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Farmiga Reaches Higher Ground With Directorial Debut
James Rocchi, Special to MSN Movies
Based on Carolyn Briggs' memoir "This Dark World," actress Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, "Higher Ground," stakes out a fairly complicated set of conflicts for itself and, in doing so, ventures into subtly lit places that too few films about faith explore. Farmiga plays Corrine, a woman trying to make sense of her life within her family and her life within her faith. Many films show us the conflict between the spiritual and the secular; other films show us the conflict between the spiritual and the sensual. We see those conflicts here, to be sure, but what "Higher Ground" also does is show us the conflict between the spiritual and the spiritual -- the differences and disagreements, small or shattering, within Corrine's own understanding and expression of her Christian faith.
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Farmiga is familiar to mainstream audiences from "The Departed" and "Up in the Air," with indie-movie patrons knowing her from "Down to the Bone" or "Running Scared." (Farmiga also has an interesting sideline as mother to evil children, as seen in both "Orphan" and "Joshua," but I digress). As a director, Farmiga is good with her actors -- as you'd hope she would be -- and excellent in her own scenes. She also pulls off the two things that, when done correctly, comprise almost 90 percent of what a director has to do for a film: hiring an excellent cast and choosing a solid cinematographer, Michael McDonough (of "Winter's Bone" and "Down to the Bone").
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The film flashes back to Corrine's youth and teen years (where she is played, superbly, by Farmiga's own younger sister Taissa), culminating in her marriage to Ethan (the excellent Joshua Leonard) and motherhood. There's no big incident that shoves Corrine into her evangelical life, although a Sunday school preacher, played with superbly muted physical showmanship by Bill Irwin, has a role.
Instead, what we see is Farmiga portraying the small accrual of choice and its absence. Corrine is constantly butting against the limits of her church, often reined in by the gentle but occasionally stern group leader Bill (an excellent Norbert Leo Butz) and prodded by the spirited-but-still-spiritual Annika (Dagmara Dominczyk).
That inner conflict and outer battle -- as Corrine longs for inclusion in a community that insists she's a second class-citizen -- is the most fascinating part of the film, and the most dramatically engaging. Corrine is told she should take care not to preach to the men of the congregation as she speaks of God, that she best not wear a dress that exposes her shoulders, that she should be cautious to not be enticed by the joy and connection Annika feels when speaking in tongues.
There are attempts to show good faith on the part of the community's men to connect their wives and daughters and sisters to the church -- Bill, in the film's '70s-ish moments, advises his male parishioners that they "have to tend to their women's needs" and offers a chance to learn from a seven-tape series called "Christ-like sex." You don't know whether to appreciate the effort suggested by the moment or bray bitter laughter.
Samuel Johnson said that "a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." I'm tempted to echo that faint, damning praise for the less smooth moments in Briggs and Tim Metcalfe's adapted screenplay, when the visual metaphors get too clumsy and the subtext becomes text. Intelligent and compassionate films about faith are surprising to find done at all, so you're inclined to ignore the brief moments when they're not done well.
Then, you witness a moment like a dinner scene -- with decades-long ties of love and resentment playing out between three different kinds of broken families that enclose the eight people and three generations in the room -- and the acting from Donna Murphy and John Hawkes alone, as Corrine's mother and father, is so full of real truth and bittersweet love that it breaks the heart. Even at its most clumsy, Farmiga's directorial debut makes you look forward to her next effort from behind the camera. At its best, "Higher Ground" stands apart in a territory few films have the intelligence, courage and, yes, faith, to even try to explore.
James Rocchi's writings on film have appeared at Cinematical.com, Netflix.com, AMCtv.com, IFC.com, SFGate.com and in Mother Jones magazine. He was also the on-air film critic for San Francisco's CBS-5 from 2006 to 2008. He now lives in Los Angeles, where every ending is a twist ending.
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What tosh. Obviously "traditional white, middle-class names" are going to be prevalent in any large sample of British professionals. It doesn't make having such a name more likely to lead to being a partner at all.
Derek Klyhn's comment assigns causality where there is none, and thus displays a total ignorance of the basic principles of research.
You may as well say: "Our survey discovered that most lawyers have brown hair - therefore dye your hair brown if you want to be a lawyer."
Complete idiocy.
This must be the most ridiculous piece of research ever carried out, who cares about a name as long as you can do the job, surely that is of utmost importance.
@ CityGent - snob, I bet you're named Wayne
@ Traycee
If your name is indeed a version of `Traycee' I fully understand your sensitivity!
Not surprisingly absent from the list of female names, along with your natural twin, Sharon.
Benny, maybe you're taking it all a bit too seriously. I imagine it's just supposed to be an amusing little piece. But perhaps The Lawyer could do some research on whether you have to have a sense of humour to become a partner.
@ City Gent
I assume that as you are trying to score points on grammar and insulting people based on class that you're one of these new money types who thinks an education from a minor public school makes you something?
People like you ultimately fail because they're too arrogant to notice their faults. It is very entertaining watching the demise though.
I helped Derek interpret the data and want to come to his defence as regards his light-hearted/ironic comment on names (which was clearly far too ironic for some of the commentators here!)
The incidence of names was not the main focus of the research, but an amusing side-bar, which has caught the headlines. The main article in the Lawyer drew attention to the main point of interest, which was the gender-split as regards age of resignations and average working 'life' at the top firms.
Unfortunately - and such is the peril of online - the two pieces are not linked on this site, and the other piece is difficult to access, but I would recommend you read it. Here's the link:
The main piece has also been picked up by womeninlaw.com
Lawyer guys/gals, if you're reading this, can you stick the link at the bottom of this article so that people can read the main piece? Ta!
My name is Michael and I am a lawyer.
My grandson Andrew will commence his LLB studies in London this year.
I must however confess I don't share the views of the research-rather put the money to better use.
As for the royal baby -lets hope its James Albert.
By whose definition are David, Michael, Richard, Sarah, Catherine, Susan or Helen middle class names? As David Morley correctly observes, David is a popular name for blokes of his generation, but this is precisely BECAUSE it was class neutral. (Christopher is another favourite of that time for the same reason, although didn't appear here). Elizabeth and Simon are debatable, I suggest, but there are plenty of Lizs who aren't posh.
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So you might have noticed a bit more activity on the Atlanta Music Scene blog lately.
That's very perceptive, because we planned it that way!
Considering that Atlanta has such a tremendous and diverse music landscape, we've decided to re-dedicate ourselves to coverage, and I'll be your conductor on this ride.
Starting now, you'll see several postings a day about music – local and national, concert reviews and breaking news, maybe even a goofy video or two to distract you during a boring workday. You'll still receive all of your hot ticket info from Shane Harrison, too.
On Tuesdays, I'll give you a heads-up about new releases for the week and on Fridays, some kind of fun list. We love lists, and know that nothing starts a livelier debate than, say, deeming Starship's "We Built This City" the worst song ever. See? You either just nodded vigorously in agreement or screamed an obscenity at your computer, didn't you?
Count on more of that.
There will be times you agree with me and times you despise me. I'm happy with either reaction. I just ask that you keep things civil in the comments section and for God's sake, please keep those comments relevant to the post. If you want to turn a musical musing into a political debate, my colleague Jim Galloway has the perfect outlet for you (though he would appreciate civility, too).
If you're curious about my music-writing background, here's the CliffsNotes version: I've been at the AJC since September 2010, where I frequently wrote about music, but primarily handled the Georgia Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta, Fernbank Museum of Natural History and random lifestyle and entertainment stories.
