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SEATTLE The chances Erik Bedard will be traded soon by the Mariners are now as slim as the prospects for a happy finish to Seattle's lost season.
Manager Jim Riggleman said Thursday his ailing ace, rumored to be coveted by contenders despite a demonstrated inability to last in his 15 starts, likely will not pitch early next week against Boston as originally hoped. That means Bedard would have just one start before the non-waiver trading deadline July 31 - assuming the left-hander's pitching shoulder is healthy again by then.
Major league rules prohibit teams from trading players while they are on the disabled list, unless such a deal is expressly approved by the commissioner. Bedard, 6-4 with a 3.67 ERA and 72 strikeouts in 81 innings, is eligible to come off the DL Sunday.
"We want to get him going, but we don't want to rush him," Riggleman said as his last-place team came back from its All-Star break for a workout prior to resuming Friday night against Cleveland.
"The perception is that Erik hasn't given us a lot, or as much as he should. But really, maybe he's given us more than he should have."
Riggleman listed the left hip inflammation that put Bedard on the DL from April 9-26, then assorted pains he pitched through before this shoulder injury that has kept him out since July 4. Bedard came to Seattle from Baltimore in February for five players, including now-Orioles All-Star reliever George Sherrill. His contract is under club control through 2009.
The Philadelphia Phillies, thought to be a potential suitor for Bedard, acquired right-hander Joe Blanton instead on Thursday for three minor leaguers.
Bedard's flight back from Ottawa was delayed by weather, so the manager still didn't know when Bedard would even be able to throw again.
"We should know more in two or three days," Riggleman said.
For now, he has Miguel Batista starting Monday against the Red Sox and said "my guess" is that R.A. Dickey will start Tuesday. Felix Hernandez, left-hander Jarrod Washburn - now the starter most likely to be dealt - and Carlos Silva are starting over the weekend against the Indians.
Seattle's sidelined closer, J.J. Putz, will pitch for Triple-A Tacoma Friday night as part of rehabilitation for an elbow injury that has had him on the disabled list since June 12. Putz, an All-Star last season, has struggled with injuries and ineffectiveness this season.
Also Friday, the Mariners will make an incremental move toward 2009 by promoting left-handed hitting first baseman Bryan LaHair from Tacoma, to fill the roster place of infielder Tug Hulett. Hulett, selected July 10 from Tacoma, was optioned back to the Rainiers on Thursday after playing in one game for Seattle.
Riggleman said the 25-year-old LaHair, who was batting .263 with 12 home runs and 53 RBIs in 85 games at Triple A, would have been promoted July 10 when the Mariners released first baseman Richie Sexson, if LaHair hadn't had an injured foot then.
He will become the fifth starter at the position this season.
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It was a rare Mariners dream this season that wasn't a nightmare.
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Well, this is interesting. David
Brooks of the New York Times
has published today an amazingly candid summary of the elitist
Republican argument against Sarah Palin. It begins:
Harrumph. For the moment I'll defer making the point that in his intro
he's asserting what is at best a half-truth and give you the key points
of his highbrow argument, which he gets to after an interval of
belittling the legitimacy and effectiveness of the more recent
tradition of so-called populist conservatism.
He goes on, of course, to point out that George W. Bush and Sarah Palin
don't possess these attainments, and he is therefore able to conclude:
I'm grateful for such directness. As grateful as I am amused by his
expressed discomfort about "the smug condescension" of others to the Palin nomination.
The only problem with his argument is that it's wrong in almost every particular. It bespeaks a peculiarly parochial point of view that is frankly out of touch with the roots of post-FDR political conservatism and with the broad swath of the American people who support it.
Before I explain this further, I think it's important to take a closer look at the people Brooks cited as subscribing to his own views of Palin. They have more in common than you'd think, enough, in fact, to constitute their own little demographic. David Brooks is a Canadian-American educated at the University of Chicago. Charles Krauthammer was born in New York to French parents and received his undergraduate education at McGill University in Canada before going on to Oxford and then the Harvard Medical School. George Will also took a degree at Oxford before finishing up at Princeton. David Frum� was born in Canada and took his degrees at Yale and Harvard. Ross Douthat is the baby of the bunch, a 2002 graduate of Harvard. Geez. Travel. Internationalism. Universities where 700 SATs are just the starting point. The post-imperialist sophistication of Canada and the U.K. Windsor collars and cufflinks. Cool.
No, I'm not arguing that they're unqualified to comment. They're smart, accomplished men (though one of them can hardly be considered to have the "experience" required to pass judgment on a woman almost 20 years his senior, n'est-ce pas?). It's just that when they step forward to tell the rest of us what it means to be an American conservative, I can't help wondering if what they really are is Tories. You know, the colonial elite who understood that the American Revolution was misbegotten and doomed to disaster because it lacked� "standards of prudence and experience," meaning that it was much much better to trust the King. A lot of the Tories were so convinced of their connection to "ultimate sources of wisdom" that they fled the American colonies for the more civilized provinces of Canada. And were never heard from again. Until lately, that is.
I apologize for mocking them, but I also think they deserve it. The hyper-intellectual brand of American conservatism in the twentieth century has always seemed to me to be taking more credit than they ever earned for the Reagan Revolution. Think of it as National Review Disease, or the Buckley Bullshit. Just the other day, Brooks devoted a column to trashing the Goldwater conservatism which found the political legs to run down the defeatist moderate Republicanism Brooks and Douthat in particular now seem to be peddling as the best chance for a negotiated peace settlement with the socialist left. (Sorry, I can't really pretend to have any respect for Douthat. He's just an ambitious, self-important pup for now, unlike the others on this list.) The Tory conservatives continue to think twentieth century conservatism began with Buckley. It didn't. It began with a lot of hard-working Americans whose traditional middle-class values were violently offended by the gross egalitarian excesses of FDR, a president they despised as deeply as today's cartoon leftists hate George W. Bush.
