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Review of the Hobbit Trilogy
(Language advisory for the video; apparently the first film made the reviewer extra grumpy.)
The above video shall serve as a review for the entire Hobbit trilogy. I saw part II last week and I was certain, perhaps in what felt like the fiftieth hour, that time had ceased and eternity begun. You know a movie based on The Hobbit is bad, when by the end you are rooting for Smaug to be unleashed on Peter Jackson and his merry band of let's-see-how-much-money-we-can-flog-out-of-this-dead- Hobbit! Ah, well, we will always have The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Continue reading
A Review of Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners
As faithful readers of this blog know, I am a film buff. I therefore was pleased when Dr. Peter Dans, a friend of mine and commenter on the blog, brought to my attention his book Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners. Peter is a medical doctor and a former professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Go here to learn about his professional activities. He is also a faithful Catholic, a skilled writer and an all around good guy. However, I am here to review the book and not to review the author!
Published in 2011 by Sheed & Ward, the book is a fairly comprehensive look at how film has portrayed Christians and Christianity from 1905-2008. The book proceeds chronologically with chapters devoted to films of the silent era, films of the forties, etc. The chapters open with a general overview of the film period being discussed and then a look at selected films. The films are not limited to those self-consciously religious, but also those in which religion is a major plot element. Thus the Oscar winning film Sergeant York (1941) is included because of its examination of the religious conflict that World War I hero Alvin C. York had to resolve before he could in good conscious fight for his country. Dr. Dans also looks at the impact of the films examined, for example in regard to Sergeant York he mentions that the film was denounced by the isolationist Senator Nye as propaganda to get America into World War II. Some of the facts that the author discusses were news to me. For example I have watched the film Song of Bernadette (1943) about Bernadette Soubirous and Lourdes but I was unaware that it was based on a book written by Franz Werfel, a Jew, who made a vow to write a book about Bernadette when he and wife were hidden from the Gestapo by nuns and families at Lourdes. In regard to Going My Way, 1944, Dr. Dans reveals that Pope Pius XII was so taken by the film that he granted a private audience to Bing Cosby and credited the film with helping to spur priestly vocations. I like it when a book gives me information that I was unaware of, and this book accomplished that task.
The book is not limited to films that have become well known. For example there is a section devoted to one of my favorite westerns, Stars in My Crown, 1950, in which Joel McCrea portrays a Union veteran who becomes a Protestant minister and his travails as he brings religion to a town and fights the Ku Klux Klan.
Twelve O'Clock High
Something for the weekend. The score from the movie Twelve O'clock High (1949). A film shorn of any Hollywood glamor or heroics, it tells the story of the fictional 918th bomb group as it pioneers daylight precision bombing in the early days of the Eighth Air Force in England and suffers harrowing losses as a result. Veterans of the Eighth Air Force applauded the film for its stark realism and its demonstration of the impact of war on the men called upon to fight it. Anyone who has not seen this masterpiece should do so as quickly as possible.
Here is the opening of the film:
Chipotle's Food War
Over the top and entertaining which is how I like commercials if I have to endure one. I like Mexican food but I have never liked Chipotle as the menu is too limited and their massive burritos leave me cold. Just as well, as those things weigh in, on average, at a 1000 calories, which makes their wholesomener than thou commercial hilarious. Yeah, we treat the animals we slaughter for your plate in a kinder and gentler fashion as we serve you their remains to make you obese!
I do appreciate however that Chipotle burritos can apparently double for plastic explosives in a pinch: Continue reading
Twisted Trailers
I love fake trailers that completely twist a movie and the above is a fine example of the genre:
Don't run away! This modern trailer recut for "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is just about the most awesome thing that happened on the Internet this week. Because, come on. It's not every day that someone goes and makes "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" seem like a high-budget medieval Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster. (Instead of, you know, just a bunch of guys running around Scotland with coconuts.) Kudos to Stefane Bouley for putting this gem together and for nearly resisting the temptation to include any humor.
Another example: Can the world survive Rambo, the Musical?
Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?
Something for the weekend. Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott by the Statler Brothers. A 1974 lament of how tawdry the movies had become, it fastened on Randolph Scott, king of B-movie westerns, as an icon for a better day when kids could be taken to the movies without parents being concerned about what they would be exposed to. I heard this song endlessly when it came out, my parents' radio blaring it most mornings in the kitchen in 74 in the hour before I and my brother got up to prepare for yet another day in high school.
Scott was born as far from the West as it was possible to be in Virginia and raised in North Carolina. His family had money so he was educated in private schools. During World War I he served as an artillery observer in France, a highly dangerous post. (After Pearl Harbor, the 43 year old Scott attempted to enlist as a Marine, but was rejected due to his bad back.)
After his service in World War I, he worked for a time with his father in the textile industry in North Carolina. In 1927 he moved to California to embark on an acting career with a letter of introduction from his father to Howard Hughes. The next few years saw him develop his acting skills with bit parts and small roles. In 1931 he had his first leading role in the film Women Men Marry. In the film Heritage of the Desert (1932) Scott played his first leading role in a Western, the first of ten films he would make based on Zane Grey novels.
Until the conclusion of World War II, Scott starred in a variety of film genres, but after the War he concentrated solely on Westerns. Scott was a modest man and always underestimated his considerable skill as an actor. He was comfortable in Westerns and decided to stick with them. It was an inspired choice. As he aged his handsome features took on a weathered, stoic look, and helped make him a Western icon.
Scott did not financially need to make films after the War. Shrewd land purchases in California helped make him a multi-millionaire, and he increasingly looked upon his acting as a hobby. By 1962 he was ready to retire, but he was convinced to make one last Western with his friend Joel McCrea. McCrea and Scott had much in common: both had become very wealthy through land purchases and neither needed to work in film, post World War II McCrea had gravitated to B Westerns, and both he and Scott were staunch Republicans.
