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Jimmy's Story—Jimmy Weber moved to the Sioux City area in 1998 to assume responsibilities as a pastor. In January 2001, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This eventually led to his quitting work and going on SSDI. Jimmy signed up for a Living Well with a Disability class offered through the Three Rivers Independent Living Corporation in Sioux City. He credits that decision for having changed his life. Although Jimmy feels that the course curriculum is excellent, he says that the best thing about Living Well was the chance to meet other people with disabilities and to feel "normal." He regained the confidence to be himself around others. He learned to use public transit. He says that "nuggets" such as the goal-setting tips sprinkled throughout the Living Well curriculum gave him a boost.
A woman with cerebral palsy experienced depression so severe that when I called her for the session she declined. She did say that I could keep her on the list, and eventually signed up for the May 2002 session. She now credits Living Well for helping her improve her depression. She attended every class, and at the next to last class, suggested that the class form a peer support group to continue their work. With her help, a peer support group has formed and is still active in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Another woman with cerebral palsy was using a scooter that she had relied on for a number of years. Her goal was to be strong enough to walk again. She started taking food supplements which she credits as being one of the catalysts for her improved strength. By the fourth week of Living Well she was able to walk from the van drop-off point to the classroom using a walker, about 100 yards. By the end of Living Well she had also lost weight and reported feeling great.
The Living Well with a Disability (LWWD) program was co-developed by the University of Montana and the University of Kansas.


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The S&P 500 SPX, -1.91% retreated from its record closing level and ended the day less than a point lower at 1,877.18. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.02% fell more than 100 points at one point Monday but closed 34.04 points, or 0.2%, lower at 16,418.68.
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- Overview of the semantic phases
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Marpa::R2::NAIF::Semantics::Phases - Details of NAIF parse evaluation
Overview of the semantic phases
This document deals with Marpa's low-level NAIF interface. If you are new to Marpa, or are not sure which interface you are interested in, or do not know what the Named Argment InterFace (NAIF) is, you probably want to look instead at the document on semantics for the SLIF interface.
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An advanced document, this is written on the assumption that the more low-level NAIF interface is in use. The SLIF uses the same code as the NAIF for evaluation and works in the same way, except that it hides even more of these details from the user.
Parse trees, parse results and parse series
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Series Setup Phase
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|2012-03-21, 23:49
|Link #61
blinded by blood
I just ate ribeye steaks, pan-seared and cooked in butter and garlic, with a simple spinach salad with purple onions, parmesan cheese and an olive oil-Tabasco vinaigrette. It was amazing.
|2012-03-21, 23:50
|Link #62
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
I made that salad I talked about wanting to make. It was with dark greens, homemade vinaigrette (olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, black pepper, salt), and fresh cooked beets (with fresh cracked black pepper on it). It was good. That was last week. I had a salad again tonight. It was dark greens with a dressing made with just 1 part vegetable oil, 1 part regular olive oil, and 2 parts orange juice, and then it had cut up strawberries, cut up cantaloupe, and seedless red grapes. Was also good.
I'm trying to eat healthier, but tomorrow I'm making reubens.
|2012-03-22, 16:24
|Link #63
Blooming on the mountain
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light....
Well, I kinda got inspired and whipped up a late lunch for a fairly large group of people (about 20).
On the plate was: baba ganoush (a dish from the Middle East of eggplant/tahini patte with various flavors), mkhali (a dish from the country of Georgia of ground up beets and walnut combo with red wine vinegar and various flavors), a green salad with a Balkan tomato/cuke/onion salad drenched in vinegar and olive oil and various spices for about 6 hours before serving on top, rice-stuffed olive oil drenched grape leaves, and a veggie stir fry of mushroom/cabbage/carrot with shrimp mixed in.
It was absolutely DELICIOUS.
Man - I'm still full!
Oh yes - and had some simple home-made sugar cookies in the shape of lizards with green frosting on top for desert.
Don't ask....
|2012-03-22, 20:11
|Link #64
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
Didn't make the reubens, will make them tomorrow instead. Ended up having some rainbow trout (boneless filet) and brown rice cooked in chicken stock with some diced onion cooked with it. The trout had salt and pepper added before pan frying it, and then I put lemon juice on it at the table.
|2012-03-22, 21:43
|Link #67
blinded by blood
The usual vinaigrette recipes don't do it for me. Either they're too heavy or too vinegary--you just need acid, not necessarily balsamic or red-wine vinegar. And I like my greens to kick a little ass, so I came up with the Tabasco vinaigrette.
It's quite simple, like most vinaigrettes--just mix up a bit of olive oil, water, sea salt and lemon juice--less lemon than you might normally use, by the way--then add Tabasco sauce until the acidity is right. It's delicious on simple green salads, finished with parmesan.
|2012-03-22, 21:50
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Remember, no moe.
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Illinois, California
I will gladly accept an e-waffle!
Question for those that are working: how do you guys have the energy and/or time to make these meals after a mind-numbing day?
|2012-03-22, 22:12
|Link #69
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
Edit: Now that I think about it (and I should try a tabasco salad dressing on some dark greens with parmesan), maybe I should try the salad I mentioned, with ranch dressing, and then just coat the chicken in Frank's Red Hot Sauce and then drizzle some of that over the salad.
|2012-03-22, 23:07
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blinded by blood
I have a boatload of very simple recipes that require almost nothing in ingredient cost and preparation time. Most of them are quite healthy as well.
|2012-03-22, 23:12
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
|2012-03-22, 23:15
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|2012-03-22, 23:20
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
I have to start documenting some recipes. I started enhancing my cooking in the last four years and have tried a decent number of dishes and recipes for my first time in that time period. There are a lot of dishes and the like (like salsas) that I want to make, and every now and then I find another good idea that I want to try. It is like I have a backlog, like people have backlogs with anime and video games.
|2012-03-22, 23:30
|Link #74
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
My usual cooking method is to use a slow cooker. Everything that you throw into there becomes soft; as a result, I don't even cut up meat - just throw it in there, and when the cook cycle is done, the meat breaks apart fairly easily as you mix it around. I like my vegetables soft, so I just throw everything into the slow cooker at once and set it for an eight- or ten-hour cycle. Cook rice or pasta separately, and then I have a meal that lasts me for almost the entire week. (I'm OK with eating the same thing over and over, so I just make one batch per week, and vary what I make each week.)
