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You've probably noticed that Aiden is now way more popular than the original Irish Aidan. And also that Zoey is catching up with Zoe, while other names like Isiah, Kaleb, Camryn and Sienna are either ahead of or breathing down the necks of their conventionally spelled cousins. Sometimes the reasons for these changes are clear-cut, sometimes it's just something in the ether.
Not that this is a new thing. I remember the first time that someone asked me to spell my first name. "Huh?" "Well, is it Linda with an 'i' or Lynda with a 'y'? Without my really noticing, Lynda had become a spelling alternative in the wake of the popularity of Lynn. Something similar has happened with Aidan/Aiden. When the epidemic of rhyming 'en'-ending names erupted–Jaden, Braden, Caden et al–it was a logical development to make Aiden a legitimate member of that family. And when 'K'-beginning boys' names became a rage, Kaleb began pursuing Caleb up the list.
The case of Zoe/Zooey is a little different, as the spike of the latter version can be pretty much traced to a single phenomenon–'Zoey101'–the Emmy-nominated teen sitcom starring (now teen mom) Jamie Lynn Spears, which appeared on Nickelodeon in 2005. And the publicity surrounding Jamie Lynn's big sister Britney's second son helped spread that spelling of Brayden. The rise of the British actress Sienna Miller spurred the spelling change of the Italian town of Siena, actress Jorja Fox legitimized the phonetic spelling of Georgia, and Gossip Girl hottie Chace (originally his middle name) Crawford has the spelling of his name chasing Chase.
In terms of image, rather than spelling, Scarlett Johansson challenged the long-term connection of her name to Gone With the Wind spitfire Scarlett O'Hara, just as the charms of Jude Law have managed to erase the age-old associations of his name to Judas.
More recently we've seen a couple of starbabies who might have some influence on the future spellings of names: Brooke Shield's Grier (rather than Greer) and Angie Harmon's Emery (rather than Emory).
Can you think of any others?


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January 16, 2012 3:00 am
Who makes the Hall of Fame cut when faced against the Keltner Test and JAWS?
On Friday, I unveiled the catcher and infielders on what I'm calling the Keltner All-Stars, the best eligible player at each position outside the Hall of Fame. The name comes from former Indians third baseman Ken Keltner, who inspired Bill James' Keltner Test, a set of 15 questions that can be used to frame a player's Hall of Fame case. The basis of my choices isn't that test. Instead, I'm using JAWS.
January 13, 2012 9:00 am
A writer who never saw Jack Morris pitch watches him in action for the first time and comes away even less convinced that the traditionalist case for his candidacy should earn him a call to Cooperstown.
January 13, 2012 3:00 am
What does the Keltner Test tell us about guys who should be in line for enshrinement?
Two years ago, following Andre Dawson's election to the Hall of Fame, I took a trip around the diamond to identify the most worthy players at each position who remained outside of Cooperstown. The piece was a nod to Bill James, whose systematic Keltner Test—named for former Indians third baseman Ken Keltner, a set of 15 questions that can be used to frame a player's Hall of Fame case—includes the question, "Is he the best player at his position who is eligible for the Hall of Fame but not in?" Since then, no fewer than four of the players in that lineup—Roberto Alomar, Bert Blyleven, Barry Larkin, and Ron Santo—have been elected, and the Wins Above Replacement Player system that underlies JAWS has changed significantly. Thus, it's high time I take another spin and offer a new set of candidates.
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January 12, 2012 3:00 am
How one man came to support a borderline statistical candidate for the Hall of Fame whose other contributions strengthen his case.
My first memory about Minnie Minoso stems from 1977, on one of those bright afternoons when I had talked my grandfather into stopping at the dime store on the town square in Red Oak, Iowa. It's just as Sinclair Lewis as it sounds. The store sold baseball cards, and I was working on my Topps collection that summer by picking up four or five 10-cent packs at a time. Not everything at the dime store actually cost a dime, but fifteen baseball cards and one rock-hard piece of bubble gum did, and they came bundled in colorful wax wrappers that I liked so much that I refused to throw them away. My parents didn't give a rip about sports, but my grandfather had played second base in Class-B ball in southwest Iowa in the 1920s and understood what baseball could mean to a young boy. He was glad to fork over change for the cards.
Red Oak had, and still has, the type of rustic town square that was once the primary business district of small midwestern towns. Some communities have courthouses stuck in the middle of their square, but Red Oak has trees, a fountain, and a park. That day, I sat in the grass opening my cards, stuffing the gum in my mouth one piece at a time, while my grandfather lounged on a bench under a tree talking to a fellow retired farmer, who wore a green John Deere hat. The names on the cards didn't mean much to me at the time—it hadn't been that long since I had learned to read—but I loved the team names, the pictures, and of course, the numbers on the back. Suddenly I came across card No. 232 from the 1977 Topps set:
January 10, 2012 12:54 am
Barry Larkin earns his Hall call, but the major gains for multiple players shed new light on their Cooperstown prospects.
That Barry Larkin is headed to Cooperstown is not the big surprise of the 2012 Hall of Fame voting, the results of which were announced on Monday afternoon. As the top holdover (he received 62.1 percent of the vote last year) on a ballot with no overwhelming first-time candidates, and a deserving candidate on both the traditional and sabermetric fronts, he was well-positioned to close the deal. With 86.4 percent of the vote, he cleared the 75 percent bar easily, and will join the family of Ron Santo at the induction ceremony on July 22, 2012.
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January 4, 2012 12:18 am
Tim Raines has his case re-examined, and the remainder of the Hall ballot gets a look.
We all have our pet projects. With the graduations of Bert Blyleven and Ron Santo to the Hall of Fame, mine is now Tim Raines. During his 23-year major-league career, Raines combined the virtues of a keen batting eye, dazzling speed, and all-around athleticism with a cerebral approach that made him an electrifying performer and a dangerous offensive weapon. Yet in four years on the ballot, he's reached just 37.5 percent of the vote, exactly half of what he needs to reach Cooperstown.
