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[Review] - Better Call Saul, Season 2
In which believably developed characters take uncomfortably realistic strides towards destiny.
I was hesitant as this sophomore season of Better Call Saul began. Season one ended, after an episode that I felt didn't exactly match what had proceeded it, with Jimmy taking a definite and final step towards shredding his old self and embracing the Goodman to come. And almost immediately, season two stepped us and Jimmy back from that finality and certainty. The opening moments of season two even committed a tiny little retcon, going back and adding in details to how season one ended that made it all a little less absolute and a little more abstract. Suddenly, Jimmy was not taking those fateful strides towards Saul, but was instead taking delicate, minuscule steps in that direction. And this makes sense. With season one in the can before it started to air, there was no telling if audiences would embrace the more comedic but just as tragic story of the rise and fall of Jimmy McGill in the same way that they had embraced Walter White. It could have just as easily joined the multitude of spin-offs that floundered on execution and been dismissed as a shadow of continuity. Having season one end with Jimmy embracing those attributes that would lead to Jimmy gave season one a self-containment.
Of course, it went hard the other way. Better Call Saul took the lessons the creative team had learned through Breaking Bad, and managed to create a series that I estimated had a chance at ultimately being an even better series then its predecessor. At the very least, Saul is one of if not the best prequel ever written, managing to find a way to tell its own story without being a slave to the inevitable, while still being respectful to what is to come. Pulling Jimmy back from his absolution was necessary to carry on the narrative. It avoids the problem that every other sequel makes, in that they feel the need to transform the hero into their known form as fast as possible. Better Call Saul has almost no interest in Saul Goodman. Saul is the narrative equivalent of Japan as seen from the California coast: if you head west, you'll hit it eventually, but there is a hell of a lot of ocean to cover in between. Likewise, Saul is something that exists beyond the horizon. By Jimmy's declination and orientation, he's headed that way, and occasionally he catches a good tailwind, but there is still a hell of a lot of ocean still separating them. Adrift with spoilers.
This season also calcified the idea that Better Call Saul is probably the worst title for this series. It puts too much of the focus on Jimmy. The truth is, this is not Jimmy's story. Bob Odenkirk is not carrying this one himself, not anymore. That might have been the original plan, and the early episodes of season one confirm that. But the writers recognized what they had in the character of Mike, and in the actor Jonathan Banks. This is equal partners the stories of Jimmy and Mike, split straight down the middle. As much as it is the story of Jimmy's disgrace and temporary rise as a lawyer of ill repute, so too is it the story of how Mike becomes seduced by his own protective nature to becoming the hardened killer and drug cartel wonk we first knew him as. Saul then exists as a state of being, a miasmic failure of personal fortitude and character, a place of desperation where men find themselves when they have nothing left in life but their own self-interest and self-preservation. Saul is the boogeyman, the voice inside their head that makes everything sound like a good idea at the time but ultimately leads them down a path of destruction. Not self-destruction, not yet; we've seen that story. This is the story of how well-meaning men forget about being well-meaning.
And it's the story of the destruction they leave in their wake. As much as season one was about raising them up, this season shifted that perspective. They weren't rising, the ground around them was falling away. As the season began, both characters were in the clichéd "fork in the road" position. They were in a place that, had they chosen one road, they could have lived lives of happy contentment, uneventful and semi-successful. Jimmy would have been the lawyer he always wanted to be, and Mike would have had a quite retirement with his grand-daughter. But these characters always want more. That is the fault of all characters in the Breaking/Saul universe. They are never content. They functionally cannot be. Once they achieve their goal, they move their own goal posts. They create their own obstacles, become their own worst enemies. They live in a constant state of desperation, cleaning up their own messes. Even Mike, who comes the closest to leaving any worry or quarrel behind, insists on reinserting himself into trouble for nothing less than his own perception of honour and justice. After taking blame for the gun, Mike's story had a legitimate ending. But the defining characteristic of Mike means that he cannot let a threat go unanswered, and cannot let a wrong go unrighted. So, he digs himself right back into the hole he just climbed out of. If I find one fault with this season, which was as near perfect as a TV show can be, it is that Mike's situation at the end of the season is entirely manufactured. He was out. But because we know where he ends up, he had to be pulled back in. But the writers were too good, they made Mike too good, and he put himself off the board. Their method for getting him back on, while true to character, did have that feeling of necessity rather than development.
Jimmy's story this season was actually Kim's story, and we should all be thankful for that. Rhea Seehorn stole this season away from her co-stars, handed fantastic scenes with great development, and paid those scenes respect. Jimmy was less self-serving this season by benefit of everything he did, he did for Kim. Kim was the beginning and end of his entire motivation. In fact, the biggest pushes he took towards becoming Saul were made so that Kim could emerge from her struggles victorious. Not that the show left her the damsel in distress. Perhaps the best episode of this season was Rebecca, in which Kim – suffering for Jimmy's actions – secures her own success. "You don't save me," she says. "I save me." Not only is that a laudable and infuriatingly scarce sentiment for a female character to invoke, but it is also a mission statement for the show. When Kim acts, positive things happen, and characters thrive. When Jimmy acts, negative things happen, and characters are destroyed. Kim secures Mesa Verde and prospers. Jimmy enacts his elaborate plan to steal their business back on her behalf, and that act now looms over everything, threatening to destroy everyone.
