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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rinku Singh, the left-handed pitcher who came to the U.S. from his native India almost six years ago after winning a contest, is about to become more than famous.
He emerged the winner of the first "Million Dollar Arm" reality show by throwing an 88-mph fastball in the strike zone, the fastest and most accurate among 37,000 contestants. Previously, the javelin thrower and youngest of seven brothers and sisters had never tossed a baseball.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rinku Singh, the left-handed pitcher who came to the U.S. from his native India almost six years ago after winning a contest, is about to become more than famous.
He emerged the winner of the first "Million Dollar Arm" reality show by throwing an 88-mph fastball in the strike zone, the fastest and most accurate among 37,000 contestants. Previously, the javelin thrower and youngest of seven brothers and sisters had never tossed a baseball.
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates a mere 13 months later, Singh became the first native of India to win a game in professional baseball, victorious for the Pirates' Rookie-level team in the Gulf Coast League. Beset by recent arm injuries, he told MLB.com on Monday that he is growing stronger and healthier and he has one goal and one goal only: to pitch and win for the Pirates in the Major Leagues.
"That's why I'm here," he said in an interview at a local Starbucks. "I wish I could tell you what the future might bring. But the faith and belief I have right now, the way I'm going through my day, my training, I think it's going to make it happen one day."
One has to love the conviction.
Whether he pitches in the Majors or not, Singh will shortly rise above the numerous kids toiling in the Minor Leagues everywhere when the Disney-produced film, "Million Dollar Arm," is released in May. Singh and reality show runner-up Dinesh Patel were signed by the Pirates to Minor League contracts in 2008. Since then, Singh is 10-6 with a 2.99 ERA in 84 games, all in relief, all played at no higher than the Class A level. He didn't pitch in 2013, but he has since immersed himself in learning the game of baseball. Patel has gone home.
The film documents the voyage of these two kids from the Indian backwaters to the Minor Leagues. The marketing agent, J.B. Bernstein -- who helped bring the reality show to India -- sold the rights of the film to Disney and an accompanying book to Simon & Schuster.
The movie has an A-1 cast. Jon Hamm, a huge baseball fan and better known as the complex Don Draper in "Mad Men," is playing J.B. The ageless Alan Arkin is a scout. Suraj Sharma, who played a kid marooned on a small boat accompanied by a wild tiger in the phantasmagorical "Life of Pi," is Singh.
That's not the end of the story. The next chapter is what happens to Singh. Having never thrown a baseball, Singh succumbed to the pressure of overthrowing and bad mechanics and suffered through some arm problems. He's spent the last four months in Arizona building up his arm strength and working out, please excuse the pun, like a mad man. He is heading back to India this week for the wedding of one of his siblings and is due at Pirates camp in Bradenton, Fla., by early March where he will continue his rehab.
He says his schedule has him throwing again in a game during extended spring training this coming April, not long before the film is released. Life imitates art. He's sure to take some ribbing from his teammates, who will see a bit of his life personified on the silver screen. But like his ardent quest to pitch in the Majors, he says he's ready for it.
"It's really exciting," he said. "It's about Rinku and Dinesh's journey, about dreams finally coming true. We never thought Disney would make a movie. It is our film and we are really proud of it. When I think back on it, it's about what we have both done, coming to America, taking the big risk. I think it's really going to help motivate a lot of young kids. It's going to inspire them. It's going to teach them a lesson. It doesn't matter who you are or where you're coming from. If you put a 100 percent effort out there you have a chance to succeed."
Singh, at 25, is polite and well-spoken. During the interview he sported a beard and wore a black skull cap. He came to the U.S. with no fluency in either the English language or the language and art of playing baseball. A high school graduate about to go to college, he didn't even have a glove or the knowledge and ability to use one when he plunged into a completely new culture in the U.S. Since then, he has learned to speak English and Spanish and has overcome the mechanical problems that caused some of his arm woes. A recent short video taken with Singh's iPhone of him pitching in a gym on flat ground revealed a fluid and unencumbered left-handed motion.
Singh and Patel came to America as teenagers and lived in Los Angeles with Bernstein and trained for big league tryouts at USC. He was signed, pitched and even has been to the White House to meet President Obama. He said he learned to speak English, "just talking to people, watching movies and listening to music as much as I could." It took him seven months to learn the rules and how to play baseball.
Now he says baseball is his life and he's more than ready for the next big step.
"I won the competition and I realized I had to go to America now," Singh said. "That was the biggest decision that I ever had to make in my life. I left my whole family. I didn't know the American culture or the language. I gave up college. I gave up my degrees, whether I succeed in baseball or not. It was very strange. My parents were afraid. They were happy I was going to learn new things. But it was a mixture of excitement and being scared. I was the youngest in the family. It was hard for them to let me go.
"The experience I've gotten had made me a more mature. I would have never learned all this if I had stayed in India. I would've been a regular Indian kid. So now I feel like I did the right thing."
Barry M. Bloom is national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter.


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We did it – we launched our online fundraising campaign on indiegogo for the Yarn Graffiti Documentary. Here goes nothing. It's been online for 24 hours and we've already raised $1,110! It's crazy.
The second I published it, I felt a little remorse because I know I could have tightened the edit on the video, and I started to think that maybe $15,000 is too much to ask for in only 110 days. What's done is done. This whole thing is very nerve racking. I keep looking at the Indiegogo account and refreshing the page to see if anyone else has donated and every time someone new has donated, I'm hit with this wave of amazement like, "wow, I can't believe someone just gave us $20!" I've been getting really emotional and sentimental and it's only been a day. I can't imagine how the rest of the next 3 and half months are going to go. I think I need to pace myself.
If you don't know, online fundraisers like Indiegogo are all about allowing anybody to raise money for any idea. The sites structure allows users to create a page for their funding campaign, set up an account with PayPal, make a list of "perks" for different levels of donation, then create a social media-based publicity effort. Users publicize the projects themselves through Facebook, Twitter and similar platforms. The site levies a 4% fee for successful campaigns, and 9% for campaigns that fail to reach their target amount. Unlike similar sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo disburses the funds immediately. According to the Wall Street Journal, 10% of Indiegogo projects raise their requested amount, while 40% of projects raise at least $500. Indiegogo is also used by already-funded projects to create publicity or find distributors.

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American Way Motors Inc. has paid $2.8 million for 28.8 acres of land on Hacks Cross Road near its Tenn. 385 interchange.
The company bought the vacant parcel from The Gurley Cos. LP in a Feb. 21 special warranty deed.
American Way Motors is affiliated with AutoNation and will build a Dobbs Honda dealership on the site.
The dealership will move from the location it has had at 2785 Mendenhall Road for 20 years.
The new dealership is a $10.5 million project that is expected to produce 30 jobs once completed.
Shelby County Commissioners approved the plan in October.
Cheryl Followell signed the warranty deed as chief manager of The Gurley Cos, which had acquired the property in a 2005 quitclaim deed from Followell, serving as trustee of a trust for Betty J. Gurley.
The land sits along the west side of Hacks Cross Road between Nonconnah Creek and Tenn. 385. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2012 appraisal was $22,200.
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First Tennessee Bank's treasury management services have won the bank plaudits in the 2013 Phoenix-Hecht Treasury Management Quality Index in the middle market banking segment.
The top grades were awarded by senior financial executives responsible for managing their companies' bank relationships for treasury management services in categories including customer service, product features and overall relationship manager effectiveness.
It's not the first time this year First Tennessee's treasury management services have been recognized.
Earlier this year, First Tennessee won top customer satisfaction honors from Greenwich Associates in both the national and regional categories for treasury management in the 2012 Greenwich Excellence Awards for U.S. middle market and small business banking.
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Wonder bread could start appearing in school lunchboxes again soon.
A person familiar with the situation says a bid by Flowers Foods to buy Wonder and several other bread brands from bankrupt Hostess was met with no competing offers. The individual requested anonymity because the auction process is private.
Hostess hasn't been making any of its cakes and breads since late November, when the company announced it was going out of business and shuttered its plants after years of financial struggles.
One of those plants that was closed in November was the Downtown Memphis Wonder Bread plant.
More than 250 workers reportedly were affected locally.
The $360 million bid by Flowers also includes Nature's Pride, Butternut, Home Pride and Merita breads.
An auction will still be held Thursday for a separate $30 million bid by Flowers for Beefsteak. The source said a competing offer for that brand was submitted by Mexico's Grupo Bimbo, which makes Thomas' English muffins and Entenmann's cakes.
Any sales would be subject to approval by a bankruptcy court on March 19.
Hostess has also picked opening bidders, known as a "stalking horse," for its snack cakes.
A joint offer from two investment firms – Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management LLC – was picked as the lead bid for Twinkies and other snack cakes. Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn has said he expects that auction to be "wild and wooly."
McKee Foods, which makes Little Debbie snack cakes, was picked as the lead bidder for Drake's cakes, which include Devil Dogs, Funny Bones and Yodels. The deadline to submit competing offers for the snack cakes isn't until mid-March.