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January 2, 2012 9:00 am
Bernie Williams burned it up with the Yankees during his career, but did the Puerto Rican do enough to blaze a trail to the Hall?
Before Derek Jeter, there was Bernie Williams. As the Yankees emerged from a barren stretch of 13 seasons without a trip to the playoffs from 1982-1994, and a particularly abysmal stretch of four straight losing seasons from 1989-1992, their young switch-hitting center fielder stood as a symbol for the franchise's resurgence. For too long, the Yankees had drafted poorly, traded away what homegrown talent they produced for veterans, and signed pricey free agents to fill the gaps as part of George Steinbrenner's eternal win-now directive. But with Steinbrenner banned by commissioner Fay Vincent and the Yankees' day-to-day baseball operations in the hands of Gene Michael, promising youngsters were allowed to develop unimpeded.
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December 30, 2011 3:23 am
Jay Jaffe and JAWS examine the starting pitchers on this year's Hall of Fame BBWAA ballot, starting with the inevitable Jack Morris.
After delivering the JAWS piece on first basemen earlier this week, I had planned to tackle the outfielders—Tim Raines, Bernie Williams et al—next. The sad news of Greg Spira's untimely passing on Wednesday presented me with a reason to change course, however. In the service of working on a chapter on Jack Morris's Hall of Fame case for Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers in November, I had called upon the Internet Wayback Machine to unearth Greg's seminal research piece questioning whether Morris "pitched to the score." a piece that was published in Baseball Prospectus 1997, predating Morris's arrival on the BBWAA ballot by a three years and Joe Sheehan's own outstanding Morris research by five years. I suggested to Dave Pease that we republish it on our site to run alongside yesterday's article in tribute to our fallen colleague and friend, a fine example of his intellectual curiosity and dogged research efforts, particularly as the work dated to a time when Retrosheet was in its infancy and the relevant data not easily compiled. This piece is dedicated to his memory.
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December 28, 2011 3:30 am
The new JAWS runs up against players from the Steroid Era to determine their Hall worthiness.
As with comedy, timing is everything in baseball. "Hitting is timing," Hall of Famer Warren Spahn said famously, finishing the thought with the complementary observation, "Pitching is upsetting timing." A good chunk of both the game's traditional and advanced statistics, the ones that we spurn and those that we celebrate, owe plenty to being the right man in the right place at the right time—wins, saves, and RBI from the former camp, leverage, run expectancy, and win expectancy from the latter. ERA owes everything to the sequence of events. For better or worse, MVP votes are won and lost on the timing of a player's productivity, or at least the perception of it that comes with being labeled "clutch." Timing is a major part of how we measure the game, so it should matter when we look over the course of a player's career in evaluating his fitness for the Hall of Fame.
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December 22, 2011 11:54 pm
Continuing a jaunt through the 2012 Hall of Fame ballot with the help of the revamped JAWS, a certain DH goes under the microscope.
It's been nearly 40 years since the designated hitter was introduced to Major League Baseball, and in that time, only one player who spent the plurality—not even the majority—of his time at the position has made it into the Hall of Fame. That was Paul Molitor, who spent 1,171 of his 2,683 career games riding the pine between plate appearances. When I reviewed Molitor's Hall of Fame case—in what was actually my Baseball Prospectus debut, at a point when the system hadn't even been named JAWS—I considered him as a third baseman, because he had played 788 games there, and the majority of his games playing somewhere in the infield. He had generated real defensive value (26 FRAA according to the measure of the time, 22 FRAA according to our most recent batch), strengthening a case that was virtually automatic anyway by dint of his membership in the 3,000-hit club.
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December 19, 2011 1:45 am
Only one middle infielder passes the revamped JAWS' standards for Hall of Fame induction.
The past year has been a great one for JAWS, the Hall of Fame evaluation system whose creation marked my first contribution to Baseball Prospectus back in 2004 (I didn't name it until the next go-round). In 2011, two overly qualified candidates for whom I've advocated for the better part of a decade were finally elected. In January, Bert Blyleven received 79.7 percen tof the Baseball Writers of America vote, becoming the first player ever to gain entry on his 14th ballot. In December, the late Ron Santo received 93.8 percent of the vote from the Golden Era committee, a bittersweet result given his passing just a year ago but a vindication of what we've known here for years, that he too was worthy of a bronze plaque.
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December 2, 2011 9:00 am
Redefining the JAWS equation sets a new standard for Hall of Fame induction.
This time of year is a busy stretch if you're a Hall of Fame buff, or at least this particular Hall of Fame buff. The 2012 BBWAA ballot was released on Wednesday, adding 13 new candidates to the 14 holdovers from last year's ballot. I'll start digging into the details of those candidacies starting at some point late next week. Meanwhile, the vote on the Golden Era candidates will take place at the Winter Meetings in Dallas this coming Monday, December 5; alas, I think I'm actually going to be in the air when the results are announced, but I'll weigh in upon arrival. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to discuss some of the Golden Era candidates on television as part of my debut appearance on MLB Network's new show, "Clubhouse Confidential." It wasn't my first time on TV, but I believe it was my first time discussing JAWS in that medium. Explaining the system concisely AND discussing the merits of a handful of candidates in a four-minute span was certainly a challenge, but host Brian Kenny and his producers seemed quite pleased with the segment, and there's reason to believe that it won't be the last time I appear on the show.
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Insurance Adjusters, Examiners, & Investigators
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What they do:Investigate, analyze, and determine the extent of insurance company's liability concerning personal, casualty, or property loss or damages, and attempt to effect settlement with claimants. Correspond with or interview medical specialists, agents, witnesses, or claimants to compile information. Calculate benefit payments and approve payment of claims within a certain monetary limit.
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Boating Fatalities Up Over Same Period Last Year
AUSTIN, Texas—Texas boating fatalities for the first five months of 2007 are up over the previous three years, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports show. State game wardens say the increase underscores the need for boater education and shows why TPWD and its partners are this summer launching the Nobody's Waterproof™ public awareness effort statewide.
