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The battle over prayers at Greece town meetings made its way to the Supreme Court but just months after the prayers were allowed by justices, restrictions about who can say the prayers has some atheists upset.
They are calling it a slap in the face. The new guidelines have non-believers up in arms. They tell News10NBC it's because there was an understanding in place that everyone could have a chance to open meetings. Now, atheists feel they're back to being excluded.
"I feel deceived." Atheist Dan Courtney says he won't be able to give the opening prayer or speech in Town Hall meetings like he did back in July. "I think we've all been lied to. They said they would be inclusive and they're not being inclusive." They -- meaning the Town of Greece.
The town just revamped its policy on who can give invocations. The new guidelines say those who sign up to speak must represent a non-profit located in Greece, one where people meet to share religious perspectives.
This comes a few months after the Supreme Court upheld the Town's right to do so as long as non-believers are still welcome to open the meetings. Courtney said, "They're clearly backtracking on what they offer the Supreme Court and I think it's completely disingenuous."
The town attorney wouldn't sit down with us but he gave us a statement saying, "The administration has received a large number of requests to offer invocations from individuals outside the Town of Greece and outside the State of New York. It is our desire to focus our efforts on serving the residents of the Town of Greece and, with this policy in place, we are hopeful that we can return to the business of the Town."
Meanwhile, Courtney says he'll continue to fight to be treated equally.
We asked the town attorney if people involved in local atheist groups would qualify to do the invocation. He told us he wasn't discussing hypothetical situations.
The town says it will decide who gets to speak on a case by case basis.
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To honor a lost son, tougher DWI laws
After his son was killed by a drunken driver, Michael Partipilo channeled his grief into action.
He fought for tougher laws and penalties for driving drunk. He succeeded a year ago in getting one bill signed, and there are three others for which he continues to lobby.
"For someone who had been though all that he had, this man wants to see what he could do to prevent another father from losing his son," said Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor Nicholas Sewitch.
Partipilo and his wife, Corazon, collaborated with their son's friends to create Mikey's MVPs, a program of student volunteers who meet weekly and help children at St. Francis Cabrini School in Piscataway.
A few weeks ago the Partipilos marched with Mothers Against Drunk Driving in a Woodbridge parade -- even while Michael Partipilo was recovering from knee surgery.
During a recent trip to see family in Chicago, Partipilo also made it a point to meet with executives from the White Sox to discuss staging a MADD event at the baseball champions' stadium next season.
Partipilo said does not want any praise for his actions.
"Don't focus on me," he said in a recent interview. "Write about my son."
Seventeen-year-old Michael Jr. was an honor student at St. Joseph's High School in Metuchen, where he was on the debate team, and the math team and was a member of the campus ministry as well as the school newspaper and literary magazine.
On March 12, 2004, he went out to get a video just a few miles from his house in Piscataway. His Toyota 4Runner was struck by a full-size van operated by a drunken man convicted four previous times for driving while intoxicated.
"You never get over it," the father says.
Maria Esteves, coordinator of the Union-Middlesex MADD chapter, said the activism became an outlet for Partipilo as he struggles to deal with his son's death.
"That's helping him. He doesn't want Michael to be forgotten," she said.
Sewitch prosecuted Edison resident Philip Gonzalez for Michael Jr.'s death. Gonzalez pleaded guilty and was sentenced in June to 16 years in jail.
Sewitch said Partipilo stands apart from the other grieving people he has met as head of the prosecutor's fatal-accident investigation unit.
"Early on, he had a commitment way beyond his own needs. It seemed to me he wanted to take care of other people," Sewitch said.
Soon after his son's death, Partipilo contacted state Sen. Barbara Buono, enlisting her help on a series of drunken-driving law reforms. Buono sponsored the four bills Partipilo helped to write. She said the Partipilos are "the kindest and gentlest people."
Last Dec. 30, acting Gov. Richard Codey signed one of the bills into law. It makes certain that a drunken driver's entire driving record is given to judges for review before they pass sentences in hit-and-runs or in cases where the driver is on the revoked-license list.
As the Partipilo family and many of son's friends watched, the governor said: "No law will ever bring Michael back. But hopefully we will protect other innocent lives, so children do make it home safe."
The other bills are aimed at keeping closer track of people convicted of drunken-driving offenses and increasing penalties for repeat offenders and those who continue driving after licenses are revoked for driving while intoxicated.
One bill triples the minimum prison term to 30 days for refusing a breathalyzer test while driving on a suspended license. The measure passed in the Senate but has been held up in the Assembly appropriations committee.
