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Object.MemberwiseClone Method ()
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Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The MemberwiseClone method creates a shallow copy by creating a new object, and then copying the nonstatic fields of the current object to the new object. If a field is a value type, a bit-by-bit copy of the field is performed. If a field is a reference type, the reference is copied but the referred object is not; therefore, the original object and its clone refer to the same object.
For example, consider an object called X that references objects A and B. Object B, in turn, references object C. A shallow copy of X creates new object X2 that also references objects A and B. In contrast, a deep copy of X creates a new object X2 that references the new objects A2 and B2, which are copies of A and B. B2, in turn, references the new object C2, which is a copy of C. The example illustrates the difference between a shallow and a deep copy operation.
There are numerous ways to implement a deep copy operation if the shallow copy operation performed by the MemberwiseClone method does not meet your needs. These include the following:
Call a class constructor of the object to be copied to create a second object with property values taken from the first object. This assumes that the values of an object are entirely defined by its class constructor.
Call the MemberwiseClone method to create a shallow copy of an object, and then assign new objects whose values are the same as the original object to any properties or fields whose values are reference types. The DeepCopy method in the example illustrates this approach.
Serialize the object to be deep copied, and then restore the serialized data to a different object variable.
Use reflection with recursion to perform the deep copy operation.
The following example illustrates the MemberwiseClone method. It defines a ShallowCopy method that calls the MemberwiseClone method to perform a shallow copy operation on a Person object. It also defines a DeepCopy method that performs a deep copy operation on a Person object.
using System; public class IdInfo { public int IdNumber; public IdInfo(int IdNumber) { this.IdNumber = IdNumber; } } public class Person { public int Age; public string Name; public IdInfo IdInfo; public Person ShallowCopy() { return (Person) this.MemberwiseClone(); } public Person DeepCopy() { Person other = (Person) this.MemberwiseClone(); other.IdInfo = new IdInfo(IdInfo.IdNumber); other.Name = String.Copy(Name); return other; } } public class Example { public static void Main() { // Create an instance of Person and assign values to its fields. Person p1 = new Person(); p1.Age = 42; p1.Name = "Sam"; p1.IdInfo = new IdInfo(6565); // Perform a shallow copy of p1 and assign it to p2. Person p2 = p1.ShallowCopy(); // Display values of p1, p2 Console.WriteLine("Original values of p1 and p2:"); Console.WriteLine(" p1 instance values: "); DisplayValues(p1); Console.WriteLine(" p2 instance values:"); DisplayValues(p2); // Change the value of p1 properties and display the values of p1 and p2. p1.Age = 32; p1.Name = "Frank"; p1.IdInfo.IdNumber = 7878; Console.WriteLine("\nValues of p1 and p2 after changes to p1:"); Console.WriteLine(" p1 instance values: "); DisplayValues(p1); Console.WriteLine(" p2 instance values:"); DisplayValues(p2); // Make a deep copy of p1 and assign it to p3. Person p3 = p1.DeepCopy(); // Change the members of the p1 class to new values to show the deep copy. p1.Name = "George"; p1.Age = 39; p1.IdInfo.IdNumber = 8641; Console.WriteLine("\nValues of p1 and p3 after changes to p1:"); Console.WriteLine(" p1 instance values: "); DisplayValues(p1); Console.WriteLine(" p3 instance values:"); DisplayValues(p3); } public static void DisplayValues(Person p) { Console.WriteLine(" Name: {0:s}, Age: {1:d}", p.Name, p.Age); Console.WriteLine(" Value: {0:d}", p.IdInfo.IdNumber); } } // The example displays the following output: // Original values of p1 and p2: // p1 instance values: // Name: Sam, Age: 42 // Value: 6565 // p2 instance values: // Name: Sam, Age: 42 // Value: 6565 // // Values of p1 and p2 after changes to p1: // p1 instance values: // Name: Frank, Age: 32 // Value: 7878 // p2 instance values: // Name: Sam, Age: 42 // Value: 7878 // // Values of p1 and p3 after changes to p1: // p1 instance values: // Name: George, Age: 39 // Value: 8641 // p3 instance values: // Name: Frank, Age: 32 // Value: 7878
In this example, the Person.IdInfo property returns an IdInfo object. As the output from the example shows, when a Person object is cloned by calling the MemberwiseClone method, the cloned Person object is an independent copy of the original object, except that they share the same Person.IdInfo object reference. As a result, modifying the clone's Person.IdInfo property changes the original object's Person.IdInfo property. On the other hand, when a deep copy operation is performed, the cloned Person object, including its Person.IdInfo property, can be modified without affecting the original object.
