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The average Joe doesn't give a damn about the convoluted web of copyright law.
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I read "Nowhere do the charges even attempt to show any specific *criminal* infringement." as "Nowhere in the charges are there any evidence presented to support specific criminal infringement". And there isn't.
He didn't say "He is not being charged with specific *criminal* infringement". If he did, you'd have a point, also the subject has been discussed extensively when his indictment was news.
I read it as him denying that there's any specific criminal infringement shown, emphasis on "criminal." That count of the indictment shows specific criminal infringement. It's criminal under Section 506(a)(1)(C) even though it's only one film.
The text of the indictment demonstrates some of the evidence behind the charge:
On or about October 25, 2008, VAN DER KOLK uploaded an infringing copy of a copyrighted motion picture entitled "Taken 2008 DVDRip Repack [A Release Lounge H264 By Micky22].mp4" to Megaupload.com and e-mailed the URL link for the file to another individual. An infringing copy of this copyrighted work was still present as of October 27, 2011, on a server in the Eastern District of Virginia controlled by the Mega Conspiracy.The allegation is that Bram van der Kolk uploaded it personally. The others are alleged to be accomplices (that's the 18 U.S.C. 2 bit in the text I quoted above). Accomplices are treated as though they committed the act themselves. Thus, all are charged with specific CRIMINAL infringement. This is shown and alleged in the indictment.
I assumed you would *appreciate* me not making a claim about the validity without knowing much about it.
That's a good point as I think you always jump on the invalidity bandwagon without being able to actually run through the analysis. I know that I couldn't do it, and I've never seen anything that makes me think you could either. The point though is that you didn't pull out the "invalid!" argument with this patent, and the reason why not seems obvious enough.
Care to comment on whether specific criminal infringement is alleged in the indictment? I'll refresh your memory:
On or about October 25,2008, in the Eastern District of Virginiaand elsewhere, the defendants, KIM DOTCOM, MEGAUPLOAD LIMITED, VESTOR LIMITED, FINN BATATO, JULIUS BENCKO, SVEN ECHTERNACH, MATHIAS ORTMANN, ANDRUS NOMM, and BRAM VAN DER KOLK did willfully, and for purposes of commercial advantage and private financial gain, infringe a copyright by distributing a workbeing prepared for commercial distribution in the United States, to wit, the copyrighted motion picture "Taken" (which would not be commercially distributed until on or about January 30,2009) by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, when defendants knew, and should have known, that the work was intended for commercial distribution. (All in violation of Title 17, United States Code, Section 506(a)(1)(C) and Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2 & 2319(d)(2))That's an allegation of specific criminal infringement. You claimed there were none. Can you admit that there is such an allegation or explain why this isn't one? Thanks. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/documents/megaupload-indictment.pdf
LOL! Mike runs from discussions on the merits faster than anyone else I know, including everyone else who posts on TD. Seems like everyone here is happy to discuss the merits except for Mike. Wonder why not... Hmmmm....
Here's coverage of Dotcom's patent trolling from Ars: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/kim-dotcom-claims-he-invented-two-factor-authe ntication-but-he-wasnt-first/ and Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/23/kim-dotcom-authentication-patents and IPCopy: http://ipcopy.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/kim-dotcom-and-the-two-factor-authentication-patent-inventor- or-not/
All suggest that the patent may not be valid, and there's even info about the equivalent patent abroad being ruled invalid in 2011. Funny how Mike, who loves to jump on the invalidity train, instead focuses on how this might be bad for Dotcom's pending criminal trial. No mention of how terrible trolling is or questions of the patent's validity. But yeah, Mike, you're not giving him a free pass. You're treating him like you would any other troll. Obviously. LMAO!
On the contrary, if I worked for the MPAA or similar, he'd just be attacking me for that rather than addressing the merits of anything I said. He does the same with other detractors, pointing out that they work in D.C. or are an attorney or similar. It's his standard operating procedure to attack the person since he's incapable of attacking their position.
Very glib Masnick. But anyone with an ounce of objectivity can see that patent trolling by Dotcom is treated very differently by you than patent trolling by others.
Exactly. Yet here he is pretending like he's not giving Dotcom a free pass. Dishonest is as dishonest does.
Hey, AJ, can you stop denying that you've been payed by your masters at the MAFIAA and just be honest for once? Any chance you could just admit it? Thanks.
I am not being paid by anyone. I speak my mind honestly and directly. Mike can't stand it. He only knows how to attack people--and not the merits of their posts. He's having trouble finding personal attack vectors with me.
Yeah. That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
That you didn't condemn this obvious patent trolling as being bad in and of itself (as opposed to just potentially bad for his criminal case) is very noteworthy, and it speaks volumes about you and your love of Dotcom.
Pointing out that this is a dumb move and probably hurts his own case is giving him a free pass?
Yes, because you didn't condemn the act of trolling apart from it's possible negative effect on his case. You're worried it hurting him. You expressed no concern about the trolling otherwise, and you didn't even throw out your usual FUD about the validity of the patent. Only saying this might hurt his criminal case and not saying anything else negative about it is a free pass from you. Had this been IV, you would have said a lot more--and you know it.
Can you address my point about there being alleged specific criminal infringement? Or are you sticking by your claim that there is none despite that position being completely untenable? I'm happy to quote the exact text from the indictment again if you want.
Seriously, dude, I've told you before, and I'll say it again: you need to stop listening to the voices in your head that you THINK is me, and start responding to what I actually said. The fact that you have this strawman Mike built up in your head who is nothing like I actually am, but which you insist is the real me, is fucking weird.
This trope again? No matter how slimy and dishonest I think you to be, you only keep proving that you're worse than I think. Want some credibility? Admit that specific criminal infringement is alleged. After that, admit that had this been IV, you would have been a lot more critical and condemning. That's a good starting point. But your sliminess in pretending like you didn't give him a free pass only reinforces my views about you. I can point to hundreds of other things you ran away from rather than just admit if you want.
It is being discussed on TD you troll.
Where in the article does Mike suggest the patent might be invalid? Seems like you're the one trolling by pretending like Mike said something he didn't.
While we're talking about Kim D., Mike, any chance that you can directly and honestly admit that there is in fact an allegation of specific criminal infringement in the indictment (for "Taken")? You've denied this in the past even though it's undeniably true. Any chance you could just admit it? Thanks.
