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Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of a new Jewish lobby known as J Street, loves Israel. But Israel, he has been instructed, must be loved in a certain way. He is among a generation of American Jews who are beginning to wonder where that "certain way" is leading.
Israel today, according to many of its friends as well as its critics in the American and Israeli press, is at a critical stage in its history. Does the word democracy really apply to a political system that maintains two tiers of citizenship, one for Jewish citizens and one for "Israeli Arabs"? Or does the word apartheid, once applied exclusively to the legal separation of whites and blacks in South Africa, more accurately describe the relationship of Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where 500,000 Jewish settlers have illegally established themselves? In November 2011 Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist, wrote a column warning that if some proposed laws were passed in Israel, the democracy would become unrecognizable. He said there would be separate buses and streets for men and women; cities would shut down for the Sabbath; Arabs would not be able to run for Parliament or have the right of a university education but would be subject to capital punishment. Also, said Levy, the West Bank would be annexed, and the piece he was writing would never see print.
The New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof writes that Israel is endangered by its own leaders: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is isolating his country, and to be blunt, his hard line on settlements seems like a national suicide policy" (10/6/11).Ruth Dayan, the 95-year-old widow of one of Israel's founding fathers, told Newsweek she longs for the old Israel, where she could travel alone in Gaza the day after the 1956 war. Today there are "roadblocks everywhere. And that horrible wall! It's not right." She thinks, "Zionism has run its course."
It is sadly ironic that a few years ago the word wall meant the remaining wall of the ancient temple in Jerusalem, the Western or Wailing Wall, where visitors from around the world offered prayers. Today the word just as often denotes the huge security barrier walling off Israel from its neighbors in the occupied West Bank and, perhaps in a way, the rest of the world.
Mr. Ben-Ami, J Street's president and the author of A New Voice for Israel, Fighting for Survival of the Jewish Nation (Palgrave), is a cheerful fellow in a royal blue shirt with 25 years experience as a political operative. He is well connected in Washington but remains on the fringe of the Middle East lobbying world, where until recently the tactics of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) dominated the dialogue. Both his grandfather and father were Zionist militants who took up arms to establish a Jewish homeland. After college Mr. Ben-Ami spent three years in Israel as a businessman, mainly because he loved the place and wanted to be part of its development. He also participated in Peace Now, the mainstream Israeli movement for reconciliation with its Arab neighbors.
The Hoodwinked Congress?
Returning to New York in 2000, Mr. Ben-Ami worked first in the mayoral campaign of Mark Green and then for the presidential run of Howard Dean. Each of his clients had made what Aipac would consider a "terrible mistake": Mr. Green made a donation to Peace Now and Mr. Dean called for an "even-handed" approach to the Middle East. Both politicians were pilloried as "anti-Israel." Shaken, Mr. Ben-Ami and a few friends founded J Street as a Jewish lobby that would be unafraid to talk straight when Israel was hurting itself.
In early December last year, Republican candidates hustled to surpass one another as friends of Israel in presentations to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Newt Gingrich compared the U.S. "struggle with radical Islam" to the U.S. confrontation with Russia after World War II. Mitt Romney accused the Obama administration of "appeasement" in its Middle East policy and promised that once elected, his first trip would be to visit Israel. It was a scene Mr. Ben-Ami deplored.
In his book and during our discussion in the sleek, modern J Street offices in Washington, Mr. Ben-Ami spelled out the standard scenario for an imagined candidate for Congress. Representatives of the Jewish community set up a meeting and ask the candidate if he or she "supports Israel." Following a yes, the candidate receives a position paper with talking points that provide answers to questions about the Middle East that the candidate is to give for the rest of his or her career. The candidate's yes means the candidate is to make no criticism and no objection to settlements. The candidate's newfound friends will sponsor a fundraiser. If victorious, the new member of Congress will enjoy an Aipac-sponsored trip to Israel, with background briefings and emphasis on the security threats that Israel endures. The new friends also instill a level of fear of what might happen if the new congressional representative sings a different tune after arriving in Washington.
Mr. Ben-Ami says that members of Congress have been to some degree hoodwinked, being led to believe that Israel is the number one issue for all American Jews, when in reality Jewish priorities are about the same as those of other voters. Jews represent only 2 percent of the American population; they are politically active because they believe that "repairing the world" (tikkun olam) is basic to their identity. But only 8 percent of American Jews are hawkish on Middle East policy. J Street polls find that American Jews overwhelmingly favor a two-state solution and believe the settlements are counterproductive to peace. While neoconservative Jewish intellectuals promoted the war in Iraq, 70 percent of all American Jews opposed it. Nevertheless, the average gentile candidate addressing a Jewish audience will start off declaring undying love and loyalty to Israel—as if America's rising poverty and unemployment and the ongoing war in Afghanistan were afterthoughts to a U.S. Jewish audience.
Direction From J Street
The greatest obstacle to peace between Palestinians and Israelis, according to Mr. Ben-Ami, is the insatiable hunger for land on the part of the settlers' movement and supporters in the rest of Israeli (and American) society, who imagine some transcendent right to the entire Palestinian territory. How can Israel still imagine itself a democracy if it continues to illegally drive out non-Jews, bulldozing their homes and seizing their fields and water resources? It cannot, Mr. Ben-Ami says. Although he is not ready to describe Israel as an apartheid state, he cannot deny that a worrisome trend is evident.
The kind of peace imagined by J Street could help reverse that trend. Mr. Ben-Ami would begin by talking about a Jewish "homeland" in which Jewish religious law would be the basis of civil law, not a "state" in which the "chosen people" occupy a promised land in fulfillment of God's Covenant. In this homeland the 20 percent of the Israeli population who are Arab would have full citizenship, including representation in the Knesset.
Mr. Ben-Ami approves of both the border separation wall—he believes it has cut down on terrorism—and the new security fence under construction that will separate Israel from Egypt. But he would move the wall, which now overlaps sometimes deeply into Palestinian property, to correspond to the 1967 Green Line border. Regarding the settlements, Mr. Ben-Ami suggests a "land swap" that would move two-thirds of settlers inside a new Israeli border. The new Palestinian state's rights to the water sources and the highways threading through the West Bank would have to be guaranteed, too, but he did not say how.
In Mr. Ben-Ami's vision of a practical peace, Palestine would have a police force but no army and would have no control of its air rights. An international force would administer the border between the two states. In an appearance on "The Colbert Report," Mr. Ben-Ami opposed the Palestinian Authority's decision to raise the question of statehood at the United Nations. However valuable U.N. membership may be, he believes that the two-state solution must be settled before anything else. Nor did Mr. Ben-Ami approve a settlement freeze as a condition for negotiations. I reminded him that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strategy seems to be to build so many settlements so fast that the residents of the West Bank will be completely overwhelmed. He agreed, but said that made the two-state solution all the more urgent.
Under a two-state plan, there would be a territorial passageway across Israel linking Palestine and Gaza. While many Palestinian families still retain the keys to the homes they left in 1948, Mr. Ben-Ami argues that the Palestinian leadership should prepare those in exile for the likelihood that they will never get their homes back. Instead, these exiles should be compensated, he thinks, and offered homes in the new Palestinian state or in a third country. Jerusalem would be the shared capital of both Israel and Palestine, Mr. Ben-Ami says, but it does not seem a J Street priority to restore to the Palestinians those neighborhoods usurped through Netanyahu's inexorable building spree.