In my previous life, I held the esteemed "pop music critic" and "columnist" titles at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where I worked for 14 years. I saw approximately 1,200 concerts – many of them in D.C. and Virginia Beach since, let's be honest, Richmond doesn't attract a fraction of Atlanta's musical offerings – worked alongside some lifelong friends and loved many minutes of it.
I'm originally from South Florida – my first job while in college was as the assistant pop music/radio writer at the Sun-Sentinel – but my family hails from Brooklyn so yep, I'm a northern soul.
I've played the drums since I was 12, but that activity is on hiatus since my husband and I live in a shoebox apartment with our two cats — and we happen to like our neighbors.
Given my upbringing, I'm a big fan of Billy Joel and the Jersey trinity of Springsteen, Sinatra and Bon Jovi.
Sorry again. At least for part of it.
But my musical tastes go beyond those guys. Whether it's U2 or the Rolling Stones in a stadium or Shelby Lynne or Dar Williams in a club, I'm interested. If you rummage through my car, you're likely to find a Beatles CD crammed next to stuff from Janelle Monae, Lady Gaga, B.o.B., Foo Fighters, Keith Urban, Barry Manilow, Duran Duran, Beyonce, Adele, the Black Keys and Drake.
Here's what else you should know about me: I like gambling, pro football (go Dolphins!), cats and Howard Stern. But I do not like pina coladas, or, for that matter, getting caught in the rain. Especially not in this humidity.
But that's enough about me. This is also your chance to tell me the types of stories you'd like to see covered. I can't promise anything, but I'm always willing to listen.
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By Melissa Ruggieri, Atlanta Music Scene
June 20th, 2012
7:23 am
Thank you for focusing on the music scene. I think Atlanta is a wonderful town for music, and lots of times it's inexpensive: Friday jazz at the High Museum is a real treat, thanks to WCLK and the High, Java Monkey in Decatur has free music for customers and passers by, and Emory University has great classical soirees some Fridays at noon during the academic year. Then there are the clubs and the Atlanta Symphony to fill in the high-end music fan. I think we're lucky. I'd just like to see the musicians get paid better!
June 20th, 2012
7:29 am
We barely mentioned that Roger Waters brought his "Wall Live" show to Philips last week. It's only one of the biggest tours of the year. How about some coverage of up-and-coming local acts who people can see around town for very little money?
June 20th, 2012
7:41 am
I miss the oldies on 106.7 FM. If Atlanta can get another oldies station please advertise its existence on TV and in the AJC so all will know. Thank you.
June 20th, 2012
7:45 am
Glad you are focusing on this Melissa. Atlanta radio sucks so bad I haven't listened in 10-15 years so there goes the main source of concert info right there. Shame a city the size of Atlanta doesn't have a single REAL rock and roll radio station and some DJ's that progressed beyond the Beavis and Biutthead "I can say penis on the radio and interview a stripper hehe I'm cool," type of mentality.
Look forward to more posts.
June 20th, 2012
7:55 am
June 20th, 2012
7:56 am
Jersey Trinity? That's enough for me…..well, maybe not Bon Jovi. But Bruce and Frank is enough. Try to squeeze some Tom Waits into something. Rock on
June 20th, 2012
8:05 am
Take the cover off of the roots country/folk scene around the Atlanta area. There are some really great bands here in a genre that is really picking up steam nationally and around the world. Local bands like Rolling Nowhere, Waller and I Want Whisky are really worth checking out!
June 20th, 2012
8:09 am
Why is there no sustainable Industrial, EBM, and Goth scene in metro Atlanta?
June 20th, 2012
8:09 am
Deeper playlist on radio. It seems there are about 200 songs you hear and that is it. Also, work in more album tracks for the Beatles, Stone, who etc..
June 20th, 2012
8:31 am
Mac and Fred nailed it on the head. I mainly listen to Georgia State's 88.5 nowadays, since college stations play real music and talk MUCH less. Great selection, especially at night.
June 20th, 2012
8:36 am
"Why is there no sustainable Industrial, EBM, and Goth scene in metro Atlanta?" Because Evanescence, the only good goth band, isn't from here.
June 20th, 2012
8:43 am
Hated We Built This City when I first heard it. But then, I got past the lyrics and got to like it. It rocks from a musical standpoint, and the vocals are terrific despite the lyrical premise. My Airplane friends still hate though.
June 20th, 2012
8:55 am
Jorma, that's one of the worst songs EVER. Period. Why did you even bring it up?
June 20th, 2012
9:13 am
I'd suggest you do a list, one week, of songs people should play instead of clicking go on LMFAO. Let's face it, no one really wants to "Party Rock" anymore!
June 20th, 2012
9:16 am
The AJC and local radio stations need to pair up and really promote the local scene. I wouldn't just concentrate on Atlanta, but the region. Modern Radio stinks; and it will until it gets more listeners. Only way to increase local advertising is to increase listener-ship. 88.5 is a blessing for us, but they haven't the media money or Wattage to carry the torch alone.
We are not Nashville or Austin. Atlanta is actually both, plus a whole lot more diversity!!!
June 20th, 2012
9:16 am
I miss the 106.7 Oldies station and so do many who tuned in to find it had changed to all news. I would like to have another station take up the slack. 106.7 had a nice format and not stuck in one decade.
June 20th, 2012
9:22 am
OMG…ever since "We Built This City" popped up on the Muppets soundtrack, I've had to hear it almost every day. I try to skip it, but I never get away with it and the kids freak out. Gah! Why Muppets, WHY?
That said, bring on the musical coverage! I'd love to see more ground-level reports on the local scene. There's some really cool stuff happening here that just never gets covered.
June 20th, 2012
9:41 am
New Jersey? What exit?
June 20th, 2012
9:46 am
Thanks for bringing something that needs to be discussed to the masses in Atlanta & the burbs. Music has been my mainstay for many moons in Atlanta since 1988. I have seen or heard hundreds of bands with all different kinds of sounds & originality. Of course, some lacked the originality, but that's life I suppose. I have played guitar in 5 different bands since 1991 with some having little to no success.
The music really is/was never the issue with the struggling scene. It has always been people accepting other styles of music & giving some chance to music other then the "3 minute pop" mindset. Listening to 5 minute plus songs may be hard for some people to comprehend, but try explaining that to teenagers who just wanna make out in the back seats of cars to mindless radio while they could be playing demo tapes (remember those?) & supporting the Atlanta scene club/venue wise. There attention span couldn't handle anything other then that. I know im getting away from the point of the scene, but it all adds up.
The answer had a good point about college radio. I listen to 88.5 mostly on Friday evening for it's "Punk Show – I Don't Care". Back in the day of my youth I listened to college radio exclusively – 88.5 & 91.1 – to name just two.
Melissa, did you ever get to see the Bad Brains or Minor Threat around the DC area back in the day?
June 20th, 2012
9:50 am
Welcome to Atlanta, Melissa, (albeit a couple of years after the fact)!
So, Melissa, for the sake of full musical disclosure, do you XM ?
(I do.)
June 20th, 2012
9:52 am
Not to be catty, but the list of CDs in your car is very mainstream. There is nothing wrong with that, unless one is supposed to be an informed music writer. I really hope you'll dig a bit deeper on your blog. ATL is full of all kinds of interesting clubs, bands, scenes and music shops, but you'd never guess that from the AJC's coverage of our "scene."
