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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Comic 705: Held Hostage
Oh dear. As I see it, there are two giant horrible problems with this. I don't feel like writing too much so I'll go through them fast:
1, total nerd service. This is literally promoting sysadmins to actual heroic levels, making the anonymous admin a superhero, walking across glass, risking death, etc. In other words, not something a nerd computer dude would ever actually do. But how better to make your nerd fans happy than to suggest that many of them are heroes? After all, someone who does what the sysadmin in the comic does will probably get to have sex with people! people who are impressed with him or her.
2, holy lord, Randall! show don't tell! this is such a blatant example of it. Look at the story in this comic: A bunch of hostages are being held somewhere, a dude crosses over broken glass, kills his enemies - that's exciting. But what are the images we see to go along with it? A dude on a cell phone. That's...not as exciting. Instead of seeing the interesting events, we hear a guy talk about them with words. I'm not going to say it's because Randall is lazy and didn't feel like drawing something that complicated - wait, yes I am. Randall is lazy and if he had tried harder this comic would have been better.
3. I guess I lied, there's 3 things: The phrasings and pacing is real bad. Why does the guy on the other end of the phone not say the important stuff first? Why does he go "well it was all well and good, la dee da, do doo dooo, oh wait actually we're screwed cause of this one guy." Also, why does the on screen character act so panicked if the superhero sysadmin isn't actually trying to rescue the hostages? If he's just reconnecting the internet, why is that a big deal? Lastly, "muttering about uptime" should be enough of a clue that the character they are talking about is a sysadmin, coming out at the end and saying it takes a lot away from the impact of the joke.
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Yep, that's it. Welcome back, Carl.ReplyDelete
My thoughts exactly.ReplyDelete
also annoying: everything in this comic that isn't sysadmin glorification is just a recap of die hard. thanks, randall, for reminding us that you like movies we like.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 12:31 PM
The pacing was bad? You're suggesting that Randall turns this simple 3-panel strip into a comic-book page full of explosions and action scenes - which would be thrilling, sure, but hardly funny.ReplyDelete
Rather, I'd assert the pacing was excellent. A one-sentence exposition (panel 1), a one-sentence climax (panel 2), and the punchline (panel 3). The only interruptions were the telephone prompts, which only served to enhance flow by breaking up a monologue.
Sure, I'd love to see beautiful graphics of Die-Hard-esque action, but for the sake of a simple joke (sysadmins = sociopathic & uptime-oriented), brief is better.
Furthermore, it seems everyone on this blog thinks that going through extreme measures to prioritize technology over human lives means glorification. Did you miss the part where the sysadmin ignored the hostages? The sociopathy is half of the joke.
"Also, why does the on screen character act so panicked if the superhero sysadmin isn't actually trying to rescue the hostages? If he's just reconnecting the internet, why is that a big deal?"
I'm sure there was a reason for initially cutting the communication lines. You're angry the punchline ("we're dealing with a sysadmin") was so outright, but you're complaining that the details insignificant to the joke weren't expanded?
Suggestion: Use your new blog challenge to conduct an experiment. Take a sample of people unfamiliar with the comic and have them compare the original comics to the redone ones. Use that new font you guys developed to ensure that the participants can't tell which came first, and find out whether your suggested edits are actually worthwhile.
You could even survey the participants on which comics they enjoy in order to gauge people's variation of humor (seeing as how you seem to think there's only one type of quality-"funny": Dinosaur Comics).
I LOVE YOU CARL!!!! <3 YOU ARE MUCH BETTER THAN ROB.ReplyDelete
What! This blog isn't new! It's almost two years old! it has more than 400 posts!ReplyDelete
That said, I agree with a lot of what you said - I don't think the comic needs to be any longer; the length is fine. I'd just like to see what is happening in each panel rather than be told it. So, maybe we'd need 5 panels or so, but nothing crazy. He's done plenty of action sequences before (see here for one example and and the beginning of here for another.)
Your point about the sysadmin ignoring the hostage is good, but still: I think it's implied that he probably could have saved them if he wanted to, the point is that he just wants to reconnect the internet.
The experiment you propose is very good, I personally don't feel like doing it (though once I did it with a dinosaur comic I wrote) because it takes work but I would be happy if someone did, and I'd like to know their results.
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 6:35 PM
THE INTERNETS!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 9:04 PM
I have to address one part of your first point, Carl:ReplyDelete
After all, someone who does what the sysadmin in the comic does will probably get to have sex with people! people who are impressed with him or her.
You might as well just say him, because we all know the only woman who ever reads xkcd is Megan, or to be more precise, her lawyer, to see if that restraining order should be extended.
I picture a sysadmin as an ass who tells you how stupid you are because something isn't working right. Well, that's mostly from snl sketches... but I think it would be funny to see the sysadmin telling off the guy that cut the line. In a round about way, this comic is funny, in the same round about way that a car is an airplane.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2010 at 7:29 PM
I think it would be funny if Randall came out as gay. Everyone would be like, "Whaaat? Megan, what?? Whaaaaaaaat?"ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 27, 2010 at 11:31 PM
You're reading it wrong, in terms of who's saying what. The guy on the other end of the phone is speaking with the jagged lines.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2010 at 5:56 AM
1. No, it's not heroising them. You seem to keep on reading really dumb subtexts into these comics to justify your hatred. This is clearly a man who doesn't have his prorities right. He's selfish and hugely concerned about his uptime, less bothered about the loss of human life. The joke is how ridiculously much he cares about that damn uptime. Imagine it were Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons - that's the kind of image I got.ReplyDelete
2. I agree with this. A pretty picture it ain't. Doesn't take anything away from the joke, though.
3. He mentions the good stuff last 'cause he's reluctant. Divorce himself from responsibility. Show the guy on the other side that he's been doing his job well, before announcing the problem. "Hey, we did all the good stuff you asked us to! Exactly as you said."
Besides, who wants to tell their boss there's a massive problem right off the bat? Of course he's not going to plunge straight into it. That's not how human beings work. For all you go on about stilted dialogue you don't really seem to understand human interaction very well, yourself.
- AnonymousMarch 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM
4) Also I wonder why the boss cares so much that they're dealing with a sysadmin. The guy ignored the hostages!ReplyDelete
Regarding point 1!ReplyDelete
This and this xkcd in particular was the reason why I started to actively dislike xkcd rather than just ignore it and its fans.


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Here's help for the deal-hunting hungry: a list of everyday deals for food lovers. Aided by an army of local food professionals and smart shoppers, we canvassed the city and suburbs for food finds. Besides staples at rock-bottom prices, our roundup includes under-the-radar prepared foods and inexpensive, super-fresh seafood and produce.
As always, prices might change.
Read on for our top picks.
Italian and Spanish cheeses: Costco
Many people — including chef Julian Barsotti of Nonna — say the club offers low prices for big hunks of imported manchego and Italian cheeses such as pecorino Romano and Parmigiano-Reggiano. The 6-month aged manchego pictured sells for $8.29 per pound.
