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There's a new stimulus plan underway in America: $5.8 billion is being injected into the U.S. economy, particularly in states like Ohio, Virginia, Colorado and Florida.
We're talking of course about campaign spending, and this year's elections will be the most expensive in history. In fact, by the time we all head to the voting booth on Election Day, nearly $6 billion will have been spent on campaigns — big and small — all across America.
Much of that money will come from superPACs and other outside groups free to spend as much as they want, mostly on Obama and Romney ads.
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Mayer tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz that Obama's stance goes back to right after he was elected.
"During the inauguration, there were already grumbles from big donors who were complaining about the sorts of seats they got," Mayer says. She says similar complaints were heard at Obama's first holiday parties, when the president didn't pose for pictures with big donors.
Mayer says that sense of entitlement from big donors comes partly from Bill Clinton's presidency. Clinton, she says, "absolutely coddled big donors," with alleged perks like sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House.
"Obama is just not like that," she says. "These are not his best friends, and he just doesn't do business the same way."
Despite this aversion to cozying up to the super rich, Mayer says Obama is also a pragmatist, and reminds us that his 2008 presidential bid was funded entirely through private donations of mostly small and medium donors.
"He's been able to do that because of the unusual career he's had," she says. "He rose so fast to national prominence that he never really had to cultivate a donor network."
If the Romney campaign succeeds in raising more money than Obama this election, Mayer says it is still unclear what impact that might have. And though he doesn't need to match Romney dollar-for-dollar, he needs to be competitive, she says.
"The question is whether his message gets through," Mayer says. "This is a story ... to see how much of a punch [the money] really packs and we really won't know until Election Day."
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So how much of an impact could all of that outside money have, at least on the presidential level? So far, it doesn't appear like it's having much at all.
Sheila Krumholz, with the Center for Responsive Politics, tells Raz that the money could have an impact in a different way, however.
"I think the money will be very targeted ... in the swing states and in specific places," Krumholz says. "[But] we will not know when the money will drop, where [it will drop] and where it's coming from."
This added dynamism, Krumholz says, makes the race more about the money than the merits of the candidate. In addition, she says the large corporate and trade union donors aren't interested in democracy but in a return in their investment.
"They have an agenda," she says. "The problem is we may not know who stands to gain and what they will get in the end."
Though it is hard to tell how much will be spent by many of these hidden donors, Krumholz estimates it could be more than $1 billion this election.
At a minimum, Krumholz says Congress should pass a narrowly tailored disclose act that ensures disclosures of the donors to superPACs.
Money Race Continues
The biggest pro-Romney superPAC, Restore our Future, is closing in on $100 million raised. By contrast, the pro-Obama superPAC, Priorities USA, has brought in about a third of that amount.
That could change in the coming weeks as Rahm Emanuel, Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff, begins to help Priorities USA. Emanuel is one of the best Democratic fundraisers.
Still, according to Bill Burton, the group's founder, Democrats should be worried. He tells Raz that even though Mitt Romney might not seem like that impressive of a candidate to most Democrats, he is still a real threat to President Obama because of the money involved.
"Republicans of means are more motivated to engage in this race," Burton says. "If you're someone who is at an oil company or on Wall Street, and you really want oil companies or Wall Street to be deregulated, then giving $10 [million] or $20 million is a very small investment."
Though he works at a superPAC, Burton supports a proposed amendment to effectively overturn the Supreme Court decision that allowed for unlimited corporate and union money in politics and paved the way for superPACs. He says the campaign finance system is broken and needs to be fixed.
"This is not the way democracy should work and campaign finance reform is an important thing," Burton says.
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
There's a new stimulus plan under way in America as we speak - $5.8 billion being injected into the U.S. economy, particularly in states like Ohio and Virginia and Colorado and Florida. You might have guessed that I'm talking about campaign spending. Our cover story today: Is the money game having any effect so far?
RAZ: This year's elections will be the most expensive in U.S. history. And as I said, by the time we all head to the voting booth on November 6th, nearly $6 billion will have been spent on campaigns - big and small - all across America. Now, much of that money will come from superPACs and other outside groups free to spend as much as they want. Here is how some of that money is being spent.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: ...of unemployment over 8 percent. President Obama insists:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The private sector's doing fine.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Romney and Bain Capital shut this place down. They shut down entire livelihoods.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Obama is trying to force gay marriage on this country.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Romney and Ryan, if they win, the middle class loses.
