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Johnny Depp made one little British girl's dreams come true when he showed up at her school in full Captain Jack Sparrow wardrobe to help her murder her teachers. Break it down fo' me, Daily Mail:
The star is currently in south-east London filming the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie On Stranger Tides and arrived at the Meridian Primary School dressed in full character as Captain Jack Sparrow.
He made the one-off trip after nine-year-old pupil Beatrice Delap wrote to the star asking for help staging a 'mutiny' against the teachers.
The school was told just ten minutes before that Depp would be arriving and two blacked-out cars swept through the school gates.
Beatrice revealed what she had written in the letter to the star – or rather his salty seadog alter ego.
She said: 'Captain Jack Sparrow, At Meridian Primary School, we are a bunch of budding young pirates. Normally we're a right handful, but we're having a bit of trouble mutiny-ing against the teachers! We'd love if you could come and help.
'Beatrice Delap, aged nine, a budding pirate.'
She said that she was then asked by the star to make herself known from the assembled pupils once he arrived, and gave her a cuddle. Beatrice marvelled: 'He gave me a hug and he said, "Maybe we shouldn't mutiny today 'cos there are police outside monitoring me."'
Ten minutes warning?!? That's hardly any time to prepa– oh my God!! He's Here now!! Hi Johnny, how are you? …. Oh, now he's jumping out the window. What a weirdo.
"Fringe" has two alternate universes, double versions of most of the major characters and plenty of secrets. Today it was a regular old action scene that had star Anna Torv frazzled. Scheduled for a conference call with the media, Torv handled Olivia Dunham's business as quickly as possible, and told the press how her world has become one big police emergency.
"We're at a train station," Torv said. "We've got a hostage situation today. So we've got police cars. That's the terrible thing. There's all these flashing lights and ambulances and police cars. I was driving home the other day and saw flashing lights and police cars and thought, 'I'll keep going.' It was only when I got home that I realized oh my god, that was a huge accident. That's not funny."
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Writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg have turned in their draft of Ghostbusters 3, and it's in Dan Aykroyd's hands now. That's either a good thing or a bad thing depending on whether or not you saw and enjoyed Year One or Blues Brothers 2000. Aykroyd's jazzed about it though. He told Vanity Fair:
"I'm working on the script now and those two – Stupnitsky and Eisenberg – wrote Bill the comic role of a lifetime, and the new Ghostbusters and the old are all well represented in it… we have a strong first draft that Harold and I will take back, and I'm very excited about working on it."
He then got into the changes we can expect to see with his character if this thing ever gets a greenlight:
"Now my character's eyesight is shot, I got a bad knee, a gad hip – I can't drive that caddy anymore or lift that Psychotron Accelerator anymore, it's too heavy. We need young legs, new minds – new Ghostbusters; so I'm in essence passing the torch to the new regime, and you know what? That's totally okay with me."
Totally okay as long as this new regime doesn't try to touch his script.
Brad Bird can't quit adding baddies, and people in general, to his Mission: Impossible 4 movie. Michael Nyqvist from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films recently joined as a villain, and now Anil Kapoor and Lea Seydoux have chosen to accept the mission of kicking Ethan Hunt's ass.
You might remember Kapoor as the backstabbing game show host in Slumdog Millionaire, and Seydoux from Robin Hood and the intense opening scene in Inglourious Basterds. The two join an already huge cast of Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Josh Holloway. With that many people lending a hand, the mission seems to be getting less impossible. Team work, you guys! (Deadline)
When Australians first started appearing in American films, no one raised much of a fuss. After all, there were only a few of them (Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, etc.). Stars such as Mel Gibson (who was born in the U.S.) and Nicole Kidman became household names, but even so, their movie accents were so Americanized that many people didn't know they were foreign. Back then, Australians who came here wanted to blend into the fabric of American society (save for Paul Hogan, but at least we knew he could be trusted). Those were simpler times.
Once again, thank you, Internet.
Warner Bros. has hired Sherlock Holmes writer Anthony Peckham to do a complete rewrite on Yucatan as a star vehicle for Robert Downey Jr. The actor will also produce the film with his wife Susan Downey through their Team Downey production company. Awwww, I love family affairs. Maybe their kid can mark the scenes with a little clapboard.
In the film, Downey will play a deep-sea salvage expert hired to steal a mysterious hidden treasure hidden deep underwater in the Mayan ruins of Yucatan. So far Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson haven't wiggled their way into the project. God knows they love looking for treasure together and getting into trouble along the way. Yucatan was originally a passion project for the late and great actor Steve McQueen. He compiled over 1500 pages of notes but never got the film off the ground before dying in 1980. Hope he's cool with his kids handing it over to Downey. A vengeful McQueen zombie would be the worst kind of zombie. (Deadline)
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Apparently all that sweet, sweet Shrek money isn't enough to support Mike Meyers's hockey and kilt habit. The SNL alum will loan his voice to a live-action/CGI hybrid film starring the Looney Tunes skunk, Pepe Le Pew.
It's reported that both Le Pew and his reluctant inamorata Penelope Pussycat will both be brought to life digitally, while the world around them will be shot in live-action. Can't believe this is actually being made. I always thought the first film about cat rape would be made by Harmony Korine. (Vulture)
Play him off, Slash.
So Guns N' Roses (and Velvet Revolver) guitarist Slash wants to make horror movies now. Okay I guess. He's teaming with Scout Productions to start Slasher Films. It's almost like he had to do it because his name is Slash. Deadline, tell us more:
They will produce edgy contemporary horror fare with a nod to the thrillers of the '70s and '80s. They've set up their first: Nothing to Fear, a horror/thriller that follows a young family as it tries to reinvent itself by moving to a small town in rural Kansas. The family is tormented by an ancient demon with an insatiable blood lust.
Again, okay I guess. Rocker Rob Zombie has already been doing this for a few years now. I doubt Slash is going to come on to the scene and change the world of horror as we know it. Of course he did say, "I've always been a huge horror fan and creating films that take you back to the days where horror movies actually scared the hell out of you is something I've always wanted to do." Has anyone gone into production on a horror movie with the intention of not scaring the hell out of people? I mean except for Katherine Heigl projects.
