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Attorney General Bill McCollum said he is "cautiously optimistic" after an hour-and-a-half long meeting with BP claims czar Ken Feinberg in the Capitol this morning.
Claimants throughout the Gulf Coast have complained that little has changed since Feinberg, appointed by the White House and BP to dole out $20 billion the oil giant is putting into the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, took over BP's much-maligned claims process more than three weeks ago.
McCollum has repeatedly criticized Feinberg's system, still in development even after he has written more than $40 million in checks to Floridians for losses caused by BP's April 20th Deepwater Horizon oil rig blast and ensuing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Feinberg's paid an average of $7,195 in emergency payments to nearly 5,600 Floridians since taking over on Aug. 23.
One of the most contentious issues facing Florida thus far has been Feinberg's emphasis on "proximity" to the oil spill in determining eligibility for claims and questions about whether perceptions about Florida's beaches being oily (even when they were not) contributed to a drop in tourism that affected hotels, restaurants and state tax collections.
Feinberg is "inclined to and likely to" take the impact on tourism into consideration when approving claims, McCollum told reporters this morning.
"We lost tourism big. There is no doubt about that," McCollum said.
Feinberg expressed "vagueness in response" to the tourism issue but "he's going to find a way to be able to honor tourism claims," McCollum said.
Feinberg yesterday scored points with the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association after meeting with them in Orlando. The association had "lawyered up" and was prepared to sue a reluctant Feinberg who had balked over giving emergency payments to hotel and restaurant owners other than those directly on oil-contaminated beaches. Feinberg convinced the FRLA and its members to file claims with him rather than going directly to court, the association announced yesterday.
In his meeting with McCollum today, Feinberg said he is considering appointing a claims czar for each state as a contact point for officials like McCollum who have complaints or concerns about the process, McCollum said.
McCollum also said Feinberg is "leaning towards" changing his current emergency payment system to be more in line with federal law which allows claimants to receive interim payments for up to three years after a disaster. Currently, Feinberg is giving claimants three months to apply for emergency payments.
McCollum's office has tried to help Feinberg craft a protocol more in line with federal law than what the Boston attorney appears to be operating under. But McCollum's at a considerable disadvantage, as are the other Gulf Coast state attorneys general: they have no authority to influence Feinberg other than suing him and/or BP.
Feinberg is holding a series of town hall meetings in the Gulf Coast states and is in Orange Beach, Ala., today.


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Here is my first serious attempt at a map. I would love any critiques or advice people may have. Also I would love some suggestions on how people would show cities / villages on a map like this, I have tried a few things but so far I haven't been happy with any of the results.
Also I need to add a gaping chasm to the desert / bad lands area. Anyone have advice on how to depict that?
I like the chasm with the solid black like that; gives it depth and menace. The only real critique I have is the placement/flow of the right-hand river. It's a bit odd that it would flow up and through those hills (which look great by the way) instead of taking the easier way out and flowing around the hills to the east into the sea. Looks really good overall though! Have some rep.
Totally agree with you on the river. This map is for use in a game and for game story reasons I needed the river to flow west and into a swamp, I wrestled with it a bit but in the end physics succumbed to story! Maybe if I added a few more hills stretching up the right hand side of that river to make it look like the river was bending around a raised ridge of hills?
Good idea from Gumboot; that could work.

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Peachy Fruit Medley Recipe
Complete this made-in-minutes meal with Fruit Medley. "This recipe is an adaptation of a fruit salad from my husband's aunt," says Becky Hughes of Las Cruces, New Mexico. "The original recipe calls for a homemade glaze, but I use canned peach pie filling to hurry along preparation.
- 1 can (21 ounces) peach pie filling
- 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks, drained
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 jar (10 ounces) maraschino cherries, drained
- 2 medium firm bananas, sliced
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the pie filling, pineapple, oranges, cherries and bananas. Cover and refrigerate. Just before serving, stir in pecans. Yield: 8-10 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 cup) equals 191 calories, 4 g fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 14 mg sodium, 40 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 2 g protein.
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Traffic Wave Reviews
TrafficWave is a web-based company that offers autoresponder technology for small and medium businesses, and internet marketers in over 100 different countries. In the internet age, an autoresponder is crucial to internet marketers success, without it, people would not be able to keep in contact with their subscribers or prospects. TrafficWave also offers an affiliate plan, when you become a paid member, not a free member. You have the choice to become an affiliate and can start earning commissions right away. you earn residual commissions on every new referral or traffic package that you sell. You can break even by just referring a New member a month.
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Middle name for Sunday
I have been posting on here for about 2 years and I'm finally on a serious count down to TTC (about 2 months to go ) Because of my renewed excitement I am, of course, revisiting naming options. I know I have always gotten mixed reactions on the FN Sunday here. But for today let's say I am for sure going with Sunday as a girls first name.
I initially paired Sunday with Kate and (with a few exceptions of some thinking it was to much /a/ sound) it was always the favorite.
However, I am a teacher who just happens to have a Cate in my class this year who has definitely worn the name out for me (and not bc of my songs of praise, lol).
Sooo if I were to let Kate go does anyone have a good replacement? I liked that Kate was familar but not a top charter. I liked that it was one syllabel because it could serve as an easy double name if I decided to do that. But it does not have to be one syllabel.
I have thought about Sunday Harper, me and my husband love the name harper and he is on board with this combo-but it may be too uncommon to pair with Sunday?
I've heard of a Sunday Quinn but husband doesnt love Quinn.
Im open to ideas! Thanks for sharing in advance and helping me be even more excited as the countdown ticks on!For now if I had 2 of each- Girls: Sunday and Willa Boys: Knox and Ford or Penn
Girls: Vivi Charles, Lila Charles, Sunday Kate, Willa Lace, Landry Kate, Monroe Laycee, Ezra Kate, Lucy madden, Lila snow, Charlize Layce, Hazel Anne, Indy, Wynter
Boys: Knox Maverick, Knox Ryder, Archer Allen, Archer Atlas, Shepard Knox, Monroe Hendrix, Madden McLane, Finn Allen, Crewe Archer, Quade Allen, Dash Allen, Thayer,Tennyson, Vance, Ford Allen, Penn, Wilder, Rook, Hoyt, Holt, Hart, Bishop


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Scalloped Potatoes 'n' Ham Recipe
Because this potato dish comes out perfect every time, I often rely on it for casual entertaining. My guests are thrilled to sit down to a country-style supper.
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 small green pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup milk
- 1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled, cooked and sliced
- 1-1/2 cups diced fully cooked ham
- 1. In a skillet, saute onion and green pepper in butter until tender. Stir in flour, salt and pepper. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil; boil and stir for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in half of the cheese until melted. Gently stir in potatoes and ham. Cover and cook over low heat for 10 minutes or until heated through, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with remaining cheese; cover and let stand until cheese melts.
- 2. Microwave Directions: In a covered microwave-safe bowl, cook onion, green pepper; gradually stir in milk. Cook on medium for 2-3 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally. Stir in half of the cheese; set aside. In a 1-1/2-qt. microwave-safe baking dish, layer half the potatoes, ham and cheese sauce. Repeat layers. Cover and cook on high for 2-3 minutes or until heated through, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Cover and let stand until cheese melts. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 cup) equals 492 calories, 22 g fat (14 g saturated fat), 89 mg cholesterol, 1,294 mg sodium, 50 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 26 g protein.
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Children Of NWA Rappers May Portray Their Fathers In Upcoming Biopic
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Weve seen a lot of rappers take their chances at acting over the years, starting as far back as Marky Mark Wahlberg, whose rapping career now pales in comparison to what hes done on screen. Other rappers-turned-actors include Mos Def, Common, Ludacris... the list goes on and on. Weve gotten rap origin stories from Eminem and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, who have each played versions of themselves on the big screen to tell their story, but theirs' is part of a whole that was birthed by one rap group and one rap group alone--NWA.
