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More crims to be made to sweat?
Paedophiles and other sex offenders on probation will face compulsory "lie detector" tests from next month, The Register has learned.
The academic who will run the tests of controversial polygraph technology on sex offenders for the government believes a successful trial will lead to its use in other crimes.
From late April, sex offenders released on licence in the West and East Midlands* National Offender Management Service (NOMS) areas will be required to undergo a polygraph examination within three months of release, and then at six week intervals until their probation is served. The first licences including compulsory testing have already been granted.
Then-Home Secretary David Blunkett first indicated government support for compulsory testing of sex offenders in 2004, but unspecific plans for a trial scheme this year weren't announced until last September.
Offenders who refuse to submit to the programme will violate their licence conditions and be sent back to prison. It's expected that by the end of the trial between 600 and 1,000 primarily child sex offenders will be subject to regular examinations.
Newcastle University's Professor Don Grubin, who will run the three-year experiment for the Ministry of Justice, said at the end of the trial the government will have to decide whether to use polygraph testing nationally, and whether to extend it to other crimes.
"We need to not outrun the evidence, but provided there is good evidence of success, I would say the argument then needs to be turned to 'what's the justification for not using it [for other offences]?'," he said, citing US authorities who have use polygraph testing in drug addiction and domestic violence probation.
Grubin previously ran smaller, voluntary trials of sex offender polygraph testing for the government between 2003 and 2005. During examinations, volunteers were asked about their contact with children, for example. Researchers found that offenders were more likely to make disclosures about their behaviour if challenged with polygraph results indicating they had lied or withheld information.
According to the Polygraph Rules 2009, the statutory instrument recently approved to govern the new trial, "a polygraph examination must include... at least one, but not more than four, relevant questions."
The laws to allow compulsory polygraph testing by probation services, brought in during 2007, do not limit the technology to sex crimes. A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said the government was not currently considering polygraph testing for non-sexual offences and couldn't say whether it will be considered in future. "We'd have to analyse the outcome of the trial before we'd look at that," she said.
The main equipment supplier for the trial will be Indiana-based manufacturer LaFayette. Its polygraphs measure heart rate, sweating and breathing (abdominal and chest).
Polygraph testing of sex offenders is in widespread use in the US, but according to Grubin, "it varies in terms of how mandatory it is". "The problem is there has been a lack of good data on its effectiveness," he said.
Grubin added that given the vulnerability of polygraphs to faking, no decisions about the management of recently-released sex offenders would be made solely on the basis of their results. ®
*The specific prisons and probation offices covered by NOMS East and West Midlands are listed here and here.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – The UMBC women's 4x400m relay team of sophomores Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) and Kalane' Abbey (Laurel, Md./Laurel), freshman D'Nique Phillip (Elkton, Md.), and junior Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K. Magnet) broke the UMBC school record as the Retrievers' track and field team competed on the second day of the New Balance Collegiate Invitational, Saturday afternoon at the Armory.
The Retriever relay finished the event in fifth-place, but with a time of 3:46.97, to break the previous record of 3:48.54, which was set last year.
UMBC also received record-breaking performances in the 5,000m run. Sophomore Julie Gessler (Ellicott City, Md./Institute of Notre Dame) led a trio of Retrievers with a personal-best time of 18:14.52 to move up to ninth all-time in school history. Freshmen Nicole Dawson (Jessup, Md./Hammond) and Harmony Roche (Millersville, Md./Severn School) also set personal-records to move to tenth and 12th, respectively, in the UMBC record book.
Though not in New York, junior Vinny DiSalvo (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) also broke into the Retrievers' top-ten with a time of 15:12.62 at the McElligott Invitational at Haverford College.
Back at the Armory in the triple jump, senior Shioma Obemeata (New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Prep/St. Francis) furthered his personal-best with a leap of 14.80m (48'6.75") to finish third in the event. Obemeata leads the America East in the event this season.
Also in the field events, junior Ray Stinsman III (Mt. Laurel, N.J./Lenape) posted a weight throw of 15.72m (51'7.00"), a personal-best. This mark moves Stinsman up to eighth all-time in school history and into the top-ten in the conference this season.
UMBC now has a little over a week off from competition before heading to Boston, Mass. for the America East Championships. The two-day championship meet will be held at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center beginning on Monday, Feb 11.

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Shailene Woodley + Ansel Elgort Are Just as Cute Off-Screen as They Are On-Screen [PHOTO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are just as cute together off-screen as they are on-screen, and here's proof.
'The Fault in Our Stars' opened this weekend to soaring numbers, claiming the No. 1 spot at the box office. But for fans of the on-screen couple, all eyes were on the stars as they dominated social media in the most adorable of ways.
First, Elgort (who plays Augustus Waters in the film) took to Twitter to share a real-life reenactment of one of the sweetest aspects of the movie, in which his character and Woodley's make sure to ask each other if they're "okay." Elgort first teased the reference on Friday night, writing:
— Ansel Elgort (@AnselElgort) June 6, 2014
Of course, most fans couldn't even deal with Elgort's question, so when Woodley responded, we're sure that the tears could not be stopped:
Shai's response "okay!" pic.twitter.com/WsxD69atHd
— Ansel Elgort (@AnselElgort) June 7, 2014
But that wasn't the only cute thing that the pair did while celebrating the release of the movie this weekend! Eager to see the film without being recognized, Shailene Woodley donned a long, brown curly wig and snuck into the theater with her co-star. While Elgort initially Instagrammed the hilarious photo, it has since been deleted. Of course, his tweets about the instance are still up, which you can peep below:
Shai is bringing her own popcorn to #tfios hahahaha. So bootleg.
— Ansel Elgort (@AnselElgort) June 8, 2014
Shai's amazing disguise to go see #tfios last night without causing a scene! http://t.co/c4lUYRiU5V
— Ansel Elgort (@AnselElgort) June 8, 2014
We don't know about you, but we kind of can't get over it!
PopCrushers, have you seen 'The Fault in Our Stars' yet?


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Mossberg on New Flipboard: A New App Gets Better
The new features on Flipboard make a great mobile app even better, Walt Mossberg discusses on digits.
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The writer was in despair. For a year and a half, he had been trying to write a script that he owed to a studio, and had been unable to produce anything. Finally, he started seeing a therapist. The therapist, Barry Michels, told him to close his eyes and focus on the things he was grateful for. The first time he did this, in the therapist's office, there was a long silence. "What about your dog?" Michels asked. "O.K. I'm grateful for my dog," the writer said after a while. "The sun?" "Fine, the sun," the writer said. "I'm grateful for sun. Sometimes."
Michels also told the writer to get an egg timer. Following Michels's instructions, every day he set it for one minute, knelt in front of his computer in a posture of prayer, and begged the universe to help him write the worst sentence ever written. When the timer dinged, he would start typing. He told Michels that the exercise was stupid, pointless, and embarrassing, and it didn't work. Michels told him to keep doing it.
