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Bank Regulatory Response Not Overdone: Mary Schapiro
TheStreet) -- Bank regulators are not going overboard in tightening the screws on Wall Street's largest institutions, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Schapiro said at a finance and economics conference on Wednesday. "We tend to be focused on the moment and forget that our financial institutions were in deep distress five years ago and were on the brink," she said in a panel discussion at The Economist's Buttonwood Gathering. "Rules and compliance have a cost but so does failure of rule-making and failure of compliance."Schapiro, now managing director at regulatory compliance firm Promontory Financial Group, said that the complexity of the regulatory system was driven by the industry's desire to have nuanced approaches to rule-making and the fact that a number of regulators had to agree on the rules. The fact that there has been slow progress in writing the rules reflects the desire of regulators to ensure regulations were less burdensome. Jim Millstein, the former Treasury official who oversaw the restructuring of bailed-out insurer AIG (AIG), said the regulatory response was appropriate given the size and complexity of the institutions. He argued that the banking industry has no market checks. "Banks are immune to takeover because they are too big. Where is this market discipline?" he asked. "It is not through the debt market. Because of too big to fail, the debt markets subsidize them, not discipline them. So it is left to the regulators. We are going back to treating them as public utilities because there are no market checks on their power." Their comments come amid industry complaints that the pendulum has swung too far on regulation, causing banks to restrict lending. Uncertainty about future regulations and the increasing cost of compliance are frequently cited by banks as a reason for lackluster loan growth. Banks also continue to pay for the reckless practices of the boom period five years after the crisis. JPMorgan ChaseNEW YORK (
, the bank that sailed through the crisis and took over two failing institutions, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, at the behest of the government, is now facing a potential $13 billion fine to settle Department of Justice charges of mortgage fraud.
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I'm going to die from the cuteness that is sitting right on Donatello's lap.
awww so cute!
Although, now that I look at what the scanner did to it, it looks like the only color that came out right is the color of Mikey's skin.
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- On-shore wind energy development and operations on the island of Ireland
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Gaelectric Completes $84 Million Funding Round For On-shore Wind Energy Portfolio In Ireland
GREAT FALLS, Mont., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable energy generation and energy storage group, Gaelectric, has raised $84 million in funding for its portfolio of on-shore wind energy projects on the island of Ireland. The portfolio comprises 164 MW of generation capacity across 13 projects which the Group plans to develop out by 2017, representing a total investment in the region of $325 million. Gaelectric is developing a further pipeline of 510 MW of wind energy projects centred on Montana to supply power markets in the Pacific North West and California within the 2014 to 2017 timeframe. Gaelectric has also concluded a framework agreement with leading German turbine manufacturer Enercon ( www.enercon.com) which will see Enercon technology deployed on all the Gaelectric sites covered by the current funding round for its Irish projects. The funding is led by Swedish group, Proventus Capital Partners ( www.proventuscapitalpartners.se), who specialize inproviding development capital through private corporate loans to mid-sized companies for growth. Gaelectric was assisted with the transaction by McCann Fitzgerald and by RBC Capital MarketsThe funding provided by Proventus Capital Partners has been complemented by a senior debt package structured and provided by Nord LB ( www.nordlb.de). This debt financing has been used to finance the construction of a 13.8 MW wind energy project in Northern Ireland which is currently being commissioned by Gaelectric at Carn Hill, Co Antrim. Commenting on the successful conclusion of its latest funding round, Gaelectric USA President, Eamonn McGrath, said: "The funding we have secured will, together with our agreement with Enercon, underpin the delivery of our onshore wind energy portfolio in Ireland which comprises approximately 164 MW of projects and represents a total investment cost of approximately $325 million. We are particularly delighted with the opportunity to partner with Proventus, Nord LB and Enercon, all of whom have international reputations and track records that will be of immediate benefit to Gaelectric." Mr. McGrath added: "We will also build on our success in the UK and Irish markets by adding another 510 MW of Procurement Category 1 wind projects from Montana to California for delivery from 2014 to 2017 to Gaelectric's growing renewable energy portfolio." Mr. McGrath said: "In our discussions with funders and investors we have been able to provide clear visibility of a portfolio of projects in Ireland which have been substantially de-risked and which will be commissioned by 2017. In Ireland, we now have 120 MW of wind energy projects with full planning approval and grid connection offers. 18 MW of this portfolio will be generating renewable power by Q1, 2013. Our onshore portfolio in Ireland will create sufficient generation capacity to power the energy needs of 85,000 homes and displace 262,000 tons of CO2 per annum." Mr. McGrath said: "This amount of generation capacity opens up a range of strategically important options to Gaelectric Group. It will allow Gaelectric transition from being a pre-revenue, renewable energy development Group to an energy development and operating Group with significant assets in Ireland producing renewable power, generating turnover and cash for the Group, and further returns for our shareholders and investors." Through its energy storage division, Gaelectric Energy Storage (GES), Gaelectric is developing an energy storage project utilising Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology at a site near the town of Larne, on the northeast coast of Ireland. Eamonn McGrath said: "Our energy storage business is in advanced discussions with a number of infrastructure investors on our flagship 268 MW compressed air energy storage project in Larne. We expect to form a consortium by year end that will construct the project by 2016/2017. This technology will be applied to store surplus renewable energy while also enabling variability balancing on the transmission system." Gaelectric is a renewable energy development and energy storage group which, since its establishment in 2004, has demonstrated its ability to create and develop out an extensive portfolio of renewable energy projects in multiple markets. Gaelectric's business is centred on three core areas of activity, namely –
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On Pagans and Privilege: PantheaCon 2013
To paraphrase priestess Crystal Blanton, we forget that, though we may be oppressed in one way, we are also the oppressors. We are complicit in a society that thrives on inequity. Unless we talk about privilege and how we are affected by it, and how we affect others by it, we will not be able to heal these wounds. We will, instead, keep making fresh cuts. Saying we are "colorblind" or "get along with everyone" or "love women!" or "love my gay friends!" doesn't mean we don't need to examine our privilege, and hear the ways in which we are still excluding people unconsciously, or upholding systems that oppress.
There is so much more to write, to think about, to do, to say and to not say. It is my wish that we continue these conversations in the coming years. Let's make this a long game, one in which we learn from each other, argue, listen, allow things to gestate and take action.
Elena Rose said on the panel: "Ally isn't something you are, it's something you do." Let's make this a long game. Together.
I give thanks to the Covenant of the Goddess, Temple of Wicca, and New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn suite and the People of Color Caucus suite for hosting this discussion at PantheaCon. I also give thanks to my panelists: Crystal Blanton, Elena Rose, Xochiquetzal Duti Odinsdottir, and River Higginbotham, and to everyone who participated in the discussion. You fill my heart with joy. I honor you.
* Christopher Bradford wrote this in 2011: http://heavenswithinearth.blogspot.com/2011/11/im-pagan.html
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Audio from this panel will be available on Elemental Castings sometime in March 2013.
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After a few weeks of hellish uncertainty, This Week in Blu-ray is back to being on time. That is, if you count being available at some point on Tuesday as being "on time." Which I do, for the record. Moving on, the most important thing to remember is that we're...
One of the best things about writing for a movie website like Film School Rejects is access to the "hookers and blow" combo deals at film festivals. That probably counts as two best things, but the takeaway to remember here is that there are the occasional perks to the gig....
The Week That Was: Angry Driving, Oscar Fever and Headline Writing Nirvana
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This week our Saturday tradition known as The Week That Was takes on a new look. And as I'm sure you probably won't notice (because I'm not entirely convinced that anyone reads this column), I will be the first to point out that the new format was at least in...
Review: Vanishing on 7th Street
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- February 19, 2011
Drenched in atmospheric dread, Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street is a slight yet haunting thriller that replaces easy answers with the pervasive sense of unknowable, evil forces at work. Propelled by an unexplained mystery – Detroit's electrical grid fails and people start vaporizing in the darkness – the movie...
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) will expand upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched 12 years ago.
O hai rimlighting.
do you douchebags even know how to express yourself anymore, without resorting to memes?
o hai?