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I have a soft spot for Polish food and search it out wherever I live. Lard spread with fried bacon bits on a slice of Polish rye bread is an excellent way to start a meal. I then like to move on to a soup. Either a Polish dill pickle soup, as we make on the show, or a borscht. Next, I order the Polish sampler plate, if available, so that I may try as many Polish delicacies as possible. At Cafe Polonia, the satisfying Polish plate comes with a bit of kielbasa, a small serving of bigos which is a hunter's stew with cabbage and beef, stuffed cabbage called golabki, and a selection of pierogis sauteed with onions. All of these hearty flavors represent comfort food at its finest. The atmosphere at Cafe Polonia is very inviting and comforting as well. Chef-owner Tedeusz Barcikowski, or Teddy, built all of the beautiful wood tables, chairs, and banquettes, which have lovely individual cushions in different fabrics to encourage you to stay a while. There is always Polish music playing from the speakers and lots of Polish beers to choose from. Diners are transported to another place at Cafe Polonia.
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BELLEFONTE, Pa. - The defense in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case has rested without the former Penn State assistant football coach taking the stand in his own defense.
The defense rested Wednesday after both sides presented seven days of testimony. The jury heard from eight accusers who say Sandusky sexually abused them.
The 68-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach could spend the rest of his life in state prison if convicted. He is fighting 51 criminal counts for alleged abuse of 10 boys.
The court also recessed for the day.
Earlier Wednesday, defense attorneys sought to undercut testimony by former assistant Mike McQueary.
A family friend of McQueary says the one-time graduate assistant spoke to him the night he claimed he saw Sandusky with a boy in a shower. Dr. Jonathan Dranov says McQueary gave him a different description.


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This past weekend I had the good fortune of attending a gathering of chefs, farmers, business leaders called the Good Food Festival, right here in Chicago. Its mission—to "celebrate leaders, businesses, and individuals that sustain the burgeoning, locally-driven Good Food Movement"— is an admirable one. Besides plenty of educational workshops and discussions, there were also food and chef demonstrations. And the one that most intrigued me was hosted by Rob Levitt of Butcher & Larder, who would be butchering half a pig and giving a crash course lesson in the techniques of sausage making.
I've already written about Rob's shop and the great sausage he's making over there, but thought it would be worth devoting an edition of this column for those curious about how sausage is actually made, taught by an expert in the art. I think many people left the demonstration on Saturday with a wonderful notion: making sausage at home isn't really all that hard.
There's also an easy entry point. While putting your sausage into an actual casing is a big step, good sasuage is still possible if you stop short of that and just make patties. It's all the same technique up to that point.
Even if don't like to cook, understanding sausage making is good information for understanding why, for example, certain sausages in restaurants taste greasy or crumbly. (Hint: is has to do with whether the sausage was mixed for enough time to help the meat "glutens" bind everything together. More on that below).
Rob Levitt's Tips for Making Sausage
Rob first hammered home a point we embrace, too: sausage is not made from what you'd normally throw away. "The meat you use for sausage is just as high quality as the pork chop we're also selling," Rob explained. It's inherent in the fact that we devote a column to sausage on Serious Eats: Chicago that we view it highly. Chicago has come a long way from The Jungle, but it's nice to hear it from Rob, too.
For good sausage, you want about a 70/30 meat/fat ratio at a minimun; more fat is sometimes preferable but rarely less. Luckily, pork shoulder tends to have just exactly that 70/30 ratio, and better yet, the fat you find in and around the shoulder is "the good kind" to use for sausages.
Which leads us to: not all pork fat is equal. The kind of fat we want for sausages is "back fat" (or "fat back") which is the subcuntaneous layer below the skin. Leaf lard, the kind that's softer, renders more easily, and has a less pronounced pork flavor, is what you'd want for a pie crust. Leaf lard is a little greasier, while back fat has more protein and is therefore firmer. So if you're adding fat to a sausage, choose back fat.
The KitchenAid grinder (the most common model used at home) is fine for home use, but you have to ensure that you clean the meat of any and all connective tissue and use very small pieces which are extremely cold, even half frozen. Because it's low powered and slow, grinding meat with the KitchenAid attachment involved a risk of the meat warming up too much, which will start to melt the lard and destroy the sausage's final texture. At warmer temperatures, the lipids in the fat will begin to separate from the proteins. So either put the meat (and the grinder attachments) into the freezer until it's half-frozen, or just ask a friendly butcher to do the grinding for you. As long as you're making the sausage that day, there's little to no loss of quality.
So you're ready to make sausage? It honestly is easier than you think, especially if you have a scale.
Step by Step Sausage Making Tips
Step 1: Weigh the ground meat (Rob suggests using grams for better accuracy)
Step 2: Add in a 1%* salt by weight (so take the weight grams, divide by 100, and add that much salt)
Step 3: Add in spices and herbs as desired (Rob demonstrated a simple fresh Polish sausage with minced garlic, whole untoasted** mustard seeds, and chopped parsley)
Step 4: With impeccably clean hands, mix the sausage with the salt and spices thoroughly, continuing to knead until the mixture starts to get surprisingly sticky***. At this point the salt-soluble meat proteins have been extracted, which are kind of like "meat glutens" that will bind the mixture together. The process is something like kneading bread to release gluten.
Step 5: Cook a little piece and taste for salt and seasoning, then adjust.
Step 6: Form into patties to refrigerate, or stuff into casings.
