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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung (SSNLF.PK) may be nearing a ceasefire after several false starts to peace talks in their long-running patent war. Apple Insider reports that an unnamed "industry official" told the Korea Times the two companies are "trimming down the number of disputed issues" and looking for common ground and resolution of their long legal battle. The official told the Korea Times that "it's too early to say that the ongoing working-level talks will produce an immediate breakthrough, but we are more practical about trying to find a solution."
Apple Insider also reported that the companies have moved to drop all cross-appeals related to last year's ruling that Samsung infringed on two of Apple's patents related to a touchscreen interface and headset plug detection technology. In that ruling, Apple won import bans against some Samsung products. The bans remain in effect even though Samsung no longer manufactures or ships the affected products, and its newer products feature workarounds and don't infringe on Apple's patents. Additionally, a patent-infringement lawsuit in 2012 awarded Apple almost $1 billion at the time. However, a damages retrial last year brought that amount down to $290 million. A second trial concluded last month found both companies guilty of copying each other's features and infringing on each other's patents. However, Samsung was ordered to pay $119.6 million, while Apple was ordered to pay just $158,400. Samsung has since filed an appeal.
Apple has continued to pursue Samsung in court, and the motivation to end the patent war now most likely stems from Apple's desire to retain Samsung as a supplier for displays and processors. Last month, CNET reported that Samsung was the biggest supplier of iPad displays in the first quarter of 2014, shipping displays that Apple uses in its iPad Air and iPad with Retina display. And according to rumors reported by Apple Insider, Apple could be considering Samsung's OLED technology for wearable devices like the iWatch it's eventually expected to launch.


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When I saw this from GI.biz, to call my reaction skeptical would be an understatement.
The PlayStation 3's Sixaxis controller has been honoured with an award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Sony's PlayStation 3 has also picked up the CES Best of Innovations Award for 2007, PC World's 20 Most Innovative Products Award, Sound and Vision's Editor's Choice Award and a Digital Innovation Award from the Digital Entertainment Group.
This smelled just a little bit, so I did a little digging. As to the PS3's awards, it did in fact get an "honoree" award at CES for best innovations award of 2007 which you can see here. On the other hand, CES hands out honoree awards like candy. The PS3 did indeed win a place on PCWorld's most innovative products list, but it was #16 out of 20. The Wii, incidentally, was #4. I haven't tracked down specific links for the other two awards from Sound & Vision and Digital Entertainment Group, but when looking through their articles, it appears that they are more concerned with media entertainment (i.e. the PS3's Blu-ray functionality) than gaming, so perhaps their awards are understandable.
Which leaves us with the Emmy. Apparently, Emmys aren't just for TV shows any more. At first, I was thinking the same thing you may be thinking: "The SIXAXIS won an award for innovation? What innovation? Slapping half-assed motion sensing onto a 10 year old controller?"
But then I found this report from GamaSutra which tells us that the only other videogame-related nominees for any category were the PSP Xross Media Bar and GameTap. In a field like that (the Wii was apparently nowhere to be found), I guess I can understand how the Academy could be convinced to give an award to the SIXAXIS (at least they've heard of it).
But still…something smells.
Update: Well, it appears my skepticism was justified because the NATAS says it wasn't the SIXAXIS which won after all. It was the Dual Shock that won. Seriously, between all the gaffes by Ken Kutaragi and Kaz Hirai and their disastrous attempt at a fake blog to promote the PSP and now this, I think Sony would be justified in just firing their entire PR department.


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wow, got great article here, its kinda refreshing to see the true nature of boracay. keep it up..
Touring boracay on a scooter
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we rode to the white beach, tambisann beach, and bulabog beach, the windsurfing and kitesurfing beach. i went to bulabog first thing in the morning to go windsurfing. it was visibily semi windy with white caps. the water was so nice and warm. you can see the corals at the bottom as you sail thru the crystal clear turquise water. incredible feeling. the wind wasn't that great but i did plane for a while on a 5.5 sail. there are only 2 other windsurfers. turns out bulabog beach hosts annual asian windsurfing tour in january, when the wind is cranking during monsoon season.
most of the resorts on the island are cluttered around white beach area. it's a little too crowded for my taste, but it also where all the actions are, both during the say and at night.


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Falcons running back Steven Jackson has already been ruled out for Sunday's game versus the Dolphins, and there is a thought that he could miss as many as four weeks. Jackson has a thigh injury which head coach Mike Smith said is a "short-term" injury, but he also said, "I don't know if that's two or three weeks."
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Red, Black, Golden Crystal CULLS $2
Anyone close to Boise interested in a lot of crystal culls?
I have probably 50-60 (maybe more) culls that need to find homes for.
$2 each. They are nearly all adults with really bad to near no white, or off colored red.
I really don't want to ship adults, they would make good "practice shrimp" for someone who wants to try crystals but not spend a lot of money.
this is a great deal for anyone interested in these shrimp
could you post a couple pictures? Specifically the red and black
I will post some when I get home tonight.
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If u decide to ship keep me in mind please!
I will get a black photo up soon.
Will do. Take a look a the photo I posted, if you still want some let me know.
I'll take some of cbs and golds if there still available.
Shoot, I would too. Are you going to ship?
I can't ship to Hawaii sorry. It seems like there is someone in Hawaii who was in the swap and shop section not long ago selling crystals.
PMd let me know if you didn't get it.
I am so happy to find someone locally!
Everyone who PM'ed me; I have your info and if I decide to try and ship some I will contact you. But I would really like to find local people who want to give them a try first.
I will not be shipping to Hawaii if I do ship, sorry.
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You are very welcome lucky. I hope they do well for you. The plant in the bags for them to ride home on is naja grass/guppy grass. Your tank looks great! And those do look like a Siamese algae eaters, nice :)
The club member I was telling you about that got some of my culls to put in his discus tank... he texted me that one of them was berried yesterday. I told him pictures or it didn't happen! 80+ degrees and a crystal is berried, these shrimp are tougher than I thought they were.
Was great meeting you and your wife. If you have any problems or need replacement shrimp please let me know.
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When Assistant Professor of Biology Marta Laskowski first saw the bunchberry dogwood "explode," she wanted to figure out how the tiny white flower could open so quickly. Now, with the publication of the article "A record-breaking pollen catapult" in the current issue of Nature, readers can enjoy Laskowski's visually stunning research and learn more about the fastest plant movement recorded by scientists to date.