From Jan. 1 to May 31 this year, there were 64 boating accidents resulting in 23 fatalities and 33 injuries on Texas waters. That compares to 20 fatalities for the same period in 2006 and only 13 for the first five months of 2005.
"While some lakes are doing better this year than in recent years, the overall trend is not positive," said Maj. Alfonso Campos, TPWD's chief of marine safety enforcement. "Last year we had 47 fatalities. At the rate we are going, we may exceed 50 fatalities for the first time since 2002.
Heavy spring rains and swollen rivers have contributed to the grim count. On a single day in late May, two teenagers and a game warden who was searching for one of the missing teens drowned on the Paluxy and Brazos Rivers near Glen Rose.
Other incidents have involved intoxicated boat operators and boaters operating in a reckless manner or failing to keep a proper lookout.
"These are all things that can earn a boater a ticket at the very least, and fines and time behind bars at worst," said Campos. "But the most serious consequence of being unsafe on the water is that someone dies. That's something you can't ever undo or make right. It's a tragedy for everyone involved in such an accident."
Campos urged boaters to take a few simple steps to stay safe on the water during the busy summer boating season:
- Wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device, also known as a PFD or lifejacket.
- Avoid alcohol. At the very least, designate a sober driver for the lake or bay and for the ride home.
- Operate your boat at a safe speed; what might be safe in some places or in some conditions might not be safe in others.
- Keep a proper lookout — for hazards in the water, for the wakes of other boats, and for swimmers and water-skiers.
- Take a boater education course.
Some Texas lakes will receive extra attention this summer — particularly on busy holidays and weekends — with extra game wardens and beefed-up enforcement of Boating while Intoxicated and Public Intoxication laws.
TPWD, along with partners in the Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas areas, also this year launched a statewide social marketing campaign aimed at 18-34-year-old lake and bay enthusiasts.
The campaign, called "Nobody's Waterproof," was developed by the Lower Colorado River Authority and Enviromedia Social Marketing, Inc., for use on Lake Travis and Lake LBJ* last year. Country rocker Kevin Fowler is the statewide spokesperson this year, and has recorded radio and TV public service announcements which are available at the Web sites listed below.
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Marilyn J. Berger B.S., Cornell University, 1965; J.D., Moot Court, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. Professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Admitted to practice in California and New York. Awarded a two-year Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship, she has been a senior attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Marin County, California, and an associate of the San Francisco firm of Saltzman & Johnson. Professor Berger also has been a visiting professor of law at South Bank Polytechnic in London and at Kyoto University in Japan; a scholar-in-residence at the University of London and Washington University in St. Louis; a research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center; and an Inquiring Mind Scholar for the Washington Commission for the Humanities. Coauthor of the casebooks Pretrial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy, and Trial Advocacy: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy, she recently wrote and produced the legal documentary "Lessons From Woburn: The Untold Stories." She teaches civil procedure, gender and justice, and pretrial and trail advocacy.
Henry Wigglesworth graduated from Harvard College and the University of New Mexico School of Law. Between college and law school, he worked as a film editor in New York City. He taught Legal Writing at Seattle University School of Law for four years, when he collaborated with Professor Berger on the Woburn tapes. He now works as a staff attorney for the United States District Court in Seattle.
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Westgate founder livid about Sundance doc
August 14, 2012
David Siegel rues the day he allowed documentary filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and her crew into his home.
Siegel, the founder and head of Westgate Resorts, says the film "The Queen of Versailles," which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January and opened nationwide in July, paints a false picture of his family and implies that his business is failing.
Nothing could be farther from the truth, he told The Park Record last week. The Westgate Resort Park City at the base of Canyons and his 26 other timeshare resorts across the country are flourishing. But he fears the distorted image portrayed in the film has discouraged potential timeshare sales.
Siegel claims the filmmaker "tricked" his family into allowing access into their personal lives on the pretense of making a documentary about their efforts to build the largest house in America. Instead, he says, she made an unflattering satire about their flamboyant lifestyle and their financial troubles.
When Greenfield first began filming David, his wife Jacqueline and their eight children in 2009, they were building a 90,000-square-foot home in Orlando, Fla., dubbed "Versailles" after the famous French castle and Jacqueline, an actress, was excited about being in the spotlight.
In the midst of the project, however, the recession forced the Siegels to mothball the project and Greenfield began to focus instead on the calamitous effects of the economic crisis on the family and the business.
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That's where David Siegel and Lauren Greenfield parted ways.
Siegel filed a lawsuit against Greenfield and the Sundance Institute in December when the film was selected for the film festival and promotional materials depicted it as "a rags to riches to rags story." The complaint has since been amended, dropping Sundance, but continues to pursue damages against Greenfield's company and the film's distributor, Magnolia Pictures.
The lawsuit mentions Westgate's Park City property claiming the film's depiction of the Siegels' business ventures caused the company to be "shunned by customers and the business community, specifically in the Park City area."
Greenfield, an accomplished documentary filmmaker, says the lawsuit is "completely meritless, is an attack on free speech, and is driven by business interests." In an email this week she added that she is saddened by David Siegel's allegations and that she worked closely with the family and Westgate with their complete cooperation.
Jacqueline Siegel, however, is unfazed by her husband's concerns and admits that she enjoyed the whole experience. She refers to Greenfield as "a great artist" and in an interview in Park City last week said she would even consider making a sequel.
"The Queen of Versailles" won critical praise at Sundance and is now playing in theaters across the country including Salt Lake City. Greenfield said she and Jackie have seen the film together several times, but David remains deeply concerned about how the film will affect his company, Westgate Resorts.
David Siegel visits his Westgate property at the base of Canyons resort in Park City at least four times a year, once a season. He has fond memories of the resort's opening day during Utah's Olympic Winter Games, saying his first guests were 50 Secret Service agents who were in town to provide security for the local venues.
