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Networks in a 'Feeding Frenzy' Over New Michael J. Fox Comedy Series
The networks are going crazy over the idea of it.
Michael J. Fox is readying a return to prime-time series television, and the broadcast networks are lining up to welcome him back. Vulture hears the iconic star of Family Ties and the Back to the Future trilogy has teamed with director Will Gluck (Easy A) and writer Sam Laybourne (Cougar Town, Arrested Development) on a single-camera comedy project that's being developed by Sony Pictures Television for a 2013 launch.
We're still trying to track down plot details, but our sources tell us the show will be inspired by Fox's own life. All four major network chiefs have heard the pitch, and two industry sources — using phrases such as "feeding frenzy" and "bidding war" — tell us it's now just a matter of which network will offer the most attractive deal to Fox, Gluck, and Sony. Our spies say the project will, at the very least, get an automatic pilot production commitment; there's even industry buzz about one network offering to go straight to series, something that hardly ever happens in broadcast TV anymore.
The extraordinary interest isn't as surprising, since Fox has had two big hit sitcoms and has maintained a strong connection with audiences over three decades (i.e., you'll never find him in a 'Child Stars of the Eighties: Where Are They Now' feature in People magazine). Trying to figure out where the potential Fox show will land is tough, however, since there are compelling reasons for all four of them. Fox has his most recent history with CBS, having appeared in (and gotten himself Emmy-nominated) for multiple episodes of The Good Wife. But he's also done successful shows for NBC (Family Ties) and ABC (Spin City). As for Rupert Murdoch's broadcaster, well, c'mon: Fox on Fox practically writes itself.

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"SELECT *" isn't just hazardous to performance, it can actually return blatantly wrong information.
There are a number of blog posts and articles out there that actively discourage the use of the SELECT * FROM …syntax. The two most common explanations that I have seen are:
And if you use SELECT * in the definition of a view, you will run into a variation of the future-proof problem mentioned above. One of the guys on my team, Mike Byther, ran across this in a project we were doing, but fortunately he caught it while we were still in development. I asked him to put together a test to prove that this was related to the use of SELECT * and not some other anomaly. I'll walk you through the test script so you can see for yourself what happens.
We are going to create a table and two views that are based on that table, one of them uses SELECT * and the other explicitly lists the column names. The script to create these objects is listed below.
IF OBJECT_ID('testtab') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE testtabgoIF OBJECT_ID('testtab_vw') IS NOT NULL DROP VIEW testtab_vwgo IF OBJECT_ID('testtab_vw_named') IS NOT NULL DROP VIEW testtab_vw_namedgo CREATE TABLE testtab (col1 NVARCHAR(5) null, col2 NVARCHAR(5) null)INSERT INTO testtab(col1, col2)VALUES ('A','B'), ('A','B')GOCREATE VIEW testtab_vw AS SELECT * FROM testtabGOCREATE VIEW testtab_vw_named AS SELECT col1, col2 FROM testtabgo
Now, to prove that the two views currently return equivalent results, select from them.
SELECT 'star', col1, col2 FROM testtab_vwSELECT 'named', col1, col2 FROM testtab_vw_named
OK, so far, so good. Now, what happens if someone makes a change to the definition of the underlying table, and that change results in a new column being inserted between the two existing columns? (Side note, I normally prefer to append new columns to the end of the table definition, but some people like to keep their columns alphabetized, and for clarity for later people reviewing the schema, it may make sense to group certain columns together. Whatever the reason, it sometimes happens, and you need to protect yourself and your code from the repercussions.)
DROP TABLE testtabgoCREATE TABLE testtab (col1 NVARCHAR(5) null, col3 NVARCHAR(5) NULL, col2 NVARCHAR(5) null)INSERT INTO testtab(col1, col3, col2)VALUES ('A','C','B'), ('A','C','B')goSELECT 'star', col1, col2 FROM testtab_vwSELECT 'named', col1, col2 FROM testtab_vw_named
I would have expected that the view using SELECT * in its definition would essentially pass-through the column name and still retrieve the correct data, but that is not what happens. When you run our two select statements again, you see that the View that is based on SELECT * actually retrieves the data based on the ordinal position of the columns at the time that the view was created. Sure, one work-around is to recreate the View, but you can't really count on other developers to know the dependencies you have built-in, and they won't necessarily recreate the view when they refactor the table.
I am sure that there are reasons and justifications for why Views behave this way, but I find it particularly disturbing that you can have code asking for col2, but actually be receiving data from col3. By the way, for the record, this entire scenario and accompanying test script apply to SQL Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1.
So, let the developer beware…know what assumptions are in effect around your code, and keep on discouraging people from using SELECT * syntax in anything but the simplest of ad-hoc queries.
And of course, let's clean up after ourselves. To eliminate the database objects created during this test, run the following commands.
DROP TABLE testtabDROP VIEW testtab_vwDROP VIEW testtab_vw_named
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Suppose you have an image you want to put into an old TV or just apply similar effect to it.
The first step is to colorize the image. The unsafe way to do it is Hue/Saturation dialog (Ctrl-U, Colorize checkbox). But you will lose original image, and though you can always duplicate a layer to aviod losing the sources, I prefer to create new layer and fill it with solid color.
... and then change its blend more from Normal" to "Color". This will make image from layer 1 use the color from layer 2. "
Next, we need a TV grid. Create a new (temporary) image with 1 pixel width and 4 pixels height.
Use pencil tool or gradient tool to do an image similar to shown here. Then, select all (Ctrl-A) and define a pattern (Edit menu -> Define Pattern).
Now, return to our main image, open layer 2 blending options (also known as layer style), turn on pattern overlay, and select the pattern you just created. Dont forget to change its blend mode to overlay or soft light.
So after these quick modifications, the image looks very natural inside old TV! This technique is also useful for creating elegant and soft background images.
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"Bitter Rivals," the title of Sleigh Bells latest album, has nothing to do with vocalist Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller's relationship.
"It's not about us," Krauss said while calling from Tulsa. "It's about confronting your own demons and dealing with things that motivate you to do better and push harder, like competitive sports. We're fine together. We just want to make every album better than the one before it."
Sleigh Bells, which will perform Friday at the State Theatre, is taking it to another level with "Bitter Rivals." Prior releases, such as 2012's "Reign of Terror," have been inconsistent sonic amalgams of noise and pop. Miller's love of the abrasive has sometimes gotten in the way but that has been remedied on "Bitter Rivals."
It's more confection than cacophony this time out. The sweeter has won out on more than one occasion and perhaps that has to do with Krauss' increasing influence.