Multiple locations.
Greek yogurt: Costco
Bee Dietmann of Dallas regularly buys the big (35-ounce) container of Fage brand Greek yogurt for $4.99, and sometimes the store's private-label brand (Kirkland), which is even cheaper at $6.99 for two (32-ounce) containers.
Multiple locations.
Pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting: Central Market
Look out, Sprinkles: these ultramoist, iced pumpkin muffins are virtually cupcakes — and at that, the best we've had. A four-pack sells for $5.99, a steal compared with $14 for four Sprinkles cupcakes.
Multiple locations.
Shelled nuts: Hines Nut Co.
Mary DiCarlo Francis of the My Sister's Cookies and Desserts line at Jimmy's Food Store says Hines offers the best prices on a variety of fresh shelled nuts, including pecans.
Small, medium or large pecan pieces, $7.50 per pound; junior mammoth pecan halves, $8.75 per pound. 990 S. St. Paul; 214-939-0253; hinesnut.com
Cajun trail mix: Wal-Mart
Taste Editor Cathy Barber says this sweet-spicy mix of peanuts, butter-toffee peanuts, sesame sticks, corn nuts and almonds is comparable to the nibbles she's had at some swanky hotel bars.
A big (27-ounce) bag is $4.98. Multiple locations.
Krusteaz Buttermilk Pancake Mix, Family Size: Wal-Mart
For nearly 70 years, Krusteaz has produced a high-quality, just-add-water pancake mix. This 10-pound bag is $7.42 and makes 270 pancakes; that adds up to less than 3 cents per pancake! Perfect for fundraisers or big families.
Multiple locations.
All-natural Cowboy Meatballs: Whole Foods Market
The spicy Southwestern-style meatballs are seasoned and hand-formed in-house, so they're plenty fresh. The beef comes from grain-fed cattle that are free of hormones and antibiotics. Pan-fry or bake; serve as an entrée or use in meatball sandwiches, dressed with barbecue sauce or blue cheese dressing.
$5.99 per pound. Multiple locations.
Backdoor chicken dinner: Velvet Taco
On Mondays, you get a whole rotisserie chicken, an order of elote-style rotisserie corn, six corn tortillas, corn pico de gallo and Korean barbecue sauce for $10. That's half the price of the nearly identical meal served Tuesday through Sunday. It's great fusion-taco takeout. For faster service, knock at the back door and pay cash.
3012 N. Henderson Ave.; 214-823-8358; velvettaco.com
Dinner from the deli: Kroger
You can choose any entree and two sides for $6 — much cheaper than the a la carte price. The Chicken Cordon Bleu is a generous portion, big enough to share; the Superfood Salad (kale, edamame, sunflower seeds, blueberries and dried cranberries) is packed with nutrients, and so good we ordered it as both of our sides.
Multiple locations.
Roasted pepper- crusted eye of round: Albertson's
Order it thick-cut for an entree or thinly sliced for a superb sandwich. $7.99 per pound.
Multiple locations.
Organic produce: Sprouts
Cecilia Williams of Dallas often finds Sprouts' organic produce at half the price of other stores. These organic beets are just $1.69 a bunch.
Multiple locations.
Mandarin orange chicken: Trader Joe's
This is Trader Joe's top-selling frozen entree. Bake and serve as an entree or as an appetizer, threaded on skewers; or stir-fry with your favorite vegetables for a one-dish meal. The sauce and battered chicken are packaged and heated separately, for superior chicken breading texture. $4.99 for a five-serving package.
2400 Preston Road, No. 200, Plano; 972-312-9538.
Steamer clams in garlic-butter sauce: Trader Joe's
This is an unbelievable frozen-food bargain. Microwave and serve it over spaghetti for a restaurant-quality entree. $4.29 for three generous servings.
2400 Preston Road, No. 200, Plano; 972-312-9538.
Fresh produce: Fiesta Mart
A favorite produce source for many of the shoppers we surveyed. The turnover for fruits and veggies is high at these markets, so the goods are fresh — and well priced. We found globe grapes for 99 cents a pound and avocados for 69 cents each.
Multiple locations.
Sourdough bread: Fiesta
It's not the traditional San Francisco variety, but The Dallas Morning News wine panel loved this loaf nonetheless. $2.99 for a large (1 1/2-pound) loaf; multiple locations.
Ciabatta bread: Sam's Club
Sam's Artisan Fresh brand is baked in the store and sold in packs of two loaves, or eight rolls. Pop them in the oven for 8 to 12 minutes and the crust crisps beautifully. $3.99; multiple locations.
Fresh seafood: H-Mart
H-Mart's seafood selection is ultrafresh and inexpensive, say Cheryl Ng Collett, writer of the IttyBittyFoodies blog, and Yolanda Sintobin of Dallas. Collett buys lobster there for $9.99 per pound. She says she finds more variety there than at other stores — often at half the price.
2625 Old Denton Road, No. 200, Carrollton; 972-323-9700.
Specialty produce: H-Mart
Cheryl Ng Collett, author of the IttyBittyFoodies blog, finds the best prices for specialty produce here. For example, 59 cents for a small package of enoki mushrooms, $4.99 for shiitake mushrooms and $3.49 for oyster mushrooms.
2625 Old Denton Road, No. 200, Carrollton; 972-323-9700.
Smoked Gouda pimento cheese: Market Street
Taste Editor Cathy Barber is a fan of this spread, which is made fresh daily in the store's deli. It's a gourmet version of traditional pimento cheese. Smoked Gouda lends depth; red onion and Tabasco sauce add kick.
$5.99 per pound; multiple locations.
Spices: Central Market and Whole Foods Market
Shop the bulk bin aisles for spices, says Brian Luscher, chef-owner of the Grape. You'll save big and waste nothing. A tablespoon of the average spice goes for pocket change vs. several dollars for a jar of spice that you won't finish before it loses its oomph.
Multiple locations.
Dried mulberries: André International Gourmet Food
Dark or white dried mulberries, sold in bulk, are great in granola and muffins, says Ron Ruggless, southwest bureau chief for Nation's Restaurant News.
$9.95 a pound; 1478 W. Spring Valley Road, Richardson; 972-644-7644; andrefood.com.
Sesame seeds: specialty market bulk departments
You can find sesame seeds in the bulk-bin aisles for a fraction of the price you'll find for bottled seeds from the supermarket spice aisles. Prices range from an average of around $5 per pound in bulk vs. about $3 for a 1-ounce jar. Our lowest price sighting was $3.05 per pound at Natural Grocers in the old Casa Linda Theater.
Milk: Aldi
The everyday price for a gallon of Friendly Farms Milk is $2.19; it's produced with no artificial growth hormones.
Multiple locations.
