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THERE is a place, at the very geographic center of Europe, that is home to one of the most refined food and wine cultures in the world.
Hemingway, Joyce, D'Annunzio, Rilke and Pasolini all lived in this place, and yet it is nearly unknown in the United States, and even in much of Europe. It has been occupied by Julius Caesar (for whom it was named), the Celts, Attila the Hun, the Ottomans, Napoleon (who brought French grapes), the Hapsburgs, Yugoslavia and, ultimately, by Italy. It suffered some of the heaviest damage in Europe during two world wars. Much of it was leveled in 1976 by earthquakes. Yet, its people rise again and again, roll up their sleeves, plant food and vines, and plan for a better life.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the tiny region on the far northeast fringe of Italy where Europe's three principal cultures -- Latin, Slavic and Germanic -- converge. It is the home of a subtle cuisine that combines local products with influences that are, literally, all over the map. The land provides an outstanding array of fruit and vegetables that are eaten only in season. And the Alps offer exquisite herbs that women gather to use in soups, pastas, omelets, poultry dishes and desserts.
The region is also the birthplace of grappa, and the source of an astounding variety of wines, despite its diminutive size. The town of San Daniele has produced a sweet, delicious prosciutto for centuries that rivals Parma's.
Friulian rivers are full of trout, the forests full of mushrooms and game, the plains are planted tall with wheat, rye, hops, barley, and corn for white and yellow polenta.Continue reading the main story
Underappreciated culinary regions of Europe don't stay that way for long (just think of Provence or Emilia-Romagna), and then come the tour buses. But here, in this utterly distinct and yet diverse place, the people are careful guardians of their land and traditions. It feels as if it will stay that way for a long time.
I first went to Friuli-Venezia Giulia in May 1976 to help clean up after a series of earthquakes and found the people so warm, despite the terrible hardship they had endured, that I vowed to return. I've done so often -- I spent much of the last four years there.
Italians tend to see the region as Germanic or Slavic and not really part of their own nation, though much blood was spilled to claim it. Germans, Austrians, Slovenians, Croats and Serbs see it as some middle ground between themselves and Italy.
I quickly learned that Friuli-Venezia Giulia is deeper, more subtle and infinitely more interesting than its neighbors.
The area called Friuli (from Forum Julii, or Julius's Forum) makes up about 70 percent of the region, mostly in the south, west and north. The main city is Udine, a handsome, hard-working city of 200,000, distinctly Venetian in aspect. There are more than 100 special little towns in Friuli, like Cividale, which has superb art treasures, excellent local cooking and wonderful wine produced nearby. It is also home to gubana, a yeasty cake filled with nuts and spices and soaked with grappa or plum eau de vie.
The Friulani are fanatically industrious, and have what they call ''brick sickness'' -- an insatiable desire to build. After the 1976 earthquakes, they rebuilt whole cities.
The remaining part of the region is Venezia Giulia (Julian Venice), also named for Julius Caesar. Its citizens, known as Giuliani, resent the fact that most people call the whole region Friuli. When Friuli was a backwater, Venezia Giulia was a jewel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Venezia Giulia's largest city, Trieste, ranked just after Vienna and Budapest in importance and was the empire's chief port. Cormons is renowned within the region for fantastic food and wine.
Most people in the region speak Italian, and many speak Furlan (the native tongue that incorporates Latin, Slavic and Germanic influences), while Trieste has its own singsong dialect.
Trieste is certainly the most cosmopolitan city in Italy. Rome, Florence, Venice and Naples, for all their charms, are quite provincial. In the end, Milan is trendy and Euroglitzy. In Trieste, people with many religions and languages all live side by side and interact much in the way New Yorkers of every origin do. There is a vibrant cafe society rivaling Paris's and Vienna's, where literature is read, art displayed, and the issues of the day debated. This has always been a city of ideas, and was the first in what is now Italy to embrace Freud and psychoanalysis. In the 12 years Joyce lived in Trieste, he wrote ''Dubliners,'' ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' and part of ''Ulysses.''
Trieste is the leading coffee importing and roasting city in Europe, the home to Illy Caffe and Cremcaffe, among others. It is also a major spice port: cinnamon, nutmeg, poppy seeds, pepper and other flavors entered local cooking as they were transported to Vienna and Budapest. Paprika came from Hungary. Phyllo arrived from Greece and Turkey (and also Vienna).
Just south of Trieste is Istria, a large peninsula on the Adriatic that many Giuliani regard as an amputated limb. In 1954, most of Istria was handed over to Yugoslavia. This led to a mass migration of 350,000 Istrians (in a scene that resembled the recent exodus from Kosovo), many of whom settled in Queens and Los Angeles.
One of the most famous of them is Lidia Bastianich, who moved to New York as a child and grew up to become one of the city's leading chefs, restaurateurs and cooking teachers. The dishes at her restaurant, Felidia, are mostly from Istria and Venezia Giulia, while Friulian food can be found at Frico, which Ms. Bastianich owns with her son, Joseph. (A frico is a crisp made of Friulian Montasio cheese, and is the calling card of most restaurants around Udine.)
The people of this region, a product of so many foreign influences, are above all a product of their own land -- from the high Alps to the gorgeous hills of the wine country, from the incredibly fertile plains to a mostly pristine and fish-rich part of the Adriatic.
It is land that gives these people their identities. Not long ago, I met a 70-year-old Friulian -- a former mayor, a businessman and quite worldly, yet in love with his region. He told me, with misting eyes, ''When I go for a walk on the land and then come home, I almost feel guilty when I scrape the soles of my shoes.''
For its variety, delicacy, sophistication and sheer pleasure-giving, the cuisine of Friuli-Venezia Giulia is on the level of the cuisines in Emilia-Romagna and Liguria, Italy's finest food regions.
If one were to construct a seasonal Friulian menu, it would begin with a springtime of fresh herbs -- like mint, verbena, valerian and tarragon -- cooked in omelets, with seafood and pounded as sauces for meat. The star dish is cjarsons, an Alpine filled pasta served as a first course that contains about 40 ingredients, including a dozen herbs, cinnamon, nutmeg, chocolate, lemon and ricotta. In the plains, white asparagus is served with chopped boiled egg that has been softened with wine vinegar. Orzotto, or barley risotto, is made with fresh-picked hops. Soft pork sausage is shaped in patties and sauteed in delicate wine vinegar.
Summer means seafood, so fish stew from Grado might be featured, along with polipo alla dalmata (octopus with potatoes), cozze alla triestina (mussels in a broth made with thyme, onion, garlic, white wine, bread crumbs and parsley) and sea scallops broiled in their shells with local olive oil and thyme. Omelets will contain zucchini flowers and smoked ricotta. Gnocchi are filled with the fruit of the moment (apricots, then cherries, then plums) and are served with cinnamon, sugar and melted butter.
