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Palin's Enemies Don't Understand Libel Case Against Joe McGinniss
Perhaps you haven't heard about the letter that Sarah Palin's lawyer sent Random House, so let me begin by filling you in on the background:
Joe McGinniss last year made headlines by renting the house next door to the Palin family in Wasilla. McGinniss recently published an anti-Palin book that was almost universally panned by critics as an ill-sourced smear job and it appears to be a commercial flop. Some of the more sensationalized sex-and-drugs-and-crime stuff in the book made headlines for a few days, but once other journalists saw what sloppy work McGinniss had published, his book was dismissed as an overhyped hatchet-job. Even such notorious Palin-haters as Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have snubbed McGinniss. And then ...
Andrew Breitbart published an e-mail that McGinniss sent in January to Jesse Griffin, a name that should ring a bell with American Spectator readers. It was Griffin who peddled a bogus Palin divorce rumor in August 2009, which was almost instantly exposed as a lie. Griffin then lost his job as a kindergarten teaching assistant when it was revealed that Griffin had been writing obscene things about pornography and masturbation on his pseudonymous anti-Palin blog. Two months after he was exposed as a lying pervert, however, Griffin boasted on his blog that he'd met McGinniss in Alaska and that McGinniss had proclaimed himself a "huge fan" of Griffin's blog.
So in January of this year, McGinniss wrote a nearly 900-word e-mail to Griffin, explaining that lawyers for Random House had pointed out that several of the anecdotes in McGinniss's manuscript were completely unsubstantiated and nothing more than "tawdry gossip." Yet as Breitbart demonstrated, several of these anti-Palin smears were included in the published edition of McGinniss's book, without any apparent additional reporting by McGinniss. Palin's brother, Chuck Heath Jr., issued a statement calling McGinniss's book "one lie after another." Heath's statement described how McGinniss "included in his book comments falsely attributed to me by one of his unnamed sources" and didn't even contact Heath to verify whether he had said what these "sources" said he had said. As I wrote Saturday, that's "journalistic malpractice of the worse sort."
Perhaps not realizing that he was making a bad situation worse, McGinniss responded to the publication of his e-mail to Griffin by telling Jon Bershad of Mediaite that he "published only those allegations which I found to be credible." With this statement, McGinniss professed himself an authority on the credibility of allegations against Sarah Palin -- and this is the same McGinniss who is a "huge fan" of Jesse Griffin's discredited blog!
As a judge of what is "credible," then, McGinniss is a dubious authority, and his e-mail to Griffin looks very much like Exhibit A in the prospective defamation case described yesterday in the letter Palin attorney John Tiemessen sent to Random House:
"[S]ince both your company, and the author, clearly knew the statements were false, admitted they had no basis in fact or reality, but decided to publish in order to harm Governor Palin's family, you and Mr. McGinniss have defamed the Palins. This letter shall serve as written notice . . . that a claim may be brought against you, your company and Mr. McGinniss for knowingly publishing false statements."
Tiemessen's letter warned Random House not to destroy any communications which might be relevant to such a lawsuit and is therefore (lawyerly types tell me) what is known as a "litigation hold" notice. Tiemessen's letter is not, however, a "threat" of a lawsuit, no matter how many times headline writers have used that word to describe it. What he sent Random House was the first step toward "a claim that may be brought," a legal communication necessary to preserve evidence and prevent Random House from covering up evidence that that their editors, executives and lawyers knew of concerns about the factuality of McGinniss's book. The letter strikes me as tantamount to "see you in court."
However, the seriousness of Tiemessen's letter and the potential legal vulnerability of Random House have been mocked and derided by those suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome. For more than three years, Palin's enemies have become accustomed to seeing bloggers and tabloids spread libelous assertions and obscene speculation about the former Alaska governor with no apparent repercussions. Having convinced themselves that Palin is evil incarnate, the PDS sufferers are apparently willing to believe any heinous smear that McGinniss published. And so their reactions have included such nonsense as David Magee's column today:
But here's the problem with suing McGinnis and the publisher: Palin would have to prove that the allegations in the book are all lies if she proceeded with a lawsuit.
She's a public figure -- considerably so -- and it's hard to prove libel when you are in the public eye in the first place. . . .
She would have to clear her name completely.
This is absurd. If the Palins do sue, their suit will specify defamatory statements in McGinniss's book that they believe they can prove false. They do not have to prove every allegation false, nor would Sarah "have to clear her name completely." Only evidence and testimony relevant to those disputed allegations will be admissible, and so there is no basis for Magee's assertion that Palin would have to address every lurid claim in the McGinniss book.
Thanks to McGinniss's e-mail to Griffin, the Palins have Random House in a bad situation, and the only question is whether the Palins will stop short of a court trial against the publisher. It is worth noting, however, that Tiemessen cited an Alaska law in his letter to Random House. So the expense of flying McGinniss, Random House editors, executives and lawyers to Alaska would be added to the costs for Random House to defend such a case. And these witnesses would almost certainly be subpoenaed to testify, because of a comment at a left-wing blog Sunday -- before the letter from Tiemessen was sent -- in which McGinniss stated:
Bottom line: not only my editor, but Random House attorneys verified every source, in some cases speaking directly to the sources themselves. I have dozens of hours of recorded conversations. Random House attorneys listened to them all, then made an independent judgment about the trustworthiness of the sources. No material from an unverified source is included in the book.
Air travel to Alaska isn't cheap. And exactly how Random House's attorneys "made an independent judgment about the trustworthiness" of sources they had never even met would certainly make for lively court proceedings, if such a case ever went to trial.
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My existence is not a violation of your rights
Timothy Kincaid
November 3rd, 2010
I am becoming increasingly frustrated by the notion of "balance" that some in the anti-gay industry are espousing.
I support the right of those who believe that homosexual acts are sinful and wish to encourage abstinence to have their voices heard. And those who think that the social acceptance of same-sex couples in society reduces public morality and will lead to social ills should be given the space to present their case.
