comment in order to push forward.
In the up coming version we will add the relevant support on Artifactory side as well.
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Bower support (in beta) added to v3.6.
Detailed description can be found here: http://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Bower+Repositories
Question: Once the pull request into bower has been accepted, can we then resume using bower install rather than bower-art install?
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secondhalf wrote:I still wish that things were like they were 30+ years ago when a kid often times supported themselves through college.
I am not sure what you are meaning; both of my kids are doing it today, as are my gf's kids. My college fund and retirement accounts were emptied to fund the custody fight, so my kids had no choice...either with the funding or the decision to metriculate. More kids are enrolled in college these days than ever (so I understand...can't cite a report, but have heard it often in news reports) despite the higher tuition.


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USA Missouri Route 66. Springfield. Rest Haven Court Motel. (Alan Copson ©)
sunset old night american sign alan hotels usa america signs north dusk court hotel rest neon motel states united route 66 haven motels springfield missouri copson
Nicely done :) I love the desaturization on this, really gives it that feel that it was taken in the 50's or 60's. :)
Beautiful image – nice treatment – love that neon!
Amazing use of colour. Would you please consider adding this image to the new "Diners, Drive Ins, and Roadside Attractions" group?
Thanks Steven…
Yes, I would love to joing that group. I am a great fan of Americana, especially Route 66, so hope you'll like some more of my work.
All the best, Al.
i love old neon signs
well done :)
That's great!Thank you so much.Looking forward to my next Route 66 shoot, but looks like it's going to be a while off.
fabulous color!
opps… forgot to say congrats on the feature!!
Hi Everyone!Thanks for all the great comments!Al
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Funny, but I don't think so. But I'm gay so what do I care?
I was already gonna vote for them but this helped a little. =)
i dont care if they are 'friendly'! if they dont win were all boned!
I love it, that is possibly the funniest thing in the world and wtf to that "homophobic" guy if your homophobic then why are you in the gay mans party or as most people call them "lefties"?
Good stuff
That was pretty funny, Galactic Debate is still my favorite but this was good. It's funny how even though I'm for Kerry I can laugh at this. TAKE THAT STUPID PERSON WHO REVIEWED THIS BEFORE ME.
That was intended elementary school insults. Republicans should know about that stuff.
very funny flash. i hate how democrats are liek oh no we lost some people int he war: ONLY TO SAVE thousands of people from dying! thatshorrible! we shouldnt have saved thousands of people from gassings thats wrong!! democrats are being gay


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Two different volatile substance use prevention programs are experiencing uncertain funding futures due to confusion over contracts.
The Makin' tracks program, an initiative run by the Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (ADAC) of South Australia, lost three key staff in June due to 'bureaucratic wrangling'.
Scott Wilson, ADAC Director, said he was advised in mid-June the program would get its annual $300,000 from the Australian Department of Health, but without a contract he was unable to continue to employ staff.
The Makin' tracks program provides immediate interventions in remote communities across Australia when they suffer a petrol-sniffing 'outbreak'. A Health Department spokeswoman said the program's funding had been extended until next June.
And in the Northern Territory, the Central Australian youth link up service (CAYLUS) also expects to lose about $300,000 in annual funding for youth diversion services from next July.
CAYLUS coordinator, Blair McFarland, said that there needed to be a more equitable distribution of funding, including of prevention measures, instead of channelling the money through the Northern Territory intervention.
'It's like disbanding the fire brigade,' he said. 'There are constant outbreaks of sniffing. The problem isn't going away and it isn't going to go away while kids are so disadvantaged.'
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text: Maxwell was the best dog ever to have graced God's Earth. He loved to chase his frisbee and tear up a dirty pair of socks. My boy was a loyal companion, never more than a few feet from my side. Tender hearted and outgoing, he never met a soul he couldn't make smile. He unfortunately passed away in his sleep 1/21/10, losing his battle with canine lymphoma. He had just turned 7. Canine lymphoma is common in golden retrievers. It is a product of their over-breeding. I hope that Maxwell's story helps to shed some light on the tragic consequences of irresponsible breeding of pure breed dogs. He was my best friend and his passing leaves an enormous hole in my heart. I love you little boy.Add to Favorites


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Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 2011
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Embryonal tumors are an aggressive subtype of high-grade, pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often with dismal survival rates. The 5-year survival for highest-risk embryonal tumors may be as low as 10 %. We report feasibility and efficacy from our experience using intravenous (IV) cyclophosphamide concurrently with craniospinal radiation (CSI) in high-risk embryonal CNS tumors of childhood. Ten consecutive children (aged: 3.5-15.5 years, median: 10.2 years, six male) with high-risk embryonal tumors, including: large cell/anaplastic medulloblastoma (6), atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (1), and leptomeningeal primitive neuroectodermal tumor (3), were treated with IV cyclophosphamide 1 g/M(2) on days 1 and 2 of CSI. Following a median of 36 Gy CSI plus tumor boosts, adjuvant treatment consisted of 21 doses of oral etoposide (7) and alkylator based chemotherapy from five to eight cycles in all. Of the ten patients thus treated, six remain alive with no evidence of disease and four are deceased. Median survival was 3.3 years, with a 3-year progression-free survival of 50 % (5/10). Median follow-up was: 3.3 years (range: 5 months-12.9 years) in the five patients with progression, median time-to-progression was: 1.3 years (range: 1 month-3 years). Median follow-up in the patients without progression is 8.8 years (range: 3-12.9 years). Complications due to adjuvant chemotherapy were typical and included myelosupression (10), necessitating shortened duration of chemotherapy in three, and hemorrhagic cystitis (1). In high-risk embryonal CNS tumors, cyclophosphamide given concurrently with CSI is well tolerated. Early results suggest that a phase II trial is warranted.
