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Tiger Woods has been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the past week, and on Wednesday issued an apology for "transgressions".
So what do his sponsors, who pay Woods around $100 million a year to promote their products, think? According to a Reuters report, sponsors including Nike, Pepsi, Gillette and EA stand behind one of the most recognisable sportsmen in the world.
"Our strong relationship with Tiger for more than a decade remains unchanged. We respect Tiger's privacy, we wish him a fast recovery and we look forward to seeing him back on the golf course," EA said in a statement.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, the most recent game in the EA developed series, was released earlier this year.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Immigration Services Department handles all work-related immigration issues and is available to help postdoctoral researchers obtain and maintain the most appropriate immigration status during your employment.
Immigration Services
View a presentation from a recent Immigration Services Town Hall Meeting.
Memorial Sloan Kettering postdoctoral researchers may contact Immigration Services below with any questions or concerns.
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Below is general information of interest to our postdoctoral researchers.
General Information Regarding J-1, H-1B, and O-1 Status
Exchange Visitors (J-1)
Memorial Sloan Kettering is authorized by the United States government to sponsor foreign nationals to come to the United States as Cultural Exchange Visitors for temporary periods of stay (up to five years) to conduct research. The principal document indicating J-1 sponsorship is the Form DS-2019, which is issued by Memorial Sloan Kettering's Immigration Services Department. Issuance of the DS-2019 is regulated by the US Department of State. DS-2019 forms are issued when academic appointments are approved by the MSKCC Academic Administration Office.
Two-Year Foreign Residency Requirement (212 [e])
Some J-1 holders are subject to a two-year foreign residency requirement referred to as 212(e). Unless they obtain a waiver, these individuals must return to their country of nationality or previous permanent residence for a period of two years following completion of the J-1 program before they are allowed to return to the United States. Individuals may be subject to the two-year foreign residency requirement for different reasons (See FAQs for more information).
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Spouses and immediate family members of J-1 holders enter the United States with J-2 status. J-2 holders are entitled to apply for work permission through US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The form used to apply for this benefit is an I-765 and can be found at USCIS.GOV.
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This category is set aside for individuals who enter the United States to render services in "specialty occupations." Specialty occupations are those that require at least a bachelor's degree. The H-1B program is administered by US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Individuals do not apply for H-1B status. H-1B is an employer-sponsored program so Memorial Sloan Kettering's Immigration Services Department will apply on your behalf as petitioner. You will become the beneficiary of the petition. H-1B status can be valid for up to six years under normal circumstances. H-1B extensions beyond six years are possible, under certain circumstances, if you have a permanent residency case pending.
The H-1B process can be lengthy. To apply for your H-1B, Memorial Sloan Kettering's Immigration Services Department works with one state agency (the New York State Department of Labor) and two federal agencies (the US Department of Labor and USCIS). The time required to issue H-1B status largely depends on processing times at these three agencies. Typically, it takes about four months from the time you have submitted your completed questionnaire with all documents before an answer is received from USCIS. If your case is urgent, we can significantly decrease the processing time by using the USCIS Premium Processing Service.
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Aliens having what USCIS considers to be extraordinary ability in the sciences are eligible to apply for O-1 status. Typically, this status is used if H-1B status is unavailable due to J-1 waiver issues. You must be sponsored for this status by the Center; therefore, you should contact Memorial Sloan Kettering's Immigration Services Department for further information.
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This immigration category applies only to Citizens of Canada or Mexico. TN status covers a wide variety of fields, including scientific research. This immigration status is renewable in yearly increments indefinitely.
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Henry Cavill and his girlfriend Gina Carano get into an elevator after arriving at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday (February 5) in London, England.
The couple split apart when they walked through the terminal so that they wouldn't be photographed together.
Henry and Gina made their debut as a couple at the 2013 Critics' Choice Awards when they hit the red carpet together at the event where Gina was nominated for her film Haywire.
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How Season Four of Community Reveals a Major Flaw of the First Three Seasons
Who are these people, anyway? Did we ever really know them?
Three weeks ago, Vulture's TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz wrote about his frustrations with the current season of Community: "It's still a good show, but it doesn't give me that anticipatory buzz that defines a really great series, that joyous anxiety born from being continually, often delightfully surprised." And after the first five episodes, the prevailing sense is that Seitz is very much correct — the show is not as good as it once was. However, what if this season's fundamental flaws have actually been part of the show's DNA the entire time but we were too distracted to notice? Are we finally seeing problems that had been there all along?
Each of this season's five episodes has had a big conceptual hook. In order: Hunger Games/multi-cam sitcom/Muppet Babies parody; haunted house movie parody; fan convention parody; war movie parody; Shawshank Redemption parody. Yet none of them really felt as authentic or was as funny as anything from the first three seasons. It all felt like the writers going, "I guess we're supposed to parody something — it's Community, the show that spoofs stuff." You can blame the new showrunners for oversimplifying, but they needed to hook the show onto something, and it turns out that the characters just weren't a viable option. The fact is, as is the nature of the medium, a TV character should be so well defined that multiple writers can write for them effectively each week, and as we've seen this season, Community has failed that test.
"I'm not digging the Britta-Troy relationship," Seitz wrote. "I get the feeling the writers and actors don't have any particular opinion on it, either." It's an accurate assessment, but it's important to remember that the seeds of this relationship were sown during the Harmon era. A romantic spark between the two would appear periodically, but it was pushed really hard in season three and likely would've existed in season four regardless. And we probably wouldn't have dug it, even if Harmon had remained showrunner. Britta and Troy's relationship feels out of character for both of them. It might've made sense in early season one, when both were partly defined by the front they put on (this peaked at the dance recital episode), but that part of each of their characters basically vanished. Britta is someone who's trying to finally be an adult member of society, while also staying true to her rebelliousness — dating a younger and, let's say, simple guy like Troy doesn't fit into that. (Also, Britta is hypothetically about ten years older than Troy. It's not as creepy as Jeff and Annie, but still.) Maybe it was borne out of that TV trope of putting people together because of proximity and physical attractiveness, but that rings as particularly unambitious for a show that aspired to subvert sitcom convention.
For Troy, this arc feels weird, because it's weird for Troy to have a story of substance at all, especially one that's not just something for Abed to bounce off of. (He had that whole air conditioner thing last year, but it wasn't particularly revealing.) Comedically, Troy's role in the group is obvious: dumb guy. Every ensemble comedy has at least one. Emotionally, Troy is harder to pin down, because it was never a big part of the show. Every once in awhile, we see that Troy wants to be seen as a grown up; however, it's a characterization at odds with Troy accepting his more childlike self. It would change by the episode as was needed, because his character was inherently defined by his relationship with Abed and sometimes Jeff.
Worse yet is Annie. As has become painfully apparent this season, there is nothing to her. Who is she? Intermittently type A, she looks like Alison Brie, and she sometimes has a crush on Jeff. That's it. And this has been a major problem for the show's entire run. Her pretending to be Jeff's wife in "Conventions of Space and Time" felt like it could've been a C plot in any season, because she hasn't really changed in any substantial way. Her lack of heft is why Jeff's recent dad arc came with him being paired with the more developed Britta. Maybe at one point they wanted to explore Annie coming to terms with her sexuality, but that never manifested itself — instead she was postmodernly sexualized as nerd bait. Sure, Brie has been very good in the role, but it now feels just like "funny sitcom character, female." Harmon did a fantastic job developing Jeff, Britta, and Abed — the three characters he had publically admitted to being most like — and then just coasted with the other four. Things were alluded to and gently hinted at for the rest, but there just wasn't enough time.
