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Dinah slowly overcomes her fears and Cordell helps her...a nice romance.
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Intrepid foreign correspondent Dinah Davis fears that she is all washed up. After escaping the car bomb that killed her cameraman and lover, she is subject to panic attacks, so she quits her job and comes home to Charleston, South Carolina. She plans to finally accept childhood sweetheart Bobby Beaufort's 10-year-old marriage proposal, but his big brother, Cordell, always a thorn in Dinah's rose garden, has other ideas. The quintessential bad boy has grown up to be a successful and respected building restoration expert, and he has always been in love with Dinah. Cord is alternately tender and supportive, then teasing and seductive, as he helps her work through her post-traumatic stress and encourages her to revisit her priorities


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Somewhere in the land of Far Far Away... a donkey and an ogre have to save the kingdom! Explore Merlin's Hills, Worcestershire Academy and all-new environments like Stromboli's Puppet workshop and the Evil Queen's Castle in this fun adventure. Play as Shrek, Donkey, Puss in Boots, Fiona and other brand new characters, each with their own unique abilities and outlandish moves. Journey through 20 levels packed with humor, then face villains like the huge Ice Dragon, the musical Captain Hook, and the devious Prince Charming.
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Shrek the Third Shrek The Third is basically what you would expect it to be: a half-assed movie license cash-in How far can you stretch the excuse that a game is designed for children? At a rating of E10+, Shrek The Third is just too simplistic. If a ten-year-ol...more
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Great story mode and great mini games. Story was very addictive for my 9 year old, especially when it came to collecting all of the "Extras". My 7 year old daughter loved everything. It was simple enough that she could jump right in and compete with the older players.more
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Line of Duty returns for a second series, featuring a new police corruption story told over six one-hour episodes. The series opens explosively with the ambush of a police convoy in which three police officers are killed and a protected witness seriously injured. The sole surviving police officer is Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes). Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden (Mark Bonnar) takes personal charge, assigning AC-12 to the case. Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), Detective Constable Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) are joined by newly-appointed Detective Constable Georgia Trotman (Jessica Raine) to investigate a complex case rich in unexpected twists and turns.
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In the heart of a young woman, lies a secret that divides a nation.
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Harry's desire to impress Beryl leads him and Johnny into the world of boxing and, as their big fight draws ever closer, the boys are determined to reign victorious. Upstairs, as she and Sir Hallam drift further apart, Lady Agnes is reacquainted with a familiar face who shows her an exciting world away from 165 Eaton Place.
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ITV and Sky score rights to European qualifiers
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UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired live rights for England's qualifying matches for UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, while pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has agreed live rights deals for the tournaments' qualifying games featuring Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The deal marks UEFA's first entry into one of Europe's major broadcast markets under its new centralised rights distribution strategy. ITV has acquired live rights to all of England's home and away qualifying matches under the four-year deal, from 2014 to 2017. The deal also includes the rights to broadcast 20 qualifying games not featuring England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland on digital-terrestrial channel ITV4. The agreement marks the first time in recent years that a single broadcaster will show all of England's qualifying games for consecutive major tournaments. ITV has held the rights to show exclusively all England's home games since 2008 as well as, since 2009, the team's friendly matches both at home and away. Peter Fincham, ITV director of television, said: "Bringing viewers exclusive live coverage of each key England international match is hugely important to ITV and means football fans will be able to watch for free England's progress both at home and abroad as they attempt to qualify for the final stages of these tournaments."
Sky's deal includes live rights to all qualifiers featuring Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, as well as highlights of every England qualifier over the same four-year period. Sky, which will show up to 500 qualifying matches – including some not featuring Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland – over the duration of the deal, will also show live coverage of any England qualifiers that take place away at the other UK home nations or the Republic of Ireland. Sky Sports managing director Barney Francis said: "Both the UEFA European Championship and FIFA World Cup are football's most important international tournaments and this deal offers Sky Sports viewers the complete qualification story. We've been broadcasting international football since the beginning of Sky Sports and this deal means our viewers can enjoy watching some of the best players and nations over the next four years."
ITV and Sky agreed their deals with the CAA Eleven agency. CAA Eleven is selling the global rights for the matches under a deal agreed by the agency last year with football's European governing body. UEFA last month announced that public-service broadcaster consortium the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) had acquired rights for Euro 2016 and 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches in 30 European countries. The EBU's agreement with the CAA Eleven agency excluded most of the biggest European football rights markets such as the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Nordics.


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Dr. Don,
My mortgage broker told me I could not lock in
a rate until he had a signed contract. I delivered the contract
to his office. When I called the next day to confirm my rate I was
told that he was on vacation and wouldn't be back in the office
for a week. I told the girl I wanted to lock in, but she could not
help me.
When he got back, the rates were up and he told me
I had to pay 1 point to lock in where I wanted. I paid half a point
then and will pay the balance at closing. Since then rates have
continued to drop, is there anything I can do without spending more
Bridget Bestrate
Dear Bridget,
What is required by the mortgage broker to lock in a mortgage rate
can vary by state law and by the broker's business practice. If
your state or broker requires a written rate-lock contract prior
to locking in an interest rate, then that's what needed to happen.