Read Stomp and Stammer,check out flyers for shows in L5P and EAV, go to 529 and other smaller clubs. Dig around on garagerock.com or atlantametal.net, atlantamessaround.com. Find the stuff that percolating below the surface.
There is a lot happening here that isn't on the radar of folks who think the Black Keys are a symbol of having unique taste.
June 20th, 2012
9:57 am
Atlanta needs someone who is tuned into the local scene , with roots in the south. I don't know , maybe someone from…..Athens….
June 20th, 2012
10:05 am
Athens had its day, two decades ago. Lets look to the future in a progressive music town, like Albany!
June 20th, 2012
10:09 am
RE: "If you want to turn a musical musing into a political debate, my colleague Jim Galloway has the perfect outlet for you (though he would appreciate civility, too)."
Since Melissa brought it up, I absolutely HATE IT when a politician, especially one I don't like or support, hijacks one of my favorite song and adopts it as his/her political campaign.
When that happens, that song is never quite the same for me ever again.
June 20th, 2012
10:10 am
Underground Sound – I agree totally.
Metal – Punk – Garage Rock – Alternative or whatever other categories there may be need to be looked at with some seriousness.
It starts with people like us though. We can type all day long about this scene, but until we go out there and support it – Atlanta will fail to be unique in any scene.
June 20th, 2012
10:17 am
Sounds like more of a music blog for the 50+ Chastain Wine and Cheese Club crowd, but still good to be covering some Atlanta music I guess…
June 20th, 2012
10:23 am
HIII… Congrats on the music blog.. I'm excited to read your work… I hope that we can count on indie music too… There are a lot of underground artist out there that can benefit from this type of exposure… I know of a few… I also hope that you are up for coming out to shows and seeing what Atlanta really has to offer on the music scene (I'm sure you do already)… Based on what you wrote, you seem to have a wide variety of tastes when it comes to genre's of music.. EXCELLENT.. b/c I don't…. but I'm open to finding out about new artists or established artists that just aren't on my radar… MUSIC FAN FOR LIFE…
June 20th, 2012
11:06 am
I'd like to learn about what local bands are hot. I used to be young and spent time keeping up with that stuff; but now that I'm older I don't follow the scene as much anymore! Tell me what I'm missing in my middle age!
June 20th, 2012
11:06 am
I guess I don't understand what you mean by Atlanta music scene and then reveal that you have a bunch of pop in your car. It is like Dave FM calling a song "new" when it came out six or more months ago. Good luck, but the Atlanta music scene is REALLY sad for a town of this size but it makes sense considering this town leads the world in having too much confidence but not enough talent.
June 20th, 2012
11:10 am
What's your take on the NPR intern column about downloading music?
June 20th, 2012
11:24 am
If you haven't been to the Northside Tavern to see Mudcat on a Friday or Saturday night then you are missing one of Atlanta's best live acts. He plays a blues/rock blend that keeps people dancing and coming back for more. His guitar playing makes you move. His fans range from 21-81.
June 20th, 2012
11:34 am
Good luck Melissa!! This has long been overdue! I look forward to your musings and will probably be bumping into you from time to time. ~ Annie
June 20th, 2012
11:40 am
Ol' Maynard's favorite bands never go out of style! Try Dr. Hook, Journey, Toto & April Wine! And when I'm a feelin' lovey dovey, there's always Air Supply & Gino Vannelli! Now that's what I call music boy howdy!!! My favorite punk band? The Impotent Sea Snakes of course!!! Now am I a tuna with good taste or not?
June 20th, 2012
11:57 am
This is great. I hope you will do coverage on local bands and musicians.
You really need to do an interview with Wayde Powell. He has a studio called Asylum. He is the most talented musician ever.
June 20th, 2012
11:58 am
It was odd that this past weekend, a huge sold out hip hop show with Ti, Rick Ross, Gucci, and then Usher, Nelly, Kelly Roland, Wayne was never mentioned, or covered by the ajc. It was all over MTV, VH1, national music trades and the radio station that put it on. if you are going to cover the music scene and Atlanta is the hip hop scene, like the Birthday Bash show, then you need to open your eyes to all forms of music.
June 20th, 2012
12:01 pm
Come on out to the Goat Farm on Saturday, June 23rd, for the Big Bang Ball. All local bands and performance artists from 5pm til 1am. Acts include: Blair Crimmins & the Hookers, Lera Lynn, Villain Family, Cute Boots, and Adron. Sadie Hawkins performs solo and with Flight of Swallows, and there will be life sized puppets and even championship wrestling. It's going to be a blast. http://www.bigbangball.com
June 20th, 2012
12:07 pm
Perhaps contacting the folks at PASTE magazine would be a big plus! They could work with the AJC too!!
June 20th, 2012
12:12 pm
Check out one of the best musicians in the Atlanta area.
June 20th, 2012
12:13 pm
Whoops – didn't mean to hit submit so soon. He wrote Ballad of the Gypsy King as an Ode to Hendrix. It is amazing. You can find it on the link below.
June 20th, 2012
12:31 pm
Have you considered Electronic drums for your apartment? I'm a mom to a budding drummer and would love your opinion of them!
June 20th, 2012
12:57 pm
Welcome! This sounds good. I would like to see better coverage, (reviews/photos), of the major music performances in Atlanta. I was saddened when I saw no real coverage of the recent ZZ Top show. That is just too big an act not to have coverage. To some of us, radio just does not exist any more; so, I am not too interested in that area.
June 20th, 2012
1:37 pm
@betty, electronic drums are perfect for an apartment. You just have to be careful not to turn the headphones up too loud and damage your hearing.
June 20th, 2012
1:39 pm
Welcome Melissa, I used to live in Richmond and remember your columns well. It would be nice like many others have mentioned to cover the alternative and "undiscovered" talent here in Atlanta. It would also be great if you covered many different varieties of music from rap to goth to pop to country and so forth. I for one look forward to seeing what you come up with. Also, a suggested monthly or weekly interview with an up and coming band/musician from the area would be great. I love hearing about what makes an artist tick and how their musical tastes influence their sound. Good luck!
June 20th, 2012
2:11 pm
The readers who are only interested in Top 40/CDs that they already own are already dedicated readers. If you want to bring in some new readers (young folks with disposable income – the target demographic of many advertisers) and create a blog that actually covers what is truly local – rather than just passing through – the focus of coverage will need to be shifted.
June 20th, 2012
2:12 pm
betty – depending on what style your kid wants to play electronic drums will either be perfect or they will work as a bandaid unti s/he can get a proper "real" kit.
June 20th, 2012
2:44 pm
It would be nice to hear about the smaller venues where local music can be heard – and not just the trendy places….
June 20th, 2012
2:57 pm
This is LONG overdue… There are some great local bands here and the loaf only covers it's "buddies".
June 20th, 2012
3:11 pm
Rodney IS a Ho lol. I mean, Hi Rodney………
Melissa, I can cover ANY show you can't get to. Just give me a call……..


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The editor of the Washington Post, Len Downie, sent a email to his newsroom Wednesday demanding shorter inch-counts. "Writers need to take responsibility for earning every inch of their stories," the memo says. The entire memo is reproduced by the Washingtonian website. Is this smart editing or is this yet another example of the written word aping other forms of media? If it's the latter, why bother? Why would people turn to a newspaper for short writing when they can more easily go elsewhere? Such as Yahoo's use of Reuters and AP in little nuggets of information. Aren't we writing ourselves out a of job? Shouldn't newspaper write longer in order to provide greater, more analytical, understanding?
