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Schwarzenegger's 'Total Recall' Of His Life, So Far
This is TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. I'm David Greene. When we talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger's life, it is hard to find the right words to capture it. It's the story of an immigrant who grew up poor and came to the United States to achieve his goals and succeed. It's the story of a giant bodybuilder who took a quirky culture and helped turn it into an internationally recognized sport.
It's the story of a man who could hardly speak English and somehow rose to fame in Hollywood, landing blockbuster roles we'll never forget. And don't forget the story of a politician who sought to apply his own life lessons to the public sphere in California.
Given all this, it probably will not surprise you that Arnold Schwarzenegger's new autobiography is 624 pages long. Arnold Schwarzenegger will join us in just a second to tell his stories, and we want to hear yours, as well. If you're an immigrant to this country, what was your plan, and how has it worked out? 800-989-8255 is our number. You can also reach us by email: email@example.com.
Arnold Schwarzenegger joins us from a studio at member station WAMU here in Washington, D.C. His new book is titled "Total Recall."
And governor, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION. I like the title.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, thank you very much, David. It's nice to be on your show.
GREENE: You know, as autobiographies often do, yours starts when you were born. And it was 1947, post-World War II Austria, and your family was incredibly poor, it sounds like. So tell me a bit about that.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, my father was in the police. He was just starting out, and made very little money. And we lived in this little house, and there was no food. It was really my mother had to go out and beg for food when she went from farm to farm and beg for food, and then she came home with a little bit of butter and a little bit of bread, just enough to feed us for a few days. And then she would go out again and beg some more for food. I mean, it was really horrible.
There was less food around and more misery after the war than during the war, and - but that's the way I grew up. And I think that's also the reason why I created such tremendous desire to succeed and had this fire, always, in the belly, you know, to get out of that village and become the best in something and to eventually go to America and be part of a country that is, you know, the land of opportunity.
GREENE: Best of something, you write about putting pictures of men, bodybuilders, around your bedroom. And your mother was a little concerned about that at one point?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I was - I think my parents were concerned about me because I always was searching for what could I have the best talent in. You know, I was playing soccer. I was doing track and field. You know, I was involved in so many different sports, trying to search what it is that I'm good at, because I always felt like it's through athletics I could get out of the country and become somebody.
And I, totally coincidence, fell into the weightlifting and the bodybuilding. I met this guy that was Mr. Austria at the lake where I grew up, and he would come out every summer during, you know, summer vacation, during his holidays, and, you know, swim there and exercise there. And so we kids were impressed by watching him exercise and lift all these weights.
And there were other athletes, the shot-putters and discus throwers that came out and lifting weights and doing chin-ups and wrestling and boxing and all this. And so I got sucked into this whole thing, and then eventually joined a weightlifting club and became a weightlifter, bodybuilder, power-lifter.
And I saw this magazine that had my idol on the cover, Reg Park, who was - became Mr. Universe three times and won - and then ended up in the Hercules movies in the '60s. And so he kind of became my idol. And so then I started cutting out pictures of these bodybuilding magazines and boxing magazines and weightlifting magazines and put them up on the wall above my bed, kind of to remind me every day this is what I ought to look like, this is what I ought to do, train every day, and one day, I will be like that. So it was a kind of motivational vehicle for me.
But my mother looked at it in a different way. I mean, she looked at it one time, I was very proud. I took her into the bedroom, and I said look how I decorated my bed above here, the wall. And she shook her head and, you know, didn't say much. And I was kind of concerned why she didn't really say something or didn't compliment me of how well I decorated the wall.
And the next thing I knew was she flagged down the doctor who, every Wednesday, came with his little Fiat by our house. And I used to understand, there was almost no car driving in the village. There were no cars around. But he had a car. He was a doctor, and he drove to go fishing.
And my mother would just stop his car and would ask him to come up to the house and to look at my bedroom wall. And so he was kind of the consultant in all different areas, not just a doctor for bodily injuries or for illnesses and so on. She would ask him all kinds of questions about how to raise the kids and what to do about this and that.
