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Have you been paying attention to the 2012 Farm Bill? That's what I thought.
According to Food Democracy Now! the Farm Bill is the single most important piece of legislation moving through Congress. It determines what type of food is available to your family, the fate of vital programs that feed hungry children across the country, how farmers will be paid government subsidies, and what type of environmental protections will preserve the land and topsoil for future generations.
Yeah, that's pretty important.
The votes that take place in the next week or so will determine which provisions will make it into the Farm Bill and create the policies that we all want to build a better food and farm future. When you've got lots of money, it's easy to buy whatever high quality organic food you want, but there are lots of people who think income shouldn't matter when it comes to healthy eating.
That's why some of the best loved celebrity chefs in the nation (along with food policy experts, nutritionists, CEOs and environment and health organizations) recently sent an open letter to Members of Congress urging them to reinvest in programs that help people grow and consume more local, organic and healthy food.
Here is an excerpt:
…the Senate bill falls far short of the reforms needed to come to grips with the nation's critical food and farming challenges. It is also seriously out of step with the nation's priorities and what the American public expects and wants from our food and farm policy. In a national poll last year, 78 percent said making nutritious and healthy foods more affordable and accessible should be a top priority in the farm bill. Members of the U.S. Council of Mayors and the National League of Cities have both echoed this sentiment in recent statements calling for a healthy food and farm bill.
Although the committee proposal includes important reforms to the commodity title, we are deeply concerned that it would continue to give away subsidies worth tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to the largest commodity crop growers, insurance companies, and agribusinesses even as it drastically underfunds programs to promote the health and food security of all Americans, invest in beginning and disadvantaged farmers, revitalize local food economies and protect natural resources. We strongly object to any cuts in food assistance during such dire times for so many Americans. These critical shortcomings must be addressed when the bill goes to the Senate floor.
The entire letter, which was signed by Wendell Berry, Mario Batali, Gary Hirshberg, Ronnie Cummins, Tom Colicchio, Michael Pollan and over 50 others, can be read here.
"We need a farm bill that supports farmers, rural communities, and those who are hungry, not a bill that gives unlimited subsidies to the biggest commodity producers while at the same time cutting programs for the neediest among us," said Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet and cofounder of the Small Planet Institute. "We stand with the millions of Americans who share this common sense perspective."
TAKE ACTION: Call your Senators today and tell them the 2012 Food and Farm Bill must put healthy food, family farmers and the environment ahead of corporate interests.
Related Reading:
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Read more: 2012 Farm Bill, celebrity chefs, congress, farmers, organic food, sustainable agriculture
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Thank you! Very interesting!
We should ALL be speaking out, loudly and clearly!
This is the best use of their celebrity. I hope they continue to speak out on this issue.
thank you
We can only hope the letter may have some influence on lawmakers but I'm not holding my breath, as most have their hands in the big AG corporation's coffers. Thanks Beth for the informative article.
Thanks for the article.
Thank you for sharing.
Great news.
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Agree with Philip W.
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade — a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court to give women rights on abortion — the Student Women's Association is sponsoring its annual Pro-Choice Week.
Third-year journalism student and co-chair of the Student Women's Association Casey Weed wrote in an email that Pro-Choice Week "consist[s] of daily events to create awareness and provide education concerning reproductive rights and women's issues. As part of Pro-Choice Week, we will be tabling each day in the Union and we will have a poster where people can write why they're pro-choice."
According to the LexisNexis case summary, Roe v. Wade is one of the most significant cases in the history of American court decisions because it established a woman's right to a safe and legal abortion, pursuant to the penumbral right of privacy.
In 1973, Jane Roe filed a lawsuit against district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, Henry Wade, challenging the constitutionality of Texas abortion laws, "she was a single, pregnant woman who was residing in Dallas County, Texas.
"She further alleged that she desired to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion 'performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe, clinical conditions,'" according to the case summary of Roe v. Wade, "and that she was unable to obtain a 'legal' abortion in Texas because her life did not appear to be threatened by the continuation of her pregnancy."
The court declared the abortion laws too vague and infringed on the Ninth and 14th Amendment rights.
"We're asking people who consider themselves pro-choice to create a flyer explaining why they are pro-choice," Weed wrote. "We sent the flyer template on the announcements folder and people can create their own (including their name, picture and why they're pro-choice)."
Weed wrote that the SWA has received several posters so far and members of the group are working on several as well.
"[The posters] will definitely spark conversation, which is essentially what we're trying to do," Weed wrote. "We're not trying to force any beliefs on anyone, but it's an important issue in the U.S. right now and should be discussed."
Delaney Guerino, a fourth-year secondary education student with a concentration in English and a member of SWA, wrote in an email that "These posters are [designed] mostly to show our support for women's right to choose and our trust in women to make such a life-changing decision.
"In addition, we put up the posters during pro-choice week because it also raises awareness about the events we have going on for the week and the fact that the Roe v. Wade decision was made on January 22nd, 1973, which is not a date that stands out in many people's minds," Guerino wrote.
