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Experiencing Corrections: From Practitioner to Professor
Publication Year: 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452243948
Subject: Corrections/Penology (general)
Written by scholars who have practical experience in corrections, the readable essays in this one-of-a-kind collection draw on real-world experiences to illustrate theoretical and methodological concepts and demonstrate approaches to corrections practice. Spanning the three general types of correctional environments—incarceration, community corrections, and juvenile corrections—the essays discuss working in prisons or prison systems, juvenile residential and community corrections, and probation and parole.
- Chapters
- Front Matter
- Back Matter
- Subject Index
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Connecting Academics and Practice in Corrections
- Chapter 2: Looking Back: Reflections of a Probation and Parole Officer
- Chapter 3: Presentence Officers as Beasts of Burden: Coping with Drug Mule Cases in an Age of Punitive Sentencing
- Chapter 4: Experiencing the ISP Movement: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Chapter 5: Patient Evaluations R Us: The Dynamics of Power Relations in a Forensic Psychiatric Facility from the Bottom up
- Chapter 6: Re-Discovering Possibility: Humanistic Psychology and Offender Treatment
- Chapter 7: Administrative Work in Institutional Corrections
- Chapter 8: The Experiences of an Outsider Spending Time inside
- Chapter 9: Learning Corrections: Linking Experience and Research
- Chapter 10: Corrections: Experiences in State Parole
- Chapter 11: An Attempt to Change Disproportionate Minority Contact by Working in Youth Corrections
- Chapter 12: Helping Residential Youth Pursue Their Interests: Good for Youth and the Youth Worker
- Chapter 13: Experiencing the Parallels between Juvenile and Adult Community Corrections
- Chapter 14: Working with Minority Youth in Residential Treatment
- Chapter 15: Working in Corrections and Teaching about the Field: A Short-Term Insider's Perspective
- Chapter 16: Experiencing the Criminal Justice System: Lessons for Later Criminological Understanding
- Chapter 17: Conclusion: A Review of the Essays
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Experiencing corrections: From practitioner to professor / edited by Lee Michael Johnson.
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Preface[Page xiii]
This book is a collection of essays written by professors with practical experience in corrections. It was written to help bridge the gap between academia and practice. Its main purpose is to support teaching and learning activities that integrate vicarious and experiential learning in corrections. Few outlets are offered to social scientists desiring to publish scholarly works using their personal experiences. This is unfortunate given that personal employment experiences of scholars constitute a valuable resource for making concrete connections between academics and practice. Directly experiencing "each world" increases the scholar's ability to identify these connections. Creating this book served as an opportunity for professors to conduct scholarly analyses using personal experiences and to counter the impression that academic scholars are "out of touch" with the real world. It is offered to help readers develop their abilities to connect scholarship and practice and, by doing so, increase their power to improve practice and make corrections work more rewarding.
Getting students to make meaningful connections between course work and "the real world" is important to most teachers, but finding materials that help students make these connections can be difficult. As most students understand, applying academics and practice to one another is a complicated task; the connections are often not readily apparent. Like other important abilities that students are expected to acquire, such as writing and data analysis skills, conceptualizing connections between academics and practice is an ability that teachers must develop in students. One method frequently used by instructors is drawing from past experiences to help explain lecture material, which is attractive because the concreteness and familiarity of personal examples make concepts clearer to students. This book employs [Page xiv]the same general strategy but in a more involved and structured way; it gives readers written detailed descriptions that they can carefully analyze.
This book is intended primarily for adoption in college level general corrections courses. Since the essays are narratives written in first person, the book is highly "readable"—comprehendible at all college levels. It is complementary to a number of corrections books, including most introductory texts. The book is useful for students in criminology and criminal justice and social work programs, especially those aspiring to work in a corrections field, along with current practitioners. Because authors demonstrate how to connect academics with practice, the book could also be used in internship, practicum, and some social work courses. Also, while the essays are elegantly written, they are the personal reflections of accomplished scholars and thus contain insights appropriate for advanced study. On the graduate level, the book would work well alone or with another book in courses on correctional treatment and counseling, professional applications, and special topics. Finally, the essays contain useful and citable information, such as anecdotal evidence, that may be of interest to other scholars and current practitioners.
This book has unique features intended to make it an important contribution to criminal justice literature. Few books focus on the use of personal experience in studying and teaching corrections. This book reviews academic and practice knowledge garnered by individuals who have been correctional practitioners and are now academic scholars. The essays contain authors' valuable and insightful reflections on their efforts to achieve important objectives while they were employed in the field. Authors use their real world experiences to explain and illustrate theoretical and methodological concepts and to demonstrate approaches to practice. In retrospectively applying concepts and perspectives to corrections, the authors contribute significantly to the development of a marriage between academics and practice.
While the essays are diverse with regard to topics, writing style, and specific organization, each author includes pertinent background information, an overview of the workplace, a narrative of experiences, and conclusions or implications based on the experiences. Spanning the three general types of correctional environments—incarceration, community corrections, and juvenile corrections—the collection of essays discusses working in prisons or prison systems, probation and parole, and juvenile residential and community corrections.
[Page xv]Each essay tells an interesting and important story. The essays go beyond simple storytelling, however, as discussions of experiences are grounded in scholarship. At the same time, they keep academic and professional jargon to a minimum and avoid excessive citation. The essays are necessarily subjective, containing a great deal of advocacy and critique, but arguments are based on concrete experience and scholarly analysis. It is not the intention of this book as a whole to advocate any particular views or opinions, nor to dictate practice, but to use practical experience to illustrate concepts and demonstrate how to connect academics and practice. Additionally, although the authors are very frank and straightforward in narrating, evaluating, and con-textualizing their experiences, the book is intended to be optimistic. It is intended to help prepare future corrections workers by giving them a view into the many possible challenges in this type of work, not to make them pessimistic about working in corrections.
This book's readability and "real life" analyses will help instructors generate student interest and involvement in their courses, helping those that find it difficult to see the practical relevance of academic knowledge. The essays put a "human face" on the study of corrections, without sacrificing learning quality (without "dummying down" material). They bring core corrections books to life by offering real life professional experiences and concept applications. Students may enjoy the book's personal touch and appreciate its relevance to their career interests. This book simultaneously serves two important instructional purposes that may often seem contradictory to students: disseminate academic knowledge and prepare them for the professional workforce.
The book contains three special pedagogical features. First, each essay chapter begins with an Editor's Introduction written to prepare readers to learn from the essay. These introductions identify general points in each essay regarding the author's work, challenges faced, type of scholarship applied, and overall lesson. Second, each chapter, including the introduction and conclusion, ends with three discussion questions. These are designed to assist instructors in developing group discussions, assignments, and exams or quizzes and assist students with a study aid for digesting the material in the chapter. Third, each chapter, including the introduction and conclusion, also ends with author recommended related readings. These are intended to help students further explore the subjects of the essays, providing them with possible sources for papers and instructors with possible additional readings to assign.[Page xvi]Acknowledgments
Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the contributors for making this book happen. It was an honor and a pleasure to work with you. I am thankful for the opportunity to gather your work into this volume, and I learned much from your essays. Next, thanks go to Jeff Ross, John Fuller, Michael Braswell, and Jerry Westby for their encouragement and much needed assistance in helping me develop a clear vision and viable proposal for the book. Also, thanks go to reviewers for providing constructive criticism and suggestions that led to significant improvements throughout the book. Finally, thanks go to Ellen M. Coenen, Esq., for her thoughtful and helpful reviews of my chapters.
