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Benjamin McKenzie: If James Dean had worked for Fox
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Daytime. And Nighttime.
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MMMMmmmm...McKenzie at dawn....or dusk....sigh
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This is the first time I've posted in this thread, but I have a "proud to love the O.C." moment re: Ben McKenzie...
I just got a new roommate and it turns out she went to UVA with him. They were in a couple of plays together, went to a couple of cast parties, and she drunkely insulted his height. I convinced her to watch the show for the first time this past wednesday. Her reaction? "He's really good! This show is a lot better than I expected!"
Ah, the joy of passing the O.C. on!
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I'm all trying to be sophisticated and mature, look like the poised, intelligent intern that I am, with insightful commentary, and we're talking about playwriting versus screenwriting.
He starts talking about the legal dispute over Lord of the Rings and writing credits, and tells me about a guy he knows who he thinks is involved in the whole thing.
He's halfway through the story before he tells me that he's talking about Robert Schenkkan! As in, Ben McKenzie (Schenkkan)'s uncle Robert Schenkkan! (Him: "He wrote 'The Kentucky Cycle'". Me: "Oh, right, right." Because I actually did know that. Me: "And he won the Pulitzer, didn't he?")
Apparently Schenkkan is somehow involved in the Writer's Guild disputes in LOTR? Go figure. I hadn't heard that anywhere else. I googled it and I think he might have been confused and it was The Last Samurai instead.
Being the poised, intelligent intern that I am, I did not start screeching, "Oh my god! You know Ben McKenzie's uncle!"
(I merely kept it to myself. But it was difficult. Heh.)
This is like connection number sixteen that I have to Ben. Oh, well.
Hey McKenzie, they're getting scary again!
Posted Jan 9, 2004 @ 8:19 PM
I'm so mad about the boy that I read about his relatives! Seriously, The Kentucky Cycle is amazing.
Extensive documentation filed with Monday's complaint shows that Interscope paid Eddy as the original writer of a script called "Eastern Western." Eventually, according to the complaint and accompanying documents, Interscope hired a second writer, Garner Simmons, who rewrote the script, by then retitled "West of the Rising Sun." After that, the script fell to a third writer, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan.
In the mid-1990s, the complaint says, director Vincent Ward became involved with the project. Ward, according to the complaint, then gave a draft of the "Rising Sun" script to Zwick, who directed the Civil War drama "Glory." Zwick said that first version he read involved a Westerner leading a cattle drive across Japan, rather than the solider eventually played by Cruise.
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Posted Jan 9, 2004 @ 11:41 PM
I have got to read The Kentucky Cycle. Is it really about Kentucky? Is that a stupid question?
So I guess Schenkkan's writing for film and not stage these days? Yep, that pretty much goes along with the whole discussion that I had over breakfast this morning... darn it.
Still, he was smart enough to tell Ben that The OC was the role of his lifetime. Good uncle.
Posted Jan 10, 2004 @ 4:05 AM
I think he has before. He wrote the screenplay for "The Quiet American," with Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser.
So I guess Schenkkan's writing for film and not stage these days?
Being utterly ignorant of the theatre world... how would I get my hands on "The Kentucky Cycle" to read it? If I remember right from when it was here in LA, it's really, really long, as in 6-hours-needs-an-intermission long, which suggests that it probably won't be making a come-back any time soon. And, yes, I think it's really about Kentucky, or several generations of a family in Kentucky.
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He sounds like a very nice boy (yeah, I'm younger than he is and yet I sound like a grandmother), but more importantly, and more so than the Russell Crowe resemblance, I think he looks like my (former) favorite figure skater, Alexei Yagudin. It's gotta be those chubby cheeks.
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I know I'm gonna get a smackdown on these boards for even mentioning this but I can't decide whether Ben McKenzie can act or not. I'm in Australia where evil channel nine has only shown three eps but from what I remember the guy only has one facial expression. Shifty eyes and sideways looks seem to be employed in place of actually emoting.
I do really like the show and Joanna's recaps have kept me enthralled but nobody else has really mentioned this criticism of BMcK and I thought here would be the place for it. Am I alone? Because everyone I've mentioned it to in RL has agreed with me and I thought perhaps there were some lurkers out there too scared to face the wrath of all you BMcK fans.
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But examine The Gamble more carefully, gingerfirst. When Dawn- oh, in the Poolhouse when he says she left a note, and then the wave when she leaves- too much. Look closer, truly- he does a lot with a little.
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That said, I am very much not one of them. I think he's an insanely good actor, and for all of the reasons that jjfruits and crimsonclad have already mentioned. I honestly don't get the complaints about his acting, but to each his (or her) own.
Posted Jan 22, 2004 @ 3:13 PM
In the conversation with Oliver, you can *see* Ryan willing his fury to stay in control. Not only does a vein in his neck throb rather convincingly, but everything - the tense way he held himself, the jaw, his tight but angry "I'm not going to let this happen" - just screams that his emotions are right under the surface and it's taking everything he has to keep them in check. I think "holding back serious anger" is even harder to portray than serious anger itself, and it was an incredible job from the actor. Not to mention the broken, hysterical demand/plea to leave Marissa alone. BMcK just rocks every scene he's in six ways to Sunday, IMHO.
Posted Jan 23, 2004 @ 1:11 AM
Its so strange to now watch Access Hollywood, and ET and these forums and see him as a pin up hunk. Takes me back to the days of high school, which is not that long ago, he is Class of '97.
