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OverDrive, JCPL's provider of downloadable eBooks and eAudiobooks, has announced the release of OverDrive® Media Console™ v2.4 for Android™, BlackBerry® and Windows Phone.
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- Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone users can return audiobooks as well as eBooks.
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Audiobook return and dictionary lookup are coming soon for iOS.
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Lost: one 1964 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster; contact Bob Dylan
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This week a dispute erupted over who has the guitar Bob Dylan famously plugged in at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, electrifying rock history.
PBS' "History Detectives" tracked the instrument to a New Jersey home where it supposedly was taken by the pilot of the plane the singer apparently left it on. Dylan's lawyer denies that claim, according to a story in Rolling Stone, saying he had several Stratocaster guitars and that this isn't the one in question.
"History Detectives stands by its reporting…the guitar was authenticated by Andy Babiuk of Rockester, N.Y., based on the evidence provided." He reportedly matched the wood grain and other details from close-up color photographs of Dylan performing at Newport.
Judge for yourself: The Dylan story kicks off the 10th season of the "History Detectives," Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Rocky Mountain PBS. (If they did in fact find the Dylan Fender Stratocaster that changed Rock 'n' Roll history, it could be worth as much as $500,000.)

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Duane Wood, D.B.A.Professor of Management (retired)
Dr. Duane Wood retired from full-time employment at Cedarville University but continues as Executive Director for Program Development and Professor of Management.
Dr. Wood served as Vice President of Academics at Cedarville University for 18 years. He previously served as Dean of the School of Business, Economics, and Management and as Director of the interdisciplinary M.S. in Administration at the University of Southern Maine; as Director of the Perry School of Banking; and as Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration at Central Michigan University where he was awarded the Lyle W. Wilhite Award for teaching excellence.
Dr. Wood has conducted management training and development sessions and served as a consultant to over 25 business and nonprofit organizations, including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Bath Iron Works, Dow Chemical, IBM, Dow Corning, and the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as several banks, hospitals and universities. He has also served as a founding member and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Church Extension Ministries, as a Trustee on the Board of New England Baptist Bible College, as a member of the Governor's Technology Advisory Council for the Ohio Board of Regents, and is currently on the governing board for the Ohio Learning Network. He has authored over 60 articles and papers that have been published or presented in professional management and higher education conferences.
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Cardinals get sloppy, commit 3 errors in loss to Nationals
Washington's Ian Desmond took a substantial lead off third base in the seventh inning of a tie game, wondering whether St. Louis pitcher Michael Wacha might leave a changeup in the dirt.
"I was just kind of anticipating," Desmond explained later.
Sure enough, Wacha threw a wild pitch that bounced away from catcher Yadier Molina, who compounded the problem with a throwing error as Desmond charged home, leading to a second unearned run on the play. That was enough to propel Gio Gonzalez and the Nationals to a 3-1 victory Friday night, ending their eight-game losing streak against the Cardinals.
"I saw it bounce off a little bit. I said, `We've got to take a chance here,'" Desmond said. "And fortunately for us, it worked out."
Said Nationals manager Matt Williams: "You never see a ball get away from Yadi. Ever."
That's because Molina has won six consecutive NL Gold Glove awards. But his miscue fit, somehow, with this series so far. A night after the Nationals made three errors — they initially were charged with four, but one was changed to a hit Friday — in an 8-0 loss, it was the Cardinals' turn to be sloppy.
St. Louis finished with three errors, two coming in the pivotal seventh inning.
Video: Matheny on Cards' pitching after loss
A pair of singles and an error by third baseman Matt Carpenter — who dropped Wacha's throw of Danny Espinosa's bunt — loaded the bases with no outs.
"I stretched before I saw where it was going and ended up missing it. It was a good throw. I should have caught it," Carpenter said. "But it tipped off my glove and ended up being the difference in the game."
Wacha struck out Nate McLouth and got Jose Lobaton to hit a roller that led to a forceout at home. But with pinch hitter Zach Walters up, Wacha's pitch darted to his catcher's right.
"Just spiked a changeup," Wacha said.
Molina tried to make an underhand toss to Wacha, but the throw — which did not appear in time to beat Desmond, anyway — was off-target. It went into the Cardinals' dugout, allowing Espinosa to score, too.
"I'm just trying to make a play," Molina said. "I threw it away. My fault."
Desmond shouted and punched the air, a 1-1 game suddenly 3-1.
"Desi made the decision instantly to get toward the plate," Williams said. "He read it correctly."
Wacha (2-1) gave up five hits and one earned run. On Sept. 24, in his ninth career start, Wacha no-hit the Nationals until there were two outs in the ninth inning, when Ryan Zimmerman's infield single ended the bid.
This time, Washington had three hits by the third, when Anthony Rendon's solo shot came off a first-pitch 74 mph curveball.
Gonzalez (3-1) allowed one run and four hits in seven innings, retiring the last 11 batters he faced. He had seven strikeouts and one walk as Washington beat St. Louis for the first time since Game 4 of the teams' 2012 NL division series.
"It was one of those games that we needed. We needed to bounce back," Gonzalez said. "We needed something like this. It put us back together. Now we go from here, one game at a time."
Nationals reliever Tyler Clippard came on for the eighth and needed 26 pitches just to get one out. With runners on second and third, and No. 3-4 batters Matt Holliday and Allen Craig coming up, Clippard was replaced by Drew Storen.
"You've got two great hitters right there, guys in scoring position," Storen said.
He was the closer back in October 2012, when he let the Cardinals erase a 7-5 deficit with two outs in the top of the ninth of Game 5 to win 9-7.
But this time, Storen got Holliday on a popup in foul territory, then Craig on a groundout, before Rafael Soriano shook off a comebacker that hit his leg and a walk in the ninth to earn his fourth save.
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OK, I admit from the start that I am in love with my iPad2; but it is the availability of Apps for it that make it such a part of my current life. I just encountered a new App that I think is going to be extremely useful in the future. It's an App called Genius Scan from Grizzly Labs that is intended for use on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In short, it uses the back facing camera of the iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch) to take an image that can be corrected and then mailed—that's in the … [Read more...]
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One-year-old Fiber-Lite Corp., Elkhart, Ind., has added a 16-foot floorplan to its Xcape product line, according to Tom White, general manager. The floorplan features a bathroom, convertible dinette and a 48-inch sofa. Now standard on the 2010 16′ Xcape are air conditioner, aluminum wheels, twin 20-pound LP cylinders, built-in microwave, electric brake axle, 12-volt system, spare tire with carrier, two-burner stove top, PVC roof and awning. "By offering the Sixteen we are filling the demand for a lightweight, entry-level travel trailer with a bathroom," White said. At just over 2,200 pounds the 16-foot Xcape joins the 12-foot (1,550 pounds) and the 15-foot (1,850 pounds) Xcape product line. MSRP: $9,520.