When asked why Pro-Choice Week is important, Weed wrote, "I consider myself to be pro-choice because I see the issue primarily as a rights issue. Women should have the right to make their own decisions and no one else should judge them or tell them what they can or cannot do with their own body — every situation is different. I also think that the topic of abortion is very big right now and people should be informed and educated about important issues."

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PARMA -- Police are investigating how a car ended up in an apartment complex.
Saturday afternoon, the police and fire departmenst were called out to a home on East Ridgewood Drive after the car went though the structure.
Crews on the scene say the driver blacked out making a turn onto East Ridgewood Drive.
No one was in the apartment that the car went through.
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February 25, 2013
Star News
Police investigate deputy superintendent's murder
Leighton Levy, Star Writer
Up to late last night, police were looking at several scenarios as they try to find the reasons why and who is responsible for yesterday's killing of retired Deputy Superintendent Denzil Boyd.
Detectives from at least three investigative divisions of the Jamaica Constabulary Force have since yesterday been aggressively pursuing a breakthrough into the murder of the retired DSP. He was murdered in front of his home in the quiet community of Queensborough Gardens, St Andrew.
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington and president of the Police Officers' Association, Glenford Hudson, both released statements condemning the killing.
every possible scenario
Head of the Flying Squad, Superintendent Cornwall 'Bigga' Ford, said every possible scenario is being looked at to try and determine who killed Boyd and why. Boyd, 63, reportedly still had cases in court that were ongoing even before he retired about three years ago. "We are looking at everything," Superintendent Ford said.
Information obtained by THE STAR suggests that Boyd's children and grandchildren, with whom he had just returned from church, alighted from his car and went inside his house. He was reportedly seen talking to a man, when some men approached in a black or dark blue vehicle.
One of the men alighted from the vehicle with a weapon and aimed it at the retired cop who reacted by reaching for his firearm. He was shot and fell to the ground. The gunman then shot him several times as he laid there. He was shot in the head, chest and arm, police said. The men took his firearm before fleeing. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The car was reportedly later seen somewhere in St Catherine, sources informed THE STAR. Superintendent Ford would not comment on this saying they were still trying to put the investigation together.
Boyd is the second retired senior cop to have been gunned down in the last six months. Last September, another iconic crime fighter, Superintendent Anthony 'Tony' Hewitt ,was shot dead by gunmen on Donmair Close, not far from where Boyd was shot yesterday.
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Today is a my mom-in-law's b'day and I wanted to do something for her that would be meaningful to both of us. Before I go any further I have to say how lovely she is to me, like my own mom :)
She is an amazing cook too and Kadalai Kuzhambu is one of the first recipes I learnt from her since TH loves it. Its simple and looks mild but is amazingly flavourful, just like all her dishes are. She is super fast in the kitchen and is normally done cooking for the day by the time I am up (err.. which is around 7 in the morning :D).So here is to her and her special day. Happy B'day Amma :)
Chickpeas / Kabuli Chana
Kadalai Kuzhambu Recipe (With Coconut Milk)
Serves 2-3
Chickpeas / Kabuli Chana - 1/2 cup
Thick coconut milk - 3/4 cup
Tamarind - one marble sized ball (or 2tbsp if you are using paste)
Rasam Powder - 1 tbsp
if using your own sambar powder, use 1/2 tsp and 1/2 tsp red chilli powder.
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Hing/Asafoetida/Kayam - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Oil and mustard seeds - for tempering
How to make Kadalai Kuzhambu:
1. Soak the chickpeas overnight in 3 cups water. Pressure cook and keep aside. Or, just use canned chickpeas.
2. Use 1/2 cup warm water and blend the tamarind with your hand to extract the juice. If using paste, dilute it in 1/2 cup water.
3. Heat a pan and bring the tamarind water to boil. Add turmeric powder, hing, salt and the sambar powder to this. Sim and let it boil for 10 minutes.
4. Add the cooked chickpeas and boil for another 10 mins.
5. Remove from fire, add coconut milk and mix well. Adjust salt.
6. Heat some oil in a small saucepan and temper some mustard seeds. While hot, pour on the above gravy and mix well. You can even use some curry leaves at this stage.
Kadala KuzhambuServe hot with rice. TH loves it with parippu usili.


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One of the fastest rising starlets of adult entertainment and a featured pornstar right here on Porn.com is the mysterious ebony diva Angel Eyes. Born in California during the summer heat of 1980, Angel Eyes has allegedly performed under several stage names as an erotic dancer, adult companion and pornstar adult film performer. Known to some as Nika Chanel, Angel Eyez or Angel Ice and to others as any number of other names, Angel Eyes has proven to be very adept at keeping her private life very private even as she continues to get fucked very publicly in plenty of big budget porn films and exclusive website scenes.
At 5' 7 inches tall with a 34C-26-41 figure, ironically it's her big phat black ass not her angelic eyes that initially attracted so many fans to her xxx films. Her eyes are naturally Hazel, though rumors persist that in at least some of her scenes Angel Eyes has actually worn colored contact lenses to enhance to allure of her dazzling eye contact. A gorgeous African American model, Angel is as proud of her ethnicity as she is of her nationality. That rocking body and thick ass capable of clapping when she shakes her money-maker has all the experts proclaiming her to be the next big starlet in the black pornstar market.
