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Modern Family is the Funniest Show on TV [Review]
Every once in a while, a sitcom is a culture impacting triumph. The 70′s had All in the Family. In the 80′s, Cheers ruled. And in the 90′s sitcom heyday we had "Must see TV" with shows like Seinfeld and Friends, while Will & Grace bridged the late 90′s to early 2000′s.
The mid 2000′s came along, with more forgettable flops (Cavemen, anyone?) than comedic successes. Then, in 2009, ABC debuted a new sitcom called Modern Family. It borrowed the "mocumentary" style that made The Office so successful since 2005, and followed an extended family through their daily trials and tribulations.
There's Jay, the family patriarch (played by the late 80′s and early 90′s most disgusting TV dad Al Bundy, Ed O'Neill) and his South American trophy wife, Gloria, along with her "old soul" 11 year old son from her previous marriage, Manny. Jay's daughter Claire and her family (doofy husband Phil, clueless oldest daughter Haley, brainy middle girl Alex, and chip off the ol' block son Luke). And Jay's son Mitchell and his partner Cameron, with their adopted Vietnamese infant, Lily.
The formula starts with something for everyone; upper class patriarch Jay is a successful businessman, Claire and Phil appeal to middle class families going through the struggles of daily life, and same-sex couple Mitchell and Cameron add diversity to the family unit.
Where the show really shines is with the writing. It's silly without getting ridiculous. It's sweet without getting sappy, and it's serious when it needs to be. The show took home it's first Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy last night (after 2 previous nominations), and the project already has 11 Emmy awards on the mantle.
I have to imagine that Modern Family will be remembered along with the likes of All in the Family, Cheers, and Friends years from now. If you haven't jumped on the Family bandwagon yet, there's no better time to start than now.
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The WAC from Walla Walla (1952)
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army. Director William Witney's low-budget 1952 military comedy stars Judy Canova, Stephen Dunne, George Cleveland, June Vincent, Irene Ryan, Allen Jenkins, Roy Barcroft, Thurston Hall, George Chandler, Dick Wessel, Dick Elliott, Carl Switzer, Phyllis Kennedy and Jarma Lewis.
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"Una Noche" Actors Go Missing: Why Do Cubans Defect?
Two Cuban actors making their way to the Tribeca Film Festival opening of "Una Noche" last week have disappeared – and presumably defected – after arriving in Miami. Apparently, just like the characters they play in the film, they've chosen to leave the island for a better life in the United States. The third actor, who did not defect, said, "I have my family there, my friends, my girlfriend," he said. "Here, I don't know anyone." On the other hand, what foreign actor (especially one im Cuba) wouldn't want the chance to "make it" in the United States?
I've not had a chance to see the film, and as such I can only draw educated guesses about the way in which it treats the characters' decisions to emigrate. But I'm going to guess that, taken together, the film and its actors' real life developments illustrate the complex and toughest realities of living in Cuba – and that includes having the same loves and dreams as anywhere else (and far fewer opportunities to pursue them than one would have in the U.S. for instance), and an inordinate amount of getting creative and hurrying up and waiting, and yes, for some and for all, fear and limits.
It can be a particularly depressing reality for twenty-somethings in a country is proud of its broad-based educational achievement but offers the vast majority of Cubans little to do with that education. And though Cuba is undergoing significant economic changes that will surely change the course of Cuba's future, it will take time for the benefits to be felt broadly and deeply enough to convince so many disaffected youth that there is a reason to stay. So, whether you're 'fleeing' a prison guard, or whether you're 'fleeing' a place that feels like a dead-end, it's not hard to imagine the impulse young Cubans have to leave their country.
But, it's also not unreasonable to ask a few rhetorical questions, like, aren't there millions of people the world over who also have good reasons – perhaps even better ones – to flee their country for ours? Are Cubans the most miserable people on the planet, or is there added – and significant – reason that contributes to so many making the decision to defect (or emigrate)? Cuba policy wonks know the answer to this question, and it causes us to gnash our teeth and pound the table for emphasis – to make sure the listener is actually listening:
Thanks to the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act and the 'wet-foot, dry-foot' policy in place since the mid-1990's, Cubans may arrive in the United States by any means (yes, including illegally), and not only walk free in our country, but they will receive government adjustment assistance (intended for refugees, though they don't have to actually prove they are refugees), be eligible to work, and have the right to a green card after just one year. What other illegal immigrant group gets this sort of treatment in the United States of America? Certainly not Haitians or Afghans. Not Iranians, North Koreans nor any other group that could make a case for it. The policy is an anomoly of the 1960's; it was never intended to leave the door open for fifty more years. But it has, and no president has been tough enough to close it.
Cuba is undoubtedly as hard a place to live as it is beautiful. The much-publicized defections to the U.S. by Cuban actors and athletes – and the thousands of more anonymous rafters and go-fast boat riders who arrive from the island – surely capture our imaginations. But it is not only the island that drives them here. The United States beckons too, with its well-dressed Miami relatives disembarking their planes laden with gifts, with its promise of opportunities across this great country, as "the land of the free and the home of the brave," and, most crucially, with an unparalleled, favorable immigration policy crafted especially for Cubans.
What lies across the Water- Why History, International Law and American Values matter in the case of the Cuban five
The following text is my presentation at the panel organized by Wayne Smith about the book "What lies across the Water", at the Center for International Policy, April 18, Washington DC.
