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Publication: Toledo Blade
Author: Rod Lockwood
Date: October 6, 2010
Famed musician to interact with students, play at BGSU
By 2000 Branford Marsalis had played with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, his brother Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, the Grateful Dead, and Sting, among countless other musical luminaries.
He had led The Tonight Show band for Jay Leno, attended the Berklee College of Music, and recorded seven albums. Marsalis, a three-time Grammy winner who by then was a household name — at least in homes where people sit around talking about jazz — was 40 years old and already had accomplished more musically than someone far older.
All of which added up to just one thing for Marsalis and it had nothing to do with congratulating himself for being so good.
It was time for a new challenge, in this case making a major foray into the world of classical music, which is obviously a lot different than the jazz and pop genres where he was most comfortable. The move meant learning an entirely new form of music and taking the chance on failing.
"When I started playing classical music in 2000 I was immediately confronted with what a lousy saxophone player I was," Marsalis said in a phone interview last week. "I had all these things that worked in jazz and suddenly they just didn't work at all, man. And it's beautiful. It was shocking, but it was beautiful."
He's in Bowling Green Wednesday talking to students as part of BGSU's Dorothy E. and DuWayne H. Hansen Musical Arts Series and Festival Series. Thursday night he performs with his jazz quartet on the campus.
Marsalis is a contrarian (wait until you hear what he has to say about Toledo's Art Tatum) with a fearless streak. He's outspoken and his loyalty is to the music, not to a fan base or hidebound traditions.
"I'm 50 now and I question things and probe things, including myself, and I see the world very differently now than I did when I was 30 whatever," he said.
For example, the decision to play classical music was born from a fierce desire to play music that meant something to him and if that involved stepping far outside his comfort zone, so be it.
"I am not afraid to sound bad if that's what it takes for me to get better. Basically I played a lot of bad concerts for about 10 years and then I played a couple last year and people said, 'Hey man, that's pretty good,'" he said.
"You have to weather the storm. Kids weather that storm in high school and playing recitals and crapping their pants and getting nervous. They go to Juilliard, they play a recital every year. That wasn't my world. I had to do it in a tuxedo in front of a whole bunch of people and an orchestra."
Marsalis, the oldest brother in a family of musicians that includes his father, Ellis and brothers Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason, is not happy with the state of jazz music now, calling it "very insular, very technocratic, and very think-tank like."
His problem is that he feels the modern form places too much of an emphasis on soloing and technique and not enough on melody and the song itself.
"They don't play ballads very well and when they play ballads they make the solo parts faster," he said, noting that he could give a longer, more "wonky" answer. "I think the simplified version is that the modern performer pays no attention to the melody at all and is astutely focused on his or her solo."
He also thinks the musicians don't listen to each other enough when they're playing, so instead of the music being a "conversation" between the artists, it's a lot of squawking. Marsalis advised checking the body language of jazz musicians. Are they looking at each other and communicating or are they in their own worlds?
He sees too much of the latter.
"They look down at the music stand like they're watching a bug crawling slowly to devour another bug or something," he said, laughing.
Without being asked, he brought up Tatum — who he said was a great soloist, but not so adept at playing with other musicians — as an example of someone other musicians feel is great, but the public never quite understood.
"For instance, Art Tatum is revered among jazz pianists. I mean he was one of those guys who was a real brilliant genius guy and he didn't play well with others at all. His best work was solo piano work. And his work with groups was absolutely horrid. Because he couldn't get that thing."
That "thing" is what Marsalis plans to discuss with students during his stay in Bowling Green this week. It's an emphasis on songs, on melodies, and on staying true to the music. And, kids, don't think you're going to argue him away from his positions.
He said he looks forward to the give and take with young musicians, but sees them much as Blakey and Davis and others must have seen him when he was younger and sparring with them.
"You've got to understand something, you're trying to win an argument right now. I'm doing the thing that you aspire to do. I'm doing it. So if you want to argue, then go to a Web site and go with those other nerds. I have an answer for everything and it's not like I just have a strong opinion that I can't back up. I can back it up with recordings."
In addition to his ongoing educational work, classical playing and his quartet, Marsalis is on a new album with his father and siblings called "Music Redeems." He also manages his own record label, Marsalis Music.
"An Evening with Branford Marsalis" will be at 8 p.m. Thursday at Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Tickets are $47, $40 and $32 for adults and $25 for students. Information: call the box office from noon to 6 p.m. at 1-800-589-2224 or 419-372-8171.
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"Southeastern" is Jason Isbell's critically acclaimed new album, and XPN's CD of the Month this August. Jason will take the stage this Friday for an XPN Free At Noon.
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jason Isbell rose to fame in 2001 after joining the alt-country rock band Drive-By Truckers. Isbell cut his teeth writing, recording and touring with the band for six years and put out three records with them before leaving the band in 2007 to start a new project. That same year Isbell released his first solo album, Sirens of the Ditch, before forming Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit. Isbell put out two albums with his band the 400 Unit between 2009 and 2011, but has since transitioned back into a solo act for his fourth studio album, Southeastern, which was released in June 2013. Each of Isbell's solo albums seems to out-do the last, which holds true for the most recent album, which showcases Isbell's thoughtful lyrics and steady southern drawl. The talented lyricist and performer, who has previously toured with Ryan Adams, will be making a stop on his U.S. tour at World Cafe Live for a full show on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 8pm. You can buy tickets here:
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In this simple tutorial, I will write how I made Sketchbook series of wallpapers. I wanted to draw small sheet of notebook paper on wooden table. To start, I found an appropriate stock image of wood texture from www.sxc.hu.
To make background more interesting, open Effects menu - Distort - Lens correction, and set Vignette amount to about -30..35.
I could draw sheet of notebook paper using vector tools, but I decided to take actual sheet and scan it. Because paper is white, I put it under black book and scanned this way.
Open scanned image in Photoshop, open Levels (Ctrl-L), move black triangle to the right as shown here, and white rectangle to the left. Paper should become completely white (no light grey) and background completely black.
Invert image (Ctrl-I). Then, if your image is flattened" (there is only one layer called Background) you should "un-flatten" it. To do it
Remove white from the image. Use the following commands:
- Ctrl-A (select all)
- Ctrl-C (copy)
- Q (enter quick mask)
- Ctrl-V (paste)
- Q (quit quick mask)
- Del (delete selection)
- Ctrl-D (deselect)
Then use Ctrl-U (Hue/Saturation window) and set Lightness to -100.
