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The Good Wife Review: An Ongoing Conspiracyby Carissa Pavlica at . Updated at . Comments
It's really easy to get lost in the details, especially in an hour as bogged down as The Good Wife Season 5 Episode 13. The trick is that the details only serve as a distraction to the main issue.
To what lengths would Will Gardner go to protect Alicia Florrick?
As confusing and convoluted as this hour tried to make things by coming in at Alicia because she's an easier get than Peter, it's really going to come down to the triangle.
Will showed Peter the video, Alicia represented Peter -- as whacked out as it's become, they're all mired down in it together.
It's difficult to watch this mess unfold without being at least a little bit angry at the Florrick kids for not bringing what was going on with Grace to Alicia's attention. If they had done that and given a larger scope to the snooping activities it might have given Alicia reason to look deeper into things and perhaps Robyn or someone would have discovered the breach.
Granted, it's the NSA and they're damn good at covering their tracks (look how long it took them to get the burner phone number), but if they had been searching for something earlier they might have at least been warned of this shit storm that's about to come down on them.
Peter dodging Marilyn because she wouldn't cook up her response to his satisfaction worked out well, didn't it? She's practically bursting with baby -- it's not the time to be messing with her. A pregnant woman. What was he thinking? I didn't expect her to give the video over to Mr. Dubeck so easily, but if Peter had met with her she might have had a change of heart.
Alicia's tough exterior as Dubeck was laying it on the line didn't exactly make her look like a sympathetic, put upon wife and probably won't play well as things continue to pile down upon her and it seems the course they're going to take it to dump it all down on her instead of Peter to draw him out.
They have the phone calls linking Will to Alicia so they're undoubtedly expecting him to turn on her also. What I don't understand is what going after Alicia will really do if they can't get Peter -- the governor -- as a result. Isn't he end game? Would arresting and putting Alicia behind bars, or Will if he took the fall for her, be worth all the effort?
The question comes down to whether or not Will would let the gauntlet fall onto Alicia. There is absolutely no case whatsoever that he hates her, and his decision off the cuff to stand behind attorney client privilege had nothing to do with Peter and everything to do with Alicia, of that I'm certain.
Cary and Kalinda just slipped under the radar and under the covers, but I'm not pleased with them sleeping together. It's a step down for both characters to use each other. Cary claims he doesn't trust her, but still has sex and she takes their pillow talk back to Diane. It's kind of disgusting. I'd like more for them both.
Finally, have you ever seen a more poorly developed pretend TV show on a great real TV show before? Poor Grace -- what was she watching? It didn't escape me that the woman held at gunpoint was in love with two people, or at least slept with two men and was about to pay for it. Now wonder Alicia needed more wine!
Are we moving into a situation that will bring Alicia and Will closer and tear her and Peter apart? Hit the comments and spark up a discussion. If you want to revisit any previous installments, you can easily do it when you watch The Good Wife online. And -- welcome back!!
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great episode. kalinda sleeping with cary for info yuk. he is too smart for sure saw right thru this. that judge acting strange and wondering what he's up to. i to wonder what the shocker is but these shows do so much hype and then its really nothing exciting. glad cary had more screen time but still needs more!!!!!!!. as usual alicia was superb
to me the question is what kind of terroristic conspiracy is the NSA triying to uncover. People watch tv a lot more than they read newspapers, so it all comes out as ridiculing institutions. The geeks in the office, the sharing of info, the sadness of it all. if this is alla joke, we got the point of view, now move along. I am all into adding layers, but now TGW semes to go over the top to unravel its storylines. really 1 hour just to let Alicia find out about the phone. And to question (again) where Will's loyalty will fall. This is pure extravaganza.
Great episode! I don't think Will is going to hurt Alicia or Peter. He's angry but on the other hand he still loves Alicia. My guess is that he's going to find a way to get himself out of this mess.
What Kalinda did is disgusting. I know Cary is in this too but I'm blaming only Kalinda. She was the one taking Cary to bed n order to get the information she needed. She did this with that lady cop, and the FBI lady too. She's willing to sleep with anyone jut to get what she wants. Disgusting.
I'm looking forward to see what will happen next.
If I were Alicia I'd tell Will to get the f out her life !!!!!
Cary already knows Kalinda can't be trusted........I'm sure he knows she just used him.......but she was wrong this time.........Cary was telling the truth and they(Kalinda, Will and Diane) are so wrapped up in themselves they won't see it........when they do figure it out it will be too late..........
Now I wonder why did Kalinda sleep with Peter? Was it for pleasure or for something else?
The why hasn't been revealed ....only that it did happen............and is the why even important now??????
I agree!
I agree with the kids part... Its those photos all over again... They think they are so smart and I can't believe that the Kings would use that again. They got so much flack for it the first time!
I wish Grace and Zack would just leave, They are irritating and idiotic. Grrr! Somehow I don't think Will was the one who gave the reporter the video. I mean thats what everyone thinks and it would be easy to assume that but I think it was someone else. Maybe thats the shocking moment? It wouldn't make sense for Will to do it because in the end he could get implicated in it.
Will was the one with the video he was trying to show Peter and he turned him down with do with it what you want.
I thought the episode was absolutely brilliant in every way. All of the different threads and storylines coming together brilliantly again. My only request would be for tvfanatic to assign a better staff member to cover this greatest of shows. It does not lend this site credibility for shows not evne in the same universe as TGW to get 5-stars and glowing reviews while CP continues to criticize a show that seems to be too much for her to comprehend. Sorry CP but you obviously do not understand this show. Mayne the CW would be more to your liking?
I agree. I loved all the subplots and intrigue. I don't understand people who complain they can't keep up. Cary and Kalinda is disgusting. I don't like what Kalinda has become, have sex with anyone for info. Rather sleazy, same as the way she dresses. Great show and I look forward to this weeks episode.