"In the past it was as if Derek was our lone visionary," Krauss said "He wasn't as comfortable with my contributions but that's changed. He's given me more room on this album. But we're also closer as friends and I think that's helped us musically."
The title track, "Sugarcane," and "Young Legends" have big hooks and Miller's love of noise doesn't get in the way. The edge and the pop happily coexist for much of the album.
"We're growing up musically," Krauss said. "But we still have that excitement in us that we always had with this band."
That's evident. "Bitter Rivals," which dropped last month (Oct. 7), was released only a year and half after "Reign of Terror" saw the light of day. That's uncommon unless a recording artist is out of Disney's hit factory.
"Derek and I just became hyper-creative," Krauss said. "We worked at a really quick pace and finished the album off."
Part of what makes Sleigh Bells work is that it's not overly precious with its material. They're old school since they just crank it out and roll with it. Sure, a couple songs from "Bitter Rivals" feel a bit half-baked but three-quarters of the album are the finest songs the duo has yet to craft.
"We believe we can step it up from here," Krauss said. "We're still getting there."
Sleigh Bells, which is adept at combining the melodic with the metallic, has taken strides with each of its three albums.
"I feel like that's what it's about," Krauss said. "We just want to get better each time out. We learned a lot during our last tour."
Sleigh Bells opened for the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the spring of 2012. "They were so nice and accommodating," Krauss said. "I can't say enough about them. We played arenas. It was a challenge playing in buildings that were a quarter filled. But we're done with arena rock. We get a lot of crap for citing Queen and arena rock acts for having an impact on us. But Derek loves the production job Mutt Lange has done."
Lange, who has produced AC/DC, Bryan Adams and the aforementioned Def Leppard, has made big-sounding albums filled with arena rock sheen.
"That's part of the world Derek comes from," Krauss said. "He also loves the heavy side."
Krauss, who lives in Brooklyn but grew up in New Jersey, wasn't looking to be part of something like Sleigh Bells. She met Miller in 2008 while she was teaching in New York.
"It was just one of those really fortunate things," Krauss said.
The soft-spoken Krauss, who sounds like a sultry cheerleader behind the microphone, grew up obsessed with musical theater. "I was so into music and performance as a teenager," Krauss said. "It was my world."
Krauss, who appeared in a Nickelodeon commercial as a tween, was part of RubyBlue, a sugary sweet pop act, when she was 16. The manufactured act, which smacked of Christina Aguilera meets Britney Spears, didn't appeal to Krauss.
"I could never be part of something like that," Krauss said. "If I'm going to make music, it has to be something I'm genuinely into and I have that with Sleigh Bells. We do what we want to do. We're not looking to see what others are doing. That's just how it is with us. We don't pay attention to trends or anything like that. That's not something that motivates us. What motivates us is making the kind of music we like to make. It's different. It's us."


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By Mary E. O'Dowd, MPH
As New Jerseyans continue to rebuild and recover from Superstorm Sandy, mold and its remediation have become a challenging issue for many residents and communities. It can cause property damage and be a health concern when it grows inside homes and is not properly dealt with. Exposure to mold can cause coughing or wheezing as well as irritation of the eyes, nose, throat and skin.
To help homeowners ensure that their residences are cleaned and remediated properly, the New Jersey Department of Health created and released a pamphlet entitled Mold: Guidelines for New Jersey Residents.
This pamphlet can help residents identify mold in their homes. If a problem is identified during a visual inspection, a plan to correct the moisture problem will need to be developed and implemented. For smaller areas affected by mold growth, such as less than 10 square feet, homeowners may be able to do the work themselves. But for larger areas, a qualified contractor with experience in mold or environmental contamination may be needed. It's important for those performing remediation work to be protected with gloves, a respirator, protective clothing and goggles.
The mold brochure includes important questions to ask when hiring a mold consultant or contractor and two checklists, one focused on inspection services and the other covering remediation. It also includes consumer tips such as asking what kind of sampling will be done; getting several estimates and having a contractor make a visual inspection of the mold rather than give an estimate over the phone.
Residents can receive copies of the pamphlet by visiting nj.gov/health/er/hurricane_recovery_resources.shtml or calling (609) 826-4950. Residents can also call the same number to speak with the Department's Environmental and Occupation Health Assessment Program staff about questions they may have regarding mold inspection or removal.
For residents who are interested in learning more, the Department is collaborating with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health to offer free training classes for homeowners and volunteers. This course provides mold awareness and general safety procedures for homeowners and volunteers when dealing with post hurricane and flood clean-up issues. Those who participate in the class will learn about safe work practices, personal protective equipment, respiratory protection and best practices for remediation. There will be 25 opportunities to participate in classes held across the state for homeowners. The class schedule can be found on the Department's Sandy Recovery Resources webpage at nj.gov/health/er/hurricane_recovery_resources.shtml.
Residents can also call their local health departments for guidance on recovery issues. To find a local health department, residents can view a directory on the Department's website at http://nj.gov/health/lh/directory/lhdselectcounty.shtml.
Repairing a home after one of the most devastating storms to ever strike our state can be overwhelming.
My hope is that residents who suffered flooding as a result of Sandy will use this pamphlet as a resource to guide them as they address mold in their homes as well as take advantage of this free training, which will provide critical education on remediating safely. Tremendous progress has been made in rebuilding our state and the Department's goal is to ensure that our residents' health is protected during this time of recovery.
Mary O'Dowd is the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health.
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Veteran real estate banker Craig Poulter and his team are leaving CoBiz Financial to establish the Denver Commercial Real Estate Office for The Private Bank.
The team will rejoin former colleagues from LaSalle Bank, where they worked before CoBiz. Headquartered in Chicago, The Private Bank is led by many of the former senior and executive management team from LaSalle.
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Senator Chuck Hagel
The 3rd Annual Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture
Chuck Hagel has served two terms in the U.S. Senate. His duties include membership on four senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Intelligence; and Rules. Hagel and his brother Tom served side by side in Vietnam in 1968 as infantry squad leaders with the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Division. He earned many military decorations and honors, including two Purple Hearts. A fourth-generation Nebraskan, Senator Hagel is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Hagel and his wife, Lilibet, have two children.
Hagel's speech was featured on MPR's Midday with Gary Eichten. Listen here.