If you arent familiar with NWA, let me give you a brief summary. Containing members such as Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Easy E, NWA gave birth to gangster rap, giving rap music a harder edge from their south central LA hometown of Compton. The group grew as did their problems, and internal turmoil caused them to break up, which created a whirlwind of violent politics and lyrical insults the likes of which we just dont see anymore.
Many of NWAs members found solo careers, and Ice Cube even found success as an actor. Now theres talk of a movie chronicling the ups and downs of NWAs troubled life cycle, and the film may even star the rappers children playing the roles of their fathers. TMZ caught up with Dre outside an LA restaurant while he was signing some autographs for a fan and asked about the film. He didnt confirm that it would be their children playing the roles, but he said that they were talking about it and theyd see what happened.
Dre, Cube, and Easy E all have children and who better to play the parts than people who already look like their parents? The as-yet-untitled NWA film is a long way out, but when it finds the screen rest assured itll give you a whole new perspective on rap music and where it came from. These guys changed everything. Heres the video of Dre giving the brief details.
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The American Society for Artificial Internal Organs has promptly published the transactions of their meeting of April, 1964, and they represent highly informative papers on recent investigations as reported to the Society now numbering about 300 members. These members are physicians, biophysicists, engineers, and industrial consultants with a strong practical orientation in their work. This is one of the striking characteristics of the field of artificial internal organs, where empiricism and pragmatic values reign supreme. So much may be accomplished by the application of established principles in related fields that many years will be needed for theory to advance to the point where it may be of greater help than experience.
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1965: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones were arrested for urinating on the wall of a gas station. The owner wouldn't let them use the restroom.
1982: Singer Teddy Pendergrass was paralyzed from the waist down in a car crash in Philadelphia.
1993: A report by a team of child abuse experts in Connecticut cleared Woody Allen of charges he molested his 7-year-old adopted daughter. Allen's former girlfriend, Mia Farrow, had accused him of molesting the child.
1994: Police confiscated ammunition and four guns from singer Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. His wife, Courtney Love, had called authorities because she was afraid Cobain was contemplating suicide.
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Today's Birthdays: Composer John Kander ("Chicago") is 89. Country singer Charley Pride is 82. Actor Kevin Dobson ("Knots Landing") is 73. Actor Brad Dourif ("Lord of the Rings," "Chucky" movies) is 66. Singer Irene Cara is 57. TV personality Mike Rowe ("Dirty Jobs") is 54. Singer-actress Vanessa Williams ("Desperate Housewives," "Ugly Betty") is 53. Keyboardist Scott Saunders of Sons of the Desert is 52. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains is 50. Singer Miki Berenyi of Lush is 49. Rapper-actress Queen Latifah is 46. Comedian Dane Cook is 44. Singer Philip Sweet of Little Big Town is 42. Singers Evan and Jaron Lowenstein of Evan and Jaron are 42. Actress Sutton Foster ("Bunheads") is 41. Singer Devin Lima (LFO) is 39. Singer Adam Levine of Maroon 5 is 37. Drummer Daren Taylor of Airborne Toxic Event is 36. Actor Adam Pally ("The Mindy Project") is 34. Actor Cornelius Smith Junior ("Scandal") is 34. Actress Julia Goldani Telles ("Bunheads") is 21. Actor Blake Garrett Rosenthal ("Mom," "Bridesmaids") is 12.


text: Photo Gallery Father's Day Pictures: All-Star Animal Dads In honor of Father's Day, see which species-from cockroaches to marmosets-are the greatest dads of the animal kingdom. PUBLISHED June 15, 2012 0 1 / 11 Owl Monkeys Human fathers get plenty of recognition on Father's Day—celebrated this year on June 16. But the animal kingdom also has its share of committed dads. Take male owl monkeys (pictured, a zoo adult and baby in 2009), which appear to perform most of the duties in rearing their young. (Watch a video of owl monkey fathers and their babies.)These South American monkeys form lifelong partnerships with their mates. The father transports and grooms the babies, while the mother takes care of nursing, according to research by Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, a biological anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania.(See more pictures of animal fathers.)According to Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading in the U.K., "These strong pair bonds—what we often call monogamy—normally only evolve where the ecological conditions mean that both parents are needed to acquire enough food and provide enough protection to ensure offspring survival."So 'best fathers' often seem to arise from ecological necessity!"—Christine Dell'Amore Photograph by Luis Benavides, AP Seahorses The seahorse is a type of fish in which the males actually get "pregnant."After a female seahorse deposits her eggs in the male's specialized pouch, the male carries up to 2,000 babies during its 10- to 25-day pregnancy. Above, a newborn hitches a ride on dad's tail."They're fascinating—males have more or less become females, [almost] transgendered," Pagel said. "They're devoted fathers."(See pictures: "Ancient Pygmy Pipehorse Species Found.") Photograph by Paul Zahl, National Geographic Namaqua Sandgrouse A male namaqua sandgrouse incubates recently hatched chicks in South Africa's Kalahari Desert in an undated picture.These males have a unique method of keeping their babies hydrated, according to the book Ecophysiology of Desert Birds.First a male finds a waterhole and douses his belly feathers, which are adapted to retain more water than his other feathers. Laden with up to 40 milliliters of liquid, dad returns to the nest and summons his young with a call, spreading out the wet plumage. The chicks then "drink" water from his belly, sometimes for up to ten minutes.(See "Watching 'Sexy' Males Leads to Better Chicks, Study Says.") Photograph by Peter Johnson, Corbis Giant Water Bugs Talk about back-breaking work—the male giant water bug, pictured above in California, literally totes around his brood of about 150 eggs until they hatch.After a courtship of sparring and grasping, these ferocious insects mate, and the females cement their fertilized eggs to the males' backs with a natural glue.Over the next three weeks, the male becomes a "very effective dad," Scott Forbes, a University of Winnipeg biologist and author of A Natural History of Families, said in 2009. The daddy water bug fiercely protects his eggs and periodically exposes them to air to prevent them from growing mold. Photograph by Gerald and Buff Corsi, Visuals Unlimited Black-Necked Swans A male black-necked swan carries a cygnet—a baby swan—on its back while the rest of the brood follows.Cygnets stay close to their parents for almost a year, and ride on their parents' backs for warmth and protection during the first weeks of life, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.The monogamous parents both carry their babies, a behavior especially pronounced in black-necked swans and mute swans.(See bird pictures.) Photograph courtesy Julie Larsen Maher, WCS Marmosets Baby marmosets seem to pose next to their parents at a German zoo in 2010. Male marmosets in South America not only carry, feed, and groom their twin babies, but also may act as "midwives" during birth, grooming and licking the newborns.Marmoset dads may be so involved in parenting because of the high cost of birth for the mother: While in the womb, the babies eventually make up 25 percent of her body weight—equal to a 120-pound (55-kilogram) woman giving birth to a 30-pound (14-kilogram) infant.Though nature's default is female-only care, animal fathers will often pitch in instances like these, when "kids are expensive," the University of Winnipeg's Forbes said in 2009. Photograph by Holger Hollemann, European Pressphoto Agency Greater Rheas For most birds, females are stuck with child care. But not so for South America's greater rhea (pictured, an adult and baby in Argentina).Females mate with several males during the breeding season, and many birds will lay their eggs in one nest created by a male. The male then incubates up to 50 eggs for six weeks and cares for the newly hatched young. The dads aggressively guards the babies, charging at any animal—even a female rhea—that approaches.Because females put such a "heavy investment" of energy and resources into producing large eggs, it makes sense for males to pick up the responsibility of caring for the offspring, Forbes said in 2009.(Check out National Geographic's backyard bird identifier.) Photograph by Andres Morya, Visuals Unlimited/Getty Images Barking Frogs A barking frog—named for its throaty, dog-like call—sits at a natural spring in Ulvade County, Texas.A protective father, the male frog hangs out by his brood for several weeks, wetting the eggs with his urine if they dry out.In other frog species, males carry their larvae on their backs or swallow their newly hatched tadpoles to shelter them in special mouth sacs, giving the offspring a safe haven in which to develop, Forbes said in 2009.