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How Les Misérables Made Anne Hathaway an Actress
"I sobbed so hard that the woman next to me gave me her pack of tissues."
Yesterday, on a rainy day at the Chateau Marmont, Anne Hathaway was doing her damnedest to make Eddie Redmayne cry. "You have made it okay for men to run down the street singing at the top of their lungs!" she told her Les Misérables co-star at a star-studded brunch thrown in his honor. "You're an artist and a star, and now it's just up to the rest of the world to catch up." Redmayne became teary, and Hathaway's enthusiasm didn't dim. "He's delicious!" she told me later. The two don't technically interact in Les Miz — Hathaway's Fantine exits the story before Redmayne is introduced as a suitor for Amanda Seyfried — but Hathaway says that her own absence from the film helped her to appreciate Redmayne's performance all the more. "It's the reverse of what I felt with Brokeback Mountain, where my character enters after an hour; the first time I saw that, I thought, Oh no, it's perfect, and now my part!" she laughed. "I find the idea of love at first sight to be somewhat cheesy, and I've intellectualized myself beyond it, but when I saw Eddie and Amanda's portrayal of it, it made me believe again."
It's been an emotional Les Miz journey for Hathaway, whose close-cropped hair is a reminder that filming wrapped not too long ago. Though the 30-year-old actress is onscreen for less than half an hour as the tragic Fantine, who's forced into prostitution to provide for her daughter, Hathaway has still become the movie's main talking point as magazines write about her weight loss for the role and audiences weep at her powerhouse one-take rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream."
It's clear from talking to her that Hathaway is quite content with her performance, but she admits it wasn't always so. The breakthrough moment came when she accompanied director Tom Hooper to the film's first, applause-drenched press screening at New York's Alice Tully Hall, which wiped away the worries Hathaway had felt after a private screening earlier that week. "Technically, I saw it for the first time two days before at the Universal Screening Room, which has the unfortunate address of 666 Fifth Avenue," she said. "I was feeling very nervous to see it anyway, and then when I saw that, I told the car to turn around! He didn't listen to me, because I don't have any power in these situations, so I saw the movie and I was very overwhelmed."
"The first time you see a film — particularly one that you care so much about — you can't see the film for what it is," she added. "All you can see is how different it is from the way it was in your mind, or what take was used that you weren't expecting. And so the second time I saw it with the audience at Alice Tully Hall, I was able to really see it, and I thought it was one of the most emotionally satisfying experiences I've ever had as an audience member. I'm as proud of it as anything I've ever done."
It's a role that's loaded with significance for Hathaway, whose mother understudied Fantine on the American tour of Les Miz when Hathaway was just a little girl. "My mother's involvement has deepened my level of gratitude and appreciation for the sometimes unexpected and exquisite ways in which the universe will bring awe into our lives," she said, after a deep breath. "I didn't know this until I started to unpackage the process of filming it through doing press, but seeing my mother play this part made it more than just a show for me. I can't ever really engage with this on a critical level the way I sometimes do with other things because for me, these are people. It's not just because of my mother, either; now, as an adult, knowing that Fantine is real and that sex workers are a very real and shameful part of our collective experience as human beings, that people are still laying down their lives for what should be accepted human truths … I mean, there's that amazing line that Enjolras says, 'Let others rise to take our place until the Earth is free.'"
And though Hathaway has now taken her mother's place as Fantine, she said that nothing she has done on the screen will prove as indelible as the night she watched her mother inhabit the role onstage. "I sobbed so hard that the woman next to me — who didn't know that it was my mother I was seeing — gave me her pack of tissues," recalled Hathaway. "I remember everything about that night: I remember what the weather was like, I remember what I was wearing. It's one of the greatest moments of my life, and certainly one of the most definitive moments of my life. That was the night I decided to become an actress."


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Polio has been a large part of author Gail Caldwell's life, ever since she contracted the disease at the age of six months.
Though she was eventually able to walk, she couldn't jump rope or play basketball. But Caldwell was able to swim, row and establish a distinguished career as a writer.
She won a Pulitzer Prize for her book criticism for The Boston Globe and she published two acclaimed memoirs: "A Strong West Wind" and "Let's Take the Long Way Home."
Throughout her life though, Caldwell walked with a limp. Along with the medical professionals she consulted, Caldwell attributed the often severe pain she experienced to polio. She considered it a chronic condition that couldn't be treated.
But in her late 50s, Gail's symptoms were so pronounced that friends urged her to seek a new opinion. The doctor she saw ordered an x-ray, and as Caldwell tells Here & Now's Robin Young, "he called me as I was leaving my house and said 'well no wonder you're in so much pain, you have no hip left.'"
The doctor also gave Gail the news that surgery could help her pain, as well as her limp. Gail Caldwell's new memoir "New Life, No Instructions" tells the story of what it was like to change the preconceptions she'd had about her life and literally learn to walk again.
Book Excerpt: 'New Life, No Instructions'
By Gail Caldwell
My first tip-off that the world had shifted was that the dogs looked lower to the ground. I dismissed the perception as a visual misread: Because I was on crutches and couldn't bend down to touch them, of course they would seem farther away. Then a friend came to visit, a striking woman whom I'd always considered tall. She was standing across the living room and I was smiling, happy to have her there, and I thought, Tink is small! And I never realized it before.
The fact is that Tink is about my size, but until that day I had looked up to her in more ways than one. I was just home from five days at New England Baptist Hospital, where the chief of joint reconstruction had built me a new hip and lengthened my right leg by five-eighths of an inch. The measurement sounds deceptively slight, but then pi, unexplained, doesn't mean much, either. What the extended hip bought me was about two inches of additional height, because I was no longer bending forward in pain. It gave my leg something immeasurable: an ability to reach the ground, and the chance and anatomical equipment to walk right for the first time in my life.
Almost as dramatic, at least in the beginning, was the re-orientation of my physical self in space. My perspective had been jolted to the point that trees and cars and other markers of street life felt closer to me, within reach in a way they hadn't before. I could sense the effort involved in making these neural adjustments: In a simple movement like a step forward, particularly outside, there would be a lurch of visual confusion, then acceptance. It happened quickly and brilliantly, and my comprehending it changed everything: What had seemed to be mere dizziness was in fact the brain's ballet.
These were transient phenomena, the brain being a nimble choreographer of time and space. Within a few weeks I would be accustomed to the additional height and leg length; our bodies, perfect feats of design, respond to what is in front of them, usually without even bothering to let us know. But the dance I found myself doing with the physical world in the first few days and weeks after surgery signaled something larger, more long-lasting, that I would have to learn and relearn in the following year: the notion that life has an agency, some will and forward motion, greater than one's own wish or intention. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower, Dylan Thomas called it. The idea that the whole blessed shebang doesn't have to be a free fall after all.
I caught polio when I was six months old, in 1951, during one of the last years of the U.S. epidemic, before the vaccines. The virus, which destroys neurons, can lead to full or partial permanent paralysis; it affected the muscles in my right leg, and I didn't walk until I was past the age of two. Still, the mark on my family's door was relatively faint: no March of Dimes crutches or iron lung, just a faltering leg that often went unnoticed. The fact of the disease— important but hardly central—had long been incorporated into my shorthand self-description: writer, grew up in Texas, slight limp from polio. Part of the story I'd told myself all my life was that polio had made me a fighter—that I was hell-bent on being strong because of it—and that much was still true. But in the past few years, within the joys and demands of raising a young dog, I had begun to experience pain and lameness I'd never known before. The mystery of this decline cast a shroud of defeat over what I feared lay ahead. It seemed that the aftereffects of the disease had reemerged, ghostly and conniving, like a stalker who'd never left town.