It was also the season in which Chuck became more defined as a character. Last season he existed as enigma, before emerging a villain. This season we delved deeper into his motivation, and realized that he isn't a villain, he's an asshole. He's entirely justified in his position, but he is also an inexcusable asshole. The power and beauty of Vince Gilligan's shows has proven to be the complexity of character. We sympathized with Walter White, despite the monster he became, not because we rooted for the dark side, but because we understood why he was making the choices he was making. The same is true here. Jimmy is a crook. He's entertaining, and sympathetic as hell, but he's still a crook. We can fist bump the air when he pulls off his elaborate ruse against Chuck, and then step back and recognize that he committed a felony. That, in the long run, Jimmy isn't a good guy. He's a nice guy, but he isn't a good guy. Likewise, once we learn of Chuck's position, of why he loathes Jimmy so much, you cannot but 100% agree with him. Jimmy is a loser and a schmuck and toxic. But Chuck is a dick, just a major league asshole, which is enough that you can't side with him entirely. He's not a bad guy, but he's a rude one. And he's crazy, and another aspect of Rebecca that really vaults it above the rest is that brief peak into the past that makes Chuck a much more tragic figure. Even without knowing specifics, we know just enough to know that Charles McGill is a man driven by grief more than anything else.
"Tragedy is me getting a paper cut," Mel Brooks once said. "Comedy is you falling down a manhole and dying." I can't for the life of me think of a series that has better exemplified this dichotomy. The show lives in this juxtaposition. We feel, we cry, we sympathize with the little failings that inflict these characters. The lost opportunities, the forced hands, the backs pressed up into corners. Then the shows lobs laughs at us in the form of high absurdity. Pie sitters and Robert Holmes and little girls drilling holes in hoses. This is a show that uses humour as a sharp sword, so sharp that you don't realize that it's digging into your kidneys and twisting. It's high craftsmanship, a well-oiled production of writers and directors and producers who have honed their craft to the point where it's much more noticeable and noteworthy when they dribble than when they excel. Add to that the sound production team, which might be the best working in the business right now. I don't usually notice sound. In fact, some might say that good sound production is the kind that doesn't draw attention. But this show uses sound, rightly and somewhat revolutionarily, as a vital part of set design. Why waste a sense, I can imagine them thinking. If we can play with camera angles, if we can affect the way the audience sees the product, why waste the only other of the senses that makes up television. Use every potential that sound allows. Construct tension and foreshadowing, build whole scenes around the use, disuse and misuse of sound. And it works. It makes the episodes heavy, by which I mean substantial. Like they were raised in a lower gravity environment, and suddenly find themselves with more mass. But making use of sound as a physical force, they add another dimension to the storytelling. This is a true "4-D" experience is.
So I stand by my previous assertion: Better Call Saul is an improvement upon Breaking Bad in every relevant respect. It's a different species, but it's in the same genus. It's the natural evolution of the beast. It's stronger, smoother, better. Anything that didn't serve the creature was diluted away, and everything that will help it thrive is accentuated. The pace this season was slower, the plot allowed to play out over the course. There certainly didn't seem to be a rush to get to anywhere in particular. Unlike in seasonal arcs, there was no real confrontation or revelation that the show was building towards, because the revelation they are building towards is Breaking Bad Season 2, Episode 8: Better Call Saul. That is where this is headed. Everything until we get there gets to be the Japanese sword making of character development. Despite only being 10 episodes long, this season covered enough ground to seem like it lasted four times that long. Watching this show is like eating a full meal; not a greasy, bloated American-sized portion, served in a bucket and covered in a florescent cheese-like substance. This is a hearty, earnest, thick, fresh from the field and slow roasted sort of old-world meal, a prime cut served in the proper proportions.
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Cabinet transformation!
Recently a friend of mine was trying to unload a tv cabinet because she is moving to a new house and didn't want to take it with her. She said it was free to whoever wanted it but they had to come and pick it up, AND that it is really heavy. Free furniture... it's in my DNA to jump on free furniture and so I did. I gathered up 2 of my sons and hubby and his friend and off we went to get this cabinet. Here's the thing we don't need a tv cabinet, but anything with doors/drawers can become storage anywhere in my house and since son #3 moved out, I got some extra space if you know what I mean. So we brought this monster heavy cabinet home, she was right, it is heavy, it flattened the dolly wheels! Once it was in the house I thought it was too big for my original plan so I decided to transform it and put it in the kitchen... which meant we had to move my buffet from the kitchen to the living room which meant we had to move the dresser from the living room to the craft room, which meant we had to move the desk in the craft room to boy #3's old room, whewww, my husband LOVE'S these projects!!! Can I get an amen sisters??? Oh wait he loved this even more, let's tear apart the tv cabinet and transform it into something useful for the kitchen, yep the fun never ends here at my house! So let me show you the original, I am sure you have a picture of it in your head.
So here is the thing. I don't have storage in my kitchen. I have lived here 22 years and lived with it but as my family is growing, (lovely boys bringing home lovely girls) I need more stuff, more dishes and well just stuff! So this seemed to be the perfect fix. Here look at my kitchen (no I didn't stage it for you).
I know what you are thinking but I have plans for the country pine cabinet I promise. I am looking at painting it Provence Blue from the chalk paint collection.It is the most delicious color! White cabinets and blue big cabinet, oh so dreamy in my head!
And I even had an opportunity to add a little pottery to the top.
Babbled by: Laura at Ms. Smartie Pants
5 comments:
- marty (A Stroll Thru Life) said...
Laura, the piece is stunning and you did such a fabulous job of redoing it to hold all the kitchen things. It will be stunning when you paint it and the kitchen is all white. I love it. I think the Mr. did a fabulous job. You are very clever and all the shifting of furniture paid off.
You asked about cleaning silver. I swear by TarnX. You can buy it just about any grocery store and it doesn't take any rubbing. Just wipe it on and the tarnish disappears. That's my kind of cleaner. Hugs, Marty
- June 17, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- rebecca @ older and wisor said...