RAZ: Now, pro-Republican groups are way ahead of pro-Democratic ones in raising that money, but that could change in the coming months. Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago and former White House chief of staff, has now joined Priorities USA, that's a pro-Obama superPAC. In a few moments, we'll speak with Bill Burton, the head of that superPAC, but first to Jane Mayer, a reporter with The New Yorker. In a recent issue, she wrote about President Obama's Achilles' heel - his aversion to cultivating wealthy donors. And it goes back to right after Mr. Obama was elected.
JANE MAYER: During the inauguration, there were already grumbles from big donors who were complaining about the kinds of seats they got. They were separated instead of being put together. And they didn't like that. And then there was an absolute firestorm of upset that took place after the first holiday parties that the Obama administration had when, unlike past administrations, President Obama didn't pose with big donors to have their pictures taken. And they felt slighted and offended and that they weren't getting kind of the personal treatment that they were accustomed to.
RAZ: You quoted some of these donors on the record and some who did not want you to use their names. But it seemed, Jane, that in some of these examples, there was almost a sense of entitlement, like some of these folks were saying, hey, you know, I gave X amount thousands of dollars and I should be able to have dinner with the president.
MAYER: Well, I have to agree. I think there's sort of a certain spoiled-sounding tone to some of it. And, you know, in fact, there's a reason for that, which is that I think some big donors really were kind of spoiled by the Clinton years, when President Clinton - he just absolutely coddled big donors. You remember he was accused of allowing them to come sleep over in the Lincoln bedroom. And so many of the big Democratic donors go back to the Clinton years and they remember what it was like to be sort of friends and family. And Obama is just not like that. These are not his best friends, and he just doesn't do business the same way.
RAZ: How did Barack Obama become such a successful politician and at the same time have such antipathy toward the most important thing a politician has to be able to do to win, which is to raise money, to ask for money?
MAYER: Well, I'm not sure I would say antipathy. I think he's very torn about all this. He's uncomfortable with it. He doesn't want to be corrupted by it. But he's also been a pragmatist. I mean, Obama is someone who, don't forget, in 2008, became the first presidential candidate since the Watergate rules to not take public financing and to completely privately finance his presidential bid.
So he's not always been a, you know, a perfect angel on this subject either. But he's tried to do it on the basis of small donations and medium-sized donations, not by cozying up to the super, super rich. And he's been able to do that because of the unusual career he's had. He rose so fast to national prominence that he never really had to cultivate a donor network.
RAZ: But if the president is not able to raise the amount of money - or his superPACs, the pro-Obama superPACs - from these very wealthy potential donors, I mean, how much of an impact could it really have ultimately?
MAYER: It depends how badly outspent he is. I mean, basically, he doesn't need to match them dollar-for-dollar, according to a number of experts that I interviewed, but he needs to be competitive. The question is whether his message gets through. This is a story unfolding, where we're all watching it, kind of holding our breath to see how much power the money really, you know, how much of a punch it really packs. And we really won't know till Election Day.
RAZ: That's Jane Mayer. She's a staff writer for The New Yorker. You can find her article in the August 27th issue of The New Yorker. Jane, thanks.
MAYER: Thank you so much.
RAZ: The biggest pro-Romney superPAC, Restore Our Future, is closing in on $100 million raised. By contrast, the pro-Obama superPAC, Priorities USA, has brought in about a third of that amount. Now, that could change in the coming weeks as Rahm Emanuel begins to help Priorities USA. He is one of the best Democratic fundraisers. Still, according to Bill Burton, the group's founder, Democrats should be worried.
BILL BURTON: This is a very close election, and the electorate is very deeply divided. And if you look at every one of the swing states from, you know, Ohio to Colorado to Florida to Virginia to wherever, the race is basically tied or one or two points in either direction. So with the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Republicans are going to bring to bear, plus the very difficult political environment for Democrats, even though Mitt Romney might not seem like that impressive a candidate to most Democrats, he still is a real threat to President Obama.
RAZ: Why are Democrats losing the money race? I mean, you created this superPAC in part to confront the amount of money that Republicans are raising and have raised. Why has it been more difficult for you?