DW I happen to agree with "CPs" thoughtful review and if you have followed her over the last few years you would know that she is a major fan of The Good Wife and her criticism comes from a place of appreciation. But just because you do not agree with her assessment doesn't mean that she is doing a bad job. There's a word for people who think that their opinion should be held above all and anyone who doesnt agree is wrong: megalomaniac. You, Spenser and DS90 might fit in better with the CW crowd of pre-pubescents who cut themselves and declare war on anyone who tosses even the slightest hint of negativity at the object if their obsession. In other words: #growup
Yeah, this "review" lacks depth. If you want to read a really good one, try NYMag's Vulture recap. The comment board is filled with super nerdy TGW fans..
I agree completely that the reviewer doesn't understand the show.
Do you both disagree that at the heart of this NSA business (the heart of The Good Wife) is a trial of the relationships between Alicia and Will / Alicia and Peter? Or are you angry that I don't give every episode 5 stars?
What I want to know is what this upcoming shocker is supposed to be..............I think we're getting 2 more new episodes and then it will be off again........... Indeed, the question is will Will take the fall for Alicia? On a side note..............Eric Bogosian has REALLY aged since his Law and Order Criminal Intent days...................and that's only been a couple years ago......................
Will going to jail is the shocker. It's written all over this season plus the actor did not officially renew a contract for seasons beyond this one. 2+2=


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We live in times of major uncertainty. The doom and gloom of the economic crisis, the deterioration of mass markets, the pervasiveness of the digital lifestyle, and the fragmentation of traditional societal institutions are not only inducing anxiety but also inspiring a search for simplicity and noneconomic value systems. Consumption-driven wealth and status are being replaced by identity, belonging, and a strong desire to contribute to — or to experience — something "meaningful" rather than to acquire more things. Trust and reputation are no longer enablers for the exchange of goods, services, and information, they are replacements for them. Values are the new value. Meaning is succeeding customer satisfaction. "The job of leadership today is not just to make money. It's to make meaning," writes management consultant John Hagel.
This new cultural climate presents a historic opportunity for brands to transform themselves into arbiters of meaning. When your brand is a vector, your base becomes a movement — as we learned from Barack Obama's presidential campaign. A "meaning surplus" will become imperative: Only businesses that give more than they take will be able to create sustained brand loyalty. Out: bottom-line pragmatists and financial wizards. In: philosophers, ethicists, and social entrepreneurs.
Although all corporate functions are affected by this path-finding moment, marketing is best positioned to lead the transformation. Effort is required to move beyond simply connecting products and customers with the goal of facilitating transactions. Marketing must now create "meaning" through actions and interactions. What is needed is the marketer as chief meaning officer — someone who negotiates a "New Deal," a new social contract between brands, their stakeholders, and society at large.
There are two reasons marketing should take on this daunting task. First, marketers are disposed to transformation by the very nature of their role. They must constantly adapt to ever-changing customer behaviors, and because of this exposure to trends they can also act as innovators, challenging the status quo inside their organizations. Second, since marketers serve as the public interface of their companies, orchestrating the relationships between the key market actors (customer, media, and public), they can also fulfill that role within their organizations, facilitating among R&D, operations, sales, finance, and HR.
A Brand Is a Small Town That Never Sleeps
The advent of the social web has disrupted traditional marketing conventions and has democratized the concept of branding. The truth is, a brand is no longer exclusively the bastion of marketing. In today's open-sourced, hyper-transparent economy, customers own the brand, and no platform, book, or rigid compliance guidelines designed to protect marketers' idea of that brand can change this. You cannot control your brand anymore, period.
A brand is a small town that never sleeps. It is open to (almost) everyone, it is vibrant, and it is made of and by people who are willing to connect in pursuit of either utilitarian value or a common cause — or both. It is composed of myriad social networks, micro-communities that communicate 24/7. Companies that embrace this new continuum and act as "brand urbanites" will easily adapt to the new digital arena. Chief meaning officers recognize that in the Cluetrain Manifesto world of marketing, the brand belongs to everyone and everyone is the brand. But they also understand that this is their big chance to reconcile brand polyphony with a recognizable brand personality. Brands can be either the subject of conversations or the host of conversations moderated by brand advocates and attractors. It is the chief meaning officer's job to design, enable, facilitate, and curate these conversations and make them as meaningful as possible. If brands don't have a point of view, they won't be able to connect. If they don't have an argument to make, they won't be meaningful. Brands need to be well-traveled, well-read, and educated. If they only repeat the same message again and again, they won't be able to engage in a conversation.
In a blog post, John Battelle, chairman of the Conversational Marketing Summit, cited the venerable management guru Peter Drucker, who defined marketing as "the whole business seen from the customer's point of view." Put another way, every single interaction the customer has with a business can and should be seen as marketing. Accordingly, for Battelle, "A truly successful business is one that is an ongoing conversation. Those conversations are marketing — if you add value and connect to your customer, you're succeeding. If you don't, you fail."
This is a significant change. A decade ago, marketing was viewed mainly as a one-way push to get messages about products and services out to customers. Then marketers began to recognize the need to encourage a dialogue, propelled by the benefits of online marketing. Interactive tools, from wikis to blogs to social networks, have enabled marketers to engage existing and potential customers, not only at the most opportune times (when deciding whether to buy, for example), but also at all points along the value chain, including the development of the products themselves. The trend toward engaging in the ideation, development, distribution, and support of new products and services marks a new era in business culture. Marketers now need to have more than just an in-depth understanding of their audiences' needs, habits, and desires; they must also initiate or join conversations to engage their audiences in channels of co-creation.