So anyways, he came to the bedroom, and he looked at the wall, and she said: Look at this. I mean, what do you think of this? I mean, my son has all these naked pictures of men. They're all oiled up, and they're with their little briefs standing there and flexing. And it's terrible. What should I do? I mean, all his friends have pictures of girls above their bedroom, you know, above their bed on the wall.
GREENE: And what did you tell your mother?
SCHWARZENEGGER: And he only has men. And so, you know, and she said - having tears come down her eyes.
GREENE: And what did you tell your mom?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, he said, well, Frau Schwarzenegger, (German spoken) - which means this is quite normal, you know, that boys at the age of 15, 16, they look for heroes, and they want to improve their bodies. It's the time when they want to get big, more muscular and more athletic and all this. It's just a stage that they go through. So don't worry about it. It's actually very healthy, and you should be happy because he's training every day.
And then he talked to me, and he calmed my mother down. But she was very, very concerned at this point, and luckily the doctor saved the day.
GREENE: I have to stop you, because one thing you said was by coincidence you fell into this sport. You can't make me believe that there's not some physical talent you have. I don't think if I did the training, I would quite look like you, governor.
SCHWARZENEGGER: No, but - you're absolutely correct. I think you caught onto something that's very important that when I - this was one of many sports that I started, and within no time, I got endless amount of compliments in the weightlifting club. They immediately made me a member of the weightlifting team. They felt that they have never seen anyone gain that much strength in the shortest period of time.
The way my muscles developed was also abnormal. So it was very clear that my talent was there. That was my talent, and so that's why I went all out and I felt like in that area, I could become a champion - not only a champion, but actually a world champion.
GREENE: And with goals like that, I mean, you said you had this fire in your belly. I mean, where did that come from? You wrote that at 10 years old, I became absolutely convinced that I was special, and I knew I was meant for bigger things. Coming from poverty in Austria, I mean, what gave you that certainty?
SCHWARZENEGGER: It's just, I would say, faith. I had very clear visions of me being a champion. When I saw this picture of Reg Park on a cover, standing there like - as Hercules, from the Hercules movies, I looked at that, and then I looked at the inside and I read the story, and I immediately started creating visions of me standing there on the pedestal at the Mr. Universe contest and me being Hercules and me doing movies and so on.
And that created such unbelievable drive and such unbelievable will and discipline, that there was absolutely no stopping me. I mean, I went to the gym two hours every day lifting weights. When I came home afterwards, I lifted an extra hour and a half and did bodybuilding training, and it was just relentless.
Even in the military - and ESPN just showed the documentary on that, of what I would do in the military. I would have, in my tank, I was a tank driver, we had in the tool boxes on the side of the tank, I took all the tools out and I put my exercise bench in there and dumbbell plates, barbell plates, bars and the collars for the bars and everything with me so when we were on maneuver at 6, 7 o'clock at night, when we were finished, or at midnight if we were finished, I would then take out all the exercise equipment and I would be working out for, you know, for hours. And so I was relentless.
GREENE: You were a tank driver, right? Is that...
SCHWARZENEGGER: I was a tank driver. I was a tank driver, yes. So it was a perfect - the military then provided for me the food. It was the first time that I had meat and protein every day. And that made me gain 25 pounds during the year I was in the military. And so I - you know, I remember that after I came out of the military at the age of 19, I went to Munich to train in this professional bodybuilding gym that I then became the trainer at.
And that gave me enough time to then train morning, noon and night. And I would train three times a day and - like, fanatically. And I went then to London at the age of 19 to the Mr. Universe contest to place in the top six. That was the goal - and I ended up being runner-up. I was second in the Mr. Universe contest.
GREENE: So you beat your goal.
SCHWARZENEGGER: So I knew. So I knew. And I had a standing ovation. I was the only one that had a standing ovation. I was this young sensation, and I knew that a year later, when I come back, that I will win this competition. And sure enough, a year later, after a year of hard training and building my body, getting it defined, getting the size and the strength and everything that I needed, I became the youngest Mr. Universe ever. And I achieved this goal that I had with the age of 15.
