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Movie Review: Tina Fey Is a Woman on a Mission in 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'
March 22, 2016 by Alexandra MacAaron
Filed under Media, Military Life, Movies
If you've seen the trailer for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, it may feel like familiar territory: an anti-war message wrapped in comedy with an end-of-days edge to it. It harkens back to Robert Altman's classic M*A*S*H. Both the 1970 movie and the long-running television series followed the lives and work of Army doctors. Although set in the Korean War, it was very much a condemnation of America's presence in Vietnam. And whether true to history or simply to television practices of its day, women were not exactly front and center. Nurses, by and large, served as assistants and sexual conquests of M*A*S*H's main characters. The one exception was the comic foil Major Margaret Houlihan, nicknamed "Hot Lips." 'Nuff said.
In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a woman is very much the center of the story. The new movie (with a title that's tailor-made for Twitter: #WTF) is based on the memoir of real-life correspondent Kim Barker. Her book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan chronicles five years of reporting. Filled with workaday frustrations, honesty and unlikely humor, the memoir has been described as "a personal, insightful look at covering an ambivalent war in a complicated region."
Enter one of today's smartest comediennes — and exceptionally well-cast here — Tina Fey. Fey plays Kim Baker (the author's "r" has been removed), an underutilized and underwhelmed U.S. journalist. She leaves her lukewarm boyfriend and houseplants, buys an expensive, ill-advised neon orange duffel bag, and volunteers for a three-month assignment in Kabul. There, she meets her "Fixer," her "Security," and an animal house full of foreign press, partying as if its their last night on Earth. She stays for four years.
Fey is really quite wonderful in the film, which despite the trailer is more of a drama with some clever jokes than a comedy, per se. But, despite her best efforts, the movie starts to drift right at the beginning. We don't see enough of Kim's pre-Afghanistan life to understand her decision. Her initial discomfort with what must be a mind-blowing transition from yuppie journalist to war correspondent feels rushed and insignificant. Her biggest challenges seem to be finding a shower and a place to pee. She is preternaturally comfortable with everyone she encounters, swearing a blue streak along with the Marine Corps she's covering.
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At one point, when she's asked why she's there, she tells a rather silly tale about realizing that she's cycled so many miles (on a stationary bike) and only moved backwards. It's a bit of a relief when a fellow journalist calls her on it. "That's the most American white lady story I've ever heard."
Nora Ephron: Exit, Laughing
June 29, 2012 by Diane Vacca
Filed under Books, Movies, Newsmakers
Nora Ephron died this week. I was devastated when I read the news. She spoke for me. What she wrote rang true. And her style of writing—as if she were speaking to me, right here with me—was what I wanted so much to emulate but never quite captured.
She was funny, witty, and wise, and she was always honest. She was a keen observer of human foibles, her own as well as those of others. She had the courage to bare her own warts and make them funny. By making us laugh, she helped us to accept the things we most worry about but rarely discuss. She was opinionated, and if she didn't like what she saw, she used her wit as a razor to slice through artifice. She was smart and quick—words never seemed to fail her. Ephron wasn't afraid to take on the unmentionable. Forty years ago, she wrote in a men's magazine about the embarrassment her small breasts caused her. "A Few Words About Breasts" became a classic. Nobody before her had written about deeply personal issues.
"I'll have what she's having"—it's one of the best-known lines from any movie—and many of her readers would say that about Ephron's life and career. She began as a journalist, wrote essays for The New Yorker, op-eds for The Times, screenplays, novels, and plays. She became a successful movie director, a rare feat for a woman. Mike Nichols said that what made her so good was her people skills. She's a hard act to follow. She raised the bar very high.
Ephron embodied the duality of aging: She could look back and feel good about her many accomplishments, all the while coping with bagging and sagging and all the other affronts and assaults on her aging body. In I Feel Bad About My Neck, she commented, "You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't if it had a neck." So she kept hers covered. I never saw her without a turtleneck or a scarf. She made no bones about her vanity. Despite loving food and being an excellent cook, she ate very sparingly and maintained her trim figure (below the neck, of course).
She made us laugh at the many small challenges—indignities, really—of aging. And so she wrote I Remember Nothing. But was she laughing with us?
I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up. You can delude yourself that no one at the table thinks of you as a geezer. And finding the missing bit is so quick. There's none of the nightmare of the true Senior Moment— the long search for the answer, the guessing, the self-recrimination, the head-slapping mystification, the frustrated finger-snapping. You just go to Google and retrieve it.
Ephron refused to be a victim, and I'm sure that's why no one but her family knew she was fatally ill. When she published I Remember Nothing, four years after receiving the diagnosis of leukemia, she had to know that she was dying. Now, in retrospect I admire and respect her even more. She clearly didn't want anyone to feel sorry for her. She didn't.
But I didn't know she had leukemia, I didn't know she was sick, so the news of her death was a bombshell.
I did know this: She understood the value of coming to terms with the inevitable. "You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday," she told National Public Radio in November 2010. "If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it."
Good advice at any age.
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A Chef Reviews "The Unofficial 'Mad Men' Cookbook"
April 17, 2012 by Ro Howe
Filed under Books, Food & Drink
We wondered how our favorite chef-writer, Ro Howe—chef-owner of Barraud Caterers, Ltd., in New York City—would view this new collection of authentic Mad Men–era recipes. "A true abomination," she calls the brown sauce in a 1960s White House recipe for Beef Wellington. But to our surprise, she found the book "serious fun." —Ed.
The cover says it all, with its image of a classic 4- to 5-ounce martini, straight up, with two olives. This is The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook: Inside the Kitchens, Bars, and Restaurants of Mad Men, by Judy Gelman and Peter Zheutlin (BenBella Books, Inc., $11.32). And it turns out to be a delightful evocation of nostalgia-Americana—like the television series itself, which uses food/dining/drinking as cultural props that highlight the ambiance and mores of America in the sixties.
Like a normal cookery book, The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook is divided into useful sections. First (and foremost!) come drinks. Then come apps, salads, mains, and desserts—recipes gleaned from the bars, restaurants, magazines, and cookbooks of the early sixties era. All of these sources were celebrating the first blush of flush after the relative deprivations of the decade and a half after WW II. Trade, commerce, and their important partner, advertising, were the new battlefields. All of them required entertaining and networking, so corporate America rose to the occasion by having meetings in the natural gathering-places: bars, restaurants, clubs, and private homes.
Mad Men has done a wonderful job of spotlighting the erstwhile hot watering holes and dining establishments (some still extant), and this book presents their recipes: the could-not-be-omitted Oak Bar's Manhattan; Grand Central Oyster Bar's Oysters Rockefeller; Keens Caesar Salad. And, cleverly knitting the fictional characters into the skein of the book, it gives us Jerry's Deviled Eggs; Betty's Turkey Tetrazzini; Kitty's Pineapple Upside Down Cake, all adopted from contemporary sources.
It is interesting to note that Americans still eat in the consecutive style epitomized in this era by starting with a salad—the vinegar dressings of which totally annul the grace of wine. Salads still frequently began meals, whereas Europeans eat salad as a palate cleanser after the main course. America came very late to having wine with meals as a matter of course, perhaps because we initiated the cocktail culture. Have you tried having three high-octane cocktails before dinner and then drinking most of a bottle of wine, and following that with a cognac digestif—and did you live to remember it, or not? My point, precisely.
The cocktails are classic and fun. The food recipes are historical hand-me-downs of culinary Americana like Spaghetti and Meatballs with Marinara Sauce and adaptations from classic French and other newfangled "foreign" cuisines: I am sure that Sardi's Steak Tartare is indeed the restaurant's genuine recipe, but any serious French bistro would not present the tartare already mixed! French food with un accent Américain! Quelle horreur!! The 1962 gazpacho has the bread served as croutons sprinkled on top, not the authentic mashing of soaked bread with good olive oil to create the emulsion essential to a true gazpacho of any type.
And shall we speak of the industrial boxtop butchers and the food abominators? There are, thankfully, only one or two, like the ubiquitous "add sour cream and stir in packaged dry onion soup mix" that Lipton dubbed California Dip, tasting of chemicals and with enough sodium to pack a heart attack. The recipe for the White House's Beef Wellington is fine in itself, but the brown sauce accompanying it clearly is a donation from the recipe file of a "chef" who never set foot inside a kitchen and doesn't have the first clue about constructing the good jus reduction with demi-glace sauce that the original recipes pleads for. A true abomination—thankfully, the only one I found.
The recipes, put together with canned bravado and boxtops, indicate the period's culinary dearth. However, where recipes from scratch are cited, the ingredients used are fresh and appealing, not manufactured. My favorite drink recipe? The Stork Club Cocktail (above left) with gin, Triple Sec, OJ, lime juice, and Angostura. And food? Definitely Lutèce's Shrimp in Escargot Butter (above right). They both wear their age well, and are as valid now as they were when Don Draper entertained the Schillings and the Barretts.
I'm left with "How serious is the book?" In culinary terms, not very—but that alone reflects the period accurately. The introductions to each recipe are what make this book for me. The serious fun comes from the research and period detail, as well as detailing the recipes referenced in each episode. That's fine, because it's a fun giggle-fad and it's good for a theme party when you're spicing up your engagement calendar with your mad men and women friends.
Ro's Recipes: A Savory "Mad Men"–Night Meal
March 22, 2012 by Ro Howe
Filed under Food & Drink, Television
In her last post, Ro Howe, chef-owner of Barraud Caterers, in New York City, looked back at how fashions in food changed dramatically from the recovering postwar fifties to the revolutionary late sixties. She provided a menu of "Mad Men Moderne," early/mid sixties-style dishes . . . with a bit of updating to suit our 21st-century tastes.
