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Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956) is an American actor and writer. He is best known for portraying Sy Ableman in A Serious Man, Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite, Sam Soto in In a World..., and for appearing in seven films directed by Woody Allen.
Early life
Melamed was born in New York City, New York. His biological mother is actress/director Nancy Zala and his biological father, British psychoanalyst Stan Silverstone, was a relative of the prominent Adler acting family, including Luther and Stella Adler. He is the adopted son of Louis, a New York television producer, and Syma (Krichefsky) Melamed, a sometime actress and housewife. As a child, he attended the Hunter College Elementary School, a primary school for gifted children, and Riverdale Country School.
His father worked with TV pioneer Nat Hiken on such shows as Car 54, Where Are You? and The Phil Silvers Show (aka Sgt. Bilko). When he was sixteen, his family had financial difficulties, and was forced to move to Hollywood, Florida. Melamed has said that he was raised in a non-believer Jewish family who never went to synagogue, except to attend a cousin's bar mitzvah. When he was asked if he wanted to attend Hebrew school, he said no, and thus had no religious training. However, he credits his non-religious upbringing as helping him to develop a belief in God later in life, as he had no "forced dogma to overcome."
He received his theatrical training at Hampshire College and the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the most promising young actors in the United States. While still at Yale, he was an instructor at the well-known performing arts camp, Stagedoor Manor. After his training, he appeared on stage with several resident theatre companies, including The Guthrie Theater, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Yale Repertory Theater, and on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning Amadeus. Following Amadeus, Melamed entered what he called "a period of personal darkness", during which he effectively stopped acting on stage. At the same time, with an insider's understanding of the industry and assistance from his agent, he became established as a voice actor, and continued to do film work.
Melamed's voice became a familiar presence on television, serving as the sound of the Olympics, Mercedes Benz, CBS Sports, USA Network, the Super Bowl, and numerous commercials and television programs. He became known within the industry as a voice actor, appearing in the Grand Theft Auto series, and dubbing several actors' entire performances in films. But it was for his portrayal of "sensitive" villain Sy Ableman, in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2009 film, A Serious Man, which was nominated for Best Picture at the 2010 Academy Awards, that he became most widely known. About that character, Film Confessional said, "Sy Ableman is as great a contemporary movie villain as The Joker, Hans Landa, or Anton Chigurh.... The character Fred Melamed contrives is the year's most brilliant force of destruction."
For his performance in A Serious Man, Melamed, along with the Coen Brothers, and the film's Ensemble and Casting Directors won Film Independent's Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award. New York magazine listed Melamed's work as among the Best Performances of the Decade, and Empire called Sy Ableman "One of The Best Coen Bros. Characters of All Time". Several leading U.S. critics, including A. O. Scott of The New York Times, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune, and Roger Ebert all said his performance was worthy of an Academy Award nomination.
In addition, Melamed turns up prolifically in Woody Allen films. He has appeared in more Allen movies than any other actor besides Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow (and Allen himself). Melamed is featured in Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Another Woman, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Shadows and Fog, Husbands and Wives, and Hollywood Ending. He has also played significant supporting roles in Suspect, The Good Mother, The Mission, The Pickup Artist, and other films.
On television, Melamed stars with Maria Bamford in the Netflix comedy Lady Dynamite, on FX's Emmy Award-winning Fargo, Hulu's Golden Globe Award-nominated Casual, the Fox comedy New Girl, and Verizon Go90's sports send-up Now We're Talking. He is a present or past recurring guest star on USA Network's Benched, Showtime's House of Lies, HBO's Girls, Childrens Hospital, Blunt Talk, FX's Married, and Trial & Error. In previous seasons, he played Larry David's smug psychiatrist, Dr. Arthur Thurgood, on Curb Your Enthusiasm, tough-guy jurist Judge Alan Karpman on The Good Wife, and played himself in the CBS situation comedy The Crazy Ones with Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. In 2017, he appeared as a special guest star in the acclaimed Fargo episode "The Law of Non-Contradiction". He also appeared in 2 episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine as author, DC Parlov.
Melamed's slate of upcoming films includes the Sundance film Lemon, a collaboration with Brett Gelman and Janicza Bravo, Brawl in Cell Block 99 opposite Vince Vaughn, Sean McGinly's Silver Lake, which he stars in with Martin Starr, and Dragged Across Concrete. Melamed recently starred as Sam in Lake Bell's In a World..., winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival, opposite Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins in Bone Tomahawk, and re-teamed with the Coen brothers and co-stars George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, and Ralph Fiennes in Hail, Caesar!. He starred previously in Get On Up, a bio-pic about the life of James Brown, and opposite Elliott Gould, as auteur/director Bob Wilson, in Fred Won't Move Out, a film about the decline of a stubborn patriarch and his family. Other recent films include The Dictator (2012), with Sacha Baron Cohen and Sir Ben Kingsley, where Melamed appears in a cameo as the Director of the dictator's Nuclear Weapons Program, and Some Kind of Beautiful, where Melamed plays a villain, opposite Pierce Brosnan and Jessica Alba. Melamed has also voiced cult-leader Cris Formage in the Grand Theft Auto video game series.
On Broadway in 2011, after a long hiatus from the theatre, Melamed originated the roles of The Father in Ethan Coen's Talking Cure, and Thomas Moran in Elaine May's George Is Dead, two of the one-act plays that comprised Relatively Speaking. Subsequently, Melamed took on the role of Vanya in the Guild Hall production of Uncle Vanya, about which The New York Times said he gave "... an excellent ... multi-layered performance ... Mr. Melamed easily inhabits the comic, awkward lover, but also brings out Vanya's vast loneliness ...".
As a writer, he has produced screenplays including Girl of the Perfume River, A Jones for Gash, The Asshat Project, and is currently at work on a long-form, television version of The Preservationist, a fictional drama inspired by the case of Melamed's college friend, Edward Forbes Smiley III, a renowned cartographic expert and dealer, who admitted to having been the most brazen and prolific map thief of all time.
Personal life
Melamed lives with his wife and twin sons in Los Angeles. Both of the Melamed children were born with autism and he and his wife have been involved in advocacy for persons living with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families.
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Anna Selezneva In Harpers Bazaar March 2010
by The Editor
I chuckled to myself as I scrolled through these images. Sure, the photography is exceptional, the wardrobe is delicious, and Anna Selezneva has super human bone structure…but my favorite thing about this shoot is the entertaining story line. It's nice every once and awhile to see an editorial that above all else, seeks to be fun…even abit silly. I appreciate the opportunity to see models running around and having fun instead of just striking a stiff pose. The guns aren't bad either. Enjoy!!!
Xo, K
Magazine: Harpers Bazaar, March 2010, United States
Model: Anna Selezneva
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Las Vegas. I'm finishing up a two week road trip through the west. I've got seven unposted shoots in the can, and I'm looking forward to some serious computer time to catch up on my backlog. Since the holidays I've photographed a brewer, a letter press printer, a furniture maker, a bread baker, a coffee roaster, an espresso machine purveyor, and a shoe shine man. With my one-on-one approach to documenting these fine tradesmen, I continue to be inspired by the character of this country's workers. I'm primed to roll out the third phase of The Journeyman Project – for the sake of these dedicated individuals and for the benefit of all Americans at work in this economically challenging time.
Today was spent at RC Farms, in the good graces of Bob Combs and his lovely wife Janet, who you just might remember from a classic episode of Dirty Jobs. Bob's a pig farmer, you see, and he's got more than one angle on utilizing the food waste that rolls off the many buffet lines up and down the Las Vegas Strip. It was the third time I've photographed Bob, and he's getting better (and more charming!) every year.


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Spurs vs. Thunder: Game 6 Score and Twitter Reaction from 2014 NBA PlayoffsJune 1, 2014
Fans have been waiting all series long to see an instant classic in the Western Conference Finals, but it was all worth it after Saturday night's thriller between the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs in Game 6. The Spurs prevailed, 112-107, in overtime to win their sixth Western Conference title.
The game was competitive throughout, but it's the last minute of regulation and overtime period that will be remembered the most.
With 58 seconds to go, Kevin Durant hit two free throws to tie the game at 97-97.
Manu Ginobili had his shot blocked by Serge Ibaka 14 seconds later. There was some discussion as to whether Ibaka committed goaltending, but the ball appeared to be on the rise when he made contact.