*1% salt is very low, much lower than recommendations for many cookbooks I've seen, which suggest 2 or even 3%. But Rob stands behind it.
**It's not necessary to toast the spices you'll be using ahead of time, since when the sausage cooks, those spices will fry in the fat inside the sausage, releasing their best flavor. Better not to toast that flavor out so early in the process.
***The mixing stage (step 4), is the most common and biggest problem most people (and restaurants) have with the process. You MUST mix the meat long enough to make it sticky. The best test that Rob demonstrated is to take a little patty, stick it in your hand, and hold your hand out palmside down over the bowl. It should firmly stick to your hand without moving. Once it does, you've got sausage.


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Perform: to give form to. To carry out, enact, or fulfill. To give a rendition of; to follow a pattern of behavior; to play. To do in a formal manner according to prescribed ritual; to be in a state of performing. To use language that actualizes what is spoken. To do thoroughly; to complete.
For me, personally, the urge to perform is multi-dimensional: it's an urge to express; to live in a heightened state; and to enact something meaningful in public space, that shifts perception, has impact, or itself enacts change.
The imperative of the stage is to live fully and truthfully, moment by moment, in the presence of other people. It is to focus all of one's being and energy on the realization and embodiment of the imagination. For some of us, performance is a spiritual practice as much as it is a creative or critical one. It is giving form to impulse. At its best, it is both being a vessel for pure energy, and carefully building a structure through which that energy can flow. The repetition and perfection of that structure, which we may call the craft of acting or performing, is (as Stravinsky said) the basis of the experience of artistic freedom.
A dear old friend of mine, Shantanand Saraswati, who is a spiritual teacher originally from India, once saw me perform Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst at New York City's Circle in the Square. I was not even twenty years old at the time. He came back stage to see me after the show, and I was anxious and curious to hear what his reaction might be. He squinted at me for a short while, and then said only, "You live better on stage than you do in your life." Although I felt a bit devastated, I understood him immediately. He was referring exactly to what I had been training intensively to do as an actor – to be fully present, to express openly and without inhibition, to be keenly aware of and connected to my environment and all beings in the space, to follow impulse truthfully and without judgment – in other words, to surrender myself to what he would call the universal flow of the river of life, leading to the ocean of pure consciousness. Honestly, we always had a funny friendship, because I was a rather argumentative skeptic; but I respected his devotion to philosophical inquiry, and I think he was entertained by my tendency to challenge. I never forgot what he said. I knew that he had pinpointed exactly why I continually return to the stage.
The urge to perform, for me, is an urge to return to the place I feel most at home, and most alive. It's extremely hard to get there. It's ever-elusive and risky. The moment you take it for granted, it will disappear. If you lose focus, if you don't commit yourself fully, if you haven't trained, rehearsed or memorized enough, if you stop trusting yourself and those you share the stage with, if your ego overshadows the work of the art itself – any of these will take you quickly down a path of, at best mediocrity, or at worst, the emotional torture of knowing when you're bombing on stage. But if you devote yourself unequivocally to the ritual of your craft, and remain absolutely present moment-by-moment; if you open the channels of your body, voice, and awareness; if you allow yourself to be inspired by the unexpected (because anything can happen on stage); if you stay acutely connected to all other performers; if you commit completely to the world of the imagination and live fully in what you have created – then, only then, might you reach a state of transcendence or euphoria, a rush of life-blood extending beyond the body, a state in which pain disappears, and everything outside the imaginary world temporarily dissolves. When you have lived like this on stage, you are usually both exhausted and exhilarated. Spent, but deeply satisfied. You may not always remember what you did or how it happened, but you know you went to places deep and high. You look forward to returning, and you're curious about what you might discover, or perfect, the next time.
This is the unique pleasure of performance.
And on the other side, there is the emergency: the need to express. The deep wells of abuse or pain from which many of us draw our most urgent expressions. This is the catharsis of the performer, which may precede the ascendance. This is how we heal ourselves, or at least how we survive. It may be fulfilled, for some, by the process. For others, art requires an audience; the catharsis must be witnessed, heard, and shared by as many people as possible.
The need to express is probably something that all artists and writers share, although not all desire to perform. Some of us both write and perform. When the artist truly has something to say, the urge to say it, to express or make it visible in the public sphere, can drive us to great lengths. We can pursue that articulation, through words or through the body, for our entire lives. Because the urge to perform is also about impact – how what we create, express and embody as performers resonates in the community and the world(s) we inhabit. Performativity is about, not only what we enact, but what that act does in the world. What the art itself performs, what it brings into form or being.
