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Kristi Brownfield of GA United read a powerful statement in defense of free speech at SIUC at this morning's open forum with the Board of Trustees. It concludes:
This administration seems more interested in power than people. Any policies that protect the established power of the status quo over the expressive power of a free people are policies that must be overturned. The students here recognize that. It was our voices inside the Student Center, outside of Anthony Hall and the Stone Center, throughout campus, on Facebook, and online — calling for accountability, fairness, and transparency. That is what we want from this university. That is not what we have been getting. We expect better and in the future we hope to work with the administration to ensure we get that better. Together we can heal this damage to create a better SIUC for today and tomorrow.
Read the full statement at GA United's blog.

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Monday, April 15, 2013
Calder Barn Notes
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (April 11, 2013) – The Breeders' Cup has announced the 65 races included as part of the 2013 Breeders' Cup Challenge series, with Calder Casino & Race Course to host one event, the Grade 2 Smile Sprint Handicap on July 6. With Breeders' Cup Challenge status, the Smile Sprint, one of the main events on the annual Summit of Speed program at Calder, will serve as a 'win and you're in' race for the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint, part of the two-day World Championships at Santa Anita in November.
As part of an enhanced benefits program for Breeders' Cup Challenge winners, the Breeders' Cup will pay the Championship Day entry fees for the Smile Sprint winner, and will also provide the winner with a $10,000 travel allowance. To be eligible for these rewards, the winner must be nominated to the Breeders' Cup program by the Championships' pre-entry deadline of October 21.
Last year's Smile Sprint winner Gantry finished 11th in the Sprint, a race won by fellow Summit of Speed combatant Trinniberg, who was runner-up in the Grade 3 Carry Back Stakes.
The strength of last year's Festival of the Sun Preview Day, which has already seen Foolish Pleasure Stakes winner Itsmyluckyday become a leading Kentucky Derby contender off a win in the Grade 3 Holy Bull and a second-place finish in the Florida Derby, and Needles Stakes winner Mucho Mas Macho prevail in the Grade 2 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes, was on display again Wednesday when Rose to Gold, winner of that day's Brave Raj, took down the Grade 2 Fantasy Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
Trained by Sal Santoro for the ownership of Kathleen Amaya and Raffaele Centofanti, Rose to Gold is likely to make her next start in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks on Friday, May 3.
In addition to her win in the Brave Raj, Rose to Gold also won the Lindsay Frolic Stakes at Calder last year in her career debut. The daughter of Friends Lake, who has prevailed five times while earning $717,889, is unique in that all seven of her lifetime starts have come in stakes races.
The Grade 3 Miami Mile, the first graded stakes of the Calder racing season, attracted 29 nominees upon its April 6 closing date, led by four representatives of trainer Christophe Clement, including recent Grade 3 Appleton winner Za Approval, last year's Tropical Turf runner-up Mr. Ryder, and 2012 Grade 1 Jamaica Handicap and Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes third-place finisher Summer Front.
Clement has also nominated five-time turf stakes winner Lubash to the Miami Mile, which is the only graded turf stakes at Calder that the veteran conditioner has yet to win.
Trainer Henry Collazo has nominated his Needles Stakes winner and Grade 2 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes hero Mucho Mas Macho to the Miami Mile, while trainer Phil Gleaves has nominated Csaba, a five-time stakes winner with Grade 3 victories in the Fred W. Hooper and Hal's Hope, to the race.
Others nominated to the race include the George Weaver-trained 7-year-old Monument Hill, winner of a Gulfstream Park turf allowance in his last; the John Kimmel-conditioned Bombaguia, runner-up in the 2012 Grade 2 Bowling Green and second when beaten a neck to Monument Hill in his last; and Finale, a Grade 3 turf stakes winner that was beaten 2 ½ lengths by Monument Hill when last on the grass.
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University of Utah computer scientists have developed software that quickly edits "extreme resolution imagery" — huge photographs containing billions to hundreds of billions of pixels. Until now, it took hours to process these "gigapixel" images. The new software needs only seconds to produce preview images useful to doctors, intelligence analysts, photographers, artists, engineers, and others.
By sampling only a fraction of the pixels in a massive image — for example, a satellite photo or a panorama made of hundreds of individual photos — the software can produce good approximations or previews of what the fully processed image will look like.
That allows someone to interactively edit and analyze massive images — pictures larger than a gigapixel (billion pixels) — in seconds rather than hours, said Valerio Pascucci, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Utah and its Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute.
"You can go anywhere you want in the image," he said. "You can zoom in, go left, right. From your perspective, it is as if the full 'solved' image has been computed." He compares the photo-editing software with public opinion polling: "You ask a few people and get the answer as if you asked everyone. It's exactly the same thing."
The new software — Visualization Streams for Ultimate Scalability (ViSUS) — allows gigapixel images stored on an external server or drive to be edited from a large computer, a desktop or laptop computer, or even a smart phone, Pascucci said.
"The same software runs very well on an iPhone or a large computer," he added.
A study describing development of the ViSUS software is scheduled for online publication Saturday, Oct. 30 in ACM Transactions on Graphics, published by the Association for Computing Machinery. The paper calls ViSUS "a simple framework for progressive processing of high-resolution images with minimal resources... [that] for the first time, is capable of handling gigapixel imagery in real time."
Pascucci conducted the research with University of Utah SCI Institute colleagues Brian Summa, a doctoral candidate in computing; Giorgio Scorzelli, a senior software developer; and Peer-Timo Bremer, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where co-author Ming Jiang also works.
The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. The University of Utah Research Foundation and Lawrence Livermore share a patent on the software, and the researchers plan to start a company to commercialize ViSUS.
Pascucci defines massive imagery as images containing more than one gigapixel — which is equal to 100 photos from a 10-megapixel (10 million pixel) digital camera.
In the study, the computer scientists used a number of images ranging in size from megapixels (millions of picture elements) to hundreds of gigapixels to test how well the ViSUS software let them interactively edit large images, and to show how well the software can handle images of various sizes, from small to extremely large.
In one example, they used the software to perform "seamless cloning," which means taking one image and merging it with another image. They combined a 3.7-gigapixel image of the entire Earth with a 116-gigapixel satellite photo of the city of Atlanta, zooming in on the Gulf of Mexico and putting Atlanta underwater there.
"An artist can interactively place a copy of Atlanta under shallow water and recreate the lost city of Atlantis," according to the new study, which is titled, "Interactive Editing of Massive Imagery Made Simple: Turning Atlanta into Atlantis."
"It's just a way to demonstrate how an artist can manipulate a huge amount of data in an image without being encumbered by the file size," said Pascucci.
Pascucci, Summa, and colleagues also used a camera mounted on a robotic panning device and placed atop a University of Utah building to take 611 photographs during a six-hour period. Together, the photos covered the entire Salt Lake Valley. At full resolution, it took them four hours to do "panorama stitching," which is stitching the mosaic of photos together into a 3.27-gigapixel panorama of the valley that eliminated the seams between the images and differences in their exposures, said Summa, first author of the study.
But using the ViSUS software, it took only two seconds to create a "global preview" of the entire Salt Lake panorama that looked almost as good — and had a relatively low resolution of only 0.9-megapixels, or only one-3,600th as much data as full-resolution panorama.
And that preview image is interactive, so a photo editor can make different adjustments — such as tint, color intensity and contrast — and see the effects in seconds.
Pascucci said ViSUS' significance is not in creating the preview, but in allowing an editor to zoom in on any part of the low-resolution panorama and quickly see and edit a selected portion of it at full resolution. Older software required the full-resolution image to be processed before it could be edited.
The software also might lead to more sophisticated computer games. "We are studying the possibility of involving the player in building their own [gaming] environment on the fly," said Pascucci.
The software also will be useful to intelligence analysts examining satellite photos, and researchers using high-resolution microscopes, for example, to study how the eye's light-sensing retina is "wired" by nerves, based on detailed microscopic images.