(See a picture of a frog that gives birth from its mouth.) Photograph by Rolf Nussbaumer, Alamy Cockroaches Cockroaches may get a lot of bad press, but you can't call them deadbeat dads.In species that feed on wood, the parents use the material to build nests and find food for their larvae. Such parental care is "pretty unusual" in insects, Forbes said in 2009.Cockroach fathers will even eat bird droppings to obtain nitrogen, a necessary part of their diet, and carry the nutrient back to their young (above, German cockroach babies emerge from an egg).Wood-feeding cockroaches are also tidy parents, sweeping nurseries clean of dead cockroaches and fungi to shield their families from infection.(See "Cockroach Brains May Hold New Antibiotics?") Photograph by Bates Littlehales, National Geographic Emperor Penguins Emperor penguin fathers endure below-freezing temperatures and forgo food to incubate their eggs.After the female lays a single egg, her mate rests it on his feet and covers it with a flap of skin. When the egg hatches, the chick is kept warm under the skin flap, as seen above."You could think of that pouch as almost a male womb, except they're birds," the University of Reading's Pagel said. "They're very much like seahorses in that respect: [They've] taken over a role, rightly or wrongly, we traditionally associate with females."For four months the males huddle together, not moving much, while the females fill up on seafood in the ocean. The females eventually return to help feed the newly hatched chicks.Both Pagel and Forbes say that animal parents give us insight into how human families work. "We can see ourselves in other animals," Pagel said. Photograph by Thorsten Milse, Picture Press/Getty Images Next: "Worst" Animal Moms? Photograph by Gary Meszaros/Visuals Unlimited Related Stories The Bittersweet Life Story of a Captive Orangutan Christie's Auction House Fined After Trying to Sell Ivory Hyena Myths Busted: Are They Really Hermaphrodites?


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Alexander Szalay
Alexander SzalayAlumni Centennial Professor
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The Johns Hopkins University
Alexander Szalay is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Johns Hopkins University. His interests are theoretical astrophysics and galaxy formation as well as e-Science. His research includes: Cosmology, the clustering of galaxies, large scientific databases, wireless sensor networking, and various classification and regression techniques.
Alyssa Goodman
Alyssa GoodmanHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics & Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
Research Associate, the Smithsonian Institution
Alyssa Goodman and her research group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, study the dense gas between the stars.
George Djorgovski
George DjorgovskiCenter for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology
Professor of Astronomy and Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology
George Djorgovski is one of the co-founders of the virtual observatory concept, and was the Chairman of the U.S. National Virtual Observatory Science Definition Team.
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Chenzhou CuiNational Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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As cultural diversity continues to become a salient part of
American life, we need to examine how the cognitive processes of
different cultures organize knowledge to make sense of the
world. Richard Nisbett dissects the different thinking patterns
found in Western and Eastern cultures. He explores the two types
of cognition through a multidisciplinary lens composed of
philosophy, history, social psychology, linguistics, and
cognition, and the implications that understanding such
differences may have on international relationships.
Nisbett begins his examination in the introduction, where he
states his belief that the process of human thought may not be
universal after all. He quickly summarizes the principles based
on the assumption that people everywhere process information in
the same way. From hunter-gatherers to CEOs, we all have the
same basic cognitive processes. Cultural differences arise from
being exposed to different world experiences, not because of
different cognitive processes. Formal rules of logic apply to
"higher order" reasoning, that is, something cannot
be both true and false at the same time. Lastly, reasoning is
not inextricably linked to the thing being reasoned about; one
can think about several things using the same process and
conversely, one can think about a single thing in many different
Realizing that the human thought process may not be universal
across cultures, Nisbett read the literature on the nature of
thought and discovered that different thought systems of the East
and West have existed for thousands of years. With this new
insight and the help of people from the University of Michigan,
Beijing University, Kyoto University, Seoul National University,
and the Chinese Institute of Psychology, he carried out a series
of comparative studies that demonstrated startling differences in
the thought processes of Europeans and Asians. With this new
information, we can examine why there are different thought
patterns, how these thought patterns affect our behavior, how we
organize and make sense of the world, and how we can improve
relationships with those from other cultures.
Nisbett begins with a history lesson and what appears to be
the origin of the thought differences between the East and West.
The Greeks were known for their strong sense of personal agency,
the ability to exercise free will. They also had an insatiable
curiosity about the nature of the world. They were not satisfied
just to make systematic observations about the world around them;
they were interested in the underlying principles of their
While the Greek's belief system was grounded in personal
agency, the Chinese found their belief system in harmony. Debate
and confrontation were discouraged in Chinese society, whereas it
was welcomed and encouraged in ancient Greece. The Eastern way
of life is based on the fundamental principle that life is ever
changing and filled with contradictions. To find "the
Way," to exist in nature with one's fellow man is a
defining feature of the Eastern belief system. It is
interrelationships that defined the Chinese; who they were with,
would define who they were and what roles they were to fulfill. A
sense of identity was defined by social context, not by
individual attributes. In ancient Greece, objects and people
could be analyzed in isolation; the context would not change the
behavior of objects or people. These fundamental differences in
thought patterns have implications that extend to all aspects of
everyday life.
The author next discusses the origin of the social mind by
comparing the ecology, social structure, social practice, and
tacit epistemology of the two cultures. Ecologically, the Greeks
had a much greater ability to change locations to better serve
their own interests; the Chinese did not have that luxury. Even
today, the Han ethnic group represents 95% of the total Chinese
population. Agricultural societies, especially ones ruled by
despots, require cooperation among citizens. For Chinese
villagers, resolving disagreements occurred by seeking the
"middle Way." The Greeks made their living through
herding, fishing, and trade. Because of their maritime location
they encountered new peoples, customs, and belief systems that
introduced contradictions and engaged great debates. It is
believed that the contradictions arising from these novel
interactions may have led to the development of formal logic as a
way to resolve dissonance.
The social structure and practices of these two societies
differed greatly. The Chinese looked outward to their peers and
upward to authority as guides for formulating their social,
economic, and political ideologies. The Chinese relied on their
attention to the field, and the important elements within that
field. The Greeks had a much more independent view of their
interactions with others and their attention focused on objects
regardless of context. The level of analysis the Greeks employed
was that of the object in isolation.
Nisbett next turns his attention to examine the differences
seen in the individualistic culture of the West and the
collectivistic culture of the East. He begins by listing bullet
point assumptions thought to be true by most westerners. We are
individuals with characteristic attributes that make us
distinctive; moreover, we want to be unique. Westerners are in
control of their own behavior and feel better when they believe
they can choose and control the outcomes of their actions.
Westerners are goal oriented and success driven, and
relationships can sometimes interfere with attaining success.
Personal success and feeling positive about oneself are important
for a sense of well being. When relationships are hierarchal,
people prefer the superior position; people prefer equality in
personal relationships.
Conversely, Easterners are less concerned with personal
success; success is far more group driven. Their sense of
well-being is connected to their being in harmony with those
around them, and rules that apply to relationships are not
universal; instead relationship rules are dictated by the context
and are unique to the roles each holds in that context.
