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Tonight we celebrated the 83rd edition of the Academy Awards.
Predictably, the English thespian uber-beast that is Colin FIRRRTHHHH managed to walk away with a Best Actor award, while Natalie Portman bagged the Best Actress.
While I haven't seen The King's Speech or Black Swan, and thusly can't speak to the performances of these actors; in keeping with the spirit of the Academy Award festivities this evening, I've decided to put together a small list of the top 3 biggest FUCK-UPS the Academy saw fit to hand Best Actor awards to.
The following actors all have one thing in common:
While all may have had some bankability/acting merit at some point in their career, somewhere down the road they saw fit to sell-out and participate in some legendarily horrid films, some of which may or may not contain bear suits and bees.
Anyway, let's get on with the list:
#3. Anna Pacquin
Anna Pacquin managed to charm her way to a Supporting Actress golden statue for her role in 1993's, The Piano.
She was 11 years old at the time, making it fairly evident that the Academy staff is likely packed to the brim with pedo-faces.
Now, given that Ms. Pacquin was very young when she received her Oscar, you'd expect her experience in the craft would improve as she grew older, right?
Sometime after The Piano, Anna Pacquin would go on to have supporting roles in such classics as, She's All That, the X-Men series, and even the oh so cleverly titled horror anthology film, Trick 'r Treat.
While some might argue that Ms. Pacquin has seemingly found new life in her career with her leading role in the cable series True Blood, I would argue that she's still very much in crap-town in terms of her bankability.
Case in point, she's been cast in the upcoming (and largely unwanted) Scream 4, which retains almost none of the cast from the previous films.
Typically that's not a good sign when dealing with (unwanted) sequels, just look what happened with Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd…
#2: Sandra Bullock
"It was called The Net, with that girl from the bus…" – Frank Costanza, Seinfeld
Sandra Bullock snagged a Best Actress award in 2009 for her "transformative" role in The Blind Side.
While I would argue that the movie itself was actually kind of flat, with Ms. Bullock's performance doing little to add to it's mediocrity; the academy saw fit to give her the nod, thusly solidifying her place on this list.
Sandra Bullock had a rather odd journey to the Academy Awards.
Early on she was TV movie tripe like, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
Then she started to move up in the world, landing supporting roles in modern classics like Demolition Man, and Speed.
That's right, MODERN. CLASSICS.
Then she got greedy and started conning her way into starring roles in horse shit like The Net, and Speed 2: Cruise Control.
Then came the beginning of the new millenium.
Then, came the era of congeniality.
Tens of thousands were killed in the angry riots spawned by the release of the first Miss Congeniality.
Entire nations were felled in the anarchic firestorm brought on by the announcement of the second in the series, Miss Congeniality: Armed and Fabulous.
Given her greedy nature, combined with the relative stagnation of her career since achieving Oscar gold, I would not be surprised if Ms. Bullock had her goons in Hollywood pounding out a script for Miss Congeniality 3: Botoxed and Beautiful, as we speak…
#1: Nicolas Cage
No list of Hollywood burn-outs could be complete without the inclusion of Nic Cage.
The Cage began his stint in Hollywood from humble beginnings.
Well, if you call being the nephew of one of the most influential and respected directors of all time, "humble."
Early on, Cage made an impression in Hollywood with his critically acclaimed role as a douche bag in a handful of scenes from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Said performance would prove to be an acting formula Mr. Cage would draw from in crafting many of his finer roles.
For several years, Nic Cage would pop up in films, largely in background roles; often times stealing the show with his unearthly powers of scenery-chewing and not-giving-a-fuck.
Then came Moonstruck, a film that received enormous critical acclaim; and very likely would've netted Mr. Cage an Oscar had Cher not overwhelmed his performance with her massive aura of FAIL and gender neutrality.
Years passed, and Cage, now starting to make waves as the possible "next big thing" in the industry, started churning out half-assed shit like Firebirds, seemingly for the fun of it.
Few realized it at the time, but the man was challenging us to a twisted and bizarre game of his own designs, daring us to take him seriously as an actor one minute, only for him to turn heel and pump out half-assed performances in blockbuster films.
It was a game only he himself could understand, let alone enjoy; and yet for some reason we foolishly kept coming back for more.
As with his acting method founded so long ago on the bleachers of Ridgemont High, Nic Cage; sly son of a bitch that he is, once again found a new devious element to add to his modus operandi…
1995 saw the release of Leaving Las Vegas, the film that would finally give Nic Cage his Best Actor award.
Despite receiving universal acclaim critics worldwide, Nic Cage would later go on record stating that he had no memory of ever having made a film called "Leaving Las Vegas," claiming that he spent all of '95 fighting savage women on one of his privately owned islands while wearing a bear-suit.
Regardless of the truth of this matter, Nic Cage would display great proficiency in bear-suit combat tactics in some of his later films, suggesting he may indeed have had prior experience in said activities…
Following his Oscar success, the Nic Cage floodgates of crappiness and truly not-giving-a-fuck would burst wide open.
Amplifying Nic Cage's powers of "phoning-it-in" and "not-giving-a-damn" 10 fold, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay would go on to sink their claws into the enigma that is The Cage; casting him in overblown crap-fest after overblown retarded crap-fest for years to come.
Con Air, the Gone in 60 Seconds remake, the National Treasure series, horrible movies thrown in our faces cock-first, over and over and over again every summer…
Then, things got worse.
While few could argue that Next, Bangkok Dangerous, and The Sorceror's Apprentice were *ahem!* "taxing," even for the sternest of Nic Cage fans; everything seemed to come to a head with 2006's remake of The Wicker Man.
Awe-inspiringly bad, to the point where few could argue that Nic Cage had finally topped himself in terms of simultaneously not-giving-a-shit and intentionally trying to ruin a film; The Wicker Man was the proverbial dick-slap to the face of the Academy that awarded him as Best Actor of 1995.
It was a facepalm for the ages, and one I believe most in Hollywood relive every time Nic Cage's face pops up on a movie poster.
With potential gems like Drive Angry and Ghost Rider 2 still regularly showing up on Mr. Cage's resume in the foreseeable future, I wouldn't be surprised if the Academy actually tries to take back that award somewhere down the line…
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The humble tomato originated in the South American Andes where they grew wild before being cultivated by the Aztecs and Incas as early as 700 AD. The tomato did not arrive in Europe until the 16th century, (where it was known as the Peruvian Apple), with Spanish conquistadors, Jesuit priests and even Christopher Columbus being given credit for bringing them from the other side of the Atlantic. Back in the 1950's and 1960's, the Clyde Valley was producing enough tomatoes to feed Scotland with plenty left over to satisfy a healthy export market, keeping hundreds of growers in business, Unfortunately, an increase in cheaper imported tomatoes form across the EU seen all but three producers go out of business.
After the fall of the Clyde Valley, J&W Craig was the largest of the remaining growers left however after working for 40 years, for the business set up by his grandfather in 1910, owner Jim Craig called it a day and retired from the tomato growing game.
Thankfully, tomatoes are set to make a return to Clyde Valley thanks to a £100,000 plus rescue package funded by Clydesdale Bank, South Lanarkshire Council and Scotherbs, under the newly launched Clyde Valley Tomatoes brand. This new venture which is run by David Craig (no relation), under the tutelage of tomato growing expert Jim, who plans on growing up to 140 tonnes of tomatoes in his first year of production.
Here's their story;
How did you get started?I always wanted to run my own business, but didn't quite know what. In May 2012, I was introduced to Jim Craig (former owner of J&M Craig) through a mutual acquaintance, and I immediately thought "yip, I want to grow tomatoes". 14 years experience in the food industry helped pull the business plan together.
What's the best piece of business advice you could give?
Where there is a will, there is a way. Investigate every avenue, and talk to as many people as you can. Oh, and never burn your bridges behind you, you never know when you might want to lean on an former colleague, customer or contact.
