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In Other Words / A funny thing happened in the ice cream line
Published 6:03 am, Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The scene: A warm July afternoon. I am standing on line waiting to order ice cream. A young boy around 5, accompanied by his mother, shifts impatientlyi n front of me. There is time to kill as the line moves as slowly as a lazy summer day. He glances over and we exchange smiles. He continues to stare with a quizzical look both distracting and curiously flirtatious. Finally, unable to contain his composure, he looks up, cocks his headand asks the question that has been preying on his mind: "Are you a girl or a lady?"
The abruptness of his brief interrogation stops me short. It's both amusing and thoughtful, and completely unexpected. Children, in their innocence, have the ability to artlessly and creatively get to the point, and he is anticipating a reply.
"Both," I say, reminding myself that the girl inside me is still very much alive.
He shrugs it off, and seemingly satisfied with my response, swings around to the business at hand: ice cream.
For me, the question isn't as fleeting. I find myself ruminating. What about me seems both girlish and adult? Am I a strange agglomeration of the two, and which takes precedence over the other? His question confuses me. It's provocative and thought provoking, and I find myself straining for an answer that makes sense.
For a moment, I am catapulted back to a time when standing on ice cream lines was a ritualistic indulgence. I am not much older than my little ice cream friend and probably as inquisitive.The adults surrounding me seem intimidating by their largeness, and I am uncomfortably dependent upon them to satisfy my needs and wants -- needs as important as my safety and well-being, and as irrelevant as ice cream. I know my place: one dribble of disappointment and those parental giants can be withholding and punishing. If I become overbearingly zealous and childishly unwieldy, at a moment's notice, rewards can be relinquished.
But my size also allows for leniency. My childlike status permits me room to skillfully navigate around them, to apply charm and woo my parents into submission. Depending on how far I choose to go, they will decide if my acting out is acceptably appropriate, or if restrictions need to be applied.
Children instinctively know their limitations and how far they can stretch themselves before adults intervene and call it quits. In the end, the big people rule. Kids know that, and what they choose to do with that information is their one area of control.
Such thoughts, regressive though they are, flood my mind, accompanied by a slight sense of melancholy, so that even now as an adult, they instill in me empathy for children -- those "miniature prisoners" temporarily trapped their little worlds.
As an adult, I am still shrouded in smallness. While I grew emotionally and intellectually, and broke free form the confines of childhood, I remain height-challenged. Observing it now from an adult platform, the view is vastly different, but to a little boy on an ice cream line, my persona translates into either a large girl or a small lady, and he can't decide which. Admittedly, sometimes the two overlap even for me.
Are adult women supposed to look this small, or am I, in fact, a girl with strange appendages? My physical stature is indeed puzzling, and so he dares to inquire in order to set the record straight and make sense of what seems baffling. But something is amiss. I am, after all, on an ice cream mission. Do adults stand on ice cream lines in the middle of a July afternoon with the same enthusiasm as a kid? Is that part of his conundrum? I take note, and feel obliged to come to his recue.
All the while, his mother, seemingly oblivious to his momentary struggle, awaits word from her son on his ice cream selection. He finally settles on a vanilla cone. I will follow suit. Ice cream preferences often remain constant throughout life. I, the "girl" always preferred vanilla. The "lady" now requests the same.
I fast-forward, imagining that this boy's life will be filled with many questions even more significant and challenging than the one he poses now. New adventures await him at every turn, and ice cream will be but one of many pleasures he will encounter en route to his maturity. Bigger girls and ladies will fill his repertoire.
One of these days in some far-off distant future, he will be standing on another ice cream line where his own son or daughter will be shifting feet in eager anticipation of an ice cream treat. He will be tending to other's needs, and the roles will be reversed.
I wish for my little friend an easy passage into adulthood. I hope that his scraped shins will be few, his heartbreaks manageable, his concerns no more daunting than what he wrestles with today as we stand under the hot sun practically touching. And more than anything, may ice cream cones in the middle of an ordinary summer afternoon, remain a necessary requirement.
"Are you a girl or a lady?" he boldly rises to the occasion, and asks.
"Both," I tell him with conviction, and "both" I clearly am.
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Fiorentina wide man Juan Cuadrado is on Barcelona's six-man transfer list, it has been suggested in Spain this afternoon.
The Colombia international has been heavily linked with a switch away from Artemio Franchi this summer, with Juventus, Bayern Munich and the Blaugrana all thought to have registered an interest in his services.
But Catalan paper Mundo Deportivo report that the 26-year-old is one of the Camp Nou outfit's main targets for the summer transfer window.
New Coach Luis Enrique has targeted the Viola man as a potential replacement for the out-going Dani Alves, who looks to be on his way to Paris Saint-Germain.
The tactician sees Cuadrado as the ideal man to fill the void left by the Brazil international, despite playing in a more forward role for Vicenzo Montella's men.
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Awakened Imagination includes the bonus works "The Search" and "Prayer: The Art of Believing". Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was one of the most extraordinary and ardently practical spiritual thinkers of the past century. Writing and lecturing under the solitary name Neville, this modern mystic enthralled audiences with one simple, radical principle: the human imagination is God. Whatever you think and feel, Neville taught, you literally out-picture in your world. Here are three of Neville's most concise and persuasive statements on the creative powers of your mind: Awakened Imagination (1954); "The Search" (1946); and "Prayer: The Art of Believing" (1945). Each written at the peak of Neville's career, these works offer bracingly original ideas and easy-to-use methods, designed to produce immediate results in your life. Narrated by historian Mitch Horowitz (Occult America; One Simple Idea), this collection will leave you with a vastly expanded sense of your self-potential, and what it means to be human.
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You'll need to have a decent understanding of new thought or a very open mind to even scratch the surface with these works. If the word God puts you off don't even bother as you're already not understanding Neville. I've loved this audio which has filled in little pieces enhancing my own interpretation of this concept
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Neville Goddard is still very much the master of taking you to that place that you so desperately seek. Prepare to be directed, to discover and shift those stubborn emotional blockages that hinder your personal progress and growth.
