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A reader, Pinkyski, left a comment in one of my earlier entries asking this: "I'm using the tea tree oil facial foam. After a day, a few pimples started to show up. Is it because it is not suitable for my skin or is it because my face is adjusting to it"?
How many of you have this experience when using new skin care products? And what do you do and how long do you wait out for your skin to adjust or be acclimated to the products? Do you think that the products are "purging" out the "bad toxins" to the surface as I often hear, especially when it comes to using natural or organic products?
Pushing out toxins and impurities to the surface?
For example, when Susan of True Beauty gave me some of her products to try, she told me that my combination skin might become oilier because the products will help to rid my skin of the bad sebum that are trapped beneath. In fact, it is mentioned on their website that our skin needs to undergo a period of acclimation with the new products as the skin is working to balance itself naturally after years of harsh and chemically-laden product usage. Hence, their products, which is said to treat skin problems deep at their root, will push out all the toxins and impurities to the surface. As such, "those with highly-congested skin may experience the appearance of tiny pimples after using the products."
What is an acceptable acclimation period?
In such cases, customers are mentally prepared because they are told in advance before they use the products and hence, would know what to expect. However, if customers purchase products off the counter, they are not always told and may not know. So what should they do and how long should they stick to the product before knowing if the product really suits them?
When should the transient problem go away?
My take would be about three days to a maximum of one week. Any longer, the product may not be entirely suitable for the skin and even Cosmetic Cop Paula Begoun said so.
"The most likely explanation for these kinds of breakouts is that the skin can initially have a sensitizing or irritant reaction to products with active ingredients, which causes pimples to erupt. Generally, this is a transient problem that goes away in a week or so." (source)
So what do you think? What is your threshold with regards to the adjustment period? And what would you say to Pinkyski?


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The following interview with Jamie Pon was first published by the Mormon Women Project in April 2013.
Growing up in a Mormon family, Jamie is a second-generation Church member in Hong Kong. In her teenage years, she struggled with her testimony of the gospel and distanced herself from the Church, despite her parents both having high-profile callings. But her parents and friends continued to love and support Jamie. She eventually returned to the Church and developed a strong testimony, which led her to happiness and helped shape her future life.
What was your teenage life like? Why did you stop going to church during that time?
When I was a teenager, I was not satisfied with my life. I thought that I should be happy by being a member of the Church; however I was not happy and not satisfied at all. During that time my two older brothers decided not to go to church anymore. I was somehow influenced by them and I wanted to experience life without Church influences. From my observation, my friends from school were happy without the Church and the gospel. I wondered why they were so happy but I was not. I envied them because they could go hang out on Sundays. I thought I would be happier not going to church and hanging out with my friends instead. I even questioned my own testimony and doubted that I had ever had one. Some teenagers like me, who are born and raised in the Church, question if the testimony that we had or have is from our parents and family or from our own searching. If we only rely on our parents' and family's testimonies and do not search for our own, we can struggle over our identity and question our faith. During that time I did not think I had gained my own testimony. Attending church seemed to limit my happiness and seemed like a waste of time, so I let my parents know that I did not want to go to church with them anymore. It was shocking news to my family.
When did you start to feel that you should attend church again?
I stopped going to church and decided to experience the "real world," have my own life, and do my own thing. After a while I asked myself if I was happier than I was before, and my answer was "No." Unhappiness still surrounded me, triggered by my feelings towards the Church, and by issues that arose with my family and my friends. I thought I would be happier and have more freedom by not going to church, but in fact I felt the opposite way. On one particular night, I found myself sitting in my room, feeling very upset. I felt like I should pray but I was hesitant to do so because I hadn't prayed for a long time. All of a sudden my parents' advice came into my mind. After I stopped going to church,my mother would always encourage me to pray even though I didn't feel like doing it. At that very moment, I remembered clearly her advice and I knelt down and prayed.
I had a special feeling; I felt as if someone patted me on the shoulder and said, "Everything will be alright. Don't worry." I felt peace inside my heart and this calm and peaceful feeling swept my sadness away.
At that time I did not recognize that the special feeling I had was from the Spirit. I wanted to attend church services again but I hesitated to return to church because I was afraid of criticisms from others. It was not easy for me, as a young woman who was born and raised in the Church, to return to the Church again after being inactive for a while. I had many concerns about my return: Church members might think that I was not worthy enough to come back to the Church or they might think that I had done something wrong. These heavy thoughts triggered my worries and I was reluctant to return.
At first I went to church on and off, and tried to ignore criticisms from others. During that time I still did not have a strong testimony of the gospel or our Savior, but I was willing to support my mother and her calling in the Church. And it was during this special period of time that I started to learn the gospel sincerely and diligently. Gradually my testimony grew stronger. I started to read the scriptures, even though my reading progress was very slow. With my parents' encouragement to read a few verses a day, I started to understand why parents want and encourage us to read the scriptures. They want us to feel for ourselves. And, little by little, I started to build up my faith.
Later on when I reflected on this experience, I recognized the warm feeling that I had when I was kneeling and praying alone in my room that night. The special feeling was from the Spirit. This experience became one of the most significant moments of my life. It taught me how to recognize spiritual promptings.
Tell us about your parents.
During the period when I decided to go my own way and leave the Church, my mother was called to be the ward Young Women president. One night, she sat down with me and we had a talk. She told me that the bishop had extended this calling to her and she had told him she wanted to talk to me first before she accepted the calling. My mother told me that it would be wonderful to have me to come to church and support her in the Young Women organization. I guessed that it would not easy for my mother to be the ward Young Women president while her own daughter, who was of Young Women age, was not active in the Church. I was glad that she shared her feelings with me because she showed me that I had a special place in her heart. I was touched by her honesty and bold invitation to return to church. I promised her I would return.
My mother is a wise and genuine woman. I have learned a lot from her example and how she treats others. When my mother was called to be the Relief Society president, she told me that she would not be involved with any gossiping. She taught me to be true to the people around us and help them with a sincere heart. She said we should show our care by our actions, not by our words only.
My mother showed her patience with me while I was not active in the Church. When I decided to find my own happiness in the "real" world and leave the Church, my mother did not give up on me. She continued to support me and love me as her daughter. I remember I had many ear piercings. I thought it was trendy and beautiful. My mother kindly advised me not to have more than one pair of ear piercings and to listen to the counsel we'd received from the prophet. I did not understand why my mother kept persuading me to take off the extra earrings. She said if I wanted to keep the commandments and follow Christ, I should show my obedience to Him, even in a small matter such as this. At first I doubted, because I thought having many ear piercings was trendy and "cool." But I obeyed; I kept only one pair of earrings in my ear. Even though it seems like a minimal decision, this was the decision that taught me to be 100% obedient. I am grateful for my mother's kind words and her persistence in reminding me of the importance of keeping the commandments and listening to the prophet's counsel.
