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Robin Williams is a comic whirligig who demonstrated fairly early in his career, with the role of the motormouth DJ in Barry Levinson's 1987 film "Good Morning, Vietnam," that he could adapt his manic gifts to the big screen. And it's a pleasure to report that this Oscar-winning veteran is able to translate his patented talents to the legit stage as well.
Making his Broadway acting debut in Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," which opened Thursday at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Williams portrays the freely philosophizing title cat of this daring drama set in war-mangled Iraq. The performance, guided by a feline level of tact and discretion, is at once confident and modestly calibrated.
Grizzled and scruffy like a Robinson Crusoe castaway, Williams submits himself wholly to the play's utterly natural surrealism. Concerns that the actor might turn this into a vehicle for his signature shtick are dispelled right way: Williams is in complete sync with the blasted tragicomic vision of the playwright, whose ample humor is far too sneaky for stand-up showboating.
This production of "Bengal Tiger," like the Center Theatre Group world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2009 and the 2010 reprise at the Mark Taper Forum, is directed by Moisés Kaufman. With the exception of Kevin Tighe, who created the role of the curiously introspective tiger, the original Los Angeles cast has been maintained, and the ensemble has noticeably ripened.
The physical staging has been largely kept intact as well, and though there has been some tinkering with the writing and directing (which has shifted the emphasis in a more metaphysical and less political direction), the play has lost virtually none of its urgency and vigor. I stand behind my contention that it's the most original drama written about the Iraq War.
Without an actor of Williams' marquee draw, "Bengal Tiger" would likely not have made it to Broadway. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that it has. I would have expected the New York premiere to have been at the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons or one of the other off-Broadway mainstays with a track record of boldly imagined new plays. But I'm glad that it has found a home in the commercial theater district not only because the work will challenge mainstream theatergoers but because I think it will leave the more sensitive among them profoundly moved.
The emotional charge of "Bengal Tiger" is predominantly carried through the character of Musa (Arian Moayed), the Arabic translator working with the U.S. military during the occupation of his still-smoldering country. The violence witnessed by this man, a topiary artist who created a garden of giant animals out of plants, has shattered his moral bearings. His sister, viciously raped and slaughtered by his employer, Uday Hussein (a flamboyant, fiendish Hrach Titizian), haunts his memory with traumatic insistence.
Musa wrestles painfully with the play's open-ended questions: How can one survive when innocence is so wantonly violated? Who can one serve when callous destruction and greed seem to be inextricably bound up with power?
In Joseph's theatrical cosmos, the dead refuse to be banished once their bodies grow cold. Instead, they remain onstage, meditating on the quandary of their seemingly meaningless ends just as they were given to reflect on the existential conundrums that dogged them when they drew breath.
The tiger is the first to ponder his posthumous predicament after being shot for biting the hand of a Marine. ("To die in captivity at the Baghdad Zoo. What a freaking life.") The senselessness of the incident is indeed hard to get past, another instance of pointless bloodshed in a nation drowning in red.
While stationed in front of the tiger's cage, Tom (a smoothly convincing Glenn Davis) shows Kev (Brad Fleischer) the golden gun he filched during a raid of one of the Hussein family mansions. (A gold toilet seat, buried for safekeeping, is also part of the loot.) When the tiger, baffled by hunger, digs into Tom's hand, Kev, young, impressionable and slow-witted, kills the animal with the priceless pistol, leaving all parties in a spiral of disgust and despair.
This opening scene, which alternates between the banter of the soldiers and the musings of the imprisoned tiger, has trouble finding its rhythm. Fleischer, though spryly humorous, somewhat overplays Kev's simpleton nature. The character's mind is a warehouse of pop cultural junk, but a touch more realism would have made the satire sting all the more.
In general, the first act is patchier than the tauter second. There's a staccato quality to the action, and Kaufman seems to be marking thematic points more deliberately than he did in L.A., as if out of fear that Broadway audiences might lose the interpretive thread.
But Joseph's metaphoric inventiveness is magnificently displayed throughout, and the kaleidoscope of figures and images bespeaks a purely theatrical imagination. Few playwrights today would be intrepid enough to conjure a leper (an affecting Necar Zadegan) and allow her condition to pose a silent critique of the rapaciousness that sends Tom to her bombed-out colony to retrieve his precious toilet seat. And the dramatic freedom that permits Sheila Vand to transform from a teenage prostitute (asked to perform a very specific sexual act on Tom after he returns to duty with a prosthetic hand) to Hadia, Musa's loving sister who meets her grim fate in the topiary garden, is as stylistically virtuosic as it is emotionally crushing.
Williams, whose experience in Mike Nichols' 1988 off-Broadway production of "Waiting for Godot" with Steve Martin has prepared him for the acting challenge of blending into an art work (rather than dominating one), still gets the chance to showcase the fluidity that many ticket-buyers no doubt expressly came to see. In one moment of the tiger's theological confusion, stoked by the paradox of why God would make a predator if murder is unjust, Williams mimes a rapid-fire series of gestures from world religions, all of them leading to the same state of desperate ignorance. This may not be what some theatergoers bargained for, but it's an impressive feat of stagecraft that only this performer could have pulled off.
The ideas of Joseph's play, in particular the plight of humanity forced to reconsider its primacy in the wake of its destructive path, inspire Williams' discipline. He's put himself at the drama's service, and if that means ceding the stage to Moayed, whose poignancy has only deepened, so be it. A tiger can be generous, even when he's in the grip of the mystery of a planet set ablaze by its own inhabitants.
Looking for meaning and God in a war zone is bound to leave you in limbo.
Rajiv Joseph weaves that compelling but not-so-new idea throughout his imaginative and well-acted play, "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," which opened last night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
The ensemble dramedy is embedded in 2003 Iraq, where every character yearns for connection but is mangled by violence. Each ends up a predator or a ghost or both.
The play, a Pulitzer Prize runnerup seen in 2009 in Los Angeles, brings its L.A. cast, with one starry exception: Robin Williams now plays the Bengal big cat.