And then: A standard X-ray, ordered probably fifteen years after it was called for, revealed that the scaffolding of my hip was a junkyard of bone. However compromised my leg had been by polio, muscles can't work without a structure to hold them up. That I had been walking around at all, I was told, was astounding—and a lot of my recent decline could be addressed by one of the most common surgeries in modern medicine. The rest—the retraining and possible strengthening of a rebuilt leg—would be up to me.
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It's like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
Excerpted from the book NEW LIFE, NO INSTRUCTIONS by Gail Caldwell. Copyright © 2014 by Gail Caldwell. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
- Gail Caldwell, author of "New Life, No Instructions."
Question for you: What if the story you always told yourself about yourself suddenly changed? Think about that for a second. Something about you that defines you, even, but suddenly, it's just not true. That's what happened to writer Gail Caldwell. She came down with polio when she was six months old, losing a critical one-and-a-half inches off one leg length. Like a table that was always a little off balance, she couldn't jump rope or play basketball, but she could swim and row, and she could write, earning a Pulitzer for distinguished criticism as book reviewer for the Boston Globe.
She had a slight limp. But in her late forties, early fifties, it increased, and she was in terrible pain.
GAIL CALDWELL: The fact of the disease - important, but hardly central - had long been incorporated into my shorthand self-description: writer, grew up in Texas, slight limp from polio. Part of the story I told myself all my life was that polio had made me a fighter, that I was hell-bent on being strong because of it, and that much was still true.
But in the past few years, with the joys and demands of raising a young dog, I had begun to experience pain and lameness I'd never known before. The mystery of this decline cast a shroud of defeat over what I feared lay ahead. It seemed that the aftereffects of the disease had reemerged, ghostly and conniving, like a stalker who'd never left town.
YOUNG: But then, one day, Gail met a doctor who said, you know, we can fix that. Say what? Gail Caldwell's new book about her hip replacement and leg lengthening is called "New Life, No Instructions." And she joins us in the studio. Good to talk to you again.
CALDWELL: Hi. Thanks, Robin.
YOUNG: And you know, when I saw you, I can see the difference. I'm starting at the end of the story first. You know, you've changed. Your limp is gone.
CALDWELL: Bless you. I hope that's true.
YOUNG: I remember you distinctly standing up from this table, putting your hand on the table and the rest of your weight on one leg, and swinging another leg around.
CALDWELL: Yeah.
YOUNG: Well, how do you...
CALDWELL: Hoisting myself. I think I did that for years, and I was doing it more and more.
YOUNG: You were using one leg as a cane, almost.
CALDWELL: Yeah. And I only knew it when I went back to Texas to see people and I would see old friends who hadn't seen me in years, and they'd say, why are you limping so badly?
YOUNG: Yeah. And you didn't...
CALDWELL: And I'd say, because I had polio. You know this about me. And finally, one said, you've never limped like this. You have to go to a neurologist.
YOUNG: Before we get to that, let's remind people where you are in life, when this whole chapter of your life takes place. People who've read your earlier memoirs, "A Strong West Wind," tales of growing up in Texas, something of a rebel, "Let's Take the Long Way Home," the just exquisite memoir of your friendship with Caroline Knapp, who in turn wrote "Drinking a Love Story." You and she shared sobriety and a love of dogs. And the men in your life had a deal with it.
Then Caroline died of lung cancer. Your mom died. Your beloved dog Clementine died. So who is the person we're meeting at the beginning of this new chapter?
CALDWELL: Oh, God, I think I was staggering out from all those losses, some of which are obviously predictable. One assumes we will bury our parents. But I decided that the only way that I could see my way through any of this was to get a puppy. And it was only when I was raising her and she was charging down the street like a plow that I began to think that, in fact, maybe she was more of a match for me than I had figured.
YOUNG: Well, but also maybe she was, as they do, pointing you toward another story.
CALDWELL: She did. I think she hauled me into the light. I mean, that's the thing. I felt like she was taking me down. And I think you're right. I think the opposite was true, that she hauled me toward a new story.
YOUNG: So the new story is you finally take an x-ray after 15 years of excruciating pain, and it turns out that the muscle atrophy caused the destruction of your hip bone.
CALDWELL: Right. Well, and, you know, this is what you said earlier about the story changing. I had been so convinced. When you walk into a room and you say polio, people don't - and they don't say, oh, plus you have a headache. They just say - it's like walking in with cholera. I mean, it's too dramatic to pay much attention to try to footnote the story.
And I had seen - oh, God - a couple of orthopedic surgeons and a couple of - so it went so across the board, surgeons, physical therapists, and nobody had said, well, let's see if there is anything else going on here.
YOUNG: Especially because there is such a thing as post-polio syndrome.
CALDWELL: Yes.
YOUNG: So problems in adulthood are the polio coming back with a vengeance.
CALDWELL: Right.
YOUNG: But?
CALDWELL: Well, I finally - I walked into a new doctor's office, or I should say staggered into one. And the thing that I - he was so warm and approachable, and yet I realized that he didn't seem that interested in what I was saying.
YOUNG: He didn't want to hear your story.
CALDWELL: He really didn't. He was - I mean, he wanted to hear it, but it wasn't the be-all, end-all.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: First, he said, what does the MRI show? And I said, there was no MRI and no x-ray. And got very quiet, which is always an interesting sign, and he said you're on your way to radiology. And within 24 hours, I had a different story.
YOUNG: Yeah, including you got a little bit taller. But we'll get to that. Gail Caldwell, in her new book she asks what do you do when the story you've told yourself about yourself your whole life changes mid-life, when a tale turns out to be a little untrue. It's like leaving the train at the wrong stop. You're still you, but in a new place. The book is "New Life, No Instructions." You're listening to HERE AND NOW.
YOUNG: It's HERE AND NOW, and we're continuing our conversation with Gail Caldwell. She begins her new memoir, "New Life, No Instructions," wondering if people who go to lords and receive miracles hold on to their crutches just in case.
The book is about holding onto stories about ourselves. In Gail's case, she lost her mom, her best friend, her dog, and for 15 years, a childhood limp from polio was getting worse. She attributed it to age - she was just 60 - and the polio. Then she got a new puppy. Walking him was excruciatingly painful. A doctor ordered an x-ray, and then surgery, and suddenly, Gail had a new story. We'll pick up that storyline.
But Gail Caldwell, you also had a new story to write. You began this book before the surgeries. You know, this book started out as something completely different.
CALDWELL: I had thought that I was writing a book about attachment, and this kind of preposterous, if you will, yes-but feeling of middle age, when you think want is bumping into entropy and you just keep going. And my mother, who had died in '06, had kept surfacing in a ghostly kind of way, and I wrote my editor and said: My mother and my history with polio are really showing themselves in this book. And that was before I had any understanding that the story was about to change.
YOUNG: Because your mother was the one who, when you were a little girl, your mom would lay with you and do these exercises with you, just an incredibly strong bonding moment that you had to through, for how many years?
CALDWELL: My mom was my first rehab coach.
YOUNG: Right.
CALDWELL: I remember it as this infinite dragging phenomenon of being on the floor with her, doing exercises. But I thought, as an adult, surely it wasn't that long. And when I asked her, she said, oh, it was a couple hours a day for three or four years - which, of course, is forever. And she never gave up.