When I was not active in the Church, my father was the stake president. I remember many people came up to me and said how grateful they were because of my parents, and how much they admired my parents. Many people told me that my father was a great man. I was confused because in my mind he was just my father; I did not see him as other people saw him, as a church leader. Sometimes when people told me that my father was a great man and a very responsible leader, I questioned myself and wondered if he was really as good as people mentioned. Eventually I learned a lesson. I was at a stake conference when my father was serving as the stake president. At every stake conference members are asked to sustain their leaders by raising their hands. When it was time to sustain my father as the stake president, I saw everyone in the chapel raise their hands and sustain my father and support him. I was stunned. I reflected on this scene and started to think, "All these people are here to support my father. What about me? He is my father and I know I should support him and his calling. He needs my support. I am his daughter." This experience increased my desire to attend church and to support my parents. It helped me to understand the love and support my parents had given to me. I am indeed grateful for their examples and their love for the gospel.
I love my parents. It must not have been easy for them to have a daughter like me who had doubts about the gospel. But during the time when I was not active in the Church, my parents continued to show their love to me. They continued to encourage me to pray even though I did not feel like doing it. They encouraged me to read the scriptures, even just a few verses every day. When I was not active in the Church, I did not pay much attention to their words. Now when I look back, I am grateful for their patience and persistence. They never gave up on me. Without them, I would not be able to be who I am today.
What was next in life after your reactivation in the Church? And what have you learnt?
There are several goals that I had during that time. My first goal was to attend Brigham Young University Hawaii. Since my high school academic performance did not meet the entry requirements and I did not attend seminary during my teenage years, I had to work extra hard to get accepted. I tried my best to finish all the seminary classes and did as much as I could to achieve my academic goals. I was rejected the first time I applied, but after I reapplied I finally got accepted.
Going to school at Brigham Young University Hawaii was truly the turning point of my life. While I was there I was spiritually nourished and I came to know the path that I should follow. My life goals became clear. My faith in the Lord Jesus Christ was strengthened and my testimony became stronger and stronger. Later on, with my friend's wonderful example and my desire, I decided to serve a mission.
I had two best friends when I was a student at Brigham Young University Hawaii and we are still best friends now. They are Joan and Vickie. They lifted me up when I was spiritually low. They taught me how to be Christ's disciple through their wonderful examples. They encouraged me to serve a mission. They are truly my best friends. I am grateful to have friends like them in my life.
One time, Joan's friend was sent to the hospital. Joan was crying and worried about her friend. I tried to comfort her. Vickie suggested that we should kneel and pray, and fast for Joan's friend. We knelt and prayed for Joan's friend and fasted the next day. At the time I did not completely understand the reasons for fasting, but I followed my friends' suggestion and it was indeed a spiritual and wonderful experience. I thought to myself, "None of my friends are like them!" They taught me to rely on God when challenges and difficulties come. They taught me the importance of acting on gospel principles. I am grateful for their influence in my life.
Later on, both Joan and Vickie went on missions. Because of their great influence, I prepared to serve a mission also. Through my parents' teachings and my friends' examples, my testimony grew stronger. Maybe I am just an ordinary woman, but I have a great desire to serve. During my mission, I shared with people my testimony of God and the gospel. I also shared my story of having transformed from a rebellious daughter with doubt in the gospel to a woman who now has a strong testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The first email I received from my father while I was on my mission was very touching. My father said my family was proud of me. He said he saw God's hand in my life and said I had grown in the gospel. While I was on my mission, my two older brothers were still not active in the Church. I did not know if the decision I made to serve a mission would make an impact on them or not. But I could feel that my family had grown closer together. My little brother chose to serve a mission because he had the desire to serve, and I was so glad that he made that choice.
I have learned that if I make a wrong decision, I will miss many of God's blessings in the future. If I give up, I will not be able to receive blessings prepared by God for me. I might not be rich or have all the things that I want, but my heart is full of gratitude. I am grateful for my lovely parents and their examples. Now I have my own family and am expecting my first baby. I will apply what I have learned from my parents and from my own experiences to strengthen my own family. I am grateful to have my faithful husband who holds the priesthood and blesses my family. I am grateful that Heavenly Father did not give up on me when I had doubts. He helped me along the way and led me to the fountain of happiness.


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My Father's Care
1. Once long ago before my birth I learned that I must prepare
To face the trials here on earth and rely on my Father's care.
And in the darkest hours of life, when it feels as if no one is there,
I will not fear when I'm safe in my Father's care.
Once again in my Father's care.
2. When mists of darkness cloud the way and I face temptation's snare,
I must be firm and place my trust everyday in my Father's care.
And when my time on earth is through, I may realize my innermost prayer
That I return once again to my Father's care.
Once again in my Father's care.
Text: Kevin Olson
Music: Kevin Olson
Artist: Olson
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: New Era
Composition Date: 1992-08-01
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Dr Pepper Facebook Ad Ignites Evolution Debate
Dr Pepper set off a heated debate over evolution on Thursday after posting an advertisement to its Facebook page, which showed an ape evolving into a man thanks to the discovery of a can of Dr Pepper.
"My ancestors were created in the Garden of Eden," one user posted in response to the advertisement. "I ain't no freaking chimp. No more Dr Pepper for my household. God Bless y'all," Another complained: "this is showing the theory of men evolving from apes. I have lost all respect for Dr Pepper and if Dr Pepper wants business from thousands of people they will need to apologize." (Spellings have been corrected throughout.)
Others shot back, including a couple of commenters who posted, "The day your faith gets shaken by a Dr Pepper ad is the day you should probably start reconsidering your faith."
Since the post went up three hours ago, it has been liked more than 15,000 times and received more than 1,100 comments. The post has also been picked up in an atheism forum on Reddit, which has only fueled the Facebook debate even more.
Dr Pepper isn't the first brand to court controversy on its Facebook page. Earlier this year, Kraft's Oreos put up a status update in favor of gay marriage, which led to a heated dialogue among Facebook fans.
Then there was Chick-Fil-A, which used its Facebook page to respond to criticism after its president denounced gay marriage.
Here's the advertisement that Dr Pepper posted to its Facebook page earlier today:
Image courtesy of Facebook, Dr Pepper


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Both Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have made the jump into producing in the past couple years, and each has an executive producing credit on 21 Jump Street. That's encouraging, because turning 21 Jump Street into a quality movie is not a given. Hill even admits as much—his first reaction when Sony pitched him on the remake was, "I don't know, that sounds kinds of stupid." But Hill found promise in the idea that the story is fundamentally about the chance to relive high school: "Thinking you would get it right this time, and having all the answers, but immediately reverting back to the insecurities you had the first time around." With the action credentials of fellow producer Neal Moritz (Fast Five) and the comedy chops of directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), the creative team was able to produce a remake they are proud to put their names on. By all accounts the result is a wicked funny buddy cop movie.
A group of us movie bloggers had the chance to interview Hill and Tatum on set in New Orleans near the end of the shoot. They talk about their characters, what brought them to the project and what they wanted to do with a 21 Jump Street movie, their admiration for Lord and Miller, plus what it was like for Hill to do action and for Tatum to try comedy. Read what they had to say after the jump.
Question: Have you been enjoying the heat of Louisiana?
CHANNING TATUM: It's a little hot.
JONAH HILL: It's not that bad today. It's been worse. It's been worse since we started shooting.
But you're wearing a jacket.
