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5 Things Old Magazines Apparently Believed About Women
We could learn a lot by simply listening to the Greatest Generation. We could hear tales of bravery, and honor, and sacrifice. But they're old, and that's boring. If we listen to their badass old-timey magazines instead, we could learn a hell of a lot more interesting shit. Like how to properly wield a weasel as a makeshift flail, how best to stab a gorilla in order to maintain an erection and now, thanks to the manliest magazines this side of Whiskey Fights Weekly, we can learn the answer to that age-old question: Where do women come from?
(Spoiler alert: It's hell.)
If you're just going by their depiction in men's magazines of the '40s and '50s, then women were, at best, a dangerous obstacle, and at worst, some sort of savage cannibalistic race of Breast Nazis.
#5. Women Were Cluttering Up Wartime
At first glance, this seems like another typical male-power fantasy: An elite group of warriors cracks open a Nazi cargo train and, instead of finding something boring, like Nazi gold or starving Jewish people, a stream of impeccably made-up, scantily dressed tramps comes flooding out. Just a whole carful o' lusty bitches, eager to show their gratitude. It's like a mashup of Letters to Penthouse and Classic Toy Trains magazine.
But look at the men's faces: They're not elated that they just hacked open the Nazi poon-train like a pornographic Cadbury Egg. If anything, they seem kind of pissed off about it. The guy in the beret won't throw so much as a sympathetic glance at the open-legged, mini-skirted blonde; he's just dragging her away impatiently, like you'd drag a disobedient dog away from table scraps. The only one who looks the slightest bit excited in this picture is the Nazi being choked to death in the foreground, and that's only because he gets off on autoerotic asphyxiation and always wanted to die doing what he loved.
"Zis is ... everything ... Autoerotic Asphyxiation Adolph ... dreamed ... und more!"
You know why they're so jaded with the Skank Express? Because according to old-timey men's magazines, World War II was lousy with dames. Useless, dumb, practically inanimate dames just cluttering up the place. Crack a Nazi cargo train? No ammo reserves for you, Frenchy; you're honor-bound to rescue that lusty blonde temptress, but nobody says you have to like it. Bust open that much-needed crate of stolen rations? Not a Twinkie in sight; just a cascade of dames spillin' out like packing peanuts.
Trying to simultaneously fly a plane while shooting disproportionately large Chinese boat-giants? Good luck swiveling that machine gun around -- somebody left a window open and some friggin' dames built a nest in the cockpit.
"Would you j-goddamn it, Madge! You know gunning down Asian maritime ogres is the only thing that relaxes me after a long day at the mill!"
#4. The Breast Nazis
According to old-timey men's magazines, not only were the Nazis substantially sexier than all but the most Harrison-Ford-laden of period films would have you believe, but times were so tough during WWII -- what with the rationing of metals and all -- that even the most elite Gestapo officers were only permitted a single button.
"Damn it, Madge, when I said you were only good for two things -- baking and frigid handjobs -- I was asking for one of your icy-fisted jerk sessions, not to be made into a blasted man-cake!"
Sure, World War II was a terrible time in humanity's history -- a lot of senseless death, genocide, hatred and fear -- but good golly goddamn if those Nazis didn't know how to design a uniform. We all know Hugo Boss did the men, but apparently Victoria S. Secrette did the women.
You get the feeling that these strangely high-waisted, shirtless, be-khakied fellows were getting caught on purpose. But then, that's just your skewed, sex-starved modern sensibilities talking. Badass old-timey men weren't desperate for female attention at all, because women were everywhere back in the day. Why, at times, it was practically ...
#3. Raining Women
Despite how it appears, this isn't just another routine game of coed parastabbing, and our yellow-clad Aryan protagonist doesn't look to be rescuing anyone. In fact, he seems somewhat put out: Here he was, just enjoying a leisurely Tuesday aerial knife fight, when some half-naked broad came flipping out of a plane and landed in his arms. He sure doesn't look happy to have caught her, either. I mean, sure, he'll ravage her if he absolutely has to -- they don't call him Barry "The Begrudging Boner" Bohner because his last name sounds like "Boner" -- but it looks like Ted is catching a lucky breeze and has started swooping in for one of his trademark lunging headwind stabs. So good ol' Barry has a decision to make: Rescue the girl, or feel another man's life spurt hot and steamy onto his own chest.
Ha! Like that's a decision ...
"Love failure can be cured! Just toss that fickle bitch into the sky!"


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on February 10, 2013 - 12:01 AM
It must be that the state Department of Transportation has a mental disconnect when it comes to Western New York. Why else would the DOT have shorted the region hundreds of millions of dollars that should have gone for road and bridge rehabilitation work?
A DOT funding error, never corrected, cost Western New York $167 million in 2008 and part of 2009. And now $94 million allocated for projects in 2012 has not been spent.
The latter amount was more than half the $166 million promised for the region last year.
The state's fiscal year ends March 31, which is the deadline for the state to advertise for bids if contracts for the projects using 2012 funds are to be awarded. That deadline demands immediate action by the DOT.
Buffalo Democratic State Sen. Timothy M. Kennedy is trying to get answers. At a state hearing recently, he asked Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald why the $94 million hasn't been spent. Her answers were a marvel of evasion and denial.
If the DOT continues to do what it's done to Western New York over the past several years, it will obfuscate and then kick the can farther down the road.
The organization Fair Apportionment of Infrastructure Revenue (FAIR) and a dogged Kennedy have for years lobbied the DOT to correct the 2008-2009 funding error that shorted Western New York $167 million, most of which was federal money delivered through the state to the DOT's Region 5, consisting of Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties.
Although her predecessor acknowledged the agency made an error in the way transportation dollars flowed to the different regions, McDonald has consistently given opaque answers when it comes to making up the shortfall.
And now, there is the matter of yet another pot of funding that should have been distributed last year. That $166 million is funded by the DOT's capital account and the NYWorks program, an effort touted by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Western New York generally should receive about 10 percent of the state's overall allocation for road and bridge funding. Last year, the $166 million represented 10.3 percent of the statewide allocation. There was hope that, if maintained over the next several years, the slightly higher percentage would eventually start filling in the gap from the 2008-09 shortfall.
The higher allocation appeared to be a step in the right direction, but now actual spending is set to take a huge step backward. After months of inaction, it appears that 2012 will have been another year in which highway funding has gone missing. That money would have created jobs for thousands of Western New Yorkers, and shored up some of our aging infrastructure.