I want to thank Dr. Wayne Smith and the Center for International Policy (CIP) for the invitation to discuss the book "What lies across the Water". As a Cuban-American who thinks constantly about the difficult relations between Cuba and the United States, it is an honor to be part of the effort of the CIP to improve the knowledge about the complex history of these links and the need to approach them with creativity and goodwill.
Whatever you might think about the Cuban Five, if you want to know how their case fits into the history of relations between Cuba and the United States, you must read this book. The author Stephen Kimber presents a well written short narrative about how the Cuban five ended up in US prisons. The book reads more as reportage for the general public than as an academic report. The author has studied the long history of conflict between Cuba and the United States and the use of terror as a political weapon by Cuban right wing groups in Florida.
Quandary Over Cuba: Will There Be a 7th Summit of the Americas?
With the inconclusive 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia wrapping up this weekend, will there be any way to bridge the gaps – most visibly over Cuba's exclusion and between the United States and many of its most crucial partners in the region – and keep these presidential level summits between the countries of North and South America going in the future?
First we have to ask whether the region's leaders want these Summits badly enough? Many of the countries the U.S. has the strongest differences with might well prefer to let the Summit of the Americas die and to promote instead CELAC, a new 33-member regional organization which includes all countries in the Western Hemisphere (including Cuba) except for the United States and Canada. As for those countries not at ideological odds with the United States, such as Brazil and Colombia, don't they project the greatest possible strength as regional leaders when holding their own in forums that include, rather than exclude, the United States? And certainly the United States would rather be inside the tent than outside of it, for that is the best way to exercise broad influence in the region.
Though there are other significant policy debates between the United States and others in the hemisphere, the Cuba issue has become a major and potentially irreconcilable obstacle to moving forward. When the 34 leaders in attendance in 1994 agreed to uphold and defend the principles of representative democracy and universal human rights, Cuba was not invited to participate (and, at the time, Cuba's suspension from the Organization of American States, from which these summits grew, was still in place). But today, nearly all of the region's players - Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, to name the most outspoken - are calling for there to be no more Summits of the Americas without Cuban representation.
Does this reflect a lesser, or relative, commitment to democracy and human rights by these countries?
Missing An Opportunity at the Summit of the Americas
"For the most part, the tension over Cuba seems mostly to be behind Mr. Obama — a not insignificant consideration in a presidential election year in which Florida, the bastion of anti-Castro sentiment, could be a critical swing state." --New York Times, 4/13/12
The White House projected a lot of self-satisfaction on the eve of the summit of the Americas.
It is hard to tell whether that is just the normal spin (accentuated by the pre-election dynamic), based on diplomatic assurances from the major players, or just the normal disregard about how we are seen by our neighbors.
Bottom line, the Administration could have used the Summit to increase US stature by showing we have finally moved beyond the Cold War, neoconservative agendas and the Monroe Doctrine. Instead we are at best going to stay even.
To preclude a photo opportunity of Barack Obama shaking Raul Castro's hand, the US has assured the Summit will be shaped by the absence of Cuba and debate over how to address the problem.
Instead of throwing its weight around and using consensus as a veto mechanism, Washington should have adopted the Quaker practice of "standing aside". We could have maintained our opposition, whether due to principle or electoral calculation, but not blocked the overwhelming sentiment of other participants--among whom there was certainly no consensus to exclude Cuba.
In addition to upping Cuba's sympathetic profile, we have strengthened the case for CELAC, a regional organization designed to separate the hemisphere from the asymetric power and wealth of the US, similar to how the Association of South East Asian Nations functions in relation to China, India and Japan.
Cuba and the Inter-American system: A smoldering "fire"
Early in March, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos traveled to Cuba to tell Raul Castro that he could not invite him to the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias due to a lack of hemispheric consensus. Once back in Bogota, Mr. Santos said that Colombia had "put out a fire" and pledged to discuss Cuba's participation in the inter-American system at the summit in order to prevent this issue from flaring up again before the next presidential conference scheduled for 2015 in Panama.
The Colombian decision triggered reactions from both Cuba and the US. It's hard to say whose discourse was more anachronistic. The statements made by Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez read as an impassioned harangue to the revolutionary Tricontinental of 1966. Hillary Clinton's responses to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen before the House Foreign Affairs Committee appeared to be addressing a rest home for Cuban-Americans who landed in Miami in 1962. Instead of adopting a conflict resolution approach, Cuba and the US traveled back to the Cold War, to a multilateral inter-American system that no longer exists. With one swipe, they erased five decades of changes in the hemispheric balance of power and the adoption of standards such as ideological pluralism, non-intervention and democratic governance.
Guillen, Cespedes and Mixing Baseball and Politics
Earlier this week I made myself a little promise, to discover a love for major league baseball, seeing as our own Washington Nationals are finally enjoying a good deal of buzz. But before I could even get started learning getting to know our own team, the newly renamed Miami Marlins demanded my attention.
The Marlins' manager, Ozzie Guillen, made a pretty startlingly dumb comment in his recent interview with Time Magazine. "I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? Many people have tried to kill Fidel Castro in the last 60 years, yet that [guy] is still there." It was sure to offend some folks, probably lots, in Miami.
Guillen apologized for the remark, saying he was misinterpreted and, a native Spanish speaker, struggled to get what he really meant across in English, but it wasn't enough. He's now been suspended for 5 games, and there are still calls for him to be sacked.