Peace, Not Pandering
Does J Street really speak for mainstream Jewry, or is it only a nagging voice on the fringe of Jewish public opinion? Mr. Ben-Ami points out that the movement, started with just himself and two friends three years ago, now claims 180,000 members and maintains a $7 million annual budget. J Street has 50 staff members and 40 local chapters. Membership includes those from the far left to those slightly right of center. The Monday after our interview, all 180,000 members received an e-mail message, one of several sent each week, deploring Mr. Gingrich's description of Palestinians as an "invented" people, Michele Bachman's refusal to surrender "one inch" of land for peace and Rick Perry's implied endorsement of the annexation of "Judea and Samaria." The message called on readers to sign an open letter to the 2012 candidates saying, "I've had enough" political pandering. A follow-up letter asked for donations for a little-known Congressional candidate who backs peace, not pandering.
Even if peace were in sight and a two-state solution were on the brink of ratification, the Palestinian state would face an enormous challenge in economically and politically revitalizing the Gaza Strip: 50 percent of the 1.6 million population are under 18; 38 percent live in poverty; and 26 percent of the workforce are unemployed. Each day 50 to 80 million liters of partially treated sewage are dumped into the Mediterranean Sea; 90 percent of the water from the Gaza aquifer is undrinkable.
Israel will still have to struggle with two big internal problems: the growing power of the ultra-Orthodox population, who would use the Knesset to make Israel a "Jewish State" rather than a "homeland" at the expense of human rights; and the growing economic inequality, one of the highest in the world, which has sent an angry population into the streets demonstrating for economic reform. These are big challenges; but, says Mr. Ben-Ami, "Every challenge is surmountable."
I asked Mr. Ben-Ami to what extent J Street might draw on American Catholics for support or on his Jewish religion for inspiration. He believed the Catholic Church was committed to justice and that Catholics did not view all issues related to Israel in black and white. He thought Catholics were realistic enough to see compromise as the only way forward. Mr. Ben-Ami describes himself as a Jew who takes his family to the synagogue, but who is not strictly "observant," for example, of kosher laws. Ultimately his morality is based on the maxim of Rabbi Hillel the Elder (1st century B.C.E.): "That which is hateful to you, do not unto another." Add to that Leviticus, "Love one's neighbor as oneself." From the Jewish history of persecution and its experience, he says, with "the dark side of human nature...should come a heightened awareness of justice when running our own state, and a sense of responsibility for fair treatment of any minorities living in our midst."
Listen to excerpts from America's interview with Jeremy Ben-Ami.
One of the best descriptions of the situation I've read is in the novel "Exhile" by Richard North Patterson. Both a thrilling novel and a balanced explanation of the conundrums faced by the parties to that region.
"You don't know how hard it is for a Jew to talk about Israel." This was said to me on the phone, sight unseen, by a Maine woman calling on behalf of J Street, before they cancelled my membership (I had a telephone chat with the new paid regional coordinator, again at J Street's initiation, before this decision, evidenced by suspension of email from J Street, was made).
That means the ball is in the court of we goys, to raise the questions self-identifying Jews (J Street last summer said that Israel is the defining issue for this generation of US Jews) are evidently not able to raise themselves. For example, as to the two-state solution, evidently it is a self-financed, ergo, squalid concentration camp that Mr. Ben-Ami has in mind for Palestinians.
Here's my advice. J Street seems to be AIPAC-lite. Instead of saying, as does AIPAC, that the Arabs and their supporters must be bombed into submission, J Street argues that Palestinians should do what they're told out of wisdom. So it is really more reality-defiant than AIPAC, although AIPAC's attitude to J Street is merely that J Street is soft on Arabs: by talking as if they had any human capacities at all; while J Street vaguely accuses AIPAC of squandering historical opportunities: to do what, exactly?
This whole issue is a pastoral matter. There is no way for the Jewish state to escape the trap it's made for itself, and self-identifying Jews know that better than anyone. So this really is a piece of absurdist political theater. The point, though, is that these people are suffering. Normal happy God-fearing people don't kill people willy-nilly and then protest, as Foreign Minister Liebermann did again just the other day, that Israel's military is the most moral in the world.
They need someone to talk to them candidly.
I see no reason for Israel to stop building settlements. It could be millennia before the Arabs propose a realistic truce. One Hamasistan in Gaza is enough. The West Bank should not become a second.
Somehow I missed your piece. And now I notice that it has interested only three, of which two are living on their lonely moons.
I think CR got it about right, saying that J Street is in fact AIPAC lite.
Ben-Ami's figures and his sincerity are quite uncertain, I think, although I am a so-so member and even sent in 300 dollars-to pay back my attorney for a favor!
In effect, JS is the only game in town.... as a lobbying group. But Mondoweiss is far more accurate-but has no lobbying wing. MW tells it like it is and so is very depressing, even gruesome to read-never after 6pm.
I think the entire nation is so sick of Israel's tyranny-that it has tuned out even the moderates.... by comparison.
I think America needs a Jewish-Spring, but that's not going to happen. Why?
It is human-all-too-human. The Jews, who are now vastly Zionists, have whatever they want...for their friends, real or imaginary, and against the millions of their enemies, real or imaginary. There are simply no checks and balances; one is not allowed to criticize them even for Gaza. Even in Heidelberg, they accept no questions-even with a tip of my hat.
Why would they give up all their scare-mongering and become like normal Americans-and the endless Lies??
Answer: it would not be good for the Jews. As far as I can see, the Americans-Zees have come to believe their own propaganda-and their hysteria for the Second Holocaust.
Ray, the best we can expect is that they are so disgusted by the nutty Republicans that they will vote for Barack as the only alternative. And after all, he has been a First Class Butler to USA's distinguished Mafia.


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|Created by
|Lee David Zlotoff
|Directed by
|Jules Haggert
Richard Dean Anderson
Dana Elcar
|Narrated by
|Richard Dean Anderson
|Theme music composer
|Randy Edelman
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
139 (List of episodes)
2 TV films
|Executive producer(s)
Henry Winkler
John Rich
California, USA
Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
|Running time
|46-48 minutes
|Production company(s)
Henry Winkler-John Rich Productions
Paramount Network Television
|CBS Television Distribution
|Original channel
|Picture format
|Audio format
Mono (Seasons 1–3) (TV)
Stereo (Season 3) (DVD)
Stereo (Seasons 4–7) (TV) and (DVD)
|Original run
|September 29, 1985– May 21, 1992
MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles during seasons 1, 2 and 7, and in Vancouver during seasons 3–6. The show's final episode aired on April 25, 1992 on ABC (the network aired a previously unseen episode for the first time on May 21, 1992, but it was originally intended to air before the series finale).
The show follows secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS). Educated as a scientist, MacGyver served as a Bomb Team Technician/EOD during the Vietnam War ("Countdown"). Resourceful and possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the physical sciences, he solves complex problems with everyday materials he finds at hand, along with his ever-present duct tape and Swiss Army knife. He prefers non-violent resolutions and prefers not to handle a gun.
