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Podcast wiseacre Adam Carolla recently coined the term "quirkedy" for a film that attempts to smooth over any gaps in comedic punch or dramatic heft with ample doses of quirky behavior and clever film craft. That definition nails the humbly likable Safety Not Guaranteed, a movie that is never as funny or sharp as it would like you to believe, but is made enjoyable by the charming cast and some odd little touches in the screenplay.
Aubrey Plaza stars as the weirdly named Darius, another of the sort of introverted, snarky but lovelorn girls that Plaza almost exclusively plays. She's quite good at it, excelling at squeezing laughs out of awkward small talk, and drawing you toward a character who is outwardly pushing everyone away.
She dwells in an alternate universe where alternative press magazines can afford to send three staffers on a lengthy road trip that is pretty much a total shot in the dark. Cynical scribe Jeff (Jake M. Johnson) goes hunting for the author of a classified ad seeking a "partner to go back in time with," mostly because he thinks it will be funny. Interns Darius and super nerd Arnau (Karan Soni) tag along mostly because they have nothing better to do.
They find the would-be Dr. Who, a painfully shy grocery clerk and tinkerer named Kenneth (Mark Duplass), holed up in a Pacific Northwest resort town that has seen better days, but also happens to be the home of Jeff's long-lost love.
Darius is quickly enamored with their sweetly weird interview subject, and she begins to believe that he's just crazy enough to be telling the truth about his time-traveling intentions. Whatever gadget he's building in his ramshackle workshop has drawn the attention of the feds, and soon there is a literal, but relaxed, race against time.
Time travel presumably takes more energy than this movie is capable of generating. It is a very low-watt indie affair that's scruffy around the edges; the bit actors are clearly novices, and the production looks small-scale. Still the leads are just appealing enough to spend time with, whenever that may be.
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The Arizona State football program has enjoyed a resurgence under new head coach Todd Graham and his coaching staff. The Devils won their last three games of the season, including a victory over rival Arizona and a landslide win against Navy in the Kraft Bowl on Saturday.
ASU Athletic Director Steve Patterson told Arizona Sports 620's Doug & Wolf Wednesday he couldn't be more pleased with Graham's inaugural season as head coach.
"We really thought [Graham] did a great job this year," Patterson said. "Scored a lot of points, which we were looking for, made sure all of our guys really grew as individuals. We were really pleased. He connected with the community. Everything we asked him to do, he did and culminated with a great blowout win over Navy, setting all kinds of records in the Kraft Bowl in San Francisco."
With the success Graham and his coaching staff had this past year came heavy interest from other schools in ASU's personnel.
The Devils lost running backs coach Larry Porter to the University of Texas on Wednesday.
"When you win some ballgames and your staff does a good job that's going to happen," Patterson stated. "They came after [Porter], threw a whole lot of money at him as they can at UT and it's a good opportunity for him and so he took it. So congratulations to him. It's good for him and his family."
Patterson isn't concerned about filling the running backs coach vacancy and said he expects to have a lot of candidates interested in working alongside Graham.
"I don't think we're going to have a lot of trouble with that," Patterson said. "People are excited to work for Todd Graham. People are excited to be associated with ASU and the success we're having now and the good culture that [Graham] and his staff are building down there."
Despite Porter's exit, Patterson doesn't expect to see a flurry of coaches leaving. In fact, he believes his head coach isn't looking to move on to greener pastures, despite a history that would say otherwise.
Graham spent a year at Rice, four at Tulsa and then just one year at Pittsburgh before bolting for Arizona State.
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Truth be told, red is my favorite color for everything except party affiliation. The First Lady broke tide in a STUNNING Jason Wu red halter gown for the Inaugural gown first dance, and maybe, just maybe, that can be a sign of getting us all together. Far from the more girly white Jason Wu frock from…Published on January 21, 2013
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A quick little reminder about staying youthful and keeping your personal brand both modern and vital. Case in point: Michelle Obama turned 49 today with a few new things: @FLOTUS (First Lady Of The United States), her Twitter handle where we got a first look at the First Lady's new hairstyle, BANGS! Yup, there is nothing…Published on January 17, 2013
Trend Tuesday – Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron in Top Spring Business ChicTrends
Why do we tip off what works about these two political ladies? Because both Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron have mastered sophisticated business chic, and here's how you can add polish to your workwear wardrobe too! Call it a double-impact dose of top Spring cool when Michelle Obama & Samantha Cameron are paired together… MORE: Michelle…Published on March 20, 2012
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I'll Have What She's Having : A mellow hued watercolor floral print that although vintage inspired, looks fresh and age appropriate on First Lady Michelle Obama. A rich print on a classic 60′s inspired princess coat could have gone all wrong on someone Michelle Obama's age, as it could have aged her beyond her…Published on February 28, 2012
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He Said, She Said: Yet More On Obama, Joe Anthony and MySpace
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But what strikes me as odd about it is Rospars' claim that Anthony's "list of itemized financial requests" came unbidden, after the workload on the page exploded and Anthony cut off the campaign's password access to the site. Rospars would have you believe that Anthony was in effect extorting the campaign by witholding access, but my notes of my conversations with Obama staff, which were "on background" make clear that Anthony only produced that proposal (the $39,000 plus the $10,000 for possible advertising spending by the campaign on MySpace) at the request of Chris Hughes.The details of this part of the story, which for many people is the crux of the issue (did Anthony try to extort the campaign or did the campaign negotiate in bad faith?) now seem rather murky. There is a lot of he said / she said that might not ever be entirely sorted out. The second key aspect of the story, the issue of fair compensation for the work Anthony did, is addressed by Micah Sifry in another post today:
I should add here that I know Rospars a little and based on our past conversations and his general reputation among politech folks, he's a straight shooter. I don't think he's saying anything other than what he believes were the actual version of events. But what I don't know is whether Rospars was personally involved in all the details of the relationship with Anthony, or what he's written here reflects what others who were more directly involved are feeding him.
