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Following yesterday's instalment which saw the England manager discuss his appointment, Brazil 2014 and helping to create a lasting legacy, the second part of this exclusive interview focuses on Hodgson himself.
The former Inter Milan and Liverpool manager talks about readjusting to life as an international boss, his need to be surrounded by players of 'good character' and the troubles he has relaxing.
FIFA.com: Your career has flitted between club and international teams. How have you found the readjustment? Roy Hodgson: Very easily – simply because I've had experience of it before. I think also as you get older, 36 to 37 years is a long time to be in coaching, the job of leading a team doesn't change that much. What changes are the obvious circumstances that with a national team you have longer periods and each game is more of a major event, and there are lots of other calls upon your time in representing your association, whereas club football is much more hands-on with the players on a daily basis. I've enjoyed the hands-on on a daily basis with the club football but the bulk of my 37 years has been in club football so it's never been a hardship to have a spell where you don't get that daily contact, knowing full well that when you do get contact you're working with the very best that the country has to offer. You have tremendous facilities and tremendous help to do any sort of training sessions you want to do.
*How important is character in international football? *Character is vital in every aspect of life. Speak to any football manager, he'll always tell you he wants good characters around him – but that's easier said than done. Half the time when you're recruiting players at a club, you don't really know their characters until you've worked with them for a while. By that time it's too late because you might, on the basis of what you've seen from the stand and what you've researched, be signing someone that when you've been working with him for a couple of months turns out to be a slightly different person. By then it's too late because he's got a two-, three-, four-year contract with the club and you're stuck with him whether you like him or not. To some extent it's easier for us at national level. We get to work with them, see them and live with them for a few days so you've got a slightly better idea than often you have as a club manager. That's an advantage we get – we get some sort of sense. Is this the right sort of man? Does he share our values, our passion, our enthusiasm? Is he prepared to put his body on the line? During the EURO, I'm not certain we played the best football that we could ever play. The players thought they were capable of better. But the one thing you certainly can't question is the character of the players – the desire, loyalty and wish.
Character is vital in every aspect of life. Speak to any football manager, he'll always tell you he wants good characters around him – but that's easier said than done.
*What do you enjoy doing to relax away from the England job? *I don't think you ever do, the scrutiny unfortunately is always there. I used to enjoy travelling, still do I suppose, but it's not like it was in the past because you get recognised so much more because the England football job is an important job. It's not something I'm complaining about. If I do anything I read, if the weather is good I'll play golf but very rarely these days. I'm hoping, come the spring, I might get some games of golf in to relax a little bit. I still enjoy the travelling, I do a lot of that with the job but if I do have a few moments spare I still like to travel with my wife, go to different places. Unfortunately, if you get such a high-powered job as the one I've been given here, it's a little bit unrealistic to think you can compartmentalise your life. You don't do it as a club coach and you certainly don't do it as a national coach, because you belong to the people and to some extent you have a duty to the people. When people ask me for autographs or photographs, I feel that's part of my job to do that. If it makes them a little bit happier, if it increases their interest in English football and the English national team, it's my job to do that.
*Where have you been at your happiest during your 37 years? *I don't know. There have been one or two places where I've not been terribly happy but for the bulk of them I've found some degree of happiness. It's dangerous to start talking in those ways because you always tend to look back to the distant past and glorify it - the summers were hotter and you were a happier person. I tend to not want to do that. I'm happy where I am now, I've been happy since coming back to England in the places I've worked. But I was happy before that as well, in other countries. I suppose I've got to consider myself one of those lucky people whose career has taken him to very interesting places, where I've been well received, made a lot of good friends, good contacts, many acquaintances. I tend not to want to compare them too much and suggest 'this was the best' and 'this was the happiest'. I'm not even sure. In all places, football gives you happy moments and unhappy moments.
*Asian readers of FIFA.com know all about your good relationship with Bob Houghton. Do you think he is one of the most underrated English coaches there has been? *Without a shadow of a doubt. We were very close friends, we spent a large part of our lives together for 12 years plus. I went to South Africa through Bob because he got the job there and took me over as a player. He didn't stay that long at the club he took me to, he moved on and went to play at another club. After a year he moved to Sweden and after two very successful years as a coach he was asked to recommend somebody like himself. We were blood brothers, really, and he recommended me. He set me off on my career in Sweden and for years we were pretty inseparable. Then I went to Bristol City with him so he was a major influence on my career and the guy who started it off, in terms of the travelling via South Africa and getting me the job in Halmstads. They took a chance on me and the rest is history!


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Mistake about the legal effect of a factual situation. Pointing to a mistake of law almost never works as a criminal defense; one exception is when a criminal defendant relies on a misstatement of the law in a statute, judicial opinion, or official statement from an executive officer.
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b3 Command Line Interface
The b3 Command Line Interface (CBI) is a generic command line launcher
- explain why headless interface is important (use-cases)
- b3 CLI is extensible (new commands can be added by installing extensions)
Headless installation
The following steps focus on the installation of the bare b3 command line interface.
- Start by Downloading the (headless) director which can be found here.
- Next unpack the director to a location of your choice. You may want to set the
PATHto include the install location and make the director accessible for additional use.
- Install b3 with the following command:
director -r <HEADLESS_REPO> -d <INSTALL_DIR> -p b3 -i org.eclipse.b3.cli.productwhere
- -r <HEADLESS_REPO> is the headless p2 update site: Current version is: http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/b3/headless-3.6 (Check the download page for changes of the headless update site.)
- -d <INSTALL_DIR> is the chosen install location of the headless b3
- -p b3 is the name of the p2 profile
- -i org.eclipse.cli.product is the name of the headless b3 base
Launch headless b3
- run "b3" script in the directory where b3 is installed with previous step
- if no extension is installed, only --stackTrace and -? resp. --help options and runScript command are available:
No command was specified Usage: b3 command [options...] --stacktrace : Display stack trace on error -? (--help) : Print help screen for specified command Available commands: runScript - Runs a set of commands from a script file
Running a script
A script file can be run with b3 command line interface. The script file can contain any valid b3 commands with arguments. Nesting of the script files is allowed, but be careful to avoid endless script loop.
TBD: explain syntax details of the script lines (escaping special characters)
Adding extensions
- use p2 director to install new features that may contribute new commands
- running b3 CLI with extensions prints a usage screen with all available commands
- running b3 CLI with specified command prints a usage screen with all available options for that command
Writing a new extension
- create a new bundle
- create a class extending org.eclipse.b3.cli.AbstractCommand
- define class fields with org.kohsuke.args4j.Option or org.kohsuke.args4j.Argument annotations (see args4j manual for more details)
- implement run(IProgressMonitor monitor) method
- register an extension for org.eclipse.b3.cli.commands (specify implementing class and command name)
- add the bundle to your b3 configuration


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We should be in the same boat
For many years, property taxes have been a source of conversation and consternation in Texas. Even though overall, Texas ranks among the lowest taxing states of the union, property tax remains a sore spot with almost all citizens. In Texas, property taxes have risen from near the lowest in the United States in the mid-1950s to among the top three or four in the U.S. today.
Property tax is the primary way Texans support public education. In all, property taxes levied in the various districts and counties throughout the state amount to a little over $60 billion. A few frustrated members of the Legislature have suggested we abolish the property tax to support education and replace it with an increased sales tax. The problem with this is that in order to replace the money not raised by ad valorem taxes, the required increase in the sales tax would be upward of 15 percent on each item you purchase. Most exemptions, such as diapers and groceries, would be eliminated. Some, mainly property owners, argue this would be preferable to the current system, which in effect taxes people repeatedly on their homes and businesses. Again, the problem with this system is that a sales tax is regressive and hits those on limited incomes much harder than those with large incomes.
The ad valorem tax, or real estate tax, used to support public education has been under attack in the court system since the 1960s, beginning with the Edgewood case filed in federal court. The federal appellant court, including the Supreme Court, ruled not that the tax system was fair, but that it was not so unfair that it had reached the point of unconstitutionality. The appellant courts followed with a warning that failure to address the problem could very likely involve federal court intervention in the future.