It's not right that he didn't have a way to allow
you to lock in a rate while he was out of the office, but there's
not much that can be done about that now. You want a written rate-lock
agreement because oral agreements aren't very useful if you have
to take the mortgage broker to court. It's unfortunate that you
lost your rate waiting for the mortgage broker to sign the agreement.
I'm a little confused about your statement that you
had to pay a full point to lock in the rate that you wanted. A rate-lock
agreement should address both locking in discount and origination
points and the interest rate on the loan. Buying down the interest
rate by paying more in discount points is an established practice
in mortgage finance, but it should be presented that way to the
borrower, not that you're paying more for your rate lock in order
to get a lower interest rate.
Rate locks are priced based on the number of days
that the borrower wants the rate lock to be in effect. Since the
rate lock needs to be in effect through the closing date of your
loan, bottlenecks in the loan approval process or purchase contract
can derail a rate lock. Most rate locks are in the 30-60 day range.
Rate locks are always a guessing game. I'll be the
first to tell you that I don't know where mortgage interest rates
will be at any point in the future. Read Bankrate's
Mortgage Rate Trend Index every Thursday for current thinking
on where mortgage rates are headed.
I will tell you that you're better off watching the
10-year Treasury note rather than concerning yourself with the Federal
Reserve's next change in short-term interest rates. You can track
the U.S. Treasury's 10-year Constant Maturity Yield on Bankrate's
Rate Watch page.
A float-down rate lock agreement is a heads-I-win,
tails-you-lose approach to locking in mortgage interest rates and
would have solved your current dilemma about wanting to finance
at a lower rate than your locked-in rate.
With a float-down agreement the borrower gets the
opportunity to lock at a lower rate if rates go down, but the lender
is held to the original rate if rates go higher. As you would expect,
because of this flexibility a float-down agreement is more expensive
than a standard rate-lock agreement.
Your rate lock agreement will address the cost to
you of breaking that agreement. Read
this Bankrate feature on breaking a rate-lock agreement before
even considering that step. If you're doing a refinancing you have
some flexibility concerning when you close on the loan, but don't
expect your current mortgage broker to be wild about the prospect
of finding you a new lender.
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This seminar will address advanced real estate topics and make them more comprehensible for attorneys from all practice areas.
Robert Beutel, Attorney at Law
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Nathan Bissonette, Deputy Examiner of Titles, Ramsey County
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Participation by web and audio is available. Please indicate this option when registering or contact Jennifer Carter by October 22, 2012. Instructions and materials will be emailed on October 23, 2012.
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This is not me. I've never had a FurAffinity account. :/ I have contacted the admins and hope to have the issue solved as soon as possible.
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Jeremy Scahill: Al-Shabab's Nairobi Mall Rampage Tied to "Disastrous" U.S. Meddling in Somalia
From Democracy Now!:
Kenya has begun three days of mourning for at least 67 people killed in the siege of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. The death count could still rise if more bodies are found in the rubble of the mall's three floors. The Somali militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retaliation for Kenyan military intervention in Somalia. We're joined by independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, who reported from both Kenya and Somalia for his recent book and film, "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield." Scahill says the Bush administration's decision to back Ethiopia's overthrow of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union in 2006 helped fuel al-Shabab's growth into the dominant militant group that it is today: "Al-Shabab was largely a non-player in Somalia and al-Qaeda had almost no presence there. The U.S., by backing [Somali] warlords and overthrowing the Islamic Courts Union, made the very force they claimed to be trying to fight."


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Last night Fox's Bill O'Reilly (3/1/12) asked guest Tamara Draut from the think tank Demos to name just one green energy success story. She tried to resist the question, explaining that in some cases, the benefits of government funding can come much later. Like, she mentioned, what happened with the Internet. But O'Reilly wasn't going to let those facts get in the way: O'REILLY: Let me break this to you. The Internet– DRAUT: It's too short of a time frame. O'REILLY: — private money. DRAUT: No, it was public money. Department of Defense, federal money. O'REILLY: Hold it. Have you […]
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We tend to judge great television by its deaths. Remember Silvio whacking Adriana as she crawled away on The Sopranos, or Gus straightening his tie just before collapsing on Breaking Bad, or every celebratory toast that lead up to Game of Thrones' Red Wedding? This is the stuff that classic episodes are made of. It's not just the shock of blood and splattered innards. It's the emotional double-bind it puts us through, knowing that we're excited to watch this tragedy (because, hey, it's good storytelling!), but we're also sick about losing these characters we've grown to love, or at least respect enough to let them adjust their Windsor knots before they go.
All of which raises the question: Tara (Maggie Siff) getting brained with a carving fork? That was not a great death.