The Oscar winner is known for zany antics, but don't expect any of that or a tour de force in his Broadway acting debut, which finds him looking shaggy and bearded and dressed in khakis, not some "Cats"-like costume. It's not that kind of feline.
Williams is restrained, focused and bitingly amusing as Joseph's voice of reason. He's a hunter turned philosopher who doles out sly barbs about the absurd cruelty running rampant around him, on the streets of Baghdad and in the hereafter, where the tiger lands early on.
Brooklyn playwright Joseph typically populates his plays with damaged people, as seen this winter in his affecting two-hander, "Gruesome Playground Injuries."
He's true to form in this work, which begins with two U.S. soldiers guarding the zoo. Cocky Tom (Glenn Davis) and boneheaded Kev (a jumpy Brad Fleischer, who eventually settles down) are pawing a gold-plated pistol that Tom stole during a lethal raid on Uday Hussein's mansion.
When Tom tries to feed the tiger, it bites off his hand; Kev kills the beast with the gilded gun. He unravels when he's later visited by the dead animal.
The gun ends up in the possession of Uday's former gardener, Musa (a soulful Arian Moayed). Musa now works as a military translator, but can't shake the ghost of Uday (a chilling Hrach Titizian) or what he did to his sister, Hadia (Sheila Vand). When Tom returns to Baghdad to retrieve his valuable weapon, the endless chain of death and haunting continues.
Director Moises Kaufman skillfully guides the cast through scenes of violence and tenderness, as well as on Earth and the afterlife, where enlightenment is too little, too late. David Lander's shadowy lights and David Zinn's costumes enrich the atmosphere. Derek McLane's spare towering tiled Middle Eastern set is evocative but feels a little lost on the large stage.
There is much to admire in the play, including its commentary on war and its aftershocks on both soldiers and civilians. The walking-dead Uday is an inspired stroke — a reminder of atrocious inhumanity.
Most of all, the sheer theatricality of Joseph's work makes it worth celebrating.
On the downside, the play sometimes overstates its themes and lacks momentum; it grinds along in episodes that fail to build. An extended exchange between Tom and a prostitute feels extraneous, even as it triggers a memory for Musa.
Despite all the ghosts, "Bengal Tiger" isn't as stirring as it strives to be. It restates a famous 1960s antiwar poster that noted: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."
Like soldiers, gardeners and tigers.
Robin Williams is in a tricky situation. If he launches into his familiar, manic style, he's accused of being predictable. If he soft-pedals and goes introspective, then he's underusing his own strengths.
Rajiv Joseph's "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," which opened last night on Broadway, blends black humor and surreal drama. Yet the comedian's portrayal of the title's big cat is so consistently understated that it becomes self-effacing. Like the show in general, it doesn't deliver on its promise.
Granted, the tiger isn't in great shape. Sporting threadbare clothes and a scruffy beard, Williams looks like a castaway after a year at sea. His part isn't all that big, and he melds into the ensemble with a creditable lack of ego. At the same time, why hire him and his undeniable "OMG, it's Robin Williams!" presence?
The play is set in 2003, just after US troops have taken the Iraqi capital. At the start, the tiger is in a mangled cage, guarded by a pair of Marines. These guys are hardly America's proudest: Tom (Glenn Davis) brags about stealing the gold-plated gun and toilet seat of Saddam Hussein's late son Uday; Kev (Brad Fleischer) is dumb as a post. Their greed and stupidity lead to Tom losing his hand to the tiger, whom Kev shoots dead.
Enter the ghosts.
In the play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, broken Baghdad is a kind of limbo where the living and the dead engage in conversations, and both people and animals triple their IQ after they die.
At least the tiger isn't depraved like Uday (the excellent Hrach Titizian, creepily flip), who taunts his gentle gardener, Musa (Arian Moayed). The Husseins' criminal legacy is hard to eradicate, like the phantom limb a character complains about: "Just because it's gone doesn't mean it's not there."
"Bengal Tiger" toys with fascinating concepts and conceits, and it's heartening to see an American work about Iraq that avoids docudrama. But Joseph, whose "Gruesome Playground Injuries" recently ran off-Broadway, gets bogged down in drawn-out exchanges and relies on profanity to score easy points. A cheap shortcut undermines each thoughtful parallel.
Worse, the production by Moisés Kaufman ("I Am My Own Wife") fails to exploit the script's supernatural components -- it emphasizes the weaknesses in Joseph's writing without making the most of its strengths.
If a show ever needed a tiger in its tank, it's this one.
An exotic beast is stalking Broadway. No, I'm not referring specifically to the man-eating title character played by Robin Williams in "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo." I'm talking about the play itself: Rajiv Joseph's smart, savagely funny and visionary new work of American theater, whose presence on Broadway invites fanciful comparison to the titular beast. A Pulitzer Prize finalist last year, "Bengal Tiger" is like a majestic cat serenely striding through a litter of cute-as-can-be kittens ready for their YouTube close-ups.
"Bengal Tiger," which opened Thursday night at the Richard Rodgers Theater, asks us to think and feel like adults, absorbing the dark absurdities in Mr. Joseph's microcosmic vision of the chaos that reigned in Baghdad shortly after the invasion of Iraq. Its quiet urge to attend to the moral problems that beset our world — not to mention the existential mysteries man has pondered for centuries — stands in stark contrast to the more prevalent invitations blaring from Broadway marquees: to be serenaded by sweet nostalgia or to Facebook-friend our inner teenager.
The production, directed with gorgeous finesse by Moisés Kaufman ("I Am My Own Wife," "33 Variations"), does make a standard concession to the celebrity-centric economy of today's theater by headlining a box-office name. (The rest of the terrific cast comes from Mr. Kaufman's Los Angeles production, which I saw last spring.) But Mr. Williams, the kinetic comic who has sometimes revealed a marshmallowy streak in movies, never indulges the audience's hunger for displays of humorous invention or pinpricks of poignancy. He gives a performance of focused intelligence and integrity, embodying the animal who becomes the play's questioning conscience with a savage bite that never loosens its grip.
