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Gerald and Georja attended the opening night of Carmen, one of the most popular operas ever.
Nothing-not even love-can tame Carmen, the delectable femme fatale of Seville, who springs to life onstage in an intoxicating whirl of thrilling music and heart-stopping drama. Georges Bizet's dazzling score is an endless parade of one great melody after the other, from the languid allure of Carmen's gypsy songs to the macho boasts of the dashing bullfighter. Carmen premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3, 1875.
Gerald: This story is a love triangle between Carmen ( Viktoria Vizen) and two suitors--the army corporal Don José ( Marcus Haddock) and the arrogant bullfighter Escomillo ( Raymond Aceto).
Georja: To me, this isn't so much a love triangle as a portrait of an extremely free-spirited woman who chooses liberty over love. Throughout the piece she reinvents herself--from sensuous, scrappy gypsy queen to rebellious smuggler and revolutionary, to a societal icon.
Gerald: Well, that's a very modern interpretation, and I'm not sure the producers of the current production would disagree. But in Bizet's time I think she'd be considered a fascinating hussy, and in the end she's the bullfighter's expensive girlfriend, but hardly a lady in society.
Georja: That's just it. No matter what role she's in, she's still her own person. When she's a gypsy, she'll fight or disagree with the other gypsies. When she's a lady, she still does whatever she damn pleases.
Gerald: The fascination is with her shameless sexuality. And men who become fascinated with her become blinded to everything else.
Georja: That's true. Her character is endlessly fascinating. To this role Vizen brings her beauty, her statuesque presence, her gracefulness, and her flamenco-style movements. Not to mention her magnificent mezzo-soprano voice. She is Carmen personified!
Gerald: Before our readers think Vizen is the whole story, we should add that the role will be alternately performed by Nancy Fabiola Herrera, when the roles of Don José will be sung by German Villar and Michaëla by Sabina Cvilak. ( Genia Kühmeir made her company debut as Michaëla in the opening-night performance we saw.)
Georja: As familiar as this music is, the LA Opera orchestra, conducted in this run by Emmanuel Villaume, is rousing, brisk, clear, and fresh.
Gerald: They went out and got a French conductor who knows every nuance of the libretto, just as they had a Spanish director ( Javier Ulacia) who totally understands not only the dazzling flamenco numbers but also the ambiance of Seville.
Georja: Gerardo Trotti's set designs were created originally for Teatro Real in Madrid. Opera lovers are treated to four mammoth set changes. From the plaza in Seville to the mountains above the city, each set is magnificent in its depth and ambience.
Gerald: The Madrid production was directed by another Spaniard, Emilio Sagi, and it played here in the 2004 season. The current production is a revival, with a new director.
Georja: The choreography--the dancing and the movement of the crowd scenes--is masterful. At times it felt like there were hundreds of characters on stage. In the first act, the children's song and dance imitating the soldiers is charming. The company dance number with the red fans in the last act is a show-stopper. (The choreographer is Nuria Castejón. For the kids' parts, she was assisted by children's chorus director Anne Tomlinson.)
Gerald: We've seen Carmen twice before--first in the 2004 Los Angeles production, then as a concert of highlights last summer at the Hollywood Bowl when Denyce Graves sang the title role. I was struck this time by how much the mood changes in Act II when the scene shifts to find the rebellious band of gypsies in the mountains above Seville. It was cold and stark, and I'm reminded that in 1871, just a few years before Bizet wrote this, Paris had seen its second working-class revolution, the Commune. The city was terrified--and there was, as Don José feels here, a frightening sense of whether it's right to cast your fate with the rebels.
Georja: But in the end, Don José's obsession with Carmen seems to overrule his conscience.
Gerald: You got that right. Deserting the army--then as now--was no light decision. The bullfighter, on the other hand, seems to live only for himself and glory. He's enthralled with Carmen, too, even chasing her up into those mountains, but you get the feeling at the end he'll quickly find another.
Georja: When Escomillo sings the famous "Toreador Song," as spirited and uplifting as the music is, I have to say on reading the subtitles with the lyrics about inflicting suffering on the horses and the bull, I'm afraid I will never enjoy it as much again.
Gerald: That's another modern interpretation Bizet's audience would never have dreamt, but a valid one for our times, certainly.
Georja: Human consciousness, although it still has a long way to go, is hopefully rising in regard to our collective understanding, compassion, and treatment of other species on the earth.
Gerald: You and the artists in this production have found a way to see Carmen's character in a totally contemporary way. As for me, I'm not so sure the issues of love and class struggle have changed much at all.
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You'll have to stick with this video through about 30 seconds of Jay Onrait's monkeyshines before getting to the real goods, but check out the look on the kid's face when his mom makes him give the ball to the junior douche in the Yankees cap. (Added bonus: the video of Johnny Damon taking $20 from a fan for a baseball, then handing it to the first kid he sees.)
So wrong.
Mind you, as a rule, we don't give the foul balls that we catch to kids, because you know they're going to just get left outside and get caught under the lawnmower in a week's time.


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Venezuelan Vice President José Vicente Rangel (left), in a meeting with religious representatives from the United States, took up the delegations proposal that Venezuela stop sending soldiers to the School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) at Ft. Benning, Georgia. During the meeting Rangel called the Venezuelan minister of defense to discuss the feasibility of the request.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez met in Caracas with Roy Bourgeois (right), a Maryknoll priest, to confirm Venezuelas decision. Bourgeois began protesting the school in 1983 when he played a tape of assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romeros final sermon next to the military base. During the visit of religious leaders, Chávez spoke out against the U.S. military institution, saying, "This school deformed the minds of many Latin American soldiers, who from there went on to become dictators." Venezuela is the first nation to refuse to send soldiers to the School of the Americas.


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Here is an interview Mark did with Men's Journal:
Mark Wahlberg Handles His Business
By ERIK HEDEGAARD Feb 2012
He gave up the partying, stopped the brawling, and even erased the tattoos (well, mostly). The man once best known for dropping trou has evolved into a Hollywood force on and off the screen. Now can someone please get him Barry Pepper on the phone?
Every so often Mark Wahlberg leaves his home in the ridgeline above Beverly Hills, cruises down Benedict Canyon Drive across Sunset to where it turns into North Rodeo Drive, hooks a right onto Brighton Way, pivots right again onto North Roxbury Drive, parks, and goes inside a medical office building to correct some mistakes he made 25 years ago. It's the stupid tattoos. The stupid tattoos have to go. All of them. The big one of Bob Marley on his left shoulder looking half spliffed out. The one on his right shoulder with his family name, his parents' initials, his own initials, and his date of birth, 6-5-71, all of it loud and proud. The rosary-beads one that circles around his neck and runs down to his sternum, ending with the words IN GOD I TRUST. And, finally, the one on his leg, of Sylvester the Cat making succotash of Tweety Bird, which he got 23 years ago, when he was 17, to cover up the gang tattoo he gave himself when he was 12. Going, going, someday, hopefully, gone.
