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Notes Towards a Miss Reading of Kimmy Schmidt
Seeing this review of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt at the Los Angeles Review of Books has inspired me to finally write up some somewhat idiosyncratic thoughts I've had about the series that I haven't seen reflected anywhere else. (And thanks to the people who have indulged me about this on Twitter, especially @millicentsomer and @evankindley.) I definitely agree with the reviewer that Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a "woman out of time" story, but I really think the interpretive emphasis on "Unfrozen Middle Schooler from the 1990s" should be on "middle schooler" rather than "from the 1990s." My take is that the 1990s nostalgia is largely driven by the Millennial audience the show is pitching itself at — it's an engine for jokes but not really the center of the project. "Unfrozen Middle Schooler," in contrast, is the actual heart of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, at least the way I want to read it as a feminist work.
One of the things I talked about with Lili and Evan on Twitter was whether Kimmy's abduction is taken seriously as an event or if the bunker is taken seriously as an actual lived environment. Having completed the series now, I still don't think so: I think "the bunker" essentially functions in the series like being in a coma, or being shot with a Grow-Up Beam, or making a wish to be Big. It's a magic spell to get Kimmy from middle school to adulthood without having to go through high school and college, which is the source of her power in the series, from her refusal of the usual rules of society to her love of backpacks and bright, mismatched clothing. You can see this utopian imaginary working really clearly in the incredibly infectious theme song, where the removal of the girls from the bunker and a closeup on Kimmy's ecstatic childlike grin over the lyrics "Unbreakable! They alive, damnit! It's a miracle!" quickly gives way to a montage of nostalgic, home-video-style images of childhood (and specifically girlhood), which express the same unvarnished joy but also absolute self-confidence (thumb's up), total mastery of their environment (the dancing, the hula hooping, the monkey bars), and maximum resilience in the face of adversity (the baby plopping down face first).
We return to the in-universe "autotune the news" frame only once during this thirty-second sequence, to be told that "females are strong as hell" — the clear implication to me being that we ought to draw an interpretive connection between the claim of female power and childhood, specifically, girlhood: before sex, before even puberty, before the male gaze, before pervert teachers and abusive boyfriends and quasi-consensual sexual encounters and ubiquitous street harassment and the too-familiar host of other abuses inflicted upon women from the moment they enter young adulthood. What the magic spell of the bunker allows Kimmy to do is pass over the moment in which girls are forcibly conscripted into becoming "women" (somewhat or entirely against their will) and emerge instead as an adult who has not internalized our society's misogyny or its mean, psychosexual aggressivity. So much of what is delightful about Kimmy is precisely the fact that she has retained the aspirations, expectations, confidence, and general affect of a precocious middle-schooler without having had to temper or diminish herself through unhappy experiences with patriarchy. If the show has a moral or utopian message for women, it's Let's all go back to thinking about ourselves the way we did before society told us we were worthless, and it's a pretty damn good one.
We've been working with children's stories a lot in my "magic as literature" course this semester, and one of the oppositions we've really been focusing on (especially as we've studied Disney, and Frozen, recently) is the opposition between what mythographers call "the girl's tragedy" and what we've been calling instead the utopia of childhood or (here more directly) the utopia of girlhood. The girl's tragedy is the female answer to "the hero's journey," but the narrative doesn't work the same way: instead of the boy hero who sets out from home, masters the outside world, slays the dragon, and then returns home to become king, the girl's tragedy is a story about being ripped from safety and forced to accommodate oneself to the whims of adult men, particularly their sexual urges. The happy ending for the girl's tragedy — the happiest one available — is that she accepts her role as wife and mother and gives birth to a male son who will then inaugurate the next cycle of heroism; girls and women who refuse to play the proper role are typically cast out of the realm of the human altogether, turned into animals or plants or stars or foam. The utopia of childhood describes those comparatively rare stories that are exceptions, where the girls are neither forced to become mothers nor punished, but allowed to remain what they were without transformation by instead bending the adult world to their will (as in Brave, or Moonrise Kingdom, or arguably Frozen, though in most of these the girl-heroes seem only to buying themselves time rather than enacting a full and permanent transformation of their circumstances).
Of course the utopia of childhood can itself be deeply retrograde, and is frequently misogynistic in its way — we spent a lot of time on "The Problem of Susan" in the Narnia books precisely so we didn't fall too in love with the impossible fantasy of never growing up (when in the end we all have to). Nor can we safely imagine childhood in such uncomplicatedly rosy terms, both because childhood can also be a time of fierce frustration, competition, and intense pain even when it is not actively shattered through the cruelty and abuse of adults. But all the same there is something undeniably appealing about the idea of returning to a childhood that is both happy and which never gives way to something else, a desire that structures so much of our culture (particularly the middle-class culture of "good parenting") that it really almost goes without saying. And in the case of Kimmy Schmidt's feminist politics of course the idea is not that women find some fantastical way to literally de-age themselves so much as they look to their younger, effortlessly capable and supremely confident selves as inspiration in the present.