The series was a ratings success for ABC and was popular in the United States and worldwide. Two television movies, MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis and MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday, aired on ABC in 1994. A spin-off series, Young MacGyver, was planned in 2003, but only the pilot was made. Merchandise for the MacGyver media franchise includes games and toys, print media and an original audio series. A feature film based on the series is being developed.[1]
- 1 Series overview
- 2 Cast
- 3 Production
- 4 History
- 5 International television broadcasting rights
- 6 Film
- 7 Comic book
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Series overview
The series revolved around MacGyver, whose main asset is his practical application of scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items – along with his ever-present Swiss Army knife. The clever solutions MacGyver implemented to seemingly unsolvable problems – often in life-or-death situations requiring him to improvise complex devices in a matter of minutes – were a major attraction of the show, which was praised for generating interest in the applied sciences, particularly engineering,[2] and for providing entertaining story lines. All of MacGyver's exploits on the show were ostensibly vetted to be based on scientific principles (even though, the creators acknowledged, in real life one would have to be extraordinarily lucky for most of MacGyver's ideas to succeed). In the few cases where MacGyver used household chemicals to create poisons, explosives, or other things deemed too dangerous to be accurately described to the public, details were altered or left vague.[3]
The use of ordinary household items to jury rig devices shows an influence from The A-Team (though MacGyver eschews firearms). The idea has entered United States popular culture: such constructions are referred to as "MacGyverisms" (a term first used in episode 3 of season 2, "Twice Stung"). MacGyver has become a verb,[4] as in "The car broke down but he MacGyvered a fix to get home", and was even used in Stargate SG-1, a later show featuring Richard Dean Anderson as a protagonist. The show often dealt with social issues, though more so in seasons 4–7 than 1–3, which were mostly about MacGyver's adventures working for the United States government and later the Phoenix Foundation.
Several episodes, including the pilot, begin with a cold open, finding MacGyver already on a mission. MacGyver often narrates a story from his childhood relating to his current situation. He resolves this situation quickly, and the main story commences after the opening credits. This opening sequence is called in the credits the "Opening Gambit" and is far more common in earlier episodes than in later ones. This segment is often written and directed by a different team than the main story of the episode. After the credits, the main story plays out in standard three-act structure. In many episodes, the opening sequence occurs after the opening credits and often does not involve MacGyver on a mission but rather in a situation used for character development. In the same manner as the "Opening Gambit" sequences, these opening segments often do not directly relate to the main story.
- Richard Dean Anderson as Angus MacGyver, a secret agent who prefers not to carry or use a gun, due to a childhood accident with a revolver that resulted in the death of a friend.[5] However, MacGyver is willing to use an acquired gun, its parts, or its bullets in non-standard ways, such as a substitute for a wrench. There are three exceptions when he uses a gun for its original intended purpose: in the pilot episode, MacGyver is seen firing an AK-47 on a mission in the opening gambit (7:51 into the episode); he holds two kidnappers at gunpoint in the opening scene of episode 10, season one;[6] and, is seen using a gun in the TV movie Trail to Doomsday. He is often suspicious of militaristic attitudes within the government; he sees the Los Angeles based Phoenix Foundation, his employer, as an alternative to more conventional (and violent) means of law enforcement.[7]
- MacGyver's family is rarely seen. His grandfather appears in a few episodes. In a flash back during the episode "Phoenix Under Siege" S2E11, MacGyver's grandfather talks to his wife and MacGyver talks to his father. In the second to last episode (The Stinger), it is revealed that he has a son he never knew about, and in the end the two of them ride off into the sunset on a motorcycle.
- Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton, MacGyver's boss and best friend. He is an operative at the Department of External Services (DXS), which is where he is impressed by Mac's ingenuity while tracking down Murdoc (Michael Des Barres), an international assassin. When Thornton becomes director of operations at the Phoenix Foundation several years later, he brings MacGyver into the program. In addition to sending Mac out on various tasks for the foundation, Thornton is many times forced to bail MacGyver out of the trouble he gets into. Thornton has a son named Michael. Late in the show it is learned that Pete has glaucoma, an element written in because of Elcar getting glaucoma in real life.
- Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton, MacGyver's comical best friend. He is a soldier of fortune/bush pilot who periodically gets everyone into a heap of trouble with various get rich quick schemes that only MacGyver can get them out of. His eye twitches when he's lying. Dalton often attempts to romance the women he is introduced to.
While creating the series MacGyver, John Rich was working on the sitcom Mr. Sunshine for ABC, which was short-lived and cancelled quickly. Henry Winkler had just finished off his eleven-year run on Happy Days and was looking for another project. Lee David Zlotoff was working as a producer for Remington Steele, which was airing on NBC. The three got together to form the basis for MacGyver and sold the idea to Paramount, and ABC became interested in the series.[8]
The series was filmed in Southern California for its first two seasons and again in its final season. From seasons 3~6, it was filmed in various locations around Vancouver in Canada.[9] Los Angeles remained as the setting of the show for the entire duration. In seasons 1 and 2, MacGyver was portrayed living in a waterfront apartment in Venice Beach. In season 3, he moved onto a houseboat at an unspecified location, though implied still to be in Los Angeles (the actual shooting took place at Coal Harbor near downtown Vancouver).[10]
When the series was in pre-production, Winkler and Rich were looking for a suitable actor for the lead.[8] After Richard Dean Anderson's appearance in the American television series The Love Boat, Winkler got Anderson to audition for the part.[11] According to Rich, every auditioning actor "hulked" his way through his audition. When Anderson eventually auditioned for the role, Winkler and Rich felt that he gave the character a human touch which the other actors could not. Both believed that Anderson would become one of the new "breakout" stars on American television.[8]
Anderson is known for having done many of the stunts in the series, though in later seasons he reduced his participation because of accumulating injuries. He injured his back and required foot surgery because of accidents working as a stuntman.[12]
The producers of MacGyver had a tendency to use the same actor in multiple roles throughout a series run. Kai Wulff played Stepan Frolov in season one's "Every Time She Smiles", Hans Visser in season four's "Collision Course", Ladysmith in season five's Black Rhino, and Nicolas Von Leer in season six's episode "Eye of Osiris". Gregory Sierra appeared in the season one episode "The Gauntlet", playing General Antonio Vasquez, the season two episode "Jack of Lies", playing Colonel Antunnez, and the season five episode "The Treasure of Manco", playing Captain Diaz. Nana Visitor appeared in the season one episode "Hellfire" as Laura Farren, and in the season two episode "DOA: MacGyver" she appears again as Carol Varnay. David Ackroyd appears in the season one episode "Trumbo's World" as Mr. Trumbo, and in the season three episode "The Negotiator" as Mr. Knapp. Walter Gotell appears in season three episode "GX-1" as a Russian psychic named Starkoss and in season four episode "Gold Rush" as General Barenov. Elyssa Davalos played Lisa Kohler/Kosov in "Lost Love: Part 1 & 2" in season 3, then just a few episodes later (in the same season) she re-appeared as Nikki Carpenter, a role which she reprised in several more episodes. Dana Elcar first appeared in the pilot episode as the chief of operations for KIVA laboratories under a different character name, Andy Colson.[13] Elcar returns later in the first season to play the main character, Pete Thornton.[14]
Two episodes of MacGyver's first season were co-written by Terry Nation, a British writer best known as the creator of the Daleks in Doctor Who.
