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Mass. charge against Gene Shalit to be dismissed
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) — A misdemeanor driving charge against retired television movie critic Gene Shalit is set to be dismissed in Massachusetts.
The 86-year-old Shalit was cited in October after his vehicle struck a utility pole and came to rest against a house in Lenox, in western Massachusetts. Shalit, who lives in nearby Stockbridge, wasn't hurt. He told police he fell asleep.
The agreement between police and Shalit's lawyer was approved during a probable cause hearing Wednesday in Southern Berkshire District Court. The hearing was continued to April 2, when the driving to endanger charge will be dismissed.
Shalit's lawyer tells The Berkshire Eagle (http://bit.ly/VL5eMe ) his client won't drive until the next hearing, at which time his driving status will be re-assessed.
Shalit, known for his bushy hair and mustache, reviewed movies for NBC's "Today" show from 1973 until 2010.
Information from: The Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, http://www.berkshireeagle.com


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- Smith, Dr. P., Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada A1B 3X8
- Beal, Dr. J., National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England S10 2TN
to foster and extend cooperation and scholarly endeavour between the Department of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield;
to promote the study of folklore in Britain and Canada through teaching, research, archive development and publication; and
to encourage and engage in research on all aspects of folklore which link the two host nations in a common tradition.
Two Joint Directors, to consult and to effect practical cooperation; one appointed by each institution, on the recommendation of the Dean of the appropriate Faculty. Each Joint Director will normally be the Head of the Department of Folklore of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield.
A Steering Committee, consisting initially of two members from each institution, with power to co-opt, if necessary, a non-voting chairman to be chosen from among the members.
Function of the Steering Committee: The Steering Committee will assist the Directors in matters of policy concerning the Institute.

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Stay Informed
The Ready in 3 emergency preparedness program was developed to inform Missourians about planning for emergencies. The program is intended to motivate residents to take three basic steps: create a plan, prepare an emergency kit, and listen for information.
News and Publications provides links to information about planning and preparedness efforts all over Missouri.
Missouri is taking steps at the state and local level to increase preparedness for and response to Diseases and Disasters.
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The AP's Jerusalem 'correction'
What is AP style for the city of Jerusalem?
Friday morning, The Associated Press blasted this tweet for a story on Gaza-Israel conflict: "Air raid sirens wail in Jerusalem, signaling a possible rocket attack aimed at Israel's capital: http://apne.ws/U3UaeK -KH." Just over a half hour later, the AP issued a "correction" tweet: "Air raid sirens in Jerusalem signal a possible rocket attack aimed at Israel's self-declared capital: http://apne.ws/ZXOoMR -KH (correction)."
The only difference? Changing the language from "Israel's capital" to "Israel's self-declared capital." So why the correction? There's only one line in the AP Stylebook entry on Jerusalem, which states, "The city in Israel stands alone in datelines."
(Also on POLITICO: Palestinian rockets target Jerusalem; air raid sirens heard throughout city)
In response to a question from POLITICO about why a correction was issued and what the AP style in this situation would be, AP spokesperson Paul Colford pointed to the above Stylebook entry. He also wrote in an email that "the city was alternately referred to in copy today as the 'capital' and 'self-declared capital.' It's now described as follows in writethrus from the region:
The air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem after the start of the Jewish Sabbath in the holy city, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinians as a capital and located about 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Gaza. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the rocket landed in an open area southeast of the city.
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Colford wrote that "it appears the alternate reference in copy ('self-declared capital') was viewed as a correction of an earlier reference ('capital'), contained in a tweet based on a different writethru."
"Labeling it a 'correction' was unnecessary," Colford said in a follow-up email.
(Also on POLITICO: White House: Onus on Hamas to quell violence)
"The decision was clearly made that explanatory language is best," he wrote:
holy city, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinians as a capital and located about 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Gaza.


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We decided it was time to renew the acquaintance, and accompanied by our friend, Georgia, returned on Sunday, September 12, 2001.
We arrived just after 11, and other than one other table, we were the only guests. Soon, more came, but the restaurant was never filled. On the way into the main, lower dining area, I paused by the "well", which turned out not to be a well but a sort of deep barbecue cooker. There's a well hoist and a sealeable hatch, as on a submarine. It's used to cook large quantities of meat for large events. I want to know more.
|Enchiladas Verdes
|Mangos hang in an archway
I'll update my ratings of the restaurant:
Open daily, 9 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Next to Balneario Ziracuarétiro, in the town of the same name.


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以下為《費麗絲蒂第一季》劇情簡介:It all starts the moment shy, beautiful Felicity Porter (Keri Russell, Dead Man's Curve) asks Ben Covington (Scott Speedman) to sign her high school yearbook. It's graduation day...he's gorgeous...and she's had a four-year crush on him. Even though the two have never spoken, what he writes is so insightful, so perfect, it persuades Felicity to change the course of her future. A future defined by medical school and the dreams of her parents. She surreptitiously follows Ben to UNY (the fictional University of New York) and is quickly swept into a romantic triangle that brings both discovery and heartache. Felicity moved to New York to find romance but ends up finding herself. Written by Anonymous
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Weiss, Peter
Weiss, Peter pā´tər vīs [key], 1916–82, German-Swedish dramatist, novelist, film director, and painter. Weiss's early novels Abschied von den Eltern (1961; tr. Leavetaking, 1962) and Fluchtpunkt (1962; tr. Vanishing Point, 1967) draw upon his emigration experience. His philosophic drama on the nature of revolution, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964; tr. 1965), effectively conveys the atmosphere of an insane asylum as a social microcosm. Both this and his play Die Ermittlung (1965; tr. The Investigation, 1966) were international successes. The Investigation uses texts from the 1964 Frankfurt war crimes trial to demonstrate that the capitalist system, responsible for Auschwitz, exists in postwar society. Later works include the documentary drama Trotzki im Exil (1970; tr. Trotsky in Exile, 1971) and The Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (tr. 1970).
See studies by I. Hilton (1970), K. Vance (1981), and R. Ellis (1988).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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4 November 2012
BERLIN – Leaders in the homeschooling movement from some two dozen countries signed a historic document dubbed the "Berlin Declaration" on November 3, demanding that governments around the world respect families and the fundamental human right to home education while slamming authorities in places like Germany and Sweden that ruthlessly persecute homeschoolers.
The Berlin Declaration, the first of its kind, argues that the right to home educate must be respected by every jurisdiction — after all, no government can legitimately violate the fundamental rights of citizens. Citing multiple human rights documents and a growing body of evidence showing the benefits of homeschooling, the document's signatories — a surprisingly diverse coalition united by a passion for home education — say the senseless persecution must come to an end.
"It's an expression of the growing confidence among homeschoolers that this is just another historical struggle for human rights and that we will win," Swedish Home Education Association (ROHUS) chief and Global Home Education Conference (GHEC) Chairman Jonas Himmelstrand, who fled from Sweden with his family, told The New American. "The Berlin Declaration shows that these rights are already recognized in various human rights conventions; they simply need to be manifested all over the world."
Assembled in Berlin, Germany, over the weekend for the first Global Home Education Conference, some 200 homeschool leaders, policymakers, experts, parents, and human rights activists have joined forces in the battle to protect and expand educational freedom. With the Berlin Declaration, which outlines various treaties and conventions recognizing the unalienable right to educational freedom, advocates plan to turn the pressure up on certain "rogue" governments.
"We remind all nations that numerous international treaties and declarations recognize the essential, irreplaceable and fundamental role of parents and the family in the education and upbringing of children as a natural right that must be respected and protected by all governments," the Berlin Declaration explains, citing multiple examples of formal documents in Europe and internationally enshrining parental rights over education.
