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Josephine Reed: Now, The Big Read.
Charles Keating reads from "The Fall of the House of Usher"...
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?
Reed: That was Charles Keating reading from Edgar Allan Poe's haunting gothic tale, "The Fall of the House of Usher." Welcome to The Big Read, a program created by the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. I'm Josephine Reed. The Big Read is a program designed to unite communities through great literature. And here's your host, poet and former chair of the NEA, Dana Gioia.
Dana Gioia: It's nice to be with you for another installment of The Big Read. Today we'll discuss the life and work of one of America's most original and terrifying authors, Edgar Allan Poe.
Louis Bayard: Edgar Allan Poe still has the capacity to get under our skin in a way that few writers can.
Gioia: Writer Louis Bayard.
Bayard: He recognized what people hide in the closets of their minds. He brought all that out in the open—and there's something quite terrifying about that.
Gioia: Poet Daniel Hoffman.
Daniel Hoffman: He was a poet devoted to beauty. He wrote tales that will frighten the boy out of his pajamas!
Bayard: Without Poe we don't have the mystery genre. The gothic horror story doesn't exist in the same way without Poe.
Hoffman: He was a pioneer in inventing the science fiction tale, and the detective story, and the tale of exploration.
Gioia: Writer Arthur Yorinks.
Arthur Yorinks: In an odd way, this man who died when he was 40, he's had a profound impact on many different kinds of writing
Gioia: Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His life would be marked by loss and difficulty, beginning from early childhood with the deaths of his parents. At the age of two for example, he watched his mother die of consumption.
Poet Richard Wilbur.
Richard Wilbur: His parents were theater people. His father disappeared very early from the stage and into drink. His mother had a fairly satisfactory career on the stage, but died young. Poe was, therefore, at an early age, adopted by some high-minded people of Richmond and brought up more or less, as a member of a leading mercantile family of the town.
Gioia: Poe once wrote in a letter, "The want of parental affection has been the heaviest of my trials." His relationship with his adoptive father, John Allan, was always contentious.
Wilbur: Evidently, John Allan was prepared to lower the boom on Edgar Allan Poe when after a first semester or so at the University of Virginia, he found that he had lost a lot of money at gambling. Mr. Allan would not pay Poe's debts of honor, which led to a kind of disgrace, led finally to Poe's absenting himself, making a romantic wander up the seacoast to Boston, and enlisting in the army.
Gioia: Poe found success in the army and eventually made his way to West Point for officer training. However, just like his experience at the University of Virginia, Poe's was soon expelled from West Point for earning too many demerits.
Louis Bayard.
Bayard: He was there at a mere six months, which I think was maybe a month or two longer than he lasted at UVA. I think the reason that Poe went there was probably to impress and pacify his foster father John Allan. They had had a very rocky relationship.And, uh, I think Poe saw the handwriting on the wall and realized that there was no point any longer in creating favor with this very difficult man, and consequently there was no point in staying at West Point.
Gioia: When Poe left West Point, he broke off relations with John Allan and moved to Baltimore to focus on a literary career.
Writer Laura Lippman.
Laura Lippman: Poe is an unusual figure in the nineteenth century in that he wanted to be a full-time writer. That was a luxury very few poets and novelists had. Writers in the nineteenth century tended to have independent incomes or they had day jobs, you know, as Melville certainly did, for example. But Poe wanted to be a full time writer, and at the same time was often incredibly poor.
Gioia: Richard Wilbur.
Wilbur: All the time he was writing so woefully about his life, he was nevertheless being a good magazine editor.
Gioia: Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: He was an unrelenting critic—the first critic American literature who applied strictly aesthetic standards, rather than plugging books because they were by American writers. He did have a weakness, however, for the poetic effusions of women.
Gioia: Louis Bayard.
Bayard: He was also... had a genius for making enemies and creating literary feuds with leading lights like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. If you wanna make your way in the world, you don't pick fights with Longfellow or Washington Irving or Nathanial Hawthorne, all of whom at some point in his life he baited.
Gioia: Writer and cultural critic Camille Paglia.
Camille Paglia: At the time Poe was writing, there were two distinct strains in the American sensibility. One was the Puritan, which was based on frugality and prudence. On the other hand, it was a time when America was in love with its own frontier possibilities—a sense of the undiscovered lands. And what Poe did, essentially, is to invent American decadence—a richness in literature when the American style of writing was actually highly planed and using a vocabulary that was fairly limited.
Gioia: Author Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket.
Daniel Handler: He is very haunting; and the language, however flowery in some cases, and the themes, however broad, really work together to weave a spell.
Gioia: Writer Louis Bayard.
Bayard: Edgar Allan Poe's short stories are probably the best known elements of his literary oeuvre, and yet at the time he was alive, they were probably the least well known. When he died he was best known as the author of "The Raven," which was the equivalent of a hit popular song in its day, it was hugely popular. The short stories he claimed to have written basically for money, and yet they're so strange and dark and so very personal that they don't come across as hack work at all. The amount of care he took with them shows I think how deeply they resonated with him.
Gioia: Among Poe's volumes of terrifying and memorable stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher" stands as a centerpiece and a model of gothic horror.
Lippman: This is so scary that I'm not sure you should read it. And if you do read it, read it before the sun goes down. And if you read it late at night, I won't be responsible for the dreams you have.
Charles Keating reads from "The Fall of the House of Usher"...
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Gioia: Daniel Handler.
Handler: "The Fall of the House of Usher" begins with our narrator, who has traveled a great distance to see a friend he hasn't seen in a very long time.
Gioia: Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: Narrator has been summoned by a letter from his boyhood chum whom he hasn't seen in many, many years. This is Roderick Usher.
Handler: Who along with his sister has suffered from various unspecified ailments in a physical and a mental and I would say, spiritual matter.
Hoffman: It seems to take place in a deserted wilderness where there is this mysterious house that rises above a lake, which is called a "tarn." The house has a zigzag flaw in it, as appears to the narrator who approaches it.
Gioia: Camille Paglia.
Paglia: Now what is unusual in Poe's depiction of nature here is that we're not seeing the unspoiled forest and plains of the America in his time, okay. Instead we're seeing this swamp, we're seeing nature itself in a strange state of decay, with the Usher House poised on the edge of the waters, with a crack running down the façade, which certainly signifies the mental problems of its last remaining male occupant. It implies a kind of schizophrenia and a mental breakdown of the Usher family.
Lippman: Why does Usher send for his old friend?
Gioia: Laura Lippman.
Lippman: Clearly Usher sees that something is about to happen. Does he want a witness? Does he want protection? What is it that is so important to Usher that he reaches out to someone that he knew when he was much younger?
Charles Keating reads from "The Fall of the House of Usher"...
Surely, man had never before so terribly altered, in so brief a period, as had Roderick Usher! It was with difficulty that I could bring myself to admit the identity of the wan being before me with the companion of my early boyhood. [... ]
He entered, at some length, into what he conceived to be the nature of his malady. It was, he said, a constitutional and a family evil, and one for which he despaired to find a remedy—a mere nervous affection, he immediately added, which would undoubtedly soon pass off. It displayed itself in a host of unnatural sensations. Some of these, as he detailed them, interested and bewildered me; although, perhaps, the terms, and the general manner of the narration had their weight. He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable; he could wear only garments of certain texture; the odours of all flowers were oppressive; his eyes were tortured by even a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror.
Gioia: Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: So he goes in and he finds Roderick in very sad shape. His books are scattered about. Musical instruments lie untouched. And what unfolds is that the narrator penetrates further and further into the house, which is full of subterranean passages and hidden tunnels and so on.
Gioia: Camille Paglia.
Paglia: The house of the title is both a physical house of the Usher family, which is in a state of decay, and the actual family itself, which is a dynasty that has been subject to introversion and attenuation and apparently genetic defect, because the two remaining siblings can barely survive breathing and are beset by a host of maladies.
Gioia: The narrator meets Roderick's sister, Madeline.
Charles Keating Reads from "The Fall of the House of Usher"...
He admitted, however, although with hesitation, that much of the peculiar gloom which thus afflicted him could be traced to a more natural and far more palpable origin—to the severe and long-continued illness—indeed to the evidently approaching dissolution—of a tenderly beloved sister, his sole companion for long years, his last and only relative on earth. "Her decease," he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget, "would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers." While he spoke, the lady Madeline (for so was she called) passed slowly through a remote portion of the apartment, and, without having noticed my presence, disappeared. I regarded her with an utter astonishment not unmingled with dread—and yet I found it impossible to account for such feelings. A sensation of stupor oppressed me, as my eyes followed her retreating steps.
Handler: Well, the whole House of Usher is something of a house of mirrors.
Gioia: Daniel Handler.
Handler: And I think this is what is so alluring about the story is that to start to read it is to kind of spiral into the eddies of the dark waters of the Usher family. It's difficult even over the course of a small tale with not very many characters to kind of keep everything straight because they're all in this house that is endlessly reflective and self-reflective.
