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SPOKANE-- One of the most dependable employees in KREM history passed away Sunday. Bob Tremblay worked as an engineer at KREM from 1960 until his retirement in 1996. His work here was instrumental in helping the station grow. Everyone at KREM who worked with Bob remembers him fondly and will miss him.
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Robert Norman Tremblay, 81, of Airway Heights, Washington passed away Sunday, October 28th peacefully at Avalon Care Center in Spokane.
Bob was a U.S. Veteran serving in the Marine Corp stationed in Hawthorne, Nevada in the 1950's. He & Angie moved to Airway Heights after completing GI school in Tacoma and fulfilling his first Board Operations job at KWAL in Osburn, Idaho. Bob began his lifelong career at KREM Television as a Broadcast Engineer in 1960 and retired in 1996. Bob was dedicated to his community and unbeknownst to many, served Airway Heights as Justice of the Peace and Fire Chief for the Volunteer Fire Department.
His favorite pastime was the enjoyment of people on the square dance floor. He was a dancer and caller for over 40 years; calling for several clubs in the Spokane area including "Fun 'N Fancy", "Valley Crosstrailers", "Hits & Misses" and the "Square Wheelers" International RV group. He will always be remembered for his entertaining nature and 'clowning' behavior in the Square Dance Community.
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Theory Study and Practice Analysis of Circular Economy in China
Circle economy is a new philosophy and practice which is from the industrial sustainable development into the stage of economic and social sustainable development in the Western industrialized countries, as one of the two major themes of sustainable development, circle economy has become a global development trends and issues of common concern of mankind. On the basis of briefly describing the theoretical of circular economy, this article combined with the development of circle economy of China's corporate status, analysis circle economy constraints of the development from the conditions of the business, the development of circular economy within the region, market mechanisms and government regulations. In response to these issues, the corresponding measures were promoted, and reference and basis were provided to promote the development of circular economy of China's, which analysis will help to improve environment of China.
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The 48HRS of Tristate event is a multiday cruise for Subaru fans. It's open to performance and non-performance vehicles alike. Although participants gather from as far away as Florida and the Midwest, most are from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
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I thought about titling this post "Not So Everyday Bombshell" because it centers around two somewhat special events. The first...I finally found my perfect polka dots! I've been trying to find for about 2 years now a polka top that fit very special criteria. I wanted a blouse, preferably tie neck, that was black with off-white polka dots no bigger than a pea. Do not ask me how I came up with all of that. Thanks to my specificity, there's no mystery around why it took so long to find. But find, I did!
Bombshell (no relation to me). We enjoyed a nice lunch at W.A. Frost, then saw some of the latest fall fashions from Anna Scholz, Damn You Alexis, and Elena Miro.
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On Saturday May 17, 2012, Chris Davenport and Jess McMillan completed the Volcano Tour by scaling and skiing Mt. Baker in Washington – their 15th volcano in 14 days!
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Profits cut by half, recent acquisition raising questions, less-than-upbeat 2013 outlook: You'd think it's time to look elsewhere when this is what a company offers to investors on its earnings report platter. Thankfully, Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) investors know better. The stock gained 2% on an otherwise dull day, because among other lessons, Caterpillar loyalists have learned how to look beyond what meets the eye.
Deft handling
As much as investors trust their company, Caterpillar also makes sure it doesn't catch them off guard, giving them enough time to prepare for any red-faced event. I call it mutual affection. It is this silent bonding that saved Caterpillar's stock on a day the company reported 55% lower quarterly profits. After all, it had already warned investors this was coming. Just days ago, Caterpillar announced how it had "uncovered deliberate, multi-year, coordinated accounting misconduct concealed" at China-based ERA Mining Machinery, which it acquired last year. The fraud cost Caterpillar more than half a million, denting its bottom line deep in the last quarter.
Many are wondering how such a huge misdoing could miss management's eye when they weighed the pros and cons of taking over ERA. That's a question I don't have an answer to, but I know two things: One, the company has come out pretty open about the whole issue. I mean, it could have easily held back the information till earnings release, but chose to let the world know what's going on inside. Caterpillar could have also dodged the blame, but CEO Douglas Oberhelman has sportingly taken it all upon himself. He says, "I recognize the decision to acquire Siwei happened on my watch and the buck stops at my desk. I'm accountable for that acquisition." My respect for Caterpillar's management has just scored a point.
Two, and more importantly, this unfortunate incident should serve a handy lesson, not only for Caterpillar but for every other company pumping money into China. Joy Global (NYSE: JOY) upped its ante in the market by taking over International Mining Machinery last year. No untoward news from Joy yet, but it pays to know that Joy is currently in the midst of integrating IMM into its business, and is still drilling deeper to know how it can capitalize on IMM. General Electric (NYSE: GE) is taking its healthcare, electric, locomotives, and almost every other business to China. Last December, it finalized plans to purchase mining-equipment maker Industrea, which has a strong foothold in China. Both Joy and GE should prudently absorb every bit of detail they can about Caterpillar's ERA fiasco to help them tread safe waters as they synergize or buy out any company based in the Middle Kingdom.