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According to the Angel Eyes Facebook page she is part of the graduating class of 2012 at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee but attempts to independently confirm the information make it seem to be untrue. Under the title of books she is currently reading, The Bible is listed which may be true but would seem to be counter-intuitive for someone who continues to gain popularity for the way she fucks, sucks cock and swallows cum on camera. The combination of information posted and the fact that most of it is kept provide makes it uncertain even as to whether or not the page is actually being updated by Angel Eyes.
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2009 Success Story: Ohio University
Facts at a Glance
- The Ohio University Bobcat football team competes at Peden Stadium, with a capacity of 25,000.
- Ohio University achieved a diversion rate of 65.108% during the 2009 Game Day Challenge.
- Ohio had the lowest per capita waste generation of any 2009 participant, with only 0.23 pounds per person.
- Ohio University has an adopt-a-game program for basketball games, which allows clubs and fraternities to earn community service credit by gathering recyclables during games.
- Ohio donated food recovered from the tailgating events surrounding the game to a local homeless shelter.
Program Overview
Ohio University has been running a comprehensive recycling program at homecoming and athletic events for years, bringing an abundance of enthusiasm and experience to the Game Day Challenge.
Trash and recycling bins were paired and placed at the entrance to the stadium, as well as by the vending area and on the walkways around the stadium. There were no containers in the seating areas, but a Boy Scout Troop picked up any materials left in the seating areas the following morning. In the tailgate areas Ohio targets beverage containers and cardboard, and in 2009 they targeted food from boosters organizations. The boosters set a great example each year and many other groups follow their example. Ohio also works with the food vendor who does most of the food recovery from the games, to ensure that waste is minimized.
During Ohios homecoming parade, the homecoming committee required all parade participants to use recovered materials in float construction . All of the Greek system homecoming floats, and a few from other groups, were recycled after the Homecoming parade. The marketing and communications department documented the homecoming float recycling program.
Ohios recycling program covers all athletic competitions and nearly all non-athletic events as well, throughout the year. Ohio recycles at their home basketball games through an adopt-a-game program, which allows clubs and fraternities to earn community service credit by gathering recyclables during games. Ohio has volunteers report a half hour before the game at the student entrance of the arena, where they go through a short training session and assign pairs of volunteers to sections of the arena. During time-outs and half-time and a few minutes at the end of the game the teams go up and down the aisle in their areas and collect recyclables and trash from the people in the stands, like reverse vending. So, by the end of the game most of the materials normally left behind are already cleaned up leaving only a small amount left to finish picking up.
Ohio recently received a grant for 1.5 million dollars to expand their food recycling program. They are hoping to make great strides to zero wasting their events and all food venues on campus and even start targeting the surrounding towns food waste. This operation has hired a bargaining unit position and several students. The schools Recycling and Refuse Manager Ed Newman has set many ambitious goals for the future, including a target of recycling 80% of the waste generated at the university, and is a fantastic role model for other college and university leaders.
Ohio is hoping to join forces with RecycleMania and ISP, a sports promotion organization that does their work at about 60 schools.
During Game day challenge the only addition Ohio made to their normal recycling routine for football games was putting signage on all of their recycling bins to inform people about the Game Day Challenge.
All of the recycling bins are coupled with trash bins. Ohio got a lot of beverage containers from places like the Marching Band so they put extra bins with them.
Ohio recovered some food from this event and took it to a local homeless shelter. Ohio also recovered some reusable material besides homecoming float materials: such as umbrellas, coolers, food, and promotional items, that are also donated to reuse organizations and charities.
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Richland County, SC (WLTX) - Richland County officials held a groundbreaking this morning at a new recreation complex.
It's located on Kelly Mill Road in Elgin.
The new complex kicks off phase two and three of the commission's $50-million improvement bond.
The sports complex will feature lighted baseball fields with a press box. It's set to open early next year.
The commission is also planning to clean up a lake on the property for recreation use.


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July 23, 2011
Star News
Couple killed in St Thomas
A couple was reportedly shot to death at their home in the community of Land Top in Port Morant, St Thomas, on Thursday.
It is reported that the couple was killed by a gunman who entered their home about 2:30 p.m.
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Meta-ethics, environmental ethics, reason, and moral psychology are among the topics to be explored at Felician College's 6th Annual Ethics Conference. The event, which is open to the public, will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at Sister Theresa Mary Martin Hall (formerly Becton Hall), on Felician's Rutherford campus, 223 Montross Avenue.
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MADISON, Wis. -- You can understand why Wisconsin women's soccer forward Cara Walls might be impacted by the clutch play of 23-year-old Alex Morgan, who led Team USA to a thrilling win over Canada in the semifinals of the Olympics and evolved not only into a gold medalist but a "goal'' medalist.