Easterners are less likely to assume equal treatment, nor is it
necessarily desired to be so treated. The collective sense of
the East extends to language as well. In the Japanese language,
there are several words for "I," each dependent on
the situation. Who "I" am is different when I am
with a boss, co-worker, family member, or friend.
When asked to describe themselves, the Japanese had a
difficult time doing so in context independent situations.
Americans rarely take context into account when asked for self
descriptions. Furthermore, North Americans were more likely to
overestimate their personal attributes, while Asians were not as
likely to make that error. It is the goal of harmony and
fulfilling one's role in the social network to achieve
collective success that prevails in Eastern culture.
Self-criticism is part of learning to exist in this type of
culture. Self-criticism is taught to Japanese children to help
them learn to how to solve problems and improve relationships
with others.
Ferdinand Tönnies (1887/1988), a German
nineteenth-century social scientist, best summarizes the
differences in cultures as models of Gemeinschaft and
Gesellechaft. Gesellechaft is based on
relationships that are a means to an end; it is based on labor
and trade and considered to be an individualistic social system,
while the Gemeinschaft model focuses on actions that
achieve particular goals and is considered a collectivistic
social system.
The difference in social systems starts early in life and
continues across the life span. Western parents encourage their
children to be independent. One way in which they do this is by
focusing attention on objects. In Eastern cultures, parents focus
attention on social relationships and feelings. In adulthood,
these differences are seen in experiments that demonstrate
Asians' superior ability to be aware of the emotions of
groups of others; Americans fared poorly in this exercise. One
theory that accounts for this difference is communication
styles. In the West, it is the communicator who is responsible
for making the information clear to the listener. In the East,
it is the responsibility of the hearers to understand what they
are told. The implication of these two contrasting styles can
leave Americans feeling that Asians are difficult to
"read" because of their subtle and indirect
communication style. Conversely, Asians may feel Americans are so
direct that they may be thought to be condescending, or, even
It should come as no surprise, then, that the East and West
have very different styles to deal with negation and conflict. As
in ancient China, debate is still uncommon in the East. Because
argument and debate pose a threat to group harmony, what
Westerners would consider controversial topics would not be
brought up in conversation in the East. Debate is also part of
the rhetoric of science in the West, a skill westerners are
taught throughout their entire education and one that is new to
many Asians who come to the West to pursue a scientific
Negotiation is also dramatically different in tone and
execution. Westerns tend to favor an either/or style. They come
prepared with clear pre-set goals. They believe they can
manipulate or persuade others to their way of thinking. The
Japanese approach negotiations from a much different perspective.
They maintain the ideal of a harmonious style and believe they
are to fit into the environment, not manipulate it. The Japanese
are more likely to concede during primary negotiations to
demonstrate trust and create a relationship amenable to future
Nisbett next delves into how the different social realities of
the two cultures may influence the patterns of how we literally
see the world. Mutsumi Imae and Dedre Gentner (1994) carried out
experiments in which they showed participants an object made of a
particular substance, such as a pyramid made of cork. When asked
to describe the object, American participants were far more
likely to describe the object in terms of its shape, whereas the
Japanese participants tended to describe the object in terms of
its substance. Large differences in how the two groups coded the
object were found in both children and adult participants.
Westerners and Easterners also differ in their perception of
control. Feeling in control promotes a feeling of well being in
Westerners to a much greater extent than it does for Easterners.
Asians who felt they have support from others who might help them
with control of a situation felt an enhanced sense of well
being. Westerners have more difficulty tolerating ambiguous
situations than their Eastern counterparts. Westerners tend to
believe that if things are going to change, they will change in
the same direction and at the same rate. Easterners see the world
as a complex dynamic system and that change is cyclical, not
Up until this point in the book, Nisbett has been setting the
table in preparation for examining the real meat of his subject.
Do people with different worldviews explain similar events and
attribute causality in different ways? To address this question,
University of Michigan graduate students Michael Morris and
Kaiping Peng (1994) conducted content analyses of how two mass
murders were reported in the New York Times and the
World Journal. Both crimes were committed in the same
year; one assailant was of Asian descent, the other assailant was
an American. The reporters for the Chinese paper, World
Journal, characterized the murder by the context in which it
occurred, that is, they attributed the underlying cause of the
murders to Lu's (the assailant) difficulty in getting along
with his advisor, the availability of a fire arm, the pressure in
his community to succeed, and rivalry with fellow students.
The World Journal reporters covered the Mcllvane murder
story in the same manner, attributing his assault to his having
been recently fired from his job, the fact that the supervisor
was his enemy, and that he was influenced by a previous mass
murder that occurred recently in Texas.
The New York Times handled the two stories quite
differently. The Times reporters focused on the
psychological short comings of Lu, painting Lu as a deeply
disturbed individual who self destructed as quickly as he rose to
his short lived success. The Times characterized the
Mcllvane case similarly. Mcllvane was described as a man with
past violent behavior, a short fuse, and mental instability.
Morris and Peng followed their analysis by giving descriptions
of the murders to both Asian and American students. They then
asked the participants to consider the dispositions of the
murders as well as the situational context of the events. By and
large, the American students rated disposition and temperament
as the salient factors in the case of both murders. Chinese
students considered the situational factors to be the more
important contributing factors, again for both murder suspects.
It is this attention to situational factors that buffers Asians
against making fundamental attribution errors, more than their
American counterparts.
Nisbett now shifts the focus of the question to examine it
from a linguistic perspective. While it is beyond the scope of
his book to engage in a full discussion of language theory, the
author does manage to provide insight into the object/noun
relationship/verb language function. Nisbett highlights some
critical factors about the impact language has on the different
cognitive processes of the two cultures. First, he points out
that verbs are more salient in East Asian languages as theses
languages are "topic prominent"; verbs in East Asian
languages appear either in the beginning of the sentence or at
the end of the sentence. In English, an "object
prominent" language, verbs most often appear in the middle
of the sentence where they are less salient.
Second, Western parents spend a great deal of time pointing
out objects and describing the particular attributes of the
object. To compare these differences, developmental
psychologists Anne Fernald and Hiromi Morikawa (1993) observed
how Japanese and American mothers played with their babies. They
found that American mothers use twice as many object labels as
Japanese mothers, and Japanese mothers use twice as many social
routines that emphasized politeness norms. These results lead to
the natural question, how many of the cognitive thought
differences of the East and West are a product of language?
To answer this question, Li-jun Ji, Zhiyong Zhang, and Nisbett
(2002) examined how people categorize objects. They tested three
groups of participants: Americans who spoke only English, Chinese
and Taiwanese who learned English later in life (coordinate
bilinguals), and residents of Hong Kong and Singapore who learned
English at a very young age (compound bilinguals). As expected,
the Americans were twice as likely to categorized word triplets
taxonomically; the coordinate bilinguals were twice as likely to
categorize by relationship when tested in their native language.
However, when tested in English, the Chinese and Taiwanese
participants were much less likely to categorize based on
relationships. The participants from Hong Kong and Singapore
also made distinctions based on relationships, but they
demonstrated a much weaker preference for categorizing objects
based on relationships when compared to their Chinese and
Taiwanese counterparts. Perhaps the most significant finding in
this experiment was that it made absolutely no difference whether
the participants were tested in English or Chinese. The
implication of the results seems to demonstrate that culture has
an effect on thought independent of language.
It has been clearly demonstrated several times that Easterners
and Westerns organize their knowledge of the world differently,
Nisbett next examines if these differences influence the way we
make inferences. Ara Norenzayan, Edward E. Smith, Beom Jun Kim,
and Richard E. Nisbett (in press) and his colleagues recruited
Koreans and Americans to participate in an experiment that asked
them to determine which arguments seem to be logically valid.