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Anyone interested in the art and practice of manifestation must read every book written by Neville Goddard. He was way ahead of his time as a spiritual teacher. His basic message boils down to the supremacy of the human imagination and what you can do with it through committed, daily action. I highly recommend this book!
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By far my favorite Neville Godard book. This covers the whole gamet. Very enlightening. This is a dive right in for the good stuff kind of book.
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Hands on Microsoft's Windows 8.1 Update 1 – with pain relief for those suffering from "customer satisfaction issues" – is widely expected to be released in early April.
It'll probably coincide with the Build developer conference starting on 2 April. This spring update has already gone to computer manufacturers to install on their new machines, and in the last few days it has leaked out on the internet – meaning anyone who wants it can pull it off the Microsoft servers without waiting.
I've been giving it a try. The "satisfaction issues" addressed are intended to make life easier for users of non-touchscreen PCs who rely on the mouse and keyboard to get around.
I prefer to use a Thinkpad X-series laptop when traveling and covering trade shows – such as Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona last month – mainly due to the durability of the hardware.
For this, Linux-powered Ubuntu 10.x used to do me fine, it's unfussy and unobtrusive and uses the PC's resources well. That went out of the window when Ubuntu started smoking the Unity crack pipe. For longer documents, Word on Windows is simply a better tool than Word on any Mac. This all makes me the kind of "desktop and mouse user" Microsoft says it wants to make happier with 8.1 Update 1.
This is the Modern world...
Microsoft has implemented many excellent optimisations within Windows during the past five years, distancing the operating system's kernel from the version in Windows 7 and Vista. But despite this under-the-hood work, Windows 8.x has proved highly disruptive to users, IT managers and the entire PC industry, largely due to the touchscreen-friendly user interface changes Microsoft forced upon people in 2012.
There are a number of areas where Windows 8.x really caused problems. Familiar on-screen elements such as the pop-up Start Menu were removed. Secondly, software settings were scattered to the wind. Some disappeared altogether, some of the rest landed in a new Control Panel and others in apps; the older Control Panel remained. Another common "WTF!" provoker was printing: it seemed you couldn't easily print from most Metro Modern apps. WTF?
Fourthly, Windows 8 gave the user a shock when he or she flipped between traditional desktop applications and the elephantine new Modern apps and back again. This was a bit like reading a book in which random pages would be set in EXTRA LARGE TYPE – but you couldn't read ahead to see when they were coming.
Finally, the Modern apps seemed anything but modern: they represented a step-down in functionality. Nobody could argue that the Mail app was anything like as functional as Vista Mail.
Windows 8.1 Update 1 ...
For Windows tablet users, this wasn't an issue – these users weren't context switching, and didn't need continuity. They still found settings hard to find. But it was the fourth - the limited Modern functionality – that was the killer. Since then Android scaled up well into low cost 'slabs, while iPad apps are far more sophisticated. This left no reason to buy a Windows tablet. It was desktop users who had to shoulder the pain.
It's the Windows 8.1 Spring Update, the Windows you know and love. Note the horizontal scroll bar, redundant as there's nothing to scroll.
Subtle changes
At MWC in Barcelona last month, Joe Belfiori claimed that according to Microsoft's own user testing: "Users of touch devices are more satisfied than users were with Windows 7. But users of Windows 8 on non-touch devices were in general a little less satisfied".
The Windows 8.1 Update 1 gives a better non-touch experience, more hardware options, better IE compatibility for education and enterprise users, and the hardware requirements and licensing has been tweaked.
I found the UI changes are mainly small and subtle. More options are now available by right-clicking the mouse. Modern apps become Windowed Windows apps, bounded by traditional Windows conventions – they get a menu bar and close button. They also now appear on the Windows taskbar, although you can turn this off. They get a "live" preview thumbnail, just like in Windows 7, although this doesn't work for all third party apps. The popular Tube app just shows its icon as a preview.
The more useful shortcuts implemented in Windows 8, such as switching to the previous app, are retained. In Microsoft's taxonomy, though, "everything legacy" is considered one app, and bunched together as the "Desktop".
Everything legacy? Yes please...
Overall, given a Windows 8 machine, I found that banishing Modern was the best way to retain sanity. If one installed Start8 or a free equivalent, it was possible to refrain from plunging into the Modern environment for weeks at a time. If there was a need to run a Modern app, it could be tamed using ModernMix, which "Windows-ised" the app.
I found with the Windows 8.1 Update 1, I could dispense with ModernMix, even though I lost the ability to run the Modern-style app in a Windows. However, I'll probably opt to retain Start8 as it has extra conveniences, such as turning off Taskbar transparency and giving me right-click access to the Win-X menu.
Mystifying shrinkage
However inconsistencies remain. Users who preferred their window chrome to be dark, which is less distracting, have had to sacrifice legible title bar text since Windows 8 arrived. You cannot set the title bar text to be light against a black background. This is trivial, but it's pretty silly.
You still see a horizontal scroll bar on the Start screen, even when there's nothing to scroll. Why? And the Start screen retains a button that does a quite baffling miniaturisation. I'm not sure why.
A few tweaks is not enough
Some things require not just tweaks, but proper design decisions, and these have been ducked in the Update. For example, tablet-friendly corner activation has been retained, but this results in a very ugly overlay when the Taskbar is docked on the left. Here you can see it attempting to draw the Win 8 style switcher – but failing. After a bit of mouse wiggling, it works, eventually.
Another Windows 8 WTF moment.
It's trying to draw new-style thumbnails
over the old-style Taskbar
Almost everything in this "Spring Update" is welcome – and it's the most usable Win 8.x yet. But it doesn't really do any spring cleaning. Windows 8.x is still a shotgun marriage of two different UIs, and while it's easier to navigate around them, Microsoft doesn't grasp the nettle, and show any sign of long-term planning.
Metro Modern apps go on the taskbar, and get a little menu
Yet the one outstanding problem – the fourth in the list above – hasn't been solved by the tweaks, and will never be. This is that the Modern apps simply aren't very good.