For artists like me, who are inclined toward political analysis and obsessed with the notion of justice, having something to say is what drives the creative process to production. We are not only provoked by what disturbs us in the "real" world, but also by the concept of hope – by belief in possibility, in creating alternative realities, and by our visions of what the world could be. We desire to open spaces of imagination and belief in the public consciousness, so that more and more of society might see, not only the reflection of our ills and injustices, but also these visions of the possible … so that we might envision together, you could say, a New WORLD …
Some of you may have been following what is happening with New WORLD Theater, and I would be loathe to miss a public opportunity to inform readers of exciting and significant updates. It is definitely a moment of both confronting the ills of our institutions, and embracing the light of possibility …
New WORLD Theater, as many of you know, has been reflecting the realities, visions and dreams of communities of color for thirty years, and has actively been developing the voices and aesthetics of the future for over ten years. New WORLD has been a creative home to great performers, writers and directors, an incubator for emerging artists, a beacon for local communities of color and progressive allies, and a leader in national conversations on the arts and the shifting demographics of the U.S. New WORLD has given form to, carried out, enacted, fulfilled and actualized its mission for three decades, and has had a meaningful impact on the artists, communities, students, youth, and colleagues whose lives the theater has touched. New WORLD has truly performed with unflinching dedication.
Yet in mid-July, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Fine Arts Center announced plans to suspend the programs and operations of New WORLD Theater, due to budget cuts. Most of the NWT staff has now been laid-off, and the suspension is slated for September 30, 2009.
There have been several campaigns by local organizers and national supporters. Some have pressed the Fine Arts Center to begin a planning process for NWT's re-emergence, as they initially stated; others have begun to support the idea of a new home for New WORLD Theater, on-campus or off. Personally, I have focused my energies on performative vision, and have found others who are able to see possibility, and envision positive impact, along with me.
The good news is that Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) is extremely interested in the idea of becoming a new institutional host for New WORLD Theater. STCC plans to renovate a facility on their campus into a theater arts complex, and is interested in having New WORLD Theater be a resident theater and partner in that project. NWT's current Springfield-based partners have expressed immense excitement over the idea of having New WORLD in their home, and the City of Springfield is beginning to envision how beneficial this could be to their communities and creative economy endeavors. One proposal is to work in partnership with UMass, in a consortium model that would allow NWT to continue important departmental collaborations, such as the Multicultural Theater Practice Certificate with the Department of Theater, and possibly present some shows on the UMass campus annually. Other area colleges, such as Smith College, could then also join the consortium; key members of Smith's Department of Theater have expressed strong interest in this idea.
The sticking point is intellectual property rights. The University of Massachusetts, technically, owns all of NWT's intellectual and actual property. To date, University officials have not yet embraced the idea of a consortium or allowing NWT to move, even though it could clearly be a win-win-win for everyone. It is a moment to both reflect reality, and to be provoked even by hope.
I am no longer an employee of the University. I cannot speak, officially, as the Artistic Director of NWT. I am now, like you, a concerned community member and colleague in the field who deeply wants to see New WORLD Theater survive, and thrive again one day soon.
There is an urge that drives me on. Even in the face of what some may say is impossible. It's the urge to give form to vision. The urge to carry out, to enact, to fulfill. The urge to actualize what has been spoken. And to do so, thoroughly and completely.


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Co-star Jim Carrey was accompanied by girlfriend Jenny McCarthy for the special screening.
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NBC is in development on a miniseries about the life of legendary late-night talk show host Johnny Carson.
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In a similar vein, Elon Musk also mused about the possibility of affordable space travel, except that it was more about building a colony on Mars, rather than spending spring break in a space hotel.He believes a trip to Mars shouldn't cost more than $200,000 — still a substantial sum that could buy you a house back on Earth.
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This is a definite preorder wave. Good luck to those looking to find at a discounted price. The scalpers will be out in full force with this one.
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Most of these I want, that Multiple Man looks fantastic. I really don't like the way Storm is packaged though, I can already tell majority of these will have warped legs, hers are thin as it is and she's packed really jenky in there.
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Why can't people ever take good photos of new figures when they are found in the wild like this? They are always blurry, out of focus and so on (and in the box no less...) It's not a UFO...it's an action figure. Somewhere, in the Canadian wilderness, there are seven, out of focus, action figures wandering about. The wave looks terrific, but something is off on Psylocke's face. It looks nothing like the one we saw at the previous con reveals. I'm actually inclined to think it's the new Spider-Woman figure's headsculpt with a different hairpiece.
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Oh, good...finally a ML wave where there aren't any figures I need to have. I mean the yellow Wolverine is cool and all, but I already have the brown version which I prefer much more.
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Where do you guys like to pre-order? I'm relatively new to Legends but I really want this wave


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BTW, is this going to be a hard core 4wheeling trip or medium?
I don't have a 4x4, but anyone willing to take a ride along? Would love to get some pictures of 4-wheeling!
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The High Line's planting design is inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew up between rail tracks after the trains stopped running in the 1980s. Today, the High Line includes more than 300 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees — each chosen for their hardiness, adaptability, diversity, and seasonal variation in color and texture. Some of the species that originally grew on the High Line's rail bed are reflected in the park landscape today.
This week we share with you one of our gardeners' current favorites.
Northern blazing star, Liatris scariosa var. scariosa, is a perennial in the aster family which produces beautiful purple thistle-like flowers in the mid-summer. It is native to the eastern half of North America and goes by several different common names, including Devil's Bit and Devil's Bite, which refer to the "bitten off" appearance of its roots.
