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Founded in 1942, the Catherine McAuley High School in East Flatbush was once a convent whose rooms, over time, were left empty. Today, as a model in-city boarding program, the rooms are full again with young women gaining an "education for life."
Brooklyn has about 30 miles of some of the city's most beautiful waterfront, with views of New York's famous skyline and the Statue of Liberty. But many born and bred here have never seen it.
Many New Yorkers go through life without ever getting behind the wheel of a car, much less behind that of a commercial truck. But for dozens of New Yorkers each year, that truck cab has become the beginning of a new life.
Community gardens not only beautify neighborhoods and provide avenues for recreation and camaraderie at the local level; they also provide an opportunity for people of any age to connect with nature and learn about about health and nutrition.
Research has proven that exposure to arts at a young age helps kids stay in--and finish--school. Unfortunately, some families simpy can't afford to make us of our borough's cultural offerings. Cool Culture makes the arts accessible.
In 1955, a group of Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn established Guardians of the Sick based on classic Jewish communal organizational structure to provide special care and proper burial for other Holocaust survivors who were suffering from debilitating emotional and medical needs.
Habitat for Humanity is known throughout the world for recruiting volunteers to build homes for low-income people. However, this model faces challenges in an urban setting like Brooklyn, where open land is scarce and expensive.
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Florida has decided to make a Texas-style bet on biotechnology. The strategy: entice world-class centers of biomedical research to establish local campuses. The Scripps Research Institute, where I am an adjunct professor, was the first taker: the La Jolla-based Institute was promised more than $500 million in state and county funds to launch a campus near Palm Beach. After several years of intense public discussion, a site was selected
Especially pleasing to me is the focus on translational research: bringing ideas from the laboratory to human trials. Scripps has installed a cutting-edge robotic facility that will develop new drugs based on genomic discoveries. The center will specialize in illnesses such as Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes, as well as infectious diseases such as malaria.
Scripps Florida will soon be joined by a cousin from Germany, a branch of the famed Max Planck Research Institute. The Burnham Institute for Medical Research will open a campus in Orlando, while the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies will construct a facility in Port St. Lucie. In all, the state and counties will spend more than $1 billion to build international leadership in biomedical research. The hope, of course, is that this investment will pay off not only in the form of new high-paying jobs but also in the expansion of the biotechnology industry.
So far, all is on track. There is a palpable sense of excitement and energy. The staffers, for the most part, are young and eager to prove themselves. Based on my conversations with them, it is clear that they have a mission: to create new drugs and vaccines to treat and cure our most difficult diseases. Scripps scientists were recently awarded an $80 million grant for translational research, one of just four of its kind in the country. And the researchers are busily filling out more applications, eager to take advantage of new stimulus funds allocated for biomedical research.
It is worth emphasizing that Florida has chosen not to draw upon universities or government laboratories as it develops these new campuses. Rather, the state and its counties have asked private research institutes to replicate their own outstanding successes. This is a key element in Florida's strategy: private research centers have more more flexibility in creating partnerships with industry than do most universities and government laboratories.
To that end, the state of Florida has set aside land for new high-tech and biotech companies adjacent to each of the new research centers. I hope that this second phase of the plan will not be too badly hurt by the current economic crisis. (See my previous post on this site, "High Tech at Risk.")
For now, the buoyant optimism of the nascent biomedical research institutes stands in sharp contrast to the eerie quiet of South Florida. In Miami, construction cranes hang still and silent above half-completed towers. The shining new residential buildings that dot the landscape seem empty and forlorn. In Boca Raton, the mood is similar. Traffic in Palm Beach has vanished. The mood at the Country Club is funereal, and the talk is of bereavement sessions for Madoff victims. Charity balls and auctions have mostly been canceled. Small groups gather for private dinners where bands once played for parties of thousands. Rumors swirl -- are one third of the houses in Palm Beach really for sale? -- and hopes of a rapid recovery seem distant. Let us hope that biotechnology will lead the way to renewed growth in Florida.
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Ephesians 5:8-14 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
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Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama's Hair Matters
By Guest Contributor Danielle Fuentes Morgan
It's a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It's almost a universal African American experience, except this time it was asked under different circumstances and for a different reason.
"Can I touch your hair?"
The photo of this moment, three-years-old at this point, is making the rounds again. You've seen it in your inbox and on social networking sites—President Obama, bent at his waist while a five-year-old African American boy wearing a tie and dress pants touches his hair. It seems innocuous enough—meriting a few awwws certainly—but leaving some to wonder what all the fuss is about. Cute, sure. But is this news? Absolutely.
The New York Times recounts the conversation between Jacob and the president:
"I want to know if my hair is just like yours," he told Mr. Obama, so quietly that the president asked him to speak again.
Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, "Why don't you touch it and see for yourself?" He lowered his head, level with Jacob, who hesitated.
"Touch it, dude!" Mr. Obama said.
As Jacob patted the presidential crown, Mr. Souza snapped.
"So, what do you think?" Mr. Obama asked.
"Yes, it does feel the same," Jacob said.
Jacob had the opportunity to meet the president, face-to-face, and the question he decided to ask was about his hair? And this is the point where people get caught up. Why his hair? Wasn't it enough to see that his skin was brown like the president's skin?
