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Monday, October 29, 2007
Eye "Witless" Account: Woman gets pushed to ground by cop and Whole Foods Sucks by Geniusofdespair
Granted, a woman did create a ruckus in the Whole Foods Store. Probably couldn't find the granola. I heard the screaming but couldn't see anything. She left with no one accompanying her -- on her own. She was headed for her car. A cop car pulled up. She turned around and walked towards the cop. She was agitated and I said to myself, Good Lord, this woman is going to get beat up. Sure enough the cop started to try to grab her. She got upset. She tried to pull away screaming in protest...he fell to the ground holding her, she was then slammed into the sidewalk. Four or five cop cars later, the well dressed woman was subdued.
I was trying to take pictures of what transpired. I really don't care what happened in the store. I was watching a woman walk to a police officer. So I started to take pictures because it appeared overkill to me and to others around me. What do you think happened next? The Whole Foods Manager stepped in front of my camera-phone 3 times to block it!! I said what do you think you are doing? He said: "You can't take pictures you are in front of my store." So I took a picture of him. He said: "What are you going to do with these pictures?" I said: "Put them on my blog."
How dare he tell me what I can do. Anyway, as you can see - my pictures are pretty shitty....except of the Whole Foods Store Manager. This wasn't about what happened in the store. This was about the police and the woman. Had the Whole Foods store manager stayed out of my picture the Whole Foods store would not have been a centerpiece of this story and now it is forever on the internet to scar their good apple pie image.
Funny, everyone that I have told this story to asked: "Was she black?" Odd that I got that reaction. Would this have happened to a white woman? I honestly think race didn't play a role. It was more a cops reaction (or over-reaction) to an agitated woman. He could have listened for a minute before touching her.
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This is so funny and tragic and stupid...all at the same time. I feel for the woman....even if she didn't get her granola.
- October 29, 2007
- October 29, 2007
- C.L. Jahn said...
That is the store manager:
Send him a line, let him know what you think:
And his bosses:
President, South Region
Vice President, Team Member Services
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
- October 29, 2007
- C.L. Jahn said...
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- October 29, 2007
I will now shop less at Whole Foods.
- October 29, 2007
I would like to point out a couple of things. Perhaps, the most important thing... We don't know if there was a 911 call that states that the woman had a weapon, whether she had just beat the caca out of someone in the store, or whatever.
You and your pictures tell one part of the story, but there may be more to it. The cop was on the scene, I just find it hard to believe that he jumped her because she was making a racket. The cops pretty much ignore the mouthy trash talking.
Ask for the 911 tape. Use your public records request. Or file a complaint so someone investigates.
Of course, the store manager should have been worrying about everyones safety, rather than everyones camera.
- October 29, 2007
- Genius of Despair said...
I don't doubt there was more to the story. But the woman walked calmly to the police car although she was shouting about something. She did not seem threatening unless you are afraid of a loud mouth. There were no weapons. I saw her walk (not run) out of the store...no weapons. I was documenting it as it got heated, the stupid Whole Foods guy got in my way (would you like two pictures of his arm?). I think it didn't have to esculate as it did. That's all. Now she will be arrested for assaulting a police officer and I think they both fell if you ask me.
- October 29, 2007
Innocent until proven guilty...remember everyone. Sounds like she was treated as if she were guilty.
- October 29, 2007
You did the right thing by documenting. Take it to the PD handling the call so things can be sorted in place.
I was not aware of Whole Foods untill now.
c.l.jahn, thanks for the research, I'll send a letter to their corp. office.
True the manager should have cunducted himself more professionally.
Genius, the free photographer offer stands!
- October 29, 2007
This is better than reading the Herald!!!!!!!!!
Great job.
If you are in the Aventura area,
I suggest you set up a satelite office in South West Dade.
- October 29, 2007
Miami-Dade Police Department
Citizen Police Academy
Coordinators: 305 471-1745
Fax 305 471-1732
In an effort to assist the community in better understanding police training, procedures and philosophy, the Miami-Dade Police Department offers a 13 week class to all Miami Dade County Citizens.
The classes are held at the Department's Training Bureau located at 9601 NW 58 Street.
Once the course begins classes are every Wednesday night from 6:30 PM to 10 PM.
Next class is scheduled for March 2008
- October 29, 2007
I love the indignant commenter above who committed to shopping at whole foods "less" awesome principles...eesh
- October 29, 2007
I told you, at Publix shopping is a pleasure.
- October 30, 2007
Here's a suggestion to Whole Foods, how to make it right: let Florida Hometown Democracy staff tables to sign the FHD Constitutional Amendment petition at Whole Food sites in South Florida!
(Didn't Natacha lock up Publix?)
- October 30, 2007
All of these stores, the worst is Whole Paycheck, are faux hippy health stores guilty of the worst sin - hypocrisy. They take their fat profit margins and screw the customers, suppliers, and communities they operate in. Now that they are willing participants in police violance is only more reason not to shop there.
- October 30, 2007
- Genius of Despair said...
I don't hate the store...they have got good fudge bars and that is a big draw for me. And publix "miss S" won't let you petition gather there - they called the cops on friends, so I am no big fan. I just think the store manager was acting tyranical towards me......watch they will arrest anyone buying fudge bars now.
- October 30, 2007
Perhaps you misunderestimate Publix, at least at Monza. If they are anywhere near as responsive to petitions as they are on Brussel sprouts you have a plan. At least they have heard me out on the size of wise potato chips and All detergent. Since I am their crazy lady, the manager has even offered to go to Winn Dixie or Gardners if what I want isn't in their system. (the Brussel sprout story is a good one, but I know you have a 300 word cap). I'll do some investigating between the in or out of season figs and get back to you.
- October 31, 2007
It should be easy to get the arrest info... then you can contact the defense attornery ... assuming that they haven't pled her out already.
- October 31, 2007
ps. Can't blog-spot take pity on their readers and incorporate a spell check into their programs?
- October 31, 2007
- Genius of Despair said...
Anonymous....2 above how much time do you think i have....for free.
spelling: I would rather have the comments than have people worry about spelling...i think mistakes are a product of quick typing...
- October 31, 2007
Maybe this is the new way they deal with irate customers. I know this store and it is dirty, filthy really. The Wild Oats in Pinecrest is much cleaner, why they can't get their act together over there is beyond me but I guess if you comment to the manager or try to return something that was opened before you purchased it I guess this is what may happen to you.
Why are the police working so closely with this store? Ever seen the police patrol the parking lot? I have. What kind of relationship between the police and this store is there? What is up with this store and why do the police care so much about taking care of this store? Weird.
- October 31, 2007
As long as you are on public property, you are allowed to take any pictures you want. It is in the US Constitution. Otherwise, how do you think those awful paparazzi could get so many boring pictures of Britney Spears?
- October 31, 2007
- Genius of Despair said...
yes I have seen a mouse in this store ...it could use a scrubbing. As for the police: There are just too many of them...
- October 31, 2007
Bring back the old school alternative friendly hippy health food stores like Oak Feed etc...
Lets have places where where we can build community not just a healther green-washed Publix.