Oatmeal: Aldi
Cookie man Paul Wackym of Wackym's Kitchen says Aldi has the best price on old- fashioned oatmeal. A 42-ounce container is regularly priced at $2.19 and sometimes sells for less than $2.
Multiple locations.
Korean-style Barbecue Slow-Cooker Sauce: Super Target
Cooking doesn't get any easier than this: pour half a jar of this sauce over 3 pounds beef ribs or pork loin placed in a slow- cooker. Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours, until tender. $4 a jar.
Multiple locations.
Safeway Select Seville Orange Marmalade: Tom Thumb
This is an excellent marmalade, sold for a fraction of the price of what you'd expect for this quality. Big (23-ounce) jar, $2.89; multiple locations.
Parmigiano-Reggiano: Jimmy's Food Store
A super-low price, cut to order; you can buy a sliver or a chunk. $9.99 per pound; 4901 Bryan St.; 214-823-6180
SOURCES: Zeidy Martinez, Andrea Speer, Ken Gordon, Anne Beytagh and Maria Angeles Ibanez all shared their finds for this story.
Tina Danze is a Dallas freelance writer.

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Beccles. I thought it was high time I wrote something about my beloved Beccles. After all, it was my home for the first eleven years of my life and to this day, a large piece of my heart still belongs there. For reasons I cannot fathom though, writing about Beccles is extremely difficult and some days I am so choked to the core of my being I find it impossible to write in a way that would do the Beccles I know and love proper justice. My mind is so richly veiled with nostalgia and sentimentality, sometimes I can't see the wood for the trees. For the most part, I confine my more reserved jottings on Beccles to my family history writing and anecdotal "tweets" about the history of Beccles and its people at @RelicsofBeccles (on Twitter).
My maternal grandmother Freda was the only one of my grandparents who was born in Beccles. Her mother came to Beccles at a very young age, from Loddon in Norfolk, and her father and grandfather were both Beccles born and bred. I grew to appreciate and love Beccles from the stories I grew up hearing from Freda. One story she told me was when I was around ten years of age. I remember that I was quite keen to learn to play the piano and the local Methodist Church held a Friday Club for children, so I always sat at their piano. I was happy to tinker at the keys on my own, teaching myself popular tunes as I went (being left-handed I was conscious that most grown-ups were intolerant of my cack-handedness so I didn't want to bother them with teaching me), until one day a lady came and sat beside me and gently coaxed me into learning "When The Saints Go Marching In". When my grandmother got wind of my new-found "talent" she exclaimed that I was following in the footsteps of her uncle Fred. Who was he? I asked.
|Frederick William Bowes,
my great grand-uncle
Frederick William Bowes was born in 1889 in Beccles, son of Robert and Mary Ann. As a boy Fred was fond of chemistry and medicine so he combined these and trained as a Chemist. The 1911 census shows he was "Qualified to Dispense Medicine" - sounds rather posh! I have no idea where he worked but there were three dispensing chemists in Beccles in 1911, including my favourite chemist shop, Boots. In Fred's day Boots was known as AW Rayner and (Archibald Walter Rayner) had operated as a chemist business for over 40 years. However, Fred could have worked at the Beccles Hospital which was then situated in Fair Close. Erected in 1874, it cost £1,500 to build and by 1900, it had a total of fifteen beds available.
|Beccles Hospital circa 1914 (now private residences)
When the First World War broke out in 1914 Fred was keen to learn skills in another key area of medicine, first aid. In February 1916 (after conscription for those born in 1886 to 1896 inclusive) Fred joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was immediately dispatched to the frontline. There he served until the end of the war when he returned home to Beccles, his vision terribly impaired from the effects of trench gas. In December 1918 he received a Silver War Badge after being discharged under King's Regulations in view of "being no longer physically fit for war service".
Despite this, Fred continued to work and he developed his love for playing the piano. He embraced the feel of the keys under his fingers and loved to play every day, right up until the end of his life. He joined many local dance and music troups and concert parties as pianist and, for a time, was employed by the Beccles Cinema to play the piano for the silent films. I was told he also frequently played the piano at nights for the patrons of The Fleece Inn in Blyburgate Street.
One concert group he joined were called "The Leggettonians". This song and improvisation group, who gave countless concerts to the Poor Law institutions & charity events in the local area as well as entertaining thousands of servicemen during the Second World War, was the brain-child of Beccles man Jack Leggett. The group were made up of the following:
Mr Jack Leggett (compere/comedian)
Miss Hilda Mann (soprano)
Miss Dorothy Snelling (accordianist)
Messrs Pearl & Leslie Balls (comic sketches)
Mr Edgar Brown (animal & bird mimic & impersonator)
Mr Alfred Ling (Tambo)
Mr Lennie Stevens (drums)
Mr Fred Bowes (piano)
|Fred Bowes, on the far right
I never knew my great grand-uncle Fred, he died in 1950, but whenever I heard him spoken of, it was with such a fondness that a part of me felt I had known him. Fred never married or had any children of his own. My grandmother used to tell me that he lived out his life playing the piano and living with his spinster sister Winnifred (Winnie) Bowes. When I researched his life for this blog, I felt even closer to him somehow. He is a part of my ancestry of course but he is also a part of Beccles, where he lived all his life. He has left a part of himself in Beccles; in the concert halls and cinemas and possibly even Boots chemist (It's hard to explain but I sense him around me whenever I go in there).
ADDENDUM: 10 September 2014.
@RelicsofBeccles on Twitter no longer exists.
Instead I have another blog 'Relics of Beccles'
@RelicsofBeccles on Twitter no longer exists.
Instead I have another blog 'Relics of Beccles'


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Officials announce new details on missing Westfield boy
Officials announce new details on missing Westfield boy
Jennifer Nowak, the sister of James "Jamie" Lusher, wiped a tear during a press conference in Westfield on Monday.
Timothy Alben of the Mass. State Police spoke about the investigation into James Lusher's 1992 disappearance.
Lewis Lent Jr. stood in court in 1995 during his sentencing for the kidnapping of Rebecca Savarese.
A family photo of James Lusher and his sister, Jennifer. Lent has confessed to killing Lusher, officials said.
Police will search Greenwater Pond in Becket starting Tuesday for the remains of Jamie Lusher.
Greenwater Pond can reach depths of 58 feet.
Lusher was 16 years old and was riding his brand new bike heading to a relative's house when he disappeared in 1992.
Lent is serving life without the possibility of parole in a Massachusetts prison for the 1990 kidnapping and murder of James Bernardo.
Jennifer Nowak spoke during the press conference Monday in Westfield.
Nowak, her father, James Lusher, and her step-brother, Matthew Placzek, at the press conference.


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Ann A. "Addie†Everhart, 100, Performer With Actors Theatre Of Louisville Senior Players
Ann A. "Addie†Everhart, 100, of Louisville passed away Saturday, August 18, 2012 at Baptist Hospital East.