Many, if not most, appear to have tumbled out of an industrial park in Malaysia. One or two do appear to come from a well-funded Western corporation with a history of design: Microsoft's own Bing News looks quite slick. Nokia Mix Radio does what it says on the tin. Viewer-style apps do OK.
In the ironically named "Personalization" box, you can choose
any title bar text colour you want - as long as it's black
But who, given the choice, would use the Modern Twitter app when the old, Desktop-style Tweetdeck is available? Who'd use Evernote Touch for Windows, when the Evernote app can be installed? The Touch version is really just a very crude viewer – it doesn't allow you to choose which Notebooks to sync. I have a Symbian-era third party Evernote client that does that. The "Modern" eBay and Amazon apps belong in a different universe to their iPad counterparts. And lastly, there's nothing as sophisticated as a fairly standard physics-based children's game, or music app, found in the iPad section of the iTunes Store.
So, for all the discomfort that's been inflicted on desktop Windows users, Microsoft needs to answer the question: has this been worth it? Is it time to "reimagine" Windows again, so that tablet and phone users get one experience, and PC Windows – if it has to do anything - simply provides a runtime for these phone and tablet apps?
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When Terence Hawkes from the University of Wales at Cardiff, along with an international editorial board, set out to produce the first volume of Textual Practice , he was wary about its future. Hawkes's introductory editorial begins with the disclaimer that, while there is never any good time to start a new journal, 1987 seemed an especially gloomy year for such purposes, for "the academic world in general feels itself to be under attack." And yet, Hawkes concluded his remarks with the assertion that "there was never a time when [a journal] such as Textual Practice was more necessary." The journal, which focuses primarily on literary T exts , while managing to keep sight of the broader study of textuality across disciplines, serves its purpose well. The role of Textual Practice has proven to be one of both the observer and the active participant, challenging existing S tructures in textual criticism; the articles in the journal are by and about major critics of the day. The lead article in the first issue, for instance is "The end of English," by Terry E agleton; the focus of the essay, in which he dwells on the effect of the influential journal Scrutiny , is the struggle between the study of "English" as a subject and C ritical theory , which sparks the interest of today's scholars. Eagleton ends with the claim that "the only conflict which finally matters is between the ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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May 16, 2014
Better Ocean Stewardship Called For By Researchers
NSU researcher joins colleagues to urge caution when exploring/exploiting deep oceansIt has been said that we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about our own planet's oceans. That especially applies to the deepest parts of our oceans – depths that are 200 meters or deeper.
Researchers from organizations around the world who specialize in studying and exploring the deepest regions of our oceans have come together to pen a cautionary tale that urges we take a critical look at how we're treating our seas.
"We need to consider the common heritage of mankind - when do we have the right to take something that will basically never be replaced or take millions of years," said Tracey Sutton, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Nova Southeastern University's (NSU) Oceanographic Center.
Sutton, along with scientists and professors from California to Germany to the United Kingdom have written a paper published by Science magazine that calls for increased stewardship when it comes to our oceans.
The paper addresses the many ways the oceans are currently being exploited (i.e. mining, over-fishing, etc.) and says that we have to "make smart decisions now about the future of the deep ocean." The goal is to reach a "happy balance" that weighs benefits of use against both direct and indirect costs of extraction, including damage to sensitive and yet unknown ecosystems.
"There's so much more we need to learn about these deep, mysterious places on our planet and our fear is some ecosystems and marine species will be eradicated before we even know they existed," said Sutton. "The deep ocean is already experiencing impacts from fishing, oil and gas development and waste disposal, and we are trying to get people to pause and see if there are better ways to do things before we negatively impact our seas."


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Most of us know that gardens and nature are good for us. And good for our children, too. Dirt is healthy for kids, but forcing them outdoors does not work the way it once did.
Baby boomers, as youngsters, got kicked out of the house after breakfast. We weren't allowed back until lunchtime. We got tossed out again and came home dirty for dinner. Boomers practically grew up outdoors. (Until I am sentenced to the lockdown unit of assisted living, I will wander around gardens and nature.)
In the meantime, it has been harder than anyone imagined unplugging our grown children—the selfie generation—and connecting millennials to salamanders and sassafras.
When smartphones arrived, less than ten years ago, it became possible to be outdoors, unhinged from a desktop. But mobility only added to the "nature deficit." There was a deepening disconnect to the natural world. Time-sucking social media and a flood of apps, designed to keep you staring at your smartphone, took a toll. There's a limit to multi-tasking. You can't Tweet and listen to a songbird at the same time—unless it's the mechanized chirp-chirp of the Twitter birdy.
Andrew Sullivan in New York magazine offers a first hand account of the misery caused by this "epidemic of distraction."
David Brooks, in a New York Times op-ed piece last week, entitled Intimacy of the Avoidant, used comedian Louis C.K. to fully lay out the problem: "You never feel completely sad or completely happy. You just feel kinda satisfied with your products (gadgets). And then you die."
While boomers edge toward smaller plots, a younger generation digs a deeper hole into virtual reality.
"…Google wants a mobile VR platform that doesn't just introduce people to virtual reality but makes them want to stay there."
My cousin Gene Bush, the writer and horticulturist, wrote, "If we gardeners cannot reach the next two generations of potential gardeners then the hobby, as we know and love it, will die a slow death."
It's not yet time for despair. Some seem to be finding their way out.
A few young outliers are poking around in gardens. In fact, I know dozens of these courageous Souls of the Dirt. Panayoti Kelaidis, the legendary plantsman and Director of Outreach at the Denver Botanic Gardens, has recently written about two extraordinary talents: Jeremiah Harris, the "insectivorous plant prodigy," and Kenton Seth, the "garden master and crevice crafter."
A few weeks ago, my 27-year-old nephew, Buz Hancock, emailed photos of three houseplants he raises on the top floor of his Chicago third-floor walkup. I identified his crop as a bromeliad, Celosia and a Chrysanthemum. "I got good taste, right?" he asked.
I couldn't have been happier if Buz had claimed bragging rights for flowering the relcalcitrant stinky corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum, in his bathroom.
