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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 29 (UPI) -- Two Florida A&M teachers were present when pledges to a band fraternity were paddled at one of the professors' homes, university officials say.
Diron Holloway and Anthony Simons were suspended with pay Wednesday, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The alleged hazing for pledges to Kappa Kappa Psi took place at Holloway's home in Tallahassee.
Officials said two students reported after Champion's death being present at a hazing at Holloway's house in 2010. One said he saw Holloway, director of the band's saxophone section, hitting a pledge.
FAMU President James Ammons called the allegations "extremely disturbing."
Hazing involving Florida A&M's well-known marching band came under a spotlight after Robert Champion, a drum major, died in November. Champion was allegedly hit while running a gauntlet of band members on board a bus in Orlando, Fla.
No criminal charges are expected because of Florida's two-year statute of limitations.
Critics say the university ignored complaints from students and parents about hazing for years.


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A group calling itself Missourians Against Red Light Cameras (MARLC) is championing the bill. The organization was founded about six months ago by Webster University employee Jesse Irwin and ex-Gov. Matt Blunt's former chief-of-staff, Ed Martin. Irwin tells me that if the bill fails to gain traction with state legislators, MARLC plans to start a signature campaign in St. Louis to get a similar measure on the city ballot.
"I don't think there is any way voters in St. Louis would vote in favor of these cameras," says Irwin, who notes that much of the money generated from the tickets goes to American Traffic Solutions (ATS), company in Arizona that owns and maintains the cameras.
"This isn't about making us safer. It's about generating revenue. I challenge the city of St. Louis to produce a list of its most dangerous intersections and explain why those weren't the first to get cameras."
Irwin (bless his heart) says he was inspired to found MARLC after reading my coverage of red-light cameras in Riverfront Times. In 2006 I exposed how ATS paid big-name lobbyists to get favored treatment in Missouri. The company's lawyers even helped write the legislation that allowed the use of red-light cameras in St. Louis.
Last year I uncovered that the city's cameras were not necessarily installed in the "most dangerous" intersections and that the city had no legal authority to enforce the tickets.

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The long battle to make it illegal for Florida drivers to text while driving may finally be over.
State Senators Nancy Detert (R) Venice and Thad Altman (R) Brevard County, have filed separate legislation that would ban drivers from texting while behind the wheel.
Both legislators are confident they will have support on both sides of the aisle to get a texting while driving ban passed in the 2013 session in Tallahassee.
Detert's proposal, Senate Bill 52, would make texting while driving a "secondary offense" much the same as Florida's current seatbelt law. She says she has been trying to pass a "no texting" bill for five years.
"This bill is so important to me because we see people texting while driving every day! Texting drivers exhibit the same behavior as a drunk driver or someone driving with their eyes closed. It needs to stop," Detert said.
Federal Highway statistics show 8000 accidents a day are caused by distracted drivers nationwide while more than 25,000 were reported in Florida last year alone.
Altman tells Local 6 he will support Detert's legislation but he has also filed a measure that would make it illegal for teen drivers to text while behind the wheel. That same measure was filed last session but never made it to a subcommittee hearing.
"If you polled the general public, even those who may text and drive from a particular time, they'll tell you this should be outlawed," Altman said.
Opposition to the texting ban has hinged on the contention that the law would infringe on our privacy but Altman says that does not add up.
"These esoteric arguments of government intrusion makes no sense and they don't apply in this situation," he said.
TextFace.com the aggressive internet program that takes hidden cameras across the nation's highways to catch drivers texting behind the wheel will be watching developments in Tallahassee closely.
"Textface is encouraged that the state of Florida is looking at legislation that would eliminate texting while driving. Fatalities, injuries and accidents that are caused by texting and driving are needless, and we support legislators who are actively trying to introduce a new bill to protect the citizens of Florida. We applaud their efforts," said Textface spokesperson Scott Emerine.
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Discussion in 'Super Mario Galaxy' started by highroller, Nov 14, 2007.
Tell me your impressions of this game. The ones who already got it yesterday
I love it
Better than the one for n64, despite that being a classic and easily better then Sunshine.
It looks great, the music is great and its got a bit of challenges in it as well.
Loads of fun.
very very very fun..
i'm about 3 hours in, i have 10 stars and the game is just so vast its blowing my mind..
I intend to get all 121 stars, and i doubt the game will EVER get old between now and then..
I'm the kind of gamer who likes to take his time when playing a game and this game is perfect for that, i cant sit down for hours upon hours, i usually play in 90 min intervals.
you should definitely buy the game!!
there are endless possibilities in every level..when compared to SM64 i'd say its not as EPIC..but only because its different circumstances..you know?
im not taking anything away from the game its amazing, SM64 came out 11 years ago and its still fun to play today so i dont think anything will ever top SM64.
it beats out Sunshine though..just buy the game and you'll get it, theres too much to explain,.
tried it out at walmart.......and what an epic game....cant wait to get my own copy
My impressions: There are different areas in each galaxy, with INCREDIBLE graphics by the way, and the levels are quicker in a lot of cases than SM64, but IMO a lot more fun.
There are different puzzles to figure out, with some humorous scenes with the toads. :lol: It has a pretty interesting storyline and the bee suit is very creative.
Overall I'm very impressed with this and can't wait to get even more indulged. Any more questions, just PM or ask.
I am LOVING it!! Soooo much fun! I am trying to take my time and enjoy all of it, I don't want to rush through and have it be over! I have 17 stars right now.
I got the game today! I love this game. It was a bit overwhelming to me at first, had to get used to the kind of above camera angle and going around on the planets, but very cool. I like how characters talk to you in speech bubbles when you come near so you don't always have to press A to talk with them. The graphics make everything so lush and vibrant. So far each star mission has been unique and inventive, hope it keeps up. I want to play slowly through the game but it is hard to do! I really want to play straight through cause it is so much fun :lol:
Well...Don't ge me wrong, I'm enjoying the hell out of it, but is anyone else finding it way too easy so far. I'm a Mario Sunshine apologist (I loved sunshine actually more than M64!) but I'm finding Galaxy to be almost no challenge 22 stars in. I would say of the 22 stars I've gotten 15 or more of them on the first try.