If the $94 million isn't put to work, projects that should have gone out to bid last year will end up getting put onto the program for the next fiscal year. And if the DOT's past actions are any indication, the money set aside for the 2012 fiscal year projects will be rolled into next year but counted against any increase that the region might be eligible to receive. It's a legitimate concern for lawmakers and industry groups.
Western New York has at least two strikes against it in dealing with the Albany bureaucracy: It's a long way from Cuomo's home in Westchester County and, after backing Carl Paladino for governor in 2010, it has too many Republicans. In addition, the state is facing a multibillion-dollar bill to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River. But that project cannot be allowed to suck up dollars allocated to this area.
Delays, project downgrades and cancellations have been the case year after year. It's time to end the unfair allocation of state transportation dollars.
McDonald promised to try to earmark the $94 million by the March 31 deadline. Trying is not enough; she needs to get it done.


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on March 10, 2013 - 11:27 PM
June 14, 1927 – March 4, 2013
Janet H. Brown, Mrs. New York State of 1961, died last Monday in Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga. She was 85.
The former Janet Molin, of Williamsville and Jupiter, Fla., was born in Buffalo and graduated from Lafayette High School and Cornell University.
She worked as a kitchen designer for Niagara Mohawk after college, then went to work for the University at Buffalo for several years in survey research. After that, she worked in sales for about 20 years at Suzn O's.
She won the title of Mrs. New York State in 1961 in a contest that looked for outstanding homemakers who competed in such areas as cooking, baking and hairdressing.
Mrs. Brown enjoyed piano, gardening, decorating, fashion and was known for her cooking and baking.
She and her husband of 63 years, Thomas Sr., spent almost 30 years wintering in Jupiter, Fla., where she was a member of Jupiter First Church.
Active in the community, Mrs. Brown also did charitable work for the Bristol Home and Blind Association.
In addition to her husband, survivors include a daughter, Tracy Garner; two sons, Thomas Jr. and Terrence; and a brother, Carl Molin Jr.
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"Its official. Pregnant…" Lindsay Lohan wrote on Twitter overnight, although the timing of the announcement was certainly suspicious.
If it was an April Fools' joke, it was a late one, posted after midnight ET. Then again, lateness is a Lohan specialty – she was an hour tardy to her crucial court hearing last month, and also missed her flight back to the U.S. from Brazil on Monday.
If it's not a joke and she is indeed expecting, the actress, 26, will be in for an unusual first few months of pregnancy.
She's been ordered to serve 90 days in a rehab center under lock and key – and undergo psychotherapy and perform community service – after pleading no contest to reckless driving and lying to police last June, when she crashed her Porsche.
UPDATE: Thankfully Lohan Tweeted Tuesday midday that it's only a prank.
April Fools. Where's everyone's sense of humor?— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) April 2, 2013


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Altoona Area School Board President Ryan Beers is demanding answers for salary increases given to at least seven school administrative staff members without board approval.
Beers said he began quietly investigating employees' salaries two years ago when he noticed an unusually high salary increase for the secretary to the superintendent in 2010 - which Beers did not remember approving.
It was a $10,000 one-time increase that year, which bumped the secretary's salary to $50,000, Beers said. The raise represented more than a 20 percent increase compared to the 2 percent increase that was contracted.
"Was it done legally, and if so, then how was it done?" Beers asked. "And if it was illegal, what action does the board have in rectifying the situation?"
Superintendent Dennis Murray did not attend Tuesday night's board meeting because he is scheduled for shoulder surgery stemming from an injury he sustained in December after a fall at school.
"I have not had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Murray about this," Beers said. "It was a stroke of good or bad luck that he is not here tonight."
Murray, who is retiring in June after 29 years as Altoona's superintendent, was caught off-guard by Beers' assertions, which came as the meeting was winding down.
"I have to look into all of this," Murray told the Mirror after the meeting.
"It's hard to respond when you don't have the facts. This is all supposition. One of individuals I think identified had been given an increase in 2010, but I had a thorough conversation about that with Jim Walstrom, who was board president then. I would like the opportunity to see what this is."
Murray added, "I've never done anything with malice," and noted an example of how he's saved the district money, saying, "I've just got a $2.1 million return [for the district] in bond financing."
Walstrom said, "the one increase I can recall," came about after a promotion in which the salary was found to be lower than several subordinates and the increase was approved in a an executive session without a formal, public vote. He said it was legal because the employee was already in the position.
Beers said he did not recall that discussion and said a pay increase requires an official board vote during a public meeting.
"Unless it is acted on in public it does not exist," he said.
By comparing board minutes, employee contracts and salary lists dating back to 1991, Beers found six other examples of one-time increases and stipends ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 for administrators holding positions from secretaries to assistant superintendents whose salaries ranged from $30,000 to $107,000.
Another example he shared Tuesday night was a $2,000 increase to bump an employee's salary to $107,000 for which he found no record of board approval.
Beers did not name the employees because he is not sure whether the increases were illegal.
District Solicitor Dave Andrews said he will review the documents "as soon as possible."
Andrews said only the school district board of directors can set school employee salaries.
Beers' report shocked Andrews and board members, most of whom listened silently as he read through his findings. Sharon Bream was the only board member to offer a response.
"This sounds criminal," she said. "Taxpayers support this school and they are being duped. Someone is going around and doing what they want."
Murray said his shoulder surgery is scheduled for Thursday, and he'll likely be out of school for a week.
"I'll respond appropriately," after the surgery and when he learns more information about the allegations, he said.
Mirror Staff Writer Russ O'Reilly is at 946-7435.


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quote: You love having a free and customizable OS like Android but when it comes to healthcare
quote: If I hate Apple, I just don't buy from them. I don't hate them because they are successful or make profits, I don't try and pass laws that make it hard for them. That doesn't factor into it at all. I fully support their rights to have a business and profit from it, Liberals don't.
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quote: I want people to have the best lives possible, and I know the Government cannot provide that for us!
quote: Is this a fucking joke? Hmm let me think, do I want people to die or millionaires paying more taxes....that's a tough one! Wtf?
quote: I want people to have the best lives possible, and I know the Government cannot provide that for us!
quote: "Now when you're the 6th child of an inner city black family, you don't get the same opportunities as Mitt did when he was a kid. " ever ask your self why does an inner city black person have so many children and not see that might be a problem?