ESPN.com's Kevin Pelton thought the officials should've erred on the side of caution, because a goaltending call at that stage of the game would've been reviewable:
After a Durant layup gave the Thunder a 99-97 lead with 32 seconds left, Ginobili answered back with a three-pointer, putting the Spurs up, 100-99.
Ginobili then had a chance to make it a three-point game at the free-throw line but sunk only one of his two foul shots. That allowed Russell Westbrook to tie the game with two free throws at the other end.
With the game knotted at 101-101, Ginobili took the final shot of regulation, but his jumper hit back iron and bounced out. Tim Duncan tipped the ball back in, but it came well after the buzzer.
That pushed the game into overtime, which was the Thunder's fifth overtime game of the postseason. They were 1-3 heading into Saturday, per ESPN Stats and Info:
OKC's stars started showing major signs of fatigue in OT. Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka and Reggie Jackson had played most of the game up to that point, and they simply ran out of gas.
This game simultaneously illustrated the Spurs' biggest strength and the Thunder's biggest weakness.
San Antonio can spread the wealth so well that even when Duncan and Ginobili aren't at their best, the next guys in line step up. Tony Parker even missed the whole second half with a nagging ankle injury, but the Spurs surged over the final two quarters and arguably should've wrapped the game up in regulation.
Duncan played well, scoring 19 points and grabbing 15 boards for the 155th postseason double-double of his career, ESPN Stats and Info noted puts him close to all-time playoff greatness:
The night really belonged to Boris Diaw and Kawhi Leonard, though. Diaw led the Spurs in scoring with 26 points, while Leonard added 17 in the absence of Parker. Leonard also made key stops on the defensive end late in the game.
The Thunder, on the other hand, got precious few contributions from outside their key four players. Other than Ibaka, Durant, Westbrook and Jackson, the only OKC player to score was Derek Fisher, who had five points.
Durant finished with 31 and Westbrook added 34, but in the postseason, that kind of concentrated scoring won't cut it, as ESPN's Bill Simmons posited:
Things were looking good for OKC in the first half, but it also had its fair share of warning signs.
Defensively, the Thunder had one of their best halves of the playoffs. They held the Spurs to 42 points, which was their lowest first-half output of the postseason.
Leonard led the team with nine points, while Duncan and Parker had eight points apiece.
As a team, San Antonio shot 14-of-38 from the field, including 4-of-18 from three-point range. Starting Matt Bonner wasn't working out as planned. The veteran forward missed four of his five shots in the first half.
CBSSports.com's Matt Moore singled out Westbrook for his often overlooked contributions on the defensive end. There's no question that when the Thunder star puts his mind to it, he can be an elite perimeter defender:
Despite everything that went right, OKC's offensive performance raised plenty of red flags.
A total of four players combined to score the team's 49 first-half points, per Royce Young of the Daily Thunder:
Against a team as good as San Antonio, that kind of star-heavy scoring output is unsustainable.
The entire bench only attempted (and missed) four shots, shown here by NBA on ESPN:
It was only the fourth time all season that a team finished the first half without a single bench point, per ESPN Stats and Info:
Westbrook and Durant are two of the best players in the league, while Jackson and Ibaka are solid complementary players. But sooner or later, the Thunder needed to have somebody else step up. The Spurs were bound to improve offensively, and when that happened, OKC risked getting left behind.
Oklahoma City received a big boost to start the second half, though, when it was announced that Parker would be out with left ankle soreness. That forced Cory Joseph to take on more minutes, which represented a severe downgrade at the point-guard position for San Antonio.
Coincidentally enough, Joseph spoke before Game 6 about how he was ready to step up at a moment's notice if necessary, per Jabari Young of the San Antonio Express-News:
It's very important. I've been doing it basically all year, you know, just preparing myself behind the scenes, doing stuff for myself, you know, working out, staying ready for whenever my name is called because Pop is known to call on guys, going deep into his bench whenever things aren't going right and whatnot. I just try and be ready.
Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich is no stranger to resting his players whenever the opportunity arises, and he likely weighed the long-term benefits of sitting Parker against the short-term risk of possibly aggravating the ankle injury and hurting San Antonio's chances in a potential Game 7.
SB Nation's Mike Prada wondered, though, if making a move like that made sense in what was still a very close game at the time:
It all worked out in the end.
Of course, with the Spurs being the Spurs, they found a way to stay competitive without their All-Star point guard. Leonard stepped up, scoring eight points in the third quarter. Diaw also started finding his shot.
Before you knew it, a dunk from Leonard with 8:48 to go in the third tied the game at 51-51. Diaw gave the Spurs a 56-54 lead with a three-pointer a little over a minute later.
Making matters worse, Westbrook picked up his fourth foul with 4:10 to go and the Thunder holding on to a 63-62 advantage, per NBA on ESPN:
Over the next four minutes and 10 seconds, the Spurs outscored OKC, 17-6, to grab a 79-69 lead heading into the fourth quarter. The third culminated with a four-point play from Danny Green.
Durant committed the foul, closing out what had been an awful third frame for the reigning MVP, which Bleacher Report's Howard Beck pointed out:
San Antonio's ball movement was spectacular in the quarter and all the more impressive when you consider it didn't have the services of Parker. Spurs players were moving the Thunder all over the floor with quick passes and penetration. In turn, Diaw, Bonner, Green or Leonard got excellent open looks at the basket.
As a result of that great ball movement, the Spurs long-range shooting did a complete 180, per ESPN's J.A. Adande:
The Spurs did just enough to keep a sizable cushion between themselves and the Thunder for most of the fourth quarter. San Antonio was particularly having a lot of success with its high screens:
In the final six minutes, though, OKC slowly chipped away at what was a 91-82 deficit.
Fisher hit a three to make it a six-point game, and after two more points from Diaw, Ibaka, Westbrook and Durant each hit a bucket to close the gap to two, 93-91, with 4:01 left in the contest.
Westbrook is known as a Jekyll-and-Hyde kind of player, and for the majority of Game 6, he was very, very good. But as the Thunder were looking to take their first lead of the fourth quarter, his two turnovers cost the team dearly, essentially canceling out his effectiveness during that stretch, as noted by Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman:
Westbrook made up for it a few possessions later when he picked off a pass by Green that led to a fast-break bucket, which cut the Spurs' lead to 97-95 and was a precursor to the frantic final minutes.
The Spurs will meet the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals for the second year in a row. Last year's Finals were classic, so nobody outside of Oklahoma is going to complain about seeing a rematch. San Antonio was one Ray Allen three-pointer away from winning, too, so Duncan, Parker, Ginobili and Co. will like their chances of bringing home the Larry O'Brien Trophy this year.
For the Thunder, the future is very much uncertain. Head coach Scott Brooks has come under considerable criticism in the postseason, so he may not keep his job much longer. What's at least known is that Durant and Westbrook need a better supporting cast. The Thunder can't win a title when only four players are contributing meaningful minutes.


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Folsom Price Per Square Foot for October 2010
Folsom is continuing to see small price drops. With a total of 46 homes sold in October, Folsom's average price per square foot dropped 4.4% from last month. Last year Folsom's home sales had us at $177 per square foot, and we are now at $161, down 9.2% from same time last year. If you look at this quarter vs last year same quarter we are down 7.2%.
The time it takes to sell a home in Folsom is also taking longer. Average days on market is running just over 100 days. Folsom has held its prices better than other areas, but while the tri-county region as a whole has seen some leveling off of price drops, Folsom does not appear to have leveled off yet.
If you are a seller, this is the time to get aggressive in your pricing. The next few months will see less homes on the market due to the holidays and serious buyers will still be looking. Traditionally when we start the new year, homes start to pop back on the market.
If you would like to see this graph and numbers in the same square foot as your home, or as a home you are considering purchasing, contact me. I would be more than happy to send you a more specific graph.


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An inquest is due to open tomorrow into the death of a woman whose body was found by walkers more than 2½ years ago.
The woman's identity has never been established. She was found in a stream near Horton in Ribblesdale in North Yorkshire in September 2004. An appeal on BBC's Crimewatch and contacts with foreign embassies have failed to turn up information on the woman.
Walkers discovered the woman, who police say is between 20 and 40, near Sell Gill Pot in the shadow of Pen-y-ghent, near the Pennine Way. She is of oriental appearance and investigators say she could have died up to three weeks before her body was discovered.
DI Pete Martin of North Yorkshire Police said: "Someone must know who the woman is and I believe there may well be someone who knows she is missing. All they have to do is call us.
"We owe it to her to find her name and notify her family. She must have a family, friends, perhaps a partner – maybe even a child – and we need to find them."