What Buckley brought to the table was not the first expression of disbelief in the rightness of a continuously expanding federal government, but the charm of a Talleyrand. He could not reverse the political currents in which he moved, but he could ride them to personal success and even acclaim. He could debate John Kenneth Galbraith and company without becoming physically ill. He could separate his political convictions from the life and death stakes they represented to those who never took tea with the confiscatory, communist-appeasing elites. He therefore succeeded in creating a conservative voice that was permitted to coexist with the overwhelmingly dominant liberal intellectual hierarchy which ruled both houses of congress and the government's purse strings for a span of 48 years, less one brief hiccup in the moderate Eisenhower administration. Buckley was, in short, a gadfly. The barbarian admitted to polite society on the strength of his many elite credentials -- learning, wealth, travel, gracious civility, and (consequently) harmlessness.
But the real conservative movement in this country was never a function of the elites. It came from the west, from Goldwater and Reagan. Its whole ascendancy was fueled by a new kind of populism, the common voices of the competent -- those who knew they were doing the real work and creating all the wealth that government wanted to take and redistribute to those who demanded it most plaintively. That's a huge difference from the old-style populism Brooks is trying to lump conservatives into, the Huey Long or William Jennings Bryan (or John Edwards) variety that appeals to those who believe they are helpless victims of a power structure so entrenched they never have a chance to get out from under without a dispenser of booty focused exclusively on them. The populism of the conservative movement that took the White House and congress from the Democrats in 1980 had one simple message "Get government off our backs so we can live our own lives and make our own decisions."
And this is a kind of populism the intellectual and social elites of the Tory class can never comprehend. It's not their fault particularly, but it skews their perceptions in fatal ways. Their lives have been too much governed by the process of getting good grades. In the social, academic, and organizational milieus in which they move, opportunity is achieved by the approval of others in a hierarchy. Talent is not immaterial but it's never a direct shortcut. In the world of writing, talking, and thinking, there is no such thing as the better mousetrap. However privileged they seem, the real power elites are always company men, mentored and tested for obedience and the key social graces before they can be accorded real responsibility or power. They learn how far and how hard they can push against the establishment, which forever afterwards governs their sense of what is possible.
That's why there's nothing in their experience to justify the meteoric rise of a Sarah Palin or for that matter a Bill Clinton or a Barack Obama. If these folks had been running the smoke-filled rooms in 1976, they would have sided with Gerald Ford against Ronald Reagan without a second thought. Prudence. Experience. The most you can expect is crumbs from the table of the Dems and an occasional nod of respect. To earn even this, you must cultivate the measured endorsements of the gray eminences the Tories respect so much more than ordinary people. The fact is, they're as infatuated by the Dem political class as the New Deal coalition of common folk they look down on as much as they look down on rank-and-file Republicans from Texas and, yup, Alaska.
But they're wrong about most of what they assume to be bedrock wisdom. In the America they've never been a part of, inexperienced talents like Bill Gates come out of nowhere and take down invulnerable gray giants like IBM. Ronald Reagan comes from Eureka College and Hollywood to win the Cold War, slash taxes, and restore American pride. George W. Bush comes from Texas, not Andover, and does a better job in his first term than in his second hurling back the menace of al qaeda and Islamic hatred, despite a timid European consensus ruled by the prudence and experience that can't even detect a knife poised at its own throat.
Of course, experience has its value and its place. But this is a remarkably stupid statement:
Reforming the establishment is not the same thing as destroying the
establishment. It just looks like destruction to tea-sippers who admire
the Medici more than Samuel Adams or Andrew Jackson. The saddest part
of their ignorance is that it's clear they've never lived in a world of
profit and loss, where accountability can be determined in stark terms
and where sometimes the greatest, most productive changes can be
effected by those who enter a staid bureaucracy with fresh eyes and see
clearly, without the camouflage of convenient jargon or the grievous
half measures and failures perpetrated in the name of prudent
experience. American history is full of Sarah Palins. Many of our greatest moments have been achieved by raw talent and decency backed by unexpected courage.
And there's another essential ingredient of any political calculus that has a chance at doing something more than mitigating compromise with the leaden status quo; it's called winning. If you can't win the opportunity, it doesn't matter how much experience you have. You won't get the chance. That's one part of the equation Buckley never had to worry about. He was able to rely for that on the troglodyte populists who eventually enabled him to take credit for a generation of change he never felt the need for as deeply as my father and grandfather did.
Success has many fathers. I don't object to Buckley's claims of paternity with regard to conservatism as much as I do to those of the David Brookses and Ross Douthats who would have us employ the tactics of Neville Chamberlain to restore the polite defeatism of the Rockefeller Republicans. And I damn well hate the snotty, superior tone these small-minded men use to make their case for reduced expectations and incrementally lessened socialism as the apogee of American conservative aspirations.
To hell with the National Review and the Weekly Standard if they insist that our own candidates have to be able to sing Nessun Dorma to Charlie Gibson's satisfaction. He's never sung it to my satisfaction. And if he looked down his nose at me, I'd probably break it on the spot.
Some of us really don't give a rat's ass about what the ghost of Eric Severeid might think.
UPDATE 9/22/08: An interesting illustrative snippet from today's Corner at NRO.


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NGFA Elects New Officers, Board of Directors, Executive Committee
Date Posted: March 22, 2002
The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) has elected new members as officers and to serve on its board of directors and executive committee.
Rick Calhoun, vice president of the Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain-North America, for Cargill Inc., Minneapolis, MN, is the new NGFA chairman. (Click the link below to see the complete article, previously reported on Grainnet.)