Using the slow cooker, the total amount of time involved on my end to get everything ready is usually around 10 minutes. The cook cycle is long, so you need to plan ahead. After that, you just dish out what you want and microwave it throughout the week. Easy.
If you have more discerning tastes and want to go through the effort of making fancy things, a possible time-saving measure is to prepare everything on the weekend, but don't bake or cook anything. Just store it, and then when you're ready, throw it in the oven or on the stove. It's still a lot more work than a slow cooker, requires a larger refrigerator, and requires a good supply of cookware, but that way you've accomplished most of the time-consuming (and mind-numbing) prep work when you're more free. The rest is basically a last step and ensures that your food is nice and fresh.
|2012-03-23, 00:10
|Link #75
blinded by blood
I learned how to cook in restaurants, so most of my cooking skills revolve around preparing meals that can be pushed out of the kitchen quickly to keep the tables turning. My personal recipes follow this thread as well.
I don't actually have very many recipes I created myself--most are just my own personal attempts at a different dish, but here's a few recipes for those who might be curious about cooking for themselves more often!
Spoiler for Thai green curry variant (so not traditional lol):
Spoiler for cider chicken stew (actually my own recipe):
Spoiler for gordon ramsay's smoked paprika stroganoff:
Good food channels to follow on Youtube!
Mostly Italian but they occasionally mix it up. The cast is based out of Italy and the recipes are dubbed into (sometimes hilarious) English.
Korean food by a Korean mom in the United States. Her recipes are quick, easy and tasty, though like a lot of ethnic foods can be difficult to find the proper ingredients if you live in an area without a diverse population.
More Korean food by a fabulous lady who makes some delicious recipes (though I admit that my Western palate is sometimes afraid to try some of her recipes). Try them out if you've got access to a Korean grocer.
British crew with a Youtube cooking show that promotes quick, easy and fast recipes that come together nicely and pack a lot of flavor and are (occasionally) healthy.
I'm sure I can come up with more recipes of my own later on...
|2012-03-23, 00:35
|Link #76
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
I bookmarked the Italian youtube channel and British one, too. I don't have an Asian supermarket close to me, so I didn't bookmark the Korean channels. Closest ones are 30 or so minutes away, so I wouldn't be able to get to them often.
I'd like to try more Asian cooking. I'm not familiar with any Korean dishes. Maybe I can make some trips to the Asian supermarket and try for some dishes I'm familiar with, like some Thai dishes. I would like to try making some Chinese food at home. I bet if I put a little time and effort into it, I could make Chinese food that is better than the stuff from restaurants in no time. Around here, it is straight up Americanized Chinese food. In China Town in Boston I could find better Chinese food, but I hear it isn't nearly as good as China Town in San Francisco, and most of the restaurants there aren't as good as what you typically find in China Town in San Francisco.
|2012-03-23, 00:45
|Link #77
blinded by blood
If you're not very comfortable in the kitchen it's a bit hard to follow the chicken stroganoff recipe due to the short video and no measurements being given. I just kind of guessed on the measurements and it worked out fine. Usually measurements aren't a big deal except in baking (where several chemical reactions take place and may fail if the proportions are off).
|2012-03-23, 00:56
|Link #78
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 35
I would do better with a formal recipe. I've gotten better at cooking and I have a knack for cooking, but I just don't know how well I'd do at a dish from a youtube video at around 1 minute and 50 seconds, hehe.
I've tried some new dishes in the past few months, but I've been meaning to make perogies at home (first attempt). Simple potato perogies, with a bit of diced, cooked onion inside of them (just a bit), and then pan sauteed with white onion slices in butter and with salt and pepper, and then served with sour cream.
I read a suggestion for them, serving them with shredded, pan sauteed cabbage (cooked in a good amount of butter and with salt and pepper). I bet a piece of perogie with some of that sauteed cabbage on the same fork would be good.
|2012-03-23, 05:49
|Link #79
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Vienna
Uhmmm, but I think the fried onion is supposed to go on the top not inside. My absolutely favourite variation of pierogi is the russian pierogi = potato/fresh cheese filling. If you want to make it a bit more fancy, you can add some grilled garlic to it. I learned how to fix the baked garlic extra for this recipe.
If you are interested how to make it (it goes well in mashed potatos as well), this is how to prepare it:
Get an entire head of garlic and cut off the tops of the cloves. Take a large enough sheet of aluminium foil, place the garlic head in the foil, drizzle olive oil over it, close the foil loosely over the garlic and bake it in the oven for 30-4O minutes, until the garlic starts turning dark golden. You might want to open the foil towards the end so that it can brown a little. Once the garlic is done, allow it to cool and then you can easily squeez the inside of the clove by pressing on the skin of the clove.
I ate the best pierogi ever in Krakow on the main train station in a cheep looking pub. I was hungry and wanted to eat something cheap and fast and thats why I entered the pub. They told me the pierogi are like the best in the whole town, which I thought was a shameless exaggeration. Well, it wasnt. They were awesome and the interesting twist to it was the dried dill seasoning on the top. You must know, that I absolutely hate dill and avoid it where I can, but strangely, it was just lovely on the pierogi.
I personally have trouble eating the same thing over and over and thats why I have a set of really easy recipes that are done in 20min. Most people are amazed how I can whip up something this fast, but really guys, it is just a matter of practice. The more you cook the faster and more skilled you are at it. Usually, I just open the fridge, look whats inside and I decide on the spot what I will do with the ingredients available. This is how some of my tastiest recipes were born, the key to success is hunger and sudden inspiration.