It's possible that we will soon see a clarification of this issue, since Anthony tells me that Rospars offered to let him post
I've seen comments about this controversy suggesting that Joe Anthony's work in creating his myspace.com/barackobama profile page two-and-a-half years ago and building it to the point that he had more than 30,000 friends by the time Obama formally launched his campaign in late January was negligible, little more than stitching together some images and biographical content and then clicking "add" for all the friend requests that flowed in.Nothing bothered me more in the discussion yesterday than the argument that Anthony's work wasn't valuable. That line of argumentation had strong overtones of implying that all internet and netroots work conducted on behalf of a campaign was not valuable, a
But from talking with Joe, and even from Joe Rospars defensive post on the Obama site, it's clear he did a lot more than that and spent a great deal of time--at least five hours a day starting this January, he says--responding to individual emails, pointing people to information on how to register to vote (something he is rightfully intensely proud of), answering their questions about Obama, and so on. If you hired someone to do this for you to promote a movie or a product or a candidate on MySpace, surely you'd have to pay them something. Top internet consulting firms charge anywhere from $50-$150 an hour for staff time. If Anthony put in just 5 hours a day over the last 18 weeks, that could be anywhere from $30,000 to $90,000 in value.
I'm not even factoring in the intangible value of all the good press Anthony's site generated for the Obama campaign as soon as the media started reporting how well the Senator was doing in the "MySpace primary." You can say that if it wasn't Joe Anthony who made Barack Obama so popular on MySpace, and you'd be right, but still, Anthony was still doing the back-end work of building and maintaining a rapidly growing group, and by all accounts did so pretty well. Not perfectly, but when I asked the Obama campaign folks if Anthony's management of the site ever harmed them, they unanimously said no.
And then there's the future value of a vibrant group of 160,000 "friends" on MySpace. Lots of people have expressed skepticism about this (including a truly condescending post on a blog connected to the D Conference about Obama losing the support of that "all-important 13- to 17-year-old demographic at the polls"). If you think the group has no daily life, that once people friended Anthony's Obama profile, consider this: as of this morning, there are at least 18,000 comments from members of that group responding to a bulletin Anthony sent them about the situation and asking for their advice.
Sifry has quite a bit more to say in both posts, here and here, including comments from a variety of internet consultants on the value of Anthony's work. If you think this isn't a big issue, I think you are wrong. This incident cuts right at the right of funding issues surrounding the netroots and blogosphere, and the value of our new medium in general. As opposed to the conversations yesterday, I also think that now it is clear that there are no clear answers or "sides" to take on what happened. This isn't a black and white issue, but it is very important, and it needs further discussion.
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Niagara Gazette — Coats For Kids is about making sure every child and adult in Niagara Falls has a warm winter coat when the weather turns south.
Every year, the father and son team of Joe and Russell Petrozzi watch as thousands of new and gently used coats flood the storage areas at Capitol Cleaners on Main Street, helping them prepare for any number of individuals looking for assistance.
But Saturday's first distribution was dampened by a day of rain, keeping many families who need the warmth away and the coat racks full of unclaimed merchandise.
"It's a little slower than it usually is because of the weather," Russell Petrozzi, owner of Capitol Cleaners, said. "The rain kept people away this morning."
"Normally, we're bombed in the morning, but because of the rain, we had a steady, slower flow of people," his father, Joe Petrozzi, said.
How low was this year's turnout? Together with volunteers from the St. Vincent DePaul Society, they handed out 188 coats to 77 adults and 119 children. Though the numbers seem impressive, volunteers said they usually see 300 or more coats distributed on a clear day.
But those who need the help the most aren't limited to just this one day. A second distribution day has been set up for those who weren't able — or chose not — to get out of the house.
They'll also be distributing from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday Nov. 24 at Capitol Cleaners' 1227 Main St. location.
In addition, Russell Petrozzi said several schools in the area will also receive coats, which they'll be able to distribute to children as they see fit. Any unclaimed larger, adult coats will be given to AMVETS or taken by the St. Vincent DePaul Society.
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The AFCEA Educational Foundation's Board of Directors, The Education Committee, and the staff set as a goal for Fiscal Year 2008 to develop a long-range strategic plan. Fortuitously, AFCEA International also decided to develop a strategic plan for the coming years. As a result, both plans will be fully integrated. In fact, goal four of AFCEA International's plan---"promote world class education and training that meet the needs of the AFCEA community"---is the heart of the Foundation's plan.
The members of the Foundation's Board of Directors and the Education Committee have reviewed and contributed to the Foundation's plan. Key in refining the plan's actions and establishing measures that align with actions has been Natalie Givans, a member of the Board of Directors for the AFCEA Educational Foundation.
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Was doing an engine swap on Saturday to a new 350 and everything went together awesome until time to start vehicle. Positive wire from battery to starter was touching header and melted to the metal (Not sure if this caused the problem just the only thing out of the ordinary that happen). Once cable was swapped out and truck was running the battery doesn't appear to be getting enough of a charge. It doesn't die while running but if it is running for about 15 or so minutes and I turn truck off there isn't enough juice to turn it back over without charging battery or jumping it. Tested battery alternator and starter and all passed load tests. Not sure where to turn now. When truck is on the gauge inside the truck shows around 11 volts.
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11 volts should put some juice back in the battery, what are you reading at the battery while the trucks running with a multimeter? The voltage gauge could be wrong or more likely it's reading upstream of the battery before whatever your problem is.
Check for a fusable link running across the firewall, GM used to use a green link that turned brown when it burned, I've seen them only do a partial burn and still allow some electrical flow, you may additionally have a white ceramic looking block on the firewall, I wanna call it a resistor but thats not what it is, this can also burn, sometimes it'll take on a tan tinge if it gets burned, again it restricts the flow of power to/from the battery.
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By Gelene Simpson
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Corsicana —
No matter where you live these days, you have to make a good many long distance telephone calls. Maybe you made a purchase in an establishment close at hand. That does not mean that all your dealings will be nearby. Many times you have to call a number on long distance. It is true that you probably won't have to pay to reach the necessary number; but before you talk to the party you really need, you may have a fairly long waiting period.
If you are like me, you have a million things to do and only about five minutes in which to do them. Being stuck on the line, waiting does away with that five minutes pretty fast. One way the company deals with me, and others like me, is to pipe music to us while we wait. Every once in a while a voice will break in and remind us of how much the said company wants our business and that someone will be with us shortly. I would like to answer that it can't be too "shortly" to suit me. But I keep my mouth shut out of fear that I will never again get this close to talking to a real person if I let out a peep.
While I am languishing, I often think of places I would rather be, and people I would love to be talking to on the telephone. Holding the line has never been a favorite pastime of mine.