The Edgewood case in the federal system was followed by a case reaching the Texas Supreme Court in which the system of funding education was deemed to have run afoul of the Texas Constitution; specifically, the provision that required the state to offer all citizens a quality or decent education. The basic problem with the tax is that it unfairly treats and punishes children who have the misfortune to live with their parents in poor districts or counties. The current system provides unbalanced amounts available to educate children. As an example, residents of school districts like Mount Belvieu support a quality system of education at a relatively low tax rate because they are fortunate enough to have salt domes within the boundaries of the district filled with natural gas that periodically can be taxed. The gas is not produced in the district but simply is taxed as it passes through the storage in the district on its way primarily to the Northeastern part of the United States. Other districts of low property wealth force citizens to pay a higher tax rate and devote a greater portion of public funds to support public education, with still fewer dollars available to deliver education to their children. In short, the current system was, is and probably will be unfair.
A simple solution, unworkable in Texas, is to support public education with an income tax. It is not likely the people of Texas will in the near future vote for a constitutional amendment that allows an income tax, even though it would totally replace the ad valorem tax on their homes and businesses.
There is another solution that would absolutely resolve the inequity of the current property tax system. As chairman of the Senate Education Committee, I proposed it; Gov. Ann Richards flirted with it very briefly. Sadly, it was grossly misunderstood by the press who failed to note in their reports that the proposed tax was not to be added to the local tax, but replace it. As a result Richards quickly rejected the idea.
The proposal would have preserved only local taxes dedicated to paying off bonded indebtedness. Thereafter, a statewide tax at a uniform rate per $100 valuation would be levied on all property within the state. The money would then be placed in the state treasury and allocated to each district based on the number of pupils. At the time of my proposal, a $1 per $100 tax rate would have raised slightly more than the differing local tax rates. It would have lowered the tax rate for one half of the taxpayers in the state.Such a system would forever end the lawsuits alleging the system of raising taxes and the allocation of state funds for education being unfair.
I have often believed sailboat racing among sailors sailing the same class vessels is the fairest sporting competition existing today. All of the sailors have the same amount of wind, use relatively the same amount of sail, maneuver the same kind of boat, and winning depends primarily on the skill of those who operate the boat. The same should be true of school districts throughout Texas. If every district had the same resources available per student, Texans would quickly learn which districts make efficient use of their money and produce the right result for our children. Maybe it is time for all taxpayers in school districts in this state to get in the same boat.
Carl Parker has practiced law in Port Arthur since 1958. He is a 1958 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and the Senate in 1976, Parker continued to practice law while writing and sponsoring hundreds of bills that became laws relating to every aspect of life in Texas, including many regarding consumer safety. His e-mail is cap1934 [at] aol [dot] com.


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North Korea launches rocket, angering international community; Xi Jingping calls for reform of Communist Party; US formally recognises Syrian opposition; Mali appoints interim prime minister; and more
Top of the Agenda: North Korean Rocket Rattles International Community
Despite international warnings, North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket (Yonhap) in a move that South Korea, the United States, and Japan have condemned as a disguised test of long-range missile technology in violation of a 2009 UN resolution banning Pyongyang from ballistic missile tests. North Korea said a weather satellite had been placed in orbit, and the United States condemned the launch as "highly provocative" while Japan called for an emergency Security Council meeting (JapanTimes), although further tough sanctions could be difficult to obtain as China, the North's only major ally, is expected to oppose them.
"A North Korean satellite test may provide a basis for strengthened Japan-South Korea cooperation despite deepening differences over history and territorial issues. Further North Korean provocations may yet diminish strategic mistrust between the United States and China," writes CFR's Scott Snyder.
"[Because] the North Korean regime is inherently unstable and is suspected of already having a nuclear device, the West's options for responding to Pyongyang's provocative acts — the latest missile passed over the Japanese island of Okinawa before falling into the waters off the Philippines — remain limited. This is very worrying given that the North Koreans have a long history of sharing their nuclear and missile technology with Iran," writes Con Coughlin for the Telegraph.
"Crucially, too, this is the first time that North Korea's claims of success have been backed by key international observers. But the technical success of the launch is about the only thing that Pyongyang and Washington agree on. The US and its allies allege that North Korea's satellite launches are in fact cover for a long-range missile program, designed to develop weapons that could strike the US," writes Lucy Williamson for the BBC.
Xi Jinping Emphasizes Reform
Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping made a string of high-profile calls for further reform (SCMP) during a five-day tour of Guangdong province, returning to Beijing yesterday after his first inspection trip since becoming the party's new chief last month.
CFR's Yanzhong Huang talks about China's leadership transition in this blog post.
US formally recognises Syrian opposition
Mali appoints interim PM
This is an excerpt of the CFR.org Daily News Brief. The full version is available on CFR.org.


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Lifetime's Original Movie STEEL MAGNOLIAS Debuts Tonight, 10/7
The world-premiere of the highly anticipated Lifetime Original Movie Event, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, is set to debut tonight, October 7 at 9pm ET/PT on Lifetime.Golden Globe(R) and Grammy(R) Award winner and Academy Award(R) nominee Queen Latifah stars in and executive produces the film, a television adaptation of the iconic play and 1989 film of the same name, reuniting her with producing duo Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, from the Oscar and Golden Globe winning Chicago and Hairspray. Directed by Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun), the film will feature Queen Latifah taking on the role of 'M'Lynn' and starring alongside Tony(R) Award winner Phylicia Rashad as 'Clairee,' Independent Spirit Award nominee Adepero Oduye as 'Annelle,' Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad as 'Shelby,' with Grammy winner Jill Scott as 'Truvy' and Golden Globe and multiple Emmy(R)- winner Alfre Woodard as 'Ouiser,'
Produced by Sony Pictures Television, Steel Magnolias is executive produced by Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere (Single Ladies) and Shelby Stone. Leon directs from a script that has been adapted for television by Sally Robinson (Iron Jawed Angels) and is based on the play and screenplay by Robert Harling (The First Wives Club). Steel Magnolias is also a reunion for Zadan, Meron, Rashad and Leon, who last worked together on the critically acclaimed Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Sony TV movie A Raisin in the Sun, which won numerous NAACP Image Awards, including Outstanding TV Movie, Miniseries, or DramaticSpecial and Outstanding Actress in a TV Movie, Miniseries, or Dramatic Special for Phylicia Rashad.
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, Steel Magnolias chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy's beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
Sony Pictures Television is one of the television industry's leading content providers. It produces and distributes programming in every genre, including series, telefilms, theatrical releases and family entertainment around the world and for every platform: broadcast and cable television, first-run and off- network syndication and digital distribution. In addition to one of the industry's largest libraries of feature films and television shows, SPT boasts a current program slate thatincludes the top-rated daytime dramas and game shows, landmark off-network series, original animated series and critically acclaimed primetime dramas,comedies and telefilms. Internationally, SPT produces 6,000+ hours of programming annually in over 70 countries. SPT is a leader in local language productions, some of which are co-produced with local partners, and sells SPE-owned formats around the world. To better serve its clients and partners worldwide, SPT maintains offices throughout the world, including Argentina,Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the People's Republic of China, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Venezuela and the United Kingdom. SPT's worldwide television networks portfolio is a key strategy in SPE's long-range commitment to the global marketplace, with 120 channel feeds, which are available in 159 countries reaching more than 543 million households worldwide. SPT also creates original content for and manages SPE's premium video website, Crackle. Additionally, SPT owns Dutch entertainment company 2waytraffic, Production Company Embassy Row and Sony Movie Channel, and is a part owner of cable channel GSN, new 3D channel 3net, FEARnet, the premier horror/thriller website and VOD service, and national media sales company ITN Networks, Inc. SPT advertiser sales is one of the premiere national advertising sales companies, handling the commercial inventory in SPT's syndicated series as well as in all of SPE's digital businesses in the United States. SPT is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company.
Lifetime Television is committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming, and advocating a wide range of issues affecting women and their families. The network posted major growth in viewership among the key demographics in Second Quarter 2012 versus Second Quarter 2011, posting a 13% jump among Women 18-49, +5% among Adults 18-49 and +1% in Women 25-54. Additionally, among Women 18-49, Lifetime marked the network's strongest 2Q growth in 10 years. Lifetime Television(R), LMN(R), Lifetime Real Women(R) and Lifetime Digital(TM) are part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A+E Networks. A+E Networks is a joint venture of theDisney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBC Universal.