Another bill eliminates the "step-down" provision that allows drunken drivers to be sentenced as first-time offenders if 10 years have lapsed since their previous DWI conviction. That bill has been approved by the Senate and is awaiting action by the full Assembly.
The final measure increases the minimum time offenders spend at Intoxicated Driver Resource Centers to 24 hours over four consecutive days. The minimum is now 12 hours over two consecutive days. The bill has been referred to committee.
Partipilo has worked with Buono to lobby for the bills' passage. Twice he accompanied Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan to the Statehouse. They testified at subcommittee hearings, urging lawmakers to support the bills.
Buono said she intends to submit the bills again when the Legislature reconvenes in 2006. Partipilo plans to continue lobbying for their passage and he hopes to meet with Gov. Jon Corzine soon after Corzine is inaugurated.
Partipilo said: "I'm going to keep at it until they pass these things. If I can save another life, it's worth it."
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With the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina less than a month away, a new poll from PPP finds President Obama leading by three points in the state. From PPP:
PPP's newest North Carolina poll continues to find an extremely close race for President in the state, with Barack Obama at 49% to 46% for Mitt Romney. PPP started monthly polling of this contest in November of 2010 and Obama and Romney have now been within 3 points of each 21 of the last 22 months.
North Carolina voters aren't thrilled with the job Obama's doing- 48% approve and 49% disapprove. But they continue to have pretty tepid feelings toward Romney with only 42% of voters rating him favorably to 50% who have a negative opinion of him.
There's an enormous gender gap in North Carolina with Obama leading 57-38 among women, but trailing 56-40 with men. Romney has a 48-44 lead with independents but Democrats can lose by that margin with independents and still win overall in North Carolina as long as they keep their party base in check and for now Obama's doing that, taking 82% of the Democratic vote. Obama's up 91-7 with African American voters- any thought that his position on gay marriage would hurt him on that front can be cast aside. And he's only down 58-38 with white voters- if he can stay in that mid to upper 30s range with white voters it will probably be enough to put him over the top.
Despite this poll I still find it hard to believe Obama will carry the state this November. The Real Clear Politics polling average of what limited polling there has been of the state has Romney up by one.
Obama only barely won the state by less than half a percentage point in 2008. Of all the states he won in 2008, it was the closest, and no one thinks he will be riding nearly as big a national wave as he did last time. In addition the state Democratic party is having some serious problems.
That said the polling is tight enough that it is clear Romney is going to need to work hard to win the state. Every minute and dollar Romney spends trying to keep what was once a solid Republican state is likely a net positive for the Obama team. Obama can easily win re-election without North Carolina but it would be hard for Romney to beat him without it.


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If you want to see the forest through the trees, you have to first see the "bushes"! GM Melikset Khachiyan continues his discussion of short, simple calculations, or "bushes" of analysis. By examining some highly tactical historical games of Alekhine, he shows how it doesn't take long to go two or three moves deep for several candidate moves. You'll find the right path faster by calculating the same way - watch and learn the grandmaster technique. | Watch video
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One of the modern styles we see today is adding reflections to our media to make it look like it's sitting on a glossy surface. What's wild is that the movie will even reflect as it plays. What's best is that it's easy to do. Click on your video and then go up to the Video Tools Format tab and then click on the Video Effects button and hold your cursor over Reflection. A gallery of presets appears. The reflection variations work from shallow to deep as you move from left to right. The shallow reflections are short and pale while the deeper ones fade further away.
From top to bottom, the reflections start right up next to your media clip or start with a gap further away. I'm going to choose the Tight Reflection, 4pt offset, the first icon on the second row. Once you've chosen the starting point, go up to Video Effects, back down to Reflection, and choose Reflection Options at the bottom. The Format Video dialog box opens and we're here on the Reflection section on the left. I'm going to move the dialog box out of our way.
The top button has the same presets we saw under the video effects button. The first slider is for Transparency. If I pull it to the left, the reflection darkens and becomes opaque. If you move it all the way to the right, the shadow all but disappears. I'm going to put it right around 35%. The second slider is for the size of the reflection. The percentage is what portion of the image will be reflected below. If it's very small, it will fade quickly and if it's very large, you may not see the end at all.