But the false equivalencies that have been presented lately do not speak to an exchange of ideas, but rather to the assumptions of entitlement to which anti-gay activists think they are due.
The counterbalance to "I wish to advocate for gay rights" is not "you must be kept silent." And there is no moral equivalency between "I wish to live unharmed" and "I wish to beat you to submission." Yet these are not greatly exaggerated from that which we see presented.
Take, for example, Russian gay rights protesters who sued their country in the European Court after being denied the right to assemble. The court found last month that their rights had been violated and ordered that Russia allow for future gay rights demonstrations and assigned compensation.
The response to this decision by the Russian Orthodox Church is astonishing. (Interfax Religion)
"The decision made in Strasbourg essentially constitutes violence against the feelings and morals of the majority of [Russian] society. That will hardly help achieve the stated purpose to cultivate tolerance and achieve accord, mutual understanding and peaceful co-existence," Father Filaret said in an interview with Interfax-Religion.
Peaceful assembly is depicted by the church as "violence against the morals and feelings of society." The real violence enacted against the physical bodies of gay people in Russia was given less concern by the church than the "violence" against anti-gays feelings.
Or take note of the equivalencies assigned by the school board in Howell, Michigan. (Livingston Daily)
- On October 20, Jay McDowell wore a purple shirt to class to express solidarity with students who are bullied for being (or being perceived as) gay or lesbian. This led to a discussion about bullying and why it should be opposed.
- One student, who had come to class with a Confederate Flag belt buckle was asked by McDowell to remove the item (she did).
- In response, a male student declared that he opposes rainbow flags because, "I don't accept Gays. It is against my religion. I am Catholic."
- McDowell attempted to explain how "I don't accept" followed by any group was disruptive and when the student refused to back down, suspended him and another student from the class for the day.
As the Michigan Messenger describes it:
That student … and another student, were kicked out of McDowell's Economic class after debating with the teacher about a third student's Confederate flag belt buckle. The student questioned why it was OK for students to wear clothing to support LGBT issues, but not for a student to wear a Confederate flag.
In other words, why isn't "I support" equivalent to "I don't accept"? Shouldn't both positions be given the same prominence and legal and moral weight?
No. Perhaps in some settings, but not this one.
Because the context of the debate was over the bullying of children. And in that context, "I don't accept gays" is an implicit endorsement of bullying of school children. When speaking of bullying, "I don't accept" is a justification for bullying.
Yet the school board found that McDowell violated the rights of these two boys to their free expression and reprimanded him. And in doing so, they made the following comparison:
You also state you routinely do not allow [the Confederate Flag] in your classroom because it offends you, and you personally connect this symbol to a list of oppressions and atrocities. You do, however, allow the display of the rainbow flag, to which some of your students have voiced opposition.
McDowell actually does not display the rainbow flag. (And, indeed, if McDowell did use his class space to advocate for specific (or even general) political positions to the exclusion of other positions, I would agree that this was unfair.) But irrespective of that inaccuracy, consider what it means that the school board administration compared the two:
On one hand the Confederate Flag has a traceable history and an identifiable connection with acts of violence and advocacy of discrimination and intolerance towards people based on their racial and religious identity. In fact, in this particular high school it was linked to a Facebook Hate Group which, in 2009, used the flag as its profile picture and students have been required to remove the symbol from their cars. The Confederate Flag at Howell High was directly connected to a threat against some students.
On the other hand, the rainbow flag is linked with a set of social positions with which some students disagree. At most, it exists as a challenge to the beliefs of some students. But in the minds of this school board administration, a challenge to their beliefs is equivalent to – or worse than – a physical threat against others.
And so they accused McDowell of bullying the students, of denying their right to "not accept" their fellow students. In response to his defense of gay students from being bullied (or "not accepted"), they order him to "cease from engaging in the promotion of your personal social issues."
For refusing to accept statements of intolerance in his classroom, the board accused McDowell of being intolerant.
Nonsense. Contrary to what anti-gay activists claim, tolerance is not defined by the extent to which it allows intolerance to prevail.
But perhaps most troubling is this instruction to McDowell: "Where controversial issues arise, be sure all sides of the controversial issue be explored without emotion and bias." Think back to the originating situation, the reason for McDowell's decision to wear purple: the suicide deaths of a number of gay and presumed-gay children.
What, I wonder, are "all sides" of the "controversial issue" that gay students should not be bullied to death?


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South Carolina's unemployment rate dropped slightly to 7.3% in September after reaching a 15-year high of 7.6% in August, the State Employment Security Commission reported today. According to Roosevelt T. Halley, Executive Director of the Commission, the drop in the unemployment rate is largely due to discouraged unemployed job seekers quitting their job searches and leaving the labor force. "There's very little positive news regarding the national or state economy right now," Halley said. The state's labor force decreased nearly 6,000 in September to 2,159,180, while the number of unemployed declined 6,500 to 157,047. The national unemployment rate held steady at 6.1% in September.
The number of jobs in South Carolina fell 14,400 over the month, the largest September decrease on record. All major industry sectors lost jobs in September, except Education and Health Services (+2,100) and Government (+4,900). The gains were the result of state, local, and private schools re-staffing for the fall term. On the downside, Leisure and Hospitality posted a seasonal loss of 11,100 as the tourist season began to wind down. Notable losses were also experienced in Retail Trade (-3,300), Manufacturing (-2,300), Professional and Business Services (-1,300), Financial Activities (-900), and Construction (-700). Construction jobs have declined for the last eleven consecutive months. The overall job count, at 1,950,565 in September, was nearly 13,000 below the year-ago figure. This marks the second month in a row that the number of jobs in the state has fallen below year-ago levels.
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The woman, Lisa Christine Coletti, 38, had been missing since Jan. 24. Chad Teller, a spokesman for the sheriff's department said she was first reported missing by concerned co-workers who said Coletti hasn't been at work since the 24th.