These are personal opinions and do not represent the views of EarthSave Miami or its members.
- November 01, 2007
- Genius of Despair said...
By the way anonymous reader, exactly where in the constitution does it say I can take camera phone pictures? I think photography wasn't invented when the constitution was written. And I am pretty certain that camera phones weren't available either when John Hancock made his mark.
- November 03, 2007
//Maybe this is the new way they deal with irate customers. I know this store and it is dirty, filthy really. The Wild Oats in Pinecrest is much cleaner, why they can't get their act together over there is beyond me but I guess if you comment to the manager or try to return something that was opened before you purchased it I guess this is what may happen to you. //
The return policy is 100% return any time, and yes, they simply accept take the items back. I am not aware of where you may have heard about any other return issues, but plain and simple, its posted on many of their walls, and they stick to it.
As for the mouse comment, NOWHERE is absolutely pest free. To believe so is a dream. There are specific "acceptable levels" of miscellanous products permitted in your food in the food industry. By seeing one, at least you know there's no deadly chemicals being sprayed.
- November 04, 2007
Emmmm - funny how no one mentioned the worst part of the store - the wildly overpriced goods - from the fruit and veg to the wine - arggggg - and we thought it was going to be so great - you are better off going to Laurenzo's Market even if it is a drive!
Signed - Smart Upper Eastside shopper!
- November 06, 2007
- b.a.c. said...
Should there be any surprise that cops overly abuse their authority time and time again in Miami?
- November 07, 2007
Police in Miami are among the most abusive in the nation. They are a law unto themselves. For the record, I'm 51, male, white, upper class. Nothing has ever happened to me. However, every time a cop even so much speaks you can hear the brutal arrogance of knowing he could shoot you and get away with it.
- November 10, 2007
The Whole Foods manager should be fired or Whole Foods corporationwill also look like they condone police violence. You were taking pictures recording an incident from a distance and not in any way obstructing justice, like this idiot market manager apparently was trying to do.
Just because a cop is involved, we can not as citizens automatically assume the cop is in the right. Your photo journalism could have helped record a citizen's defense.
I have been a loyal customer at Aventura's Whole Foods for years.
I am as of now, seising. The Organic sections of Publix and Winn DIxie will do. I don't need to be slapped around and beat over the head as I hand over my hard earned moula.
The cop should be investigated by internal affairs. I hope the woman pressed charges.
- November 15, 2007
Genius of despair, you clearly have too much time on your hands. ALthough I was not there to witness the incident, it does not take a genius to understand the inadvisability of shouting while approaching a police officer. While I agree that police brutality is wrong if, in fact, that is what happened, police officers are human beings who are constantly abused by those they are supposed to protect. I'm sure they are the first people you would call if you were assaulted by someone outside a grocery store. Be more circumspect in your commentary, as opposed to delivering one sided, reactionary viewpoints; especially if you don't know the whole story.
- November 25, 2007
- Genius of Despair said...
I stood watching with 7 or 8 other people...some black some white. All agreed the police were heavy handed putting it mildly. I found out what went on in the store...I interviewed a store clerk.
Why is everyone so concerned with how I spend my time. Clearly you have too much time on your hands if you are reading blogs written by dim wits.
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Corey Brewer's line in the box score from Florida's 86-40 win over the University of North Florida Tuesday night reads 1-4 from the field, one rebound, two assists, one blocked shot and three steals in 18 minutes of play. From a statistical standpoint, you would think he had a bad game. If you watched him play defense, however, you know better.
The stats can't begin to tell how Brewer impacted the game but two plays, 26 seconds apart, in the first four minutes of the second half say everything that needs to be said. Operating on the point in Florida's zone press, Brewer almost single-handedly forced two consecutive 10-second violations with his relentless on the ball defense.
"Corey embodies everything that I believe in as a coach," said Donovan. "Tonight he was 1-4. You look at the stat line and you say 'What happened to Brewer. He didn't play too well.' Unless you were at the game you didn't realize what kind of impact he had. How many guys do you ever see get a 10-second count basically by themselves in the front of the press? He got it two times in a row."
Those two plays highlighted a night in which the Gators forced 26 North Florida turnovers and a miserable shooting night from the field. The Ospreys connected on 14 of 45 shots from the field (31.1 percent), not the kind of night they needed to at least provide some sort of competition for the top-ranked Gators, who improved to 2-0 on the season.
What made Brewer's game so special to Donovan was the level of unselfishness he saw from the 6-9 junior small forward.
"Here's a kid, a great talent, a great player and he's not one bit consumed or concerned with stats," said Donovan. "Here he gets two points, two assists, one turnover, plays 18 minutes and has three steals and has a huge impact on the game."
Not that the game was ever in doubt.
Typically, there is more competition at one of Coach Billy Donovan's practice sessions than North Florida provided. The Gators shot 53.7 percent from the field, outrebounded the Ospreys 38-31, blocked seven shots and stole the ball 12 times. The Gators accounted for 21 assists and turned the ball over just seven times, their third straight game dating back to April's NCAA championship game win over UCLA that they have finished with fewer than 10 turnovers in a game.
If the game provided anything, it was a chance for Donovan's veterans to go against someone different than the same faces they see in practice every day. For the four freshmen, it was a chance to get a little bit more experience in a game that counts.
The Ospreys didn't have any answers for Florida's tall 1-2 inside punch of Al Horford and Joakim Noah, who combined for 32 points, 21 rebounds, five assists, five blocked shots and two steals. Horford (17 points, 11 rebounds, four blocked shots, three assists and a steal) and Noah (15 points, 10 rebounds, two assists, one blocked shot and a steal) were too tall, too strong and too athletic. It took them about three minutes to establish themselves on the inside and from that point on, about all the Ospreys could hope for was an open shot from the outside.
"Al gets 11 rebounds and he got seven offensive rebounds," said Donovan. "You have to be somewhat realistic. There was nobody in the front court on their team that had the size and physicality. I think the one thing that happened to Al, knowing Al, is that Noah grabbed 15 rebounds in the first game and he grabbed four. I think there was a level of focus about going to the backboard and grab rebounds. When you have both your front court players with double-doubles, that's good.
But while Noah and Horford clogged the paint, Corey Brewer, Taurean Green and Lee Humphrey swarmed the perimeter so open shots were few and far between. Only Rashad Williams, who had 21 points (8-16 from the field, 5-6 from the foul line), was able to score with any consistency for North Florida.
It didn't matter that the Gators didn't hit a three-pointer until Green knocked one down with 50.4 seconds left in the half. It didn't matter that the Gators struggled from beyond the arc, hitting just 4-16 for the game. It didn't matter that Florida shot just 50 percent (10-20) from the foul line for the game (7-16 in the first half). Florida was just too big and too strong and had too many better players.
The missed free throws were pretty much the only disappointment for Donovan
"I don't remember ever in my 10-plus years having a half like that shooting the basketball the way we did from the free throw line," said Donovan. "Jo ended up going 3-9 and the rest of our team didn't shoot the ball particularly well from the free throw line. We left so many points out there. When you get to the free throws line and you don't make free throws it's almost like a turnover. You're running offense, you get fouled and you get an opportunity to make two shots, then you come away with nothing. It's almost like a wasted possession."