The film that they made in 1962 is now regarded as a classic. Ride the High Country was the second film to be directed by Sam Pekinpah. It tells the tale of two former Old West lawmen who have fallen on hard times. Steve Judd, Joel McCrea, has been hired by a bank in the early years of the last century to bring back 20,000 in gold from a mining camp. Judd is elated because this is the first lawman like job that he has had in a very long time. He runs into his old friend Gil Westrum, Randolph Scott, who is making a meager living running a shooting gallery in a circus. Judd invites Westrum and his young friend Heck Longtree, Ron Starr, to join him in the job. They agree, Westrum and Longtree planning to steal the gold. As the film proceeds it becomes obvious that Judd still holds to the same code of honor and honesty that he upheld as a law man. Westrum does not, having grown bitter with age and viewing the gold as his reward for his courage as a lawman, a courage that was not rewarded monetarily and has left him facing a hard scrabble old age. Ultimately Judd realizes what Westrum is up to and disarms both him and Longtree, planning to put them on trial for attempted robbery. The plot is complicated by Elsa Knudsen, Mariette Hartley in her screen debut, who the trio rescue from a miner she has just married who plans to have her serve not only as his bride but also as the "bride" of his four brothers. Longtree grows to admire Judd for his courage and stubborn honesty while Westrum escapes, only to ride to the rescue at the end of the film to help Judd. Continue reading
The Caine Mutiny: A Review
(I originally posted this in 2009 when the blog readership was much smaller. The Caine Mutiny has always been one of my favorite films and I am taking the excuse of my vacation from the blog to repost this review.)
For my sins, perhaps, I have spent my career as an attorney. Over the past 31 years I've done a fair number of trials, both bench and jury, and I am always on the lookout for good depictions of trials in films, and one of the best is The Caine Mutiny. Based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk, who served in the Navy as an officer in the Pacific during World War II, the movie addresses the question of what should, and should not, be done in a military organization when the man at the top of the chain of command is no longer in his right mind.
The cast is top notch. Humphrey Bogart, an enlisted man in the Navy during WWI and a member of the Naval Reserve, he tried to enlist again in the Navy after Pearl Harbor but was turned down because of his age, gives the performance of his career as Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, the captain of the Caine. In the hands of a lesser actor Queeg could easily have become merely a two-dimensional madman. Bogart instead infuses Queeg with pathos and demonstrates to the audience that this is a good man who sadly is no longer responsible mentally for his actions. Van Johnson delivers his usual workmanlike job as Lieutenant Stephen Maryk, the "exec" of the Caine, a career officer who does his best to remain loyal to an obviously disturbed CO, while also attempting to protect the crew of the Caine from Queeg's increasingly erratic behavior. Robert Francis, as Ensign Willis Seward Keith, is the viewpoint character, too young and inexperienced to make his own judgment he relies on Maryk and Lieutenant Keefer. Fred MacMurray is slime incarnate as Lieutenant Thomas Keefer, a reservist who hates the Navy, spends all his time writing a novel, and eggs Maryk on to take command away from Queeg. Finally, in a typhoon, reluctantly and only, as he perceives it, to save the ship, Maryk, with the support of Keith, relieves Queeg from command.
In the ensuing court-martial of Maryk and Keith, lawyer Lieutenant Barney Greenwald, portrayed with panache by Jose Ferrer, reluctantly agrees to defend them.
What I admire most about the film is the realistic way that the defense is depicted. A legal case consists of the facts, the law and people. Continue reading
Killing Lori Softly?
Something for the weekend. Killing me Softly with His Song , written by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. Out of the musical wasteland that was the Seventies, this is one of the few songs that I enjoy. Sung by many artists, this version by Roberta Flack is the standard. The song had an interesting genesis if one believes one version of how it came about.
Don McLean, he of American Pie and Vincent, was singing and folk singer Lori Lieberman had an emotional reaction to his song Empty Chairs. She wrote a poem and the song was based on the poem. She sang the song in 1972 a year before Flack's version. Here is her version: Continue reading
Sharknado a Ratings Flop
Apparently it is possible to underestimate the taste of the American people:
The SyFy movie about flying sharks and bad weather was seen by just over 1 million people. It had a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic in early Nielsen numbers. That's not just a bust by cable standards. It's a bust by SyFy original movie standards. "Most Syfy originals have an average viewership of 1.5 million people, with some getting twice that," Claire Suddath reports.
The peculiar thing about this bust was that it was a social media blockbuster. There were more than 600,000 tweets sent about the movie between 8pm and 3am last night (fewer if you go by Nielsen's numbers), which is two tweets for every three people in America watching Sharknado. That's particularly strange since Syfy original movies have an average viewer age of 52, and fiftysomething guys are a bit off the key demo for Twitter. Continue reading
Europa Universalis the Musical!
When I am not in the law mines, attending to family matters or blogging, I can often be found playing grand strategic historical computer games. I have gotten quite a bit of enjoyment out of the Europa Universalis games put out by the Swedish game company Paradox, which allows you to lead virtually any country on the globe from the Fifteenth Century up to the Napoleonic period. Go here to download a demo of Europa Universalis III.
On April 1, 2013 those wild and crazy Swedes at Paradox released a video, above, detailing their plans for Europa Universalis the Musical! Ah, if twere only true. Nerd Heaven!
CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debating Christ
I look forward to seeing this play Freud's Last Session when I have an opportunity:
Toward the end of the play Freud's Last Session, a fictional conversation about the meaning of human life between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis concludes,"How mad, to think we could untangle the world's greatest mystery in one hour."Freud responds, "The only thing more mad is to not think of it at all." The combined sense of the limits to human knowledge and the unavoidability of the big questions is one of the many impressive features of this dramatic production, the remote origins of which are in a popular class of Dr. Armand Nicholi, professor of psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School. Nicholi penned a book, The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, which the playwright Mark St. Germain turned into an off-Broadway play, now in its second year in New York and just beginning a run in Chicago.
I had a chance recently to see the successful New York production, directed by Tyler Marchant and starring George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as Lewis. The play is not perfect; some of the dialogue is wooden, the result of the attempt to squeeze elements from the major works of the two authors into their conversation. Nicholi does a better job of this in his book, largely because he is free from the dialogue form. But the theatrical revival of the dialogue is what stands out in this production. In this case, the theater is an arena for the contest of ideas. There is a healthy reminder that philosophy itself has taken on various dramatic and literary forms; indeed, philosophy as a theater of debate hearkens back to the very founding of philosophy in the Platonic dialogue. Something of that original sense of philosophy as a live debate between interlocutors whose views and lives are at stake is operative in Freud's Last Session. Continue reading
King Kirby, Captain America and American History
A guest post by commenter Fabio Paolo Barbieri on one of the legendary comic book artists, Jack "King" Kirby, his greatest comic book creation, Captain America, and Kirby's trip through American history with the Captain:
With Captain America's Bicentennial Battles we at last reach a masterpiece within the meaning of the act. The Marvel Treasury Edition format in which it was published, though suffering from the same bad production values as the regular titles, tried for a more upmarket and collectable air: instead of slim pamphlets with floppy covers, padded out with cheapo ads, they had 80 large pages, no ads, and more durable hard(ish) covers. On the whole, it was an unhappy compromise without future, but Kirby, who had seen formats and production values decline throughout his career, grasped the opportunity of more elaborate work than the regular format allowed. (Artists of Kirby's generation are often heard commenting on the quality of paper and colouring available to today's cartoonists, even when they don't read the stories; bad printing had been such a fundamental reality to their period that improved paper stock and technology are the one thing that stands out when they see a new comic.)
