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Woot! I am back with my product reviews! And I got a few emails asking about these recent fires, and no thankfully I was NOT affected this time, but thanks for your concern though! I appreciate it, but luckily it wasn't by me! So FINALLY I am doing a review on this primer since it's been on my vanity for about a month or so now waiting for me to do a review on it! :)
Product: 4 out of 5
Packaging: 5 out of 5
Product: 3.5 out of 5
Quality: 4 out of 5
Overall: 4 out of 5
Price: $32, Sephora.com
Would I re-purchase? Yeah maybe...I think id also try another color...
What it is:
A lightweight, oil-free complexion corrector that enhances the skin's texture and primes the skin for makeup application.
What it does:
HD Microperfecting Primer deeply nourishes, moisturizes, and softens the skin, creating a glowing effect. Creates a protective layer on the skin allowing foundation to glide on easily and last longer.
What else you need to know:
The Sephora-exclusive primer comes in six color-correcting shades and one transparent shade.
- I love the bottle and the pump, it's lovely and great to travel with
- The different colors represent color-correcting shades, for example the green one minimizes redness which is ideal for those with rosacea, the mauve (the one I have) counters sallow undertones, etc. (click on the Sephora link for what each color does).
- Smells like banana (at least mine does...hey I like banana!)
- The mauve really toned down the yellow undertones in my skin and made me look a bit brighter and luminous...
- Too expensive for me, BUT it lasts a long time so it's probably worth it
- It FEELS like a moisturizer, and I don't like that feeling; I like the dimethicone feeling, similar to that of the Smashbox Photo Primer, Monistat Chafing Gel, as well as other primers. For some reason those primers (with dimethicone or any 'cone' in it) make me FEEL like I have primer on and I don't feel like my foundation is sinking in since it sorta 'sits' on top of my moisturizer preparing a smooth canvas on my face.
- Didn't really make my foundation last as much as some of the cheaper primers (such as the monistat gel or Jen's Camellia Rose Primer). (Feel free to type these in the search box if you want more info on these).
Overall? I love MUFE in general, so all their products never seize to amaze me; their primer is OKAY, I mean I can see myself buying it again, but I wouldn't call it my favorite and I am sure there are other primers out there that'll do what I need it to do: to help my foundation last and give me a flawless finish. The MUFE primer is too pricey for it to feel like another moisturizer, I would totally love if it had the same consistency as "normal" primers, but I would try out another color for its color-correcting purposes.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Product Review: Make Up Forever HD Primer
Woot! I am back with my product reviews! And I got a few emails asking about these recent fires, and no thankfully I was NOT affected this time, but thanks for your concern though! I appreciate it, but luckily it wasn't by me! So FINALLY I am doing a review on this primer since it's been on my vanity for about a month or so now waiting for me to do a review on it! :)
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- Askmewhats said...
Hi Nessa! I am glad you are fine! all the while you weren't blogging, I thought you were part of the fire or those affected. Thanks for the update and thanks for keeping us informed of your safety
thanks for your review, I love the feeling of "primer" too..so if it's just moisturizer feeling, I won't feel confident :) hehehe thanks
- November 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM
- ting RN said...
lol. im reading this at work but the pictures dont show up on this computer so i'm trying to picture it in my head lol. ill just wait and re-read this post when i get home
- November 18, 2008 at 12:18 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
thanks for the review...i tested the heck out of this before the friends and family sale and decided i didn't need it...i guess i prefer the dimethicone feeling too...if you don't like this one, then you probably won't like laura mercier either, because they're very similar.
- November 18, 2008 at 6:15 AM
- fuzkittie said...
Thanks for the review! This is my favorite primer... hehehe, contrary to you I love the moisturizer feeling and how it sinks in. I HATED Smashbox primer, hahaha! HOw funny.
- November 18, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- AnneNguyen said...
i think this primer is okay too.. i was using it the other day.. it really flatters my face when i take pictures! thnx for the review
- November 18, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- Abby Q. said...
Hey girl, have you tried the Smashbox Color Correcting Primers? If so how do they compare? I noticed Smashbox is $38, even more than MUFE!
- November 18, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Gee said...
I love this primer! But I agree, it does have a more sinking in feeling than the Smashbox.
- November 18, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- *Jen* said...
i reviewed this in green the other day and really love it! i'm trying to steer clear of silicone primers for the time being to let my skin breathe and this makes my skin look beautiful!
- November 18, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- mayaari said...
thanks for reviewing this - I got the green primer and I've been wondering about the mauve one to brighten up my skintone a bit. I prefer the dimethicone feeling of other primers as well, but I think the MUFE primer is ok for my skin right now, since the weather is so dry. Yours smells like banana eh? Mine smells like shampoo, haha
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I'm rewriting a set of file readers that a former-colleague of mine created that read raw-point data of XYZ (Cartesian) coordinates or RTZ (Polar) coordinates. Currently the data is stored directly in the reader, making everything rely on the state of those objects. I'd like to separate the reader from the collected data it reads by creating some data objects.
Each of the coordinate systems is nearly identical from a purely data-driven point of view.
Cartesian Coordinates
X (List of doubles)
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I'm trying to determine if I can, in good conscience, define a common interface for both of these. The data is the same, even though what it represents is subtly different. Each has two opposing axes of a 3D coordinate system, and a table of Z values at various combinations of those axes. But an X coordinate doesn't necessarily map to R. And I'm not sure what I would call the properties on a common interface -
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It's been about 10 years since I last visited the San Francisco Bay Area as a college youngster attending the PRSSA National Assembly with fellow classmates from the University of Hawaii. Looking back on that trip, the only things I recall were the conference itself, Fisherman's Wharf, and drinking Guinness for the first time. Couldn't tell you what hotel we stayed at, where we ate, who we met, and what else we did. Sad but true!
So I was excited to get back to the Bay Area this past week on business to launch the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau's (HVCB) new "Hawaii: A Thousand Reasons to Smile" campaign. What's this all about and what else did I do there? Read on.
Hawaii: A Thousand Reasons to Smile
Hawaii's second-largest market for visitors – the San Francisco Bay Area – is going to see, hear, and experience the Islands of Aloha in March like never before in a new campaign led by HVCB. This initiative is a month-long promotion throughout March that will showcase the appeal of Hawaii's culture, natural beauty, and music to residents throughout the Bay Area through print, broadcast and online advertising, digital freeway bulletin boards, in train stations and BART cars, on ad walls in popular settings, and TV shows, including ABC's The View From the Bay. The campaign will direct consumers to visit GoHawaii.com/LotsofSmiles, a new HVCB microsite that will engage them with interactive promotions, offer information about Hawaii events in the Bay Area, and let them plan their vacation.