The game was pretty much over by the time Horford scored on a stick back after a Green miss with 18:21 remaining in the first half. That broke a 2-2 tie and it was the last time the score was close.
It was 38-20 at the half. Florida got its first 30-point lead when Green hit a three with 12:46 remaining in the game and the first 40-point lead when Noah dropped in a couple of free throws with 9:42 left in the game to make it 68-28.
In the final six minutes of the game, Florida's freshmen got a chance to run up and down the floor with Marreese Speights showing up big with eight points, four rebounds, an assist and a blocked shot. Freshman Dan Werner got the first four points of his collegiate career, Jonathan Mitchell scored three points and Brandon Powell got in five solid minutes, playing strong defense in the press and on the perimeter.
"As disappointed as I was with the way our freshmen played opening night — maybe it was the first game jitters for them — I thought that when they got in there they did a pretty good job," said Donovan.
Donovan was concerned in the opening night win over Samford because the freshmen allowed Samford to close the game on a 10-2 run. In practice Saturday and again on Monday, he worked the young guys over and got their attention.
"I was really all over the freshmen since Friday," said Donovan. "We played about as well as we could play opening night against Samford and their system (79-54 Florida win). To close the game, Samford went on a 10-2 run and it was against our young guys.
"I confronted those guys about that. Saturday's practice and Monday's practice, I've been all over those guys in terms of what to expect and how hard they have to play and compete."
Donovan wants his freshmen to bring energy and inspiration off the bench. He didn't see that Friday night but he saw it against North Florida.
"Tonight they did that," he said. "They did some good things, they were on edge and they were focused. I felt they defended very well for the time they were in there and they did a really good job."
Green and Humphrey each contributed 12 points and three assists in the game. Humphrey, held without a three-pointer against Samford, was 2-6 from the three-point line, but he was 2-4 in the second half.
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Posted on 01/10/2013 6:19:07 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Reuters) - German firemen rescued a mysteriously naked man trapped in a narrow chimney in central Berlin, a spokesman said on Thursday.
The fire brigade was alerted to the emergency after police failed to help the 39-year old man who was wedged 10 metres (yards) down the shoulder-width chimney.
"The rescue workers, specialised in saving people at great heights, tried to pull the victim out from above with a crane and a sling," a fire brigade spokesman said.
"At first he held on to the rope but then his strength failed him so we had to come up with an alternative."
The team of about 30 firemen and 10 police officers bored a hole in the second floor of the building and managed to pull out the victim but not before he had lost consciousness. He needed 15 minutes of resuscitation and is still in hospital.
"He suffered from injuries in the fall and due to his scant clothing - namely his nakedness - he became very cold," the spokesman said.
The rescue operation took just under two hours but it is unclear how long the man had been in the chimney before police were first alerted to his cries of distress.
It is not known what the man was doing on the roof. Some media reports said he was homeless and escaped from a hospital.
(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...
Well—we all have our problems.
I'm assuming that this poor soul will be placed in some sort of facility that can help him—or at least keep him from another ordeal like this one.
Sooty Claus!
Santa Schwanz
I....saw Mommy ki.....er...uhh............
Didn't we use to have a Crazy Naked People ping list?
At least he wasn't eating someon's face....
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The tiny country of Uruguay (the second smallest sovereign territory in South America after Suriname) lies between its two huge neighbours, Brazil to the north and Argentina to the south and west. More than half the country's population of 3.3 million live in the capital, Montevideo.
Visitors to Uruguay often arrive by ferry from Buenos Aires in Argentina, crossing the 1.5 kilometre wide River Plate to the port in Montevideo. Many come on a day-trip, but with so much to explore in Uruguay you should allow more time if possible. You can enjoy the European-influenced architecture of Montevideo and walk through its vibrant port market area, or for a more relaxed cultural experience you could discover the country's oldest town, Colonia del Sacramento, founded by the Portuguese in 1680 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Evenings in Mondevideo are lively: you can hear the characteristic Candombe music, with its African-derived rhythms, at any time of year – and enjoy carnival every year in February.
For a change of scene you could travel to the country's long, white, sandy beaches, which cover much of Uruguay's 660 kilometre coastline. The resorts and upmarket hotels here draw visitors from throughout Latin America and beyond.
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The other night, I started cooking dinner or thinking about cooking dinner for my son and myself.
The other night, I started cooking dinner or thinking about cooking dinner for my son and myself. I shouldn�t have, but I turned the television on and sat down in my chair and put my feet up. My dogs seemed to be happy I was sitting down.
The television was still on the Hallmark Movie Channel from my early morning rendezvous with Ben Matlock (you know, Andy Griffith in the 1980�s).
I knew better.
It was around 5 in the afternoon and I was watching the Hallmark channel. Men and dogs aren�t supposed to watch this channel. The dogs and I knew that, but we did it anyway.
People who review Hallmark movies usually use words like �sweet� and �happy.� They also say things like �Slow and predictable�� You think? Personally, I like knowing what�s going to happen, especially when I know it�s going to be good.
If a cake looks like it�s going to be chocolate, I want it to be chocolate � not some sort squished up bananas or other fruity filling that I have to guess what it actually is, or God forbid coconut. I only eat coconut when I�m mad.
After watching a few Hallmark movies over the course of the past week, I come away with that song from the Country Music group Shenandoah on my mind. You know the one � �I Wanna be Loved like that.� It talks about Mamas, Daddies, Natalie Wood, James Dean and promises you can�t take back.
Hallmark movies are actually pretty good movies to watch while cooking or thinking about cooking dinner. They all last two hours, which includes about 30 minutes of commercials usually loaded more toward the end of the movie to make you wait to see what you know is definitely going to happen. You need to use low heat and walk back and forth to the kitchen a lot.
The commercials on the Hallmark channel are also usually �slow and predictable.� After watching a Hallmark movie, one usually has a craving to sit in a Craftmatic bed eating Smuckers jelly out of the jar with a plastic spoon with Acne medicine on your face while filling out an application to join AARP. You feel a little guilty about eating the Smuckers right out of the jar with the plastic spoon, so you call the 800 number for Nutrisystem.
In the middle of all this, you still feel good and you want to be loved like the folks in the Hallmark movie. You want everything to be alright and for this two-hour period, you�d bet the mortgage that it will be.
The movie I was watching was about a nice looking lady who had �gone home� to spread her estranged father�s ashes per his wishes and have a couple of his feuding friends sing while she tossed the ashes up into the rural Massachusetts wind.
After reading about the movie, I figured out that it was actually filmed in Canada, but it seemed more like Ireland. Everyone had Irish accents. It seems I�ve heard there are a lot of Irish folks in Massachusetts.
The location doesn�t matter and please don�t think I didn�t like this movie. I loved it. Was it hokey? You better know it was and it made you want to be there right in the middle of it.
Have you ever stood just stood and read Hallmark cards at the store? All those one liners? All those cards with nice love words oozing out of them? You say things to yourself like, �I wish someone would say that to me,� �Now that would crank my tractor, � or �I wanna be loved like that.�
Hallmark movies are full of these zingers that should be in Hallmark cards. It makes you think about the �Chicken and the Egg.� You know � did they make the movie from the cards or make the cards from the movie.