Northern blazing star is just one of several varieties of plants from the genus Liatris that we grow at the High Line. You'll also find Spiked gayfeather, Liatris spicata, blazing star, Liatris aspera, and prairie blazing star, Liatris pycnostachya. See our August bloom guide for photos and locations of the others currently in bloom.
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An entire wall in Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's home library in Concord is lined with books about Abraham Lincoln, research material that helped shape her 2005 book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Portions of Goodwin's book became the basis for Steven Spielberg's film "Lincoln," a project on which she's been a close collaborator. With "Lincoln" opening in theaters nationwide, she sat down to discuss the 16th president as historical figure and movie subject.
At first meeting Spielberg, were you surprised by his deep interest in Lincoln?
I was. When we met, in 1999 — Steven was making a short documentary called "The Unfinished Journey," shown on New Year's Eve at the turn of the century — he said he'd always wanted to make a film about Lincoln and wanted first shot at my book. Later, between projects, he'd call me just wanting to talk about Lincoln and what he'd done that day. After my book came out, he said he felt like he was at the right point in his career to take on this film. That's how much he'd thought about the subject. Not just, oh, here's this book I want to film. His desire to do Lincoln long precedes my book.
Spielberg can presumably do any project any time he wants to, yet this production still took years to materialize, right?
Right. It's not easy to make a historical movie these days. And although [screenwriter] Tony Kushner had come aboard, Spielberg hadn't gotten Daniel Day-Lewis yet. In April 2006, I organized a meeting of Lincoln scholars in New York, with Steven and Tony. Spielberg already knew a ton about Lincoln but was unsure about what to do with a script. Tony was nervous about it, too. He later said that meeting had helped him decide to go ahead. I remember saying to Tony, "No matter how hard this is, you'll never regret living with Lincoln."
What about living as Lincoln?
I can't imagine another actor doing a better job than Daniel does in capturing a president and making him come alive again. In November 2010, he and I traveled to Springfield [Ill.] together. He wanted to know everything about Lincoln — his voice, how he walked — and to be taken through Lincoln's home, law offices, museum, everywhere. The only place he did not want to go was Lincoln's grave, because he didn't want to think about Lincoln dying. On the set, as you may have heard, he was always "Mr. Lincoln." He never broke character. Evidently he did many of the movie's long scenes in one take, which is unbelievable. Tony was texting me that people on the set were astonished when he'd finish a scene and that was it, no more takes.
The film focuses on a small slice of your book: the fight to pass the 13th Amendment and abolish slavery constitutionally. As a big-picture historian, did that narrow focus bother you?
Mostly what I cared about was that Lincoln the character be fully rendered. To me, the plot is less important than who he is. So my conversations with Tony would be, just make sure you get Lincoln's humor in there. Show his warmth. Show him conversationally, the way he'd put his arm around somebody and tell these stories. Show him as a political figure. Once Steven and Tony decided they had this story within a story to tell, with its own beginning, middle, and end, that seemed right for a movie. It's hard to imagine how they could have gotten more in there.
Talk about visiting the set.
I went last November, when they were filming at the Virginia House of Delegates in Richmond. Rick Carter, the production designer, wanted me to see the White House set, which was built in an old pinball machine factory. When Rick opened the door into the "White House," I was just blown away. The bedroom, the office, the silk screening and carpet, the first editions of books Lincoln was reading — I could practically smell the smoke in the draperies from [Secretary of State William] Seward's cigars. For 10 years, I'd been trying to think about what this place would be like. Then, suddenly, here it was. I'd been catapulted back into 1865. That was an incredibly special moment.
Your reaction to the finished film?
The parts I love most are when Lincoln tells one of his stories. Not only because he did that all the time, but because his whole face would change. Lincoln's face had a structural sadness to it, as does Daniel's. When you watch his eyes become shiny and a smile light up his face, you feel he's really alive. I've often been asked, "If you could sit with Lincoln for dinner, what would you ask him?" As a Lincoln scholar, I know you're supposed to say, "What would you have done differently about Reconstruction?" I'd just want him to tell stories for an hour, though, because then I'd truly see him come alive.
What might young people learn from this film?
They're going to come away knowing something deep about Lincoln, which was Steven and Tony's decision: Either go deep or go broad. Their way allows Lincoln to come across in much more complex fashion, in a story most people don't know. Most people think the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery. Lincoln knew differently, though, that [emancipation] could go away once the war ended.
Were there any compressions of historical detail that bothered or puzzled you? Thaddeus Stevens, for instance, is not a huge character in your book.
You're right. What he is, though, is a symbol of the abolitionist radicals Lincoln had to deal with. I miss Seward not having an even bigger role, too, but I completely understand. All the way through the war, Lincoln wrestles with the fact that although he couldn't stand the sight of blood or kill a single animal as a child, he's responsible for all these deaths. And [those deaths] must be made worthwhile by the war being won and the Union being saved and slavery ending. When he actually delays the peace talks in order to get the 13th Amendment passed, then he really feels the loss of every life afterward. That's also compressed into a story within a story, but I felt it's all there [in the movie].