2009 McCarthy Lecture Speaker Appointed by Obama as Co-Chair the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
McCarthy Lecture Follow-up: Senator Chuck Hagel
The 2009 McCarthy Lector and former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (Neb-R) has been appointed by President Obama as Co-Chair of the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board (or PIAB). The PIAB aids the President by giving advice on matters pertaining to intelligence. During Hagel's lecture at St. John's University, Hagel focused his speech upon a renewal in the transparency of government. Hagel also called for the revival of civil discourse and open discussion. This advisory board is precisely what Hagel advocated during the lecture. The PIAB is a non-partisan team dedicated to the protection of freedom. In the words of President Obama, this board, "improves the collection of intelligence, ensures that analysis reaches senior decision-makers in a timely way, and provides strong oversight to ensure that our intelligence activities are consistent with our democratic values and the rule of law." The McCarthy Center would like to congratulate Senator Hagel on his appointment and wish him luck as he continues to serve his country with leadership, honesty, and patriotism.
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World Premiere of 'The Anarchist' by David Mamet Will Play The Lyceum Theatre
Producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Howard & Janet Kagan announced today that THE ANARCHIST, a new play written and directed by DAVID MAMET starring PATTI LuPONE and DEBRA WINGER, will be presented on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).
THE ANARCHIST, which marks the sixth collaboration between Richards, Frankel and Mamet, begins rehearsals on Monday, October 22nd, with previews beginning on Tuesday, November 13th and the official opening date set for Sunday, December 2nd.
Passion. Deception. Religion. Revolution. These thrilling topics and more are brought to light in the world premiere of this provocative two-hander by DAVID MAMET. Two-time Tony Award winner PATTI LuPONE, will go head-to-head with three-time Oscar nominee DEBRA WINGER, as two powerful women forced to engage in a cage match of wits. Mamet, who brought a fierce sense of pace and entertainment to the direction of his own Race, will be at the helm of this theatrical event.
From Evita to Gypsy, Patti LuPone is a true Broadway legend with an extensive history with David Mamet on both stage and screen, including Heist, State and Main and The Old Neighborhood. Celebrated for her critically-acclaimed work in An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands, Debra Winger was most recently seen in the film Lola Versus, and on the hit HBO series, "In Treatment." This rare stage appearance marks the Broadway debut for this celebrated actress.
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THE SEQUEL is never as entertaining or surprising as the original.
And so President Obama - who dazzled the nation four years ago - earned a second term Tuesday by grinding out a solid, workmanlike victory on the ground, turning out just enough of his 21st-century coalition of black and Latino voters, young adults and educated professionals in enough key states to turn back Republican Mitt Romney.
Crowds in Obama's hometown of Chicago and in New York's Times Square erupted in a flag-waving celebration and danced to Aretha Franklin's "Respect" at roughly 11:15 p.m., when the major TV networks called the hard-fought race for the president. Fittingly, it was Ohio - the Midwestern, middle-of-the-road, microcosm state that sucked up so much of the candidate's time and money - and its 20 electoral votes that put the 44th president over the top.
"We're all in this together," Obama said on Twitter late Tuesday night. "That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. Thank you."
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Mine has to be www.macromedia.com - I love these guys
currently am getting the whole studio MX package to try - already have Dreamweaver MX & Flash MX but now getting cold fusion, Fireworks, Freehand and of course Flash MX 2004 Pro
Big ass download but worth every second - IMHO macromedia is producing the best products available and are opening new areas in web-design and application development every day
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This lesson encourages close study of Wood's painting, American Revolution primary sources, and Longfellow's poem to understand the significance of this historical ride in America's struggle for freedom. By reading primary sources, students learn how Paul Revere and his Midnight Ride became an American story of patriotism.
In December 1941, Japanese armed forces launched a massive offensive, attacking targets as far East as Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and as far West as Burma. This lesson plan will focus on the overall strategies pursued by the Japanese and the Allies in the initial months of World War II in Asia and the Pacific.


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This just in: After reporting earlier that Matthew Perry has bought a house in the Sunset Strip area, we've learned that the actor has listed his condo in West Hollywood's Sierra Towers at $2,995,000.
The unit, which he purchased from Elton John in 2005 for $3.2 million, is on the 22nd floor. It has two bedrooms and 21/2 bathrooms in 1,672 square feet. The modern condo sits on the southeast corner of the high-rise with walls of glass and a balcony offering skyline views.
Perry, 41, starred in the decade-long running sitcom "Friends" starting in 1994.
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God's grace also results in changes within the home. Martin Luther referred to the Bible's instructions on family life as Haustafeln (literally, "household tables")--codes or "tables" of rules that guided behavior in the home. In Luther's day, as in our own, meals were a family's focal point. Meals are occasions for gathering family members together, perhaps for the only time during the day, for conversation and celebration. In such close quarters relationships are set in bold relief and are either nurtured or undone because of things said or actions taken. Most of what is said around a meal is not rehearsed. Questions raised are often unstudied and expressed with passion. So if a sense of order is to be maintained, family members must be guided by overarching principles of conduct. Without rules, family conversation can erupt into angry arguments that produce hard feelings and broken fellowship.
In Paul's world, codes of household rules were commonplace. Both religious and nonreligious populations realized the importance of familial relations for the well-being of the whole society. For Christians, who believe that every person is created with the image of the Lord Christ in mind (see 1:15-18), the similarity between scriptural and secular codes is not surprising (see 3:9-10). Whether pagan or Christian, reasonable people observe that a certain order to social relationships, especially within the family, contributes to the common good of humankind. In Western countries, nearly every week some national magazine publishes yet another report that makes this point, typically stated negatively: the decline of the family is the surest barometer of the decline of the culture. So it makes sense that comparisons of the various Haustafeln in the New Testament (such as Eph 5:21--6:9; 1 Pet 2:13--3:7) with those found in other ancient works show that the early church's teaching about the family generally conformed to its social world.
With closer scrutiny, however, we should find critical differences between the secular and Christian worlds and between their codes for family conduct. For example, Paul calls his readers to observe his code for reasons that are both christological (3:18: as is fitting in the Lord) and eschatological (3:24: you will receive an inheritance from the Lord). That is, his reasons are religious and not societal. Further, the egalitarian sociology of God's people (see 3:11) is radically different from the hierarchy and patriarchy of the Jewish and Roman worlds. Where the new age has dawned in Christ, people are valued as equals regardless of their station or role. The believer's way of seeing has been transformed by divine grace, and this renewal of the mind has resulted in a new sense of being and a new capacity for doing. In this sense, then, calls to submit to or love another mean something very different for the believer than for the nonbeliever. In fact, Paul, who teaches that God's grace works within the community to produce a distinctively virtuous life (3:12-17), would no doubt argue that without our participation with Christ in God's saving work the intent of such household rules is corrupted so that they produce only vice (see 3:5-9).
Tragically, our churches provide numerous examples of dysfunctional families in which abuse has been justified by a distorted interpretation of Paul's household codes. Wifely submission is taken to mean the subjugation of the woman's whole being to the man; husbandly love is taken to mean the man's condescending care of the woman. The abuse promoted by such interpretations has led many believers to disregard Paul's teaching as irrelevant and too misogynistic for today's liberated environment.