At one point in the movie, the lady who you know will fall for the hometown fellow tells her friend�s husband, �Sometimes a woman just needs you to show her that she means more to you than anything in the world.� Hallmark movies have a tendency to sometimes bash men. I understand, every once in a while they need to put the shoe on the other foot.
Cate with a �C� is the lady there to dispose of her father�s ashes; she is engaged to an old fogey named Stewart who is 20 years older than she. How do I say this? Stewart is a backside of a donkey or something like that. He has to be. He�s going to lose. You know he will lose.
The winner is Connor. He wears his collar up once in a while, has a dog and smiles like he�s just eaten a jar of Smuckers jelly with a plastic spoon. During commercials, you want to go to the powder room and look in the mirror and tell yourself that you are a Connor, rather than the fianc� that acts like he is experiencing some of the undesirable side effects of the medication from the commercials.
I was boiling carrots on low, I love carrots.
Before Connor shows back up in New York City with his dog to woo Cate with a �C� back to rural Massachusetts, you get all of the other things that have to be in a Hallmark movie.
Just like country music songs need tractors, cheating, drinking, dying and cowboys, Hallmark movies need wicker picnic baskets, a fair or festival of some sort, some mist or fog, beds covered with chenille bedspreads, birds (seagulls work nice), porches and roads that look like they couldn�t handle two cars side by side.
Before the end, you�ll see some more acne medication commercials and more than likely one for a purple pill that could cause diarrhea. They don�t want you to experience the side effects, but they warn you that you could. You don�t worry about acne or diarrhea, because you know everything in the movie is going to be alright.
I put sugar in my carrots I was cooking, because Mama would when no one was looking and Hallmark movies make me think of Mama.
Cate with a �C� ends up telling her fianc� (the old donkey�s derriere) that she wants kids and a dog. He understands that means she does not want him. Of course she needs to kiss Connor, the hometown boy on the mouth, make his collar stand up, pat his dog on the head and go dream under a chenille bedspread.
What does one take from all this?
I think if you want to be loved like they get loved in a Hallmark Channel movie, you need a dog, a wicker picnic basic and someone to shoo some seagulls your way. Just make sure you have the lid on the Smuckers jelly when they do the shooing of the seagulls.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (Aug. 28, 2001) — The
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ranks ninth among its peers nationally in research productivity.
The finding is reported in an article by Dr. Sean Henderson in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. Henderson is an emergency physician at the University of Southern California.
Henderson compared the number of peer-reviewed research publications produced by academic emergency medicine programs over the five-year period from 1995 through 1999. He then divided the total publications for each program by the number of full-time faculty employed by the respective program in 1999.
Among the 99 programs that qualified to be considered for the study, the ECU Department of Emergency Medicine ranked 9th. The department's 16 faculty produced 48 papers, or 3 papers for each faculty member.
The University of California at San Diego placed first with 93 papers produced by its 17 faculty, for an average of 5.5 each.
Dr. Nicholas Benson, chairman of the ECU Department of Emergency Medicine, is very proud of his department's performance.
"The accolades for this great productivity go to the faculty," he said. "I believe they bring great credit to the Brody School of Medicine and to East Carolina University, as well as to Pitt County Memorial Hospital."
For the purposes of the study, Henderson only considered peer-reviewed articles, excluding letters and abstracts. Institutional credit for a publication was determined by the affiliation of the first author listed for an article.
Benson attributed his department's success in research to a number of factors: His faculty have reached a point in their careers where they have mature research programs; as a department, they have invested in resources that support research, such as a research faculty position held by a neurophysiologist; and they have focused those resources on the ones among them who are most likely to be productive in research, recognizing that while every faculty member must be an excellent teacher and clinician, not all are "destined to make a significant contribution to the scientific literature."
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I was just reading a post at Jenica's and there was a line there that got me thinking
It doesn't matter how much technology you throw at communication patterns, because until people learn to communicate effectively, the technology just facilitates ineffective communication.
It struck me, because I almost never see technology as the flaw in communication patterns.
And I always find it fascinating to get my perspective shifted. I have a tendency to think I'm right. Maybe I'm alone in that, but I suspect not. When I look at flawed communication at my place of work, my gut says it is a mentality, an intention, an approach to transparency, information sharing, what other people need to know, and what we each know about what each other are doing.
It only rarely occurs to me think of the problem as one of delivery, or technology. Which is a little silly, because one example immediately comes to mind: Reflog. When I started at my current (but not for long) place of work, librarians were supposed to use the paper reference log to track comments to each other. Which is exactly the practice I had been used to as a grad student, and as a grad student I religiously checked the reflog clipboard when I started a shift. (I only ever made notes in it as I left, big messages for next on)
I never worked it into my desk routine at MPOW. And I was not alone in that (non)practice
After a lot of persuading and pushing and pulling and eventually caveat, we started using a wiki for reference notes. And, lo, notes were taken, notes were read. It's not perfect — some of the will is still bent in ways that don't facilitate information sharing, but it is so much better than before!
What's more interesting though is how the failure of communication continues to breed failure of communication. Jenica and I work together, and we both care about this issue. But we've never had a conversation about communication that revealed we may have very different understandings of the problem or it' solutions. The problem got in the way of potentially productive conversations and solutions.
I'm going to try to make an effort to make a note every time I am confident I am right, and try to have a conversation with someone involved about the issue. Because being right isn't always what matters — everyone else's perspective is just as important when it comes to making change happen.
And being right doesn't matter if nobody else agrees, right? 🙂


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Section, act June 29, 1950, ch. 404, 64 Stat. 275, provided for extension of time of annual assessment work, on mining claims in the United States, including Alaska, for period commencing July 1, 1949, until 12 o'clock noon Oct. 1, 1950, and also provided for commencement of assessment work or improvements required for year ending 12 o'clock noon July 1, 1951, immediately following 12 o'clock noon July 1, 1950. See sections 28b to 28e of this title.
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Trench mouth is a painful bacterial infection that involves swelling (inflammation) and ulcers in the gums (gingivae).
Vincent's stomatitis; Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
Trench mouth is a painful form of gum swelling (gingivitis). The term "trench mouth" comes from World War I, when the disorder was common among soldiers.
The mouth normally contains a balance of different bacteria. Trench mouth occurs when there is an overgrowth of normal mouth bacteria. The gums become infected and develop painful ulcers. Viruses may be involved in allowing the bacteria to grow too much.
Risks include the following:
This disorder is rare. When it does occur, trench mouth most often affects persons ages 15 - 35.
Note: Symptoms often begin suddenly.
The health care provider will look at your mouth for signs of trench mouth, including:
There may be a gray film caused by broken down (decomposed) gum tissue. In some cases, there may be fever and swollen lymph nodes of the head and neck.
Dental x-rays or x-rays of the face may be taken to determine how severe the infection is and how much tissue has been destroyed.
This disease may also be tested for by using a throat swab culture.