TATUM: I'm always wearing a jacket. It's professional.
HILL: Bizarre move, man.
So what do the insides of each other's mouths feel like?
TATUM: A lot like you think it would. Gushy, and—
HILL: Sweat.
TATUM: Sweat?
HILL: Not sweat. Moist.
You said that you would walk around like surgeons before?
HILL: Yeah. We had these cups filled with Listerine that we were dipping our hands into like surgeons. To constantly make sure the other person know our hands were clean.
But that had nothing to do with the actual scene?
HILL: No, we do this every day.
Is this the grossest thing you've done on a set so far?
HILL: You guys are familiar with my career. This is like a normal Tuesday for me.
TATUM: It wasn't so much in my movie career, but I've definitely done worse than that.
How quickly did it take for you guys to fall into a rhythm of doing banter back and forth? [To Channing] I know you haven't done as much improvisation.
TATUM: Zero. It's not like you can improv dramas all that well. But Jonah really brought me onto this. He called me up. I've been a huge fan of his forever. The thing that you don't do is probably like the pinnacle. I was terrified of comedy. What these guys have sort of been able to create for the comedy world, I think, has changed it immensely. I just wanted to come and play in his playground for a while, and follow him. I'm holding onto the coattails.
HILL: Riding it straight to the fire, unfortunately.
We talked to Neal and he said that you came and pitched this to him. Where did the idea come from to make it a buddy comedy?
HILL: The studio and Neal owned the property 21 Jump Street, and the studio called my agent with a list of things. It was right when we had made Superbad, but it hadn't been released yet. The studio had seen Superbad, but it hadn't been released yet. I got this about four years ago. By the time it comes out, it'll be exactly five years. They had a list of properties. I think they were just trying to keep me in the family. My agent told me about [it.] She was like, "What about 21 Jump Street?" And I said, "I don't know, that sounds kinds of stupid." I never thought of myself as someone who was going to remake a TV show, or anything like that. Especially when I wasn't particularly a massive fan of [the show]. But I've talked about this before in interviews: I thought it was really cool to relive high school. Thinking you would get it right this time, and having all the answers, but immediately reverting back to the insecurities you had the first time around. That, to me, is the one nugget that has remained true over these past five years. That is the story I wanted to be involved in. And that's what we did. With a week left, I hope that's what we did. There's no going back now.
Which one of you is Drew Barrymore?
HILL: Drew Barrymore?
Did you see Never Been Kissed?
HILL: Oh, yes I did… that's awkward. You're banned from the next ur rounds of questions.
What sort of research, if any, did you have to do? Are these updated iterations of characters that were on the show?
HILL: All my research for this movie came from a very honest place. I was a twenty-three year-old playing a seventeen year-old in Superbad. I had just done all this research about being someone in their twenties going back and pretending to be in high school. I moved back in with my parents, into my childhood room. Basically, that's how I got most of the set pieces, or things Mike Bacall and I were talking about from what I did for Superbad. Basically, we're people in our twenties pretending to be teenagers. I had literally just been a twenty-three year-old pretending to be a seventeen year-old! With all the stuff I did, there was so much humor derived from trying to get into that mindset. We took the big set pieces from that. Once the directors came on and Chan came on, we just personalized it to all of our high school experiences.
TATUM: I can't say that we studied how to be police in depth or anything. I think you'll see the movie and see that it doesn't really matter. It's just us going back. I'll be honest, I didn't read that well in high school. So we put that in the movie. I love it because it's all the insecurities that you had—and even if you didn't have them, now it's just flipped. One of my favorite lines is, "God, if I was just born five years later, I would have been so cool!" It was a really funny development in my mind. I had an all right high school [experience], even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again. Jenko's character is like, "We'll breeze right through this. We've got the almanac. We already know what this is going to be like."
HILL: And I finally got a Back to the Future II reference in a movie. I was so happy about that. He talks about how we have the almanac in this situation.
TATUM: I was a huge fan of the TV show. I think it came on right before an old TV show, Friday the Thirteenth about a haunted antique store, where, like, a teacup would kill people. Me and my sister would never miss those two shows.
What about some of the action that you guys had to do? Was the prom scene worse than the action scenes?
TATUM: The prom scene was only worse because we had to shoot nights. It was almost our longest day of shooting. Sixteen hours. It was fine, it was fun. We didn't have to do any awkward dancing.
That was the next question.
HILL: Action is new for me, obviously. This is my first big action movie. Chan is amazing at all of that stuff, and was so helpful. I think it's cool that for the comedy stuff, I would be helpful with telling him what I knew from my experiences, and with the action stuff—I would not have been able to do it without him. Even though my character is supposed to be bad at it. It was just a totally different type of filmmaking experience. When you say, "What's harder: the prom or the action stuff?" I think what's cool about the movie is that everything that's in high school melds the cop action together. Everything is kind of infused with everything else. Every normal high school set piece has action in it, and every action set piece has high school emotions and feelings. That's kind of the whole goal of the movie. They do intertwine. Whenever we get too caught up in one thing, the other comes in.
I feel like I need to redeem myself.
HILL: I'm sorry, are you still here? I'm just kidding. But seriously, you should leave. I'm just joking! Come on, that's our rapport! That's our witty rapport!
This is all going to be on the tape!
HILL: I know. They're not going to be able to see us all laughing and smiling. It's just going to be, "Hills Asks Journalist to Seriously Leave the Room: Silence for the Next Forty-Five Minutes. Throws a Cup of a Coffee in Channing's Face."
Forget it, man.
HILL: To answer your question, I am the Drew Barrymore.
You guys are both producers of the film. How does that role intertwine with your acting? Do you have to wear different hats when you're on the set?
TATUM: Between Jonah and I, we've been on a lot of sets now. I've done this for seven or eight years now. I'm not sure how long you've done it.
HILL: Ninety-one years.
TATUM: Ninety-one, there it is. With this being Chris and Phil's first live action movie, we can help out on how to run a set. Even blocking a scene and not having the entire crew around. It's quiet, we can work it out, and not have the pressure of bouncing stuff off each other with forty-five people sitting around waiting and watching us. Even knowing those little things helps a set run smoother.
HILL: I'll say that Chan helps a tremendous amount with them as well in the action sequences. He's done a million of those. Phil and Chris and I have not done those. That is a tremendous producerial help in making those feel real and cool and big and huge and awesome. My producing this is, I'm a writer.
TATUM: Yeah, you're a writer, but you also know how comedy plays. I just learned that comedy played on a two shot. I had no idea of that before. That's like a rule, or an urban legend, or whatever you want to call it.
HILL: In a buddy comedy, you want most of the bigger jokes to show both of our expressions at the exact same time.
TATUM: The timing, how you shoot it. It's definitely a good pairing. And Neal [Moritz] has done a ton of these types of films. It's a good mix of ability.
HILL: It's a potpourri of weirdoes.
Jonah, as an actor, you have to play a cop, playing a high school student, playing Peter Pan. With all those layers of performance, do you ever get lost?