Celery Sticks with Roquefort Mousse and Dried-Cranberry/Walnut Garnish
Yield: Six portions as part of an amuse selection
Measuring spoons and cups
Small bowl
Wire whisk or hand mixer
2 medium bowsl
Rubber spatula
1 Tbsp. minced dried cranberries
1 tsp finely chopped walnuts
½ tsp sugar
Pinch chili pepper
3 sticks blemish-free celery stems, washed
1 C cream cheese
½ C Roquefort
Combine cranberries, walnuts, sugar, and chili.
Cut celery into 1 ½-inch-long pieces. Shave a thin slice off the bottom curve of the celery to allow them to sit without rolling.
Whip cream cheese and Roquefort until light and mousse-like.
Put into a small Ziploc bag, cut a small hole in one corner, and pipe into the celery.
Garnish with a generous sprinkle of cranberry mixture
Broiled Pineapple With Bacon-Spiced Pork Belly With Roast Pineapple and Lemongrass-Ginger Syrup
Yield: Six portions as part of an amuse selection
Measuring spoons and cups
Small bowl
Ovenproof sauté pan
Small saucepan
Small mesh strainer
Half sheet tray
Kitchen propane torch
Chinese or other soupspoons
2 Tbsp. orange zest
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 ½ tsp. ground coriander
1 ½ tsp. ground cardamom seeds
2 tsp. kosher salt
½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper
1# pork belly—whole piece
1 ½ Tbsp. canola oil
4-inch root end piece lemongrass, minced
1 ½ tsp. peeled, minced garlic
1 ½ tsp. minced shallot
1 Tbsp. minced fresh ginger
½ tsp. minced jalapeño
¾ C water
2 Tbsp. fish sauce/nam pla from Asian groceries
1/3 C sugar
1 ½-inch slice peeled, cored pineapple
2 tsp. minced cilantro
For the spice mix, combine the orange zest, sugar, coriander, cardamom, salt, and pepper. Rub liberally all over the pork and store covered in refrigerator over-night.
Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees.
Wipe spice rub off the pork with a paper towel.
Heat a small ovenproof sauté pan. Add 1 Tbsp. canola oil. When shimmering, add pork and sear till well caramelized. Turn over and caramelize the other side.
Place pan in oven and cook for eight to ten minutes. Allow to rest.
When cool, slice the pork into small squares.
For the syrup, heat a small saucepan. Add 1 ½ tsp. oil. When shimmering, add lemongrass, garlic, shallot, ginger, and jalapeño and caramelize.
Deglaze pan with water and fish sauce. Simmer, covered, for 20 minutes, making sure evaporation does not occur. If liquid level goes down, add hot water to make up for any loss.
Add sugar and melt.
Strain, return to pan, and reduce to a light syrup.
Cool and reserve.
Place the pineapple on a half sheet tray over a sink and torch until lightly burnt. Turn it over and torch the other side. When cool enough to handle, trim into small pieces.
For service, reheat the pork, place in Chinese soupspoon and drizzle warmed syrup over it. Garnish with a piece of pineapple and a sprinkle of cilantro.
spiced pork belly with roast pineapple – lemongrass-ginger syrup
Chocolate mousse – with spicy caramelized shiitake
Ro's Recipes: Munchables for Oscar Night, Part 2
February 22, 2012 by Ro Howe
Filed under Family & Friends, Food & Drink, Movies
Here are recipes suggested by Ro Howe—chef-owner of Barraud Caterers, in New York—as munchables that will give you a meal but still keep you in the living room on Oscar Night. She ends with day-ahead preparation tips. She offered a more extended menu in our previous post.—Ed.
Mushroom Frittata
Yield: six portions as part of a grazing cocktail buffet
Measuring cups and spoons
2-inch pastry brush
Cheese grater or Microplane
Medium wire whip
11-inch ovenproof sauté pan
1 small bowl
1 medium bowl
Large, heat-proof rubber spatula
2 large platters
2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
1 C chopped onion
2 Tbsp. minced garlic
1⁄4 C extra virgin olive oil
3⁄4 # Cremeni or other mushrooms, brushed clean of soil and chopped
Pinch cayenne pepper
1 tsp. Herbes de Provence, minced
Kosher salt to taste
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
9 large eggs, beaten
3/4 C grated mixed Gruyère and cheddar
1/4 C chopped flat leaf parsley
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Heat an 11-inch ovenproof sauté pan. Add olive oil. When shimmering, add minced onion. Sauté until the onions are golden—about 3 minutes. Add garlic and sauté another minute. Reserve them in small bowl.
Heat sauté pan again. When shimmering, add chopped mushrooms in two or three batches and sauté over high heat to caramelize them. Return onion, garlic, and mushrooms to the sauté pan and add seasoning, stirring over medium heat.
Whisk eggs well in 10-inch medium bowl. Pour into mushroom pan and stir to disperse evenly.
Sprinkle with cheese.
Cook over medium heat until the bottom is set—about 3 minutes.
Place pan on top shelf of oven. Cook until the eggs are just set—about 10 to 12 minutes. They should have a little jiggle in the middle, which "carry over cooking time" will take care of.
Remove from oven and let sit for five minutes.
Using a heatproof rubber spatula, release the frittata's edges from the pan. Place a platter upside down on the pan and, using oven mitts, reverse the pan so the plate is on the bottom. Remove the pan. Repeat the procedure with another plate to put the frittata right-side up
Cut into 1 1⁄2-inch squares and sprinkle with parsley.
Serve hot or at room temperature.
Pâté de Campagne, Poached Pear, and Pickle with Dijon-Buttered Toast
This is a simple put-together dish, but be sure to buy good-quality pâté from a good grocery store. I suggest Les Trois Petits Cochons or D'Artagnan
Yield: six portions as part of a grazing cocktail buffet
Measuring cups and spoons
Small saucepan
Half sheet tray
Slotted spoon
1 small bowl
Small rubber spatula
1# good-quality Pâte de Campagne
2 seasonal pears
1 1⁄2 C red wine
1 3-inch cinnamon stick
1 piece star anise
¾ C sugar
11⁄2 cornichon pickles, sliced
1 French baguette, sliced 1⁄2-inch straight across
6 Tbsp. sweet butter at room temperature
2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
For the pears, place wine, sugar, and spices in a small saucepan. Heat to melt the sugar and infuse the spices.
Peel the pears and dice into half-inch pieces.
Gently cook the pears in the red wine until crisp-tender. They must not fall apart. When done, scoop out the pears onto a cold plate to cool. Reduce the red wine until syrupy. Put in a small bowl drizzled with a Tbsp. of syrup.
For the toasts, pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees.
Combine the room-temperature butter and mustard and spread on the toasts. Place the toasts on a half sheet tray and toast in the oven for about 10 minutes until starting to become golden around the edges and becoming crisp in the middle, remembering that they will crisp up as they cool. Place in a small basket or on a platter.
Cut the pâté into thin slices and arrange on a plate. Cover smoothly with plastic wrap until guests arrive, since the pâté will oxidize. Arrange the pickles, pears, and baguette around the plate of pâté, providing small forks and spoons for guests to help themselves to the various components.
Blue Cheese, Apple, and Berry Port Tortillas
Yield: six portions as part of a grazing cocktail buffet
Measuring cups and spoons
Small saucepan
Half sheet tray
Slotted spoon
One small bowl
Small rubber spatula
3 1⁄2-inch round cookie cutter
Sauté pan
Metal spatula
1⁄2 C good-quality strawberry or raspberry jam
1 tsp. red port
1⁄4 C apple, peeled and diced 1/3-inches
Pinch red-pepper flakes
1⁄2# blue cheese at room temperature
4 large flour tortillas
1/4C olive oil
Combine the jam, port, diced apple, and red-pepper flakes in a bowl.
Cut tortillas into circles with the cookie cutter and store them under a clean tea towel to prevent drying out.
To fill the tortilla, brush the edge with a little water.
Spread the tortillas in the center with the jam mixture.
Dollop a teaspoon of the cheese on top.
Fold over the tortilla so the edges meet and you can pinch the edges to seal. Store covered until ready to fry.
Heat a large sauté pan. Add a drizzle of olive oil. When shimmering, add a few tortillas at a time. When golden brown, turn onto other side. When both sides are cooked, remove to paper towel-lined platter. Continue till all cooked.
Serve warm.
Hummus with Radish and Cucumber
Here's another "shop-well, put-together" dish. If you're in lower Manhattan, Hoomoos Asli (spelled as it is supposed to be pronounced), on Kenmare & Cleveland Place, makes a really good one.
Yield: six portions as part of a grazing cocktail buffet
2 quarts good-quality hummus, preferably from a Middle Eastern deli-grocery or restaurant.
2 English cucumbers, washed and sliced 1⁄2-inch
2 bunches radishes with tops (not cello bag), washed, tops and tails trimmed, and quartered
Day-Ahead Preparation Tips
As always, go through your recipes, printing them out if possible and modifying them for the number of guests.
Write a comprehensive shopping list, including those non-food items that you'll need for your event.
Prep the kitchen ahead, clearing counters, emptying garbage, and having recycle bins ready to receive the detritus from the course of the evening.
Have the munchables ready to set out when your guests arrive, along with glasses, napkins, and plates (if you're planning to use them).
Have the coffee machine and kettle ready to go if you're planning to offer coffee and tea at the end of the night. This can be a useful tip to nudge the stragglers off home.
It will be a long evening so check the ice compartment in the fridge and buy extra ice if necessary. Calculate one pound of ice per person if you're serving mixed drinks—less if you're offering only wine and beer, so long as you have enough room in the fridge to chill them.
