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USPS Labor Inflexibility
U.S. Postal Service management has repeatedly told Congress that it needs greater labor flexibility to reduce costs. Despite increased automation and workforce reductions, labor continues to account for 80 percent of the USPS's cost structure.
Paul Krugman and Regime Uncertainty
Paul Krugman is dismissing concerns that the Obama administration's fiscal and regulatory policies are fostering uncertainty in the business community, and thus inhibiting job growth and an economic recovery.
LIHEAP Fraud
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program provides $5 billion annually to the states, which distribute the funds to businesses, nonprofits, and homeowners. Unfortunately, the states do a poor job making sure the money isn't lost to fraud and abuse.
NASA's Feel Good Mission
NASA administrator Charles Bolden says that his "foremost" mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world. This head-scratching statement is made more bizarre by Bolden's claim that he received this instruction from the president himself.
USPS Wants Rate Hike
The long-term prospects for the U.S. Postal Service monopoly are bleak. To help stem the flow of red ink, the USPS intends to seek a rate increase. Only a government monopoly would try to raise prices when the demand for its services is plummeting. The rate increase will only push its already declining customer base to use cheaper, more efficient electronic alternatives.
Fiscal Commission Testimony
I testified to President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform today on Capitol Hill. The Commission is tasked with creating a package of specific budget reforms by December to be considered by the House and Senate.
Selling Government Property
The federal government's real estate portfolio is massive: 1.2 million buildings and other structures with a total annual operating and maintenance budget of $19 billion. That's quite a carbon footprint.
Growth in Government Employment
The 1990s were a decade of rapid private sector expansion and federal government restraint. The 2000s are a decade of government expansion at all levels and private sector retrenchment.
Homebuyer Tax Credit Follies
When the 2008 economic stimulus bill created an $8,000 homebuyer tax credit to prop up the ailing housing market, the outcome was predictable: fraud and economic distortions.


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By Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky | Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, Louis Stein Director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies, Director of the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, JTS
posted on October 29, 2005 / 26 Tishrei 5766
In the beginning, Dr. Ismar Schorsch was a rigorous scholar, a great teacher, and Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. And for the past twelve years, Rabbi Schorsch also has written weekly words of Torah. Like his father before him, he assumed the mantle of spiritual leader. That our friend Ismar could do all of these tasks is not surprising; but for me, his taking the role of pastoral rabbi is the one that most inspires my awe. Writing a message for each week's Torah portion that can reach the heart and inspire readers is a daunting task. Yet Rabbi Schorsch has found a clear voice of leadership and wise counsel; a unique voice unmistakably his own, which weds the insights of Wissenschaft des Judentums (Jewish scholarship) with the ancient teachings of our talmudic sages. It is with trepidation that I offer my own words of Torah on this new cycle of scriptural readings to honor our teacher, Chancellor Ismar Schorsch.
This week's portion, with which we begin again our annual cycle of Torah reading, starts at the very beginning (which, as the song says, is "a very good place to start"). Whether we read the majestic opening words of Genesis as traditionally rendered by our rabbis of old ("In the beginning") or whether we read them as an introductory clause of a lengthy sentence describing the process and ordering of creation ("When God began to create"), there is no mistaking the grandeur of creation.
We need not enter the sorry fray of Darwinists vs. Intelligent Designers to capture the essential truth of the biblical world view that God's creation is magnificent. For each of the six days' worth of creation that Genesis records, it has this positive judgment: "God saw that this was good." I qualify the creation narrative by saying "six days' worth," because the Torah portion this week does not actually have God say "this was good" on the second day of creation. But day three has God pronounce "this was good" twice, so everything evens out.
On the final day of creation, the day on which humanity was created, Genesis reports, "God saw all that God had done and behold, this was very good." As the fifth-century midrash Genesis Rabbah reports, the Hebrew word for "very" (me'od) is spelled mem, alef, dalet in the verse of Genesis. What God is suggesting, according to our sages, is that humanity, Adam, is very good. Me'od is Adam, spelled alef, dalet, mem — the same letters in but a different order. This insight evaluates humanity (as another song would have it) as "the crown of creation."
Our annual scriptural lectionary or Torah reading cycle reflects the Rabbis' division of the Five Books of Moses into fifty-four segments, parashiyot (singular: parashah). This week, which is week one of the cycle, is called B'reishit, Genesis, after the opening word of the Torah. In addition to being the first word of the Torah, it is more or less descriptive of the content: the story of creation "in the beginning." Next week, we will read the parashah called No·ah. That proper name appears as the third word in the reading, and it, too, is reasonably descriptive of the content: the story of No·ah's flood. These two parashiyot contain the Bible's primeval history and are the run-up to the story of Abraham, which is found in the third portion of the cycle.
What troubles me is how the Rabbis divided that pre-Abrahamic history. As we read Genesis, we are overwhelmed by the glory of God's creation. That litany of "it was good" tolls its positive judgment, almost willfully ignoring the vicissitudes of actual history that would subsequently unfold. We know that in week two, God will "regret that God had made humanity upon the earth." We know that God will decide "to blot out humanity from the earth." Except those verses are not found in the second portion of the Torah cycle. No, that's not in No·ah's portion at all. Those incredibly depressing words are in this week's Torah reading, B'reishit.
I ask myself, just how much pessimism must the Rabbis embrace for each week's Torah portion? Couldn't they have allowed us just one measly week to revel in the judgment that humanity is "very good?" Must they rub our noses in the fact that God's grand experiment was an utter failure? Would it have been so terrible for us to have seven short days of thinking we aren't so bad after all? Why couldn't they have left that stuff until the parashah on No·ah, and reserved B'reishit for a week's worth of unadulterated praise to the Creator for God's greatest creation, humanity?
I take my clue from the holiday season just ended. On Rosh Hashanah we prayed: HaYom Harat Olam, "today the world was born!" According to rabbinic opinion, Rosh Hashanah was not only the first day of the New Year, but also marked the very creation of the world, linking the holiday with this week's Torah reading. But the holiday season that began with Rosh Hashanah ended with Yom Kippur and judgment. If there is one thing that is clear from the Yom Kippur liturgy, it is that no human is perfect; we each have our failings for which we must atone.