In autumn, delicate prosciutto di San Daniele will be served with September figs (with grated fresh horseradish at other times). After the harvest, grape skins will be used to make grappa or to ferment beets to make a dish called brovada. Vegetable soups are typical first courses, followed by venison cooked with spices or berries.
Although polenta is eaten year-round, it is the central dish of winter. Large copper pots yield slow-moving rivers of this meal, which is poured onto round wooden boards, where it hardens and is cut into sections with thread. Stews, including goulash made of equal parts beef and onion, are supporting players. When polenta cools, it can be grilled, pan-fried or served to children with cinnamon and sugar. Hearty soups, grilled pork, stewed fruit and frico all come to the table, with warming snifters of grappa.
And then there is the region's wine. With sheltering hills, generous sun, cooling sea breezes and skilled growers and winemakers, Friuli-Venezia Giulia is one of the world's great zones, although its production is quite small compared with other regions'. The Collio zone (in Venezia Giulia) and the Colli Orientali (in Friuli) are the most outstanding. Native white grapes like tocai, ribolla gialla, malvasia istriana and verduzzo make wines of distinct character. Pinot bianco, pinot grigio, chardonnay, riesling, traminer aromatico, muller thurgau and, especially, sauvignon blanc have found congenial terrain there. Often, winemakers will blend different grapes to produce wines of extraordinary structure, depth, character and finish, like Collio bianco, a blend of tocai, ribolla gialla, and sauvignon blanc.
Friulian red wine is not as well known, in part because most people associate fine Italian red wine with the Tuscany's Chianti and brunello or the Piedmontese Barbaresco and Barolo. A native Friulian red grape, pignolo, is only now being discovered abroad, and at its finest (by Walter Filiputti and Abbazia di Rosazzo, and some older Dorigo vintages) it makes a miraculous wine, with flavors of sun, earth and fruit.
Lighter native reds like refosco, schiopettino, terrano and tazzelenghe are distinctive on their own or in blends. Pinot nero, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and, especially, merlot make outstanding wines.
All of these grapes are used to make grappa. In the early 1970's, the Nonino family were the first to realize that each grape had its own properties, and rather than blend them into harsh firewater, they distilled each grape individually for a range of postprandial libations of great delicacy. With its splendid fruit, Friuli also produces some of the finest distillates of plums, peaches, pears, cherries and apricots.
Friulian winemakers have also invented another blend, fitting for a place so close to the Kosovo war, yet where Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox followers of the Greek, Serbian and Russian churches live in harmony. It is called Vino della Pace, Wine of Peace. A blend of international grapes, it is sent to world leaders as a metaphor for coexistence.
As planes return to their hangars in NATO's Aviano air base in Friuli, the people of this region, who have known too much war and have chosen peace, will be making the last Vino della Pace of the century, and will toast to the moment when enjoying the pleasures of the table and companionship will be more important than finding yet another way to cause suffering.
Finding Friuli in New York
THE food and wine of Friuli-Venezia Giulia are not easily found outside its borders, but there are places in New York City where it's possible to sample the cuisine. Its leading exponents are the restaurants owned by the Bastianich family: Felidia (243 East 58th Street, 212-758-1479) makes careful preparations of Istrian and Giulian dishes, including herb omelettes and krafi (potato-filled pasta with a light citrus sauce), while the calling card at Frico Bar (402 West 43d Street, 212-564-7272) is, of course, its frico.
The wine lists at San Domenico (240 Central Park South, 212-265-5959), I Trulli (122 East 27th Street, 212-481-7372) and Babbo (110 Waverly Place, 212-777-0303) have real depth and quality in wines from the region, especially whites.
There is a private social club in College Point, Queens, called Famee Furlane (20-10 127th Street, 718-445-4163) where regional customs are kept, the Friulian language is spoken, and Friulian food is served. It is often possible to dine there (call first). The Istria Sport Club (28-09 Astoria Boulevard, Astoria, Queens, 718-728-3181), open to the public, serves Istrian specialties.
Cremcaffe (65 Second Avenue, near Third Street, 212-674-5255) is a small bar and restaurant where one can sample Cremcaffe, a coffee that is a local favorite in Trieste. The chef there, Romano Michelus, usually features Triestine dishes as specials. The restaurant has begun to feature wines from Trieste's hinterland, including varieties like malvasia istriana and moscato istriano.
Cremcaffe also serves cappuccino triestino, which you must ask for specifically. (In Trieste it is called ''un cappo.'') This is coffee in an espresso cup with a small amount of steamed milk. You are served a dollop of whipped cream on the side, which is then stirred in gradually as you drink from the cup.
New Yorkers should remember, when ordering espresso, to ask that it be ristretto (short), so that the proportion of water to coffee is what one would find in Italy. If lemon rind finds its way onto the saucer, throw it away, and complain to the person who put it there. FRED PLOTKIN
Time: 15 minutes
Pinch of salt
1 pound tagliolini, fresh or dried
1 tablespoon sweet butter
1/2 pound San Daniele prosciutto (half in 2 thick slices, minced; half in paper-thin slices)
1/2 cup light cream
1 teaspoon poppy seeds, if desired, plus more for sprinkling
2 teaspoons freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.
1. Set a large pot (at least 6 quarts) of water to boil. Add salt, and let boil again. Cook tagliolini until slightly firm.
2. While pasta cooks, prepare sauce. Melt butter over medium heat in a saucepan or skillet big enough to hold the pasta. Add the minced prosciutto. Saute just until the ham gives off some fragrance. Add cream and poppy seeds, if you are using them. Stir well, then add cheese and stir well. Remove from heat.
3. When pasta is cooked, drain thoroughly (do not rinse) and then add to saucepan. Return pan to heat, and quickly toss noodles and sauce until well combined.
4. Serve on warm plates. Using tongs or a pasta fork, fill a teacup or bowl (6-ounce size) with pasta and then carefully turn it onto the middle of each plate so that a nest of pasta is formed. Cover each nest with a layer of prosciutto slices and then toss a few poppy seeds around the perimeter.
Yield: 4 servings.
Time: 15 minutes
12 fresh figs (green or black), peeled
1 1/3 cups Friulian merlot
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons fresh raspberries, if desired, washed.
1. Place figs in saucepan wide enough so each has room to cook without touching. Add wine, sugar and raspberries if using. Cook, covered, over medium heat for 5 minutes.
2. Using a slotted spoon, remove figs and place three on each of 4 dessert plates. Cut them in half vertically, and let cool.