You only said it's a "potentially poorly thought out strategic move that could backfire" because of the racketeering charges. You did "focus[] on the idiocy of extortion more than the idiocy of the patent itself," because you didn't focus on the idiocy of the patent itself AT ALL. So of course any other thing you did mention received more focus than you gave to the patent itself, since that's more focus than zero focus. The only one pretending you "said stuff [you] didn't" is you.
It's the stuff you DIDN'T say that we're focusing on. You didn't say it was patent trolling that is a bad thing regardless of the racketeering angle. You didn't question the validity of the patent itself. You pointed out that he's saying pay up or I'll sue, and then you said that his victims should consider paying up and playing along because there's a "pretty good reason for the tech industry to think about participating in the case." That's you justifying his means because of the ends. That's not you condemning his means. You didn't condemn the means, hence our responses.
Sorry Mike, but you look pretty bad here. And, of course, it's Kim Dotcom, so you give him a free pass with this stuff. No surprise there. The only surprise would have been if you had actually called him out for the "extortion" and said that was bad in general, and not just bad because it might hurt him in later litigation. Nice try and spinning this, but we can all see what you wrote.
The DMCA doesn't apply in criminal cases? The safe harbor is for criminal charges too.
Why's it stupid? I don't say things unless I have some basis for thinking it. See, for example, Copyhype: http://www.copyhype.com/2012/01/megaupload-and-the-dmca/
Even if the safe harbors were possible, there would be no protection for a person who otherwise would meet of standard of a criminal infringer.
What no one even bothered to consider is how the heck did he manage to get such a ridiculous patent?
Simple. It's Kim Dotcom, so Mike has his blinders on. This site couldn't be any easier to understand. Pirate friends = good. Copyright enemies = bad. The details are unimportant.
LOL! It's one thing to ask for another's help, but quite another to threaten to sue another for patent infringement if they don't cave into your demand for money. There's a name for that. Oh yeah, patent trolling. If IV trolled someone but then pointed out that they should cave in because it was in their best interests on some unrelated matter, do you think Mike would think it was a good idea then? Of course not.
Besides, what precedent vis-a-vis the DMCA will be set here? I don't think the DMCA applies in criminal cases, but even if it did, what's going to happen that would affect others like Google? They are already protected by the DMCA. Dotcom isn't going to affect that in any way I can think of. Maybe you can spell out the details for me? I mean, I'm stupid and you're smart, so it should be simple for you.
In any event. such a thing has existed for decades. Unsurprisingly, some douchebag managed to get a patent on this...presumably because he put "on the internet" on the patent application.
But this is Mike's buddy's patent, so validity will not be discussed on TD. If IV was waving this patent around, Mike would be going ABSOLUTELY APESHIT. The double-standard is hilarious.
Why go so soft on Kim?
Because Mike worships all pirates. The bigger the better.
To me, it implies that it's OK for these companies to capitulate to a patent troll because the ends justify the means.
Yep. But mostly it's because it's his pirate ally Kim D doing the trolling.
If this was any one else except the sainted Kim Dotcom, you would be all over them for being weasels and patent trolls.
Is that it?
Bingo. The *only* problem Mike perceives here is that this might hurt Dotcom in his upcoming legal case. The patent trolling itself is not a problem, and in fact, he thinks it's a good idea that these companies capitulate to his ultimatum. Incredible. Yet, not. Because it's Mike.


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The Problem with the Belief that Child Sexual Abuse Causes Homosexuality / Bisexuality
There is an assumption among some people that the reason people become homosexual or bisexual is because of trauma resulting from sexual abuse in childhood.
Understandably, the majority of LGBT people, when coming to terms with their sexual orientation or trying to understand it, will ask the inevitable question, "why?" or, more specifically, "why me?". I personally have heard many LGBT survivors question whether their sexual orientation is a direct consequence of their earlier sexual abuse (Dimock, 1988).
Within the scientific and social science literature, there is a myriad of research claiming to have identified the direct cause for homosexuality. One of the hypotheses regularly tested is that of whether sexual abuse itself can be the cause of homosexuality in adult life. The results of this research is inconclusive since some research finds a direct correlation between child abuse and homosexuality (Macmillan, 1997; Tomeo et al, 2001; Holmes et al, 1998; Doll et al, 1992; Soukup, 1995; Shrier et al, 1988; Dickson; Finkelhor, 1984), whereas other research expressly denies any correlational link (Ridley, 2003; Balsam et al 2005; Bell et al, 1981; Hammersmith, 1982; Peters & Cantrall, 1991; Slap, 1998). Clearly, the jury is still out!
The intention of this article is not to question why someone becomes homosexual or heterosexual as despite there being many theories focussing on the nature verses nurture debate, there is no universally acknowledged conclusion. In the presence of such conflicting research, we are no closer to conclusively understanding whether a persons' sexual orientation is determined or strongly influenced by a history of child sexual abuse. However, leaving contradictory statistics aside for the moment, the aim of this article is to identify how problematic it is to claim or jump to the conclusion that anyone is LGBT as a direct result of sexual abuse experiences. Its just some food for thought!
SO – why is it a problem to claim that CSA causes a person to become GLBT?
The numbers don't add up!
The National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) 1.51% of the population of the US identify as GLBT, whereas other studies put this figure as high as 8% (Fay et al, 1989). However, statistics for people abused in childhood are significantly higher that this, with reliable estimates given for child sexual abuse to be 16% for males and 27% for females in the USA (NRCCSA, 1994).
Therefore, if there is a causal link between childhood sexual abuse and identifying as GLBT later in life, then why aren't the figures for the number of GLBT people in the population reflected by the abuse statistics? There are significantly more cases of sexual abuse than there are people that identify as GLBT (Macmillan, 1997), and furthermore, the vast majority of persons sexually abused as children are heterosexual (Keith, 1991).
In addition to this, virtually all statistics agree that females are more likely to be sexually abused in childhood than males are – and yet, and yet there are proportionally more men that identify as being gay than there are women who identify as lesbian (Hite, 1991; Janus, 1993, Jefferson, 2001).
Isn't it just too simplistic?
Some claim it is impossible to develop universal theories about the origins of homosexuality because there is no theory that is going to fit for every individual and every situation (Moberly,1983).
As human beings, we are very complex, and it is far too simplistic to say with any certainty that A caused B to happen. To use an analogy, you can teach someone who is left-handed to write with their right hand, but they will forever remain naturally left-handed.
One neuroscientist wrote, "Any human behavior is going to the result of complex intermingling of genetics and environment. It would be astonishing is it were not true for homosexuality" (McFadden, 1998).
The discrepancy between genders:
Some people question whether it is the fact that they were abused by a man / woman that results in their being GLBT.