And, oh yes, Mr. Williams is quite funny too. He is after all playing a tiger with a foul mouth and a disposition to match, who's been locked up in the Baghdad zoo for years and is growling as loudly as his stomach when the play opens. (Mr. Williams doesn't wear a Tigger costume, only a grizzled beard and unkempt hair suggest an animal.) I should emphasize that "Bengal Tiger" is not a civics lesson kind of play to be dutifully attended like a cultural homework assignment. Man and beast, and man turned beast, are depicted throughout with a fanciful humor that still allows for clear-eyed compassion.
The American invasion of 2003 has just taken place, and Baghdad is riven by conflict and confusion. Two soldiers guarding the tiger's cage — the cocky Kev (Brad Fleischer) and the business-minded Tom (Glenn Davis) — are killing time by swapping stories of their wartime experience. The tiger does some trash-talking himself, gloating over the stupidity of the lions, who fled their habitat only to be mowed down by artillery.
The juvenile Kev, played to dopey perfection by Mr. Fleischer, alternately gripes and makes absurd boasts about the prowess he is yet to prove. He seems to think that warfare is just a cool video game, and the other guys are hogging the Xbox. Tom, imbued with forceful gravity by Mr. Davis, was present when the American troops reached the palace of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's sons. His spoils from the looting that took place: a gold-plated toilet seat and a matching handgun that he's stashed in his knapsack.
This gleaming weapon, sowing mayhem as it moves from hand to hand, is a potent symbol of both corrupting greed and the brutality it can engender. A vulgar talisman of the rapacious Hussein regime, it also becomes a trophy sought after — possibly even killed for — by an American soldier intent on getting what he can out of the war. (Draw your own conclusions about the larger American imperatives in Iraq.)
The golden gun's first victim is the hapless tiger. As the awed and envious Kev marvels at this spectacular bit of bling, Tom makes the mistake of offering a snack to the beast in the cage, with results that leave him without a hand and the tiger with a gut full of lead. "I get so stupid when I get hungry," the tiger groans in self-disgust.
And yet death proves oddly congenial to this grumpy beast, who spends his time in the afterlife haunting the soldier who caused his death while pondering the mysteries his ongoing consciousness presents.
"It's alarming, this life after death," he confides. "The fact is, tigers are atheists. All of us. Unabashed. Heaven and hell? Those are just metaphorical constructs that represent 'hungry' and 'not hungry.' Which is to say, why am I still kicking around?" Suddenly this creature of dumb instinct begins acquiring a moral sense and with it the burning desire to know how the afterlife can exist without God, and how God can ignore the unruly garden of corruption that his world has become.
Such questions are tendered by Mr. Williams's gruff tiger in an offhand, conversational tone that considerably lightens their weightiness. (The exception perhaps is a late speech decrying God's indifference in overly bald terms.) Similarly, Mr. Joseph's play to its credit does not aspire to make overarching and obvious statements about the morality of warfare. It is more deeply concerned with the facts on the ground, namely how the baser instincts of human beings inevitably come to the fore in an atmosphere tense with the threat of violence.
Kev's hair-trigger anxiety and psychological fragility exemplify one potentially disastrous outcome. The bitterness and deadened humanity that Tom exhibits when he returns to Iraq after acquiring an artificial hand is another. And the play's most movingly drawn character, the soldiers' translator, Musa (played with soulful intensity by Arian Moayed), becomes perhaps the most heart-rending victim of the viral contagion of violence that the play depicts.
He is haunted by the ghost of Uday Hussein (a vivid, hilariously malevolent Hrach Titizian), who had employed him as a gardener to tend the exotic zoo of topiary animals on the palace grounds. Musa's journey from friendly helper fascinated by the arcana of American lingo (a very funny scene dissects the meanings of the word "bitch") to disturbed opportunist represents the most painful illustration of how the appetite for destruction that man shares with predatory beasts is unloosed when the structures of civilization suddenly fall away.
The mosaic of escalating violence depicted in the play takes place against a background of almost breathtaking beauty, in the elegant sets designed by Derek McLane, among his most poetic and effective work. The equally fine lighting design of David Lander blends velvety shadows with rich colors evoking the ravaged beauty of a once-great city.
It is an atmosphere inhabited by the play's end almost entirely by ghosts. The ricocheting violence unleashed by the legacy of the Hussein regime and the American invasion that sought to end it has claimed victims both malign and innocent.
And yet "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," for all the killing and suffering it contains, is buoyed by the vitality of its imaginative scope. Violence is not after all the only human activity that can have far-reaching, unforeseen effects, shaping lives far into the future. Mr. Joseph's richly conceived play reminds us that art can have a powerful afterlife too.
In Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (* * *½ out of four), a wild animal must experience life in a cage before he can fully understand the laws of the jungle.
This is not a metaphorical scenario, entirely. The titular character in Rajiv Joseph's stirring play, which opened Thursday at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, is indeed a tiger, living in captivity in Iraq's capital during the outbreak of the current war. Mind you, he wears clothes, walks upright and talks — philosophizes, even.
In the first scene, before he attacks one American soldier and is shot dead by another, Tiger is given to profanity-laden rants about his cruel fate. After that, he becomes a ghost, given to profanity-laden rants about the elusiveness of justice, meaning and God.
The big cat is played, incidentally, by Robin Williams, who could likely do some very funny feline shenanigans if that's what the role called for.
It isn't. Tiger interacts with people, particularly in the afterlife — haunting his murderer, consoling a little girl's spirit and, most frequently, addressing the audience. And Williams instills in him a very human sense of irony, and empathy; like the other characters, his beast is grappling with inner demons and harsh circumstance, and not making much progress.
Those characters include the aforementioned servicemen: Tiger's killer, Kev, a youth whose brutish bravado doesn't mask his insecurity and fear, and Tom, who seems more grounded at first but unravels later. Their translator, Musa — the Americans call him "Habib" — is an amiable but anxious Iraqi with secrets of his own.