3. Continue heating sauce until it boils and begins to thicken. When it forms a light syrup, pour over figs and serve.
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On a past thrifting outing at the DI (Utah Thrift Store) I found this wonderful little frame. I seriously sat for five minutes because even though I knew what I would do with it and saw it's potential, it was still $4.00. And I am CHEAP. So about five minutes later, I sighed, put it back and walked away. Then about five minutes after that I picked it back up and went to the check out before I could change my mind. A little pathetic? Maybe. But c'mon, it was $4.00, not my typical $.35.
Although the digital roses were, well, what they were, I knew the old paper HAD to go. So I ripped it and scraped it off. Well tried anyway, some was pretty cemented down, so I just gave up. I cut four coordinating colors of scrapbook paper and measured where I wanted them to go on the frame. I cut them to size then modgepodged over the old paper and frame to the size of each paper at a time. Once they were all down I modgepodged over the top and added a thin ribbon between each paper line.
So now I have a cute little 'patchwork' frame for the nursery! Super easy and *mostly* cheap. ;) What do you think? Happy Monday!


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We have a new game called Memory Matching Adventure Game - You will have two play mode to choose. Story mode is where you have finish a defined set of challenges to complete the story and help Maurice in his quest. And you have Quick Play where you can play and get the maximum score.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.(WHNT) - Local runners and their families who witnessed Monday's terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon made their way back home Tuesday. It appears no one from north Alabama was closer to the bomb blasts than the Aultman family from Walker County.
Eighteen-year-old Holly Aultman and her mother, Janell Aultman, ended up standing right between the pair of explosions on Boston's Boylston Street. The family said they ended up being less than 50 yards from the first blast on one side, with the second bomb detonating just yards away on the other. Holly was supporting her father, Phillip, who had just finished his first Boston Marathon a few minutes earlier. All three family members landed at Huntsville International Airport on Tuesday afternoon and recalled the terrifying moments.
"Cannons, they sounded like cannons," said Holly Aultman, who was relieved to be back home. "The first blast we were about 50 yards or less, and the second one we were about 25 yards or less. Everyone just started running and screaming and crying. It was chaotic. We didn't know what to do."
Many of the victims ended up being stricken just a few feet away from Holly and Janell Aultman, who were mentally shaken but physically unharmed. They said their only focus was finding Phillip, who was reunited with his wife and daughter just moments after the explosion.
"When the blast went off, the sound just sort of vibrated, echoed through those buildings," said Phillip Aultman, who believes that God protected his family. Aultman also said his first Boston Marathon would be his last.
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1)RIP MCQUEEN tee-HERE
2)cardi- thrifted
3)bag- found in my closet from god knows where
4)jeans- ZARA
5)black boots
6)scarf- american apparel
7)glasses- ray ban
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morning! continuing with my collaboration with the amazing designer, Mr. Tevin Vincent, i present you with his "RIP Alexander Mcqueen" tee which i think is a great statement piece to have if you at all respected his work and craft. It's sad he felt the need to take his own life because he had such a gift, unique and original talent. I guess this goes to show that you may have fame, money and credit but does that buy you happiness? i paired the tee with a deep red cardi that i've had forever surprisingly, to pay homage to one of Mcqueens favorite colors. I hope you all check out Tevin vincent's website!
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friday four & faves - my new online hang-outs
This Friday's Four & Faves are all about my fave online "spots" where I find myself hanging out for way too long; always of course when I need to be working. But my first fave actually makes my life so much easier albeit it is my new addiction.....
1. Pinterest. Seriously I am loving this site. It's such a great bookmarking tool and creative place where everyone creates virtual pinboards (inspiration boards). I find so much inspiration here and in turn I am encouraged to generate more ideas and fun boards for others to take away from. Thanks to the lovely Victoria at sfgirlbybay and her "pin it forward" blogger mash-up, we now have this fun, inspiring, creative meeting place and idea center to partake in. Be sure to check out all the amazing bloggers and their "pin it forward" pinboards. The schedule is here. (P.S. I'm on for June 18th!)
2. One of my new favorite blogs, "hello, splendor" is a must read. It is the modern handbook for a modern family authored by my lovely friend Beth. Great finds, raves, tips and more can be seen on this sweet blog. Check it out here.
3. And apparently I have been in a cave because although I had heard mentions of this blog and have seen it on my fave blog's blogrolls, I only recently checked it out. And thank goodness!! I love the wit and the pretty that can be read here on The Bedlam of Beefy daily. Do not wait like I did, start laughing and getting inspired right now.
4. Finally, my last stop is "Laura Day, Making Rooms for Living". This clever webazine offers amazing design insight, tips, sources, eye candy and more, one room at a time. Laura takes us through all her "rooms" and each one is definitely a special destination with pretty interiors, sage advice, and inspiration. Be sure to take some time this weekend to visit here.


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Thankfully The Good Wife managed to tolerate each other's company in the studio long enough to make an album before they split. It's sleazy noise rock stuff along the lines of Pissed Jeans, Jesus Lizard and Cows etc. They did a great 7" on Super Fi records. No vinyl for this jsut a free download on bandcamp
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An eighth grade boy has been arrested and suspended after he refused to take off an NRA t-shirt that he wore to school.
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A West Virginia eighth-grader student has been charged with causing a disruption at his middle school after he refused to remove an NRA T-shirt that he wore.
The teenager was reportedly arrested and suspended last week after getting into an argument with his teacher about a National Rifle Association T-shirt he wore to school.
WOWK-TV reports that Jared Marcum faces charges of obstruction and disturbing the education process for refusing to change the shirt, which shows a rifle and the slogan, "protect your right."
Jared told the station the he was punished by officials at Logan Middle School after arguing about the shirt with his teacher, who reportedly objected to the image of the gun on the shirt.
"What they're doing is trying to take away my rights, my freedom of speech and my Second Amendment," Jared told the station.
Jared's father, Allen Lardieri, told WOWK-TV he is upset his son was briefly jailed for something he believes was blown out of proportion.
"I don't see how anybody would have an issue with a hunting rifle and NRA put on a T-shirt, especially when policy doesn't forbid it," Lardieri told the station.
A Logan County School District official refused a request for comment from WOWK-TV, but police in Logan confirmed Jared's arrest last Thursday.
On the first day of Jared's suspension, some of his friends reportedly wore shirts displaying images of firearms and at least one was told by an educator to change their attire, according to the report.
Police charged him with disrupting an educational process and obstructing an officer, he said.
"The only disturbance was caused by the teacher. He raised his voice," he said.
A call to the Logan Police Department rang unanswered on Sunday and an automated message said the voice mail system was full.
Lardieri said Marcum wore the shirt during five class periods before he was ordered to remove it.
Logan County Schools' dress code, which is posted on the school system's website, prohibits clothing and accessories that display profanity, violence, discriminatory messages or sexually suggestive phrases. Clothing displaying advertisements for any alcohol, tobacco, or drug product also is prohibited.
Their lawyer, Ben White, said that the T-shirt did not appear to violate any school policy.