Morgan, who played collegiately at Cal-Berkeley, is one of the elite goal scorers in the world. Walls took note of her success in London because she plays the same forward position and because "obviously she's so talented and I want to do what she does -- I want to score goals.''
Walls got off to a fast start in her first season with the Badgers by leading the team in goals (9), points (19), shooting percentage (.281) and game-winning goals (4). She was the first freshman to lead UW in goal-scoring since 2001, and her nine goals were the most by a UW freshman since 1997.
"I always tell her that she can be special,'' said sixth-year Wisconsin coach Paula Wilkins, "and I've been trying to make her believe that.''
The message is starting to resonate with the 19-year-old Walls who said Wilkins has taught her "to believe in myself and to believe in my teammates.''
Taking it another step, Walls said Wilkins has also stressed that "things aren't always going to go my way or the team's way, but you have to stick with it and persevere and it will work out.''
Words to win by -- especially since the Badgers are looking to rebound from a 10-7-3 season.
"It's a different vibe completely,'' Wilkins said of her team's readiness for Friday night's season-opener (7 p.m.) against Notre Dame at the McClimon Soccer Complex.
"The freshman have come in with a different mentality and it's kind of ingrained into the group -- I really enjoy that -- they want to do it different and that's a bit of a culture change that we need.''
Walls' transformation and development since the spring has also been noteworthy.
"Cara's way more attached with the team in terms of her inner action and her attitude in practice; her drive in practice,'' Wilkins said, adding, "She's not the most vocal kid.
"But she really gets excited for training and competition. That alone helps. And that's what I'm trying to get across to her and she has been listening and it's made a difference.
"We were watching the Notre Dame game from last year, her first game as a freshman, and you can see there is such a difference in her presence on the field and her confidence with the ball.''
Walls joined the Badgers after leading FC Milwaukee's Under-18 team to a national title. Her goal-scoring prowess was in evidence as she scored four times and was awarded the "Golden Ball.''
"I've kind of watched her play since she was 15,'' Wilkins said. "She had good athleticism (as a younger player), but mostly she had a good sense around the goal; a nose around the goal.
"She scores some weird goals -- they'll bounce off her knee -- but she scores some great goals also. She's naturally in a position to score. That's not typical for most players.''
As a college freshman, Walls went through an understandable adjustment period on the field. "It was to the speed of the game,'' Wilkins said, "and for her it was a little bit to the physicality.''
There were some other facets to her transition as a student-athlete at Wisconsin.
"In high school, you can do what you have to do to get by in school and soccer,'' said Walls, a two-time team captain at Wauwatosa East High School.
"We only practiced three times a week, whereas in college, school is harder and you're training hard every day. Overall, it was hard for me to adjust.''
You wouldn't know that by her offensive production.
"That was good,'' she said of her nine goals in 17 starts. "But I think I can do better, and I want to do better so we can finish in a better spot (in the Big Ten) than we did last year (fourth).''
Walls has always looked up to her older brother, Tony, a professional soccer player with the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. Tony Walls, a defender, was the Horizon Player of the Year as a senior at Green Bay.
"We've always practiced together and kicked it around,'' Cara Walls said.
It's noticeable.
"It's huge,'' said Wilkins. "She watches soccer all the time; that's never a bad thing.''
Cara Walls also watches college football. Her cousin his UW tailback Jeff Lewis.
"Obviously, he has some really good guys ahead of him,'' said Walls, alluding to a rotation that includes Montee Ball, James White and Melvin Gordon. "Hopefully he will get to play more this year.''
Walls, meanwhile, is focused on helping the soccer team play better this year.
"There's a really good energy and everyone is excited about what we can do,'' she said. "Our strength is when we're all in together.
"When we pressure and defend together, when we get numbers ahead and behind the ball, that's when we're at our strongest -- being on the same page.''
Wilkins believes that Paige Adams, a redshirt junior from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, will be a positive influence on Walls' game.
"They are the perfect complement to each other,'' Wilkins said. "And I think it's really going to help Cara be more of an offensive threat. They've started to learn each other in terms of reading where one is creating space.
"You can see a good relationship being built in terms of their movement off the ball and what they want. Paige will go the extra mile to try and get a pass to Cara because she's confident she's going to finish.''
Confident is the operative word, particularly when used in conjunction with Walls' growth.
"She just has to gain some confidence,'' Wilkins reiterated.
That's all part of the belief system that Wilkins has been driving home and teaching and it all starts with believing in yourself. Walls has gotten the message.
"Every year playing with different girls and different coaches,'' Wall said, "I learn more about myself and about the game and what I need to do to be successful.''
She learned something from watching Team USA win another gold medal in the Olympics, too.
"The main thing was just seeing how hard work can pay off,'' Walls said. "And it just gives me motivation to go out there and work harder.''
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In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. In the course of his argument, he addresses current topics ranging from intelligent design and stem-cell research to the connections between religion and violence. In Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris boldly challenges the influence that faith has on public life in our nation. In his "Note to the Reader," he writes:
Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years. According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry here on earth. It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to say that if the city of New York were suddenly replaced by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen—the return of Christ. It should be blindingly obvious that beliefs of this sort will do little to help us create a durable future for ourselves—socially, economically, environmentally, or geopolitically. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.The book you are about to read is my response to this emergency...
