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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United States Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday said he will try to block White House nominations for key jobs until he gets more information on last year's attack on the US mission in Benghazi, even after a TV network pulled back from a story on the attack that Graham had cited.
Sen Graham has threatened to block President Barack Obama's nominations of Ms Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve and Mr Jeh Johnson to head the Department of Homeland Security until the administration provides more information on how the attack occurred.
CBS news magazine 60 Minutes on Friday said it would correct an October report on the Sept 11, 2012, assault on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, saying that a source who told the programme that he had been present at the scene gave conflicting testimony to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Sen Graham had cited the report - which quoted a security official who described being at the compound during the attack, fighting off an assailant and seeing the ambassador's body - as evidence that the mission did not have adequate security despite indications militants were planning the assault.
Asked on CNN's State of the Union programme if he would lift procedural blocks on White House nominees after the 60 Minutes correction, Sen Graham said: "No. My request has been going on for a year, to talk to the five survivors of the State Department."
Republicans in Congress have said the assault on the mission and the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens show the Obama administration has failed to maintain security at foreign posts.
Sen Graham is demanding that Congress get to question five State Department employees who survived the attack.
"All I want to do is talk to the survivors, protecting their security, protecting their identity, to find out exactly what did happen," Sen Graham said on CNN.
Several other Republicans also have threatened to put holds on Ms Yellen's nomination, which would require 60 votes from the 100-member chamber to overcome.


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Windows User Home Folders
In a professional environment, you setup the permissions on the share, containing the user homes, in a way that allows the automatic creation for new accounts, without setting ACLs manually.
Preparatory work
To continue, make sure, that you have read the Setup and configure file shares HowTo and have complied the preconditions.
- Add the new share to your smb.conf
[home] path = /srv/samba/home/ read only = No
- Don't name the share "[homes]", as this is a special section (see the smb.conf manpage)! The "[homes] section can't handle the automatic folder creation, we'll setup below!
- Create the folder that will contain the home directories later. The permissions will be set later.
# mkdir /srv/samba/home/
- Reload Samba, to take the changes effect
# smbcontrol all reload-config
The following steps can be performed on any Windows client.
Note: If you have the requirement, that your users need to access their home folder locally on the server, too, you have to add a group that contains these user accounts. Add this group in all steps below and set the permissions to exactly the same than for "Authenticated users". Of course this group must be available locally trough Winbindd, sssd, nslcd, or other. This is required, because if the user log in locally on the server, there is no "Authenticated User"!
- Log on to a Windows machine using an account or member of a group, the "SeDiskOperatorPrivilege" was granted to.
- Open the Start Menu and search for "Computer Management".
- In the menu bar, go to "Action" / "Connect to another computer".
- Enter the name of your Samba server, you've create the new share on.
- Navigate to "System Tools" / "Shared Folders" / "Shares" and select the new added share.
- Right-click to the share name and choose "Properties" .
- Go to the "Share Permissions" tab.
- Change the share permissions to:
Authenticated Users: Full Control Domain Admins: Full Control System: Full Control
- If you have the requirement, that your users need access their home folder locally on the server, too, additionally or add a group that contains these user accounts. Because if the user log in locally on the server, there is no "Authenticated User"! The permissions for this addional group have to be the same than for "Authenticated users"
- If this fails with a "permission denied" error, recheck, if you use and account with SeDiskOperatorPrivilege privileges!
- Next go to the "Security" tab.
- Click, the "Advanced" button and in the appearing window the "Change permissions" button. In the next Window, uncheck the "Include inheritable permissions from the object's parent" option. Close the windows with "OK" until you are back in the "Security" tab.
- Click the "Edit" button to modify the filesystem ACLs according to the following:
Administrator: Full Control Authenticated Users: Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read Creator Owner: Full Control Domain Admins: Full Control System: Full Control
- The "Creator Owner" permissions are automatically limited to "Subfolder and files only". This is correct.
- Close the "Edit" window with "OK" and return to the "Security" tab.
- To prevent "Authenticated Users" to access the other users home folder, click the "Advanced" button again and in the appearing sub-window the "Change permissions" button. Select "Authenticated Users" from the list, click "Edit" and change the "Apply to" value to "This folder only".
- Close all Windows with "OK" to save the changes.
Define the users home folder in the account settings
For these steps, you must have the Microsoft RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) installed.
The account that is used for account creation must have the respective permissions in AD and on the home share (e. g. "Domain Administrator").
- Open Active Directory Users and Computer (ADUC).
- Edit an existing user account (or create a new one first), by right-clicking and choosing "Properties"
- If you plan to assign a UID in the "Unix Attributes" tab, then do this first and apply the changes. Then the user folders ACLs would include this UID, too.
- Switch to the "Profile" tab. Choose a drive letter the home drive should be be connected to, and fill the "To" field with the path to the users home folder. You can use the variable "%USERNAME%" instead of the individual username. This is useful, if you modify multiple accounts at once.
- Close the users properties window with "OK" to save the modification. The users home directory is created on the fly during the save processes.
Validate the result
On Windows
If you check the ACLs on the folder on Windows, you can see that the ACLs are applied as configured:
File:FS ACLs on users home folder.png
Only the defined users have permissions. "Authenticated Users" are not inclueded and can't access the users home folder.
On *nix
On *nix side, you have to check the entire ACLs with getfacl, to see the extended ACLs, too.
Here is the getfacl output of the folder that is shown above in the Windows example, too.
# getfacl /srv/samba/home/demo1 # file: srv/samba/home/demo1 # owner: 3000000 # group: Domain\040Users user::rwx user:Administrator:rwx user:demo1:rwx <-- This entry only appears, if you had assigned a UID in the "Unix Attributes" tab before the home was created! group::--- group:Domain\040Users:--- group:3000000:rwx group:3000002:rwx group:3000008:rwx mask::rwx other::--- default:user::rwx default:user:Administrator:rwx default:user:demo1:rwx <-- This entry only appears, if you had assigned a UID in the "Unix Attributes" tab before the home was created! default:user:3000000:rwx default:group::--- default:group:Domain\040Users:--- default:group:3000000:rwx default:group:3000002:rwx default:group:3000008:rwx default:mask::rwx default:other::---
As some of the xIDs are may not be resolved, you can search for them in the local ID mapping database of Samba for them. Example:
# ldbsearch -H /usr/local/samba/private/idmap.ldb xidNumber=3000000 dn # record 1 dn: CN=S-1-5-32-544 # returned 1 records # 1 entries # 0 referrals
As the xidNumber assignment is individual on each machine, there is no general translation table. But the output of the ldbsearcch command shows, that the entry with xidNumber 3000000 is assigned to the DN "S-1-5-32-544". A list of well known security identifiers is provided by Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243330/en

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Addons Detector
Addons Detector detects addons used by your installed applications. It has all the tools to find push notification ads and icon ads.
If you are looking for the app that uses AirPush or other push notifications, you can easily find the app and uninstall. Besides push notifications, using this app is a great way to see what advertising agencies apps use, and what tools they have integrated.
Does the normal scan not detect the spam ads? Enable the notification monitor and you can easily see which program puts a notification in your notification area.