Invert image - our paper is white again. Copy and paste it to our original file (with wooden background).
If you prefer, you can use the same Hue/Saturation window (Ctrl-U) to make paper beige color (use Colorize checkbox for that).
Next step is to create shadow that will make paper edges flow" above the wood a bit. Duplicate layer with paper
Apply a little Gaussian blur (Effects menu - Blur - Gaussian blur) with radius = 1-2 px. Set layer mode to Soft light or Overlay.
In Layers palette, move layer with shadow under layer with paper. Select layer with paper and make similar transform, but warp the other side (Edit - Transform - Warp): Warp = Arch, Bend = -1 or -2.
Find appropriate texture for paper. This is texture I have in my stock images storage.
Paste it in new layer above layer with paper...
... and Create Clipping Mask (Ctrl-Shift-G), from Layer menu.
Scan the sketch, paste it into new layer right after layer with paper texture.
Set layer mode to Multiply, then Transform (Ctrl-T) as needed - resize and rotate.
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Don't get us wrong, we're all for making comics easily accessible for new and casual readers, but when everything seems to have a giant "#1″ on it, those of us that are keeping up with these things on a regular basis (but are also easily confused) start feeling a little bewildered.
We'd like to think that this is all done with good intentions, but more than once is the time we've accidentally bought an issue we didn't mean to because of a deceptively confusing header or banner on a cover.
And don't even get me started on those issues that were "#7.INFINITY" or whatever.
Lotta good comics out there though.
Lotta crappy ones too, I guess.
There's a new New Warriors #1 that just came out this week. Can you believe that? I thought it was pretty good.
That "last" issue of Daredevil that just came out this week was great.
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Julie Jason: Regulators shine a light on dark-pool data
Last week, for the first time, regulators made dark-pool data available to the public.
Dark pools execute trades off exchanges. They are described as equity trading systems that do not publicly display orders, allowing investors to buy and sell securities anonymously, off of public exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The move to provide trading data to investors is spurred by regulators' recognizing that transparency is essential in promoting investor confidence in the financial markets. The data are made available by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which now provides free access to weekly aggregated trade data at https://ats.finra.org/. Called Alternative Trading System Transparency Data, the website shows trades by symbol or by ATS. Unlike securities information processors, ATS attributes trades to specific dark pools. FINRA is the largest independent regulator of securities firms in the U.S.
For example, in the report for the week beginning May 12, UBSA UBS Securities LLC reported the highest number of trades for the week (2,307,746), followed by CROS Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (2,189,977 trades), LATS Barclays Capital Inc. (1,701,372 trades), DBAX Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (1,117,870 trades) and MLIX Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. (1,099,830 trades).
Using the new website, you also can look up dark-pool trading for individual stocks or ETFs.
For example, the report for the week beginning May 12 shows SPY (SPDR S&P 500 ETF) as trading 63,303,753 shares executed through a total of 167,005 trades. The largest number of shares (19,538,402) was executed through 33 trades by DLTA Dealerweb Inc. The second-largest number of shares (5,898,439) was executed through 20,036 trades by Cros.
At the other extreme, PDQM PDG ATS Inc. executed a single trade for 100 shares, as did LQFI Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
"Now that this information is available, investors have a window into what is really happening," said Steven Joachim, FINRA's executive vice president of transparency services.
According to a June 4 Wall Street Journal report, "Dark Pools Shed Light on Their Operations," Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs Group and IEX Group Inc., recently disclosed how they operate. For example, Credit Suisse described Crossfinder, its dark pool, as "an anonymous matching engine available to Credit Suisse clients, internal trading desks and Credit Suisse affiliates." It employs "anti-gaming measures" to prevent high-speed traders from taking advantage of slower investors, the document said. In a separate document, Credit Suisse said it allows high-frequency traders in its dark pool but has "developed tools, technology and processes ... to mitigate risks associated with certain types of market behavior."
The Journal article quoted Adam Sussman of Liquidnet Holdings Inc., a dark pool that specializes in helping institutions trade large blocks of stock, as pointing out that dark pools operate differently: "Not all dark pools cater to the same investors and strategies."
"FINRA's commitment to transparency is bringing light to what was previously a dark area of the equity markets," explained Joachim. "Making this information available to both the investing public and market participants provides an unprecedented view into the activity of these highly significant trading venues."
According to FINRA's release, "prior to FINRA making this data generally available, ATS volume has been provided primarily to professionals, based on voluntary reporting by some (but not all) ATSs, on an aggregate, monthly basis. FINRA's collection of the data under its rule is designed to ensure that the data reported is complete and accurate, and by making the data available on a weekly, symbol-by-symbol basis, provides a new level of transparency that may be reviewed and studied by non-professional and professional traders, academics and regulators."
How investors will use this new data will depend on the individual. Transparency is the goal.
Julie Jason, JD, LLM, award-winning author of "The AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad," and "Managing Retirement Wealth: An Expert Guide to Personal Portfolio Management in Good Times and Bad," is principal of Jackson, Grant Investment Advisers, Inc. of Stamford. Please email her with questions at firstname.lastname@example.com or write to her c/o The Advocate, 9A Riverbend Drive South, Box 4910, Stamford, CT 06907. Copyright 2014 Julie Jason.


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The use of social media to organize and fuel riots in Great Britain has led some Western public officials to speculate about limits on BlackBerry messages, Twitter and Facebook.
Such talk has not gone unnoticed by more-repressive nations.
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Radio Australia: Myanmar's solution to ethnic clashes is chilling: HRW
Myanmar's solution to ethnic clashes is chilling: HRW (click to view article & video)
A Myanmar Government Commission report has recommended a family planning program be implemented to curb the growth of the country's Muslim Rohingyas.
The region has been plagued by ethnic clashes between the Buddhist majority and Muslim minority.
Fighting over the past year has left hundreds dead and tens of thousands homeless.
The commission has found that high Rohingya birth rates have been a factor in the tensions.
It also recommends sending more troops into troubled regions to quell the violence.
But Human Rights Watch says the recommendations are disturbing and will only increase tensions.
HRW's deputy Asia director Phil Robertson says government troops are guilty of stoking the flames of racial hatred in the fledgling democracy.