A few weeks later, the writer was startled from his sleep by a voice: it sounded like a woman talking at a dinner party. He went to his computer, which was on a folding table in a corner of the room, and began to write a scene. Six weeks later, he had a hundred-and-sixty-five-page script. Six months after that, the script was shot, and when the movie came out the writer won an Academy Award.
Michels, in the words of a former patient, is an "open secret" in Hollywood. Using esoteric precepts adapted from Jungian psychology, he and Phil Stutz, a psychiatrist who is his mentor, have developed a program designed to access the creative power of the unconscious and address complaints common among their clientele: writer's block, stagefright, insecurity, the vagaries of the entertainment industry. "The Jungians I've always been uncomfortable with, because they kind of drift," Stutz says. "They say that the dreams will tell you what to do, and that's bullshit." Instead, he and Michels tell their patients what to do. Their brand of therapy is heavily prescriptive and not always intuitive. "I had one guy who was terrified of public speaking," Michels says. "He had to learn to make more passionate love to his wife. If he could expose himself to his wife and really let go, I knew he'd be able to speak publicly." He hands out three-by-five index cards inscribed with Delphic pronouncements like "THE HIERARCHY WILL NEVER BE CLEAR." His starting rate is three hundred and sixty dollars an hour.
Michels is fifty-seven and trim, with a clipped beard surrounding his mouth and silver hair that ripples back in waves from a high forehead. He looks uncannily like Barry Landes, the psychiatrist on "24," who was patterned on him by Howard Gordon, an executive producer on the show and a former patient. Michels's manner is meditative; to illustrate his points, he draws slow circles in the air. He rarely swears except during sessions, when he says "fuck" constantly—as in "Fuck, yeah," "Fuck, no," "Stop being such a fucking baby," and "Shut the fuck up"—a habit that can shock patients used to coddling and, in some instances, is a sympathetic mirroring of their speech patterns. At times, his language is just a matter of expediency. When P. K. Simonds, a self-effacing writer, got his first job as a show runner, a managerial position, on "Party of Five," Michels said, "P.K., you need to be a much bigger bastard." Simonds, too, wrote a Michels character in homage.
Michels's office, in West Los Angeles, is spare, and generically therapeutic in its décor, with a black leather couch and, on the walls, carved wood African masks, along with his diplomas: one from Harvard, which he attended as an undergraduate; one from Berkeley, where he went to law school (he worked at a white-shoe firm for a couple of years before quitting, at the age of twenty-eight, and going to Europe to play guitar on street corners); and one from the University of Southern California, where he earned a master's in social work, in 1984.
As he finished his training, Michels, already disenchanted with what he felt was the passivity of traditional therapy, met Stutz, who became his supervisor. In the course of their work, Stutz, a transplant from the Upper West Side who had recently arrived in Los Angeles, introduced him to his unconventional approach, a series of tools and principles, often illustrated by stick-figure drawings on index cards, which he calls "the information." He showed him how to make the drawings and weave connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena (driving buzzed and problems at work; mistreating assistants and marital discord; going to matinées on weekdays and writer's block). The two share a facial-hair style, and a habit of closing their eyes when explaining something recherché. Overhearing Michels talking to a patient on the phone, his wife, Judith White, a Jungian psychologist, once pointed out that he did therapy with Stutz's New York accent.
For the past several years, Michels and Stutz have been collaborating on a manuscript tentatively titled "The Tools." If "The Secret," a best-selling self-help book, promises riches through manifestation—think about a pile of gold and one will literally appear—"The Tools" represents a prosperity gospel better suited to a patient base that repeatedly encounters humiliation and failure even as it is conditioned to expect life-altering windfalls.
Patients are told to visualize things going horribly wrong, a strategy of "pre-disappointment." The tool for this, which Michels and Stutz teach to those who are hoping to win an award or who are about to submit a script for approval, involves imagining yourself falling backward into the sun, saying "I am willing to lose everything" as you are consumed in a giant fireball, after which, transformed into a sunbeam, you profess, "I am infinite." Needless to say, neither therapist relates much to the wider analytic community, and both suspect that the techniques would be met with consternation. "My method and orientation are radically outside the mainstream of my profession," Michels told me. "I like being a little bit of a maverick." On a low bookshelf at the far end of his office sits a Carl Jung action doll.
Paging through his calendar on a recent afternoon, Michels enumerated the week's appointments. "Writer, director, entertainment attorney, actor, investment banker, agent, writer, writer-director-producer, guy who works peripherally in Hollywood—let's say catering," he said, for the sake of discretion. According to a former patient, "His waiting room was like the red carpet." Michels has treated warring agents from the same office and opposing parties in a creative dispute, who may or may not know he's counselling the other side. Many report feeling a prickle of eagerness and curiosity when a green button on the office wall lights up, indicating the arrival of the next patient.
Once, in a previous office, Michels caught an agent patient wooing an actress who had the next appointment. "I was, like, 'Get the fuck out of my office!' " he said, but he wasn't really mad. "That's the agent just being an agent. They're relentless. There's something in me, I think it's my father's entrepreneurialism, that admires the chutzpah." Michels's father manufactured furniture; his mother, late in life, became a therapist. They brought up Barry and his sister in West Los Angeles, and their best friends were Rod Serling, who created "The Twilight Zone," and his family. Serling gave Michels his first lesson in writerly discipline. When the families took vacations together, Michels noticed that Serling woke up every morning at five or six to work and did not emerge from his room until eleven.
Paparazzi have sometimes staked out Michels's building; some years ago, he got nervous about the amount of attention a celebrity patient was attracting, and transferred the patient's file to a bank safe-deposit box. A few days later, he arrived at work and found the place trashed: someone had thrown a brick through the window, torn apart his file cabinet, and left without stealing anything. Now, for extra security, he assigns high-profile patients aliases like P. G. Wodehouse, John Milton, and John Keats.
The writer-director-producer Adam McKay started seeing Michels about four years ago, around the time he opened a production company with the comedian Will Ferrell. (They make movies and run the Web site Funny or Die.) He soon discovered that he knew a number of other patients. "Many's the time I've gone to see him and seen someone I know in the hallway," McKay said. "It's, like, 'Wait a minute, you go to Barry?' I've seen one of my colleagues here, one of my agents. It's like a brotherhood."
McKay's presenting problem was a fear of the red carpet and talk shows, which aggravated a neurological condition he has called "essential tremor." "My existential nightmare is 'Charlie Rose,' " he told me. The first time he went on the show, promoting "Step Brothers," he had a panic attack and started to shake visibly. "People are, like, 'Oh, my God, are you all right? Do you have Parkinson's?' You think no one will notice and then you read the comments online, and people are genuinely worried, or, worse, they're making fun of you."