Violence used to mean something on Sons of Anarchy. When Opie (Ryan Hurst) sacrificed himself, allowing his face to get bashed in with a lead pipe so that he could save his SAMCRO brothers, it was wrenching, especially since Jax (Charlie Hunnam) saw everything from the other side of the wall. In a way, Jax was a stand-in for viewers: He'd been strong-armed into watching his favorite person get brutalized, slowly and horrifically, knowing that there was nothing he could do to stop it. Lately, though, the show has been mistaking violence for real drama, unleashing cruelty on random characters we can't possibly care about yet (suicidal, throat-slitting father of that slain child, we hardly knew ye!) or jolting us with crass tearjerker twists (the school shooting in the season premiere felt especially manipulative). Yes, it was traumatic when Gemma (Katey Segal) was forced to have sex with Clay (Ron Perlman) while prison guards looked on, but that scene might've had more impact if Nero's (Jimmy Smits) half-sister hadn't put Gemma through something very similar once before. At this point, even seeing Clay bite the nose off a guard feels anti-climactic. Didn't we just see Otto (Kurt Sutter) bite off his own tongue? Will somebody please bite off my ears so that I don't have to hear anyone tear off a body part again?
Maybe Sons of Anarchy needed these grisly moments, just to break up the monotony. This season seemed to drift from one gang clash to the next (the Irish, the Chinese, the Mayans, the Iranian torture-porn peddlers) as Jax and his crew endlessly hashed out the finer details of ''going legit.'' Even Clay's death felt like a bureaucratic nightmare, too bound up in the details to actually get anything done. There was way too much talking before Jax actually shot him. First, Tara had to explain to Nero why this was happening, and Tig had to ask if SAMCRO should stick to the plan with all the witnesses around, and Jax had to ask Clay what he would've done in this situation. By the time Clay was actually dead, all the anticipation had burned off. The only real heartbreak came from watching Gemma's reaction to his death, that mix of guilt and regret and relief that a captivating performer like Segal captures so well.
At least Tara brought some much-needed action to SOA. Her fight to save her boys tapped into the show's most interesting themes: family, loyalty, and the consequences of being raised without a father. Tara grew up without one, and Jax obviously still struggles with his own daddy issues, so it makes sense that Tara would be willing to sacrifice so much to be a good mother to her kids. Her flip-flopping on the plea deal made for genuine suspense this season, so it's too bad that her death felt so senseless, and not just because she ended up with a fork in her skull. Why did Unser (Dayton Callie) give up so easily in preventing Gemma from leaving the house? He just trusted that she wasn't going to kill Tara? Why would Roosevelt (Rockmond Dunbar) leave Tara in the house by herself when there was a truck in the driveway? (Yes, it was Unser's truck, but wouldn't he at least check first?) And why was Tara still lying there when Patterson (CCH Pounder) walked in to find Jax holding his wife's body? Didn't Juice (Theo Rossi) think to dispose of the corpse when he was getting rid of the weapon? The whole thing felt a little too convenient.
Now, Jax will probably be in prison when next season begins. And with some of SOA's most compelling characters gone, the responsibility for bringing back a better SOA will land on Gemma. Jax still doesn't know how things went down with Tara, so he's likely heading toward one final confrontation with his mother. Let's hope there's at least one more epic showdown coming. Otherwise, stick a fork in Tara's head. I'm done. C


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14 Feb 2007
links for 2007-02-14
A government minister has labelled the controversial online petitions on Downing Street's website as an own-goal thought up by a "prat". So how does the man behind the site defend it?
A PR firm puts some positive, some would say very positive, spin on the affects of gaming.
Shane and Neil seem to be having a bit of an argument over whether the Guardian's much hyped Comment is Free is actually blog. Who cares, I hear you say, but this insight into the reasoning behind the interface is interesting.
When is a blog not a blog? The Telegraph's Shane Richmond reckons there's more to it than Comment is Free"The basic, purest definition – a blog is a webpage containing diary-like entries displayed with the most recent first – no longer holds water, if it ever did."
Biving's provides an example of how you could use Yahoo Pipes to combine multiple RSS feeds, pull out only the content containing particular keywords, then output as a single combined RSS. Nice!
It started with a billboard. Then Simon Waldman posted his lengthy (and interesting) statistical rebuttal of said billboard. Shane followed up with a swipe at CIF and now Neil has tossed cold stats back at him.
13 Feb 2007
online matchmaking book – out 09 March
A book I contributed a chapter to, Online Matchmaking is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The book was edited by by Monica T. Whitty, Andrea J. Baker, James A. Inman.
My chapter looks at how things have changed in the world of online dating and the body of social scientific research since I wrote my MA Thesis Cyborgasms (which was more about online identity, gender construction in text only environments, and online community than it was about the nuts and bolts of "doing it" online) back in 1996.
In the UK, the initial hardcover release (09 March) will be £42.75 from Amazon.co.uk. I can't find it on the US version of the store and don't know if a paperback version is planned.
I didn't get paid for the article, don't get a cut of the book's takings, probably won't get any feedback (eg. comments) from readers or website traffic out of it. It makes you wonder why academics still bother to do the dead trees thing when simply blogging it would not only improve the research itself (new insights, corrections, etc) but would also disseminate the final product more quickly, easily and to a wider audience. My guess is more people read this post the day I post it than will ever see the book which, in retrospect, goes almost entirely against the idea of academic publishing.