John Friedman lays out the complexities of the story, and thus, of the decisions made and perhaps yet to be made by the Marlins ownership:
"Politics: You don't have to be an expert in the history of Cuban politics or Castro's legacy or Miami's demographics to understand the explosive nature of this story.
Economics: By potentially damaging its relations with Cuban-Americans, how much money does the Marlins franchise risk losing?
Management: Can Guillen, who led the Chicago White Sox to a World Series victory in 2006, somehow continue to be an effective on-the-field manager, given all of the commotion he has stirred up?
Otto Reich on Terrorism, Carlos Saladrigas in Cuba, and Tracey Eaton's USAID FOIA Mission
If a US government program funds democracy-building work in Cuba, but no one is allowed to learn the details, did the work actually happen? Tracey Eaton, a Florida-based journalist investigating U.S. government democracy-building programs in Cuba to see who receives the money and what U.S. taxpayers get for it, has shared USAID's response to one of his many FOIA requests, this one on 11 years worth of USAID work in Cuba carried out by its grantee, Freedom House. You might ask, why does a journalist need to submit FOIA request when USAID's Mark Lopes recently insisted that, "Nothing about USAID's Cuba programs is covert or classified in any way." The heavily, er, almost totally, redacted FOIA response you see above (which Eaton scanned and posted on his blog, Along the Malecon) presents the real conundrum – what's a reporter to do when even a Freedom of Information Act request fulfilled yields no actual information?
Just in time for the Summit of the Americas, which Ecuador's Rafael Correa is boycotting due to the exclusion of Cuba, Otto Reich, with Ezequiel Vazquez Ger, has penned an op-ed for Foreign Policy's Shadow Government, "How Ecuador's immigration policy helps Al Qaeda." Reich and his coauthor argue that Ecuador's relatively open immigration policy makes it too easy for terrorists to get into the country. I'm not familiar with Ecuador's visa policies so I won't debate the merits of his case. What I find so interesting about this piece – aside from the over-the-top headline – is that the same could be argued of a similarly open immigration policy, that of the U.S. towards Cubans, but I've never heard Reich, a staunchly anti-Castro Cuban American who was a top advisor to President George W. Bush for Latin American affairs, complain about that policy. That policy, which presumes all Cubans are political refugees, goes something like this: if you arrive in the United States by illegal means – without a legal visa – congratulations! You can stay. (And in 366 days, you can apply for a green card.) Now, if you actually believed that Cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism – for a recent examination of the U.S. case against Cuba, see this article by General John Adams (Ret.) and David Jones – wouldn't such a lax U.S. immigration policy towards Cubans who arrive illegally to the United States give you, me and especially Otto Reich, pause?
Finally, it's heartening to see that while some few in Miami and Havana still fight reconciliation, many others are simply moving forward and achieving incremental and real progress. A Miami businessman and former 'hardliner', Carlos Saladrigas, who opposed Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba and regretted it, not only went to see Pope Benedict XVI in Cuba, but stayed behind to give a talk (it's a must-read; full text is here) at a public forum in Havana:
"This was an event of tremendous importance, the first time that a prominent Cuban from [abroad] could express these thoughts in a large forum," said Oscar Espinosa Chepe, an independent Cuban economist who attended the meeting. He remarked that Saladrigas and the dozen people who stood at the microphone criticized both the Cuban and U.S. governments — and even offered a few solutions — in voices respectful and calm.


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Backroads Ch. 05byAdrian Leverkuhn©
"Yeah; just can't seem to stay away from you." I went and sat by her on the bed; she looked exhausted, bright-eyed and feverish. "Mad, this is Jen. Jen, meet Madeleine. I've got some work to do, I wondered if you two might not keep each other company for a while?"
"Jim?" Jennie said hesitantly.
"Back in a flash, Jen." I said as I slipped out the door; as I walked back to my office I wondered what the hell I could do for the next hour or so to keep busy, then decided to walk down to the library and catch-up on some reading.
I made it back to Madeleine's room almost two hours later; I had been nabbed by an internist, paged to come to the ER and look at a kid the paramedics had just dropped off. Took longer than I expected, too, but it always does. I stood outside Mad's room, looked in the little window, saw Jennie crying, Madeleine holding her hand, so I walked back to the nurse's station.
I asked one of the nurses to go down and tell Jennie I would be there in a few minutes then stepped behind the counter to look over Madeleine's latest blood work. It wasn't good. At the rate her organs were failing now she might last a week, but I doubted it. The pain would probably increase this week too; morphine would just accelerate the process, bring on respiratory arrest. It was going to be a hard call.
I walked down to the room; Jen was sitting across the room now, her eyes were clear and bright. Madeleine seemed content, almost happily so, like some deep purpose had presented itself -- and she had been ready when summoned. I went and sat on her bed again, brushed the hair off her forehead, felt her skin. Hot and moist, a thin line of perspiration beaded along her scalp.
"Well, how'd you two get along?"
"Cool, doc. Did you know she's the lady the FBI has been looking for?"
"Yeah, I heard that last night."
"Doc! Really!" she chided. "You mean there's someone else!"
"No babe. You're the one for me. Always have been, and you know it."
"I know." She looked at me, her eyes brimming with warmth and sorrow. "You'll need someone else though. Soon. Isn't that about the size of it?"
I took her hand, looked her in the eye. "Is there anything I can bring you while we're out and about?"
"How about the latest issue of Modern Bride?" Madeleine said, smiling, and Jennie almost ran as she left the room.
"How'd things go?"