Michels gave him an index card bearing the mantra "YOU ARE MARKED TO BATTLE THE FORCES OF JUDGMENT" and one with a drawing of a stick figure radiating arrows to symbolize the internal seat of authority, which McKay keeps in the visor of his car. Michels taught him a tool called Cosmic Rage, which entailed his shouting "Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!" in his head to a roomful of faceless critics. (Kelli Williams, a patient of Michels's who plays a psychiatrist on the television show "Lie to Me," told me that when she does her version of Cosmic Rage she just pretends she's running lines.) After McKay finished his next movie, "The Other Guys," he said, "I decided, I'm going to do every bit of press on this. Fuck it." He visualized the worst-case scenario and told himself, If I get shaky, I get shaky, who the fuck cares. "I did Jimmy Fallon, the red carpet, all the press junkets where you're filmed a hundred times, and I did great with it," he said. "But for some fuckin' reason 'Charlie Rose' got me again." During the show, which also featured Ferrell, he forced himself to engage in the conversation, even as he started to tremble. He said, "I talked to Judd Apatow about it and he said, 'That's because you know President Clinton is watching.' " McKay still sees Michels once a week.
"My buzzer looks like I'm a hooker or something, 'cause the button is completely worn out," Stutz told me, when giving directions to his apartment, which is also where he sees patients. The apartment, in a run-down brown stucco building on a residential street not far from Michels's office, is a two-bedroom, with a tiny, mustard-yellow kitchen, a small living room that doubles as a waiting area, and a balcony where shyer patients have been known to hide until it's their turn. Stutz's patients—C.E.O.s of companies, high-level producers—hate the place, and complain constantly. "One guy said he was going to buy the building and evict me," he said. "There's a rumor I have this huge estate in Bel Air or something." Stutz, who is sixty-four, lives alone, and believes that his monastic example can be therapeutic. "Part of what we're doing is to get this result-free attitude," he said.
But simply being a Stutz patient confers status. He charges up to four hundred dollars an hour and hasn't taken a new patient in years. Mark Levin, a writer-director who has been working in the business for twenty years and seeing Michels on and off for fourteen, understands it this way: "Oh—you got to Hollywood before me, because you see Phil." (For a number of years, between other projects, Levin and his wife, Jennifer Flackett, have been working on a movie in which six filmmaker patients each make a segment about a character based on Michels.) Stutz's patients have won so many Oscars—twelve or thirteen, he told me, reluctantly—that he has developed a coping strategy he calls the Stutz 96-Hour Academy Awards Principle, which postulates that by Day Four life sucks again and no one knows who you are, so you might as well get over it now. His credo for writers is "KEEP WRITING SHIT, STUPID."
Stutz is thin, with a haunted look; he wears his pants tightly belted above his hips. When he came to Los Angeles, seeking a milder climate for the chronic-fatigue syndrome that then afflicted him, he hated it. "I was pissed off when I saw that smog," he says. "I saw everybody in the morning driving to work through the smog and I thought, These fucking people are crazy. Six months later, I never noticed the smog again." This gave rise to a principle that Stutz calls Ceaseless Immersion—the idea that it's easier to live with painful conditions if you accept them.
Stutz had no patients, and so he cold-called established therapists to ask for referrals. Every day, he'd force himself to approach the scariest person on his list, an undertaking that he described as eating "a death cookie." Most rejected him, but he found the process generative. "The risk you take has a feedback effect on the unconscious," he says. "The unconscious will give you ideas and it wants you to act on them. The more courage you have when you act, the more ideas it will give you." Over time, Stutz began to build a practice among entertainment-industry people; for a number of years, he held workshops in his apartment that were attended by actors like John Cusack and Hank Azaria.
Hollywood psychotherapy, when Stutz arrived, was divided between the classical Freudians, who had started coming West in the twenties to treat nervous stars and studio heads, and the followers of Jung, whose arcane symbology appealed to the arty spiritualist impulses of the locals. Jung's school of thought, particularly his belief that universal archetypes—the Mother, the Father, the Hero, the Maiden—play a role in humanity's collective imagination, found purchase with the industry's storytelling class. The assumption that a universal archetype will hold universal appeal has been proved at the box office: George Lucas famously credited "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," by Joseph Campbell, a follower of Jung, as an inspiration for the "Star Wars" franchise. The allure of Jung's ideas persists. To celebrate the recent publication of Jung's "Red Book," an illuminated manuscript full of paintings of mandalas and snakes in which Jung recorded his investigation of the archetypes inherent in his own psyche—a document so bizarre that his heirs kept it in a bank vault for twenty-three years, perhaps for fear it would damage his reputation—the Hammer Museum held a series of talks. Helen Hunt and Miranda July were among the featured speakers.
At the center of Michels's practice is the Jungian figure of the Shadow, the occult aspect of the personality that Jung defined as "the sum of all those unpleasant qualities we like to hide, together with the insufficiently developed functions and the contents of the personal unconscious." In "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," Jung describes a dream in which he was out on a windy night, cupping a tiny candle in his hand. "I looked back, and saw a gigantic black figure following me," he writes. "When I awoke I realized at once that the figure was a 'specter of the Brocken,' my own shadow on the swirling mists, brought into being by the little light I was carrying."
As the liaison to the unconscious, Michels says, the Shadow is the source of all creativity and agility in life, business, and art, which he calls "flow." "If you can really know your own Shadow, you start to know the Shadows of everyone," he says. "People who can write that way start to articulate universal themes, which not only makes them more successful on that level"—in other words, commercially—"but it's a more gratifying endeavor." In Hollywood, mentioning the Shadow can draw a look of recognition, followed by instant camaraderie. "It's like we all went to the same school," one of Michels's patients—seven of whose good friends also see Michels—told me. "As in, 'Oh, you went to Princeton? What year?' " Talk of Michels's services spreads through productions, casts, and groups of friends. Howard Gordon says, "Outside the military, I can't imagine too many collective communities sharing that kind of professional help."
Michels asks his patients to relate to the Shadow as something real, which can be coaxed from the cobwebbed lair of the unconscious into the physical world. The process, as he describes it, is spooky, a kind of daylight séance in which he plays the role of guide. In "The Tools," Michels tells the story of "Jennifer," a model who lobbies to get her child into a fifteen-thousand-dollar-a-year kindergarten but is too ashamed of her self-described "trailer trash" origins to talk to the other mothers, whom she views as "a superior race of Range-Rover-driving goddesses." The secret to her crippling sense of inferiority lies with her Shadow, which she must accept and integrate into her public self. "I asked her to close her eyes," Michels writes. He goes on:
"Go back to the parents' meeting where you froze up; re-create all those shaky feelings you had." She nodded. "Now, push the feelings out in front of you and give them a face and body. This figure is the embodiment of everything you feel insecure about." I paused. "When you're ready, tell me what you see."
There was a long silence. Jennifer flinched suddenly, then blinked her eyes open. "Ugh," she said grimacing. "I saw this 13 or 14 years old girl, overweight, unwashed. Her face was pasty and covered with zits . . . a complete loser."
Jennifer had just seen her shadow.