Usually I become overwrought and may even hang up in exasperation, of course, then have to do it all over again. But recently came across a chapter title "music appreciation" in Art Buchwald's book "I don't Think I Remember," which really helped me to see the humor in the situation. You know how I love music because it has a special power. But somehow I have always resented having it used on him every time he would "dial an institution." He implies that there is something not quite right about this. I must say that I agree. We love to hear great music, but we prefer to choose the time, the place, and the musical number. Of course, Buchwald makes it all comical by quoting Stuart Brotman as saying, "once you've heard Mozart on the phone you never want to hear him live again."
The airlines are subject to many, many calls per day. Brotman is quoted as saying that he called Atlanta for reservations and got, "plugged into Handel's "Messiah." He continues by boasting that he had to wait so long that he learned "the lyrics by heart." Buckwald countered by boasting that the gas company played that every time they put him on hold. Not to be put down, Brotman counters, "The difference in American Express pipes theirs in live from Vienna".
At this point, my eye was drawn to a later discussion of the reason that longer and longer numbers were played because more and more employees were being let go. So one need not expect to hear "Begin the Beguine" because the average wait at the average car rental agency would be "at least a Beethoven symphony".
I got the biggest chuckle from the exchange about the IRS Buchwald had just confessed that he hadn't realized "so much thinking went into institutional answering services." That's when Brotman decides to prove it to him by dialing the IRS because he says, "they always put you on hold." Buchwald said, He handed the receiver to me. I listened and then said, "I don't believe it." The IRS is playing Wager's "Gotterdammerung." Buchwald was surprised because it was "a funeral announcement." But Brotman counters with, "What did you expect, Happy Days are Here Again?"
In the future, I am pretty sure I'll be able to wait through just about any musical rendition just by remembering this comical exchange.


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Visiting the National Shrine of Saint FrancisThe National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi is located in the heart of the North Beach area and is easy to add to any walking tour of the city.
- Address: 610 Vallejo Street, San Francisco
- Hours: Church - 10am to 5pm daily, Porziuncola Nuova and Giftshop - Tuesday through Sunday 1am to 6pm.
- Admission: Free of charge
- Contact: (415) 986-4557 www.shrinesf.org
The Saint Francis of Assisi ChurchThe oldest church in San Francisco next to the original Franciscan settlement of Mission Dolores, this Norman Gothic Church was built in 1859 to serve the city's ballooning population after the Gold Rush. The church itself is a California State Historic Landmark and holds several historic and artistic treasures worth checking out:
- Murals: Murals depicting the miracle filled life of Saint Francis surround the main altar and the front of the church. These were painted by renown Italian fin-de-siècle painter and illustrator Luigi Brusatori.
- Statues of the Saints: The Church interior is lined with life-sized statues of many prominent Catholic saints including Saint Francis himself and Saint Clare, his female partner, founder of her own order and the first woman to write a book of rules for monastic life - the Rule of Life.
- The Pipe Organ: The Saint Francis of Assisi Church contains a 1926 Schoenstein Organ Company of San Francisco pipe organ that is used regularly as part of mass.
The Porziuncola NuovaThis 3/4 scale exact replica of the basilica in Assisi that Saint Francis restored and founded his order in is located in its own structure right next to the church. Before Saint Francis rebuilt the original church it was an ancient temple to Our Lady of the Angels, an early name for the holy mother.
This church was to play a prominent part in the fascinating story of Saint Francis and was the site of one of his major miracles, known as the "Great Pardon" or the "Porziuncola Indulgence". According to several sources, one night Saint Francis was praying to Jesus and Mary to forgive the sins of mankind when they appeared before him in a dazzling light and with a multitude of angels.
Jesus asked Saint Francis what he wanted for the salvation of others. Saint Francis replied that he would like complete forgiveness for all those who asked for it at the church. Jesus not only granted Saint Francis his wish but told him to go to the Pope and tell him that he had been authorized by God to pardon sinners at not only the Porziuncola but at all Franciscan churches.
In this way Saint Francis not only reformed the corrupt Catholic church, which had been charging exorbitant fees for "Indulgances" - official pardons by the church - but he set a precedent in terms of arguing for universal salvation that continues within the order to this day. In the words of Saint Francis, which are inscribed in Latin outside the Porziuncola Nuova: "O my Brothers and Sisters, I Want You All to Go to Paradise".
What this means is that anyone can ask for forgiveness at the National Shrine of Saint Francis, and it will be granted if they truthfully confess their sins. This could be very usefull after a night out in the North Beach Neighborhood.
The National Shrine of Saint Francis Gift ShopThe basement bookstore cafe offers not only a large selection of books on Saint Francis, Saint Clare and other Franciscan history but many spiritual souvenirs including the Tau cross, which was the icon worn by Saint Francis himself. The gift shop is also the best place in the city of San Francisco to pick up replicated frescos from Italy and scrolls in different languages containing several saying of the saint, including the Prayer of Saint Francis:
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.


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The leitmotif is set in the opening moments of the movie, as we hear Mattie, the narrator and principal character, say in voice-over "the only thing in life that's free is the grace of God." The film will unfold as an extended meditation on the play between justice and mercy, between what is owed and what is given as a grace. Fourteen year old Mattie, whose father had been killed in cold blood by a man he had befriended, lives in a world of strict justice, of give and take, of contracts and obligations. Bound and determined to see her father's killer hanged, Mattie hires a wizened old law man named Rooster Cogburn (played with characteristic naturalness by Jeff Bridges) and gives him the charge of tracking down the murderer. We get a delicious taste of Mattie's personality as she, with lawyerly skill and fierce persistance, wrests from an oily horse-trader the money she needs to pay Rooster. And when Cogburn leaves without her, convinced that the teen-aged city slicker would only slow him down, she rides her horse right across a raging river to catch up to him—and then reminds him that he is in breach of contract! Mattie is a mulier fortis, a woman not to be trifled with.