"Doc, she's pretty confused, you know?"
"Tell me about it."
"I would, doc, but she made me promise."
"Oh? Good girl. But really, you want anything while were out?"
She looked at me, her eyes full of childhood memories and Cracker Jacks and skipping rope on the sidewalk. "If you find some chocolate covered raisins I wouldn't complain any."
I squeezed her hand. "I'm willing to bet we can find some."
"Doc? Can she come back? Talk some more?"
"I'll see, Mad. I don't know what her plans are."
"Too bad, you know, about the cancer thing. She's a nice lady."
"Yeah, but sometimes we're lucky to get to know someone, even if it's only for a couple of days. Life's funny like that, you know?"
"I think I do, doc. Have fun."
She was telling me to have fun. Was she kidding?
"What's her story, Jim?"
We had stopped off for raisins and now we were sitting at a seafood place down by the river; cheddar cheese soup and poached King Salmon with Hollandaise. Best goddamn food in the world, but today it was meaningless, irrelevant. Jennie had been shaken up, badly, talking to Madeleine; now her appetite was gone.
"I don't know the details, some of them, anyway. She was adopted by some folks, real religious, Catholic, when she was two or three. Never knew her parents, never wanted to, I guess. Her 'Dad' died when she was still pretty young; her 'Mom' still comes by every day when she gets off work. She's doing your laundry, as a matter of fact."
"What? Jim! Why didn't ..."
"Why didn't I tell you? It wouldn't have made a difference, Jenny. You know Madeleine; that puts a face on things. But the woman needed work, Jennie; I got together with some of the docs and we hired her. We provide medical insurance for her and Madeleine, and we're putting money into a retirement fund for her; she could probably stop now and be pretty well off the rest of her life. I keep the place pretty clean as it is; she does the laundry, changes the sheets, and has the television to herself all day. It's not a bad arrangement. Awkward sometimes, having to keep the prognosis to myself, but that was Madeleine's choice. Doesn't want to upset her mom."
"Jesus. And what is it? Her prognosis?"
"Confidential. Sorry."
"Jim. Don't."
I looked down, thought for a moment, wondered how best to say this.
"You probably want to say all you want to her in the next few days. Okay?"
Jennie pushed back her chair and ran to the ladies room. I stood quickly as she left, then sat down and leaned back; I looked out at Mount Hood, the snow-streaked cone resplendent under the noonday sun. Life just keeps on going, doesn't take time off when people die; gulls just keep wheeling around over the river, fishermen on colorful old boats unload the day's catch, waitresses carry treys loaded with food to businessmen taking time off for a hurried lunch, and in the hospital where I spent most of my life, people die, babies are born. None of it will stop when Madeleine dies, none of it. Time will only stop for her in that crystalline moment. For the rest of us it will just go on. For a while.
Jennie had been gone a long time; a waitress came by and I asked if she could check up on her. The waitress came back a minute later, asked me to accompany her to the ladies room; the manager was there, waiting. He seemed a little nervous.
"She's crying. Say's she's in pain. You're a physician?"
"Yes. She's with me. May I go in?"
"Ooh, yes. Please." He was biting his lower lip.
I could hear Jennie crying the instant the door opened; I went in, stood outside the lavatory stall.
"Jim. I think I'm sick, feeling sick."
"What's happened? Tell me what's changed?"
"I threw up. Blood."
"Do you feel any pressure? Top of the stomach? Under the sternum?"
"Yes. Both."
"Alright. Let's get you put back together. We're going to have to talk about this."
"Okay. Give me a minute." I could hear her in there gasping, then a roaring bout of diarrhea shook her. "Oh-no..." she groaned a moment later. "Oh, God no."
"Blood?" I asked.
"Uh-huh... a lot."
"Okay, Jen, lets get you out of there before you pass out."
"Yeah." She was breathing heavily while she sorted herself out; when she opened the door and came out she was whiter than white, her eyes red-rimmed and burning.
"Oh, no, not good..." I said when I saw her.
"Yeah, that's exactly what I feel like."
"Well. Need to know what it's gonna be now Jen. My place or the hospital."
"What do you think I should do?"
"Regardless of what you want to do, we need to know what's going on. Staging, if you're familiar with the term; then we need to talk."
"Alright, Jim. I'm with you."
"Are you now, Lassie?" I tried on an Irish brogue but it probably came out like Bogart with a sinus infection; Jennie laughed, said something polite -- like I shouldn't quit my day job. I held her up while we walked out to the car. We drove back to the hospital, but this time I drove over to the ER entrance and had an orderly wheel her directly to the triage desk.
"Jim, take this card; the number will get you the Charge d'Affairs at the embassy. They'll handle the financial end." I talked with the chief resident, filled him in; he took her into an examination room; a nurse followed with a tray to collect blood for tests. A half hour later the resident came out; found me at the trauma desk.
"She's pretty sick, Jim; she talk to you about her decision?"
"You gonna try to change her mind?"
"If I thought that's what she really wanted, I might."
"She a friend of yours?"
"Well, the labs should be back in a bit. I'm going to send her up for a scan and see how much metastasis there is; why don't you go up to your office. I'll call you in a while, when she gets back down from radiology."
"Did she say anything about admitting her?"
"She won't do it."
"You close; I mean, is she a good friend?"
"Close enough."
"Alright, Jim..."
"I'm going up to 5-D. Call me there."