Initial broadcast history
After a slow start in its first season, MacGyver became a sleeper hit for ABC in its second season, during which it began a six-year run as the lead-in to ABC's Monday Night Football (the longest such run in history).[15] During the show's fourth season, Richard Dean Anderson complained that ABC was not marketing the series enough. Saying that the series is "just another action show" for ABC, he further stated that ABC didn't give the series enough promotion.[16]
MacGyver's seventh season was abbreviated. After the twelfth episode of the season aired on December 30, 1991, MacGyver disappeared from the ABC schedule and did not return until April 25, 1992 by which point the series had been cancelled. The finale aired that night, with a previously unaired episode following on May 21, 1992. When asked why the series was cancelled, Anderson replied: "The only reason it went off the air was that everybody was ready to move on. I was physically exhausted and had no life."[17]
ABC replaced MacGyver with Steven Spielberg's production companies for Paramount Television. Unlike MacGyver, the Young Indiana Jones series failed to catch on and was cancelled after its only season. ABC and Paramount would attempt to find one more hit lead in for Monday Night Football with The Marshal in 1995, but the series was cancelled at the end of the NFL season and Paramount and ABC's longstanding relationship withered away as any Paramount-produced series that aired on ABC thereafter either was cancelled after a season (Philly, Blind Justice) or moved to another network (Sister, Sister, Clueless).[18] (The two production companies, through ABC's succession of Touchstone Television and CBS' production arm's merger with Paramount Television, did eventually produce hit series later on; Numb3rs and Criminal Minds are two of these series.)
Syndication and movies
In 1994, the series was released in over seventy different worldwide markets.[19] Because of popular demand, two TV-movies were created, both released in 1994. The first movie MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis premiered in the United States in May. The film was shot in England and Greece. The second movie was entitled MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday. Anderson served as executive producer for both films,[19] which were filmed in Europe.[20] Re-runs of the series still air in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Alongside local syndication, reruns aired on the USA Network from 1990 to 1997, on WGN America from 1998 to 2002, on TV Land from January 2003 to 2006, on Spike for a brief time in 2005. It is currently aired on Cloo (2011–present) with marathon blocks shown on the weekends.
In 2003, The WB Television Network had a pilot for a possible new Young MacGyver series starring Jared Padalecki as MacGyver's nephew Clay, but opted to pass on it.[21] In an August 2007 survey commissioned by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, Americans polled voted MacGyver as the favorite fictional hero they would want to have if they were ever caught in an emergency.[22] Lee David Zlotoff, creator of the series, announced on May 3, 2008, that a MacGyver film was in the planning stages.[23] He would produce the film along with Martha De Laurentiis and Raffaella De Laurentiis through her Raffaella Productions.[24] Richard Dean Anderson has expressed interest in revisiting his role,[25] however there is no confirmation on who would be playing the role of MacGyver in the film.[26]
Home releases
Paramount Home Entertainment has released all 7 seasons of MacGyver on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4. On October 16, 2007, CBS DVD released MacGyver: The Complete Series, a special collectors' edition box set that features all 139 episodes of the series as well as the two TV movies that followed.
On June 15, 2010, Paramount released the two TV movies on DVD in Region 1 in a separate single-disc release entitled MacGyver - The TV Movies. The TV shows use to be on Hulu no one truly knows why they were removed. One possible reason for this is sometimes the shows are windowed meaning "only there for a set time". HD, 4K, and Blu-ray versions have no official word at this time.
The character's ability to use everyday objects to perform extraordinary feats has been widely referenced and parodied. There have been a few comedic spin-offs of the show, such as Saturday Night Live's "MacGruber," which later was made into a full feature film named MacGruber, and a parody of the song "Hey There Delilah", which was given the name "Hey There MacGyver."
In 2006, Anderson appeared in a MasterCard television commercial for Super Bowl XL. In it, he manages to cut the ropes binding him to a chair using a pine tree air freshener, uses an ordinary tube sock as the pulley for a zip-line, and somehow repairs and hot-wires a nonfunctional truck using a paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray, and a turkey baster. In contrast to previous MasterCard commercials showing people making extravagant purchases to accomplish some mundane task, MacGyver is here portrayed as escaping from some sort of deathtrap using less than $20 worth of common household items. The commercial ends by showing him purposefully buying an assortment of such things at a department store with his credit card (as a tongue-in-cheek explanation for how he seems to always have items he needs on hand no matter where he goes). Although the commercial implies that Anderson is portraying MacGyver, he is not identified.[28]
The series is referenced in episodes of The Simpsons, primarily detailing Marge Simpson's sisters Patty and Selma's obsession with the show and their crush on the MacGyver character. The sisters' regular viewing of the show is an unalterable element of their daily schedule to the point of death as demonstrated in the episode "Black Widower". The episode featured a fictional scene of MacGyver where he downplays his role in saving a village ("Don't thank me. Thank the moon's gravitational pull").[29] In another episode, "A Star is Burns", Homer tricks Jay Sherman into insulting MacGyver in front of Patty and Selma; Sherman ends up being hung from the rain gutter by his underpants, and Bart asks "You badmouthed MacGyver, didn't you?" Anderson himself is an avid fan of The Simpsons, and even provided his voice for an episode of the show titled "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", which first aired April 9, 2006, where Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson after he admits that he never liked doing MacGyver and only did the show for the money.
In the first episode of Anderson's later show, Stargate SG-1, Amanda Tapping mentions that the Air Force had to "MacGyver" a Dial Home Device for the Stargate, and a split-second shot following this shows Anderson twitching an eyebrow. (However, this line was removed when this episode was re-released in 2009.[30] ) There is a blooper reel where Tapping's character, who is trapped with Anderson's character on a glacier, begins ranting about how "we got belt buckles, shoelaces and a piece of gum. Build a nuclear reactor, for cryin' out loud! You used to be MacGyver, MacGadget, MacGimmick... now you're Mr. MacUseless... Dear God, I'm stuck on a glacier with MacGyver!" Later, various episodes establish that Jack O'Neill (Anderson's character) has an immense love of the cartoon series "The Simpsons".
In 2001, the band They Might Be Giants released a song titled "All MacGyver On It" on the Japanese version of their album Mink Car.
In 2007, the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live featured a parody of MacGyver called "MacGruber" with Will Forte as the title character. The intros for these skits featured scenes from the MacGyver series. MacGruber and cohorts are always locked in a control room of some type with a bomb set to go off in 15–20 seconds. MacGruber has his co-stars hand him components to defuse the device, but something inevitably gets in the way (either situational, because MacGruber himself interferes, or because no one wants to touch what he has asked for) and the bomb detonates. In the March 7, 2009 installment of the "MacGruber" sketches, it was revealed that MacGyver is MacGruber's long-lost father. In 2010 the character was featured in its own R-rated spinoff movie, entitled MacGruber; the film was released by Rogue Pictures.
In February 2008, the science show Mythbusters featured a MacGyver special which tested several of MacGyver's tactics.