Nisbett (2004, p.169) presented the participants the following
Premise 1: No police dogs are old.
Premise 2: Some highly trained dogs are old.
Conclusion: Some highly trained dogs are not police dogs.
Premise 1: All things that are made from plants are good for
Premise 2: Cigarettes are things that are made from
Conclusion: Cigarettes are good for health.
Premise 1: No A are B.
Premise 2: Some C are B.
Conclusion: Some C are not A.
Premise 1: No police dogs are old.
Premise 2: Some highly trained dogs are old.
Conclusion: Some highly trained dogs are not police dogs.
Premise 1: All things that are made from plants are good for
Premise 2: Cigarettes are things that are made from
Conclusion: Cigarettes are good for health.
Premise 1: No A are B.
Premise 2: Some C are B.
Conclusion: Some C are not A.
The results of this experiment found that Koreans were more
influenced by plausibility than the Americans. When it came to
the abstract syllogisms, Americans and Koreans made an equal
number of errors. Nisbett believes the difference between the
two groups is that Americans routinely apply the rules of logic
to everyday events and are able to discount the plausibility of
the conclusion.
Nisbett next examines how people deal with
contradictions. Three principles highlight why Asians tolerate
contradiction with less distress than Americans seem to.
These three principles are fundamental in finding the Middle
Way between two extremes, an important precept of Eastern
Westerners, on the other hand rely on the law of identity,
which states: "a thing is itself and not some other
thing" and the law of non-contradiction which states:
"a proposition can't be both true and false."
It is clear that these two fundamentally different ways of
dealing with contradiction will produce different reasoning
patterns that impact several facets of human interactions.
Nisbett takes the reader on an exciting journey, exploring the
many differences in Eastern and Western thinking. He has
explored the differences from a variety of angles, yet he has two
questions still to answer. Do these differences matter, and will
they continue? He devotes his final chapter to the former
question and the epilogue to the latter.
He first tackles different domains in an attempt to answer the
first question: does it matter? In the domain of medicine, it is
standard practice to find and excise the cause of an illness. In
the East, illness is thought to be a complex interaction that
requires a holistic treatment protocol usually involving herbal
In the domain of law, the West is quite litigious, in fact the
ratio of lawyers in the US vs. Japan is 40:1! In the West,
conflict resolution means there is a right and a wrong and a
winner and a loser. In the East, the goal of conflict resolution
is to reduce hostility and to find a compromise that satisfies
both parties.
In the arena of debate, the decision process in Japan is one
where the guiding force is avoidance of conflict. Meetings are
often held to ratify a predetermined consensus. Instead of
trying to avoid conflict, Americans engage in the art of
persuasion in an attempt to get their idea ratified. There is no
fear of bad ideas in the West; it is believed they will be
exposed for their worthlessness when they can be discussed in
In the domain of science, the differences between the East and
West are quite dramatic. In the 1990s, Japan produced one Nobel
Prize winner; scientists living in the U.S. produced forty-four.
Part of this difference can be accounted for by the culture of
deference to elders in Japan. Financial support for Japanese
scientists is given to older scientists instead of their younger
and perhaps more talented colleagues. The resistance to debate
and intellectual confrontation is also invoked to explain the
lack of Nobel Prize winners coming from Japan.
Nisbett also examines rhetoric, contracts, international
relations, human rights and religion. In each of these areas,
the same themes that have emerged throughout the book are
Will these thought patterns continue? This final question
Nisbett answers by referring to the work of Francis Fukuyama and
Samuel Huntington. Fukuyama (1992) believes that the world will
succumb to Westernization; Huntington (1996) believes the two
schools of thought will continue to diverge. In conclusion,
Nisbett offers a third option, convergence. Nisbett concludes
with an optimistic prediction that there will be a convergence of
Eastern and Western styles that enhances and transforms the best
of both cultures.
Fernald, A., & Morikawa, H. (1993). Common themes and
cultural variations in Japanese and American mother's speech to
infants. Child Development, 64, 863-878.
Fukuyama, F. (1992). The End of History and The Last
Man. New York: Free Press.
Huntington, S. P. (1996). The Clash of Civilizations and
the Remaking of World order. New York: Simon &
Imae, M., & Gentner, D. (1994). A cross-linguistic study
of early word meaning: Universal ontology and linguistic
influence. Cognition, 62, 169-200.
Ji, L.-j., Zhang, Z., & Nisbett, R. E. (2002). Culture,
language, and categorization, Unpublished manuscript. Queens
University, Kingston Ontario.
Morris, M., & Peng, K. (1994). Culture and cause: American
and Chinese attributions for social and physical events.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67,
Norenzayan, A., Smith, E. E., Kim, B. J., & Nisbett, R. E.
(in press). Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive
reasoning. Cognitive Science.
Tönnies, F. (1887/1988). Community and Society.
New Brunswick: Oxford Transaction Books.
Karen E. Petersen is a graduate student at Portland
State University. She is currently completing work on her
Master's degree in Special Education. Her interests
include psychology, education, motivation and learning, and the
interaction between nature and nurture.
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Playalinda Beach, FloridaSaturday, July 28th, 2007
Playalinda is a very unique nude beach. It's at the very northern point of the access road of the Cape Canaveral National Seashore. The entrance to this road is completely shut down several days before a space shuttle launch/landing. You can check out the latest information here. The road from the mainland in Titusville, all the way to Lot 13, where you want to park, is a long one. There is nothing much out there but nature, and a LOT of it. It's a great place for nature photography. The road takes you through a swampy area where you can see swampy creatures like turtles, birds and alligators. There are even a few nature trail stops if you're so inclined. It's about 15 to 20 minutes of driving once you leave the Titusville mainland.
I mention the remoteness not only so you can get a feel of the place, but to also prepare you to prepare yourself. You won't find anybody selling cold beverages or food out at the beach, and it's not a quick ride anywhere to accommodate such things. Brings LOTS of water and plenty of food for the time you plan on being there. It won't hurt to bring a little extra just to make sure. Oh yeah, and make sure you have plenty of gas before leaving the mainland!
Check out My Maps for a satellite view from Google, where you can also get driving directions.
If they didn't have little buildings that essentially have a portapoti inside them, there wouldn't be any at all. The place is pretty barren – some parking, a toilet, and a dune crossing. You won't find any fresh showers here, so I'd suggest bringing a gallon of water to rinse off with when returning to your car.
There are a lot of surf fishermen on the beach at just about all of the parking lots. The fishing here must really be good since there are so many of them. There isn't a lot of "civilization" around the area, so the place is pretty pristine.
Another big activity here is surfing. The beach boasts some pretty good surf by Florida standards. Just watch out for the abundant marine life! Most of the surfers hang at beaches earlier in the road, but that doesn't mean there isn't decent surf in the nude zone.
As I mentioned above, the entrance road takes you through the thick of nature, so if you're into photography at all, or bird watching, then plan on spending some time on the way in or out (keeping good light in mind) to take it all in.
The nude beach area doesn't have any permanent games like volleyball nets and such, but on busier weekends and holidays it's likely that you could join a game with some of the more organized locals.
For the most part, this beach is all about enjoying the great outdoors – just getting away from it all and finding peace and tranquility.
The Park
The park is pretty much open from sunrise to sunset. But keep in mind the shuttle launch schedule can ruin your plans. It'll cost you about $5 to get into the park unless you have a state park permit.
Technically, nudity is not legal here, but much of the time the rangers don't enforce it. However, sometimes the sheriff does, so just keep an eye out for any "official" looking people and have a cover-up handy just to be on the safe side.