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KIRK DOUGLAS was worried. It was 1961, and this actor-producer had recently gambled on a big history picture, "Spartacus." He had fired the director — Anthony Mann — after a week of shooting, replacing him with Stanley Kubrick. Mr. Douglas thought the picture had turned out well, but it still hadn't been released. Meanwhile he had encountered a paperback novel — "The Brave Cowboy," by Edward Abbey — and optioned it through his production company, Byrna. And Byrna, which had a production deal with Universal, commissioned a screenplay, by Dalton Trumbo.
Mr. Douglas was gambling again, but playing a good hand. The material — the story of a modern-day cowboy who breaks into jail to rescue his best friend — is original for a western, and gets better as it goes along. Its screenwriter was talented and hard working. (Blacklisted and jailed after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Trumbo had for 10 years written scripts under assumed names, winning an Oscar for one of them as Robert Rich. Mr. Douglas went to bat for Trumbo on "Spartacus," promising him a screen credit with his real name.) And Trumbo had solved the story's two biggest problems: Why was the hero's best friend in jail in the first place? And why wouldn't he leave?
Abbey's novel, published in 1956, is set a decade earlier, following the introduction of the military draft. Paul, the hero's friend, has refused to register, not because he is a pacifist (he isn't) but because he considers a draft unconstitutional. Like Abbey, Paul is an incipient libertarian or a patriotic anarchist. He has written the government and local authorities about his resistance to unjust authority and been given a year in jail. So it's a moral imperative for Paul — when his old compadre John W. Burns shows up with two files and a plan to ride for Mexico — to turn him down.
Fifty years after the release of that film, "Lonely Are the Brave," westerns may not be much in evidence at the multiplex. But on the small screen this summer, complex takes on the genre like "Hell on Wheels" (returning Aug. 12 to AMC) and "Longmire" (which has drawn big ratings for A&E) are in vogue again, and it's worth taking another look at one of the bleakest westerns ever to grace the big screen.
In 1961, when Trumbo wrote the first version of the screenplay, it was unthinkable in Hollywood to feature a draft resister. It would be years before the Vietnam War made the draft an issue — so Trumbo, at his most sardonic, thought of an alternative crime for Paul: associating with parrot smugglers. This lasted one round of what is otherwise an excellent screenplay. In the next version, titled "The Last Hero," Trumbo came up with another solution: Paul is in jail for assisting illegal immigrants find food and work. It was a prescient choice, anticipating the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s and our current turmoil over undocumented workers.
Having addressed Paul's "crime of principle," Trumbo follows Abbey's novel closely: Burns gets locked up then busts himself and two Indians out of jail, heading for the hills on his coquettish horse, Whiskey. The film's second half tracks Burns's evasion of his pursuers and his encounter with a nemesis both inevitable and ludicrous. Trumbo shows a clear sense of location and landscape, including as his title page a hand-drawn map of the cowboy's intended route, via the Sangre de Cristo and Manzano Mountains, into Mexico.
Armed with a map, a great script, and a first-rate cast — he was playing Burns himself — Mr. Douglas seemingly had nothing to worry about. Yet on May 4, 1961, from the Western Skies Hotel in Albuquerque, with production already under way, he wrote a troubled letter. It was addressed to Mr. Gary Cooper, Beverly Hills.
"Dear Coop," he wrote. "When for years you've had affection for a guy and you find it suddenly turning to resentment, you begin to think it deserves some comment." He went on to say, "Put yourself in my spot. I'm doing a picture that should have been done by only one guy. I know it — my entire company knows it. Start with the title — The Last Hero. Now whom does that fit — me? Hell, no!"
Mr. Douglas complained to Cooper that his director, David Miller, was uncommunicative and focused on realism. The only direction Miller had given was, "try and play this the way Gary Cooper would." Even worse had been Abbey's arrival on set. Mr. Douglas reported that he'd driven to meet Abbey at the Albuquerque airport: "Fifty guys step off the plane but I spot him immediately — why? He looks like Gary Cooper. To make matters worse, when I meet him, he talks like Cooper!"
For a moment it sounds as if Mr. Douglas the producer was angling for Cooper to take over the lead. But this was impossible. Cooper was terminally ill and would die nine days later. Certainly Mr. Douglas knew this when he wrote he wanted to follow in Cooper's footsteps throughout the shoot: "I know now that at best I will come remotely close. But more important — I do know also that just trying to be you will make a better me."
Such heartfelt words acknowledged that outside help would not be forthcoming. It is the message of the film as well. Abbey's presence looms over the film — both Burns and Paul contain aspects of his character — but did he really look like Cooper? To a certain extent. Did he really visit the set? Recalling Abbey after his death in 1989, Mr. Douglas wrote, "I never met Mr. Abbey, but we wrote to each other several times."
Which was it? Does it matter? Either way, the story of Abbey's visit gave Mr. Douglas an opportunity to write a fan letter, and to prepare for a role he felt his mentor could have better played. As the pressmen conclude in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the other great western made that year: If confronted with two conflicting versions, "print the legend."
Before the shoot Byrna put out a release emphasizing Miller's realism: nonactors would be cast, a genuine painter would play Paul's wife, the sets would showcase her work. It was all for naught: professional actors — Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy — were used instead. "The Brave Cowboy," shot as "The Last Hero," was released in 1962 as "Lonely Are the Brave" — elegantly photographed, theatrical rather than "natural," exuberantly acted, deftly paced. There is no greater western, and certainly no more tragic one. Despite his doubts Mr. Douglas personified Burns, flouting cinematic rules by doing his own stunts and co-starring with an animal, a high spot of his career.
It's hard to imagine a film so radical, or so pessimistic, being made today. Though a Korean War hero, Burns refuses to carry ID or listen to reason. He disrespects the power company by cutting its barbed-wire fences; the county jail, by breaking out; the sheriff, whose manhunt he eludes; the military-industrial complex, whose helicopter he shoots down; and us, the viewers, who — when the lights go up or the DVD ends — return to a life played mainly by the rules. Remarkable for a low-budget western, "Lonely Are the Brave" poses uneasy questions about the idea, and value, of heroism. Do Paul's principles justify abandoning his wife and child? Where does Burns's extraordinary journey lead?


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To my Mormon friends, I will ask the question I always do.
Your own holy book makes a claim for polygamy. The United States put laws into place specifically to deny you that right.
I'll say that again: the United States made laws to deny Mormons the right to marry as their religion demanded.
And I want to make this as clear as possible: I believe the United States acted wrongly in doing so. I want my Mormon friends (and other Mormons) to live the lives they want without the government interfering with their happiness.
That is why Proposition 8 so disturbed me. It also makes me very angry. The fact that the Mormon church–members of which suffered from government intrusion into their human rights–so supported Proposition 8: a law that took away the right to marry from a minority. Just as the same laws did to them.
If you are a Mormon and you support any law that defines the religious/secular institution of marriage, you should be ashamed of yourself.
You want to marry someone of your own sex? You should have that right.
You want to marry 3 women? You should have that right.
You want to marry twenty men? You should have that right.
Just as long as all participants are willing participants, there is no crime.
The only reason–THE ONLY REASON–Ro and I got married was because of my health conditions. I didn't want her going to the hospital, saying, "No, I'm not a relative" and getting turned away.
Everyone should have the same rights as Ro and I.
Shame. Shame. Shame.


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Who's the enemy?
What might be the worst thing a government could do? I dare say there must be several contenders but among the most likely has to be a deliberate attempt to undermine the constitutional rights of the citizenry. Karan Thapar writes.india Updated: Mar 06, 2011 15:03 IST
What might be the worst thing a government could do? I dare say there must be several contenders but among the most likely has to be a deliberate attempt to undermine the constitutional rights of the citizenry. And if in the process the government also ends up defying the Supreme Court and, worse, appearing to target one section of the population then, quite frankly, this act must seem to be the worst possible.
Now you might think this combination of factors is far-fetched and unlikely. After all, we live in a democracy, abide by the rule of law and are committed to fairness and equity. This sort of thing simply can't happen.
Well it did and although, for now, it's been undone, it might still happen again. I refer to the government's Enemy Property ordinance, which has just lapsed, and the proposed Enemy Property Bill, waiting in Parliament to be passed.
But let's step back to understand what's happened and what's proposed. In 1968, after the Indo-Pak War of 1965, Parliament passed The Enemy Property Act sequestrating the property of any Indian who had become Pakistani and placing it in the charge of a custodian. The key question that arose is what would happen to that property when the owner died? Would his legal heirs inherit?