That is not to say that it is flawless everywhere; few details of title, packaging and secondary material could be worse. That anyone could come up with such a title as Captain America's Bicentennial Battles would be incredible had it not happened; its clanging, flat verbosity belongs more to the kitsch of 1876 than of 1976 – "Doctor Helzheimer's Anti-Gas Pills". The pin-ups that pad out the awkwardly-sized story (77 pages), with Captain America in various pseudo-historical costumes, are positively infantile, the front cover is dull and the back one ridiculous. Nothing shows more absurdly the dichotomy between Kirby's mature, thoughtful, even philosophical genius and the bad habits of a lifetime at the lowest end of commercial publishing coming on top of a lower-end education; the nemesis, you might say, of uneducated self-made genius. The Kirby who did this sort of thing was the Kirby who filled otherwise good covers with verbose and boastful blurbs, who defaced the English language with "you matted masterpiece of murderous malignancy!" and the like, who cared nothing for precision and good taste – in short, the man whose lack of education lingered in his system all his life. Kirby went into his work with less inherited "baggage" than any other cartoonist, and was correspondingly radical and revolutionary, but he also had little share in common taste and standards.
Intolerant Jackwagons!
I know that the Marine Corps will be here forever; this administration won't.
Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey
One of my favorite character actors is R. Lee Ermey. A gunnery sergeant and drill instructor in the Marine Corps, he was honorably discharged from the Corps in 1972 as a result of injuries he sustained in two tours in Vietnam. Since that time he has built an acting career, playing off his DI personae and his flair for comedy. Recently he was a spokesman for Geico, but was fired for giving vent to his views about the current administration during a Toys for Tots program in Chicago last year.
After being asked about his GEICO commercial wherein he played a psychiatrist calling his patient a "jackwagon," Ermey said, "GEICO fired me because I had, I wasn't too kind about speaking with the, about the administration, so the present administration. So they fired me."
"So they fired you because of political reasons?" asked the TMZ representative.
"Yeah," Ermey answered. "If you're a conservative in this town, you better watch out."
Here is the program and a transcript of what he said.
I got to tell you, folks, we're having a big problem this year. The economy really sucks. Now I hate to point fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot to do with that. And the way I see it, they're not going to quit doing it until they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all rise up, and we should stop this administration from what they're doing, because they're destroying this country. They're driving us into bankruptcy so that they can impose socialism on us, and that's exactly what they're doing. And I'm sick and damn tired of it, and I know you are too. But I know the Marine Corps is going to be here forever – this administration won't. Semper Fi. God bless you all. Continue reading
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Review
The reviews of the film had been dismal, but I felt duty bound to watch it, and give the film a review. On July 3, having closed my law office for the afternoon, my family and I went to the movies. While the rest of my family, not sharing my duty to report on the film, joined the folks seeing Spider-man III, I strolled over to see the Great Emancipator dispatch vampires. The viewing was rather like a private showing. The audience in the vast theater consisted of me and one individual in the back. I found this aspect of the film quite pleasant. Alas that is the first and last positive aspect of this film that I can report. Intrepid souls who wish to can follow me into the bowels of ALVH below, the usual spoiler caveat being in force. Continue reading
The Game is Ever Afoot
Time to refresh my creds as Chief Geek of the blog. Season 2 of the series Sherlock is debuting in America on Mystery tonight on most PBS channels at 8:00 PM Central Time. The series is a grand bringing of Sherlock Holmes into the present century. It is wittily written, part send up of the original Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and part homage. The improbably named Benedict Cumberbatch is superb in the title role, playing Holmes as a genius as a detective and a moron in dealing with all of humanity, but for Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson, Martin Freeman, is a British medical officer, fresh from traumatic injuries due to his service in Afghanistan (yes, the more things change, often the more they stay the same), who blogs about Holmes' exploits as part of his therapy. I highly endorse the series for anyone who likes to either think or laugh.
Sherlock Holmes is a prime example of a literary creation that completely escapes from his creator. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle grew tired of Holmes and attempted to kill him off, only relenting to bringing him back after his "death" at the Reichenbach Falls due to unceasing demands from Holmes' devoted, if not crazed, fans. Doyle tended to look down his nose at Holmes: "If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one," he once wrote, which is a hoot since his other writings were the most forgettable drek imaginable. Doyle wrote the last of his Sherlock Holmes stories in 1926 and died in 1930. Since that time not a year has gone by without authors trying their hands at new Holmes stories, and placing Holmes in every setting imaginable including the distant future, outer space, fantasy realms, etc.
The continuing popularity of Holmes is something of a mystery, which is appropriate. It is hard to attribute it to simply love of mystery stories, since most mystery sleuths are dead as soon as their creators shuffle off this vale of tears. Perhaps it is because Holmes, through his powers of observation, can so simply and swiftly glean the truth. What an all important ability to possess! Alas the same could not be said for his creator, Sir Arthur. He deserted Catholicism for spiritualism (seances and that sort of rubbish) which is akin to feasting on a rich mud pie and then developing a fondness for eating actual mud. GK. Chesterton, who drew illustrations for an unpublished, during his lifetime, edition of the Holmes story, upon learning of Doyles' conversion had this memorable quip: It has long seemed to me that Sir Arthur's mentality is much more that of Watson than it is of Holmes. Continue reading
The High Chapparal
Something for the weekend. The theme song to my favorite television western of the Sixties, The High Chapparal. Broadcast on NBC from 1967-1971. Set in the Arizona territory in the 1870's the series was well acted by regulars Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Mark Slade, Linda Cristal and Henry Darrow. The scripts were literate with a more realistic feel than was common at the time. Here is a longer rendition of the theme song:
Crazy Mel
Back in 2011 I reported that Mel Gibson was working on a screenplay about the Maccabean revolt. Go here to read the post. I hoped that this movie would help Gibson work out the personal demons that afflict him. Alas, such is not the case. The project has been shelved, and the screenwriter of the play Joe Eszterhas has unloaded on Gibson in a nine page letter that may be read here. (Caution as to strong language.) Mel Gibson is the most prominent Catholic of his generation in Hollywood. His Passion of the Christ is a masterful film that inspired, and inspires, huge numbers of people around the globe. To see him destroy his life and reputation since then has been painful. Gibson needs our prayers and a swift kick in the hind end.