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Joseph BarratoCEO, Director of Investment StrategiesJoe is a founding member of Arrow Investment Advisors, LLC, the advisor to Arrow Funds. His responsibilities include investment strategy, business development and marketing. Joe's experience of more than 25 years includes six years at Rydex Investments, where he was positioned at the helm of Rydex research, educating financial intermediaries on how to use Rydex Funds. He created fundamental and technical research tools and developed momentum models with Rydex sector funds. As Director of Product Development, he was responsible for researching new strategic opportunities, as well as creating high-quality investment products and services. He also initiated the research to create and launch the firm's first buy-and-hold mutual fund, the Rydex Sector Rotation Fund. Joe and his team were responsible for developing innovative index and smart beta ETFs, including the S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (Symbol: RSP).Prior to Rydex, Joe spent 12 years at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. As a financial analyst, he assisted economists and analyzed monetary aggregate data. As a senior financial examiner, he advised Fed officers and board officials on financial, operational and managerial enhancements. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from The George Washington University, where he majored in finance and minored in accounting.
Jake GriffithPresident, Director of SalesJake is a founding member of Arrow Investment Advisors, LLC, the advisor to Arrow Funds. His primary responsibilities include sales and key accounts. Before starting Arrow Funds, Jake spent 10 years at Rydex Investments, where he established a new investment advisor to provide mutual fund wrap strategies utilizing institutional money managers. As part of the firm's business development group, he was responsible for the development and promotion of unique mutual fund and variable trust fund asset allocation programs designed to deliver dynamic asset allocation strategies to the financial intermediary marketplace. He also spent two years as RIA Sales Manager, where he managed the inside sales team supporting lead generation and client service for the RIA channel. Prior to Rydex, he worked in various roles at a family-owned business. Jake holds Series 3, 7, 26, and 63 securities registrations.
William E. Flaig, Jr.Chief Investment OfficerBill joined Arrow Investment Advisors in February of 2007. His experience of more than 25 years includes two years as a principle of Paladin Asset Management, where some of his original research in Absolute Return Factors evolved into the Arrow Alternative Solutions Fund. During his five years at Rydex Investments, he was Director of Portfolio Management and managed the entire portfolio team.While at Rydex, Bill defined the concept of hedge fund replication, initiated the research and investment strategies on which several alternative funds are based, and then directed the management of those strategies. He also developed best practices for creating leverage within the constraints of an actively traded open-end mutual fund.
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First Lutheran Church of San Diego
1420 Third Avenue, Downtown San Diego
Membership: 225
Pastor: Wilbert "Wilk" Miller
Age: 61
Born: Wheeling, WV
Formation: Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH; Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT; Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA
Years Ordained: 35
San Diego Reader: What is your favorite subject on which to preach?
Pastor Wilbert Miller: I would preach that in fact there is a free lunch for all people. We live in a culture that always looks for the fine print. Many people think, especially in the church, that this is only for people who are good, perfect, and think a certain way about social issues, whatever that might be. It is a free lunch for everybody; we are all undeserving and we all get that free lunch, no matter who we are. In our tradition, the free lunch is all about the radical nature of God's grace….
SDR: What is your main concern as member of the clergy?
PW: Cleary the church is no longer the institution it used to be. We're no longer the place where everyone goes Sunday morning, or to the synagogue Saturday. There are so many opportunities and options. My concern becomes that especially we pastors try to cater to that because we know that people church-shop today… The church needs to commit itself to what Christ is about, and I think that's not a popular message in our culture, to care for the poor, the hungry, the dying. That's not always an exciting or happy message.
SDR: Why Lutheran?
PW: It's what I was born in, but I really cherish the gift of grace and that we are saved by the love of God through Christ Jesus, and not by what we do. That is the issue on which Lutherans rise or fall. I don't' think Lutherans are the perfect denomination, but that's what rings true, day in and day out. We are justified by the grace of God and not by what we do. It makes so much sense to me.
SDR: What is the mission of your church?
PW: We are getting ready to celebrate our 125th anniversary. We're the oldest Lutheran church in Southern California. In 2013 we will celebrate that anniversary. We've always been downtown, and for our mission, we say we are the heart of Christ in the heart of the city. And so that I really think the history of this congregation has been to keep our doors open to all people.
SDR: Where do you go when you die?
PW: I believe it's up to God who gets into heaven. My deepest prayer, because I know myself best, is that God is merciful. That is my prayer. I certainly don't feel that I deserve to be in heaven…. I'm fearful that any answer I give to that question minimizes the wonder of God's grace.
SDR: Is heaven the only option for people? Or is there a place of punishment that they could go to?
PW: I think God works that out. What I see in the world, my daily experience starts with me. I know I'm a sinner, so I don't need to point my finger at others. My worldview is that we are fallen, we are broken, and we are selfish. The world revolves around us and our ideas of what's perfect. But my belief is that Gods' view is much bigger than my little worldview.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Joseph O'Brien
- Immigrants welcomed at Ascension Lutheran Church — Feb. 14, 2018
- Nothing else makes any sense for me — May 14, 2014
- Prince of Peace Lutheran — Feb. 19, 2014
- Our Redeemer Lutheran Church — Nov. 2, 2011
- Icon Church — Oct. 6, 2010


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LONDON, June 24 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Paul Giamatti will appear in Season 4 of "Downton Abbey," the British costume drama's producers announced.
Giamatti is known for his work in the films "Sideways," "Rock of Ages" and "Cinderella Man," as well as in the TV miniseries "John Adams."
He will portray Harold, the playboy brother of Cora, Elizabeth McGovern's character, on next season of "Downton Abbey," Radio Times reported Monday.
Season 4 will also see the return of Season 3 guest star Shirley MacLaine, who plays Cora and Harold's mother.
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WOW, what a ride this past year! I started this blog hoping to make a difference. A difference for my grandchildren and my country. I had no idea what I was up against. Who could ever image a world where abortion, gay marriage, and legalized pot became more of an issue than jobs, economy, national security and our Constitution. A world where the takers outnumber and outvote the makers – where free stuff is more important than freedom. A world where the younger generation thinks more of themselves and their right to free contraception and abortion than the future of their parents, grandparents and children. A world where the liberal media not only never challenged the liberal candidate but outright campaigned for him.
People asked if I thought Romney had a chance and I alway said he would win in a fair election. Well, we all know now that this election wasn't fair. How sad that many precincts reported OVER 100% voter turnout and others reported flagrant abuse and, in some cases, illegal registration at the time of voting. Chicago politics at its worst. If this election is not a mandate for a national voter database and voter ID's I don't know what would be. There are so many petitions for secession I can't believe this is the outcome America really wanted.
President Obama has a lot ahead of him but I fear nothing will change. Taxes will be raised; Obamacare will suck the economy and life, literally, out of many of us; and we will be facing another fiscal crisis. Benghazi will be stone-walled and the cover-ups will all continue. Fast and Furious will take a back seat, temporarily, to the new Watergate. What we do know is we have an incompetent administration that is lying to us at every turn, and they do not care who they toss under the bus. I hope and pray Congress will NOT let the murder of four Americans go unpunished.
After being in total denial this past week, I am now disappointed, disillusioned and downright depressed at the idiocy of this country's voting process and voting morons. I am taking a short break from the real, and really screwed-up, world until after the holidays. I thank you all for your support, loyalty and true patriotism. Failure is NOT an option and I will continue the fight with my fellow bloggers, conservatives, freedom-fighters and patriots soon.
May GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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- Election Results for Obama show a Disturbing Trend [See Video] (guardianlv.com)


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What follows is an edited-for-my-blog version of the blog post I wrote for the Python Software Foundation. I have maintained some of the structure and form but added my personal thoughts along the way.