The government said no. Even though the property was in custody it deemed the custodian to be the new owner. In 2005, in a case brought by the Raja of Mehmoodabad, the Supreme Court disagreed. The custodian was not the owner, it ruled. The 'enemy' retained his ownership even if he had lost custody. On his death his heirs, if Indian citizens, were the inheritors.
This ruling gave the Raja possession of his father's properties but hundreds of others benefitted as well. However, the ruling also permitted some people with 'disputed' claims to acquire property. In addition, by permitting the 'enemy' to sell, it also created claimants who were not Indian citizens.
Five years later, claiming this created a messy situation and a potential security concern, the government passed an ordinance to nullify the 2005 Supreme Court judgement. Passed this July, it specifically expunged the right of Indian heirs to inherit enemy property. In a stroke the Raja lost what the Supreme Court gave him.
The ordinance, of course, had far wider and considerably more worrying implications. It was deliberately designed to defy the Supreme Court. It's outcome was tantamount to undermining the constitutional rights of a certain category of Indian citizens to inherit parental property. And it largely, if not predominantly, applied only to the muslim community.
Mercifully that ordinance has lapsed because Parliament did not legislate a bill to replace it. But the government hasn't given up. Although its under pressure to accept the right of Indian citizens to inherit 'enemy' property it's not clear it will.
While this issue hangs fire what's perplexing is P Chidambaram's role. In 2002, as a lawyer, he fought on behalf of a rival claimant to the Mehmoodabad property and lost. Eight years later, as home minister, his ordinance nullified the Supreme Court's judgement. Should he not have recused himself from handling this issue?
Sadly this is not the only crossed wire. As a lawyer Chidambaram presumably accepted that 'enemy' property can be inherited by an Indian citizen. As home minister his ordinance expunged that right. Isn't this a sad and sorry situation? Doesn't the government emerge poorly? And hasn't Chidambaram behaved peculiarly?
The views expressed by the author are personal


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Your own curvy and certified personal trainer in NYC is back with more questions from women about exercise. This is a special section where Curvy Goddesses all over the country have the opportunity to ask me anything about fitness.
I've been a personal trainer in NYC for over 11 years. I've had the unique opportunity of training hundreds of clients from age 16 to 96 years, men and women, with many unique physical limitations.
We're going to get into probably the #1 leading fitness myth women still believe and because of this, is preventing them from taking maximum advantages for body re-shaping and also causing many to suffer bone loss.
Now more than 70% of my new clients who come to me not only want to lose fat and re-shape their bodies but their doctors are firmly advising them to work with a personal trainer to address their osteopenia or osteoporosis.
I'm finding this to be alarming.
Annette from Queens, NY asks this curvy personal trainer in NYC…
Question: Why are you always emphasizing strength training exercise for plus-size women? We're already big enough. I don't want to get even bigger. I don't like that big muscular look on a woman because if I lift weights, I'm going to look like a man. So I think I'll just stick to the aerobics and do lots of sit-ups to get by stomach smaller and to lose weight.
I just love Annette's question and her commentary afterward. It's a clear indication that she doesn't know what she doesn't know and what she thinks she knows…she doesn't!
But Curvy Goddess, have you made these comments before? Have you prescribed to yourself that kind of workout regimen to no avail?
Have you ever pointed to your tummy or butt and frustratingly thought, "I want to lose weight here." And then managed to convince yourself that sweating it off is the key to getting rid of it?
So you peddle away on your stationary bike or walk on the treadmill for miles at a time just like a little hamster going nowhere literally and figuratively and then you do crunch after crunch hoping that your belly and the lumps on your butt will disappear not realizing that there is no such thing as spot reduction.
I'm sorry to tell you that you're on the wrong track. You are way off the track.
This terrible myth of building big muscles on women is creating so much fear in you causing you never to train with weights at your detriment.
There is no way you will build big huge muscles unless you are on special supplementation and a specially designed training system.
Some of those muscle bound women you've seen are probably taking steroids which are banned and obviously harmful.
Why is it difficult for you to build big muscles? Well, it's simply because you don't have enough testosterone, a male hormone that encourages your muscles to grow.
In fact, you have ten to thirty times less of the bodybuilding hormone, testosterone than your male counterpart.
Women who accept the myth that they'll build big muscles if they workout with weights will miss out on all of the benefits that strength training exercise and resistance training can offer.
Being a personal trainer in NYC where the gym is my normal environment, I've seen it all.
This myth is so ingrained in women's psyche that even after explaining the facts to many women, they're still afraid to lift weights and if they do choose to lift a weight they stick to the one-pound to two-pound dumbbells.
When you incorporate strength training exercise into your workout plan on a CONSISTENT basis you'll start to finally see miraculous results that you could never get from just doing aerobics and 100 crunches or even 1000 crunches a day.
This personal trainer in NYC thinks that you can't afford not to incorporate it into your life. So, no longer avoid strength training exercise thinking that you'll get bigger. You'll more likely tighten up, revealing a curvy firm body and go down a couple of dress sizes without having to go on a crash diet.
Until next time Curvy Goddess…Stay Strong and Stunning!
Muscle burns more calories than fat, so I'm on board with the idea of strength-training.
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(500) days of summer : Joseph Gordon-Levit and Zooey Deschanel
it's 500 days of summer trailer : GREAT MOVIE love it
and also
check this one out!
why do you let me stay here? remake for 500 [days] of summer
and here it is a 60 sec with them :
and i love the color of this video. also i heart Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levit. she's awesome!
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ONE of the oldest workers in the NHS will take on a five-mile run in her 70s to help children she looks after get the best care possible.
Eileen Williams turns 71 today but that does not stop her from working as a health visitor with young children and their parents twice a week.
Nor will it stop her from taking on this year's OX5 run at Blenheim Palace to raise money for Oxford Children's Hospital.
The mother-of-two from North Oxford has worked in healthcare in Oxford for more than 50 years and will be taking on the OX5 for the third time in April.
She said: "It's a beautiful setting and I enjoy running but it's really because I work with children up to five and their parents.
"The children's hospital is close to my heart and I don't think I have ever heard a parent say anything negative about it.
"It can be so scary for parents but the staff do a great job up there."
Mrs Williams now works mainly at Donnington Health Centre as a health visitor, supporting parents bringing up young children. But her medical career began as a student in 1963 at the former Radcliffe Infirmary, in Woodstock Road.
She then trained as a midwife at the maternity unit at the Churchill Hospital, in Headington, until 1968 then worked as a midwife in the Wheatley and Horspath areas until 1973.
She joined Kidlington Health Centre in 1977 where she worked until her retirement in 2010 and throughout much of that time trained health visitors in partnership with Oxford Brookes University.
She said: "Whenever someone is poorly what they want is someone to be sympathetic, someone to be interested in them and someone to talk and help them through it.
"It's the human touch we need.
"The money from the run is so important, helping children and their parents if they ever have to use the children's hospital."
The keen runner abseiled down the Avon Gorge in Bristol with her younger son Tom and her husband John, 73, in 2014 and said the run was giving her something to focus on this year.
She said: "I do three runs a year and the OX5 is one of them – it gives me a focus now I only work two days a week.
"I am running about four miles probably four times a week – so hopefully the five-mile Blenheim run will be okay."
The OX5 is being sponsored by recruitment firm Allen Associates for the eighth year.
Last year's event raised £106,000 for Oxford Children's Hospital and the run, now in its 14th year, has chalked up more than £850,000.
The money is used to fund medical equipment and other aspects of children's care.
* You can sign up online by going to hospitalcharity.co.uk/ox5run


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Note: This is an archival copy of Security Sun Alert 242267 as previously published on http://sunsolve.sun.com.
Latest version of this security advisory is available from http://support.oracle.com as Sun Alert 1019613.1.
Bug Id
Release Phase
Solaris 8 Operating System
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System
Date of Preliminary Release
Date of Workaround Release
Date of Resolved Release
Security Vulnerability in the ACL (acl(2)) Implementation for UFS File Systems May Allow a Local User to Panic the System
1. Impact
A security vulnerability in the Solaris Access Control List (ACL) (see acl(2)) implementation for UFS file systems may allow a local unprivileged user to panic a system which has a UFS filesystem. This is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).
Sun would like to acknowledge with thanks, Nils Goroll, for bringing this issue to our attention and aiding us in the development of a fix through the OpenSolaris project.