Even the controversial United Nations, widely perceived among critics as a "dictators club," has recognized home education as a fundamental human right. In 2007, for example, the UN "Special Rapporteur on Education" officially condemned the German government's vicious oppression of homeschoolers while stating that home education is an entirely legitimate alternative to state schooling. Multiple binding European human rights treaties are also cited in the Berlin Declaration.
Attorney Michael Donnelly, director of international affairs for the powerful U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and a member of the GHEC board, said the Berlin Declaration was historic. It will also be a key tool going forward as activists from around the world work to support each other in the struggle for educational freedom everywhere.
"This is the first ever Global Home Education Conference, so it is really unique — it's the first time that so many references to international treaties and conventions have been referenced in a single document in this home education context," Donnelly told The New American. "It's also the first time that so many diverse home educators and activists from around the world and from so many backgrounds have come together to make such a powerful statement. We will not tolerate oppression anywhere."
Aside from the human rights angle, the document also points to the well-documented success of homeschoolers academically and socially. "We further note that credible and scientific research indicate that home education is an effective means of educating children to become literate and productive citizens and members of civil society and that there is no evidence at all of harm to children or an increased risk of harm on the basis of home education," it explains, echoing a common theme at the conference supported by experts who spoke out in favor of homeschooling.
Next, the Berlin Declaration condemns the policies of certain national governments that trample on the right to home education, as well as the barbaric persecution employed to enforce the bans: coercive fines, threats to parental custody, and criminal sanctions. While not specifically cited by name, it is hardly a secret that aside from overtly totalitarian regimes such as the one ruling North Korea, the primary culprits in these types of human rights abuses, at least in the Western world, are Sweden and Germany.
As The New American has been reporting for years, the lawless and harsh persecution faced by German and Swedish homeschoolers has led to an exodus of so-called "homeschooling refugees." Most go to other European nations — virtually all of which permit home education — but some have gone as far as Canada and the United States, where a German family was granted asylum by a federal immigration judge who slammed the barbaric behavior of authorities trying to smash homeschooling families. Himmelstrand, the GHEC chairman, fled from Sweden to the Finnish Ĺland Islands earlier this year.
Still, the victims seemed optimistic, and the positivity was reflected in the Berlin Declaration. "We now urge all members of the international community to take concrete steps to affirm in their law, policy, and civil and criminal procedures that parents have a natural and fundamental right to direct the education and upbringing of their children which includes the right to choose the type of education their child shall receive including home education," the document continues, encouraging national governments to consider the growing body of research showing the benefits of home education.
The declaration signatories also called on human rights bodies, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), officials, and individual citizens everywhere to "seek greater respect for the fundamental right of parents to choose the kind of education their children receive including home education." Members of the global homeschooling community, meanwhile, should take active steps to present the Berlin Declaration to their governments and ensure that the fundamental human right to home educate is upheld regardless of the motivation or methodology of those who chose it, the document added.
To start with, the declaration was signed by the entire GHEC board. However, as the document was unveiled in front of a packed conference room with close to 200 people from some two dozen countries, GHEC Chairman Himmelstrand said the goal was to continue gathering signatures and support from organizations and individuals around the world, using the document to keep the pressure on hostile governments. The room erupted in applause.
While GHEC attendees hold all sorts of diverse views — Christians, secularists, conservatives, liberals, and much more — they all agreed on a few key points. "We commit to support freedom, diversity and pluralism in education through formal and informal coordination with the goal of making home education a legitimate educational option in every nation and the right of every family and child," the Berlin Declaration concluded.
European leaders who spoke to The New American said they were pleased with the document, and that now it was time for action. "It is a very good declaration," said Pia Amacher, chief of the pro-parental rights and -education freedom Swiss Parents Lobby. "We need more educational freedom, and we need to get parents involved all across Europe so people can choose all different kinds of education. We have a big network in Switzerland, but this must expand throughout Europe."
With GHEC winding down on Sunday, participants will soon start returning to their homelands: Brazil, Russia, Taiwan, South Africa, Canada, the Philippines, South Korea, Ireland, Australia, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Morocco, France, Spain, Nepal, Austria, Kenya, Finland, Sweden, the United States, Germany, Poland, and more. Berlin Declaration in hand, though, the real action is just getting started.


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While Nathan was editing this video of Voyage's first test run of the year, he naturally started thinking of an educational television program from his youth.
For me, though, in the next office over, it was the movie Psycho that came to mind.
Since this is Nathan's first season with us, he'd never seen a test run. It was one of those first-test-ride-of-the-season-when-you-wish-it-was-ten-degrees-warmer kind of runs.
For an old-timer like me, the intricacies of a test run (meaning: what can possibly go wrong) were far less interesting than: What the heck is that NOISE?!
That noise, as it turns out, was the klaxon.
And what is a klaxon? It is an electromechanical horn. For warning.
And annoying.
While Nathan was editing the video, the klaxon reminded me of a certain sound effect from the shower scene in Psycho.
Yes, that scene.
(If you're a Hitchcock fan, you might want to read this HoliBlog post from nearly three years ago. Still makes me grin.)
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The Honorable Mauro Vieira, Brazil's ambassador to the US, visited Barnard to talk about his country's program to provide scholarships to top students to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) subjects abroad. Barnard is one of the program's host institutions. The talk was one of many events surrounding the fifth annual Global Symposium in São Paulo, Brazil, March 18. From the left: Ambassador Vieira and President Spar with students who attended the discussion.
Glamour magazine hosted a panel, "How to Build Your Personal Brand and Land Your Dream Job," for students on campus in April, and celebrated the winners of the magazine's Top10 College Women Competition. From left are panelists Jessica Williams, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart correspondent; Wendy Kopp, Teach for America founder; Mora Neilson, public relations director of L'Oréal Paris; President Spar; Cindi Leive, Glamour's editor- in-chief; Anna Chlumsky, Veep actress; Alex Wagner, MSNBC's Now with Alex Wagner host; and Rachel Sterne Haot, New York City's chief digital officer.
In honor of Women's History Month, an intimate crowd of alumnae gathered for a "music tasting," event, which paired music by female composers with wine and cheese made my women artisans. The evening was created by Kala Maxym '01 through her special-events company, Five Senses Tastings along with her former business-development manager, Aimee Styler'01. Attendees listened to each musical selection, sampling wines and cheeses carefully matched to each other and the music to create a full sensory experience. From the left Cassandra Wang, pianist; Audrey Lo, violinist; Kala Maxym (who also sang at the event); Leesa Dahl, pianist; Heather Meyer, wine specialist and soprano.
The Barnard Center for Research on Women's Scholar & Feminist conference focused this year on utopias, looking at how imagining utopias can serve as a catalyst for real change. Top: At center, Jennifer Miller, performer and founder of Circus Amok with BCRW research assistants (clockwise from top left): Emilie Segura '14, Damini Mohan '15, Michelle Chen '15, Renee Slajda '13, Phoebe Lytle '13, Dina Tyson '13, Zainah Gilles '14, Lulu Mickelson '14.
Barnard held its 10th annual Stationary Bike-A-Thon in April, raising money for Columbia Community Service (CCS). About 40 volunteers pedaled away in the LeFrak Gymnasium for the eight-hour event, raising more than $2,000. The event was sponsored by the New York City Civic Engagement Program, Barnard's Career Development office, and CCS. Top, Regina Comins of BCIT. From the left: Joan Griffith-Lee, director of CCS; Valerie Chow, associate director of civic engagement; Jeannette Darby, public safety officer; Ken Kim of Instructional Media and Technology Services; Won Kang of the Office of Career Development; and Mike Malena of Human Resources.