I'm not, of course, saying don't buy it – it will be a good book. But I am somewhat shocked at the list price, which I think will severely restrict distribution, and promise that next time an offer to contribute to a book comes along I spend more time thinking about whether that is the best way to serve academia, myself and the public knowledge at large.
13 Feb 2007
bbc london appearance – tonight
I've just been bamboozled into being interviewed by
BBC London TV News at BBC London, to be shown on BBC Kent. They're doing a report tonight about the fall-out after some teachers became upset by reviews their students posted on RateMyTeacher.co.uk.
Why do they always phone when I've got the flu and am dressed in the softest, most comfortable, shirt I can find which – sadly – is going to look horrible on screen?!
I'm guessing they'll There is a small possibility they'll post the interview here here after it's gone out on air…
13 Feb 2007
links for 2007-02-13
"Businesses which write fake blog entries or create whole wesbites purporting to be from customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from "falsely representing oneself as a consumer".
In an echo to the UK case of Godfrey v Demon, a web hosting company in the Phillipines has landed itself in court after users of a forum run by one of the sites it hosts posted potentially libellous comments.
A good but basic list of tips to help avoid the problem of objectionable user comments
"Did one online column irreparably damage Post national security journalism? No. But it does show that an online column rubs off on the newspaper." and "writing a blog is like playing with live ammo"
basically, they've decided to publish, in the form of a blog, all of the letters they receive (excluding ones that are patently offensive). There's also a comments section for each one…
They're from August, when flickr first launched their geotagging features, so probably aren't similar to what they're seeing today but in the first 24 hours they had over 1.2 million photos tagged.
"this morning's press release which accuses News International of being "totally irresponsible in increasing its print run by 100,000 when it is clear that many of the existing free papers are being dumped on the streets"
What a great idea – a whole website dedicated to following how American presidential hopefuls are using the web and, in particular, social media in their campaigns.
They list three rolls: 1) journos who publish on whatever platform as part of their rolling news roll; 2) the host/editor roll and; 3) the webified reporter
12 Feb 2007
links for 2007-02-12
AP bureaus will work with NowPublic communities in selected locations on ways to enhance regional news coverage, and national AP news desks also may tap the network in breaking news situations where citizen contributors may capture critical information an
"To do UGC right is far from cheap. It takes good people and good software."
Bloggers and sites like youtube have huge audiences hungry for video. By allowing users to take it away, newspaper sites can reach out to those audiences. Great move.
"Pithy, witty and provocative headlines–the pride of many an editor–are often useless and even counterproductive in getting the Web page ranked high in search engines. "
"It's also giving rise to an obsessive subculture of ordinary but surprisingly influential people who, usually without pay and purely for the thrill of it, are trolling cyberspace for news and ideas to share with their network."
This morning on my commuter train I noticed freesheets from last week still littering the floor. The additional rubbish created by freesheets is just one of the costs borne by us all…
"There are clearly still many journalists who don't quite understand the phenomenon of blogging and are willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater because there are some bloggers who they don't like (and who don't like them)."
"frankly, that somebody studying journalism comes up with this twaddle did shock me a little (though, really, it's not much of a surprise in retrospect)."
They've got 25 staff, sifting through all that stuff…
10 Feb 2007
links for 2007-02-10
"A leading Northern Ireland daily newspaper tonight instructed its lawyers to lodge an appeal after it was ordered to pay out £25,000 after a jury found a food critic's review of an Italian restaurant was defamatory…"
A nice idea being used by a number of US radio stations to kick off a dialogue with local bloggers
But could the blogs at the top 10 US newspapers COMBINED really only generate 3.8 million unique users a month? The BBC and Guardian combined would easily top that…
"Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says."
" It's a place where you can explore and annotate millions of original historic documents, upload your own images or write about what you've found."
Includes an analysis of blogging and journalism, along with tips for blogging journos
09 Feb 2007
links for 2007-02-09
"the people who are losing control have decided to meet — and meet, and meet again — until they figure out how they can take back some control of this uncontrollable situation."
I'm tempted to say that Martin has too much time on his hands but it is actually sort of interesting. I'd love to see the same analysis applied to Technorati links but doubt the tool to do so is public (?).
The Journalist's Blogroll
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My technorati rank might be in freefall as my work life increasingly gets in the way of my blogging, but Graham Holliday still saw fit to include me in his feature about UK based media and journalism bloggers in this week's print edition of the Press Gazette.
The list includes my friends Richard Sambrook, Kevin Anderson and Suw Charman, and the Telegraph's Shane Richmond.
Also in there are some blogs I'm quite familiar with and whose authors I bounce a bit of comment banter back and forth with, including The Guardian's Neil McIntosh and Andrew Grant-Adamson, the University of Westminster Journalism lecturer behind Wordblog.
Here are, by the way, some weird facts about the above:
Kevin Anderson and I met when he was working at the BBC. He got his first proper journalism job as staff at the Peoria Journal Star, my hometown paper. He quit the BBC to go work for Neil McIntosh at the Guardian. I met Neil's blogging brother, Ewan, at Le Web 3 in Paris back in December and went to dinner with him and Graham, who wrote the article. Andrew lists the Press Gazette's Martin Stabe in his blog roll as a past student at Westminster, a university I also spent some time at myself although not in journalism. And although I managed to blag a guest post out of Richard Sambrook sometime previously and we'd emailed, I think I first met him face to face at the We Media conference in May 2006, where I sat across the table from Graham on the first day and met him after we realised we were both blogging photos of each other blogging… See what I mean – it's a pretty small world we blog in.