In 2008 the phrase "What would MacGyver do?" was used in a New Zealand television commercial for Gregg's "freestyle cooking" range of herbs and spices. The commercial featured the word MacGyver unfolding like a puzzle with a potato peeler and chopping knife opening out like the blades of a Swiss Army knife.[31]
Weird Al Yankovic has twice referenced MacGyver in his songs- "Couch Potato" and "Handy" both mention MacGyver.
MacGyver employs his resourcefulness and his knowledge of chemistry, physics,[3] technology, and outdoorsmanship to resolve what are often life-or-death crises. He creates inventions from simple items to solve these problems. These inventions became synonymous with the character and were called MacGyverisms by fans.[32] MacGyver was unlike secret agents in other television series and films because, instead of relying on high-tech weapons and tools, he carried only a Swiss Army knife and duct tape but never a gun.[3]
This also led to the verb, "to MacGyver". "MacGyverism" was first used by Joanne Remmings (played by Pamela Bowen) in the third episode of Season 2. When MacGyver introduces himself to her, she uses the term in a manner that suggests other people had used it before:[33]
"Oh I've heard about you! You're the guy who does the whatchamacallits, you know, MacGyverisms; turns one thing into another?"
In an 1989 interview with Richard Dean Anderson, Arsenio Hall said that he had heard the word MacGyver used as a verb meaning "to do the impossible." Anderson then used it as an adjective meaning "impossible." Anderson stated that his show's producers had just missed out on getting the word "MacGyverism" entered into the Webster's Dictionary and that "we" intended to try to get it in the next update.[34]
The show's writers based MacGyver's inventions on items they found on location, concepts from scientific advisers John Koivula and Jim Green, and real events.[3] The show offered a monetary prize to people who sent good ideas for the show. A young fan suggested that MacGyver could patch up a vehicle's radiator by cracking an egg into it. The episode "Bushmaster" was constructed around this trick, and the fan was rewarded (producer Henry Winkler said in a 2005 NPR interview that that was his favorite "MacGyverism"). Although staff read every letter, few usable ideas were obtained in this way.[32]
Returns in 2012
Richard Dean Anderson reprised his role as MacGyver in September 2012 in a new series of short movies, created by Mercedes-Benz for the launch of their new MPV Citan in Europe. The series is available on the official website of Citan, from September 18 onwards.[35][36] The episodes were shot in Johannesburg, South Africa, in July 2012.
In the short film series, MacGyver now runs a mobile repair service with his daughter Caitlin. They go to a high-rise building to fix a faulty air conditioning system when a group of terrorists incapacitate all of the occupants with knockout gas and take over the building. Despite his age, MacGyver uses his skills to overcome the knockout gas and follow the terrorists, discovering a military bunker below the basement. After the terrorists load a large crate into a van, MacGyver follows them in his Citan work van to a shipping yard, where the terrorists begin an exchange deal with another party. Inside the crate is a robot soldier, which goes haywire and kills everyone on sight. MacGyver then drives his Citan and runs over the robot before deactivating to save the day.
International television broadcasting rightsMacGyver came to worldwide success it was transmitted to more than 50-countries around the world across Asia, Australia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and America became one of most popular television series in the English-speaking world.
New Line Cinema is developing a movie version of MacGyver with Dino De Laurentiis originally as executive producer. Since De Laurentiis's death in 2010, his daughter Raffaella De Laurentiis, and his wife Martha De Laurentiis will be producing the film along with series creator Lee Zlotoff. Australian director James Wan will direct the MacGyver feature film.[37][38]
Comic book
In 2012 Tony Lee joined with MacGyver creator Lee David Zlotoff and technical advisor John Potter to write a 5 part comic book series of MacGyver titled MacGyver: Fugitive Gauntlets. The story is set in modern times but maintained all the major elements of the old show, including well known character Pete Thornton and the Phoenix Foundation as well as the much loved voice-overs and MacGyverisms.
The first issue was released Oct 10, 2012 with a new issue released each month ending with issue 5 on Feb 27, 2013.
The comic book was very well received around the world with the first issue selling out within the first 2 weeks[39] and received mostly favorable reviews through major comic book sites.
See also
- ^ Daniel Hubschman (May 21, 2010). "MacGyver Movie On The Way". Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013.
- ^ Design News Staff (December 18, 2001). "Engineers making a difference; Five engineers find the time to teach kids that engineering is cool". Design News: 50.
- ^ a b c d Britton, Wesley, Spy Television, Praeger/Greenwood, ISBN 0-275-98163-0, p. 212.
- ^ Wiktionary: MacGyver
- ^ "Brothers". MacGyver. Season 4. Episode 2. American Broadcasting Company.
- ^ "Target MacGyver". MacGyver. Season 1. Episode 10. American Broadcasting Company.
- ^ Pieter Jacobus Fourie (April 28, 2004). Media Studies: Content, audiences, and production. Google Books.
- ^ a b c John Rich (October 2006). Warm Up the Snake. Google Books (University of Michigan Press).
- ^ Canadaka. "TV Series Filmed in Canada". Canadaka.net.
- ^ "MacGyver Online: Filming Locations".
- ^ James Brady (December 27, 1998). "In Step With Richard Dean Anderson". Parade Magazine. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ Lindsey Greenstein, Laura Giles and Alex Bogdan (February 4, 1990). "Kidsday: Talking with Richard Dean Anderson". Newsday. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ "Pilot". MacGyver. Season 1. Episode 1. American Broadcasting Company.
- ^ "Nightmares". MacGyver. Season 1. Episode 11. American Broadcasting Company.
- ^ Suzanne Stevens (January 19, 1987). "In a fix? Call MacGyver, not the average Joe who plays him". People Weekly. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ David Walstad (July 24, 1988). "Series gets no respect, star says; Richard Dean Anderson faces his fourth season as MacGyver". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ Mark Nollinger (July 15, 1997). "Ice Man". TV Guide. TV Guide. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ Susan King (December 13, 1992). "No More Mr. Nice Guy". TV Guide. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ a b Susan King (May 8, 1994). "Richard Dean Anderson producing Macsqual". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ Jerry Buck (May 8, 1994). "A New Image for MacGyver". Associated Press. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ "MacGyver: Watch Jared Padalecki as the Hero's Nephew, Young MacGyver". tvseriesfinale.com. April 8, 2014. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ "MacGyver is favorite disaster hero". The Sydney Morning Herald. September 13, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^ "In brief: MacGyver creator talks up film". The Guardian. May 6, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
- ^ MacGyver" being reassembled as feature film""". Reuters. March 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
- ^ "Comic Con: Richard Dean Anderson Talks MacGyver Movie". Cinema Blend. July 27, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ "New Line Gears Up For 'MacGyver' Film". Attack of the Show! – The Feed. March 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- ^ "MacGyver DVD news: Date Change for MacGyver - The TV Movies". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
- ^ "MacGyver MasterCard Commercial". Tow.com. Dec 20, 2010.
- ^ "A Star Is Burns". The Simpsons. Season 6. Episode 18. 1995-03-05.
- ^ "Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods - Final Cut review". ReviewStream.com. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ MacGyver Online web site has this commercial to watch online
- ^ a b Rich, John, 2006, Warm Up the Snake: A Hollywood Memoir, ISBN 0-472-11578-2, p. 167.