Since then, Siegel, along with his wife Jackie and their eight children, have returned many times. But, even though the resort is located just steps away from the Canyons' gondola, he admits he rarely skis. Instead, Siegel likes to hang out in the sales pit, helping his staff close deals on timeshare vacations.
The founder of Westgate Resorts and among the first to embrace the novel real estate concept 32 years ago, Siegel is still bullish on the timeshare industry which he says has endured every crisis imaginable and bounced right back.
"I've been through oil embargoes, 9/11, Gulf Wars, 21-percent interest rates, the savings-and-loan debacle, the RTC days, recessions — and we still grew every year," he said during a visit to Park City last week.
But the one challenge he did not anticipate came in the form of a documentary filmmaker and photographer named Lauren Greenfield.
"I can't stand her," he said with a growl.
In 2008, with their permission, Greenfield began filming documentary about the Siegels efforts to build a 90,000-square-foot mansion near Orlando, Fla., reputed to be the largest house in America. At the time, Siegel was also building an ambitious timeshare project in Las Vegas.
However, over the course of the next three years, while Greenfield was making frequent trips to document the progress on both projects, the economy crashed, construction on the home came to an abrupt halt and the company had to relinquish the Las Vegas property. Greenfield captured it all in vivid detail and, instead of a story about a family living the high life in an ornate palace, the film turned into an allegory about the rise and fall of America's economy from the perspective of one very rich and quirky family.
In December of 2011, Greenfield's finished documentary, "The Queen of Versailles," was accepted by the Sundance Film Festival and was touted as a "rags to riches to rags story." It was highlighted as one of the opening-night premieres and ultimately earned Greenfield an award as best director.
Siegel was not amused.
"It was not a documentary. There was not one minute of truth in it. It was a reality show. It was staged, it was scripted, things were taken out of context, and it left the impression to the public that the company was going out of business."
Specifically, Siegel objects to scenes that he says were contrived to make the couple seem absurdly out of touch with reality. He claims the family did not make regular trips to McDonalds in a limousine, that Jackie did not wear fur coats while boating, that the housekeeper did not sleep in the children's playhouse, and that they were encouraged to sit in a throne-like chair for interviews by the filmmaker to fit in with her own agenda.
"The movie was directed at the 99 percenters that hate the one percenters and it showed us as this wealthy out-of-reality couple," David said.
In truth, he says, the guilded chair was picked up at an auction and was only used during Christmas, the limousine was owned by a friend who needed the business, the extravagant trips to Walmart were to purchase toys for charity, and the fur coat was a just prop to make the film more fun.
In fact, Jackie readily admits to "playing to the camera."
"I am an actress and I do things to play to the camera, just to make it more interesting, I mean, who wants to sit there and watch someone just changing channels on a TV," she asks.
As to David's claim that the film is not true, Jackie demurs.
"Well there was some truth to it I mean, I am a part of it. Every day I would try to think of things to do. But I do that anyway. I have fun all the time. I love life."
Jackie maintains a friendship with Greenfield despite the lawsuit. "We spent a lot of years together." She said she considers Greenfield "a great artist and a great photographer" who "got lucky" when the storyline took its unexpected twist due to the downturn in the economy. "She'll probably get an Oscar," she laughs.
After filming "thousands of hours," Jackie said she had no idea what to expect the night the film opened at Sundance.
Greenfield was nervous too – about the public's response and Jackie's. In fact, Greenfield shielded Jackie during the post-screening Q&A, explaining it was her first time seeing the film and she wanted to give Jackie time to absorb it.
Greenfield needn't have worried. Jackie, wearing a characteristically flashy fur coat and leopard-print dress, loved the attention.
"For me going through a red carpet, it was probably, besides marrying my husband and then giving birth to my children, one of the most memorable experiences I have had in my life. I wish I could have hung out later and gone to all of the events, but I left right after the screening. I would have liked to have heard the reaction from the people … I would have liked to have answered questions from people.
David did not attend, but he said all of the feedback he heard was negative.
"It impacted the business the week that it was showing here. Our sales dropped that week. Of course, everybody that saw the movie left the theater thinking that the company is going under, so they're not going to come over here (to Westgate) and buy a timeshare from a company that looks like its not going to be in business next week," he said.
Jackie says her only regret is that the movie hurt their business.
But, Siegel emphasizes, the business has recovered and the current lawsuit is more about the principle than the money.
"We did downsize, but we also got lean and mean and we stayed very profitable. We purposely downsized so we could do what everyone in the country should do – live within our means without having to borrow. We kind of changed our business model because we don't want to be beholden to banks anymore," he explained.
Last week Siegel said he gave his entire staff at Westgate Park City – from the housekeepers to the managers – five-percent raises. And he added that plans are in the works to add a new restaurant and bar to the premises.
Things are looking up at Versailles too, he said. According to Jackie and David, they have renewed their construction permits for Versailles, which is on the market for $100 million (finished) or $75 million (as is). The Realtor's description of the property which is located on Lake Butler near Orlando, Fla. Includes 13 bedrooms, 11 kitchens and a 20-car garage.
"We have four or five companies that are bidding on installing the marble, the balustrades and columns on the outside of the house, and I would say in the next couple of weeks everything will be going full speed ahead again. We anticipate moving into the house in about three years," said David.
Ironically, the long-term effects of the film might not be so bad for the couple who say they are being courted by several nationally televised reality shows.
According to David, "We are getting all kinds of offers from all kinds of people to do reality shows on TV and we are looking at a few that will fit in with our image and will tell the truth about us, not some fictitious scripted thing."
Lauren Greenfield, director of the Sundance documentary "Queen of Versailles," is adamant that her film accurately portrays David and Jacqueline Siegel and their business as they coped with the financial challenges afflicting the entire nation during the time she was making the film.
This week, Greenfield responded via email to The Park Record's questions about the Siegels' allegations that the film is defamatory and damaged their business.
David and Jackie are split on their feelings about you. David claims to have been betrayed, but Jackie still likes you. I asked each, if they could go back in time, would they do it all again (allow you into their home). David said NO! Jackie said yes. What about you?