"Human Rights Watch released a report last week documenting that security forces had been involved in ethnic cleansing against humanity and crimes against humanity, against the Rohingya in Arakan State," he said.
Mr Robertson believes the idea of population control has insidious undertones.
"When you talk about one ethnic group trying to limit the population growth of another ethnic group. Even though it's voluntary, nevertheless, it is very chilling."
Rohingya leaders also say they weren't consulted by the commission and their views aren't represented in the report.
The commission report also recommends that Muslim Rohingya be segregated from Buddhists, but it acknowledges that is not a permanent solution to the problem.
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An Idaho in GTA III.
GTA Vice City
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GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories
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The Idaho is a coupe featured in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto Advance, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Depicted as a large, two-door 1970s coupe with a soft-top, the Idaho's styling contains elements of a fourth generation Buick Riviera but the front is closer to a 1975/'76 Chevy Caprice (with added turning signals). The GTA Advance rendition is depicted with a dimension dissimilar to that of other Idaho's, with a shorter front end and a smoother front profile, but retaining a different top color.
The Idaho has looked virtually the same in most game it has appeared in, with noticeable tweaks and changes in minor details, mainly on its wheels and windscreens. The GTA Vice City rendition, in particular, received better detailing, but the game's rendition was not carried over to GTA Vice City Stories, as it has been for most other vehicles from GTA Vice City. Instead, GTA Vice City Stories reuses GTA III's or GTA Liberty City Stories' rendition of the Idaho.
During development of GTA III, the Idaho was named the "Hachura", a name previously used for another car in Grand Theft Auto 2.
GTA III (Rear quarter view).
GTA Vice City (Rear quarter view).
GTA Liberty City Stories (Rear quarter view).
GTA Vice City Stories (Rear quarter view).
Due to its heavy build and soft suspension, the Idaho lacks serious performance credentials, with poor speed and steering. In GTA III though, it has some of the best brakes in the game, being one of the only two vehicles that scrapes the front bumper on the ground under full braking (the other being the FBI Kuruma). This places the car at a standing that is even lower than that of an Esperanto, but is still faster than a Manana. The crusher scrap value of the car in GTA Advance is $512.
Notable owners
- Mike Forelli drives an Idaho during "Mike Lips Last Lunch" in GTA III.
- One type of car wrecks that can be seen in GTA III, and reused in GTA Vice City, GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories, uses a similar model as early versions of the GTA III Idaho. However, the wreck is not to be confused with a second, roofless variant; although the second wreck derives textures from the Idaho wreck, it bears little resemblance to the Idaho or the Idaho wreck.
- The Supa Save! in Portland View, Portland.
- The Old School Hall in Chinatown, Portland.
- Parking lot next to the Liberty City Memorial Stadium in Belleville Park, Staunton Island.
- Kenji's Casino in Torrington, Staunton Island.
- GTA Vice City
- Is seen driving around or parked in Downtown Vice City.
- Car park, North Point Mall in Vice Point.
- Many of the Idaho's Wrecks can be found in Little Havana and Little Haiti.
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- In the Newport Multistory Car Park in Newport, Staunton Island.
- Parking lot of the Liberty Tree offices in Bedford Point, Staunton Island. (Sometimes a Stallion will spawn instead)
- Big Shot Casino in Torrington, Staunton Island.
- Western housing project in Wichita Gardens, Shoreside Vale.
- GTA Vice City Stories
- In front of all protection racket businesses.
- Occasionally found in parking lot of Vice Point Mall in Vice Point.


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Mr. & Mrs. Josh Jones
Miss Amber Rolf and Mr. Josh Jones were united in marriage June 30, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Grand Island. The bride's parents hosted a buffet dinner and reception at the Liederkranz. On the eve of the wedding, the groom's parents hosted arehearsal dinner at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Grand Island. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Rolf of Fullerton. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gentleman of Silver Creek, and Mr. and Mrs. William Rolf of Fullerton. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Jones of Broken Bow. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stivers of Callaway, and Mr. and Mrs. Don Jones of Ansley. The bride is a graduate of Fullerton High School in Fullerton. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Nebraska at Kearney with a bachelor of arts in education and Doane College with a master of education in curriculum and instruction and now works as a special education teacher at Newell Elementary in Grand Island. The groom is a graduate of Broken Bow High School. He graduated from Mid-Plains Community College with an associate of applied science -electrical technology and nowworks as a service technician at Pella Windows and Doors in Grand Island. Following their honeymoon to St. Lucia, the couple resides in Grand Island


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday that it was "unsustainable" for President Barack Obama to keep rebuffing Republican demands to negotiate deficit reduction in exchange for raising the debt limit and restoring government funding.
"The long and short of it is, there's going to be a negotiation here. We can't raise the debt ceiling without doing something about what's driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means," Boehner told reporters.
He was responding to Obama's earlier statements reiterating his demands for "clean" debt limit and government funding measures.
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Otto Warmbier, student released from North Korea, has died, according to his family
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Otto Warmbier, the local high school graduate who was arrested and detained in North Korea, has died according to a release from his family.
Warmbier was studying abroad in China when he joined a tour group in North Korea. He was detained at the airport and sentenced to 15 years hard labor for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster.
A team of doctors at University of Cincinnati Medical Center discussed his condition on June 15th, two days after Warmbier was flown in to Lunken Airport in a coma.
Dr. Daniel Kanter, University of Cincinnati Health, described Warmbier as being in a state of unresponsive wakefulness. "He has not spoken, he has not engaged in any purposeful movements or behaviors," said Kanter.
North Korean officials said that Warmbier fell into a coma after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill in March 2016. UC Health doctors said that they see no evidence of botulism. They said that he suffered extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain as a result of cardiopulmonary arrest. Doctors say that usually happens after intoxication or trauma. They also said that, aside from some MRI images and lab results from North Korean medical personnel that accompanied Warmbier, they're not exactly sure what happened to him.
Warmbier's family didn't learn about those conditions until recently. They did not believe the explanation from North Korea about what happened to Otto.
"I'm so proud of Otto, my son, who has been in a pariah regime for the last 18 months, brutalized and terrorized and he's now home with his family," says Fred Warmbier.
President Trump called the family concerning Otto. Fred Warmbier says he was gracious and was concerned about Otto's condition. Warmbier credits the Trump administration for bringing Otto home.
The following statement is issued at the request of Fred & Cindy Warmbier and family:
It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home. Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20pm.