Whilst I'm less familiar with the other blogs and bloggers on the list, they're certainly worth a visit but if I listed them all and provided a link from here you might not take the time visit the excellent blog of Martin Stabe, who would himself have been on the list if he didn't happen to work for the Press Gazette (in which the feature appears). Martin's got the full list and a bit more info on the feature…
08 Feb 2007
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A message board user's leg was broken in a football match. Someone posted, asking who the guy who did it was and, after much discussion, the culprit turns up to apologise.


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Breaking Bad Postmortem: Discussing Last Night's Episode and the Show's Future
Season four of Breaking Bad wrapped up last night in spectacular, satisfying fashion. (Misdirection! Plot twists! Character development! Gore!) With so much going on and, thankfully, so much still to come, New York Magazine TV critic Emily Nussbaum and contributing editor and Breaking Bad recapper Logan Hill took to IM to hash it out. Be warned: Their conversation about last night's episode, the show's future, and the possibility that baby Holly will be the one to eventually off Walt, contains spoilers.
EMILY: So, what did you think of THAT EPISODE?
LOGAN: Honestly, I was expecting to be disappointed. I have loved this season of television like few others. I have been obsessed with this show, all-in, and really just thrilled week to week by all the surprises. I was sure my heart would be broken. Particularly, I was sure that they just couldn't go any further over-the-top than the last three episodes or so, and that they had to. That was what the show demanded. Amazingly, they went far beyond: Zombie Gus! And then you find out that Zombie Gus isn't actually the big surprise. It's this subtle little twist with the flower, with the quiet soundtrack humming and the camera moving so slowly and ominously in on this very pretty little plant.
EMILY: I was insanely excited by that last shot, in part because I was certain last week that Walt had poisoned Brock and I'd spent the last week lobbying people on this subject. But during the actual episode, my sense of things swayed several times, so that at the point that Jesse told him about the plant, I briefly considered the possibility that this was a random twist of fate ...
LOGAN: And I spent last week telling people that Walt, a father, couldn't possibly sink that low. Not yet. For some reason, I was still thinking he wasn't ready to be so devious, but it's clear now: He is, at all costs, a survivor. And he would do anything. This show feels like a real game-changer. I love how it's redefining the most basic terms: "Defense," is what Walt says he'll use the gun for. "I'm good," he tells Skyler. "I won." Good?!!
EMILY: I feel like Gilligan is doing a true test of the audience's relationship with these resentful, violent, masculine characters, a decade of antiheroes on cable, because Walt is no longer a real moral mixture. He's been a bad man since he killed Jesse's girlfriend, but this is a bridge you can't re-cross: premeditated poisoning of a child.
To me, the show operates on two parallel levels: It's a thrilling caper, so you admire Walt for pulling it off — and of course, that's horrifying, because that means rooting not just for a mobster but for a full-out villain. The only show it's comparable to is The Sopranos, but that was slightly different to me, because over the course of that show, Tony shriveled, became small and Golem-like, he didn't transform into his own moral opposite.
LOGAN: I think our assumptions about antiheroes are generally misguided in most narratives. There's generally a lot more emphasis on the "hero" than the "anti," and I think a lot of that is due to the episodic, long-arc form of TV, where our opportunities for identification and empathy are so numerous, and spread out over such a long time period.
EMILY: We need to like the person in some way, because we keep letting them into our home this week. I've said this before, but TV antiheroes are vampires.
LOGAN: It seems to me like fans have kept excusing Walt at every turn, like you'd excuse your fucked-up drunk uncle. After four seasons, a character like this becomes a kind of family member: someone you know so well that your understanding of where they come from can excuse them of so much. But, yeah, not so much child-murder.
EMILY: I love it, because it's the definition of the unforgivable, not just child-murder, but premeditated child-murder that involves lying to someone who trusts you and loves the child.
Which brings us to next season. When Jesse will inevitably find out.
LOGAN: But how? Do they end up in another mano a mano fight and Walt tells him? Does Jesse see the plant while visiting for a pool party?
EMILY: Impossible to say, but I find myself hoping the endgame involves Jesse killing Walt. And/or Hank bringing down the entire operation.
LOGAN: I think, at some point, Walt will want Jesse to know. He wants recognition.
EMILY: I just think that telling Jesse this would be an act of suicide.
LOGAN: I think this is so much about Walt's ego and next season we'll see him go more ego-mad. He's all over the place, frenzied and panicked and paranoid. And that's much like Pacino's character in Scarface: paranoid and delusional and eventually imprisoned in a fancy mansion of his own creation. Tony Montana went power mad and utterly delusional. Walt's headed there!