Flowers Foods, based in Thomasville, Ga., makes Tastykakes and breads including Nature's Own.
Representatives for Flowers Food and Grupo Bimbo did not immediately return calls for comment.
Taken together, Hostess has said its six bread brands generated just under $1 billion in sales last year, with Wonder bread accounting for about half of that.
Flowers Foods, which generates about $3 billion in annual sales, said it expects the deals to add to its earning this year. The company plans to finance the deal through a mix of cash and debt.
– The Associated Press
EdR – a Memphis-based owner, developer and manager of collegiate housing – has purchased a 10 percent interest in Elauwit Networks, a Charleston, S.C.-based provider of Internet access, high-definition video and telephone service.
While the initial investment for this minority interest was nominal for EdR, it provides a variety of potential benefits including reduced network operating costs and ancillary income.
Elauwit Networks has been in the broadband and network service business since 1989 but has shifted its primary focus to the student housing industry for the last three years. The company currently serves communities owned by American Campus Communities, Landmark Properties, Campus Crest Communities and Preiss Properties, and has forecasted student housing customer growth of 90 properties by the end of 2014.
Scott P. Casey, EdR's chief technology officer, will work with Elauwit Networks CEO Barry Rubens as a board member and as co-chairman of a newly created committee to support the partnership.
EdR is a Real Estate Investment Trust that owns or manages 67 communities in 24 states with more than 37,000 beds within more than 12,500 units.
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A new exhibit called "Elvis: Live from Vegas," is opening Tuesday, March 5, at Graceland and will allow audiences to experience Las Vegas through the eyes of Elvis Presley.
The exhibit will feature part of the 30-foot marquee Col. Parker had made to stand outside the New Frontier Hotel in 1956 and the first jumpsuit worn on-stage by Elvis in 1970.
Other suits in the exhibit include Elvis' Leather and Chains suit, worn in August of 1970 during his Las Vegas engagement and prominently featured in his first concert documentary "Elvis: That's The Way It Is;" Elvis' three-piece Spanish Flower suit worn in 1972 that was an alternative to one of the jumpsuits he wore in Las Vegas; Elvis' "I Got Lucky" jumpsuit that was worn in 1970 in various cities including Las Vegas, Oakland, Tampa and Los Angeles and can be seen on the cover of the 1971 "I Got Lucky" album.
Guests will also be able to view rare artifacts including hotel receipts and show memorabilia.
Heather Baugus Koury was recently named Honorary AIA for The American Institute of Architects, the highest honor bestowed on a person outside the architecture profession.
Membership is granted only if the accomplishments of the nominee are truly outstanding and of national significance. During her 10-year tenure as executive director of AIA Memphis, Koury has enhanced the chapter's programming and its involvement in community outreach programs, including the Distinguished Architects of the World speakers series, the Discovering Architecture summer day camp for high school students, and the Junior Girl Scout Architecture Badge Camp.
Also under her leadership, education grants to the chapter have increased by 500 percent.
Building on the AIA150 national initiative to encourage communities to focus on legacy projects, Koury shepherded a number of projects: the Memphis Regional Design Center, the Paul R. Williams Project and ArchiTree, an interactive genealogy of the Memphis architectural community. She is currently working to establish a Memphis-based design alliance, complete a retrospective on the architectural history of Memphis, and create a bike tour of the city's significant architecture and historic neighborhoods.
Koury was also the 2012 recipient of the AIA Component Executive Leadership Award.
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June 21, 2011
In the current issue of Film Comment, the distinguished film scholar David Bordwell offers a vital piece called "Never the Twain Shall Meet: Why Can't Cinephiles and Academics Just Get Along?" In it, Bordwell points out that cinema, to a far greater extent than more rarified art forms (literature, visual arts, music, architecture), has inspired popular and scholarly traditions of criticism that rarely overlap. In fact, the approaches of popular film critics (or "cinephiles," as Bordwell calls them) and university scholars are so far apart that their members are often actively hostile toward one another. Bordwell, a career academic at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and also a blogger widely respected among unaffiliated movie buffs, is an ideal figure of compromise to broach the subject, and he concludes that a "hands across the aisle" rapprochement between the two camps could be brokered via the internet.
Sorry, but I'm not ready to surrender my arms just yet.
Bordwell's topic might seem like a pointless exercise in inside baseball, and one not particularly germane to this blog (although I will connect it to the subject of television, if you'll bear with me). But most of the other film critics and enthusiasts of my personal acquaintance hold strong opinions on the subject, and it has certainly colored my own fifteen years as a semi-professional media historian.
Bordwell's article resonated with me because it brought back a lot of memories from my own undergraduate education, which was perpetrated during the late nineties in the University of Southern California's cinema-television program. At the time, the program was dominated by scholars huddled under the umbrella of "Grand Theory" – a collection of cultural-studies disciplines (semiotics, reception studies, psychoanalysis, feminism & queer theory) which connected only tangentially to art appreciation and aesthetics. In practice, this meant reading a lot of essays about movies in which no individual film was discussed or even named. Bordwell uses the phrase "smother living work under a blanket of Grand Theory," and that accurately describes the dispiriting attitude I encountered all too often. Instead of embodying a broad curiosity about film as a medium, these cultural scholars tended to cherry-pick texts and trends that supported whatever specialty they had staked out on the Grand Theory map. (Bordwell: "the habit of interpreting films as charade-like enactments of theoretical doctrines.")
The few USC faculty to whom I was able to relate – like Rick Jewell, a rigorous historian of Hollywood production methods – seemed to exist on the margins of this not-really-about-films film school in which I found myself mired. I took what I could from teachers like Jewell, but on the whole I emerged from USC with a sense of resentment towards a curriculum that often seemed to condescend to the material I went there to learn about. A big part of that problem was the basic indifference or even contempt toward the craft of writing that I encountered in the critical literature I read. The impenetrability of academic writing is an old joke, but it bears repeating that, as Chris Fujiwara puts it in a response to Bordwell's article, "there is probably no professional sphere in which the lack of desire to write and the lack of interest in writing are more endemic than academia." My own formal education therefore had the effect of alienating me from its auspices: although I've occasionally written pieces that drew in part on some cultural-theory notions gleaned from college (for instance, this post-feminist reading of The Donna Reed Show), I've made a conscious decision to place my work on the popular side of cinephilia (or telephilia, as the case may be) because I want to reach an audience who will read about East Side / West Side or The Patty Duke Show because they want to, not because they have to. (Fujiwara: "The system of 'publish or perish,' together with the reliable assurance that what gets published will remain unread (not infrequently, I imagine, even by those who get paid to edit and review it), guarantees an abundance of terrible academic writing.")
One quibble I have with Bordwell's piece is that, perhaps for reasons of space, he uses the term "research" a lot without ever defining it precisely. For Bordwell, research seems to represent the serious work of scholars; whenever non-academics produce valuable research, it's a happy accident. (Bordwell writes that Joseph McBride's heavily footnoted Spielberg biography "is academic in the best sense.") Of course, Bordwell's own work is prodigiously detailed and specific (see, for instance, his blog post about flashbacks-within-flashbacks), so I suspect he would be surprised and disappointed by how infrequently I encountered the same breadth of curiosity and rigor among the faculty and grad students in my USC program. Bordwell suggests that "academic research is less geared to evaluation" but I often found that academics were highly evaluative. It's just that they were quick to judge texts based on their usefulness to a particular scholarly discipline or approach rather than on their value as art.
I hit my breaking point with this form of myopia when Jeff Kisseloff published his pioneering work The Box: An Oral History of Television 1920-1961 during my USC years. Kisseloff's book gave me more insight into understanding how television was made than anything I've read before or since. And yet, when I recommended it to one of my television professors, not only did she have no interest in teaching the book, but she wouldn't even read it. It was inconceivable to her that oral history could teach her anything useful about television. I encountered that attitude – that the work of the scholar should be abstract and contemplative rather than nuts-and-bolts – all the time, and it's why I take exception to Bordwell's non-definition of "research."
My own definition of research, then, would be along the lines of investigative journalism: perusal of archival records, excavation of contemporary publications, viewings of obscure works, and yes, actually talking to people who created the objects of one's study. Bordwell's implication that the success of non-academic scholar like McBride in this area was somehow exceptional offended me slightly because, in my view, McBride is the rule, not the exception. Much of the best movie and television history (if not always the best criticism, which is Bordwell's primary focus) is the work of outsiders, not of academics. Of course, that's the opposite of how it ought to be.
I promised to apply some of these thoughts to television, and I think the best way to do that is to question another generalization of Bordwell's: that mainstream or cinephile critics are mainly auteurists. I guess there's a broad tradition, perhaps more among editors than writers, of following the DGA's possessory-credit lead and referring to most films as the work of their directors, without any investigation of who actually did what; but I also think that many good mainstream critics are equally likely to come at movies from a context of national cinemas, movie star personas, zeitgeist notions, or any of a dozen other frameworks.
Anyway, it occurs to me that the idea of an auteurist approach breaks down completely when you try to apply it to television.