No need to apologize for LIVING. Good for you for keeping priorities where they belong (why spend money to give people you don't know something to read?).
Kudos for saying no to that second piece. Anytime I've had to turn down free furniture it KILLS ME ;) That cabinet is genius. Two drawers......must've been a man house designer.
- June 17, 2011 at 4:55 PM
- Ruth said...
Love this idea. Cutting the top will be great, too. My hubby doesn't like DIY projects either.
Love the last pic. Can't wait to see more.
- June 18, 2011 at 7:45 AM
- Just Jaime said...
Great idea
- June 18, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- Carolyn said...
Well done. We throw out far too much stuff, and we should be recycling more. Good to see a new lease of life for the cupboard. Looks really good.
- June 30, 2011 at 10:39 PM

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New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg has had an illustrious career in Congress spanning parts of three decades, during which he has had arguably the most impact of any senator on the protection of our nation's highway traffic from the dangers of drunk driving.
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There's a Peel session from this band coming up in a few posts time, so I'll leave the analysis till then, but in the meantime all I can say is how did anyone refrain from choosing The Pixies as their favourite band ever, when they emerged in 1988? I'm not sure why Peel was playing this track from 1988's Surfer Rosa album, when their Trompe le Monde album was less than three months old at this point, but I'm glad he did. The grab bag of abrasive guitar, three minute melodies and Lewis Carroll style nonsense filtered through an East Coast sensibility shouldn't work anywhere near as well as it does here, but somehow it pulls off the miraculous feat of making the listener think hard about what's being said while simultaneously turning off one's mind and floating into the carnival, crazy house that characterised so much of the Massachusetts four-piece's early work.
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Your Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
Every vehicle has an individual serial number, or VIN, which features valuable information about that car or truck.
The VIN can be found on the Certificate of Title or vehicle registration card. The number is also stamped to a small plate on the top of the dashboard. Stand outside the vehicle, on the driver's side, and you will find the VIN at the base of the windshield, just behind the hood and cowl area.
The VIN can tell you which assembly plant manufactured your car and when it was built. It will also indicate the engine type and capacity (which is why it's important to have this number when buying replacement parts).
Deciphering which numbers mean what can be a little tricky, since each manufacturer displays the information a little differently, but consult your owner's manual or your Haynes Manual for instructions on cracking the code!


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Prior to a thirty-year career as an investment and merchant banker, business consultant, serial entrepreneur, and turn-around manager, Mr. Hartstone actively practiced law. In that regard, he served as Chief Investment Counsel in the Law Department of Aetna Life & Casualty and was a managing member and head of the corporate finance department of Hebb & Gitlin, P.C., a Hartford law firm (now the Hartford office of Bingham McCutcheon). At Aetna, Mr. Hartstone had legal responsibility for all non-real estate investments, including over one billion dollars of private investment transactions annually, portfolio administration, and troubled asset recovery. At Hebb & Gitlin, Mr. Hartstone represented major banks, finance companies, insurance companies, and all levels of equity investors with respect to new financings/investments, workouts, and reorganizations.
Immediately before joining CB&S, Mr. Hartstone served for two years as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The IP Factory, Inc., a State of Connecticut sponsored non-profit corporation that forms new businesses based on Intellectual Property provided by Connecticut's leading corporations. There he advised teams of graduate students, university faculty, technologists, and recruited managers with respect to the commercialization of technology and the formation, ramp-up, financing, infrastructure, and initial operations of new companies.
Mr. Hartstone has served as an adjunct instructor and judge of the Cornell Law School Transactional Lawyering Competition since the competition was inaugurated in 2010. He was also a Founding Trustee and the first Secretary/Treasurer of the American College of Investment Counsel. In addition to his present activities with the firm and Accelerated Ventures, Mr. Hartstone is a founding principal and continues as a Managing Director of StoneGate Capital Group LLC. In that role, he has engineered over $2.5 Billion of financial and M&A transactions. He is also the creator/author of the StoneGate One Day MBA Program, a business boot camp for business managers and their advisors and providers.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
The Miami Herald and S. Florida Sun-Sentinel lose a federal lawsuit to overturn a prohibition against street vendors in traffic. (Herald story).
Mushroom cloud:
If you're online right now (6 pm Tuesday), check the Heraldcam for an amazing cloud formation over Miami Beach.
Derek has a lovely remembrance on the 50th anniversary of the Korean War.
Monday, July 28, 2003
Ryan at Dead Parrot Society tells us how to find an archive of NY Times front pages: about 18 months' worth.
Via Sheila Lennon: Ms. Musings, a blog on "Women, Media, and Culture" by Christine Capaiuolo on Ms. magazine's site.
And, from a message to NewsLib from Barbara Semonche: Links for copyeditors tip sheet for a class by Semonche, librarian at UNC's Journalism library. Thanks for the mention, Barbara!
Sunday, July 27, 2003
The Miami Herald's Tere Figueras talks to the men who outfitted an old Chevy flatbed and sailed it to Florida. And about that Coast Guard sinking:
"''Nos engañaron,'' Basanta said, quietly. They tricked us."
Saturday, July 26, 2003
I was really surprised and happy to see the new Herald blog promoted on the front page of Herald.com yesterday (pointed out by Mike Meiners in Newslib-L). Since I suggested it (and it took awhile to make it happen) I was never sure if there was a place for a blog in the Real Cities plan (although, of course, Dan Gillmor's blog at siliconvalley.com is extremely popular, and a couple other KR columnists have tried temporary blogs). So it's nice to see it actually coming together.