About the Editor[Page 273]
Lee Michael Johnson is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of West Georgia. He earned a PhD in Sociology from Iowa State University, and his background includes work with behavior-disordered and delinquent youth in residential treatment. His research and writing interests are in juvenile delinquency, victimology, and criminal justice policy and practice, and he has published articles in journals such as Youth and Society, Journal of Social Psychology, Czech Sociological Review, Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice, and the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences. Dr. Johnson regularly teaches juvenile delinquency, victimology, family violence, race and crime, and research methods courses.[Page 274]
About the Contributors[Page 275]
Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas at Dallas. She received a BS degree in Criminal Justice and a MA and PhD from Prairie View A&M University. Dr. Barfield-Cottledge has worked in various positions in the criminal justice field, such as a state parole officer, child support officer, and researcher, and she has over 12 years' experience as a counselor. In 2003, she worked with the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) project researching drug use and abuse among recently arrested males in Harris County, Texas. Dr. Barfield-Cottledge is published in the Criminal Justice Review and has an upcoming article in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. She has presented various papers at regional and national conferences, and her current research interests involve juvenile justice and delinquency, female gangs and delinquency, criminological theory, juvenile sex offenders, drug use and abuse, and racial conflict. Dr. Barfield-Cottledge regularly teaches courses on judicial and legal issues, offender behavior, criminology, and juvenile delinquency.
Kelly Cheeseman Dial is an associate professor of criminal justice at Messiah College. She received her PhD from Sam Houston State University. Her current research interests include female offenders, prison deviance, correctional officer stress and job satisfaction, institutional corrections, the death penalty, ethics, and sexually deviant behavior. Dr. Cheeseman Dial has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, American Journal of Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior. She has also coau-thored a book on the death penalty.
Robert J. Durän is an assistant professor of criminal justice at New Mexico State University. He received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2006 with an emphasis in criminology and race. His [Page 276]research interests include gangs, aggressive law enforcement, border enforcement, and disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system. Articles can be found in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Latino Studies, and Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order.
John Randolph Fuller is a professor of criminology at the University of West Georgia where he has taught for over 28 years. He has experience in the criminal justice system as a probation and parole officer as well as a criminal justice planner. His research interests are in critical criminology, especially peacemaking criminology. He teaches a wide range of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and maintains an active writing agenda. In addition to numerous articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews, Dr. Fuller has published five books. His most recent book is Criminal Justice: Mainstream and Cross Currents, second edition.
Gennifer Furst is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at William Paterson University of New Jersey. She holds a doctorate in Criminal Justice from City University of New York (CUNY) John Jay College/CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include the use of animals in the criminal justice system, drug policy, and the death penalty. Her book, Animal Programs in Prison: A Comprehensive Assessment, features the first national survey of prison-based animal programs in the country.
Lucien X. Lombardo started his career in criminal justice as a teacher in the Osborne School at Auburn Correctional Facility from 1969 to 1977, where he taught English and Spanish to students who lived in the maximum-security prison. Dr. Lombardo is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University, where he has taught since 1977. He received his doctorate from the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Albany in 1978. He also earned an MA in Criminal Justice in 1974, an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969, and a BA in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Rochester in 1967. Dr. Lombardo has authored numerous articles and professional presentations in his areas of expertise. Lombardo received Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books in Sociology Award for Guards Imprisoned: Correctional Officers at Work (1st and 2nd updated editions). He is coeditor of the second edition of Prison Violence in America and coeditor with Dr. Karen Polonko of a volume of the journal Global Bioethics: Children in a[Page 277]Changing World. Dr. Lombardo serves as a board member of End Physical Punishment of Children (EPOCH-USA) working to end corporal punishment of children and a Fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education.
Robert F. Meier is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He was an intern at a federal prison in Kentucky as an undergraduate and a probation officer in Wisconsin for 3 years before getting his graduate degrees.
Everette B. Penn is an associate professor of criminology and division chair of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He is the author of several books and articles on juvenile justice, crime prevention, and homeland security.
David Polizzi is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Indiana State University and the editor of the e-publication the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology (http://jtpcrim.org). He is the contributing coeditor of Transforming Corrections: Humanistic Approaches in Corrections and Offender Treatment and Surviving Your Clinical Placement: Reflections, Suggestions and Unsolicited Advice. He has also published a variety of journal articles and book chapters related to offender psychotherapy, the social construction of crime and race, and restorative justice as well as the phenomenology of general strain theory and deviance. Prior to his current academic position, he worked for nearly 18 years in a variety of community mental health and penitentiary settings providing psychotherapeutic services to inmate and parole and probation clients as well as individuals diagnosed with a variety of co-occurring disorders. Dr. Polizzi is currently credentialed by the State of Indiana as a Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor.
Cassandra L. Reyes is an assistant professor of criminal justice at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research interests include the relationship between animal cruelty and other forms of delinquency and criminality, juvenile delinquency and aggression, violence and victimology, and corrections. She has published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation and International Criminal Justice Review. Additionally, in March 2010, she published a book titled Of Fists and Fangs: An Exploration of the Degree to Which the Graduation Hypothesis Predicts Adolescent Delinquency and Aggression. Prior to starting her career in academia, she worked as a probation and parole officer-bilingual for approximately 10 years and briefly as a county correctional officer.
[Page 278]Jeffrey Ian Ross, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore. He has researched, written, and lectured on national security, political violence, political crime, violent crime, corrections, and policing for over 2 decades. Ross's work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular outlets. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 16 books including Behind Bars: Surviving Prison, Convict Criminology, Special Problems in Corrections, and Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison. Ross has performed consulting services for Westat, Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program; U.S. Department of Defense; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ); the National Institute of Justice, USDOJ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and Intel Science Talent Search. From 1995 to 1998, Ross was a Social Science Analyst with the National Institute of Justice, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2003, he was awarded the University of Baltimore's Distinguished Chair in Research Award. In 2005 and 2006, Ross was a member of the Prisoner Advocate Liaison Group for the Institute of Medicine (part of the National Academy of Sciences). Also, Dr. Ross worked nearly 4 years in a correctional institution. His website is http://www.jeffreyianross.com.
Teresa F. Smith is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she experienced an internship at the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services in the summer of 2009. She was a correctional officer at the Nebraska Youth Services Facility in Omaha. She is presently an In Home Family Consultant at Boystown.
Staci Strobl is an assistant professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the 2009 winner of the British Journal of Criminology's Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for her work on the criminalization of domestic workers in Bahrain. Her areas of specialization are women in policing in the Arabian Gulf, multiethnic policing in Eastern Europe, and comic book portrayals of crime in the United States. Earlier in her career, she worked as a U.S. Probation Officer and a crime journalist. Dr. Strobl completed her doctorate in Criminal Justice at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, received her MA in Criminal Justice at John Jay, and her BA in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.
N. Prabha Unnithan completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in Criminology in India before receiving his PhD in Sociology from the [Page 279]University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He then worked as a planning specialist for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction before returning to academe. He has been a sociology faculty member at Colorado State University in Fort Collins since 1987 and currently serves there as the director of the Center for the Study of Crime and Justice. His research and teaching focus on violence, corrections, policy analysis, and evaluation. He has coauthored three books, The Currents of Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model of Suicide and Homicide, Guns, Violence and Criminal Behavior: The Offender's Perspective, and Policing and Society: A Global Approach. Dr. Unnithan edited the Journal of Criminal Justice Education between 1999 and 2002 and currently edits the Social Science Journal.