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OAKLAND — A federal jury on Monday determined that two police officers were justified in shooting an unarmed barber to death as he slumped on a trash pile after a foot-chase in 2010.
One of the officers testified that he thought Derrick Jones had two different guns moments before the fatal shots, but no guns were recovered.
Jurors deliberated only a few hours before finding that officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eirbeto Perez-Angeles did not violate Jones' civil rights. The suit was brought by Jones' widow.
The officers had responded to a report that Jones had tried to strangle a woman when Jones fled. Daza-Quiroz told the jury he heard a gun hitting the street and skidding away as Jones ran. Moments later, he testified, he saw what he described as a gun in Jones' hand.
Jones was later found with a small meta scale in his pocket and a VHS tape box stuffed in his jacket sleeve.
His parents settled a similar suit against the city for $225,000 earlier this year.
Daza-Quiroz said he thought Jones was about to pull a gun when he shot him multiple times. Jones died at the scene.
The rare federal civil rights trial over alleged police abuses was interrupted often by tense exchanges between U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers and Ayanna Jenkins-Toney, the lawyer for Jones' widow, Lanell Jones.
Jenkins-Toney had tried to use the Oakland Police Department's years of abuses of citizens and its failures to comply with a decade of use-of-force reform efforts ordered by another federal judge, Thelton Henderson, as a contextual backdrop to the Jones shooting. Oakland Police, she said, "shoot first" and then create scenarios to justify it later.
But Gonzalez-Rogers limited Jenkins-Toney to only the fact of the Jones shooting in her case, not allowing the defendants' history of using force, including another shooting, to be presented to the jury.
Jenkins-Toney said early in the trial she hoped to appeal some of the judge's pre-trial rulings.
Jenkins-Toney also seemed at times to struggle early in her case as the judge called her questioning of Daza-Quiroz repetitive.
After Jenkins-Toney told jurors that the officers — who were represented by an insurance company — would not be personally responsible for any potential damages awarded, the judge threatened to declare a mistrial.
An attorney for Daza-Quiroz and Perez Angeles said during her closing arguments that the officers were simply doing their jobs and that Jones presented a legitimate threat given his actions.
"Daza-Quiroz was afraid, and he needed to protect himself and his partner — and the public," said the attorney, Aimee Hamoy-Perera.
Staff writer Angela Woodall contributed to this story. Reach Thomas Peele at email@example.com. Follow him at twitter.com/thomas_peele.


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How a calendar error changed my life
In the Spring of 1994, I made a careless mistake that I thought would devastate my life plan. Instead it brought me the exact thing I'd been trying and failing to get my hands on for years.
Since I was a child, I wanted to be a writer. As a little girl I wrote short stories about animals lost in the forest; in high school I wrote poems and essays about all my friends; and in college I took intensive writing classes and joined the staff of the Badger Herald to hone my craft and kick start my career as a budding journalist.
But when I graduated, I discovered that six months experience editing a college paper and an earnest desire to change the world were not enough to land me even the lowliest editorial job.
Resumes sent to the Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, and countless magazines went unanswered and I quickly grew despondent. Except for a brief stint writing articles for a tiny suburban paper that only came out twice a week and didn't pay enough to cover my gas bill, I spent most of my early 20s bartending and scouring the want ads for jobs. I drew the line at writing press releases, but would have been happy to cover cop beats or city council meetings, or even local calendar events. Anything for a byline.
But no jobs materialized. After a couple years of this, it became clear that without some serious – yet impossible to attain --experience, I wasn't going to get my foot in the door.
So I gave up the dream. 'Maybe some day I'll still write the great American novel,' I thought, but I clearly was not going to be a journalist. So I went after the next best thing: I decided to become a professor of literature.
Sure it would take me at least five years to get my PhD -- and who knew how many thousands of dollars -- but in the end I'd have a title, and a clear career path that involved reading a lot of great books and inspiring a lot of mediocre writing by other eager young journalist-wannabes just like me.
My father agreed to foot the bill for my first year of graduate school – anything to get me out from behind a bar – and I started classes that fall at the University of Illinois, Circle Campus. Unsure of how difficult graduate school would be, I opted for a part time schedule my first semester. I took two graduate level lit classes – one on great Victorian writers, and the other an in-depth study of Edgar Allen Poe.
I learned many things that semester, but the most important were these:
- Edgar Allen Poe was terrified of women, and he wrote the same story over and over again because he was paid by the word.
- Graduate school is not nearly as much fun as undergraduate school.
- Going to a 7 am class after tending bar till 4 am is a very bad idea.
Despite these hard knock lessons, I trudged on, writing clever papers about long dead writers and trying to burrow back into the joys of academic life.
There was a bright spot in all of the drudgery. While waiting to speak to a counselor early in the semester, I spotted a flyer for an internship at Insider Magazine, which promoted itself as an entertainment focused magazine for college readers.
It was an unpaid gig, but it sounded interesting, and would at least give me a chance to experience a publishing environment – I hadn't totally given up on the dream.
So I pulled the flyer off the bulletin board – making sure no-one else would see it -- and made an appointment. The next day I drove to a dreary store front office in Skokie, a suburb just north of Chicago. The tiny space was bustling with 20-something writers, graphic designers, and sales guys, all very boisterous and friendly. After a bizarre interview with the managing editor, who spent the entire interview talking about how great the band Yes was, and how she loved my ideas about covering Yes concerts – I hadn't actually suggested any ideas concerning Yes, but who was I to argue -- I was hired.
After that, I came to the Skokie office once or twice a week to participate in editorial meetings, pitch stories, and help out wherever needed. It was a weird little operation. Except for the publisher and editor, no-one really seemed to know what they were supposed to be doing, and everyone was younger than 25. The magazine got thrown together each month, often with glaring typos and last minute changes, but we all had fun doing it, and no-one had anywhere else better to be. I started hanging out at the office more and more, pitched and wrote a couple of book and movie reviews, and took over the job of getting companies to send us free stuff for our "cool gear and gadgets" section.
Things at school were also going well. I got an A on my Edgar Allen Poe final paper, and was looking forward to quitting bartending, and going to school full time in the Spring.
Toward the end of the semester, the day to register came. I loaded my bag with my course catalog, school ID, and tuition check from dad and headed to campus. But when I got there, I discovered I got the date wrong. Registration had taken place the day before.
I missed it, and registration was over.
I was shocked. My whole plan, my very future, was built around my new academic career path. Yet suddenly the door to that path was slammed shut. Making matters worse, the snippy registration lady informed me that because I had gone part-time the previous semester, I couldn't sign up part-time again, even if I found a class that still had openings.
"It's the policy," she sniped. "No exceptions."
In other words, I was kicked out of school that day, and invited to come back the following fall. That was almost a year away, which at the time was an unfathomable. I'd been out of school for three years by then and was ready to get my life started. Waiting another year, to embark on another four or five years of school was too painful to imagine.
I was devastated. Even though I admittedly didn't love grad school, it was at least a plan. Now I was planless. On the drive home I cried at the hopelessness of it all – I was that kind of girl back then. I called my mother to tell her what happened, and she comforted me with these words: "Sarah, when a door closes, a window opens. You just have to be aware enough to see the window."
At the time it struck me as an empty platitude, but I appreciated her effort to cheer me up. After hanging up, I regrouped. I wiped away my tears and headed to Insider, where I hoped my new friends might commiserate with my unfair plight.
When I got there, the office was abuzz. The publisher, it turns out, had just fired the managing editor – the resident Yes fan. He claimed it was a budget cut, but we all knew he just couldn't take the crazy anymore. She never fit in with the rest of the team, and had packed up and left just minutes before I arrived.
At that moment, I could have taken my little cubicle seat, edited my review of Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, and headed to a late shift bartending. It is what I would normally have done.
But I didn't. Instead, in an unlikely moment of bold self-confidence, with my mother's now prophetic words ringing in my ears, I marched into the publishers office and said "You should hire me to take over her job."
He eyed me for a moment, and repeated his argument that he'd laid her off for financial reasons, and thus wasn't planning to replace her.
"Fine," I said. "Then make me editorial director, and pay me less."
