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The Man in the Irony Mask
The jail time, the lousy movies, the sense that the only thing larger than Robert Downey Jr.'s talent is his appetite for self-destruction… Those days are gone. Behold the new RDJ, in the best shape of his (very hard-lived) life, throwing back algae shakes, developing the armor of a superhero, and yes, conquering demons
Monday at 10 a.m., Jimmy the butler answers the door of Robert Downey Jr.'s fourbedroom Brentwood mansion. "Hey, dude," he says, "he'll be down in a minute." Downey lives on a quiet culdesac in a notsoflashy modern house he leases with his second wife, the former Susan Levin—a short, darkhaired workaholic movie producer. The maid finishes the breakfast dishes. Jimmy goes back to counting herbal pills at the counter and placing them into little Baggies labeled with the days of the week. The same type of nicotine inhaler that John Cusack is using to quit smoking on the set in Vancouver sits ready for Downey to try, at the urging of Susan, who's in Canada now, producing two movies. There are photos of Downey and Susan taped above the refrigerator: with President Bush and Mrs. Bush; with Tom Cruise, Mrs. Cruise, and Suri in a group hug onset in Hawaii. The week's schedule, in brightly colored fonts for easy reading, hangs from the bulletin board—yet another magazine interview tonight, rerecording dialogue tomorrow, a shooting day on Wednesday—along with Downey's son's soccerplayoff schedule.
The house is made up of small round and asymmetrical rooms, flying beams, and plenty of glass. Out back a PingPong table sits beside the swimming pool. In the living room, classy modern art hangs on the walls, stuff by El Lissitzky and Alexander Ross. Iron Man movie paraphernalia covers the fireplace mantel; a redandgold statue of Iron Man is the centerpiece on the diningroom table. A lifesize Iron Man helmet rests on a shelf by the stairs.
Twentyone years after Less Than Zero, fifteen years after an Oscar nomination for Chaplin, twelve years after his first arrest, seven years since his last arrest, having taken some smaller and supporting roles lately, as well as some weird jobs, and mastered each of those, always magnetic and riveting, regardless of the project—well, now, finally, Downey will headline a blockbuster, Iron Man, a reported $186 million comicbooksuperhero movie directed by Jon Favreau. His Hasbro action figure has just arrived in the mail.
This is the one superhero role Downey was born for. Tony Stark, who inhabits the Iron Man suit, is a womanizing alcoholic genius munitions maker, a grown man who runs a corporation, has deep flaws and a checkered history, who almost has to die before moral inquiry enters his vocabulary. Other than the fancy suit, Tony Stark has no special powers; he's not a man of steel. Like Dick Cheney, he wears a pacemaker. Iron Man was a job Downey wanted so badly. "He tried and tried and tried and got shot down," Jon Favreau told me, "until finally he went oncamera"—only the second screen test of his career (the first was Chaplin)—"and all argument ended." The film also stars Gwyneth Paltrow as his sweet secretary, Virginia "Pepper" Potts, Jeff Bridges as his business partner/nemesis, Obadiah Stane, and Terrence Howard as Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, Stark's BFF.
Jimmy is at the refrigerator checking to see if the strawberries are still good when Downey appears, his saltandpepper hair closely cropped for The Soloist, the movie he is currently shooting, about a schizophrenic homeless musician who dreams of reaching the big time. Downey plays Steve Lopez, the L.A. Times writer who finds the musician, played by Jamie Foxx, and upends his life trying to help him reveal his talent to the world.
Downey smiles and thanks me, and then I thank him, Oh no, thank you! for agreeing to put up with the indignity of a daylong rectalscopic interrogation. He wears baggy pants, orange hightops, and an orange Tshirt that reads racquetball excuse shirt: sweat got in my eyes, my shoes were untied, my foot slipped, he got in the way…: a little bit of selfmockery to break the ice. Having spent the past ten or so years of interviews explaining and apologizing, his Tshirt now knows the drill and beats him to it.
Downey asks Jimmy to make a protein shake for him, for later ("Hey, sorry to put this on you, dude"), and Jimmy goes past him to the pantry, head down. Then they discuss the strawberries, standing at the refrigerator door. They move around each other the way two people do who spend all their time together, each operating as goodnaturedly as possible, having learned to ignore the unspeakably annoying things the other one does. There is something slightly ridiculous about the gravity with which they're eyeing the strawberries, although it's good to remember while in the kitchen of a reformed addict that food and mealtimes and daily routines are as important as the boringsounding aphorisms that guide him; these vital touchstones are part of what now moors him to the planet.
This is as close as I'll come to witnessing any personal conflict in Downey's life, conflict between him and Jimmy, or between him and his son or exwife, or with Susan while talking to her on the phone. The analogue of the proteinshake/strawberry dustup from Downey's former life might be an episode Matt Palmieri told me about in which Palmieri, a close friend for going on sixteen years, "had to crash down a door of his, and I had to wrestle him, grab him, and punch him and throw him over my back and carry him and stuff him in a car and fly him, rent a jet and fly him, to a facility, and I remember at the time saying, 'If you fight back, I'm gonna slug you again.' " The old Downey was better at staging household drama.
Standing there in his kitchen, I feel like I've known him for years. His private life, his tortured psyche, have been so familiar for so long that I almost feel like I'm visiting a family member, one who went crazy last Thanksgiving and tried to fuck the turkey, but is fine now and applying to law school. Downey goes on thanking me for driving all the way across town to meet here at his house. He's five ten and has good posture, these big eyes, and a warm grin, but the charisma switch is off. In person, without a character to inhabit, he is entirely comfortable in his own skin and might as well be standing there in his pajamas. From this moment until about eight o'clock at night, he'll remain chatty, steady, welcoming, offering algae drinks and espresso, not showing any of the inner turmoil that drove his chronic selfdestruction, and will seem happy to match my starstruck excitement with his own zest for human connection. At some point in the afternoon, he will punch me in the face, but as I look back on it now it was probably my fault. And anyway, it was a privilege.
Robert downey jr. first got my attention playing Julian Wells, a walking calamity, in Less Than Zero. He smokes crack and is made to pleasure old guys in motel rooms, and his demise is the driving force in the movie. As I watch it again now, he kills. Downey is dredging something up and drowning in it. I'd planned to watch only a few minutes of it on the plane to California, but even after the sound quit on my computer I still couldn't look away. He has the purely technical skills in spades. But there's also the intangible, his way of making somebody who's killing himself memorable and lovable.
By then he'd shown all kinds of depth as a hustler in James Toback's The Pickup Artist. In Soapdish he played a sleazy TV producer—slippery, morally blank, understated. Even in truly bad movies, such as Chances Are and Air America, he's alive and watchable and shapeshifting.
Then came Chaplin, in which he revealed a kind of deep, scary brilliance that shocked even the people who'd been paying attention to his talents. At 27 he is the poetic embodiment, waddling and bounding through walls, twirling his bowler, breaking your heart with his crinkly, soulful smile, using something both inexplicably fragile and wounding. He plays the offscreen Chaplin with a slightly crazed glint, crushed by his ambition, his spiritual vapidity, his mania for control, his appetite for little girls. He grows old before his time, and as a recluse living in exile, he's consumed with regret.
Offscreen he'd already been to rehab a few times, without the help of a court mandate, but then at some point in the early '90s, he managed to get married, settle down, have a son. This would've been a good time to cut the bong intake in half and make a plan. After Chaplin all the doors were flung wide open, but what Downey did in lieu of planning anything was go broke doing art movies—Restoration, about a roguish physician in seventeenthcentury England who finds redemption, and an adaptation of the ever mirthful hunchback tragedy Richard III. He started smoking heroin. He lost his wife and son, went to parties, went berserk.
"Those trains come at predictable times," Downey tells me, with uncharacteristic lack of sympathy or with the sourness of someone who doesn't want to talk about the bad days anymore. "They tend to come at the time you would imagine they would come. There really should be a training program for people who are going to be in the public eye. Because either you have your head screwed on straight and it's going to get unscrewed, and that's really going to make you a wreck, or you come in a wreck and you think that this'll be the centralizing circumstance. Occasionally it is, for some people. For some people, fame and success is what finishes their thing, because in some twisted way that's all they ever wanted. I know people like that. They're like zombies. But they're complete zombies. They're done, they're cool, in a very twodimensional way. They can move anywhere inside the frame, and they're welllit, and it's fine."