Man, Alfonso Cuaron is having a bitch of a time finding someone to star in his Gravity movie. Angelina passed on it twice, Scarlett Johannson and Blake Lively were rumored to be in contention, and then it was announced that Natalie Portman was in talks for the role. Well, she passed. Now Universal is trying their damndest to woo Sandra Bullock for the part. If you ask me, Bullock should pass as well. She doesn't need to be caught in the center of a widely-publicized story about how she was second banana to a few younger women. That's so last year.
If Bullock does indeed pass, they should just go with Olivia Munn. She's already got the helmet and everything.
Yesterday, everyone on the Internet was reporting that Darren Aronofsky was taking on the Wolverine sequel. Well hold your damn horses. Now, Empire Online is reporting that Warner Bros. has made a counter offer that might just land the director in their camp: a 40's era period piece called Tales from the Gangster Squad.
Tales from the Gangster Squad follows the exploits of Sergeant John O'Mara's off-the-books team of police mercenaries, who targeted mob-linked gangster Mickey Cohen and his attempts to bring East Coast organised crime firmly into LA. Originally chronicled in a series of LA Times articles by Paul Lieberman, the script has been penned by cop-turned-writer Will Beall.
That's a tough call. Both films sound like a good fit for Aronofsky. It reminds me a little of Sophie's Choice, except for this I'm going to stay tuned to find out what happens instead of switching over to "Real World/Road Rules Challenge" (Sorry, Sophie).
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"Back off, zombies!"
David O. Russell is removing himself from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in favor of working with another constantly hungry creature — Vince Vaughn. Natalie Portman couldn't work out her schedule to align with O. Russell's, and now he needs to hop on Old St. Louis.
But it looks like she won't be the only starlet who won't have the opportunity to be berated by the nutbar director. Scarlett Johansson had to drop out of Old St. Louis due to her own scheduling conflicts. We'll keep you posted when the search for a new Pride and Prejudice and Zombies director begins, but we feel that the gig should go to Troma's Lloyd Kaufman. He pretty much invented and mastered that genre as it is. (NY Mag)
BoingBoing was sent this video that condenses the entire Star Wars Trilogy into two minutes AND does the whole thing in paper animation. I love it. Way better than spending six hours on the originals. Sure, the special effects aren't as impressive but the time spent on cutting out every little detail from construction paper deserves major kudos. Good job, Jeremy Messsersmith, a Minneapolis musician.
This game looks great.
The road to a Halo movie adaptation has certainly been a bumpy one. Originally, Universal and Fox split the rights and Peter Jackson was brought in. But then Jackson wanted too much money and Universal was all like, "F*ck you!" And then Jackson was all like, "No. F*ck you!!" Then he walked, effectively killing the project.
Now Dreamworks is stepping in to try to make a film adaptation of the Halo BOOKS and not the game, so that Universal can't turn around and be all like, "F*ck you!!!" Sounds like a solid plan, except that someone in Hollywood had to own up to knowing that Halo books exist. Nuuuuurrrdddd!!!!!
At any rate, Microsoft has not agreed to hand over their prize pig just yet, so we'll have to see how this plays out. If it doesn't fail, they should just film the hot girl in the picture above while she plays Halo. Or I guess as she reads the Halo books, so that Universal doesn't step in. I'd still watch that. I'd even buy the novelization of the movie about her reading the books. Actually sounds like a lot of work. I'm gonna go play videogames now. (NY Mag)
Sam Raimi has for reals seriously confirmed that his next directorial project will be Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful. I thought this news was already confirmed with Robert Downey Jr. attached to star, but apparently Raimi was waffling between World of Warcraft and Oz, and Downey Jr. isn't yet a certainty. What a slap in the pizza face to MMORPG gamers.
Deadline says that Disney expects production on the film to begin next year at some point. I imagine what month and day depends on how well the new draft of the script written by David Lindsay-Abaire shapes up. Lindsay-Abaire, who wrote festival hit Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman, also worked with Raimi on the script for the Spider-man 4 movie that Raimi eventually burnt out on.
Now the director will put all of his efforts in making the Wizard walk a similar path as Dorothy in the original film. If he doesn't run into Bruce Campbell as the Lion, Tin Man, or Scarecrow a serious injustice will be done. Disney should have signed off on that stipulation before ever a hand was shook.
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In this clip from the Season 2 premiere of "Ugly Americans," Mark counsels Tim the two-headed work creature and gives psychiatric evaluations to the Department of Integration employees. I had no idea that the left heads of two headed worm creatures have been so persecuted throughout history, from separate drinking fountains to forced prostitution. It really is a right head world. It's the very reason I chopped the other head off years ago. I only have two now.
"Ugly Americans" premieres on Comedy Central tonight at 10:30/9:30c after an all new "South Park."
Stringer Bell a.k.a. Idris Elba is in talks to join Nicolas Cage, Ciaran Hinds, and hottie Violante Placido in Ghost Rider 2. THR reports that Elba would play "an alcoholic warrior monk tasked with finding Ghost Rider." There are so many contradictions in that character description. Basically, Worst. Monk. Ever.
Johnny Whitworth is also looking to jump into the Neveldine/Taylor-directed flaming skull flick. The "CSI: Miami" star would be "a criminal who is recruited by the devil to find the boy and is later turned into a demonic creature." What's with all the finding going on in this movie? I wonder how Neveldine and Taylor will make that interesting. Oh right, shoot the whole thing like it's an acid trip. This can't not turn out excellent.
"You don't know what a HUG is?"
Warner Bros. is planning to start shooting Christopher Nolan's third Batman movie in April in the fine city of New Orleans. Yes, I'm displeased by this news too. I was hoping shooting would start next week in the Rite Aid parking lot across from my apartment. My reasoning for this is two fold. 1) April is too damn far away. I want another Nolan movie, especially another Nolan Batman, in theaters ASAP. 2) New Orleans is too far away. If the film were shot in the Rite Aid parking lot across from my apartment I'd be able to watch all the action go down. With enough green screen and CG they could rearrange the homeless people to make it look like Chicago/Gotham. (Coming Soon)
We'd heard the rumors but they sounded too crazy to even qualify. Yet somehow, against all laws of nature, Darren Aronofsky is in talks to direct Wolverine 2. Aronofsky surpassed rumored shoe-in David Slade to win the honor of directing the second film in this so far pretty sh*tty franchise, just days after it was announced that Zack Snyder won the Superman directing duties.
May be a case of Justin Bieber punk'n us all, but if not, at least we have a director who can artfully convey Wolverine's frustration with the world that won't accept him as he surfs on a missile or whatever ridiculous action set-piece makes its way into this film.