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I am currently trying to download (naughty I know) episodes because I hope to be proven wrong.
I must say that hasn't stopped me from becoming a teeny tiny bit obsessed with BMck - he's just so darn smart and that article in which he did the whole "five words to describe yourself" tipped me over the edge. If worst comes to worst I shall just have to read the recaps and settle for pictures on the web. God, how sad am I?
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Very engaging, intelligent and amusing, my only problem with him is that as Ryan I (very unfortunately) cannot interpret his "emotions" at all.
This seems odd to me, because I can totally read him all the time (as can most of the Ryan threaders, if I may speak for them). I haven't done a study on it or anything, but I'd guess that Ryan (BMcK) probably has the least lines per screen time ratio of all the cast; he doesn't say much. But he conveys a LOT with just his face, IMHO. Angst!Ryan, Happy!Ryan, Brooding!Ryan, PinkPanther!Ryan, Chino!Ryan, Sexy!Ryan... you get the idea.
And Natalita, lucky much? You MUST share some anecdotes, gossip, casual observations, anything. Anything. You MUST! I'm afraid it's, uh, mandatory for posting at TWoP. Yeah... that's right, ah, mandatory. So spill!
Posted Jan 23, 2004 @ 10:55 AM
I just had no idea Ben acted. He played football, and hung out with "in" crowd, as far as I know. He was nice enough, had the same haircut as he does now. He was not a troubled kid at all, pretty easygoing actually. And funny. His brother was the actor, I was in a silly Middle school play with his younger brother, and he was the actor one. I read he went on to study theater in Yale. But BEN???? I never saw that one coming. What I cant get over is that he was jsut a standard guy from school, nice but not anything to write home about. Cute, but not the school hunk. And now I see him on TV, and he is so believable as the brooding, deep Ryan Atwood, and he all of the sudden seems so hot now. What a missed opportunity. Let this be a lesson to you, the standard guys in high school go on to be famous.
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If you didn't already believe this, just wait until your 20th (or 30th or...) class reunion. You'll be amazed.
Let this be a lesson to you, the standard guys in high school go on to be famous.
Posted Jan 23, 2004 @ 2:02 PM
I'm in Australia where evil channel nine has only shown three eps but from what I remember the guy only has one facial expression. Shifty eyes and sideways looks seem to be employed in place of actually emoting.
Not that Benjamin's acting needs defending, but... I'd like to add my two cents in for Gingerfirst.
Keep watching, trust me, your Ryan/Ben love will soon surface!
In upcoming episodes watch for his reactions to people. Those sideways glances are what people do when they don't trust other people's motives or kindness.
You'll see expressions of fear, longing, pent up anger - sometimes all in one look! I don't know many actors or actresses that can pull that off.
I didn't necessarily see the subtelties at first either because it was a new show and was watching for content but then I started to notice his ability to portray raw and honest emotions in just a look/glance.
That is the reason many of us are now obsessed with the show and Ben in particular. As you've noticed, the boards are filled with love for Ryan Angst/Happy/Chino - in all different flavours!
It is a testament to Ben's acting skills that we have vested many hours pouring over his character's background, who he is, where he's come from, his home...on and on it goes.
Of course, it goes without saying, pretty much everyone on the show is great. Josh Schwartz and company have put together a very talented group that work well together.
BTW, Ben said himself he's still pretty new at acting and is learning on the job.
I'll watch him learn!
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Tony Giodone is a hit man, raised by a mobster after his mother died. He is also a werewolf, 'changed' accidentally a year ago by a woman he was hired to kill. She meant to kill him, but Tony didn't die and when he recovered, he found that he changed into a wolf during the three nights around the full moon.
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Okay, I'm going to tell you something right off about this book, and I want you to promise that you won't let it put you off. It's written in the first person. From the point of view of the hero. But it totally works. I know people say they don't really like first person (I'm usually one of them), and it was a bit of a shock when I realized at the beginning of the fourth paragraph that it was male first person, but I was already hooked.
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Sue is equally three dimensional, although perhaps slightly more problematic because her essential problem is that she's a doormat. It works within the well-constructed story, but there was always a little voice in the back of my head wondering why someone with 268 million bucks couldn't think of a way other than suicide to solve her problems. I loved the fact that Tony actually made her get therapy.
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It's good. You should read it.
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This is a slow week for chocolate news. Most American chocolatiers and chocolate-makers are busy hitching their horses to their wagons for the harrowing journey (either across the country or across town) to the tenth annual Chocolate Show in New York City.
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- From Colorado: Chocolove
- From Connecticut: Knipschildt Chocolatier
- From New York: Chocolat Michel Cluizel (by way of France), Chocolat Moderne, Chocolate Bar, Christopher Norman Chocolates
- From Oregon: Dagoba, Lillie Belle Farms
- From Pennsylvania: John and Kira's
- From Utah: Amano Artisan Chocolate
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Enzastaurin Versus Lomustine in Glioblastoma
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Eli Lilly and Company
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First received: February 22, 2006
Last updated: January 31, 2014
Last verified: January 2014
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This protocol will test the activity of Enzastaurin vs. Lomustine in the treatment of recurrent brain cancer (specifically intracranial glioblastoma multiforme).