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Jonathan Lethem's seventh novel, "You Don't Love Me Yet," is a parable of sorts about the ways in which art is created and commodified by a process of borrowing, stealing and transformation. Set in Los Angeles, the novel concerns four indie rock musicians closer to their 30th birthdays than they are to success. The fetching bass player, Lucinda, strikes up a friendship with an anonymous caller to her day job, a complaint line funded by an art gallery. The man, appropriately dubbed the Complainer, happens to have a genius for words. Lucinda passes the Complainer's musings on to Bedwin, the band's lyricist, who transforms them into songs that finally get the band some attention. Things get tricky when the Complainer demands a different sort of compensation for his work: Rather than cash payment, he wants to join the band.
Last week, Lethem, author of the best-selling "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude," proposed an equally inventive, though much more generous, approach to releasing the film rights to his novel. On his Web site, he offered an option on the film rights free to the filmmaker who presents him with the best proposal by May 15. In return, the filmmaker will agree to pay Lethem 2 percent of the film's budget when the film receives a distribution deal, and allow the rights to the novel to return to the public domain — for the free use of anyone, including other filmmakers — within five years of the film's release.
Lethem also wrote an essay for the February issue of Harper's called "The Ecstasy of Influence," in which he argues for a new approach to copyright law, based on the recognition that "appropriation, mimicry, quotation, allusion and sublimated collaboration consist of a kind of sine qua non of the creative act." It's based on the recognition that all works of art are, in a sense, a collaboration between artists and the culture at large. I spoke to Lethem about the copyright theme in his new novel and essay at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"You Don't Love Me Yet" is about low-rent indie musicians with day jobs. Musicians like that often have little or no label support behind them and find themselves on a perpetual tour wagon, earning most of their cash through selling T-shirts — that is, selling the byproducts of their lovely songs. When I jump on my pro-copyright horse, I have to say these musicians may be wrecking their personal relationships by touring all the time, and then when they enter their elderly years, which for an indie band may be their 30s…
Yes, yes, they have no intellectual property to help them out in the old age home. The first thing I want to say is that it's entirely a fiction of what I'll call, for the sake of this argument, the opposition — corporate, copyright absolutists — that to question the present privatization craze in any way is to vote for some anarchic abolition of copyright.
I make my living by licensing my copyright. Everything I've tried to say, in the Harper's essay and elsewhere, is that there is an enormous middle ground. It becomes one of those issues like, "If you don't favor wiretapping in the U.S., you must be for the terrorists." What I'm seeking to explore is that incredibly fertile middle ground where people control some rights and gain meaningful benefits from those controls, and yet contribute to a healthy public domain and systematically relinquish, or have relinquished for them, meaningless controls on culture that impoverish the public domain.
Having said that, there's no simple description. There's an enormously intricate series of judgments, given technological variations and the differences between different mediums. There's no simple standard to apply. It's a matter of understanding the needs of a healthy public domain and a healthy creative incentive in every field in deep and intricate specifics.
But I will say this: Problems of artists, musicians, writers, anyone getting paid for doing their most free and creative and independent kind of work, are not new ones. The present realm of corporate-instigated maximization of the intellectual property concept doesn't seem to have kept indie bands from touring.
I'm a very lucky artist. I make my living from it. I didn't know if I ever would. I'm very persuaded by the image that Lewis Hyde offers of an artist who is, by definition, in whatever medium, or whatever level of success or whatever culture, in the practice of culture-making; participating in culture by making stuff is inherently a gift transaction and a commodity transaction. And it always will be. The question is how do we affirm and clarify this relationship? Because it's a very weird one — making commodities that are also gifts.
Presumably one is in a better position to make gifts of one's work later in one's career.
Ironically, yes! I'm in a better position than I was before. But the truth is, the agitation for it is mostly left to artists at the outset of their careers, or artists who have discovered the futility or frustration of hoping to make a living. It's left to people who are mostly doing it as a kind of volunteer impulse from the margins.
We've seen in our recent lifetimes examples of people making some pretty commercially viable work who had the legs knocked out from under them, like Hank Shocklee of Public Enemy, almost the inventor of a new musical language, who saw it essentially outlawed — or made so impossible through the application of licensing laws that it might as well have become outlaw art. I feel that artists can't stand by and watch that happen in good faith.
I do speak from a weirdly princely position. I don't mean that in terms of my personal finances, which go up and down. I mean that in terms of a novelist being largely immune to these issues. I've expressed irritation when I've tried to quote a Brian Wilson lyric in a novel and it turned out that I couldn't afford to do it. Or when some copy editor goes and systematically capitalizes the word "band-aid" in my pages, and it seems to me objectionable, because I've used it, and my characters have used it, as a noun. It just is. I'm sorry, but that word has become a noun.