I'm not a "hardcore" single player gamer either...if I hit frustration points level after level in games I tend to end up never finishing them, but I've pretty muched breezed through over 20 stars. This isn't necessarily a complaint yet. The other thing is for as open of a game as it is, it's surprisingly linear...
Freaking Awesome game.
I've got 25 stars, and I'm just starting my third dome (of six).
Very original game play!
My big compliment for the game is that i think it's the first game I've gotten the completely NAILS the seemless integration of the Wiimote Nunchuck combination. Rather than making things more complicated with Wii-mote movements (like some of the shooters out there) it simply becomes an extension of the standard control set. Spin jumps, which took a tad bit of timing and perfection in previous game suddenly flow naturally from your play while any extensive use of motion is completely confined to levels that REQUIRE that type of control (like blooper surfing, etc).
Using the Wiimote for start bit collection and the spin jump you can still lounge back like you would with a standard game pad but actually still BENEFIT from the Wii controls. I would compare this extremely favorably to games like Red Steel that require you basically to sit up and maintain some sort of posuture to master movement. Gaming=Relaxation=Fun, which is what I hate about some Wii titles that just require TOO much work to be a 'lounge around' fun type game.
I really think this game was designed to showcase how natural the Wii Controls CAN be when integrated with game play properly. If this had been a launch title I think the Wii would be selling even MORE than it is now. I feel that some games like RED STEEL may have turned people off because of the less than fantastic implementation of the controls.
i agree that it is pretty easy so far, but its not a huge complaint. there have only been 2 stars that i have had mild difficulty with, the one where there were moving holes in the ground and the sticky situation sling pod one. i hope it gets a little harder, but if it doesnt then fine, ill just get our special character sooner. oh yeah!!!!!
I agree, I'm on 16 stars and it has been somewhat easier and more predictable than previous titles. But I think this trend has been persisting with most of Nintendo's current gen releases (unfortunately). I was playing SM64 last week for a few days and found I died more often in that than SMG so far... but again 16 stars is obviously very early in the game. Some examples of the changes so far is the fact that jumping from tall heights doesn't hurt Mario like it used to; and performing wall jumps is much much easier. Nothing really to gripe about, but it makes completing levels a bit less risky and quicker.
The variety of things to do in the levels has trumped the games lack of difficulty for me though.
I'm so used to the wall jump that I even not noticed :lol: I still use the old school form as I archived on SM64
This game is undoubtedly beautiful. The music, sound effects, graphics, control, there is too much to talk about. One thing that I love is when you play with another person, player 2 holds "A" and any interactive object or enemy that player 2's cross-hair star goes over will make a sound; IN TUNE WITH THE MUSIC PLAYING. It is just awesome to hear some of these fantastic songs and then slap the enemies and have it go together.
Everything is glowing from the different cosmic bodies, the music is amazing, and Mario is just zoomin' around with a comet tail of sparkles. Some of the level entrances are just amazing to watch, just mesmerizing. I've actually had to stop and restart a level just to watch Mario's entrance.
I've been playing with a friend, but he has gotten more play time in than me since I've had school since I got it and I let him play when I get home seeing as he has no Wii let alone the game.
This game is just awesome and it's definitely going to hold me a long time, but seeing as how I can't stop playing it, I may have beaten it several times and grown a bit tired of it by the time Brawl's launch date comes near. Then again, that's a few months of mastering Super Mario Galaxy; the beautiful sequel it is.
My friend is playing it now and is 57 stars in and is finding a certain level to be quite challenging. I'm sure you can expect the stars to get to the last Bowser not to difficult, but the remaining 60 or so could become a challenge.
I said above that I was 17 stars in, but I am also finding it relatively easy. It is not a big complaint, but SM64 I think is a bit harder in the beginning.
I really love SMG, though- it is so much fun to play.
yeah, it slides down so you can take longer to perform the wall jump. in 64 you need to hit it at the time you make contact with the wall.
I was impressed by the game. It's really good.
I played like 1.5 hrs and got 3 stars. Great game.. it is unique and extreme fun. I am glad I bought it. I will go day by day enjoying it till the end
Got busted for skipping school to play this game.
So worth it though!


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Hoosier Hospitality: Craft Beer
We talk with John Winninger about the upcoming WTIU television program, Hoosier Hospitality: Craft Beer, that features Indiana breweries, brewers, and beer enthusiasts.
Brewery Collectibles Club of America
We visit with BCCA South-Central Indiana Chapter Vice-President Tom Goecker to learn more about the history and fun of breweriana and the cans, bottles, coasters, taps and other items included in the hobby of collecting brewery-branded items.
Upland Brewery's Gigantor
Any brewer will tell you that making the perfect beer is truly an art — and a new storage tank dubbed "Gigantor" means opportunities for more of it at Bloomington's Upland Brewery.
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Shelbyville's Bill Ballinger joins us in studio to talk about beer-making in the Hoosier state.
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I'm having a very hard time now, I've been sick for more than two years (burned out, depression) and I've kinda been keeping up. We've got a new government in Norway now, a government that thinks that cheaper booze and cheaper fuel will somehow be a good thing for people.. Sure it COULD'VE been, but they propose to cut back my support as well.. by almost 33%.. So yeah, looks like I'll go from "just able to survive" to "damn how will I fix this".
So yeah.. my point, I'm fully paid up on my intrawebzors for the next two months, but after that, nah can't afford it, not that I've contributed that much here anyway, but I felt like you guys should know that I might be gone in a few monts.