There's one more thing to say about Kimmy Schmidt, which is again about the abduction and the bunker, which would seem to be a rather large problem for my reading of the series. Isn't Kimmy's entire situation itself a literalized girl's tragedy, insofar as she is abducted as a child and put into radical seclusion, all the while being fed obscenely misogynistic lies by a woman-hating male adult? Well, yes! The question of Kimmy's abduction, and the horrific sexual violence it inevitably implies if thought about too much, is a pretty thorny one for the series: fixated on too much, it threatens to derail any potential for comedy in the show at all. (UPDATE: Someone just sent me Emily Nussbaum's review, which talks a lot about this issue.) The series cleverly solves the problem by opening the door just a crack — "yes, there was weird sex stuff in the bunker" — and then simply leaving it there. Something happened — perhaps, as Evan suggested in what has become my headcanon, it was all between the girls and not involving the preacher at all — but it hasn't changed Kimmy, or defeated her. And she emerges from Hell neither pregnant with the monster's baby, nor transformed into a weeping plant or into sea-foam, but just as unflappable and unbreakable as she was when she went in.
And in any event the treatment of the bunker doesn't really work the way the ten-second summary of the setup would suggest. The presence of the preacher is actually a further occasion for Kimmy to refuse to internalize her sexist training, precisely because it is now located within a single, odious man against whom she can fight. The button at the end of the first episode demonstrates precisely this: Kimmy proves he is lying to them, he says he's going to break her someday, and she replies no, he never will. It's easy to see why, in contrast to the microaggressions and little indignities — alongside the very big ones — that make up girls' training to be women in our society, which is constantly delivered by parents and siblings and friends and trusted authority figures and widely celebrated mass culture texts, Kimmy's more direct training in misogyny at the hands of the Reverend never really takes. In the bunker she had an obvious enemy, someone she could tell she was feeding her poison, and so she could reject it. It's actually outside the bunker where the true brainwashing takes place, which is all the more insidious because it seems like education, like help, like love.
Friday Links!
* I'll be promoting this relentlessly once everyone gets back from Spring Break, but for now, here's a taste: some information about my Cultural Preservation Today symposium at the end of the month.
* Deadline extended! CFP for MLA 2016: Feminist Voices in Diasporic Afro-Futurism.
* Faculty Coalition Will Lobby for College Athletes to Be Paid.
* "The brute fact of the matter is that people who do something they love for a living are easy prey for exploiters."
* notes on the [inevitable] proletarianisation of the University.
* Hedging Your Bets: The nuts and bolts of going on the academic and nonacademic job markets at the same time.
* Two from Freddie: critique drift and the Rich Uncle Pennybags test.
* OnMilwaukee gets nostalgic for the old Milwaukee downtown.
* Dominic Barton, a managing director at McKinsey & Co. and a fellow co-chair, said one CEO (names were carefully guarded) captivated the group's imagination when he admitted his pay structure would actually allow him to make more in a few years than his whole career by eliminating research and development spending and instead buying back stock. The company wouldn't exist after 10 years, the CEO added.
* Wall Street Firm Develops New High-Speed Algorithm Capable Of Performing Over 10,000 Ethical Violations Per Second.
* This article has got to be Exhibit A for anyone who thinks talk of "the Anthropocene" is about re-centering Europe. I just can't seen any argument that would put the date of the Anthropocene at 1610 that wouldn't push it back into prehistory.
* Illinois lawmakers have put a benefit commonly offered to college employees — tuition breaks for their children — on the chopping block at public universities in response to a big expected cut in state spending on higher education.
* #accelerate: Today, big data is used to boost profits and spy on civilians. But what if it was harnessed for the social good?
* Good Family Feud, or, this is how I die.
* Portland cops charge homeless woman with theft for charging her phone.
* Remembering the great Sir Terry Prachett.
* It took him 25 years but Sid Meier finally made a version of Master of Orion.
* And it can happen here: Springfield, Illinois swears allegiance to Cobra Commander, declares war on G.I. Joes.
Just a Few Wednesday Links
* The University of Pennsylvania is working on new guidelines to limit its professors' freelance work for online education companies.