A lesson well learned
I wouldn't say Caterpillar itself started off on the wrong foot. Sure, an internal fraud is the last thing a company would want to see when it's embarking on a major expansion plan. But given the innumerable number of Chinese companies caught involved in shady accounting practices, it could have come at a later stage, in a future deal. Since ERA was Caterpillar's first step up the Chinese mining market ladder, I see it this way: with a hard lesson coming off the very first move, Caterpillar will watch every step hence. More prudence would become a priority now, which should go a long way in enabling the company to achieve its goal of ruling the Chinese market in the years to come.
Wind at its back?
What investors need to know is that this event won't deter their favorite company from its path of growth. Huge inventory continues to plague companies in China with dealers holding back fresh orders. Yet, an uptick is visible, and can only be expected to gather steam as the government rolls out stimulus packages to boost infrastructural activities.
Joy sees an uptick in electricity demand to fuel coal consumption in China this year. GE had all good things to say about China after revenue from its industrial segment climbed 9% last quarter on improving demand. So did Alcoa (NYSE: AA), which pegs the Chinese economy to grow over 8% this year. That's in line with Caterpillar's forecasts. After announcing a new facility for its wheel and transportation business in China last month, Alcoa has just struck a deal with Commercial Aircraft of China, indicating some movement in the sluggish market. Two of Alcoa's predictions particularly bode well for Caterpillar -- demand for aluminum from China's heavy-truck industry to grow as much as 19% and that from commercial construction to grow 8% to 10%.
The optimism will be easier to digest once mining companies, who serve as critical customers for equipment makers like Caterpillar, ring in the hope bell. We've already got some in line, though. After Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) reported 4% higher production for 2012 with record iron ore shipments, BHP Billiton surprised many by citing China as the reason behind the 3% bump up in its last quarter iron ore production. The top two mining giants are hopeful of a rebound in the Chinese market this year, with Rio even suggesting that the worst in China could be already over. That Rio is staying put with its plans to pump billions in the Australian mining market over the next few years instills further confidence.
The Foolish bottom line
While the year has kicked off on an excellent note, how China treats Caterpillar and others will only be revealed some months down the line. Meanwhile, housing in the U.S. is in a sharp recovery mode, and industries like aerospace and automotive are picking up.
Caterpillar took off nearly $2 billion worth of inventory last quarter, and sounds stiffly low on its full-year guidance. Don't panic, because Caterpillar isn't trying to be an 'alarmist,' it's just being 'cautious.' That's exactly the Caterpillar we've all known for years – it likes to surprise rather than shock. Stay invested, and stay tuned. Click here to add Caterpillar to your stock watchlist for all updates, news, and analysis.
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The concept of cancer stem cells has generated great excitement in the research community. These cells - the hallmark of which is resistance to therapy and the ability to self-renew and produce a differentiated population of daughter cells - have been identified in many solid and hematopoietic cancer types.
With the intention of supporting research in this new field, on November 1, we held the first NCI Stem Cell Mini-Retreat, where NCI and NIH researchers and extramural investigators gathered to learn from each other about the latest advances in stem cell research and to identify opportunities for collaboration that could significantly advance the field, expand translational opportunities, and leverage resources.
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This question highlights other challenges. For example, cancer stem cells often cycle into a quiescent state, requiring identification of a stimulus to activate them before treatment. The design of clinical trials in this field will need to identify new methods to evaluate the success of anticancer stem cell therapies. Clearly we have a lot of work ahead of us. The final question posed at the retreat asked what NCI would do next to promote the necessary research in this field.
We have been inspired by the success of the Trans-NIH Angiogenesis Research Program (TARP) in promoting collaborations between investigators from many different disciplines, and hope to soon launch a similar trans-NIH stem cell biology and embryogenesis initiative, to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and technology both intramurally and extramurally.
NCI is now beginning the process of planning a multi-day symposium, hopefully on an annual schedule, to launch this new initiative. This type of symposium has been very helpful for TARP, and will let investigators identify opportunities for funding, resource sharing, and potential for collaborations.
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ESPN3.com to Live Stream EA Sports' Madden Bowl XVII Video Game Tournament
The 17th annual Madden Bowl tournament will be streamed live for the first time through ESPN3.com from the Glass Cactus in Grapevine, Texas on February 3. As part of the week of Super Bowl XLV festivities, the video game tournament will be available online and on Xbox 360 from 8:30pm to 10pm.
"We look at this event as the true convergence of entertainment, sports and video games," said Damon Phillips, vice president of ESPN3.com. "The way interactive TV has come into play the last year or so, ESPN 3 and Xbox 360 are at the forefront of this. Madden Bowl is a very high profile event for celebrity and sports, but it also speaks to the power of gaming."
The Madden Bowl will be hosted by Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos and ESPN's Trey Wingo, who will cover the video game tournament action live. ESPN reporters Christian Fauria and Cassidy Hubbarth will headline the ESPN3.com coverage, providing red carpet celebrity and NFL interviews as well as updates from inside the event and a Madden retrospective.
Madden Bowl XVII will also feature performances by 2010 GRAMMY nominees Big Boi and Cee Lo Green. Legendary hip-hop entertainer Biz Markie will close out the evening as the event's guest DJ.
"Each year Madden Bowl gets bigger and bigger and it's the one party that both players and celebrities like to attend," said Anthony Stevenson, senior product manager for EA Sports. "It's the game that NFL pros play throughout the season and during the off season, so winning the video game tournament really means something to them."