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The Death of Big Law
Larry E. Ribstein (Deceased)
University of Illinois College of Law; PERC - Property and Environment Research Center
August 1, 2010
Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2010, No. 3, 2010
Large law firms face unprecedented stress. Many have dissolved, gone bankrupt or significantly downsized in recent years. These events reflect more than just a shrinking economy: the basic business model of the large U.S. law firm is failing and needs fundamental restructuring. There are at least three prerequisites to establishing the viable large legal services firm of the future. First, the firm must own a core of durable, firm-specific property. Second, the firm must be able to secure non-lawyer financing in a variety of forms. Third, coherent legal structures must evolve that are suitable for large law firms. Big Law's ability to meet these conditions is contingent on significant changes in the regulation of law practice. The article discusses the current stresses on Big Law, potential business models for legal services, and the forces that may usher in the introduction of these models.
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Police: Man tried to steal high heels for drag show
Sylas Schmiedel, 18, arrested
Police said a man has been arrested after he walked into an Edmond Target barefoot and left wearing a pair of high heels.
Sylas Schmiedel, 18, was arrested on a complaint of shoplifting and taken to jail for booking.
Officers said a security guard at the Edmond Super Target at 1200 E. 2nd St. told them he saw Schmiedel walking barefoot through the shoe department on Monday about 3:20 p.m. Schmiedel then took a pair of black and blue high-heeled shoes out of the box and put them on, according to investigators.
The security guard told police that Schmiedel then went into a restroom and came back out still wearing the shoes and attempted to walk out of the store without paying for them. Schmiedel told officers he needed the shoes for an upcoming drag show.
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I'm going to start today's column with the latest entry to the "What on earth are they thinking" file. It should leave most of you as dumbfounded as it did me.
Salem tennis standout Mitch Maroscher was out-voted for league player of the year by Northeastern Buckeye Conference tennis coaches in a secret ballot. Maroscher went 19-0 this season, won his sectional and didn't lose a single set all season to anyone. He also beat the to-be-named NBC Player of the Year twice in straight sets. I normally don't get involved when it comes to high school politics like this and when student athletes are affected by them, because they are after all only in high school.
But this is just plain ridiculous. Salem tied Louisville for the NBC league title in tennis this season. I suppose the coaches in the NBC will want an asterisk next to it, too? Maybe they can secret ballot the title away or tell a team who absolutely earned a share of the league crown it doesn't count because they're the new guy or because they have some personal problem on some level with a coach or player?
Point blank, the NBC Player of the Year award should go to the best player in the NBC. Statistically, without a doubt, that is Maroscher. It's as simple as that.
Salem is very likely a welcome addition to the conference in other sports so I don't want to get too ahead of myself here. But this is by far bad politicking at its finest and the ugliest side of high school sports.
Nothing is worse than a dreadfully slow round of golf. I can't play on weekends because I don't have the patience for it. I don't hate the rest of my life that much to want to spend six hours playing 18 holes of golf when I know that I could do it in two or three on foot depending on how many other players were in my group.
Everyone's favorite golf mental patient Kevin Na has the PGA scrambling what to do to figure out combating slow play. Na was so agonizingly bad Saturday and Sunday it was actually entertaining to watch at first. Then of course it got to the point where you wanted to jump through the television and hit the ball for him.
The ball isn't moving. It's just sitting there. It's either going where you want it to or it isn't. Hit the thing.
The Players Championship was mind-numbingly slow, and it's not only Na. It shouldn't take professionals five and a half hours per round, but that's what the game routinely has.
Thing is a guy like Na will fix it in time. He was sprinting to his ball to get a head start for his playing partners both days, and you can tell he feels terrible about it. It probably ended up costing him a shot at the tournament not to mention thousands of dollars.
But for every Na who is trying to fix the problem, there's the Stewart Cinks or the Ben Cranes, or the Webb Simpsons or the Zach Johnsons who take forever figuring out yardages, wind direction, grass grain and whether or not a fly might interfere with the flight of the ball.
Look, I know these guys are good. But half the time they take three years to hit and then miss their intended target by 20 yards.
The PGA does really need to start penalizing guys who take too long. Despite PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem's assessment that he doesn't see it making a difference, start clocking guys and dishing out extra strokes or fines. Money talks.
'til next time ...
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Volunteer accountants setup system to track tsunami donations
12 January 2005
Geneva: United Nations Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland announced today that volunteer specialists from the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers are working with the UN to establish a system of tracking donations to tsunami relief "from pledge to dispersion," after the international donor conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers project will be "an Internet-based tracking system for the whole cycle from the pledge to the actual dispersion," Egeland said, adding that the system would provide "real time tracking of which pledges we get, when they are committed, when they are dispersed and when they are realized by which organization in the field."
"We have about $3.4 billion in formally recorded pledges," he said, adding that the UN had received between $6 billion and $8 billion in total pledges, including all in-kind donations and loans.
Egeland also promised "immediate investigation" of any allegations that funds for tsunami relief were being mishandled.
"We have external expertise to do this on a pro bono basis," he said. "We cannot afford to have any question marks about this unprecedented use of funds."


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Add the 19 pt AF system from the 7D to this and it would fly off the shelves. (I would like digic 6, better hi-ISO, and wide-tele AFMA also). If these things come through, the 70D will be many peoples choice instead of the 7D.
DXO tells us the sensor is useless, yet somehow people manage to take great pictures.
It sucks having too much Canon glass to affordably switch camps. #firstworldproblems
The problem is not the megapixel number, just that Canon is using technology from 2009 in a world of Moore's Law.An 8MP cellphone sensor with tiny plastic optics can out-resolve a 5MP one. Do you know what a DSLR sensor would be like at that density? There is a ton of growing room, 18MP is just the beginning.
DIGIC V (no one has said it will get DIGIC 6)
18mp Sensor (Same as SL1)
Has anyone tested out the SL1's sensor yet? How is it performing? My bet is that the image quality remains the same. Canon would probably want to announce the 70D before the SL1 is released to the public because once they realize the IQ is not better than the old 18MP sensor, nobody is going to buy it.
Unless they did a body redesign, I assume the built-in flash is gone too?
Things are even worser: the rumors are that the 7DM2 would be with the 2 of the DIGIC 5s.
Just because it's 18 doesn't mean it is the same sensor... This would seem like a worthy successor to the 60D
Quote from: Diko on April 16, 2013, 03:33:27 AMThings are even worser: the rumors are that the 7DM2 would be with the 2 of the DIGIC 5s. But you have no idea what has changed from 5 to 6, do you?
the basic design of Canon cpus and the operating system have been the same for the last decade. The digic certainly doesn't fix the sensor.