Right now, sitting in the guesthouse on his deluxe $14 million hilltop property (full gym with regulation-size boxing ring, pool, waterfalls, grotto, basketball court, putting green), Wahlberg rubs Bob Marley's faded remains and says with considerable exasperation, "Doctor told me five to seven visits. Yeah, well, over the last three years, I've been to him over 30 times. Hurts, too. Hurts 10 times worse than getting them done." He likens the pain to getting doused with hot grease. He says he usually comes out of the doctor's office looking like a mummy, bandaged up from having all the tattoos worked on at once. He says he has taken his two oldest kids – he's got four: Ella, eight, Michael, five, Brendan, three, and Grace, two, with wife Rhea – to see him get burned by the laser, as a lesson. Don't be stupid like your dad once was. Learn from his mistakes.
The tattoos were, of course, the least of the mistakes Wahlberg made as a vicious, run-amok kid growing up in southern Boston. The others were more serious, more deeply criminal, and that's not even counting the criminality of him once being the rap star Marky Mark (b. 1991, d. 1996, R.I.P.) and a guy who modeled underpants. The kids haven't heard anything about that. "There will come a time, but it's not something we have to talk about just yet," Wahlberg says. As usual, his voice is kind of a raspy whisper. As usual, his eyes are kind of slitted out, giving him the aspect of either someone you don't want to mess with or someone about to doze off. As usual, he'd like to be talking about anything but his past – "It is what it is. Hasn't that story been told enough?" – preferring instead to expound on his business interests.
"Actually," he says, brightening and leaning forward, "I'm more a businessman than anything right now. Acting takes me away from my family. My entire philosophy has changed. Acting careers are short-lived; a business will last a lifetime."
To this end, he has been on a roll quite unlike any other in recent Hollywood history. First, with longtime friend and partner Steve Levinson, he's become a big-time TV and motion-picture producer. It started in 2004, with the long-running HBO series 'Entourage' (based loosely on his exploits with his own entourage), and has continued with shows like 'In Treatment,' 'How to Make It in America,' and 'Boardwalk Empire,' all critical hits. "When he first came to us," says HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo, "I thought this was another guy making a vanity play, putting his name on something, dabbling in producing. But Mark doesn't dabble in anything. His growth as a producer has been prodigious. He has a great eye for scripts, a great eye for talent, a great eye for directors – all things I would never have imagined when we first met all those many years ago."
Wahlberg has also taken to producing the movies he stars in, his biggest being 'The Fighter,' which took him six years to make and received seven Oscar nominations, including one for best picture. His latest is the crime thriller 'Contraband,' the making of which he regards with a businessman's eye.
"It's an inexpensive movie," he says crisply. "We shot it for just under $40 million and it looks like $80 million. You take a lot less money up front and put a lot of money on the screen. Then, if it's a success, everybody reaps the rewards. I think as a business model, it's definitely a formula we want to focus on."
And then there are his businesses outside the movie business. He's got Wahlburgers, the new hamburger restaurant he opened with his brothers Donnie and Paul just south of Boston ("It has shakes and Tater Tots, salmon burgers, turkey burgers – and a full bar"), which may itself become the basis of a reality show. He's got a pizza joint in the works. He even owns a stake in a water company called AquaHydrate ("They came in and pitched me this whole thing about proprietary processes, osmosis, trace minerals, electrolytes, all this crap I had no interest in and knew nothing about; but when I started drinking it, my recovery time after working out changed instantly"). He's also thinking about starting a money-management firm ("It'd be about protecting professional athletes and entertainers and educating them about how to live within their means; things don't last, and you need to understand that"). And let's not forget the Elite Football League, which has its heart set on bringing American football to India; he's involved in that, too. "You talk about people living in poverty," he says. "But you put a ball in the hands of those kids, give them an opportunity to play and grow and learn – it's amazing, and it's just starting to take off right now."
In brief, he has been boning up on considerations of modern portfolio theory, seen the wisdom of global multi-asset diversification, and pulled the trigger hither, thither, and yon, with more to come. "Depending on if I can relate to it," he says, "I'll pretty much take a meeting with anybody."
In the meantime, he's continuing to work on those tattoos, hoping that one day they'll just fade away and no longer be anything anyone can see. And for God's sake, could somebody please get him Barry Pepper for the political snake-pit movie 'Broken City' that he's making with Russell Crowe? Don't know who Barry Pepper is? That's OK. Wahlberg does. And he wants him for 'Broken City.' Bad.
I first met Wahlberg in 1996, when he was far different from how he is now. Today's Wahlberg says stuff like, "Who am I? I'm a God-loving individual." Yesterday's Wahlberg would say stuff like, "Who am I? I am Mark fucking Robert Michael Wahlberg, baby."
This was in North Carolina, where he was shooting a movie with Bill Paxton called 'Traveller.' He was just out of his Marky Mark phase and had recently stopped stripping down to his skivvies for Calvin Klein. He was in full-on movie-making mode, but so far he'd had only a couple of bit parts, in 'The Basketball Diaries', starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and in 'Renaissance Man,' with Danny DeVito. He was about to make a splash in his first starring role, opposite Reese Witherspoon in 'Fear,' as a psycho lothario hoodlum. But it hadn't opened yet, and no one knew how it would go.
What I remember most is how gracious Wahlberg was. For instance, he let me watch TV with him for hours on end ('The Waltons,' 'The Munsters' and even watch him sleep (nothing to report). Like guys do, we talked about cunnilingus (he did not know the word; once informed, he said, "Man, I ain't into that!") and masturbation ("I haven't masturbated since the penitentiary; they say it's a sin"). At one point, he showed up on the 'Traveller' set decked out in a furry Cossack-style hat, a white shirt worn half unbuttoned, baggy-at-the-butt khakis, his belt unbuckled, his Timberland boots untied – his own kind of disheveled, happy-go-lucky fashion mess.
Bill Paxton took one look at him and shouted, "Love your style, kid. You're coming out large, baby. You're nationwide!"
Wahlberg shrugged, grinning. "Motherfuckers in one place was ragging on my hat. It's the shit right here."
Paxton was delighted. "I'm cashing the kid like a check! I'm going to the bank with your ass. The Kid. Kid Millions!"