This stretch of beach gets a lot of sea turtles coming ashore to lay their eggs. Generally, if you see an ATV roaming the beaches they're out documenting new turtle nests and checking up on old ones and such. But like I said, better safe than sorry :).
The People
For the most part, the people you encounter here will be very friendly and of mixed makeup. There are families, couples and singles. Many of the people travel over from Orlando since it's relatively close. There are probably a number of adventurous tourists taking a break from the Space Center, too.
The further north you go, the more sparse the people get. You've gotta go a pretty good way to get a spot all to your lonesome, and even then some of the creepier fringe types may make it impossible to have complete solitude. Generally speaking, the more normal people and families are relatively close to the dune crossing.
As you can see from My Maps, parking is a bit tight. You really want to park at Lot 13. If you have to, the walk from Lot 12 isn't horrible, but going any further is a real hike. The best thing to do is get there early. If you can't, you may get lucky and somebody will leave when you get there. Of all the beach accesses along the miles of road, the fishermen seem to like to take up the prime nude parking spots at the end :(.


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Flint Area Congregations Together (FACT), with support from the Mott Foundation, launched a two-year community education initiative in 2008. This initiative hopes to encourage new insight into national and local education systems .......... more to come.
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The team leading at the end of the first quarter has won 14 of the last 16. I hope we're winning at the end of the first quarter.
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We've got to scare Tate. Let him know that we mean business. Force some fumbles, etc.
We've taken out the QB in one way or the other in three of the last 15 games. Here's hoping for a few nice hits on Tate.
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Im a bit worried about staying at all star movies :/ I didnt realise it was such an old resort, can someone put my mind at rest?
Im a bit worried about staying at all star movies :/ I didnt realise it was such an old resort, can someone put my mind at rest?
Not quite sure what your worries are. The All Star resorts are wonderful resorts, though I am biased towards All Star Sports myself. We don't hesitate to stay there when we are on a budget.
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We have stayed at the Movies before and will be staying there again this trip. We love it and didn't find anything "worn" or "old" about it at all.
I am not 100% sure, but I do believe they are in the middle of remodeling the rooms at the Movies. I think they are about 1/2 way done. They are getting updated furnishings and flat panel tvs.
I booked my ma, grandma, aunt & I to stay there last fall. They raved over how clean the rooms were, how nice the property was, they liked the cafeteria, etc. They especially liked how Herbie was just outside the door. HAHA!
They had such a great time, they requested I get rooms there again when they come back down this fall. LOL! So I did. We're staying there again in Oct.
Hakuna Matata! No worries, you'll have a great time!
While I have not stayed at the Movies, I have stayed several times at the Music. Very similar resort, just a different theme.
I would never hesitate to stay there again. I have always enjoyed my stays.
I've stayed at Movies a couple of times and it is no where near run down. It is a fun and magical hotel.
off site- AUG 86 --- carribean beach JULY94
all star movies JULY99- all star sports JULY00
coronado JAN01---------all star sports AUG01
all star music JULY02 ---All Star Movies Apr03
POR JULY04 -------------Disneyland Hotel Aug 04
Pop Century APR 05 -----Pop Century AuG 05
Pop Century AUG 06-----Carribean beach Aug 07
Pop Century Aug-08----- Pop Century Aug -09
Pop Century Aug-11------Off Prop- Feb 12
Caribbean Bch-Aug 12---Pop Century Aug 13
Pop Dec 14---Pop Feb 15--Pop April 15
Disney does charge top dollar for their resorts but they keep them in top shape.
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Have a magical day!
My Trips: 91 GF- 92 CB,DL, POL- 93 CT,DL,CB- 94 WL,CB,BC- 95ASSP,WL,POL,CB- 96 DL,YC,ASM,BV,ASSP- 97 POL,CS, WL,DL,POF-98 WL,CB,ASM,DCL- 99 CS,BI,ASMV,POF- 00 GF,DCL,ASM,CS- 01 POL,CB,ASSP,AKL,ASMV, WLV- 02 YC,ASMV,BCV,AKL- 03 WL,CB,GF, POP- 04 CS,BC, POP,CT,SS- 05 ASSP,POR,WL,CB- 06 POL,POP,AKV, ASMV- 07 GF,WL,CB,DCL- 08 ASM,YC- 09 CS,WL- 10 CT,AKL- 11 WL
We've stayed at Movies several times and have enjoyed it very much. We did switch to Pop for our value stays but would stay at Movies again in a heartbeat!


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Sir Joshua Reynolds (artist)
British, 1723 - 1792
Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children, 1777-1779
oil on canvas
overall: 238.4 x 147.2 cm (93 7/8 x 57 15/16 in.) framed: 266.4 x 175.3 cm (104 7/8 x 69 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
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Object 9 of 12
Painted for the sitter's husband, Peter Delmé [1748-1789], Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire; by descent to Seymour Robert Delmé, Cams Hall, Hampshire. Charles J. Wertheimer [d. 1911], London.[1] (Christie, Manson & Wood, London); purchased c. 1900-1901[2] by J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr. [1837-1913], New York; bequeathed to his daughter, Mrs. Robert L. Satterlee [d. 1946], who owned it until c. 1930. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 15 December 1936 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[3] gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Wertheimer's name is in the list of former collections given for the painting on the Duveen Brothers invoice (see note 3).
[2]Connoisseur 3 (1901), 206, notes this portrait as recently sold to Pierpont Morgan.
[3] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Delmé, Peter
- Delmé, Seymour Robert
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Morgan, Sr., J. Pierpont
- Satterlee, Herbert L., Mrs.
- Wertheimer, Charles J.
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Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
With IndieFest's Another Hole in the Head Festival now scarring horror enthusiasts at the Roxie, and the 35th annual International LGBT Festival just around the corner, there's no shortage of intriguing options for Bay Area moviegoers in search of an evening's entertainment. Among this week's best:
1. Midnight in Paris
Castro Theatre's 70MM Festival Features Classics Restored to Big-Screen Glory
During a time when single-screen theaters have become dinosaurs, hopelessly outnumbered by overstuffed cineplexes where first-run features crowd shoebox-sized auditoriums, the Castro Theatre is a refreshing relic, a movie palace that treats films as works of art. As such, it is the only venue in San Francisco equipped to project in high-resolution 70-millimeter format, giving local cinephiles an increasingly rare opportunity to see big-screen classics like Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia as they were originally intended.
Indie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
Inspired by the true story of Danny Greene, a onetime labor leader turned gangster who rose to fame during the summer of 1976 as the man Cleveland's Italian mafia couldn't seem to murder, Kill the Irishman arrives at the Century Centre 9 on Market Street today, bringing with it a stellar cast led by Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D'Onofrio and Paul Sorvino. Elsewhere:
1. The Wizard of Oz Sing-Along
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OK, one last time for the cheap seats. If you haven't seen this year's crop of Oscar heavyweights by now, the chances are good you never will. But if you want to shore up your rooting interests this Sunday night, or just to impress your friends at their awards party by reeling off useful facts about the nominees, get to an indie theater tonight.
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In terms of subscribers, Telus managed to gain 112,000 net new post-paid wireless customers. The national telco also grew its average revenue per user by 2.4%, which has actually been a rare metric to see climb this year. The new influx of smartphone users saw wireless data usage jump 27% in the quarter.
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Portrait of a Presidency Under Siege
The most striking feature of "Clinton" doesn't make itself obvious for some time. It takes most of the first two colorfully detailed hours—expended on the future 42nd president's childhood, family background, his character and ambition, and psychological ruminations thereon—before it becomes clear that "Clinton" is quite possibly the most tendentious work ever to appear in the distinguished "American Experience" series. It's a measure of its subject's allure, of the spectacular drama of those eight years of the Clinton presidency, that it is nevertheless an enticing one.