Female children are statistically more likely to be abused by a male. Lesbian survivors may question whether the reason they are a lesbian is because they fear men as a result of their abuse. This could make sense until you consider the gay male argument related to this.
Male children are also statistically more likely to be abused by a male. Some claim that a man may become gay because he has been abused by a man and therefore identifies sex with men.
In effect, this proposes that a female becomes a lesbian as she is so scared of men because she relates all men to her male abuser. BUT a male actually becomes gay, and hence seeks relationships with men, because he had a male abuser??
Homosexuality itself could increase the chance of abuse:
There is one interesting theory put forward by Wachob (1999) that children who grow up later to identify as LGBT are more at risk of sexual abuse as children. She stipulates that being abused does not cause homosexuality, but rather that children who will later identify as LGBT are more vulnerable to child abuse.
The reasons she gives for this is that LGBT adults report that their behavior and interaction with others was often atypical in childhood when compared to their peers. Being or feeling "different" can result in social isolation / exclusion, which in turn can lead to a child being more vulnerable to the instigation and continuation of abuse (Gracia, 2003).
In addition to this, many gay men in particular, report that they remember feeling dissatisfied or uncomfortable with their body as children, and as young teens they sought out situations in which to try to make sense of their sexual feelings (O' Leary, 2006). Unfortunately, therefore, abuse could occur in this situation because abusers take advantage of the child's uncertainties and insecurities.
Being GLBT is not dysfunctional!
Claims that GLBT can be "caused" by child sexual abuse are troublesome because this implicitly implies that being GLBT is not a positive thing, but something that has occured as a result of serious trauma. Therefore are we not comparing being GLBT to suffering from PTSD, DID or depression? Being GLBT is not an illness!
Infact, talking of illness, according to the American Psychiatric Association (2000), a history of sexual abuse does not appear to be more prevalent in children who grow up to identify as GLBT that in people who identify as heterosexual.
Of course, sexual abuse can interfere with a survivors sexual development, sexual enjoyment, the way they engage in sexual behaviors, the ability to know and voice what they want – but it seems unlikely that it would play a role in creating passion, attraction and love for another person.
It just feels "right"
For many LGBT people, they just feel that their sexual orientation is "right" for them. Like it just clicks in with who they are and that it is naturally how they identify with themselves, with others and with the world. As one woman said "I know I was predestined to be a lesbian. If I wasn't, it wouldn't feel so perfect" (anonymous).
"The truth is that sexual abuse and sexuality are a million miles apart; they truly have nothing in common. Something as wonderful and beautiful as our sexuality could never have arisen out of something as ugly and painful as sexual abuse." (Kali Munto, 2002)
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It's possible that people who live in Washington and work in a cottage industry that includes writing and reading this magazine feel about Netflix's series of political intrigue, House of Cards, the way a resident of Los Angeles (me, say) feels about the guys on Entourage: I'm surrounded by assholes like these every time I walk into a coffee shop on Wilshire Boulevard, so why would I want to watch them on TV? Nonetheless my guess is that power couples like Francis and Claire Underwood don't frequent the bars on the U Street corridor. Frank is the majority whip of the House of Representatives, and Claire is an activist, and together they consolidate their power in the shadows of each other, smoking at the back window of their townhouse in the wee hours; these moments of nocturnal rendezvous, right down to the cigarettes themselves, are post-coital except the coitus, which Frank and Claire have with other people but not each other. They divulge virtually everything when they talk, and on the rare occasion when they don't, things unravel. Their relationship is so symbiotic that when one does conceal something from the other, not only their relationship but their individual fortunes plummet—a nosedive they can pull out of only when they become a team again. The Underwoods are Bill and Hil crossed with the Macbeths, with power apparently an end unto itself since the vice presidency that Frank schemes for seems unworthy of all the plotting and is, as he should know better than anyone, an unreliable stepping-stone to the White House.
Stendhal said that politics in art is like a gunshot at the opera, though some translations have implied that the outburst to which he referred was more anatomical. In any case the disruption, whether gunshot or gas, is offensive but impossible to ignore. In House of Cards the shot and the opera are interchangeable; whereas the more high-minded West Wing or Lincoln is driven as much by ideas as personalities, in House of Cards the issues—whether a shipyard closing in this episode or an education bill that Frank is trying to shepherd through Congress in that—are props to advance the series. While we shouldn't kid ourselves that the goings-on in House of Cards aren't irresistible, and while no one doubts, especially these days, that Washington warrants our cynicism, the jaundiced scorn of the series leaves it earthbound, not just because cynicism is cheap no matter how earned it is but because it shortchanges the drama's potential complexities. Whatever anyone thought of Bill Clinton or Dick Cheney, amid their debased fantasies of comely interns or Middle Eastern wars, each surely had his convictions and thereby the constituencies that accounted for and sustained his power.
The 1990 British series of the same name on which House of Cards is based had more of a partisan subtext, and not a particularly subtle one. In England the show was a commentary on the social indifference of the Conservative Party that just had seen the departure of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; the London of this earlier House of Cards was overrun with rats scurrying across city streets. The Frank Underwood of the American version, developed by David Fincher and directed by estimable directors like Carl Franklin and James Foley, is a Democrat so nobody can make the typical claims of media bias, I guess, though we have no sense of what Underwood's party means to him. Importing from the British show certain tropes, among them an imperious catchphrase that became notorious in the U.K. ("You might very well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment"), the template of Fincher's version seems closer to Allen Drury's 1959 blockbuster novel Advise and Consent, adapted to the screen with pulpy panache by Otto Preminger. If the writing of House of Cards is wildly uneven to the point of shameless, making so little effort to cover up the dialogue's expositional intent that often Underwood just faces the camera and tells us point-blank what's going on, that conceit (borrowed from the U.K. show) is salvaged by the casting of Kevin Spacey. For all his blackhearted amorality, we can't help rooting for him in the same manner we root for Tony Soprano and Walter White.
House of Cards' chief writer, Beau Willimon, scripted the 2011 George Clooney campaign thriller The Ides of March, which—besides having the new show's same flaw and virtue, which is perfunctory storytelling redeemed by insider verisimilitude (Willimon worked on campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean)—reminds us that movies and TV shows about politics are suddenly conspicuous. There aren't necessarily more of them than before, politics having been a subject of video drama going back at least as far as Frank Capra, but in the past five or six years more American audiences have felt compelled to see not only Lincoln but Veep, Boss, Recount, Scandal, Hyde Park on Hudson, Parks and Recreation, State of Play, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Good Wife, Charlie Wilson's War, The Campaign, Fair Game, and Game Change. Those are only domestic examples with explicitly political stories; they exclude the likes of The Iron Lady, The King's Speech, Invictus, In the Loop, The Lives of Others, and the Danish series Borgen.