She moves with Rooster and Le Boeuf—a Texas ranger who is also looking for the murderer—into Indian country, a place of lawlessness, where drifters live outside the constraints of polite society. They corner a couple of members of Ned Pepper's gang, for Rooster is convinced that the killer might have joined forces with these desperados. After a shoot-out and a violent interrogation, two men are dead and a third is wounded. The next day, by the bank of a river, Mattie encounters her father's killer and manages to wound him before being captured by Ned Pepper and his men. In the most stirring scene in the film, Rooster manages, single-handedly to take on the entire Pepper gang, holding the reins of his horse in his teeth and firing with both hands. After this encounter, four more men lie dead. Finally, Mattie frees herself and shoots to death her father's murderer, but the recoil on the gun is so strong that she is pushed into a snake pit, where she receives a bite on the hand. I'll get back to the snake pit in a moment, but notice first what this canny fourteen year old girl's lust for vengeance has wrought: eight dead men. She wanted only to bring her father's killer to justice, but the single-mindedness of her pursuit conduced toward a disproportionate, even barbaric, result, something far beyond the requirements of justice. Her excessive and one-sided passion for righteousness kicked her into a den of snakes, and no one with a Biblical sensibility could miss the symbolic overtone of this kind of fall.
As she lies helpless and desperately injured, Mattie looks up and sees Rooster Cogburn lowering himself by rope to the bottom of the pit. He cuts into her wound and sucks out as much of the poison as he can and then he brings her back up, places her on a horse and commences a furious ride to the nearest doctor who is many miles away. When the horse gives way from sheer exhaustion beneath him, Rooster picks up Mattie in his arms and carries her through the night to the doctor's home. Now Cogburn is a man of the law, and like Mattie, he was aiming to bring a killer to justice, but what these heroic actions on behalf of the girl reveal is that he more than that. His passion for justice is accompanied by, even surpassed, by his mercy, his graciousness, his willingness to give even when that giving was not, strictly speaking, owed.
As the film comes to a close, we have fast-forwarded many years into the future, and a still prim, unmarried, and somewhat cold Mattie has just learned of the death of Rooster Cogburn. We then see that she has but one arm. Though Rooster's graciousness saved Mattie's life, the doctor, evidently, was not able to save her limb. And as the final credits roll, we hear the beautiful old spiritual "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms," which speaks of the "fellowship and joy divine" which comes from "leaning on the everlasting arms" of God. Rooster had carried Mattie in his two arms, evocative of both justice and mercy, attributes that come together supremely in God. Mattie's tragedy is that she had only justice, only one arm. The same Coen brothers who gave us a powerful image of God in the tornado at the conclusion of "A Serious Man" and in the pregnant police officer in "Fargo" have given us still another in the strong arms of Rooster Cogburn.
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Gophers to Start Spring at B1G Match Play
Tournament Bracket | AJGA Live Scoring | Carlson's Corner: Gearing Up for B1G Match Play
Feb. 12, 2014
Minnesota men's golf will begin its spring season at the Big Ten Match Play Championship in Bradenton, Fla. The tournament starts Friday, Feb. 14 and concludes on Saturday, Feb. 15.
The Golden Gophers are the No. 7 seed in the tournament and will face No. 10 Penn State in the first round. Tee times begin at 6:30 a.m. CT.
The squad for the Match Play will be selected from Jose Mendez, Tyler Lowenstein, Jon Trasamar, Alex Gaugert, Jon DuToit, Matt Rachey and Grady Meyer.
The field: All 12 Big Ten schools will participate in the tournament. Illinois, Purdue, Northwestern and Iowa have received first round byes as the top four seeds.
The course: For the third consecutive year, Concession Golf Club will host the Big Ten Match Play. The par-72 course was designed by Jack Nicklaus and Tony Jacklin, and it plays at 7,474 yards.
Notes: *Minnesota went 1-2 as the No. 8 seed at last year's event.
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The New Egotist – Good? Bad? Indifferent?
Kook-Aid, Typo or clever misspell going over my head?
That's how Kraft spells it: http://brands.kraftfoods.com/koolaid/Home.aspx
Pretty sure Kraft doesn't have Kook-Aid either...
Little slow today. It was a late night.
Love the look/feel of most of it, nice work!
I think the content pages look better than the home though, due to the 2 even width columns on the home page... the 3 to 2 weight inside feels much better.
i like the gray. and i like the news'yer feel. it makes me feel like i am checking the times when i read though it.
job well done guys/girls.
Looks spiffy! I like the changes.
Looks good. Except for one MAJOR thing! Why cant we put our demo reels in our profile??? Placing only still frames in the profile is not really geared for us production houses. Thoughts?
Hear ya, bwell. We're working on it. The ability to embed video inside a profile should be up and cooking sooner rather than later.
I figured you guys are on it! ROCK ON! BTW I feel all awkward in this new swanky website. HA
Love the new look. Clean design, usability gets two solid thumbs up. Cudos to the designer and dev on the re-design.
You're killing me with the franchising. That is freaking awesome. It's something I've had in the back of my mind for db art news but your combination of features on the new site and the way you're presenting it is bad ass. Super tight. Who are you anyway????
Love it, but I would like to through up more the 3 images in my profile page.
Love it. Clean and easily navigable. Well done!
It's all you need...Simplistic, get's the point across and bold at the same time. Awesome design for sure


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DANIEL CRAIG: We're paying $10 a gallon in England. Welcome to the real world. Americans don't know how good they've had it. Compared with the British price, it's still a good deal in America.
PLAYBOY: We imagine you can afford it.
DANIEL CRAIG: That's not the point when it comes to energy consumption, is it? We all want to use less, don't we? We ought to, anyway.
PLAYBOY: Energy is one of the key issues in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Do you follow politics?
DANIEL CRAIG: Of course. It's in my interest.
PLAYBOY: What's your interest in our election?
DANIEL CRAIG: What happens in the U.S. affects the rest of the world. The U.K. is very connected to America. There's no separation on many issues.
PLAYBOY: What's your view of the campaign? If you could register in the States, who would get your vote?
DANIEL CRAIG: I strongly feel there needs to be a new way forward. Barack Obama is pushing things in the right direction. I'm excited about the election. Unfortunately, things will probably get dirty. I hope Obama can stay above the fray. He's a different kind of politician, so maybe he can. I'm hopeful for the first time in a long, long while. It's one of the most exciting elections of my lifetime.
PLAYBOY: Did you ever aspire to politics, or were you always interested in acting?
DANIEL CRAIG: I've been interested in acting, not politics, since I was a child.
PLAYBOY: What was it about acting?
DANIEL CRAIG: My mother was an art teacher, so art was around and there was interest in the arts. I wanted to act once I saw theater and movies. Art—acting, in particular—was a way out.