It would be easy at a moment like this to focus on all that we lost – future time that won't be spent with a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds. But we choose to focus on the time we were given to be with this remarkable person. You can tell from the outpouring of emotion from the communities that he touched – Wyoming, Ohio and the University of Virginia to name just two – that the love for Otto went well beyond his immediate family.
We would like to thank the wonderful professionals at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who did everything they could for Otto. Unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today.
When Otto returned to Cincinnati late on June 13th he was unable to speak, unable to see and unable to react to verbal commands. He looked very uncomfortable – almost anguished. Although we would never hear his voice again, within a day the countenance of his face changed – he was at peace. He was home and we believe he could sense that.
We thank everyone around the world who has kept him and our family in their thoughts and prayers. We are at peace and at home too.
- Fred & Cindy Warmbier and Family
Wyoming City Schools released a statement regarding Otto's death:
Wyoming City Schools is deeply saddened by the loss of Otto Warmbier. The countless contributions he made to his school and community through his leadership, actions, and limitless enthusiasm will be felt far into the future.


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Volume 18, Number 2
March 2001
Criminal Records of the Poor
The Impact on Eligibility for Affordable Housing
By John J. Ammann
With full implementation of welfare reform, there are thousands of people coming off public assistance and coming out of job training programs who cannot move into available housing or jobs because of a history of minor criminal activity. These are a few of their their stories, along with suggestions for addressing their needs.Story 1: Taco Bell Blues. Mary is a single mother with three children. During her stay at a homeless shelter, Mary worked two part-time jobs, one at a Taco Bell and the other at a warehouse. One day, after working a shift at Taco Bell, she took her two fringe-benefit tacos with her and boarded the train to head for her job at the warehouse. She found a seat and unwrapped a taco. A security guard advised her of the rule against eating on the train, and issued her a summons to appear in court. Mary didn't have a way to the courthouse on her court date, and failed to appear. A warrant was issued for her arrest. When Mary was ready to move into transitional housing, a police check showed the outstanding warrant. The shelter told her to clear up her "rap sheet" before she could move into her apartment.Many poor persons have criminal histories. A final barrier for families who are ready for transitional or permanent housing is the existence of an outstanding warrant or unresolved minor criminal charge. Typically, a client has violated a municipal ordinance and been given a summons to appear in court. The most common charge is riding public transit without paying. For homeless men, common charges include public urination, trespassing, and disturbing the peace. The client misses the court date because of a lack of transportation or childcare, or because the client couldn't take time off from job training or newly found employment. When the client fails to appear in court, an arrest warrant is issued. Police do not actively seek these people to arrest them, but if they are stopped for any reason and the officer checks their name in a police department database, the warrant is revealed and the person is taken to jail. Typically, bond is $100 or $200 on these minor charges, an insurmountable amount for a poor person.
A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that 54 percent of the homeless have some history of incarceration, but that figure is misleading. While 49 percent of the homeless have spent five or more days in a local jail in their lifetime, only 18 percent have spent time in prison. These figures show that most of the homeless who are labeled as having a prior criminal history have only minor offenses in their background. Story 2: Begging a Cop for a Donut. A homeless man sought help for an outstanding warrant for "panhandling." One morning he entered a coffee shop and purchased coffee, but could not afford to buy anything to eat. He spotted a police officer and asked for 50 cents for a donut. The officer wrote him a summons for panhandling. The homeless man couldn't make it to court on the date designated, and a warrant was issued.Federal policies on criminal activity. Federal policymakers require careful scrutiny of the backgrounds of applicants for public and subsidized housing. Part of President Clinton's "One Strike and You're Out" policy attempts to keep criminals from ever entering public and subsidized housing. Federal regulations direct housing authorities to look at a family's "history of criminal activity involving crimes of physical violence to persons or property and other criminal acts which would adversely affect the health, safety or welfare of other tenants." The regulations on assistance in the Section 8 program state that a housing authority may deny assistance to an applicant if any member of the family commits drug-related or violent criminal activity, even if there is no arrest or conviction. The housing authority need only show by a preponderance of evidence that a family member has engaged in such activity. Typically, a police report is relied on to deny a family's application. These regulations, if implemented fairly, would not serve to prevent clients with the minor types of violations discussed here from obtaining housing.
While federal regulations determine who must be kept out of government-subsidized housing, landlords who participate in the Section 8 program are free to use their own screening devices, which can be even more stringent than the federal rules. There would appear to be nothing to prevent a private landlord from saying that he or she will not accept Section 8 voucher holders who have convictions for even minor offenses.
It is hoped that social service agencies and nonprofit housing providers will carefully examine an applicant's criminal record to determine the seriousness of the charges before denying an application simply because of the existence of a record.Story 3: How to Turn $12 into $900. A homeless man was caught riding the train without having paid the fare. At his first court date, the judge indicated that the charge would be dismissed if the man could pay $12 in court costs within 30 days. The man didn't have $12, didn't show up in court, and moved out of state. When he returned to the St. Louis area, he was stopped on a street corner by the police and questioned. The police ran a check, and he was arrested on the outstanding warrant, which was now four years old. In that four years, the city had scheduled repeated court dates for the man. Each time that he failed to appear, a new warrant had been issued and a charge added for the warrant fee. By the time he was arrested, his fines totaled more than $900.Opportunities for attorneys. Lawyers around the country are responding to the challenge of helping low-income people with minor criminal charges become eligible for affordable housing. In many communities, an annual event known as Standdown for Homeless Veterans provides free legal assistance to help veterans clear up minor criminal matters on the spot, as judges and their clerks set up a portable, on-site courtroom, complete with computers to pull up records, and dispose of cases.
More sustained efforts are being made with the help of funding by state and foundation grants to pay legal aid offices to help clear up the records of people enrolled in welfare-to-work programs. This funding is important for legal aid programs because Legal Services Corporation (LSC) regulations generally prohibit the use of LSC funds for assistance in criminal cases. While in many cases the charges are quasi-criminal in nature in that they are violations of ordinances and not true crimes in the traditional sense, many legal aid programs avoid any possible violation of the rules by using non-LSC funds.
Attorneys who represent housing developers and owners of rental property can educate their clients about the effect of zero-tolerance admission policies. Affordable housing developers often seek the advice of counsel in developing lease forms and admissions policies. Lawyers can inform their clients that outstanding warrants for minor offenses should not be used to deny a person housing, and explain that hardworking people can miss court dates for many reasons. The charges themselves are often minor and usually arise out of the person's homelessness or financial situation.