Gioia: You're listening to The Big Read, from the National Endowment for the Arts. Today we're discussing Edgar Allan Poe and his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Poe was a master at writing stories that operate on several levels—the immediate and often thrilling tale on the surface, as well as the psychologically complex undercurrents. Critics have long enjoyed peeling back the layers of Poe's stories to uncover their subtexts and hidden metaphors.
Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: The real location of the house and the story is in the narrator's mind. The house has been described by Narrator as having windows like eyes, it's overgrown with moss, which he likens to Roderick's hair.
Gioia: Daniel Handler.
Handler: The house itself is kind of a skull, and so the narrator walks into a skull in order to confront what is going on.
Gioia: Camille Paglia.
Paglia: It's a kind of travelogue. So what we're getting, though, is not necessarily visiting far and distant lands, but almost repressed areas of the Western psyche.
Gioia: Daniel Hoffman and Richard Wilbur have written about "The Fall of the House of Usher" as a metaphor for a journey into the human mind.
Wilbur: When we have proceeded into the house of Usher, through winding passages, suggestive of the wandering of the mind as it enters the dream world, we come at last to Roderick Usher, the double, the other half of our hero. Usher's improvised songs and his extraordinary abstract paintings do suggest for me the hypnagogic state.
Hoffman: Well, Roderick is the deeper part of life.
Gioia: Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: Roderick really represents Narrator's unconsciousness, and Narrator represents the conscious mind. And the whole tale is a fable of the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.
Yorinks: All of the relationships in "The Fall of the House of Usher" are truly mysterious.
Gioia: Arthur Yorinks.
Yorinks: Why is Roderick living with his sister and the only living relatives in this house? What is their relationship? There are obvious hints of a deep bond between Roderick and his sister. Late in the story, we learn that they are twins, and what does that mean?
Gioia: Laura Lippman.
Lippman: The relationship between Roderick and Madeline is unhealthy. She's dying. He's quite ill. He seems to be showing signs of an encroaching emotional illness, mental illness. They have been driven quite mad by something—by their family's own inbreeding? By a relationship that they should not have had? Something has gone terribly wrong in the house of Usher. That's certainly fair to say.
Gioia: Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: Then at one point, he turns to Narrator and tells him that Madeline is no more. So Narrator helps Roderick put her in a coffin.
Charles Keating reads from "The Fall of the House of Usher"... [page 329]
Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant. A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention, and Usher, divining perhaps my thoughts, murmured out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them. Our glances, however, rested not long upon the dead—for we could not regard her unawed. The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death. We replaced and screwed down the lid, and having secured the door of iron, made our way, with toil, into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house.
Gioia: Arthur Yorinks, who wrote the libretto for an opera based on "The Fall of the House of Usher," recognizes Poe's acute perception to sensory detail and his talent for building tension.
Yorinks: He sets out, in the very beginning, this very desolate and almost quiet tone—and he builds. It's like a great symphonic work. The sound of Madeleine even walking through the house. Doors shutting. The sound of Roderick playing music. The sound of the house. Strange, creaking sounds. It builds and builds and builds 'til this enormous finale.
Gioia: Daniel Handler.
Handler: It's a splendid tale and contains kind of all the gothic obsessions: crypts and families in dire circumstances, siblings and twins, secrets, old houses, bad weather. It's so Poe, it's almost meta-Poe. It's kind of Poe at the white heat of his imagination—that everything is terrible, there's not a ray of sunlight. I love this story.
Gioia: Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: So now they put Madeline away and screw down the lid of the coffin and close the huge iron door and bolt it. And they come upstairs. There's a storm outside, and Roderick flings open the window, and it nearly sweeps them away inside.
Gioia: Laura Lippman.
Lippman: Then we have the information that he has known for days that she is alive and trying to get out. Why doesn't he go to her? Why doesn't he, at the very least, investigate these odd premonitions he has about the sounds coming from his sister's temporary tomb? Why does he sit there in the grand living room of the house of Usher, and ask his friend to read him a story in hopes that he will be distracted and wait until she appears on the doorstep?
Gioia: Death and resurrection is a common theme in Poe's work.
Louis Bayard.
Bayard: We have this whole bridge world between life and death. Nobody ever quite completely dies in Poe's books, they're what they call revenants, you know, always coming back to life. And that I think shows you how oppressed Poe felt by the ghost of his mother, by the ghost of the past, by his lost family—his biological family was largely destroyed by the time he came of age.
Gioia: The most important women in Poe's life all died prematurely, including his mother and his beloved young wife, Virginia.
Daniel Hoffman.
Hoffman: This leads to Poe's theory that the proper subject, the only subject, for poems is to mourn the death of a beautiful woman.
Gioia: Laura Lippman lives in Baltimore, the city perhaps most associated with Edgar Allan Poe, and the place where he died at forty years old.
Lippman: He died here under circumstances that are so fittingly an eternal mystery. It's not only that we don't know what killed Poe in October 1849. We don't know why he was here. It makes no sense. He was supposed to be going, I believe, to Philadelphia. There was no reason for him to come by way of Baltimore. No one knows what he was doing in those final days.
Gioia: Richard Wilbur.
Wilbur: The old story, which various people have tried to modify, was that Poe was drunk in Baltimore at a time of elections, and that some rascals got him drunk and took him from polling place to polling place as what they called a "repeater," to vote again and again for their candidate.
Lippman: He is found wearing clothes that are not his own, and clearly in great distress.
Wilbur: He was discovered unconscious, lying on the sidewalk, and spent several days dying in a hospital there.
Gioia: Camille Paglia.
Paglia: Poe is a keeper. His body of work is a treasure house that can be of use to us from childhood to old age.
Gioia: Daniel Handler.
Handler: There are countless dime novels and penny dreadfuls that have faded into history and countless writers of strange stories, but I think the reason why people stay with Poe and the reason why people still read him, I think it's because his stories contain this kind of air of ghostly desperation and sadness.
Gioia: Louis Bayard.
Bayard: Park your preconceptions at the door. Don't think you know who Edgar Allan Poe is, don't think you know what you're gonna find on the page, because I guarantee you it will be stranger and deeper and richer than what you were expecting.
Reed: Thanks for joining The Big Read. This program was created by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It was written and produced by Dan Stone. Dana Gioia hosted the program. The assistant producers are Adam Kampe, Pepper Smith, and Liz Mehaffey. Readings from "The Fall of the House of Usher" were by Charles Keating.
And the following music used courtesy of Naxos of America Incorporated.
Special thanks to Ted Libbey and Foster Reed, and to our contributors: Louis Bayard, Daniel Handler, Daniel Hoffman, Laura Lippman, Camille Paglia, Richard Wilbur and Arthur Yorinks.
For the National Endowment for the Arts, I'm the executive producer, Josephine Reed. For more information about The Big Read, go to www.neabigread.org.


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What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
October 2, 2009 – January 24, 2010
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Enter the world of artist William T. Wiley, who has created a distinctive body of work during a 50-year career that addresses critical issues of our time. Art, politics, war, global warming, foolishness, ambition, hypocrisy, and irony are summoned by Wiley's fertile imagination and recorded in the personal vocabulary of symbols, puns and images that fill his objects. His wit and sense of the absurd make his art accessible to all with multiple layers of meaning revealed through careful examination.
This retrospective, which features eighty-eight works from the 1960s to the present, is the first full-scale look at Wiley's long career and explores important themes and ideas expressed in his work. His work ranges from traditional drawing, watercolor, acrylic painting, sculpture, and printmaking to performances, constructions of assorted materials, and, more recently, printed pins, tapestries, and a pinball machine. Many artworks in the exhibition are on public display for the first time, and the installation includes several of Wiley's avant-garde films of the 1970s, which are rarely screened.
Joann Moser, senior curator, organized the exhibition.
The accompanying book, co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and University of California Press, includes essays by Joann Moser; John Hanhardt, consulting senior curator for film and media arts; and John Yau, poet and critic. It is available in the Museum Store and online for $65 (hardcover) or $39.95 (paperback) (Member price, $52/$32).
Free Public Programs
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series, William Wiley What's It All Mean Wednesday, September 30 at 7 p.m.
Wiley Family Day, Saturday, October 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Punball: Only One Earth, a rare opportunity for visitors to play Wiley's Punball: Only One Earth, which is on view in the exhibition. Thursdays, October 15 and 16; November 12; and December 3 and 17, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Galley Talk with Joann Moser, Tuesday, October 20 at 6 p.m.
Films—William Wiley: Filmworks, Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 p.m.
Tilt!, lecture and demonstration with David Silverman, pinball machine collector and historian, Saturday, October 31 from 3 to 6 p.m.
Films—Wiley's Tower and Tower for the No Bull Salvage, Thursday, November 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Improv Now! Performance All Wiley—No Coyote, Saturday, November 21 at 3 p.m.