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans teach Stanford University's hugely popular class, "Designing Your Life." In a recent New York Times story about their work, Burnett said: "One of the meta-narratives out there is that you should figure it out by 25, or maybe it's 27 now. Then there's the other thing of failure to launch, that millennials are slackers. Part of the permission we give people is: Reframe this. You're not supposed to have it figured out."
Be patient.
Millennials need encouragement.
Brie Arthur is reeling in timid adult gardeners and children. She is nurturing them with Brussels sprouts and brio. Brie, a graduate of Purdue University, with a degree in Landscape Design and Horticulture and a minor in entomology, earned her professional stripes in ornamentals in North Carolina. She worked for Montrose Gardens, Plant Delights Nursery and Camellia Forest Nursery.
And now, Brie travels the country, nearly every week, as a green industry consultant. She is focused on teaching and inspiring landscape contractors and independent garden centers. She has also established a foothold as a resource coordinator for school gardens.
"The school gardening initiative is the one that I hope to see explode," Brie said. "My first major venture, with the Bullock Elementary School in Glassboro, NJ, was just awarded the first NJ Farm to School award. The entire school district is following this lead and I am working with 12 schools around the US to transform their grassy campuses into foodscapes."
The 37-year-old Arthur understands the thread that holds us all together.
We eat.
Millennials love food.
The United States has an estimated 180 million acres of suburban land. A portion of that includes each home's footprint, but there's a lot of land left over for potential Yard to Table food.
Brie became interested in foodscaping when she bought her second home. Money was tight and she knew it would be cheaper to produce the food she wanted to eat. "So I started sneaking food crops into the home foundation landscape that I had inherited," she said.
"I lived in a neighborhood with Homeowner Association (HOA) restrictions and worried I would be fined. I began developing design strategies to meet my needs (and the needs of others interested in cultivating food) while abiding by the 'beauty rules.'"
Brie won her neighborhood's "Yard of the Year" in 2007.
She now dreams of a green, sustainable future where—in the front yard—there is an "intersection of edible plants in a traditional ornamental landscape."
Her first book, The Foodscape Revolution: Finding a Better Way to Make Space for Food and Beauty in Your Garden, will be released next year on March 15th at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Lloyd Traven, co-owner with his wife Candy of the progressive Peace Tree Farm, considers Brie Arthur "the face of the Green Industry." Brie shrugs this off and says, "It is a privilege to be considered a person with a relevant message."
"Dream big," Brie says.
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Juneau resident Elizabeth "Lib" Berry Maloch died Aug. 13, 2009, at the Juneau Pioneers' Home. She was 94.
She was born July 12, 1915, in Montgomery, Ala., to Gertrude Bledsoe Berry, of Montgomery, and John Herbert Berry, of Owensboro, Ky.
The family lived in Jackson, Tenn., until 1938, when they moved ot Jackson, Miss. She attended Nazareth Boarding School and graduated from high school and junior college in Nazareth, Ky.
She married James "Jimmie" Maloch in 1943, and they lived there until his death in 1997. They were blessed with two adopted babies, William "Bill" Maloch and Mary E. "Betsy" Truss in 1945 and 1950.
She was active in St. Richards Catholic Church in Jackson. She and her husband supported the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Her family said it was the love and excellent care at the Juneau Pioneers' Home in Juneau that sustained her.
"Her graciousness, sense of humor and loving manner will be greatly missed," they said. "Lib touched many lives, bringing light and warmth to all her friends and relatives. She leaves lasting and fond memories in their hearts."
She is preceded in death by her parents; sister, Eleanor Easterling; brother, John H. Berry III, who died during World War II; and adopted children, Bill Maloch, in 2006, and Betsy Truss in 2007.
She is survived by her grandchildren, Christy and Trey Truss; son-in-law, Cecil Truss, of Houston; daughter-in-law, Ann Maloch, of Chehalis, Wash.; nephew, Harold Moyer, of Naples, Fla.; and family and friends of Juneau, especially Rita Fischer, Bonnie Elder, Andy and Cindy Rakos, and Ethan Smith.
A memorial Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Juneau Pioneers' Home. A chocolate recpetion will follow. Memorial contributions may be made to the Juneau Pioneers' Home Donated Fund, 4675 Glacier Highway, Juneau AK 99801.
Condolences may be sent to Christy and Trey Truss, 7630 Pella, Houston, TX 77036, or Harold Moyer, 2614 Tamiami Tr. N. No. 200, Naples, FL 34103.
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DCist has a great editorial on city councilman Jim Graham's nonsensical reaction to the shooting of a teenage girl at a local club. Short version: Taleshia Ford, 17, goes to see an all-ages go-go show at a U Street club. Some asshole (illegally) brings a gun into the joint, gets into an altercation with the bouncer, and Ford is killed when the gun accidentally goes off. Graham's response: Pressure the liquor board to permanently revoke the club's license, and push legislation to bar minors from bars or clubs where liquor is served.
As DCist's Martin Austermuhle points out, this is just a bizarre reaction on several levels. First, there's no suggestion that Ford had been drinking, it's not even clear whether the shooter had been drinking, and there's no reason to think Ford's being underage really had anything to do with the situation: If she'd been 24 and standing in the wrong place at the wrong time, the outcome would have been the same. Second, the club doesn't seem to have done anything wrong here, unless Graham means to suggest that due diligence for bars and clubs (or maybe just those with predominantly black clientÃ?¨les?) includes screening patrons for (already illegal) weapons as a matter of course. Third, even if the club had dropped the ball somehow, and even if alcohol and the victim's age had been factors in the killing, it seems awfully rash to enact such a sweeping policy change in response to a single event, however awful. Details on how to register your opposition to the proposal are here.


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Update: Keith Olbermann says he will host a one-hour show beginning in the spring and have an executive role at Current TV, The New York Times reports.
The New York Times reports that Keith Olbermann has founded a place to land after MSNBC: Current TV.
Mr. Olbermann, his representatives and executives from Current TV declined to comment on the move, but they did not deny that the channel, which counts former Vice President Al Gore as one of its founders, will become at least one partner in Mr. Olbermann's future media plans.