Teller had called the disappearance suspicious.
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SPRING THEATER/VISIONS OF AMERICA; What It Means to Be Both Cuban and American
Published: February 27, 2000
A GENERATION separates the Cuban-American playwrights Maria Irene Fornes and Nilo Cruz. Ms. Fornes was 15 when she left Cuba in 1945 -- long before Fidel Castro seized power in the 1959 revolution. Mr. Cruz was 9 when he and his parents left in 1970.
Today, nearing 70 and epitomizing the outsider tradition of the Off Off Broadway theater movement, Ms. Fornes is being celebrated by the Signature Theater Company with a seasonlong festival of her work. The world premiere of her latest play, ''Letters From Cuba,'' continues through March 12 at the Signature. Directed by the author, it is based on more than 200 letters she received over 30 years from an older brother who remained in Cuba. After writing some 30 plays, musicals and operas, ''Letters From Cuba'' is the first time that Ms. Fornes has dealt directly in her work with her Cuban heritage.
Mr. Cruz, who is almost 40, has explored his own sociopolitical roots in such plays as ''Dancing on Her Knees'' and ''A Park in Our House.'' He discovered theater in 1981 as a member of a local troupe in Miami, and in the late 1980's directed Ms. Fornes's play ''Mud'' at the South End Alternative Theater there. Ms. Fornes saw it and invited him to become a member of her Intar Hispanic Playwrights Laboratory, now defunct, where he started to write seriously. His current play, ''Two Sisters and a Piano,'' directed by his frequent collaborator, Loretta Greco, runs through March 12 at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. It is based in part on the lives of his sisters and a cousin in Miami and on the house arrest of the dissident Cuban poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela, who in 1991 was forced by Cuban security agents to eat some of her political writings and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Ms. Fornes and Mr. Cruz talked recently in Manhattan with Randy Gener, a reporter for Theatre.com and a freelance theater critic, about the influences of their homeland and adopted country on their playwriting. Here are edited excerpts from the tape-recorded conversation.
Q. As Cuban-Americans and as dramatists, how strongly have you taken on social and political matters in your two new plays?
MARIA IRENE FORNES. My play never mentions Castro.
NILO CRUZ. Neither does mine.
FORNES. Your play mentions a person in prison. So it is more directly about politics. My play deals with life in Cuba but it is set in two places -- Cuba and America. On the stage set, there is a regular apartment in New York but only a roof in Cuba. The Cuban world on the roof has stars above it all the time. There is a girl who receives letters in America written by my brother in Communist Cuba. But he could be living in another city where there aren't too many advantages. It could be a small Italian village. It's not that I was avoiding talking about politics. It just didn't seem to be the energy of the play. What interested me was that all of my family had left Cuba, and my brother was still there. Yet he was never a sympathizer with the Castro regime.
Q. Why did he choose to remain in Cuba?
FORNES. To me, it has to do with attachment. It's something that we usually don't think of: place as a love. It seems almost corny -- I don't know why I'm crying. But I'm so moved by the idea of loving a place. Usually you love a person and you cannot live without them. People have an attachment to their animals, their dogs, there's a love there. But the love for place is so hard and so beautiful.
The New York characters in my play are artists: there is a poet, a painter, and the girl who is a dancer -- my alter ego. In Cuba, there is my brother and his son. In the play, the character who is my brother usually has a letter in his hand, and as he speaks to the person in the New York apartment, he reads the actual text of my brother's letters. We have been corresponding for the last 30 years.
My brother is now 80. Rafael is the oldest and I am the youngest of six brothers and sisters. In the play, he is called Luis. I guess in some ways I have wanted to write about Cuba but I did not know exactly how.
Q. Nilo, your play, too, has your family stitched into it -- the two sisters are based on your own -- although the story also involves the experiences of a real-life dissident poet under house arrest who received letters from her husband in France.
CRUZ. Yes, the character Maria Celia, the older sister in the play, writes letters to her husband, and the substance of the play is the letters he writes to her from France. I come from the Irene Fornes school of playwriting. She was my professor and my mentor. I pretty much assemble my plays in the same way Irene does because that's what I learned. I think it's the only way to write.
As Irene was talking, I was realizing that there are so many parallels. Of course, her play is very different from mine, but my characters go up to the roof, even though they are under house arrest. It's a way to feel outside, in the world; it's almost like getting away with murder, to write while on the roof. In fact, the first line of the script is: ''My dear husband, I am standing on top of this roof wanting to leap into the sky and send you this letter.''


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In all the pictures and videos I have seen of Rosalie in Eclipse she doesnt have her Cullen Crest necklace on. All the other Cullen's have their Cullen Crests on. Does anyone know if she ever wears it in the movie or she doesnt have it at all?
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Information on a Private Investigator Salary Survey shows that P.I.'s don't make the money that most people think. Images of solving that big crime and scoring a huge payday are usually only in the movies. How much do private investigators make?
In the United states hourly rates for private investigators range anywhere from $20-$200/hour. It really depends on the type of case you have, if it's being outsourced or if there is danger involved. Sometimes a simple record search is a flat fee of $300-$600. The Investigator can make 10%-100% of the profits on this.
When determining the salary of a Private Investigator makes, it makes a big difference if they work for themselves or if they work for a company. If they work for themselves they are able to make all the profits, but they also are responsible for all the costs that are involved. This can include office space, camera and video gear along with things like furniture and other basic necessities. When working for a company there is a lot less overhead, but because of this, there is also less risk which equates to less pay.
There is a lot of things to factor in when figuring out what an investigator makes as a salary. A recent survey says it is between $25k - 100K depending on how established he or she is. Companies that have been in business for forty years, like ourselves, have investigators at the top of the pay scale. A firm just starting out needs to build clients and generate new business. They are at the bottom of the pay scale.
Being a Private Investigator is a great job but you have to take the good with the bad. Most love the job so much that they don't care what they make. It can be difficult in this business to get by with even enough to pay your basic bills. It is recommended to not join this profession for the money but for the love of it.