It is with great pride that on behalf of the Python Software Foundation and the community as a whole, I am please to announce that the official Python.org website, subsites and back end architecture are getting a total makeover.
To me, personally - this has been a long labor of love. I became a PSF member in 2009, a director of the foundation in 2010 - it's been a long ride for me. Not as long as many others, but four, almost five years means a lot of change and a lot of plans, some coming to fruition, others lying in dormancy.
The complete and total overhaul of the Python.org front end, IA/UX/UI and the back end - moving to a modern and user friendly content editing and addition system, etc has been something I have privately been working on since early 2009 - actually, before I became a PSF member proper.
I have emails dated back to early 2009 conspiring/planning on the overhaul of the site. My sincere personal wish has not just to make something new and shiny. It has been to give Python, a language and community I love a whole new presence. The ability to make portals dedicated to the foundation, education, core development and more. The ability to easily and rapidly add new content or update the style to fit with the times and changing world around us.
This has been a project for me going on 5 years - for me, it's as old as my oldest daughter Abby. And it is with great humility, pride and happiness I get to announce that this plan is finally coming to fruition.
Python has grown significantly in the last decade, both in terms of audience and the amount of information about it. This abundance of information has outgrown the current website's taxonomy and fundamental design. You can see the growth of the site over time - for example 1997 1999, 2006, and 2011. You can see the growth of focus, audience and information reflected in what was added, how it expanded. Since the last major update, not much has changed though.
When I sat and looked at this with my fresh, naive set of eyes, already inspired by the community and the language, I knew that more could - should - be done to showcase the wealth we have to offer. Education, the Foundation, everything. We could showcase the community user groups, conferences from EuroPython, to PyCon, to PyArkansas, PyTexas and more.
The key goal of the redesign project is to update Python's official web presence with an eye to better organizing the information we have today (and expect to add in the future).
The end result should help our audience find the information they need, whether it's official information like downloads and documentation, or resources from our vibrant community.
That's my speak for what I outlined above - not to mention the fact we know how to tailor information to specific types of uses - see the audiences section of the RFP - Python is over 22 years old now, and some people might think that it's just getting old. I see it completely different. I program in Python because I enjoy it. It's what made me want to be a programmer. Now, with projects like the Raspberry Pi, and more and more Python in education, we can inspire a whole new generation with something clean, approachable and vibrant.
Although the current implementation of the Python web site has served its purpose over the years, the time has come for the site to progress and complement the growth and maturity of the language itself as well as the vibrancy of the community.
The back end has not aged well - though there is something be said about what-was-old-is-new-again - I think it's one of the first code bases I remember doing just regular old <input> to <static html> - go, take a look for yourself. If looking through that you're not slightly daunted at the prospect of adding sites, content, etc to it, you're a better man than I. And many better people have spent thousands of man hours doing just that to keep what information is there alive.
There's a lot we - I - want to achieve
- Modern design and experience
- Concise and intuitive navigation
- Showcase the simplicity and elegance of the language
- Attract and convert potential Python users and Python Software Foundation sponsors
- Represent our vibrant, active community
- Make it easy for a wide range of contributors to add content
- Enhance the visibility of the PSF and its sponsors
- Provide examples of success stories
- Enhance the visibility of alternate implementations
- Stable and scalable infrastructure
The redesign involves some tall tasks. From the fresh and modern UI/UX to the online and offline content editing features, no aspect of the project is to be taken lightly, or even incrementally. Such approaches have stalled and ultimately failed in the past, and rapidly outstrip the free time our community of volunteers can dedicate to the project.
See my introduction - I've been involved in at least 6 skunkworks efforts to redesign the site and its back end. I went so far as to register python-lang.org/.com and others in an intent to fork it due to the constant uphill battle it became. Time and time again I would get friends to join me on my wild crusade and we would crash into the rocks on the shore of stop energy. Time and time again I would see people lose what free time they had fighting and discussing and debating rather than creating.
I could not, in good conscience do that, or ask that of anyone again. Hence, the RFP, hence, getting the board to accept the RFP for publishing publicly stating "we will do this" and eventually pushing through to a vote of approval.
The Process
This is a process that started over two years ago with the starting of the of the Request For proposals. This year we issued it publicly, and since that time the psf-redesign team including Nick Coghlan, Doug Hellmann, Idan Gazit, Steve Holden, Brian Curtin, Andrew Kuchling, Issac Kelly, Katie Cunningham, Noah Kantrowitz and others.
I can not thank the team and the board enough - everyone has put in countless hours of thankless work to help me scratch and itch thats been bothering me personally for 5 years. I can not say thank you enough to all those who helped me or supported me in the past skunkworks projects that died in utero.
This was a herculean effort - and we're still not done.
The team received seven bids in total - all of them which included strong points and compelling stories. The team deliberated, ranked, discussed, and asked questions of the bidders, working through the bids for several months. We were constantly impressed by the high quality, well thought out, professional work that the community members submitted to us.
After the review period came to a close, we had a single bid which ranked higher than any of the others, based on experience, references, and overall quality of the proposal. They'll be working with the second highest rated bid, which contained UI/UX and IA that absolutely floored the reviewers.
The first bid, submitted by a joint effort between Project Evolution and Revolution Systems, was the overall highest ranked bid. The team was unanimous in our recommendation to proceed forward with this bid based on the credentials of the team, quality of the proposal, and their deep understanding of how to work with volunteer organizations, oversight and the community as a whole.
This bid provides a clear project management and accountability system as well as detailing how they wish to work with the community as a whole to achieve the project goals.
You might know of Revsys for example - Frank Wiles and Jacob Kaplan-Moss ring any bells? These guys know what they're doing when it comes to the back end architecture. Seth, and the crew from Project Evolution have been equally impressive in their front end work, working with the team and being understanding with us all along the way.
Second, we had the Divio.ch team bid. The IA/UX/UI work which they poured over 120 hours into as a company impressed us a great deal. We were quite literally floored by the amount of thought, planning, and work invested in the visual and IA aspects of the Divio bid.
Divio's proposal blew me away - the amount of work they put into rethinking the IA/UX/UI and consideration for audiences and so much more in a proposal stunned me. Without the team to keep me honest and pegged to the floor, I would have danced away.
Together with Project Evolution and Revolution Systems leading the project, and the stellar Divio team consulting on the visual/IA aspects of the project the redesign team and the board is sure that we will be able to deliver a next generation experience and architecture that will achieve all of the goals we set forward when we went down the path of drafting the redesign RFP.
On September 26th, the Python Software Foundation board of directors unanimously approved the combined bids:
RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation accept the Python.org site redesign proposal set forth by Project Evolution / Revolution Systems and Divio with a budget not to exceed $70,000 in total without further board approval.
Overview of the Accepted Bids
The redesign project will completed by the three teams, Project Evolution, RevSys, and Divio, with a division of labor using the best aspects of each team. The project plan and the back end will be handled by members of Project Evolution and RevSys. Members of Project Evolution will handle the front end work, incorporating the guidance of the Divio team.
The accepted bids from the three entities can be found below:
Project Evolution
Project Evolution (PE) is a design driven development team founded in 1999 with clients ranging from school districts to Fortune 1000 fashion conglomerates with international holdings. The 12-person team includes creative leads, front-end and back-end developers and associated support staff all committed to open-source technology.