So even then there was something about Wahlberg that made people think he was going places. In the end, it worked out better than Paxton could have imagined. Wahlberg is not the most emotive actor – his main go-to actorly chop seems to be the deep furrowing of his heavy brow – but put him in the right role and he can be solid, bordering on compelling. He was coolly stoic in 'The Perfect Storm' (2000); showed real pop-star attitude in 'Rock Star' (2001); was convincing as a high-class thief in 'The Italian Job' (2003); scored an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a foul-mouthed cop in 'The Departed' (2006); displayed real grit and heart in 'Invincible' (2006); survived a number of bombs along the way 'The Truth About Charlie,' 'The Happening,' 'Max Payne'; neatly restored his reputation in 2010 with both a huge-hit comedy, 'The Other Guys,' and an even huger- hit boxing movie, 'The Fighter.' And none of it would have happened had he not taken on the part of a porn star named Dirk Diggler in 1997's 'Boogie Nights.' At first, Wahlberg was revolted by the idea. He was trying to stay away from anything that called for him to strip down. Also, how would it look to the guys on the street back home, him appearing to give hand jobs in a car? He'd be humiliated. He could never show his face again. But at Levinson's insistence, he took the part, showed a good bit of tenderness and soul, hauled out a monstrous prosthetic schnitzel for the final scene, earned rave reviews, and was seen as courageous for taking on such a daring role.
That's another thing about Wahlberg: He always gets the benefit of the doubt. He'd have been called gutsy even if he'd been blackmailed into taking the part. For whatever reason, people just want him to succeed. "He's a very decent man with an enormous heart who has worked for everything he has, and people root for him, just like they do in his movies," says HBO's Lombardo. This, in turn, has allowed Wahlberg to pretty much do things his way, with very little compromise. He made his movies, slept with lots of pretty women, hung out with his boys, played golf, played more golf, yelled, "Look out, you motherfuckers!" as he teed off, smoked a good bit of weed, smoked a crapload of cigarettes, played a great many games of laser tag, and just in general sailed along having a fine time. And then what did he do? He went and had kids and got married to a woman who converted to Catholicism to make it happen.
Not everyone has been happy about this.
"Yeah, a lot of people I thought were my friends were disappointed that I decided to settle down and don't take them on whirlwind tours of craziness anymore," he says one afternoon at his estate. "When I was the life of the party, I definitely wanted to bring as many people along for the ride as possible. But sooner or later, you find out who your friends are. If they were my friends, they would have been happy for me changing my life and growing up. I mean, because of 'Entourage,' people think that my life is just a big, wild party. And it is. But these days it's a big, wild Halloween party or Easter egg party. I don't go out at night anymore. I don't hang around with the guys. I don't really play golf. I stopped smoking cigarettes. I stopped smoking pot a lot of years ago, too. I'm focused on my family, my faith, and my work."
Here's how a typical day goes these days. He gets a wake-up call at 4:30 AM, answers on the first ring, says "I'm up," flops back down for 10 or 15 minutes, gets up, brushes his teeth, takes his vitamins ("essential fatty acids, stuff for my joints"), walks outside and down to his gym, works out with his trainer Brian Nguyen for an hour, and then hustles his two older kids into one of his cars and drives them down to the school at his church in Beverly Hills ("They're getting a faith-based education"). On the way, the kids will want to listen to hip-hop, while their dad will want to listen to K-EARTH 101 ("the greatest hits on Earth") or KOST 103.5 ("SoCal's favorite soft rock").
After that, he returns home. And what a home it is. Even more grandiose than most movie-star homes, it goes on and on, up sets of stairs, down sets of stairs, past multiple water features, under and around leafy vegetative overhangs; the only thing missing is a life-size rubber reproduction of a dead horse, legs sticking straight up, affixed to the bottom of the swimming pool as a conversation piece, but his apparent need for overlarge statements of ownership (he once drove a $190,000, 563-horsepower Mercedes SLS, 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds) isn't quite so vulgar.
For the next hour, he plays full-court one-on-one basketball. "He will kill you from the outside, and then he's great at driving to the basket," says Nguyen. "In my seven years of playing him, I've never won a game. He's a stud. He's relentless. He never eases up."
"I have one hoop at 10 feet and one at nine feet, so I can dunk and think I'm in the NBA," Wahlberg says. "I have a camera on the nine-foot one, so when I dunk on your head and am feeling pretty badass, I can send you a highlight reel of it on DVD."
At some point in the morning, he will pray: "I get on my hands and knees and remind myself of how fortunate I am, how grateful I am, how humble I need to be." And then, if it's a day like today, he'll be getting pissed off at Big A, a friend who is supposed to be there waiting for him but isn't. Wahlberg groans and moans and says, "Every day it's something with him. Two days ago, it was because Johnny Drama" – that is, the real Johnny Drama, John Alves, another longtime Wahlberg posse member – "told him I was fine with him being an hour late. And Ari" – that is, the real Ari, Wahlberg's agent, Ari Emanuel – "just hired him to drive his kid to high school every day and teach him Hebrew. I mean, it's just one thing after another." He scratches his head, flustered.
Then, if it's a Thursday, he'll be looking forward to date night with his wife. Sometimes he chooses, sometimes she chooses, and he's usually fine with whatever she chooses, "as long as it isn't a Sarah Jessica Parker movie." Or one with disturbing types of violence. "The last movie we saw was 'Straw Dogs,'" he says. "We didn't see the whole thing. I was upset – they're raping this girl and then cutting to pictures of her and her child at home when she was young, and I have two daughters, so I have no tolerance to see that shit. I didn't want to sit through that."
And all day long he will be handling his business affairs. Today it's wanting Barry Pepper business. Barry Pepper is a character actor perhaps best known for playing Lucky Ned, the snaggletoothed outlaw in the 'True Grit' remake. He looks kind of like a young Gary Busey, both tame and wild. He's fabulous. The phone rings, Wahlberg answers, and the first words out of his mouth are "Guys. Tell me we got Barry." He listens. He says, "I'm offering up a little piece of my back end if it would make a difference." He listens. He heaves a breath. He deeply furrows his heavy brow, thrums his fingers on the table. He says, "Please get me Barry Pepper, OK?"
And then, if it's a day like today, he will just stare off into space.
"I wanna dedicate this book to my dick," he wrote in his 1992 autobiography, 'Marky Mark.' Calendar pages fly past. In 2011, he was named one of 'Time''s 100 most influential people.
"I watched him go from getting in fights when we were doing 'Three Kings,' barroom brawls and stuff, to developing into this really interesting man," George Clooney says. "He's mellower and gentler than he was. He used to be surrounded by a lot of his friends; some of them weren't the most healthy of people to have around. But he was always in control, and he's developed into one of those guys who you say, 'He's not only going to last in this business, he's going to run the business.'"
Barroom brawls? Wahlberg shrugs. "I was just defending myself from some irate drunk German skydivers." Pause. "When you put your hands on me, it's a problem."
So he's still got a lot of that tough guy in him. More tough guy: He was scheduled to take one of the Boston-to-Los Angeles flights that crashed into the World Trade Center, but he canceled a few days prior. "If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did," he says. "There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.'"