PLAYBOY: A way out of what? How would you sum up your childhood?
DANIEL CRAIG: I was born in Cheshire, which is not far from Liverpool. Then we moved to Liverpool. I was brought up by my mother and lived with my sister. I had a good upbringing. It was tough because it was a struggle for my mother, being a single parent. She worked incredibly hard. Overall there were ups and downs just like everyone's childhood, but there was nothing that stands out to me that made it particularly more difficult than anybody else's.
PLAYBOY: Did you continue to have a relationship with your father after your parents divorced?
DANIEL CRAIG: I had contact at times with my father. Not always, but later on we got it worked out and became closer.
PLAYBOY: Were you a good student?
DANIEL CRAIG: I was a really bad student. I left school at 16, to my mother's despair. She knew I wanted to be an actor and actually gave me a little push toward it but only because school wasn't looking good. It was just not happening. I didn't get the qualifications, and I didn't get anything to suggest I would actually have any academic career whatsoever.
PLAYBOY: Was it unusual for a boy in your neighborhood to want to be an actor?
DANIEL CRAIG: It wasn't that it was expected, but Liverpool has always had a very strong arts community. It was encouraged to form a band or whatever you could do for yourselves. Like I said, art was always viewed as a way to get out.
PLAYBOY: What was the first Bond film you saw?
DANIEL CRAIG: In the cinemas the first one I saw was Live and Let Die with Roger Moore, which is his first one. I eventually went back and watched them all.
PLAYBOY: Who's your favorite Bond?
DANIEL CRAIG: The Sean Connery movies stand up for me. They're my benchmark. I like the others, but Connery is fantastic.
PLAYBOY: Did you aspire to play Bond?
DANIEL CRAIG: It never really crossed my mind at the time. I was drawn to theater initially, after I saw plays. Movies came later.
PLAYBOY: For a while you supported your acting by waiting tables. Were you a good waiter?
DANIEL CRAIG: I was a pretty awful waiter. Actually, I never waited tables after I finished school. I swore to myself I would never wait tables again once I'd left drama school.
PLAYBOY: Did you?
DANIEL CRAIG: I never did.
PLAYBOY: Early roles in plays led to parts on television and in movies for you. When you finally landed film roles in Hollywood, you often played villains, including a series of ruthless killers. Did you mind?
DANIEL CRAIG: After a while I did. I stopped. I just decided I didn't want to do it anymore. English actors were being offered the bad-guy roles at the time. I don't know why. But after getting some of those parts in Hollywood movies, I decided to stop, no matter how lucrative it was. I concentrated on making movies in England—smaller, independent movies. I made Enduring Love, based on the Ian McEwan book, as well as the movies The Mother and Love Is the Devil. They were much more rewarding. Even since doing Bond, I want to continue to make movies like those.
PLAYBOY: You recently completed Defiance, about World War II. Do you intentionally try to mix it up?
DANIEL CRAIG: That would suggest there is some sort of master plan. There isn't. I accept jobs because they interest me when they come along. I'd had a long year and been working hard. Bond was finished, and we'd wrapped the Golden Compass tour. I didn't plan on working right away, but I picked up the script and read it and reread it from cover to cover. It's a good position to be in to be able to make movies like Defiance and also do James Bond and Golden Compass or whatever comes along that strikes my fancy.
PLAYBOY: Earlier you said you tried to anticipate the impact of being Bond. Is it what you expected? Has it changed everything?
DANIEL CRAIG: It has. It's changed everything.
PLAYBOY: Similar to the ways you anticipated?
DANIEL CRAIG: Anticipated is the wrong word. Everything that came along was different than anything I could have anticipated.
PLAYBOY: Have you had difficulty handling it?
DANIEL CRAIG: If I were 20 years younger—even 15 or 10 years younger—and this kind of success happened to me, I would probably have gone out and spent every penny I'd earned. I would have changed my life in a way that would have—well, it probably wouldn't have been the healthiest. But because I'm the age I am, I don't have the urge or the need to change much, and I haven't. The important things haven't changed at all. The important things in life have less to do with the amount of money I earn. It's the simpler things.
PLAYBOY: Has your fame been difficult for your friends and family?
DANIEL CRAIG: I've always tried to protect my family and friends. I had a choice, but they didn't make a choice about my being famous.
PLAYBOY: How have your relationships held up?
DANIEL CRAIG: They've solidified. They're better now than they ever were.
PLAYBOY: Has it been especially difficult for your daughter?
DANIEL CRAIG: I think she's been protected from most of it. Protecting her was my highest priority.
PLAYBOY: How did becoming a parent change you?
DANIEL CRAIG: It changed me completely. It changes me every day.
PLAYBOY: How?
DANIEL CRAIG: It's constant discovery. Ask any parent. It makes you look deeper and in a different way. You think differently about yourself, about the world.
PLAYBOY: Will it be difficult for you when your daughter gets older and begins dating?
DANIEL CRAIG: It's not something I'll publicly talk about. It has to be between me and her.
PLAYBOY: How will you respond if a James Bond type arrives in an Aston Martin to pick her up?
DANIEL CRAIG: I guess we'll see.
PLAYBOY: Ready access to Aston Martins notwithstanding, is your life anything like Bond's?
DANIEL CRAIG: I'm living a pretty glamorous life, though I don't publicly live a glamorous life. If I were younger, I would have lived a glamorous life publicly. The changes I have made I've made slowly. I've consciously done it. I'm trying to do this for the long term. Maybe I've got it wrong; maybe I should just go and move to Monte Carlo and live on a yacht.
PLAYBOY: Are you occasionally tempted?
DANIEL CRAIG: It doesn't tempt me at all.
PLAYBOY: Since your divorce, are you better at relationships?
DANIEL CRAIG: You do get better, hopefully. I think if you apply the simple rules of taking care of each other and looking after each other and making sure the other person is experiencing as much as you are and you're part of eachother's lives as much as you possibly can be, it'll figure itself out. Just because I make Bond movies doesn't mean things are different for me. Things are exactly the same for me as they are for everybody else.
PLAYBOY: Even with paparazzi and tabloids and the speculation and the Internet?