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Apparently timed to coincide with the Global Business Travel Association's (GBTA) Business Travel Convention at the Boston Convention Center this week, both JetBlue and Virgin America have announced the addition of elite tiers and perks to their loyalty programs.
For now, here's a review of Virgin America's entry....read more»
Waiting in those long airport security lines gives you plenty of time to think—and worry about turning your valuable electronics over to the TSA. Could you lose all of your vacation photos? Will your working vacation be foiled by a smashed laptop? Read on for our top five tips on how to keep electronics safe while traveling ... plus one piece of advice in case it all goes wrong.
Request a Hand Inspection
John Christopher, Senior Data Recovery Engineer with DriveSavers, tells us, "According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)'s website, neither airport X-ray machines nor other screening equipment create a magnetic pulse that could harm digital equipment. However, the TSA does state that the X-ray screening equipment may damage film with an ASA/ISO of 800 or higher. So in order to keep your film safe, remember to never place undeveloped film in your checked baggage. Be sure to secure your film in your carry-on bag and request a hand inspection prior to the screening." Christopher also points out that smaller airports may use older scanners (or international airports may have different equipment). If you're unsure that you can safely send electronics through an X-ray, be sure to ask airport security for a hand search. The TSA also recommends that you put your film in clear canisters or clear plastic bags in order for easier inspection.
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Don't risk dropping your laptop as you struggle to take it out of the case for inspection. Invest in a checkpoint-friendly laptop bag (click here for TSA-approved styles), and your laptop should sail through security smoothly. Also be aware that you do not have to take certain electronics out to be screened separately; you can leave your iPad, MP3 player, cell phone, and Kindle in your carry-on, keeping them hidden from thieving eyes. And never remove any electronics from your carry-on (except for laptops in nonapproved cases) without being asked by security. Every item you take out is one that you'll have to remember to retrieve as you're rushing to put your shoes, belts, and jewelry back on.
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Despite pressure from US Airways, American gained some maneuvering room when a judge extended the "hands-off" period—the period it has to develop its own bankruptcy exit plan without outside interference—until December 28.
Although this decision doesn't prevent a subsequent hostile takeover, it does improve American's bargaining position....read more»
This year's Skytrax Top Airline award list is a mixture of the "usual suspects" and the inexplicable. Of all the airline surveys published around the world, Skytrax can lay claim to the largest database and a reasonably rigorous methodology, so its results command a lot of worldwide attention. This year, many of the results announced at the Farnborough International Air Show conform to previous patterns, as expected, but a few are truly perplexing.
The most predictable results are for the world's top 10 lines, and all are based in Asia or the Middle East. From the top down, they're Qatar, Asiana, Singapore, Cathay Pacific, ANA, Etihad, Turkish, Emirates, Thai, and Malaysia. And even the next 10 are mostly Eastern Hemisphere (Garuda, Virgin Australia, EVA, Qantas, Korean, Hainan and Air New Zealand) with just two European lines, Lufthansa and its subsidiary Swiss. Air Canada, at number 19, is the lone North American representative. The only U.S. line to make even the third 10 is Virgin America, at 26; Alaska is the top U.S. network airline at 49, and the top giant line is Delta, 57.
Skytrax undoubtedly uses the largest sample of any airline survey. According to the site, the survey included "more than 18 million airline customers from over 100 different nationalities" and it "covered over 200 airlines," measuring "38 key performance indicators" from check-in to boarding, onboard seat comfort, cabin cleanliness, food, beverages, in-flight entertainment, and staff service." Clearly, Skytrax is nothing if not thorough.
And those Skytrax top-10 lists generally agree with other big surveys. Although all the big airlines fly mainly the same kinds of planes, survey respondents everywhere seem to like the way the Asian, Middle Eastern and Pacific lines do it.
My take on this survey, however, is that the Skytrax sample vastly oversamples business-class travelers, for whom those Eastern and Pacific lines really pour on the service and the extras. I flew Asiana and Turkish on my recent round-the-world frequent flyer, business-class blowout, and they certainly did an excellent job. On the other hand, I wouldn't rank them substantially above United (number 64) or Air China....read more»
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Extending his full-court press to convince all and sundry that a US Airways-American merger is the best-case outcome for bankrupt American, US Airways CEO Doug Parker used his time at Wednesday's National Press Club meeting in Washington to further reassure the converted and convert the naysayers. (The full text of his speech is here.)
Predictably, Parker would have us believe that the merger would be best for all concerned and that all stakeholder groups are in the same boat, paddling in the same direction:...read more»
US Airways' CEO announced this week that his company might just lose interest in its pursuit of American if it has to wait until American comes out of bankruptcy on its own.
This statement just piles a little more pressure on American's creditors to force the airline into accepting the US Airways merger bid now, not later. US Airways has played this game skillfully, lining up the support of most of American's unionized labor force and many key creditors....read more»
Several stories had us shaking our heads disapprovingly at our computers this week, including a report on a billionare who is rebuilding the Titanic, and a story about Madonna's museum controversy. Plus, discover some almost too-good-to-be-true tips on getting a free vacation this summer.
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According to a report on our sister site Cruise Critic, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is rebuilding the Titanic. Plans have been made for a working copy of the ship—complete with first, second, and third classes—that will offer leisure cruises starting in 2016.
But wait. It gets more ridiculous. In a recent press conference, Palmer stirred the pot by revealing that he might ban pensioners and third-class passengers from using the onboard casino. Said Palmer, "I was just trying to say that we need to protect and respect people who have given a lot service to this country and make sure that we don't act positively to impoverish them later—that's all it boils down to. We have to have some social responsibility too."...read more»
This week in travel started with needles in airline meals and didn't get better from there. Read on for this week's weird travel stories.