Elected as the NGFA's new first vice chairman was Steven F. Nail, president and chief executive officer of Farmers Grain Terminal Inc., Greenville, MS.
Nail, who previously served a two-year term as second vice chairman, also serves on the NGFA's Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
He chaired the NGFA's Long-Range Planning Committee in 2001-02 that revised and updated the association's strategic five-year planning document.
He also serves as a member of the Arbitration Appeals Panel, which is responsible for rendering final decisions under the NGFA's arbitration system, and the Waterborne Commerce Committee, which addresses inland waterway and port issues affecting the industry.
He also has served as an arbitrator.
Nail, a certified public accountant, began his career with Farmers Grain Terminal Inc. in 1983 as the cooperative's accounting manager.
He was promoted to executive vice president in 1988 before being named president and chief executive officer in 1996.
The company, founded in 1968, operates nine elevators and river terminals in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, with more than 12 million bushels of storage.
It markets soybeans, corn, sorghum, wheat and rice for its members.
Prior to joining Farmers Grain Terminal Inc., Nail was commodity marketing accountant with MFC Services, Madison, MS, and a staff accountant with the Greenville, MS, accounting firm of Sayle and Macione.
He is a 1977 graduate of the University of Mississippi, with a bachelor of business administration in accounting.
He is a past president and director of the Mississippi Feed and Grain Association, and served as a director of the Delta Council and the Jefferson Bank.
Elected as the NGFA's new second vice chairman was Ronald D. Olson, vice president of grain operations for General Mills Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
Olson also serves on the NGFA's Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and is a former member of its Grain Grades and Weights Committee, which addresses grain inspection matters.
Olson has served in his current capacity with General Mills since 1996, and as such is responsible for providing strategic and operating leadership for all aspects of its Grain Division.
His responsibilities include managing a network of 44 country and terminal elevators; commodity risk-management; and managing inter-company relationships with marketing divisions, research and development, and quality/regulatory groups.
Olson joined General Mills when it acquired Atwood-Kellogg Company, where he was president from 1990-95.
At Atwood-Kellogg, he managed a staff of 100 that provided financing, marketing, futures hedging, auditing and tax, bonding and regulatory compliance services to country elevators in the Dakotas and Minnesota.
From 1971-90, he worked at Continental Grain Co., in various capacities, including as vice president and Northwest Region manager from 1981-90.
An Iowa native, he is a graduate of Iowa State University with an undergraduate degree in agricultural business and a masters in economics.
He has served on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Agricultural Advisory Board for the past two years, and is a past board member and chairman of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
He also is a member of the Business Advisory Board at Montana State University, as well as the Agricultural and Food Science Academy, a St. Paul, MN-based charter high school.
Olson was recently nominated by the NGFA to serve on the Secretary of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture.
Among other things, the advisory committee is to examine the long-term impacts of agricultural biotechnology on the U.S. food and agricultural system, as well as on the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Board of Directors
NGFA elected 17 members to its Board of Directors.
Reelected to three-year terms were: Al Gosiak, president, Pendleton Grain Growers Inc., Pendleton, OR; Thomas J. Hammond, president, Columbia Grain International Inc., Portland, OR; Dan Hardy, vice president, grain merchandising, Riceland Foods Inc., Stuttgart, AR; J. Stephen Lucas, vice president, Louis Dreyfus Corp., Wilton, CT; Tom Miller, manager, Grain Department, Farmers Cooperative Co., Farnhamville, IA; Stephen Norris, vice president, Grain Division, Southern States Cooperative Inc., Richmond, VA; Andrew Riffe, marketing manager, Stratford Grain Co., Stratford, TX; and John Skelley, president, Arizona Grain Inc., Casa Grande, AZ.
Elected to three-year terms were: Ronald Barkema, manager, Grain Department, Prairie Land Cooperative, Hubbard, IA; JoAnn Brouillette, president, Demeter LP, Fowler, IN; Thomas Coyle, general manager, Chicago & Illinois River Marketing LLC (a division of Nidera Inc.), Chicago, IL; Brad Schultz, vice president, commodities, Minnesota Corn Processors LLC, Marshall, MN; Jeff Stroberg, chief executive officer, West Central Cooperative, Ralston, IA; Mike Sumpter, trading manager, Zen-noh Grain Corp., Mandeville, LA; and Michael Trosen, director of operations, South Dakota Wheat Growers Association, Aberdeen, SD.
Elected to fill a vacancy for a two-year term were: Michael Donnelly, president, Donnelly Commodities Inc., Smithtown, NY; and Robert Ludington, director, Mexico and sorghum for The Scoular Co., Overland Park, KS.
Executive Committee
NGFA's Board of Directors elected 13 of its members to serve on the NGFA's 18-member Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee is responsible for the NGFA's overall planning, policies and finances when the board is not in session.
Elected to serve on the Executive Committee were: Allen J. Anderson, vice president, government affairs, Cenex Harvest States Cooperative, St. Paul, MN; John Anderson, chief executive officer and general manager, Ritzville Warehouse Co., Ritzville, WA; JoAnn Brouillette, president, Demeter LP, Fowler, IN; Sharon Clark, director of traffic, Grain and Oilseed Division, Perdue Farms Inc., Salisbury, MD; Thomas Coyle, general manager, Chicago & Illinois River Marketing LLC (a division of Nidera Inc.), Chicago, IL; Paul DeBruce, chief executive officer, DeBruce Grain Inc., Kansas City, MO; Charles E. Gilbert, vice president, A.L. Gilbert Co., Oakdale, CA; Tom Hurd, vice president, Grain Division, United Feeds Inc., Pittsfield, IL; J. Stephen Lucas, vice president, Louis Dreyfus Corp., Wilton, CT; John Miller, president, Grain Division, Bartlett and Co. L.P., Kansas City, MO; Doug Mortensen, vice president, commodities, A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, IL; Hal Reed, president, Grain Division, The Andersons, Maumee, OH; and John Skelley, president, Arizona Grain Inc., Casa Grande, AZ.