Update I: Hattip to commenter Chris P. Go here to read Gibson's response to the Eszterhas letter.
Update II: Go here to read Eszterhas' response to Gibson.


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"From wherever you stood, the opposing side offered respectable, credible views. In today's fractured culture the evening struck a blow for civility."
- The Huffington Post
November 29, 2010
As an American Muslim, I've come to recognize, sadly, that there is one common denominator defining those who've got their eyes trained on U.S. targets: MANY of them are Muslim—like the Somali-born teenager arrested Friday night for a reported plot to detonate a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, Oregon.
November 26, 2010
Since 9/11, al Qaeda has not succeeded in launching another terrorist spectacular in the United States. But it has succeeded in provoking a spectacular debate about aviation security. Several weeks ago—and even earlier at some airports—the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) initiated full-body scans and enhanced pat-downs, including inspections of private parts, that in some quarters are fueling outrage.
November 24, 2010
As Americans fly this Thanksgiving holiday, critics of new security measures are arriving at airports in kilts. Subsequent pat downs will be quite enhanced, indeed. Pre-flight screening has moved from safety to comedy. Before it devolves into tragedy, airline employees and government officials should start profiling terrorists. America must focus its finite capabilities on those who crave the destruction of planes and the people who ride them.
November 23, 2010
Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford-style debate series, an initiative of The Rosenkranz Foundation, hosted a debate last night on the motion, U.S. Airports Should Use Racial & Religious Profiling. Given the recent news of stepped up TSA security procedures at airports, the debate was well-timed and shed light on the complications around keeping America's skies safe. At the debate's conclusion, the side arguing in favor of using racial and religious profiling in airport screenings won the debate, though the crowd at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts was closely divided.
November 11, 2010
Four experts in the region and in international and military affairs considered whether the time was right to pull U.S. troops out of the war torn country. In the end, the team arguing against the motion moved more of the audience to their point of view, thus winning the debate.
September 18, 2010
Earlier this week, I debated General Michael Hayden (USAF, retired), former director of both the CIA and NSA, and Marc Thiessen, former Bush speechwriter and current columnist for the Washington Post, as part of the "Intelligence Squared" Debate series from New York. I was joined by Stephen Jones, an accomplished attorney best known for defending Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber.
September 15, 2010
Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford-style debate series, an initiative of The Rosenkranz Foundation, kicked off the fall season with a lively debate on how the United States should treat accused terrorists. The highly engaged and energized crowd in New York heard four experts debate the motion "Treat terrorists like enemy combatants, not criminals."
June 16, 2010
I attended the Intelligence Squared debate on Cyber Warfare on June 8, in Washington, DC. Those of you who read my blogs regularly know that I am an avid podcast listener (I have a one-hour commute each way to work). One of the podcasts in my regular rotation is the Intelligence Squared debates.
June 10, 2010
I mentioned back in April that I was going to be out of DC on June 8 -- but that if I had been around, I would have been sure to attend the Intelligence Squared debate at the Newseum on the motion that "The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated." Well, the results are in, and the "against the motion" side won big.
June 09, 2010
On Tuesday evening, a standing-room-only crowd at Washington, DC's Newseum heard four of the country's leading cyber experts discuss key issues related to the threats and challenges of the nation's cyber security as they debated the motion "The cyber war threat has been grossly exaggerated." The team arguing against the motion carried the day.
June 09, 2010
Resolved: The cyberwar threat has been grossly exaggerated. True or false?
That was the question put to four top security experts last night in a public debate at the Newseum here in the nation's capitol. The debate, which was organized by the Intelligence Squared U.S. Foundation and sponsored by Neustar, was designed to cut through the hype surrounding cyberwar and help determine how serious the threat might be.
June 08, 2010
Last night Intelligence Squared and Neustar conducted a fascinating, Oxford style debate on whether the threat of cyber war has been exaggerated. A packed house at the Newseum in Washington, DC heard four cyber heavyweights go toe-to-toe verbally both for and against the proposition that the threat has been exaggerated. The audience size was all the more impressive considering the competition on a very big night in DC—Stephen Strasberg was making his major league pitching debut, Conan O'Brien was in town and there was also a James Taylor/Carole King concert.
May 16, 2010
The story of Barack Obama's presidency to this point has mostly been written in domestic and economic policy. But he came to office promising to change American policy and rhetoric toward the rest of the world, especially America's historic adversaries in Asia and the Mideast. There is no disputing that he has done that, but at what costs, and to what ends? This month's Intelligence Squared U.S. debate was on the proposition "Obama's foreign policy spells America's decline."
May 11, 2010
Has Barack Obama strengthened or weakened the U.S. in the eyes of the world through his foreign policy of engagement? In a lively encounter sponsored by Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates and held at the Skirball Center at NYU last night, Dan Senor, a journalist and Fox News commentator, scored the most dramatic point of the evening when he challenged General Wesley Clark and French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy to name one prominent world leader with whom Obama has established a close personal connection as a sign of national loyalty.
May 11, 2010
The sold-out crowd in New York heard four experts, each with strong policy and intellectual credentials, debate the motion "Obama's Foreign Policy Spells America's Decline." Prior to the debate, 23% of the audience was in favor of the motion, 45 % were against it and 32% were undecided. When it was over, the side arguing against the motion carried the day with 34% of the audience supporting the motion, 58% rejecting it and a remaining 8% were undecided. The evening's winning team, which debated against the motion included Bernard-Henri Lévy, the influential French philosopher and writer and Wesley Clark, retired General of the United States Army and a 2004 Candidate for President.
April 13, 2010
... but if I were, I would be sure to go to this debate, by the US branch of the Intelligence Squared debate organization, on the proposition that "The cyber war threat has been grossly exaggerated."
April 11, 2010
Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford-style debate series, an initiative of The Rosenkranz Foundation, announced today that it would travel to Washington, D.C. to host its first ever debate outside of New York City. On June 8, IQ2US will present a special live debate from Washington D.C.'s Newseum. With corporate underwriting support from Neustar, Inc., the debate will consider the motion, "The cyber war threat has been grossly exaggerated."
February 12, 2010
Eleven minutes after Israel announced its independence in 1948, President Harry Truman recognized the new state, and American support has been crucial to -Israel's survival and a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy ever since.