Eric J. Wodahl is an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Wyoming. He received his PhD from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justices at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Wodahl has over 8 years of professional experience in the corrections field working with both juvenile and adult offenders, including 4 years as an intensive supervision program agent. His research interests include alternatives to revocation for noncompliant offenders, prisoner reentry, and rural issues in the criminal justice field. Dr. Wodahl's research has appeared in numerous publications such as Crime and Delinquency, the Prison Journal, and Criminal Justice Policy Review.
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Yes, Halloween is this week, and we have plenty of spooky fun options to consider. Here's a nice list of mostly Free Family Fun as well.
There are still plenty of non-candy related activities, in case you are looking for a break or are saving the scaries for the official day. We've also picked a few upcoming holiday happenings for you to keep on your radar.
Budding Adventures
Reedy Creek Nature Preserve
Start off by exploring various nature topics in the classrooms using your best tools – hands, eyes, nose and ears. Then head into the forest, where we sneakily walk to uncover the wonders of the natural world. Parent participation required. Register online.
Creatives College Fair
The Park Expo & Conference Center
Tuck Mommy and Me Playtime
Tuckaseegee Recreation Center
Participants engage in arts and crafts, story time theater and music with their caregiver.
Dino Safari: A Prehistoric Adventure
The Schiele Museum
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Harry Potter Festival
South County Regional Library
Experience a Sorting Hat ceremony, and select a wand. Create a house pet. Join fellow Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws and Slytherins as you compete for House points. This program is for school-aged children who have read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Register online.
Free Evenings at The Mint Plus Mint On The Dot!
Both locations of The Mint Museum offer free admission every Wednesday. Mint on the Dot! art chats are offered every Wednesday evening at 6:00 and 6:30 p.m. Look for the "Mint on the Dot!" signs on the gallery floor.
Dia de los Muertes
Davidson Library
Families are invited to learn more about the Day of the Dead, explore the exhibit and take part in activities.
World of Outlaws World Finals
Charlotte Motor Speedway
All dirt roads lead to Charlotte as the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series, World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series and Super DIRTcar Series crown their champions at the World of Outlaws World Finals.
Unicorn Party
Mount Holly Branch Library
Make unicorn crafts and snacks. Celebrate all things unicorn.
Double Dare Live!
Ovens Auditorium
Nickelodeon's Double Dare Live!, inspired by the iconic TV game show Double Dare, will feature original host Marc Summers and his beloved sidekick Robin Russo. The live show will have two teams comprised of selected audience members competing to win prizes by answering brain-bending trivia questions, completing messy physical challenges, and more.
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Wells Fargo Playhouse
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Puppet Show: Sammy Squirrel's Holiday Party
Discovery Place Kids – Huntersville
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Cabarrus Brewing Company
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Our fab Christingle Service
We joined in, this week, with 50th Anniversary Christingle services in aid of The Children's Society. We had great fun, everyone making their own Christingle during the service, singing sings and carols and hearing about the work of The Children's Society.
It was a busy service – all our chairs were full and people had to share service sheets.
A big THANKYOU to all who came, all who donated to The Children's Society and to all who had helped to prepare for the service – collecting oranges, ordering tape and glow sticks, buying sweets and assembling the Christingle kits for everyone.


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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
CandyWell salmiakki-meteorit
"You know," I said, "it's a shame I didn't bring any of the 'special' liquorice that I have back home. You guys wouldn't believe this stuff! It's Finnish or something, and it's infused with this super-salty salt -- ammonium chloride -- which is not your regular old sodium chloride table salt."
I got a few quizzical eye-brow raises and the unmistakable I'm-pretty-sure-you-shouldn't-eat-ammonium-chloride look. But nonetheless, they all expressed interest in trying this exotic delicacy and made me promise to bring it next time I'm on-site.
Yeah, right. Like that's going to going to happen. As I'm sure you all know, giving someone salmiac is #6 on the "Top Ten Ways to Kill a Relationship" list, and today's tasting of salmiakki-meteorit confirms why.
To the untrained eye, these spherical candies look like they could be sugar-coated chocolates. Popping the red-colored ball was not an unpleasant experience: there was a sweet, raspberry hard-coating that was just waiting to be chomped on. Bracing for the worst, I bit down... only to find the unmistakably spicy taste of liquorice.
The Yellow (banana, I think) and Green (no idea what flavor) shared the pleasantry: a hard candy coating with a liquorice center. Excited that this might be an edible -- nay, enjoyable -- candy, I eagerly popped the black candy ball in my mouth, only to find it repelled by my gag reflex almost immediately.
Somehow, that little black candy packed more salt taste than salt itself. Which is surprising, considering they all appear to be coated in about the same amount. No matter, because of the black ball of salty death, I have no choice but to rate the salmiakki-meteorit as almost edible.
17 comments:
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2010 at 3:07 AM
You're starting to like them :)ReplyDelete
You should try to sneak the candies in a party and describe the observation of the reactions of unsuspecting candy lovers.
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2010 at 9:09 AM
the small text says "delicious fruit on top, salmiak inside"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Hmm, I've got to buy these...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 2, 2010 at 3:45 AM
Haha. Whatever you review, people want to buy. If this keeps up, you'll have salmiakki producers sending you samples eventually! Won't it be a wonderful day when that happens? :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM
I haven't tasted these, I've got to try!ReplyDelete
Btw, you've got to review salmiakki chocolate. It's very.. interesting experience.
- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 1:06 PM
I never tried these before. Sounds so delicious that I'll buy these tomorrow... ...if I can find these somewhere. Even google knows only this page.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM
must... go.. to k-kauppa and buy salmiakki meteors....*drool* (never tried these)ReplyDelete
Oh, I really really REALLY love these! They're my absolute favorites! Another favorite that I have are the rusty cars, I think they're produced by the same company, Stoneman.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 15, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Few years back Rusty nails were my favourite =)ReplyDelete
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Holidays Hurt
"Happy Holidays" is purely wishful thinking for many. With 2.5 million American deaths each year, multiply that number exponentially to account for the millions who are grieving a loss right now. Since holiday traditions often revolve around family and close friends, this can be a sad time of year for those missing a loved one.
A woman recently explained her first experience with grief to me. "No one prepares you for what grief can do to you," she said. It was like someone shot a canon through my stomach. I was paralyzed." The first year of holidays without a loved one can be difficult, but so can the years to follow. For some the subsequent years are harder because friends tend to offer less support as time goes on.
It is my hope that by simply raising awareness of this common ache we will all be motivated to be kinder and gentler with others during this time of year. Not just our friends and family members who we know are grieving, but everyone we encounter. The distracted drivers and shoppers. The slow service providers. Our coworkers and employees. Almost everyone is missing someone right now.
In addition to elevating our collective conscious and being better neighbors, what can we do specifically for those we know are grieving? For starters, acknowledge their loss. I remember my first day back to work after my father died suddenly. I walked in thinking, "how am I going to get through today?" A coworker I hardly knew immediately came over and said "I'm so sorry to hear about your dad. I'm here for you if you want to talk about it." I felt so relieved knowing I didn't have to fake being okay.
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Accept that people grieve differently. Your friend may cope very differently than you. There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Some may focus on celebrating their loved one's life, others may be angry or withdrawn. Most of us will go through an array of exhausting emotions. Encourage attendance at a grief support group such as Cup of Hope (920-467-7950). If you sense that your friend is becoming depressed or considering self-harm call for professional health. The Sheboygan County Mental Health Crisis line is 920-459-3151.