But the truth is, I could write a whole book detailing the plot of a "Simpsons" episode, describing Homer's yellow skin and protuberant eyes, and no one would ever be able to block my choice as an artist there, or make it too expensive for me to do it. But if a visual artist or a filmmaker or a digital montage maker tried to capture that image, which is just part of a visual language that is floating around, they don't have my freedom.
What if you were to transcribe the script from the episode? Wouldn't that be the equivalent of taking the language without alteration?
You'd probably reach an aesthetic point of diminishing returns before you'd get anyone excited about your copyright violation. But the point is: Are any of these things rivalrous with an episode of "The Simpsons" on television? Probably not. Why have we gotten so mystical about certain corporate holdings, which is what we are really talking about. Or certain business models? People speak of these rights as if they have this tangible moral power, comparable to the Ten Commandments. But they are very local and convenient corporate notions. All sorts of things can't be moved from one location to another freely by people wanting to talk about them, or depict them, or make fun of them, or smash them together with other things.
This is high and low. Talk to scholars of James Joyce, who have seen themselves tied in horrific knots by excessively zealous literary executors who won't let them quote from the works. There's an epidemic of this kind of control. Everyone can get up in arms, saying Samuel Beckett shouldn't have to see "Waiting for Godot" staged with Samurai costumes in his lifetime. It feels quite appropriate that he squashed things like that because he was such a severe and intense fellow. But for his heirs to make it seem as though there's an eternal injunction against recontexualizing the things he offered into our culture, well, all we have to do is apply the same standard to Shakespeare to see how impoverishing that would be.
You received a $6,000 advance for three years of work on your first novel, which is, sadly, pretty typical. Clearly, if you were still making that kind of money, it would be pretty tough to continue making art at all, much less conduct this kind of social experiment.
Sure, but it wasn't strengthening of copyright control that allowed me to make more money after that; it was because I found some readers. Even if my rights were Kryptonite and lasted 1,000 years, if no one read my books, they wouldn't be worth a penny. The economy of human attention is a very precious one, much scarcer than any other. I'm lucky to be in the position of having anyone notice that I've given something away in the first place.
In your essay, you used the blues as a model of "open source" material. You mentioned Led Zeppelin copping from blues musicians. Or you could take Brian Eno and David Byrne, models of good behavior as they are, lifting from other musical cultures. Or Picasso lifting from "African primitives." When you have a person or culture in power lifting from a person or culture with less power, especially when they make a crazy profit on the exchange, that's when people get extremely uncomfortable.
I agree. That's why I brought up those examples. I wanted to grant that there are an incredible array of relationships that artists can have to sources. Some of them make us uncomfortable; some of them even cross over into the deplorable and/or pathetic, like "Opal Mehta." But I think there are innate standards that people are applying by instinct, whether they can articulate it or not.
One is the value-added question. David Byrne may have seemed like a bit of a tourist, but he applied a transformative genius to the works he glommed onto, as did Picasso. Carlos Mencia doesn't seem to have added value to the jokes that other comics claim he has lifted from him. He just lifted them. So that's one standard.
Another is deception. People don't like to feel fooled. There's some degree, if not of citation, then suggestion, that there are sources. The third is the Led Zeppelin issue: Oh wait, you just cashed in enormously on this. It was un-copyrighted blues and you just slapped a copyright on it? That's the Disney/Led Zeppelin action. Those creators could both pass the value-added test quite nicely. But it still seems a little disproportionate, the amount of printing money that went on in relationship to sources that were relatively non-commodified before that time.
That's what makes people afraid of making their material available without a copyright.
I think right now there's a very lively culture of public shaming that would take care of those types. But sure, there are two sentiments that are not always completely in agreement. That's one reason I didn't call this an open-source project. Open-source projects require that any subsidiary use perpetuate the non-commodifiability. And I decided that was not a control that I wanted to impose. Part of what I wanted to celebrate was the non-controlled aspect of my gift transaction.
For example, I've put lyrics from my new novel on my Web site. And I'm not saying, "Don't have a hit song and make money with these lyrics." I don't know if anyone could, but if someone did, I would just be happy for them. For me, just writing them and being engaged is more than enough. In that area, I'm not seeking reward and I'm not seeking to prohibit someone else from seeking reward. So that's a little different from the open-source description.
That goes to the Samuel Beckett sentiment, or, perhaps better, the Margaret Mitchell estate [who sued for copyright infringement over "The Wind Done Gone"]. If you make stuff, it is not yours to command its destiny in the world. God help you, you should be grateful if it has one. It's fantastic if anyone cares. Every artist should be constantly reminding themselves how lucky they are if people are even bothering in the first place. If people do something that is not as interesting as I'd hoped with my work, or if they go and make a lot of dough, that's part of accepting that I've made a gesture whose conclusion is not mine to command.