On the other hand, he's got some candy ass in him too. For one thing, giving blood freaks him out. "The first time I did it, I woke up, I was on the floor. So I gotta lay down when I do it, not look – distract myself. I do not like the idea of giving blood." Also, he cries during movies. "The last time I really cried a lot? During 'The Help'. I cried about six or seven times. It was the wife's choice, but it was a great movie."
And then there's how he feels about his older daughter, Ella, going on her first date. How is he going to handle that?
He flops back in his chair, rubs his chin, looks grim. "I'm not going to think about that right now," he says tensely. "When the time comes, I will, but it's not a good thought for me to have. Thinking about it really stresses me out, so don't stress me out right now, because that's a stressful thought, OK?"
Just then Ella shows up and kisses her daddy on the cheek.
He says, "This creepy guy right here is asking me, 'What about if some boy ever comes to the house to take you on a date? What would you do?' What would Daddy do?"
"No, no, no, no, no," Ella shrieks.
"What would Daddy do?"
She pauses. "I don't know. Go like this?" And with that she pops him a good one right in the nose.
He rears back. "Not hit me!" he shouts. He rubs his nose. She's giggling like crazy.
The phone rings. Wahlberg mashes the earpiece to his ear. "Tell me we got Barry Pepper." Some studio guy on the other end says something that causes Wahlberg to start shaking his head, eyes turning even squintier than normal. Finally he says, "Why're you saying all this other stuff to him you don't need to say?"
Ella can't help herself. She leans in and shouts, "Hello? Who is this?"
"I'm on the phone, Ella. No, no, this is inappropriate."
Ella dances off.
"I'm going to call him," Wahlberg says to the guy on the phone. "I'm going to handle it, dude." He listens, says, "Yeah, well, you're not going to do that. You need to be the bigger person. You need to handle the situation the right way. That's what the studio does, dude." Listens again, says, "You know what? Just trust me, please. Will you trust me, please? You're killing me. I love you, too. Bye."
Ella says, "Who was that?"
"Somebody who has a lot of issues."
"Who's got a lot of issues?"
"Unfortunately, a lot of people do, me included."
"You've got a lot of issues, Daddy?"
He smiles. "Yeah, and you're at the top of the list. Go. I love you. Bye."
"Bye-bye, Daddy!"
Later on he's standing on a green above his house, whacking golf balls into the canyon down below. "I haven't done this in a long time." Whack. "Every once in a while, you hear a guy go, 'Hey! I'm down here!'" Whack. "Did you see the flight on that ball? That was probably 185 yards. 190." Whack. "See the ball?" Whack. "See it come down?" Whack. "See it?" Whack. "Dude!" Whack. "See that beautiful roll over? You seeing all this? You should be looking at this instead of wanting to look at all my troubled past." Whack. "Stand over there so you don't get hit." Whack, whack, whack. Whack.
It would be nice, of course, to forget Wahlberg's past, to pretend that what happened never happened. But it's like those tattoos of his: The past might fade, but it'll never go away completely. Plus, as much as he might wish otherwise, his past is just too unbelievable, too salacious, too pungent, too central to a complete understanding of the guy to resist – him growing up the youngest of nine in a broken family in one of the roughest parts of Boston, mugging drunks, stealing their rings, developing a cocaine habit, turning into quite the pint-size con artist.
"I saw him in Dorchester district court one time," says Father James Flavin, his childhood parish priest, "and he started crying in front of the judge, and the judge let him go, and he turned around and winked at me and walked out with a big smile on his face. It was worthy of an Academy Award nomination. He was probably 15."
But then, a year later, he hit a Vietnamese man on the head with a stick, stole his beer, ran down the street, hit another Vietnamese man, blinding him in one eye, spouted off to the cops about "gooks," and spent 45 days of a two-year suspended sentence in Dear Island prison, going inside with only a pack of smokes and a $10 bill to his name, waking up his first night seeing one guy blowing another guy, and he wondered about what that might mean for him. He was 16. He worried that he was headed down the wrong path, swore to himself that he would turn himself around, after prison tried to do right, watched big brother Donnie make millions in the New Kids on the Block boy band (he joined for a split second, but quit because the music disgusted him), got Donnie to help him produce his own album in 1991 and become Marky Mark, was inspired to drop his trousers while playing a gig at the Magic Mountain theme park, got a huge rise out of the crowd, made that his go-to musical chop, got into the underpants-modeling racket, got into the movie racket, got into the producing racket, got into the designer-water racket, had kids, got married, recently bought a piece of property on which to build a new home with a footprint of 9,000 square feet, and unfortunately now has to put up with someone like me driving with him in his Mercedes S600 down into Beverly Hills, wanting him to be like he was instead of who he is.
"So do you still feel that masturbation is a sin?" I ask him.
"I don't get down with jerking off, dude. I told you," he says. "Look. I don't believe in everything that the church says. I try to do the right thing. I lead a clean and pure life. I'm a married guy. I have a beautiful wife. Sex is not the most important thing to me, being horny all the time, spanking the – I mean, it's not against the law. You can do whatever you want. And it's not like, 'I shouldn't do it because of my faith.' I'm just not really that into it that much anyway."
We pass a deer in the woods. He points at it. "Look! Deer!"
"Do you like Hollywood?"
"I love Hollywood. Hollywood has been very good to me."
"Was there anything you had to learn to do what you do here?"
"I feel comfortable pretty much anywhere I go. Whether it's an inner-city environment or a boardroom, I can find my way to exist. But, yeah, I had a big chip on my shoulder for a long time."
"What was that chip?"
He drums his fingers on the steering wheel, soft rock on the radio – Avril Lavigne, "Complicated." He's going into town to interview potential CEOs for the water company. He doesn't need this. "I have a hard time talking about myself," he says. Silence.
"You had issues with some scenes in 'Straw Dogs'. Are there any scenes you object to doing?"
"Yeah, I don't like having to portray a scene with an actress where I'm kissing her and stuff like that. My wife knows it's my job, but I don't like doing it, and I don't seek roles that have those kinds of romantic interests."
"Do you feel the same way you once did about oral sex?"
He takes a deep, deep breath.
"That is not appropriate, dude. It's not appropriate, especially as I'm a parent and a husband, to be talking about those things. I mean, what do you want? You want to see the evolution?"
He says that with a kind of dismissive snarl. But, of course, it's true.
He pulls up to a curb and parks, and punches some numbers into his phone. A moment later, he has the great Barry Pepper on the line.
"Hey, Barry, it's Mark Wahlberg calling. What's up, buddy? I've seen everything you've done, even going back to, like, '25th Hour'. I was talking to Ed Norton about you; he just said, 'Fucking Barry is a beast,' excuse my language. Listen, just let me try to make it work. I'll do everything I can, Barry. There are very few guys out there capable of doing what you can do, and especially against a guy like Russell Crowe. I just think you would knock it right out of the park. I mean, I don't like to be the one to ask for favors. I usually offer them up. But if we can work this out, I will owe you tenfold. I promise. I'll do everything I can. I'll deliver for you, buddy."