Part of the problem with this perspective is exegetical: what plain meaning does this text have within the context of the whole composition and its point of origin? In the case of Colossians, we must assume that the household code it contains has an integral role in Paul's composition and expresses his concern for the readers--that is, he uses this household code to address the crisis in Colosse. With this in mind, two exegetical questions face us: First, what has Paul said to this point in his argument against his Colossian opponents that prepares us to understand this household code? And second, why does Paul include it in his description of the Christian life?
Paul's general concern stems from the deeper logic of his gospel, introduced in the opening thanksgiving: ideas about God are embodied in action toward others, and only the truth about God's grace can produce holiness and peace in human lives. In this light, Paul has made three critical points in his description of the Christian life.
First, Christian morality is properly motivated by mindfulness of the "things above," where the enthroned Christ is found (3:1-4). When people confess Christ's lordship over all creation (1:15-20), they will resist the separation of morality into compartments, one spiritual and the other material. The values of God and the norms of God's reign, which Jesus incarnated during his messianic mission, inform all spheres of the church's conduct. In this sense, the believer's public conduct, whether in word or deed, will be at odds with the values of the secular order, whether at work or at home.
Second, Christian morality is set within the new creation (3:9-10), an egalitarian community (3:11), which has "put to death" by God's grace all vices that result in death rather than life and therefore undermine God's purposes for creation.
Third, the new life that characterizes the faith community now hidden with Christ in God (3:1-4) bears witness to God through Christ by word and deed (3:12-17).
The Christian family is the proving ground for life in Christ. If the gospel about Christ has been accepted and the truth about God's grace affirmed, relationships within the home will be transformed. There, where intimacy is sought and goodness expected behind doors closed to the pressures of the secular order, our truthfulness in public confession will be found out. Paul no doubt realizes that what happens in the home validates what has happened in the heart.
Paul adapts a traditional moral code of family life for a Christian congregation and so implies that the empowering grace found in Christ also is found in the Christian home. Family members who are in Christ continue to live with each other but in new ways.
Paul's description, however, remains somewhat selective and idealistic. For him, morality expresses God's grace; and he never speaks of grace to excuse sin but always to describe victory over sin. He doesn't list all the exceptions, nor does he describe the difficulties facing the Christian family in an anti-God world. Further, his understanding of the home is shaped by a culture that devalued women and children and often treated household servants no better than animals. The unqualified demand for wives, children and servants to obey reflects in part the social realities of Paul's world.
Some say that he did not seek to reverse these social arrangements because he thought the end of the age was imminent; others say that he was simply too conservative--too much a Roman citizen--to threaten Rome's social institutions. That may be. However, I prefer to understand Paul's moral teaching as visional. For him, the transformation of the mind by God's purposes disclosed in Christ produces a new way of looking at social and spiritual realities. Thus, while he retains the current social institution (that is, the "family unit"), he replaces its secular focus with a recognition of the lordship of Christ and the hope of God's coming triumph in him. What is central to this passage is Paul's call for an intellectual reorientation (repentance is exactly that!) toward relationships within the home such that the way family members treat one another is transformed.
For example, if a wife sees herself as subservient to her husband, she will allow him to dominate and even abuse her. If, however, she views herself as Christ's disciple and her husband's equal in Christ, her under standing of submission will be changed: she will submit herself to her husband in the same way that Christ submitted himself to God. The result is that God's salvation will have its full effect (see 3:10; Eph 4:12-16). Being made equal in Christ will radically alter the way two disciples relate to each other as husband and wife. The result will be the woman's elevation within the Christian home and the end of her abuse there (see commentary under 3:18-19), and this in turn will be a witness to a misogynistic world.
The student of this passage should not think that Paul is responding to abusive relationships within the Christian homes of Colosse; there is no evidence whatever to support this conjecture. Rather, this household code is another important example of Paul's desire to make the gospel practical for life. If the Colossian philosophy moved the congregation toward intellectualism and asceticism, Paul may have included this Haustafel in Colossians to check the drift toward irrelevancy. The Christian gospel has to do with the way we live our daily lives; to embrace its truths is to bear its fruit "in every good work" (1:10). For most of us, truth comes closest to home in the family; here is where the fruit of the gospel is most vividly and vitally known.
The first two rules of Paul's household code, Wives, submit to your husbands and Husbands, love your wives, are joined with the command to act toward each other in ways that are fitting in the Lord. The "careful balance" between wife and husband envisioned by Wright (1987:147) assumes the woman's equal value within the community that belongs to Christ. The issue at stake is not gender but how disciples, whether male or female, are oriented toward the Lord. Thus, secular notions of submission, whether feminist or patriarchal, must be set aside and replaced by notions of how Christ submitted himself to God. Likewise, condescending notions of love must be replaced by a love like Christ's for his neighbors.
According to Colossians, whatever else we may suppose about Christ's submission to God, we cannot think of Christ as God's inferior. He is, after all, "the image of the invisible God" (1:15), "the fullness of the Deity . . . in bodily form" (2:9). Moreover, Christ's devotion for the church is expressed as an intimate union between the two: Christ is "in" every disciple (1:27; 3:11). So the female disciple participates with Christ in God's salvation to the very same extent that the male disciple does. Whatever the social hierarchies being promoted by the spiritual umpire in the Colossian congregation, they do not accord with the nature of human relationships between those believers in Christ (see 3:11).
More important to our exposition of this controversial passage is the meaning of the Christian phrase as is fitting in the Lord that Paul adds to the code. The verb fitting (anekei) refers to any act considered "proper" or suitable for its subjects. That is, the propriety of the wife's submission to her husband or of the husband's love for his wife is gauged by the new realities found in the Lord.
Two integral aspects of Paul's Christology that are emphasized within Colossians provide content to this added phrase. First is the exaltation of Christ as Lord "over all things"--the universal effect of God's triumph over sin and death through him. To worship Christ as Lord is to acknowledge that God's promised salvation has already been fulfilled for those "hidden with Christ in God." Second, however, is the community's participation with Christ in the real results of God's triumph over sin and death. Not only is God's triumph demonstrated in the death and resurrection of the Lord Christ, but in him God's people now experience transformation from vice to virtue and from death to life. In this sense, then, actions "proper" for those who live in the Lord Christ must bear witness to God's triumph. Specifically, actions between husband and wife must show forth the new creation that has begun with Christ. In the larger context of Paul's moral exhortation, then, both the wife's submission and the husband's love are characterized by the virtues of 3:12-14, while marital relationships that belong to the fallen world are characterized by the vices listed in 3:5-9.