Also serving on the Executive Committee by virtue of their office are: NGFA Chairman Richard R. Calhoun, vice president of the Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain-North America, for Cargill Inc., Minneapolis, MN; First Vice Chairman Steven F. Nail, president and chief executive officer, Farmers Grain Terminal Inc., Greenville, MS; Second Vice Chairman Ronald D. Olson, vice president, grain operations, General Mills Inc., Minneapolis, MN; Immediate Past Chairman Paul L. Krug Jr., president, ADM Investor Services Inc., Chicago, IL; and NGFA President Kendell W. Keith, Washington, D.C.
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Improving Outbreak Detection by Signal Integration*
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Introduction: A critical problem of surveillance systems is the trade-off between true and false detections. Integration of different monitors and information from exogenous sources can increase the true-detection rate by limiting the false-detection rate.
Objective: The authors introduce a probabilistic architecture able to achieve a substantial detection rate while keeping false detections low.
Methods: The architecture is a Bayesian network that encodes probabilistic information through a directed graph. The nodes and arrows represent variables and stochastic dependencies quantified by probability distributions. The integration of two systems for syndromic surveillance at a pediatric and adult hospital is illustrated by using a respiratory illness outbreak (Figure). Empirical evaluations have demonstrated that true and false-alert rates are affected by influenza epidemics, by air quality as measured by pollen level, and by whether the alert day is a holiday. The network integrates the sources of information to compute the probability of an outbreak (given that one or both systems generate alerts) and what is known about the other variables. The probability tables quantifying the network were obtained from data contaminated with different simulated outbreaks. The integrator was validated on 84 simulated outbreaks.
Results and Conclusions: This study indicates that the integration of the two monitoring systems with exogenous information has a 73% true-detection rate with an 8% false-detection rate in limited outbreaks (i.e., an average of four ill persons/day), and 97% true-detection rate with 10% false-detection rate in more substantial outbreaks (i.e., an average of eight ill persons/day).
* This work was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Grant 2002-12-1).Figure
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What tests are used in the cases of Valentinus and Basilides in the second chapter?
Valentinus was a Benedictine monk and was still living at Erfurt in 1413.
Here, again, are Marcion and Valentinus; but perhaps they are not in esteem with you.
Basilides falls into the background behind Valentinus and his school.
The task, which had been begun by Philo and carried on by Valentinus and his school, was now undertaken in the Church.
And in fact, in Irenus, 'they—the Valen-tinians—say,' occurs much oftener than 'he—Valentinus—says.'
What words of either Basilides or Valentinus exist anywhere to justify this reckless assertion?
There Valentinus, the groom of Photius, the son of Antonina, made a remarkable exhibition of valour.
This constitutes the deepest distinction between Christian philosophers like Justin and those of the type of Valentinus.
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Black Swan Review (2010)
While not perfect, Darren Arronofsky's Black Swan is a tale of someone who loses their soul in a pursuit of supreme vanity in the guise of art or craft.
It's sometimes hard to tell the difference in reality and the phantoms that persecute the protaganist of the film played by Natalie Portman (the protagonist, not the film… she's not playing the film).
Portman is a young ballet dancer named Nina, who is the most polished of her troupe, but is told by her director that she lacks in emotion and the ability to 'let go' to perform with more emotion.
The ballet troupe's director, Thomas, played by Frenchman Vincent Cassel takes a VERY 'hands on' approach, having been the lover of the ballet's former prima ballerina and now he's searching for a replacement (professionally and romantically).
The top dancers all vie for the role of the Swan Queen, but Nina's top competition comes mainly from a new girl named Lily (played by Mila Kunis) who resembles Nina while being much more free spirited. The role Nina covets, consists of performing a dual role/dance; the White Swan and the Black Swan.
Thomas believes that Nina is only suited for the White Swan. There is also subtle pressure applied to Nina in the form of her mother, whom she still lives with.
There are aspects of the story that are subtle, especially the relationship between mother and daughter, but much of the story is theatrically fantastic spectacle, especially the relationships with her director or with Lily, which are much more overt. Things that are inherent in a film about a dance troupe are present such as the catty competition and the daily training, but this much more than a film about ballet. The central story could take place in just about any setting, even those that aren't artistic in nature.
There is much that's symbolic in the film, at times being practically spelled out for the audience. Obviously, black and white in literature have always represented the pure and the impure, order and chaos, good and evil.
Nina wears white and the corrupting influences ranging from her mother, Thomas, the former prima ballerina (Winona Ryder in a small part) who loathes her would be replacement, Nina and other competitors, all wear black. Arronofsky seems to be fairly direct when he has a character change their wardrobe's color scheme.
Mirrors often represent opportunities to denote self reflection, as well as epitomize vanity. Here it does both.
The mirrors become almost a character unto themselves. Keep that in mind in the film's finale.
Arronofsky does create many details to bolster what the film's building towards. I kept wondering why Arronofsky had the camera trailing Portman's character so closely, to where her head took up much of the frame. As with the mirrors, Portman's hairstyle takes on significance.
Much of what occurs in the film is figurative. I think one of the first scenes introducing Nina gives an indication of what will follow. Nina appears to be speaking with someone who's not there. It's obvious what the story is aiming for, but it's interesting at how it gets there.
There was much hype focused on the sexual content involving Portman and Kunis. A lot of it is purely of the 'titilating' variety. I'm not complaining, but it is worth seeing for more than just that reason.
It's a pretty good film. Not Arranofsky's best film (far from it), but it's still more interesting than most of the other film's out there.