* The researchers note that either no debt or minimal debt appears to be the norm for white and Asian Ph.D. recipients, but not other groups. Black Ph.D. recipients in STEM fields are more than twice as likely as are white and Asian Ph.D. recipients to accrue more than $30,000 in debt in graduate school.
* Universities Exist Primarily to Enrich Football Coaches.
* It is starting to look as if the po-po are not going to be celebrating for long, as this crazymaking USA Today story lists neighbor after neighbor saying, "Oh, those girls? The ones trapped in that house for a decade? Yeah, we called the cops the first time we saw them being walked naked on a leash. F*ckers never came." (Direct quote, probably.)
* What Lovecraft created was a specifically twentieth century idea: the universe as an empty, materialist one, in which there is no spiritual meaning to any actions and in which human existence is not significant in any way.
* All Europeans are related if you go back just 1,000 years, scientists say.
* And of course you had me at Vintage Science Ads from the 1950s-1960s.
…And More
* I've said this before: let's have an academic decathlon. You choose a team based on whatever pedagogical criteria you want. You can choose students from public school or private, unionized teachers or not, parochial or secular, from charter or magnet, from Montessori or KIPP or whatever else you want. However, I choose the demographics of the students on your team. For my team, the situation is reversed: you choose the pedagogical factors for my students, but I choose the demographics. You stock your team kids from whatever educational backgrounds you think work, and mine with whatever educational systems you think don't work. Meanwhile, I give you all children from the poverty-stricken, crime-ridden inner city and impoverished rural districts where we see the most failure. I stock mine with upper-class children of privilege. I would bet the house on my team, and I bet if you're being honest, you would too. Yet to accept that is to deny the basic assumption of the education reform movement, which is that student outcomes are a direct result of teacher quality.
* Stunning front-page from UNC's Daily Tar Heel today.
* If you are a low-income prospective college student hoping a degree will help you move up in the world, you probably should not attend a moderately selective four-year research institution. The cards are stacked against you.
* Elderly Obama And Boehner Daughters Arrive In Time Machine To Demand Climate Action.
Who among us can forget Malia's first words to a rapidly-growing crowd in this historical meeting between present and future, "People of 2009, we come from–" words that were immediately interrupted by her younger self, surrounded by Secret Service, saying, "It's 2013," which led future Malia to punch future Sasha, saying, "I told you not to mess with the controls." Malia then continued, "2013, seriously? What's the friggin' point?"
* Academic jobs watch: Specialist Professor, Homeland Security.
* California isn't a state in which liberals have run wild; it's a state where a liberal majority has been effectively hamstrung by a fanatical conservative minority that, thanks to supermajority rules, has been able to block effective policy-making. Krugman is optimistic that the Republicans' stranglehold on the state seems to be abating; I'd note that in the arena of public education at least all the worst ideas are coming from the Democrats.
* When (and how) Brad DeLong trolled David Graeber for months. Jesus.
* That's because these workers represent what's happening to U.S. work in three critical ways. First, precarity: Workers lack job security, formal contracts, or guaranteed hours. Second, legal exclusion: Labeled as "independent contractors," "domestic workers" or otherwise, they're thrust beyond the reach of this country's creaky, craven labor laws. And third, the mystification of employment: While a no-name contracted company signs your paycheck, your conditions are set by a major corporation with far away headquarters and legal impunity. Guest Workers as Bellweather.
* How to Get a Black Woman Fired.
* Overwhelming Student Debt Has Parents Getting Life Insurance Policies on Their Kids.
* But if Emanuel brought Byrd-Bennett in to work the same kind of charter magic in Chicago that she did in Detroit, he may be dismayed to encounter one important difference: Chicago is now in a good position to fight back. The school closings hearings were packed with engaged, motivated citizens, and the teachers union is more organized than it's been in three decades. During its popular and successful strike, the union's approval rating climbed while the mayor's fell—public opinion polls showed that taxpayers blamed Emanuel for the ugliness that took place during negotiations. The CTU's current leadership has built relationships with community leaders and organizations, forming a coalition to fight the slash-and-burn privatization pushed by the Board of Education and its corporate sponsors, and has even hosted civil disobedience trainings open to the public. This afternoon's protest will serve as further evidence that Emanuel is indeed up against a new opponent, one strong enough that not even the best "cleaner" may be able to defeat it.
* Detroit Schools Emergency Manager Gets Accolades as Children Fall Further Behind.
* Nate Silver makes your Final Four book: Louisville Favored in Final Four, but Wichita State Could Become Unlikeliest Champion.