GREENE: Well, governor, you're so goals-oriented, and it was incredible to hear this very detailed plan. You wanted to get into bodybuilding. You wanted to get into the United States. You wanted to get to Hollywood. But before we go on, I just want to bring up a topic that has come up in a lot of the interviews that you've been doing for this book. I think it was something that was not part of your plan, and that was - that's your affair with your family's housekeeper. You've called it the worst thing that you've ever done, and I wanted to just give you the chance to kind of elaborate on that.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, it was the worst thing I've ever done, and, you know, I hurt my family by doing that. I hurt so many people. My kids, you know, have gone through tremendous pain because of it. And it was - even though I am ashamed of what has happened and what I've done, but I did not want to exclude it from the book. And so in the book, I deal with that, and I made it very clear that this is a book about me.
And that means that there's the Arnold that has - that is a great immigrant story, and there's the Arnold that has had tremendous successes in the bodybuilding world and winning 13 world bodybuilding championships, and, you know, doing endless amount of movies and becoming the highest paid actor, and that was highly successful in my political career, becoming governor of the great state of California, and - which is the most important and biggest state in the United States and the eighth largest economy.
GREENE: But once you...
SCHWARZENEGGER: And - but at the same time, with all the successes, there were also failures, failures on the professional side. Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
GREENE: Once you did become a public figure - as you mentioned, your political career - your private mistakes, you know, can certainly break the public's trust in you. And I wonder, do you feel like you can regain that trust once it's been broken?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I think that I will do everything that I can to gain the trust again from my kids and from my wife, and I will do everything I can to rebuild all of that that I have destroyed because of my doing.
GREENE: And the last question on the subject, governor, there are a lot of voters who voted for you in California, a lot of fans out there. I wonder if you can fault someone if they decide that they want to form their opinion of you based on this mistake, as you call it.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Can you rephrase the question?
GREENE: Sure. I wonder, can you fault people if they say, you know, I don't like Arnold Schwarzenegger because of this, because of this mistake that he made? Can you fault someone for forming their opinion based on this decision?
SCHWARZENEGGER: I think that people will make up their mind and - when they have gotten that information, you know, how they feel about me and all that. I'm not trying to get any, you know, sympathy from people or anything like that. I'm a - you know, I think that I'm aware the amount of pain that I've caused and how I have disappointed people. And so it's up to me now, you know, to rebuild that trust.
GREENE: We're speaking to Arnold Schwarzenegger on TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And let's take a caller now, governor. We're going to go to Simon from Valley Park, St. Louis. And, Simon, you're on TALK OF THE NATION. Welcome. Simon, can - we're having a little trouble hearing you. Are you there?
SIMON: Yes, yes. I'm here.
GREENE: OK. Go ahead.
SIMON: Well, my story is I - my family is from Ukraine. We moved here in 1995. I was 3-and-a-half, and I have an older sister. And my parents' dream was always to make sure the kids go to college, and that dream has come true. And it's always great coming home and seeing that look on my parents' face, just knowing that they put in so much work, so much time, and it's turned out pretty well.
GREENE: Simon, thanks for the call. And we are asking you to give us a call if you have your own immigrant story. What were your plans, and how did you succeed? And Governor Schwarzenegger, you said that you had a relationship with your mother that sounds similar to the one that Simon had. I mean, she was very proud of you, and you brought her into your life as an actor and as a politician as the years went on.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, in the beginning, like I said, my family was not very supportive at all, which I can totally understand because it was kind of an odd thing for someone to be in a country that is known for skiing and for bicycling and for track and field and for those sports, but not really for bodybuilding. And so my mother and my father, they looked at that and they thought it was kind of odd, and why would I be lifting so much? And so that was not the kind of support that I actually expected and wanted from them.
But later on, when I started winning competitions and they saw the success and they saw me, you know, come - going to America and going to school in America and working here, and winning one competition after the other and then going into the movie business, and then starting a mail order business and started getting into real estate and investing and making millions of dollars, they became very proud parents, and they really were excited and, for instance, asking about, you know, what kind of a son they have created.
And my mother came over after my father passed away. My mother came over many, many times every year, as a matter of fact, and visited me for sometimes up to two months and spent time with me. And she was extremely proud. She came to every movie set with me. She watched me film. If it was "Terminator" or the Conan movies or "Commando," "Predator" and "Mexicans."