Drug: enzastaurin
Drug: lomustine
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Randomized Phase 3 Open Label Study - Enzastaurin vs. Lomustine in Glioblastoma
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MedlinePlus related topics: Cancer
Drug Information available for: LomustineU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Eli Lilly and Company:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The primary objective is to compare Enzastaurin versus Lomustine in patients who for the second time have brain cancer (specifically intracranial glioblastoma) to see what effect the drugs have on keeping the disease from progressing (worsening). [ Time Frame: baseline to measured progressive disease (PD) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- To measure survival to see how the tumor responded to the therapy and how long the response lasted using MRI (a scanning technique). [ Time Frame: time of response to progressive disease ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To measure changes in patient's ability to care for themselves (this will be determined through a standard survey). [ Time Frame: over entire study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To measure changes from baseline and a neurologic exam. [ Time Frame: baseline, each cycle ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- To review all bad reactions reported by the patient and detected in blood tests. [ Time Frame: each cycle ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- To review the effect of the cancer on the patient's ability to care for themselves and on their general health status. [ Time Frame: over entire study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To determine through blood tests how long the medication is in the patient's body. [ Time Frame: cycle 1, cycle 4 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To review through testing of tumor and blood samples to see if there are reasons why some patients responded to the drugs better than other patients. [ Time Frame: baseline, cycle 2, end of study ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2006
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|November 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: A
Drug: enzastaurin
1125 mg loading dose then 500 mg, oral, daily, 6 week cycles until PD
Other Name: LY317615
|Active Comparator: B
Drug: lomustine
100-130 mg/m2, oral once, every 6 weeks until PD
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient presents with histologically confirmed diagnosis of brain cancer (specifically glioblastoma multiforme).
- Your cancer has returned following therapy.
- Patient may have undergone prior surgery to remove cancer.
- Patient must be able to care for self.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have a second type of cancer (except adequately treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin). Patient who has had another cancer in the past, must be free of cancer for more than 2 years.
- Have received treatment within the last 30 days with a drug that has not received regulatory approval for any indication at the time of entry.
- Patients receiving medication for seizures must discontinue 14 days prior to enrolling.
- Cannot be on blood thinning medication at study enrollment.
- Cannot be on other medicines to prevent cancer at study enrollment.
- Patients are not allowed to enter the study if they have previously taken Enzastaurin, Lomustine and/or Bevacizumab.
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|Study First Received:
|February 22, 2006
|Last Updated:
|January 31, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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Senate Star
As America's first gay senator, Tammy Baldwin lights the way
Interview by Justin Snow
Photography by Todd Franson
Published on April 11, 2013, 5:08am | Comments
Shattering glass ceilings is becoming routine for Tammy Baldwin. The first out person to serve in the U.S. Senate, Baldwin's résumé consists of a long list of ''firsts.'' In 1993, she became the first out lesbian member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1998, she became the first out gay person elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman elected to Congress from Wisconsin. And last November, aside from becoming the Senate's first out member, she also became the first woman to represent Wisconsin in the upper chamber.
''I didn't run to make history,'' Baldwin told a crowded room of supporters on election night after her Senate victory in November. ''I ran to make a difference."
Tammy Baldwin
(Photo by Todd Franson)
Five months later, Baldwin is making a difference. She has become an icon for the LGBT movement, but has not forgotten those she has been elected to represent. As the highest-profile gay elected official in the country, she is also positioned in a unique place – from which she watches new colleagues rush to endorse equality as the Supreme Court considers two landmark same-sex marriage cases.
Speaking to Metro Weekly in her Capitol Hill office a few hours after she sat inside the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, the 51-year-old Baldwin says she hasn't lost sight of the goals she had when she first ran for the Dane County Board of Supervisors in 1986. While Congress was on recess, the DOMA arguments brought her back to D.C., Baldwin said.
''When given the opportunity, it was something that I thought I can't pass up.''
Indeed, Baldwin's career has proven that the senator knows how to seize an opportunity – and run with it.
METRO WEEKLY: What did you think about some of the questions and comments that were made in the Supreme Court today?
TAMMY BALDWIN: I haven't seen all the coverage on yesterday's [Proposition 8] arguments, because I was back in the state in meetings all day. I sort of go into it with three perspectives: an openly gay person who has been fighting for marriage equality for decades; an attorney – and probably that was what was the most fascinating aspect for me, having once in my practice done oral arguments before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which was the highest I ever got; and then as a House member, listening to all the aspects about the fact that it was the [House's Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group] that is defending DOMA when both parties to the case actually want the same outcome.
So it was fascinating on all those levels. And I'd never gone to a Supreme Court case oral arguments before, so it was a first in that regard. It was great.
I've learned from listening to analysis of previous oral arguments you don't take the questions to get necessarily a sense of where the justices are going. I heard conservative justices ask questions that would've made me think they were going in a different direction than I would predict otherwise, and the same with more liberal members of the court. There were moments of levity that I wasn't necessarily expecting. It was watching a piece of history.
MW: What do you think it says that we're at a point where the Supreme Court is weighing this issue of whether or not two people who are of the same sex can get married?
BALDWIN: Certainly the court takes up cases that are unique and rare and not widely discussed, but it is interesting how quickly in recent years public opinion has changed. I just think of how much has happened in the last few years. It wasn't so many years ago that no state recognized marriage equality and now we're at nine and the District of Columbia, and others on the verge. The change has been really rapid and perhaps it's a really good point that the Supreme Court is weighing in.
MW: Also happening now is Whitman-Walker Health honoring you as a ''Partner for Life.''
BALDWIN: I am so humbled by that. First of all, I'm just a huge fan of the work that they do. They've been so pioneering and helped policy makers throughout the years develop sane policies and think about issues that they wouldn't necessarily think about because they're not there on the front lines serving people who have lots of barriers to access, and disparities in their access and outcomes that wouldn't necessarily be known if there aren't people out there fighting and advocating for them.