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As a 20 year supporter of IMBA I decided not to support them in 2013 (still supported a few clubs though). Last year alone BetterRide gave IMBA and quite a few of it's local chapters over $3,000.
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As Microsoft.Net continues its rise as a platform in the enterprise, customers that have adopted applications built on top of this framework are starting to derive some significant benefits.
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The online boylove forum takes many forms and has many faces. Many fora come and go in a relatively brief time period, a few last for several years, and at least one has been around for over a decade. Some are small and principled, while others are less principled and tend to have more participants and posts – for whatever reasons there seems to be an inverse ratio between principles and activity. In any given forum one might find some combination of the disgusting and nauseating, the frivolous, bland, and humorous, and/or the friendly, civil, rational, supportive, and - occasionally - instructive and even profound. The ultimate accountability for the degree to which each of these is or is not present lies with those who set and enforce administrative policy, as does the responsibility for the general character of the forum and its positive or negative influences.
The wholesome admiration and discussion of the beauty, freshness, candor, and companionship of boys is a legitimate and acceptable function of a boylove forum. But the danger to an inexperienced and impressionable boy-attracted pedosexual male who comes to these fora expecting enlightenment is that he may be adversely affected if he finds portrayals of boys by some posters as nothing more than passive objects of their sexual fantasies and/or thinly veiled real life intentions. There is little reason to believe that these miscreants comprise any more than a minuscule fraction of the overall boylove community, but nevertheless, by flooding the fora with their rubbish they give the illusion that they are much more numerous and mainstream than they really are. While experienced readers most likely will recognize and dismiss their trash for what it is, the neophyte who accepts these portrayals as being the norm for people who share his attraction to boys may be influenced to think and act in accordance with what he has read.
Likewise, while the non-prurient graphic portrayal of boys is a legitimate and acceptable practice, with a long history in art, the presence on some fora of borderline images of boys as attachments to posts and in "galleries" is a completely different issue. There is no substantive research that indicates the viewing of such boy erotica is causative of sexual predation, but the presentation – and especially downloading and possession – of images that "cross the line" is a criminal offence in most Western countries. While it usually is claimed by fora administrators that no "illegal" images are permitted, many are so suggestive and provocative as to push the limits, and, depending on the law enforcement operative or jurist, any given image may or may not be judged to be pornographic, and therefore the subject of prosecution. The extent to which such images – as well as the trash posts mentioned above – draw the attention of law investigators to a forum and its participants is unclear, but these red flags certainly are unlikely to lessen such unwelcome interest, a matter that prudence would seem to require giving serious consideration before participating extensively in any given forum.
Of course, it is easy to fall back on the rationalization that society exclusively is at fault, and some of the more militant posters on these fora have much to say in the way of self-justification of their antisocial attitudes and behaviors. But even if society is, in fact, at fault, those who are sexually attracted to boys have little choice but to live in their society, and to try to find ways to conduct their lives and express their love for boys without running afoul of the law and ruining themselves and their younger friends.
While painful and pitiful examples could be cited, it is not known how many boys and men have been negatively influenced by what they found on BL fora, and have been swayed toward behaviors which – although they may in reality be harmless – are considered criminal by the powers that be. Or how many of these people have had their relationships sundered, their hopes and dreams destroyed, their families alienated, and their freedom taken away, all because of behaviors encouraged by debased posts or borderline pornography in a BL forum. So newcomers and old-timers alike should be critical, cautious, and not allow themselves to be seduced by the insidious temptations of unprincipled radicals.
Motivations for operating a BL forum can range from an honest desire to be supportive of boy-attracted pedosexual males to advocating for the rights of boys to their own sexuality, and all the way to outright ego trips. While most of those egotists will deny it, they actively compete for participants and posts, and some are so insular in this competition that they forbid the mention of any other forum, as well as not allowing links to external URLs. Some dispense with any vestige of principles and resort to various means to entice participation, such as the marginal graphics and galleries mentioned above, and encouraging chaos by advocating that everyone should be free to post whatever he wishes, no matter how harmful it may be to others. But does this release the forum and its operators from moral responsibility for the negative effects on vulnerable boy-attracted pedosexual males who are searching for answers? Does the forum reinforce the pejorative "pedophile monster" view of boylovers that is so omnipresent in academia and the media, and thereby become responsible for further debasing boylove and boylovers in the eyes of non-BLs who come to the forum just to see what "boylove" is really all about? The operators and administrators of these fora may try to denigrate, ignore, or reject such responsibilities, but in the real world the buck stops with them.
Anybody can open an Internet boylove forum. All it takes is a modest investment in a domain registration and a service provider. There are two basic forms of these fora; the "open" ones, where anyone can read or post, and the "password protected" ones which require registration for access which ranges from minimally difficult to stringently checked. Free software is available for download, and many service providers make forum software available as part of their package. A certain amount of technical expertise is desirable for additional bells and whistles, but simply getting a new forum up and running is within the capabilities of basic computer literacy. However, what really matters for all concerned is the character that the forum adopts and the services – or unhappily, disservices – it provides.
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Oh good, a story can be used as long as it doesn't use the originals characters, settings or plot… great that leaves.. umm… maybe the basic set up.
Also, Ms. Byerly seems to have a rather focused view of copyright. Copyright is not simply about books (though obviously that is the first thing that comes to mind when discussing copyright on a site dedicated to ebooks). There are many other ways to take a work by an author and repackage it. Yes, there may not have been many decent sequels to Sherlock Homes or the works of Jane Austen that have been written, but there have been numerous excellent adaptations done for T.V. and the movies. Lets also remember that more than one Shakespeare play was adapted for Opera and Ballet (and indeed some of these are classics in their own right).
Also, while it might be difficult to better a great original, its sometimes possible to start with a mediocre work and rewrite it as something amazing. Shakespeare did this, so did Thomas Mallory and Chretien De Troyes with their King Arthur stories (come to think of it, Mark Twain and T.H. White did as well, though they had Mallory and Troyes to work from!).
Mind you, I am not an advocate of eliminating copyright. It serves a useful function. I also note however that most books effectively disappear from libraries and book stores decades before their copyright expires; perhaps one in 1000 is still read by the time their copyright expires. Why not develop a mechanism that would allow derivative works to be developed (if not free copies distributed) after a period of say 10 or 15 years.
MarylandBIll, this is an article from my blog which is written for writers of fiction, hence the focus.
For a real writer, borrowing the basic set up is more than enough to get the creative pump primed, but plot points, setting, and types of characters can be borrowed with impunity. The trick is to make it your own.
I used "Romeo and Juliet" as my template for my science fiction romance, STAR-CROSSED. Men and women were the Montagues and the Capulets on a human colony where men were harem slaves and women had the power. I even had various characters that could be equated with the various characters in the play. I did such a good job of integrating the play elements into my story that no one has ever made the connection between the two despite the title which is a major clue.