The two weeks of Torah reading we recite for B'reishit and No·ah give us a nuanced and balanced view of humanity. While this week's narrative begins with the grandeur and goodness of creation, it ends with a dour, negative judgment of humankind. Next week, which reports the horrific holocaust of a flood that destroys virtually all of humanity, ends with a rainbow and the hopeful report of the birth of Abraham.
When the Rabbis divided the weekly Torah portions, they were not being pessimists, they were being realists. We should and must extol the glory of God's creation. But we would be foolish to bury our heads in the sand and not to recognize that humanity is flawed — capable of great things, yet equally capable of sin. And next week, when we read the awful story of the flood, we should wait for that ray of sunlight to peep through in the end. We are not all bad. In fact, we're not too bad at all.
Our Torah cycle teaches us the mutability of human history. We are neither entirely wonderful nor entirely irredeemable. Our lives hang in the balance and our daily actions count. Our rabbi and professor Chancellor Schorsch has spent his career instructing us in this essential lesson of history. May he and we go from strength to strength.
Shabbat shalom,
Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky
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A judge has sentenced the father of six British children who died in a house fire to life, with a minimum of 15 years in prison, describing him as the "driving force" behind setting the blaze.
Judge Kathryn Thirlwall leveled most of the responsibility for the fire on Mick Philpott, describing him as a dangerous man. His wife, Mairead, and family friend Paul Mosley each received 17 years for manslaughter.
Prosecutors say the couple hatched a plan to start a gasoline-fueled fire and then rescue the children, pinning blame on Philpott's mistress so he could gain advantage in their child custody battle.
The plan went wrong within minutes, because the fire was far bigger than expected and the father was unable to smash a window to get in.
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"Garden of Bones" is the fourth episode of the second season of Game of Thrones. It is the fourteenth episode of the series overall. It premiered on April 22, 2012.[1] It was written by co-executive producer Vanessa Taylor and directed by David Petrarca.
The episode won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Art Direction in a Single-Camera Series in September 2012[2].
Tyrion attempts to restrain Joffrey's cruelty. Catelyn attempts to broker a peace between Stannis and Renly. Daenerys and her followers arrive at the great city of Qarth and hope to find refuge there. Arya and Gendry arrive at Harrenhal, a great castle now under Lannister occupation.
In the Seven Kingdoms
The Northern army under King Robb Stark leads a surprise night-time assault against an encamped Lannister army, with his direwolf Grey Wind causing a large amount of damage. The Battle of Oxcross is a smashing victory, following through on Robb's promise to give Queen Cersei "another Whispering Wood".[3] The next day Robb surveys the battlefield as Silent Sisters tend to both Stark and Lannister wounded, while his bannerman Lord Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort argues that they should kill all of the Lannister soldiers they took prisoner, because they're having trouble supplying their own army and prisoners will slow them down. Robb disagrees, saying they will fight honorably and follow the laws of war. Bolton concedes that some of the Lannister officers might have useful information they could be tortured into revealing, but Robb refuses, not wanting to give the Lannisters an excuse to torture the Stark prisoners they have, such as his sister Sansa.
Robb sees a woman battlefield healer treating a wounded Lannister soldier. He is fighting her as she is telling him she has to amputate. Robb helps hold him down as she saws off the leg. The woman, who introduces herself as Talisa of Volantis, criticizes Robb for the need for this war. Robb doesn't want the Iron Throne, just revenge on Joffrey for his father's death. She is shocked to learn he doesn't care which king takes the throne after they defeat Joffrey (having declared for neither of the Baratheon brothers). He just wants them to leave the north alone afterward. She points out that for all the bloodshed they've caused, he hasn't hurt the ones who killed his father, Joffrey and Tywin Lannister. The men they slaughtered weren't Tywin's main army but green boys and conscripts from the Westerlands who didn't ask for any of this.
Arya Stark, Gendry, and Hot Pie are taken by Ser Amory Lorch's group of soldiers to Harrenhal, a vast but partially ruined castle which was badly damaged during the Targaryen Conquest three hundred years ago by dragons' fire. Arya's group is herded in with many other prisoners the Lannister soldiers have taken, primarily peasant refugees from the Riverlands. The commander of the entire Lannister force is Ser Gregor Clegane, "the Mountain That Rides", previously declared an outlaw by Eddard Stark for his raiding in the Riverlands. Now the positions are reversed, with Clegane having the support of the Iron Throne to brutalize the rivermen. The stench of corpses is so strong that Arya notices it as soon as they are in sight of the castle. The Lannister soldiers under Ser Gregor - particularly one known as The Tickler - sadistically torture many of the prisoners they have taken. One method used is to tie a bucket containing a rat to a man's abdomen, and then to hold a flame to the back of the bucket so the rat will chew its way through his guts. The prisoners are for the most part simple peasant refugees with no knowledge of the war, and the Lannister soldiers are savagely torturing them just because they want to know where they may have hid the few valuables they have. However, some are also asked if they know anything about a group known as "The Brotherhood". Just as Gendry is about to be tortured, Lord Tywin Lannister arrives with the main host of his army, who have retreated to Harrenhal to regroup after their loss at the Battle of the Whispering Wood. The main Lannister army group led by Lord Tywin is settling in to use Harrenhal as their new main base for the ongoing campaign in the Riverlands.
Tywin orders an immediate halt to the tortures (saving Gendry), rationally pointing out how disproportionate it is relative to what little wealth the peasants might be hiding, and it would be far more efficient to put them to work around the castle. As a blacksmith's apprentice, Gendry's skills are of particular use to them, and he is set to work. Tywin instantly notices that "Arry" is really a girl dressed up in boy's clothing, criticizing his soldiers for being such idiots that they didn't realize she was a girl in all this time. When he asks her why she's dressed as a boy, Arya simply explains that it was safer to be traveling as a boy than as a girl. Tywin is impressed with her intelligence, and says he is going to take her on as his new cupbearer while his army is based at the castle.