And on he goes, a true Hollywood player now, and, yes, a pretty fully evolved one at that. And Barry Pepper? Two weeks later, he signs on. Wahlberg handled it. He knew just what to do.


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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:10 pm
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Hi there,
We will be in San Diego for a few days in late September and am looking for restaurant recommendations and or market areas where we could visit.
Although I would love to say that price is no object - it is .... so anything that is reasonable but I certainly would look at something more up there in prices!
We will be in San Francisco as well for a few days and I know that I must try the sour dough bread there .... anything else that is a must try would also be welcome.
Thanks again
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I'm just back in my hot country from 2 months in various cities in the US.
San francisco was wonderful,.I couldn't recommend cheap restaurants, because my friend who lives in LA decided to pamper me with good restaurants. I'm sure there are tens of good and cheap restaurants.
Nevertheless, I'll suggest the two I really liked, though they are quite pricy.
I'm an afficionado of dim sums and had five (5!!!) such meals in NY
( stayed there 9 days). But the best one was in SF and I wouldn't mind to pay the price : it is named Yand Sing and has two locations, one in Chinatown and one in Rincon Center ( I ate at that one). Worth every penny.
I also liked less pricy neo-vietnamese restaurant E&O Trading Co ( yes, that's the restaurants's name) on Sutter street, not far from Union Square.
We also succeeded to get a reservation at the musch parised Slanted Door , also neo-vietnamese, which I found noisy, over-crowded, pricy and snobbish- the food was just OK, but I think I preffer the old-vietnamese style, more basic and honest food.
We also ate in a charming italian restaurant named Kuleto ( or Culeto) just opposite Union Square on the street wher the streetcar is going up ( forgot the name of the street).
If you have time for a Napa Valley day- it was really wonderful - Toscana like but in American dimentions . We had a really wonderful meal at the CIA restaurant in St. Helena named Wine Spectator Greystone. Worth the trip and fairly priced.
Bon Appetit and have a wonderful time eating and drinking,
No more war, vive the good reataurants !!!
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For San Francisco, the Ferry Building is a must-visit. The farmer's market (on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) is one of the best I've ever been to, but even if you don't make it on a market day, there are plenty of shops worth checking out - whatever you do, don't miss Miette (amazing macarons) and Blue Bottle Coffee. Elsewhere in town, I've had Tartine recommended to me by several people whose judgment I trust - although when I tried to go, the queue was so long I gave up because I had such limited time in the city. Based on the crowd and the displays, I would say it's worth braving the long wait if you have more time - but maybe go earlier in the day!
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:21 pm
Post subject: ideas for san diego
Although I've been living here for just over a year, I actually haven't been all that adventerous when it comes to San Diego restaurants.
That said, here are a few ideas that I, a budding local, enjoy:
The Sea Rocket Bistro
The Sea Rocket Bistro in the neighborhood of South Park (actually east of Balboa Park) is a farm to table restaurant. It prides itself on serving up sustainable, locally and humanely (read - no dolphin killing nets, they fish with poles!) fished seafood and local organic produce. If you go on a Wednesday, that's the day they get fresh sea urchin in. Mind you, when I say sea urchin, I'm talking about a living, moving thing the size of a grapefruit. I felt bad about eating it while it was still moving, but it was an incredible appetizer.
They also have a small selection of tapas. If you're a fish lover, be sure to try the grilled sardines. Lunch runs about $15-$20 and dinner about $10 more.
Wa Dining Okan (Japanese izakaya or tapas style restaurant)
Okan is an abbreviated version of Okasan, which means "mother" in Japanese. This place is located in the tiny Japanese/Korean business strip of San Diego known as Kearny Mesa, just a bit north of central San Diego. The restaurant itself is the size of a postage stamp --- literally, but it makes for an authentic, homey Japanese postage stamp. Don't let its strip mall location fool you. The food is traditional and amazing. Like most izakayas, the focus is on tapas or small portions of grilled meat and other gourmet, snack size salads or sides. I highly recommend the ochazuke, a grilled rice ball with seasonings and green tea poured over it. Also, the steamed clams and asaparugus wrapped in bacon skewers are modestly sized but very satisfying. They serve a small lunch menu (think 3-5 items) Monday through Friday and dinner daily. Dinner runs about $25-$30 per person. Reservations highly recommended. (Nijiya market is right next door in case you need a Japanese grocery store run.)
Tabe BBQ
San Diego has a unique flair for fusion cuisine. Usually, it's very bad. With Tabe BBQ, however, it's very good. Tabe BBQ serves up Korean style BBQ in a Tex Mex style taco. They also do the crunchiest fish tacos in all of San Diego. The only downside to Tabe is that you have to follow their truck (locations available on their web site) on certain days or go to their only store location, located inside a car wash convenience store. Yes, you heard me correctly; it's inside a car wash convenience store. With a kitchen the size of a small closet, though, Tabe BBQ churns out amazing food that's original and tasty. Lunch is under $10 per person.
Muzita Abyssinian Bistro
In the mood for adventure? Muzita is another small, family run Ethiopian restaurant. The chef in the kitchen is Latin but he makes dinner with the Ethiopian manager Abel's mom's secret spices and seasonings. Housed in a small bungalow, Muzita provides both a romantic atmosphere and tasty, slightly spicy food. The meat and veg dishes are all organic and served on an edible bread plate. By the way, you eat with your hands. You'll get used to it fast because the food is so good. Try the honey wine, the speciality of the house. It's amazing. They're only open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday but also serve brunch on Sunday. Dinner runs about $25-$30 per person.
Lucha Libre Gourmet Taco Shop
I haven't tried this place but I've been meaning to. (I usually get my Mexican food fix at an authentic place near my work.) The decor alone makes it worth a visit --- and by decor, I mean luchador decor. I really respect the fact that they have grilled hot dogs wrapped in bacon on the menu. If you've ever been to an authentic Mexican neighborhood in Los Angeles or in Tijuana, this item (among other things) is a staple of street food cuisine. I think this restaurant was also featured on an episode of Man v. Food filmed in San Diego.
Eclipse Chocolat
If you're willing to spend $5 on a cup of hot chocolate, this is the place to do it. It's a chocolate and coffee cafe that sells high end chocolate, chocolate drinks and desserts. Skip the $12 tasting platter (their desserts are dry and disappointing) but go for the hot chocolate. I like the rosemary mint infused hot chocolate.
Tender Greens
This is a godsend of a chain restaurant located in Point Loma. At Tender Greens you can get generously portioned gourmet salads or hot gourmet entrees (I tried the rabbit and they actually got it right!) for around $15. Dinner is served in a cafeteria style line but the folks behind the counter are fast and diligent. Stop by the Starbucks at Libery Station after dinner --- it's decorated with a few antique naval portaits, a nice nod to the history of the area.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Cafe
If you're in La Jolla visiting the seals in the Children's Cove, the outdoor cafe at the Museum of Contemporary Art is an ideal lunch spot. The menu is French and Italian inspired --- mostly salads and sandwiches but made with the freshest ingredients. Lunch runs about $15 per person. No museum admission required to dine at the cafe.