The success ten years ago of Aaron Sorkin'sThe West Wing has something to do with this phenomenon. Debuting in the post-impeachment twilight of the Clinton administration and gaining popularity about the time the Supreme Court allocated the White House to George W. Bush, The West Wing became an alternate-universe presidency for the disenchanted, with Martin Sheen's flawed chief executive Jed Bartlet so evocative of an elder Kennedy or maybe a Kennedy cousin that once the hour was over, you felt a palpable pang turning on the news and confronting reality again. Even The West Wing's version of Ann Coulter, as played by Emily Procter, was vastly more appealing—fair-minded, not a little vixenish if we're being honest, and touched by the show's inevitable tone of nobility. Unlike with her real-life model, you never had the feeling that if you cracked open the soul of Procter's character, a swarm of locusts would emerge.
Although it continued another five seasons afterward, The West Wing was a casualty of September 11, 2001, when a harsh new century made the series feel quaint, and a harsh new politics felt unavoidable even to audiences that avoided politics. The watershed moment when life became so grandly cinematic as to render fiction inadequate was the 2008 presidential election, with a cast that was the stuff of Hollywood dreams: a crusty rage-fueled war hero tortured by a cruel enemy for five years and haunted by how he didn't measure up to his admiral father or grandfather; a former first lady whose senatorial career was born of a callous infidelity by her husband for whom she had sacrificed her earlier promise; a backwoods Annie Oakley governor whose star power bulldozed the ways in which she was out of her depth; and, unlikeliest of all, a biracial Hawaiian with a Swahili name who five years before could have strolled down any street unrecognized but now was the world's most famous man. The author of Advise and Consent would have killed for such characters if, as a hardened UPI reporter, he didn't find them so baldly preposterous. The 2008 election wasn't just an alternate universe invading our own but verged on science fiction altogether, especially uncanny for how it approximated The West Wing's final season in which an obscure young Latino legislator upset his party's prohibitive front-runner and then defeated his vastly more experienced opponent, a grizzled Western senator. The measure of the '08 election's outlandishness is that no TV or film version of it, including either The West Wing or last year's Game Change about Sarah Palin's vice-presidential run, could match let alone surpass it.
In a moment when fiction races to keep up with history, and when contemporary politics have succumbed to ideological paralysis, House of Cards competes by suggesting that things are worse than we think, assuming you accept that corruption is worse than fanaticism. Since our current state of affairs is more mired in philosophical zealotry, in which centuries-old legislative precedents are routinely shattered in order to, for instance, filibuster presidential cabinet appointments, the prosaic concerns of House of Cards as they have to do with abuse of power run the risk of appearing dated or even irrelevant. On the other hand, the messiness of how human beings interact is not only what makes House of Cards a soap opera that even the apolitical might appreciate but also what politics ritualizes, with Spacey's Underwood almost as Shakespearean as the actor intends him to be. Like the parliamentary whip of the British show who felt double-crossed by his prime minister, Underwood has been promised the State Department by a new president who then reneges; he plots his revenge while initiating a sexual relationship with a scheming young female reporter who's ready to sleep her way to a scoop. Where the original series had a satirical and at times darkly burlesque edge, the American House of Cards is as cool as its visual sheen; Washington, D.C., may never have looked better than in the opening credits, where it becomes the glittering American Paris that Thomas Jefferson envisioned. In retrospect, a lot of Underwood's machinations don't make sense; once we've untangled our brains from his Machiavellian twists and turns, we realize that the convolutions of plot exist only to show us how clever he is. Nonetheless, the American version is more ambitious than its forerunner, playing out across the bigger canvas that 13 rather than 4 episodes demands, with at least one subplot—involving an ambitious third-term representative troubled by booze, cocaine, and hookers—paying off well enough that, once it's resolved, the season never entirely recovers.
Even if you haven't seen the show, you're not likely to be surprised by the news that finally it belongs to Spacey and, as Claire, Robin Wright. While there hovers over his shoulder the famous photograph of Lyndon Johnson leaning far enough into Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas's personal space as to nearly knock him over, Underwood masterminds his vengeance with such gusto that you have to wonder if he isn't secretly grateful for the treachery that motivates it. In the service of power, he's more voluptuary than assassin, though he earns the latter title too in the series' opening scene when he kills a dying dog with his bare hands, delivering a monologue about the difference between pain that has a point and suffering that doesn't. The American series' best improvement on the British, in which the MP's wife was relegated to muttering mischief in her husband's ear, is ice queen Wright; the foil for Spacey's flamboyance—"I love her," he says, "more than sharks love blood"—she emerges from her surrounding carbon-dioxide mist to give every indication of being the more dangerous, her mystique growing with everything we don't know about her (she's the only major character with no backstory). Frank is haunted by the fear of being forgotten in time. Claire is haunted by ghosts both more immediate and more elusive. One is the spirit of politics future: What do we leave for those who follow us? The other is the child that Claire hasn't had, and the prospect of whom Frank despises. Sooner or later, like the opera and the gunshot, children and politics future are one and the same.


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Pentagon halts enforcement of gay ban amid legal challenge
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Thursday halted enforcement of its "don't ask, don't tell" policy pending an appeal of a federal court order prohibiting the government from expelling gays and lesbian soldiers who disclose their sexual orientation.
The Obama administration also on Thursday asked U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips to stay her order, issued Tuesday. It's unclear, however, whether Phillips will do so.
The government last month asked her not to issue an injunction against "don't ask, don't tell" after she found that the 17-year-old policy, which bars gays and lesbians from disclosing their sexual orientation, violated service members' First Amendment rights. Phillips, however, issued the injunction on Tuesday.
If Phillips rejects the stay request, the government still could appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and ultimately to the U.S. Supreme Court, but there is no certainty on how either court would rule.
The government asked Phillips to rule on the stay by 3 p.m. Monday.
Thursday's government action raised the stakes in the "don't ask, don't tell" debate, which has languished since President Barack Obama called last year for Congress to repeal the 1993 law that codified the policy and has become a thorny political issue just days before the November elections. While the House has passed repeal legislation, the Senate refused in September to consider a defense budget bill that included the repeal.