PSA: Oppo is just fun, the MAIN problem with me not having internet is paying bills, I have to pay 8 bucks on top per bill if I choose to pay them at my local bank.
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intercede, mediate, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate(verb)
act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
"He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement"
liaise(v. i.)
To act as a liaison.
Origin: [By back-formation from liaison.]
To establish a liaison.
To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution.
Origin: itself from liaison, from ligatio (stem ligation-) (English ligation), derived from ligo, from leygʰ-.
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60. May I just clarify national occupancy rates?
In paragraph 3 you say that a recent survey shows that it is 91
per cent. Presumably that is of care home beds. Is that ideal,
what you should be aiming at? We know in the acute sector it has
to be lower to accommodate emergencies. Is there a figure you
should be aiming at?
(Ms Platt) In residential and nursing home care?
61. Yes.
(Ms Platt) We would not set a figure for that and
we have not set a figure for that. Clearly if you have a number
of purchasers in an economy and one of the issues when you are
looking at a social care economy is that there are many people
buying services for themselves, there has to be some level of
over-supply but we have not really done that calculation as to
what that level of over-supply is.
62. Looking at your submission to the Committee,
paragraph 2, you have this box about the rates of delayed discharges
for patients over 75 from September 1997 to September 2001. Those
are just figures for delayed discharges of the over-75s but of
course it is not only people over 75 who suffer delayed discharges.
I was wondering whether you have the total figure for delayed
discharges for all age groups and whether those figures, if you
have them, reflect the movement which is in this chart.
(Ms Platt) Six per cent of both.
63. In the figures for the over-75s the evidence
is claiming that there has been a steady but slow reduction in
the rate of delayed discharges and you are saying that the position
is slightly above the target of 11 per cent at the moment. Yet
if you look at the actual figures for 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01,
they run 13.2 per cent, 11.4 per cent and 11.3 per cent, not a
startling difference. There are people who will say that there
may have been factors operating which are really outside your
control. The main one people cite is that it has been a very mild
winter this year so far and last year and that that would be sufficient
to explain your figures. What do you say to cynics like that?
(Ms Platt) The measurement of the figures is across
September to September, so slightly before winter.
64. That does include a winter.
(Ms Platt) Indeed that does include a winter but it
has not been that mild in some places. We should not just think
of this as a seasonal issue. What we know from health and social
care services out there is that we cannot distinguish different
seasonal patterns in some of this. This is a capacity issue across
the year and we need to approach it through capacity planning
across the year. The profile of activity might be different, but
just because the system comes under strain in the winter does
not mean that there is a satisfactory capacity there the rest
of the time, it just means we are lucky. We need to expand the
capacity across the system throughout the year.
65. I fully accept that and I back you up on
that. If you were claiming that it was because of things you had
done in the last couple of years, then it may not be true.
(Ms Platt) There has certainly been a great focus
on this in the last couple of years and people have worked very
hard and with all the difficulties health and social care have
been working very hard together. We have reached the stage where
we actually have to do some real service development to make the
step change and to make this sustainable so that the system is
not as fragile as it is at the minute.
66. That is a good point at which to bring in
the National Plan. This talks about the elimination of delayed
discharges. We have touched on it already. What is the target
rate for reductions in delayed discharges and over what timescale
do you expect to see it eliminated?
(Ms Edwards) You are quite right that the plan actually
talks about the elimination of delayed discharges. In reality,
for some of the reasons you have heard previously, zero may not
be achievable and 2.5 per cent is our thinking at the moment in
terms of what could actually be delivered. In the spending review
process we are going through at the moment, we are aiming to get
there by the 2005 period. We are seeing whether we can accelerate
that and one of the reasons for doing that is better care for
individual patients, but it is also very important because it
will enable us to deliver the other NHS Plan targets. What we
are doing is a combined spending review process which says that
by doing that, that is by reducing the delayed discharges, this
will free up X number of elective beds which will help us to deliver
our other access targets. We are doing that work at the moment
basing on a 2.5 per cent but we are modelling various scenarios
ranging from nought right up to where we are now and working that
67. A fairly stringent target from 11 per cent
down to 2.5 per cent.
(Ms Edwards) Sorry, it is the 6 per cent overall;
we are working on the overall.
68. Can you describe the mechanisms you are
getting in place to prevent inappropriate discharges too early?
There is a very good measure of that and that is re-admission
rates of the elderly. Do you have any figures on re-admission
rates for the elderly? Do they tie up with the other figures?
That is something we do not have in your evidence.
(Ms Platt) We can give you some of that evidence from
the social services performance assessment framework, where there
is a performance target for re-admissions which social services
met and did manage to reduce re-admissions for older people in
the last performance target. We can send that information to you.
69. Does it tie up with some of these areas
which are performing better than others for various reasons?
(Ms Platt) I should have to go and look at the figures.
Dr Taylor: I should be very interested to know
70. You suggest in your evidence that there
is a perverse incentive for medical teams not to identify dementia
as this may make placement harder to achieve. Is this a hypothetical
problem? If you do have evidence that dementia is being deliberately
concealed, is it not a major cause for concern?
(Professor Philp) I do not really think there is perversity
at work here but there is ignorance. What we observe in the hospital
setting is that quite a large number of older people develop an
acute confusion in hospital and many of these have either a borderline
level of cognitive function or they are frankly demented. It is
the fact that so many people care for older people in the hospital
setting who do not have the specific competences and training
to help them to identify and distinguish between confusion and
dementia and other causes of apparent confusion that there is
a lot of ignorance in terms of identifying people who have dementia.
We have made it a top priority for this year's work of the National
Care Group Workforce Advisory Team for Older People looking at
workforce development to look at developing the competencies of
all staff in NHS and social care to recognise and manage people
with dementia properly. It is certainly not a good thing to overlook
dementia as dementia is a principal cause of delayed discharge
because of the complexity that having dementia plus a physical
illness produces in terms of developing a good discharge plan.