Where would you like to see your business in 5 years time?
Growing lots more tomatoes, for an ever increasing customer base. We want to do our bit to solve the food security issue in the UK.
If you could only have one of your own products, what would it be & why?
We've still to crop it, but we hope it's going to be the large plum vine tomatoes we're growing – Savantas. I'm sure they will be one of our runaway success products.
You can invite one person (living or dead) to your last meal – Who would it be and why? …and what's on the menu?
It would be my partner Scott. We can talk about that day we had a crazy idea to go and grow tomatoes for a living! The menu would be simple, aged ribeye steaks, peppercorn sauce, roasted Clyde Valley tomatoes and a great bottle of red wine.
In the last few weeks, over 10,000 tomato seedlings have been planted with the first harvest expected in April and production carrying through until November. All going well, Clyde Valley Tomatoes have hopes to stock a host of suppliers including Whole Foods Market in Giffnock, and Dobbies Garden Centres, as well as being the preferred choice for some of Scotland's top chefs.
Only time will tell if this is a project heading for greatness, but with hard work, dedication and the careful mentoring from Jim Craig, lets hope that the Clyde Valley will once again be bursting with colour and flavour in the coming months.
Watch out for David and Clyde Valley Tomatoes at farmers markets in Lanarkshire and Glasgow, but in the meantime you can keep up to date on Facebook and Twitter.


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I could only watch half of that preview, was making me sick. I have to say I am probably one of the few people who never liked the 808 sound.
Have to admit, some pretty cheesy stuff was made on the 808 in the 80s. I did like the way Haruomi Hosono used it, though.Forrest


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Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman and Bryan Cranston, to receive the "Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award" for "Argo"
HollywoodNews.com: The 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, presented by the Los Angeles Times, is pleased to announce that the feature "Argo," directed by Ben Affleck, will receive the "Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award."
"We are very proud to recognize the ensemble cast of "Argo," for their dramatic and outstanding performances," said Carlos de Abreu, Founder and Executive Director of the Hollywood Film Awards.
The 2012 Hollywood Film Awards has also announced that it will honor director David O. Russell with the "Hollywood Director Award"; Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro with the "Hollywood Supporting Actor Award"; Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard with the "Hollywood Actress Award"; three-time Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams with the "Hollywood Supporting Actress Award"; producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner with the "Hollywood Producers Award"; writer/director Judd Apatow with the "Hollywood Comedy Award"; actor John Hawkes with the "Hollywood Breakout Performance Award" for "The Sessions"; and Quvenzhané Wallis with the "New Hollywood Award" for "Beasts of the Southern Wild." Other honorees include cinematographer Wally Pfister, editor Dylan Tichenor, production designer Sarah Greenwood, and visual effects supervisors Janek Sirrs and Jeff White. In addition, director Peter Ramsey's "Rise of the Guardians" will be honored with the "Hollywood Animation Award," along with additional honorees to be announced in the coming weeks.
The Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 22, 2012. The event honors cherished stars and up-and-coming talent, and traditionally kicks off the film awards season with the biggest stars and top industry executives in attendance.
"We are very gratified to be the first stop of the awards season. In the last nine years, a total of 85 Oscar nominations and 32 Oscars were given to the honorees of the Hollywood Film Awards," said de Abreu.
Last year's awards show reached a total TV audience of more than 41 million media impressions, in addition to more than 300 million online and print readers' impressions.
In addition to celebrating accomplishments on screen, the Hollywood Film Awards established the "Hollywood Gives Back" program to expand and continue highlighting and assisting important local and national charities to raise funds. Over the years, the Hollywood Film Awards has contributed to such charities as The Art of Elysium, Artists For Human Rights, Artists for Peace and Justice, MatchingDonors.com, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, the Enough Project, and Variety The Children's Charity of So. CA, among others.
Further, the Hollywood Film Awards selects individuals to be recipients of their "Hollywood Humanitarian Awards," in recognition of their contribution to the betterment of their communities or society at large. Prior recipients include Nobel Peace Prize winner and ex-President of East Timor, Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta; Nobel Laureate Jody Williams; Father Rick Frechette; and actor and activist Sean Penn.
"Argo" is a dramatic thriller based on true events. Ben Affleck leads an ensemble cast that also includes Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, and Kerry Bishé.
On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, the Canadian and American governments ask the CIA to intervene. The CIA turns to their top "exfiltration" specialist, Tony Mendez, to come up with a plan to get the six Americans safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.
Ben Affleck, directed, produced and stars as Tony Mendez in "Argo," has been recognized for his work as an actor, writer, director, and producer.
Affleck made his directorial debut in 2007 with the feature "Gone Baby Gone," for which he won several critics groups' awards, including the Best Directorial Debut Award from the National Board of Review. He also won the Breakthrough Director of the Year Award at the 2007 Hollywood Film Festival. Ben also co-wrote the screenplay for the film, adapted from the Dennis Lehane novel.
In 2010, he directed and starred in "The Town," in addition to co-writing the screenplay. The film was named a Movie of the Year by the American Film Institute (AFI), and the cast won the National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble. In addition, Affleck earned a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for "The Town," which also brought Oscar®, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® nominations to Jeremy Renner. Also in 2010, Affleck starred alongside Tommy Lee Jones in John Wells' drama "The Company Men."
This summer, Affleck shot a starring role in "Runner, Runner," directed by Brad Furman and slated for release next year. He is next set to direct a film about notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, in which he and Matt Damon will star. The film will be produced by their production company, Pearl Street Films.
Affleck first came to prominence in 1997 with the acclaimed "Good Will Hunting," which he starred in and co-wrote with Matt Damon. For their work, they won an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay, as well as a Golden Globe Award and Humanitas Prize. The following year, Affleck starred in John Madden's Academy Award®-winning "Shakespeare in Love," winning a SAG Award® as part of the ensemble cast.
His subsequent film credits include "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor," both directed by Michael Bay; "Forces of Nature"; Ben Younger's "Boiler Room"; Roger Michell's "Changing Lanes": "The Sum of All Fears"; the screen adaptation of Marvel Comics' "Daredevil"; Kevin Smith's "Jersey Girl"; and Kevin Macdonald's "State of Play."
In 2006, Affleck earned widespread praise for his portrayal of ill-fated actor George Reeves in the noir drama "Hollywoodland." The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where Affleck won the coveted Volpi Award for Best Actor. He also received Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Award nominations for Best Actor, as well as the Best Actor Award at the Hollywood Film Festival. Affleck appeared in the ensemble casts of "Extract" and "He's Just Not That Into You," and starred in Kevin Macdonald's crime thriller "State of Play," alongside Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren and Rachel McAdams.
In 2000, Affleck partnered with Matt Damon, Chris Moore and Sean Bailey to form LivePlanet, Inc. Their first endeavor, "Project Greenlight," aired on HBO and drew critical, audience and industry attention for its behind-the-scenes look at the challenges faced by a first-time filmmaker. The second season of "Project Greenlight" aired on HBO at the beginning of 2003, with a third season on Bravo. All three series were nominated for Emmy Awards.
In addition to his successful film career, Affleck is also a passionate advocate and philanthropist. In March 2010, he founded the Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI), an advocacy and grant-making initiative with the mission of helping the Congolese people support local community-based approaches that create a sustainable and successful society in the long-troubled region. ECI is the first U.S.-based advocacy and grant-making initiative wholly focused on working with and for the people of eastern Congo. Affleck is also a longtime political activist and strong supporter of many charitable organizations, such as Feeding America, Paralyzed Veterans of America, A-T Children's Project and The Jimmy Fund.