* Zero Dark Thirty is supposedly a film about freedom. A "freedom so threatening that there are those around the world willing to kill themselves and others to prevent us from enjoying it," as the TV sound-bite in the background puts it. The odd thing is that this freedom is never once glimpsed within the film itself. Obviously, we are constantly reminded of the imprisonment and torture of the al Qaeda suspects, but it is never their freedom we are meant to be concerned with. More tellingly, it is the American spaces within the film that leave this freedom unseen. A strange becoming-prisoner takes hold of the spaces, and of the American body itself: not unfolding, in the end, either defeat or victory, but pulling together in a constricted space the impossibility of both.
* Gen X hits the nostalgia capitalism threshold.
* And dollar tracking site WheresGeorge suggests discrete commerce zones in the U.S.


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something earth shattering!! ;)
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A bowling pin standing in the gutter of the lane.
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The ATM was found a couple of hours later. It was unclear if the thief broke in and stole any money, said Orange County sheriff's Lt. John MacPherson.
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Scenes from OPENharvest in Tokyo, Featuring Some S.F. Chefs
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Here is the latest update to my whereabouts. I returned from Indonesia in January 2013, spent the next year in SoCal, and am now living in Montana.
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This photo provided by Captain Dave's Dolphin and Whale watching Safari shows the first pods this season of killer whales in Dana Point off the coast off Newport Beach, Calif. Boat Capt. Tom Southern said Saturday's spotting was rare, and the 15 killer whales included a large male and a little baby. Whale watchers thought there may be a predator in the area when they hadn't seen a single dolphin an hour after the boat left Dana Point Harbor. (AP Photo/Captain Dave's Dolphin and Whale watching Safari)
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text: Comments (21) + Add comment Comments (21) Featured MintBerryCrunch + 1791d ago i have a problem with calling some of these masterpieces such as Shenmue and Okami flops even if they didnt sell as much as the devs wanted to...in no way shape or form are those games flops #1 (Edited 1791d ago ) | Agree(12) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply Stealth20k + 1791d ago and okamiden is incredible #1.1 Agree(4) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Anon1974 + 1791d ago You can have the greatest game of all time...if no one buys it then it's a flop. Maybe it was a critical success, maybe and artistic masterpiece - but generally a flop is considered a flop if the production and marketing greatly outweigh the revenue. It's a business thing, and Shenmue and Okami were flops. Great games, but flops. And that's the danger of video game development today. With games that cost so much money to develop, it's a risky business. You could create a masterpiece like Okami, that ruins your company. That's why there's hope with digital downloads. Developers increasingly are turning to smaller, downloadable games because the risks just aren't there like the big, AAA titles. You can afford to make a great game that doesn't sell and it won't necessarily put you and your staff out of work - and thusly you're more willing to take some creative risks. I was sorry to see Grim Fandango on this list. That's one of my favorite games of all time and while I knew Tim left Lucas Arts after that - I didn't realize that Grim Fandango did so poorly in sales. I think everyone owes it to themselves to play through Grim Fandango at least once. That game was the pinnacle of the point and click adventure genre. Edit below: Regarding Haze. Haze, despite the hype and the disappointment (being merely mediocre instead of AAA) didn't sell all that badly. It managed almost a million copies which is something 80% of games never achieve in their lifetime. Free Radical was struggling even before Haze's release and losing their Star Wars Battlefield didn't bode well for the company's long term hopes. Haze didn't do badly, but they needed to hit it out of the park and that didn't happen. Hardly a flop though. Just a note - the Haze team then were bought by Crytek and became Crytek UK. They had a lot to do with Crysis 2's development. #1.2 (Edited 1791d ago ) | Agree(11) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply -Alpha + 1791d ago Well said, you hit the nail on the head. That is exactly what a flop generally is understood to be, though there is also flops when it comes to hype. Okami sadly flopped, but at least it wasn't hyped like games today are. It's a modest game. I also think it's nice it got a Wii port and a DS game. So at least it's still around These days everything seems to get hyped to sell the most, kill something else, or get AAA 10/10 status. Lots of games fail to meet hype and IMO causes games to flop on hype, despite being good games. #1.2.1 (Edited 1791d ago ) | Agree(3) | Disagree(1) | Report Ryudo + 1791d ago I think it's mostly about sales. I didn't bother reading the entire article because I hate sites that use that reload the page 10x trick to see the entire list for hits. But everything I did read was about sales of said game, I can't see anyone in there right mind calling Shenmue a bad game. But from a sales standpoint it flopped badly. #1.3 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Ducky + 1791d ago Grim Fandago and Okami. Makes me sad. =( #2 Agree(5) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Urrakia34 + 1791d ago How is Haze not on that list? #3 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply gunnerforlife + 1791d ago yeah that kinda shocked me loool should of been on there not just for sales but for quality wise as well #3.1 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Lucreto + 1791d ago Grim Fandago and Okami are my favourite games. I will be getting Okamiden on Monday and I will spend all day with it. #4 Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply oneangle + 1791d ago Hurts to see Okami on that list. Makes me wonder if we'll ever see anything like it again. Only thing I can hope for is a Move port. #5 Agree(0) | Disagree(2) | Report | Reply Seferoth75 + 1791d ago Sequel is on DS atm. Cant see it going to Move when HD development has killed enough companies and PS3 gamers are not exactly known for supporting games like this. After all it was the PS2 copy that completely bombed. Wii version outsold it with a much smaller install base. #5.1 Agree(3) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply soren + 1791d ago they dident sell well because of all the gamers in the world only 12% are real gamers no those who claim they are and only play shitty shooters or call of duty or judge a game based on the box art or only buy a game cus it has a man on it that looks mean and been juicing #6 Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply zeal0us + 1791d ago E.T is probably the biggest fail of all, Think the game still leave a bad taste in Activision mouth lol #7 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply tunaks1 + 1791d ago i would call madworld a flop, what its sales sitting at now? 0.62m how much did it cost to make? Im sure it broke even. #8 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Invader_Quirk + 1791d ago I'm 20 hours into Okami and the more I play, the sadder it makes me that it did so badly. I thought I'd never feel the same way I did as when I first played Ocarina of Time. I thought I was too grown up now to ever experience a game in that way again, but I was wrong. Okami does it. #9 (Edited 1791d ago ) | Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Relientk77 + 1791d ago I don't have Okami but I want it #10 Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply TheBlind 1791d ago | Spam Carnage + 1791d ago God, I need to get a ps2 or a ps3 (that plays ps2 games) so I can get Okami for it! #12 Agree(1) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply kevnb + 1791d ago Grim fandango had to have sold more than that, those are sales of.an obscure game. #13 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply NYC_Gamer + 1791d ago yes,these games are flops sales wise. #14 Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Venox2008 + 1790d ago ...Okami and Madworld are in my Top 5 games of all time.. :) sad that a lot of "gamers" don't appreciate a lot of great games instead of call of duty, halo etc. :/ #15 (Edited 1790d ago ) | Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply Add comment You need to be registered to add comments. Register here or login Username Password Remember Rules & guidelines Login


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Gone With The Wind
The Civil War threatens to huff and puff and blow Scarlett's house away.
To begin with, I must confess I've never been smitten by Gone With the Wind. Winner of ten Academy Awards, credited with the biggest box office of all time, held up as one of Hollywood's greatest cinematic achievements, and leaving an indelible mark on audiences for decades-- am I the only one who doesn't get it?
Sure, the cinematography is wonderful, the sets lavish, the costumes incredible, the musical score sweeping, and the film epic in every way. But what is all the window dressing for?
I suppose the obvious answer is Scarlett O'Hara (who incidentally, literally does clothe herself in velvet curtains during one scene). The central character in this film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's best selling novel, Scarlett (played by Vivien Leigh) is the eldest daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. Fancying Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), the heir to a neighboring estate, the pampered lass is thunderstruck when he chooses to comply with his family's wishes and marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton (Olivia De Havilland) instead of her!
Stormy temper tantrums and floods of tears don't change his mind, but Ashley does confess he admires Scarlett's spirit and passion. His flattering words are enough to keep alive the southern belle's romantic notion that the soft-spoken gentleman is secretly in love with her. (I suspect Ashley's kindly labels are also intended to identify Scarlett's redeeming qualities to viewers, otherwise we might have mistaken them for stubbornness and selfishness!)
Meanwhile, the American Civil War explodes upon the peaceful pastoral existence these characters reside in. Scarlett refuses to worry her pretty little head about such trivial matters as political disputes; yet bit-by-bit the winds of war erode every part of the only lifestyle she has ever known. Thanks to her "spirit and passion," the stubborn girl survives the devastation by putting her own selfish desires first, swearing she will do what ever it takes-- even lying, cheating, stealing and murdering-- to regain her former wealth and position.
Over the course of this nearly four-hour movie, the indomitable Scarlett does in fact do all of these things, and a few more besides. Shamelessly using her womanly whiles for personal gain, the dark-haired beauty weds for revenge and money, agrees to sell her virtue, denies her spouse his husbandly rights, engages in unethical business practices, and kills a man in self-defense.
