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Dating A Celiac
Posted 13 April 2010 - 01:30 PM
I'm not looking for recipes (I can find those myself). I'm looking for potential issues I might not have thought of. For example, I didn't realize until I found this forum that kissing can spread contaminants. I'm glad I found out about that one early!
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 03:43 PM
I'd just be super careful about cross-contamination should you decide to cook her a meal. Maybe such things should be done at her place until you get the hang of it.
Also, you might want to let her decide where you go out to eat, since she probably has some limitations.
Otherwise, the fact that you care enough to post on here is a pretty good sign that you'll be careful, so I'm sure things will be fine.
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 03:52 PM
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Me, dd and ds diagnosed with Lactose Intolerance
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June 2003-saw Chiropractor who specialized in nutrition: Celiac Disease not Lactose Intolerance, went gluten free with once in awhile cheating, off soy and dairy for about 6 months
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May 2006-went gluten free with NO cheating-excellent! Made all the difference in the world
Posted 13 April 2010 - 07:12 PM
"Dating a Celiac" sounds like a good series title for Showtime or HBO!
Maybe lIke the bachelor. Gluten free dates. Or maybe more of a competition. They have to cook for the Celiac and get eliminated if they gluten her.
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Posted 13 April 2010 - 07:32 PM
Cross-contamination has already been mentioned, this is a big issue. There can also be a lot of emotion attached to being gluten free - missing out on favourite foods, feeling left out or different etc. You didn't mention how long she has been gluten free, but even it it's a long time, feelings about food can still pop up. If she gets fed up or upset, just try and be sensitive to it.
You are doing a great thing by finding out how to deal with this early on. Unsupportive partners can be a nightmare for someone with celiac, so I'm sure she will appreciate your effort. There will be other issues that come up if you end up moving in together or having kids - are you willing to have a gluten-free kitchen, or even house. These are all things you can negotiate along the way.
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 02:02 AM
Maybe lIke the bachelor. Gluten free dates. Or maybe more of a competition. They have to cook for the Celiac and get eliminated if they gluten her.
Really, it should be on the food network. It can't be weirder than Iron Chef.
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 04:31 AM
Maybe lIke the bachelor. Gluten free dates. Or maybe more of a competition. They have to cook for the Celiac and get eliminated if they gluten her.
During the last season of the Bachelor, I was thinking--in a flight of fancy--that it might be fun to apply to be the next Bachelorette. Never mind the fantasy suite; the one who keeps a clean mouth and who scrapes me off the floor after a glutening is the keeper. lol
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Posted 15 April 2010 - 05:17 PM
Maybe lIke the bachelor. Gluten free dates. Or maybe more of a competition. They have to cook for the Celiac and get eliminated if they gluten her.
Ha ha- I love it!
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Posted 17 April 2010 - 10:33 AM
The same stuff the others said. Cross contamination and kissing. Brush your teeth after you eat gluten and wash your hands too.
Good luck with the new relationship. If she doesn't appreciate the efforts you are making, then keep trying because a guy willing to do what you are doing is a good catch.
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Jan. 2010 Diagnosed celiac at the age of 40.
Ready to get well and get on with my life!
Posted 18 April 2010 - 05:20 PM
Good luck with the new relationship. If she doesn't appreciate the efforts you are making, then keep trying because a guy willing to do what you are doing is a good catch.
And I agree with this too. Don't forget yourself in this either.
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Posted 20 April 2010 - 05:40 PM
Find out whether she wants you to attempt to cook for her at first, or if it will just make her feel nervous and pressured. Better yet, offer to cook WITH her, i.e. you'll cook if she hangs around to supervises. We do get so tired of cooking sometimes!
Many times, the people in our lives who love us attempt to cook for us in their gluten-containing kitchens as a surprise, and once they have gone through the effort, we feel like we need to eat the food to show them how much we appreciate it. It's all well intentioned on everyones' part, but sometimes you get glutened this way. Then the person who is glutened is embarrassed to tell the well intentioned person that they were glutened by their food - afraid they'll be hurt or put off, scared to every try again - it's not good.
Typical newbie mistakes would be making gluten-free cookies on your regular cookie sheet - or a gluten-free cake in your regular pan - or gluten-free pasta using your regular pot and colander - or using part of a stick of butter that was used directly on a piece of toast. Unfortunately, gluten sensitivity comes from the part of the immune system that is used to fight bacteria and viruses, so it takes very little "contamination" to raise a response in some people. The first year after I was diagnosed, I was particularly sensitive.
I suggest taking things slowly with regard to cooking - use her kitchen, or use yours with supervision - until you get used to the type of issues that can pop up.
You're off to a great start - good luck!
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One thing about going out on a Thursday…
… this old woman will absolutely NOT go out the next night. Seriously- who can do that??
Kids these days…
Granted, I don't normally go out a lot on Fridays anyway. At the end of the week, I just really want to come home and collapse.
And catch up on my DVR. Because I need to watch my "programs". Like an old woman.
That's right. I think I'm getting old.
I'm constantly the only one cold in the office. I'm frugal. I fell in love with a picture of a cat my friend sent yesterday.
Dag nabbit. I'm a lost cause.
And I imagine, if there were such a classification of "old woman food", this may be it:It's no secret I'm a brussels sprouts fan. And can eat half a bag in one sitting, no issue when I simply cut and roast them.
But… there are other options…Like if they're sliced/shredded. It deceives me into thinking I'm eating more this way. Sweet. Because being painfully stuffed afterwards is never a good thing.
Really, I saw this on a few other girls' blogs and only wanted to do it to save time. It's much faster. Which is good. Because I have no patience.
Plus, it's kind of pretty.
Maybe that's a stretch. But the shredded went well with the artichoke pasta I paired it with.And it went REALLY well when I just decided to mix it all into one mess. Just sayin'.
Because old women fall asleep on the couch by 11:00 at night, they often wake up pretty early the next day.