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Sam Harris's elegant little book is most refreshing and a wonderful source of ammunition for those who, like me, hold to no religious doctrine. Yet I have some sympathy also with those who might be worried by his uncompromising stance. Read it and form your own view, but do not ignore its message.
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Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation.
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Read this book and decide your stance for the future.
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I can't sign my name to this blurb. As a New York Times best selling author of books about business, my career will evaporate if I endorse a book that challenges the deeply held superstitions and bigotry of the masses. That's exactly why you should (no, you must) read this angry and honest book right away. As long as science and rational thought are under attack by the misguided yet pious majority, our nation is in jeopardy. I'm scared. You should be too. Please buy two, one for you and one for a friend you care about.
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"This combination of ruthless argument with polemic designed to provoke (he describes the Catholic Church as the "institution that has produced and sheltered an elite army of child-molesters") will further delight Harris' supporters and infuriate his critics."
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Woman Killed After Falling out of Drunk Driver's Car
Written by Jeremy Scott on December 12, 2013
GRESHAM — A woman was hit and killed late Wednesday night after she fell out of a friend's car and was hit by another vehicle.
The driver was turning from NW Division Street onto Bella Vista Place just before midnight when 73-year-old Peggy Jennen of Oregon City fell out into the street. The other driver could not stop in time and police say he's not on fault.
Lisa Wilson, 52 of Troutdale, was drunk and arrested for criminally negligent homicide, DUII, reckless driving and reckless endangerment. She has no previous history of DUII.
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Interview: Sinister Writer C Robert Cargill
We caught up with the critic turned scriptwriter over email following the release of the chilling Sinister.
With Sinister out now, and scaring the pants off audiences across the UK, (here's our review) we caught up with film critic turned scriptwriter C Robert Cargill to get his thoughts on the film.
So where did the idea for Sinister come from?
A nightmare I had, if you'll believe that. I had a terrible dream after seeing The Ring. I was climbing into my attic when I saw a box with Super 8 films and a projector in it. I spooled up the first film and it was the opening image of Sinister. That nightmare stuck with me for a while and eventually I realized it might make a for a pretty good horror movie.
Sinister is refreshing in that it seems to set out first and foremost to be scary. Was this a concious reaction to a genre that seems to put fear pretty low on the agenda these days?
I don't think anyone sets out to make a horror film and puts scares on the back burner. I think the audience is growing shrewder, more knowledgeable and harder to scare. This was a reaction to *that*. We were trying to take the audience to places they hadn't quite visited before, using familiar ideas to create new situations. We weren't thinking about what other films were or weren't doing as of late, we were thinking about what the audience wanted to see and what would mess with them.
What makes a horror film truly frightening, in your opinion? What else is out there that you admire?
Things that tap into our primal fears while showing us characters we care about. You give me a character I'm invested in, and I'll be afraid of something as mundane as a car accident. Put that same person in a dark house and I'll be terrified. What do I admire? An awful lot. I LOVE CINEMA. Love it. Can't get enough. Even naming what I admire would mean leaving out hundreds in the same genre that I couldn't mention.
Ethan Hawke is great in the lead, could you tell us a little about how he came to be involved, and your thoughts on his performance in the film?
I think he's brilliant. I've always been a huge fan, so working with him was a dream. How we ended up with Ethan was that Scott and I knew we had written a relatively unlikable protagonist and needed an actor who could win the audience over with pure charisma. Not a lot of actors can do that. Ethan was at the top of a short list and as it so happened, he is best friends with producer Jason Blum – who is also the godfather to Ethan's kids – so getting him to read it was easy. Convincing him to do a horror movie was all Scott. He really work Ethan hard to get him to try out a genre he wasn't comfortable with. But it paid off big.
Is it true that the mega-creepy Super 8 sections were really shot in the format? Could you tell us a little about those moments?
Yeah. There was no other way to do it. Digital alteration doesn't look the same. It looks forced, inauthentic. That wouldn't have been scary at all. Nothing looks quite like Super 8, the way it catches the light, the imperfections of the filmstock, the way it stutters and jumps. We had to shoot it that way.
It's an interesting transition to go from being a critic to a scriptwriter- did your previous work influence your writing at all?
Very much so. I always knew I wanted to write fiction – whether as novels or films – and treated film criticism as an expanded, masters class in storytelling. Each movie was a new assignment and millions of readers were grading me on each outing. When I was afforded the chances, I picked the brains of the masters it put me in contact with: Tarantino, Rodriguez, Avery, del Toro, Black, Wright…there were so many talented writers and directors who gave me advice along the way in great conversations over beers or after films. All of that was filed away as a student would lectures or lessons. Sinister is the culmination of those lessons and my chance to test and prove some of the theories I developed during that time.
What's next for you?
My book Dreams and Shadows comes out in February, and hopefully Scott and I will begin preproduction on one of our next projects shortly.