- ^ Season 2, Episode 3 – "Twice Stung". Her phrasing suggests it's a popular term to those who know of MacGyver's track record, although MacGyver himself was unaware of the term.
- ^ Arsenio Hall interview of Richard Dean Anderson. The Arsenio Hall Show. 1989. MacGyver Online. accessed July 30, 2011.
- ^ "Heroic. The New Citan".
- ^ "MacGyver and the new Citan: every hero needs a strong partner".
- ^ "New Line Developing a MacGyver Movie". Filmjunk.com. 2009-03-16. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
- ^ Director Hired for MacGyver Feature Film
- ^ "MacGyver comic sells out in less than 2 weeks". MacGyver Online News. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
External links
- MacGyver Global The official MacGyver Site of Lee Zlotoff
- MacGyver Online The Complete MacGyver Resource and Reference site
- MacGyver at the Internet Movie Database
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At a press conference on Monday at HAI's Heli-Expo, Bell Helicopter CEO John Garrison said that while the partnership with Boeing on the V-22 remains intact, the OEM would now be taking the lead in tiltrotor development for the Joint Multi Role (JMR) and Future Vertical Lift (FVL), where Boeing has partnered with Sikorsky. "We still have the same strong relationship with Boeing today on V-22 and will develop and sell that platform around the world."
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STOCKTON - Since Lawrence Roberson Jr. died from multiple gunshot wounds more than a month ago, authorities have provided scant information about the incident.
STOCKTON - Since Lawrence Roberson Jr. died from multiple gunshot wounds more than a month ago, authorities have provided scant information about the incident.
What they did provide - his name, age, a rough idea of where the crime happened and that he was the victim of a homicide - was all The Record could report at the time.
Since then, those who knew Roberson have emerged to tell the story of a man with a magnetic personality, a church-going father with a regular job experiencing a rough patch in his marriage. He had recently moved into his own apartment in an area of central Stockton plagued by drug dealing, but that was not who he was.
Roberson, one of his best friends said, was living in fear for his life in the days leading up to his death. He was more than just Stockton's 21st homicide victim of 2014. Far more.
"He was absolutely a perfect person. If anybody deserves to have their story told, it is Lawrence," said Dwayne Cason, 58, of Stockton, a close friend of Roberson's for the past four years.
Cason and Roberson, 35, a class A professional truck driver for seven years - the past year with Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. - shared the dream of some day opening up their own automotive-repair shop.
"He knows about cars. We started buying cars and fixing them up and selling them. That's how we became pretty good friends," said Cason, who first approached Roberson several years ago about fixing his own car. At that time, though, he had doubts.
"At first, I didn't want to have anything to do with him. I thought he was with a girl who smoked weed, who was always calling the police about abuse, and then I found out he just worked on his cars under her window. I found out he lived around the corner. I saw that he was a family man ... and I saw him going to church on Sundays," Cason said.
"That's when my image of him changed."
Cason, who said losing his good friend has left a hole in his heart, described Roberson as a man known for his smile and his laughter.
"Everything was funny, everything was great to him. He just had that personality that you just can't help but like him. He really loved his kids. He was always talking about his kids," Cason said.
"Probably the best way to describe him is he had a magnetic personality. You just take to him real fast," he said.
Roberson's boss said much the same thing.
"You always smiled when Lawrence was around. The people that knew him really adored him. It's heart-breaking what happened," said Justin Frey, manager of the FFE depot in southeast Stockton.
It's unclear exactly what happened, but what is known is that Roberson died as the result of a shooting shortly after midnight June 18 in the vicinity of his apartment in the 100 block of West Magnolia Street, about four blocks from Dameron Hospital.
Rather than a random crime, what happened to Roberson may be connected to an incident that occurred about a month earlier in which a man has been arrested on an attempted murder charge. In that incident, Roberson was the victim. Police, however, have not charged that man, identified as LaDonn Lee, 22, in connection with Roberson's homicide.
Lee is being held in the San Joaquin County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail, facing eight felony counts including suspicion of attempted premeditated murder, shooting at a vehicle, assault with a firearm on a person, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was arrested June 23, more than a month after the May 20 shooting incident and five days after Roberson's death.
According to Police Department spokesman Officer Joe Silva, at 10:49 p.m. May 20, Lee, police believe, shot at Roberson as he was driving near Cherbourg Way and Arden Lane in northeast Stockton. Since Roberson's homicide remains an active investigation, Silva could not provide any further information.
According to Cason, the May 20 shooting took place near the home Roberson once shared with his estranged wife. He said Roberson told him he was fleeing the house after meeting with his wife, and his wife's new boyfriend shot at him six times. Cason, however, does not know Lee and never heard his name in connection with Roberson or Roberson's wife.
Cason also said Roberson told him his wife's boyfriend, on an earlier occasion, beat him up and dragged him out to the street in front of the couple's house.
After the May 20 shooting incident, Roberson was so rattled that he spent six days in a behavioral health facility undergoing therapy, Cason said.
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South East Area Transit (SEAT) will take you almost anywhere you want to go in Zanesville and Cambridge. Bus Service is offered Monday-Friday with efficient schedules and pick-up points nearly every 30-60 minutes. Best of all, with a regular fixed-route fare of only $1.00, there's no better way to stretch your budget.
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ECPA Amendments and Privacy in a Post Petraeus World
One of the issues making the rounds like wildfire today was a report from Declan McCullagh at CNET regarding certain proposed amendments to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The article is entitled "Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants" and relates:
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.
CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
Leahy's rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies — including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission — to access Americans' e-mail, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages without a search warrant. It also would give the FBI and Homeland Security more authority, in some circumstances, to gain full access to Internet accounts without notifying either the owner or a judge. (CNET obtained the revised draft from a source involved in the negotiations with Leahy.)
This sounds like the predictably craven treachery that regularly comes out of Senate, indeed Congressional, legislation on privacy issues. And exactly what many had hoped would cease coming out of Washington after the public scrutiny brought on by the Petraeus/Broadwell/Kelley scandal. And, should these amendments make it into law, they may yet prove detrimental.
But there are a couple of problems here. First, as Julian Sanchez noted, those abilities by the government already substantially exist.
Lots of people RTing CNET's story today seem outraged Congress might allow access to e-mail w/o warrant—but that's the law ALREADY!
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The Power Of International Trade Agreements To Prevent You From Owning What You've Bought, And Why This Must Be Fixed
from the just-as-we-suspected deptBack when the US was negotiating ACTA, we were among those who raised the alarm about just how troubling this trade agreement was -- negotiated in back rooms by the USTR, with details that were kept in secret until they were locked in. In response, many of our critics said that we were overreacting, since ACTA was merely an "executive agreement" which (1) could not bind Congress to anything and (2) would not require any changes to US law, so it was "no big deal." In fact, we were directly told that Congress would not feel bound by such things, so we should shut up with our "same tired arguments," which were nothing but a "chicken little mentality" based on "what ifs."