BURTON: Republicans of means are more motivated to engage in this race. If you're somebody who is at an oil company or on Wall Street, and you really want oil companies and Wall Street to be deregulated, then giving 10 or $20 million is a very small investment compared to what you're going to get back if a President Romney, you know, deregulates your industry and, you know, cuts taxes for the wealthy to a tremendous extent. So I just think that, you know, Republicans see this as an investment.
RAZ: Rahm Emanuel, he has now joined your group. How much money do you think he can raise for you?
BURTON: We'll see. You know, I think that this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for Democrats.
RAZ: The president, as you know, supports a constitutional amendment that would effectively overturn Citizens United, right, and limit money in politics. This is something you would support, I mean, something that essentially would put you out of business - would you back that?
BURTON: Absolutely. No, I don't think that superPACs are a good idea. I think the campaign finance system is broken and deeply in need of repair. But that doesn't mean that, you know, as Democrats, we should sit on the sidelines while Karl Rove and the Koch brothers spend hundreds of millions of dollars to advance a right-wing agenda. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you go to Election Day with the rules that you have, not the rules you wish you had.
RAZ: Thirty-five million so far. What do you hope to raise by Election Day?
BURTON: As much as we can. We're clearing out the change in our couch, we're checking all our pants pockets, we're putting together every single dime to make sure that our efforts are well-funded.
RAZ: And you hope that you won't have to do this again?
BURTON: No. Like I said, this is not the way democracy should work, and campaign finance reform is an important thing. The only way there will be reform is if President Obama is re-elected.
RAZ: That's Bill Burton, co-founder of the pro-Obama superPAC Priorities USA. Bill, thanks.
BURTON: Thank you.
RAZ: But how much of an impact could that outside money have, at least on the presidential level? So far, it doesn't appear like it's having much at all. But according to Sheila Krumholz with the Center for Responsive Politics, that money could have an impact in a different way.
SHEILA KRUMHOLZ: You know, I think the money will be very targeted - it already has been in certain primaries - and we'll see that again in the swing states and in specific places. The political operatives that are running these outside groups are looking very strategically at the map and seeing where they can tip the scales in favor of their candidates. I'd say another really important impact is the dynamism that this injects into the system, that we will not know when the money will drop, where and where it's coming from in many cases.
RAZ: Why does it matter, though?
KRUMHOLZ: Oh, because we want our policy to be based on - and our elections - to be based on the merits of the candidates or of the bill and not on the money. So those who are ponying up the money for the election are going to be coming back. I mean, particularly for those who are corporations, trade associations, unions, this is not an altruistic process. They are not in it to promote democracy. They have an agenda. And particularly for corporations, they have a fiduciary duty to return a profit to their shareholders. So the problem is we may not know who stands to gain and what they will get in the end.
RAZ: How much big money do you estimate is undisclosed on both sides?
KRUMHOLZ: Well, in the last election, the first one after Citizens United, we saw that two out of three dollars were spent by organizations that were hiding their donors. So in this case, we anticipate that hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent by the outside groups, and perhaps much more than that. Perhaps a billion or $1.5 billion, all told, will be spent. It's hard to know precisely because of the hidden money, the hidden donors and also the hidden spending.
RAZ: A lot of attention is being paid to money spent at the presidential level. But I wonder if this outside money is going to have a bigger impact on the congressional and state level.
KRUMHOLZ: I do think that that's where it really stands to fine-tune the turnout and the electoral outcomes. And, again, in key states where those party operatives that have been in this game for a long time are, you know, micro-targeting their message to specific voters in specific states where they see the best opportunity to pick up a seat and potentially turn the tide in favor of their party.
RAZ: What could members of Congress or the president, the people who oppose Citizens United and the amount of money in politics, what could they actually do to change it if they wanted to?
KRUMHOLZ: At a minimum, they can and should pass a narrowly tailored disclose act that ensures disclosure of the donors to these very political nonprofits.
RAZ: That's Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. That's a group that keeps an eye on money, politics and influence in Washington. Sheila, thanks.
KRUMHOLZ: Thank you.