But to be totally obvious, lyrics and even film projects are not novels. One thing I would always retain is the rights to my novels. With my new novel, I'm inviting some filmmaker to take a lover's leap with me, saying that five years after the release of a film, we make it a stage play or a comic book or a musical or make a sequel. I wouldn't probably choose to do that with every one of my novels. With some of them, some degree of control is still appealing to me. With this one I felt I would really enjoy giving that away. And it's my choice. That's the key. This proceeds from my choice. But I don't think 50 or 100 years after my death, someone should still have say over what someone makes of this stuff. It certainly doesn't follow. As Lawrence Lessig likes to point out, you can't provide incentive to a dead creator to make more art by offering him a copyright.
I'm curious what happens when you reverse that value-added test. Let's use the woman who claimed to have invented Muggles before J.K. Rowling, or the example you raised about the guy who wrote a bad version of "Lolita." If making good art legitimizes borrowing, is the corollary true? If you make bad art, do you fail that value-added test and suddenly have your artistic failure become illegal too?
Bad art is never unethical. It's desperately important to clarify that because every artist makes a lot of bad art before they make any good art, and often, at intervals, will make more bad art over the course of making good. It has to be as freely encouraged as the making of the good.
It seems very gutsy to invent a band in fiction.
Yeah, it often doesn't work very well. I think I ducked the test in some ways by, first of all, inventing a half-assed band. They're not meant to persuade you that they are going to take over the world. To make up a fictional artwork that seems that it will tip the world back on its heels always feels very fake.
If someone were to fictionalize the kinds of things that do succeed, they wouldn't sound right either. Instead of doing that, I invented something like the avant-garde film in "Fortress of Solitude"; I made up art that no one cares about. That's much easier to persuade people of, because there is so much of that.
The other thing I did that wasn't a conscious strategy — though after I did it, I realized it was an unconscious strategy — is I didn't actually commit to the full lyrics of the song. I always hate when there are fictional lyrics to the entirety of a song. It makes me cringe. I don't think a lot of real lyrics are very persuasive on the page, even to songs you would like. So I always just gave a fragment or a line — even in the case of "Monster Eyes," I just give a chorus. Even so, it still frees you to believe that the song is something you'd like if you heard the whole thing.
A lot of the Complainer's lines could be ad slogans. It draws an interesting parallel between pop songs and advertising jingles.
It's true. I was very interested in how so many great pop songs are made out of initially indifferent or seemingly ruined language. There are all these great soul songs that take popular advertising slogans of the day, or dumb witticisms, like "Don't scratch where it don't itch," or "I'd rather fight than switch," or Buddy Holly grabbing on to the line "That'll be the day" from "The Searchers." Even within the film, one of the embarrassing things about it is that John Wayne says that phrase too often. You feel like they are trying to brand it. So Buddy Holly catches on to this and makes this immortal song out of his excitement for that phrase.
These things are floating around and don't quite belong to anyone, at least not the people who use them. They're not just vernacular, but they feel like tawdry things, like someone has just picked up a chewing gum wrapper and put it into a painting. I wanted to get some of that bumper-sticker quality into this.
But the Complainer is this kind of idiot savant. He has this way of being irritating and impossible to dismiss that's like the bad side of a catchy song; when pop succeeds and you wish it hadn't. It has a viral quality. This is where advertising and a great pop hook converge — the noise in your brain that you can't quite get away from.
This fall I interviewed Edward Norton and we talked some about his adaptation of "Motherless Brooklyn," which he plans to write and star in. How's that going now?
Well, you've probably got a much better idea of where that project stands than I do. I haven't spoken to him about it in awhile and even then, it was in passing. So you tell me.
We also only spoke about it in passing. But what he did say is that he had decided to make it a noir — set it in an earlier time period.
That's true. Although when people say "noir" you think 1948 to the mid-'50s. I think he's interested in New York in the Robert Moses era, the very early '60s. But it's not a project I'm involved in. I am a well-compensated cheerleader for it, though, which suits me. I've broken that pattern recently. Amy [Barrett, a filmmaker and his wife] and I are working with the director, Josh Marston, who did "Maria Full of Grace," on "Fortress of Solitude." But even that feels like an exception to me. I'm so responsive to film. And my books incorporate that excitement in the work. I think that's one of the reasons filmmakers have optioned my books. They can feel that I'm thinking in those terms. But on the other hand, I don't have the temperament to make them myself.