Beachside restaurants
Nick's at the Beach
Nick's isn't exactly on the beach, but pretty close to it. Nick's is a sports bar that churns out good quality, reasonably priced sports bar food. The clam chowder here is excellent unlike the white slop they churn out at most tourist trap restaurants like The Fish Market near the harbor.
World Famous
World Famous is where the local San Diegans go for relatively cheap seafood. Happy Hour during the week means half priced appetizers which are surprisingly good. The clam chowder here is also excellent. Expect a long wait during happy hour though. The locals love their beer and seafood appetizers.
I'm sure any guidebook on San Diego will give you recommendations on where to eat near the beach. San Diego has so many beaches, there's plenty of view to catch. I'm also not a frequent visitor of the more well-known touristy areas such as the Gaslamp district and Little Italy. I wouldn't recommend eating at any of the restaurants (overpriced) in Balboa Park but do visit the museums in El Prado.
One last thing . . . if you have the time and are inclined to go horseback riding, there's a riding stable that allows you to ride horses on the beach near the Mexican border. It's called Happy Trails. We did the early bird ride at 9 am and had a really nice time. Our horses didn't really want to go into the water, but if you can coax them in, they can go in up to their necks.
"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" --- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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My brother has lived in the San Diego area for 30 years, and, at my request, put this list together for you.
Pier Café
Menu available at website
Hash House a Go Go
Menu available website
menu available website
Greek Food
At Mission Beach
across from roller coaster
714 Ventura Place
San Diego, CA 92109
Royal India
Menu available web
Big Kitchen Café
Menu available web
3003 Grape St.
San Diego, Ca 92102
(619) 234-5789
The Big Kitchen is Open
8am-2pm daily
Menu available website
Menu available website
El Zarappe
Menu available website
Ranchos Cocina
Categories: Vegetarian, Mexican http://www.yelp.com/biz/ranchos-cocina-san-diego
1830 Sunset Cliffs Blvd
(between Narragansett Ave & Niagara Ave)
San Diego, CA 92107
Neighborhoods: Ocean Beach, Point Loma
(619) 226-7619
Arriverderci Ristorante Italian
(619) 299-6282
3845 Fourth Ave
San Diego, CA 92103
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A Different Kind of Hard
Posted by Kim @ Peace of my Heart on Saturday, August 04, 2012 |
Of the dozens of the Peace of my Heart bears that have found their way into the hands of grieving parents over the last couple of years, very few have gone to someone I know personally. Even fewer have been hand-delivered rather than mailed. I had an opportunity to hand-deliver one such bear to a new friend recently.
This sweet friend faced what would have been her dear child's 5th birthday. She remarked that she thought it would get easier, but it hasn't. She called it a different kind of hard. As I reflected on my own nearly 3-year journey, I completely get that.
The obvious heartache is there and always will be. What I hadn't considered before, and what's made my last year such a terribly difficult one, is the collateral damage of grief. The knowing that I'm not the same...and never will be. The not fitting into my old life. The realization that some of the people who were there in the beginning just aren't any more. The deep sadness of relationships that couldn't survive my brokenness.
As the next anniversary looms ahead, I deal with flashbacks...from the hospital, from the funeral, from the last conversations with my mom. I stay up too late because I'm afraid that sleep won't come quickly enough to keep those mind movies away.
There's a strange sense of relief, even a sense of accomplishment at getting through another birthday, holiday or anniversary. I'll be glad to be on the other side of August again. As much as I try to be all there for my family, there are times when I'm just not.
It truly is a different kind of hard.
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IUCN and the Alliance Française du Suva played their part in celebrating Fiji's National Environment Week by hosting an environmental film festival during the first week of June this year.
Individuals and families from around Suva gathered at the Alliance headquarters to watch a series of short films highlighting conservation challenges in the Pacific islands on the second day of the annually observed National Environment Week.
The films, which addressed climate change impacts in the islands, species conservation and food security, interspersed with animated cartoons and public announcements, kept the audience captivated for over an hour.
"Despite the serious nature of the issues being highlighted, the audience was left with a feeling of hope and perhaps a better understanding of the things that can be done to address these challenges," said Pepe Clarke, co-organiser of the event and Legal Advisor for the IUCN Oceania Regional Office. "Discussions about our environment can often focus on the negative and it is important for people to appreciate that we can all play a part in turning things around. The films have been chosen for just this purpose."
The evening also provided an opportunity for members of Suva's public to mingle with staff of various locally-based conservation organisations and learn more about their work in Fiji and around the region.
Financial support for the event was provided by the British High Commission, Suva, Wildlife Conservation Society, Conservation International, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Birdlife International, IUCN and the Alliance Française. A range of other organisations endorsed the festival and provide in-kind support by donating films, setting up displays and information areas and attending the event. These included the Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area Network (FLMMA), Institute of Applied Science at the University of the South Pacific, Secretariat of the Pacific Commission (SPC), Live and Learn Environmental Education, Foundation for the People's of the South Pacific (FSPI), the Fiji National Trust, NatureFiji-MareqetiViti and Rivers Fiji.
The enthusiastic manner in which organisations cooperated in this event is heartening and shows the level of goodwill that exists between the various conservation groups in the country," said Mr Clarke.
The environment film festival was the first of its kind to be hosted in Fiji and there are plans now to turn this into an annual activity.


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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton marked Human Rights Day yesterday with a historic speech on international gay rights.
Said Clinton to a U.N. audience in Switzerland: "Being LGBT does not make you less human, and that is why gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights."
Clinton added: "I speak about this subject knowing that my own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect."
Clinton also announced that the U.S. will use both diplomacy and $3 million in foreign aid to help the global fight for gay rights, not a huge some to be sure, but imagine the Sec. of State announcing any foreign aid being spent on gay rights abroad.
One wonders if Clinton's " unprecedented" speech is in part an attempt to make up for President Obama's somewhat unreliable record on gay rights. While the President oversaw the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' he has shied away from the gay marriage debate only going so far as to say he is "still working on it." (Translation: Wait until my second term.)
Clinton's full remarks here. Partial below via Towlerod
Today, I want to talk about the work we have left to do to protect one group of people whose human rights are still denied in too many parts of the world today. In many ways, they are an invisible minority. They are arrested, beaten, terrorized, even executed. Many are treated with contempt and violence by their fellow citizens while authorities empowered to protect them look the other way or, too often, even join in the abuse. They are denied opportunities to work and learn, driven from their homes and countries, and forced to suppress or deny who they are to protect themselves from harm.