Two key parts of the software must work together delicately:
"One is the way we store the images — the order in which we store the pixels on the disk. That is part of the technology being patented" because the storage format "allows you to retrieve the sample of pixels you want really fast," according to Pascucci.
The manner in which the data are processed is the software's second crucial feature. The algorithm for processing image data allows the researchers to use only a subset of pixels, which they can move efficiently.
The image processing method can produce previews at various resolutions by taking progressively more and more pixels from the data that make up the entire full-resolution image. Normally, the amount of memory used in a computer to edit and preview a massive image would have to be large enough to handle the entire data set for that image.
"In our method, the preview has constant size, so it can always fit in memory, even if the fine-resolution data keep growing," Pascucci said.
Data for the full-resolution image is stored on a disk or drive, and ViSUS repeatedly swaps data with the disk as needed for creating new preview images as editing progresses. The software does that very efficiently by pulling more and more data subsets from the full image data in the form of progressively smaller Z-shaped sets of pixels.
Pascucci said ViSUS' major contribution is that "we don't need to read all the data to give you an approximation" of the full image.
If an image contained a terabyte of data, the software could produce a good approximation of the image using only one-millionth of the total image data, or about a megabyte, Pascucci said.
The computer scientists now have gone beyond the 116-gigapixel Atlanta image and, in unpublished work, have edited satellite images of multiple cities exceeding 500 gigapixels. The next target: a terapixel image — 1,000 gigapixels or 1 trillion pixels.
— University of Utah Press Office


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Events Surprise Us Again
By now you've probably heard or read about the arrests of ten people in South Dakota through a federal investigation known as "Operation Black Widow."
Eight of the defendants are from Watertown, one is from Sioux Falls and the other is from Deadwood. Most of the drug charges allege conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, while the firearms charges vary from being a felon in possession of a firearm to making false statements in the acquisition of firearms.
Now you might not run in the same circles as the people arrested - I know I don't. But this case is another illustration of the things that go on while we just try to go on with our lives.
I'm always surprised at the morning police briefing by the things that happen during the night or early morning while much of society is asleep: domestic disturbances, burglaries, larcenies and drunk driving.
Add this to the Cleveland case, where we're told by police that three women were held against their will for as long as 10 or 11 years. The suspect in the case had neighbors, a job and family in the same city, but maybe he got away with it for so long because the right people didn't notice.
But it might be more than that, and if I had the answer, I'd share it.
My point is that a lot is going on around you and me that we might not be aware of, so pay attention to your surroundings and if something looks suspicious to you, contact law enforcement.


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A Note From Clementine
June 2017: After six years on Etsy, I now find myself doing more in-person events and special collaborative projects with some of the talented Indie dyers I am lucky to count among my friends. Needing a more versatile online presence, I finally took the leap and opened my Indiemade shop! If you aren't already familiar with my work, I invite you to take a peek at my Etsy shop, where you can see photos of more than 600 sold items, review my 100% 5-star rating, or read some of the 300+ reviews from buyers. I am grateful for my customers' great reviews, encouragement, and support of Indie makers.
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LEWISTON, Idaho - Five Embry-Riddle errors led to five Sand Shark unearned runs as No. 8 South Carolina Beaufort eliminated the fifth-seeded Eagles with a 7-2 victory Saturday in the NAIA World Series.
With the win, South Carolina Beaufort (41-18) extends its season and advances to play the loser of No. 2 Lee (Tenn.) and No. 7 Point Park (Pa.) at noon Monday. Embry-Riddle ends the season with a 43-18 overall record and is eliminated from the World Series.
Adam Miller (10-5) earned the win for USCB. The senior left-hander allowed 10 hits, but only two runs over eight innings. Colton Rudd shut the door on the victory, retiring all three Eagles he faced in the ninth.
Offensively, Conald Mansfield and Brandon Collins each went 2 for 4. Mansfield posted two RBIs, both coming in the first inning. As a team, the Sand Sharks recorded 10 hits.
USCB set the tone early when leadoff hitter David O'Neil sent a 2-2 pitch through the left side for a leadoff single. O'Neil advanced to second just two pitches later on an Eagle error that also allowed R.J. Neal to reach safely. Following a double steal that put runners at second and third with no outs, Ty Main singled to center to score O'Neil. USCB added two more on the next pitch as the center fielder had a grounder ricochet off his glove and into left-center field.
The Sand Sharks ended the frame with three runs on four hits and three errors.
Embry-Riddle cut the deficit to 3-1 in the bottom half with back-to-back singles. The Eagles added another run
in the bottom of the second when two errors allowed JT Warmoth to score, making it 3-2.
The game remained 3-2 until USCB broke things open in the top of the eighth. Eaton struck out the first two hitters of the inning, but again was let down by his defense as Gabe Torres reached via a throwing error by the Embry-Riddle shortstop.
A walk and a single brought pinch hitter Blake Cilwick to the plate with two outs and the bases loaded. On the third pitch of the at -at, Cilwick advanced to first on a hit by pitch that brought home Torres from third.
Two additional Sand Shark runs scored on the next pitch when the Embry-Riddle third baseman kicked an O'Neil ground ball into left-center field, making it 6-2.
The Sand Sharks dropped their World Series opener Friday, falling to Rogers State 3-2.
Rogers State leadoff man Eric Baker delivered a two-run single to right in the ninth inning, and USCB was unable to answer in the bottom of the inning.
The Sand Sharks staked ace Michael Heesch to an early lead, as Dylan Nasiatka's triple off the right field wall and Main's RBI double with two outs gave USCB a 1-0 lead in the first.
Heesch (9-3) made that margin hold up for most of the afternoon, but the Hillcats (46-14) finally broke through on Hector Rivera's RBI single in the eighth to tie it
USCB regained the lead on Main's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth, but the Hillcats moved back in front with four singles in the ninth. The Sand Sharks got two runners aboard with one out in the bottom of the inning, but Hillcats left-hander Shawn Spainhoward (10-2) retired the final two batters to end the threat.
Heesch had another strong outing, striking out 10 over 8 1/3 innings. He surrendered 13 hits, but all of them were singles.


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German Media Mogul Rips Google in Open Letter
Apr 18, 2014 10:22 AM PT
The chief executive of one of Germany's biggest media companies penned an open letter criticizing Google, saying that his company is afraid of Google and its ever-swelling power.
The letter, written by Mathias Dopfner, the chief executive of media giant Axel Springer, opines that Google's technology platforms spread more quickly and more efficiently than anything in the world -- save "biological viruses." Dopfner also asks whether Google plans to create a "superstate" in which antitrust and privacy laws don't exist.
Axel Springer publishes more than 200 newspapers and magazines, so while Dopfner's hyperbole is pretty thick, his screed, addressed to Google headman Eric Schmidt, is noteworthy. (The letter itself was published in a Frankfurt newspaper that is not part of the Axel Springer empire.)
Schmidt recently wrote a column of his own discussing the advertising relationship between Axel Springer and Google. Dopfner acknowledged that Axel Springer was pleased with the relationship, but added that there was little choice.
Dopfner touched on Google's ongoing dispute with the European Commission, which for years has been pursuing antitrust allegations. Google and the commission struck a tentative deal in February, but Dopfner seemed less than impressed by the conditions, declaring that the compromise sanctions a business model that "in less honorable circles is called extortion."
Google has long had a quirky relationship with Germany. The company has taken flak for Street View, secret data-slurping, auto-complete and Google News, to name a few beefs.
[Source: BBC]
Snowden Lobs Softball to Putin During Q&A
During a question-and-answer session broadcast on Russian television, NSA leaker Edward Snowden lobbed a softball to President Vladimir Putin.
"Does Russia intercept, store or analyze, in any way, the communications of millions of individuals?" Snowden asked.
To the surprise of no one, Putin said that Russia does not conduct mass data collection, adding that Russian intelligence efforts are "strictly regulated by our law."