HILL: I lose myself. I went full Donnie Brasco. I was like Daniel Day-Lewis. I actually became Peter Pan for three years leading up to this movie. I went and lived in Neverland and had a pretty horrible enemy in Captain Hook. He is what you imagine him to be. He's a god-awful man. With the Peter Pan thing, I don't want to give too much away. I think that'll be in the first trailer. It's one of the first set pieces we thought of: that my character should be in a play, and in the middle of the play, while in some ridiculous costume, [there's] an action sequence. I'd have to be in what would normally be a cool-looking action sequence, but I'm dressed as Peter Pan and I look ridiculous. Again, this is a comedy. It has a lot of cool action, but it's a comedy. Things like that are just crazy fun.
The bad guys, or the cool kids in this movie are kind of atypical. They're not into sports, or that kind of stuff. What prompted this sort of choice as opposed to maybe making this more conventionally a high school movie?
HILL: Because you just used the term "conventional high school movie." The 80s bully would be like Billy Zabka from The Karate Kid. Or just the super-handsome tough dudes and the nerds of Saved by the Bell with suspenders and glasses. I feel like every generation feels out of touch with the generation after them. When I was in high school, I remember my parents saying, "The kids are different now," and I was like, "That's crazy. That'll never happen to me." And now when I meet people who are sixteen, I'm like, "Man, it was so different when I was in high school to the way it is now." I think we just wanted it to be the opposite of the way it was when we went to school. In doing research, we found out that it is really cool to be into the environment, and to be more thoughtful. It was also really important in casting a guy like Chan, and myself together, that we want to play on your expectations. The expectation was that Chan would go back and be the coolest guy in school, and I'd be more of an outcast. We wanted to flip it and do the exact opposite. I think that's one of the best decisions we've made on this movie.
What made you want to be a producer on this project?
TATUM: I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in Dear John, I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like a put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good. I felt like I had a more personal relationship to the film. I made that decision that I wanted to take control, and grow, and get better, and not just sign up for a part and show up on day one. You can always go deeper and put more of yourself and more effort in. The audience deserves it.
Does the studio approach you? Do you approach them?
TATUM: It comes in all different shapes and sizes. Sometimes you take it to them. Sometimes you sign onto a movie like this and they were gracious enough to come on as a co-executive producer. That was just me wanting to start to do that and to help protect the film.
What's it been like working with Phil and Chris? What do they bring to this in addition to what's in the script?
TATUM: They come from the art world. They have a really good eye. I haven't seen a comedy that is really this beautiful. The perspective they take is not just, "Where's the comedy? Let's go for that." They really do want it to look awesome and feel kinetic. They zero in and pinpoint the comedy. I think they work really well together. Chris is more of the technical guy, and deals with the camera and that side of things, and Phil comes to us and we spit things off the cuff, trying to come up with different things for different takes.
I'm interested in the description "beautiful." Can you think of an example of a scene where you thought, "This is going to be gorgeous"?
HILL: Jump Street. And Pete Wenham, our production designer, is sick.
TATUM: Unreal. It's this old Korean church. There's a Jesus, and it's blue behind him, and there's clouds. It looks like a cartoon. It's really sculpted.
HILL: I would use the term "aesthetics."
TATUM: And the car chase. It's not just running. It's beautiful sun gleaming. Darius killed it in this movie.
HILL: And the colors of our costumes.
TATUM: They really put a lot of thought in.
What similarities would you say there are between this and Green Hornet, another Neal Moritz movie?
HILL: I wouldn't compare it to Green Hornet in any way, besides [the fact that] my friends made the movie. Aside from my friendship with Seth and Evan and Neal and Johnny, our first AD, I wouldn't give any comparison to the two. One's a superhero movie and one's a throwback 80s action buddy cop comedy and high school comedy. When I talk to sixteen year-olds, they don't know what 21 Jump Street is. When they say, "What's that about?" I say, "It's about young looking cops going back to high school," they say, "I'd see that!" That's the way I look at the project as a whole. If you have seen it, you have nostalgia for it. But if you haven't, it's such a cool idea to get to experience high school again.
TATUM: You can go nuts. There's no pressure. We don't have to get good grades. But then, all of a sudden, we sort of want to get good grades and be popular. You fall into those traps.
What's the timeframe for the film?
TATUM: I think it's like the last two months of school when we transfer in.
HILL: Yeah. There's like ninety days left, or something.
We talked to Brie [Larson] earlier. Can you enlighten us on the spark between your character and her character, and your love story?
TATUM: She's a pro football player.
HILL: That's basically it. It'd just be icing, anything I said now. Brie plays Molly, a girl who goes to the high school. Once I infiltrate the cool kids and become part of the popular crowd, she's a part of that group, and her and I hit it off. Without giving too much away, it's kind of a struggle, because I'm twenty-five years old and she's…
HILL: Yeah. And there's a lot of hilarious debate on our part—
TATUM: To Catch a Predator type shit.
HILL: Yeah. On how far the relationship's allowed to go. But it's very sweet, and we do kind of grow feelings for one another. It's kind of a sweet, high school puppy love type of thing. But it's very much forbidden because I'm lying and pretending to be eighteen or seventeen, and am actually an adult police officer.
You talk about the audience's potential sense of nostalgia. Do you see this as something that you came into, and said, "I'm just going to take the name of something," or do you have any particular affection for the show that you wanted to incorporate?
HILL: Yeah. I got to spend time with Steven Cannell, who was a great guy, and will be missed dearly, may he rest in peace. I respect him a crazy amount, if you look at what he's done. He's such an impressive, nice man. I really did like the show. I've seen every episode a hundred times at this point. But it wasn't a pressure to make it feel like the show. I just loved the idea, like I said originally. That's what gravitated me towards telling the story. The story is getting to relive a really important time of your life, and trying to resurrect those mistakes, and having the same feelings even years later. That's all I really care about. And we did throw in a lot of winks to the show in the movie. Certain cameos or locations, things like that. Other than that, the only thing I feel a responsibility to do is tell a great story along the lines that I described to you.
Do either of you guys have a favorite character or episode from the show?
TATUM: There was an episode where Johnny wore a turban. I don't remember what he was doing or who he was trying to be like. But he actually had a turban, with a jewel in the middle.
HILL: The show gets very crazy. I'm just going to throw that out there.
TATUM: They might have been older than we are in doing this.
HILL: There's a lot of stuff that plays odd now within the actual show. But we're not spoofing it. We have a respect for the show. The idea of what that show was is what we all loved.
You mentioned that the headquarters of 21 Jump Street was in a church. I remember the church from the old one. Does it look anything like that?
HILL: You're just going to have to see.
TATUM: I'll say no, I don't think so.
HILL: We had a different spin on what kind of church it was.
Is there a fire pole?
HILL: I don't think there was a fire pole.
TATUM: There might be a stripper pole.
HILL: In my trailer.
I want to ask you guys about hip-hop. I know that Ice Cube is in this movie. And you were also in Get Him to the Greek with Diddy. What's it like working with hip hop artists? Do you guys like rap music?
TATUM: I love rap.
HILL: Me too. I'm a big hip hop fan.
TATUM: Huge Ice Cube fan.
HILL: I'm like the biggest Ice Cube fan.
Is that why he's in this movie?