More than 100 students took part in Project Interview, a day-long workshop that taught students how to put their best foot forward during a job or internship interview. The Office of Career Development sponsored the event, and several successful alumnae took part, leading small-group sessions and holding one-on-one mock interviews. Brandon Holley '89, editor-in- chief of Lucky magazine, delivered the keynote, taking students on a tour of her publishing career. Raleigh Mayer, Leadership Lab instructor at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, spoke about preparing a dynamic, two-minute answer to the common interview question, "Tell me about yourself." From the left, visiting students Daria Ermushina and Amanda Awadey; Elizabeth Williams '15; Raleigh Mayer; Deborah Kang, visiting; Jenny Mayrock '15.
—By Abigail Beshkin
—Photographs by Ayelet Pearl, Asiya Khaki, Annette Kahn, Jennifer Liseo, Rebecca Douglas and Abigail Beshkin


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Lots of cool information about Star Wars: The Old Republic today this week from Bioware. Darth Hater reports on news about crafting and PvP battlegrounds in the upcoming MMO.
The crafting sounds very cool and interesting and different. You'll be able to send your companions out to gather materials, craft items or engage in missions and different companions will be more skilled at different areas. This is already sounding like more of a RTS approach (puts me in mind of Starcraft) and I love the idea that you can come back to your ship and catch up on what they've been doing while you were away.
They also say that there will be ways for players who are more involved in crafting to get deeply involved and better rewarded for it, so I'm guessing that you will also have some options to specialise your main character in that area.
I find this all very intriguing.
The PvP scenarios also sound fun, with some similarities to the battlegrounds we all know and love from numerous MMOs. At least in the sense of allowing limited numbers from each side and being objective based (presumably you'll get some points for kills too). I am also intrigued that they felt that banners, flags and points were too game-y, and guessing that they will use similar mechanics but better dressed up in terms of the story of that battleground. (Compare Wintergrasp to Arathi Basin for an example of using banners and defense points in a more immersive way, for example).
And finally, due to the epic amount of complaining from people when the Jedi Consular caster-y subclass was revealed and named Jedi Wizard (which is, yes, kind of lame), Bioware went back to the drawing/ writing board and thought up three alternative names for the subclass. You can vote on your favourite one here (and yes, there is an option to keep the Jedi Wizard!)
Alas, Jedi Psychiatrist is not on the list.


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I Can't Get No Satisfaction
In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of Elohim was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then Elohim said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Elohim saw that the light was good, and Elohim separated the light from the darkness. Elohim called the light "day," and He called the darkness "night." Evening came, and then morning: the first day. – Genesis 1:1-5 HCSB
Does the sum total of our purchases actually produce happiness? We are assured by the marketing teams of the titans of industry that if only we will use this or that product, our lives will be enhanced, we'll be popular, we'll gain peace of mind or even bring our families and communities closer together. But does it actually work?
Every year since 1945, studies have been made and polls conducted to determine whether Americans are happy or not and the results have been fascinating. Apparently, our satisfaction peaked somewhere around the 1950s and has continuously declined ever since. That's right – in spite of the fact that our material abundance has exponentially grown, our spirits have steadily flagged. We have conducted a large-scale, long-term experiment to determine if riches bring happiness and then completely ignored the obvious answer that they do not! Whatever else our consumer-driven market economy can claim, fulfillment of the human spirit is not one of those claims.
The Teacher wrote: "Those who love money will never have enough. How absurd to think that wealth brings true happiness! The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what is the advantage of wealth—except perhaps to watch it run through your fingers!"
What an image Genesis 1:1-5 gives us of the human soul! Without God, we are empty; our hearts a formless mass, cloaked in darkness. Only when the Spirit of God hovers over our spirits can we know any true hope. When that void, under the prompting of the Holy Spirit, by faith submits to God's mighty hand, suddenly light explodes upon the scene!
Elohim is truly named well! The Strong One; almighty, infinite and omnipotent is He! Only by turning our broken lives over to Him can we find restoration. Only when we submit to His will can we find peace in the midst of our circumstances. If He is capable of creating the universe ex nihilo, out of nothing, what is He capable of creating out of our nothingness?
One last thing, notice that the light was separated from the darkness. We cannot expect God to bring us into the kingdom of light and then let us continue living in the darkness whenever we like. Once we have been recreated as children of light, then we must dedicate ourselves to shining. We must live so that other formless, void, empty and dark souls can also find God's light.
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Right now, you can't turn a corner and not see something Star Trek-related hit you in the face, with the theatrical release this past week of JJ Abrams' long awaited sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. For nearly fifty years now, the Star Trek franchise has been a part of American popular culture in some form, and many out there see it as something perennial, something that is always there and will always be around. But the truth is, Star Trek has nearly gone away for good several times, only to be brought back from the jaws of death just when it looked like it was all over.
These are the stories of the people who saved Star Trek from possibly disappearing for good. Much like Captain Kirk, this classic franchise has been cheating death on a regular basis.
The Fans Save Star Trek (1968)
There is something of a popular notion that the classic Star Trek series was a dismal ratings failure in its original network run, only to become a popular and beloved series when entering daily syndication in the early '70s. The truth is, while Star Trek was never a major television series, in its first season, the show was actually a modest success ratings wise. Debuting on September 8th, 1966, "The Man Trap" actually drew in 19 million viewers, a staggering amount by today's standards. Star Trek was the only new series of the 1966-67 television season on any of the three major networks to even crack the top fifty shows. So NBC was more or less pleased that first year, at least enough to greenlight a second season in early 1967.
But the ratings had really begun to slip in the second year, and the feeling amongst fandom was that Star Trek would not get a third season. Now, this wasn't like today, when any time a cult favorite show is threatened with cancellation, an online petition shows up on Facebook or in your inbox, and everyone clicks a box and is done with it, feeling they've done their part. Back in 1968, NBC was said to have received over a million actual letters from fans, begging for Star Trek to be renewed for a third year. Super fans Bjo and John Trimble helped with a lot of the organizing of the letter writing campaigns, but an equal number of fans simply wrote letters to the network all on their own. NBC was so deluged with fan mail, in fact, that the network actually took a moment of airtime to tell viewers that Star Trek had indeed been renewed for a third season. In other words, "stop sending so many damn letters."
Of course, the network found other ways of screwing with the show, even while agreeing to bring it back. The executives at NBC were said to have never been fans of the show, and were more than happy to see it die and replaced with something cheaper to produce. They moved the series to Friday nights at 10:00 pm and slashed the budget, forcing an angry Gene Roddenberry to leave the show in everything but name. The season opener, an episode called "Spock's Brain", is widely considered one of the worst episodes of the series ever, and it set the precedent for how season three was going to be (although in fairness, there are some excellent episodes in that season as well). Nevertheless, with a third season ordered, that gave Star Trek 79 episodes total, enough to enter syndication after it was ultimately cancelled. Had the fans not rallied to ensure that third season, though, syndication may not have been possible, and without it, it is very likely that no one would remember Star Trek at all today.
Saturday Morning Saves Star Trek (1973)
After Star Trek had become such a hit in syndication in the early '70s, fans instantly started to try and find ways to bring it back for real. NBC, at this point probably regretting their decision to kill what was obviously a potential cash cow, decided to revive the show… as a Saturday morning cartoon. But despite Filmation's desire to make the show more kid friendly (a young child was originally going to be assigned to each crew member, including a little Vulcan one for Spock. Star Trek Babies, anyone?) Roddenberry put his foot down and said no. If Star Trek was coming back in animated form, it wouldn't be bastardized.