There are other ghosts as well, among them Uday Hussein, Saddam's famously torture-happy son, and Hadia, Musa's teenage sister, whose savage death is his most painful reminder of a life left behind.
Through these disparate people Joseph examines not just the brutality of war but its fundamental sources: lack of communication (some of the dialogue is in Arabic), clashing perspectives and desires. The playwright also addresses, principally through Tiger, the difficulty of faith in a conflict-prone world; there's a lot of grousing about the Almighty's unfair rules and insufficient presence.
All this is handled with a sense of humor and compassion that makes the horrors being documented more tolerable. The cast, under Moises Kaufman's sensitive but vigorous direction, sheds light on each character's private turmoil — even that of Uday's ghost, played with darkly funny flamboyance by Hrach Titizian.
Arian Moayed's tender Musa is, needless to say, more endearing, but complicated enough to become a worthy sparring partner for both Uday and the Americans. Brad Fleischer's Kev deflects our scorn, revealing more thought and feeling as the play progresses; conversely, Glenn Davis' robust Tom challenges our sympathy but never loses it.
Sheila Vand and Necar Zadegan play several Iraqi women, who usually speak in Arabic but can nonetheless convey as much emotion as the talkative Tiger.
It's not often that you hear voices like these on a Broadway stage, and Bengal Tiger gives them vivid, compelling life.


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When it comes to finishing, we're all looking for easy answers that give professional results. Shooting waterborne finishes with a high volume, low pressure (HVLP) turbine sprayer is quick and safe and the results look like a thousand bucks.
Spraying is a whole craft in itself. This step-by-step guide will help you avoid the most common pitfalls.
When you pour finish into the sprayer's cup, strain it through a small nylon sock, cheesecloth or paper funnels with mesh bottoms. The nylon sock can be rinsed with water and used over and over.
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All air caps can be set to three different fan patterns: vertical, horizontal and round. A vertical fan is good for tops; a horizontal fan is good for sides; a round fan is used to concentrate the finish in a small area. You can switch between vertical and horizontal settings without changing the air and fluid volume settings. Switching to a round fan requires readjusting these settings.
Adjust the air volume: Regulate the air flow from the turbine with the air volume control knob. Increasing the air flow creates more atomization. Thick finishes need more air to atomize properly than thin finishes.
Adjust the fluid volume: Regulate the fluid volume with the knurled knob at the back of the gun. This knob controls how far you can pull the trigger. As you pull the trigger, the volume of finish increases and so does the size of the fan pattern. Your goal is to set the trigger so it automatically stops at a 6-in. wide fan.
Switch the air cap to a horizontal fan pattern. Reduce the size of the fan pattern to about 3-in. across. You can reduce the fan by reducing the air and fluid settings, or by holding the gun slightly closer to the surface and moving faster. Always test on paper before spraying your cabinet.
For any exterior surface, start the spray before it contacts the piece and release the trigger when you're past the bottom. Do this in one fluid movement, always holding the gun perpendicular to the surface you are spraying.
1. Spray all four edges, all the way around the top. Hold the gun at 90 degrees.
1. Spray all four edges with the gun held about 6 in. away.
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When Your Child Has Neuroblastoma
Your child has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma. You are likely feeling shocked and scared. You are not alone. Support and treatment are available. Your child's health care team will help you as you make important decisions regarding your child's health.
What Is Neuroblastoma?
Neuroblastoma is a type of cancer that forms in the tissue of the nerves that control blood pressure and certain hormones. Neuroblastoma often begins in the adrenal gland, which sit just above the kidneys. When the cancer cells group together, they form a tumor. The tumor can spread (metastasize) to another part of the body, such as the lungs.
Who Gets Neuroblastoma?
Children at any age can get neuroblastoma, but kids age 5 and younger are affected most often. Neuroblastoma is not contagious. This means your child can't pass it to another person.
What Causes Neuroblastoma?
Neuroblastoma occurs because cells mutate and grow abnormally. What causes this to happen is not fully known. Mutations in certain genes may affect the way your child's cells grow. This gene mutation is random and couldn't have been prevented. Most often, the cause of cancer in children is unknown.
What Are the Symptoms of Neuroblastoma?
Some common symptoms of neuroblastoma include dark circles around the eyes, bone pain, fatigue, and swelling of and pain in the abdomen. Your child may have experienced some of these symptoms, or other symptoms.
How Is Neuroblastoma Diagnosed?
Your child's health care provider examines your child. You will be asked about your child's health history. Your child may also have one or more of the following:
Blood or urine tests to take samples of blood or urine to be tested
Imaging tests to take detailed images of areas inside the body. These may include X-ray, MRI, CT scan, MIBG scan, or ultrasound
A biopsy to take a small sample of tissue from a tumor to have it looked at under a microscope
Bone marrow aspirations and biopsies to take samples of bone marrow from the hipbones and view them under a microscope
Staging and Grading of Neuroblastoma
Staging is the process that determines the size of the cancer and how much it has spread. Most cancers have their own staging system. Grading is used to describe how abnormal the cancer cells look when seen through a microscope. The more abnormal the cells are, the faster they grow. Staging and grading help the health care team plan treatment for your child. They also help determine the likelihood of cure (prognosis). The process used for neuroblastoma takes into consideration the following:
Location of the primary tumor
Genetic changes within the tumor
The age of the child
How much of the tumor is removed with surgery
If the cancer has spread to other areas of the body
How abnormal the cancer cells look under a microscope
The cancer is also broken down into stages 1 through 4 (often written as I through IV). The different stage numbers refer to the tumor's size and if it has spread. For instance, stage I is a very early stage of cancer. And stage IV means the cancer is widespread. Neuroblastoma is also broken down into further classifications. Your health care provider can tell you more if needed. Be sure to ask your health care provider if you have any questions about the stage of your child's cancer.
How Is Neuroblastoma Treated?
The goal of treatment is to remove or destroy cancer cells. The kind of treatment your child receives depends on the type and stage of tumor your child has. In some instances, infants younger than 1 year old may not need treatment. But if it is needed, your child may need one or more of the following:
Surgery to remove all or part of a tumor.