Hair holds great interracial and intraracial significance for African Americans. How it looks and how it feels is viewed as a nearly political choice. I think of my youngest brother, soft-spoken and introspective, who cut his hair into a 'frohawk while in middle school and how the girls shyly smiled at this newly christened bad boy.
Or my middle brother, a pianist, who mesmerized audiences as his 'fro (now dreadlocks) bounced and rocked as he slammed on the keys; now, that's musician hair. I look back on my days teaching high school, where the girls asked for five more minutes after the bell to finish braiding their friend's hair so she could look good for lunch. Meanwhile, the boys meticulously brushed their hair and picked out their 'fros during silent reading.
In some black communities, hair isn't just a woman's crowning glory.
Hair can be an immense source of black pride but also a source of shame and identity confusion. It has been historically parodied and ridiculed. It has been caricatured. But what happens when this is presidential hair? By touching the president's hair–hair like his own–Jacob not only got confirmation of the president's blackness, but also of their shared experiences. It was a wise choice by a smart young man.
Perhaps then one of the president's greatest legacies will ultimately be that his presence in office and his very physicality gestures to a new limitlessness for children of color–a limitlessness that seems granted to white American children by virtue of cultural inheritance.
People often wonder aloud, with no lack of condescension, why young black men aspire to become rap superstars or NBA ballers. The answer is simply that these are the leadership roles in which black men are prominently featured in the media and, as a result, children gravitate to the careers they have seen modeled.
After all, it is a rare young man of any race who grows up hoping to become an investment banker or reach middle management, unless their parents pursued these career paths. Obama's presidency changes things, and that fact cannot be overemphasized. It's perhaps even less important that children of color believe they can be the president specifically, but that they believe they can now be anything.
If a black man—indeed, a black man named Barack Hussein Obama—can become leader of the free world, then what can't a child of color do? It's this new belief in the possibility of limitlessness that matters so much. Perhaps Jacob couldn't believe his eyes. But by touching the president's hair, his own potential was affirmed.
Danielle Fuentes Morgan is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Cornell University. She is especially interested in 20th and 21st century African American literature, episodes of "The Twilight Zone," and her dog, Moxie. She hails from Durham, North Carolina.
Excellent article! Such insight into the picture and exchange between President Obama and Jacob. You continue to make me proud to be your "Aunt Ava".
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I love the picture you selected and the interesting way you described the significance of hair in the African-American community. The " new limitlessness for children of color" is so monumental and such an excellent phrase to describe the blessing of children of color finally being able to believe in their dreams. I absolutely agree with you that this is one of the most important gifts President Obama has given us. Congrats to a very gifted, very special writer!!! Kim Olivia Obanor
This is one of the most powerful photos of our era.
Seems like that fact *can* be overemphasized as seen by proclamations that racism is over
I love this picture, for some reason I never saw it before this week.
Anyway, I think this was a great article. I'd like to add on that it's not just in the African American community where "Hair can be an immense source of black pride but also a source of shame
and identity confusion. It has been historically parodied and ridiculed.
It has been caricatured." I live in West Africa now, and people here seem to have more hatred of natural hair than anywhere else I've ever seen. I have been mocked and ridiculed by family members, strangers, and "friends"… I've heard everything from "Why won't you get a relaxer" to "don't lock your hair" to "you're making black people look bad!"Here, people are thrilled that America has a black president, regardless of his political stance on anything. Would they be as thrilled if he had an Afro? Or locs? Or if he was cornrowed? Would he even have been elected if that were the case? Would they be thrilled with a black female president with long locs down her back or if she rocked a twist-out everyday? I wonder.
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This actually made me tear up a little.
"leader of the free world" – I just love the phrase, it's awfully State's centric and people don't even notice it. With that said, best wishies to Obama and it's a good things that more kids will belive they can be Presidents (and more the pity, for those who can't, no matter how long they have been living there)
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In Italy we have a relatively efficient emergency national organization for these events but we have also some problems that we cannot overcome. For instance there are very few recent and shake resistant buildings, many are centuries old many and the others were built cheaply. And on average we keep them as "precious" and keep using them despite they are totally unsafe. Then as Nation we are on the limit of bankrupt so we don't have resources to spend for a crisis let aside the idea of totally redo buildings across the Nation.


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Welcome to McMinn County
"Our Tennessee Home"
"The Knobs in eastern McMinn County"
Sharon McCormack & Joyce G. Reece, May, 2003
Tennessee Local History Network Website
American Local History Network www.alhn.org
American History and Geography Project www.ahgp.org
A wonderful map of the Overhill region which includes McMinn County. The communities of Delano, Calhoun, Riceville, Etowah, Englewood, Athens & Niota showing on this map are in our county. Just north are the Monroe County communities of Tellico Plains, Madisonville, Coker Creek, Sweetwater and Vonore. South are towns of Polk County which include Copperhill, Ducktown, Turtletown, Farner, Reliance, Conasauga, Old Fort, Ocoee, Benton and the Wetmore community adjacent to Delano. This region is called the "Overhill" in honor of the Over-the-Hill Cherokee People.