Do as much as possible the day or at least the morning ahead. Your job as a host is to be with your guests, not tied up in the kitchen frying tortillas or stuffing and folding crepes—unless, of course, you're also giving demonstration cooking lessons on the same night!
Oscar Night Is a Marathon: A Menu from Ro
February 21, 2012 by Ro Howe
Filed under Food & Drink, Movies
For Oscar Night, Ro Howe, chef-owner of Barraud Caterers, in New York, offers a menu of munchables that will keep you fixed on the stars, not continually ducking out to the kitchen.—Ed.
No matter what you might think, the Oscars is a sporting event. How else would you describe a marathon of people, cars, animals, and monsters dashing, jumping, gyrating, and spinning across the screen, accompanied by frenzied music and interrupted by the usual overdose of ads selling gratuitous amounts of car-stuff, jewelry-stuff, house-stuff, and food-stuff?
The two-minute hiatuses, interposed between swift-screenings and thanks-mumblings for the awards (supposedly so lights can be reprogrammed and scenery swiveled into a new configuration), are really scheduled so the network can sell you the experience they think you need so you buy the things they're selling.
This marathon, like other sporting events, poses a problem. How and what can you eat during the evening? A dining room dinner–sprint is neither feasible nor healthy. Putting a TV on the dining table is as urbane as trailer-camping. So what's left? Greasy chip nibbles in a bag in your lap?
Believe me, I have some far better options! Happily, all of them can be served at room temperature of heated quickly and placed before your guests. Not quite Wimbledon, darling, but then, what is?
Here are some ideas for munchable finger food to savor as you pay attention to the screen—munchables that will not require sitting at a table but will give you a proper meal, as long as you eat them in balanced proportions. Some of these dishes are easy to put together just before the show; others will take you longer to prepare.
Oscar Night Menu
Mushroom frittatas
Middle Eastern lamb "piggies" with fruit mustard
Chipotle-cured shrimp Magdalena muffins
Pâte de Campagne, roasted pear, and pickle with Dijon-buttered toast
Blue cheese, apple, and berry-port tortillas
Hummus with radish and cucumber
Lobster Thermidor in chive crêpes
Gingered carrot tart with cardamom buttermilk-cream-cheese mousse and carrot cake crumble
Next: recipes, and some tips on day-of preparation.
"Broadcast News" Revisited – "Morning Glory" is Forgettable but Fun (VIDEO)
December 9, 2010 by Alexandra MacAaron
Filed under Media, Movies
A smart, ambitious, young network producer tries to negotiate the fine line between news and entertainment, while struggling to balance her career and her love life. Sound familiar? It should.
Watching the romantic comedy Morning Glory, I was reminded over and over of one of my favorite films from the 1980s. Unfortunately, most often my thought was that the new movie lacked its predecessor's sharp writing, genuine ethical dilemmas and multidimensional characters.
It's hard to believe that Broadcast News was released twenty-three years ago. Despite some ill-advised hairdos on Holly Hunter, the movie still holds up remarkably well. The characters are so unique and interesting, the issues so complex, and nearly every line of the dialogue is not just memorable but iconic.
While Morning Glory is a better-than-average bit of entertainment, it just doesn't fill those very big shoes.
In Morning Glory, the adorable Rachel McAdams plays Becky Fuller, a driven young producer at regional Good Morning, New Jersey. Right away, we know she takes her work oh so seriously — she's up at 4 a.m., has earned the slavish loyalty of her Garden State colleagues, and is a complete and utter loser where her love life is concerned. Becky dreams of someday landing a plum position with The Today Show. When she is laid off through no fault of her own, she defies her mother's advice to give up her dream and instead lands a big city job with the self-defined "worst morning show ever," Daybreak. Becky's mission? Revive the dwindling ratings and save the show.
Can she do it? Of course. Because that's the kind of movie this is.
McAdams throws herself into the part of Becky, and the audience roots for her as she struggles to save the show. Despite the trappings of a typical romantic comedy, we never doubt Becky's intelligence, talent and instinct. At her first production meeting, she is bombarded with story ideas, questions, and complaints from her disgruntled, dysfunctional cast and crew. She not only takes control but fires the arrogant foot-fetishist co-host, earning a round of applause from her appreciative new team.
However, this act of bravado puts Becky in a difficult situation. She has to find a new co-host, stat. Fortunately, the network has a former evening news anchor under contract and available. Unfortunately, said anchor would rather be anywhere else, doing anything else than co-hosting a "fluffy" morning show. And that pretty much sets up the conflict for the next 90 minutes.
Rachel McAdams is joined by Harrison Ford as legendary newscaster Mike Pomeroy. He is in rare form, with a cragged face and more bristle than a porcupine. With pretty much every line he growls, he insults Becky, the network, the show, the audience and most of all his co-host Colleen Peck, a former Miss Arizona played hilariously by Diane Keaton.
Ford and Keaton share some of the movie's funnier moments, such as their mutual refusal to make the first move when McAdams' Becky tries to introduce them, or their over-the-top on-air sniping. Ironically, their bickering begins to draw an audience and Becky soon adds attention-grabbing stunts, such as strapping the hapless meteorologist into the world's fastest roller coaster, and booking sumo wrestlers and exotic animals.
The ratings improve, much to the surprise of the surly network executive (an underutilized Jeff Goldblum), but not a surprise to the audience. Colleen and Mike learn to work together. Serious news and talk show entertainment can co-exist after all. Becky mends her workaholic ways and lands handsome magazine-show producer Patrick Wilson. The Today Show comes a-courtin' but Becky realizes that her heart is at Daybreak. And they all, we presume, live happily ever after.
Morning Glory is formulaic fun. The cast is quite good, with McAdams proving once again that she's leading lady material. Young, pretty and sometimes a bit of a ditz, she nevertheless makes you believe in Becky's genuine abilities. She's supported by fine character portrayals by Ford, Keaton, Goldblum, Wilson, and smaller though solid performances by Ty Burrell, Matt Malloy, and John Pankow. Directed by Roger Michell—best known for another offbeat romantic comedy, Notting Hill—the movie was written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who scripted The Devil Wears Prada.
If you want to enjoy a couple of hours, by all means go see Morning Glory. But if you'd rather treat yourself to one of Hollywood's most intelligent modern classics, rent Broadcast News.
Like Becky Fuller, Holly Hunter's Jane Craig is a driven young producer. (Although like Mike Pomeroy, she worships at the altar of serious reporting.) She, too, struggles with ratings and content and network expectations. And she also wonders if she can ever satisfy her work ambition and her desire for a romantic life.
But Jane's character needs more than gumption to succeed. She is torn apart by questions of ethics, both on the job and off. She falls in love with a handsome empty suit (William Hurt) even though she has no respect for him. Meanwhile, she respects a brilliant coworker (Albert Brooks) but is aghast when she learns that he loves her.
Jane doesn't get a happy ending like Becky's. She can't "have it all," as Brooks' character Aaron points out after she rejects him.
Six years from now, I'll be back here with my wife and two kids. And I'll see you, and one of my kids will say, "Daddy, who is that?" And I'll say it's not nice to point at single fat women.
I realize that Morning Glory and Broadcast News, despite their shared settings and themes, represent two different genres of film. Morning Glory squarely lands in the romantic comedy category: cute, scrappy heroine takes on a seemingly impossible task, mayhem ensues, she saves the day and gets the guy. Broadcast News, while dealing with romance is more of a "dramedy:" sometimes bitingly funny, but just as often piercing and poignant.
But Morning Glory would have benefited from a bit more depth of character, and a resolution that wasn't quite so predictable and pat. What saves the day for Becky and company? A frittata. Nothing can save the day for Jane. Her issues are too complicated; the questions she raises are unanswerable.
It's interesting to think about how each movie examines the value of hard-edged reporting at a time when audiences are looking for escapist entertainment. In Broadcast News, we agree with Jane's standards about the integrity of the news and applaud her when she walks away from a romance with someone who doesn't live up to them. In Morning Glory, on the other hand, we watch Becky nip away at Mike's rigid definition of news and succeed only when he finally surrenders to the public's appetite for early morning kibitzing and cooking.
Too often, television news audiences want sound bites and easy answers. We don't want to turn off the TV and have to think about what we've heard. This was somewhat true in the '80s and much more so today. (I can only imagine what Jane would say about so-called "reality TV.")
If Morning Glory is any indication, movie audiences seemed to have evolved (or devolved, perhaps) in much the same way. We want a nice, neat package, where all conflict is resolved in 90 minutes. And we really want a happy ending for our heroine. But personally, I'd rather leave the theater thinking as well as smiling.
I saw Broadcast News twenty-three years ago and I remember every scene, every major character, and dozens of lines from the script word-for-word. I saw Morning Glory last week. It was a very enjoyable way to spend the afternoon. But in the long run, I'm afraid it will prove to be forgettable fun.
Oscars 2010: The Year of the Over-40 Woman?
February 16, 2010 by Susan Delson
Filed under Movies
The nominations have been announced and analyzed, and the awards-night hysteria has yet to shift into overdrive. Which makes this a great moment to salute this year's over-40 female Oscar contenders.
By now, everyone not living on Neptune knows that there's a woman—a beautiful, 58-year-old woman—in the race for Best Director. And, in a delicious burst of irony, that she's squaring off against her ex. It's a plot line straight out of the classic Oscar playbook—critically acclaimed movie underdog going toe to toe against the high-grossing, critically acclaimed, and in this case technologically groundbreaking front-runner, with the marital back-story amping the frisson. On Oscar night, Kathryn Bigelow might just end up brushing past James Cameron on her way to collect a Best Director award for The Hurt Locker, leaving him to console himself with Avatar's stratospheric global box-office take.