So now that there are two blogs, where will the reference links go? I'm still planning on putting any new useful links I find here, even if I've also posted them on the Herald blog. But I don't want to duplicate everything so some of the guides and newsy things I might post there won't also show up here. I still think of this blog as the 'News Research' blog so this is where journalism and research news will remain. I still need to get a feel for what the other blog will be, but since it's on The Herald's site and aimed at 'Herald readers' it will certainly be less personal than this independent blog. Maybe it'll be a little like the difference between Derek's Scoop and Blandiose blogs....(Derek, you continue to be an inspiration....)
The useful links....
Governments, Politics:
Public Records:
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Are online search tools lulling journalists into laziness? in Online Journalism Review. This should be required reading in every newsroom and j-school.
The author of Liberal Media Bias blog has a powerful statement about the Iraq casualties....
Salam Pax had a lot to say about the Uday/Qusay situation:
"...Sanchez speaks only in Militar-ese, meaningless words come out of his mouth while we are all hanging on the edge of our seats waiting for one single picture, definitive proof. It is so easy, all it takes is to show us the friggin' corpses. They do have them. Someone did see them and when asked why it wasn't sown to the public they came up with the moral issues stuff. Habibi it didn't bother you that all those Iraqis, Americans and British are being killed for dubious reasons, so why suddenly become so squeamish? Give the Images to Jazeera, moral issues have never stopped them from showing gruesome images, let them do your dirty work."
And this is what he said yesterday: "just to tell you that i would be really dissapointed if Uday and Qusay were really killed in Mosul. this is just the easy way out for them. they should have been humiliated in public, images of them handcuffed and being pushed around."
...Photodude has a different opinion on the decision to release the photos....
I suggest if you want to bookmark the Herald blog, you book mark the intro page at www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/liz_donovan/. Because the blog isn't done with blogging software, the permalinks are only linked to the page they're on, and once I start moving files into the archive, I'll have to create new pages for the current blog if I want to keep the permalinks working. That means the page the blog's on today (www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/liz_donovan/5471055.htm) won't remain current. Unless I can figure out a better way to do this.......
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
We've had some interesting stories about Cuban rafters over the years, but this one may beat all: Cubans try to 'drive' over Florida Straits. Check out the photo.
Let's try this again:
Last week I posted, a bit prematurely, it turned out, a link to a new blog I'm doing on the Miami Herald Website. The blog existed and was expected to go live but it took a week longer than expected. Although some tweaking still has to be done (the link will be under Columnists), there is now a cover page for the blog. This is the direct link.
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Readers want more coverage of U.S. military casualties in Iraq, according to the reaction to last week's Editor and Publisher story. It just makes sense.
Monday, July 21, 2003
Tony Blair for president: interesting concept. Constitutionally unsound.
An AOL journal: first test of the new blogging service by Dan Gillmor.
Dallas Morning News' EdBlog: editorial board comments and answers to readers' questions.
Are you a threat to the Bush administration? Take this quiz and find out.
Sunday, July 20, 2003
...and time for a few new photos: Daylilies and firecrackers:
more photos....
Don't you love 'em? Miami's Gene Miller, who's heard a lot of them, tells a few in The Herald today. Is this a great news town or what? (Note my contribution, at the end.)
Also in The Herald: Columnist Robert Steinback starts a new Q&A Forum, where he takes readers' questions/comments on his columns or any other topic they want to discuss.
And: the uncomparable Enrique Fernandez on Celia Cruz. As he did with Compay Segundo a few days ago, he gets to the essence:
"Celia was a contralto, with the power of a tenor. There was something paradoxically androgynous about her. She sang with a man's brute force -- even the voice of the great Beny Moré was more delicate. Yet she danced, moving an hourglass body that was almost mythically female."
Weekend update: The weekly reference collection/research gleanings:
A little late again this weekend, I liked the sunflower photo (below) so much I wanted to keep it at the top of the page as long as possible....
The useful links....
Governments, Politics:
Public Records:
Business, People: no links this week.
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Friday, July 18, 2003
A perfect summer photo, from Cornwall. Charles Winpenny seems to be away, and has posted some of his best recent photos on the Cornwallcam site, so maybe that means this photo will stay for a few days, at least...
Meanwhile, in Murphy....
Officer Jeff Postell given an award by NC legislature; story in the Cherokee Scout. Also in the Scout: Postell catches another fugitive (look down the page in Townsend column). Love that small-town news.
Who copyedits blogs?
The perpetual question, and one that there's no answer for, except, that bloggers fact-check/edit each other. Well, here's my contribution: in Poynter's E-Media Tidbits, yesterday's entry on the death of Celia Cruz says she died in Miami. Not so, it was in Fort Lee, NJ, her longtime home. Her body is being flown to Miami today for a viewing but will be returned to New York for burial.
Need a heartwarming story?
How about this one: Love trumps poverty in custody dispute by Carol Marbin Miller in the Miami Herald, about an unemployed mom finally getting to adopt the son she's raised for four years.
Noticed this morning:
Republicans for Dean, brand new blog.
And: more on the Bob Graham NASCAR truck team by Cammy Clark in the Miami Herald. What a story: first major sponsorship by a presidential candidate, first win in its first race with the Graham logo, driven by Jon Wood of the legendary racing Wood family. Cool!
Thursday, July 17, 2003
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Celia Cruz dies , from Miami Herald; from the Sun Sentinel.
Want to publish a book?
Now you can Do it online. CafePress will now take a PDF file you send them (and give you a link to software to convert to PDF), help you design the book online and set a price, and sell it. They take about $4-5 per book, you decide how much more to charge. If you have a Website you can advertise a link to order form.
Iraqi women:
Insecurity driving Iraqi women indoors: new report from Human Rights Watch (story). Text of report.