And because they often feel the need to be productive, there will be a grocery shopping trip and a 6-mile run at the gym. Most likely all before noon. This provides plenty of time for an afternoon nap.
And because old women such as myself often feel the need to pretend they're younger than they really are, this old woman will be attempting her second night on in a short period of time.
Send help. Or a sweater. I'd hate to catch a chill.
But before I go… does anyone have a butterscotch?
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"Funday was a particular favorite of mine… but I'd say at the cost of sprained hands, scratched and bruised arms, and a sore back. 'That little tramp!' I mused to myself, 'it seems like everyone's taking their heroic medicine today!'
As I understood it– I rushed through a huge rock between a wall of four grass blades upon noticing she had jumped on the weasel's nose. Funday rode it like a bull, holding on tight before letting go within mere moments… Milon the bat had, tired as he was, taken a sweep down in an attempt to beat them towards the fall only to be grabbed by the foot by the teenage girl who'd been picked up with them.
Dragged down quicker, Milon let out a yelp, repeatedly howling, 'No, no, no, no!' For every flap to stay in the air, they remained steady for less than a split fragment of a second before gradually drooping down once more. Funday flipped over in circular rotation, finally coming down back first.
Joining everyone's freebird nature that night, I leapt forward in an attempt to grab her back with the intent to soften the fall. I could only go so far as to have reach her shoulders just as her legs were kicking mid-air. Lord be praised, she kicked up her feet the moment I touched her… just in the knick of time for the orphan to grab her feet. I collided into her back, just burying myself deep into the dirt to eventually play bedside matress to the falling tramp rodent. The orphan and Milon were able to float just a bit again to keep her steady and ease her down, but I wouldn't say by very much…
I don't think any one of us were feeling any better than we could have if we let Funday to her death; I felt crushed, swallowing up dirt and coughing rocks out for some time… everyone was, for lack of a better phrase, broken." - Marie
I hope that all made some sense, lol. xD I kinda pulled this one out since I've been stretched from project to project this last week, but if it works for you, it certainly works for me… ^^;;
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How can I set the AGP 2x???:
I have this at modules.conf:
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this is the content of /proc/driver/agp/card
Fast Writes: Supported
SBA: Not Supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Registers: 0x1f000017:0x0f000101
and this is the contect of host-bridge
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Registers: 0x0f000203:0x00000101
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AGP Rate: 1x
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Disabled
This is all the options I have in the XF86Config:
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Option "NvAGP" "1" # use nvidia agp
#Option "NvAGP" "0" # disable agp
#Option "NvAGP" "3" # try 2 than 1
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Option "HWCursor" "on"
Option "NoLogo" "on"
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Please, help me, I tried almost all. I read that my chipset is unstable under agp 2x, this is not true, I used AGP 2x (enabling it with Power Strip) and I get a good perfomance.
One more thing, the MoBo is a FIC SD-11 and there is no BIOS setting to change the AGP.
Well, if the default drivers only give you AGP 1x, then that's because they think your chipset isn't stable at 2x or 4x.
If you want to prove them wrong, then you're going to have to install the NVIDIA_kernel package from .tar.gz. Unpack it (with tar xvzf or similar), and edit the os-registry.c file after it's decompressed. Don't change the NVreg_ReqAGPRate setting in there (well... you can if you want to, but if you do change it here rather than using a module param, you'll never be able to use any other AGP rate...), but do, near the bottom of the file, get rid of the two underscores in the string.
For example, the last few lines of my os-registry.c look like this:
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Once you change that, you can just make the driver, and then try passing it the higher ReqAGPRate parameter. If it works, and if your system is stable, then continue using it. If not, you're going to have to revert that change back.
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Thanks Joy, You're not unpopular enough as it is, now you have insulted about seventy-five percent of Americans because they don't want their hard earned money going to the largest abortion company in the world. It seems we are witnessing the beginning of the demise of the death peddlers. The tide is turning praise God! The empty slogans and the lies are so old and tired and people know it.
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An incident today (July 26) has prompted me to write a letter reminding people not to leave animals in hot cars. It was 91 degrees in Bemidji. I discovered a panting, frantic small dog locked in a car, with two windows cracked about two inches. I immediately took a photo of the license...
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July 30, 2015 - 11:54pm
Jason Stanford: Are we a Kirk or Picard?
It's a sign of the times that the dumbest answer in the presidential campaign so far yielded the deepest question. As usual, Ted Cruz started it. In an interview with New York Times Magazine, Cruz talked himself into this corner: "It is quite likely that Kirk is a Republican...
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July 30, 2015 - 11:47pm
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Timing of Paul Bunyan Park project questioned
As I sat at a red light at the corner of Paul Bunyan Drive and Third Street, I heard vacationers say it was too bad they had come all this way and they "didn't know if they could get close to Paul and Babe to take photos." So now I have driven by many times since then, and...
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July 30, 2015 - 1:44am
July 29, 2015
Susan Stamper Brown: Eating steak with teaspoons
President Obama told the BBC he's "stymied" because he's not gotten his way regarding gun control — yet. So, apparently we should just relinquish our guns during a Second Amendment burning ceremony on the National Lawn. Obama's upset more Americans don't agree with...
opinion / commentary
July 29, 2015 - 11:42pm
Tina Dupuy: Donald Trump: Rising from the GOP's ashes
There's no shortage of publicity maestro, name-emblazer Donald Trump think pieces on the Internet these days. Most will attribute his straight talk to his more-than-likely-fleeting frontrunner status. Others point to some anger or racism the Trump Brand Name has tapped into. The...
opinion / commentary
July 29, 2015 - 11:39pm
Joseph Cotto: Intelligence in 21st Century America
So much for the bell curve. The concept has long subject to immense controversy; perhaps because people often describe it in a way which suits their beliefs. In 2012, NPR reporter Shankar Vedantam simplified things by explaining that all the bell curve really amounts to is a belief...