A story that is transferred from one media to another requires a whole different set of abilities and mindset so it's pretty dang hard not to make drastic changes. For example, most of us have read reviews of plays which have become movies where the reviewer complained that the movie failed because it remained too faithful to the source and looked like a filmed version of the play.
Those of us who have tried to write a screenplay of our novel have discovered that most of a movie is visual and too much dialogue and exposition are screen death. Drastic changes had to be made.
And, as I said in my article, derivative works offer nothing to society from a literary standpoint, and the works that are derivative are invariably inferior in most cases. All they do is take up a publishing space that would be better used by an original work.
If all you want to do is riff on a published or filmed story, write fanfic where time limits and unoriginality aren't an issue.
First of all, you didn't limit your claims to a literary standpoint. You said it was particularly true in fiction, but you didn't say it was exclusively true in fiction.
Second, limiting yourself to the literary world is a very myopic view of copyright. After all, as I pointed out, literary works have been transformed into excellent movies, operas, ballets, and other forms of art. All of this is covered by the copyright of the original work.
Third, while it might be great that you can disguise Romeo and Juliet so completely that no one was able to connect your novel with the original story, but that may not always be an author's intent. You referenced Wicked, which obviously gains much of its power from the fact that the Wicked Witch is a well known character in fiction (probably more from the movie version of the Wizard of Oz more than the book, but regardless…). The same would be true of other works that do not attempt to hide their origins.
Finally, yes it is true that most derivative works are not worth the paper they are printed on…. but then again, that is true of the vast majority of books ever written. The point of allowing copyright to lapse is not for the 999 bad sequels to Sherlock Holmes that get written (or the 9999, or 99999), its about the one good one. One Wicked, one Once and Future King, or Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is frankly all that it takes to justify a limited term of copyright.
Bill, why are you attacking when there's nothing to attack about? I'm a novelist who writes a blog for other fiction writers so my focus is in that direction. There is nothing wrong with that.
My major point about copyright is that a creative person doesn't need the crutch of other writers' works to be creative. If anything, from my experience as a teacher working with young writers, it is more a hinderance than a help because it cripples the imagination and puts a box around a story so no boundaries are pushed.
A truly creative person like Gregory Maguire was able to start with the Wicked Witch and then created his own backstory for her. He created his own story.
The Arthurian novels you sited as being derivative of copyrighted material aren't. The Arthurian stories have been part of English culture since the Medieval period, and each author has used that rich folk tradition in his own manner to make his own points.
In the same way, we are currently seeing a veritable flood of stories being created from fairy tales. In novels, we have Mercedes Lackey writing fantasy stories about The Tradition of fairy tales as well as any number of fairy-tale-based romances. We have GRIMM and ONCE UPON A TIME on TV, and I don't know how many major motion pictures based on SNOW WHITE and other characters.
You are the personification of the people I'm talking about. You don't understand what copyright covers, you aren't creative so you don't understand how those of us who are creative work, and you are desperately eager to limit protections in spite of knowing nothing about it.
Ironically, I can think of a number of Harry Potter-related copyright infringement lawsuits that were made on the basis that J.K. Rowling infringed upon another authors "ideas." I'm perfectly aware that copyright only covers expressions of ideas, but there still exist individuals that have filed legal cases on the basis that "somebody stole my idea." Such suits should not even be able to be filed, let alone won.
As a writer, I often find inspiration in the works of others, be that television, film, or other books. Even song lyrics have given me ideas. Those ideas may spawn something that can be worked into something that appears entirely original or it may not.
From my perspective, creativity would seem to be a primarily subconscious process modulated (not always to one's benefit) by critical thinking. I am inclined to believe that my ability to come up with ideas is mostly based upon ideas and expressions of those ideas all around me as perceive them through my own unique cognitive filter.
I won't begin to assume whether or not MarylandBill is a writer, but I will suggest maybe we ask an important question that never seems to be asked in these often heated discussions of copyright term length: What is the value in having copyright outlive the creator of the work by nearly a century (or only half of one if you live in Canada like I do)?
I can only think of one and that is in no way beneficial to the creator, for whom copyright was created. What use is the creator's money to their estate? Should the creator's children not learn to be self-sufficient, to create their own work or to work for their own money? I understand there are other issues, legal and otherwise, for which such money could be useful, but it is hardly required. That's what life insurance is for.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting paid for creative work, but there's no other job on the planet I can think of that continues to pay money for years after the work has been done. I'll probably release my own work in some form or another (public domain or creative commons), a decade or so after I first publish it. That's just how I roll.
None of the copyright lawsuits against Rowling have been won. Two of the suits were started by an obscure author who used the word "muggle" and a few mild coincidences in plot similarities in his book years before HP, and that book has been out of print for almost as long.
Most suits claiming this kind of thing are from people hoping to get a settlement check from the other person so they can avoid the legal hassle. Rowling didn't fall for this, and her lawyers won in both cases.
As to copyright length, that is a totally different discussion, and one I'm not interested in getting into it right now. I will say, though, that the really long copyright is for the sake of corporations like Disney or media like Marvel Comics, not for individual authors and creators.
1. I understand that the matter of Arthur was medieval and therefore existed before copyright. It was provided as an example of how authors, real, creative, and even celebrated authors, could create derivative works of fiction that in fact were well respected in the literary community. There is no essential difference between a work that was never copyrighted and one that is out of copyright for the sake of this argument.
2. I understand that you write a fiction blog, I also understand that you are take a very parochial view as a writer and claim that the only purpose of shorter copyrights is free books. Yet even you have admitted that there are rare exceptions where an author has created a worthy literary work based on a public domain work like Wicked (and now that I think about it, the Seven Percent Solution). You keep minimizing how important it is for artists in dance, opera and theatre to be able to tap into a robust public domain. Lets remember that one of the first great horror movies, Nosferatu was almost lost because of the copyright on Dracula (This despite the fact that there are some significant differences between the two stories, like the fact that in Stoker's novel Dracula was not killed by sunlight).
3. Since you mention it again, yes Wicked is Mr. Maguire's story, but without being able to use the characters and stories of the Wizard of Oz, it would loose its power. It in fact is a classic reason why works need to enter into the public domain. Again, the hit rate may be low, but that is always the case with fiction.
4. I love the fact that you know me well enough, without benefit of having met me, or knowing my real name, to know I am not creative. Of course I love even more the assertion that since I am not creative, I don't understand what copyright covers and know nothing about it. Perhaps in addition to creative writing, you should have studied rhetoric. Ad hominem attacks really do nothing to support your position, especially when they are based on no actual knowledge of the person you are attacking. You haven't actually demonstrated that I don't understand copyrights, nor do you know whether or not I have actually created works that are protected by copyright. I am not a novelist or short story writer (unless you count the stories I make up for my son), but I have created works that are covered under copyright law and therefore I do have stake in this. Of course, since copyright is really a social contract between the author and society, as a member of society, I also have a stake.