….On Monday a public relations agency hired by Mr. Olbermann scheduled a Tuesday morning conference call for an announcement about his next job. "He and his new partners will make an exciting announcement regarding the next chapter in his remarkable career," the agency wrote in an e-mail.
Current TV has set up a presentation with advertisers for Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan to announce its future plans. The channel may be betting on Mr. Olbermann to put it on the cable map. The low-rated five-year-old channel needs the help. Targeting young people, it originally subsisted on YouTube-style submissions and video journalists. More recently it started producing and acquiring traditional television series, like repeats of "This American Life."
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Unless the name "Queen of England" is actually spoken in the episode, this should be "Queen of the United Kingdom". There is no current Queen of England; England has not had a separate throne since 1707. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk).
- Where is this even in the episode? I can't find any mention of "queen" or "brainwashing" or anything in the transcript. --OuroborosCobra talk 22:00, May 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Fixed. This wasn't in "Change of Heart", this was "A Simple Investigation". --OuroborosCobra talk 22:06, May 2, 2010 (UTC)
- "Queen of England" was used in the episode. So that's what it is. -- sulfur 22:14, May 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Yup, that's why I was trying to find the episode. Works better when we have the right citation ;-) --OuroborosCobra talk 22:50, May 2, 2010 (UTC)


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CLERMONT, Ind. - Notes from round 4 qualifying in Pro Stock at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 49th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:
Right Lane: Warren Johnson Runs 6.829/202.15, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.825/202.18, Was #11
Current weather conditions: 70 degrees, 55 percent relative humidity, the barometer 30.16 inches, with a track temperature of 104 degrees under sunny skies.
Right Lane: Kevin Lawrence Runs 6.928/199.79, Now #40; Best prior run: 6.920/199.37, Was #40
Left Lane: Bruce Allen Runs 13.680/60.80, Now #16; Best prior run: 6.835/201.43, Was #16
Right Lane: Kenny Koretsky Runs 6.915/198.88, Now #37; Best prior run: 6.909/198.06, Was #37
Allen had problems right off the starting line and clicked it off.
Left Lane: Eric Shelton Runs 6.995/198.64, Now #44; Best prior run: 7.352/196.59, Was #46
Right Lane: Jerry Haas Runs 6.901/199.49, Now #35; Best prior run: 6.894/199.67, Was #35
Shelton is the first one to improve today.
Left Lane: V. Gaines Runs 6.893/200.41, Now #30; Best prior run: 6.860/200.44, Was #30
Right Lane: JR Carr Runs 6.868/200.32, Now #32; Best prior run: 6.879/200.26, Was #33
Carr with a slight improvement, but not near enough to get in the show.
Left Lane: Larry Peternel No Time, Now #42; Best prior run: 6.964/197.22, Was #42
Right Lane: George Marnell Runs 6.830/201.10, Now #13; Best prior run: 6.834/200.83, Was #15
Peternel broke on the burnout. Marnell with the quickest 60-foot time of the session and picks up a couple spots.
Left Lane: Randy Daniels Runs 6.936/198.29, Now #36; Best prior run: 6.898/198.47, Was #36
Right Lane: Darrell Alderman Runs 6.849/200.86, Now #26; Best prior run: 6.863/200.35, Was #31
Alderman with his best pass of the weekend, but is still short of the show.
Left Lane: Bo Nickens Runs 6.868/200.35, Now #29; Best prior run: 6.856/200.50, Was #29
Right Lane: Mike Thomas Runs 6.862/200.56, Now #24; Best prior run: 6.844/200.86, Was #24
Left Lane: Robert Patrick Runs 6.859/200.86, Now #27; Best prior run: 6.851/200.71, Was #27
Right Lane: Scott Geoffrion Runs 6.854/201.37, Now #23; Best prior run: 6.844/202.45, Was #23
Left Lane: Tom Martino Runs 6.855/201.22, Now #28; Best prior run: 6.852/200.29, Was #28
Right Lane: Troy Coughlin Runs 6.852/200.80, Now #14; Best prior run: 6.833/201.79, Was #14
These two are back after being shut off earlier.
Left Lane: Allen Johnson Runs 6.832/201.55, Now #14; Best prior run: 6.845/201.40, Was #25
Right Lane: Mark Pawuk No Time, Now #23; Best prior run: 6.839/200.74, Was #22
Pawuk broke on the burnout. There was a lot of smoke rolling out of Pawuk's car, Pawuk got out of the car. Johnson with a nice launch and was able to get back into the show here and that bumped out Allen. Apparently it was electrical fire.
Left Lane: Gene Wilson Runs 6.816/201.58, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.837/202.55, Was #20
Right Lane: Barry Grant Runs 6.881/199.14, Now #22; Best prior run: 6.839/201.07, Was #22
Wilson with the run of the session here when everyone else is slowing down Wilson made the big move. He goes from the outside into the top half of the show. That bumped out Stanfield.
Left Lane: Dave Connolly Runs 6.840/201.73, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.823/202.03, Was #11
Right Lane: Steve Johns Runs 11.701/74.78, Now #21; Best prior run: 6.839/202.70, Was #21
Johns made a quick move toward the wall right off the starting line and clicked it off. No help here for Connolly.
Left Lane: Taylor Lastor Runs 6.829/201.76, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.822/201.82, Was #10
Right Lane: Mark Whisnant Runs 6.843/201.16, Now #19; Best prior run: 6.836/201.28, Was #19
Left Lane: Mike Edwards Runs 6.823/201.22, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.816/201.49, Was #8
Right Lane: Steve Schmidt Runs 6.848/201.73, Now #13; Best prior run: 6.830/201.37, Was #13
Left Lane: Larry Morgan Runs 6.811/201.85, Now #5; Best prior run: 6.812/203.43, Was #5
Right Lane: Greg Stanfield Runs 6.849/201.01, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.834/201.16, Was #17
Morgan with a real nice pass here, quick for the session and wilson is second quick.