GREENE: She saw all your movies.
SCHWARZENEGGER: She's just so - oh, she just loved being on the set. And she would take hundreds of photographs, create her own photo album. And then she will go home to the neighbors and, you know, just have coffee with them and she will show them the photos in the photo albums and share her experience with me. And I say it was really wonderful. And so I had a terrific relationship with her. And - but she was a tough mother all the way through. I mean, if - I remember that there were times where she would see me, you know, just touch my nose and she would say, are you picking your nose? I mean, Arnold, I mean, this is unbelievable.
GREENE: Tough love.
SCHWARZENEGGER: I mean, here you are. You are going to the White House. You're being invited by President Reagan and you're going this and that and you're making movies, and you're still picking your nose, now.
SCHWARZENEGGER: I'm embarrassed (unintelligible). She will be very critical like that.
GREENE: This is what she was interested in. But we're going to speak much more with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in just a moment. His new autobiography, again, is "Total Recall." If you are an immigrant like Governor Schwarzenegger, an immigrant to this country, call and tell us what was your plan, and how has it all worked out for you. 800-989-8255 is our number. You can also reach us by email if that's better for you. It's email@example.com. I'm David Green. Stay with us. It's TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
GREENE: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm David Green. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the promotional video for this new book, says that if his life were a movie, nobody would believe it. His story, at heart, is about an immigrant who came to America with big plans and followed through. He opens up in a new book, an autobiography called "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story." And we want to hear your stories as well. If you're an immigrant to this country, what was your plan and how has it worked out? 800-989-8255 is our number. You can also reach us by email. It's firstname.lastname@example.com.
And, Governor, I - we have a lot to cover, politics and much more. Before we move on from bodybuilding, can I just ask you about the pose, the pose that made you famous as a strongman and bodybuilder? Why was this pose so important?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, there were, you know, several poses that was known for everybody, that is known for certain poses. And to me it was the three-quarter back pose. And it was a very difficult pose to do, to twist your body and to show the small waist and to show at the same time your wide shoulders, your back. And you also see the front and you see the abs and you see the calf and the thighs and all of those things. But it was a difficult pose to do. Very few bodybuilders could master it. I copied basically Reg Park, who was my idol and who won three times the Mr. Universe competition.
And he was known for that pose in a kneeling position and in a standing position. And so because he was my idol, I was, you know, absolutely fanatic to copy his poses and then to kind of improve on that. And that's exactly what I did.
GREENE: All right. Well, Governor, we're going to take a call here. Franz(ph) from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Am I saying all of that correctly, Franz? Welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
FRANZ: Yes, you do. Aloha.
GREENE: Aloha to you.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Aloha.
GREENE: Go ahead.
FRANZ: So I moved from Germany to Hawaii in '92. I worked in a lawyer's office in Germany. Hated it from the start. But once would you learn a job in Germany, you're stuck with it. Coming to Hawaii gave me the opportunity to find what I really like, what I want to do because you're only judged by what you can do, what you want to, not what you did before. And here in Hawaii, I'm called the Hawaiianator because of my accent, and people said it reminds me of somebody who lives in California.
SCHWARZENEGGER: What are you doing in Hawaii as Hawaiianator?
FRANZ: I work for a natural organic food distributor. So I bring good products to people, something that makes people happy, and I really enjoy it.
GREENE: All right.
SCHWARZENEGGER: So you have a food supplement company or you represent a company, or what do you do?
FRANZ: Yes. We represent about a thousand natural organic food companies, and we bring all the product to Hawaii. I work for United Natural Foods, so we're a nationwide company, the largest national organic food company in the States.
GREENE: It sounds like a success story. Best of luck to you.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Great success story. I love stories like that.
GREENE: Thank you for the call, Franz.
FRANZ: You're welcome.
SCHWARZENEGGER: (Foreign language spoken), Franz.