She was a model for Talent Group and a performer with Actors Theatre of Louisville Senior Players. She retired from J. C. Penny Co. and was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where she served on the Bereavement Committee.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles C. Everhart; parents, Richard and Mary Rose Newton Gootee and siblings, Joseph, Bertha, Earl, Louise, Ed, Nola, Evelyn, Mary Rita, Jean and Rita.
She is survived by her daughters, Tinker Simmons, Carmelita Carol Everhart, Mary E. Krider; two sons, P. Richard Everhart, and Thomas E. Everhart; eleven grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Edna Kelly, and Dorothy Labine; and many nieces, nephews and friends.
Her funeral Mass was 10 a.m. Thursday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 501 Cherrywood Road with burial in St. Michaels Cemetery. Visitation was from 12-8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road.
Memorial contributions in Addie's memory may be made to Holy Trinity Catholic Church or Hosparus.
Laura Coleman Reagan Sigmon, 63, Former Advertising Manager At WRKA
Laura Coleman Reagan Sigmon, 63, of Louisville passed away August 26, 2012.
Laura was the daughter of Robert J. Reagan and Frances Scott Reagan. She attended Waggener High School and graduated from Centre College.
After graduation she worked in Frankfort in the Kentucky State Department of Human Resources in Research and Development followed by a position at The Voice of St. Matthews. She also worked at WRKA radio station as the Advertising Manager. Later she worked in the medical field, where she helped develop a product for the Philips Medical Corporation.
She was an Episcopalian and a member of St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church.
She is predeceased by her father, Robert Reagan.
Laura is survived by her beloved son Cole, who has been her devoted caregiver for the past two years as she battled cancer. She is also survived by her mother Frances Reagan; her brother Scott Reagan; her sister Cathy Reagan; her sister-in-law Betce Reagan, her nephew Robert Gamble Reagan, niece Emery Sullivan Reagan, numerous loving cousins and many
devoted friends.
A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 30, at Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane, with burial to follow in Cave Hill Cemetery. Visitation was 4-7 Wednesday at Pearson's.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Laura's name to Shelby County Animal Shelter, 266 Kentucky St., Shelbyville, Ky., 40065; Doctors Without Borders USA, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21741-5030; or Hosparus, 3532 Ephraim McDowell Drive, Louisville, Ky., 40205.
Dale Carter Cooper, 94, Actress
Dale Carter Cooper, 94, died Saturday, August 25, 2012. She was born in Danville, Va. on January 22, 1918, the daughter of John Wesley Carter and Mary Freeman Carter.
In 1935, she left Danville to pursue a professional theatre career in New York. The following years, she studied acting and performed in summer stock.
Dale married in 1940 and moved with her family to Louisville, Ky. in 1948. She began her career at the American Printing House for the Blind (Louisville) in 1952, reading consecutively for 39 years. In 2002, she received the Alexander Scourby Award for Life Time Achievement from the American Foundation for the Blind.
Ms. Cooper returned to performing professionally in 1967. She appeared in regional theatres around the United States: Flat Rock Playhouse, Flat Rock, N.C., Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., Cleveland Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Alley Theatre in Houston. In addition, she was seen at dinner theatres in Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Montgomery, Ala. and Lubbock, Texas. Throughout her career, Ms. Cooper was never "type-cast,†playing a wide range of roles from the mother in Barefoot in the Park to Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night.
Her many contributions to the Louisville community included serving on the board of directors of the Louisville Theatrical Association, Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre and the Women's Endowment of Christ Church Cathedra, and the Kentucky Chapter of the English Speaking Union. In 1968, she received the distinction of becoming the first female lay reader in the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky.
She was predeceased by her parents and her son, William Carter Cooper.
Ms. Cooper is survived by her son, Wray Thomas Cooper, Jr., and daughter, M. Austin Cooper, both of Louisville, four granddaughters and two great-grandchildren.
There was a celebration of her life service at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday August 29, 2012 at Christ Church Cathedral, 421 South Second Street, followed by a reception in Bishops Hall.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Endowment Fund, Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. 2nd St., Louisville, Ky., 40202, the Scholarship Fund of the Episcopal Church Home, 7504 Westport Rd., Louisville, Ky., 40222 or the Scholarship Fund of the Kentucky Branch of the English Speaking Union, c/o Art Dietz, 2300 Wendler Ln., Louisville, Ky., 40272.
Pearson's Funeral Home, 149 Breckinridge Lane, Louisville, Ky., 40207 was entrusted with arrangements.
Dr. Herbert C. Miller, 82, Osteopathic Physician
Dr. Herbert C. Miller passed away on August 22, 2012. He was born on June 11, 1928 in Ford Cliff, Pennsylvania. He was married to Nancy and father to D'Ann, Bruce, Ian, Emily, Eric, Brian, and Ardath. He was also grandfather to four granddaughters and three grandsons.
He was a 1956 graduate of Des Moines University of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. After teaching at Kirksville Missouri School of Osteopathic Medicine, he was brought to Indianapolis for the development and opening of Westview Hospital. He then established a private practice for the remainder of his career in Zionsville and Carmel. He was two time president of the Indiana Association of Osteopathic Physicians, President of the Cranial Academy and Governor of the American Academy of Osteopathy, Delegate to the AOA House of Delegates, and instructor and lecturer of many teaching courses and seminars throughout the world. He was also the recipient of the W.G. Sutherland Award through the Cranial Academy and various other honors throughout his medical life.
The memorial service will be at St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 100 W. 86th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana on September 15, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.
You may visit http://www.leppertmortuary.com where you may sign the guestbook, share a memory with the family, or in lieu of flowers, please make donations to St. Vincent Hospice, 8450 Payne Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46268, or to the charity of your choice.
Mary Lucille "Bobo†Turner Moore, 79, Retired From Manheim Louisville Auto Auction
Mary Lucille "Bobo†Turner Moore, 79, returned to her Heavenly Father on Friday, August 24, 2012 at Wedgewood Nursing Home, Clarksville, surrounded by family and friends.
She was born July 15, 1933 to the late Raymond Chester and Mary McDermott Turner. Lucille retired from Manheim Louisville Auto Auction after 41 years of service. At St. Anthony's Church in Clarksville she served in many different roles including Parish Council, School Board, Pre-school teacher and CCD instructor. She was an avid reader and loved her animals and children.
She is survived by her son, Charley (Barbara) Moore, Louisville; daughters, Deb (Bill) Moore, Clarksville, Terri (Van) Vance, Clarksville, Angie (Ken) Lear, Lanesville, and Marianne (James) Hyden, Shepherdsville, Ky. She has 13 grandchildren: Stephanie Moore and Charlie, Christine (Jeff) Johnson, Sebrina Ragains, Maren (Jimmy) VanWinkle, Stephanie (Brian) Coomer, Jennifer Lear, Miraya (Ryan) Mayden, Nick Snelling and Erin, Brennan Fell and Candace, Carleigh Fell, Dillan, Dalton and Mattisyn Hyden. She has nine great grandchildren: Tyler and Bailey VanWinkle, Tanner Mayden, Aubrey Pierce, Dylan Coomer, Sunny and Julian Ragains, and Meghan and Tommy Johnson.
