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Stephen Lawhead: Only He Knows Where The Skin Map Leads
- Laura MacCorkle Crosswalk.com Senior Editor
- 2010 29 Oct
Reading and ley lines: what do they have in common? Both, it is argued, can be pathways to "different worlds." But in Stephen Lawhead's newest novel, The Skin Map, this is doubly true.
The first in the new Bright Empires series, The Skin Map brings the concept of "ley lines" front and center as readers are introduced to Kit Livingston, a lonely twenty-something whose life is going nowhere fast in present-day London, England.
"Had he known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe," reveals the first sentence of Chapter One, "Kit might have been better prepared."
Better prepared, perhaps, for meeting a man claiming to be his great-grandfather—someone named Cosimo, who as family lore had it, had disappeared in 1893, never to be seen again. When the white-haired man wearing an old-timey greatcoat and trousers oddly stuffed into his high-top shoes interrupts Kit's life one morning, he persuades the young charge to join him on an adventure, which Kit soon learns, will involve travelling through time in a multi-layered universe.
"I'm the man who has come to rescue you from a life of quiet desperation and regret," Cosimo says. "I need your help with a project. It will be an adventure of a lifetime—of several lifetimes But it will change you forever."
But why ley lines? Aren't they just the stuff of New Agers and nonsense? Why the reappearance of a long-lost relative (and how)? And what does it all have to do with another explorer who left a tattooed part of himself behind: a skin map separated into five pieces, that once found and rejoined could lead Cosimo and Kit to "the secret of the universe—or something even more significant and momentous."
I sat down recently with Stephen Lawhead on a stop in his book tour and asked him to clue me in on this fantastical adventure and share more about The Skin Map—without giving away the entire story of an epic treasure hunt involving ancient history, alternate realities, cutting-edge physics, philosophy and mystery.
It's been rolling around in my head for a long, long time. To put it this way, pieces and bits of it have been floating around [for 20 years]. It's scattered over so many different time periods. … To gather the history parts of it, the philosophy parts of it, the physics parts of it, all of that makes it what it is. And all of that took time.
It's been said that The Skin Map has been 20 years in the making.
How would you describe the basic premise of The Skin Map?
Well, I can't. That's the big problem that I have. It's easier to actually write it than to describe it. It's life, universe and everything—sort of a chance to look at the really big questions: Why are we here? Where are we going? What does it mean? Those sort of ideas. You know, the five books [in the Bright Empires series] will really be able to dig in to that. It's cast in the form of a treasure hunt.
Have you finished writing the rest of the books in the series?
Oh no. I have finished the second one, called The Bone House. It comes out next summer. I finished it almost just days before starting on this [book tour].
So what happens after you turn in a book to your editor?
You submit your manuscript, and then you go hide for a few days and wait for the storm to blow over. It can take various forms. Sometimes you need to do some massaging of the manuscript. And [in The Bone House], there are a few chapters that are going to shift around a little bit to get the flow a bit better. Stuff like that.
Have you ever strongly disagreed with your editors about any changes they may have wanted to make in one of your books?
Oh always. But it could be anything. It's usually me. Here's the thing: I don't look at rewriting or editing as different from the writing process. To me, it's almost like shooting film. You shoot the scenes, get them down and then you go back and start looking at it and say, "Well, this isn't doing what I wanted it to do. Or, "This is doing it in a way that could be improved." Or whatever. And so some things get cut out, but you have to get it down first. You have to see what there is, what the possibilities are before you can even do it.
It's like moving furniture around. You've got your room set up and everything's working out. But you just move the furniture to make it really, really pop. So that process—it can go on. It might go two or three rounds. It just depends. It's very rare that things just flow seamlessly from start to finish.
With The Skin Map, there is a lot going on from chapter to chapter—different realities, different time periods. If a reader isn't paying attention, it could get confusing pretty quickly.
It's demanding for readers. Then again, I figured again there's a whole nation of people who were just besotted with Lost and they seemed to jump around a lot and they forgave a lot just to get through the story. They seem to be able to keep track of that. You just tell them to look at it like a miniseries.
Two of the first characters that readers encounter are Kit and his girlfriend Wilhelmina. They both seem to be leading kind of blasé lives at first. And then BOOM. Kit's great-grandfather Cosimo arrives on the scene, and he and a little ley-line travelling change all of that.
Survival sharpens your wits a bit. But they're just, I think, typical of so many people, modern urban dwellers in particular—you're in a big city and the demands of work and social pressures of various sorts, and it's easy to lose yourself. You just let things slide, one by one. And as Cosimo tells [Kit] in the beginning, "You have your friends who you see less and less of, they've all moved out, they've got families and stuff and what are you doing?" But that is just like so many people that I run into, and they recognize themselves. Like I said, survival sharpens your wits. You begin to engage with what's going on around you and try to make sense of it.
Both Kit and Wilhelmina seemed to adapt pretty quickly to their new alternate realities.
Maybe there are other people who don't. I don't know. Well, Wilhelmina's sharp. And she's one of these people who could look around and sees what the opportunities are and goes for it without worrying too much about what she's leaving behind. Kit, of course, is different because he had help. He had people around him at first to sort of cushion the blow. Then when he gets off on his own, he sort of has a feeling for what is going on. So he's not completely frightened by it.
But I think what will emerge in the second book is that he's pretty much in development mode. Things begin making an impression on him, and there are things that will happen as the series goes on that will bring him to new places in himself in addition to what's going on around him. So we just have to be a little more patient with him.
Cosimo plays a big part in changing in Kit's life or at least guiding him and helping him to change his perspective.
Yes. So much of who and what we are depends on the worldview, depends on how we view things. Are they danger or opportunities? Sort of like getting hit over the head.
Is that what Cosimo has done figuratively for Kit?
Well, that's exactly what it is. That little speech at the beginning where he's trying to convince him to come along on this quest is very much that. What are you holding on to that's so important that you can't make a change?
Do you identify at all with any of the characters in The Skin Map?
Oh, probably all of them. I don't write myself into any of my books, but you can't stay out of them either. I don't worry about it too much. When I imagine these characters, I just try to make sure that once they sort of come forth from the story then you try to just be true to them and make them as natural as possible.