It is ignorance that we do not have the competences shared widely
enough amongst the whole NHS and social care workforce at present
and it is something we have to address.
71. Your evidence is saying that there is a
reluctance to identify dementia because care homes will not take
people on.
(Professor Philp) The latest figures suggest that
about 70 per cent of people in nursing homes, not EMI homes but
nursing homes, have a level of cognitive impairment that affects
their mental function. There is a sub-set of that group which
has challenging behavioural problems, who declare themselves.
It is the sub-set with challenging behavioural problems which
tends to need the specialist care. There is an issue about how
you label care home and care delivery in long-term care. What
we are trying to get over in the way we are developing services
for older people and developing the training of all staff is that
it is everybody's business to be able to manage people with a
given level of cognitive impairment, given the high prevalence
of the problem of cognitive impairment, particularly in two settings,
the acute hospital setting and in nursing and care homes.
72. I am the trustee of a small private charity
which houses elderly people. My experience at St Helier is certainly
that geriatricians there seem to think it in their interests to
discharge people who are quite confused. When they present in
the ward, they are warm, clothed, well looked after, properly
fed, but that soon falls apart when they go home and they just
do not have the levels of support. Then the landlord who does
not have the ability to give that support is completely left,
knowing what is going to happen because it happens time and time
again. Often it seems that the teams or the geriatricians do not
learn from past experience.
(Professor Philp) The most challenging time for an
older person with cognitive impairment is when they move environments.
We have to look at care planning. This comes back down to good
discharge planning, does it not, recognising the problems and
anticipating the problems? People with dementia are a particular
group of people who are best staying in their own familiar environment
with familiar faces. One of the things we are finding as we are
developing intermediate care services, which includes services
which help prevent hospital admission for appropriate people and
help support early discharge, is that the people who might benefit
most from these services, that is people with dementia and a physical
problem, an acute problem, are often people who get excluded from
these services because they are the most challenging to look after.
We are taking a number of steps to make sure that as we develop
intermediate care services and other services, we concentrate
on managing the most challenging, the most frail and the most
vulnerable older people within the services where we are making
investment and developing these services. The perversity here
is that it is easy to cherry pick, it is easy to pick the people
who have the simple problem without the dementia. The challenge
for our whole health and social care system, including the extra
care housing sector, is to manage the people with the greatest
needs in the most homely environment that we can. That is the
big challenge that the National Service Framework is trying to
73. How do you strike the balance between an
individual's desire to return home and their inability to do so?
The excuse people fall back on is that they want to go home when
objectively, just as a lay person without experience, your common
sense would suggest that this is not a situation that is going
to be able to sustain itself.
(Professor Philp) Indeed that is the reality of the
challenge people are facing in thousands of individual cases every
day. The approach is to manage care well, which is not to think
of things as this either/or, either you get acute care, or you
get long-term care, either you stay at home or you need long-term
care, but to think for each individual what the opportunities
are for preventing disease and promoting health. For example flu
vaccination is probably one of the reasons why we are getting
through winter more easily now. Secondly, what diagnoses can be
made and treatments given. Thirdly, how we can maximise the rehabilitation
and the independent functioning of the older person. Fourthly,
how to adapt a home to make it more suitable for somebody who
has dementia or physical illness. Next is how you support the
family in their role and then what services are needed at home.
It is only at the end of that chain that you should really be
asking the question: should this person be cared for somewhere
else? What we are always fighting against in a system which is
under pressure, under pressure to discharge, under pressure to
get quick solutions, is to be systematic and go through and address
all the needs the older person has so that getting it right at
the end of the day is actually the most efficient way for the
whole system to function, but particularly to meet the needs of
older people to maximise their independence and their quality
of life.
74. On the ground it is very, very different.
(Professor Philp) On the ground it is hard, there
is no doubt.
75. The Committee is aware from earlier inquiries
into mental illness and the care and rehabilitation of head injured
patients, as well as from evidence now received from the Old Age
Psychiatry Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, that
delays in transfer out from inappropriate acute hospitals are
common and severe. Most of the action seems to relate to older
people. What action is in hand to help with the delayed transfers
where a clinical speciality, say mental illness, is involved?
(Professor Philp) The Older People's Directorate is
working very closely with the mental health policy group and there
is a National Service Framework for mental health care for working
adults and there are several measures in that National Service
Framework which address the needs of the client group you refer
to in your question. The key issue for me and our team is how
we work closely together with the mental health team and make
sure that implementation of the mental health National Service
Framework and implementation of the older people's National Service
Framework ensures that nobody who has mental illness falls through
the gap between these two stools. I met with Lewis Appleby, who
is my equivalent National Clinical Director for Mental Health
just today before coming here to discuss that issue in relation
to the development of dementia services for younger as well as
older adults. I do not have chapter and verse on everything that
is in the mental health National Service Framework, but I know
that there are several important parts of that programme. Perhaps
I could pick out one particularly in that area which is of equal
concern to us and to them which is about partnership with unpaid
carers, often family members. The key to sustaining the person
with a mental health problem, of whatever nature, or an older
person with a mental health problem such as dementia, is to ensure
that support is given to the family carer to allow them to continue
in their care-giving role.
76. Dr Naysmith was asking earlier about things
out of your control affecting delayed discharges. One example
is social services who are not under your control.
(Ms Platt) I know what you mean: I do not manage them.
77. You do not set policy for social service
departments, do you? I get the feeling that policy varies quite
widely from one social services department to another across the
country. Is that true and does it have an impact on delayed discharges?
(Ms Platt) The National Service Framework we have
been spending quite a bit of time talking about applies to both
health and social care, so social care will also have to apply
the standards which are there for the NHS in all departments.