it's oh hi, [insert noun here]. from the movie, the room. have you ever even watched it or did you just steal this meme from whatever concentration of stupidity and inanity you're most familiar with? was it 4chan?
anyway, excuse the digression. carry on.
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Get that mad outta here buddy.
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tender eyes!
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You have been blessed with an amazing model. Well done.
I know you don't respond to comments, but I'll tell you anyway that I have browsed through your gallery and you are such an incredibly beautiful woman Susan. I sincerely mean that.
This is so awesome! The eyes, the innocence, the glamour, Mona Lisa-like expression & scenery itself... One of the best readhead pictures I have ever seen!
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Would you have any objection to being turned into a mermaid? (If it's not an odd question).
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I can take your lonelyness out baby!!
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Well, I've had three PP cycles (June 14, July 28 and Sept 6). I'm not one to have completely normal cycles but this is getting ridiculous. I'm down to BF'ing 3x a day. Morning, after work and bedtime. We've been on this schedule for two months now. I foolishly thought my cycles were getting more on track. Then we visited family in Europe and now my cycles are shot. Does anyone think that the time change (EST +7 hours) could have effected my cycle? Because we're still BF'ing (mainly for comfort, I think)? Or the stress of repeatedly peeing on sticks hoping that the cause of no AF is good news but seeing BFN?
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I bought my husband a new pair of shoes, two new disc-golf discs, and a handsome disc-golf bag, but Voracious readers may have given him his very favorite birthday gift.
A few weeks back, I asked you where I could find the city's best Caesar salad. Since my husband is proudly unadventurous when it comes to food--I prep dinner-party hosts by telling them he eats like a 65-year old Republican--I planned to glitz up his usual birthday menu of Caesar salad, French onion soup, steak, and pistachio ice cream by leading him on a progressive dinner featuring the city's best versions of each dish.
My scheme took shape nicely: I collected pitch-perfect recommendations for soup, steak, and dessert. I purchased birthday candles to stick in each celebratory dish. But I was still short a Caesar-salad destination.
My post pleading for help brought suggestions for El Gaucho's tableside Caesar (too watery for my husband's liking) and the salad at Tidbit Bistro (which was inconveniently serving its last salad two weeks before my husband's birthday). I was intrigued by a description of the Caesar at Sorelli's, but worried a jaunt to Mountlake Terrace could disrupt the timing of a four-course, four-restaurant meal.
So I'm indebted to comment writer Karion for coming up with Queen City Grill, a restaurant to which I suspect we'll be returning for many more Caesars.
When I handed my husband an invitation beckoning him to the restaurant ("You are invited to . . . Caesar salad, Queen City Grill, 2201 First Ave."), even his non-foodie eyebrow arched. He asked whether I'd ever heard of the place. I hadn't, and admitted I couldn't find anything on the restaurant's website to indicate total Caesar mastery. "Karion likes it," I told him.
The salad was fantastic. The romaine was crisp, the thick dressing was unabashedly garlicky, and, best of all, the cheese had the salty tang of high-quality Parmesan.
"We use the good Parmesan," sous chef Abel Martinez told me later when I called to ask about the salad.
Martinez has been making his Caesars the same way for eight years. The salad recipe predates his arrival at Queen City. "It's old, old," he says. "We can never change it because guests love it."
To make the salad, Martinez first processes anchovy paste with garlic. He mixes "eggs with a little Parmesan, Worcestershire, and red wine. Then we put the paste back and process together." The salad is finished with salt, pepper, and lime juice.
"Always, always we make the dressing," Martinez says. "We never buy a dressing."
After leaving Queen City, we headed to Le Pichet for French onion soup, which--online menu notwithstanding--won't reappear until late fall. "Come back for it," the bartender told us. "It's the best in the city." Fortunately, there was also a French onion on the menu at Metropolitan Grill, where my husband relished a rib eye. We lingered so long over the steaks that we missed our chance for pistachio ice cream at D'Ambrosio--but had plenty of time to reflect on the stupendous Caesar.
"It's just made with a lot of love," Martinez says.
Happy birthday, Kenny.
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Yes this is a real challenge, and it is epic! Strap your proximity mines to your partner's private parts and have them go get kills for you. Once the diaper is used you suicide and start over. Challenge is to get the most proxy kills. This would be best in a party of four, so 2 v 2 on the same team. For singles demos see here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tj6XWzIn5ghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatqgs34S8YMeghan and I want to try this out in a foursome... so let us know if you wanna party up and we'll get it on! ... the proxy diaper that is... ;)
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tobyotter Two Seattle wine sellers have launched tasting groups for drinkers seeking to knock 100 varietals off their life lists.
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tobyotterTwo Seattle wine sellers have launched tasting groups for drinkers seeking to knock 100 varietals off their life lists.
The Wine Century Club was founded seven years ago by a pair of New Yorkers who wanted to draw attention to "the many unsung grape varieties used to make wine." More than 1000 drinkers have since qualified for membership in the group, with men outnumbering women nearly 2:1. "But the gap is narrowing," pledges the club's official website, which also stresses that anyone is eligible to apply - "even dedicated Merlot drinkers."
But a significant proportion of wine lovers who download the electronic checklist abandon their applications after realizing they're dozens of varietals short of 100 (once they've crossed off 100 varietals, members are invited to begin working toward their next hundred.) So structured tasting groups have sprung up around the country, including at Laurelhurst Wine Merchants and Fremont Avenue Cellars.
"It adds a whole new appreciation," Fremont Avenue Cellar co-owner Sally Thomae says. "I think most people who have a casual interest in wine think there are 50 varietals, if not closer to 25."
There are 10,000 known grape varieties.
Thomae's club is trying five wines at each session. She initially planned to tackle the list alphabetically, but got stuck on "E", so moved to a regional approach.
"What I do is I always make sure I can get the wine at the time we're tasting it, so if someone falls in love with it, we can get it for them," she says.
Her job's been simplified by the increased availability of wines made from esoteric grapes, she says. Thomae thought she'd have trouble locating an Erbaluche, a white wine grape associated with the Italian Piedmont, but "I was at a trade show for a distributor we hadn't used in many years, and there was Erbaluche."
Since club rules prohibit counting a single blended wine as a sample of all included varietals, Thomae searches for wines made almost exclusively with the featured grape.
"It's all about appreciating the difference in regions and grapes," she says.
The Fremont Avenue Cellars group meets once a month; reservations are required. The next Laurelhurst Wine Merchants meeting is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 3; tickets are $15 in advance.
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On Valentine's Day, lovers and spouses across the world give each other gifts. But we're about to tell you about a group of young men who gave their gifts to kids in need.
This story is also about their mentor, who in turn got to see the product of his gift.
"We've got a lot of poverty, single-income parents, low-income neighborhoods," Horace Dukes says of the kids in his Dukes Foundation program, "but what we say is, 'It's not where you are; it's where you're going to.'"
A teacher in the Atlanta school system, Horace Dukes started the Dukes Foundation in 2003 as a mentorship program for at-risk youth. Now nine years in, he has 60 kids under his wing and focused on the future.
"He takes us, he molds us into young and successful young men," says current student Marcus Johnson.
Adds fellow student Javier Gober, currently in 9th grade, "It's like a fraternity in a way, like a brotherhood, like a small bond between each other."
Part of the program is giving the young men exposure to culture and opportunities; this was represented by the tour of South Carolina colleges they took this past weekend.
Another part is giving to others, which is why the kids spent three months this past fall raising money for cancer research. They took a small part of that money and put it towards a Valentine's Day surprise.
A small group of Dukes Foundation students visited three Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospitals and, at each one, dropped off 100 stuffed animals.
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Phil and Lil DeVille, in their All Grown Up (season 1) looks.
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in this way Spec Ops are like SP :D btw: i`ve done high explosive on veteran2.
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Bloomberg scoured the country recently to find the cities with the top 5 percent of earners and came up with a list of locations ranging from Texas to New York, breaking down the income of the top 5 percent of earners in each place. These locations are the polar opposite of places like Detroit, which recently filed for bankruptcy — these Meccas of the super wealthy are tucked away with tiny populations of the country's elite.
Here's a look at the 8 cities with America's wealthiest residents.
8) Westlake, Texas
Coming in at number 8 is this small Texas town, boasting a population of only 915 and income for its top 5 percent of earnings averaging $2,041,000. Among things other than money that the city gets to boast about, Westlake is notorious in Texas for being the worst speed trap, doling out the most tickets for speeding of any city in the state.