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OPINION STATEMENT: Rates of regrowth after resection of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) are low, making surgical resection a successful and permanent therapeutic strategy. In addition to surgical resection of SEGAs, other treatment options now include medications and Gamma Knife therapy. Advising patients on medical versus surgical management of SEGAs is currently not easy. SEGAs have been reported to regrow if mTOR inhibitor therapy is stopped, raising the possibility that long-term medication may be required to prevent tumor growth and hydrocephalus. The question of regrowth following medication withdrawal will need to be addressed in more patients to help establish the optimal duration of therapy. The risks of surgery include acute morbidity and the permanent need for ventriculoperitoneal shunting, which must be balanced against the adverse effects of mTOR inhibitors, including immunosuppression (infections, mouth sores), hypercholesterolemia, and the need for chronic drug monitoring. Some additional benefits of mTOR inhibition in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex, however, may include shrinkage of angiofibromas and angiomyolipomas as well as a possible decrease in seizure burden. Recent reports of successful nonsurgical treatment of SEGAs are promising, and it is hoped that further specifics on dosing, duration, and long-term outcome will help patients and physicians to make informed therapeutic choices.Present treatment recommendations for SEGAs include routine surveillance neuroimaging and close clinical follow-up, paying particular attention to signs and symptoms of acute hydrocephalus. If symptoms arise, or if serial neuroimaging demonstrates tumor growth, neurosurgical intervention is recommended. When gross total resection is impossible, rapamycin and everolimus should be considered, but may not offer a durable response.
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After seeing Tallulah Hallelujah!, there is little doubt that Tovah Feldshuh adores Tallulah Bankhead. In this homage to the famously audacious and eventually self-destructive actress, we quickly learn a lot about her grit, humor, promiscuity and courage. Ms Feldshuh, who wrote and stars in this production, uses the premise that Tallulah was the celebrity emcee of an Ella Fitzgerald Concert for the USO in 1956. When Ella doesn't appear, the unprepared Tallulah must replace her. This show is what we see for the next 90 minutes, and becomes a metaphor for her declining life.
When the USO show begins, a gorgeous Tovah Feldshuh saunters out in a full mink coat. Using a deep sultry voice, she flirts ferociously with her audience of servicemen. Exuding confidence and uninhibited sexuality, she spins off a series of amusing puns and double entendres that continue for a good half-hour. This, it seems, represents Tallulah at her nonconformist, uninhibited best.
As the performance goes on, an increasingly stressed Tallulah becomes more and more desperate for material. She breaks her two-month moratorium on alcohol and tobacco. She drinks glass after glass of bourbon and gradually loses control of the performance in the same way she is supposedly loosing control of her life. Not without thought of filler for Ms Feldshuh as well as Tallulah, she wanders into the audience asking questions like "What was the naughtiest thing you ever did?" and receiving answers like "I took my cousin's iron when she wasn't looking." Even Tallulah didn't have a witty comeback for that one.
Thankfully, Ms Feldshuh sings several songs to break up Tallulah's breakdown. No one can stop the inevitable, and, as easily foreseen, the more she drinks the more the play drifts into a general chronological biography of Tallulah Bankhead's life. This lets Ms Feldshuh pull out all the stops and the emotions fly. However, by that time, I'm not sure anybody in the audience really cared all that much.
Ms Feldshuh is a wonderful actress. The best moments of her performance in this production involve sad interactions with a handsome and gallant soldier (Mark Deklin), who she calls on stage to fetch her a drink or to light a cigarette. These short interludes tell us more about Tallulah's state of mind than so much of the inane audience participation she uses to stretch the show. Ms. Feldshuh can also deliver a song with strength and pathos that few performers can match. If you are a Tovah Feldshuh fan, you probably won't be disappointed with Tallulah Hallelujah! If you're a Tallulah Bankhead fan, all bets are off.
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My laptop is a Dell/Alienware M11X (R1), and I'm having one hell of a time getting any audio despite the Wiki entry which states that the sound should work out of the box. I've gone through the ALSA wiki entry to no avail, and I've also done quite a bit of searching both here and elsewhere around the Internet. The few threads I've found that seem to describe my exact issue don't appear to have a resolution.
Note: the issue *is* with a laptop but it also seems to be Kernel/Hardware-related, and though I'm new to Arch I'm not new to Linux. Apologies if I've dropped this thread in the wrong spot.