RAZ: By the way, money doesn't always determine the victor. Bob Dole outraised Bill Clinton in 1996. But at the congressional level, it usually does. In 2004, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, House candidates who outraised their opponents won 98 percent of the time. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Ford (F), the winner of CNNMoney's first annual March Stock Mania contest in 2011, made it past the first round with a win over Citigroup (C), but lost in round two to Microsoft. However, that's not saying much, considering all the financials went home without a single win. In the first round, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) lost to Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Bank of America (BAC) fell to Boeing (BA), and AIG (AIG) was knocked out by Amazon (AMZN).
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Even with 600 hours in space and 30 hours of space walk under his belt, Massimino said watching the new blockbuster Gravity made him feel like he was back among the stars.
"I would say it was a pretty accurate depiction. It brought back a lot of memories," said Massimino, on whom George Clooney's character is thought to be based. "The space shuttle, the views from space and even the tools used were realistic."
The $100 million, Alfonso Cuaron-directed thriller hurtled to the top of the weekend box office pulling in $55.6 million — the biggest October opening of all time. It was also the best opening ever for the film's two stars, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, according to Warner Bros. studios.
Now, a spoiler alert.
In the sci-fi thriller, Bullock's character, an astronaut on her first mission, is teamed up with Clooney's character, a veteran, to repair the Hubble Space Telescope some 372 miles above Earth. A seemingly routine spacewalk goes horribly wrong when the shuttle is destroyed, leaving the two stranded in the terrifying expanse of space with nothing but deafening silence for company.
"It's a really, really, bad day in space," said Massimino, 51, who flew twice on the space shuttle Atlantis to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. "It shows that space exploration can be dangerous."
Critics have been quick to poke holes in the story. Everything from the inability of Bullock's hair to float freely to the fact that the Hubble and the space station are in vastly different orbits, have been argued about on the Twittersphere.
The most vocal and attention-generating tweets have been from the renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. In 11 tweets posted Sunday, Tyson suggested alternative names for the movie (Zero Gravity and Angular Momentum — the tendency of an object, once set rotating, to keep rotating unless another force acts to slow or stop it) and wonders why Bullock's character, a medical doctor, is servicing the Hubble.
A sample tweet from Tyson: "Mysteries of #Gravity: Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west."
Responses to Tyson's tweets were equally swift and merciless: From "shut up nerd stop ruining the movie" to "Should we just start calling you #DoctorBuzzkill?" to "Ruiner of all things we love. Pluto and the movie Gravity."
But Tyson, too, is a fan of the movie.
"My Tweets hardly ever convey opinion. Mostly perspectives on the world. But if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much," he tweeted Monday.
Nelson S. Davis of Peekskill, N.Y., who saw the movie Saturday in 3-D, said he planned to see it again this weekend.
"I have to watch (it) in an IMAX theater. It's an amazing survival adventure, and it's a harrowing movie," said Davis, who has convinced his wife and stepson to go along with him. "Everyone in the theater was breathing deeply and quietly."
Massimino, who grew up on Long Island and went on a get a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT, said he was inspired by the movie The Right Stuff 30 years ago.
"Movies have the power to inspire, and I hope the views of Earth inspire the young people to explore this field," said Massimino, now a visiting professor at Columbia University's mechanical engineering department.
That's exactly what David Parmet's hoping for.
"My daughters are 11 and my son is 13. It was a good opportunity to sneak in a little lesson in physics (while discussing the flaws in the movie)," said Parmet, a Pound Ridge, N.Y., resident who is on the board of the nonprofit Westchester Amateur Astronomers.
"I hope the movie inspires kids, especially girls, to pursue careers in science and engineering," said Parmet. "Maybe we'll get a few more astronauts from the kids who saw it."
As for going through the movie with a fine-toothed scientific comb, Massimino, who made history by sending the first tweet from space in May 2009, tweeted Tuesday to his 1.2 million followers:
"We should remember that #Gravity is a movie, not a documentary, it is entertaining while also bringing the wonder of space to the big screen."


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On Friday, I spoke with Johnny Narron, the Rangers' special assignment coach and Josh Hamilton's devoutly religious "accountability partner." He was gracious, forthright and apparently full of crap.
Narron, you'll recall, said that he'd "be shocked" if the photos I'd briefly described for him "had any validity." He didn't "put a lot faith" in them. He suggested they might have been doctored. I asked several stumbling variations on the question of whether Hamilton had backslid. He gave several confident variations on the answer, "Not to my knowledge."