Where this leaves Preacher or movies that are a good idea for Aronofsky to do, we do not know. But if you ask me, this move is in direct reaction to the failure of The Wrestler action-figure line. Apart from the Marisa Tomei Lapdancer dolls, those things just didn't sell. (Deadline)
How awkward!
ABC has snapped up a sitcom based on the popular website, "Awkward Family Photos," Variety is reporting. Moses Port and David Guarascio ("Just Shoot Me") are set to write the script, while Joe Russo and Anthony Russo will act as directors and executive producers. The brains behind the site, Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, will also act as executive producers.
"Awkward Family Photos" follows in the footsteps of "$#*! My Dad Says," another recent sitcom that started out on the web. In related news, I'm currently in talks with ABC to produce "$#*!s My Co-Workers Took," a movie based on a popular toilet cam I installed during a recent trip to our Chicago office (that's why I needed the plunger, guys). Of course in this case, "ABC" is a homeless guy who sells bootleg DVDs at the bus stop, not the TV network, but still. It's a great time to be an Internet writer!
If Zack Snyder is looking to make the most adorable Superman movie ever, I present his leading man. Pup, pup, and away!
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Red-headed and adorable Emma Stone from Easy A and Zombieland has been officially cast in the Spider-man reboot, but not as the red-headed and adorable Mary Jane Watson. Stone will play Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's blonde-haired first love interest. Say whaaaaaaat, director Marc Webb?
"The chemistry between Andrew (Garfield) and Emma was stunning and made Emma the clear choice. At the heart of the story of Peter Parker is not only the amazing Spider-Man, but also an ordinary teenager who is wondering what he has to do to get the girl. Andrew and Emma will bring everything audiences expect to these roles, but also make them their own. Much to my surprise, it was fun to find out that our choice for Gwen (Emma) is also a natural blonde."
How he found out her natural hair color is unknown, but apparently it was "fun." Pics or it didn't happen. (TheWrap)
An offer has gone out to Jack Nicholson to reunite with Tom Cruise in El Presidente. If he signs on, Nicholson will portray a degenerate former-President who goes on the run under the protection of a Secret Service agent played by Cruise. Sounds like a mash-up of Guarding Tess and My Fellow Americans, or Knight & Day with a much more attractive co-star.
This would be the first time that Cruise and Nicholson have appeared together onscreen since the A Few Good Men. If you're not familiar with that film, check out this classic clip.
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Or something. (LA Times)
Get Him to the Greek is a half-wadded spitball at the entertainment industry and all things not sacred from Judd Apatow factory of funny. The return of infamous British rock star, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and newcomer music intern Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) must make it to the famous Greek Theater in 72 Hours or both their careers will be left in the dust. From traveling around London, New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles this odd-ball duo leave a trail of drugs, sex, and rock 'n roll behind them. It's when the comedy stops and things get serious that the movie creaks along its way to an ending that dearly holds onto whatever "Jeffery" vapors it has left.
With that being said, the DVD/ BluRay release gives us another unrated, post-theatrical look at this comedy, which according the filmmaker's commentary is a push to make comedic movies into a new coined term called "Hard Comedy," mixing the laughs with dramatic weight.
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Next week's new episode of "Chuck" brings Captain Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) and Ellie Bartowski-Woodcomb (Sarah Lancaster) into action. Premier Allejandro Goya (Armand Assante) returns to ask Awesome to come with him to his country, Costa Gavras. Ellie sees it as an exciting distraction from baby planning.
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Normally when you think of a post-apocalyptic landscape, you don't think of women as hot as Charlize Theron running around. It seems that director George Miller took this into account after he cast Theron for the Mad Max reboot. Charlize won't quite be a 10 in this movie. Really more of a 9.8.
ABC Australia has confirmed that Theron's character in Mad Max: Fury Road will be missing part of her arm (presumably the bottom), with one-armed swimmer Annabelle Williams working as her stunt double. Hmmm, strange that a one-armed swimmer would need to pick up outside work. (via Coming Soon)
He's coming for you, Bruno Mars.
NoooooooOOOOOOOOOO!!! MTV is bringing back the series "Punk'd" and they want Justin Bieber to host it. If it were April 1st I'd be more accepting of this news, but it's not, it's October 5th. We are NOT being punk'd.
The show's creators/executive producers/original hosts Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg are back to exec produce, so don't go thinking the quality of the content will slip. They're all over that. Sports cars will continue to be towed and lunch orders "accidently" botched. The only difference is Justin Bieber will now emerge from around the corner to reveal the ruse with a sh*t-eating grin on his face. Let's hope 50 Cent is packing and doesn't appreciate pranks. (Deadline)
When did Maxim shoots get so old timey?
I know that I work for the Internet and am supposed to automatically love everything Simon Pegg does by default, but this trailer for Burke and Hare really doesn't portray the film in a favorable light. Andy Serkis's motion capture looks really convincing. It's almost looks like he's real.
The story is based on the true story of Irish serial killers in Edinburgh, Scotland who murder their victims to then sell them as medical cadavers. The trailer cites the desire to save enough money to bang Isla Fisher as the motive behind the slayings. I can't imagine a court where that defense wouldn't hold up.
Check out the trailer after the jump…
From the brilliant mind of Christopher Nolan comes a brain-twisting, dazzling spectacle of light and sound. You won't believe your eyes as you're sucked into the mysterious, fascinating world of the dream with only your instincts as your guide. Betrayal! Mischief! Mayhem! Love is lost. Hope is found. It's a nail-biting, teeth-clenching, hand-wringing thrill ride. Hold on tight as intrigue envelopes you. You won't look at the world the same after you experience…Inception!


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2 rabbis among 10 charged in claimed kidnap-and-torture plot to force religious divorces
By Martha Neil
Oct 11, 2013, 05:20 pm CDT
By Tyrone on 2013 10 12, 2:24 pm CDT
By Fred on 2013 10 12, 10:36 pm CDT
What's more surprising is that men would give the women a difficult time getting the religious divorce especially if the civil divorce has already been obtained. It would seem to me that if the community knows about these attacks they might be more inclined to grant the "gets".
I can't believe the amounts of money they claim the women paid for such services, what a waste.
Couldn't they find a husband in another community? What constitutes their community? Is it Orthodox Jew within ten miles or less? What?
