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Children, the disabled and over-60s in Manchester face a more costly commute after fares for trains, buses and trams increased this month.
Children between the ages of 5 and 16 who travel before 9.30am on weekdays used to pay a flat rate of 80p but they will now be made to pay half the adult rate by the Greater Manchester Integrated Travel Authority (GMITA).
Over-60s and some disabled people will also have to pay the increased price.
Revised fares for tickets (effective from 03 April 2011):
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), which was Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) before this month, say that the changes form part of cost savings of more than £40 million over the next three years.
Patrick from Hulme, said: "The councils are complaining about a lack of funds and having to make cuts whilst spending a fortune on a needless title change just to make it look like some people in these quangos do some work".
The three major Manchester bus companies blame increased prices on the loss of tax-payer funded subsidies which helped to keep concessions low.
Figures show the price of a First child weekly ticket has jumped by 21.4% from £7 to £8.50.
A weekly adult ticket has risen from £16 to £17 and an adult day ticket from £4.10 to £4.20.
Coun Keith Whitmore, chair of the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, said: "We're extremely unhappy about this. The hiking up of prices on the back of our decision is unacceptable."
He wrote to First managing director Richard Soper saying: "This could undermine the partnership approach that has been developed in recent times."
Dave Sherwood, a commuter from Irlam, said: "Funny how they (bus firms) cry hard up but still make more and more profit every year".
One organisation trying to combat an unfair increase in public transport costs is the Campaign for Better Transport Charitable Trust of which Michael Palin is president. Their mission statement says: "We champion transport solutions that improve people's lives and reduce environmental damage. Our campaigns push innovative, practical policies at local and national levels."
The Campaign for Better Transport is running The Fair Fares Now campaign which, according to a spokeswoman is off to a great start.
She says that thousands of people had signed up to support Fair Fares Now by the end our their very first week; and a wide range of organisations, from Friends of the Earth to the TUC to many rail user groups, are also backing the campaign http://bettertransport.org.uk/fairfares/who-we-are alongside celebrities Michael Palin and Jenny Agutter.
Free to increase prices
Train fares will also rise as rail companies are now free to increase prices to RPI (Retail Prices Index) plus 3% for three years from 2012 after the spending review in October last year.
The Campaign for Better Transport said that according to the latest wage and inflation forecasts in last month's budget, average earnings for 2012 will increase by only 2.2%. Regulated rail fares on the other hand will increase by an average 8% – and up to 13% in some places.
Richard Greenberg, spokesperson for Which? said: "Rising train fares provide yet another stress on the pockets of consumers, with many fares rising far faster than inflation. This isn't helped by the confusion faced when trying to secure the best deal on their travel.
"All too often baffling and incoherent rules across different train operators leave passengers unable to get the best value tickets. Which? research found that the rules are so confusing that even ticket office staff are unable to advise on the best options available. If trained staff can't get it right, is it any wonder passengers are getting ripped off?"
Andrew Jones, commuter, from Heaton Chapel, said: "Are they trying to drive us off the trains and back into cars?"
Those who use Manchester's tram system will not escape price rises as tram fares in Greater Manchester have gone up by an average of more than 6%.
An adult peak return fare on the Metrolink network will now cost 20p more.
The GMITA said fares had been stationary for two years and trams and track had been improved.
The Metrolink rise means an annual season ticket for an adult, from Altrincham to Manchester, has risen from £875 to £930.
Graham Stringer, Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton, and Tony Lloyd, Labour MP for Manchester Central, said the rise was "unjustified" and called for a public consultation on the issue.
Nevertheless, chairman of GMITA, Counc Ian Macdonald said the fares were justified and that a consultation was not appropriate.
Many people who use Manchester's transport links will surely admit to its good availability and predominant timeliness, however we have to ask ourselves if we would pay what often seem to be extortionate fees if we did not absolutely have to. But for many of us, public transport is our only way to get to work or school and, no matter how wealthy or hard-up we are, we have to put aside a substantial amount of money to pay for our travel each year.
And with transport bosses and bus and train companies passing the blame back and forth, it seems that no-one is willing to miss out on the apparent windfall the necessity that is public transport brings.
Rail companies say that tickets cost more because of rail repairs and fare-dodgers but will there be a point when commuters just cannot afford to or refuse to pay what are becoming unfair and unrealistic prices? Have your say below.


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Laura Newman of Laura Newman PR called to get together with me last week. She'd heard me speak several years ago and wanted to let me know about her new business launch. What came up during our conversation is something that happens all the time with the small business owners I meet and know. We take for granted our hard-earned knowledge and skill level.
I was telling Laura I could use some suggestions for marketing my upcoming Creating Your Own Future retreat at Canyon Ranch in January. I prefer not to constantly bombard my newsletter recipients with promotions. She asked if I had thought about creating a postcard that I could have available at places like restaurants (we were meeting at Bloodroot in Bridgeport), libraries, salons, wellness centers, etc. Also, in what calendar listings might she find my workshops.
To Laura this was ordinary, everyday stuff. To me, these were pearls of wisdom and motivation. We may get into a cross-coaching arrangement. I'll share my everyday coaching knowledge with her, like offering PR coaching to clients and have them do the footwork– and we'll challenge each other with the implementation.
I recently had the privilege of hearing Susan Jacques tell her story at the Women's Jewelry Association event called Women In The Know held at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, NY). She's the President and CEO of Borsheim's a world-renowned jewelry store in Omaha. The Chairman of the company is Warren Buffett, which got my attention more than diamonds would.
What I found most memorable about Susan's incredible journey from Rhodesia to the US and a career ascendancy that anyone would admire, was her statement:
"There were no billboards saying 'chance of a lifetime' as I rode from Santa Ana, CA to Omaha."
She was hired as a $4 an hour sales associate and appraiser. Fewer than a dozen years later, because of her passion, dedication and reputation for integrity and business acumen, Warren Buffett invited her to a one-on-one meeting. A series of Illnesses and deaths befell several family members who would have been heir to that position. Buffett asked her to become the President of the store, a position she's held since 1994.
There are so many times when my clients (and I) are passionately swept up in the day-to-day work of our lives. This story reminds me that while pursuing your life's work, opportunities you aren't even seeking are manifesting. Time and again I have seen and personally experienced Marsha Sinetar's great book title:
A colleague and long-term friend of mine sought my help recently when we met. "I'm burning out," she told me. She loves what she's doing, does it magnificently and doesn't want to stop, but is running on empty. I asked how her self-care was–how much time she was taking just for her. She looked at me quizzically.
"Do you meditate? Do you have quiet time? Is there any time when you're not serving others?" I know she's got a more than full-time position, an active family life and a happy marriage. These ALL take time and energy. Again, a blank stare.
I told her I had an assignment for her. "For one hour this weekend, I want you to simply BE. Sit somewhere quiet and relaxing (the beach, the reading room at the library or her favorite rocking chair) and do nothing."
"You mean, like, just watch tv?"