And I still remember her voice. I still remember her lying next to me, doing every one of the exercises.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: She must have been in great shape. Saying, we'd do leg lifts and ankle raises, and I remember her saying just a few more, honey. I'll do them with you.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: Obviously, I can still quote it with the inflection that's the same. I think I have that voice so inside me.
YOUNG: Yeah, just a few more. I'll do it with you.
CALDWELL: Yeah.
YOUNG: Your dad, too? He got you the cowboy boots with the heels?
CALDWELL: Oh God, yeah. What a pair they were.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: Refused to give up. My dad was, like, there's nothing you can't do.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: And I would go home when I was, I don't know, 45, and he'd see me limping across the den, a slight limp. He'd say, you mean that leg is still bothering you? And it just infuriated me. I'd think, does he really think that polio is something you, like, outgrow? But he just refused to believe that it was tougher than I was.
YOUNG: Well, come to find out, you don't outgrow it, but you finally take an x-ray. And what did the doctor tell you that it showed?
CALDWELL: He called me as I was leaving my house the next day, and said, well, no wonder you're in so much pain. You have no hip left.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: And he said: Do you have any questions? And I said, well, I have a lot of them, but I - the first thing I really want to know is what you think about this. And he said, well, to tell you the truth, I'm relieved. We can do something about this, which nobody had said to me, I think ever, about polio.
YOUNG: Not only replaced the hip, but lengthen your leg.
CALDWELL: Well, that turned out to be a different piece of it. My surgeon, when I met him, said, we can lengthen the leg while we're in there - as though it were, you know, we can cross the street. We can get a cup of coffee. And I was, like, oh, my God. Lengthen the leg, it was such an extraordinary thing.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: So, in fact, they were able to make up for about half of what I - what they call LLD, leg length discrepancy.
YOUNG: Yeah, 5/8ths of an inch.
CALDWELL: Yeah.
YOUNG: Never has 5/8ths of an inch felt bigger.
CALDWELL: Oh my God, yeah, exactly. I'll never think a fraction is a small number again.
YOUNG: Well, but before the surgery - now, this is very dramatic. It's surgery, and it potentially life changing. But tell what's going through your mind at this point.
CALDWELL: What was interesting to me was that I went into this with a whole lot of hope and a whole lot of doubt colliding, which is maybe one of the things that happens to us in life about being human. And it was very frightening to me, and I also did not know - I think I'm glad I didn't know how much work was going to be entailed when I got on the other side of this, because I felt like, you know, I said that I felt like the Tin Man for a long time. I kept feeling like somebody had handed me this new machine and said you have to learn how to use this.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: I mean, my leg, I had to teach it how to walk, because I had polio when I was six months old, so I never walked with two legs that were equal. So now I had this new longer leg, and I kept having images of a foal when they stand up for the first time. And there were these floppy limbs, and I don't know what to do with them. I really felt that way.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: There was this leg that was longer and sort of in the way, because I had to train the muscles.
YOUNG: Yeah. The muscles that had been atrophied, but also all the other muscles. They said, well, there's nothing for us to do here. So they'd gone to sleep.
CALDWELL: Exactly. Everybody was, like, get a job, you know.
YOUNG: It's quite something. And before all that, before the surgery, there's a moment where you - no one will relate to this. You have one of those late nights where you suddenly, well, maybe I'll just, you know, my life is maybe about to change. Maybe I'll assess my life so far, and it's always dangerous to go near Google.
CALDWELL: Oh, God, yes.
YOUNG: You're Googling old boyfriends and oh, look, they live in, you know, beautiful homes in Greenwich, Connecticut and give flawless dinner parties, and you're sitting there eating take out with your dog.
CALDWELL: Right.
YOUNG: And you fall into a little bit of the pity pot. I'd forgotten to marry and have kids. I often preferred canine company to humans. I would die sad and alone. Such was my recitation of despair pulled out from time to time like an ill-shaped sweater, you can't bring yourself to give away. But the next day, you're rowing, and that script starts to fade.
CALDWELL: Right.
YOUNG: This whole idea that you have to let go of the stories we tell of ourselves.
CALDWELL: Absolutely. And God knows, I mean, I think this may be a human condition. The stories we tell ourselves are so powerful, and you have to really be careful, because if there's not anyone else listening and it becomes that recitation of despair, I think it's an endless loop.
And I think the beauty and magic of story, when we share them, whether we're writing them or we're having lunch with a friend and being intimate with them, the audience who loves you or who listens helps to shape it.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: And otherwise, the narrative is a locked room.
YOUNG: So here you are, post-surgery, I'm wondering if a part of your fear going into the surgery might also have been the person that you might be leaving behind, with the deficit in the leg, was the person who knew Caroline, who knew your mother, who knew Clementine.
CALDWELL: I think it's always - I just realized I'm nodding and I should make that verbal.
YOUNG: It's radio.
CALDWELL: I think there's a way - and, you know, maybe this happens at mid-life. There's a way when you start to accumulate the losses and you feel a loyalty to them, because they're part of your story. So you want - you don't want the story to change so much that it becomes unfamiliar.
When we're talking about the story - what do you do when the story changes, one reason that I had to sort of embrace the right turn that this book took was that I felt that I was being given another chance to think about the way we tell the story of who we are, and that the way you tell the story is what shapes the life, in a way. One begets the other. You think the events become the story.
But sometimes, the story becomes the truth. And I think it's really important in anything to be able to open your heart enough to change that, whether it's about leaving a bad relationship or calling a doctor at the right time, or saying, oh, my God, I need help here.
YOUNG: Yeah.
CALDWELL: I can't be married to the facts that I thought were right.
YOUNG: That's Gail Caldwell. Her new book, "New Life, No Instructions." Gail, thank you so much.
CALDWELL: Thanks. It's good to be here, Robin.
YOUNG: And we'll have an excerpt at hereandnow.org of this terrific read. And we should say, Gail still has a very slight limp from the polio, but again, a new hip replaced the one degenerated by arthritis, not polio. And, of course, her story isn't for everyone with polio, but I suspect some other people might be wonder, Jeremy, if they, too, have a different story to tell.
YOUNG: HERE AND NOW is a production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in association with the BBC World Service. I'm Robin Young.
HOBSON: I'm Jeremy Hobson. This is HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Saunders roughed up on road again as Mariners lose
May. 05, 2013
TORONTO (AP) — It's been a rough ride on the road for Joe Saunders this season.
Mark DeRosa hit a three-run homer, Melky Cabrera added a solo shot and the Blue Jays snapped a four-game losing streak by beating Saunders and the Seattle Mariners 10-2 on Sunday.
Saunders (2-4) allowed seven runs and nine hits in five innings, losing for the third time in four starts.
"It was a battle today for sure," he said. "They put some good swings and on some good pitches. Just one of those days."
Saunders walked two, struck out none and dropped to 0-4 with a 12.53 ERA in four road starts.
"I just think it's somewhat of a fluke thing right now," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said. "It's gained a little bit of momentum and we've got to stop it."
This isn't the first time Saunders has struggled away from home. He lost 11 straight road decisions between June 2010 and May 2011.
Saunders said he "didn't get the breaks" on close calls, a view that was echoed by DeRosa.
"It seemed like he was struggling to get that corner pitch called and was having to come over the middle of the plate a little bit more," DeRosa said.
Cabrera was 3 for 4 with two RBIs while DeRosa went 3 for 5 with three RBIs and scored three times as the Blue Jays improved to 8-0 when scoring five or more runs. Toronto's 10 runs matched a season high. It was the first time the Mariners have allowed 10 runs this season.