It's visually entertaining, surreal and full of dark imagery. There also a few creepy moments that have a bit of shock value.
There's a steady descent and the shocks are foreshadowed by smaller moments involving fingers, toenails and loose skin, then moving on to what looked like plucked chicken skin.
But, being forced to watch Natalie Portman (among others) in any film isn't exactly what I would call torture.
And speaking of the lovely and very talented Portman, I must say she was perfect in this role. Although she is a bit more short-limbed than the way I would picture a typical ballerina, but after 10 months of dance training she was very believable.
There were several instances when I thought they were using a body double until the camera panned up and confirmed that it was Portman. Of course, nowadays, there could have been some digital manipulation going on.
Nina experiences a wide range of emotions in the story and Portman does a fine job of portraying that. She also was very good with the subtle changes that the character experiences throughout. I do think like her character, though, she looks like she's trying to overcompensate for her vanilla nature in the role of the Black Swan. Ironic?
Anyway, he did a good job, as did Kunis. the role that might not get as much recognition is that of Nina's mother. Barbara Hershey plays her with enough nuance that initially, the viewer won't get a hint of exactly what kind of influence she has on her daughter.
It's apparent early on that she's one of those parents that failed in their dream and are now living through their offspring possibly detrimental to them both. Hershey could have been a lot more over the top but remained low key that benefitted the story.
As I said Black Swan is a pretty good film. It won't make my top five of the year, but is still a film worth seeing. The beautiful women that are in it and Aranoffsky's usual unorthodox screenplay and direction , make it worthwhile even if you care nothing for ballet.
If you're a fan of any of the main players or the director, you'll probably be happy with it. On the other hand if you don't like anything too 'artsy', this might cause some sort of hemorrhage. Arranofsky's not for everyone.
All of his films from Pi to this one aren't really aimed at the mainstream, but they have managed to find an audience (like The Wrestler). His movies aren't prepackaged for consumption and I kind of like that. 4 of 5 (whatevers)
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Welcome to Yearning to Read, Audrey!
1. To start off, can you give us five fun facts about yourself?
- I've done a polysomnogram before.
- I got my start as an author dealing self-published books out of my high school locker.
- Aside from novels, I also write and host murder mystery parties for some of my oldest friends. This year will be our seventh annual party!
- I'm huge fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and used to be in a shadow cast.
- I organized my high school's senior prank—a frozen flash mob that had all seen the school's basilisk. We wore our graduation/WIZARDING robes, wrote on the bathroom mirrors, draped a stuffed snake over the stalls, and hid a recording of "moaning myrtle" that played on loop.
2. What are your favorite things about the original Peter Pan story?
Hands down, Peter and Wendy's friendship. They are incredibly sweet together, and in a beautiful way that I think often gets lost in relationships as we get older. They clearly share this tremendous bond and play father and mother to each other while they pretend the lost boys are their children, but it is all in this really platonic, friendly way. Too few people and stories put value on intimate friendships. Sometimes someone feels like your other half or the greatest emotional influence in your life even though you're "just" friends. That said, I'm a huge fan of fairies and flying. Swings were always my favorite at the playground, and lots of days I still daydream about flying away.
3. Every writer has a favorite part of the process: outlining, drafting, editing, procrastinating, etc. What's yours?
That's a tough question! Few things compete with drafting when you're in the zone, but outlining really is my favorite part...which is why I spend so much more time on it than anything else! I like to produce really clean first drafts, and mull over an idea for months or years before I even start writing it. Once the idea stops changing in my head, that's when I know I'm ready to put it on paper. I had the idea for The Neverland Wars and wrote out a broad outline for the series in the fall of 2010...I didn't start drafting it until three years later!
4. Who is your favorite character you've created? Who would you choose as a best friend?
Those are two very different questions! Lasiandra and the mermaids are my favorite characters, but I think they'd make pretty dangerous friends. I still don't know if I should trust them or not. If I had to pick a best friend, I'd want Jay. He's got a level head on his shoulders and is pretty laid back...something I've always looked for in a friend, because I'm so high-strung! Jay is a jack of all trades and very comfortable inhabiting middle grounds, unlike Gwen. I think that confidence and self-assured nature is an admirable trait, especially in young/new adults who have so much else going on in our heads.
5. I know from personal experience that writers pour themselves into their characters to make them come alive. How are you like your main character Gwen? Which character in THE NEVERLAND WARS are you most like?
Gwen and I share a lot of aesthetic similarities. I wore a lot of weird dresses I got from thrift stores as a teenager, and never bothered with make-up. I feel like there's a few girls who buck the trends and genuinely don't care at every school, so I wanted to write that as close to my own honest experience as I could, so those other girls would be able to connect with Gwen. I'm definitely more like Gwen than any other character in The Neverland Wars. Key differences include that I'm not nearly as good at oral storytelling, have a rowdy little brother instead of a sister, and am not nearly as conflicted.
6. Would you want to live forever in Neverland? Or would you want to stay on earth and live one lifetime?
I'd head to Neverland in an instant. A tropical paradise where time doesn't exist sounds like the perfect cure for the anxiety-blob that is adulthood. I was acutely aware of this even as a kid, and spent years leaving my window open at night, hoping Peter Pan might come for me. There's a lot to recommend adulthood and a lot of fun in it, but you have to work so much harder to stay present and survive in it. Sign me up for the next flight to the mermaid's lagoon. I love Gwen, but if she thinks she might want to grow up after all...I think she's nuts.
7. How has being published changed your life?
It's introduced a completely new type crushing existential doubt into my life, which I've been trying to fill by becoming a workaholic, hahahaha. Neverland is looking as nice as ever. I was twelve when I drafted my first book, and I've wanted to be a writer ever since. I didn't really expect it to manifest this soon, and now there's this strange sense of "what now?" After all, what do you do once you've reached your life goal? It's been hard figuring out how to balance the marketing/publishing aspects of my career and everything else in my life. It's funny... I didn't think being published was something I would have to learn how to enjoy! Now that I am learning, though, it really is the best feeling.