Our on-site records are now located thru this link
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Peg White Sulfsted | email@example.com | SAR Patriot Index Edition III 2002 This search may or may not turn up your patriot. They only show those who have descendants in the Society. Your ancestor may have served and not have a descendant in the society. | |
Jean Kinzalow | email@example.com | McMinn County Census Be sure to put McMinn County in the subject line. Jean does a lot of counties and needs to know which one you want |
1830-1850 |
Doris Melton | firstname.lastname@example.com | McMinn County Cemetery Index by Sharon McCormack based on Marvin and Samme Templin's Book and Cemetery Webpages |
Mary Jo Bohmholdt | firstname.lastname@example.com | McMinn County Cemeteries from the Samme and Marvin Templin book | |
Rex Bertram |
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Linda Manuel | firstname.lastname@example.com | WPA McMinn Transcripts book | Bible Records and original Cedar Grove Cemetery | Jane Lasley | email@example.com Check out the other books she can do lookups from at http://www.leavesfromourtree.com/Books.html |
The Legend of Buster Duggan |
Mary Clyde Reid Mungo | firstname.lastname@example.com two lookups per week and make sure it's specific name not just a surname and mention specific book lookup in subject line |
King'sMountain and It's Men by Lyman C Draper King's Mountain Men by KK White Patriot's of King's Mountain by Bobby Gilmer Moss |
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Libraries are always a great resource. Here are links for a few in our area.
(Data compiled by Sharon McCormack)
EG Fisher Library 1289 Ingleside Av Athens, TN 37303 423-745-7782 |
Carnegie Library 723 Ohio Ave Etowah, TN 37331 423-263-9475 http://www.etowahlibrary.com/ |
Fort Loudoun Regional 718 George St Athens, TN 37303 423-745-5194 Fort Loudon webcat | |
Madisonville 305 College St Madisonville, TN 37354 email@example.com Kim Hicks Lib. Director firstname.lastname@example.com Head of Genealogy Dept-Jo Stakely |
Sweetwater 210 Mayes Av Sweetwater, TN 37874 |
Chattanooga Bicentennial Library 1001 Broad St. Chattanooga, TN 37402 Chattanooga Bicentennial Library | |
Lawson McGhee 500 West Church Avenue Knoxville, TN |
Knoxville Public 500 West Church Avenue Knoxville, TN 37902 865-215-8750 http://www.knoxlib.org/ |
Decatur Public Library 120 E Memorial Dr 37322 | |
Cleveland Public Library History Branch 833 N Ocoee Cleveland, TN 37311 |
Tennessee State Library and Archives http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/ |
East Tennessee Historical Center 314 West Clinch Avenue Knoxville, TN http://www.east-tennessee-history.org/ | |
Calvin McClung Collection 314 West Clinch Avenue Knoxville TN http://www.knoxcounty.org/library/mcclung/. |
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2/03/2005: Vietnam: USCIRF welcomes release of RF advocates, but notes overall lack of human rights |
Contact: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has confirmed that Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly has returned to his family home today in the central province of Thue Thien-Hue. Fr. Ly was released with several other prominent democracy, free speech, and religious freedom advocates, including Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, Nguyen Dinh Huy, and Thich Thien Minh. Fr. Ly was released from prison as part of a general amnesty coinciding with the Tet New Year holiday. Both Fr. Ly and Dr. Que are well-known advocates of religious freedom and democracy and have openly criticized the Vietnamese government for its poor human rights record. Fr. Ly angered Vietnamese authorities when he submitted written testimony to a USCIRF hearing in 2001. In the testimony he criticized the Vietnamese government's interference with religious belief and practice and urged the United States not to ratify the bilateral trade agreement (BTA) until the communist government improved its human rights record. He was charged with undermining national unity and sentenced in 2001 to 15 years in jail plus five years of house arrest. Dr. Huy was arrested in 1993 for planning an international conference on human rights. United Buddhist Church of Vietnam monk Thich Thien Minh has been imprisoned since 1979 for protesting the government takeover of his pagoda. "In light of the asserted basis for his arrest, Fr. Ly's freedom is particularly important to the Commission. For the past three years we have worked hard to focus international and domestic pressure for his release," said USCIRF Chair Preeta D. Bansal. "We also welcome the release of Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, Nguyen Dinh Huy, and Thich Thien Minh, but recognize that many prisoners remain in Vietnam for doing nothing more than peacefully advocating for the freedom of thought, conscience, and belief." Last year, the U.S. State Department, as urged by the Commission, named Vietnam a "country of particular concern" (CPC) for egregious, ongoing, and systematic abuses of the freedom of religion and belief. The CPC designation carries with it the possibility of sanctions if the government of Vietnam fails to address concerns about religious freedom abuses.
Continued Bansal, "Vietnam ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) but many of the fundamental rights of the ICCPR have either not been incorporated into the domestic law or are qualified by vague prohibition against undermining national unity or security. We hope the release of Fr. Ly, Dr. Que, and the others will signal a change in Vietnam's human rights record, but we temper that hope with the sober reality that prisoner releases do not mean structural change. Until there is such change, the government of Vietnam has not sufficiently addressed the concerns that lead to the CPC designation in the first place."
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Ok i will try just saying the command once, and keep doing the hand signal. I've tried getting her all excited but when i have treats out she will do nothing but stare at my hands or where the treats are and she doesn't care if i jump around and go crazy or not lol
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I like to have treat in hand, lure my pup down, then say down when she's down, click and give treat! then I would have her "stay" then take a couple steps back and walk back to her and click for another treat. That helped a lot w/her keeping her position. Then I would run and say "come" so she would run after me or another treat! Another way I have her stay down longer is after she's in the "down" position I keeping clicking every few seconds for keeping the position! What type of treats are you using? I've tried many different kinds and boiled chicken breasts works best for me!