Attorneys might offer to speak to police departments about a more compassionate approach to law enforcement as it relates to the poor. Officers need to realize that many of these cases eventually get dismissed because, when viewed in the context of the entire criminal justice system, many of the "crimes" are victimless, and society would be better served by simply ignoring them.
John J. Ammann is the director of the law clinic as Saint Louis University School og Law and an assisstant professor.
- This article is an abridged and edited version of one that originally appeared on page 222 of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, Spring 2000 (9:3).


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Classes for my masters degree are winding to an end, and the last one, soon to be finished, has been "Sexuality and Science", a marvelous exploration of everything from gay genes to intersex surgery to the case of the female orgasm. I wrote a paper on two SF stories, David H. Keller's "The Feminine Metamorphosis" and Theodore Sturgeon's "The Sex Opposite" and their relation to the sexology of their time. It's an adequate paper, but not much more, since I've been so scattered and busy that I couldn't give it the time it deserved, but the research was great fun, and I thought I'd share a little bit of what I discovered about a bizarre man named Eugen Steinach. (Well, I don't know if he was bizarre himself, but his experiments certainly were.)
Steinach was fascinated by sex hormones, and in 1912 and 1913 began experimenting with guinea pigs, neutering infants and then inserting glands from guinea pigs of the opposite sex into them. Writing about these experiments later, he was able to insert such marvelous sentences as, "For, after all, the gonads are the very citadels of sex." (That comes from his 1940 book Sex and Life, p.61.)
The effect of the gland transplants on the guinea pigs was that the animals took on characteristics and behaviors of guinea pigs of the opposite sex (e.g., formerly female guinea pigs mounted unaltered females). For a good analysis of these experiments, see Anne Fausto-Sterling's book Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.)
Steinach didn't stop with animals. In 1915, a colleague of his, Robert Lichtenstern, performed a testicular transplant on a man wounded in World War I. The soldier's testicles had been lost as the result of a gunshot wound, and so Lichtenstern transplanted into him the undescended testicles of another man conveniently waiting for surgery for this condition. Of the man who received the transplant, Steinach wrote:
His appearance was improved and his intelligence was strikingly increased: the facial expression now became lively, the adipose tissue on the neck gradually disappeared, and the moustache grew again. He married a year after the operation, and eight years later (Lichtenstern's paper is dated 1924) all his secondary sex characteristics were in normal condition, his body hair of normal masculine distribution. He had to shave himself several times a week, just as before his injury. He was normally muscular and could satisfactorily pursue his calling as a farmer. Neither had he any complaint about his psychosexual life, even though he has lost his capacity for propagation. To the particulars supplied by Lichtenstern in the year 1924 may here be added that Leopold M., even today, more than twenty years after the operation, is still quite normal in masculine appearance, intelligence, and sex instinct, and enjoys a happy married life. (76-77)Steinach was inspired, and quickly joined with Lichtenstern to perform surgery that he would not write about in Sex and Life -- surgery to cure homosexuals. In a 1945 overview of Steinach's work for The Scientific Monthly, Harry Benjamin wrote:
In 1918 ... Steinach and the Viennese urologist Lichtenstern published a paper with the optimistic title "Conversion of Homosexuality through Exchange of Puberty Glands." This was a practical application of Steinach's researches. Homosexual men were castrated and another man's cryptorchic (undescended) testicle, which consists of predominantly interstitial tissue, was implanted. The homosexual tendencies disappeared and a normal (heterosexual) libido developed. Such, at least, was the conclusion that the authors drew from the report of their patients.Benjamin expressed skepticism about the "success" of the experiments, noting that "homosexual" is not a simple category or condition that can be isolated and treated. Anne Fausto-Sterling said of the experiments on gay men, ""As time went on ... the failure of the operations became evident, and after 1923 no further operations were done."
Soon after, though, Steinach became famous as a proponent of rejuvenation therapies, and he created the Steinach Operation (PDF), a vasectomy surgery that would supposedly revive and prolong male potency -- its supporters included, among others, W.B. Yeats and Sigmund Freud.
Eventually, Steinach's work fell out of fashion and he was considered more of a quack than anything, but he is a useful exemplar of scientific attitudes and assumptions about sex, gender, and sexuality in the first part of the 20th century. Which brings us to David H. Keller's story "The Feminine Metamorphosis" (published originally in Science Wonder Stories in 1929 and reprinted in Sam Moskowitz's anthology When Women Rule, which I discovered via Justine Larbalestier's The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction). Keller's story involves a group of smart, liberated women, angry about inequalities of work and pay, who go to China, perform numerous "gonadectomies" on Chinese men, and transplant the male extracts into themselves. Soon, they are men, but men with all the wiles and fashion sense of women, which means they can take over the entire world if they're not stopped (of course, they are, and everything is returned to the natural order God created). I can't resist quoting the story:
We built up an organization and went to China. There we secured material for twenty-five thousand ampules of male gonadal solution, highly concentrated and of uniform strength. We purchased our so-called College in France and there, after all forms of imaginary deaths, our five thousand heroines came. First, they were thoroughly treated with radium and the X-ray to produce bodies that were neutral, as far as sexual characteristics were concerned, and, after that, each one was given five doses of the substance that I was able to isolate and which, for convenience, I called MALE-FINE XXX. In a remarkably short time, these heroines experienced the desired physical changes, their voices deepened, became wonderfully masculine; they developed such growth of hair on the face that they had to begin shaving once a day. There was also a rather typical change in certain deposits of subcutaneous fat. But why go into all these details? It is sufficient to say that five thousand well educated, rather beautiful women entered our French laboratory and five thousand persons who looked like well-bred cultured men left it.This relates to Steinach not only because of the science and pseudoscience of hormone transplantation, but also because of Steinach's theory of "hormone antagonism", which he described in Sex and Life:
If an ovary is implanted in a male whose testicles are intact, the ovary is unable to hold its own for any length of time, and the same applies to testicles when implanted in the body of a female with normal ovaries. They cannot survive. This lack of accommodation indicates a certain antagonism between the sex glands. (83)Keller's story is an allegory warning against letting female human beings stray too far from their "natural" roles as wives and mothers. He shows what the liberal women of the time really want to do, which is destroy men. It's not about equality, it's about androcide. At the end of the story, the leader of the masculinized women details her "final dream of a manless world":
We do not want two sexes in this fair world of ours, not as long as one sex can run it so efficiently. But, of course, that sex has to continue on in its existence; we do not plan to destroy humanity. What I have in mind is the perfecting of parthenogenesis. By that I mean the reproduction by virgin females of eggs which develop without being fertilized by the male principle or sperm cell. ... Later on, we will consider the production of females from ovamaters in the laboratory and thus save our mature females the time and suffering of bearing their young. The growth of the young female, from the egg up to the second or third year of life, will be provided for in our Government laboratories and nurseries. I am at work on these problems now, and, just as soon as we feel strong enough to take over the government, I shall be able to present a perfect plan for the development of future feminine generations that will in no way have the curse of masculine associations.What she doesn't know is that the male gonadal solution is filled with a disease that causes only minor trouble to Chinese men, but that makes anyone else go insane. And so their plan is foiled! The message is clear: If women aspire to leave the roles nature (aka "God" in the story) has created for them, they will decide that men are extraneous and then they will go insane. Just like lesbians.