(hopefully) Relevant Information:
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ uname -a
Linux GryHvns 3.11.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 14 08:31:43 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ dmesg | grep -i hda
[ +0.056296] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[ +0.020074] hda_codec: ALC665: SKU not ready 0x598301f0
[ +0.002084] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input8
[ +0.000316] input: HDA Intel Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
[ +0.000060] input: HDA Intel Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10
[ +0.000053] input: HDA Intel Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
[ +0.000555] hda_intel: Disabling MSI
[ +0.000012] hda-intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle VGA-switcheroo audio client
[ +0.083366] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input15
[ +0.000144] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input16
[ +0.000098] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input17
[ +0.000097] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input18
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xf1600000 irq 45
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xf1000000 irq 17
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC665 Analog [ALC665 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ head /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
Codec: Realtek ALC665
Address: 0
AFG Function Id: 0x1 (unsol 1)
Vendor Id: 0x10ec0665
Subsystem Id: 0x10280443
Revision Id: 0x100003
No Modem Function Group found
Default PCM:
rates [0x560]: 44100 48000 96000 192000
bits [0xe]: 16 20 24
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 30616 4
snd_hda_codec_realtek 37032 1
snd_hda_intel 36520 7
snd_hda_codec 148129 3 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6332 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 77765 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 7234 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 18718 1 snd_pcm
snd 59141 21 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
I've tried reloading the snd_hda_intel module with different models enabled (3stack and a few others based upon best-guesses from this, but it doesn't seem to call out the ALC665 so I'm not exactly sure what to try) but haven't had much luck there either.
So far, nothing I have tried has yielded any sound output with speaker-test or any other audio source.
Any ideas?
Last edited by codesplice (2013-10-17 19:01:06)
I also had same troubles and command "alsactl init" was solution, try it.
Not same card, but might work.
Last edited by dare023 (2013-10-17 17:20:35)
I also had same troubles and command "alsactl init" was solution, try it.
Not same card, but might work.
Thanks for the suggestion. I had tried that previously (as a part of the Troubleshooting portion of the ALSA wiki page), but I gave it another go just in case:
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ $ alsactl init
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek ALC665" "HDA:10ec0665,10280443,00100003" "0x1028" "0x0443"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
jbowdre@GryHvns ~ :( $
At any rate, no change either with speaker-test or any other audio sources.
Also, audio works through headphones, just not through the speakers. Maybe it's not correctly detecting whether or not the jack is plugged? pavucontrol correctly swaps inputs based on whether or not the phones are in the jack, so that's not it. Any other guesses?
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I also ran the alsa-info.sh script; output can be found here.


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Re: Margaret Hannah Gilby b. ca. 1880s m. William John RUDDOCK
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Tessa Rainbird 7/11/10
Your Margaret Gilbey appears to be an ancestor in my family tree. Although I have no follow-up informationon her beyond the 1881 census where she was living in Little Sampford, Essex. New Sampford is the local name for Little Sampford.
Her parents were Philip Gilby, (no E), born 1822 Great Sampford, Essex died 02 Jun 1886 Little Sampford and Mary Sorrell born 1837 Hempstead, Essex and died 1884 Saffron Walden, Essex registration district. Mary Sorrell was the second wife of Philip Gilby. I am aware that Margaret had
7 siblings and 5 half-siblings. Her ancestry can be traced back to c1709 in Finchingfield, Essex.
If you have access to Ancestry.com you will be able to find full details on my public tree, The Gilbey family tree.


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Leap Before You Look
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This brave and illuminating doc by Stephane Goldsand is an autobiographical account of his own struggle to embrace fatherhood. Using video footage in which he is both the interviewer and interviewee, mixed with some haunting yet simple animation, "Leap Before You Look" is a portrait of a young man and his own doubts.
Stephane's wife, Christina, is as certain about her desire — indeed, her biological imperative — to have children as he is wavering. A schoolteacher, she talks joyously about wanting to watch someone who looks like her husband grow, play and ask questions that only the mother can answer.
Stephane, though, worries that he might not be an adequate parent. Indeed, he worries that he doesn't seem to feel the need to have a child that all of his friends seem to have. As he interviews other fathers, the question of whether or not to have children is alien to them, like asking to decide whether to breathe.
That's the most powerful part of Goldsand's film, the quest to understand why something everyone else seems to regard as self-evident is such a struggle for him.
In his 22-minute exploration, which feels neither hurried or lingering overlong, Goldsand is not afraid to reveal his most intimate personal moments, including sessions with his therapist. In a pair of phone calls with his own parents, we quickly begin to understand his hesitation.
His mother tells him she finds his doubts and questions "absurd": "If you want to have babies, then go have babies." This despite the fact that he nearly died of complications during his own birth. The conversation with his father — who left the family when Stephane was very young, and with whom he has not even spoken for several years — is even more emotionally detached and uncomfortable. We get the sense he could have stopped any passing stranger on the streets and achieved a more intimate exchange of thoughts and feelings.
I won't tell you what decision the filmmaker reaches by the end or even if he does. The charm of "Leap Before You Look" is that it doesn't settle for any easy answers.
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First novels: they're the promise of a new voice, a new sensibility, and a new favorite author to follow. May 2013's list is especially impressive, ranging in setting from Revolutionary America to 1899 New York to contemporary Africa. I couldn't pick among them, so they're all picks, worthy of special attention by serious readers.