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Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI:NASDAQ), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and the leading provider of data-conversion technology*, today introduced the AD9250 dual-channel, 14-bit, 250 MSPS, A/D converter featuring the JEDEC JESD204B serial output data interface standard. The AD9250 A/D converter is the first-to-market with full JESD204B Subclass 1 deterministic latency at 250 MSPS. This functionality accommodates the precise synchronization of multiple data-conversion channels through a serial interface.The AD9250 A/D converter's serial interface implementation provides up to 5 Gbps over a 1 or 2 lane-capable link. Two serial lanes are used to support the full 250-MSPS, dual-A/D converter data rate, or a single lane can be used to support reduced sampling rates. High-performance FPGA suppliers, such as Xilinx Inc., have incorporated on-chip JESD204B SerDes (serializer/deserializer) ports into their latest generation products. This end-to-end seamless connectivity for the analog signal chain results in simplified PCB layout, rapid prototyping capability, and faster time-to-market. "Xilinx is fully-committed to supporting the JEDEC JESD204B standard and is striving to accelerate adoption of the serialized interconnect technology for data converters. We are doing this by providing a high quality flexible, scalable and programmable IP to interface with high speed data converters like the AD9250," said Sunil Kar, Senior Director Wireless Business Group at Xilinx. "Xilinx currently provides JEDEC JESD204B IP for subclass 0, 1 and 2 functionality with line rates up to 10.3 Gb/s and lane widths ranging from x1 to x8 on our devices. This combination of technology advancements improves system modularization, lowers cost and complexity and will enhance the capabilities and capacities of next generation wireless and wired networks."
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Question from shalamaj
Any suggestions on what to do after beating the game?
Please give me some ideas on what to do after beating the whole game.
8 years ago
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You can go to Snowpoint city and ride the boat to the Fight area.
You can play the Battle tower and fight your Rival on weekends.
If you finish your pokedex, you can go to the Resort area and the Survival Area.
In the Stark Mountain, you can catch Heatran,
An area opens up on route 214 and you can go catch Giratina.
8 years ago
Oh, if you already did all of that, you can train your Pokemon and you can battle against your friends or people at the Battling Board.
If you don't have wi-fi, you can go to the Battle Tower.
8 years ago
Do what I'm doing catch every single Pokemon I'm only missing 30 so far XD
8 years ago
Have you ever tried getting rid of all but one Pokemon and catch all the pokemon in pokedex order?
8 years ago
Get an Action Replay, use the Wild Level 100 Pokemon cheat, and catch all your favorites. You can kick your friends' sorry butts in battles or win big at the Battle Tower.
8 years ago
Catch all the pokemon in the whole entire game
and fill in the national pokedex
8 years ago
You could hack. I do not endorse this, however.
8 years ago
Get every pokemon and get every ribbon for them
8 years ago
Sell it on eBay for $$$$$
8 years ago
Breed, try to breed the ultimate baby pokemon, one with unbelievable power. Have fun!!!
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Glass Shallot by Adam Baer | Adambaer.com http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/ Cultural Shards by writer Adam Baer en-US 2015-12-18T08:54:23-08:00 The Pressure to Say You're OK -- by Adam Baer, The Los Angeles Times http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/12/heres-something-charitable-you-can-do-before-2016-that-will-cost-you-nothing-accept-and-defend-health-diversity-ada.html Chronic Illness is normal. ... We need to accept and defend Health Diversity. -- Adam Baer