A printmaking session with George Mason University's art and visual technology department, Saturday, January 23, from 1 to 3 p.m.
Selected Recent Reviews
Smithsonian magazine, October 1, "William Wiley Opens His Show at the American Art Museum with Pinball" by Abby Callard
The Washington Post, October 9, " William Wiley: The Writing's on the Walls" by Michael O'Sullivan
The Wall Street Journal, December 9, "He's Wiley, And Witty" by Sidney Lawrence
The New York Times, December 29, "In Case You Missed the Revolution, Man" by Ken Johnson
National Tour
After closing in Washington, D.C., the exhibition will travel to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California (March 17, 2010 — July 18, 2010).
Generous support for What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect was provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation, Gretchen and John Berggruen, Charles Cowles, the Cowles Charitable Trust, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Electric Works, Sakurako and William Fisher, the Lipman Family Foundation, James and Marsha Mateyka, Arnold and Oriana McKinnon, Rita J. Pynoos, Betty and Jack Schafer, Laura and Joe Sweeney, Roselyne C. Swig, and the Tides Foundation: Art 4 Moore Fund. The exhibition is organized and circulated by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum's traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go.

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The Scoop: Teeny Tiny Hedgehogs Born Too Early!
How appropriate that we are seeing so many baby animals this week with Mother's Day just around the corner! First a day-old rhino, then an hours-old baby elephant . . . now we can throw these hedgehogs into the mix! Although these little guys were born last month, they do have an interesting story. In Europe, birthing time for hedgehogs is usually in late May to early June, with hibernation and cold weather keeping them safe inside their burrows. But this litter, born April 26th, is one of the earliest litters of hedgehogs ever seen in Europe, and oh-so tiny – each little one weighs less than an ounce! Elizabeth Dyas, founder of Prickly Ball Farm in Devon (which looks after these animals) is speculating that unseasonably warm weather is what's bringing the hedgehogs out of hibernation early:
"When we first started taking them in about 20 years ago there were harsher winters and they hibernated for much longer periods than they do now. Normally we would start to get small numbers being born at the end of May and beginning of June"
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Former Inland Empire legislator Jim Brulte announced Monday that he is running to lead the California Republican Party, a position party insiders say he'll likely win but that leaves plenty of work ahead of him.
Brulte made the confirmation by phone Monday, following an endorsement by Steve Baric, the state party's vice chairman.
Republican insiders traditionally fight to become vice chairman, a position that leads almost automatically to becoming chairman, Brulte said.
"Baric was one of a number of people who encouraged me to run for chair - I've always said, if he wants to run for chair, it's his," Brulte said. "Tonight begins about a one-month series of ... (speeches) delivering my message of what I think the party needs."
Brulte served in the state Legislature for 14 years before leaving in 2004 as Senate Republican Leader, and since then has been a principal partner of public affairs firm California Strategies.
He said he saw the party chairman's role as logistical rather than policy-oriented.
"I'm not running to be the policy spokesman for Republicans," he said. "I had that job when I was in the Assembly and the Senate. I want to be the grassroots nuts-and-bolts guy, doing the hard work of rebuilding the state party. We have to rebuild the Republican Party from the ground up, because the future success of California demands a healthy two-party system."
Republicans have been battered in recent California elections, with fewer than 30 percent of state voters registred as Republicans, no statewide positions held by Republicans and Democrats in 2012 seizing a two-thirds majority - large enough to raise taxes without any Republican support.
Much of that is a matter of the message not getting out, said Brulte, and can be solved with three priorities that he plans to work on simultaneously:
Rebuilding finances
The party must be rebuild its financial base with more small, medium and large donors, he said.
"The California Republican Party is broke, financially broke," said Brulte, whose position as chairman will be unpaid. "It has three full-time staffers, two of whom don't even work in an office."
Rebuilding the grassroots
Gathering support among ordinary residents in the state must be re-emphasized, Brulte said.
That's particularly true, he said, in races where the Republican incumbent will likely face a serious challenge - including Rep. Gary Miller, R-Rancho Cucamonga, whose district includes Brulte's Fontana home - and where Democratic incumbents are vulnerable.
Recruiting candidates
"We have to go into every community in California and recruit candidates, train candidates and - to the extent possible - provide technical support for candidates," he said.
Baric said by phone Monday that he was declining the post because he was too busy as a father, attorney and Rancho Santa Margarita councilman.
"I think he's going to do a great job," Baric said. "He's got a lot of experience, he's well known in the fundraising community, and he has a demonstrated ability to win."
Influential conservative blogger Jon Fleischman of FlashReport said last week that all segments of the party seem to have united around Brulte, and party spokesman Mark Standriff said Monday no one else had announced their candidacy for the March 3 election, although many were campaigning for vice chairman.
"The chairman is considered to be the leader of the state party and all its apparatuses," Standriff said, but party bylaws require that the chairmanship rotate between Northern and Southern California. "The next chairman will be expected to make sure Southern California gets represented."
Baric said Brulte has a difficult job ahead of him, but said Democrats' statewide dominance presents an opportunity.
"The great thing about it is, quite frankly, the Democrats own every level of government, and I don't think anyone would say they're not running the state into the ground," Baric said. "At some point, we're going to get the chance to say we're able to solve the systemic problems the state faces."
Democratic spokesman Tenoch Flores was skeptical of that Brulte's actions could change voters' minds.
"It's not just the `nuts and bolts,' it's the policy, it's the fact that Republicans were given a chance to work hand-in-hand with Gov. (Jerry) Brown when he came into office and ... were very comfortable being the party of `no,"' Flores said. "They've got problems top to bottom: organization, message, policy - many of their ideas are out of date and out of touch."
But Flores had guarded praise for Brulte himself.
"He's certainly someone who was respected by his colleagues in the Legislature, and he's taken this difficult job. He's as able as anyone."
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By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EVERETT — The 4-year-old girl was hiding in a closet when SWAT members busted through the door of a Marysville apartment where a convicted sex offender had been barricaded for nearly 13 hours.
The girl told investigators Jason Tryon didn't hurt her, but she'd been scared and wanted to leave the apartment after she saw him fighting her mom.
Prosecutors have charged Tryon with unlawful imprisonment while armed with a deadly weapon and fourth-degree domestic violence assault. He is accused of punching the child's mother, his girlfriend, in the face during the Jan. 14 incident.
Tryon, 33, made a brief appearance Monday in Snohomish County Superior Court, where he pleaded not guilty to the felony charges. He was jailed on $500,000 bail.
Tryon is a Level 3 registered sex offender with a 2004 conviction for having sex with a teenage girl, whom he also supplied with drugs. He was under supervision of the state Department of Corrections at the time of the standoff.
His girlfriend told police that she and Tryon had been smoking marijuana and methamphetamine earlier in the night. They ended up arguing and Tryon reportedly threatened to cut himself with a large kitchen knife. The woman demanded that Tryon drop the knife and when he refused, she threatened to clobber him with a metal baseball bat.
The woman told investigators that Tryon, who stands 6 feet, 8 inches, grabbed the bat from her and threw her to the ground. He also allegedly punched her in the face, leaving her with a bloody nose.
The argument woke up the woman's 4-year-old daughter, who reportedly witnessed the assault, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Matthew Baldock wrote in court papers.
The woman ran to a neighbor for help. The neighbor attempted to retrieve the girl, but Tryon reportedly refused to let the girl go and threatened the woman with a knife, court papers said. She called 911.
Tryon allegedly refused to surrender and barricaded himself in the apartment, piling furniture against the front door. During the standoff, officers could hear the girl pleading with Tryon to let her leave.
Eventually, heavily armed tactical officers forced their way into the apartment and arrested Tryon. He allegedly had a 12-inch butcher knife in the waistband of his pants. The girl was found hiding in a closet.
The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office reports Tryon has no fixed address. The conditions of his freedom included avoiding illegal drugs and staying away from children.
Tryon's girlfriend told police that his sex offender history hasn't been an issue in their relationship and that he hasn't harmed her daughter.
When arrested on Jan. 14, Tryon was awaiting trial for moving from a Marysville home and failing to register as a sex offender at his new address.
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Forty-five tornadoes touched down in Pennsylvania during a three-day span. A mile-wide tornado with several funnels tore up 48 miles of Somerset County. Entire cattle herds were killed, and a few cows were hurled 100 yards. In Wyoming County, two people were pulled from their home and thrown into another, killing them instantly. Boats moored in Lake Carey were picked up and tossed inland and millions of dollars worth of crops were destroyed.


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Videophone remote control, patent No. D671,917, invented by Harry C. Gibbens, Jr. of Provo.
Free-falling locking tongue, patent No. 8,322,000, invented by Michael Dziengowski of Royal Oak, Mich., Jeff Russell of Warren, Mich., and Timothy Cahill of Dryden, Mich., assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.