Watchful waiting after surgery if the tumor is low-risk. Your health care provider can tell you more about the risk level of your child's tumor.
Chemotherapy ("chemo") to destroy cancer cells with powerful cancer-fighting medications. Multiple chemo medications may be used. They are given through a tube (IV) that's usually put into a vein in the arm or chest. Or, they may be given by mouth or injection.
Radiation therapy to destroy cancer cells and shrink a tumor using high-energy X-rays. Radiation may be used to treat a tumor that is not responding quickly to chemotherapy.
Supportive Treatments
The goal of supportive treatments is to protect the child from infection, prevent discomfort, and bring the body's blood counts to a healthy range. During your child's treatment, he or she may be given antibiotics. These are medications that help prevent and fight infection. Anti-nausea and other medications may also be given. These help ease side effects caused by treatment. Your child may receive a blood transfusion to restore the blood cells destroyed by treatment. Blood is taken from a donor and stored until the child is ready to receive it.
What Are the Long-Term Concerns?
Your child may need physical therapy. This is to get the body functioning normally after treatment. Also, chemotherapy and radiation may cause some problems, such as damage to certain organs. So your child's health will need to be monitored for life. This may include clinic visits, blood tests, imaging tests, and ultrasounds of the heart.
Receiving a cancer diagnosis for your child is scary and confusing. It's important to remember that you are not alone. Your child's health care team will work with you and your child throughout your child's illness and care. You may also wish to seek information and support for yourself. Doing so can help you cope with the changes cancer brings. Learning about and talking with others who also have a child with cancer may help you and your family cope. Also, visit the Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation and the Children's Oncology Group.


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Not too sweet but not too healthy, these delightful muffins are equally delicious for breakfast or dessert. Submitted by FIREFLY75 Carbs: 16.1g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 2.4g | Calories: 91.7
Low-fat buttermilk and applesauce help lower the fat, and the whole-wheat flour and flax seed add fiber. These healthful muffins freeze well! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 33.9g | Fat: 1.6g | Fiber: 2.6g | Protein: 3.7g | Calories: 137.7
Fiber can be tasty! Submitted by MIGGLES Carbs: 21.1g | Fat: 8.7g | Fiber: 4.5g | Protein: 3.9g | Calories: 171.9
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When you're craving something sweet, pop one of these little healthy treats Submitted by KARAOKEKITTY Carbs: 11.2g | Fat: 1.2g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 1.3g | Calories: 57.7
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Southland schools sticking to their guns (or lack thereof)
BY CASEY TONER, SUSAN DEMAR LAFFERTY AND BRIAN STANLEY Staff writers August 31, 2012 8:14PM
Colleen Curry shows off her online petition against guns in schools at her home in Plainfield, IL on Friday August 31, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
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Updated: October 3, 2012 6:05AM
No one wants to think about a shooting taking place in a school.
Plainfield Police Chief John Konopek said he has no choice.
"Unfortunately, part of my job is to plan for the worst-case scenario," he said.
Among his plans is a controversial one that has created a stir in his community and is the subject of debate elsewhere, including the Southland.
Konopek wants school resource officers to have access to more firepower in case of emergencies, and police have requested that the Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 Board consider installing a gun safe — where a patrol rifle would be kept — in the police offices of four Plainfield high schools.
Southland school and police officials don't think such a measure is necessary. Some schools are near police stations, some have resource officers who are armed and have additional weapons in their vehicles, and some have no resource officer at all and say none is needed.
"Are we that dangerous of a society that this is a necessity? Personally, I'd like to think not," said William Joyce, president of the South Suburban Association of Chiefs of Police.
Joyce, the South Chicago Heights police chief, said he had never heard of a school district having such a policy and said there's no need for one in nearby Bloom and Bloom Trail high schools.
He said many local police who work at schools receive first-responder training to learn how to react to school shootings and other crises.
At a recent meeting of the south suburban police chiefs, Joyce reached out to the group's members and "nobody" thought storing guns in a safe at school was a good idea, he said.
"I'm much more for our officers being equipped in their own vehicles, but not necessarily putting weapons in schools," Joyce said.
Some Southland high schools don't even have a regular police presence. Each has its own way of handling security, and no school officials contacted by the SouthtownStar see a need to use their buildings as an armory.
In Community High School District 218, there is a uniformed officer in each school — Eisenhower High School in Blue Island, Richards in Oak Lawn, and Shepard in Palos Heights, Supt. John Byrne said. The officers spend their shifts inside the school, in uniform, carrying their service revolvers. Their squads, with additional weapons, are parked in the school lot. Local police stations are only a half-mile to 1 1/2 miles away.
Byrne, who used to teach in Plainfield schools, believes that's all that's necessary and that the Plainfield plan to store high-powered rifles inside is an "overreaction."
"I do not feel like we need to stock their weapons," he said. "Should I install a (jail) cell next? An interrogation room? A SWAT team? It's a bit of an overreaction. I don't get it."
Consolidated High School District 230 doesn't even have officers assigned full time inside Sandburg, Andrew or Stagg high school. It has liaison officers who meet regularly and collaborate with staff "to assure a safe learning environment," district spokeswoman Carla Erdey said.
The Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 schools use armed Will County Sheriff's officers as resource officers. Armed Lockport police are at the Lockport high school.
Lockport police considered storing extra weapons at the high school campuses "prior to the recent local media's attention ... it just never progressed from there," Lockport Police Lt. Dave Draksler said. "None of our schools has approached us with such a plan."
Crete-Monee High School stopped using resource officers when a grant that funded the program expired, district spokeswoman Melissa Burda said.
Tinley Park Police Chief Steve Neubauer said his officers are trained for rapid response if an incident merits it.
"Whether they are in school or out, police need to respond," he said.
He declined to comment specifically on Plainfield's plan, saying, "There are all different theories on the level of arms needed."