These days, when Downey talks about his own crackingup, he does so through streamofconsciousness analogies, something about how he was walking with both shoes tied together or pissing into the wind while arguing with the meteorologist, or how he needed to embrace "that whole post–Gen X gloomfest. It's like, Screw me!"
In June 1996, six months after Restoration premiered, Downey was stopped for speeding and arrested for possession of heroin and crack cocaine and an unloaded .357 handgun. Three weeks after that, he wandered into a neighbor's house in Malibu, passed out in the empty bed of the son, and was revived by paramedics. In Downey lore, this is "the Goldilocks incident." In retrospect, he's forced to admit, the neighbor's house looked nothing like his—you had to take an elevator down to enter it. Then a judge sent him to a drugtreatment facility, where he climbed out a window and hitchhiked to a friend's Malibu home. Over the next four years, he failed courtordered drug tests, did time in several institutions, and spent a chunk of 1998 in the L.A. county jail (where he had to hang his leftover sandwich meats up high so the rats couldn't reach), from which he was furloughed to host Saturday Night Live, because the court thought work would be good for his selfesteem. He got beaten up badly enough by three inmates to require plastic surgery for a gash on his forehead.
"All those trips to the pokey in the yellow jumpsuit made me more than just an actor," he says by way of explaining his personal apex of terrifying the public. "But that was my way of, uh, reaching out!"
In 1999 he violated probation and was sentenced to three years in an even worse place, the California State Prison at Corcoran. He was released after twelve months, was hired on Ally McBeal, sang in his own very fine voice on the show, got busted again on Thanksgiving weekend in 2000 in Palm Springs, California, after a 911 call from a nearby pay phone alerted police that "in room 311 of the Merv Griffin resort there is a man doing an ounce of cocaine and [who has] a couple of guns and is pretty upset." He was charged with possession of cocaine and methamphetamine and committing a felony while out on bail. This is followed by yet another arrest, believe it or not, and then, in April 2001, after winning a Golden Globe, he's fired.
"I've always been the type of fellow," he said at the Sundance festival in 2003, "to put all my eggs in one basket and then promptly take a dump in the basket."
A few weeks before I came out to L.A., in an attempt to avoid putting the very chatty guy on the spot for a whole day, and to avoid transcribing 9,000 pages of rehabilitatedmoviestar coping mechanisms, I'd asked his publicist if he'd be willing to go for a hike in the hills, weather permitting. I figured the profundity of nature would offer us some perspective.
Instead she set us up at this vertical wind tunnel, a skydiving simulator. The idea was to use it as a kind of thematic tiein to Iron Man, because, well, Iron Man can fly. A few days ago, in an email, Downey pretended it was his idea: "Matt, um…I'd like to run something by ya. What if we went indoor skydiving Is that too creepy P.S. And also do an interview……hell yeah…can I get a C'MON"
We head to the 405 with Jimmy at the wheel, Downey beside me in the backseat, now goofing on his new Town Country minivan, a loaner from the set of The Soloist, demonstrating the swivel seat. Then he tries for a second time to return a call to Ben Stiller. Downey recently finished shooting Tropic Thunder, a movie directed by Stiller and starring him and Downey and Jack Black portraying movie stars acting in the most expensive Vietnam movie ever. But the movie's over budget, and the director can't control the actors, so the grizzled Nam vet, played by Nick Nolte, who authored the book that the movie is based on, goads the director into dropping the actors in a mountainous Asian jungle that just happens to be known as the Golden Triangle. They immediately get lost and run into heroin smugglers but don't know the smugglers are real, because the director told them there'd be hidden cameras. Or something like that. The details of the plot and the rough cut of the film were still being hushed by Paramount, but Downey attended a screening a few nights ago and wants to tell Stiller how much he loved it. When he can't reach Stiller, he asks Jimmy if it was indeed hilarious, and Jimmy says, "It was awesome, dude!"
In Tropic Thunder, Downey plays fivetime Oscarwinning Australian actor Kirk Lazarus. And in the movie within the movie, Lazarus gets permanent skinpigmentation surgery to play an AfricanAmerican, Sergeant Osirus, and refuses to break character for most of the film. A friend of a friend who is a wellknown writerdirector and who'd gone to that same secret screening wrote to say, "Robert Downey Jr. is genius in the film. One of the most committed comedic performances I've ever seen. It's insane."
We pass by Jimmy's apartment complex and then stop for gas. Downey holds a polished rock of some kind in each hand, maybe some kind of crystal, and is making fists around them. He wears another polished rock on a piece of string around his neck.
"Jack Black was so awesome," he says, leaning back into the seat, turning halfway to me, reveling a little bit in the glory of what it was like to be part of something so groovy. "We were on location all these months, and he was like my brother. He'd call and say, 'Hey, me and the missus are having ribs for dinner. Why don't you come over' Or Ben would have these little dinner parties, and we'd do yoga with the missus"—Mrs. Stiller, as opposed to Mrs. Black—"and the kid would come out and it was just crazy, and Ben would pull out his Mac and put on some music." As we hit the 101, I nod and smile. What can you say You had to be there. But you weren't invited. So just forget it.
"Stiller, I mean, I can't say enough about this guy. He is the closest living thing to Chaplin that I've ever experienced. He understands drama, he's a force in the editing room, he knows exactly how he wants the set to look and how to frame the shot, telling the DP who shot The Thin Red Line to use the 85 lens."
A few weeks after this conversation, photos of the cast appear online, and the discussion will begin about whether Downey's portrayal could be seen as racist. Hmm. No, no, I can't think of any reason why that might present a hurdle for the audience. As long as the actor is adept and compelling and can transmit about twelve subtle and complicated things through his voice and face and body all at once—why sure, bring it on!
As Downey explains it, "When Stiller called to offer the role, he said, 'I know this'll be really tough, to play a guy who plays a black guy, but I have a feeling this could be one of the most outrageous things in a comedy in a long time.' He said, 'It could turn out really good and funny, and there's a way to make it so it's not offensive, where you're clearly not just getting off on putting on blackface. This is an actor who takes himself so seriously he thinks he can express the black experience.' But I thought, Goddamn this dude. He knows I need the money. I need another job after Iron Man. He's gonna bring me out there, make me part of his comedy death camp, and if it goes south, it's on me! I'll be ostracized. They'll be like, 'How dare you! What were you thinking We were just loving you with Iron Man! Screw you! You lost us!' But instead he was right. We have some morals, and we're not trying to exploit. There's no possible stone of offense left unturned in this movie."
Downey rambles on, not stopping until he reaches a scene from the movie, in which he and Stiller are waiting for the camera to roll to shoot the movie within the movie. I realize, of course, that Tropic Thunder doesn't come out until August and that the peg here is Iron Man, but I feel that I owe it to you, dear reader, to attempt to recreate what I witnessed.
Stiller plays actionfilm star Tugg Speedman, who has just bombed in a period drama as Simple Jack, a retarded man living in the 1920s. Still aching from the critical drubbing he received for making the worst movie ever, Speedman brings up the subject with Downey's Lazarus, who knows a thing or two about the movie business but will only respond in the voice of a combathardened AfricanAmerican sergeant.
"Oh yeah, you really swung for the fences on that. You went all out," Downey says, his voice dropping and this fullbodied, scratchy baritone burbling out.
"So Ben's character says to me," Downey continues, now mimicking Stiller's slightly higherpitched, softer tone, " 'When I was playing Jack, I almost had to learn what it was like to not be retarded, because I became so retarded. I had to eat retarded, sleep retarded.' "
"Yeah! For a minute, it's like you was the dumbest motherfucker ever lived."
"Thanks," Stiller's character says.
"Hats off for goin' there. Specially knowin' how the Academy is about that shit."