The goals of treatment are to cure the infection and relieve symptoms. Your health care provider may prescribe antibiotics if you have a fever.
Good oral hygiene is vital to the treatment of trench mouth. Brush and floss your teeth thoroughly, at least twice a day, and preferably after each meal and at bedtime.
Salt water rinses (1/2 teaspoon of salt in 1 cup of water) may soothe sore gums. Hydrogen peroxide, used to rinse the gums, is often recommended to remove dead or dying gum tissue. Chlorhexidine rinse will help with gum inflammation.
Over-the-counter pain relievers (analgesics) may reduce your discomfort. Soothing rinses or coating agents may reduce pain, especially before eating. You may apply lidocaine to the gums for severe pain.
You may be asked to visit a dentist or dental hygienist to have your teeth professionally cleaned and to have the plaque removed, once your gums feel less tender. You may need frequent dental cleaning and examinations until the disorder is cleared.
To prevent the condition from coming back, your health care provider may give you instructions on how to:
Avoid irritants such as smoking and hot or spicy foods.
The infection usually responds to treatment. The disorder can be quite painful until it is treated. If trench mouth is not treated promptly, the infection can spread to the cheeks, lips, or jawbone and destroy these tissues.
Call the dentist if you have symptoms of trench mouth, or if fever or other new symptoms develop.
Preventive measures include:
Allen CM, Camisa C. Oral disease. In: Bolognia JL, Jorizzo JL, Schaffer JV, et al, eds. Dermatology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 7f2.
Gingivitis and Acute Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis: (Trench Mouth). In: Buttaravoli P, Leffler SM, eds. Minor Emergencies. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 50.


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Once baby Nuno falls asleep, her mother, Mami Koide, creates dreamland masterpieces around her daughter with the floor as her canvas. Koide, a cartoonist by trade, uses everyday items like clothes, socks and vegetables as materials to fashion horses, cats, and flowers as background scenery. (Reminds us of Mila's Daydreams!)
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Koide originally began taking these photos to send to her husband who works late hours as a bartender. Three months ago, she decided to put her collection of 200 staged photos into a limited edition book, which rose to best-seller status in just one week on Amazon Japan.
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While, her innovative dreamscapes have become a sensation, Koide worries how her daughter will feel about her work, "I'm still not confident whether she'll be happy and satisfied with what I'm doing without her permission while she is sleeping."


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High definition paves the way for new Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game tradition
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Fans attending the back-to-back games of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game Weekend, and those watching at home, will experience a new tradition thanks to high definition television.
The four teams competing in the two Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games will all wear their dark-colored home uniforms creating a unique look rarely seen in sports.
Tennessee Orange, NC State Red, Auburn Blue and Clemson Orange will be on display on both sides of the field and in the stands as well for both the Friday night and Saturday night games. Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game organizers and the teams are encouraging fans to wear colors matching their teams' to enhance the visual effect, saturating the Georgia Dome in the four schools' traditional colors.
"This new tradition is going to create an even more electric atmosphere at a venue already known for being one of the loudest and craziest in college football," said Gary Stokan, Chick-fil-A Bowl president and CEO. "It's going to give both games a really unique look, and we know the fans will get behind this, to help create a great visual effect both in person and on TV."
The general rule of one team wearing a dark-colored jersey and the other wearing mostly white is in part due to the early days of black and white television when you needed the added contrast to tell one team from the other on the screen. Today's high-definition televisions with ultra-crisp pictures essentially take that away as long as there is enough difference in the colors of the jerseys. The dark and light uniform combinations have been adopted by nearly every sport and have been the norm for generations.
But on Friday and Saturday, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game will break that rule.
"We're looking forward to taking part in this element of the game and think both teams wearing their home jerseys will make the game unique," said Derek Dooley, Tennessee head coach. "Any time we have an opportunity to wear orange, we will certainly do so."
"Gary Stokan and his staff always have a lot of good ideas around their games," said Dabo Swinney, Clemson head coach. "We were undefeated at home last year, so we are certainly comfortable in our home uniforms. I know both sets of fans want to make the Georgia Dome seem like a home game, so it follows that both teams wear their home uniforms."
About the Chick-fil-A Bowl:
The Chick-fil-A Bowl is the ninth-oldest bowl game in the country and hosts the longest-running rivalry series between the ACC and SEC. Now in its 45th year, the Chick-fil-A Bowl has established itself as one of the nation's elite bowl games with a string of 15 consecutive sellouts and has earned a reputation as one of the most competitive bowls in the nation. Fifty-five percent of its games have been decided by a touchdown or less. Chick-fil-A Bowls are three of the top 10 and seven of the top 25 most-viewed non-BCS bowl game telecasts in ESPN history. The Chick-fil-A Bowl has disbursed more than $110 million in team payouts over its 44-year history and has increased team payout every year since 1996. The Bowl also leads all other bowl games in charitable and scholarship contributions, giving more than $13 million to organizations in need since 2002. The Chick-fil-A Bowl has been an innovator in its creation of the Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament each spring and the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game season-opening game over Labor Day weekend.
Source: Chick-fil-A's Matt Garvey
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Skip to comments.MSNBC Did No Negative Stories About Obama or Positive Ones About Romney Last Week of Campaign
Posted on 11/20/2012 6:32:29 AM PST by george76
This is all Americans need to know about just how disgraceful a "news network" MSNBC is.
A new study just released by the Pew Research Center found that in the final week of the just-ended presidential campaign, the "Lean Forward" network did absolutely no negative stories about President Obama or positive ones about Mitt Romney.
MSNBC's coverage of Romney during the final week (68% negative with no positive stories in the sample), was far more negative than the overall press, and even more negative than it had been during October 1 to 28 when 5% was positive and 57% was negative.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
America! Where you're free to say anything you like. Just don't say anything you don't like. This joint is just like the old collapsed Soviet Union now. Thanks Barry Benghazi!
Headline needs to be corrected. It should read last YEAR not last week.
Very simple... don't support MSNBC or NBC or GE in any manner.
MSNBC is a communist enterprise. We are paying for them thru our cable subscriptions.
I heard that they also transmitted a special tone over the air, that prevented people from changing the channel or turning their tv off!!
There, I fixed it.
Comcast is already laying people off. We should put the final nail in by boycotting ALL of MSNBC's sponsors. We need to hit the media in the pocketbook or we will never lose.
Comcast is already laying people off. We should put the final nail in by boycotting ALL of MSNBC's sponsors. We need to hit the media in the pocketbook or we will never win.
I'm shocked. Anyone else?
Did anyone expect MSLSD to do positive stories on Romney? Why the shock that a pro-socialism network favors a socialist candidate?
No big deal it's a for the dummy network anyway.
No big deal it's a for the dummy network anyway.
You must be so proud!
Thanks, is there a prize or ceremony involved...snacks?
Or COMCAST.
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George Ehret was a French artist whose favourite form of painting was still-life and who was one of the foremost botanical painters of all time.
Although best-known for his painting, he was also talented at sketching and engraving. His favourite compositions involved flowers and fruit.
He was born in 1710 and was apprenticed to a gardener. His artistic skill was obvious and he soon acquired wealthy patrons, which allowed him to travel across Europe painting botanical subjects.