To kick it all off, HVCB hosted a reception for more than 50 Bay Area media at the Fairmont San Francisco on Feb. 26 featuring the incredible music of Willie K. and the Polynesian Cultural Center, along with the delicious cuisine of Chef Jake Belmonte of The Faimont Kea Lani, Maui. Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann was also there, along with HVCB and its Island Chapters. This event has been my pet project for the past couple months and it went off well. I also owe a huge mahalo to my colleague Michael Ni who traveled with me and also my team back at the office who made it happen. It was an amazing night and you can see who was there by checking out the photos on my Flickr page.
Aloha Friday Pau Hana Concerts at Gordon Biersch
In the island-style tradition of "work over, hang loose", Hawaii's music, cuisine, and Aloha Spirit will also be showcased in Aloha Friday Pau Hana Concerts being held at Gordon Biersch restaurants in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and San Jose. Each Friday in March, from 5-11 p.m., some of Hawaii's top entertainers will perform their musical magic and Aloha Spirit, including Willie K., Raiatea Helm, Brother Noland, Mailani Makainai, Kealii Kanealii, John Cruz, Cyril Pahinui, and Taimane Gardner. Patrons will also enjoy a special menu of Hawaii-inspired cuisine and can win trips to the islands. My colleague Michael has done an amazing job putting this all together with the GB team and we look forward to seeing many smiling faces at the events.
Uptake.com and HVCB SF Blogger Meetup
Through the magic of Twitter, I've gotten to know Uptake's Elliott Ng and appreciate his passion for travel. At his suggestion, he recommended co-hosting at meetup of local SF bloggers at the Hukilau restaurant on Feb. 27. It would be the last order of business before the Hawaii team headed back home. So Michael, Rebecca Pang of Stryker Weiner and Yokota Public Relations (representing Oahu Visitors Bureau), and I had the opportunity to meetup with about 20 bloggers/tweeters to talk about Hawaii and the new campaign. It was a great event pulled together by Uptake's Pat Jenkins and Alison Osborne and I couldn't help but take as many photos as I could which you can also find on my Flickr page.
Also found some time to "play"
While this was strictly a work visit to the Bay Area, I did manage to find some time to have just a little bit of fun. I've recapped most of that on my Flickr page, but also want to highlight a couple other nuggets of fun:
- I finally had the chance to meet fellow tweep Ken Yeung in real life (IRL). He's actually very familiar with Anthology Marketing Group having worked at Starr Seigle Communications after college before moving to the Bay Area. We stumbled upon a great little sushi restaurant – Sudachi – with great food and cheap beer for a mini-Tweetup. He's a fellow social media explorer like me and maintaines a great blog that's a fun and interesting read. Looking forward to tweeting up with Ken again.
- I first had the opportunity to meet Social Media Club co-founder Kristie Wells in Honolulu last October at one of her workshops she was doing with hubby Chris Heuer. Since then we've managed to stay in touch via Twitter. So when the opportunity came up to have breakfast with Kristie in SF, I couldn't pass it up. Breakfast itself at Brenda's French Soul Food was unreal (I had the oyster scrambled eggs, potatoes, and biscuit which was phenomenal), but the conversation about social media, marketing, and life in general was incredible. Mahalo Kristie for a fun impromptu Tweetup. Only wish Chris could have been there too!
I could go on and on and on, but I'll close here. San Francisco is an incredibly beautiful city for so many reasons. I can't wait to get back and hope I can find a way to return soon with the family on vacation. Until then, I look forward to keeping in touch with all the great people I met. As we say in Hawaii, a hui hou (until we meet again)!


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Snapshots from Italy: Making Scamorza, Ricotta, and Caciocavallo at a Cheese Factory in Molise
GallerySnapshots from Italy: Making Scamorza, Ricotta, and Caciocavallo at a Cheese Factory in Molise
Editor's note: Carey spent time in Italy with the Gruppo Ristoratori Italiani, sponsored by the region of Molise.
The region of Molise is speckled with mountaintop towns, and even the smaller among them are likely to have a cheese factory, or caseificio—where ricotta, mozzarella, and other cheeses are made. Many are small operations, a dozen employees at most, where raw cow's milk from the surrounding area is made into these unaged cheeses. Given that they're best consumed as fresh as possible, it's logical to have little production facilities just about everywhere: near the cows, near the people.
These factories often also make scamorza, a mild baseball-sized white cheese, and caciocavallo, a larger cheese with distinct aged character. Both appear all over this southern region of Italy, as part of antipasti plates and pasta dishes and just about anything else you can imagine.
What I love at these small operations—such as this one, the Caseificio Di Nucci in Agnone—is how close you feel to the process. Cheesemaking seems so simple when milk turns to curd turns to cheese in the same clean, white room.
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On the latest "Weekend Update" segment of "Saturday Night Live," there was a joke about ABC's refusal to air an underwear ad with a so-called plus-sized model – but not a word about the censoring of the latest "South Park" episode by Comedy Central.
This is not necessarily a knock on "SNL," as much of an observation about the range of reactions by those in the comedy business to a controversy that raises profound questions about fear and limits of humor, network censorship and self-censorship, and comedy's power as a weapon against would-be bullies.
That's pretty heavy stuff for an irreverent cartoon about dysfunctional fourth graders. But here's how we got to this bizarre point: Comedy Central heavily censored last Wednesday's "South Park" amid a thinly veiled death threat from a New York-based Islamic extremist website over a storyline involving the Prophet Muhammad.
All mentions of the name "Muhammad" were replaced by bleeps, as was much of the ending. The episode hasn't been rerun, and isn't online at the South Park site. You'll find instead a statement from show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone that says, in part: "Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too."
Comedy Central, undeniably, was in a tough spot. We all remember the bloodshed wrought after a Danish newspaper printed a caricature of the Islamic prophet nearly five years ago. The website that targeted Parker and Stone invoked the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed in 2004 by an extremist angered over a movie about Muslim women.
For Jon Stewart, the "South Park" controversy was clearly a comedy call to arms. The "Daily Show" host chided his bosses at Comedy Central Thursday, but turned his full ire and acid humor on the "numbnuts" behind the extremist website.
"This group, residing in the shadows, or should I say former shadows of the World Trade Center, are allowed to praise Osama bin Laden, celebrate the anniversary of 9/11, and try to intimidate the creators of 'South Park' all while enjoying our lovely theater district, our many diverse restaurants – including some of the best Jewish deli you'll find…
"And these numbnuts get to enjoy it, all because of how much we in this country value and protect even their freedom of expression."
He ended the 10-minute segment by singing, "Go f--- yourselves," backed by a small Gospel choir.
The next night, Bill Maher, who's gotten some threats himself for skewering organized religion, used his HBO show to back Parker and Stone.
"What is it with radical Muslims and cartoons? They watch more cartoons than potheads," he quipped. "I applaud you [Parker and Stone] for standing up to them…They're just bullies."