- Part 1, Monday, Feb. 20, 9-11 p.m. EST and Part 2, Tuesday, 8-10 p.m., on PBS
The premise of this documentary, written and directed by Barak Goodman, is stunning in its simplicity. Virtually from their first days in the White House, the theme goes, President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton were confronted with a sensation-seeking press, eager to taint them with scandal. They felt themselves surrounded by enmity in an unforgiving political atmosphere where everything they did brought relentless scrutiny and blame.
The first couple, who had come from Arkansas, where politics was more down-home and friendly, had found all of this more than they could bear. They were puzzled, they were wounded. And, we're given to understand—except for the loyal staff shown here sprawled around the White House while at work night and day on the nation's business, along with the president and Mrs. Clinton, their empty pizza boxes littering the tables—the Clintons were largely alone in a hostile world.
The film's narrator lists, early in part two, certain issues (news-handle names only) that had, to the Clintons' amazement, attracted media attention. There was Hairgate, there was Travelgate. The tone of the recital is weary. What these were about, the film doesn't pause to say.
Hairgate, recall, was the big, doubtless overdone flap in 1993 over the president's $200 haircut on Air Force One, by the eminent Christophe of Beverly Hills, which allegedly caused two LAX runways to shut down. But Travelgate was a matter far more serious than a populist president's inconveniently timed, expensive haircut. It involved the unprecedented firing of the entire staff of the White House travel office, whose members had held their jobs for years. The order had come at the express direction of the new first lady, who wanted the office run by an Arkansas-based company with ties to the Clintons. The affair was ugly, it was crude, it involved a misuse of the FBI, and though it was determined after investigation that Mrs. Clinton had committed no criminal offense, it was clear that she had lied about her role in the firings.
The omission of relevant facts in the interest of this portrait of the Clintons as two innocents abroad in the killer town of Washington isn't subtle. At one point a member of the Clinton team appears on camera to allow that, yes, the Clintonites were a bit informal, and didn't wear jackets and ties to the Oval Office, and that the American people did perhaps have a right to expect something grander than that in their presidency, their White House.
Jackets and ties? What the American people didn't expect were things like the astounding army of friends, media heavies and political donors awarded a chance to spend the night in the Lincoln bedroom. More than 830 of them in the first term. They would include Rick Kaplan, at the time ABC's "World News Tonight" executive producer, among other influential friends of the president and first lady.
The American people didn't expect to see, either, anything like the instantly famous photo, taken just after the Clintons moved into the White House, of Clinton friend Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and actress Markie Post holding hands and jumping up and down on Abraham Lincoln's bed as though it were a trampoline. Their way of celebrating. Details like these don't show up in the film.
Whitewater—the all-consuming mess of accusations about an allegedly corrupt Arkansas land deal decades earlier that would haunt the Clinton presidency—is, on the other hand, fully explicated. And done in a way that makes it reasonably comprehensible, no small trick. The incomprehensible—the grim march through the facts of the sex scandal that caused this president to face impeachment—gets similar full treatment. All the familiar names, faces and references are here: Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Ken Starr, the blue dress. You don't know how unready you are to see them all again till you watch this.
More than once, as though in answer to the incomprehensible, one of the film's sages earnestly explains that Mr. Clinton deeply needed adoration from women so much he just had to behave as he behaved. A bit simple, that, but as good as it gets when it comes to theories on Mr. Clinton and women, a subject amply covered in these four hours.
The documentary is at its best in its vivid picture of the president as politician, in his battle for his first-term budget, his epic struggle with House Speaker Newt Gingrich, his conflict over the deployment of U.S. power, his victories. It's at its worst in its gauzy portrait of Mr. Clinton as an idealist endowed with magical resilience—the Comeback Kid who needed people to love him; who had his faults, some of them grave, but none that equaled the malevolence of a world of enemies out to destroy him. The 42nd president was far tougher and more complicated than the victim portrayed here, and much the same can be said of his story.
Life's Too Short
- Begins Sunday, Feb. 19, 10:30-11 p.m. EST, on HBO
"Life's Too Short" is an especially apt title for the new comedy series by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, best known as the creators of "The Office." The star of this faux documentary in seven parts is British actor Warwick Davis ("Harry Potter," "Willow"). He's also a dwarf, here portraying himself as a former star trying to dream up ways to get himself back into show business. The Warwick character heads an agency with no clients called "Dwarves for Hire," and he is, in his absurdity and his Michael Scott-like mix of pomposity and charm, a commanding presence. The same can be said of two other characters here—Messrs. Gervais and Merchant, playing themselves, i.e., comedy writers. No actors get more out of an exchange of meaningful looks than these two do, as Warwick rattles on about his career. The real Messrs. Gervais and Merchant haven't lost their touch with self-humiliating characters. They've also littered the series with cameos—Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and others. In one of these, that great lighthearted spirit Liam Neeson shows up and announces, with characteristic dourness, that he's now decided to go into comedy and would like the producers to do an improv scene with him. What follows is utterly delectable and, like life, too short.


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At 33, Stults throwing career a curve
BOSTON In Middlebury, Ind., the horizon stretches forever, making a small farming town in the heart of Amish country seem even smaller. There, back at his offseason home last May, Eric Stults waited for what felt like an eternity.
Really, it was only two days. But for Stults, those two days spent playing catch beneath an endless sky might as well have been two months.
"I just didn't know what was gonna happen," Stults said, sitting in the visiting dugout at Fenway Park before a recent game. In two days the left-hander was scheduled to make his first career start in one of baseball's most storied venues.
In a confluence of unfortunate injury and providential opportunity, the Padres claimed Stults last season, plucking him from Middlebury, where he had returned after being waived by the Chicago White Sox, and inserting him into a makeshift rotation.
By that time the Padres had already lost six starting pitchers to the disabled list. Stults, the sixth man in the rotation for much of his career, suddenly had a rare, if uncertain opportunity.
"If I was to be honest, I didn't think I probably would be here for that long," Stults, 33, said. "It was just until guys got healthy."
Funny that he should think that, for even after Stults himself succumbed to injury, missing 6 1/2 weeks with a strained latissimus dorsi muscle, he became, of all guys, the guy on a stricken staff. Upon his return from the disabled list, Stults went 7-1 with a 2.79 ERA over his final 10 starts.
Those 10 starts alone would have matched his previous season high, set in 2009 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. As it was, Stults finished the year with 15 starts and a 2.91 ERA in 99 innings, another career best.
Slow burn
While pitching as effectively as ever, Eric Stults has been, by design, throwing more slowly than ever. The average velocities on his pitches this season would all be career lows:
Fastball: 86.4 mph (2006: 89.3 mph)
Slider: 78.2 mph (2006: 78.9 mph)
Curveball: 66.5 mph (2006: 75.6 mph)
Changeup: 77.0 mph (2006: 80.5 mph)
"The more I threw, the more comfortable I got," said Stults, who spent 2010 pitching for Hiroshima in Japan. "I think just the confidence Buddy (Black) showed in me, even after I got hurt and came off the DL, that was a big confidence boost.
"I felt like, at times in my career with teams I've been on, there wasn't that confidence. I would have two or three good starts and one not so good and one that wasn't good and then I was always looking over my shoulder. It's tough to pitch like that, not knowing if you're gonna come in that day and then be sent back to the minor leagues."
Not so in San Diego. Having made his first Opening Day roster since being drafted out of Bethel College in 2002, Stults has been arguably the most consistent starter on a pitching-strapped team. The victim of spotty run support, he is 6-7 this season with a 3.70 ERA, best among Padres starters. Prior to his last two outings — a five-run hiccup in Miami and Thursday's four-run loss against high-powered Boston — he had lowered his ERA in six consecutive starts.