8. If James Barrie were alive.....is there anything you'd want to tell or ask him? Would you want him to read THE NEVERLAND WARS?
Oh goodness, I'd be way too embarrassed for him to read The Neverland Wars. The book focuses on teenage years instead of grade school years, and addresses so many issues I think are unique to modern life and the culture that has been born out of the technological advancements of this century. Not to mention that my writing is crumbs and crackers compared to his literary vision.
I really don't think I'd have anything to ask him, either. He left behind a beautiful story that in so many ways speaks for itself. I'd be curious to hear about the Davies boys, though, and just how much the real Peter, Michael, and George resembled the characters he created for his play and novel.
I don't know about you guys, but I absolutely adore Audrey's answers. Here are the cover and blurb for THE NEVERLAND WARS (book 1), which sounds totally awesome! (I didn't have time to read it before the interview but it's at the very top of my list.)
Magic can do a lot—give you flight, show you mermaids, help you taste the stars, and… solve the budget crisis? That's what the grown-ups will do with it if they ever make it to Neverland to steal its magic and bring their children home.
However, Gwen doesn't know this. She's just a sixteen-year-old girl with a place on the debate team and a powerful crush on Jay, the soon-to-be homecoming king. She doesn't know her little sister could actually run away with Peter Pan, or that she might have to chase after her to bring her home safe. Gwen will find out though—and when she does, she'll discover she's in the middle of a looming war between Neverland and reality.
She'll be out of place as a teenager in Neverland, but she won't be the only one. Peter Pan's constant treks back to the mainland have slowly aged him into adolescence as well. Soon, Gwen will have to decide whether she's going to join impish, playful Peter in his fight for eternal youth… or if she's going to scramble back to reality in time for the homecoming dance.
If you want to read this (come on, you know you do!) it's available right now - for only 4 more days - for $.99!
You can find THE NEVERLAND WARS for purchase on Amazon and add it to your TBR here on Goodreads. You can also join Audrey (and hopefully me!) on Twitter to discuss TNW and the sequel, THE PIPER'S PRICE...
Speaking of THE PIPER'S PRICE....are you guys ready to see this gorgeous cover?? I think you are.
Peter is plotting his retaliation against the latest bombing. Neverland needs an army, and Peter Pan is certain children will join him once they know what is at stake. The lost boys and girls are planning an invasion in suburbia to recruit, but in order to deliver their message, they will need the help of an old and dangerous associate—the infamous Pied Piper.
Hunting him down will require a spy in in the real world, and Gwen soon finds herself in charge of locating the Piper and cutting an uncertain deal with him. She isn't sure if Peter trusts her that much, or if he's just trying to keep her away from him in Neverland. Are they friends, or just allies? But Peter might not even matter now that she's nearly home and meeting with Jay again.
The Piper isn't the only one hiding from the adults' war on magic though, and when Gwen goes back to reality, she'll have to confront one of Peter's oldest friends… and one of his earliest enemies.
Hunting him down will require a spy in in the real world, and Gwen soon finds herself in charge of locating the Piper and cutting an uncertain deal with him. She isn't sure if Peter trusts her that much, or if he's just trying to keep her away from him in Neverland. Are they friends, or just allies? But Peter might not even matter now that she's nearly home and meeting with Jay again.
The Piper isn't the only one hiding from the adults' war on magic though, and when Gwen goes back to reality, she'll have to confront one of Peter's oldest friends… and one of his earliest enemies.
UM, HELLO THERE GORGEOUS. I need this pretty purple in my life. (The cover links to its Goodreads page.) It releases in February of 2017. I can't wait to read it already...


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An investor from China has bought a Melbourne CBD office floor for $2.1 million on a yield of 7.8 per cent.
Level 2 at 620 Bourke Street, which was picked up by a private investor, attracts a net rent of about $164,000 per year and has a new seven-year lease.
The 568-square-metre office is located on the high-profile corner of Bourke and King Streets in the city's fast growing western precinct. Savills agents Jesse Radisich, Nick Peden and Clinton Baxter negotiated the sale.
The sale was negotiated by Charles Gonzalez and Robert Farrell of Cushman & Wakefield after auction.
A corner shop in one of Melbourne's city fringe retail strips has sold for $3.77 million. A private investor bought 350 Lygon Street in Carlton on a yield of about 4 per cent.
The 136-square-metre two-storey building was sold with a new five-year lease to Grill'd.
The tenant pays a net annual rental of $157,325. Knight Frank's Marcus Quinn and Langton McHarg brokered the deal.
Almaa Holdings Pty Ltd has picked up an office, showroom and warehouse complex in South Australia for $1.95 million. 6 McLeod Court, which spans 2120 square metres, has a two-level office-showroom and a large warehouse. The site is 11 kilometres north of the Adelaide CBD and is close to major transport. CBRE's David Reid sold the property on behalf of the vendor, Taunton Pty Ltd.
An industrial property mooted for development in Sydney has been sold at auction for $1.8 million. A private investor bought the freestanding industrial land well above the reserve from National Australia Bank.
The 71 Stephen Road property, in Botany, has a total site area of 2336 square metres. CBRE's Michael Binskin and Mark Silva brokered the deal.
A commercial building fully leased by the Heritage Bank in south-east Queensland has sold for $1.25 million. 270 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba has a current rental return of $92,497 and a net yield of 7.3 per cent. Ray White Commercial Springwood's Silvio Bevacqua, who negotiated the sale, said the deal demonstrated the growing hunger among buyers in the south-east Queensland market. The potential for redevelopment of the 840-square-metre block, subject to council approval, added to the value.