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NYT: ObamaCare may have accidentally stripped Congress of health coverage
posted at 9:47 pm on April 12, 2010 by Allahpundit
The perfect ending to a day that saw support for repealing O-Care reach a new high in Rasmussen (58 percent) and support for The One reach a new weekly low in Gallup (47 percent). Turns out that fantastically long, mind-bogglingly complex bills which no one has actually read may create unintended consequences. Remember how they forgot to require insurers to cover kids with preexisting conditions? Oh, and they forgot initially to let young adults be covered by their parents' insurance until Reid fixed it in reconciliation. Now this. Who knew that when Pelosi said they'd have to pass the bill so that people could find out what's in it, "people" meant Congress?
I'd call it comedy gold if not for the obvious point raised by the Times: "If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?"
The law apparently bars members of Congress from the federal employees health program, on the assumption that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.
But the research service found that this provision was written in an imprecise, confusing way, so it is not clear when it takes effect.
The new exchanges do not have to be in operation until 2014. But because of a possible "drafting error," the report says, Congress did not specify an effective date for the section excluding lawmakers from the existing program.
Under well-established canons of statutory interpretation, the report said, "a law takes effect on the date of its enactment" unless Congress clearly specifies otherwise. And Congress did not specify any other effective date for this part of the health care law. The law was enacted when President Obama signed it three weeks ago.
In other words, theoretically the law kicks them out of the federal health plan now in order to force them to join insurance exchanges … that don't exist yet. Looking forward to tomorrow, when we're inevitably told that they meant to do that. Exit question for lawyers: Who would have standing to sue to force the federal health plan to drop Congress now? Any citizen, or is it more refined than that?
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Cynthia Turley was in the middle of cleaning his favorite table when he walked
through the diner door. Something about the lean rancher urged her to reach out to him.
Maybe it was the fact that he never smiled, or the loneliness in those green eyes.
Whatever the case, she always made sure his table was ready when he arrived. She
could set her clock by his arrival - eight o'clock every Friday night - in a blue plaid
western shirt and battered black cowboy hat.
His tall frame swayed across the room with feline grace. Removing his hat, he glided
into the booth. He glanced up at her; the sun darkened face with its thin lips completely
devoid of emotion.
"The usual," he said.
She nodded. He wasn't much for conversation. Other than occasional attempts to
draw him out, she respected his privacy. She moved to the counter without writing
anything down.
"Steak and Potatoes," she announced to the cook, ignoring the stifled snickers of the
other two waitresses. Why they found it so amusing that Mr. Cade was a recluse
evaded her comprehension. Right now he was simply a customer.
She poured a cup of coffee and delivered it to him - along with a cheerful smile.
"Cold out there, isn't it?"
He shrugged. He never wore a coat and she wondered if he even felt the cold west
Texas wind.
She started to walk away, but his adverse response lured her to pause.
"Spring is around the corner."
She smiled again. "It's still two months away, though. I can hardly wait."
He nodded again and turned away, staring out the window while he sipped the
coffee. The conversation was over - or so she thought.
When she delivered his meal, he glanced up at her.
"What time do you get off?"
She stared at him. "Nine."
He nodded. "I'd like to talk to you. May I wait here until then?"
She nodded, still regarding him with disbelief.
"Of course."
What would he have to talk to her about? If all their conversations in the three
months he had been coming to the diner were put together, it was doubtful that they
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conversation should be over by five minutes after nine. Then she could walk home in
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We left D.C on the iconic Greyhound bus (Simon was very excited about this despite having to wait in the dodgy D.C bus station for an hour) and arrived in NYC 4 hours later.
After trying very hard to get a cab (not quite as easy as it looks on the telly) we eventually arrived at the Roger Williams hotel – bargain of the holiday: boutique hotel in NYC for $125 a night AND we had a view of the Empire State Building!
Me being me immediately wanted to hit the streets as I LOVE NYC but Simon wanted to chill for an hour or so. After much pacing and sighing from me, we eventually headed out to see what NYC is like at night time.
Simon really wanted to see Times Square so we headed up there via Fifth Avenue. Even though I've been to Times Square before it really is an amazing (if tacky) sight. As we were absolutely frozen to the bone we went and had a drink in the bar of the W hotel (not cheap) and watched the lights of Times Square whilst sipping our drinks very slowly – there was no way we could buy another one! Whilst sitting there we decided that we didn't want to blow a fortune on dinner that night as we were too tired to appreciate spending all that money so we decided to get take away pizza and walk back to the hotel. If anyone's going to NYC Sbarro is a great place to get cheap take away slices of pizza that are super tasty.
After extracting a promise from Simon that we would be up and off early the following morning, we crashed out for the night.
True to his promise we were out of the hotel by 9 the following morning and found a lovely French patisserie near the hotel (that had gorgeous looking cup cakes and amazing coffee – thank God). We filled up on coffee and croissants there and then went for a walk up Fifth Avenue.
No matter how many times I've been to New York (about 9 now) it never fails to excite me. People that live there must surely be in a state of permanent excitement!
Anyway, we took in the skating at the Rockefeller Centre, all the posh shops on Fifth, we went to light a candle for my Nana in Saint Patrick's Cathedral (a family tradition whenever we are in New York) and then, much to my excitement, we stopped in Tiffany's to look at rings. I wonder what was coming!
It was quite funny, this poor bloke was in there looking at (large) diamonds and he had decided which one he was going to buy. When he was told the price he said that he might faint and the sales lady said in all seriousness; "don't worry Sir, we have an in house Doctor"!
After mooching round Tiffany's (and surprisingly not especially liking much) we went for a little walk in Central Park.
By now we were flagging a bit so I consulted the great guide book that the hotel gave us and we found a typical New York sandwich shop on the corner of Madison and 61st. I also thought that I spotted the guy that was in Desperate Housewives that played Gabby's politician husband.
Anyway, the plan was to go up the Empire State Building at sunset so we headed back to the hotel via a quick trip round Bloomingdales and had a rest before heading out again around 4pm.
Luckily the queue to the Empire State wasn't that bad (although the hard sell for all sorts of rubbish that we didn't need was bad – and we fell for all of it) and we were up there within the hour just in time to see the sun set.
We'd bought a ticket to both floors and spent more time on the 102nd because it was quieter. It really is stunning up there. I'd never been up in the dark either so that was cool!
We'd been up there about an hour and we were about to go when Simon proposed to me. It was very romantic! He says that just as he asked me to marry him the lift door opened and I was bathed in a halo of light! I, of course, said yes!
The rest of our evening was lovely as we had a cocktail at the bottom of the Empire State and I called my parents to tell them. We then headed back to the hotel to change for dinner and went to a great Italian restaurant called Itrulii somewhere around 27th between Lexington and Park. The food was fabulous and we had a great bottle of Barbera.