Here's something charitable you can do before 2016 that will cost you nothing. Accept and defend "health diversity." -- Adam Baer, The Los Angeles Times
 Health personals Weblogs Adam Baer 2015-12-18T08:54:23-08:00 On Leonard Bernstein, the Serenade, After Plato's Symposium http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/08/on-leonard-bernsteins-and-the-serenade-after-platos-symposium.html So it's Leonard Bernstein's birthday. Maybe you know him as the composer of West Side Story. Maybe you know him as a former NY Philharmonic conductor. But as many of you also know Bernstein was a great composer outside of...

So it's Leonard Bernstein's birthday. Maybe you know him as the composer of West Side Story. Maybe you know him as a former NY Philharmonic conductor. But as many of you also know Bernstein was a great composer outside of the theater, and his concert music is very moving . One of my favorite violin concertos is a piece he wrote called the Serenade, After Plato's Symposium. It's a piece about love, and each part or movement is focused on a great speaker in the Plato work (for example, there's a Socrates section). It's a really cool and engaging way to put philosophy to music, or rather, to show how music can be inspired by a specific collection of ideas and talks. It's also rich with emotion and sometimes a lot of good fun. Here's a great recording of one of the more expressive portions with Bernstein conducting. I hope you have a chance to listen to it soon, and then if you like it, to seek out the whole work.--Adam Baer
 art + life Music personals Adam Baer 2015-08-25T14:22:58-07:00 Itzhak Perlman, an Honest Appreciation in the Los Angeles Times http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/07/itzhak-perlman-an-honest-appreciation.html An honest appreciation of Itzhak Perlman by Adam Baer.
I wrote a piece for today's Sunday LA Times about violinist Itzhak Perlman. It's an honest appreciation, but it also talks about trends in violin-playing, and notes how not only is the Household-name Violinist Ideal sadly no longer a reality in 2015, but that we should appreciate Perlman specifically for all that he has done and continues to do as a musician, violin ambassador, teacher, and inspiration. There is some criticism of a new collection of previously released CDs -- but the critique is light and mostly aimed at a dollar-conscious record label -- not so much Perlman, whose playing on those discs is strong and of a piece with violin performance style in America at the time. (For a recommendation from my piece, try this recording of Perlman playing a movement from Leonard Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's Symposium.)

Now, I've had some conversations with my colleagues about the piece, and it has led us to discuss what needs to be said in appreciation essays about figures like Perlman. My feeling is that to characterize Perlman's playing as "schmaltzy" in the way that it reads in the subheadline in the print version is somewhat mean-spirited and unnecessary. I write in the article that some "on-trend" listeners may feel that it's schmaltzy (even Perlman would admit that he doesn't approach music coldly), but I don't use the word in an aggressive way, and I didn't write the subheadline, or the headline, for that matter.

It's always hip to be vicious and unyielding, and it gets eyeballs -- but I went through that phase as a very young critic already, and I didn't like what it brought out in me, what my work may have done to others, or the kinds of people it introduced me to. I write honestly, and I always choose the truth, but that's not a problem in this case. Good critical thinking will always win, but that's important to me, and I write about trends and performance styles specifically for this reason. Context.

The fact is the subheadline in the print version of this essay--and I recognize that some people only saw the print version, that's why I'm writing this post--was written by someone else and communicates an unkind spirit, especially in the way it uses the word "schmaltzy." I'm the child of Jewish musicians, and I like me some occasional schmaltz (both culinary and sonic) even if I also like a more contemporary style of playing as well as various genres, including the most un-schmaltzy matter. I also wrote in the piece that I am a fan of Jascha Heifetz's recordings, which have their own quality.

What's more, as I say in the essay, Perlman has contributed fine interpretations and recordings to our music world. Tastes change as generations turn over. But I still feel a great warmth when I listen to Itzhak Perlman's playing, and I'm very thankful for him. He will always be someone to admire.

I hope that he knows that, and more important, that the readers of my piece know that. Remember: writers for big newspapers rarely if ever write the headlines for their pieces, or the sub-headlines (or get to see either of them before the piece is printed).

Itzhak Perlman means a lot to me: That's why I went out on a limb and wrote this piece. That's The message from the writer. Hope it comes across in the text. And if I sound a little schmaltzy, that's Ok with me.

--Adam Baer
 art + life media Music personals Web/Tech Weblogs Adam Baer 2015-07-12T17:08:15-07:00 Good Morning by Gustav Mahler http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/07/good-morning-by-gustav-mahler.html One of the most important musical experiences of my life was participating in a young orchestra at Tanglewood that would learn and then perform Gustav Mahler's First Symphony, also known as the "Titan."
One of the most important musical experiences of my life was participating in a young orchestra at Tanglewood that would learn and then perform Gustav Mahler's First Symphony, also known as the "Titan." It has one of the most life-affirming evocations of "good morning" baked into its first movement (just allow it to bloom), and it has been a sort of personal anthem for me.  Today is Mahler's birthday, and the best thing that I can do to share this experience with you is to recommend listening to this recording below. (And if you can't handle something so long, try the first movement, and then make your decision.) I owe a lot to this piece -- and to this composer. I hope that you may come to feel the same way, too.

--Adam Baer
 art + life media Music personals Adam Baer 2015-07-07T13:02:12-07:00 Go to Music School -- Just Go to a Better One http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/06/dont-not-go-to-music-school-go-to-a-better-one.html Go to Music School -- Just Go to a Better One-- by Adam Baer, former student at Johns Hopkins and Peabody Conservatory of Music

A few days ago, an op-ed columnist in the New York Times wrote that he didn't think his kid should transfer into a music school. Today, Fred Bronstein, dean of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, responded in the Times. It's a strong, smart statement that takes the piece's headline literally, emphasizing "training" musicians "attuned to their communities" who should be "effective communicators, educators, entrepreneurs, audience development experts and citizen-artists." But there's more to be said on that issue.

I'm a former Peabody student, and I say that if you have the talent and determination, you should go to music school. It's one of the best things that I ever did with my life. It filled my soul and trained my brain to accomplish many other things, including serious writing projects. I'm a big believer in the humanities, and as a musician from a family of musicians, I wanted the immersion in music that they had enjoyed beyond the pre-college music conservatory. But I simultaneously attended Johns Hopkins' separate Arts & Sciences undergraduate program, and I graduated in 2000, a bad time to go to music school. Back then, the older classically oriented ones like mine (Peabody is the country's first conservatory), weren't designed yet to teach students what they really needed to know as the Internet was growing. They were experimenting. But schools that emphasized popular genres like the Berklee College of Music were leaps and bounds ahead, especially with respect to getting students fluent with digital and business.