By concernedcitizen on 2013 10 13, 6:42 am CDT
You must not practice family law. When it comes to vindictiveness the Mob has nothing on the parties to a divorce or custody action whether they are men or women.
By W.R.T. on 2013 10 13, 11:16 am CDT
By NoleLaw on 2013 10 14, 12:35 pm CDT
By WMantooth on 2013 10 14, 1:48 pm CDT
By lab on 2013 10 14, 4:50 pm CDT
@ 1. What makes you think that this is "clearly Evil by their own religious standards?" In Ultra-Orthodox communities, there is a religiously symbolic ceremony that accompanies the marriage; but the procedure is purely contractual in nature. The contract, or ketubah, is agreed-upon by the parties prior to marriage, and signed by parties and their witnesses from both sides. Among non-Orthodox, these are boiler-plate affairs in Hebrew that are similar to the State's codified or common law marriage vows. In Ultra-Orthodox communities and Sephardic families, these can be quite elaborate affairs, that also include the terms of a divorce agreement--should the unthinkable occur. The choice of law and jurisdiction for most of these ketubot (pl.) in Ultra-Orthodox communities is Talmudic Law as interpreted by their local Bet Din--a Rabbinic Court comprised of three judges. (NOTE: Bet Dins also do Mediation and Arbitration, and it is not unusual to see business contracts with these clauses.) Specific performance of the remedies for breach by either party are available under these contracts. The Bet Din decisions on these contracts are usually upheld in State Family Courts. When a Bet Din permits enforcement by such means as are necessary to secure the performance, the nature of the "means ...necessary" is one that courts in this country commonly refer to as "...an unsettled area of law." Usually it involves shunning the offending husband and his business. In an insular community, this can have a devastating economic effect, and is often enough to secure compliance. But when the errant ex-husband makes his living outside of the community, this may have little effect. Which raises the question: Is the sanctity of a man's gonads more important than the forced waiver of contractual rights?
@ 3: In many Ultra-Orthodox marriages, the woman not only brings to the marriage a sizable dowry, which is often turned over to the husband to invest in business opportunities for the family. In addition, the man pledges up front a (usually) much greater sum to be settled on the woman in the event of divorce, plus a certain amount per child as minimum maintenance. These are significant sums; and the repayment of the dowry AND the marriage settlement are due when the man gives the wife a "get." So there is often a significant economic incentive for the husband to avoid giving the "get."
@ 5: The "consent" to these agreements is usually made far in advance, when both parties are presumably not under any financial pressure due to issues that surround an impending divorce. This is an enforcement action. As distasteful as it may seem, it is often fairer and more judicially expedient than having matched sets of lawyers egg opposing parties on in dissolution actions, while draining resources that could be used to provide for the parties' children.
By BMF on 2013 10 14, 6:15 pm CDT
A forced Get is a legal one. The Oral Torah (Mishna and Gumara, the names for what is known as Jewish Law) are the most thought out documents second only to the Torah itself. These documents go so indepth that students will spend their whole life learning them. Please don't presume to know the "logic" about a complex religion.
By The other guy on 2013 10 14, 7:38 pm CDT
@9 - I don't consider a set of beliefs followed by a couple million people worldwide (less in the case of "ultra-Orthodox") as "mainstream." The rabbis in this case perhaps should Get a grip.
By NoleLaw on 2013 10 14, 7:48 pm CDT
Those that are religous appreciated what they believe. Just because a majority of Jewish groups a while back found it convenient to pick and choose doesn't make the religous laws an less binding. For all orthodox, a Get is a more binding contract than any contract given by any modern day government.
So, for Rabbi's to "Get a grip" is telling a group to ignore a very important legal issue. For those that choose to follow the entire religion (and not what is just convenient) this is a very big issue. The lack of seeming understanding leads me to believe that religion, as you understand it, is just that, a religion, and has no place in the lifestyle. For Orthodox Jews, religion "is" their lifestyle.
I'm not saying you should have the same religous ideology as others, just to understand the situation that others are in due to their understand. This binding contract, in a women's eyes as well as her family, is a problem that literally has the ability to haunt the girl her entire life, so to some a little physical motivation is the right move. I will admit though, cattle prods, that's intense!
By The other guy on 2013 10 14, 9:57 pm CDT
By Just curious on 2013 10 14, 10:00 pm CDT
By NoleLaw on 2013 10 15, 2:49 pm CDT
By AndytheLawyer on 2013 10 15, 2:57 pm CDT
Originally, Judaism embraced the concept of plural marriage. However, the last big concession the Jews made to the secular world as a religion was probably the 1000 year ban on plural marriage. This was instituted about the year 1000, by rabbis who no doubt deemed it safer for the members of the Tribes in light of the rise of Christianity throughout Europe. Assuming the dates are correct, the 1000 year ban has expired. So as long as the ex-husband has obtained a civil divorce/dissolution, he would have a legal second marriage. Whether the marriage would be accepted by an Ultra-Orthodox rabbi would depend most likely on the local Bet Din's interpretation of this issue. As for the new wife, she would probably be considered a "slut" if the former wife was held in high regard in the community. Some things are universal....
By BMF on 2013 10 15, 4:42 pm CDT
Under Jewish law married women were considered the property of their husbands--just like under old English Common Law, thankyewfornotgasping. When a Jewish man gives his ex-wife a get, it is a formal notice that the woman is no longer his property, and that she is available to all without penalty under the laws for adultery. Adultery was originally a capital offense under Talmudic law. So depriving a woman of a "get" not only deprived her of money to which she was entitled under the contract, but her conjugal rights. I suppose the best modern parallel for comparison would be more a "decree/notice of abandonment of rights," often filed in a county recorder's office to provide notice of giving up an interest in certain real property or abandoning of certain assets under the UCC.
If the clause providing for the "get" is included in the marriage contract, consent is not really an issue. When the husband breaches the contract, he is liable for the damages or specific performance imposed under the terms of the contract. Consent is obtained at the time of formation of contract--when the parties sign.
By BMF on 2013 10 15, 5:06 pm CDT
Maybe including a get in the marriage contract, effective upon the granting of a civil divorce or something like that, might be an end run around this whole business, just like some of these rabbis think that extracting a get by torture satisfies God's commands on the matter (because God is, after all, mainly concerned with technicalities such as whether there is a written instrument).