When we were leaving the front of house man asked if we had a good time and Simon said that we had and it had been special because we had got engaged. He couldn't believe that we hadn't told them at the start of the night (I wonder what we would have got had we told them). He then sat us down and gave us a glass of something sparkly, not before asking us how Simon had proposed. Simon told him and he laughed and told us that we had been watching too many movies! Funny!
That was the end to a really perfect day and we went back to the hotel quite drunk – oh and then had another glass of something sparkly in the hotel bar! It really was a very good day!
The following day we were both quite hung over, but determined to head out and see more and make the most of our proper last day of our trip.
We headed down to Soho and had coffee and muffins in Starbucks before walking around Soho for a couple of hours. I love Soho!
Simon wanted to go down to the site of 9/11 so we headed off in that direction. When we got there I think that we both wished that we hadn't. It's very depressing down there. Also, surprisingly, the area is quite scruffy
So we hot footed it back uptown to Greenwich Village and wandered round there for a while before stopping in an Italian caf� in the West Village for coffee and cake. It was a great place, really local. You could tell that the people in there had been coming there for years and knew each other.
At this point exhaustion had set in so we headed back to the hotel via Union Square and the point where Broadway meets Fifth so that we could take a photo of the cool building, the name of which escapes me.
We spent our final night in a little bar/restaurant round the corner from the hotel and had another lovely meal.
Our final day consisted of some shopping (mainly for other people unfortunately) and then we hot footed it down to the tip of Manhattan so that Simon could see the Statue of Liberty. God it was cold down there!
We then took a quick walk down Wall Street before getting the subway back to our hotel.
That was that. The end of an amazing three month holiday that started with my dream in Asia, and ended with Simon's dream in the USA.


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#1 Aug 13, 2011
Low life thieves are working overtime in Griffin.
I am a senior citizen and it's hard to replace items stolen from me. I am sick and tired of the scumbags that take what belongs to me.
#2 Aug 19, 2011
you know ga passed the law that you can shoot them in your yard now check it out make sure
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#3 Oct 4, 2011
Its people that dont lock up their stuff that makes criminals, property owners are the reason the jails are full, they should be ashamed of what they have done to society.
#4 Oct 4, 2011
If your a senior citizen, what did they take from you? Your precious pill bottles? Or was it your hover-around? If you weren't a loser while you were younger you would have saved money for bad events. Thus, it's your own fault for not being prepared...shit happens to us all.
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#5 Oct 5, 2011
cmon Rufus, If you want I can hold them to the ground while you drive a team of horses over them... Wow You really hate the elderly, what happened did dear OLD uncle John take you out behind the barn when you were little? Geez
#6 Oct 5, 2011
It is your line of thinking that makes me believe you could very well be one of the thugs stealing from those who are unable to help themselves. If a freaking thief came to steal from me my alarm sytem would go off and the video cameras I have would get their ugly mug on tape. Then I would know who to castrate for their crime. Rufus, it's older American's who made this country what it is today so show some freaking respect to us. If it wasn't for us you little punks wouldn't be able to brag you stole it from us.
#8 Oct 6, 2011
#9 Oct 6, 2011
you get what you give, what goes around comes around. yeah, the old people really have done a great job...just look at who our President is...he's even worse than our economy. where's the beef?
#10 Oct 6, 2011
I didn't vote for Obama, so I don't share the blame there and from day one I have been against him. However, your attack on Seniors is offensive and makes you look like the fool you present yourself as being. If it wasn't for seniors who have contributed alot to this country and community. Your the one who shows no respect to others when you attack them without provocation and your words:
"If your a senior citizen, what did they take from you? Your precious pill bottles? Or was it your hover-around? If you weren't a loser while you were younger you would have saved money for bad events. Thus, it's your own fault for not being prepared...shit happens to us all."
makes you sounds like either a child or a punk.
#11 Oct 6, 2011
Your the Punk. PUNK! STFU boy
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#12 Oct 6, 2011
Wow Budiness owner, you seem to have hit the right button calling this Rufus a "PUNK", Hmmm, no real reaction till that word was read them BAM, must have hit deep in the ego, perhaps they recall the time spent in Spalding Co. Hilton, when they were "PUNK'D" by the cell mate for their commissary Mt.Dew and Doritos, Rufus tell me does it hurt less if you put that jail toothpaste on the sore spots later... lol
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#13 Oct 6, 2011
Rufio just so you understand this statement, I was being
Factitious and so you understand that word it means not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
#14 Oct 6, 2011
Don't assume I don't know something. That would be ignorant on your part.
Again,*yawn (you bore me)...
#15 Oct 6, 2011
Certainly, you know the answer. Keep it coming, your remarks aren't even as strong as my 5 year old brother...
#16 Oct 6, 2011
Rufus, I am over 50 and have more common sense in my little toe then you have in your entire body because your not only disrespectful but a plain simple punk with a captial P. Your response was so lame my 4 year old Grandson could come up with better then you have and he would make more sense. Being you are a teenager, I can tell by your comments that it has been a long time since you had a good old fashioned butt whooping and your long past due for it. Stay in school and when you make it past the 7th grade maybe you will have some smarts about you.
#17 Oct 6, 2011
You are probably right, but he is one of them street thugs that wears his pants down past his butt advertising like he did in jail or YDC. And for this illiterate YDC is Youth Detention Center.
#18 Oct 6, 2011
This is the best you, and CM V has?!?...*yawn
Your ALL a bunch of cry babies (even CM V)
#19 Oct 6, 2011
Now that's funny. But, unfortunately for your pathetic delusion of what I am, I'm in line to be valedictorian of my class with a full scholarship during my first 2 years of college. Nice try, but you at least made me laugh...
Now, quit your whining. Do I need to get you some cheese with that whine?
#20 Oct 6, 2011
That must have been in your special education class where you improved your failing grades after spending five years in the same grade. I bet you make your momma proud. She probably walks around all day long wondering where she went wrong with your pathetic life. I didn't know they gave scholarships to kids in Special Ed, who still don't know their don't know their backend from a hole in the ground. Now go back to your Romper Room and ask your teacher to put the dunce cap on you and sit you in time out until you can show respect to grown-ups. I have a BA in Criminal Justice, another Degree in Human Services and over 30 years in my area of specialty. When you can maintain a 3.8 GPA then you will have earned the right to address me. Be a good little girl and go to bed now, I am sure your barbies miss you.