opinion / commentary
July 29, 2015 - 12:31am
Bob Franken: Wither that sucker Trump
In political news, the cliche that somebody has "sucked all of the air out of the room," means, of course, that an individual has managed to distract from the many elements of a multifaceted story and put the entire focus on himself. That's what Donald Trump has been doing of...
opinion / commentary
July 29, 2015 - 12:24am
July 27, 2015
Rich Lowry: The toxic worldview of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Moses gave us the Ten Commandments. Paul gave us the Epistles. And Ta-Nehisi gave us "Between the World and Me." The new book by Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the form of a letter to his son, has been greeted with a rapturous reception that brooks no dissent. What everyone...
opinion / commentary
July 27, 2015 - 11:48pm
Cokie & Steven V. Roberts: Don't help the terrorists
After five American soldiers were murdered in Chattanooga, Tenn. by a deranged Muslim gunman, the nation reacted with anger, shock and fear. "Little did I know that terror would strike America in the heartland," said Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, chairman of the House Homeland...
opinion / commentary
July 27, 2015 - 11:47pm
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bemidji area veterans deserve a service center of their own
Ms. Shari Kosobuski from the Duluth Veteran Center comes to Bemidji every other week to provide services to area veterans. While we appreciate this, we find that it is far short of the needs of our region's veterans. We have more than 20,000 veterans in a nine-county area around...
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July 27, 2015 - 11:46pm
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Friday, August 28, 2009
An Overhaul
I am in need of an overhaul. Where I take a weekend and get caught up on everything! Is that even possible with a 2 year old? Or will I just fall back into the same pattern? This weekend I am committed to trying to get caught back up on life! I will let you know how it goes!
9 comments:
- Clare said...
good luck!! i love you, i know you can do it:)
- August 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Terra said...
Oh I wish you the best. I think I do that 4 times a year...I can't stay on track - something always gets in my way. Maybe you will manage and teach the rest of us a thing or two.
- August 28, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Chelle said...
I'm hoping this weekend is a success for you honey! I have faith that after the weekend you'll feel much better :)
- August 28, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- Lori said...
I hope you can work that out! Wouldn't a mom's weekend be lovely? My mom and her friends go away for the weekend every once in a while and I am jealous. However, she didn't do that when I was a kid, so I guess that gives me something to look forward to. :) Hope your weekend is replentishing!
- August 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- Heather's Hacienda said...
Oh I know you can do it!!!! You should go to your library and check out Sink Reflections by the FlyLady! She also has a website http://www.flylady.net
The website can be a little overwhelming. I use her technique and love it. I have made some changes to fit our lifestyle. It has helped me get out of the SAHM rut! Good Luck to ya this weekend! Can't wait to hear how it goes!
- August 28, 2009 at 5:39 PM
- Bonnie said...
Oh Lindsay, I feel your pain. It's especially hard when they are small. Try not to be too frustrated. It comes with the territory. I find it helpful to break it down in small jobs.. doing a little each day instead of all at once but that may not work for you. Hang in there and do something to reward yourself!
- August 30, 2009 at 6:23 AM
- Amanda said...
I know how you are feeling ~ I work 22.5 hours a week, that and looking after the 4 boys, there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day for anything else!
- August 30, 2009 at 7:48 AM
- Katie said...
You are doing a great job with everything. Try not to be too hard on yourself. And if you want to come have a coffee and scones break, call me. I will leave everything in the house just as it is--and then you can see that you're not as behind as some! :) Love you.
- August 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- Annmarie said...
Don't be a "Bina"! WE all LOVED her but not her housekeeping. Call me and I'll come and help sometime.
Kristine and I are professnionla "Shit-Shifters"!!
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My mom used the same area for her garden for about 25 years. Periodic major dumpings of horse manure alternating with cow manure. I've inherited the homestead. Can I expect the soil in her garden to still be okay or can it get "old" and "worn out"??
how good a producer was her garden over those 25 yrs.(that'll tell you something )Sounds like there should be a good top soil base from the manures she worked in , (did she keep notes on what /where she planted ...this would give you an idea where to start (crop rotation),could check ph of soil(horse manures tend to be acidic) but other than that you should be alright...sounds to me she did it right ....
Nice to hear from you.
Hope the weather is treating you well.
Stop around more often.
Elsie ./.
Just a little bit more snow than I like this year but nothing major , sorta' like the winters we used to get here !!! Hope all is well with you and family !!!!
We all are just fine. Just freezing here in Ohio. Was -7* to -14* F here this morning with out wind chill, if you can believe that. That is cold by anyone's standards, maybe not Larry's but that is cold here for Ohio. We have had a whole winter's of snow here in Ohio where we live. A whole season's worth and still have 60 more days of this stuff left.
Kids are fine, hubbie is fine and grand babies are just fine also. Oldest son in the Army now. Say a prayer for this young man. He has been stationed state side at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas Thank God, not over seas.. That is 1610 miles away from home and I miss them already.
Thanks for asking,
Elsie ./.
that's cold in anyones book and here I'm cussin' 19º ... Elsie it's a mothers right to miss their children ,especially when one joins the military and I'll certainly lift a prayer up for him !!! Tell that fine young man that an old vet is certainly proud and grateful for his service to his Country !!!!!!!! El Paso that's right on the the border (Juarez)tell him to stay on his toes ....
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I'll let Patrick know.
Elsie ./.
I checked the root cellar excavation site today to see if I could dig more dirt for my raised beds, but if was far too muddy still, as even though the bottom is gravel to give good drainage, the melting snow from the snow drifts left in the cavity made quite a quagmire!,,,,Now it's on forecast that we may get more snow, but still quite a while till spring planting when I need the rest of my raised beds filled and more of the tires for raised beds.
There's cause for concern using tires for borders due to leaching of zinc and other metals into the soil. It's OK for ornamentals but you don't want to grow edibles in them.
Just for some info for you.
Elsie ./.
most of the danger from the leaching is when the tires are shredded or at least cut, also the same can be said of treated wood, especially when the wood rots, to have a raised bed that will last you have to take some risk, and the tires as well as being free to me will break down slower and will be only used a few years each for edibles, then small trees or bushes, the best article I found on it said short term use as raised beds is fine for even veggies.