Another first for this year's tournament will be the introduction of three-man teams. In the past, eight NFL pros would play a series of games mano-a-mano. Madden NFL 11 introduced 3-on-3 online gameplay. The tournament will use this game mode, which allows one player to control the quarterback, one to handle the wide receivers and one to take over the running game on offense against three players handling the defense.
This opened up the ability for more NFL pros to take part in the tournament. Madden Bowl XVII will feature four teams made up of NFL stars from the reigning Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints, including MVP and current Madden cover athlete Drew Brees, NCAA Football 07 cover athlete Reggie Bush and Chase Daniel; Jacksonville Jaguars players, including reigning Madden Bowl champion Maurice Jones Drew, Kirk Morrison and Marcedes Lewis; Dallas Cowboys pros, including, DeMarcus Ware, Jason Witten, and Miles Austin; and a team of NFL All-Stars comprised of 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis, and former Madden Bowl champions, Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney, and Ravens running back Willis McGahee.
Stevenson said tournament players will be miked and wearing headsets, so viewers can listen in on the banter and chatter between both teammates and the opposing players.
Other NFL stars expected to attend Madden Bowl this year include: Michael Vick (Philadelphia Eagles), Jeremy Maclin (Philadelphia Eagles), Reggie Wayne (Indianapolis Colts), Larry Fitzgerald (Arizona Cardinals), Chad Ochocinco (Cincinnati Bengals), Ndamukong Suh (Detroit Lions), Josh Freeman (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Brandon Lloyd (Denver Broncos), and Rob Gronkowski (New England Patriots).
Phillips said this event will give sports fans and gamers the chance to see what goes on behind-the-scenes at one of the most popular Super Bowl parties. He said the live streaming of the event could extend beyond 10 pm if the event warrants additional time.
"The lines between what's sports, what's entertainment and video games is graying," said Stevenson.
Last November, ESPN3 began streaming live sporting events to all Xbox Live Gold members.
"We've seen immense usage by gamers since we launched, including during prime time," said Phillips. "ESPN3 focuses on providing live sports coverage and with this event, gamers can watch the video game tournament on Xbox Live and switch back and forth while playing Madden NFL 11."
ESPN3 is currently not available for PlayStation 3 gamers, but the NFL players partaking in the Madden Bowl will be playing Madden exclusively on PS3 as a result of a marketing agreement with EA Sports. Sony PlayStation is an official sponsor of Madden Bowl XVII. This means that Xbox Live gamers will be watching the PS3 version of the game with Sony PlayStation marketing built-in.
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The TV List 11.10.12: Top 10 James Bond Films
Posted by
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Golden Eye
You Only Live Twice
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and more, 411's Michael Ornelas counts down the top 10 James Bond films of all time!
Welcome back! That was for me, as it's my return to the column after letting a friend cover it for me last week. This week, I'm going against my own TV-centric grain to bring you a list based in the cinematic world of MI6. Over the past month, I have watched an average of one James Bond film a day, almost all of them for the first time. This has given me arguably the most objective approach to all the movies, and ranked them based on my enjoyment relative to one another. It's important to note that my guidelines for ranking are flexible from film to film. The cheese of the Moore era is to be embraced because that's what we got from him, but if there were Moore-like plots in the Connery movies, they didn't go over so well. The overly ridiculous Moore films still didn't place highly, but they were fun to watch (I even enjoyed watching my last-place film,
Die Another Day
in a "shaking my head" kind of way).
Honorable Mentions
Live & Let Die (1973) – Moore
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) – Lazenby
For Your Eyes Only (1981) – Moore
Roger Moore as James Bond was an interesting thing for me to witness – he fit the part well, but the plots of the movies he was in were often terrible or way too over-the-top. He had a handful of good movies though, and
For Your Eyes Only
was the one I enjoyed second-best. The Bond women in this one were very interesting characters in Bibi, a figure-skater who was too young for Bond, and Melina, who was an archer (somewhat pointless in the age of guns) who wanted to avenge her parents' deaths. What made this plot really interesting for me was that the villains Kristatos and Columbo were playing Bond to take out one another (they were enemies) – a plot that was never duplicated. It really helped this movie stand out as unique and a very strong outing for Roger Moore.
The Living Daylights (1987) – Dalton
It's funny, I heard from a friend that Brosnan was actually the one they wanted as the new Bond, but Timothy Dalton was cast when Pierce couldn't get out of his contract for
Remington Steele
. I absolutely love what Timothy Dalton brought to the character – he was absolutely brutal and brought out the personality that I would expect from a secret agent. I'll go so far as to say that without Dalton, Craig wouldn't have been accepted as a Bond (he already had an uphill battle against die-hards on account of having blonde hair and blue eyes).