The issue now isn't really whether or not you should go to music school. It's how strong is the school you want to attend? How well will it train you to be a musician-plus today? Sure, you can go to music school, study an instrument, composing, history, and theory--and you can learn the practical stuff on your own. But you really ought to ensure that you have your sights set on the realities of our time and that the music school you choose really does teach all of its students (maybe even as a "core") the following: business (especially entrepreneurship but also management, marketing, arts administration, contract negotiation, and financial skills); technology (app development, coding, UX, digital production for all genres [hip-hop, pop, songwriting, etc.], recording, video, engineering, music and sound editing for media/entertainment); music education; writing; arts advocacy; film/media composing; and IP/copyright law, as well as perhaps public health (!).

I have long appreciated Columbia University's "core curriculum." Music schools have always had a version of their own, consisting of theory, ear-training, lessons, etc. But now they need new ones full of required courses and skills assessments--it's not just about supplementing music classes with languages and the humanities or intros to the good things that Bronstein mentions (Peabody is lucky to have him). Courses in these subjects need to be authoritative and leave students with strong skills. They need to be practical and effective. I'm asking for a lot, but that's what the world asks of you as a musician, or as any kind of creative professional. So, schools: Please partner with media companies, music publishers, tech startups, small businesses, independent artists, more community schools. Add incentives. Stress the requirements beyond music skills. Stress that these are music skills.

I studied the violin at Peabody while attending Hopkins, but I live in Hollywood now, consult on music and work as a writer, journalist, and editorial content strategist. My first job out of college was at NPR; they hired me to be a cultural producer with a specialty in digital, but getting that gig was a bit of blind luck (although I knew how to code), based mostly on the fact that I'd published music criticism in the Washington Post. I would have benefitted so much from even a few of the aforementioned extra classes. Recording was available at my school, but it was a highly specialized degree program track. So, too, music education. These things were not stressed as necessary for everyone. But they were, and they are critically necessary now. A student at a great music school shouldn't have to learn Logic in an Apple Store.

What's great, though, is that Peabody is now poised to do this as an entity owned by Johns Hopkins University, and Bronstein says he's devoted to the cause. But it should be reiterated that I graduated from college 15 years ago, and Peabody was not moving on these things nearly quickly enough, even though it had been owned by Hopkins for a while. I have great hope for future music students, but also some words of advice: Double-degree program with a university. Or, even better, something new and singular that blends two types of schools like Hopkins and Peabody more seamlessly. That's what I tried to do with my program, and eventually I only took one degree (my Arts & Sciences B.A.). The Music School as a template for higher education needs to evolve more quickly and comprehensively for the sake of all musicians as well as those who will move into other fields while using their music skills. The great music that we love will be thankful.-- Adam Baer

 art + life Current Affairs Film media Music personals Pop Culture Tech Culture Television Web/Tech Weblogs Adam Baer 2015-06-16T07:51:21-07:00 You're (Probably Not) Ending Your Emails Wrong http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/06/youre-probably-not-ending-your-emails-wrong.html You're (Probably Not) Ending Your Emails Wrong by Adam Baer
Cheers, Best, Peace. Lately, a lot of people are claiming that we end our emails wrong. I get it. As a journalist and writer/editor I've emailed with usage hounds for years, seen all the permutations. To date, "Warm best" remains the creepiest/funniest email closing that I've ever received (though it came from a kind teacher with stellar writing chops, so when I'd see it, I'd just laugh, call it Affectedly Endearing).

My take on today's valedictions may be a little contrarian. Despite the well-meaning advice offered in this piece that advocates for the death of email closings, I still use "Sincerely" sparingly, and more often, "All best" (rarely just "Best," which often seems cold). "Sincerely" isn't--or, rather, doesn't have to be--"fake." It's not when I use it, and come to think of it, anything that "warms" up "best" today in our icy Bot-times seems considerate.

That said, I'm also fine with never signing off, especially in short social or business communiques; sometimes that's the code two people follow. But it's nice to treat others the way you'd like to be treated. So if a colleague or friend goes to the trouble of signing off with a closing, I'll sign off with something. There's still a large population of people who'd consider it rude not to sign off, and I'd hate to hurt their feelings because I choose to live on Twitter.

Maybe I'm getting warmer as I approach my personal best (best = old, right?). Maybe I see where my professor was coming from. All I know is that I also happen to like it when someone who has sent a significant "letter" signs off with something sincere--whether it's "Sincerely," "Seeya," "Stop, Collaborate, and Listen," "Cease and Decist," or "Slades," a slangy combo of "see you" and "later" that my brilliant wife invented.

Hasn't this has gone on long enough?

Take care,

Adam Baer
 art + life Current Affairs Humor media Tech Culture Weblogs Adam Baer 2015-06-03T09:11:14-07:00 In John Nash Obit, a Major Factual Error about J.S. Bach http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/05/in-john-nash-obit-a-major-factual-error-about-js-bach.html In John Nash Obit, a Major Factual Error about J.S. Bach

It's terribly sad that mathematician John Nash and his wife have died. However, in the NY Times obit, a Harvard math professor says something wrong and deeply misleading about J.S. Bach that needs to be corrected and addressed boldly.

From the article:

"[Nash's] achievements were the more remarkable, colleagues said, for being contained in a small handful of papers published before he was 30.

Jane Austen wrote six novels, Bach wrote six partitas," said Barry Mazur, a professor of mathematics at Harvard who was a freshman at M.I.T. when Dr. Nash taught there. "I think Nash's pure mathematical contributions are on that level. Very, very few papers he wrote on different subjects, but the ones that had impact had incredible impact.""

It's a very nice quote, and I'm not interested in publicly shaming someone. But can you seriously say that "Bach wrote six partitas" in a Times piece and not be corrected or fact-checked? Perhaps he was referring to the six partitas for piano. But many know that Bach wrote more (three more for violin, e.g.), and that his general output of music was beyond prolific--not something that can really be compared to anyone. He didn't only write partitas or come up with a few world-changing ideas. Bach wrote a massive amount of music and changed the way western music worked forever.

This is not to take anything away from Professor Nash. But it's amazing what gets through today without a fact-check. Sure, it was a compliment, and a genuine one. But even those comments need to be assessed. However, the facts are that people both don't care enough to do that, and that they don't know enough about subjects like Bach to even think to double-check a Harvard math professor.