Clustering customers into segments based on aggregated demographic or behavioral data has serious limitations in an "age of conversations" in which the boundaries between consumer and producer, amateur and professional, are blurring. An increasing number of companies, therefore, are adopting the principles of observational ethnographic research, looking at outliers and eccentric behavior on the fringes of their target audience. The resulting insights are often more meaningful than those from focus groups and quantitative consumer research, which are typically predictable and confirm certain assumptions. In this vein, Jump Associates' Dev Patnaik posits empathy as a critical skill set and calls for companies to be "wired to care."
The chief meaning officer's role is to generate this empathy by opening the "open brand" even further. The new marketer needs to urge old-school brand guards (who still think they need to "protect" the brand) to let go once and for all. The more invisible marketing becomes, the more effective it will be. The more control it gives up, the more influence it gains. Axel Wipperfurth, author of the book Brand Hijack, calls this "marketing without marketing," and author Stowe Boyd calls it "unmarketing." Chief meaning officers should evangelize this philosophy across their organizations and work with their CEOs to agree on new metrics that reward the subtle, implicit, and collaborative element, which is critical for establishing and fostering brands in the 21st-century. "Brands aren't defined by campaigns anymore, but by the consumer ecosystems we nurture to support them," HP's CMO Michael Mendenhall recently told Strategy + Business magazine. The creation of brand equity is a cooperative act based on the values that companies share with their customers. Brands are assets in the public domain. They are social funds. The chief meaning officer's mission is to raise their intellectual and emotional capital by "activating" customers.
An effective way to do this is to activate the dormant social networks customers inhabit (often without even knowing it). All online communications essentially have a social component and can be seen as expressions of underlying social micro-verses, worlds within worlds in which — shifting time and place — individuals can travel and interact online. As marketers face the daunting challenge of connecting with increasingly fragmented audiences, activating dormant social networks is their foremost task.
KLM's Africa and China clubs provide an interesting case study. The Dutch airline offers business customers the opportunity to meet fellow travelers who do business in either of these two regions — before takeoff and during the flight, online and in person. KLM plays the role of the matchmaker and adds value to the otherwise often value-free hours frequent travelers spend in airport lounges and in flight. It is the principle of the social-networking site Dopplr, applied to the exclusive crowd of business and first-class travelers: connecting travelers who share the same connections. KLM prefilters the club members so that travelers who sign up for the invitation-only network are afforded a certain quality of contacts. The clubs are a win-win-win: Trade groups and business offices from the travel regions are provided with a highly targeted way to advertise their services; travelers benefit from a true value-add and a richer travel experience; and, finally, the clubs bolster KLM's reputation as an airline that cares about its customers. Of course, these networks already exist; they're just dormant. KLM does not make immediate revenue, but it generates "social wealth" as long-term equity.
In this case, KLM activates the dormant networks through an actual common motivation, but the activation can also occur through a shared set of ideals, values, and beliefs. Joseph Newfield, founder and CEO of the marketing agency School of Thought, puts it aptly: "Start with beliefs and you'll get believers. Marketers still need to use every trick in the book and dozens that haven't been thought of yet to engage people in great, compelling stories. The difference today is this: To make believers, the stories have to be true."
The catalyst for these stories based on shared ideals, values, and beliefs is social content. The chief meaning officer connects members of dormant networks, creating and distributing the type of content apt to trigger the desired network effect. If that occurs, content is passed from one individual to the next in a cascade of viral distribution: partly through formalized online social networks (Facebook, etc.), partly through activated dormant networks of existing online populations, and partly by individuals who establish new networks within what Logic + Emotion blogger David Armano calls "social solar systems."
Increasingly, this content is small. Small content can go anywhere. With accelerated news cycles, shrinking attention spans, and communications fragmented into 140-character tweets, instant gratification and presence have become the predominant paradigms of online interaction. Microblogging services such as Twitter diversify meaning into myriad atoms of communication, hyper-targeted in-the-moment forms of looking at the world by expressing it in real time: As marketing strategist Geoff Livingston says, "Now is gone." The shorter the attention span, the more important the role of microformats. The more sliced up the content, the richer the channels of communication. The smaller your brand, the more you can share it.
The Obama for America campaign masterfully utilized the power of social networks to generate this small-world effect. "As networks grow, they shrink," says Jure Leskovec of Carnegie Mellon University. "As people accumulate friends, the distances shrink." The more people joined the social Web hubs of the Obama campaign, the easier it became for the messages to spread and for the campaign to amplify its outreach and turn undecided voters into Obama voters and passive supporters into active volunteers. The bigger the network grew, the more the distance between the brand and its followers shrank. The campaign became an inclusive movement for everyone: Obama was us, and we were Obama.
A growing number of companies are realizing that their brand is "a small town that never sleeps." Amazon (Amazon Flexible Payments Service), Netflix (Netflix Prize), Virgin Mobile (Virgin Earth Challenge), Procter & Gamble (Open Innovation Challenge), Dell (IdeaStorm), and Starbucks (MyStarbucksIdea), among others, have all moved from firm-centric to network-centric, empowering and leveraging their community of users by giving them a voice in strategy, product development, and marketing decisions. These companies understand that crowdsourced and peer-to-peer business intelligence helps them overcome the "not-invented-here" syndrome, reconciling inside-out and outside-in innovation. In addition, more and more brands are adapting to the new paradigms of the Distributed Internet and the new economy of micro-scale, and have launched a number of open-source Web services and APIs (application programming interfaces) that make their brands smaller and thus easier to share.
But only a few companies are currently committing to the underlying, more radical proposition: That they're all more or less in the content business.
Sharing Is Giving Is Taking
In his seminal 1960 article "Marketing Myopia," Theodore Levitt cited the railroad industry as an example of business failing to adapt to changing circumstances. Had it realized it was in the transportation business, it might have survived. Similarly, all businesses — regardless of their industry — need to realize that they're not just selling products or services: They're in the communication business, tasked with sharing information.