Still, everyone loves Scarlett, especially the dashing rogue Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) who is enamored with her good looks -- and of course her spirit and passion. When her previous husbands conveniently die (in the name of plot development), the two unite in not-so-happy matrimony, because the bride continues to harbor unholy feelings for the married Ashley.
Along the way, the film alludes to some other issues too, like slavery, unwed pregnancy, vigilante law enforcement, prostitution, rape, gambling, and alcoholism. While skirting most of the details, racial slurs, flirting, depictions of women in petticoats, passionate kisses exchanged between a couple who are not married to each other, as well as smoking and drinking, are included. The only consequences addressed with any degree of depth, are the ravages of the fighting. Wounded and dying soldiers are shown, although the violence and gore are kept to a minimum.
So what is the charm of this blockbuster? Some say it is a result of an incredible three-year-long promotional push from the studio.
Others, who are more analytical, suggest that Scarlett represent the spirit and passion of the Old South. Certainly there is a case to support a sentimental affection for this society of "Cavaliers and cotton fields... of knights and their ladies fair, of master and of slave," where "gallantry took its last bow." Quoting the movie's opening title screen, the almost mournful declaration continues, "Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a civilization gone with the wind..."
Perhaps it is Scarlett's tenacity. Bloodied but not bowed, the resilient woman rises after each blow, gaining strength from her love of the land.
Or maybe she is merely an anti-hero who eventually reaps the rewards of her self-centered heart. If that's the case however, why do so many fans of the film feel sorry for her?
Personally, I find Scarlett to be spoiled, conceited, and sharp-tongued. She gives no indication of growing or learning from her experiences, and displays her one true color again when she responds to the loss of the most significant person in her life by whimpering, "What am I going to do when you're gone?"
While no one can deny Gone With the Wind's enduring place in film history, when it comes to feeling any sympathy for the story, frankly my dear...


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Production Number: 167513
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Director: John Patterson
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Cliff Potts
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Sarah Rush
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Sid Haig
As Samson
Tommy Bush (1)
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Jack Garner
As Jack the Bartender
Luis Delgado
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W.T. Zacha
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Peter Munro
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James Garner
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Ed Bruce
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Ramon Bieri
As Elijah Crow
John Shearin
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David Knell
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Darleen Carr
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|Meta Rosenberg
|• Supervising Producer
|Gordon Dawson
|• Producer
|Chas Floyd Johnson
|• Associate Producer
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|• Editor
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|• Casting
|Dodie McLean
|• Unit Production Manager
|Sam C. Freedle
|• First Assistant Director
|Leonard R. Garner, Jr.
|• Second Assistant Director
|Don Wilkerson
|• Music
|Murray MacLeod  | J.A.C. Redford
|• Music Editor
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|• Hairstylist
|Charlotte Harvey
|• Make-up
|Charlene Roberson
|• Set Decorator
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|• Property Master
|William Fannon
|• Director of Photography
|Frank Thackery
|• Art Director
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Which presidential hopefuls are faring best among Florida voters? Here are the numbers from the most recent Quinnipiac University poll.
Hillary Rodham Clinton: 43 percent
Barack Obama: 13 percent
Al Gore: 11 percent
John Edwards: 8 percent
(all other candidates below 5 percent)
Rudy Giuliani: 26 percent
Fred Thompson: 19 percent
John McCain: 11 percent
Mitt Romney: 9 percent
Newt Gingrich: 6 percent
(all other candidates below 5 percent)
Floridas presidential primary is scheduled for January and will be the first by a large state.
Clinton is viewed unfavorably by 42 percent of the voters, a small improvement from the 47 percent with negative views of her in June. Her lead over Obama has widened slightly.
The only Republican close to Clintons unfavorable status is McCain, at 39 percent. The top three GOP contenders have held about steady in the state since June.
The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted July 30 to Aug. 6 and involved telephone interviews with 962 Florida voters, and had an overall margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The margin of sampling error for both the 380 Democratic voters and the 366 Republican voters questioned was plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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More steamy photos of Australian swimmer, Stephanie Rice have made their way online. This time however, the photos are taken by a professional photographer and Rice, sadly is not wearing her sexy cop costume. The medley world record holder who made a splash with her Facebook photos back in April finds herself on the cover of the latest issue of Australia's FHM.
We are happy to see the latest from 19 year-old swimmer who will be competiting in Beijing next week, the Australian media on the other hand is not too pleased. The headlines of THE DAILY TELEGRAPH read, "Stephanie Rice strips for lad mag FHM."