Now impish again, he lets his shoulders drop, jaw sag, imitating Stiller. "The what"
"Well, everyone knows you don't go full retard. Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man. Look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. He can count eight decks of cards. Slow, yes. Retarded, no. Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Got them braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants offa Nixon and won a PingPong competition. Can't win fuckin' PingPong being retarded. Then we got the master, Peter Sellers in Being There. Infantile, yes. Retarded, no. Man, you went full retard." Downey glares at me, whispering in his Osirus voice, "Never go full retard." He cracks himself up, pauses, gets it back, and says, "You don't believe me, ask Sean Penn. 2001. I Am Sam. Went full retard. Went home with nothin'."
The voice is another self, out of the box, fully formed. And you can see it coming through his eyes, the way it does for a great actor, and then on top of that there is this dark sense of humor and knowing how to connect to it
When I talked to Ben Stiller, he told me, "I think honestly, this sounds cheesy, but he really is a genius as an actor. You can't quantify that. You talk about his process, but there's something else there that you watch and go, Oh, wow. You can't learn that or teach that. It's crazy. He's channeling something."
When we get to Universal Studios, Jimmy drives all over the back lot looking for the _Curious George_themed parking garage. Downey fondly remembers, "I shot Weird Science here when I was 19. Me and Anthony Michael Hall scared the shit out of security guards doing doughnuts in the parking lot." Then Jimmy tries to slip out of going into the wind tunnel, saying he has to wash the van. "Dude, wash it tomorrow," Downey says. "You gotta come fly. What is this shit You're coming with us." When we get to the valet at the Curious George garage, they have a sign up that they're washing cars, which Jimmy and Downey take as fate.
Jimmy goes everywhere with Downey. He eats his meals with Downey, goes running with him, was cobest man at his wedding. They were in Hawaii together for months while Downey was filming Tropic Thunder. Jimmy also has the look of someone who may not be now but possibly once was crazy—the tattoos, the ever ready fightclub jumpiness. He's the younger cousin of the former Pittsburgh Steeler Jack Lambert, one of the great middle linebackers of all time, and looks like Lambert: same eyes, although Jimmy does have front teeth. You get the feeling watching Jimmy and Downey that it's them against the normal people, that they have to look out for each other, drink their protein shakes and make sure the other one doesn't do anything foolish.
I agree with Downey that skipping the wind tunnel to wash the van would be dumb. But it's also not that simple. Because the boss is not normal. And although he's survived years upon years of fullblown partying that included smoking crack and heroin and returned to the world as an engaged, exuberant, productive sack of talent, as well as a nice guy, he's never going to be normal. Downey asserts his right to enjoy simple regular stuff, to enjoy the real—as opposed to a manufactured—moment. It would be wrong to miss the obvious good things right in front of one's nose, and it's his responsibility to remind Jimmy of this, too. "Gotta manage the energy of the day," Downey says, in different ways, once or twice an hour.
"Oh fuck, dude!" Jimmy says as we get out of the van. "We forgot the strawberries!"
The vertical wind tunnel is ten feet wide and about three stories high, and made of clear Plexiglas, with two roofmounted 400horsepower fans that draw a hurricane of musty air up through grates, enough to hoist six fully grown people off their feet. When we arrive, two experts in helmets and skydiving suits are really flying, levitating inside the chamber, somersaulting, skipping along the walls, zooming up to the ceiling and diving down, halting with a hummingbird's grace a few inches from the floor. It's before 11 a.m., and the amusement park is deserted. We're the only ones around. We stand out on the pavement with our mouths open, then go inside. The instructor asks if anybody has a shoulder prone to dislocation. Then we watch the safety video, skip the warmup drills, and get in our suits. There is a strong probability, now that we're here, that we might be about to have fun or might actually get hurt, so there is a slight lockerroom tension. We're playing it cool, though. We do rockpaperscissors to see who'll go first. When our instructor beckons, Downey steps in and tries to balance himself, hovering. I want to say on Downey's behalf that he deserves credit for getting in that thing. If he'd made a jackass of himself in front of a journalist, if he'd gotten blown off his feet and sucked up in the air like a jellyfish and had to be dragged down by his pant leg by the instructor, as would momentarily be happening to Jimmy, it would have stunk for him. But Downey, in fact, does fine.
After about five minutes, he comes out and pulls his goggles off and, chewing his Nicorette really hard now, explains, "I just, ah, I had an idea for one of Iron Man's flying scenes." It takes me a second to figure out that he's not kidding. He can't exactly explain, but he has some idea he wants to relay to the ILM guys in San Francisco, about Iron Man's aerial maneuvers. I'm a little floored, but only because there's something so crushingly sincere here, and I'm used to seeing Downey as smirky, selfmocking, and somewhat demonic. But he's also comfortable expressing a thought that any 7yearold boy would have. He bangs on the Plexiglas, screaming at Jimmy, who it seems from the grin on his face is flying out of control on purpose, to wreck the solemnity of our thematic Iron Man tiein stunt. Then my turn comes, and I should say that it feels like trying to lie on the hood of a speeding car. It's hard to breathe, and I worry that the wind will tear my nostrils off. Otherwise, the simulator is a gas; we all immediately go again, and the consensus is that if you lived next door, you'd probably go about eight times a day.
Not long after we got blown around at Universal, Michael Hoffman, who has directed Downey in three films, told me, "The heart of all this stuff, being creative, comes from our impulse to play. Like when we're kids and it's really serious. Downey is in touch with that. And that's what makes him great, that childlike impulse. People talk about someone being an old soul. I think Downey's like a new soul. This newly minted thing. Of course, part of his challenge is that he's so goddamn intuitive, when he's straight, that I think it's hard to be him. In some ways, it was easier to kind of live in a slightly medicated state."
We pull out of the theme park and make our way to Brentwood, to a swanky sushi place, where we sit beneath a giant and ridiculous photographic transparency of an eye with mascara running down, and Downey eats with gusto. Even just eating and talking, he seems to be putting to work his inner strength, the yinyang balance, the wheatgrassempowered vitality and the mindfulness and the kung fu philosophies that are aiding him in his quest to return to the redhot center. Or he's full of crap. Or both. It's hard to tell.
Whatever the case, I'm not going to bemoan one of our finest thespians booking a job in which he flies around in shiny armor with articulated buttocks. It's been almost twenty years since Michael Keaton, then an Alist actor, raised the level of the comicbook movie by wearing a Batman suit. Since then, who hasn't donned the rubber pecs
Downey knows that when I ask "So what was it about Iron Man that interested you" what I really mean is, "You became an actor for this Plastic butt cheeks"
"When Tobey Maguire and I were doing Wonder Boys, we went to see The Matrix, and that was a big deal," he says. "I've known Keanu for ages. I watched the whole thing happen for him. Then I saw Tobey with his whole SpiderMan thing. And then I saw, in a different way, what Johnny did with the whole Pirates thing. You get to firmly embed yourself in the unconscious of the planet in a way that's so clearly not important that you don't have to take it all that seriously. I just thought it would be really fun not just to get to do this—or maybe a couple of these—but also to get to be endorsed by Burger King and Hasbro and Slurpee cups."
He goes on, looking ahead to what may be the biggest year of his career: "And now I have a really strong drama in the making with The Soloist. And with Ben, I feel like it's my favorite comedy I've ever been a part of. And obviously with Favreau and all the Marvel guys, I have this potential franchise thing. See, there are still a lot of things that haven't really come back on line for me. It's like, uh, the mainframe's up and running, and all the programs are great, but I'm still not, uh, like, compatible with a lot of the other systems. I'm in territory I've never been in before. You leave the minors, you go to the majors. But shit! These guys are good and big and organized. Everyone's throwing heat. Everyone's in your face."
Jon Favreau said that by casting Downey, "I feel like I pulled the thorn out of the lion's foot. Here was this force of nature who I think was living with this frustration that he wasn't able to really show what he was great at, because nobody was willing to take that leap and say, 'This guy could carry my movie.' Nobody was willing to jump in the pool. I was. The only thing is that now, because he's been kept away from living his dream for so long, I think he's sort of attacking it voraciously; he's, uh… He's taking one role… I mean, he's just working nonstop. I want to make sure he can relax and enjoy it a little bit."