* - improved sensitivity that allows for higher resolution with less noise when shooting in dark conditions. The above "improved sensitivity" to be read as: * - Most probably improved ISO-NOISE-reducing-algorythm which again would be trade of for DR. I shoot in dark and these specs are important to me.
I don't get people's complaints about resolution.
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Officers with the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Coast Guard suspended the search Sunday for a fisherman who has been missing in Volusia County.
Officials had searched the Intracoastal Waterway and the ocean in New Smyrna Beach for Bernardo Hernandez.
On Saturday, they used sonar at the inlet looking for any debris that might be below the surface.
Hernandez left his Apopka home Wednesday morning.
His family found his truck and boat trailer at the North Causeway launch site, but there's no sign of the 48-year-old husband and father.


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POSTED: 01:50 PM MDT Apr 10, 2012 UPDATED: 08:21 AM MDT Aug 30, 2013
Summer is a great time to travel and a perfect time to catch up on some great U.S. history. The history of the U.S. is as unique as the many sites marking its growth. Find out where visitors can experience America's proud heritage firsthand.


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Unique Dance-O-Rama is outdoing itself once again! With 68 studios in attendance and a record breaking 17,000 entries it will most certainly be the biggest competition in the world! For the first time ever, the Unique DOR schedule has added an extra day as well as an exciting early arrival evening, giving it a whole


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on April 10, 2013 - 12:38 AM
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There are a few different superlatives one can point to when describing the magnificence of Oak Hill Country Club.
One would be this testimonial, from four-time major champion Ernie Els, who has said of Oak Hill's famed East Course: "It is the best, fairest and toughest championship golf course I've ever played in all my years as a tour professional," a quote so noteworthy it greets visitors to the club's home webpage.
Or this one, from the world's No. 1 player, Tiger Woods, who said of Oak Hill during the 2003 PGA Championship: "It's the hardest, fairest golf course we've ever played."
Another would be this fact. Oak Hill is the only club in the United States to have hosted the following six men's championships: The Ryder Cup, the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, the U.S. Senior Open and the U.S. Amateur.
Still another might be this mind-numbing statistic: Of the major stroke-play tournaments from the above list played at the course, only 10 of the 482 players who survived the cut and played 72 holes finished the tournament under par. That's 2 percent – a number that shows the Donald Ross-designed course has stood the test of time, and proven to be one of the country's very finest.
The question now becomes, with the world's finest players set to descend on Oak Hill again this August for the 95th PGA Championship, can the course do it again?
A supreme test
"That's the curiosity now. We're 10 years removed from the PGA Championship, a few years removed from the Senior PGA Championship (in 2008), where 7-over par won, so there's a curiosity to see just how many people break par," said Oak Hill head professional Craig Harmon. "Over the test of time, the course has held up."
So what is it that makes Oak Hill such a tough, fair test? You can start with its name. The course is lined with majestic oak trees. As the story goes, after Ross designed the course, Dr. John R. Williams concluded that the barren location could be enhanced by trees.
So he started planting. And planting. Williams, who counted botany and horticulture as hobbies, said that he lost count at 75,000 the number of seedlings he planted in the years after the Oak Hill membership moved into its current Pittsford location in 1926. The results are towering oaks, maples, evergreens and elms that have been growing for almost 90 years.
"The Almighty was the greatest landscape architect of all. It was his plan to have oaks at Oak Hill," Williams once said, according to the history section of the course's website, which was prepared by long-time Rochester Democrat and Chronicle sports reporter Sal Maiorana.
"You miss the fairway by a few yards – you don't have to spray it too far on some of them, and you'll have some trees you have to maneuver around," said PGA Tour member Dudley Hart, a Clarence resident who has played the course several times. "The greens are tough enough to hit from the fairway, and obviously that much more difficult to hit when you're trying to hook it or punch it from underneath a tree."
A championship legacy
As the visions of Ross and Williams began to take root, it became increasingly clear that Oak Hill was a masterpiece. The course held its first major event in 1949 when the U.S. Amateur was played.
After Charlie Coe beat Rufus King in the final, Joseph Dey, who was then the director of the United States Golf Association, asked of Oak Hill, "where have you been for 20 years?"
Since that time in '49, it's never been more than 12 years between major events at the course.
"I think it's quite an honor, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, the Ryder Cup, has come back to the area. That's a testimony to the volunteer people of upstate New York who help make the tournament go, really," Harmon said. "As you know, it's a great golf enthusiastic area. They'll be jacked up to the hilt on this. And from Oak Hill's membership standpoint, they're always proud to put it on. It's a heritage or the legacy that has been passed on from generation to generation and the club keeps doing phenomenal work. It's really something.
"The way the course will play, the players will love it. Everybody's always enjoyed the course, they know it's a great one," Harmon said.
How it plays
That doesn't mean it will be an easy one. Oak Hill will be one of the tightest courses those in the PGA field will see.
"The fairways go from 18 yards to 26 yards [wide]," Harmon said. "There's a lot of doglegs. You have to kind of curve the ball both ways, bend it in.
"The normal golf course, you hit it in the rough, you can blast it out on the green. Well, in this case, there are trees in the way. So if they're in the rough, there's always a branch or something where they just can't bomb it out there, do their normal thing."
And about that rough – it's legit. It will measure at least four inches everywhere on the course for the PGA, which puts it in the company of U.S. Open-style rough. While the final decision on course layout rests with Kerry Haigh, the PGA of America's chief championships officer and a leading authority on tournament golf course set-up and operations, Harmon does not expect the course to have a "graduated rough," meaning three different levels.
"The first cut of rough is like fairway for most people. The next cut is about two inches, and after that it's about four inches or a little longer. "I think we'll have our first cut, then we'll go to the four inches. That's what we've always done."
Combined with the doglegs on the course, that makes a tight course even tighter.
"Let's say the fairway slopes in the opposite direction, so the fairway slopes from left to right. It turns a 25-yard wide fairway into playing actually like 15 yards wide," Hart said. "Especially if it's dry, and I'm sure they're hoping for dry weather. It makes it trickier just to hit the fairways because of the way they're angled."
Accuracy off the tee will thus be at a premium.
"The driving is the key," Harmon said. "We'll see what's going to happen this year because everybody is so much longer [off the tee] than they were 10 years ago. There are more of them that average 295, close to 300. They can hit irons off the tee, or rescue clubs, play more conservatively off the tee – which you should do anyway – and they have the length to overpower the course if they're having a good driving day.