I would not do anything differently in the making of the film. I stand behind the film, which was made with honesty, integrity, and compassion. I remain grateful for their giving me the privilege of telling their story. They are both extraordinary in the way they welcomed me into their home when they felt on top of the world, but kept their doors equally open when their fortunes changed and they struggled. I documented both their achievements and their challenges in a way that brought out their humanity. One of the qualities that make them so compelling as characters is the way their virtues and their flaws compel us to see our own. This story is about them, but it is also about our culture, and the collective mistakes we made that led to the crisis.
Jackie says she "played to the camera to make it more interesting and David says scenes like taking a limousine to pick up food at McDonalds were "staged" to dramatize your storyline. How do you respond?
There are no staged scenes in the film. My documentary practice consists of cinema verite (observational cinema) combined with interviews. I filmed 200 hours of footage from April 2009-November 2011 with full cooperation from David and Jackie Siegel and their family, Richard Siegel and Westgate. Neither Jackie nor I ever suggested she take a limo to McDonalds for the filming. Stopping at McDonalds was an unplanned event on a day we happened to be filming.
David says Westgate's business is stronger than ever and that they have renewed their building permits for Versailles. Have you made any changes to the film since it was screened at Sundance that suggest their business is recovering?
The film is exactly the same as the one screened at Sundance for which all the final cards were fact checked by David Siegel's attorney. I chose not to add a new update for three reasons:
Jackie obviously loves to be on camera and seems to be naive about how she is perceived. Did you have any qualms about using some of the scenes that portray her as somewhat ditzy?
I don't have qualms about any scenes in the film. I think Jackie's humanity, generosity, and intelligence come through, as well as her foibles, oversights, and self-admitted living in a fantasy world of her making. Many viewers have told me that the surprise of the film for them is that at the beginning, they do not expect to like Jackie and by the end, they find her sympathetic and relatable.
I have now watched the film with Jackie several times. She enjoys the audience response and is always laughing in the same places as they are. The film was made with compassion, humor and respect and Jackie understands that.
The film raises important questions about documentary filmmaking ethics: in particular, the complicated relationships between filmmakers and their subjects and how a documentary is edited. What are your observations about those issues in light of this film and the lawsuit?
I take my role as a filmmaker and a journalist very seriously and have been making in-depth and award-winning documentary films and photographs about American life for the last 20 years. I work in a cinema verite process and filmed 200 hours with the Siegels over a nearly three-year period with deep, embedded access and the full cooperation of the subjects. My work has always been distinguished by its intimate access, sociological perspective, and empathy. I believe it is the close relationship I had with the family, and the lengthy time spent in the field, that gave me an informed understanding of the events and the characters and allowed me to tell a compassionate, honest and important story about a family and our times.
Neither the film or the filmmaking is controversial, defamatory, or unethical in any way. There is a legal claim as well as a PR campaign by an unhappy subject with specific business interests who wanted a different ending to the film. As you know in journalism, subjects are not always happy with the stories about them and this is par for the course in independent documentary work. I am pleased that Jackie likes the film, but to satisfy David in the finished film would have meant compromising my ethics as a filmmaker and journalist.
What I have learned from this experience is the very real threat to free speech that abuse of the legal system can create. David Siegel and Westgate signed agreements to be in the film which they are violating with a meritless lawsuit designed to harass and intimidate a filmmaker.
The ethical issue at hand is not journalistic ethics, but to what extent we allow business interests to threaten free speech, as we have seen in other lawsuits filed by corporations against filmmakers (i.e. Chevron versus Berlinger, Dole versus Frederik Gertten).


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text: Live from Capital High School, it's 'Friday Night Live' By Bill Lynch June 5, 2013 Story Share Chris Dorst On Friday, Capital High School will revive its "Friday Night Live" sketch comedy production. Among the students acting, writing, directing and producing the show are (from left) Jonathan Dent, Quiana Washington, Colleen Isaiah, Daniel Calwell, Wesley Radclif, Hannah Jack, Amanda Maynus, Izabel Dorst and Alexis Russell. WANT TO GO?"Friday Night Live"Presented by Charleston High School Theater DepartmentWHEN: 7:30 p.m. FridayWHERE: Capital High School Performing Arts CenterTICKETS: $10INFO: 304-348-6504 ext.156CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- On Tuesday afternoon, 20 theater students met in the auditorium at Capital High School to go over skits they've been working on for weeks and to take instruction. That wouldn't seem so strange if school hadn't ended less than two weeks ago or if some of these students weren't recent graduates.But there they were, practicing lines, working on their delivery, fine-tuning blocking and taking direction.On Friday night, Capital revives "Friday Night Live," a sketch comedy extravaganza largely written, directed, produced and performed by students of the school's theater department -- with some oversight by Theater Director Kristopher G. Corbett and several Capital alumni, including Leah Turley, Creative Artistic Director for the Appalachian Artists Collective."This is their show," Turley said. "The less interference, the better."However, as of Tuesday afternoon, the show was still a work in progress. With just a few days to go, the group was running through skits, figuring out where to place them in the show and which of the 25 or so pieces needed to be cut. Some were more or less ready to go, needing only modest adjustment. The group wasn't so sure about other skits.The process seemed vaguely democratic."If we cut something because it's not ready, we can save it for next year," Turley told the crowd.For a high school production, the comedy was pretty bold, occasionally a bit crass, but relatively clean. The only bit that seemed to rattle Turley at all was a bit about Bill Clinton talking about abstinence education. She wanted to talk a little more about that one, but overall, she thought they had pretty funny stuff."The kids are hilarious," she said. Funny or not, it was a little odd for everyone to be inside on a summer day, just a week and a half after the school year ended.Amanda Maynus, a rising senior, signed on to spend four hours a day over the last couple of weeks working on the production because she loves theater.The 17-year-old said, "I really want to be part of the longstanding tradition, and I wanted to work with alumni and professionals and maybe get a sense of professional theater in a high school atmosphere."Plus it's fun." Others in the cast echoed the same feelings. They were excited about resurrecting a show that had been killed off before any of them had taken their first high school class.According to Corbett, "Friday Night Live" ended in 2006, probably as a policy change by the then-theater director. 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When the budding legalization of same-sex marriage rights swept both the US and New Mexico this past summer, most partisans reacted with the expected narrative—praise or contempt.