He arched his eyebrows, nodded and pondered me for a moment more. He and I had exchanged few words in my brief stint at Insider, but I could see he was intrigued.
Though I was only an intern, the Insider hierarchy was not so complex as to make such a leap out of the question. I was among the older team members – many were still in college – and the magazine obviously needed someone to manage the editorial. So he shrugged, and agreed. Right there, on the spot he made me Insider's new editorial director. For a lavish $1000 a month, I made the miraculous leap from intern to head of editorial, and I once again had a plan.
I spent a year in that job, interviewing celebrities and authors, sending writers to the MTV Beach House, and turning the magazine into a slightly higher quality glossy version of its former self. It would never win awards, but it was good, and I was proud of it.
At the end of that year however, 10-hour days and the inability to afford groceries, forced me back to the want ads. Only this time, I had experience. I was the managing editor of a national magazine.
Within weeks I found an editorial job at a trade publication a few suburbs over. It wasn't glamorous – the target audience was plumbers – but it paid more than twice what I was making at Insider, and they were thrilled to have me.
If I had registered for classes on the right day in 1994, chances are today I'd be a middle aged professor at a middling mid-west college writing a painfully dull academic paper on the contemporary implications of Canterbury Tales.
Instead I'm a successful freelance journalist. I write for half a dozen magazines and publishing houses every month, I just finished my first novel, and I have a new agent looking for a publisher.
Thanks to a stupid calendar error, I made all my dreams come true.
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Area high school students can put their artistic talents to use by participating in the 2013 Laurel Run Logo Contest. The person who designs the winning entry will receive a $100 gift card to a store of his or her choosing.
Laurel Run was started in 1997 by Wayne and Elaine Hotelling of Silver Creek. The annual event is named in honor of their oldest daughter, Laurel, who has Down syndrome. Laurel Run seeks to raise awareness and appreciation about the achievements of persons with disabilities, and the Hotellings have dedicated Laurel Run to Laurel and to all of her friends with disabilities who attend The Resource Center's Work Center programs in Dunkirk. Money raised through Laurel Run goes to Filling the Gap, Inc. to fund disability awareness and prevention activities; proceeds also are used to provide employment and work training opportunities for adults with disabilities.
The Laurel Run Logo Contest is open to high school students in Chautauqua County. Design entries should not be too intricate, as the winning design must reproduce well on a T-shirt. Artists can use as many colors as they want in their design but should keep in mind that the design used on the shirts probably will feature only one or two colors.
Designs must be received by Monday, April 22. Internal voting at The Resource Center and Filling the Gap will identify the finalists. Again this year, the Observer will allow the public to vote for the winner through the newspaper's web site.
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Magic Johnson is loud and proud about his love for his son, EJ.
The 20-year-old New York University student's sexual orientation made headlines on Tuesday after he was spotted holding hands with his boyfriend in West Hollywood … and now the NBA legend says that he could not be any prouder.
In a new sit-down interview with TMZ's Harvey Levin, Johnson reveals that he and his wife Cookie had "the talk" with their eldest child when he was around 12 or 13-years-old because they believed he was gay and they wanted him to know that they completely supported him.
"I told him, 'Look, I'm gonna love you regardless, just let me know. Are you, or aren't you?'" explains the 53-year-old. "And finally he said, 'Yes, I am.'"
Acknowledging that the pivotal conversation was "hard," primarily because EJ was so young, Johnson – who has long been an ally to the LGBT community since finding out he was HIV-positive in 1991 – adds that he told his son, "'We are gonna love no matter who you are, what you do. We just want you to love yourself and also make sure that you have all the information.' I wanted to provide him with advice and guidance."
After the talk, EJ breathed a big sigh of relief because he had been worried about his father's reaction, since he was a massive sports star. "He really wanted to make sure I was OK," adds Johnson. "He wasn't worried about his mom, he was worried about me."
But EJ had nothing to worry about, insists his dad. "I love EJ so much. That's my main man. I told him, 'Nothing has changed.'"
And now that the world knows what the Johnson family has for years, EJ feels even more at ease with being who he truly is. Johnson says that EJ being seen out with his boyfriend "was a moment for us as a family and an even greater moment for him. I think now he's just the bubbly kid we knew again. He's just happy that it is out. I'm behind him a million percent. This is really wonderful for him."
Naturally, not everyone was as happy and supportive. In the interview with TMZ, Johnson addresses backlash EJ has received, mostly from the African-American community. "It bothers me that they're discriminating against anybody who's gay," he explained. "I've been in the gay movement for a long time because of HIV and AIDS. I see young men who are black who couldn't come out, who couldn't tell their parents, their neighbors. So now, it's my son."
Johnson, who owns the L.A. Dodgers baseball team, also expressed his feelings on homophobia in sports and that he hopes EJ's coming out will inspire others … and also inspire tolerance. "As I told EJ, 'This is going to be bigger than you. We can't see it now. You're not going to know your impact, but you're going to have an impact.' If a player ever wants to talk to me – whether he's on the Dodgers or not – about coming out, or life, my door is always open."
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People v. Jovanovic was a New York case involving an intense scene between a man and a woman who had previously engaged in extensive Internet discussion of their BDSM interests. The scene apparently went bad, and the woman went to the police. Mr. Jovanovic was tried and convicted of assault, sexual assault and kidnapping and spent 20 months in prison. Email correspondence regarding their pre-negotiations was excluded under the rape shield laws. The Court of Appeals, although it reversed the convictions on evidentiary grounds, very explicitly stated in a footnote that consent, while available as a defense to the charges of kidnapping and sexual assault, was irrelevant to the assault charge:
There is no available defense of consent on a charge of assault under Penal Law §§ 120.00[1] and 120.05[2] (contrast, Penal Law § 120.05[5] [where lack of consent is an element]). Indeed, while a meaningful distinction can be made between an ordinary violent beating and violence in which both parties voluntarily participate for their own sexual gratification, nevertheless, just as a person cannot consent to his or her own murder (see, People v. Duffy, 79 N.Y.2d 611, 584 N.Y.S.2d 739, 595 N.E.2d 814), as a matter of public policy, a person cannot avoid criminal responsibility for an assault that causes injury or carries a risk of serious harm, even if the victim asked for or consented to the act (see, e.g., State v. Brown, 154 N.J.Super. 511, 512, 381 A.2d 1231, 1232; People v. Samuels, 250 Cal.App.2d 501, 513-514, 58 Cal.Rptr. 439, 447, cert. denied, 390 U.S. 1024, 88 S.Ct. 1404, 20 L.Ed.2d 281; Commonwealth v. Appleby, 380 Mass. 296, 402 N.E.2d 1051; Iowa v. Collier, 372 N.W.2d 303).
People v. Jovanovic 263 A.D.2d 182, 198, 700 N.Y.S.2d 156, 169 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept.,1999)
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Here's what I wrote in Chandler's report card last year: One question that remains is how Chandler will develop. On the optimistic side, he did make strides in multiple areas in 2009. Chandler improved his free throw shooting (63.0% to 79.5%), three point shooting (30.0% to 32.8%), scoring (13.4 to 15.6pts/36), assists (1.7 to 2.2 ast/36) and fouls (4.4 to 3.3 pf/36). But these numbers are pedestrian. The young swingman doesn't do anything great, and his rebounding, blocks, and steals are about what you'd expect from an average 6-8 small forward. His scoring volume is above average (15.6 pts/36) but …continue reading


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Nov. 28, 2015
This is the testimony of the third speaker at the REAL ID Study held by Rep. Lewis Moore and Rep. Bob Cleveland at the Oklahoma state capitol on Nov. 18, 2015.
Unfortunately no official recording was made so I have taken the trouble to transcribe the Commissioner's entire testimony, word for word, for the benefit of those who could not attend the meeting in person.
My next post will be the transcription from the Question and Answer portion of the meeting.
To prevent confusion that may arise from reading this testimony, please note that some the references made by the Commissioner indicating points raised by Howard Houchen and myself, were not actually points we made. (We were puzzled by his references too)
At the Nov. 18th study, none of the speakers suggested that fingerprints or social security numbers could be retrieved from the face of our driver's license and no one mentioned "computer chips" on the license or ID card but these were the main issues addressed by Commissioner Thompson in his testimony. Perhaps they were issues raised to him privately or from a previous meeting.