I wonder if your worry about explaining a get without sounding archaic or insulting may be due to the institution being archaic and insulting, as opposed to anything you might say to describe it. With perhaps only the exception of Pastafarianism, every religion becomes more absurd, and often more oppressive, the more literally it interprets and applies its holy writings.
By NoleLaw on 2013 10 15, 5:41 pm CDT
"Yea when Moses came down from the mountain with those two tablets, the people still didn't buy in to those commandments. Instead they continued to look to the golden calves and other such unworthy idols. And Moses went back up the mountain and received a Binford 360 Turbo Cattle Prod from the burning bush. And Moses thereupon smited the people roundly with ye Cattle Prod about their nether regions. Yea and verily did the people heed the commandments thereafter."
By psable on 2013 10 15, 7:23 pm CDT
By Ann Clark on 2013 10 16, 4:30 pm CDT
By Tyrone on 2013 10 16, 4:31 pm CDT
I think we finally have a nominee for the Ann Coulter Prize for the Promotion of Interfaith Tolerance.
@ 16: I don't think so.... Perhaps you should read your Crim Law book before finals.
By BMF on 2013 10 16, 8:03 pm CDT
By charlegman on 2013 10 16, 8:57 pm CDT
Your use of the word "Church" for a Jewish synagogue shows just how much you know about anything outside your small comfort zone.
The other "Jewish churches" you mention, simply put, ignore even the most basic Jewish law. I'm sure by your comment that you have a clear and sophisticated opinion.
I've mentioned in other comments the understanding needed to understand the seriousness of such a contract. Orthodox Jews take these matter very seriously.
But in all seriousness, I'm just glad that you don't have any actual influence in policy. Beleive it or not, but religion is a very serious topic for many. Unlike others, for Orthodox Jews religion is not just a religion but their lifestyle. It is imbedded in their everyday lives and thoughts. I'm not saying you have any reason to have to hold a similar ideology, only that you try to understand and respect others.
By The other guy on 2013 10 16, 10:00 pm CDT
By NoleLaw on 2013 10 16, 11:32 pm CDT
By B. McLeod on 2013 10 17, 12:43 am CDT
By Smith on 2013 10 18, 8:09 am CDT
In England we have adopted a law which I understand to be based on that of New York: the civil court can refuse a divorce if the husband refuses a get. Of course that does not help if it is the wife who is the petitioner for a civil divorce (two-thirds of all petitioners here are the wives) or if the husband has no interest in being able to remarry. And until the divorce the courts are hobbled in what financial orders they can make.
There is no ready solution - and the electric catlte-prod does not provide one.
By Andrew on 2013 10 18, 11:30 am CDT
By NYerhere on 2013 10 18, 12:15 pm CDT
By tip of the iceberg on 2013 10 18, 1:01 pm CDT
By In-House Intermediate on 2013 10 18, 1:15 pm CDT
By MFargis on 2013 10 18, 1:22 pm CDT
By Tallahassee Tall Man on 2013 10 18, 1:51 pm CDT
By AR on 2013 10 18, 1:53 pm CDT
The case was essentially decided as a matter of contract. The ex-husband had received consideration for his promise to provide the get, and the breach of that promise gave rise to damages.
The minority of the court thought that the decision involved improper interference with religious law. The majority (in my view rightly) did not think so.
By John G on 2013 10 18, 2:00 pm CDT
By Areader on 2013 10 18, 2:18 pm CDT
I think you probably do understand @19 - I do. The word "church" is perfectly appropriate, it denotes a building where people go in groups to avail themselves of what Christopher Hitchens so aptly described as "the God delusion."
I cannot for the life of me understand why a female brought up to be chattel property wouldn't run away from such a "community" as fast as possible. This is the 21st Century; wake up already.
Not a religion, but a "lifestyle"? Like being gay is a "lifestyle"? Hardly. It's a *choice* to bind yourself to the rules of some Magic Sky-Fairy.
By 21st Century Reality on 2013 10 18, 3:16 pm CDT
By LawLOL on 2013 10 18, 4:01 pm CDT
FYI to all, this is an extreme and rare situation in the Orthodox community. The vast majority of time there is no violence, though there may be a threat of violence. Instead there is heavy duty harassment of the stubborn husband. Many if not most of these cases involve men who are abusive to their wives, emotionally and/or physically. These are not good people. There is an Orthodox man in Israel who has been in prison for decades due to his refusal to give a get.
By TorahLaw on 2013 10 18, 4:34 pm CDT
Ironically, Ultra Orthodox Jews have some much in common with their other cousins: Muslims, but you
just do not want to admit it. In conservative Muslim teachings, only the man could divorce the woman.
She is under his mercy all the time. Seems uncivilized? Yes. Only when God(s) dies, humans
become free.
By CamelJockey on 2013 10 18, 4:53 pm CDT
Your snarky rebuke about a reference to a jewish church just shows the smallness of your mind. You cannot quarrel with the substance of that commenter's post. Though you tried to quarrel with the substance, you just demonstrate how much like the Taliban you are -- only you apparently know the real judiasm ...
As I said, get a life.
By Get A Life on 2013 10 18, 5:07 pm CDT
To paraphrase: "If you wish, give a verse; if you wish, give a commonsense argument." Gemarah (See Berakhot 4b.)
An Escort is a car; a 335i is a car. They may even share some parts made by Magna and various related corporate subsidiaries. But a Ford is NOT a BMW!
By BMF on 2013 10 18, 5:09 pm CDT
By hjm on 2013 10 18, 7:23 pm CDT
Next thing you know, clergy will convince people that God requires a percentage of everyone's income and then pass around a collection plate.
By Smeliot on 2013 10 18, 7:39 pm CDT
By B. McLeod on 2013 10 19, 1:17 am CDT
By Tom Youngjohn on 2013 10 19, 4:32 am CDT
And to those that compare this to old Talmudic practices, I'm reasonably confident in my history that the beatings meted out to get a reluctant man to grant a religious divorce were not arranged like mob hits.
By OKBankLaw on 2013 10 21, 9:02 pm CDT
I guess the neighborhood has just gone to hell....
By BMF on 2013 10 22, 4:27 am CDT
I'm not saying the beatings were right in the thrilling days of yesteryear, just that when it looks like organized crime and is paid like organized crime, calling it religious expression is thin window dressing.
By OKBankLaw on 2013 10 22, 1:13 pm CDT
one of the most interesting books ive read int he last few years, THE TALMUD AND THE INTERNET...a very slender but intense and thoughtful little book on the complexity of the talmud and jewish teachings. if you're interested in learning more about the source of some of the most important thinking in the history of the world, this might be a good entrypoint.