Did you have a particular audience in mind when you were creating these characters and interweaving their stories?
Could be myself. Could be anybody who likes this sort of thing. I don't really think, Well, a 12 year-old to 16 year-old is going to really get this. I can't do that. But I think anybody who has a taste for a kind of adventure story.
The Skin Map seems to have a lighter feel to it. Would you agree?
Yes, because the series will get heavier as it goes because the subjects that I want to really look into are pretty weighty and if you put that on the cover and have the story begin with this … whoa.
So that's what I'm up against a little bit is that there's no reason for anybody to open up a book these days. Entertainment's so easy. You stream a movie on your iPod if you want to or whatever. To get someone's attention and to keep it—and to keep it over the course of five books—is going to be a real challenge. But it also is just fun. I wanted to make [The Skin Map] a really fun ride, a really fun journey. And yet we're going to hit some serious subjects along the way: life and death and what comes after and what this is all about. Why are we here and where are we going?
Will the more serious topics begin with The Bone House?
Well, you won't know that they're starting. You'll just all of a sudden realize that they're starting when you begin to think about some things that you maybe didn't think you'd be thinking about when the book started. I don't want to frighten anybody and say, "Well this is about quantum physics and reinterpreting the world that we live in." Because I'm not a scientist and I'm not an essay writer or a philosopher or anything like that. So it's going to have to come out as part of the story, as part of the ongoing development of the treasure hunt.
I'm glad you included an essay at the back of the book ("The Ley of the Land") that helps explain ley lines to those of us who would have been frightened by terms like "quantum physics."
Well, that's just to let people know that I didn't make that up. They're real things. You learn about them and you go away scratching your head and saying, Well what's that about. The world is far stranger than you can imagine, than anyone can imagine. What is our grasp of reality, really? Do we even understand what's going on? But once you get a bigger view, things can happen.
You had to do a lot of research for The Skin Map. In fact, I was overwhelmed when I read all that you had to do. Do you enjoy this stuff?
It's fun! I enjoy it, poking at things. I don't have any kind of any real disciplined way. It's just whatever catches my fancy. You just begin to get in sort of thinking a thread, and you follow that and that leads to this and that's interesting. Pretty soon it's just a mass of materials that could be anything—books, it could be travel things, it could be visits to museums, any number of things will help contribute. Just be able to move comfortably in [your research], so that the reader can feel comfortable in it. Not that we're straining at any of the borders of ignorance, because there's a lot of that. It's a real place, and you're in safe hands and you can just believe it and go with it.
Did you finish all of your research before you started writing?
No. That doesn't work. I'm usually writing something and then researching ahead of that. So there isn't a situation where's there's a gap of two or three years. I get antsy, and so I always have something going on.
What about the storylines? Did you plot out The Skin Map in advance or did you just figure it out as you wrote?
Everything I write is like that. It grows organically out of the situation, out of the concept of the story, the characters that are given to me or that announce themselves in the course of a book and then the story grows out of that. There's a thematic element that many people may not be aware of. And it could be just a few words; it could be a sentence. So is this scene advancing that and is it somehow explaining that it is somehow relevant to that theme? So it all sort of has a coherence. I don't know how it will end or where we're going to end up right now. That's not important right now. But it'll be real important in the last book.
So you don't even know what's going to happen in the last book of this series?
Yes. It's not a perfect analogy, but you try to build a house with bricks. You don't have to build the whole house at once. All you have to do is worry about the brick in your hand at that time. And if it fits with all of the others, you probably have the house. A friend of mine said, "Well that's great, but how do you know where to put the doors and windows?" I don't know. This seems like a good place for a window.
As part of your research process, did you visit the places that are in The Skin Map?
Yes. Egypt and Prague and, of course, London. The only place we have not gone to is Macau. But we've been to others and Thailand and some of the places like that, and you get the flavor.
What would you say to someone who has not read any of your books before, and perhaps is not a big reader of fiction and is considering giving The Skin Map a go?
They do probably like entertainment, and I think that fiction can offer a style, a variety of entertainment that's probably a little higher pitched than most things they're watching on television or in the movies or whatever. I think often we demand too little of our entertainment. I think it can do lots more than it's often called upon to do. It can uplift you, it can change you, it can inspire you, it can challenge you, it can do all kinds of things. It doesn't usually do, but it can, given a chance. But fiction is one of the better vehicles for all that, because of what you might call the total immersion of the person in it. They can actually become part of the story without too much effort if it's done well.
The comment I get a lot, more and more these days, is just that. "I was never a fiction reader until. …" And I think what that tells me is most of what they had been reading … is not making a connection, it's not making that mental/ emotional connection that fiction can do.
There's a guy I read many years ago, who was very influential to me, I never met him. John Gardner was a professor, and he was also a writer. He wrote a few novels. But he said his idea was that fiction can come in two forms: one you call "true fiction" and the other he called "toy fiction." And toy fiction would be sort of the spy thrillers, the beach reads, the romance books—and I'm not denigrating them. These are his words. People like toys, and we want to go read a murder mystery and we want it to be a well-made thing. And they're enjoyable.
But true fiction calls for different sorts of responses from the reader and a different kind of engagement and involvement. So that's what I decided I wanted to do was to try to do that. And if it's done well, it can have a value beyond the moment, beyond that initial read. It's not something that you sort of read and then put away and say, "Well, what else is there?" Because it might stay with you a while … because you've been challenged, you've been awakened to another possibility perhaps or inspired in some way. And true fiction can do that.
What makes up your personal reading diet?
Mostly anything. There again, reading loads of theology and science of different sorts for [The Skin Map] and becoming comfortable with it. I read bestsellers of various sorts and sort of to figure out what's going on.
There's a fellow I usually mention who I think should get more attention. His name is Martin Cruz Smith. He's best known for Gorky Park—the Russian detective novels. I just think they're delightful. They're very well made. He does some other things, too. He's written a few historical novels. The one I just finished is called Stallion Gate. It's about the Los Alamos project at the end of World War II … and it all takes place in New Mexico. [Martin] is what I call a safe pair of hands, someone you can just relax into. He's not going to disappoint. There are no cheap thoughts. He's going to do the hard work. It's effortless.