One of the personal things, [in 1986 when I ran for the Dane County Board of Supervisors,] that was the year that the first HIV/AIDS cases were reported in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin it was literally a story of people coming home to die because that was the progression. And I was in my first year of public office and thinking about, ''What can we do to do this right, because we've seen so many communities get it wrong?'' The epidemic of fear that accompanies a medical epidemic, getting a chance to educate our community to offer early education to folks in county government -- the public health department, the social work staff that's going to be visiting families….
That's sort of right when I came into public life and got a chance to play a leadership role in my home community. It's where a lot of my passions come together -- health care, civil rights, education -- all of that kind of came together, so this is really special because it brings me back to where everything started.
MW: You were in the House for quite a while and you've been in the Senate for a few months now. How are you adjusting to the new chamber?
BALDWIN: I love my job. I feel very honored to get a chance to do what I get to do. The differences are many. The first starts at home: the idea of representing the whole state of Wisconsin rather than a district whose boundaries change every 10 years and are somewhat arbitrary. It's amazing and I love my state. I like that undertaking of being there for all the people of Wisconsin, not just this piece that's been cut out of it by mapmakers.
Here, the most notable difference that I think most people point to is just it's a much smaller body, so there's capacity for those willing to really get to know one's colleagues and, across ideological lines, get to find and search for common ground. That opportunity is abundant here. And it's the way in which I think I work best and so it's something I'm really excited about moving forward. Already that process has started, but there's a long way still to go.
MW: You mentioned that the Senate's a smaller chamber and it's more tight-knit. I was wondering if you had had an opportunity to speak with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) since he announced his support for marriage equality after learning that his son is gay.
BALDWIN: Yeah, I did. I was glad to get an opportunity to share with him my gratitude that he chose to speak publicly about this. That's something he could have changed his mind and his heart about and kept it private until some moment when he had to vote on it. And he didn't. I very much respect that and wanted to let him know that I believe that act has a ripple effect. And it's a very important ripple effect.
MW: In the few days up to these Supreme Court arguments --
BALDWIN: Even this morning.
Tammy Baldwin
(Photo by Todd Franson)
MW: There have been so many moderate Democrats in the Senate who are just putting it out there and saying this is where they are on this issue.
BALDWIN: It's quite remarkable.
MW: What do you think it says that this is something elected officials can now go out there and say this is something they now believe in?
BALDWIN: It says a lot of things, among them that sometimes when you're a leader and in the public light, you do things and take positions because they're right, not because they're going to win an election or win you political favor. And I think this is such a moment and I'm really proud of them.
MW: Some of the senators who have come out for marriage equality in the past week or so have faced criticism that they're being opportunistic. Some criticized Sen. Portman because they said that he only cares about this issue now because it directly affects his family. What do you make of those criticisms?
BALDWIN: I believe that gay family members, gay neighbors, coworkers, distant cousins, fellow congregants at church — I think Harvey Milk was right: Come out, come out wherever you are, and that's how you're going to change the world.
In many ways, I think Sen. Portman's journey is very similar to how President Obama articulated his journey on the issue of marriage equality and how most Americans have dealt with this issue. So I think it's very reflective and I hope more people get the chance to take that journey.
MW: For Wisconsin, is marriage equality something that will get there one day?
BALDWIN: One day. I don't think it'll be tomorrow. Wisconsin is such an interesting state with regard to civil rights generally, and LGBT rights in particular. You may or may not know that Wisconsin was the first state to pass a nondiscrimination statute on the basis of sexual orientation, banning discrimination in employment, public accommodations and education in – guess the year.
MW: 1980-something?
BALDWIN: '82. Signed into law by a Republican governor. It took seven years for the next state to pass one, and that was Massachusetts in 1989.
So, you know, wow. Remarkable. Wisconsin. And there wasn't really at the time any sort of statewide activist group. It was a remarkable chain of events that led to that. And then in 2006 it was one of the states to pass a referendum on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. I've seen Wisconsin citizens grapple with these things over the years. I don't think it's easy to typecast our state.
In the year following the constitutional amendment, the state passed a domestic-partnership registry with a very limited set of rights and responsibilities associated with it. But our constitutional amendment was one of the ones that said marriage is between a man and a woman and the state can't pass any substantially similar laws affording rights to same-sex couples. And so we just had reviews of the domestic-partnership registry and basically they've come to the conclusion that it bears no substantial similarity to the institution of marriage, so it's fine. So we're a state with a domestic-partnership registry and a constitutional amendment.
I think Wisconsin will be a state where we see progress in future years, but it will be slow. And the undertaking of repealing a constitutional amendment is a big undertaking. Every state has a different process for amending their constitution. In our state it requires two successive legislatures to act on the same identical language, then it goes on the ballot and it's put to a popular vote, which requires a majority. But two successive legislatures, that means you have to have the legislative leadership. Today we don't. So it's not happening tomorrow.
MW: You've been involved in some other key issues. You're a co-sponsor of a bill that recently passed committee on organ donations for people who are HIV-positive. With a slew of LGBT issues out there, do you think marriage has gotten too much focus?
BALDWIN: It's so interesting. I think that to the degree that there's a movement it's for full equality in every dimension, and yet one focuses strongly where there's opportunities. It wasn't so long ago that the biggest focus around was repeal of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'' because there was promise and opportunity that that could happen, that it could happen legislatively, that the folks who would be charged with implementing that were committed to doing so, because certainly you can pass something and have it fail in the implementation.