Involving researchers in investigations:
St. Paul Pioneer Press special investigation finds state politicians (including the governor) were paid fees by a phone company which cheated customers. This giant project involved several reporters and researchers and lots of documents posted to their Intranet. (Note researchers' credit on story.)
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Ancient British...lasagne? recipe found in a medieval cookbook. From BBC.
And: Welcome to the Blogosphere from USA Today.
Enrique Fernandez on the real Compay Segundo: "Repilado was Eros and Orpheus rolled into one, fueled by a sexual energy that defied age and interpreted by a masterly combination of instrumental dexterity and seductive voice."
(Added later:
the Sun-Sentinel has a music review, coverage of the Havana wake, and AP coverage of today's funeral.)
And, Tom Fiedler announces a new management team for The Miami Herald: four managing editors, a first?
Monday, July 14, 2003
If you're a fan of Cuban music, you're probably mourning this legend (Reuters story). Some links: Obits in Granma, Juventud Rebelde ; info in AfroCubaWeb, includes discography, other information and links, and two Granma profiles in English. Bio from American representation agency International Music Network; Information, photos, album lists, from Slipcue.com; Bio and interview en español from La casa del son.
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Via Metajournalism, report of a new blog from the Newsroom-l discussion group. This is brand new, but purports to be a public face for the discussions on the listserv, something we're still thinking about for the Newslib discussion group's blog .
The update didn't happen on Saturday since the power company was moving a pole behind our house (the existing wires went too close to the new monstrosity being built right next to our property line). Of course, although FPL reps did warn us the day before that they would be doing the job, they didn't bother to tell us before they disconnected the wire. Good thing I had just saved my work before I walked away from the computer for a few minutes. When I came back, all was dead. We had to leave the house for a couple hours, since inside a Miami house in July is not the place you want to be when there's no air conditioning, or even fans, running. Just another annoyance in the ruination of our once-pleasant neighborhood. How long can we take this? Just the workers' noise and trash is enough to drive us batty....
Anyway, back to the research links, including some different takes on current news:
The useful links....
Governments, Politics:
Public Records, Tools, Florida: no links this week.
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Friday, July 11, 2003
Zo's going to the Nets. The final blow for the Heat's hopes: Jason Kidd's staying. Zo wants to play with Kidd.
Broward County, FL, schools will put students' attendance records online, so parents can check to see if their kids played hooky today. Herald story; Browardschools.com, Virtual Counselor.
Miami Herald legend retires:
Anne Baumgartner has edited The Herald's Action Line column for over 30 years. This is one of the longest-existing consumer help columns in newspapers, and one of the paper's most popular features. Action line staff must be researchers and reporters in one and Anne is the best. We'll miss her. Too bad the lovely photo that ran in the paper didn't make the online edition.
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Good news for those who use newsreaders: TCPalm has RSS Feeds. This is site of Florida Treasure Coast papers (Stuart, Ft. Pierce, Vero Beach). (via Nathan Ashby-Kuhlman).
You think you get bad assignments? How about this one, the Stinkmeister, at the Philly Daily News?
Another Knight Ridder writer does a blog: Charlie McCollum, Mercury News' TV writer.
St. Petersburg Times researcher Caryn Baird tracked down the little boy who put a message in a bottle in 1984: he died 5 years ago today. His mother, visiting Florida from her Ohio home trying to forget, gets the bottle and the message from her son. A Message from Roger, a great example of what news researchers can do with public records and newspaper databases.
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
After a short trip (in days, not miles). It's refreshing to get out and see America, even if just for a short time, especially on the 4th of July.
I was reminded today by a mention in Al's Morning Meeting of the wonderful E-Podunk website that highlights small town America. A nice place to go for old postcards, information about towns (including, now, census data), and special features like one on the Erie Canal. I'm even more impressed with E-Podunk now that I've found out it is run by former journalists.
Also ran into a couple sites today highlighting places I love: Finger Lakes Region provides (finally) a guide to this wonderful upstate New York area of wineries, lakes, and history (underground railroad and women's movement, especially).
And Apalachicola Bay area, guide to Apalachicola and St. George's Island area of the Florida Panhandle (white beaches, oysters, and more history).
It's nice to be able to look up information about places like this. There are hundreds more great sites like this out there.
The Philadelphia Inquirer did a very interesting story yesterday on The Smoking Gun. This site does something that daily newspaper reporters don't always get to do: they go to the courthouse and get the documents. Basic journalism.
And, if you missed it, Glenn Garvin's profile of Bill O'Reilly in The Miami Herald this weekend is worth a read. Too bad the Web version doesn't have the 1970s photo of O'Reilly as a Catholic high school teacher in Miami, all blue-eyed, long-haired intensity (well, not TOO long). One of his former students:
"And, yeah, he could be a smart aleck. I laugh when I see him on TV now because he's exactly the same way he was back then.''
Thursday, July 03, 2003
...and trying to figure out whether to face the highways this weekend. At any rate, will probably not be blogging for a few days. The weekly update will probably be combined into next week's but meanwhile, the most interesting things out there this week:
Happy Independence Day!


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How many times have you read the report of an auction somewhere and the price quoted on some article just didn't seem reasonable; either way too high or way too low? Or have you walked into a shop or show and asked yourself, "where do they get off asking that kind of money for that stuff?"
What determines the asking or the eventual selling price of an antique or collectible, anyway? Too often, the answer is simply whatever the merchant paid for the item plus some arbitrary percentage or absolute dollar amount or whatever lowball figure the buyer could beat out of the seller. But what really determines the ultimate value of an item, whether it be a 300-year-old antique chair or a 30-year-old HO-gauge train set?
The universal answer has four parts: quality; condition; rarity; and demand.