How do you choose what you're going to read? Do you rely mainly on word of mouth?
Well, the word of mouth is the word from our son's mouth. And he's the one who guides us. He's the real culture vulture. It's Ross, our son. He reads widely all kind of things. He reads Shakespeare. He's a huge G.K. Chesterton fan. So whatever he passes on. He's a good filter for things.
Back to your catalog of work. Have any of your books ever been optioned for film?
Yes, that happens. And then the option runs out, and we sell them again.
What about this series? Do you think something might happen with The Skin Map or the forthcoming Bright Empires books to help them get to the big screen?
It's nothing I could influence. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. It would be nice if it would happen. This one, because of the whole episodic nature of the whole animal, it could be a miniseries of some sort. Here again, if it was up to me, they'd all have been blockbusters years ago.
I'm sure your readers would agree as well. Speaking of which, when you do meet your readers on book tours, what are they like? Is it fun or a little scary for you to meet them?
Both of those things. It is fun, and it's also a little scary because you don't know what to expect. The thing is they are so respectful and so many of them are so happy to be there. And so it takes me back a little bit. Maybe I have created [a book] that is a vehicle for them to find something perhaps that they've been looking for or that they can connect with in a way.
Have ever had a reader show up to a book signing who really surprised you, like a 95-year-old great-grandmother or something?
Yes, that always happens. Part of the surprise is … well, since it always happens it's not a surprise anymore. They'll show up with their children—some of them are kind of old children now—with names of the characters in my books. The other night we met Charis which is one from one of the early Arthur books. There are loads of Aidans around now, and that comes from Byzantium. So that's always fun. So they have me to thank for their names [chuckles].
But no one's showed up yet with tattoos of The Skin Map on them have they?
No, but they will! They will.
And then for those who aren't inclined to get inked, how would you persuade them to try The Skin Map?
This is real hard because I guess it's life, universe and everything, who are we, where are we going, why are we here. And are those people—the ultra materialists—are they right? Are we just some sort of fluke of nature and we're here today, gone tomorrow or is there really a purpose for all of this? And that's why the quote at the beginning the book is why is the universe so big. Because we are here. It had to be this way. There's no other way for this universe to create what we are except the way it is. And the two are intimately connected.
It's not a mistake, and it's not a fluke. We are meant to be here. And all that we see around us is meant to support us. And the reason is because this is the way God has chosen to grow conscious creatures that can know and experience and have a relationships with him.
For more information about Stephen Lawhead, The Skin Map, upcoming titles in the Bright Empires Series and other literary works, please visit www.stephenlawhead.com.


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Gotta love those Taiwanese news folks for rendering the Romney-Obama debate in animated form. (You don't need to know Chinese to understand what's going on, though you can click in the upper right hand corner to get a YouTube version in English). I especially liked taking the chain saw to Big Bird while the Sesame Street cast looks on in horror. (By the way, looks to me like Big Bird is going to be the Amy Carter of this debate cycle, but in reverse: Obama is going to look dumb defending BB.)
Besides, we now know what Big Bird really thinks of Obama anyway:
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Spain's king, Juan Carlos, to abdicate so son, Crown Prince Felipe, can succeed him
MADRID -- Spain's King Juan Carlos plans to abdicate and pave the way for his son, Crown Prince Felipe, to take over, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told the country Monday in an announcement broadcast nationwide.
He did not say when Juan Carlos would abdicate because the government must now craft a law creating a legal mechanism for the abdication and for 46-year-old Felipe's assumption of power.
The 76-year-old Juan Carlos oversaw his country's transition from dictatorship to democracy but has had repeated health problems in recent years.
His popularity also dipped following royal scandals, including an elephant-shooting trip he took in the middle of Spain's financial crisis during which he broke his right hip and had to be flown from Botswana back to Spain for medical treatment aboard a private jet.
His image was also tarnished by the investigation of his son-in law, who is suspected of embezzling large amounts in public contracts.
The king came to power in 1975, two days after the death of longtime dictator Francisco Franco. He endeared himself to many Spaniards in large part by putting down an attempted military coup in 1981 when he was a young and largely untested head of state.
As Spain's new democracy matured over the years, the king played a largely figurehead role, traveling the globe as an ambassador for the country, and was a stabilizing force in a country with restive, independence-minded regions such as the Basque region and Catalonia.


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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- A Detroit-area men's clothing store is teaming up with a nonprofit to collect footwear for the homeless.
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Vigil held for murdered woman on her birthday
Kaloni Flynn, 20, died almost a year ago.
Friends and family of 20-year-old Kaloni Flynn will gather Monday at 6 p.m. at Oak Cemetery in Fort Smith in her honor
Flynn, who was murdered almost a year ago, would have celebrated her 21st birthday.
She was 12 weeks pregnant when she was found dead in her car.
Christopher Simpson is charged with two counts of first degree murder in the death of Flynn and her unborn child.
At the gathering, friends will release 21 green and purple balloons to remember her life.
Flynn's father said whatever happens in Simpson's murder trial is not enough for the amount of loss their family has suffered.
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In her first high-profile case, Nancy Gertner defended Susan Saxe, an antiwar activist accused of robbery and murder in a Brighton, Mass., bank heist. Then in her late 20s, her experience had consisted mainly of representing women in divorce court and handling a few criminal trials. Though she had not planned to defend the lesbian radical feminist, the case would prove a watershed moment for her career as all eyes focused on Gertner and her client—and most expected them to fail. "I have no idea why I took the case except that I could not acknowledge my own fear," she recalls. "If we failed, we were narcissistically carrying the entire mantle of our generation."
Once she accepted the challenge, Gertner developed a friendship with Saxe and immersed herself in mounting Saxe's defense. "Her background was similar to mine," she says. "Visiting her in jail was an experience that I never forgot—even as a judge—what it's like to hear the doors slam when you go to prison. Those are the kinds of experiences that I think we all should have on the bench."
The first trial ended in a hung jury, which few lawyers, reporters, or others expected. Articles on the trial referred to Gertner as the "lady lawyer"—if they referred to her at all—highlighting how little the public thought of Gertner or female criminal-defense attorneys at the time. Saxe later pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but the highly charged case helped make a name for Gertner and her Boston law practice. As a lawyer, and later a federal judge, she would continue to spark controversy and advocate for important social issues—and would win the respect of her opponents.