It could happen. And there are plenty of people—including a number of Academy voters—who hope it does. But let's get real. In the history of the Oscars, Bigelow is only the fourth woman to earn a Best Director nomination, and her predecessors all went home empty-handed. (The last was Sofia Coppola in 2004 for Lost in Translation.) Still, this year's doubling of the Best Picture pool from five nominees to ten yielded two films directed by women, both in their 50s—Bigelow's Hurt Locker and An Education by Danish director Lone Scherfig—an Academy Awards first.
It's not a bad Oscar year for acting, either. Three of the five Best Actress nominees—Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, and Meryl Streep—are 45 or older, and one of them could easily win. The same goes for Mo'Nique, who's widely thought to have a lock on Best Supporting Actress.
It's perversely gratifying to realize that there are films by over-40 women that didn't even make it into the nominations, or not very far: gratifying that it now takes more than one hand to count women directors in the film industry, and perverse because, well, why weren't their films more widely nominated? To name a few: Jane Campion's Bright Star (nothing more than Best Costume? C'mon)… Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia (which may yet win one for Meryl)…Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel (also shut out beyond Best Costume)…and Nancy Meyers's It's Complicated. And then there's Betty Thomas's Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel—debatable as Oscar material, perhaps, but it did pull in more than $400 million worldwide, almost twice the figure for the original Alvin movie.
So yes, it was a good year for women over 40 in the film industry. And come Oscar night we'll be rooting for our favorites along with the rest of the world. But the real celebration will come when a great year for older women in Hollywood isn't the exception, but simply business as usual.
"It's Complicated" Is Simple After All
December 28, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
Filed under Movies, Sex & Relationships, Sex & Sexuality
I have been waiting to see Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin, with all their middle-age glory, in a state of postcoital bliss for months now.
I was not disappointed to see the eternal adolescent Jake, played by Alec Baldwin, seducing his former wife, Jane, played by Meryl Streep.
Days before the unexpected sexual encounter, Jane has had a girl talk with her friends and has been admonished to find a sexual partner before the "vagina just closes up and has to be opened with a vaginoplasty." Her friends are concerned that she seems to have lost her libido.
Loss of libido has been blamed on menopause by almost every woman I have met who has lost her interest in sex in midlife. Many of these women have either had lifelong low sexual interest or have just given up on romance and sex, and either way are no longer willing to put creative energy into life in the bedroom. Of course there are other important issues that have an impact on change in libido. These include unresolved issues in the relationship, the physical changes that affect sexual function in both men and women that just don't get addressed, emotional and physical illness of either partner, or lack of a partner.
Streep's character, Jane, was left by Jake 10 years before the film starts, and after the life-draining 40s had taken its toll on their marriage. This was the decade where Jane had to parent adolescent children, manage a home, and continue to pursue her professional and creative passion. This left little time for Jake, a predictable male character with charming narcissism, who always needed to be number one and taken care of. It's clear that Jake has never had the capacity to be present, or to contribute to the kind of family life that was important to Jane.
In the film, directed by Nancy Meyers, it is by "moving way out of my comfort zone" — with a brief affair with her former husband, who is now unhappily married to someone in the wrong stage of life — that Jane learns all she needed to know, in order to move with certainty into the glorious person she has become. She learns that she loves hot sex, and that she can be not just the reliable one, but the fun girl she was in her 20s, before demands of life grabbed her by the throat and choked the joy out of her.
In a wonderful denouement, Jane recognizes that Jake was a great man for a certain period of her life. She remembers why she loved him for that time, and finds herself now able to accept him with all his flaws while acknowledging her own part in their failed marriage. But most of all, she understands that for a woman in her life stage, he is just the wrong kind of man. Great sex is still possible, but great sex alone won't be enough.
The hot sex with her ex-husband is the fuel for Jane's separation from victimhood, for the recognition that she has grown into a person who no longer wants the kind of life he needed and needs, and for the reaffirmation of her still vibrant libido.
This change in Jane allows her to welcome the interest of a new man in her life: an architect who has translated her personal vision — an addition to her home that she has dreamed about for a decade — into more than she thought possible.
By the time we meet her, Jane has been in therapy for almost a decade to deal with issues of abandonment and anger. If psychotherapy were as nuanced and entertaining as this movie, it would not take a decade for the work to be done in the treatment of life's ordinary transitions and pain: It isn't all that complicated, after all.
An Education is a Masterpiece
October 14, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change
Filed under Movies
Every once in a while, there comes along an example of creativity that makes you wish you'd never praised one other thing, since so many of the words you might choose in exaltation have been made less by being applied elsewhere. This is such a moment.
An Education is such a film.
There is nothing new here. A naïve high school girl dreams of a sophisticated life outside of the stifling realities that have been her world. She's 16, smart enough to dream of Oxford and pretty enough to catch the eye of a grifter. She believes that smoke and mirrors are sophistication and reality. There's a montage of Paris with dancing and wine and romantic music — even the obligatory nuns in habits — to underline the seduction of the Russian roulette that lovers have been playing since the Bible became a bestseller: sex at the possible price of your soul.
Talk of nuns though is enough to remind us that God is in the details. I want to say nothing more about this movie than if you have ever reacted to a painting because it was so perfectly composed as to make you feel the artist knew precisely why we were given eyes, you will understand why you must see this.
The actors with the most screen time (Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard) could retire with fully realized careers after doing this one film, but so-called supporting roles — the extraordinary portrayal by Alfred Molina and the tiny role that is Emma Thompson's — would be reason enough not to miss it.
It is so simple a story, really, and so complicated a reality—one every single one of us knows. I guarantee you will think about your own education no matter where it took place and even expect you might weep over the gift of having lived long enough to see the tragedy of the ordinary change into the possibilities that have become the everyday. Yes, this adaptation of the virtuoso Nick Hornby's novel (the screenplay is Hornby's also) runs deep, but the surface of it is enough to remind you of being a girl even if you were nothing like this one and, even better, to offer you reasons to be grateful that you are a woman here and now.
Julie or Julia. Which One Really Cooks?
August 23, 2009 by Laura Baudo Sillerman
Filed under Marriage & Life Partners, Movies, Sex & Sexuality
In Nora Ephron's film Julie and Julia, there are many treats for the senses: the beautifully presented meals, the baguettes and cheeses, the sights of Paris, the glimpses of the New York City skyline, lovely music, and the overarching presence of butter.
This is not a review (because that can be summed up in two words: must see). This is a note about what happens when a director in her sixties writes and directs a movie, about a young woman questing after the life once led by an older woman.
The older woman emerges in three dimensions. And when that older woman is played by Meryl Streep, she gains a depth beyond the usual scope of that dimension on film. What is most important for us to realize though is that time and again, it is Julia Child—too-tall, awkward, boisterous and unbridled, a virgin until age 40—who emerges as the sensualist.
The younger woman is so trapped in her insecurities, her quest for notice, her need to revise her history of unfinished dreams that she cannot give in to her husband's kisses, let the soufflé deflate as temperatures rise or even see past the failed dinner to the failing marriage. She can't see nor feel much beyond her own skin and taste buds, while Julia Child sees and feels every single sight and taste around her. (To be fair, not much more was expected of Julia than to live her passion, while Julie must labor in a cubicle that echoes with the grief of September 11, 2001.)
This movie feels true. In the end it is a movie about tenderness—not the tenderness of the boeuf, though that is there, but the tenderness of a marriage between a devoted husband and his delicious wife who simply loves to eat. We believe the younger couple might get there too, but what is so interesting is that the older couple started there and never lost it. As David Denby observed in the New Yorker, "The miracle of the Childs' marriage was that food was never the main course. It was more like a perpetual appetizer."
This film is a triumph of the very real possibility that an older woman can be sexier than a young one. That mature love can steam the windows more often than one barely past the honeymoon. That being maturely in the moment is tastier than wondering when your time will come.
May all of you who haven't partaken of this delicacy get there soon. Bon Appetit.


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ROUND ROCK, Texas – Chase Lambin pounded out three hits including a two run home run as the Zephyrs came from behind to defeat the Round Rock Express 5-3 in front of 6,976 fans at The Dell Diamond. Tom Koehler pitched six innings, allowed two runs and struck-out a season high ten batters earning his first win. Round Rock scored runs in the first and second inning to grab a 2-0 lead. Kevin Mattison hustled out an infield hit to score Lambin in the third inning. Lambin drilled a two run home run in the seventh to give New Orleans a 3-2 lead. The Z's added a pair of runs in the eighth inning off reliever Sean Green. Sandy Rosario earned his league leading ninth save pitching the ninth inning. Zach Jackson suffered the defeat for the Express to fall to 1-3 for the year. The Zephyrs are a half game back of first place Oklahoma City.
Game Notes – Bryan Petersen and Dan Jennings were promoted from the Zephyrs on Sunday and joined the Miami Marlins. Chris Coghlan and Mike Dunn were optioned to the Z's and expected to be in uniform on Tuesday. The Zephyrs finish April with 15 wins, second most in franchise history. (16 in 2008) The Zephyrs and The Blood Center have teamed up this week to offer free tickets and a free Zephyrs Koozies for donating blood. The promotion will be for one week only at the Metairie and LaPlace locations.
Coming Up: The Zephyrs and Round Rock Express will play the second game of a four game set at 7:05PM. New Orleans will start RH J.D. Martin (2-1, 6.30) against Express LH Michael Kirkman (0-1, 11.45). The Zephyrs opened a eight game road trip on Monday. RADIO: WMTI 106.1 "The Ticket"


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Poland: Podcasting and genealogy
Since 1995, DearMYRTLE has provided family historians with practical information. She's now doing podcasts with her Family History Hour.
Author/editor Cecil Wendt Jensen was her guest on August 14. Jensen dispelled myths that Polish records were destroyed during the wars and that the language barrier makes research difficult.