I walked the ward, dropped in on a handful of patients, just shot the shit with 'em for a little while, then made my way to Madeleine's room.
"Hey, doc. Come in. Where's Maureen O'Hara? Or should I call her Miss Danaher?"
"What's that?"
"Mary Kate Danaher. You remember; The Quiet Man?"
"She's a neat lady, doc. I'm sorry, you know, about..."
"Yeah, yeah. I know. Hey, found some raisins."
"Good golly, fantastic. You know, if she's going to be around I'd love to talk with her some more."
"Yeah, I'll ask."
"Where is she?"
"Downstairs. In the ER. She crashed. At lunch."
"Oh, doc. I'm sorry." She looked at me, those quiet eyes of hers measuring me. "You like her, don't you?"
"I hated her yesterday. But by this morning? Well, I'm not sure now what I feel."
"I care, Maddie, I guess. But I don't want to get too close."
"Why not, doc? What's wrong with loving someone?"
"Oh, Maddie, I don't know. Nothing wrong with love. Just me, I guess."
"Yeah. I never took you for someone so afraid of death."
"No? Why not?" We laughed at the irony, at the supple truths winging around the room.
"Hard to lose people you love."
"Not sure I could handle losing two."
"You, you twit!"
"Doc! You love me?"
"Always have, darlin'. You hung the moon for me, you know, a long time ago."
"That's sweet, doc." She looked away, I knew she was going to cry; what I was really afraid of, more than anything else, was that she might see me crying too.
"I gotta go, kid. Don't eat all those raisins at once."
"Sure, doc. Sure."
I made it to the nurses station before I broke down. So tired... so tired of losing, always losing...
I went back to the ER; saw Jennie in the little room talking with a couple of docs, waited until they left then ducked in. She was sitting up, looked better, and she smiled when she saw me.
"Whew. Just in time to get me out of here," she said.
"What's the verdict?"
"Nothing new."
"They want me to stay, of course; say there are all kinds of new treatments."
"Yeah. There are. Did they mention how far it's progressed?"
"Don't suppose you're gonna talk about it, are you?"
"No. I did agree to come in tomorrow."
"Oh? Why?"
"I'm not well enough to travel, or so they say."
"Astute observation on their part, I assure you."
She laughed. "Some bureaucrat wants me to sign some papers, then we can leave."
"Yeah? Good. I hate hospitals."
"I'm glad. That means there is, after all, something in common between us."
"Well, I'll let you get dressed. I'll wait by the discharge desk."
I waded through a two year old People Magazine, then a Popular Mechanics that must have come out back when Nixon was in office. There were a couple of smartly dressed women standing nearby, men with cameras, too. The people who shuffled by seemed shell-shocked and wiped-out -- not by whatever had brought them to the hospital but by how much they suddenly owed the hospital. Jennie was wheeled out and signed something at the desk and shook the girl's hand and laughed; now, ever the politician, she waded into the morass of reporters that had suddenly, seemingly, and inevitably crawled out of the woodwork.
Lights flicked on, microphones were shoved under her mouth, and rather than fight her way through them she graciously turned on them and gave them all a nice performance.
"Where have you been?"
"I've always wanted to see this great land of yours..."
"Are you ill?"
"Yes, it turns out I have an aggressive cancer..."
"What are your plans?"
"I'm going to get well enough to travel..."
"Where will you go?"
I wondered just where her home was.
Their fury spent, the reporters faded away like fog on a warm morning. Jennie and I drove back to my place; I fixed a sandwich and opened a beer, Jennie had eaten, so to speak, in the hospital. A nice liter bag of glucose, I assume, and she said she had no appetite anymore anyway. I helped her into the shower after a while; waited until she was finished then helped her dry off and get into her little flannel robe, walked with her back to the living room.
The sun was going down; the lights of a high school stadium across the park outside the windows were on, the stands full of people, the faint drumbeat and rousing chords of a marching band drifted through the air. I realized it was late August, school would be starting, football games, school buses, kids on bicycles -- all of that would return, marking the passage of time as surely as the sun setting beyond the far horizon.
"You're sure I can't get you anything?" I asked while she sat, lost in her thoughts while she looked out the window.
"No, I'm not sure, Jim, but you've already given me so much more than I ever expected. Or deserve."
"There you... I don't understand something..."
"What? Jim? What?"
"Why are you so bad? Why do you think yourself so undeserving? You remember that first night? At McDonald... the lodge?"
"No. Well, of course, but I'm not sure what you mean. Of course I remember that night..."
"You wanted me to hurt you. I remember you said, if I remember, something like you deserved to be hurt. What was that all about? I just don't understand?"
"I know. I'm sorry."
"Will you tell me?"
"I may have to. Soon. I didn't really want to, but things have changed, haven't they?"
"Changed... how?"
She looked away, looked at the bright lights across the park and sorrow washed over her face. In the ebb she seemed battered, weakened, at a loss.
"Do you have any tea?" she said some time later. "Earl Grey?"
"Would you, please?"
She looked at me, her smile gentle yet full of unanswered anguish. And need.
"Anything in it?"
She shook her head, turned back to the lights and drifted off again, carried away in the sweep of her thoughts.
She had an early appointment.
She wanted nothing to eat, but managed again to get some tea down. I helped her into fresh, clean clothes and down to the car, and we crossed town in silence. She seemed focused on the world around her -- but I knew it wasn't so -- there was just too much happening for her to drift along now. She was on the edge of a great decision; that much I could tell.