EMILY: I don't remember who told me this theory, but they described the show as a classic heroic story, about an underestimated, seemingly bumptious DEA agent who brings down a huge drug operation — only it's told from the opposite POV, from his brother-in-law's perspective. This makes a lot of sense to me, that if you spin the show backwards, it would actually be Hank's story, only told from the POV of the villain, so it has this buried traditional hero narrative.
LOGAN: I think Walt has to go down in a blaze of gunfire at the end, if he goes down at all. He's not going to give up. Someone's going to have to kill him. And I think that, by the end of next season, he's going to be so powerful that only the feds will be powerful enough to bring him down. Unless Jesse takes a shot. Do you think that Walt will kill Jesse? Skyler?
EMILY: Walt Jr. The ultimate bizarre twist. Or Walt Jr. kills him. Or Baby Holly, with a candlestick, in the meth lab. Someone suggested to me that Walt would end up in witness protection, living his old awful boring life, but I think that train's left the station.
LOGAN: Skyler keeps imagining that there's an out. She keeps suggesting that he go clean or tell Hank. At some point, I could imagine her telling Hank, and then Walt killing her for the betrayal. And no way does Walt walk off into the sunset. He's got no reasons anymore for doing this. It's all crazy. He just loves it.
EMILY: One other option. He could die of cancer. Surrounded by his loved ones! Livin' the dream.
LOGAN: Ha! Could be, though I feel like the way these stories tend to end is that drug dealers die young or end up in prison. There aren't a lot of stories of big-time dealers retiring at Casa Tranquila. But I like that idea, because I do think Gilligan is invested in this idea of refuting certain old hoary clichés, like "crime doesn't pay," for instance. But maybe evil isn't punished.
EMILY: Yeah, maybe the guy just lives evilly ever after. To me, it's not really a show about the drug trade. It's more realistic than Dexter, but like that show, it's a stylized allegory. And aside from testing the audience's tolerance for arrogant egghead scumbag heroes, there's a surrealistic quality to it, the kind of thing that came across in that earlier finale, with the plane crash. That gives Gilligan way more options in the ending — it just has to be poetic and resonant in some way.
LOGAN: I agree it's more allegory than Methland/Traffic-style drug reportage. I was thinking about that airline crash last night — particularly with Walt back by the pool. And this child-murder plot was spectacularly contrived. It was more mythic Greek child-murder stuff than drug biz. But I also think a lot of this show has been about the efficacy of cruelty. About the way a kind of naked ambition guides everything. And I think one of the more disturbing aspects of the show has been the way that abject cruelty and manipulative sadism win in the end.
EMILY: Well, they pulled one punch. They let Brock live. Not that I wanted Brock to die — it would have been kind of a repeat of Jesse's girlfriend. And this way, Walt might actually interact with Brock and his mom in the future.
By the way, small issue, but where did Jesse's cigarette go? Did Walt steal it, in order to get him to think Gus had poisoned Brock?
LOGAN: You've got me: I was wondering about that, too. I think Walt did steal it — and then, on some level, you have to think that he subbed in the Lily of the Valley poison because he knew it was less lethal. Maybe there was still a glimmer of empathy in him at the end: I'll nearly kill the kid, but I'll give him a chance ... So, next season, where do you think this allegory goes from here?
EMILY: It's kind of sad, because this episode would make a great series finale! Which Gilligan knew — he made it so it could work that way, if the show didn't get picked up for another season. But I really trust Gilligan et al. at this point in a kind of painful way.
LOGAN: Next season, I think Walt has to stay in the business. He's lost a big chunk of his money to Skyler's buddy, and I just can't see him fighting so hard to be the top dog, and then giving it up. I think, on some level, the show is about how people get addicted to power. It's never been about money, or drugs. It's been about one-upping, out-maneuvering, surviving.
EMILY: I agree he has to get back in the business, but mostly because the show demands it: The drama needs him to be the new Gus, so Hank can bring him down. Not that he doesn't have other reasons to do it, but it's amazing how many chances he's had to actually get out, from the time his ex-girlfriend was offering him that money, and on and on.
LOGAN: Yes — I remember that episode was when, for me, it became clear that he was really enjoying this all. That he liked the thrill and the test and the power. In a way, the regular world (tech start-up, schoolteaching) didn't work for him. Those rules didn't work for him. So he found a place where his obvious social deficiencies and weirdness wouldn't hurt him. Where a kind of scientific ruthlessness mattered much more than his social/political deficiency. As Jesse keeps saying, he's a dick. Nobody wants to work with him. But he gets results. How much deeper do you think Skyler will go?
EMILY: I used to be very interested in Skyler, but I'm not anymore. Honestly, I feel like her story was done much more richly with Carmela — and that in reality, Skyler would in fact leave Walt. I know that for the purposes of the show, she's now corrupt and complicit, but I don't entirely buy it. I don't mind, though, because the rest of the show is so good. There are all sorts of factors about Skyler I've never understood anyway: Where do she and Marie come from? How did she and Walt get involved? Whatever happened to her fiction writing? But the show can't cover everything — I mean, I used to fret about the loss of Jesse's family as a plotline, but I don't mind a kind of storytelling triage to get us through in a purer way. What's one wish you have for next season?