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Posted by Cindy on 11/05/2004
I read the previous reviews and was a little nervous about going since so many people had rude experiences. I got take out and everyone was very nice, a waiter even brought me a large cup of tea while I waited! I ordered Prawns with Seasonal Veg. and it was very good. There were not that many prawns but they were very large. I would recommend it.
Posted by Anonymous on 10/02/2004
The food is great -- very much like what I get in Hong Kong when I'm there. However, their low prices mean they are trying to make up on volume. Getting you in and out is of great importance to them. Their great prices are mostly as a result of them wanting to flip the tables as quickly as possible. For a romantic dinner, go elsewhere -- but for great food, go here.
Posted by Anonymous on 08/29/2004
Food is well prepared and tasty. But you get small portions of mediocre food, with unjustifiably high prices and poor service.
Posted by Anonymous on 08/13/2004
I was a regular and really enjoyed the food, but I got so tired of the bad service. The prices were great for what you got - authentic, fresh Cantonese food. My last straw though, was when I heard a female cursing and screaming at a patron to never come back to the restaurant. As a customer, when I saw another customer get treated like that, I couldn't help but wonder how valued I was, because who's to say that couldn't have been me she was screaming at? Yes, the food's good for the value but I'd rather pay a bit more and go somewhere kinder.
Posted by gastronaut on 02/13/2004
Phoenix Garden is the best Hong Kong Cantonese in NYC. I don't know what your experience has been but I have been a loyal customer of theirs for close to 20 years. Since the days of Chinatown. My children were practically raised on it and I am confident for many generations to come. Service albeit brisk was okay but the food is spectacular at these prices. Pepper Salty shrimp, Roast Squab, Peking Duck, and many seasonal specialties are my favorite.
Posted by Anonymous on 02/12/2004
The food is authentic, fresh and flavorful. The staff is efficient, even if they can't speak English. However, the management is not nice. They rush you, are condescending and do not acknowledge that they ever saw you before, whether you come twice in one week or once a month. So in other words, you don't feel like a valued customer - in fact, you feel like you're being granted a privilege to dine here. I was a regular customer and chose to overlook their attitudes because the food was good and it was right around the corner from my apt. One day though, they were so rude to a friend of mine that I had brought and I decided to boycott Phoenix Garden once and for all.
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I always enjoy listening to conservative/reactionary talk radio. Actually, I don't really enjoy it, but I think it is important to try and understand viewpoints that are different than mine for the most part. Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of damage, made people homeless, put people out of jobs whose businesses were destroyed, and otherwise caused devastation to people's lives. The costs of trying to restore some semblance of normality to the communities affected by the storm are staggering. Amazingly, there are reactionaries out there who don't think that the federal government should pick up a large share of the bill to do this.
I am from Brooklyn and Staten Island. I have several relatives who still live on Staten Island, and I am intimately familiar with the geography of the island. I have been stunned by the flooding and devastation. It defies my imagination. People who have paid taxes all their lives find themselves facing staggering costs of repair, to rebuilding their homes, to rebuilding their lives. We haven't heard yet how many people have temporarily or permanently lost their livelihoods, but we will and the numbers won't be pretty. Reactionary radio and their followers never fail to talk about the need for staying in Afghanistan, to spend money on weapons that the Defense Department says we don't need, to keep military bases open that the Pentagon says are obsolete, and more. But now there seems to be resistance to having the federal government contribute toward the cleanup costs of the storm. If I understand this thinking correctly, it's okay to spend money to rebuild countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, but our own citizens are leeches for asking for help, the same citizens that have paid for the these foreign commitments and unnecessary defense costs.
The Bush administration began the bailouts of the banks and auto manufacturers. As distasteful as it was, I supported it. Sometimes you have to do things that go against every fiber in you just because it means survival. The banks have shown their gratitude by their extremely conservative lending policies. Recall too that Rush Limbaugh defended the bonuses that some of the beneficiaries of taxpayer largess took for themselves. But somehow it is "liberalism" and "typical tax and spend" Democrats who are now under attack because the states that have suffered the most from the storm need help from the federal government. Something is very wrong with this kind of thinking. This shouldn't be a partisan issue; it should be an American issue where all of us support our fellow Americans who are desperately in need at the moment. To offer less goes against what once united us and made our country great.
Donald Trump has made a lot of money from commercial real estate ventures. I applaud him for it. That he is the son of a wealthy real estate developer who gave him a leg up should not be overlooked, and while that does not undermine Trump's success, it rounds out an understanding of an important component of how he achieved it. And with his success and vast wealth he has been able to acquire a media audience for his political views. Amazingly, Trump was even taken seriously for a while as a presidential candidate. It didn't last long the more he talked, and even respectable Republicans got chills every time he got in front of a microphone.
Last week, after much touting in the media, Trump delivered a major announcement. I thought that it was going to be something so monumental that all TV and radio broadcasts would be interrupted for it. It turns out that that The Donald wanted to put $5 million on the table for President Obama to direct to the charity(s) of his choice if he would make available his Columbia University and Harvard Law School grades, the sources of his tuition, and his State Department passport file. There was one caveat, though: all the documents would have to meet with Trump's personal satisfaction. When Obama released his long form birth certificate, Trump seemed satisfied, but then the reactionaries went to work with all sorts of unfounded assertions, and Trump withdrew his acceptance of the birth certificate. I guess anyone with a big checkbook could make similar offers to any public official they have their sights on, which would accomplish nothing.