Bryan Cranston plays Jack O'Donnell in "Argo." Cranston has won three Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, for his portrayal of Walter White on AMC's "Breaking Bad," now in its fifth season. Cranston has the distinction of being the first actor in a cable series, and only the second actor in Emmy history, with three consecutive Best Actor wins. His performance on "Breaking Bad" has also brought him two Golden Globe nominations and four Screen Actors Guild Award® nominations, and he most recently received another Emmy nomination. Cranston previously starred for seven seasons on the hit comedy series "Malcolm in the Middle." He earned three Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination for his role as the dad, Hal Wilkerson.
On the big screen, Cranston will next be seen in the comedy "Get a Job." He also starred this summer as villain Vilos Cohaagen in the remake of the sci-fi thriller "Total Recall." His recent film work also includes Adam Shankman's "Rock of Ages," "John Carter," "Red Tails," Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive," and Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion," in which he joined an all-star ensemble cast. He also lent his voice to the animated hit "Madagascar 3." Cranston's many other film credits include the Tom Hanks-directed films "Larry Crowne" and "That Thing You Do!"; The Lincoln Lawyer"; "Little Miss Sunshine"; "Seeing Other People"; and Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan."
Born and raised in Southern California, Cranston began pursuing his acting career after college, starting on the stage in community theater and summer stock. He went on to appear in numerous television shows, including a recurring role on "Seinfeld." Among his longform credits, he portrayed astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the award-winning HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon."
Cranston continues to return to the stage whenever possible. His theatre credits include productions of "The God of Hell," "Chapter Two," "The Taming of the Shrew," "A Doll's House," "Eastern Standard," "Wrestlers," "Barefoot in the Park," and "The Steven Weed Show," for which he won a Drama-Logue Award.
Cranston has also enjoyed success behind the camera, most recently directing several episodes of "Breaking Bad," on which he serves as a producer. He earlier wrote the original romantic drama "Last Chance" as a birthday gift for his wife, Robin Dearden, and also directed, produced and starred in the film. In addition, Cranston directed several episodes of "Malcolm in the Middle" and the Comedy Central pilot "Special Unit." In early 2011, Cranston served as executive producer of an exclusive online series called "The Handlers" for Atom.com, in which he played Jack Powers, campaigning to win a seat in the State Senate.
Alan Arkin plays Lester Siegel in "Argo." Long one of the most respected artists of the stage and screen, Arkin won an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 2006 hit "Little Miss Sunshine." For his role, Arkin also won an Independent Spirit Award and a BAFTA Award, and shared in a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast, in addition to receiving an individual SAG Award® nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
Following "Argo," Arkin has a range of films forthcoming, including "Stand Up Guys," and "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone." His latest credits include the family hit "The Muppets," the comedy "The Change-Up," the heartwarming "Marley & Me" and the action comedy "Get Smart."
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Arkin launched his career with Chicago's improvisational revue "Second City." This led to his 1963 Broadway bow in the play "Enter Laughing," based on Carl Reiner's book, for which Arkin won a Tony Award. The following year, he starred on Broadway in Murray Schisgal's hit "LUV." In 1966, Arkin made his major feature film debut, starring in Norman Jewison's comedy smash "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming." For his performance in the comedy, Arkin earned his first Oscar® nomination, for Best Actor, and won a Golden Globe Award. He garnered a second Best Actor Oscar® nomination for his performance in the 1968 drama "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," for which he also won a New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Award and received a Golden Globe nomination. He gained another Golden Globe nomination for the title role in "Popi."
With more than 70 films spanning over 45 years, his long list of credits also includes "Wait Until Dark"; "Catch-22"; "Little Murders," which marked his feature film directorial debut; "Hearts of the West," for which he won an NYFCC Award; "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"; "The In-Laws"; "Edward Scissorhands"; "Havana"; "Glengarry Glen Ross"; "Mother Night"; "So I Married an Axe Murderer"; "Grosse Point Blank"; "Gattaca"; "Slums of Beverly Hills"; "Jakob the Liar"; "America's Sweethearts"; "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing," receiving another Spirit Award nomination; "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause"; "Rendition"; "Thin Ice"; "City Island"; and "Sunshine Cleaning." He has also directed several short films, including "People Soup," which was Oscar®-nominated for Best Live Action Short.
Arkin has also been recognized for his work on television, earning four Emmy Award nominations, the most recent for his performance in the telefilm "The Pentagon Papers." He also earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his work in the true-life Holocaust drama "Escape from Sobibor." His other Emmy nods came for his guest role on "Chicago Hope" and the drama "ABC Stage 67." Among his many other television credits, Arkin starred in the acclaimed A&E series "100 Centre Street," created, written and directed by Sidney Lumet and also appeared in the Showtime movie "Varian's War." In addition, Arkin directed the television adaptation of the Broadway play "Twigs," starring Carol Burnett, and two episodes of the PBS series "Trying Times."
Arkin began directing for the stage in 1966 with the much-acclaimed "Eh?," starring Dustin Hoffman at the Circle in the Square. He then won an Obie for directing Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," followed by Feiffer's "The White House Murder Case." He won Drama Desk Awards for his direction of both plays, also presented at Circle in the Square. On Broadway, Arkin directed the Neil Simon hit "The Sunshine Boys," for which he was nominated for a Tony for Best Direction of a Play. In 1998, he directed, starred in and co-wrote, with Elaine May, the hit production of "Power Plays" at the Promenade Theatre. His directing work also includes the Broadway musical "Molly"; "Rubbers and Yanks Three," at The American Place Theater; "Joan of Lorraine," at the Hartman in Stamford; "The Sorrows of Stephen," at the Burt Reynolds Theatre, starring his son Adam; and "Room Service," at the Roundabout in New York.
Arkin has also written several books, including eight children's books, the latest entitled Tony's Hard Work Day. An earlier book, The Lemming Condition, was honored by The Book Sellers of America by being placed in the White House Library. In 2011, Arkin released a memoir entitled An Improvised Life.
John Goodman plays John Chambers in "Argo." Well known to both film and television audiences, Goodman recently starred in the Best Picture Oscar® winner "The Artist," writer/director Michel Hazanavicius's homage to Hollywood's silent film era. Goodman shared in both Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® and Critics' Choice Award nominations for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast as a member of the film's ensemble.
Goodman is currently co-starring with Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake in "Trouble With the Curve." Later this fall, he stars with Denzel Washington in Robert Zemeckis' drama "Flight." Among his other upcoming films are the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis"; the Will Ferrell comedy "The Internship"; and Todd Phillips' "The Hangover Part III," completing the blockbuster comedy franchise.
On television, Goodman starred with Al Pacino in the 2010 HBO biopic "You Don't Know Jack," earning Emmy and SAG Award® nominations for his portrayal of Jack Kevorkian's longtime associate Neal Nicol. Goodman won an Emmy Award in 2007 for his guest role on Aaron's Sorkin's series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." He earlier received two Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special, for his work in the television adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" and for his performance in the title role of "Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long."
Goodman first became a favorite of television viewers when he starred for nine seasons on the smash hit sitcom "Roseanne." Over the course of the show's run, he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, as well as earning three more Golden Globe nominations, seven Emmy nominations and a SAG Award® nomination. His numerous credits also include a recurring role on Sorkin's "The West Wing," and starring roles on seasons of HBO's "Treme," FX's "Damages" and NBC's "Community."