Left Lane: Jim Yates Runs 6.810/201.76, Now #4; Best prior run: 6.810/202.97, Was #4
Right Lane: Jason Line Runs 6.866/202.73, Now #9; Best prior run: 6.819/202.21, Was #9
Yates with the quickest pass of the session. Line had some smoke right off the starting line.
Left Lane: Greg Anderson Runs 6.813/202.88, Now #3; Best prior run: 6.786/205.01, Was #3
Right Lane: Ron Krisher Runs 6.842/200.95, Now #6; Best prior run: 6.814/201.73, Was #6
Left Lane: Jeg Coughlin Runs 7.759/131.73, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.785/204.63, Was #2
Right Lane: Kurt Johnson Runs 6.807/202.79, Now #1; Best prior run: 6.778/203.77, Was #1
Johnson with a great pass the quickest pass of the session. We finish with Kurt number one and Troy holding on to the number 16 spot.


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Les28 10:07 06 Dec 2011
You saved the attachments from the email to My Pictures did you?
When you say icons, do you mean the thumbnail images are not blurred in My Pictures?
Hover the mouse pointer over the thumbnails in My Pictures, what are the dimensions of the pictures 300X400 etc and the size in Kb's, and did they view larger and not blurred when in your email program?
Just wondering if they were sent as small pictures in the first place, in which case enlarging them will just make them blurry. If that were the case maybe they could they be re-sent in a larger size?


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I don't want this blog to be all about me, I want us to talk about you as well but until I have followers (leaders!) I will talk a bit about my experiences and hopefully it will start a discussion.
I've always wanted to be an actress and to date I've had some success! I was on a National children's show in Canada, I've guest starred on a couple TV series, shot a few Lifetime movies, done some commercials and voice work… I'm grateful. I don't, however, have any connections in Hollywood, I didn't get started when I was a kid and I'm Canadian. I think all these things have worked against me "making it big." I also don't have a "Hollywood nose." At least that's what an industry makeup artist told me.
I have a unique nose. It's wider than the noses you typically see on the girls in Hollywood. It has a funny bridge, its kinda wide and turned up. Don't get me wrong, I doubt if you saw me in person you'd find my nose offensive (my husband even thinks its cute) – but in a closeup on camera I guess it doesn't look as good as a small, dainty nose that can be lit easily (quickly) from all sides (lighting is a big thing.) Basically, there is an argument that certain noses look beautiful from all angles.
When I was in elementary school a bully named Ashley called me "pig nose" every day. "I must be ugly" I thought.
Sitting in a makeup chair twenty years later being told by my makeup artist that "I don't have a Hollywood nose" I wondered if a girl like me, talented or not, would be awarded acting roles with a nose like mine.
But looks shouldn't matter if I was a good actor, right? And at the risk of sounding like I'm bragging I think I am a good actor. I work hard at it. I worked hard in theatre school and I'm always training to have good technique… But looks do matter in Hollywood, they matter a lot, so much that sometimes it feels like having good technique is less important than having good looks.
When I was starting out as an actress, my soon-to-be-agent told me I'd "never be the lead but instead I'd be the lead's best friend" – (He hadn't seen me act yet, he made this assumption based solely on my looks.)
Sure, there are unattractive people working in Hollywood but only a handful. Far and away, the type of girl that gets acting work has big wide set eyes, a smaller sized nose, full lips and she is probably thinner and more fit than anybody we actually see walking around the streets in our day to day lives.
But aren't actors and actresses meant to tell human stories? Humans aren't all perfect looking. Would you still pay to see movies if the actresses had wrinkles, freckles, body fat…?
I have a red carpet coming up in a week for a new series I'm in (I play the lead's best friend.) I also had a baby four months ago so I'm twenty pounds heavier than I was when I shot the show. Yesterday I burst into tears because I know the producers, my co-stars, crew and media will notice that I'm "heavier" and in this business being in less than perfect shape as an actress can make you seem less legit.
Do I get red carpet points for being the happiest and most fulfilled I've ever been in my life being a mom? I doubt it.
What are your thoughts on "perfect" looking actresses (and actors?) xoxo


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Creme de Menthe Sprinkled Brownies
35 HERSHEY'S BLISS Creme de Menthe Milk Chocolates, divided
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
4 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Remove wrappers from chocolates. Cutting from corner to corner, cut each chocolate into 4 triangles; set aside.
2. Melt butter in medium saucepan over low heat. Add sugar and cocoa; stir to blend. Remove from heat. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Stir together flour, salt and baking soda; stir into chocolate mixture. Spread in prepared pan.
3. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until brownie starts to pull from edges of pan and is set. Cool 25 minutes; sprinkle chopped candies over surface. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into squares or triangles. About 36 brownies.


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MITTON--Stanley. Retired director for foreign emergency response of Church World Service of the National Council of Churches and a consultant to the U.N. Disaster Relief Organization, died August 15 at 85. A retired major in the British Army, he was the first director of foreign emergency operations for the World Council of Churches in Geneva. He leaves his wife, Ruth Ray Mitton; two sons from a former marriage, Anthony and Bernard; and two grandchildren. A celebration of his life in the fall.


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Gerald L. Chafin hoped putting famous poems to music would be successful. He didn't expect it to result in a repeat performance.
But on Sunday, Nov. 22, the Lindsey Wilson choral ensembles will reprise their recent performance of "The Poets Sing: Musical Settings of Distinguished Poems." The performance will be 8 p.m. ET at Columbia Baptist Church, 201 Greensburg St. The concert is free and open to the public.
"The Poets Sing" was performed Nov. 2 to a standing-room-only audience.
A children's play isn't just for children. In the mind of Lindsey Wilson College Associate Professor of Communication Susan Minton, the story of Cinderella is a timeless escape for adults and children alike "from what might be a bad day."
Students in Minton's theater classes will perform "Cinderella" at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, Nov. 19 in Lindsey Wilson College's V.P. Henry Auditorium. The performance, which will come after two days of performing it for area school children, is free and open to the public.
Those who read Lexington's LexScene magazine might recognize the face on the current issue's cover, Campbellsville native Hannah Ellis.