Of course, this is the country that has a law banning gay "propaganda," so feel free to roll your eyes at Putin's reverence for Russian law.
Snowden appeared at the Q&A via a video link from an undisclosed location, according to Russia Today, which broadcast the proceedings.
[Source: Politico]
Canadian Police Charge Teen in Heartbleed Case
Police in Canada have charged a 19-year-old for exploiting the so-called Heartbleed computer bug and meddling with taxpayers' data via the country's tax agency website.
Canada was forced to shut down its online tax-filing service earlier this month amid security concerns.
This kid, apparently, was at the heart of those concerns; he has been charged with unauthorized use of a computer and mischief in relation to data.
The suspect reportedly is a computer science student at Western University.
[Source: The Associated Press]
Arrest Made in the Netherlands in Amanda Todd Case
Authorities in the Netherlands have made an arrest related to the death of Amanda Todd, a Canadian teenager who committed suicide after being blackmailed into exposing herself in front of a webcam.
The 15-year-old detailed the harassment in a YouTube video that was watched millions of times.
The suspect was a 35-year-old man in the Netherlands who has been charged with extortion, luring, criminal harassment, and possession of child pornography with the purpose of distribution.
The man reportedly is suspected of blackmailing girls in the Netherlands, Britain and the U.S.
Todd exposed herself on a webcam, and the pictures then landed on a Facebook page made by the stranger. Todd's friends were added to the page.
[Source: The Guardian]


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It was clear as I listened to Joan Crawford and her longtime friend and publicist, John Springer, at a lunch in 1976, almost two years before the publication of Joan's daughter Christina's book Mommie Dearest, that they knew it was forthcoming. They spoke about it with a sense of foreboding, though they had no idea that it would turn out to be the prototype of angry books by the children of stars. "I think she's using my name strictly to make money," Joan told us. "I suppose she doesn't think that I'm going to leave her enough or that I'm going to disappear soon enough." She sighed. Obviously referring to her adoption of Christina, she said, "No good deed goes unpunished."
Springer asked her if she planned to read the book. "I plan not to read it," she replied. "Why spoil days of your life reading a book that can only hurt you? It's against my beliefs. You know, Johnny, I've become a Christian Scientist. I find it very positive and comforting and a kind of protection. I've learned that there are people who will hurt you if you let them—even if you don't let them. I prefer to cut off people who want to hurt me, rather than to continue to give them power over me to go on inflicting pain."
As we lunched that day, Crawford was dying of cancer. Springer had brought me together with her some time earlier in the hope that I could produce an intimate biography of one of the most enduring of Hollywood stars, who had made more than 80 films in a career that started in 1925 and ended in 1970. She had won the Oscar for best actress in 1946, for Mildred Pierce (ironically, about a mother and an ungrateful daughter), and she had had featured roles in such film classics as Grand Hotel, with John Barrymore and Greta Garbo, in 1932, and George Cukor's film version of Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, in 1939. In 1962 she had starred opposite her great rival, Bette Davis, in Robert Aldrich's blockbuster What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the first of a series of camp horror films featuring aging grandes dames of the cinema. She had been married to two of Hollywood's leading men, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1929–33) and Franchot Tone (1935–39), as well as to the actor Phillip Terry (1942–46) and Pepsi-Cola president Alfred Steele (1955 until his death, in 1959). From 1959 to 1973 she served on the board of Pepsi-Cola.
Unable to have children, she had adopted five: a girl, Christina, in 1940; a boy, Christopher, in 1942, who was soon reclaimed by his birth mother; a second boy, also named Christopher, in 1943; and twin girls, Catherine (Cathy) and Cynthia (Cindy), in 1947. Christina, like her mother, became an actress, and for a time was a regular on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm. During a leave Christina took for major surgery, in 1968, Joan, who was then in her early 60s, replaced her 29-year-old daughter on the show. That created an unhappy rivalry, which resulted in a long estrangement and, ultimately, the book we were discussing that day at lunch.
"I think this book will be full of lies and twisted truths," Crawford said, adding, "I don't think my adopted daughter is writing this book just to hurt me. If her purpose were to hurt me, she has already accomplished it without going to the trouble of writing a book.
"If Christina had good things to say about the person who adored her, tried to be a good mother to her, she would have told me about the book. I would have helped if I could, if she wanted my help.
"I've come to think that what she has wanted is to be me. Or at least to have what I have. I wanted to share everything I had with her, but I couldn't reach or influence her.
"She is her own person, and that person brought me a lot of pain. I said this about Christopher [Crawford's estranged adopted son] and now I say it about Christina. The problem was I adopted her, but she didn't adopt me."
On May 10, 1977, Joan Crawford died in her bedroom in her apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The papers announced that she had died of a heart attack, a coronary occlusion. That was what she had wanted, "not a discussion of my insides." The heart attack may have been brought on by her deteriorating health.
Her obituary appeared on page one of The New York Times, giving her birth date as March 23, 1908. No one would have appreciated the words on her position in film history more than Crawford herself: "Miss Crawford was a quintessential superstar—an epitome of timeless glamour who personified for decades the dreams and disappointments of American women."
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. told me that he was asked frequently by interviewers if he believed Joan had ended her own life, as had been rumored. His answer was an unequivocal no. "She had the strong will to be able to do it, if it was what she had wanted to do, but nobody could convince me she would want to do that. Even in pain, even with no hope of ever getting better, I feel it was against her religious and ethical beliefs. It took the greater strength for her to go on. She liked to be in control of her life as much as possible, and she didn't like to feel out of control. I believe that when she heard the bad news—no hope—she waited for a natural death without trying to prolong a life she didn't consider would be worth living. She wanted to die in a dignified way, looking as well as she could. I know that."
According to Crawford's instructions, she was cremated, and her ashes were placed in an urn at Ferncliff Cemetery, Westchester County, New York, next to her last husband, Alfred Steele. The funeral was held at Campbell's Funeral Home, in New York City. Among those in attendance were the actress Myrna Loy, who had known her the longest, the actors Van Johnson and Brian Aherne, the artist Andy Warhol, John Springer, and Joan's four children: Christina, 37; Christopher, 33; and the twins, Cindy and Cathy, 30.
On May 17, a memorial service was held at All Souls Unitarian Church. Eulogies were read by the writer Anita Loos, the actress Geraldine Brooks, the actor Cliff Robertson, and George Cukor, who had directed Crawford in four films and who characterized her as "the perfect image of the movie star." He spoke of her intelligence, her vitality, her will, her beauty. He said something he always said in one way or another when speaking about her: "The camera saw a side of her that no flesh-and-blood lover ever saw."
A year and a half after Crawford's memorial, Mommie Dearest was published by William Morrow. Christina depicted her mother as a sadistic control freak who inflicted the harshest punishments for the slightest infringement of rules by her two oldest children. Because Joan had won the U.S.O.'s Woman of the Year award, Christina originally titled her book Mother of the Year, but she later changed it to Mommie Dearest. She portrayed Joan as an abusive mother who had no understanding of, or feeling for, her children, and whose only real attention to them was to administer discipline and punishment. The most noted scene involved a night raid on Christina's closet followed by a beating because some of the clothes were on wire hangers. The line "No wire hangers!" as well as the title of the book entered the nation's vernacular. It was generally believed that publication of the book had been delayed in order to allay any suspicions that Christina had written it because she had been left out of Joan's will. The book immediately made the best-seller list and stayed there for months.
In 1981 a film based on the book was released, starring Faye Dunaway. A number of actresses had turned down the part. Christina had wanted to write the script, but her screenplay was rejected. The film, which became a cult classic, has contributed to the Mommie Dearest stigma.
When Crawford died, Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America, asked the studios to observe a minute of silence to honor her. When I spoke with Valenti more than 20 years later, I asked him if he could have had the minute of tribute if Christina had published her book before her mother's death.