It is understandable that the Commissioner would want to put any such concerns to rest. What is unimaginable to me is that the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety apparently does not understand the difference between a photo of a person that exists and a government collected and retained biometric photo. These two things are quantifiably not the same and the implications of the difference between the two is enormous.
As Professor Laura K. Donahue, who did an exhaustive research paper in 2012 on the growing number of federal programs that are developing their ability to use remote biometric ID, has repeatedly emphasized,
"The level of intrusiveness represents something different in kind—not degree—from what has come before."
Of course, if no one can agree on the basic facts of the matter, the debate slams shut.
On to the transcript:
Testimony of Department of Public Safety Commissioner, Michael C. Thompson, Nov. 18, 2015, Oklahoma State Capitol, Rm 206, REAL ID Study:
"First off I just want to say the purpose for us, here at DPS, is, uh, we don't have an agenda in this discussion. Our sole purpose in this is to provide accurate information to you as legislators to make the difficult decisions you have to make. …Whether the state of Oklahoma moves forward with implementation of REAL ID or whether it doesn't that isn't anything DPS controls.
Unlike Ms. Beach, and I respect her passion and interest in this subject, I personally believe that there are going to be consequences if we don't comply with REAL ID.
Currently we are, do have an extension through October 2016. Once that extension expires and we're not down the road to complying with this, I do believe at some point we are going to have consequences. I strongly believe that and I know some people don't. And one of them will include getting on an airplane which seems to be kind of a trivial matter but if you want to go to Kansas City to watch the Big Twelve Championship, you are going to have to have a passport. If these ah these conditions are not fully implemented and if you do get a passport its $110 and you are giving all your information to the federal government so, for me, just, I don't fully understand the resistance to it but I'm not disrespecting anyone's opinion on this because the last thing I'm going to do is come in here and be impolite.
Last month, in October, Randy Rogers and Jeff Hankins sat in here to give you interim study about REAL ID and they thought that they did a great job and answered all your questions and I was very surprised later to find out that you weren't satisfied with the responses that they gave you based upon some independent research that you did. So the three points that you had strong concerns about, let me just address those first off … I believe there was a strong concern about fingerprints, computer chips and social security numbers.
I'll start with the one that probably raises the most eyebrows, computer chips. There is no requirement or no plans to put a computer chip on the face of a REAL ID, Oklahoma REAL ID. None. Randy Rogers and Jeff Hankins told you that and I'm telling you that today. And despite what anyone else tells you differently, that is the truth. If anyone tells you differently I would love to see the documentation that says we are going to do that because there is no plan to do that.
Ah, there is a fingerprint system that we have in Oklahoma. That fingerprint image stays in Oklahoma, in our databases.
I know Mr. Houchen and Ms. Beach are concerned about us sharing this with a number of folks but I need some kind of proof to that. One of the privileges we have living in this nation is we are entitled to free speech. You can say anything but at some point we have to have documentation to back up these claims that are being made and if they have proof of that I'd like to see it. There's no fingerprint that is going to be a part of a REAL ID you can't, you cannot retrieve a fingerprint off of a REAL ID. I know that was a concern for this group here.
And the last thing is the social security number. The social security number will not, will not, be retrievable off a REAL ID …moving forward there's no requirement for that, there's no plans for that.
Those are the three things I think you folks has the most heartburn about. Randy Rogers and Jeff Hankins who answered those questions for you… We have not.., at DPS, we have nothing over here if we don't have our integrity and good reputation. There's nothing that they told you that was untrue and mainly I wanted to point that out that they were very forthcoming and very truthful when they gave you those responses at last month at your REAL ID interim study.
How you decide to move forward REAL ID is how you decide to move forward with REAL ID.
It is a bit ironic though and I am stealing Randy's time but I'm not going to need 30 minutes… it is a bit ironic for me that Ms. Beach talked uh, at length about a high resolution uh image. I can google you right now – from Syria and pull up high image, real high resolution image of you off of Google images."
Kaye Beach: "Can you deny me my ability to pick up my prescription with that photo?"
Rep. Cleveland: "Let's hold the questions until we get through here."
Commissioner Thompson: "And I apologize for that. I shouldn't be addressing those questions to you personally. But the fact is, our images, your images, pretty much everyone at this tables images, it's already out there. It's not as if we are safeguarding that and holding it in our hands in some kind of lockbox it's there and its high resolution by the way.
Most people want to go get a driver's license for the purpose of driving a car or driving an automobile, but most people, ordinary people, and I certainly include myself in that number, we don't have the ability to go out and write a $30, 000 check for a car or a $50,000 check for a Ford F150 pickup, we have to go finance that and when we finance that with a lending institution, we write down what our name is, what our social security number is , what our date of birth is, where you lived for the last ten years, who our landlord is, what our wife's name is, what our wife's maiden name is, what our child's name is, what our child's middle name is, um who your references are, what's their name, what's their address, how much do you owe information, you give all that information to a lending institution and feel happy about walking out there with a competitive interest rate to go and buy your Ford F150 or your Toyota Camry but next month when you have to go renew your driver's license (unintelligible) because we're asking you some very simple, very basic questions. For me, I just don't understand that.
If you walk out of here and go to the restroom and fall and break your leg, before you leave that hospital that doctor is going to have all that information that's far more intrusive. The information that you would have to provide to get a passport, it's incredibly intrusive.
Mr. Houchen mentioned SF 86, I've filled out a number of them. I've got a top secret clearance with the federal government right now and I agree, Sir,that is a beast to fill out. It's like 40 pages. It's so intrusive, I start crying every time I have to redo my clearance. It's a hard object to fill out but we fill that out because it's a requirement. If you go and get your teeth cleaned, you've got to give a lot of information to that Dentist before you get your teeth cleaned.
I get, I get the, uh emotion attached to REAL ID because of where we are at this stage but again, Sir, I promise you, I am not here to try to push an agenda or try to convince you to move forward with this. If you do as a state, great. If we don't, I think we are going to have to live with the consequences at some point and that is really our position at DPS. Once this is passed, if it does get passed, we're ten years behind the rest of America so we're going to have a lot of work to do to get this thing pulled off.
And the last thing about the chip because that was a reoccurring subject that came up a number of times. The people that we do business with, we as the state of Oklahoma, is MorphoTrust. They represent 42 different states and jurisdictions. There are 42 people have REAL ID's with them and none of those states have a chip on the face of their Real ID and if they do, I'd like to see it because unequivocally, they have told us, specifically, there is no requirement and no plans to put a chip on the face of a REAL ID. With that, I'm sure there are a number of questions and I will yield remainder of my time …"


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Singer/songwriter and comedian Stephen Lynch has an uncanny wit and a mysterious comical side to him, and his performance resumé includes shared gigs with Jeff Foxworthy, Bobcat Goldthwait, Anthony Clark, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. In summer 2000, he appeared in his own debut television special on Comedy Central. The guitarist also released his debut album A Little Bit Special, a 22-track look into Lynch's silly and ironic sense of humor, in September 2000. Two years later, Lynch issued a collection of five different shows in and around New York City titled Superhero. Tours at countless colleges and universities across the United States followed into 2004, the same year Lynch released his first DVD, Live at the El Rey. The single "Vanilla Ice Cream" announced the arrival of his 2005 album The Craig Machine. ~ MacKenzie Wilson
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Wrapping Friday
The plan was to give you a quick wrap-up of Friday's action.
We'll get to that in a moment as there is Life stuff to take care of first.
Friday's game at Northwestern Regional of Winsted ended early when a male student tried to hang himself on school grounds, according to Bruno Matarazzo Jr. of the Waterbury Republican American.
John Nestor of the Torrington Register Citizen reported that the game was called with 10:07 remaining.
Pardon us as we briefly go into public service announcement mode — suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It ain't worth it. Believe us. Worse, the pain it causes family and friends is something way past devastating.
Life sucks sometimes. You may feel that there's no way out. And depression is a real, debilitating disease.
There are many good people out there willing to help you when you feel that suicide is the only way out.
Need someone to talk to in a pinch? Then call 1-800-784-2433 or 1-800-273-8255.
You're not alone.