Ellis, 19, is a freshman at the University of Kentucky.
She said the opportunity to be on the cover came after her father, David, sent out information about her singing aspirations and a demo CD to several places interested in new artists. LexScene's editor heard her music and gave her a call.
"The editor said, 'You're exactly what we're looking for for our cover,'" she said.
Several local organizations have scheduled events to make sure no one misses out on the upcoming holiday season.
For the entire community, volunteers have nearly finished hanging holiday lights and displays throughout Miller Park.
According to Assistant City Clerk Janet Mills, park and street employees began hanging the lights three weeks ago.
Mills said money for the lights is included in the City's park budget, though donations are being accepted.
The Campbellsville man shot by police after he allegedly threatened another person with a weapon has been sentenced to probation and ordered to receive treatment for his drug addiction.
Adam Douglas Powell, 23, of 506 Woodlawn Ave. pleaded guilty to amended charges against him in October and was ordered to serve 30 days in jail. He appeared before Circuit Court Judge Dan Kelly on Tuesday, Nov. 17 for sentencing.
Two people were injured in a three-car collision Wednesday at the intersection of Lebanon Avenue and Maple Street
According to Campbellsville Police, a 2002 Pontiac driven by Annie Roots of Campbellsville pulled into the path of a 2000 Chevrolet driven by James Holland of Greensburg.
Police said the force of Holland's vehicle caused the Roots' vehicle to also collide with a 2004 Toyota being driven by William B. Ford, which was stopped on Maple Street.
The Salvation Army is looking for a few good bell ringers.
The annual Salvation Army Red Kettle Drive will begin on Nov. 27 and continue through Christmas Eve. However, the effort hinges entirely on volunteers.
As of last week, there were just 15 volunteers signed up, according to Cindy Wright, volunteer coordinator of the local effort along with Tammy Cornell.
"We would like to have the weekend hours filled," Wright said.
Several Taylor County Middle School students were part of an experiment last week, or at least they played the part.
The students performed the comedy "American Idle" at Campbellsville University's theater last Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The comedy, written by Craig Sodaro, was produced by a special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service Inc. of Englewood, Colo.
Kiel Thorlton, a CU drama student, directed the play.
A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with cruelty to animals after local animal control officers found a dead, malnourished animal on his property.
Otis R. Webb, 64, of 106 Oriole Lane was arrested Tuesday, Nov. 10.
According to Webb's arrest citation, Taylor County Animal Control officers seized eight dogs, five chickens, a bird and a cat at his rental property on Phillips Road.
The citation states that Webb had no proof that the animals had been vaccinated for rabies, he didn't have a dog kennel license and five of the dogs were malnourished.
Campbellsville University will open the 2010 season in February where 2009 left off — ranked No. 9 in the NAIA Baseball Coaches' Poll. The Tigers have 503 points in the 2010 preseason poll released Tuesday.
Coach Beauford Sanders' Tigers finished the 2009 season with a 39-12 record and its fifth-straight Mid-South Conference Championship.
CU went on to advance to the NAIA World Series for the first time in program history.
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Last Updated: 3/24/2018 4:45 AM
Description for 4242 S Blackhawk Circle BLDG 4 UNIT 4E, Aurora CO, 80014
Beautiful property well located to Cherry Creek State Park and the Denver Tech. Center. Living room and dining room are combined to form a great room. Unit has high ceilings and covered patio.
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Sold Date:03/27/2015
2 Full
1,461 (approx)
Beautiful property well located to Cherry Creek State Park and the Denver Tech. Center. Living room and dining room are combined to form a great room. Unit has high ceilings and covered patio.
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Have a yard and want to grow your own fresh fruit?
Richmond and the nonprofit group Self Sustaining Communities are holding another giveaway of fruit trees and seeds starting at noon Friday at the Civic Center Farmer's Market behind the Richmond Auditorium.
City staff members will join Tom Burchell of Burchell Nursery, which donated the 1,000 trees being distributed, to hand out trees and seeds and answer questions. The first-come, first-serve event will also have free home compost pails and reusable bags available.
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Spooks BBC1
Jamie's Return to School Dinners C4
Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets BBC1
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire BBC1
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive BBC2
The job of a good spy thriller is to lead us on an elaborate narrative dance. But in Spooks the plot doesn't just twist, it also jives, lambadas and pogos, often at the same time. The effect is not so much an intellectual tango as you've been Tango'd.
'I don't understand what's going on at all. With everything,' complained the prime minister's son in the frenetic opening two-parter of the new series. And you could only sympathise.
The head of MI6, a media magnate and a captain of industry had joined forces to stage a coup d'etat under cover of a false al-Qaeda threat. The PM's son was on the run from secret service kidnappers. Liberty's perfectly charming Shami Chakrabarti had been interned - or rather her fictional stand-in. A graffiti campaign was blighting the land with the inscrutable announcement 'Djakarta is coming'. And the only man who could save the nation from oligarchy ought, by rights, to have been convalescing in intensive care, having been shot in the chest by a high velocity bullet just a matter of weeks before.
Luckily the bad guys also seemed limited to one rather overworked heavy, who was charged with assassinations, downing passenger aircraft and slapping Shami about. By the time his knee-caps met the business end of a baseball bat in a busy denouement, the poor chap looked utterly exhausted.
It's silly, of course, to parse Spooks for credibility - a point-missing exercise that's akin to assessing The X-Factor for the quality of its metaphysical discourse. Though perhaps that's an unfortunate analogy. As Roger Allam's enjoyably olympian press baron put it: 'The British people will put up with anything as long as you serve it up with a picture of Will Young in the shower.'
Spooks, though lacking said picture, is no burden to put up with. It's fast, cleverly put together and it works. But it shows enough flashes of chilling realism to suggest that there is a slightly better programme to be made just a notch along the spook spectrum that runs from James Bond to Smiley's People
One case in point was the quietly terrifying scene in which the hapless techie, Colin, was hanged in a mocked-up suicide. For a welcome instant something sweaty and human cut through the show's generic heroism: fear. Then, alas, it was back to the car explosions and world domination.