I am talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, human beings born free and given bestowed equality and dignity, who have a right to claim that, which is now one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time. I speak about this subject knowing that my own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. Until 2003, it was still a crime in parts of our country. Many LGBT Americans have endured violence and harassment in their own lives, and for some, including many young people, bullying and exclusion are daily experiences. So we, like all nations, have more work to do to protect human rights at home.


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Hafner homers, triples as Yankees beat Blue Jays
BEN WALKER,AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Travis Hafner hit a three-run homer, then lumbered around the bases for a go-ahead triple in the seventh inning that sent CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees over the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 Saturday.
Vernon Wells delivered another key hit against his former team as the Yankees beat Toronto for the third straight day. With Mariano Rivera getting a day off to rest, Joba Chamberlain worked around a pair of one-out singles in the ninth for his first save since 2010.
Jose Bautista and Brett Lawrie homered for the Blue Jays, who dropped to 1-5 on their seven-game road trip.
Hafner wiped out a 3-0 deficit with his sixth home run, a long drive to center field in the fourth off J.A. Happ. A few innings later, the slugging designated hitter broke a 4-all tie.
A double by Robinson Cano and an RBI single by Wells evened it in the seventh against Esmil Rogers (1-2). Toronto brought in lefty reliever Brett Cecil to face the lefty-swinging Hafner with two outs and Wells on third.
Hafner hit a high drive that ticked off center fielder Rajai Davis' glove as he approached the padded wall. The 35-year-old Hafner kept running and pulled into the third with a standup triple.
Hafner exhaled as he stood on the bag. Captain Derek Jeter, one of several injured Yankees, laughed along with Hafner and his teammates from the dugout.
Hafner has hit three triples in the last six seasons — the other two came last year with Cleveland.
Sabathia (4-2) allowed three earned runs and nine hits in eight innings. He walked none, struck out four and improved to 14-4 overall against Toronto.
Bautista hit his seventh home run, a leadoff drive in the fourth. He had been 1 for 20 lifetime against Sabathia with eight strikeouts before connecting.
The Blue Jays scored another run in the fourth. Edwin Encarnacion tagged up at third on Lawrie's fly ball to right fielder Ichiro Suzuki, and was safe at the plate when catcher Chris Stewart dropped the ball while making the tag for an error.
Bautista nearly homered again in the eighth, but center fielder Brett Gardner caught his fly at the top of the wall.
A day after Toronto pitchers walked a majors-high 10 this season, Happ's control doomed him. He walked Wells and Kevin Youkilis to open the fourth and Hafner followed with his home run.
Lawrie put Toronto ahead when he homered to begin the sixth. Lawrie started the season on the disabled list and hit his first homer of the season Thursday night at Yankee Stadium.
NOTES: Rivera had pitched the previous two days and manager Joe Girardi wanted to rest baseball's career saves leader. ... Youkilis returned to the lineup after missing six games because of tightness in his lower back. ... Hafner had managed just a single in eight at-bats against lefties this year before homering off Happ. ... Sabathia threw more than 100 pitches for the 12th straight start dating to last year. ... Blue Jays RHP R.A. Dickey (2-3, 4.66 ERA) was set to pitch Sunday vs. RHP Phil Hughes (0-2, 5.14). Dickey won the NL Cy Young Award last year with the Mets, and might draw some crosstown fans for his start at Yankee Stadium. ... Blue Jays DH-1B Adam Lind is expected to come off the paternity list Sunday. ... Bautista has three hits over the last four games, all home runs.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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ALPHARETTA - From all-night shopping sprees that began on Thanksgiving to stragglers looking for leftover deals as crowds grew thinner by midmorning Black Friday, Georgians started the holiday buying season with a mall-hopping marathon that sometimes left little room for sleep or turkey dinners.
Curtis Atkins, 51, of Tifton looked slightly exhausted just after 5 a.m. Friday as he sat on a bench at North Point Mall in Alpharetta. His wife was still hunting for deals hours after they made the three-hour drive from their south Georgia home to metro Atlanta for a tree-lighting ceremony at Lenox Square followed by shopping as soon as the stores opened at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
"I think it's going to end because it's taking away from the traditional Thanksgiving," Atkins said of stores opening on that day. Around him, the suburban mall had the feel of an airport terminal before sunrise, with some gates open, others closed and many shoppers slowly shuffling along, bleary-eyed.
Dalton Mason and Jessica Astalos also gave up sleeping to pull an all-nighter at North Point Mall. Taking a break at the food court at 5:30 a.m., Astalos said she'd left home at 11:30 p.m. and shopped straight through until nearly daybreak
Not long after sunrise, Black Friday already seemed to have passed its peak crowds.
Lisa Stinar of Atlanta let herself sleep in before heading to Lenox Square with her two children. She said she was worried about the crowds until she arrived and found the stores bustling with shoppers, but not too mobbed.
"Everyone's just together shopping at this time of year," Stinar said. "It's a special time of year, and it really feels good to be a part of it - smiles on faces and just everyone very excited to be here to shop."
At a Best Buy in Savannah, employees by 9:15 a.m. were taking down the metal barricades used to corral their biggest crowds outside the front doors overnight. Plenty of shoppers were still snapping up TVs and video games. But the parking lot had plenty of vacant spaces and checkout lines appeared no busier than an average weekend.
Matthew Simmons, an Army soldier stationed at nearby Fort Stewart, found the smaller crowds more to his liking. He and his wife, Ashley, had tried to score some early deals at Walmart on Thanksgiving. But the wall-to-wall, and sometimes ill-mannered, mob inside was enough to make them leave empty-handed.
"I was deployed twice to Iraq, and a lot of people in one place going crazy really doesn't do it for me," Simmons said. "We just put back everything and left."
Black Friday stragglers still found some bargains waiting for them. At Savannah's Best Buy, about a dozen people stood in line outside to get tickets for special 10 a.m. deals offering $170 off HTC smartphones and $230 off Hewlett-Packard
"I'll stand in line for 30 minutes to save $230," said Tony Abruzzio, who wanted the laptop for his college-student daughter.
His wife, Sherry Abruzzio, said she tends to do much of her Christmas shopping online and finds she gets better deals if she waits until mid to late December.
"I do most of it right before Christmas because by then they're trying to get rid of their inventory," she said.
Desire Alexander of Savannah and her husband were first in line for the discounted laptops at Best Buy. The couple planned to buy two of the computers - one for each of them - and then call it quits on their holiday shopping.
Alexander works as a human resources coordinator at a Savannah college and said she's still too nervous about the economy to splurge on Christmas presents, even though her husband called it a pretty good year at his construction job.
"Usually I'd do something more for Christmas, but nowadays you never know what's coming ahead," Alexander said. "After New Year's, what if the government shuts down again? Right now, I just want to conserve my money and get what I need."