If the Shadow has a flesh-and-blood counterpart in the hierarchy of Hollywood, it is the writer: a pasty loser, whose suggestions are constantly being ignored or overruled. "No one looks to the writer to make the decisions," one of Michels's writer patients said. "You're trying to fulfill everyone's expectations. They think of you almost as an arm to do their thoughts." "We're like carnies, always out there trying to sell some idea," another writer, who sees Michels, and whose husband, also a writer, sees Stutz, told me. It can be a frustrating, demoralizing job; scripts are bastardized to the point of being unrecognizable, if they get made at all. According to Michels, "Writers always feel beaten up. They always feel like an underclass. How do you maintain a sense of self in this environment?" In sessions with writers, Michels listens to pitches and plot lines, an attentive, albeit paid, audience. He reassures them that they are "off-the-charts smart"—a turn of phrase that some are surprised to learn does not exclusively pertain to them. He has occasionally been known to read scripts and, he says, "I give pretty good notes."
To help a patient avoid freezing during a pitch—a problem that Michels attributes to trying to hide your Shadow from development executives—he'll tell him to reassure his Shadow with the words "I love you and I care more about you than I do whether this pitch sells." That is step one. Then he must invite the Shadow into the conference room, so that together they can address a silent scream—"Listen!"—to the assembled suits. "What it does is assert our—me and my Shadow's—authority and right to have something to say," Michels says. The third step takes place afterward, when, regardless of the outcome, the patient thanks the Shadow for its time, so that it knows the ego wasn't just using it to get money. For writers, the analogy is clear: give the Shadow the respect you long for.
Then, there is Dust, a super-technique, good for the red carpet, auditions, and any situation in which you want to impress people. It involves pretending that your audience is covered from head to toe in dust—"a nice, thick, two-inch coat of dust, like you're going up into an attic and everything is covered, it's been up there for eight months," Stutz says.
Molly Newman, an established television writer who started seeing Michels after a pilot she had written did not get green-lit, told me she used Dust when pitching to a roomful of executives. "I have radar for what people are thinking of me—Do-they-like-it-do-they-like-me-am-I-doing-it-wrong-oops-I-lost-'em." She recounted going to the FX network to try to sell a half-hour character-driven comedy. "You walk in and there's the head of the network and three development people and your agent and a junior agent," she said. "They all sit down, there's thirty seconds to a minute of small talk, and then it's Now go! And you have to describe your idea and tell the story of what your pilot script is and how the series would progress and who the characters are—and make it sound like the most exciting idea in the world." All the while, she said, she pictured her Shadow at her side, emanating light, and everyone else in the room blotted out by dust. Michels told me he had also used Dust with a creative executive whose boss was such an irrational screamer that she couldn't speak to him unless she imagined him caked.
By far the most common problem afflicting the writers in Michels's practice is procrastination, which he understands in terms of Jung's Father archetype. "They procrastinate because they have no external authority figure demanding that they write," he says. "Often I explain to the patient that there is an authority figure he's answerable to, but it's not human. It's Time itself that's passing inexorably. That's why they call it Father Time. Every time you procrastinate or waste time, you're defying this authority figure." Procrastination, he says, is a "spurious form of immortality," the ego's way of claiming that it has all the time in the world; writing, by extension, is a kind of death. He gives procrastinators a tool he calls the Arbitrary Use of Time Moment, which asks them to sit in front of their computers for a fixed amount of time each day. "You say, 'I'm surrendering myself to the archetypal Father, Chronos,' " he says. 'I'm surrendering to him because he has hegemony over me.' That submission activates something inside someone. In the simplest terms, it gets people to get their ass in the chair." For the truly unproductive, he sets the initial period at ten minutes—"an amount of time it would sort of embarrass them not to be able to do."
One recent afternoon, Michels put on his glasses, pulled out a file, and began to leaf through a pile of yellow legal-pad pages. It was a difficult case—a writer who had been blocked for two years. He was a type Michels sees frequently: someone vacillating between thinking he is God's gift to mankind and thinking he is garbage. "Mmm, now this is interesting," he said, looking at his notes. "That voice, the voice that says 'I'm shitty' or 'I'm above this,' is going to increase in volume the closer you get to actually doing the deed. You have to anticipate it, label it, and reject it every time it comes up."
The voice belongs to what Stutz refers to as Part X, a deeply primitive dimension of the personality he identified after he began to work with show-business patients; its characteristics are petulance, rage, arrogance, hypersensitivity, a sense of victimization, and, above all, a resistance to process. Michels explains it by invoking the behavior of a two-year-old. "It's the part that's pounding on the table because nothing's good enough," he says. "They're saying no to everything, even the color of the sippy cup—unacceptable. Most of us grow beyond the expectation that life will meet our needs in every instance. Some don't. That's the head of the studio, the head of the agency, or whatever, pounding his fist on a table and saying, 'God damn it, somebody is going to pay for it!' It's the part of the ego that is so egotistical it believes it's God, king of the universe. At every moment, the universe is telling him, 'Sorry, bub, you're not God,' and he's screaming, 'No, you're wrong and I'm going to prove it to you!' "
Of course, in a certain environment—around indulgent parents, say, or yes-men—Part X can be effective. "It's not only that there's more of it in Hollywood—it's that there's more reward for it," Stutz says. After years of practicing in the industry, Stutz subdivided Part X into the Seussian categories Type 1 and Type 2—Type 1 being most people, who must conquer their X in order to succeed, while Type 2 never works on himself and gets away with it. One of his patients, a well-known actor, explained this to a younger actor he met in rehab, saying that they were both Type 1, hence the need for rehab; the younger actor took this in and asked, "How do we become Type 2?"
The novelist Bret Easton Ellis told me that he went to see Michels after he moved to Los Angeles to help with the production of a movie based on one of his books. The situation had grown sour—he was no longer speaking to his best friend, Nicholas Jarecki, with whom he wrote the screenplay, and the director, he felt, had misinterpreted the material. After working with Michels for a few months, he called Jarecki and invited him to a makeup dinner. Jarecki brought along his friend Sharon Stone. Ellis recalls that when the dinner conversation turned to the work that he had been doing with Michels, Stone interjected, "Barry and Phil and all that Shadow shit, all that Part X shit. I love my Part X, I'm not letting go of my Part X. Fuck Barry!"
Back in the office, Michels turned over another sheet of legal paper and, referring to the blocked writer, said, "He was one I taught Reversal of Desire to." Reversal of Desire, Michels says, helps a patient face something he's avoiding, and involves another silent scream—"Bring it on!"—addressed to an imaginary cloud of pain. While pushing into the center of the cloud, the patient says, "I love pain," and then, "Pain sets me free." For this writer, Michels said, it was the pain of focussing on writing when he was at his computer. "Just the little pain of when you're writing and you really want to flip over to the Internet, which writers always want to do," he said. "And that little pain of No, I'm not going to do that, bring on that pain." In addition, Michels counselled him to embrace the pain of not flirting. "For a lot of guys, seducing and having sex with a woman symbolizes an exemption from process," he said. "Sex is almost like magic—I'm there, I've made it. It's the ultimate accomplishment, especially for a writer. They spend all their time alone. They usually have little—I mean we all do—feelings of inferiority. That's going to cure it all in one fell swoop." Reversal of Desire worked on a number of levels, Michels said. "We used it not only to get him to write and face the pain of not seducing women but also to understand pain better, because one of the criticisms of his writing was that his characters weren't deep enough. He couldn't quite connect to their pain, because he was avoiding his own."