(As for the other story I wrote about in the paper, Sturgeon's "Sex Opposite", all I said was that Sturgeon and Alfred Kinsey had similar attitudes. I'll post some thoughts on that later.)


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Trustees approve budget of $306.7 million for fiscal 2013
Growth of student body will moderate, some class sizes will be reducedThe Brandeis University Board of Trustees has approved a $306.7 million budget for the coming fiscal year that includes carefully selected investments aimed at moderating the growth of the student body, reducing select class sizes and improving the first-year student experience, advising, career counseling, technology resources and the Rose Art Museum.
"This is a budget of investment," said Provost Steve Goldstein, who heads the university's budget and planning committee. "We are selecting areas where we can support significant programs right away -- emphasizing this year those that have a positive effect on student life.
"We are always looking short-, medium- and long-term in our budget. The choices we make reflect our values and our needs. There are many other areas we want to support and we hope get to many of those in the coming years as we align our priorities with our resources through the strategic planning process," he added.
Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel said a major goal in the fiscal year 2013 budget was to improve the student experience, from residential halls to classrooms.
"Chief among this year's concerns was moderating the growth of our student body, both lowering the size of select classes and decreasing the number of incoming first-year students," he added.
Under current projections, Flagel said, the Brandeis fall class will be 800-820 students, compared with last fall's class of 858 – the largest in school history. It will rank as the second largest, he said.
"This should alleviate some issues in our residence halls and with class availability is subsequent years," Flagel said.
"Another aspect that is heavily weighted is our commitment to providing access by keeping Brandeis well out of the range of the most expensive institutions while maintaining our dedication to funding a need-blind/full-need financial aid process within the scope of our resources," he added.
The budget includes a total cost increase of 4.1 percent for returning undergraduates and 4.85 percent for new students. Total cost for continuing undergraduate students will be $56,022, while total costs for new undergraduate students will be $56,407. Graduate students should consult their individual schools for their total costs.
"The university budget and planning committee has been very intentional about keeping our increases as low as possible, especially for continuing students. At the same time, the committee sought to balance the need for fiscal restraint with the desire to ensure and enhance the student experience, both in and out of the classroom," said Flagel.
Brandeis also committed to spending a total of $86.5 million in financial aid for undergraduate and graduate students — an increase of nearly 7 percent, or $5.5 million -- over the current budget.
Among the highlights of the budget, which will take effect July 1, 2012:
- $1.9 million in new investments aimed at targeted areas.
- Additional sections of introductory language classes and some higher-level language classes will be limited to 18 students.
- A first-ever pilot for a new Brandeis model for "Living-Learning Communities" that bring together incoming first-year students who share an interest in leadership and academic and co-curricular learning in a residential setting. The working titles for each community are "Media, Politics and Society" and "Global Connections," and they will involve intimate engagement with faculty and Community Advisers.
- A pilot of a new series of seminars for first-year students called JustBooks. These small seminars will engage students in humanist inquiry and will honor the university's focus on social justice.
- Additional resources for both Advising and Career Counseling to provide students with greater guidance during their Brandeis years and into their post-undergraduate years.
- A re-investment in Library and Technology Services, which was deeply impacted during the economic crisis. Areas targeted for improvements include library collections and subject-area librarians, information security, overdue computer refresh and classroom equipment renewals across campus, upgrades to the campus learning management system, data warehousing and efforts to protect unique archival and special collections from environmental damage.
- An investment in the re-energized Rose Art Museum.
Frances A. Drolette, senior vice president for finance and chief financial officer, said the spending plan is a cautious reflection of the improved financial climate, the desire to fund some immediate priorities that align with the university's values and mission, and a recognition that other initiatives will await the results of the ongoing strategic planning effort.
"The university continues to operate in a stable but resource-constrained environment…. Such measured steps are deemed necessary to our short-term efforts but do not presuppose directions or preempt choices that will result from the strategic planning effort," Drolette said in her prepared presentation to the Board.
"The core principle in all these efforts is that the budget must include adequate and sustainable resources to support the critical academic and strategic priorities of the university," she added.
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Just about every job description lists a series of prerequisites. Three-to-five years' experience, a certain college degree, etc.
Look at it from a 10,000-foot perspective. Let's say you have a lack of customers and you think it is time to hire another marketer for your company.
Does that mean you need five years' experience and a bachelor's degree from James Madison University?
No, what you need is someone who is going to get you more customers.
The point is the focus of the screening process shouldn't be to search for a list of credentials.
Instead, the focus should be on finding what people have the skills, i.e. the skill in the example above of getting more customers, that are going to solve whatever business problem you face.
New Tech Means Better Solutions
The reason prerequisites exist in the first place is because they can be used as filters to quickly scan through dozens of resumes. A person doesn't have an MBA? Throw out the resume. A person doesn't have five years' experience? On to the next one.
But, with new screening technologies like VoiceGlance, there is a better way to screen candidates that takes less time than looking through resumes. By asking them real-life situations through a platform like VoiceGlance, you can quickly gain an understanding of their skills and thought-process. Using the example above, you can ask the aspiring marketers how exactly they are going to get your company more customers, and then compare their answers to see who really is the best fit.