What's the longest you've ever been delayed for a flight? We bet these passengers have you beat: ABC News reports that a flight from Shanghai to New Jersey was delayed for three days. The flight was canceled twice due to maintenance issues, and then, after passengers had already begun boarding the plane, was delayed again due to the flight crew being over time limits. United is reportedly offering to give passengers a refund, cover their expenses from the delay, and give them $1,000 towards future flights. ...read more»
United's pilots voted to authorize a strike, if necessary. But this week's strike vote by United's pilots is more a negotiating ploy than an actual strike threat—for now.
Such strike votes are a common means of putting additional pressure on an ongoing bargaining process, and just about everyone in the industry thinks that's what's happening here. Pilots would have to overcome three barriers before they could actually shut down the airline:
- A declaration by the National Mediation Board that the ongoing negotiations have become deadlocked.
- A mandatory 30-day cooling-off period.
- Likely action by the president or congress to halt any strike under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, which requires mediation and even arbitration in the event of an airline or railway labor dispute that threatens the national security or economy....read more»


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Seeing a recent list of arts, entertainment and cultural groups approved for Florida state grants reminds us of how many such organizations we are privileged to have in the Tampa Bay area.
Some are located in Tampa, some in St. Petersburg, but several offer entertainment and cultural experiences right in Clearwater. These include Ruth Eckerd Hall and the historic Capitol Theater, plus the Florida Orchestra which performs frequently in Clearwater and the 35th anniversary Clearwater Jazz Holiday. More on them in a minute.
This year, Tampa Bay area theaters, museums and performing arts centers will receive Florida state grants totaling about $5 million, more than in recent years. But state grants cover only a small percentage of operating budgets and capital expenses for these groups.
Not only that, but dozens of smaller arts and cultural organizations receive no state funding at all, leaving them entirely dependent on local support.
The fact of life today is that virtually no cultural organization can survive on ticket prices and admission fees alone. They all depend on financial contributions, volunteer time, in-kind donations of materials and services, along with the thousands of people who are season subscribers, buy individual tickets and attend their fundraising events.
Many organizations are able to generate only 50 to 75 percent of operating expenses from ticket sales. The rest must be raised locally through contributions. Concerned citizens and corporations donate generously to keep these organizations alive, but more support always is needed.
Looking at the list of state arts grants recipients, Clearwater specifically benefits from several excellent organizations that provide a broad range of dramatic and inspirational experiences. Predominantly, they include musical performances from classical to pop to jazz, Broadway and rock.
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Ruth Eckerd Hall, on McMullen Booth Road, presents a year-round schedule of performing arts for adults, families and children, as well as classes, lectures and workshops in performing arts. It offers as many as 1,000 on-site and off-site events a year. Especially popular are touring Broadway shows, sold-out evening concerts, matinee performances and special events.
The Capitol Theater, newly renovated downtown on Cleveland Street and operated by Ruth Eckerd Hall, features big-name performers from around the world. It reopened with an expanded 750-seat capacity last December and has booked legendary singers Don McLean, Arlo Guthrie and Gordon Lightfoot among its coming events.
The Florida Orchestra performs exciting, inspiring classical music in its Masterworks series, along with a Pops concert series, from October through May, appearing locally at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
The Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation presents its 35th anniversary four-day jazz festival October 16-19 downtown in Coachman Park with performers including Earth, Wind & Fire, Spyro Gyra, Dr. John, Trombone Shorty and many others yet to be announced.
Organizations like these are vitally important to a community. Surveys repeatedly show that people want to visit and live in an area that has more to offer than beautiful beaches, but also art, culture and historic sites. Many older, educated visitors particularly seek out places that include visual art and performing arts.
With these and other cultural groups, Clearwater residents and visitors have hundreds of opportunities throughout the year to experience high-quality, live performances by acclaimed artists. Thanks to the governor, the state legislature and ultimately the state's taxpayers who fund these annual cultural grants.
But nonprofit museums, theaters and performing arts organizations cannot exist without individual and business donations and support. They all need our help.
Joseph Santangelo is a former reporter for the Bergen Record newspaper in New Jersey. He has written for magazines in Connecticut and Massachusetts and worked in business, government and community service. He writes from Clearwater.


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Sidney Lumet's Making Movies
A great book about a strange craft.
The director Sidney Lumet, who died last week at age 86, cared passionately about his life's work of making movies, and about the people he made them with. Lumet regarded everyone on the set of his films as a significant collaborator, from the actors to the cinematographers to the A.D.s and stuntmen and grips. As for writers (the good ones at least—some of those whose scripts he worked with included David Mamet, Paddy Chayefsky, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill), he held them in an esteem that approached veneration.
I don't know these facts about Lumet from a biography, or from the many fine pieces of writing about him that have been circulating on the Internet these past few days, or even from the films themselves. My sense of what Lumet's working self was like—of what a generous, exacting, inspiringbosshe must have been—comes from the director's 1995 book Making Movies, a master class in filmmaking that reads equally well as a practical handbook and as a vivid, earthy memoir. I can't think of another book that so precisely and matter-of-factly captures what a strange endeavor it is to gather several hundred people and a fleet of equipment-laden trucks on a backlot (or, as was the case in most of Lumet's films, on location in New York City) and start to do something as foolhardy as telling a story on film.
Leafing through Making Movies after Lumet's death in search of some vaguely remembered quotes, I was charmed anew by his vibrant authorial voice, and soon found myself re-reading the book straight through. Every page contains at least one rollicking anecdote, astute observation, or nugget of menschy wisdom. One minute he's painstakingly explaining the concept of completion bonds or reproducing a sample page of a shooting script; the next, he's describing Al Pacino's demeanor while viewing daily rushes ("He sits on the side, alone, and an icy calm comes over him"), or giving us a glimpse of a star's Teamster chauffeur methodically chowing his way through the craft table.