Q. What's on your short list of favorite presidential movies?
A. It's not presidential, but "All the King's Men" is a great political movie. I also loved "The American President" with Michael Douglas and Annette Bening, which really captured the White House. Oliver Stone's "Nixon" was pretty compelling as well.
In your view, does "Lincoln" rank high among presidential biopics?
Absolutely. Watching it, I'm not sure I even felt I was in a movie. I knew I was going to respect him when I started researching my book, but I had no idea how much pleasure I would take in his company. The movie captures that, too.Interview was condensed and edited. Joseph P. Kahn can be reached at email@example.com.


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Crews will wait for spring to solve case
Yosemite National Park officials on Thursday suspended the multi-agency search for a lost airplane that went missing over the park on Dec. 17, said park spokesperson Kari Cobb.
Cobb said the single-engine plane was last detected via radar over the North Dome area in the park.
Search efforts throughout the week failed to yield clues or evidence regarding the plane's location.
"Over five feet of new snow have accumulated at the higher elevations of the park, including the search area," she said. Additionally, strong winds have created extremely hazardous search conditions."
Cobb said the park initiated an aerial search on Tuesday, Dec. 18, to help locate the missing plane.
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Alabama's Segregation for Inmates With HIV Faces Court Scrutiny
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Alabama, one of two U.S. states that segregate inmates with HIV from the rest of their prison population, will seek to defend the policy against a class action lawsuit. ... The American Civil Liberties Union sued Alabama in 2011 for what the group contends is a discriminatory practice that prevents most HIV-positive inmates from participating in rehabilitation and retraining programs important for their success after prison (Gates, Reuters, 9/17).
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June 10. 2013 7:11PM
Familiar foes on tap for Fisher Cats
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New Hampshire's six-game road trip last week ended better than it started. This week the Fisher Cats get a chance to atone for their bad start when they host Akron for a three-game series beginning today at 6:35 p.m.
Last week, the Aeros swept the Fisher Cats (31-33) at Canal Park, but New Hampshire ended its six-game Western Division road trip with a three-game sweep of Erie over the weekend.
Leadoff hitter Kevin Pillar batted .320 (8-for-25) during the road trip and owns a .315 average, third highest in the Eastern League among batters with over 200 at-bats. Pillar leads the circuit with 267 plate appearances and is tied for fifth in stolen bases with 14. He is tied for 11th in runs scored with 38, four behind the leader.
Pillar tied a New Hampshire record for most hits in a month with 41 in May, tying Ryan Goins' mark set last season.
Pillar finished May with a .318 average, 22 runs and 13 RBIs. Among his 41 hits were nine doubles, two triples and two home runs.
Akron (31-32) managed to sweep New Hampshire with some help from first baseman Jesus Aguilar. He was 5-for-12 in the series with five RBIs.
Tonight at 6:35 p.m., in a pitching rematch from last Wednesday's game, New Hampshire's Marcus Walden (4-6, 3.25) takes the hill against Akron's Matt Packer (3-5, 3.22).
In the 11-2 loss that day, Walden pitched well, allowing three runs, four walks and six hits. He left the game with New Hampshire trailing 3-2 after six innings. Reliever Tyson Brummett was hammered for eight hits and eight runs as the Aeros turned a close game into a rout.
On Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. in another rematch from a week ago, righthander Toru Murata of Akron (3-3, 3.80) battles Deck McGuire (3-6, 5.35). Murata went seven innings, allowing five hits and two earned runs for the mound win. He fanned six and walked no one on 96 pitches, 64 for strikes. McGuire struck out nine batters in that outing, allowing three runs and four hits before departing in the sixth inning with two outs.
The series finale on Thursday at 7:05 p.m. features Akron's Brett Brach (3-2, 4.54) against Ryan Tepera (6-4, 4.12).
The Fisher Cats will hand out a David Ortiz Mini Bobblehead to the first 1,000 fans on Wednesday and from, Thursday through Saturday, the team will hold a fireworks show after each game.
Erie visits Manchester for a three-game set beginning Friday. Game time starts for that series is 7:05 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1:35 p.m. Sunday when the Fisher Cats honor Father's Day with a baseball giveaway promotion.


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Buck Stops Here: Runner lives up to his generation
His name is Bill Iffrig, a retired construction worker and volunteer truck driver for a food bank in Lake Stevens, Wash.
He was the elderly man you saw shaken to his knees and crumbling to the pavement about 15 feet from the finish line when the bomb detonated Monday at the Boston Marathon.
Iffrig is 78 years old. He was born during the Great Depression and raised a few years behind the Greatest Generation, our noble and selfless World War II forefathers known for their toughness and moral standards. Kids growing up in the 1930s and '40s spent their childhoods getting up after getting knocked down.
"The force from it just turned my whole body to jelly and I went down," Iffrig told the Seattle Times hours after the explosion.