That's because the show's most compelling narrative was that of the show itself. Somewhere in the middle of the second season, the idea of how Community was revolutionizing television (which it was) became more important than any of the show's actual characters. Viewers followed the show to see how it played with the sitcom form each week and less to see what the characters were doing or why they were doing it. This is the "spark" Seitz referred to. The best episodes of season two felt like the concept was in service of the characters, but over time the show felt more like the reverse. With concept trumping everything else, it was Dan Harmon that became the show's most noteworthy character. We were following Harmon's ability to one-up himself. It was hard to see the forest for the trees while it was happening, because as Seitz said, we, the fans, were taken by all the smart things that were happening. But now that the dust has settled on that era, we are stuck with tossed-off parodies and characters (save Jeff and Abed) that feel incredibly underdeveloped for a show that is in its fourth season.
Community's new showrunners were not given an easy task. They were handed a brilliant show that was most defined by its brilliance. No one character was nearly as iconic as the show itself and what it represented. And they've done a solid, if not good, job trying to re-create that show. (They even improved on some small parts, namely Britta's glasses!) It's just without that intangible brilliance, it's less of a desirable show than we might've thought. Somewhere between the shooting of paintballs and the tossing of a Yahtzee die, the show fell into a state of arrested development. And as a result, this season sometimes feels like they're starting over again from scratch. They know how to make these characters funny, but they don't know where they should be going, and maybe that's always been the case with Community.


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A music tag editor on your phone!
*Standard id3 tags support.
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With the end of its 40-year license approaching in 2012, the owners of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth have applied for a 20-year extension. Opponents question the reactor's safety after three sister reactors in Japan experienced explosions and likely meltdowns this past year. Read part one of our three-part series.
At Pilgrim, about 3,000 spent fuel rods now sit in a pool of water designed more than 40 years ago to hold only one-third that amount. In Fukushima, spent rods placed in what's called "dry cask storage" fared well during the disaster and were safe, while some rods in "wet pools" melted down. Politicians and activists want Pilgrim's spent rods placed in dry storage, thereby reducing the risk. But it is expensive, and so far the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not required it.
PLYMOUTH — Mary Lampert stepped down from the dais at Harvard Medical School and reacted to an audience member's assertion that within 5 years there would be a federal repository for spent nuclear fuel.
"Well, I now believe in Santa Claus because the whole thing is going to be resolved in 5 years," she said. "And maybe the Easter bunny too."
When the US began building nuclear power plants in the late 1950s, the federal government said it would handle the reactors' waste by transporting it to either a reprocessing plant or an underground repository.
Neither happened. States didn't want it.
So, with nowhere to go, spent fuel rods are mostly stored in circulating pools of water to keep them cool. They're kept on-site at 104 reactors across the US, including Pilgrim in Plymouth.
"There is no radioactive waste fairy," Lampert said. "I don't think you are going to find a lot of people begging to have a deep geologic repository tomorrow. It is going to take a very, very long time. The NRC recognizes this. All grown-ups recognize this."
Lampert is the legal mind behind the anti-nuclear group Pilgrim Watch, which has battled Pilgrim's relicensing for the past 6 years. She was invited to speak when a federal commission came to Harvard in October to discuss what to do with the nation's spent nuclear fuel.
She said, "There are lots of things that can and should be done, not to mention the big one: spent fuel storage. The way it is stored now is unsafe. Period."
NIMBY goes… nuclear
With no off-site location for the waste, the US nuclear industry is in a bind — and people like nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson say it's a dangerous one. Gunderson worked at Nuclear Energy Services in Connecticut in the '90s, when he blew the whistle on the company for storing radioactive material in an accounting safe. He said the GE Mark 1 reactors were particularly vulnerable to trouble because of where the spent fuel is stored: in what is essentially the reactor building's attic.
Pilgrim is a Mark 1 reactor, as are five reactors at Fukushima, Japan.
"The roof is exactly like a Sears storage shed or a high school gym," Gunderson said. "It's only a metal structure and immediately below that roof is the spent fuel pool." The roof has, he said, no resistance to earthquake, tornados or aircraft attacks.
He explained that Fukushima 4 had all of its fuel in the spent-fuel pool. So, there was no reactor meltdown — there was no fuel in the reactor to melt. Instead, the reactor exploded thanks to the hydrogen gas that came out of the fuel pool. The NRC ordered a 50-mile evacuation because the Fukushima 4 fuel pool was exposed to the air.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said that Japan's experience made clear the realistic threats associated with not handling nuclear power safely.
"We have situations like Japan that indicate there are risks involved with the kind of storage that we currently have here in Massachusetts," she said.
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Beyond the spent fuel rods' location, critics say the sheer number of rods is a problem. During Pilgrim's 40 years of operations, its cooling pool has been crammed with more and more spent rods. State Sen. Dan Wolf of the Cape and islands was concerned that Pilgrim's pool contained three times the number of fuel rods it was originally licensed to hold.
"We really need to ask some tough questions," he said, "about why a plant that was designed to store 800 rods has been allowed to store, in the same area, up to 3,000 rods. And should this be extended for another 20 years, we are simply going to put more and more spent fuel rods into that storage container."
Pools of water are not the only choice for storing spent fuel rods. In Japan, fuel stored in steel-reinforced, concrete vaults called "dry casks" held up well during the disaster. But NRC spokesperson Neil Sheehan said there were risks associated with moving fuel around, and the NRC had no immediate plans to make reactor owners do so.
"Our view," Sheehan said, "is that spent fuel pool storage is a safe option, as is dry cask storage. We will continue to look at that."
Some plants, he noted, have been moving to dry cask storage on their own.
A possible consensus on spent fuel rod storage
About two-thirds of the nation's nuclear power plants, including Seabrook and Vermont Yankee, have some type of dry cask storage. Pilgrim is looking to do the same. In fact, it has to: Its storage pool is so packed with spent fuel rods it's approaching the point where no more will fit.
Pilgrim licensing manager Joseph Lynch said that if the plant is going to continue to operate, some of the spent fuel will have to come out of the pool.
"We are fine right up to where we're licensed, which is to June of 2012," he said. "But in order for us to go into the 20-years-extended operation, once we receive NRC approval, we would have to rely upon alternative ways of storing fuel. And the dry cask fuel storage is the most logical and safe solution for us."
For years, the government has collected a tax for the sole purpose of moving spent fuel into a national repository. There's more than $35 billion in that fund now. With no repository in sight, both nuclear power opponents and advocates said that it's time for the Department of Energy to spend the money, and that dry cask storage would be a good place to start.
In the final part of our series running Nov. 23, we look at radiation monitoring options and how to escape should there be an emergency.
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Regime Change
Are economic sanctions counterproductive?
Jacob Weisberg's analysis of why sanctions don't work prompted this response from Derek Tonkin, former British ambassador to Thailand (1983-86), essentially affirming Weisberg's view of the situation in Burma:
Sanctions have only made the situation worse, entrenched the military regime in power, and delayed the deliverance of the Burmese people from their misfortunes. Yet you have Senator Mitch McConnell assuring the Senate on 26 July 2006 when supporting the renewal for another three years of the sanctions contained in the "Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act 2003" that: "The Burmese people want these sanctions because they want democracy, justice and freedom, and we stand with them." Although it is true that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whom I met in December 1999, has for her own reasons supported sanctions, I have met no-one during my visits to Burma who thought that sanctions were helping them achieve freedom, and I can only marvel at the Senator's assertion which is not supported by any empirical or anecdotal evidence, naturally in the absence of any opinion polls.
Artlessdodger assesses the effectiveness of the Cuban model:
The first problem with using Cuba as a model for the failure of sanctions is that for most of the period we've had sanctions against Castro's regime, they've had an outside benefactors to take our place, first the Soviet Union for almost 30 years, then Chavez whose support in recent years has allowed Castro to move away from market reforms tentatively put in place in the 90s. North Korea is also dependent on outside help from China. Zimbabwe lacks substantial outside aid, and Mugabe's regime is clearly the more vulnerable than Cuba, or North Korea. Though aside from his delusions, Mugabe actually doesn't have foreign enemies deadset on seeing him overthrown either.