"I would have tried," Valenti said, "but I don't think I would have been successful. Words in print have an enormous effect. I don't think anyone will ever be able to undo that book her daughter wrote, and I'm not going to dignify it by mentioning its title.
"Joan Crawford deserved the honor as an icon. It was a professional honor, paying tribute to her career and what it had meant all those years to Hollywood. But there was no way that the portrait that was painted of her by her daughter and received as truth wouldn't have cast aspersions on her name. That blurred the personal and the professional.
"I knew this lady, and I know she had done many good deeds anonymously. She was always dependable for helping out with worthy charities and good deeds, and that's the way I remember her."
Crawford left about $2 million in her will. On October 28, 1976, less than a year before her death, she had made a new will. She left a trust fund of $77,500 to each of her adopted twin daughters, $35,000 to her longtime friend and secretary, Betty Barker, and smaller bequests to a few other people.
She left money to her favorite charities: the U.S.O. of New York; the Motion Picture Home, of which she had been a founder; the American Cancer Society; the Muscular Dystrophy Association; the American Heart Association; and the Wiltwyck School for Boys.
She stated specifically that Christina and Christopher had been knowingly and deliberately left out of the will. "It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them."
John Springer explained this to me. He said Joan had told him, "You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect."
Betty Barker told me that she felt Christopher resented women. "He wouldn't take orders from women." He was sent to a military school for his high-school education. As soon as he could, he left home. He joined the army during the Vietnam War. After he was discharged, he brought his wife and child to meet his mother, but Crawford wouldn't see them.
"I remember most clearly," Crawford told me, "when a teenaged Christopher spat in my face. He said, 'I hate you.' It's pretty hard to overlook that. I couldn't."
George Cukor informed me about Crawford's secret charity. He said it was "something she had done for many people over the years, and some of those people lived good lives, which they owed to Joan. They might not have lived at all if not for her, but she didn't want even the people she did it for to ever know.
"In 1926 she had gone to a young doctor, William Branch, for some ailment or other, and she was thrilled with him. He had the kind of dedication to his work that she had to hers. He was also very fair and said, 'I'll just charge you whatever you think you can afford to pay, because you're a young actress and can't afford very much now.' And she said, 'But you're a young doctor starting out, and you must need the money.' Joan had decided very early that she wanted to share her good fortune with others, and she had this idea, which she couldn't afford then, but she was certain she was going to be able to afford.
"She said, 'Sometime soon, I'm going to be earning more money than I need, and I would like to help people. I work with people who make the movies, the ones who have all of those little jobs without which there couldn't be movies. They are so important, and they do such wonderful work. When they get sick and need medical help, some of them don't have the financial means they need, so I want to see that they have the help they deserve. I want to pay for a room in the hospital and other costs.' Dr. Branch said he would work free. Later, as she could afford it, Joan extended the gift to two rooms.
"They did this for many years, and Joan was always resolute, determined that the few people who knew should never tell anyone," continued Cukor. "I'm only telling you now because Joan is gone, and I'm interpreting my promise as lasting for her lifetime. That seems fair. Besides, I think people should know what kind of person Joan was—an extraordinarily fine person."
Many people, among them even some who knew Crawford, believed what Christina wrote. Some felt Crawford had mistreated her two older adopted children. Most of those closest to her, however, were vehement in their denunciation of the book and of Christina for writing it.
Joan Crawford was not Bette Davis's favorite person, as Davis told me in one way or another during the years I was interviewing her for the biography I called The Girl Who Walked Home Alone and published in 2006. Nevertheless, Davis was outraged by Mommie Dearest. She told me, "I was not Miss Crawford's biggest fan, but, wisecracks to the contrary, I did and still do respect her talent. What she did not deserve was that detestable book written by her daughter. I've forgotten her name. Horrible.
"I looked at that book, but I did not need to read it. I wouldn't read trash like that, and I think it was a terrible, terrible thing for a daughter to do. An abomination! To do something like that to someone who saved you from the orphanage, foster homes—who knows what. If she didn't like the person who chose to be her mother, she was grown up and could choose her own life.
"I felt very sorry for Joan Crawford, but I knew she wouldn't appreciate my pity, because that's the last thing she would have wanted—anyone being sorry for her, especially me.
"I can understand how hurt Miss Crawford had to be. Well, no I can't. It's like trying to imagine how I would feel if my own beloved, wonderful daughter, B.D., were to write a bad book about me. Unimaginable. I am grateful for my children and for knowing they would never do to me anything like what Miss Crawford's daughter did to her.
"Of course, dear B.D., of whom I'm so proud, is my natural child, and there always are certain risks in adopting. Gary [Merrill] and I adopted two babies, because when we married I was too old to have our own. We were very pleased with our little boy, Michael, but our adopted daughter, who was a beautiful baby, was brain-damaged. I never have had regrets, though, because I think we provided for her better than anything else that could have happened to her, and we gave her some happiness in her life. You can't return a baby like you can a carton of cracked eggs."
Crawford had said to me, "There was one thing where Bette was one up on me. She'd had a baby, a child of her own. I wanted one, and Bette was so lucky to have been able to have her own daughter."
With Mommie Dearest as her inspiration, B.D. would later write My Mother's Keeper, a savage attack on Bette Davis, also published by William Morrow, in 1985. Davis responded with a harsh rebuttal in This 'N That, published by Putnam in 1987, two years before her death.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., when asked by the press if he thought his former wife really hit her children, dismissed such a possibility in a tone of mock seriousness. "Of course not. It would not only have been out of character, but she only used covered, padded hangers." He added, "If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation. She was never out of control. The most she was guilty of ever was a few sharp words, and not many of those. We had our rows, but she never showed any sudden bursts of temper."
Cathy Crawford totally denied what Christina had said. She and her twin sister, Cindy, were devastated by the book and the film based on it. Cathy told me, "We lived in the same house as Christina, but we didn't live in the same home, because she had her own reality. Cindy and I had a different reality—the opposite. I don't know where she got her ideas. Our Mommie was the best mother anyone ever had."
One of Crawford's best friends, the actor Van Johnson, told me, "Some people said that Joan was better off being dead when Mommie Dearest came out, because it would have broken her heart, and this way she was spared all that pain. I'm not one of those people. I totally disagree. They didn't know Joan. I wish the book had never happened. But if it had happened when Joan was still alive, and not too sick, I know her well enough to know she would have fought back, in her way. She had a quiet strength, but she was strong, and she was determined. Nothing wishy-washy about her. I think if she could have, Joan would have protected her life and her body of work against that viper she had taken to her bosom."
"What bothers me," Myrna Loy said, "is that there were book buyers who bought that book and read it and people who believed it. What perplexes me and makes me profoundly sad was that people wanted to spend their money that way, on such trash, and, worse yet, believed it. The readers who believed it were the ones who did the damage."
"A lot of criticism has been leveled at Joan since the publication of her daughter's book," Vincent Sherman, who directed three of Joan's films—The Damned Don't Cry (1950), Harriet Craig (1950), and Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)—and who had an affair with her, told me. "Christina hurt her mother's image a lot, but at least not while Joan was still alive. Bette Davis wasn't so fortunate, or maybe I should say she was more fortunate. She had to endure the hurt, but anyway she was there to defend herself and to go on the offensive. I think I knew Joan as well as anyone ever did, but I honestly don't know how Joan would have handled Mommie Dearest if Christina had published it while she was still alive. She would have been heartbroken … but I don't think she would have just fallen apart. She was strong, but the Joan I knew was a very, very vulnerable person. I think it would have depended on her health, but because she cared so much about what her fans thought, she would have done something if she could."
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. added, "Her daughter knew how to hurt her. Joan was punished for her good deed. She had worked so hard for her place as a star and an icon. She even gave up her chance for a good marriage and personal happiness. She was willing to give up everything for it. She gave up me!"