In King's Landing, King Joffrey Baratheon is furious when he hears of Robb Stark's decisive victory against Lannister forces. He has Sansa Stark brought before the assembled court in the recently redecorated throne room, which now boasts iron spikes on many surfaces and roaring fires surrounding the pillars. Lancel Lannister tells Sansa and the assembled nobles that Robb only won the battle with trickery and sorcery. At first, Joffrey sadistically menaces Sansa by brandishing a crossbow at her and openly toying with the thought of killing her right in front of the throne to send her brother a message. Despite being clearly terrified, Sansa refuses to give Joffrey the satisfaction of scaring her and continues to firmly pledge her loyalty. Annoyed, he reluctantly concedes to his mother's insistence that they need Sansa alive, lowering the crossbow and ordering her to stand. Joffrey then sits down on the Iron Throne and commands Ser Meryn Trant of the Kingsguard to beat and strip her as punishment, but insists that the knight "leave her face. I (Joffrey) like her pretty." Ser Meryn then proceeds punch Sansa violently in the stomach and strike her in the back of the legs with the flat of his sword, causing her to fall down. He then rips open the back of her gown, leaving her partially naked from the waist up. As the beating continues, the entire court watches in horror, particularly a disgusted Sandor Clegane. But despite being filled with dozens of knights and officials, no one intervenes out of fear of Joffrey's wrath.Just as Sansa is about to be struck again, a furious Tyrion Lannister storms in and puts a stop to the spectacle. He orders someone to cover Sansa up and Sandor immediately steps forward, taking off his cloak and proceeds to gently wrap it around her. Tyrion then turns his wrath upon Joffrey, berating his actions as Sansa is his future wife and queen that he is publicly shaming (and the fact that Joffrey doesn't pause to think how politically disastrous it would be for their allies to see him having his guards beat a valuable political hostage to a bloody pulp). Furious, Joffrey proclaims that he was punishing her, to which Tyrion retorts that Sansa has committed no crime and has no control over Robb's actions (actions that Joffrey himself caused when he foolishly ordered Ned's execution), venomously denouncing his nephew as a halfwit. Now completely enraged, Joffrey bellows that as king, he can do whatever he pleases, but Tyrion again coldly counters that the Mad King thought he could do as he pleased too (and his tyrannical cruelty led to him being overthrown and personally killed by Jaime Lannister). When Ser Meryn tries to support the king, Tyrion silences the Kingsguard by ordering Bronn to kill Meryn if the knight opens his mouth again. Tyrion then comforts the shaken Sansa and personally escorts her out of the hall. He asks her whether she wants to end her engagement to the king, but she continues to parrot the lines that she loves Joffrey and will uphold her duty. Impressed, Tyrion remarks that she has learned how survive around Joffrey and might just make it out of her situation alive, respectfully calling her "Lady Stark".
Bronn suggests to Tyrion that as an angry young man, maybe what Joffrey needs is to have sex with a woman, and that they should set him up with a prostitute. Tyrion agrees that maybe this would give Joffrey a chance to release his frustrations away from Sansa. Indeed, he might even be grateful for the gesture: given that he didn't have much of a father figure in Robert Baratheon to set him straight, doing something nice for the boy might even be the second chance Joffrey needs to re-establish a relationship with a male family figure. So Tyrion decides to use the carrot instead of the stick, and arranges for two prostitutes from Littlefinger's brothel, Ros and Daisy, to entertain Joffrey. Unfortunately, the attempt fails horrifically: instead of trying to have sex with the prostitutes, Joffrey brings a loaded crossbow into the bedchamber. At crossbow-point, Joffrey forces Ros to beat Daisy unconscious, and then to dump her body in Tyrion's chambers, to send his uncle a message warning him not to interfere with his handling of Sansa again.
As Tyrion works in his chamber late at night, his cousin Lancel Lannister knocks on his door delivering orders from Cersei to release Grand Maester Pycelle from the dungeon at once. Despite their blood relationship Lancel clearly holds Tyrion in contempt and openly calls him "Imp". Curious, Tyrion asks why Lancel is so late delivering the message. Blundering into a rather obvious trap, Lancel retorts that he always delivers messages immediately and is never late. Tyrion then simply points out how odd it is that Lancel would be coming from Cersei's bedchambers in the middle of the night. Lancel nervously says Cersei often works tirelessly keeping late hours, but Tyrion also notices that he reeks of Cersei's favorite lavender oil perfume. Tyrion then bluntly asks if Lancel was made a knight before or after he started sharing Cersei's bed. Lancel falls apart, saying that Cersei's father ordered him to obey her every command when he became a squire to King Robert, to which Tyrion sarcastically asks if Cersei forced him to have sex with her too. Tyrion wonders aloud what Joffrey would do to Lancel if he found out that Lancel had not only killed Joffrey's father but was also sleeping with his mother. Lancel gets down on his knees and pleads for his life. Tyrion gently instructs Lancel that he won't tell, but from now on, Lancel must report everything Cersei does back to Tyrion. As Lancel leaves, he also casually agrees that he will accede to Cersei's request and free Pycelle if she wants him as a "pet", though he doesn't want him back on the Small Council.
Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish arrives at King Renly Baratheon's camp as a political envoy from King Joffrey Baratheon at King's Landing. He tries to gain Renly's trust by implying that if Renly does march on the capital, he will help take down the Lannisters from within (it is unclear if he is lying, but he is also ready to jump ship if the Lannisters lose, and Stannis is not an option, because Stannis despises Littlefinger); Renly is tempted by the notion, despite expressing his open dislike for Littlefinger personally. Littlefinger then has a conversation with Queen Margaery Tyrell in which he tries to intimidate her by hinting that her husband is a homosexual. He does not anticipate that Margaery seems to already know and not to care. Margaery is not a naive ingenue like Sansa Stark but versed in court strategies: she honestly believes that Renly is the best candidate for king, and voluntarily entered into a paper marriage to secure the political alliance between Renly and House Tyrell. Baelish then moves on to meeting with Catelyn Stark, who is upset at his betrayal of her husband to his death. Baelish first tries to kindle a romance with her, saying that now they are both free, it may be that they can be together. Catelyn simply draws a dagger and demands that he stop speaking. Discouraged, he moves on to present Tyrion's offer that the Lannisters want to make a prisoner exchange with the Starks: if they release Jaime Lannister, Queen Cersei will release both Sansa Stark and Arya Stark (with Petyr Baelish lying about the Lannisters having Arya). Catelyn insists that Robb would never allow the exchange, but Littlefinger tries to manipulate her love for her imprisoned daughters. As a show of good faith from Tyrion, Baelish brings forward a pair of Silent Sisters carrying a box containing the returned bones of Ned Stark. Deeply grieving, Catelyn tells Petyr to get out. She looks at the bones with pain, but then shuts the box with a look of resolve on her face.