The Living Daylights
was our introduction to Dalton and it was quite a great impression he made. He started off the film in an intense chase scene that was the best in the franchise's history up to that point. Dalton was a lot more business than pleasure, but he still had that 007 charm with the ladies. I think this film was hurt by the Bond girl, cellist Kara Milovy. I just couldn't get into her character for whatever reason (I think it was probably the acting, but you'll have to excuse the fact that many of these ran together with how quickly I watched them all). This was an excellent movie and a fantastic debut for Timothy Dalton. I wish we could have gotten at least one more movie out of him before the turnover to Brosnan, but I'm not going to complain because of what we got from that (
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) – Moore
This was Roger Moore's best Bond film by a pretty significant margin in my opinion. It also introduced the world to Jaws, who was one of the stupidest concepts for a villain yet managed to play out very well on screen thanks to Richard Kiel. Jaws wasn't even the main villain though – he was a henchman. The main villain, Karl Stromberg, was trying to nuke the world, so Bond had his work cut out for him. I let the ridiculousness of this film slide because it was so well executed, and follows the hilariously absurd
The Man with the Golden Gun
. Atlantis was a bit of a stretch for me, but everything fell into place and it worked with what I'd come to expect with Roger Moore as James Bond. The numerous chase scenes in this film were also among the strongest in the franchise up to this point, and the car/boat was an iconic vehicle that I think should have been brought back (instead of just a boat that happens to work on land like in the opening of
The World Is Not Enough
From Russia with Love (1963) – Connery
The second Bond film was still looking for traction, but managed to be a classic regardless. The problem I had with this film was that the stakes were quite low. Everything else fell into place, but the plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device was a little underwhelming to me. They needed to go bigger. Connery was getting more comfortable and seemed a lot more natural as Bond here than he did in the first film. This film was also home to many great characters, including Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Rosa Klebb. This movie was a clear sign that the franchise was on the right track, but it wasn't until the next entry in the series that Eon Productions would truly strike gold.
License to Kill (1989) – Dalton
Timothy Dalton is the only Bond who, in my opinion, had his second film better than his first. And that was already a tough task, because his debut film is the third highest debut on my list. What really made this movie stand out to me was the realism (to an extent). The stench of the more ludicrous films that Roger Moore did was still on the franchise and this helped push it in a new direction with Sanchez (the villain). He was essentially just a drug lord, but he was well-acted and to me a great foil for Dalton's Bond. There were still sharks, so it was definitely still Bond (I wish that was tongue-in-cheek), but it just had an easy to follow and clear plot with good action, a great villain, and much better female characters in Pam Bouvier and Sanchez's girlfriend Lupe Lamora.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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– "A Gettysburg Address"
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The Walking Dead
– "Killer Within"
American Horror Story – Asylum
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– "The Habitation Configuration"
You Only Live Twice (1967) – Connery
Of Sean Connery's era of Bond films,
You Only Live Twice
had the best action, which really is a big factor in my enjoyment of the franchise. Back in the '60s it was a lot tougher for producers to make believable action on screen and I thought that's where this film shined through. This film was right in the height of the Cold War, and played on the tensions between the US and the USSR. The stakes were incredibly high too, as Bond had to prevent a nuclear attack. Last but not least, this film had ninjas. NINJAS! I haven't seen many other people place this film so high, but this was a great balance of serious and ridiculous that many entries in the franchise couldn't find (I'm looking at the Moore films).
Skyfall (2012) – Craig
The benefit of not having seen but a handful of Bond films before doing this marathon was that they were all new to me, so
didn't trick me into putting it first just because it was new. That being said, the top four Bond films are head and shoulders above all the rest in my opinion. This wasn't better than my top three, but I'd be lying if I said my immediate reaction didn't involve thoughts of putting it at the top. Since this movie is so new, I'll do what I can to avoid spoilers and just generalize my thoughts. Watching the movie, I felt like this is Bond's
The Dark Knight
. I found out later today that Sam Mendes cited Nolan's Batman trilogy as an influence on how to do the action here. The only problem is that I felt like I've seen it before (and I have. In Batman). The plot in this one is unlike any other Bond film though, and it relies on the legacy before it already existing. It gives you an appreciation for the character and the depth of MI6, for sure, as well as several nods to staples of the franchise that were missing in the first two Craig films (such as Q). The villain in Skyfall is actually probably the best villain in regards to the execution of his plan and Bardem is very Joker-esque (which I'm sure is no accident). The main thing missing from
is a notable Bond girl. You get Eve, but she doesn't really count, and then there's the other chick played by Bérénice Marlohe, but I wouldn't say she got enough screen time to be called the Bond girl. Other than that, this is a fantastic film. However, carrying the James Bond name, it's not in line with the formula (plot-wise), which makes the movie really exciting, but ineligible to being THE definitive work of the franchise.
Goldfinger (1964) – Connery
Given my last comment about
, it's no surprise that
placed higher on the list. This is actually the first Bond film that I felt really mastered the typical Bond formula that almost all of them have followed. It also has an iconic villain in Goldfinger and even an iconic sidekick, the man with the razor blade hat, Oddjob.
Dr. No
was alright, but aside from establishing the world, didn't stand out to me as all that great.
From Russia with Love
was a quite a bit better and I got a better feel for Connery as Bond, but this one cemented that legacy. It was also Connery's best performance. I'm not as big on Connery as the majority of Bond fans are, largely due to how tame his action scenes were. And I don't think it had to do with the times, because George Lazenby had a great opening action scene in
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
just seven years into the franchise. Connery was just the best with the ladies. But
was the peak of Connery's Bond films as it had the best villain, the best plot, and plenty of great moments that kept the pacing fresh.