What resulted were 22 episodes that were pretty much pure Star Trek. Almost the entire original voice cast from the original series returned (except for Walter Koenig as Chekov, for budgetary reasons) and many episodes were direct sequels to classic episodes. Sure, the animation was limited (and that's being nice about it), but it was nice to see aliens that were actually aliens and not just little people with weird face paint or odd facial hair. Despite winning an Emmy, the show only lasted two seasons, but it proved that a revival of Trek could happen, and if it could happen in one form, it might still happen in another.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg Save Star Trek (Sort Of) -1978
Throughout much of the 1970's, an honest to goodness Star Trek revival was always in the cards in some form. In 1975, Trek creator Gene Roddenberry began work in earnest on a big screen version called "The God Thing." (an avowed atheist, Roddenberry loved stories that poked holes in the notions of any kind of deity.) This wouldn't be the first time a movie version of Trek was proposed; in 1968, before the show was ever even cancelled, Roddenberry told fans that a big screen version was coming, one which would tell the origin story of the Enterprise crew and how they all came together.
For the next two years, the script went through various permutations, and writers from Harlan Ellison to Ray Bradbury were brought in to pitch ideas as well. Paramount executives didn't take to any of them, though. Another script called Planet of the Titans was commissioned, but Paramount executives didn't much like that one any more than the others. After two and a half years of this back and forth, it was decided that Star Trek would come back to television after all, as part of Paramount's proposed television network, the Paramount Television Service, set to be launched in 1978. Star Trek: Phase II would be the anchor series for the new network. Sets were built, a new Enterprise model was constructed, and all of the original cast (with the exception of Leonard Nimoy) would return.
And then, in 1977, a little movie called Star Wars happened. At first, Paramount thought the enormous success of Star Wars was a fluke, and work continued on Phase II. Then, for various reasons, the notion of a Paramount-owned network ended just as quickly as it had started. Two weeks before production was to commence, Phase II was shuttered. That might have been it for Star Trek once again, but the enormous success of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind at the end of 1977 proved that Star Wars was no fluke; science fiction was Hollywood's new darling genre. It was time for Paramount to strike while the iron was hot — and the pilot script for Phase II called "In Thy Image" was reworked for the big screen. A-List director Robert Wise, the man who gave us The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story, was brought in to direct. Paramount gave the movie an enormous budget by 1970s standards, and finally, after ten years, Star Trek was really back. If not for the double whammy success that year of Star Wars and Close Encounters, made by two guys who grew up watching the original series named George and Steven, Star Trek might have never come back at all.
Harve Bennett and Nicholas Meyer Save Star Trek (1982)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in December of 1979. Hardcore fans who had waited ten years to see the Enterprise soar again lined up over and over to see the movie. But the truth is, even though no one wanted to admit it at the time, just about no one actually liked the movie. The movie was bloated, pretentious, and worst of all, incredibly boring. The colorful characters of the original series were muted down to dull Earth tones and what should have been a joyous reunion became a slog to sit through, as most of the movie resulted in the characters looking at pretty colors on the view screen. In an effort to be taken seriously, or be another 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Motion Picture forgot that although the original series was thoughtful and often philosophical, it was also lively and colorful and fun.
Nevertheless, the movie sold tickets, and despite having cost an enormous amount of money, managed to turn a profit for the studio. Paramount wanted a sequel, but they wanted one made for a hell of a lot less money and which would actually evoke the fun character drama and action of the original series. The first thing Paramount did was essentially fire Gene Roddenberry. They gave him the title "executive consultant," where he was paid handsomely to just stay out of it all. For various reasons, Roddenberry was seen as the source of all of the previous film's creative problems. Whether or not that was accurate, that seemed to be the perception at the studio.
Instead, Paramount went to a television producer named Harve Bennett to bring the movie in on budget and to make it actually entertaining. Bennett, who had twenty years of experience with Paramount's television department, had never made a feature film for the studio. He was called in to the office of Charles Bluhdorn, the then owner of the studio, who, according to Terry Lee Rioux's From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, asked him point blank, "could you make a better movie?" Bennett answered "Well, you know… yeah, I could make it less boring. Yes I could." Bluhdorn then retorted "could you make it for less than forty-five fucking million dollars?," to which Bennett replied, "oh boy, where I come from… I could make five movies for that." And with that, and a "paltry" $12 million dollar budget, Star Trek II was off to the races.
Bennett screened every episode of the series in an effort to make the new movie more like the actual show and less like a bloated knock off of Stanley Kubrick. After the creative debacle of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, no known name director in Hollywood wanted to touch Star Trek with a ten foot pole. Everyone thought Trek screwed up their chance for a true revival with the last movie. So Bennett hired relatively unknown director Nicholas Meyer, a non-Trek fan who had one movie credit to his name, the time travel flick Time After Time. Meyer took various drafts of the screenplay, all of which contained various different elements (some dealt with Kirk having an adult son, others the planet creating Genesis project, the return of series villain Khan, etc.) and fused them into one satisfying screenplay. And he did it all in twelve days.
Bennett and Meyer lured Leonard Nimoy back into the franchise with the promise of getting to play an awesome death scene. Lowered budget or not, for the returning cast, it really felt like Star Trek for the first time since the series was cancelled. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was released to both critical acclaim and fan support in June of 1982. The duo of Harve Bennett and Nick Meyer had brought back Star Trek into the cultural zeitgeist once again, just when all seemed lost. The success of Wrath of Khan with both critics and fans gave the series a major kick in the ass, and suddenly Trek was back in a big bad way.
Harve Bennett stayed to produce the next four installments, and all except the last one (The Final Frontier) were hits, especially part IV, The Voyage Home. Bennett left the franchise after the studio refused his pitch for a "Starfleet Academy Years" prequel as a concept for Star Trek VI, focusing on the budding friendship of a young Kirk and Spock with all new actors. (Fans hated the idea, although twenty years later many of these same fans would embrace it.) It was in large part due to the success of the movie franchise, thanks largely to Bennett, that Paramount decided to return Trek to television again, this time with an all new cast on the bridge of the Enterprise.
Michael Piller Saves Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)
Due to the new found success of the movie series, Paramount revived the idea of a new Star Trek television show, this time for first run syndication. This of course ended up being Star Trek: The Next Generation, which debuted in 1987. Despite being a ratings hit from day one, audiences just were not warming up to the new crew of the Enterprise-D. No matter how talented folks like Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner were, replacing cultural icons like Shatner and Nimoy was no easy task, especially with the original crew still doing great on the big screen. In the third season of the series, co-producer Rick Berman brought in Michael Piller as the series' new show runner and head writer, in hopes of saving the show creatively. Piller was put in charge of the writing staff in season three, and the first thing he did was make two massive changes to the way the show was run that changed the series' standing in the eyes of the fans for all time.
First off, he made a declaration that from now on, the series would shift away from "alien of the week" concept to focus on character above all else. The new more character-centric approach worked liked gangbusters. In season three, Next Generation finally crept out of the original series' shadow and became a pop culture phenomenon all its own, especially when the cybernetic villains known as the Borg returned to transform Captain Jean-Luc Picard into one of their own in "The Best of Both Worlds," the franchises' first ever cliffhanger. The second thing Piller did was create an open door policy for scripts on the show, meaning fans could submit scripts to the series in hopes of actually getting them made. Many great episodes came to the series due to this policy. Writer Ronald D. Moore (later the creator of the new Battlestar Galactica) was brought into the Next Generation writing staff through the open door policy as well.
Star Trek: The Next Generation exploded in the ratings, which led to more spin-off series like Deep Space Nine and Voyager, both of which Piller co-created. During the '90s, Star Trek was prospering with multiple series on the air, and the movie franchise continued with the Next Generation cast. Too much Trek all at once eventually led to over-saturation and apathy towards the franchise, but it was Michael Piller's involvement that saved the franchise from never getting out of the shadow of Kirk and Spock in the first place. Piller sadly died of cancer in 2005, but his legacy is a collection of some of the best television episodes ever produced.