On the big screen, Goodman received a Golden Globe nomination for his chilling performance in the Coen brothers' 1991 film "Barton Fink." He first collaborated with the Coens on the hit comedy "Raising Arizona," and has since reunited with them on the films "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Big Lebowski" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Goodman was more recently seen in Stephen Daldry's acclaimed drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" and Kevin Smith's indie political thriller "Red State." His long list of credits also includes "Evan Almighty," "Speed Racer," "Beyond the Sea," "One Night at McCool's," "Coyote Ugly," "What Planet Are You From?," "Bringing Out the Dead," "Fallen," "The Borrowers," "Mother Night," "The Flintstones," "Born Yesterday," "The Babe," "King Ralph," "Arachnophobia," "Stella," "Always," "Sea of Love," "Everybody's All-American," "Punchline," "The Wrong Guys," "The Big Easy," "Sweet Dreams," and "Revenge of the Nerds," to name only a portion. In addition to his work in front of the camera, he has lent his distinctive voice to numerous animated features, including "Monsters, Inc.," "Cars," "The Emperor's New Groove," "The Jungle Book 2," "Bee Movie," "The Princess and the Frog" and, most recently, "ParaNorman." He will reprise his "Monsters, Inc." role of Scully in the upcoming film "Monsters University."
A St. Louis native, Goodman earned a BFA in Theatre from Southwest Missouri State, and has appeared in a wide range of plays, musicals and children's theatre productions. He made his Broadway debut in "Loose Ends," and, in 1985, earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his work in the Broadway musical "Big River." In 2001, he starred with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in the Shakespeare in the Park production of "The Seagull," directed by Mike Nichols, followed by the Public Theatre's 2002 presentation of "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui." He more recently starred in the 2009 Broadway revival of "Waiting for Godot."
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VANCOUVER - The Conservative government is providing courts with new powers to lock up people found not criminally responsible for their crimes due to mental problems.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the government's latest tough-on-crime legislation targets people who are found to be too dangerous to be released.
"The new legislation introduced today focuses on victims and places public safety at the forefront of decision-making," Harper said Friday in Vancouver, where he was joined by Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Heritage Minister James Moore.
"This will ensure that 'not-criminally-responsible' accused people found to be too dangerous to be released are no longer a threat to their victims or Canadian communities."
Courts will be allowed to designate people who are found not criminally responsible as "high risk" — meaning they could be held for up to three years before their mental status is reviewed to see if they are fit for release.
Offenders deemed "high risk" could not be released until a court lifts the designation. They would never be given unescorted passes and "could only obtain an escorted pass in narrow circumstances," said the government.
Currently, a review board — chaired by a judge and including mental health professionals — assesses such cases on an annual basis.
Under the existing system, the board assesses the individual and designs a plan "that both protects the public and attempts to provide opportunities to treat the underlying mental disorder."
Friday's news release says the new system "would explicitly make public safety the paramount consideration in the court and the review board decision-making process."
The new legislation will also "clarify" the meaning of someone being a significant public threat. It will now include offences that are "criminal in nature but not necessarily violent in order for restrictions to be imposed on an accused."
The Supreme Court of Canada previously ruled in 1999 that review boards must order an absolute discharge for people found not criminally responsible as long as they do not pose a significant threat to the public.
The existing law also states that courts and review boards must choose "the least onerous and least restrictive" conditions for the accused.
The current standard, according to Justice department documents, is to "balance the dual roles of protecting the public and treating the accused in a fair and humane manner that respects his or her rights."
Criminal insanity pleas are in the limelight after a former Quebec cardiologist was released in mid-December, 18 months after being found not criminally responsible for killing his two children in 2009.
James Moore, speaking for the Conservative government, immediately called the release of Guy Turcotte "unacceptable" and promised new legislation.
In a background document on its website, the Justice department states: "It is a fundamental principle of the Canadian criminal justice system that an accused must possess the capacity to understand that his or her behaviour was wrong in order to be found guilty of an offence."


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Last week, while he was onsite at P.S. 60 in Woodside assisting a colleague with a photo shoot, Richard Repetti's .38-caliber pistol fell out of his ankle holster in the school lobby and he didn't even notice.
Repetti had a "Carry Business License," an unrestricted license that allows business owners who have been robbed before or who carry large amounts of cash to carry a concealed weapon.
So technically, it wasn't illegal for Repetti to carry his weapon into the school. And when it fell out of his worn-out holster at 7:30 a.m., there were no students present.
A teacher at the school reportedly heard the firearm clatter on the floor and secured it immediately. What's more, the NYPD responded appropriately by confiscating the piece and revoking his license, making for a best-of-worst case scenario with an ending that was at the very least not unhappy.
Considering the obvious issue of the immediate danger posed to students, faculty and staff of public schools when a poorly secured handgun makes its way onto the premises, we have to wonder, why was it that Repetti was allowed to bring his weapon into the school in the first place?
According to published reports, Repetti won't be charged with a crime for bringing the weapon into the school since the legality of his choice falls in a "gray area."
With so many firearm-related tragedies plaguing American schools in recent decades, it seems that now is as good a time as any to draw a line in the sand and legally establish that no one other than a law enforcement officer has any business carrying a weapon inside a public school.


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Dodgers sign Japanese right-handed pitcher Takumi Numata
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Dodgers today signed free agent Japanese right-handed pitcher Takumi Numata to a minor league contract.
Numata, 19, graduated from Ohgaki Nihon University High School in 2012 and played for the Edion AIT OB Blits of the Japanese Industrial League from April-September 2013. The 6-foot-1, 188-pounder from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan was signed by Dodger scouts Isao O'Jimi and Pat Kelly.
Numata is expected to report to Camelback Ranch - Glendale, where he will work out with the Dodgers' Instructional League team.
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In this activity, learners make a mask with a special feature: an LED bulb that lights up. The activity is designed to prompt conversation and reflection about responsible innovation, inspired by themes raised in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
The primary objective of this activity is to encourage creativity and reflection about responsible innovation. In addition, learners will explore the following concepts:
- People are creative! We're always learning more about the world and inventing new things.
- It's important to think ahead as we study science and make new technologies.
- Researchers in the fields of genetic engineering and synthetic biology can create modified and entirely new organisms.
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Friday's forecast: Severe storms head East
The storm system that pounded the central U.S. on Thursday will slowly move toward the East Coast on Friday, while winter will hang on in the upper Midwest.
East: Severe thunderstorms are forecast to lash the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys and much of the Southeast. Rain will fall throughout the day in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Florida will stay warm and sunny.
Upper Midwest: Snow, ice and temperatures near freezing will give a wintry feel to much of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
West: Most of the western half of the nation is forecast to be dry and pleasant, with the exception of showers along the Northwest coast and snow in the northern Rockies.
Weather history for April 4: In 1977, a tornado outbreak killed 22 people in Alabama. In 1989, the temperature rose to 100 degrees in Los Angeles.
In 1992, a winter storm dumped close to a foot of snow in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia.


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Extent: 10 linear feet (the akhenaten temple project records are contained in ten archival boxes of correspondence, reports, financial records, publicity and publication material, and contact sheets. drawings and negatives are housed separately)
The Akhenaten Temple Project was the first computer project assumed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum. It was proposed in 1965 by Ray Winfield Smith, and in 1966 he began the project with the aid of IBM's nascent computer technology. The IBM computer was abandoned in 1976. This collection spans Ray Winfield Smith's entire involvement as director of the project 1968-1971, and begins the career of Dr. Donald B. Redford who acted as a consultant in 1971 and has been director since 1972. The records contain papers and photographs relating to the foundation of the Akhenaten Temple Project, and are divided into seven series: Financial; Correspondence and Reports; Publications and Publicity; Project Negatives; Photographs; Drawings; Misc.


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Toyota and Tesla Presenting Electric RAV 4 at the LA Auto Show
Toyota shot out a tweet a few hours ago saying "Toyota and Tesla will debut the RAV4-EV at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show in November". As some of you will remember Tesla announced a few months ago that they had converted a RAV 4 and a Lexus RX for Toyota, Toyota also bought a 50 million dollar stake in Tesla a little earlier in the year, before Tesla's much touted IPO. The LA Auto Show runs from the 19th to the 28th November this year and is known as one of the bigger international Auto Shows, it also takes place in the heart of California which by and large, will be the biggest market for both electric vehicles and hybrids in the US. Lanjut →


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Andrew Klavan: Writing Fast-Paced Thrillers for a New Audience
- Laura MacCorkle Crosswalk.com Senior Entertainment Editor
- 2009 29 Apr
"Suddenly I woke up strapped to a chair."