February 10, 2010
What are we talking about when we're talking about America's special relationship with Israel? To listen to the panelists at Tuesday night's Intelligence Squared debate arguing for the proposition that "The U.S. should step back from its special relationship with Israel," we're talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
February 10, 2010
After the four person debate and a round of thoughtful questions from the audience, the final vote ended with one of the closest results in Intelligence Squared US's history. The team arguing in favor of the motion won the night with 49% of the audience voting for them. 47% were against the motion and only 4% remained undecided.
February 10, 2010
Roger Cohen won over New Yorkers by claiming: "Jihadi terrorism aimed at the United States is not primarily motivated perhaps by the Palestinian issue, but it is a major factor."
February 10, 2010
The Intelligence Squared debate series has a cool gimmick: at the beginning, audience members vote on the resolution via little keypads at each seat; at the end, they vote again; whichever side changed the most minds "wins." As last night's debate began, it was exciting to find that 25% of the crowd voted "undecided," meaning that many minds were open to persuasion as the four panelists debated the resolution, "The U.S. should step back from its special relationship with Israel."
December 08, 2009
Forty years ago, the United States government began a "war on drugs" whose cost so far is estimated at $1 trillion, and rising. In 2006, newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a crackdown on the drug-smuggling cartels—a "war on drugs" that really is a war, involving military troops and weapons and more than 10,000 dead so far. Americans buy drugs from the cartels and sell them guns, and Washington arguably provided the example for the Mexican government's hard-line tactics. So is America to blame for Mexico's drug war? That was the topic at last week's Intelligence Squared US debate at New York University.
December 03, 2009
The team in favor of the proposition, America is to Blame for Mexico's Drug War, scored an undisputed victory with 72% of the audience at the debate's conclusion siding with them.
October 18, 2009
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Only those who were in the room know what was said in the series of White House meetings about America's policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
October 18, 2009
Dick Cheney hadn't planned to speak, but others at the dinner in Manhattan noticed him growing a grimmer shade of grim. He was listening to Nicholas Burns, a former State Department official in Cheney's own Bush administration, wax eloquent about the virtue of diplomacy: how a new joint effort with France, Britain, Germany and even Russia and China could prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and terrorizing the Persian Gulf region and the world. In other words, President Barack Obama's position. The host asked if the former vice president wished to respond. Yes indeedy, he did.
May 14, 2009
We now know at least one reason former vice president Dick Cheney was taking the Acela up to New York on Monday morning: He was going to attend a debate on U.S. policy on Iran where his daughter Liz Cheney, former principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, was arguing for the proposition that "Diplomacy With Iran Is Going Nowhere."
May 11, 2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney swung quietly through New York City Tuesday night to watch his daughter, Elizabeth, a former State Department official, argue the conservative side in a debate over American policy toward Iran, and to express his own skepticism of President Obama's promised negotiations.
April 23, 2008
By the end of a spirited and high-level debate held here last week, many in the audience of about 400 dramatically shifted their opinions and agreed with the proposition that "Islam is dominated by radicals."
November 07, 2007
TUESDAY NIGHT MARKED the eleventh Intelligence Squared U.S. debate hosted at the Asia Society and Museum on Park Avenue. Generously endowed by the conservative philanthropist Robert Rosenkranz, IQ2US underwrites a series of intellectual exchanges modeled on the full-blooded forensic style of the Oxford Union, though given that the august society has lately invited speakers like Nick Griffin, head of the fascist British National Party, and David Irving, Holocaust denier in chief, one wonders if like so many other British traditions this one has better thrived by crossing the Atlantic.


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Squatters in Building at 315 N 12 Archived311 N 12th St Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA - CallowhillThis unsealed building continues to attract squatters and vandals. The PPD respond to a number of neighborhood 911 calls but can't seem to get the job done. These squatters fight among themselves, throw material out of the building and have started fires. The building's owner has taken no responsibilty.
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Well the best ones were made about 3~4 years ago, all of the higher models did, I have a TRV320, six years old and it would play Hi8mm. john
Of these older Sony Digital 8 camcorder models (DCR TRV730, TRV828, TRV830, TRV740, and TRV840), which is the most superior model in terms of picture quality and features? I am told that the 740 and 840 are the successors to the 730 and the 830, but that it is not necessarily a given that the later models would be better than the earlier ones-- true?
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That joke made me laugh.
They're a lunt hair away from change.
There's a town in Germany called Fucking. They think it's funny. So do I.
Change the town name to Locksucker.
You forgot Melvina.
Remember when AOL blocked all mention of the town of Scunthorpe?
if they were clever they would change the town name to "cunt" and the local "yobs" would change the "c" to an "l," thus solving the problem.
Why not just get the conservative politician drunk and wheel him down to a recruiting office to go die in Iraq?
That would solve it.
I love that joke. But, I've always told it with Paulina, Regina, and Lunt -- all streets I know. I've never heard of Carolina (or Melvina).
Indeed. Cunt comes from the Latin cunctus, meaning crack. (But my research on this vital matter in the past didn't tell me when it started being used this way.)
Is it for ye wolde have my queynte allone?
Wy, taak it al! lo, have it every deel!
Is it for ye wolde have my queynte allone?
Wy, taak it al! lo, have it every deel!
medina, regina and lunt
When I was living in Chicago, and whenever I was visiting the Heartland Cafe w/ friends, I always made sure I kicked Lunt. I like kicking Lunt.
Um, excuse me? This from a man named Dr. Ball?
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Winona Mae (Cooper) Hall, 90, died Nov. 17, 2013 at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Rock Port, Mo. The daughter of Herbert and Edith (Rosenbohm) Cooper, she was born Aug. 12, 1923, at home in rural Langdon, Mo. She was baptized, confirmed and married in St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Langdon.
Winona attended Langdon grade school and graduated from Rock Port High School in 1941. She then attended Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, Neb., for one semester. She returned to Rock Port and was employed at the Bank of Atchison County.
On June 17, 1945, she married Earle M. Hall. They made their home on the family farm 12 miles north of Rock Port. In 1969, they moved into Rock Port where she lived until 2011, when she became a resident of Pleasant View Nursing Home.
Winona and Earle celebrated 57 years together before his death in 2002. She was a full-time homemaker and farm wife. She loved working in her yard and flowers. As a couple, they were active with the Navigator Ministries. The highlight of their life was introducing Jesus to people and leading them through the scriptures. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in rural Westboro, Mo.
She was preceded by her husband, Earle; sister Mary Louise Meyerkorth; brothers-in-law Ben and John Hall; and nephew Benjamen Hall III.