Make no mistake – it isn't the point of these screening tools to discount a college degree or years of experience. Those should allow a person to answer the screening questions better. Instead, what new screening tools like VoiceGlance are intended to do is give you some real insight into what skills and ideas the person has, instead of assuming from their credentials.
Going Forward
Okay, so if you don't have prerequisites, what should you have in your advertised job description? Just the job description. If the duties are clearly outlined, unqualified candidates will likely not apply, or if they do they'll be weeded out quickly.
However, people who earned a skillset in an unconventional way now will, and perhaps they would be a better fit. And today that is more and more likely, as the Internet has unlocked many unconventional ways to learn new skills.
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@ Sandra: Why do you think this self-promoting hype is any worse than other posters' self-promoting hype?
As far as I can tell, the only difference is more people have commented on it.
does your product offer some sort of analytical algorithm sensor thing to determine if someone is lying when answer said questions?
No really. Because if someone is going to lie on a resume I would assume they might falsify the answers to your questions too. But I could just be super cynical.
Three pointer, Sandra!
I'm with you Sandra. Why Matt "features" this crap is beyond me. It really is.
I'm about ready to start suggesting a name change for this place. A few that come to mind:
NonRecruiterBlogs.com or HRSoftwareBlogs.com seem to be more appropriate as of late.
But Matt - seriously. Are you aware of the kind of content "formerly" found here? The content that made this site great? Why do you feature this BS?
@Jerry - Feel free to help bring it back by leading by example and adding some content from a real recruiter. Until then, I need content, and the only people creating it seem to be content marketers, so if you'd like to help a brother out and turn the tide, I'd welcome your perspectives - or anyone else out there who, apparently, are too busy filling reqs to make the site quite what it was when Ning was en vogue, no one was hiring and recruiters had plenty of time on their hands.
Here are some possible aids to the situation:
1) Make it clear (in writing) to all posters that they may only include the name or hyper-link to their product /service in their poster bio. If they don't they will receive a warning, and they get banned if they do it a second time. Also, posters would need to immediately accept all comments- no "pending approval" or "closed to comments". As an alternative/supplement: have a "Paid Infomercial" section- we might get the same crap, but at least you and RBC would be making money off it.
2) It's HARD to write a full article,but it's not hard to raise a point/question or two. Perhaps a separate section where people could do (question/point or two) that without submitting a full blog might increase traffic. It could be all "old school" BBS/WELL- retro and ****.
3) While I don't care for all the "Recruiting 101" stuff, it may be very valuable to other, more junior people. Perhaps there could be "harder"/more segregated sections so people can go to either everything if they choose, or just the sections they like. That way, nobody need complain about irrelevant content.
Folks, what do YOU think?
That may be the problem Matt. "I need content".
Why does the need for content trump the need for quality? If there were less BS marketing pieces, the "real stuff" would be easier to spot. Each article would have multiple comments, which in turn would spark more commenting.
This is like letting the weeds take over because you need more vegetables in your garden.
@Jerry - In my mind, it doesn't. And your metaphor is an apt one. That said, the "real stuff" is here, for sure, and the best way to make sure that it doesn't get buried is to help share and comment on it. The reason that this post is sitting at the top of the charts in terms of popular content this week, for example, is because so many people - present company included - only choose to focus on calling out the shit instead of encouraging the good stuff. I've had so many contributors who have added awesome posts ask what they're doing wrong, and truth is, the traffic shows that they're kicking ass. The bad news is no one lets them know it, so they wonder why this craptastic stuff gets people commenting and theirs doesn't. I know better than anyone how hard it is to positively reinforce when trolling is much more fun, but what you're describing is a function of a community based site like this one...


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Is It Wrong To Sleep With Your Sister?
The winner of the Google Suggest contest.
From all across this great nation (and Canada), entries arrived in my inbox for Slate's Google Suggest contest. The question at hand: What's the best example of "less intelligent" Google query contrasted with a "more intelligent" Google query?
Sorting through the contenders led to more than a few instances of intellectual whiplash. One moment, I'd be considering a stemwinder such as "Why is it thatonly part of the energy stored in one trophic level is passed on to the next level?" and the next moment, I'd be learning about "cake farts."
Without further descent into fetishes, let's go to the top five.
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This entry earned points for subtlety. Just dropping the E in where revealed a dedicated community of Erin Andrews peephole seekers. The name of the unfortunate ESPN sideline reporter does not appear in the "where can" list, which also includes the incredible: "where can I read books online."
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|There really isn't much difference between the results here, but I love the idea that Google is smart enough to know that deaf leopard should take us to the promised land of ripped jeans and laser-light displays.
|Third Place
While technically not a "less intelligent" vs. "more intelligent" entry, "how can I destroy" takes third place for demonstrating the disquieting juxtapositions coughed up by the machine logic of Google Suggest—destroy your jeans or destroy the world. Suggest is like one of your smart, undersocialized friends who blurts relevant yet inappropriate facts at parties.
Consider the jolt received by the new parents who wanted to learn "How to defrost breast milk."
|Second Place
This one boggles the mind a bit. I suppose person is a more civil way to refer to ourselves than human, a word that brings out our animalistic side. To be fair, "Can a human outrun a bear" is a great question.
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The winning entry, from Ted Bendixson, follows Google Suggest into the realm of moral inquiry. It doesn't neatly divide into "less intelligent" and "more intelligent," but it's the best example I received of how one word can make all the difference. Wrong involves love affairs, God, and younger men. Ethics puts us on the plane of animal research, privacy concerns, and cooking the books.
So the experiment ends where it began, with astonishment at the range of human experience that finds its way into the search box. We ask Google for directions to Burger King. We ask Google whether it's all right to sleep with our cousin. And Google answers, to the best of its collective knowledge, without smirking.
There is, however, at least one query that Google won't help you with: Type in "I hate," and no suggestions appear.
P.S. Thanks to everyone who entered. The most numerous entries were "Why is my poop green?" and "What are these strawberries doing on my nipples i need them for the fruit salad?"


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Here at the Hero Complex, we've circled "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" as a project to watch next year, so we'll be bringing you lots of coverage of its odyssey as a Hollywood venture. Today, Rachel Abramowitz has a report on the similarities between two magical youngsters, one named Percy and the other named Harry. — Geoff Boucher
In February, moviegoers will get a chance to meet a character who is already a titan of the bookshelves: Percy Jackson, the rebellious 12-year-old hero of Rick Riordan's bestselling novels, who discovers that he is the demigod son of the Greek sea god Poseidon. But will newcomers to the saga find themselves thinking of a certain boy wizard who discovered his own supernatural heritage within the walls of Hogwarts?