BTW? I invented like the best marinade for chicken skewers EVER!!!! Anybody interested?
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The clinic, on Great Victoria Street in the city center, is set to open next Thursday. The clinic have confirmed that women in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland have contacted them seeking abortions already.
Maria Stopes will provide abortions, using pills, to pregnant women, up to nine weeks' gestation. Last year 1,007 from Northern Ireland and 4,149 from the Republic travelled to England and Wales to have abortions.
Cullen accused Marie Stopes of "imposing an abortion regime on Northern Ireland".
On Thursday night Sinn Fein issued a statement saying it "is not in favor of abortion. Sinn Féin believes that where a woman's life or mental health is at risk or in grave danger that the final decision rests with the woman.
"The Marie Stopes clinic is a private institution. It has to operate under the guidelines and the legal framework set out by the department of health in the North."
Choice Ireland, a pro-choice group, has asked the Government "to take note of this new positive step and finally legislate for the right of a woman to obtain an abortion when her life is in danger.
"It is unacceptable that 20 years after women were granted the constitutional right to abortion [when their lives are in danger] that women in Ireland must take a case to the Irish or European courts in order to exercise their rights,"
Northern Ireland's Abortion Rights group called the introduction of the clinic to Belfast as "groundbreaking".
Darinka Aleksic told the Irish Examiner "Women in Northern Ireland are UK taxpayers yet they are treated like second class citizens when it comes to abortion. Having to travel to the mainland or further abroad to access safe, legal abortion exacts a huge financial and emotional cost.
"Over 50,000 women have had to make this journey over the past 40 years and it is an injustice that must not be allowed to continue."
The Irish Family Planning Agency (IFPA) told the paper they will not be giving their clients the clinic's details. They said as of yet they did not have all the information.
A spokesperson said "Until it has had an opportunity to examine this information, IFPA will not make any decision about offering the contact details of this service to women seeking information on abortion from the Republic."
Here's a video from Irish Family Planning Association on the facts of abortion in Ireland:
Here's an anti-abortion video about the right to life:


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Sue Thompson, 73
Sue Thompson, 73, 118 Ohio St., St. Marys, died at 12:10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, at the Lima Manor Nursing Home.
She was born Aug. 20, 1938, in Indianapolis, the daughter of Thelma (Kent) and Clarence Thompson.
Services are at 11 a.m. Monday at the Miller Funeral Home in St. Marys, with the Rev. Bill Drummond officiating. Burial will follow at Elm Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Contributions may be made to the Sue Thompson Memorial Fund.
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Politicians Freak Out Over New FCC Neutrality Moves, Not Realizing They Probably Won't Do Anything
from the I-have-absolutely-no-idea-what-I'm-upset-about dept
In short, the FCC vaguely promised to maybe think about some stuff after a glacial, year long conversation. Cue the absolute, unbridled, partisan hyperbole shitstorm:
"Ranking Republicans called the FCC's efforts to revive net-neutrality rules "a solution in search of a problem," and plan to fight any new rules. Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee will introduce legislation in the coming weeks to block what she calls the "socialistic" proposal. "Federal control of the Internet will restrict our online freedom and leave Americans facing the same horrors that they have experienced with HealthCare.gov," Blackburn said in a statement."You apparently don't understand that the FCC's proposal won't actually do anything, but you do know it's certainly socialist and freedom killing? The sad part is that issues like a healthy, functioning Internet with competitive balance really shouldn't be partisan at all. It's in the interest or everyone that networks work well and that honest, healthy competition improves service and drives down costs, while limiting the bad behavior of large network gatekeepers.
Well ok, not everyone. If you actually want to understand whether a policy will be good or bad for consumers, ignore all the think tanks and politicians and watch the ISP response. Specifically watch AT&T, which has the biggest lobbyist operations and the biggest mouth when truly consumer-friendly policy gets passed. AT&T supported the original rules because they had oodles of loopholes and didn't cover wireless (Verizon only sued in the hopes of killing off FCC authority entirely). Note how AT&T thinks all this socialist freedom killin' is just a splendid idea:
"AT&T, the second-largest wired broadband provider in the U.S., said it believes the FCC has the authority under Section 706 to preserve Internet openness...."AT&T has built its broadband business, both wired and wireless, on the principal of Internet openness," AT&T said in a statement. "That is what our customers rightly expect, and it is what our company will continue to deliver. That is also why we endorsed the FCC's original rule on Net neutrality, and is why we pledged to adhere to openness principles even after the recent court decision."Knowing the FCC pretty well after more than a decade of watching them, what I think you'll ultimately see at the end of this new "conversation" is a cross-industry set of self-regulatory voluntary guidelines "prohibiting" ISPs from doing the kinds of things they never intended to do anyway -- like blocking your access to entirely legal websites. There might be particular cases where the FCC pushes for greater transparency in peering debates (especially if the ongoing Netflix standoff doesn't improve), but nothing that will truly rattle any slats. The primary goal here is making sure incumbent ISPs maximize revenues and keep the campaign contributions coming. Consumer protection is just pillow talk. For both parties.
What you won't see in any way (and probably wouldn't be enforceable under 706 anyway) is hard rules governing the more subtle sort of things network neutrality folks should actually be worried about, such as predatory pricing and the use of broadband usage caps as a weapon (like AT&T's "sponsored data"). This, unfortunately for consumers, is considered "creative pricing innovation" by both the current FCC and industry alike, and the only ones who should be freaking out at the moment are the people who are going to foot the bill for all this supposed creativity.


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In a landslide, Aaron Rodgers has been named the National Football League's Most Valuable Player for 2011.
The award was presented to him in during the NFL's new television award show, the "NFL Honors", broadcast from Indianapolis the night before the big game.
This show was the NFL's attempt to bring its regular-season awards into the Super Bowl marketing machine, with a touch of Hollywood glamour provided by host Alec Baldwin.