But "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, whose primetime network show stretches the boundaries of the outrageous, was oddly ambivalent.
MacFarlane, it should be noted, has lampooned religion and battled censorship (an early "Family Guy" episode about Judaism, the relatively benign "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein," was banned by Fox). It also should be noted "Family Guy" played a key and uncomplimentary role in a 2006 two-part episode of "South Park" that also centered on images of Muhammad.
"The question becomes at what point is it worth it for them to put themselves at risk?" MacFarlane asked on CNN's "Larry King Live" Thursday. "Is the joke so hilarious that we want to risk our lives? If I were in that situation, honest, I don't know how I would react."
Another guest, Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame, took MacFarlane to task.
"I think you cheapen Matt and Trey's morality, strength and courage when you say, 'Is the joke worth it?," because the question is, 'What is morally right?'" he said.
At least they're talking about the issue, and Stewart and Maher are using humor to weigh in – even as others in the comedy game, so far, stay silent.
The "South Park" episode was the finale of a two-parter that began April 15 with the program's landmark 200th show. The premise: "South Park" is invaded by 200 celebrities, led by Tom Cruise, who wants to capture Muhammad and steal whatever quality makes the Muslim prophet immune to ridicule.
Kyle's usual end-of-the-show, lessons-learned recap didn't make it onto TV. But we'll chime in and say that comedy should be used as a tool to battle the forces of fear and intimidation. You give fearmongers more power by giving in – but you start to sap their strength by laughing at them.
Otherwise – and we'll let Penn, who, in his act, speaks for his silent partner, Teller, and in this case, for many of us – have the final word: "Everybody should be very, very scared."
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With Argo, screenwriter Chris Terrio took the incredible true story of a CIA mission during the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis and turned it into a smart and thrilling screenplay. The film's director and star Ben Affleck has won plenty of accolades for bringing this stranger-than-fiction story to life, but some of the liberties the movie takes with history have spurred outrage in Canada, Iran, and now New Zealand.
The Associated Press reports that five months after the film's release in New Zealand, many of its natives—commonly referred to as Kiwis—are riled over how their country is portrayed in the film. Even if you've seen Argo, you might be scratching your head over this one. When was a New Zealander part of the movie, you might wonder? When was one even mentioned? The answer comes thirteen minutes in, when Bryan Cranston's character (Affleck's character Tony Mendez's boss) sums up the situation of the six on-the-run Americans as such:
"The six of them went out a back exit. Brits turned them away. Kiwis turned them away. Canadians took them in."
Lawmaker Winston Peters, who brought the matter before Parliament, says this line makes New Zealanders seem like "a bunch of cowards," adding, "It's a diabolical misrepresentation of the acts of courage and bravery, done at significant risk to themselves, by New Zealand diplomats." Parliament passed a motion declaring Affleck "saw fit to mislead the world about what actually happened."
As you might suspect, the truth of New Zealand's involvement is less black and white than that line of dialogue suggests. Both the British and New Zealand's diplomats did aid the Americans, providing shelter, food, and even a ride to airport when they left. Basically, it wasn't all about the Americans, as some feel Argo implies. However, neither the UK nor NZ sheltered the Americans for long, seemingly for fear of recrimination.
Canadians were similarly irked with the film, feeling that their efforts to protect these in-danger Americans were overshadowed, prompting Affleck to thank the whole of Canada during his Oscar acceptance speech. And the Iranian government is so incensed over how they feel their country and its people come off in Argo that they are looking to sue.
In his defense, Affleck has said of the film's flights of fiction, "I think that it's tricky. You walk a fine line. You are doing a historical movie and naturally you have to make some creative choices about how you are going to condense this into a three-act structure."
Essentially, Affleck wasn't trying to malign other nations; he was trying to succinctly tell a story of an incredible escape from a dire situation. Yes, in real life Tony Mendez didn't do it all alone. But he is the protagonist of Argo, and so changes are made to make him push the narrative forward instead of introducing a bunch of other diplomat characters to do so.
Thankfully, this is a point understood by the nation's Prime Minister, John Key, who responded to Argo outrage of his countryman by saying, "New Zealand, I think, sees itself as a country that always wants to lend a hand to help people. But in the end, this is Hollywood, and they do make movies. And a bit like when they transfer a book to a movie, often it's a little bit different. So, look, I think we've made our point and we should probably move on."


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The racial wage gap in the United States — the gap in salary between whites and blacks with similar levels of education and experience — is shaped by geography, according to new social science research.
The larger the city, the larger the racial wage gap, according to researchers Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu and Stephen L. Ross, whose findings were recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
"The average racial gap in metropolitan areas of around 1 million people — and you can think of a place like Tulsa, Okla. — is about 20 percent smaller than the gap in the nation's largest metro areas of Chicago, L.A. and New York," Ananat says.
Ananat's research suggests that the racial gap is not directly the result of prejudice or, at least, prejudice conventionally defined. Rather, it has to do with patterns of social interactions that are shaped by race — and a phenomenon that economists call spillovers.
Economists have long noted that multiple companies in an industry often congregate in an area — think of movie companies in Hollywood or investment bankers on Wall Street — and observed that these firms become more profitable. Indeed, this may be one reason why an up-and-coming tech company would want to locate in Silicon Valley, rather than in Tennessee, where costs are far cheaper.
But why do companies that congregate become more profitable? It has to do, Ananat says, with the fact that when a number of companies involved in similar work are concentrated in one area, they effectively create an ecosystem where ideas and refinements can spread easily from one company to the next, and increase productivity overall.
"It's stuff in the ether — you know, these tips that get communicated," Ananat says. "For any given job, it's going to be specific to that job. That's why they are so hard to identify and so valuable. We say, 'Oh, you're not doing that quite right. Do it just this way instead.' "
What does all of this have to do with the racial wage gap? Much of this valuable information that gets transmitted and shared in the ecosystem happens in informal or social settings — over lunch, or a beer after work, or even at church on Sunday. Those social settings tend to be segregated, with whites tending to spend time with whites and blacks with blacks. (The next time you are in an office cafeteria, notice who sits next to whom at lunch.) In a world where ethnic groups cluster together, those in the minority are less likely to share and benefit from spillover effects in the ecosystem and are therefore less likely to learn early on about important company developments or technological innovations.
"People of the same race are much more likely to have conversations where they share ideas," she says. "The fact is you just talk more about everything with people who you feel more comfortable with than with people you feel less comfortable with. And we know that one of the big predictors of who you feel comfortable with is whether you are of the same ethnicity."
Ananat explains the findings with a hypothetical example: "Say there are 1,000 black engineers in Silicon Valley, compared to 20 in Topeka, and there are 10,000 total engineers in Silicon Valley, compared to 500 in Topeka. Then blacks make up 10 percent of engineers in Silicon Valley, compared to 4 percent in Topeka."