Bypassing ailing traditional media, companies can establish proprietary media channels to produce and disseminate their own social content and communicate with their audiences directly. These channels include social media, as well as micromedia (hyper-targeted formats that reach niche audiences). Through all of these channels, brands can "show by telling." This applies particularly to service marketers and marketers who promote premium brands (see The McKinsey Quarterly or the firm's recently launched expert group blog, What Matters, as examples). They sell intellectual capital, culture, and expertise, conveyed by stories based on shared values — in short, they sell meaning. In a digital economy where most transactions are free (or expected to be free), value is created through sharing. Sharing makes content meaningful.
A study from Nokia predicts that by 2012 a quarter of all entertainment will be "circular": created, edited, and shared within peer groups rather than generated by traditional media. "People will have a genuine desire not only to create and share their own content, but also to remix it, mash it up, and pass it on within their peer groups — a form of collaborative social media," wrote the study's authors. Similarly, management guru Gary Hamel (The Future of Management) proclaims a new "gift economy": "Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it. To gain influence and status, you have to give away your expertise and content. And you must do it quickly; if you don't, someone else will beat you to the punch — and garner the credit that might have been yours." Economist Umair Haque points out that, "The pressure for sharing in a hyper-connected world is too strong to resist. It's not a fringe effect, relegated to geeks and hippies — it is one of the foundations, as we've been noting, of next-generation value creation. And it's doubly vital in a world where the fabric of value creation is breaking apart." As an example, Haque refers to car-rental company Hertz, which introduced a new "micro-chunking" service that allows customers to rent cars by the hour. This has helped Hertz compete with ZipCar, City Car Share, and similar services that were micro-community-oriented and green-marketed well before Hertz got into the space.
Sharing means exchanging information through open conversations, in the spirit of what Wired contributing editor Clive Thompson dubs "radical transparency." Companies that are not afraid of showing their vulnerability have begun to embrace radical transparency as an effective way to humanize their brands: Online retailer Zappos lets every employee blog, Comcast has its engineers go on message boards to answer customer questions, and more and more companies are using Twitter for what it is best suited for — ostentatiously public personal conversations. All these companies understand that personality — brand personality — comes from being personal. The more transparent and vulnerable they are, the more personal they will appear.
As much as transparency can underscore that you have nothing to hide, it can also highlight that you have a lot to give. Winston Churchill's saying, "You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give," is true for brands as well. "Giving Is the New Taking, and Sharing Is the New Giving," asserted a Trendwatching report, pointing at a new Generation G (for generosity) that is poised to reboot capitalism. "As consumers are disgusted with greed and its current dire consequences for the economy — and while that same upheaval has them longing more than ever for institutions that care — the need for more generosity beautifully coincides with the ongoing (and pre-recession) emergence of an online-fueled culture of individuals who share, give, engage, create, and collaborate in large numbers."
Case in point: the San Francisco-based firm Virgance, which shows that the new kids on the Web want to make a difference. The Economist described Virgance's model as "for-profit activism." Named after a plot device in Star Wars, the company aims to support social causes through a multi-pronged campaign platform that resembles the way Obama for America mobilized its supporters, and it typically consists of four core elements: a web-empowered network of volunteers, a presence on Facebook, a team of paid bloggers to promote the campaigns, and YouTube viral videos.
Virgance is not the first for-profit do-gooder, of course; there have been plenty of others whose business models have combined bottom-line thinking with social values. But Virgance is more like Facebook's Causes. It adopts the forces of amateur self-organization described in Clay Shirky's book Here Comes Everybody and builds its entire business on a social Web platform, embracing the principles of open source, mass collaboration, and transparency. The Virgance Web site describes the company's ambitious mission: "If a for-profit company did the type of work that nonprofits often do, but did it more efficiently, would people trust it the same way they trust nonprofits? What if everything the company did was completely transparent? What if it was open source? If we can create this kind of company, and succeed, how many other companies would follow our example? Along the way, could we change the face of the business world itself?"
Does that language sound familiar? Clearly the Obama-nization of business, both in terms of substance and style, has arrived, and we will see more examples going forward — brands that provide emotional, intellectual, and moral guidance and are steered by chief meaning officers.
Generation G has internalized the claim by philosopher Alain de Botton that "there is no wealth but life, so concentrate on your portfolio of life, and not your portfolio of cash." While the boundaries between work and life are dissipating, "lifeholder value" is gaining traction as the ultimate return on investment. But Generation G not only demands new concepts of quality of life versus concepts of material wealth, safety, status, and comfort — it also wants to have a say in developing them. Were Maslow's hierarchy of needs still a valid model, it would have to include social and environmental needs that are bigger than those individual, and it would also look less like a pyramid and more like what the Catalan tradition calls a castell, or a human tower, offering an endless array of configurations of balance that are possible through openness, experimentation, and cooperation.
Brands seeking to engage Generation G must replace outdated concepts of ownership, control, and coordination with concepts of open source, open IP, open innovation, and transparency. They must turn customers into "brand holders" by "activating" them, promising one or more of the following benefits: personal or professional growth; new insights and learning; a connection with like-minded people; and the opportunity to contribute to a common cause by using their talent and potential.
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Welcome to TV Fanatic's Gossip Girl Round Table, where our staff members assemble to review the events of "Inglorious Bassterds" and the developments to come.
The GGRT is happy to welcome back DANdy from his honeymoon with his lovely new wife. They had a great time and he only spent 3-4 hours a day online. Go DANdy!
Gossip Guy and Mister Meester join him in discussing Monday's Gossip Girl. On tap: Last night's top quotes, Chuck's shocking betrayal, diabolical Jenny and more ...
1. What was your favorite Gossip Girl quote last night?
DANdy: Jack's stinging final words to his nephew: "Blair has seen the real you now. It's over. She could never love that. No one could." Man. And I thought marriage was painful!
Gossip Guy: Giving it to Blair, because no matter how many times she does it, referring to her minions kills me every time. "I invited my minions. It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel."