We go back to Downey's lair, where Jimmy has more herbal responsibilities, putting bottles of pills, one at a time, into some contraption the likes of which I've never seen before. It's connected to a computer, and you put the bottle on it and red light shoots out while it makes a loud noise. Bananas! We drink espresso, and then more espresso, and then some Ceylon tea, and then have a kung fu lesson. Just before his kung fu teacher arrives, Downey goes upstairs and changes into his black martialarts clothes and comes down ready to fight like Jackie Chan. As we sit on the couch, he says, "Life is hard enough without creating drama, isn't it I don't want to say it's too hard, because that really starts to sound like a spoiled Hollywood type, but that's me, too. I'm about as badass as a domesticated lynx can be. If we really gotta throw down, I'll tear your eye sockets out and I'll drag you up in the tree and we'll do the whole fucking feline thing. But all things being equal, give me a bowl of milk and let me lick my fur and let me wax prolific on what it means to be a member of the cat family. Because it's a big deal, and you don't get to be me, and I do, so fuck you." Then he laughs and talks about how his eyes can dazzle the audience.
Downey started studying Wing Chun kung fu five years ago, as a way to replace things he no longer allowed himself to do. So now we stand on the slate patio beside his swimming pool and follow his kung fu teacher, Eric Oram, in warmup drills. We throw punches and do blocks for a half hour. Downey is impressively calm and attentive to the breathing, completely keyed in to Oram.
And here again, I must credit Downey's intuitive gifts. I think this is probably the type of activity that is better suited to an interview than a hike in the hills would be. It gets some of the frustration out. He knows that I'll go home and write something offensive about him and that he'll want to punch me. And I know that I have to live with his face in my mind for a month or two, or more like the rest of my life, and so of course I'll want to punch him.
So I try. About halfway into a fifteenminute sparring session, I add some punches to my onetwo combination. The problem with trying to punch someone in the face who's been studying kung fu for five years—someone who has a lot of free time and energy, and has a lot of frustration built up, someone who for a long time lived in a vulnerable way and destroyed himself and was powerless to control the world and was sent away to sad, scary prisons to get beat up by his jailmates, someone who when he finally got out couldn't keep himself out of court or rehab or jail again, who lost his first marriage, lost custody of his kid for a time, lost the right to vote, lost his career… The problem here is when he got healthy, what did he want He wanted control, and of course he wanted to find a way to protect himself.
So when I try to punch him, he does what he's learned to do. I don't actually even remember getting punched in the face. It's Downey who notices. "Hey, you're bleeding," he says. He asks if I want ice. "It's not a workout until somebody's bleeding," Oram says, smiling.
And then Downey looks at my wound again. "Feels good," he says. "Doesn't it"
Matthew klam is a GQ correspondent.


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30 Days of Madness: Phi Slama Jama Detonates on LouisvillePosted by rtmsf on March 31st, 2010
We've been anxiously awaiting the next thirty days for the last eleven months. You have too. In fact, if this isn't your favorite time of year by a healthy margin then you should probably click away from this site for a while. Because we plan on waterboarding you with March Madness coverage. Seriously, you're going to feel like Dick Cheney himself is holding a Spalding-logoed towel over your face. Your intake will be so voluminous that you'll be drooling Gus Johnson and bracket residue in your sleep. Or Seth Davis, if that's more your style. The point is that we're all locked in and ready to go. Are you? To help us all get into the mood, we like to click around a fancy little website called YouTube for a daily dose of notable events, happenings, finishes, ups and downs relating to the next month. We're going to try to make this video compilation a little smarter, a little edgier, a little historical-er. Or whatever. Sure, you'll see some old favorites that never lose their luster, but you'll also see some that maybe you've forgotten or never knew to begin with. That's the hope, at least. We'll be matching the videos by the appropriate week, so all of this week we're heading down memory lane at the Final Four. Enjoy.
NCAA Final Four
Dateline: 1983 NCAA Final Four – Houston vs. Louisville
Context: This game was the most highly anticipated game of the year in 1983: Houston's Phi Slama Jamma versus Louisville's Doctors of Dunk. Both teams were filled with high-flying, athletic players who liked to get up and down the court. Houston was led by future Hall of Famers Akeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler, while Louisville had Scooter and Rodney McCray up front as well as Lancaster Gordon and Milt Wagner in the backcourt. This game more than any other of the post-UCLA era showcased the "attack the rim" mentality that has come to define the modern game, and it showed in the viewership (earning a then-record 14.8 television rating). We pick up the game with Houston trailing and about to go on a spectacular 17-1 run that included six straight dunks by the Cougars (and ten in the final 12 minutes of the game). SI's Curry Kirkpatrick wrote at the time that the display was "breathtaking… [a] bomb of a Houston team detonated." Enjoy.


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Microsoft Shows Off Xbox One Console
Microsoft unveiled a new videogame console called the Xbox One on Tuesday. The company spent much of the time showcasing the broader entertainment features of the new console while relatively few games were shown. MarketWatch's Dan Gallagher reports. (Photo: AP)
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The Tone of Truth
It is so interesting to listen to the difference in tone between the two sides of an argument. While the scientists (many of whom are Christians) quoted in the article below are, as my father, Stan Wiedeman put it: "nuanced, gracious and thoughtful," in their disapproval of the Creation Museum…
Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by Creation Museum – Phys.org
…the main defenders of creationism seem to come across vitriolic, overly generalizing, and fear-mongering. … Continue Reading
The Jezebel who cried 'racist'
Jezebel, a Gawker Media blog that writes about women's interests, recently published an article titled Victoria's Secret's Racist Garbage Is Just Asking for a Boycott. The article complains about the Karlie Kloss warrior's headdress bikini costume worn at a fashion show last week as well as other absurd slights against Native Americans such as No Doubt's "Looking Hot" music video and Paul Frank's "neon pow-wow" fashion night which was also called "racist" by the Beyond Buckskin Native American Fashion blog.
Culturally Insensitive? Yes. Racist? No.
This broad catch-all definition of 'racism' has got to go. These same crusaders against insensitivity must surely realize how incredibly insensitive they are being to victims of true racism throughout history and even today and how counterproductive they are being to having a serious and productive dialogue about race by conflating it with culture and sensitivity.
U.S. News & World Report / CREW blow it big time (UPDATED 9/13)
Further evidence that journalists are just pawns of the political agendas of our leaders
Elizabeth Flock recently published an article on her Washington Whispers blog on U.S. News & World Report titled, Ron Paul One Of The Most Corrupt Members Of Congress, Report Finds. After investigating these allegations, I have found that not only is this headline wildly inaccurate, but Elizabeth Flock and the citizens watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have missed a huge opportunity to report on actual ethical lapses in Washington – which I have managed to uncover in less than two hours – in addition to serious ethical lapses by Flock and allegations of partisan political agenda seeking by CREW.
Chick-fil-a isn't the problem (part 2)
(1) Gay marriage will invite God's judgment upon the U.S. or destroy the institution of marriage.
This is a statement with which I completely disagree.
At the heart of this issue is the fear that many Christians hold that granting equal rights to gays and lesbians to marry will bring God's judgement upon the United States. This is rooted in the belief that the "success" of the U.S. is a result our strong Christian heritage or that the institution of marriage is strongest when it is defined by Biblical standards.
My basic starting point for most political positions are, "Do I, as an individual, have the right to use violent force to make or prevent someone from engaging in a certain behavior?" The violent force part of this question is rooted in the basic breakdown of how all laws are enforced. Even a $50 speeding ticket has the threat of violence behind it to enforce it. The individual component of it is rooted in the political theory of what powers democracies should or shouldn't have and the idea that collective government is merely an extension of the individual's natural rights. On that premise alone, I am very hesitant to "ban" same-sex marriage, but obviously the issue is more complicated.
Chick-fil-a isn't the problem (part 1)
…but your reasons for boycotting Chick-fil-a might be.
"Damn you Chick-fil-a!"
We seem to be hearing an awful lot of that sentiment going around the web lately. This big hoopla is in response to a quote from son of Chick-fil-a founder and COO of Chick-fil-a Dan Cathy's recent quote:
"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'"
This has lead to a numerous divisive "discussions" (I use that term very lightly) on the internet, the mayors of Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco making comments that Chick-fil-a is not welcome in their city, and the Jim Henson company possibly (I'll explain the "possibly" later) ending its kids meal toy partnership with Chick-fil-a.