Such was his success that he decided, in 1740, to move to London, where he lived in Chelsea. He worked from here and his best-known painting was commissioned for the Duchess of Portland. Ehret died in 1770.


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Last election day, as thousands of New Yorkers bused out to Ohio on a mission to stop George W. Bush from being re-elected, a few dozen stayed behind in Albany and made sure David Soares won.
The volunteers knocked on doors street by street; in the housing projects, hall by hall. The day John Kerry lost, the Working Families Party helped Soares take the job of Albany District Attorney away from a machine Democrat notorious for condemning drug offenders to extreme prison terms. With the rallying cry "Reform Rockefeller Drug Laws Now," the Soares campaign got voters to the polls by tapping into public outrage at seeing lives destroyed and billions wasted by the justice system. Soares had won the primary as a Democrat. In the general election he was still a Democrat, but on the ballot he was something else, too: the candidate of the Working Families Party.
A few months earlier, the WFP operation hit Westchester County. Volunteers trawled suburban streets delivering the message: "We're telling State Senator Nick Spano that New Yorkers need a raise in the minimum wage." A few residents cursed and slammed doors. But more often than not they agreed, and received a sheet of paper, a pen and a chance to handwrite a plea to the Senator. "It's about time!" exclaimed an expensively groomed woman as she took a clipboard.
That wasn't the first or last time Spano, a high-ranking Republican, heard from his constituents–and the greeting wasn't always so polite. A few weeks earlier, Spano had endured an "accountability session," a public event community organizers use to extract commitments from elected officials. In a YMCA hall packed with some 150 union members and other activists, filled with cries of "$5.15 is not enough!" Spano expressed surprise at the turnout–and, knowing he had little choice, signed a poster-size pledge to push legislation raising New York's minimum wage to $7.10. "I am on your side," Spano declared. "I will deliver this personally to the majority leader."
But it was not just because he was caught on the spot that Spano came around on this issue–he knew that the Working Families Party, which organized the session, had a card to play: the ballot line in elections throughout New York State that it has wielded since 1998. In New York, election laws allow "fusion"–candidates for any public office can run as the nominee of more than one political party. The votes candidates receive are tallied separately by party, then combined. Like many candidates in New York State, Spano was hungry for the extra boost of that additional ballot line, which could make all the difference on election day. With the WFP's progressive seal of approval, Spano could expect some votes from people who might never otherwise support a Republican.


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BERLIN (AP) — Police say a group of assailants pelted the Iranian Embassy in Berlin with stones and paint and pulled down an Iranian flag — prompting Germany's foreign minister to express regret to his counterpart in Tehran.
Berlin police said about 30 were involved in the incident on Wednesday afternoon. The assailants didn't enter the building and authorities were able to detain 10 of them. There was no immediate information on their possible motives.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle condemned the incident. His office said he spoke by telephone Wednesday evening with Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi, voicing his regret and offering assurances that the embassy would be protected.
Germany, along with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, is leading efforts to address concerns over Iran's nuclear program.


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NEW YORK - On April 14, a massive storm swept down out of the Rocky Mountains into the Midwest and South, spawning more than 150 tornadoes that killed 43 people across 16 states (Capital Weather Gang, 4/18/11). It was one of the largest weather catastrophes in United States history—but was soon upstaged by an even larger storm, the 2011 Super Outbreak that spread more than 300 tornadoes across 14 states from April 25 to 28 (including an all-time one-day record of 188 twisters on April 27), killing 339 people, including 41 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (CNN, 5/1/11).
Ensuing weeks saw Texas wildfires that had been burning since December expand to consume more than 3 million acres (Texas Forest Service, 6/28/11; CNN, 4/25/11), plus record flooding along the Mississippi River, which couldn't contain the water from April's storms on top of the spring snowmelt. On May 22, a super-strong F5 tornado killed 153 people as it flattened a large part of Joplin, Missouri (National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office, 5/22/11) ; in the first two weeks of June, a heat wave broke temperature records in multiple states, and the Wallow fire became the largest in Arizona state history (Washington Post, 6/14/11).
It was an unprecedented string of severe weather: By mid-June, more than 1,000 tornadoes had killed 536 people (NOAA, 6/13/11), nearly as many deaths as in the entire preceding decade. And it was only natural to ask: Were we seeing the effects of climate change?
Most scientists would say yes, or at least "probably." The Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, a global scientific body that has been a target of conservatives despite a record of soft-pedaling its findings to avoid controversy (Extra!, 7/8/07), warned on February 2, 2007, "It is very likely that hot extremes, heat waves and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent." (In science-speak, "very likely" refers to a certainty of greater than 90 percent, and is as near as you get to a definitive conclusion.) Other forecasts (e.g., Environment America, 9/8/10) have projected that wet regions will receive record rainfall thanks to increasing evaporation, while dry ones get record drought, as climate patterns shift to accommodate the new normal.
Yet despite these dire predictions, U.S. media were hesitant to investigate the links between climate change and this spring's extreme weather. Much coverage settled for the cheap irony of contrasting extreme phenomena, as when NBC's Saturday Today show meteorologist Bill Karins (6/11/11) quipped:
Feast or famine's been the rule this spring. The northern half of the country, we've dealt with the heavy rain, the record snow pack that's now melting in the northern Rockies. That's causing the flooding. The southern half of the country, you would love some of that rain.
Even news reports that probed deeper into the causes of the spring's extreme weather, though, often stopped short of looking at climate factors. A Chicago Tribune story (4/29/11) headlined, "Why April Record for Twisters? Experts Call It Random, Say Nature Varies," noted that "some meteorologists" blame the periodic weather pattern known as La Niña, but then cited other scientists as saying the tornado outbreak was just random variation, with University of Illinois meteorologist Bob Rauber saying, "Global warming is occurring, but this is not a manifestation of it."
On the CBS Evening News (6/9/11), meanwhile, John Blackstone noted, "Perhaps the biggest weather troublemaker has been in the Gulf of Mexico, where sea surface temperatures have been almost 2 degrees [Fahrenheit] above average. That warm, moist Gulf air meeting the powerful jet stream created the string of tornadoes that killed 525 people." Yet, asked by anchor Scott Pelley why the Gulf of Mexico is hotter than usual, Blackstone replied only: "Well, it's related to the drought in the South—in the South-Southwest, with little clouds, lots of sunshine, the waters warming up and those warm waters could add energy to this hurricane season as well."
But while La Niña is a natural cyclical variation, the warming Gulf is not—at the very least, it's exacerbated by the global warming trend, which has pumped at least four times the heat energy into the oceans that it has into the atmosphere (NPR, 3/19/08). As National Center for Atmos-pheric Research climatologist Kevin Tren-berth explained to Extra!, the air over oceans now averages 1 degree Fahrenheit warmer and 4 percent wetter than it was before 1970. "So there is more warm moist air from the Gulf flowing into all spring storms that travel across the U.S. That destabilizes the air, provides fuel for thunderstorms and converts some thunderstorms into supercell storms, which in turn provide the environment for tornadoes to form."