Now if Trump was really fair and balanced he would make a similar charitable offer to Romney. It would include Romney's Selective Service records, his tax returns, undergraduate and law school grades, and documentation of who paid for his tuition. So a fair question to Trump is why the information he seeks from Obama really matters? Is it because he is trying to show that Obama is a beneficiary of affirmative action? That Obama was given his grades and admitted to the Harvard Law Review, not on merit, but because of his race? Is he suggesting that Obama's tuition was paid for by a clandestine foreign power that had a crystal ball to know that one day he would run for president of the United States? How far does this nonsense go? I wonder where Trump was to challenge Clarence Thomas' qualifications since Thomas admits that he was a product of affirmative action. I don't recall Trump asking for Thomas' grades, source of his tuition, or proof of his very heartfelt story of growing up in poverty in Pin Point, GA. Could it be that Thomas' ideology lines up with Trump's so it wasn't important?
Trump is a graduate of New York Military Academy, but despite being in the draft mix during Vietnam he never served his country in uniform. I would ask him to produce his Selective Service records to see what deferments he took advantage of. But a bigger and more important question of this great benefactor is this: why don't you just donate the $5 million, chump change to you, to the Sheppard Spinal Center's program in treating severe head and spinal injuries of wounded veterans? This generous contribution would fund the program for five years. That at least would do some immediate good and perhaps assuage his conscience, if he has one, for ducking military service during Vietnam. Until I see his Selective Service records I have no reason to believe that he was nothing but a loud mouth, self-serving patriot who somehow bought his way out of service. I don't need any more proof for that statement than he seems to need for his.
The MDJ published an editorial from The Macon Telegraph on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, about "Renewing Licenses…and the law of unintended consequences." The day before I received in the mail my annual business license renewal form. The new Georgia Immigration Reform Act requires that anyone holding a professional license must prove that they are an American citizen each time the license is renewed. I say again---not once---but each time the license comes up for renewal. And that also includes the required annual county business license. Needless to say, this has resulted in a huge backlog in the Georgia Secretary of State's office, where professional licenses are processed. Considering that the governor has ordered each state agency to cut their budgets and personnel, this has caused a lot of people some heartburn. What used to take a matter of days to a week or so can now take months. In the meanwhile new applicants cannot practice their profession, whether it is to cut hair, massage therapy, or any one of a long list of occupations that the state licenses. This really helps the economy. The Cobb County business license renewal paperwork has to be submitted this year by November 22nd to ensure that it will be processed in time to get your license by January 1, 2013. In past years you could complete the process in a matter of days before the end of the year with no problem.
We've heard from Republicans on the national and state level for years proclaim that excess regulation is killing small businesses. I'm not sure what regulations they are referring to because they never really say. If it's the burden of the tax code, I wonder when they plan to do more than talk about it and actually pull together and pass serious tax reform legislation. Perhaps they should consider this immigration law as an example of the wasted time, which means money, that will be spent after proving once that you are legally here in the U.S. What is the logic behind this requirement? I asked two of our elected officials last year who voted for the law, both Republicans, the "why" question. You'll never guess what they said, and you can't make this stuff up: they hadn't read the bill in the detail that might have alerted them to it. I suspect that there will be any number of current small business people and those about to go into business for themselves that will operate under the radar rather than comply with this unnecessary nuisance.
As a final point related to this topic, does anyone remember that the Cobb County commission quietly passed an increase in the business license fees last year? I never saw a word about it in the MDJ. I found out when I got my bill. And I thought that Republicans also supported no tax hikes because it hurt small businesses. My point is that the Democrats (I am not a Democrat) get bashed for tax hikes and increased regulation, but here are two egregious examples of Republicans talking out of both sides of their mouths.
During the vice presidential debate "Jumpin' Joe" Biden said that neither he nor the White House knew that the consulate in Benghazi had requested increased security. The State Department did not notify the top chief executives of the request for reasons that we don't know. I won't second guess the State Department because I don't know what they knew. What we do know is that the State Department had requested upwards of $300 million for increased security for its embassies. The Republican congress said no, a vote that included Paul Ryan's. I am going to wait out the results of the several investigations looking into what occurred before concluding that the State Department's security section got it wrong in how they prioritized which embassies and consulates got what. As for not notifying the White House of the request for a security augmentation, I can only wonder how many "emergency" requests are submitted daily from the Defense Department, Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and other agencies that deal directly with national security, and what the protocols are for kicking them up to the president. Limited budgets cause organizations to do triage, something that shouldn't happen but does in these times of tight money, and where a large segment of our population doesn't want to pay for the services that they want and expect.
I agree with Obama's critics that the first reports about Benghazi concerning the video were wrong. But after that I go in a different direction. Intelligence gathering is both an art and science. We all know some of the incredible technology that our spy agencies use, but sorting through the voluminous information takes people and time. And we also know that HUMINT (human intelligence) is still as important as all the gadgetry. That too takes time to gather and process. There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle, a lot of moving parts.
I think it is fair to put the Benghazi intelligence failure in perspective. Intelligence failures in the this country are historic ranging from completely missing the North Korean attack on South Korea on June 25, 1950, to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Considering the untold dollar amount that is poured into intelligence gathering and spy craft, it's hard to believe that things like this could happen, but they did and still do. How about the information that was known before 9/11/2001 that some of the terrorists were taking flying lessons but only wanted training in takeoffs? The schools reported this well before that black day, but somehow it fell through the cracks. The Tet offensive caught us by surprise. Anyone recall the great intelligence failure that led to the Iraq war? The two human sources in that fiasco, Ahmed Chalabi and the German source, Curveball, were both frauds and suspected of lying well before the March 2003 invasion. Our spy satellites, which had completely saturated the land mass of Iraq didn't pick up any evidence of nuclear weapons or their transfer to another country. President Bush later admitted that there was no WMD---this after a few thousand American lives were lost, many more permanently injured, and countless Iraqis killed.
I am not making light of what happened in Benghazi. I am making light of much of the politicized attacks on Obama for it, especially when you put it in perspective of far more serious intelligence failures that have had much larger consequences. I can only wonder if a Romney-Ryan administration would have done things differently with the same budgetary constraints, if they would have been more prescient and able to avoid what happened. Perhaps so, but the historical record of intelligence failures certainly makes it a fair, non-partisan question.