Since I began interviewing Joan Crawford's friends and children, a number of them have died—George Cukor in 1983, Myrna Loy in 1993, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in 2000, Vincent Sherman in 2006, and Jack Valenti in 2007. Christopher Crawford died in 2006, at the age of 62. Cynthia Crawford died in October 2007, at the age of 60.
In accordance with Joan Crawford's wishes, I have not spoken to Christina. She stopped acting in 1972, and she has been married and divorced three times. In 1998, on the 20th anniversary of the publication of Mommie Dearest, she published a revised, considerably enlarged edition, and has announced a 30th-anniversary edition for publication this year. She has a restaurant in Idaho and a half-hour live-entertainment weekly television show in Spokane, Washington.
I have spoken at length with Joan's other living child, Cathy Crawford LaLonde, whose remembrances of Joan differ greatly from Christina's.
"I was about six," she told me, "and my sister Cindy and I were at school at Marymount, in Palos Verdes, and we were playing a game, 'A tisket, a tasket, a green-and-yellow basket,' and I fell down and broke my elbow and my wrist in a few places. The school called Mommie. She ran off the set in the middle of filming, out of the studio and into her car, wearing the full makeup she was wearing for the camera. She got me and took me to the doctor, and then we went home. She was still wearing makeup that she had on for the film. That's how I remember her when I think about her, which I do every day. There is no better way to tell about the kind of mother I had. I was a teacher of children with special needs for 25 years, but when my own children were young, I told their schools that if one of my children ever felt sick or had an accident, they were to call me where I worked, and I would leave immediately to go to them, the way Mommie had done for me.
"When I was little, I didn't know my mother was a movie star. She wasn't a movie star in our house. I'll never forget the night Mommie invited friends in to see a film of hers. It was called Humoresque [co-starring John Garfield, 1946]. I was very excited. Mommie had a separate theater in a building in the back of our house. It was a very nice place to watch a movie. I was about three or less. I got the seat next to Mommie, so I was very happy until the end of the movie, when I saw Mommie walking into the ocean. She was going to drown. I was so frightened, I started to cry. I grabbed Mommie's arm. I held on to it, clutching her sleeve. She smiled at me and reassured me. 'Honey, don't cry. Here I am, Cathy. I'm right here. Nothing happened to me. It was a movie. It wasn't real.' That's how I found out what Mommie did."
Heartbroken after the attack on their mother in Mommie Dearest, neither Cathy nor Cindy Crawford ever gave interviews. Christina's book left them feeling embarrassed and humiliated.
"It makes me very sad," Cathy told me. "Every time Mommie's name is mentioned, that book is mentioned. I don't want to give it any more publicity than it's already had. Even when people say or write good things about my mother, that book gets linked to her name. It's so unfair."
The twins were born on January 13, 1947, in a Byersburg, Tennessee, hospital. Cathy was eight minutes older than Cindy. Joan's adoption certificate was dated January 16, 1947. The babies were premature and had to stay in the hospital for several weeks. Cathy remembered Joan telling her that she had weighed only a little more than three pounds.
Their mother, who had given them up for adoption, was very ill and died less than a week after the twins were born. She hadn't been married. The adoption arrangements were made before the twins were born.
Cathy told me that she and her sister always considered Joan their mother, and they had no interest in knowing who their biological mother was. In the early 1990s, however, Cathy went back to Tennessee to find out about her family. "I learned my grandmother had seen a picture in a movie magazine of my sister and me with Mommie. She thought we were her grandchildren, so she saved the picture and carried it around in her purse. She never found out for sure that she was right."
Cathy told me that her first memory was the image of her and Cindy doing dishes. They began doing them when they were so little they couldn't reach the sink. They had to climb up on chairs. Cathy said that they also had other responsibilities and chores, such as making their beds and keeping their rooms neat, but that they saw them as part of their mother's caring about them. Joan did certain chores with them, such as pulling weeds, and Cathy remembered that as "great fun."
'Mommie was very affectionate. My twin sister and I used to crawl into bed with her in the morning, and she would like that, and we did, too.
"I always liked riding with her on our holiday trips to Carmel. I would snuggle up to her while she drove up there. We always had wonderful times during our visits to Carmel. Mommie didn't have to go to work, and it was so beautiful there.
"Two of her best friends, who came over and talked with us and played with us, were Uncle Van [Johnson] and Uncle Butch [Cesar Romero]. Uncle Van always wore red socks. We knew they weren't really our uncles.
"As a special treat, sometimes my sister and I got our sleeping bags and 'camped out,' sleeping on the floor by Mommie's bed.
"I remember, when we went to the theater in New York, a lot of times after the play Mommie was introduced. I was personally shy, but I didn't mind it, because Mommie enjoyed it, and I understood it went with the territory.
"Mommie took us to Peter Pan with Mary Martin, and when we went backstage to her dressing room, she was waiting for us with stardust and the sparkly stuff she had gathered on her stage flight, which she gave to us.
"I have so many happy memories with Mommie. One I always remember is going to see Hello, Dolly! with her and Cindy. Carol Channing was a friend of Mommie's. We had house seats, and she knew we would be coming backstage. She gave me and my sister—each of us—a beautiful bracelet of small diamonds. They weren't really diamonds, but we thought they were. When I found out they were rhinestones, I loved it just as much.
"I remember," Cathy continued, "going to Chasen's with my sister and Mommie. We sat in one of those very big booths in the small front section where everybody Mommie knew liked to sit. Chasen's was the great place to go in Hollywood, and Mommie and her friends always sat in those big booths. Once, we were eating our lunch, and I saw Judy Garland come in. I recognized her, because she was a friend of Mommie's who came to our house. I tugged at Mommie's sleeve and said, 'Look, Aunt Judy is here.' Mommie didn't seem to hear me.
"Just as we were leaving, I told her again, 'Look, Mommie. It's Aunt Judy over there.'
"This time Mommie heard me, and we went to the table where Judy Garland was sitting. Mommie and Aunt Judy hugged each other, and Mommie told her, 'Cathy was trying to tell me you were here.' I was proud.
"Sometimes Mommie had to go to work, and my sister and I were left with our governess, who was with us many years and whom we loved. After we went to school, we knew that my mother was famous and successful and that she went to the movie studio to work. She took us to the set. Sometimes she took one of us, sometimes both of us, and we watched her acting. She was making The Best of Everything.
"Mommie was strict. She believed in discipline. I remember once doing something when I was little for which I had to stand in the corner. I don't remember anymore what it was. I guess we all stood in the corner sometime in our lives. I remember another time, when I said I didn't like my dinner and I didn't want to eat it. I didn't have to eat it, but I didn't get something else. I had to go to bed without dinner. I don't think it was such a terrible punishment."
When Cathy and Cindy were teenagers, they went to lunch with Joan at '21,' in New York. "After we were seated," Cathy said, "the maître d' brought over a bottle of Coca-Cola and put it at Mommie's place. We didn't understand. Mommie waved at a man across the room, and he waved back, acknowledging the bottle of Pepsi-Cola she had sent to his table. Mommie explained to us that he was the president of Coca-Cola, and whenever they were at the same restaurant at the same time, they exchanged colas. After Mommie married Al Steele, she went with him on Pepsi-Cola business trips to Europe or she went to make a movie in England. Whenever we weren't in school, they sent for us.
"We had one trip for the Christmas holidays to Saint-Moritz, and I liked Gstaad, and we had a wonderful trip to Italy. In Rome, I loved seeing all of the churches and cathedrals.
"I was the luckiest child in the world to have Mommie choose me," said Cathy. "I wouldn't have chosen any other mother in the whole world, because I had the best one anyone could ever have. She gave me backbone and courage and so much I could never say it all, but—oh, my gosh—the most important gift she gave me was all of the wonderful memories to last and take me through my life."
Cathy remembered one of her last visits with her mother, at Joan's New York City apartment. "There was a lot of pastel yellow and green and white in the apartment. Mommie always took as much California with her as she could." Cathy had brought her young children, Carla and Casey, with her to see their grandmother. Cathy had continued her mother's practice of giving her children names that started with C. They were five and four years old.