Iffrig did not answer calls to his home Tuesday. It was no surprise to his neighbors that he insisted on finishing the race Monday amid the chaos and horror around him. He didn't travel 3,000 miles to Boston to run 26.19 miles. He gained his feet, dusted the skin from his knees and completed the marathon. He refused treatment knowing others needed more assistance than he did.
"He takes care of himself, mows his yard once a week, walks with his wife," his neighbor, Jim Larson, said by telephone Tuesday. "He's very quiet, to himself, a very nice gentleman. He's just a great neighbor who would do anything for anybody. He's a very generous man and very caring."
Funny, but it seems three-quarters of the people from his generation are described precisely the same way. They weren't pure or innocent, as our history books suggest, but they didn't kill one another with the ease and indifference you hear about today.
The country struggled with race relations, treatment of women and working conditions but still seemed to have greater respect for people. They could send their kids to school and movie theaters and sports events without worrying about whether they would return. In many respects, Iffrig came from a world when innocence was intact.
It wasn't stolen Monday, as some suggested. It's been absent for decades. It just happens to be getting worse as killers become bolder. It's no longer the country Iffrig knew when he was a kid.
Terrorists marred the 1972 Olympics in Munich and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The threat was palpable during the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. It has been just beneath the surface at every event since Sept. 11, 2001. And now, with terrorism becoming a growing problem, we have become a cold, cynical and suspicious nation.
Now, it has stolen the sanctity of the Boston Marathon.
It was a major sports event of a different nature, a celebration of people more than a race to the finish line. It was a slice of America that coincided with a Red Sox game, a festival that snaked through storied neighborhoods in one of our most historic cities.
The marathon had winners, but no losers, before Monday. It was a test of commitment, sacrifice and discipline. Others ran to promote clean and healthy living or a singular cause or just because they enjoyed running. Their biggest opponent was their own resolve. In the darkest moments, the strength of the human spirit emerged.
It was obvious Monday in the face of death and destruction after the explosion. It wasn't just cops, firefighters and emergency medical crews who ran toward the wounded without fearing the possibility of more violence. Race volunteers, fans and several runners also raced to the scene to assist them.
Iffrig did what came naturally to him. Amid the chaos, he stood as a symbol for the United States as it moves forward. He showed how one man could travel a long way, get knocked down, get back up, refuse to back down and complete his mission.
It might take a while, but here's hoping everyone else can do the same.
Wrong number
It's not easy being thrust into the spotlight when it's unexpected.
A family in the State of Washington that took over Bill Iffrig's son's previous telephone number was bombarded with telephone calls Tuesday. A woman who answered the phone said she had Mark Iffrig's old telephone number for years. She lives near Bill Iffrig in a small community but didn't know him.
"We keep getting calls," she said Tuesday morning. "We had someone call from Australia. We had people call from Toronto, The Associated Press, you name it. It has been interesting having this number. If we didn't know the situation, it would be an annoyance. This situation is different. We're just glad he's OK."
Woods should have walked
You're not going to hear anyone argue whether Tiger Woods suffered a terrible misfortune in the second round of the Masters when his approach on No. 15 clanked off the pin and rolled into the water. It was a tough break, but the right decision after he broke the drop rule was to withdraw.
For me, it came down the sequence of events more than the rules committee's decision. He made a mistake on his drop. The rules officials didn't identify a problem, which led him to believe he correctly signed his scorecard. No problem there.
The end for him should have come after his news conference. Woods admitted dropping 2 yards behind his original spot, which technically meant he gave himself an advantage. Weekend hackers, let alone the top player in the world, know that's a no-no. The rules officials handed him a two-shot penalty.
In essence, Masters officials reached a compromise with Woods. And when they did, they compromised the rules. Woods should have pulled himself out of the tournament once he realized he made the mistake. Ignorance is not an excuse. The tournament's decision to keep him and his decision to stay set a bad precedent.
Darcy's status shakier?
It could be nothing, but the tenor of Darcy Regier's job security sounded like it changed in recent days. Last week, word was that Regier would keep his job for the next several years. This week, in an unexpected shift, several sources indicated that owner Terry Pegula could be changing his mind.
"I have nothing for you," Sabres President Ted Black said Tuesday. "Have a good day."
Regier remained through the trade deadline and has made other decisions, so everything still points to him sticking around. It could change if (when) the Sabres are officially eliminated from the postseason. It's not exactly clear.
This is clear: Pegula's top advisers did him no favors before his news conference announcing HarborCenter on the Webster Block. Pegula's off-color joke, which had several people around the league shaking their heads, was bad enough. Cracking inside jokes at a news conference is rarely a good idea.
Almost as poor was Pegula's mishandling of basic hockey questions. The Sabres don't determine which questions are asked. The team can choose to answer them or not answer them. But if Pegula wasn't prepared to handle easy questions about Lindy Ruff's firing, he shouldn't have been there.