Revolution Systems
Revolution Systems, LLC., based in Lawrence, Kansas, was formed in 2002 by Frank Wiles to help businesses benefit from open source software. While many large orga- nizations use open source software internally (sometimes without their knowledge), he realized that many organizations did not know how to properly take advantage of this revolutionary type of software.
Divio, a web agency located in Zürich, builds web applications and is specialised in the areas of design and development. For the production Divio uses the modern Webframework Django and is heavily involved in the development of the successful open source projects django CMS and django SHOP.
The company relies on the agile SCRUM-methodology for its projects.
Screenshots, Maybe?
Since I can cheat a little - here's a bevy of screen crops/captures to expand on the next generation site we can look forward to:
Oh, what will it look like on mobile?
There's a lot more coming, obviously - we've just approved running with the color scheme and mocks we've gotten, and haven't started the next round of feedback. The back end is progressing - and man, do we have surprises there (with any luck). A full online CMS for people, plus an HG backed offline editing system with automatic updates to the site?
Heck. Yeah.
In Closing
I am sincerely proud, as both a Python Community member, and PSF director to have been part of this process. The entire review team, every single submitted bid and the Foundation's board works tirelessly for a great deal of time pulling together what is already turning out to be an impressive and surprising redesign. I'm sincerely proud to be working with this team.
This has been a long time in coming - but maybe 5 years isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things. Maybe it's just been me obsessing about this one thing for so long that's colored my vision and made me giggle like a little kid every time I see new mocks, or know that we're funded by the PSF and this thing is really happening.
By contrast, PyCon is almost second nature to me now - it's a ton of work, and I'm pouring more of myself into 2013 than I have any previous year, but seeing that come together like a well oiled machine, and then this dream of mine coming to fruition (it's one of a few … I've got some other big plans) is like Christmas day for the community member in me.
So thank you - thank you to everyone that's making this happen. You're making a lot of people very happy, and very proud.
We've got a bright future. Let's show it off.


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Lentiviral Gene Transfer for Treatment of Children Older Than Two Years of Age With X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (XSCID)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01306019
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : March 1, 2011
Last Update Posted : October 10, 2019
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- X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID) is caused by a genetic abnormality in the IL2RG gene that affects the growth and development of immune cells such as white blood cells. Individuals with XSCID have difficulty fighting infections, which may lead to chronic or severe illness and death. The primary treatment for XSCID is replacement of the patient s immune system with a normal immune system through a bone marrow transplant. The best outcomes in transplant patients are achieved when the bone marrow comes from a sibling, but parents and matching unrelated donors can provide bone marrow for transplant as well. However, because these transplant procedures are not always effective, researchers are studying gene transfer treatment as an approach to treating XSCID.
- Lentiviral gene transfer treatment uses good genes to replace defective genes. A lentivirus is a virus that has been modified to carry corrected genes into the blood through corrected stem cells. By collecting an individual s stem cells and modifying them with a lentivirus, the gene-corrected cells can be returned into the blood to help produce normal healthy immune cells. Gene transfer treatment with lentivirus vector has been used in humans but has never been studied in patients with XSCID.
- To determine the safety and effectiveness of lentiviral gene transfer as a treatment for children and adolescents with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.
- Children and adolescents between 2 and 20 years of age who have XSCID related to a defect in the IL2RG gene and who are not currently under treatment with strong immune-modulating or chemotherapy drugs.
- Participants will be screened with a medical history, physical examination, blood and urine tests, and bone marrow samples to collect stem cells for the procedure.
- Participants will be admitted to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center 11 to 12 days before receiving gene-corrected blood stem cells.
- Participants will receive palifermin for 3 days, followed by busulfan for 2 days. Palifermin will help prevent side effects from busulfan, and busulfan will help suppress the immune system in preparation for the gene transfer. Participants will have regular blood tests during this preparation period.
- Participants will receive a transfer of their corrected blood stem cells about 36 to 48 hours after the second dose of busulfan. The cells will be injected over 5 to 10 minutes under close monitoring.
- The day after the transfer, participants will have 3 more days of palifermin.
- Participants will remain in the hospital for several weeks, possibly as long as 6 weeks, while the response to treatment is monitored.
- Participants will continue to be monitored for immune function and possible side effects after leaving the hospital, and will be followed for up to 15 years after the procedure to evaluate the long-term effects of gene transfer therapy. The monitoring will involve regular physical exams and blood samples.
|Condition or disease
|X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency XSCID SCID-X1 Gamma C-Deficient SCID
|Other: Gene-modified CD34+ Hematopoietic stem cells Drug: Busulfan
|Phase 1 Phase 2
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|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Lentiviral Gene Transfer for Treatment of Children Older Than 2 Years of Age With X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
|Study Start Date :
|February 26, 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|December 31, 2022
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 31, 2025
Experimental: 1
Gene Therapy
Other: Gene-modified CD34+ Hematopoietic stem cells
Infusion of transduced autologous CD34+ Hematopoietic stem cells
Drug: Busulfan
Pre gene therapy conditioning regimen
- The primary objective is to assess the efficacy of immune reconstitution in XSCID patients transplanted with autologous CD34 plus cells that have been transduced with a self-inactivating lentiviral vector expressing a Gamma C gene. [ Time Frame: Primary endpoint evaluation at 2 years ]
- To determine the incidence of serious side effects due to lentiviral gene transfer. [ Time Frame: Out to at least 5 years after treatment, though periodic follow-up will continue for 15 years as per FDA Guidance ]
- To determine the integration site distribution of the lentiviral vector in reconstituted peripheral blood cells. [ Time Frame: At intervals out to at least 5 years after treatment ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years to 40 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- A proven mutation in the common gamma chain gene as defined by direct sequencing of patient DNA
- HLA typing of the patient will have been performed before enrollment
- No available HLA matched sibling donor as determined before enrollment.
- Must be between 2 and 40 years of age and weigh greater than or equal to 10 kg
- If previously transplanted, must be greater than or equal to 18 months post haploidentical HSCT
- Expected survival of at least 120 days.
- Documented to be negative for HIV infection by genome PCR
- The patient must be judged by the primary evaluating physician to have a suitable family and social situation consistent with ability to comply with protocol procedures and the long-term follow-up requirements.
- Medical lab data (historical) of severe B cell dysfunction (low or absent IgG levels, failed immune response to vaccines); OR demonstrated requirement for intravenous gamma globulin (IVIG) (significant drop over 3 to 6 weeks between peak and trough IgG levels).
- Must be willing to have blood and tissue samples stored
IN ADDITION, patients must satisfy the following Laboratory Criteria AND Clinical Criteria
Laboratory Criteria: (greater than or equal to 1 must be present)
i. CD4+ lymphocytes: absolute number less than or equal to 50 percent of the lower limit of normal (LLN)
ii. CD4 plus CD45RA+ lymphocytes: absolute number less than or equal to 50 percent of the LLN OR T-cell receptor excision circles (TRECs)squared less than or equal to 5 percent of normal for age.
iii. Memory B Cells: absolute numberless than or equal to 50percent of LLN
iv. If serum IgM<normal for age
v. NK cells: absolute number less than or equal to 50 percent of LLN
vi. Lymphocyte proliferative response to each of 2 mitogens, phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and concanavalin A (ConA), is squared 25 percent with a normal control.
vii. Molecular spectratype analysis- absent or very oligoclonal (1-3 dominant peaks) in greater than or equal to 6 of the 24 V- Beta T-cell receptor families.