"They called Mommie JoJo. She liked that. They really loved their grandmother, and she really loved her grandchildren. They were in the next room playing, and Mommie asked me, 'Do they really think of me as their grandmother?' She wondered if they understood about adoption. Did they understand the difference in her being their natural grandmother or their adopted grandmother?
"I said, 'They only think of you as their grandmother.'
"She smiled and looked very pleased.
"Then we heard a sliding noise in the next room. I knew immediately what it was. Mommie had these wonderful parquet floors. She kept them perfectly, the way she always kept everything. Before we'd gone into the building, I'd said to my children, 'Remember, no sliding. Absolutely no sliding.' But my children found those parquet floors irresistible.
"I started to get up and said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry. I'll tell them to stop.' Mommie motioned for me not to stop them.
" 'No, it's all right, Cathy. They're enjoying themselves. Let them slide.' She paused. Then she said, 'I've mellowed.' "
Excerpted from Not the Girl Next Door, by Charlotte Chandler, to be published this month by Simon & Schuster; © 2008 by the author.


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Years ago when I was beginning my genealogical research, I used the Lue Spencer DAR Library. At that time it was located in the basement of the public library in Alliance, Nebraska. In time it was moved to the Edith Abbott Memorial Library in Grand Island, Nebraska.
The collection does not pertain just to Nebraska. There are numerous books pertaining to other areas, as well as bound collections of excellent periodicals. You will also find the Sprague Collection in the library. Both of these will keep genealogists busy for hours.
Grand Island's library has old city directories, early newspapers, Hall County census records and a city cemetery book which is updated periodically. They have the "Grand Island Daily Independent" on microfilm. There are three microfilm readers available. If you are unable to search in person, a volunteer will copy requests such as obituaries, weddings, birth and death announcements with an exact date. They request postage and copy fees. Available within the library are the online databases, Ancestry Library Edition and Heritage Quest.
Information about the library:
211 North Washington Street
School year hours:
Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm (after Labor Day)
Mon-Thurs 9:30 am to 9 pm
Fri-Sat 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Summer hours:
Sunday closed
Mon-Thurs 9:30 am to 7:30 pm
Fri-Sat 9:30 am to 5 pm
Add this library to your genealogy research list. It is worth the trip!


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Mel quickly 'treads' up and begins looking over the professor. "He is hurt, and may be in shock, but I believe I can stabilize him."@Alice: You sense distant mental activity from the burned-out village, but nothing closer to you than the 'professor' currently. The professor, however, has significant mental shielding.
@Adam: No weaponry, but you do notice that the fatigues have the name 'Smith' on the breast, and seem to be World War 2 era. The professor looks much as you saw him before, just a touch older.
@Gillian: Looks to be so, yeah.
@Jace: The bullets are not lodged in him.
The 'professor' coughs and nods, "Thank you, whomever you are. I ...do not go under the guise of a professor, although I once knew a young woman who called me that from time to time. No, I am known by many as The Visitor."
"I apologize for bringing such young people here. War isn't for you. I simply reached for reinforcements. I can send you back once I'm back on my feet...shouldn't be long."Knowledge of history roll TN 10: The Visitor was a magic hero active in the 1930's-1940's. He vanished from the public eye some time in 1945.


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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Mike: Mike Who?
Mike Chiesl is a 31 year old marine from California and he looks like a foot compared to Matt. It's not his fault really. It's CBS' fault for putting him in the line-up right after sparkly glittery Matt.
Mike says a lot of marine things and quotes a lot of marine stuff. His dad was a marine. His grandpa was a marine. His cat was a marine. Marine, marine, marine! I suppose if I came from a military family this stuff might be interesting, but it just isn't. I'd rather talk about what volumizer Matt uses. I'll bet it's Aveda.
So here's Mike's video. Let's hope he can break the spell Matt's golden locks has put me under.
I think I saw Matt in the trees in the background. I'll bet he was writing poetry to a horse. After his poem is finished, he'll probably weave a basket out of giant palm leaves.
So, yeah, that's Mike. He's the one who's not Matt.
P.S. When I googled Mike's picture, the whole Image Page was filled with photos of Matt. HAHA! Poor Mike. The guy just can't catch a break.
Posted by Colette Lala at 10:51 AM
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Well, they wouldn't let me be a marine. They found out my parents were married when I was conceived.ReplyDelete
That aside, officers like Mike were the ones who got fragged by their own troops back in my time in the army. Marines don't "smile, and project a positive image." They're gruff old SOB's like R. Lee Ermey.
- DiabolicalFebruary 12, 2011 at 11:27 PM
He comes off as the paranoid player for this season. I think he's going to lose it with the psychological component of the game and not knowing who the enemy is.ReplyDelete
Well, they wouldn't let me be a marine. They found out my parents were married when I was conceived.ReplyDelete
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Melinda Katz, Democratic candidate and the widely considered frontrunner in the race, recently sent out a fundraising letter with a subtle allegation that her Republican challenger, Tony Arcabascio, is only focused on helping the wealthy of the borough.
"As long as there's a Republican running to be the next Queens Borough President, fighting to make life easier for the 1% while working families struggle, our work is not yet finished," the letter reads.
Okay, maybe it's not all that subtle!
Although he is running on the Republican line, a party that is often linked to the financially privileged and is now taking a huge hit for the government shutdown, Arcabascio likes to point out that he is the son of Italian immigrants who worked so hard to provide for his family that he was essentially a latchkey kid.
"Unless you're talking about the one percent which happens to be one percent of the successful sons of immigrants that work very hard and get an education and stand here today opposing the Queens Democratic machine candidate, yeah, I'm part of that one percent," Arcabasio said at a recent debate. "I'm not an evil Republican."
On the other hand, Katz is fond of bringing up the fact that her parents founded the Queens Symphony Orchestra as proof that she is devoted to enhancing the arts and culture in Queens. Very few people have parents who founded a symphony orchestra, probably only like, oh we don't know, one percent maybe.
Whose part of the privileged elite now, we ask?
But one thing that Arcabascio has to come to terms with is that he can claim to be a moderate all he wants, but being the Republican candidate for Queens borough president makes you one thing: a Republican.
Arcabasio points out that the Queens County Republican Party hasn't given him a nickel to help run his campaign. But he did accept their nomination, and voters who vote strictly along party lines have some right to assume that the candidate on the ballot shares their values.
And the more that Arcabasio tries to distance himself from the Republican Party, the more he risks alienating the one base of support that he can reasonably count on.
To prove further that he is not some sort of partisan hack, Arcabasio told this paper that if he were elected he would approach Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr., a Democrat who will be leaving office because of term limits at the end of this year, about serving as his deputy borough president.
Coincidentally, Vallone was defeated by Katz in the Democratic Primary for the seat. How did she do it?
She sent out numerous mailers playing up Vallone's support from the Conservative Party and suggesting that Vallone shared the party's more radical views on hot-button issues that would resonate with Democratic voters.
Vallone consistently downplayed the Conservative Party's support, countering that just because he accepted their support didn't mean that he shared all of the party's views.
It was a clever way of turning the issue, but Katz hammered the point home, both in campaign literature and in debates, and it seems to have swayed at least some voters considering she won.
In the end, this race is proving once again that while politicians argue over the one percent, the rest of the 99 are left out of the conversation.


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The political battle over Wall Street reform is finally being engaged in earnest. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has formally thrown in his party's lot with the nation's largest banks, and to their credit, Democrats appear to be pushing back, both on politics and policy.
McConnell has been arguing this week that the reform bill would make the bailouts of 2008 a permanent public policy. This is simply wrong. There are plenty of shortcomings in the bill that the Senate Banking Committee recently approved (Nomi Prins lays out most of them here), but it is not a permanent bailout authority. It is a serious, if somewhat underwhelming, effort to place meaningful regulations on out-of-control banks, and find a way to destroy them safely when they fail.