"No. Do nothing."
"Like read a book?"
"No. I really mean NOTHING."
It occurred to me that she, along with many others out there, never stop DOING. You must! Our bodies need time to integrate, to assimilate, to process what's happening in our lives. Burnout is a sure sign that you're not giving yourself the time to do that.
An additional tip: if you do your nothing assignment in nature, you'll double its effectiveness.
I live 2 miles from the World's Largest Dairy Store (according to Ripley's Believe It or Not)–Stew Leonard's. I had the privilege of hearing Stew, Jr. address my Entrepreneurial Woman's Network (EWN) meeting on April 24.
Totally inspiring.
His message was: how do you grow like a chain business and maintain the agility of a mom & pop operation? For example, he bemoaned the fact that as members of our network came up to him with great products for his store, he was unable to immediately run with their idea as he may have in the past. Now the store has systems in place that reduce that mom-and-pop style spontaneity. Read the rest of this entry »
I received the best speaker gift I've ever gotten when I presented for the Women's Jewelry Association last March–elegant personalized stationery. One hitch though. They spelled my name incorrectly: JANE POLLACK. I considered tossing the box away and saying, "Oh, well, that would have been nice." But, no. I've been saying affirmations daily, one of which is: I ask directly for what I need in a clear and loving way.
What I wanted was to have this generous token of gratitude from the Women In The Know committee who organized the event. I wanted to have a reminder of the connection with these powerful women and the day I spoke at their conference. The cream-colored note cards with my name embossed in burgundy could be tangible reminders of that moment in time.
So I emailed the co-chairs and described my thrill at the gift and then my disappointment that I couldn't use it. I requested that, if possible, I'd like to have the stationery redone.
Today, two months after the talk, UPS dropped off a great surprise. I just opened up a package of gorgeous, thick cream-colored note cards with JANE POLLAK correctly spelled in burgundy letters.
Lisa Quirk is a brilliant surface design artist re-entering the market now that her kids are older. She wanted to create a business card to bring to networking events, but wasn't entirely ready to invest in a full identity package. I suggested she cut up business card size swatches of her hand-painted renderings, which she did, then rubber-stamped her contact information on the reverse side.
At networking events she'll spread out 6-8 of these swatches and offers them like a hand of playing cards, "Pick a card" which immediately creates a sense of play and invites conversation–which is what you want when you're networking.
Lisa feels good having these cards until she's ready to commit to an official business name and brand. "I feel good," she says. "It has my touch."
This is a great example of starting where you are rather than procrastinating because of perfectionism.
On my morning walk recently I saw a fancy sports car in a neighbor's driveway. Its bumper sticker said: The older I get, the faster I was.
I filter pretty much everything I see, hear and do through the senses of an entrepreneur so I thought about how that applied to me and my clients. Since I've completely closed down the art part of my business, I can say with full confidence that it was an enormous success–always profitable, highly publicized, nationally recognized with tons of customers. The truth is, while I was in it, I NEVER referred to myself as a success.
This lesson from my book, Soul Proprietor is: Getting advice from an expert is critical. You'll save time and money.
Clients and colleagues have been telling me for months now that it's time to start a blog. "It's so easy. You can set your own up in an hour, really!" they said. Somehow I never found that hour.
But, I trust the wisdom of my friends and supporters and was fortunate enough to get a referral to an expert, Lena West who had recently spoken at EWN (Entrepreneurial Woman's Network – Norwalk, CT). After a couple of introductory discussions I became clear, motivated, and willing to take on this new communication. Yes, it costs money for this expertise, but I always ask myself, what is the cost of not doing it and how many coaching hours would it take for me to figure it all out on my own.
Lena walked me through the process, got my blog up and running on my site, and is there to answer questions as they arise. Without her help, and my trusted webmaster Steve White, I'd still be promising to get started. Now I have.
Welcome to my blog!
One assignment I had during my coaching certification program was to sit for one hour and do nothing. I chose to bring my collapsible chair to Compo Beach for my hour of nothingness. It was chilly, so I had a blanket wrapped over my body. The tide was low and coming in.
Within a few minutes of disorientation–how does one do nothing?–I began to observe what was going on in the nothingness of sitting. I started watching the gulls. One would swoop down, pick up a clam shell in its beak, fly up and drop it to the ground. When it broke open, the bird would swallow the contents–mission accomplished.
I noticed that the activity would be repeated two or three times if the shell wasn't immediately compliant. The bird simply swooped down again, retrieved the same shell, flew up and dropped it again. After a couple of tries without success, it moved on to another shell. It was a force of nature. No judgment. Just…NEXT.

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Award Description: ' The Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry supports work by Professors Carolyn Cassady and David Dixon at the University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa aimed at enhanced understanding of the gas-phase chemistry of deprotonated amino acid amides and peptides, in order ultimately to provide new approaches to mass spectrometric structure elucidation supporting proteomics and related studies. Combined experimental and computational efforts will provide insight into fragmentation and thermodynamic properties. The work exposes a diverse group of both graduate and undergraduate students to important interdisciplinary research areas, providing them with tools that will prepare them to contribute to a wide range of chemical biology challenges. Both PIs have also been actively engaged in outreach activities, exposing large numbers of students to the powerful computational and analytical tools utilized in their laboratories.'
Project Description: Two graduate research assistants, funded through the grant, are now working on the project. The experimental work related to determining structures for the c-ion series that forms during negative mode peptide dissociation by mass spectrometry (aim 3) is currently underway. This work is confirming our hypothesis of cyclic c-ion structures. Computational studies to elucidate a mechanism and ion structures are underway. During the summer of 2009, an undergraduate researcher funded by the University of Alabama's NSF REU program began calculations on the gas-phase acidities and structures of amino acids (aim 1). In addition, a graduate research assistant has been synthesizing the tripeptides to be used in the backbone deprotonation site studies (aim 2). We are in discussions with vendors over the electrospray ionization source that is to be purchased with grant funds. We're looking for a source that is compatible with our existing Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer; it needs to be flexible, user-friendly, and cost-effective. This source will be purchased in the next quarter.
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FYI - food prices would be even higher without those dreaded subsidies...
You are so very correct.
Our government has done this somewhat correctly over the years--trying to keep our food supply plentiful and relatively inexpensive with good quality.
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One time I was sitting in the seafood bar at Copenhagen Airport. It's a very nice seafood bar. A woman with long blond hair and a tight, metallic-printed T-shirt insisted on ordering at the display case, instead of sitting down and waiting for a server. She then took the seat next to me. She had first spoken Danish, but when she heard me talking English to my server, she switched to English also. She sang to herself in English, too, and seemed to be having a conversation with no-one in particular. She got her sampler plate, and wasn't happy that there was no crabmeat on it. She ordered crabmeat, and another glass of Chablis, all in English. Then, after a few bites of her food, she abruptly decided to leave. She attempted to pay with coins, but didn't have nearly enough. She gave the server her debit card, and after looking at it, the server started somewhat dismissively addressing her in Danish. After she was gone, the server looked at me apologetically and said, "She's from the Faroe Islands", as if that explained everything.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Celtic Monks Settled on Faroe Islands in the 6th Century
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- Arne List said...