In seeking the stay, the Obama administration said a precipitous change in the government's longtime ban on gays in the military could disrupt combat operations and endanger gays and lesbians whose sexual orientation becomes known. It noted that the Pentagon is studying the effects of allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly and that Congress is considering repealing the law that established "don't ask, don't tell."
"A court-ordered injunction, operating precipitously and directly on all military and civilian Defense Department personnel throughout the world, would undermine the credibility and validity of the entire process that the political branches have undertaken for an orderly repeal of DADT, and may make the transition to repeal not only far more difficult, but also potentially disruptive to military readiness," the Justice Department wrote.
Obama repeated his call for Congress repeal the law Thursday, but defended his administration's decision to appeal Phillips' ruling.
"Congress explicitly passed a law that took away the power of the executive branch to end this policy unilaterally, so this is not a situation in which with a stroke of a pen I can simply end the policy," Obama said at a question-and-answer session with young people on MTV. "It has to be done in a way that is orderly, because we are involved in a war right now.
"This policy will end, and it will end on my watch," he said. "But I do have an obligation to make sure that I'm following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there."
Dan Woods, the lawyer who brought the lawsuit that led to Phillips' injunction, however, said gays and lesbians had waited long enough for the political branches of government to act.
"We are not surprised by the government's action, as it repeats the broken promises and empty words from President Obama avowing to end 'don't ask, don't tell' while at the same directing his Justice Department to defend this unconstitutional policy," Woods said. "Now that the government has filed a request for a stay, we will oppose it vigorously because brave, patriotic homosexuals are serving in our Armed Forces to fight for all of our constitutional rights while the government is denying them theirs."
The Pentagon appeared to have been caught flat-footed by Phillips' injunction, even though she'd promised a month ago that she would issue it. It took 48 hours before the Pentagon acknowledged that it would halt proceedings against gay service members in response to Phillips' order.
Even then, many key questions seemed to be without answers. For example, Pentagon officials said they didn't know whether they'd seek to expel service members who declare their sexual orientation after Tuesday's order if a stay is eventually granted or a government appeal is successful.
In an e-mail sent out in the late afternoon, even the possibility of seeking a stay and appealing the decision wasn't clear.
"The U.S. Government is contemplating whether to appeal and to seek a stay of the injunction," the statement said. "The Department of Defense will of course obey the law and will abide by the terms in the court's ruling, effective as of the time and date of the ruling."
Earlier, a Pentagon spokesman, Marine Col. David Lapan, told reporters that there was a "de-facto moratorium" on "don't ask, don't tell" actions.
Some legal analysts said that overturning "don't ask, don't tell" through court order rather than congressional action risked turning the policy into a divisive political issue much like abortion after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling declared that abortion restrictions violated women's privacy rights.
"There are some people who are going to say (the courts' decisions) are illegitimate, that elected officials should change laws," said Prof. Daniel R. Ortiz of the University of Virginia Law School. "Others will say the court did the right thing."
Ortiz said a decision on granting the stay will turn on whether Phillips' court, or any of the other courts that might consider the request, thinks that the government appeal will be successful. If the courts agree that the government has solid grounds for an appeal, they're likely to grant a stay. If, however, they think the law is probably going to be declared unconstitutional anyway, a stay is unlikely.
It could be years before the actual appeal winds its way through the courts.
(Margaret Talev contributed to this article.)
Read Judge Phillips' injunction
Judge Phillips' original ruling
Judge orders military to stop enforcing 'don't ask, don't tell'
Courts may be key as 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal stalls
Senate bid to vote on ending 'don't ask, don't tell' fails
Military won't even notice when gay ban ends, expert testifies
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Andrzej S. Krolewski, M.D., Ph.D.
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Tracking Down Factors Leading to Complications in Diabetes
As Head of the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology, Andrzej S. Krolewski, M.D., Ph.D., has established a world-class research program on the genetics and epidemiology of diabetes and its complications. The overarching goal of his research is to understand the etiology and pathogenesis of late diabetic complications by studying human populations, concentrating on nephropathy in particular.
Drawing upon the large Joslin Clinic patient population, Dr. Krolewski created a modern population research laboratory, combining a very large database of clinical information captured from medical records with special examinations of patients attending the Joslin Clinic. Backing up this clinical data are banks of their DNA and biologic samples of plasma, serum, and urine collected over two decades of follow-up. His research uses epidemiologic, genetic and proteomic methods and is seen as a forerunner of the recently popularized translational medicine.
Dr. Krolewski's current research encompasses four areas:
First, is a new model of early diabetic nephropathy.
In a large long-term prospective study of patients with type 1 diabetes and microalbuminuria, Dr. Krolewski documented its limited utility for predicting advanced nephropathy, demonstrating that only one third of these patients develop renal function decline. This decline begins at the time of onset of microalbuminuria when patients have normal renal function, and progresses to chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal failure (ESRD). His findings were recently confirmed by DCCT/EDIC data. By documenting the low specificity of microalbuminuria and shifting attention to the occurrence of early and progressive decline in renal function, Dr. Krolewski has replaced the established paradigm of early diabetic nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes with a new model that has immediate implications. The first is that we must develop new diagnostic tools to identify patients at risk. The second is that we must develop clinical protocols to retard this early renal function loss while patients still have normal renal function.
Dr. Krolewski's second area of research is the determinants of early renal function decline.
To unravel the mechanisms of initiation and progression of early renal function decline, he is conducting a series of follow-up studies that have yielded two important discoveries. One discovery is that a high serum uric acid concentration (even within the normal range) is a strong independent determinant of early renal function loss, suggesting the possibility that existing drugs for lowering it, such as Allopurinol, may retard the rate of renal function loss. This hypothesis will be tested in a clinical trial. The second discovery is that elevated serum concentrations of markers of the TNF pathway (TNFα, TNFR1 and TNFR2) and urine concentrations of several chemokines are very strong independent predictors of the development of early renal function decline. He is currently studying whether these are simply biomarkers or risk factors for early renal function loss that can be used as therapeutic targets.
Dr. Krolewski's third area of focus is predictors of ESRD in patients with proteinuria and Type 1 diabetes.
He published the first comprehensive study of the development of ESRD in these patients at a time when almost all patients were treated with reno-protective drugs. Still, 50% developed ESRD within 15 years. These findings have now been replicated in a similar study in Finland. Dr. Krolewski is currently developing a diagnostic algorithm to estimate the time to the onset of ESRD so that patients at immediate risk of ESRD can be identified and enrolled into clinical trials to test aggressive clinical protocols, such as preemptive kidney transplant, pancreas transplantation or treatment with new anti-fibrotic drugs.