That's because the episodic director is rarely the primary creative force in television (except for cases where a Michael Mann or a Martin Scorsese directs an HBO pilot), and understanding the process of who fills that power vacuum is work that few mainstream (and academic?) critics have attempted. The "showrunner," a relatively new term and a relatively modern conception, has become a sort of default auteurist figure among television critics, but it's often misunderstood and selectively applied. Most critics probably don't realize that a showrunner may or may not be the same thing as an executive producer or a head writer (for instance, Dick Wolf's Law & Order shows and Jerry Bruckheimer's C.S.I. franchises all have their own showrunners, and yet more strongly reflect the sensibilities of Wolf and Bruckheimer). And I don't understand why Mad Men and Deadwood are widely understood as the singular visions of their particular creators, and yet I've never read any auteurist criticism devoted to, say, John Wells or Ryan Murphy (even though ER and The West Wing, once it passed from Aaron Sorkin's to Wells's control, have a great deal in common, and Murphy's superficially very different Nip/Tuck and Glee are of a philosophical piece). There are also cases where actors, cinematographers, executives, and other less-than-obvious figures who set the tone in television – not to mention exceptional television directors who really are auteurs but whose work is so spread out that they haven't been recognized as such – but I've seen little work that tries to grasp any of that.
The popular/academic schism in film culture in film culture may be bad, but at least it's indicative that some approaches have been codified. In the television realm, I sense that the academics are still chasing their trends instead of doing serious research (can I tell you how many Buffy-loving hipsters I ran afoul of during my USC sojourn?) and most popular critics are just trying to keep up with the screeners that land on their desks, without looking hard enough at the bigger picture.
Speaking of academics: Lynn Reed is a graduate student at Skidmore College who has been exploring ideas related to her master's thesis in a good blog. Her starting point is Mad Men, which she follows into tangents as inevitable as feminism and as unlikely as Remington Steele. Reed has a fascinating piece up about a Mary Tyler Moore-like sitcom that Sex and the Single Girl author Helen Gurley Brown pitched to Warner Bros. and ABC – in 1962. Needless to say, this proposed show that envisioned a female protagonist with a sometime boyfriend she "had no plans to marry" was a bit ahead of its time. I'd love to read what, if anything, resides in the Warner Bros. Archives at USC to document the reaction of the studio's television executives (at that time a typically cigar-chomping, old-school bunch) to Brown's salvo of premature feminism.
Speaking of journalists: My pal Tom Lisanti has a fine three–part interview with sultry France Nuyen on his blog. He doesn't say why it was omitted, but evidently the Nuyen profile is a leftover from one of his worthwhile books about sixties ingenues. Nuyen was Eurasian and hard to cast, but I always thought she was a subtle, wistful actress, with a sexy, marbly voice. Nuyen is pretty frank but Lisanti didn't get the one quote I was looking for – a response to the strange, cryptic, misogynistic barbs about his brief marriage to Nuyen that Robert Culp delivered on his I Spy audio commentaries. Culp evidently had some unresolved issues on the subject, and didn't mind telling the world about them.
And blogger Mel Neuhaus has another amazing three–parter, this one with child actress turned sixties ingenue Sherry Jackson. Jackson is forthright about her entire career, but the really eye-popping revelations come in the first installment, during which she reveals the truly toxic environment on the set of the happy-family sitcom Make Room For Daddy. The whole series (including part two and part three) is a must-read. There is equal room in my philosophy, I'm proud to say, for both thoughtful criticism of shows like Mad Men and salacious gossip about Danny "Plate Man" Thomas's kinky sexual proclivities.
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June 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Very good, Steven. At UCLA I have encountered the same thin blindness by critical studies to the realities of production, forces in culture and the economy and the very real force of audience feedback (read: grosses). Lately the fight has centered on the aesthetic reason for the loud and soft-headed "Inception," which some insist must be a culmination of Nolan's grand alternative vision of the universe but more likely stems from WB handing him his head after making $2b on Batman films. A 10-year-old script that would have landed in the same footnote as "Toys" (1992) or "Brewster McCloud" (1970) had it not grossed $300m domestic.
June 22, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Excellent read, Steven. One of the reasons that I really have it in for academia is that they make the art and craft of Film/TV overly complex with it's own added acres and acres of arcane jargon verbiage to the point that they become unreadable, whereas the best researchers and critics (such as this site) take subjects/themes/ideas and by stripping away false narratives and publicity, simplfying the subject to crystal elegance.
Another thing I really despise academics and the theorists is for the grotesque autuer theory. I have Sarris' book and David Thompson's – and even though they have great writing styles, they are blinded by their own high finicky, threadbare pretensions. A world where mildly worthy 'B' movie directors got the kudos and the giants of the American cinema, such as Billy Wilder and William Wyler were tossed off the posterity train. They always seemed to side with right-wing directors and aginst those that question the status quo. There is a brilliant article about this type of slant by Peter Briskind in a book essays about film topics (he also has a terrific one in there about the mini-series 'Holocaust'). And then the is the wholsesale dismissal of brilliant craftsmen – who on their day, could give visionary directors a run for their money; Robert Wise, Fred Zinneman, ect.
The French were even worse, having sat through tedious 'Breathless' over the last week and the New Wave last year, they don't hold a candle to the real French greats. That such puny directors can get such favourable coverage, for such amateur hour efforts, makes me think of an old Hans Christian Anderson tale about an emperor….
June 23, 2011 at 11:24 am
Another on-the-money post. You've perfectly outlined why no self-respecting film-lover should ever poison his mind by enrolling in a graduate film program—at least not without lots of supplementary trips down to the basement where the deans hide all the archival documents and unlabeled film canisters willed to them over the years.
Having spent the past four years plugging away on a book that straddles film and television, I've had to read all manner of literature, from academic texts to primary source materials. The disparity between these realms is astounding. One finds one's hand slowly curling into a fist while trying to push through the circular "logic" of pretty much anything that portends itself to be of a "serious" nature.
Writer A said this so writer B repeats it, with endless footnotes, of course, and then writer C repeats that, more footnotes, making a point to cleverly pat himself on the back for having been so "well read" to have referenced B, while at the same time remaining blissfully oblivious to A… not to mention all the folks who came before A… and beyond that the anonymous researcher who brought the subject to light in the first place. The incestuousness snobbery of it all becomes maddening. Why not just watch the film? Read the script/teleplay? Find out how and why it was made?
And the mistakes. The pain of reading something stated with finality, backed with an alphabetic rune of degrees, and published with a sneer… that is just utterly, horribly… wrong.
Some of the worst offenders are the Philosophy of … titles. The notes sections alone are hilarious: endless thanks to each other for facts and observations that aren't that special or thank you-worthy to begin with. Do these people get together at conferences and figure out who gets thanked in what book?
What's really astonishing is that if you go back a few decades, you start to find "serious" (albeit out of print) literature on film and television that is of an entirely different world, not just historically, but in the approach: honest, earnest, original. But mostly motivated by a personal affinity if not love for the subject. Something to which no tenured professor, clamoring to get her ten thousand words on Phillip Marlowe: Latent Transvestism, Chinese-American Folk Music, and Film Gris put into print, can possibly claim.
But tirade aside, I've been catching up on many of the BFI Film/TV Classics titles lately. Some good stuff: insightful, admirably well-researched, economically written.
I'd be curious to know whether you find a difference between British and American approaches to film and television criticism.
June 23, 2011 at 2:39 pm
My major objection to current criticism is the failure or lack of interest to place the art or artist within the context of the time period. Often the critic is more interested in proving his or hers social or political beliefs than in a true analysis of the art or artist.
For example, you can't fairly judge television in the forties or fifties without understanding the context of the time and the beliefs of those involved. Basic fundamentals, now no longer important, such as the power of sponsors and the reasons the networks refused to film network programs, played a role in the creation of television often forgotten by today's critic and historian.
I recent did a review at Steve Lewis' Mystery Files blog on THE CASES OF EDDIE DRAKE (links below if you are curious). The more I read from original sources, the less today's facts made sense to me.
Dualism in criticism is not a bad thing unless the two views intersect to share the same flaw.
Today, too much criticism is more interested in labeling or the critic's POV than in understanding the art or artist.
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The government stole the election right from the start, but for now a politician who wants to save Venezuela from its ruinous path won't concede defeat, so things may get ugly quickly.
Sadly, ugly is likely the only way for Chavismo to end.
Venezuela's government-controlled electoral commission announced late Sunday that Hugo Chavez's anointed successor, Nicolas Maduro, won the snap presidential election by a razor-thin margin: His official edge was 235,000 votes, under 1.5 percent of ballots cast.
His opponent, dynamic 40-year-old state governor Henrique Capriles, is pointing to widespread election fraud and calling for a recount.
Venezuelan sources tell me that when the polls closed Sunday evening, the activists at Capriles' headquarters were confident that their man had won.
The only question was by how much: If his victory margin was smaller than, say, five points, they feared that Maduro's machine would declare victory anyway, stealing the election.