This is the type of opening sentence that makes you want to find out more. And that's what you'll first read in Andrew Klavan's recent young adult fiction debut, The Last Thing I Remember (Thomas Nelson).
After that curious introduction, protagonist and average high-school kid Charlie West then reveals that he went to bed the night before, after a typical teenager's evening: working on a history paper while instant-messaging with a buddy, while watching an old episode of Star Trek, while listening to music on an iPod.
Next thing he knows, Charlie's awake and using everything he's got to save his life (his wits, his faith, his karate skills), to try to figure why certain people want him dead and to learn what has happened to him—and not just overnight, but during what he soon learns has been an entire year of his life that he cannot remember.
Although I'm not in the YA target audience anymore, this intriguing premise of the first book in The Homelanders series still worked for me and I finished reading the fast-paced book in record time.
No stranger to the thriller genre, Klavan's an international best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author who's been writing novels for adults for years. His most recent novel, Empire of Lies (2008) reached number one on the Amazon.com thriller list. He's also written several successful screenplays, as well as adapted his own best-selling books—Don't Say a Word and True Crime—for the big screen.
Klavan is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute think tank's City Journal, and his 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed that compared Batman of The Dark Knight to president George W. Bush became an Internet sensation (even earning him a letter of thanks from the president). Other media appearances have included guest spots on Glenn Beck's Fox and Friends and "The Mike Gallagher Show" on the Salem Radio Network.
I talked with Klavan recently and asked him how a best-selling novelist for adult thrillers switches gears to write for a younger audience. …
You've had success writing thrillers for adults, so why now turn to writing for young adults?
I had a chance to write for young adults long ago, for a screenplay. And I just loved it. It was always buried in my heart that I wanted to come back and do that again. I think over the years that I've become pretty good at what I do, which is telling fast-moving stories that have rich meaning in them. And it seems to me that that is a perfect fit for young people. I hear this from teachers a lot that they can't get especially young boys to read. And I so I ask them, "What are you giving them? Because if you're giving them Sally Has a Unicorn, they're not going to like it." So I thought I could really do something about that. I thought if I could tell the kind of story that if a kid had my book in one hand and an Xbox in the other that he'd take a look at the first line in my book and say, "Gee, maybe I'll go with the book." I know what that's like. I love Xbox, too, and how exciting they are. But reading is special. It's probably my favorite form of entertainment. And so I just thought I could bring that to that age level.
Is this your first novel for the Christian market? And did this affect how you wrote?
This started with a call from Thomas Nelson. And when they asked me if I would be interested in doing this, I said, "Absolutely!" And we sat down to talk about it and I said, "Look, you can't tell good stories and preach to people. It's obnoxious. It kills the story." And I said that's not something I want to do. I'm not interested in hitting people over the head with the way I look at things or the way I see things. I told them what I would like to do is just change the rules of the game a little bit. We see a lot of young heroes who are rebellious or alienated or out of sorts in some sort of way and at war with the world and cynical. And I wanted to created a hero who wasn't that guy—a guy who had faith, who loved America and was a patriot, who suddenly finds all of those values challenged in a suddenly terrifying situation. And they went with it. I was surprised. I thought that they were going to say no. At no point did anyone ever wag their fingers at me and say you can't do this in the Christian market. My stories are informed by my worldview; they're not shaped to sell my worldview.
How do you make a mental shift from writing for adults to writing for teens?
When I write for adults, I write pretty harsh stuff. And so I wanted to make[The Last Thing I Remember] something you could give to your kids without thinking about it. And not have to worry that someone was peddling a dark, violent, ugly thing that you didn't want them to see.
So that was one thing that I thought about from the beginning. But the other thing is that you have to get it right. I was writing about a specific kind of a kid. Charlie's a straight-arrow kind of guy. He's not an outcast or anything like that. But at the same time I wanted him to be real. I didn't want to make references that come out of my youth instead of the youth of people today. I have a son who's about Charlie's age, so that helped me a little bit. And I keep my ears open anyway, and I listen to the way people talk and what people are thinking about. And, of course, online you have a vast resource of people talking and interchanging information and dialoguing, so you get to hear the way people talk. The hardest thing—the most important thing for me—was just getting it right. Getting that world right and those people right, so that they wouldn't think I was trying to force anything on them or make anything up that they wouldn't experience themselves.
Where did you get the story idea for The Last Thing I Remember?
It's kind of what I do, but in this case it reflected portions of my own faith journey. In a way, it's my faith journey turned into a thriller. I came a long distance to get to my faith. I was raised Jewish. I was raised in an interesting way in that I was taught the Jewish traditions, but not taught the Jewish faith. I wasn't taught to believe in God. So the traditions ultimately seemed empty to me. Ultimately, I rejected that and rejected God at the same time and went for many, many years as an atheist or an agnostic. And it put me in this really interesting position. I had to reinvent my faith from the ground up. I had this wonderful training and analytical way of thinking of tearing things apart and every time a little spark or flame of faith would flare up in my heart I'd be able to dismantle it, take it apart and analyze it to death. And I had to do a lot of that before I started turning that analytical skill onto the analysis itself and realizing that the heart really does have its reasons. So I really did build this faith, and then it came and met me halfway.
And so I put Charlie in that same position. Here's a guy who basically just goes to bed one night, living this ordinary life. He has his church and he has his school and he has his dreams and ambitions and he has his girlfriend. And he wakes up captured in a cinderblock room. Everything he has is gone. And he has to do some of the same things. He has to ask himself some of the same questions. Am I a good guy or a bad guy? Why do I believe these things? When people told me such and such about God or such and such about America were they lying or were they telling the truth? Who do I trust? Who do I believe? So, it's kind of in thriller form a reflection of the things I've gone through in my own life.
Speaking of "thrills," in one chapter, there is a karate demonstration that Charlie must do in front of an assembly at his high school. The moves are very intricately described. So does that mean you know a little bit about karate?
Well, I am in fact a black belt. I love it, and it's a wonderful discipline. And obviously when I put this innocent kid into the depths of being chased by terrorists, I had to give him something. He's basically unarmed, he's alone and he has no one he can turn to for help. And so I had to give him that skill, and I was able to draw on my own experience. Karate does intersect with a lot of faith wisdom. It's a way that you can kind of put faith into motion. It's almost a kind of moving prayer, and so it's very much in keeping with the values of the book.
There's another chapter that has such intricate description that I also have to ask how you wrote it. It's when Charlie has crawled through a sink hole and gone underground to hide from his captors. I felt like I was right there with him while reading. How did you research for this?
Unfortunately, I am very curious and I'm always doing different things. I've been spelunking about four times, and I have to tell you I didn't like it very much. But I kept going back, thinking maybe I was doing it wrong. But, in fact, it's just something I find really, really difficult to do. And I was in close, underground caves where the walls were pressing in on my shoulders very tightly. There's no light. You can literally hold your finger an inch from your face, and you cannot see it. It's unbelievable. And it's always struck me as a kind of basic fear, so it fit in very well with this kid who's been stripped down to the basics.
Besides dark places, what are some of the most important themes that readers will encounter in The Last Thing I Remember?
For one thing, there's the element of patriotism. It's different than some of the patriotism you may have heard of, because I don't believe in jingoism. I don't believe in loving your country simply because you happen to be standing on the ground beneath your feet. I lived overseas for seven years. I lived in England which is a wonderful, free country, and when I came back I had been transformed into a patriot. And the reason had to do with this idea of liberty—individual liberty.