It doesn't take much to say, "Lindy was a good guy and a good coach. We were hoping the change would spark our team." Instead, he said, "You figure it out." I'm not sure of the message he was intending to send, but it was not well received among the many in attendance. By the way, I was not there.
Classic HR turns 60
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mantle's famous 565-foot homer in Griffith Stadium in Washington, which led to the phrase "tape-measure home run."
Mantle hit the homer right-handed off Chuck Stobbs in the fifth inning of a 7-3 victory over the Senators. The ball landed in the front yard of a house behind the stadium. It led to Yankees public-relations man Red Patterson to suggest it should be measured.
As the story goes, a 10-year-old kid standing outside the stadium showed him where the ball landed. Patterson didn't use a tape measure. Instead, he walked off the distance and later handed Mantle a tape measure for him to pose for pictures.
According to themick.com, the shot was the seventh-longest homer Mantle hit in his career, well behind a homer the website claimed would have traveled 734 feet if it didn't hit the top of Yankee Stadium in right field in 1963.
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26 – Percent more viewers than last year who watched Adam Scott's playoff victory in the Masters, according to Nielsen.
28 – Years since Bernard King led the NBA in scoring, making him the last Knicks player to accomplish the feat. Carmelo Anthony led the league with a 28.7 points per game with one game remaining.
19 - Runs batted in after 35 at-bats for Mets slugger John Buck, who needed 177 at-bats before having 19 RBIs last season.
Quick hits
• Carlos Quentin sounded like he had a legitimate beef with Zack Greinke, but he shouldn't have been expecting the Dodgers pitcher to be throwing at him on a 3-2 pitch in a 2-1 game. Rather than make his point, Quintin helped Dodgers skipper Don Mattingly make a stronger one. "That's just stupid, is what it is," Mattingly said.
• Cody Zeller should rethink his decision to enter the NBA draft. The 7-foot center had no problem dominating in certain situations with Indiana, but he was exposed in the loss to Syracuse in the NCAA tournament. He would be better off developing his game for at least another year. It would improve his stock and lead to more money.
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Contact or no contact, Brown helps Lady Bulldogs
Junior forward Ashley Brown nearly had a double-double in exhibition action for the Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs Sunday afternoon.
That's even after losing a contact at one point of the second half.
Brown scored 12 points and was the leading rebounder with seven as MSU defeated Montevallo 75-42 at Humphrey Coliseum.
The Chicago, Ill., native was active grabbing rebounds, getting loose basketballs and getting to the free-throw line for the Lady Bulldogs.
Those are the things that are positive points for MSU coach Sharon-Fanning Otis.
"She's active and I love her aggressiveness," Fanning-Otis said. "She'll go fetch. She got to weak-side rebounding. She was quick back up, is generally going to get to the free-throw line and again she took more free-throws than anybody on the team.
"She had a couple of transition buckets. I saw her help us defensively and saw her help us on rebounds offensive and defensive; I saw her go to set screens hard so there are a lot of ways she's making our basketball team better."
If there was one area that caused Fanning-Otis concern about Brown's game was fouls.
"She's going to have to be smart," Fanning-Otis said. "She lost her contact and said she couldn't see the girl on that third foul. I don't know how she's going to work that. I can't help her with that.
"It's just getting her to understand that we're not going to need her with four fouls. She's going to need to play in the 30-minute range for us to be a really good basketball team because of her experience."
Brown's reason for losing the contact was it began "jumping" in her eye and she had to switch it out.
The first goal for Brown when she goes onto the court is rebound and she was disappointed about not getting three more rebounds to record a double-double.
"Rebounding is a key to winning games," Brown said. "I was missing rebounds that I should have gotten. I've got to practice more on getting the ball with two hands instead of trying with one."
Along with rebounding, Brown puts emphasis on rebounding, getting putbacks and working on defense.
Junior guard Diamber Johnson, who led the Lady Bulldogs with 21 points, scored 11 points in the first half as MSU took a 32-22 lead.
After starting the game shooting 27 percent (4 of 15) from the field in the first 8 minutes, the Lady Bulldogs warmed up to 38 percent (13 of 34) by halftime. They finished shooting 43 percent (24 of 56).
Junior guard Porsha Porter added 13 points for MSU, while junior center Judith Tabala had 11 points.
"It was a step forward and it showed what we need to work on," Johnson said. "Team-wise, it showed we have a lot of potential and we can be a team by the end of the year. We're all new, but we're all on the same page. I think we know what each other's role is."
Fanning-Otis had an update on injured players Cardecia Williams and Darriel Gaynor.
Williams, a freshman forward, hurt her pinky finger and has been able to shoot and take part in conditioning.
"I don't know how her level of understanding and contribution will be," Fanning-Otis said. "She can help us if she can learn the sets, but it will be a process."
Fanning-Otis said it will be two or three more weeks before Gaynor can get back into a practice rotation after knee surgery.
It was also revealed by Fanning-Otis on Sunday that Ashley Jones is no longer with the team due to personal reasons.
The Lady Bulldogs open regular-season play Friday against South Carolina-Upstate at 4 p.m.


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