The part-time retired Oak Lawn police officer at Oak Lawn Community High School does not carry a sidearm, and spends most of his time on truancy and residency issues, Assistant Principal Joe McCurdy said.
"We've had no requests for arms," he said. "If a situation arises, he would handle it like anyone else — call the police. There have been no conversations about changing our practice and certainly no conversations about following Plainfield's model. It's a relatively new concept."
A District 202 committee may consider the proposal at its Sept. 19 meeting.
Debate in Plainfield
Plainfield officers train each year to respond to campus shootings and regularly meet with administrators to discuss student safety. School resource officers there carry sidearms and also are trained to use patrol rifles — semi-automatic weapons that typically use 20- and 30-round magazines.
School shooting training has demonstrated that a long gun, which offers increased long-range accuracy, is more effective.
"We hope it will never be (needed)," Konopek said. "But it's another tool in the toolbox."
Speaking hypothetically, Konopek said an officer would not go to the safe if he were already on the opposite end of the building and an intruder was threatening students.
That scenario had occurred to Colleen Curry, of Plainfield, who has organized a petition urging the school board to reject the department's request.
"I see it as a largely unnecessary expenditure for a risk that is nominal. It sends a message we're a community of alarmists," she said.
As the parent of a young son whom she expects to eventually attend Plainfield High School, Curry "understands the fear," but she cited a National Center for Education Statistics finding that put the odds of a child being murdered at school at 1 in 2 million.
"There is no greater safety achieved with this weapon, and it sends a bad message to parents and students alike about safety in our schools," Curry said.
But Plainfield wouldn't be alone if installed weapons safes. Minooka Police Chief Justin Meyer acknowledged a rifle has been kept at Minooka High School for a couple of years, secured in a gun locker, with a school resource officer being the only one with a key.
"After the department trained for an active shooter, we thought it was a good tool to have and discussed it with administration," Meyer said. "It hasn't been an issue."


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Has anyone in western Wisconsin ever seen a large yellow tree fungus called Laetiporus sulfureus, also known as "Chicken of the Forest". Can you tell me where you have seen them growing. Thanks-
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Hi, sprout: We have specimens of your tree fungus in our woods NE of Spring Green almost every year and last year there was a large colony on our huge willow tree by the road. We ate lots and froze several pounds, and when the rest became too dried out to use, the deer cleaned it all up during the winter. I call it polyporus sulphureus (from my Orson Miller ID book) but it is obviously the same thing. |
I have seen in in the Devil's Lake area and in Green Lake County. It is YUMMY!! Sautéed in a little butter and added to my salads or wraps. I wish I would find some now :) |
It's called 'Chicken Mushroom', according to the Audubon Guide, but what do they know? Laetiporus sulphureus~~ It's blooming right now where I am (Eagle River). It's on Oak--stumps, logs, or on living trees, though it's been my experience that the tree's days are numbered when that happens. AmericanMushrooms.com has good info, including when NOT to eat them. Bon apetit! |
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If you're obsessed with those dime store hybrids, then you'll really appreciate Phalaenopsis bellina ;) |
It does not matter where they are from and how much money they cost, this is about the joy of them. Thanks for recommendation :) |
BEWARE, Cucka, the obsession gets much worse.I still hide my orchid purchases from my husband.LOL Allymarie |
Cucka, FYI that was "said" tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be taken literally :-) |
Allymarie, my husband still tolerates me, even pays bills for my ,,obsession,,. Today I received one from him :) so that's not too bad with me :)) |
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I have a couple of interesting projects going, most of them are available at github, but there's a few that are worth a special mention.
My brother's portfolio site, only available in hungarian. Statically generated with Clojure, uses jQuery and Bootstrap and a couple of other things.
I spend some of my free time hacking on syslog-ng, and as such, I have a couple of projects that relate to it, namely the syslog-ng mongodb driver and a simple web-based log browser, called mojology.
I also contribute to the Debian distribution, not only as a package maintainer, but - among other things - I keep an eye on misfiled bugs, and reassign them.
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THE IDEA that there is nothing new under the sun is as old as — well, Ecclesiastes, at least. Tried and true methods of improving warehouse efficiencies cannot claim to be that venerable, but the basic principles have certainly stood the …
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Would You Like an APS With That?
Odds are you wouldn't. Supply chain technology generates a good deal of buzz, but companies haven't made significant investments in WMS, TMS, APS, or other supply chain applications, according to a recent study by researchers from The Revere Group, The …
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Management Software Review: A Year of Competitive Change
After two years of sluggish software sales, we are finally starting to see catalog companies investing in new systems. Luckily for them, during the past two years software vendors didn't stop investing in and improving their own products.
For instance, …
July 1, 2003
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Although cataloger/retailer Petals filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 21, president/CEO Richard Belenski insists that the company isn't dying on the vine.
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The time: Four years ago. The familiar opening theme to that TV chestnut, "Mission: Impossible," is heard, as our hero pushes the "play" button on a tiny cassette recorder. A no-nonsense voice emerges.
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Operations and Management: Make a Holiday List (and Check It Twice)
Retailers are fond of promoting "Christmas in July" sales. Catalog operations experts prefer Christmas planning in July — gearing up for the holiday season rush by assessing seasonal staffing needs, reconfiguring the warehouse, and preparing for what is the busiest time …
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July 1, 2003
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ONLINE GROCER FreshDirect launched its business using a seemingly simple strategy: fresh foods, made to order, at prices as low as 35% below retail. But there's nothing simple about what happens in the company's warehouse. Which, president Jason Ackerman is quick …
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The toymaker, facing criticism, said it would replace a piece from its Play-Doh Cake Mountain toy set.
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Hasbro Said to End Talks to Take Over DreamWorks Animation
The end of talks between the two would be the second demise of a potential takeover of DreamWorks Animation since the fall.
November 14, 2014, Friday
Many Forces Are Pulling DreamWorks Animation in Diverse Directions
A deal with Hasbro could feed DreamWorks' need for growth and its push into toys and other merchandise while risking its focus and independence.