But in the southern part of the state, the newly elected chair of the Doña Ana County Republican Party (DARP) responded with an unconventional critique of the situation. David Clements lamented how the people of the United States have "welcomed the government into our marriages by promoting subsidies and tax breaks in order to promote the nuclear family."
Those polices have unintended consequences, says Clements, who last week announced his candidacy for US Senate in 2014.
"By providing government benefits to some and withholding from others," he wrote in August, "We provide the very legal foothold progressives need to establish grounds for lawsuit based on discrimination. In this writer's opinion, when we remove marriage from government control, we save it."
Clements, a 33-year-old assistant district attorney and self-described "constitutional conservative," is a novice to politics. He was prompted to become involved during law school at the University of New Mexico when the housing market bubble burst and the federal government bailed out big banks.
He's also part of a group of libertarians and Ron Paul supporters who, after months of on-the-ground planning, swarmed the DARP convention this past spring. Their efforts paid off as they took most of DARP's officer positions and 21 of 29 available state GOP central committee seats.
Now, Clements is attempting to bring the same brand of conservative politics statewide in a long-shot bid for the Senate seat currently held by Democrat Tom Udall, who before earning the Senate spot served for a decade as a US Representative, and before that was a two-term New Mexico attorney general.
Beating the incumbent Senate Democrat in the November 2014 election would be a coup for the GOP, but first Clements will have to best other Republicans in the June primary. To do that, he'll have to overcome the notion that his perspective is out of the mainstream for conservatives.
"It's what the Republican Party used to look like, period," he says.
Clements praises whistleblower Edward Snowden, who's leaked several documents exposing the vast extent of the country's intelligence industry, as a hero. He criticizes corporate America as an "unholy gathering of big government and special interests." He warns that the Federal Reserve's policies of printing money and lowering interest rates will "destroy the purchasing price of the US dollar and rob Main Street of a real recovery."
The nation, Clements argues, is home to a type of "crony capitalism"—not the free market economy that he supports.
"We've created a system where it's not really capitalism," he says. "It's not someone who has to suffer the consequences of bad work and harming their consumers."
Clements' brand of conservative politics has been gaining relevancy in Republican circles across the country over the past few years, most notably in the 2008 and 2012 presidential candidacies of Ron Paul.
Clements identifies as a "constitutional conservative," which he says guides his politics. It can be further defined as a free market approach that limits the federal government's powers to only those explicitly expressed in the U.S. Constitution, leaving institutions like welfare programs up to the states.
"I'm not going to modify my understanding of the Constitution to favor something that I might be passionate about," Clements says.
Udall comes with a high approval rating, a recognizable name brand and more than $1.5 million already in the bank for his reelection. Republicans have been so hesitant to take on Udall that Clements is the first to announce a challenge.
His first job is to mobilize a coalition of Republicans to win the party primary. That means using a similar ground game strategy he and others employed for the DARP convention earlier this year.
Clements and others affiliated with the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Mexico planned months ahead to get their supporters to attend the county convention. Roughly 80 to 90 "liberty" activists, many of them in their 20s and 30s, showed up to cast votes at the event.
Jeremy Diaz, a 19-year-old libertarian activist who attended the convention, describes the atmosphere there as akin to that of a middle school dance.
"As soon as you walked in the place it was a split room," Diaz says. Libertarians and Ron Paul supporters occupied one side and the old guard Republicans on the other.
Some of the old guard Republicans questioned the ability of the younger activists to lead the party.
"No one really wanted to acknowledge me," says Diaz, "but I was a vote, so that's where they made the mistake."
Luis Gomez, a 22-year-old New Mexico State University student and a sergeant in the Army National Guard, also recalls an older member questioning his commitment to the Republican Party, as well as the country. When Gomez mentioned being deployed to Egypt, he says his critic shut up.
In the end, the libertarian activists' strength in numbers prevailed. An online thread by activists titled, "We staged a hostile takeover of the Republican Party" explains the mood of the day.
"We literally overwhelmed [the convention], and booted these Mitt Romney establishment idiots out the freaking door!" the post reads. "If you are sick of the government, get a bunch of friends, and overthrow your local county political party."
Clements, though, says he's spent the months since then trying to establish common ground with the rest of the party's base. So far, in his chairmanship, he's hosted a "Right to Life" event, a health care event, and is planning an upcoming elections event with Secretary of State Dianna Duran.
Similarly, he's attempting to rally the differing Republican bases in his young Senate candidacy. Over the weekend, he attended a luncheon in Albuquerque sponsored by the New Mexico Federation of Republican Women to introduce himself and gather signatures to get on the ballot.
Gwen Poe, who met Clements at the event, says she liked his willingness to stick to constitutional and financial issues.
"I'm fiscally conservative first," Poe says. "It's nobody else's business what I think about women's rights, the death penalty and those things, because that's a personal issue."
State GOP Chairman John Billingsley says what happened in Doña Ana County "speaks well" for the libertarian wing of the party, but adds that the future of the party isn't reserved solely for libertarians and their sympathizers.
"There are always going to be a number of people in the party that have a very specific agenda," he says. "So that's nothing new."
But Santa Fe County Republican Party Chair Orlando Baca says it's nice to see younger people get involved. He compliments Clements for having "new, refreshing ways of looking at things."
At least two other Republicans will soon announce candidacies for Senate, Billingsley says, though he would not specify names.
Former 2010 gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh, Alamogordo Mayor Susie Galea and former Democratic Rep. Robert Aragon have all been rumored to run.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- The subject has become an uncomfortable one for Clint Hurdle. Whenever he is again asked about Pedro Alvarez's throwing issues, the Pirates manager answers listlessly -- as if he didn't really have an answer.