I suspect the real reason for Castro's success, aside from his genuinely impressive healthcare system, is geography, that so many would be dissidents simply leave the island. IT really is difficult to foment a coup when access to the island is so limited. Besides, since the 60s Cuba has been seen as more of an annoyance than a threat, so the goal of overthrowing Cuba hasn't been a high priority since then. The sanctions have been fairly effective in discouraging the Cuban model. They've contributed to the impoverishment of the island. The sanctions show other governments, and other people in Latin America, the heavy cost of choosing an adverserial with the United States. That's part of why communism never really caught on in the Western hemisphere.
the_slasher14 notes that, in terms of its social makeup, Iran lacks the "racial divide" that made South Africa so internally resistant to reform. Furthermore, "once it becomes obvious that the mullahs are presiding over a system where the standard of living is going to drop sharply as long as they're around, it is unlikely Iranians will spend a generation dithering over what to do." legas is more skeptical, given Iran's possession of "a highly fungable resource" in the midst of a world energy crisis.
For certainly, there is stability in hypocrisy, with ineffective boycotts benefiting both sides politically in favor of the status quo:
The result of our imposition of sanctions is usually a very stable state: our government has pleased the general population by expressing its disapproval of the dictator, and the dictator has earned an external enemy that he can rally his own people against.
The people of both countries respond with nationalistic support of our side in this peaceful conflict, and with no actual military activity, and no economic interaction to destabilize either side, this can go on forever, at least in political terms. Thus we propped up the Ayatollah, andSaddam and Castro, and now we can add Chavez to the list.
Of course, all of this posturing is very hypocritical. Our multinationals create foreign subsidiaries that do business with those disfavored regimes (Halliburton, while Cheney was CEO, had a subsidiary that did oilfield development work in Iran). And smart people in our government are well aware that our imposition of sanctions strengthens the internal political position of the dictator. But it does tend to freeze any expansion and limit any major offenses by the dictators (notable exceptions: Cubans in Angola and Saddam in Kuwait). And the US politicians look like they are doing "something", and that something is very low risk.
So we have supported Castro in Cuba for 45-odd years, and we so overplayed our hand in Iraq that Saddam actually thought we'd let him take Kuwait. And North Korea, and Iran seem like they will go on forever.
But the Cubans in Miami are happy. That's what really matters.
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
In her latest column, Dahlia Lithwick evaluates the validity of privacy claims made by Robert Steinbuch, counsel to Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, after Steinbuch's affair with a D.C. office intern was widely publicized on the Internet, causing him "humiliation and anguish."
The piece was inflammatory enough to prompt Steinbuch's lawyer Jonathan Rosen, writing under JSRosen, to contest alleged inaccuracies in Slate's reporting.
yggy systematically tears down the plaintiff's case on the following grounds:
First, what Cutler wrote and said is substantively true. Second, Steinbuch is himself a borderline public figure. His actions do reflect on Sen. Mike DeWine and are therefore privy to the public. Third, Cutler did not identify Steinbuch by name. She could have perhaps been slyer than "RS," and if she had been there would be no case today, but any number of people inside the Beltway could share those initials.
Rejecting "Lithwick's half-hearted effort to prop up a straw woman of 'political interest,' " rundeep disagrees with yggy's viewpoint: "the fact that salacious information has a high readership is hardly indicative of its value to political or public discourse."
While showing little sympathy for Steinbuch, MomboMan-3 outlines a possible recourse for the plaintiff: "go after the money she is making from books, HBO and Playboy. After all, her story is a story because she had a relationship with him, therefore his is entitled to a portion of the gains from that relationship. Without her sex partners, she has no story, and no monetary value."
On the question of privacy and personal experience, Merritt30 makes a liberal free speech argument:
To my non-legal mind, at least, it seems like there is a crucial difference between Cutler describing something she may have heard about Steinbuch and something that she personally experienced with Steinbuch. She was not merely repeating gossip that she heard from a third party or describing something she had seen through a hidden camera; she was talking about her own experience.
It seems to me that one should be free to talk about one's own personal experiences pretty much without legal restriction (except perhaps if the event were specifically intended as a set-up to embarrass someone, e.g. a candid-camera type situation). Otherwise, say, it would be possible for an abuser to sue his victim if she were to publish an account of his "private" behavior. One's right to publish a memoir or autobiography of any sort would be in question.
HLS2003, in a free-wheeling reflection on sex, blogs, and self-control, invokes the Fourth Amendment to reason that "if a person can have his deepest secrets recorded, turned over to the government, and used to convict him of a crime because he chose his confidants unwisely, then it only seems reasonable that some dumbass who decided to arrange booty calls with a girl he barely knew should have to take the risk that she's the type to screw-and-tell."
CaLawyer worries more broadly about creating a tort of gossip:
Everyone believes in 'the right of privacy', but everyone has a different concept of it. Everyone has secrets, and we view it as a violation of our own personal autonomy when these secrets are revealed to people we'd rather not have know about them, or revealed indiscriminately…
Yes, there is such thing as a tort of "Public Disclosure of Private Facts". It is ill-defined, largely because we're not sure what constitutes "Private facts", and we're not sure at what point a prohibition against the disclosure of private facts intrudes on my right to speak…if you read Supreme Court cases, they talk about political speech receiving the highest level of protection, but I think that idea has not been thought through fully. Most people's lives are not consumed with talk of politics. Most people's everyday conversations revolve around themselves, their friends, their family, and what's going on in their lives. In other words, gossip. If I had to worry about being sued every time I let something slip that a friend of mine told me but which they considered "private", I would be reluctant to talk at all, except about politics. And I don't want to live in a country where the only way I can avoid being sued is to sound like a C-SPAN groupie.
Contribute your thoughts in Jurisprudence. AC … 6:30pm PDT
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Using one school's attempt to ban chocolate as a case study in the futility of "market suppression," Tim Harford's article opened up a classic conservative/liberal divide, with questions of personal choice vs. government intervention dominating The Undercover Economist Fray.
FBH echoes many readers in calling for more parental involvement. Father of two daughters, Ripley bemoans the bad nutritional choices induced by government-subsized lunch programs. Also a frustrated parent, Dayenu laments how "schools peddle this junk and then demand that we control our children if we don't want them to eat it… Meanwhile, they're suggesting that young kids, whose impulse-control skills when it comes to eating should hardly be expected to rival those of adults, should walk past junk food… How about paying a bit more, charging a bit more, and serving good, healthful hot lunches?"
Wary of yet more regulation headed her way, katbsd promises "during the next school year to take even more time away from teaching math to check lunches, snacks, and lockers for contraband candy!"
Of banning chocolate, AshleyMiller says "if the school systems are smart, they will focus more on nutritional education rather than ban sweets…just because candy is available does not mean that a person has to eat it."
As a matter of precision, RPC points out that there is a difference "between 'banning' something and not selling something. Should schools ban chocolate? I don't think so. If parents choose to send their kids in with chocolate, so be it. Should schools sell chocolate? No. But that is not a 'ban.' "
For his part, run75441 questions the implicit equivalence between the commodities Snickers = Chuckles = Heroin??? discussed in Harford's article.
texasman1 takes a more libertarian approach and moreover admires the entrepreneurial spirit of the young boy selling banned candies to his classmates. What could be more American than that? AC ... 5:38pm PDT
Friday, July 21, 2006
Ross Douthat's appraisal of M. Night Shyamalan's directing career to date stirred up passions both for and against in Culturebox.
Sledgeh101 thinks Douthat, "in trying to defend M. Night's post-6th Sense movies, is trying a little too hard to see the silver lining in the blackening clouds." Read additional commentary here.
For amble, Shymalan's self-directed American Express commercial is demonstrative enough of his overly inflated ego:
Shymalan's self-mythologizing, and achingly pretentious American Express commercial was, quite literally, queeze-inducing, and is reason alone to dislike him.