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BELGRADE, October 8 /SRNA/ - Serb member of the BiH Presidency Milorad Dodik will be awarded the Order of Saint Simeon Mirotočivi on Tuesday evening, the Serbian Orthodox Church /SOC/ Patriarchate conformed to SRNA.
This significant recognition will be given to Dodik at the ceremony marking the 800th anniversary of SOC's independence at the Sava Centre in Belgrade.
Regarding news reported earlier on Tuesday by the media in Srpska and Serbia that the Serb member of the BiH Presidency will be awarded the Order of Saint Sava of the 1st Degree on Tuesday evening, the Patriarchate reminded that Dodik was awarded this highest decoration in 2009 in Banjaluka.
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When supergroups are formed, people generally expect a whole lot of arrogance and confidence, slack songwriting and music and a band that's in it just for the fun of it. However when a certain Divine Fits was formed, the one motif they had was to be a band and deliver nothing but the best. Heralding indie royalty with Britt Daniel of Spoon, Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs, Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks and Alex Fischel of PAPA, we caught up with none other than Dan Boeckner himself as he gave us an insight into the band's ideal fan, festivals, even his favorite Singapore food and more!
Popspoken: Thank you for doing this interview with us Dan! Let's start things off with your band name! Being a supergroup as you are, how important do you think your band name is?
Dan: I think it's as important as any band name out there. It's just like buying a suit that you can never take out. It's like somebody telling you, "Hey you get to buy some clothes, but you can never take them off, you gotta wear these clothes for as long as you're you." So I think it's as important as any band name, a lot of times you'd get used to it, just like a new haircut.
Could you briefly describe how the name Divine Fits came about?
We just thought those words sounded good together, we had a list of 20 band names and that was the winner so that was the one picked after a vote! It's kind of an ambiguous saying; with 'fits', it could be like epileptic fits or fits being something that fits together and 'divine' being a super rock and roll word and I liked it. I really like how there is somewhat chemistry between the two words. We just thought it'd be cool.
You jumped ship from your own band, Handsome Furs and Wolf Parade, to collaborate with three other band members to form Divine Fits; how would you describe this band's music?
I think it's a mix of rock'n'roll and electronic music together. It's like punk rock electronics; a real mixture of the core of rock music and electronic stuff, very much like an old and new versatility. And I like that it's steady and theres a lot of different kinds of feels. Just like in 'The Salton Sea', you just lose yourself in the music.
What are some of the band's inspirations?
I think AC/DC definitely, Kraftwerk, the German electronic band. For me personally I admire The Clash and their songwriting. So I think those are the three big ones.
Have you always wanted to be a musician when you were young?
Yeah, I have. When I was really young, I wanted to be an astronaut. I was obsessed with space. That was till I discovered Metallica and my life changed. Metallica was the first band that I really got into and it made me think maybe yeah I did want to be a musician after all. And then I discovered cooler music after. I was in political science in university for a long time but I've always known that playing music was something that I was meant to be doing, that's what my heart feels good doing.
If you weren't a musician, what do you think you'd probably be doing?
I would probably be in political science, doing something where I could travel; maybe a diplomatic post or something like that. Maybe I'd be a spy. For an intelligence agency. Just so I can travel.
Speaking of travelling, have you guys been touring together as a band? Or will it be Divine Fits' first tour come Laneway 2013?
We've done a lot of touring lately; we went all over America and some places in Canada. Also, we've just been to Buenos Aires in South America but so far this band hasn't travelled out of America so this would be really exciting for us. I've been to Singapore a few times before, I've played at Baybeats Festival in 2010 with Handsome Furs and I absolutely loved it. I stayed there for a two weeks, just spent time hanging out and I loved it. I love it there. I am excited to come back and show the rest of the band around Singapore!
So I guess you'd be playing tour guide for them?
Hahah! Yeah man, im gonna be their tour guide, gonna take them out for some food!
What is it about Singapore that you love the most and would want to recommend to them?
Maybe it sounds crazy but I like the food there in Singapore. I think it's one of my favorite places in the world to go for food because you have the influences of the Malaysian culture then you have the influences of the Indian culture then you have the Chinese culture and it just makes for an awesome diversity. I just like going to the local hawker market, you sit down and order all these delicious food. So I'd probably take them out for laksa and hainanese chicken rice, maybe some rojak. Those are my favourites!
So you've mentioned that you personally favour the variety from different influences and the diversity. Would you say the same about Divine Fits? The different influences of the different band members coming together from different bands. How do you think it has worked for you so far?
I think it's been good because we like a lot of the same music and I've always liked a lot of the new things I've been introduced to by the other guys. I think all of them have very good taste in music. Britt played me a lot of music I've never heard before and I was just excited to hear them. When I first moved to Los Angeles to start a band with him, I lived at his house and he's got this big record collection. A lot of times I'd just spend my afternoon at his record collection and it was just like going to university, its like going to rock school you know? You just discover so much new music you've never heard before and it's all, good.
What sets Divine Fits apart from other supergroups?
I think we started this band to start a band not just to have a break from our other projects but it was a real band that had our own band identity and tours. Yeah it's fun but It's not only fun for us. It's not just a bunch of guys goofing around but rather we really wanted to develop our own sound and play together in a way that we didn't get the chance to in our own previous bands.
Do you think its harder for a band to recruit new members and start from scratch or rather pick current band members in their own bands?
Yeah I think it's harder because with current band members, you get along with them their audience and fans. But if you're starting out new, you start from scratch. I did that with my first band, nobody knew who we were we had to work really hard to even get someone to come to our shows. We had to work work work in Divine Fits but luckily all of us came from quite a success in our previous bands. I think it's easier when someone knows your name and who you are.
I think many people would remember you for your Baybeats stint here with Handsome Furs and they'd come back to catch you this time with Divine Fits!
I hope people would remember that show! I remember I had a really good time at that show! I met an Indonesian band from Jakarta, called The Brandals and it was just so cool meeting these people and they told me how life was like there back home and stuff like that. I also met some kids from Singapore and hung out with them. I don't know, I just remembered that it was such a good night for me. Made me feel really lucky to be playing music. I was on the other side of the world, hanging out with musicians from Singapore and Indonesia and I'm from Canada. I just couldn't believe it.
What kind of shows do you expect to play being a supergroup?
We play a lot of festivals but I always liked playing smaller gigs because you could really interact and bond with the audience. You could just like reach out and touch them. I really like both honestly. I love playing on big stages with all the sound systems and stuff but I also like playing in small pubs so you have to really know how to entertain people both ways.
Do you think your Baybeats experience was a mixture of both? It was a festival, not that big but it still meant a lot to those fans and it was very close to home to them.
Yeah I think it was a mixture of small and big and I also liked the fact that the stage was right on the harbor, so youre playing outdoors. Its just such a cool venue. Im going to take the guys to Esplanade to show it to them because I think it's just an amazing structure.
If you were given a chance, would you come back to Baybeats maybe to just play on your own, if the band isn't available?
YEAH MAN! TOTALLY! If they asked Divine Fits to play Baybeats, I would say yes immediately. I really love that festival and I think it's great.
What would be your ideal fan?
Somebody who is not afraid to dance. I like it when people dance at the show. So far our fans get into the shows and get quiet at first but they get into it and go crazy in the end.
What would you like to do as a band if the world ended tonight? And what's the one thing you would want to accomplish?