Another cool feature that we added is the live scanner. This scanner scans newly installed and updated apps for selected addon categories and displays a notification if they are found. This feature is reserved for users that have donated.
If you are getting shortcut spam on your homescreen, we've added a new icon ad monitor that should detect that too.
The current list of addons we detect: (note: addon definitions are updated from the server, so there may be more than on this list. Check the help function to see all the addons we can detect)
#Push Notifications#
AirPush, Airpush Hidden (Suspected), Appenda, Beluga Boost, Custom PushAds (Appbucks), Custom PushAds (Bobgame), Custom PushAds (Feelingtouch), Custom PushAds (Letang), Custom PushAds (Nulldroid), LeadBolt, Moolah Media, Senddroid, TapIt
AdFonic, Adinch, AdKnowledge, Adlantis, AdMaker, Admarvel, AdMob, Admoda, AdSense, Aduru, AdWhirl, AirAd, Amobee, Appbrain, Burstly, BuzzCity, Cauly, Chartboost, Daum, Domob, Everbadge, GreyStripe, Huntmads, InMobi, Inneractive, JumpTap, Komli, Madhouse, Madvertise, MDotM, Medialets, Mediba, Millenial, MobClix, MobFox, MOcean, MoPub, Nexage, OneRiot, Papaya Offers, Pontiflex, Quattro, RevMob, Sellaring, Smaato, StartApp, Tapjoy, Vdopia, VSERV, Youmi, Zest
Apsalar, Claritics, Flurry, Google Analytics, InApp, Localytics, Medialets, MixPanel, Signal360, SilverPush
#Developer Tools#
aChartEngine, ACRA, ActiveAndroid, AndEngine, Android NDK, Angle, Basic4Android, BugSense, Corona, Crittercism, Dropbox, Facebook, FMOD, Fortumo, Getjar, Immersion Motiv, jMonkeyEngine, libgdx, Marmalade, MonoDroid, NullWire, OpenStreetMap, PayPal, PhoneGap, PowerVR Shell, RoboGuice, RobotMedia Android Billing, Ruboto, Titanium, Twitter4j, Unity3d, Urban Airship, Xtify, Zong
Beintoo, HeyZap, OpenFeint, Papaya Social, ScoreLoop, ScoreNinja, Skiller, Swarm
#Icon Ads#
Airpush Icon, LeadBolt Icon, SendDroid Icon, StartApp Icon
Amazon Licensing, Google Licensing Service, SlideMe SlideLock
Known issues
Samsung Galaxy 3 keeps talking to me when on my home screens saying folder is open or similar.
This seems to be an ICS/Samsung bug. It happens for some people and also with other apps that use the accessibility service such as Tasker, Light Flow and others.
Try to fix it :
Samsung S3: – Go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Talkback "ON" – Select "Settings" from the bottom of the page – Uncheck all Talkback options – Switch Talkback "Off" again – Go back to Settings -> Application manager -> All – Disable Google TTS (text to speech) – Disable Samsung TTS (text to speech)
We can't guarantee that our results are 100% correct. Sometimes addons, like pushnotifications, are integrated in larger sdk's, and the developer doesn't need to use them, although we detect them. We strive to be conservative about marking apps as suspected, but errors can occur.
Fix empty help screen.
Addons Detector v3.44 [Donate] / Mirror


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White Label Chino - Beige
- Brand: White Label
- Style: 8080
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- Colour: Beige
- Fit: Modern Fit stretch cotton
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1. Oprah Winfrey's OWN, a Blow for Entrepreneurship?
2. NABJ Leaves Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc.
3. More Mainstream Media Seek Hispanic Niche
4. T.J. Holmes, Russ Mitchell Kiss Weekend Slots Goodbye
5. Numbers Weren't Encouraging
6. Sports Editors to Train, Mentor Mid-Career Journalists of Color, Women for Management
7. Seeking Prime-Time Anchor Slots on Cable News
8. NAHJ Struggles With Finances, Cuts
9. Blacks More Deeply Into the Web
10. Essence Magazine Returns to Its Roots
A year in the quest for a news media that looks like America
In June, Michael Copps, the most progressive Federal Communications Commission member, said, "I'll put this simply — in spite of occasional instances of progress in recent years, media's overall grade in covering, reflecting, explaining and mirroring America's amazing cultural diversity is dreadful.
"Diversity of viewpoint, diversity in ownership, diversity in who and what we see on TV, and diversity in who runs the companies — all these are worse in media than in most other American industries."
Copps was reacting to a staff report for the commission, "The Information Needs of Communities," which was more neutral in tone — too neutral, in Copps' view.
It said: "For ethnic minorities, it is a real best-of-times-worst-of-times story. Minority ownership of broadcast TV stations, already too low, has now declined further, as has the number of minorities employed as journalists. On the other hand, digital media provide such low barriers to entry that minorities who have been shut out of mainstream media now have infinitely greater potential to create content and reach audiences. Without gatekeepers, minority viewpoints are freer to find their audiences."
It was as good a summary as any of the state of news-media diversity in 2011. Still, there were bright spots.
1. Oprah Winfrey's OWN, a Blow for Entrepreneurship?
OWN, the new cable network from Oprah Winfrey, got off to an impressive start when it debuted over New Year's weekend in 2011.
For its Saturday premiere, OWN was the No. 3 cable network among women age 25 to 54 during the 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. hours, behind only ESPN and USA, the Los Angeles Times reported. However, it wasn't long before OWN and Discovery Communications, Winfrey's partner in the venture, realized the venture was in trouble.
Winfrey wrapped up 25 years of top ratings for her own syndicated show, appointed herself CEO of OWN, and at year's end was weighing whether targeting African American viewers, who gravitated to OWN's reality show, "Sweetie Pie," might be its salvation.
OWN does not do news, and its impact on journalists was chiefly to provide inspiration.
Mike Green, a Medford, Ore.-based black journalist who has been urging others to become tech entrepreneurs, co-founded the America21 Project with just such an aim. Ki Mae Heussner of AdWeek wrote that "an increasing number of journalists have stopped fantasizing and are becoming a part of the stories they used to cover," that is, becoming part of startups.
Black non-journalists started or announced plans for Bounce TV, a broadcast network, the Black Heritage Network on cable and satellite, and Soul of the South Network, a new broadcast service.
In February, Magic Johnson Enterprises and Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. announced they had agreed to invest in Vibe Holdings LLC, the parent company of Vibe magazine and the music-and-dance TV show "Soul Train."
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, installed as chairman of the media company, said in a news release, "We will redefine Vibe Holdings as the center of influence for the coveted urban audience."
Johnson Publishing Co., the granddaddy of black-owned media, announced in July that for the first time an investor would beome a part owner of the family-owned company. The investor is JPMorgan Chase's Special Investments Group.
As the year closed, veteran journalist George E. Curry and his former associates at Black Entertainment Television and the iconic Emerge magazine of the 1990s were in negotiations to acquire Heart & Soul, a health-and-fitness magazine targeting black women.
2. NABJ Leaves Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc.
In April, the National Association of Black Journalists voted to withdraw from Unity: Journalists of Color, the coalition of the journalist-of-color associations, because "as a business model, UNITY no longer is the most financially prudent for NABJ and its membership."