I wondered what I would do if she asked me to go back with her. To Ireland. What would I say? For that matter, what would I want to do...if she asked? She had said something to a reporter about going home...
I walked her over to the medical office building, told her I would come pick her up when she called. She kissed me on the cheek and I left her there.
I went up to 5-D, to the wards. Madeleine was holding her own, just barely, and yet she seemed a little more withered this morning, her voice thin and reedy.
"Saw your girl last night, on TV," she said when I came in. "She's a real politician, isn't she."
"Whatever that means."
"Liars and cheats. Isn't that what you always call them? Or am I forgetting something?"
"I've been known to, yes, uh, think that way."
"Changed your mind?"
"I guess. Maybe."
"Where is she?"
"Over in the office building. I suspect they'll give her some blood, try to talk her into a round of chemo."
"You been watching much TV lately?"
"No. Why? I mean, I heard about the missing thing. Anything else?"
"Oh, no, nothing." She looked away, avoided my eye, her voice seemed even more tired.
"How're you feeling today, Madeleine?"
"Madeleine? Ooh. You never call me that." Her voice fell again, to barely a hoarse whisper. "Gee, doc, how am I feeling? Let's see. I'm dying, right? How am I supposed to feel. Can you give me a clue?"
"So, alright, I give. How were the raisins?"
"Great, doc. Just great."
"Did you have any breakfast? Keep it down?'
"Scrambled eggs. Or powdered, or whatever they call that muck"
"It is pretty bad, isn't it?"
"Oh," she said with forced sarcasm, "you've eaten hospital food, doc?"
"I think they serve the same crap in the cafeteria. I know what you mean."
"Sorry, doc." She fell back just as quickly. "I'm feeling a little funky this morning."
"Yeah? Me too. Off balance."
"Yeah. Wish this would just all be over with."
"Do you? That surprises me."
"Really? And I thought you knew me pretty well, too."
"Yeah. A lot of people make that mistake."
"Doc, beat it, would you? I won't make it if you start feeling sorry for yourself."
"Okay, kiddo. You want Jennie to drop by later?"
But she had turned away from me by then, withdrawn to that place she went to when doctors and nurses became too much to listen to anymore. Where she went, I suspect, to get away from endless noise and blaring silence and questions of why, why, why. Where I very much wanted to be at that moment.
Jennie came out of the hematologist's inner office, a 4x4 gauze pad doubled over and taped tightly to her arm; she looked at me with a grim little smile on her face and took my hand when I stood to meet her. She kissed me on the cheek again, drew back and looked at me closely for a moment, then kissed me hard on the mouth.
"Feeling better, I see. This could be a good day."
"Yes. Yes, I feel much better now. And I'm absolutely starving for that soup I missed yesterday. Do you think they might be open today?"
"I reckon they might be," I said as I turned, offered her my arm. "Your carriage awaits, my good Lady."
"Very good, Jeeves. Drive on! Lead -- and I shall follow, spoon in hand!"
It started out to be a good afternoon, perhaps the best of this vacation. We talked; rather Jennie talked, and I listened. There were, it seemed after all, truths to be told. Truths I knew nothing of.
She told me about Yves, the rascally Frenchman who'd seduced her and dominated her, turned her sense of herself -- her self identity -- in on itself. She'd changed, she said, in unexpected ways as a result of the affair, but she'd discovered a part of her self she had never known, a part that had "turned her on, seriously". Everything had been different after that, she said. Everything. Her self had been redefined, reoriented, and in ways she hadn't known before, she said again; now she understood -- she had changed in ways she knew now had always been there -- just under the surface, waiting for release.
"I think I became a better politician, Jim, a better listener. I look at people now and I see two of them -- everywhere I look; the person they want me to see and the person they feel they desperately need to hide."
How can you be sure what you think you see isn't a projection of some sort? You see what you want to see, in effect."
"Because something inside me changed, Jim. Something basic. Radically basic. I'm different now, different than I was, different than I ever could be again."
"And me? What you saw in me..."
"It's still there, Jim. It's calling out to me, even now. You live in a world where control is illusory, fleeting at best, impossible more often the norm, yet you live in a world where people expect you to be in control. So you act as if you are. It causes a split, a fracturing of your personality, between the basic lie of your existence and the desire to repudiate that lie."


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Robert Armstrong makes giant leap from Huon mayor to Legislative Councillor
- From: Mercury
- May 06, 2014
HUON Valley Mayor Robert Armstrong has been elected to the Legislative Council, ending former Liberal minister Peter Hodgman's attempt at a political comeback.
Mr Armstrong, an independent, won the Upper House seat of Huon late yesterday after the distribution of preferences from Saturday's poll.
Mr Hodgman, the uncle of Premier Will Hodgman, had a small lead ahead of yesterday's preference distribution.
The final result gave Mr Armstrong 10,645 votes (56.85 per cent) ahead of 8080 (43.15 per cent) for Mr Hodgman.
Last night, the long-serving mayor said the news was yet to sink in.
"It's hard to believe, I'm excited, overwhelmed," Mr Armstrong said.
An election was also held for the Upper House seat of Rosevears in the North on Saturday, with sitting independent Kerry Finch successfully fighting off the Liberals' Don Morris.
"I believe the people of Tasmania want independence in the Upper House," Mr Armstrong said last night.
"I think that really came through in the Rosevears election."
Mr Armstrong said he would be a "true independent" and "not a rubber stamp".