Of course, part of our very specific concern about ACTA was that even if it required no direct changes in law, it very clearly locked in existing problematic laws, making it much more difficult to fix those problems. And while it did not technically "bind" Congress, the second that anyone in Congress proposed a law that went against the international agreement, we'd hear screaming from the usual crew of copyright lobbyists about how Congress was doing the most horrible of horribles in "violating our international agreements." Of course, they'd leave out the fact that they wrote or heavily influenced those agreements as a way to directly route around Congress.
For all the claims of Chicken Littles and what ifs, in the last few weeks, the "hypothetical" situations we discussed have become very, very real, and have highlighted why it's so problematic that the USTR is including copyright and patent issues in international trade agreements. First, as we noted a few weeks ago, on the issue of phone unlocking, some existing US trade agreements have made it difficult to actually fix the issue. In particular, we named KORUS, the free trade agreement we signed with South Korea half a decade ago, which included a number of copyright provisions, pushed by the entertainment industry (who had flipped out because South Korea was one of the first countries blanketed in broadband). The end result of that, however, is that it would go against that agreement to actually fix the problem (as the White House claims it wants) of phone unlocking being illegal.
Now, as Shirwin Siy correctly points out, Congress is not technically bound by such agreements and can overrule them:
First of all, trade agreements don't dictate what laws Congress can and can't pass. If they're executive agreements, they can't override any laws passed by Congress in the past, and even if they're executed as treaties, they can be superseded by later acts of Congress. Just like Congress can pass a law that overrides an earlier law, it can pass a law that overrides an earlier treaty.That's technically true, but the reality is not so easy. Soon after my post went up, I started hearing from people all over DC about this issue. In the past few weeks, in talking to numerous capitol hill staffers, as well as with a variety of others involved in the discussions, one thing has become clear: while some in Congress really wanted to do a comprehensive fix on unlocking, the realization that international agreements get in the way may have scuttled those plans entirely. They recognize that Siy is correct, and that Congress is not technically bound, but what becomes clear is that the political reality is, in fact, very different. Proposing a bill that goes against an international agreement is seen as a no-no and the political fight it would take to get that bill to actually do anything just probably isn't worth it.
So, there we have a very real and very tangible example of an agreement that technically didn't "change" our laws, now locking us in to a bad situation.
And... it could be even worse. For all the talk of how Congress isn't actually bound by the USTR's negotiations, it appears that someone forgot to tell that to certain members of the Supreme Court. When the Kirtsaeng case came out last week, the dissent, written by Justice Ginsburg, repeatedly cited international agreements for her interpretation of the law, even though those agreements aren't supposed to define or bind the law. John Bergmayer points out how wrong this is:
It is thus relevant that Justice Ginsburg writes, in dissenting from the majority opinion, that "[u]nlike the Court's holding, my position is consistent with the stance the United States has taken in international trade negotiations." But trade negotiators do not get to decide what the law is: Congress passes statutes and courts interpret them. The USTR is not part of this workflow. If trade negotiators have ever taken positions that are inconsistent with Kirtsaeng then those positions are now, and always have been contrary to US law. I would make a similar argument even if Kirtsaeng came out the other way: trade negotiators should not try to anticipate how contentious legal battles will turn out. They should steer clear of these areas entirely and allow the system to do its work.So even though the law is clear that the USTR's secretive negotiations (often driven by the copyright industry) cannot actually make the law, even at least three Supreme Court justices seem confused on this point.
And it could get even worse. That's because with the still secretive TPP agreement, that is supposedly nearing completion, a look at what little leaked text there is on the issue of copyright shows that the TPP disagrees with the Kirtsaeng ruling and would require the US to kill off first sale rights on foreign made products to "meet our international obligations." The leaked text includes the following:
"Article 4(2). Each Party shall provide to authors, performers, and producers of phonograms the right to authorize or prohibit the importation into that Party's territory of copies of the work, performance, or phonogram made without authorization, or made outside that Party's territory with the authorization of the author, performer, or producer of the phonogram."And while the TPP is not yet in effect, Sean Flynn (at the link above) notes that some other free trade agreements negotiated by the USTR already have similar provisions. That's why Ginsburg was so concerned about our supposed "international obligations" in her dissent on Kirtsaeng. Since copyright lobbyists are already pushing to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling with new laws, you can bet that we'll soon be hearing claims that we need to do this to "meet our international obligations."
The point of all of this? The USTR shouldn't be involved, at all, in negotiating IP issues in any such international agreements. Not only is it antithetical to their stated purpose and despite the law being to the contrary, many in both Congress and the Supreme Court, really do feel that we are "bound" by those agreements, even if they were never approved by Congress and cover topics, such as copyright, which only Congress has the mandate to create and change. The "hypotheticals" we discussed around ACTA are no longer "what ifs," but are very real and should be a major concern.
With an attempt at real copyright reform on the table, the fact that the USTR may be seen (whether legally or not) as tying the hands of Congress should be reason enough to simply take those sections out of any and all trade agreements. They don't belong there and they're clearly causing significant problems for the public's best interests within the US. The USTR process is not transparent. It does not involve the public and is not responsive to the needs of voters. That Congress is then effectively unable to do such basic things as allowing the public to unlock their mobile phones (even at the White House's request) or to guarantee that we actually own what we've bought, show just how problematic the situation has become. A few people in Congress are now waking up to this fact, but too many are still oblivious. It's amazing that Congress has allowed the USTR to cut off its own power in this manner.
To fix this, the USTR needs to reject any language around intellectual property in any ongoing international agreements, and must look to pull that language out of earlier agreements. It just doesn't make any sense. Congress needs to assert itself, and let the USTR and the executive branch know that only it has say over copyright and patent laws, as per the Constitution. And, finally, if the White House truly believed what it said about mobile phone unlocking, it should order the USTR to reverse course -- and, as part of that, to start being much more transparent and responsive to the public as it negotiates any such agreements.
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$5 Million Challenge at Las Vegas For 2011 Season Finale
----Since 2005, IZOD IndyCar Series drivers have navigated the challenges of road and street circuits mixed with ovals of all sorts in pursuit of the most demanding championship in motorsports and its $1 million bonus.
Dan Wheldon, Sam Hornish Jr., Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti have prevailed -- with each of the title duels culminating in the season finale. There are equal parts ovals and road/street circuits embedded in the 18-race schedule (17 events, including the Firestone Twin 275s at Texas Motor Speedway), with the finale scheduled for Oct. 16 on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway oval.
That should be plenty of time for five potential challengers to sharpen their oval racing skills to collect on a cool $5 million payday courtesy of the sanctioning body. The catch? Win the race.
INDYCAR CEO Randy Bernard dovetailed the challenge with the IZOD IndyCar World Championship announcement at the chic Crystals CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip. Tickets go on sale Feb. 25 at Ticketmaster.com. "We showcase our drivers as being the very best, fastest and most versatile in the world," he said, "and we are putting our money where our mouth is. If any race car driver in the world outside of the IZOD IndyCar Series can win the Vegas race, we will give you $5 million. We will accept five entries for this challenge, with entrants being determined by a selection committee by mid-summer.
"There are a lot of drivers that talk about wanting to race in INDYCAR. We believe that the skill set it takes and just the toughness and willpower to get behind the wheel of these cars is pretty amazing. Those top drivers are going to expect to have a great team, so they are going to have to talk to the Roger Penskes and the Chip Ganassis and the Michael Andrettis and on down and make sure that they feel that they have a shot of winning this race."