Unity, whose remaining partners were the national associations of Hispanic, Asian American and Native American journalists, invited the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association to join, and it did. For 2012, there is to be a Unity convention in Las Vegas and an NABJ convention in New Orleans.
At a passionate and emotional business meeting that stretched for nearly three hours, members of the National Association of Black Journalists voted in August at their Philadelphia convention to "seek reunification with Unity: Journalists of Color as soon as is feasible," but "based on conditions involving the financial and governance structure of Unity that do not conflict with the best interests of NABJ." Committees were appointed on both sides to begin such talks.
3. More Mainstream Media Seek Hispanic Niche
Mainstream media companies continued their pursuit of the fast-growing Hispanic market with niche products. Ser Padres magazine, a Hispanic parenting publication from the Meredith Corp., which also produces Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle and Parents magazines, rose from $12.4 million in advertising revenue in 2009 to $15.5 million in 2010, according to January figures from the Publishers Information Bureau.
People en Español, owned by Time Inc., ranked third among monthly magazines in the number of ad pages gained. Univision, not mainstream but also not owned by Hispanics, announced it would launch a 'TV Everywhere' service next year with the debut of three Hispanic cable networks geared around telenovelas, sports and news, CNN en Español launched a new Spanish-language Web site, CNNEspanol.com, which will feature videos, exclusive interviews and news stories from around the globe."
At year's end, the Hearst Corp. said "Cosmopolitan Latina" would target bilingual Women and NBC News said it would launch NBCLatino.com to target Latinos, joining Fox News Latino and HuffPost Latino in cyberspace.
4. T.J. Holmes, Russ Mitchell Kiss Weekend Slots Goodbye
T.J. Holmes, the affable CNN weekend anchor, is heading for Black Entertainment Television.
Russ Mitchell, who anchors the "CBS Evening News" weekend editions and "The Early Show" on Saturday, and is national correspondent for CBS News' "Sunday Morning," the "CBS Evening News," and the weekday "The Early Show," is joining WKYC-TV in Cleveland.
Mitchell is to be managing editor, evening news and lead anchor of the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts for the NBC affiliate.
In June, Kathy Y. Times, then president of the National Association of Black Journalists, articulated many black television journalists' frustration with their inability to break out of weekend duty:
"Russ Mitchell of CBS News, Lester Holt of NBC News, and CNN's T.J. Holmes are weekend warriors who possess charisma, journalistic heft, and the handsome qualities to front a prime-time show. Mitchell's poise and professional bearing as he commandeered the historic announcement of Osama bin Laden's death surely put to rest any doubt about his prime-time readiness. Holt has been the go-to guy as a substitute for vacationing 'stars,' but his primary shift is the weekend."
5. Numbers Weren't Encouraging
The number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors reported in its annual diversity survey.
Minority journalists declined from 5,500 to 5,300, though overall, "American newspapers showed a very slim increase in newsroom employees last year, finally halting a three-year exodus of journalists," ASNE said. The percentage of minorities in newsrooms totaled 12.79 percent, a decline of .47 of a percentage point from the previous year.
In December, however, Alan D. Mutter reported in his "Reflections of a Newsosaur" that "The number of jobs eliminated in the newspaper industry rose by nearly 30% in 2011 from the prior year, according to the blog that has been tracking the human toll on the industry for the last five years."
In local broadcast newsrooms, "As far as minorities are concerned, the bigger picture remains unchanged," Hofstra University's Bob Papper reported in August in his annual survey for the Radio-Television Digital News Association. "In the last 21 years, the minority population in the U.S. has risen 9.5 percent; but the minority workforce in TV news is up 2.7 percent, and the minority workforce in radio is actually down from what it was two decades ago. Still, TV news diversity remains far ahead of newspaper," [PDF] the report said.
In newspaper and online sports departments, the percentage of sports editors at websites and newspapers who were women or people of color fell 2.3 percentage points — from 11.7 percent in 2008 to 9.42 percent in 2010, Richard Lapchick, the report's primary author, reported to the Associated Press Sports Editors.
Lapchick called for a news media version of the "Rooney Rule."
He told the Associated Press Sports Editors, "My primary new recommendation to the APSE is that it adopts a Ralph Wiley Rule," named after the late African American sportswriter. The Wiley Rule would be like the Rooney Rule in the NFL and would call for a diverse pool of candidates including men and women for each opening of these key positions.
The report showed that 97 percent of the sports editors at APSE newspapers and websites in 2010 were white, and 94 percent of sports editors overall were men.
"Just 5.5 percent of sports staffs, moreover, are black men, and only 3 percent are Latino men. Latino and Asian men increased by an average of .54 percent in sports desk job categories, except as sports editors."
The number of African American top sports editors at newspapers went from one to two and back to one again.
The American Society of News Editors held two "Leadership in Diversity" sessions for diversity leaders to reignite interest. "The point here is clear. We want to repurpose the news diversity argument from the context of a social experiment to a business opportunity. We want news organization business leaders to learn from those who have found real financial gain through diversity," said Milton Coleman, senior editor at the Washington Post and then ASNE president. He chose Walt Swanston, veteran of newsroom diversity efforts, as conference organizer, and other journalism groups signed on as partners.
Numbers from campuses weren't encouraging, either. A survey of 2010 graduates of the nation's journalism and mass communication programs showed that "once again faring worse than anyone in the job market were racial and ethnic minority graduates" [PDF], according to a report by the University of Georgia's James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, Sherrie Whaley wrote for the university.
The waning commitment to diversity was seen in ways large and small:
A special Time commemorative issue on the 10th anniversary of the Sept.11, 2011, terrorist attacks depicted no African Americans. In December, Steven Gray, the magazine's only African American correspondent, announced his departure.
An astonishing 10 African American metro or op-ed columnists stopped writing their columns in 2011, and most were not replaced by another journalist of color.
At the Washington Post, the Newspaper Guild announced in November that "The Washington Post has pushed out — or is trying to push out — at least thirteen people through layoffs, coerced buyouts or outright dismissal on dubious charges. "What's more troubling," said Fredrick Kunkle, co-chair of the Newspaper Guild unit at the Post, "is that more than half of those employees are African-Americans or Latinos."
6. Sports Editors to Train, Mentor Mid-Career Journalists of Color, Women for Management
The nation's sports editors put in motion a nine-month program intended to train mid-career women and journalists of color for sports department leadership positions.
Michael A. Anastasi, new president of Associated Press Sports Editors and managing editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, announced the program at the group's convention in Boston in June and told Journal-isms then, "I will be making this the major initiative of my term."
In September, the first four journalists were chosen: Ed Guzman of the Washington Post; Adena Andrews, ESPN-W; Carrie Cousins of the Roanoke (Va.) Times; and Dennis Freeman of the Beverly Hills (Calif.) Times. They were chosen from about two dozen applicants, Anastasi said.
7. Seeking Anchor Slots on Prime-Time Cable News
In January, Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, told Journal-isms "it's inevitable" that people of color will be hosting prime-time news shows on cable television.
In August, Michele Salcedo, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, wrote that she had met with Craig Robinson, newly appointed chief diversity officer for NBCUniversal, for more than an hour at the Asian American Journalists Association convention in Detroit. "Mr. Robinson assured me that the anchor lineup six months from now is not going to look as it does today. We also discussed establishing a pipeline to groom Latino broadcast journalists to fill positions throughout the newsroom as well as executive offices," she said.