Another population on whom Michels uses Reversal of Desire is agents. "The typical agent is a very likable person with the attention span of a flea," he says. "Agents tend to be very pain-averse and pleasure-oriented. They're on the phone, writing an e-mail, texting, and maybe reading a script. It's a little bit painful just to focus on one thing at a time. You get a boredom and itchiness, a feeling of 'I don't want to do it.' " But this, Michels knows from talking to talent, is alienating, and often the reason an actor or a writer will seek new representation. Sometimes, with agents, Michels starts by prohibiting them from bringing their BlackBerrys into their children's rooms when they are putting them to bed.
A writer went to see Michels. "I don't want to do this thing where you have to write it down," the writer told him. He blamed the screenwriting software Final Draft for the tedium of crafting a script. "You press this button to get to Character and then the margin changes. It's all in Courier. It's all sanitized and the same and that aspect of it is antithetical—"
"That's your enemy," Michels said.
"What is my enemy?"
"That attitude," Michels said. "You understand why? Because it's a given. It's like a lawyer who says, 'I love the law, I love the research and the writing and the documents—it's just that fuckin' judge, I mean what the fuck, why's he there.' "
Michels said that in order to love his work again the writer had to break down. "It's really your ego that resists the form that is the accepted form."
"No, I hate the fuckin' form," the writer said. After a while, he added, "I have such a knee-jerk reaction against authority." He explained, "The selling of a script and the expectation that comes with it is a manifestation of authority. They've given me money, I have to satisfy what they think."
"Here's the secret," Michels said. "You'll stop rebelling against authority when a part of you—spiritually, we call it your higher self, but I don't care what you call it—has so much faith in the breakdown-leading-to-breakthrough process (and it's been through that process so many times) that it doesn't really care that much about the external authority. In a sense, it has substituted the authority of process for the external authority."
The writer said that it always seemed to him that if writing was too hard it wasn't right. "Rocky," after all, was written in just a few days. Michels tried his theory again. "There's this cycle of death and rebirth even in the space of a single lifetime, and, if you can endorse the death, say, 'Bring it on, I have to break down before I break through, I have to die before I'm reborn,' then the process in a weird way actually gets simpler, because you're not fighting."
"Right," the writer said, uncertainly, and then, more forcefully, "There's a large degree of fuck 'em. Forget what they're paying me, what they mentioned in an offhand e-mail." He said he was going out of town. "Hopefully, in two weeks' time, I'll be back here, reporting, 'I just spat out a first draft,' " he said. Michels reminded him to have faith that being stuck would defeat his ego, making room for the Shadow. "The green light is on," the writer said, cheerfully ignoring him. "It's time to go." ♦


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Just last spring, six-year-old leukemia victim Emma Whitehead was "near death," having gone through chemotherapy twice without success.
But then her parents put Emma through an experimental treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
They infected her with a version of HIV, reprogrammed to attack cancer cells.
Whitehead almost died, but the treatment worked and now she's in remission — and doing cartwheels all over her house.
Grady says the treatment hasn't worked for all patients.
It worked completely on three adults. Four treated adults have merely improved. A child relapsed. The treatment failed two adults completely.
Here's the thing though: Each of these patients was a "hopeless" case before trying the treatment. So any success is huge.
Emma in April:
Emma now:
Here's a video from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:
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It seems a great number of people have been enjoying my heritage scrapbook pages. I'm glad you've discovered what I have created. I hope you are inspired to create your own scrapbooks featuring your ancestors. Feel free to leave me some comments, rather than just simply pinning my posts (but the pinning is fun). It's so nice to receive feedback.
The topic of family history albums can turn a lot of people off. It shouldn't. Once you know what you can do, heritage scrapbooks become just as enjoyable as scrapbooking your current family. Click the Heritage Scrapbooking tab above, you can find all of the pages that I have written about.
One of my most popular posts has been Using Timelines. Timelines are an essential page for a family history albums. They are a genealogist's friend and a scrapbooker's dream. They can place facts in order in a way that take less words than other formats. You should definitely include these pages in your next family history project.
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Timelines can vary in style. The previous post shared a ticker style and a vertical listing. With the format above, I share a photo time line across the top of the page. Below each photo, approximate to the decade, I list some of the highlights from Lew's life in that time period. There is a second page to this layout that includes the 1950s, 1960, and 1970s. Since Lew died in 1978, the 1970s are last in the series. (To protect the living, I have not included that page).
Now, I did not have a birth or infant photo of my grandfather from the 1910s, so I used a photo that is actually from the 1920s but the closest baby photo I have. The point in the photo time line is to show a progression of a life. If you don't have something exact, you can fudge a little.
Good luck with your heritage scrapbooking projects. Share a link to your timelines in the comment section below so we can all benefit from inspiration.
If you have enjoyed my heritage scrapbooking posts, considering purchasing my eBook family history scrapbook, purchase the eBook Create a Family History Scrapbook Digitally in 12 Simple Steps at Amazon.com. I share more pages that help tell the story of your heritage in a way that makes your next project doable. Good luck and happy scrapbooking!


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It doesn't matter that it's not our ancestor. We are dedicated to finding and saving lost items, then researching the family connected to that item. We try to post about as many of them as we can so that with any luck a relative or descendant will spot the article and enjoy seeing what we found.
Lost Faces: Family Photo Albums is one of the examples of our quest to find such lost items and give them a prominent place online. But we also have items in our home that we enjoy on a daily basis. This large painted photograph is one of them. We know who this sweet young boy is and we've done research to find out more about him.
Here is his story: Many years ago my husband's grandmother cleaned homes for elderly women in Perth County Ontario. One of the homes was that of a widow, Elsie Harstone. When Elsie died, the estate was put up at auction and my husband (then in his 20s) and his grandmother attended.
Up for auction was a large (2' x 2 1/2') tinted portrait of a young boy in an antique frame. It was taken circa 1900. On the back was written "Robert H. Harstone on his third birthday"
Hubby's grandmother told him the photo was of Elsie's husband as a young boy and that it had always been in the attic during the time she worked there. This may have been due to water damage in the upper right corner. My husband didn't want the photo to be lost or to go to someone who didn't know the family, so he bid on it and won it.
We love this photo and have it hanging in our living room. I've done some research on Robert and his family, and have written it neatly on the back of the painting. That way when the painting goes on to someone else, they will have knowledge of the subject of the portrait. I've also added when it was purchased (that is, when it left Elsie's hands) and by whom. Future owners might add their own details and the painting will take on new life with each owner.
Robert Hopper Harstone was born 22 July 1899 in St. Mary's Perth County Ontario to Leonard Harstone and Drucilla Beatrice Maude Windsor. Leonard Harstone was a lawyer. The marriage of Leonard Harstone and Drucilla Windsor took place in Toronto, York County Ontario on 22 March 1898 in the Church of the Messiah.