How could he? To try to explain how Alvarez has become a frequent threat to fans sitting behind first base, he'd have to get into the third baseman's head. Which, by the way, Hurdle has tried.
The only thing the manager has been able to do, however, is continue to express admiration for Alvarez's work ethic and to support him -- and to remove him for defensive purposes late in games the Bucs lead.
Alvarez has 23 errors -- nearly twice as many as any other third baseman in the National League (Arizona's Martin Prado has 12) -- and 21 of them have come on throws. Routine throws -- since he has retained the uncanny ability to finish off tough plays with strong, accurate throws.
"We continue to see great instincts, reflexes [but] every once in a while, there's a play where he decelerates, and it kind of throws off the rhythm and quite possibly the throwing slot," Hurdle said. "What we continue to try to get him to do is to keep moving. To keep that steady flow of energy, without any 'switches,' on and off."
When he tied for the NL lead with 36 homers last season, Alvarez was in the conversation with the prime Ryan Howard, his development being compared to the strikeout-prone but dangerous Philadelphia first baseman.
Now, he is on the verge of being compared to Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch, a pair of infielders who developed a harrowing inability to throw to first base.
Alvarez hit his most recent home run July 11, his 15th. Since that blow, he has committed five errors.
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Redmond not worried about possible injury to Alvarez
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Watching the World Baseball Classic on television, Marlins manager Mike Redmond noticed that a trainer visited the mound while right-hander Henderson Alvarez was pitching for Venezuela against Puerto Rico.
Since he's one of the players Miami received in the blockbuster trade with Toronto last December, and since he's penciled into the rotation, that caught Redmond's attention.
Before Sunday's game against the Braves at Champion Field, he said he didn't think there was a serious issue. "I'm hoping. It looked like he just stumbled off the mound. I haven't heard anything. If it had been something, we would have gotten an e-mail on the injury report. And we didn't. So that's good," he explained.
Alvarez took the loss, allowing three runs on five hits and a walk in three innings. With Venezuela eliminated, Redmond added that he didn't know when Alvarez would be back in camp.
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Certainly stress can exacerbate any physical pain, and it may be that paroxetine (the generic name of your medicine) may not be the medicine for you. I encourage you to continue to talk to your doctor, and see about switching to another medication. Paroxetine is an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor), which is the first line drug for anxiety and panic, but it may take weeks - months for the medication to take effect. You should also consider counseling and therapy for your anxiety disorders at the same time you are taking the medication, as the combination can greatly improve outcomes.
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Dental Anesthesia
Novocaine Injections- Choices for Anesthesia
I just had the worst experience ever..went to the dentist just to get antibiotic for a swollen jaw& cheek, (from a wisdom tooth that needs surgical extraction because its triple impacted i believe) anyhow while i was there the dentist noticed that i had a couple teeth that becuae of being weak, has a spot opened on each, close to my gumline and decided he wanted to fill/restore them. the bad part is they had to numb me 6 times because after the first couple i still felt pain in the teeth when the air from the drilling hit them even though my entire right side of my face was completely numb! after the drilling came the hygenist to fill them, (more air to dry) and wow the pain was horrible, So, back again he came to hit me up with another round of novocaine #7 I believe. is this normal or should I try something else next time around? I have been told I have very sensitive teeth, and I always have to be numbed with topical anestic just to ease the pain of a cleaning and make it bearable. I know for the surgery I am requesting to be put to sleep. but what if anything can be done for pain during fillings and afterward when I get home?nothing i have tried is taking the pain away..im on 800 mg of motrin but ive been having to do 1200mg every 6 hours and still in pain!!cant wait to call this dentist in am, maybe the can give me soemthing else for pain?
First of all, prevention of tooth decay is greatly preferred compared to drilling out the decay and patching decayed teeth with filling material. Cavities near the gum line are usually the result of ineffective or too infrequent tooth brushing which allows food and sticky plaque to accumulate at the gum line that leads to proliferation of cariogneic bacteria that cause tooth decay.
This same process also typically leads to chronic infection that over time destroys the periodontal ligament that binds the tooth to the supporting bone. This periodontal disease, called "periodontitis" will eventually cause severe bone loss and the teeth become loose and even fall out later in life.
Additionally, poor oral hygiene leads to increased amount of calculus, the hard substance that the dental hygienist has to scrape off the teeth. If the gums are swollen and painful as a result poor oral hygiene, the hygiene scraping procedure will be painful. So brush and floss at least twice a day and prevent the need for uncomfortable dental treatment.
As far as getting the teeth numb, some patients are more difficult to numb because their nerve to that tooth or teeth is in a different location from the usual position and therefore not enough local anesthetic gets to the nerve if the dentist gives it in the usual location where it is supposed to be.
Also the tooth may be connected to a different nerve than normal, so numbing the usual nerve is inadequate. In such cases, some dentists give supplemental injections of local anesthetic in a different place from normal. The "periodontal ligament injection" (injection into the periodontal ligament) and the
"intraosseous injection" (injection into a small hole in the bone) are alternative injections that can be done if the usual injections are ineffective. They usually work.
There is primarily anecdotal (word of mouth) evidence is that the local anesthetic 4% Articaine with epinephrine may be somewhat more effective than the usual anesthetic that most dentists use, especially in teeth in the upper jaw. Some dentists do not use it in the lower jaw due to possible increased risk of permanent numbness of the lower lip and teeth.
In the worst case scenario, there is always general anesthesia if the general dentist has access to a dentist anesthesiologist or at greater expense general anesthesia in a surgicenter or hospital.
The pain from the infected teeth can make the entire pain system wind up and make it much more difficult to control pain from other sources such as cavity repair. Getting the infection under control and then removing these painful wisdom teeth as soon as possible should make you more comfortable
Finally, be careful of overdosing on ibuprofen. If you are healthy, you should absolutely take no more than 3200 mg in a day (800 mg every 6 hours which is 4 times a day) if the usual recommended dose to 2400 mg/day is ineffective.