Now, here's Hamilton from Saturday's press conference:
As soon as it happened, I called my support system, like the Rangers, MLB even, and told them what had happened. I was absolutely open and honest about it.
Johnny Narron was in Arizona. It's one of those things where, a little bit, when you start getting time under your belt, you start taking it for granted. You might feel like you can have some freedom every once in awhile. Obviously, I don't have enough time under my belt. It's not Johnny's fault. We have a good relationship and we trust each other. Obviously, I breeched [sic] that trust. I've asked for his forgiveness. We've done things to improve that and be on the same page even more.
So Narron knew, if we're to believe Hamilton. I'll grant the possibility that my questions were sloppy enough to allow for a certain lawyerly parsing on his part. For one thing, I was operating under the misapprehension that the photos were taken in March, not, as Hamilton clarified Saturday, in January. The alternatives are that Narron — who did not return my call this morning — was either lying to me to give Hamilton a chance to respond in full (understandable, but damned un-Christian of him) or the whole thing had just slipped his mind, making him perhaps the worst accountability partner in the history of drug addiction. Whatever the case, Narron is probably not someone in whom we should put a lot faith.
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5 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
My wife made the mistake of telling me that she has a fear of clowns......
Wonder what I can do with clowns in this years haunt.....
- February 16, 2014 at 9:51 PM
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pick one and wear it in the house some night:
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- Jay's Shadow said...
Ha. It was bad enough that I scared the crap out of her after watching Halloween. Michael Myers is her ultimate nightmare.
But I think I'm still going to do it. :)
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When I actually get around to starting a mask collection, I'll definitely add the masks worn by the Joker's henchman in Dark Knight. Right after Michael Myers, of course.
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This past August, International Relations major Alex Atkins '13 and Kedar Pavgi '11 were part of a select group of 100 young entrepreneurs and college students from more than 25 countries invited to attend Athgo International's 4th Global Innovation Forum on Climate Change and Constructive Entrepreneurship.
The two were chosen because of their involvement with AidData, the largest open database on project-level development finance in the world.
AidData is a partnership between the College of William & Mary, Brigham Young University and Development Gateway, a non-profit organization that provides information tools and services to support international development. Atkins and Pavgi are both past research assistants with AidData.
The Global Innovation Forum, which was held at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., focused on encouraging individual action and involvement in climate change issues through constructive entrepreneurship. Though Atkins and Pavgi did not present work on AidData at the World Bank, their time with the project helped prepare them for the forum by teaching them about the field of development assistance, including its purposes and goals.
"Going into Athgo, I had a good grasp on the issues confronting the world, especially in the field of climate change," said Pavgi.
Of the many presentations given during the three-day event, one mentioned the collaborative efforts of AidData and Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. "It was really cool seeing the work that we had been a part of on a screen presented as actual international undertaking," Pavgi added.
While in D.C., the conference organizers assigned the William & Mary students to two different entrepreneurial teams. Pavgi's group designed a business model to start a composting company in a small town.
"The idea was to collect food waste, create compost, and sell it back to local farmers at a lower cost than traditional fertilizer," he said. "We added a social benefit to this venture, in that by accepting the cheaper compost, the farmer would agree to distribute fresh food and produce to lower-income families in that community."
Even though presenting their proposed solutions to a room full of established stakeholders was a bit intimidating, Pavgi remained focused on how fortunate they were to be a part of such a unique opportunity. The most memorable moment for him was hearing Nobel Prize Winner and Grameen Bank founder Dr. Muhammad Yunus speak.
"I have been a fan of his work for quite some time, and it was awesome to hear him speak. To top it off, I also got a picture with him!"
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After spending a week in Europe talking to scores of investors, it's obvious that the Greek crisis has reached an inflection point. I'm convinced that the most likely resolution is one that, in the eyes of Germany, solved the most issues for the lowest cost. That is why I think the issuance of euro bonds is the high probability outcome.
Think about it: Germany found a way to artificially depreciate its currency by joining the eurozone, which made it more competitive in global trade.
Now the music's stopped. With no solvent trading partners left in Europe, it's likely that the breakup of the eurozone—or the departure of Greece, along with the second-order risks of other countries leaving—is more expensive than simply bundling up everyone's balance sheets and issuing euro bonds.