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
1. Solaris 8 entered EOSL Phase 2 on 1 April 2009. Entitlement to patches developed on or after 1 April 2009 requires the purchase of the Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service. See note in section 5 for more details.
2. This issue only affects systems which have UFS file systems mounted which are writable (read-write). To print the list of UFS file systems mounted read-write on the system, the following command can be run:
$ mount -p | grep ufs | grep rw
3. Symptoms
If this issue is experienced, the system will panic with a message similar to the following:
Note that either ufs_acl_access() or ufs_iaccess() are the top most UFS functions in the call stack.panic[cpu0]/thread=300043e8060: BAD TRAP: type=31 rp=2a10165f130 addr=70 mmu_fsr=0
4. Workaround
To work around the described issue, remount the filesystem with the 'nosec' option, as in the following example:
Note this command option is available on all releases impacted by this issue, however, the option is not documented on Solaris 8 or 9, and is only documented for Solaris 10 with the man pages patch 119246-35 (for SPARC) and 119247-35 (for x86).# mount -o remount,nosec /test
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see 1009886.1.
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Modification History
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21-Oct-2008: Add acknowledgement in Impact section
15-Jan-2009: Updated Resolution patches. Updated Workaround section for T-Patches
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Compare and Contrast
English Honors
Period 6
Compare and Contrast Essay
In life some people think all you need in life to survive and be happy is love, but others thinking that money is the answer to life's problems. In the stories "The Necklace" and "The Gift of the Magi" it portrays the lives of two main characters that deal with problems of their own. One dong it out of love, and the other for greed.
Within both stories there are many differences and similarities that deal with how they handle their situations.
In the story "The Necklace" the main character, Mathilda Losisel, is unhappily married to a clerk, and is ungrateful of the life she is living. She thinks that she deserves to be living a better lifestyle, and that materialistic objects and fancy things will make her happy rather than love. Mathilda is invited to the ball in the beginning of the story, and immediately she turns selfish and wants her husband to get the things she desires for her ball. Her husband tries everything he can to please his wife in every way that he could do to try to make her happy. Not once in the story did she say thank you for her husband's efforts because she wasn't thankful for what he had done for her. She also borrows an expensive necklace from one of her close friends. As she was partying away at the ball, she did not once think about her husband. She was more focused on the fact that other people were giving her attention. Later on in the story Mathilda loses the necklace, and her husband does everything he can to try to get it back. He ended up getting money to buy a brand new necklace, but had to pay off debts he had from raising that money by working it off and Mathilda has to work it off as well. Because of Mathilda's greed and ignorance it had lead her to the situation of debt she was in. Throughout the story she only worried about herself rather than thinking about how much effort her husband was doing to making her happy. In the end the necklace turned out...
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Weekend Mile Building
Weekend Mile Building
Equinox Weekend mile building is a great opportunity for sailors of all levels to gain more experience. Sail at night and out of sight of land, experience living and eating on board all under the watchful eye of your skipper/instructor. Weekend mile building will allow you to experience the South Coast of England, Northern France and Channel Islands.
It's an ideal opportunity for RYA Day Skippers to gain experience and work towards their RYA Coastal Skipper or their RYA Yachtmaster. There will be the opportunity to skipper a 60 mile passage under instruction.
Our weekend mile building will start and finish at our home port in Hamble. Destination will be dependent on weather and tide, but you should expect to complete 100-200 mile throughout your trip.
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Even among music listeners used to lavish box sets, The Clash - Sound System (Sony) is something to behold.
The 11 CDs include every studio album the group released (save for, oddly, last gasp Cut the Crap), along with dozens of rarities, live cuts, B-sides, and remixes.
A remastered DVD offers seldom-seen early footage of the group, The Clash on Broadway film, and every music video. And ephemera goodies include posters, stickers, booklets, and reproductions of the band's fan newsletter Armagideon Times, along with a new effort compiled by bassist Paul Simonon. (A new 2CD anthology, Hits Back, is also out for the more budget-conscious)
"It's like the group. It's got some serious weight to it!" laughs Don Letts. The noted film and video director and close friend of the group has plenty of his own work represented on the DVD, including "Rock the Casbah." The clip served as the initial introduction for millions of MTV-era viewers (this writer included) to the group.
Filmed in Austin around a 1982 show the band did at the City Coliseum, the video is memorable thanks to the images of an Arab and Hasidic Jew rocking out to a boom box, the band miming the song in front of a pumping oil derrick, and one charismatic armadillo in a crowd of fans. Letts is clear on who the video's real star was.
"The way I got the armadillo to walk toward the camera was to get on the ground on my hands and knees and blow in its face. So you can imagine the scene with a Jew and Arab running around, and a guy with dreads laying on the ground," Letts remembers. "But what's amazing was that the armadillo attracted the most attention because the [crowd] had only seen dead ones! Or as ashtrays or handbags."
Curiously, guitarist Mick Jones is seen in the lip-synch section, with his face and head completely covered. Letts notes it wasn't a costume decision that he made for himself.
"Mick was having one of his Elizabeth Taylor moments and was [pissed off] at Joe [Strummer], so he showed up on the set wearing red Long Johns and black Doc Martens. Now, he's a skinny guy, so he looked like a matchstick!" the director recalls.
After pulling Jones aside and reminding him that "video is forever," the guitarist changed his outfit, but wore a camouflage hat and veil to show he was still upset. It was forcibly ripped off by Strummer toward the end of the clip.
More Clash madness continues on the next page.
Another memorable Letts-directed clip was for "London Calling." Shot during pitch-black night on a boat in the Thames River during a driving rainstorm, it's both forceful and memorable. Though certainly not by plan.
"It was supposed to be filmed in the daytime. But I didn't know that the Thames could rise or fall up to 15 feet during the tides, and that affected the camera shot and equipment. It was the first music video I ever made, and I was flying by the seat of my pants," Letts remembers.
"By the time I got all that worked out, it was night and it started pissing rain. But it turned out to be the best thing that could happen. In typical punk fashion, my problem became my asset. If we had filmed it like I had originally planned, you wouldn't be talking to me about it now."
As for their behavior as subjects, The Clash pretty much let Letts do what he wanted to -- the director doesn't recall a single time that a member insisted he do anything.
"There were enough clues and pointers in the music to give me ideas about what to film," he says.
"And the way they performed, they were like four sticks of dynamite. I'd love to take responsibility for doing some great film work, but no. All I had to do was make sure the camera was running and it was in focus. And if I pointed it in their direction, chances are I'd get some good shit."
So -- not surprising -- all of the Clash videos are performance-based, with no "cutaways to cars exploding or girls shaking their booty," Letts says.
The Sound System DVD also includes lots of footage Letts shot of not only the band, but fans and surrounding New York, with street scenes during the group's residency at Bond's Casino, which makes up The Clash on Broadway film.
Edited clips formed the basis of the video for the song "This is Radio Clash," which showed the band soaking up early NYC rap and hip-hop on the mean and pre-cleaned up streets of Times Square.
"The guys were like cultural sponges, they would tap into whatever was going on wherever they went, and that's evident in that clip," Letts says, before offering Rocks Off an anecdote he says he hasn't told an interviewer before.
"I went to a video conference and had the opportunity to show that clip to [famed Italian director] Federico Fellini. And he told me that I 'had the vision of a terrorist,'" Letts says. "But I thought he said that I 'had terrible vision!' Someone later assured me of what he really meant. Anyway, it sounded better in Italian!"
Coming up in Part II - How Letts met the Clash, his surprise star turn as an album cover boy, the band reunion that never happened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and how Joe Strummer cockblocked him.
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BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3:00 TODAY UNTIL WEDNESDAY EVENING….6-16 INCHES OF SNOW IS FORECAST, WITH LOTS OF WIND, LOW VISIBILITIES AND HAZARDOUS TRAVEL….CHECK OUT hubcityradio.com FOR ALL THE LATEST WEATHER, ROAD REPORTS, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS…
1. here come your tuesday funnies…
i know i've used this one before, but it's just too good….
the next one is HILARIOUS…
seems EVERYBODY is on facebook these days…
2. the great actor CHARLES DURNING turns 89 today…he has appeared in many movies including "DOG DAY AFTERNOON", "THE STING", "THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS", and he starred with BURT REYNOLDS in the tv show "EVENING SHADE."
here's CHARLES DURNING today on his 89th birthday…
3. happy birthday wishes are also in store for actress BERNADETTE PETERS…she is a very beautiful 64 today…and still lookin' good…
she is known for being a singer, actress, and broadway star, too….but, quite possibly her most famous role was playing opposite STEVE MARTIN in the classic movie "THE JERK."
man oh man, BERNADETTE PETERS still looks great at 64….