So it was heartening to see Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) push back against McConnell's misinformation campaign yesterday, rather than cede rhetorical territory to mollify him. Here's how Dodd (accuartely) characterized McConnell's argument on the Senate floor:
"It's straight from the Wall Street special interest playbook. And it's just a Wall Street lie."
Here's how McConnell's hometown paper, the Lexington Herald-Leader described the Minority Leader's bloviating:
"While the intricacies of financial regulation are complicated, McConnell's calculus is pretty obvious. The high-stakes gamblers on Wall Street, luxuriating again in big bonuses, don't want any new oversight or regulation. Why would they, knowing that the government would have to bail them out again if their trading of worthless financial instruments goes bust and threatens to bring on the next Great Depression? McConnell, unabashedly courting Wall Street bankers for political money, is happy to scratch their backs if they'll scratch his."
And it appears that at least a few Republicans understand the political imperative to vote for reform. Standing with Wall Street against the public is not going to fly with voters of any ideological stripe come November. While Republicans officially continue to stand in unified opposition to the bill, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) called McConnell's comments "overblown," and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) offered support for a proposal on derivatives reform outlined by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR). The devil will certainly be in the details, but Lincoln appears to be pushing a robust reform that would curb the reckless excess that toppled AIG.
The bill still needs to be strengthened significantly. Fortunately, the criticisms Prins levies against the Dodd bill can be countered with with a handful of short amendments (indeed, if Lincoln's legilsative text matches her descriptions, she will have provided one of those key changes). The lobbying against those amendments is going to be relentless, but it's good to see Democrats pushing back against Wall Street's defenders, rather than rushing headlong into destructive compromises that jeopardize our economy. It will take backbone, but Democrats do in fact have the opportunity to accomplish something significant.


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Report: "Bjork" at MoMA
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As a big fan of singer/artist Bjork, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the Museum of Modern Art would host a "mid-career retrospective" on the Icelandic goddess in 2015. I will report on the exhibit in a moment because by now, if you've seen any press on this exhibit, it has been overwhelmingly negative. I have to agree, but only because Bjork is such a unique and amazing artist, the exhibit does not do her career much justice, especially to those who use this exhibit to get an education in all things Bjork. I enjoyed myself, but for a retrospective, so many great possibilities for a wonderful exhibit fell through the cracks.
The show opened to the public on March 8, 2015, so naturally Gail of Worleygig and I checked the show out on the first day. I cannot say this is how your experience will go, but we got to the museum around 11 o'clock am and our timed ticket to view the exhibit was for 12:45, but you may want to prepare for a longer line, just in case. The exhibit consists of 3 parts: 1. A screening room with a video for the song "Black Lake," which has been specially commissioned for this exhibit. The video is about 10 minutes long and is about Bjork's breakup with artist Matthew Barney (whose collaborations with Bjork are ignored in the exhibit). Second (and this is what you need timed tickets for) is "Songlines," a quasi-immersive experience into each of Bjork's solo albums, featuring handwritten lyrics, costumes and miscellaneous ephemera from her solo work. Last, a screening room features all of Bjork's music videos (though her last album "Biophilia").
I guess this is as good as any place to start talking about what the exhibit lacks. Bjork's early career is completely ignored – from her childhood singing (she released her first album in 1977, in case you didn't know) to her beginnings in various Icelandic punk bands (and one of them was called Tippi Tikarrass which translates to "Cork the Bitch's Ass." The public at large should be educated in this!) Also ignored, the band that put Bjork on the world map in the late 1980s – The Sugarcubes. Instead, you start with Bjork's solo album "Debut" (1993). You walk through a hallway that features running loops of each of Bjork's tours – packaged in a room that is not conducive to spending lots of time and makes the non-diehard gloss over the amazing performance artist that Bjork is in concert. You are given a headset and you get to hear a story that has nothing to do with the recording of the music and instead tells you the journey of a girl, whose story may or may not be true, but again taking the focus away from all the rules Bjork was breaking as she embarked on her solo career – working with cutting edge producers, making artistic videos, making singles that had extremely diverse (even if sometimes annoying) remixes, her usage of interesting artwork for her releases and most of all, her carving out a place in the music landscape with her unique lyrics and quirky personality, never selling out by going mainstream and always remaining a true avant-garde artist.
Typically each room focuses on one of her solo albums (aside from the remix album "Telegram," the soundtrack to her collaboration with Matthew Barney "Drawing Restraint 9" her own "Selmasongs" record, which is the soundtrack to the critically acclaimed film she starred in called "Dancer in the Dark" and even the "Army of Me" cover album, where 20 versions of that song which were submitted by fans and the moneys from the project went to 2004 Tsunami victim relief). The exhibit does not benefit from having the music videos separated from the props on display from each album because as you see the evolution of her videos, you will also hear the evolution of her music. For the die-hards, we already know this, but to someone discovering the world of Bjork for the first time, they have to dig really deep to get some answers, and Bjork's music can be extremely challenging at times. Besides, seeing clips of appropriate videos would at least give the uninitiated a bigger clue into what Bjork is all about, as they are not likely to sit down for 2 hours to watch Bjork's videos in a separate part of the museum.
Some of the most iconic outfits Bjork has worn are on display from a dress made by Alexander McQueen to the infamous Swan Dress, and in fact, the mannequins look eerily like Bjork. There's nothing in the exhibit to tell you how she ended up working with these people or how the costumes fit into the theme from the album. Also absent are sales figures, track lists, several officially released coffee table books about Bjork's work, awards and any sort of mention of her collaborations with the likes of Thom Yorke of Radiohead or writing the title track for Madonna's album "Bedtime Stories." Even the groundbreaking interactive "Biophilia" app, which was acquired by MoMA, doesn't even make an appearance! Whoever curated this exhibit did a huge disservice to Bjork's career.
The items on display are certainly cool and interesting, and if you are a die-hard, seeing so many infamous Bjork-items are a treat, so I enjoyed the exhibit, as did Gail, a lover of art and not a huge fan of Bjork's music. However, there have been many exhibits where I was unfamiliar with the artist on display as I walked into the show and when I left, I felt I had a much better understanding of their work. With this Bjork show, it is definitely not the case.
I think you can appreciate this exhibit no matter what your level of Bjork fandom, but if you don't take the time to dig deep with her work, which many viewers will not, the true artistry of Bjork's career will not be seen or heard, and that is a tragedy. Let us know what you think if you go in the comments section.
"Bjork" at MoMa runs through June 7, 2015.
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I LOVED this exhibit. Speaking as an art lover but not a person who is very familiar with Bjork's music at all, I would recommend it! Great report though for people who are expecting much more than what you see at MOMA. And thanks for the shout out!


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Foraged Flavor: All About Juniper
The Japanese say that walking in an evergreen forest and "taking in the atmosphere" (shinrin-yoku, or "forest bathing trip") is therapeutic for the health and the spirit. If that's true, then surely hanging around for hours foraging juniper berries is good for the soul. Whenever I'm foraging among the junipers I like to breathe in deeply. The aroma is a mix of the forest and the earth, rich and balsamic, like a shot of a winter holiday elixir.
There are some 60 species of juniper found around the world, growing in different ways: some as shrubs, low and sprawling; some more upright as trees. In North America, there are 13 indigenous species that grow wild, and more that are commercially cultivated varieties, not all of which are edible. If you look closely at a juniper branch, you'll find that they all have tiny scale-like needles. On younger trees, the needles can be sharp and prickly.
Juniper berries are not real berries. They're cones with scales so miniature and packed down that you can't even see the scales — instead, they appear as round berries. Only the female tree makes the berries, while the male just has little brown cones.
Juniper berries are most famously known as the flavoring in gin, and in fact the word gin comes from the French genievre, or juniper. flavoring can be very strong and have a slightly turpentine-like finish.