JJ Abrams Saves Star Trek, After The Untimely Death of Enterprise (2008)
Under the Rick Berman regime, from 1987-2005, there were a staggering 625 episodes of Star Trek content produced. Although they were considered to be hits, neither Deep Space Nine nor Voyager garnered the same kind of ratings anywhere near what Next Generation was doing in its heyday. By the time Voyager ended its seven season run in 2001, the popular thinking was that maybe the Trek franchise needed a nice, long rest. But Paramount wasn't letting go of its golden goose just yet. The studio commissioned a new series to take Voyager's slot on UPN as soon as Voyager went off the air. (Star Trek: Voyager had done what the aborted Star Trek: Phase II series was set to do back in the '70s: be the anchor for a Paramount-run network.)
Paramount knew that fandom for Star Trek was eroding; by this point in time, there were other genre shows like Buffy, X-Files and Farscape over which geeks could obsess. Trek was no longer the only game in town. So, Paramount and Berman decided they were going to make a non-Star Trek version of Star Trek. Enterprise would be a prequel series, set a mere 150 years from now, with humans who looked and sounded more contemporary, more "like us." The show would be "sexier" (in other words, lots of gratuitous shots of a hot Vulcan woman in her underwear getting radiation decontamination), and the theme song would be a terrible Rod Stewart pop track. Heck, the name Star Trek wouldn't even be part of the title, it would simply be called Enterprise. Paramount was hoping that non Trek fans would watch and old Trek fans would forgive how embarrassed-to-be-Star Trek the show really was. Neither happened. Enterprise struggled in the ratings for four seasons.
The final season of the show saw an actual Trekker take the helm, as producer Manny Coto stepped in to make the show an actual prequel series to Star Trek in more than name only, with tons of nods to the original series and even the animated show, in a hope to make a last ditch effort to get the old Trek fans back. It was a noble effort, but it wasn't enough. Enterprise ended its run after 98 episodes in 2005, the first Star Trek series to be cancelled since the original show. Many believed that was the quiet, sad death of one of the greatest science fiction franchises of all time. Considering how many times Star Trek has returned from the brink of death, they should have really known better.
This time, the higher ups at Paramount were smart. They let Trek lie dead for a few years, then in 2007 announced an all new movie titled, simply enough, Star Trek. The movie would have a budget not seen since The Motion Picture. JJ Abrams was brought in to produce and ultimately direct. This new Star Trek would end up fulfilling the old promise made by Gene Roddenberry way back in 1968 about a Star Trek movie being a prequel about how the original crew got together, and in part be a version of Harve Bennett's "Academy Years" script that was scrapped way back in 1990, with younger leads cast in the original iconic roles. Star Trek reinvigorated the franchise in a way that no one thought possible, and was the highest grossing Trek film ever, even with adjustment for inflation factored in. In many ways, this new Abrams version is more Star Wars than Star Trek, but there is no denying that the movie's success saved the franchise from the jaws of oblivion once again. With the franchise quickly approaching its 50th Anniversary, probably more popular than ever, it is hard to imagine that Star Trek will ever need a miracle worker (or workers) to save it again. But if it does… it's good to know those fans are out there with enough love for the series to bring it back to life again.
Eric Diaz is a lifelong nerd who created the lifestyle column Gayscape for Geekscape.net and whose pop culture lists can be found regularly at Topless Robot.


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BANK OF AMERICA v. PARNELL(1956)
Alleging diversity of citizenship, petitioner, a bank in California, sued in a Federal District Court in Pennsylvania to recover the value of certain bonds alleged to have been converted in Pennsylvania. They were bearer bonds of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, guaranteed by the United States, maturing in 1952 but called for redemption in 1944. They disappeared from petitioner's possession in 1944, and respondent Parnell, acting for one Rocco, presented them in 1948 to respondent bank in Pennsylvania, which collected the proceeds and paid them to Parnell, who paid them to Rocco. On the theory that state law governed, the District Court instructed the jury that respondents had the burden of showing that they took the bonds in good faith, without knowledge or notice of defect in title. Verdicts and judgments were for petitioner; but the Court of Appeals reversed on the ground that, under federal law, the bonds were not "overdue" when presented to respondent bank and petitioner had the burden of showing notice and lack of good faith on the part of respondents. Held: The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed and the case is remanded to that Court for further proceedings. Pp. 30-34.
[ Footnote * ] Together with No. 22, Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association v. First National Bank in Indiana, also on certiorari to the same court.
Erwin N. Griswold argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Robert L. Kirkpatrick and John G. Buchanan.
Edward Dumbauld argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent in No. 21.
Harvey A. Miller, Jr. argued the cause for respondent in No. 22. With him on the brief were Harvey A. Miller and J. Lee Miller.
MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.
Petitioner, alleging diversity of citizenship, brought suit in the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania alleging that in September and October 1948 two individual defendants, Parnell and Rocco, and two corporate defendants, the First National Bank in Indiana and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, had converted 73 Home Owners' Loan Corporation bonds which belonged to petitioner. Only Parnell and the First National Bank are respondents here, since the Federal Reserve Bank was dismissed, on its motion, after petitioner had presented its case in the District Court, and since Rocco did not appeal from the District Court's judgment.
At the trial it appeared that these bonds were bearer bonds with payment guaranteed by the United States. They carried interest coupons calling for semi-annual payment. They were due to mature May 1, 1952, but pursuant to their terms, had been called on or about May 1, 1944. On May 2, 1944, the bonds disappeared [352 U.S. 29, 31] while petitioner was getting them ready for presentation to the Federal Reserve Bank for payment. In 1948 they were presented to the First National Bank for payment by Parnell on behalf of Rocco. The First National Bank forwarded them to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. It cashed them and paid the First National Bank, which issued cashier's checks to Parnell. Parnell then turned the proceeds over to Rocco less a fee - there was conflicting testimony as to whether the fee was nominal or substantial.
The principal issue at the trial was whether the respondents took the bonds in good faith, without knowledge or notice of the defect in title. On this issue the trial judge charged:
The dissenters agreed in applying the doctrine of the Clearfield Trust case to determine the nature of the contract and the rights and duties of the United States as a party but not the rights of private transferees among themselves. They, like the majority, looked to federal law to determine whether the bonds were "overdue paper" when presented to the First National Bank. They concluded that since the respondent bank knew of the call, as to it, the bonds became demand paper and that the bank took the paper an unreasonable length of time after maturity, as advanced by the call.
In the view of the dissenters, state law was controlling with respect to proof of good faith and the burden thereon. They found that state law placed the burden of proof on respondents to demonstrate their good faith, and that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict that the burden of proving good faith had not been sustained even if, with respect to the respondent bank, the bonds were not to be regarded as demand paper taken an unreasonable time after maturity, as advanced by the call.
Petitioner sought a writ of certiorari to review the judgments of the Court of Appeals. Because the determination of the applicable law raised an important issue of federal-state relations, we granted certiorari. 350 U.S. 963 .
The District Court in this suit, based on diversity jurisdiction, for the conversion in Pennsylvania of pieces of [352 U.S. 29, 33] paper of defined value, deemed itself a court of Pennsylvania in which, in view of the nature of the claim, Pennsylvania law would govern. See Guaranty Trust Co. v. York, 326 U.S. 99, 108 . But respondents claim, and the Court of Appeals sustained them, that the decision in Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, 318 U.S. 363 , compels the application of federal law to the entire case. The Court of Appeals misconceived the nature of this litigation in holding that the Clearfield Trust case controlled. In that case we held that a suit by the United States to recover on an express guaranty of prior endorsements on a Government check with a forged endorsement was governed by federal law. The basis for this decision was stated with unclouded explicitness:
We do not mean to imply that litigation with respect to Government paper necessarily precludes the presence of a federal interest, to be governed by federal law, in all situations merely because it is a suit between private parties, or that it is beyond the range of federal legislation to deal comprehensively with Government paper. We do not of course foreclose such judicial or legislative action in appropriate situations by concluding that this controversy over burden of proof and good faith represents too essentially a private transaction not to be dealt with by the local law of Pennsylvania where the transactions took place. Federal law of course governs the interpretation of the nature of the rights and obligations created by the Government bonds themselves. A decision with respect to the "overdueness" of the bonds is therefore a matter of federal law, which, in view of our holding, we need not elucidate.