"We were desperate for that. We needed something like that," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "It's not like we're just waiting to get on a roll. We needed a win and they're hard to come by."
Brandon Morrow pitched three-hit ball over eight innings for his first win of the year. He struck out eight, matching a season high.
"Definitely a morale booster," Morrow said.
The last-place Blue Jays had lost 14 of 18, a disappointing stretch for a team expected to contend in the AL East this season.
"It wears on you a little bit," Morrow said. "Guys would come in every day ready to play and in the right state of mind, but there's some things throughout the games, maybe not even things in our control, just little things here and there that you say things are just kind of against us right now. That starts to wear on you, but today was a good day for us."
DeRosa, who called a team meeting before last Sunday's loss at New York, one that capped a four-game sweep by the Yankees, insisted the Blue Jays remain confident in their playoff chances despite being 10 games under .500.
"No one has given up in here," De Rosa said. "We're going to keep fighting and we've got the guys to do it."
Morrow (1-2) allowed two runs and walked a season-high five in the longest outing by a Toronto starter this year. He had not won since beating Minnesota last Oct. 3, the final day of the 2012 season.
"We definitely needed that," Gibbons said of Morrow's long outing. "Our bullpen is beat up."
Steve Delabar finished in the ninth for the Blue Jays, who outhit Seattle 15-3 and improved to 7-12 at home.
Toronto opened the scoring in the first when Rajai Davis doubled, advanced on Cabrera's sacrifice and scored on Jose Bautista's sacrifice fly to shallow right field, a high popup that was caught by second baseman Dustin Ackley after he struggled with the sun.
Toronto made it 3-0 in the second on an RBI single by Maicer Izturis and an RBI groundout by Munenori Kawasaki.
Morrow retired 10 in a row before running into trouble in the fifth, when he gave up two runs on four walks and a single. Robert Andino drove in the first run with a fielder's choice and Kyle Seager added a sacrifice fly.
"I just got a little too loose in my mechanics, but I cleaned it up and was good the rest of the time," Morrow said.
The Blue Jays pulled away with a pair of homers in the bottom half. Cabrera led off with his first of the year, a drive off the facing of the second deck in left, and mimed high-fives after his teammates jokingly failed to respond upon his return to the dugout.
Bautista walked, Edwin Encarnacion flied out to the warning track in left and J.P. Arencibia singled before DeRosa hammered a pitch to straightaway center for his second homer of the season.
Toronto made it 8-2 with a run off Hector Noesi in the sixth, with Kawasaki scoring on Encarnacion's bases-loaded fielder's choice. The Blue Jays added two more in the seventh on RBI singles by Kawasaki and Cabrera.
Morrow, meanwhile, responded to his shaky fifth by retiring eight straight — four on strikeouts. The streak ended when Kendrys Morales doubled on an infield popup in the eighth after first baseman Encarnacion tripped over the mound.
NOTES: The Mariners have not swept a three-game series in Toronto since May 11-13, 2001. ... Seattle OF Michael Saunders made a leaping catch at the wall to take extra bases away from Arencibia for the final out of the third. ... Blue Jays 3B Brett Lawrie got the day off.


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Wednesday was a big day in the sneaker world. Nike announced its Spring 2016 Air Jordan lineup nearly a year in advance, a rare move for the company, which threw sneaker fans into a frenzy. And it also gave Sneaker News, which calls itself the "CNN for kicks" plenty of fodder for stories.
"It was absolutely an all-hands-on-deck kind of day for us," said Sneaker News editor-in-chief Yu-ming Wu, who founded the site in 2006. "The site blew up." The site's post about the Air Jordan 2 and Air Jordan 12 got 22,000 visits and was shared over 1000 times.
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Much of that growth is thanks to the Web, which has made it easier for sneakerheads to connect with each other, keep up with new releases and even swap shoes via eBay. "They want to know what's new, what's controversial and what's affecting trends on the business side," said Matt Powell, sports industry analyst at The NPD Group.
The growth of that hardcore fan base has opened up opportunities for sites like Sneaker News, which are aimed at not only keeping fans abreast of new announcements, but also keeping them constantly updated on when things go on sale. A quarter of the traffic to Sneaker News goes to its sneaker-release calendar, which, Wu says, readers check as often as once an hour.
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Amazon opened a pickup location in Westwood on Tuesday. Students with Amazon Prime and Prime Student can receive same-day pickup on items ordered and shipped to this location before noon. (Michael Zshornack/Photo editor)
Students can now receive textbook orders from Amazon within a day at Westwood Village's latest offering.
Amazon opened a staffed pickup locationTuesday on Westwood Boulevard. Members of Amazon Prime and Prime Student receive free same-day pickup on items they ship to this location if they place their orders before noon, said Carly Golden, anAmazon spokesperson.
Golden said the location also features a device station, where people can try out Amazon products like the Kindle, the Fire TV Stick and the Echo. Customers can also return items purchased online at the location.
"Amazon is a huge presence in all of our lives," said Andrew Thomas, executive director of the Westwood Village Improvement Association. "A brick-and-mortar location will be a great presence in our community."
Golden said this is the 21st staffed pickup location Amazon has opened near a college campus. Other campus locations include UC Berkeley, UC Davis, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania.
"When you're a student on the go, nothing is more important than getting the things you need, when you need them," Golden added.
Yusrah Ishtiaq, a rising third-year biology student, said she thinks the location will eliminate the stress of waiting for a textbook or having to deal with lost or stolen packages.
"I'm definitely going to use this facility often," Ishtiaq said. "I use Amazon for a lot of things."
Henna Dialani, a rising third-year statistics student, said she thinks the location's quick delivery will result in increased competition for the UCLA Store.
"It's going to give students more choice in buying things like books and clothes," she added.
Dialani added she might check out the store's device station, because she is interested in buying a Kindle.
"(The location) is spreading the brand name of Amazon devices, because it's like a showroom for (them)," said Anjali Revanur, a rising third-year psychobiology student.
Thomas said he thinks the store's easy access to parking makes it convenient for individuals in Westwood.
Revanursaid she thinks the store will further business for Amazon among UCLA students.
"I think more people will consider getting Prime for the number of benefits (the store would) provide them," Revanur said. "I'm not a Prime member, but seeing these benefits, I'm considering getting it."
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Chicago Premium Outlets announced a second wave of stores to be added with its current expansion project.
Wellensteyn Outlet store, Movado and Sperry Top-Sider will join the Aurora outlet center in August, along with the 20 other new stores already announced.
Wellensteyn, a Germany-based luxury coat line for men and women, will be the first store in the Midwest region for the brand. It will be located near Vince at the new end of the center.
The multimillion-dollar expansion of the Chicago Premium Outlets will add more than 50 new stores, bringing the center's total to 170 stores.
The 20 new stores previously announced with the expansion are Abercrombie Fitch Outlet, American Eagle Outfitters, bebe, Clarins, Columbia Sportswear, Corningware Corelle More, Express Factory Outlet, Finish Line, Fragrance Outlet, The Limited Outlet, The Luggage Factory, Mountain Warehouse, Old Navy Outlet, Quicksilver, Robert Graham, Saks Fifth Avenue off 5th, Tommy Hilfiger Kids, UGG Australia, Vans and Vince.
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Western Farm Press has launched its fifth online continuing education course for California and Arizona Pest Control Advisers (PCA) and other licensees. The course, entitled Lepidopterous Pest Management/Pesticide Safety Review, is sponsored online by DuPont Crop Protection.