In July, Kathy Y. Times, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, reported on a meeting with Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide. "NABJ Vice President of Broadcast Bob Butler and I talked with President Walton late Thursday, and he told us the network continues to seek and develop a candidate who has the image and substance to carry a prime-time show," she wrote.
Walton deployed Mark Whitaker, the former Newsweek editor who had recently became a CNN news executive, to talk with NABJ about finding suitable anchor candidates.
At year's end, no Latinos were anchoring MSNBC shows, and CNN still had no anchors of color in prime time.
Prompting much commentary, MSNBC appointed the Rev. Al Sharpton as host of the pre-prime time "Politics Nation" on MSNBC. Sharpton said he viewed his position as new turf on the civil rights "battlefield," engaging the right wing.
The NABJ board of directors apparently was not impressed by the networks' progress. Though the award was never presented, board members voted their annual "Thumbs Down" "to all cable networks for a lack of primetime on-air diversity."
* David Bauder, Associated Press: Fox continues dominance of cable news in up and down year, CNN shows prime-time gains
*Trymaine Lee, HuffPost BlackVoices: Al Sharpton Reinvents Himself For His Second Act
8. NAHJ Struggles With Finances, Cuts
Leaders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, wrestling with a financial crisis that resulted in a layoff of most of its staff and other austerity measures, told members at its June convention of another significant development.
"This convention here is our last stand-alone convention," Russell Contreras, chief financial officer, said at the organization's business meeting at Walt Disney World near Orlando. It would be looking for partners to share expenses going forward.
NAHJ said in December 2010 that it was projecting a $240,000 deficit for the year. "Our priority is to stop the bleeding," President Michele Salcedo told members at the convention.
Board member Jessica Durkin told her constituents that over the summer NAHJ would vacate its longtime headquarters at the National Press Club building in Washington and was searching the nation for alternative space. In April, Executive Director Ivan Román announced his resignation, and Salcedo said the board also cut expenses 15 percent.
The board also cut staff and included funds beyond June 30 only for an executive director "and a part-time contractor to match members with jobs." The part-timer is Kevin Olivas. Anna Lopez Buck, a former NAHJ executive director, returned to the job on an interim basis.
At the NAHJ convention, Contreras told attendees, "We are projected to end the year with more money than we started, but to get there we had to make a lot of painful decisions."
Contreras did not respond to an email Wednesday asking how NAHJ is ending the year financially, and NAHJ has issued no public statement on results of its austerity efforts.
[Lopez Buck said on Thursday, "We haven't closed out our 2011 financials and we don't have the end year projections available at the moment. We will be sharing the year end projections with the NAHJ membership very soon."]
Meanwhile, the much smaller Native American Journalists Association saw Darla Leslie, its president, resign her office in November, saying in a Facebook message, "I believe NAJA is on the verge of financial ruin. My resignation is a reflection of the inability, in my opinion, of our Board of Directors to take immediate action to remedy this situation."
9. Blacks More Deeply Into the Web
"African Americans are more likely to have created their own web content — by blogging, microblogging and social networking — than whites or Hispanics," according to the State of the News Media 2011 report released in March by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The section on African Americans, by Emily Guskin, Paul Moore and Amy Mitchell, says, "Almost a quarter (22%) of blacks created or worked on their own online journal or blog, compared to 14% for whites and 13% for Hispanics. African Americans also use social or professional online networking sites in greater proportions than whites. In May 2010, some 71% of African Americans said they used online networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, compared with 58% of whites."
Overall, "More people said they got their news from the Web than a physical newspaper last year — the first time in history this has happened, the Los Angeles Times said in reporting on the same study.
In June, Matthew Flamm reported for Crain's New York Business, "The black online-media segment . . . has been growing so fast it can be hard to keep track of the front-runners. The challenge now is persuading advertisers to step up investment in these targeted sites instead of favoring the bigger, general-market properties on the Web that attract audiences of all ethnicities.
" 'The growth of the segment is really what's important,' said Interactive One President Tom Newman, pointing out that there used to be Essence.com and BET.com and little else for blacks on the Web. 'If we can go to marketers and say, "This is a validation of the segment," that's good news for all of us.'
"The rapid growth is partly due to the closing of a longstanding digital divide between white and black users: the African-American Internet audience has increased by 30%, to 23 million, over the past three years, compared to an 8% rise in the white audience, according to comScore.
"An increasing number of new sites is also driving this expansion, sometimes at the expense of older ones." In July, NBC News' theGrio.com and Interactive One's NewsOne.com announced they would share news and resources in what the two companies touted as "an expanded platform for African-American journalism."
But Herbert Lowe of Marquette University, a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, wrote for the Poynter Institute, "Yes, the study says, blacks and Latinos have higher usage rates, compared with white owners, across a wide range of mobile applications.
"As other surveys have found consistently, however, most blacks and Latinos primarily use their cells for texting and for entertainment. Even if their phones make it easy to access the Internet, it's not news they're after.
". . . Media companies must better engage people of color as content creators and producers, not just users, said Chioma Ugochukwu, Ph.D., an assistant dean and my colleague in the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University."
10. Essence Magazine Returns to Its Roots
In February, this column noted that the March issue of Essence magazine, delivered during Black History Month, might as well be renamed "Wigs and Weaves." It seemed like that kind of advertorial. Subsequent issues weren't much different.
However, issues for the rest of the year represented a return to acknowledging the diversity among black women. Under Constance C.R. White, named editor-in-chief in March, Essence is showing women of varying skin tones and hair styles and tackling more subjects that bolster the self-esteem of its impressionable audience. The December issue included a piece by Denene Miller on colorism, defined as "the practice of extending or withholding favor based on a person's skin tone." "ColorStruck" was accompanied by a quiz by Ylonda Gault Caviness to determine whether you are.
In February, Essence spokeswoman Dana Baxter replied to Journal-isms' observation by saying, "Making such a broad generalization based on just one issue of the magazine obscures the brand and its inclusiveness over the past 40 years. At the core of Essence's mission is highlighting Black women's inner and outer beauty, as well as celebrating her in all of her diversity, which we do every month in ESSENCE and everyday on essence.com."
* David Crary, Associated Press: Killing of bin Laden voted top news story of 2011
* Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times: The Biggest TV Moments of 2011: Oprah, Steve Jobs, funny women and Casey Anthony (Oh, Florida!)
* Annette John-Hall, Philadelphia Inquirer: Some lessons from the news of 2011
* Tony Maddox of CNN, journalism.co.uk: '2011 is the most demanding year we can remember'
* Jack Mirkenson, Huffington Post: The Biggest Media Stories Of 2011
* Nielsen Co.: Nielsen's Tops of 2011: Television
* Project Censored: Top Censored Stories Top 25 of 2012
* Dylan Stableford, Yahoo.com: Why the media insists on publishing year-end lists before the year's end
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Sewing pencils...
When I was small I had a little denim pinafore dress with five fabric coloured pencils coming out from the bib pocket. The satin stitched pencil leads were so shiny and in such glossy, vibrant colours that they always felt rather magical and their loveliness has stayed etched in my memory. I told my daughter about this dress a few weeks ago and mentioned how well I thought the idea would work for a pencil case and then the idea was forgotten.