Clinical Criteria: (greater than or equal to 1 must be present):
i Infections (not including molluscum, warts or mucocutaneous candidiasis; see vii and viii below): greater than or equal to 3 significant new or chronic active infections during the 12 months preceding evaluation for enrollment.
Infections are defined as an objective sign of infection (fever greater than 38.3 degrees C [101 degrees F] or neutrophilia or pain/redness/swelling or radiologic/ultrasound imaging evidence or typical lesion or histology or new severe diarrhea or cough with sputum production). In addition to one or more of these signs/symptoms of possible infection, there also must be at least 1 of the following criteria as evidence of the attending physician s intent to treat a significant infection (a. and b.) or objective evidence for a specific pathogen causing the infection (c.)
-Treatment (not prophylaxis) with systemic antibacterial, antifungal or antiviral antibiotics greater than or equal to 14 days
-Hospitalization of any duration for infection
-Isolation of a bacteria, fungus, or virus from biopsy, skin lesion, blood, nasal washing, bronchoscopy, cerebrospinal fluid or stool likely to be an etiologic agent of infection
ii Chronic pulmonary disease as defined by:
-Bronchiectasis by x-ray computerized tomography
-Pulmonary function test (PFT) evidence for restrictive or obstructive disease that is less than or equal to 60 percent of Predicted for Age
-Pulse oximetry less than or equal to 94 percent in room air (if patient is too young to comply with performance of PFTs).
iii Gastrointestinal enteropathy:
-Diarrhea-watery stools greater than or equal to 3 times per day (of at least 3 months duration that is not a result of infection as defined in criterion above)
-Endoscopic evidence (gross and histologic) for enteropathy (endoscopy will only be performed if medically indicated)
-Other evidence of enteropathy or bacterial overgrowth syndrome: including malabsorption of fat soluble vitamin(s), abnormal D-xylose absorption, abnormal hydrogen breath test, evidence of protein losing enteropathy (for example increasingly high or frequent dosing of intravenous gamma globulin supplement required to maintain blood IgG level).
iv Poor nutrition: Requires G-tube or intravenous feeding supplement to maintain weight or nutrition.
v Auto- or allo-immunity: Examples must include objective physical findings that include, but are not limited to any one of alopecia, severe rashes, uveitis, joint pain with redness or swelling or limitation of movement that is not a result of infection, lupus-like lesions, and granulomas (Does not include auto- or allo-immune enteropathy which is criterion iii). Where possible and appropriate, diagnosis will be supported by histopathology or other diagnostic modality.
vi Failure to grow in height: less than or equal to 3 rd percentile for age
vii Skin molluscum contagiosum OR warts (this criterion is satisfied if molluscum consists of greater than or equal to 10 lesions or there are two or more lesions at each of two or more widely separated anatomic sites; or there are greater than or equal to 3 warts at different anatomic sites at the same time; or the patient has both molluscum and warts)
viii Mucocutaneous candidiasis (chronic oral thrush or candida esophagitis or candida intertriginous infection or candida nail infections; must be culture positive to satisfy this criterion)
- Any current or pre-existing hematologic malignancy
- Current treatment with any chemotherapeutic agent (becomes eligible if not on treatment for at least 3 months)
- Documented HIV-1 infection
- Documented active Hepatitis B infection
- Childhood malignancy (occurring before 18 years of age) in the patient or a first degree relative, or previously diagnosed known genotype of the subject conferring a predisposition to cancer (no DNA or other testing for cancer predisposition genes will be performed as part of the screen for this protocol)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01306019
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|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
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|Principal Investigator:
|Suk S De Ravin, M.D.
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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|March 1, 2011 Key Record Dates
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X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (XSCID)
Gene Transfer
Peripheral Blood Stem Cells
Common Gamma Chain (GC), Immune Reconstitution
Immune Reconstitution
X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
X-Linked Combined Immunodeficiency Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Infant, Newborn, Diseases
DNA Repair-Deficiency Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Antineoplastic Agents
Myeloablative Agonists


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In "The West Wing," employment at the White House was an invitation to a fizzy world of noble intent and screwball comedy. The spawn of William Powell and Myrna Loy aced their F.B.I. security clearances, did the world-altering work of civil seraphim, and strode endless hallways, cracking wise in pools of amber light. As it happens, to work at the White House is to wake each morning in darkness and in dread. It is not only the crises of global moment that shred the nerves. The constant tide of trivia cascading down the BlackBerry screen each morning, through Twitter and Politico, makes an aide's first sip of coffee taste of acid reflux.
On September 16, 2010, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama's longtime press secretary, was greeted at first light with news that a book being published in France had Michelle Obama telling Carla Bruni-Sarkozy that she "can't stand" life in the White House, that it was "hell." Gibbs, a cantankerous Alabaman, went about strong-arming the Élysée Palace to issue a denial. The cost of failure would have been high. Like so much of the senior staff, Gibbs had, at best, a wary relationship with the First Lady. Most Americans admired Michelle Obama and were moved by her forthright intelligence and her determination to raise two normal daughters in the phantasmagorical aquarium of the White House, but the staff feared her. White House staffers always fear the First Lady. They fear, above all, her nighttime access, the pillow talk that can undo their careful planning. (Nancy Reagan was capable of persuading her Ronnie to fire a chief of staff or a Cabinet secretary with nary a glance across the TV trays.) Gibbs was immensely relieved, therefore, when he got the French to issue a denial by 11 A.M. Crisis averted.
And yet, as Jodi Kantor writes in her energetically reported "The Obamas" (Little, Brown), Valerie Jarrett came into the next day's 7:30 A.M. staff meeting declaring darkly that the First Lady was in fact "dissatisfied" with the handling of Hellgate. Gibbs was baffled and enraged.
"Fuck this, that's not right, I've been killing myself on this, where's this coming from?" he shouted. Months of anxiety about Michelle Obama and resentment of Jarrett's curious role as senior adviser and First Friend came to a boil. "What is it she has concerns about? What did she say to you?"
Jarrett answered vaguely.
"What the fuck do you mean?" Gibbs said. "Did you ask her?"
Jarrett said something about the denial not being fast enough.
"Why is she talking to you about it? If she has a problem she should talk to me!"
"You shouldn't talk that way," Jarrett said.
"It was Jarrett's tone, calm to the point of condescension, that finally undid Gibbs," Kantor writes. He seemed so "frustrated one colleague thought he was going to cry."
"You don't know what the fuck you're talking about," he said.
"The first lady would not believe you're speaking this way," Jarrett said, still composed.
"Then fuck her, too!" Gibbs said.
In the end, it appeared that Jarrett was using the ominous threat of the First Lady's displeasure to cover her own ineffectuality in the affair. From then on, Gibbs and Jarrett barely spoke.
Kantor nails her story—she had six sources in the room—and casts it all in the stock lexicon of D.C. confrontations: Gibbs "shook with rage" and soon "stormed out." The rest of the group "sat stunned." The conflict, the profanity, the yelling: it's the sort of vivid, if ultimately meaningless, detail that provides books like "Renegade," "Game Change," and, now, "The Obamas" with their lurid and irresistible zing. Such books regard more earnest matters like history, context, and ideas the way a child looks at a plate of Brussels sprouts. They aim to serve up big bowls of ice cream. And, no matter what Michelle Obama counsels, we political gluttons will lick the spoon clean.