We are currently undertaking a major inspection of services for
older people in all local authorities. We are doing it in a number
of tranches. What we are seeing is much better working together
across health and social care, much more thought about care planning,
some severe constraints because of resources. That is not to say
that 150 local authorities cannot do it in different ways because
they have different arrangements. What we would emphasise is that
as long as the way they do it respects all the values which we
want to see in services for older people, it is actually the outcome
of independence and being sustained in your own home or the right
environment which is what we are looking for. It is the outcome
78. One of the things I was getting at was for
instance charging policy. Some social services departments will
charge for home support and some will not. You could imagine a
situation where an older person would balk at that and say that
they did not want to pay that. Does that worry the Department?
(Ms Platt) The Department has consulted upon guidance
on fairer charging policies across local government to encourage
a more consistent approach to people's income and assets and to
the way in which those policies are set.
79. There is a very mixed picture is there not?
(Ms Platt) There is a very mixed picture and there
is still a small number of authorities who do not charge because
it is within a local authority's discretion as to whether it charges
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To help me get better, my doctor suggested I write down some examples of what I'm talking about. He feels doing this will help me manage my physical response. I'm not sure I agree, but I've got nothing better to write about this week, so here goes.
The other day I was going through a pile of submissions and came across a cover letter that started like this: "You met me two years ago at a TVI showcase, and I'm writing because I still need an agent." Excuse me? First of all, how could he expect me to remember him? I meet hundreds of actors every year. And second, why would he open with a negative? This is a typical example of how actors sabotage themselves. And be honest: Didn't you roll your eyes while you were reading his opening sentence?
Speaking of submissions, last month I received three Valentine's Day cards from male actors looking for representation. What is that about? Even my gay male friends don't send me Valentine's Day cards. I'm not even sure how those guys expected me to react. But you know what's worse? Christmas cards from actors I've never met. Nothing ruins the holiday spirit like finding a folded-up headshot inside a beautiful Christmas card. Even the son of God would roll his eyes at that one.
Name-dropping can set me off too. During a recent meeting, a young actor informed me that her friend McG, the director, had gotten her into this really cool party where she met Matthew Perry and Tommy Schlamme, who are like her new best friends now, and they said there's definitely a great role in their pilot for her. That's three eye rolls in one sentence! Is it any wonder I ended up in a doctor's office?
It occurs to me I probably shouldn't blame my medical problem solely on actors who want me to sign them. There are plenty of clients on my list who have contributed to my condition. And some of them are working actors who should know better.
For example, I just had an inane argument with one of my best actors about a role on a pilot. The character he was auditioning for was a cop who grew up in Detroit. My client explained he was born and raised in Detroit, as if that would make any difference. He insisted I should inform the casting director about his background. I tried to tell him they were looking for the best possible actor, not someone who's actually from Detroit. He insisted it was the perfect selling point. It wasn't. The role went to a guy from New York.
I have a lot more examples, but I've got to get going. My doctor wants to see me later for a follow-up, and I think I'm screwed because the act of writing this column has made me roll my eyes, like, another hundred times.


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Undisciplined free agent receivers are tormenting the Washington Redskins.
Kicker Billy Cundiff's 42-yard field goal saved the Redskins, who rallied for a 24-22 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. But it shouldn't have been close.
Washington receiver Pierre Garcon's cheap-shot penalty fueled a furious late Tampa Bay rally. Just two games earlier, fellow free agent receiver Joshua Morgan's unsportsmanlike penalty ended the Redskins' chances in a loss at St. Louis.
Garcon and Morgan were the Redskins' top free agent moves after NFL salary cap sanctions prevented them from addressing other needs. They are proving more costly than their paychecks, though.
Washington was dominating Tampa Bay until Garcon's gaffe, leading 21-6 in the third quarter. The Bucs were showing nothing offensively. But five plays after Garcon was penalized for pass interference, he was flagged again for a hit after the whistle and away from the ball. There's no defending that move; Garcon was clearly paying back Tampa Bay's secondary, which held him to one catch.
Until then, the Bucs looked like Redskins teams of years past with scattershot incompletions, ill-timed penalties and a costly turnover. However, that penalty energized Tampa Bay and deflated Washington, which suddenly started making its own errors.
Tampa Bay soon hit a 66-yard pass that set up its first touchdown, which cut the lead to 21-13. The next possession saw 54- and 22-yard completions as the Bucs closed within 21-19. Washington stopped the two-point conversion to prevent a tie, but its offense was going nowhere. The Bucs finally took a 22-21 lead on a 47-yard field goal with 1:47 remaining.
After allowing 101 points in the 1-2 start, the defense played its best game even though safety Brandon Meriweather again didn't play. Meriweather, who was supposed to make his first appearance this season, and receiver Aldrick Robinson were injured in a freak collision during warmups. Only this injury-plagued team could lose two players before the first snap.
The defense didn't need Meriweather early. Cornerback DeAngelo Hall's interception set up a touchdown. Washington's pressure, led by linebacker Ryan Kerrigan, made Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman dance, and his accuracy worsened by the step.
That is until the Bucs' late revival. Freeman suddenly couldn't miss and finished 24-for-39 for 299 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
Meanwhile, Washington rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III continued his remarkable start. After his fumble on the Tampa Bay 1-yard line during a keeper up the middle was recovered for a touchdown by Garcon, Griffin made it into the end zone on the same call later for a 14-3 lead.
Griffin took several hard hits but nothing like the previous week's loss to Cincinnati, when the Bengals reached him an estimated 29 times. The Redskins didn't need the option against the Bucs, though Griffin still tied the team record for quarterbacks with his fourth rushing touchdown in just the first month.
Griffin was sharp on the final drive to set up Cundiff, but the team leader now needs to convince his receivers to stop being the problem.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- I believe, in theory, that regret is a waste of time. Still...why oh why oh WHY couldn't the Orange County I grew up in have been just a little like the achingly glamorous "The O.C."?
In the new Fox teen drama, which premieres Tuesday, girls model evening gowns in charity fashion shows and then wander dreamily around in bikinis at Newport Beach mansions, which their parents have considerately handed over for the evening as a reward for all that hard modeling work.