The easiest connection for most reporters to make was with heat waves, probably because they match best with the popular image of "global warming." "Intense hot conditions will increase dramatically over the next 30 years," ABC News' Jim Avila (6/8/11) reported after June's record-setting heat wave. "Climatologists say it's clear: Global warming is beginning to show itself in plain sight."
For other extreme weather events, though, climate change only merited occasional mention. The wildfires that raged out of control across the Southwest in May and June were mostly covered as an unexpected natural disaster, without much thought of causes; in one exception, the Arizona Republic (6/12/11) fixed the blame squarely on the state having too many trees—a charge also brought up by the New York Times (6/11/11), which reported that, among other things, "Some [residents and experts] complained that it was environmentalists who had caused the forests to become tinderboxes by preventing the thinning of trees as they sought to protect wildlife."
This common conservative claim, Climate Progress blogger Joe Romm noted (6/12/11), was refuted in a 2006 paper (Science, 8/16/06) that found that fires were increasing the most at higher elevations, where forest restoration is less of an issue, but where warmer temperatures have a huge impact by melting winter snows earlier and increasing summer drought.
In fact, scientists have long predicted that one result of climate change would be a dramatic increase in Western wildfires, as Pete Spotts of the Christian Science Monitor explained in a rare article making such connections (6/9/11). The National Academy of Sciences projected (7/16/10) that a 1-degree Celsius increase in global temperatures—just half the best-case scenario in most climate models—could more than triple the acreage burned by wildfires in the U.S. West. Washington Post blogger Jason Samenow (6/14/11) reported on this study, but it went unmentioned in the newspaper's wildfire coverage.
Similarly, a NASA wildfire model released last year (10/27/10) projected that climate change would lead to an increase of fires in the U.S. West of between 30 and 60 percent by 2100. "I want you to think a little bit of fire as a metaphor for the many things that climate change holds for us," NASA earth sciences director Peter Hildebrand told a conference in Colorado in early April—though the only reporter to note this statement was environmental journalist Brendon Bosworth on his self-titled blog (4/8/11).
As for tornadoes, news coverage was openly dismissive of their connection to climate change. A New York Times Q & A following the Joplin tornado (5/25/11) asked: "Can the intensity of this year's tornadoes be blamed on climate change?" and answered "Probably not. Over all, the number of violent tornadoes has been declining in the United States, even as temperatures have increased."
Indeed, while the number of reported tornadoes has steadily risen in recent years, prior to this year the number of strong tornadoes (category F4 or F5) had not, leading most scientists to conclude that the rising totals for weak storms are merely a result of more thorough reporting, thanks to sprawling development in tornado-prone regions that has put more people within sighting distance. And because the mechanics of tornado generation are poorly understood—and they depend on vertical temperature differential, so a warming lower atmosphere would predict more tornadoes, but a warming upper atmosphere would tend to reduce them—most scientists say that stronger and more frequent tornadoes can't be definitively linked to climate.
Still, Trenberth told the blog Think Progress (4/29/11) that it's "irresponsible" not to mention climate change in tornado coverage. "The basic driver of thunderstorms is the instability in the atmosphere: warm moist air at low levels with drier air aloft," he told the site. "With global warming, the low-level air is warm and moister and there is more energy available to fuel all of these storms."
Most reporters, though, chose to stick to the narrower question of whether these particular tornadoes were caused by climate change—which, given all the factors involved to create any particular storm, is impossible to answer, except in the sense in which all weather today is the product of a warmed climate.
"Contributing to the thrashing were the La Niña conditions in the Pacific Ocean, unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico and the increase of moisture in the atmosphere caused by the warming climate," wrote the Washington Post (6/15/11) on the spring's tornadoes, fires and floods. The piece cited National Oceanographic and Atmo-spheric Administration climate director Thomas Karl as "caution[ing] against focusing on any single cause for the unusual chain of events," quoting him as saying that "clearly these things interconnect."
Karl also featured prominently in an article by the New York Times' John Broder (6/15/11) that reported, "Government scientists said Wednesday that the frequency of extreme weather has increased over the past two decades, in part as a result of global warming," but quickly added that scientists "were careful not to blame humans for this year's rash of deadly events." Broder's only evidence: Karl's statement that "since 1980, indeed, extreme climatological and meteorological events have increased. But in the early part of the 20th century, there was also a tendency for more extreme events followed by a quiet couple of decades."
The story's headline: "Scientists See More Deadly Weather, but Dispute the Cause." (Broder later apologized to Romm—Climate Progress, 6/18/11—for what he called a "crappy headline.")
In fact, though, Karl had previously made clear that climate change would result in more extreme weather. "How climate change will be felt by you and impact your neighbors is probably going to be through extreme weather and climate events," he told EarthSky (3/15/10). "We may be fine for many years, and all of a sudden, one particular season, one particular year, the extremes are far worse than we've ever seen before."
In many ways, articles like Broder's parallel the decades-long public debate over carcinogens: It's just as difficult to say whether any one person's cancer was caused by pollutants as whether one weather event was caused by climate change. And in both cases, statistical studies have a literally fatal drawback: By the time you've gathered enough data, it's too late to prevent the consequences.
Scientists, then, may conclude that it's "too soon to tell" exactly how climate change affects tornadoes and other severe weather, but that's not the same as saying it has no effect. As Trenberth tells Extra! of the spring's string of catastrophes: "Much of what goes on is natural variability and weather. But there is a component from human influences through global warming. While it may be modest, it is real and significant."
As noted, the role of climate change in the spring's severe weather wasn't entirely ignored. The Christian Science Monitor (6/9/11), in its report on Arizona wildfires that had "blackened an area half the size of Rhode Island," called them "the latest poster child for what some scientists see as a long-term trend toward larger, longer-lived wildfires in the American West," noting that "climate change appears to be an important contributor."
Urgency was left to op-ed pages: Climate activist Bill McKibben wrote a scathing op-ed in the Washington Post (5/23/11) that sarcastically suggested: "It's very important to stay calm. If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the record profits of our fossil fuel companies." Environmental writer Chip Ward wrote an opinion piece on CBS News.com (6/16/11): "Global warming, global weirding, climate change—whatever you prefer to call it—is not just happening in some distant, melting Arctic land out of a storybook. It is not just burning up far-away Russia. It's here now." (CBS News' television programs, meanwhile, never once mentioned climate change in their coverage of the spring's wildfires.)
One example of how to cover the story differently came from the Edmonton Journal (5/17/11), where columnist Graham Thomson wrote:
No scientist can guarantee that any of these events are caused by human-induced climate change. Climate change is all about trends.
However, the trends are consistent: The atmosphere is warming, the climate is changing and we are largely responsible through our burning of fossil fuels.
Even Thomson, though, didn't try to suggest that we change our behavior to prevent extreme weather from becoming the norm.
Similarly, when the New York Times editorial page weighed in on what can be done about climate change (6/1/11), it was to praise the city of Chicago for building more rooftop gardens and adding air conditioning to classrooms as part of "long-term preparations for a warmer, stormier climate." Never mind that the electricity needed to power air conditioners is a major contributor of carbon emissions, or that air conditioning in schools is unlikely to do much to stem the additional 166 to 2,217 annual deaths that researchers Roger Peng and Francesca Domenici estimate Chicago will suffer by the end of the century as the result of climate change (Environmental Health Perspectives, 5/11).