In the early 1970s best-seller "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," author Robert Pirsig chronicled his long decline into mental instability while pursuing his personal definition of "quality." I don't think we need to get that intense. But quality, while difficult to define, is an extremely important element in the value of an antique or collectible. Quality may be seen as a level of excellence—excellence in the concept of the piece, excellence in the design and excellence in the execution. A well-built cabinet, for example, will advertise its quality by its stability and function. The doors will open easily and the drawers will operate smoothly. The finish is clean, the color is good, the joinery is well done, the choice of materials is sound and the scale is correct.
Quality implies attention to detail in the production of the item, whether it be entirely hand made or constructed on an assembly line. Quality implies a caring on the part of the producer or builder and carries a pride that shows in the finished product. And no matter the final definition, most of us know quality when we see it. Or at least we think we do; like the satisfying, solid sounding thump of a door closing on an expensive car.
This is not to be confused with quality. Quality is how the piece was made. Condition is how it has survived since then. A high-quality item in poor condition certainly has less value than a comparable item in excellent condition. However, condition can often be improved by a competent professional. Quality is fixed.
That is why a poor-quality item in perfect condition will almost never be as valuable as a high quality piece in a lesser state of affairs. Take the example of a piece of Depression-era "Borax" furniture that has been in storage for 70 years. Even with its perfect condition, its poor original quality will keep it from ever attaining the value of a carefully crafted bench-made piece of similar age, even though it may have some condition "issues." Of course, there is a point of compromise at which quality and condition are equal, but that state is seldom achieved and seldom recognized when it is.
This trait is often confused with age. Early Roman Empire coins, for example, are thousands of years old. But are they rare? No, because so many of them were made (millions?) and so many of them survive. Many Roman coins are worth only the value of the metal they contain. Another example is one of the most famous style chairs of the early 19th century—Hitchcock chairs. Lambert Hitchcock had a great idea and he made a very good chair. It's just that he made thousands and thousands of them, beginning in 1826 on the assembly line in his factory in Connecticut (he was ahead of Henry Ford on that subject by 80 or 90 years). And thousand of his mass-produced chairs survive today. They are 175 years old and they are beautiful but they are not rare. Therefore, they do not always command the price that may be seen for the work of another chair craftsman who produced only a limited number of well-made chairs.
Finally there is the reality of demand—the marketplace. Even if a piece has all the other elements that make up value, if there is no demand—if there is no one who wants to buy it, then there is no value and there is no sale. There are lots of reasons for lack of demand: a poor economy; a social or political stigma on the product; a geographical anomaly in the buying population; a lack of appreciation for the art or genius of the maker. Or it may be as simple as a lack of advertising that the product is available or even the unattractive display of the product when a potential buyer is present. Or, it may just be that there is no demand for the item at that price. At some other price, demand may be stimulated.
For an antique or collectible to have real value, all four elements of the equation must be in balance with the asking price.
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This time, Tom Grady was glad to see Scott Jough vertical.
The last time the two saw each other, they shared an ambulance ride to Berkshire Medical Center from Tanglewood, where Berkshire County Sheriff's Deputy Grady had performed CPR to save the life of the 40-year-old New Jersey real estate agent who had just been struck by lightning.
The two were reunited under much happier circumstances May 15, 2009, where Mr. Jough and his family joined in honoring Grady and the other deputies from the Berkshire County Sheriff's Uniform Division who received "Save" Awards during the Emergency Medical Services of Berkshire County annual dinner and awards ceremony at the Pittsfield Elks Lodge.
"Over these last several months, I kept telling Scott that I would like to meet him standing up," said Grady, a 27-year EMT who has maintained regular communication with the Jough family since the incident. "It was a joy to see that family together and enjoying life."
Also honored from the Uniform Division, for their roles including First Aid, crowd and traffic control, radio communications and transportation, were Deputies Michael Garvey, David Lein, Francis Metivier, Anthony Sinico and Carl Bolio. Mr. Jough presented the Save awards to each of them.
Mr. Jough, whose original injuries included burns from the lightning, a ruptured eardrum, partial loss of hearing, taste and balance, said his only lingering physical issue is numbness in his feet.
One lingering issue that he welcomes, however, is his ongoing relationship with Grady, whom he describes as "an inspiration to me."
"Meeting Mr. Grady was as though we already knew each other," Mr. Jough said. "Finally getting to see him face to face was an absolute thrill. He's a friend for life."
"This type of incident creates a bond because you are able to see the results of the training and teamwork that prepares us for an event like this," Grady said. "Many times we never get to see what the effects of our efforts have on someone."
"The response to that incident on that day was nothing short of miraculous, as the outcome has shown," Grady said. "Each of those involved responded and maintained control as chaos was surrounding them. This allowed us as a team to perform our duties in a way which, on that particular day, turned what could have been a very tragic outcome into a wonderful story of survival."


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DIED: Bimbo Onanuga was heavily pregnant when she died. Pic posed by model
AN INQUEST into the hospital death of a heavily pregnant Nigerian woman could take place in May.
Lawyers for Bimbo Onanuga's family told the Voice they were pushing for a date in that month to answer remaining questions surrounding the 32-year-old's death.
The inquest is set to take place at the Dublin City Coroner's Court, Store Street, Dubin 1 between "late April and early May", the Coroner's Office also confirmed.
Onanuga was seven months pregnant when she died in a hospital in Dublin, Republic of Ireland on March 3, 2010. Her death happened just days after she was sent away from the Rotunda Hospital.
Coroner Brian Farrell initially ruled out the need for an inquest, a decision opposed by campaigners such as the Irish branch of the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) and Akidwa, the network for African women in Ireland.