Germany wasn't the only beneficiary of eurozone synergy. The other member countries strapped onto Germany's solid balance sheet and were able to borrow at lower rates than before. But if euro bonds are issued, there has to be a mechanism in place to punish member states that aren't fiscally responsible.
I'm not sure what that mechanism will be. It could be a central treasury, but that seems extreme. At any rate, the path of resolution will likely be extremely rocky. Afterward, Europe equities could be a screaming buy—but for now, I'd keep some dry powder.


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Amy Poehler made out with Bono, Tina Fey mocked George Clooney's taste in women and Matt Damon emerged, bizarrely, as the night's theme.
But at the end of a madcap Golden Globes (Fey toasted it as "the beautiful mess we hoped it would be"), the major honors soberly ended up with the favorites. David O. Russell's con-artist caper "American Hustle" led with three awards, including best film comedy. And despite missing out in the other six categories it was nominated in, the unflinching historical drama "12 Years a Slave" concluded the night as best film drama.
"A little bit in shock," said director Steve McQueen, before shrugging the lyrics to the old gospel song sung in the slavery epic: "Roll, Jordan, roll."
Russell's 1970s Abscam fictionalization "American Hustle" had the better night overall, winning acting awards for Amy Adams (best actress drama) and Jennifer Lawrence (best supporting actress). Best picture was the only award for "12 Years a Slave," which came in with seven nominations, tied for the most with "American Hustle."
Awards were otherwise spread around.
Matthew McConaughey took best actor in a drama for his performance in the Texas HIV drama "Dallas Buyers Club." Leonardo DiCaprio, a nine-time Golden Globe nominee, won his second Globe for best actor in a comedy for his work in "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Alfonso Cuaron won best director for the space odyssey "Gravity," a worldwide hit and critical favorite.
The night's biggest winners may have been hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, whose second time hosting the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Beverly Hills, Calif., ceremony was just as successful as last year's show (a six-year ratings high with 19.7 million viewers).
The pair came out with a spree of punch lines, dishing them around the Beverly Hills Hilton, much to the delight of its starry audience. Damon, Meryl Streep and, naturally, George Clooney were among the targets. Fey particularly had the crowd roaring with a description of "Gravity," which stars Sandra Bullock and Clooney.
"George Clooney would rather float away in space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age," said Fey.
Many of the night's surprise winners were literally caught speechless. Andy Samberg (best actor in a comedy series, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"), Elisabeth Moss (winner of best actress, miniseries or movie, for "Top of the Lake"), Robin Wright (best actress in a TV series, drama) and even Poehler, herself (best actress in a TV series, comedy), appeared particularly shocked to win and each stumbled through their thank you's. Poehler celebrated by making out with Bono.
Spike Jonze was also blindsided by his best screenplay win for his futuristic romance "Her."
"I'm a terrible public speaker," said Jonze. "And I'm bad at English. And it's the only language I know."
Four months after its final episode, AMC's "Breaking Bad" won for best drama TV series and best actor in a drama series for Bryan Cranston (both their first Globes). Cranston called his honor "a lovely way to say goodbye." Creator Vince Gilligan said the award gave him "one more chance to thank the fans of the show," but left the final word for star Aaron Paul.
"Yeah, bitch," declared Paul, with what essentially became his character's catch phrase.
U2 and Danger Mouse won the award for best original song for "Ordinary Love," recorded for the Nelson Mandela biopic "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." Bono said working on the film completed a decades-long journey with Mandela, having played an anti-apartheid concert some 35 years ago.
"This man turned our life upside down, right-side up," said Bono of the South African leader who died in December. "A man who refused to hate not because he didn't have rage or anger or those things, but that he thought love would do a better job."
Accepting the Globe for best supporting actor, Jared Leto also paid tribute to his inspiration. The actor, whose rock band took him away from movies for years before the part, won for playing a transsexual in "Dallas Buyers Club."
"To the Rayons of the world, thanks for the inspiration," said Leto.
As expected, the Emmy-winning HBO film "Behind the Candelabra," the acclaimed Liberace drama directed by Steven Soderbergh, won for best movie or miniseries, as well as best actor in a TV film for Michael Douglas. He thanked his co-star Damon.