Known for wearing red dresses in court and, early in her career, carrying her legal briefs in shopping bags, Gertner kept a file on the gender insults and sexual discrimination she encountered from judges and other lawyers. Despite, or perhaps because of, her struggles to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of law, she went on to handle cases involving sexual harassment, abortion, murder, sex discrimination (including a lawsuit against Harvard Law School for discrimination in a tenure issue). At the start of her career, she also represented a woman whose psychiatrist was accused of having sex with her.
Now, three decades after the Susan Saxe case, Gertner shows few signs of retreating from the public eye. Beacon Press published her memoir, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate, in 2011; she now juggles speaking engagements, full-time teaching at Harvard Law School, and work on a second book about her time on the bench. She says she's also been approached about running for political office and hasn't ruled out that possibility. Indeed, hanging up her judge's robes means that Gertner can air her opinions much more freely. "As my husband says, now that I can speak, I can't shut up," says the law professor. "I have a lot that I've held in over the last several years." She spoke candidly about her career and the challenges facing professional women during an alumnae event and book-signing hosted by the Barnard Club of Boston in October.
Gertner grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the youngest daughter of a Jewish family with roots in Poland and Hungary. Her older sister, Roz, attended Barnard and Gertner followed, studying political science and serving as president of the undergraduate association during her senior year.
She arrived at the College as one person and came out another. As Anna Quindlen, who is quoted in Gertner's book says, "I arrived at college with…a trunk full of perfect pleated kilts, and perfect monogrammed sweaters, by Christmas vacation I had another perfect uniform: overalls, turtlenecks…and the perfect New York City Barnard affect—part hyperintellectual, part ennui…" After reading The Feminine Mystique and discovering her social conscience, Gertner left college an antiwar protestor and an outspoken feminist, though admittedly the kind of feminist who shaved her legs. "We were the transition generation," she says, noting that she remains in touch with a group of friends she met at the College. "The school I started off at was not the school I graduated from and not remotely the school it is today. It was the place I first marched against the Vietnam War."
While at Barnard, Gertner took a constitutional-law class, an experience that, when paired with spirited debates with her father growing up, sparked her interest in studying law. "I still have my notebook from that class," she says. "It was seared into my memory."
At Yale Law School, where Gertner was one of 20 women in her class, she struck up a friendship with classmate Hillary Rodham and met Bill Clinton, who would later nominate her for the federal judgeship. After Yale, Gertner worked as a law clerk, and then practiced at a firm in Boston. Her long-term plan was to become a professor rather than practice law. "But after the experience of literally saving someone's life in the Saxe case, I couldn't leave," she says. "I just did what I thought was right."
Throughout Gertner's career, she's advocated for what she believed, even when the path to justice was winding and unclear. In one case, she defended a local college student who'd been found guilty of rape because Gertner thought the original charges were not believable. On appeal the conviction was overturned, and her client went free. Still, Gertner worried about the precedent set for future rape cases since the appeal initially resulted in a decision that was not helpful to women victims, and went beyond what she'd originally asked for. As she wrote in her memoir, "Once you are enlisted to represent someone, you cannot control the outcome, the court's reasoning, [or] the impact on other cases."
For much of her twenties and thirties, Gertner says she was "determined not to marry and have children, part of my rebellion in direct proportion to my mother wanting it." She met her future husband, ACLU attorney John Reinstein, when they worked together on abortion cases. When the couple married, Gertner became stepmother to Reinstein's daughter, Sarah. Gertner had her first of two sons, Stephen, at age 39, and jokes that her experiences of motherhood and menopause ran "neck and neck."
When asked about balancing motherhood and a high-profile legal career, Gertner explains that starting a family later in life allowed her the stature and resources to create a flexible schedule when she needed it. But, she notes, her experience can't be generalized. "Between the two of us, we could create an environment where [balancing children and a career] is possible, but I don't want anyone ever to believe that that's the only right thing to do," she says. "It was right for us."
Over the course of her career, Gertner has received numerous awards. Most recently, the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts awarded her the Lelia J. Robinson Award, which recognizes women who "have captured the spirit of pioneering in the legal profession." She says choosing a favorite award—like choosing a favorite legal case—would be like choosing which child she loves most. However, she admits that being the second woman (after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) to receive the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association in 2008 "has a special resonance because of who the namesake is." Gertner says she admires Marshall's clarity of vision in dissent after dissent. "[In a speech] Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that he brought to the court a set of experiences, perspectives, and context that was unique to that Court: The experience of having been reviled, discriminated against, and representing the powerless and dispossessed," Gertner explains.
As a professor of law, all too often she meets students at Harvard who are "hell-bent to pay back loans and seeking conservative career choices." Gertner wrote In Defense of Women because "I wanted to talk about what it was like to make choices based on what you love, to write about making a career in the public interest. Life would have been easier for me if I hadn't made those choices."
The gender discrimination that she encountered as a young lawyer in the seventies followed her even as the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed her nomination for the federal judgeship. She recalls mobilizing every prosecutor she had ever opposed to send letters of support. Still, Gertner says her appointment was held up for 10 months. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, who had recommended her for the federal judgeship in the first place, worked tirelessly on her behalf. The Senate eventually confirmed her in 1994, and she served on the bench until 2011. Along the way, Kennedy served as an inspiration. "He was willing to use his legislative skills towards social change," she says. "It didn't matter whether there would be consequences."
Even after her appointment, Gertner was criticized for her outspoken tendencies. Judges are often expected to be impartial, but impartiality is a struggle, and the question is how to achieve it since it's not something that's innate. "None of us is born neutral and without opinions," she argues. "We select judges in their forties and fifties, and life [gives] you opinions. The enterprise is to know where those opinions end and the job begins."
Those dynamics explain why Gertner is working on a second book, this one about the role of judges in contemporary society. "I'm writing about being a judge, not in the way that the academic books have treated it, but talking about the real pressures on judges," she explains. In her time on the bench, Gertner observed what she describes as pressure to avoid controversy and dismiss cases on technical grounds. "These forces really undermine access to justice, and it cuts across right and left," she says.