The league similarly tried to fold the Pro Bowl into the Super Bowl buildup two years ago by scheduling it in the Super Bowl city during the bye week between league championship games and the Super Bowl. The new location didn't last—the game was returned to its traditional Hawai'i location the following year—but the new date has remained.
Personally, I think this is an inspired move by the NFL. In previous years, the MVP was announced on Super Bowl Sunday, but by incorporating all major awards into a televised special the night before it enhances and elevates what was already a monster TV event.
While this individual award might be scant comfort for Packer fans still smarting from the playoff loss to the Giants, there is still merchandise to be bought.
Within minutes of the trophy presentation, I received this email from the Packers Pro Shop:
They sure don't waste much time. Packer backers hungry for a little postseason glory will have to satisfy themselves with these:
The new trophy design is interesting, but that's a subject for another time. Until then, enjoy your moment in the spotlight, Aaron, and hopefully next year when you travel to the New Orleans for the Super Bowl you'll have to bring your uniform along.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Posted by Chance Michaels at 11:28 AM
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1 comment:
- cynicalbuddha said...
Not only did he look good, but he gave a hell of a pre game interview yesterday too. I can see a job in broadcasting after a few more Super Bowl wins!
- February 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM
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At its regular board meeting Friday, the Mackinac Bridge Authority (MBA) voted to keep 2014 toll rates at the 2012 level. According to a press release from the MBA, the decision also rolls back commuter costs to 2012 rates.
MBA Board Chair William H. Gnodtke stated, "As promised in 2007, we reviewed our financial data and have postponed any toll increase for at least one year and will re-evaluate in late 2014 to determine if further action is required."
At the December 2007 MBA Board meeting, incremental toll increases were implemented between 2008 and 2013, with future action hinging on existing 2013 revenues. The press release states that when MBA officials examine the financial data again in late 2014, they will determine what adjustments, if any, are required beyond 2014.


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The energy-efficient Light Blaster™ design of this floor lamp uses four CFL bulbs to produce as much light as a 400 watt incandescent fixture. Up top is a custom made-to-order, giclee-printed shade with an exclusive Vibraphonic Bounce pattern designed by retro modern pop artist and illustrator Ragnar. Base and pole are in an oil-rubbed bronze finish. Shade printing process U.S. Patent # 7,347,593.


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Gaining Vital Phone Data With Cell Phone Spy App
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U.S. military vets head to Philippines to aid in typhoon search-and-rescue efforts
LOS ANGELES A group of more than a dozen Southern California volunteers, mostly military veterans, are scheduled to land in the Philippines Monday to aid with search-and-rescue efforts in the typhoon-ravaged country, CBS Los Angeles reports.
KNX 1070's Ed Mertz reports volunteers are from Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization started in 2010 by two former Marines who wanted to help with earthquake relief in Haiti.
The group, which will be in the Philippines on an eight-day mission dubbed "Operation Seabird", will search for and treat survivors in the city of Tacloban, where the death toll is estimated to be as high as 10,000.
World Vision's director of Emergency Affairs Chris Palusky said just getting in contact with the organization's approximately 300 personnel on the ground is a challenge with communications wiped out.
"It's a desperate situation and incredibly challenging," Palusky said. "It's rather chaotic...there've been reports of looting, and people are just desperate at this stage."
Team Rubicon's 8,000 members include former marines, paramedics, firefighters and search and rescue personnel.
The organization is planning on sending another team to the Philippines this weekend.
To find out how to join Team Rubicon or help in its fundraising efforts, click here.


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Seagull Streetlamp, Micro Green Tech That Inspires
This is just another example of micro-green technology in an entirely necessary and functional setting. The video shows a streetlight running on both wind and solar in front of Panasonic Center in Tokyo. In addition to the helix turbine and butterfly solar panels, there's a high-efficiency light bulb and battery for capturing energy during the day (to be used at night). Someone tell me why we don't see
more any of this in the U.S.? Via EcoGeek.


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This is part of a conversation I had today with a friend who lives in DC...it's badly written and rambles all over the place, but I'm so upset I can't think any more
I once got caught up in a traffic jam near Universal Studios when hundreds of xian fundies were staging a huge protest about a movie they thought was disrespectful of their fictional friend. ("The Last Temptation..." I think it was.) BUT nobody was killed, or even hurt; nothing was set on fire, or damaged, as far as I can remember. Just a lot of self-righteous noise.
Same thing with "The Life of Brian." They picketed and shouted outside movie theaters, but didn't go inside and attack anybody, or rip up the screens. IIRC
If whichever god they are enslaved by objected to a book, movie, cartoon, song parody, wouldn't she/he/it be powerful enough to take care of it him/her self? I don't get it.
They MUST have insecurities and fears about the true worth of their beliefs if they get so violently worked up that they freak out completely. (As Spider Robinson has said many times, "Anger/rage/hate is always, always fear in drag.") So, as I said, what are they really afraid of?
It seems to be only the male gods who need their worshippers to do their dirty work for them, starting with the northern tribes that invaded Anatolia in about 6,000 BCE, and continuing with the Hebrews' constant wars with the original inhabitants of "The Promised Land." And it's still going on.
I'm angry at all the stupidity, and it's frustrating that I can't do anything about my anger/fear, except rant. But that's ALL I'm going to do; I'm certainly not going to go attack our Pakistani across-the-street neighbors. They've lived here 35 years or more, and they're nice people.
OMNerves! I just remembered that their house was broken into and trashed last Sunday.... I wonder if the vandals knew they are Muslim. (Their family name just happens to be "Hussein," but that's about as common as "Smith" or "Johnson" is in the English-speaking world.) We have rarely had break-ins in this neighborhood in the almost 70 years I've lived here...
Oh, dear.
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From a memetics perspective, perhaps memeplexes which induce their hosts to make life or death violent responses to the most minor "assaults" on the memeplex have a survival advantage. Like a hive of Africanized bees which attack harmless animals passing a few feet from their hive, some religions thrive through hyperactive threat response.