The free course offers two CEUs and is now available on Western Farm Press's Web site, www.westernfarmpress.com or Farm Press University's Web site, www.farmpressuniversity.com
California Department of Pesticide Regulation has accredited it for two CEUs, one in Laws and Regs and one in the Other category. DPR has approved it for all licensing categories, including PCAs, private applicators, both qualified applicator categories, and aerial applicators. Plus, the California Certified Crop Adviser program has approved the new course for 2 CEUs in Integrated Pest Management.
The new course represents the third hour in Laws and Regs that DPR licensees can earn online at www.westernfarmpress.com
The Arizona Department of Agriculture has approved it for all ADA licensees.
The new course is a combo course; the first section covers lepidopterous pest management and the second part is a pesticide safety review. It is divided into text and question sections. There are 49 questions in the course, which the licensee must answer correctly online to receive credit. Once the course is completed, a notice of completion can be either e-mailed or mailed to Western Farm Press, which will notify the accrediting or certifying agency that the licensee has successfully completed the course.
Wayne Steele, Fresno, Calif., DuPont development representative who helped develop the course, along with several University of California and University of Arizona entomologists, said he is pleased with the results. "From a technology standpoint, the course offers excellent information for agricultural professionals and producers. The information is in-depth, with solid data to aid in the management of lepidopterous pests. "And it is presented in an easy-to-follow format. We are pleased with it and think it provides valuable information as well as CEUs for busy PCAs in the West."
DuPont Area Sales Manager Bill Hume, also at Fresno, said, "Without a doubt, agriculture in California and Arizona is the most intense in the U.S. and the world. DuPont believes sponsoring this continuing education course on the Western Farm Press Web site brings an added value to products DuPont offers to this complex Western agricultural market. DuPont is pleased to offer this is an extremely valuable service."
Hume noted that the online DuPont-sponsored course is available 24/7.
"There is almost no downtime in Western agriculture. This course allows PCAs and other licensees time to catch up on continuing education and gain hours when there is time in their schedules."
Greg Frey, Western Farm Press publisher, commended DuPont for its sponsorship of the new course. "We have has tremendous support for the new online educational initiative at Farm Press, thanks to DuPont and others. DuPont obviously recognizes that Western agriculture is not only very complex, but highly regulated. It is imperative that PCAs and other licensees are kept up to date on the latest technology and regulations in their business."
This new course is the seventh now offered online by Farm Press and other Primedia agricultural publications. In addition to the four courses now available online at the Western Farm Press Web site, there is a Spray Drift Management CEU offered for licensed applicators in Texas and Oklahoma. It is available online via the Southwest Farm Press Web site (www.southwestfarmpress.com).
In August, a national American Society of Agronomy accredited Certified Crop Adviser CEU was launched on Web sites for Delta Farm Press, Southeast Farm Press, Southwest Farm Press, Western Farm Press, Corn and Soybean Digest, Farm Industry News and Apply.
The first Farm Press CEU was launched in April, 2004. Since then, about 1,800 online courses have been completed.
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First Light by Rebecca Stead is a compelling story told by two different narrators. First there is Peter, the only child of two talented scientist parents. His father, a glaciologist, receives a grant to travel to Greenland and study global warming. He takes along Peter and Peter's mother, a molecular biologist, who is writing a book about mitochondrial DNA. Peter, like any normal 7th grader, is excited to leave behind New York City for 6 weeks, but he's worried about his increasingly frequent headaches. Is he going to end up like his mother, whose headaches cause her to simply "check out" for days at a time?
Second, there is Thea, a 14-year-old girl who lives in Gracehope, a community entirely hidden under Greenland's ice. Thea's ancestors fled here a long time ago to escape persecution. Thea has never seen the sun. Her people's population has expanded to the point where resources must be severely rationed and births are limited. Thea feels that her people were meant to return to the surface, but her grandmother, who leads Gracehope, is set against expansion.
Peter and Thea's tales alternate as the plot's tension increases, and they eventually come together in this exciting story that mixes adventure with science and fantasy. Both characters are strong and independent thinkers, trying to make the best decisions with their limited knowledge. The adults in this novel seem strangely paralyzed by the past in many respects, unlike Peter and Thea, who are constantly looking forward to and advocating for the future.
You can read an excerpt from the book here and explore the world of First Light in its own Web site. A similar read is The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. The library owns both the book and audiobook, which our family enjoyed listening to. Recommended for ages 10-14.


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By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government has announced its long-awaited investment program for the country's ports, with a core focus on incentives for the private sector, totaling R$54.2 billion (US$26 billion) which will be implemented over the next five years – R$15 billion more than expected. The programs will include new investments, leases and private terminals, known as TUPs.
"We want to get as much cargo moving as possible, with the lowest cost possible," said Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, unveiling the new concession plans.
Minister Leônidas Cristino, from the Special Ports Secretary, also gave details of a new organizational structure for the ports, creating new port authorities and commissions that will see the government keep a firmer grip on the ports' activities, but with the aim of reducing bureaucracy and increasing flexibility:
"With this new goal, we're convinced that the ports sector will increase its ability to play its part in developing and growing the Brazilian economy in a sustainable manner," Cristino told reporters.
It was also announced that an additional R$2.6 billion (US$1.25 billion) in improvements to waterways, roads, railways and traffic to help regulate traffic in Brazil's eighteen main public ports, R$1 billion of which will come from the Ministry of Transport. Individual states and the private sector will pick up the remainder.
The main reasoning behind the new investment program is the dire need to improvement efficiency and reduce costs in Brazil's port system – so crucial to the country's economy – to improve international competitiveness.
Currently, ships can be forced to wait a week before their cargo is unloaded, due to the notorious bureaucratic lag caused by Brazil's tax and inspection agencies – the Receita Federal and Anvisa.
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All Redwood stores tested by the police department passed the test this year, not selling tobacco products to underaged buyers.
The Redwood Falls Police department conducted tobacco sales compliance checks in the City of Redwood Falls Nov. 15.
Working with plain clothes and uniformed officers, an underage buyer entered local establishments and attempted to illegally purchase tobacco products.
All of the local establishments which were checked refused to sell to the underage buyer.
The following establishments were checked and complied with the law by not selling tobacco products to the underage buyer:
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• Cenex
• Tersteeg's
• Super America
• Casey's
• The Liquor Lodge
• The American Legion Post
• The Bottle Shop
According to the Redwood Falls Police Department, a check was not made at the VFW, as it was closed at the time the compliance checks were being conducted.
The Redwood Falls Police Department commends the responsible business people in the community who successfully refused to sell the tobacco products to the underage buyers.
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File Carving Bibliography
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Basic Techniques
An analysis of disc carving techniques, Mikus, Nicholas A. " Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School. March 2005.
Scalpel: A Frugal, High Performance File Carver, Golden G. Richard and Vassil Roussev, DFRWS 2005
Massive threading: Using GPUs to increase the performance of digital forensics tools, Lodovico Marziale, Golden G. Richard III*, Vassil Roussev, DFRWS 2007.
Fragment Recovery Carving
Kulesh Shanmugasundaram - Automatic Reassembly of Document Fragments via Data Compression
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Automated Reassembly of Fragmented Images, Anandabrata Pal, Kulesh Shanmugasundaram, Nasir Memon, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003.
"Carving Contiguous and Fragmented Files with Fast Object Validation", Garfinkel, S.,, Digital Forensics Workshop (DFRWS 2007), Pittsburgh, PA, August 2007.