King Stannis Baratheon then arrives at Renly's camp, along with the Red Priestess Melisandre and Ser Davos Seaworth in his retinue. Stannis has come to treat with Renly and give him the chance to willingly relinquish his claim and serve his older brother. Renly, along with his Kingsguard members Brienne and Ser Loras Tyrell, counters that no one wants Stannis to be king. Renly also scoffs at Stannis' conversion to the religion of the Lord of Light. Catelyn Stark criticizes both brothers for acting like sulking children. Stannis counters that it is odd that Catelyn is standing alongside Renly, given that her own husband Ned Stark rejected Renly's initial plan to claim the throne and supported Stannis as Robert's rightful heir, even at the cost of his own life. In a display of leniency that is uncharacteristic for him, Stannis offers Renly that if he relinquishes his claim, Stannis will grant him his old seat on the small council, and even name him as his heir (unless Stannis ever has a son in the future). Catelyn reminds Stannis that their common enemy is the Lannisters, but he will not hear it, again asserting his right to the Iron Throne. Renly states that the 100,000 soldiers waving his banners makes him king, and Stannis' small army is hopelessly outnumbered. Stannis says that they shall see the next morning when their armies clash, and he departs. As she leaves Melisandre warns, "Look to your sins Lord Renly, for the night is dark and full of terrors."
At King Stannis' command, Ser Davos rows Melisandre to some caves located near Renly's camp. Davos knows these caves from his old smuggling days. Melisandre asks him about whether he desires her, and his views on the conflict they are involved in between right and wrong, insisting that she is on the side of good. They find the way through the caves is blocked by metal bars. Melisandre takes off her cloak revealing that she is naked and heavily pregnant and promptly "gives birth" to a creature made entirely of shadow, as Ser Davos looks on in horror.
Across the Narrow Sea
On the return of her bloodrider Kovarro, Daenerys receives word that the city of Qarth is nearby, and they are willing to welcome the "Mother of Dragons". Ser Jorah Mormont cautions that Qarth is located in the "Garden of Bones", a brutal desert which those who've been turned away by Qarth have perished in. Daenerys and her Khalasar leave the Red Waste and reach the city of Qarth. The Thirteen, a group of wealthy nobles and merchant princes, the leaders of Qarth, emerge to greet her, guarded by a group of shielded spearmen. One of the Thirteen, the Spice King, speaks for the group. They request that the "Mother of Dragons" present her children, but Daenerys insists that her people be fed and sheltered before she reveals her dragons. The Thirteen decide to turn Danaerys' group away and abandon them to the Garden of Bones. Danaerys swears vengeance on Qarth, with "fire and blood", should they not comply. Jorah seems to find these threats rather reckless, but one of the Thirteen, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, chooses to vouch for Daenerys through a blood oath, and on his word, she and her Khalasar are let into Qarth.
- Main: Garden of Bones recap
A detailed recap of the episode scene by scene.
Memorable quotes
(Tyrion and Bronn walk into the throne room, to find that Joffrey is having his Kingsguard beat and strip Sansa Stark in front of the entire court)
Tyrion: "She's to be your queen! Have you no regard for her honor?"
Joffrey: "I'm punishing her!"
Tyrion: "For what crime? She does not fight her brother's battles, you half-wit!"
Joffrey: "You can't talk to me like that! The king can do as he likes!"
Tyrion: "The Mad King did as he liked. Has your uncle Jaime told you what happened to him?
Meryn Trant: No one threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard!
Tyrion: "I am not threatening the King, Ser Meryn, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, the next time Ser Meryn speaks, kill him. That was a threat. See the difference?"
- The episode covers material from chapters 13, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 40 and 43 (Deanerys I, Arya VI, Deanerys II, Tyrion VII, Catelyn III, Sansa III, Catelyn V and Davos II).
- The title of the episode appears in dialogue. When asked about Qarth, Ser Jorah tells Daenerys that "The desert around their walls is called the garden of bones. Every time the Qartheen shut their gates on a traveller, the garden grows." Daenerys negotiating entry to Qarth is a major plot point of the episode.
- Oona Chaplin was announced as playing Jeyne Westerling, however her character introduces herself as Talisa.
- Jon Snow and the Night's Watch, Jaime Lannister, the Greyjoys, as well as Bran Stark and other characters at Winterfell, do not appear in this episode. The plot mostly centers around the continuing campaign in the war between Starks and Lannisters in the Riverlands, and the political machinations involving House Baratheon at Renly's camp.
- Tywin Lannister stated in his last scene in the Season One finale, "Fire and Blood", that he intended to regroup his army at Harrenhal.
- This is the first episode since "Winter is Coming," the series opener, in which Vaes Dothrak is not shown in the title sequence.
- TV-first fans who didn't expect to see or didn't quite understand what the Shadow-monster that Melisandre gave birth to was, made quite an uproar at the end of the episode on Twitter when this episode first aired, with various disparaging comments about its horrifying birthing process. Actress Carice van Houten sarcastically responded on her own Twitter account to all of these by saying, "Thanks for all your lovely comments on 'the baby'."[4]
- When Joffrey orders Ros to beat Daisy with his cane, and the scene quickly cuts away, apparently a few viewers thought this implied that Joffrey made Ros rape Daisy with the cane. Actress Esme Bianco (who plays Ros) denied this, and said the whole scene just consisted of her repeatedly hitting Daisy with the cane until it was very bloody. Heavy camera editing to limit the on-screen violence may have confused some viewers. Bianco revealed that she was actually hitting a pillow off-screen, so it would genuinely look like she was hitting with all of her force (as opposed to having both her and Daisy in the camera frame, and just pretending to hit her). A problem encountered was that Bianco was hitting the cane against the pillow so hard that the antlers on the stag's head at the top of the cane kept snapping off, so crew members had to keep gluing the antlers back together.[5]
- In the series, one of Daenerys' scouts is sent with an invitation to Qarth, but she is denied entry, until Xaro Xhoan Daxos takes a blood oath and vouches for her. In the books, three representatives from Qarth, including Xaro come to fetch her, and she is immediately invited through the gates.