By defensive lawyer on 2013 10 22, 3:59 pm CDT
Whether we like it or not, most religions, like most educational institutions, are run like businesses, and, consequently, there is a certain degree of avarice involved.
@ 49: Thanks for the title. I will put it on my "reward list" for getting this fr@cking motion out the door by the end of the week.
By BMF on 2013 10 22, 5:03 pm CDT
I get what you're saying, however the difference in my opinion is that it isn't against the law to pay for access to a private institution. It is against the law to beat someone.
By OKBankLaw on 2013 10 22, 7:28 pm CDT
By PaperChaser on 2013 10 24, 2:57 pm CDT
(Mark 16: 18)
By Tom Youngjohn on 2013 10 24, 6:19 pm CDT
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A lot of prejudice that concerns black identity concerns female circumcision that is oppression against women, this oppression only takes place in black africa. But [that] oppression is just one oppression... It can take place in Africa or Sweden or anywhere... By them labeling oppression to only be female circumcision and taking a certain form, I think that's putting on blindfolds for seeing what oppression really is.
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But the Linde scandal should make us thinking deeper about how memes can distort truth -- that image of the cake was really all a lot of people needed to form an opinion on a rather complicated piece of art. It should be taken as a warning that a few days had to pass before the global community that tripped out on Linde's work even learned who he was. Few people have the time (like I do, yay) to delve into artist websites and call up friends from other countries based on one crazy photo seen on a website. As it was, that photo was spread around and editorialized on like some half-assed middle school game of Telephone. I wonder if half the people commenting on the links Linde has posted on his Facebook page even take the time to read the articles.
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Dish Network has made some major moves in an increasingly progressive video content market with their Blockbuster-based streaming/mail service and their exclusivity on certain Fox television shows on Hulu for 8 days after airing. Clearly they have some greater ambitions, as CEO Joseph Clayton recently shared an interest in T-Mobile with Bloomburg. Apparently, they have interest in partnering up with the number four wireless carrier if their deal with AT&T falls through, which could allow them to share spectrum (Dish has some stockpiled which could be used for LTE or more HSPA+) and customers (with TV + Phone bundles).
This is in no way a formal offer, evidenced by the fact that Clayton suggested that they could even go with a company like Sprint/Clearwire or pick up divested spectrum if the AT&T/T-Mobile merger does go through. Either way, Dish Network has plenty of room to grow and seem to be taking a page out of Verizon's playbook in cross-media investment.
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Dr. Nathan Bryan is a professor at the Brown Institute for Molecular Medicine at UT Health Science Center Houston. But recently, he's taken to grinding up herbs with an old fashioned mortar and pestle.
"This is Dan Shen, it's actually tree bark. So what you do is you grind this up, and you can create a purified extract of it..."
For thousands of years, people in China and other East Asian countries have taken tree bark, flowers, roots, and even insects to treat everything from headaches to tumors.ξ In the US, you can get these treatments at traditional Chinese medicine stores, but they aren't prescribed by Western doctors.ξ Bryan explains:
"The Chinese culture and Eastern culture have used these medications for over 5,000 years. But they haven't penetrated the US market because no one knows how they work. We know they work, they're quite effective, but without isolating the active compound in the traditional Chinese medicines, it's tough to get FDA approval."
So he and his researchers mixed traditional herbs used for heart problems, and then tested their nitric oxide output.ξ Nitric oxide is crucial for things like regulating blood pressure and fighting infections, but people who have cardiovascular disease have low levels of it. It turns out that these traditional Chinese herbs create nitric oxide, which fills in for what the body lacks. Bryan hopes that someday soon, the FDA will approve these compounds for use in treating patients.
(Sounds of Chinese music and a door shutting).
At the Oriental Herbs and Acupuncture Center on Bellaire Blvd, Cathy Tian weighsξ what looks like mushrooms for a client.ξ She says this small store is one of the most famous in Texas, with more varieties of herbs than most others.
Dr. Lulin Lu is the doctor and acupuncturist there.ξ He's studied both traditional and Western medicine since the 1940's.ξ Tian explains that Dr. Lu prescribes a different set of herbs for each individual case.
"Doctor check your pulse, check your circulation, good or no good, and then doctor give you herbs."
Michelle Tang moved to Houston from China over 10 years ago.ξ She came to Dr. Lu recently after the medications Western doctors gave her weren't working.
"I lost my job like a month ago, and I was really devastated.ξ I couldn't go to sleep for 5 days. So that Saturday I came to Dr. Lu's office, and he did some acupuncture, and at night I also took some herbs, and that night I went to sleep immediately. So my mom said, 'It's magic!'"
Some people say magic.ξ Others, nitric oxide.
From the KUHF NewsLab, I'm Melissa Galvez.
This story first airedξonξSeptember 17, 2009.


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March 20, 2013
BY MARK BENNETTUW Athletic Communications
MADISON, Wis. -- There is little debate that Wisconsin sophomore Ivy Martin is one of the fastest swimmers in the country.
On Feb. 21, Martin swam to a Big Ten record time of 21.84 in the 50-yard freestyle during the preliminary round of the conference championships in Minneapolis. Martin became the first female athlete in Big Ten competition to break the 22-second barrier in the 50-freestyle, and she shattered former Wisconsin standout Beckie Thompson's 2012 school record of 21.94.
But in addition to being one of the fastest in the NCAA, the Madison native might also be one of the most humble as well.
No female swimmer in the history of Big Ten competition has ever covered 50 yards in a pool faster than Ivy Martin.
"Yeah, that sounds pretty crazy when you say it like that," Martin said, a little shy in admitting her own success. "But I don't know, it's pretty exciting."
When Martin hit the wall at the Big Ten Championships in Minneapolis, she could hear the roar of her teammates and knew she had swum a great race.
"That was my goal, to get the record," Martin said. "When I finished, I felt good in the water and I knew it was fast. And then I heard my teammates cheering."
Martin finished her freshman season with a personal best 22.60 at the 2012 Big Ten Championships, placing her among the better swimmers nationally in the event.
But as this season progressed, Martin separated herself from one of the better swimmers in the nation to one of the elite. Her time of 21.84 is just .06 seconds off the top mark in the country this year set by Arizona junior Margo Geer.