Sorry to disappoint you guys, but THE DAILY TELEGRAPH took some liberties with the word "strip." Rice is actually quite covered. Her swimsuit that she will wear in the pool in Beijing might actually be more revealing.
Judge for yourself, more photos from this spread after the jump.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH writes, "Rice's raunchy shoot on the eve of the Beijing Games is a risk, experts say." Aussies certainly have a different idea of "raunchy."
Former triathlon champion Nici Andronicus is among the Aussies hating on Rice's spread. She says "It's not a distraction (to Rice) but it's a distraction to the other competitors because it puts a giant cross on your shoulders, and they will do everything they can to bring you down."
A media strategist Barry O'Brien said "It can backfire, but I don't think it's going to neck her career. She's a great talent and, if she wins a gold medal, they'll be lining up 10 deep."
I agree with Barry. On one hand, yes, she is a great talent, but I don't think she needs a gold medal for guys to line up 10 deep. Silver, bronze, aluminum - it doesn't really matter, we're there.


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Facing tougher requirements, Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology launches new programs
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The goals of these new FAA requirements are better stick-and-rudder training for all pilots, closer monitoring of pilot proficiency, and higher experience levels before being allowed into an airline cockpit. Training academies like Spartan are the "front lines" where ab initio training supplies pilots and technicians to every corner of the aviation industry. We caught up with Spartan to see how they're adjusting to the new training demands.
Spartan is one of the best-known aviation training academies, having graduated more than 90,000 aircraft technicians and pilots from its aviation programs since 1928. It's a private degree-granting technical college. Its 40-aircraft Cessna and Piper training fleet and Redbird simulators complement a full FAA-approved Part 141 curriculum. Career tracks include not just professional pilot options, but a wide variety of technician programs including two-year and four-year degrees, and various diploma options.
Spartan has also trained thousands of military pilots, from the early days training U.S. Army Air Corps and British Royal Air Force pilots, to today as Spartan provides Cessna 182 and Grand Caravan training for the U.S. Air Force. Since the school also operates its own maintenance and service departments, Spartan is a kind of "one-stop shop" for aviation education and training.
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This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, highly engaging Haywood works: The Tea-Table (1725), Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726), and Love-Letters on All Occasions (1730). In these writings, Haywood arouses the vicarious experience of erotic love while exploring the ethical and social issues evoked by sexual passion.
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Randi Walters, PhD Candidate, Stress and Crustal Mechanics Group, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Rall Walsh, PhD Candidate, Stress and Crustal Mechanics Group, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
Monday, April 27, 2015 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Since 2009, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of small-to-moderate size earthquakes in the central and eastern United States with a significant amount occurring in Oklahoma. In a number of cases, the increase in seismicity appears to be associated with injection of saltwater that is a byproduct of oil and gas production. We present some recent instances of seismicity and offer a framework for assessing the risk of triggered seismicity going forward. This adds several factors to standard earthquake hazard and risk assessment procedures. The workflow includes a site characterization component to determine the hazard in the area, followed by the utilization of risk tolerance matrices for regulators, operators, stakeholders, and the public to consider in areas of various exposure. The hazard and risk assessment workflow also includes the use of a traffic light system that incorporates geologic and geophysical observations as well as earthquake magnitudes or ground motions, as criteria for whether a particular set of events warrant a response.
Wind Uncertainty in Electricity Markets: Practical Challenges
Mar Reguant, Assistant Professor, Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Monday, April 13, 2015 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Integrating large quantities of wind and solar energy is often considered a challenge due to the intermittent nature of renewable generation. I present evidence on the costs and benefits of renewable power based on data from the Iberian Electricity market, which as of 2012 produces over 20% of its electricity from wind power, and about 5% of its electricity with solar power. I examine the challenges of wind and solar integration from an empirical perspective, and quantify the relative impacts of uncertainty and volatility on realized electricity costs. I also show how market incentives can distort optimal planning, by examining wind farm behavior in centralized electricity auctions. Allowing wind farms to participate in centralized markets can increase competition and decrease procurement costs, but it might increase inefficiencies in the market.
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Anthony Kovscek, Professor, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University
Arun Majumdar, Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor, Stanford University
Monday, April 6, 2015 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Advances in natural gas production are changing the energy landscape of the United States and, potentially, the world. Stanford launched the Natural Gas Initiative (NGI) to "engage faculty across the university to carry out the many types of research needed to ensure that natural gas is developed and used in ways that are economically, environmentally, and societally optimal." Recently, the NGI paneled industry, NGO, academic leaders, and students to consider resource development, uses of natural gas, and environmental impacts. A major point of discussion was the need to develop a balance between environmental compliance, minimization of impacts, and the pressure to develop natural gas resources. In this seminar, we provide a summary and perspectives from these areas of discussion.