Paul's exhortation to Christian husbands not to be harsh with their wives recalls their conversion from vice to virtue. Surely the verb rendered "harsh" (pikraino; literally, "to embitter") is the opposite of a "binding love" (3:14; see O'Brien 1982:224) and, like all vice, results in broken relationships (see Heb 12:15). Perhaps Paul's phrase recalls the Deuteronomic code (Deut 29:18), where "bitter poison" within the community is said to result from idolatry; Paul lists idolatry with the vices of the old order (see 3:5). However the wife submits and the husband loves, both actions must bear witness to the new life they share as codisciples in Christ.
Why then does Paul retain the rhetoric of the old order, which seems to place wives in a hierarchical relationship to their husbands? This question carries an even greater force given the egalitarian character of relationships within the church (see 3:11). In recent years some Christian feminists have questioned Paul's resolve in these matters; he seems to equivocate on matters female. Perhaps his apparent ambiguity on male-female relations stems from his missiological praxis: the preaching of the gospel must accommodate its audience if it is to be heard and responded to (1 Cor 9:19-23). Paul's use of hierarchical language may well be rhetorical rather than sociological; his desire is to convey a new pattern for family relationships which is best communicated in "old wineskins." By so doing, the theologian Paul is not commending the old or even suggesting that old and new patterns for marriage can possibly coexist in God's kingdom. Clearly, he views the church as the new social order within the old fallen world. However, as a missionary he knows that social conflict, which is inevitable when the new and old clash (see Rom 12:14-21), constitutes a crisis for the hearing of the gospel.
Crosscultural communication is a missiological imperative! What would have been the missiological result of asking husbands to submit to their wives, when both the religious and secular establishments of Paul's day agreed that wives should submit to husbands to maintain the "proper" (and natural) order of things? I speculate the practical result would have been unfavorable, with the ministry of the church shoved out toward the margins of the cultural mainstream. Then the gospel would simply not have been heard.
Naturally, Paul wants the relationship between Christian wives and their Christian husbands to embody the lordship of Christ for all to see. Obviously, this is impossible when marriages are abusive, or when one spouse is prevented by the other from realizing God's good intentions in the Lord Christ (as in 3:5-11). Should a Christian wife continue to submit uncritically to her husband if it results in personal abuse (the vices of 3:5-9) rather than in spiritual maturity (the virtues of 3:12-15)? I think not. Should the measure of a husband's love for his wife be whether her devotion to the Lord Christ is strengthened and God's interests (rather than her husband's) for her life achieved? I think so. In Christ, God shows no favorites; God is for both husband and wife, and in equal measure (see Wall 1987:276-85).
The Greek word Paul uses for "children" is tekna, which refers to young children living at home. While it is certainly not unusual to find instructions for dependent children in ancient household codes, Paul's version is quite extraordinary because he treats even dependent children as Christ's disciples. This is clearly the intent of the incentive clause for this pleases the Lord, which I think applies equally to fathers. The relationship between parent and child is centered on their common devotion to the Lord. The word translated "pleases" (euarestos) is always used in the New Testament of conduct that accords with God's will (even though outside the New Testament it often identified socially aware behavior). Perhaps Paul brings together both meanings and adds the object the Lord to press the point that social propriety within the Christian family is determined by the Lord, not by the dominant values and typical behaviors of the surrounding secular order.
If Jesus Christ is Lord over all things (1:15-20), and if the believing community has already triumphed with him over the powers of darkness (1:13-14), then what is "proper" between the child and parent is finally construed on the Lord Christ's terms rather than on society's. Neither the child nor the parent should hold the other hostage to society's values and expectations. Neither should seek self-justification in terms of what is "pleasing" to or expected of their own peers. Parents often project their ambitions or those of their friends on their children, trying to remake them in the image of their personal failures. But parenting is a sacred task; as disciples of Christ, Christian parents seek to raise up children in the image of the One who is "Deity . . . in bodily form."
The elevated value of children within the faith community is also evident in Paul's admonition to fathers that they are not to embitter their children, or they will become discouraged. Parenting within the Christian home requires a balance: maintaining the children's obedience without alienating them from the faith. Paul does not deny that young children require parental guidance. In fact, O'Brien notes two important differences between Paul's exhortations that a wife submit to her husband and that a child obey the same person. First is the change of the verbal idea from submission (hypotasso), which only sometimes means obedience, to the more explicit word for obedience (hypakouo). Second is the change of verbal voice from middle, which implies that the wife's submission is voluntary, to an active imperative, which implies the child's unquestioning obedience (O'Brien 1982:224).
However, Paul is no doubt aware of the potential for child abuse in communities that require strict compliance to parental authority, where the rod is not spared lest the child be "spoiled." What often results is not redemption but the obliteration of a child's self-esteem (which quite possibly is one meaning of the word discouraged; see Wright 1987:148-49) and bitterness toward the parent and the parent's faith. Demanding obedience without love, or conditioning love upon obedience, imperils the child's formation, because it alienates him or her from all nurturing relationships with God, family and community (see 3:14).
While children are to obey both parents, only the father is admonished against harsh treatment of his children. Why not the mother too? Rather than a normative statement about God's order (so Wright 1987:148), it probably is better viewed as an accommodation to the Roman world (so O'Brien 1982:225), where the father was vested with primary authority over the household. No doubt Paul realizes that personal authority in any sphere--even his apostolic authority within the Gentile church--is easily corrupted into coercive and abusive authoritarianism. It is always tempting for the one whose word is final to speak that word in self-serving ways. In this sense, then, the incentive clause to do what pleases the Lord bids fathers to reverse the Roman notion of power. Rather than defining the parent-child relationship in terms of his power over the child, the father who is first of all Christ's disciple is to become servant of his children (so Mk 10:42-45). Paul's exhortation to fathers, then, envisions Christian discipleship in two ways: Christian fathers consider the tragic consequences of overly harsh discipline, and they replace coercive power with empowering service of their children.
Let me begin my commentary on this particular unit of the Colossian Haustafel with a caveat, especially for American readers: Do not read Paul's instructions to Roman slaves as though their status and experience were the same as those of antebellum American slaves. While they share the general similarity that all slaves are mastered by their owner, to link these two slave institutions without regard for their vast dissimilarities will lead to distorted interpretation (see my introduction to Philemon; "Slavery in the First Century").