Faroe Islanders are Danish citizens, but they are a nation with its own language, Faroese. So they learn Danish in school, but it is still a foreign language like English. Not all Danes are aware of it.
- December 13, 2008 at 1:26 PM
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Tigers trying to win opening game of a series for the first time since May 25th
Let's Goooooooooooooooooooooooooo Mountaineers
Quintin Berry...not really a great fielder.
Wow. This is why I don't like Qs over accentuating guestures just double hand grab that one
Ugh Q. Berry, how does that happen
Let's Goooooooooooooooooooooooooo Mountaineers
Cardinals finally figured out that they sholdn't be swinging at everything he throws up there. Verlander has been **** tonight. Cant walk the garbage hitters he has.
Kinda have to think the butterflies got Berry a bit on it.
Gutty call by Leyland to leave JV out there when it looked like he'd lost his edge as far as location was concerned.
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Eventually someone has to do something good with the bases loaded, right?
I think I read yesterday they were batting about .100 in that situation ... probably has fallen below that tonight.
Wanna get the Tigers out? Just load the bases....
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Lol @ Phil Coke waiting for Cabby and Prince to finish their hand shake
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Pick a deliciously nerdy ring, or have one designed for you. Mental Floss made a list of geeky engagement rings that goes to eleven.
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5 best proofs of evolution... If there was an intelligent designer, why so many things are so very badly designed in the first place? Or was the designer just a sick old bastard who tossed a few thousand genetical illnesses in humans and other animals just for the fun of it? Well, at least if you look at the god in the ...
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How to read / interpret a DNA ladderThe correct answer would be "My teacher is a lazy bastard who didn't take the 2 minutes to check what the size specifications are for the ladder and for the expected PCR product".
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Natural selection is proven wrong... do better to stick to pure science. And besides, let's assume for a minute that you're right, and God (if He exists) is really a sick, sadistic bastard. Does that prove that He doesn't exist? Of course not! It just means that many people have a very inaccurate view of Him. This is why this topic ...
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This story happened in the era of wooden sailing ships around the Cape of Good Hope. Many sailors disappeared around the Cape of Good Hope at this time.
Once there was a sailor
who wasn't afraid of anything or anybody. One day he was trying to
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The brown lady is said to be a ghost in Raynham Hall. She has been reported a couple of times and has been seen.
The first report of the brown lady was in 1835. Some guests were there for Christmas. One guest which was a Colonel Loftus, saw a woman in a brown dress floating down the stairs. He didn't get a good look at her because she disappeared. A couple days late he saw her again. He did wish he hadn't. He said her face had a horrible grin. And her eyes were gone. Only her sockets were there. He said it was a face you won't want to see again.
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in the Townsend family, who owned Raynham Hall. They say if that's
true then she must travel because she also haunts Houghton Hall that her
brother built.
A famous English philosopher
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he wanted to be preserved and put on display in the University of London.
When he died in 1832, his body was stuffed and preserved in a glass case.
After a while, his head began to decay and fell off. So they replaced
the head with a wax model and put the skull in between his legs.
Now, his ghost roams the halls of the University carrying his skull under
his arm and rolling it down the halls.
There was a monastery that
was prone to flooding. A monk always had to watch the flood waters.
Once a monk, named Ignatius, fell asleep on watch. The monastery
flooded and killed the monks. The monastery was torn down and a house
was put in its place. One night the woman in the house saw a black
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We have many times written of the risks foreigners face of being found on the wrong side of China's criminal laws. I cannot emphasize enough the need for foreigners to take China's criminal laws seriously. My firm has helped oversee a number of criminal cases in China involving foreigners in China and I cannot tell you how tired I am of hearing our clients confidently (at least initially) seek to assure us that they will be fine because what they were doing helped bring jobs and money to China.
We are always emphasizing that China will, with little or no compunction, jail foreigners who violate China's criminal laws, even if the offending action is not a crime back in the home country. And forget about getting much help from your embassy beyond maybe some help in finding your lawyers and seeking to monitor your case for procedural fairness.
I am writing of criminal law today because I was contacted by a couple journalists seeking my views on the recent 13 year jail sentence given to Australian Matthew Ng by a Chongqing judge. Both reporters wanted my views on whether the sentence was fair or not and my response was that I didn't know. They seemed puzzled. "Are you not familiar with the case," they asked. "I actually am very familiar with the case," I replied, "but that means I know anywhere from 1 to 40% of what actually happened and without having sat through the entire trial (or even one second of it), I simply cannot opine as to its fairness."
Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote on this same case, in a post entitled, "China Business. China Jails. China Hostages," wherein I embraced the moniker of fear monger:
Nearly every time I write on this topic, I get at least one email from someone accusing me of fear mongering. I used to dispute that accusation, now I heartily embrace it. I embrace it because the overwhelming majority of foreign companies doing business in China make no allowance even for the possibility of one of their people going to jail or being held hostage.
For previous posts on this subject, please check out the following:
- Shutting Down A China Rep Office Without Going To Jail
- Beijing Olympics — You Want Jail Time With That?
- Avoiding Chinese Jails. I'm Talkin' To You.
- U.S. Company Bribery In China: Violate The Law, Go To Jail
- Sanlu's Lessons For Foreign Managers In China….Because Jail Is Probably Not Where You Want To Be
- Avoiding Chinese Jails. The Thai Bar Edition
- How Not To Get Kidnapped In China
- China Hostage Situation. Now IS A Good Time To Pay Your Debts
- How To Avoid Getting Kidnapped In China. Plan In Advance Or Go Home
In that post from a year ago, I talked of the two things that spurred the post and one was Matthew Ng:
Two things have converged to make me want to write on this topic today. The first was that I am in the midst of taking Typhoid pills for upcoming foreign travel. I need to take four of them every other day, at proscribed times, and they need to be kept refrigerated. This has not been that easy because I have been travelling like a mad man of late and I don't feel like carrying a refrigerator with me. So I keep thinking about stopping the regimen, but I haven't and I am sure I won't. It just makes sense for me to plan in advance to protect my health on my trip.I have been going to the same travel medicine physician for years and every time I go, she engages in the same routine. She pulls out a map and we discuss every single place I will be going and we talk about what sorts of things I will be doing while there. She now knows I am a pretty low risk guy because my travel life basically consists of my staying in nice hotels and eating good food and engaging in business meetings and very very little else. Yet, every time I try to bag off on some shot or some horrible pill, she will tell me about how someone she knew got in a car accident requiring a blood transfusion…. Invariably, I end up taking every shot and pill on offer. Does she know too much and I too little?
I guess I am the lawyer to her being the doctor.