So there was an array of things, and I think you're seeing that moment in the fight for marriage equality. At the same time, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the legislative focus at the national level quickly moves to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and [nondiscrimination] executive order that we hope the president will undertake on federal contractors.
And when you look at the states, what opportunities exist there, for different states, different localities that answer is different. I think it's a convergence of obvious areas in which we lack full equality and full civil rights, and the opportunity to actually make progress on them.
I would point to another one that I suspect will also capture a lot of our attention and effort, and that is safer schools and communities for LGBT youth, whether that's student nondiscrimination statements or policies or anti-bullying and harassment programs. Even in a Congress where one house is controlled by tea party-animated folks, something like that could move.
MW: You mentioned ENDA. You sit on the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, which oversees ENDA. What's your read of the prospects for that bill?
BALDWIN: I'm heartened by, first of all, Chairman [Tom] Harkin's (D-Iowa) saying he intends to have a hearing, he intends to have a markup of the bill and report it out of committee. That's very exciting. I know there's still work to be done before that process starts in terms of getting the bill into final form before introduction, but I think that's great. To be on the committee that works on it is very exciting.
In the House I was on the Judiciary Committee for many years, not the whole time I was there. So, I got to be on the committee as we were going through the process of marking up the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes [Prevention Act], it was kind of like being in the oral arguments this morning. I felt like, ''This is history unfolding right in this room,'' and it was really fascinating.
MW: When there is a person in the room who is gay, who's talking about something that affects other gay people, does that change the game?
BALDWIN: There's no question. You know, I always said during the campaign, when you're not in the room the conversation's about you and when you're in the room the conversation is with you.
Some of what happens is much more subtle, as where my new colleagues are getting to know me and they feel comfortable enough asking questions about my own life experiences -- Have I faced discrimination? Have I faced this that or the other things? -- that they have their ''Aha'' moments. But it doesn't necessarily happen immediately around the debate on [ENDA]. It might happen in other ways, which I think is great. I certainly think it makes a difference.
You probably remember my history in the House as one of the co-chairs of the LGBT Equality Caucus. We took on the responsibility of counting the votes as things were maybe headed to the floor, so we could tell the leadership if we had the votes. Unlike most whipping operations, it was bipartisan. We were talking to any Republican we thought we could get on board.
For some of them the thing that's moving to them is those stories from their constituents. It matters when it comes from their constituents. But, interestingly on ENDA, a lot of the persuasive arguments for some – especially folks who are more fiscal conservatives – is hearing from their business community about how, ''We've had a [nondiscrimination] policy for 15 years and we have it because we want to be able to attract the best talent for our organization. We want to be globally competitive and we want a happy and productive workforce,'' and whatever it is. And they're kind of going, ''Aha, well I guess we should want that for the federal government and we should want that for America.'' It really varies what the persuasion point is for various officeholders and policymakers.
MW: You were in the House not very long ago. What's your forecast for ENDA if it does get out of committee? How do you think it would fare in the House?
BALDWIN: I have to say, given the current leadership composition of the House, I don't think it goes anywhere. We've seen some victories I'm really excited about, like a [Violence Against Women Act] that is for the first time inclusive of programs that will help people in the LGBT community and Native Americans, etc. And how did that get through a House that's so resistant? Well, that was, I fear, an exception to the general rule, which is if they don't have a majority of the majority caucus supporting something they're not going to let it to the floor. And I don't see that changing in the near future.
But I do know from my time in the House there was significant Republican support for ENDA. Not anywhere close to a majority of the majority, but enough that I think if the House were to flip control there'd be no problem in passing it. And you could get to a different composition of Republicans in the House in later years where I think it could move even under their leadership. But not with the current leadership composition.
The other thing I would say that gives me hope that you could pass it even with a Republican held House, but again with not as much tea party-inspired leadership there, is the analysis that the Republican Party did of itself after the 2012 election, questioning the areas in which it was relevant and seemingly irrelevant. And the fact that they sort of said, ''We're losing big on this issue,'' may give some rise to change their views for political reasons.
And, frankly, we talked about the different motivations. You're asking about changing one's mind because a family member came out. Frankly, as someone who counts votes and wants to have a majority, if they come to the right decision for political consideration, that's okay with me too. We'll welcome them. We'll take their vote.
MW: You also mentioned the executive order. What's your take on why the president hasn't signed that?
BALDWIN: I don't have any sense on what his advisors are saying or their timeline. I just know that I've added my voice to those who would like to see him sign it and want to continue expressing that sentiment to the administration
MW: Have you gotten any signals from them that this is something they are reconsidering?
BALDWIN: I'm not aware of having received a response to the letter where I signed on with 37 senators urging him to do that. And I haven't had a direct opportunity to speak with the president since that time.
He's used questions about the executive order as a way of using his bully pulpit to say, ''Congress must act on this,'' because, obviously, executive orders are, to a certain degree, tenuous. A future occupant of the White House with the stroke of the pen can reverse those. Now, that doesn't tend to happen.
I was in the House when President [George W.] Bush took office and there had been a Clinton-signed executive order extending workplace protections to federal employees on the basis of sexual orientation and I remember a hearing in the Judiciary Committee where we said, ''Do you plan on upholding that?'' And they said, ''Yeah.'' It wasn't a long back and forth. They just said, ''Yeah.'' So it doesn't necessarily mean you would go back or have a future executive make another decision, but that risk exists.