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Knit Retro NHL Pattern Socks: Florida Panthers 1993 White
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I like these socks I I find there big enough to fit over my knee/ thigh pads while playing goal.
Je suis assez déçu de ma commande on croit que les bas sont en nylon synthétique (léger)et non laine épaisse. Vous devriez mettre des photos réelles des articles !
Hi Gael, Sorry that you were upset with your product. I understand that you were looking for the "new style" lightweight socks and not knit socks, like what you ordered. The product description does call out that these are knit socks though and the premium socks (different from the type you ordered) do call out that they are the "new style". Also, for clarification, the socks you ordered are a polyester/cotton blended yarn (not wool) and the socks it sounds like you were after are 100% polyester (not nylon). Apologies for the misunderstanding, but the information is present on all the product pages. John Bonjour Gael, Excusez-moi car je parle jus un peu de francais. Je suis desole tu n'es pas heureuse avec ton produit. Je sais tu as voulu les bas <> leger en polyester et pas des bas tricote. La description du produit indique ces bas sont les bas tricot et les bas prime (different comme les bas tu as commande) indique ils sont les bas <>. Aussi, pour la clarification, les bas tu as commande sont polyester/coton fil melange (pas de laine) et les bas je pense tu as voulu sont 100% polyester (pas de nylon). Encore, je suis desole pour le malentendu, mais cet information sont sur tout les pages des produits. John
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Herschel and Planck launcher at launch pad
At around 13:40 CEST today, 8:40 at the launch site in Kourou, the Ariane 5 carrying Herschel and Planck rolled out onto the launch pad from its earlier location in the final assembly building under blue skies complete with puffy clouds.
Additional photos in gallery linked at top right.
The entire process of moving the launcher from the final assembly building to the launch pad 2.6 km away took about 1.5 hrs. Roll-out was announced at 8:40 local time after which the launcher was pulled out of the final assembly building. The Ariane 5 arrived at the launch pad at about 10:15 local time.
"The view is just spectacular," reported Göran Pilbratt ESA's Herschel Project Scientist, on location at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.


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BLONDE REDHEAD is excited to announce a new album set for 2014 release. Another sonic twist in their already adventurous canon…
Blonde Redhead has always been a band that innovates with each album. They challenge themselves with each recording situation, and the results have been stunning every time. Their music is always inspired by the same emotions, but their tastes and ways they choose to execute those emotions are constantly evolving. It was the early conversations about how to make this record that led the band to work with the up and coming Swedish duo Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid (Henrik von Sivers and Peder Mannerfelt) as producers on the record. Drew Brown (Radiohead, Beck) also came on board to record the tracks that would eventually be used in Stockholm.
This really marks the first time that the band has worked in such a collaborative manner with their producers. Kazu says "it was a real test – it shook everything up quite a bit". In fact, they were very much working outside of their comfort level, forced to move into directions that were completely unexpected, with many different opinions in the mix, which led to many challenges along the way. With friction however – there is also great art. And that's exactly what we have with Penny Sparkle. It's a truly gorgeous album, one that the band is VERY happy with. Although it took over a year to get there, the completion of the record lifted a huge weight off the band's shoulders.
The band initially spent 6 months upstate working on the songs for the album. Despite the beauty of their upstate surroundings, there was no escape. Simone said "I wasn't crazy about being upstate because there is something really sad about it – just being up there, completely secluded – it's really beautiful, but I had no escape – no friends, and nowhere else to go." They couldn't just take a break and go meet friends like they could at home in New York City, so they ended up feeling quite trapped and isolated.
When it came time to record, they decided to do a trial run with Henrik and Peder. Kazu headed to Sweden to work on one song, "Here Sometimes" – to see how it might go. It was a little awkward for her – working away from Amedeo and Simone with people she barely knew in the middle of the grey winter. She really loved being in Stockholm, but she felt very isolated and looked forward to working on the record again back in New York with the twins and getting their thoughts on the collaboration.
Kazu returned and the band spent time working with Drew Brown at The Magic Shop to record some basic tracks, and also to work on incorporating the electronic elements that Henrik and Peder had worked on. It was over Christmas and New Years, and was one of the coldest winters New York had seen. No one celebrated the holidays with their families – they just worked and worked – although at times felt like they weren't accomplishing anything. When they had more tracks recorded, Kazu went back to Sweden again, as it was finally decided that the collaboration would work.
Finally, in February – the band realized that they in fact had accomplished quite a bit. Everyone – the band, Drew, Henrick and Peder met together in New York to finally all work in the same room – Sear Sound. This was just a few months before Walter Sear, the studio's owner passed away. He helped them program the moog for the sessions. This is where the songs finally found their finished form. It took a long time, and it was very difficult, but the journey it took to create Penny Sparkle is well worth it.
The results of everyone's very hard work are found in the 10 songs that comprise Penny Sparkle. It's an emotional album full of discreet electronic flourishes, lush and sultry vocals and interesting sounds you have never heard on a Blonde Redhead record before. Sonically, the album sounds amazing on any stereo – which was also a goal of the bands. They really wanted it to sound perfect on any type of listening device.
It's no wonder that the band has some tensions to release after recording a record like this. In their spare time, Kazu and Amedeo both turn to horse riding, and Simone escapes on his motorcycle. Speaking of spare time, it's a wonder they have any at all. Between the year that it took to make Penny Sparkle, plus the soundtrack work that Simone and Amedeo have taken on, there really isn't much time to spare at all.
Simone first got into motorcycles about 10 years ago. Since then, he has educated himself about their inner workings and can fix his own bikes – Moto Guzzi being the preferred brand.
Kazu spends time upstate, where she rides and takes care of horses, including her own. It's also where she met the album's namesake horse, "Penny Sparkle". The stables that Kazu keeps her horse at are the same place that she had her riding accident at in 2002. It's often surprising to some that she still rides after such a horrible accident, but it really brought her closer to her hobby and made her work even harder at it. Amedeo rides too, but he enjoys more of the training side of it.