The first Riordan novel, "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," was published four years ago, but it remains a hot gift for youngsters this holiday season. It starts off the tale of young Percy, a kid with a flair for sarcasm, getting in trouble and bouncing among schools. He also has been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia and has a somewhat defeated attitude about his future. It turns out, though, that his brain is wired differently because of his secret heritage: In this story, the Greek gods are alive and well and living on Mt. Olympus, which is now located on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building.
Instead of Hogwarts, this boy hero is shuttled off to Camp Half Blood on Long Island, where he communes with other young demigods. Once there, he's wrongly accused of stealing the thunderbolt of Zeus, and if he doesn't find it, there will be a bloodbath among the famously quarrelsome clan of immortals. In the odyssey that follows, Percy discovers his own powers and faces down a bevy of beasties from Greek mythology. The studio executives working with the film are prepared for comparisons to "Potter," but they say they're confident that this adventure hero has plenty of his own unique magic to offer.
"We found it was a fresh arena," says Fox 2000 President Elizabeth Gabler, whose division is releasing the film. "It also deals with a lot of issues that kids and young people go through. Self-realization, breaking with the family, becoming more independent, finding out what your parents are, feeling a bit like an outcast and making yourself strong. There's also an element of this which is a monster movie. The [kids] come up against Medusa, the Hydra, the Minotaur, Hades – people who are wild and extreme."
Young Logan Lerman plays Percy, while Kevin McKidd ("Rome," "Grey's Anatomy") stars as Poseidon. The cast also includes Uma Thurman ("Kill Bill," "Pulp Fiction") as Medusa and Sean Bean ("The Lord of the Rings" films, "Troy") as Zeus, the king of the gods. The centaur Chiron, played by former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan, runs the activities at Camp Half Blood. Catherine Keener ("Capote," "Being John Malkovich") plays Percy's mortal mom, Sally, whom he must rescue from the clutches of Hades, played by Steve Coogan, whom many moviegoers will remember as Octavius in the popular "Night of the Museum" films.
As the trailer makes clear, this film is directed by Chris Columbus, the director of the first two "Harry Potter" films and a producer of the third. Gabler said Columbus first heard about the books from his kids and then approached the studio, which owned the rights.
"He of all people was aware that there are some similarities to 'Harry Potter,' " Gabler said. "Who better than Chris to keep it away from that. He's very sensitive to not repeat what they did in those films, and to bringing out the best of what these stories can be."
— Rachel Abramowitz
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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I read an e-mailed article in, I believe, the Copyeditor newsletter that pointed me to the database and forum. How did you discover this site? Were you familiar with eggcorns before you found the database and forum? I had never even heard of an eggcorn until I read that article.
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Language Log!
And I had heard of the phenomenon (was in fact collecting examples), but I'd never heard the coinage that names this database.
My mom and I call them "another one of those 'what did they think they heard?' things"
I learned about the website from an NPR program circa July 2006.
About half of what I write below is conjecture, so perhaps others can correct the narrative and fill in the missing elements.
I think there was a planned media exposure by the founders. I'm guessing it started out with more scholarly circles—Language Log, for instance—then progressed to high-end media like The New York Times. (If I had only subscribed to the latter, I might have learned about eggcorns a year earlier than I did and beaten out Ken Lakritz on dozens of independent finds).
Media exposure then turned to wider audiences (again, NPR), but also to niche markets like one of the science magazines (Omni?), and various other newspapers.
The term 'eggcorn' was certainly coined in the last 5 years. (Pat, for one, could probably give you the exact date—or you could find mention of the anniversary buried here in the Forum). Although the term is new, many of us have kept lists of them our entire lives but may never have put our finger on exactly what makes them unique. There are also the concepts of folk etymology and the Mondegreen which are very similar to the eggcorn, so the latter is not unprecedented. (As an eggcorn hunter it perhaps irks me most when a comparison is made with Malapropisms).
I have to wonder whether the eggcorn boom is over. Not much has been added to the Database in the last year. The work involved for the gatekeeper is certainly oppressive, with little personal reward. Zwicky and others have certainly made a household name for themselves—at least among the educated people—but academic circles have little regard for what the man on the street thinks, so there's probably little incentive to spread word of the eggcorn to ever wider groups. (By the way, I've not had a single one of my Forum contributions added to the Database, so what might that suggest? ...Perhaps that the attribution is being saved for an academic).
Overall, I wonder about a few things like: Who convinced the media to take up the cause?, and: Did it all require a certain amount of funds to keep the media activity afloat? (I've had to write grant proposals before, so I wonder if there was a knock on the door of some funding organization to contribute).
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I was doing a google search for the origin of what turned out to be an eggcorn (sorry, can't remember the word now, but it was an early entry into the database). Two or three entries down the search list took me here. Man, did I have fun that first day. I was in stitches for about an hour while I read aloud some of the entries to my family. I still have a lot of fun contemplating the proposed and existing eggcorns. The appeal is much more widespread than to simply academics, so I say call in the hogs to the eggcorn trough and let's have some fun slopping with our fellow swine!
I just found this wonderful site today while searching for the word "beknighted", which turned out to actually be benighted, but that's another story….........I'm thrilled to find others that care about language!!
I am proud to be a part of such a select group!
I have a good friend from Hawaii that massacres the English language, especially the sort of phrases discussed here. She says that we should nip it in the butt (as opposed to the bud).....she has a million of them…......
It's been a few years, but I think I saw someone mention it in a comment on Slashdot.org, their comment pointing out another commenter's eggcorn.
I think the word eggcorn is growing in recognition… I've dropped it a couple of times in comments on the blog Pharyngula, and just yesterday I saw someone pointing out someone's eggcorn there. (Self phone)
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I like "nip it in the butt"!
Best of all, what I love about the database, is that it's not judgmental; the early entries don't say, "gee, how stupid those people are!"
The premise is, "perfectly reasonable people think it's a different phrase. Why?"
I like some of the eggcorns' imagery better than the original!
hoho hi lol
I have heard of similar things in Tris and its just dumb.
just as dumb as races that say you cant win your age group if you win outright … a lot more common occurrence.
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