Every aspect of his craft—music, image, sound, acting, editing, blocking—fascinated Lumet, and when he came up against a problem he couldn't tackle, his curiosity was redoubled. When he had difficulty with the transition from black and white to color in the '60s ("Why did black and white seem real and color false? Obviously I was using it wrong or—much more serious—not using it at all"), Lumet hired the cinematographer Carlo Di Palma, who had shot Antonioni's Red Desert, to help him understand how to take advantage of the new technology. Though he admits that the resulting film (The Appointment) wasn't his best, Lumet remembers it as worth doing because the insights that Di Palma showed him about color helped his work ever after (a great lesson not only for aspiring filmmakers, but for anyone faced with a thorny professional challenge).
Making Movies is so full of these stories of collaboration, of what Lumet calls "a group of people painting with light," that the best way to give a sense of the book's richness is to quote a few favorite passages at length. Here, Lumet describes the "mad courage" of Al Pacino on the set of Dog Day Afternoon, the day Lumet shot the scene where Pacino's bank-robber character has his last phone conversation with the man (Chris Sarandon) he considers his "wife," and with the woman to whom he's actually married:
I knew Al would build up to the fullest head of steam if we could do it in one take. […] The character had been in the bank for twelve hours. He had to seem spent, exhausted […] By the end of the second take, Al didn't know where he was anymore. He finished his lines and, in sheer exhaustion, looked around helplessly. Then, by accident, he looked directly at me. Tears were running down my face because he'd moved me so. His eyes locked into mine and he burst into tears, then slumped over the desk he'd been sitting at. I yelled "Cut! Print!" and leapt into the air.
Not all the tears in Making Movies are tears of triumph. Many postmortem assessments of Lumet's filmography have included glancing dismissals of The Wiz, his 1978 disco adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (Diana Ross played Dorothy; Michael Jackson was the Scarecrow) that was a critical and commercial flop. But when you hear The Wiz's back story, you realize how easy it is for a large production to spin out of control, and what a lucky accident it is that good movies ever get made at all. Here, Lumet describes his sinking sensation watching the first day of dailies on The Wiz:


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I don't know why, but this seems to be a big week for statewide organizations to meet in Mitchell. Yesterday, the state Board of Education met here and discussed, among other things, a big building project that's been proposed at MTI. You can click here to read that coverage.
Today, the South Dakota Wind Energy Association is conducting its annual meeting in Mitchell. We'll be there to cover it. If you want to follow along today, you can click here for the agenda and click here to watch live video from the meeting.


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This campground is beautiful with lots of amenities. There is a beautiful clubhouse and a lovely pool. They have planned activities. It is a family campground with children riding bikes, people walking and playing mini golf. The sites are nice. The campground has a security gate entrance. The grounds are well maintained and has good water pressure. We camped here as a coast to coast member. I don't know what the regular rates per night are. - goldieoldie
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Doctor Who returned with a vengeance this week with the fast paced and frantic Let's Kill Hitler. The episode was the perfect jumping off point for the second half of the season and featured a daring, bold and magnificent performance from Alex Kingston.
In fact the entire cast was pretty great. I like how Rory is getting bolder as the season progresses. Matt Smith is finding his way in the role and this story marks a turn for his portrayal of the Doctor, one that is a bit darker, flawed and more secretive.
I think the next two stories will be scary and frightening and will deviate in tone from the rest of the season.
Dragoncon 2011
If you are a Doctor Who/Torchwood fan you should think about going to Dragoncon this weekend in Atlanta. The British Media track is in high gear with guests Sylvester McCoy, Mark Sheppard and Gareth David Lloyd. Martin Landau will also be on hand for a Space: 1999 panel.
The convention runs from September 2-5th and features lots of guests from across popular culture.
Needcoffee.com will feature a live Fun Fest on Friday night complete with their own version of the UK Game Show, Blankety Blank (aka Match Game). They also will be on hand for several British Media panels including their annual Doctor Who panel.
Anglotopia will have a panel all to itself on Friday afternoon. We'll also be on some panels and moderating some others.
The track features lots of programming about UK television, films, comics, literature and more.
Here are some highlights for Doctor Who and Torchwood fans:
Sylvester McCoy is doing panels for the track each day from Saturday to Monday. He's always an entertaining guest who loves to work with a crowd.
Gareth David Lloyd will do a panel with Mark Sheppard on Friday and then two more panels that weekend. He also is providing a live commentary for his favorite Torchwood episode Countrycide.
There will also be a panel looking back at the Tom Baker years, several on both the new and classic series as well as a panel on Doctor Who canon and a new panel debuting this year: Steampunk Themes in Doctor Who.
On Saturday night BBC America will host a screening of Night Terrors at the convention with a Q&A afterwards.
The convention is a great chance to satisfy your pop culture fix and meet other Anglophiles. For info visit www.dragoncon.org
The BBC Press office has released a synopsis for Episode 10, The Girl Who Waited.
Amy is trapped in a quarantine facility for victims of an alien plague – a plague that will kill the Doctor in a day – as the time-travelling drama continues.
The Doctor can use the TARDIS to smash through time and break in, but then Rory is on his own. He must find Amy and bring her back to the TARDIS before the alien doctors can administer their medicine.
Rory is about to encounter a very different side to his wife. Can he rescue Amy before she is killed by kindness?
In the words of Lloyd Cole: Are you ready to be heartbroken?
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The Daily Beast has an excellent interview with Steven Moffat on the coming year for Doctor Who.
Ratings for Torchwood in Britain had an estimated 3.4 million people again tuned in to watch Miracle Day on BBC One.
Preliminary overnight ratings show the seventh episode had an audience share of 14.9% which was strong enough to put it as the 10th most watched program on that day.
These are raw numbers and do not include DVR recordings by people who tape the show and watch it later.
Final ratings should be out within the next week.