"In the 13 years of being mayor, I've built a reputation that I'm honest and I work for the people," he said.
Mr Hodgman phoned to warmly congratulate his friend and opponent last night.
"I would have voted for Robert if I hadn't run myself," Mr Hodgman said.
Mr Hodgman, who served as a minister in the Gray, Groom and Rundle governments, ruled out another return to politics, saying he was "relaxed about the outcome".
"This is my finale, it's the end of my political career, it's a final chapter that I close with a smile on my face," he said.
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David Dobbin of Launceston Posted at 12:05 AM May 07, 2014
I am eternally suspicious of anything to do with the word 'independent' when it comes to the LC. That usually means he's a closet Liberal just playing the system and fooling people, who seem more than willing to be hoodwinked over and over again. What exactly does an 'independent' stand for? By the comments it sounds like he's a degree or two right of Eric Abetz. But he's been Mayor so has some experience of governance and meetings and committees and policy, and he's won majority voter support fair and square, so all the best to him. At least the fiction of Paul Harriss 'independent' is now over, and he's comfortably bedded where his heart always was, with the Liberals. Let's hope Armstrong is more dynamic than Harriss whose first action as a Minister was to put of making a decision for 6 years. Nice work.
Jason Glover of Richmond Posted at 5:34 PM May 06, 2014
Good news! the last thing we need in the Leg Co is more greenies. I will take R A over ten of your greenie wreckers any day of the week.
alicia silver of hobart Posted at 5:09 PM May 06, 2014
What sad news. The upper house doesn't need a social conservative. I shudder to think of the awful things he might approve. His answers to questions posed by the Australian Christian Lobby (available on their website) were horrifying. He has no commitment to marriage equality and worries about what the church thinks. He is prepared to support amendments to Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act 2013 legislation that will allow protests outside the premises of abortion providers. And there's more. I'm saddened that the Huon Valley had voted in a person with such conservative values. Just another worrying story amidst the current political reportage.


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Some principal in MA goes and pushes the bar even further.
From The Jawa Report
A Massachusetts principal has been criticized for canceling his school's Honors Night, saying it could be 'devastating' to the students who worked hard, but fell short of the grades.
MyFoxBoston.com reports that David Fabrizio, principal of Ipswich Middle School, notified parents last week of his plan to eliminate the event.
"The Honors Night, which can be a great sense of pride for the recipients' families, can also be devastating to a child who has worked extremely hard in a difficult class but who, despite growth, has not been able to maintain a high grade-point average," Fabrizio penned in his first letter to parents, the station reported.
Sometimes I just want to ask a person like that, what the f#@k were you thinking? If he had cancelled graduation from middle school I'd been all for that one, but it was not to be.
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"It's still a work in progress," Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman Tom Jacobs tells the Sun.
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When I walk into a house on any given wedding day, I immediately get a sense of how my day is going to be. Having already been to see Jason and the boys (Gary, Matthew and Jason) on the St Lucia golf course, the house was full of Kendal's family (mum and dad, sister Toni and nieces and nephews) and her beautiful bridesmaids Dee, Bianca and Tracey (and Katie). The house was buzzing with activity. Just the way I like it. I was set for a fun day. I had already shot Gary and Toni's wedding a few years back and remained in contact since so it felt like I was practically one of the family. I think my photographs will explain it better but these guys are such lovely people, so warm so welcoming and so much fun.
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Will SMS reminder facility work in India ?
I really like Todoist and has been using the free version for almost an year. I would like to go Premium and have a question.
Will SMS reminder facility work in India ?
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Hello Vamsi,
Yes, our SMS reminder service works worldwide :)
Best regards,
Its not working now, Always get an error stating, "Add your country code first" even thou we add the proper numbers.
We are looking into some new issues with our SMS reminders. We hope to find the cause soon.
Ok, just realized that, it was few days back (may be 10 days or so) when i saw the option to select the SMS Sender Gateway or Country or whatever (like from US or Canada)
But Now its gone.
We have sent a test through our new system and you should receive a message with the content:
"Todoist SMS reminders work! Remember if your task is due "today at 10am" Todoist will send a reminder 30 minutes before this deadline!"
Please confirm:
- Did you receive this message?
- If so, do reminders work now for you?
Best regards,
Haven't received anything yet.
But saw that, Setting page now doesn't gives out error.
You won't believe me but even Push Notifications aren't working for me :-/
Please let us know if you do not get the message, though I do not think it should take that long to show up.
Nope. Didn't received yet.
Still Waiting for the Text!
Thank you, we are looking into it now and will let you know when we hear something.
Still No SMS to India @Brendon
Have you gone through the settings recently? And tried each send from number? There have been a few changes since our last reply.
Yes Brendon,
I tried sending from all the THREE Gateway listed just now!
I will pass this along again, and see what the status is. Most should be working now. I will get back to you with any new information.
Sure.. thank you!
Has this been resolved.. yet.. ? I'm from India.. and looking to go premium specifically for the sms reminder functionality.
Hi Navin,
Sadly, we don't have any update yet regarding this issue. :-(
None of the SMS Gateway works for India,
My Number is Registered on Do Not Disturb service so this might not work for me.
That is confirmed, for that area, if you are on that list, these will not show up.
SMS not working for India. I have tried all gateways.
Are you on the Do Not Disturb Service as well?
Yes, I can get my self removed, but need inputs from you as to which
service should I enable, I don't want to disable all DND service.