If you have a loved one or friend that's been depressed for a period of time, (gently) encourage them to get help.
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Glastonbury and Newtown were among Friday's big winners.
Glastonbury, ranked ninth in The Day of New London's Top 10 state coaches' poll, used a strong defensive effort to beat Manchester, 20-8, in a battle of unbeatens.
We hate to look ahead, but. …. keep Saturday, Oct. 20 free. Glastonbury (4-0) plays currently unbeaten Southington at Meriden's Falcon Field that evening. It looks to be THE game in the Central Connecticut Conference Division I.
(More advance planning for YOU — No. 5 Windsor plays at Middletown the night before that game)
Newtown ransacked Brookfield, 35-7, in a game between unbeaten South-West Conference schools. And it sure looks like the league title will be decided on Thanksgrabbing Eve (again) when the Nighthawks play host to No. 6 Masuk of Monroe.
Yeah, Barlow of Redding and Weston are also unbeaten in the SWC. They've been two of the state's better success stories four weeks into the season.
Here's the thing — four of Newtown's next six opponents have a combined record of 1-12.
Here's the other thing — Masuk plays Weston and Barlow in back-to-back weeks in November. And it hasn't lost a league game, since Nov. 25, 2009 (to Newtown, 36-25).
Friday's other notable result was North Haven's 34-20 win over unbeaten New London.
Jalon White rushed for 325 yards and five touchdowns as he and North Haven's single wing offense literally ran wild at Cannamella Field.
The Indians (3-1) have another major game next Friday as they'll play host to Hillhouse of New Haven (3-1).
The Whalers turned it over three times, twice near North Haven's goal line.
New London's loss leaves just one unbeaten team in the Eastern Connecticut Conference — Norwich Free Academy.
One last game of note — Amity of Woodbridge 61, Guilford 43.
Good grief.
As tripped out as the score was, the game only ranks 15th on the list of most points in a modern-era game by both teams.
You can find the scores of all those games in the Connecticut High School Football Record Book.
Oddly enough, Guilford was on the winning end of the record-setting game — a 67-53 triumph over Law of Milford on Nov. 5, 2010.
The most combined points ever scored in a game was 130 during a 1902 contest involving Norwich Free Academy and New London.
NFA scored all 130 of said points.
Here's a rundown of how the Top 10 fared, including hyperlinks to stories for YOU to read:
No. 1 Xavier of Middletown 49, Hamden 6. Read a blurb about the game at the Middletown Press.
No. 2 Ansonia 35, Holy Cross-Waterbury 7. The esteemed Kyle Brennan reporting.
No. 3 Hand 49, Wilbur Cross of New Haven 14. Scroll down the New Haven Register's football roundup for more details.
No. 4 Staples of Westport had a bye. Ditto No. 5 Windsor.
No. 6 Masuk of Monroe 63, Bunnell of Stratford 14. Mike Pucci reporting for the New Haven Register.
No. 7 West Haven 48, Sheehan of Wallingford 12. Ted Moynihan reporting for the Meriden Record-Journal.
No. 8 Greenwich 62, Trumbull 31. David Fierro reporting for the Greenwich Time.
No. 9 Glastonbury 20, Manchester 8. Tom Yantz reporting for the Hartford Courant.
No. 10 Berlin plays at winless Weaver of Hartford today.
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Guest post by Jeffrey Ballagh, lead strategist for Novacut (Note from Ted: I have not used Novacut, but heard what they were aiming for and asked Jeffrey to explain it to all of you.)
The future of distribution and funding for independent film relies on the Internet. The technology to forge a new business model for independent film success is out there, but it needs nerd champions to build a venue where artist-to-audience commerce can thrive. To thrive, that venue must be the condensation point for the independent filmmaking community. For that to be possible, that venue needs a strategy for reaching critical mass and a damn good draw for filmmakers' attention. This is what we know, and this is Novacut.
The spark? A pro-grade video editor that's free and designed from the ground up to exploit recent advances in technology and community - to name a few: digital production, HDSLR cameras, online collaboration, and cloud computing. We think that should get the attention of a few filmmakers.
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Fundamental change has shifted every aspect of the filmmaking business: production, distribution, and most importantly how filmmakers can expect to make money from their craft. The new landscape is one of phenomenal opportunity fraught with incredible peril. Production costs continue to drop with advances in digital production, but more importantly, the old business model has evaporated with online distribution. Filmmakers now have an unprecedented opportunity to express their artistic visions and reach audiences directly. But online distribution also means there is no way to effectively stop a film from being available to everyone for free.
Where We Stand
With no way to prevent a product from being used for free, how can it be paid for? Economics has a few standard answers and there are compelling alternatives, but the dust has yet to settle and the market has yet to reach its final shape (author's background: 1/2 nerd + 1/2 economist). The traditional answers to the free rider problem are patronage or government subsidies. These are not the only answers. No one yet knows the best approach for fans and artists to meet in the marketplace and both get what they want, but it is only the mechanics of the market that must be sorted out.
To an inspiring degree, fans are showing they are ready and willing to directly support artists. Current examples are in their absolute infancy. Film/video projects on Kickstarter have raised nearly $4 million since the site first appeared. That's not a huge budget, but it has been accomplished with a new funding model on a site that has only existed for 1.5 years.
Promising alternatives include financing through complimentary business and a unique threshold pledge system. For complimentary business, think of monks making wine to support the monastery. Fortunately for film, there are options for supporting business related to the art, merchandising for example. The threshold pledge approach is a unique option for goods that can be freely copied. Also known as ransom publishing, distribution is withheld until a specified amount of money is raised. Nobody has access until the bills are paid, once they are, it's free for all.
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The aim is not to supplant traditional distribution. The aim is to be the single best destination for alternative distribution. A venue that artists can make their primary target or a next best alternative for projects not finding their place in mainstream channels. The distribution venue that rises to the top in this space must attract both the artists and audience needed to reach critical mass. Most importantly, it needs a path to reach that critical mass and way to draw filmmakers. Simply having a technically capable solution will not make a site the destination that everyone naturally turns to.
To be the primary venue for distribution outside the traditional market, we must be a venue full of great content and a venue where artists make money. To ensure great content means engaging artists with a unique draw, initially that is the editor. From there, we fan the fire with learning and collaboration resources to make a home for the leading community of independent filmmakers. Finally, that community takes its work to market on a platform for successful commerce. A platform that can accommodate any new funding approach, so the market can quickly help decide what works and what does not.
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On licensing, if anyone can get your film for free, the only sensible licensing scheme is to distribute with no restrictions on copying and reuse. I realize this rubs some people the wrong way (it used to rub me the wrong way), but in the new era, attempting to enforce all-rights-reserved copyright is a business disadvantage for anyone without a team of lawyers. With no feasible technical approach to stop reproduction and sharing, the only option is to attack legally. That takes lawyers and they are not cheap. Which approach is cost efficient - a market with profits that depend on copyright enforcement via legal channels or the venue that makes money despite unrestricted distribution? If you want to understand the future for copyright licensing, Lawrence Lessig is required reading. He lays it out far better than I ever could, plus his work is of the rare sort that is equally genius, entertaining, and inspiring. Specifically, hit up Remix and Free Culture - pretty sure a couple chapters will convince most anyone. You can buy the books or (Lessig puts his money where is mouth is) download them legally for free here and here.
There are other sites that aim to build the market that makes online distribution financially successful for independent film, but technology and intentions are not enough in vying for Internet prominence. Novacut stands alone with a singular path for achieving a viable marketplace and a powerful draw for getting the process started.
Jeffrey Ballagh is a developer, economist, and lead strategist for Novacut. Seeing powerful forces reshape the world of film and video, he and the Novacut team gathered to put their entire energies toward the goal of building a new infrastructure for independent film and video commerce. Novacut Kickstarter / Novacut Blog


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Raging civil wars in both Iraq and Syria, among other places in the Middle East, are prompting some Americans to view neoconservative ideology with a renewed rigor. The rise of the Islamic State and the recent terror attacks claimed or inspired by the group — like the Paris attacks in November and San Bernardino in December — have since amplified calls for greater U.S. force in the region.