I want authors and other creators of copyrighted materials to have strong copyright protections while they make sense. I also however see little point in providing so much copyright protection that most books are out of print and forgotten for a century before copyright expires; especially when small presses might be interested in keeping the work in print but find the costs of tracking down the rights holder prohibitive.
Bill, my view, parochial or not, is that the creator deserves to be paid for the creation and that includes everything from movie rights, game rights, etc. In most cases, those who create media from books can afford to pay for those rights if they want them.
A few thousand dollars out of a multimillion dollar movie budget is nothing and with the exception of bestsellers like HARRY POTTER, that's all it takes to buy the rights. Options to buy, these days, are usually free so the money doesn't even have to be in place before a producer contacts the author.
If you don't understand that a literary/folklore tradition like the Arthurian stories isn't the same as copyrighted material, you don't understand copyright.
If you don't understand how little value someone else's copyrighted material is to a creative person, you aren't creative.
Both were statements, not attacks.
As to the length of copyright, as I said to M. Carp, that wasn't what I was discussing so I won't get into the subject with you.
If you don't agree with me then you don't understand!
If you don't agree with me then you aren't creative!
Yes, dear, those are attacks. 2Z4S
I think that this statement is in error:
"None of these authors were sued for copyright infringement because they added enough of their own ideas to create something different."
As you correctly stated, an idea is not copyrightable. To which I would add," the only thing that can be copyrighted is the 'unique expression of an idea'."
Thus, adding ideas is not the key. The key is uniquely expressing an idea. For example, there are only so many plot ideas known to writers. There are lots of reference books that list them in various ways (e.g.Plotto). These plots are used over and over again but creative writers find unique ways to do so uniquely.
The difficult challenge here is coming up with good tests for uniqueness. Oftentimes this is so hard that courts have to be petitioned to resolve the matter.
You seem to be basing at least half this house of cards on the idea that derivative works are somehow sub par work only amateurs or hacks would ever engage in. In your world, it seems, we'd all be better off if those who consumed fiction stayed consumers rather than critics and participants. If this was not what you were going for, can you please explain yourself better?
Meyer and Rowling both are authors in support of derivative works aka fan fiction. (Well, Rowling up to a point. Commercial publication being that point.) Roddenberry cited fan works as one of the reason Star Trek stayed a viable commercial product in between 1969 and 1977. Those authors did not sue, in part, because appreciated the advertising and viability fan works added to the original article, no matter how lasting or ephemeral. Using them to prop up your argument is laughable.
Citing "Wicked" is also questionable. Baum's publisher, upon his death, gave the franchise over to at least three other authors to build upon the world of Oz before McGuire showed up. These books still enjoy a following and are considered "canon." You not knowing about them doesn't change things.
If you want to get into the legality of these things, google, "The Wind Done Gone + legal controversy." Not everyone has a sense of humor, or history for that matter.
What tends to kill books is not the public domain or lack of interest. It's lack of publicity. When a book falls out of the public eye, the author has to add "advertising agent" to his or her list of job titles, and most authors to not enjoy that kind of time. Even if they did, they now have to play "mother may I," with a publisher who owns the material and fears loss, so they won't give up the material, but then they don't want to put in the effort of promoting older material until there is an identified audience. If the audience doesn't know about it though, that audience can't get built and 'round we go.
This is a major reason geek culture encourages infringement. I'd like my 15-year-old niece to see Max Headroom, for example. Getting legal copies up until recently has not been possible. So, my choices were 1) bootleg it – which, ethically, I shouldn't do or 2) pray there was enough interested fans still out there to lean on whoever had the rights this week (Yes, as companies buy and sell, that shell game gets interesting.) and then hope this company would bother with a limited audience. In this case, the creators of the show were passionate enough about Max and had the to organize fans and make it happen…In theory. I'm still waiting on my promised DVDs.
It's not about the profit motive when a piece of art finally hits the public domain. It's about seeing how many fans are left to rebuild the audience for seeing the thing. This is why a public domain of 100+ years in some cases is ludicrous. If the audience is still around as more than a cult classic grouping, then it's likely to be part of the public's everyday consciousness by then. If the cult classic group is there, they have to take the place of a now likely long dead author in promoting this stuff. If the audience is quashed then…wow, what a waste.
Michelle, if all you have to prove your case is fan fiction, I'm afraid your house of cards doesn't even exist. First, fan fiction is around because it isn't for sale, and its existence does nothing to improve its original source except for keeping some fans happy. Most fanfic is very poorly written, as well.
Even FITY SHADES OF GRAY which started out as TWILIGHT fanfic and is selling millions of copies right now is poorly written stylistically and friends who read BDSM erotica tell me that it isn't even that sexy.
Writers whose fans write fanfic from their books go out of their way NOT to read it since Marian Zimmer Bradley was sued by one of her "fans" for copyright infringement when a minor element in one of her fanfic stories just happened to be used by MZB herself in one of her novels.
The primary value of fanfic, from a writer's point of view, is that it is a good training ground for learning how to write with a fandom that is more than happy to tell the writer where she has gone wrong and what she needs to improve.
If you'd like to learn more about fanfic and copyright, I suggest this article:
Most published fiction based on classics out of copyright is literary fiction written by MBAs from major college programs so it's not written by literary hacks. I'd call these writers clever opportunists because they've upped their chance of being published by using a classic which is a great marketing tool.
Beyond my opinion of their lesser value and I've read dozens of them over the years, none of these books are even in print anymore which says a great deal about their value as literature and as popular reading.
WICKED is based on Baum's first OZ book, and the Wicked Witch of the West who is the main character in WICKED makes no other appearances in any other Baum book so I stand by my reference to this book as one of the few examples of a good, successful, and long-lived book which came from a classic.
I'm very familiar with THE WIND DONE GONE, and I kept up with the court case. There's a very thin line between parody/social satire and copyright theft, and it's one of those cases which was so close to that line that it had to be settled in court whether it was a parody of GONE WITH THE WIND or blatant theft. Since it was more social satire than theft, the writer and publisher of THE WIND DONE GONE won that case.
And, yes, marketing is a major problem because few published books get enough to get the attention of readers when thousands of books a year are published, and other media is sucking away more readers every day.
That's one reason these derivative works are published. They have a built-in marketing tool hook. A book with Sherlock Holmes as the main character will make more sales than a book about a Victorian detective will, even if the Victorian detective novel is much better written.
Taking a book out of copyright so that others can make money using its built-in audience as a marketing tool isn't a good thing for literature or for readers so shorter copyright has no real value to anyone but the mercenary few.