"A black engineer in Silicon Valley has 980 more black engineers to get spillovers from than does a black engineer in Topeka," she writes in an email. "Meanwhile, a white engineer in Silicon Valley has 8,500 more white engineers to benefit from than a white engineer in Topeka. Thus, while both white and black engineers' wages will be higher in Silicon Valley than in Topeka, the white engineer's wages will increase more than the black engineer's do — in effect, the white engineer is living in a much bigger city (of engineers) than the black engineer is, if only people within one's own race matter for urban spillovers."
Obviously, in the real world, social encounters are not totally segregated and other factors — including out-and-out prejudice — could play a role. But what seems to be happening, Ananat says, is that minority groups often miss out on the valuable tips and mentoring that make these ecosystems so productive and profitable. The same thing happens with other ethnic minorities, and even with whites — when they are in a minority.
Companies that want to take full advantage of spillover effects would do well to find ways to encourage employees to share information, set up mentoring programs and generally encourage employees to connect informally and socially, Ananat says.
Social scientists, she adds, have long talked about the value of "code-switchers" — people adept at talking across differences and who relate well to those from other groups. Companies with more code-switchers are likely to spread the wealth of spillover effects more equitably.
And let's focus some more on wages. There is a persistent wage gap in many parts of the United States that's based on race. In many places, blacks with the same educational background and experience as whites are earning less than whites, and new social science research suggests that the size of that wage gap might depend on where you live, interesting research that NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam has come in to talk about. Shankar, thanks for coming back.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Happy to be here, David.
CHRIS ARNOLD, BYLINE: So, geography affecting a wage gap based on race - explain this for me.
VEDANTAM: You know, geography does affect the racial wage gap, David, but it's not in the way that I would've predicted. When I think about cities versus rural areas, urban areas tend to be more diverse and African-Americans often have more power in big cities. And I would have expected to see a smaller racial wage gap in big cities.
GREENE: In these big, diverse places.
VEDANTAM: Exactly. I spoke with Elizabeth Ananat. She's at Duke University. And along with her coauthors Steve Ross and Shihe Fu, she's found it's exactly the opposite: the bigger the city, the larger the racial wage gap.
ELIZABETH ANANAT: The average racial gap in metropolitan areas of around one million people - and you can think of a place like Tulsa, Oklahoma - is about 20 percent smaller than the gap in the nation's largest metro areas of Chicago, L.A. and New York.
GREENE: Wow. Big cities like Chicago, L.A. and New York, the racial wage gap 20 percent more. That's stunning. It can be a big deal for people over the course of a career.
VEDANTAM: It is a big deal, and I asked Ananat what explains it, and she told me it's something to do what economists call spillover effect. And let me back up a second, David, and just explain that. Social scientists have long been interested on why firms congregate in geographic areas. So why are all the movie companies in Hollywood? Why are the banks in Wall Street? If you're a tech company, why aren't you in Tennessee rather than Silicon Valley? It's going to be much cheaper.
And it turns out that when companies congregate in an area, they become much more profitable. They become more profitable because when you have a lot of companies in the same area doing things, they, in effect, form one large, uber-company where ideas and expertise are flowing across the companies in very profound ways. I asked Ananat what kind of information this involves. Here's what she told me.
ANANAT: It's stuff in the ether, you know, these tips that get communicated for any job. It's going to be specific to that job. That's actually why they're so hard to identify and so valuable. We say, oh, you're not doing that quite right. Do it just this way instead.
GREENE: OK, Shankar, I think I understand this, these companies concentrating and sharing information. But what does this have to do with the racial wage gap that we're seeing?
VEDANTAM: Well, it turns out, David, that a lot of this information that gets transmitted doesn't get transmitted in professional settings, but it gets transmitted in social settings. So you meet people at parties. You meet people at church. You meet people for a beer after work. And it turns out these social areas are deeply segregated in America. You know, Martin Luther King once said the most segregated hour in the country is Sunday morning, when people are at church.
GREENE: Yeah. At church.
VEDANTAM: So, if you're a member of a minority group, you're far less likely to be part of these social networks that meet after work. And in big cities, where there's more sharing of this kind of information, blacks suffer disproportionately, which is why the wage gap expands.
GREENE: Interesting stuff. Let me make sure I understand this. In these big cities, you more often have this spillover. You have different companies sharing information. Turns out, it's in social settings. And you have this big majority of people - and the majority is often white - who are making more and more money, becoming more and more successful by having all these conversations. And the gap grows.
VEDANTAM: Exactly. What's important to remember, David, that this is not happening necessarily at an intentional level. So it's not that blacks have been deliberately left out of social settings. And, in fact, there's research that suggests the same thing with other minority groups, with Asians and with Latinos. It even happens with whites. So when whites are in the minority and they move into a predominantly black industry, whites suffer from the losing out in the same spillover effect.
GREENE: So if companies in these big cities where there's spillover want to make everyone who works for them as successful as possible, should they be encouraging employees to cross the racial barrier and make sure they're in social settings with people of all backgrounds?
VEDANTAM: That's exactly what Ananat told me, that both in schools, as well as in professional settings, we need to teach people to work much better and communicate much better across differences. Social scientists often talk about people who are code-switchers. These are people who are very adept at talking across differences and making people from different groups feel comfortable with them. It turns out the more code-switchers you have in your company, the more profitable you're probably going to be.
GREENE: Interesting you bring up that term. Code Switch is the name of our new project at NPR covering race, ethnicity and culture. Shankar, thanks so much for coming in, as always.
VEDANTAM: Thanks, David.
GREENE: Shankar Vedantam. He regularly joins us to talk about social science research. You can find him on Twitter @HiddenBrain, and you can find this program @NPRGreene and @MorningEdition.
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Today as I puttered around in my kitchen I noticed the funnel that I use in canning season. It has a wide mouth that fits nicely down into the mouth of glass jars and has numerous dents and scratches on its shiny surface. It is made from aluminum, I believe, and is shiny with swirls made from cleaning it with a soapy SOS pad.
As my eyes fell on the funnel my mind drifted to my mother-in-law who used it for many years and I thought of all of the jars of applesauce laced with cinnamon and red hot candies that she had made with the help of that funnel. I remembered the taste of the applesauce and how my children had smiled when we opened a brand new jar. That memory led to another memory and then another.
That is the way it is so often around here when I glance at a picture, walk by and touch a chair, or snuggle under an afghan that once belonged to an older member of my family.
I found this short entry in a little book given to my mother-in-law by her co-workers when she had been out on sick-leave. It spoke so clearly about my thoughts this morning in the kitchen, I want to share it with you.
"Have you ever noticed that older people tend to cling to the things that have surrounded them? We call it sentiment and scoff. Our mobile, semi-disposable society tends to treat our many possessions with little dignity. Somehow we have lost the beauty of associating an object with the things it has touched. Perhaps we need a little sentiment to give root to our lives.A table is a
Living thing,
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It touches.