As a counterpoint, it was such a relief--and a hilarious one--to see that Wes Anderson chose the exact opposite route and made a commercial making fun of pretentious directors. Just to re-iterate for those who didn't see it: in Shymalan's commercial he can't even eat at a super-fancy restaurant without being recognized and bothered--ha ha ha--by the staff, who all looooove his movies. And meanwhile, he is fanatasing about ideas essentailly ripped off from Rod Sterling because, as we mortals should know, his mind works differently than ours does.
Whatever we might think of his movies, Jaque notes how successfully the director has cultivated his own name as a brand:
Whether we like M. Night Shyamalan or not, he his already a phenom. Just look at all the posts on Slate. Just about everyone is able to not only recall all the movies made my him, but is also able to critique them in great depth! How many modern Directors have this effect?
Look at the this Summer's biggest block buster - Pirates. How do most people indentify this movie? Johny Depp. Or may be Disney.
Now contrast this with North By North West. Most people will identify this as a Hitcock movie inspite of the big name presence of Cary Grant!
The same is true for Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Both with big name presence of Bruce Willis. But by and large we don't lable it as "Bruce Willis movie." That is what M. Night has achieved. A mark on the movie industry.
Cinematic history will be kind to Shyamalan, predictsS_MargaretPrima:
I believe that as much as Shyamalan is getting a critical flogging now, he's due to be re-evaluated in a decade or two. Don't get me wrong, I don't uniformly admire all of his movies and I can see why critical opinion has turned on him. He may have stretched the collective credulity by flogging the 'twist ending' too much, all the while allowing the marketing of his movies to turn him into a one-gimmick director. But at least for Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and yes, even Signs (I have not seen the Village nor Lady in the Water) I have never seen better character development or a more masterful setting of tone. His films are somber, suspenseful and yet profoundly sad, eliciting performances from his actors that you wouldn't expect.
Memo from hcd to Shyamalan, cc: studio executives:
The criticism M. Night is garnering is because he wants to be feted as a real live Homer, but there obviously isn't a conspiracy to deprive him of the money necessary to make his mostly enjoyable, always overreaching, possibly overly well regarded films. He's gotten a phenomenal amount of support already. If anything, his apparent inability to take the gentlest of hints is what will prevent him from closing that gap between his ambition and execution. But it seems foolish to fault the film industry in all this, as though they're preventing his dream movie that can only be done with just a little more fawning and a few more millions.
Off to see Lady in the Water myself. AC … 7:40pm PDT
Monday, July 17, 2006
Richard Ford's piece on gay marriage got an intense drubbing in the Jurisprudence Fray, with much scrutiny directed at his central claim that "a hunger for distinctive sex roles is just not the same thing as anti-gay bigotry."
In a lengthy diatribe, Rrhain explains how anxiety over gender roles is at the root—or at the very least, a displaced symptom—of homophobia:
Despite protestations to the contrary, "a hunger for distinctive sex roles" is precisely anti-gay bigotry and the reason why is that gays inherently cross those roles ...
And this connects directly to marriage due to the fundamental purpose of marriage: Legitimization of a sexual relationship. Marriage has changed quite a bit over the years, but the one thing that remains constant throughout its history is the sexual relationship that is created between the participants. To this day, one of the reasons you can get a marriage annuled is that the two have never had sex…
And this is why we see the homophobes drawing the line at marriage even though they don't have nearly as much of a problem with employment, housing, education, military service, etc.: Marriage forces them to consider sexual activity between people of the same sex. Working at a job, paying the rent, going to school, serving in the military, none of those things are sexual in nature. But marriage? That's got sex written all over it. What is the symbol by which we show the world that the marriage has been solemnized and made legitimate? That's right, by an act of physical intimacy: The couple kisses. And then we send the couple off on a honeymoon so that they can have lots and lots of sex.
A self-identified straight woman who eschews conventional gender roles in her own marriage, Janessa lectures Ford on "Womens Studies 101":
Underlying homophobic attitudes is fear of divergent gender identities. It is impossible to consider sexual orientation without considering gender presentation and identity. This is like, Womens Studies 101 (but maybe Ford skipped that class in college since it was only for ladies).
Gay men and women have been discriminated against and subject to medical, behavior, and disciplinary intervention so that their gender presentation more explicitly matched their biological gender…Compulsory heterosexuality, exemplified by "one man one woman" marriage, is one of the stalwart elements of gender discipline…
It is completely befuddling why Ford thinks that some straight people's clinging to violently, legally policed gender roles is somehow more okay than hating gay people for some mysterious "other" way of hating gays. In fact, his description of straight anti-gay marriage activists' attitudes sounds like my definition of homophobia straight up -- the belief that women should get f----- by men, and men should f--- women, and anything else is icky and scary.
More to the point, badtequila asks why sexism is somehow more palatable or excusable than homophobia tout court.
For Catorce, Ford fails to appreciate the difference between government marriage and religious marriage:
Religious marriage is caught up in all manner of dogma and tradition detailing very specific gender roles for a husband and wife. When you accept religious marriage, you are supposedly also accepting the religion's version of the roles that come along with it. But Government marriage is only a distribution of the same exact benefits to two people. Your own sex is irrelevant. Your partner's sex is irrelevant. No government benefit of marriage is gender related. And you accept no gender "role" when you have the government sanction your marriage."
In a sentiment perhaps typical of fair-minded social moderates, OldGrouch expresses his slight revulsion at the idea of gay marriage but in practice argues for social tolerance.
kd1084 points to marriage as a historically malleable concept and institution. mallardsballard carefully outlines the historical origins of marriage and concludes that "if one rests purely on conservative tradition, the answer [for opposing gay marriage] is, because it has never been done that way before."
For those despondent over recent developments on the gay-marriage front, Peter Beinart of The New Republic offers a more uplifting take here. AC… 6:59pm PDT
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Ezra Klein's diagnosis on "the medical malpractice myth" and positive evaluation of a reform proposal by Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama brought medical professionals, public policy analysts, and consumer advocates all out of the woodwork.
courtgrunt, a civil-court clerk, scrolls through his county's database of pending cases and finds four medical malpractice suits (out of a random sample of 500), leading him to conclude "there aren't even close to as many medical malpractice lawsuits filed as the media (or extreme right wingers) would like us to believe."
By contrast, claiming that Slate "slants the whole issue as if malpractice were as mythological as unicorns," MomboMan-3 lists a series of points underscoring the very real problem facing doctors today.
Luchese laments that patients are now numbers:
In over two decades of Obstetrics I found that communication with the patient not only humane and professional but allayed questions and concerns about treatment and outcome. Most physicians do not communicate with their patients and hence suffer lawsuits because of feelings of abandonment or subterfuge on the part of the patient. The profession is now driven by technology, money and productivity. Patients are no longer people but numbers. Furthermore the burden to healthcare now and will be those illnesses and diseases caused by lifestyle; obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, and those resulting from society; stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia. All the technology, training and malpractice insurance cannot change this.
But antsi, an obstetrician "for almost ten years," attests to having "seen the pernicious effects of malpractice litigation first hand. Reading this article, I feel like a swimmer being told by someone standing on dry land that the water isn't wet." Read his objections here.
An indignant ShanCan blasts the lack of transparency in the medical profession:
Why is it that any Taco Bell has to be regularly inspected, get a letter grade, and have it posted for all the world to see but it is virtually impossible for me to find out the safety record of the cardiac surgeon who is going to slice me open and literally hold my heart in his hands? Why is it that I can lose my driver's license after a series of violations in which no one is harmed, but a physician can keep his medical license regardless of how many deaths s/he contributes to simply by paying a higher insurance premium, so long as the errors are deemed to be accidental and not negligent? Why is it legal for a doctor or hospital to cover up their lethal mistakes with a pile of money and a confidentiality clause? It is not a secret to anyone who actually reads the literature that the problem is not a rash of frivolous lawsuits but a rash of dangerous doctors and hospitals with no real accountability beyond their own consciences. Kudos to Clinton and anyone else who proposes an idea that may solve a legitimate problem in a way that benefits the public rather than a small interest group like - but good luck getting something so practical and potentially effective through the legislative process.
rcf broadens the debate on medical malpractice costs to include all the players: "Realize doctors are not the only medical providers who make errors. Nurses do, clerks do, aides do, lab techs do, PA's do. Such an error no matter who makes it can lead to a cascade of subsequent errors." Read his reform proposal here.