MW: You came to Congress in 1999. Have you noticed a change in the partisan tone and the tone on gay rights?
BALDWIN: I would say a positive trajectory on one and a negative trajectory on another. Prior to my time in Congress, I served in the state Legislature and local government. I think there's a lot of agreement that things have become a lot more partisan over that course of years and even rooted in the decades before and they point to a lot of reasons for that unfortunate trend.
In Washington and in the state legislature I think a lot of it had to do with expectations that elected representatives come home every time they're not in session, come home to their districts and spend time with the people who sent them there, which means friendships aren't developing among members who serve together. Their only time together is when they're at loggerheads, when they're in the heat of debate. And I think the same is true of state legislatures.
In a previous era that didn't happen. I think friendships helped divide between the colorful debate and the ability to work together in other contexts. I certainly think that 24/7 news cycle has contributed to that. People who served in the days before 24-hour television coverage really talk about a different time there, too. And there's all sorts of other contributing factors. Things like the tea party movement have all contributed to a breakdown of comity. I find that unfortunate.
With regard to the views of members of Congress and in the previous bodies that I've served on LGBT equality, civil rights, I've seen things go in a positive trajectory. I think that, in part, has to do with what we were talking about earlier, increasing visibility of individuals and families in the LGBT community helping change the hearts and minds of people who then enter elective office. It's small acts of leadership, not necessarily big acts of leadership.
MW: You sort of have rock-star status among the LGBT community.
BALDWIN: [Laughs.]
MW: On election night there were people who seemed more excited you were elected to the Senate than the president was re-elected. Do you think you fully realize or appreciate this role that you have in the history of the movement?
BALDWIN: You can't fully. There's no way. I get these reminders. I describe it as a ripple effect, and you don't know the shores where all those ripples end up. But every so often one becomes very apparent.
I think about in the days after the election, just being around Wisconsin, and supporters coming up and just bursting into tears when they see me. [Laughs.] And it wasn't a bad bursting into tears, it was a good bursting into tears. But I never thought I'd live to see this day. Letters people wrote me, three pages, handwritten, saying, ''I was born before Stonewall.'' Youth who are in hostile communities who think they have a more limited future because they're coming out as gay and who read about it, maybe from a great distance and write and say, ''Wow. All the possibilities are open.''
And there's countless other times, even just being the first woman from the state to go to the U.S. Senate. I ran into dads with two young daughters who said, ''I am so excited for them that you were elected.'' They might not have even voted for me, but there's that impact also. So you get those glimmers of the impact. But I haven't changed.
I'm still the same gal who ran for the Dane County Board of Supervisors in my 20s because I wanted to work on health care and all sorts of things.
The Whitman-Walker Health spring fundraiser, ''Be the Care,'' honoring Sen. Tammy Baldwin as Partner for Life, is Thursday, April 18, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. Tickets, $150, may be purchased online at whitman-walker.org/bethecare.


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"I did not know that," said Chatham County District Attorney Meg Heap.
Tonight at 11 WTOC's Don Logana investigates how prisoners are getting access to Facebook.
"They can order hits, they can be continuing criminal enterprise," said a woman who's pushing to end inmates Facebook pages. And what's being done to stop it.
"Why bother putting them in prison in the first place, you might as well leave them out," said Savannah-Chatham Metro Police Chief Willie Lovett.
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It was Sunday fun day for me in downtown Montrose and smelling the fresh vegetation permeating from the was all I needed to get over the latest Big Brother eviction. I was eager to interview my next victim and with her sights set on performing, family and career, Stacey Hull was discovering Montrose all over again. While dancing her way back to the area after a six-year hiatus, this college grad found solace in the newfound nightlife, grandma Mary and the Samba.
Name: Stacey Hull
Age: 25
Occupation: Actress/Dancer
Current Location:
Relationship Status: Single
Interested In: A kindly, creative type.
Do you live around here?
Yes. I just moved back to Montrose two weeks ago.
Oh … from where?
I was in Salt Lake for about six years. I went to college there, but I grew up here. I stayed there after because I was in a dance company there.
You certainly look like a dancer. What kind of dance?
I'm a Samba dancer.
What is that?
It's Brazilian dance. I'ts like scantily clad with feathers and beads. It's a celebration.
Are you Brazilian?
No. But I love the culture!
Why is that?
I just got really into the drumming; the drum and the dance are very interconnected. I've actually started doing a Brazilian martial art.
How long have you been dancing the Samba?
Since I was six or seven. I took a class at the University of Utah and I started with the company.
What made you move back to Montrose?
Well, I was an acting major. So, I am moving back here cause I got a BA. There is more opportunity here for that kind of stuff. I am currently checking out all the theaters and contacting them.
What kind of acting do you want to do?
, television, . I love it all! And voice over, I have done a lot lately.
Gosh, do you sing, too?
I do sing! I love . I actually did a lot of singing in my Samba Company.
Are you looking for an agent?
Right now, I just got a survival job. So, I haven't looked yet.
Where do you work?
I just started working on Sunset Blvd. at a restaurant there.
Are you single?
Yes, I am. I just left this wonderful life behind in Salt Lake. I had an amazing boyfriend there.
Wow! Then why did you leave?
Starting over is good. We weren't headed in the same direction. Our long-term plans were different. Even if it's good, people part ways. It's hard.
How long were you guys together?
Two years. It's been hard.
Are you going to remain friends?