#21 Oct 6, 2011
Ha ha! Looks like I got under your skin. You have been out-smarted, and I have controlled your emotional state. I own you, lol!
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"I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect. I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writers Guild Award than almost anything on Earth."
—Rod Serling, from his last interview, 1975
"A mobster in therapy, having problems with his mother," was how The Sopranos (No. 1) initially sparked, according to creator David Chase. The Sopranos quickly sprawled to comment upon, or observe, innumerable aspects of American life, from the efficacy of psychotherapy to the ways in which a family-run business, even the Mafia, was dying out to a corporatizing culture. | Seinfeld (No. 2) began life at NBC with an order for only four episodes, the money coming from the network's variety and specials department. | No show in the history of television has lingered in the imagination quite like Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone (No. 3), which could function both as a science-fiction chiller and an issues-driven examination of human behavior and moral complexities, with climactic twists. | All in the Family (No. 4) didn't become a hit right away—and then it became a kind of national conversation about the cultural and political fault lines separating baby boomers and those who'd lived through World War II—what Archie Bunker called, "The Big One." | M*A*S*H (No.5) remains the only long-running series, comedy or drama, set around a war zone. The finale drew 105 million viewers, the largest audience to have ever watched a single episode of television. | At the height of the multi-camera sitcom format that would come to make sitcoms feel all the more mass-produced, Cheers (No. 8) conveyed a sense of real place, and the show's jokes came from clearly established characters and relationships. According to tv.com, Cheers, over the course of its 11 seasons, saw 58 writers come through its room. | No series, arguably, is more responsible for the novelistic ambitions possible for television writers now than The Wire (No. 9), with a Dickensian sense of breadth and social relevance; its stories were told as microcosms of larger ills.
Checking the 101 Best Written TV Series list
All-time lists, regardless of the topic, are tricky things subjective and thus instantly dedatable, prone to generational difference and frankly the winds of memory. That said, the 101 best written TV series, as voted on by guild members, reveals itself to be a multigenerational tribute to lasting quality, if not also the power og netflix
There is even something touching and inspirational about how the twisted pay-cable series Dexter checks in at No. 67, followed by the raw and whimsical and short-lived My So-Called Life, which itself is followed by something as broad and even Vaudevillian as the hit network sitcom The Golden Girls.
In 2005, the WGA released the 101 Best Screenplays of all time as voted on by the membership, an idea dreamed up by the Guild's Publicity and Marketing Committee. Casablanca was No. 1, and Notorious was No. 101. Here, as the voting worked out, two HBO series came in at No. 1 and 101—The Sopranos and Oz, respectively.
In between is everything from The Defenders to Laugh-In, not to mention Roots, not to mention South Park, not to mention The Wire. Not to mention the writers themselves, known and less known. Bochco and Brooks, Milch and Sorkin, of course, but also the team of Levinson and Link, who first met in junior high, and went on to create Columbo together. Or Lucille Kallen, the only female writer in the famous comedy war room that was Your Show of Shows.
Voting on the 101 Best Written TV Series was done via online balloting. Writers could submit as many as 20 shows, provided the series had aired on American television (shows could originate elsewhere). Miniseries of six hours or longer were also eligible. Each series submitted on a ballot received one vote.
Somewhat remarkably, the list breaks down almost evenly between dramas (46) and comedies (48), with allowances made for various melding of the genres in shows like Moonlighting, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Northern Exposure. There are also five miniseries; the landmark children's television series Sesame Street; and its primetime variety offshoot, The Muppet Show.
The list invites comparisons across eras but also belies it. Much has changed since the golden era of the 1950s. Television, at the risk of stating the obvious, was done live in its infancy, the business based in New York.
When Jackie Gleason, host of the variety show Cavalcade of Stars, asked his writers to dream up the character that would become Ralph Kramden for a sketch, he gave birth to the working-class hero against whom all future working-class sitcom schlubs are still judged.
Television shows are no longer incubated on the fly like that. The Honeymooners (it's No. 31 on the list, by the way) is now called classic, which partly indicates how much has changed in terms of the way television is made and what writers are free to say. In 1955, Sputnik had yet to be sent into orbit, much less a satellite beaming down 500 channel options, and wireless Internet was still some lightyears from bringing on-demand episodes of 30 Rock or Breaking Bad into the palm of one's Hand. Had a network tried to broadcast a show about a high school chemistry teacher who transforms himself into a semi-heroic drug kingpin, it would have faced obscenity charges. At the very least, the network's phones would have been tapped by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
And yet, eight television shows from the '50s are on this list, including The Honeymooners and The Twilight Zone.Rod Serling's creation received the third-most votes of any series, behind only The Sopranos and Seinfeld. Here one is tempted to make a connection across epochs: If character is destiny, then character has also long been the backbone of great TV writing.
Jerry Seinfeld and Tony Soprano, Lucy Ricardo and Hawkeye Pierce, Archie Bunker and Carrie Bradshaw, Andy Griffith and Andy Sipowicz—they're all here because they created the same dynamic between show and audience, the kind of lasting intimacy that writers in television are uniquely able to achieve.
After Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files (No. 26) had made a movie version of his series, he told Written By: "I think that the big-screen demands of a storyteller seem tyrannical to me. If there's a moment's boredom, a moment takes you out of the movie, the audience finds itself back in its seat. You can't digress the way you can in television. I think some of the best storytelling is being done right now in television with digressions, explorations of character that are not a part of the artery of the plot system."
That pretty much nails why television is experiencing this latest Golden Age. Of the 101 series on the list, there are more shows, 26, that debuted during the "aughts" (2000-2010) than any other decade. Leading the way is a show that, for the record, came on The air in 1999 but seems to belong more to TV's new-millennium renaissance.
That The Sopranos is No. 1 seems fitting: No other series has been more responsible for the novelistic sprawl of contemporary shows, and no series has done more to poke holes in the idea that TV heroes can behave one way but not another. Equally apt, The Sopranos was also cable television's first phenomenon of an original drama, a show that in capturing the imagination of its audience and the temperature of the culture profoundly impacted how ambitious the storytelling art would become on TV.
In a way, The Sopranos reinforced what was always true of great TV writing—character, character, character— but in a way that felt different and revelatory. David Chase made a mob boss so human and sympathetic and psychologically realized it touched off a run on reprobate personality types and redefined the long-adhered-to writer-audience contract.TV heroes no longer strictly ask audiences to root for them (though they suggest this too) but to reckon with their actions, selfdeceptions, and beliefs.
No surprise, then, that the list is well-populated by this new wave of antiheroes, including Vic Mackey, Don Draper, Nucky Thompson, and Walter White.