The other thing is the recent arrest of yet another Chinese-Australian on criminal charges. Now before I go any further in talking about this particular case, let me stress two things. One, I know absolutely nothing about this case other than what I have read about it on the internet. Two, I have no idea whether the person involved is guilty or not and I have no idea whether he was arrested based on legitimate evidence of guilt or if he is being railroaded for business reasons, as his people are claiming. I do know, however, that these sort of cases go on all the time (usually on a much lower level and with much less publicity) and they scare the hell out of me.
The cases my firm has handled typically involve a foreign company owing money or a foreign company getting into the cross-hairs of someone. Then, the police start holding someone from the foreign company. We typically handle these situations by negotiating the amount of the debt and/or the fine and advising our client to get the arrested person out of China post-haste and, in many cases, to think long and hard about the company remaining on in China as well.
The second thing causing me to write on this topic today is an article John Garnaut (someone who has consistently done a good job of covering China) article in Australia's Business Day, entitled "China's Straight Shooters." This article posits that the threat of criminal prosecution is always there for those doing business in China and things are only getting worse:
Law, politics and corruption are tangled so tightly together in China that it is impossible to invest faith in any given legal outcome. Criminal proceedings are commonly used as leverage in commercial disputes.
This is a growing problem for foreign businesses and especially their ethnic Chinese executives, such as Australian Matthew Ng, who has been arrested for ''embezzlement'' in Guangzhou in the context of a dispute with a locally powerful state-owned firm. If he is convicted, then that fact alone will not be enough to convince many observers that he is guilty.
The Chinese legal system can be a tool of unexpected tragedy to foreign business people, but it is an everyday migraine for home-grown entrepreneurs. There are so many laws and regulations in China it is almost impossible to avoid bending some of them.
These rules are designed to be sufficiently ambiguous to place huge administrative discretion in the hands of officials.
They can be bent at a price or avoided at some risk. And that's where entrepreneurs are expected to discreetly bribe their way to opportunities and insurance in case things go wrong.
A year ago and even more so today, I find myself agreeing with Garnaut on how hugely difficult it is for even the most law abiding company to remain in full compliance with China's myriad laws and of how the penalties for non-compliance are all over the map. In my original post, I talked of the advise I gave a U.S. company that had been operating illegally in China:
Just this morning, a company asked me whether it should reveal to investors what it has already done in China when there is a chance that what it has already done in China should not have been done without first forming a Chinese WFOE. My response was essentially that the risk of China ever finding out is probably very low and the risk of China doing anything if it did find out is probably very low too, but that if China should find out it might do anything ranging from imposing some taxes and penalties to never letting that company and its people do anything in China again. It is just this sort of range of punishments that can be so effective at keeping everyone constantly on their toes and forever beholden to the powers that be.
I concluded that post by positing that at least things are not getting any worse in China, but that is not good cause to relax:
Is criminal prosecution always lurking in China? Have things only gotten worse? I answer a weak "no" to both those questions, but I do hope my even asking them has scared at least a few of you. Oh, and for those who think you have nothing to worry about because you never do anything wrong, let me tell you that I have seen enough legal car accidents to know that you are wrong to think that way.
One of the reporters with whom I spoke today asked me if Matthew Ng's sentence means that it is "open season" on foreigners. My response was that "one case does not a season make." He then asked if I thought foreigners can get a fair trial in China and, much to his surprise, I said, "yes." I then added that it, of course, depends on the specific case and on the judge. I then stressed again that as troubled as I am about Mr. Ng's case, I do not know enough about its underlying facts to let it influence my opinion one way or the other as to how foreigners are treated in China's courts. But I then added that the fact that the media and others were allowed so few views of the proceedings in that case is absolutely cause for concern and it forces us to think the worst of what transpired.
Nonetheless, I guess in the end, we all are going to have no choice but to see this as an isolated incident involving a defendant who very well may be guilty of all charges. If we think of it in any other way, we would never cross the street. Most of us would prefer to get our shots and leave the house than remain "safe" but cooped up all day.
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With today's technology, many parents learn about the existence of disabilities even before the child is born. There are positives and negatives to this. On the positive side, parents can use this time to prepare themselves mentally and emotionally for the birth of this child. They can become educated on what the disability is, what challenges they'll likely face, and how they can parent that child to the best of their ability. They can also do their best to prevent more damage by having the mother be careful during the rest of her pregnancy and sometimes surgeries can be performed while the child is still in the womb that can help increase survival rates.
Still, knowing that the child will be handicapped can also create a lot of anxiety before the baby is born. Will the baby live after birth? How severe will the disability be? Is it possible that I will do something that will worsen the baby's condition while still in the womb? Even if some of these anxieties are irrational, these questions will often plague parents as they wait for the baby to be born. In addition to these questions, questions of the cost of health care when the child is born are another concern. Many children who are born with health problems often need to be put into the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) and may have surgeries — all adding to the cost of the delivery.
What can make it even harder is that some of these babies don't have clear conditions that have been documented in the past. With so many tests available nowadays, including ones that examine DNA intricately looking abnormalities, sometimes results are that something is wrong, but it won't be determined exactly what until the baby is born with some conditions being found over time.
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Women Appear on Less Than Five Percent of Sports Illustrated Covers
Every year, Sports Illustrated comes out with its famous swimsuit edition. But without the bikini, women aren't as welcome on the magazine's cover. A recent analysis of 11 years of SI covers shows that—if you take out the swimsuit issue—women appear just 4.9 percent of the time.
Even when they do appear on the cover, they're rarely the focus. "Of the 35 covers including a female, only 18 (or 2.5 percent of all covers) featured a female as the primary or sole image," the study explains. "Three covers included females, but only as insets (small boxed image), or as part of a collage background of both male and female athletes."
In fact, women showed up on more covers of SI between 1954 and 1965 than they did between 2000 and 2011. A lot more. Those early years of the magazine had women on the cover 12.6 percent of the time.
Pacific Standard points out that just putting women on more covers doesn't solve the problem either (as the SI swimsuit edition clearly shows):
Then again, if women athletes were on SI's cover more often, they might have to sacrifice their dignity for the publicity. A recent survey of Rolling Stone covers found 83 percent of female musicians were portrayed in a sexualized fashion (often wearing minimal clothing), compared to just 17 percent of men.
This, of course, happens on Sports Illustrated's covers too. A few years ago, the Atlantic wrote a piece on how women can get on the cover of Sports Illustrated more often, including tips like "get famous before 1962″ and "be a cheerleader" and "put on a bathing suit." Take the Anna Kournikova cover from June 5th, 2000. The authors of the new study describe how the tennis star is "lounging on a pillow in her street clothes, peering seductively into the camera, and clearly not prepared for any sanctioned sports activity. Even the author of the interior story suggested she was not on the cover for her athleticism: 'She won't win the French Open, but who cares? Anna Kournikova is living proof that even in this age of supposed enlightenment, a hot body can count just as much as a good backhand.'"