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Columbia, SC (WLTX) - Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin has confirmed to News 19 that the Columbia Police Department and Richland County Sheriff's Department will merge their crime labs.
"That is our hope. Though its still relatively early, the discussion is meaningful and the Chief & Sheriff have a meeting of the minds. I am committed to assisting them in making a Metro Crime Lab a reality," Benjamin said. "It's smart, efficient and in the interests of a much safer Midlands."
Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook closed the city's lab more than a week ago because an audit found inconsistencies in a technician's work and raised concerns about her training and methodology.
Previous Coverage: Columbia Drug Lab Could Merge With Richland County
Friday the Mayor requested the committee to meet and discuss the current lab situation.
The county lab is one of two internationally accredited labs in the state.
Prosecutors are currently reviewing if any evidence handled by the city lab will compromise criminal cases.
The committee will meet at 11 a.m. Wednesday at City Hall.


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Our Farm and Garden
Often cited as a highlight of the NCS experience, the farm and garden program does much more than provide opportunities for real work. At the barn, students learn about and care for a variety of farm animals under the careful guidance of farm staff. Every morning and afternoon as part of daily work jobs, students feed and water horses and other animals, muck out stalls, collect and wash chicken eggs. They learn the lessons of life's natural rhythms—the birth of a lamb, the loss of chickens to predators, the power of disease—as well as respect for all earth's creatures.
Students also gain a broad understanding of the full cycle of growing, the benefits of local food sources, and practices of sustainable living—all from direct experience. Students help transplant seedlings from the greenhouses to the gardens, prepare soil, weed, and harvest throughout the season. In Edible Schoolyard classes, students make salads from lettuces they harvested, prepare pesto from our own basil, and make cheese from our goats' milk. After every meal, dining room waiters separate food scraps for either the pigs or the compost pile.
All-school traditions like potato and chicken harvests in the fall and collecting sap for the on-campus production of maple syrup in spring involve students in accomplishing important jobs on the farm. They also show vividly that much work is best completed by many hands, building community in the process. Lastly, they give students a well-earned sense of accomplishment and a first-hand understanding of what it takes to produce fresh food.
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Recently I came across Facebook Resource for Akonadi which makes events, contacts, notes and messages from Facebook available in KDE. In other words you are able to see your Facebook friends through KAddressbook and their birthdays as well as Facebook events in KOrganizer. Moreover events and birthdays are also shown in the Plasma clock calendar. All this data is available offline thanks to Akonadi. So let's take a look on Akonadi-Facebook.
For Archlinux Akonadi-Facebook is available in AUR. You can easily install it by using yaourt.
If you are using another distribution search for a package named akonadi-facebook. In case you don't find it you will have to build it on your own from source like this:
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/akonadi-facebookcmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config–prefix`make install
Once you have it installed press Alt + F2 and run Akonadi Configuration
In the Akonadi Server Configuration tab press Restart to load the new resource you have just installed.
In the Akonadi Resources Configuration tab press Add and search for Facebook.
Type in the account name, something like Facebook.
And then press Authenticate. Here you will have to login your Facebook account and allow this app to access your friends, events and messages.
It will also ask you to access your data at any time.
If everything goes well you will be authenticated.
And the resource will show a ready green icon.
Now open KAddressbook. You will see a Friends Address book with the Facebook logo. All your friends are listed here.
Next open KOrganizer. Here you will see an Events calendar with the Facebook logo. The events and your friends birthdays will now be displayed in your calendar.
Have in mind that this is an early application version. However I didn't encounter any problem while using it
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Dr. Waldinger received his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books: Psychiatry for Medical Students (American Psychiatric Press, 1984, 1991, 1997), and Effective Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients: Case Studies (Macmillan, 1987). He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he teaches Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents, and he is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
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But I agree, if we're in this situation in February, then its time to panic. Still 3 months in the recovery window, and not a single one of us has any idea where the hole was drilled and how big.
The plus side? Ferkel cleared him after 6 months, which is the very, very low end. So he considers the surgery a minor one (re: microfracture).
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Tax Law
Gandolfini's will is a tax 'catastrophe,' estates lawyer says
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Jul 8, 2013, 06:38 pm CDT
By Ham Solo on 2013 07 09, 4:09 pm CDT
By suretylink on 2013 07 09, 4:49 pm CDT
By Robert P. Zisgen on 2013 07 12, 10:34 am CDT
By John McGowan on 2013 07 12, 11:05 am CDT
By Always Sunny In Cleveland on 2013 07 12, 12:23 pm CDT
I have also found it difficult or impossible to persuade clients to consider the possibility that a child, especially an only child, will die before they do. Of course it is horrible to think of such a thing, but it could happen and if it does the executors will want to know what to do with the money. Usually the decedent's siblings or their issue will be the obvious choice but that is up to the client to decide.
The question I ask is "Mr/Ms X, do you know who is driving the next car round the corner?" - which sometimes persuades them to think about it. And sometimes not.