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I had an adult dog come into my classes for training that HATED to down. He had been taught harshly as a young dog. So we made a game of it. I put a great in my hand, under my thumb and pressed against the palm, but keeping the other 4 fingers straight. My hand would go up next to my shoulder as the signal to down, then would come down on the dog. If he downed, he got the treat, if not he was pushed gently into position. He quickly caught on to going down fast meant he got the treat faster.
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They have to learn the command before they will learn the hand signal...how do they know what the hand signal means? You can do it all together, but concentrate on getting the dog down...you won't be able to keep giving the hand signal if your tapping the floor...one the dog understands you will be able to put everything all together. My golden has a quick down, the GSD is still working on a fast down...she doesn't want to sit or lay down for a second, she might miss something
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The Poetry Center's "Outreach" into the City
Central to our activities is the encouragement we bring to poetry
at all levels of education. Poets from CCNY's creative writing
staff, along with teaching assistants and graduate students,
go into the schools to set up poetry units, and present readings
and workshops in public school class rooms. In addition, we also
have made contact with various community organizations in Har-
lem, including the Harlem Y and Harlem Tours. Local poetry
groups such as those run through the Writer's Voice also send
representatives. The objective is always to help set up a structure
and an atmosphere where original, creative writing -- and an
appreciation for the power of poetry-- can take place. We un-
reservedly believe that poetry contributes to the larger culture
and the process of becoming and maintaining a civilization.
The principal poetry organizations located in New York are all
involved with our efforts. The Poetry Society of America helps
honor our high school winners with guest memberships and gift
books. Teachers & Writers, Inc.sends a representative to help
judge the annual high school poetry contest*. Poets House, a
gracious setting for the enjoyment of poetry, located on Spring
St., has opened its doors to our participants and made its
extensive poetry library available. It has also hosted receptions
for the high school poets who have been recognized by our
poetry contest. We continue to reach out to even more stu-
dents than before. The public schools are more eager than
ever for outside programs as arts and aesthetic education
especially have been largely eliminated by government
budget cuts.
In closing, the work of the poetry Outreach Center is one of
City College's most effective teaching and outreach programs.
Its work engages the talents of City's students and faculty who
in turn impact the lives of thousands of public school children.
Moreover, the Center is a demonstration of City College's too
often overlooked human talent, and the contribution that talent
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TCM Dark Crimes Film Noir Thrillers
Bless you Robert Osbourne and Ted Turner; you always come through! Thanks to TCM three important films noir have finally gotten a U.S. DVD release. TCM's Dark Crimes collection features Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady (1944), George Marshall's The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Stuart Heisler's The Glass Key (1942). Though none of these three films really quite stand up on their own as bonafide noir classics each one is an indispensable entry in the classic noir canon. Phantom Lady was adapted from a short story by Cornell Woolrich. The Blue Dahlia was written by Raymond Chandler while The Glass Key was based on a novel by Dashiell Hammet. And two of the films star the legendary Hollywood thriller pairing of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.
For my money Phantom Lady is the best of the trio. Though its first half easily out-classes its second there is enough existential dread and lonely urban ennui to secure its importance as a go-to example of shadowy lighting, paranoia, and romantic fatalism. Then unfortunately things get a bit hokey. Still, that first half really is stellar. Alan Curtis plays Scott Henderson, an unhappily married business man who steps out one night to get away from his daily grind of bickering with his wife by picking up a stranger at a bar and taking her to a show. Unfortunately his wife is murdered while he's gone and the police don't believe his story that he was never home. Scott's secretary Carol (Ella Raines) frantically tries to track down the mysterious "phantom lady" whom Scott took to the show and who would be able to secure Scott's alibi. Along the way there's Elisha Cook Jr. at his sad-sack sleaziest and eventually Franchot Tone as a sensitive artist obsessed with hands (as the wife was strangled, I'm sure you can guess where this is going).
Continue ReadingChristmas in July
Snarky critiques of the American success story – a myth so central to the national psyche – are few and far between and they are certainly hard to imagine coming out of the 1940s, a decade when a nation shell-shocked by the Depression was regularly sedated by Busby Berkeley fantasies and stylish gangster wish fulfillment crime dramas. But writer/director Preston Sturges was too funny and clever to let such a sacred cow go unskewered.
Sometimes I think Sturges is a bit too clever for my taste. With many of his movies there is the unsavory sensation of an author laughing at his own jokes too loudly. Some of them, such as The Palm Beach Story, seem less hilarious than just smug. But Christmas in July – with its ridiculous brevity (it's only 68 minutes long) – is a short, sharp, shock of hilarity. Really, it is. Dick Powell plays a frustrated accountant who anxiously wants to be a success in life. Though he was known first as an awe-shucks sort of song-and-dance man from various Berkeley musicals, Powell was later often cast as a cynical anti-hero in many detective roles. In this film we get a little of that coolness from his slightly sarcastic tone and weary demeanor.
Continue ReadingGreat Balls of Fire!