In-Place File Carving, Golden G. Richard III, Vassil Roussev, and Lodovico Marziale, IFIP WG 11.9, Advances in Digital Forensics, 2007
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Yoginder Singh Dandass, Nathan Joseph Necaise, Sherry Reede Thomas - An Empirical Analysis of Disk Sector Hashes for Data Carving


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Croatia, Cameroon players swap shirts ... and shorts
Soccer supporters in North America have a hard enough time justifying players swapping jerseys post-game.
To fringe soccer fans, it doesn't make sense, especially during the summer months when kits are drenched in sweat.
But a pair of players here in Manaus took things a step further Wednesday night.
After Croatia humiliated Cameroon 4-0 at Arena Amazonia, Ivan Rakitic and Stephane M'Bia didn't just trade shirts.
No, they went above and beyond the norm.
Once inside the tunnel, they dropped their drawers before exchanging them as well.
But it's not like Rakitic had anything to lose. He has already been seen in the nude.
Croatian officials lambasted paparazzi last week after pictures surfaced of the team swimming nude in their training complex's pool.


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The MEAN LEAN DREAM GREEN Home . . . becomes a RealityLocal "green" enthusiast, Drude Corbet, co-Founder of The Mobius Company in partnership with Kelly McArdle Construction, completed the "Mean Lean Dream Green Home" (www.MeanLeanDreamGreenHome.com) in New Hope Township in Iredell County. Since its completion at the end of 2009, the home has been certified as a Platinum Level LEED for Homes™ home, a Gold Level NAHB National Green Building Standard™ home, an Energy Star™ home and Department of Energy Builders Challenge™ home. Corbet and Kelly McArdle worked with Energy Wise Solutions for the aformentioned certifications.
The Corbet home is the third home in the state of North Carolina to achieve the Platinum Level LEED for Homes™ certification, the highest level certification awarded by LEED for Homes™. Similarly, the home is the second home in the state of North Carolina to achieve the Gold Level NAHB National Green Building Standard™ certification, the second highest level of certification awarded by NAHB. According to the Department of Energy's E-Scale, the home's 52 HERS rating is indicative of the fact that this "average home" will use about half the energy of a home built to code, thus resulting in the Builders Challenge™ certification.
In order to achieve these high-level certifications, Corbet, in partnership with Kelly McArdle Construction incorporated features that focused on sustainable living, water and energy efficiency, the use of environmentally preferred products, recycled material and local, healthy products. Corbet is thrilled the way the partnership has worked. "Green building really requires a highly collaborative team approach. We brought our ideas to Kelly McArdle, they shared their ideas with us, and we met with trades people who shared their ideas as well. We ultimately incorporated the best of all the ideas", Corbet stated.
The "mean" traditional ranch home incorporates many of the "desired" features for the typical home of the future as described by the National Association of Homebuilders. The house has four bedrooms, two of which serve as the Corbets' offices and have French doors that open to the living space, two bathrooms, an open living space with kitchen, eating area and family room, a screened porch, expansive rear patio, front porch and large two-car garage with a workshop. Corbet also chose to use a "cradle to grave" and universal design so many of the features in the home are elderly-friendly and hand-capped accessible.
Likewise, Corbet incorporated "lean" features. Although the house is a simple ranch design, it faces True South. It was designed with the proper sized overhangs, so that the winter sun comes through the front windows but the summer sun does not. Corbet also chose to use a concrete floor in the house which acts as a heat sink, collecting heat during the day and throwing heat off at night in the winter months. In addition, the south facing exposure, allowed Solar Pros of Lake Norman to easily install the solar panels for the SolarHot™ system supplied by SOLARNow which heats over 85% of the Corbets' hot water. At Kelly McArdle's suggestion, Corbet worked with Ferguson Bath & Kitchen Gallery to purchase Kohler™ and American Standard fixtures that are very high-efficiency products. Corbet further achieved water conservation with a BRAE™ rain-catchment system and the use of native, drought-tolerant plants, purchased from Farm House Gardeners, who landscaped the property.
In keeping with a lean house, Kelly McArdle believes that 90% of building green is about the building envelope and the energy efficiency. Towards that end, the discussions with Ross & Witmer, who designed and installed the HVAC system governing the heat and air conditioning as well as the ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) and the fans through-out the house and garage, were particularly valuable. As Corbet stated, "We believe that the 52 HERS rating which is indicative of the fact that this "average home" will use about half the energy of a home built to code, was accomplished because Ross & Witmer did such a great job on our project". Likewise, Corbet approached Kelly McArdle to partner with Members Interiors. Members Interior Construction sells ClimatePro™, a Johns Manville blown-in fiberglass insulation product. Danny Kelly believes, "The combination of upgraded blown-in insulation, 2x6 finger-jointed studs, advanced framing techniques, exterior foam sheathing, radiant barrier roof sheathing and the overall tightness of the structure made for a high-performance, energy-efficiency home." Corbet has not only built a "dream" home for himself but is planning to demonstrate that an "average" green home can satisfy the American dream – a home that is affordable, attractive, high quality and low maintenance. He also hopes to demonstrate that building green is not just for the wealthy; rather the average American family can build a durable, energy-efficient, healthy home that appreciates in value. He plans to use the home as a showcase to educate and empower others to build green.
Corbet spent almost two years working with Joy Kennedy Young, finding the right piece of land for the home. Once he purchased the land, Corbet worked with Charlotte architect Jim Gleeson, AIA in creating the house plan. Gleeson has been a pioneer in the field of green design for many years. Corbet then spent over a year interviewing builders while researching products that could be used in the home. He chose Kelly McArdle Construction. Kelly McArdle is an award-winning company which combines the latest construction methods and materials with traditional styles and attention to details. The company's philosophy as stated by Danny Kelly, "We are eager for people to see that you can build green and still have traditional details in your house" added to Corbets' confidence in choosing the firm. Towards that end, the traditional brick ranch, uses brick purchased from Cunningham Brick and is 92% recycled brick. In addition, what appears to be a simple fireplace between the living space and the master bedroom is a Lennox(TM) model, with outside air supply, which can help serve to heat the house as well.
Corbet is very proud of the decision that he made with respect to the green kitchen. While visiting a cabinet-makers shop, Corbet noticed pieces of wood on the floor. When he inquired about the wood, he was told that it was Ambrosia Maple, a "scrap" wood that is used for interior furniture, not as cabinet doors. Corbet loved the unusual markings and patterns in the wood. After convincing Dave Anthes of Hardwood Creations that he really liked the look of the wood, Hardwood Creations partnered with him to do the kitchen cabinet doors, fireplace mantles and bathroom cabinet in the Ambrosia Maple. The interior cabinets are PureBond(TM), a Columbia Forest Products healthy choice and was supplied by Catawba Hardwoods.
Now that the house is completed, Corbet continues to educate others about building green. Corbet hopes "to partner with like-minded organizations - whose mission is to bring green building to the average person as a way to honor Mother Earth: her land, air, water and inhabitants as well as a way to put disposable income back into the pockets of the average person."


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TORONTO (AP) — The owner of a monkey who was found wandering in a Toronto Ikea parking lot last weekend is going to court to get him back.
Yasmin Nakhuda filed a motion with the Ontario Superior Court to have the Japanese macaque monkey named Darwin returned to her.
In a sworn affidavit, Nakhuda argues the tiny primate was illegally taken from her and moved to a primate sanctuary in Sunderland, Ontario, where he now lives. Her motion will be heard on Dec. 20.
She says Darwin considers her his mother and had been living with her family.