Yes. We didn't part on bad terms.
What are the top three qualities that are important for you to have in a guy?
. Somebody who is very thoughtful, both creatively and in a human sense. And of course, kind.
Do you usually date men your age?
I have dated men older than me for most of my relationships, I guess. But only three to six years older.
Do you still have a lot of friends here?
Yeah, three of my best friends live here.
Are you glad to be back?
I think so. There's a lot more going on here. Since I have come back, there are a lot more things on Honolulu Avenue. There are a lot more and . This street used to be pretty dead in the evenings. But since I have been back, it's changed. It seems like a lot more is going on.
I didn't realize.
I just moved back in with my family for a while. My mom and my grandma. She just turned 91! She and I have the same birthday so we celebrated with a lot of family fun.
What's her name?
Mary Nelson.
Happy Birthday, Mary!
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This was an all-play-all tournament with handicap of grade difference minus one. Time limits were 30 minutes sudden death. Handicaps above 9 stones were mostly given in the form of komi at the rate of 13 points (that is twice the komi of 6½ that was used in the one even game) per extra grade difference, except in two cases, where more stones were used as well.
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Accessible Technology Program (ATP) and the Department of Defense (DoD) Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) were developed to ensure accessible work environments for people with disabilities. The ATP Technology Accessible Resources Gives Employment Today (TARGET) Center and the Computer/Electronic Accommodations Technology Evaluation Center (CAPTEC) both serve as the link that brings valuable resources closer to those who require them in various workplaces.
The concept behind the centers is to provide assistive technology (A/T) services to managers, supervisors, and employees throughout the country. These services include how to obtain A/T information and demonstrations regarding the use of the technology that enhances the accessibility of our workplace. The centers range in size depending on the customer base being served, facilities and equipment available, and funding.
This document provides guidance for managers, supervisors, and employees participating in the process to establish a center. These guidelines include the following information:
These guidelines have been developed to provide initial direction to those interested in developing a technology Center. It is expected that as more technology Centers are established, these guidelines will be updated to reflect lessons learned and improvements identified. USDA and DoD are committed to enhancing accommodation services through continuous improvements and expansions to technology Centers.
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PG&E's top priority is the safety of the public and our employees. We are taking steps every day to strengthen our natural gas transmission pipeline system and become an industry leader in pipeline safety excellence.
As part of this commitment to safety, PG&E is checking the area above our 6,750-mile natural gas transmission pipeline system and working cooperatively with property owners to ensure the area is easily accessible. This work will allow us to more safely maintain, inspect and operate the system. It's one of our many ongoing pipeline safety programs taking place across our service area.
|In 2013, PG&E conducted a comprehensive survey of our natural gas transmission pipeline system using high-precision Global Positioning System (GPS) mapping technology. A more precise pipeline map allows us to better serve our customers, enhance our ongoing pipeline safety programs and work more efficiently with first responders.
|It is common for our natural gas transmission pipelines to travel underground. Maintaining the area above the pipeline and ensuring ready access is a key part of our ability to safely operate the system.
We are checking the area above our pipeline, also known as the right-of-way, for items like sheds, patios, and trees. If structures are built or trees grow in the right-of-way, they can interfere with our ability to maintain, inspect and safely operate the system.
As part of this program currently underway, when we find items in the area above the pipeline, we work cooperatively with the property owner to discuss necessary removals and address the items in a manner that it reasonable and respectful.
Most private properties do not have an underground natural gas transmission pipeline on their property. You can get more information about where our pipeline network runs by clicking here for a searchable pipeline map.
Like most utilities and municipalities that operate critical underground infrastructure, PG&E depends on accessible rights-of-way free of structures and certain vegetation. Pipeline rights-of-way are documented in written agreements with property owners called easements.
Easement agreements create a shared responsibility between PG&E and property owners to maintain the area above the pipeline. To find out if you have an easement agreement with PG&E, check the title report for your property and look for terms like "PG&E utilities," "easements," "rights-of-way," "land use restrictions," or other language that mentions land use do's and don'ts.
For help locating a copy of your easement agreement, you can also call PG&E's Land Management Department at 1-877-259-8314.
We value our relationship with our customers, property owners, cities, residents and businesses. As part of our regular inspections going forward, we'll be sharing information with property owners, providing ongoing education and partnering with communities to help build awareness around safe uses near critical infrastructure. Together we can keep the area above our pipelines safe and accessible.
|Pipeline markers indicate the location of the underground pipe and are an important reminder to property owners, the community and our employees to use extra care around gas transmission pipelines. PG&E is in the process of replacing damaged or aging gas pipeline markers, and in some cases, placing new markers above the pipeline.
Right-of-way: A right-of-way designates an area of land above the pipeline that PG&E may use to maintain, inspect and safely operate the pipeline. Pipeline rights-of-way are documented in written agreements with property owners called "easements."
Easement: Easement agreements, which are recorded documents, create the shared responsibility between PG&E and property owners to maintain the area above the pipeline.
If you have questions or want more information about our efforts to maintain ready access to the pipeline, please call us at 1-877-259-8314.
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On Aug. 30, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed new fuel economy labels to replace the current mileage label on the front windows of new cars.
According to the EPA, the new labels will help Americans make more informed purchasing decisions than the current label, which hadn't been redesigned in over three decades.
Labels Tell More with a New Look
In addition to the now-familiar mileage and fuel cost estimates, the proposed labels will give fuel cost comparisons with other cars, tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions estimates, and new measures specific to electric, plug-in hybrid, and other advanced technology vehicles.