Since Sylvester McCoy is coming to Dragoncon this week I thought it'd be nice to revisit the underrated era of the 7th Doctor
Sylvlester McCoy has the distinction of being 'the transition guy' for classic Doctor Who. He had to handle the difficult transition from the Colin Baker era into his own by donning a crap wig and doing the regeneration solo. Then his run as The Doctor was cut very short in 1989 when the show was cancelled. Ever the trooper, he came back to hand off the role to Paul McGann in the 1996 TV movie. Thankfully McCoy has had a chance to flesh out his Doctor's character and tie up some loose ends via the Big Finish audios.
Shortly after taking the role of The Doctor, McCoy embarked on a tour of American PBS stations to help Lionheart solidify distribution of his episodes. American audiences knew he would be much different then Colin Baker.
Before traveling in the TARDIS McCoy was known as a children's TV actor and comedian. His comedic work is genius. He once stuffed live ferrets in his pants. Therefore it is no surprise that when assuming the role of The Doctor McCoy used his comedic chops for most of his first season before a darker more severe take on the role in his second and third seasons. Despite the turn in his approach to playing The Doctor, he never completely abandoned his comic and whimsical sensibilities of the character.
His first season borders on the strange. I'd rather not talk about Time and the Rani except to say regeneration stories are sometimes really bad. The Rani was really wasted as a great villain but McCoy ate up the scenery.
Paradise Towers is better then you may expect and finds The Doctor in a very serious mood. Here you see the first glimpses of the later darkness here. The Kangs are hilarious and Ricard Briers is just pure joy in his over the top send up as The Chief Caretaker.
I have a soft spot for Delta and the Bannermen. It is so kitschy and silly that it is a fun romp. The story is pure 50's sugar wrapped in a classic noble heroes vs aliens tale. I also love that McCoy gets to unleash some slapstick here. Parts of the story are absurd but it still remains a lot of fun. Ray is terrific and would have made a great companion.
Dragonfire is pretty dreadful. Although Ace debuts here. The story ruined the return of Sabalom Glitz and it too had some really bad parts in it. The writers were going for a post modernist feel in this tale but fell very short. A lot of stuff happens without much explanation and the plot seems patched together. It is a mess, but McCoy again is great. He's funny and clever and again utilizes his comedic timing to save the day.
It is his darker, second season where McCoy stands out as The Doctor. Remembrance of the Daleks is a triumph. It not only showed the Doctor as being dark, it had him scheming and manipulating in a way not seen since the Hartnell era. McCoy is a man of action here. He runs, he jumps, he runs some more. He also uses a lot of gamesmanship to one up the Daleks. The episode does two things, it scares the audience and it restores some nostalgia as The Doctor returns to Totter's Lane.
The Happiness Patrol was an ambitious attempt at social commentary about the populace and government but instead may be the worst episode ever. The Kandyman is hilarious. McCoy, to his credit plays it straight for as long as possible. Here we see a bit of a departure for the Doctor who clearly takes a side and involves himself in a social and political revolution. The badness is memorable: There is The Kandyman, the bad effects of Fifi, a Stigorax and the TARDIS succumbs to a pink pain job. What was intended as an Orwellian commentary on the power of the people instead was just a gooey mess.
As for Silver Nemesis, it could easily have used another episode to develop it a bit more. It seems a bit rushed and rough around the edges. Doctor #7 is up to something clever again playing all parties against each other ending in the utter destruction of The Cybermen.
You see a lot of the new series in this episode. The Doctor's callous regard for killing Cybermen comes to mind. However, before there was River Song there may have been Lady Peinforte who is almost as mysterious and as involved with the Doctor. It's fun to see Nazis and Cybermen both getting their comeuppance in one story. Plus there is more shrouded mystery antics going on about what the Doctor did on Gallifrey. We also get to see the Ace/Doctor relationship really start to come together.
The Cybermen could have been used better and the bits with the Doctor in the palace are fun. We see the Doctor wearing a fez here as well!
Putting Courtney Pine in the episode is an interesting touch. In general this is a decent episode that relies on a not screened backstory to propel some of the tension onscreen.
Send in the clowns! The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is an adventure on several levels. First JNT takes the mickey out of fandom with a character named Whizz Kid. Second, the story is a trippy clowny clowny clown creepfest. Third, it capped a season that finally helped the series shake its nagging droopiness of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
GSITG takes the momentum from the earlier stories of the season and makes things interesting. Having a story where gods want to be perpetually entertained is the stuff of Gaiman and Bradbury and at the time, a remarkable departure for Doctor Who of this time. There are great scenes with Jessica Martin (Mags) and Sylvester McCoy, who both trained as comedic performers. The Ringmaster and robot clowns are pretty spooky.
Season 26 started off well with Battlefield, a story whose highlight was the return of Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier. Sadly it needed a little more time to develop and the execution of the story falls a bit flat. Nonetheless I like this story. McCoy and Courtney work well together and Jean Marsh is wicked as Morgaine.
This is one of those pan-dimensional stories that we'll see so much more of later in the new series. It is cloaked in Arthurian legend and the nuclear age.
It is interesting to note that there are more sinister tones to the Doctor. He is again being manipulative and secretive. A clever plot trick occurs where The Doctor is mistaken for Merlin. He dismisses all of this by admitting that this may happen in his future.
Despite having his 'blood and thunder days' behind him, the Brig gets to go out in a blaze of glory. It is great to see Nick Courtney having more to do then a token scene or two. Battlefield also illustrates the level of deep friendship between the Doctor and the Brigadier in a moving an tender way.
Ghost Light still makes no sense to me. I can say that Sophie Aldred is terrific in it. It's a story that wraps aliens, evolution, spaceships and aliens in a somber Victorian coating. Watching it now makes me ask, where the hell is Torchwood? It also cleverly name checks Douglas Adams and Charles Darwin. Ghost Light is a daring attempt at fantasy and horror that falls a bit short. McCoy again has an opportunity to hide in darkness and runs with it. This episode has a dark tone to it and the 7th Doctor is portrayed in a much more nuanced style by McCoy.