This conclusion requires reversal of the judgments of the Court of Appeals but not reinstatement of the judgments of the District Court. The Court of Appeals did not originally consider all the points raised by respondents. Moreover, since the Court of Appeals misconceived the applicable law, it is for that court to review the judgments of the District Court in the light of the controlling state law. The Court of Appeals has not decided what the governing state law on burden of proof is, and it is the court which should so decide. Likewise, if state law casts the burden on respondents to demonstrate their good faith, it is for the Court of Appeals to assess the evidence in light of that standard.
The judgments of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit are therefore reversed and the cases are remanded to that court for proceedings in conformity with this opinion.
We believe that the "federal law merchant," which Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, 318 U.S. 363, 367 , held applicable to transactions in the commercial paper of the United States, should be applicable to all transactions in that paper. Indeed the Court said in National Metropolitan Bank v. United States, 323 U.S. 454, 456 , that "legal questions involved in controversies over such commercial papers are to be resolved by the application of federal rather than local law." Not until today has a distinction been drawn between suits by the United States on that paper and suits by other parties to it. But the Court does not stop there. Because this is "essentially a private transaction," it is to be governed by local law. Yet the nature of the rights and obligations created by commercial paper of the United States Government is said to be controlled by federal law. Thus, federal law is to govern some portion of a dispute between private parties, while that portion of the dispute which is "essentially of local concern" is to be governed by local law. The uncertainties which inhere in such a dichotomy are obvious. Cf. Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205 ; Davis v. Department of Labor, 317 U.S. 249 .
The virtue of a uniform law governing bonds, notes, and other paper issued by the United States is that it provides a certain and definite guide to the rights of all parties rather than subjecting them to the vagaries of the laws of many States. The business of the United States will go on without that uniformity. But the policy surrounding our choice of law is concerned with the convenience, certainty, and definiteness in having one set of rules governing the rights of all parties to government paper, as contrasted to multiple rules. If the rule of the Clearfield Trust case is to be abandoned as to some parties, it should be abandoned as to all and we should start afresh on this problem. [352 U.S. 29, 36]


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President Trump has been in office for only a few months, but there's already one Democrat who's ready to replace him: Rep. John Delaney of Maryland.
The extremely early presidential announcement by a little-known congressman on Friday prompted widespread social media reaction, with many people wondering who he was.
Alexandra Smith, executive director of America Rising, a GOP research firm, appeared to poke fun at Delaney's relative lack of notoriety in a press release consisting of just: "Who?"
Brendan Buck, a counselor to House Speaker Paul Ryan, also joked in a tweet about the run.
William Allison, communications director for Republican-led House Budget Committee, said his office was also wondering about the newest Democratic candidate.
Delaney declared his intent to run for the Democratic nomination in an op-ed in The Washington Post.
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Delaney has only been in office since 2013. Prior to serving, he founded two companies that are both publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He does not have a national reputation yet, which made him an unlikely candidate, and he has primarily sponsored bills relating to veterans issues and infrastructure.
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Review: PCS's Othello
That's not to say it's lazy: the dazzling, revolving set by Scott Fyfe; gorgeously realized period costumes from Susan E. Mickey and appropriately moody lighting design by Peter Maradudin lift up an already strong cast. Shakespeare's story, of a celebrated warrior and the inexplicably evil-hearted standard bearer who drives him to ruin by convincing him of his wife's infidelity, is as tangled and riveting as ever, and PCS's production is simultaneously generous to the material and to its audience. It should leave most viewers transfixed.
Gavin Hoffman bears much of the show's burden as the scheming, malicious Iago, a role to which the actor brings an unusually light touch. There's certainly something to be said for playing psychopathology with a touch of subtlety in an era where the off-kilter erraticism of Heath Ledger's Joker seems a requirement for every crazy Hollywood bad guy. After all, it's not just inhuman hatred that aids this most peculiar of Shakespearian villains as he systematically dismantles the lives of those around him; it's a carefully crafted façade of trustworthiness that draws Othello to his "honest Iago."
Hoffman's Iago, though, is almost too likeable. The earnest approachability that fools his victims bleeds over slightly to monologues and asides, even though Iago isn't trying to pull one over on the audience. I've seen audiences stunned to silence by the pure malice in other portrayals, but here his audacious mind-games are played for laughs, and it's a deeply different experience.
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Plenty of actors would deliver the villain's line during the penultimate scene, "tonight is the night/that either makes me or fordoes me quite," as a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of the disaster guaranteed to befall every character by this point in the story, Iago himself included. Hoffman, though, doesn't give us anything so easily recognizable as heavy-handed sarcasm. Whether or not you appreciate his approach depends on your willingness to accept Othello as a play with nothing truly solid to grab hold of.
Daver Morrison's approach to the play's eponymous character might be similarly unexpected for some. His Othello isn't quite the imposing physical presence often associated with the role, and there's even something of a Lear in his increasingly halted delivery as the play's climax looms near. The Moorish General is an outsider who has fought to prove his worth to an adopted culture, and Morrison's depiction of his slow unraveling is the most convincing of the cast.
Coleman and his cast and crew have waded admirably, if inoffensively, into what are arguably the Bard's murkiest waters. In particular, Dana Green's nearly show-stealing turn in the fifth act as Iago's wife Emilia comes as a rousing slap in the face to anyone who might disparage Othello for unexamined sexism (I wish I could say something similar about the racial issues, which seem like a missed opportunity). For all the crisp staging and bright performances, though, there's not much clarity through the murk. It might be frustrating, but it is certainly not forgettable.


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Norman architecture
Norman architecture, term applied to the buildings erected by the Normans in all lands that fell under their dominion. It is used not only in England and N France, but also in S Italy (Apulia) and in Sicily. The Norman buildings in England and France were largely Romanesque, chiefly based upon the Romanesque architecture of Lombardy in Italy. Churches, abbeys, and castles, the principal works, showed massive proportions, sparsely adorned masonry, and a frequent use of the round arch. The development of the style was confined chiefly to the period from 1066 to 1154, a period of tremendous building activity. Arising in Normandy, the style was quickly introduced into England, superseding the Saxon. It first appeared at Westminster Abbey, where only the foundations remain. In England and Normandy there was a closely parallel development. The great French works include the ruined abbey of Jumièges, near Rouen, the beginnings of the great fortified abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, and the two abbeys at Caen that were founded by William the Conqueror, all belonging to the middle and late 11th cent. The greatest activity, however, was in England, where after 1070 the Normans built hundreds of parish churches and commenced most of the great cathedrals. All underwent later restorations; the only intact early Norman design is the small St. John's Chapel (c.1087), built by William the Conqueror, in the Tower of London. In both England and Normandy church plans were cruciform. Over the crossing of nave and transepts was a prominent square tower, one of the most effective Norman features. Blind arcades, sometimes with interlacing arches, were the common adornment for walls. Moldings carved with the beakhead, zigzag, or chevron, or alternating lozenges are especially identified with the style. Increased skill and the adoption of the chisel resulted in grotesque sculptured animal forms and in the sculptured reliefs of the tympanums over doorways. Certain elements of Anglo-Norman construction pointed toward the development of Gothic architecture. Whereas in early Norman buildings wooden roofs prevailed, the cathedral at Durham (commenced 1093) was the first to employ a ribbed vault system with pointed arches (the nave was finished c.1133). Other great English cathedrals tended away from the early massiveness of wall construction and showed an increasing verticality, including those at Winchester (begun 1079), Ely (1083–1109), and Peterborough (begun 1118). The austere grandeur of the English and French Norman style was modified in S Italy and especially in Sicily by the mingling of Byzantine and Arabic elements.