Her husband, Charlie Moore, and grandchildren, Joe Lear and Scott Siegel, preceded her in death.
Funeral service was at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Kraft Funeral Service, 2776 Charlestown Road, New Albany, with cremation and interment at Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park. Visitation was from 1-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
A special thanks to the many Wedgewood employees who took care of her, including but not limited to Donna, Debbie, Candice, Niza, Roberta, Kathy and Cassie.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Red Cross Compassionate Companions program.
Online condolences may be made to www.kraftfs.com.


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Och Rocks On: Thanksgiving Debate
The Ochlophobist is a Memphis blogger. He has posted a screed on Thanksgiving that is well worth reading and pondering. The latter part of the post is a good story about bullying and other antics at a Mennonite school. Well worth reading but hardly food for debate.
The former part questions Thanksgiving, among other things because it is surrounded by patrioteering mythology. Our kindergarteners dress as Pilgrims and Indians, and are told about the harmonious beginnings of our country, but not about the massacres that followed not so long after, which were also the occasion of Thanksgiving by the Puritan community. A long history followed, in which our forbears were far from blameless.
Och sees Thanksgiving as an idolatrous feast, in which we gorge ourselves on packaged foods, and celebrate our nation as if it were a god, rather than a flawed set of human institutions. Och is not a zealot, and celebrates with his family, but uncomfortably.
Och, as usual, is onto something. In our sometimes frantic efforts to weld a bunch of immigrants and their descendants, from many different ethnies and religions, into a nation, we tend to become loud, assertive, and if challenged, defensive. Perhaps we have no need constantly to beat our breasts about the crimes of our predecessors, but neither should we be oblivious to them. The ideology of American exceptionalism is indeed idolatrous, and has provided some of the rationale for foreign misadventures from the Phillipines to Iraq. We can love our country without bowing down to it as a god or fashioning a mythology to deify it.
Thanksgiving is part of a festival cycle that has grown up. We can say that it is as follows:
New Year's
American readers will be familiar with the rituals and symbols involved, and because analysis could get tedious, let's leave it at that. This cycle is no longer recognizably Christian, as its personifications (Witches, ghosts, and goblins; turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indians; Santa, Rudolph, Jimmy Stewart and Bob Cratchit; the Old Man and the Baby New Year) show. For some Christians, the Holy Family and the crêche play a minor part, but if one listens to the music in public places, it's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "Chestnuts Roasting Round An Open Fire," not "Come All Ye Faithful" or "Angels We Have Heard On High." The religious expressions are frequently treated as private and if expressed in the public square, offensive.
I am not raising the spectre of the "War Against Christmas," which by now is a straw man. If there was such a war, the Christians have long since surrendered.
Ho ho ho.
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Harvey and Bob Weinstein are getting the reunion they've long sought — and moviegoers could end up getting sequels to such older favorites as "Shakespeare in Love," "Swingers" and "Rounders."
The brothers' film company, Weinstein Co., has struck a production and distribution deal that reconnects them to Miramax, the company they founded in 1979 and built up with such critically acclaimed movies as "sex, lies and videotape" and "Reservoir Dogs" before selling to Walt Disney Co. in 1993.
Under terms of the 20-year agreement, the companies will collaborate on new content as well as projects that mine Miramax's library. The deal encompasses film, television and live stage productions.
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"It's wonderful to reunite the brothers Weinstein with the library," said Jason E. Squire, a film business professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. "Its really a full-circle sort of experience. That hasn't happened too often in the history of the movie business."
Harvey Weinstein told The Times that he is excited to have access to the "many jewels in the library," adding that there is value not just in Miramax's completed films but also in its many development projects.
"There are hundreds of scripts to decipher and remember, and find out why they were loved in the first place," he said.
Weinstein said that he wants to make sequels to some of Miramax's movies, including the 1998 Matt Damon poker drama, "Rounders." The follow-up would center on a card game in which "one of the most beautiful French girls in the world is the stakes," he said.
"I never have made a sequel ever; my brother has made all the sequels," he said. "I'd like to have at least a '2' in my epitaph."
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The brothers from Queens sold Miramax, which they had named after their parents, Miriam and Max, to Disney in 1993 for about $60 million. They remained involved with it until 2005, when they departed after a bitter dispute with Disney over creative control, and formed Weinstein Co.
In 2010, the Weinsteins tried to buy Miramax back from Disney but lost out to a $663-million bid from a group of investors led by Colony Capital, the private equity firm headed by Thomas J. Barrack Jr., and Qatar Holding, the investment vehicle of the Qatari royal family.
Miramax's owners, who also include actor Rob Lowe, have not focused on making new films but instead have sought to exploit the company's rich film library of about 750 movies, cutting digital distribution deals with outlets such as Netflix and Hulu.
Although Miramax has said this business has been lucrative, the company's direction has been a disappointment for Hollywood's creative community, which hoped Miramax, under new ownership, would be revived as the major moviemaking concern it had been.
Barrack said he had been "chasing Harvey for a long time," adding that Miramax under Colony-Qatar ownership was inexperienced making movies, whereas Harvey Weinstein is "a nuclear physicist who could weave tapestries" with film projects.
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What's more, Barrack said that when the Weinsteins departed Miramax in 2005, they left behind about 250 development projects, "but it was like a Rubik's Cube" trying to sort through and assess the material.
Barrack said that in a conversation he had with Harvey Weinstein last summer, it was clear that Weinstein Co.'s recent success — it produced the 2012 critical and commercial hits "Django Unchained" and "Silver Linings Playbook" — has put the producer in a position to "focus on other things," which made the alliance with Miramax possible.
As part of the pact, Weinstein Co. will handle domestic distribution of movies made under the agreement, and Miramax, with headquarters in Santa Monica, will handle international sales of the titles.
The partnership also will involve developing television series based on Miramax films, including "Good Will Hunting" and "Flirting With Disaster." Weinstein Co. will handle domestic TV distribution, while Miramax will head up international distribution. Production of Miramax-Weinstein projects would begin as soon as early next year.
Harvey Weinstein said he was excited about the possibility of a TV show based on "Swingers," the 1996 Vince Vaughn comedy about a group of friends trying to make it as actors in L.A.
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Denise Mann, a film professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, said that given the Weinsteins' role in "launching a second indie renaissance" in the 1980s, it is "a little disconcerting" that Miramax's owners largely appear motivated to work with the Weinstein brothers to exploit their previous commercial successes.
"Do we really need a 'Swingers 2' or 'Shakespeare in Love 2' from a duo known for taking risks with groundbreaking filmmakers in the past?" she asked.
Reuniting the Weinsteins with Miramax could restore some luster to the firm.