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In 1998, Jensen switched to professional genealogy in 1998 after 30 years as an educator. She is a Certified Genealogist, runs the Michigan Polonia website, and is completing a "how to" Polish genealogy book, Sto Lat, highlighting techniques she used to find her grandparents' ancestral villages in Prussia, Russian Poland and Galicia.
I also met up with her at two recent genealogical conferences.
You can listen or download the podcast here.
DearMYRTLE also mentions an assortment of specialized Polish resource links:
Polish Genealogical Society of America.
Books by William F. Hoffman: Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, Second Edition (some 30,000 names), and anew book, with George W. Helon, First Names of the Polish Commonwealth: Origins and Meanings includes a 300-page list of names including those of Hebrew, Yiddish, Czech, German, Greek, Hungarian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian, and a list of Cyrillic forms of common Jewish names).
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A couple of weeks ago, Suns managing partner Robert Sarver gave Lon Babby a mulligan, and the Suns president of basketball operations had better make it count.
When Babby, a longtime player agent, was hired three years ago he admitted that he needed to hire a basketball genius to serve as his general manager.
Somehow, that led him to Lance Blanks, who never will be mistaken again for a basketball savant.
Babby didn't just dribble it off the tee. He whiffed entirely.
Worse than the club's basketball decisions during Blanks' tenure, such as pushing to trade point guard Goran Dragic to Houston, targeting Michael Beasley in free agency to be the club's "go-to" player or drafting point guard Kendall Marshall and then re-signing Dragic in free agency, was the disconnect that Blanks seemed to have with the Suns.
One would have thought Blanks was taking over the old Los Angeles Clippers rather than a club once regarded as a model among NBA franchises and a team that had played in the Western Conference finals as recently as 2010.
The Suns "culture" didn't need to be changed. That has been pretty darned good for more than four decades.
The players did.
And Blanks failed to put together a team that remotely had a chance to reach the playoffs this season. Alvin Gentry, a lame-duck head coach in the last year of his contract, paid the price first. Now Blanks has, too.
Only Babby, who was granted a two-year extension by Sarver, got a reprieve.
That's why there were two promising things that came from Babby's meeting with the media Tuesday to discuss his search for a new general manager and the state of the club.
First, Babby said he shares responsibility for the position in which the Suns find themselves — the draft lottery for a third consecutive summer after the second-worst season in franchise history.
"I don't for one minute absolve myself from responsibility for the decisions that we've made," Babby said. "I'm the president of basketball operations. It's my responsiblity, ultimately. So I don't want anybody to misconceive what's happend here as me pointing a finger or scapegoating (Blanks). That's not really what this is about."
Second, Babby conceded that the club has lost its way when it comes to connecting with the club's past.
"I want to make sure we're respectful of the past," he said. "I want to make sure we acknowledge the tremendous success this organization has had, be respectful of the people who have played here, people who have coached here and most importantly the people who have worked here."
It would have been nice had Babby thought about that before he or Blanks — or both — passed over Dan Majerle to name Lindsey Hunter the interim coach. And that shouldn't be construed as a blast of Hunter. Majerle is a beloved figure in this city. More important, he had paid his dues. Hunter simply did not have a resume to match Majerle's.
And it didn't take long for Jerry Colangelo, in his role as a consultant to Grand Canyon University, to snap up Majerle to coach the Antelopes as they transition to Division 1.
Babby said he doesn't "necessarily" believe that the Suns' next general manager must have prior experience as an NBA GM, which Blanks lacked when he was hired. And he said his preference is to hire the GM before making a decision on Hunter, who remains a candidate for the coaching job.
But the draft is looming and the Suns will have two first-round picks and a lot of cap space. If the ping-pong balls fall right, they could even wind up with the top pick overall.
So clearly Babby understands that he's getting just one more swing at this. If he doesn't get this hire right, he'll join former Coyotes General Manager Michael Barnett and former Diamondbacks CEO Jeff Moorad on a short but ignominious list of former player agents who turned out to be lousy in team management — all in Phoenix.
"It's obviously a critically, critically important summer for us and a critical decision," Babby said.
He's got that right. Here's hoping he gets the right guy this time, too.
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What are some home remedies to cure a sinus infection?
Just wanted some cures for this horrible sinus infection.
Drink lots of non-caffeinated fluids. Also, close your bathroom door and run the shower on hot for going on for 20 mins and breathe in the steam. This will hydrate your sinus cavity.
I also like consumption hot & sour soup and wasabi peas. That clears up my nasal passages.
Hope you touch better soon!
Lavender, teatree and olbas oil within hot water---inhale with a towel over your go before!
extra Vit c and zinc
Rest - fresh air -
saline solution nasal spry
Oraginol juice.it has be heavily advertised contained by the latest
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resembling a antibiotic with a boil factor and kills germs virus and parisites...find it at natural robustness food store. few drops in chalice of water.
Garlic is a untaught antibiotic.
It works pretty good on sinus infections!
Hope you're better soon!
Great answers above - I really can't advance on them except to say: Keep your immune system surrounded by good shape by consumption plenty of FRESH, RAW FRUITS and VEGETABLES, as well as lots and lots of FRESH ORGANIC RAW GARLIC.
Hi Manda!
Using a innate nasal spray made with saline and baking soda has help me a lot. The recipe for this home remedy is 1/2 cup hose, 1/4 teaspoon salt and a pinch of baking soda. Make sure that you use really verbs bottled water or filter water, otherwise you could be paid things worse. Shake the mixture well and put into a verbs nasal spray bottle. This is also an excellent home remedy for allergies. You can use this nasal spray several times a day; it is surprisingly significant as well as cheap!
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In op-ed, DISD Superintendent Mike Miles talks transformation, says 'change is tough'
Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles has penned an op-ed in tomorrow's Dallas Morning News in which he discusses the need for transformation and urgency in the district. He says that improving Dallas ISD requires "time and the courage of an entire community."
Across the nation, the attempts to transform large school districts have been many, the successes few. Recent strikes in Chicago, stalled reform efforts in Philadelphia and Kansas City, and the churn of high-profile superintendents over the past several years underscore the challenges. Meanwhile, the substantial minority achievement gap persists, and the public appropriately clamors for higher standards and greater accountability. Change is tough.
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Anyone think this is in the cards with another good 1/4?
Sentiment: Buy
I do!! Since the last earnings this has gone from around $14.00 to $23.00. When the next earnings comes out at the end of this month and IF its a good one I think we could see over $30+


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The idea behind having a DSLR is that it has so much potential. Recently, so many people drop a lot of money on their cameras in the hope that having a better camera will improve their photography. Unfortunately, having a good camera and not using it to its full potential is no different from just owning any old camera.
That being said, no camera is really bad. You can always do something to make your photos look better. I'm starting this photog101 section on my blog in the hope that I might be able to give some advice or suggestions to teach people how to get better images – regardless of the camera they are using. Also, if there any questions or things you would like to know more about, please write something in the comments or drop me an email. I'll try to keep my explanations simple, and easy to understand.
The first topic I've chosen to write about is the P(rogramme) Mode on your camera.
Now, regardless of which brand of camera you are using, it should have something called, or similar to, P Mode. This mode is great to begin with because it is essentially a fully automatic mode without all of the crap.
What do I mean by this?
A lot of cameras come with "auto" modes which have green boxes, pictures of flowers, people running, standing in front of mountains, playing sports, having se… uh… what?!
…but, we're not interested in those set modes – we are trying to move away from that and get in control of our cameras. "But P Mode is an automatic mode too!" I hear you say. Yes, that is true, however, it still allows you to control EXPOSURE, the ISO and whether you use flash or not. This mode can really be used to start taking control of your camera. (I will deal with the asterisked terms again at some point)
You should find on your camera, some kind of scale that looks like this:
Now, once you're in P Mode, there should be a way in which you can adjust this scale and set it to a positive or negative value. This is called Exposure Compensation. Some cameras have values that go up to +3 or down to -3, it entirely depends on the camera.
Anyway, I went out the other day and shot this same scene cycling through the values -2, -1, 0, +1 and +2. Here are the shots. Take a look through them slowly and see if you can spot any differences.
I'm not sure what you noticed, and you might disagree with me, but these are some of the things I notice:
- Different colours look better in different versions. For example, the greens of the ferns in the background really pop in the photo taken at +1. The blue on the windscreen of the white van also looks much better in both 0 and +1; 0 making it a darker blue, +1 making it a lighter blue.
- The white van doesn't start looking like a really white van until at least +1
- -2 is so underexposed that we cannot see any detail around the wheel arch of the white van, however, the black car looks really black.
- The grey of the bumper doesn't look truly grey until +1 or +2.
- In -2, the houses on the other side of the river are clear to see, by the time we have got to +2, the photo has become overexposed. What once were houses along the bank have now become white blown highlights.
So, from what I've made note of above, it seems clear that we can massively alter colour tones, shades and levels of detail in a photo by using P Mode and adjusting the exposure compensation alone. Our camera cannot make these kinds of decisions for us. So we, as the photographers, must decide for them.
The problem we have, is that our brains and eyes are very complex biological mechanisms. Our cameras, whilst being brilliant pieces of technology, do not function in the same way that we do. When we walk into a dark room, our eyes and brain adjust automatically so that we can see properly. We can deal with amazingly complex lighting conditions while our cameras really cannot. We can also cope with a much wider range of light from dark to bright – this is often referred to as Dynamic Range but just think of it as the distance between pure black and pure white. Our (digital) cameras can only deal with a small range – this is why it is so important to choose the right exposure to reflect a scene.