Great Balls of Fire!, the sort of tragic but really fun story of Jerry Lee Lewis, is a movie as bonkers as its hellcat hero. Lewis was a first class creep who made enough bad decisions to fill up a whole heap of country records many times over but he has more scorching Lucifer-bestowed talent than you, me, and all of our friends put together, probably. He got the biopic he deserved in this cranked up Southern exploitation romp that manages to both vilify and celebrate "the Killer" at the same time without any useless moral handwringing that would've sounded an insufferably false note anyway.
Dennis Quaid is a terribly wonderful, terribly underrated actor and he goes all out with his Killer. Looking like a Deep South doppelganger of Cesar Romero's the Joker from the 1960's Batman TV show, he's a demonic pretty boy in a yellow suit who knows he can steal the show from anyone he's put onstage with. He charms and infuriates all the people hitched to his star, be it Sam Phillips of Sun Records (played by the late, great Trey Wilson) or his bandmates (including John Doe from X). Alec Baldwin plays his (later to be notorious) cousin, preacher Jimmy Swaggart. Everyone seems to want a piece of Jerry Lee, from a groupie who makes off with a lock of his golden hair to his "man of God" cousin who even then was a terrible hypocrite while up there on his bully pulpit.
Continue ReadingBehind the Candelabra
Remember when Wilco got a ton of press for having been dropped from their record label, Reprise, just as they were about to release the album that went on to be their most critically acclaimed and popular work, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? It was a story often repeated at the time as a shorthand demonstration of how sorry and dysfunctional the music industry had become. How could one of the country's best, most innovative and respected bands get dropped as a reward for making their finest synthesis of experimental leanings and classic Americana pop song craft? The story became symbolic of how skewed the priorities had gotten within the music industry which increasingly focused on short term profits from lowest common denominator garbage.
Well, I happen to think that Behind the Candelabra has become the filmic equivalent of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Every story about the film leading up to its release had to mention how no Hollywood studio would make the movie even though it was to star two of the most famous (Michael Douglas) and bankable (Matt Damon) stars working today and directed by one of the most successful and esteemed filmmakers (Soderbergh). Bankable stars; a respected, dependable filmmaker; a juicy, ridiculous story—what's not to like? Apparently enough that only HBO would agree to make it, effectively killing the film's chances of a theatrical release and giving one of the best, most entertaining movies of the year over to television.
Continue ReadingDirty Pretty Things
Who the hell is hounding you in the BMW
How the hell he find you, 147'd you
Feds gonna get you
Pull the strings on the hood
One paranoid youth blazin' thru the hood
– M.I.A. "Galang"
In the introduction to his published screenplay of Chinatown Robert Towne considers the depressing state of contemporary cinema in a Hollywood decades removed from Chinatown and the New Hollywood of the 1970s. For him it's the overload of expository dialogue meant to move the plot along and wooden, one-dimensional quality of characters in current films that kills any suspense or drama.
Continue ReadingDuel in the Sun
They don't really make 'em like this any more. Dubbed "Lust in the Dust" by clever people of the time Duel in the Sun is a ferociously overheated western with a bad romance novel plot blown up to the scale of grand opera. The combination of terrible acting, epic scope, its goofy depiction of a lustily violent romance, and Technicolor so rich and strange it makes Texas look like Mars all work to achieve a rare kind of purity that the film exudes. Hollywood still produces expensive flops but rarely something this original and insane. It was truly the Showgirls of its day. We have star producer David O. Selznick to thank for this fantastic folly.
Selznick needed to top his previous success with Gone With the Wind. He was also determined to make his questionably talented mistress Jennifer Jones a big star. Selznick's meddling with Duel in the Sun is legendary. He ran through directors (including Selznick himself and the inimitable Josef von Sternberg who, one would assume, would have been a perfect match for such gilded fakery), fought with his composer, Dimitri Tiomkin, and spent so much money and overstuffed his movie with so much talent – Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Herbert Marshall – that the results were going to be interesting no matter what.
Continue ReadingDetropia
Recently I had to re-watch Michael Moore's muckraking sort-of masterpiece Roger & Me (1989) a film that would mark the start of Moore's ascendency to deified portly prince of the Left. Roger & Me was effective as a scathing satire of Reaganomics but also full of fabrications and inaccuracies, which were entirely unnecessary. He had a great story but, much like his lardy lad appetite for tasty sweets, he could not help himself and had to greedily embellish details to make his story that much more shocking. It was a dumb thing to do because it distracted from the important stuff his film addresses.
Still, no one doubts that Moore shined a light on important issues for an audience that could never be reached by The Nation or Mother Jones. He is probably right that professional jealousy accounts for at least some of the sour grapes that his adversaries on the left have been sucking on for some time. But I submit to you that they have a point. (Check out Manufacturing Dissent – a leftist critique of Moore – available illegally, I think, on YouTube.) For all his success it is true that he has dumbed down the discourse surrounding issues of systemic inequality embedded in a classist, white privilege-based society such as ours. He makes his films all about him and like a Leftist Charles Foster Kane he sounds paranoid and overly reactionary about anyone who dares criticize him or his methods.
Continue ReadingVito
I'll never forget seeing The Celluloid Closet, the documentary based on Vito Russo's seminal overview of LGBT representation in American film. I was 19, a college student in Lawrence, Kansas watching it in a documentary film class. It was like oxygen - for the first time I was seeing a film that confirmed gay stories and a gay sensibility had always been a part of Hollywood Cinema. You just had to know where and how to look.