Last weekend, the monkey captured attention by letting himself out of a parked car and ambling around the Ikea parking lot dressed in a fitted shearling coat.
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On Kit and Game of Thrones at Comic-Con 2011
As Sarah noted in her post earlier, Game of Thrones was a huge draw this weekend at Comic-Con. The line was long for the panel. Unfortunately – for me at least – there was no standard line for the media. They allowed 2 or 3 of the big outlets a few questions but it wasn't a regular situation where the press were invited to a specific event. HBO knows it doesn't need more publicity so few of its properties, if any, were made available. That included True Blood and it includes GoT. Which... I understand the rationale, especially for GoT because the old season was already so successful, the new season is so far away, they don't need to start promoting it. They can promote it when it's ready.
What frustrates me then is not the lack of opportunity to interview the cast of the show, but the lack of photos of the cast of the show. There are literally thousands upon thousands of photos of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and the cast of Twilight from their panel on Thursday. I am telling you, the nerd herd enthusiasm for Game of Thrones was = if not > than that for Twilight. It's just...
The Game of Thrones fan demands different things. The popularity of Game of Thrones is driven by the substance of its content. The popularity of Twilight is driven by hormones, housewives, and horniness. Photographers make more money off hormones, housewives, and horniness. Put it this way, there were probably more photos of Ashley Greene taken than there were of the entire cast of Game of Thrones COMBINED. So I'm sorry there aren't better, and more, photos of Kit Harington and co. It's just the way it will be until they become household names although I'm not actually sure that's going to happen, not because the show won't continue to be great, but because, in comparison to True Blood for example, it doesn't have that kind of masturbatory mass appeal.
Alright, alright, alright, Ok now ladies...
Stop yelling me about getting on with the Kit Harington details. I'm getting there.
Thursday night I ended up at the FilmDistrict party at the Hard Rock – click here for my previous post on that event. In short, the Hard Rock was where everyone went before going home, where Nicolaj Coster Waldau was hanging out with Alexander Skarsgard. Waldau came with Emilia Clarke and Harington. They spent most of their time on the patio which is where I was when they arrived . The patio is where the smoking was happening. So...if you were smoking that night, you were on the patio. Kit needed a light. I was with 4 friends adjacent to his group of friends that included Waldau and Skarsgard. Think of the two groups as circles. Dylan and two others were on the side of my circle that was touching the side of Kit's circle. In other words, he was back to back with Dylan and I was standing across from Dylan leaning against a wall which is where we were parked most of the night.
Dylan is 6 ft 1. Kit next to Dylan, well, I'm sorry, he didn't look very tall. In fact, he's not tall at all. Not much taller than me. Sorry. I was wearing flats, he was only maybe 3 or 4 inches more, but... he does wear his pants very, very well. And he is so, so, SO nice. Also really, really goodlooking in person. Like much better in person than on the show and in photos. He borrowed a light, started talking to our friend Matt, and Matt was telling him his accent was cool, and Kit turned to me and was like – what is it with people here and our accent, and I replied – it sounds good, you just can't hear it anymore because you've lived with it so long. And he said, well I think the French have the best accent. And then the conversation turned to Toronto and how he lived there for 3 months and frankly I can't remember what else, other than him telling me he was "knackered", because it was after midnight and we'd been drinking since 8pm. That went on for 10 minutes or so. Then Dylan was empty and, you know, that takes priority so we went back to the bar and when we passed by each other later we exchanged a smile chin lift greeting and I didn't see him again until the following night, Friday, after a cocktail party on my way to Nobu (which is in the Hard Rock) for dinner. Our reservation was at 10:30pm and we were running late so it must have been around that time, I passed him on the street and he seemed like he was just starting his night, on his way to what I presumed was the Maxim party because I didn't think he'd show up at the WB TV party.
I spotted him from half a block away coming towards us. He has very distinctive hair. Which means I watched him from half a block away approach me holding hands with a girl. That's for all of you who will inevitably ask – ARE YOU SURE YOU SAW WHAT YOU SAW? Yes. I am sure. I saw eyeballed that sh-t for a long half a minute. I saw what I saw. She had dark hair that seemed like it was coloured black, cut in a chin-length bob with a half fringe, wearing a leather trench coat over a skirt, tights, and combat boots. In other words, she dressed like how we used to way back in the day when we only listened to Morrissey and loitered in the train station. This was not brother/sister handholding, unless the brother/sister are Lannisters. That was definitely a girlfriend situation. Or, at least, a girlfriend situation for that night.
On Saturday Kit showed up at the Entertainment Weekly party. Clearly he wasn't in a hurry to leave Comic-Con. It's a good look for him, right? Not sure if the girl was with him, I only saw him for a minute.
PS. David Benioff is kinda hot, right?
PPS. More on Jason Momoa later.
Photos from Richie Buxo/Splashnewsonline.com and Frazer Harrison/Michael Buckner/Gettyimages.com


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World Ag Expo will be one of the first agricultural expositions to introduce attendee registration for the 2008 expo, scheduled for Feb. 12-14 in Tulare, Calif.
The new electronic registration system will allow attendees to preregister online before they arrive at the expo grounds. Registrants will be asked a short set of questions surveying their demographic background. After completing this brief questionnaire, a confirmation page can immediately be printed and an official admittance badge will be mailed directly to the attendee.
This badge will act as a fast-pass to World Ag Expo as well as admittance to West Coast Nationals Power Pulling Series and entry into the 2008 Dodge truck giveaway. Those who preregister will also receive a discounted ticket price.
World Ag Expo will work with CompuSystems (CSI), an electronic registration company that designs and implements registration systems at major trade shows across the country. CompuSystems has been the leading trade show registration and lead retrieval service provider to the exposition industry since 1976.
"We are very confident in the level of service CompuSystems will provide our show and exhibitors, and the confidentiality and security they will give to every attendee who registers.
"World Ag Expo is the place where agriculture means business and does serious business. Knowing who our customers are is critical to providing them with products and services they need to improve their operations," said Jerry Sinift, general manager of the International Agri-Center.
Information collected will be held by the expo and access may be provided to investing exhibitors for use in contacting customers about new products and services. However, exhibitors who purchase a bar code scanner can also ask attendees if they're interested in more information from the company and can directly scan the attendees' information into their expo follow-up list.
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Preregistration begins online Nov. 15 at http://www.worldagexpo.com/. Those who preregister will receive a host of special offers in addition to receiving a discounted ticket.
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England captain Alastair Cook had high praise for Joe Root after his unbeaten hundred helped the tourists win the 5th ODI against Sri Lanka.
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MSI declares CrossFire on Intel P965 chipset 'first'
Driver jiggery-pokery?
MSI has managed to get Intel's P965 chipset to support ATI's CrossFire, enabling the system on its P965 Platinum motherboard - an industry first, the company claimed today. So far, the multi-GPU technology has been limited to ATI's own chipsets and to Intel's 975X chipset.
The P965 Platinum ships with a pair of x16 PCI Express slots, though only one of them is connected to 16 PCI-E lanes - the other connects to four lanes. It's these two slots MSI expects you to connect your two CrossFire-ready graphics cards to.
Quite how all this works, MSI hasn't said. Either ATI's drivers incorporate P965 support and MSI's simply the first company to react to the change, or MSI's board fools the driver into thinking it's connected to a 975X chipset.
The motherboard supports Intel's range of LGA-775 desktop CPUs, including the Core 2 Duo, across a 533, 800 or 1066MHz frontside bus. It can take up to 8GB of 533MHz or 667MHz DDR 2 SDRAM, or 4GB of 800MHz DDR 2, all in dual-channel mode.