Then one morning last week, my daughter came into our room and eyed the little stack of Liberty fabrics left over from my scrap challenge tutorials on my chest of drawers and, walking her fingers gently over the folds of material and sighing at their loveliness, said: when you get time, do you think you might be able to make that pencil case for me with the coloured pencils on that you said about? Unbeknownst to my daughter, for no apparent reason I'd actually woken feeling rather useless and Eeyore that morning. I hadn't vocalised any of this, it was more just an in-head feeling of gloom that gently rumbled like low-level thunder clouds overhead casting dark skies in my brain (do you ever get this?). And after she'd gone to school, I realised that when I felt so very gloomsome and lacking in ability to be effective in doing very much of anything that I perhaps should be doing, the idea of absorbing myself in making a completely unnecessary pencil case (as I only make a new one for her in September each year) for someone who was guaranteed to be delighted by whatever I'd managed to produce by the end of the school day suddenly felt like the only thing I could imagine doing.
And by mid-morning, as I lined up reels of cotton to match the fabrics I'd chosen for the coloured pencils I was feeling altogether happier and entirely grateful to my daughter having set me this task in her sweet, unassuming way.
I practised sewing the pencil leads a few times before I began. I have an entirely mechanical machine, so these had to be stitched with one hand guiding the fabric, while the other hand attempted to slowly change the stitch width dial from 0 to 5 as I travelled from tip to base of the pencil lead. It's a method that doesn't yield perfect results every time and would probably be far better done on a machine with a digital display capable of being programmed for such a thing, but there's something wonderfully satisfying when an even-edge to these satin-stitched shapes is achieved.
And the lettering. I love that too: slowly following the lines of my pen with the machine requires an enjoyable level of focus and concentration that always leaves me feeling slightly disappointed when the last letter has been stitched.
So on the reverse of the pencil case, I wrote her name in the same italic script to prolong the enjoyment of sewing in this way and appliqued flowers cut from her favourite Liberty prints to go around it.
I won't see this again until July's end of term now: it's always a shock to see these pencil cases when they return home at the end of the year, both familiar and foreign with all the grub and pen marks accumulated from being so well used each day. I'm already hoping that she requests an identical one next year, because it was so much fun to make. But in the meantime, she's already dreamt up several other things she'd love making if I find myself at a loose end again. She's found these Liberty fabrics as inspiring and lovely as I have and has gone from wishing to have her bedroom in several shades of white, to saying how very lovely it would be to have an entire bedroom of Liberty prints.
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Ps. If you're interested in making something similar, but are yet to master applique or the satin stitch used to outline the pencil fabrics and their leads, it's all covered in my ebook here. Many of the scraps of Liberty print used in this pencil case came from Jo's shop, for I have to admit that after she sent me the scraps for my challenge, it fuelled an addiction and I returned only a week later to buy a handful of fat eighths for myself. The linen used for the main body of the pencil case is the same Ikea Aina linen which I mentioned in yesterday's post.


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Anywanwu is a journalist, publisher and editor in chief of The Sunday Magazine in Lagos. She was arrested following the publication of an article about an attempted coup against the Nigerian government on March 1, 1995, and was condemned to life imprisonment by a special military tribunal in a trial held behind closed doors on July 4, 1995. Her sentence was commuted to 15 years on October 10, 1995. Her trial was marked by numerous irregularities. She was denied the right of appeal. Christina Anyanwu is one of four journalists held in detention since the attempted coup in her country where infringements of the rights of the journalists and freedom of the press are innumerable.


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10 Best LMFAO Lyrics
Today, Sept. 3, Redfoo of LMFAO is celebrating his birthday! Happy birthday to Foo and his giant fro! In celebration of this momentous occasion, we've rounded up the 10 best LMFAO lyrics. After sifting through their many amazing and often hilarious lines, check out our picks for the best LMFAO lyrics, which cover a variety of things, from Santa Claus and Drano references to party rocking in the club. Take a look at these LMFAO lyrics and let us know which is your favorite — then try and count how many times the word "party" is used in this list.
"When I was a baby, I was suckin on t—-es / Now that I'm older, still suckin on t—-es / Different t—-es – but titties nonetheless."
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Sarah Palin on Oprah Winfrey Show: Five best outtakes
In outtakes from Sarah Palin's appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show, Palin talks about about keeping a journal, not banning Harry Potter, and dressing up as Tina Fey.
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Not all of Sarah Palin's interview with Oprah Winfrey made it onto Monday's show.
Sure, Oprah's broadcast had lots of good bits, from Palin's statement that a run for the White House in 2012 is "not on my radar screen right now," to the conciliatory Thanksgiving dinner invitation she says she proffered Levi Johnston, the father of daughter Bristol's baby.
But the outtakes have great stuff, too. Some are posted on Oprah's website.
Among the most interesting items:
Sarah's journal. In discussing how and why the ex-governor of Alaska came to write her memoir, "Going Rogue," Ms. Palin said "I have a journalism degree and have journalled all of my life."
Oprah jumped at this, asking Palin when she first started writing down her thoughts. For a second, the question hangs there, giving the impression that perhaps Oprah has caught Palin out in some kind of misstatement.
But Palin jumps back in, saying she's kept a dairy since she was in elementary school, and that recently she and her sister went over the diary entries. Lots of them dealt with chopping wood.
"Almost every day I have some kind of entry about having to stack firewood in order to heat the home," Palin told Oprah.
Sarah Palin and the sorcerer's stone. Palin said that many lies and much innuendo was spread about her in the media during the 2008 presidential campaign. Many of the false statements could have been disproved easily, Palin said.
Take the report that Palin banned books from the public library when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Palin told Oprah the story was completely untrue, and was spread by a Wasilla blogger who disliked her.
"Look at that list of books I supposedly banned – 'Harry Potter,' it wasn't even written when I was the mayor," said Palin.
For the record, Ms. Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," the first volume of J.K. Rowling's popular series, was published in the US in 1998.
Democracy in the Palin family. Palin told Oprah that at various points in her political life she has gathered all her family together, and the kids and her husband Todd have voted on her course of action.
"I've abided by the results of some of the polls that the kids have partaken in," she said.
Joining Sen. John McCain's presidential ticket was not one of those moments, though. When Palin thought Senator McCain was on the verge of asking her to be his running mate, she called her husband, who urged her to seize the opportunity.
"He said, yep, he would be there for me, and with me, and he has been," said Palin.
Joe Lieberman sets Palin free. Palin said she found prepping for the vice-presidential debate onerous, in the sense that she thought the McCain campaign was force-feeding her answers to various questions. At one point, McCain's good friend Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) of Connecticut came into the darkened hotel room where aides was peppering her with data.
Senator Lieberman said that the effort was "overly scripted," and threw everybody out of the room, Palin told Oprah.
According to Palin, Liebrman said, "I think I know you well enough already, Gov. Palin, to know that you need to be free, you need some liberty, you need to speak from the heart."
Lieberman told her to trust herself and have fun.
"Those things were so simplistic but so absolutely real and helpful at the time," said Palin. "I was so thankful for his words."