Is it okay to question the truth of a rape story?
My gut response to that question is a fast and unequivocal, "NEVER!"
I am sure most people reading this feel the same way.
Rape disgusts me. I think rapists should have the death penalty. I think our culture's attitude towards rape is horribly permissive. I might be biased though. I was raped by two men when I was fourteen. I was too ashamed to report what happened to me, and as far as I know those men are still wandering free to this day, have raped countless other boys, and that makes me pretty sick inside.
Questioning the truthfulness of a rape story is extremely problematic. For starters, who in their right mind would lie about being raped? How horrible is it to subject the victim of a violent and destructive crime to doubt and scrutiny, thus placing the victim on trial? Doesn't that further play into the "blame the victim" mentality and misogyny-prone culture we live in already? Won't this decrease the chances that a woman will come forward and report a rape, thus allowing rapists to go free and commit more heinous acts before being caught?
Questioning the truthfulness of a rape story seems to introduce all kinds of terrible problems for what seems like very little benefit.
But then I thought about how our justice system works: Someone is innocent until proven guilty. If people hadn't been falsely accused of committing a crime in the past, this wouldn't be a necessary part of our justice system. People do falsely accuse people of committing crimes. Sometimes it is by accident. Sometimes it is on purpose. Would a woman ever falsely accuse someone of raping her?
This is where bad science leads
I would like to finish writing an article I am working on titled, "How Groupon could save the economy," but apparently there are some misunderstandings I need to clear up first regarding my previous article, This is where bad science starts. I take full responsibility for the misunderstandings as to the intent and the conclusions of the previous article. Perhaps this will clear them up.
This is where bad science starts
This was originally published at my personal "No One's Listening" blog, but I have decided to re-open my Optimiskeptic blog, and use this as the inauguration post. Unfortunately, I do not know how to transfer the original comments over, but you can find them here. They are helpful in clarifying and correcting some things I wrote in the blog. There is a much better comment system integrated into this blog, so I hope that helps a little.
I recently read this Gizmodo article that questioned whether or not the results of a 13-year-old kid, Aidan's, science experiment was properly debunked. Aidan's science experiment is noteworthy for three reasons: (1) He claimed to have increased the efficiency of solar cell power generation by simply arranging them in a Fibonacci (Golden Ration) pattern copied from the leafing pattern of plants found in nature, (2) his findings, published as an essay, received a "Young Naturalist Award" from the American Museum of Natural History (and a provisional patent, no less), and (3) this was reported on and praised as "genius" and a "breakthrough" by several noteworthy magazines such as Poplar Science, Slashdot, and The Atlantic Wire.
So here's the problem. Aidan did not actually discover a more efficient way to convert solar energy into power as he claimed and these numerous publications reported. … Continue Reading
When bad people happen to good things
This is a response to an OpEd published in the Chicago Flame written by Salwa Shameem titled Islam and the West: Take two.
People do bad things because human beings are flawed. The justification and reasoning for their behavior comes from whatever is handy. Sometimes the excuse for bad behavior comes from the (mis)interpretation of a religious edict as Salwa has pointed out here. No matter the religion, human beings seem to be masterful at stretching any idea to ridiculous extremes in order to justify their behavior.
The high price of free speech
I often hear people say "I have the right to free speech; I can say whatever I want," as an excuse for making offensive remarks or expressing controversial opinions. Shackled to this idea of "free speech" is the notion that whatever we say should be consequence free because we have the right to have and express our own opinions.
My experience has taught me that this attitude can unfortunately lead to many unintended consequences. For each right we exercise, also comes responsibility. For example, while I can say whatever I want, if I lie or abuse someone verbally I cannot claim "free speech" as a defense against the inevitable consequences.


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Wyoming campus killer blamed father for Asperger's, aunt says
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A man who killed his father in front of a computer science class at a Wyoming community college was a "borderline genius" upset by the belief he had inherited Asperger's Syndrome from his dad, an aunt of the killer said Monday.
Christopher Krumm, 25, blamed Asperger's for his trouble keeping jobs after he got a master's degree in electrical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 2009, said Barbara Nichols, of Bakersfield, Calif.
"Nice to be around. Never caused any trouble of any kind," Nichols said.
Asperger's is a mild form of autism. Asperger's is not normally associated with any kind of predilection to violent behavior.
Krumm seemed normal to relatives as recently as three years ago, but then had a falling-out with his father. An uncle, Jon Sims, of Cheyenne, said he tried several times in recent years to reach his nephew by email, without success.
"As far as I know, he lived alone and had some social skill problems," Sims said.
Police say Krumm shot 56-year-old James Krumm with an arrow and stabbed him in his Casper College classroom Friday. Six or so students escaped unhurt.
Earlier, Krumm fatally stabbed his father's girlfriend, 42-year-old Heidi Arnold, at the home she and James Krumm shared in a quiet neighborhood about two miles from campus.
Christopher Krumm fatally stabbed himself in the classroom after attacking his father. Nobody saw the final moments of the struggle -- all students were able to flee unhurt -- but police say Christopher Krumm stabbed his father in the chest.
Police arrived to find James Krumm dead and Christopher Krumm breathing his last breaths; he died in the classroom.
Krumm had been living in an apartment house in Vernon, Conn., and drove to Casper a few days before the attack.
Nichols said she only knew her nephew to be polite and amiable. She said he was very close his mother, Carol Krumm, who died of breast cancer in 2005.
"I'm just real sad to lose him. I'm sad. I really loved him. It was hard losing my sister and now this. I wonder what's next. But he was obviously a lost soul and I hope he's at peace now," Nichols said.
A memorial service is planned at Casper College on Tuesday.


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"If you're amenable, the La Jolla chapter of the DAR wants to know if there are any areas in La Jolla Shores that would be suitable for being marked historically," said Barbara Denny of the DAR, a nonprofit, women's organization for descendants of individuals who aided in achieving American independence.
The DAR is noted for its historical preservation work.
"We wanted to gauge your interest. It's really a beautiful spot," said Denny.
Denny brought photos of plaques sponsored by the DAR marking historic spots, including one in the La Jolla Library bearing a bust of La Jolla philanthropist Florence Riford.
LJSA board member Mary Coakley Munk suggested the base of the flagpole at the south entrance of La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club might be another spot worthy of historic designation in the Shores.
Denny urged community members to suggest spots they'd like to see historically designated by the DAR. She can be reached by mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Benjamin Lewis, the LJSA's new lifeguard representative, told the advisory group it's anticipated that the new Shores Lifeguard Tower will be completed before the summer construction moratorium starts on Memorial Day.
"The tower is something that's been on everybody's mind, as well as ours, and we're (lifeguards) getting in there pretty soon, though we don't have a date yet," Lewis said.
Coakley Munk suggested the advisory group write a letter to the city stating "we would be fine with the work continuing, including the demolition of the old tower, after Memorial Day because it doesn't start to get really busy there (Shores beach) until the end of June. The city should know we'd be supportive of something like that."
Lewis added there have been an increasing number of marine-mammal carcasses turning up on the beach in La Jolla Shores and at Black's Beach, which have had to be removed.
"A lot of them are starving," he said.
LJSA chairman Tim Lucas noted there are presently three board vacancies on the group, adding, "We need better outreach."
Lucas also commented on a luncheon meeting LJSA board members enjoyed recently with University of California, San Diego chancellor Pradeep Khosla.
"What was interesting for me personally was that UCSD's student population enrollment has been down the last two years," Lucas said, adding he was also surprised that the size of the university's budget devoted to students was actually relatively small compared with its research and medical budgets.
"They're (UCSD) trying to make this campus the jewel of research," he said. "It's one of the top six universities in medical research in our country."
UCSD community relations representative Anu Delouri confirmed UCSD student enrollment is holding steady.
"There are 26,999 full-time equivalent students this year, of which 6,000 are grad students, which is less than the number of students enrolled in 2008," she said, noting the university's staff numbers about 19,000.
"Health sciences is where the growth is happening, in medical," Delouri said.