Blonde Redhead have ended up with a thing of beauty in Penny Sparkle. Despite the rocky road they went down while making it, Kazu says "I know that we have never made a record this way and if I could go back in time, I would do it exactly the same way again." And if the band is happy, then we should all be too.


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This is the tide calendar for Trocadero/Off-shore in Andalusia, Spain. Windfinder specializes in wind, waves, tides and weather reports & forecasts for wind related sports like kitesurfing, windsurfing, surfing, sailing or paragliding.
These are the tide predictions from the nearest tide station in Cádiz, Spain, 4.51km W of Trocadero/Off-shore. The tide conditions at Cádiz, Spain can diverge from the tide conditions at Trocadero/Off-shore.
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Was Ricky Gervais holding back this year? Hosting the Golden Globes for the third time, the comedian opened Sunday's awards show by ribbing Eddie Murphy for pulling out as Oscar host ("When the man who said yes to Norbit says no to you, you know you're in trouble") and NBC for being America's third-place network (oh, actually, fourth).
He did get in a few zingers. His five best jabs were aimed at:
His own manhood — "No profanity: That's fine, I've got a huge vocabulary. No nudity: See that's a shame because I've got a huge [pause] vocabulary. But a tiny penis."
Homeland, Modern Family top Golden Globes
Justin Bieber's manhood -- "Justin Bieber nearly had to take a paternity test. What a waste of a test that would have been! No, he's not the father. The only way he could have impregnated a girl is if he borrowed one of Martha Stewart's old turkey basters ... open wide!"
Jodie Foster's Beaver. Or beaver -- "I mustn't mention Mel Gibson this year. Not his private life, his politics, his recent films and especially not Jodie Foster's Beaver. I haven't seen it myself. ... But that doesn't mean it's not good."
God — "You don't need to thank everyone you've ever met, or members of your family, who have done nothing. Just do the main two: your agent and God ... I know for a fact that both God and my agent had exactly the same amount of input in my career."
The Tourist, again — "Are you on recreational drugs? ... Have you seen The Tourist yet?" he asked Johnny Depp, who confessed: "Uh, no.")
Check out all the Golden Globes fashion hits and misses
And these five would-be zingers were directed at:
Actors — "Amazingly, [defecating in a sink, a la Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids] is still less demeaning than what all of you have done to make it in show business."
Elton John -- "Our next presenter is the queen of pop. Not you, Elton. Sit down."
Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas — "They're ridiculously gorgeous specimens ... and probably very interesting ..." The rest of joke was censored by NBC, but our lip-reading skills lead us to believe he continued, "but you can't f---ing understand a word they say."
Check out all the Golden Globes red carpet arrivals
Colin Firth and his clean image -- "What you don't know about him is he's very racist. I mean, really nasty stuff. I've also seen him punch a little blind kitten. Please welcome the evil Colin Firth."
Natalie Portman taking time off for her baby -- "Consequently, she's been nominated for nothing. Pathetic. But she's learned that valuable lesson that all you already learned: Never put family first."
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We would like to congratulate Instructor Antar Hall on his winning 3D ornament!
Congratulations Antar!! What was your initial reaction when you found out?
I was incredibly excited and had to share the news with my parents right away.
Has winning this award changed anything for you?
It's garnered a lot of attention for me and my use of 3D modeling software and 3D printing from people I know and many I don't, both in the U.S. and globally. A lot of this is thanks to being on LinkedIn allowing the news of my ornament to reach people I typically would not have access to or communicate with if I were not on LinkedIn.
What was it like to be in the White House during the Holidays?
Going in the White House was amazing. The architecture and decorations were stunning. Inside there were 26 lavishly decorated Christmas trees, lights galore and both high tech and traditional Christmas decorations throughout the many halls and rooms. My ornament was on a tree inside the State Dining Room, next to a richly painted portrait of President Lincoln hung above a fireplace mantle. To finally see my ornament in front of me was such an incredible and somewhat surreal moment. I stood there gazing for awhile and speaking with my mom about it and after taking a few pictures and smiling more with my mom we went on to the remainder of our tour. Among the decorations, we saw many masterfully painted portraits of past Presidents and First Ladies and even saw musical performances by a classical quartet and jazz ensemble. When we came to the end of our tour, exiting the White House was just as magical as entering it and knowing how historical a place you were just in made for an over the top experience gifting memories to cherish and last a lifetime.
If you are able, will you enter the contest again next year?
Yes, no harm in trying my luck twice!
You are an Alumni and Instructor here at FIT, is there anything you'd like to share with our readers? Words of wisdom?
Anything is possible to achieve with a combination of hard work, strong belief in your abilities and determination to overcome obstacles to reach your goals. Family, good friends and mentors are invaluable and some good fortune along the way doesn't hurt. Lastly, I've found helping others to achieve their goals can create a win-win situation for all.
Thank you for sharing your photos and once in a lifetime experience with us and we will see you soon for your next class!
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Note 3 UI ROM For MicroMaX Canvas 2+ A110Q MTK 6589 and Clones (Super Battery Backup & Performance)
The Fastest Selling just got faster! Micromax unveiled their upgraded version of Canvas 2 in May 2013 . Let's hope that the success peak touched by Micromax Canvas 2 will now be followed by its second version phone .Micromax Phones has become the first choice of Indian Youth and this company has emerged into a huge mobile selling firm . Earlier Samsung was continuously getting good response from Indian Market but with the launch of Micromax Canvas SmartPhones the sales of Samsung Market has decreased and all credits goes to the Micromax smartphones . The specification in which Canvas 2 was lacking has been now introduced in the all new improved Version of Canvas 2 i.e Micromax Canvas 2 Plus also known as A110Q .
SYSTEM PARTITION NEEDEDFeatures of Note 3 UI on MicroMaX Canvas 2+ A110Q MTK6589 and Clones
Here is a fully Note 3 UI ported from Star n7589 device.- Good Battery Backup
- Playing Games Smoothly
- Buttery Smooth
- 3G SIM Switch
- Sim Toolkit
- Init.d Scripts
- Full dual sim support
- Fast, smooth, stable
- Extended power menu
- 3G active sim card switch
- Some layouts fixes
- Deleted all useless chinese apps
- MIUI camera WORKING inc front camera videorecording!