Mister Meester: Rufus: "Telling a woman you like her clothes isn't lying. It's self-preservation." Hopefully DANdy learns this one fast and lives until his one-month anniversary.
2. Was Chuck's decision out of character?
DANdy: Yes and no, and that's the great thing about this character: he's multi-layered. In his most insecure moments, we're looking at one major Basshole. Other times? He's Chuck full of heart.
Gossip Guy: That's really tough to say, but lately, the guy seems to be obsessed with his hotel and mother, often pushing Blair away. It really didn't feel out of character for me to think he'd do whatever it takes to prove he's not the failure his father thought he was.
Mister Meester: Three points before I answer: 1. Ed Westwick is amazing. 2. They did a nice job setting him up for this fall for weeks. 3. As recently as Season 2, Chuck was a morally bankrupt, emotional basket case. All of those factors made his behavior seem very much in character last night, however I still can't believe he would sell out Blair. I just don't see it. Also, will someone please answer me this: Was this Jack's endgame all along? Did he really go to such extreme lengths for this alone? Did this whole story feel just slightly off, much like Jack's horrible new haircut and goatee combo? I'm dying to know what people think.3. Will Chair survive?
DANdy: The Gossip Girl series finale (perish the thought, I know) will undoubtedly center around Chuck and Blair's elaborate wedding. So, yes, in time the couple will recover. But in a lot of time.
Gossip Guy: Oh absolutely. What couple hasn't had the guy try to manipulate the girl into sleeping with his own uncle to try and win back his hotel that got stolen by his estranged mother. Happened to a good friend of mine last week and he and his girlfriend are stronger for it.
Mister Meester: Forgive the side tangent, but since Josh Schwartz sort of lamely guaranteed they will, I just have to ask - is there such a thing as too much info before watching actual episodes? Photos, sneak peeks, etc., are great, but to me, when he gives interviews like yesterday's it diminishes the effect somewhat. Anyone agree or disagree?
With Jenny Humphrey, there's never a dull moment.
4. Do you like Jenny?
DANdy: I'd like to take her for a long walk on a short pier, if that's what you mean!
Gossip Guy: Absolutely. I mean, the bitch is pure evil. Trying to steal Nate from her own step sister while she planned an elaborate surprise party for him? Seriously? But that's why I love her. Bringing the Gossip back to Gossip Girl. What else you want the girl to do? Go back to having a boring fashion story line?
Mister Meester: So help me God, J. How long did it take you to think up the plan to steal Nate away, complete with your excuse for later of merely safeguarding the surprise? Five seconds? That obnoxious, eye-rolling attitude after you planted one on Nate and he pulled back?
Have you no shame at all? Watch your back, girlfriend.
5. Cutest supporting character: Eric or Dorota?
DANdy: Until Eric gets a bowl cut like Justin Bieber, it has to be Dorota.
Gossip Guy: Wow that is a tough one. While I was thrilled to see Eric back, I gotta give it to Dorota. Not only was the woman running around firing her pistol lighter, but her reaction to the proposal was adorable. Love this woman.
Mister Meester: Dorota's awesome, but they're laying it on a little thick with her lately. Eric has always been great, not just as a foil for J, but as a rare, semi-innocent voice of reason.
What do you think? Sound off in the comments!
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Jenny is the most interesting of them all. I may not like her as a person, but I love her character??
Wham bam thank you, maÂ'am, my qusiteons are answered!
2--well, if Chuck does not love B, he wasn´t out of character. But if he does, then I don`t get it.
3-I think they killed Chair with that, I don´t care if they get together again.
4-I don´t like Jenny, at least as I liked old Blair, but I find her useful.
5-I like both Eric and Dorota
1. Blair: "All I ever did was love you" 2. Yes! I think Chuck was so scared that he was loosing his hotel that it made him slightly delusional in thinking he could do what he did and B would understand. Mister Meester, I think Jack is so unhappy that his only motives were for Chuck to feel the same. Clearly Jack has no one and knows how bad that feels so I think it makes perfect sense that he would want to take Blair away from Chuck. So to answer your question it didn't feel off to me I think ALL Jack really cared about was destroying Chuck all along. 3. Obviously! Is there really any doubt? Couples go through things, make mistakes (granted this is a HUGE mistake on Chuck's part) but they'll make it through! Chair = endgame. 4. enhhhh.... I unno? I sometimes like her, sometime don't. 5. ouu... uhh... they were both great and adorable in this episode! For this episode I'm gonna say Dorota but in general I just can't choose.
AGREED MISTER MEESTER AGREED! I mean i bought the g.g season 2 dvd and with it came 4 or 5 few minute episodes in the extras called following dorota. It was honestly the lamest thing i ever saw, and outrageously far-fetched! i can never get those 60 or so minutes back. . .
I definitely think they've been layering it on a bit thick with dorota. I think it's kind of embarrassing to watch actually. . .i mean it's gossipgirl not gossip house-maids...