The EPA and DOT are proposing two label designs. One design would rate each car with a prominent A to D letter-grade on overall greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy. This labeling option would grade on a curve that adjusts with the each year's fleet, maintaining the median grade at a constant B-, giving electric vehicles an A+ and marking the worst gas guzzlers with a D. There are no failing grades, according to the EPA, because federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards ensure minimum performance.
The alternate design would present the same metrics, but without including a letter ranking.
"Cars have changed dramatically in the past 30 years, and it's well past time for the fuel economy labels to catch up and come into the 21st century," said Alliance President Kateri Callahan. "We applaud EPA and DOT for seeking to empower consumers with information that will allow them to make economic and environmentally sound vehicle purchase decisions."
The full set of proposed labels is available on the EPA website, along with detailed explanations and comparisons with the existing label. EPA and DOT are seeking public comments until late fall and expect to have the labels finalized in time for the 2012 fleet. To comment on the proposed labels, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Alliance to Save Energy will submit comments, which will be posted to our website when filed.
Energy Labeling Goes Beyond Cars
The new fuel economy labels are just one of a suite of new energy labels proposed by the Obama administration, though the car labels are getting the most attention. In June, the Department of Energy (DOE) made a similar call for proposals on energy labels for homes, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a new light bulb label that same month.
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which mandated the car and light bulb labels, also called for new labels on consumer electronics and TVs.
Demand for building labels is growing, especially given that the average American household spends $2,670 per year on transportation and almost the same amount, $2,150, on household energy, according to Alliance analysis.
The new energy labels mark a move toward standardizing and disseminating information that consumers already seek on their own. The growing popularity of voluntary certification programs like LEED and Energy Star and websites like google PowerMeter and Earth Aid reflect an increased consumer demand for using information – and information technology – in purchasing and behavioral decisions on energy.
"The secret to making consumers a part of the energy solution is readily available, easy-to-understand information," Callahan said. "The Alliance looks forward to working with policy makers as they design new energy efficiency labels that will help Americans lower their energy costs and lessen their environmental footprint."
Other Efficiency Labels Still in Development
While the vehicle labels are on the fast track for the 2012 fleet, the home and consumer electronic labels may take longer to roll out.
In July, DOE closed its first round of comments on the proposed home energy label, and expects to release a draft label this fall. Developing the labels will require extensive background work, however, since DOE will have to standardize testing procedures and consider a diversity of climate and building stock variables in the process. Once the labels are developed, they will be applied to homes only on a voluntary basis.
The FTC similarly has some distance to go on consumer electronics, since only one product type – TVs – has adequate testing procedures in place. The FTC sought comments on a new TV label earlier this year and expects to release the final EnergyGuide label for TVs in the near future.


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Why Does Julia Allison Do It?
Internet fame always draws plenty of censure. It seems like a heavy cross to bear.
A catchy Wired Magazine ad caught my Internet-scrolling eyes this morning, and I ended up reading the magazine's cover story on Internet celebrity Julia Allison.
It's a strange story for several reasons. Allison is a Web star—probably unrecognizable to most people that pass her on the street (at least outside Manhattan or San Francisco). But Wired reports that Allison, who works as a dating columnist for Time Out New York, has built her fame on little other than relentless self-promotion:
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But with all due respect, Allison's renown has little to do with her day job. Indeed, it's hard to describe exactly what she's famous for. She's not an actress or a singer or a misbehaving heiress to a hotel fortune. She hasn't recorded any meme-ready videos like Tay "Chocolate Rain" Zonday or Tron Guy or the "Leave Britney Alone!" dude. She doesn't flaunt tech knowledge like bloggers Robert Scoble or Dave Winer. She is undeniably pretty—flowing black-coffee hair, sparkling eyes, gamine physique, broad smile—but beauty alone can't account for her celebrity.
Allison is the latest, and perhaps purest, iteration of the Warholian ideal: someone who is famous for being famous. Like graffiti writers who turned their signatures into wild-style gallery pieces, she has made the process of self-promotion into its own freaky art form. Traditionally, it takes an army of publicists, a well-connected family, or a big-budget ad campaign to make this kind of splash. But Allison has done it on her own and on the cheap, armed only with an insatiable need for attention and a healthy helping of Web savvy.
Of course, along with the fame comes the censure. Nearly all successful bloggers are prone to tremendous amounts of vitriol—not unlike that aimed at traditional celebrities, but the words are harsher because they generally take place via the blogger's critical medium (the blog) and because they're largely posted under the commenters' comfortable cover of anonymity. The language is also rarely censored.
Some bloggers have garnered fame and a major audience by carving a niche and serving a purpose—like Dooce.com's Heather Armstrong, who has written about motherhood and been forced to defend her writing, and the imposed title "mommy blogger," against questioning by folks like Kathie Lee Gifford, who interviewed Armstrong on NBC's Today Show. (Gifford asked why she felt the need to publicly air the sorts of sentiments that one would share only with a best friend, and questioned Armstrong's boundaries for blogging about her daughter.)
But what I find so strange about Allison's story is her willingness to subject herself to the incredible burden of online criticism, when there isn't much she's defending. I feel like I'm missing something. Armstrong, for one, is charged in part with the mantel of carving this new path for the Internet where mothers are free to share the challenges and thrills of raising kids and making families.
Interesting twist: Since the Wired story was first published, Allison has reportedly said she's tired of the fame game and wants to refocus on writing.


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