HILL: It is. When Mike Bacall and I sat down the first time we met about the movie, we talked about the stereotype of the angry black captain in every 80s cop movie and why we found that funny, and how we were going to make it different. We talked about someone being aware of that stereotype. That would be funny if the person who was our captain was African American and was aware of that stereotype and couldn't shake it, but didn't care. We were like, "Ice Cube is the only person who can play this part." It was the first time we even talked about there being a movie. We thought it would be great having the guy who wrote "Fuck the Police" play a police captain. I've worked with Diddy. I'm a massive hip hop fan. I grew up in the 80s in LA, so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes. It was cool. He told us all NWA stories.
TATUM: I just shut up and listened to this guy.
HILL: Three Kings, Friday, all that stuff. That guy's had an epic career. It was so cool that he did this.
TATUM: That guy's such a professional, man. He knew his lines, he had a lot of heavy lifting in the movie. He came in and nailed it every time.
Are any of you gentleman shirtless in the movie?
HILL: I'm in a track uniform. I'm assuming that question is aimed more at Channing by your salivation and leaping out of your chair.
For more coverage from the set:
- 21 Things to Know About 21 JUMP STREET from Our Set Visit
- Dave Franco 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview
- Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview
- Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview
- Producer Neal Moritz 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview


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Deism is the combination of the intuition of the transcendence of God and the belief that God cannot, or, at least, does not, interact with, nor otherwise involve Himself in, the Creation. Deism is contrasted with pantheism, in that pantheism is the combination of belief in an omnipresent Creator God and the belief that God's omnipresence implies that God is the Creation.
In its mildest form, Deism is nearly equivalent to a belief that no one can truly know whether there is a God or not (agnosticism). In its strongest form, Deism is a systematic religion of rejecting all claims to a personal, or otherwise involved, God, in that God is supposed incapable, by His transcendence, of any kind of interaction with the Creation.
In its typical modern form, deism is anti-Christian, as it denies the divinity of Jesus Christ, rejects the Bible (and all other texts) as God's scripture, and denies his signs and miracles to men. It lacks any coherent morality, and is an excuse to claim to be religious while engaging in immoral activity. Thus it is a favorite of liberals who do not want to be branded with atheism.
Deism is also only a short step away from atheism, and deistic beliefs often create a slippery slope to atheism[Citation Needed]. This is a common tactic of atheist evangelists: first convince a Christian that God has left the world alone, and then deny the necessity of God. Atheism and Deism are, for the most part, morally and cosmologically equivalent, given God's presumed inaction of any moral and cosmological revelation, an exception being that Atheism more easily permits worship of man by man while Deism holds that God is greater than man.
In ancient times, Aristotle was a deist as is evident from his arguments for a prime mover in his writing, Metaphysics. Even though the word deism was not yet coined, he still believed what deists believe: that God exists and is knowable through natural reason. [1]
The founder of the offshoot of that found a place in England during the Reformation and reached the colonies was Lord Herbert of Cherbury. [2] He came up with 5 essentials of Deism which are "(1) a belief in the existence of the Deity, (2) the obligation to reverence such a power, (3) the identification of worship with practical morality, (4) the obligation to repent of sin and to abandon it, and, (5) divine recompense in this world and the next"[3]. This was a rather odd variant mixing in many Christian virtues without Jesus, and rather foreign to traditional Deism.
Dictionaries' definitions of deism include:
- The belief, based solely on reason, in a
- "a movement or system of thought advocating natural religion, emphasizing morality, and in the 18th century denying the interference of the Creator with the laws of the universe."[4]
The first definition refers to a conception of God sometimes called the deus otiosus.
The Catholic Church would denounce Deism as a Heresy in the 1500s, for its rejection of the divinity of Jesus Christ, the importance of the church, and eschewing the idea of Divine Intervention. While Lord Herbert would found the movement, by the 1800s his arguments were largely demolished by the philosopher Locke and his deconstruction of the concept of an 'Innate Truth'(Upon which much of Herbert's views on Deism were founded).
Matthew Tindal is generally credited with the modern incarnation of Deism and that practiced by the Founding Fathers who were Deists. "God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason."
Deism would enjoy a brief rise in the Western world through the 1800s, but by the early 20th century, it was on the decline. The Unitarian movement would absorb most of its teachings and eventually produce the Unitarian Universalists. Deism today is a mixed bag without dogma or teachings beyond the idea that one should employ Reason to understand the universe. As a result, Deists who believe in Divine Intervention, Intelligent Design, and many other ideas that would have been alien to the earlier Deists are now around.
Deism and the Founding Fathers
While almost all of the Founding Fathers were devout Christians[Citation Needed], some it is believed were deists, at least according to some definitions of the term.
A famous deist in early American history was the Englishman Thomas Paine, who espoused deism and popularized the term in his book The Age of Reason. It is believed this had an influence on deism in the colonies. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography about an earlier period in his life,
Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
FranklinFranklin later repudiated many of his earlier views and he believed in a God that "ought to be worshiped," and at the Constitutional Convention less than three years from his death Benjamin Franklin advocated public prayer. He praised Christianity, but his letter to Ezra Stiles a month before his death was noncommittal as to the divinity of Jesus:
"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and His Religion as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see.. I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubt as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I need not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect Soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble. I see no harm in its being believed, if that belief has good consequences, as probably it has, of making his Doctrines more respected and better observed."
- "Washington cannot be called a Deist — at least, not in a sense that excludes his being Christian. Although he did most often address God in the proper names a Deist might use — such as "Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be" and "Disposer of all human events" — the actions that Washington expected God to perform, as expressed both in his official public prayers (whether as general or as president) and in his private prayers as recorded, are the sorts of actions only the God of the Bible performs: interposing his actions in human events, forgiving sins, enlightening minds, bringing good harvests, intervening on behalf of one party in a struggle between good and evil (in this case, between liberty and the deprivation of liberty), etc." [1]
Modern Deism
Modernly, as noted above, Deism has both declined and fractured, with some of its original ideas being adopted as part of "new age" movements. Variations of Deism that have developed or been proposed include Pandeism (enunciated in the 1850s, and merging Deism with Pantheism, the idea that God is equal to the Universe); Polydeism (merging Deism with polytheism, proposing that multiple Gods created then abandoned the Universe); and Panendeism (merging Deism with the 1830s idea of Panentheism, that the Universe was part of God, but was also transcended by God). None of these offshoots has garnered a significant following relative to organized religions, although it should be noted that many strains of Hinduism are in fact Pandeism.
70 Years of Miracles Account
There is a book by Richard H. Harvey, entitled "70 Years of Miracles." In it Harvey relates his experience in a Chemistry class at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania in the 1920's.
According to Harvey, his professor Dr. Lee was a deist who for many years had spent time with each freshman class lecturing against prayer. After a couple of sessions discussing the power of natural laws and the lack of evidence that any god interferes with those laws, Lee would announce that he would drop a flask to the floor and challenged anyone to pray that the flask would remain whole.