In my own Orange County teen drama, which had a seemingly interminable and extremely boring run during the '70s, girls shopped the sale racks at downmarket malls while snacking on salty bits of gristle from Hickory Farms, then considered a gourmet food emporium. Bikinis were used not for dreamy wandering but for bodysurfing... which inevitably ended with your face in the gravel and the bra part around your neck as boys laughed and pointed and yelled "Bitchen wipeout!"
"The O.C." stars Benjamin McKenzie as Ryan, a Boy From the Wrong Side of the Orange County Tracks who hotwires a car and goes to live in posh Newport Beach with the family of his kindly public defender lawyer, played by Peter Gallagher.
Newcomer McKenzie, a Texan who recently graduated from the University of Virginia (he majored in Foreign Affairs and Economics), is so cute and charismatic that he's already being compared to James Dean and a young Russell Crowe.
He handles this acclaim with appropriate charismatic cuteness. "I'm just a kid who's on a TV show, maybe, at this point," McKenzie said, while chewing gum and holding a bottle of mineral water at the Fox news conference. "Listen, we're not doing Chekhov or Ibsen. This is a drama on Fox."
"Sorry!" he added hastily, after realizing that this is perhaps not the most flattering way to refer to the network. "I saw [Fox president] Gail Berman over there. Don't kill me please."
My Orange County starred various grease monkey drag-racers as the Boys From the Wrong Side of the Orange County Tracks...except they lived just around the corner and looked not like Russell Crowe or James Dean but like Meat Loaf or Jughead or an adolescent Ozzie Osbourne.
Since I knew nothing about cars, their charismatic cuteness involved teaching me one phrase I was instructed to repeat periodically so their friends wouldn't think I was a complete ignoramus: "Aw, you're full of s--, man! Grumpy uses dual dominators in his pro-stock Vega." I still have no idea what this meant.
When a girl drinks too much at an "O.C." party, she wakes up pristinely in handsome Ryan's beautifully decorated guest house quarters, where he has carefully placed her and then tucked her in - and that's all! - after finding her passed out on the driveway.
When a girl drinks too much at the Orange County parties I remember, she is placed in Meat Loaf's ancient battered van and driven home, where she has a hard time explaining that the enveloping smell of axle grease is from said van and not Meat Loaf or Jughead, and thus gets in big trouble with her mother.
Fun teen activities in "The O.C." involve sailing and surfing and of course modeling.
Fun teen activities in my Orange County involved dropping ketchup packages on people's heads from Disneyland's Skyway to Fantasyland. And now you can't do even that, as the ride was discontinued several years ago.
My Orange County teen drama, alas, would not be a hit. "The O.C.," however, probably will be. Besides its heartthrob star, the show has an unusually snappy pedigree, with feature film directors McG ("Charlie's Angels") and Doug Liman ("Swingers") as executive producers.
The other executive producer is head writer Josh Schwartz, who sold his first screenplay for $1 million while still at USC film school. "The O.C." makes the 26-year-old Schwartz the youngest creator of a one-hour drama for network TV.
The last time a teen drama revolved around a specific rich-kid locale was "Beverly Hills 90210," in the '80s. I asked the producers what the difference is between spoiled rich kids in Beverly Hills and spoiled rich kids in Orange County.
"Orange County is much more of a bubble," said Schwartz. "It's much more suburban and cut off from the rest of the world, whereas New York and L.A. are often considered in the same breath, in terms of what those kids are influenced by and the lifestyles they lead.
McG pointed out that "Beverly Hills 90210" debuted a decade ago "and maybe it's time for a freshened-up idea of what it's like to be a teenager in 2003."
Beyond that, the director noted that Orange County is "a community that has a vernacular unto itself. Also, when you grow up in a culture that's comprised of planned communities, you don't really have anything to claim as your own. You want to know where all the hip-hop records are sold? In white-bread, cookie-cutter communities."
"That's why you have a band like Rage Against the Machine from Irvine," McG added. "It's one of the most politically significant bands in contemporary culture and they're a bunch of guys who grew up in middle-income communities right in the heart of Orange County. You become infatuated with the hip-hop cultures of New York and London and places that have a little more history than where the oldest building in town is done by a developer looking to make the most money possible on a minimall."
McG was born in Michigan and moved to Newport Beach as a teenager. But he noted that he didn't look like the kids in "The O.C."
"I was five-foot-two, had an orange Afro and shoe skates," he said. "So I wasn't participating in this beautiful boys and girls dating one another lifestyle."
Still, he did live in Newport Beach. And that's where "The O.C." is likely to stay, with perhaps occasional excursions into nearby Irvine and Laguna. The Orange County I remember is Los Alamitos, Hawaiian Gardens, Seal Beach, Cypress, Stanton. Never heard of them? There's a reason.
The last time I went down there, to visit my family, we had lunch as usual at local institution Hof's Hut, home of the 3,000-calorie entrée and 300-pound customer.
I don't think you'll see any of these people on "The O.C." And as I looked around, I once again regretted my mispent youth and unglamorous neighbours.
But I have to admit, those cheeseburgers always were darned good.


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Freezing and snow here too, looking forward to spring.
This is indeed what we are waiting for!! Thanks so very much Barbara!!
Thanks for the lovely puzzle. It's nice to ponder spring sunshine while I am listening to thunder snow outside. It does not promise to be a spring day, no matter what the calendar says.


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I'm going to build up a Fatback. Placing my order today and need to decide on a fork.
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I don't want the 49mm headset bottom to look ridiculous. A silly worry I know. I'm leaning towards the aluminum version as it has bottle mounts, is relatively cheap/light and looks boss on my friends Fatback.
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KotOR - Retrospective @ High Score Reviews
High Score Reviews has posted a late review for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic that reads more like a retrospective article in my humble opinion.