FRANZ: (Foreign language spoken)
GREENE: Governor, I have to ask you, Hans and Franz, "Saturday Night Live." It comes up in the book. What did you think of that?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I thought it was fantastic because, you know, in the beginning, they always said - agents and producers and directors and Hollywood executives, they always said, Arnold, I know your big wish is to get into movies and you want to be leading man on top of that. It's impossible. I mean, you have such an accent. You know, it's so thick that you can't cut through it with sword, with a Conan sword.
And, you know, and your muscles are so huge that they - that's not in anymore. The day where the scene is, you know, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffmann and Woody Allen. Those are the sex symbols today. They are all little guys. And there's, you know, I heard all of these stories, your name cannot even be pronounced, no one will remember it and all this.
And then all of a sudden, you know, I think I was successful in breaking through when people thought is uncomfortable with an accent and was able to, you know, kind of make fun of it. And then, you know, the comedians had a great time with it. And then all of a sudden came Hans and Franz on the scene, on "Saturday Night Live," you know, I'm Hans and I'm Franz. We're here to pump you up.
GREENE: Hey, you do it better than the actors do. Listen to that.
SCHWARZENEGGER: And there was all of that. And so they did this whole accent thing. So all of a sudden, you know, it really - I felt like, you know, the accent and the whole idea of speaking different has kind of arrived and it became part of America. And America, really has embraced my accent, and it became, actually such a valuable tool and an asset that a liability turned into an asset, that John Millius, after I did "Conan the Barbarian," even said that if we wouldn't have had Arnold, we would have had to build one. You know, that's how important the body was. And then with the accent also, you know, Jim Cameron after "Terminator" said, look, this movie only worked because Arnold talks like a machine. When you listen to him, it's like a machine. That's why it worked that he played the Terminator, and that's how we could sell the character. Otherwise it would have never worked.
So there was many incidents like that where, you know, it was very clear that those things that people said would be a huge liability became assets, and it was actually a big plus. So I felt delighted that Hans and Franz came on scene.
GREENE: And you kind of captured your view that you were able to turn a potential liability on its head. You wrote: You loved Hans and Franz, being Austrian, marrying Maria Shriver, being Republican, the accent. With all this going for you, you need a sense humor so you can join in the fun. Let's take one more caller, Avla(ph) from Fresno, California. Tell me if I got your name right, Avla. Welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.
AVLA: You got it right. Thank you much for having me.
GREENE: No. You're welcome. Go ahead.
AVLA: My story is very similar to Mr. Schwarzenegger. I left Egypt 25 years ago, looking for freedom and equality as a woman. I lived 15 years in Holland and Germany. I found the freedom, but I didn't find the equality. And when I moved to the United States 10 years ago, that was my hope, it's to be in a country where I'm treated like everybody else and not looked down at.
And in the last 10 years I devoted my life to intercultural psychology and helping immigrants and students from all different culture background to believe in that dream, to believe they are powerful and they are like everyone else and they can achieve their dream if they set their mind to. And even though I moved to United States shortly after 9/11, I've never been looked different at. I've never been looked down at. Everybody welcomed me and treated me in the most beautiful way. It was so heartwarming. And the last thing is what - basically, the dream I have lived all my life, that I deserved this life and the equality in United States is just incredible. It's - people really need to realize that.
GREENE: And I understand, Avla, you've recently become a U.S. citizen?
AVLA: I just took my oath for the citizenship on Friday...
GREENE: Wow.
AVLA: ...and it was the most emotional moment of my life. And I couldn't believe it, not because I didn't want it, it's because I thought it's something that would never happen. And it was a day of laughter and tears, and the most joyful day in my life. I just can't believe I belong to this greatest country in the world.
GREENE: Abla, congratulations to you, heartfelt congratulations.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Congratulations, Avla. This is really a great, great story, and it just shows to you that there's many people that have that fire in the belly because think about what it took for her to go from Egypt and to travel through Europe and to find finally the place that she felt happy and to come to the United States. And not only then to have that fire in the belly to find this place but then also to give something back and to help other immigrants. So this is a terrific story. Congratulations, and congratulations on your American citizenship.
AVLA: Thank you so much.
GREENE: Avla, thanks so much for the call. We appreciate it.