In September, 2009, Kantor interviewed the Obamas in the Oval Office for the Times Magazine. During the 2008 campaign, she had written a series of revealing stories for the paper on Obama's past. Now she asked the Obamas how it was possible to have an equal marriage when one partner was President. "The first lady let out a sharp 'hmmmpfh,' as if she were relieved someone had finally asked, then let her husband suffer through the answer," Kantor recalls. "It took him three stop-and-start tries." Kantor noted the "subtle tension I had felt in that room." The couple had spent much of their marriage debating "how much change was possible within the political system and whether public life could be made livable."
A book about the Obamas' marriage, though, starts out with a problem. As the author of "Anna Karenina" could have attested, an unhappy marriage can be unhappy—and interesting—in countless ways. By contrast, when Ian McEwan tried to portray a happy marriage in his novel "Saturday"—"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife"—not a few critics found it unbelievable or smug. "Apparently in the purlieus of north London, or at least in McEwan's fantasy version of them, no one suffers from morning breath, and women long-married wake up every time primed for sex," John Banville groused. Michelle Obama, in fact, has described her husband as "snorey and stinky" of a morning. More seriously, both Obamas concede that their marriage has known its tensions and discord, particularly a decade ago, when Barack was working as an obscure state legislator in Springfield, Illinois, while Michelle tried to juggle career, children, and household back in Hyde Park. She was not pleased and made sure he knew it, loading him up with shopping lists and resentment. The Obamas still have differences: he believes in political process; she is wary of politics; he is purpose-driven, ambitious; she wants everyone home for dinner at six-thirty, no excuses; she loses her patience; he apologizes. Yet the union, as far as we know, is solid and loving; it works. Their differences seem largely complementary. As the Italian-American philosopher Rocky Balboa said of his beloved Adrian Pennino, "She's got gaps. I got gaps. Together we fill gaps."
The outside narrative of the Obamas' marriage takes Michelle to be the repository of domestic wisdom, decency, and integrity. She sets the limits and hoists, when needed, an ego-deflating eyebrow. Barack may possess outsized ambition and talent, but he leaves his socks and shirts all over the place and needs to be reminded that he is not, at least at home, the Prince of Peace. One suspects that the reality is more complicated, as in any marriage. (Who would have guessed that the lip-locked Gores, and not the tempestuous Clintons, would now be rent asunder?) Still, the task remains of making a happy marriage interesting—and of doing so without the imaginative equipment and freedoms of fiction. Kantor must content herself with what details she can glean from friends and associates, many of whom, we can readily tell, are sanctioned by the Office of Communications to fill the reporter's cup with soothing Ovaltine. Kantor is wise to this, of course, but it doesn't make her work any easier.
You sense the strain when, in the opening pages of "The Obamas," Kantor sets out the terms of her project: "In public, they smiled and waved, but how were the Obamas really reacting to the White House, and how was it affecting the rest of us?" Later, she works even harder to gin up the melodrama: "Could Barack Obama's attempts to make his wife happy—to compensate for his decision to pursue politics, to run for president—hurt his work as president? What if his attempts to reconcile the irreconcilable—Michelle and politics, but also many other issues—were impossible; what if the attempts themselves came with their own costs?" The questions are at once labored and absurd. The state of a marriage is a poor guide to the course of a Presidency. The book is on surer ground when it sets aside all that and simply calls the Obamas on their occasional sanctimonies. When Michelle Obama tells a reporter that her husband is not really a politician but, rather, "a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change," Kantor remarks that sometimes the Obamas are "like tailors who call themselves 'garment reconstruction engineers,' unwilling to fully acknowledge the business they were really in."
The portrait that Kantor paints of the Obamas at home is an elaboration of her Times Magazine article and doesn't much alter our previous impressions. The Obamas draw a pretty tight curtain around themselves. They eat dinner together in the residence at least five days a week. Michelle goes to bed at nine-thirty or ten, while the President does paperwork in the Treaty Room. They have a very small circle of friends. They do not go out of their way to seek out new people. ("The decision came with a price," Kantor maintains, "reinforcing the already severe isolation of the presidency.") The Obamas are "virtual prisoners" in the White House, something that rankles them both. The President tries to pierce the bubble by reading ten letters a day from ordinary people. Michelle shops online using a credit card registered to another name. When the Obamas wanted a swing set for their daughters, Sasha and Malia, the chief usher, Rear Admiral Stephen Rochon, visited the factory in South Dakota to inspect it. At Malia's school, the fifth-grade band played once for the parents and siblings and once for Barack, Michelle, and Sasha. Michelle is the kind of helicopter parent that you might be if your helicopter was Marine One: she demands that Sasha and Malia finish their homework a day in advance when possible, and asks for written reports on their travels. She even persuaded the girls' piano teacher in Chicago to relocate to Washington. When it comes to politics, Michelle presses the staff for clearly defined projects, no "one-offs," but, in the end, won't spend more than a couple of days a week on these projects. (Rahm Emanuel found her reluctance "maddening.")
While Kantor seems, on the whole, quite admiring of the Obamas, she also cites their moments of self-pity—Obama has said that he can hardly wait to begin his life as an ex-President—which sit awkwardly with their tremendous good fortune. The Obamas (particularly Michelle) grew up in modest circumstances, but they come out of a collection of privileged institutions: Punahou School, Occidental, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard Law School; their daughters are healthy and bright, students at the Chicago Lab Schools and, now, Sidwell Friends. All the talk of lost privacy, the difficulty of living in the White House, the yearning for the normalcy of Hyde Park—we read it in "The Obamas" and have read it many times before—is understandable but also a little unseemly. The Presidency is not a career. Nor is it a component piece in a greater picture of familial contentment. It is an unimaginably demanding mission that inevitably exacts a toll. To carry it out, a President is going to miss some dinners, acquire wrinkles, gray hair, and worse. But we don't want to hear complaints. We prefer our warriors happy.
The frustrations are, of course, hardly limited to life in the White House. Obama is President at a moment in history when the forces arrayed against him are preposterously difficult and malign; the conservative opposition is more radical than anything confronted by his predecessors. The public is angry and the crises—economic, diplomatic, environmental, social, and political—are myriad. For all that, staff members like Emanuel hated hearing the President railing against the "silliness" of Washington. "The rules apply to everybody," as one former adviser told Kantor, and complaining about how Washington works "is like crying over the rain." Obama was elected to lead "a rational, postracial, moderate country that is looking for sensible progress," a White House official tells Kantor. "Except, oops, it's an enraged, moralistic, harsh, desperate country. It's a disconnect he can't bridge."
Have his intimates helped him try? Obama's trusted circle is tiny, and this is why a discussion of Michelle's role has more than gossip value. One encouraging theme that Kantor teases out in detail is Michelle's insistence that her husband stay true to their common principles of inclusion and doing good for the most people. "While I get plenty of good advice from a lot of people during the course of the day," Obama has said, "at the end of each day, it is Michelle—her moral voice, her moral center—that cuts through all the noise in Washington and reminds me of why I'm there in the first place."