Obits are saved forever, and become "fact." One day, in 25 years, a kid will read this obit while working on a project and perhaps use that quote. Or it will end up on whatever is the next Wikipedia. This obit may change some people's perceptions of a subject forever, and it would have taken a few minutes to make sure this man's quote was correct -- and to perhaps phone him to revise it.

p.s. I don't want to make this specific to the Times. I write for the Times. I have great editors at the Times, some who've taught me more about journalism than anyone else. This is about a broad cultural laziness that has become an epidemic and will literally alter what's considered "factual" forever.

 p.p.s. I'm also aware that I sound like "Bookman, the library cop," from Seinfeld in this post. But I'm not angry, I just find this subject fascinating. -- Adam Baer

Update, 4:21 pm Pacific Time: The paper changed the piece -- and the professor's quote -- and removed all mention of Bach without a correction. See image below:

 art + life media Music Adam Baer 2015-05-24T09:42:41-07:00 Are Riptides and Currents as Dangerous as We Think? http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/05/are-riptides-and-currents-as-dangerous-as-we-think-.html Saw something online that blew my mind about how to deal with riptides, so I wrote this quick thing for Men's Journal.-- Adam Baer

Saw something online that blew my mind about how to deal with riptides, so I wrote this quick thing for Men's Journal. I'd read it and watch the video if you ever plan on going into the ocean.
 Health media Science sport Sports Travel Weblogs Adam Baer 2015-05-20T15:14:29-07:00 10 Books That Literally All Mes (Whatever I am) Own -- and Keep Around | Adam Baer http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/05/10-books-that-literally-all-mes-own.html 1. Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place 2. V.S. Naipaul: The Enigma of Arrival 3. Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones 4. Toni Morrison: Beloved 5. Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the Time of Cholera 6. Vijay Seshadri: The Long Meadow 7. Isaac...
1. Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place

2. V.S. Naipaul: The Enigma of Arrival

3. Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones

4. Toni Morrison: Beloved

5. Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the Time of Cholera

6. Vijay Seshadri: The Long Meadow

7. Isaac Babel: The Collected Stories

8. Lucy Grealy: Autobiography of a Face

9. Leonard Michaels: I Would Have Saved Them if I Could

10. Zadie Smith: NW
 art + life Books Adam Baer 2015-05-12T13:02:26-07:00 Mr. Opinionator http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/05/mr-opinionator.html

 Adam Baer 2015-05-09T16:15:40-07:00 My SlideShare profile http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/04/my-slideshare-profile.html

 Adam Baer 2015-04-29T08:39:26-07:00 Beyond the Boundary Principle, A New York Times "Couch" Essay -- by Adam Baer http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/04/beyond-the-boundary-principle-a-new-york-times-couch-essay-by-adam-baer.html "Beyond the Boundary Principle" essay by Adam Baer in the New York Times "Couch" series

When I first heard that the New York Times was running a series of Opinionator essays about psychology and psychotherapy called "Couch," I was pretty sure I'd have something to submit. I've not only a seen a few professionals in this field over the years, but the woman I married eventually became a stellar clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist in Los Angeles. I like to kid that she's never had the good fortune to be my doctor, but that's of course true: I was never her patient, and she wasn't in this line of work when we met. She first started as a scientist, a researcher.  At any rate, I decided that I'd write a piece about the key psychologists in my life, especially because two of them had massively differing approaches, and in fact, one passed away while seeing me with the same disease as me -- and never told me she was sick (such are boundaries). If you've made it this far, here's the link to the story that ran in the New York Times Couch series. Have a read and tell me if you still don't approve of strict boundaries like those which the selfless cancer therapists live by. I hope this honors them in some way. -- Adam Baer

p.s. Some people upon reading this piece don't get the sense that I had tried to honor these people in my life while still being truthful about my experiences with them. The very act that I have told these stories is an act of honoring them, and one can't change a couple of intriguing non-fiction stories into pure praise when one is composing this sort of journalism piece. I also did leave out a lot of info about my experience and both characters (as well as my wife). I don't want to have to say this -- I hope that some people get it -- but the piece itself is in a way a commentary on what we should share and what we shouldn't. And that every case is different, so hard and fast rules may exist but must like music be interpreted with good taste (for example, I could have shared my wife's name and advertised for her, but I didn't; nor did I want to intrude on the life of someone else's family). Thanks to all who read and corresponded with me about this essay. It wasn't easy to write but I felt that it could do some good to share it, and I hope it brings attention to the clinical psychologists (Ph.D.s) who work with cancer patients and their families while continuing to contribute to important research. If you want to donate to a cause look up the good people in your area who do this, and help them.
 art + life Health media personals Science Weblogs Adam Baer 2015-04-22T07:22:29-07:00 Jenji Kohan Has a Husband, His Name is Christopher Noxon, and We Spoke About his Novel http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2015/02/jenji-kohan-has-a-husband-his-name-is-christopher-noxon-and-we-spoke-about-his-novel.html The congenial Christopher Noxon knows what it means to be a Plus One (something about weed, the color orange, and a talented woman called Jenji). Anyway, we talked about this subject and Chris' new novel Plus One for The Believer....

The congenial Christopher Noxon knows what it means to be a Plus One (something about weed, the color orange, and a talented woman called Jenji). Anyway, we talked about this subject and Chris' new novel Plus One for The Believer. You can buy the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Plus-One-Christopher-Nox…/…/1938849426 But you can read our interview by clicking here.
 art + life Books Film Food and Drink Humor Pop Culture Television Weblogs Adam Baer 2015-02-13T12:40:47-08:00 Aaron Copland on his Birthday: The Violin Sonata by Adam Baer http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2014/11/aaron-copland-on-his-birthday.html Celebrate Aaron Copland's birthday w/this lesser-known piece of music, dedicated to a lieutenant who had died in the South Pacific. I played, among other things, this piece in my first jury at Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the looks I...

Celebrate Aaron Copland's birthday w/this lesser-known piece of music, dedicated to a lieutenant who had died in the South Pacific. I played, among other things, this piece in my first jury at Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the looks I received from the uber-traditional violin teachers (my judges) made me shake. It was an untraditional choice -- a "cop-out," one of them said. But the more annoyed she looked, the better I played. For a Tanglewood kid there was no greater honor than playing Copland, especially in a room that was full of people craving Paganini.