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Some other numbers from the list to chew on: Close to half of the shows on the list were still airing in the past decade. Four—Monty Python's Flying Circus, Upstairs, Downstairs, Absolutely Fabulous, and The Office—originated in England. Twenty-four revolve around an actual family, which doesn't account for the shows in which the family consists of friends (Friends) or coworkers (Cheers, Barney Miller, ER, etc.)
At least one, Playhouse 90, is a show from television's first Golden Age that would probably be deemed too big and ambitious an artistic risk to try now, even on cable. Imagine a Showtime or AMC or HBO announcing a revival of the live anthology series from 1956, featuring original teleplays and adapted works mounted like weekly stage plays. Who wouldn't want to see an HBO or AMC, say, further burnish its reputation for quality by offering a series in which, say, a short story by Junot Diaz was adapted to television one week, while the next week featured an original teleplay by David Simon or Tina Fey?
It is equally striking to discover, in the narrative of such numerous great series, how many debuted to poor ratings.All in the Family, Seinfeld, St. Elsewhere, Cheers, and Hill Street Blues were hardly hits right away. "I still remember what Brandon Tartikoff said when everybody was giving him credit for Hill Street Blues turning around the network," CBS President Leslie Moonves said a decade ago in the New York Times Magazine. "He said it wasn't Hill Street Blues; it was The A-Team that really did it. Hill Street got all the Emmy Awards, but The A-Team brought viewers to Hill Street."
Television came into being as a mass attraction; the miracle was you didn't have to leave the house to see it, creating a communal media event—and ratings that the networks no longer even dream of getting. Now the miracle involves being able to take the content everywhere, on screens as small as a watch face. The definition of mass, in turn, has been parsed and redefined, which is to say there is no mass audience anymore, or hardly; there is instead a kind of virtual audience, amassing itself incrementally and sometimes only after a show has gone off the air.
But on this list, at least, a show like M*A*S*H, for whose finale the nation tuned in en masse, exists in the same conversation as a short-lived gem like Freaks and Geeks, just as the intimate comedy Louie exists in the same pantheon as a Dickensian epic like The Wire. Because the shows on the list, you sense, are judged not by how many watched, but how deep, how funny, and how inspired the writing was.
Though I Love Lucy (No. 12) won an Emmy as best comedy, the writers were never so honored (in fairness, the Emmy for sitcom writing didn't exist until
1955) . The five writers—Jess Oppenheimer, the husband-wife team of Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll Jr., and later the team of Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf—churned out 181 episodes. | Mitchell Hurwitz offered a glimpse into his take on the family sitcom when he spoke of his own parents' refusal to "quietly disappear into their middle age." The peppy venality and plain weirdness of the show's nine central characters helped earn Arrested Development (No.16) an Emmy for best comedy. | Carl Reiner has said he based his first sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show (No. 14) on his experiences as a writer on Your Show of Shows, while trying to be a husband and father. | Breaking Bad (No. 13) creator Vince Gilligan said he was joking with Tom Schnauz that the two former X-Files writers might have to rent an RV and cook crystal meth if their stalled Hollywood careers didn't turn around. From the quip came a character who wouldn't leave Gilligan's imagination. "As we were talking," Gilligan recalled of his conversation with Schnauz, "the idea for this character just kind of popped into my head. It was that proverbial lightning strike. It felt unusual because that doesn't happen for me." | Steadily, the Daily Show With Jon Stewart's (No. 17) faux journalism has focused less on lampooning small-town provincialism and newsmagazine histrionics and more on the sweet spot of cable news' embrace of partisanship and fevered punditry. | Though 30 Rock (No. 21) was initially viewed as "too inside" for a mass audience, the single-camera behind-the-scenes look at a sketch show far outlasted its presumably limiting parameters and racked up awards. In later seasons, the show's sense of play—live episodes, a faux reality show within the show within the show—reflected the trust it had earned from its audience.
The Grub Street Productions team of Casey-Angell-Lee furthered the work they'd done on Cheers by moving psychologist Frasier Crane from Boston to Seattle and giving him a radio call-in show. In the process, the writer-producer trio created the last great spin-off, Frasier (No. 23). | Alan Ball pushed dramatic television into uncharted territory with Six Feet Under (No. 18), about the Fishers and their Los Angeles funeral home. The show's tone reflected Ball's eagerness for his writers to channel their own emotional DNA into episodes. | Peter Berg wrote and directed the pilot of a show that was the second adaptation of H.G. Bissinger's nonfiction narrative about the impact of high school football on the hearts, minds, and lives in small-town Dillon, Texas. The TV series Friday Night Lights (No. 22), as opposed to the movie of the same name, could sprawl more in its storytelling. | Larry Sanders (No. 20) brought to pay cable a freshly acerbic glimpse into showbiz narcissism. The show came along when Jay Leno's succession of Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show—sending David Letterman to CBS, replaced at 12:30 on NBC by the no-name Conan O'Brien—had made the late-night ratings wars an ongoing backstage drama. | In its 37 years, Saturday Night Live (No. 25) has endured rumors of its imminent demise. What remains, for the writers, is the system—every week dozens of sketches live or die from the midweek table read to the moment the guest host says, "Live from New York…" | Post-Mary Tyler Moore Show, James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Ed Weinberger, and David Davis left MTM, formed their own company, and sold Taxi (No. 19) to Paramount. The show won the Emmy as outstanding comedy series three years running, from 1979-1981. | Fox's signature drama for most of the '90s, The X-Files (No. 26) was also primetime television's last hit science-fiction series. | ER (No. 28) lasted 15 seasons, becoming the most signature medical series in television history. | "We wanted something that felt overcaffeinated," Kauffman said of Friends (No. 24).