Brkic, Courtney Angela. The First Rule of Swimming. Reagan Arthur Bks: Little, Brown. May 2013. 384p. ISBN 9780316217385. $25.99. LITERARY FICTION
Brkic's a special writer whose works hit me right in the heart, and obviously others agree; her story collection, Stillness, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a Chicago Tribune best book, a New York Times Notable Book, and a Whiting Award winner. So take a good look at her first novel, whose heroine must set out from New York from the remote Croatian island where she lives to find her free-spirited sister. Instead she uncovers some family darkness. In-house raves, too.
Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names. Reagan Arthur Bks: Little, Brown. May 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780316230810. $24.99. LITERARY FICTION
The publisher's big spring debut—after its big fall debut, Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds, a National Book Award nominee, so pay attention—vivifies ten-year-old Darling's journey from Zimbabwe to America. Surviving by stealing guavas with her friends and recalling Before, when their fathers hadn't left for jobs abroad after the paramilitary police destroyed their homes, Darling grasps at a chance to go live in America with an aunt. It's not the promised land she had hoped. The author is a Caine Literary Prize winner and Stegner Fellow, and her book is being snatched up worldwide.
Cabot, Sally. Benjamin Franklin's Bastard. Morrow. May 2013. 288p. ISBN 9780062241924. $26.99; eISBN 9780062241948. LITERARY/HISTORICAL
William Franklin may have been born in secret to father Benjamin Franklin's mistress, but he grew up happy and benefited from his father's rising fame as a scientist, writer, and political force. He even became royal governor of New Jersey—only to clash with his father as the Colonies rumbled toward Revolution; Williams remained a rock-solid Loyalist. Cabot apparently knows her history, and this reimagining of an intriguing and little-known story caught my eye—as did the 75,000-copy first printing.
Cheng, Bill. Southern Cross the Dog. Amistad: HarperCollins. May 2013. 336p. ISBN 9780062225009 $25.99; eISBN 9780062225030. LITERARY/HISTORICAL
Even before the library marketing folks at HarperCollins talked up this novel, I was intrigued by the story—twentyish Robert Chatham manages to survive the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 but still thinks he's cursed, even as he's pulled between tradition and a bright new future. Cheng is being called a rising literary star, and rumor has it that his feel for the Old South is extraordinary—never mind that he's not been below the Mason-Dixon Line. Recommended for folks who love Wiley Cash, Ron Rash, and Amanda Coplin, author of the recently published The Orchardist.
Harms, Kelly. The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. May 2013. 304p. ISBN 9781250011381. $24.99; eISBN 9781250022646. POP FICTION
Two things happen when HomeSweetHome network announces that the winner of its latest Free House Sweepstakes is Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, IA. Janey Brown, eager to escape the clawing world by hiding in her kitchen, despairs that one of her aunt's nutty schemes has comes to fruition, while Nean Brown delightedly realizes that she has the means to escape a run of dead-end jobs and boyfriends. The two Janine Browns head to Christmas Cove, ME, for some surprising discoveries. Former editor and agent Harms seems to have picked up some tips from the best-selling commercial authors with whom she has worked; there's big in-house enthusiasm for this debut, which is being pitched hard to book clubs.
Rindell, Suzanne. The Other Typist. Amy Einhorn Bks: Penguin Group (USA). May 2013. 368p. ISBN 9780399161469. $25.95. CD/Downloadable: Penguin Audio. POP FICTION
"The other typist" is Odalie, the mysterious, magnetic young woman who joins Rose Baker's typing pool at a Lower East Side precinct in 1924 Manhattan. Lonely Rose, confused by the rapid changing mores as the Twenties roar along, is enthralled with the newcomer, but her admiration soon turns into threatening obsession. First novelist Rindell has published poetry and short fiction in places like Conjunctions and Nimrod, so she can write. With rights to six countries.
Wecker, Helene. The Golem and the Jinni. Harper: HarperCollins. May 2013. 496p. ISBN 9780062110831. $27.99; eISBN 9780062110855. lrg. prnt. LITERARY/HISTORICAL
Lots of in-house enthusiasm for this debut novel after a fierce auction, and it certainly seems justified; Wecker had blended Jewish and Arab mythologies to create a magical novel set in 1899 New York. A golem named Chava, brought to life by a renegade rabbi, loses the husband who had commissioned her on the voyage from Poland, while the jinni Ahmad is released from captivity in a tarnished copper flask (where he'd been put centuries before by a Bedouin wizard) by a tinsmith. As Chava and Ahmad unite against a terrible threat, denizens of their lower Manhattan neighborhood swirl about them intriguingly. With a reading group guide and a 75,000-copy first printing; I'm betting on this one.


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Today's Christianity may seem hierarchical and male dominated. Was this the case back in the earliest days of the Church? Did women play a bigger role back then, and have they become invisible due to the male authors of our Biblical texts and church histories? I asked these questions to Kate Cooper, Professor of Ancient History at Manchester University and author of Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women.
VB: Hi Kate, your book suggests that women have been "airbrushed" out of Christianity's history?
KC: That's right. The number and vitality of women in the history of Christianity just dazzles the imagination once you begin to notice them. The annals of Christianity are full of heroines – thousands of them – women of all ages and all walks of life. Interestingly, many of them were independent women, for whom the Christian movement offered a safe social space for living without a husband or father.