4. a recent HARRIS poll asked people who their favorite news personalities were….guess who won?
my favorite news personality?
who was voted the least favorite news personality? no big suprise…
my least favorite so called "news" person? the incredibly horrible NANCY GRACE…SHE GETS 100 PERCENT OF MY VOTE…
she got 7 percent of the "favorite", but 23 percent of the "least favorite."
my suggest?
BRING BACK THE GHOST OF WALTER CRONKITE….in my opinion, the most trusted, and BEST NEWS GUY EVER….
5. well, the snowblower is tuned up, tires filled, and i even had it running yesterday…BRING IT ON OLD MAN WINTER! SHOW US WHAT YOU HAVE!!! (i'll probably regret saying that)
6. some people never learn….ICE DOES NOT MAKE A GOOD PARKING SPOT….participants in an annual ice fishing contest in WISCONSIN were left trying to find rides home, after 36 VEHICLES WENT THRU THE ICE….THIRTY SIX!! four vehicles were submerged more than halfway, 18 were partially under water, and 14 other ones sank enough to damage the engines….officials said that they warned everybody, and apparently nobody listened…
7. CHELSEA CLINTON turned 32 yesterday..to put that in perspective, her college friends are now too old for her dad to hit on…
8. the DISCOVERY CHANNEL aired a show where scientists speculated how dinosaurs mated…..they think it was either during a CHER concert, or a JOAN RIVERS comedy show….
9. a man from EAGAN, MINNESOTA was arrested for shoplifting for allegedly trying to leave a store with a 19 inch tv in his pants….and being a man, he claimed it was a 36 inch tv….
10. reaction continues to the OSCARS and mostly negative reviews of the broadcast….BILLY CRYSTAL would be bummed about it, if his face allowed him to show any emotions…
11. RICK SANTORUM said on sunday that he does not believe in the separation of church and state…however, he's adamant about never mixing peanut butter and chocolate….
12. celebrity attorney GLORIA ALLRED sent an e-mail alerting the media that she would be attending the OSCARS, but accidentally sent the e-mail with all of her addresses showing, revealing all of her media contacts…i don't know, i think that GLORIA is losing it….after the award show, she sent a congratulatory message to MERYL STREEP for winning record of the year for "ROLLING IN THE DEEP."
A man walks into a tavern and sees a man with a pig sitting on the bar in front of him.
He sits on a stool next to the guy with the pig and asks, "What's with the pig?"
The guy takes a harmonica out of his pocket and starts playing it. The pig dances a jig up and down the bar. When the guy put the harmonica away, the pig ran down the bar and sat in front of him again.
The man was dumbfounded. He says, "I've never seen anything like that in my life. How long did it take you to train the pig to do that?"
The guy tells him, "I trained him six hours a day for two years."
The man says, "SIX HOURS A DAY FOR TWO YEARS? Isn't that a terrible waste of time?
The thinks a minute and replies, "Yeah, I guess so, but what's time to a pig?"


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Larry Light Tells 4A's: Marketing on the Wrong Road
Geoffrey Precourt
In a word, Larry Light is famous in American marketing circles. His work as McDonald's cmo between 2002 and 2005 is the stuff of legend, with the "I'm Lovin' It" campaign making a powerful connection with young audiences and revitalizing the chain's brand. In Adweek's "Best Marketers of the Decade," Light finished second to Apple's Steve Jobs. And when Ad Age talked about the top 10 ideas of the first 10 years of the 21st Century, it called Light's marketplace perceptions, "arguably the most realistic description of marketing today perhaps ever."
On the occasion of the 4A's (formerly known as the American Association of Advertising Agencies) 2010 "Transformation" conference, Light had a captive audience when he proposed to discuss "a challenge bigger than advertising and media: to rejuvenate, to reinvent, and to revitalizing marketing."


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MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image by Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Beacon Press, 2011, 64 pages)
Intimate look at MLK's life.
5/5 stars
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image by Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Beacon Press, 2011, 64 pages)
Intimate look at MLK's life.
5/5 stars
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography by Elizabeth Partridge
(Chronicle Books, 2013, 192 pages)
Even if you don't know the name Dorothea Lange, you know her work – specifically her piece "Migrant Mother" that captured an impoverished mother with her children in the mid 1930s. This book begins with a short biographical essay that provides a brief overview of Lange's life. You get just enough information to have a feel for her as a photographer, but you're also left wanting to learn more.
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning presents 100 photographs that span Lange's career as a photographer. I just learned that the book is meant to serve as a companion piece for a PBS American Masters episode about Lange that will air this fall. I enjoyed getting a feel for the range of Lange's photographs and the essay only piqued my interest and has me eager to learn more about this woman. I already have Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits on my "to read" list. Whether you're already a Lange fan or not, if you appreciate photography and its ties to history you'll be interested in this book.
Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
(Random House, 2012, 416 pages)
I was intrigued by Grace Coddington after watching the documentary "The September Issue," which looked at what goes into creating the September issue for Vogue magazine. Grace was the standout star of the film because of her dedication, focus, and sass in the face of Anna Wintour. This memoir looks back at Grace's life and recounts her journey from a small island life in England to the Creative Director of American Vogue. Photos of her life and sketches done by Grace are sprinkled throughout the text. It's written in a very engaging way and despite being lengthy the type was on the larger side and it was easy to read. There's no question she led (and continues to lead) an interesting life.
While reading this book I found myself Googling the models and photographers Grace mentions. I was definitely exposed to new people and gained a better appreciation for the work that goes into creating a fashion photograph. It even inspired my to resubscribe to the magazine! If you're into fashion, or happened to see "The September Issue," have an appreciation for the magazine industry, or simply love a good memoir, you'll enjoy this book. There were little bits of celebrity gossip interspersed and it was interesting to see the role of fashion change through Grace's life. Plus she loves cats so… I like her that much more now 🙂
The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott by Marion Post Wolcott
(Library of Congress, 2008, 50 pages)
Even though you may not know the name Marion Post Wolcott, you undoubtedly know her work. I saw an article somewhere that talked about Wolcott and it showed one of her photographs. Something about her made me want to learn more. I wanted to see what kind of photographs she took when working for the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s and 40s. Even though this book only offered a little biographical information (provided in the introduction by Francine Prose), it was enough to provide a good basic overview of who she was, how she came to take the photographs that she did, and why it is so few people seem to know her name, despite having some very well-known photographs.
This was a small book, published by the Library of Congress, highlighting 50 of Wolcott's photographs. She does an amazing job capturing the diverse (and, arguably, divisive) nature of our country during the 30s and 40s. It's amazing how much can be captured in a single photograph.
I think this was a good gateway book because it got me interested in the FSA – Office of War Information collection of photographs (documenting life in America from the Depression to WWII), it made me want to learn more about Wolcott specifically, and it got me thinking about the WPA… So there are a lot of different directions I could take this. But I guess it says a lot about Wolcott's work that my mind's going in all these different directions.


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The anti-Tory ads from Engage Canada, that began airing Monday during Game 5 of the NBA Finals, are probably only moderately useful to the cause of those groups that paid for them – mostly Unifor and other large unions hoping to prevent Andrew Scheer from becoming prime minister this fall.
The ads claim Scheer is as "weak" as a bobblehead and, if elected, will be nothing more than a fetch-it boy for Ontario Premier Doug Ford (and maybe former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, too).
Engage Canada's ads will no doubt resonate with voters who were never likely to vote Conservative in the first place. But if the purpose of political advertising is to play up doubts that undecided voters have about a candidate in an effort to get them to commit to the other side, I'm not convinced the Engage ads will be all that effective.
But compared to the anti-Trudeau ads from another third-party political action group – Shaping Canada's Future – Engage Canada's Scheer Smears are pure marketing genius.
Both ads were irritating interruptions of my Raptors watching. The only ads I want to see while the Raptors try to win their first-ever NBA title are clever ones from retailers, car companies and breweries.
My favourites right now are Canadian Tire's Father's Day gift ads starring Paul Constable as the always-affable Gary, the Canadian Tire Guy. Those ads parody an elementary school musical production in which the most-desired gift for dad – a cordless drill – repeatedly topples over while the kid inside the drill costume waits in the wings for his cue.