The offer for the film rights to "You Don't Love Me Yet" has been up for a week. Anything good come in thus far?
At the moment, I've seen six. I always assumed it would take at least some of the more credible or thoughtful offers time to figure out what the hell I was on about and what, if anything, they could envision themselves doing — not to cast any shade on the ones that have already come in, which I haven't had a chance to look at yet.
You've already optioned films under traditional means. What do you hope will be different?
Well, I'm ready to be surprised. When I felt my way into this decision, one of the things I felt happiest about is that I could picture the material in this book being, well, not camera-ready, because you can never shoot the book. That's always a big mistake when people read a book and say, "Oh! It's a film!" You adapt it and it's hopeless and it doesn't work in a million ways.
But it's contemporary. It's a young ensemble cast. There's no tour de force character that would require a star, like, say, Lionel Essrog in "Motherless Brooklyn" really wants to be Edward Norton. But you could see this thing being made in an early Richard Linklater in Austin, Texas, or Andrew Bujalski manner of work. It could be done with unknowns, and not so much money. I don't mean to suggest that anyone shouldn't call their friend Brad Pitt and make an expensive movie out of it.
Not to discount the Brad Pitts of the world who may be swooping in as we speak, but are you tempted to be biased toward first-time or small filmmakers, given that you have the potential to lure investors to people who couldn't otherwise raise the cash on their own?
Oh, I guess it would be a bigger gift, not just to the person, but to the world at large, if this got someone to do something they wouldn't have been in the position to do otherwise. If Steven Soderbergh comes calling, that would be hard to say no to, especially if he is very nice and says good things. But I wouldn't be giving Steven Soderbergh any new opportunities.
I guess I'm in a similar position to those giving out grants or awards in the art world. It's very pretentious to think of this as an award. But in the same way, if two equally interesting and charming proposals are made to me, and one is someone who could probably make their next movie easily anyway and the other is someone who might not otherwise get to make a film, you're right. I should probably tip toward the latter. But this is all getting so ahead of myself.
Well, I bet whoever you choose will find it easier to raise money for the film than they would for a story by an unknown writer.
I have this weird little thing to lend out in a way. Even more peculiar is this episode has already gotten some attention. One of the weird things about being a novelist who has any relationship at all to the film industry is that what everyone says — consolingly almost, because they're all envisioning hugely successful movies that are disastrous adaptations of your book, and already feeling sorry for you in advance for these nonexistent movies — they all say, "Well, at least it will sell some books."
That's true. And if someone made a very big movie, or even a medium-size movie, out of one of my books, whether it was good or bad, or whether I liked it or not — which is two different things — the one certainty is that it would sell books. But even the film options sell books. People talking about the idea of making a movie sells books. And here I've taken this situation to the ultimate absurdity: There isn't even a deal, and yet here we are, talking about the movie.
You have a band covering your songs in New York in about a week. Have you heard any of these tunes yet?
Oh, yes, it's a great version of "Monster Eyes." The band is called Night Time. I wish you could hear it. It's not on my site yet, but it will be soon. [But it's on Salon's site.]
And if they do blow up and making a killing on the song?
I'll be Andy Warhol to their Velvet Underground. I'll be their Complainer.
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Playing her first ever singles match at this event, Ana won the opening 10 points on her serve. A double fault helped Dushevina earn the first break point of the match but Ana saved it and another, before holding to lead 3-2.
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Ana and Maria Kirilenko scored an impressive 7-6, 6-2 victory over Liezel Huber and Sania Mirza in the first round of the JPMorgan Chase Open doubles competition. The South African-Indian team have a combined doubles ranking of 54, compared to 119 for Ana and Maria.
Ana has gone up one place in the latest Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings, which are published today. She moves above Ai Sugiyama to take 19th spot.
Ana stays at No.20 in the Porsche Race, while her doubles ranking rises 12 places to No.82. The changes are a consequence of Ana's performances at the Acura Classic in San Diego last week, where she reached the third round of the singles and the second round of the doubles.
Elsewhere in the rankings, Nicole Vaidisova breaks into the top 10, rising to a new career high of No.9, while Mary Pierce falls four places to 13th.
Ana has been drawn to play Russia's Vera Dushevina in the first round of the JPMorgan Chase Open presented by Herbalife, which begins tomorrow. It will be the pair's third meeting.
Dushevina leads the series 2-1, having scored victories at the 2004 French Open juniors and in Dubai qualifying last year. Ana won their last match 6-3, 6-4 with an impressive performance in the opening round of Wimbledon a year ago.