It is
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A table
Senses things,
Remembers tears,
The hands of a child."
Mary Ann Bohrs
Broadman Press, Nashville, Tennessee
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No. 13 Stanford ruins No. 1 Oregon's perfect season
EUGENE, Ore. – From the far side of the field, Devon Carrington wasn't sure what had happened. Blown assignments, certainly. Missed tackles, probably. Whatever, Oregon's Marcus Mariota was running free down the sideline, and we all knew how this would end.
How do you stop a blur?
"They're always on the verge," Stanford coach David Shaw said of the Ducks – and he meant touchdowns, and blowouts, and maybe even a BCS championship. But Carrington ran Mariota down from behind. A few plays later, after the Cardinal stuffed the quarterback on fourth-and-short inside the 10, the 77-yard run was just a statistic.
And a few dozen plays after that, Oregon's lead in the chase for the crystal football was simply a memory.
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"You'd love to have some words that could kind of take the pain out of it," Oregon coach Chip Kelly said. "But there aren't any."
Stanford's 17-14 victory in overtime shook up the big picture, and maybe we should not be surprised. Chaos in November is the BCS era's default mode. See Texas A&M upsetting Alabama. See Baylor beating Kansas State. And see Carrington running down Mariota.
It took Jordan Williamson's 37-yard field goal in overtime to set off the celebration – and there's a story there, after the kicker had two huge misses last season in the Fiesta Bowl and another in the fourth quarter Saturday. But there also were defensive stops and a late drive for the tying touchdown and any number of other things that combined for an upset Carrington said, "feels amazing, to behonest."
Anyone who saw Stanford's celebration – or watched the Ducks trudge off the field – didn't need the explanation.
"Life happens, you know?" Oregon linebacker Michael Clay said.
Yep. And by now, we should all expect life in the BCS era to be crazy, chaotic and completely unscripted. And painful. Mariota noted, "We don't live in a bubble," and added:
"But that's one game. It doesn't define our season."
Probably, though, it does. The Ducks are not completely out of the BCS title picture – if the past two weekends have taught us anything, it's that nothing is certain until the last games have been played and the final standings are unveiled – but they were unceremoniously dumped from the driver's seat. A national championship? Right now, they need help just to get into the Pac-12 championship game.
Stanford (8-2, 7-1 Pac-12) now owns the tiebreaker in the Pac-12 North. A victory Saturday at UCLA would set up, get this, a rematch the next Friday with the Bruins in the Pac-12 championship game. Oregon, meanwhile, must beat Oregon State, hope UCLA beats Stanford – and beyond the Pac-12, hope chaos again ensues elsewhere in the country in the next two weekends.
It's possible, but highly unlikely.
Kind of like what Stanford achieved at Autzen Stadium, which left a capacity crowd that is known for its volume stunned into silence. Never mind the finish, which included a grinding drive for a touchdown that tied it at 14 with 95 seconds left, and then an overtime possession by the Ducks that encapsulated the evening – three plays gained one yard, and a field goal doinked off the upright – before Williamson's kick won it.
Stanford shut down Kelly's scoring machine in a way no one anticipated. Oregon entered averaging nearly 55 points, and had scored at least 30 in 23 consecutive games, an FBS-level record. The Ducks averaged 325 rushing yards, 563 total yards. They managed 405 total, 198 rushing, and two touchdowns.
"They were scoring a million points a game," Stanford running back Stepfan Taylor said. "To only see 14 on the scoreboard – that's amazing."
It's especially so, considering what had happened in these teams' most recent meetings. Two years running, Oregon had sprinted away from Stanford's strong defense. Heck, even three years ago when Stanford won, it was a wild shootout. You could have predicted an upset, maybe, but no one would have expected a defensive slugfest reminiscent of a Saturday in the SEC.
The recipe wasn't complicated. Stanford played its base defense, mixed coverage and pressure, controlled the line of scrimmage – and oh, tackled very well. Shaw said, "You didn't see any of those long runs for touchdowns."
That's the most surprising thing, isn't it? Oregon never really found a rhythm, but the Ducks also couldn't pop the highlights we've come to expect. They'll lament mistakes and missed opportunities, but Stanford missed plenty, as well. Shaw said he knew victory would come only after "withstanding a mad rush" – something like the romp Mariota went on midway through the first quarter.
No score, and Stanford had punted the Ducks back to their 8. Mariota dropped back, then took off down the right side. He was joined around midfield by De'Anthony Thomas, and for an instant, it was just the two of them, running down the sideline.
Carrington arrived, and first, a little back story: When the video game NCAA '13 arrived, Carrington's teammates chuckled to learn the defensive back wearing his No. 5 jersey was the fastest player on the Stanford team. They were delighted to see the real thing moving very quickly in a critical situation.
"He's sneaky," Taylor said. "He doesn't look like he's running fast, but he is."
Anyway, Carrington got there. And for some reason, Thomas – in perfect position to shield his quarterback and set up the touchdown – seemed oblivious to the danger. Don't miss that; it's part of the reason Oregon went down Saturday night.
Sometimes, a blur is not self-aware.
"I assumed he was gonna try to block me at some point," Carrington said. "Maybe he didn't think I was gonna get there."
Said Thomas: "I didn't even really see the guy." And a moment later, he added: "I thought (Mariota) was gonna outrun the dude."
So did everybody.
Instead, Carrington pushed Mariota out of bounds. And Stanford pushed Oregon out of the BCS race.


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Poet in Residence
From time to time a poet is in residence at the Poetry Archive, talking about poetry with anyone who wants to join in the conversation. You are welcome to explore our archive of past residencies and read some of the lively and varied discussions you'll find there.
Comic Verse
Daljit Nagra - 4 April 2011
I'm troubled, as you can tell by my introduction, about comic verse. Comic verse gets bad press because rigid notions of comedy foreground throwaway poems.
Surely the best comedy is when the poem surprises us into laughter rather than setting up the expectation of laughter. The former leads to a complex self-evaluation whilst the latter leads to our judgement about whether the poet delivered the gag.
What sorts of poems have you read that made you laugh unexpectedly because they communicated a deep truth in yourself about something that may actually be serious?
Shocking news of cut backs to the poetry world
Daljit Nagra - 31 March 2011
The PBS was set up by TS Eliot and colleagues in 1953. It publishes a quarterly booklet about the latest poetry books published and its judges recommend books.
In addition the PBS has an excellent online bookshop where books can be bought at a reduced price.
The PBS is best known for the TS Eliot prize, which is now the biggest poetry prize and perhaps the best advert for contemporary poetry because it makes the popular news, and the shortlist is promoted to schools around the country in an innovative way.