I would like to play a show, in my hometown where I grew up, have a really really good show and some drinks. I'd want to get my dad on stage and sing a song with us; a Rolling Stone song. In the end after it all, I'd get drunk.
One phrase to describe Divine Fits?
True Rock and Roll.
Thank you So much for your time Dan! Really looking forward to catching you guys live! Have a nice day!
Thank you man, see you at the festival! Thanks for the interview, have a good one yourself! Bye!
Don't forget to catch Divine Fits live at Laneway Singapore 2013! Thanks again to the lovely people at Chugg Entertainment!
Here's Dan's personal recommendation; Would That Not Be Nice. Cheers!


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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Session Report is up, in which we try Netrunner
First game meeting of the new year, and we make first plays for Netrunner, Palazzo and Metro, as well as many people playing other games for their first time, and a few first time visitors to boot.
Chicago Sun Times reports a woman hospitalized after a game of Trivial Pursuit. Initially I thought it was just from "bad game fatigue syndrome", but it appears that alcohol and drugs were also involved. Children: Just Say No to bad games and drugs.
Greg passes on a tip that many old Dwarfstar science-fiction and fantasy board games from the '80s are now available free for download.
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- Seth Ben-Ezra said...
Something that I find nifty about Netrunner is the match between theme and mechanics. By this I mean that, in a sense, the game is thematically about information control. Mechanically, it is *also* about information control. In particular, the installing of Corp cards face-down introduces many opportunities for bluff and double-bluff. Did you know that there are certain nodes that are essentially booby-traps for the Runner? Once you've established that in the game, it can be possible (either deliberately or in an emergency) to hang nodes or agendas out in the open. The Runner then needs to decide if it's worth the risk or not. Same goes for rezzing ice. Just because you *can*, doesn't mean that you *should*.
- January 4, 2007 at 5:55 PM
- Yehuda Berlinger said...
Yes, I noticed, The theme fits very well with the mechanics.
- January 4, 2007 at 5:56 PM


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VANCOUVER – After Thursday's dismal effort against the San Jose Sharks, the Vancouver Canucks vowed to have their game faces on Saturday for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Talk is cheap, of course. Players know they have to say these things right after a bad loss. It's in the hockey handbook. But the Canucks backed it up against one of the best teams in the league and pounded Sidney Crosby's Penguins 5-0 before a sold out house at Rogers Arena.
The Canucks scored twice on the power play, they received a goal from doghouse resident Zack Kassian and they received another fine performance from Ryan Miller, who made 31 saves for his sixth shutout of the season.
"I like this one mainly because I felt the attitude we came out with was the right kind of attitude and it was sustained during the game," said Miller. "We wanted to have a response to the last game. We wanted to compete and the boys looked good. We moved pucks and put a lot of pressure on their defence. I know they were on a road swing and playing back-to-back but we came out and established the lead and it makes it a lot harder for them to feel they're going to come back."
The victory enabled the Canucks to pull even with the Calgary Flames in the Pacific Division at 61 points, but the Canucks are rated as the third-place team based on tie-breakers. Vancouver has two games in hand on the Flames.
The Canucks also moved to within two points of second-place San Jose, which stunningly lost 5-4 at home to the lowly Carolina Hurricanes. The Canucks, who are in Minnesota on Monday against the red-hot Wild, hold three games in hand on the Sharks.
The Canucks led 2-0 Saturday after the first period on an Alex Burrows power-play goal and the fifth of the season from rookie Bo Horvat. The game's turning point came at the 4:29 mark of the second when Pittsburgh appeared to get on the board as Derrick Pouliot's point shot hit the post, then hit Miller and began to trickle over the line. At that very moment, Canuck defenceman Ryan Stanton knocked the net off its pegs. The referees huddled, called it 'no goal' due to the net being dislodged and then went to review. The NHL war room ruled "inconclusive", enabling the call on the ice to stand.
"I was just holding my breath hoping to get one of those calls and it worked out," said Miller. "I just told myself we were given an opportunity and we have to make it count. We can't let them back in the game. I thought the guys did a great job, especially in the first and second periods. We really limited their shots and our penalty kill was good."
Shawn Matthias scored on a 2-on-1 and then Kassian scored before the second period was out and the Penguins were done.
The Kassian goal was a gift from the hockey gods as Penguin netminder Thomas Greiss, starting in place of workhorse Marc-Andre Fleury, mishandled the puck behind his net. Linden Vey collected it and quickly fed Kassian, who made no mistake with the net completely empty. It was his first goal in 22 games and came after he was a healthy scratch for the last three Canuck games. The Rogers Arena crowd, well aware of Kassian's struggles, gave him a terrific ovation.
"Maybe that can get me going a bit," said Kassian. "The ovation was nice. I've always said the fans in Vancouver are very passionate. It's a game I want to build off and keep getting better. I'd like to think the hockey gods were with me there but I don't know where they've been all year."
Daniel Sedin completed the night's scoring with a third-period power-play goal. It was his 115th with the extra man and broke Markus Naslund's franchise record for most PP goals.
"It was a big goal, too," joked Daniel. "No, I've played a long time so that's probably the biggest thing."
The Canucks played Saturday with the same patchwork defence that was ventilated for five goals by the Sharks. Chris Tanev and Frank Corrado, both with upper body injuries, remained out of the lineup although Tanev did take the morning skate. Tanev appears closer to a return than the rookie Corrado.
Canuck head coach Willie Desjardins admitted in the morning that Corrado "is going to be out for a little while longer, I think."
Kassian was also involved in a first-period scrap with Penguin ruffian Robert Bortuzzo. It was his first fighting major this season.
ICE CHIPS: Radim Vrbata's first-period assist was his 500th regular-season point… The Canucks' Latvian rookie Ronalds Kenins was a healthy scratch to make way for Kassian… The game was just the fourth that Sidney Crosby has played in Vancouver as a member of the Penguins. He was minus-1 with one shot on goal.


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Chelsea are reportedly considering to recall Tammy Abraham from his loan spell at Championship club Aston Villa.
The England Under-21s international has found back of the net 11 times in 14 games since dropping down for a second stint in the second tier.
According to The Mirror, the Blues can secure services of Abraham back to Stamford Bridge during the January transfer window should they wish and integrate him into their first-team squad in order to strengthen their offensive end.
However, a separate report carried by the Birmingham Mail claimed that Aston Villa are confident Chelsea will respect the season-long loan agreement and will allow Abraham to remain and help them to secure a promotion to Premier League.
Villa assistant coach John Terry maintains a strong working relationship with the Blues, which the West Midlands outfit hope will help them to keep him at the club.
Meanwhile, Chelsea are reportedly hoping to lower the price tag for Christian Pulisic who has been valued at £80m by Dortmund.
The Blues are believed to have been locked in discussions with German club over a January deal for the USA international, who has also been touted as a long-term target for Liverpool.
Rather than making 21-year-old winger for their second-most expensive player ever behind Kepa Arrizabalaga, but, Goal.com claimed that the Blues will instead negotiate down the fee as talks continue to progress between the two parties.