Onanuga's solicitor and her family confirmed the inquest would now go ahead.
Akidwa's CEO Salome Mgbua welcomed the news, telling the Voice: "I think this is probably because of the pressure they got from different people to have an inquest. They (people) feel that Bimbo was treated very badly. I think that it's very good that the inquest is actually happening."
Onanuga had been referred to the Rotunda Hospital on March 1, where she had been told her baby had died in the womb. The 32-year-old was told to come back on March 4 but was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance with crippling pain one day earlier. She was later pronounced dead.
Her Husband, Abiola Adesina, who was with her at the time, claims medical staff seemed to downplay the seriousness of her condition.
Adesina told the Voice previously: "I could see that something was wrong. The nurse who was there with me was telling me it's no problem, that some people exaggerate.
"I wanted to get out and maybe find someone else to come in and look at her but Bimbo was holding my hand really tight. I was actually shouting until another person walked into the room, and that was the one who raised the alarm".
REFORM: The Rotunda Hospital where Bimbo Onanuga died
Onanuga's death promoted a hospital and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation and led to a series of hospital reforms, especially as it was reported that another pregnant woman had died at the Rotunda during the same period.
In its report, the HSE highlighted hospital failures such as insufficient training among some midwifery and nursing staff on the gynaecology ward and inadequate life support skills and management.
At the hospital, HSE also found out-of-date guidelines on the treatment of women 'experiencing death of the
foetus in the uterus' and added that there was a lack of facilities for detecting warning signs such as changes in the patient's blood pressure and temperature.
However, the report and its recommendations were only made public after pressure was applied by AIMS that led to questions being asked in the Irish Parliament, The Dáil, by Socialist Party representative Clare Daly.


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I am a CNRS researcher at the Institut Camille Jordan of the Université Lyon 1, in the Combinatorics and Number Theory team.
My main research interests are bijective and enumerative combinatorics, and I have a strong interest for problems in algebraic combinatorics.
Email address: nadeau at math dot univ-lyon1 dot fr.
We give an extension of the famous Schensted correspondence to the case of ribbon tableaux, where ribbons are allowed to be of different sizes. This is done by extending Fomin's growth diagram approach of the classical correspondence, in particular by allowing signs in the enumeration. As an application, we give in particular a combinatorial proof, based on the Murnaghan–Nakayama rule, for the evaluation of the column sums of the character table of the symmetric group.
In this paper we study alternative tableaux introduced by Viennot. These tableaux are in simple bijection with permutation tableaux, defined previously by Postnikov. We exhibit a simple recursive structure for alternative tableaux. From this decomposition, we can easily deduce a number of enumerative results. We also give bijections between these tableaux and certain classes of labeled trees. Finally, we exhibit a bijection with permutations, and relate it to some other bijections that already appeared in the literature.
We are interested in the enumeration of Fully Packed Loop configurations on a grid with a given noncrossing matching. By the recently proved Razumov--Stroganov conjecture, these quantities also appear as groundstate components in the Completely Packed Loop model. When considering matchings with p nested arches, these numbers are known to be polynomials in p. In this article, we present several conjectures about these polynomials: in particular, we describe all real roots, certain values of these polynomials, and conjecture that the coefficients are positive. The conjectures, which are of a combinatorial nature, are supported by strong numerical evidence and the proofs of several special cases. We also give a version of the conjectures when an extra parameter tau is added to the equations defining the groundstate of the Completely Packed Loop model.
A well-labelled positive path of size n is a pair (p,\sigma) made of a word p=p1p2...pn-1 on the alphabet {-1,0,+1} such that \sum_{i=1}^j pi >= 0 for all j=1,...,n-1, together with a permutation \sigma=\sigma1\sigma2...\sigman of {1,...,n} such that pi=-1 implies \sigmai<\sigmai+1, while pi=1 implies \sigmai> \sigmai+1. We establish a bijection between well-labelled positive paths of size n and matchings (i.e., fixed-point free involutions) on {1,...,2n}. This proves that the number of well-labelled positive paths is (2n-1)!!=(2n-1).(2n-3)...3.1.
Well-labelled positive paths appeared recently in the author's article "Partition function of a freely-jointed chain in a half-space" [in preparation] as a useful tool for studying a polytope \Pin related to the space of configurations of the freely-jointed chain (of length n) in a half-space. The polytope \Pin consists of points (x1,...,xn) in [-1,1]n such that \sum_{i=1}^j xi >= 0 for all j=1,...,n, and it was shown that well-labelled positive paths of size n are in bijection with a collection of subpolytopes partitioning \Pin. Given that the volume of each subpolytope is 1/n!, our results prove combinatorially that the volume of \Pin is (2n-1)!!/n!.
Our bijection has other enumerative corollaries in terms of up-down sequences of permutations. Indeed, by specialising our bijection, we prove that the number of permutations of size n such that each prefix has no more ascents than descents is [(n-1)!!]2 if n is even and n!!(n-2)!! if n is odd.
We are interested in Fully Packed Loops in a triangle (TFPLs), as introduced by Caselli at al. and studied by Thapper. We show that for Fully Packed Loops with a fixed link pattern (refined FPL), there exist linear recurrence relations with coefficients computed from TFPL configurations. We then give constraints and enumeration results for certain classes of TFPL configurations. For special boundary conditions, we show that TFPLs are counted by the famous Littlewood-- Richardson coefficients.
In this article we study a class of monoids that includes Garside monoids, and give a simple combinatorial proof of a formula for the formal sum of all elements of the monoid. This leads to a formula for the growth function of the monoid in the homogeneous case, and can also be lifted to a resolution of the monoid algebra.