Translating Poetry to become a better Poet
Daljit Nagra - 22 March 2011
I worked with the Dutch poet Jan-Willem Anker a few years ago and I am working with him again. We are translating each other's work. He sends me literal prose versions of his poems and then I try and shape them into English. I look at his Dutch versions for the general and local shape of the poem to help with me the layout.
The value of residential poetry courses
Daljit Nagra - 17 March 2011
The other thing I really enjoyed about the course was having immediate access to leading poets and to a cohort of new writers who were at a fairly similar stage of development as me.
I kept in touch with several of the poets I met on these courses and we workshopped poems and supported each other with advise about poets/poems/magazines/readings etc.
The residential courses were the beginnings of a beautifully interactive poetry affair with a lovely set of poets.
Favourite Individual Collections
Daljit Nagra - 23 February 2011
Gaining some control over an individual collection helps build my confidence about reading poetry. I enjoy the idea of having absorbed a whole text to some degree. Good poets will usually work from a certain place in the dictionary and have particular textures and themes that may tightly or loosely bind the collection.
Daljit Nagra - 5 February 2011
There shouldn't be an anxiety about being influenced as we do not exist in a vacuum and we are influenced by many writers before us, whether we know it or not. We may think our poems are highly original but they are probably fitting into a tradition, a line of writers who have written in the style we employ but this should not be depressing should it? Hopefully this is a liberating feeling to know that there is a tradition of writers who think and feel a bit like us and who we can be influenced by so our poems become better if we learn from them.
Season of Poetry Prizes
Daljit Nagra - 12 January 2011
Some negatives
Do the same poets always win the big prizes? Should there be a broader inclusion of poetry writing styles in the shortlists?
Should poets be put in competition with each other?
Do prizes value a certain style which is promoted to the public and does this style reaffirm the usual preconceptions about contemporary poetry?


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Saturday, the Russian Olympic Committee announced the results of voting for the 2014 Olympic mascots. (They picked a snowboarding snow leopard, and a fluffy bunny and cheerful bear. They're boring.) But one of the 10 nominees didn't even make it to voting. Ded Moroz ("Father Frost"), the Russian version of Santa Claus, was pulled from the competition when it was discovered that the IOC would hold perpetual intellectual property rights to the winning mascots.
Ded Moroz had been an early favorite in informal polling, but the Russians weren't about to let Jacques Rogge slap their Santa on any cereal box or Eurovision commercial that came calling. Either that, or Putin had Santa Claus killed, so the snowboarding leopard, his personal favorite, would win.


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A Deloitte survey conducted in early September and released this week found shoppers expected to spend 9 percent more this holiday season than they did in 2012.
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Still, the trade group expects total holiday sales to increase 3.9 percent over last year, to $602.1 billion.
The federation blames this year's lack of consumer confidence on the recent government shutdown. The gridlock in Washington caused many shoppers to question the stability of the economy and, consequently, their own finances. Nearly 30 percent of consumers surveyed said the shutdown would likely affect their spending plans, and half said the overall economy would affect their plans. Nearly 80 percent said they plan to spend less overall.
"We expect consumers to set a modest budget for gifts and other holiday related purchases as they wait and see what will become of the U.S. economy in the coming months," said National Retail Federation CEO Matthew Shay.
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They will also be cutting back on themselves as they look for ways to save money, with 57 percent planning to treat themselves to something, compared with 59 percent last year. Those who still intend to take advantage of sales during the holiday season to "self-gift," expect to spend $129.62 this year, down about $10 from last year.
The majority of shoppers, 66 percent, expect retailers to offer better prices and discounts this year because of the economy, a PriceGrabber.com survey found.
"Retailers can expect to see practical and refined attitudes from their customers this holiday season as families make thoughtful decisions about what they need to buy and what they can pass on," said Pam Goodfellow, director of Consumer Insights for Prosper Insights & Analytics, which conducted the survey for the National Retail Federation.
To spread out costs, avoid crowds and take advantage of pre-holiday sales, four in 10 Americans say they will begin their holiday shopping before
Both the retail federation and Deloitte found that consumers care about price and promotions as important factors when they decide where to shop.
More than half will shop online, with the average person completing about 40 percent of their shopping on retail and other company websites, the NRF survey says. Shop.org, the federation's digital division, expects online holiday says to grow as much as 15 percent, to $82 billion.


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At night with all but a full moon overhead, the Parthenon is lit and golden, almost a place of dreams as it sits there on that high rock over the city.
And so, on my first night here, on the rooftop restaurant of the Hotel Grand Bretagne, looking at the iconic ruin with fellow Americans of Greek descent, it was easy to talk of Greece's economic troubles as just some temporary setback, in the context of history and of Hellenistic glories of old.
But there is real pain here, and despair, and it's in the present. And I couldn't help wonder if I was also looking at America's future. That's partly what I came to find out.
"You're a journalist?" asks Katina, at a kiosk selling newspapers near Constitution Square. "Will the politicians find the solution?"
She laughed with her voice, but her eyes were flat and they weren't smiling.
Of course you can see what's happened, can't you? The government continued to grow, feeding an entrenched, carnivorous bureaucracy that smothered entrepreneurship.
And the people, having been taught to trade votes for favor, couldn't help but flock to political parties for special benefits delivered to them by political leaders. These leaders increased their power by increasing government services.
It is a corruption that includes everything from do-nothing patronage jobs to luxurious public pensions, to university admission for the children of the politically blessed. And no real means to pay for it all except to increase taxes on the private sector, which uses political influence of its own to cut its taxes or avoid paying them altogether.
Finally, it was inevitable that the money would run out. The people lost their confidence. So no wonder it's a catastrophe.
No, I'm not just talking about Greece. I'm talking about back home too. The bill hasn't come fully due yet in America. It will. But it's past due in Greece, and guess who pays?
Here, the Greek people pay.
For decades after the war, politicians spent whatever they could borrow. It was a system that built power for the lords of the political machinery, and with power came great personal wealth. Even a moron should have realized that such a system was completely unrealistic and unsustainable.
Sound familiar?
And while patronage workers still keep their jobs here, massive layoffs have come in the private sector. Some 50 percent of young people in Greece are unemployed. Many have had their wages cut, others have lost their jobs entirely. Costs continue to rise.
"I kill myself standing on my feet, and the guy with the political job, he has everything, and I have nothing," said Spyros, who works as a waiter nearby.
Spyros is in his 30s. He is thin and tired. He can't afford a family. He doesn't fit the stereotype of the Greek who sits lazily in the cafes, any more than a stereotypical Chicago political hack describes most Americans.
The reason? Spyros isn't a political hack.
"These politicians are bloodsuckers," Spyros tells me in Greek. "And the public sector workers, they're bloodsuckers. When the politicians even talk of cutting them, they organize, they scream, they yell, and the politicians become afraid.