Harvey then related that one year, a student finally found the courage to stand up and volunteer to pray. Lee dropped the flask and it rolled off his shoe to the floor without damage. The class cheered and Lee no longer delivered his annual lectures against prayer. fair use
- ↑ http://www.logicmuseum.com/ontological/aristotleontological.htm
- ↑ http://www.theologicalstudies.org/what_is_deism.html
- ↑ http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deismeng.htm
- ↑ Merriam-Webster online: deism
See Also
External links
- An Account of the Growth of Deism in England by William Stephens.
- America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln, Mark A. Noll, 3rd Ed.,Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0195151119, 9780195151114


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After slow winter, Baltimore committed to winning now after deal for righty
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Maybe they were made and meant for each other, this Draft-pick-pestered pitcher and this franchise frustrated by what had been a fruitless starting pitching pursuit.
They met, officially, at an Ed Smith Stadium news conference Thursday, when executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette draped Ubaldo Jimenez in Orioles orange and welcomed him to the top of the rotation. And thus, with new ink on the contracts for "The Big U" and, earlier in the week, Suk-min Yoon, the thaw finally arrived for the O's, much like the 40-degree temps melting the snow and ice back in Baltimore.
"It took a lot of patience by the fans and a lot of patience by us to add veteran starting pitchers," Duquette said. "Every starting pitcher that we were in on, there were four or five other clubs also in on that pitcher, actively trying to sign him with good offers."
Fans took notice, that's for sure. And whether they'd admit it or not, the players also had to feel a bit of uncertainty as to whether enough had been done this winter to improve the bottom line. That's why manager Buck Showalter was so encouraged with what he saw in Thursday's workout, which he said was one of the best the Orioles have had since he's been here.
"When you've been in locker rooms for a long time, you sort of know what you're talking about," Showalter said. "You walk through a locker room any time during the season, you know when you've got it going on. It's just a feeling."
So now it's good feelings for a club surprisingly stagnant in the winter months.
Duquette made the point that if Jimenez, who got four years and $50 million, and Yoon, who got three years and $5.75 million, had been signed in November to these same deals, the O's would have been applauded for aggressively addressing a starting staff that was among the worst in the league last season. And that's probably true.
But perception is reality, and the reality is that the Orioles slogged through a winter in which efforts to maximize their window of contention -- a window made potentially problematic by the looming free-agent eligibility of J.J. Hardy and Nick Markakis at season's end, and Chris Davis and Matt Wieters at the end of 2015 -- were minimal.
In Jimenez, in particular, Baltimore took the best of what was left around, because, when compared to Ervin Santana, he does have better peak performance in his rearview mirror and none of the pesky questions about his elbow condition.
Of course, the O's paid handsomely for the privilege, especially in surrendering the No. 17 overall Draft selection (and losing the accompanying pool money) and breaking an organizational code of conduct in giving a pitcher a four-year guarantee. Sure, it's a steal if Ubaldo can sustain anything resembling his second half of 2013, when his 1.82 ERA was better than that of any starter not named Clayton Kershaw ... but can he?
"I think it's very sustainable for him," said Mickey Callaway, the Indians' pitching coach and the man credited with navigating U's turn. "As long as he takes that approach of, 'I'm going to throw the ball over the plate.'"
Sounds simple. Isn't simple.
Not for a guy with a complicated tomahawk-chop delivery that proves difficult to repeat if a physical imperfection presents itself. In 2012, it was a right ankle injury, and Jimenez was all but unwatchable for much of that season, posting a 5.40 ERA that was the third-highest among qualifiers.
The Orioles will harp on the fact that a lack of arm issues over the years has allowed Jimenez to make at least 31 starts in each of the last six seasons. But the quality of those starts has varied between two extremes.
If we're simplistic about Jimenez's career, we can say he's had two astounding half-seasons (in 2010 and '13) and the rest is, well, not exactly worth $50 million.
"All that time in between the first half of 2010 and second half of 2013, for whatever reason, injuries or a sore groin, he became a different guy, as far as how hard he was throwing," Callaway said. "He thought he had to adjust, and he stopped throwing the ball over the plate because he wasn't throwing 100 [mph] anymore. He thought he had to try to be more like Greg Maddux, but he's not that type of pitcher."
None of us are smart enough to know what type of pitcher Jimenez will be for the next four years, and the Indians -- even with a rotation need -- showed no interest in retaining him on anything other than a one-year deal, which is telling of either their finances or their faith.
For the O's, however, there is tremendous import placed upon the now, because opportunities to field a championship-caliber club in the American League East are not to be taken for granted. And while they feel confident that Kevin Gausman can help them this season and Dylan Bundy can make an impact sometime in the second half, the starting status quo made them uncomfortable.
The Orioles understand there could be nights, in a division loaded with patient lineups, that Jimenez reaches 100 pitches in the fourth inning (only three qualifiers used more pitches per inning than Jimenez last season), and they know the "robbing Peter to pay Paul" problem that could arise if they try to alter his mechanics to get him quicker to the plate and better control the running game.
For now, they're going to let Ubaldo be Ubaldo and hope the lesson of last year sticks and that osmosis sets in once he's settled into an organization that places heavy emphasis on all facets of the defensive effort.
Jimenez feels confident that new pitching coach Dave Wallace (who helped develop Ubaldo's idol, Pedro Martinez) can help him maintain the mindset that Callaway instilled last summer.
"I have to command the strike zone, make them swing the bat," Jimenez said. "Not getting myself out of the game throwing balls and fighting behind in the count. That's something I was able to do in the second half last season, and I'm looking forward to doing it once the season starts."
Suddenly, the O's have a lot more to look forward to. In Jimenez and Yoon, a back-of-the-rotation type who could potentially slide into the bullpen, they don't have sure things, but they do have improved depth in a division that requires it. Furthermore, Manny Machado's progress in his return from knee surgery has been perhaps the most encouraging element of these early days of camp. All signs point to him being back in the lineup in April, if not Opening Day.
"My biggest goal with him this year is not to have any setbacks," Showalter said. "I don't want to hear about him being ahead or behind schedule. When he's there, he's there, and he's worth waiting on to be right. I don't want him to have any doubt in his mind that he's ready."
What the Orioles have done this week is remove a good deal of the doubt about their readiness to contend this season. But the prevailing wisdom about forking over Draft picks is that once you've given up a first-rounder, you might as well surrender a second if there's still talent to be had, and it's no secret the O's could benefit from a DH bat such as Nelson Cruz or Kendrys Morales.
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Jesse Jackson Jr. taken down by his love of expensive items
CHICAGO -- For all the talk of Jesse Jackson Jr. aspiring to be a U.S. senator or mayor of the nation's third-largest city, his career wasn't ended by attempts to amass political power.
Instead, it was the former congressman's desire for flashy items -- a gold-plated Rolex watch, furs and collectibles, such as Eddie Van Halen's guitar.
In a state where stop-at-nothing political ambition has been well documented -- and often rewarded -- the seemingly frivolous cause of Jackson's undoing is seen by political observers and former colleagues as both nonsensical and sad.
"When you have a magic name like that, he was in position, waiting for the gun to go off, for mayor, the Senate ... he was playing with the big guys," said Paul Green, a longtime political scientist at Roosevelt University in Chicago who moderated Jackson's first congressional campaign debate. "To go down for this, you just feel sad."