Hi Hardik,
I have now consulted our SMS provider to check which service you should enable. Once I hear back from them, I'll let you know by replying to this thread with an update.
FYI... This is applicable across India for all mobile service providers. I have enabled '0' .
Preference Options
(1) Banking/Insurance/Financial products/credit cards.
(2) Real Estate.
(3) Education.
(4) Health.
(5) Consumer goods and automobiles.
(6) Airtel Products & Services/Communication/Broadcasting/ Entertainment/IT.
(7) Tourism and Leisure.
(0) Fully Blocked .
To be honest,
Even though am also Fully blocked for Airtel services..
I receive almost all important notifications from various categories like Banks, Cards, Shopping etc etc.
ToDoist have to whitelist itself to provide notifications even though the customer is active for DO NOT DISTURB.
Hi Todoist folks:
Here is one more input that you need to consider - Google from its calendar is able to send out messages even though I am registered on DND.
I am also planning to go Premium unless this aspect of being able to send a text/SMS reminders is working.
This is important as I rely more on texting services.
That's a good point you raised Venkat.
I am also receiving all SMSes from Google, Microsoft, etc. Not sure why
Todoist is an exception here. Can you provide en ETA?
Hi David,
Is this resolved? This is the only thing that is holding urge towards being a premium member. -_-;
Hi Adithya,
I've checked with our SMS provider and unfortunately they can't really send messages to numbers that are currently on the do not call list. :-(
If anything changes, we'll update this thread.
May be you should change your service providers. There are many which do.
Hi Hardik,
I'll certainly share this suggestion to our team. As mentioned, we'll update this thread we have any news or updates.
This really is a deal breaker and stops me from going Premium.
Just fyi: To send an SMS to a Do Not Disturb listed number in India you need to send a "Transactional SMS" and NOT "Bulk SMS". Looks like you are using "Bulk SMS" which won't get delivered to any DnD listed number in India.
All other services like Google, Facebook, Banks etc. uses Transactional SMS.
I asked them last year, no use to ask any features.
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Hello Abbas,
We have contacted our SMS provider about it and they've said that they won't send our reminders as "transactional SMS" or "authorization codes" as these are reserved by the Indian government for messages that are actually for real transactions, that is - to authorize a payment with a code or authorize a login etc.
Our SMS provider is not willing to take the risk to classify our reminders this way and potentially not be able to make business in India anymore if they're caught :-(
So far, we couldn't find any other provider that would be willing to do this.
Hi David,
Thanks for the reply.
I understand that the risk to operate a Transactional SMS is high for the SMS provider. They might be blocked by Indian telecom regulators.
However, many non-government web apps (like WhatsApp, Google, Facebook etc.) do this.
To make this happen you have to submit some documentation and undertaking to your SMS provider that the SMS being sent from Todoist are not marketing SMSes but notifications and transactional in nature. Also, you will have to make all users agree (by providing a checkbox near the field where they enter their mobile numbers) that Todoist will be sending notifications and reminders to their mobile and that they should have no objection to it. Once you make the user agree on these terms, your transactional SMS will be legal in India and both you and your SMS service provider will be safe.
Check what Nexmo is doing -> https://www.nexmo.com/india/
There are many many apps in India using Transactional SMS without a hitch. Perhaps you might want to tie up with an Indian SMS provider for indian customers.
Thank you for this information, though we're unsure if we're willing to take this risk either :-( After all, our reminders are definitely not what the regulators had in mind when they introduced transactional messages.
I suspect that the other big companies may have any special deals that allows them to send them such notifications? Either way, we appreciate your feedback, I'll pass it to our admins and we'll see what we can do :-)
Hi David,
I don't think other companies have any special deals. Any company (big or small) can send transactional SMS in India by just providing the right documentation to the SMS service provider.
I have my own small app developed and running where I send notifications to the residents of my apartment and I had no problem. I just had to submit the proper documentation to my SMS service provider http://www.fastalerts.in/ and they set me up for Transactional SMS.
Anyways, I understand that using a different service provide for just one country might not be feasible for you. But remember that most of the Todoist users in India will probably have their mobile numbers listed in DnD :(.
May I know which DND category does Todoist messages belong to?
CC: Hardik Shah :-) , Did you get to know the category?
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Hello Harsha,
I think it should be category 6 which includes communication and IT :-)
Thanks. I will try and let you know if I face any issues :-)


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Seems pretty decent, but you should polish some things for the next episode such as: music volume, transition from scene to scene, and the subtitles, I could barely see them at certain points of the animation.
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I have never said the Japanese manufacturers were better or worse. I'm saying fanboy bashing is shallow. Now go back into your bathroom and change your underwear.
Shallow? Honda and Toyota have had the largest amounts of recalled vehicles as of late. Those are the facts. It's time to realize that Japan companies are no different (better) than any automotive company.
Chill out Yoma. We have a BIG Japanese performance car following in America. Not all of us are shallow.
thats a pretty general statement. we americans are not all the same. so please direct your comments at the people who deserve it and not put us all in one boat. if we all felt that way then japanese vehicles would not have a market here
You guys hate on the Japs, When they have a recall your like ohh what a shitty brand, but when the Americans have a recall your like, OK. I AM TIRED OF THIS SHIT AND ALL YOU AMERICAN SHIT PEOPLE
Um, these are 10 year old vehicles?
At least the Japanese know to include rear brake pads from the factory. ;)
Honda is beginning to look like the old Chrysler.
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