Vito Russo's work as a film scholar synthesized a whole history of gay images and themes in film. The Celluloid Closet is an ecstatic celebration of such iconic gay images as Marlene Dietrich in a tuxedo in Morocco and the gut-wrenching ensemble piece about life in New York for a group of gay male friends in The Boys in the Band. The movie also serves as a scathing indictment of Hollywood and its "morals" code, a system that perpetuated the false notion that homosexuals didn't exist and, if they did, they had to die by the film's end. It was sobering, educational, cathartic, and celebratory. And the man responsible was not alive to see it because he had died of AIDS years earlier.
Continue ReadingDig!
Dig! is a completely unreliable documentary about two rock bands who were around in the late 1990s -the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. You do not have to be fans of these bands to find this movie entertaining. I didn't believe for a second that what I was watching was anything more than some amateur footage of two bands with a clumsy narrative about success, art, commerce and "selling out" (one of the really quaint concepts that shows you how different things are now) grafted on, but it's worthwhile because it's a film with some genuine characters – goofballs, sleazy good time Charlies, and actually some really good music. Part of the charm of these bands is how little they had in common with the music scene at the time.
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Continue ReadingThe Lady from Shanghai (1947)
A deeply weird thriller as exotically perverse as they come, The Lady from Shanghai is a solitary entry in the exclusive canon of "maritime noir." Much like The Big Sleep -- in that the plot is so utterly convoluted it becomes impossible to figure out who is double crossing whom -- yet is doesn't matter because the film succeeds as a glamorous nightmare, a proto-Lynchian exercise in atmospheric dread. It is less than a full vision of Welles's inimitable imagination because, as usual, the studio hacked away at the movie, adding corny musical cues, and soft-focus close-ups of Rita Hayworth where they didn't belong. But it mostly works because the images are so original and inspired and because Welles and Hayworth bring a genuine spark of sexual chemistry to their roles. Even when it's painful to notice the studio's inane additions to the film in compromise of Welles's artistry it's hard to regard the intense, dreamy, fragmented bits of brilliance the film is comprised of as a complete tragedy.
Welles plays Mike "Black Irish" O'hara, an "able-bodied seaman" for hire in New York. Mike's a romantic - a tough guy who writes poetry and killed a Franco spy fighting in the Spanish Civil War. He's a brooding, sexy tough guy with depth. He meets Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth), the wealthy wife of a crippled trial lawyer, Arthur Bannister, one night in Central Park. After rescuing her from an attempted gang rape in the park he is later propositioned by her husband to work on their yacht as they sail to Mexico. Mike can't say no to Elsa and soon they're sailing to Mexico. It's here where the film is most memorable as the landscape changes from a back lot version of Manhattan to actual location shooting of the ocean and a Mexican fishing village. As the characters are revealed to be more sinister the cinematography gets more and more darkly beautiful. Welles gets great things out of his cast and crew, and the result is unlike any thriller from the period. It's noir but in Welles's hands it transcends genre trappings.
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Undefeated Blue Mountain Stone got the night off Monday evening on the adult co-ed softball schedule of games in Bohn Park, and a pack of "also rans" used the league leaders' respite to nip at the heels of the "Big Dog!" The Natural Disasters, McHeaters, and the Paddy Whackers, all sporting 2 – 1 records, seized the opportunity and won their respective contests to pull within a half a game of the Quarryworkers.
In the six o'clock game between the Natural Disasters and Fast Signs, it was the Disasters that got off to a fast start. Scoring seven runs
Read more: Also Rans Gain Ground On BMSIn a career that has its start in the beginnings of the San Francisco rock music scene as a drummer for the nearly forgotten rock group, the Charlatans (the band that some say, "started it all"), through a series of classic recordings in the 1970's as leader of Dan Hicks and
Read more: Dan Hicks & The Hot LicksConfetti is often the colorful evidence of a celebration. It is also the theme for the daring-to be-dazzling upcoming new three-month show at Lyons Town Hall, opening Friday, June 7, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Dovetailing with this unjuried art event will be the first annual Lyons Film Festival from 7 to 9 p.m. orchestrated by local filmmaker and celebrated musician, Sally Van Meter. Roughly seven experimental short documentaries
Read more: "Confetti" & Lyons Film Festival At Town HallBy Joseph Lekarczyk
In the interest of full disclosure, let it be known that the author of this article is married to the Mayor.
Apparently the phone lines and cyberspace at Town Hall were filled with "mixed" reviews concerning the weekend's Lyons Outdoor Games on Monday. Some thought the event was "bigger and better than ever," while others feared for their lives (and the well being of their pets) because of the fireworks, loud music, and rowdy behavior. According to Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen, she, Town Staff, and event organizers will be sitting down sometime next week to "debrief" and try to determine what worked well, and what needs to be adjusted. They
Read more: Trustees And Staff Get "Mixed" Reviews For GamesBy Chrystal DeCoster
A "hub" can be defined as, "The central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate" or "A place or thing that forms the effective center of an activity, region, or network."
The time is nigh for defining the potential hub of Lyons.