Before last May 17, Stults had made just 25 major league starts. Since then, he has started 32 games. The Padres are 20-12 in those games.
"He surprised me last year because I didn't know him," said Padres pitching coach Darren Balsley. "What he's done this year, it's not surprising. Going into this season he was penciled in as one of our five starters because of what he did last year, and he's just continued to do what he did."


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UCLA Hits Road To Face Cal, Seattle-Pacific - The second-ranked UCLA Gymnastics team (5-2) will travel north to face California and Seattle-Pacific in a triangular meet Friday, Feb. 13. The meet will take place at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley at 7:30 pm.
About The Opponents - California holds a 6-2 record this season and has a season-high of 195.95. The Golden Bears rank 12th nationally on the uneven bars (48.99 average) and 24th on vault (48.805). Junior My-Lan Dodd holds the Cal individual scoring records in the all-around, vault, beam and floor and was an all-around qualifier at the 2003 NCAA Championships. Monique Chang tied the school record on floor with a 9.95 at Arizona last weekend and also holds a share of the vault record with Dodd and junior Lauren Shipp. Seattle-Pacific is 3-3 on the season and holds a season-high of 191.9.
Bruins Vault To Win Over Stanford - An outstanding showing by UCLA on vault in the first rotation propelled the Bruins to a 197.975-196.425 victory over Pac-10 rival Stanford last Sunday. The Bruins scored a 49.675 on vault, the second-highest vault total in school history, with the lowest counting score being a 9.875. Jeanette Antolin led the team with a 9.975, and Kristen Maloney (9.95) and Ashley Peckett (9.925) set new career bests. The Bruins maintained their lead with strong performances on bars (49.45) and beam (49.5) and closed it out with a 49.35 on floor. Antolin won the all-around with a 39.725, Richardson was second with a 39.625, and Lori Winn set a new career high with a fourth-place score of 39.425.
UCLA In The Rankings - The Bruins moved up to No. 2 in this week's national rankings, which are based on season average. A national season-best 197.975 against Stanford moved UCLA up one spot from last week with a season average of 196.987. The Bruins hold the top spot on balance beam, averaging 49.412 with a high of 49.55, and on uneven bars with an average of 49.262 and high of 49.5. UCLA ranks 11th on vault (49.117) and 13th on floor (49.196). Individually, Kate Richardson and Jeanette Antolin rank 1-2 in the all-around with averages of 39.735 and 39.725, respectively. On vault, Antolin ranks first with a 9.97 average. Richardson ranks fifth (9.935) and Maloney 14th (9.895). Antolin and Richardson are tied for third on bars (9.915). Five Bruins rank in the Top 12 on beam - No. 1 Richardson (9.97), No. 3 Maloney (9.917), No. 6 Antolin (9.91), No. 8 Christie Tedmon (9.9) and No. 12 Yvonne Tousek (9.89). On floor exercise, Antolin ranks sixth (9.93), Richardson 11th (9.915) and Tousek 22nd (9.895).
Richardson, Antolin Pack Powerful 1-2 Punch - Sophomore Kate Richardson and senior Jeanette Antolin are once again ranked No. 1 and 2, respectively, in the nation in the all-around. The Bruin duo have consistently put up high marks in 2004, and one or the other, and sometimes both, have placed first in the all-around in five of UCLA's six meets. The only time one of the two has not won the all-around was when neither competed at Arizona. Each has a pair of solo wins - Richardson at Minnesota and against Arizona State and Cal State Fullerton, Antolin at Georgia and against Stanford - and a tie with each other in the opener against Utah. In that meet, they each posted a 39.85, the third-highest all-around score in UCLA history and the highest all-around total in the nation this year.
Antolin Undefeated On Vault - All-American Jeanette Antolin has been unstoppable on vault this season, placing first in every meet in which she has competed. Antolin is a perfect 5-5 on the year and has won the event in her last 10 and in 13 of her last 14 regular season meets dating back to last year. The reigning Pac-10 vault champion averages 9.97 and has scored two perfect 10s in 2004.
Maloney Continues Amazing Comeback - Showing no signs of rust after sitting out the last two seasons with a leg injury, senior Kristen Maloney has been nothing short of impressive in her first season of competition since April of 2001. Her first competitive routine earned her a career-high tying 9.85 on vault, and she has continued to raise the bar in subsequent meets, upping her career-highs to 9.95 on vault and bars. The former Olympian ranks third in the nation on beam (9.917 average) and 14th on vault (9.895 average).
Tousek Steady As Ever - Yvonne Tousek is having an outstanding senior season, ranking amongst the nation's best on beam and floor. Since suffering a fall on her first routine of the season, Tousek has been spectacular since, earning scores of 9.825 or higher in each subsequent performance. She averages 9.89 on beam and 9.895 on floor with highs of 9.95 on both events. She tied for first place on bars in the Bruins' last meet with a season-high of 9.925.
Williams Realizing Potential - Senior Jamie Williams has been one of UCLA's most pleasant surprises so far in 2004, earning a solid spot in the Bruin lineup on both beam and floor in UCLA's last five meets. Williams, the former walk-on who saw action in just one meet last season, had a fantastic season debut in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz. on Jan. 16, earning a career-high 9.9 on beam and a 9.775 on floor. At Minnesota two weeks ago, she led off on floor with a 9.775 and then hit a pressure-packed routine on beam for a score of 9.85. She has scored 9.8 on floor in her last two meets and averages 9.78 this season.
Freshmen Make Strong Contributions - Freshmen Lori Winn, Ashley Peckett and Aimee Walker have become regulars in UCLA's lineup in their first season with the program. Winn has competed in the all-around five times, with a high of 39.425 set last weekend against Stanford. She has a season average of 39.145. She also boasts season highs of 9.9 on vault, beam and floor and 9.875 on bars. Peckett, after missing the first meet due to injury, has come back strong. Against Stanford, she hit a career-best 9.925 on vault, and at Minnesota, she earned season-highs on bars (9.75) and floor (9.85). Walker has competed in five of UCLA's six meets, with highs of 9.775 on bars and 9.65 on floor.
Looking Ahead - Southern California Bruin fans can see UCLA compete twice next week, as the Bruins have two dual meets scheduled in the local area next week. First up is a dual meet at Cal State Fullerton on Friday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 pm in Titan Gym. On Sunday, Feb. 22, UCLA hosts Oregon State at 2:00 pm.
UCLA Hosts 2004 NCAA Championships - UCLA will host the 2004 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships on Apr. 15-17 in Pauley Pavilion. Team preliminaries begin on Thursday, Apr. 15 with an afternoon and evening session. The top three teams from each preliminary session advance to Friday's Super Six Team Finals, and the individual event finals take place on Saturday, Apr. 17. Tickets for the Championships are on sale now at the UCLA Central Ticket Office by calling 310-UCLA-WIN or visiting the ticket office website at www.tickets.ucla.edu.
Schwikert, Vanden Eykel To Join Bruins In 2005 - UCLA has signed U.S. Olympian and 2003 World Championship gold medalist Tasha Schwikert and former junior U.S. national champion Lindsay Vanden Eykel to national letters of intent. The duo will join the Bruin squad for the 2005 season. Schwikert is a two-time U.S. all-around champion (2001, 2002), as well as the 2003 all-around runner-up, the 2002 bars and floor champion and the 2001 beam champion. Vanden Eykel won the junior national title in her first season as a junior international elite in 1999 and repeated in 2000. In 2003, she placed in the Top 10 in the all-around and second on bars at the American Classic.


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