For Dayenu, the point of medical malpractice cases is "to make patients (or their survivors) whole again. They are not designed to improve health care. In fact, in some ways they fail to do just that, by convincing policymakers that a lawsuit solves the problem for the next patient, when it doesn't. In the first place, the problem isn't just paying claims, it's the cost of medical malpractice insurance. In the second place, is there any proof that malpractice cases do anything to improve health care to individual patients or even stop individual bad doctors from practicing medicine?"
michaeltwatson, author of America's Tunnel Vision—How Insurance Companies' Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine and Law, writes in to make a plug for his book and deplore the prevalence of medical error.
You can add your two cents in Medical Examiner. AC … 7:30pm PDT


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Bobby Vee talks about his experiences recording for the Liberty label and touring with The Shadows.
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Bobby Vee wouldn't change a thing Part 3
Bobby Vee wouldn't change a thing Part 2
Bobby Vee And The Shadows were playing gigs in the Midwest as the 1959 Winter Dance Party headed for the region. Bobby Vee was a sophomore in high school and looking forward to seeing the first big package tour to come through his area. In Part 2, Vee recalls hearing the news about the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, and what happened afterwards.


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Red Pine (Pinus resinosa)
The Red Pine because of its reddish brown bark, more commonly known as the Norway Pine, stands 60 to 100 feet tall, with a trunk three to five feet wide. Its needles are four to six inches long and grow in pairs. The tallest Red Pine in Minnesota is in Itasca State Park. It is over 300 years old and stands 120 feet high.
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ORLANDO -- Was it all of three or four years ago that the buzz at the auto retailers convention was all about dealer Web sites? Who was doing them well? Who was missing the boat? Who was making sure they met standards, and what bright new promise did they held for the auto industry?
And suddenly last year the buzz shifted to social media. What hoopla that was -- Facebook management, Yelp issues and the millennial-aged employees who would be needed to make it all work.
This year the buzz has shifted again, this time to a hotter trend: mobile apps.
Mobile apps that let consumers peruse store inventory from their iPhones. Mobile apps that link shoppers to car specs and sales incentives. Mobile apps that market dealerships to customers, and mobile apps that connect customers and service departments.
Just in time for the NADA convention, Florida-based DMEautomotive last week released an ebook titled The Pocket Revolution: The Complete Guide to a Killer Mobile App. The resource is designed to help dealers get busy with their own mobile apps.
Brad Simmons, CEO of ClearMechanic of San Francisco, says the customer base for his mobile app has tripled in the past six months. The ClearMechanic app allows dealerships to shoot photos and live-stream video of a vehicle being serviced in a technician's service bay to the iPhone or iPad of the waiting customer. It is a way for service shops to alert customers when incidental issues about the car need to be addressed.
Simmons has a plausible theory about why the technology is suddenly going airborne and the mobile app buzz is rising: The smartphone universe is expanding.
"We noticed a steep uptick in business right after the start of the new year," he says. "I think that's because a whole lot of people got new phones for Christmas."
Simmons calls on dealerships to pitch his app. And the sales conversation has changed dramatically, he says.
"A couple of years ago, when we would explain to a dealer how this works, how the service adviser sends a photo of the work in progress to the customer, the No. 1 objection we would get was, 'I don't think my guys even own iPhones.' We got that every time," he says.
"Now it never even comes up," he says. "I think iPhones have gotten so common, it's just an accepted way to do business."
Sounds plausible.
But what will next year's buzz be? And whatever happened to all those Web sites?
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years ago scientist Francis Crick wrote a letter to his 12-year-old son saying he and a colleague had discovered something "very beautiful" — the structure of DNA.
Now, the note and its hand-drawn diagrams are being auctioned off in New York. Christie's estimates the letter could fetch $1 million or more at the April 10 sale.
Crick's letter describes to his son how he and James Watson found the copying mechanism "by which life comes from life." It includes a simple sketch of DNA's double helix structure which Crick concedes he can't draw very well.
The seven-page handwritten letter from Francis Crick in Cambridge, England to Michael Crick at his boarding school concludes, "Read this carefully so that you will understand it. When you come home we will show you the model. Lots of love, Daddy."
Michael Crick, now 72, said Saturday he immediately understood his father had made a breakthrough. Though he added, "I don't think any of us at the time quite realized the full impact it would have."
The letter dated March 19, 1953, was written about a month before Watson and Crick's research was published in the journal Nature.
Francis Crick, who died in 2004 at age 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1962 along with Watson and Maurice Wilkins. He spent the latter decades of his career doing brain research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., where he became a professor in 1977.
Michael Crick, who lives in Bellevue Wash., is a pioneer designer of computer games whose current project is a puzzle called Cricklers that appears in newspapers including The Washington Post.
"I was interested in science from Day 1," said Crick. His father gave him a book on codes when he was about 9 and he read it "cover to cover," he said.
Michael and his wife, Barbara, have promised to donate half the proceeds from the sale of the letter to a trust benefiting the Salk Institute.
Crick said there are no strings attached other than that the money be used for "something that my father would have endorsed."


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Blair Bridge #41May 23. 2013 3:22PM
Blair Road
Campton, NH
The first bridge at this location was built in 1829 at a cost of $1,000. That bridge was burned down by a man named Lem Parker who claimed that God told him to do it. Parker was taken to court and confessed to the charges. However, he was found not guilty because there were no witnesses. The construction of the current bridge was brought about when a doctor trying to ford the river on horseback found the current too strong. The horse drowned, but the doctor was saved. The town voted to build a bridge immediately. A sign was posted on the bridge indicating there was a fine of five dollars for riding or driving on the bridge faster than five miles per hour.
Year of Construction: - 1869
Original Cost: - Unknown
East of U.S. Route 3, two miles north of Livermore Falls on Blair Road in Campton spanning the Pemigewasset River.
Long truss with arches. The bridge is 292'10" consisting of two clear spans of 139'3" and 131'0". It has an overall width of 20'2", and a maximum vertical clearance of 13'3". The bridge is posted for three tons.


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42 U.S. Code § 7671l - Federal procurement
Not later than 18 months after November 15, 1990, the Administrator, in consultation with the Administrator of the General Services Administration and the Secretary of Defense, shall promulgate regulations requiring each department, agency, and instrumentality of the United States to conform its procurement regulations to the policies and requirements of this subchapter and to maximize the substitution of safe alternatives identified under section 7671k of this title for class I and class II substances. Not later than 30 months after November 15, 1990, each department, agency, and instrumentality of the United States shall so conform its procurement regulations and certify to the President that its regulations have been modified in accordance with this section.
Ex. Ord. No. 12843, Apr. 21, 1993, 58 F.R. 21881, which provided for Federal agencies to implement policies and programs to minimize procurement of ozone-depleting substances, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 13148, § 901, Apr. 21, 2000, 65 F.R. 24604, formerly set out as a note under section 4321 of this title.
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IU East News and Notes
Women and Minority Business Enterprises certification workshop
Indiana University East welcomes minority and women business owners in the Richmond area or surrounding counties to campus for a resource workshop. The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, October 9, in the Community Room, located in Whitewater Hall. Registration begins at 8:45 a.m.