And last question: Why do news organizations strive to be like their competitors? Shouldn't they be doing everything possible to not be like them? Have we ever heard of branding?
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Today you will enjoy a Horse Riding Excursion. Fortin Estancia is located about 20 km (12.4 mi) from Bariloche. It has 5,000 ha (12,355 acres) dedicated mainly to cattle breeding and the improvement of the sheep race. Its origins date back to 1883 when General Villegas ordered its building as the Chacabuco Fort during the wars against the natives living in Patagonia. Inside the lands belonging to the farm, the landscape is quite varied and it is possible to go horseback riding around there and watching the local fauna: deers, wild rabbits, foxes. Overnight in Bariloche.
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My daughter has a t-shirt that says "Daddy's Little Squirt" (like the one at left). I love it, I think it's funny. But the other day at the mall, another mom pulled me aside and told me how offensive it was and that I'm defiling my child, especially since she doesn't even know what it means. Well, I told her off, of course. She's my child and I'll dress her however I like. -- anonymous
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Would you let your child wear a shirt that says "Playground Pimp" or "Hung Like a 4 Year Old"? Toddlers don't know what these things mean -- are we disrespecting them? Does it bother you when you see other kids wearing them?
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honestly i think it really depends... I mean I dont think its offensive to people... it is your child... but i also dont think its the classy thing to do...if someone dresses there kid in a clown costume thats there business the kid cant dress themselves yet.
I personally don't understand how we can wear shirts that say things that we aren't allowed to say to someone. There are tshirts out there that say things that are so sexually degrading to women (and I am sure visa versa), that sexual harrassment charges could be brought against someone that actual verbalized them! My youngest sister works at a grocery store and I have been embarrassed by some of the things that she has seen on TSHIRTS!! Are we that hard up for a laugh!? That we will start pulling out sex jokes for the infants?? These are funny for adults, but unfortunately adults are the only ones that can read!
I don't understand the draw of turning your baby into a sex joke. Maybe they're funny things to say to your husband with whom you had the baby but to slap in on the front of your child is just tacky.
You dress your child the way you want but don't be surprised when they start talking and telling strangers they could have been a blowjob or my mommy likes to fuck. But you're probably fine with that too.
i agree with the poster above me. my ds had one that my FIL got him that said "i like the boobie" (for bf) and we only ever let him wear it at home. you should dress you kids in a the manner you want them to grow up, and if that includes t-shirts with crude sex jokes than i feel bad for your kid.
I think it really just matters what it says. There is a fine lime betweem just being funny and being to grown.
personally i hate these kinds of saying on kids clothing, or any clothing for that matter. but i would never pull a mother aside and tell her not to dress her kid a certain way.
the shirt is funny but no i wouldn't put it on my child!
My FIL had bought my youngest a onsie that said "Hung Like A 5 Year-old" We thought it was hilarious. He outgrew it quickly and hardly wore it, but we kept it. He also got him another one that said "Mini Pooper" (it looked like the symbol for Mini Cooper).
I think shirts like that all depend on you as the parent. We are not "strict" or "tight wads", we do have a sense of humor. I'd probably think twice about allowing my boys to wear shirts like that now (they are 4yo and 2yo), but as an infant it was quite funny.
I wouldnt put any type of shirts like that on my child. I find them to be funny, but inappropriate for her to wear. JMO =]


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One person was hospitalized and a student was evaluated after an accident involving a school bus and a car in Lawrence County on Friday afternoon.
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A Lawrence County man is facing charges after he allegedly pointed a gun at a snow plow driver who pushed some snow into his yard.
Woman Shot To Death While Leaving Work In Walmart Parking Lot
A woman was shot and killed while leaving work at the Walmart Supercenter in Union Township, Lawrence County.
Son Accused In Fatal Shooting Over Cell Phone Bill Headed To Trial
A Lawrence County man accused in connection with the shooting death of his father over a cell phone bill has been held for trial.
Former Volunteer Firefighter Arrested For Impersonating Officers
Police say a former volunteer firefighter was arrested after impersonating an officer and pulling over a couple.
Man Cares For Cat Found Burned, Nearly Dead
The cruel actions done to a cat has also brought out the goodness in others, as one man nurses it from the brink of death.
Cat Expected To Recover After Found Burned And Abused
In Lawrence County, police in Union Township are investigating after a cat was found emaciated and badly burned.
Police Say Man Found Dead Was Killed By Son
Police say a man was found shot and killed by his son in Uniontown early Thursday morning.
Purse Snatcher Arrested After High-Speed Chase
Police arrested a man accused of stealing purses at several area grocery stores. However, getting him into custody was not easy.
Neighbors Hold Would-Be Burglar At Gunpoint
A suspected burglar was arrested after neighbors held him at gunpoint in Fayette County.
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Problems are exactly what Verizon is trying to head off in the hot weather.
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If you've shopped at Walmart, it's more than likely someone has greeted you at the door with a smile.
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A 19-year-old man said he's sorry after allegedly stealing from a local Walmart, knocking over and injuring a worker and then leading police on a chase.
Suspect Runs Down Walmart Greeter With Cart, Leads Police On Chase
A man accused of stealing from a Walmart in Lawrence County and then leading police on a chase is now in custody.
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Demi Moore might look astonishingly good for her age, but the 46-year-old actress says it's all down to good genes.
Despite numerous stories that the Charlie's Angels star has had up to £200,000-worth of plastic surgery, Demi herself insists she's never been under the surgeon's knife.
'It's completely false - I've never had it done,' Demi told our sister publication, French Marie Claire.
However, that doesn't mean she's ruled it out for the future.
'I would never judge those who have,' she added.
'If it's the best thing for them, then I don't see a problem.
'On the other hand, I don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process, it's a way to combat your neurosis. The scalpel won't make you happy.
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It's official. The Cheesecake Factory is coming to Lawrence Township.
At the Township Planning Board meeting on Monday, the board unanimously approved a site plan application for construction of a new 8,916-square-foot building attached to Quaker Bridge Mall that will be occupied by the popular chain restaurant.
With room to accommodate 299 diners, the new Cheesecake Factory in Lawrence will also feature a bakery and bar.
Inn September a representative of the mall's owner, Indiana-based Simon Property Group, confirmed that negotiations were underway with Cheesecake Factory.
The new restaurant will be built along the west (Route 1) side of the mall adjacent to the mall entrance located between the Macy's and J.C. Penney department stores. It will stand on the side of the entrance opposite where the Lawrence Grill presently is located.
Sixty-four of the Cheesecake Factory's seats will be located in an outdoor patio area, planned to be open from March to October, weather permitting. The view from the patio area will be screened with evergreens 6 or 7 feet tall.
To accommodate the new restaurant, 87 parking spaces will be eliminated, some handicapped parking spaces relocated, a section of Inner Ring Road moved, new pedestrian crosswalks and landscaping installed, and other improvements made.
Construction of the new restaurant is expected to begin in January and be finished next October. During the same period, a major renovation of the rest of Quaker Bridge Mall will take place, according to Thomas Schneider, executive vice president of development for Simon Property Group.
"Seventy percent of the mall property will have new or re-located tenants" after the renovations, Schneider said while being questioned by Jonathan Epstein, an attorney from Drinker Biddle's Princeton area law office, which was hired to represent Simon Property Group before the planning board.
Schneider said the mall will get a thorough facelift. "There will be new ceilings, handrails, floor coverings, entrances and graphics. It'll be a whole new look. A lot of work will be done," he said, noting that the renovations will mean jobs for local tradesmen. The mall will also be made more energy-efficient, he added.