See A. W. Clapham, English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest (Vol. II, 1934); D. F. Renn, Norman Castles in Britain (1970).
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I want to believe that Mulder and Scully live happily ever after, but it's now very apparent that "The X-Files" as we knew them are irrevocably dead.
After an woman goes missing in West Virginia, the FBI are contacted by a man (Billy Connolly) who claims to be having visions connected with the missing person's case. The two assigned agents (Amanda Peet and Xzibit) aren't sure that their mysterious psychic can be trusted but have nothing else to go on, so they reluctantly turn to the only person they've heard of with any expertise in unnatural phenomenon, disavowed agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Unfortunately, Mulder's still wanted by the FBI on fraud charges, and only former agent Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) may still know where to find him.
This is it? After six years waiting to find out what happened to agents Mulder and Scully, all we get is an unmemorable cop episode with a common psychic as the supernatural element? Why even call it "The X-Files" at all? Wouldn't it have made more sense to call it "Whatever Happened to Mulder and Scully?" And all this is set once again in West Virginia, that mystical land forgotten by time that Chris Carter believes is populated with displaced pedophiles and elderly drones who remember nothing and discard all important paperwork. Only fans still interested in the no-longer platonic relationship of Fox and Dana have anything to look forward to here, because there's just nothing here that's epic, important, or even interesting enough to care about.
While not as bad as The Happening, the story is one that could have happened any time between conspiracy episodes in the early years of "The X-Files." The difference is in the chemistry between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, both at ease in their familiar characters and closer than ever. But with a story yielding one small element in common with "The X-Files" and a plot executed independently of Fox and Dana's interaction, everything seems like a distraction to keep milking they same will-they, won't-they, do-they, don't-they relationship that's been dragged out far too long already. As poor as Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was, it made for a better X-Files film than this.
As I mentioned a short wile before the release of I Want to Believe, the core of "The X-Files" has always been an FBI believer and skeptic investigating the unexplained. Anything and everything else that happened outside of that formula was part of the show's history, and this new film is completely dependent upon knowing that history to get any enjoyment out of it. If all that this was intended to be was a love letter to the fans, then it should have been about Fox and Dana in trouble, whether they were about to be assimilated, cut up as fish food, or demonically possessed to carry out an assassination that brings about Armageddon (all good ideas, Chris!) The sum total of The X-Files: I Want to Believe isn't the tribute to what made the series great that we'd hoped for, just a sad reminder of why we lost interest to begin with.
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CBN.com For Keith Urban's sixth studio album, Get Closer, the singer-songwriter dives even deeper into the explorations of love and relationships that have established him as one of the world's biggest country music stars—while also extending his rock & roll side, as his hard-charging guitar work reaches new heights. The album is the follow-up to 2009's Grammy-winning and platinum selling Defying Gravity, which entered Billboard's pop and country charts at Number One, and spun off five Top Ten hits, including the chart-toppers "Sweet Thing" and "Only You Can Love Me This Way."
For Urban, the songs on the new album build on ideas that he introduced the last time around. "On Defying Gravity I started touching upon the theme of the courage to love," he says. "It's all well and good to say, 'I can't find anybody to love, I wish I could find someone to love.' But do I have the courage to love? Am I willing to open my heart and give the sword to my partner and go, 'All right, I trust you, absolutely and completely?' "
The ambition for Get Closer is made explicit right on the cover. "The title is multifaceted," says Urban, "because my instincts have always been to run from things that are good for me, to run from love. I have always run from intimacy, and marriage has been a real awakening for me in looking at that very differently. That's what the title really refers to."
New Zealand-born and Australia-raised, Keith Urban moved to Nashville in 1992. His first American album came as a member of The Ranch (1997), followed by an increasingly accomplished series of multi Platinum-selling solo albums: Keith Urban (1999), Golden Road (2002), Be Here (2004), and Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing (2006). The compilation Greatest Hits: 19 Kids (2008) included such Number One hits as "But For The Grace Of God," "Somebody Like You" (which was named the top country song of the decade), "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me," "You'll Think Of Me," "Days Go By," "Making Memories Of Us," "Better Life," and "You Look Good In My Shirt."
Urban has been honored with Grammy Awards, Country Music Association Awards, Academy of County Music Awards, a People's Choice Award, American Music Award and Australia's coveted Aria Award. His remarkable musical gifts have also brought him to places where countrysuperstars have rarely gone before, including such very recent appearances as a blazing rendition of the Rolling Stones' classic "Tumblin' Dice" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a powerful rendition of "Lean on Me" alongside Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow on the Hope for Haiti telethon and a CMT Crossroads taping with John Mayer.
Yet as Get Closer illustrates, rather than rely on formula, Urban continues to innovate with his music. The sound of the album expands the contrast between old and new styles that has underpinned much of his previous work. "I love using drum machines when I write," he says, " and I love the juxtaposition of a great, funky '80s drum machine with a banjo. Merging those instruments together was something I was really drawn to—we got to a certain point on the record, but I'd like to keep exploring it more."
Some of the sonic experimentation, though, was the result of more than just creative ambition. "I used a lot of new guitars this time, because all of mine got lost in the (middle Tennessee) flood," says Urban. "It was a real blessing in the end, because it got me out of my comfort zone, and I was really focused on making music, and not what we were making it with. I borrowed a few guitars, bought a couple of amps on eBay, and just sort of embraced it—that whatever we've got to work with, we're gonna make it work."
Produced with long-time collaborator Dann Huff, Get Closer blends such chugging rockers as "Long Hot Summer" or the first single, "Put You in a Song," with more emotionally complex and nuanced compositions like "Right on Back to You" and "Luxury of Knowing."* Urban considers "Luxury," written by Lori McKenna, an especially rich selection. "I love that song, because it's written from such a unique, open-ended, unsettling place," he says. "I look for songs that people are going to feel something towards—like, 'I'm not in that place now, but I've very much been in that place.' I'm trying to find those songs that connect with people."
Urban worked with such previous co-writers as Sarah Buxton, Darryl Brown and Richard Marx on Get Closer. But it was a song by two Nashville writers that captured Urban's own experiences with remarkable precision. "'Without You' really is my life story," he says, with some disbelief. "It's crazy—the fast cars and the guitars and the little girl coming along. It's just an amazing song, and I never would have allowed myself to write it."
As the happy accident of that song indicates, the album's creation was less a matter of Urban chasing a theme than it was staying open to songs that revealed where he is in his own life. "This wasn't a conscious sort of journey for me," he says. "It was just writing and writing and finding songs that speak to me at this time. I looked for songs that represented all different facets of relationships, but the end result is always stay together, get closer, don't run. The guy in "Right On Back To You" has driven off—but he's pulled over and gone, 'I always do this. This is ridiculous because I love this girl, what am I doing?' So he turns around and he goes back. They're all just reconciling with the need to get closer to intimacy."
The magic of Get Closer, then, isn't a result of what happened when Keith Urban was in the recording studio; it's about all the other hours of the day. "I just think there's more love in this album, and that permeated everything and made the music deeper," he says. "I loved making this record. I felt a tremendous sense of balance in my life, as a husband and a father and a musician who gets to go and try to capture all that and harness it and create something."
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Get Closer (2010)
Defying Gravity (2009)
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Application Universe – Each Java EE application has its own class loader universe, which loads the classes in all the modules in the application.
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If you happened to miss Sonatype's recent webinar on the Developer Onboarding feature of Maven Studio for Eclipse, you can view the presentation by following this link. The Developer Onboarding feature of MSE saves companies time and money by getting a new developer productive within minutes.