- 2G/3G toggle fixed
- EngineerMode built-in
- VIPER4ANDROID built-in
And Many More.........
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Tell if you see any more....
Installation :
How To Flash :
use CWM Recovery AND system partition needed.
( You Can Take CMW Backup for Revert back to your old system )
1) Download ROM zip File below link
2) Put into External/Internal SD Card
3) Go To CMW Recovery
4) Wipe Data/Factory Reset
5) Wipe Cache
6) From Advance Menu Do Delvik Cache Clear
7) Go in Mount And Storage select FORMAT SYSTEM
8) Select Install From SD and Select file And Click YES
9) Select ROM zip And Select YES
10) Reboot
11) Congrats You have Rom now....Report if you find bugs
(It will take around 5 Min. for first boot)
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If flashing CUSTOM BASED ROM destruction in whatsoever in your world, neither me, nor any of my dev brothers and not even WEB OR FORUM SITE is responsible for that.
You are the one who has choosen to modify your phone and so all risk and durability is your only, no one
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Webinar Series: Sustainable Energy in Humanitarian Settings
Productive Uses of Energy (PUE) in Humanitarian Contexts - This webinar will provide an overview of different types of PUE activities in displacement settings, followed by two case studies from Kenya and Rwanda. SELCO Foundation will introduce the topic and Practical Action and Energy for Impact will then share their experiences and lessons learned from Rwanda. SNV Kenya will discuss their market-based approach from Kenya. Read more...
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We have partnered with a renowned WWII Nose Art artist to bring you custom designed Leather Jackets. Each garment is hand painted (no airbrush) and an individual work of art - no two ever the same. Pictured above in our gallery are some of the many WWII re-creations our artist has provided for customers. Choose a new Jacket from our collection or send us your own Jacket. Choose from our collection above, or submit your own design! We will attempt to re-create any artwork submitted. A good reference book on WWII Nose Art is Vintage Aircraft Nose Art, by Gary M. Valant, and For The Boys - the Racy Pin-Ups of World War II, by Max Allan Collins.
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This image of a tartan ribbon is the first-ever permanent color photograph, and it was taken 150 years ago yesterday by the legendary scientist James Clerk Maxwell. So just how did he create colors that would last for over a century and a half?
On May 17, 1861, Clerk Maxwell unveiled the photo during a lecture at King's College London. While his photo wasn't the first color photograph ever, it represented a massive leap forward, and professional photographers were still using his basic techniques well into the 1980s. Which is all the more remarkable when you consider that color photograph was actually a complete sham.
The Origins of Photography
It's a bit tricky to provide an exact date for the invention of photography, but the earliest ancestors of modern cameras date back to around the 1820s. You can see what's commonly considered the first ever photograph on the left, which was taken by Joseph Niepce in 1826.
All photographs work on the same basic principle - a light-sensitive area (the film) records all the light reflected or emitted by nearby objects, as are observed through the lens of the camera during some set period of exposure. This process leaves behind a latent image, which can in turn be developed into a photograph.
A camera does not necessarily have to be technological. At its heart, there's nothing about the camera that couldn't be found in nature - the camera just creates a dark area around the film so that the only light that enters will form the eventual image. The camera obscura dates back at least 1000 years, and it used that basic principle to project a bright image through a pinhole into - depending on the size of the camera obscure - a darkened box or room.
Modern photography then wasn't so much about inventing a way to capture real-life images as it was to find a way to preserve these images permanently. To that end, photography pioneers employed various chemicals that could preserve the latent image created by the camera on plates or film. These chemicals, which included everything from petroleum byproducts to silver compounds, would respond to the various wavelengths of light that they came into contact with it. In this way, the different amounts of light would be recorded, which taken together creates a complete photograph.
Where Color Comes From
It may not seem immediately obvious why early cameras could not record color. After all, if they were simply recording the light sources within the purview of the camera lens, shouldn't all the types of light be recorded? To understand what that wasn't the case, we would do well to consider the workings of the human eye.
We're able to see because of the photoreceptors in our eyes, which work in pretty much the exact same way the chemicals in a roll of film do - they react to the wavelengths of light that stream into the eye, and they translate that into chemical information that is then passed on to the brain. One of the two kinds of photoreceptors are known as cones, and there are three types of cones.
These three varieties are each most sensitive to a particular wavelength, which are generally thought of as the colors blue, red, and green. (This is, as you might imagine, a bit of an oversimplification, but it will do for our purposes.) It's the interaction of information from these three different photoreceptors that allows the brain to perceive an almost infinite variety of colors, which is known as trichomacy.
The point is, we can only perceive color because the brain is working from three very different sources of information. If we didn't have the different varieties of cones, everything would be interpreted simply in terms of its relative brightness, which would mean we would see everything in black and white. In a sense, we might even think of the different photoreceptors as color filters for the eyes. In fact, I advise that you do just that, because we'll be coming back to that idea in a big way later.
The Quest for Color
The first inklings of the trichomatic theory goes back to the English polymath Thomas Young, who proposed the basics of the idea way back in 1802. He got a lot of the fundamentals right - there were three different types of photoreceptors in the eye, and each was sensitive to a different wavelength of light. But it wouldn't be until 1850 that the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz took the theory further, and it wouldn't be until all the way in 1956 that Gunnar Svaetichin provided experimental proof for the idea.
So, under the circumstances, the developers of early photography can be forgiven for not thinking in terms of trichromacy. Instead, the initial attempts to create color photography revolved around a mysterious "chameleon substance" that could - as though by magic - perfectly imitate the color of whatever light source fell upon it. That, as you might imagine, didn't really go anywhere.
One of the more famous researchers into color photography was an American minister named Levi Hill. In 1850, he debuted a process he dubbed "heliochromy", which he claimed could reproduce colors in a rudimentary way. He attracted some major supporters - most notably Samuel Morse - but most dismissed him as a fraud who hand-dyed his photos to create colors that weren't really there. A recent analysis showed the proof was somewhere in the middled: Hill's process could reproduce some very muted red and blue colors, but he had also added a few extra colors fraudulently, perhaps cracking under the strain to provide more spectacular results.