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Yesterday I visited Joyce Gunn Cairns in her Edinburgh studio to collect work for her upcoming exhibition with Alasdair Gray. I love visiting artists in their studios, but particularly Joyce. Her beautiful work adorns every surface, and each time I visit I know everything will have shifted and evolved, and new beautiful pieces will have emerged.
|The Beautiful Lady Herself
The work she has produced for the upcoming exhibition is quite exquisite. A strong collection of paintings, drawings and screen prints which hopefully go some way to illustrate the sensitive, thought-provoking, intelligent and creative range that she possesses.
|'That Rare Thing'
Amongst her many works, you will find a couple of beautiful portraits of Alasdair Gray, which deftly capture the great man's character. As well as other artistic luminaries, he has sat for her several times over the years. Apparently most impressed with the artist and her work, it was Alasdair who suggested they one day exhibit together. I am immensely appreciative that Smithy Gallery is housing this collaboration.
|Joyce With The Handsome Photographer - Thanks Andrew!
It is always an honour to spend time in the heart of an artist's creative space. An incredibly powerful window into their thoughts and feelings. Thank you for your hospitality Joyce.
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The Joyce Gunn Cairns and Alasdair Gray exhibition will be available to view on the website later this week.
The exhibition previews on Sunday 15 April.
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Friends with Kids
March 13, 2012 by Cody Villafana
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Starring: Adam Scott, Jennifer Wesfeldt, Jon Hamm
Directed by: Jennifer Wesfeldt ("Kissing Jessica Stein")
Written by: Jennifer Wesfeldt ("Kissing Jessica Stein")
These days there are so many ways to have a family that hardly anything could really be classified as "unconventional." But when long-time best friends Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jennifer Wesfeldt) devise a plan to have a child without subjecting themselves to the pitfalls of marriage, their friends cannot believe they could follow through with such a crazy scheme. This experiment of essentially going halfsies with the responsibilities of a child sets the stage for "Friends with Kids," a dramedy that starts off uniquely funny but ultimately loses steam in its familiar dénouement.
Scott remains one of Hollywood's best-kept secrets. Although not as dynamic as his stunning role in 2009's "The Vicious Kind," he shows he is perfectly capable of anchoring a movie in a lead role. He has a very natural and understated comic delivery and he is no doubt at his best when he is being a little abrasive. The rest of the cast is somewhat of a reunion from the film "Bridesmaids," as four principal cast members from that film are in "Friends with Kids." While Jon Hamm has a couple of great scenes to work with, the rest of the "Bridesmaids" alum doesn't contribute much. For example, Chris O'Dowd sports a very strange accent that is hard to distinguish and Maya Rudolph's character exists only to nag. It's hard to believe director/writer Wesfeldt couldn't even give the versatile Kristen Wiig something more to do other than drink wine and give piercing stares.
The set up in "Friends with Kids" is respectable, with a unique spin on the romantic comedy with two platonic friends agreeing to have a kid. It continues to be unique when just about everything goes perfectly smooth and there aren't any problems. Of course, nobody would want to watch a movie about a situation working flawlessly and things inevitably begin to crumble. And as with the events on screen, so goes the structure of the film as it begins to feel formulaic and familiar.
"Friends with Kids" is certainly not a "laugh-out-loud" type of comedy. The humor is predominantly subtle and largely thanks to Scott's knack for biting sarcasm. The film is certainly at its best when it hits its dramatic beats. One especially fantastic scene in particular is when Scott and Hamm's characters have a war of words at a dinner table. In this scene, we get to see Scott's acting chops on full display. When the film displays the chaos and strain having children can create in a relationship is when things get authentic.
The film ends with Wesfeldt uttering a strand of six utterly unromantic words that is almost certain to rub a good portion of the audience the wrong way. With the triple duty of acting, writing and directing, Wesfeldt probably should have focused her attention on making just one of those elements stand out instead of providing three so-so efforts spread around. It isn't a terrible movie, but one can't help feel like "Friends with Kids" could have been so much more.
The Zookeeper
July 15, 2011 by Kiko Martinez
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Starring: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb
Directed by: Frank Coraci ("Click")
Written by: Nick Bakay ("Paul Blart: Mall Cop"), Kevin James ("Paul Blart: Mall Cop"), Jay Scherick ("Norbit"), David Ronn ("Norbit"), Rock Rueben (debut)
Deep inside the ferocious land of Hollywood, grazing around the talent pool like a fat warthog at a watering hole, a stumpy beast hunkers down waiting to pounce on the first screenplay too weak to defend itself. His eyes dart back and forth as other more agile predators pick off the meatier prey one by one. Suddenly, the creature gets his chance. A scrawny script has been separated from its herd and is helpless. Within seconds, the brute leaps from his squatting position and takes aim. His broad calves push him forward for the kill, but it isn't meant to be. His feet are caught in the brush and he lands on the ground with his face in the mud.
This is what the narration might sound like if the Discovery Channel featured a Kevin James Week.
Unfortunately for audiences, James, best known for the TV series "The King of Queens," which ran for nine seasons before ending in 2007, gets his paws wrapped around more flimsy screenplays than anyone who likes to laugh would hope.
Despite his terrible movie choices over the last four years ("I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," "Grown Ups"), James is as harmless as a collection of chubby cherubs, which is one reason he continues to get second-rate roles in comedies like "The Zookeeper," another dismal product from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Production Company (AKA Rob Schneider's meal ticket).
Directed by Frank Coraci, who delivered one of Sandler's best movies with "The Wedding Singer," "Zookeeper" takes a page from another James flick, 2005's "Hitch." Instead of taking dating advice from Will Smith, however, James, who plays insecure lead zookeeper Griffin Keyes, is schooled in the subject of love by a zoo-full of chatty wildlife. Voice work includes Sylvester Stallone as a discerning lion, Nick Nolte as a depressed gorilla, and what sounds like a constipated Sandler as a capuchin monkey.
Although it might sound like another wannabe "Charlotte's Web," the talking animals don't make up much of the story, which centers on Griffin trying to win his materialistic ex-girlfriend back. In one unfunny scene, a wolf explains that a male mammal must mark his territory to get the female species' attention. Acting like even more of a numskull and for no particular reason, Griffin relieves himself in a potted plant at a dinner reception as if the advice was actually useful.
Let's just hope James stops pissing on things long enough to realize his film career is already sufficiently soaked.
May 13, 2011 by Kiko Martinez
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Starring: Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph
Directed by: Paul Feig (TV's "The Office")
Written by: Kristen Wiig (debut) and Annie Mumolo (debut)
No one can take a tennis ball to the tit quite like comedienne Kristen Wiig. Her threshold for pain is only one of many admirable traits she possesses in "Bridesmaids," a bold and bawdy comedy that proves having balls isn't just for boys anymore.
While the movie's generic title might scream Kate Hudson rom-com horror, those looking for more than the usual cliché girls-night-out fare will find plenty of genuinely side-splitting scenes in this raunchy Judd Apatow-produced chick flick, as they did in the Apatow-directed "Knocked Up." Personal favor: When recommending it to your friends, please don't refer to Bridesmaids as the female version of "The Hangover." It deserves better.
In "Bridesmaids," director Paul Feig (TV's "The Office") puts Wiig in charge of her own sinking ship as the whip-smart albeit insecure (and very single) heroine Annie, a failed thirty-something entrepreneur stuck in a rut. Despite the occasional roll in the sack with sleazy tool Ted (Jon Hamm), Annie doesn't have any real relationship prospects nor does she care much about her depressing job (peddling jewelry to happy couples) and equally depressing home life (her roommates are ungrateful sibling albinos).