Cosby's return to network television caused a new vogue for sitcoms based closely on the act of a stand-up comedian, a trend that dominated primetime into the ensuing decades. Cosby's homespun, discursive, and anecdotal storytelling style onstage made re-creating that approach, in sitcom form, a challenge. Cosby Show (No. 29) writer Erich van Lowe said the star's advice to his writers was, "Don't write jokes; write humor." | A pastiche of genres co-mingled to intoxicating effect on Lost (No. 27). | Larry David turned himself inside out on Curb Your Enthusiasm (No. 30), a game-changer in the industry, seeming to show a new way to approach the half-hour comedy. | The Honeymooners (No. 31), the standard by which all working-class sitcoms are still measured, took shape on The Jackie Gleason Show in 1952 and Toast of the Town, a variety series hosted by Ed Sullivan. | Twin Peaks (No. 35) took a picture postcard and flipped it over to expose a creepy underbelly. "We developed the town before the people,'' Mark Frost said of Twin Peaks, their fictional town in the Northwest. | Deadwood (No. 32), David Milch's first created series, was a strange, brilliant, and rococo Western set in a Gold Rush town in the Dakota territories. The show's most ornate feature was its language, the way the characters spoke with a sometimes Shakespearian flourish, soliloquies profane and poetic intermingling with the muck-filled place Milch conjured. | Sitcom veterans Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan found the sweet spot in Modern Family (No. 34), a mini melting pot that resonated with viewers and earned the series an Emmy as best comedy for its debut season. | Before his death, Star Trek (No. 33) creator Gene Roddenberry said: "It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting." | Steven Bochco made more creative elbow room on network television with NYPD Blue (No. 36), which debuted amid "viewer discretion" hype before settling into what it was—the last important primetime cop series. | Ronald Moore arrived at his remake of Battlestar Galactica (No. 38) determined to bring the "space opera" genre out of its fusty cartoon past.
The Bob Newhart Show (No. 41), a shining example of a sitcom at its most functional. | The recipe for Sex and the City (No. 39)—reveal enough of the female anatomy to keep guys watching, make the relationship angst palpable, add a generous helping of uptown shopping with a pinch of female empowerment— proved to be pay cable ambrosia. | Like other important shows from the 1980s MTM stable, St. Elsewhere (No. 46) twice won Emmys for its writing and was lauded in its day for its tougher-than-usual storytelling approach. | Medieval (or thereabouts) fantasy is not a TV genre with a particularly exalted tradition, which is why Game of Thrones (No. 40) feels so unprecedented in television. | Behind the scenes of Your Show of Shows (No. 42) the war room of gag writers included Neil Simon, Simon's brother Danny, Carl Reiner, the two Mels (Brooks and Tolkien), and the lone female, Lucille Kallen. | "As far as we're concerned, television very rarely had people who sounded like we did," co-creator Ed Zwick said when thirtysomething (No. 45) premiered. | Downton Abbey (No. 43), creator Julian Fellowes' lavish period piece, is also a pace-driven soap opera, set on a spectacular estate out in the English countryside of Yorkshire, home of the aristocratic Crawleys and their staff. | As TV changed around it, Law & Order (No. 44) remained what it was—a mostly straightforward, largely impersonal dramatization of a crime, the detectives investigating that crime, and the people in the D.A.'s office who would ultimately prosecute the accused. | Influenced by the Israeli TV series Prisoners of War, Homeland (No. 48) centers around an unreliable narrator and an ambiguous protagonist. The protagonist is a kidnapped U.S. Marine returning home as a sleeper Islamic militant, and the unreliable narrator is a mentally ill CIA agent trying to expose him before he carries out his deadly mission.
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Node Gallery jCarousel is a module that combines two other powerful modules (Node Gallery and jCarousel) to provide an out-of-the-box solution for paging through a gallery of nodes.
The module contains a predefined view along with some CSS and theming to provide a site administrator an easy way to give his/her users more flexibility when paging through image nodes. The pager uses AJAX, so no matter how big your gallery is, the carousel will only need to render at most an unordered list of 7 imagecache presets.
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Brian's ready...
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...but Charlie's the skip! :)
he wanted a guard, but got a biter.
now, Neil's calling the shot
someone wanted to see more sweeping pix :)
the score seems kinda uneven
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There were six of us in that house on 55th street in Brooklyn. My Dad, my Mom, my two sisters, Kathleen and Joan and our brother Richard. We all inherited a love for sweets from both sides of the family, but Richard, lucky Richard, could eat as much as he wanted without gaining an ounce. He was skinny. How thin was he? When he went swimming in all the hottest days of summer, he would emerge from the water shivering with blue lips. He could have posed for one of the Save the Children pictures. My grandmother would cross her arms, shake her head and say, "Takes after PopPop's family. They were all rails." PopPop was our maternal grandfather.
If his stature resembled the Toms family, so did his personality. What a pain! A mischievous child, he couldn't let an opportunity go by to tease his sisters. "Mom,' a girl's voice would cry out, 'Richard hid my coloring book!" My poor, exasperated mother would chase her only male child around the house, threatening him with her shoe. This was a mystical threat, designed to strike fear in his heart and cause him to see the folly of his ways. She would never, of course, hit him with her shoe and, of course, the threat only encouraged him. It became a game.
Richard's sisters were academically talented. He was not. Today he would have been diagnosed as learning disabled, dyslexic, to be specific. Then, school subjects that depended heavily on reading were a problem for him. His charm and superb ability in math and science got him through. He spent only a semester in college, but his achievements are legendary among his friends and family. As he inherited his slender physique from the Toms family, he inherited his musical ability from the Smithwicks … the male Smithwicks; the females were not so blessed. Without a lesson, he played percussion, the bass, and trumpet in several bands. He also fronted several others as lead singer.
It wasn't the music that astounded as much as it was his knowledge of how to build and repair things. Our father could build or fix a sunny day. Replacing a light bulb was the only visible extent of our brother's inheritance in that area until, inexplicably, in his mid-twenties, all of the skills that were part of our father's skill set, appeared as part of Richard's. We were amazed. Where did all of this come from?
He traveled through the remainder of his life, so competent that the company for which he worked kept him fully on the books despite long stretches of time when he was disabled by life threatening diseases. Treatments for Hodgkins in his twenties saved his life, but left with a badly damaged circulatory system. Heart disease in his early fifties required numerous surgeries and hospitalizations. The final assault was his diagnosis and treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma in his sixties. The chemo left his ailing heart so weak that it needed a mechanical assist. That assist was inserted into his chest a bit over a month ago.
My brother, the pest, the tease, the heartthrob of many a girl and woman, the consummate fixer, the kindest, sweetest man in the world went home to God on Tuesday. I'll bet that Mom, Dad, and our sister Kathleen were there to put him in his place.
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Get this, my Mom leaves for work one morning and when she comes home she brings with her that cretin Bubba. I'm told Bubba is my cousin, but I seriously doubt any dog that smelly could be part of my gene pool. Apparently Bubba's family is in Europe for a month so he is going to live with us until they get back. Lucky me.
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NROTC class in front of Cousens Gym, circa 1946. Image from Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University.
Seventy years ago the world was at war. Europe was in turmoil and the United States was pulling back on its policy of neutrality. In September 1941, mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor which officially brought the United States into the war, then Tufts President Leonard Carmichael partnered with the U.S. Navy to start the first ROTC program at Tufts. In its first year, the program enrolled over one hundred freshman and by 1946, over 2,000 men had completed the training on Tufts campus.