*If you want to learn more about Copland have a look at an old-school microsite that I created, edited, and produced for NPR in 2000 when we celebrated the Copland Centennial.  -- Adam Baer
 art + life Music personals Adam Baer 2014-11-14T08:30:17-08:00 My Rare Disease, and the One Guy Who Might Erase It -- by Adam Baer http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2014/11/my-rare-disease-and-the-one-person-who-might-improve-it.html The One Guy Who Might Cure My Rare Disease by Adam Baer
A lot of you know I've had cancer(s). That it's been tough, that I've been given the chance to write about it. And that I have great health insurance, a huge impact on my family's financial and emotional life. However, what many readers may not know, even if you've read my work, is that buried in a piece for Harper's Magazine that I published I talk about having a malignant tumor in the base of my skull (not my brain) called Chordoma. The piece makes it clear that I continue to live with it. But to make it more clear, this is one of the rarest diseases in America, and very few people, save for the generous experts who have to date saved my life with surgery and radiation and management, know what to do with chordomas, including a lot of doctors and researchers (certainly in LA).

Of course, we're living at a time when a researcher might figure out an ever-better treatment.ut a tiny portion of the population may not realize that this silent, fatal disease and its treatments force us to perpetually fight terrible side-effects (among them, the very serious condition of social isolation), and that if this is just one of the cancers you have/have had, life is never "OK," even if you do your best to make everyone around you feel like it is, lest you seem stranger, weirder, more of a reminder of everyone's mortality, a guilt-inducer. Rarer.

At any rate, the guy linked to in a few sentences is pretty much the only one of our generation, without an MD or PhD, working really hard to lead research and other programs that may help people with this specific rare disease. He and his foundation deserve serious support. His name is Josh Sommer, and his non-profit is called Chordoma Foundation. I'm ashamed that I haven't been more vocal about him and his work, and that most times I don't want to read about this one of my diagnoses. But on a day like today, when I have questions about a certain drug that I need for one late effect of a previous cancer treatment, something that might make my chordoma worse, a question that cannot be answered, I feel lucky that Josh is doing what he does. This call for support is long overdue.

I hope that you read about Josh, and back his group. I learned that I have (a) chordoma because of an incidental MRI taken because of headaches. That means that many other people can have it, and that it can be less rare than we think, because who gets head MRIs for no good reason, and who looks into the heads of the deceased? I'd hate to learn of one more person suffering from this deadly problem, but it's highly possible, and that -- not any sympathy for my situation -- is why I posted this. People with chordoma are often told they may only live seven or ten years.

Some of us who've had the advanced treatments and surgeries are optimistic about living a lot longer, but we could be wrong. Josh, and the people he's working with, are not living in the vagaries; they are living and working for change in the now, and they don't feel their job is done with just one magazine article that appears to be a book review. I hope that I can help them more. -- Adam Baer
 art + life Current Affairs Health media personals Science Web/Tech Weblogs Adam Baer 2014-11-03T13:09:38-08:00 "A Good Life in the Hollywood Hills"-- Holiday Magazine, April, 1970 http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2014/11/a-good-life-in-the-hollywood-hills-holiday-magazine-april-1970.html An April, 1970 magazine article on life in the Hollwood Hills: "The cliffdwellers cling precariously to the brush-covered slopes of the Hollywood hills, sharing the common perils of fire and flood. In the late fall, when the humidity drops and...

An April, 1970 magazine article on life in the Hollwood Hills:

"The cliffdwellers cling precariously to the brush-covered slopes of the Hollywood hills, sharing the common perils of fire and flood. In the late fall, when the humidity drops and a warm wind whips through the canyons, the hills may suddenly explode with flame. In the rainy season, when the naked cliffs crack and slide, the mortgaged wickiups come tumbling down. But the true cliffdweller always returns to his wildlife refuge. He trades in his charred Porsche, patches his pool, rebuilds his house-with-a-view and again settles down to enjoy the comforts of his mountain lair." ...

"Laurel is Southern California's semi-tropical version of Manhattan's East Village. Mediterranean villas dating back to the first hoarse days of talking pictures are hemmed in by dilapidated shacks owned by absentee landlords. The canyon's natural fire hazards have been intensified of late by shaggy young nomads who turn on in the blackened ruins of burned-out mansions where Theda Bara may once have dined. The daily life of the community swirls around a small shopping center, "The Square," which boasts the old-fashioned Canyon Country Store and a pleasant cafe, the Galleria."--1970 article from Holiday magazine on what it's like to live in the Hollywood Hills.

 architecture art + life design Film media Music personals Pop Culture Travel Adam Baer 2014-11-01T15:40:25-07:00 Believer Interview with a Luthier (who makes guitars for Arcade Fire, The National, Beck, Cat Power, Fred Armisen) -- by Adam Baer http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2014/10/believer-interview-with-a-luthier-who-makes-guitars-for-arcade-fire-the-national-beck-cat-power-fred.html Adam Baer interviews luthier Reuben Cox (who makes guitars for Arcade Fire, The National, Beck, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, and Fred Armisen, etc.)

A number of years ago, well before this subject was written about elsewhere, I learned about, met, and began interviewing the Silverlake-area guitar luthier and music-shop owner Reuben Cox who uses found materials to make equisite instruments that harken back to a period of American guitarmaking that has slipped away. Reuben, a photographer with credits from The New Yorker and New York Times, had opened a place called Old Style Guitars on the eastern/southern edge of the neighborhood -- before it had become hip. Still, bands like The National would drop by and play secret shows in his driveway. And quickly, the place became a node, a scene, for some of the best elite rock musicians in the country: You could see Richard Reed Parry from Arcade Fire there, Chan Marshall, Devandra B., Bobby Womack, Beck, Sufjan Stevens, Alexi Murdoch, Andrew Bird, tons of studio players, even Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. It was something like a micro Laurel Canyon for our time, inside a little box with lots of wires and wood. But it's hard to place significant articles about such esoteric subjects in the focused, news-oriented consumer magazines. So, I waited, and then an option to do something creative came up with one of my favorite magazines,  The Believer. Now, I have turned the piece, which at last ran in The Believer's 2014 Music Issue, into a multimedia digital thing, with videos of The National playing at the store, a fetishistic guitar slideshow, and even a video of Arcade Fire using one of Reuben's guitars in Helsinki. Check it out at this URL, where I hope that it will live for a long time. http://logger.believermag.com/post/100588053844/interview-with-a-luthier-i-e-someone-who-makes

My thanks for reading, watching, waiting, and listening.

Adam Baer
 art + life design Fashion Humor media Music personals Pop Culture Tech Culture Web/Tech Weblogs Adam Baer 2014-10-22T07:43:24-07:00 The Day Paul Mazursky Changed My Life (RIP) http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2014/07/the-paul-mazursky-prompt-rip.html The Day Paul Mazursky Changed My Life ( RIP )

"What are you talking to me for?" asked Mel Brooks. "You need to talk to more Jews. Younger JEWS. Call Paul Mazursky."