Method for making lightweight, cast titanium helmets and body armor, patent No. 8,322,016, invented by David V. Kirkham of Provo, and Jeffrey B. Kirkham of Portland, Ore.
Movable partitions and header assemblies for movable partitions, patent No. 8,322,095, invented by Michael D. George of Kaysville, assigned to Won-Door Corp. of Salt Lake City.
Pseudorandom binary sequence apparatus and method for in-line inspection tool, patent No. 8,322,219, invented by Philip M. Hoyt of Murray, assigned to Pure Technologies Ltd. of Calgary, Calif.
Inflatable airbag assemblies with arm-manipulating side airbags, patent No. 8,322,747, invented by Balaskandan Shankar of Salt Lake City, assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.
Clamping joint for a chair, patent No. 8,322,787, invented by Richard D. Smith of Spanish Fork, assigned to Mity-Lite Inc. of Orem.
Seal with contact element for pick shield, patent No. 8,322,796, invented by David R. Hall of Provo, Ronald B. Crockett of Provo, Gary Peterson of Salem, and Jeffrey B. Jepson of Spanish Fork, assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. of Houston.
Tip configurations for a multilumen catheter, patent No. 8,323,227, invented by Bret Hamatake of Grantsville, Jason R. Stats of Woods Cross, Amir Orome of Sandy, Joseph H. Barrett of Kaysville, and Dallen Glen Herzog of Salt Lake City, assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J.
Suture locking device, patent No. 8,323,315, invented by Herbert E. Schwartz of Fort Wayne, Ind., Thomas C. May of Wrentham, Mass., Robert-Jan Enzerink of Tracey, Calif., and John Margetts of Bountiful, assigned to DePuy Mitek Inc. of Raynham, Mass.
Methods of manufacturing a delivery system for promoting bone growth, patent No. 8,323,339, invented by Dan E. Fischer of Sandy, assigned to Ultradent Products Inc. of South Jordan.
Anterior lumbar interbody fusion cage device and associated method, patent No. 8,323,345, invented by John B. Sledge of Marblehead, Mass., assigned to U.S. Spine Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Duodenum stent and associated method, patent No. 8,323,350, invented by Thomas Nissl of Winsen / Luhe, Germany, assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. of South Jordan.
Superabrasive elements, methods of manufacturing, and drill bits, including same, patent No. 8,323,367, invented by Kenneth E. Bertagnolli of Riverton, and David P. Miess of Highland, assigned to US Synthetic Corp. of Orem.
High early strength pozzolan cement blends, patent No. 8,323,399, invented by John M. Guynn of Salt Lake City, and Andrew S. Hansen of Bountiful, assigned to Roman Cement LLC of Bountiful.
Carbon management and sequestration from encapsulated control infrastructures, patent No. 8,323,481, invented by Todd Dana of Park City, and James W. Patten of Sandy, assigned to Red Leaf Resources Inc. of Sandy.
Alkali metal seawater battery, patent No. 8,323,817, invented by John Howard Gordon of Salt Lake City, assigned to Ceramatec Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Anti-adhesion composites and methods of use thereof, patent No. 8,324,184, invented by Glenn D. Prestwich of Salt Lake City, Kelly R. Kirker of Bozeman, Mont., Steven D. Gray of Salt Lake City, Xiao Zheng Shu of Dublin, Calif., Hao Li of San Diego, Calif., and Yanchun Liu of Nashville, Tenn., assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
Stable compositions of dehydroascorbic acid, patent No. 8,324,269, invented by Douglas Q. Kitt of Salt Lake City, and Jay P. Kitt of Salt Lake City, assigned to ReCverin LLC of Salt Lake City.
Apparatus system and method for Web-based phone services, patent No. 8,325,738, invented by Thomas Jeffrey Purdy of Springville, David Randal Elkington of Springville, Matthew Coston Parker of Spanish Fork, and Kenneth David Krogue of Alpine, assigned to Insidesales.com of Provo.
Personal speakerphone device, patent No. 8,325,911, invented by David K. Lambert of South Jordan, assigned to Clearone of Salt Lake City.
Standoff and mobile fingerprint collection, patent No. 8,325,993, invented by Jonathan Dinerstein of Draper, Sabra Dinerstein of Draper, and Eric D. Eborn of Midvale, assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md.
Imaging of macular pigment distributions, patent No. 8,326,405, invented by Werner Gellermann of Salt Lake City, and Mohsen Sharifzadeh of Salt Lake City, assigned to the University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
Tactile contact and impact displays and associated methods, patent No. 8,326,462, invented by William R. Provancher of Salt Lake City, assigned to the University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
Prediction of wax appearance temperature and solid wax amount by reduced spectral analysis using FTIR spectroscopy, patent No. 8,326,548, invented by Kyeongseok Oh Oh of Salt Lake City.
Positioning e-commerce product related to graphical imputed consumer demand, patent No. 8,326,662, invented by Patrick Michael Byrne of Park City, and Geoffrey Russell Atkinson of Salt Lake City, assigned to Overstock.com, Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Method and system for behavioral classification, patent No. 8,326,688, invented by Paul Harrison of Keller, Texas, James Oliphant of Pleasant Grove, Hal Fulton of Austin, Texas, Armin Roehrl of Koetzing, Germany, and Brenden Grace of Charlottesville, Va., assigned to Collective Inc. of New York, N.Y.
System and method for MICR-based duplicate detection and management, patent No. 8,326,761, invented by Alan W. Hecht of Chanhassen, Minn., Rick Rotella of Phoenix, Ariz., Brent Mangum of West Jordan, Kathy Smalley of Anthem, Ariz., Jack Tobey of Phoenix, Ariz., and Kathy Tyo of Alameda, Calif., assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. of San Francisco, Calif.
Change tracking of individual virtual disk files, patent No. 8,326,803, invented by Russell R. Stringham of Orem, assigned to Symantec Corp. of Mountain View, Calif.
Stream control failover utilizing the sharing of state information within a logical group of stream servers, patent No. 8,326,967, invented by W. Paul Sherer of Danville, Calif., Kirk Blattman of San Ramon, Calif., Hoi-Tauw Chou of San Ramon, Calif., Glenn Connery of Petaluma, Calif., Howard Davis of Salem, Daniel Kiewlich of Alameda, Calif., Robert Drew Major of Orem, Mel Oyler of Pleasant Grove, and Neeraj K. Sharma of Fremont, Calif., assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. of San Jose, Calif.
Techniques for gauging performance of services, patent No. 8,326,973, invented by Harpreet Singh Walia of Bangalore, India, and Arijit Dutta of Bopodi, India, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Data recovery in a solid-state storage system, patent No. 8,327,224, invented by Troy Larsen of North Ogden, Martin Culley of Boise, Idaho, and Troy Manning of Meridian, Idaho, assigned to Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho.
System and method for structuring self-provisioning workloads deployed in virtualized data centers, patent No. 8,327,373, invented by K. Y. Srinivasan of Princeton Junction, N.J., assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Remote authorization for operations, patent No. 8,327,417, invented by Stephen R. Carter of Spanish Fork, and Lloyd Leon Burch of Payson, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Single sign on with proxy services, patent No. 8,327,426, invented by Stephen Hugh Kinser of Saratoga Springs, Lloyd Leon Burch of Payson, and Cameron Craig Morris of Saratoga Springs, assigned to Novell Intellectual Property Holdings Inc. of Provo.
System and method for implementing a proxy authentication server to provide authentication for resources not located behind the proxy authentication server, patent No. 8,327,434, invented by Peter Bowen of Ottawa, Calif., assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
System and method for a distributed application and network security system (SDI-SCAM), patent No. 8,327,442, invented by Frederick S. M. Herz of Warrington, Pa., and Walter Paul Labys of Salt Lake City.
Frame for a table top, patent No. D671,773, invented by Mitch Johnson of South Weber, Wendell Peery of Kaysville, and David C. Winter of Layton, assigned to Lifetime Products Inc. of Clearfield.
Outer edge of a table top, patent No. D671,775, invented by Frank Clegg of Fruit Heights, and Wendell Peery of Kaysville, assigned to Lifetime Products Inc. of Clearfield.
Table top, patent No. D671,776, invented by Frank Clegg of Fruit Heights, and Wendell Peery of Kaysville, assigned to Lifetime Products Inc. of Clearfield.
Architectural panel joint hardware, patent No. D672,062, invented by Kevin L. Fisher of Erda, and John E. C. Willham of Sandy, assigned to 3form Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Everett Robinson, who is an attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list weekly for the Salt Lake Tribune. Robinson can be reached at 801-649-5858. For more patents, see the Money page at sltrib.com, go to Sections on the left-hand side and click Patents.