Women do, in fact, play sports: there's no dearth of female athletes to feature on a sports magazine cover. But if any of those talented women hope to make the cover of SI, their best bet might be to go swimming.
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April 30, 2013 6:26 pm
Mary Thom, Feminist, Historian and Editor, Dies in Motorcycle Crash at 68
Mary Thom, feminist editor, writer and behind-the-scenes activist, died earlier this week in a motorcycle accident in Yonkers. Thom was the editor-in-chief at the Women's Media Center. The center's co-founders said:
"We who are Mary's friends and family haven't absorbed her loss yet; it's too sudden," said Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem, and Jane Fonda, co-founders of The Women's Media Center. "Ms. Magazine, the Women's Media Center, the women's movement and American journalism have suffered an enormous blow. Mary was and will always be our moral compass and steady heart. Writers from around the world have been able to share their words and ideas because of her. Wherever her friends and colleagues gather, we will always ask the guiding question: What would Mary do?"
Thom might be best known for her role at Ms. magazine, where she joined in 1972 as an editor and where she eventually became the executive editor. As Ms. she pushed the magazine to cover more politics, specifically the actions of lawmakers surrounding things like abortion and birth control—issues that remain at the forefront of women's rights struggles today. The other editors at Ms. found Thom a refreshing presence, according to the New York Times:
At Ms., she often stayed late into the night reading letters to the editor. "It was incredibly moving and exciting, to just get that kind of response," Ms. Thom recalled in a 2005 interview. "And no one had expected it."
Her former colleagues said she brought a pragmatic, self-deprecating viewpoint to the magazine, which some saw as too serious.
Eventually, Thom wrote a book about the history of Ms., and helped to produce an oral history on the congresswoman Bella S. Abzug with the epic title Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad From the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way.
The accident happened on the Saw Mill Parkway in Yonkers, where Thom was riding motorcycle, which many called her one true love. Thom never owned a car, they say, and it was the 1996 Honda Magna 750 that got her where she needed to go, both physically and mentally.
The next issue of Ms. will feature more on Thom's life both at the publication and beyond.
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April 29, 2013 1:04 pm
What Are You Thinking About?
Your significant other isn't the only one interested in knowing what you're thinking about as you sit in silence. Psychologists have long sought to record and study these inner monologues, Ferris Jabr writes for Scientific American.
Some people have tried to eavesdrop on the silent conversations in other people's minds. Psychologists have attempted to capture what they call self-talk or inner speech in the moment, asking people to stop what they are doing and write down their thoughts at random points in time. Others have relied on surveys or diaries.
One researcher, Andrew Irving from the University of Manchester, devised a new means of studying strangers' inner voices. He started by asking terminally ill patients to walk around with a recorder and vocalize their thoughts rather than keep them to themselves. He told Jabr:
"I realized that you could see somebody sitting in a chair or walking along the street and it may seem like nothing much is happening—but actually an incredible amount is happening. In their heads they may be going from childhood to religion to questioning God to trying to imagining what exists beyond death."
After those initial experiments, Irving moved on to studying everyday people. He approached around 100 random people walking, sitting or standing alone through New York City and asked them what they were thinking. For those that responded favorably, he asked them to wear a digital recorder and speak their thoughts out loud while he followed closely behind (but outside of earshot) with a video camera. From those encounters came these voyeuristic but completely relatable videos:
You can find more over at Scientific American. But however fascinating, these videos likely only represent a limited and skewed view of the voices in our heads. The participants knew they were being recorded and could have been thrown off by the oddity of speaking rather than thinking personal thoughts. Most likely, we'll only ever know for sure what the voices in our own heads are saying, regardless of the probing questions we might ask our loved ones.
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April 18, 2013 2:30 pm
Athletes and Movie Stars Really Do Live Harder, Die Younger
If you're a famous sports star, singer, dancer or actor, watch out. New research published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine helps to confirm a long-held stereotype about fame, showing that the price for making it big in performance-related careers may be a shorter life.
To arrive at this morbid finding, researchers analyzed New York Times obituaries. Making it into the Times obits, they reasoned, indicates some degree of career success and celebrity. The researchers sampled 1,000 such consecutive notices published between 2009 to 2011 and documented each person's gender, age, occupation and cause of death. The occupation categories were divided into four broad groups: performance and sports-related pursuits; non-performing creatives (such as writers and visual artists); business, military and political careers; and professional, academic and religious occupations.
Men dominated the obituary headlines, they found, by about a factor of four. Younger ages tended to be connected to performers, athletes and creatives, whereas older people usually fell into the professional or business categories.
Honing in on cause of death, the researchers found that early deaths were often caused by accidents, or illnesses such as HIV and some cancers. Specifically, lung cancer tended to kill people with performance-based careers about five times more frequently than those with professional or academic jobs. The authors think this probably points to a live-hard-die-young lifestyle of chronic smoking and other unhealthy choices.
In a statement about the study, co-author Richard Epstein summarized the significance of the findings:
A one-off retrospective analysis like this can't prove anything, but it raises some interesting questions. First, if it is true that successful performers and sports players tend to enjoy shorter lives, does this imply that fame at younger ages predisposes to poor health behaviours in later life after success has faded? Or that psychological and family pressures favouring unusually high public achievement lead to self-destructive tendencies throughout life? Or that risk-taking personality traits maximise one's chances of success, with the use of cigarettes, alcohol or illicit drugs improving one's performance output in the short term? Any of these hypotheses could be viewed as a health warning to young people aspiring to become stars.
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Get Your Own Offshore Tax Haven, a Step-by-Step Guide
"No one knows for certain how much of the planet's private wealth is parked in tax havens," says the CBC. "One estimate is that there's $32 trillion stashed offshore; a more conservative calculation puts it at a minimum of $8 trillion. Either way, that means tens – if not hundreds – of billions of dollars in lost tax revenues for the world's governments."
A massive investigate project by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists saw reporters dig through 2.5 million files, revealing "the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over."
The leaked files provide facts and figures — cash transfers, incorporation dates, links between companies and individuals — that illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has spread aggressively around the globe, allowing the wealthy and the well-connected to dodge taxes and fueling corruption and economic woes in rich and poor nations alike.
ICIJ's investigation is an incredibly thorough look at the global tax game, one played by "the wife of Russia's deputy prime minister," "Indonesian billionaires with ties to the late dictator Suharto," along with "American doctors and dentists and middle-class Greek villagers as well as families and associates of long-time despots, Wall Street swindlers, Eastern European and Indonesian billionaires, Russian corporate executives, international arms dealers and a sham-director-fronted company that the European Union has labeled as a cog in Iran's nuclear-development program."
Talk of tax havens, loopholes and secret bank accounts and international offices (not always illegal, mind you) comes up all the time when discussing how some extremely rich people or corporations avoid paying taxes. Perhaps you're curious as to how this seemingly other world works. To that end, the CBC has put together a fun interactive that lets you walk through the steps of how to set up your own tax haven, everything from picking the kind of sham business you want, picking your favorite tax-friendly nation, and deciding whether to use your own name on the documents of one of a "nominee."