Having a clean healthy mouth will decrease the baseline pain will make the ibuprofen much more effective in treating pain only from dental work.
Joel M Weaver, II, DDS, PhD
Faculty Emeritus
Dentistry Administration
College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University


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Topic: New to Site - My Aunt
Hello everybody. Unfortunately I have had to research this horrible cancer. I have been looking at posts here for the last couple weeks and feel overwhelmed. My aunt age 56 has had Leukemia for approximately five years. It was diagnosed at stage 0 and was being monitored. She did not need any treatment. Approximately September of 2013 blood tests indicated that it was at stage 4 and they wanted to start a chemo pill. They told her she could wait one more month before starting and they would do additional tests to see if it was maintaining. In October they did additional tests and her levels were better and they held off on chemo but she was to go in for blood tests once a month. In November the blood tests indicated that her liver levels (not sure of the term) were high but nothing to be concerned about. She had been complaining about abdomen paid and was able to feel a lump in her stomach. The doctors at first could not feel it when she came in to report the pain. A few weeks later she went in the doctor and they were able to feel the lump. Shortly after Christmas they did a biopsy and determined it was Cholangiocarcinoma Cancer. They said the cancer is in stage 4+. She was initially in a lot of pain but they have been able to manage that since. She is still very nauseous and so far no medicine has been able to help with this. She eats very little and sleeps all the time. Doctors say not to worry about not eating…I guess I think you have to eat to keep your energy up and maybe if she ate more she wouldn't feel so sick. The doctors have not once mentioned that surgery is an option. She just had her second dose of chemo last week. And has to go in and get fluids often.
The posts I have read encourage me that there is hope. The doctors have given her 3-6 months (she does not know this part, she just knows she has terminal cancer stage 4+). Of course the doctors say she could certainly be here longer then 6 moths. Can it really go that fast? It breaks my heart to see her. I really think she gave up the fight to live before she was even diagnosed due to the pain and feeling so sick all the time. The last week she tells us she hopes she will be hospitalized. I think she feels they will be able to make her more comfortable. I have no idea what to do for her and when I went to one of her appointments with her, it just seems like they are trying to keep her comfortable and are not fighting for her. I am not saying the doctors are mean, they want the best for her but I just don't see creative thinking and game plans like I expected. Our family has not seen a scan of the cancer as of yet…the doctor she has is new to the clinic and her access was not working at the time. I figured they could have figured out a way for the family to see what they see. One worry is that she will become too sick from the chemo and they will then have to stop…if this happens then they said it is all about comfort until the end. I just don't understand that they can't be anything after chemo….so sad! I feel like our family is not asking the right questions and the doctors aren't providing a lot of information. I hear about surgery from the site but it has never been mentioned. I look at her and feel so helpless. I have mentioned getting a second opinion but they started her on chemo so fast and I guess we just accepted what the doctors have said. The other day I remember seeing one of the cancer doctors and he mentioned gull bladder cancer…my aunt and I looked at each other as this was the first we had heard of this. It seems like we are very uneducated about this cancer as when we asked more questions we were told it was in the gull bladder, liver, bile duct and lymph nodes around that area. They also found a spot of cancer on her cheek and a couple spots on her liver but said they would not worry about that as the chemo would help it all.
I will cherish every moment I have with her while she is here. I have two children age 7 and 10 and it is so hard to tell them what to expect and why it is so important to visit her often. I am just glad we live so close! Today we made her a message board and had the entire family sign it with a little personal messages. She really liked this and I will continue to have my kids make her personal gifts! I feel like I am kind of everywhere in this post and I apologize. I just needed to write and it all just came out…in no particular order.
My questions are…could it really happen so fast? Should we just accept that there is nothing that can be done? Anybody have suggestions about the nausea, she has had this even before chemo? Any suggestions on what questions our family could ask the doctors?
Thank you to everybody who posts information on this website. There is a lot to go through and I am sure my concerns/answers are in here...but it may take me a while to find them.
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Weather concerns boosted the soy complex in Wednesday trading. The same factors supporting the corn market powered today's soy rebound as well. Traders know soybean plants are much more vulnerable to damaging weather at this time of year than are its grain counterparts, so it wasn't terribly surprising to see soybean and product futures rallying in response to the latest summery forecasts. September soybeans jumped 23.75 cents to $13.33/bushel in late Wednesday action, and November beans leapt 13.5 to $13.04. September soyoil edged 0.06 cents lower to 42.82 cents/pound, whereas September soymeal advanced $7.7 to $421.5/ton.
Winter wheat futures rose slightly Wednesday, but spring wheat prices fell. Strength spilling over from the corn and soybean complexes apparently spurred modest gains in winter wheat futures today. However, a report indicating Canada will produce its largest wheat crop in 22 years depressed spring wheat values, since the Canadian product competes directly with U.S. wheat grown in the Northern Plains. September CBOT wheat closed 4.5 cents to $6.3875/bushel Wednesday afternoon, while September KCBT wheat bounced 2.75 cents to $6.995, but September MGE futures sank 6.0 cents to $7.29.
Cattle futures declined moderately in midweek trading. Despite general optimism about the short-term cash outlook and talk of a supportive Cattle on Feed report Friday, CME live cattle futures slumped Wednesday. Traders may have been selling in response to the wholesale market's history of late-August weakness (after grocers have met their Labor Day needs). October cattle futures skidded 0.17 cents to 127.97 cents/pound at their Wednesday settlement, while December sagged 0.10 cents to 130.47. September feeder cattle futures slid 0.55 cents to 157.70 cents/pound, and November stumbled 0.42 to 160.30.
The CME hog market fell victim to growing seasonal pressure. The cash hog and wholesale pork markets have held up remarkably well lately, but the historical confluence of rising supplies and slumping post-Labor Day demand seems likely to send them sharply lower. The Chicago market was very likely responding to those pressures Wednesday. October hog futures settled 1.13 cents lower at 85.82 cents/pound Wednesday afternoon, while December tumbled 1.13 cents to 82.62.