- In the books, Lady Catelyn does not see Petyr Baelish in Renly's Camp, and she does receive her husband's bones, while she is there. Lord Eddard's bones are sent with Cleos Frey to Riverrun much later, when Catelyn is there to receive them.
- In the books, there are two assassinations by shadows. The first is Renly Baratheon; his death is shown, but not the birth of the shadow. Melisandre is said to be with Stannis in his tent when this happens, Stannis is in a feverish dream at the time, and no one could wake him. We do see the Shadow's birth for the second assassination, when Davos has to row Melisandre to the caves under Storm's End to kill Lord Cortnay Penrose. Stannis will not leave the castle untaken in his wake, and the walls have magic spells woven into them so the shadow cannot pass through. Davos is sent to row her into the caves under the walls, as this was the very same route Davos took when he delivered the fish and onions to Storm's End during the siege. Lord Penrose is later reported dead of an apparent suicide off of his balcony. When Varys told Tyrion about Penrose's death, neither of them believed it was suicide, but suspected Stannis caused that. Varys correctly speculated there is connection between the two assassinations, and that both performed by dark witchcraft.
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- Talisa Maegyr
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- Pyat Pree
- The Spice King
- The Silk King
- The Tickler
- Weasel
- Rennick
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- Tortured prisoner
- Stafford Lannister (off screen)
Cast Notes
- Charles Dance joins the starring cast, bringing the number of current starring cast members to 25.
- Only 16 of the 25 starring cast members for the second season appear in this episode.
- Starring cast members Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), James Cosmo (Jeor Mormont), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark), Conleth Hill (Varys), and Sibel Kekilli (Shae) are not credited and do not appear in this episode.
- Jack Gleeson is credited ahead of Richard Madden, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams when he was credited after them when they last appeared together in "The North Remembers."
- Stephen Dillane, Carice van Houten and Jerome Flynn are credited ahead of Rory McCann when they were credited after him when they last appeared together in "The North Remembers."
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In the books
- In the books, Renly punctuates his scorn for Stannis during their final parley by flippantly offering a peach to his older brother. This particular exchange does not happen in the TV episode. However, Renly does pick up and eye an apple while he is walking around in his tent meeting with Littlefinger.
- Roose Bolton reports that five Lannister soldiers died for every Stark soldier killed in the Battle of Oxcross. In the books, few Stark soldiers died, and it was more of one-sided massacre of 10,000 green Lannister conscripts taken by surprise.
- One of the Lannister generals in the Season One finale argued that their current strategy should be to try to use Tywin's surviving army to hold off Robb while they raise new conscripts in the Westerlands. Now that Robb has slaughtered this raw new army group, the Westerlands are wide open to his assaults.
- The TV series has truncated several of the movements of Robb Stark's army in the overall war. In the books, the combined forces of the North and Riverlands serving King Robb are divided into two main army groups: the main cavalry group personally led by Robb in the west, and the main infantry group led by Roose Bolton in the east. The TV series changed it so that the Battle of the Green Fork in Season One was a feint in which the entire force of 2,000 Northmen were killed. In the books, the attack was a feint and they did lose men, but Roose Bolton then retreated in good order. Functionally this also means that Roose Bolton never directly interacted with Robb Stark while their armies were in the field.
- This does not necessarily remove the possibility that Robb will order Roose to take his contingent east later this season; the TV creators may have just wanted to establish Robb interacting with Roose before separating them for over a season.
- Joffrey's ordering the Kingsguard to beat and ultimately strip Sansa in front of the entire courtroom is not an invention of the TV show. Indeed, it is somewhat toned down from the book version, in which Sansa is struck with the flat-side of a sword so many times that she loses count, and her entire body (except for her face) is covered in severe bruises. The longer duration of the beating in the book also emphasizes that in all that time, none of the knights in the court tried to stop it, even though they are sworn to protect women, the defenseless, and the innocent.
- The TV version also toned down Sansa's nudity in this scene. In the book, her gown is quickly ripped off down to the waist, and she is left covering her breasts with her hands as Meryn continues to pound away at her bare flesh with his sword. This was probably removed for legal reasons. The series films many of its scenes in Northern Ireland, and the legal age of consent in the United Kingdom is 16 years old. Actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa, actually turned 16 in February 2011, before major filming on Season 2 began. However, as several members of the production team have explained in interviews, the way underaged nudity laws in the UK work is that what matters is how old the character being portrayed is, regardless of the actor's actual age in real-life. In other countries with different decency laws for cinema, a 22 year old can portray a 15 year old character in a nude scene, albeit unconvincingly. "Sansa Stark", the character, is about 14 years old during Season 2 of Game of Thrones, and thus did not meet the legal requirements for decency laws in the United Kingdom.
- In the books, Tyrion did suggest setting up Joffrey with some prostitutes to try to divert his attention from Sansa, and possibly even make Joffrey grateful for the favor. The actual results of this weren't shown, but ordering one prostitute to beat another unconscious at crossbow-point for his own amusement is in keeping with Joffrey's penchant for sadistic gratification. D.B. Weiss points out in the behind-the-scenes featurettes that Joffrey doesn't do this out of just blind rage but because he wants to send a message to his uncle Tyrion, though it still shows the depths of cruelty that Joffrey is capable of.
- It is possible that the scene with Joffrey and the prostitutes was specifically added as a stand-in for Joffrey's more graphic humiliation of Sansa in the book version.
- As Bryan Cogman explained, "There's a throwaway line in the second book where Tyrion says 'Oh, we should hire some whores for Joffrey, maybe that would let him calm down a bit.' And we thought, we have to see that scene. And what ended up emerging was that horrific, as horrific as anything in the show, scene where Ros and Daisy are made to abuse each other for Joffrey's sick jollies."[6]
- Xaro Xhoan Daxos of Qarth is not black in the book series: the TV series explains this by stating that he is from the Summer Islands, which are off the shore of Sothoryos (essentially this fantasy-world's equivalent of Africa). It is actually not unusual for dark-skinned people to be seen in the locations of Essos, either as slaves or descendants of freed slaves who have risen to become soldiers, pirates, or powerful lords and merchant princes. Therefore, it isn't particularly implausible for a Summer Islander to become a leader of a merchant guild in Qarth.