A 1200-square-metre industrial freehold on the Gold Coast has sold to Starbright Engineering at auction for $1.7 million. The property, at 10 Industrial Avenue, Molendinar, changed hands for $150,000 above the reserve price. Selling agent Pat Cavanagh, of Colliers International, said the property was in high demand because of its large land component and the suburb being highly sought after by industrial property owners given its central position.
Starbright Engineering has plans to redevelop the site long-term.
A retail asset in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, has been snapped up by a private investor for $1.4 million. The sale price reflected a yield of 8.4 per cent. The 272 Crawford Street C-grade building has two tenants. Illawarra Disability Trust has a five-year lease for 292 square metres while Queanbeyan Eye Care has a five-year lease on 130 square metres. The total net income from these is about $117,756 per year. LJ Hooker Commercial agent Peter Forbes handled the sale on behalf of vendor Wireflame Pty Ltd.
HMT Hotel Holdings has offloaded a Sydney CBD retail asset for $1 million. Located close to Central Railway Station, Haymarket and Chinatown, the shop has exposure to high pedestrian traffic. Shop 1/717 George Street spans 12 square metres and is currently leased to UAE Exchange. Andy Hu and Andrew Palmer of Knight Frank negotiated the deal.
A Melbourne office and warehouse facility of 2400 square metres has sold at public auction for $2.5 million.
Located at 36-38 Trade Park Drive in Tullamarine, the building is occupied by AGS World Transport on a new three-year lease and net rent of $199,000 a year with the option to extend.
The property, which includes a two-level office component, has direct access to Melbourne International Airport and is close to the Tullamarine Freeway.
It was sold to a local investor. CBA Property Consultants' Anthony Carbone negotiated the deal.
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Henri Barbusse and Frans Masereel, Quelques Coins du coeur (Some Corners of the Heart), (Genève: Le Sablier, 1921). Graphic Arts (GAX) 2010- in process
The Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889-1972) is best remembered for his graphic novels, in the classic sense of the term. Masereel settled originally in France but moved a great deal, returning to Paris in 1921 when he completed the illustrations for Henri Barbusse's novel Quelques coins du coeur (Some Corners of the Heart). In all, Masereel completed over twenty graphic novels, most of which are available at Princeton.
As a pacifist, soon to be member of the French communist party, Masereel had great sympathy for the work of Henri Barbusse (1873-1935), who was also politically outspoken. Both campaigned in 1921 in favor of Sacco and Vanzetti. 1921 was also the year Barbusse completed Le Couteau entre les dents (The Knife Between My Teeth), which reflected his sympathy with Bolshevism.


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Graphic Novel Friday: "Blacksad"
Originally published in France and written and illustrated by two Spaniards, Blacksad follows a grimy, smoke-ringed 1950's private investigator, John Blacksad. All the familiar noir mainstays are here: a troubled, elusive P.I., tragic femme fatales, complex-to-the-point-of-collapsing plots, questionable cops on the make, chatty informants, easy-to-hate villains, and that certain dirty but appealing style. The only difference is that Blacksad's world is populated entirely by walking, talking animals. I never saw this one coming: anthropomorphized noir.
While I'm a fan of crime comics like Criminal, 100 Bullets, and a few of the Vertigo Crime books (I'm embarrassingly behind on my Queen & Country), I'd never heard of Blacksad. Publisher Dark Horse notes that the series is "internationally acclaimed," and it's easy to see why: the book is breathtaking. This magazine-formatted hardcover collects three stories, all originally published in France, and one, "Red Soul," is collected here in English for the first time. The attention to detail makes it very easy to wander from the plot or text. When we are given glimpses into Blacksad's office or apartment, entire panels are devoted solely to the items in the room. We see papers and books haphazardly stacked, a few strays near the waste basket but not committed as trash just yet; bulletin boards that have long since lost any updated Post-Its and are now static fixtures, receding into the background. Blacksad's desk looks a lot like mine: all to-do lists, staplers, and miscellany crowding what should be the work area. He sits on the only free-space of his desk--the corner. He broods just outside the blinds.
The first story, "Somewhere within the Shadows," opens with Blacksad, a black cat with muddy green eyes, slinking about a crime scene as a German shepherd cop gives him a hard time. Naturally, Blacksad knew the murder victim, who is splayed lifeless on the bed--a former film starlet ("…The remains of a beautiful dream.")--and no matter how he is cautioned from going any deeper into the cause of her death, it's never in question that the whiskered detective will make this case a personal one.
Writer Juan Díaz Canales keeps close to genre staples--Blacksad falls for dangerous women and takes quite a few beatings while dishing them out--but there are great moments of crisp drama, especially in Blacksad's internal dialogue boxes. At one point, he is trailed by a hired goon--a lizard--who pulls a knife. "I don't believe a detective exists who likes to see his trenchcoat ruined."
What follows next is a well-choreographed fight scene, culminating in a head-butt ("And I knew a few dirty tricks…learned in the gutters.") that deflates the lizard's snout. As Blacksad hauls the bruised assailant to his feet, he internally quips: "Now, Pretty Face, answer me." Which one of these creatures is cold-blooded?English translators Anthya Flores and Patricia Rivera retain the thick and brisk menace as well as the softer moments, but the big news is artist Juanjo Guarnido. The research that must have gone into creating and rendering the cast of characters is exhausting. Foxes, ferrets, grizzly and polar bears, deer, rabbits, roosters, Bengal tigers, Dalmations, owls, crows, turtles--each character has his or her own effortlessly expressed personality mixed with the instincts of the animal they possess. These are human emotions as seen through the animal kingdom, but set in the very human 1950s. It shouldn't work--or, rather, it should be much more difficult to take seriously, but Guarnido's confidence and skill take command of every panel. Cobblestones are individually detailed while entire cities stretch above them and behind windows when scenes take place indoors. When characters flirt, their eyes fill in the blanks left by sparse, playful dialogue. Guarnido's ability to convey a spectrum of emotions via facial and body language puts to shame the often dead-eyed superheroes at the top of the charts. 184 pages is not nearly enough of his work.