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i can tell you deffinitely what not to do. dont hit up a the back wall of an archery range. my first time out i was putting a throwie up on the back of a building that faced one of the biggest roads in the town and halfway through the owner came out wielding a fuckin bow and arrow ive never ran that fast in my life. but most def dont do shit in the vacinity of your house to manny people get caught when the cops follow the trail of graf right back to the writers homestead
Dress in normal clothes, look around the spot to make sure noone is around, don't take too long, and don't run away after you are done.
I was so drunk on time i sat in a Urinal and pissed with my pants on.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
it was fuckin nuts but now its somethin i can look back and laugh about
one of the best things to do is find you a spot that you can go to all the time to work on pieces with out having to worry about getting caught. that way you can get your can control skills up and your speed up so when you do make those runs out to the hard to get spots you can get in and get out quick fast like ramadan
the first times out , if you bring ur homie make sure he wont narc you out if one of you get caught ..trustt, and stick to the shadows dont get spotted walking main streets cuz cops will most likey pull you over. andd sketch everynighttt
first time out you wana kno what to do???
paint would be a start
Fuck off.
werd , they will belive it, its worked befor.
i would say when it comes to paint do your best to get some practice before you go out into the world either get a bunch of boards and make a wall or something similair. That orrrr find a tunnel tall enough to stand in, take a lamp and just go at it. Find a chill ass spot where theres no chance of someone seeing you or walking up on you and one that you can re-use to practice. Practice makes perfect and its best if your practice isnt what puts you in jail. that and youll have some half way decent shit thought up when you do go out.
u have to look at it like a mission. i mean graffiti is basicly like robbing a bank. u cant just run up, un organized, all shaky and shit and expect to have a good outcome. scope out your spots. watch em for a day or 2. get a feel for the best time to do tha do. some spots might be better in daylight, others are better at 12 am instaid of 6 am. take your time, be methodical. plan this shit like your trying to get away with murder.
but, no matter what your gunna be a nervious, clumzy, retarded mess your first time out. this is just a fact. so your first street hit should be somwhere thats not the hottest spot in the damn town. start from the ground up. crawl before u walk.
if your going out u should have practiced a bit, so u know how long u need, how much paint u need (nothing worse then running out of your fill color on the last GOD DAMN LETTER), how much light u need.
and lasly, always have an escape route. what if they run up on your escape route? have a 2nd or even 3rd route. remember, cops are not your only enemy out here, most writers have a zero tollerance for toys or people they dont know killin spots. there has been meny times i wish a cop would have rolled up on me then some crew. cops are much nicer.
also, dont do the toy shit like blow spots, sidebust, leave your cans and trash at the spot, ect...
thats about the best advice i can give a first timer.
good luck.
^^thats good advice^^^
what up fube, havent seen many of your posts lately
Use a plastic bag to carry cans,it's less supicious than a backpack trust me
^now thats what i call influence^
Yea. It doesn't really matter where you start off.
Like everyone said i already want it off the wall lol it was terrible butt got the first time jitters out now im ready for more
if this happens within ur first few months... chances r ull say fuckit...
young heiroku.. you must first master the attack of the NINJA
Stealth. Paranoia. and Panarama..
once u are aware of these factors. you are ready to venture into the world
the world of warcraft....
i meant graffiti..
^^^ lol
bring a sandwich, you always get hungry at the end of a night out
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In 2012, BMW Group in the UK achieved its best ever sales result and confirmed its position as the number one premium car company in the UK. In total, 178,854 BMW and MINI vehicles were registered, an increase of 7.23 percent over 2012 against a market which has seen overall sales rise by 5.32 percent. The BMW brand accounted for 127,530 sales, an increase of 9.33 percent compared to 2011 and nearly 6,000 vehicles more than its previous UK sales record in 2007. MINI sold 51,324 vehicles, its best annual sales performance since the vehicles UK launch in July 2001, representing a 2.51 percent increase over 2011.
BMW Group market share increased to a record 8.75 percent of the total UK car market in 2012 (BMW 6.24 percent and MINI 2.51 percent) bolstered by the introduction of the new BMW 3 Series Saloon and Touring and the newly-launched MINI Coupe and Roadster models. This means that one in 11 of all new cars sold in the UK last year was a BMW Group product.
BMW has not only secured its position as the UKs top premium brand in 2012 but has also recorded its highest ever sales result and market share in the UK. We have seen strong sales growth from BMW Group in the UK this year with growth driven by particularly strong demand for the new BMW 3 Series Saloon and Touring models. The latest X3 and X1 ranges have also played an important part, said Tim Abbott, Managing Director of BMW Group UK.
MINI has also achieved record UK sales thanks to strong performances from all models including the MINI Coupe and MINI Roadster. The combination of MINIs unique brand image and the expanding product portfolio continues to attract new customers.
These results are testament to the strong partnership we have with our UK dealer network with BMW and MINI dealers investing over £60 million in modern, customer-friendly retail facilities during 2012.
Although the 2013 economic outlook is challenging, we remain cautiously optimistic, concluded Abbott.
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In 2012, sales of BMW brand vehicles increased by 9.33 percent with a total of 127,530 vehicles representing a record 6.24 percent of the UK market in a year which saw BMW as the successful Official Automotive Partner to the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. Sales of the BMW 1 Series range increased by 20.0 percent over the year with the 5-door model firmly established as the best-selling 1 Series model with sales of over 23,000 vehicles. With more than 44,000 sales, the newly-launched BMW 3 Series Saloon and Touring models are becoming well-established in the market. The BMW 6 Series has enjoyed a sales record in 2012 with more than 2,300 vehicles sold. BMW X Series models have made a significant contribution to the companys sales growth. Since the previous record year in 2007, and the introduction of X6 in 2008, X1 in 2009 and new X3 and X5 models, sales of X models have risen by 74 percent to from 12,090 to 21,077 in 2012.
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A Strategic and Coordinated Approach Needed for Cybersecurity In a recent GovTech article, the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) calls for a more strategic and coordinated approach from the U.S. government to ensure the nation's cybersecurity.
CSIAs Executive Director Paul Kurtz emphasized that "the level of attention given to securing our information infrastructure is inadequate considering the reliance of Americans on the nations cyber systems." "In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Kurtz highlighted the importance of the nation's cyber systems, calling them the newest and most pervasive portion of our critical infrastructure, and discussed the federal government's role in its protection. At the core of CSIA's recommendations is the need for a Strategic National Information Assurance Policy that would outline the key roles that relevant government agencies should play in the protection of our cyber infrastructure."
"No single entity owns our information infrastructure and no single government agency is solely responsible for its protection." "While the Department of Homeland Security clearly plays a critical role, many other agencies share responsibility for the overall well being of our cyber systems," said Kurtz. "Yet the government has shown little strategic direction or leadership when it comes to ensuring the resiliency and integrity of our information infrastructure and the protection of the privacy of our citizens. This is baffling when one considers that nearly every service we use, from our communications and utility networks to our financial and medical systems, is in some way reliant upon our nation's digital networks." Kurtz called out the need for a cyber early warning system that provides the nation with situational awareness of attacks.
Read the full story here.
The ITU has unveiled a new website Partnerships for Global Cybersecurity dedicated to moderation/facilitation activities related to implementation of WSIS Action Line C5: Building Confidence and Security in the Use of ICTs.
The outcome documents from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) emphasize that building confidence and security in the use of ICTs is a necessary pillar for building a global information society (see extracts). The Tunis Agenda describes the establishment of a mechanism for implementation and follow-up to WSIS and requests ITU to play a facilitator/moderator role for WSIS Action Line C5: Building Confidence and Security in the Use of ICTs. In order to stress the importance of the multi-stakeholder implementation of related work programmes, ITU has named this the Partnerships for Global Cybersecurity initiative.
Here's how to participate and how to contact us if you would like to contribute to the work programmes.
Work Programmes
Based on the first facilitation meeting held in May 2006 and the related Chairman's Report, work programmes in three focus areas have been initiated:
For general information on WSIS implementation as a whole, including other action lines and themes, see here.
In a Wall Street Journal article we can read about Second Life, and fashion. "Like offline fashion designers, Second Lifers can spend hours or days sketching and developing the textures and patterns of a single garment, then refining its measurements through fittings on an online model." "Second Life is a simulated world with more than 700,000 "residents," or players, who sometimes refer to their offline existence as their 'first life.' As in earlier computer simulation games like the Sims series, the point isn't to fulfill a quest, and there are no dragons or wizards to slay. Instead, San Francisco-based Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, has provided a platform for players -- median age 32 and 57% male, with 40% living outside the U.S. -- to do whatever they want, whether it is building a business, tending bar or launching a space shuttle. Residents chat, shop, build homes, travel and hold down jobs, and they are encouraged to create items in Second Life that they can sell to others or use themselves."
"The items and services are virtual, but real money is involved. Second Life's in-game currency, Linden dollars, is based on U.S. dollars ($1 U.S. buys about 280 Linden dollars). Many virtual items are bought and sold in Second Life, but clothing has emerged as one of the hottest categories."