However, while the Engage Canada ads are probably only preaching to the choir, at least they will have the effect of shoring up support for "progressive" parties such as the Liberals and NDP. On the other side, the ads from Shaping Canada's Future may actually force some members of the right-of-centre choir to think about converting to other parties.
Remember those Justin Trudeau is "Just Not Ready" ads from the 2015 election? Polls showed they were initially quite effective. Yet as the last federal campaign dragged on and on (and on), the ads began to turn voters away from the Tories. In the vital final weeks, they may even have encouraged voters to consider supporting Trudeau and the Liberals (because he didn't look as stupid or incompetent as the ads claimed).
Despite the questionable effectiveness of the 2015 version, though, Shaping Canada's Future (not the Conservative party) has unwisely decided to pay for some sequels that analyze Trudeau's record in office – at about $50,000 per 30-second spot. The same actors who judged him "Not Ready" in 2015, proclaim him "Never Ready" this time.
And the 2019 version suffers from lower production quality and stiff performances by the actors pretending to be HR managers.
The Tory party ads that feature Scheer walking through a modest Regina neighbourhood and promising to get government off the backs of working people are probably the most effective of the current cycle. Filmed in the housing complex where Scheer grew up, those ads not only lend credibility to his pledge to help middle-class Canadians, they also (subtlety) point out that unlike Trudeau, Scheer is not a trust fund baby with a family fortune and a classic Mercedes convertible worth in the neighbourhood of $1.8 million.
A few closing thoughts: All the ads I've seen so far are so tired and formulaic they will likely be ignored by voters (or spur them to consider the Green party, which isn't tainted yet). As soon as Unifor got involved in the Engage Canada ads, they should have recused themselves from having anything to do with the Liberals' $600-million media bailout. And the Liberals' poor judgement in appointing Unifor anyway, proves politicians cannot be trusted with regulating social media during an election.


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Most of us were pretty creeped out with Vanity Fair's report about Tom Cruise, which claimed that the star had "auditioned" various women to be his next mate after his divorce from Nicole Kidman. Actresses who were Scientologists were supposedly called for what they thought would be an audition for a new training film, but unbeknownst to them, their mission was more impossible: Be Tom Cruise's next wife.
But some asked: Is this really any different from what most of us do to find a mate? Don't we "audition" people? Maybe even our church leaders -- much like Tom's Scientology leaders -- set us up with someone they think we might like. It's natural to want to find someone who shares our beliefs. So isn't Tom's auditioning process kind of like what we all do?
Let's look at the similarities and the (big!) differences. Reportedly, to find Tom's new Scientolo-Gal, the women weren't aware of what they were "auditioning" for. They were told it was a training film. So right off the bat, you've got lies. Some people do lie a bit at the beginning of their dating process -- about age, weight, height, how exactly "single" are you. So let's forgive this one.
Iranian-born actress Nazanin Boniadi was selected as the "winner" for what was described as a "hush hush mission." She was also then told to get rid of her braces, her red highlights, and her boyfriend. Okay, here are some big differences. Most of us don't need to get rid of everything in our life to date someone. And if you are told to get rid of things you cherish -- your pet, your child, your red highlights -- run, run, run!
Reportedly, Nazanin then went on a month-long "auditing" process that required confessing her innermost secrets. While most people do have an intense early courtship period where they confide all kinds of secrets to each other -- that's mutual. In this case, the confessions were one-sided.
Eventually, Nazanin passed all "tests" and moved in with Cruise. But unlike regular dating, where two people get to know each other, Tom and Nazanin only knew each other through the eyes of Scientology.
Even in arranged marriages, it's usually two families coming together and having an equal stake in how things turn out. In this case, Tom Cruise had all the power and Nazanin had none. In fact, reportedly one of the first things she was told upon learning her real mission was, "This is Mr. Cruise. We can't let him down."
This isn't dating. It's not being "set up" by someone through your family or church. Any person or organization that requires total subservience and which renders you voiceless and powerless isn't loving you. It's just controlling you.
But reportedly, no matter these bizarre beginnings, Nazanin fell in love with Cruise. And she was devastated and heartbroken by their split. In that way, their relationship was just like any other.
Do you think Tom Cruise's "auditioning" for wives is like dating?
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Where am I: New York
Photos: The curious eyes – Mark Preston
What is it you can't live without? Is it your family? Your friends? Your pet? Your home? All of your belongings or maybe it's your comfort zone. It took me two and a half months to understand that what you may be running away from are the things you going to miss most when you are far. Two and a half months in New York seemed like two and a half years (if not more) the intensity of the city played a huge roll in an emotional impact, an impact that caused many sleepless nights and several panic attacks. The problem I have with New York is the lack of ability to stop and think, everyone around are in such a rush to be successful, to complete tasks, to go forward in life that in the process New Yorkers often forget to even just breathe. In a city of endless opportunities one must stay laser sharp, focused and have a clear plan of how to achieve their goals, loose your focus and boom, someone else will grab the opportunity. This time New York taught me that I'm way more sensitive than I thought I am, and that city life is alright but only for a short visit and being ruthless just isn't my style, I promised myself that after such intense couple of months I will take time to slow down and breathe again. So here I am heading back home, where the comfort zone, family, friends belongings, pet and air are waiting for me because these are the real
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The Flux series fuses French café charm and Nordic practicality in a wonderful mix of honey-brown teak and light-grey steel. The slender and stackable construction makes the chair a perfect choice for small spaces – outside as well inside.
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In 2003 and 2004, I gave a series of concerts in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Scandinavian countries dedicated to the victims of this barbaric event. I wrote this article back then. Next November I will perform some of these pieces in Brisbane, Queensland, and so I retrieved this article I wrote for those concerts. This will be revised for Brisbane, and the original was as follows :
"Abashed the devil stood,And felt how awful goodness is." (John Milton, "Paradise Lost")
Unlike the previous centuries, literature music in the present day belong to the whole world ; the Mozarts and Beethovens of today live and create in every part of the world and are not concentrated in a few countries in West Europe. There is also a much wider range of expression, and much more influences to be absorbed and adapted to the musical language of each composer. Technology make it easy to listen and see, for example, a Maori dance in a living room in Scotland, and if that Scottish guy wants to see it again, he will just have to press a button. News travel faster than ever, and one can learn what had happened ten thousand miles away in just a few minutes difference, getting almost the same impact as those who were present at ground zero.Two powerful elements which contradict AND compliment each other are present in this concert ; both can be defined in just one place and one date : Bali, 12 October 2002. Before that date, Bali only meant one thing : paradise, and all that it embodies : peace, beauty and harmony. On the late evening of that date, a group of irresponsible, intolerant and ignorant terrorists brought hell to this paradise island, and therefore with all its components : evil, violence, ugliness, chaos, hate and horror. Afterwards, never before in history of mankind that a place could be perfectly associated with those two elements of good and evil. Naturally this event moved the emotion of the hypersensitive artists around the world. It brings horror, but it also serves as a catalyst for inspiration. Composers around the world now turn to the lost beauty of Bali and its culture, and with their own unique expressions, integrate it to their musical works which expresses their deep feelings far beyond anguish, anger and fear. Today we present only a few selected pieces created with that intense and traumatic memory and dedicated to the memory of the innocent victims of terrorism by the world's best composers, created not only as a manifestation of their repulsion against terrorism, but also as a wish to heal the pain and sorrow. And to heal, only our love, generosity and friendship could do.