We may never know if it was outright theft: Unlike in previous elections, no outside observers were invited to monitor the voting.
Maduro's camp did its best to rig things during the campaign— by limiting, for example, the opposition's access to mass media to near zero, while TV and radio blared government slogans constantly.
Yet the Capriles camp still had reasons to expect victory.
Venezuelans are reeling under 30 percent annual inflation. Plus, economists say that, if the government maintains its current levels of economic controls and endless spending, Venezuela can expect bankruptcy in as little as two years.
This in a country with the world's largest oil reserves.
Also, Maduro is no Chavez — despite his oft-repeated "I am Chavez" boast. In late campaigning, he literally tweeted to supporters — claiming that his former boss had morphed into a bird.
Antics aside, Maduro lacks the charisma, organizational skills and political intuitions that kept Chavez in power from 1999 until his announced death on March 5.
Having risen in Chavez's political machine from the ranks of a bus drivers union, Maduro also isn't respected by the military. And that may prove his downfall.
By some reports Sunday night, several patriotic generals (who've been quietly dismissive of Maduro) were set to defect to the Capriles camp. Others, fearing extradition and prosecution if the opposition won, crowded Caracas airport's Terminal Four, which is reserved for government and military officials, en route to Havana.
Indeed, Havana's a main piece of the puzzle. Tens of thousands of Cuban "advisers" and "volunteers" — teachers and doctors, but also spies and military advisers — have been living in Venezuela for more than a decade as part of Fidel Castro's vision of a unified "Venecuba."
But in the month-long campaign, Capriles vowed to end Venezuela's $4 billion-a-year oil gift to the Castros — which saves the Cuban economy from total collapse.
Havana can't afford a divorce from Caracas. So if Venezuela enters a period of mayhem, the Cuban machine will shift into high gear.
But this time it better gear for a prolonged fight.
Back in October, when Capriles lost a race against cancer-stricken and barely alive Chavez, he quickly acknowledged defeat. Now he and his energized supporters are eager to stand their ground and turn Venezuela around.
This struggle is crucial for America. A Capriles win, a significant loss for anti-US populists and communists, could turn the tides in the hemisphere. Capriles vows to cool off relations with the likes of Iran and Syria — which Maduro, as Chavez's foreign minister, cultivated.
But for appearances' sake, we're better off on the sidelines. A Washington declaration of Capriles as the winner would give ammunition to the Chavistas, who (like the Castros) blame America for all their ills. Maduro already tags Capriles a Yankee puppet.
But that doesn't mean we should concede defeat either, blandly call for calm or worse, quickly call on "president-elect" Maduro to improve relations with America.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said yesterday that a vote recount would be "important, prudent and necessary." True. He should have also called on the Venezuelan government to increase transparency of the recount by inviting in some observers.
Maduro, after all, was indoctrinated in Cuba. Steeped in revolutionary zeal, he's gearing to further spread the Bolivarian gospel — even at the risk of bankrupting his oil-rich land.
Sean Penn, Michael Moore and Jay Z may cheer a Maduro "victory," but the Obama administration should do better and join the rest of us.
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In this session we will look at the features which are provided with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and 2014 as part of the "AlwaysOn" features including site to site configurations to allow of a large scale high availability solution without the need for any high end SAN storage solution.
Additionally we will be looking at the ability to have redundant servers which can be used for reporting or for taking your backups reducing the load from the production database. We will also look a unique use case using SQL Server 2012's Always On feature to scale out the reads to synchronous read only copies.
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There is a breadth of knowledge in the SQL Community that will benefit everyone in the community.
We want to spread that knowledge.
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It's easy to spot the trends just by dropping into a couple of your favorite stores, some you like and some maybe not so much. I've picked out the 3 trends that I believe work the best with the most complexion and figure types: B&W, Pastel, and Lipstick Red.
Black & White
This season, black and white goes bold. These two opposites make the perfect fashion statement.
1. Goodnight Macaron Monochrome Plaid Car Coat
2. Kate Spade Shore Road Laurel
3. Ann Taylor City Stripe Dress (styled here)
4. Ann Taylor Contrast Perfect Stretch Cotton Sleeveless Shirt
5. Kate Spade Lilia Heels
Pastels & Bows
Pastels give off a feminine and romantic vibe to any outfit, but with bow, it's the epitome of elegance and class.
1. Banana Republic Heritage Leopard Jacquard Fit-and-Flare Dress
2. Zara Straight Cut Coat
3. Kate Spade Terra Skirt
4. Kate Spade Skinny Pyramid Bow Belt
5. Kate Spade Lilia Heels
6. Ann Taylor Ombre Yarn Die Stripe Scarf
7. Aritzia Wilfred Deesse Skirt (similar here, styled here)
8. Kate Spade Photo Finish Francis
9. Loft Anorak Jacket (similar here, styled here, and here) & Loft Seamed Flounce Skirt (similar here, styled here)
Lipstick Red
Bright, hot, eye-catching lipstick red is in for the season. I've avoided red all my life, but I'm willing to give that Zara red Gathered Shoulder Blazer a try (Did you know Duchess of Cambridge also sported Zara's red blazer with gathered shoulders? See here)
1. Kate Spade Charles Street Audrey
2. Kate Spade Angelika Dress
3. Zara Blazer with Gathered Shoulders
4. Zara Flared Skirt (styled here)
5. J.Crew Skinny Belt
6. Kate Spade Racer Flats
If you were equally intrigued with that last flat like I was, there's even a GO taxi flats. Imagine that.
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The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied that it is sitting on up to £1.5 billion worth of unused IPv4 addresses, claiming that the majority are being used internally.
Earlier this week, the RIPE NCC, which allocates IP addresses in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, opened up its last block of IPv4 addresses, signalling a new milestone in the Internet's transition to a new address scheme, IPv6.
"It's the end of an era, and also the beginning of the next stage in Internet history," said Axel Pawlik, managing director at RIPE NCC.
However, coder and blogger John Graham-Cunning discovered that the DWP had control of an /8 block of IPv4 addresses – equating to roughly 16.8 million individual addresses – that he suggested was "completely unused".
The /8 block could be worth between $500 million and $1.5 billion, he argued in a blog post, based on a US company's recent attempt to sell a /8 through a broker called Addrex.
According to a DWP spokesman, however, the vast majority of these IP addresses have been allocated within the department, adding that "there is no legitimate way for organisations with public IP address allocations to sell or trade those allocations on the open market".
He pointed to a December 2011 response to a Freedom of Information request, in which the DWP said that approximately 80% of the address space had been allocated, and that the remaining space had been earmarked for use within the Public Services Network (PSN).
"DWP are aware that the worldwide IPv4 address space is almost exhausted, but knows that in the short to medium term there are mechanisms available to ISPs that will allow continued expansion of the Internet, and believes that in the long term a transition to IPv6 will resolve address exhaustion," it said.
"Note that even if DWP were able to release their address space, this would only delay IPv4 address exhaustion by a number of months."
In spite of the protests, however, an e-petition has been launched demanding that the DWP sell its block IPv4 addresses to help alleviate the shortage and reduce the government deficit.
The petition suggests that if the addresses are being used for internal private networks then this is a "phenomenal waste of public funds," as a separate /8 block has been specifically earmarked for this purpose, and "using the globally routed 126.96.36.199/8 internally is madness".
The petition had 1,109 signatures at the time of writing.
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert has announced via Twitter that he will be tabling a question about the DWP's use of this block of addresses.


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Learn About 'Growing Up Gay' on The DUI Joe Show this Thursday, Feb. 7
A brand new DUI Joe Show will air on our sister site SoKing Internet Radio this Thursday, Feb. 7, and will feature a compelling interview with Andy Thinks, who will talk about "growing up gay."
"Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 24 and accounts for 12.2% of the deaths every year in that age group," DUI Joe told us. "Lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as their straight peers. Tune in to the DUIJOE Show on Thursday, February 7th, when Joe will be interviewing Andy Thinks about 'growing up gay.'"
This is a fast-paced, informative, locally-produced talk show that runs 10 minutes and airs six times every Thursday at Midnight, 4 a.m., 8 a.m. and again at Noon, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
If you're not familiar with him, "DUI Joe" is actually Joe Breidenbach, a Burien-based attorney who knows how to talk and how to listen and that's why he's got his own talk show.
To tune into SoKing Internet Radio, click here.
Following are some testimonials from actual listeners:
Joe: Before your scheduled show I turned on the "station". They were playing dream music with psychedelic accompaniment on the screen. I fell asleep at the desk and missed your show. OK, better luck next week.
– Tom in Burien, WA
Wonderful voice, and very interesting talk….loved it!!!!!!!!!!
– Connie in Federal Way, WA
Good show. We went to CamillePatha.com and looked at her work. Interesting show, Interesting paintings.
– Ron in Temecula, CA
Don: Addictive. Interesting contrast on a great artist today. Syndication?