Liberty so informs, I think, the biblical worldview that it's almost never mentioned. It's just assumed. It comes up in moments when the Hebrews come to Samuel and ask for a king, and it's almost a tragic moment in the Old Testament because they're leaving behind the world in which each man is simply governed by God. And in America we've kind of come back to that idea that each man can be governed by God. And it's so important because only in liberty can you find the things that matter. You can't be forced to have faith. You can't be forced to love your neighbor. You can't be forced to love God. Those are things you have to choose, and they have no meaning unless you choose them. And so Charlie's patriotism, which is very deep, is a patriotism for liberty. It's a love of liberty. And that's one theme that's really important. The people who he fights and who are after him have a range of philosophies, but all of them negate liberty. And so that is what Charlie's looking for and what he's trying to recover—not just his own liberty, but the ideas that lead him to liberty; they're constantly being challenged.
And the other one again is that when everything you've been told is stripped away, how do you know what you believe? How do you know your faith is right? How do you know which way the light is? And that's the kind of things that Charlie is looking for.
Will we see more of Charlie and his exploration of these themes in the future and do you envision more books in The Homelanders series?
We started out with a plan of four, but I'm starting to think it's going to go a little longer than that. It won't go on forever. I kind of don't like these series that go on for 60 books. So I'm thinking that five will be about the right number.
Can you give us a sneak peek of book two?
Yes. In book two, Charlie returns home, because he's looking for information to prove his innocence. So he finds that he's going back into the place he misses most and a place that he can't really recover right away. And so it's a poignant story.
Since you've adapted some of your other novels for the big screen, are there any plans to adapt The Last Thing I Remember as well?
You know, I'm hoping it will. I never write a book thinking about the movie. I think it ruins the book. So I always write a book purely for its own sake and to tell out the story there. Having said that, there's been some preliminary interest. And I hope it comes through. It would be great. To me, having had the experience of having books turned into movies, well … I still just love the book. And the book always remains the primary thing for me.
How is it different writing a screenplay than a book?
It's the difference between being a carpenter and being an architect. When you write a book, you are creating an entire world. You sit down in the morning and describe a guy walking across the room. And it can take your entire morning because you're creating the room, you're creating the guy and the thoughts that go through his mind. You're creating an entire experience. In a screenplay, you sit down and you write: "He walks across the room." And you're done. And the reason for that is because actors and directors, lighting guys and design guys are all going to come along and flesh that experience out and bring it to life.
The first time I wrote a screenplay was for a film called A Shock to the System with Michael Caine. And I labored over this character as if I were writing a novel, creating his internal life and his past and all this stuff. And then when I saw Michael Caine walk on-screen I thought, Why did I bother? It's Michael Caine, you know? And he's going to take care of that.
I won't say it's easier to write a screenplay, but it's more of a craft for me. Once you've got the structure, you've got it. Whereas writing novels is more of an art, because it's coming down out of every part of yourself.
Tell me about your career path. How did you get from Point A to writing novels to then writing screenplays for film?
All I ever wanted to be was a novelist. From the minute I stopped wanting to be a cowboy, I basically wanted to be a novelist. And at some point I wrote a book called The Scarred Man that sold to the movies. And somebody called me up—a producer called me up. She said, "I read your book, and I know that you'd write a good screenplay. And I will pay you to write a screenplay for me." Which is basically like being hit by lightning. It almost never happens. I was so intensely committed to writing novels, I just kind of shrugged and didn't want to do that. And this woman almost fell out of her chair. But she asked me if there was any book that I would adapt or any story I wanted to tell. I finally said I would adapt this novel, A Shock to the System. So she bought the book and hired me to do it. I was kind of dragged into writing for movies. And I have to say, it's still writing novels that I love. It's still my main focus in life. But it's nice to occasionally write movies, because you write them with other people. You come out, you argue with producers, you argue with directors and it's more of a communal experience—whereas writing novels can get to be a very lonely life. So I like it, and I appreciate it. And like everybody else, I enjoy going to the movies. But I'm a book guy, really—start to finish.
What are you working on right now?
I just finished the second book with Charlie in The Homelanders series. Just handed that in, so I'm very happy about that. And I'm also writing another thriller for adults which I'm just coming out of the final draft on that.
For more information about Andrew Klavan or The Last Thing I Remember, please visit Andrew Klavan's site or Thomas Nelson Publishers' site.
**This interview first published on April 29, 2009.


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CARL LEVIN: Message to grads: Beware temptation to assume you're right
On May 4,
I had the honor of delivering the commencement address to the Adrian College Class of 2013. This year's 224 graduates are the latest in a long line from a school with a proud and distinguished history, a school founded by people fired by the search for knowledge and opposition to slavery.
Education, I told the graduates, succeeds not mainly by imparting knowledge, but by encouraging inquiry. It's more about questions than answers. And yet, the world into which these graduates now march is in many ways geared to reward certainty over inquiry and openness. Because the Internet and emerging technologies like Twitter feed us more information more quickly than ever, we are more prone than ever to excessive certainty that we're right. The greater the speed with which information flows over us, the greater the impetus for hasty judgments and the more likely we'll fail to deliberate over what that information really means.
The need for deliberation is all the more crucial because this rapid flow of information is accompanied by a tendency toward rigidity or closed-mindedness. I am most aware of this in my work in the Senate. The Founding Fathers designed the Senate to move carefully, slowly even, so it could weigh arguments on all sides of a matter. But too often, the Senate is instead in gridlock caused not by thoughtful deliberation, but by a refusal to consider opposing points of view.
I worry that the increasing rigidity and polarization that has engulfed our politics has encroached on other aspects of American life. Americans are not only increasingly divided about politics, but we have increasingly begun to cluster, in cities and neighborhoods, based on our views. We turn on the television news network that we agree with, one that reinforces our own beliefs. Comfortable and unchallenged in our opinions, we become more and more prone to excessive confidence in the correctness of those opinions.
Adrian's new graduates, and all of us, will face situations in which we are dead certain of our correctness, but are confronted by others equally certain that they are right. Judging when to stand on principle and when to compromise to get the job done – that is one of the most important skills we can develop, in work and in life.
How can you tell a principled stand from blind stubbornness? I offered two suggestions.
Not long ago, my wife, Barbara, and I had dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant. When she opened up her fortune cookie, here is what it said: "Try not to stand on your own side during an argument."
I think putting yourself in the other guy's shoes for a while is the right thing to do. But it's also practical. You are not likely to resolve a dispute unless you have some sense of what the other person feels, and why, and what might satisfy their needs.
The second suggestion I borrowed from a colleague. Not long ago, Sen. John McCain spoke to students at the University of Arkansas' Clinton School of Public Service about that school's namesake, President Bill Clinton. Sen. McCain described how he and the president had worked together in the 1990s on restoring our diplomatic ties with Vietnam.
At the time, opposition to diplomatic relations with Vietnam was still high. Sen. McCain believed a diplomatic opening was the right thing to do. And as a hero of the Vietnam War, he knew he wasn't likely to face criticism for his stand. But President Clinton's lack of service in Vietnam had been a big issue during the 1992 presidential campaign. He was sure to come in for criticism, and he did. As John McCain told those students: "[President Clinton] had to risk his self-interest to do the right thing. He had to have courage."
And this is the question I asked the Adrian graduates to ask themselves when caught between principled opposition and prudent compromise: Is it my principles and ideals that are at stake or just my interests? If we honestly examine our own motivations, we might find that we have more room than we think for compromise that does not damage principles we hold dear – if we have the courage to sacrifice our self-interest.
I told the graduates that their lives will be measured in part by how faithfully they seek to question their own certainties and to understand those with whom they disagree. The same is true, I think, for all of us.
Carl Levin is the senior U.S. senator from Michigan.