Annie is forced to suck it up when her lifelong BFF Lillian (Maya Rudolph) asks her to be her maid of honor, a role in movie world aching to basically be dragged through the mud while everyone else enjoys the pre-wedding festivities. She's pitted against Lillian's newest gal pal Helen (Rose Byrne), a character so perfectly annoying she rivals Cameron Diaz's bubbly Kimberly Wallace in "My Best Friend's Wedding."
The claws come out with hilarious result as Annie and Lillian – along with the three other bridesmaids Becca, Rita, and Megan (underwritten Ellie Kemper and Wendi McLendon-Covey and scene-stealing Melissa McCarthy) – try and get through the coming weeks without gouging anyone's pretty little eyes out.
Sharply written by Wiig and Annie Mumolo, "Bridesmaids" veers into overly traveled territory at times but never replaces wit with kitschy humor (aside from a well-executed diarrhea gag that feels misplaced in the grand scheme of things). She may just be a glorified bridesmaid, but this is Wiig's big day. The "Saturday Night Live" alumna has written a lead role for herself with some great awkward moments usually regulated for fools of the male variety. It's nice to see women can be just as boneheaded when the situation calls for it.
Away We Go
June 26, 2009 by Kiko Martinez
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Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney
Directed by: Sam Mendes ("American Beauty")
Written by: Dave Eggers (debut) and Vendela Vida (debut)
It's definitely a different type of relationship dynamic from Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes whose last film was the underappreciated "Revolutionary Road" of last year. In "Away We Go," Mendes rediscovers his dark comedy pedigree that made him so successful with 1999's Best Picture winner "American Beauty," to tell the story of a young, directionless couple trying to find their place in the world.
When the grandparents of their first child decide to move to Belgium, unmarried parents-to-be Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) realize there's nothing holding them back from packing up and relocating anywhere they'd like to go. Although they "don't have the basic stuff figured out" in their lives, Burt and Verona see the spontaneous adventure as a way to start on a clean slate.
Making stops in a few cities where they know people (somehow they can afford a cross-country tour by plane but sulk over a cardboard window in their house), Burt and Verona are interested in seeing how well they might fit in places like Phoenix, Arizona, Madison, Wisconsin, and Montreal, Canada. They meet up with a former co-worker (Allison Janney plays a vulgar mother who accuses her pre-teen daughter of being lesbian) and a long-time hippy friend (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is offended by strollers ("Why would I want to push my baby away from me?") and believes it is normal to have sex in front of their children.
Needless to say, Burt and Verona have a difficult time connecting to anyone on their trip, especially since first-time screenwriters and real-life couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida write the duo like a pair of self-important hipsters who know they're more intelligent and witty that everyone else on the face of the planet. It's an interesting characterization because the two are the sanest of the bunch, but there's always an underlying feeling that if you were to meet the couple socially they're mellow oddness would wear thin.
That's what happens in "Away We Go," but not before a few tender moments and subtle quirkiness. It's when the eccentricities of the characters become excessively heavy for the screen when Eggers, Vida, and Mendes lose control. The film doesn't have a lot of unnatural dialogue like "Juno," which was generally a very likeable movie, but thematically it's burdened with an overall artificial ambiance that comes off far too cartoonish despite the occasional charm.


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The Ageless look is indeed the dream of many people. Despite increasing age, many people do not want to see their faces look old. That ….
Japanese people believe that drinking tea can slow aging early because tea has a very high antioxidant content. The Chinese also does the same thing ….
The skin needs nutrients from the inside to maintain its health. Some skin cells must be exchanged if they are dead, and this repair process ….
A dull layer of skin can be bright by exfoliating the outermost layer of rough and cracked skin. Underneath this layer, there is a skin ….
Solid activity and the heat of the sun makes you have to do extra care for your skin so it looks clean and healthy. However, ….


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A diverse cross-section of Greenville came together Saturday, June 30, to the Families Belong Together protest to call for an end to the Trump Administration's "zero tolerance" policy and to demand fair, decent, and lawful treatment of all asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants. Among the many voices was Melinda Menzer, a Ph.D and professor of English at Furman University. Dr. Menzer reminded us that immigrants have not always been welcomed in the US – policies the country has come to regret. It was a powerful reminder, reprinted here.
Good morning, Greenville. Shabbat Shalom.
The Declaration of Independence states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." That's a statement of belief — it says that an American is a person who believes that all people are created equal, that all people have the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The United States has been strong and prosperous when our actions have lived up to those words. The Statue of Liberty stands at our shore, a tangible symbol of that belief, that all are welcome, that all are equal, that all are entitled to freedom.
But we know our country has not always lived up to that beautiful, self-evident truth. The man who wrote those words owned other human beings, denying them life and liberty, ignoring our fundamental equality. We paid a terrible price for our hypocrisy. We are still paying a terrible price.
And we have failed at other times. For the first 150 years or so of our country's history, we welcomed the immigrant with few restrictions. But 100 years ago, in the 1910s and 20s, at the time of the first America First movement, we turned away from our core belief in equality. We decided that the immigrants and refugees trying to come to this country at that time were the wrong kind of people. They were Jews and Catholics. We called them criminals and anarchists. We set up a quota system that permitted more immigrants from Protestant-majority countries and few from Jewish or Catholic-majority ones. We required visas and made them difficult to get.
It was this system that meant my grandfather was permitted into this country, while his parents and siblings were not. My grandfather held a passport from a Protestant-majority country which had a large quota. His rest of his family had passports from a country with a very small quota. And when, to no one's surprise, the Nazis invaded their town in 1941, they were brutally murdered. They had nowhere to go.
Those who died were people just like me. They were my family. We could have saved them. Americans were petitioning Congress to save them and people like them. In February 1939, Senator Wagner of NY and Representative Rogers of MA introduced the Child Refugee Act, which would have allowed the entry of 20,000 refugee children, ages 14 and under, from Germany and German-occupied territories into the United States above the already set quota. But it didn't pass. We didn't take the children. We felt no responsibility for foreign children.
Raise your hand if you know the story of Anne Frank. How many of you know that a year before Anne started writing her diary, her father started trying to get US visas for the family? We have his correspondence. He wrote again and again, to officials, to family in the United States, to everyone he knew. But he was denied. They didn't go into hiding in the Secret Annex because they thought it was their best chance of survival. They went into hiding because we denied them refuge.
I don't know how many times I've heard a speaker ask an American audience, would you have helped Anne Frank? Everyone always says yes, yes, of course. But we didn't help her. She wasn't Anne Frank then. She was just a Jew, a criminal, a foreign child.
But, my friends, here's the good news. This is your opportunity to help Anne Frank. She's out there. She's in Syria, in Yemen. She's in Honduras, in Guatemala. She's behind a chain-link fence, separated from her parents, somewhere on the border. Maybe my father's little cousins are with her.
There are those who call her a criminal, a terrorist. But we know the danger of believing those lies. We know the truth, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."
And we know how to make America great again — by welcoming them in.
I'd like to end with the words of a great Jewish American poet, Emma Lazarus, who wrote these words in 1883, before the time of the quotas. They are engraved on the Statue of Liberty, the Mother of Exiles:
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Thank you.
Photo: Dr. Melinda Menzer, left, after delivering a moving speech on remembering our past to secure our future.


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Friction between factions as disunity threatens Liberal Party
"The oldest rule in politics is that disunity is death, and the NSW branch of the Liberal Party is now looking very disunited indeed."
A 30-year war that is once again spilling over destroys Malcolm Turnbull's claim the Liberal Party is free from factional infighting and backroom deals.
"I spoke with someone from an illegal gambling syndicate, and these guys are worth five times the value of Adidas."