No one is recommending that you actually do this. While holding money in offshore accounts, setting up businesses overseas and many of the other routes taken to hiding money from the tax collectors are not in themselves inherently illegal, moving money in and out of these holdings in ways that allow you to skirt taxes are, meaning that there's little reason to go to all the effort if you just plan to keep things above board.
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Last month, Commissioner Viviane Reding revealed the Commission's 5-year gender equality strategy, ranging from getting more women into company boardrooms to tackling gender-based violence.
Political pressure to enhance gender equality is increasingly visible at the EU level. While MEPs' demands for implementing gender quotas in the EU diplomatic service may delay its launch, Commissioner Reding, as part of the new strategy, aims at opening a dialogue with CEOs on how best to achieve gender equality in company boardrooms.
"I have not been an advocate of quotas for women in senior business posts in the past, but given the lack of progress in this area, we might in the future have to consider taking initiatives at the European level. I plan to meet with the chief executives of major publicly listed European companies in spring 2011 to discuss the situation and the scope for determined self-regulation. Depending on the outcome of this dialogue with industry, I will consider whether further initiatives will be necessary in 2012." says Commissioner Reding.
The EC strategy identifies five priorities: getting more women in the labor market; equal pay as on average women continue to earn 18% less than men across the EU; equality in senior positions; tackling gender violence; and promoting equality beyond the EU.
The Commission will also set up a yearly top-level Gender Equality Dialogue involving the European Parliament, the Council presidencies, European social partners and civil society to assess progress in implementing the strategy.


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Win tickets to see the smash hit musical Mamma Mia at the Roanoke Civic Center. Two winners will each receive four tickets!
Ten-foot tall murals from the former Villa Sorrento restaurant in Roanoke are on display at Parkway Brewing Co. in Salem.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
For decades, Italian restaurant Villa Sorrento on Patterson Avenue was a Roanoke landmark.
Anyone who dined there in the 1980s and '90s remembers the murals evoking fanciful Mediterranean scenes — a young couple on a rocky cliff looking out on the ocean, a Venetian panorama with boats carrying passengers through canals dividing old world buildings.
Villa Sorrento may be long gone — the restaurant left the murals behind in 2000 and closed in 2004 — but the murals are on public display again, this time in Salem.
Walk into Parkway Brewing Co. at 739 Kesler Mill Road and you'll see 12 10-foot-tall panels secured to the walls as you head to the bar, painted with vintage Italian scenes.
Not all of the brewery's customers recognize the Villa Sorrento paintings, but "people that know it love it," said Mike "Keno" Snyder, who co-owns the brewery with his wife, Lezlie.
The Snyders credit Bill Jones, a folk art collector who runs The Gallery across from Hollins University, and Dorsey Taylor, who with his wife Linda owns the LinDor Arts gallery in Roanoke, with saving the murals .
In 2000 the West End Center purchased the neighboring Villa Sorrento building for $180,000 and converted it into a space for youth programs. The restaurant owners had moved the 40-year-old business to Williamson Road, but their customer base didn't follow them, and it closed for good in 2004. In January, the Patterson Avenue building was torn down to make way for a credit union branch.
When he learned of the demolition, Jones intervened to rescue the mural panels. They ended up stored in a warehouse owned by a friend. Jones teamed with Dorsey Taylor to find a new home for the panels, but they haven't found a buyer yet.
"The panels are just so big," Taylor said. "No restaurant ever stepped up to the plate."
Jones and Taylor have discussed selling them to benefit the West End Center, but the idea eventually went on the back burner .
Then in August, the panels had to be moved quickly so the warehouse owner could repaint in anticipation of renting the space. Lezlie Snyder, a longtime friend of Taylor's, offered to house the murals, and luckily a friend of Keno's visiting that afternoon had a truck large enough to transport them.
"Things at our brewery seem to just happen serendipitously," she said.
It took hours to transport the panels, which Keno Snyder estimated as weighing about 200 pounds a piece.
It's still unclear what will ultimately happen to the murals — the West End Center fundraiser remains a possibility — but for the moment they're going to stay put.
"They really are pretty amazing," Lezlie Snyder said.
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Buying Time in Suspended Animation; June 2005; Scientific American Magazine; by Mark B. Roth and Todd Nystul; 8 Page(s) Fantasy writers have long been captivated by the possibility of preserving human life in a reversible state of suspended animation. In fictional tales the technique enables characters to "sleep" through centuries of interstellar travel or terrestrial cataclysms, then awaken unaffected by the passing of time. These stories are great fun, but their premise seems biologically far-fetched. In reality, we humans do not appear capable of altering our rate of progression through life. We cannot pause the bustling activity of our cells any more than we can stop breathing for more than a few minutes without sustaining severe damage to vital organs. Nature, however, abounds in organisms that can and do reversibly arrest their essential life processes, in some cases for several years at a time. Scientists describe these phenomena by a variety of terms--quiescence, torpor, hibernation, among others--but all represent different degrees of suspended animation, a dramatic reduction of both energy production (metabolism) and energy consumption (cellular activity). What is more, organisms in this state enjoy extraordinary resistance to environmental stresses, such as temperature extremes, oxygen deprivation and even physical injury. |
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Hmmmmm.....I don't see how though. He has a totally different life and we all know Leo died. Plus he's the same age as her parentals. Good theory though. We shall see!
I can hardly wait to watch the new season of "Bring Erica" I think Erin Karpluk is nice actress.
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Sweat the small stuff, Bafana
SHEESH! Just when South Africa had started to recover from the trauma of seeing one picture of a johnson, another one looms into view. Tshwane Mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa has unveiled an artist's impression of his dream: the tallest building in Africa. The planned 447m skyscraper in Centurion would rise higher than the Empire State Building if it were built.
It's pretty irksome that our leaders are indulging in such grandiose vanity projects while failing to provide enough classrooms, textbooks and medicines for the poor. Ramokgopa's vision is unlikely to materialise, but merely commissioning the picture was a waste of money.
Surely the 2010 World Cup provided enough national self-gratification to last us a century? The last thing we need right now is a symbol of prowess aimed at winning an expensive pissing contest. Give us actual prowess in solving actual problems.
It's not surprising that the tallest building in Norway, the richest and most equitable country in the world, is just 117m high, half the height of the Carlton Centre.
Thankfully, South African football has shed much of the jingoistic arrogance that used to define its relationship with Africa. Bafana Bafana's victory in the 1996 Africa Nations Cup at the first attempt was a precious, nation-building moment, but that unexpected glory had a psychological price - for a decade afterwards we considered dominance in Africa to be the default condition, something to be expected.
Now we know better. Bafana's mortifying shrinkage on the African stage has brought some humility - and their risible failure to qualify for the last Nations Cup was the final humiliation. It will take some time to fix the national team's mojo.