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Thomas Jaramillo, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Michael McGehee, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
David Lobell, Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science
Ram Rajagopal, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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TomKat Center Seed Grant Research
With the occurrence of extreme weather events increasing and the effects of climate change impacting our food and water resources, the imperative to transform our energy system is self-evident. The TomKat Center Seed Grants fund research from across Stanford University that has the potential to contribute to a sustainable energy system. Results of four of their large-scale solar projects will be presented.
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Angus Gillespie, Vice President for CO2, Shell
Monday, January 12, 2015 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Shell recognizes the importance of broadening the frame of the energy and climate change discussion. There needs to be substantial additional amounts of energy to meet growing population levels and increasing standards of living worldwide. At the same time, we recognize the need to reduce CO2. Energy is fundamental to our civilization. Much of the world's population enjoys abundant and affordable energy. But three billion do not. Providing them with the energy they need to improve their quality of life whilst reducing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is an important challenge to address.
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Bill Ritter, former Colorado Governor; Founder and Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE), Colorado State University.
Monday, December 1, 2014 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Today, 220 million Americans live in a state with a Renewable Portfolio Standard and 240 million live in states with a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. When taken in aggregate, the population of those states with commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be the fifth largest country in the world. Despite the fact that climate is a global issue, states are really leading the U.S. forward. Governor Ritter will discuss the Colorado New Energy Economy story and examples of other states that have led the energy revolution.
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Gro Brundtland, Board of Directors, United Nations Foundation; Former Prime Minister of Norway
Monday, April 14, 2014 | 04:15 PM - 05:14 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
This Energy Seminar will feature a student-led discussion with Dr. Gro Brundtland on the challenges in climate and energy --an area she has been a global leader.
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Sharareh Tavafrashti, Principal Engineer, San Francisco County Transportation Authority
Elkin Bello, Program Manager, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Monday, April 7, 2014 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
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As the cost of providing space and energy for personal transportation options have increased both on the capital side as well as its energy footprint and consequences, mass transportation is gaining priority for developing and developed countries. In this presentation, we will provide a few examples of the successful and not so successful implementations for the bus rapid transit system around the world. The lecture will compare key features of various BRT projects around the world and attempt to address their impact on sustainable development and transportation solutions in each environment.
Solid State Energy Storage: Game-Changing Technology for the 21st Century
Ann Marie Sastry, President and CEO, Sakti3, Inc.
Monday, March 31, 2014 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
Critical, imminent changes in the world energy portfolio have amplified pressure on development of advanced energy storage technology, for the grid, automotive and consumer electronics sectors. Technology advances are not only required to enable the largest entry of people to the middle classes in human history, but also to avert disastrous consequences of irrevocable climate change and environmental harm. Present lithium-ion batteries, with a total addressable market of over $12 billion, expected to grow to over $23 billion in the next four years, cannot meet these burgeoning needs, for reasons of cost, performance and safety.
Present manufacturers of the incumbent technology all employ liquid electrolytes and lamination processing in highly conserved plant designs, producing cells that are not differentiated in cost, performance or safety. Additionally, lamination processing of lithium-ion batteries has enormous built in costs, including up to two months' of careful, pre-processing time for cells before they can be shipped to customers, comprising tremendous work-in-process and additional, unremovable process cost and time.
Coping with the Scientific, Technological and Economic Uncertainties of Climate Change
Charles Kolstad, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Monday, April 8, 2013 | 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center | Free and Open to All
The threat of climate change has profound implications for the evolution of the world's energy system over the coming decades. More than many environmental problems, uncertainty is a central characteristic of the problem – uncertainty regarding the physical science of climate but also uncertainty regarding the impacts, technologies (for mitigation, adaptation and geoengineering), costs, and human preferences.
The problem is larger than simple uncertainty. Some uncertainty is objective and fits into a probabilistic paradigm; other uncertainty is much more vague, with unknown probabilities (such as the likelihood of inventing a cheap way of storing electricity by 2020). Furthermore, uncertainty changes over time, either simply by acquiring more experience or through proactive measures to increase knowledge (eg, R&D). And further, some uncertainty is managed automatically by individuals and organizations seeking to reduce risk exposure (eg, with flood insurance). The bottom line is how to manage the risks of climate change in this complex and evolving environment? Insurance, financial markets, individual action and public policy can and should work in tandem to deal with this uncertainty. This talk provides a perspective on managing risk associated with climate change.


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