She is survived by daughter Rebecca Herron and husband, Danny, Rock Port; grandsons Corey Herron and wife Kristi, Kelley Herron and wife Amy and Thomas Herron, all of Rock Port; granddaughter Cyndee Thompson and husband, Tomie, Hamburg; seven great grandchildren, Andrew, Austin and Adam Thompson, Hamburg, Emily, Nick and Joey Herron, and Phillip Herron, all of Rock Port; sisters-in-law Caroline (Hall) Kurtz, Forest City, Mo., and Donna Hall, Omaha; brother-in-law Arnold Meyerkorth, Rock Port; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services are at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at St. John's Lutheran Church, Westboro, Mo. Interment will be at High Creek Cemetery, Watson, Mo.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A gay advocacy organization has filed a federal lawsuit against Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford for refusing to allow city workers to hang Gay Pride Week banners.
The suit said Langford's actions violated the constitutional rights of Central Alabama Pride Inc., which sponsored the 20th annual Gay Pride Week in Birmingham in June.
The suit said the city has hung flags or banners in support of many diverse events in Birmingham, including City Stages music festival and the Magic City Classic football game.
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Jeez. First he's guilty, then he's not guilty. Then he's resigning, then he's not resigning. Can we replace that picture of Kerry in the dictionary next to "waffles" now?
"I am not gay. I have never been gay. I might be a little bit homosexual, but I am certainly not gay.
Especially not this week."
Hope he fights it. This sounds right to me:
Former House Democratic counsel Stan Brand, of the Brand Law Group, Craigs counsel for Ethics Committee issues, challenged the GOP leaderships request for a Senate investigation and asserted that the Ethics panel does not have the authority to look at Craigs conduct.
The Senate, in its history, has never asserted jurisdiction over purely personal conduct here, a misdemeanor that doesnt relate in any manner to performance of official duties, Brand said. In resolving his situation fully with the Senate before he leaves, wed like the committee to make that clear so he doesnt leave under any type of cloud.
What about Bill "she sucked me off in the oval office" Clinton? The gov't goes after private conduct all the time. Do we care or don't we, and could we please pick a policy before we waffle-iron ourselves to death?
Next thing you know he'll be walking down the street in a too-short skirt with no underwear and shaving his head and saying y'all. Attention whore. Enough already! Out with you! On all levels!
The reason we have a Democratic party is to serve the interests of Larry Craig, and anybody, anywhere, who is oppressed by those who would use their power and privilege for personal gain.
The Republican attack on Mr. Craig is pure partisanship, plain and simple. They're going after this man not on any defensible principle, but because it serves their anti-gay political agenda.
Most boring political story of the year so far.
He can pull off the "I'm not gay..." defense if he simply adds on to the end "...I have a scat fetish!". After all, the GOP is fine with Baby Man Vitter, they certainly can accept a straight shit lover.
My only hope is that this story can stay in the news cycle long enough to distract us from the September report on Iraq.
If Craig goes in and out again and again (of the closet, the Senate), we may just forget all about General Petraeus and the clusterfuck we've wrought long enough to sustain another few years of the 'surge'.
Not sure if you saw this already. It's a heart-wrenching and very eloquent op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel from an 18 year old gay kid. Well worth the read.
Why would anyone want him to represent their state in the Senate? The man can't make a damn decision!!
it's ridiculous that he'd have to resign over this scandal. sure, he's a hypocritical jerk, but when has that ever kept someone out of elected office?
It would be a crime if Larry resigned over this. He is 100% Str8!!
Stay, Larry. Take Arlen's advice and keep on tickin after you got a licken!
Fabulous!!! I'm making popcorn...
It's a little late now, but it occurs to me he could have made the excuse that he thought he was trolling in the women's restroom, but went through the wrong door.
should have just said he was tapping his foot to the music on his iPod
If he stays, there will be hearings--the Republicans have already said there would be--and that means all past allegations get voiced, and all the whispered secrets get investigated. And I doubt any Republican wants that going on as the election moves toward full tilt.
It's going to be messy. The Republicans want this to go away in the worst way. Wonder what they'll do next.
I want him to stay; if he remains in office, he or whoever runs on the Republican ticket will likely be defeated in the next election by a Democrat. If he leaves now, the Republican govenor appoints a successor who then gets to run as an incumbent - a much stronger opinion.
Remember, his words were an "intent to resign" on September 30. That was how he phrased it at the time. He didn't say "I resign".
He's a lying twat! How can anyone trust a word that comes out of his "I might be a little bit homosexual" mouth? Piss off, I'm bored!
How quickly we forget. When it was suggested that Bill Clinton must resign for his prickadillo, we all shouted: "No - it was only a b.j. Stay, Bill! Don't let those sanctimonious Republican assholes force you out." Now - despite the fact that Craig is equally duplicitous and hypocritical - why should he resign for not actually having done anything? He has expressed some remorse. Would you like him to stick his head in the oven? A little bit of gay rehab, and he'll be senatorial as new. Now, if we hear of Petraeus going down on a Marine, it'll be a whole new ball game. Surge, what surge?
Shrewd old guy - wants a better deal to go away.
Cushy something to help in his forced retirement- shall we chant - off shore bank accounts.
Plus, despite all, and he is truly fucked up, I don't think he is used to taking shit. And certainly not a classic wimpy quitter ... in the audio he is really taking back to the sting ray from the vice squad.
He has been KING of Idaho politics for many years, maybe he likes it.
Over thirty percent if Idaho voters think he was set up. Why should they trust big city cops - of course - why should any of us trust big city vice cops ??? Good question and we all know the answer. We shouldn't.
Tap, tap back. Classic entrapment. Sen. Arlen Specter of PA, former prosecuter says fight, no case at all.
I have been having great fantasies about how well hung the cute studly cop is and just what he might do in a bed room, some wine, weed, and a horny three way ... oh, yah.
This saga is far from boring ... and might just have a thousand more legs.
I just wish his politics were not so wretched, god what a parody of the far, far right. Simply horrible.
Boy did this brighten my morning! This is just the gift that keeps on giving....
I don't think anyone, anywhere, even his kids, actually believe he's not gay. But he shouldn't resign if he doesn't want to. If the GOP is going to start asking for resignations for shit like this they had better call Vitter and Allen too.
But I'd rather him stay around and try to get re-elected.
I like the idea of him staying. It just gives more fodder to attack the GOP with. And besides, in the end it is up to the voters of Idaho to kick his ass out of office.
Minneapolis is a "big city"?
uh, yeah, Minneapolis-St Paul is the 16th largest metro area in the US...it IS a big city with drugs, and crime, and porn, and running water and even electricity...