And then there was the counsel given by Nightline anchor Bill Weir (4/26/11), who bent over backwards to avoid definitive conclusions on the causes of the deadly weather:


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'Holy Motors' is nonsensical sensory magic
Reel Life mini-review: "Holy Motors"
Denis Lavant is a miraculously versatile and courageous actor.
That might be the only thing everyone, especially critics, could agree on in "Holy Motors," Leos Carax's brain-gouging, eye-skating cinematic epic of sumptuous surrealism.
Carax, directing and writing his first film since "Pola X" 13 years ago, plops Lavant into a really, really stretched white limousine driven around Paris, France, by Celine (Edith Scob), confidant and manager to Oscar (Lavant), who we soon discover is an actor of sorts.
Celine drives Oscar from job to job, and each one appears to be lifted from a film genre: film noir, musicals, domestic dramas, kinky soft-core porn, martial arts action, tragic romances. Good thing the limo houses all the costumes and props Oscar needs to become a monstrous leprechaun, a gangster, motion-capture actor and an old, dying man.
Check your logic and common sense at the box office for this one.
"Holy Motors" begins with a man in pajamas (Carax himself) opening a secret passage with a large key that serves as his right index finger. He enters a theater where freeze-framed viewers watch an old King Vidor movie and a giant dog ambles in scary slow motion in the aisle.
Then things get a little weird.
This is an opulently orchestrated movie with Lavant showcasing not only his impressive range, but exercising a supreme sense of physicality in the vastly different parts he's required to play. By whom? For whom?
"Holy Motors" conforms only to the non-rules of dreams, so the rhyme and reason we expect in regular movies do not exist here. Kick back. Let Carax's non-sequitur cinema work its sensory magic.
"Holy Motors" opens at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Not rated, but for mature viewers only. 115 minutes. ★ ★ ★
Note: After the 7 p.m. showing Friday, Nov. 9, a discussion will be conducted by Michael Kutza, artistic director of the Chicago International Film Festival; Charles Coleman of Facets Multimedia; Jean-Francois Rochard of Chicago's French consulate; and Brian Andreotti, director of programming for the Music Box. Go to musicboxtheatre.com.
Reel Life mini-review: "The Bay"
"The Bay" proves that even an Oscar-winning director like Barry Levinson can create a cheap and silly ecological horror movie on par with something that far less talented filmmakers could produce at a fraction of his cost.
"The Bay" is one of those "there's something in the water" tales merged with a mangled form of the now overused "found footage" format. In this case, Levinson employs so many Hollywood devices -- crosscutting, scary music, close-ups, reaction shots -- that it qualifies less as "found footage" as it does "just a cheap and cheesy horror film."
Tons of chicken excrement loaded with growth hormones have been dumped in the bay around a seaside Maryland town until July Fourth festivities. That's when tiny, mutated parasites in the water begin eating local citizens from the inside out, taking a huge toll on the town's cast of unknown actors.
To be fair, "The Bay" offers three, maybe four, scares stretched out over a mercifully brief 84 minutes.
That's still long enough for our eyes to be battered by the barrage of images snatched from cellphones, security cameras, computer screens, handicams and diagnostic equipment, then edited into "found footage" that was perfectly fine staying lost.
"The Bay" opens at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, Chicago. Rated R for language and violence. 84 minutes. ★ ½
A 007 chat with Cubby
Would James Bond author Ian Fleming approve of what the movies have done to his literary creation?
I posed this question to longtime 007 producer Cubby Broccoli when I met him for lunch in 1979. Broccoli was 70 at the time.
"I think he (Fleming) would have enjoyed the success of it," Broccoli told me. "I don't think he would have been enamored with a lot of things we've been forced to do. I think he would have had respect after we told him why we did this and why we did that, why we went into space (for 'Moonraker') instead of having a piddly rocket flying into London (the plot of the book)."
Broccoli recalled the many English actors he considered while searching for the perfect man to play James Bond 50 years ago.
"They were all good typical British types who could do Hamlet and all that," Broccoli said. "But they didn't have what I thought, and what my partner Harry Saltzman thought, he should have. They were all a bit too polite.
"I went to a Lana Turner supper sort of thing and there was this rather attractive guy. I didn't know who he was. I finally called somebody who knew who he was and he told me he was Sean Connery. He had done (a bit part in) 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People.'
"I wasn't impressed with the way he dressed, or the way he cut his hair and all that. But I knew we could groom him up, and, of course, we did. Dressed him up to look like 007. That was the start of Sean Connery. And we went ahead with 'Dr. No.'"
Reel Life film notes:
• Lombard native Jim Kozar spent the last year shooting a documentary titled "Pete and Dyl: The Documentary," about two real-life Lombard best buds waiting for their Web episodes to be shown at an art show. You can catch Kozar's doc at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago. Check it out at on.fb.me/U7dgwe.
• Psst! If you're a schoolteacher, you can get a free ticket to see the new doc "Brooklyn Castle" at Landmark's Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St., Chicago, by flashing your valid ID at the box office. Offer valid through Nov. 15. brooklyncastle.com/take-action.
• Bob Peters writes this about my "elect-ifying" movies celebrating our election system:
"Dann: I believe you missed a good one. 'The American President," starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. It is probably more relevant today than one or two you selected."
Dear Bob: I had many good movies to choose from, but I had to whittle the list down to 12. "American President" was a contender, along with "Napoleon Dynamite," "Primary Colors," "Advise and Consent," "Wag the Dog," "Dave," "All the President's Men," and many others.
Dear Dann: On your election movie list, what happened to "Advise and Consent"? A great movie, or did you not see it? Old, yes, but illustrating nasty politics at its worst. Dated perhaps because of the present glorification of gays? Perhaps that is why you didn't add it to the list. I thought it showed just how evil people can be to win at all costs, since his "indiscretion" was so minor. Haunting though, and effective. So what is it? Did you hate the gay reference in "Advise"? -- Connie Pohlman
Dear Connie: No, the film just didn't make the cut.
• Join me and 007 novelist Raymond Benson when we talk about James Bond's new movie "Skyfall" 7 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, on Mancow's Morning Madhouse, WJJG 1530-AM.
Later at 4 p.m., Benson will join 007 uber-collector Doug Redenius on Roe and Roeper on WLS 890-AM.
• Daily Herald Film Critic Dann Gire's column runs Fridays in Time out!


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SnhKnives wrote:Rozard wrote:Brakus wrote:did "Who Sent Ya~?!" compete, or was there another Dead Leaves AMV in Action?
I try to limit how often I submit my videos anywhere. So far, WHO SENT YA?! has only been to JACON (which I was at) and ACen (which I was going to go to, but money fell through). I'll submit it to AWA Expo too, but that'll probably be it.
otherwise you will be a trolling whore!!
No I think he just doesn't want to feel bad because he can beat Beowulf again....and again.....and again.