- Daenerys pronounces the city's name as "Quarth" and one of the Qarth officials angrily corrects her that it is pronounced "Karth". This may be a shout-out to fans of the books: author George R.R. Martin has notoriously not given a comprehensive pronunciation guide to the proper nouns appearing in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, resulting in many fans being surprised when various pronunciations which Martin and the TV series officially use are different from how they assumed they are pronounced.
- Doreah, the slave girl from Lys that was supposed to instruct Daenerys in pleasing a man, has survived to reach Qarth. In the books, she died in the Red Waste due to a combination of disease and exhaustion, and was personally buried by Daenerys. The TV creators apparently liked her performance enough that they've decided to keep her alive. In the books, Daenerys' other two handmaidens Irri and Jhiqui act as a pair and support Daenerys through her travels. Jhiqui has been drastically truncated in the TV series, to the point that that original Irri/Jhiqui duo seems to be replaced by an Irri/Doreah pairing.
- Conversely, Rakharo died crossing the Red Waste in the TV series, but lived in the books.
- In this episode, Stannis offers to name Renly as his heir, until a son is born to him. In the books, Stannis indeed has no sons, but he has one daughter: Shireen Baratheon, a sickly young girl the same age as Arya Stark. It has been confirmed that Shireen will appear in Season 3 of the TV series.
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Flynn's Recognizer is the Recognizer assembled and piloted by Kevin Flynn. This feat was achieved by Flynn's abilities as a User.
This particular Recognizer was damaged and left disassembled and discarded at what appeared to be the Game Grid equivalent of a junk yard. Flynn discovered it by chance when he, and an injured Ram, sought refuge from Sark's military forces. Awakening from sleep, Flynn heard the sound of an electronic beeping from a panel he was touching, and when he investigated further, the Recognizer's systems lit up and it reassembled into a damaged, but functional state.
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BUDAPEST – Day 2 of the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A had its first surprise. While Kazakhstan (5-0 vs. Great Britain) and Italy (4-1 vs. Japan) remained undefeated Korea won its first ever game against Hungary, 5-4 in a shootout.
Kazakhstan and Italy now have a two-point gap on third-ranked Hungary and confirmed their ambitions of an immediate return to the top division.
Hungary vs. Korea 4-5 (3-0, 1-1, 0-3, 0-0, 0-1)
7,370 fans saw a crazy game in Budapest. While it had a happy end for the underdog Koreans it was more of a nightmare for Hungary, which gave up the 4-1 lead it had earned after two periods.
The Hungarians had a red-hot start and must have thought of a blowout score when they took a 3-0 lead after less than 14 minutes of play. But instead of steamrollering its opponent the Hungarians rather took a back seat. Korea came back in a strong third period to bring the game to overtime. The four Korean goals came from four different lines.
In the end Kisung Kim – one of seven Kims on the roster – scored the game-winning goal in a shootout and Sungje Park, normally the backup goalie behind Hyunseung Eum, was the other hero of his team while the Hungarians had to face critical questions from the media.
"I realized that this was a historic moment. But I just went out there and wanted to shoot the puck. At one moment I almost lost it but then I scored. It was great," Kisung Kim said about his penalty shot that became the game winner.
In the 11th clash between the two teams this has been the first-ever victory for the Korean men's national team over Hungary. Before today Hungary had earned nine wins and a tie.
"I'm normally not on the starting line-up but now I'm just very happy," said Sungje Park. "Everybody worked very hard in this game."
Hungary tried to set the right tone in the beginning and it looked to become an easy game for them judging from the first few minutes.
At 2:06 Ladislav Sikorcin one-timed the puck into the net from the right face-off dot and one-and-a-half minutes later Istvan Bartalis doubled the gap after a centering pass from Istvan Sofron.
Ten minutes later the game seemed to be virtually decided. The Hungarians didn't allow the Koreans many opportunities but made it 3-0 at 13:34. Janos Hari skated into the Korean zone and sent off a perfect shot to the top-left corner.
After the intermission the fight of the underdog began. At 5:35 Tae An Kwon ended an attack with some fast passing with the 3-1 marker but one minute later Janos Vas restored the three-goal lead after a drop pass from Sikorcin.
A strong start into the third period brought the comeback hopes back for the Koreans. After 57 seconds Kisung Kim scored on a rebound after Brock Radunske's initial shot. It was the first scoring point for the forward from Kitchener, Ontario, who became naturalized after five years with Anyang Halla in the Asia League.
Five minutes later, just after a long break due to the repair of the boards, it came even better for the Asians.
Sangwoo Sin sent a diagonal pass to Won Jung Kim, who made it a one-goal game with more than 14 minutes left in regulation time.
"It was tough," Kisung Kim said about the comeback attempt. "We know they're a good team. But we kept going and told ourselves 'we can do it'."
"The atmosphere at the arena was crazy with so many people but it was exciting to play in front of this crowd."
The game became more intense and physical. Korean defenceman Seungyup Lee had to be transported from the ice on a stretcher after an open-ice hit. Lee fell unconscious for a while but was later responsive and able to move all body. He was brought to a hospital for further examination.
The Koreans overcame the initial shock and continued to push for the tie. Soon after they were awarded a power play in which Sanghoon Shin tied the game by capitalizing on a rebound.
The momentum switch remained and Korea was closer to the fifth goal than the Hungarians. With three minutes left Yongjun Lee had a huge chance to score the first Korean lead on a 2-on-1 but his shot hit goalkeeper Miklos Rajna.
On the other side the Hungarians tried to find their form but had trouble with a Korean defence that improved throughout the game.
How could Hungary, ranked 19th in the world compared to Korea's 28th, have such a meltdown?
"Some of our players thought this would be going to be easy and when you think games are going to be easy and don't play with the same intensity and concentration mistake happens. We didn't compete nearly as hard as yesterday and made many mental errors throughout the game, especially in the end of the game," Hungary head coach Rich Chernomaz said.
"We have to use each other and let the puck make the work. Especially in the offensive zone in the second and third period guys were getting too individual and were trying to do too much on their own with the puck instead of moving the puck. There are five players on the ice."
Radunske saw it similarly from the Korean perspective.