LOGAN: My one wish for next season is that Walt's descent into depravity continues to accelerate. I don't know how he could continue to get worse, but I'm sure he will. And I want to see how that plays out with the way he justifies all this. I think it's been fascinating to see how, the more powerful becomes, the more he's convinced that he's someone else's (to use Jesse's favorite word) bitch. The self-delusion is fascinating: The way he convinces himself that every murder is self-defense, that every criminal action is necessary. To me, that's the link between his scientific background and his druglord ways: He thinks he's being logical. That's scary. It's like Walt is becoming both Scarface and Robert McNamara.
EMILY: Yes, I agree. His main issue is that he thinks he's smarter than everyone else. And in a way, the finale shows that he was actually right.
You know, I watched the first several seasons in a massive binge watch — this is the first one I watched as part of the audience, online and off. In the piece I wrote about my binge, I talked about how hard it was to come back into the world of recaps and tweets. But I have to say, it was thrilling to be part of the live response to the show last night. I think I don't even have any wishes for next season. I'm just looking forward to it.


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Amidst all the attention and hard work being invested in helping those who have had their homes destroyed by Super Storm Sandy, the election process continues on its march towards Election Day. Along that march, there's an under-reported story unfolding up the Hudson River from New York City. Voters who care about progressives with integrity, or the lack thereof, should know about it.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo is widely rumored to be positioning himself for a 2016 run for President. And while he agreed to stump around the country for Obama, Cuomo is not actually supporting Democrats in the key races that will determine control of the State Senate in New York. In some races, he's even backing Republicans.
Now if you have been involved in New York State politics at all, you know that there has been a monumental effort for years by party and progressive grassroots activists to finally wrest control of the Senate from the Republicans. The Democrats won it briefly in 2008, passed some good legislation in that period, but lost it in 2010 in the Tea Party tsunami. The result is that little genuinely progressive legislation comes out of Albany, despite the national reputation of New York as a liberal state. The New York Times reported this morning, however, that the Democrats are within striking distance of regaining control of the State Senate.
It's hard to fathom, but the main obstacle to the Democrats gaining control of the Senate may be the Governor himself. Some progressive leaders and activists in the Empire State have long whispered that their prominent Governor's commitment to progressive values is not even skin deep. His actions this fall only underscore that concern. Recently, nearly 10,000 New Yorkers signed a petition to the Governor calling on him to support Democrats running for the Senate. But with just hours before the polls open, Cuomo has kept silent, as he has since the summer. The head of the Democratic Party in New York, weird as it may sound, is not supporting the members of his own party who are struggling to reverse the 2010 Tea Party takeover of the NY State Senate.
As the Albany Times Union reports, Democratic activists are particularly frustrated with Cuomo's refusal to help his fellow Democrat in one crucial State Senate race in the Hudson Valley. The Governor's actions are especially vexing, because the role of money in politics has become a flashpoint in the district. The Democrat – a woman making an unexpected surge in a district that was drawn as a safe seat for Republicans – is backing the Governor's plan for public financing of elections. The Republican millionaire running against her has flooded the airwaves with materials calling the proposal a tax on the middle class. This shouldn't be a hard decision for the Governor, if he earnestly wants to pass his plan. The big question is: Does he?
It's the kind of moment of clarity many yearn for in politics: an election in which a clear upset victory would give an immense boost to a crucial issue. It's a moment that cries out for leadership, for using the bully pulpit, and the person who could do it is Governor Cuomo – the most popular Governor in America according to all polls. All he has to do is support his fellow Democrat, who is supporting the Governor's own position. How hard is that?
Apparently, pretty hard. What's really going on? There's seems to be only one plausible explanation: the Governor prefers conservative Republicans to progressive Democrats. I know it's hard to figure. But actions speak louder than words. To Cuomo, it may be true that it is more important to keep Republicans in control of the Senate so that he never has to face strong pressure from the left. This tactic, according to key players in New York politics, is an open secret.
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The Computer Consultant's Guide, 2nd Edition
Author: Janet Ruhl
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Reviewer: Ralph Krause
Making a living as an independent computer consultant is not an easy task, and running a business requires skills that technical people might not be comfortable using. If you're considering becoming a consultant, or have been consulting for a while, The Computer Consultant's Guide can help you understand which skills and practices contribute to being successful.
Written by Janet Ruhl, a leader of CompuServe's Computer Consultant's Forum and a regular contributor to "Contract Professional", this edition of the book has been updated and now includes information on consulting in Canada and Europe. The book contains 290 pages divided into eleven chapters, appendices and an index.
Subtitled "Real-Life Strategies for Building a Successful Consulting Career", The Computer Consultant's Guide covers all phases of a consulting career from determining if you're ready to start consulting through increasing your business once you are successful. The book contains quotations from many consultants, which demonstrate real-life examples of the ideas presented.
The first chapter of the book provides a general explanation of what different computer consultants do. It covers contract programmers, resellers, custom application developers, multimedia/web authors and management consultants. For each type of consultant there is a "Meet the Consultant" section that contains thoughts from a consultant practicing in that field. The chapter ends by providing common questions and answers about computer consulting.