Among the benefits of efficient onboarding are that:
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013 05:43 AM EST
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry clashed with congressmen on both sides of the aisle Tuesday over the controversial nuclear deal with Iran, exposing deep rifts over a U.S. pledge to refrain from any new sanctions over the next six months in exchange for concessions on enriching uranium.
The disagreement could have broad consequences for the U.S. diplomatic effort to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
In his first congressional testimony since last month's Geneva agreement, Kerry defended the diplomacy as having halted and rolled back central elements of Iran's nuclear program for the first time.
He pleaded with Democrats and Republicans alike not to scuttle the chances of a peaceful resolution to a crisis that has regularly featured U.S. and Israeli threats of potential military action.
"Let me be very clear: This is a very delicate diplomatic moment and we have a chance to address peacefully one of the most pressing national security concerns that the world faces today," Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "We're at a crossroads. We're at one of those really hinge points in history. One path could lead to an enduring resolution in the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear program. The other path could lead to continued hostility and potentially to conflict."
Kerry's appearance came as lawmakers increasingly threatened to undermine the six-month interim pact, which gives Iran $7 billion in sanctions relief over the next half-year in exchange for the Islamic republic's neutralizing its higher-enriched uranium stockpiles, not adding any new centrifuges, and ceasing work at a heavy-water reactor that potentially could produce plutonium used in nuclear weapons.
Members of both parties challenged Kerry.
The top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, specifically asked Kerry why the administration was so strongly opposing sanctions that wouldn't be imposed unless Iran breaks the agreement.
And Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman expressed misgivings about trusting the Obama administration, which he accused of hampering all sanctions efforts against Iran thus far.
Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., are close to completing a bill that would require the administration to certify every 30 days Iran's adherence to the interim pact, according to legislative aides.
Without that certification, the legislation would re-impose all sanctions and introduce new restrictions on Iran's engineering, mining and construction industries.
The legislation also calls for a global boycott of Iranian oil by 2015 if Iran fails to live up to the interim agreement. Foreign companies and banks violating the bans would be barred from doing business in the United States.
However, Iran sanctions were left off a defense bill working its way through the Senate this week — much to the dismay of Republicans.
"This is a rather transparent attempt to prevent a vote on enhanced Iran sanctions, so they're trying to circumvent the Senate, pass major legislation, essentially without amendments," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
In the House, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., is drafting separate legislation mapping out how a final deal with Iran should look, aides say.
Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has warned any new package of commercial restrictions would kill the deal.
"If Congress adopts sanctions, it shows lack of seriousness and lack of a desire to achieve a resolution on the part of the United States," Zarif told Time magazine. "My parliament can also adopt various legislation that can go into effect if negotiations fail. But if we start doing that, I don't think that we will be getting anywhere."
Kerry said new sanctions could also be viewed as a sign of bad faith by America's negotiating partners — Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia. The United States is banking on them to enforce existing oil and financial restrictions on Tehran and to press Iran into a final agreement.
"I don't want to give the Iranians a public excuse to flout the agreement," Kerry said. "It could lead our international partners to think that we're not an honest broker, and that we didn't mean it when we said that sanctions were not an end in and of themselves but a tool to pressure the Iranians into a diplomatic solution. Well, we're in that. And six months will fly by so fast, my friends, that before you know it, we're either going to know which end of this we're at or not."
Kerry's assessment comes just three days after President Barack Obama began to play down chances for success, telling a think-tank forum that he believed the odds of a comprehensive nuclear agreement next year are 50-50 or worse.
Still, Obama defended diplomacy as the best way to prevent Tehran from acquiring atomic weapons and rejected criticism from Israel's government and many in Congress that his aides bargained away too much without securing a complete halt to Iran's nuclear program — as demanded by the international community for several years.
Members of Congress generally believe that crippling petroleum, banking, and trade sanctions levied on Iran in recent years were responsible for bringing its more moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, to power and his representatives to the negotiating table.
Many argue more pressure, not less, could break Iran's will and secure better terms in a final agreement.
At several points, Kerry and lawmakers talked over each other as they argued about whether the deal recognized Iran's "right" to enrich uranium — which the administration rejects — and about the details of international inspections on Iranian sites and its non-nuclear weapons programs.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., was perhaps strongest in her criticism of the administration, flatly denouncing the agreement in Geneva as a "bad deal."
"We may have bargained away our fundamental position," said Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the committee chairman. "Iran should not be enriching and reprocessing," he said, criticizing what he termed the administration's "false confidence that we can effectively check Iran's misuse of these key nuclear bomb-making technologies."
Iran insists its program is solely for peaceful nuclear energy and medical research.
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Comedy legend and TV host Joan Rivers has died at the age of 81. PBS honors her memory with a collection of her appearances on "Pioneers of Television," "Tavis Smiley", "This Emotional Life" and the upcoming season of "Makers: Women Who Make America."
PBS NewsHour
Unapologetic Comedian Joan Rivers Dies at 81
Comedian and television star Joan Rivers was known for her no-holds-barred approach to comedy.
Pioneers of Television
Funny Ladies
This episode celebrates the first comediennes to appear on television.
This Emotional Life
Quit wasting your time
Find out why Joan Rivers claimed we had too much time on our hands.
Tavis Smiley
Comedienne Joan Rivers – Part 2
Rivers keeps the laughs coming, but also does some serious reflecting on her career.
American Masters
Outtake: Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers recalls a prank that she played on Johnny Carson after her daughter, Melissa,
Remembering Joan Rivers' Fearless Career
View her life and career in pictures.
Make 'Em Laugh
Joan Rivers on the Hypocrisy of Celebrity
Find out what she had to say in this clip from the Make 'Em Laugh special.
Next Avenue
Can We Talk About Joan Rivers?
In her honor, we rounded up 12 of the comic's best quotes on aging.
Next Avenue
Joan Rivers' Death: Facts About Vocal Cord Surgery
Older people often have vocal disorders, so here's how to protect your voice.


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Oklahoma family's Alaskan vacation disrupted by murder investigation
Utah woman killed on cruise ship
Utah woman killed on cruise ship
Utah woman killed on cruise ship
A cruise ship was stuck at an Alaskan port after a shocking murder at sea.
Hundreds of passengers were forced to stay on board while FBI agents investigated the crime. An Oklahoma City family was among the passengers on the Emerald Princess cruise ship where the murder happened.
Mary Imel's Facebook page says "and so our family Alaskan Adventure begins." Little did they know they'd be on board a ship where a murder would occur.
"We wake up this morning. We are supposed to be on the highlight of the cruise and my grandchildren wake up to this as well," Imel said. "There's been a murder on the ship. It's unfortunate, but we are headed for Juneau for the FBI to board our ship."
All 3,400 passengers on the Emerald Princess were just waiting. A 39-year-old woman from Utah was killed in a domestic dispute on board.
Imel said the cruise line has canceled the ship's excursions.
"Passengers are upset but sympathetic," she said.
The summer vacation certainly was not the trip the Imels expected when they left Seattle on Sunday. She doesn't know when the trip will be back underway.
"There's no talk of leaving," Imel said.
Since talking to Imel, reports have come out that some people have been allowed to disembark, but there's still no word on how long the ship will be docked in Juneau.


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Since ancient times our ancestors took pride in the art of fine wine making. Today pretty much everyone knows that when it comes to wine, quality makes a huge difference. Just what is it that improves the wine quality? It is well known amongst wine makers, that soil type, pH, weather, climate, length of growing season, seed stock, harvest time, and the grower's knowledge, among other factors all determine the ultimate quality of that wine. This is also why a standardized wine like "Ripple" for example will always taste the same, but will never have the quality of other wines grown, harvested and bottled in the traditional way. "Standardization" causes a huge loss in quality, because according to Jon Barron, Master Herbalist, Read the rest of this entry »