Sarah Palin impersonates Tina Fey. Palin told Oprah that at first she was only dimly aware of the popularity of Ms. Fey's impersonations of her on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL). At one point, she saw a clip of the show, with the volume down.
"I thought it was me," said Palin.
Later, when she went on SNL to try and neutralize the act a bit, she met Fey backstage. At the time, Fey was holding her three-year-old daughter Alice.
Alice looked at her mother, then at Palin, then back again.
"I said, 'We're confusing your daughter'," said Palin. "And we were."
Then Palin told Oprah that for years, people in Alaska had been telling her she looked like that gal on Saturday Night Live. So one Halloween, she dressed up as Tina Fey.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 n.9 Pretoria Sep. 2012
Law reform dealing with blood, tissues, organ transplants and health research: a lagging legal framework that is strangling innovation
Law is an important component of the regulation of the use of the human body or body parts, new medical developments, and research on human subjects. Complex moral, ethical and public policy considerations must often be balanced when determining the boundaries between academic freedom, promoting public health, and protecting patients and research participants. Despite the implications of revolutionary scientific developments, the South African parliament has struggled to create a principled framework for biomedicine and research.
Blood, blood products, tissues and gametes were, until 1 March 2012, regulated by the Human Tissues Act.1 This old Act was hopelessly inadequate to deal with many innovations such as pre-implantation diagnosis.2 To address this vacuum, parliament passed the National Health Act in 2003,3 and implemented most of it in 2005.4 The outstanding parts of chapter 8, dealing with blood, blood products, tissues and gametes, were operationalised this year,5 and accompanying Regulations were published in the Government Gazette.6
There was little legal regulation of health research until the National Health Act,3 which created a comprehensive, national ethical-legal framework. Like chapter 8, only parts of chapter 9 on health research and information were implemented in 2005,4 and the rest came into operation on 1 March 2012.5 However, unlike the provisions on blood, blood products, tissues and gametes, no regulations have been published to guide the implementation of the section on research with human subjects.
Regulation of blood, blood products, tissues and gametes in humans
Chapter 8 of the National Health Act3 and its accompanying Regulations6 create a comprehensive new framework for regulating, among others, the removal and use of blood, blood products and gametes from both living and dead persons. In this issue7 McQuoid-Mason points out that the new provisions have widespread implications for doctors assisting patients or their relatives with tissue donations, organ transplants and donations of human bodies or tissues, revocations of donations, and confidentiality regarding such donations. Pepper8 also notes that the reforms introduced by the operationalisation of chapter 8 are a welcome step towards 'partial relief from the regulatory vacuum'; although the new framework is imperfect, it is workable. McQuoid-Mason7 argues that this is partly due to the Regulations dealing with some issues not addressed by the National Health Act, e.g. they deal with recent concerns regarding the unlawful sale of kidneys to foreign patients, by prohibiting transplants into non-South African citizens unless ministerial permission is obtained. However, gaps remain in the reformed framework, and inaccuracies in the Regulations create new complexities.8 An example is the definition of transgenic cells in the Regulations,9 which are described as 'cells derived from a species other than human' - this is incorrect, as cells derived from other species are termed 'xenogeneic'.
Sadly, the above means that despite this law reform being less than 6 months old, it already lags behind medical advances. Furthermore, the gap between the law and science will widen further as new advances challenge the limited framework. Pepper therefore calls for reform of the National Health Act and its accompanying Regulations.8
The new framework for the regulation of health research with human subjects
The implementation of parts of chapter 9 of the National Health Act in 20054 heralded a new era in research regulation in South Africa. These created procedural protections for research participants, such as requiring ethical approval for all forms of health research, and giving the National Health Research Ethics Council the authority to issue ethical guidelines. Although this framework was welcomed, there have also been criticisms of it. In this issue Britz and Le Roux-Kemp10 identify key shortcomings in the national ethical guidelines regulating informed consent to participation in clinical trials and call for these to be revised, updated, and aligned with international guidance.
The operationalisation of section 71 of the National Health Act on 1 March 2012 has completed our ethical-legal framework by introducing substantive legal norms on how health research with human subjects should be undertaken, providing inter alia that research may only be undertaken if: (i) it is done in the prescribed manner; (ii) written consent is obtained; (iii) it can be shown that therapeutic research involving minors is in their best interests; ( iv) ministerial consent is obtained for non-therapeutic research involving minors; and (v) consent is obtained from parents or legal guardians for all research involving minors.3 However, no regulations have been published providing detail on, for example, how to obtain ministerial consent for non-therapeutic research involving minors.
Operationalising section 71 of the National Health Act has resulted in the law lagging behind science in terms of its conceptualisation of when and how human subjects should participate in health research, and has also strangled innovation. For example, Karim et al. have set out the public health arguments for why it is urgent that adolescents participate in research towards developing new HIV-prevention technologies.11 However, given the restrictive framework created by section 71, such studies will be difficult to undertake, as it is unclear, for example, how ministerial consent will be obtained. There is also a disparate impact on social science studies, as the new framework prohibits independent consent by minors and limits the authority to provide proxy consent to parents or legal guardians. The administrative burden of obtaining ministerial consent for low- or no-risk studies may also limit their feasibility.12
Regulations on how to implement section 71 are urgently needed. In the longer term, law reform is required which creates an enabling environment that facilitates appropriate research and adequately protects research participants.
The implementation of the final aspects of the National Health Act should be good news - however, it isn't, as the Minister of Health has ushered in a new legal framework that already lags behind scientific developments, and is strangling much-needed innovation in health. Political commitment is required to look to the future and ensure that there is synergy between unfolding scientific developments, public health and human rights.
Ann Strode
School of Law
University of KwaZulu-Natal
1. Human Tissues Act, No. 65 of 1983.
2. Strode A, Soni S. Pre-implantation diagnosis to create 'saviour siblings': A critical discussion of the current and future legal frameworks in South Africa. S Afr Med J 2012;102(1):21.
3. National Health Act, No. 61 of 2003.
4. Government Gazette No. 27503, 18 April 2005.
5. Proclamation No. 11 in Government Gazette No. 35081, 27 February 2012.
6. Government Notices R175-R183 in Government Gazette No. 35099, 2 March 2012.
7. McQuoid-Mason D. Human tissue and organ transplant provisions: Chapter 8 of the National Health Act and its Regulations, in effect from March 2012 - what doctors must know. S Afr Med J 2012;102(9):733-735 (this issue). [http://dx.doi.org/10/7196.SAMJ.6047]
8. Pepper MS. Partial relief from the regulatory vacuum involving human tissues through the enactment of chapter 8 of the National Health Act and Regulations thereto. S Afr Med J 2012;102(9):736-737. [http://dx.doi.org/10/7196.SAMJ.5940]
9. Regulations relating to the Use of Human Biological Material in Government Notice R177 of Government Gazette No. 35099, 2 March 2012.