Goldeneye (1995) – Brosnan
This still might be number 1. It's so hard to pick between this and
Casino Royale
, but what I do know is this: Bond movies are always better after a hiatus. This movie followed
License to Kill
by six years and I think the ability to step back and put even one extra year of work into the films really help them out.
Casino Royale
was the first film after a four year hiatus after
Die Another Day
embarrassed the franchise and this year's
had that window as well due to MGM's bankruptcy. Anyways, Brosnan's first film is incredible and I'm probably the prime age to like this so much as I remember how much I played the N64 game. That doesn't change the great story, great characters, and great…Bonding that
provided. Sean Bean plays the villain in this entry, and we get not one, but two smoking hot Bond girls here. The action is top-notch, but most importantly, this film is the most exciting Bond film that feels like a Bond film.
Casino Royale (2006) – Craig
I'm a little hypocritical for placing
only fourth because it wasn't enough of a Bond film, just a really good movie and yet claiming that this is the best when it also derives from the expected path. However, I feel like this is encompasses everything that I personally feel a Bond film should be – a balls-to-the-wall action film with an intensely badass secret agent lead, and Texas Hold 'em. The reason I partially don't consider this Bond-esque is because of all the changes they made – took out Q, took pun-named Bond girls, Bond is blonde, no silhouettes of naked chicks in the opening credit sequence, etc. The direction also just seemed a lot more like a modern day action film, but that's not a bad thing at all. In fact it really worked here. The Parkouresque chase scene that opens the first act is my favorite chase scene in the franchise's celebrated history and showed just how far this new Bond would go to get the job done. Daniel Craig is far and away my favorite actor in the famous role (but I refuse to call anyone the "best" because they all brought something unique and special to it), and it's the fact that he's stone cold and looks like he will do literally anything for the safety of his nation. Even if he's reckless about it, he never doubts himself. What makes this movie so interesting is how serious his relationship got with Vesper. I didn't expect that from James Bond because I thought it was a mistake when Lazenby's Bond married Teresa di Vicenzo, but the genuine affection here helped shape Bond and almost served as a learning experience for future Craig movies (and there are more to come to see that play out).
came close, but failed to top
Casino Royale
. I hope Craig can star in a better Bond movie than this one because that'd be a win for any fan of the franchise or movies in general.
I know I broke my own rules and wrote a column about movies instead of TV, but this is what I've been spending my time watching lately, so quite frankly, I didn't have enough material in my mind to write something about television this week. But at the very least, this is relevant and hopefully provided for a good read. Until next week, please leave your opinions, which I'm sure will be nothing but positive, down below. Thanks for reading!
Shows of which I have seen every episode (including shows still on the air):
Da Ali G Show; American Dad!; American Horror Story; Andy Barker, P.I.; Andy Richter Controls the Universe; Angry Boys; Aqua Teen Hunger Force (including name changes); Archer; Arrested Development; The Batman; Batman Beyond; Batman: The Animated Series; Beast Wars; Better Off Ted; The Big Bang Theory; Big Bite; Black Mirror; Bob's Burgers; The Boondocks; Bored to Death; Boss; Breaking Bad; Brickleberry; Bunk; Childrens Hospital; China, IL; Clerks: The Animated Series; The Cleveland Show; Clone High; Comedy Bang! Bang!; Community; Conan (on TBS); The Critic; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Delocated; Dexter; The Drunk & On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour; Eagleheart; Eastbound & Down; Ed; Entourage; Episodes; Family Guy; Firefly; Flight of the Conchords; Franklin & Bash; Freaks & Geeks; Friends; Frisky Dingo; Futurama; Game of Thrones; Go On; Happy Endings; Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law; Homeland; House of Lies; How I Met Your Mother; Human Giant; Hung; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; The IT Crowd; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Jackass; Jon Benjamin Has a Van; Justified; Key & Peele; Kid Notorious; The King of Queens; The League; Louie; Lucky Louie; Luther; The Middle; Modern Family; Monk; Mr. D; Mr. Show with Bob & David; My Name Is Earl; NTSF:SD:SUV::; The Office (UK); The Office (US); Parks & Recreation; Party Down, Portlandia; Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings; Scrubs; Sealab 2021; Seinfeld; Sherlock; The Simpsons; Sons of Tucson; South Park; Spiderman: The Animated Series; Sports Show with Norm MacDonald; Star Wars: Clone Wars; Summer Heights High; Superjail!; Tenacious D; That '80s Show; Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!; Titus; Tosh.0; Trailer Park Boys; Twin Peaks; Ugly Americans; Undeclared; Up All Night; The Venture Bros.; Viva La Bam; The Walking Dead; We Can Be Heroes; The Whitest Kids U' Know; Wildboyz; Wilfred; Workaholics; 30 Rock
Shows I'm currently watching:
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes; Cheers; Dinosaurs; Mad Men; Malcolm in the Middle; Manimal; The Mighty Boosh;
The Mitchell & Webb Situation
; Most Extreme Elimination Challenge; The Powerpuff Girls; Psych; Robot Chicken; Shameless (US); Sons of Anarchy; The State; That '70s Show; Tiny Toon Adventures; Upright Citizens Brigade; The Wire
Shows on my radar, but haven't yet started
All in the Family;
American Gothic
; Animaniacs; Battlestar Galactica; Becker; Boardwalk Empire; Boston Legal; Boston Public; Boy Meets World; Californication; Castle; Chappelle's Show; Chuck; Covert Affairs; Criminal Minds; Dallas; Death Note; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Downton Abbey; Dr. Who; The Drew Carey Show; Everybody Loves Raymond; Farscape; Frasier; The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; Fringe; Gargoyles; Girls; The Good Wife; Greg the Bunny; Happy Days; Haven; Home Improvement; Home Movies; Homicide: Life on the Streets; House; In Living Color; The Jeffersons; Just Shoot Me!; The Kids in the Hall; King of the Hill; Lie to Me; The Life & Times of Tim; Lost; M*A*S*H; Metalocalypse; Monty Python's Flying Circus; NewsRadio; Northern Exposure; Oz; Peep Show; Person of Interest; Pinky & The Brain; The PJs; Reaper; Reno 911!; Rescue Me; Roots; Samurai Jack; The Shield; Six Feet Under; The Sopranos; Spin City; Sports Night; Stella; Suits; Taxi; That Mitchell & Webb Look; The Tick; The Twilight Zone; Upright Citizens Brigade; Weeds; The West Wing; White Collar; Will & Grace; The X-Files; 24; 3rd Rock from the Sun; 8 Simple Rules
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by Daniel Araoz; New York, Other Press, 2006, 272 pages, $27
Dr. Matthews is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, Needham, Massachusetts.