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VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark on Tuesday staked her political future on her approach to liquefied natural gas, promising her government's strategy could transform the province's massive resource stores into a more-than-$100-billion fund, enough to erase the province's debt by the end of the 2020s.
"This will be a transformational change for our province and we cannot afford to be short-sighted," said Clark's throne speech, read Tuesday by Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon.
With just 13 weeks to go before a provincial election, Clark said a liquefied natural gas industry would be running full steam in the province by about 2020, and could mean between $4.3 billion and $8.7 billion in extra government revenues each year.
Following in the footsteps of resource-rich jurisdictions like Alberta and Norway, Clark promised the bulk of those revenues would go toward a new B.C. Prosperity Fund, to be used for long-term priorities such as tax reduction or debt repayment.
"We have to decide if we can forever ensure that the proceeds from natural gas, which is a product that belongs to the people of the province, are spent well and wisely," she said.
"I do think it's important that government, when we build the Prosperity Fund, put some real clear markers around it so we know that no future government can be profligate and just decide to increase government spending at a fantastical rate," she added.
Projections for the fund rely on the introduction of a new LNG tax to be applied in addition to existing royalties. With all these measures in place, the government is projecting the fund will collect a minimum of $100 billion over 30 years.
Government officials added that if Asian natural gas prices remain high, and if the fund is dedicated solely to debt relief, the fund could completely erase B.C.'s $56 billion debt by about 2028.
But Tuesday's speech made clear that other choices are on the table as well.
"Whether it is eliminating the provincial sales tax, or making long-term investments in areas like education or vital infrastructure that strengthen communities — these are the kinds of opportunities the B.C. Prosperity Fund can provide," said the speech.
Clark's plan hinges on the development of five proposed liquefied natural gas plants — three large-scale plants and two mid-sized ones.
The government says it hopes one of the smaller plants can be operational by 2016, meaning it could be three or four years before the fund is even started.
The government committed in its BC Jobs plan to having three of the proposed plants running by 2020.
As for the other proposed facilities, none of the would-be builders of any of the expected major plants has announced construction or inked final contracts to sell their product.
Also still to be concluded are negotiations with producers on how to provide enormous quantities of power to the LNG plants. Government disclosed Tuesday that BC Hydro will release a plan outlining "LNG electricity requirements" in August, three months after the election.
Critics, including New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix, were skeptical about Tuesday's announced plan to bank more than $100 billion on an industry that has yet to begin exporting its product from B.C.
Dix pointed out the government was forced to announced last September that plummeting North American natural gas prices had blown a three-year, $1.1-billion hole into projected provincial revenues, showing just how volatile things can be.
"Let's talk about real revenue projections, like the ones they made in the last budget," said Dix.
"They were dramatically wrong over six months in terms of natural gas revenues," he added, saying Tuesday's speech is further evidence of a government that has reached the end of its mandate.
"Of course natural gas will play a role in the future economic success of British Columbia but, unlike the government, I believe forestry will play an important role, I believe film and television will play an important role, I think high-tech will play an important role," he said, saying the speech did nothing to address obvious challenges in those areas.
"What this shows is we have a government that after 11 long years in office has very little more to say to British Columbians."
Geoff Morrison, a spokesman for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said one of his concerns was about how the government appears to be making its assumptions, including the projection of a possible new tax on LNG.
"I think it will cause industry to reflect on their business assumptions. I don't think it will send anyone running for the hills but they are going to take a long look at this and decide what it might mean to them in the future and likely have a discussion with the government about that," Morrison said of Clark's plan.
He said the LNG industry is competitive, capital is fluid and despite price differences of $3.50 a unit in North America and $15 a unit in Asia, the margins, once all the costs of development are considered, are quickly whittled down to just a few dollars per unit.
"It's a much tighter proposal that people imagine."
Energy Minister Rich Coleman brushed aside the criticisms Tuesday, saying things are moving fast, with several serious players showing interest in B.C.
"I think people need to know there has actually been a vision here to do something in British Columbia. We have this orphaned resource sitting in northeastern British Columbia — trillions and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, so much so we can supply North America over the next 150 years — and we have a market in Asia," he said
"By 2020, I think you'll see that we are very much matured into the marketplace."
Tuesday's throne speech also promised to move toward the creation of a school of traditional Chinese medicine at a British Columbian post-secondary institution, though it did not go into specifics.
The speech also promised coming announcements on improved access and affordability of child care, improved access to early childhood services and measures to help families of young children save for post-secondary education.
The speech also said the government will introduce legislation in the days to come to make good on its promise of establishing a seniors' advocate in B.C.
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USA Volleyball has processed 126 international transfers for U.S. female athletes to compete in foreign leagues, including many of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 14, 2013) – The current U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Weekly update released on Oct. 14 includes briefs on U.S. players. Additional player news will be available as their club teams begin competition.
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HODGE, FAUCETTE WITH EVERGRANDE IN CHINA: Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.), a 2012 Olympic silver medalist, and Juliann Faucette (San Diego) are playing in China this winter with Guangdong Evergrande, which is under the direction of 2008 U.S. Olympic head coach "Jenny" Lang Ping. Evergrande competed in the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship last week and finished with the bronze medal. In the first pool match, Hodge tallied eight kills on 10 attacks and two blocks for 10 points in a three-set win over Kenya Prisons on Oct. 9. In its second pool match, Evergrande lost to host Volero Zurich in four sets as Hodge scored nine points on eight kills and a block. Faucette chipped in two points as a reserve in the second set. Evergrande lost to eventual-tournament champion VakifBank Istanbul in straight sets during the semifinals on Oct. 12. Hodge totaled three points in the loss. Evergrande gained a sense of revenge over host Volero during the bronze-medal match with a 24-26, 25-23, 25-18, 25-21 victory. Hodge claimed 11 points in the victory, while Faucette was a sub in the first set.
LARSON-BURBACH WITH DINAMO KAZAN IN RUSSIA: Jordan Larson-Burbach (Hooper, Neb.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing once again for Dinamo Kazan in the Russia Super League. Kazan is 5-0 in the Russia Super Cup Zone 1 with sweeps over Polytech (Oct. 2), Tyumen (Oct. 3), Ufimochka (Oct. 4), Serpukhov (Oct. 6) and Sakhalin (Oct. 7). Larson-Burbach, who did not play in the opening match against Polytech, totaled eight points in the sweep over Tyumen. In its match versus Ufimochka, Larson-Burbach picked up 10 points. She scored 11 points in the win over Sakhalin. By winning all five matches, Dinamo Kazan has advanced to the finals of the Russia Super Cup. In Russia Super League action, Kazan stopped Odintsovo 27-25, 25-19, 25-13 on Oct. 11. Larson-Burbach picked up 12 kills on 21 attacks, two aces and a block for a team-high 15 points. To view a photo gallery of the match, click here. Kazan (3-0, 9 points) resumes Russia Super League action on Oct. 15 versus New Urengoy. Kazan also will be competing in the CEV Champions League this winter, starting with a Pool F first-round match against Switzerland's Volero Zurich on Oct. 24.
ADAMS WITH TAURON MKS DABROWA IN POLAND: Rachael Adams (Cincinnati, Ohio), a middle blocker on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is playing in Poland this winter with Tauron MKS Dabrowa. In the team's opening match of the regular season, Adams scored seven points in leading Tauron MKS Dabrowa to a 25-11, 25-20, 25-16 victory over Siodemka SK Bank Legionovia on Oct. 7. Tauron MKS Dabrowa lost its second match of the season 25-19, 25-20, 21-25, 25-17 to Atom Trefl Sopot on Oct. 13. Adams was credited with four kills, three blocks and an ace for eight points. Tauron MKS Dabrowa opens CEV Champions League action on Oct. 23 versus Stiinta Bacau in Pool F. Adams is maintaining a blog during her travels, and is open to the public at rachadams.com.