Last Wednesday, May 29, at 7 p.m., at Lyons Valley Village, an open public meeting was held toward this end. Information was gathered from the roughly sixty attendees at this visioning session, where maps were offered for clarification, bubble diagramming and insights from experts
Read more: "Heart of Lyons" Visioning SessionThe filming of the movie, "Dear Eleanor," here in Lyons during the last couple of weeks caused a bit of excitement around town. Large crowds showed up at the Lyons Village Central Plaza last Wednesday to watch the filming, and maybe catch a glimpse of one of the stars.
The indie-film, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, directed by Kevin Connolly (best know for his role in the HBO series Entourage) , and starring Jessica Alba (the Fantastic Four movies, Little Fockers, and Spy Kids4), Luke Wilson (the Charlie's Angels movies, the Legally Blonde movies,
Read more: "Dear Eleanor" Wraps In LyonsOver forty participants pulled their golf caps and visors down tight and low to battle the wind (25 to 30 mile per hour gusts), the course (Fox Hill Country Club in Longmont), and each other in the fifth annual Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) fundraising golf tournament last Thursday morning. The winning team of Ron and Patrick McGuckin, Andrew Dillon, and Myles Goldman posted an impressive score of 58 in the scramble
Read more: LCF Golf Benefit Finds New HomeDear Editor,
As we lingered inside during the season's last snowstorm, I reminisced with Liz about the sights, sounds and scents we again look forward to experiencing on our fair weather forays through Lyons.
We can't wait to breathe in the bouquets of aroma that annually greet us all around town thanks to the bountiful efforts of our Lyons Garden
Read more: Season after seasonBond yields have finally starting moving up as the Federal Reserve has begun hinting that they might reduce the amount of bonds they have been buying. The ten-year treasury yield is now at 2.12%, which is nearly 0.50% higher than we saw a year ago. Of course, we have a long way to go to reach the 5% level we saw in 2007.
Low interest rates over the past five years have undoubtedly hurt those in retirement who wanted to live on a fixed income. In fact, it completely ruined many retirement plans and forced some people back to work. Now that rates have risen slightly I want to take a look at
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Types of poetry Rhyme
There are three types of rhymes that you will see in poetry and literature. Here is a brief video of the three types of rhyme in poetry. This video is done by a teacher who is talking about the three kinds of rhymes while showing examples and notes on the screen.
Quality Literature in Curriculum
This video shows two authors, Carol Fuhler and Maria Walther, discussing how to incorporate quality children's literature into the curriculum. They try to tell how to do this even when the reading curriculum uses a basal reader or guided reading. Ways of including literature in various content areas are also touched upon.
Keeping Safe When Swimming - CDC
Though swimming is a popular sports activity with many health benefits, swimming-related illness in the US is on the rise. In a fun-filled reminder, experts show you how to keep your family healthy and safe when you get 'In the Swim of Things' this summer. The main culprit: a chlorine-resistant parasite known as Cryptosporidium. English captions. 3:54 min.
Easy Division Shortcuts
Learn to improve your math skills using mental math tricks. See how to divide numbers by 5, 50, and 500 quickly and easily. Teacher demonstrates the shortcut on an interactive white board. (2:36)
Nietzsche on Hardship 1 of 3
Philosophy - A Guide to Happiness: with Alain DeBotton. We all have dark periods in our lives, we all face difficulties that seem insurmountable, we all encounter setbacks and when we do we are often tempted to through in the towel. Most philosophers have tried to help us to reduce the amount we suffer. There was one philosopher, Nietzsche, believed all varieties of suffering and failure were to be welcomed by anyone seeking happiness. He
Sartre - part 5 How to accommodate individual freedom in a free society increasing occupied Sartre. In much of the 50's he tried to reconcile the individualist philosophy of Existentialism with the collective vision of Marxism. In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature. He refused the award. In May 1968, French students rebelled protests, they made Sartre their leader. He wanted to help them.
The Industrial Revolution
The innovations that marked the transition of the world from an agricultural community to an industrial one started in 18th century England. The Industrial Revolution quickly spread through Europe and the United States. The people behind the Industrial Revolution were ingenious and clever. They sparked an era of experimentation and creativity that has not yet ceased in modern times. Learn about the struggles and triumphs that led the world t
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How to Become a Personal Chef
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spidergoat---"It only seems contradictory because we live in an environment of illusion. I'm willing to address what's appropriate within that environment because we have no choice but to interact with other people who buy into it, even if it's false." Spot on.!!!
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Spidergoat, don't forget to read Dmitry Orlov's blog post for this week.
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i really don't want to look at it but i just can't stop looking and absorbing how unnaturally scary all its details are..
dude your avatar is unreasonably freaky, it makes me want to puke. you should change it :(
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Sep. 6, 2006 at 7:34 PM ET
Let's get one thing straight, once and for all: Looking at someone else's telephone records without permission is wrong. And illegal.
It is shocking that this basic, obvious conclusion has repeatedly escaped companies, debt collectors, law enforcement officials and, now, one of America's biggest and most respected companies. The story of Hewlett Packard's boardroom intrigue, which includes spying on directors' phone records, is a window into a dirty world that should have been cleaned up long ago.
To recap, HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn was frustrated by leaks coming from another board member, evidenced by anonymous comments that were included in a story published by CNET.com back in January. To find the leaker, she ordered a secret review of board members' private telephone records. The company hired an outside investigative firm to obtain the records, which it did by using a method called "pretexting." Then, word came that investigators working for HP also obtained reporters' private phone records.