"The only reason you're not here is I had more sequins," Douglas told Damon. (Earlier in the evening, Poehler said among such a famous crowd that Damon was "basically a garbage person.")
The telecast managed two expletives in its first 30 minutes, one from Moss, the other from Jacqueline Bisset (best supporting actress, miniseries or movie, "Dancing on the Edge"). Both were surprise winners.
But the playful interplay of Fey and Poehler again stole the show in the early going. The "SNL" duo, signed up to host next year, too, brought last year's Globes' telecast to a six-year ratings high of 19.7 million.
"This is Hollywood," explained Fey. "If something kind of works, they'll just keep doing it until everyone hates it."
The Tracy Letts play adaptation "August: Osage County," starring Streep, Fey said, proved "that there are great parts in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over 60."
Poehler and Fey, as they did last year, sought to get off the stage and mingle among the guests. In one memorable bit that parodied the Hollywood legacies who serve as stage guides, Poehler played Fey's surly daughter. They left it open as to whether Harvey Weinstein was the father.
Poehler was a winner, too, taking the Globe for best actress in a comedy TV series ("Parks and Recreation").
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 85 mostly freelance foreign journalists (Fey and Poehler mocked their publications), has recently undergone a change in leadership and, perhaps, a shift toward respectability. While the Globes have in the past been known for curious nominees like "The Tourist" and "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," this year's nominees were seen as without such oddities.
This year, the Globes fall days after Oscar nomination voting concluded.
Full list of award winners
— Picture, Drama: "12 Years a Slave."
— Picture, Musical or Comedy: "American Hustle."
— Actor, Drama: Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club."
— Actress, Drama: Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine."
— Director: Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity."
— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street."
— Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, "American Hustle."
— Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club."
— Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle."
— Foreign Language: "The Great Beauty."
— Animated Film: "Frozen."
— Screenplay: Spike Jonze, "Her."
— Original Score: Alex Ebert, "All Is Lost."
— Original Song: "Ordinary Love" (music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. and Brian Burton, lyrics by Bono), "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom."
— Series, Drama: "Breaking Bad."
— Actor, Drama: Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad."
— Actress, Drama: Robin Wright, "House of Cards."
— Series, Musical or Comedy: "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
— Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation."
— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Andy Samberg, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
— Miniseries or Movie: "Behind the Candelabra."
— Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Elisabeth Moss, "Top of the Lake."
— Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Michael Douglas, "Behind the Candelabra."
— Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jacqueline Bisset, "Dancing on the Edge."
— Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jon Voight, "Ray Donovan."
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ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — A mentally disabled Ohio woman who authorities say was enslaved for two years with her daughter recently spent time in jail after pleading guilty to beating the girl.
Court records show that a child endangering complaint was filed against the woman in October 2012. That came just after the woman was charged with shoplifting and asked to be jailed because three people had been mean to her.
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Los Angeles--Beginning this month, two new exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum offer visitors a close-up look at how works of art are made and how museums help interpret and conserve them. Statue of an Emperor: A Conservation Partnership features an ancient marble statue of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius on loan from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, along with video footage of the statue's conservation treatment at the Getty and 3-D digital animation of its reassembly. Making a Renaissance Painting presents a step-by-step look at the materials and methods used in the making of a 16th-century Flemish painting. Both exhibitions open on December 5, 2000; Statue of an Emperor will remain on view for approximately two years, while Making a Renaissance Painting runs through next summer (closing August 19, 2001).
Marion True, assistant director for Villa planning and curator of antiquities for the Getty Museum, says, "The Getty is delighted to present this statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, on loan from the Pergamon Museum, following a comprehensive and revealing conservation treatment by a collaborative team from our two institutions. Visitors will gain new appreciation for the complexity of conservation work and for the discoveries it can yield."
Statue of an Emperor: A Conservation Partnership
The centerpiece of Statue of an Emperor: A Conservation Partnership is a life-size marble figure of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, part of the permanent collection of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 A.D.) was a period of prosperity and confidence in the Roman Empire, and it became a model for later European monarchies.