HILL WITH ATOM TREFL SOPOT IN POLAND: Kim Hill (Portland, Ore.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing this winter with Atom Trefl Sopot in the Polish Oren Liga. To open the regular season, Atom Trefl Sopot dropped a 25-16, 25-21, 27-25 match to KPS Chemik Police on Oct. 5. Hill came off the bench in the opening set and started the final two sets. She tallied six kills and a block for seven points. Atom Trefl Sopot rebounded in its next match and earned a key early season 25-19, 25-20, 21-25, 25-17 victory over Tauron MKS Dabrowa on Oct. 13. Hill produced 11 kills on 36 attacks and a block for 12 points while holding a 48 positive reception percent on a team-leading 29 chances. Atom Trefl Sopot begins CEV Champions League action on Oct. 23 versus Dinamo Romprest Bucuresti in Pool C.
SCOTT WITH BRASILIA IN BRAZIL: Danielle Scott (Baton Rouge, La.), a five-time U.S. Olympian playing middle blocker, is competing in Brazil this club season with Brasilia Volei. On Oct. 3, she scored six points in a five-set loss to Uniara during the second round of the first phase. Scott was a starter in all five sets.
HILDEBRAND WITH AMIL IN BRAZIL: Kristin Hildebrand (Orem, Utah), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is playing this winter with Volei Amil in the Brazil Super League. During the second round of the first phase, Amil defeated Sao Cristovao 21-19, 19-21, 21-14, 21-16 on Oct. 11. Hildebrand was not eligible to suit for the match.
KIM GLASS WITH BANANA BOAT/PRAIA CLUBE IN BRAZIL: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, is playing in the Brazilian Super League this winter with Banana Boat/Praia Clube. In the second round of the regular season, Glass tallied 13 points with 12 kills on 25 attacks while adding five excellent receptions in a 22-20, 21-15, 21-16 victory over Rio Do Sul on Oct. 11.
AKINRADEWO, BANWARTH, JACKSON WITH RABITA IN AZERBAIJAN: Middle blocker Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), a 2012 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, libero Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa) and Cursty Jackson (Los Angeles) are part of Rabita Baku for the 2013-14 club season. On the opening day of a preseason tournament, Rabita defeated Azerrail 25-13, 25-23, 25-16. Banwarth was credited with a 58 excellent reception percent in the victory, while Jackson tallied four kills, two blocks and an ace for seven points. On Oct. 12, Rabita Baku fell to Azeryol Baku 25-23, 25-19, 25-13 in a friendly match. Banwarth was credited with a 77 excellent reception percent, while Jackson scored one kill. To complete the weekend of friendly matches, Rabita Baku rallied to defeat Bursa BB SK 21-25, 25-23, 17-25, 25-21, 15-10. Akinradewo was not available for the three matches. Rabita Baku opens the CEV Champions League on Oct. 10 versus Omichka Omsk in Pool A.
WILSON WITH IGTISADCHI IN AZERBAIJAN: Arielle Wilson (Broadview, Ill.), a middle blocker with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing for Igtisadchi of the Azerbaijan Super League in 2013-14. In a friendly match on Oct. 12, Igtisadchi defeated Bursa BB SK 20-25, 25-22, 25-23, 27-25. In a second friendly match on Oct. 13, Igtisadchi defeated Azerrail 25-20, 25-21, 25-19. No statistics were available for the matches. Igtisadchi will compete in the CEV Champions League the winter, starting with Crvena Zvezda Beograd on Oct. 22.
GIBBEMEYER WITH LOKOMOTIC BAKU: Middle blocker Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.) is playing for Lokomotiv Baku in the Azerbaijan Super League. Her squad will also compete in the CEV Cup, beginning with a 16th Final Round home-and-home series versus Kralovo Pole Brno starting on Oct. 23. To follow her blog throughout the year, click here.
LLOYD, KLINEMAN WITH CONEGLIANO IN ITALY: Setter Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.) and outside hitter Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) are on the Imoco Volley Conegliano roster in the Italian Serie A league for this winter season. The team opens the regular season schedule on Oct. 20 versus Ihf Volley Frosinone.
MIYASHIRO, HAGGLUND WITH VILSBIBURG IN GERMANY: Libero Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii), a libero on the 2012 U.S. Olympic silver-medal team, and setter Jenna Hagglund (West Chester, Ohio) are playing for Rote Raben Vilsbiburg in the German league this winter. The squad, which also be competing in the CEV Cup this winter, opens the regular season at home on Oct. 16 versus VT Aurubis. Vilsbiburg won the four-team preseason Dippold Tournament held Oct. 4-5. Vilsbiburg topped SC Potsdam 25-18, 27-25, 21-25, 19-25, 15-9 to start the tournament, followed by a 25-13, 25-10, 29-27 victory over Dresdner SC. In the championship match, Vilsbiburg edged Dresdner SC 25-21, 17-25, 16-25, 28-26, 15-9. The CEV Cup starts on Oct. 23 with a home-and-home series versus ZOK Jednstvo Brcko.
DAVIS WITH DINAMO ROMPREST IN ROMANIA: Libero Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), a two-time Olympic Games silver medalist with the U.S., is playing for Dinamo Romprest Bucharest in Romania this winter. Dinamo Romprest opened the Romanian Division A1 league with a 25-22, 25-10, 25-15 victory over CS Rapid Bucuresti on Oct. 12. Dinamo opens the CEV Champions League on Oct. 23 versus Poland's Atom Trefl Sopot in a Pool C match.
HARMOTTO WITH ECZACIBASI IN TURKEY: Middle blocker Christa Harmotto (Hopewell Township, Pa.), a 2012 Olympic Games silver medalist, is competing for Eczacibasi VitrA Istanbul in the Turkish professional league. Eczacibasi lost a close five-set match to VakifBank in the Super Cup on Oct. 2.Harmotto scored five points in the match. Eczacibasi opens the CEV Champions League on Oct. 24 versus Czech Republic's Agel Prostejov in a Pool D match.
ALISHA GLASS WITH FENERBAHCE IN TURKEY: Setter Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) is competing this winter in Turkey with Fenerbahce. The squad begins CEV Cup action on Oct. 23 with a home-and-home series with Bursa BBSK in the 16th Final Round.
HOOD WITH ILBANK IN TURKEY: Outside hitter Regan Hood (Dallas) is playing for Ilbank of the Turkish League this winter.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS PROCESSED: USA Volleyball has processed 126 international transfer certificates for United States female athletes to compete in foreign professional clubs for the 2013-14 season. The total includes 22 transfers processed for athletes playing in Germany, while another 18 transfers have been processed for athletes heading to compete in France. USA Volleyball has also processed 13 transfers for players going to play in Switzerland and 11 in Azerbaijan this season. As of Oct. 11, USA Volley has processed transfers for female athletes to 22 different countries. For the full listing of athletes and their 2013-14 clubs, click here.
UPCOMING FIVB WORLD GRAND CHAMPIONS CUP: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team will have an immediate challenge to start the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup being held Nov. 12-17 in Japan. Team USA, ranked No. 2 in the world, will face top-ranked Brazil on the opening day in Nagoya, followed by a Nov. 13 match against host Japan. Following a travel day to Tokyo, the Americans will play Russia on Nov. 15, Thailand on Nov. 16 and a wild-card selection to be determined to close out the tournament on Nov. 17. The U.S. qualified for the tournament by winning the NORCECA Women's Continental Championship held Sept. 16-21 at Omaha, Neb. The FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup features a total of six teams per gender with host Japan being joined by the winners of the continental championships carried out in Asia, Europe, NORCECA and South America with an additional country selected by the FIVB, host broadcasters NTV and the host federation, Japan Volleyball Association. Africa does not have an automatic spot in the tournament after finishing the 2012 Olympic Games as the lowest ranked confederation among the five. For the full story, click here.


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