Regarding MAX HEADROOM which was a great show, entertainment is a luxury, not a right, so copyright theft has no legal justification when you can't find it legally otherwise. You may find an illegal copy and show it to your niece, but it's legally wrong. Period. If you do that, don't make excuses, just acknowledge that you choose to be in the wrong.
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Is Pittsburgh the epicenter of the stink bug invasion?
What's happening in Pittsburgh to make stink bugs such a hot topic? Looks like a warming trend where daytime temps reached the 60s this past week is playing a role in stirring up these stinky specimens. The adult bugs are getting restless inside the houses where they found shelter when the weather turned colder last fall.
Thanks to this Post-Gazette blog post, this Post-Gazette article, this WPXI-TV news story, and this one on KDKA-TV, we're getting an extraordinary response from western Pennsylvania for our Stink Bug Trap. Retailers in the area are on it, too, letting us know they're hot to get the product on their shelves!
We know that inside the house, stink bugs respond to light and seek moisture. When they are disturbed or threatened, they emit a chemical defensive secretion. In lay terms, they stink!
Whether it's flushing them down the toilet, vacuuming them (which causes that chemical defense) or dunking them in a water/dish soap mixture, people are getting by with home remedies for now because there is no effective extermination method.
The good news is that these overwintering adults will start to leave the house when spring's warmer temperatures hit.
We wish it were sooner, folks, but help is on the way... Hang on for the RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap, coming July 2011!
February 17, 2011 in Entomology, Introductions, New RESCUE! Products, Stink Bugs | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Making lemonade from the "lemons" that are stink bugs
When the stink bug invasion of your home is driving you crazy, and the help that's on the way won't come soon enough, how do you deal with the bugs in the meantime?
Two people we encountered this week have come up with creative ways to do just that.
Dan Murphy is concerned about the effect this bug will have on farmers an families, and is glad that RESCUE! has developed a solution. He created StinkyBug.com as a relief outlet to "take a lighter look at this bug that has invaded our land, our homes, and our lives. I don't intend to diminish the severity of this problem," he says, "but merely to raise awareness through humor."
Dan sells notepads, coasters and mousepads that poke fun at the stinkbug problem.
Meanwhile, MaryEllen Henderson of York, PA has turned the hundreds of stink bugs she's collected into jewelry.
"I take little stink bugs, after they die I laminate them in a small jewelry bezle," Henderson said. "And once I put the bug in, I paint his back and then I laminate, or pour resin over the top so it seals."
Each piece of jewelry is unique. "They do have a little, some patterns on them that I try to incorporate into the design if I can," she said.
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Western PA heralds RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap arrival
Folks in western Pennsylvania are among those anticipating the arrival of the RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap on store shelves, thanks to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Doug Oster's blog post, article, and Sunday morning show on KDKA-AM.
Busy Beaver will carry the RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap at all of their locations in western PA and eastern Ohio. Other known retailers in that region are Agway in Greensburg, PA; Best Feeds Garden Center in Gibsonia, PA; and Martin's Flowers & Shrubs in Belle Vernon, PA.
This list will grow; check back for more retail locations in the coming months!
February 14, 2011 in New RESCUE! Products, Stink Bugs | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack
More about the RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap
A comment on our last blog post brought up some good points and questions about the product that we want to answer here.
Q: Will the Stink Bug Trap attract more stink bugs onto your property that wouldn't ordinarily be there?
A: No. The RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap will catch stink bugs within a 20-foot radius. It will attract the bugs that are already in your yard and prevent them from damaging your garden or getting in your house. All of our RESCUE! traps work this way, in fact -- it's a misconception to believe that they lure insects from all over the neighborhood.
Q: Will the trap work indoors?
A: No, the trap is intended for use outdoors to prevent the stink bugs from doing damage in your garden or getting inside your house. Once stink bugs are inside your house, they do not respond to the pheromone lures. If our testing leads us to a solution for catching stink bugs indoors, we will most certainly share that.
Q: Some stink bugs are beneficial. Will the trap catch them along with the pests?
A: We recognize that some stink bugs, like the Spined Soldier Bug, are beneficial. The RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap will catch the stink bugs that are pests and leave the beneficial insects alone.
Keep your questions coming!
February 11, 2011 in Beneficial insects, Bugs in the news, Entomology, Introductions, New RESCUE! Products, Stink Bugs | Permalink | Comments (56) | TrackBack
Got a Stink Bug problem? Thanks to RESCUE!, there's a trap for that!
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We're back... with big news. Many of you have asked us about a solution for stink bugs. Since last September, they've received major media attention when their numbers exploded in the U.S. The stink bug has been called a "terrorist bug" by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and its spread was deemed a "national crisis" in a letter written by Bartlett and 14 other members of Congress.
Just five months later, a solution has emerged: the RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap from Sterling International.
(So, does this mean that we can say "RESCUE! solves national crisis"? I like the sound of that headline!)
Stink Bugs damage fruit, vegetables and farm crops -- but when they invade the indoors in colder weather, they really raise a stink. With no natural predators, stink bugs have been discovered in 30 states to this point. Michigan was added to the list last week.
Available for shipments in July 2011, the RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap works outdoors to catch adult stink bugs before they enter homes, as well as the younger generations that damage gardens and fruit trees. The trap lures multiple species of stink bugs with pheromone attractants that are odor-free to humans.
The reusable trap comes with a 2-week attractant supply and is expected to be priced at $19.99 retail. A 7-week attractant refill will be sold separately for $9.99 retail.
Testing of the RESCUE! Stink Bug Trap was conducted at the USDA's 800-acre facility in Beltsville, MD. Sterling designed both the trap and the controlled-release technology for the pheromone. Though difficult and expensive to produce, the pheromones will be manufactured in-house thanks to Sterling's expertise in chemical synthesis.
Established in 1982, Sterling International, Inc. sells its RESCUE! traps and attractants for wasps, hornets, yellowjackets, flies, Japanese beetles and Oriental beetles through home improvement centers, hardware stores and lawn & garden retailers throughout the U.S. and beyond. The traps are manufactured in the USA at Sterling's headquarters in Spokane, Washington.
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I was talking to my worldly friend Frank the other day about the frustration of having a 'foreign' accent. He – a French man currently living in London – understood what I was talking about, AND feeling. As part of his studies in diplomacy he has come across the concept of 'self and other': to know who we are, according to this theory, involves categorizing people into groups…
'Ideas of similarity and difference are central to the way in which we achieve a sense of identity and social belonging. Identities have some element of exclusivity. Just as when we formally join a club or an organisation, social membership depends upon fulfilling a set of criteria. It just so happens that such criteria are socially-constructed (that is, created by societies and social groups). As such 'we' cannot belong to any group unless 'they' (other people) do not belong to 'our' group.' Othersociologist.com
So people/societies are driven to construct informal 'groups' in order to have a sense of identity. I wonder if individuals could actually have a sense of who they are without this element of exclusion (which is oh so evident among children and adolescents)?