Construction of the new restaurant is part of a significant expansion of Quaker Bridge Mall – including multiple stores, restaurants and parking garages – that has been in the planning stages for several years, but which has experienced several setbacks due to the economic downturn.
"We have major tenants interested" in setting up shop in the mall, and having a restaurant like the Cheesecake Factory is "an important first step" in improving Quaker Bridge Mall, Schneider said.
Douglas Middleton, senior project manager at Cheesecake Factory, said his company has a very strong track record.
He said Cheesecake Factory, with 164 stores nationwide, has the highest average annual sales of any restaurant chain in the United States. Annual sales are over $1 billion, he said.
The new restaurant at Quaker Bridge Mall will have a 200-item menu and employ 250 to 300 people fulltime, he said. It will be open seven days a week for long hours, he added, and will look great, with granite and limestone floors, custom woodwork, light fixtures and other attractive design features.
Energy-efficient features of the restaurant will include insulated glass and a white roof, Schneider said. He said Cheesecake Factory also is investigating other energy-efficient techniques, such as possibly using solar energy to heat water.


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Star Trek: The Original Series.George Hosato Takei was born on April 20, 1937, in California. During his childhood, he and his family were sent to World War II internment camps for Japanese Americans. It was a miserable time, but at least George was too young to understand that and was content enough under the circumstances. It was there that young Takei's desire to act was born: the camp would screen Japanese movies for the internees, and there would be a single man off to the side of the projection screen providing an English dubbed voice for all the characters. Takei wanted to be that guy.Returning to Los Angeles after this, Takei and his family endured residual hatred for Japanese-Americans that lingered after World War II; they also moved into a primarily Latino neighborhood, where Takei picked up fluency in Spanish. He would go on to minor in Latino studies in college.In the 1960s he made appearances on shows like Mission: Impossible and The Twilight Zone. But it was his groundbreaking role as Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek that made him a cultural icon, as one of the first and only non-stereotypical Asian characters on mainstream American television. Reportedly every Asian-American actor wanted the role, since Sulu had no accent, didn't do martial arts, and was not a crude caricature (remember: this was more or less contemporary with the yellowface characters in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Charlie Chan).However, when Takei took some time off to appear in the John Wayne film, The Green Berets, prepared 2nd season Trek plots that would have featured Sulu were reworked to put the new character, Pavel Chekov, in that spotlight. That was initially a cause for some friction for Takei with the new castmember, Walter Koenig, but they soon settled their differences and became close friends as their characters became an iconic pair at the helm of the USS Enterprise.He would go on to portray Sulu in Star Trek: The Animated Series, in six subsequent Star Trek movies, and on Star Trek: Voyager. He also co-starred in an episode of the fan work Star Trek: New Voyages.After Star Trek, he ran for City Council in Los Angeles, losing by only about 1500 votes. However, his civic hopes were not in vain, as he would later be appointed to the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District.In the 2000s, Takei gained new fame by appearing regularly on The Howard Stern Show, giving birth to his own Memetic Mutation: "Ohhhhhh myyyyyy." He also appeared as Hiro's dad on Heroes and voiced animated Asian characters such as the Fa ancestor from Mulan, a Fire nation jailor in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Emperor Yoshiro, leader of the Empire of the Rising Sun in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, where he gave us this lovely bit of Memetic Mutation. He voiced Separatist general Lok Durd in an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, making him one of the first actors to have a role in both of the two largest "Star" franchises. He has played two mentorial roles in the Transformers franchise, first as Master Yoketron, Prowl's cyber-ninja mentor from Transformers Animated, and Optimus Prime's mentor, the archivist Alpha Trion in Transformers Prime. Oh, and he also voiced Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds himself, in The Super Hero Squad Show.In 2006, he officially came out of the closet as a gay man, although many of his friends and family had long known this. In 2008, he married his partner of twenty years, journalist Brad Altman. Takei continues to be an advocate for civil rights, gay rights and Asian-American issues. In 2012, he starred in the musical Allegiance, which deals with World War II internment of Japanese Americans. He has also protested the Race Lifting of Asian characters in Hollywood adaptations such as The Last Airbender and AKIRA.He has a huge Facebook following. By March 2012, his page had nearly 1.4 million followers. The page surpassed 5 million followers late in 2013. He has been a semi-cast member of the Stern show since the show's move to satellite in 2005, officially the show's announcer and sits in for week-long stints when he's in New York.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 6, 2008—"Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture" is a collection of "Newsweek" articles written by senior editor and columnist Jonathan Alter that chronicles the last quarter-century of American political history. The book has been published by Borders under its State Street Press imprint and will be sold exclusively at Borders and Waldenbooks stores and on Borders.com beginning Tuesday, Aug. 12. "Between the Lines" will be featured on front-of-store displays in Borders and Waldenbooks stores nationwide and promoted through an online marketing campaign, which will include a feature in the Borders "Shortlist"— the retailer's weekly e-mail for its Borders Rewards® loyalty program members that includes information from expert buyers on hot titles as well as discounts and special values. There are over 27 million Borders Rewards members.
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Alter is an award-winning columnist, television analyst and best-selling author of "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope." In addition to his duties at "Newsweek," he is also a contributing correspondent and analyst for NBC News, appearing regularly on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" and other network and MSNBC programs. A Chicago native and Harvard graduate, Alter lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Emily Lazar, and their three children.
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Achieving Empathy for Institutions with Anil Dash
IN BIG WEB SHOW № 115 on Mule Radio, I talk with Anil Dash, a hugely influential entrepreneur, blogger, and web geek living in NYC.
Things we discuss include:
How government, media, and tech shape the world, and how we can influence them in turn. Our first meeting at SXSW in 2002. How selling CMS systems teaches you the dysfunction at media companies and organizations. Working for the music industry at the dawn of Napster. RFP-EZ. The early days of blogging.
Designing websites for the government—the procurement problem. If we're pouring all this time into social media, what do we want to get out of it? How big institutions work and how to have an impact on them. Living in "Joe's Apartment."
Why, until recently, federal agencies that wanted a blog couldn't use WordPress or Tumblr and how the State Dept got on Tumblr. Achieving empathy for institutions. Being more thoughtful about what I share and who I amplify on social media. The launch of Thinkup, and a special offer exclusively for
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Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content
THIS MORNING Contents Magazine launched the beginning of something both good and important: a set of guidelines that could lead to a safer world for user-created content.
Contents believes (and I agree) that products and services which make a business of our stuff—the photos, posts, and comments that we share on their platforms—need to treat our content like it matters. Not like junk that can be flushed the moment a product or service gets acquired or goes under.
On the web, popularity waxes and wanes; beloved services come and go. AOL was once mighty. MySpace was unstoppable. Nobody expected Geocities, Delicious, or Gowalla to just disappear, taking our stories, photos, and memories with them. But that's what happens on the web. Tomorrow it could be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Flickr. We can continue to blindly trust these companies with our family histories, and continue to mourn when they disappear, taking our data with them. Or we can demand something better.
Contents and its small team of advisors have devised three simple rules customer-content-driven services and apps should follow to respect and protect our content:
- Treat our data like it matters. Keep it secure and protect our privacy, of course—but also maintain serious backups and respect our choice to delete any information we've contributed.
- No upload without download. Build in export capabilities from day one.
- If you close a system, support data rescue. Provide one financial quarter's notice between announcing the shutdown and destroying any user-contributed content, public or private, and offer data export during this period. And beyond that three months? Make user-contributed content available for media-cost purchase for one year after shutdown.