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As part of the ITU's work in follow-up to the WSIS, the World Information Society Report 2006 is addressed to all stakeholders and intended to provide insights as well as useful benchmarks for building the Information Society. The Report gives practical examples of how the DOI can be used, and highlights projects around the world that are working to meet the commitments made at the WSIS.
Chapter five, Beyond WSIS: Making a difference globally, focuses on WSIS implementation and follow-up in different countries. The WSIS called for governments to move from principles into action. There are many efforts underway, both large and small, to implement the WSIS goals, involving a range of stakeholders at the community level, regionally, nationally and internationally. This chapter of the report highlights some of these initiatives to implement the WSIS Plan of Action, from national strategies to grassroots projects. A variety of initiatives have been launched to promote digital opportunity, infrastructure and advanced ICT applications and these highlight fresh approaches and innovative new solutions to ICT development.
One of the biggest challenges for the uptake of ICTs and for building a people-centered and development-oriented Information Society is the affordability of the services. The Digital Opportunity Index monitors the mobile communications that promise to bridge the digital divide in many parts of the world, as well as more recent technologies such as broadband and mobile Internet access. The price of broadband continues to fall worldwide, by as much as twenty per cent a year over the last two years according to ITUs analysis, while broadband speeds continue to increase. The lower cost of ICTs greately facilitates their diffusion and utilization, and contributes to increased digital opportunity.
Internet affordability (cost of 20h internet connection as a % of monthly GDP per capita)
Note: 1 means affordable; 0 means that the price of lower-user basket is in excess of average GNI per capita.
These positive trends are not restricted to developed countries, and many valuable multi-stakeholder initiatives are underway to further promote ICT development worldwide in the wake of WSIS.
The DOI has been developed by a multi-stakeholder partnership, the Digital Opportunity Platform, comprising ITU, UNCTAD and KADO (the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion) and which is open to new partners. It will be reported annually in order to track progress in reaching the WSIS targets, and building a diverse and inclusive Information Society, by 2015.
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"Chapter Four: From Measurement to Policy-Making" considers the changing telecommunications policy landscape, in areas of universal access/service, affordability, digital inclusion, broadband and wireless, amongst others. It shows how policy-makers can use the Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) to inform policy-making and policy design to achieve the WSIS goals. The DOI is not an abstract mathematical construction, but has real hands-on applications for policy-makers, particularly in the context of the commitments made by governments at the World Summit on the Information Society.
Chapter Four uses the DOI for analysing digital gaps between regions at the national and international levels, for assessing gender gaps and for monitoring digital inclusion. The DOI is a useful policy tool that can be adapted to assess all of these data requirements. Chapter four of the World Information Society Report uses the DOI to analyse digital opportunity throughout the continent of Africa; perform a benchmark comparison of Indias performance relative to its neighbouring countries (see Figure below); examine regional disparities in digital opportunity in Brazil; and examine the gender gap in the Czech Republic. The chapter also outlines the next steps in ICT measurement for policy-making that the Digital Opportunity Platform plans to undertake.
Using the DOI for Policy Purposes
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"Chapter Three: Information Society Trends" tracks the shifting dynamics of the Information Society worldwide. It monitors the changes in digital opportunity across different countries and regions, and investigates those that have made the strongest gains in digital opportunity.
The Asian economies of the Republic of Korea and Japan continue to lead in digital opportunity, mainly due to their pioneering take-up of broadband and 3G mobile services. Nearly all Internet subscribers in the Republic of Korea are broadband subscribers, whilst Japan is the only market where Internet subscribers are most likely to access Internet over their mobile. Dramatic progress has been achieved by developing countries, however, which made the greatest progress in digital opportunity - notably India, where digital opportunity nearly doubled between 2001 and 2005, and China, which experienced remarkably strong gains in infrastructure. Some countries are leveraging their investments in infrastructure more successfully than others, however.
Major Gainers in digital opportunity (2001-2005)
Note: Component indices of the DOI are represented by O = Opportunity; I = Infrastructure; U = Utilization.Chapter three analyses trends in digital opportunity, broadband speed and price, as well as the price of other telecommunication services. Find out more about the WISR here.
In a press release, Gartner, Inc. advises businesses to plan for five increasingly prevalent cyberthreats that have the potential to inflict significant damage on organisations during the next two years. These threats are:
According to Amrit Williams, research director at Gartner, "We are seeing an increasingly hostile environment fuelled by financially motivated and targeted cyber attacks. By 2008 we expect that 40 percent of organisations will be targeted by financially motivated cybercrime."
"Cyber attacks are not new, but what is changing is the motivation behind them. They are no longer just executed by hackers for hobby or cybervandilism, but by professionals with a targeted aim at one person, one company or one industry," said Williams.
"For example, we have recently seen several companies hiring private investigators to spy on their competitors. Private investigators used Trojans to install targeted spyware on competitors computers to gather confidential information about such things as upcoming bids and customers."
Gartner said that social engineering and viruses will remain an everyday nuisance for chief information security officers through 2009. It warned that in the next two years, at least 50 percent of organisations will experience a social engineering or a virus attack."
Access the full report and Gartner news release here.
"Chapter Two: Measuring the Information Society" introduces the structure and methodology of the Digital Opportunity Index (DOI). It explains why the component indicators were chosen and how they measure different aspects of digital opportunity, in: opportunity to access telecommunications (including basic access to telecommunications and affordability, with detailed price information); the basic infrastructure available in a country; and actual utilization of ICTs, in the use of the Internet and broadband technologies (fixed and mobile).
This chapter reviews trends in the individual indicators making up the DOI, including: the growth of mobile coverage (both 2G and 3G); a comparison of Internet and mobile prices; household penetration of ICTs and broadband and mobile Internet. It illustrates these trends with a wealth of country information and regional comparisons, to show how the DOI captures the growth in digital opportunity around the world.
The DOI is a flexible and forward-looking index, which includes measurement of the promising technologies of tomorrow in broadband and mobile Internet subscribers (as a proportion of total Internet subscribers and total mobile subscribers). It is the major index to date that includes up-to-date and current price information for both mobile and Internet access. Find out more and download the DOI as part of the World Information Society Report here.
Structure of the DOI:
The DOI is currently being updated for 2006 information, as part of the ongoing work programme of the Digital Opportunity Platform.
"Chapter One: A Summit for Building the Information Society" outlines the background to the World Information Society Report (WISR). It sets out the background to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in the origins, aims and achievements of the Summit. In particular, it considers the call by member governments for an effective means and methodology for follow-up to monitor progress in building the Information Society through implementation of the Summit's recommendations.
The Geneva Plan of Action calls for a composite ICT Development (Digital Opportunity) Index to be published annually, or every two years, in a report on ICT development to clarify the magnitude of the digital divide in both its domestic and international dimensions.
Chapter One of the WISR reviews WSIS implementation since the Summit concluded in Tunis in November 2005, and explains why composite indices give a more complete picture of the development of the Information Society in any given economy than a single indicator. It gives an overview of the main composite Indices for measuring Digital Opportunity, and how they differ. It concludes by explaining the main virtues of the Digital Opportunity Index, especially for developing countries: it evaluates digital opportunity in 180 countries, the most of any index published to date; it is based on standard indicators (as defined by the Partnership for Measuring ICT for Development); it uses objective data rather than survey data; it can be split into its fixed and mobile components, so developing countries can be measured on the basis of their strengths; it uses household penetration data (which favour developing countries, on the basis of their large average household size); and it is simple and easy-to-use.
"Chapter One: A Summit for Building the Information Society" of the World Information Society Report can be downloaded for free here.
Business Communications Review has an article entitled The Botnet Threat reviewing a recent report put out by Arbor Networks, which surveyed ISPs about their biggest security concerns.
"When they surveyed 55 ISPs, McPherson and Labovitz discovered that distributed denial of service attacks, and the related threat of botnets, remain the biggest security problem that ISPs face. Together, these two elements were named as the top threat by 77 percent of respondents. "Brute-force attacks remain the most predominant attack type on the Internet today," the authors write.The largest sustained attack reported by the survey respondents was a whopping 17 Gbps; a UDP flood of 22 million packets per second (pps) and a SYN flood of 14 million pps have also been reported. "The magnitude of these attacks is incredible when you consider that a 14 Mpps SYN flood can nearly fill an entire OC-192 (10 Gbps) circuit with a minimum packet size," McPherson and Labovitz write. "Any one of these attacks, or even a fraction thereof, can create significant pain for even the largest ISP networks in the world today."The report also cites what the authors call "a new and disturbing observation" made by one respondent: Not only are botnets highly organized and "uniformly gargantuan," but there's an increasing amount of marketing of these botnets. ("Blast your affiliate numbers overnight!" is a typical pitch they report seeing.)"