– Jeffrey in Lynnwood, WA
Joe — you are one of the most engaging interviewers I've ever heard. You're a natural! I'm referring, of course, to your internet radio show. I just heard it for the first time and I loved it. Your guest was terrific and interesting, and you had such an upbeat and interested style of questioning. I particularly loved the bleeps! Such fun. Will try to remember to make this a regular noontime stop on Thurs. Best wishes,
– Ann in Kent, WA


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Checking in on… the SouthlandPosted by Brian Goodman on December 4th, 2010
A Look Back
- Off to Greener Pastures: The University of Texas-San Antonio and Texas State were offered and accepted membership on Nov. 11, 2010 into the Western Athletic Conference beginning in 2012.
- Suprise addition: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi received news before the season that guard Garland Judkins would be eligible to play this season. The 6'4 junior left Arizona in January, but was granted a hardship waiver by the NCAA after his father's death. Judkins is averaging 6.4 points per game.
- Top This Schedule: Southland Conference men's basketball teams have played a murderous schedule thus far. Opponents to date include: Houston, LSU (twice), Washington, Oregon State, Texas A&M (twice), Oklahoma State (twice), Memphis, UNLV, Texas Tech, Kansas, Texas (twice), Miami and Indiana.
- Players of the Week: Anatoly Bose, Nicholls State – The senior from Sydney, Australia, averaged 29 points in four games to grab Week 1 honors. His performances included a 28-point performance against LSU and a 37-point outburst against Oklahoma State (twice). Bose nailed five 3-pointers against OSU, which is one short of his career best.
- Sam Houston State senior Gilberto Clavell earned Week 2 honors by posting a season-high 29 points to lead the Bearkats past Colorado State 92-81.
Power Rankings
- Sam Houston State (4-1) – Last year's SLC representative in the NCAA Tournament hasn't done much to hurt its reputation, but doesn't exactly look like world beaters either. SHSU came back from a big halftime deficit to blast Colorado State, but looked terrible in a 34-point loss to Texas. Until the Bearkats fall off the wagon and lose a couple of games, it's likely they will stay atop the power rankings. Gilberto Clavell is still a monster down low, averaging 19 points and eight rebounds.
- Stephen F. Austin (4-2) – The Lumberjacks are right on SHSU's heels, especially after giving Texas A&M all it could handle this week in a 62-53 loss. Both Jereal Scott and Jordan Glynn lead SFA in scoring at 13.8 PPG, while Denzel Barnes is doing a nice job running the team. The Jacks will need senior guard Eddie Williams to step up his play as he is averaging 6.5 points this year compared to 13.3 last year.
- Nicholls State (3-2) – The Colonels have played a tough schedule thus far and have done well against the big boys. Anatoly Bose, arguably the league's best player, is averaging 27.4 points and hit for 28 in a 62-53 win over LSU. NSU's two losses have come at the hands of Oklahoma State and Houston.
- Southeastern Louisiana (4-1) – The Lions lost post Patrick Sullivan to the NBA D-League, but senior guard Trent Hutchin has helped ease that loss by averaging 20.7 ppg. SELA's non-conference schedule thus far leaves a little to be desired, but they have won the games they were supposed to win.
- Northwestern State (5-3) – Just like most of the other top teams in the conference, the Demons have lost to the top teams in the country and taken wins from schools in lower classifications. Both Will Pratt (19.1) and Devon Baker (15.9) have pushed their scoring averages up from a year ago. Freshman guard Gary Stewart has been a nice surprise as NW State's third-leading scorer.
- UTSA (4-2) – The Roadrunners have two veterans and one newcomer who look like they'll carry the load this year. Senior Devin Gibson (16 PPG), sophomore Melvin Johnson III (14.7) and true freshman Jeromie Hill (14.2) have paced UTSA so far. The Roadrunners have traveled far and wide to collect their two losses – on the road to Evansville and UC-Riverside.
- UT-Arlington (5-2) – Despite a nice non-conference record, the Mavericks have played a poor schedule. They have four wins over NAIA schools and have losses to Oregon State and North Texas. LaMarcus Reed II has pushed his scoring average up almost nine points from a year ago to 17 PPG. The Mavericks are a young team with only one senior and four juniors on the roster.
- Lamar (4-3) – It may take some time for the Cardinals to mesh as they have 11 new players on the roster, including seven JuCo transfers. Lamar has played four of its seven games on the road and played #19 Texas tough before bowing by 21 points. Senior Kendrick Harris leads the team with 12.4 points per game.
- Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3-5) – The Islanders have played one of the toughest schedules in the conference to date, including three teams from the Big 12. Senior forward Demond Watt has been a monster on the glass with four double-figure games to go with 16.7 points a game. TAMU-CC will have to get more production from 6'9 senior forward Justin Reynolds (8.6 PPG, 6.3 RPG) if they want to make a push when conference play begins.
- McNeese State (3-3) – The Cowboys' top two scorers (Diego Kapelan and Patrick Richard) from a year ago return and they will have to keep producing for any hope of a winning season. MSU came back from a 43-25 halftime deficit to defeat Louisiana-Lafayette on December 1, and Cowboy fans hope that comeback will be a sign of things to come.
- Texas State (2-3) – Prognosticators picked Texas State to be one of the surprise teams in the SLC this year, but an influx of transfers haven't jelled yet. The Bobcats have played only one game on the road, and lost by one point at home to NAIA school Our Lady of the Lake. While senior Tony Bishop has been a nice surprise by improving his scoring by seven points a game and rebounding by six per game, preseason all-SLC pick Cameron Johnson is down in scoring and rebounding.
- Central Arkansas (2-4) – Two wins over NAIA schools and two fairly close losses to SMU and Oklahoma State won't get the Bears out of the power rankings cellar. Imad Qahwash has become the go-to guy (13.7 PPG) despite only averaging six points last year, but the biggest surprise has been Chris Henson's 12.5 points so far versus 1.5 last season.
A Look Ahead
- The next two weeks will be more of the same for SLC teams as they will face Marquette, Wichita State, Mississippi State, Texas, LSU, Missouri and Vanderbilt.
- Conference play begins in just more than a month on January 8, and in the meantime, several Southland Conference schools will try to get freshmen and JuCo transfers on the same page as the veterans on their teams.


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Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Browse Artworks in this section »
Number of objects: more than 1,100
Historical range: 5,000 B.C.E.–651
View collection highlights »
The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an abundance of natural resources, the people of this region developed metalworking and pottery-making to a level of sophistication unknown elsewhere at the time. Few museums of Asian art boast a collection of Near Eastern Art as rich as that of the Freer and Sackler galleries. The objects in this collection span several thousand years, from 5,000 B.C.E. to the advent of Islam in 651.
Highlights of the collection include:
- A large collection of ancient Iranian ceramic vessels and sculptures ranging in date from around 5,000 B.C.E. through the Parthian period (around 140 B.C.E.–224 C.E.)
- Over 200 seals dating from 2500 B.C.E.–651, representing a variety of shapes, materials, periods, and designs
- Small collections of ancient Iranian bronze vessels and horse trappings, dating mostly from around 2,000–600 B.C.E.
- An important collection of elaborately decorated silver vessels made in present-day Iran and Afghanistan during the Sasanian period (224–651 C.E.)


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The range of flute will be showcased by Gabe Southard during the Hope College Faculty Recital on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The recital will begin with "Sonata for Flute and Piano," by Amy Beach, with pianist Andrew Le accompanying Southard. The work will be followed by "Black Anemones" and "Soaring," by Joseph Schwantner; "Fantasia in d minor," by Phillip Telemann; and "Sonata for Flute and Piano," by Lowell Liebermann.
Robert "Gabe" Southard is currently Hope's director of bands and part of the Music Education Consortium. Southard recently completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting at MichiganStateUniversity, where he worked with Professor John Whitwell. Prior to his residence at MSU, he served as Wind Symphony conductor and Flute Studio teacher at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he also taught Orchestration, Music Appreciation, and Advanced Conducting.
While living in Cincinnati, Ohio, Southard served as conductor of the Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble from 1999 to 2002. Under his direction, CYWE toured England and Scotland, taking first place at the Bournemouth International Musicmakers Festival, completed a CD of the works of Mark Camphouse, and was invited to perform at the Ohio Music Educators Regional Conference.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus on the former 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues.


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Riverstone Square Dome Tent
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Riverstone 2 person square dome tent is great for camping.
*Size 7' x 5' x 48in. high
*Sleeps 2 persons with room for gear
*Heavy duty taffeta walls and rainfly are polyurethane coated
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*3/4 length front awning rainfly for added protection
*Two pole pin and ring frame system with shock corded poles
*Durable speed clips secure tent to frame
*No-see-um mesh side panels provide superior ventilation
*Gear loft and side pockets for storage
*Complete with stakes and storage bag
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Drought Unchanged in South Dakota; Conditions Improve in North Dakota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Drought conditions have not changed in South Dakota over the week, with all of the state in some form of drought and more than half in the two worst categories.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that extreme or exception drought continues to cover most of the southern half of South Dakota.
North Dakota still has no areas in those categories, and only about three-fourths of the state is now in some form of drought. That is down from 90 percent last week. About 30 percent of the state remains in severe drought.