10. Britz R, Le Roux-Kemp A. Voluntary informed consent and good clinical practice for clinical research in South Africa: Ethical and legal perspectives. S Afr Med J 2012;102(9):746-748. [http://dx.doi. org/10/7196.SAMJ.5498]
11. Abdool Karim Q, Khamny ABM, Frohlich JA, et al. HIV incidence in young girls in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa - public health imperative for the inclusion in HIV biomedical intervention trials AIDS Behav 2012; 23 May (epub ahead of print). http://www.springerlink.com/content/03343330413j2055/fulltext.pdf (accessed 8 August 2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-012-0209-y]
12. Strode A, Slack C, Wassenaar D, Singh J. One step forward, two steps back: Requiring ministerial approval for all 'non-therapeutic' health research with minors. S Afr Med J 2007;97(3):200-202.
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Personal Jesus: How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls
Marsh is senior lecturer and director of learning and teaching at the Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Leicester and Roberts is vicar of Collegiate Church of St. Mary in Warwick, England. They explain, "This book is a theological exploration of the contemporary cultural significance of popular music. It examines what popular music does to people and what people do with popular music through the kinds of music they listen to and the way they listen" (p. xiii). Neither of the authors is a musician, although they confess that both are music lovers. Some musicians likely will wish a third author, or a musician as consulting editor, had been included to represent the perspective of a practitioner.
The thesis of the work is clearly stated: "Ensuring the critical study of religion in relation to how people listen to contemporary popular music will foster appropriate understanding of the music itself. It will help us understand how religions do (and must) work in society today. More fully exploring the function of music as a form of popular culture will be good for society as a whole" (p. xv; emphasis in original).
The book is divided into three parts. The first, "Music and Religion," sets this work within the growing body of literature on theology and culture and includes an excellent overview of the development of Christian thought and diversity of approaches to the subject. Marsh and Roberts argue for an incarnational and sacramental view of culture when they insist that "in Christian understanding, a sacramental theology provides a basis for any aspect of popular culture's becoming a channel of the self-revelation of God, or of the grace of God" (p. 37). Since humans are created as divine imagers, what humans create also reveals God. Since humans are embodied, their bodies are an essential aspect of humanity, and thus "engagement with popular culture is an important part of reversing this process of excarnation and reengaging with the incarnation and sacramentality that is vital to Christianity" (p. 38).
Part 2, "Living by Pop Music," begins with a discussion of the music and the marketplace. It argues that "not only do pop music [including contemporary Christian music] and religion change in response to changing circumstances; they also affect and shape one another in the process" (p. 55). A chapter on pop music, ritual, and worship follows a discussion of music and the body and music and transcendence. The authors demonstrate through numerous examples how rituals "(1) help to shape self-identity, (2) assist in the organization of communal life, and (3) allow humans to experience alternate states of being. These features exist in creative tension with one another and with other elements of human experience" (p. 106). A final chapter evaluates changes wrought by digital music. No longer is the listener limited by radio or the artist's organization on an album or cd; rather, the consumer can purchase individual songs and create her own playlist, as "a soundtrack to life" (p. 111). Further, even in the midst of a crowd of people, through headphones or earbuds, the soundtrack can be private, personal, individual, and hidden. Musicians will likely wish there had been some discussion of the deleterious impact of such technology on the integrity of the artist's creation of an "album" of work.
The final section, "Pop Music and Theology," begins with a discussion of the practices of listening and of how to process the content that is heard. Particularly helpful is the summary of seven functions of music (pp. 130–33). It is followed by an extended treatment, through many examples, of how music and theology intersect. The authors correctly observe that "theory/theology is always embedded in practice and inextricably linked with practice. Music works in practice and use and is not to be tied down to notes, lyrics, or sounds, but involves all of these and the contexts and practices of use; in the same way, theological themes are not to be understood divorced from the practice of living" (p. 181).
A postscript provides practical and concrete applications, or consequences, for the church, academy, and daily life. The authors conclude: "Our hope is that this book successfully invites all students of human culture to recognize that—whether or not we call it education, spiritual development, personal growth, religious experience (or a combination)—the 'something else' that can often be discerned or happens as people devote themselves to listening to popular music means that it is frequently more than mere entertainment" (p. 189). Their hope might be a bit modest; perhaps it would be better to acknowledge that there is no such thing as "mere" entertainment.
This is an excellent book and highly recommended. At times, it will be difficult for some readers as the authors engage technical literature. Yet it repays diligence and persistence. It provides an overview, summary, and critical engagement with the growing body of literature on popular music and theology. It is full of examples from pop music that both illustrate the authors' argument and provide context for application. It is a model of cultural engagement worth following.
About the Contributors
Glenn R. Kreider
Prior to teaching at DTS, Dr. Kreider served as Director of Christian Education and then as Senior Pastor in Cedar Hill, TX. His research and writing interests include Jonathan Edwards, theological method, theology and popular culture, and our eschatological hope. Dr. Kreider believes that grace really is amazing; it is a thought that will change the world. He is married to his best friend, Janice, and they have two grown children and one granddaughter, Marlo Grace. He and Janice enjoy live music, good stories, bold coffee, and spending time together and with their rescue dogs—a terrier/greyhound mix named Chloe and a black lab named Carlile.


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Sarah wrote yesterday in her Godzilla post that Sam Taylor-Johnson is her hero.
Um. Yeah.
Godzilla is on its way. And Aaron Taylor-Johnson is on promotion. Some people are saying that Godzilla could be like John Carter which…really? Even though Bryan Cranston's in it? Oh. Wait. Bryan Cranston was in John Carter too.
Even if that turns out to be the case, it doesn't mean that Aaron Taylor-Johnson's career will stall the way of Taylor Kitsch's. For starters, ATJ is in The Avengers. So, um, definitely NOT Taylor Kitsch.
But I'm stalling.
I'm just stalling you from looking at these photos. GODDAMN Aaron Taylor-Johnson. GODDAMN.
He's 23 now. They've been together for 5 years. Since he was 18 years old. And he tells NYLON that pre-Sam, he was wild, he was druggy, he f-cked a lot of girls. And then he met her and the "oats were sewn". And that sounds very reasonable and totally understandable…for a 30 year old. But you have to remember, he decided to "sew his oats" when he was 18!!!!
It will never, ever, ever be not fascinating to me. Ever.
ATJ goes on to say that instead of hanging at the club these days, he's at daddy and baby play groups, singing and dancing. And that he had to cut off a few friends who couldn't get down with his situation with Sam. And now, a father of four, he's working on a career as an action hero. They've officially relocated to Los Angeles.
Why does this make me uncomfortable?
These two interviews are the most "movie star" that ATJ has ever felt. And they just got to Hollywood. Let's keep an eye on this.
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As previously covered in this column, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles is one of the premier homes of all things pop-culture related art. From its flagship "Crazy 4 Cult" show, to exhibitions based on video games, television, comedy, and the like, 1988 is at the fore-front of the collector art craze. Â Also, if I were to open up my apartment to visitors, you would soon realize that my distinct decorating style could be called "1988 Chic," since my house is littered in various art purchased from the Gallery in the past decade or so.
So, it goes without saying that I love Gallery 1988. I also love the films of Edgar Wright.
There are few artists on the planet that I consider to have a perfect track record, and Edgar is one of those people. From Spaced (which is probably the closest I've ever related to fictional characters), to the Cornetto Trilogy of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The Worlds End (which opens this Friday in theaters everywhere and is a MUST-SEE for anyone who likes this column), to one of my favorite films of all time, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Edgar makes movies for fans of movies, and now… the fans are giving back.