That repair job must begin this weekend, with the start of the 2014 World Cup qualification campaign. A little more than 6000km of ocean separates Cape Town from Rio de Janeiro. But for Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane, Brazil must feel as distant as Pluto.
His first assignment on Sunday is a tricky clash with Ethiopia, a dangerous bunch who held Nigeria to a 2-2 draw in the Nations Cup qualification race last year.
The Black Lions are almost entirely based in Ethiopia; the only foreign-based players are forwards Saladin Said of Egyptian side Wadi Degla and Fikru-Teferra Lemessa, once of Orlando Pirates and Supersport United, who now campaigns for Vietnamese club Thanh Hoa.
Like Sudan and Egypt, the Ethiopians have made a strength of the abundance of home-based players - most of the squad earn their keep for just three clubs, Dedebit, St George's and Defence. Hence they will be organised and fluent, if short of top-class individual talent.
Mosimane's last qualification campaign was undone in the first outing against Niger, a game in which Bafana utterly dominated the proceedings but could manage only a 2-0 victory. When goal difference was tallied up, that profligate night in Nelspruit came back to haunt Bafana in the final reckoning.
Steven Pienaar and his troops must take on Ethiopia with the attention to detail that is the foundation of anything worth celebrating.


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Revamped London Program Presents Challenges for Students Living abroad is not always easy, as the first of students to complete the overhauled Dannenburg Oberlin-in-London program discovered. The students, the first to enroll in the program following its one-year hiatus, were also the first to have to deal with the financial and organizational burdens of finding housing on their own. The program was suspended last year in an attempt to allay financial difficulties but was quickly resumed after tremendous protest by students and faculty. In order to reinstitute the program amid persisting financial concerns, it had to be restructured. Changes included cuts in the outing budget, subsidies for faculty airfare and most noticeably, student housing practices. According to Politics Professor and Chair of the London Program Committee, Marc Blecher, "The way the program used to run was very different from any other London program we know of. It was very Oberlin in that it did what no other college did; we gave a tremendous subsidy to student housing in London." Under the old program students would pay the same amount for housing as they would for a dorm in Oberlin. Thus $100,000 a year subsidized the difference in price between an Oberlin dorm and a flat in London along with the administrative costs of a secretary who arranged housing. "We were very concerned when we were making cuts that the program remain accessible to all Oberlin students regardless of economic resources," Blecher said. Without this subsidy, students are now responsible for arranging their own housing as well as covering its entire cost, minus financial aid. To help cover London's high cost of living, the "student financial aid package is increased for the London semester on an index including the cost of living and rent in London," said Blecher. Raising financial aid, however, often means an increase in loans — not only grant money. Housing options open to students include dorms, rooms and home stays, but most students choose to rent flats. There are also a number of ways in which a student can secure housing assisted by the program's in-London director. Unlike under the old program, however, Program Director Donna Vinter merely aids students in house hunting and does not directly set it up. Vinter commented that despite "very good advice given to students by my predecessor, Gwyneth Love, about the pros and cons of different housing options and how difficult finding your own flat might turn out to be," it is necessary "to continue to work to make sure students have all the advanced information they need to make informed choices about whether they want to go down the road of finding their own place to live or whether they want to choose a prearranged housing option. And also we need to keep on top of how the market may be changing." "After [students] are accepted, we bombard them with all sorts of information and advice on how to find a flat, including the names of reputable estate agencies who we've used in the past," said Blecher. Some students arrange their housing beforehand over the Internet, while some prefer to wait until they arrive in London so that they can see their future homes firsthand. College junior Rachel Allen, who recently returned from London, recalled, "I found an apartment through a rental agency. I started house hunting in May or April and secured housing [for the fall semester] by June." Allen continued, "The people who started searching for housing once they arrived were less pleased with the housing they found." Ashley Gorham, College junior, chose to look for a flat herself instead of choosing one of the locations offered by estate agencies in hopes that she could find a location that would allow her to be more integrated in the city. "We were one of two groups that found our own housing and we were homeless for a week," said Gorham, jokingly referring to the week she spent at a hostel. Although finding housing was a difficult process, Gorham admitted, "We ended up finding a good deal." "Ultimately I understand the program was in transition and there were going to be bumps, especially housing. But overall, it is a great program and they do a lot to help you," said Gorham. This semester, another difficulty in the housing process has shown itself. Estate agents are asking for all of the rent money up front. Although some students were aware of this problem before, it has become almost universal this semester and has definitely been stressful for some students. There have been no reports, however, of students unable to overcome this burden. Current students have reacted to the housing challenge similarly to those from last semester. Ezra Spier, College sophomore, said, "We must have called dozens of estate agents and landlords. Few were interested in dealing with short-term four month leases, but there were still some who would." Spier and his roommates ended up renting a flat that they'd found on www.craigslist.org, rented by a landlord who had previously worked with Oberlin students. "Searching for a flat was a difficult and humbling experience, but now… I'm glad I went through the process. Oberlin just isn't designed to teach students street skills, but opportunities like this help students develop them on their own," Spier said. Another current student, who wished to remain nameless, had a similar view in his housing situation. He said, "The support staff in London was excellent, helpful, welcoming, supportive and really caring." After finding a suitable and reasonably priced flat, the student said, "Even if it wasn't the most fun experience, it was a really great one to have — in the same way that co-ops are really valuable experiences. Oberlin is so isolated from reality sometimes it's refreshing to have experiences like these." Regarding the housing situation Blecher said, "It's not good enough to say everyone else does it, but it works. It got solved, it always gets solved." He continued, "When [the students] solve it, they feel great. It actually is a real learning experience about London." |
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The Forgotten
Movie Review
The Forgotten
by Eric D. Snider
Grade: C
Released: September 24, 2004
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"The Forgotten" is the sort of movie where, once you learn what's really going on, you realize you liked it better when you didn't know. The facts of the movie are so silly, and so full of plot holes, that it takes all the fun out of it.
If you've seen one episode of "The X-Files," you've seen most of this movie. If you've seen multiple episodes, you know every plot twist in this movie. If you've seen every episode, you could write this movie.
Point of fact, it was written by one Gerald Di Pego, who also wrote the Jennifer Lopez drama "Angel Eyes." It's interesting to note that while "Angel Eyes" seemed like it was going to be supernatural but turned out to be quite ordinary, "The Forgotten" does exactly the opposite. It starts out like a fascinating psychological thriller but then becomes ... well, "The X-Files."
My beloved Julianne Moore, who will one day consent to marry me, plays Telly Paretta, an upper-class Brooklyn woman who is mourning the death of her 9-year-old son Sam 14 months ago. Sam and five other children died in a chartered-plane crash on the way to summer camp, and now Telly occasionally runs into the father of one of the other victims, Ash Correll (Dominic West), a former hockey player who has taken up drinking as his new profession.