"But you are going to see changes coming here," he said, no longer angry, but rather flat, a man resigned to natural law, the way you might be resigned to gravity if you saw a ball rolling off a table and knew there was nothing to stop it from falling.
"The changes are coming," he said, "maybe not this election, but the next."
And that's what concerns many. In a few weeks, there will be elections, and so far polling suggests that neither of the main parties, the left-leaning PASOK and the center-right New Democracy party, will win outright.
This means that the same parties that helped ruin the economy will form a coalition, and this coalition is also expected to fail, as other parties on the hard left and right play the populist card and attract support from a weary and frightened people.
I left Chicago on Saturday, flying on Turkish Airlines, first to Istanbul and then to Athens. And after a few days here, it's on to Istanbul, to see a people who are excited and confident about the future.
Not so here.
"For the general population, there's a severe sense of despair," said Marina Terkourafi, director of modern Greek studies at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "There's a basic lack of trust in the ability of politicians."
"The initial reaction a few years ago was to blame the politicians," she said. "Now, they're beyond blaming. Now there is no faith in the system."
They're depressed now, yes. But they've been through so many catastrophes, mostly ignored by the world.
They lost their empire. They suffered 400 years of occupation. And during World War II, it is estimated that at least 100,000 people starved to death on the streets of Athens. Then they endured a debilitating and vicious civil war.
And through all that time, for more than 2,000 years, the sunlight on the Parthenon hasn't changed.
Poets and artists have wondered about the sunlight of Greece for thousands of years. It's not the flat, thin sunlight of the far northern countries. Nor is it that heavy, rounded and almost voluptuous light of the rain forests along the equator.
It is unique light, clear and clean, bathing the Parthenon, which looks down over an exhausted people.
But even now, after the first rush of anger, and amidst the settling despair, I can almost sense an optimism building. At least I'd like to hope so, that perhaps the economic crisis has empowered them to make changes, and see things clearly.
The way a Chicago newspaper columnist, an American in the land of his father and grandfathers, can see it, that special sunlight, falling on the Parthenon.
At night with all but a full moon overhead, the Parthenon is lit and golden, almost a place of dreams as it sits there on that high rock over the city.


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Watching the Solar Eclipse 2012 Live via a webcast isn't a sure thing. The skies might be clouded over at the camera location. There could be technical difficulties. And even if everything works, the webcast could freeze up if the video server becomes overwhelmed with traffic.
Here are a few of the web links for Sunday May 20 Solar eclipse Live Streaming webcasts over a laptop/computer screen or smartphone:
- Slooh Space Camera: The Slooh website has organized a series of Live Webcasts from Japan, California, Arizona and New Mexico, accompanied by commentary from Astronomy Magazine columnist Bob Berman and Lucie Green, a BBC commentator and solar researcher at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory. The show gets started at 5:30 p.m. ET Sunday, when the eclipse will be just getting good in Japan. Prime time for the webcasts from the American West will kick in around 8 p.m. ET.
- Eclipse Live from Fujiyama: Panasonic set a solar-powered Live Webcast from high atop Japan's Mount Fuji, which is inside the track of annularity. The team will charge up batteries from an array of electricity-generating solar cells at a base camp, then carry the batteries up to the camera site. Video coverage via Ustream is due to start up at 5 p.m. ET.
- Hong Kong Observatory: The webcast from Hong Kong is due to begin at 5:41 p.m. ET.
- Live-Eclipse: Japanese eclipse-chasers plan to be webcasting via Ustream at 6 p.m. ET.
- More from YokosoNews: This page from the Japanese news site lists lots of webcasts, generally beginning at 5 p.m. ET or later.
- More from Ustream: Do a search on "eclipse" and you'll find all sorts of Ustream goodies, from 5 p.m. ET onward. One user is promising a video stream from the northern tip of Taiwan starting at 4:50 p.m. ET.
- AstroBob's viewing guide: Duluth photographer Bob King provides a vivid guide to the phases of an annular eclipse and also links to AstronomyLive.com as a potential source of webcasts.
- University of North Dakota: UND's SEMS (Sun Earth Moon Systems) team is organizing an eclipse webcast from Shasta College in Redding, Calif. The streaming is due to begin at 8 p.m. ET, and there's a chat window that lets you compare notes with other eclipse fans. The UND team has been doing eclipse webcasts since 2004, so they've built up a loyal following over the years.
- Scotty's Sky: Skywatcher Scotty Degenhardt is promising an unconventional webcast of the annular eclipse via his iPhone from Area 51's "Black Mailbox," a popular gathering place for UFO fans in the Nevada desert. The show is set to start at 8:10 p.m. ET.
- Exploratorium in Second Life: Speaking of "unconventional" … San Francisco's Exploratorium science center is planning to provide information about the eclipse in the Second Life virtual world. If you're a Second Life resident, set a course for Exploratorium Island.


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DOVE VALLEY — I spoke with a handful of folks from Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon while reporting a story on new Bronco safety Brian Dawkins.
And every person I spoke with had the same initial comment: Everyone in Denver is going to LOVE him.
Then these same people proceeded to tell me just how sad pretty much the entire city of Philadelphia is to have lost Dawkins. Dawkins played 183 games for the Eagles, and his 13 years in the City of Brotherly Love made him the longest-tenured athlete there.
Ike Reese, a former Eagle linebacker, who now hosts a daily sports talk radio show, said that "90 to 95" of his callers to Friday's show — while it was becoming more and more clear that Dawkins was about to be a Bronco — were quite upset.
"Some people calling up to the radio station, literally breaking down. Then there are the ones calling up saying they're mad, 'I'm not renewing their season tickets,'" Reese said. "Guys here are livid right now."
That anger though is all directed at the Eagles organization, not Dawkins. The travesty, fans seem to think, is that the Eagles managed to let Dawkins even get to free agency. Once the Eagles let him go, no one can really blame him for looking for a better offer.
Dawkins made a concerted effort Saturday afternoon not to talk about the Eagles. It was a classy and professional move. Also, it probably kept him from getting too emotional on what was otherwise a happy occasion. (Check out the this interview Dawkins did with a Philadelphia station. CLICK HERE!! Dawkins was too emotional to finish the interview.)
Since the old-fashioned print edition newspapers only have so much space, and Dawkins is quite the talker, there wasn't nearly enough room in Sunday's paper to include all of the interesting things he had to say. So here's a couple more nuggets that didn't make it into the final story.
– Dawkins said he didn't consult with any of his Eagle teammates while making the decision to leave. All of his conversations stayed within his family (and his agent, of course). The hardest person to sell on the decision to leave was his 9-year-old daughter Brionni. "My son goes with the flow. He's a happy go lucky guy, but it was real tough on my daughter, 9 years old, and having to move up here was tough on here," Dawkins said. She warmed up to the idea, though, Dawkins said, after the whole family arrived in Denver and started looking around. "I think once got up here and saw the mountains … cnce they saw that, it made it a little easier."