Others were happy to head out shopping two days in a row, even if that meant postponing Thanksgiving dinner or making it a turkey lunch.
At a Michaels arts and crafts store in Columbus, Katy Schaefer and her daughter, Sharon Raney, loaded a pair of shopping carts with holiday decorations.
They told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (http://bit.ly/1butii5) they had eaten a Thanksgiving lunch before hitting the stores Thursday and planned to make another shopping trip Friday.
"We're embarrassed that we're out shopping on Thanksgiving," said Schaefer, who wore a Santa hat with leopard trim.
In Albany, Dalton Smith voiced no misgivings as he joined several hundred shoppers who couldn't wait to storm the shelves at Target when its doors opened Thanksgiving night.
"I'm a real big people person, so as much as I'm around people it just gives me all this energy," Smith told WALB-TV (http://bit.ly/1dGf67u) . "So I love it."


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Carmen Ortiz Releases Totally Bogus Statement Concerning The Aaron Swartz Prosecution
from the let's-work-through-this,-shall-we? deptAfter staying silent or issuing "no comments" for nearly a week, Carmen Ortiz, the US Attorney in charge of the prosecution against Aaron Swartz has finally released a statement about Swartz, his suicide, and her possible role in the suicide. As you might imagine, the statement is highly questionable. First, here's the statement:
The statement is complete hogwash, frankly. If what she claims is true -- that they recognized "his conduct – while a violation of the law – did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in appropriate cases" then they would not have piled on more charges in the indictment in September. The original indictment, which had four charges against Swartz, had a maximum potential jail time of 35 years. And, Ortiz's own press release trumpeted that fact:
January 16, 2013
As a parent and a sister, I can only imagine the pain felt by the family and friends of Aaron Swartz, and I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy to everyone who knew and loved this young man. I know that there is little I can say to abate the anger felt by those who believe that this office's prosecution of Mr. Swartz was unwarranted and somehow led to the tragic result of him taking his own life.
I must, however, make clear that this office's conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case. The career prosecutors handling this matter took on the difficult task of enforcing a law they had taken an oath to uphold, and did so reasonably. The prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Mr. Swartz indicating that he committed his acts for personal financial gain, and they recognized that his conduct – while a violation of the law – did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in appropriate cases. That is why in the discussions with his counsel about a resolution of the case this office sought an appropriate sentence that matched the alleged conduct – a sentence that we would recommend to the judge of six months in a low security setting. While at the same time, his defense counsel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation. Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge. At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz's attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law.
As federal prosecutors, our mission includes protecting the use of computers and the Internet by enforcing the law as fairly and responsibly as possible. We strive to do our best to fulfill this mission every day.
AARON SWARTZ, 24, was charged in an indictment with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million.And, then in September, nine more charges were added, which brought the total possible time up to 50 years.
If Ortiz truly believed that his conduct did not warrant such "severe punishment" then she would not have trumpeted the 35 years in the first place, nor would she have piled on more charges. That would serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever if her claim here was true.
Furthermore, as Swartz's lawyers have made clear, Ortiz and her assistant, Stephen Heymann were pretty explicit to Swartz's lawyers that if he did not take their plea bargain offer, the next offer would be for more jail time, and if he still chose not to accept the offer, they'd seek at least seven years for Swartz in court. Tossing out that six month claim as if it were proof of some sort of fair dealing on Ortiz's part is flat out insulting to the intelligence of any thinking person, and downright offensive to the memory of Aaron.
How would Ortiz like it if her own child was accused on trumped up charges and threatened with 35 or more years in prison in press releases -- and then told to "settle" for just six months. I doubt she would find that to be "fair."
As Tim Lee explains, the whole "plea bargain" system is a farce, allowing prosecutors to effectively bring forth these massive "possible" punishments to effectively force someone into pleading guilty without ever going to trial. Going to trial is dangerous, because the prosecutors effectively make sure that anyone who does exercise a right to a trial is likely to get much more time in jail:
If Ortiz thought Swartz only deserved to spend 6 months in jail, why did she charge him with crimes carrying a maximum penalty of 50 years? It's a common way of gaining leverage during plea bargaining. Had Swartz chosen to plead not guilty, the offer of six months in jail would have evaporated. Upon conviction, prosecutors likely would have sought the maximum penalty available under the law. And while the judge would have been unlikely to sentence him to the full 50 years, it's not hard to imagine him being sentenced to 10 years.As he further notes, no judge would impose a harsher sentence on someone for exercising other rights -- such as taking the Fifth, hiring a lawyer or confronting an accuser. Yet, if you demand your right to a trial, the US Attorneys have effectively rigged the system so that defendants are punished. And that gives them immense power.
In this hypothetical scenario, those 10 years in prison would, practically speaking, have consisted of six months for his original crime (the sentence Ortiz actually thought he deserved) plus a nine-and-a-half-year prison term for exercising his constitutional right to a trial.
Thanks in part to this kind of coercion, more than 90 percent of defendants waive their right to a jury trial. For the majority of defendants, then, the plea bargaining process is the justice system. As a result, prosecutors wield an immense amount of power with very little accountability.This is not a new problem. A year and a half ago, the NY Times had a feature article highlighting this very problem, which it calls "the trial penalty."
It's not surprising that Ortiz doesn't see anything wrong with this system. Powerful people rarely see their own power as problematic. But the rest of us should be outraged—not just by Ortiz's conduct, but by a system that treats thousands of defendants less famous than Swartz the same way.
Also, while Ortiz claims that the final sentence "would have been up to the judge" and even suggests that since defense counsel could have recommended just probation, the judge might have been more lenient, she must know that it is quite rare for judges to issue sentences more lenient than what prosecutors put forth from a plea bargain. In fact, judges will often issue harsher sentences than what the prosecutors "agreed" to with the defendant, since the judge is not bound to the terms of the agreement specifically.
Many countries do not allow plea bargaining, because they recognize how it can be used for coercion. Meanwhile, studies have shown that plea bargains quite frequently can lead to innocent people accepting a deal recognizing that it's much better to do that than risk a trial where the punishment would be much, much higher. Yes, more innocent people do stand up against such offers than guilty ones (according to the same study), but a large number of innocent people feel compelled to just take the deal.
Basically, this whole system is wide open to abuse, and it's clear from Ortiz's actions that she, too, was abusing the system in this manner: pushing for super high possible jail time as a huge and scary weapon to try to pressure Swartz into accepting a lower rate -- but also making him a convicted felon. Using the plea offer as some sort of "proof" of reasonableness is really quite incredible and despicable. It's like pointing a gun at someone, telling them that you're planning to shoot them... and then saying that if they agree to confess to something they don't believe, you'll just pinch them instead. And then, when they complain, you say "well, clearly, I just thought the pinch was appropriate." That's clearly a bullshit explanation. Ortiz was better off with "no comment" than trying to pass this off as a reasonable claim.
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