The problem, as stated by Telly's husband Jim (Anthony Edwards) and her psychiatrist Dr. Munce (Gary Sinise), is that Telly never had a son. She gave birth 10 years ago, but the baby was stillborn. The child's life and subsequent death in the plane crash were all imagined by Telly and put up with by her long-suffering husband. Telly is what we call "crazy."
She begins to have a breakthrough, however, as evidence around the house starts changing. A photograph of her, Jim and Sam becomes one of just her and Jim. A photo album becomes blank. Jim and Munce believe she is starting to see reality. Telly believes NOW is when she's going insane, and she doesn't understand why no one around her remembers her son.
Ash Correll doesn't remember his daughter, either, until Telly forces him to and the floodgates open. Why has everyone else forgotten? Why did Ash forget until Telly reminded him? Or are they both really crazy?
That's when government agents appear on the scene. I can't tell you anything after that, except to say that I like Alfre Woodard a lot, and she plays a police detective. But that's it. My lips are sealed beyond that.
Director Joseph Ruben has given us some enjoyably schlocky fare in the past -- "Sleeping with the Enemy," "The Good Son," "Money Train" -- and "The Forgotten" almost achieves that level of preposterous fun, and it does have a few genuinely startling moments. Unfortunately, it's the kind of absurd story that can only work if it's done very, very seriously. If the movie ever cracked a smile, it wouldn't be able to stop itself from laughing, and the whole thing would be ruined.
Grade: C
Rated PG-13, some profanity, a little violence, intense stuff
1 hr., 31 min.
Copyright © Eric D. Snider.
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Join us in the Craster Arms beer garden this summer to celebrate the magic that is BEER !!
The Craster Arms Beer Festival is back this year, on the 28th and 29th July.
We will have 14 local beers and ales, an out door bar, BBQ and family entertainment.
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Pop! Art Bodypaints by Emma Hack
The bold colored styles of Roy Lichtenstein meets skin in Emma's new series explores the themes of motivational messages, break-up advice, and social media as told through the contours of the female form. No more perfect canvas was ever created, I've always said. Part of an exhibit at Seaview Gallery in Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, showing January 12th through January 28th. All images are available for purchase in glossy perspex over at emmahackartist.
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How to Make a Baby by photographer Patrice Laroche and Sandra Denis, the mother of his new baby daughter Justine.
cool couple is cool
love it. going to email this to my psych teacher
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Watch Macklemore & Ryan Lewis literally shake the dust off the ceiling tiles at the NPR Music offices in a Tiny Desk Concert.
Photo: Lauren Rock/NPR
you really really need to watch this video, it's super quality!
Souvenirs by Michael Hughes
such an awesome idea!
this one works entirely too well.
now that is a fucking 3d gifset
best one…by far…
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AmoeBAND became a 2012 IDEA Award Finalist by innovating every possible aspect of the plaster (band aid).
The design revisions were:
- Strategic cut-outs shape to fit fingers in such a way that it is easy to bend them and not disrupt the bandage.
- An intelligent dressing material allows you to regularly check wounds from the outside, without upsetting the healing process."According to research, the when an infection of a wound is detected, the pH value is between 6.5 and 8.5. AmoeBAND's indicator cross turns purple, alerting the user needs to change it immediately."
- Since the bandage material used exudes a leather-like feel, availability in different skin-tones helps it blend in, without overly highlighting the injury.
- The packaging has been redesigned to a matchbox style and includes Braille instructions.
Hat tip to designers Tay Pek-Khai, Hsu Hao-Ming, Tsai Cheng-Yu, Chen Kuei-Yuan, Chen Yi-Ting, Lai Jen-Hao, Ho Chia-Ying, Chen Ying-shan, Weng Yu-Ching and Chung Kuo-Ting
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The Minister's Treehouse: A 100ft Tall Church Built Over 11 Years without Blueprints
The entire building wraps around a giant tree and was built completely without blueprints, sprawling to an estimated 10,000 square feet inside, including a four-story swing set.
"four-story swing set."
Jenn…have you seen this dream fort before? Frakking amazing…!


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On the top secret Moekko Island, a man named Kanzaki Takahiro unconditionally trains combat maids for their duties. When an older inefficient model named Rinia is brought to the island, however, Takahiro can't voice his disapproval more, but takes her in under company orders. From washing windows to cooking, to keeping the company's clean-up squad from invading, there's never a dull moment in the lives of Takahiro, Rei (the company's representative) and bumbling Rinia, gothic Kazusa, and the rest of the combat maids of Moekko Island!
In the distant future, the universe is under attack by robotic destroyers named Zeravire whose goal is to eradicate all of mankind. Enter Klein Sandman, a millionaire with a penchant for saving the world – or at least, one can assume. He's built the mecha Gravion, a machine capable of destroying the Zeravire with the help of several young pilots, but piloting it comes at a high price. Along with sheltered Toga, well endowed Mizuki and a varied cast of pilots and maids alike, young Shigure Eiji must help lead Gravion to victory, else all of humanity will perish!


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Paul Burke describes himself as a "serial entrepreneur."
It was just a "matter of him putting it all together" as Alex Bedwell won the Starkville Country Club Invitational recently.
For many "mid-major" football programs, the chance to play a team in a big-time conference is welcomed. Many of the smaller schools are on a mission to prove something and may enter with a chip on its shoulder. That may be seen this weekend in Starkville. Mississippi State (2-3) host Mid-American Conference school Bowling Green (5-1) this Saturday for homecoming. Â
There are no championships or regional berths on the line in the fall, but that doesn't mean this time of the year is any less important for the Mississippi State softball program. Seven games have been scheduled for the Bulldogs over the next three weeks and coach Vann Stuedeman wants to use those outings to introduce the newcomers to the game at a higher level.
Lorrin Webb is a recent graphic design graduate from Mississippi State who has been all over the country that is thriving because of art. Because of her exposure to such artwork, Webb is now working to make Starkville a more visually appealing town through building murals.
Alyson Karges believes in Starkville. As a native of the city, Karges is deeply rooted in the many things that make Starkville what it is today.
Homecoming on a college campus is usually a special time. This year's Mississippi State homecoming is especially special for head coach Dan Mullen. Mullen leads his Bulldogs (2-3) into a homecoming showdown with the Bowling Green Falcons (5-1) this Saturday.Â
The Starkville Yellowjackets weren't as sharp as they could have been on offense last Friday night, but in a winning situation, there can be a reason to smile. After a 35-0 homecoming victory against Northwest Rankin, the Jackets improved their records to 4-2 overall and 2-0 in Class 6A, Region 2.
Earlier last week, Jamarcus Bradley said teams had better watch out for Choctaw County this season because their time was now. The Chargers quarterback was speaking in reference to those that said with the area schools combining, it might take a while for success to come their way. After starting out the season 5-1, it seems as though Bradley's prediction might be coming true.
Over the last 14 years or so, the LSU game hasn't been kind to Mississippi State. That was no different Saturday night. The Bulldogs dropped a 59-26 decision to No. 10 LSU for their 14th-consecutive loss to the Tigers.