Brooks was speaking to me for a Rolling Stone magazine piece about funny studio-executive notes. I'd heard of Mazursky's name, knew some of his movies, but had not connected that identity to the guy who had acted in recent episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the character "Larry David" would eventually kill via stress.

Mazursky had directed various important films about romantic relationships, had shared my New York background. I didn't know if the magazine would use his quotes, but I'd thought they'd appreciate me trying to get some good stories from someone who had been around some amazing sets.

I went to Mazurksy's Beverly Drive office, told him that Mel Brooks had sent me.

"What does he want?" Mazursky asked. "Oh, right. You're the kid."

"I'm the kid," I said. I was in my late twenties.

Next, Mazursky asked me about my background. He wanted to know everything. He'd said that he'd read something about me, something about cancer that his assistant had showed him. He told me very funny stories about the author Isaac Singer. Oh, and did I have cancer?

I said that it was hard to answer that question: Does anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer ever stop having it?

He laughed.

"My daughter," he said. "My daughter--"

Silence. Then tears.

Mazursky broke down in front of me. He bawled. His daughter also had a tumor, he'd said. She'd just been flown to a top hospital near us. He didn't know what to do. He was looking into "the guy who worked on Ted Kennedy at Duke."

Did I have suggestions, connections? What could they do?

The phone rang. Mazursky answered, gestured at me to stay.

"Yes, OK, that's the guy," he said on the phone. Then to me: It's Jeff Berg, you know him?"

Mazursky was speaking with one of Hollywood's most powerful talent agents who had been helping him make contact with a specific surgeon. He kept me in the office while he spoke with him. Then we talked some more.

I gave him the best contacts that I had, including one top neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai who had graced the cover of Time magazine.

He asked me to stay. "Let's talk," he said. "I'm sorry--"

"Don't worry," I said.

Then I sat in Paul Mazursky's office for an hour while he asked me more about my various medical problems related to surviving multiple cancers, the people I knew, the doctors, the therapies. He was suffering.

Eventually, he got a call from the hospital doctor that the agent had recommended. He answered the phone but asked the guy to hold before thanking me, saying that I should come see him again.

"I have so much to tell you about my career," he said.

I have this entire experience taped on one of my many old Olympus voice recorders that doesn't work with my Mac.

I shook Paul's hand, thanked him, reassured him that his daughter would be OK (as if I could know).

Then I went home and watched three Mazursky movies in the next couple of days.

I would not write about this experience until now, the day that I learned of Mazursky's death. His daughter had, in fact, died sometime after our meeting. But I am thankful that I got a chance to spend time with Paul, perhaps lend a hand in the moment, an ear, whatever.

I should have called him back to check on him and his family, but I kept putting it off. He had help, I told myself.

I don't put things like that off now.

RIP, Paul Mazursky.

                    -- Adam Baer, @glassshallot
 art + life Current Affairs Health Humor media personals Pop Culture Adam Baer 2014-07-01T12:54:05-07:00 Larry Wilmore: "If we'd elected Flava Flav that would have shown America is no longer racist." http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2014/05/larry-wilmore-if-wed-elected-flava-flav-that-would-have-shown-america-is-no-longer-racist.html "If we'd elected Flava Flav that would have shown America is no longer racist."--unused comment e-mailed to me by Larry Wilmore for a 2008 GQ assignment about comedy in Obama's time. Check out plans for Wilmore's forthcoming The Minority Report.
"If we'd elected Flava Flav that would have shown America is no longer racist."--unused comment e-mailed to me by Larry Wilmore for a 2008 GQ assignment about comedy in Obama's time.

Check out plans for Wilmore's forthcoming The Minority Report.
 Current Affairs Humor media personals Adam Baer 2014-05-12T10:10:27-07:00 Everybody's Talking at Me: Carl Reiner meets Jon Voight http://glassshallot.typepad.com/glassshallot/2014/05/everybodys-talking-at-me-carl-reiner-meets-jon-voight.html --at Saban Theater, where Chaplin's City Lights had its premiere, Adam Baer

--at Saban Theater, where Chaplin's City Lights had its premiere, Adam Baer

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In Elgin, with the development of safety razors and the decreasing prevalence of beards, most barbers specialize in cutting men's hair , although many barbers may still deal with facial hair if requested.
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Each year as a tradition to myself and this green movement website, I write on the events of Earth Day (April 22nd) this year is no exception. I will focus more on some new ideas and representations of our planet Earth. The symbols of Earth Day have been similar throughout the years, including an image or drawing of the Earth..


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Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender's life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text's analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender's wife literally bores him to death? --Brooks Peck
From Publishers Weekly
The first two volumes of Card's Ender saga, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel. This adept fifth volume in the series (after Xenocide, 1991) continues the story of Ender Wiggin, hero, social conscience and unwitting mass murderer. Here, however, Ender, feeling the weight of his years, plays only a limited role in the desperate attempt to avert the destruction by the Starways Congress of the planet Lusitania and its three intelligent races. Foremost among those at center stage are Peter and Young Valentine, Ender's "children of the mind," copies of his brother and sister whom he accidentally created on his trip Outside the universe in Xenocide. Also central is Jane, the prickly Artificial Intelligence whose unique ability to use the Outside to transcend the light-speed barrier is key to all attempts to save Ender's adopted world. Peter, Val, Jane and their companions must criss-cross the galaxy to find new planets for Lusitania's refugees while trying to influence the politicians and philosophers who have the power to stop the Congress's approaching war fleet. Readers unfamiliar with earlier Ender novels may have trouble picking up some plot threads. But Card's prose is powerful here, as is his consideration of mystical and quasi-religious themes, and his ability to write convincing, at times heartrending, scenes of intrafamily conflict is as strong as ever. Though billed as the final Ender novel, this story leaves enough mysteries unexplored to justify another sequel; and Card fans should find that possibility, like this novel, very welcome indeed. Major ad/promo; 200-copy limited leather-bound edition, $200, ISBN 0-312-86191-5.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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One man dead in Lake Martin accidentPublished 11:42am Friday, June 28, 2013
One man is dead and a female is injured as a result of a personal watercraft hitting a dock sometime early Friday morning on Lake Martin.
Alabama Marine Police Captain Matt Brooks confirmed a white male died as a result of the accident.
"We received a call around 6 a.m. (Friday) and we are still on the scene investigating the accident," Brooks said.
Brooks said the name of the deceased will not be released until the family is notified.
The accident occurred in the Lake Hill Estates area of the lake, which is north of the U.S. Highway 280 river bridge off of the Tallapoosa River.
The female who was on the personal watercraft with the man was injured and transported to Russell Medical Center in Alexander City.