Neighborhoods near UCSD have had ongoing problems with students taking up parking there intended for residents.
New LJSA board member Matthew Edwards suggested the board keep pressure on the city to consider the possibility of adding a ranger to patrol Kellogg Park, one of the city's busiest summer beach areas.
"A ranger is critical in the park," Edwards said. "It also keeps the community a beautiful place."
LJSA's next meeting will be June 12 at 6:30 p.m. in Building T-29 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. For more information, visit www.ljsa.org.


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Strausbaugh, Burke Headed to Nationalsby Brent Harris • February 20, 2010 Share:
Jake Strausbaugh was named the Outstanding Wrestler of the 2010 NCAA Division III Midwest Regional after qualifying for the national championship meet. Strausbaugh won the 141-pound weight class, while teammate Michael Burke received a wild card bid from the coaches after finishing second at 197 pounds.
Strausbaugh and Burke are the first Wabash duo to advance to the NCAA Championship Wrestling Tournament since Phu Hong and All-American Chris Healy earned spots at the 2005 tourney.
Strausbaugh (left) entered Saturday's Regional tournament as the number-two seed with a 37-9 record. He scored a 17-0 win over Manchester's Neeko Paris in the first round, then earned a 23-6 victory over Zac Andrews from Delaware Valley in the semifinals. The freshman took on top-seeded Vince Tucker from Olivet, who entered the finals with a season record of 29-2. Strausbaugh battled to a 9-4 victory to take the weight class title and earn the automatic trip to the National Championship meet. The loss was Tucker's first at the hands of a Division III opponent this season.
Burke was the top-seed at 197 pounds. He opened with pin in his first match against Joseph McAllister from Olivet, then scored a 10-4 victory against Robbie Mies from Washington & Jefferson in the semis. Burke met second-seeded Martin Porter from the host school, Delaware Valley, in the finals. Porter picked up a 9-5 victory to take the automatic bid, but Burke's efforts earned him one of six wild cards awarded to the Midwest Region.
Strausbaugh and Burke (right) will compete at the NCAA Division III National Championship meet March 5-6 at U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Greg Rhoads and Rob Arnett each advanced to the semifinals of their respective weight classes. Rhoads opened with a pin at 2:25 of his 174-pound bout against Jacob Kornblatt from Case Western Reserve. A 6-4 upset victory by Trine's Ryan Pieper dropped Rhoads to the consolation bracket, where he finished fourth overall. Rhoads recorded a pin in his first consolation bout before losing 3-1 in the consolation finals.
Arnett won by pin in overtime (10:26) in his first 285-pound match against Melvin Warrick of Waynesburg. A 6-0 loss to Sean Jameson from Mount St. Joseph was followed with a 3-1 win over Taylor Potts from Washington & Jefferson in the consolation semis. Arnett won his final bout 2-0 over Spencer Fulk from Manchester to finish in third place.
Bryan Hugo lost his first 184-pound match 7-5 in overtime before rallying for two straight victories (6-1, 3-1) in the consolation bracket. A 4-0 loss in the finals earned Hugo fourth place overall.
Wabash finished sixth in the team scoring with 81.5 points. Delaware Valley won the Regional with a total of 132.5 points.


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"Some seem" meaning like our views on religion and other subjects outside our group is too far away from my own opinions of things. I didn't mean to imply that people here give me a headache - just to be clear.
@ Warren E Jappe;
LOL sometimes I give me a headache. :) I can't imagine how many migraines I have caused. LOL
I do agree, we all live in our own little bubbles, floating in the comfort of our opinions. Every once in a while I get a glimpse of what lies just outside my bubble and my bubble grows a tiny bit.
I believe in the right to arm bears!!
Another unbearably cute pictorial contribution from Strega
You know you love me
I think I saw those bears in the forest last week...they were setting fires. :)
Or shitting.
@Gregg R Thjomas- I am really pleased you are interested in our Indigenous peoples.
Australia has a very black, disgraceful, horrendous history of its treatment of arguably the oldest peoples on the planet. When the English invaded, about 750,000 Indigenous peoples were spread in small groups all over the island. There were many who were murdered, but more died from smallpox, syphilis and the flu. if the Indigenous people also had guns, they would have all been killed.
The English could transport in as many people as were needed to get rid of these native peoples, and the English also had ex convicts ready to kill to please the English, and get pardoned. The Indiginous peoples would not have had a chance, and would have been completely annihilated - the oldest group of peoples on the planet would have been wiped out - so it was a very good thing they didn't have guns. And then there is alcohol, supplied by white men.
But just don't read up on the bad things that are happening to Aboriginals, read also about the good, read about how many authors there are, how many are now going to University, how many TV shows are being written and produced by Aboriginals, how they have their own TV channel, and how much they sell their paintings to, and to whom.
But nothing excuses the invasion, the killing, the taking away of land.
How many law abiding citizens have committed mass killings?
The biggy was a farm lad, who should have been in a mental institute. He killed 23 people - that is when the buy back came into being, Probably the only time any government had the balls to do something for the people, for a change, and take away easy access to guns.
Certainly, there are gangs here, and they really like shooting each other, turf and drug wars. Does not concern the average citizen.
2nd Amendment and the 'right' to bear arms, is like religion. It is a mind frame, it is a culture, it is indoctrination, and it is fear.
I don't expect to change a xians mind, and I don't expect to change a gun advocate's mind.
I really like going to a movie, without the thought that we might get shot, or send my kids to school, and not get shot, or go to watch a kids game of sport, and not get shot. That is a really nice place to be, without fear.
And to read people argue over what a comma , means, doesn't man, could mean or might possibly mean - is a hoot. It is just like the bible, put your own spin on it.
It is all good :)
So, with the guys who need the extension to their appendage, and whose beloved 2nd Amendment is sacrosanct, that's fine - keep your guns - over there.
We seem to need more men like Noel - who obviously doesn't need an appendage extension.
It's good to know that Noel will have a place to stay when he comes to visit you in Australia. Please don't make him sleep with Satan and Lucifer.
Stay Armed, Stay Free.
(oops my bad, I forgot, you have already been disarmed.)
the guys who need the extension to their appendage
Ugh, armchair psychology used as a childish insult. Just a pet peeve of mine.
@Gregg - Ya gotta get past my Rotweiller twins first - their names are Satan and Lucifer.


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Kids' Easter Activities and Games for Your Easter Gathering
1. Egg Hunt
An egg hunt is an easy game to play outside or if it is too cold or wet you can do inside your house. Fill plastic eggs with a candy, snack or small, inexpensive item.
2. Egg, Duck or Rabbit Guessing Game
Fill a Large Basket with eater grass and fill the surface with plastic eggs. Some eggs should have a mark or sticker on the bottom of the egg and some should be blank. The kids get a small prize if the egg they select has a dot or sticker on the bottom.
3. Scoop the Eggs
Get a Large Round Plastic or Metal Container and fill it with water. Find a Scoop, Laddle or Toy Net and let kids dip for eggs. You can either give each kid 30 seconds to scoop as many eggs as they can. give little prizes or a piece of candy for the number of eggs they scoop up.
4. Egg Shell Game
Just like the Original Shell Game you will need 3 Colorful Cups or Tins and an Easter Egg. One person will hide the egg under 1 of the cups and then someone will guess where the egg is hiding. Each child will take a turn guessing where the egg is hidden. Even Adults can get in on the fun. You can always award a piece of candy or a small item if they guess correctly.
5. Egg-Cellent Thanks
Give Everyone at Your Easter Celebration an Egg and a strip of paper. Ask each person to write something they are Thankful for and write it down and put it in the egg. Put all of the eggs in a basket and during your meal pass around the basket and ask everyone to take an egg. Then go around the room and let everyone read out the Thankful message in the egg they are holding.
6. Egg Decorating Contest
Let everyone decorate and enter an egg into the Egg Decorating Contest and Let everyone vote on which 3 eggs they like. The one with the most votes wins!
Other game ideas for an Easter Party-
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If you have a kids croquet set or another outdoor game, Easter is the perfect time to set it up and let kids play outside with a planned activity.
|April Horse Print for Easter
Here comes the Easter Horse! Print this art image on heavyweight printer paper for a fun art print suitable for framing. This funny horse is all ready for Easter with his own Easter basket.