A lot has changed since then. In 1969, as Vietnam protests raged around the nation, Tufts faculty voted to ban ROTC from campus. They wouldn't take another vote on the subject until 2011 when current faculty members, some of whom had protested the war as college students 40 years earlier, voted to recognize ROTC on student transcripts.
Today, Tufts students can enroll in ROTC programs linked to the Army, Air Force or Navy. The 21 Jumbos currently in ROTC – 11 serving in the Army, 6 in the Air Force and 4 in the Navy – join others from Harvard, Wellesley, Gordon College, Salem State and Endicott to train at MIT.
Founded in part with public funds as a land-grant college, MIT has been legally required to teach military skills since it opened in 1865. One of the few area colleges that maintained an ROTC program throughout the Vietnam War, MIT ROTC signed cross-enrollment agreements with Tufts, Harvard and Wellesley during the 1970s.
Life as an ROTC student
Patrick Cassidy, E12, with Edmund E. Johnson, Jr, A51, AG55 and Nicholas Falk, A12 at Tufts 2011 Veterans' Day ceremony.
Patrick Cassidy, E12, has participated in Naval ROTC since coming to Tufts.
"I was always interested in military service," he said. "I have no family in the armed services, but after the attack of September 11, 2001 and with the current military conflicts the U.S. is involved in, serving my country in this way was important to me."
Cassidy said his commitment to service is part of what attracted him to Tufts, the school his brother Max Cassidy, A09, also attended.
"When I was in high school, I was looking for a college where I could study engineering, participate in ROTC and play football," Cassidy said. "Tufts has all those things, but what really attracted me to Tufts was its commitment to active citizenship."
Cassidy added that the financial incentives offered by the Navy were initially a compelling factor in his choice to become an ROTC midshipman.
New ROTC recruits receive a full, four year scholarship to the college they're attending. At the end of their first year, students can drop out of the program with no penalty. Those who stay are asked to make an eight year commitment – including active service followed by time in the reserves. Anyone who does not follow through on that commitment must pay back their scholarship money.
"As a high school student I knew that participation in ROTC meant that I could go to any college of my choice and it was empowering to have that kind of flexibility," Cassidy said. "By the end of my first year of ROTC, when I went to make a final commitment to the program, I was so sure it was the right choice for me that I would have continued in the program even if it meant not having a scholarship."
Cassidy added that in his experience the financial aspect played a minor role in people's decision to join or continue with ROTC.
"The people I've met in ROTC have been motivated by public service," Cassidy said. "It doesn't matter how they got here. ROTC is a fantastic opportunity which most people don't regret."
Cassidy, who travels to MIT for ROTC training anywhere between 3-7 times a week, said the program is rigorous but rewarding.
"ROTC prepares students to be public servants," Cassidy said. "Military service is public service. It's about keeping this country safe and about participating in humanitarian missions around the world."
In addition to the academic year training at MIT, Cassidy and his ROTC peers participate in more in-depth training sessions over the summer. These sessions go from wide to narrow over a student's time in the program, helping students learn broadly about the work of their branch of the armed services and then learn in depth about specific aspects of it.
"The first summer I just got a feel for everything the Navy does," Cassidy explained. "I traveled to different bases and saw different elements of the Navy's work. That experience helped me identify submarines as a particular interest, and the following summer I traveled to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and spent 10 days as a crew member on a sub."
This past summer, Cassidy took a different approach – serving on a surface ship.
"I felt pretty sure that serving on a submarine was the right fit for me, but it was nice to have the opportunity to serve on a surface ship so I could really understand the options," Cassidy said.
In May, the mechanical engineering major will be commissioned as an ensign, the lowest rank of officer, in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion program. The nuclear power which drives these submarines means they can go on long missions without needing to refuel, but also makes this assignment one of the most technically challenging programs in the military.
Like all prospects to the program, Cassidy had to interview with the program's director, four-star admiral Admiral Kirkland H. Donald, before being accepted. After graduating, he'll spend another 18 months training for this specific assignment before becoming a division officer, running a division of 15 to 20 sailors on a nuclear submarine.
"The Naval Nuclear Propulsion program is a perfect fit with my engineering background," Cassidy said. "It's been great to be able to simultaneously participate in ROTC while studying engineering."
On top of his rigorous academic education and ROTC training, Cassidy has also been a dedicated member of on the Tufts football team.
"My life at Tufts has been made up of three parts – my education, ROTC and football. Balancing those three things has been difficult, but I was always able to make it work," Cassidy said. "While I've been strongly committed to my education and to ROTC, football has been my outlet to have some fun."
Cassidy added that Coach Jay Civetti and his football teammates, including Army ROTC cadet Nicholas Falk, A12, have all been very supportive of his commitment to ROTC.
For example, after Cassidy and his roommate, Army ROTC cadet Matthew Milley, A12, were selected to lead this year's Veteran's Day ceremony, Coach Civetti organized the football team to show up in support of their teammates.
Overall, the feeling on campus towards ROTC is very positive, Cassidy said.
"I've had nothing but good experiences," Cassidy said. "On November 11, other students greeted me with smiles and wished me a happy Veterans' Day. I'm sure there are students who don't support the military or ROTC, but everyone's always been very polite to me."
Beyond the campus, Tufts ROTC cadets have a reputation for outstanding leadership. While the 21 Jumbos in ROTC train with other area students, both the Air Force and the Navy are headed by cadets from Tufts.
Brittany Trimble, A12, serves as wing commander for the 30 cadets participating in Air Force ROTC while Cassidy serves as battalion commander for the 40 midshipmen in Navy ROTC. In these roles, Trimble and Cassidy are leaders for the other students and take on responsibilities including overseeing training, motivating their peers and planning weekly events.
Developing Civic Leaders
Dean Glaser participating in an ROTC-like training at Fort Knox.
James M. Glaser, Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Arts and Sciences, serves as the faculty liaison to ROTC. With no military experience of his own, Dean Glaser has grown a deep appreciation of the armed services through this role.
"As an educator, I've found ROTC's leadership training to be impressive," Dean Glaser said. "The program is developmental – providing conscious feedback and constructive advice in a purposeful, methodical way. Obviously, the military is a very different environment from a university, so we shouldn't duplicate the way ROTC does everything, but I strongly believe there's a lot we can learn from their approach."