Ok, here is a little bit of visual help:
Imagine that this man is the photographer, he is standing beneath a magic waterfall which cascades down. The waterfall is black at one end and white at the other. The man has a bucket, but it is only very small and can only catch a certain range of the water. The man can see the whole range, but he must choose at what point of the waterfall he stands in order to catch the different shades of water. So, he either moves to the right (+1, +2) and gets the whiter, brighter water, or he moves to the left (-1, -2) to get the blacker, darker water. Or he can stay in the middle (0). The choice is entirely his…
Cameras make complicated calculations in order to select exposure, and they do it very quickly and well. However, at times, your camera won't know exactly what it is you want to do. For example, in the scene above with the white van and the black car: is the area by the wheel arch on the white van important? Or is it the houses on the other side of the river? Should the greens be a nice colour, or does it not matter? How do you want your blue to reproduce, dark blue, or light blue? The camera doesn't know any of these things – only you do, and that's what makes you a photographer.
Before you take a photo, you should be looking at the light with your eyes and asking yourself these questions:
- Is the light uniform?
- Is there bright sun or dark shade involved?
- Where is the light coming from?
- What is the subject or most important part of the photo?
- Can I get the perfect exposure for the subject of my photo that will give it the perfect colour tone and detail that it requires.
For today, I'll leave it at this. But I'll be sure to come back and explain Metering Modes in greater depth at some point. Next, The Holy Trinity.
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Keeping Up With the Kontinuity Errors: The Kardashians Ever-So-Briefly Cease Filming for Lamar
On Sunday night's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, our A-Plot was Kris Jenner's birthday party planning; the B-Plot was Kim's birthday party; and our C-Plot was Lamar Odom's overdose. The episode was somber but fun, and of course featured some substantial inconsistencies. #LEGGO


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Web posted Sunday, June 28, 1998 8:43 a.m. CT
Woman knew risks of tobacco use
I am sorry for the loss of the Harper family?s mother and grandmother (June 21 letter, ??Killer claims mother??). I too have lost a grandparent to smoking.
That said, have the Harpers ever considered that their relative had free choice? She was intelligent enough to raise a family, vote, drive a car. Was she unable to read and understand the effects of her choice?
I have relatives who smoke. It seems the height of irresponsibility to blame tobacco or anyone else for a choice they made.
There is a great deal of help available to anyone who chooses to quit. Making it illegal is to give control to strangers in Washington. They don?t care about you! They do care about how they will foolishly spend your money; they do care about what other rights they can steal from you in the name of protecting you from yourself.
People should not let personal tragedy blind them to reality. We all make choices every day ? we all need to be willing to accept the consequences of those choices.
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Do Contrarian Strategies Work Within Industries?
David N. Dreman
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Eric A. Lufkin
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Journal of Investing Abstracts, Fall 1997
Here is a different tack on the study of contrarian stocks. It attempts to cut across the traditional line of value and growth measures by analyzing the performance of favored and less attractive stocks within an industry (a relative rather than absolute value approach). The findings indicate that there is a regular mispricing of growth and value stocks within industries themselves. There is also evidence that relative value accounts for some variation in returns that absolute value does not. The results shown are consistent with mispricing, which is difficult to reconcile with risk-based explanations of contrarian effects.
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CHICAGO -- Austin Jackson has been swinging the bat better the past couple days. But it wasn't until Wednesday that he put an end to a lengthy streak of games with at least one strikeout.
Jackson went 2-for-5 with a home run Wednesday night and went a full game without a strikeout for the first time since June 27. Jackson struck out at least one time in 22 consecutive games prior to Wednesday and struck out a total of 33 times during that streak.
Jackson is 4-for-15 so far in the series with the White Sox but hit the ball hard in the second game of the series and was robbed of a couple hits in that game.
"We've just got to get him going," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I think his concentration is really good right now. I think he's picked it up for us. That's important, because he's a catalyst for us."
Jackson hit .193 (17-for-88) during his 22-game strikeout streak. He is hitting just .220 with a .615 OPS in July after batting .339 with a .954 OPS in June.
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While there is a fairly big selection of metro high school basketball games on tap for Friday, most are out of town.
Only three games are scheduled to be played in Amarillo, but one game on the road pits a pair of unbeaten and No. 1-ranked teams.
Canyon's girls (15-0), ranked No. 1 in Class 4A by the Texas Girls Coaches Association, will travel to Lubbock Cooper (14-0), which is No. 1 in Class 3A.
Closer to home, the Palo Duro girls (10-4), ranked No. 11 in the state in 4A by the TGCA, host Frenship at 6:30 p.m. in a nondistrict game.
River Road will host the other two metro games in a doubleheader with West Texas High, with the girls game starting at 5 p.m. and the boys playing at 6:30 p.m.
District 2-5A play continues for Tascosa in a doubleheader against Midland High at Midland College's Chaparral Center. Tascosa's girls (4-11, 1-3 in district) will play at 6 p.m., while the boys (6-6, 1-1) will follow at 7:30 p.m.
Three metro schools are in doubleheaders on the road: Randall at Lubbock Monterey, Bushland at Borger, and Caprock at Plainview.
District 2-5A
Team District Overall
Lubbock Coronado 2-0 12-2
San Angelo Central 2-0 8-4
Abilene High 1-0 8-3
Midland High 1-0 4-11
Odessa Permian 1-1 9-4
Tascosa 1-1 6-6
Midland Lee 0-2 7-7
Odessa High 0-2 7-7
Abilene Cooper 0-2 5-9
Friday's games: Tascosa at Midland High, Abilene High at Coronado, Lee at Odessa High, Cooper at Central. All games start at 7:30 p.m.
Team District Overall
Lubbock Coronado 4-0 16-1
Abilene High 3-0 11-3
Midland High 2-1 10-7
Midland Lee 2-1 4-7
Odessa Permian 2-2 9-6
San Angelo Central 2-2 3-9
Tascosa 1-3 4-11
Abilene Cooper 0-3 1-16
Odessa High 0-4 3-16
Friday's games: Tascosa at Midland High, Abilene High at Coronado, Lee at Odessa High, Cooper at Central. All games start at 6 p.m.
Other metro games
West Texas High at River Road, 5 p.m.
Amarillo High at Hereford, 6 p.m.
Randall at Lubbock Monterey, 6 p.m.
Frenship at Palo Duro, 6:30 p.m.
Canyon at Lubbock Cooper, 6:30 p.m.
Bushland at Borger, 6:30 p.m.
Caprock at Plainview, 7:30 p.m.
Palo Duro at Wichita Falls Rider, 6 p.m.
Canyon vs. Dallas Madison, at Lubbock Estacado, 6 p.m.
West Texas High at River Road, 6:30 p.m.
Amarillo High at Colleyville Heritage, 7:30 p.m.
Caprock at Plainview. 7:30 p.m.
Randall at Lubbock Monterey, 7:30 p.m.
Bushland at Borger, 8 p.m.
Highland Park at Tulia, 8 p.m.


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Nope- it's cool. Just sharing. I cannot be bothered to go by a number, count, weigh (food) etc. Takes all the fun out of eating good food. At my core I am still a foodie.
me, too![QUOTE]
Yep, on the LCF thread I was reading they were pointing out the "outdated" information in the book and that was one of the things they pointed out. They essentially said that their experience was that not eating to ud potential tended to cause a stall. They lean more toward eating more rather than eating less.[/QUOTE]
Ah, interesting!
[QUOTE]For me, in my heart, I agree with eating to satisfaction. However if I was any good at that I don't think I would be 100 pounds overweight right now! [/QUOTE]
Yeah, I have read various bits about hunger signals being messed up if you have a lot of fat cells--whether they are empty or not. Really makes sense.
[QUOTE]219.2 this morning! That's 6.2 lbs since I started on Thursday! I haven't seen the 2teens in 3 years! I feel like my goal of 215 this month might actually be reachable![/QUOTE]
Yay, Veronica!


text: Austrian authorities searched Wednesday for a woman who failed to appear for the start of her trial on charges of stalking and threatening to kill "CSI: Miami" star David Caruso. A judge signed a warrant for the woman's arrest after she failed to show up for Wednesday's trial in the city of Innsbruck, Austrian media reported. The Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper said her lawyer had reassured authorities last week that she intended to be in court.


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Lawrence A. "Lorney" Neyrinck, 80, of Erie, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, at Genesis Medical Center, Illini Campus, Silvis. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14 at St. Ambrose Catholic Church, Erie. A visitation will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13 at Gibson-Bode Funeral Home, Erie. The family welcomes and encourages Street Rods and Hot Rods at the visitation and funeral. Burial will be in the Erie Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Diabetes Foundation.
Lorney was born on Oct. 27, 1932, in Moline, the son of Andre and Mabel (Schurvinski) Neyrinck. He graduated from United Township High School in 1951. He married Muriel Jacobs on Nov. 21, 1953, at St. John's Church, Rapids City. He served in the Navy Reserves and was a member of the Seabees Batallion. Lorney worked as a brick mason for 65 years and, during that time, worked at John Deere Harvester Works for 30 years. He was member of the Brick Layers Local No. 6 and the UAW Local No. 865 in East Moline. He was a member of St. Ambrose Church in Erie and the Quad Cities Vintage Rods Car Club. He enjoyed traveling with his wife, Muriel, especially to California.
Survivors include his children and spouses, Toni Drilling of Tampico, Dawn (Arlyn) Meier of Prophetstown, Cindy (Dick) DeSmith of Atkinson, Marty (Cindy) Neyrinck of Dixon and Andy (Debbie) Neyrinck of Bettendorf, Iowa; grandchildren, Tammy Hannah, Tiffany Erhardt, Tobi Drilling, Shaun Meier, Eric Meier, Angie Smalley, Cory DeSmith, Josh DeSmith, Missy Reyes, Kelsey Neyrinck, Katie Neyrinck and Brady Neyrinck; 16 great grandchildren; a brother, Richard (Lovenia) Neyrinck of Port Byron and a sister, Sharan (Robert) Norin of Apache Junction, Ariz. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Muriel in September 2011; and son-in-law, Terry Drilling.