"Their crowd is incredible. They played with a lot of emotions. It was unusual for our guys. But after three goals they maybe took us a bit lightly and maybe thought it would be going to be a 7-0, 8-0 game," Radunske said. "Sometimes when you have a lead like that it can be the worst because players start to worry about their own points and want to score as individuals. Maybe they got a little selfish and we were able to get together as a team."
The clash went to overtime. In ten games between the two teams the Hungarians had nine wins and one tie, 5-5 at the 1989 IIHF World Championship C-Pool in Australia. The goal record was 83-27.
Since the first game between these nations at the 1982 IIHF World Championship C-Pool in Spain, an 18-2 win for Hungary, the Koreans had never managed to beat Hungary in any game in the men's category. For Hungary a victory was a must to keep the dream of earning promotion alive, for Korea a win meant writing hockey history.
Both teams created scoring opportunities in the extra period, Hungary the biggest one when Bartalis intercepted a pass and Sofron shot from short distance, but no team succeeded. In overtime Korea also lost another player due to injury with Minho Cho.
After five minutes a shootout had to decide about the winner. And this time it was Korea.
Round 1: Brock Radunske 0-1, Marton Vas 1-1.
Round 2: Sanghoon Shin – save, Balazs Ladanyi – save.
Round 3: Kisung Kim 1-2, Istvan Sofron – save.
Kazakhstan vs. Great Britain 5-0 (2-0, 1-0, 2-0)
After defeating Japan the Kazakhs also downed Great Britain, 5-0, on day two of the competition.
Kazakhstan went into the game against Great Britain as favourites but two years ago they barely overcame the British in a 2-1 win en route to the eventual promotion. Thanks to an efficient offence and a strong Vitali Kolesnik in the net the Kazakhs celebrated a bigger win this time.
It was the British who had the better start and outshot the opponent for most part of the opening period. They had several good scoring opportunities especially during three power plays. However, none of the shots went in and Kolesnik kept his net clean.
The Kazakhs learnt the Brits a lesson in scoring. Virtually invisible in the offence for big parts of the first period, the Kazakhs scored two goals within a 19-second span two minutes before the intermission.
First Konstantin Romanov scored after a great forward pass through the British defence from Andrei Spiridonov.
Then the Kazakhs made the British defence look bad again. Ilya Solarev ended an interrupted breakaway with a shot from the face-off dot that went into the net through traffic in front of Stephen Murphy.
"I'm happy, our goal is to win games, but we can play better and we have to play better," Kazakhstan's head coach Vladimir Krikunov said. "We need to be more disciplined. Our forwards haven't played at full strength yet."
Tony Hand's team tried to get back into the game and created more scoring opportunities than the Kazakhs in the second period. Defenceman Daniel Meyers had a big scoring chance at 3:56 when he got the puck but hit Kolesnik with his shot from one metre.
However, towards the end of the middle stanza the British ran into penalty trouble. With 8.4 seconds left in the period, Roman Savchenko fired a slap shot on a two-man advantage to end the period with a three-goal margin.
Early in the second period the Kazakhs left no doubt about the game's outcome. They took over a power play from the end of the first period and at the moment it was over, Vadim Krasnoslobotsev sent the puck over Murphy's shoulder for the 4-0 goal.
Midway through the period Konstantin Savenkov almost scored the fifth goal but hit the post on a penalty shot.
Twenty seconds later another penalty was called against the Brits and after some tic-tac-toe passing Yevgeni Blokhin scored the 5-0 goal on the power play.
The British had only few scoring chances in the last period and if they had one, they missed it like Ashley Tait on his solo attempt six minutes before the final buzzer.
The score didn't necessarily reflect the way the game was played and that was to a big part thanks to Kolesnik's hard-earned shutout with 36 saves.
For the British it was a frustrating game but they hope they will be better rewarded for their performance next time.
"We have to continue that way, get the pucks to the net and wait for our chances," team captain Jonathan Phillips said.
Italy vs. Japan 4-1 (1-0, 2-0, 1-1)
After blanking Korea 4-0, top-seeded Italy got another challenger from the Far East with Japan. The blue team controlled the game and won 4-1.
Patrick Iannone scored the last two goals for the Italians to seal the win against a Japanese side that became stronger in the last period.
"It was a very good win and we're happy," Iannone said. "We played good. We knew Japan skates really hard and is disciplined."
The Italians tried to build pressure on Yukata Fukufuji's net from the very beginning and it was the second unit, exclusively consisting of North American born Italians, which opened the scoring after 83 seconds of play.
Trevor Johnson skated towards the end boards and fed David Borrelli, who capitalized on the great pass.
With power hockey the Azzurri put Japan under constant pressure and also earned three power plays during the second half of the first period that helped them control the game. After 20 minutes the Italians had clearly outshot their opponent, 20-5.
The Japanese had only a few chances. Opposed to yesterday's game against Kazakhstan, the Italians seemed well-prepared for the agile Japanese forwards and didn't give them much room for offensive action.
After nine minutes in the middle frame the Italians did another step to earn three more points. This time the first line dominated by South Tyroleans was responsible for the marker.
Anton Bernard skated towards Fukufuji and sent a drop pass to Armin Hofer, who netted the puck. Six minutes later Bernard got another assist point when he fed Iannone with a side pass for the 3-0 goal.
By the end of the second period Italy had outshot Japan 33-11 and had still not taken any penalty. Five minutes into the third period Iannone scored his second goal of the day on a power play for the 4-0 lead.
"Most part of the game we stuck to our game plan," said Iannone. "First and foremost we had to stay out of the penalty box. On our team defence comes first, and offence comes from the defence."
The Japanese improved in the third period but the reaction came too late.
At 8:07 Go Tanaka scored Japan's first goal with a nice backhand shot while playing four-on-four. The goal ended Adam Dennis' shutout streak at this tournament after 108 minutes.
One minute later Takuro Yamashita almost scored a copy of Tanaka's goal but this time Dennis caught the puck. Despite one 5-on-4 and later a 5-on-3 opportunity, the Japanese didn't manage to score again and the game ended with a 4-1 victory for Italy.
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Of course, we've always believed that last point to be true, but these results affirm it. And it won't be long before we start the process all over again to select a title (or titles?) for Reading Together 2015. Have a suggestion? Use the Contact link to the right and let us know!