My favorite stories were the first--an excellent introduction to the main character and his world--and "Red Soul," which finds Blacksad in the middle of a red scare. It's big on plot and characters, and the female lead, Alma, is refreshingly not so much fatale as she is her own person. The middle chapter, "Arctic Nation," takes a heavy-handed approach to racial tension. The results are none too subtle, but it's full of twists, sex, violence, and--of course--that lavish artwork.
The hardcover releases this July, featuring an introduction by Jim Steranko and praise from Stan Lee and Neal Adams. Blacksad is not to be missed.


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The federal government and Victoria yesterday agreed to concessions that cleared the way for the creation of a new national hospitals watchdog, a big step towards changing the way public hospitals are funded.
At a meeting in Melbourne, state and federal health ministers struck a deal that prevents the proposed National Health Performance Authority bypassing state governments in its dealings with hospitals.
Several states had argued a direct relationship between the authority and hospitals would undermine the states' role as managers of the health system.
The deal followed weeks of sniping between the federal government and the states, particularly Victoria, over the proposed authority, which will be able to publicly identify poorly performing hospitals.
The agreement to establish a Health Performance Authority is a big step forward for the plan initiated under former prime minister Kevin Rudd to improve the central planning of hospital funding.
Victoria wanted the authority, which the federal government has pushed as a condition of additional funding, abandoned because it thought it was an unnecessary cost.
The next step will be negotiations over a National Pricing Authority ahead of a meeting of the Council of Australian Governments next month.
The federal government hopes to have the shape of the pricing authority, which will determine how much states are paid per procedure, agreed at the meeting. States have privately raised doubts about that timetable.
Yesterday, Victorian Health Minister
He said it was a positive move that states and hospitals would be given 45 days' notice before adverse findings about hospital performances would be made public.
"The commonwealth has taken a number of significant steps backwards," he said.
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Flotilla Stopped by Greek Coast Guard: Urgent Need for Calls to Greek and U.S. Officials
On behalf of Bay Area, West Coast, US, and all Freedom Flotilla passengers, contact the Greek Embassy in immediately and ask that @USBOATTOGAZA be granted passage out of Greek waters. Tell them that it is unacceptable for Greece to do Israel's dirty work, for the Israeli blockade of Gaza to extend across the entire Mediterranean all the way to Europe. Is Greece now occupied by both the IMF and Israel? Given the sabotage of boats docked in and around Athens, it's not safe for flotilla boats to return. Demand that Greece allow the flotilla sail into international waters. Flotilla passengers are peaceful people on a mission to Gaza. The whole world is watching!
For a list of websites for further updates, see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/01/18683407.php.
Here is the Greek order against flotilla boats leaving its ports for Gaza, "the area of maritime blockade by Israel": "Pursuant to a decision by the Minister of Citizen Protection Mr. C. Papoutsis, the departure of ships with Greek and foreign flags from Greek ports to the maritime area of Gazahas been prohibited today. By orders of the Hellenic Coast Guard Head Quarters to all local Hellenic Coast Guard Authorities, all appropriate measures are taken for the implementation of the said decision."
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In the realm of budget shortfalls, the city can't really compete with the state—but it is trying.
A few weeks ago, Missoula City administrators discovered they were $700,000 short. But unlike the state's seemingly habitual quarter-billion dollar shortfalls, the city's problem is a new occurrence.
"It's never come up in the past," says Missoula finance director Brendtt Ramharter. "It's just never happened in the last five to ten years."
The shortfall came about because the city underestimated the amount of the 2002 budget that would go unspent. The city typically plans on spending only 95 percent of its budget each year, and then rolls the remaining money into the next year's kitty. But early this September, when city officials conducted their yearly audit, they realized they had overspent—largely due to a quarter-million dollar fire arbitration settlement and heavily expanded city departments including police and public works.
Budget cuts at the state level have resulted in everything from layoffs to the elimination of foster care programs to the loss of funding for people in need of kidney dialysis treatment, so many Montanans panic when they hear the word "shortfall." But city cuts shouldn't carry similarly harrowing consequences. And Mayor Mike Kadas wants to make sure Missoulians don't get the impression that they will.
"It a problem that we need to pay attention to," says Kadas. "But it's not a crisis by any means and that's my concern—that it gets over-blown and played as a crisis."
The bulk of the solution will come from the delay of several big purchases the city had planned for coming months, with the remainder made up by reviewing and increasing fees, ranging from public pool access to excavation and building permits. "We haven't adjusted fees in some cases for 20 or 30 years," says the mayor.
But some council members are hesitant to dive into the increased-fee solution.
"Fees to me are taxes," says Ward 4 Councilman Jerry Ballas. "So this is like talking about tax increases."
Ballas says that he will keep an open mind but doesn't want the shortfall to inadvertently lead to higher fees. Ballas' philosophy is shared by much of the council.
"If there is a good reason to institute a fee or to boost the cost of a fee then let's do it on that basis," says Ward 6 Councilman Clayton Floyd. "But not under the perception that we're broke."
The mayor has pointed out that he wants park and recreation services to remain heavily subsidized, but he remains convinced that there are other fees, like excavation permits, that can and should provide a greater source of revenue for the city.
In the meantime, it's unclear when the budget problems will be ironed out, since many council members still want to take a closer look at the mayor's plan.