Scholars are sometimes puzzled that Paul devotes so much of the Colossian code to slaves. Two different times, surrounded by five different reasons, Paul exhorts slaves to obey their masters. Why this emphasis? Two general solutions to this exegetical puzzle are often advanced. One is that Paul is responding here to the social world of the Colossians. Commentators who prefer this option suppose that Paul is responding to a congregation made up of slaves and slave owners, both of whom have been shaped by a society that promotes slavery in order to maintain Rome's economic and military viability. Another explanation is that Paul emphasizes the slave-master motif in this letter to illustrate his core ethical proposal to "set your minds on things above, not on earthly things" (3:2). In this second explanation, Christian slaves are viewed as representatives of God's people; they represent every believer's vocation, which is to serve God.
On closer scrutiny, however, we see that Paul's expansion of the code primarily concerns the Christian slave's essential moral dilemma, especially in the workplace: What does it mean to serve two masters, one on earth (that is, the company or the boss) and another in heaven (that is, the Lord Christ)? In my opinion, this is exactly the dilemma that continues to face all workers who serve the Lord: Who is it that reigns where we live and work? Especially in the workplace, is our primary ambition to have a career and to move ahead in competition with other workers? Like Jesus, who posed the dilemma of "two masters" (see Mt 6:24; par.), Paul presents a clear exhortation: the true disciple, who might have both earthly and heavenly "masters," must follow the lead of a mind set on "things above."
The central challenge for slaves, which Paul repeats, is to obey your earthly masters in everything. Again, Paul's admonition conforms to traditional moral teaching in the ancient world, which demanded that household slaves utterly obey their employers. Such hierarchies were viewed as critical to the social and economic order. So whatever you do, work at it with all your heart. Again, however, Paul retains the form of the prevailing social institution but changes the reason for it: to bear witness to the Lord Christ. In fact, Paul is convinced that a christological orientation will transform even our ordinary tasks into acts of worship, moving us to do our work even better.
The moral issue at stake is what motivates a person to work well. Most of us bunch our reasons under two general headings: either we enjoy a good working relationship with our boss or company, or we expect to derive some personal benefit from our work. Paul comments on both reasons. On the one hand, the daily chores of household slaves, often difficult and sometimes dehumanizing, are motivated by reverence for the Lord; Christian slaves work as though working for the Lord. Paul's instruction does not go as far as 1 Timothy 6:1, which makes the master the object of the slave's respect; nor does he suggest, as does 1 Peter 2:18, that masters can sometimes be harsh (but see 3:19). Rather, Paul's concern is to mind the "things above" rather than "earthly things"; thus Christian workers are not motivated by their earthly masters, whether to win their favor or to work for men (compare Eph 6:5-8).
Whether we punch in and out on time or whether we appear competent to our coworkers and bosses is not at stake for those who think of work as an act of worship. To work in order to bring pleasure to God is sufficient motivation to be faithful stewards of our talents and opportunities.
Workers are also motivated by the prospect of payment for their labor. In this case, Paul says faithful slaves know that [they] will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. The inclusion of this eschatological motif in the code is unique among New Testament Haustafeln and is therefore exegetically significant. Most slaves in the Roman world received meager rewards: by law they could own little and inherit nothing. Therefore, Paul is speaking ironically here, perhaps to call attention to an earlier claim made about the gospel. In introducing his commentary on the false teaching in Colosse, Paul notes that the gospel (1:27-28) produces the "fruit" (1:6; compare 3:1-4) of "hope" (1:5) for a heavenly "inheritance" (1:12). Heavenly profit is based on faith, not social class; it is paid to those who serve Jesus Christ, whether the servant is powerful master or powerless slave.
James Hal Cone, an important African-American theologian, has said that black spirituals celebrated visions of heavenly reward to affirm what it means to be fully human in an earthly context where love, justice and liberation were rarely realized. From the gospel stories the slaves knew about God's love and justice; they spoke of their heavenly home as the place where they would finally and fully experience these truths. To mind the "things above" is to hope for an inheritance that reverses socioeconomic conditions on earth, where many people are oppressed and denied humanity. Significantly, the spiritual songs of American slaves were mostly composed in the fields of hard labor rather than in the churches of earnest worship. They expressed the real reason slaves continued to work well in spite of terrible treatment: they minded the One above in the confident hope that he realized their true value and would one day give them back their humanity. In this limited but profound sense, they shared a rich koinonia with their Christian counterparts in ancient Colosse.
Paul completes the Colossian Haustafel by turning his attention to slave masters. Already he has described the sociology of the community located by God's grace in Christ, which makes "slave and free" equal because they are both in Christ and he in them (3:11). It should not surprise the reader, then, that Paul promotes an alternative understanding of the Roman institution of slavery. The gospel does not necessarily seek to reverse the social arrangements between slave and master; in this case, Paul does not exhort the master to emancipate the slaves (however, see Philemon). Rather, his instruction is for the master to provide slaves with what is right and fair--something any virtuous person would do (compare 3:12). Although other codes in the ancient world also encouraged the humane treatment of slaves (see O'Brien 1982:232), the issue for Paul is where one finds the moral competency to do what the code outlines. The requisite virtue to do what is right and fair belongs to the "new creatures" found in Christ.
However, Paul's teaching also presses the christological incentive behind such behavior: you know that you also have a Master in heaven--mind the "things above"! The relationship between earthly masters and the heavenly Master provides the moral impetus for just treatment of household workers. Further, if the phrase "Master in heaven" alludes to 3:1-4, as most commentators suppose, then it conveys an eschatological meaning as well. According to the Jewish moral tradition, inhumane treatment of slaves would bring down the Lord Almighty's wrath on Judgment Day (compare Jas 5:1-5). According to Paul's teaching, a relationship with Christ transforms all earthly relationships, including those between masters and slaves. So the Christian master, transformed by God's grace, will naturally treat slaves fairly and will therefore "appear with [Christ] in glory" (3:4).
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Older News » Speech & Language DifficultiesLast updated 10:55 AM on 15 September 2011
By school age most children will be understood by adults, so the focus at school is on language development and communicating with others.
Language difficulties are harder to identify than speech difficulties. For this reason, sometimes a language difficulty is not picked up until the child is identified as having difficulties developing their literacy skills.
Importantly, language and literacy are related; a child with a language difficulty has an increased risk of developing literacy difficulties.
A child with a language difficulty might hear or see a word but not be able to understand its meaning. They might not use words properly. They usually have a limited vocabulary and may make grammatical mistakes.
A child with a language disorder will need a lot more specific instruction, so for example, instead of asking a child to 'hurry up', you would need to say what you need them to do, such as 'put your shoes on now, please'.
Other clues would be if your child has difficulty telling you about their day, has trouble getting others to understand them and may lack social skills like turn-taking, politeness, initiating conversations and understanding rules and games. These factors may make it difficult for children to make and keep friends.
Where to go for help
If you are worried about your child's speech or language, always act on that, the sooner the better! There is always something that can be done to help your child.