His fourth area of research is susceptibility and protective genes for nephropathy in diabetes.
Dr. Krolewski has searched for these genes using GWAS approaches as well as next generation sequencing. He has identified several novel loci. These loci have been replicated in other studies in humans as well as in mice. Dr. Krolewski's laboratory is now studying the pathways through which these loci may contribute to DN susceptibility/protection.
Dr. Krolewski heads the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology and is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree and doctorate in Epidemiology from Warsaw Medical University in Poland. He obtained training in diabetes research at Joslin Diabetes Center and in molecular human genetics at the Center for Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Oklahoma Kicks Off the New Year with Third Practice at Cowboys Stadium
ARLINGTON, TEXAS – Big 12 Co-Champion Oklahoma kicked off 2013 with a light practice at Cowboys Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. The Sooners continued their usual game week schedule without friction, holding a "Wednesday" workout in shorts and shoulder pads towards Friday night's showdown against Texas A&M.
The team went through drills and situational work as music and crowd noise filled the stadium to simulate what is expected to be an intense atmosphere.
"We did Wednesday type work, did some work against each other again." Oklahoma Head Coach Bob Stoops said. "I feel good about it, feel like the kids practiced well and nobody's hurt."
The No. 11 Sooners will have their hands full with a Texas A&M squad led the SEC in total offense (552 yards/game), and scoring offense (44 points/game). The two squads faced off every year since 1996, with the Sooners holding a 19-11 overall advantage.
"We know the great players they have and who they are," DB Aaron Colvin said. "Being able to play them the past few years, it will be good to see them again this week."
Coach Stoops, Defensive Coordinator Mike Stoops, Co-Offensive Coordinator Josh Heupel, QB Landry Jones and DB Tony Jefferson met with members of the FOX broadcast crew to talk about the matchup with the No. 9 Aggies (10-2, 6-2 SEC) on Friday night.
A few former Oklahoma greats were on the sidelines at practice today including Demarco Murray of the Dallas Cowboys, Travis Lewis of the Detroit Lions, and former Cleveland Brown Travis Wilson. Former Sooner and Cowboys star Tony Casillas was again on hand to provide post practice analysis for Sooner Sports TV.
Players and coaches will have a private team party for dinner, then players will have the night off. Tomorrow morning Coach Stoops will meet with the media along with Texas A&M Head Coach Kevin Sumlin at the Omni Mandalay hotel in Dallas.
The 77th AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic will be held on Friday, Jan. 4 on FOX. Telecast starts at 6:30 p.m., with kickoff scheduled for 7:10 p.m. Gus Johnson will handle play-by-play duties with Charles Davis as the color analyst.
For the first time the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic will be heard around the world on ESPN Radio. Providing play-by-play is Brad Sham, the "Voice of the Dallas Cowboys", Ed Cunningham will provide color commentary and Ian Fitzsimmons will report from the sideline.


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Internationalization Bugs
Voo2do has some bugs that are especially frustrating to our international users. Fixing these is a high priority right now; I hope to have fixes applied in the next day or two.
- Non-English characters: if you use accented characters in a task description or project name, the save will fail and your changes will be lost. Until this is fixed, please use only standard English characters.
- Time zones: voo2do currently uses server time for all calculations. My server's timezone is EST (UTC-5:00), so the further you are from America's East coast, the more incorrect your deadline calculations will be. I plan to add a timezone setting to fix this.
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In 1909 the American Museum of Natural History's Herbert Lang and James Chapin embarked on a scientific expedition to the northeastern Belgian Congo. Their trip would ultimately last five and a half years yielding significant zoological and anthropological findings for the museum.
Exactly 100 years later another museum scientist, Dr. Mark Siddall, embarked on an expedition to the neighboring Rwanda. As a curator of invertebrate zoology he travelled to Rwanda in search of leeches -- an animal that Lang and Chapin brought back amongst their original findings. Siddall's research focuses on various aspects of leeches including the compound allowing them to stop blood from clotting and their DNA. In total he collected five distinct species of leeches on this latest trip.
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Classic MemoriesHometown: Little River, Texas CBAA Executive Director:1970-1978 CBAA Information Director:1961-63, 1966-69
As one of the Cotton Bowl's famed "Rover Boys," Wilbur Evans commanded a presence over college football in the 1970s that opened doors everywhere he went. The most notable door Evans pried open was in South Bend when he and travel partner Field Scovell persuaded Notre Dame to break a self-imposed 45-year ban on post-season play. The Irish accepted the invitation and the dream matchup of Notre Dame vs. Texas in the 1970 Cotton Bowl became a football classic. It was quite a beginning for Evans who had been appointed as the bowl's first full-time executive director just months before. During his watch, the Cotton Bowl Classic staged three national championship games – 1970, 1971 and 1978. Evans' eye for detail set the standard for all to follow in the bowl industry.
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Classic MemoriesHt. 6-0 Wt. 181 Class: Junior/Senior Position: Split End Hometown: Sidney, Ohio 1978 Classic: Notre Dame 38, Texas 10 1979 Classic: Notre Dame 35, Houston 34
Statistics1978 Receiving: 2 receptions, 29 yards, 0 TDs 1979 Receiving: 4 receptions, 31 yards, 1 TD, 1 Two-Point Conversion
The name Kris Haines warms the hearts of Notre Dame fans all over the world thanks to his miracle catch against Houston in the 1979 Classic. Haines and his Irish teammates braved the ice and the cold to rally Notre Dame from a 22-point deficit in the game's final eight minutes. Down the stretch, Haines grabbed a two-point conversion pass that brought the Irish within six points of the Cougars with 4:15 left to play. Minutes later, Haines stepped forward again to become Notre Dame's man of the hour. Irish quarterback Joe Montana connected with his standout receiver on an eight-yard touchdown pass just as time expired. Haines made a diving catch in the corner of the end zone to tie the score at 34-34. The ensuing PAT added an exclamation point to an amazing 35-34 come-from-behind Irish victory.