The Qatar-Colony ownership tenure has been tumultuous, peppered with the departure of two key executives and the exit of an owner.
In March 2012, then-Chief Executive Mike Lang left Miramax a little more than a year after assuming his post.
In January, one of the original investors in Qatar and Colony's group, construction magnate Ron Tutor, sold his interest in Miramax. And in July, Miramax's then-Chairman Richard Nanula resigned after two websites published video images of a man they identified as the executive having sex with an adult-film actress.
Barrack praised the former Miramax executives and owner.
"All of those people did a great job," said Barrack, who now serves as the company's chairman.
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Michael Douma, who was a visiting research fellow at the A.C. Van Raalte Institute at Hope College this past summer, will present the address "Dutch Americans and the Rise of Heritage Studies" on Friday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. in the Fried/Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Douma, who is a 2004 Hope graduate, is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University, where his studies have focused on Dutch-American history. His dissertation is focusing on the evolution of Dutch-American identities since 1847.
He is the author of multiple peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and book reviews, and of the book "Veneklasen Brick: a Family, a Company, and a Unique 19th Century Dutch Architectural Movement in Michigan," published in September 2005 by the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. of Grand Rapids/Cambridge. His work has received recognition and support, including a 2009-10 Fulbright Full Grant to conduct research in the Netherlands; two one-year fellowships, for 2009-10 and 2010-11, from the Institute for Humane Studies; and fellowships from Florida State University.
Originally from Grandville, Douma was a triple-major at Hope (history, philosophy and a composite in Dutch studies). He began working in the college's Joint Archives of Holland during the spring semester of his freshman year, an experience that inspired his interest in Dutch-American studies. He spent his junior year studying in the Netherlands, building on a year of study in the Dutch language at Hope.
During the fall of 2004 he was a curatorial intern with the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts. He has stayed involved with Dutch-American studies at Hope, serving during multiple summers as a research assistant and Dutch-English translator with the A.C. Van Raalte Institute, which shares quarters with the Joint Archives in the college's Henri and Eleonore Theil Research Center.
He completed his master's degree in history at FloridaStateUniversity in 2006.
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Earnings will remain in the spotlight next week, highlighted by Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) release on Tuesday.
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The maker of ubiquitous tech gadgets such as the iPhone and iPad has seen its stock plunge more than 40% from its all-time high last year. Investors will be watching for any signs that demand is slowing for Apple's products or that the company has run out of new ideas to capture consumers' imaginations and dollars.
Because of Apple's huge market value, a significant shift in the stock up or down has a dramatic impact on broader markets.
After months of a fairly steadily upward trajectory, volatility has returned to the markets. A big miss by Apple, unlikely as that is, could trigger a significant selloff.
Also on tap next week are earnings from a host of other bellwether companies including Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), Boeing (NYSE:BA), AT&T (NYSE:T), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX).
Overshadowed by all the earnings reports are some important data also due next week.
On Monday, existing home sales are reported with new home sales figures following in Tuesday. This is the beginning of an important season for home sales and investors will be looking for the numbers to be pointing upward for both existing and new home categories.
On Friday, Gross Domestic Product numbers are released as well as the Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index.


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Summer is my favorite season — always has been. Partly, it's the light: slow and thick, like a glaze of honey spread across the world. Partly, it's the heat, which I feel in my joints, making me imagine I was loose-limbed again.
But more than anything, it's the feeling of space, of the moment expanding, the faith that, during these three months, I might do anything. That's an adolescent's faith, to be sure, but it has lingered, as if there might be (to borrow a phrase from a favorite episode of "The Twilight Zone") time enough at last.
What I'm talking about, in some sense, is procrastination, which is what summer at its core is all about. We take time for ourselves — or at least we like to think we do — leave work early, go on vacation, sit in the quiet sunshine of an afternoon and read good books.
This is particularly resonant for me as a writer, since procrastination is an art in which writers are well versed. If, as Saul Bellow once suggested, "a writer is a reader moved to emulation," then the corollary is that it's a lot more fun to read than to write.
And yet, reading can be work also, as Jack Nicholson's character reminds us in Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining" (that exemplary portrait of the writing life) when he tells his long-suffering wife, played by Shelley Duvall, "[W]hether you DON'T hear me typing, or whatever … you hear me doing; when I'm in here, it means that I am working."
What he's really saying is, even when I'm not working, I am working — which means: Leave me alone, don't disturb me, especially when you come upon me with my face inside a book.
Does this seem like a contradiction? I prefer to think of it as the essence of the season, which is about doing things you may not otherwise get to do. For me, that always involves reading, although not reading to escape so much as to engage.
Summer is perfect for a reading project: Just think of Infinite Summer, in which, three years ago, readers stared down David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." In 2005, I took on "Madame Bovary," which I'd never read; a friend tackled "Moby-Dick."
Last year, I found myself drawn to small works: Jean-Philippe Toussaint's exquisite "Reticence," in which a man wanders a Mediterranean seaside village, keeping tabs on a mysterious writer; Michael Cunningham's "Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown"; Stewart O'Nan's novel of a failing marriage, "The Odds."
In each case, these were books I'd had around for a while, as if waiting for the perfect moment to dig in. The same, I'm sure, will happen over the next few months, as the daylight expands and the mornings grow long, and for a little while, anyway, I give in to the illusion that there is nowhere else I have to be.
So what am I planning to read this summer? Nothing as fancy as "Infinite Jest" or "Moby-Dick," I'll admit. Again, I'm tilting toward short books — perhaps because I have a chance of getting to more of them.
For some time now, I've been wanting to read Padgett Powell's "Edisto," the story of a precocious 12-year-old. The same holds true for Robert Walser's brief meditation "The Walk," which I meant to read last summer, and Wade Davis' "River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado," which brings a personal perspective to the river on which not only Los Angeles but also Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tucson and San Diego depend.
And then, there is the new stuff, which continues to appear with a momentum all its own. There was a time, in American publishing, when summer was seen as slow and sleepy, but those days have long since come and gone.
Yet these books too seem to speak to the season … not least for their sense of possibility. As I look at the summer lists and map my reading, I am reminded again of the bottomless depth of the imagination, which is, of course, another kind of faith.
Reading, after all, takes place, in many ways, out of time: We leave ourselves behind a little whenever we immerse in a book. That's the best thing about it, that sense of giving yourself over to another world.
The same could (and should) be said of summer, which is a season predicated on a change of pace. This makes it a natural time for reading, which is another reason I love it so.
What new books am I looking forward to this summer? These three in particular offer something unexpected: a way of seeing, a way of being, a new way of thinking about a story we thought we knew.
Rebecca Solnit's "The Faraway Nearby" (Viking, $25.95, June) comes billed as a companion volume to her 2005 essay collection "A Field Guide to Getting Lost." Like that book, it offers a set of interior investigations, focusing on the importance of stories in making meaning, and the necessity of narrative and empathy. This is an article of faith with me, and the decision to interweave personal material (about her mother's memory loss, among other subjects) only makes the whole thing more intimate. Solnit is one of our finest thinkers, and a nonfiction writer of uncommon grace and eloquence, a polymath with the ability to bring together a wide array of information and experience and somehow get it all to cohere.