You may see this as a pipe dream. Why should a big, successful company like Facebook listen to us? But citizen movements have accomplished plenty in the past, from bringing web standards to our web browsers, to peacefully overthrowing unpopular governments.
I'm on board with the new Contents guidelines and I hope you will be, too. If enough of us raise enough of a sustained fuss over a sufficient period, things will change.
More at Special Report #1: Data Protection — Contents Magazine.
Filed under: "Digital Curation", Advocacy, Announcements, Applications, Best practices, Design, social networking, software, Standards, State of the Web
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This media life – and death
IN A GORGEOUSLY PACED ESSAY at n+1, "the magazine that believes history isn't over just yet," an amazing young (22?) writer named Alice Gregory reviews a novel by Gary Shteyngart while simultaneously describing her exhausted and shattered mental life as a Twitter- and Tumblr-following, iPhone-carrying, socializing-while-isolated Internet addict, i.e. modern young person:
This anxiety is about more than failing to keep up with a serialized source, though. It's also about the primitive pleasure of constant and arbitrary stimulation. That's why the Facebook newsfeed is no longer shown chronologically. Refresh Facebook ten times and the status updates rearrange themselves in nonsensical, anachronistic patterns. You don't refresh Facebook to follow a narrative, you refresh to register a change—not to read but to see.
And it's losing track of this distinction—between reading and seeing—that's so shameful. It's like being demoted from the category of thinking, caring human to a sort of rat that doesn't know why he needs to tap that button, just that he does.
Sometimes I can almost visualize parts of myself, the ones I'm most proud of, atrophying. I wish I had an app to monitor it! I notice that my thoughts are homeopathic, that they mirror content I wish I weren't reading. I catch myself performing hideous, futuristic gestures, like that "hilarious" moment three seconds into an intimate embrace in which I realize I'm literally rubbing my iPhone screen across his spine.
I urge you to read every word of n+1: Sad as Hell. Hat tip: New York designer Darren Hoyt.
Filed under: books, creativity, Culture, facebook, Ideas, iphone, social networking, writing
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Migrating from a conventional Facebook account to a public figure ("fan") page – a report from the trenches
BECAUSE FACEBOOK LIMITS USERS to 5,000 contacts, I had to migrate from a conventional user account to what used to be called a "fan" page and is now called an "Artist, Band or Public Figure" page. (Page, not account, notice.)
There's a page on Facebook called "Create a Page" that is supposed to seamlessly migrate from a conventional user account to a public figure (aka "fan") page.
The page says it will only migrate your connections—it will lose all your content, photos, apps, and so on—and Facebook means it. After migrating, all my stuff is gone. Years of photos, wall posts, blog posts, tweets, you name it. Even the "help" page link is gone once you've migrated, so you can't refer to any help documentation to find out where all your stuff went and if any of it can be saved.
Custom URL breaks on migration
Because of an idiocy in the database, you can't keep your existing custom URL, since, when you request it, Facebook tells you it is "taken." My Facebook page was "jzeldman," but that URL is "taken" by a fellow named "Jeffrey Zeldman," so I can't use it on my Jeffrey Zeldman page. So I had to change to a new URL ("JeffreyZeldman") and now all my admin links (for instance at facebook.com/happycog) are broken, as they point to the old user page instead of the new fan page. At the very least, Facebook should seamlessly redirect from facebook.com/jzeldman (my old URL) to facebook.com/JeffreyZeldman (the new one), but it does not.
So all my other social media sites that point to the old Facebook account need to be updated by hand, and any third-party links will now be broken because Facebook doesn't let you keep your custom URL during a migration.
Third-party apps disappear completely
Likewise, none of the third-party functionality (Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, RSS, and so on) has migrated from the user page to the fan page, and there is no information explaining how to reconnect these apps.
No reasonable app like the ones I've mentioned appears in the "apps" section of the sidebar on my new page. When I look for additional apps, I get treated to a bloated browse of crappy apps nobody on earth uses, whose creators probably made deals with Facebook in hopes that newbies would be persuaded to hook up these contraptions. You can find "PhotoMyButt" but not Flickr.
I, however, use Flickr.
So, since I can't find it in the big dull browse, I resort to Facebook's Apps' "Search" box. Typing Flickr in that box is exciting. Instead of being taken to the Flickr apps on Facebook, I'm treated to endless redirects courtesy of a broken PHP script that loops infinitely forever suffering like Christ on the cross world without end amen while never actually resolving. Each new partial page that loads for an instant before being replaced by the next is undesigned and unbranded and contains only the sentence fragment, "Please stand by, redirecting…"
The devil will see you now.
So much for content
My photos are gone. My existing writing is gone. Facebook does seem to be migrating human beings who were "friends" on my old page, but nothing else works.
Oh my God, I can't Admin my own page
I can't Admin my new Facebook page because the "Admin" is "jzeldman" (me at the old account, which Facebook deleted). Perhaps this is why it's impossible to post content, no apps work, etc. Nice.
Kids, don't try this at home
All these bugs are probably known to Facebook, and there are probably nice people at Facebook whose job is to execute known secret internal workarounds when helping an actual "celebrity" migrate his or her page. I'm just guessing of course, but it stands to reason that Ashton K or Lady Gaga, if they want a Facebook page, probably don't have to deal with all this frustrating brokenness. They have people for that.
But I don't. I'm a web guy. And web stuff should just work.
Filed under: Design, editorial, experience, facebook, findability, glamorous, industry, Information architecture, interface, Layout, Marketing, privacy, Products, Scripting, social networking, software, State of the Web, The Essentials, This never happens to Gruber, Usability, User Experience, UX, Web Design History, Websites, work, Working, Zeldman
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Own Your Data
Captured from Twitter, here is Tom Henrich's partial reconstruction of my conversation with Tantek Çelik, Glenda Bautista, Andy Rutledge and others on the merits of self-hosting social content and publishing to various sites rather than aggregating locally from external sources.
via Own Your Data / technophilia
Filed under: apps, Best practices, Community, content, Design, social networking, software, Standards, State of the Web, Tools, Usability, User Experience, UX
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Social Network Creep
If you're intrigued, as I am, by the trailer for David Fincher's upcoming The Social Network, and if part of what compels you about the trailer is the musical score—a choral version of Radiohead's "Creep"—you'll be happy to know you can purchase said song via emusic.com: On The Rocks is the album, "Creep" is the track, and Scala, a Belgian all-teenage-girl choir, are the artists. Highly recommended.
P.S. If emusic.com had an affiliate program, I'd have free music for life.
Filed under: downloads, facebook, film, links, love, music, social networking
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The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital
Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company's "women in tech—nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology" is our guest on today's episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted as always by Dan Benjamin, and taped in front of a live internet audience.
The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") is taped live in front of an internet audience every Thursday at 1:00 PM ET on live.5by5.tv. Edited episodes can be watched afterwards, often within hours of taping, via iTunes (audio feed | video feed) and the web.
Miss_rogue photo courtesy Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
Filed under: Big Web Show, business, Community, Culture, Marketing, Small Business, social networking, State of the Web
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Crowdsourcing Dickens
As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens's musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict Magwitch, et al.
Creative excellence and spin-worthy results required a pool of 10,000 people who had never read Great Expectations. Fortunately, I had access to 10,000 recent American college graduates, so that was no problem.
To add a dab of pseudoscience and appeal obliquely to the copyleft crowd, I remixed the new work's leading literary themes with the top 20 Google search queries, using an algorithm I found in the mens room at Penn Station.