It was noticeable that as democracy edged towards the brink of collapse the Prime Minister was nowhere to be seen in Spooks. No one could get through to him. Clearly MI5's big mistake was their failure to call for Jamie Oliver. As we saw in Jamie's Return to School Dinners, he can get to see the PM.
There he was with a shirt-sleeved Tony Blair in the garden of Downing Street in what may go down as one of the more surreal meetings of the current premiership.
'That sounds a bit wet, Tony,' said Oliver, as if he were talking to a backtracking lettuce salesman. Blair looked like he'd rather listen to a Jacques Chirac lecture on the Iraq war. 'I suppose, Tony,' Oliver continued, 'it's about delivery.'
Surely, if you're trying to secure more government funding, it would make sense to address the leader of the country as 'Prime Minister'. Or maybe that's a rather square outlook and Blair should be grateful that at least Oliver didn't address him as 'Tone'.
In the event, Blair promised the cash and pretty much left it to Oliver to formulate the plan to feed the nation's ill-nourished schoolchildren. Wise man. Now it's Oliver who will have to tell parents that they're feeding their children crap.
Dealing with the issue of parental choice is a more complex issue than the corporate greed of the catering industry that featured in Jamie's Return to School Dinners. In the first episode the parents were put on the back burner while Oliver turned his attention to a pub chef cooking school dinners.
The chef, who wore a samurai-style headband, was having problems with hygiene. 'I hit the woods running but there is a light out there,' he explained in what may have been a haiku. 'As long as you're going through those woods and cleaning those fridges,' Oliver replied.
The parents won't prove such easy meat. This time Oliver has bitten off more than they want their kids to chew.
The much hyped Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets had much to live up to. Aside from the advance publicity there was also the fact that almost every thinking adult believes the football industry to be a byword for corruption. After all, when Ashley Cole publicly admits to shaking with anger at the insult of a £55,000 per week pay offer, it's not just value that has been warped, but values.
So, as Jamie would say, the programme was about delivery. It needed either to prove what we already suspected or tell us something that we didn't. In both cases it failed. There was no revelation, no smoking gun, no money shot.
There was, however, a shot featuring money, which is not the same thing. We saw Knut auf dem Berge, a Dutch coach pretending to be a would-be agent, sitting on a hotel bed with a half-million pounds. He was waiting for an unnamed football manager who never showed.
Counting out his cash, he looked for all the world like a John who'd been blown out by a hooker. Professional football, though still young, has much in common with the oldest profession, except that those on the game appear more honest than those playing it. And Knut, as football fans like to sing, couldn't score in a brothel.
With his vague manner and social worker's wardrobe, he was less than a convincing presence in just about the brashest business on the planet. In the end, we heard a few shady agents claim that one manager likes a kick-back and saw another manager admit that he would like another team's player. Pass the smelling salts. Football, we can be confident, is full of dirty secrets. But like that manager in Knut's hotel room, we didn't get to see them.
Some people, and not just Ashley Cole, are never satisfied. Even though last year's Rome drama series featured extensive scenes of the delightful Polly Walker, sine veste, romping for our entertainment, some critics carped about historical inaccuracy.
Anyway, the BBC has come back with Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of an Empire, a six-part docudrama that aims to replace the mythical flesh with some hard bones of fact. In 'Nero', the first instalment, we found out that, contrary to legend, the emperor did not fiddle while Rome burned. Rather it was the other way round. Rome fiddled while Nero self-combusted.
Michael Sheen is an actor who knows how to inhabit the clothes of history. So deft was his portrayal of Tony Blair in The Deal that he could talk Turkey Twizzlers and the Naked Chef himself wouldn't know the difference. As Nero he was compelling enough to make you resent the intrusion of the documentary parts of the film. Though, to be fair, the documentary parts of the film were worthy of resentment on their own terms.
'Nero's assault on the temples was an act that would live in infamy, ' announced the narrator, unwittingly recalling the words of another Sheen subject, Kenneth Williams: 'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!'
One moment Nero was laughing and joking, the next he was kicking his wife to death. But all he really wanted to do was sing. Add those symptoms up and, once you had seen Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, it was obvious that the Roman was bipolar. Fry learned that he was suffering from manic depression after he walked out of a West End play. Before you start worrying about how often you've struggled to go back for the second act after the interval, it's worth pointing out that Fry was starring in the production.
In a sense this was two documentaries. One explored an anecdote that Fry told about a Hollywood agent. 'You don't need to be gay or Jewish to get on here,' said the agent. 'Just bipolar.' This documentary could have been called 'Stephen's Friends'. He visited Robbie Williams and Carrie Fisher in Los Angeles and heard their tales of extreme highs and suicidal lows.
We all know that money can't buy you happiness; none the less it required a good deal of mental effort to remember that wisdom when you saw the view from Williams's enormous terrace in the Hollywood Hills. I wanted to feel Robbie's pain but it didn't get a chance up against my overwhelming envy.
The other documentary looked at some members of the non-celebrity bipolar community - estimated to amount to 4 million in Britain. Their stories were harrowing and unrelieved by luxury. If the hopping around Hollywood section was manic, this was depressing. And, who knows, maybe that was the point.
Just one bum note
There was something of a collector's item last week for fans of The Sopranos (E4). The fourth episode of the latest series was a stinker. The show has been so consistently good, and not infrequently excellent, that it was
getting hard to imagine how it could ever go wrong.The answer lies in the writing. It turns out that if you put bad lines in Tony Soprano's mouth they do
not magically improve. And last Thursday Tony (played by James Gandolfini) had an awful lot of bad lines. Everything he and everyone else said was pregnant with phoney significance. Every message was signposted like a Vegas chapel.
In the past, The Sopranos has been criticised for ignoring black culture. As the story is concerned with Italian-American gangsters, that seemed like a lame swipe. But the black characters - cartoon cut-out rap singers - who appeared last week suggest the film-makers should stick to territory they understand.
Strangely, the duff episode only increased my admiration for the show as a whole. It's the tiny flaw that reveals beauty's hidden truth.