"The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth." (John Keats)
If I have to mention a part of the world which produces the most interesting, new, honest and exciting literature music, it will certainly be Australia and New Zealand in one extreme, and Spain in the other extreme. Spain has a unique history in the 20th-century music literature : its composers were so deeply rooted in traditional music that it took decades for the next generation to free themselves from this idiom. The death of Manuel de Falla in 1946 practically left Spain a vacuum in musical creation. There were certain talented mavericks such as Federico Mompou who was completely alone writing such intimate, introverted exquisite little pieces which were totally opposed to the nature of the fiery Latin temperament, the Les Six-influenced Xavier Montsalvatge, and the younger Anton Garcia Abril (b.1933) who looks back to the tonal possibilities or Gonzalo de Olavide (b.1934) who has been living in Switzerland and looks at the atonalists around him. But the real resurrection of Spanish music arrived just around the turn of the millenium, when suddenly a group of highly energetic, prolific, sharp and smart composers emerged bringing to an end of this uncertainty. Unlike their older generation who searched inside themselves for an identity, this new generation opened up and absorbed all what is around them like a sponge. Each of them is highly individual and none of their music could be easily pigeonholed, which baffled the musicologists (especially the Spanish ones who were still shocked !), most of them still doubting how to label their music. Some of the composers, although equally interesting, are not represented in this particular concert, such as Polo Vallejo, who is one of the world's most prominent etnomusicologist in African music ; too prominent that we sometimes forget his other side of being an accomplished composer who naturally integrated his deep knowledge of African rhythms and melodies into his characteristic music. In fact, it was Vallejo who introduced African music to David del Puerto (b. 1964). Del Puerto's tightly constructed rhythms owes a lot to his studies of the intricate and refined changing pulses of African music, which makes his music -- added with his unique and rigorous treatment of mosaic forms -- so exciting, both defining and defying gravity. His masterpieces include a Violin Concerto (1998) and a string quartet, while his "Alio Modo" will be extended into a full-range concerto for piano and orchestra called "Nusantara" to be premiered in 2005 which, listening to the 6-minute Alio Modo, promises to be another masterpiece. Jesus Rueda (1961) is certainly an incurable romantic but also the most radical in this generation. Some of his works employs instruments such as gasoline tanks or gongs dipped in and out the water, but he is too musical to let these gimmicks to be just pure gimmicks ; on the contrary, they serve to open a new world of sonic expression integrated into his deeply thought and moving masterpieces such as his three symphonies. His contribution for the pianistic literature is invaluable, and he certainly is one of the most important composer for this instrument of this last few decades with highly expressive and innovative works among others two sonatas and 24 interludes as well as many pieces written for young pianists, skillfully written with his lush and luscious harmonies.Santiago Lanchares (b. 1952) is the oldest of this generation. Born 6 years after the death of de Falla, Lanchares is comfortably integrated to this new generation since he is a late-beginner in composition ; his first works --which immediately gave a huge impact-- dated from 1985. Unlike Del Puerto or Rueda who already has a huge output in his late 30s, Lanchares works slowly and continuously revises his older works ; being hypersensitive to all what happens around him, his music absorbs a variety of influences without being ecclectic. His meticulosity manifest itself in the size of his best works : they are either short in duration or compact in instrumentation, such as the 7-minute "hommage to the Arabian culture" Maqam for 11 string instruments which was written in 1991 with a strong impact by the Gulf War, "Remembering Ma Yuan" for solo clarinet and electronics or the hyperactive and supercomplex Anandamania which, immediately after the sensational premiere, was selected for the UNESCO Rostrum of Composers.
Australia and New Zealand have the (dis?)advantage of being far away from everywhere, and practically they "go their own way". That's why such different and fresh kind of music have been and is still created there. Most of the victims of the 12/10 attack were Australians and New Zealanders, which provoked a strong reaction to the artists to honour their countrymen. Being very close to Indonesia, they have always turned to gamelan music for source of inspiration. Some of them : Gareth Farr, Jack Body from New Zealand and the Australians Betty Beath and Peter Sculthorpe have been deeply influenced all their lives by gamelan music, and they have studied gamelan profoundly and even have lived for short terms in Indonesia. Peter Sculthorpe (b. 1939) is considered as the first Australian composer who received worldwide fame and the first who could be defined as the composer writing Australian music, which is very much connected with Asian and Aboriginal music. His involvement with Balinese music is not limited to the gamelan ; his 8th string quartet, for example, employed ostinato patterns taken from a recording of Balinese women pounding rice. He was highly respected as a composition teacher as well, whose student include Barry Conyngham (b.1944), an equally prolific and highly respected composer who has also studied in Japan with Toru Takemitsu. It was in Japan that he wrote his most striking music : Ice Carving, for solo violin and four string orchestras, or Water ... Footsteps ... Time, for 4 amplified soloists and two orchestras. He once stated in the fascinating book of interviews "Composer to Composer" by fellow composer Andrew Ford : "I was committed to the notion by then [in the 1970s] of there being such a thing as Australian music. I got this from Peter [Sculthorpe] of course, and it meant far more than simply writing music in Australia -- it implied a music which consciously occupied itself with things that are unique to the country. ... I also came up with the idea that isolation and loneliness could be seen as a kind of metaphor for being Australian".Born in 1957 in Uzbekistan, Elena Kats-Chernin emigrated to Australia at the age of 18 and entered the NSW Conservatory, and in 1980 she moved to Germany and stayed there for 13 years, returning to Australia in 1994. Her music is characterized by chiseled rhythmic pulsation reminiscent of Stravinsky / Prokofiev and the bittersweet melodic / harmonic language of Kurt Weill ; some modernism adds an occasional dash of vinegar. She is highly renowned for her stage works, among others two operas Iphis (1997) and Matricide, the musical (1998).Jack Body (b. 1944) has always been highly regarded for his two double careers : as a composer and as a professor in Wellington University who has produced practically all the most interesting and stylistically highly diverse younger composers in NZ who have now equally achieve worldwide recognition of their own : from the rock and techno influenced John Psathas with his incredibly energetic, funky and well-crafted pieces, as well as the Buddhist / Zen influenced Ross James Carey (b. 1968) who now lives in Canada, and Michael Norris (b. 1973) who has found his own abstract, intricate, refined and expressive voice already in his young age. Jack Body's most moving work is perhaps the piano piece Sarajevo of 1991. In honoring the 12/10 victims, he collaborates with the Balinese composer I Wayan Gde Yudane in creating the piece, and Yudane himself plays gamelan with me in this piece. Gareth Farr (b. 1968) is certainly the most flamboyant of all : not only he is famous for his brilliant, elegant, attractive and exuberant orchestral works, he also performs singing, dancing and playing percussion (he was for many years percussionist of the NZ Symphony Orchestra, which explains the strong presence of percussive elements in his greatest works) as his alter-ego Lilith Lacroix, the highly seductive queen of the South Sea.
Nancy v.d Vate's music goes back to lyricism and modality though with still-not-so-traditional harmonies, although she too has been very much in the forefront of avantgardism in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in the USA, she is a highly prolific composer of operas and other stage works, although her output also includes many splendid orchestral, choral and instrumental works. An inveterate traveller as well, her music reflects a wide variety of influences of world cultures, especially Indonesia where she lived in the 1980s, during which her invaluable contribution to the (very) young local musicians including me was not only letting us discover the excitement of 20th century music but also to light the spark of enthusiasm and love for music. Her greatest works are many times strongly related to the world events that provoked their creation, such as the impressive Chernobyl or Krakow Concerto.
John McLeod (b. 1944) is the only Scottish representative in this program. He has, for the last few years, very much influenced by Asian music in general, perhaps due to his constant travels to Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and other Asian countries, and his idiom has developed into a unique kind of music which no man has heard before. Therefore, his master-pieces dated from the last few years : "The Chronicle of Saint Machar" for SATB and children choir, baritone solo and orchestra (1999), Symphonies of Stone and Water - a virtuosic concerto for piano accompanied by a highly original scoring of 3 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and percussion (2000) as well as a multi-media work for solo percussionist, electroacustic tape and film projection entitled The Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas.
Ananda Sukarlan, Sept 2003


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Up in New Hampshire, a state legislator - - and a Democrat, naturally - - wants to clamp down on freedoms that the citizens of the state enjoy - - simply to discourage conservatives from moving to the state.
"In the opinion of this Democrat, Free Staters are the single biggest threat the state is facing today. There is, legally, nothing we can do to prevent them from moving here to take over the state, which is their openly stated goal. In this country you can move anywhere you choose and they have that same right. What we can do is to make the environment here so unwelcoming that some will choose not to come, and some may actually leave. One way is to pass measures that will restrict the 'freedoms' that they think they will find here. Another is to shine the bright light of publicity on who they are and why they are coming."
Totalitarianism with a geriatric face.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Grandma Tyrant
Posted by Bob at 1/04/2013 05:14:00 AM
Labels: culture war, totalitarians, US
1 comment:
- Old NFO said...
Nope, not going there anyway, too damn cold...
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I am a work in progress.
Janine has always been a weekend painter, hiding her talent and passion on the canvases stacked in the cupboard under the stairs. When the breast cancer she had beaten 2 years ago reappeared, Janine turned to painting.
"Being ill has made me really question what it is I want to do with my life. If my time is limited how do I want to spend it? Painting is that passion for me. My dream is to have an exhibition of my work. To share what I love with family and friends. Dreams2live4 has encouraged me to fulfil this dream. I am now busy planning and painting full of purpose and inspiration. I am a work in progress."
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