These results are then applied to known monoids related to Coxeter systems: we give the growth function of the Artin-Tits monoids, and do the same for the dual braid monoids. In this last case we show that the monoid algebras of the dual braid monoids of type A and B are Koszul algebras.
There are several automatic tools available for the symbolic analysis of security protocols. The models underlying these tools differ in many aspects. Some of the differences have already been formally related to each other in the literature, such as difference in protocol execution models or definitions of security properties. However, there is an important difference between analysis tools that has not been investigated in depth before: the explored state space. Some tools explore all possible behaviors, whereas others explore strict subsets, often by using so-called scenarios.
We identify several types of state space explored by protocol analysis tools, and relate them to each other. We find previously unreported differences between the various approaches. Using combinatorial results, we determine the requirements for emulating one type of state space by combinations of another type.
We apply our study of state space relations in a performance comparison of several well-known automatic tools for security protocol analysis. We model a set of protocols and their properties as homogeneously as possible for each tool. We analyze the performance of the tools over comparable state spaces. This work enables us to effectively compare these automatic tools, i.e., using the same protocol description and exploring the same state space. We also propose some explanations for our experimental results, leading to a better understanding of the tools
Remark: as this abstract suggests, the results of this article are quite far from my usual research themes. My contributions to this article are a nice application of Pólya-Redfield enumeration, and some necessary effort to understand the work of my coauthors.
We prove a conjecture of Desrosiers, Lapointe and Mathieu [Adv. Math. 212, 2007, p.361--388] giving a closed form formula for the norm of the Jack polynomials in superspace with respect to a certain scalar product. The proof is mainly combinatorial and relies on the explicit expression in terms of admissible tableaux of the non-symmetric Jack polynomials. In the final step of the proof appears an identity on weighted sums of partitions that we demonstrate using the methods of Gessel-Viennot.
In this paper we propose two bijections between permutation tableaux and permutations. These bijections show how natural statistics on the tableaux are equidistributed to classical statistics on permutations: descents, RL-minima and pattern enumerations. We then use those bijections to define subclasses of permutation tableaux that are in bijection with set partitions.
Sergey Fomin defined a very general setting of dual graded graphs that extends the classical Schensted correspondence to a much wider class of objects. His approach is bijective and also has an algebraic side inspired by the works of Stanley on differential posets. In this work we present a possible extension of Fomin's work through the signed enumeration of ribbon tableaux, where ribbons are not constrained.
We study walks in the plane $ \mathbb{Z}^2$, with steps in a given finite set $\mathcal{S}$, which start from the origin but otherwise never hit the half-line $\mathcal{H}=\{(k,0),k\leq 0\}$. These walks on the slit plane have received some attention these last few years, since in particular their enumeration leads to simple closed formulas; but only one bijection has been found so far, in the case of the square lattice, and in this work we give bijections extending this to other set steps.
Let $p=p(S)$ be the smallest possible abscissa x such that there is a walk on the slit plane ending at $(x,0)$. Suppose that $|j|\leq 1$ for each step $(i,j)\in\mathcal{S} $. The main result of this paper is the construction of a length preserving bijection between S-walks on the slit plane with a marked step ending at $(p,0)$, and a certain class of walks on the plane whose enumeration is much simpler. This allows us to interpret combinatorially previously known enumerations, and to give many new ones.
We enumerate walks in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$, with steps East and North, that stop as soon as they reach a given line; these walks are counted according to the distance of the line to the origin, and we study the asymptotic behavior when the line has a fixed slope and moves away from the origin. When the line has a rational slope, we study a more general class of walks, and give exact as well as asymptotic enumerative results; for this, we define a nice bijection from our walks to words of a rational language. For a general slope, asymptotic results are obtained; in this case, the method employed leads us to find asymptotic results for a wider class of walks in $\mathbb{R}^m$.
We show that the number of fully packed loop configurations corresponding to a matching with m nested arches is polynomial in m if m is large enough, thus essentially proving two conjectures by Zuber [Electronic J. Combin. 11 (2004), Article #R13].
Fully Packed Loop configurations (FPLs) are certain configurations on the square grid, naturally refined according to certain link patterns. If $A_X$ is the number of FPLs with link pattern $X$, the Razumov--Stroganov correspondence provides relations between numbers $A_X$ relative to a given grid size. In another line of research, if $X\cup p$ denotes $X$ with $p$ additional nested arches, then $A_{X\cup p}$ was shown to be polynomial in $p$: the proof gives rise to certain configurations of FPLs in a triangle (TFPLs). In this work we investigate these TFPL configurations and their relation to FPLs. We prove certain properties of TFPLs, and enumerate them under special boundary conditions. From this study we deduce a class of linear relations, conjectured by Thapper, between quantities $A_X$ relative to different grid sizes, relations which thus differ from the Razumov--Stroganov ones.
In this work we continue our study of Fully Packed Loop (FPL) configurations in a triangle. These are certain subgraphs on a triangular subset of the square lattice, which first arose in the study of the usual FPL configurations on a square grid. We show that, in a special case, the enumeration of these FPLs in a triangle is given by Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. The proof consists of a bijection with Knutson-Tao puzzles.
I was a teaching assistant at the University of Vienna in 2010--2011, at Orsay University from 2003 to 2006, and then at Paris 7 University in 2006--2007, in the following courses of the Bachelor in Computer Science:
|Introduction to mathematics
|First year
|Introduction to the C language
|Master in Statistics
|Programming in the UNIX System
|First year
|Initiation to Computer Science
|First year
|Imperative programming
|First year
|Functional Programming
|First year
|Combinatorics for Computer Science
|Second year
|Mathematics for Computer Science
|Third Year
|Combinatorics for Computer Science
|Second year