Sounds enticing; enough even to get Al Unser Jr. and KV Racing Technology-Lotus co-owner Jimmy Vasser to contemplate coming out of retirement for the date. "I tell you, $5 million would sure make you think about it," said Unser, a two-time Indianapolis 500 champion who is a driver coach with INDYCAR. "I'd lose 10 pounds and I'd call Roger (Penske) and try to make a deal with him. It would be like old times. It's Randy taking the lead with the IZOD IndyCar Series and it's going to be great." BTW: The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competes at Charlotte Motor Speedway the night before the IZOD IndyCar Series race.
INDYCAR christened the $72 million Speedway Motorsports Inc.-owned superspeedway in September 1996, with Richie Hearn taking the checkered flag. Eliseo Salazar, Arie Luyendyk, Sam Schmidt and Unser also won INDYCAR-sanctioned races through 2000. Sebastien Bourdais won Champ Car races in 2004 and '05.
The 1.5-mile racetrack was reconfigured in 2006, with variable banking (to 20 degrees) one of the more notable projects. Unser said the racing was exciting a decade ago and expects the higher banking to increase the competition.
"It will definitely race a lot like Chicagoland (Speedway)," he said. "With the added banking you're going to have more grip. When I raced here in 2000 we raced side by side but only two rows could do it. The third row didn't have enough grip to do it so with the added banking you're going to see side-by-side racing six and seven rows deep. It's going to look a like what goes on at Chicagoland and Texas, and we know how exciting those tracks are."
Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe, who tested at the speedway in October, agreed. "I can tell you it's going to be the closest race we'll have all season, so it's the perfect place to have the world championships," Briscoe said. "It's going to be the fastest track we go to outside of Indianapolis and it's going to be unpredictable. There will be two-and three-wide racing, and even four-wide like we've seen before. If you're a fan of any form of motorsports, this is the race you should come to."
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ASHEVILLE — "Did your sister teach you how to throw?" a heckler asked Hickory's Yohander Mendez during Friday's game at McCormick Field. Moments later, Mendez struck out his sixth batter — of the first seven he faced.
If she did, the Asheville Tourists really don't want to face Yohander Mendez's sister.
Mendez, a lanky, 6-4 left-hander out of Valencia, Venezuala, used impeccable control and a deadly change-up to dominate Asheville for six innings that pushed the Crawdads to a 7-2 victory on a dreary, cold and rainy night. He was perfect for 4 1/3 innings, whiffing the first four batters of the game and seven of the first nine — all swinging — before Correlle Prime gave the Tourists their first baserunner with a perfectly-placed dribbler between third and short that resulted in an infield hit.
Prime was quickly erased on a double play, however, when Mendez caught Jordan Patterson's soft liner and threw back to first. Michael Benjamin's one-out single in the sixth was the only ball Asheville hit remotely hard off Mendez, but he, too, was erased on Wilfredo Rodriguez's double-play grounder to short.
That meant when Hickory manager Corey Ragsdale pulled Mendez before the seventh he had faced the minimum of 18 batters, with 10 strikeouts — nine swinging.
"You've got to give credit to that pitcher. He kept throwing that change-up and we kept chasing it," Asheville manager Fred Ocasio said. "I couldn't blame the weather. Their hitters were hitting in the same kind of weather. It was their pitcher."
Mendez (2-0) had started three games before Friday, with a nice 1.93 ERA, but he had been far from dominant, giving up 11 hits in 9 1/3 innings with only six strikeouts while allowing batters to post a .289 average.
As many bats as Mendez missed, Asheville starter Alex Balog found. He gave up three hits in the first inning alone, resulting in a 1-0 deficit on Nick Urbanus' RBI double, and four more hits coupled with a walk and two errors put Ashevill e in a 6-0 hole after three.
Balog rallied to retire the final nine batters he faced, however, and reliever Trent Blank picked up where he left off by recording seven straight outs — making it 16 straight — until Kevin Torres' one-out home run in the ninth.
Asheville picked up single runs in the seventh and eighth once Mendez left but stranded multiple baserunners that could have cut the deficit further. The game ended when Prime was thrown out at third by Hickory center fielder Lewis Brinson after Brinson caught a deep fly ball. Prime tried to trot into the base instead of sliding.
Hickory (8-8) had nine hits, but only Jairo Beras (2-for-4) had more than one. Ryan McMahon was 2-for-4 for Asheville, while Benjamin went 2-for-3.
Balog (1-2) gave up seven hits and six runs over six innings, three earned, with five strikeouts and a walk.
Asheville (8-8) hosts Hickory again today beginning at 6:05 p.m.
Mendez shuts down Tourists on rainy night
ASHEVILLE — "Did your sister teach you how to throw?" a heckler asked Hickory's Yohander Mendez during Friday's game at McCormick Field. Moments later, Mendez struck out his sixth batter — of the first seven he faced.


text: Hi,Anybody tried insertion of LMA in prone position?Read an article in Indian Journal of Anst Dec 2008??Was impressed with the study. Read and read over and over again. They had used LMA Classic in the study of 200 cases with only two cases where they had to reinsert, in variety of cases inclusive Spine and in obese patients.We made up our mind to try once. We use LMA Supreme. This is much better shaped device. We do Liposuction in obese patients in prone position first and later in supine position. We tried it in a case. Made the patient sleep in prone position and then induced her. It was easy to ventilate ( as the tongue does not fall back, it rises in prone)and very easy to insert the LMA. We connected the patient to venti. The patient was in prone for an hour and half, and all was ok.We made her supine and completed the surgery of front in next 2 hours.It was most easy. We tried it in about a dozen cases after that and are happy.The idea is to try it once, so that one is not afraid, if ever a tube gets dislodged in prone, you can always insert an LMA and manage the case.Sounded like a creazy idea to start with, but the article was presented nicely and we were tempted in trying it.Please let me know if any one has tried, and if any difficulties.Regs.


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I have an OpenWrt 10.03 router [ IP: 192.168.1.1 ], and it has a DHCP server pool: 192.168.1.0/24 - clients are using it through wireless/wired connection. Ok!
Here's the catch: I need to separate the users from each other.
How i need to do it: by IPTABLES rule [ /etc/firewall.user ].
"Loud thinking": So i need a rule something like this [on the OpenWrt router]:
- DROP where SOURCE: 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 and DESTINATION is 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255
The idea is this. Ok!
- Will i lock out myself if i apply this firewall rule?
- Is this a secure method? [ is it easy to do this?: hello, i'm a client, and i say, my IP address is 192.168.1.1! - now it can sniff the unencrypted traffic! :( - because all the clients are in the same subnet! ]
- Are there any good methods to find/audit for duplicated IP addresses?
- Are the any good methods to find/audit for duplicated MAC addresses?
- Are there any good methods to do this IPTALBES rule on Layer2?:
$ wget -q "http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03/ar71xx/packages/" -O - | grep -i ebtables
p.s.: The rule would be [is it on a good chain?]: iptables -A FORWARD -m iprange --src-range 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 --dst-range 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255 -j DROP
Thank you!