As a teacher active in training medical students and psychiatric residents, I value any resource that brings psychoanalytic thinking alive and makes it accessible to those who work outside the specialized field of psychoanalysis. The central message of The Symptom Is Not the Whole Story: Psychoanalysis for Non-psychoanalysts is that psychological symptoms, and frequently physical symptoms, have significant meaning. I share the author's view that "[t]he essence of the psychoanalytic perspective is to see beyond the seen, to understand more than what is evident, and to decode the meaning behind the metaphors of our existence." I also fully subscribe to the book's premise that psychoanalytic perspectives enrich a clinician's understanding of human behavior and add an invaluable depth to diagnosis and treatment within the mental health field. As the author, Daniel Araoz, writes, "To help people change; the clinician must know how to listen to the client's unconscious and symptom metaphorical request for help. To consider the symptom as an isolated reality deprives the patient of the help she needs."
However, the author's idiosyncratic understandings and misunderstandings of basic concepts within psychoanalysis limit the value of this book as an introduction to the field. To give an example, Araoz states, "the id and the ego are engaged in a constant struggle for control of the ego, the individual"; and later, "When a normal person engages in impulsive shopping, reckless driving, excessive drinking or eating, his id is active and has taken over." Such statements are not mere simplifications. They create a caricature of psychoanalytic understanding of "structures" within the mind, equating these with literal "personality parts." The author's misunderstanding of Freudian thought is nowhere more obvious than in his description of the superego as "a spiritual or non-physical `agency' above instinct and culture." Similarly, Araoz demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of instincts and drives when he describes the love or eros drive and aggression or thanatos drive as competing tendencies and further describes eros as "the energy of life, present in humans and manifested in the best of human nature, like culture, art, science, compassion, heroism, forgiveness, and caring, as well as in the entire universe, from the magnificent majesty of galaxies hundreds of thousands of light years away to the millions of infinitesimally small subatomic components in our own bodies." Building from these ideas, Araoz suggests that a goal of therapy is "to increase Eros and diminish Thanatos," and that the patient learns in therapy that "by allowing her ego to side with Eros, she agrees with the superego and rejects the excessive demands of the id."
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Did Newt Gingrich pay a $300,000 'fine'?
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson
Published on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 4:55 p.m.
In politics, we've gotten used to seeing various euphemisms used to inflame debate. For example, there's "illegal aliens" vs. "undocumented workers." "Pro-life" vs. "anti-abortion." And the deep divide over "torture" vs. "enhanced interrogation."
We stumbled into another area controversy over definition in a recent fact-check of charges about Republican candidate for president Newt Gingrich. The super PAC Restore Our Future accused Gingrich of being "fined" $300,000 for an ethics violation in the 1990s. We checked the record and rated the statement True.
A short time later, we were contacted by an attorney who represented Gingrich during the ethics proceeding and who disputed that Gingrich was "fined" by the ethics committee. The lawyer said Gingrich had paid a "cost assessment."
"Based upon the actual language of the House Committee report itself, it is clear that Speaker Gingrich was only asked to reimburse the House $300,000 to offset some costs of the Committee's investigation. No fine was ever levied against the speaker," wrote J. Randolph Evans of the law firm McKenna, Long & Aldridge. He also criticized us for promoting our fact-check via Twitter.
"Any statement in any broadcast communication supporting the notion that Speaker Gingrich paid a congressional fine is wholly inaccurate, and should be characterized that way by PolitiFact. More significantly, in light of controlling authority on this issue, any additional publication by PolitiFact that supports the truth of such a statement will be considered knowingly false," he wrote.
Better go back over the claim to see what we missed.
First we turned to our primary source, the U.S. House of Representatives' "In the matter of Representative Newt Gingrich: Report of the Select Committee on Ethics," published Jan. 17, 1997.