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What a cute placemat to print for Easter fun for the Kids. Three Bunnies holding Easter Eggs can also be printed for a fun decorative print.
|Bunny Mask to Make
A cute and funny Bunny mask to make. Kids love to act like bunnies so now here is their chance to make a cute bunny mask and hop all around. Great halloween mask for little ones.
|Bunny Napkin Rings to Make for Easter
Easy Easter napkin rings to make from recycled tubes and foam. These little Bunnies, with pom-pom tails will make any table look great on Easter and the kids will love helping to make them.
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Make this cute Bunny Salad a part of any kids meal or just serve it for a healthy snack. The little chef can even help to make this salad.
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This is a fun and easy little puppet to make. Few materials required for this little Bunny puppet and it can be fun to play with any time of the year. Great Easter activity.
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Make fun Easter baskets with the kids ... all from recycled containers and foam or construction paper. Make a cute centerpiece for Easter.
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Print these cute Easter stickers on printable sticker paper for a fun Easter activity. Kids love the bunnies, chicks and ducks for Easter. Or kids can just cut and paste if printed on plain paper.
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D-STAR Position Reporting System (D-PRS) utilizes the low-speed data stream of the D-STAR digital voice mode to transmit GPS NMEA sentence formatters. The standard was published in 2001, the result of three years of research funded by the Japanese government and administered by the JARL to investigate digital technologies for amateur radio.
A D-STAR radio can transmit from one to three NMEA sentence formatters when connected to a GPS receiver. The transmission can occur simultaneously with a digital voice transmission and as a periodic beacon.
Interoperability with APRS[edit]
An adjunct to the javAPRSSrvr called DStarInterface converts received D-PRS data to the APRS format and sends it through the Internet to the APRS-IS. This software, written by Pete Loveall, AE5PL, can also send and receive APRS formatted data with APRS client software that has been interfaced with the DStarTNC2 program, also written by Loveall. This provides full interoperability with APRS when used in conjunction with an APRS I-Gate.
The DStarInterface can be setup to monitor a D-STAR repeater or used in a stand-alone application.
D-STAR users that wish to utilize the DStarInterface to view their position on findu.com or jfindu.net should add a check-sum to their TX Message field. This improves accuracy and is a requirement for conversion with DStarInterface or DStarTNC2. A check-sum calculator is available online at http://www.aprs-is.net/dprscalc.htm.


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Major Section: PROGRAMMING
Example LET* Forms: (let* ((x (* x x)) (y (* 2 x))) (list x y))If the forms above are executed in an environment in which
(let* ((x (* x x)) (y (* 2 x)) (x (* x y)) (a (* x x))) (declare (ignore a)) (list x y))
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let and
let*, or read
on for a briefer discussion.
The difference between
let and
let* is that the former binds its
local variables in parallel while the latter binds them
sequentially. Thus, in
let*, the term evaluated to produce the
local value of one of the locally bound variables is permitted to
reference any locally bound variable occurring earlier in the
binding list and the value so obtained is the newly computed local
value of that variable. See let.
In ACL2 at most one
declare form may be specified for a
let* form,
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J-Lo delivers new song, edgy outfits
J-Lo delivers new song, edgy outfits
And some people joked about it.
Singer Jennifer Lopez delivered a sizzling performance Tuesday at Macy's Fourth of July event in New York.
The superstar debuted a new song that's in Spanish and also wore a dress that revealingly showed her thighs, leading to both positive and negative responses on social media.
Controversies arose because the song, "Ni Tú Ni Yo," consists of non-English lyrics and also due to the provocative nature of her dress.
While the 47-year-old singer-actress is no stranger to provocative outfits, some people criticized the dress. Others loved it.
And some people joked about it.
The concert was part of "Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular." Lopez also performed in a silver and white body suit and other outfits that showed off her body.


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Ed Joyner Jr., and his Hampton University players give little thought to regular season standings and potential tournament scenarios. Their current path has put them in fine position.
The Pirates overcame foul trouble and a sluggish start to bounce Bethune-Cookman 75-66 Monday at the HU Convocation Center, their ninth win in their last 10 conference games.
"We've become more of a cohesive team and everybody's contributing," Joyner said. "Everybody's totally understanding their role and embracing it."
Hampton's (14-15, 11-4 MEAC) win combined with Savannah State's loss to North Carolina A&T assure the Pirates of at least a tie for third place in the conference, as well as the No. 3 seed in next week's tournament in Norfolk.
The top three seeds receive byes and don't play until Thursday's quarterfinals. The Nos. 4 and 5 seeds must play Monday.
"This winning streak that we have, we're trying to keep the winning streak going into the tournament, and hopefully we can build some momentum going into the tournament," said guard Deron Powers, who led the Pirates with 17 points.
Monday was another step in that direction. The Pirates overcame foul trouble to Powers and running mate Aaron Austin, as well as an 11-point deficit in the second half.
Austin was the defibrillator when HU appeared emotionally flat-lined early in the second half, trailing 43-32. He hit a couple of baskets and made several hustle plays.
"I think we fed off Aaron Austin tonight," Joyner said. "Even though he picked up his fourth foul pretty quick, those 4-5 minutes when we were down 11, he willed us himself back into the ball game so that the team was able to get comfortable."
Reserves Wesley Dunning and Dwight Meikle continued the surge after Austin went to the bench after picking up his fourth foul. Dunning, the 6-7 senior, scored nine of his 11 points in the second half and hit all four of his shots, including a clutch 3-pointer. Meikle, a 6-8 redshirt freshman, pitched in with six points and five rebounds.
"Humongous," Joyner said of their contributions.
Trailing 49-41, Hampton scored on nine of 11 possessions to take a 61-57 lead. Dunning hit a 3-pointer and a pair of second-chance baskets, and Meikle scored the last four points of the run. HU shot 54.5 percent (12-for-22) in the second half and made 16 of 24 free throws.
"I like that we've got a balance," Joyner said. "We've got an inside-out balance. … Everybody knows where they can score from and they're comfortable in their spots. Before, I think we had too many people trying to score from too many places. Now, everybody's comfortable in their spots, and we can run our offense more fluid and we can get a better shooting percentage."
On the defensive end, Bethune-Cookman (12-17, 7-8 MEAC) missed eight of its last nine shots and committed four of its 16 turnovers in the final five minutes.
Bethune-Cookman controlled a foul-plagued first half with effort on the boards and an unlikely producer in Allan Dempster. The Wildcats turned eight offensive rebounds into 12 second-chance points and a 38-32 lead.
Meanwhile, two-thirds of HU's starting backcourt, Powers and Austin, picked up three fouls in the half and sat for the last six and eight minutes, respectively.
Dempster, a 6-7 freshman, got extended minutes after starting forward Alex Smith got into foul trouble. He had totaled two points in his previous eight games, but scored 10 of his 14 points in the first half.
Adrien Coleman, the MEAC's leading scorer at 17.8 points per game, led the Wildcats with 15 points. But B-CU shot just 37 percent from the field and 3-for-16 from 3-point range.
Hampton had eight players score at least six points and six players grab at least four rebounds. They go into Thursday's regular season finale against second-place N.C. Central one game shy of .500.
"At one point, we were 2-10," Joyner said. "We didn't know if we were going to get 10 wins. If we could get it back to .500, that would be great. To get third place, that would be great. Everything that they've done this second half, have been building blocks so that we can walk into this tournament as comfortable as possible, to give ourselves a chance to win. Right now, they're beginning to look comfortable."


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KnowledgeBase 00103: Setting Many Options
The OPTION Command
The OPTION command provides the ability to enable a wide range of features of QM. Most of these affect the command language environment in some way. For example
OPTION NO.PHANTOM.NOTIFYsuppresses the normal message sent to a user's screen when a phantom process started by that user terminates. The OPTION command is most commonly used in the LOGIN paragraph.
If many options are to be set, they can be specified in a single OPTION command.
OPTION NO.PHANTOM.NOTIFY NON.NUMERIC.WARNING DIV.ZERO.WARNINGIf the list is large, combining options into a single command by use of this format can make a small improvement to startup performance which may be useful with applications that launch many short life phantom processes.