Something has changed over the past few presidencies. The current occupier of the White House seems to be held to a higher standard geared toward a militant response when it comes to foreign policy. This despite Obama being the only candidate in 2008 who said that he would violate the sovereignty of other countries to pursue terrorists wherever they can be tracked down and killed. His record of achieving by far and away more kills in four years than his predecessor is beyond dispute. It is also well known that Ronald Reagan did absolutely nothing when terrorists killed 240 marines in Lebanon. Nothing. Then there is the USS COLE. This U.S. Navy warship was badly damaged with concomitant loss of life by terrorists on October 12, 2000. Clinton was still president at the time, but it wasn't until late December that the CIA tentatively identified al-Qaeda as the author of the bombing. More conclusive evidence came in shortly after Bush was sworn in as president on January 20, 2001. In June 2001, Osama Bin Laden released a tape bragging that he was behind the attack. I am unaware of one single response that the Bush administration took against al Qaeda or OBL between his inauguration and shortly after 911. And I don't recall Bush facing the harsh criticism that Obama has met with concerning the embassy attacks. I gave Bush the benefit of the doubt at the time thinking that maybe he was doing something behind the scenes. If he was it is still a very well kept secret. Times change.
Then there was last week's remark by Mitt Romney about the 47 percenters who receive government benefits. It has been fun to watch all the explanations on talk radio defending what Romney "really meant", as though they could take his words and divine from them an intent that wasn't articulated. Romney would have been a little bit more honest if he had included other forms of government largess that would probably bump up the percentage considerably. Government loan guarantees given to banks where heads they win and tales you lose, are common. For starters they include FHA, VA, and SBA loans. Let's not leave out government subsidized flood insurance and farm subsidies. Then, of course, are the tax loopholes that allow the wealthy to take advantage of code provisions that their friendly Washington representatives vote into law for them. Would I be cynical if I suggested that their whopping contributions and PAC money didn't have any effect on these representatives? One letter writer and blogger attacked Obama for the 360% increase in Tricare, which benefits military families and retirees. What she left out is that the annual cost for Tricare for a family was set in 1995 at $460/year. It will go up on October 1, 2012 to $538.56/year. That doesn't include deductables and co-pays, which everyone pays, including Medicare recipients. The cost will continue to escalate on a scale with the cost of living. It is also worth noting that the increased cost was pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by both houses and signed into law by the president. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pushed for the law stating that the medical costs for retirees was taking up much larger portions of the defense budget to the detriment of our fighting capabilities. Gates is a Republican. In a time of deep recession where everyone has to have an oar in the water, Gates got it right.
And speaking of our elected representatives in Washington, many readers have seen the internet claim that they receive lifetime pensions, lifetime healthcare, and other benefits after serving just one term. This is false. They don't. But here is some of the rest of the story. Our representatives/senators created the current federal employee retirement law in 1984. It allows for a representative to receive a retirement annuity and subsidized healthcare based on years of total government service. But, and here is the big but, our representatives voted to include themselves in the much better retirement plan afforded to federal law enforcement officers. Federal law enforcement officers are provided a larger annuity because they must retire no later than age 57, and because of the special demands and nature of the job. I guess our representatives concluded that facing constituents who may have tough questions is the functional equivalent of what federal law enforcement officers face. I wonder if Romney included them in his 47 %.
This was a difficult week for the United States in the Middle East, North Africa, and other parts of the world. It's too early to know what lies ahead. And it's too early to form hasty opinions about President Obama's foreign policies. Yet that hasn't stopped the armchair pundits and those who think that some sort of military solution is always the answer to any overseas problem. Candidate Mitt Romney thought he saw an opening to call Obama weak and inexperienced; if anything, it was Romney who proved to be tough on talk and inexperienced. We only hear generalities and sound bytes about Obama being in over his head, but Romney won't share with us what he would do differently that would make the world a nice place to live, work and play together. It's kind of like Nixon's 1968 campaign promise of trusting him to end the war in Vietnam with his secret plan that he wouldn't disclose. Turned out his secret plan only prolonged the war for the U.S. for another four years.
Romney was asked in 2008 if he would violate the sovereignty of other countries to pursue terrorists. He said no. Obama was asked the same question; he said yes. Promise made, promise kept. Contrary to all the right wing radio propaganda and Romney's ratification of same that Obama has apologized to other countries for past U.S. policies or actions, it is not true. Obama has acknowledged that the U.S. has been wrong at times, but that is hardly an apology. It is merely an acknowledgement that we are human too, that we make mistakes. This is not unlike admitting to someone, perhaps a loved one, that you may have used bad judgment in a given situation, but that falls far short of an apology---it is pleading guilty with an explanation. And what is wrong with admitting when you are wrong? Where was the outcry when George Bush apologized, yes apologized, for Abu Ghraib? Bush did the right thing, and from the silence on the Right at the time, I suspect that they approved of the apology. Amazing how many on the Right will argue that we are a Christian nation, but when it comes to practicing Christian values, especially when it involves people who live somewhere else and are different from us, that it is okay to choose which values to suspend. Apologizing or admitting you are wrong when you are is to demonstrate moral virtue, confidence, and strength. And it does not undermine our strength as a country; I would argue that it makes us stronger and more respected. (I am not talking about apologizing to terrorists yesterday, today, tomorrow, or forever---eliminating them is the right generic policy; how we do it is a different matter.)
It is absurd to think that Obama's pulling the plug on Hosni Mubarak has somehow weakened our hand in the Middle East. Mubarak was the poster child for corruption. The unemployment rate for the young working force and disparity of income, things Mubarak had a lot to do with, is what drove the populace to rebel. If we had supported Mubarak against the tidal wave of his own people's anger, I think a case can be made that things would be even worse. Recall too that most Republicans wanted the United States to actively support the rebels in Libya. We did and our involvement proved decisive. But terrorist attacks against the U.S. can happen anywhere including Europe and right in our own backyard.