Behind this neoconservative revival are some familiar faces. The Project for a New American Century, a now-defunct think tank whose core members signed an open letter in 1998 calling for the American-led war in Iraq, has reemerged under a new title. In 2009, PNAC's former chairman William Kristol and co-founder Robert Kagan set up a new organization called the Foreign Policy Initiative.
FPI maintains influence on both sides of the political aisle. After all, neoconservative foreign policy was first born out of Cold War liberal interventionism. Prominent neoconservatives like Robert Kagan and his wife Victoria Nuland have recently been linked, for example, to Hillary Clinton. (Nuland was tapped as State Department spokesperson and Kagan was part of Clinton's bipartisan foreign policy advisory board during her tenure as Secretary of State.) "I feel comfortable with her on foreign policy," Kagan told The New York Times, in June 2014. "If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue … it's something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that."
The FPI's ties to the Republicans run deeper. Marco Rubio's campaign motto is "A New American Century," an unsubtle homage to PNAC. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump may spark the neoconservatives' ire for expresing wariness about nation-building projects and for recognizing the Iraq war as a strategic blunder, but both men are fond of the same bludgeon use of force as a foreign policy cure-all. "I don't know if sand can glow in the dark," Cruz said in December when discussing his plans to carpet bomb the Islamic State, "but we're going to find out." Trump is characteristically brazen: "I would bomb the shit out of them."
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In case any Washington Post readers were unsure, Robert Samuelson used his column today to tell readers that he doesn't like Social Security and Medicare. The piece begins by telling readers:
"If you doubt there's an American welfare state, you should read the new study by demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, whose blizzard of numbers demonstrates otherwise. A welfare state transfers income from some people to other people to improve the recipients' well-being. In 1935, these transfers were less than 3 percent of the economy; now they're almost 20 percent."
Samuelson goes on to tell us how awful this is because these transfers:
1) take money from other government programs;
2) undermine work incentives and thereby reduce growth; and
3) encourage gaming.
Let's take each of these one by one.
If we start with the biggest government transfer program, Social Security, it would be interesting to know how it takes money from other programs. It is financed by a designated tax. Maybe he thinks that people would be just as happy to pay their Social Security taxes to support the Pentagon, but that is not what polls show. In the case of Social Security, and likely most of the other transfer programs despised by Samuelson, the tax revenue is there because the programs are there. Most taxpayers don't like the the things that Samuelson apparently wants to spend money on as much as he does.
Of course if it is possible to lie to people and use taxes designated for Social Security for other purposes, then there can be more money for Samuelson's agenda. But this is a discussion of how to deceive the public, not a debate over social programs.
Samuelson also claims that there is a tendency for these programs to expand over time. In fact over the last three decade Social Security has gotten considerably less generous. The age for getting full benefits has already been raised from 65 to 66 and in another decade will be 67. Also, changes to the way the consumer price index is constructed have reduced the annual cost of living adjustment by approximately 0.5 percentage point.
In the case of Medicare, benefits were extended to cover prescription drugs, but this only became an issue because government granted patent monopolies sent the price of drugs through the roof. Drugs were not included in the original program in 1966 because their cost was trivial, but patent monopolies for drug companies now allow them to sell drugs at prices that are close to $250 billion a year above the free market price. Serious people might worry more about all the waste associated with these patent monpolies than the fact that the government is helping seniors pick up the tab for their drugs.
As far as the second point, anything that makes people wealthier reduces work incentives. The fact that so many people on Wall Street are able to play financial games and make fortunes in their 20s and 30s undermines their work incentive by allowing them to retire early. Why should we be concerned if people opt for a modest Social Security benefit rather than working? After all, they did pay for it.
This raises another point that has Samuelson very upset. He tells us:
"The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story about a couple (he 66, she 70) touring the world. They've visited London, Paris, Florence and Buenos Aires. Their financial adviser sends them $6,000 a month from investments and proceeds from their home sale. They also receive Social Security."
This is likely true. They probably also receive some interest on government bonds. In both cases they previously paid in money to get their current income. In the case of Social Security, they paid Social Security taxes; in the case of their interest payments, they had to buy a bond. Odds are that they are getting a much better return on their bonds than their Social Security taxes because of the program's progressive benefit structure. So what exactly is Samuelson's problem here, he doesn't think rich people should be able to get interest payments on government bonds because they don't need it?
There is one other point with highlighting here. Social Security, and to a lesser extent Medicare, are insurance programs run through the government. (Social Security is self-financiing, Medicare would be much closer to self-financing if the govenment did not have so many protectionist restrictions that raise the cost of health care.) If these programs were run through the private sector, which they would be if the government programs did not exist, then there would be much more money wasted in administrative costs.
In twenty years Social Security benefits will be roughly 6.0 percent of GDP. Privatized systems eat up 15-20 percent of the money paid into the systems in administrative costs, as opposed to 0.6 percent with Social Security. This means that a privatized Social Security system would mean throwing 1 percent of GDP (@$160 billion a year in today's economy) into the garbage in the form of resources being wasted in the financial sector. This prospect would concern serious people, but apparently not Samuelson.
Finally, the concern about gaming is entirely reasonable, but this exists everywhere. Hasn't Samuelson ever heard of insurance fraud? Social Security's retirement program has a very good track record in limiting fraud and improper payments. Other programs are less effective. This is hardly a reason for eliminating programs that serve important social purposes. But hey, it's Monday and Robert Samuelson doesn't like Social Security and Medicare.
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Well, it's been at least 8 years now since bipolar has reared its ugly head in my marriage. And I'd like to think that I know some things that I didn't know before....but at the same time, I am constantly surprised by what I don't know or haven't considered yet. So I decided to make a list of some of the things I have learned in these past few years.
(1) Good things aren't always "good" (and bad things aren't necessarily "bad", either) for the bipolar person. Some examples: We had been looking forward so much to DH receiving disability, it seemed like it would never actually happen. When DH received his back pay for his disability (with me as rep/payee, of course), as soon as the money hit MY bank account, DH was in a full-fledged manic episode. Since he has bipolar II, this was unusual. It became one nonstop argument. He wanted this, he wanted that, he wanted me to have a new car, he wanted a big screen TV, he wanted to remodel the bedroom, he wanted to go on a trip, he wanted to do so much! And all I wanted to do was pay bills so that maybe we could have some of those things someday. And the other way....when DH got his DWI, I expected a lot of remorse and some "Well, I'll never do that again!". But I didn't expect that he would embrace treatment like he has, he is going to treatment and taking it seriously. And it's getting him out into the community, out of the house, and talking with people. So treatment has turned into a positive for DH.
(2) Stay tuned, it'll change when you're not expecting it. This one's still tough for me. I've been raised all my life to believe that people are, for the most part, predictable. You know what makes them happy, you know what makes them upset, and you try to use that information to predict your path. With Bipolar II, it's not like that at all. What is pleasant one day can be annoying the next and can be a lifechanger the next. And it's incredibly hard to cope with. I try to remind myself when DH gets upset over something trivial, or something like that, that "it won't stay this way". That has probably saved our marriage more than once. If he was consistently as disagreeable as that part of him that I refer to as "That Guy" is, I could never have lasted. But things change quickly with this disease. Unfortunately, that also means that the great times don't last either. DH might go for two whole weeks where he cleans the house, cleans the litter boxes, takes out the trash and then afterwards tells me how much he appreciates me. Then just as suddenly as it started, it's gone. And he's back to not doing much of anything. So around we go again. But you'll never get the "same old stuff" with a bipolar II spouse, for sure!
(3) Hate the disease, don't hate the person! My husband is a person. He has dreams and hopes and feelings just like everyone else. Probably about 80% of the time, I don't think about him as a person with a mental illness--he's just my husband. A husband who faces daunting obstacles every day, but still--he's not just "a person with mental illness" or "a bipolar". Most of the time he doesn't have a lot of insight into his illness, he believes that he is just like everyone else, only he has to take a bunch of pills. And many of the things that he says and does are not within his control. It's difficult for me to understand sometimes. And I do find myself slipping on this one, especially during extended times where "That Guy" is around--"That Guy" is unreasonable and temperamental. It's hard sometimes, when the unreasonable stuff is emanating from my husband to not just throw up my hands and say "All right, I give up!" But then I remember my caveat from above (it'll change) and decide to stick it out. My husband is a softhearted, gentle person, who tries really hard to do the best he can. I recognize that, and as long as he's still trying, I will, too.