You can start by speaking to your child's teacher about how your child is coping in the classroom. You can also ask at school to speak to the school counsellor and/ or Support Teacher Learning Assistance.
Public schools offer a range of services and programs to support children with speech and language development. The Learning Assistance Program for example, helps students with speech difficulties and provides specialist help to teachers in addressing these difficulties.
Speech pathology services
Speech pathologists work with children in Community Health Centres and in private practice. They may work one on one with a child, in pairs or with groups of children. They will usually suggest activities or programs to address a child's specific difficulty and these can be followed up at school and/or at home with parents or carers.
Most Community Health Centres provide free speech pathology services to eligible children. You will need to find which Centre provides services where you live.
You can find a private speech pathologist in your area at Speech Pathology Australia. Fees vary, so it's a good idea to get a list of local speech pathologists and do a 'ring around'. Families with private health insurance may be able to claim for speech therapy depending on their policy.
Some families may be eligible for Medicare rebates for speech therapy if an Enhanced Primary Care Plan (EPC) has been lodged by their GP. You can speak with your speech pathologist and GP to see if you are eligible for any of these.
Parents can often play a big role in therapy and if they can commit the time, parents can do lots of things at home to assist their child's speech and language development.
Read more, or post a comment about this article Speech Problems, in Issue 2 of NSW Public Schools School Parents ezine.


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Asparagus with Young Garlic and Horseradish
Once you buy local asparagus, two things happen. You can't go back to the grocery store variety. And greed sets in. You need to have it every day, until it's gone again. Most times I'm happy to have asparagus plain, or nearly. I tend to sprinkle it with aromatics or textures, like this recipe with pancetta and breadcrumbs. This year, the young garlic has been plentiful at the market, and while I admit the following makes me sound like a food jerk, I had extra young garlic in the fridge. It's true, I did. Don't hate on me people. This is my job!
Because I'm too lazy to saute the garlic to ease its aroma, and because I love mellowing onions and shallots by rubbing them with salt and letting them sit, that's what I did with the young garlic. I pulled away the tough outer layers (save them for infusing the stock you're making with that pastured chicken -- See? I can't help myself.) and thinly sliced the entire bulb and even a few inches of the stem. After rubbing them with kosher salt, I let them sit for a few minutes while I cooked the asparagus.
Two months ago, I would have insisted that you must never blanch asparagus -- that it must be sauteed in oil or butter so that you intensify its flavor. But then a scarring incident with gritty local spears changed my tune. Blanch your asparagus (unless you know it's not gritty, in which case, saute it in oil for 2 minutes and proceed with the rest of the recipe as is) to release all the grit. Then it's just a bunch of slicing and sprinkling and grating your way to seasonal self-satisfaction.
Asparagus with Young Garlic and Horseradish
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- 1 head young garlic (with a few inches of stem), or 2 garlic scapes
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Part I: Stepping into the World of Market Timing.
Chapter 1: Becoming a Market Timer.
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Chapter 4: Charting Your Course: The Market Timer's Edge.
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Chapter 5: Timing with the Reports That Move the Markets.
Chapter 6: The Seasons and Cycles That Infl uence the Markets.
Chapter 7: Digging In to Trends, Momentum, and Results.
Chapter 8: Timing with Feeling: Making Market Sentiment Work for You.
Part III: Applying Timing to the Markets.
Chapter 9: Timing in the Real World: Examining a Sample Trade.
Chapter 10: Timing the Stock Market.
Chapter 11: Timing the Bond Market.
Chapter 12: Timing Foreign Markets.
Chapter 13: Timing the Metals, Heavy or Not.
Chapter 14: Timing Commodities: Making Money Down on the Farm.
Chapter 15: Timing Currencies and Related Markets.
Part IV: Timing the Sectors.
Chapter 16: The Timer's Dream: Sector Investing.
Chapter 17: Timing Financial Service Stocks.
Chapter 18: Timing the Technologies.
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Chapter 20: Timing the Health Care Sector.
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Making Progress on Children's Health Coverage; More Work To Do
In one of his first acts in office three years ago this week, President Obama signed the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009. Because of CHIPRA, millions of low-income children were able to keep their affordable coverage and an additional 1.2 million children nationwide were newly able to enroll in health coverage through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Together CHIP and Medicaid have significantly reduced the number of uninsured children and moved us closer to the goal of providing health coverage for every child.
In California, CHIP is known as the Healthy Families Program and provides health coverage for more than 870,000 children. Healthy Families has meant that the Reick boys of Fresno can get the care they need to manage their asthma, and that the Skinner kids of Riverside can stay active in their extra-curricular sports programs. Healthy Families has provided a variety of needed care for the Magana children of Los Angeles, from immunizations and check-ups to the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening thyroid cancer.
This success of CHIP nationally was in part boosted by federal CHIPRA incentive bonus payments for states that simplified the application process for children's coverage and made significant progress in increasing the number of insured children. In December 2011, the federal government awarded nearly $300 million in CHIPRA performance bonuses to 23 states.
Unfortunately, for the third year in a row, California failed to qualify for a bonus, losing out on millions of dollars of federal funds that are desperately needed. While California has made efforts to streamline enrollment for children, and launched a new online enrollment tool for Healthy Families (available in English and Spanish at www.healtheapp.net), the state has not made significant enough strides at enrolling uninsured children into health coverage.
The state's inadequate enrollment gains are made more stark by the fact that two out of every three uninsured children in California, close to 700,000 kids, are currently eligible for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families but not enrolled.
In 2012, California must do better at connecting uninsured children with the quality, comprehensive, affordable health coverage they need to grow healthy and learn well. To that end, the 100% Campaign (a collaborative effort of The Children's Partnership, Children Now, and Children's Defense Fund-California) have developed a Healthy Child Checklist to remind parents of some easy ways to ensure their child stays healthy this year, including applying for Medi-Cal or Healthy Families coverage, which families can do at any time of the year, and with www.healtheapp.net, at any hour.
In addition, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which President Obama signed in March 2010, further strengthens coverage for children by no longer allowing private insurers to deny coverage to children because of a pre-existing condition. Further, the ACA has already benefited children by requiring coverage of preventive services without co-payments, eliminating lifetime or annual limits, and prohibiting insurers from rescinding coverage.
Looking back on how much has changed for children's coverage in the past three years, there is much to celebrate. More children have health insurance today than at any point in American history. The opportunity to improve children's health will continue to grow as California moves forward with implementation of important provisions of CHIPRA and the ACA.
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Many people want to believe that what they see in movies is real.