I really liked the episode. It was heartbreaking in parts, but overall defenitely one of the best of the season. 1. My favorite quotes were the "Don't even remember my own name. All a blur of sparkley." from Dorota. It had me cracking up. And Blair wanting to have something stronger to kill the germs. It was nice to see that the regular Blair was in there despite the situation. 2. I don't think it was out of character at all. Chuck for as much as he loves Blair, is still determined to prove his father wrong about him, to prove that he's better than his father was. That's why the hotel is so important to him. And while yes, he loves Blair, I think his judgement is completely clouded by that. I don't however think that this was an easy decision for him. In the few clips we did see of him (ones where he wasn't manipulating Blair), you could see that he was upset. And lets face it, Chuck was raised to be a schemer, raised by Bart Bass, this is and always will be a part of who he is. I know there have been questions about Jack and why he did what he did, and I always thought it was because Chuck stole what he thought should be his. He wanted to run Bass Industries, but Bart left it to Chuck. He tried to get it away from him and in the end it didn't work, he got nothing that he wanted and he hates Chuck for that. I'm not sure what the original plan was or if breaking up Chair was his ultimate goal, but I don't think it was. I think once he got there, he realized that the hotel wasn't the most important thing in Chuck's life, Blair was, and while taking the hotel would hurt him, seperating him from Blair would hurt him more in the long run because right now she's really the only person he has. His ultimate goal was to hurt Chuck, not financially, not his pride, but himself, and he succeeded in doing that. 3. Well honestly, at this moment as much as I love Chair, I kind of hope Blair dumps his a**. He deserves it. I think there's a good possibility of a break-up down the road, but I don't think they'll ever completely disappear. I think they'll be the Ross and Rachel of GG, always there and even possibly the end game, but not always together. 4. I've kind of loved Jenny lately. She's never been my favorite character but I always love her when she's scheming and being a b****. She's just so good at it. And lets face it, GG has been lacking in the scandal and juiciness lately. Jenny's bringing that back. And for all the Serena/Nate fans are mad at her trying to come between them, remember that she can only come between them if they let her. I loved seeing her scheming in this episode, but ultimately at the end of the day Nate and Serena were still together and it didn't really effect them all that much. Serena was upset at first but once Nate explained (that he was just trying to be good friend), they moved on. Right now I think Nate just sees her as a friend with a little history. But I mean what female on the show doesn't he have history with? Personally I think it'll be fun to see what happens if Serena catches on to what Jenny's plans are. I think she'll be surprised to see what Jenny is actually capable of and I think a face down between the two blondes would be all kinds of awesome. 5. I'm gonna have to go with Eric because its been SO LONG since we last saw him and I was thrilled to have him back. He just always adds so much more to an episode in my opinion. But I love Dorota too. She is becoming a bit more of a presence on the show, but she's always adorable so I can't complain too much.
My favorite quote was when Jack offered revenge sex to Blair -- while scratching the tip of the billiard stick. LOL
Vanya is most likely Orthodox Christian as he's from Belarus, and they wear wedding rings on the right hand, if that clears up the engagement ring question. Although chances are that Dorota is Catholic, as Poland is mostly Catholic, so she would be wearing the ring on her left hand... Don't know which hand they should be wearing the rings on then, if they're of different religion.
Is there a reason Dorota wears her engagement ring on the right hand?
Jenny is the most interesting of them all. I may not like her as a person, but I love her character.


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Newcomer Tyler Farr has been turning heads with his hot new single, a song called "Hello Goodbye." Tyler wrote the song with some buddies after discovering that his then-girlfriend was cheating on him. (Ouch) And of course, being a country singer, Tyler knew that pouring all that real-life emotion into a heartbreak song would be the most natural thing in the world. Tyler told Sony Music about the emotional connection in heartaches songs and why people relate. "I think that, honestly, you know, country music was founded on a lot of that stuff. You know, you got your happy songs, your heart…but the heartache songs are like what country artists and these blues artists, they do so well, datin' back to Hank Williams. And from 'Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain' to George Jones with 'He Stopped Loving Her Today,' and you get all these just great songs. And fast songs, party songs, they make people want to dance, make 'em want to drink, but these ballads, if you will, or heartbreak songs, they touch a certain part of someone inside, it makes 'em feel somethin' and gives 'em goose bumps. If they can relate to that, that's personal stuff, and that's what makes those type of songs so special and so big."


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I know this can be a HUGE debate, and I'm not looking to start any arguments. I was just wondering as you are OB nurses. I'm expecting a boy in July and not sure if we should circ. or not. My husband says yes, it's better... Read More
- 0Jan 24, '09 by BroadwayRNWhere are the guys? I think they should weigh in on this issue. They are after all the ones whose opinions count.
Phimosis may be uncommon but if you're the one with it then it automatically becomes a 100% probability!
- 0Jan 24, '09 by Smurfette752Quote from BroadwayRNAnd I know several adult males who resent being circ'd...and several others' that are GLAD that they weren't cut.I've had my ears pierced x 2 and I wasn't in the least traumatized, perhaps that is an individual reaction.
I have never heard a guy say he was traumatized by being circumsized. Seriously, have you? I do know several uncircumsized guys who wish they had been circumsized at birth because they're too chicken to do it now.
- 2It's time for everyone to take a deep breath and maybe a step or two back. This is an intense thread with lots of strong opinions, and that's fine. Good debate helps everyone sharpen their thinking. But the more a thread heats up, the more important it is for everyone to focus on issues and not on other posters.
Please, be courteous in making your points. Remember the ignore feature if certain posters bring out the worst in you.
- 2Jan 24, '09 by AirforceRNAhhhh, deep breath. My apologies for my last comment. I stand by the sentiment but it was probably better off as an inside thought and not a public one.
I've mentioned this before but...
Yes, older circumcisions are going to be harder on the patient then those done at birth. Yes, if you ask a 20 year old who was just circ'd due to infection or phimosis if they would have prefered to have it done as a newborn, they would probably say yes.
I don't think that is grounds to circ every male however. Just as I don't think every female newborn should have radical mastectomies "just in case."
Personally, I think as time goes on, fewer and fewer boys will be getting circ'd as more and more people realize that its not necessary. With this trend, the aesthetic viewpoint of the male penis will inevitably change so fewer girls will find uncut men "gross" or "nasty"...this in turn will lead to fewer circs...etc...etc. Eventually even porn will have uncut men being featured. Just my thoughts.
- 3Quote from BroadwayRNThis is equivalent to advocating prophylactic amputation just because there's a chance your son might break his leg in the future.I think circumcision is a good thing. Sure it's painful but within minutes the baby is quiet again. They cry the first few times they pee but again within minutes the baby is quiet again. I don't think the act of infant circumcision has destroyed anyones mental health. I haven't heard any men say they feel as though they were raped, mamed, abused, whatever by their parents because they were circumsized.