The next chapter helps you to determine if you are ready to begin a consulting career. It is important to examine both your skills and your pool of potential clients. It explains that finding the first client is usually easy, but that finding enough of them to make a living is difficult, so there is advice on how to build a pool of potential clients before striking out on your own. It also offers advice on personality and business skills that will help you to be a good consultant. Potential financial pitfalls, such as the loss of insurance and difficulty obtaining loans, are explained. The chapter ends with a discussion on preparing your family for your new job and contains specific information for mothers who are wondering if consulting will let them stay close to their children while earning a good income.
Chapters Three through Seven deal with the mechanics of running a consulting business. Covered topics include obtaining licenses, deciding if you need to incorporate, creating a business image, marketing your services and working with brokers. Most useful for beginners are the chapters on determining rates and successful marketing strategies. Chapter Five addresses the problem of determining what to charge and helps you decide if you should ever work for nothing. Chapter Six covers marketing and stresses that word of mouth is your best type of marketing. It does offer advice on mass mailings, brochures, advertising and cold-calling if you feel that you must try these. Chapter Seven gives advice on working through brokers, especially on how to find a reputable one and how to avoid Draconian noncompetition clauses that can prevent you from working with old clients once you leave the broker.
The next three chapters cover client relations—from interviews with potential clients through collecting payments. Chapter Eight helps you conduct an interview with a potential client, determine when to start charging them and explains common contract clauses of which to be wary. Chapter Nine concerns consultant behavior while working for a client and includes advice on dealing with common problems, both technical and personal, encountered at a client's site. Chapter Ten deals with support and payment issues. It shows how support for old clients can be profitable and provides advice on how to support them without slighting new clients. It also discusses what to do if clients are slow to pay, won't pay or can't pay.
The final chapter business, dealing with success and avoiding burnout. If you have more work than you can handle this chapter helps you decide between hiring more employees to handle the load or taking on less work. If your business has plateaued, it explains how you can increase business by doing such things as selling hardware, giving seminars and/or writing. It also helps you avoid getting in a rut from doing the same type of work year after year. There are times when leaving consulting and reentering the corporate world will appeal to you, and this chapter helps you determine when to do this and provides information on doing it gracefully.
The book contains two appendices and an index. Appendix A is a list of resources for consultants, including print material, professional organizations and web sites. Appendix B lists the twenty factors that the IRS uses to establish your status as either a contractor (consultant) or an employee for clients.
The book is easy to read, and Ruhl's extensive experience in dealing with these issues is apparent. This book was published in 1997, but it is not outdated because it focuses on business skills, not technical ones.
The Computer Consultant's Guide provides easy to understand, practical information for consultants just starting out or for people considering entering the field. If you've tried consulting previously but were unsuccessful, it can help you determine what went wrong. In addition to helping you determine when you're ready to start consulting, it can also help you avoid common consulting pitfalls and keep your business growing.
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Manuel Zelaya, the ousted Honduran president, has said elections is his country due to be held on November 29 will be viewed as a fraud by the international community.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, where he has been meeting with representatives from the Organisation of American States (OAS), Zelaya said he had been assured the result of the poll would not be recognised.
"To continue with this electoral process, under a coup d'etat - a coup that has alarmed the international community - would be a fraud, which the (OAS) countries expressed today." he said after talks with the organisation's permanent council.
"They are not willing to recognise either the electoral process, nor the result of the elections, nor who wins the elections under an illegitimate, de-facto regime."
Government soldiers flew Zelaya out of Honduras at gunpoint in June, months before the end of his term.
The interim Honduran government led by Roberto Micheletti has ignored international condemnation and is pushing ahead with preparations for the November elections, which were scheduled before Zelaya's removal.
Interim leaders have expressed hope that international interest in restoringZelaya will fade once the vote takes place – a strategy that some of Zelaya's allies fear will work.
Return 'hard to imagine'
Earlier this week Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, said he doubted Zelaya would be restored to office.
"Regardless of whether Zelaya returns or not, and really, at this point, that's hard to imagine, Honduras will keep up the fight," Chavez said in a phone call to Venezuelan television from Libya.
Despite condemnation from the United States and most world governments, Honduras' interim government, led by Roberto Micheletti, has refused to allow the return of Zelaya, who it says was too close to Chavez.
Chavez initially put his troops on alert after the coup and provided Zelaya with the jet he used in a failed attempt to return to the Honduran capital days after his overthrow.
Micheletti believes that he can hold on to power until a new president takes office in January after the elections.
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On Tuesday, Micheletti urged citizens to vote in November elections, vowing that the vote for a new president will show the world democracy thrives in Honduras despite the coup.
Campaigning began this week amid warnings from many Latin American countries that they will not recognise the outcome of any election until Zelaya is restored to power.
"We will be watched by many countries in the world," Micheletti said in a televised address.
"This process will serve to categorically show that we appreciate democracy, that we are a people who want to live in harmony.''
He also said the elections "are the only final and definitive solution to the political crisis".
Micheletti continues to maintain that Zelaya was legally removed from office by Congress for violating a Supreme Court order to drop efforts to change the constitution.
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