The new wave
The numbers back up Harmon's take on player's length today. Over a 13-year stretch from 2000 to 2012, the average driving distance of a PGA Tour player has increased 16.4 yards, from 272.7 in the '00 season to 289.1 last year, which was down slightly from the all-time high of 290.9 in 2011.
While other courses have tried to combat the length of today's player by simply pushing the tees back, that's not the approach at Oak Hill. For starters, the course is land locked and doesn't have the ability to get much longer.
"You have a hole like No. 8, where back in the day, we'll say in 1980, when [Jack] Nicklaus played, it might have been a drive and a 5-iron, now it's a drive and a wedge because they hit it that much further," Harmon said. "There's nothing you can do on that hole, so that hole will play much easier than it did 15, 20 years ago. It's just the nature of the beast."
Oak Hill is tentatively scheduled to measure 7,134 yards in August, exactly the same as it did in '03. That's 542 yards shorter than the PGA played last season at Kiawah Island in South Carolina, and 410 yards shorter than the five-year average of 7,544 over the last five PGAs.
"I'm very curious to see how that par thing will stand up, if they'll have just two or three people break par like they normally have, or if they'll have a whole slew of them," Harmon said. "The bombers, you look at Tiger Woods, he's pretty good at that stinger 5-wood and 2-iron off the tee to keep it in play, then doing his stuff the rest of the way. It doesn't have to be a bomber's course, and I think that brings in more people who have a chance to win.
"Interesting enough, most of the favorites have never seen it, if you go back 10 years, Rory McIlroy was 10 or something. Rickie Fowler might have been 6. All these younger guys, the Dustin Johnsons of the world, the Keegan Bradleys, they've never seen this place. The top players in the world, really, by and large have never seen Oak Hill."
In fact, of the top 25 players in the world, 15 have yet to see Oak Hill in a competitive setting. But given their talent level, Hart isn't sure how much of a deterrent to their chances of winning that will be.
"It's one thing if it's a tournament you play year in and year out, you can get some of the nuances of the greens, but I don't think tactically from tee to green guys – have played so many different golf courses at a such an early young age – they can figure it out within one or two rounds, what their strategy is going to be on each particular hole and where they want to hit the ball and where they don't want to hit the ball," he said. "The advantage can sometimes be around the greens or on the greens more importantly. But I don't think it will be that much of a factor at Oak Hill."
Where it'll be won
So what are some key holes that will determine who poses with the Wanamaker Trophy come August? Harmon points to three of them on the back nine.
"There's no question No. 15, the par 3, and Nos. 17 and 18 will be pivotal holes. They're very, very hard holes," he said. "They'll be some stuff going on in those holes that will determine who wins the tournament. It will be very hard to finish under par on those three holes, I'll tell you that.
No. 15 is a downhill par-3 that measures 181 yards, with water on the right and a narrow green.
The par-4 17th is traditionally the toughest hole in tournament play, a dogleg right that requires a left-to-right tee shot. Any tee shots that go in the rough on the left will require a chip out. Even drives that find the fairway will require a long iron into a green that's tough to stop the ball on. Birdies will be few.
The par-4 18th is one of the few holes that could play longer this year. The dogleg right favors a left-to-right tee shot. A big drive is needed to set up a mid-iron into the green, which sits atop a very steep hill.
"I'm a big fan of traditional golf courses and that's obviously a traditional course. What you see is what you get," Hart said. "There aren't any tricks on the golf course. No hidden craziness that some of the modern golf courses have. If you hit good shots, you get rewarded. If you hit bad ones, you get penalized big time. I'm a big fan of Oak Hill."
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PITTSBURGH - The Steelers players left the Heinz Field locker room, many for the final time, on Sunday with a renewed hope.
Three hours later, that hope, which several weeks ago seemed virtually impossible, came to a crushing end.
In an unlikely scenario, the same Steelers team that began the season 0-4 and was 2-6 at the midway point, was on the verge of clinching a playoff spot thanks in part to its 20-7 regular-season victory over the Cleveland Browns. But the San Diego Chargers survived a last-second game-winning field goal attempt and beat the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime to lock up the final AFC playoff berth and end the Steelers' 2013 season.
"It's nice to put ourselves in position for the playoffs,'' Steelers veteran Pro Bowl safety Troy Polamalu said after the Steelers finished the season with an 8-8 mark. "But it sucks that it depends on other people.''
The Chiefs had already clinched the No. 5 AFC seed and rested most of their starters against the Chargers. Their game meant everything to the Steelers after all of the other scenarios played out in favor of Pittsburgh in the early games Sunday - Cincinnati beat Baltimore, and the New York Jets defeated Miami.
The Chiefs held a 21-14 lead on San Diego at halftime, and with the game tied, 24-24, lined up for a game-winning 41-yard field goal at the end of regulation. But Ryan Succop's kick sailed wide right.
San Diego then won it in overtime on Nick Novak's 36-yard field goal after earlier converting on a fake punt. The Steelers' season was officially over at 7:40 p.m. Sunday.
"[If we don't make the playoffs], it's nobody's fault but ours,'' Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. "We got ourselves in a deep hole early. We knew that, and you knew that it was going to be tough getting out.''
The Steelers' season looked all but finished after a 55-31 humbling loss to New England on Nov. 3 to drop their record to 2-6. After three straight wins, their playoff chances were again on life support after a 22-20 loss in Baltimore on Thanksgiving night and a 34-28 loss to Miami at a snowy Heinz Field.
The Steelers, though, rallied with victories over Cincinnati and Green Bay before completing their 6-2 second half with their win over the 4-12 Browns on Sunday. Their strong finish made the final day relevant, unlike last season when they also finished 8-8.
"I think we did a good job of not focusing on the hole we dug ourselves,'' Polamalu said. "We kept focusing on the week-in and week-out battle, and that's why we [were] in this position.''
The Steelers wrapped up their season with a strong showing against their punching bags of the AFC North - they've now beaten the Browns 10 straight games at Heinz Field.
Roethlisberger threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Jerricho Cotchery in the first quarter, and Le'Veon Bell, who rushed for 90 yards on 20 carries, scored on a 5-yard run in the second quarter. Shaun Suisham added two field goals in the second half.
Antonio Brown capped off his superb season with nine receptions for 87 yards. He finished the year with 110 catches, two short of Hines Ward's team record.
The Pittsburgh defense created two turnovers, registered three sacks and stopped the Browns three times on fourth-down attempts. They kept Cleveland from scoring until 2 minutes, 55 seconds remained in the game.
"I'm proud of the group - their ability to stay singularly focused, to fight the fight that's in front of them and to put some of our past transgressions behind us, largely speaking,'' Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. "Not only today, but over the second half of the season.''