"I knew I was going to have a good Big Tens after I swam a best time at the Virginia Dual Meet," Martin said. "But it's all of the hard work paying off at the end of the season."
At that Virginia Dual meet in January, Martin broke the University of Virginia Aquatic Center pool record with a time of 22.36. Just a week later, the two-time Big Ten Swimmer of the Week broke the UW Natatorium record, swimming the 50-freestyle in 22.32.
And the times have kept falling from there.
Perhaps the only teammate who has given Ivy a run in the sprint events this season is the swimmer who also probably knows her best. Ruby Martin, Ivy's older sister and a senior swimmer for the Badgers, posted a time of 22.65 at the Big Ten Championships. That time is the eighth-fastest on the team this season with Ivy holding the top seven.
Combined, the Martin sisters hold the top 22 times in the 50-freestyle for Wisconsin this year.
Ivy Martin said she loves attending school in the city she's lived her whole life in. But as of a few weeks ago, the name Ivy Martin began to spread far beyond the borders of Madison.
Martin is so fast right now, that only five Wisconsin men have swam a faster 50-freestyle this season. If Martin put herself on the men's performance list, she would post the 28th-fastest time.
So how fast does she see herself going at the NCAA Championships this weekend in Indianapolis?
"I don't really want to think about a time," Martin said. "I just want to go in and swim as fast as I can. I guess a best time is a best time, so I would be happy with anything past my top time."
Martin said she made it a goal this season to score at the NCAAs in the 50 freestyle, but she never anticipated entering that competition seeded second. Now her goals have stretched a little further.
"It's just all so new to me right now, so it's hard to say where I see myself going," Martin said of her future. "But if I'm second now, I'm not going to limit myself to anything. Obviously the goal is to win the NCAAs."
And who knows. With half of her collegiate career remaining, Martin is just .57 seconds shy of the NCAA record.
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White House Wants Syria 'Red Line' to Be Determined by UN
Despite that body's schooling on what a red line means, lawmakers are livid about the message Obama's sending.
April 25, 2013 - 8:17 pm
Capitol Hill pounced on the Obama administration's flailing rhetoric about red lines after a slip of admonition that the Syrian regime most likely used chemical weapons.
"We cannot have a situation in which chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people," Obama said in August. "We have been very clear to the Assad regime but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my equation."
That equation, he said, would figure in "contingency plans" about which he did not elaborate.
In a statement delivered in the United Arab Emirates during his Mideast tour, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the White House this morning "delivered a letter to several members of Congress on the topic of chemical weapons use in Syria."
The letter, Hagel said, "states that the U.S. intelligence community assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin."
"As I have said, the intelligence community has been assessing information for some time on this issue, and the decision to reach this conclusion was made in the past 24 hours, and I have been in contact with senior officials in Washington today and most recently the last couple of hours on this issue," he continued. "We cannot confirm the origin of these weapons, but we do believe that any use of chemical weapons in Syria would very likely have originated with the Assad regime. As the letter states, the president has made it clear that the use of chemical weapons or the transfer of such weapons to terrorist groups would be unacceptable."
Hagel said all of the countries he stopped at, from Israel to Egypt, brought up Syria as a chief concern.
"This is serious business – we need all the facts," he said.
A White House official speaking on background today said the letter was a response to correspondence from Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
The senators' letter asked if the Assad regime or Syrian elements associated with or supported by the Assad regime used chemical weapons in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011.
"What we say in the letter is that our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin. This assessment is based in part on physiological samples. Our standard of evidence must build on these intelligence assessments as we seek to establish credible and corroborated facts. For example, the chain of custody is not clear, so we cannot confirm how the exposure occurred and under what conditions," the official said.
"We go on to reaffirm that the president has set a clear red line as it relates to the United States that the use of chemical weapons or the transfer of chemical weapons to terrorist groups is a red line that is not acceptable to us, nor should it be to the international community. It's precisely because we take this red line so seriously that we believe there is an obligation to fully investigate any and all evidence of chemical weapons use within Syria."
To get that "full investigation," the White House is not calling on U.S. intelligence services but on the United Nations.
"I think the point here is that given the stakes involved, given how serious the situation is, and what we have learned, frankly, from our own recent experience, intelligence assessments are not alone sufficient," the official said.
This dance around around the interpretation of red line — "the use of chemical weapons or the transfer of chemical weapons to terrorist groups," the official said, but internationally corroborated to a degree of satisfaction to the president — frustrated lawmakers who worried about how the message of pussyfooting on a publicly declared vow would look to America's enemies in addition to the idea of WMDs on the loose.
"If the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on the Syrian people, this is an astounding violation of human rights," said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.).
"I trust and agree with President Obama that the use of chemical munitions or the transfer of those weapons to terrorists would be a red line for his administration, and with it the civilized world. As the commander-in-chief, there is a national security imperative here. As the leader of the free world, there is a deep moral imperative as well," McKeon added. "Instead, it appears that the president is outsourcing our national security analysis to the United Nations."
"I do question the utility of red lines if they lack clearly delineated boundaries and meaningful consequences. I am confident the president does not wish for America's resolve to be called into question."


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'Writing From Left to Right'
December 04, 2013
Brian C. Anderson
Catholic theologian, social thinker, diplomat, political speechwriter, journalist, influencer of prime ministers and popes, author of dozens of important books - Michael Novak has lived an extraordinary public life. "Writing from Left to Right" is his entertaining and wise memoir of that engagement with his age, and of his movement across the political spectrum.
Born in 1933 to a working-class Slovak family in Johnstown, Pa., Mr. Novak describes two stories from his childhood that colored his later politics. The first is of listening with his father to a crackling radio broadcast in 1939, announcing Nazi Germanys invasion of Poland. "Study all you can about the Nazis and the communists," his father advised. "These will be the two movements that will shape the next forty years." The second is of his Uncles Johnnie and Emil. Both worked at Bethlehem Steel and both offered a supply of gruff common sense. The adult Mr. Novaks anti-totalitarianism and distrust of out-of-touch elites found a source in these early experiences.
"Writing from Left to Right" briefly chronicles Mr. Novaks dozen years as a seminarian and his initial efforts, after leaving religious life, to become a writer, including publishing a first novel, "The Tiber Was Silver," which sold 30,000 copies.