The result was a work of pure modern genius, coming soon to an iPad near you. (Profits from the sale will be used to support Smashing Magazine's footer and sidebar elements.)
Gone was the fusty old title. Gone were the cobwebbed wedding cake and other dare I say emo images. It was goodbye to outdated characters like Joe the blacksmith and the beautiful Estella, farewell to the love story and the whole careful parallel between that thing and that other thing.
Gone too was the tired old indictment of the Victorian class system, and by implication of all economic and social systems that separate man from his brothers in Christ, yada yada. As more than one of my young test subjects volunteered in a follow-up survey, "Heard it."
In place of these obsolete narrative elements, the students and the prioritized Google searches created, or dare I say curated, a tale as fresh as today's algorithmically generated headlines.
The results are summarized in the table below.
|Old Great Expectations
|New Great Expectations
|On Christmas Eve, Pip, an orphan being raised by his sister, encounters the convict Magwitch on the marshes.
|The convict compels Pip to steal food from his sister's table, and a file from her husband the blacksmith's shop. Pip thereby shares the convict's guilt and sin—but his kindness warms the convict's heart.
|Guy on girl
|Pip's sister, Mrs. Joe, abuses him. Her husband loves Pip but is unable to protect him or offer him a future beyond blacksmithing.
|Girl on girl (multiple entries)
|Pip meets Miss Havisham, an old woman abandoned on her wedding day, who sits in her decrepit house, wearing a yellowing wedding gown, her only companion the beautiful and mysterious girl Estella. Pip falls in love with Estella, but Miss Havisham has trained the girl to break men's hearts.
|Guy on guy
|Pip visits Miss Havisham until his apprenticeship with Joe the blacksmith begins. Pip hates being a blacksmith and worries that Estella will see him as common.
|Two girls, one guy
|Mrs Joe suffers a heart attack that leaves her mute. A kind girl named Biddy comes to take care of Mrs Joe. After Mrs Joe's death, Biddy and Joe will marry. Meanwhile, Pip comes into an unexpected inheritance and moves to London, where he studies with a tutor and lives with his friend Herbert.
|Pip believes Miss Havisham is his benefactor and that she intends him to marry Estella, whom he still adores. Day by day, Estella grows more cruel. Pip never tells her of his love for her.
|One stormy night, Pip discovers that his benefactor is not Miss Havisham but the convict Magwitch. The news crushes Pip, but he dutifully allows Magwitch to live with him—worrying, all the while, because Magwitch is a wanted man who will be hanged if discovered.
|Miss Havisham repents having wasted her life and perverted Estella. She is caught in a fire. Pip heroically saves her but she later dies from her burns. Soon afterwards, Pip and Herbert try to help Magwitch escape, but Magwitch's old enemy Compeyson—who happens to be the man who abandoned Miss Havisham at the altar—betrays Magwitch to the authorities. Magwitch and Compeyson struggle. Compeyson dies and Magwitch is taken to prison.
|Pip now realizes that Magwitch is a decent man and tries to make Magwitch's last years happy ones. He also discovers that Magwitch is Estella's father. Magwitch dies in prison shortly before he was to be executed. Pip tells the dying Magwitch of his love for Estella.
|Pip becomes ill and is nursed back to health by Joe, whom Pip recognizes as a good man in spite of his lack of education and "class." Pip goes into business overseas with Herbert. Eventually he returns to England and visits Joe, who has married Biddy. They have a child named Pip. As the book ends, the middle-aged Pip makes one last visit to Miss Havisham's house, where he discovers an older and wiser Estella. There is the implication that Pip and Estella may finally be together.
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Chicago Deep Dish
For those who couldn't be there, and for those who were there and seek to savor the memories, here is An Event Apart Chicago, all wrapped up in a pretty bow:
- AEA Chicago – official photo set
- By John Morrison, subism studios llc. See also (and contribute to) An Event Apart Chicago 2009 Pool, a user group on Flickr.
- A Feed Apart Chicago
- Live tweeting from the show, captured forever and still being updated. Includes complete blow-by-blow from Whitney Hess.
- Luke W's Notes on the Show
- Smart note-taking by Luke Wroblewski, design lead for Yahoo!, frequent AEA speaker, and author of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Rosenfeld Media, 2008):
- Jeffrey Zeldman: A Site Redesign
- Jason Santa Maria: Thinking Small
- Kristina Halvorson: Content First
- Dan Brown: Concept Models -A Tool for Planning Websites
- Whitney Hess: DIY UX -Give Your Users an Upgrade
- Andy Clarke: Walls Come Tumbling Down
- Eric Meyer: JavaScript Will Save Us All (not captured)
- Aaron Gustafson: Using CSS3 Today with eCSStender (not captured)
- Simon Willison: Building Things Fast
- Luke Wroblewski: Web Form Design in Action (download slides)
- Dan Rubin: Designing Virtual Realism
- Dan Cederholm: Progressive Enrichment With CSS3 (not captured)
- Three years of An Event Apart Presentations
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The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a social media network, creative writing project, interactive game, and book series combined:
The Amanda Project is the story of Amanda Valentino, told through an interactive website and book series for readers aged 13 & up. On the website, readers are invited to become a part of the story as they help the main characters search for Amanda.
The writing-focused social media network is designed and written as if by characters from the Amanda novels, and encourages readers to enter the novel's world by joining the search for Amanda, following clues and reading passages that exist only online, and ultimately helping to shape the course of the Amanda narrative across eight novels. (The first Amanda novel—Invisible I, written by Melissa Kantor—comes out 22 September.)
The site developed over a year of intense creative collaboration between Happy Cog and Fourth Story Media, a book publisher and new media company spearheaded by publishing whiz Lisa Holton. Prior to starting Fourth Story, Lisa was was President, Scholastic Trade Publishing and Book Fairs; managed the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; and oversaw development of The 39 Clues. Before that she spent nearly a decade developing numerous bestselling, franchise-launching series at Disney.
Happy Cog's New York office developed this project. The team:
- Aaron Gustafson, front-end development (blog, articles, Twitter)
- Liz, Danzico, user experience (blog, MFA program, Twitter)
- Matthew Goldenberg, project management
- Whitney Hess, user experience (blog, Twitter)
- Erin Kissane, content strategy (articles, blog, Twitter)
- Kelly McCarthy, project manager
- Jason Santa Maria, design (website, Twitter)
- Jeffrey Zeldman, creative director
Equally vital to the project's success were Fourth Story's leaders and partners, including:
- Lorraine Shanley, Principal Advisor
- Ariel Aberg-Riger (website, Twitter), Creative Development & Marketing Manager
- JillEllyn Riley, Editorial Director
- Dale Robbins, Creative Director
- David Stack, Director, Digital Partnerships
- Melissa Kantor, Writer
- Peter Silsbee, Writer
- Polly Kanevsky, Art Director
- Sam Gerstenzang, Technology Consultant
Today's launch is not the end of our relationship with Fourth Story Media. The Amanda Project will continue to evolve, and Happy Cog will remain an active partner in its direction and growth. We thank our brilliant collaborators and congratulate them on today's milestone.
Read more
- Blissbat.net: The Amanda Project Wants You
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RACINE, WI (WTAQ) - A Racine teenager has been ordered to stand trial for allegedly stealing an anniversary ring from the hand of his dying mother, and selling it to help his pregnant girlfriend.