An interesting offseason awaits the Steelers with several veterans, including safety Ryan Clark, defensive ends Brett Keisel and Ziggy Hood, linebacker Jason Worilds and receiver Emmanuel Sanders, becoming free agents. Other stars, like Polamalu, cornerback Ike Taylor and linebacker LaMarr Woodley, could be salary cap casualties.
The uncertainty caused many of the Steelers to soak in the atmosphere at a rainy Heinz Field.
"This team gave me a chance - twice,'' Clark said. "Some of my best friends are here in Pittsburgh, and I won a Super Bowl here. I have nothing but great memories here.''
The finality of the season hadn't quite hit the players when they exited the locker room. Some of them, like Roethlisberger, were in a hurry to watch the Chiefs-Chargers game. Others had different plans - Clark was on his way to watch his son's championship basketball game.
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"We are going to build on this whether we are going to build on it for next week or whether we are getting ready for next year,'' Roethlisberger said. "I think we have put together a good foundation.''


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One of the most pressing concerns for all companies manufacturing biologics is preventing viral contamination; raw materials constitute a considerable portion of that risk. Switching to different raw materials to mitigate the risk is often done, particularly the migration away from materials of animal origin. The problem, however, is difficulty predicting the effects of these changes on legacy processes. Sofie Goetschalckx, Genzyme's manufacturing cell culture science lead, technology division, discusses her firm's practices.
"Reducing viral risk is our primary goal in changing materials at the moment, although sometimes we assess a second supplier so if one company goes out of business or can no longer provide the product, we will still have a supplier who can produce the material," says Goetschalckx.
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Sampling size also has an effect. At small scale the effect is much larger and more significant than at scale. "It turns out there are some differences that are challenging that you can solve but some you cannot solve," she notes. Depending upon the results and the risk assessment on the criticality of the material, "we determine if we need additional data at scale in a kind of engineering run. Ultimately, this package of data will be reviewed by laboratory quality and also regulatory authorities to assess if you need to resubmit. Resubmission is very rare."
Sialic acid (SA) is an important component for therapeutic proteins; it can prolong serum half-life, influence the biological activity, and improve solubility of proteins. Lam Raga Anggara Markley, Ph.D., scientist, Biogen Idec, discusses an improved high-throughput assay for SA content (high-throughput total sialic acid assay (HT-TSA)) that was developed at Biogen and based on his earlier work at MIT. One important application is faster screening of clones when thousands must be analyzed to winnow down possibilities for a particular bioprocess.
Several factors affect SA content analysis, among them intraclonal variability as well as production parameters and instability. Currently HPLC is most often used to measure SA content, but the process can take five days.
The new high-throughput method (HTM) is more accurate than the earlier version and "takes about 70 minutes, and we can analyze more than 100 samples in one day," says Dr. Markley. Speed is the main advantage. "The downside is that HTM cannot distinguish Neu5Ac (N-Acetylneuraminic acid; NANA) from Neu5Gc (N-Glycolylneuraminic acid; NGNA) because they have the same fluorescence spectra. HPLC can distinguish the two."
The assay method consists of four steps:
"People may wonder when they should use HPLC and when to use the HTM assay. As a general rule, use HPLC when you don't have a large number of samples and you need to know the level of the two acids. If you have hundreds of samples and need the data quickly, and don't need to know both levels, you can use the high-throughput method," Dr. Markley explains.
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Citigroup expects to eliminate up to 2,100 jobs in New York as part of its plan to slash its workforce by as many as 11,000 jobs, but the company wouldn't say Wednesday how its back-office operations in Amherst would be affected by the cutback.
Citigroup employs about 1,300 people at its facilities in the CrossPoint Business Park, and its local operations have been a bright spot in the Buffalo Niagara region's financial services industry, serving as a strong source of jobs for business and finance graduates from local colleges and universities.
While a bank spokesman declined to say how the cutbacks would affect those operations, he said less than 10 percent of Citigroup's jobs across New York, including in its New York City headquarters, would be eliminated through the restructuring announced Wednesday. Most of those cuts will come from the bank's operations and technology group.
Overall, Citigroup said it plans to cut about 4 percent of its global workforce of 262,000. The bulk of the cuts – about 6,200 – will come from its consumer banking unit, which handles functions such as branches and checking accounts.
The bank did not say how many jobs it will cut in the United States. About 1,900 job cuts will come from the institutional clients group, which includes the investment bank. More than half of those cuts will come from its technology and operations department by using more automation and moving jobs to "lower-cost locations."
"These actions are logical next steps in Citi's transformation," said Michael Corbat, Citigroup's chief executive officer, in a statement. "While we are committed to – and our strategy continues to leverage – our unparalleled global network and footprint, we have identified areas and products where our scale does not provide for meaningful returns."
Citigroup also said it will sell or scale back consumer operations in Pakistan, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey and Uruguay and focus on 150 cities around the world "that have the highest growth potential in consumer banking."
The cutbacks are expected to save Citigroup $900 million next year, and more in the following years, though they will be a drag on the company's earnings during the fourth quarter, when the bank is expected to absorb about $1 billion in pre-tax charges associated with the restructuring.
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I seem to remember that on the Windows98 disc, or some other disc that came with my PC of that era there was a demo movie for the
Microsoft EasyBall mouse.
It was designed for small children and the physically impared to use and I'm pretty sure the demo showed how a parent and child could both have mice attached a PC at once and play little games together one one screen. The parent would use a traditional mouse while the child used the EasyBall.
Perhaps it only worked in a few specific programs that came with that hardware device.
If this new Multipoint stuff works with Touch-Screens as well it might be cool to create virtual mixing desks / DJ interfaces.
vbrunner__ wrote:i think everyone that has used a computer has thought "what would it be like to have multiple mice?" but i know at least for me i threw the idea out thinking people would trample of each other. but i never thought of the games they demoed(sp?).
great technology. it's just surprising that no one has done this before. (or have they?)
It looks like very exciting technology. I enjoyed the video and look forward to the SDK in January!
Three questions:
Thanks for the video, and good luck getting to the next step!
It would be great to see this technology applied to touch screen interfaces.
osigurdson wrote:
It would be great to see this technology applied to touch screen interfaces.