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Mike got gunned last night by his boyfriend, damn good thing the safety was on.
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means getting cussed, taken the piss out of etc.
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Going extremly fast. Also means Floor it.
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Sony i1 Honami cameraphone leaks in a blurry pic, awesome spec sheet in tow
0. phoneArena 17 Jun 2013, 03:27 posted on
Sony's i1 Honami take on the likes of Nokia EOS and Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom cameraphone is expected to make a cameo in the fall, with Cybershot-quality camera and Full HD display onboard...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Katrina (Posts: 84; Member since: 17 Aug 2012)
3. Jason2k13 (Posts: 1214; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)
how about wait for the official announcement to come so we actually know the real specs and design.
S4 and HTC ONE were a big success just to let you know, and i see alot of people lining up for the Note 3.
25. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
if all those specs is true Note 3 will lose the battle, because Honami is not just big devices with stylus and powerful chipset.
28. james004 (Posts: 486; Member since: 15 May 2013)
GOD! just look at their "Source"
these specs are a dream wish list of blogger.
no creditable source has even confirmed this phone yet.
i hope it exists and hope these specs are true.
but this news is B.S! this is all fake!
31. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
relax it just rumours i agree it can be fake
but the specs is not imposible
Sony is capable to do that and they also need to make it happen if they want to survive
50. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3757; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
All those hardware and the battery seems to miss match.....
51. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3757; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
...unless battery management has been seriously improved.
52. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
S800 with HPm + new improved STAMINA mode maybe will solve the problem
53. Jason2k13 (Posts: 1214; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)
stamina mode pretty much didn't do anything for the XZ.
54. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
well i can't say anything about that because i'm not XP Z user but S800 with HPm + "new improved" STAMINA mode maybe will solve the problem
79. heyhi (Posts: 131; Member since: 19 Feb 2013)
its not impossible but the phone would be too expensive.
Samsung, Apple, Sony and HTC can make any dream phone as long as they have big profits.
81. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
I know that the rumours said the price is between $800-$1000, but hey iphone also expensive but apple still have big profit.
82. heyhi (Posts: 131; Member since: 19 Feb 2013)
yes but Apple has more fanboys than Sony around the world, do you know what i mean? their market share dropped but it is solid.
Its more popular, even though we know which one is nicer.
Eveybody that I know who has an iphone insists that is better than a flagship adnroid phone. Then i ask them: have you at least tried an android phone? Of course the answer is no.
35. EXkurogane (Posts: 863; Member since: 07 Mar 2013)
This is interesting indeed.
But i dont think there will be interchangeable lenses, probably 2 separate versions (one is cheaper).
41. Potato. (banned) (Posts: 607; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
RIP GS4, RIP HTC ONE, RIP XPERIA Z, RIP BB Z10, RIP G PRO, RIP S4 ZOOM, RIP i5s/i6 -_-
Not sure about Lumia EOS.
44. Potato. (banned) (Posts: 607; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
Note 3 vs Sony Honami vs HTC One Phablet
48. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
you forget Sony Togari
80. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Also Nokia & LG's Phablets.
46. TechBizJP08 (Posts: 495; Member since: 25 Mar 2013)
Oh man, keep your pants up. You may get a heart attack. Relax, all speculations haven't been a hundred percent true when the real deal comes out. Lets just wait until the unavailing and keep that shalt shaker next to you.. :) cheers
2. tech2 (Posts: 3455; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
Okay, can someone please pick up my dropped jaw down from the floor please !!!
4. bugsbunny00 (Posts: 2054; Member since: 07 Jun 2013)
wowwy!,interchangeable lenses.come to pappy honami.
18. thunderising (Posts: 232; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
not happening buddy
84. MauriceGerald (Posts: 18; Member since: 09 Dec 2012)
Yes, the lens issue is too much.
5. thunderising (Posts: 232; Member since: 25 Nov 2011)
Picture is fake.
You guys have reported the same specs over and over again. Point?
Interchangeable lens is 50% rumor
23. _Bone_ (Posts: 2154; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
It could be a grey HTC 8X.
6. SEFsung (Posts: 15; Member since: 28 Dec 2012)
3000mAh is a turn-off...
16. emadshiny (Posts: 1144; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
its a 5 incher, so 3000mAh is enough.
24. pwnarena (Posts: 1129; Member since: 15 Feb 2013)
agree. 3000mah is good enough. bigger than the galaxy s4's 2600 though not as big as motorola's leading power droid.
7. wendygarett (unregistered)
Finally a camera phone, that has 1080p screen, now waiting for sd card...
1080p screen and sd card is a must for a camera phone, don't you think?
63. ncarlosmiguel (Posts: 206; Member since: 14 May 2013)
If youre taking these rumors seriously, it says that this has microSD expansion on the 4th bullet.
8. Insignificant (Posts: 192; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
Everyone realised that if Sony would unify their divisions, they'd be the best. Well, looks like they're unifying their divisions, even in their new laptops.
I can't even imagine what they'll present next year thanks to even more team-work from their divisions...
The best camera, screen, sound, design, content...
Can't wait...
9. _Bone_ (Posts: 2154; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
Sounds great, B U T !
Sony needs to get rid of the terrible noise that cripples the Exmor RS on the Xperia Z. How on the living hell does the Oppo Find 5 and the Galaxy S4 beat Sony's picture quality with the same Sony sensor?
11. Jason2k13 (Posts: 1214; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)
Sony is not very good with their camera software, don't know why unless they are doing it on purpose for their next flagship?
15. _Bone_ (Posts: 2154; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
I'm so ready to go Sony, but they must figure this out. I mean what a shame it would be to see a 2/3" Exmor RS @ 20MP with lossless zoom, xenon flash, a large battery and maximum specs only to get beaten at their own game.
58. kurtdean99 (Posts: 79; Member since: 02 Jun 2013)
This is Sony camera division not Sony mobile division and I'm sure it will be great
10. pyradark (Posts: 854; Member since: 10 Jun 2012)
all i want is that triluminos display with 2000:1 contrast
and wow at no flaps in audio jack
12. cyborg009 (Posts: 112; Member since: 17 Sep 2011)
Orgasmic specs sheet!!
13. SonyFindOneDroidple (Posts: 796; Member since: 11 May 2013)
Whahah.. IM HAPPY WAITING FOR THIS SUPER SMARTPHONE :) ayieee
14. emadshiny (Posts: 1144; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
if all these specs are true, then im sorry for all rivals.
17. giri555 (Posts: 111; Member since: 15 Mar 2012)
Specs are sooooo sexyyyy that almost ejaculated! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
19. Federated (Posts: 261; Member since: 06 Mar 2010)
Take my money, Sony.
20. boosook (Posts: 1436; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
LOL... those specs simply can't be real. Let's wait and see, but don't hold your breath or you'll be disappointed.
21. pyradark (Posts: 854; Member since: 10 Jun 2012)
S4 did that already, and now were stronger than ever to resist dissapointment
22. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
from all the upcoming devices i think this year only Sony Honami have the biggest possibility to become the king of android or even the king of smartphone.
Note 3 maybe sounds impresive but its just big device with stylus, a powerful Chipset and S4 feature. Note 3 also will have some serious competition from Sony, HTC, or even LG but all those devices have problem its not pocket friendly. i think the story will be just like last year when S3 beat Note 2 in sales.
Nokia Eos maybe have better camera but the problem is "WP"
like it or not right now WP is not good enough to compete With Android and IOS
so with all those specs Honami will have no competition in the android world except some big manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, and LG can make a better device
27. MistB (Posts: 581; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
Sony are being aggressive, 3 top tier phones in the short space of almost 7 months, Xperia Z/Xperia Z Ultra and Honami plus some decent mid rangers which look more like the high end. If the sales pick up for this hot rod then yes, other OEMs will have to pick up their game, with the PS4 in town too i'd say the company is going through a resurgence. Nokia is also bringing their A-game, I can't really see Samsung and especially HTC resting their laurels on one star device.
33. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
i agree with everything what you said, now sony only need aggressive marketing to be successful.
29. Paradox (Posts: 124; Member since: 08 Aug 2012)
Let's not forget about the Nexus (if it is even released this year). Super cheap and high specced, and supposedly coming with a good camera this year.
36. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
yeah nexus is great, but i need the best devices available to replace my old GS2
39. Paradox (Posts: 124; Member since: 08 Aug 2012)
Nexus will be the best. You won't understand until you have owned a nexus. Even though my nexus 4 has some shortcomings, its software is so good that I wouldn't want to switch to any other phone. Also, it will get updates whenever they are available. Sure this is also coming to other phones because of google edition, but you can't argue with the price of the nexus :)
45. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
i'm the former of nexus 7 user and now i've replace it with Xperia Tablet Z.
just like what i've said i need the "best" device available, but nexus is not the best when it comes to specs.
yup when it comes to price nexus is the king
62. Paradox (Posts: 124; Member since: 08 Aug 2012)
Nexus 7 is a little bit rusty now, as it's a year old. Xperia Tablet Z is new. New Nexus 7 will probably have snapdragon 600, so it will 1 up the Tablet Z. In this phone and tablet business, things get outdated in months, you have to remember this. This is why I don't like paying for expensive devices, just to see them get outdated so soon. Sony are the worst, as they seem to release a new flagship every few months, so you will be outdated in no time.
70. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
Xperia tablet Z have something that no other tablet have thats why i like it, and S600 is only S4Pro with higher clock speed if i really need that poer all i do just overclocked it.
in the android world no matter what you buy it will outdated in no time.
so release 3 powerful devices like
XP ZL and ZR (cheaper version)
just make Sony the wosrt???
75. Paradox (Posts: 124; Member since: 08 Aug 2012)
I think the 600 is faster on the same clock speed, and it will clock higher than the s4 anyway.
76. yudi.nemesis (Posts: 1127; Member since: 14 Mar 2013)
no i don't think so go find some detail on qualcomm both of just S4 Pro CPU,
are you sure about that?? S4 have 1.9 GHz higher than that you maybe have battery and temperature problem unless they use S800 the only chipset from qualcomm with with HPm tech
26. preet27in (banned) (Posts: 173; Member since: 07 Jul 2012)
wow. hard to beat those sepcs.. nice though.......
30. scriptwriter (Posts: 396; Member since: 13 Nov 2012)
not that different than xperia Z. Only with bigger processer
43. Potato. (banned) (Posts: 607; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
Wear glasses for God's sake.
32. jackhammeR (Posts: 1548; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
wow...so many smart words in the display section.
They're going to ditch bravia engine and exmor sensor...maybe they've finally realised they were not as good as they hoped.
I will wait impatiently to see how it stacks up against EOS.
34. emadshiny (Posts: 1144; Member since: 05 Dec 2012)
EOS is not comparable with it at all as EOS is a camera phone but i1 is an all in one phone which gives you the best experience in every aspect of a phone.
57. jackhammeR (Posts: 1548; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
eos is a camera? since when? Are you shaping up reality to your liking?
It's a camera-centric smartphone so cut this crap.
Are you another fanboy who felt disgruntled when Z turned out not to be as so great as it was marketed.
The truth is that guys like you keep repeating everytime when sony wants to unveil their new flagship that it will be THE ultimate phone. All xperias to Z. And so far, they couldn't beat even N8.
Just wait and stop spreading such crap.


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FOSTORIA - Fostoria City Council met Wednesday night, announcing the Ohio Department of Transportation is to conduct a public hearing at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 in council chambers to discuss the abandonment of SR 613. Council previously approved a resolution in support of the action, which is to eliminate truck traffic on certain streets.
Marvin Dabish, a representative of Players Club Internet Cafe, said if council's planned fees are enacted, he would have to close the business. Fees include an annual $4,000 licensing fee and $250 for each device, payable annually. He suggested council consider reducing the fees. Council representatives will meet with Dabish to discuss the fees and consider a modification.
A first reading of an ordinance amending ordinance 2011-31 was made. The ordinance sets the pay for the mayor's executive secretary at between $12 and $14 per hour and may work up to 40 hours per week. The position is not to allow medical benefits but accepts holidays and vacation time. Salary is to be paid through the sewer and water funds, general fund and the street fund. The ordinance also addresses the employment of the zoning inspector, seasonal employees and miscellaneous part-time positions.
A second reading was made of a resolution having state general assembly and state supreme court draft legislation amending parts of Ohio Revised Code Title 19 regarding combining Tiffin and Fostoria municipal courts.
In other action, council approved ordinances
Ratifying and accepting real property offered for forfeiture to the city.
Authorizing safety service director to contract for repairs at Reservoir 5.
Authorizing the mayor to negotiate with Ohio Attorney General's Office for collection of money due to the city for court costs from municipal court.
Approving license pay for working foremen in Department of Public Service.
Giving consent to ODOT and allowing mayor to contract for resurfacing parts of SR 199 and SR 587.
Authorizing bids for water treatment chemicals.
Allowing the safety service director to execute final settlement in NAT Transportation Inc. vs. City of Fostoria.
Certifying application for settlement, accepting $5,000 through class action suit of city of Greenville vs. Syngenta Crop Protection regarding aatrazine in some water systems.
Accepting amounts and rates as determined by budget commission and authorizing necessary tax levies, certifying them to county auditor.
Council is to meet at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at the municipal building.


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Ramadoss joins issue with VCK on Dharmapuri violence
By Express News Service - CHENNAI
Published: 18th November 2012 08:32 AM
Last Updated: 18th November 2012 08:51 AM
Dismissing allegations that the PMK orchestrated the recent violence against Dalits in Dharmapuri district, party founder S Ramdoss on Saturday said Dalit men were following women from the Vanniyar community claiming to be in love with them and later duping them.
Addressing a press conference, a day after VCK chief Thirmavalavan accused the PMK of mobilising a mob to ransack the houses of Dalits in three villages, Ramadoss said his party was being implicated in the controversy. The incident was being portrayed along caste lines while the real reason was something else, he said.
Claiming that Vanniyar women being duped after marriage by men from the Dalit community had become a regular problem in the northern districts, Ramdoss called for an end to the "drama" aimed at "taking revenge" on the Vanniyars. The leader added that such incidents were adding to the anger of the affected community. He demanded the government's intervention to stop such incidents.
Ramadoss further charged that groups with VCK members in it were functioning to encourage Dalit youngsters to stalk Vanniyar girls.
The mob that was responsible for the violence at Dharmapuri had members belonging to other castes as well, Ramdoss said. He alleged that members of the DMK, AIADMK and DMDK participated in the assault.
Ramadoss said the violence was a direct result of intervention of VCK members who allegedly advised the Dalit family to not send the Vanniyar girl, who married the Dalit boy, back to her parents.
Pointing to ground reports, the PMK founder said the mob burnt down only a few houses in the three villages while some other Dalits were encouraged by an official to burn down their own houses, promising them compensation in return. He also dismissed allegations that the party was raking up case emotions to increase vote bank.
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TONEY, Alabama -- Police arrested two adults and a juvenile in connection with Wednesday morning's home invasion in Madison County.
Cedric Devont Rembert, 18, and Devonte Kesean Nance, 20, and a 17-year-old male were arrested and charged with second degree burglary. Sheriff's officials said additional charges are likely to follow.
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By Malorye A. Branca
April 7, 2002 | Data standards for microarrays may be inching toward acceptance, or at least data exchange may become easier, thanks to independent efforts by some key groups, including the Microarray Gene Expression Data Group (MGED), Affymetrix and the University of California at Santa Cruz's Golden Path Web site.
"I'm close to 100 percent optimistic that this [adoption of standards] will come about," says Alvis Brazma, president of the MGED, which will be spearheading an effort aimed at universal standards. "To achieve this, we will probably need the stick as well as the carrot," Brazma says, "but that is coming."
The amount of gene expression data generated by DNA microarrays is steadily increasing, but because of the diverse ways researchers collect, store, and publish that information, its use is greatly limited. A universal format would allow the easy exchange, pooling, and comparison of results.
The MGED and other champions of standards are uniting in support of the Object Management Group's proposed standard, dubbed MAGE (Microarray and Gene Experiment), which was announced at the MGED's February meeting. MAGE stipulates a markup language -- MAGE-ML -- and an object model, MAGE-OM. Researchers would be able to share MAGE-compatible data seamlessly. Along with the MAGE format comes the MIAME (Minimum Information about Microarray Experiments) standard, which applies to scientific content. Each of these documents contains many requirements.
MAGE has support from leading organizations such as the Sanger Institute, Stanford University's microarray group, and the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), which have agreed to pipeline MAGE-compatible data to the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)'s ArrayExpress database. (The EBI is a key force behind MGED.) In February, Sanger began testing the pipeline, submitting MAGE-ML-formatted data from an experiment using its S. pombe chip. TIGR and Stanford will be following suit as they reach MAGE-ML compatibility. The three groups will also encourage their contributors to become MIAME-compliant. To help users work with the standards, EBI has developed MIAMExpress, a "biologist-friendly," Web-based tool for entering MIAME compliant data, which is now being tested.
Success depends largely on motivation: Stanford, for example, has more than 23,000 arrays in its database, none of which contains the MIAME-required information. Software developers such as LION Bioscience, Iobion Informatics, and Rosetta Inpharmatics have agreed on the standards, but there is no deadline for implementation. As a result, other steps may be needed, such as encouraging leading scientific journals to require the use of these formats for publication.
Affymetrix, meanwhile, is taking steps to help its users more easily exchange and integrate information. As part of its "Open Access Initiative" announced in February, the company is giving software developers better access to its interfaces and is releasing array information, including probe sequences and annotation. "We see this as critical to the next stage for the field, in which scientists are building a worldwide body of expression data that is comparable and verifiable," says Peter Dansky, senior director of informatics marketing for Affymetrix.
The academic community quickly hailed the release of the Affymetrix array information. The EBI will be one of the first groups to exploit the descriptions. It plans to fully incorporate these into ArrayExpress -- in MAGE-ML format -- by summer.
The array information, as well as some actual expression data, is also going into the Golden Path assembly of the human genome. Accessible through UC Santa Cruz's genome browser, Golden Path is one of the three major public sites offering access to the up-to-date sequenced human genome. The browser contains approximately 30 tracks, or classes of features, including several for different gene expression analysis platforms. "On the Affymetrix track, we show where they have picked the actual probe and, in collaboration with Novartis, the expression of the gene from that chip," says David Haussler, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and co-director of the project. The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation provided the gene expression data from 31 human samples.
As more gene expression data becomes publicly available — and more researchers pick up the standards — proponents hope that a trickle-down effect will occur, leading to gradual improvement in the overall quality of the data. "Time and time again, the Internet community has shown it is capable of setting up checks and balances so that the valuable stuff survives and the rest gets discarded," Haussler says. "This should not be an exception."
Getting so many scientists to agree on anything may be expecting too much. But without some progress on standards, the data sets will remain too small for the type of pooling and validation required to fuel the discoveries anticipated from the field.
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