Near the end of McCoy's third season the ratings for the show were not very good and things were fading fast. Despite overhauling the texture and nature of the series ratings were still slumping. This is not the fault of Sylvester McCoy who was just beginning to hit his stride when the threat of axing the show began seem more and more of a possibility.
It is against this backdrop that we get to Curse of Fenric, an ambitious jaunt to wartime Britain where Russians, Viking lore and vampires threaten the land. The idea of a non-filmed backstory surfaces again as The Doctor locks wits with Fenric again. We gradually learn that this confrontation with Fenric has been building up.
Sophie Aldred is golden in this story that continues the season long exploration of her background. Curse of Fenric uses horror and suspense to lure in the audience. McCoy works well in this framework adding some more secretive aspects to his character.
If you are trying to find a reason why Doctor Who was killed off in 1989 look no further then the ironically titled Survival, a big pile of horrible crap!
Although I like how they had Ace return to Perivale and thus revealed more about her I think that the story itself is horrid. The Cat People are awful baddies and Anthony Ainley is back one last time as The Master. It is tragic to see Anthony Ainley wasted so much here. He's just silly. It is a tragedy that this was his last go round as the character.
An opportunity existed in this story to change up the dynamic between the Doctor and The Master, but it was missed. It also has chunks that are just bizarre and strange. Fandom needed to hold people accountable for this story and punish them. It is that bad.
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Despite some rough patches the era of the 7th Doctor has some pretty great high moments. I feel that Sylvester McCoy's television tenure as The Doctor has been too easily dismissed. More then some actors he really worked hard to get to the core of the character and see what motivated him. he tried to get in his head and hearts and you see this onscreen as he throws himself into the role.
If you are a new fan to the classic series make it a point to watch some of the 7th Doctor's episodes. If you have not watched them in awhile go back and watch some of them. It'll be fun!
I enjoyed seeing Burn Gorman in The Hour. I hope he is awesome in the new Batman flick.
I hope there is more Peter Davison in Law & Order UK.
British comedian Miranda Hart has hinted that she's going to be in Doctor Who. I wonder if she tags along for the Christmas Special?
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A look back at when Peter Davison was on Magnum P.I, Series Six continues and the end of Torchwood?


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my betta has 2 holes in his side!!! Today. i jusr purchased the 10 gallon starter kit that comes with a 10 gallon tank, a light hood, a filter and a buch of other food and stuff. i decided to move the betta fish from his 1 gallon tank to the new 10 gallon tank. as i was transpoting him, i noticed 2 large holes in his side!!! WHAT IS THIs!!! while netting him, he crashed violently into the net. could the holes appeared because of the crash? is it fungus? i have no pics but i can say that theres no white stuff on his body (mold or fungus) and i just noticed the holes just now!!!
How can i help him heal? before i noticed the holes, i was treating him with BettaFix remedy for healing his taill fin.
How can i prevent injury when transporting him? how should i transport him?
what should i do???
Was he housed with any other fish?
No James. He just has the one.
hes alone in an empty tank with no substrate or plants.
i also noticed his eyes are cloudy. why cloudy? im checking is water today at the petstore. when i take the water in, what should i ask for?
Ask for results for amonia, nirtite , nitrate and ph. Don't accept them telling you it's fine, or not so good. Ask for numbers.
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Thursday, 28 August 2014
I'm needing to find some emotional stability. I'm all over the place, out of sorts, grumpy and grouchy and horrible to be around. Except not all the time. But some of the time, at the moment, I'm just not as nice a person as I want to be. It's mainly my poor family that get it. I'm trying hard to shelter them from the worst of myself.
Earlier today I was listening to a song by The National (of course) with the line "I hope you don't remember me, and I hope you're not alone", about a lost love. There is someone who I would be happy not to remember me, someone who I don't ever really want to see again, but who I am still capable of missing in a strange way. I really just want to know that he's still alive. Also, missing a time when films were a sensible length. For the second time in a couple of weeks I went to the cinema last night thinking I'd be home at a reasonable hour, to find that I'd signed up for 3 hour film. Actually, last weeks film was a 1970's production so I cant even blame the modern age. Tonight we saw Boyhood. There's lots I could say but the main thing is, why boyhood? The stories of his mother and his sister were at least as compelling. Good though, I thought. if you happen to have a spare 3 hours.
I'm reading A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray. Also, re-reading How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran for The Ladies Who Book Club and looking forward to The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton for the in the pub book group.
It's been cold the last few days. Even though this has been a good, hot summer by UK standards, I'm hoping for a bit more heat and a bit more light before winter. A warm September would be massively appreciated. And then I'm hoping for a good winter - proper cold, crisp light, some snow disruption.
I've been trying to imagine some of the jobs that need dong as playing, to make them more bearable. Painting the woodwork in the bathroom, with thick, gloopy paint. Shovelling handfuls of beanbag stuffing from the floor of Goldie's bedroom. It's the level of absorption that changes, the engagement. And the potential for mess.
Next weeks themes are loving, craving, demanding, questioning, worrying.
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I have one of those someones. Actually three of them, for different reasons. And I always think that someday, probably in very old age, I may reach out, but not sooner. The internet does make not stalking - every now and then - impossible.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yea...he really does seem to have disappeared. I hope he's not alone.Delete
I agree with you about the length of movies. I read something recently that describes me perfectly, 'I'm "it's 8:30 and you're going to start a movie now?" years old.' I get excited when we find one that's 2 hours long!"ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm definitely at that age. I'm terrible at watching anything at home, even with an hour long drama I fall asleep or wander away to do something else. With the cinema you're sort of committed though...but I will be checking length in future.Delete
Um...bean bag pellets are sensory play? Ha, I don't know. That sounds rough, but I feel you. I'm constantly picking up toys (aren't we all?) and I wish there was a fun way to do it! Mary Poppins, where are you when I need you???ReplyDeleteReplies
Ha! Bean bag pellets - I spent ages trying to think what they might be called, and that's it, of course. I know, desperation and delusion, just to get through the day!Delete


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