But early attempts into color photography always ran into the same basic problem - no matter how ingenious the methodology, the colors always seemed to fade away, often as soon as they were brought into the light. There wasn't much point to color photography if no one could ever actually look at the results, and a major innovation would be needed to make the process even remotely practical. The big insight would come from a Scottish genius named James Clerk Maxwell.
The Father of Electromagnetism
If there were any justice, James Clerk Maxwell's name would be mentioned in the same breath as Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. He's not exactly an obscure figure, but his contributions to the sciences were so great that anything less than everlasting glory seems to give him short shrift. Einstein himself once observed, "One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell."
Born in Edinburgh in 1831, Clerk Maxwell was educated in the Scottish city before continuing his studies at Cambridge. He taught as a professor of natural philosophy Aberdeen's Marischal College and King's College London before retiring to his Scottish estate at just 34. He died relatively young at just 48 years old in 1879. But during his lifetime, Clerk Maxwell revolutionized at least half a different fields.
He united all previous practical and theoretical work on electricity and magnetism into a single consistent framework, recognizing that they were all manifestations of a single basic phenomenon, the electromagnetic field. He also did considerable work in optic, demonstrating among other things that light was also a part of electromagnetism, and that the speed of light was in fact constant.
His work on the kinetic theory of gases provided the first statistical law of physics, and his recognition of this essentially probabilistic behavior helped lay the groundwork for the rise of the quantum mechanics in the 20th century. In recent polls of physicists, his electromagnetic equation stands as the greatest in the history of the field, and Clerk Maxwell himself is recognized as the third greatest physicist of all time, and his work is fundamental to television, cellphones, satellite communications, and a dozen other modern marvels of technology.
Clerk Maxwell's Color Photograph
Considering everything else he got up to, it almost seems like a waste of his talents that Clerk Maxwell would invent color photography. But in 1855, he laid the groundwork for the first permanent color photo six years later by publishing a paper on the nature of color vision.
Recognizing the validity of the Young-Helmholtz theory and other early research into trichromacy, Clerk Maxwell took things a step further by realizing that every imaginable color could be artificially reproduced by mixing together the three primary colors red, green, and blue. It was all just a matter of getting the correct proportions in the stimulation of these various colors. Almost incidentally, Clerk Maxwell thought to apply this to photography, realizing that projecting three monochrome photographs of the same scene through the necessary color filters could create a full color photograph.
In order to illustrate a lecture on color vision on May 17, 1861, Clerk Maxwell asked Thomas Sutton, a photography innovator in his own right who had invented the first camera with a wide-angle lens, to take three separate photographs of a tartan ribbon, each time using a different filter. The result was the photograph up top, and so the three-color process was born.
The Success That Wasn't
James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton had hit upon the secret of color photography, and color separation became a major method of color photography for the next 130 years. As late as the 1980s, wire services transmitted color photographs around the world as three monochrome images, each with a different color filter, which could then be rephotographed and recombined to form a single color print.
So then, it almost seems churlish to point out that the whole thing was sort of a sham. Now, make no mistake: Clerk Maxwell's ideas were completely sound, and neither he nor Thomas Sutton engaged in any deliberate hoax. The problem is that the technology of the time period simply was not up to Clerk Maxwell's genius. There was just no way that the photographic materials of the time were sensitive enough to pick up red or green light for his idea to work.
The whole thing then was a bit of a happy accident. A hundred years later, R.M. Evans worked out what had really happened - the red dyes used in Sutton's filter were also able to pick up ultraviolet light, and so the tartan ribbon is not so much a composite of red, blue, and green as it is a mix of ultraviolet, blue-green, and blue wavelengths.
Still, at least Clerk Maxwell had all the basics right. His color photograph quickly fell into obscurity and would not be rediscovered until the 1890s. In the intervening decades, others had to independently reinvent his basic procedure, but these were all doomed to failure because the people responsible for them were far more artists than scientists. While a physicist like Clerk Maxwell knew that red, blue, and green were the primary colors, later photographers were under the false impression - one that persists to this day - that red, blue, and yellow were the colors needed for the primary filters.
Color in the End
It wouldn't be until 1873 that chemist Hermann Vogel figured out how to add the necessary sensitivity to green and red filters, bringing Clerk Maxwell's original procedure a little further into the realm of practicality. Even then, the long exposure times, prohibitive costs, and still barely adequate materials meant that color photography had to remain more a technical curiosity than a real going concern.
Finally, in 1903, the legendary Lumière brothers patented the first commercially viable color photography. Their Autochrome worked on the same fundamental principle as Clerk Maxwell's process, although they figured out how to do all the color mixing while the photograph was actually being taken. They covered the glass plates on which the image would be taken with microscopic dots of red-orange, green, and blue-violet, which was a still workable variant on the more traditional primary colors.
This so-called "mosaic screen plate" would then capture different color properties from all over the image. Because the color dots were so tiny, any given area that was actually visible to the eye would consist of a full complement of color information, as the individual dots would blend together to create a continuous color image.
It had taken 42 years since what had been perhaps the most flawed "successful" demonstration in history - not to mention an almost dizzying number of false starts in the interim - but color photography had arrived and it was, at last, here to stay. And now, 150 years after the initial demonstration, something as amazing and omnipresent as color photography can be remembered as merely a lesser legacy of one of physics's greatest geniuses.
Further Reading
Pioneering colour photography by Phil Coomes
Milestones in Photography by National Geographic
The Science World's Unsung Hero? by Giancarlo Rinaldi
How Photographic Film Works by Discover


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It's an odd fit, because the character that Baldwin is invoking is way more Jimmy Breslin than TMZ, and though the character is a bully in the headlines, he's working within that old boy's club moral code. There's a nostalgia that Baldwin brings to the role, a certain nobility. He even fake coughs after a monologue about how old he is and how many ex-wives he has (because he's part of a dying breed, you get it?), and then continues to fake-cough through the rest of the episode, though it's not really mentioned again.
But it's clear that Baldwin respects this guy–James MacArthur–and wants us to know that "These guys, they were the real reporters!" even while his character is calling a rape victim a liar. "Mooks like that never attack attractive women," Baldwin's MacArthur says. "They pummel 'towel heads' behind a dumpster."
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