November 14, 2014, Friday
Hasbro Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy DreamWorks Animation
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Hasbro Outperforms Mattel as Barbie's Struggles Continue
Robust sales of Marvel and Transformers action figures in emerging markets drove a strong quarter for Hasbro, the second-largest toymaker in the United States.
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Sylvia Hassenfeld, Philanthropist From Hasbro's Founding Family, Dies at 93
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Hasbro to Collaborate With 3-D Printing Company to Sell Artwork
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Can't Play by the Rules? It's Fine by Mr. Monopoly
Hasbro, the maker of the classic board game, will ask players to debate their favorite "house rules" for inclusion as options in a future edition.
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* "interviewed for a blog post"
(Just noted that he didn't write it. Which was silly of me. Clearly he is too busy to be writing blog posts.)
"If I know I'm going to be writing a blog post that aligns with my outrageous public persona and is designed to be griped about all over the internet, I will riddle it with brand names so that the companies pay me for the press."
This post is awesome. So many things I think about with Louis C.K. all the time.
I know he's beloved and nigh-unimpeachable for most people, but I think it's pretty clear to most of us that he's pretty self-satisfied. "Why shouldn't I be? I deserve it," he would say in response, in a way that just goes to prove the point even more strongly. I won't lie, it's a big turn-off for me. Louis is funny, mostly. And I like him, sometimes. But this thing, this "9 out of 10 credits," "come on my critically acclaimed TV show and recite the words I write about our mutual hatred," thing. I dunno. Guys? Did you all leave yet?
The Super Nintendo Chalmers reference makes my heart soar. To this day, that is how I pronounce superintendent.
My personal feelings of 'maybe we should take a deep breath about this whole appropriateness-of-rape-jokes topic' are overrided by my increasing annoyance at the cliquey "us against the world" mentality employed by modern (read: outdated) comedians. Maybe, just MAYBE, sometimes something isn't funny and/or isn't even a joke (if my son were gay, I'd kill him. Is not a joke.), and people should be told that it sucks and be held morally accountable for their comments.
But no, I forgot, comedy is sacred and nothing deserves to be discussed ever because hey get over it it's a joke and you're the one who sucks for not getting it. SIgh.
Daniel Tosh is by far the worst element of his own show. Not coincidentally, his show is in general an alright compendium of (mostly) funny web videos (read: a live-action VIDEOGUM). I know numerous people, myself mildly included, who think the show is funny but "hate" its host. Welcome to the new media, I suppose, where the shows are YouTube and the hosts are nightmarish YouTube commenters.
That last bullet point is the plot of the upcoming Will/Jaden Smith / M. Night Shyamalan film. Seriously. Officially, it's a 'secret,' but that is the plot.
In conclusion: WORLDS BE COLLIDING (Alien and human worlds are the ones that are colliding as well as also Hollywood worlds and the worlds of the Smith family).
In the public's (pseudo?)defense, "Are you DTF?" is a question asked of lots of people regardless of whether or not they starred in Superbad. Sometimes people also starred in Jersey Shore. SO, you know. Normal.
It's almost as if you don't WANT Hollywood to reboot every comic book story every three years forever and ever until we all die.
Is this a thing? I think this is a thing, but you don't see it THAT much…
You know, where a former star is basically being crushed out of existence and then a director "saves" their career and thus pumps up their own resume by being listed as their savior on their Wikipedia page in perpetuity (see: Quentin Tarantino and John Travolta: the success; and Quentin Tarantino and Kurt Russel: The Not Success). Nothing, I don't think, comes out of the Hollywood press mill unless it's supposed to, so it's suspicious to me that BOTH Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen would have fawning "experiences" with Lindsy Lohan IN THE SAME WEEK.
I feel like, outside of Tarantino, Woody Allen tries this gimmick more than anyone else. Scorsese seems to do it sometimes but I think it's more about latching onto an actor and never letting them go for him. ANYWAY, my point is: this is FAKE and GAY and I agree with Gorgy that it won't work because Lindsy Lohan isn't going to return to some former glory; Georgia Rule is as glorious as it was going to get.
We frequently discuss "the calm before the storm" this time of year, when all the shows are gearing up for their season finale-type plotlines and the actual content of the shows is pretty sparse and unfunny. This week was that, for me. Very few laffs. Some real plot points coming down, but none of them particularly funny. Community was probably the best at making me care what happened in the episode, but that's only because so much DID happen, where almost nothing did in the other shows. So, my conclusion: I love these shows but this week was boring omg I'm sorry I hope they still love me!
This commercial was directed by David Lynch in 1993, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
I already AVOID movie theaters because of texting and similar behaviors reflecting the overbearing self-interest of the modern moviegoer, so sure, why not make it official. Just make a different chain for me that serves beer and cuts off the thumbs of those found texting (Landmark Theaters, take note).
I watched Moneyball this weekend and noticed how he was always eating, which reminded me about how that's a common schtick for his characters (starting with Ocean's 11 through today), which made me think "wow! that'd be a great idea for a supercut. I should do it!"
Only then I didn't because of food and sleep and nerds. But the internet gave it to me because that's how the internet works these days. The Singularity is here!
At the end, it is revealed that they made this already and it was called City of Angels and it is a perennial favorite for The Worst Movie of All Time.
Lambasting an anonymous jury for taking the fact that they hold someone's life in their hands seriously… check.
Suggesting that it is an outrage that someone was found not guilty just because most people suspect they did it… check.
SOMEHOW tying it all to the same vaguely conservative political jokes you tell every night as if they two are even remotely related… check.
Sounds like a great night for Jay.
It's also kind of expected that Louis would take this route, regardless of whether he saw the delivery or even what his *personal* opinion is. Chris Rock did immediately as well, before he knew all of that Tracy said and recanted. Comedians tend to defend each other and "the form" and their right to be offensive to the death, for reasons that, I suppose, are understandable. In MY personal opinion, when I hear Jeff Ross or Jerry Seinfeld or Louis C. K. or Chris Rock make these kinds of excuses for a horrible act, which they have plenty of times before (See: Michael Richards), it just seems so utterly pompous, so cliquey.