People aren't aware of this because the evidence was never 'picked up' to become part of the grand narrative. But if you dig into the data, you see that the women were there, and they had enormous influence in their own time. We are not talking about wallflowers!
While I was writing Band of Angels I was thrilled to discover that the many individual early women I had studied over the years were not an isolated phenomenon – they were part of a bigger picture. Once you start to notice them, your view of the whole picture changes – it's like having a black-and-white image suddenly come into living colour. Actually, I think this is probably true in many traditional societies –women are there behind the scenes, networking like mad and getting a lot done, but our eye is trained not to notice them.
VB: Why haven't we heard more about them; in what ways are our eyes trained not to notice them?
KC: People in who control channels of information tend to privilege stories that are of interest to the powers that be. We see this today as well – the London Review of Books was recently outed for producing entire issues in which not a single book reviewed was by a woman, and not a single reviewer was female. The people responsible don't see this as favouritism – they simply imagine that everyone finds men more interesting than women, since that is their own view.
But that doesn't mean that we can't find a trace of women if we look for it. Across the Middle Ages, women had their own religious communities, which meant that they were able to preserve their own traditions of memory. Oral traditions within families tend to die out within three or four generations, whereas a monastery – especially if it has a library and members who are willing to write things down – can keep its own distinctive traditions alive for centuries.
Christianity started on a high for women, but sadly, as the Church became more institutional women played less and less of a role in the decision-making process. This meant that their concerns and interests were often side-lined, even in writing the history of the Church.
VB: Today many people tend to think of Christianity as intrinsically paternalistic and hierarchical. Has it always been that way?
KC: Nothing could be further from the truth – there has never been a single Christian position on this issue. People have been arguing about women's role since the days of Mary and Martha. Historically we can see that Christianity has a strong tradition of supporting inspired female leadership – the lives of the saints are full of powerful women. But there has always been an undertow of male self-infatuation and posturing. Christianity hasn't been the only movement in history to suffer from male self-posturing, but it has certainly had its share of it!
The earliest Christian movement was an unstructured 'viral' movement similar to the Arab spring. The evidence suggests that women played a central role – this is something I go into in depth in Band of Angels. But over time, as the Christian communities started to drift toward becoming more structured, there seems to have been a leadership crisis.
It is very difficult to keep strong-arm tactics from beginning to dominate in an unstructured and idealistic movement, especially one that is going to last across time. To the extent that Christianity has solved that problem, it has been by cultivating a cycle of periods of reform and revival, to give a voice to people who feel that the core values of the movement are being distorted by the powerful.
VB: Can you give us an example of this?
KC: My favourite example of 'growing pains' in early Christianity over the issue of leadership comes from the second-century Gospel of Mary, which records an argument between Mary Magdalene and two other disciples, Peter and Levi.
Peter argues that anything which Jesus said privately to Mary – not in front of the male disciples – should be discounted, because Jesus would never have said anything important to a woman. Essentially, if Mary knows something Peter doesn't, it has to be suppressed in order to flatter his claim to greater importance. To his credit, Levi steps in on Mary's side. He tells Peter that his arrogance is destroying the Church – now that Jesus is dead there are too many people who want to establish new structures and are willing to distort Jesus' original message in order to do so. Levi then exits, announcing that he is going forth to preach the Gospel of Mary.
We can't be sure that this conversation ever took place, but we do know with absolute certainty that by the early third century people were telling stories like this about the age of the apostles. (This is the date of the earliest papyrus fragment to attest that part of the text, so it is the latest possible date for the story.)
VB: I like the Gospel of Mary – glad to hear that you're championing it. How would you answer those who say it shouldn't be read by Christians as it's not in the official canon?
KC: Some people have dismissed the Gospel of Mary as a 'Gnostic' gospel, but this is inaccurate. The gospel's theological views are not indisputably Gnostic, and it was never condemned as heretical. In all likelihood, it simply represents the diversity of the earliest Christian movement which was later 'written out'. (Indeed, many Biblical scholars think that Gnosticism itself reflected older traditions of diversity that were written out in the third and fourth centuries, but that's another story.) Second-century Christians were worried that the Church's original tradition of honouring women's contribution was being compromised.
VB: Let's talk about women bishops – does your research shed helpful light on to the debates we are currently having in the Church?
KC: Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that those of us who want to see women in charge are not inventing something new –are trying to learn from the earliest era of the Church.
But bishops as we know them aren't a phenomenon of the New Testament period in any case. The greek word 'episkopos' as it is used in the New Testament simply means 'supervisor'. Early Christian community structures were very informal, and there is a lot of evidence that women were often in charge. So all the arguments about biblically based male headship are really just the elaborations of a later tradition of male privilege anyway. They don't really reflect the historical core of the faith.
VB: How do you see the relationship between Christianity and Feminism; predominantly compatible or incompatible?
KC: Christianity carries a lot of baggage about gender issues – there is no question about that. It is the product of an ancient Mediterranean peasant society. But on the other hand, across two thousand years it has proclaimed the message that in Christ 'there is neither slave nor free, nor is there male or female' (Galatians 3:28). That single phrase has offered strength to every generation of women – and quite a few men – since the days of the Apostle Paul.