I've loved Ron Carlson's work for many years — first his short stories and then his recent run of remarkable novels ("Five Skies," "The Signal"), which trace the emotional lives, the loss and longing, of men living in the rural west. His new novel, "Return to Oakpine" (Viking, $25.95, July), comes out of a similar territory, revolving around four men, high school friends who once played in a band together, as they reconnect 30 years later in a world marked by compromise and loss. Carlson is a nuanced writer, aware of the undertones that define his characters, even when they lack the language to articulate this for themselves. The result is a tension that is utterly recognizable, true to how so many of us live.
Finally there's "Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson" by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster, $27.50, August), a biography of the notorious mass killer that aspires to go beyond the sensationalism that has shrouded its subject for 40 years. Guinn interviewed both Manson's sister and his cousin — the first journalist to do so — to connect his early life, as a run-of-the-mill car thief and petty criminal, and his emergence as the Svengali-like leader of the Family. I've been fascinated by Manson since I first became aware of him; as a kid, I devoured Vincent Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter" and Ed Sanders' "The Family." And yet, for all that, the most disturbing aspect of the story remains that Manson is no monster but a human being, an expression of the worst of which we are capable.


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Iranians are furious with their government for not behaving more like Israel when it comes to the well-being of its soldiers, reported The Times of London.
Last week, Tehran confirmed that five Iranian soldiers had been abducted on the Pakistani border by a radical Sunni Muslim group, and that one of those soldiers had been executed when Iran refused to meet the kidnappers' demands.
The public outcry on social networks Twitter and Facebook was immediate and harsh.
"Keep saying 'Death to Israel,' but they freed 1,027 Palestinians in return for the release of one of their own," one Iranian wrote on Facebook, referring to the deal Israel made with Hamas to secure the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Another Iranian wrote: "Yes, I admire Israel. The same Israel [our government has] been wanting to wipe off the map. The same Israel who for five years tirelessly did everything to save one of its soldiers."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced the 2005 All-America Teams with Austin Zimmerman, Caroline Jordan, and Arlis Reynolds earning Honorable Mention selections, marking the most number of recipients in MIT history. Zimmerman became the first person in the program to be recognized as a three-time honoree. Jordan was named to the team for the second year in a row while Reynolds received her first selection.


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"Getting to Know You" has been U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's theme song since new areas were added last year to the 48th District that he represents.
Last weekend, he lunched with the Laguna Beach Rotary Club on Friday at Aliso Creek Inn and brunched with the Laguna Beach Taxpayers Assn. on Saturday at Asada's.
"I am doing my best to visit areas that I had not represented before," Rohrabacher said Saturday "I want to give everyone a chance to ask questions."
Rohrabacher is not known for his reticence even when he is at odds with his own party.
"I have opinions, but I have been known to admit when I am wrong — but only a couple of times," Rohrabacher said with a grin Saturday morning.
He must be doing something right — the voters have reelected the native Californian 13 times.
"He rode the waves in Southern California and makes waves in D.C.," said Laguna Taxpayers Assn. President Martha Lydick, who introduced Rohrabacher at a brunch.
Before he ever stepped foot in D.C., Rohrabacher was a reporter for 10 years, including four years at the Orange County Register, which is how he got a job with then-Gov. Ronald Reagan.
"It was the last year of his governorship and he had decided to run for president," Rohrabacher said. "He needed an assistant press secretary and I was the only Republican they could find in the press corps."
Rohrabacher traveled the campaign trail with Reagan for six months and after the election joined the White House staff as Reagan's principal speech writer, a job he held for seven years.
With Reagan's second term ending, Rohrabacher and another young Republican were out of jobs.
"As Chris Cox and I were walking out to of the White House, we said maybe we should run," Rohrabacher said. "And we did."
It was a big decision for a penniless candidate.
"I had no money, but I had more than 50 pictures of myself with Ronald Reagan," Rohrabacher said. "That was worth more than money and I won in 1988."
He now sits on two of the most influential House committees.
Rohrabacher is the vice chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. And what he has learned in that position hits home in Laguna.
He announced that Lockheed has a design that would reduce the cost of desalinization by 50% to 75%.
Former Mayor Cheryl Kinsman, now a Laguna Beach County Water District commissioner, was intrigued. The district has been involved in a pilot desalinization project for five years, stymied by red tape, she said.
"We can't take the water without 22 governmental agencies' approvals," she said.
To which Rohrabacher replied: "Bureaucracy is the most efficient system to turn energy into solid waste.'
Also of local interest: He reported that reactors have been designed that cannot melt down and emit no wastes.
"But the Department of Energy raised holy hell and is looking at reactors based on old technology," Rohrabacher said.
However, he rolls his eyes at global warming, thinks environmentalists are off base to oppose off-shore drilling and complimented the Taxpayers Assn. on their opposition to the parcel tax to buy lots for green space.
Rohrabacher left no doubt at either event about his position on amnesty for illegal immigrants.
"We should not ever again legalize people who are here illegally," Rohrabacher said at the Rotary luncheon.
"[Supporters of amnesty] say there are 11 million illegal immigrants here — it will be 30 or 40 million and that is not in the interests of my country or my constituents."
Asked if there should be a fast track to citizenship for an illegal immigrant who has made a success of his business and pays $250,000 in taxes, Rohrabacher replied: "There is. It is called get in line first."
No one needs ever to apologize for American's emigration police in Rohrabacher's opinion.
"One million people immigrate here every year — that is more than the rest of the world combined," Rohrabacher said
He faulted Republicans as well as Democrats for the flood of illegal immigrants.
Republicans were in power before Barack Obama was elected and did nothing about the problem, he said. Now some of them are working together on a compromise.
"If it comes to a compromise, I might be willing to say that if an illegal is now able to invest money in a business the way we want, he might be able to stay," Rohrabacher said. "We want the wealth to stay."
Rohrabacher sympathizes with folks who want to come to the United States to better their lives.
"If I were in the same circumstances, I would be trying to bring his family here," he said.
"But my job in Congress is not to watch out for them — my job is to watch out for my constituents."
Rohrabacher said he doesn't hate illegal immigrants, but he does hate illegal immigration and resents being called a racist for his position.
Wearing another hat, Rohrabacher chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats.
He is advocating a cooperative effort with Russia to battle "radical Islam." He announced his proposal at the rotary luncheon.
He also voiced his support for intellectual patent rights.
"Inventors, writers and artists should be able to control the benefits of their work," he said.
He is also working on a free trade treaty with the European Union.
"My motto is free trade between free people," Rohrabacher said.