(4) Regular people are the hardest part of the disease. It's still difficult for me to know when to let people in to the "big mental illness secret". I know my neighbors wonder why, if he's home all day, the grass doesn't get cut, or the driveway doesn't get plowed. Why things don't get fixed, and why DH doesn't do what he says he will. And probably by this time, some of them have figured out that something's wrong, but everyone is too polite to ask. I'm sure there's gossip, though. And sometimes when I just want to tell everyone "I am not this unmowed grass, house-falling-down promises-not-kept person!" I think about telling people that DH has a mental illness so that they would understand how hard I've been trying to keep it all together. But mostly, I haven't told anyone yet. I feel like if DH wants people to know, he'll tell them (although he probably is oblivious to "what the neighbors might think"...) I did tell my brother. You know what he said? "I'll take him out to lunch, see if I can talk some sense into him!" There was just no telling him that it wasn't something that could be talked through....I really got angry, but after trying to tell him about mental illness and not being understood, I gave up. And have I mentioned that I can't tell you how many hundreds of times I've heard "I just don't understand why you don't leave"? Aside from the fact that I married him "in sickness and in health", now that things are somewhat stable with him, he isn't hard to get along with. And if our positions were reversed, I sure wouldn't want to be left. For now, I'm staying put.
(5) I am much stronger and more capable than I ever thought I could be. I cannot believe the things I have figured out, the work I've done, the fires (figurative) I've put out, and the way I have taken control of many aspects of the marriage. I never envisioned myself doing this, in fact, our plan was "buy a fixer-upper house, DH would fix it up on weekends. DH would work and we would adopt lots of kids, and I would stay home with all of them." But life happens. Instead, I worked 2 jobs for 8 years(!) so that we wouldn't lose the house. I've become and advocate for DH and gone to countless appointments and meetings where his providers depend on me to get things as right as possible. I set up the pills, take care of the animals, attend meetings/put out fires for DD, who has recently been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder....and keep an eye on my mom (I still drop by to see her every day, although she doesn't know me most of the time, and she sleeps about 23 hrs a day). If you would have told me I would do all this, I would've laughed in your face. I could never do all that. Hehe.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
5 things I learned from my bipolar (II) spouse
Well, it's been at least 8 years now since bipolar has reared its ugly head in my marriage. And I'd like to think that I know some things that I didn't know before....but at the same time, I am constantly surprised by what I don't know or haven't considered yet. So I decided to make a list of some of the things I have learned in these past few years.
Posted by Carol at 6:37 PM
Labels: "That Guy", bipolar II, marriage, mood swings, work
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Hey! I got all caught up on your posts. I'm sorry about your mom. You are lucky to be able to at least be there for her. It was sad to hear about your dogs too. A loss is a loss from the big to the small. They were lucky to have you. I hope DD is doing better.
It's amazing how much we learn about bipolar and yet there is always more to learn. Every case is different but being positive supporter can make a huge difference. Thanks for continuing to post. I am going to try and get back into the groove too. :)
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My mom has been homeschooling my older brother (15 years old) and myself (13 years old) for almost a year. When I was in a public school,
I was taking all accelerated classes and getting A's in each and every one of them. After one marking period of that year, I realized how bored I was becoming. I wasn't learning anything and I felt like I could be doing so much more. My brother I think was feeling the same, and a large majority of his schooling consisted of watching children's movies (can you believe it!?) in his high school classes! So I discussed it with my mother, who had recently been mentioning homeschooling to us, and she had a chat with the school counselor and principal about moving me up one grade to see if it worked better for me. But, no, of course they resisted advancing me, and we came to the decision that mom would withdraw both me and my brother from public schools.
So now, I am happily a few grades ahead of my age level and working on 9th/10th grade subjects. My brother and I are basically self-taught, as we are "gifted" as my mother says, and we can figure things out easily on our own. Mom does the grading, etc. and she writes out our planner every day. She also provides us with worksheets/tests/quizzes and links to online tests and such that go along with out textbooks. Here's my typical weekday for this month:
6:30-8:30 AM: Get up/shower/eat breakfast
9:00-9:30 AM: Check planner/agenda and get out assignments/textbooks I need for the day, begin working on reading 1 Physical Science chapter from my textbook and then take the online quizzes and math practice for the chapter. (Sometimes I don't start with Physical Science, but lately I have been.)
9:50-10:25 AM: Start reading a chapter of Geometry textbook, then complete the Practice questions at the end of the chapter (usually around 25 problems to work out.)
10:30-10:50 AM: Begin reading 1 chapter from my Late U.S. History textbook, then complete the chapter Crossword. Once finished, take the online chapter test.
11:10-11:30 AM: Complete any specified English Language Arts/Writing assignments.
11:35-12:00 PM: Work on any projects (right now it would be the Political Writing Essay) or any extra work.
12:00-1:00 PM: Eat lunch
1:00-3:00 PM: Free time/P.E.
3:00-5:00 PM: Chores/free time
5:00-6:00 PM: Dad gets home, Mom begins dinner and sometimes I help
6:30-7:30 PM: Eat dinner
8:00-10:00 PM: Free time/movie
10:00-10:30 PM (occasionally later): Bedtime
And that about sums it up! We have year-round school, so the days I get off are the holidays such as Christmas, Easter, my Birthday, etc. and on the occasional cross-country trip we tend to have (this year is was Canada!)
Although I have 'P.E.' listed as 1:00-3:00, it often takes place over the entire day, depending on when the weather is nicest or when we have extra time. My brother and I get plenty of exercise considering we often go on bike rides and skateboard. Also, I would have many more extra subjects in my schedule like electives and non-required subjects, but I have recently finished the two I ws working on (Astronomy and Art History), and I will be waiting until the new semester in September to begin new ones.
Glad I could share!
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Little Kid, Big Cake - Wordless Wednesday
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6 comments:
- Carol said...
You, saying, with that look of disdain, "Where is my princess cake?"
Did you eat that whole thing by yourself??
- March 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
I don't think you want to share! Cindy, why so sad? Like Carol said, D-A-R-L-I-N-G.
- March 16, 2011 at 9:30 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Carol - LOL. Thank you! I wonder how many people were at that party given the size of the cake. I do have a rather grumpy little face in that photo. Actually, I still have that grumpy face on my birthday, but at least now I have a reason to be grumpy... ;)
- March 16, 2011 at 9:35 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Barbara - Knowing my mom, I probably had to wait to open my presents until everyone finished their cake and coffee. I don't remember that birthday, but I sure don't look happy. I think an attitude adjustment was in order. Let's just say I didn't suffer from a lack of presents...
- March 16, 2011 at 9:45 PM
- Nolichucky Roots said...
I so needed a laugh today and you - or your former self - provided it. As to your present age - wear those years with pride, my friend!
The picture did remind me of our girl's birthdays which almost always ended with exhausted and overwhelmed tears until her father began his patented "expectations vs. reality" chats. It's a family mantra now - trotted out for holidays, weddings, baseball games - all the important moments of life.
- March 17, 2011 at 12:46 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Susan - You are so astute. I mainly got presents for my birthday and Christmas and small things like crayons and coloring books in between. I was so overexcited an overwhelmed nothing could live up to my expectations which probably explains the grumpy little face. Or maybe I was just grumpy... ;)
- March 17, 2011 at 9:13 PM


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What is a carbon footprint?Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Going green is pretty hot these days. Buzz words ranging from carbon footprint to recycling are floating around in everyday conversation. Pretty much everyone knows about recycling, but what is your carbon footprint?
Simply put, calculating your carbon footprint is figuring out how much you pollute your environment. There are many calculators on the web to help you do this, some are pretty simple, some very involved. Below are two links that will help you get started.
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For Kids: meetthegreens.pbskids.org/features/carbon-calculator.html
You, too, can go green!
- Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents.
- Bike to work.
- Turn water off when brushing your teeth.
- When available "Please use the revolving door". Eight times as much air is lost when a door swings open as when it spins.
- Plug computers, cell phone chargers, home appliances etc. into power strips. Even when not turned on they use electricity.
- Plant a tree.
- The three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
- Buy local products.
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