"When they surveyed 55 ISPs, McPherson and Labovitz discovered that distributed denial of service attacks, and the related threat of botnets, remain the biggest security problem that ISPs face. Together, these two elements were named as the top threat by 77 percent of respondents. "Brute-force attacks remain the most predominant attack type on the Internet today," the authors write.The largest sustained attack reported by the survey respondents was a whopping 17 Gbps; a UDP flood of 22 million packets per second (pps) and a SYN flood of 14 million pps have also been reported. "The magnitude of these attacks is incredible when you consider that a 14 Mpps SYN flood can nearly fill an entire OC-192 (10 Gbps) circuit with a minimum packet size," McPherson and Labovitz write. "Any one of these attacks, or even a fraction thereof, can create significant pain for even the largest ISP networks in the world today."The report also cites what the authors call "a new and disturbing observation" made by one respondent: Not only are botnets highly organized and "uniformly gargantuan," but there's an increasing amount of marketing of these botnets. ("Blast your affiliate numbers overnight!" is a typical pitch they report seeing.)"
The ITUs Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) is delighted to announce over 17,000 downloads of its major new report, the World Information Society Report (WISR), over the two months since its publication.
As part of the ITUs follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the Report charts progress in building the Information Society and track the dynamics driving digital opportunity worldwide using a new toolthe Digital Opportunity Index (DOI). The DOI is part of the agreed evaluation methodology endorsed during the WSIS and will be published annually in the World Information Society Report to track progress in reaching the WSIS targets and building a diverse and inclusive Information Society by 2015.
The WISR shows how the Digital Opportunity Index can be used to strengthen policy-making by monitoring the critical areas of the digital divide, universal access, gender and the promotion of broadband and universal service policies. The Report is addressed to policy-makers, regulators, academics, public and other stakeholders with an interest in telecommunications and development.
Starting next week, SPU will profile a different chapter of the World Information Society Report each day, to show how the Information Society is evolving and how you can contribute to WSIS follow-up.
For more information, please see the WISR website.
In the latest issue of Total Telecom, an article entitled No Signal discusses the need to develop an NGN global interconnection regime.
"NTTs CEO and CTO have raised the alarm and are calling for the worlds operators to start work on new interconnection models today, before NGNs are in place, and more importantly before legacy networks are switched off.
At a CEO summit hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva in July, NTTs president and CEO, Norio Wada, called for a new interconnect framework that will extend national NGNs into a secure and fully managed global IP network."
"NTTs CEO and CTO have raised the alarm and are calling for the worlds operators to start work on new interconnection models today, before NGNs are in place, and more importantly before legacy networks are switched off.
At a CEO summit hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva in July, NTTs president and CEO, Norio Wada, called for a new interconnect framework that will extend national NGNs into a secure and fully managed global IP network."
InfoWorld reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has released the findings of Operation Cyber Storm, a large-scale simulation of combined cyber-physical attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure.
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its public findings from Operation Cyber Storm, a large-scale tabletop simulation of a coordinated cyber attack on the government and critical infrastructure that was held in February, 2006. The exercise involved US-CERT, the Homeland Security Operation center as well as the National Cyber Response Coordination Group (NCRCG) and the Intragency Incident Management Group (IIMG), various ISACs from the transportation, energy, IT and telecommunications sectors, and 100 private sector companies." "The exercise simulated a large-scale cyber campaign that disrupts multiple critical infrastructure, as well as simulated "physical demonstrations and distrubances" to test the ability of government to respond to multiple incidents simultaneously, even when its not clear that the events are related (read: 9/11)."
From the article: According to DHS, "observers noted that players had difficulty ascertaining what organizations and whom within those organizations to contact when there was no previously established relationship or pre-determined plans for response coordination and risk assessments/mitigation. There was a general recognition of the difficulties organizations faced when attempting to establish trust with unfamiliar organizations during time of crisis."
Read the InfoWorld article here.See the DHS press release on Operation Cyber Storm.
This article was accessed via Slashdot.
Within the framework of the 17th European Regional ITS Conference, session on the Next Generation Infrastructure (see programme)C.B. Blankart, G. Knieps, and P. Zenhäusern presented their new paper on "Regulation of New Markets in Telecommunications? Market Dynamics and Shrinking Monopolistic Bottlenecks".
In the paper the Authors focuse on the debate on the EU telecommunications regulatory framework and analyse whether new markets create new monopolistic bottlenecks or extend the borderlines of existing bottlenecks. Three kinds of transmission qualities on service markets can be dif-ferentiated according to the products provided: narrowband services like PSTN/ISDN or GSM, semi high-speed broadband services like broadband inter-net access up to 6 Mbps download and VDSL services up to 50 Mbps. As long as, due to the absence of alternative network infrastructures, a monopolistic bot-tleneck in local infrastructure networks exists the question arises what the re-maining bottleneck components are for these different markets. In this paper we will demonstrate the shrinking-bottleneck hypothesis.
Download the full version of the paper.
European Commission published three studies by external consultants on the review of the EU 2003 regulatory framework.The three studies are the following:
A recent APDIP e-Note goes into the discussion of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and Internet Governance.
As the number of non-English speakers on the Internet grows exponentially, the limitations of the Domain Name System have become evident to many.
The APDIP e-Note examines "how IDNs relate to cultural diversity and the basic human right to communicate in one's own language on the Internet. While the bulk of the content on the Internet has been in English, this is rapidly changing. In China, for example, over 60 million of the nation's 100 million-plus users browse the web only in Chinese, yet top-level domain names remain in Roman script for all users. The APDIP e-Note further discusses the ongoing debate on how best to allow users to navigate the Internet in their own language. Different systems available for multilingual domain names and future scenarios are also explored.
Download the full APDIP e-Note. View other APDIP e-Resources here.
The Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that aims to promote the development and application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region.
A select committee has recommended a major change to New Zealand's anti-spam bill, suggesting anyone should be able to send unsolicited emails that are of an entirely non-commercial nature and need not desist even if asked to do so by the recipient. The original anti-spam bill said that organisations that sent unsolicited emails to promote their aims or ideals - such as school newsletters and messages from political lobbyists - would fall foul of the spam bill. This is if they did not stop sending messages when asked to do so, by letting recipients "opt-out". The select committee dropped this requirement in amendments it proposed early September 2006.
The proposed amendments also drop the legal requirement that spam be reported to a customer's internet service provider before Internal Affairs could take action. Other proposed amendments eliminate the distinction between emails whose prime purpose is commercial and ones that are primarily promotional, but which contain a commercial element, and lift a ban on possessing or supplying email harvesting software, but bans New Zealanders from using such software to send spam.
This news item was retrieved through the APCAUCE Newslog. The full article is available at stuff.co.nz.
In a recent press release, Gartner, Inc. says that the number of households around the world subscribing to Internet Protocol television (IPTV) services offered by telecom carriers will reach 48.8 million in 2010. Buoyed by new service launches, IPTV subscribers will more than double in 2007 from an expected 6.4 million in 2006 to 13.3 million according to Gartner.
Despite the eight-fold increase in users between 2006 and 2010, Gartner says that carriers will struggle to turn IPTV into a mainstream Pay TV distribution platform on par with established cable or satellite services. "The difficulty in carving out a distinctive proposition that will clearly differentiate early IPTV services from other established TV options will lead many service providers around the world to drive adoption by competing on price in the next few years", said Elroy Jopling, research director at Gartner. "As a result, the global picture for IPTV revenue is much less impressive than for subscriber numbers."
"Global IPTV revenue during the period will grow from $872 million in 2006 to a still relatively modest $13.2 billion by 2010. IPTV will not be a panacea to replace diminishing voice revenue for carriers, but in the medium term it can be a powerful tool for carriers in helping retain customers on their existing voice and broadband services."
Gartner defines IPTV as the delivery of video programming (either broadcast or on-demand) over a carriers managed broadband network to a customers TV set. It does not include streaming media over the Internet to a PC.
A presentation entitled "Booming Broadband for a Wireless World" was given by Lara Srivastava of ITU on 22 August 2006 at BroadbandAsia 2006 in Shanghai, China. Other speakers included, inter alia, L. Ladid (President, IPv6 Forum), T. Poulos (Asia-Pacific Head, Global Billing Association), A. Hassan (Executive Director, Wi-Fi Alliance), J. Wang (Secretary-General, TD-SCDMA Forum), S. Ramaswamy (Senior Vice President, Bharti AirTel).
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AUDIO Movie Reviews: "Rush", "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
Hap Erstein with PalmBeachArtsPaper.com tells us about a new film from the man some of us still think of as "Richie Cunningham" or "Opie"...that's right, Ron Howard. Other movies include one starring the woman married to the man with the "song of the summer" and a new one to take the kids to.
Note: You'll find more reviews by clicking on the link in the title of the respective film.