"The Obamas" makes a few glancing references to previous First Ladies and Presidential marriages, but a richer sense of history would have served it well. In "Hidden Power" (2001), a shrewd and entertaining survey of twentieth-century White House marriages, Kati Marton writes that the second-floor bedrooms and sitting rooms of the residence have known constant intrigue, intimacy, rage, and froideur. Take the marital history of the Wilson Administration. Woodrow Wilson's wife, Ellen Louise Axson, died a year into his first term. At a White House tea six months later, Wilson met a woman named Edith Bolling Galt, a plump and prosperous widow whose primary interests were travel and fashion. Teddy Roosevelt once said that Wilson had all the passion of an "apothecary clerk," but reading Wilson's letters to Galt you would take him for Lord Byron. Each day, he sent to her house, on Dupont Circle, a packet of billets-doux and state documents. After Wilson married Galt, in December of 1915, she began to sit in on high-level meetings. Four years later, Wilson suffered a "cerebral incident"—thus beginning Edith's term as "the first female President of the United States." At the time, Wilson was in a struggle with Congress to pass his design for a League of Nations—an initiative blocked by his nemesis, Henry Cabot Lodge. ("We shall make reservation after reservation, amend and amend, until there is nothing left.") After a second stroke left Wilson paralyzed on his left side, unable to read or stand, Edith turned the White House into a kind of isolation ward. In the end, the Senate rejected the League, and Wilson was unable to run for a third term. He tried to write a book, but the only page he completed was the dedication: to his wife, Edith Galt Wilson.
What other White House marriages eclipse the Obamas' for drama and misery? Nearly all of them, Marton's book makes clear. After 1918, when Eleanor Roosevelt discovered F.D.R.'s affair with Lucy Mercer, their union, in the words of their son James, became "an armed truce." For Eleanor, election to the White House "meant the end of any personal life of my own"—a note of self-pity that F.D.R. mocked with an irritated quatrain:
Did my Eleanor relate
All the sad and awful fate
Of the miserable lives
Lived by Washington wives?
Rather than bow to a life of disappointment, Eleanor emerged as an independent figure, and no less an iconic liberal than her husband. Encouraged by the Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok, her loving confidante, she began to write a daily newspaper column, hold frequent press conferences, and speak out, at home and in public, for the poor, for the oppressed, and for the unlucky. She sent her husband so many imploring notes that F.D.R. imposed on her a three-memo-a-day limit.
First Ladies, like Presidents, have a way of reacting to their predecessor. Bess Truman's reaction to Eleanor's liberal Lady Bountiful was a kind of down-home reticence. ("A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband and be silent and be sure her hat is on straight.") Jacqueline Kennedy's reaction to Mamie Eisenhower's coupon-clipping homeyness was an insistence on cultural glamour. Both Kennedys, Marton writes, were "consummate performers"—thrilled by pomp and power and uninterested in inner life. "We're a couple of icebergs, with most of who we are submerged beneath the surface," Jacqueline said. There was a furtive cruelty to the marriage—one impossible to imagine in our era of hyperexposure. J.F.K. prevailed upon Jacqueline to hire as her press secretary one of his mistresses, Pam Turnure. At the White House, Jacqueline burnished her husband's image, though she sometimes struggled with the strictures of government service. When she was told by the office of protocol that she had been given horses by both the King of Saudi Arabia and the President of Ireland but that, owing to their value, they had to be returned, she replied, "There's a problem. I want the horses."
Pat Nixon was surely one of the loneliest inhabitants of the White House. Richard Nixon was so flagrantly indifferent to his wife that one of his aides, Roger Ailes, wrote in a memorandum, "I think it is important for the President to show a little more concern for Mrs. Nixon as he moves through the crowd. At one point he walked off in a different direction. Mrs. Nixon wasn't looking and had to run to catch up. From time to time he should talk to her and smile at her." In Nashville, on her birthday, Nixon took the stage at the Grand Ole Opry and played "Happy Birthday" on the piano. The song complete, Pat ran to him with her arms outstretched in pleasure. Nixon spurned her embrace and signalled the master of ceremonies to resume the program.
Where Pat was the silent sufferer, Betty Ford was a plainspoken Midwestern emissary to the world of feminism and youth culture; she gaily admitted that she liked to sleep with her husband "as often as possible," supported Roe v. Wade and the Equal Rights Amendment, and allowed that she would not be surprised if her teen-age daughter had had sex or smoked marijuana. A couple of years after her husband left office, she was treated for a longtime dependency on alcohol and painkillers, and though her openness about her problem helped destigmatize addictions, it cast a sadder light on her years in the White House.
The most politically powerful of the modern First Ladies were Nancy Reagan, who controlled personnel and scheduling with the help of an astrologer, and Hillary Clinton, who, in the first year of the Clinton Administration, was given charge of the most comprehensive piece of proposed legislation in decades. Both suffered from their presumption, and both, in second terms, learned to recede and assume more discreet modes of influence. Laura Bush, coming in the choppy wake of Hillary Clinton, sought to avoid the relay circuits of power, and played the role of quiet booster. On her first trip to Kennebunkport, she was asked by her blue-blooded mother-in-law-to-be what she did. Laura replied, "I read, I smoke, and I admire." She retained that back-seat discretion throughout the two terms of the Bush Presidency.
First Ladies are always careful to praise the glories of their office—the chance to make a mark on literacy, poverty, health, or, in Lady Bird Johnson's case, "beautification"—and yet the sense of exposure can be unbearable. A life of intense publicity is typically one that the Presidential spouse assented to but did not seek out. For all her wariness about politics, though, Michelle Obama has clearly reconciled herself to her new role. As First Lady, she has her campaign against childhood obesity, and seems to play a pleasant admonitory role in a solid marriage. Like Abigail Adams, a proto-feminist, who urged her husband to "remember the ladies," she has her principles and is quick to remind her husband of them.
In some respects, the Obamas resemble a post-sixties version of the Clintons. They are graduates of some of the richest institutions in the country. In Hyde Park, they lived among other highly educated, liberal, earnestly well-meaning, and self-regarding people, with all the requisite concerns about "family-career balance," "doing good and doing well." They lived with the small hypocrisies and pleasures of their milieu, bringing together some hyper-wealthy friends and unabashedly progressive causes. It is a liberal aesthetic raised to a style of life.
What makes the Obamas a departure, in historical terms, is race. In an excellent study, "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School (where he knew the Obamas as students), notes that in many black communities the celebrations surrounding the Obama election victory and the Inauguration were on a par with Joe Louis's one-round knockout of Max Schmeling, in 1938, or, indeed, with the celebrations surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1863. Among African-Americans, Obama was "adored for identifying as black when he could have labeled himself something other," Kennedy writes, and "for being a paragon of dignity and intellectuality in a culture suffused with derogatory images of brutish black masculinity." But Obama was also, signally, adored "for marrying a black woman, unlike many high-achieving African Americans who marry outside the race"—and, what's more, a black woman who went to Harvard but returned home to the South Side. This circumstance was essential in capturing the black vote from Hillary Clinton, who had started out with tremendous support among African-Americans. Michelle Obama, in spite of her longtime reluctance, became a crucial asset in the campaign, and she has, despite lingering mistrust among many white conservatives, retained a remarkably high popularity.