In fact, the nineteenth-century traditions of female critique of the powers that be – especially but not only the Abolition movement – had their roots in Christian activist networks and Christian traditions of prophecy against injustice. This is not to say that the Bible isn't frequently used by bullies as an excuse for their bullying – but bullies can always find an excuse.
VB: How do you feel about it personally?
KC: For my own part, I can't see the point of having to give up my faith just because men have behaved badly. Also, it would be throwing away one of the most important things that connects me to women of earlier generations – to my own mother and grandmother, of course, but also to the amazing early Christian women who lived in Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Syria – women who faced enormous hardships with bravery, and whose sayings have been handed down through the centuries as a source of inspiration.
VB: How would you answer those who say non-religious feminism is purer and free from the baggage that comes with patriarchal religion?
These days, secular feminism tends to be in bed with a Richard Dawkins view of the world, and I find that disturbing. Dawkins and co. have taken advantage of people's historical and theological ignorance, and made them feel that they can't be religious if they don't want to believe in fairy tales. That is a view of faith that has nothing to do with the early Christians. For them, faith was a matter of trusting relationship – to a human community and to an essentially unknowable force governing the universe.
Ancient theologians were very clear that talking about God in an anthropomorphic way was a pastoral short-hand for thinking about the vast and unknowable reality of Being which Plato had described centuries earlier (they were very ecumenical in their reading). But people who see money to be made in bashing Christianity try to take advantage of the fact that most people imagine ancient people's heads were full of nonsense.
VB: So you see patriarchal elements within secular world-view that concern you as much as the patriarchal elements within Christianity?
KC: Religious feminists – whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim – tend to argue that a secular framework has its own dangers for women, because its communication systems are all controlled by the capitalist race for profit. The capitalist cultural framework is driven by exploitation – whether of labour or of resources. For women, a particularly important knock-on effect of this emphasis on profit is the exploitation of bodies and sexuality. Advertising and the media encourage both men and women to perceive women and children as sexual objects. This is patriarchy at its most insidious.
As a parent, you worry about the message that your kids are getting – that their primary identity is as a consumer or an object of exploitation – one or the other. Exploitative images are in use everywhere to sell a product or gain an audience, and this leads young women to internalize the message that making themselves visually and even sexually attractive is the best way to gain value in the social game. I'd argue that it's urgently important to counteract their influence.
As a scholar, I worry about how many feminists have been 'taken in' by the capitalist mind-frame to the point where they distrust anything else.
Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' movement, for example, has been criticised for suggesting that the glass ceiling for women in the corporate world is caused largely by women's own unwillingness to be more assertive. It's good that business women are doing what they can for other women within their commitment to the capitalist philosophy, but there needs to be an alternative out there. We need to complement Facebook Feminism with something a bit more humanistic, and to tell women that they are valuable aside from their ability to be an attractive object to look at. That's where faith comes in.
VB: Before we finish, tell us a bit more about the inspiring early Church women you have been writing about…
KC: Gladly. My all-time favourite is a figure of legend, a teen-ager called Thecla whom second-century Christians believed had run away from an arranged marriage to join the circus as it were – except that the circus was the missionary community of the Apostle Paul. She was enormously plucky and lived through terrifying adventures, and the crazy thing is that from the second to fourth centuries, early Christian girls were repeatedly encouraged to look to Thecla as an example. She is still revered as an apostle by the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
At the other end of the spectrum, we have another young woman who is all-too-real. This is the martyr Perpetua, who kept a prison diary in the days before she was thrown to the beasts. Surprisingly, half of the diary covers successive arguments with her father, who kept coming to the prison and trying to talk her into accepting an offer of amnesty if she would burn incense as an offering to the gods of Rome.
Finally, another of my all-time favourites, the child-empress Pulcheria, who lived in the early fifth century. The last chapter of the book is about her struggle to defend her brother, the emperor Theodosius, who was only seven when their father died – she was nine. Her stroke of genius was to choose the Virgin Mary as their protector from the various usurpers who were threatening to claim the throne. Pulcheria encouraged the Christian poets of the day to write hymns of praise to the Virgin Mary as a kind of warrior-goddess protecting the imperial city of Constantinople and its emperor, and this flutter of court patronage seems to be at the root of what became the Cult of the Virgin Mary. So it turns out that Mary is quite a feminist icon after all!
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You can follow Kate on Twitter @kateantiquity
For more information on Kate's book, Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women, visit www.kateantiquity.com


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Well you probably noticed that my sites went down for a few days if you've become a regular visitor of The Web Files or any of my other sites.
I ended up changing web hosts after my former web host attempted to change my shared hosting account over to a TWO year Virtual Private Hosting account and charged me $642 in the process. A move and charge that I hadn't authorized.
I'd been apparently having CPU resource issues on my former host – Lunarpages, and I worked for close to a month to resolve any CPU resource overuse issues by going over everything in my directories with a fine toothed comb, updating all of the programs that I use to run my various sites and any addons or plugins that I used with those sites and still they kept telling me that I had CPU resource over use issues.
They suspended my account on Saturday stating that my account had almost caused a server to crash so I reluctantly agreed to change my account over to VPS for one month. One single month. It took me almost 24 hours to communicate that desire to support since they are very slow to answer support email and do not have telephone support over the weekend.