It's possible for someone with serious insecurity to be emotionally fragile and hyper aggressive at the same time. Consider a dysfunctional macho man who is so threatened by his wife glancing in the direction of an attractive man that he lashes out at her. When I interviewed a lawyer about divorcing my first husband, he reacted to a minor request I'd made of my husband with, "Are you trying to cut off his balls!!!" He wasn't the lawyer for me. Any man whose "balls" are so delicately attached that the gentlest breeze detaches them, and unmans him, is incomprehensibly fragile. So too, it seems, some religions react as if unmanned by a single YouTube movie trailer. While leaders of other religions would find that too trivial to legitimize with a rebuttal.
But is their macho god so insecure of his powers that he needs mobs of followers to do his killing for him? Or is she/he/it not so powerful (or merciful) after all?
That tells me that she/he/it (say that three times real fast) isn't worth worhipping at all...and the worshippers are foolishly wasting their time, money and energy. They certainly give the lie to "Islam is a religion of peace."
Hitch was right: "Religion Poisons everything."
LOL: Jay Leno just asked where the hell are all those Egyptian and Tunisian protesters getting all the American flags they are burning so merrily? Good question.
Rethinking my response, the over reaction to the video may only be a trigger. Ray McGovern makes the case that the underlying rage is over US foreign policy, especially our support of Israel's oppression of Palestinians.
It's Not About a Film: The Real Reason Why the Middle East Exploded
You're probably right. I knew when the Berlin Wall and the fell USSR collapsed that "Certain People" would have to invent new "causes" to keep our military busy buying their weapons and ill-designed vehicles.
"W" was especially easy to manipulate...he desperately needed to out-macho his father, for one thing. (I'm currently rereading Frank Rich's The Greatest Story Ever Sold. The gullibility of the American electorate is appalling. Start an unnecessary war, wave the flag, get re-elected. *sigh*)
Thanks for sharing your conversation with us.
Thank YOU for putting up with my rants. I just needed to ask questions, and get some stuff off my sagging chest. (One of the more embarrassing things about getting old...)
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In accordance with the clear prohibition of the Constitution, no elementary or secondary school funds are allocated for constructing church schools or paying church school teachers salaries; and thus non-public school children are rightfully not counted in determining the funds each state will receive for its public schools.
With one sentence Mr. Kennedy disposes of a problem which has vexed the best constitutional lawyers in the nation. Whos being dogmatic now?
Mr. Kennedys warrant for the "clear prohibition" of the Constitution is undoubtedly the Church-State theory elaborated by the Supreme Court in the Everson, McCollum, and Zorach cases. In the first of these cases, decided in 1947, the court affirmed that neither a State nor the Federal Government can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. ... No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion. One year later the court reaffirmed this position in McCollum and held religious instruction on public school premises during public school hours unconstitutional. In 1952 the court sustained a released-time program off public school premises in the Zorach case, but did not explicitly temper the language of Everson and McCollum. In view of these statements from the nations highest tribunal, Mr. Kennedy has a prima facie case. He also enjoys the unquestioned support of distinguished constitutional lawyers like Leo Pfeffer, counsel for the American Jewish Congress and author of the best one-volume work on Church and State in America. The President can count on the active political support of such eminent and powerful organizations as the National Educational Association and the National Council of Churches. He cannot fairly be blamed for having incurred the endorsement of POAU and similar extreme groups. What complaint, then, have the advocates of church schools, save that Mr. Kennedy has given the coup de grace to a cause already lost? What refuge have they, short of saying the Supreme Court was wrong and thus conceding the Presidents proposition? The answer is short and decisive. Mr. Kennedys statement was erroneous, inopportune and unnecessary. It is no disparagement to say that neither the President nor his Attorney General enjoy the reputation of great constitutional lawyers. If Mr. Kennedy were speaking simply as a private citizen, his opinion would not be recorded in the law journals of the land. The fact that he is President lends only political, not persuasive, force to his assertion. A short survey of the professional legal journals would demonstrate to any inquirer that there is no clarity of expert legal opinion on the constitutionality of Federal aid to education through limited grants to church schools. It is the fashion of opponents of such aid to pretend that there is no question what the Supreme Court would do with such a program, and that the only people who think there is a serious argument for the constitutionality of such aid are Roman Catholics. The publications of such eminent non-Catholic legal authorities as Mark DeWolfe Howe and Wilbur Katz are simply ignored. A GREAT amount of confusion could be saved if all parties to the controversy would agree to this statement of the question: May the Federal Government bear part of the cost of educating all of the nations children in literacy, science and general human culture, regardless of the benefits which result from the program to religion or religious groups? Everyone is talking at present as though it were the name on the Federal check which determined the issue of constitutionality: if it is P.S. 101, it is constitutional; but if it is St. Marys, it is a betrayal of the American way of life. I submit that it is an incontrovertible principle of American constitutional law that it is the purpose, and not the payee, that determines the checks constitutionality. The only constitutional issue in Federal aid to education is whether the First Amendment means that Congress may not advance the level of national education by any method which even indirectly results in benefit to religious bodies. There is no decision of the Supreme Court on this precise point. All that the McCollum case decided was that government may not use its revenues and its coercive force to co-operate with the teaching of religion in public schools. Everson sustained the use of tax funds to provide transportation to church schools, and Zorach relied explicitly on the right of government to accommodate its programs to the religious interests of the citizens it serves. Moreover, there are two significant facts in our constitutional history which militate for the legitimacy of Federal aid to education, regardless of the religious consequences. First, the Blaine Amendment was not adopted. In spirit and in letter, it would have forbidden every form of Federal aid to education which would result in direct or indirect benefit to church schools. This amendment repeatedly failed of enough votes in Congress to be proposed to the States for ratification. The failure of its adoption by the nation is the precise reason why it was adopted in New York and many other States. The second fact supporting Federal use of church schools to advance general education is that the Cochran case of 1930 was not overruled in Everson, McCollum or Zorach. As is well known, Cochran sustained the constitutionality of state-supplied textbooks to church-school children. Opponents of Federal aid airily dismiss this case with the comment that