'Tennis', the biggest-selling tennis magazine in the world, has named Ana's diary the best of all online player journals.
In its inaugural awards, named "The Webbies", Ana receives the accolade of Best Journal.
"Leave it to a teenage girl to keep the best diary on tour," wrote Sarah Unke. "Eighteen-year-old Ana Ivanovic writes at least an entry a week, making sure her fans are abreast of everything she's up to, from training and playing to to dining and shopping."
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Ana and Maria Kirilenko lost their second round doubles match with third seeds Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama at the Acura Classic. The teenage pairing were defeated 6-7, 6-1, 6-3.
Ana's next tournament is the JPMorgan Chase Open in Los Angeles, which begins on Monday.
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Ana lost in the third round of the Acura Classic to world No.31 Anna Chakvetadze. The 18-year-old went down 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Ana started confidently and held two break points in the opening game. She could not convert either and the Russian took a 3-0 lead, before Ana battled back to level at 3-3. She broke in the ninth game and served out the set.
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Ana will play Anna Chakvetadze in the third round of the Acura Classic today after the Russian defeated third seed Nadia Petrova 6-3, 6-7, 6-2. The match is scheduled as the first on Court 1 and will begin at 11am local time (8pm Central European Time).
Ana and 19-year-old Chakvetadze have met four times before with Ana leading the series 3-1. Two of their matches have taken place this year, with Ana winning 6-3, 6-3 on hard courts in Indian Wells but losing 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in Warsaw.


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KINGSTON, R.I. -- July 16, 1999--The University
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The agreement was signed earlier this spring by
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The Patriots and right tackle Sebastian Vollmer have agreed to terms, with Pro Football Talk reporting that the four-year contract has $8.25 million in guarantees for the big German, with a base value of $17 million through 2016.
There will also reportedly be $9 million in playing-time incentives and bonuses, with a $1 million bonus for making the Pro Bowl. All told, Mike Garofalo of USA Today is reporting that the deal maxes out at a potential $27 million.
The deal is a good one for both sides: Vollmer nets a nice payday fairly commensurate with his overall value to the Patriots, as well as his status as one of the best tackles in the league (especially when measured against some of the other deals that top-level tackles have received this offseason). Meanwhile, New England has apparently guarded itself against Vollmer's occasionally spotty injury history with some playing time incentives that could pay off in the long run for the former second-round pick out of Houston.


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Former Purdue hoops player Curt Clawson to challenge Radel for Congress
Curt Clawson, 54, a Bonita Springs businessman has announced his bid to represent Southwest Florida in Congress.
Clawson's entry into the race marks the fourth Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fort Myers.
Radel filed the papers necessary to run for re-election in April. In November, he pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing cocaine. He received one year of probation and no jail time, and entered a rehabilitation program. He has not said whether he plans to seek re-election.
Clawson said can't say for sure whether Radel's predicament prompted him to run for office.
"I haven't really thought about it," he said. "That may have created the window of opportunity. But this all happened in the past couple of months."
This is the first time Clawson, an Indiana native, has sought public office. However he said his business background sets him apart from others who may seek the seat.
"I think we need to elect Congress people who can challenge thinking of a career politician, lobbyists and special interest groups," he said. "I really am an outsider. I never considered running for office before this."
Clawson attended Purdue University from 1981 to 1984 on a basketball scholarship, and played on the 1984 Big Ten championship Team. After graduating from Purdue, he worked as a supervisor on a muffler production line for Arvin Industries. In 1995, Clawson joined AlliedSignal, now Honeywell, as the president of the filters and sparks plugs group.
He went on to become the president and chief operating officer of American National Can, a global manufacturer of beverage cans. From 2001 to 2012 he served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. The company makes steel and aluminum wheels for cars and trucks.
"I think D.C. needs more folks like me who come from outside the government," he said. "I think Washington needs an outsider who can make tough choices."
Clawson said his time as a college athlete and as businessman taught him how to deal with adversity and how to make tough decisions. He said he plans to apply what he learned in the private sector to the public sector if elected.
Clawson said he knows there's a long road before him. New to the process, Clawson said his team is "working hard to run a clean campaign," which won't accept contributions from special interest groups or lobbyists. Instead, he said he plans to only take individual donations and self-fund his campaign.
"We have the financial resources to challenge the competitors who have special interest behind them," he said. "We're not going to be outspent. I wouldn't have made the decision to join the race if we didn't have the money."