See Harstone & Windsor Families of Perth and Essex Counties, Ontario for more details if you recognize this family.


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BUFFALO, NY—Junior quarterback Casey Kacz (Amherst/Sweet Home) threw for a school-record 579 yards and led Buffalo State (1-0) to a 49-31 victory over visiting Cortland (0-1) in the season opener today at Coyer Field.
Kacz finished 30 of 42 and matched a school mark with five touchdown passes against just one interception as he paced the Bengals to a school best 706 yards of total offense. Freshman receiver Ryan Carney (Olean/Olean) led the receiving corps with 12 catches for 242 yards and two scores, and Caesarae Lewis (Newbern, AL/Sunshine) had seven grabs for 156 yards, including two scores. Rich Pete (Utica/Proctor) added 183 yards of total offense with 12 carries for 103 yards and two scores, and had three catches for 80 yards.
Pasquale Vacchio (Glen Head/North Shore) led the Bengals' defense with nine tackles, including three for loss. Matt Wesolowski (Elma/Iroquois) also had nine tackles and an interception, and junior Chris Hall (Pasadena, CA/St. Francis) also matched a school record with three interceptions in his Buffalo State debut.
The win snapped a six-game losing streak against the Red Dragons, and was the first opening day win for the Bengals since 2007.
Cortland senior quarterback Chris Rose (Victor/Victor) threw for 296 yards and four touchdowns in his first collegiate start, but also had five interceptions, finishing 23 for 37. Mike Humphrey (LeRoy/LeRoy) was his top target, catching six balls for 168 yards and scored three times. Andre Green (Philadelphia/Indian River) had 10 solo tackles to lead Cortland's defense.
The teams raced up and down the field in the first half, only punting once each, and Buffalo State led 28-21 at the intermission.
After a home run ball slipped through Lewis's hands on the opening play, he reeled in a 68-yard scoring catch just three plays later to give the Bengals a 7-0 lead just 57 seconds into the game. Then Cortland needed just 2:38 on its opening possession to even the score at 7-7 on a 23-yard touchdown catch by Humphrey.
After both teams traded turnovers, Buffalo State reclaimed the lead on a 32-yard scamper by Pete. Cortland knotted the score at 14-14 on its next possession before the first quarter came to an end on Humphrey's second score of the game from 3 yards.
Buffalo State punted on the ensuing possession, but got the ball back after Hall's second interception of the day in Cortland territory. Kacz needed just four plays to hit Carney for a 4-yard strike to go ahead 21-14.
Justin Autera (Mahopac/Mahopac) then gave the Red Dragons a short field with a 43-yard kick return, and two plays later Rose hit Kordel McInnis (Sewell, NJ/Washington Twp.) for a 23-yard score.
Buffalo State completed the first-half scoring with Lewis's second touchdown catch, splitting defenders to snag a 20-yard bullet from Kacz and put the Bengals up 28-21. Buffalo State drove deep into Cortland territory again, but Anthony Bayer (Hazlet, NJ/Raritan) picked off a Kacz pass on the 1-yard line with just 15 seconds remaining.
Cortland opened the second-half scoring with a 32-yard field goal by Mike DeBole (Webster/Webster Schroeder), but the Red Dragons would never pull even. Buffalo State answered with an 8-play, 82-yard drive capped by a 25-yard TD pass from Kacz to Lewis to push the lead to 35-24.
The Red Dragons cut the deficit back to four on the final play of the fourth quarter on a controversial 79-yard catch and run by Humphrey. He appeared to be tackled around midfield, but rolled over on top of the defender and continued to run to the end zone.
The Bengals answered with another methodical drive, covering 71 yards on nine plays, including a fourth-and-8 conversion (21-yard pass from Casz to Carney), culminating with a 1-yard run by Pete on the option. After a three-and-out by Cortland, Buffalo State completed the scoring with 8:04 remaining on a 49-yard catch and run by Carney.
Cortland had two more possessions, both ending in interceptions by Wesolowski and Eddie Weiser (Grand Island/Grand Island) in Bengals' territory.
Buffalo State will travel to compete in the I-90 Bowl against rival Brockport next Saturday at 1 p.m, and Cortland will open NJAC play at home against West Conn State.


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Dean Sheremet reportedly proposed to his live-in girlfriend, Sarah Silver, on Friday morning, according to Us Weekly.
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"They were having a nice morning together and the moment felt right, so he proposed," a source for the mag claimed. "They're planning on a summer wedding in NYC."
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Despite enduring a highly publicized divorce from Dean (after more than seven years of marriage), LeAnn took to her Twitter page to congratulate her ex-husband.
"Congrats to @deansheremet and @sarah_silver on your engagement!" the country star Tweeted on Saturday. "A little birdie told me the happy news last night.
"Wishes for a life full of happiness," she added.
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LeAnn faced an immediate backlash from her Twitter followers — many of whom questioned the sincerity of her congratulatory wishes.
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It was so good… "broke da mouth!" I would have never expected great Portuguese soup from a coffee shop but it was great.
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Thousands of people will be running in the annual California International Marathon, stretching from Folsom to Downtown Sacramento, and that will trigger rolling road closures.
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Siwash Rock
The legendary natural landmark known as Siwash Rock, with its lone fir tree on top, rises high above the surf at the jagged seashore of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Cloud City
Low lying clouds bring in a dense fog around the city of Vancouver as a pastel sunset lights up the horizon.
Stanley Park Fog
Sunlight burns through the fog rolling in along the seashore at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia creating a mystic scene.
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Vancouver Fog
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Foggy Vancouver Night
Low flying clouds glide through the narrows of Vancouver Bay as the Lions Gate Bridge lights up the night.
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A solitary juniper tree with a distinctive zig zag trunk stands watch alone atop a high cliff overlooking the sea near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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The rugged seashore at Whyte Islet near Vancouver.
Evening Calm
The blue hour of evening sets this calm seashore scene at Whyte Islet near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Canadian Coast
The rocky coastline of the Pacific Northwest juts out into the sea at Whytecliff Park near Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sharp Pink
The sharp pink petals of a young Bromeliad flower begin to unfold as this tropical plant awakens.
Red Powder Puff
The dazzling display of a red powder puff flower inside Vancouver's Bloedel Floral Conservatory.
Pointed Expression
A sharp cactus thorn gives this tropical plant a form of self-defense and an aura of exotic beauty, along with a subtly persuasive message: Admire but don't touch!
White Orchids
Cascading white orchid flowers, displaying their delicate, exotic beauty.
Red Pineapple
The striking bloom of this red pineapple flower blazes like a torch in a tropical rain forest.
Golden Lollipop
A golden shrimp plant, also known as a lollipop plant, stands proudly amongst the green foliage in this tropical setting.
Sky Dome
An otherworldly sight unfolds as the symmetrical, triangular windows of this plexiglass dome reach skyward atop the Bloedel Floral Conservatory at Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Shot on a monochrome day, this is actually a full color image!