Gingrich was accused of using a course he taught at Kennesaw State College for political fundraising. The course's organizers solicited financial support, promising that the project qualified for tax-exempt status. The ethics committee, however, concluded that the course was "actually a coordinated effort" to "help in achieving a partisan, political goal" -- something that would run afoul of its tax-exempt status.
As Evans said, the committee's official findings do not mention the word "fine." Instead the report recommends that Gingrich receive "a reprimand and a payment reimbursing the House for some of the costs of the investigation in the amount of $300,000."
Lawyers with expertise in political law told us that Evans had a point. The committee document, which was carefully worded, did not officially characterize it as a "fine."
But they also warned against interpreting the levy as merely a reimbursement. Our experts said it's hard to view it as anything but a penalty against Gingrich.
"I think it is fair to say that the $300,000 was assessed as a punitive measure, and there would have been no such assessment if the ethics committee thought he was free from wrongdoing," Kenneth A. Gross, the head of the political law practice at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. "It really is matter of characterization and even semantics. It was not a fine in a legal sense but a punitive measure."
Other experts we contacted agreed.
"I suspect that the committee never asks a person to pay $300,000 for its investigation costs if the result of the investigation was to find the person completely blameless," said legal commentator Stuart Taylor.
"The payment was meant to penalize Gingrich personally for lying to Committee investigators, so it could fairly be called a 'penalty' from a layman's point of view," said Brett Kappel, a counsel with the firm Arent Fox LLP.
It's also worth noting that the head of the committee that investigated and reprimanded Gingrich said at the time that, although the committee didn't officially call it a fine, she personally considered it to be a fine.
As the House was preparing to vote on the ethics panel's findings, the chair of the House ethics committee, Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-Conn., had this exchange with Katie Couric of NBC News:
Couric: "Do you view this $300,000 as a fine or to compensate for the cost of the investigation?"
Johnson: "Well, it can be seen either way."
Couric: "How do you see it?"
Johnson: "I see it personally as a fine."
Another view: The Congressional Research Service, in a 2005 report, said the sum paid by Gingrich "was not characterized by the Committee as a 'fine,' " but CRS did use the term "penalty" to describe it.
To cut through the semantic fog, we turned to Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. He said it's fair for a media outlet to describe the fee Gingrich paid as a "fine" or to write that Gingrich was "fined."
"Some people distinguish fines and charges for costs, but the verb 'fine' is also routinely used as including costs," he said. He sent us several examples of courts noting that their fines included court costs.
"The implication that since the penalty charged Gingrich was not a 'fine' there was no imputation of guilt or violation of ethics rules is simply false: People are not held responsible for costs if the charges are found groundless," he said.
As it happens, there's a lot of precedent for media outlets calling the assessment on Gingrich a fine. When we looked through the Nexis news archive, we found these headlines:
Associated Press, House ethics committee votes to reprimand Gingrich, calls for fine, Jan. 18, 1997
CNN, House Votes For Reprimand And Fine For Speaker Newt Gingrich, Jan. 21, 1997
Baltimore Sun, Questions continue about how Gingrich should pay his fine; Some say speaker should pay proposed $300,000 out of personal funds, Jan. 21, 1997
USA Today, GOP fears Gingrich vote fallout; Concern over how speaker will pay fine, Jan. 22, 1997
Dallas Morning News, Gingrich's unresolved fine lingers as issue, March 20, 1997
New York Times, Gingrich to Pay Ethics Fine With Own Money and Loan, April 17, 1997
We reached Adam Clymer, one of the New York Times reporters who covered the case at the time. He noted that reporters back then also heard arguments that the financial penalty was not a fine.
"They made the same argument at the time, and we decided they were mistaken," he said. An archival search shows the New York Times both then and now has described the fee as a "fine."
In all, our archival search of all news sources found approximately 2,200 significant reports published between Jan. 17, 1997, when the committee announced the penalty, and Oct. 11, 1998, when final ethics charges against Gingrich were cleared. Of those 2,200, approximately 1,500 used the word "fine" or "fined." About 250 used the word in a headline.
Our previous report should have made clear that the House ethics committee did not use the term "fine" in assessing Gingrich $300,000; instead, the panel instead called it a reimbursement. However, we feel comfortable that the underlying point of the pro-Romney Super PAC ad that we originally checked remains valid.
The ad claimed that Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations." While Evans, the lawyer who represented Gingrich, has a point that the levy was not officially called a "fine" by the ethics committee, we think a reasonable person knowing all the context would consider the levy against Gingrich to be a penalty.
The committee reprimanded Gingrich and assessed him a sum of $300,000. The chair of the committee said on national television that despite the panel's word choice, she personally considered it to be a fine. It is common in many legal settings for court costs to be included in fines. And an array of legal experts told us that the avoidance of the word "fine" in describing the payment does not suggest vindication for Gingrich; rather, they said, the payment was clearly intended to be punitive. We are republishing the item here with the revised ruling of Mostly True.