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Pets, Pets, Pets
Ketzel, a tuxedo cat always dressed for a concert, died this month at the age of 19. She accomplished more than most cats can in nine lives. A pet prodigy, Ketzel won a prize for a piano composition in 1997, was mentioned in a book about classical music and received royalty checks whenever her masterpiece was performed.
Ketzel which means "little cat" in Yiddish fine-tuned her ear as a kitten. She resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with the family of the late Morris Moshe Cotel, who retired as chairman of the composition department at the Peabody Conservatory in 2000. He later became a rabbi. Cotel died in 2008.
Ketzel was accustomed to listening to music from great masters such as Bach and Beethoven. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, even cats know that. Ketzel was only five when she became a creative copycat. According to Ketzel's 7/18/11 obituary in the New York Times, one morning while Professor Cotel was playing a Bach warm-up exercise, the muse - or should we say, "mews" - struck Ketzel.
The cat landed on her owner's Baldwin piano and began to pounce on the keyboard, producing notes in sequence that the professor realized had a beginning, middle and end. He quickly began transcribing them because he was impressed by their "structural elegance." Then he set the music aside until he learned of the Paris New Music Review One- Minute Competition, open to pieces no more than 60 seconds long. He didn't have any work that short from his students so he sent in the piece by Ketzel which he titled Piece for Piano, Four Paws. If new, even Chopin's Minute Waltz wouldn't qualify for this contest. It took Arthur Rubinstein one minute and 48 seconds to zip through it.
Cotel revealed the feline composer in the entry but the judges were only shown the music. Ketzel's work won a special mention. One judge said the piece reminded him of Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945), known for his short atonal compositions. Webern's entire body of work would take a little more than three hours of performance time. Of his 75 published pieces, some are less than two minutes in length. Still, Webern had a profound impact on the modern musical world. In comparison, Ketzel's "symphony" lasts 39 seconds. Her composing career was short and sweet.
Intermission - or should we say "Intermezzo" - stop reading. Go to your computer, Google "Ketzel" along with "NY Times" or "The Jewish Standard". Listen to the feline virtuoso, and then go to YouTube.com and search for "Anton Webern, Piano Variations" and play the first movement for about the same amount of time. Hear the similarity? Oh, no, is this plagiarism? Could Ketzel have been accused, just like George Harrison was accused of stealing the He's so Fine melody when he penned My Sweet Lord. Oh, I forgot - cats are immune from prosecution. This week's panic is over.
Back to our regularly scheduled column: Although Ketzel turned out to be a one-hit wonder, her legacy has been enjoyed by audiences worldwide. You can hear Ketzel's composition on the CD entitled Purrfectly Classical. It is a collection of music dedicated to cats. She is also featured in the 2007 book, The World of Women in Classical Music by Dr. Anne K. Gray about "talented women who defied limiting social conventions to forge a path for themselves and future generations". Yes, Ketzel did open the door for other female felines, like Nora, the piano-playing internet sensation. Nora has a preference for Bach too.
The Ketzel concert premiere was at the Peabody in Baltimore in 1998, and Piece for Piano, Four Paws was later performed in Europe and on public radio. Her first royalty check made out to "Ketzel Cotel" for "$19.72 arrived from Rotterdam. It bought some yummy cat treats. When Ketzel's work debuted at the Museum of the City of New York, the feline artist was in attendance. As her name was announced on the stage, she answered with a "Yeowwww" from her carrier in the back row since it is difficult for a cat to stand up and take a bow.
All this brings us to the question of pets and musicality. Musical talent does seem to run in families. Our pets are adopted or purchased so shared genes are not the key; unless, of course, we are discussing the soprano ranges of Siamese cats and Siberian Huskies. They are the vocal divas of the domestic animal kingdom. Both cat prodigies Ketzel and Nora belonged to piano teachers. The keyboard as a tempting cat toy was ever present, plus their guardians would encourage any feline overtures toward composition.
How many more pets have untapped talents because they live with non-musicians? In 1981 my brother adopted Morgan, a Lhasa from Babylon Shelter who would sing along with the final Jeopardy jingle each day. We just thought it was funny. We never took him to a voice coach. What if Morgan had belonged to my uncle, a saxophonist who played with the Big Bands of Lester Lanin and Mike Riley? Uncle Vinnie had a fabulous rapport with dogs. Although none of his Poodles could harmonize, he might have been able to turn Morgan into a Lhasa lounge singer.
** Public Hearing for Suffolk residents who want to stop puppy mill sales: Puppy mills breed misery. Leg.
Jon Cooper has proposed a resolution that would ban the sale of puppies in retail stores in the County unless the puppies are obtained from animal shelters, rescue organizations or local breeders. This is a step in the right direction because so many store puppies are shipped from out of state factory farms where horrific conditions are rampant. The public hearing will be held at the Legislative Building in Hauppauge on Aug. 2 at 6:30 pm. If you can't attend, please contact your legislators and ask them to support Resolution 1545-2011. For more info, Leg. Cooper's office is 631-845-4500.
For Adoption from Babylon Town Shelter (631- 643-9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: "Chestnut" the Shepherd mix #94237 is an oldie but goodie. Found as a stray, this fellow has a grey muzzle but shiny teeth. He was ultra-appreciative when we brushed out undercoat that filled two garbage cans. "Skipster" the Pomeranian #94257 was found in Wheatley Heights. About 5-6 years old Skipster loves to give kisses.
Cats: "Sparkles"-muted calico; "Goya" –tux like Ketzel; "Puddles" the tabby.
New Dogs: "Puchi"-Beagle pup-10 months old, female Maltese.


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Danielle Staub Analyzes 'Real Housewives Of New Jersey' Season 3 Episode 8
Disclaimer: Danielle Staub did not actually write this post. But, as avid fans of the show, we figured we might have a little insight into her own take on the show. The views expressed here are not those of Crushable, but rather are simply an imagining of what Danielle might have to say.
This is the first episode of this season's Real Housewives of New Jersey where we saw more of the Manzo/Laurita clan than the Giudice/Gorga/(somewhat) Wakile side. We were reminded how much we love the Manzo boys, and that Lauren also exists (just kidding, we love her, too). We also remembered why we dislike Ashley. There was some other stuff about Melissa and Kathy's careers, too. This was also the first time this season that the Giudice/Gorga familiies have gotten along at an event, with nary a table flip in sight. Check out the always impartial Danielle Staub's take on this week's episode.
(Photos via Bravo)
Disclaimer: Okay, so Danielle didn't really write this post. But it doesn't it totally sound like she did?


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Two forces converged at a hotel in Atlanta last weekend; one was there to glorify God, the other to work for freedom and country. It was a dynamic blend that one person called the work of the angels and the devils. The "angels" were 1,000 members of the Southern Women's Chapter of the Seventh Day Adventists. They were on a religious retreat.
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The Democrats are Blowing the Election—and the Catholic Vote
The best thing about how the Democratic Party is kicking away what should be an easy victory in the November presidential election is that it might force them to finally reassess their support for abortion and gay marriage, positions that are unpopular with working class voters, their natural constituency. A subplot here is how the Dems were… READ MORE >
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The Church on the financial meltdown: Usury and speculation are to blame
If there's anyone in the mainstream media willing to listen to the Church these days (I doubt it), they'll discover that centuries of Catholic teaching about the sinful practices of usury and financial speculation can explain why Wall Street is tumbling down. (For the best technical explanation, read The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy… READ MORE >
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David Brooks explains the Republican Party's Catholic problem
In a NY Times column today called "The Social Animal," David Brooks pinpoints exactly why so many Catholics hold their noses every four years as they vote Republican for president merely because of the party's stance against abortion and gay marriage. As any Catholic who's watched a Republican convention knows, the GOP… READ MORE >
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Pro-Life vs. Family Values? Is Newsweek's Jacob Weisberg promoting eugenics?