Juniper berries found in the grocery store and in gin are those of the common juniper, which grows as a low sprawling shrub and can be found in many parts of North America as well as Europe. However, it is not so "common" in the mid-Atlantic and other regions, as it favors cliff edges and rocky soils.
The juniper that is grows most often in the wild in central and eastern North America is called (somewhat confusingly) eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana). It is one of the first trees that you can see pioneering in old fields and hedgerows. The Comanche and the Lakota American Indians used the berries of the eastern red cedar, eating them whole and also crushed as a spice for soups, meats, and stews. The berry is much smaller than that of the common juniper. It's also sweeter and less harsh, without those "turpentine" gin notes.
This summer, we enjoyed the underripe green berries, and now they have ripened into a blue-black hue with a slight white dusting wrapper. We pick them now when they are still firm, since later in the winter they may start to crumble and lose their peak quality. This year is a gold mine for juniper berries so those in the know are stashing away lots of them. Who knows whether next year will be as good? Last year, I could barely find a tree with any berries to speak of.
The berries can be eaten dried, fresh, chopped, or powdered to impart a sharp, peppery flavor to balance the richness of winter game, meats, soups, and stews. Right before using the berries, you can also grind and sprinkle them on meats as a seasoning, or make a juniper sugar for blueberry scones (add extra juniper spice if you're using foraged eastern red cedar berries, as their flavor is more subtle). Or try chocolate sables with juniper sugar for a treat that's not too sweet and more on the order of a European-style biscuit cookie.
Juniper berries are also a traditional ingredient in making German sauerkraut and they pickle well on their own. On the savory side, the Wong family's favorite is wintertime cauliflower soup with wild juniper. The pepperiness of the juniper balances the creaminess of the cauliflower exquisitely.
Note: Fresh juniper can have strong antiviral and other medicinal properties. If you are pregnant or under medications consult your physician before consuming.
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In any debate over climate change, conventional wisdom holds that there is no reflex more absurd than invoking the local weather.
And yet this year's wild weather fluctuations seem to have motivated people on both sides of the issue to stick a finger in the air and declare the matter resolved — in their favor.
"Within psychology, it's called motivated reasoning, or the confirmation bias," explained Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Project on Climate Change Communication at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. "People are looking for evidence of any kind that validates or reinforces or justifies what they already believe."
Last February, for example, as a freak winter storm paralyzed much of the East Coast, relatives of Senator James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who is a skeptic of climate change, came to Washington and erected an igloo.
They topped it with a cheeky sign asking passers-by to "Honk if you ♥ global warming." Another sign, added later, christened the ice dome "Al Gore's new home."Continue reading the main story
Environmentalists roundly criticized the stunt for relying on a fact as lonely as a snowstorm. "Weather is our day-to-day experience, while climate is more static, describing a region's typical weather conditions as established over periods of time," explained Adrianna Quintero, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a blog post scolding the deniers.
Now, with record heat searing much of the planet from Minnesota to Moscow, people long concerned with global warming seem to be pointing out the window themselves.
"As Washington, D.C., wilts in the global heat wave gripping the planet, the Democratic leadership in the Senate has abandoned the effort to cap global warming pollution for the foreseeable future," wrote Brad Johnson at the progressive Wonk Room blog, part of the Center for American Progress.
Of course, it's probably not surprising that outspoken partisans sometimes use the weather as a rhetorical tool, but researchers are also learning that many less certain people unwittingly take note of temperatures, too.
Mr. Leiserowitz has identified what he and fellow researchers call "Global Warming's Six Americas" — from people who are "alarmed," "concerned" or merely "cautious" on climate change, to those who are "disengaged," "doubtful" or wholly "dismissive."
For people at either extreme — that is, those alarmed by or dismissive of climate change — the local weather isn't going to have much influence, although they may use it conveniently to drive home a point.
But for those in the mushy middle — about a third of the overall population — the local weather, rightly or wrongly, influences their thoughts on the topic, often subconsciously.
That idea is reinforced by another study under review at the journal Psychological Science. Researchers at Columbia University found a high correlation between a participant's stance on global warming and how he perceived the outdoor temperature on the day he was asked about it. Study subjects were also more likely to say they would donate to a global warming charity on days they perceived to be unusually warm.
For Eric J. Johnson, the director of the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School and a co-author of the study, the findings highlight the pitfalls of policymaking by poll, given that opinions on such a complex issue appear susceptible to highly impertinent data.
"It's like assessing how the economy is doing by looking at the change in your pocket," Mr. Johnson said. "It's relevant, but not that relevant."
There is a not-insignificant caveat: Those pointing to hot weather as evidence of global warming are, in the broadest sense, more likely to be right. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado demonstrated last year that record high temperatures have occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade.
That's in keeping with most models of global warming, which predict not a steady climb in temperature, but higher average readings over time — and more record-breaking peaks than valleys.
Whether that makes it fair to consciously lean on the weather when it's convenient is an open question — though it appears hard for either side to resist.
In 1988, James Hansen, a NASA climate scientist, spoke at a Senate hearing and famously thrust the issue of global warming on the national stage.
But he apparently had some help in making his point.
We "went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right? So that the air-conditioning wasn't working inside the room," recalled Timothy Wirth, the former Democratic senator from Colorado, in an interview with "Frontline" in 2007.
Mr. Hansen was "wiping his brow at the witness table," Mr. Wirth said, "and giving this remarkable testimony."Continue reading the main story


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For all of the incessant and on-going speculation about Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign — two days of stories about the Clinton Foundation, stepping to the center of New York City's mayoral debate — one point is worth making. There is nothing — no poll, no historic data, no web indicators — which tells us much about how likely a Clinton victory would be.
It's far too early for polls.
In June of 2009 — slightly farther away from 2012 than 2016 is from now — CNN reported on a poll looking at the Republican presidential primary. The top three Republican candidates: Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney. Trailing those three were Newt Gingrich and Jeb Bush.
Or, even more to the point, a Gallup poll from August 11, 2005. The top Democratic candidates for 2008 were, in order: Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and Joe Biden. The word "Obama" does not appear on the page.
There are two points to be made from this. The first is that we don't know the candidates that might run. The second is that there's a lot of time for opinion on those candidates to shift.
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Do you ever feel "busy"? Do you ever feel like you need 100 hours in a day? Time management is a coveted skill and is important when pursuing high-pressure, dynamic careers like those in STEM areas often are. Jackie Kunzler has a lifetime of experience with juggling a myriad of professional, academic, and personal roles as she pursued all of her advanced degrees (M.S., M.B.A., and Ph.D.) while working fulltime and raising three children. She will share her incredible story of managing all areas of her life while staying motivated through the challenges she faced both technically and personally. The pursuit of an advanced degree can be daunting for a lot of women, especially with pressure to have a career, family, and maintain some level of work/life balance. Jackie Kunzler's story will inspire you to "do it all", and more… at the same time!
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2012 NLCS: Giants Beat Cardinals, 9-0, Advance to World Series
Matt Cain pitched his second series-clinching game of the postseason, and the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 9-0, in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Monday night at AT&T Park. The Giants won their record-tying sixth elimination game of the postseason to advance to their second World Series in three years. They defeated the defending World Series champion-Cardinals three consecutive times after falling behind 3 games to 1 in the series.
Hunter Pence hit a broken-bat, two-run double in San Francisco's five-run third inning, as the Giants continued their domination of St. Louis in the latter half of the NLCS.The Cardinals scored just one run in the final three games of the series. Giants' second baseman Marco Scutaro was named the Most Valuable Player of the NLCS after collecting a record 14 hits in the series, including three on Monday night. He hit .500 for the series.
Giants' closer Sergio Romo came on to record the final out in a heavy, steady rain, as Matt Holliday popped out to Marco Scutaro to end the game, the series and the Cardinals' season. San Francisco will now host the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday. The American League champion-Tigers have been idle since completing a sweep of the Yankees in the ALCS last Thursday.