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Classic MemoriesHt. 6-0 Wt. 190 Class: Sophomore Position: Wingback Hometown: San Antonio, Texas 1964 Classic:Texas 28, Navy 6
StatisticsRushing: 2 attempts, 5 yards, 0 TD Receiving: 3 receptions, 157 yards, 2 TDs
Phil Harris played football like a math major...he knew how to compile big numbers. In the 1964 Classic, the Texas sophomore wingback shredded No. 2 Navy with a record shattering performance by catching three passes for 157 yards. He averaged 52.3 yards a catch and established an NCAA bowl record that has endured for 46 years. The game was just six plays old when Harris caught Navy by surprise. He hauled in a throwback pass from quarterback Duke Carlisle then raced 58 yards down the sideline for a touchdown. Harris' second score came on a tipped pass that he promptly turned into a 63-yard touchdown play for Texas. Harris may have been the youngest man on the field that day, but he played like a veteran in helping the Longhorns secure their first national title.
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Classic MemoriesHt. 6-2 Wt. 253 Class: Junior/Senior Position: Middle Guard Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama 1981 Classic: Alabama 30, Baylor 2 1982 Classic: Texas 14, Alabama 12
Statistics1981 Defensive Statistics: 8 tackles, 5 unassisted 1982 Defensive Statistics: 8 assisted tackles 1981 Tackles For Loss: 5 tackles for -26 yards 1982 Tackles For Loss: 1 tackle for -1 yard
Alabama middle guard Warren Lyles saved his best effort of the season for the 1981 Cotton Bowl Classic. His coach, the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant, sensed that Lyles would be the target of Baylor's point of attack. Minutes before kickoff in the Bama locker room, Bryant challenged his defenders to make a statement against the Bears. Obviously, his words touched a nerve because Lyles responded with a tremendous performance. He recorded eight tackles for the Crimson Tide, five of them were unassisted and resulted in 26 yards in losses. The Alabama defense totally disrupted the Baylor game plan, limiting the Bears to 158 yards in total offense, 54 yards rushing and forced seven turnovers. Lyles lived up to his coach's pregame challenge and helped lead the Crimson Tide to a compelling 30-2 victory.
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Classic MemoriesHt. 6-2 Wt. 191 Class: Junior/Senior Position: Quarterback Hometown: Monongahela, Pennsylvania 1978 Classic: Notre Dame 38, Texas 10 1979 Classic: Notre Dame 35, Houston 34
Statistics1978 Rushing: 1 attempt, 3 yards 1978 Passing: 10-25-1, 111 yards, 1 TD 1979 Rushing: 7 attempts, 26 yards, 2 TDs 1979 Passing: 13-34-4, 163 yards, 1 TD 1979 Two-Point Conversions: 2 (2-of-3 pass attempts)
Notre Dame's "Comeback Kid" proved he had the stuff that legends are made of with two incredible Cotton Bowl Classic performances. In 1978, Joe Montana led the Irish to a stunning 38-10 upset of top-ranked Texas, a win that vaulted Notre Dame from fifth in the regular-season rankings to the national championship. A year later, facing miserable weather conditions and needing a dose of chicken noodle soup at halftime to erase a below-normal body temperature, Montana guided the Irish to an incredible finish against Houston. In the last eight minutes of the fourth quarter, he chipped away at what appeared to be an insurmountable 22-point deficit. The game clincher was an eight-yard scoring pass to split end Kris Haines as the clock hit 0:00. The ensuing PAT on the game's final play gave the Irish an amazing 35-34 victory.
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Classic MemoriesHometown: Duncan, Oklahoma Classic Coaching Record: 2-2-0 1986 Classic: Texas A&M 36, Auburn 16 1987 Classic: Ohio State 28, Texas A&M 12 1988 Classic: Texas A&M 35, Notre Dame 10 1999 Classic: Texas 38, Mississippi State 11
Jackie Sherrill was a player's coach. He knew exactly how to motivate them to reach a higher level come game day. A tireless worker, Sherrill constantly searched for new ideas to get his teams ready to play. In 1999, Sherrill joined an elite brotherhood of coaches when he guided Mississippi State to the Classic. In the process, he became the third of only four coaches to lead two different institutions to the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. In the 1980s, after an 18-year absence, he led Texas A&M to three consecutive appearances in the Classic. The highlight was a memorable 36-16 victory over Auburn in the Cotton Bowl's 50th anniversary game in 1986. Sherrill taught his players to have high expectations, always be prepared, play together as one, and most of all, how to win.


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Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family
Harpercollins, Jan 1, 1993 - African Americans - 800 pages
Once in every generation, there is a landmark book that adds a new richness to all our lives. For millions of people of all colors, that book was Alex Haley's Roots. Roots was an instant success, winning a Pulitzer Prize and spawning the most-watched miniseries in television history. Alex Haley's legacy has had as great an impact on American families as any story in the twentieth century. Now, from the author of Roots, comes Alex Haley's Queen - the saga of his father's family. Lovers of sweeping generational epics will find much to rejoice in here. Once again, this is a personal saga, but one played out against the broad canvas of American history. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley's white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The two men become business partners, and James Jackson makes his fortune. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force. James's son Jass Jackson inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen - the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley's grandmother. This is history at its most compelling - from the Irish sod to the settlement of the South; from the Trail of Tears to the battlefield at Manassas; from the agonies of slavery to the tribulations of freedom - all rendered with the eye fortelling detail and the sense of historical significance that readers have come to expect of Haley. In this, his final book, Alex Haley has created a truly multicultural family saga, the capstone to one of the great, classic American stories. The television miniseries of Alex Hal
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Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories of your dad. Mine has been gone 20 years. Like you, I treasure the stories he shared and the time we had together. Putting your drawings on the dictionary pages is a great idea. All in one place safe and sound.ReplyDeleteReplies
And I can't believe how many years have gone by so fast. For me sometimes it still seems like yesterday. The ones we love live on through us and the stories we tell.Delete
I love the story of the red dictionary and I love how you are creating a heirloom out of it. For generations to come it would be a metaphor of learning something new everydayReplyDeleteReplies
You're right, it is a kind of metaphor :)Delete
What a beautiful story. I have so few good stories about my dad and so many bad, and as hard as I try, when I think of one, the other is right there with it. I am so glad you had the experiences you did with your dad and you continue to treasure him.ReplyDeleteReplies
That must be difficult. We had our share of rough moments too, believe me. But overall I treasure the good ones, and those are the ones I share with my own daughters, who never had a chance to know him.Delete
- AnonymousMay 4, 2017 at 1:46 PM
Such lovely memories and what a great gift of life and learning he gave to you. The love between a dad and his daughter is very special. Mine has been gone just one year shy of yours and I too hold many of his things very close to my heart.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for your comment. I think that since we had that kind of "creative" bond that's what really made our relationship special. Take care.Delete
What a lovely story about the memories you have of your dad. I love the idea of putting some of your artwork in the dictionary that holds such treasured memories for you, and hopefully will hold memories for your daughters in years to come. Thank you for sharing! xoReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Anne for your comment. I couldn't just stash it away on a shelf - actually I did have it on my bookshelf for many years and just took it down to create with once the idea came to me. I think some of the best heirlooms are the most humble. What could be better than a book? Even if it's the kind you don't traditionally sit down and read it still has so much meaning just due to the backstory. Take care!Delete
This is a lovely story, and I think it's a fitting tribute to your dad and to your relationship with him to use his Red Dictionary as an art journal. I didn't have much of a relationship with my father, but I've always said that if I were stranded on a deserted island and could only have 1 book, it would be a very good dictionary. I'm sure your daughters will treasure the Red Dictionary as well.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Robin. Who would have thought it would have landed up where it is now, turned into what it is now. :) Thanks for your comment!Delete


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Worried about what to serve family and guests over the holidays? Well, as anyone with an iPhone would advise: "Chill out. There's an app for that."