AVLA: Thank you.
GREENE: Governor, do you remember your day when you got U.S. citizenship? You write about it in the book.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Absolutely. 1983. And it was the most extraordinary feeling to become part of a country that is the number one country in the world. And, you know, America is, you know, without any doubt, the richest country. It was always the most powerful country and more powerful than any feudal system in the history of this world or any dictatorship or any democracy or any country, period. And so it's wonderful.
It feels so good when you're from another country and you always - you had a dream to come to America and to become an American. And so it was really an extraordinary day. I wrapped myself with the American flag and we sang and played music, great American music (unintelligible) and celebrated. So it was really fantastic.
GREENE: Let's take one more call, Governor. This is Ricardo from Houston, Texas. Ricardo, you're on TALK OF THE NATION. Welcome.
RICARDO: Welcome. How are you doing? I just wanted to share my story...
GREENE: Go ahead.
RICARDO: ...and just give you a unique Latino perspective. When I came in from Mexico, I only had one thing on my mind, and that's to not be myopic in my thinking and to know that I got to do whatever it is I can to be a United States citizen, abide by the laws and do all of those necessary things. And ultimately, in 2007 I became a citizen, and I've been an educator for the past six years. And now, seeing that my students, a lot of them are immigrants and undocumented students, it only makes me work harder to make them aware of what it is they can still do here and aspire for more.
GREENE: Ricardo, thank so you much for the call and for telling your story. We appreciate it.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Congratulations, Ricardo.
RICARDO: Thank you.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Congratulations.
RICARDO: Thank you.
GREENE: It sounds like we're hearing from people who really got what they wanted out of coming to America, Governor. And I wonder, I wanted to talk to you about the turn that you made into politics after you were in your acting career for a while. You met Maria Shriver and the whole Kennedy clan, and I have to hear you tell the story of your first trip to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. As the story goes, you didn't have the clothing that you probably should have brought. What happened?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I met Maria at a tennis tournament in New York, at the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament, and - I mean, first of all, I don't even know why I went because I was not a tennis player.
SCHWARZENEGGER: I never played tennis before.
GREENE: No problem.
SCHWARZENEGGER: I never played tennis before. But Ethel Kennedy was on the phone and asked me. I turned it down first. And then she got on the phone and asked me, and so I couldn't say no to her. And she told me that it doesn't matter if you play tennis or not, just be there and hit the ball with some kids. It's something that is raising money for the foundation and so on. So I went there, and that's where I met then, you know, Maria.
And I remember Tom Brokaw introduced us to each other, and the next thing I know is the next day after the party and after the tournament, Maria came up to me and she said, why don't you come with Caroline and me to Hyannis Port? And I said, well, I said, I don't know how I'm going to do that, I said, because my clothes is back at the hotel because it was picked up at the hotel with my tennis clothes on, so I have only tennis clothes with me and nothing else, not even a wallet. I said everything is at the hotel. And she says, don't worry about that at all. She says, the only we do in Hyannis Port is play tennis and go waterskiing. So she said for that you have the perfect clothes.
GREENE: You're fine. You have enough.
SCHWARZENEGGER: So, yeah, exactly. So I said, OK. So I went on the plane with them, and we flew up Hyannis Port, and we got down there around 10:00 at night. We went out and swim. It was wonderful and we had a great time, and then the next morning all of a sudden there was commotion in the house and I woke up. And everyone was running around - get dressed, quickly, quickly, quickly. Grandma decided to go to church, and we all have to meet over there at church. And so I said, wait a minute, what are they talking about? Then Maria came into my room and said, hey, get up quickly.
She says, you know, my grandmother Rose, she's going to church and, you know, and Teddy's going to go and so and so is going to go and, you know, my father - my mother's going to go. Everyone in the kitchen has to be dressed up and really go quickly. And I said, well, Maria, I have no clothes. I mean, I only have my tennis clothes. I said, I told you I need to go home to the hotel and get my clothes. She says, no, no, just get some clothes from Bobby, which is her brother, who is, you know, my height and as a matter of fact, a little taller. And so I tried on Bobby's shirts. He was taller than me, but he was slim, so none of the shirts even fit on my chest.