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Each designer is showing off a project that will make you eager to go play in this beautiful "Spring Picnic" weather.
Here is a little project Pumpkin and I made for her classmates.
The Bunnies are on one side and the Carrots are on the other!
Simple and Sweet! My favorite!
Happy Easter Everyone!
Be sure to visit each of their blogs and leave them some love via comments.
Then come back the PumpkinSpiceBlog to post a project of your own showing off your own project to earn a chance at winning the May Kit!
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Short Sleeve Pocket Tee
A great basic tee with the same comfy fit as our bodysuits, with an envelope neckline making it easy to pull over baby's head. Made from soft organic cotton, this is a perfect layer all year round. Features a drop hem at the back and a pocket for a little extra style when worn on its own.
To minimise shrinkage, this fabric has been pre-washed at our GOTS certified factory.
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Apple repeatedly announced that any attempt to unlock the iPhone SIM or to install Third Party Apps would void the Apple warranty. This assertion was false as a matter of federal law, and was known by Apple to be false when made.
Post on BoingBoing
Full text of lawsuit
It's important to realize that bricking a user's box means vandalizing their property.
When confronted with the question of what remedy iPhone purchasers had for disabled iPhones, an Apple spokesman was quoted as saying "they can buy a new iPhone." However, Plaintiffs and the Class also have the remedies provided by the law of California and federal law, and have brought this action to obtain them.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Righteous Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple
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Black Cigarette Ankle Jeans
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Look LK231035 Fabric 33% COTTON, 9% POLY, 1% SPAN, 15% RAYON, 42% LYO About Designer Since Just USA was founded in 1985, they have been innovative in the use of stretch denim. Year after year, their craftsmanship and designs have helped them remain at the top of the industry. They want their customers to look and feel fabulous when wearing a pair of their jeans. This is accomplished through their amazing design team and the use of the finest quality fabrics. This has been their recipe for success at JUST USA. Their new exclusive JUST BLACK stays true to their culture but also takes it to the next level. Not only does their girl become more bold and radiant, she becomes a superstar! JUST BLACK bridges the gap between comfort and fashion, classic and trendy.
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Trick or Treat Yo' Self - Print
These prints designed by us at Sincerely Us. They are the perfect option to put into your own frames.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
The most commented post here!
The idea of doing this contest came from Uber Afilliate.It has a similar contest where the post has a freaking 1067 comments and where one comment is longer than my entire blog posts put together!
So the contest here is very simple.The commenter with maximum comments on this post wins.The prize is 100 EC.
The comment has to be minimum 5 words long.
The contest ends on 20th October).Comments on other posts does not count(However I have a surprize for the regular commenters.)
Since the competition is few it might well be easy to win.
I also have a post coming up featuring the importance and the joy of commenting if you are a blogger.Till then...
Happy Navaratri!! and Happy 100 EC's!!
11 comments:
- bhawana kapoor said...
yeah but what do I comment about?
Does this count :) hehehe
- October 6, 2008 at 11:53 PM
- Vivek Barun said...
first,I was expecting your review about the new look of my blog!
But still you've got one.
Comment any thing!
You could write...blah blah blah blah blah
That also counts!
- October 6, 2008 at 11:58 PM
- bhawana kapoor said...
oh ..you have a big heart...still I would suggest, make your blog more popular and then give away ECs.
Your earlier template was CLASSY.
This one is cute and charming, so its great so both are on the same lines..
Love the leaves, VM and font of your header :)
I totally was smitten by your write up on Naiharwaah.
Remind me of beautiful things like that and I am Happy :)))
And somehow I really don't prefer watching videos on your blog..
I mean give me your opinion and thoughts, and stuff on practical knowledge and news from your perspective.
The recent comments section , seems like its just cluttering the space.
Ditto with top commentors.
Very neat blog is neat, now give me some content
Jai Gurudev,
I would still say save the ECs for later
- October 7, 2008 at 11:59 PM
eh.. i am working (for a long time now) to do a YES!+ chennai website!
Please mail me the tools(if software or articles) you used to read through stuff about html and template design!
please visit:
[the template is designed by some one i just put in features thats it!]
- October 9, 2008 at 8:24 PM
- Anand Jage said...
Oh my God where did u unearth this template from and how do you get this post comment form right on the same page???
- October 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- Anand Jage said...
I was in bangalore for a week 5 days or so.. a delay in commenting.. i liked your bookmarks n each post.. i wanted the same but was too bored then to modify the images..
Excellet dude keep it up..
- October 10, 2008 at 10:39 PM
- Anand Jage said...
Hey u know i convinced Ruchi to design graphics for my blogs.. she is roopals co-worker .. Roopal designed Bau's blog.. i am so excited..
- October 10, 2008 at 10:51 PM
- Anand Jage said...
I dont have photoshop but for blogging i got better solution.. RUCHI! BTW sorry for my sad english.. co-worker???? i mean roopals collegue
- October 10, 2008 at 10:55 PM
- Anand Jage said...
Vivek you can do something to your header.. i mean at the right end..
- October 10, 2008 at 10:56 PM
- Anand Jage said...
You can google small feed icon image and use it instaed..
- October 10, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- Vivek Barun said...
thanks anand
- October 11, 2008 at 5:05 PM


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It's All About Controllers
As I brought the details of implementing UI controls into sharp focus, I discovered that while I'd be still have the app add the views to a window, there was an intermediary involved: a
UIViewController object. This object, known as a view controller, supports the OOP-based model-view-controller (MVC) scheme used by iPhone apps. In this program design, a model object manages the app's data and implements its custom logic, while the view displays the model's data. The controller acts as an intermediary that manages user interactions detected by the view, and has the model respond to them, either by editing or updating its data content. In addition, the controller then has the view refresh its content with the model's revised data. MVC keeps the app's unique data and behaviors within the model object and separate from the view assigned to display its data. Can you say encapsulation?
My planned app had only one screen where the spaceship would appear, plus a help screen. This arrangement could be neatly managed by a single instance of the generic
UIViewController class, which would implement the physics model and jump to the help screen and back. While it's possible to implement all of the app's logic within a view object or in other ways, I found it better to follow the MVC design pattern that the Cocoa Touch frameworks support.
Unlike the
UIApplication class that requires you edit a delegate object, the
UIView and
UIViewController classes can be sub-classed so that you can extend their behavior with custom code. The custom code in the view controller would receive touch events from the view representing a virtual control pad, and convert them to commands that would affect the physics of the spacehip. The controller would then update the position and appearance of the subview displaying the spaceship. To recap the program design, both the control pad and spaceship would be subviews within the background view. This view in turn would be attached to the mother-of-all views, the window object. The program's design was coming together.
Apple's XCode development tools, as mentioned previously, provide ready-to-use iPhone application templates to help get you started. I launched XCode, and in its New Project dialog, chose the Cocoa Touch frameworks, and then chose an app template that was window-based. This I named
SpaceAppDelegate. While there were templates that generated a view-based app template, I wanted to add the view controller and view classes as I went.
Next, I added a view controller class. This was just a matter of selecting New File in XCode, followed by choosing the
UIViewController class from the dialog. I named my view controller
SpaceViewController. XCode generates the basic header file and method file for the class. The latter has stub routines for some of the class methods, allowing you the opportunity to add custom code.
The first thing the view controller would do is generate a view that covered the app's window and display an image of a star field as a background. Since the background was a static image, I decided that storing the view and its image in a nib file would be a good idea. It was, but getting a properly made nib file that didn't crash the app (the phone itself wasn't affected) was a major problem until I sorted things out.
Interface Building
To make nib files for your app's visual interface, you use the appropriately named Interface Builder program, often just called "IB". It provides a number of preconfigured objects such as
UIImageViews (that display images), scrolling views, buttons, sliders, and other visual controls. You drag and drop these objects from IB's library window onto a mockup of the view to assemble the app's UI. IB thus allows you to design the visual elements of the app's UI without worrying about its underlying code. This fits nicely into the MVC design pattern, as IB keeps most of the UI elements uncoupled from the app code.
However, IB does much more than assemble an app's UI. The visual elements that you place into a view's layout become full-blown objects when they are loaded. (Apple characterizes the information stored in the nib file as "freeze-dried objects".) Put another way, the XML generated by IB that describes the object and its properties can be reconstituted at run time into actual UIKit objects. For example, that button you place in a view becomes a UIButton object that can detect a touch event on it. Furthermore, it responds by highlighting itself no action on the part of the programmer is required. More important, the button object can send one of many pre-defined messages to the application. In short, when you use IB to put together the app's UI, you are not only constructing its visual interface, but also its underlying event and messaging apparatus that communicates with the program.