.Flatliner wrote:Ok, so obvious next question is does this support multiple keyboard input? Because one of the biggest area's I see multi-input being useful is for single desktop collaboration in development and documentation. Quite often when myself and a fellow developer are working on a single piece of code, at the same time, we'd each like to have our own cursor, him correcting my mistakes as I continue on.
caffeineHi wrote:Noteboks and laptops have become a big chunk of the PC market and most already have multiple pointing devices. Sure would be nice to have the mouse in one hand and the touchpad in the other controlling different cursors. Is this backward compatible? I already have a new paptop and a rather expensive Logitech mouse. Will this work for MS devices only?
janverge wrote:sorry but I am quite new to this forum. I am a bit confused on the people I need to ask question to regarding my problem.
Hope you can help me out.
atkulp wrote:
It looks like very exciting technology. I enjoyed the video and look forward to the SDK in January!
Three questions:
- Is it easy to create an "admin" mouse? I could very likely want to restrict certain forms, or even controls only to one mouse (probably the teacher's). That way only the teacher can start/stop an activity, while the students can only interact with the relevant options.
- As a red-green color-blind male, I wonder if there are other ways of decorating pointers to better differentiate them. Perhaps styles of glowing, or even completely different pointer icons. This could be an important feature to consider.
- For non Multipoint-enabled applications, do the multiple mice function as on any other system? In other words, if I don't specifically code for Multipoint, do all mice conflict with each other?
Thanks for the video, and good luck getting to the next step!
Hey, this is a great idea.
I wish I'd thought of it first.
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LAKE TAHOE — Since its release last month, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan Update has stoked fears of a new era of over-development at Lake Tahoe.
And allowing new hotel rooms and homes in areas slated for recreation was one of the major concerns of people who attended a workshop on the update Monday night in Incline Village.
The third alternative in the environmental document for the Regional Plan Update includes a change that could allow tourist, commercial and residential development in areas zoned for recreation by TRPA.
Areas designated for recreation cover 45,208 acres — 22 percent — of the Lake Tahoe Basin and include beaches and ski areas.
Alternative three is one of five options in the Regional Plan Update's environmental document and is closest to the recommendations made by the TRPA's RPU committee. The alternative is likely to be the focus of much of the discussion as the RPU moves forward.
The change to what is allowed in recreation areas is part of the agency's goal to encourage more pedestrian and bike friendly development, said TRPA spokesman Jeff Cowen, who used the Homewood Master Plan as an example. Any development would be required to show how they will improve Lake Tahoe's environment, Cowen added.
Ann Nichols of the North Tahoe Preservation Alliance said the Regional Plan Update "totally misses the mark" and the change to the recreation classification will encourage development of open space.
"The focus has gone to development and the economy," Nichols said.
Allowing development in recreation areas will favor large developers like Vail Resorts, Nichols said, adding the regional plan should focus on redevelopment and enforcing infiltration of stormwater.
Tahoe Vista resident Ellie Waller said the change should not be included in the Regional Plan Update. Any changes should be looked at on a parcel-by-parcel basis, Waller said.
The concern about over-development is legitimate, said TRPA spokeswoman Julie Regan, but development caps included within the Regional Plan Update will prevent the runaway development that led to creation of the agency in the first place.
Even the most permissive of the alternatives envisions a Lake Tahoe Basin population lower than what it was in 2000, Regan said.
No specific projects are proposed, and it is not possible to speculate on the nature or size of projects that might be proposed under the change to the recreation classification in the future, according to the RPU.
New developments could result in impacts to air quality, noise, traffic, water quality and scenic values. Any development would be required to secure building allocations in line with what is authorized by the agency, be within an approved Master Plan or Area Plan and undergo project-specific environmental review.
How development plays into the change in the recreation classification is likely one to be discussed by the TRPA's Governing Board as the Regional Plan Update moves forward, Regan said.


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A synonym of African American, this word describes the bluish color typical of a black mouth.
Hey! Somebody hang that bluegum!
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A person of African American Heritage who has a purplish hew to the dental margins.
" Boy you-all doan want to get bit by one uh them Blue Gum N-Words! They bite is poisonouser than a rattlesnake!"
po J E Walker Април 25, 2003
Usually refers to a lazy black American who refuses to work.
Look at that ol blue gum just watching us do all the work!
Stop blue gumming and get to work!
Stop blue gumming and get to work!
po Chauncee Irving Јануар 18, 2005
A person of african american decent. Also see nigger
Damn blue gums stole me bicycle
po GG Јануар 24, 2004
An African or African American with exceptionally dark skin.
He ain't high yellow, he's a bluegums.
po WShannon Мај 12, 2006
Any black person whose gums are blue in color. Used to differentiate from the more common pink-gummed black person.
Officer "Ma'am, is this the man who robbed you?"
Woman "No officer, this man's gums are pink, the man who robbed me was a bluegum"
Woman "No officer, this man's gums are pink, the man who robbed me was a bluegum"
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A black person of the darker variety such that the gums are of a blue color.
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Founding Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist. A living example of one of the world's best musicians. He isn't my fave Chili-Pepper when it comes to looks, but he is a genius and deserves all the love, respect and money he gets. We're with you flea!
Flea's real name is Michael 'Flea' Balzary. He is 5'9 and he has appeared in several movies and he is the voice of Donnie in the Nickelodeon cartoon series, 'The Wild Thornberrys'. Not exaclty a looker, but his talent makes up for it big time.
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Michael "Flea" Balzary is the bassist for the funk rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers. His playing style is generally slap bass, but has started using a pick in RHCP's newer songs. (his first time using a pick was on Parallel Universe) He's been in quite a few movies such as his role as a nihilist in The Big Lebowski and as Donnie in The Wild Thornberrys Movie. He also is one of the more tattooed members of the band. His current gear list includes (basses) his signature Modulus basses, a few Music Man Stingrays, a few Fender Jazz basses, which go through (pedals) an Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron, a MXR microamp, and finally a Boss ODB-3 Overdrive pedal, which (amp) are powered by three Gallien Krueger 2001 RB heads with a GK 4x10 and 1x15 speaker cab each.
Flea is the reason I started playing bass.
додав Matt 26 Липня 2005
Best bassist of today, he is a true genius, if u want to listen to good music i suggest u buy every chili's album there is from freaky styly to there new greatest hits ablum. They own todays music.
додав Anonymous 08 Листопада 2003
the basssist of the "red hot chili peppers' his real name is michael balzary..he has a big gap between his 2 front teeth....sometimes play naked live...does the voice for donnie thornberrie in the wild thorberries
Bass Player!!