I was lucky enough to attend the opening of "The Official Edgar Wright Art Show" (which runs through September 7th) at Gallery 1988, a new show based on Wright's works and featuring over 100 artists and pieces, all made as visual-love-letters to everyone's favorite British pop-culture junkie. I was doubly lucky to get to chat with Edgar for a few minutes about the show.
Matt Cohen: Hi Edgar, thanks for taking the time to chat with me. How did the idea for this show first come about?
Edgar Wright: Jensen from the gallery contacted me and said they were thinking about doing a show about me, and I said "Oh, I have a new film coming out in October. Do you think you could it then?," and he said "Yeah, we should be able to". Then a few months later I had to say "Oh… It's moving to August. (laughs) Do you think you could do it then?". So he was very accommodating to push it forward by three months, so it would coincide with the release of the movie.
Actually the first time I'd come to Gallery 1988 was because Kevin Smith had told me about "Crazy 4 Cult." This was in 2007; I don't know which "Crazy 4 Cult" that was, it may have been the first or the second one. He said "Come down to the gallery. There's this Shaun of the Dead picture that you're going to want to buy," and my rather stupid response was, "Buy it? But I directed the movie! Can't I get it for free?" His response was, "C'mon man, starving artists. You need to support the artists." So I came down, and Kevin was right and I bought the painting, which is actually on the wall in my house. The one with them playing the Penguins, by Dave Chung.
MC: Now, you've had toys based on your films, t-shirts, and all kinds of other merchandise, but you're one of the rare filmmakers to have a lot of art inspired by your work. How does that feel?
EW: It's nice. A lot of art based on my work, with no sequels; that's pretty good. It's amazing, it's overwhelming. Earlier today, me and Simon and Nick came around before the gallery was open, and it's just overwhelming. It's incredible. I don't know what to say. I've done five films, and a TV show, and some other bits and bobs, so it's amazing to see "Don't!," my Grindhouse trailer, represented by a couple of pieces; and Spaced, the TV show. It's really amazing.
MC: And Colin (the dog from Spaced) finally got his own piece! I remember we spoke about the Spaced boxed set when it came out, and Colin wasn't on it, so I'm glad to see he finally got his due.
EW: Yeah, I think Simon actually bought the Colin piece.
MC: Now you're a huge film and pop culture buff, in general. What's your feeling on this "Geek-Art Explosion" that's been happening, with shows like "Crazy 4 Cult" and galleries like 1988, and the new poster collecting craze?
EW: I think basically it's taken the place of poster design, because most contemporary film posters lean towards the photographic and the kind of Photoshopped-like posters, so the art of illustration is gone. But, it's meant that there's been this kind of huge surge in alternative art, so I think that's amazing.
MC: There's over 100 pieces here based on your work, but if you had to single out a few that you thought fans should really see, what would they be?
EW: Well, I bought a few (laughs). One that I particularly gravitated towards is the one with the Winchester inside of the bottle. To be honest, there's too many great pieces. It's really astonishing.
MC: Your film, The World's End, comes out this Friday. If the world really was coming to an end on Friday, how would you spend the next few days?
EW: Telling people to see the film on Friday, before it's too late.
MC: Lastly, is there any filmmaker who you'd like to see get their own "solo gallery show" like this one?
EW: Oh, that's a very good question. Quentin has had one, right? Coen Brothers have had one. Maybe it's already been done, but have they ever done an Alfred Hitchcock season? That would be amazing; Hitchcock would be great.
Check out a couple of my favorite pieces from the show, and then head over to Gallery 1988 to see the art for yourself (and buy some of it, before it goes, which it will… quickly.)
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Blue Moon
The month of July 2004 has two full moons, which means one of them is a Blue Moon. But will it really be blue? Believe it or not, scientists say blue-colored moons are real.
July 7, 2004: When you hear someone say "Once in a Blue Moon" you know what they mean: Rare. Seldom. Maybe even absurd. After all, when was the last time you saw the moon turn blue?
According to modern folklore, a Blue Moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. Usually months have only one full moon, but occasionally a second one sneaks in. Full moons are separated by 29 days, while most months are 30 or 31 days long; so it is possible to fit two full moons in a single month. This happens every two and a half years, on average.
Right: One way to make a blue moon: use a blue filter. That's what Kostian Iftica did on July 2nd when he photographed this full moon rising over Brighton, Mass.
July has already had one full moon on July 2nd. The next, on July 31st, is by definition a Blue Moon.
There was a time, not long ago, when people saw blue moons almost every night. Full moons, half moons, crescent moons--they were all blue, except some nights when they were green.
The time was 1883, the year an Indonesian volcano named Krakatoa exploded. Scientists liken the blast to a 100-megaton nuclear bomb. Fully 600 km away, people heard the noise as loud as a cannon shot. Plumes of ash rose to the very top of Earth's atmosphere. And the moon turned blue.
Krakatoa's ash is the reason. Some of the ash-clouds were filled with particles about 1 micron (one millionth of a meter) wide--the right size to strongly scatter red light, while allowing other colors to pass. White moonbeams shining through the clouds emerged blue, and sometimes green.
Above: Still smoldering after all these years: a recent picture of Krakatoa. Credit: Robert W. Decker of Volcano World. [More]
Other less potent volcanos have turned the moon blue, too. People saw blue moons in 1983, for instance, after the eruption of the El Chichon volcano in Mexico. And there are reports of blue moons caused by Mt. St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991.
The key to a blue moon is having in the air lots of particles slightly wider than the wavelength of red light (0.7 micron)--and no other sizes present. This is rare, but volcanoes sometimes spit out such clouds, as do forest fires:
"On September 23, 1950, several muskeg fires that had been quietly smoldering for several years in Alberta suddenly blew up into major--and very smoky--fires," writes physics professor Sue Ann Bowling of the University of Alaska. "Winds carried the smoke eastward and southward with unusual speed, and the conditions of the fire produced large quantities of oily droplets of just the right size (about 1 micron in diameter) to scatter red and yellow light. Wherever the smoke cleared enough so that the sun was visible, it was lavender or blue. Ontario and much of the east coast of the U.S. were affected by the following day, but the smoke kept going. Two days later, observers in England reported an indigo sun in smoke-dimmed skies, followed by an equally blue moon that evening."
In the western U.S., there will be wildfires burning on July 31st. If any of those fires produce ash or oily-smoke containing lots of 1-micron particles, the Blue Moon there could be blue.
More likely, it'll be red. Ash and dust clouds thrown into the atmosphere by fires and storms usually contain a mixture of particles with a wide range of sizes. Most are smaller than 1 micron, and they tend to scatter blue light. This kind of cloud makes the Moon turn red; indeed, red Blue Moons are far more common than blue Blue Moons.
Absurd? Yes, but that's what a Blue Moon is all about. Step outside at sunset on July 31st, look east, and see for yourself.
Editor's note: The definition of a Blue Moon used in this story, "the second full moon in a calendar month," is a curious bit of modern folklore. How it emerged is a long story involving old almanacs, a mistake in Sky & Telescope magazine, and the board game Trivial Pursuit. Want to know more? Folklorist Philip Hiscock recounts part of the story; Sky & Telescope explains the rest.