For the Obamas, being the first African-Americans to reside in the White House has surely involved singular pressures. The greatest is security—we already know that there has been a larger number of death threats against the President than against his predecessors. But racial politics also play out in small, less ominous ways. When Vogue asked Michelle Obama to sit for a cover story, there was, Kantor reports, division in the ranks of the staff. Two white aides objected, saying that having the First Lady appear in Vogue, inevitably dressed in expensive designer clothing, would look unfeeling when so many people were living in misery. Two black advisers, Valerie Jarrett and Desiree Rogers, argued that, on the contrary, having an educated, attractive African-American First Lady on the cover of Vogue could be a source of inspiration, and counteract a plenitude of negative images. In the end, Obama posed for the magazine wearing clothes from both a young American designer she helped discover, Jason Wu, and J. Crew.
The cultural politics of race in America are always refracted through class. Kantor points out that when Michelle was an undergraduate at Princeton one of her aunts worked in town as a cleaning woman—a circumstance that she did not widely share with her classmates from Andover, Exeter, and Harvard-Westlake. Marian Robinson, Michelle's mother, is the most endearing figure in the book; her lack of pretension has survived her relocation from a bungalow on the South Side to a third-floor bedroom in the White House residence. At the White House, the First Mother-in-Law insists on doing her own laundry, and, when she slips into D.C. on her own and someone stops her on the street to say she looks like the First Lady's mother, she just smiles and says, "I get that a lot."
The Obamas spend much of their social time with two African-American couples very much like themselves: Eric and Cheryl Whitaker and Martin Nesbitt and Anita Blanchard. Both Whitakers and Blanchard are physicians; Nesbitt is an entrepreneur, who made a fortune in the parking-lot business. They are all from the Hyde Park-Kenwood area on the South Side, and send their kids to the Lab School. They mix easily in the white world (Nesbitt's principal investor was the Pritzker family) and give their time and money to community projects. Their friends also include John Rogers, a financier who played basketball with Michelle's brother, Craig, at Princeton, and, of course, Valerie Jarrett—a kind of big-sister-confessor figure. They are all, by now, well practiced in talking to reporters about the Obamas. They praise the First Couple, and spice the interview with the occasional joke or semi-indiscretion to make the rosy picture credible. They talk about how African-Americans of their class and generation feel the weight of race most acutely in relation to affirmative action, sensing that whites often think they have not truly earned their place at Harvard or Princeton or on the medical faculty. But they soft-pedal such discomforts. Obama, too, has learned to speak in clichés and orotund deflection about what it's like to be a black President, governing from a house built largely by slaves. As one of his close friends tells Kantor, "The first black president doesn't want to give any insight into being the first black president."
When the Obamas finally leave the White House, they will undoubtedly write memoirs, which might add to what we know of their relationship on Pennsylvania Avenue. It would be too much to expect indiscretion, though. Harry Truman, late in life, caught his wife, Bess, burning their letters to each other. "What are you doing?" Truman implored. "Think of history."
"Oh, I have," she said, and went on adding to the pyre. ♦


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Rome GRAND SLAM | 18 - 23 June 2013
Rome, Italy, April 12, 2013 – Beach volleyball returns to the Eternal City for the ever-popular Rome Grand Slam, the fourth of 10 tournaments as part of a new and improved FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
A number of teams will be eyeing success at the Foro Italico Sports Complex from June 19 to 23, with the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships set to start a week after the action finishes in Rome.
Defending world champions Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti have good memories of the venue having won the 2011 World Championships and the silver medals at the 2012 Rome Grand Slam there.
Last year they lost in the final to Jacob Gibb and Sean Rosenthal, who qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games with that victory. Since then though, Rosenthal has teamed up with 2008 Olympic champion Phil Dalhausser and the gold medals will be firmly in their sights.
Chinese pair Chen Xue and Zhang Xi won bronze in the women's competition at the 2011 World Championships, but will be out for gold this time.
Laura Ludwig won silver a year ago with Sara Goller, but returns this year with Kira Walkenhorst and the Germans will be eyeing a place on the podium. USA's Jennifer Kessy and April Ross were also finished on the podium a year ago with the bronze medals, but they will expect to challenge for a place in the gold medal match this time around.
The 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour will run over a six month period and features 10 mixed-gender tournaments across four of the five confederations, the last of which takes place in Sao Paolo, Brazil from October 9-13.
Rome first hosted a mixed gender grand slam for the first time in 2010 and was host of the 2011 World Championships.
Following the completion of the Rome Grand Slam the World Tour moves onto the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Stare Jablonki, Poland from July 1-7 before heading to the Gstaad Grand Slam in Switzerland from July 9-14.
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Four Bands Take It to the Streets at Fall Brawl—Holiday Sail didn't get asked to play Fall Crawl. Again.
Show Up!
Gettin' Spanked
The Asylum Street Spankers
In the business of music writing, it's easy to get inundated with information. CDs are shipped in, electronic press kits arrive for bands passing through town on tour and publicity reps clog up the phone lines with requests for review. Whether the music is any good, though, is anyone's guess. Last week, someone plunked a DVD on my desk, ready for my viewing pleasure. The accompanying press kit was my first introduction to the Asylum Street Spankers.
Flyer on the Wall
We Can Be Heros
... Just for one day. Saturday, Aug. 26. See this week's feature for the full story. (LM)
Nosotros CD Release Party
Cruces sextet is hungry for more
It's easy to see how bands from Albuquerque, and bands in general, can fall into a niche and stay there. Like contented fish swimming in a sea of local talent, they keep their day jobs, practice on weekends and play the bars when they have a free night.
Music Magnified
Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers
Sunday, Aug. 27, Bandito Hideout (all-ages); 8:30 p.m., $6: Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers are a band because, plain and simple, they enjoy each other's company. "You can hear that we like each other and that we've been working together for a long time," says Ruby Dee. She and the Snakehandlers have been playing roots, rockabilly and genuine country for the past four years. Ruby may write all the lyrics, she says, but the band is what really makes the songs come to life. "We all add something to the mix, and that's important," Ruby says. For this quintet, the "and" might be the most significant part of their name.
Music Magnified
The Classic Crime
with June and Dan Melillo
Monday, Aug. 28, Launchpad (all-ages); $8-$10: You needn't throw out your conceptions of emo, screamo and pop-punk when attempting to comprehend what Seattle's The Classic Crime brings to the table ... but your definitions might need some updating.
Sonic Reducer
Jurassic 5 Feedback · G Love Lemonade · Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Metallica
I like things a little ragged. When J5 was a ragtag crew with nothing but heart, when MCs were sometimes falling off the beat and the production values were low, they had room to stretch out and try things. That's important when you're as big as Chali 2na, the group's enormous bass with metered flow. Feedback is careful, a little slick and shiny, a little cramped for talent this large. Cut Chemist skipped out on this one, too, so the beats seem bland. Still, Dave Matthews doesn't foul things up too badly on his guest track, and J5 seems as friendly and positive as it ever was.
Music Magnified
Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers
Sunday, Aug. 27, Bandito Hideout (all-ages); 8:30 p.m., $6: Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers are a band because, plain and simple, they enjoy each other's company. "You can hear that we like each-other and that we have been working together for a long time," says Ruby Dee. She writes all the lyrics, but the band writes the songs, she says.