Set 4,000 years before the rise of the Galactic Empire as seen in the film saga, KOTOR was a truly remarkable achievement in how it was able to expand the and deepen the history of the Star Wars universe, whilst still managing to weave a gripping narrative to call its own. Opening with a Republic vessel under siege from the Sith, with one particular shot deliberately evoking memories of A New Hope's unforgettable introduction of Tantive IV, KOTOR was instantly engaging by wasting no time in presenting a galactic war between the Republic and the Sith, and placing you right in the middle of it. It really didn't take long for it to be established that KOTOR was going to tell an infinitely more enjoyable tale than that of The Phantom Menace's trade disputes and planetary blockades.
KOTOR took everything that was so fantastic about Lucas' original creation, and crafted what, in my mind at least, will always be the true Star Wars prequel. An epic war between the Jedi and Sith, gloriously well realised planetary escapes, iconic spacecraft, great characters, a mind bending plot twist and a satisfying conclusion. Heck, even the cover art was awesome. The way the narrative was structured made it feel like one long trilogy contained within one fantastic game, and it was without a doubt the best Star Wars experience I've ever had in gaming.
If you've never played it, failed, you have.
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American socialite whose life disintegrated leaving her poor, reclusive and living in a dilapidated mansion amidst filth and numerous cats and her only daughter called "Little Edie.". The cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassiss, the mother and daughter are the subjects of a 1976 documentary by the Maysles brothers, Albert and David and a 2005 HBO movie called "Grey Gardens.".
She married Phelan Beale in 1917 and had three children, two sons and, her eldest child, a daughter also named Edith Bouvier Beale. They separated in 1931 and Edie retained their mansion called "Grey Gardens" in the Hamptons on Long Island, NY. "Big Edie" died February 5, 1977.
- child relationship with Beale, Edie (1917) (born 7 November 1917)
- Death, Cause unspecified 5 February 1977 (Ca. age 82)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Relationship : Marriage 1917 (Phelan Beale)
- Relationship : End significant relationship 1931 (With Phelan)
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Shelley Ackerman quotes Lois Wright who lived with the Beales for a year and wrote "My Life at Grey Gardens: 13 Months and Beyond." Other dates of birth appear in genealogical records including October 5, 1894. PT has found the following: On one census (1900), she is listed as being born in May 1895 (no day given) with parents being Maud and John living in Franklin, Essex County, NJ. In the 1910 census, she is simply listed as being 15. Someone did a family tree giving her a birth date of October 5, 1894 (no sources) and the social security death index gives this date as well. A ship's passenger list gives her birth date as Oct 5, 1895 and her hubbie Phelan's as May 23, 1881. Yet another passenger list on another ship gives her date as October 9, 1895 or 1896 (hard to read but looks like 1895). IMDB gives 1896. The NY Times obituary said she was 81 when she died in Feb 77 so that would give 1895.
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Although retail gasoline prices have fallen in recent weeks, the national average of prices on Thanksgiving will come close to breaking a record for the highest prices ever on Thanksgiving, according to a petroleum analyst.
"While gasoline prices have dropped in the last month and a half, the national average will still come close to breaking a record — the highest ever national average for Thanksgiving," said Patrick DeHaan, GasBuddy.com senior petroleum analyst.
DeHaan said that does not bode well for the remainder of the year. "I don't really see how gas prices could greatly improve between now and Christmas, given the new military action in The Middle East, and other pressures. It's all but certain the national average will not drop under $3.25 per gallon, which could lead to a perilous start to 2013."
Average retail gasoline prices in Iowa have fallen 4.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.26/gallon Sunday, Nov. 18. This compares with the national average which has fallen 3.2 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.43/gallon, according to the gasoline price website IowaStateGasPrices.com.
Including the change in gas prices during the past week, prices yesterday were 1.9 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 32.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 26.4 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 6.5 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.


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Sound Assembly's music is part abstract and part traditional jazz making the tracks sound completely original as this 17-piece orchestra works through the twists and turns in their harmonic forms. Led by the duo of David Schumacher and JC Sanford, Sound Assembly create a balance between traditional idioms reflective of concepts administered by such luminaries as Bob Brookmeyer and Thad Jones with contemporary layouts and improvised voices. Sound Assembly take audiences through an expedition of kaleidoscopic proportions in the group's debut album Edge Of The Mind. Produced by John McNeil, David Schumacher and JC Sanford, Edge Of The Mind is a title which is derived from a term used in kite flying, and discussed in the album's liner notes as, "The space in which a kite flies is called 'edge of the window.'" Schumacher and Sanford converted the window part to represent the human mind, although they do use "Edge Of The Window" for the title of the one of the tracks on the album. The group's compositions convey this sensation of flying freely by triggering sharp turns, lush spins, crisp dives, and glorious suspensions while cabled by the bold strokes of the rhythm section. It is an album whose artistic inclinations are the crux of the pieces.
The disc emerges with "Breaking Point" whose surging horns create densely populated flourishes, which are dimpled by swift rhythmic beats and scorching guitar rotations. "Edge Of The Window" reduces the pace to a casual stroll forming well-honed consonance in the horn section and dainty ripples in the rhythmic beats. Concentration is placed on developing the swerves in the melodic lines while maintaining a horizontal plane like in "Slide Therapy" which is winged by woozy trombone glissandos and billowy clarinets. The soft kettling clicks of the drum sticks hold the piece firmly while the horns go off into a series of dizzy swerves. "Chuck n' Jinx" has a classic swing jazz form which Schumacher tells in the liner notes, "is an homage to Thad Jones." Keeping in line with traditional jazz idioms is "The Radiance Of Spring" with floating horns and graceful vocal glides performed by singer Kate McGarry. It is the type of tune that lets you rest your head on its plush carpeting. "Rhythm Of The Mind" features dueling clarinet solos as the remaining horns dance exotically through the drum fills. Conversely, "My Star" is arranged with a series of rising and descending chord progressions with intervals that exert a sensuous rhapsody and zealous spins. The haunting piano intro of "Ives, Eyes" has a seductive appeal, while the crazed energy of "BMT" has the musicians spilling all over each other in a haphazard fashion.