DANIEL CRAIG: Yeah, if you're strong about who you are and who you're with. I mean, if you're not, then yes, it's a problem. Your life is open. If you're not strong about who you are, you can be affected by the newspapers, in which you can be married, have three children and get divorced in one afternoon. The papers can quite happily suggest all that. The weird thing is that for some people, it can almost be predicted in the press. People may not be having a nervous breakdown, but the press can make them have one. It can make marriages split up. There can be a rumor going around that somebody's marriage is on the rocks, and it suddenly can be. It's almost as if that forces it to happen. It's really testing for a couple.
PLAYBOY: People often speculate about actors and their co-stars on movie sets.
DANIEL CRAIG: So the thing is, you don't have an affair with somebody in your movies.
PLAYBOY: Does public scrutiny intensify any existing problems? It seems it may be true for Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse.
DANIEL CRAIG: Maybe, because your problems will come out. If you're an artist—a singer, an actor, a painter, whatever—you show your emotions; it's what you do. That's what's appealing about you. If you have problems, the problems will come out and possibly be magnified.
PLAYBOY: Is the attention itself addictive?
DANIEL CRAIG: Possibly, if you don't understand it. That's why I think it's good for me that the attention came when I was older.
PLAYBOY: If you live by the sword, you may die by the sword. That is, if you buy your own press and come to think you're as great as everyone says you are, you also have to buy your own press when the public turns against you.
DANIEL CRAIG: And people go down in flames. Something in me admires that.
PLAYBOY: You admire people who go down in flames?
DANIEL CRAIG: There's something in me that's from the punk generation that I grew up with that's still there. It's just saying fuck you to all this; I don't give a shit what you think.
PLAYBOY: How has the huge success of Casino Royale influenced your film choices? There seem to be two ways to go: It could free an actor to take on a wide variety of roles, or it may make him less likely to take risks because he needs, or thinks he needs, surefire hits.
DANIEL CRAIG: It's not going to happen like that for me. It hasn't really changed the fact that jobs come along and I decide if I'm interested for whatever reason.
PLAYBOY: Are you burned out on action movies yet?
DANIEL CRAIG: I'm not looking for them at the moment. But if one came along that was great, who knows? The thing is, I genuinely love what I do. That's what you get addicted to—this huge collaborative effort. We worked on the new Bond movie for six months. You work extremely closely with a great bunch of people. It's incredibly rewarding. That happens on a Bond movie or an interesting small movie. I produced a little movie last year with my best friend directing, because he's incredibly talented; we got that off the ground. I do like the idea of smaller, independent movies because you can discuss subjects that won't necessarily make piles of money. They deal with tricky subject matter. I'm happy to do both kinds of movies. When you're starting out as an actor, you don't necessarily have a lot of choices. Hopefully, if you get any success, you can use it to give yourself the space to think, to make the right decisions. Why do you take the job? For the money? Then that's fine. Because there's a story you want to help tell? That's better. You can do both and make conscious choices. You're happier at the end of the day.
PLAYBOY: You reportedly signed on to make four Bond films. Are two more coming?
DANIEL CRAIG: I did sign on for four, including Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. So a piece of paper says there are two more to do. But let's see how this one goes. In the film business everything doesn't always go according to plan. We'll wait and see. If it goes wrong, we'll have to rethink things.
PLAYBOY: And if it goes right?
DANIEL CRAIG: If it goes right, then, well, either way we'll see, won't we? At least for the time being I'm still quite enjoying myself playing James Bond. Why not? It's great. If it stopped being fun, though, I'd have to kill it off, wouldn't I? I wouldn't think twice.


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Dennis stunned by Waratahs captaincy
February 6, 2013
Dave Dennis said he would lead by his actions rather than words in his new role as captain. © Getty Images
Dave Dennis was shocked when Michael Cheika appointed him as Waratahs captain just 20 minutes prior to the season launch.
Cheika had not made up his mind on the captaincy as the full squad boarded the team bus en route to the launch, but the former Randwick, Pad ova, Leinster and State François coach eventually tapped Dennis on the shoulder.
"It was a bit of a surprise but something I'm extremely proud of," Dennis said of the captaincy.
"He [Cheika] goes about things a bit differently but it's been received well so it's good. I'm just really proud and honoured to get this opportunity. I was born and bred in NSW, and I love this state and I love this club so it's just a good feeling. It means a lot to me, it means a lot to me to play for the team let alone to have the opportunity to captain such a good bunch of blokes."
Cheika said of the bizarre timing of his decision: "What I wanted to do is make sure I took enough time to assess who would be the leader of the team. It's a very, very important decision, not just for this year but for going forward.
"Dave Dennis has come through the Sydney club ranks; he's from the west of Sydney; he's earned his stripes through club football; he accessed state football, earned his stripes there and at Test level; and he's earned the right to lead his state."
The Waratahs coach is not a believer in leadership groups, but he will allow Dennis to appoint his own vice-captains.
The 27-year-old Wallabies flanker said he would lead by his actions rather than words, and would lean on his experienced team-mates for assistance throughout the season.
"I'll use other guys around me," he said.
"It won't just be about me talking. I'll use the experience of senior guys as well and just try and lead from the front on and off the field. I've had a little bit of experience in a leadership role (with Sydney University) but I'll still develop throughout the course of the year and it won't just be about what I think is right. I'll use the advice of past captains like Phil Waugh and also current senior players like Benn Robinson who had a bit of experience last year."
Waugh, who played alongside Dennis, endorsed the blindside flanker's appointment.
"He's very passionate, he's very loyal and you can just see how hard he's worked to get back after two pretty bad knee injuries," Waugh said.
"He works hard, he's certainly got the respect of all the players and he's got that rare ability to connect with everyone in the squad, which is such an important part of being captain. So I think it's a great choice."
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Texas Tech: Sources close to the program confirming to us that they expect Chris Thomsen to join the staff replacing Jim Turner. Thomsen is the former Abilene Christian head coach who in December accepted a position on Todd Graham's staff at Arizona State.FootballScoop - The Scoop
RECOUNT NOT REMATCH! I'm starting this here. Fans do NOT want a rematch of LSU and Alabama. OCCUPY THE INTERNET and demand a recount! For years the BCS has kept teams out of the big games like Boise and others that play "little sisters of the poor". Well, now we have an Alabama team in the game with a schedule that is clearly inferior to Ok State. What gives?