Recent allegations concerning top-level tennis highlight a growing market in corruption that goes hand in hand with a rise in online gambling.
The mining sector rides waves of China's confidence, while the rest of the country enjoys jobs growth and affordable prices. Does it make sense to speak of an 'Australian economy'?
Jakarta terrorism's roots in oppressed Aceh
"This is the blowback from a long forgotten war. The Jakarta bombers were willing to die for revenge at what they see as justified retribution for the suffering they have endured."
January's Jakarta terrorist attacks have their roots in the oppression and unrest of Aceh's hidden war.
First stop, Iowa, as primaries get started
Demographic insecurity. Australian submarine tender.
Quentin Dempster
ABC appoints Michelle Guthrie after flawed selection process
"Only two people were interviewed by the full ABC board for leadership of Australia's "most trusted and creative media organisation" and the salary of about $1 million that goes with it."
Paul Bongiorno
Tony Abbott leading the conservative fight from the backbench
"Instead of merely being a lightning rod for internal dissent, Abbott intends to lead it in public as well. He knows he won't be returning to the ministry. "
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flys about the nation.
Letters, Cartoon & Editorial
Palmer must pay for mistakes
While most people have no objection to an individual or company enjoying great profits as a result of clever business acumen, the notion that an individual or company has the private right to these profits …
'Room' author Emma Donoghue's unflinching eye
Room author Emma Donoghue talks about family and being Oscar-nominated for her film adaptation.
John Cale rerecords 'Music For a New Society'
The iconoclastic John Cale has rerecorded his notoriously difficult LP, Music for a New Society.
From the roots to the Enz.
A well-built hamburger is a beautiful thing.
The author's prognosis for a brain tumour was blunt: there was no cure. It is a fact she has been making sense of since.
A tour of Mumbai's Dharavi slums
Mumbai's sprawling Dharavi slums are a key manufacturing centre.
Playing for peace: Ali Abbas, 29, soccer player
Soccer player Ali Abbas on putting religion aside and playing to make people happier.
Fiona McFarlane
The High Places
Yann Martel
The High Mountains of Portugal
Ian McGuire
The North Water
The Quiz
South America.
David Bowie.
New York.
Becoming the first woman to travel into space.
Haricot or navy beans.
Martina Hingis, in 1997 at age 16 and four months. (Bonus point: Ken Rosewall, in 1972 at age 37 and two months.)
Woolworths Limited.
"I'll fuck that dog. I don't give a fuck. I don't have a sexuality."
The captain of the Sydney Roosters celebrates Australia Day by attempting to kiss a woman, simulating sex on her dog and then urinating on himself, which is an admittedly avant-garde re-enactment of the First Fleet entering Port Jackson.
"I felt really sad that they did not have the courage to go with an LGBTI person. I thought it was time."
The transgender activist complains she was not made Australian of the Year. She called David Morrison "a weak and conventional choice" – like Patrick White in 1973, who was quite LGBTI.
"Google et al broke no tax laws. Now paying token amounts for PR purposes. Won't work. Need strong new laws to pay like the rest of us."
The billionaire complains about the few hundred million in British back taxes paid by Google, somewhat ignoring the pathetic amount of tax his own companies pay.
"In Tasmania these days, there are harsher penalties for saving a tree than for endangering a child."
The former Greens leader reflects on being arrested at a peaceful protest to protect the Lapoinya forest from logging in North-West Tasmania. He faces five years in prison.
"Talk about innovation without a commitment to quality education is just talk."
The opposition leader announces Labor would fund further rollout of the Gonski plan if elected. In fairness, though, pretty much everything said in opposition is "just talk".
"That artist of yours is no good. He's made me look like a big, fat, greedy cunt."
The then businessman allegedly upbraiding gallery owner Ray Hughes over a portrait by Lewis Miller. Hughes is said to have replied: "He is a realist painter, you know."


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Popular TV actor Ziaul Faruq Apurba has casted in a drama with legendary actress Sharmili Ahmed.
They will be seen togather in a drama titled 'Apon Theke Por Bhalo' directed by Shadhin Fuad.Talking about the drama Shadhin Fuad said, "The story is based on two characters.
The drama will telecast on ATN Bangla tonight at 9 pm.
Actress Sharmili Ahmed said, "Apurba is a very natural actor. It is very pleasure to work with him. We tried our best to portray our characters according to the script."
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When you're trusting your hiring and candidate experience to a tech partner outside your organization, it's vital to be picky about who you select. The right tech partner will help achieve your goals and reduce the risk that comes with changing the status quo. There are thousands of tech companies out there – at HR Tech Conference & Expo 2018, the exhibit hall alone is the size of seven football fields. Use these questions to filter the field and vet your contenders:
Does the tech partner value your candidate experience like it's their own?
Not every vendor designs its product from the candidate's perspective. If candidate experience is your top priority this year, like it is for many other TA leaders, look for an organization which shares your view. Ask how your hiring process will become more candidate-centric with the platform, and how they will partner with you to build create a distinctive hiring experience that elevates your employer brand. Try it yourself so you can see if the technology is simple and easy to use for your candidates as well as your team.
What support is available for your users and for you after the contract is signed?
The answer to this question reveals quite a bit about a vendor's goal – is it sealing the deal or developing a long-term relationship with you? Great user support (look for 24x7x365 live customer support) reduces the risk to your candidate experience and encourages wider adoption throughout your organization. It also eliminates any burden for your recruiters, who might otherwise be seen as a help desk by hiring managers and candidates. Look for dedicated support for yourself, too. Your tech partner should be at your side, sharing knowledge, troubleshooting issues, and suggesting strategies for maximizing your ROI.
Do they have proven results in your industry that impact your bottom line?
Choosing a tech partner experienced with your industry's unique hiring challenges can reduce risk and speed up ROI. Ask about documented results, and speak with references who work in organizations very similar to your own. In addition, evaluate the vendor's understanding of the relationship between their solution's performance and your organization's bottom line. As you align your TA strategy with business KPIs, it becomes even more important that your tech partner be able to articulate the corresponding ROI.
Does the tech partner have a track record of market-driven innovation that will keep you ahead of the curve?
Look at the vendor's product development pattern. Are product updates and new features and functionality driven by your toughest challenges, or by the vendor's quest to be first to market with trendy tech? Tech partners who commit to market-driven innovation that solves problems and incorporates applicable science will keep you better positioned in the evolving talent environment.
Do they have in-house implementation support and experience with increasing adoption?
A plan for change management and well-considered communication that's handled by in-house staff is essential for gaining initial acceptance as well as widespread adoption of your new solution. If the vendor can offer you both, you know they're interested in being with you for the long-term.
Is their solution built with enterprise-strength security and compliance?
Find out if the vendor meets current global-level requirements for security and compliance, and responds in a timely way to changing regulations such as the GDPR.
Can This Tech Partner Meet All of Your Needs?
Ask how the tech partner will handle your growth. Do they have functionality now that you'll need in the future? Can they scale quickly to keep pace with your objectives? Can they meet all of your current needs? If the answers are no, you may want to consider a vendor with wider functionality – in other words, a single solution that can meet your needs now and in the future. While they may solve a specific problem very well right now, niche technologies add complexity to your role in the long run. A single solution will be more efficient for your team, and provide a better hiring experience for your candidates.
As you mull over the information you gather, ask one final question: Is this tech partner invested in my success? That's the key to success as you transform your hiring to digital.