The gist of these pieces is to preserve the beauty of traditional jazz while expanding on contemporary forms. Schumacher explains this idea in a recent press release, "The music in a piece has to evolve in a way that is inevitable, yet still has room for surprise. I want the solos to come out of the music so naturally that you can barely tell where the chart ends and the players inspiration begins." Instruments mill around anxiously and interweave into a maleable assortment that entertains and widens people's perceptions of what a 17-piece orchestra are capable of designing. Edge Of The Mind is to the jazz world what the edge of the window is to kite flying, a chance to fly freely while still having bearings that hold it down to earth.


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Strength is a skill, and exercise should rightly be viewed as training. You are training particular muscles and developing particular skills in each session…if you've got a plan, that is. One of my favorite training protocols is especially good for building strength, and it's called "greasing the groove." This is a concept borrowed from fitness expert (and kettlebell guru) Pavel Tsatsouline, where you focus on one (maybe two; no more) movement for a series of weeks. During that time you do maybe one or two reps several times each day, about six days per week.
The idea is for you to stay fresh and strong, NEVER training to failure, and develop the skill and the muscle memory to perform that particular movement with proficiency. The net result is that you do get stronger in the process automatically, all without the soreness and crazy fatigue that accompanies many strength workouts.
We'll use pull-ups as an example. Let's say you can do a maximum of four pull-ups. Well, hang a pull-up bar in your pantry (or bedroom, or bathroom, or whatever) doorway, and every you walk by it, you do one pull-up with perfect form, contracting all of your muscles, etc. If you do that faithfully, you'll have performed several pull-ups by the day's end without actually "working out," though you'll get stronger in the process. Soon your pull-up numbers will go up and you'll be doing six to eight pull-ups before you know it.
So, I got to thinking about how this protocol might transfer to prayer. Paul urges the Thessalonians to "pray without ceasing" (1Thess. 4:17). I don't think that means we can't talk to other people or watch TV as much as it means we ought to have an ongoing attitude of communication with God.
Well, it could very well be that Paul is just talking about greasing the prayer groove.
Think about it: What's better? A workout where you exhaust yourself maxing out on pushups and you end up totaling about forty five reps? Or doing three, perfect-form pushups every thirty minutes or so that you're in your office at work?
Well, neither is necessarily "better" (though personally I'd much sooner choose the second option for a dozen reasons). Rather, they accomplish different things.
But here's the reality: Most of us are not as faithful in prayer as we know we should be. And many of us excuse our prayerlessness by citing our calendars: "I know I need to pray, but I just don't have time to do it the way I'd like, so what's the use?" But if we do what Paul is suggesting, having a spirit of prayer and visiting prayer frequently throughout the day, we quickly run out of excuses.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that having a dedicated time of prayer each day is bad any more than it's bad to schedule your workouts. In fact, just sprinkling in prayer time throughout the day does not allow for the sweetness of time spent with God that typically accompanies a healthy love for Him. But I am arguing is that not having a dedicated prayer time is no excuse to fail to pray altogether. Just because you can't gather as a family around the dinner table is no valid excuse to give up eating altogether. As GK Chesterton said, "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
So what if we prayed throughout the day? Try "greasing the prayer groove" in order to train those prayer muscles and tell us how it goes!
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In terms of the animation, is it different to see something like Frankenweenie come together versus something like Go or Big Fish?
A little bit. Here's the other luxury: whenever you see a live action movie you have some experience with those actors before, so if you see Brad Pitt in a movie, you're seeing the character but you're also seeing Brad Pitt. He's a movie star and you're seeing Brad Pitt. Here everyone is blank slates, especially in this movie where there aren't these big, giant name voice cast people. Everyone is their own characters and that's really remarkable. So it's a little closer to what I had in my head because I just had my voices in my head.
Did you have input into the character designs?
Yup! Tim had character designs for many of these characters even before I had them scripted out. So he had Victor and Sparky and the parents, so we knew what that world was like. And then as I pitched the boys he quickly went on and started drawing them out. But voice wise, they already recorded some of the voices before I found out [laughs]. "Who is playing that?" "Catherine O'Hara." "Who is playing that?" "Catherine O'Hara" "Catherine O'Hara!" "Catherine O'Hara!" [laughs]. But I was delighted and I liked that it was so many people who had played important roles in a lot of his older movies.
I've heard you mention that this was a personal story for you because you actually experienced the death of your own dog while you were working on it, but this is also a very personal film for Tim, as there's a lot of his own experiences in the story and it's based on one of his first shorts. Obviously you've worked together many times before, but does that put a degree of pressure on you as a writer?
No, it doesn't. I knew it was a seminal and important movie for Tim, I knew that a lot of what he established as "Burton-esque" in terms of his movies was first found here, but this wasn't him making a movie from his house, this is his making a new movie, and so we gave him a movie that he could make and would be excited to make, and turn every page and find stuff he was excited to shoot. That's the same challenge as any new movie, so it wasn't uniquely tough in that aspect.
What is your working relationship with Tim? You've done multiple projects together, but you've also both done things separately. How do you come together on a film?
Well, a very long meeting with Tim is half an hour. You go in, he says, "I got this and this and this," and to that I say, "Okay, I think this and I think it should be structured around a science fair, the movie is sort of weirdly pro-science, even though most monster movies are anti-science…and that's my way of bringing things together again." "That sounds good, that sounds good. I need it really soon." [laughs] "Okay, so I'll go and do it right away!" I've enjoyed the ability to keep writing his movies, but it's not that I have amazing, great insight or were hanging out over barbecue all the time.
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