The Big 12's middle tier has shifted. So, Texas Tech went 18 years without a losing season and played in 11 consecutive bowls. Baylor went 16 years without playing in a bowl game. Now, Texas Tech will be sitting at home for the holidays and Baylor is going to it second consecutive bowl game and has a chance to win 10 games.By David Ubben at http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/tag/_/name/tommy-tuberville
Tech vs Mizz ProjectionsI say it will be ugly. 48 - 14 Mizz
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Tech WR Shawn Corker converts to CB last week and now he says there's a good chance he could start against UTTwitter / @BrandonKLBK: Tech WR Shawn Corker conve ... I'm sure that this will work out just fine. UPDATE: From the LAJ: "You put all your hard work and effort into it," Corker said Monday. "To see something that you love and have a passion for go away, you start growing and developing in different areas. Now I have dreams to be a starting corner in the NFL and hopefully start for this team." Snip. "Moving to corner, it was kind of coach Tubs' (Tommy Tuberville) idea," Corker said. "I was practicing at punt return, and they saw my ability to jam receivers off the line. I really did a good job at that, so coach Tubs was like, 'Let's try him at corner. See how he does.' I really started to get the hang of it, picking up plays very fast, and here I am today."
West Virginia has accepted an offer to join the Big 12 Conference, college football industry sources told CBSSports.com Friday. The Mountaineers informed the Big East Friday morning that they were leaving the league. The Big 12 is expected to officially announce the invitation later today. The Big 12's board of directors voted Friday morning and chose West Virginia over Louisville. The Big 12 will stay at 10 schools, a source said.WVU to Big 12; what's next for Big East - CBSSports.com
How close was the Big 12 to announcing West Virginia as its newest member? As of Tuesday, Big 12 officials, including interim commissioner Chuck Neinas and deputy commissioner Tim Weiser, planned to be in Morgantown, W.Va. today to announce West Virginia was headed to the Big 12. The Big 12 had told West Virginia officials the Mountaineers were the choice to replace Missouri and the Big 12 even had a press release prepared. But before the Big 12 could make it official, the league's board of directors wanted to perform due diligence and decided to hold off on officially inviting West Virginia. The reason was simple: the Big 12 had always been deciding between West Virginia, Louisville or BYU as a replacement for Missouri, when it leaves for the SEC. Now the league is split between West Virginia and Louisville, multiple sources have said.How close did Big 12 come to adding WVU? - CBSSports.com
Don't get me wrong, the Michigan State-Wisconsin game was amazing. I stayed up until 3 a.m. watching the replay after I covered Game 3 of the World Series. But unranked Texas Tech's 41-38 victory against then-top-ranked Oklahoma at Norman -- breaking the Sooners' 39-game home win streak -- was better. And much, much more meaningful.Gene W's BMOC The love continues. Nice to be back on the radar.
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what to do with barley malt?
Not sure how long it will last, but you can use some up in these delicious-looking rolls:
You'll probably also find the detailed description (gives general ideas for how to use it) and related (detailed) recipes linked on this page helpful- sorry to say I can't speak from personal experience!
The BBC Food Programme had a show recently on malt, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yw6kh , interesting info and a few ideas... as to lasting I'd imagine you've got quite a while...
The syrup is best stored in the fridge, though a spot on the doors will suffice. It doesn't need to stay really cold to keep from molding, and will keep pretty much indefinitely if you don't accidentally introduce bacteria.
I've used it in place of corn syrup, though the color and the flavor and sweetness level are all quite different. (I wouldn't use it as a sub for corn syrup in candy making, probably.) But, it works well for say, Korean food like galbi jjim, short ribs, and other such dishes.
You can also use the syrup as a replacement for sugar in a number of different bread recipes, especially those with whole or multiple grain flours, where the added flavor is welcome. If you bake bread regularly, you'll use the jar up easily.
You can also make peanut butter rice crispy treats with barley malt syrup, though I don't know if kids accustomed to the marshmallow variety would go for them. I make them with raisins, but you could sub chocolate chips for added sweetness.


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How did you come to be involved with this fund-raiser for the National Lung Care Partnership?
I am an oncology nurse in Knoxville, and part of another foundation in Knoxville, Breath of Life. It was started four years ago in memory of lung-cancer patient Charlie Mynatt, and I had the privilege of taking care of him. Breath of Life provides hope and encouragement for lung-cancer patients and their families during their treatment.
Is research prolonging the life of lung-cancer patients?
We've extended it by months, not years. Though we're farther ahead than we were, we face the problem of a lack of funding for research for lung cancer.
If you had just one thing to say to people about lung cancer, what would it be?
It's not just a smoker's disease or a disease of older men. Fifteen percent of patients were never smokers, and twice as many women will die of lung cancer as of breast cancer.
Does early detection help?
It's hard to detect it early, there's no early tool, like a mammogram, that's one of the problems. Most often when you find it, it's in advanced stages.
Why was Charlie Mynatt special?
He survived 27 months of lung cancer; he was a fighter. And he was very involved while he was alive, participating in events like Buddy's Race Against Cancer. When he died, his wife didn't want to let his efforts stop. She started Breath of Life to help on a local level. Eventually, we hope it's a huge, national thing.
What are the meetings like?
We have a topic to discuss—diet, fatigue, how you feel with side effects, or depression. But I have to say, this is not a depressed group; they're very electric. I always leave the meetings feeling better than when I went there.
For more information about the Oct. 16 race in Village Green Subdivision on Jamestowne Boulevard, go to freetobreathe.org. (Online registration closes Oct. 11.)
For more about Breath of Life: breathoflifesupport.org
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An online collection of digital texts and images from the American Radicalism collection at Michigan State University. Among the many subject areas included are the Hollywood Ten, Black Panthers, Birth Control, I.W.W., Wounded Knee and Students for a Democratic Society.
Includes links to Civil War documents and photographs.
This site, maintained by the University of Kansas, has links to many important historical documents from 1400 to the present.
Provides over 7,000 images of advertisements from U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines for the period 1911-1955. Images are from collection at Duke University.
This digital archive from the Library of Congress has over 100 thematic collections of historical documents, maps, moving images, sound recordings, and photographic images.
A collection of selected primary and secondary sources in US History, specifically African American Studies and Women's Studies. Included are full text of laws and court cases, autobiographies, and manuscript materials.
This collection, sponsored by the library at the University of North Carolina, has texts, images, and audiofiles related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the Colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Western European Primary Historical Documents
Digital Library of the National Library of France
Census data pertaining to the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960.