the First Amendment issue was never argued. This is true only in form. The whole point and substance of the objection overruled by the Court was that the educational program could not be public because it resulted in benefit to a religious, and therefore necessarily private, group. The side effects of the program, the Court held, did not nullify its public character. Cochran involved the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; so did Everson, McCollum and Zorach. What puzzles the experts is the coexistence of these four cases with one another and with our total constitutional history. It is a brave prophet, indeed, who confidently predicts what the Supreme Court will decide. In the clarity of his constitutional vision, however, Mr. Kennedy has succeeded in adding to the confusion. On what principle of law will he justify the enormous chasm in his program between higher and lower education? An admirable scholarship program, buttressed with supplementary grants to the institutions chosen, apparently raises no First Amendment problems; but once you descend to the high school or elementary level, there is no possibility of aid through church schools. Is it because lower education is compulsory that aid would be unconstitutional? Surely that argument cuts both ways; religious freedom becomes a joke when government itself makes the price too high. Is it because direct and unrestricted grants for construction or teachers salaries are the only conceivable means of aid to grammar and high schools? What about scholarships, tuition payments, tax credits or deductions, with supplementary grants to the institutions of parental choice? "Education must remain a matter of state and local control," says Mr. Kennedy, "and higher education a matter of individual choice." Only higher education, Mr. President? The Administration, however, has double reason for gratitude to its leader. Not only has Mr. Kennedy illumined the experts; he has saved his advisers the trouble of further thought. The speed with which he has done so should give them particular consolation and great hope. Less than two months after assuming his grave responsibilities, he has settled for them the position they must publicly take on an intricate constitutional problem. That is, they will take it or risk their jobs. With the necessity of uniformity in the Administration, I have no quarrel; but why should uniformity have been imposed, when it was not necessary to say anything at all? No one would have been surprised if Mr. Kennedy had simply submitted his proposals to Congress without defining the unconstitutionality of a proposal he was not submitting. The basic models of the Presidents program are the Thompson and McNamara bills of last year; each passed its own House with scarcely a whisper of Church-State debate. For all practical purposes, the question of aid to education through limited co-operation with church schools was simply hushed up and ignored. Senator Morse was the one exception, and he made a speech in favor of its constitutionality. The President has solid political reasons for refusing to champion aid through church schools. I affirm the propriety and the wisdom of his standing on those reasons. More importantly, I concede that, wholly independently of Mr. Kennedys position, there are sound arguments against the desirability of Federal aid through church schools. The dangers of excessive Federal control, of disproportionate complexity in administration, of imbalance between the public and church-school systems, and particularly of the use of such funds for segregated schools, are not mere chimeras. These arguments I understand and respect, even though I do not think they outweigh the contrary arguments in favor of the desirability of Federal aid once such aid is given to public schools. But what I cannot understand is why a President who had such excellent political justification for the omission of private schools from his program has chosen the deeper and swampier ground of constitutional law on which to take a stand. The reason he gave Congress, of course, was to explain why non-public school children would not be counted in determining the funds each State would receive for its public schools. An equally good and perhaps more candid reason would be that he had decided in the national interest not to help them. Or was it that Mr. Kennedy did not dare to say that? Did he recognize that the discrimination would be too manifest unless hidden in constitutional clarity? FR. WHELAN, S.J., a doctoral student at the Harvard Law School, is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. Supreme Court.


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Gabe shoots a few questions off to the producer of This Film Is Not Yet Rated...
Welcome to amateur hour at DVDActive.com, I am you host Gabe Powers, and tonight my special guest, via E-Mail, is the producer of the recent documentary feature This Film is Not Yet Rated, Eddie Schmidt. As regular readers may know, I'm not particularly good at this whole interviewing thing, and this line of questions was particularly rushed. I wish I would've had the time to watch the film with the audio commentary, where Ain't It Cool News' Drew McWeeny asks all these questions and more, but alas there just wasn't time. These aren't excuses, this is what we call contextualizing.
Like everything I write I have a habit of talking about myself, so here I have approached the film from a personal point of view, which has led to some of my more aggressive sounding questions. I didn't mean for them to sound aggressive, but upon a second reading I realized my tone may have been lacking. Budding film writers, don't be aggressive with your interview subjects, this isn't a expose cracking open the misdeeds of a corrupt politician, this is a Q and A with someone who has better things to do, and they might not all be as nice as Eddie. Without further adieu:
DVDActive: It appears that in the last few weeks the MPAA has made some changes. Your film has been directly attributed to some of these changes by the organization itself. What does that feel like?
Eddie Schmidt:Well, pretty damn good, even if they haven't done much except deflect the bad PR. But it's my feeling that if they can move an inch, they can eventually move a mile if the pressure stays on. Before the film, no one knew how the MPAA/ratings board operated - and that was their source of strength. Now that the film has (hopefully) opened people's minds up, they can ask the questions that have been begging to be asked for years.
Of course, if you ask the MPAA they'll say that these changes were in the works prior to the film. Sure - and all those salads now on the McDonalds menu have nothing to do with Super Size Me. Even the tiny modifications the MPAA announced follow in direct line to revelations in the movie (many of the raters had children 18 and over; filmmakers couldn't cite precedent, meaning other movies, in a rating appeal; etc). Hopefully, more substantial changes will come if people keep pushing them - things that really change the fundamental way the system works.
DVDActive: The Academy Awards nominations were announced the day your DVD came out. I half expected a nomination as some kind of good faith PR move, but This Film is Not Yet Rated wasn't among the nominees.
Eddie Schmidt:It didn't surprise me terribly. I referred to it as the "F-you" vote. If the documentary branch wanted to send the movie industry something of an "F-you" note, we might have been nominated. If they were perhaps wary of being perceived as giving an "F-you" vote, they probably wouldn't. But it's hard to speculate on why certain films get nominated and others don't. I was pleased they nominated us for our last film, Twist Of Faith. But you tend to see a thing like an Oscar nomination as a once in a lifetime moment, so that may have been it for me!