Federal prosecutors on Friday charged Jackson Jr. with one count of conspiracy for allegedly spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal expenses. The Chicago Democrat's wife, former alderman Sandra Jackson, was charged with one count of filing false joint federal income tax returns.
Authorities say the returns, for the years 2006 through 2011, knowingly understated the income the couple received.
Both agreed to plead guilty in deals with federal prosecutors. Their sentencing dates have not been set, but the charges both carry possible sentences of several years in prison. Jackson Jr. also could be ordered to repay thousands of dollars in fines and forfeitures.
While former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich went to prison because he tried to trade President Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat for a more prestigious job or millions in campaign donations, Jackson could go to prison for, in part, buying memorabilia tied to martial arts movie star Bruce Lee.
The son of a civil rights icon, Jackson represented Illinois' 2nd District, which includes part of Chicago's South Side and south suburbs, for 17 years. He was wildly popular in his heavily Democratic district, consistently winning elections with more than 80 percent of the vote.
Jackson served as national co-chair of Obama's presidential campaign in 2008 and had his eyes on becoming mayor or a senator. But those hopes were dashed when his name surfaced as part of the Blagojevich corruption investigation and with revelations that Jackson had been involved in an extramarital affair.
Jackson denied any wrongdoing in the Blagojevich matter, which involved unproven allegations that he was involved in discussions to raise campaign funds in exchange for being appointed to Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat.
Suddenly last summer, Jackson disappeared from public view for several weeks. His staff eventually revealed he was being treated for bipolar disorder and other medical issues.
When Jackson resigned from office in November, he cited his bipolar disorder and acknowledged he also was under federal investigation. Sandi Jackson resigned from her Chicago alderman seat in January.
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, who represents a neighboring district and visited Jackson Jr. shortly after his release from treatment at the Mayo Clinic, said the charges against the Jacksons "couldn't be more unfortunate."
"I think things probably just got out of hand for them and they got involved in making decisions that just didn't make a lot of good sense," Davis said.
Davis wondered whether the long list of luxury purchases mentioned in the federal criminal complaint were "an indication that his bipolar condition kind of was manifesting itself even then."
If so, he said, it's unfair to compare this situation to other Illinois corruption.
"It's hard to rationalize it," Davis said. "Not all elected officials in Illinois are corrupt or building any kind of political dynasty or trying to develop political power. Most individuals elected to public office are citizens who want to make the most effective use of themselves and make this world a better place in which to live."
Delmarie Cobb, a Chicago political consultant who worked on Jackson Jr.'s first campaign and was an aide to his father when he ran for president in 1988, said Saturday she was "absolutely astonished" by the news. She, too, believes Jackson Jr.'s actions were triggered by his bipolar disorder.
"It is just not the Jesse Jr. I knew," said Cobb, who's known Jackson Jr. since he was a senior in college and was present when he met Sandi.
"It's a very sad ending for everybody."
Associated Press writers Don Babwin and Tammy Webber contributed to this report.
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The ingredients were all there for wild and frothing beakers to report on the Knicks game last night: A Friday night. A terrible opponent. One superstar is introduced to an otherwise stable (for the Knicks, anyway) environment, with basically nothing at stake. And, of course, weeks worth of wondering aloud if such an outcome would occur. The tabs brought their own dry ice and water to this class.
Stoudemire has been getting the same questions about team chemistry and the role of two "alpha scorers" and has a more than reasonable response.
"When Mike took over when I was on the court, our record was 6-1,'' Stoudemire said. "I don't see what the big deal is. We'll get back to doing what we did before. We were 6-1 with me, Carmelo and the full team with Woodson taking over. We'll get back to that.''
Then the Knicks went out and dropped a stinker against the Cavaliers. Since everything must always have a meaning, even meaningless late season games against an inferior opponent, the lose is directly attributable to the return of Amar'e Stoudemire and the subsequent wilting of Carmelo Anthony.
Stoudemire's teammates seemed unexcited to see him on the court and interim coach Mike Woodson ripped the team afterward, saying they "didn't compete and that's unacceptable'' and felt they were complacent after clinching a playoff berth the night before.
Stupid unexcited teammates. Amar'e's back! You're playing the Cavs. If you can't get un-unexcited for that, you're doing it wrong, guys.
As feared, Anthony looked disengaged with the new alignment and finished with a paltry 12 points (5-of-13 from the field) and four turnovers. Woodson didn't play him in the fourth quarter when the Knicks fell behind by 19 points with 9:03 left.
Ho.ly. Shit. Cancel the parade and forget the ticker tape. As we all feared, our subjective assumptions were confirmed. Carmelo "looked" "disengaged." Nevermind that Carmelo flatly denied the chemistry issues. The problem is, how can you believe him at this point? His answer is as predictable as the stupid question. He was ready for it since it was announced Stoudemire was returning. So, instead of some kind of reasoned analysis of a single game at the end of the season, we get a storyline that has been in the queue for weeks—that everyone knows about, players included—that comes to fruition in the form of a single game at the end of the season. Everything writes itself. The questions, the answers, the headlines and story.
We get it, Carmelo had been scoring a lot in Amare's absence, and now, in this one game, he scored a "paltry" amount. Sounds pretty bad, but then you, reasonable reader, remember there was one extra person playing that had not been playing before and Carmelo basically did not play in the fourth quarter. You also remember that the game meant largely nothing (other than a potential change in seeding) to the Knicks, that Amar'e Stoudemire was playing in his first game in weeks and that it was, you know, one game.
Stoudemire 'pain-free,' says Knicks chemistry will not be issue [NY Post]
Knicks, Amar'e take step back in loss to Cleveland [NY Post]


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Felix Zulauf's Yen for Japan
The hedge fund manager explains to Barron's Online why he expects Japanese stocks to climb - and why investors need to tread carefully to avoid getting tripped up by currency devaluation.
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The Brunch Dish: Rolling in Dough at Endgrain
Reviews of brunch dishes.
Endgrain is one of the heartiest, most comforting restaurants to open in Chicago in a long time. The new Roscoe Village restaurant is sort of a soulful middle finger to the Atkins legacy. As its name implies, the restaurant treads heavily in grain, with almost everything on the brunch menu relying on dough of some sort. Don't come here on a diet and don't shy away from the grain, because that's where chef Enoch Simpson shines. Just as an artist uses a blank canvas as his or her medium, Simpson uses grain as a launching pad for a plethora of palate-pleasing flavors sure to wake you up in the a.m.
Simpson is a bit of a doughnut superstar. The man can rightfully be credited with starting the doughnut craze in Chicago when he added doughnuts to the brunch menu at Nightwood years ago. The doughnuts quickly garnered a cult following and despite leaving Nightwood, the name Enoch Simpson became synonymous with doughnut supremacy. In terms of doughnuts, the opening of Endgrain feels like one of Cher's comeback concerts, and Simpson's doughnuts ($3 each) are once again in the spotlight they deserve to hold. Don't start brunch here without ordering one or two (or all of them). Although smaller and more humble-looking than most overwrought doughnuts in town, Endgrain's doughnuts taste more complex and composed. The peaches and cream doughnut sings of summer, lush with juicy stone fruit flavor, enriched with milky undertones. The chocolate malt doughnut packs a punch of intense malty flavor, like a whole box of Milk Duds condensed into one fudgy doughnut. Paired perfectly with La Colombe coffee, these things are the stuff of dunkable dreams.