IB lets you route the messages generated by these UI elements to specific destinations, which in my case are methods in
SpaceViewController. This is accomplished by clicking and dragging a link representing a message generated by the UI object to the name of a method in the receiving object. For example, for the view representing a button, you Control-click on it, and a menu of possible messages that can be generated in response to the action appear. You next click on the desired message link and drag it to the File's Owner icon, which represents the view controller receiving the messages; see Figure 3. A pop-up menu of methods appears, and when you select one, it appears in the Connections browser window. The visual metaphor used to match UI messages to methods is a powerful one, and makes coupling the UI's actions to specific program responses easy to do. Having said that, IB's assignments aren't foolproof or bulletproof. Mistakes can be made, and I made a good one at the outset.
I started my foray into nib files by launching IB, and in the New File dialog selected a view, and named it
SpaceView. I made it the size of the iPhone screen (320 x 480 pixels). From the library window, I dragged a
UIImageView onto the view, and made it the same size. From the object inspector, I assigned
UIImageView's content to be an image of the Horsehead Nebula that I had trimmed to the screen dimensions and saved in a file named Backdrop.png. With the view thus set up, the existing stub code in the view controller should be sufficient to load the nib and display the nebula image in the iPhone simulator. Displaying the image would make for a good initial test.
No such luck. My trial app died a horrible death, usually with an uncaught exception.
It took me a while to track down the culprit. In IB, if you botch specifying the object that a view sends its messages to, bad things happen. That's because Objective-C's message-forwarding and delegation mechanism builds the links between objects and methods at run time. Therefore, if you fail to specify say, a view controller as the message recipient, the result is that the iPhone OS loads a view with broken links. When the view attempts to pass messages to the view controller, they go spinning into oblivion, carrying your app with them.
The gotcha is in how IB sets the destination object for the view's messages. IB uses a placeholder object, called the File's Owner, to represent the destination object. You've met this object already, and can see it in the IB document window for SpaceView in Figure 3. Put another way, the File's Owner information designates the object that "owns" the interface, which means that it is the message recipient. Stated another way, the owner is the instance of the class that loads the nib. For my program, that would be
SpaceViewController. Granting ownership isn't accomplished by pointing and clicking in IB as was the case with the other assignments. This is done by typing the class name into IB's Identity Inspector. I had overlooked doing this. Once I entered the class name and rebuilt the project, the background image of the nebula appeared in the iPhone simulator. I was one step closer to my goal. For more information on IB's pitfalls and how to have problem free interface construction work, see the sidebar, "IB Tricks and Traps".
IB Tricks and Traps
Interface Builder (IB) is valuable for visually constructing an iPhone's UI and choosing the messages that it generates. However, like any software tool, mistakes in construction can result in the app crashing. The UI objects, their attributes, and message assignments are buried in either in .xib file (a text file consisting of dense XML that's generated for development purposes) or binary format (a .nib file that's generated for the release version of the app). These objects are loaded where you can't study or trace them, which makes trouble-shooting difficult. Generally, if the debugger informs you that it is terminating the application due to an uncaught exception, the problem is rooted in a view not loading properly, or due to a broken link in the nib file.
However, there are a number of ways you can safeguard your efforts, which I have fashioned into rules. These rules have been derived from my own experience.
Apple has an excellent tutorial on building a nib file from scratch (see "Your First iPhone Application") that covers Rules 1 and 2. However, it doesn't stress sufficiently that failing to observe these procedures is going to cause you grief.


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My interest in weather goes back to my early childhood but peaked during the Fort Smith/Van Buren tornado of April 21, 1996. As I watched the severe weather coverage from Channel 5 that night, I knew then I wanted to be a meteorologist and work at 5NEWS.
One of my most memorable weather experiences was storm chasing in the Mississippi Delta in the Spring of 2010 and witnessing the destructive Yazoo City, MS tornado. It was a humbling experience to see the destruction left in its wake and it reinforced my desire to keep people safe from these tragic events by being a better severe weather forecaster.
Outside of work I enjoy hiking, watching college football, hanging out with my family and playing the drums in my local church.
I graduated from the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville in 2005 with a degree in Marketing, and recently from Mississippi State University.


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Author Notes: There are some southern foods, like biscuits and corn pudding, that have gained such a heightened perfection in our minds that we shy away from them in the kitchen. Fried green tomatoes are like that. We know how we've been taught to like them – edges crisp and gritty with cornmeal, and tangy succulent bellies – and if we don't know how to achieve this, then why make them at all?
So I confess. As a Yankee, I threw caution to the wind and bastardized the hell out of my green tomatoes. Instead of a flour or cornmeal coating, I went for a jagged cloak of panko and Parmesan, which crisped beautifully and tasted deliciously of toasted, nutty cheese. Although I did follow one Southern trick, learned from Beans, Greens, Sweet Georgia Peaches – to not only salt the tomatoes in advance, but also sugar them, too. Half an hour before cooking, you add this seasoning combo, which draws out some of the moisture and also balances the tart sting of a green tomato with a nod of sweetness. One last cheat: I turned to my non-stick pan over my cast-iron. I didn't want even a crumb of the crust to be left attached to the pan and not in my mouth. —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 6
medium green tomatoes, cored and cut into ¼-inch-thick slices
large eggs, lightly beaten
cup panko
cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, plus more for serving
tablespoons olive oil, plus more if needed
tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more if needed
Freshly ground black pepper
- Lay the tomato slices on a baking sheet and sprinkle generously (like you're seasoning a steak) with both salt and sugar. Turn over the slices and season the other sides. Let sit for 30 minutes.
- Have a large non-stick sauté pan on the stove. Add the beaten egg to a wide shallow bowl. Combine the panko and Parmesan in another wide shallow bowl. Set them near the stove. Lay the tomato slices on paper towel, top with another layer of paper towel and press on the tomatoes to dry them well. Season the slices again with a little salt. Working one at a time, dip the tomatoes in egg, then the panko-Parmesan mixture. Really press and pat the panko into the tomatoes. Set the tomatoes on a clean baking sheet.
- Heat the sauté pan over medium-high heat, and add the olive oil and butter. When the foam subsides, add the tomatoes, enough to cover the base of the pan in a single layer. Let them be for a few minutes and when you see browning on the egde, check the tomatoes. You want a nut brown crust. Turn them and brown the other side. Keep working in batches, adding more oil and butter to the pan as needed, and transfer the tomatoes to a warm serving platter. Grind (coarsely!) fresh pepper on top, sprinkle with extra cheese, and serve!
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A wedding is an emotional affair — a celebration of love and commitment that's bound to leave anyone in tears.
Couples get the chance to tell their partner and everyone they love just how they feel.
There is love, ecstasy, excitement, and even relief.
But for 24-year-old bride Katie Musser, there was also gratitude. On the day she said "I do," she not only became a wife but a mother as well.
Her groom, Jeremy, has a 4-year-old son named Landon. He was present at the altar with the couple, and Katie decided to address the little boy directly.
She read him her vows as her husband cried.
She promised to love him and be there for him and to be the best possible mom she can be.
Then, she addressed Landon's mother, Casey, as well as her husband, thanking them for allowing her to be a part of the child's life. After all, it hadn't always been a rosy relationship. Animosity existed between Katie and Casey for a time, but eventually, they both realized they needed to change for Landon.
Katie declared, "I promise to be an amazing mother to your son. I will guide, teach, and love him every single day."
Her speech was so touching — Jeremy could barely contain his tears. There wasn't a dry eye in the room!
Please SHARE if you know that Landon is loved by all of his parents and that he will grow up in such a loving household!
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text: Not sure there has ever been a more appropriately named celebrity than Megan Fox whose dark hair, striking blue eyes, perfectly arched eyebrows, bodacious bod, saucy mouth and experimentation with bisexuality (with a stripper named Nikita no less!) earned her FHM's 2008 Sexiest Woman In The World title. However she had a much less risqué introduction to Hollywood after winning several awards in the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention. He same year she made her debut in a straight-to-DVD Olsen Twins film called Holiday In The Sun. Her next few jobs, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen and ABC's three-season sitcom Hope & Faith, kept it family friendly. It was on that show that she met 90210 heartthrob Brian Austin Green, who dated from 2004-2006, got tattoos of each other's names, got engaged in 2006, un-engaged in 2009, re-engaged and married in June 2010 and had a son Noah join the family in September 2012. (She is also stepmom to Green's first son, Kassius Lijah, son of Vanessa Marcil). She shot to global fame in 2007 playing Shia LaBeouf's scantily-clad girlfriend in the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which grossed $700 million worldwide. She appeared in the 2009 sequel, which was also a monster hit. Unfortunately, she followed it up with the failed girl-gore genre offering, Jennifer's Body, the failed sci-fi cowboy crud Jonah Hex and by leaving the Transformers franchise before the third installment filmed.


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Aurora Essentials
The Rob-Win Story
How can we create even more value for our funeral home clients?
Aurora posed this question to Bob Nobles, a funeral service veteran, when trying to determine whether Aurora should participate in the vast memorial stationery industry.