Shapes by the Sea
...another rendering of Siwash Rock, at Stanley Park in Vancouver. I actually over-extended my stay here and got a parking ticket. Totally worth it!! :)
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A buoyant Pacific Northwest landscape creates a scene of idyllic charm as a tall forest of evergreen trees flourishes in nearly perfect symmetry atop the rocky mound of Jug Island near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


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I admonished the eighth grader for doodling during the Treasure Island read-aloud. How could he possibly be paying attention when he was absorbed in his own creative endeavor? By the end of my student teaching experience, my supervising teacher compared me to the infamous substitute teacher Ms. Viola Swamp (from James Marshall's Miss Nelson Is Missing.) Like her, I was just too strict.
I was devastated. I vowed to be anyone but Viola Swamp. Over the past 16 years, I have never forgotten that vow. I have chosen to build relationships first, teach content later. Listening and learning from my students, we build relevance and reality because reading and writing for many students is still a muddy mystery. We are in this together: we explore formulas for research and writing, processes for analyzing poetry, attitudes for approaching literature as something to care about, to savor, and respect. Together we demystify the secrets of language.
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I miss Rushmore, I miss the seasons (oh, and you)
Yeah, I'm RETIRED. Dunzo. This silly little blog has certainly surprised me in many ways, especially the most recent. So I'll just say goodbye. Fare thee well. All's well that ends well, etc.
Thank you to my friends who have written for this blog, to those of you who have become dear friends because of it, and particularly, those lovely lurkers who wished me well and I hope enjoyed this quite trite form of self-expression as much as I did.
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Federal agents have arrested a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles employee they say scammed illegal immigrants out of money by promising to sell them driver's licenses.
Adriana Ferreira was arrested Friday morning, and is scheduled for an arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court later in the day.
Authorities allege that after the Boston resident took the money, she would fail to deliver any documents and would report them to immigration officials.
The naturalized U.S. citizen from Brazil faces a 27-count indictment on charges including corruption, bribery and larceny.
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In the future, apparently we'll only have one computer – a smartphone that plugs into a docking station. If a docking station is needed to work, and I need to work on the move then I still need more than a smartphone.
I prefer the future laid out by Ben Thompson:
multiple devices linked by the cloud.
…what is the smallest screen size Apple could make and still run iPad apps?
The conclusion was that a smaller iPad would need a different resolution. It would still be tough to do fine-grained work.
A reasonably sized smart phone is fine for surfing the net, watching movies and replying to email (although I'm still sad when the keyboard takes over half my screen). For working, although you can make do with one in extremis, either a larger device or a completely new interface is required.


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The New Zealand government is sticking to its 2015 target for getting its books back in black, but only just.
The Treasury is forecasting an operating surplus before gains and losses (obegal) of just $66 million in the 2014/15 financial year, down from the $197 million buffer flagged in the May budget, according to its half-year economic and fiscal update.
The government agency has pared back its expectations on revenue growth in the face of a softer economic recovery. If growth follows the Treasury's downside scenario, the obegal isn't expected to return to surplus until 2017.
"Continued control over spending has allowed the government to remain on track to surplus, despite the impact on revenue of more difficult global conditions," Finance Minister Bill English said in a statement. "This is a time for sensible and responsible policy - not for untried economic experiments."
The government's ambitious plan to return to surplus in the 2014/15 fiscal year hasn't convinced many, with the Reserve Bank, Fitch Ratings and a survey of financial institutions picking the books to stay in deficit for at least another year.
English told a media briefing in Wellington the government will need to consistently produce surpluses of $2 billion to $3 billion if it wants to achieve its debt repayment targets in the future.
The Treasury expects the worst to have passed, with an obegal deficit of $9.2 billion in the 2011/12 year, falling to $7.3 billion and $2 billion in the following two years before turning into surpluses.
Those forecasts rely on the government's revenue stream recovering at a faster pace than the economy on the back of personal earnings as the Canterbury rebuild fosters the labour market, a broadening of the tax take and hikes in fuel excise and road user charges.
Without the changes in transport "we would've fallen short of the surplus track," English said.
Still, those risks are skewed to the downside, with the Treasury giving it a higher than one-third chance of undershooting, and less the one-third of overshooting.
The Treasury says the reduction in tax revenue will be slightly offset by cheaper finance costs with lower inflation forecast for longer, and the Debt Management Office has increased its borrowing programme by $6.5 billion in the coming four years and included a $7 billion programme to pre-fund the 2017 bond maturity.
The DMO will issue $14 billion in bonds in the 2012/13 year, an increase of $500 million from the budget, and sell an unchanged $10 billion the following year. The office added $2 billion to the 2014/15 programme for $10 billion in issuance, and raised its 2015/16 forecast by $4 billion to $ 7 billion.
The Treasury now sees net debt topping out at $75.9 billion in 2016/17, though that's a smaller percentage of gross domestic product than in the previous two years.
Forecasts for economic growth are more downbeat than previous projections, with GDP growth expected to peak at 2.9 percent in 2013/14, before slowing to 2.4 percent by the end of the horizon. That growth will be underpinned by the Canterbury reconstruction and could be undermined if the rebuild is further delayed.
More problems in the major global economies, that have include Europe's sovereign debt crisis and the stalled negotiations to prevent the US from implementing US$600 billion of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts are also seen as a threat to the local recovery.
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The Characters of RothenburgBy Rick Steves
Many consider Germany's Rothenburg to be the best-preserved medieval town in Europe. Many also consider it a horrible tourist trap. Everyone in the town makes their living off tourism. The place is stampeded midday with visiting tour groups. The town even created its own "traditional" pastry — the Schneeball (snowball) — to complement all the faux traditional Christmas ornaments it sells. Yet when I pass through its medieval gates, I feel like a kid who just got a three-day pass for all the rides at Disneyland. I love Rothenburg and I've long wondered why.
Perhaps it's because medieval life comes alive in its cobbled alleys. The ramparts are intact — complete with arrow slits. The fish tanks next to the water fountains still evoke the days when marauding armies would besiege the town, and the townspeople would survive on the grain in its lofts and the trout in its tanks. The Night Watchman stokes his lamp and walks wide-eyed tourists through the back lanes telling stories of hot oil and great plagues. The monastery garden still has its medicinal herbs. And the Medieval Crime and Punishment Museum shows graphically how people were disciplined back when life was nasty, brutish, and short.
On a recent visit, I finally realized why I like Rothenburg so much. In spite of its schneeballs, obnoxious tour groups, and Christmas trinkets, it is a community of real characters. And a small enough community where all the characters know each other.
Norry — the man whose guesthouse was so creepy and whose moustache was so droopy that I had to sing the Addams' Family theme song with each visit — invented a cross between a trombone and a saxophone that he calls a Norryphone. Now with each visit I boogie on his honky-tonk piano while Norry improvises.
"Hermann the German" has spent a thousand Wednesdays at Mario's "Old Franconian Wine Stube" hosting the English Conversation Club (where Germans hang out with tourists, sharing slang, tongue-breakers, and beer). Mario — a bohemian chef Gene Wilder look-alike — fastidiously checks each dinner plate as it leaves his kitchen and rents four Monty Python–heaven rooms upstairs.