The other day after speaking to a couple of boys I heard them exclaim as I walked away – *"She's not French!"…which I suppose is a perfect example of the boys identifying themselves ('We are French') by excluding me. Interestingly research indicates that when people experience a drop in self-esteem, they become more likely to express prejudice. (Understandingprejudice.org) . This fact adds a little more light on the discriminatory behavior certain folk express.
There are laws against discriminating people according to their religious beliefs, sexual preferences, skin color …. and apparently linguistic discrimination is also forbidden by most international laws except – according to Philippe Blancher, Professor of sociolinguistics, and author of the book "Discriminations : combattre la glottophobie" (Published dec 2015) – in many cases in France.
It would appear, according to Philippe Blancher, that France has a serious problem of 'glottophobie'. Glottophobie is discrimination based on language : certain people (and interestingly not only the immigrant population but many French citizens themselves!) are treated differently, considered inferior or rejected because of their language (vocabulary, grammar, accent….). He goes so far as to say that there is a minority of people in France using 'standard', 'correct', 'well-groomed' French who silently dominate the majority using 'popular', 'local' language.
In my last post I mentioned that some changes to the French language are being adapted, but Mr Blancher states that the idea that the French language be 'fixed', 'frozen' and 'perfect' is still very much commonplace and I'd have to agree.
Well! So much for pursuing my speech therapy career here! Speaking of which, I actually did a 3-day observation-training at a rehabilitation hospital a week ago and simply can't ever imagine ever having the 'well-groomed' standard French that is expected of such a position.
* For those of you wondering if I've received my French citizenship yet…the answer is no. But now that I reflect on the procedure for applying for citizenship, I was required to have, at the very minimum, a reasonable level of French which was formally tested. This is an example of what Mr Blancher was talking about in his book on glottophobie in France. I'm pretty sure that no other European country has such a language requirement of it's immigrants.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The candidates for Pennsyvlania attorney general have squared off in their first debate, with the Republican incumbent touting his record and the Democratic challenger saying a corruption investigation was bungled.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Candidates competing for election as attorney general Tuesday sketched contrasting scenarios of what they would do in the next four years if they were elected as Pennsylvania's top law-enforcement officer.
In a spirited but brief debate taped at the studios of WPVI-TV, incumbent Republican Tom Corbett promised "a continuation" of priorities he set during his first term � cracking down on corrupt public officials, Internet sex predators, drug dealers and scam artists who prey on senior citizens.
Democratic challenger John Morganelli, the Northampton County district attorney, noted that the GOP has held the attorney general's office for the entire 28 years since it became an elective office. He vowed to fight for tougher laws against violent crime and more aggressive action against imported products that are unsafe.
"I think the office needs a transformation," Morganelli said.
Libertarian Party candidate Marakay Rogers said she would press for sending fewer nonviolent offenders to prison and abolishing the death penalty.
"I have no allegiance to either major party � therefore, no allegiance to whoever is in office as governor, or to whoever is in the House or the Senate," said Rogers a York lawyer. "That leaves me free to have no entanglement or conflict of interest with anybody in the government."
During Tuesday's half-hour debate, Corbett and Morganelli also renewed their finger-pointing over the ongoing investigation into alleged corruption in the Legislature.
Morganelli charged that Corbett has conflicted interests because of campaign contributions he accepted in his 2004 campaign from GOP legislative leaders who potentially could be charged. He also reiterated his belief that Corbett committed a serious error in not appointing an independent prosecutor to oversee the probe.
"I've never seen an investigation that been so mishandled from the outset," said Morganelli, 52, who is beginning his fifth term as Northampton County's top prosecutor.
Corbett, who has refused to accept contributions from legislators in his re-election campaign, said investigating allegations of public corruption are his responsibility as attorney general.
Morganelli, he said, cannot understand the complexities of such a large investigation
"He's never conducted an investigation like this," Corbett said.
Politically, the nearly 2-year-old investigation into the illegal use of public money and resources for political campaigns cuts both ways for Corbett, 59, a former U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania.
By far the most visible action of his first term, the probe has established Corbett as a prosecutor committed to cleaning up a Legislature that has been sullied by scandals in recent years.
But the only arrests so far have involved a dozen people connected to the House Democratic caucus.
While Corbett has said his investigators are looking at all four caucuses and that he anticipates more arrests, he said last month that none would be made until after the election because there was not enough time to present evidence to the grand jury � meaning the arrests of any Republicans would come only the voters have spoken.
Rogers expressed empathy for Corbett.
"Personally, I find Mr. Corbett in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position at this point," she said. "If he continues the prosecutions, he looks as if he's making a political statement. If he doesn't continue the investigation before the election, he looks as if he's making a political statement."
Corbett and Morganelli have ben airing dueling TV ads in the final weeks of the campaign. Corbett's campaign had raised $3.3 million by Oct. 20 � more than double Morganelli's $1.3 million.
Rogers, 46, who was the Green Party candidate for attorney general in 2004, has kept a comparatively low profile.
The debate, sponsored by the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, was the first of two that the candidates have agreed to. The second one will be taped Wednesday at the studios of an Allentown TV station.


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The check for $31,640 from P. Terry's Burger Stand delivered by owners Patrick and Kathy Terry was the magical check. Since 1999, Statesman Season for Caring now has raised $10, 017, 413 to help local nonprofit organizations help families in Central Texas.
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The check came from P. Terry's Giving Back program, in which four times a year, all P. Terry's locations donate a day's profits. Giving Back Day for Season for Caring has always been the restaurant company's busiest day and Saturday was no different.
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Bo was raised by human parents that secretly adopted her when she was an infant. When she was eighteen years old she killed her high school boyfriend by uncontrollably draining him of his chi energy during her first sexual experience. Not knowing what had happened and unable to understand what she had done, Bo ran away from home. For the next ten years, Bo lived a life without friends or family, moving from place to place, and changing identities each time she killed again.
It was not until she was discovered by the Fae that she found out she belonged to an ancient order of supernatural beings who have existed for millennia among humans unaware of their secret world. There are two clans in the Fae universe, Light and Dark, and all Fae must choose one of the two — but not Bo. Bo vowed to live on her own terms, even if it meant existing in the abyss between good and evil.
Bo survives by feeding on the chi and sexual energy of either sex to sustain herself or to heal. With help from the Light Fae's human doctor and scientist, she finally learned how to control her chi-draining powers.
"Life is hard when you don't know who you are. It's harder when you don't know what you are.
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