There's a JMicron IDE controller on board to supply the peripheral connectivity missing from the Intel chipset. MSI's also added a JMicron 3Gbps SATA controller to add a seventh port to the six provided by Intel's ICH8R South Bridge chip, all of which support a variety of RAID configurations. The board also plays host to two Firewire ports, Gigabit Ethernet, legacy connectors, four USB ports and a variety of audio jacks, including S/P DIF input and outputs. ®
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HOUSTON (AP) — A man appeared intent on suicide, or what's known as suicide by cop, when he opened fire with a pistol inside a busy terminal at Houston's largest airport and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Friday.
Carnell Marcus Moore, 29, of Beaumont shot himself in the temple with a 40-caliber semi-automatic pistol Thursday afternoon after shooting twice into the ceiling at a ticketing area at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
A Department of Homeland Security special agent who confronted him in the terminal also shot and wounded him in the shoulder when Moore refused to drop his weapon. Homicide Sgt. Brian Harris said Moore's head wound was the fatal gunshot.
"At this point we know what this was and what it wasn't," Harris' partner, investigator Fil Waters, said. "And what it was, was a desperate act committed by a confused young man who has apparently lost all hope."
Harris said Moore had a bag containing an AR-15 rifle with ammunition. That gun was not fired and not removed from the bag, which also contained a Gideon Bible and a suicide note that indicated Moore had no plans to hurt others, Harris said.
"'Here in the last hour, I yield to mercy when this could have turned bad,'" Harris said, reading some of the contents of the note signed by Moore.
Police said events leading up to the airport shooting began Tuesday in Beaumont when Moore abducted the female manager of the apartment complex where he worked as a maintenance man and insisted at gunpoint she accompany him to Houston, about 85 miles to the west.
Moore, who had no criminal record, apparently had become infatuated with her but Waters said she is engaged to another man and did not return his affections. She somehow convinced him to release her.
Authorities said she filed a report with Beaumont police Wednesday but they had not been able to confirm that.
Moore checked into a Houston hotel Tuesday. He called a brother who told police Moore had said about a month ago that he wanted to confront an armed officer. The brother told detectives he asked Moore if he had a gun with him but Moore said he had disposed of his weapons.
Surveillance video shows Moore arriving at the airport's Terminal B just after noon, dragging a bag he took from his pickup truck and taking a seat. The gunfire erupted about 90 minutes later. People in the terminal began screaming and running for cover but no one else was hurt.
Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland said it is not illegal for people to carry firearms in public areas and that Moore had not breeched secure areas of the airport.


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Neal Freeman is a former National Review staffer and editor. In 1965, he was detailed to serve as the press secretary in Bill Buckley's quixotic campaign for mayor of New York. In my paperback copy of Buckley's campaign memoir, The Unmaking of a Mayor, there is a photograph of an impossibly young and handsome Freeman looking over the draft of a speech with Buckley. Freeman recently drew on his long relationship with Buckley for a speech at Yale marking the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Buckley's God and Man at Yale, still in print after all these years.
Freeman was present at the creation of the frequently invoked "Buckley rule" counseling conservatives to support "the rightwardmost viable candidate" in primary and general elections. Freeman tells the story with flair in "Buckley rule — according to Bill, not Karl."
Freeman explains that the rule was originally formulated to rule on the winner of National Review's endorsement for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination between Nelson Rockefeller (supported by the formidable NR editor James Burnham) and Barry Goldwater (supported by the other editors). When the time came to pronounce his judgment, Buckley held that National Review would support "the rightwardmost viable candidate." Freeman explains:
We all knew what "viable" meant in Bill's lexicon. It meant somebody who saw the world as we did. Somebody who would bring credit to our cause. Somebody who, win or lose, would conservatize the Republican party and the country. It meant somebody like Barry Goldwater.
In Freeman's telling, "viability" is to be distinguished from "electability":
Bill Buckley was careful with words. If he had opted on that June day for the words "rightwardmost electable candidate," we would all have recognized it as a victory for Team Rockefeller. And life might look very different today. If there had been no Goldwater, National Review might not have become so influential, and if there had been no Goldwater, no National Review, there might have been no Reagan.
But, as Freeman himself acknowledges, neither Goldwater nor Rockefeller was electable against Johnson in 1964. The Goldwater campaign made it possible for conservatives to seize the reins of power in the Republican Party, for the party to become a conservative vehicle. As recently as 1960, Richard Nixon had had to come to terms with Nelson Rockefeller in the so-called Pact of Fifth Avenue. It was the last hurrah for the Eastern establishment wing of the Republican Party.
Freeman also cites Buckley's 1965 New York mayoralty campaign for the distinction between "viability" and "electability" in that Buckley sought, not to win, but to sidetrack the highly electable (as he proved to be in New York) Republican John Lindsay. But Buckley's 1965 campaign must be seen (as Buckley saw it) in the context of the same intramural contest for ascendancy between conservatives and the fading Eastern liberal wing of the party. Buckley devotes an entire chapter of Unmaking (chapter 4) to the anatomy of Lindsay's politics.
Buckley more or less proves that Lindsay was an orthodox Democratic liberal in all but name and makes it clear that he opposed Lindsay because of his concern about the national impact of a Lindsay victory on intramural Republican politics in the battle that Goldwater had for the moment secured for conservatives. Indeed, Buckley sagely located Lindsay ideologically among the left-most faction of the Democratic Party. By 1972, Lindsay had in fact switched parties and was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
As he performs his taxonomy of Lindsay's politics coming into the mayoralty race, Buckley examines Lindsay's record in Congress representing New York's so-called Silk Stocking district. Buckley describes Lindsay's congressional constituents on the Upper East Side (here I quote just for the pleasure of it):
Lindsay's home district is probably the most fabled in the United States. It shelters not only just about all the resident financial, social and artistic elite of New York but also the densest national concentration of vegetarians, pacifists, hermaphrodites, junkies, Communists, Randites, clam-juice-and-betel-nut eaters; plus, also, a sprinkling of quite normal people.
But times have changed since 1964 and 1965, thanks in part to Buckley and his co-conspirators such as Freeman. The Republican Party has become the conservative party. To the extent that it achieves majority status in the House or the Senate, it will tend to hold off the progressive agenda under which we are suffocating.
Doesn't a rule of viability overlap with electability under present circumstances and suggest against the likes of Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle, who in any event fail the test of "viability" even as articulated by Freeman? At least this seems to me the question raised by Freeman's wonderful column.
FOOTNOTE: For an excellent account of Buckley's 1965 campaign, see "The Buckley Effect" by Sam Tanenhaus.


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The Teen Center's Youth Advisory Board, AMPT and Jamestown's seventh grade Teen Institute
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Minnesota Gay Marriage Bill Unveiled at Capitol
ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesota lawmakers have launched a push to allow gay marriage in the state beginning this summer.
Sponsors of the gay marriage bill aim to repeal Minnesota's 1997 law that prohibited marriage between couples of the same sex.
They say the bill will exempt churches from being forced to perform same-sex weddings.
At Wednesday's news conference, gay couples stood holding their young children. The image was meant to showcase family diversity exists already in Minnesota.
The drive got a boost last year when Minnesota voters rejected a constitutional gay marriage ban. Gay marriage opponents say the results of that vote don't translate to widespread support for allowing same-sex couples to legally marry.
Gov. Mark Dayton says he would sign the bill if it reaches him. Weddings could commence in August.
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