Encoded Option Settings
The current option settings can be viewed by use of the OPTION command with no qualifying data. When this is done, the final line of output is of the form
Encoded: X1141where the X is followed by a hexadecimal value that is an encoded representation of the current option settings. The encoding is compressed rather than being a simple hexadecimal value with a bit for each option.
Once the encoded option value has been determined, the OPTION command in the LOGIN paragraph can be replaced with
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Chocolate Buttermilk Cake
Our friends Doug and Mary invited us to their house to view some of their New Zealand slides, in preparation for our upcoming trip to Austrlia and New Zealand, and I said I'd bring dessert. Since I still had about a cup and a half of buttermilk in the refrigerator, naturally I wanted to make something to get rid of the buttermilk. A chocolate cake sounded good, and I found a recipe for chocolate buttermilk cake on the internet.
Now I know how you Brits feel (I'm talking to you, Melinda) when you have to change our recipe instructions and measurements. This cake called for 250 g. of butter, which is just slightly more than two sticks. It also wanted "caster sugar" (?) and "plain flour" (something like all-purpose?). It also called for 250 ml of buttermilk, which seemed like a lot, but didn't quite use up the remaining buttermilk. (It's gone, though).
It turned out to be a very nice cake. If you want to try it yourself, just Google "chocolate buttermilk cake," and it should appear.
The recipe suggested serving it with chocolate ganache poured over it, which sounded like a good idea to me. I am not much of a cake baker, but I've made ganache before, and it's always turned out fine. Even though it sounds very French and fancy, it's quite easy, and it actually never occurred to me that it was tricky. But this one was. Instead of turning out smooth and glossy, as a ganache is supposed to do, it got all dull and curdled. It looked like it couldn't be rescued, so I just dumped it on the cake, and hoped that people would just notice the strawberries and not the unpretty ganache.
Of course, if I'd been thinking, I would have checked out The Cake Bible, in which Rose tells how to rescue a curdled ganache. First of all, I could have used her food processor method, which she calls "foolproof." I don't know about you, but I'm always a little reluctant to tempt fate by trying "foolproof" recipes. And "overbeating causes curdling," she says, which I didn't know. "If the mixture gets overbeatan and grainy, it can be restored by remelting, chilling, and rebeating." I obviously didn't know that either, but I'm offering this hint to you, free of charge, in case you ever end up with a curdled ganache.
By the way, Doug forgot to check the light bulb on his slide projector, so we didn't see the slides of New Zealand after all, but we did enjoy the cake. And it was still good the next day, when I took it to my political group. And it was still quite good on Friday, when I took it to work, where the last piece was chopped up and divided until only crumbs were left. Finally, when no one was looking, the crumbs disappeared.
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- Melinda said...
The cake turned out perfect and the ganache may look odd, but evidently must taste very, very good!
You are right about it being frustrating to have to convert recipes. I have cups which I use for American recipes. It's when friends ask for the conversions...and don't get me started about trying to explain what a 10 inch angel food cake pan is to a Brit. (They have to be special ordered here)
The list is long so I won't bore you with it all!
I haven't had much success with white chocolate ganache. It was way too sweet and very runny. I am thinking I just don't like white chocolate that much as a ganache.
RLB's chocolate ganache with the grounded praline added is the best! I still have people tell me how wonderful that ganache was.
I've never had a curdled ganache with Rose's recipes, so perhaps they ARE foolproof. I tell you, if there is a foolproof loophole...I would find it!
- evil cake lady said...
I don't know, girls, I seem to still curdle RLB's ganache every time I attempt it! However, one of my only successful ganache attempts was following her instructions for the food processor one. I even turn her white chocolate ganache into while chocolate butter. Oh well.
But your cake looks really wonderful Marie! And, New Zealand--how exciting!
- breadbasketcase said...
If you've never had a curdled ganache, I'll bet you are not looking very hard for the foolproof loophole. But I'm glad to hear that the food processor method actually works.
Oh good, it makes me feel better that you've turned out a bad ganache. Not that I'm wishing bad things on you, it's just a misery loves company kind of thing.
Jim and I are taking Elizabeth to Australia and New Zealand as a graduation present. She finally graduates from med school next month. I'm hoping that one day she'll be able to support us.
- evil cake lady said...
Yeah, I think my parents had to throw that dream out the window when I told them I wanted to be an acupuncturist!
That is a tremendous accomplishment, and you guys are great parents for acknowledging it. Now when either you or I can accomplish a non-curdled ganache, we should be taken on a trip too!
- breadbasketcase said...
I like your plan--if only we could find someone who would pay for a lovely trip as a reward for a perfect ganache, we might be tempted to make it more often.
I'm currently sitting here googling in desperation what do do when Rose's foolproof ganache splits!
Thank you very much.
That will teach me to try a foolproof recipe when my age old boring steadfast recipe works just as well.


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Sprint has confirmed that it will still offer an unlimited data plan for the next generation iPhone. There was some doubt that the unlimited data would remain, especially if the iPhone 5,1 has the expected LTE radio. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has stated that Sprint will continue to offer a no-strings unlimited plan.
"I'm not anticipating the unlimited plan would change by that point," he said. "That's our distinctive differentiator." "Frankly, it's a marriage made in heaven," he said about the combination of unlimited and the iPhone. "We're clearly attracting customers from our competitors."
The decision by Sprint to offer unlimited data when all the other carriers are cutting back on their allowances has been very beneficial for Sprint. Hesse believes that many new customers have joined Sprint purely for the unlimited data. He was also keen to point out that he had no inside knowledge as to when the next iPhone would be released or if it definitely would be LTE capable.
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Ellie's Enchanted Cottage
Name: Eliana/"Ellie"(4)
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Color Inspiration: My daughter's personality was my main inspiration, so the room is very "her". She is girly, but very spunky and playful with a quirky side. This room used to be a guest room and was stark white, so when we first started planning to move her into it from the nursery I was thinking of doing a woodland theme with mostly greens and blues. But she kept saying she wanted pink! We ended up doing both pink and yellow. The rest of the room evolved through mostly craigslist and thrifting. I love vintage objects, but try to find a balance with things she and her friends like also. She has a penchant for unicorns and other imaginative creatures so we ended up with the fairy tale duvet (ebay score!) and lots of fanciful toy, but still manage to avoid the overtly princess look.
Tip for Using Color: I always test multiple shades before I find the perfect one. Most of my friends could attest to walking into any room of my house at one time or another and being asked to judge their favorite color in the paint-patchwork on the wall. Also, do your best to help it blend with your home as a whole and don't stress.
Colors Used: Benjamin Moore Moonlight (yellow) and Cotton Candy (pink). Also various shades of blue, green, white, orange, and dark pink.
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BREWSTER Three Rivers Hospital expects to come out about $30,000 ahead in 2014, according to a preliminary budget released last week.
The hospital anticipates about $11.3 million in operating revenues. Nearly $18.8 million may come in from patient services and $238,000 from other revenues, but the budget subtracts about $7.7 million for bad debt, contractual adjustments, charity care and other miscellaneous adjustments.
The estimated net revenue is down slightly from the $11.6 million budgeted for this year.
At the end of September, the hospital's net income was nearly $594,000 in the red, according to the finance report issued Oct. 28.
Under expenses, salaries and benefits for 2014 take the biggest chunk, at $7.87 million. That's about the same as what was budgeted for 2013, when commissioners approved a union-negotiated base wage increase of 2.5 percent for registered nurses and about 7.73 percent for non-union employees.
Nearly 104 full-time equivalent employees were calculated this year, according to the proposed 2014 budget.
The total amount of expenditures is estimated at $12.5 million.
With expenditures exceeding revenues, property taxes of $1.2 million close the gap with a profit of $30,114 to spare.
As reported Oct. 28, the hospital's outstanding warrants with Okanogan County totaled more than $2.9 million.
Hospital administrators were unavailable to provide further information before press time.
Commissioners will host a public comment period before voting on the budget at its Dec. 16 meeting. It will be at noon at the Hillcrest House administration building, 415 Hospital Way.
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