It always comes out in some vague "you just don't understand comedy," or "their only crime was not being funny," and it is ever so lame. Gabe is right on the money here — it's not an offensive joke that makes national headlines. It's when an aspect of the person's personality accidentally escapes on stage, and that personality ends up being kind of ugly. This is what happened to Michael Richards and it seeeeems to be what happened to Tracy Morgan. They have a license to offend, yes, but come on–being a comedian does not mean that nothing you say should be taken seriously or criticized. For a group of people who are so quick to state that the comedy stage is not a pulpit, some comedians sure do treat it as though it were sacred.
College: It Never Really Ends.
You don't understand that it takes courage and vision to look like a zombie? Some might simply say that sickly and demented is in vogue (in-joke!) for upper-crust models, but the genius of Toby is that the second image straight up looks like he was photoshopped into a scene from 28 Days Later.
(New ad campaign: 28 Pradas Later. Better.)
I always thought it was supposed to be bad. Not at the Nicholas Cage level, but it always seemed like part farce to me.
I would really love to see a WMOAT review of Charlie St. Cloud. I haven't even seen it and I'm positive that the review would have me in stitches.
Feast of Love definitely deserves a hearing in the court of Gabe. It is a terrible, terrible movie. It tries SO HARD to be good, but it's not. It comes close to "pretentious rich white nonsense," but that's not it's problem. The problem is that it is genuinely terrible storytelling–I dare you to even figure out what is going on in that movie in the third act.
There are only so many comments I can Upvote to keep them from disappearing! I'm only one man, and Wes Anderson's relatives are legion apparently.


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"It's funny in a way", says Bill Gates, relaxing in an armchair in his office. "When I was young, I didn't know any old people. When we did the microprocessor revolution, there was nobody old, nobody. It's weird how old this industry has become." The Microsoft cofounder and I, a couple of fiftysomething codgers, are following up on an interview I had with a tousle-headed Gates more than a quarter century ago. I was trying to capture what I thought was the red-hot core of the then-burgeoning computer revolution — the scarily obsessive, absurdly brainy, and endlessly inventive people known as hackers. Back then, Gates had just pulled off a deal to supply his DOS operating system to IBM. His name was not yet a household word; even Word was not yet a household word. I would interview Gates many times over the years, but that first conversation was special. I saw his passion for computers as a matter of historic import. Gates himself saw my reverence as an intriguing novelty. But by then I was convinced that I was documenting a movement that would affect everybody.
The book I was writing, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, came out just over 25 years ago, in the waning days of 1984. My editor had urged me to be ambitious, and so I shot high, crafting a 450-page narrative in three parts, making the case that hackers — brilliant programmers who discovered worlds of possibility within the coded confines of a computer — were the key players in a sweeping digital transformation.
I hadn't expected to reach that conclusion. When I embarked on my project, I thought of hackers as little more than an interesting subculture. But as I researched them, I found that their playfulness, as well as their blithe disregard for what others said was impossible, led to the breakthroughs that would define the computing experience for millions of people. Early MIT hackers realized it was possible to use computers for what we now call word processing. (Their initial program was called Expensive Typewriter, appropriate since the one machine it ran on cost $120,000.) They also invented the digital videogame. The rebel engineers of the Homebrew Computer Club in Silicon Valley were the first to take advantage of new low-cost chips to build personal computers. They may have begun as a fringe cohort, but hackers alchemized the hard math of Moore's law into a relentless series of technological advances that changed the world and touched all of our lives. And most of them did it simply for the joy of pulling off an awesome trick.
But behind the inventiveness was something even more marvelous — all real hackers shared a set of values that has turned out to be a credo for the information age. I attempted to codify this unspoken ethos into a series of principles called the hacker ethic. Some of the notions now seem forehead-smackingly obvious but at the time were far from accepted ("You can create art and beauty on a computer"). Others spoke to the meritocratic possibilities of a digital age ("Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position"). Another axiom identified computers as instruments of insurrection, granting power to any individual with a keyboard and sufficient brainpower ("Mistrust authority — promote decentralization"). But the precept I perceived as most central to hacker culture turned out to be the most controversial: "All information should be free."
Stewart Brand, hacker godfather and Whole Earth Catalog founder, hacked even that statement. It happened at the first Hackers' Conference, the week my book was published, during a session I moderated on the future of the hacker ethic. "On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable," he said. "On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other." His words neatly encapsulate the tension that has since defined the hacker movement — a sometimes pitched battle between geeky idealism and icy-hearted commerce.
Though Hackers initially landed with a bit of a thud (The New York Times called it "a monstrously overblown magazine article"), it eventually found an audience greater than even my overheated expectations. Through chance encounters, email, and tweets, people are constantly telling me that reading the book inspired them in their careers. Thumbing through David Kushner's Masters of Doom, I learned that reading Hackers as a geeky teenager reassured Doom creator John Carmack that he was not alone in the world. When I recently interviewed Ben Fried, Google's chief information officer, he showed up with a dog-eared copy of the book for me to sign. "I wouldn't be here today if I hadn't read this," he told me.
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But it was the hackers themselves who inspired a generation of programmers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs — and not just fellow techies. Everyone who has ever used a computer has benefited. The Internet itself exists thanks to hacker ideals — its expansion was lubricated by a design that enabled free access. The word hacker entered the popular lexicon, although its meaning has changed: In the mid-'80s, following a rash of computer break-ins by teenagers with personal computers, true hackers stood by in horror as the general public began to equate the word — their word — with people who used computers not as instruments of innovation and creation but as tools of thievery and surveillance. The kind of hacker I wrote about was motivated by the desire to learn and build, not steal and destroy. On the positive side of the ledger, this friendly hacker type has also become a cultural icon — the fuzzy, genial whiz kid who wields a keyboard to get Jack Bauer out of a jam, or the brainy billionaire in a T-shirt — even if today he's more likely to be called a geek.


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