Last year, Glaser traveled to Fort Knox to get a taste of what ROTC is all about by participating in a bootcamp-style training session designed for academic leaders working with ROTC students. He shared his reflections on the experience in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
"ROTC provides a real benefit to our students and I've seen firsthand the positive impact participation in ROTC has," Glaser said. "Through a program of discipline, rigor and an emphasis on knowledge, ROTC builds self-worth, confidence and a commitment to public service."
Glaser added that there is no doubt in his mind that military service is public service.
"Our military personnel give their time, put themselves on the line and sacrifice for a greater cause," he said. "I admire the people who want to serve in the military – who are doing something greater than themselves based on their principals."
In an academic environment every academic decision is approached with rigor, and this spring's discussion about recognizing ROTC on student transcripts was no different.
Several prestigious internships and awards had already set a precedent for non-credit bearing activities to be included on transcripts but many other student activities are not included. Of the 29 faculty members who argued against the proposal many felt that, like the majority of student activities, ROTC should not be included on transcripts and that doing so would serve as an endorsement of the U.S. Military.
Richard M. Lerner, Professor of Child Development in the School of Arts and Sciences, was one of 41 faculty members who voted in favor of including ROTC on student transcripts.
For Lerner, it came down to a question of treating ROTC no differently from other activities.
"Graduation from an elite university like Tufts is a ticket to a good life and a strong alumni network," Lerner said. "For a young person to defer or delay that life and career path for something they believe in, to put service before personal success, is to be admired. We list other programs and honors on our student's transcripts and we shouldn't do any less for the students in ROTC."
Lerner, a self-described "1960's hippie" who never served in the military said his positive interactions with military personnel has shaped his feelings towards the armed services.
"The most anti-war people I know are military leaders," Lerner said. "They're not looking to start wars because they know better than anyone the sacrifice that goes into them. But they do believe we need to stand up and defend ourselves, and they're willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the country."
Lerner said he's gotten to know several military personnel through his work on the board of the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC), a national non-profit which works to ensure quality educational opportunities for children of military personnel.
"Over 2 million children have at least one parent currently serving in the U.S. military as active duty, National Guard and Reserve personnel, and another 4 million are the children of veterans who've served since 9/11," Lerner said. "Most of these children fly under the radar – their teachers may not know about the challenges their facing, including moving a lot or having their parents away."
As director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot Pearson Department of Child Development, Lerner is bringing his expertise in positive youth development to this large group of underserved children.
"These children are resilient, smart and productive. It's important that we look at the unique challenges they're facing and provide them with support," Lerner said. "The parents volunteer; but the kids are drafted."
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Lawyers for a prominent Marathon Realtor, a former Marathon building contractor and two other former Orion Bank directors named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. fired back at the government for being hypocritical in its allegations.
"In essence, the FDIC blames the directors for not having uncovered the misrepresentations and omissions made to them ... In doing so, the FDIC completely ignores the fact that federal and state regulators such as itself did not uncover the fraud either," states a 22-page motion to dismiss filed in federal court on March 22. "In it's search for a scapegoat, the FDIC refuses to look in the mirror."
The directors requested a one-hour hearing before a judge so they can present oral arguments in addition to the paperwork filed in an effort to have the case tossed out of court.
Attorneys for the FDIC on Tuesday, in turn, requested more time to prepare their argument.
Brian Schmitt, co-owner of Coldwell-Banker Schmitt Real Estate Co., and James Aultman, the retired former owner of Aultman Construction Company of Marathon, are among the directors of the now-defunct bank accused of failing to stop former CEO Jerry Williams from steering the institution into insolvency. Also named as defendants are Earl Holland of Fort Myers and Alan Pratt of Vero Beach. Aultman now lives in Dade City.
The FDIC wants the former directors to pay $53 million in restitution because they failed to "monitor, supervise and restrain" Williams' "reckless growth strategy," according to a 26-page civil complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers.
But the directors alleged the FDIC "almost completely ignores the fact that both the directors and the bank's regulators were lied to about those loans," the directors state in their motion to dismiss.
"The FDIC's claim instead relies almost exclusively on speculation and supposition" and "almost completely ignores the fraud committed by Williams," the defense motion states
Williams is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for bank fraud. He orchestrated a complex conspiracy to fraudulently raise capital and falsify bank records in order to mislead state and federal regulators, according to his April 2011 indictment.
Federal regulators seized Orion Bank in November 2009, and Iberia Bank assumed operations of all Orion bank branches.
In August, Williams was ordered to pay $31 million to the FDIC, which incurred the bank's debt after Orion was declared insolvent, according to the complaint. The FDIC alleges Orion's misdeeds cost it $880 million.
Brian Schmitt previously provided The Citizen with a copy of the FDIC's victim impact statement, presented to the court June 1, 2012, that described Williams' misdeeds.
The document essentially paints Williams as the ringleader and the directors as unknowing pawns to his illegal acts.
Schmitt did return a phone call seeking comment.
The former directors are represented by Miami-based lawyer Lawrence Kellogg, who could not be reached for comment Friday due to a family emergency, an assistant at his office said.
Orion Bank was founded in Marathon in 1977 as First National Bank of Marathon. In 1982, the name was changed to First National Bank of the Florida Keys. Williams became the CEO and president in 1987.
In 1994, its holding company, First Bancorp Inc., opened a new branch in Naples called Gulf Coast National Bank. The charters of both banks were combined in January 2002, and the banks were unified under the new name Orion Bank. All operations were then headquartered in Naples.


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Angels Landing, Zion National Park, UT
This is the hike you'll brag about back home, assuming you're up for doing it. You hike 2.5 miles up cliffs so steep you have to negotiate them with the help of chains bolted into the rock; the final portion of the trail rides a narrow rock fin with dizzily sharp drop-offs on either side. The reward: phenomenal views and aforementioned bragging rights.


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Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger sister of pop star Britney Spears, rose to prominence for her appearances on Nickelodeon shows All That and for playing Zoey Brooks on Zoey 101. In December of 2007, the 16-year-old Jamie Lynn announced in OK magazine that she was pregnant by her teenage boyfriend, Casey Aldridge. The young lovers announced their engagement in March of 2008 and a daughter was born 19 June 2008.
Controversy surfaced because Jamie Lynn was two years below the California age of consent, raising questions about her and Aldridge's age difference, and whether Aldridge could or would be charged with statutory rape, although Spears was neither from California nor living there. It was later confirmed that Casey Aldridge was just under two years older than Jamie Lynn, which meant that he could be charged only with a misdemeanor under California law, which has an exception for adults fewer than three years older than the minor.
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