Until next year,
We've just received a lovely note from Tracie McMillan about her recent visit to Kalamazoo. Although Reading Together 2014 continues until mid-April, we want to share her sentiments with the community now, since many are presumably still digesting (get it?) their reactions to her compelling book, The American Way of Eating.
In the meantime, we still have three weeks of programs and several related community events left before Novella Carpenter comes to town on April 15-16. Check out the Events links to the right and mark your calendars now. See you there!
Dear Karen, Ann, & the rest of the Reading Together/KPL Crew,
Thank you again for organizing such a wonderful kick-off to your Reading Together series—and for including me in it. I had such wonderful conversation with everyone—from the lively Q&A at the high school to lunch at the Tap Room with your partners; from the high school student presentations to the live chat with the Kalamazoo Gazette. I truly was honored & delighted to be a part of it, and I'll stop in & say hi on my next visit to Kzoo!
Tracie McMillan
This spring we are inspired by two books that explore the journey of food from farm to table – whether that farm is a large operation fueled by the efforts of migrant workers or something that starts as simply as a personal devotion turning a nearby urban patch into a garden.
Novella Carpenter's memoir Farm City shows how in small steps we can start something simple and transform it into something greater than ourselves. Her experience of growing beyond the garden to include raising animals on a small scale in an urban space is the inspiration behind upcoming programs such as Raising Animals for Food and The Farming Life. People's Food Co-op will offer a Cooking Demonstration using fresh and local ingredients. Beyond Food for Thought will bring together a variety of people sharing how they turned small ideas gleaned here and there into life-changing actions; and we've also planned how-to's on Container Gardening and a Farmers Market 101 where you can learn how to select produce and build relationships with local farmers.
As a journalist, Tracie McMillan goes undercover in The American Way of Eating to reveal the journey of food produced and distributed en masse until reaching its final destination on our plate. Her writing encouraged us to learn more about local stories and challenges of food and as a result, our community has come together in collaboration to present and offer to you The Farmworker Story as told by former farmworkers who advocate for safe and dignified working conditions. The Center for Health Equity will open dialog about Food Security or Food Justice: Does it Really Matter? We also have a Midday Film Series of three food documentaries; and we look forward to sharing the Midwestern food experience with authors Peggy Wolff and Bonnie Jo Campbell.
In addition to a grand variety of "side" program selections to choose from, our plate would not be complete without the main dishes: the Reading Together Committee is proud to present to you About the Author programs, where you will be able to meet and hear firsthand the experiences from each of our featured authors Novella and Tracie.
Our Kalamazoo Community will undoubtedly have plenty of food for thought throughout this season, and we look forward to reading, learning, and sharing food ideas (and food!) with you!
~ Jessica L. Enget, Reading Together Steering CommitteeAssociate Librarian, Portage District Library
At the very beginning of her book The American Way of Eating, Tracie McMillan writes, "Like all myths, the idea that only the affluent and educated care about their meals has spread not because it is true, but because parts of it are. Healthier food is more expensive; that much is true. So is the fact that it can be hard to find in poor neighborhoods. And yet it requires an impossible leap of logic to conclude from these facts that only the rich care about their meals" (2). McMillan explains that she had bought into this myth—that home-cooked, healthy, fresh food was "for the rich"—until, as a writer "covering the poverty beat" for a small magazine, she profiled a young New York girl who was attending a cooking class (3). For the first time, McMillan began to ask herself why it was easier and cheaper to eat junk food than it was to eat healthy food. She asked herself, "Why is it so difficult to eat well?" (9), and that question launched her investigation of the American food system and remains at the heart of her book.
On Tuesday, October 8, Kalamazoo College's Mary Jane Underwood Center for Civic Engagement and Farms to K will present a public screening of the recently-released documentary, A Place at the Table, that takes up McMillan's question and asks us to consider why 50 million Americans—1 in 4 children—don't know where their next meal is coming from, let alone have the resources to ensure that that meal contains healthy, fresh, food. The film, by the producers of Food, Inc., traces the story of three food insecure Americans "who maintain their dignity even as they struggle just to eat" (Place at the Table). Following the screening, there will be a discussion of hunger in Kalamazoo, led by Phyllis Hepp, of Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes, and Dayon Woodford, a K College student working on a senior thesis on food access in Kalamazoo.
This screening of A Place at the Table is open to the public and takes place from 7 pm - 9 pm Tuesday, October 8 in the Recital Hall of the Fine Arts Building on the campus of Kalamazoo College.
~ Dr. Amelia Katanski, Kalamazoo CollegeReading Together Steering Committee


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Written By: Mike Schulz
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Bella (PG-13) - Alejandro Monteverde's drama, which concerns the friendship between a chef and a newly pregnant, newly unemployed waitress, received the People's Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. Um... who are these "people," exactly? Space people? Because I can see how Bella might be confused with a great movie if you didn't understand a word of human conversation. Even then, of course, you might still be put off by the film's bizarre editing (with flash-forwards routinely, meaninglessly interrupting scenes-in-progress) and lackluster photography; Montevrede shows more interest in food than in his stars. And then there's that baffling ending, which seems to set the film up for a sequel - one that fills in that massive "Huh?!?" of a climactic plot hole. But it's still the mawkish, maudlin screenplay that does it in; Eduardo Verástegui (looking uncannily like Jim Caviezel as Christ) and Tammy Blanchard (as ever, looking uncannily like Judy Garland) are stuck with unplayable dialogue and baldly written characters, and the movie shamelessly plies on the merely-functional supporting stereotypes. The movie is pro-life and pro-family with a vengeance, which might account for its (limited) popular success. I just wish it were also a little pro-brain, and a lot anti-cliché.
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This is most unfortunate, for obesity has become the number one public health problem for our community and our nation, affecting one-third of our population. It's a precursor to heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses that account for more than a million premature deaths each year.
Leading causes of obesity are consumption of fat-laden meat and dairy products and inadequate exercise. This is particularly critical during childhood years, when lifestyle habits become lifelong addictions. The failure of the drug industry to come up with a dietary silver bullet places added emphasis on the diet/exercise solution.
The time has come to replace meat and dairy products in our diet with wholesome grains, vegetables, and fruits and to undertake a regular exercise program. Parents should insist that their schools introduce wholesome school lunch choices and should set a good example at their own dinner table.
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