In "Don Jon," buff Jersey guy Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) prefers his one-way, fantasy-driven relationship with porn to the two-way intimacy of countless one-night stands and a bond with Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), who believes romantic comedies reflect how real love should be. Opening Sept. 27, Gordon-Levitt's feature debut as a writer and director aims to show that both characters need to separate what they see on screen from the more complex scenarios in front of them.
Similarly, the 32-year-old California native in person isn't the easygoing open book he sometimes seems when charming in "(500) Days of Summer" or dancing on "SNL." Gordon-Levitt long has prioritized his public anonymity so he can transition between greatly different parts (in films like "Brick," "50/50" and "Looper"), and that protectiveness leads him to filter most answers through his characters.
At the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, JGL talked about romantic/pornographic fantasies, the arguable variety of porn and daily/weekly masturbation numbers that seem really, really high.
You've talked a lot about how this movie shouldn't just be seen as a porn story, that it's about the way people objectify each other. Do you see this as an edgy love story or a conservative porn addiction story?
[Laughs.] Probably the former. Yeah. I don't think it's a story about pornography. Certainly that's a central symbol in the movie, but it's sort of about how people treat each other like things. And I think pornography is one of the examples in the movie, but there's lots of pieces of lots of different kinds of media in the movie. And I think that there's plenty of examples of mainstream media, whether it's movies or TV shows or commercials or anything else, that are just as guilty of that as pornography is. Of reducing, especially women, to sex objects.
Chuck Klosterman wrote an essay that was in the book "Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" about romantic comedies. Have you read that?
No, I haven't.
It was published about 10 years ago and in it he said, "I once loved a girl who almost loved me but not as much as she loved John Cusack. Here's what none of these upwardly mobile women seem to realize: They don't love John Cusack; they love Lloyd Dobler."
[Laughs] Yeah, that's really well put.
That was written 10-15 years ago. Obviously, you still think that women in particular are seeing these romantic comedies and thinking that's love. You think people still believe that?
Yeah, it's a seductive fantasy to have because it's so simple and appealing for its simplicity. I think that love in real life is actually a lot more beautiful than that.
When you're talking about "Say Anything" or some other older movies, there's so much more of an example for people to fall in love with. Now, when you look at something like "The Ugly Truth" from a few years ago, that's a great example of women being forced into a box and being told they can't have a career and love and that kind of thing. So I'm surprised that you think people still see romantic comedies that way.
Well, a lot of people still do see them that way though. This is a fantasy on a screen. I like movies that show things to be more complicated and not so simple and not just have a completely happy ending or a completely tragic ending but somewhere in between. `Cause to me that's more reflective of real life. No matter what the movie is, really it can't map onto real life because a movie is a movie. You're watching it. The people on the screen don't know you're there. And so love is all about in my opinion an interplay between two people who are acting and reacting and connecting in that way, and that's I think why the symbol of pornography is a really good one of, "Here's this guy getting off on an image on a screen that's not connected to him in any way." It's a one-way street. And the same thing goes for Scarlett's character watching these romantic comedies. It's just a one-way thing.
Something that's not really touched on in the movie is the notion of porn as an outlet for variety. Jon is used to having not just all of this porn-watching but an influx of a different woman every night. I wonder if he's in the setting of being in a monogamous relationship and he's not watching porn anymore-- that outlet for variety is something that a lot of people use to defend porn-watching.
Yeah, you could say that porn offers variety, but you could also make I think an equally good argument that there's no variety at all. Sure, technically there are different women in each video, but they're all behaving in exactly the same way. And they're all doing exactly the same thing.
Well, there's a lot out there. I'm sure people who want to find something different can find variety.
Maybe you're right, but in the movie Jon watches these videos that are always the same. They have a certain checklist, and that's what he gets off on is he has his list.
You don't think just in the fact that humans by nature are attracted to everyone, the ability to see different people—
I think for Jon in particular, what he takes comfort in is routine. And he likes things to be how he expects them to be. That's what works for him about pornography is it's always the same. It fulfills this checklist for him. And he treats everything in his life that way. His friends, his own body, the gym, his car, his family. He's checking boxes. He has this preconceived list of the way things are supposed to be, and as long as he can check the box everything is OK.
I wonder what people will think of the presentation of one-night stands as being dull. Jon's so bored with the missionary position because that's all he gets in his one-night stands. I feel like the societal stereotype is that monogamous relationship sex is the one that gets stale and conservative as opposed to one-night stands.
Yeah, people have that fantasy, you're right. I think for him, there's a bit of an unreliable narrator in this movie. He doesn't necessarily know what's going on with himself. So he thinks, "I'm bored with one-night stands because she'll only do the missionary position." I think he sort of misjudged it. I think he's bored with them because he's not connecting with these people.
And he doesn't know how to foster a different situation?
Because he's not used to or able to connect with another human being. Which is why he prefers pornography. So when he gets into a room with another human being, it's uncomfortable and disappointing for him because what he really is used to is this one-way street.
Do you think watching porn should be considered cheating?
That depends on every individual relationship.
I know. I'm asking you.
I'm telling you that every relationship is different, and so I don't think there ought to be rules that apply to every relationship.
Masturbating up to 11 times per day. And 35 times per week. I was surprised Jon wasn't feeling a little tender.
Did you talk to any doctors to find out what number would be too high?
[Laughs.] No.
Doesn't that seem like a lot?
Well, it's a comedy I guess.
I imagine with all the hats you wore on the film, it could be difficult to have an objective view of how you look while having sex or masturbating. Did you have anyone who helped you out as a consultant?
I don't treat any sexy scenes as different from any other scene. A good scene in any movie is to serve a purpose and advance a story, and those scenes are no different.
If people expect both porn sex and rom-com romance, who is more likely to be disappointed?
[Laughs.] I think that everyone's likely to be disappointed. If you're comparing real life to oversimplified fantasies you've seen on screen, you're going to get disappointed. `Cause life isn't that way. Life has so many more nuances and details if you pay attention to what's actually happening in front of you, but you'll miss it if you're too busy making those comparisons.
On a priority of his first feature as a filmmaker: "I wanted to do something that would take some risks. I felt like if I was going to put all the work and time and effort in to writing and directing a movie I wanted to do something that only I could do—[something] that wouldn't happen otherwise."
On what makes his co-star Brie Larson great: "I loved Brie. She's so good in this movie. Talk about being unique--she's someone who clearly does not give a f*** about what she's supposed to be as a young woman or as an actress or as an any kind of artist. She's really doing her own thing. Whether it's her music or the short films she's making or really interesting choices she's making as an actress. You just talk to her for a little while and you really get a sense of this unique person ... She and I were talking about Buster Keaton in reference to her role in 'Don Jon.' To communicate so much with just a quick look, she does that really well in this movie."
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