By Andrew on 2013 07 12, 12:25 pm CDT
38.9 Sis
31.1 wife (pre-tax)
21.4 (tax) (amount to sis, 38.9 x estate tax rate of 0.55)
9.7 Wife (after tax)
70.0 pre-tax estate
21.4 tax
48.6 after tax estate
x 0.8
38.9 proof of Sis' portion
48.6 after tax estate
x 0.2
9.7 proof of wife's portion
38.9 + 2.
By Oort Cloud on 2013 07 12, 12:32 pm CDT
By Michael M on 2013 07 12, 12:34 pm CDT
It's not as if his advisers were unaware of the tax consequences of the way his estate was structured. A teenager with a smart phone could figure that out. Most probably, Mr. Gandolfini simply wanted control of his money and didn't expect to die.
By Tom on 2013 07 12, 1:30 pm CDT
While the separate provision for the couple's daughter is unusual, there well may be reasons for it that transcend the important societal factor of "curious minds want[ing] to know."
By Always Sunny In Cleveland on 2013 07 12, 1:48 pm CDT
By San Fran on 2013 07 12, 2:32 pm CDT
By Hugh Palmer on 2013 07 12, 3:40 pm CDT
By Dan Lauber on 2013 07 12, 3:40 pm CDT
Your assertion that paying taxes (i.e., complying with the law) is a form of liberalism. Your premise necessarily presupposes the reverse as well -- that evading taxes and disregarding the law is a conservative value.
I couldn't agree more with both.
By AndytheLawyer on 2013 07 12, 4:03 pm CDT
By Andrew River on 2013 07 12, 4:41 pm CDT
By Oort Cloud on 2013 07 12, 4:46 pm CDT
By Hugh Palmer on 2013 07 12, 5:46 pm CDT
By JME on 2013 07 12, 6:37 pm CDT
Gandolfini was not an old man, and I'm convinced he did not expect to die anytime soon.
When I was in law school (apologies for showing my age), John Lennon was killed. We studied his "will," which was a perfunctory and utterly stupid document that was worse for him and his family than none at all. Uncle Sam got an enormous percentage (as I recall, it was well over $100 million) more than would have been owed if an average-Joe attorney had drawn an ordinary Will and trust.
The kicker, of course, is that Uncle Sam spent a whole lot of it on war. Millions for the Reagan military buildup, "star wars" defense, scandalous Iran-contra arms, MIRV warheads on our ballistic nukes, a B-1 Bomber budget blitz, and whatever other expensive war toys were in vogue. Lennon woulda plotzed.
Today's NYTimes has an obituary of Toshi Seeger (Pete's wife), who, it says, used to have to cover his tax return with a sheet of paper before presenting it to him to sign. He couldn't stand to see how much in taxes he was giving Uncle Sam to spend on war. And he didn't even have a quarter-billion dollars.
I'm an unrich liberal who favors taxes even though it's a huge burden in this economy to pay my own. And I sure agree that the whack-a-mole system of passing tax laws whacks loopholes into the scene, which needs to be fixed. But I still applaud those who want to do whatever's legal to reduce what they pay. If they ever pass the Peace Fund Tax Bill, which has stalled in every Congress since the early 1970s, taxpayers who are opposed by conscience to war can elect to divert their taxes to the remainder of the federal budget. Then, maybe I'll lose empathy with those who pull out all the stops to pay less than they really deserve to.
We should all be making our plans as if we will indeed die soon. Gandolfini and Lennon are prime exhibits in proving that.
By Avon on 2013 07 12, 6:42 pm CDT
And farmers have more right to pass on their businesses intact and untaxed to their issue because . . . please complete the sentence.
By Andrew on 2013 07 12, 6:52 pm CDT
The country has an interest in letting owners pass their business on because private ownership has benefits over public ownership. Private owners are more likely to evaluate the longer term consequences of their dealings than are publicly traded concerns (cf. Brown Brothers Harriman in the recent financial debacle with Citibank or Bank of America).
Under the income tax, we tax only realized income because taxing unrealized income forces liquidation of assets. It has been decided that as a matter of tax policy, we should try not to force liquidations solely for tax reasons. The death tax assumption is that death is a realization event and there is no reason to postpone collection. However, it is one thing to confiscate a portion of the value of a painting, cash, or liquid security at death, but it is an entirely different thing to confiscate a portion of a going concern, in which numerous family members are employed principally because they are family members. Despite the nepotism, there is no evidence that forcing companies to go public results in better outcomes. By forcing the partial sale of family businesses (including farms) you undermine the continuation of management philosophy that has successfully preserved the assets for generations. If the ownership of all assets was distributed evenly across the populace, 80 to 90% of the people would dissipate and squander the money in short order. There is a reason wealth is concentrated more than income. It's harder to keep money than to earn it.
You can deride the notion of family as a quaint holdover from the past and laud the liberals who are trying to euthanize it, and you can object to the idea that anyone's children should be more entitled to their parent's patrimony than the poor kid down the street, but inheritance has been an element of human society since the dawn of humanity and your denial of its existence doesn't mean anything.
Another thing that has been around since the dawn of humanity is the tax man-- the king's soldiers -- the person who has more power and thinks he knows better what to do with your money than you. They will always try to take the people's money, and tax lawyers will always try to stop them.