DVDActive: I'm sure that the irony of the DVD's box art being 'altered' hasn't been lost on anyone involved with the film.
Eddie Schmidt:No, it hasn't. But since our opening credit sequence uses black boxes as a reminder of unknown forces deciding what you can't see, it kind of fits the theme. And of course it means 13 year olds can walk by the box in Target and not go through puberty right there in the store. (interviewer note: I laughed out loud when I first read that)
DVDActive: What was the inspiration behind the film?
Eddie Schmidt:A few years ago, Kirby and I developed the film together after mutual disbelief over the amount of criticism leveled at the MPAA from filmmakers, critics and educators over several decades. And it was criticism that they all but completely avoided, other than, say, Jack Valenti calling Matt Stone a "hairball." We just couldn't believe that this cultural system that everybody used was shrouded in such secrecy and fear. It had to be unveiled, you know? Like "The Wizard of Oz." So when we would encounter people in Hollywood who were afraid to talk to us on camera, that only increased the desire to tell the story. I have to hand it to IFC for backing us all the way on this. A lot of companies liked the idea; none wanted to take on the MPAA. IFC had the guts.
DVDActive: Though someone at the SXSW Filmfest Q and A asked this, as I'm sure others have, I'd still like to reiterate-has the popular acceptance of unrated DVD releases made the ratings moot? Or possibly the popularity of online rental agencies that don't limit NC-17 and unrated releases?
Eddie Schmidt:Not at all. The rating is a stamp of approval, and "unrated" versions only work once that stamp has been given. Hollywood knows this, and uses it to create two distinct products (and earn double the cash), despite the apparent hypocrisy of authorizing a "super nasty" version five months after chopping up the theatrical version in the name of protecting the children. It's now a big game, and if anything, makes the usefulness and public good of the current system even more dubious than before.
DVDActive: I think that most people don't understand that the MPAA is part of the major studios, not a separate or objective organization. The film isn't only going up against a faceless censor machine here, but a major part of the American business infrastructure. How scared were the people involved? Did you ever find yourself asking someone else to start your car for you?
Eddie Schmidt:Yeah, I probably had the opening moments of Casino in my head a few times. I kept telling myself that this was important and that I couldn't be afraid of negative harm to my career. Or my car. It's scary [to] go up against "big business" but if that halts critical voices in a democracy we have a problem.
DVDActive: What were the legal ramifications of photographing the raters and releasing their information? You obviously got all of their consent at some point, right?
Eddie Schmidt:The raters were photographed in public places and the investigatory work was done squarely within the parameters of California law. We were very careful of this because we knew the raters would not consent to us using their images/names in the film. Additionally, the raters perform a service for the public, that all of the American public uses, and the American public has a right to know who they are.
DVDActive: There is no escaping the politics of the 'censorship' situation, and Kirby touched on the connections between violence in entertainment and a Capitalist mentality during the SXSW Q and A. Some have drawn correlations of the acceptance of sex and nudity over violence switching hands during conservative and liberal administrations and eras in the US. Do you think this is true?
Eddie Schmidt:Somewhat, yes, I do. But I think there will always be factions in American culture that are more comfortable with violence (yay sports) and uncomfortable with sex (yay Puritans). And those people tend to mobilize their support well, although they are more empowered in conservative eras.
DVDActive: Do you think the censorship reflects or influence modern culture? Both? Neither?
Eddie Schmidt:I think it ends up influencing more than it reflects, because the reflection comes back twice as strong. What's the phrase - "kiss me like they do in the movies"? We get so much conscious and unconscious information/ideas from our popular culture, and if it is regressive (and I think the ratings system is) rather than progressive, then we stunt the growth of the culture (artistically and behaviorally).
The MPAA's VP of Publicity, Kori Bernards, in responding to the film's charges about bias against homosexuality, said, "We don't try to set the standards, we just try to reflect them." That's a tacit admission of a homophobic bias - which of course filters its way back into the movies and scripts and therefore influences people's attitudes when they see this material on the screen.
DVDActive: On the DVD's commentary, director Kirby Dick mentions that this implies that if racism or anti-Semitism were commonplace, the MPAA raters would reflect those prejudices as well.
Being an independent production and all, did you ever worry you were preaching to the choir, and that the people that needed to see the film would simply not even know it existed?
Eddie Schmidt:No, because I think most parents and educators are savvier and less out-of-touch than we might think. If given the chance to know about this secretive system they use every day with their kids and students, they will seek out that information. Many people I would least expect to watch it tell me the film is in their Netflix queue.
DVDActive: Will there be some 'conservative' (and I use the term hesitantly, as the words 'conservative' and 'liberal' are often mis and overused) viewers that come away from the film seeing the MPAA as their guardian angles from 'liberal' Hollywood?
Eddie Schmidt:Maybe, but the system should be transparent, whatever your viewpoints are. If the MPAA simply told you point by point what content was in a film and didn't put it in a box (or suggest it be altered to fit in that box), I can't see how anyone would have a problem with that.
DVDActive: I've had a personal interest in film censorship, as I came to be a film fan as a horror geek. When I was younger Fangoria, Film Threat, and an array of smaller publications were filled with angry editorials about the censorship of violence in horror films, down to a listing of specific censored shots. The film takes a reasonably obvious stance on violence being more detrimental than sex. Though I agree with you on principle, I feel that the stigma of the NC-17 hurts plenty of good small studio, independent, and foreign horror films (a good example is the recently neutered US releases of High Tension). Is this something you agree with, or are you of the mind that violence is inherently bad in all cases?