додав John Fru 23 Листопада 2003
Bassist for the Chilis. Best bassist ever. THIS MAN IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike Balzairy
додав Flea Fan 27 Березня 2003
Micheal Balzary, more commonly known as Flea, has proven time and time again that his bass guitar skills are beyond that of which many musician could ever hope to achieve. Flea is an complete dynamo, and gives RHCP a totally different feel from any other band. Flea was born in Australia, but moved to the US where he met co-founder of RHCP, Anthony Kiedis. Together they formed a band that has no competition when it comes to originality and skill. Flea also plays the trumpet at an extraordinary level. He is an amazing man. That is why I love him.
Flea breaks out his trumpet and bass skills at Hyde Park, that crazy little man rocks my world.
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Drones. They're not just for warfare anymore.
From delivering packages to capturing a fireworks show from the inside, unmanned aerial vehicles have come to be used well beyond the military.
But are they now being deployed by paparazzi to sneak photographs of celebrities like Miley Cyrus?
"Drone Pap wtf," the "Wrecking Ball" singer posted on Instagram recently, along with a video of what appears to be a drone flying overhead.
If the pop star did indeed spot a drone sent by paparazzi, it wouldn't be the first such incident.
"They tried to stop us from taking pictures and we said, 'You know what? Release the drone,' " one paparazzo said in a video after being blocked from getting footage of Selena Gomez at a photo shoot in March. "When there is a lot of fandemonium and people are trying to block us, we'll send a drone up and get great footage … It's going to be big."
That prospect is exactly what has California state senator Alex Padilla calling for legislation that would restrict the use of drones.
"We have enough paparazzi issues as it is," the former Los Angeles City Council member tells PEOPLE. "We certainly don't need drones with cameras or video recorders hovering over nightclubs, restaurants or the streets of L.A."
Sen. Padilla is currently spearheading a bill in the California State Senate that would limit the use of drones. He hopes celebs lend their support to it in the same way Halle Berry, Jennifer Garner and Kristen Bell did in the fight to protect children from paparazzi and Steven Tyler did to advocate for privacy in Hawaii.
But those who oppose the proposed restrictions say many existing laws protect people's right to privacy.
"If you trespass, harass or stalk someone, you can be criminally charged or you can be sued. There are laws that already protect people and celebrities from having those things happen," says Mickey Osterreicher, who was a photojournalist before becoming a lawyer representing the National Press Photographers Association. "It's unfortunate that the California legislators feel the need to pander to their celebrity constituents. The bottom line is that it is going to limit the ability to gather news. It's a First Amendment issue, and we don't need any more laws that infringe on First Amendment rights."
Osterreicher says the Federal Aviation Administration has been tasked with regulating the use of drones but the rules are currently "in limbo" as "unfortunately they are behind schedule."
And any eventual rulings by the FAA can impact non-celebrities as well.
"The federal government has made it policy to say that by 2020 we want tens of thousands of these in U.S. airspace," says Sen. Padilla. "I am fearful that we will go too far down that road without providing protections for people first."
Not that everyone is as concerned.
"When the [first portable] camera was invented in the late 1800s, there was the same cry of how the right to privacy was gone," says Osterreicher. "But we developed privacy laws and we've got those in place now. The world didn't come to an end."
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NEW YORK — With their punk-informed hairdos and garb, the members of Green Day look slightly out of place in Sardi's, a landmark theater-district restaurant frequented by stage folks and matinee crowds.
But Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt are Broadway babies themselves these days. The new musical American Idiot, an adaptation of the rock band's multiplatinum 2004 album, opens Tuesday at the St. James Theatre. And the guys are clearly, in Armstrong's words, "stoked" as they chat with director Michael Mayer.
It was Mayer who approached frontman Armstrong about bringing Green Day's rock opera, an account of disaffected youth in the post-9/11 era, to the stage. A Tony Award winner for Spring Awakening, another rock musical charting the oppression and alienation of junior citizens, Mayer also co-wrote Idiot's libretto with Armstrong.
Not that Armstrong and his bandmates were strangers to musical theater. Dirnt grew up a classic-movie buff, "so I know my way around a few scores." Adds Cool: "We like all kinds of music, and some of those old show tunes are really good."
"When American Idiot came out, we said it had more in common with Rocky Horror than (The Clash's) London Calling," Armstrong says.
Mayer goes further, likening Idiot's character- and song-driven structure to old-school musicals such as West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof. Both Fiddler and Idiot open with "prologues that set up a community," then introduce principal male characters who sing their own songs. "In Fiddler, it's — "
"If I Were a Rich Man," Cool blurts out, grinning.
In Idiot, "it happens to be a punk-rock anthem," Mayer says.
Idiot's young company includes John Gallagher Jr., another Tony-winning Awakening alum, and Rebecca Naomi Jones, praised for her performance in indie-pop star Stew's 2008 musical, Passing Strange.
Former Spin editor Alan Light thinks Idiot faces different pressures than Strange or Awakening did. "Those shows started small-scale; there was a sense of discovery. Neither came to Broadway with guns blazing."
Idiot did have its world-premiere run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre last year, and Mayer was encouraged by the results. "It worked for theater people who ended up digging the music, and for Green Day fans who fell in love with theater's power to tell a great story."
For Armstrong, "having a chorus of people sing a Green Day song isn't unlike what you'd experience at one of our concerts. At the same time, this is a theater piece that takes you on a complete journey with these characters. That's why I love watching it over and over again."


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I finished up dinner and as many dishes as I could with the light burned out.
I made a mad dash through rooms and straightened and tossed and then hit both bathrooms with a good cleaning. I was speedy.
I couldn't wait for the kids' bedtime so that I could be by myself and watch Project Runway all by myself and fold five loads of laundry I'd saved up just for it. All by myself.
Only a couple minutes into my show, just as I had sat down on my floor with a salad and my laundry, Gray appeared. I can't get much to sleep. I sent him downstairs to Daddy and he was back immediately. Wouldn't go to bed and now he was eyeing my salad. Like I can refuse a child some salad?
I so desperately wanted him to go away so that I could watch my show uninterrupted because he can't just sit there and eat salad but instead eats AND talks when I am TRYING TO HEAR TIM GUNN.
But he was so cute. (Gray, not Tim Gunn. Well, Tim Gunn is cute in a Tim Gunn way.)
I decided to let him hang out with me and soon he had brought his pillow and blankets and I glance over and he's asleep on my floor.
There was a moment later that I sat there and just stared at him. Studied his big eyelashes and the way his nose perks and I swear I saw him aging right there in his sleep. I saw it all.
They make me want to run away and they make me lose my breath Oh God I don't want to imagine life without them.
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