The MDJ recently opined that the Left is suddenly eager to jettison the First Amendment protections of those who do not share their politics, with reference to the moviemaker who may have been responsible for the turmoil in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet the Right condemned the Supreme Court for upholding the fringe Christian group that peacefully protested military funerals with their hate filled rants. I am glad to live in America where one can make despicable political or religious statements, and where others can just as justifiably respond in kind. More speech is always better to the alternative of violence.
I recall that the Right was all about unity during the very divisive Iraq war. Anyone who disagreed with our policies there was labeled with every treasonous slogan imaginable. But it's okay when we need to stand as one nation to combat terrorism and stand behind our commander-in-Chief, to undermine his efforts with bitter calumnies as though the defamers have the silver bullet solution. If Romney has the silver bullet to create world peace and to create 12 million jobs, it's time to tell the American people and make his case. To quote Ronald Reagan, "Trust, but verify."
The presidential nominating conventions are over, and from what one political pundit has said, there are only about 967,000 votes up for grabs that are spread out in about a half dozen swing states. There is a great divide between the two parties that makes this election much easier to choose from. It is interesting to see how the Republican Party has evolved since Eisenhower was president. I doubt that any modern day conservative Republican would vote for IKE in a primary today. And if Ronald Reagan ran for president today under a different name but exactly the same political history and record, he wouldn't have much chance either. Eisenhower understood power, and he understood the abuses and dangers of power. That included his caution in not using nuclear weapons in Korea, not expanding the war there, not getting involved in Vietnam beyond a handful of advisers, and not triggering a war with the Soviets over Hungary. Eisenhower also advocated for an open skies policy with the Soviets where we would have mutual reconnaissance flyovers to ensure compliance with an arms limitation treaty. He had a long term vision that in the end I doubt few would dispute that we were better off for his hand at the helm for eight years.
Ronald Reagan raised taxes numerous times as governor of California. Before Roe vs. Wade he signed into law the most liberal abortion law in the country. As president he is remembered for lowering taxes and forgotten for his tax hikes. He is also largely forgotten for creating the largest deficits up until Bush II and Obama. Some economists believe that Reagan's deficit spending was a big reason for getting us out of the recession that he inherited, that his deficits contributed to lowering unemployment. Reagan also did nothing when over 240 marines were killed in a terrorist attack in Lebanon. How much of that would fly in today's Republican Party?
Obviously this forum is not the place for a detailed record analysis of either president. In my opinion both were very good presidents, and I voted for Reagan both times. But considering the total allegiance to the Republican Party's platform today that is commanded of all Republican candidates for office, it makes sense why Romney and Ryan have tacked so hard to the right, why they publicly ignore where they have strayed from the platform in the past. At one time I was pretty confident that Romney would win the November election. Today, barring the unforeseen and all things being equal, I wouldn't bet on it. Rather than post blogs challenging me on this, I would suggest that we wait until after the election to do a post mortem. I maintain that Eisenhower and Reagan had it right, that they had the pulse of the American people, and in Reagan's case, the reality of his presidency is very different from the mythological one. And in spite of the reality he had a successful tenure in the White House.
On a totally different note, I would like to recognize the passing of Otis Brumby. I don't claim to have known him well, but I am honored that I had several private meetings with him in his office, phone conversations, and other communications. I was very honored and touched when he introduced me as his friend to John McCain in 2007. It is probably fair to say, though, that we had less in common politically, but on some of the important issues in our community we often found common ground. The man was unfailingly gracious in person. Some years ago when we had very strong disagreement on a matter of local public interest, he allowed me to meet with him to argue my side and to present evidence to support it. Afterwards, I asked him if I could have 500 words to respond to his past editorials on the subject. He replied that I should take a thousand words. Facts, logic, reason, and evidence could persuade him---not always, but often enough to convince me that he tried to get it right, that he was intellectually honest. I will miss his closing words after each conversation, "Come by anytime and let's have a cup of coffee. You are always welcome." Otis Brumby could leave this world secure in the knowledge that he made a positive difference in the community he lived and served, and made it better than when he arrived a long time ago.
It's remarkable that Obama has been attacked for almost four years for making a number of promises that anyone should understand were aspirational and dependent on Congress or other factors to be fulfilled. The Republicans have had a field day with Obama's promise of "Hope and Change." I guess they think that it has a very definite meaning, that there is only one measure that determines if we have experienced it. If the voters decide that Romney's promises of creating 12 million jobs and balancing the budget by 2020 is realistic, they should vote for him. (Ryan's budget plan calls for a much longer period of time to get it into balance.) Romney has also promised to increase defense spending, restore the Bush tax cuts and add his own, and cut a myriad of regulations. Absent from all these promises is any roadmap that a voter can examine to determine if these plans will lead to prosperity or take us over the cliff. But believing on faith is very powerful. I wonder if Romney has factored into his calculations the costs that Obama inherited from Bush, and which Romney would inherit in turn from Obama: two unfunded wars, VA care for the next 60 plus years that will exceed twelve figures, and Medicare Part D. The CBO says Medicare Part D will cost more over ten years than ObamaCare, TARP, and the stimulus package combined. But not a peep from the Republicans to repeal Medicare D. Maybe it's because they gave birth to it.
Another issue that Romney would have to face is how to pay for his promised increases to the Defense Department while cutting taxes. Of interest is that DOD requested another BRAC (Base Realignment and Closing) commission earlier this year. It was defeated in both Houses by Republicans and Democrats. The reason is that they fear the number of jobs that would be lost in the communities that the elected officials represent. The Democrats have not shied away from arguing that the government needs to spend more to create jobs, while the Republicans have countered that these are nothing more than a giveaway programs with taxpayer money. I won't argue with the Republican logic, but it is an argument papered in obfuscation. DOD has expressed the need to close bases to save money, and that if it can't close the bases, the money that goes to support them will be taken from needed research and development and other programs directly related to our national defense. But the Republicans defend their position with disingenuous claims while wrapped in the red, white and blue. When Obama pleaded for approval of his jobs bill to rebuild infrastructure, something we need and which would employ countless engineers, architects, construction workers, and a myriad of other skilled and unskilled laborers, that was called a welfare program. I stand with the people who probably know what's best: Leon Panetta and the joint chiefs. I also stand with Obama and his jobs bill that would put money into the economy, ensure that technical skills are maintained, and put money back into the economy, which would create taxpayers and new jobs.