All the comments comparing this to the Lewinsky scandal are missing the point about why Dan loves these stories to begin with.
Clinton didn't go around ranting about how bjs were the from the devil and trying to get a constitutional amendment banning them. IT'S THE HYPOCRISY of the "family values" types that makes it noteworthy.
I don't think he should have to resign but does it surprise anyone that the Republicans do? They've been making people's private lives their business for a while now.
He's not gay, he just likes to blow strange men in airport toilets. Geez, don't all straight guys do that?
Give me a freaking break. Who cares whether the fool is gay or not - the fact remains he's a repulsive, self-loathing hypocritical lying asshole.
But I want him to finish out his term, so Governor "I'm So Butch" Otter doesn't get to appoint a somewhat-to-the-right-of-Attila-the-Hun flaming theocratic loon to the seat.
I agree with Suz @ 10. If he had stayed and fought in the first place, he could have at least given the illusion of strength, or whatever. But now, he's just shown himself to be totally wishy-washy -- why would anyone support him now, if he can't even stick to one consistent position over the course of a week?
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Whole Foods Mediterranean Tuna Salad
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
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This is superb! I could eat buckets of this! There are no Whole Foods near us, so I searched the Web and found the recipe on the Whole Food Web Site. Culinary homesickness is not a nice thing. Cook time is chill time.
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- 4 (6 ounce) cans chunk light tuna, drained well
- 14 ounces artichoke hearts, drained and coarsely chopped
- 1⁄2 cup chopped red pepper
- 3⁄4 cup Greek olive, coarsely chopped
- 1⁄2 small red onion, minced
- 1⁄4 cup Italian parsley, minced
- 1⁄4 cup basil, minced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced (1 teaspoon)
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano or 1 tablespoon fresh oregano
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- fresh ground black pepper
- In a large bowl, combine the tuna, artichoke hearts, red pepper, olives, onion, parsley, basil, garlic, oregano, mayonnaise, lemon juice, and pepper. Mix all the ingredients together well. Serve on bread, on top of a green salad or in lettuce cups.
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There is so much about this recipe that I love. All the flavors are spot on. What stoppped me from giving this five stars, is the chunk light tuna called for. I used very high quality tuna, but found the texture to be rather "mushy", which only increased after it marinated awhile. Because we liked the flavors so much, I next tried it with white tuna. This time the texture was more appealing, but the flavor wasn't as good. Well, the third times the charm. This time I made it as written but subbed canned salmon for the tuna. Fantastic. With the salmon, this is a five star recipe.
what drew me to this recipe was the fact that it is a wholefoods recipe so i tried it and glad i did. excellent taste. not sure what the other reviewer meant by it not being vegetarian; unless mayo isnt considered vegetarian but that could easily be subbed with soy mayo. a delicious tuna salad that was easy to make and this will be how i make my tuna salad from now on. thanks for sharing this recipe!
This is a great tuna recipe. If you like what's in the ingredients, then you'll like this salad. I served it on a bed of spinach and garnished with tomatoes and cucumbers. I think this would be a good luncheon or tea party type of dish. Thank you so much for posting! I will be making it often (I'm a little obsessed now).


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Players take the role of a Titan, moving through the constantly changing terrain of the Land with Legions of Ogres, Gargoyles and other monsters of myth and legend. Players move their Legions along specific pathways recruiting creatures to their side and using those Legions to battle their opponents. Battles then take place on separate terrain maps where only the strongest survive!
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I have a pc with two printers, one hp that I use to print A4 sheet and a Zebra GK420t. Users use Zebra to print labels from a web application. The problem is that internet explorer (version 7 but I have already tried with more recent versions and nothing has changed), doesn't keep zebra settings but it loses them every time I set hp as default printer. If I look at zebra printer settings from printers and faxes, settings are right (4 inches width and 3 inches height) but if I take a look at printer preferences from printer popup that appears before print labels, they change everytime and become 4.09 x 11.69 inches. If I leave zebra as default printer everything works fine. I have the same problem also with other A4 printers (Samsung for example) and the behaviour is the same. O.S. is windows xp pro sp3.
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Come See the Loftier Side of Sears
By most accounts, the abandoned Sears buildings in South Minneapolis constitute a headache of mammoth proportions. The sprawling complex at Lake Street and Chicago Avenue is too big to ignore; geography, history, and demographics, on the other hand, make it a difficult candidate for redevelopment. The last developer to take a crack at Sears gave up after two years without even getting a plan beyond trial-balloon status.
Enter Ray Harris, preceded by a reputation for taking a hard-nosed approach to challenging, one-of-a-kind projects others won't touch. The Minneapolis native, for instance, built high-end townhomes next to Loring Park when the neighborhood was considered a downscale dump. His highest-profile gambit transformed a vacant public school at Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street into Calhoun Square, which in turn spurred the gentrification of the surrounding area.
Now Harris says he has a plan to turn around the Sears site, and in doing so keep everyone happy: budget-minded city officials, preservationists who want to keep the more historic parts of the complex intact, area stores that want to draw more customers to the neighborhood, neighbors who want a uniquely urban project instead of a strip mall. Difficult? Sure, he says, but then so is everything he does. "Those of us who do this are a rare breed," says Harris. "If we had listened to everybody, we would never had done any of the projects we've done before."
In truth, though, Harris has had a harder time getting things done during the last 10 years than he suggests. His biggest claim to fame in the last decade, for instance, is his failure to redevelop Block E in downtown Minneapolis--an endeavor he started in 1986 and abandoned in 1991 after financing fell through. Less publicized are Harris's efforts to rehab the modest Plymouth Penn strip center in North Minneapolis in 1991, which fizzled a year later. And then there's the Harris project that did get built, but later turned sour: In 1994, Harris defaulted on a personally guaranteed $1.7 million mortgage for a Nicollet Avenue strip mall he built. He was forced to eventually hand the project back to Ohio National Life Insurance Co.
In fairness to Harris, he isn't the only developer to struggle with tough projects. The city of Minneapolis has been soliciting proposals for Block E since 1994 but has yet to approve a plan; the Plymouth Penn center is still trying to land a grocery store, an amenity that's been at the top of the neighborhood's wish list for more than five years. And builders who had to relinquish ownership of their property to lenders during the real estate slump of the early 1990s are the rule, not the exception.
Still, it's worth asking why Harris, age 68, would be gearing up for an immensely complicated project that's guaranteed to be exhausting, at the very least. Some observers suggest that Sears is his last chance to cap his career with a show-stopping, told-you-so project.