The culture war is back, stronger than ever, with the liberal media completely flummoxed over how to handle Sarah Palin. But what's really thrown them is Bristol Palin's unwed teen pregnancy, and the Republican Party's surprisingly warm-hearted, non-judgemental response to it. How else to explain Jacob Weisberg's bizarre… READ MORE >
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'The Father of the World'—The Pope at the U.N.
As I listened to the Pope's U.N. address, while driving through Manhattan with Godspy editors John Romanowsky and John Murphy, and my son Gianni, on our way to videotape among the crowds at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, just outside U.N. headquarters, I thought to myself—what could I possibly write about the Pope's astonishingly deep… READ MORE >
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How the Media is Missing the Pope's Radical Critique of American Religion
I sometimes think that Catholic theology operates on a super high frequency that just doesn't register on some people's hearing. That's the conclusion I came to when I read veteran NY Times Vatican-beat reporter Alessandra Stanley's summing up of the papal visit so far. Comparing it to Prince Charles' second wedding to Camilla Parker… READ MORE >
Beyond Politics at the White House: What the Pope said, and what he didn't say
As I listened to Pope Benedict XVI's speech at the White House this morning, I thought of a very wise statement about God: "He loves us just the way we are, but he loves us too much to let us stay that way." All popes follow this method, the one established by Jesus: Communicate unconditional love specifically to every person and nation,… READ MORE >
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Beyond Benedict, 'the American Pope'
Time Magazine's recent cover story about Benedict XVI's upcoming visit had two headlines: "Why The Pope Loves America," and "The American Pope.' Neither title was accurate. It's hard to imagine the soft-spoken, intellectual, Mozart-loving pontiff as somehow quintessentially American. But is it true that he loves America? Sure,… READ MORE >
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Driving a Wedge into the 'Evangelical Center' on Gay Marriage
Why is it taboo within the cultural left to "privilege" marriage in any way? Several years ago I came across a snarky little news item in New York Magazine titled: "The Smug Marrieds Head Underground: Pro-marriage propaganda to invade subway." What sort of propaganda was this? They were subway billboards produced by an abstinence advocacy… READ MORE >
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Easter and the Problem of Evil
This Easter I waited for the usual Newsweek, Time or U.S. News magazine cover story about "Why Jesus Really Died," or the "Lost Christianities" the Church has supposedly suppressed in centuries past. Mercifully, I didn't notice any (I did find a very respectful photo essay on Ireland's religious orders in Newsweek). Could it be… READ MORE >


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Monday, October 21, 2013
What I ate at Pari Fermier
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Bless you for supporting the lapin industry!ReplyDelete
You have been just a wealth of information for us "dolts" who only go to touristy spots. There is so much to see and do it makes the head spin! Thank you, Carol.ReplyDelete
We will get off the beaten path the next time we go to Paris.
Nothing of the sortReplyDelete
There's just so much more out there than moniuments.
Takes a bit of research but so worth it.
I love Food Fairs like these:-)ReplyDelete
What fun! Chef Michael Symon said if you ever get a chance to taste Chestnut honey to be sure not to miss it. I have been on the lookout.ReplyDelete
Chestnut honey does sound delish..and honey keeps..Love your pepper jar aquarelle,,ReplyDelete
I would be such a sucker at these food fairs.
5 yrs later I am still pining over the wicker market basket I left there..:( Actually never bought it.. as ..I was told..you're kidding right?
Well ..I wasn't.
So much food! You don't shy away from trying new things! It seems that Paris survives by selling food and not tours of museums......ReplyDeleteReplies
I didnt taste the eel or anything with stacks of duck fat on top. There was plenty i walzed byDelete
It was except i put onion confit on my muesli this morning instead of the creme of chestnut ;((ReplyDeleteReplies
OOH, that's a fun wake-up call :-)Delete
- Deb12:59 PM
Does this market happen every month? I'll go in the spring or fall when I'm there. DebReplyDeleteReplies
You have to check the website link in the postDelete
It does happen but this was the Big Fall version
Each one is different...still i went to a street fair of just 25 producteurs and loved it
Ah those brown eggs look like ours. Nice and fresh :) All that wonderful food. I am not surprised you needed to find the ATM. :)ReplyDelete
Bonjour chère amie,ReplyDelete
Je vous aurais volontiers accompagnée dans cette visite du terroir... Les papilles devaient être en émoi !
De très jolies captures photographiques.
Gros bisous
What fun. I hope your kitchen has enough cupboards these days to store all of your goodies picked up on the fun galavanting around France, Carol. Hmmmm. I've fallen for that pruneaux apéro - never seen that before. Cheers!ReplyDelete
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New links to baseball seasons past.
For a guy who NEEDED nothing for Christmas, I wound up receiving a number of items I will certainly put to use in 2013.
From a nephew, Tim, I received some car-care products. My in-laws, Don and Glenda, gave the gift of cash for which there is never a shortage of areas to spend it. My daughter, Anna, bought me a wonderful pair of opened-fingered gloves that can transform into finger-warming mittens when I'm outside on a cold, winter's day. My son, Jacob, and his bride, Whitney, and my son, Caleb, all provided me with memory storage devices that I'll use for my favorite photo images I've taken.
My daughter, Amber, and her husband, Shawn, and my wife, Nancy, provided gifts related to the St. Louis Cardinals' world championship in 2011.
From Amber and Shawn I received an autographed copy of Tony La Russa's latest book "One Last Strike." The book by the Cardinals' former skipper discusses his long career in professional baseball as well as the Redbirds' amazing run to their world championship in what proved to be La Russa's last season at the team's helm.
Nancy ordered me the DVD set of all the World Series games played in 2011, which will prove delightful to view on those cold winter days when baseball is just a warm spot in the back of my mind.
While both the book and DVD series had been on my Christmas list, I never envisioned a hardback, autographed copy of La Russa's book. I'd dismissed the DVD series because of the expense.
Like many, I've been a fan of baseball, and specifically of the Cardinals since I can remember. While I can't say when I first heard the voice of long-time Cardinals announcer, Harry Caray, because of the frequency that St. Louis baseball games were tuned in on the radio in my parents' home when I was growing up, it's safe to say Caray's voice was as inprinted on me as my mom and dad's.
My choice to be a Cardinals fan was made in 1964. While people talk about the 2011 Redbirds overcoming a 10.5-game deficit to make the playoffs, the '64 team actually trailed by 11 games on Aug. 23. After winning the National League the Cardinals went on to beat what had been my other favorite team, the New York Yankees, in the World Series.
More World Series memories were made in the '67, '68, '82, '85 and '87. While not all the recollections from those years are positive, they're something a fan can hang onto.
Memories are not the only way a fan can hang onto cherished seasons. Some use items such as ticket stubs, newspaper clippings, baseball cards, player autographs, yearbooks, etc., to rekindle thoughts of seasons past.
One of my most cherished and oldest remembrance items is a record album featuring Cardinals radio highlights from the '67 season. I don't know if it will still play, but I still have it.
Because I moved to Hannibal in '85 from south-central Kansas, where Royals baseball rules, I made a point of recording on VCR tapes all seven games of the I-70 Series. I'm not sure if they'll play on my current VCR, but I still have those tapes stashed away.
More recently I purchased a DVD series of the greatest games played at Busch Stadium II. I also own a DVD series featuring select playoff games from the 2006 season, including all five World Series games.
Will I watch the 2011 Series DVDs every day? No. But they will be cherished links to the past as years pass and my memory of memorable October games begins to fade.


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Jamie Lynn Spears: I Wasn't Glamorizing Teen Pregnancy
Jamie Lynn Spears blows out the candles during an early birthday celebration in this pic from Glamour's March issue.
Here's what the singer and actress, who turns 21 in April, had to share with the mag:
On why she wasn't using birth control when she got pregnant: "I believe in safety and birth control as prevention. But like many young girls … I was really scared to go to the doctor. And I was on a Nickelodeon show, and it [felt] especially embarrassing to ask someone to put me on birth control. I didn't want to ask my doctor, because she had a little girl."