– Dawkins said he hadn't yet spoken with Champ Bailey, but was looking forward to meeting him. He said the fact that the Broncos had Bailey — another elite defensive back and perennial Pro Bowler — is a positive, though it didn't factor into his decision to sign here. "I will say it was a huge plus. Huge plus. I've my opportunity to play with some pretty good cornerbacks, and I know good cornerbacks like that make my job a lot easier. He's definitely one of those great cornerbacks," Dawkins said.
– Dawkins met fellow free agent signee Renaldo Hill, also a safety, on Friday. "I don't know whose smile was bigger, mine or his," Dawkins said. "With the help of the coaches and the faith of the fans, man, we're going to try to do a job back there in the back half, what I call it, with the safeties that will make you proud."
– Dawkins is aware that the Broncos are scheduled to play at Philadelphia next season, but said that at this point, he's not worried about it. "That game will take care of itself. When we get there, we can talk a little more," Dawkins said. Trust us, Brian, we'll take you up on that.
– Dawkins said he has no issues with the fact that he's a couple of years older than his head coach. Dawkins will turn 36 in the middle of the 2009 season. Josh McDaniels is 32, but will turn 33 years old later this spring. "Wisdom doesn't care about age. If you're wise, you can be 13-14, if you've read enough books and have the capacity to absorb things, you're going to be wise in those areas," Dawkins said. "That doesn't stop me at all. If Josh says something, I'm going to take it to heart and I'm going to believe 100 percent what he says it is the right way to do it, and I'm going to go full speed in that direction."


text: This time every year, I tell myself I'm going to be strong and not acknowledge the start of yet another go-round with "24." Invariably, I cave in and write a column about the return of "24." Here we go again. "24" kicks off its eighth season at 9 tonight on WJW-TV 8 with back-to-back episodes. The drill is the same Monday, but the start time is 8 p.m. On many levels, my distaste for Fox's most popular drama series rises to contempt. "24" is, at its core, wish fulfillment for right-wing zealots who are utterly convinced this world would be a better, safer place with more torture in it and several million real-life equivalents of "24" hero Jack Bauer kicking butt now and never asking questions. Conservative radio yakker Rush Limbaugh, currently scraping the bottom of the barrel by using the tragedy in Haiti to fuel the fire of his endless hate campaign against liberals, is a huge fan of "24." To many of my left-leaning readers, Limbaugh's endorsement of anything is the kiss of death. So why am I already this deep into and about to go deeper with another consideration of "24"? Because it isn't just a hate thing with me and "24." It's a hate-love thing. I hate "24" for its manipulation, violence, taste for torture and numbing predictability. Just as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Jack Bauer will somehow survive another journey through the dregs of hell to save this country. And then there is the indisputable fact that no show in the history of television ever has had so much dialogue delivered into the mouthpieces of cellular telephones. Hate that, too. But there are some things I love about "24," starting with its uncanny knack for establishing and maintaining a high level of suspense. I don't like a lot of what I'm seeing and hearing on "24," but, by God, I can't take my eyes of the screen. That has a lot to do with a blend of acting, writing, directing, camera work and storytelling devices such as the show's trademark digital clock and split-screen intros and exits. "24" is distinctive in its look, feel and sound. I don't like its politics, but I love its verve. Having waded through the episodes airing tonight and Monday, I can report "24" opens its eighth season in promising fashion. Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) is "out of the game" as the first episode begins. He's kicking back in a New York City hotel room, baby-sitting his adorable granddaughter. The plan is for Jack to move back to Los Angeles to be near his daughter, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert), her husband and daughter. "OK, guys, I'll see you at the airport in an hour," Jack says. Fat chance. Faster than you can say, "Jack is back," a knock on the door of his hotel room produces a former informant who is wounded and being chased by professional killers. The snitch tells Jack he knows about a plot to assassinate Omar Hassan (Anil Kapoor, "Slumdog Millionaire"), the president of a Middle Eastern country. He is at the United Nations to sign a an agreement with U.S. President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) to end his country's program to develop nuclear weapons. Jack is not initially an eager warrior, but his mindset changes after a meeting with his daughter. "I've never known you to walk away from something like this," Kim tells him during a meeting at the sleek New York City office of the Counter-Terrorism Unit. This cast of characters is a mix of old and new. Along with Jack, returnees include computer wiz Chloe O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), presidential aide Ethan Kanin (Bob Gunton) and former FBI agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching). Newcomers are New York CTU boss Brian Hastings (Mykelti Williamson, "Forrest Gump"), CTU data analyst Dana Walsh (Katee Sackhoff, "Battlestar Galactica") and CTU agent Cole Ortiz (Freddie Prinze Jr., "Scooby-Doo"). In the fourth episode, Jurgen Prochnow begins to make his considerable presence felt as a Russian smuggler looking to sell enriched nuclear material. Notwithstanding all those negative feelings for "24," this is a show I rarely miss.


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Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama sought Dr. Phil McGraw's guidance to fix their relationship on Thursday's "Tonight Show."
Jimmy Fallon reprised his role as Putin and appeared alongside Obama impersonator Dion Flynn to settle issues between the two world leaders on "Dr. Phil," beginning with their communication.
"Look, I am the one who's always reaching out. You know. I call and he doesn't pick up. I send a text and three days later I get a text back that says 'sorry I just got this'," Obama said. "B**** you know I am spying on you! I know you read it three days ago."
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"You are smothering me. I get about twenty text messages from this guy. It's like I am a teenage girl and he's James Franco," Putin said, joking about the actor's recent controversy.
Dr. Phil asked if Putin had been ignoring Obama's calls.
"Well, look I've been wrapped up in 'Game of Thrones,'" Putin said.
"The TV show?" Dr. Phil asked.
"No, my life," Putin said.
Then, Putin made a joke about Obama's signature healthcare law.
"Now you see that's the problem right there," Obama said. "Dr. Phil he keeps putting up walls and I try and try but just I can't get through."
"You mean like Obamacare website?" Putin quipped.
Dr. Phil gave the duo one of his trademark Dr. Philisms.
"Hey, You can't build a bridge with two hammers," Dr. Phil said.
Eventually, Dr. Phil was able to make the two connect and ended the segment with a group hug.
Watch the hilarious skit above.


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The Hand Bookbinders of California celebrate their 38th Annual Members' Exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library. The exhibition features the work of professional bookbinders, amateurs and students of the art and craft of hand bookbinding. Examples range from finely gold-tooled leather bindings to avant-garde artists' books, and innovative designs from the traditional to contemporary.
The Art of Hand Bookbinding: special tours by members of the Hand Bookbinders of California on the following Thursday mornings at 11a.m., June 24, July 8 and 22, and August 12. In the Skylight Gallery.