It's difficult to decide which doughy delicacies to try next. But if you see something on a menu called braised pork hand pie, ($9) you should shut up and order it. The name is a bit of a misnomer, unless your hand is the size of a giant's, as this is definitely a knife-and-fork dish. Almost the size of an actual pie, this thing is all about the flaky, fatty crust, shaped like a galette around a hearty filling of pork, potatoes, and soybean sprout kimchi. The medley is mildly spicy and potent, with toothsome knobs of pork and potatoes dancing together like the most divine hash. The kimchi brings an invigorating punch in the mouth to the morning meal.
Aside from doughnuts, the other carb star of Endgrain's menu is the biscuits. Crucify me for saying so, but I'll venture to say that the biscuits are better than the doughnuts. Fluffy, firm, creamy, and downright decadent, they're the perfect vehicle for Endgrain's biscuit sandwiches. Because life's too short not to follow doughnuts with fried chicken-stuffed biscuits. Or it will be once you polish off a meal here. My favorite is the fried chicken sandwich ($12), striated with smoked mashed potatoes, pork gravy, and greens on a hulking split biscuit. It sounds like something KFC would shove down naive customers' throats, but in this case it tastes so right in the most gluttonous of ways. If it makes it easier to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards, just think of it as reconfigured biscuits and gravy... with perfectly fried strips of chicken. For something mildly less crippling, go for the trout sandwich ($11). This one stars a marbled rye biscuit and ample flakes of smoky trout. Topped with slaw, tomato rémoulade, and Gruyère, it's more delicate than the aforementioned deep-fried sucker punch, but not by much.
When dining at Endgrain, you must go in knowing that you will succumb to the most decadent of food comas. There really isn't way to go light here, and attempting to do so is missing the point and missing out on Simpson's obvious affinity for soul-soothing, life-shortening, delectably doughy comfort food.
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07 February 2010
Who's Who the Terrorist Edition: Doku Umarov
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What exactly are his motivations? I'm presuming he wants to establish Islamic rule in the region but is he an 'international jihad' type terrorist or a 'nationalist' type?ReplyDelete
My assessment; Doku is definitely a nationalist. The Caucus Emirate's focus is predominately directed toward Russian security forces, but they are possibly shifting focus against soft targets in the Russian interior. Read his interview linked under employer, it provides an interesting look into Doku's rhetoric. He is quick to distance himself from any goal to establish a global caliphate, yet his fighters participate in direct combat on every major terror front.ReplyDelete
Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi wrote a letter to the Caucasus "mujahideen" last year in which he warned them against adopting nationalism. It would be interesting to examine Umarov's thought in comparison with the other senior umara' who guide the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2010 at 2:23 PM
Umarov appears to be someone to keep an eye on.ReplyDelete
He expressed interest in pursuing a strategy of industrial sabotage (systems disruption) against oil and gas pipelines.
Also, Umarov has been linked to multiple company-sized raids (notable a 2004 attack in Nazran, Ingushetia).


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7 Steps to Ethical Leadership
The key to having an ethically run company is employing morally upstanding leaders, a new book suggests.
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In her new book "7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership (Leading in Context, 2013)," author Linda Fisher Thornton says getting employees to act ethically in the workplace starts at the top.
"It begins with ethical leadership," Thornton said. "Ethical leaders have a tremendous impact on how people in their organizations behave and what they achieve."
Thornton believes that those who succeed in leading ethically not only improve their business and culture, but also help make a difference in the world.
"Effective leaders focus on what's right and exemplify to their people that they are there to help, and not to exploit the vulnerabilities of others," she said. "Their organizations typically respond to their example and their desire to serve others and make a positive difference."
In her book, Thornton offers practical advice on the most important actions leaders can take to integrate ethical conduct into their organizations, including:
- Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices: Openly discuss the ethical gray areas and acknowledge the complexity of work life. Involve others in more of the ethical decisions. Be a leader who talks about the difficult ethical choices, and help others learn to take responsibility for making ethical decisions carefully.
- Don't separate ethics from day-to-day business: Leaders must make it clear to their employees that ethics is "the way we operate" and not a training program or reference manual. Every activity, whether it is a training program, a client meeting or an important top management strategy session, should include conversations about ethics.
- Don't allow negative interpersonal behaviors to erode trust: Make respect a load-bearing beam in your culture. Be an ethical leader who expects it and practices it. Cultivate a respectful environment in which people can speak up about ethics and share the responsibility for living it. Build trust, demand open communication and share the ownership of organizational values.
- Don't think about ethics as just following laws and regulations: Leaders need to take action and show consumers and other stakeholders that they are actively engaged with ethical issues that matter. Recognize how ethics influences consumers' reasons to buy from you, and demonstrate a commitment to go beyond mere compliance with laws and regulations. They must prove that they are committed to ethical issues, including human rights, social justice and sustainability.
- Don't exempt anyone from meeting ethical expectations: Allow no excuses. Make sure that no one is exempted from meeting the ethical standards that are adopted. Maintain the status of ethics as a total, absolute, "must do" in the organization. Hold everyone, particularly senior leaders and high profile managers, accountable. No exceptions.
- Celebrate positive ethical moments: Be a proactive ethical leader, championing high ethical conduct and emphasizing prevention. Managers should talk about what positive ethics looks like in practice as often as they talk about what to avoid. Take time to celebrate positive ethical choices.
- Talk about ethics as an ongoing learning journey, not a once-a-year training program: Integrate ethics into every action of the organization — everything people do, touch or influence. Talk about ethics as an ongoing learning journey, not something you have or don't have. Recognize that the world changes constantly, and that ethical conduct requires that everyone remain vigilant.
A former bank senior vice resident and chief learning officer, Thornton runs her own leadership consulting practice and teaches as an adjunct assistant professor for the University of Richmond School of Professional and Continuing Studies.
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I am really lucky to have a friend who has taught me an awful lot about journaling. D.Price is the author of a wonderful zine called
Moonlight Chronicles (subscribe and you will be very happy) and he and I have been sharing our work for years. We copy the pages from our journals and send them to each other and, whenever possible, we get together for journaling trips in different parts of the country.
It's a great experience to sit down and create a page in your journal, chronicling your current experience and then share it with a trusted friend who is doing the same thing at the same moment. Sometimes, when we share the same vantage point, the same size Moleskines and and the same paint box, Dan and I discover our pages are very similar.
But when we really take our times, we see things quite differently. I tend to see light and shade, whereas Dan tends to focus on shapes. I can get quite lost in a muddy mess of paints or crosshatching and his colors are bright and sharp. Our writing is quite different too. I'm the City Mouse, he's the Country Mouse and we are impressed by very different stuff.
When we are done, we swap books and discuss why we did what we did. It's a great way to learn and grow.
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I am really lucky to have a friend who has taught me an awful lot about journaling. D.Price is the author of a wonderful zine called