At least one political action committee, Values are Vital, has formed and is expected to the target the District 19 congressional seat. While officials said the committee does not support any specific candidate, several backers have supported former state Rep. Paige Kreegel in the past.
Kreegel is also running for the seat.
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Santa Anita: Silentio scores in Sir Beaufort
ARCADIA, Calif. - A month later than expected, Silentio made his stakes debut in the $150,000 Sir Beaufort Stakes at Santa Anita on Wednesday.
The patience paid off handsomely.
Silentio had an ideal trip under red-hot jockey Rafael Bejarano to win the Grade 2 Sir Beaufort Stakes for 3-year-olds over a mile on turf.
Silentio ($8.40) held off a stubborn run from 3-1 favorite Battle Force to win by a half-length in 1:34.27 on a good turf course.
The Sir Beaufort was Silentio's fourth start. Owned by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer and trained by Gary Mandella, Silentio was a candidate for the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on Nov. 25 until he became ill in the week before the race.
"There was nothing really wrong with him," Gary Mandella said. "He had a minor throat infection."
Given a chance to recover, Silentio thrived in late November and early December, working four times. He was the second choice in the Sir Beaufort.
Bejarano, who won the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes earlier in the day with Book Review, had Silentio outside throughout the Sir Beaufort. Racing three-wide on the turn, Silentio caught the front-runners Big Bane Theory and Midnight Crooner in early stretch and led by a head with a furlong remaining.
Mandella was impressed with the win after expressing concern about the turf course following overnight rain.
"I wasn't sure how he'd act on soft turf, but it didn't matter," he said.
Battle Force, also making his stakes debut, finished a length in front of an unlucky Press Baron, who had a bit of traffic in the stretch in the field of eight.
Silentio and Battle Force were first and second in a maiden race on turf here on Oct. 1, 2011, the career debut of both horses. Battle Force made the second start of the year in the Sir Beaufort. He was third in the Grade 3 Generous Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park in November 2011.
"We thought he was a high-caliber horse and he proved it again," Shirreffs said.
Silentio, by Silent Name, has won 3 of 4 starts and $165,960. Mandella said the Grade 2 Arcadia Stakes against older horses on Feb. 2 is a potential race for Silentio.
1 of the beautys of horseracing is enjoying success w/SILENT NAME & follow it up w/success w/his son SILENTIO both trained by gary mandella but most satisfying is SUNDAY SILENCE is sire of SILENT NAME. note that SUNDAY SILENCE is also the grandsire of stakes winner(12-15-12)MONEYTALKER$15.60 which i also enjoyed!!
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First let me start by saying my flash file is currently 740kb in .swf form and I'm not done with it. I'm taking this which was developed from another developer and trying to customize it to work for what i need. The flash was bought from template monster.
Is 740kb big for a flash file that is basically an entire website?
I'm trying to make this flash load as fast as possible while implementing the best practices so i can use it for future projects. Also i would like advice on using various techniques to accomplish some functionality.
The flash file i'm working on is basically like a brochure for a client. It consists of "8" main pages, along with several sub pages.
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- Should I consolidate the navigation so it's one movie symbol instead of 8 movie symbols on one page? Keeping in mind that even if i do make it just 1 symbol i might need to add the 8 navigation movie symbols into that one to maintain the animation.
- Should the buttons even be movie symbols or is there a better way this should be done?
2. Because of the text for each page, I was using adobes built in scrolling component for the dynamic text boxes. Considering there is more then 8 dynamic text instances converted to graphic symbols.... Is there a more efficient way of doing this, or is the above method just fine?
3. The flash file contains a photo gallery. Currently all the images from the gallery are in the same flash file. I was thinking it would be more efficient to load the images in the gallery from external .swf files. However i'm not sure if that would be the best method, and i'm also not sure how to correctly accomplish within standards.
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I am the owner of The Hair Company, and have been in business for 29 or 30 years. In that time the town has had many hard issues to handle of one kind or another. Some have pulled the town together, and others have divided us. The marijuana debate is another of the hard issues for the town to decide on what is best to do.
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In the midst of the current community discussions on medical marijuana in Lyons, one of the comments we heard is that people want to know, in advance, when all of these meetings are taking place. To honor that, I included a series of dates of public meetings and hearings coming up in my monthly article in
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Our opinion: State Sen. Kathy Marchione puts the Cuomo administration on notice that it needs a plan to make up for the loss of prison jobs. It's time for a comprehensive upstate jobs program. The Cuomo administration isn't doing anything wrong, certainly, by closing Mount McGregor in Saratoga County and three other prisons. But neither is […] [Read More]