Restore Our Future via YouTube, Plan ad, Dec. 14, 2011
PolitiFact, Newt Gingrich blasts 1990s ethics investigation of him, calling it partisan, Dec. 7, 2011
PolitiFact, "Did Newt Gingrich pay a $300,000 ethics fine back in the 1990s? Yes he did," Dec. 21, 2011
PolitiFact, "David Axelrod calls Newt Gingrich 'the godfather of gridlock,'" Dec. 5, 2011
U.S. House of Representatives, In the matter of Representative Newt Gingrich: Report of the Select Committee on Ethics, Jan. 17, 1997
Letter from J. Randolph Evans of McKenna, Long & Aldridge, Jan. 24, 2012
The Associated Press via The Washington Post, Gingrich pays off ethics penalty, Dec. 30, 1998
CNN, Gingrich ethics timeline, accessed Dec. 7, 2011
Nancy Johnson, interview with NBC's Today show, Jan. 21, 1997 (CQ subscribers only)
House Standards of Official Conduct Committee, transcript of news conference, Jan. 21, 1997 (CQ subscribers only)
PBS Frontline, text of request for funding for Renewing American Civilization," June 1, 1993
New York Times, "The Gingrich Case: Text of 'Analysis and Conclusion,' From Report by House Ethics Counsel," Jan. 17, 1997 (accessed via Lexis-Nexis)
St. Petersburg Times, "Reprimand, $300,000 fine urged," Jan. 18, 1997 (accessed via Lexis-Nexis)
Washington Post, "Ethics Panel Supports Reprimand of Gingrich," Jan. 18 1997
Washington Post, "Gingrich to Pay Penalty With Dole Loan," April 18 1997
New York Times, "Ethics Panel Clears Slate for Gingrich," Oct. 11, 1998 (accessed via Lexis-Nexis)
Congressional Research Service, "Expulsion, Censure, Reprimand, and Fine: Legislative Discipline in the House of Representatives," Jan. 25, 2005
E-mail interview with Geoffrey Nunberg of University of California at Berkeley, Feb. 2, 2012
E-mail interview with Brett Kappel, counsel with the firm Arent Fox LLP, Feb. 1, 2012
E-mail interview with Stuart Taylor Jr., legal commentator, Feb. 1, 2012
E-mail interview with Stanley M. Brand, partner at Brand Law Group, Feb. 1, 2012
E-mail interview with Kenneth A. Gross, head of the political law practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Feb. 1, 2012
Researchers: Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson
Names in this article: Newt Gingrich
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This is fabulous. As are you! I look forward to all 2013 has in store! Great work today on AFBA =)


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We live in a world when words are ambigious and don't have the same meanings that they used to have.
So many words have become a empty shell of the multifaceted layers of deep meaning that they used to convey.
One of these words is "love." We hear this word tossed around carelessly every day. How can we get a true meaning of this word when phrases like " I really love that show" are the norm or when words like " I love ya man!" are followed with little or no action demonstrating this?
This summer, I am trying to look deeper inside myself and grow spiritually. I want God to increase and for my will to decrease. For a few weeks now, one question has been constantly on my mind. What does it mean to love my neighbor?
God commands me to love my neighbor. But what does this look like? What does this require?
To examine this further, I turn to the famous "love passage" ( I Cor 13). To be honest, this is one of the most daunting passages in the Bible for me.
"Love is patient." However, I am not patient. I get irritated with people too easily.
"Love is not rude. It does not seek its own." Have I ever loved someone without conditions and without wanting something in return? I really don't know.
"Love... hopes all things." But don't I often give up hope on people? Don't I so easily give into despair?
All of these things are hard enough to do for people I care about, but what about strangers? How can I behave like this towards people that I have no connection with whatsoever, or better yet, how can I behave like this towards people I geniunely dislike?
The one thing that gives me comfort is the truth that "God is love." For the most part, God is undefinable and we can only truly "define" God by saying what God isn't instead of saying what He is. However, this statement is one of the few exceptions. God will show me how to love because He is love.
As true as this statement is, one must be careful because there is godly love and there is worldly love. God may be love, but He is godly love, not wordly love. A clear distinction must be made between the two.
St. Nikolai Velimirovich wrote about this in his famous book "Prayers by the Lake." In prayer XXXIV,
St. Nikolai writes the following:
" Love has three hypostases: chasity, knowledge, and light. Without chastity love is not affection
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passion. Without knowledge love is not wisdom but foolishness. Without light love is not
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hell, which is what Satan likes to call 'love.'"
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love resembles divine love the way smoke resembles flames. When you exchange a
gold coin for copper pennies, you do not call the pennies a gold coin but copper. Why
then do you call divine love that has been broken and ground into ashes by time and
space 'love' and not 'ashes'?"
I am learning what love really is, but it is not something that comes quickly. It is something that will have to seep in my heart over time with the grace of God. But I do know one thing, love is living and breathing. It is not stale and stagnant. Love is action and not only words. To love is to sacrifice. True love will never be easy.
Lord, teach us to love our neighbors (the likeable and the unlikeable) with Your love, not worldy love. Let us not accept the immitation for the real thing no matter how tempting and inviting it seems. Also, teach us to love ourselves in a godly manner, not a prideful love for ourselves but a love that exudes humility. For how can we learn to love others if we can't even love ourselves?


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Again, this giveaway is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia.)
Read all of the official terms and conditions here.
Also: if you win and you are under 18, you will need a parent or guardian to sign for you.
The sweepstakes ends at 10pm EST Monday, December 5th!
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