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John LaRocca talks Roland Alexander
Wednesday, 06 November 2013 15:05
By John LaRocca
Yesterday morning, Roland Alexander passed away. Roland was the owner of All Pro Wrestling and the Boot Camp training school. He is famous for appearing in the documentary Beyond The Mat. I knew Roland simply as a friend. I met Roland back in January of 1997. I was invited to come check out a "Gym Wars" show by an APW wrestler named Mike Lockwood aka Crash Holly later in the WWE. After attending APW Gym Wars on a monthly basis and sitting in the front row cheering on the APW workers, Roland invited me and Gabe Ramirez to be apart of APW as volunteers to help with video tape dubbing for their video orders. In turn, he would teach us about the business.
Years later, I would go from doing color commentary at live events and DVD's, to pro wrestling manager to the booker of APW. My time as booker for APW from March of 2008 to June 2012, I will cherish forever. As Roland's booker, I worked with him closely. We would talk nearly every night. With Roland, you never had a quick conversation with him. Average time on the phone with Roland would literally be one hour. At the start I would run my ideas for the shows through Roland. He quickly told me that he wanted me to do my own thing and learn from whatever mistakes that I would make. I will never forget that. You can't learn if you don't make a few mistakes and Roland letting me do my own thing with the APW book, I don't think I would have become the booker I am today.
About a year into booking APW, I was in the main office with Roland at the famous APW "Garage" in Hayward, CA. I was just looking over the booking sheet one last time. I usually printed a few copies and I always made a copy for Roland. I went to give Roland his copy and he said he didn't want to see it. He said he wanted to watch the show and mark out because he loved my booking. One of the greatest compliments that I ever got from him.
Roland could be tough on people. But, that was because he wanted his students of the APW Boot Camp training school to reach their full potential. Roland was a stickler with fundamentals and if you sucked at something, he told you. He got heat because it took two years to graduate the APW Boot Camp. A lot of students would get frustrated about this, but in reality Roland wanted them to be their best when they made their pro wrestling debut. He took pride when an APW graduate would have his or her first match that they would look like they have been wrestling for at least a year.
Roland grew up watching Roy Shire's San Francisco territory. He loved to tell stories of Roy Shire's booking, Ray Steven's wrestling (his favorite of all time), Pat Patterson, Kenji Shibuya, and Lonnie Mayne. That is what Roland felt was how a wrestling company should be run and booked. Like Roy Shire, Roland was very detail oriented. He beat this into my head ever since I met him.
Roland truly had a heart of gold. He would always make up with his bitter enemies because he truly believed life was short. I have seen him countless of times invite people back to APW who have screwed him over more then just once. Roland would always make sure someone picked up a volunteer, student and even wrestling fans at the Hayward BART station so they can make a Gym Wars show. Jason Ke is a long time APW fan and is in a wheel chair. Transportation to make it to Gym Wars was tough, but Roland would either have someone pick him up at BART or coordinate with other APW fans to drive him to the shows.
Roland truly was a Northern California Wrestling icon. To many of us he was bigger then life. All the boys would ask Roland his opinions of his matches and his approval meant the world to him. If he said you had a good match, he told you. If it sucked, he told you. If it did suck, he would give his wisdom of what you did wrong and how you should have done it. That was Roland, always willing to teach the business he loved the most, pro wrestling.
Roland, Thank you for everything you did for me. Thank you for opening up your knowledge for me.
I love you,
John LaRocca
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Sep 9, 2009 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman
The end of film for TV production?
Since high-end digital camera packages are mostly more expensive than film packages and have other costs associated with wrangling data, is there any way to quantify or illustrate the cost savings over traditional 35mm projects?
Devlin: Think of it this way, in terms of making dailies. If you shoot film, you transfer them, get them onto DVD, store them, get them ready for editorial, and that can add up to roughly $20,000 or $30,000 a day. If you want to do a digital interpositive on a 2-hour movie, that can cost you roughly $250,000. We save on all that, plus less manpower trying to get data from one place to another, and we've brought the whole post chain inhouse, so there are obviously big cost reductions. We had a movie of the week originally budgeted for $7.5 million, and we made it for $1.4 million. Our regular TV episodes cost roughly $1.8 million per episode, and I would argue that doing the same show traditionally for a network would come in around $3 million an episode.
Tilson: [Shooting digital] can definitely be less expensive if you know what you are doing simply because it is less expensive to shoot and process. It could be more expensive if you go hog wild and shoot way more footage than you need, increasing man hours in post to cull through dailies and cut the show down. But we went and saw the setup Dean Devlin has [for Leverage], and I do have to say, I think studios are probably eyeing that as a modelto essentially have an all-in-one post house and do everything in one place, largely because they view it as a way to be more cost-efficient, especially now that the cost of hardware is coming down to make it viable. They have their own mix stage, too. We haven't gone that far, largely because we have such an excellent audio facility here at Universal, but obviously, they are showing that it can be done relatively inexpensively. So as we move toward digital capture and these new models, I'd expect the implications for the postproduction industry could be hugeassembling everything right on the stage, automating more steps. I think that is probably the direction the industry will move in.
But what about the issue of archiving data and future-proofing it? Many film advocates say film remains the best available archival medium, especially for television. Doesn't it remain risky to leave all those shows on tape or in the digital realm indefinitely?
Devlin: Try to find a good print of Jaws. We did things forever on film, and film fades. Basically, digital material will be as good, and live as long as people who are managing that data are careful. If you are reckless, or careless, then yes, it can easily be destroyed. But if you follow normal precautions with data, as they do in other businesses, like the banking industry, you can maintain it. It is really about how diligent you are in protecting your digital assets.
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