Representations of Roman emperors and generals in full military parade costume derive from the time of Alexander the Great (lived 356-323 B.C.). In keeping with this tradition, the Pergamon's statue wears the cuirass (metal body armor with decorative breast-plate) of a victorious commander in the Roman army, with a paludamentum (purple general's cloak) over his left shoulder and forearm, and the hilt of a sword in his left hand. The front of the cuirass is decorated with an opposing pair of winged victories representing triumph in battle. As was often the case, this statue was made to have an interchangeable portrait head inserted; thus the emperor's body and the head were carved at different times in antiquity (the body in the first century, between 69 and 98 A.D., and the head in the second century, probably around 144-145 A.D.).
The statue was restored at least three times in its history and over the years the sculpture became increasingly unstable. Because the aim of previous restorers was to return the object to an assumed original form and intent, effects of weathering and other damage were removed or hidden, and losses were replaced with new pieces. Today the statue of Marcus Aurelius is composed of approximately 40 separate fragments, made of four different kinds of marble--some ancient, others carved during restoration efforts in the 18th and 19th centuries. When these earlier restorations began to show signs of disintegration in the late 20th century, the Pergamon and the Getty joined forces to conserve the sculpture. It was brought to Los Angeles two years ago for scientific analysis and treatment in the Getty's conservation laboratories.
"Examination and analysis of the marbles, the adhesives, and the pins used in the different restorations helped us to reconstruct the history of the statue and to understand changes in restoration techniques over the years," says Jerry Podany, conservator of antiquities at the Getty Museum. "Using state-of-the-art technology, today's conservators not only clean and repair objects, but also try to preserve as much evidence as possible of what has already been done to them. It's science illuminating art and bringing new information to bear on aesthetic, historical, and ethical debates about works of art and their conservation." Podany collaborated on the statue's treatment with Getty assistant conservator of antiquities Eduardo Sanchez and with Wolfgang Massman of the Pergamon Museum. Together they developed a new stainless steel joint system for the statue, replacing numerous old pins and brackets made of iron, brass, and bronze which are also on view in the exhibition. Conservation work by the same team is currently underway on a second statue from the Pergamon, Cuirass Statue with Portrait of Gaius Caesar (50-75 A.D.).
Making a Renaissance Painting
The Getty's The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1563), the work of prominent Netherlandish artist Joachim Beuckelaer (1533-1574), is the focus of Making a Renaissance Painting. Visitors can walk around the entire painting, seeing both the image on its front side and the joined wooden panels on its back side. Most paintings in Northern Europe during the Renaissance were done on wooden panels, although Beuckelaer and some of his contemporaries worked on both panel and canvas.
Visitors to this special installation of Beuckelaer's splendid painting will also see a portion of an oak tree trunk from which panels have been cut and prepared for painting; a step-by-step depiction of the painting process and materials, including pigments and their plant and mineral sources; and a detailed technical analysis of The Miraculous Draught of Fishes using infrared photography, X-radiography, and polarized light microscopy, revealing among other things the artist's original chalk underdrawing beneath the painted surface.
Beuckelaer specialized in genre painting--depicting scenes from everyday life and surroundings--and the practice of combining secular scenes with religious scenes. The colorful foreground of The Miraculous Draught of Fishes depicts a lively waterfront scene of fishermen hauling in their catch and townspeople buying fish. But the more muted background contains the painting's main subject: Christ's miraculous appearance to His disciples after His resurrection, with St. Peter wading through the water to greet Him. Hungry and tired, the disciples have failed to catch any fish. Christ instructs them to cast their nets on the right side of the boat, and doing so, they find their nets brimming with fish.
Beuckelaer was one of an astonishing 300 painters in Antwerp in the mid-1500s, then a bustling metropolis at the height of its prosperity as a cultural and commercial center of the Netherlands. In 1560 he became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke, the corporation of artists and craftsmen named for the patron saint of painters. While he probably worked on monumental projects for churches, his surviving religious paintings were likely intended for private buyers.
Making a Renaissance Painting is part of the Getty's continuing series of exhibitions about art-making and conservation techniques, which has also included Making a Medieval Book and Foundry to Finish: In the Studio of Adriaen de Vries.
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1 large tomato, peeled, diced
1 tbsp crushed tomato, canned
4-5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
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Meanwhile saute the onion with olive oil for about 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic. When the smell of garlic comes out, add the rest of the sauce ingredients. Cover and cook until the tomatoes are soft at low heat.
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