On the media attention surrounding her pregnancy: "I did feel responsible for the young girls and the mothers who I probably confused and let down. I apologize for that. But I wasn't trying to glamorize teen pregnancy. I hated when [the tabloids] said that. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them. But the hateful comments hurt."
On getting back to work: "I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult. This is the first time anybody is really meeting me as a grown woman and grown mother making a decision about what to do with my life. Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself."
For more on Jamie Lynn, including some quotes on her ex, Casey Aldridge, and older sister Britney, check out Glamour.com!


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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) once again on Monday turned down a potential takeover bid by top shareholder Sardar Biglari.
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The Lebanon, Tenn.-based restaurant chain said it was disappointed with Biglari, whose Biglari Holdings (NYSE:BH) in a letter last week demanded Cracker Barrel to commence a sale or face a special meeting.
The company stood by its existing business strategy, saying it regularly evaluates all options to serve the best interests of the company and its investors.
The activist investor, with a 19.9% share in the company, has been trying to oust the current management for the last two years, alleging the company's earnings power is far too low under existing leadership.
However, shareholders in November voted against Biglari's board seat nominations and his proposal for a $20 a share special dividend.
Shares of Cracker Barrel were down 0.23% to $111 on Monday morning but have risen close to 73% since January.
In a statement, Cracker Barrel Chairman James Bradford said the board "continues to believe that the execution of management's existing business strategy will create the most value for all shareholders."


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Peter Jaszi
I want begin my remarks about Ray Patterson with a bow to my favorite reference work: the tried and tested (if none-too-glamorous) Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary and (in particular) its appendix of "Biographical Names." For sheer succinctness there is nothing like it. Here we find the lives of the great and good boiled down to (non-copyrightable) short phrases - some of which rise to the resonance of a fixed epithet. The Marquis de Sade, for example, is typed as "Fr. soldier and pervert." Some more estimable figures must make do with fewer words, one of which (again) may even be abbreviated. Thus, Sir Thomas Coke, is simply an "Eng. jurist" (and William Blackstone the same). The odd person of exceptional moment rates as many as four words, like George M. Cohan ("Am. actor, dram. & producer"), but the gold standard appears to be three, like those awarded to William Shakespeare, the "Eng. dram. and poet."
So what words would I choose to sum up the career, so far, of our friend, colleague and mentor L. Ray Patterson? That's easy enough! They would be: "Copyright scholar & activist." This short phrase says little but implies much. In the three words that comprise it lies the essence of Ray's unique and vital contribution to a field of study and a vision of the good, for which he is being recognized by the American Library Association. So I would like to pause briefly on each of them.
At the outset, I recognize that I am subject to the charge of taking poetic license. "Copyright," after all, is not conventionally regarded as a designation of nationality, like "Fr." or "Eng." Many of us enjoy our visits to the country of copyright, but if ever it had a true permanent resident -- one who has chosen to make his intellectual home there in good times and bad-- it is Ray Patterson. Ray came into the country, and declared his affinity for it, long before its centrality to the map of the new world was widely recognized. After so many years of study and struggle, it is fitting that he should receive general recognition as one of its outstanding citizens -- and statesmen.
I say "general" recognition because in some circles, Ray has been notorious (in the best sense of the word) for decades. And that brings me to the designation "scholar." Of course, Ray Patterson's writings have been familiar to me as long as I have been working in intellectual property law, but it wasn't until I began to collaborate on some multi-disciplinary projects that I realized that outside of legal studies, Ray was downright famous! Among scholars of English literature and cultural history, Copyright in Historical Perspective, his magisterial study (a description few books deserve but this one merits mightily) of the history and prehistory of copyright, remains far and away the best-known, most widely-cited and most extensive relied-upon book of its kind. In particular, Ray's findings about the roots of the Statute of Ann in the 17th century book trade have both inspired a generation of scholars - and withstood the test of that new generation's inquiry. And that's not all. Like no other contemporary classic of legal history, Ray's great book has proven enduringly influential in the policy process. For it was his central insight -- that copyright legislation was intended to serve limited regulatory purposes, not to erect a new general property right in intangible creations of the mind -- that informed organized resistance to the hyperextension of literary and artistic property and inspired the movement that seeks to restore "balance" in the relationship between copyright owners and information practitioners (also known, somewhat disparagingly, as "consumers" and "users")
Which brings me to "activist." Not content to be a detached scholarly bystander, Ray has labored to produce a body of work that mobilizes his research findings and makes them count. In The Nature of Copyright, and in a series of elegantly crafted articles (almost too good for the law reviews), he has helped us to see how our policymakers' misunderstanding of copyright history affects how wealth and opportunity are distributed in the information society. In particular, he has made visible the hidden tectonic shift that occurred in 1976, when the regulatory vision of copyright was supplanted by a proprietary one. And he has sketched a persuasive basis for constitutional reevaluation of the developments he documents (and deplores). His writing (with Craig Joyce) on rights in compilations was profoundly influential on the Supreme Court's landmark. Feist decision. More recently, Ray's work has been a crucial factor enabling the current round of challenges to "big copyright," including the Eldred litigation. But Ray Patterson has been more than a goad to activism by others. He has himself served honorably in the line: as an expert witness, drafter of progressive institutional copyright policy, organizer of professors' amicus briefs (an advocacy technique he helped to pioneer), and much more. And he has done all this without ever compromising the warm geniality and true gentility that are his personal hallmarks. If we succeed in saving copyright from its overenthusiastic boosters, it will be in no small part because of Ray Patterson's influence and example. In naming this award for Ray, and designating him as its first recipient, the ALA honors the man, his work and his cause.
Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law
An article from the forum, "On the Shoulders of Giants: Tributes to L. Ray Patterson"
Published October 2002 at info-commons.org. Copyright © Peter Jaszi


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With her career taking her across the globe, Elizabeth Banks is rarely without her favorite travel buddy, 16-month-old son Felix.
"This job requires you to be a little bit of a gypsy, [and] so far he's totally cool being a little baby gypsy," the actress, 38, told PEOPLE while promoting the launch of a limited-edition line of Nestlé Crunch Girl Scout Candy Bars in New York.
"We [went] to Paris [for Fashion Week]. He's getting his first passport stamp."
But Felix's comfort is also the first thing the People Like Us star now takes into account when choosing film roles, noting, "You really have to decide, 'Does that affect my son's quality of life as well as mine?'"
"If there's ever a moment where I feel like he needs to be home or he needs a certain something in his life," she continues, "I'll make a decision based on that."
In addition to reaping the rewards of mom's work perks, Banks also makes sure Felix enjoys everyday childhood adventures, like a celebratory trip to the zoo to mark his first birthday.
"[It] was really fun. Although at the time, he didn't quite understand what the animals were," she recalls. "He was really interested in the other kids, much more than the animals."
"We had this amazing moment where this giant orangutan was hanging right in front of us, and we were like, 'Look Felix, look at this!'" she continues. "There were two little girls there, and he just wanted to look at the little girls. He didn't even notice this giant orangutan."
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- Traditional Animation
- Rankin Bass Productions, Videocrafts Incorporated, Crawley Films, Storer Stations
- Distributed by: Star Classics Video
- Cartoon Characters: Pinocchio, Foxy Q. Fibble, Geppetto, Cool S. Cat, Pedro Pistol, Cricket, Simoro, Loch Ness Monster, Rasputin Pasgoodnak.
- Voice Actors: Larry Mann, Paul Kligman, Stan Francis, Claude Ray, Joan Fowler, Jack Mather.
- Directed By Arthur Rankin Jr..
- Produced By Arthur Rankin Jr.
- Music: Jules Bass.
- First Aired about 1960.
- Originally Released in Syndication.
- Running Time: 5 minutes.
- Episode Number: 3-14
- Color
- U.S.A. / Japan / Canada
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