Harris insists his interest in Sears is fueled by economics, not ego. "I'm not trying to impress anybody at all," he bristles, but in the next breath makes it clear that redeveloping the 18-acre site means more than the chance to collect rent checks. A successful project should help revive a moribund stretch of Lake Street, he argues, which in turn can boost the city as a whole. "Nothing else is going to bring more jobs, and revive the area and decrease crime," Harris says. "There isn't anything that's more important than that."
The size of the Sears properties alone gives Harris's claims some credence. Taken together, the buildings total nearly 2 million square feet--bigger than any Twin Cities skyscraper. "To do a building like Sears, it's almost like a neighborhood," says Caren Dewar, a Minneapolis consultant who's surveyed the property.
Built in 1928, Sears comprised the hub of a major shopping district up through the 1960s, when it began to trail off like other inner-city stores competing with highways and suburbs. By the early 1980s, Minneapolis officials were already trying to solicit proposals to redevelop the area; in 1989, Canadian developers proposed and later abandoned an $80 million renovation. In 1992, Sears opened a major new store at the Mall of America; two years later, it shuttered the Lake Street building.
What Sears left behind--the retailer still owns the property, last offered for $5 million--is a collection of real estate that's alternately attractive and repellent to potential developers. Some of the land itself is valuable--neighboring Abbott Northwestern Hospital, for instance, needs more parking space--and parts of the complex can be used as is. Minnesota Diversified Industries, a nonprofit that employs disabled and disadvantaged workers, already rents much of the warehouse space and recently signed a five-year lease.
The original store itself is another matter. Real estate experts say the space is too idiosyncratic to simply fill with a single user, but figuring out exactly who could use the building calls for creative thinking: Most of the the ceilings are too high to accommodate traditional offices, for instance, but too low for most warehouse operations. And the asbestos-ridden building simply needs work. One estimate provided to the Minneapolis Community Development Agency (MCDA) calculated it would cost $16 million to bring the building up to speed.
Patrick Daly, the Chicago developer who held an option on the property up through 1996, said from the start that rehabilitating the original Sears building would be impractical, and planned on demolishing it to make way for a strip mall. Daly's plan drew lukewarm approval at best, and was eventually quashed when city officials said it required at least $8 million more in public subsidy than they were willing to pay.
Now Harris says he and partners Barry Bosold and David Jasper, who run two business incubators near the University of Minnesota, think they can redevelop the entire site, 1928 building and all. Harris hasn't outlined his specific plans but suggests they'll include a smattering of well, nearly everything: shops, office space, a jobs center for the neighborhood, parking for the hospital, perhaps even housing. The plan is premised on buying the complex cheap enough so Harris can offer below-market rents; the MDI lease will provide the partners with a steady, if modest, amount of cash to keep the building operating. And, Harris says, he'll need a considerable--but so far unspecified--amount of public aid.
So far the ambiguity of Harris's plan works to its advantage. There's nothing for neighborhood groups to find fault with, no subsidy requests for government agencies to turn down. "The preservationists are happy because the building is going to be saved, the people who want something to be done now are happy, the businesspeople are happy because it's one of their own," says R. Scott Hawkins, executive director of the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association. "You don't really have a segment that's unhappy. Everything is doable."
And past disappointments aside, locals say they're happy Harris is taking a run at the building. Harris is a known commodity--he has been a fixture at neighborhood group meetings during the last two years--and many say they hope he can repeat his work at Calhoun Square.
"He did Calhoun Square, but he made Uptown," Hawkins says. "If he does the Sears building, which is way bigger, it will boost the intensity of the surrounding area."
That's long-term, at best. In the near-term, Harris and his partners say they need to buy the complex from Sears by the end of 1997. And in order to do that, they'll need a dizzying array of commitments: from tenants, from private lenders, from public agencies. Simply lining up the latter will be difficult enough; a preliminary wish list Harris hashed out with MCDA staff includes 38 budget items, but so far only one has a price tag, making it impossible to assess how much the whole project will cost.
And Harris already has plenty of demands on his time. He has commercial-consulting contracts with a number of Minneapolis neighborhood groups, and he's also working with St. Paul officials on devising a plan to bring new housing developments downtown. Simply overseeing Calhoun Square will keep him busy: Harris seems to be constantly trying to figure out how to fill up the anemic second floor of the mall and how to create more parking for the center. In addition, Harris will be trying to refinance about $8 million in city-issued revenue bonds at the end of the year.
Harris says he'll make the time to pull Sears off. He's optimistic, he says, in part because of the response from city, business, and neighborhood representatives: "I think there is a recognition at all levels that this has to happen." But observers like Dewar caution against committing to a proposal simply in order to get something done. With a project the scope of Sears, she says, it's important to move prudently. "I think one of the things you get with underserved neighborhoods is this attitude that something is better than nothing," she says. "You have to guard against that."
Point taken, says City Council member Brian Herron, whose 8th ward includes the Sears site. "It doesn't make any sense to just jump on the bandwagon, and then it ends up vacant again," he says. "We should be choosy."
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37 CFR 1.292 - Public use proceedings.
(a) When a petition for the institution of public use proceedings, supported by affidavits or declarations is found, on reference to the examiner, to make a prima facie showing that the invention claimed in an application believed to be on file had been in public use or on sale more than one year before the filing of the application, a hearing may be had before the Director to determine whether a public use proceeding should be instituted. If instituted, the Director may designate an appropriate official to conduct the public use proceeding, including the setting of times for taking testimony, which shall be taken as provided by part 41, subpart D, of this title. The petitioner will be heard in the proceedings but after decision therein will not be heard further in the prosecution of the application for patent.
(b) The petition and accompanying papers, or a notice that such a petition has been filed, shall be entered in the application file if:
(1) The petition is accompanied by the fee set forth in § 1.17(j);
(2) The petition is served on the applicant in accordance with § 1.248, or filed with the Office in duplicate in the event service is not possible; and
(3) The petition is submitted prior to the date the application was published or the mailing of a notice of allowance under § 1.311, whichever occurs first.
(c) A petition for institution of public use proceedings shall not be filed by a party to an interference as to an application involved in the interference. Public use and on sale issues in an interference shall be raised by a motion under § 41.121(a)(1) of this title.
[42 FR 5595, Jan. 28, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 48454, Dec. 12, 1984; 61 FR 42807, Aug. 19, 1996; 65 FR 57060, Sept. 20, 2000; 69 FR 50000, Aug. 12, 2004]
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