Another chapter tells of his graduate-student days at Harvard University, where a moving encounter with the Catholic existentialist Gabriel Marcel gave him a lifelong interest in the human "person," a being "able to reflect on her own past, approve of some parts of it, disapprove of others, and choose among various roads into the future." The Protestant thinker Reinhold Niebuhr, relentlessly warning about the unintended consequences of human action, became a second enduring influence from this period.
The memoir really takes off when Mr. Novak enters the political arena. He wrote speeches for Democratic stars Eugene McCarthy, Sargent Shriver, George McGovern and Bobby Kennedy, all of whom come off as decent and impressive men. A Stanford professor at the time, Mr. Novak received an invitation from Kennedy, then seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, to fly to Los Angeles to be with him as the California primary returns came in - the very night the candidate was fatally shot.
Five years earlier, Mr. Novak had been in Rome, covering the unfolding of Vatican II, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. That night, he and his wife Karen would dine with JFK friend John Cogley and "The Other America" author Michael Harrington, trying to make sense of the horror.
As these names attest, the Michael Novak of the -60s was on the left. Several things began to push him right. One was religious. Mr. Novak sympathized with Vatican IIs progressives, who wanted to renew the Catholic faith, which they felt had become too defensive and closed to new insights into the truth. Mr. Novaks early book "The Open Church" embodied this vision.
Mr. Novak grew troubled as Vatican II began to be interpreted as calling for a complete transformation of the faith, along the lines laid down by secular elites. Such an agenda was distant from the "probing" traditionalism of Vatican IIs leading progressives, future popes Karol Wojtyla and Joseph Ratzinger, Mr. Novak believed, and, in his view, calamitously misguided.
By the early 1970s, those secular elites were rubbing Mr. Novak the wrong way in other ways, too, he recounts. "I had begun to notice the appearance of two lefts - one that included my whole family and what it represented, and the other a -new left, based on a suddenly emerging -constituency of conscience, no longer rooted among people who worked with their hands and backs."
Wealthy, self-satisfied, partisans of a new, more "sensitive" and relativistic morality, the new leftists looked down on Mr. Novaks "unmeltable ethnics" - the working-class, predominantly Catholic, and culturally conservative Americans of Eastern and Southern European descent whod eventually become the Reagan Democrats. Mr. Novak rejected the new liberalisms cultural and political views, though he still considered himself a man of the left.
Mr. Novaks rightward drift was complete after he immersed himself in the study of political economy and came out a partisan of the free economy - albeit an economy molded by a morally serious culture and robust democratic political institutions. Joining a right-of-center think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, in 1978, where he would remain until his recent retirement (and where I worked for him for several years during the 1990s), Mr. Novak read and read Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, Max Weber, Alexis de Tocqueville and a vast literature of other social thinkers.
The research culminated in one of his most audacious books, 1982s "The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism," a powerful defense of democratic capitalist societies based on the very real goods they provided, including the rule of law, respect for the person and widespread prosperity. Margaret Thatcher and Polands Solidarity leaders, among many others, would draw inspiration from it.
"Writing from Left to Right" covers lots more: Mr. Novaks conflicted views on the Vietnam War; his late--60s run-in with left-wing campus lunacy at the experimental college of the State University of New York at Old Westbury; his stints as Ronald Reagans ambassador to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights; his tireless efforts during the 1980s and 1990s to build a consensus for welfare reform and to find new approaches to help the poor; and his profound respect for Pope John Paul II, whose encyclical on the free society, "Centesimus Annus," he clearly influenced.
Throughout, Mr. Novaks tone is conciliatory. He draws warm portraits of allies, but hes also magnanimous toward political opponents. This marvelous political memoir deserves the widest possible readership.
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Carnival workers share their years of life on the road
ANDERSON - What: The Great Anderson County Fair
When: Tuesday through Sunday: 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 4 p.m.-midnight Friday; 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday and 12:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Sunday.
Where: The Civic Center of Anderson, 3027 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Cost: $5 general admission, free for children younger than 6
Mike Daffuse worked his first fair in 1968 in Seaside Heights, N.J., manning a shooting game on a pier that Hurricane Sandy washed away last fall.
Over the years he has watched the spirit of the fair industry crumble in a similar way. When he was a 14-year-old handing rifles to teens to hit a toy duck, fairs focused on simple entertainment, he said. These days it's all about the bottom line and struggling to compete with the grand allure of amusement parks.
But the money is good and the smile on a child's face is the same, Daffuse said. So 45 years later he travels the country, setting up rides like the pirate ship at the Great Anderson County Fair, which opens today and runs through Sunday. Admission is free today for those who take a nonperishable food item for Anderson Interfaith Ministries.
Daffuse has subcontracted his electronic hydraulic skills with Drew Shows since 1992, a gig that keeps his hands greased about nine months of the year. In winter months he hauls military equipment for the U.S. Department of Defense.
"There's nobody around anymore who can move these things, and there's no one around who can build them," Daffuse said, toothpick in mouth.
He's especially proud of the Ferris wheel outside the Civic Center of Anderson that debuted at the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. Elvis later rode it in the 1963 movie musical "It Happened at the World's Fair." The wheel was rebuilt about four years ago for $250,000, according to Daffuse, and is the only one of its kind.
Fairs are filled with young kids working rides they know nothing about, he added, but longtime carnies, as he referred to himself, know where every pin in their ride goes and can tell by a slight difference in sound if something is not right.
"Years ago there was no inspector," he said. "Now everything is monitored so closely."
On Monday he and other veteran fair workers set up rides, set up harnesses for pony rides and dusted booths promising hand-tossed pizza and Philly cheesesteaks. Sunday rain set them back, but they will be ready for business at 4 p.m.
Every region has its favorite fair food, Richard George said, but corn dogs please most everyone.
"It's not a north, south, east or a west," he said.
His booth, George's Fun Food, travels to 62 venues a year and serves traditional cheesesteaks made with sliced rib-eye steak.
Fairgoers below the Mason-Dixon Line tend to prefer poultry, he said.
"They love their turkey legs in the South," George mused.
After six years of changing cities each week, Janice Dixson said she has not tired of fair food. She weighed 98 pounds when she and her husband, Charles Roberts, began traveling with The Guessing Game, where people pay cash for them to guess their age, weight and birth month. Now someone guessing her weight would have to guess triple digits, she noted wryly.
The fair rarely gets old, she said, though by the time the midway is spare, she's ready to call it a day.
"After that it's bedtime because you're tired of standing on your feet," Dixson said.
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