All last week, the story spun wider, with the California state attorney general, the U.S. Justice Department, and Congress all indicating they were investigating. Then on Tuesday, Dunn said she would step down as chairwoman early next year, and apologized for the incident. She indicated she would remain on the company's board of directors.
Dunn's resignation is hardly the end of the affair, however. That will only come when all of corporate America and all of the investigative underground comes to the basic realization that pretending to be someone else to obtain their private information is criminal identity theft.
Reading HP's official explanation for the incident, filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it's clear that message has not gotten through. The reasoning in the filing is abominable. Let me boil it down for you; Parents will recognize the excuse.
"But he said it was OK."
The twisted logic used to justify phone record theft shows why this decade-long attack on personal privacy, this dirty trick, remains so common after years of congressional hearings, dozens of attempts at legislation and a lot of public embarrassment.
By now, you've probably read several stories about "pretexting." Private investigators impersonate consumers and trick customer service representatives into divulging calling records and other personal information. The calls are placed using a false pretext -- hence the name.
Pretext callers become masters of disguise. Many know how to sound like a young woman, or an old man, in order to fool corporate answer desks. Sometimes, the trick is even easier. They just sign up for online billing access at a Web site. Often, all you need is a name and part of a Social Security Number.
Somehow, people who do this have become convinced that it might not be illegal. Clearly, HP was. Here's what its SEC filing said:
"After its review, the (Nominating and Governance) Committee determined that the third party retained by HP's outside consulting firm had in some cases employed pretexting. The committee was then advised by the committee's outside counsel that the use of pretexting at the time of the investigation was not generally unlawful (except with respect to financial institutions)."
I love the phrase "not generally unlawful." I will use that the next time I am pulled over for speeding.
Having written about pretexting for some five years, I know how these things go. Back when the inquisition began, someone at HP turned to a PI, who said he could get telephone records that would enable management to find out who had been talking to reporters. At some point, someone with a smidge of ethics asked, "But how do you get them?" and the investigator answered, "from publicly available sources." The conversation ended there.
Someone with a lot of ethics, however, wouldn't stand for that. Board member Tom Perkins resigned in May when he learned of the tactics used to obtain his phone records. His appeal to AT&T for information regarding anyone who looked at his phone records, and AT&T's response, are fascinating reading - courtesy of The Smoking Gun.
But one has to wonder why he was the only one to stand up at that moment. Kudos to Perkins; shame on everyone else in the room.
Consumers can sometimes be fooled into thinking that pretexting isn't specifically illegal -- that perhaps somewhere there is a legal public source for phone record data -- but the timing of this incident is important. The investigation occurred between January and May of this year. Throughout that time, there were numerous news stories in all the national newspapers and on the TV networks about Congress investigating the very behavior HP paid for. In December, a blogger had purchased Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark's cell phone records, starting a firestorm of news coverage. Nearly a dozen bills were introduced in Congress this spring to deal with the problem. A congressional inquiry uncovered embarrassing evidence that law enforcement officials had purchased records from Web brokers using pretext methods.
All that news makes it impossible to argue that directors at a high-tech firm would have no grasp of the fundamental issues at play.
As for the legal vagaries, there really aren't any. Lying about who you are to get access to computer records is a crime. It's hardly new; it's called social engineering in computer hacker circles. It may be clever, but it's wrong, and it's against the law. Hackers like Kevin Mitnik have been sent to jail for social engineering.
Viet Dinh, a former Bush administration Justice Department official, who has been retained as an attorney by Perkins, said HPs "we didn't know" defense is hard to believe.
"I think the prevalence of third party information often dupes an unwitting consumer to think that pretexted records are legal," he said. "But it is hard to see how HP could be unwitting here, when the company's chairwoman apparently custom ordered the fraud. Whether one analogizes the conduct to receiving stolen property or ordering a hit, it is still illegal."
Specifically, Dinh said he felt pretexting also ran afoul of the nation's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes computer hacking illegal.
"A pretext to obtain records stored on a computer is unauthorized access to that computer, so I think fits squarely within both the colloquial and legal definition of hacking," he said.
A criminal investigation into HP's pretexting has been opened, according to the California attorney general's office. Robert Morgester, deputy attorney general in California, said he couldn't discuss the case. But he agreed that pretexting is clearly illegal.
"If an individual was able to trick their way into a secure network ... through impersonation ... that's hacking by social engineering," he said. "The general rule of thumb is if you are getting into somebody else's network, you are committing a variety of crimes."
Morgester said pretexting could run afoul of two state laws: California's identity theft statutes, which make it illegal to use someone else's personal information to commit a crime, and the state's computer crime laws, which make unauthorized access to databases illegal.
The continued debate about pretexting's legality frustrates Rob Douglas, who operates PrivacyToday.com. Douglas has testified about a dozen times before Congress since 1998 about the problem of pretexting.
"I have absolutely no doubt that this is far more common than anyone wants to believe," Douglas said.
If there was any doubt about that, consider this: The California attorney general's office tells me it is currently investigating six "major" pretexting cases akin to the HP case. And if there's any doubt about the fragility of your personal information and the willingness of companies to abuse it, this story should relieve you of that doubt. If it can happen to a board member at HP, it can happen to you.


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