Once they apparently understood that I was willing to switch over to VPS for one month they told me that it would cost $75 per hour to transfer my account, but if I wanted I could do it myself once the VPS account was set up. At that point I said No way to the $75 charge and in fact said no to the whole deal until they sent me more info about VPS, Plesk and how I might move my account on my own.
Instead of sending me information they went ahead and set up the VPS account and instead of creating a monthly account they charged me for two years of VPS service.
Right … for CPU resource issues that may or may not exist.
I say may or may not exist because after the stunt they pulled charging me for a two year VPS account I'm not all that certain that I ever had CPU resource issues.
So I spent early Monday morning creating a new hosting account at HostGator and worked on moving my domains and sites.
So far things are going well with HostGator and they've yet to mention a thing about CPU resource over use. Still – I think I'm going to continue going over my sites and try to lighten their load on the servers. Some of my sites are getting more and more popular so if my traffic is increasing so will my resource usage too.


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Historic Christmas at Ebenezer was celebrated on Sunday.
To start off the day, there was a tour at the Old Salzburger home, where the first Salzburgers camped on these very banks over three centuries ago.
"It's important to know about your heritage and where you come from," said Connie Bazemore, director of the Ebenezer Retreat Center. "We want to be able to provide our friends with a historical background about where they live."
The Effingham County High School Chorus volunteered to sing and led in caroling for the Christmas gathering and the worship service that took place at the Jerusalem Lutheran Church.
Tyson Neurath, president of the chorus, led the chorus in caroling. He said the group had prepared for about two weeks.
Lonnie Pate, a committee member of the Historic Effingham Christmas at Ebenezer, was the speaker for the night.
"I love kids who are willing to help in the community," said Pate. "You don't find many students anymore who care so much about their heritage and faith."
The gathering welcomed newcomers to the church and provided friends, family and even strangers a time for fellowship, music and a tree lighting ceremony.
"I hope everybody comes out next year for fellowship and to celebrate the heritage of faith," said Pate.


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Another in my Victorian Love series. You can see the other one here
Words are from my poem Waiting
lost in a sea offaces that are all the samewith their fear and longingall waiting to be foundby that one the only one
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Hey, who brought the ice-fishing house to wait outside Best Buy?
The earliest start ever to Black Friday shopping began Thanksgiving night, with determined shoppers combining turkey dinners and bargain hunting on the same day.
In Inver Grove Heights, some of the most devoted shoppers — or craziest, if you prefer — came with heavy blankets and tents as they waited in line in 23-degree weather.
Noah Hazard of South St. Paul went one better: He and a friend hunkered down in a collapsible ice-fishing house with a propane heater.
"We had a tent last year, and it blew down," Hazard said. "So this year we brought the ice-fishing house."
This year, merchants opened their doors earlier than ever, with most big retailers offering deep discounts starting at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving night. Some opened at 6 p.m.
The idea of encroaching on a national holiday drew gales of public criticism, along with grumbling from some employees. Yet others embraced the more family-friendly hours. Plus, those in line Thursday made it clear they didn't skip the turkey. They managed to feast and shop.
Outside the Target store in West St. Paul, Cara Lopez and three family members got into line at 4 p.m. in order to nab the Beats Dr. Dre headphones when the store opened at 8 p.m. But first, they ate Thanksgiving dinner — although they did miss the pie.
And what did their family say? They urged the women to be careful, remembering that Black Friday shoppers can be fanatical in the quest for flat-screen TVs and other deals.
"Last year at Walmart, somebody bit my elbow and scratched my arms," said Mariah Frazier of South St. Paul, recalling a Black Friday scrum.
This year, stores took new steps to head off ugly incidents. Walmart distributed wristbands for the hottest items. Target handed out tickets to shoppers waiting for flat-screen TVs. And Best Buy gave out guaranteed tickets to those in line for the most popular items, so there wasn't any need for a Black Friday stampede.
Then again, the stores might be calmer this year for another reason. The boom in online sales prompted some retailers to sell Black Friday deals even before their stores opened. That drained away some of the doorbuster crowds.
Even so, it didn't stop determined shoppers such as David Hemmer, 17, and Josh Schmidt, 18, both of Inver Grove Heights. The friends pitched a tent outside of their local Best Buy store Tuesday night, then waited 51 hours before snatching up laptops, flat-screen TVs and tablets. Some items they'll keep; others they hope to resell for a profit.
Turns out, they didn't miss the turkey and stuffing, either.
"Both of our parents brought us food, so we didn't have to miss Thanksgiving," Schmidt said. "We're well-fed."
Nationally, forecasts call for moderate growth in holiday spending this year, with most estimates in the 2 percent to 3.5 percent range.
A Twin Cities-area survey from the University of St. Thomas forecast a 3 percent increase in holiday spending.
Electronic gadgets, gift cards, toys and clothing are slated to be the most popular gifts, surveys show.
"It's not going to be a lowest-price-point type of year like we saw during the recession," said Pam Goodfellow, a consumer analyst for Prosper Insights, a retail analytics firm.
Still, many retailers enter Black Friday nervous about their holiday prospects. Giants including Target, Walmart, Sears and Kohl's struggled this fall, so they've redoubled efforts to win holiday business.