More than 144 first person narratives of average Americans in extraordinary times. Strong in the WWI period. A project of the Center for Social History and the New Media, and George Mason University. Also includes lesson plans and teacher resources in US History.
A collection that provides links to historical texts for Ancient History, Medieval Studies, and Modern History. There are also some thematically based subsets that include African History, East Asian History, Indian History, Jewish History, and History of Science.
Includes Abraham Lincoln's speeches and writings from his Illinois years (1830-1861) as well as other materials from Illinois' early years of statehood (1818-1829). This site is the product of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project based at Northern Illinois University.
This site, produced at the University of Michigan, is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through Reconstruction. The collection contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles.
Provides thousands of digital images from the NYPL collections including historical maps, illuminated manuscripts, and prints and photographs. It contains texts and images from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Provides digital images of many important documents in American history as well as the text transcript of these documents. Also has links to the presidential libraries where other digitized primary documents may be found.
A project that interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It incorporates a narrative and electronic archive of the sources on which the narrative is based
Provides access to digitized resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. These materials address the role of women in the US economy between 1800 and the Great Depression. Currently contains 3,500 books and pamphlets, 1,125 photographs, and 7,500 pages from manuscript collections
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This is a list of several popular travel books to help you plan a great Scandinavian vacation. These guidebooks cover Scandinavia in its entirety, so they can be reused for your next trip to a different Scandinavian country. Books like these would make great gifts, too!
1. Frommer's Scandinavia (Frommer's Complete)
2. Rick Steves' Scandinavia Books
Rick Steves' Scandinavia guidebooks are not as resourceful as the books listed above, but generally still worth taking a look at. The hand-drawn maps could be better. Purchasing a detailed map separately is recommended.
ISBN: 1566917336, Format: Paperback, MSRP: $ 19.95
3. Fodor's Scandinavia
Fodor's Scandinavia travel guide is a well written guidebook for travelers and covers various hotels, restaurants, "hidden secrets", and many exciting things do to in Scandinavia year-round.
ISBN: 1400016428, Format: Paperback, MSRP: $ 23.00


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Census records and translations
I mentioned in a previous post that Manny found a copy of a census that has his family listed on it. ... He told me several things about it, names, page number, date, etc. I made it over the the historical society and used its computer to get on ancestry.com, I tried and tried to find the them but I couldn't.
Finally, I realized that I could narrow the search field down to going to the exact city and looking at every page, found them! Guess what they aren't indexed under? Sanchez or anything even close to it, they have them indexed under Savchas, no wonder I couldn't find them! I know there is some way to post a correction, I guess I'll have to find out how to do it.
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As I pointed out at the end of the April 24 of this post, it saddens me deeply that cutting-edge technology has inexorably changed the way our busy modern society gets its word fix. Or is it the other way around – have we as a people constantly demanded new technology that keeps up with our self-induced overly complicated lives? Maybe it's just the diehard traditionalist in me, but I just can't help but feel badly for anyone who feels the strange need to own a device like a Kindle, iPad, or Nook, on which they purchase, download, and read digital versions of books, newspapers, and magazines…especially if that is the only way an individual chooses to get his or her reading material.
Sure, I concede that many might argue it's all in the name of portability and convenience:
"I like being able to store all my favorite books in one place and carry them around on my Kindle." Do you really need that? How many books do you need to carry at once, unless you're a student? Besides, I think it's much more beautiful and fulfilling to look at books on my bookshelves at home and to pull one out at random on a quiet, relaxing night.
"I subscribe to the New York Times on my iPad and it's great. Interactive too." You know what's interactive? Hands turning the pages of the newspaper and folding it over, and hearing that wonderful crinkling sound. But am I being hypocritical here? In part one and in this post, I include links to external websites. That's interactive too.
It just seems so coldly alien to me to tap the lower corners of a screen and drag virtual pages of a book or magazine in order to turn to the next page. Some devices have a button you click to turn the pages. Pffft.
It's that same juggernaut advanced technology that has been the death knell of so many venerable book publishing houses and print newspapers and magazines. The flailing economy has also been to blame, particularly when it comes to independent bookstores nationwide that have had to close their doors. Either way, many great publications, including the Creative Loafing family of papers, have decreased the size of the actual publication, announced pay cuts and layoffs, or ceased production altogether. Window Media, LLC – which had published the essential GLBT Southern Voice, Washington Blade, Houston Voice, and South Florida Blade family of newspapers and David (Atlanta) magazine – also sadly fell victim to changing times when it closed its offices and filed for bankruptcy in 2009.
While I do genuinely lament the demise of so many distinguished print newspapers and magazines, in all fairness I must also openly confess my appreciation for a contemporary generation of news outlets that was born specifically in and for the Internet. I give them the benefit of the doubt because they didn't rise from the ashes of newspapers that were felled by the slash-and-burning of venerable former publications. I peruse these news sources almost daily for the latest national and local headlines; I count among them the Huffington Post and this site. The rise of citizen journalism and news bloggers has also indelibly changed the ways breaking news is disseminated to the public.
Whether that hunger for the hottest, up-to-the-minute, interactive news coverage says anything about our ever-dwindling attention spans, I don't know. The wham-bam approach to getting the news out can leave a lot to be desired. It's just that, if given the choice, I'm more likely to hold the news source in my hands, leisurely turn its pages, and let the world's current events soak indelibly into my mind so that I can recall them later in real discussion with real people.
But maybe I'm wandering from my original point, which is that we must make a concerted effort to never lose touch with the sheer romance of holding a book, newspaper, or magazine in our hands. Even if we cheat on that romantic relationship by having an occasional dalliance with a digital partner, we must always come back home and beg forgiveness from the one who was first in our lives, the one who gave so much of its heart and soul to us, the one who will let us back into its reassuring embrace.
I'll take that any day over a silly affair with the next hot young thing.
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X-as-a-Service products are integral in the U.S. tech industry with their ability to take the pain out of server configuration, maintenance, provisioning, data storage and other aspects of running a server. With the recent outing of PRISM, a clandestine national security electronic surveillance program, the next desirable IT feature is "not subject to American law." How can we leverage cloud-based software while maintaining privacy?
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He also blogs reflections on the lectionary and saints/heroes/events of the date at http://walktheway.wordpress.com
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The Pink Slip Method
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