Marie-Therese sells kitschy German knick-knacks so enthusiastically that when she takes me home for dinner, her house feels like the innards of a cuckoo clock — and it doesn't surprise me. Reno the Italian married into the town and runs a great little hotel-restaurant. For a generation his daughter, Henni, has caused travelers to dream in German. Spry Klaus, who runs a B&B above his grocery store, takes travelers jogging with him each evening at 7:30. Every time I walk under her house, I still remember the old woman who lived in the wall who loved showing off her WWII bullet wound. She's gone now.
On my last evening in town, everyone seemed to be at Mario's. Hermann the German — holding court with his table of American travelers there for the English Conversation Club — gave me a tiny business card that said: "If I had some of your business I could afford a bigger card." I was enjoying a beer with Henni. Norry was playing chess with Martin, the potter at the next table.
Henni tries to impress upon me how sick she thinks it is that American tourists are so nervous about their children having to share a double bed. She keeps repeating, "This is sick in head, krank im Kopf. Never would a European family ask for twin beds for brother and sister. Never. Why Americans...why they insist?"
In a small town, everyone knows everything. People get along impressively well. The only gang universally not liked seems to be the cartel of farm boys who take tourists on horse and buggy rides — apparently they are about as charming as their horses.
I told Henni of a wonderful new hotel I found run by Herr Hocher (Hotel Spitzweg). I tell her he reminds me of the Wizard of Oz enjoying a relaxed retirement. She concurs and marvels at how I am able to uncover the characters of the town.
I marvel at — in Rothenburg — how easy that is. As a guidebook writer, my challenge is to help travelers connect with real people. As I get to return year after year, it's easier for me. For travelers, the challenge is to find places where you can be a part of a quirky yet lovable community…if only for a short visit. Rothenberg is a good place to start.


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When I arrived in Lone Pine, that sweet little town at the foot of the Sierra Nevadas, I planned to make a documentary about mountain climbing. I would try to climb Mt. Whitney, and I would do it alone. I planned to film this ascent, cut it together, and produce a 45-minute film about the process.
But then I heard about Manzanar, and I decided to take a detour.
Manzanar (Spanish for "apple orchard") was once an internment camp for people of Japanese descent. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, thousands of families were taken from their homes, packed into trains, and shipped to the middle of the California desert, where they lived in barracks and endured 24-hour surveillance.
When World War II ended, the residents were released and given a small stipend to rebuild their lives. The camp was gradually dismantled. But the National Park Service did not erase that dark memory. Instead, the Manzanar National Historic Site consists of a museum, a cemetery and traces of the original architecture. Signs indicate where old buildings used to stand. The entire site is free and open to the public, and as long as you stick to the gridded dirt roads, you can walk pretty much anywhere.
As I strolled across the burnished terrain, I remembered those flashes of grade school education – one teacher or another telling of "America's concentration camps." People were not executed or worked to death at Manzanar, but the mass incarceration and overt racial profiling are astonishing even for a nation at war.
I talked to my own camera and snapped photographs, thinking that perhaps I could weave this narrative into the final film. When I finished editing The Mountain a few weeks later, the Manzanar segment stood out as one of my favorite parts.
Hiking the Sierras is a glorious experience, especially for an East Coaster, but the historic significance of Manzanar, and its emotional power, enriched my excursion threefold. As I drove away, back to the Alabama Hills, I silently wished that everyone in America would visit the Apple Orchard, and remember what can happen in a nation blinded by nationalism.
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- The Land Where Giants Dwell: Sequoia National Park — Oct. 14, 2010
I visited Manzanar a few years back and you are right the emotional power was absolutely magnificent. I cried inside the museum when I found my friends family name on the wall - that was overwhelming, and the archived pictures were just fascinating to me. Especially the one where one their porch says Japanese not allowed, that made me cry more.


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Well that fills an "unplug" gap for consumers: Hulu Plus has finally migrated to Apple TV.
HuluPlus, a subscription service supported by major television stations and studios (including NBC), was previously available on iPad and iPhone -- and on competitor boxes like Roku and X-Box.
The glowing-green icon is right between Netflix and MLB.TV or Radio buttons on the home screen.
There's a free seven-day trial for new users. Viewers can sign up via online or simply from their couch using Apple TV. If users opt-in, they'll be billed through their iTunes accounts.
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Glenn Beck's attempt to rape and murder 1st Amendment in 2009- fails
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Court decides Beck can't 'rape and kill' domain name
The alleged victim of a rape and murder in 1990 can now breathe a sigh of relief knowing those seeking justice on her behalf will not be silenced by the likes of Glenn Beck any time soon. That's because the FoxNews show host, and rumored suspect, Glenn Beck lost his lawsuit against Isaac Eiland-Hall over the domain name of his site – glennbeckrapedand murderedayounggirlin1990.com. This decision has made it safe again to ask the question at the heart of the controversy- Did Glenn Beck rape and kill a woman in 1990? And, if he didn't why hasn't he denied the allegations?
Due to Beck's silence on the issue, concerned Americans are no closer to answering the question today than when the story broke back in the beginning of September. The site in question was created almost immediately after news of Beck's possible involvement in the 1990 rape became public. The site has become the headquarters for concerned citizens devoted to discovering the truth behind the vicious rumor that Glenn Beck raped and killed a woman in 1990. Although Beck has not publicly addressed the allegations, he clearly wants these rumors to go away as evidenced by his botched attempted cover up, which was debunked right here on UnreasonablySafe.com.
The decision is a significant win for not only vaginal rights advocates, but also for freedom of speech lovers too. Because had the ruling gone in Beck's favor, it would've surely discouraged the public from investigating more unsolved 1990 Glenn Beck rape and murder cases. Although, the court remained silent on the actual rumor itself, its ruling clearly leaves the door wide open for further questioning of Beck's supposed innocence. Some have even suggested that based on Swiss customs, the court's silence actually means that it is interested in hearing Beck's side of the story and he should promptly confirm or deny the allegations in a very detailed affidavit. Others were less sympathetic, one anonymous observer of the Beck case said, "regardless whether WIPO is in Switzerland or not- the fact is we let him walk out of that courtroom without handcuffs. I mean and we had him in our midst and we let him walk right out the front door- we should have busted him for rape and murder and asked questions last. It's likely that the poor woman in 1990 would have wanted it that way- because I'm pretty sure he didn't ask for permission before he raped her and killed her."
Surprisingly, Beck's supporters have joined his detractors in openly criticizing him and his lawsuit for being deceptively hypocritical. Many cite his characterization of the freedom of speech as, "our most precious right" and people's ability to speak out as "the supposed watchdog of our Republic." Beck seems to think the First Amendment only applies when he's the one hurling offensive insults and allegations, and not when he becomes the target of allegations. Because, while Beck was claiming his freedom of speech protected his brand of incendiary rhetoric from White House criticism of FoxNews, he was simultaneously trying to prevent others from exercising their right to speak out against him. Read more of this post