Those jitters, plus the shortest possible time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, led to an avalanche of never-before-seen Black Friday come-ons.
Target put online nearly all of its Black Friday deals, about 17 hours before its stores even opened.
Nearly all major retailers opened Thanksgiving night, many for the first time, including Macy's, Herberger's and J.C. Penney.
At Rosedale Center, nearly 100 merchants planned to open by midnight. Last year there were 55. Two years ago, just nine stores were open at midnight.
Tom Webb can be reached at 651-228-5428. Follow him at twitter.com/TomWebbMN.


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Jay-Z and Beyonce showed their support for Trayvon Martin today at a rally in NYC where Trayvon's mother and Al Sharpton were present. Rallies around the country are taking place to protest the controversial Zimmerman verdict. If you want to take part in a rally check out www.nationalactionnetwork.net for locations.
You can hear what Trayvon's mother had to say below.


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'In the Loop': Outrageously on the markJuly 20, 2009
At once biting and hilarious, "In the Loop" is satire with the ring of truth, a film that manages to put the pin to the hot-air balloon of government and politics on both sides of the Atlantic.
Ostensibly the adventures of a minor British cabinet minister – in London, Washington and at the United Nations – this film by Armando Iannucci is really about the slippery nature of power and its frenemy, fear. Power, as the film hilariously shows, is equal parts perception and bullshit – and how you wield the latter to shape the former.
Tom Hollander plays Simon Foster, the British secretary of state for international development. As the film starts, he's already in trouble with the Prime Minister's chief spin doctor, the expansively obscene and insulting Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). Even as England and the U.S. are debating a military intervention in the Middle East, Simon has made the innocuous remark during a radio interview that "war is unforeseeable."
At a tender moment in Anglo-American relations over this possible invasion, the words are seized upon by hawks and doves alike as proof that Great Britain either is or isn't ready to throw in with the U.S. for a potential conflict. In either case, Malcolm isn't happy at having the water muddied by such an innocuous functionary.
But because of the meddling of a new assistant, Simon winds up in a meeting with Karen Clarke (Mimi Kennedy). Clarke is a visiting American assistant secretary of state, whose rival in the State Department, Linton Barwick (David Rasche), is pushing for war, even as she's trying to pull back. Simon is meant to be "meat in the room," a warm body there to fill space and keep quiet during a fact-finding gathering. Instead, he winds up injected into the dialogue, which includes an unintentional revelation that Barwick has a secret war-planning committee that Karen is unaware of.
Casually failing upwards, Simon and his assistant, Toby (Chris Addison), are dispatched to D.C. for further meetings with Karen and Linton. Just as casually, the two of them manage unintentionally to light a variety of fuses to the powder keg of war.
The only man who seems to have his finger on what's really going on is Malcolm, who spews wildly funny (and obscene) insults like a scattergun. Racing around Washington, he tries to maintain control of what is and isn't being leaked to the press, and what is and isn't being done, though there are more holes than even he knows about.
Iannucci was writer-director of the BBC comedy, "The Thick of It," and various of Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge projects. He creates humor indirectly and directly, finding the spiky/funny moments of prickly people interacting – but also seeing the bigger picture for the deeper laughs.
In this case, it's the rush to war by people who don't really care about the cause, only their ability to wield power, sway events and control them. When events suddenly go momentously wrong, it's not the result of a major confrontation or power play; it's not the outcome of a considered decision that proves to be the incorrect call. Rather, it's the domino effect of some bit player being casually or carelessly loose with some small morsel of information that spins out of anyone's control.
That's the thing about power: It flows and ebbs, governed by chance, by perception, by luck – and it's a moment-by-moment thing. Iannucci finds wonderfully witty ways to demonstrate that everyone – absolutely everyone – believes that he or she really knows what's going on and that no one – absolutely no one – really does.
So no matter how much Linton Barwick or Malcolm Tucker or Karen Clarke scheme and manipulate, they can't foresee someone else's screw-up that will suddenly shift the tide, force them to play catch-up and do damage control, to create a new "normal" that they're in front of and not chasing.
This exceptional ensemble cast meshes beautifully; no role is too small to contribute a piercingly funny aside or hysterical moment of acute embarrassment. Hollander is particularly good as the wishy-washy Brit, struggling to maintain a grip on his destiny. But Addison is equally good as the ambitiously clueless Toby; so is Anna Chlumsky as his American counterpart.
Look for James Gandolfini, deliciously understated as a Colin Powell-like general who has no taste for war. Kennedy and Rasche are outstanding as rivals who casually undercut each other at every opportunity. The real scene-stealer, of course, is Capaldi as the invective-spewing string-puller whose sheer nastiness keeps people cowed and in line.
"In the Loop" is brilliant at needling its subject into submission, without resorting to slashing or pounding. It may be the smartest, funniest political comedy since "Wag the Dog."
One Response to "'In the Loop': Outrageously on the mark"
paul a Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
"Even as England and the U.S. are debating a military intervention in the Middle East,"
Not 'England' but 'Britain'
Just as the Prime Minister and his Director of Communications (Alastair Campbell) were Scottish and not English, so are Iannucci and Capaldi (perhaps with a little input from Italy!).