"Rush" - Ron Howard directs this true story about two Formula One race car drivers in the 1970s, who form a friendship out of a rivalry after one of the men nearly loses his life on the track.
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2" - The animated sequel to the first film. The continuation of the story about an inventor whose creation turns water into food. Lunchtime yet?
"Baggage Claim" - Robin Thicke is everywhere with his "Blurred Lines" song that caught fire over the summer. Now, his wife, Paula Patton, stars in a comedy about a flight attendant who wants to find a man to settle down with.
"Don Jon" - A romantic film written, directed and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt.


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Gallery: NHRA Winternationals
Related link: Video of Antron Brown's crash on ESPN
POMONA - Three NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series drivers with local ties emerged as winners Sunday at the season-opening Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Fairplex.
Shawn Langdon, a graduate of Jurupa Valley High School in Mira Loma, won Top Fuel dragster by defeating Tony Schumacher, a seven-time champion. Driving for the Al-Anabi Racing team, Langdon saved the best for last as he covered the 1,000-foot strip in 3.721 seconds at 322.27 mph to Schumacher's 3.747 seconds at 324.12 mph.
"My dad Chad raced here in the mid-80s and I ran Jr. Dragster here in 1994," said Langdon, whose first win was at Charlotte in 2012.
"It was great to win in front of friends and family," said Langdon. "The same for (team owner) Allen (Johnson from Santa Maria)."
Not to be outdone by NASCAR's Danica Patrick, who won the pole Sunday for the Daytona 500, Courtney Force added another Funny Car championship to her race team collection by turning back Ron Capps, her second career victory. It was her second career win as she starts her second full-time season.
Courtney ran 4.025 seconds at 317.12 mph, the best of the weekend in her class, to beat Capps, who lost traction.
And in Pro Stock, Vincent Nobile, who lives in Long Island in New York but races for the Mitsos family of Rancho Cucamonga, won for the sixth time in 50 career starts as Dodge teammate Jeg Coughlin jumped the starting. Nobile drives for the Mountain View Tires Racing team.
Nobile, who had some troubles backing up after the burnout, ran 6.584 seconds at 210.05 mph.
The wins are popular with the large crowd. But the biggest round of applause went to Antron Brown, who survived one of the most horrific crashes of all time at the historic drag strip.
The Fairplex strip has been the site of many spectacular accidents in its 53 years, but perhaps none as more violent than Brown's Top Fuel dragster incident after a second-round win over Dave Grubnic.
Brown felt his engine go "boom" 200 feet from the finish before it exploded and shredded the rear tires. It tipped the 300-inch wheelbase car on its side and sent it across the track into the retaining wall. The back end whipped around and sent Brown down the track to the opposite side and into the sand trap, where it stopped.
"The first thought in my mind was, `Lord, have mercy. God, please get me through this,"' said Brown, the defending class champion who burned his hands in an accident at the track in November. "I was very coherent of what was going on around me, and it was a terrible feeling to know I can't stop it.
"Your instincts kick in and you slow down and think about what you need to do to survive that situation."
Brown escaped injury and pressed his Don Schumacher Racing team to get ready for the semifinals. However, NHRA rules prohibit the use of a backup car on race day.


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I'm getting this error message when I try to load my page:
"Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'FROM titles INNER JOIN premieres ON dateid = premieres.id' at line 3"
Here is my code:
$sql = 'SELECT titles.id, Title, name, directors.link, dateid
FROM titles INNER JOIN directors ON directorid = directors.id
FROM titles INNER JOIN premieres ON dateid = premieres.id';
$result = $pdo->query($sql);
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
You have two FROM and ON clauses and you should only have one of each.
FROM titles INNER JOIN directors INNER JOIN premieres ON directorid = directors.id AND dateid = premieres.id
Thank you Stephen!
correction: you have two FROMs and need only one, but you do need two ONs, otherwise you'll get a cartesian crossproduct on the first join and have to filter most of them out
SELECT titles.id
, titles.Title
, titles.name
, directors.link
, titles.dateid
FROM titles
JOIN directors
ON directors.id = titles.directorid
JOIN premieres
ON premieres.id = titles.dateid
also, please note, it's important that if your query has more than one table that you must qualify each column with the table it belongs to (see SELECT clause)
Thank you r937. I have a related question: I want to add links to Title, name, and format. I was able to add links to all three but when I click on them they only open the page linked to format when I want the links for Title and name to point to separate pages. Can you tell me where my error is? Here is part of the code for index.php:
$sql = 'SELECT titles.id,
FROM titles
INNER JOIN directors
ON directorid = directors.id
INNER JOIN premieres
ON dateid = premieres.id
INNER JOIN availability
ON availabilityid = availability.id
INNER JOIN availabilitylinks
ON availabilitylinkid = availabilitylinks.id';
$result = $pdo->query($sql);
catch (PDOException $e)
$error = 'Error fetching titles: ' . $e->getMessage();
include 'error.html.php';
foreach ($result as $row)
$titles[] = array(
'id' => $row['id'],
'text' => $row['Title'],
'titles.link' => $row['link'],
'name' => $row['name'],
'directors.link' => $row['link'],
'date' => $row['date'],
'format' => $row['format'],
'availabilitylinks.link' => $row['link']
include 'films.html.php';
And here is part of films.html.php:
<?php foreach ($titles as $film): ?>
<form action="?deletefilm" method="post">
<a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($film['titles.link'], ENT_QUOTES,
'UTF-8'); ?>"><?php
echo htmlspecialchars($film['text'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?>
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $film['id']; ?>">
<input type="submit" value="Delete">
(by <a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($film['directors.link'], ENT_QUOTES,
'UTF-8'); ?>"><?php
echo htmlspecialchars($film['name'], ENT_QUOTES,
'UTF-8'); ?>) Premiered <?php
echo htmlspecialchars($film['date'], ENT_QUOTES,
<a href="<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($film['availabilitylinks.link'], ENT_QUOTES,
'UTF-8'); ?>"><?php
echo htmlspecialchars($film['format'], ENT_QUOTES,
'UTF-8'); ?>
not me, sorry, i don't do php
i've flagged this thread to be moved to the php forum
p.s. did you understand my comment about qualifying all column names with their table names? you should do this in the ON clauses too
Thank you. I thought I understood. Do I need to qualify on both sides of the = sign? e.g.
ON premieres.dateid = premieres.id
instead of
ON dateid = premieres.id
"need" is a very strong word
technically, you don't need to qualify any columns that are unique across all tables in the query
but from a practical standpoint, it is something that you should do for clarity
Thank you!
@nerves ; @r937 ; I've copied the one post that seems to be related to the PHP script instead of SQL to the PHP forum. See: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?1174822-Help-looping-through-results-and-building-links
I've left everything here in the Database forum, as there was definitely good techniques and help provided in that area.
Thank YOU, sir!


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MTV's Miley Cyrus documentary: What you will (and won't) see
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(Yahoo!) - Miley Cyrus may be a hot mess but, by her own admission, she's "a strategic hot mess."
The same can be said for "Miley: The Movement," the one-hour documentary on the star premiering on MTV on Wednesday at 10 p.m. The network's cameras followed her around for four months this year leading up to (and including) the MTV Video Music Awards and preparations for the release of her debut RCA Records album, "Bangerz," on October 8.
Throughout the interview portion of the film, the 20-year-old star attempts to define this transitional period in her life – "The Movement," as she calls it – and, thankfully, she's not the only person trying to do so.
"The world thinks that they know this girl, but my thing to you is, don't be fooled," Pharrell Williams explains.
In order to help you not be fooled, we should point out that Miley's biggest co-star in the film isn't Williams or any of the other artists who make appearances, but its glaring absences. Here's the rundown on what to expect (or not) from the "Miley: The Movement":
You won't see Liam Hemsworth. Miley and Liam's engagement was called off publicly on September 16, so you'd think he might pop up in the flesh or at least in conversation at some point over the course of the four months of shooting. Not so. In fact, as Miley sits in her home – the home she shared with the "Hunger Games" star – this omission begins to feel a bit like a gaping hole in the documentary. "We just decided to focus on the music and professional side," Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of the project and EVP ofMTV News and Docs, said during a roundtable interview. "We were not doing a documentary about anything in her personal life."
You will see Mike Will Made It. The producer Miley's been spotted with here, there, and everywhere lately is here, there, and everywhere in the footage. "The connection just started and then got crazier and better," she explains, calling their chemistry "magic" and pointing out that they put together her hit single, "We Can't Stop," that first day in the studio together. Later, the 24-year-old can be heard in a somewhat intimate phone call with the singer and posing all up close and personal-like with her.
You won't see Mike Will talk. While an intimacy between Miley and her producer is rather evident, don't expect the pair to confirm their relationship. In fact, don't expect Mike to talk much at all. He doesn't offer his two cents on the star's career or even so much as corroborate her claims about their chemistry.
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