By Oort Cloud on 2013 07 12, 7:50 pm CDT
By EJF on 2013 07 12, 7:57 pm CDT
If your farm or business constitutes the large majority of your estate and your estate is illiquid you WILL NOT HAVE TO SELL THE FARM (or the business), provided it actually is producing income that will allow you to pay your tax liability (at a laughably low interest rate) over many years.
As to the entire premise of this article: What makes anyone think that Gandolfini had not already used most (if not all) of his estate tax exemption amount. I am sure he had plenty of opportunity to preserve substantial wealth for his spouse, descendants, and other family members. If he didn't, well, that likely was his informed decision.
As for Zabel, well, all I have to say is that I am glad my mentors (who all have credentials at least as lofty as his) are smarty than to speak (in this manner) to the press.
By TOG on 2013 07 12, 8:01 pm CDT
There is not, and never has been any circumstance at all in which I could believe "the Reagan Administration would have spent 100 million dollars less on defense." The Reagan-BushI administration tripled the national debt very deliberately ... and it wasn't spending on the needy, either.
And the fact is that when someone is a conscientious objector to war and the law allows them to contribute alternatively (national service) (tax fund), no one is a "free rider" and there is no problem. Uncle Sam will draft as many people as he needs to get an army, and if some folks serve their country without being in it, so much the better! They don't get GI benefits, and they do jobs the draft board assigns. The Peace Tax Fund Bill would do the same for their money, and money is how war is made these days, anyway ... it's getting closer to just geeks and joysticks in Wyoming. If my taxes build the roads and hospitals while yours builds nuclear subs, all the same stuff gets built anyway. (The one criticism I have of the Peace Tax Fund bill is that it won't impair war at all.)
As for "protection and peace of mind," I don't buy it for a second. The world was edgier when we were at two minutes to midnight with seemingly imminent Mutual Assured Destruction. Nuclear subs that just sit idle make me feel a lot safer than nuclear subs that cruise the world jacking up the mutual paranoia level. People forget that a philosophy of deterrence through threats of the unthinkable are just another way of saying "terrorism," and terrorism never wins a thing in the long run.
By Avon on 2013 07 12, 8:47 pm CDT
You would need a prohibition on deficit spending in a separate defense fund to make this work. As we know, a prohibition on deficit spending would violate liberal tenets.
By Oort Cloud on 2013 07 12, 10:13 pm CDT
By LJB on 2013 07 12, 11:37 pm CDT
By Norm on 2013 07 13, 6:27 am CDT
James Gandolfini - proof only the good die young!
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Six stars. Two full routines. A threesome round. On Monday's "Dancing With the Stars," the remaining six celebs were vying for a spot in next week's semifinals.
Shirts came off, tears were shed and the judges got into a major fight - in other words it was business as usual - as the competition waltzed closer to the mirrorball trophy finish line.
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McAlister wins Abilene City Council Place 5
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Kyle McAlister built a sizable lead Saturday evening and held on to it to easily win the Abilene City Council Place 5 seat against Charles Zollars.
Unofficial results with all of the precincts reporting indicated McAlister had 2,183 votes, or 64 percent, to Zollars' 1,251 votes, or 36 percent.
"I am very excited about this," McAlister said, moments after the results came in. "It's very humbling to be able to see the faith and the trust the people have put in me for the next three years."
McAlister, 45, will be succeeding Councilman Stormy Higgins, who did not seek re-election.
"It has been an exhausting three months," he said. "It's really worth it because I want to accept this responsibility that's been given to me."
McAlister became an AFLAC insurance salesman in 2001 after 10 or so years in television news — he had been a morning anchorman at KTXS and was a news director at KRBC, both local television stations.
He is a volunteer host of Abilene Christian University's KACU Night Sounds, a Sunday evening radio show. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in radio, television and broadcast from Abilene Christian University in 1989.
Besides his day job and now a council seat, McAlister also is a deacon and Bible class teacher at Hillcrest Church of Christ and a Redcoat with the Abilene Chamber of Commerce.
He has served on Boys and Girls Club Board and on committees with the United Way of Abilene.
It was evident McAlister got the seat in the bag early on in Saturday's counting when the unofficial tally at 7:35 p.m. showed him leading Zollars 61 percent to 39 percent. That lead held and even expanded through the night.
He acknowledged that although the campaign is over, the work he had sought the past three months will come full steam ahead, soon after he gets sworn into office.
"I want to continue the very conservative budgeting and conservative spending we have for the city," McAlister said. "But I really want us to be aggressive in marketing Abilene: I really want people to know about Abilene when they're looking for a place to live, when they're looking for a place to relocate and when they're looking for a place to move a business."
He gave kudos to his opponent, Zollars, whom he said "ran a really clean race, very professional, very kind and I hope he stays involved in politics."
Zollars said likewise.
"Kyle ran a good campaign and spent a lot of time on it; we both put a lot of time," Zollars, 74, said. "I know he'll do a good job on the City Council so I wish him well."
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