Rohrabacher's District Representative Howard Hills, a Laguna Beach resident, joked that it is too bad that his boss is so ambiguous and never lets people know how he thinks.
Among those at the luncheon: John Campbell, Dr. David Cler, Laguna Beach School District Supt. Shereen Smith, Jerry Immel, Harry Bithell, Grapes for Grads Cochair Jeff Redeker and Zahide Lawrence.
At the brunch: Mayor Kelly Boyd, Councilman Steve Dicterow, City Treasurer Laura Parisi, Chamber of Commerce President Michael Kinsman, Ara and Sandy Hovanesian and Frank Ricchiazzi.
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Abdullah the Butcher, the hardcore wrestling icon who sadistically stabbed his opponents with a dinner fork, was having a nap when he got the news of his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.
"When they phoned and said, 'We want to put you in the Hall of Fame,' I started smacking myself to make sure I was hearing them right," he says from his home in Atlanta. "It took them a while to get me in to their Hall of Fame, but I'm very happy. Even though I don't live far away, they're going to pick me up in a limousine. I love it!"
Hailed as "The Madman from Sudan," Abdullah the Butcher (born Larry Shreve) grew up in Windsor, Ontario, learning the martial arts of judo and karate before making his wrestling debut in 1958. "Montreal promoter Jack Britton took one look and said of me, 'He's a natural,'" Abdullah says with obvious pride. "And the people feared me. At the age of 22, I was packing houses in Montreal."
Over a half-century later, The Madman from Sudan is confident that he could still pack houses. "If you were to put me with The Undertaker today, we could sell out any place," he says. "I need a new hip, but I still look 100 per cent good. Hulk Hogan and I wrestled in Japan for two weeks back in the '80s, selling out and having great matches, and we could do it again today. I think we could still give the people action."
Abdullah the Butcher would also have a heated rivalry with Andre the Giant, selling out arenas and stadiums in Montreal, Tokyo, and Puerto Rico. "In San Juan, we had a hell of a match," says Abdullah. "But if Andre and me were to ever have wrestled in New York, we could have drawn the biggest crowds in history."
Tussling with the likes of Lou Thesz, The Sheik, Terry Funk, Bruiser Brody, and Carlos Colon, Abdullah the Butcher wrestled all over the world, for practically every promotion. "But I've never met Vince McMahon Jr.," says Abdullah. "The WWE were scared of me because I was an outlaw, and I did not kiss anybody's butt. The boys, back in the day there, would say, 'Don't bring Abdullah in -- he'll be trouble.'
"Ric Flair was another one who was scared of me," he adds. "I fought Ric Flair in Texas before he was the world champion, but he didn't want anything to do with me after that. Once again, I was a different kind of wrestler, and I wouldn't kiss Flair's butt. I could have drawn a lot of money with him, but he didn't want to wrestle me."
Abdullah's bloody and memorable war with Dusty Rhodes, throughout the state of Florida, is a feud that fans still ask him about. "We had barbed-wire matches that were crazy, and the fans loved it," he says. "They were good matches, but the thing about them is that they're very dangerous. You make one mistake and you could rip your eyes out of your head, or cut yourself up into pieces.
"I've wrestled all over -- Kuwait, Korea, Uganda, New Zealand. I enjoyed Australia, the promoter was Jim Barnett, and they had a lot of good wrestlers there, and every night I'd wrestle in front of sell-out crowds.
"Every place I went, it didn't matter, I could bring business up in the territory. Every country I wrestled in, I could have a great match with their top stars, and I did -- all over the world."
After a long pause, Abdullah opined on a career spanning six decades: "You can't bring the time back though. I love the wrestling business, and I can still go. I'll probably die in the ring.
"And there's so many guys you respect, many of them are gone, you know? When I went to wrestle for Stampede Wrestling, Stu Hart was like a father to me and took very good care of me. I seen all of his sons and daughters grow up, and it was a very nice family. I always cared deeply for Stu Hart, and that dungeon is where all the great stars came out of -- right there in Calgary, Alberta. Wrestling was their life."
Looking forward to the WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony on April 2, Abdullah says he hopes to reconnect with old friends like Mick Foley, Terry Funk, Big Show and the Undertaker. He also anticipates that fans and wrestlers alike will visit his famous restaurant, Abdullah the Butcher's House of Ribs, over WrestleMania.
"People who visit my restaurant can take home the forks and ask me to sign them," he says with a laugh. "Because that's what the people love -- the violence."


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Commodity prices are experiencing a lot of volatility right now, with food and oil prices nearing record highs. But what about the medium-term? The answer is fundamental for developing countries as commodity prices will be the key external variable for them to watch—perhaps even more than interest rates. Commodity prices are expected to stay high until at least 2015, before supply responses and lower relative demand by a burgeoning global middle-class moderate them. And while commodity dependence has been declining for decades, exports and fiscal revenues will remain dominated by natural resources in many developing countries.
Is this commodity price increase good news? The literature on whether commodity wealth is a "curse" is as vast as it is ambivalent—as we show it in The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World (World Bank Publications, Washington D.C.). What is certain from empirical evidence is that good policies and good governance are necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for natural riches (especially oil and minerals) to support development. For that to happen, it is necessary to solve five main problems associated with those riches: (a) "Dutch Disease" (non-commodity exports becoming less competitive), (b) price volatility (complicating investment decisions), (c) over-borrowing (lenders are less stringent with governments that expect to collect lots of cash), (d) sustainability (the amount of the natural wealth to preserve for future generations), and (e) corruption (the larger the rent, the more voracious the rent-seeking).
Given these five challenges, what are "good" policies and what does "good" governance entail? Will the developing world succeed now where it mostly failed in the past? This time, the odds are higher in favor of better development outcomes stemming from high commodity prices. With important differences across countries, democratization has, on average, enhanced citizens' demand for transparency and has improved institutional checks and balances. In parallel, natural resource funds have become more common and the technology to administer them has improved. Public investment processes, from identification to evaluation, are also better than before.
More generally, fiscal policy is more robust, backed by more rules, better coordinated with other agencies of the state (notably, central banks), and more acquainted with techniques for results-based management. Monetary anchors are stronger (scores of countries follow and meet inflation targets). And while we are still far away from a broad acceptance of the prudent "permanent income rule" (that is, from spending only the annuity value of our natural wealth), there is a general sense among policymakers and voters that consumption binges financed by commodity revenues tend to end in tears.
Of course, not all developing countries are improving their natural resource management at the same speed, and a few are actually moving in the opposite direction. But the overall trend is more promising than it has ever been. The more rich nations undergo painful fiscal adjustments and austerity, the more support politicians in emerging markets will have for prudence in saving and using commodity wealth. It may sound overly optimistic, but sound fiscal management will begin to be perceived as a political asset.
*Otaviano Canuto is the World Bank's Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, and Marcelo Giugale is the Sector Director of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management for the Africa Region. They are both the coeditors of The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World.
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