We had a small boy in the ER with phimosis and it was horrible! He had to undergo an emergent circumcision. I visited the child several times afterwards (I happened to be their neighbor) and that poor child was in agony for several weeks. The mother had been berated about having her son circ'd when he was born and she gave into the pressure and did not have him circ'd. She said she will never ever again have a son without having him circ'd before they leave the hospital. The little 3 year old boy was on a narcotic pain med for almost 3 weeks and took 5 weeks to completely recover.
It is genital mutilation, no matter how you slice it.
- 2Quote from BroadwayRNThis line of logic is incredibly silly and could be used to justify...damn near anything.
Phimosis may be uncommon but if you're the one with it then it automatically becomes a 100% probability!
- 3I have asked some of the men in my family how they feel about circumcision. To them the whole topic is no big deal. And this is regardless of age. They all seemed to feel that this is a private family decision. None of them felt that their folks had made the wrong decision. None of them mentioned anything close to feeling traumatized. They looked at me funny when I mentioned that possibility.
For the record, all but one were circumcised. The exception wouldn't have minded if he had been, so long as it had been done in infancy like the rest of the guys. He doesn't think he would do it now, but that's because he is a big weenie (pardon the pun) when it comes to pain.
They were all a bit surprised that this would be such a controversial topic on a nursing discussion board. Again, the feeling was that this is a private and personal matter to be decided within the family. Of the ones who have boy children, they have all opted (with their significant others concurring) to have their sons circed and would do so again with future children. Their biggest concern was that proper anesthesia was used.
These are loving, decent men who care about themselves and their kids. They don't see themselves as having been harmed by being circed. They certainly do not equate it with mutilation. They are mentally and emotionally intact, regardless of the state of their genitalia.
That said, they would not look down on anyone who chose not to circ. That "personal and private" attitude goes both ways.
- 2rn/writer, with all due respect, they don't mind because it is largely a cultural norm.
I guarantee you females in traditional Chinese families probably aren't all that concerned with the practice of foot binding from birth, nor are the cultures where female genital mutilation practiced. Such practices are equally traditional cultural norms, and in my opinion, equally barbaric. I could retype your entire post substituting foot binding or labial removal/suturing and it'd be as true for those in such cultures.
And yeah, I'm a guy.
- 2I see what you are saying. There is some truth to the idea that it is a cultural norm, but I respectfully disagree with equating infant male circumcision with either foot-binding or labial suturing/removal.
Both of the practices you mention have subjugation of the female as a primary goal. They result in severe ongoing pain and crippling of normal function. Foot binding is a lengthy and excruciating process designed to keep girls and women hobbled and subservient. Labial suturing/removal is done without anesthesia or sterile technique (not that either of those would make it acceptable), and is meant to instill a subordinate attitude toward male domination and eliminate any possibility of female sexual pleasure.
Male circumcision is not done for the purpose of crushing the male spirit and rendering men unable to enjoy sex. It isn't meant to exercise crippling gender-based authority and domination. Some may say that it disfigures, but others would challenge that view. At any rate, it doesn't cause the extreme (and ongoing) suffering that females endure with the above-mentioned "procedures."
Yes, circumcision is a controversial practice, and it's doubtful that there will be a meeting of the minds any time soon. But putting male circumcision on the same level as foot binding or labial suturing/removal does not acknowledge the vast difference in intent or results, and it introduces an element of emotional manipulation that doesn't play fair.
- 1Jan 24, '09 by AirforceRNQuote from rn/writerAgreed...but why is it done? Nowadays I would suspect the main answer is "tradition" which, to me at least, isn't a good enough reason to undergo surgery...especially on a penis.Male circumcision is not done for the purpose of crushing the male spirit and rendering men unable to enjoy sex.


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If you carry a balance, do not charge food, clothing, entertainment and other non-emergency items. It is foolish to pay high interest rates on pizza and clothes purchases.
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Finally, use your own struggles and mistakes as lessons and warnings for your children. Teach them about the consequences of missed payments, or just paying the minimum payment.
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Teach your student that credit scores are almost as important as test scores. These records start early, so the mistakes they make today will still be on their credit report years from now. Show them a copy of your own credit report and explain how much creditors know about you -- everything from late payments on rent to the available balance on a credit card. Landlords, insurance agents and employers will use credit scores for judgments, interest rates and job offers. 2. College loans
The cost of college is expensive and overwhelming. It is much easier to enroll today and worry about payment tomorrow. Since your student will be responsible for the student loan, this is the time share the overall tuition numbers and be clear about how long it will take to pay it off. The traditional repayment period for student loans is 10 years; however, payments can be stretched out to 20 or even 30 years with a greater amount of interest penalties. --By Bill Hardekopf Bill Hardekopf is chief executive of LowCards.com, which compares and rates more than 1,000 credit cards. He is the co-author of "The Credit Card Guidebook."
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Map of the North Serengeti Region of Tanzania
The northern region of the Serengeti is a vast pristine area of wooded rolling hills interspersed with open grassy patches and large granite outcrops. This region extends north about 55 miles from Seronera in the central Serengeti to the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. Most visitors to the Serengeti never see the northern region. It is only rarely visited and remains an unexplored and untouched wilderness packed with stunning landscapes and abundant wildlife.
We find it ironic that the most popular game viewing regions in East Africa are the central Serengeti in Tanzania and the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. Thousands of visitors a year flock to these two great areas, which belong to same ecosystem. Located right in between these two areas is the northern Serengeti, which receives very few visitors. Wildlife concentrations are a little lower in the northern Serengeti and the thick woodlands do make game harder to see but this is more than compensated by the beautiful landscapes and the fact you will have the majority of wildlife sightings all to yourself.