Eddie Schmidt:No, not at all. We're just saying that if you're going to set up a system to advise parents, it's probably wise to understand (or at least gather the information on) the potential effects of violent imagery and themes upon kids. We've all been in a theatre showing a movie like Se7en or Menace II Society and heard a little kid's voice and thought, "What the hell are they doing in here? Isn't that kind of messed up?" But can you really tell me that kids watching puppets with no genitals pretend to fuck in Team America will harm them more than a boatload of disturbing and gory violence? I don't have a problem with a movie like Hostel but it is strange to see that it gets an R and, say, A Dirty Shame goes out NC-17. And the difference between the R and NC-17 in perception and the marketplace is vast, as you know.
DVDActive: I thought Richard Heffner's comments on the effects of media violence on children were similar to the random fact and figure-spouting Valenti is guilty of. The medical community seems to be rather undecided on the effects of media violence on a child without previous mental or physical detriments or overtly violent dispositions. Is this a case of one group of people who is offended by one subject (violence), but not offended by another subject (sex), and simply trading one form of parenting by corporation for another? If the situation were flipped, as it is in Europe, would this film have even been made?
Eddie Schmidt:I don't think it's trading one offense with another, no. If you look at the studies, there is some evidence that exposure to a lot of violence on the screen may have negative effects on kids. If you're going to classify films for children's viewing, then take into account expert research and opinion. That's all. Don't censor - just advise and give out info with some sensitivity and accuracy to the content. "Some horror violence" is not helpful to a parent. "37 people stabbed in the face graphically throughout" is.
As far as making the film, the MPAA's is still a system overseen by business interests and maintained in secret to protect them (in the name of "protecting the children"), and that's an inherently important topic in a media-conglomerated world no matter what.
Another interviewer's note: I wanted to repeal this comment after rewatching the film with the commentary, as Dick makes a specific note that violence is art. I also think I misunderstood Heffner's comments, stance, and sources. Too little too late, but I'm happy Schmidt was able to answer the questions I should've asked instead.
DVDActive: Darren Aronofsky's comment about realistic, ugly, and graphic violence being better for the influential minds of children than the bloodless, PG-13 violence they're allowed to view really struck me. I personally would've liked to hear more on the subject. Was there talk of hiring few child psychologists for the film, or is that not the film you set out to make?
Eddie Schmidt:I think we felt we had so much to cram in this film that it was hard to get it all in. There were 1 or 2 more interviews done with people in that realm, but for overall pace and balance, we felt that the section you see in the final film drove that point home enough.
DVDActive: Did you concern yourselves with the film censorship issues of other countries when making the film? We've got a lot of UK readers, and I have a personal fascination with the Video Nasties scare of the '80s across the pond, where horror movie collectors were actually having their houses raided and their persons jailed.
Eddie Schmidt:Again, it's another movie. We couldn't go everywhere we wanted or were interested in, it was just impossible. Not that there isn't compelling stuff there.
DVDActive.com: Something that seemed to be lost in the many ideas the film houses is the fact that studio films are often given a break over independent films. Powerful filmmakers like Steven Spielberg seem to be able to name their rating these days. What would happen if an independent as powerful as George Lucas (I can't think of one more powerful) decided to make a film that skated the NC-17 boundaries? Would the MPAA give him an R without hassle?
Eddie Schmidt:Well, a powerful filmmaker would have to be distributing his film through a non-MPAA signatory to eschew the rating completely. And most powerful filmmakers work with powerful companies (studios) that can get their films wide releases and marketing muscle. The advantage name filmmakers have in working the system is the same as the studios - they have the money to keep editing and resubmitting the film, and they have the relationships (usually through studio intermediaries, like production and post executives) to negotiate behind the scenes with the MPAA. Independents have neither in their favor.
DVDActive: There are far too many ideas here for one film. The ideas of the MPAA's blatant homophobia, six organizations running 90% of American media and entertainment, the recent obsession with piracy, and Valenti's personal story are all worthy of more attention. Are there any plans for continuations or sequels?
Eddie Schmidt:We wanted people to think, and we didn't want to be repetitive. We're building a case and peeling away layers like an onion. But with the announcement of the MPAA's supposed reforms, Valenti calling the film "childish", etc - well, maybe there is room for This Sequel Is Not Yet Rated.
DVDActive: Two of the deleted scenes really surprised me. It seems that the MPAA illegally making copies of the film would be too juicy to pass up; did it happen too late in production to include it?
I also understand that L.I.E. director Michael Cuesta has been very outspoken about his film's MPAA treatment. Why were his scenes cut?
Eddie Schmidt:That call from the MPAA (regarding their unauthorized copy) came in January '06 as the film was being onlined for Sundance. The dramatic arc of the film had already been worked out through the rating appeal, so putting this in would have undone the arc (or given us two endings), and provided technical aggravation. We thought about it, but ultimately liked the idea of it being a mini-sequel you could savor later.
As far as Michael Cuesta, he was great, and it was hard to lose him, but again, we were juggling so much material that we simply couldn't have everything. As it is, some critics said the film was too long at 97 minutes. I disagree, but since I believe in DVD supplements, so I was happy to give the fans more meat on the disc.
DVDActive: The stories told by directors concerning the specifics of their experiences with the ratings were all fascinating in a sort of supermarket tabloid way. Would some of the filmmakers who declined on camera interviews perhaps be interested in being quoted in a book?
Eddie Schmidt:I don't know - why, are you writing one? I wanted to write it first!
DVDActive: Oh no, not me, I'm hoping you or Kirby are.
I have to say I thought it was a little unfair to include a shot from Straw Dogs at the end of the 'violence against women' montage. That film and scene were censored for years, and I believe R rated cuts of the film still feature a few missing frames from the rape scene.
Eddie Schmidt:It was there not to condemn the film but simply to show that images of violence against women have been used so much in movies that we are desensitized to them. Strung together in a montage it is shocking to watch and makes you think.
DVDActive: Fair enough. Can I burn a couple copies of the DVD for my friends, in the spirit of sticking it to the MPAA?
Eddie Schmidt:Well, as you see, the MPAA admitted that they could copy it, so I guess you'd have to ask them if they'll extend the same privilege. IFC would probably prefer you don't, however.
Editorial by Gabriel Powers
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