18-year-old Juan Ramirez waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Racine County Circuit Court. He's scheduled to enter pleas November 15th to charges of felony bail jumping, and stealing property directly from a person or a corpse.
Authorities said Ramirez took the $4,500 ring while his mother was in a medically-induced sleep on Monday. He claimed the ring did not sell for the amount it was worth.
Officials said Ramirez's mother gave her son an ultimatum – give back the ring, or move out. He said he didn't have it – so she called police and pressed charges.


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Medical Marijuana In Canada: Weeding Through the Risks and Opportunities
Marijuana in the Workplace
The Colorado Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in Coats v. Dish Network, LLC, 13SC394. The central issue in the case is whether the Colorado Lawful Activities Statute includes federal law. The Lawful Activities...more
As one of its final acts of the 2014 legislative session, the New York State Legislature passed the "Compassionate Care Act" making New York the twenty-third state to permit the use of medical marijuana. This new law will...more
Last week the Department of Health received legal challenges from nurseries Costa Farms and Plants of Ruskin Inc., and the Florida Medical Cannabis Association, to its proposed rule for selecting the nurseries that will...more
On May 29, 2014, Minnesota signed into law Minnesota's medical cannabis bill (SF No. 2470), which passed the House 89-to-40 and the Senate 46-to-16. The law establishes a registry program for Minnesota residents to legally...more
There can be no doubt that Americans' views on the legality of marijuana use for both medicinal and recreational purposes has shifted over the past few years. A recent survey conducted by Fextel, Inc. and StPetePolls.org...more
Between September 2014 and December 2014, the Illinois Department of Public Health will be accepting applications from patients and caregivers to become part of the Illinois Medical Cannabis Pilot Program ("Pilot Program"),...more
As a criminal defense attorney in Arizona, I am consistently meeting people who are downright distraught and confused to have been charged with DUI Drugs (sometimes referred to as "drugged driving") when the only drug they...more
New York's Compassionate Care Act, enacted on July 7, 2014, places New York in the company of 22 other states and the District of Columbia who permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Important for employers, the law...more
Cannabis industry hopefuls in Illinois are poised to begin the application process after the three state agencies administering Illinois' medical marijuana law released long-awaited metrics on Aug. 8....more
Client arrested for HS 11357(a) felony possession of concentrated cannibus. Los Angeles Sheriff deputies arrested our client despite finding him in possession of a valid physician's prescription. ...more
If voters pass Amendment 2 in November, the use of marijuana will be permitted for certain medical purposes. As a result, the Florida legislature and regulatory agencies will be charged with developing statutes and...more
On July 7, 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo publicly signed into law New York State's first marijuana legalization law—the Compassionate Care Act ("Act"). The Act (which was actually signed on July 5, 2014, after weeks of...more
Below is a summary of the changes made by the Florida Department of Health (DOH) to the draft rules to implement the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014 (SB 1030)....more
Minnesota recently became the 22nd state to legalize medical marijuana use and, as part of the new law, to enact new potential employment protections for registered users of medical marijuana. Minnesota's new marijuana law...more
Severely ill patients in New York State are celebrating Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature of a bill that legalized medical marijuana in New York for many severely ill patients[1]. As noted by Assembly Speaker Silver in his...more
On June 20, 2014, the New York state legislature approved a bill that would allow patients to use marijuana for limited medical therapeutic purposes. Governor Cuomo is expected to sign the bill into law. The bill will not...more
Subject to signature by Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York is set to become the twenty-third state to legalize medical marihuana. Importantly, the New York legislation is limited to non-smokable forms of marihuana. ...more
Fifty years ago when Title VII became law and 23 years ago when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, it would be inconceivable that someone would be blogging about accommodating employees by allowing them to smoke...more
The Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations that became effective on April 1, 2014, could substantially increase the number of Canadians who are using lawfully prescribed medical marijuana. As the number of prescribed...more
Florida Governor Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 1030 (the "Charlotte's Web" bill) into law on Monday, June 16, 2014 allowing for the limited use of a special strain of marijuana to treat epileptic seizures and other diseases....more
Subject to certain narrowly drawn exceptions, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act ("AMMA") prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals who are authorized to use medical marijuana. The principal exception to this...more
Numerous articles have been published about medical marijuana dispensaries. In fact, I read in an article last week that a bipartisan coalition of members of the House of Representatives recently voted to restrict the Drug...more
Environmental and Policy Focus: California is ahead of EPA on climate rules - Los Angeles Times - Jun 5:
In 2006, when California adopted AB 32, its landmark global warming law, it acted virtually alone. Now, the state...more
Florida governor Rick Scott has indicated he will sign a law legalizing a certain form of marijuana for medical use. As an Florida appeals attorney can explain, this represents a victory for proponents of medical marijuana...more
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1) History of legislative regime in Canada re: marijuana
2) Overview of Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR's)
3) How to become a licensed producer
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Sections Of Connecticut Hit With 2 Feet Of Snow
A major winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on much of Connecticut on Wednesday, shutting down schools and businesses and slowing travel to a crawl.
Snow Storm Causing Few Problems In New Jersey
New Jersey Turnpike Authority spokesman Joe Orlando said the Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway were both in good shape, in part because travelers heeded warnings and stayed off the roads overnight.
Residents Rally For Safer Streets & Intersections In Astoria
A rally was held on Saturday for more stops signs in Astoria, Queens to prevent accidents at dangerous intersections.
NYC To Start Recording Accidents Between Bikes, Pedestrians
Pedestrians hit and injured by bicycle riders – it's a statistic that no one kept. However, after CBS 2 exposed the gap in record-keeping, New York City is moving to fill in the blanks.
Queens Firefighters Told To Slow Down
For the next three months, rigs in Queens will obey regular traffic rules when heading to non-life threatening calls.
Power Back On For Thousands In N.J.
Jersey Central Power And Light said about 70,000 customers were affected by a sub-station failure in Colts Neck.


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Took my call about my symptoms. Met me at the local Emergency room and coordinated the local hospital ER and cardiac cath lab to open the blocked artery causing my heart attack. Kept my family informed and kept me calm. I had no heart damage because of his quick action.
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Extremely knowledgeable and patient orientated doctor
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Dr. Craig Vinch is an amazingly terrific doctor. He's one of the kindest, calm and helpful physicians I've ever met. He takes the time to get to know you and offers his expertise and advice in a way that the patient can best receive it. Recently I was in the ER and was extremely scared by information delivered by the head ER physician, who shared a potential challenging diagnosis, without adequate information. Dr. Vinch came in a few minutes later, completely calmed me down, told me I simply needed to have several more tests and that he would be back to see me later in the day. All turned out very well and I didn't have anything wrong. I will always remain so grateful to Dr. Vinch and consider him among the finest physicians I know.
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He's terrific! Great bedside manner. He's truly interested in you as a person and a patient. Really outstanding doctor.
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Dr Vinch is a fantastic doctor and person. He is calm, knowledgable and through. He takes the time to learn about you and your life. He and his staff are accomodating when necesary and always excessable. I feel very fortunate to be in such good hands! While searching for a new Primary Care Doc, he has stepped in and helped me with a number of health issues. A very caring person, I can't give him high enough praise.
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Weight loss challenge accepted
In the first week of a Pine River Community Education six-week weight loss challenge, the 14 challengers have shown promise.
In week one alone the group lost 44 pounds collectively.
The challenge, led by Kyle Wood and Luke Popham, discourages calorie counting and focuses on ratios and rules of thumb to keep it simple. This simplicity is designed to make it easier for participants.
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