In fact, you can "download" 25 tasty apps -- just clip out this column and stick it on your fridge. All of these appetizers are easy to make, and most of what you need is probably in your cupboard, fridge or freezer. If you're really in a pinch, pick up a few semi-prepared items at the supermarket -- if you put them together with a bit of flair, everyone will think you made them from scratch.
1. Spread bagel chips (or thinly sliced bagels or black bread) with soft cream cheese and top with smoked salmon. Garnish with fresh dill or chives.
2. Spread pita chips with hummus and top with thin slices of preserved lemon or cilantro pesto. Even easier, fill tiny pita pockets with hummus or, easiest of all, serve hummus in a bowl with wedges of sliced pita bread.
3. Spread crostini with Brie or Riopelle cheese and top with fig jam or fresh fig slices.
4. Spread crostini with soft, mild, blue cheese, such as Cambozola or Ciel de Charlevoix, and top with a thin slice of pear and a sprig of fresh tarragon.
5. Mash or process well-drained canned tuna with half that amount of pitted and chopped black olives, chopped fresh basil and enough mayo to hold it together. Spread on slices of plain or toasted baguette.
6. Make grilled cheese sandwiches with smoked Cheddar and caramelized onions and cut into two-bite pieces.
7. Top toast with scrambled eggs, pieces of crispy bacon and a dab of ketchup. Cut into bite-sized pieces. Delicious hot or cold for an all-day breakfast bite.
8. Drizzle bite-sized chunks of the best Parmesan cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano) with good-quality balsamic.
9. Spread toasted French bread with chicken liver pate and top with thinly sliced gherkins.
10. Stuff pitted Medjool dates with toasted walnuts and Manchego cheese cubes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
11. Spread quarters of fresh figs with goat cheese and wrap with prosciutto. Secure with a toothpick.
12. Top baguette slices with thin slices of cold rare steak or roast beef and a thin slice of Parmigiano Reggiano and a leaf of baby arugula. Drizzle with a tiny amount of best-quality balsamic.
13. A spin on shrimp cocktail: Combine chopped cooked shrimp with sweet chili sauce (Heinz), Worcestershire and white horseradish to taste. Serve in shooter glasses topped with chopped avocado.
14. Skewer small balls of bocconcini alternately with cherry tomatoes and whole, black, pitted olives. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
15. Decorate a cheese platter with dried apricots and dates, fresh figs and toasted salted nuts (see above). Arrange ramekins of mustard, honey and fig jam alongside, and serve with an assortment of artisanal breads.
16. Toss shelled whole walnuts with a little olive oil and coarse sea salt (Maldon, for instance). Spread in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated 350F (180C) oven 10 to 15 minutes, stirring every five minutes until toasted but not too brown. Serve on a cheese tray or on their own. Also great sprinkled on salad.
17. Spread crackers with goat cheese and top with a slice of roasted red pepper and a dab of basil pesto.
18. Place a tablespoon of smoked salmon mousse, smoked trout spread or any soft creamy cheese in Belgian endive leaves.
19. Toss freshly popped popcorn with melted butter (or warm extra-virgin olive oil) seasoned with truffle salt.
20. Drizzle roasted vegetables (hot or cold) with tahini sauce and sprinkle with chopped fresh cilantro.
21. As soon as guests arrive, serve soup in shooter glasses to warm them up. (I always freeze leftover soup and serve it as little apps another time.)
22. Top rice crackers with wasabi-flavoured mayo, smoked salmon or cooked shrimp and pickled ginger.
23. Top slices of chorizo or kielbasa sausage with mayo seasoned with smoked paprika. Top with a piece of roasted red pepper.
24. Top corn chips with guacamole and a paper-thin round of jalapeno.
25. For a delicious change from crackers or bread, try using silver dollar-sized pancakes or slices of roasted potato or cucumber as the base for your hors d'oeuvre.


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The weather has been awful in Toronto for the past week. The day after my last ride, it started raining; it has hardly stopped since. But today was beautiful, at last, and I made the most of it. As you can see from the above pictured, I lived dangerously. The road was broken, but I risked it.
|Greg Curnoe Bike waiting for the Go train at exhibition station. The CN Tower looks on. If you look closely, you will see my new Spécialités TA-made Cinelli water bottle.
|God bless the Go train. This one took me to Rouge Hill station, in about 40 minutes—enough time to read every section of the Saturday Star that interested me. Then off I went.
|The eponymous Zoo, which is on the very margins of the Greater Toronto Area. Ride a few more minutes and you see...
|... beautiful sights like these. (Did I mention it has been raining a lot?)
|But the fun doesn't really start until you hit the gravel—which happened about two seconds after I took this photo. (This ride was about 85km, and I would guess about 35 of them were on gravel.)
|Greg Curnoe Bike doing what he was designed to do.
|A picturesque gravel crossroads. (No souls transacted.)
|Riding flat on gravel is fun, but climbing steep gravel hills is more fun.
|What my ride companions (none of whom could make it today, alas) call The Roman Aqueduct.
|A particularly glorious, rolling, quiet, wooded stretch. The Italians can have their strade bianche. We'll keep our strade marrone.
|And so to Goodwood, the traditional resting place. Normally there is a hotly contested sprint for this sign, but today, being alone, I rode by slowly and took this photo.
|The wonderful bakery in Goodwood, which provides all necessary motivation when you're struggling on the gravel roads.
|More gravel on the ride back to the Go station.
|Waiting for the train near surprisingly scenic Rouge Hill Station.


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