The northern Serengeti supports a good number of resident herbivores including hippo, giraffe, eland, topi, impala and Thomson's gazelle. This area is home to the largest remaining concentrations of elephants in the Serengeti. These graceful giants were poached heavily in the 1980s and less than a hundred remained by 1987 in the northern Serengeti. With the world ban on the ivory trade imposed in 1989, poaching came to an abrupt halt. Since the ivory ban was enacted, elephant numbers have been slowing rising in the northern Serengeti through immigration from the Mara, natural recruitment and from expansion of agricultural communities outside the park forcing those animals inside the Serengeti. The great buffalo herds of the north faced a similar fate but they too are returning and a few large herds are usually sighted around Lobo in the northern Serengeti.
Predators are also abundant in the northern Serengeti, though not to the extent seen in the Central Serengeti. The thick bush and woodlands of the northern Serengeti do make it more difficult to spot predators. However, lions and hyenas are regularly seen. Cheetahs are distributed fairly thinly in the northern woodlands but they are commonly seen since they are active during the day. Leopards are spread fairly constant throughout the woodlands but they are more elusive here in the northern Serengeti.
The northern woodlands of the Serengeti ecosystem are home to the enormous migratory herds of wildebeest and zebra during the dry season. However, the great herds usually reside in the extreme north of the park spilling over into the Masai Mara during the height of the dry season. The smaller wildebeest herds can usually be accessed with game drives to the extreme north. The zebra herds are more dispersed and are more easily seen. Game viewing is at its best it the northern Serengeti when the great herds are migrating through the area to and from the Masai Mara and the extreme northern Serengeti. The northern migration usually makes its way through the northern Serengeti in late July and early August appearing on the Mara watershed in Kenya in early August. The southern migration through the northern region usually takes place in mid to late October. However, the exact timing of these events fluctuates from year to year and is entirely dependent upon current rainfall patterns.


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This place is by far my favourete place to eat, i know the owner and i am not leting this man belittle his hard work and effort by a rubbish review, this place has an immense feel to it, you go there and you imeaditly feel like a celebrity, as there is usualy a cupple in every pomodoro's, the food is a his own home made itailen recipes that he has been working on for the last 30 years. i highly recomend going there, I am a big itailen food fan and i have tried his restuarants around the world and i still will go there i also recomend the calzone pizza with there sparkling water it is to die for. The staff there are very pleasent and enjoy a good time.
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WARNING only the regulars get good treatment here. I went with my son on Fathers Day - we arrived before 8:00 to ensure that we would have a table for the entertainment, which would start at 9:00. When we arrived, only two other tables were occupied. I was shocked when the waitress told us that we would have to give up our table when the entertainment started. I asked to see the manager because the website clearly stated no reservations could be made on Sunday. He told me that the website was wrong and all the tables were booked. I asked him how all those people would know that they could book on Sunday, and he told me they were regulars. I explained to him that we had traveled across London, reminded him it was Fathers Day and asked if we could stay for the entertainment. He told me I could leave and turned his back. Will never return there are so many other restaurants that will treat you better. Choose one of those (unless, of course you like to be treated like we were).
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We ate here last Saturday as a group of 10. The food selection is what you'd expect from an Italian restaurant and not that expensive considering the location.
The quality of food and wine was good and fairly priced, service was a little a slow at times but you can forgive this as it gets very busy.
The real attraction with this place is the fact that lots of people are crammed into a small place having a good time eating and listening to live music. The musicians playing when we were there were excellent.
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RALEIGH, N.C.—August 8, 2011—On Wednesday, August 10, 2011, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) will join WakeMed Health & Hospitals and clinical technology provider Hospira, Inc., to learn how technology can be leveraged in the fight against health care-associated infections (HAIs). The demonstration will be held in WakeMed's Center for Innovative Learning, a regional center designed to facilitate realistic multi-disciplinary clinical training and education.
The visit will showcase Hospira's TheraDocTM Clinical Surveillance System, a software system that alerts care providers in real time to health care-associated infections, anti-microbial resistance, infections and other diseases of public health concern. Identifying these patients early can help prevent the spread of infection or disease within the hospital, resulting in better outcomes for patients and a significantly lower cost of care. In the United States an estimated 1.7 million patients develop an HAI each year, and 99,000 die as a result, adding $28-33 billion in health care costs annually.
What: Health care-associated infection prevention demonstration with Sen. Burr
Who: Sen. Richard Burr
WakeMed Health & Hospitals
Hospira, Inc.
When: Wednesday August 10, 2011
Where: WakeMed Center for Innovative Learning
Raleigh Campus
3024 New Bern Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27610
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WakeMed Health & Hospitals is a private, not-for-profit health care organization based in Raleigh, N.C. The 870-bed system comprises a network of health care facilities throughout Wake and Johnston Counties. Centers of excellence include cardiac and vascular care, women's and children's services, physical rehab, emergency and trauma, orthopedics, neurosciences, home care and numerous wellness and community outreach programs. WakeMed's team of 7,750 employees, 1,000 volunteers and more than 1,000 affiliated physicians serve the residents of North Carolina using the most advanced technologies to ensure the finest in health care. For more information, visit www.wakemed.org.
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Hospira, Inc. is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company dedicated to Advancing WellnessTM. As the world leader in specialty generic injectable pharmaceuticals, Hospira offers one of the broadest portfolios of generic acute-care and oncology injectables, as well as integrated infusion therapy and medication management solutions. Through its products, Hospira helps improve the safety, cost, and productivity of patient care. The company is headquartered in Lake Forest, Ill., and has approximately 14,000 employees. Learn more at http://www.hospira.com.
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A Question of SEMANTICS.
Within the ISPConfig3 control panel on various pages the left hand menu uses the term "Edit xxx". Actually, the link provides a list of (eg) clients or resellers or whatever.
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