"The first product that guests come in contact with at a funeral home is a register book," Nobles said. "Many guests also leave with a prayer card or memorial folder. It's often the one artifact they have to remember their loved one or friend. Stationery is an important part of the funeral." It appeared that memorial stationery was a natural extension of Aurora's commitment to creating an honorable closure to every life, and in late 2011 Aurora acquired Rob-Win press in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Rob-Win Press has been printing funeral stationery since it was founded as J.R. Fuehrer Advertising in 1938. Thomas (Robin) Cook and Edwin Jarvis purchased and renamed the company in 1977 and have built it into one of the leading suppliers of funeral stationery.
"Rob-Win has always been known for our quality, innovation and service," said Robin Cook. "All we needed was broader distribution. By combining our products with Aurora's distribution network, we can reach more funeral homes than any other stationery provider today."
A special line of stationery, Aurora Essentials, will be the cornerstone of Aurora's stationery offerings. Aurora Essentials will bring a turnkey system of stationery merchandising to the market for the first time. Funeral homes with effective merchandising and high quality products can see a real improvement in family satisfaction, an integral part of Aurora's vision of creating an honorable closure to every life.
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614: The HBI eZine
First we came up with the premise. We wanted to create an online magazine that would offer an opportunity to explore what Jewish experts, authors and scholars are discussing around the world. This could be anything from which books every Jewish woman should read, to whether feminism is different in Israel than in the U.S., to what the future holds for Jewish women in various countries. Rather than providing lengthy tomes, we wanted to provide short intriguing essays from various perspectives, and offer ways to learn more when possible. In short, we aspired to create a non-intimidating world of learning that would get Jewish women talking.
In Judaism, there are 613 mitzvot — commandments we Jews are all intended to follow. Some Jews feel these commandments, compiled by Maimonides, must be followed because they come directly from God; others suggest they are simply reasonable acts of justice and compassion intended to help us reach our best, most ethical selves. Either way, it's an extremely comprehensive list, including everything from eating matzah on Passover and lighting Sabbath candles to giving money to charity and not bearing a grudge.
The idea of 614 is not that there is one commandment missing. Rather it is about the idea there is always room for innovation and exploration. At a complicated time when women are donating eggs, animals are being cloned and Hollywood equates beauty with emaciation, we must continue to probe, explore our values and talk to one another. Hey, we Jews have an incredibly long history of doing this. So why not continue to look at the ideas that impact all of us in one central place?
Our idea was not entirely original. Jewish philosopher and Holocaust survivor Emil Fackenheim (1916-2003) had the idea of adding a specific 614th mitzvah: the preservation of the Jewish people. This ezine strived to add to the health (and preservation) of our people by making modern Jewish women feel more energized, knowledgeable and excited about our Jewish identity.
That is what 614 was all about.


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Blues top Oilers for sixth straight winby Derek Van Diest
EDMONTON -- The St. Louis Blues had a lot on their minds heading into their game against the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night at Rexall Place. But amid all the hype surrounding Olympic team selections, they were still able to focus enough attention on the task at hand.
Maxim Lapierre, David Backes and Vladimir Tarasenko scored second-period goals, and Brian Elliott made 16 saves to lead the Blues to 5-2 win. Chris Stewart scored in the first, and Patrik Berglund added an empty-netter late in the third.
"We didn't play well [Tuesday]," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. "I think it had to do with a lot of the drama that goes on [Tuesday with the Olympic roster announcements]. It really affected our players. We didn't have the focus that we have had, and we will need to get it back on this road trip. I think the drama with all of the Olympic stuff, you could tell it was draining on people."
The Blues have 10 players who will represent their countries at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, most in the NHL. In addition, Hitchcock is an assistant coach and general manager Doug Armstrong is on the management team for Canada.
"It wasn't a picture-perfect win," Backes said. "They played us pretty hard for the first half of the game before we got a power-play goal that allowed us to lock down the hatches after that. [Elliott] made some big saves when he had to on shorthanded chances. If he hadn't stopped [Ryan Nugent-Hopkins] on a breakaway, the game could have gone another way."
Nail Yakupov and Mark Arcobello scored for the Oilers, who got 25 saves from goalie Ilya Bryzgalov.
Stewart opened the scoring on the power play at 12:46 of the first on a long shot from the point that found its way through Bryzgalov.
Moments earlier, the Blues right wing, who has 14 goals, had skated around three Oilers defenders and got off a shot from in tight. Bryzgalov turned away the shot, but the puck found its way back to Stewart as he was circling back to the blue line, and he fired a shot through traffic past the Oilers goalie.
The Blues outshot the Oilers 14-7 in the opening period.
"I didn't love our start," Oilers coach Dallas Eakins said. "I thought we were watching them play, especially in our own zone. We weren't initiating contact. Finally, we figured that out and got it going, and we ended up with some offensive-zone time.
"I thought we were playing with them. I know they had the upper hand in shots, but I thought that came from their power plays and our lack of. But then the game fell away. It's hard when you have [Jay Bouwmeester] and [Alex Pietrangelo] out there half the game. I thought once they got the lead, it was extremely hard to get anything to their net. I thought we had a couple of chances late maybe to do something with it, but we just couldn't get it in there. That's a good hockey team."
Yakupov tied the game at 1:36 of the second, taking a pass from David Perron following a turnover at the St. Louis blue line and snapping a shot through Elliott's pads.
Less than a minute into the period, Elliott had stopped Nugent-Hopkins on a breakaway to preserve the Blues' lead.
Lapierre restored the St. Louis lead at 2:18, outmuscling Oilers defenseman Brad Hunt in the corner, taking the puck to the net and stuffing it past Bryzgalov.
One replay seemed to show the puck go in through the side of the net, but it was later confirmed the puck went in for a legitimate goal after officials checked the net for a possible hole.
"We didn't really know what happened on that goal until they stopped the game and were looking at the side of the net," Backes said. "That was the first we heard that there may be an issue. Sometimes, luck can play a part. If it went under the net, sometimes things like that can happen. If it had been a one-goal game, there may have been talks of some kind of protest, but in the end, we did enough to secure a good win."
Arcobello tied the game 2-2 at 5:10, getting to a loose puck in front of the Blues net and flipping it over Elliott.
Backes put the Blues up 3-2 at 10:56 when he scored on the power play, ripping a shot over Bryzgalov's shoulder from the top of the faceoff circle.
Tarasenko gave the Blues a two-goal lead heading into the intermission with a long-range blast of his own past Bryzgalov.
"We needed to get more pucks on net," Arcobello said. "I think we gave them too many opportunities, and they took advantage of their chances. At the same time, we didn't get enough chances and we didn't capitalize on as many as we should have.
"I thought we competed pretty hard. At certain points of the game, we got away from what was working, for whatever reason. The penalties and the penalty kill hurt us a little bit. If we take those power-play goals away from them, it's a different game."
In the third, Nugent-Hopkins came close to cutting into the lead, but his shot from the wing bounced off the post.
Late in the game, Blues right wing T.J. Oshie had to be helped off the ice after a knee-on-knee hit with Taylor Hall.
"We'll know [Wednesday]," Hitchcock said of Oshie's status.
Oshie was named to the U.S. Olympic Team last week.
"I knew he was coming. As a team, they're always going to come at you," Hall said. "When you have the puck, you know you're going to get hit. I don't know what he caught there. It didn't really feel like much."
Oilers right wing Ales Hemsky also left in the third for precautionary reasons after taking a hit from Ryan Reaves in the first period. He will be evaluated Wednesday as well.
Berglund iced the contest with an empty-net goal at 19:27.
The Oilers conclude their three-game homestand Friday when they host the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Blues continue their three-game road trip against the Calgary Flames on Thursday.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Restaurant's Assistant Manager and Cook Abused Female Employees, Federal Agency Charged
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Coley's #101 LLC, doing business as Dad's BBQ in Anniston, Ala., has agreed to pay $91,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's suit, Aretha Johnson and a class of women experienced ongoing sexual harassment and discrimination on the job from an assistant manager and a cook. The EEOC said that Johnson and the class were subjected to the frequent use of sexually explicit words, degrading sexual comments about their bodies, threats of forced sexual acts, and propositions for sex.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from subjecting employees to discrimination on the basis of sex. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (EEOC v. Coley's #101, LLC. d/b/a Dad's BBQ, Case No. 1:11-cv-03465-VEH) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to monetary relief, the company entered into a consent decree and agreed to ensure that all of its employees are trained on sexual harassment and the anti-retaliation provisions of Title VII, and managers are additionally to receive training on handling sexual harassment and how to respond to complaints. Dad's BBQ is enjoined from engaging in discrimination based on sex in the future and from retaliation. Under the terms of the decree, Dad's will be monitored by the EEOC for the term of the decree.
"Sexual harassment can have a demoralizing effect on everyone within range of it, and it often negatively impacts company productivity on the whole," said Delner Franklin-Thomas, district director of the EEOC's Birmingham District Office. "Both men and women in a workplace can find their work disrupted by sexual harassment even if they are not directly involved. So employers need to take proactive steps to prevent and promptly correct sexual harassment in their workplaces."
EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Ylda Kopka said, "All employers are responsible for following the law. Employers, no matter their size, are forewarned that they may not discriminate without consequence."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.