I couldn't even button the button. So I had the shirt half open. I had - he gave me pants that didn't fit. They were kind of like - and I was - I couldn't even get them up my waist because he was much slimmer. So I looked like a total immigrant.
GREENE: Great first impression.
SCHWARZENEGGER: It was horrible the way I came to church. It was like, you know, you would laugh at that sight when you see this. Anyway, I write about that in the book also, of how - what a trick it was. It was one of Maria's - it was their sense of humor.
GREENE: Initiation, it sounds like.
SCHWARZENEGGER: It was always about doing things like that. And, you know, I mean I felt like - I felt horrible being in the church because normally I would always dress up going to church. I would, you know, have a nice white shirt on and a jacket, a blazer and some khaki pants or something like that, and here I looked totally disheveled, and I couldn't wait to get out of the church and to get back to the Shriver house as quickly as possible and hide in the room.
GREENE: That's a great story.
SCHWARZENEGGER: That's how I felt about it, yeah.
GREENE: We're talking to Arnold Schwarzenegger. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And Governor, there's so much to ask you politically. We just don't have the time to cover it all. But one serious question I wanted to ask you. I mean the state of California is so deeply in debt right now. And I wonder, as you look back on your time as governor, is there something you wish you had done differently to put California in a better place today?
SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, first of all, let me just say that California has approximately $80 billion debt, and unused debt that the people have approved. There's 140 billion that has not been used yet, that would be used in the future for infrastructure projects and various different other things - rebuilding the prison system and high-speed rail and so on and so forth. But it's really only $80 billion, so that's not that much. I think California doesn't have a problem that it's so deep in debt. California has a problem that we have a tremendous unfunded liability of $400 billion of pensions, of public pensions, and that's a huge mistake that the politicians have made to hand our pensions that it could never afford.
And they kind of put wool over the - into the people's eyes when they promised that they're going to make investments, that they're going to make this money and the taxpayer wouldn't have to foot the bill in all this. So all of it was wrong and now they have to make the adjustment. I think that we need to have true pension reforms in order to solve this problem. Number two...
GREENE: Does it mean get rid of pensions or...
SCHWARZENEGGER: Not to get rid of it, just reform it, to roll it back again to the 1990 level, the way it was. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the pensions the way it was. They just - because there was such a huge boom in the business and in revenues that they thought they can afford that. It wasn't mean-spirited by any means. It was just, you know, they thought they can afford it and the economy is going to grow like that every year. But it didn't. You know, and no one planned on recessions and there will be two recessions in a row, one in the year 2000, early 2000, and the second one in 2007.
So no one planned that. And so now they are in deep, deep trouble because of it, and now they have to reform it. The second problem is that California always had an issue with overspending. The legislators had an insatiable appetite for spending - again, not because they're bad guys. It's just that they feel very strongly that people need those programs. But I always, when I was governor, made it clear that we should only spend the money that we have. I fought very hard.
But this is one of the many things that I did not accomplish as governor, is to bring, you know, a kind of system in place that - where we never have that problem again where we spend more money than we take in. I tried to create a rainy day fund. I tried to put the rainy day fund aside so we have, in troublesome times, when we have difficulties in the recessions, that we have money to cover those various different programs, including education. But it didn't come about. Time ran out and we are now back again to this same problem. And I'm very happy that there were so many other things we were able to accomplish.
But one thing I learned that when you're a governor, you have a very ambitious list of things that you want to accomplish, and you can't accomplish all of them because politics sometimes gets in the way. And this is why I created the institute, the Schwarzenegger Institute with USC, to continue this work and try to solve some of those problems.
GREENE: I'm glad we got that in because that is new initiative that you've begun. Arnold Schwarzenegger, thanks so much for joining us. We appreciate the time.
SCHWARZENEGGER: It's my pleasure. Thank you very much, David.
GREENE: His new autobiography is titled "Total Recall." If you want to find out how he conquered his fear of the dark, check out the excerpt we posted at npr.org. Governor Schwarzenegger, it was great to be with you. Tomorrow, Neal Conan will be back for a conversation about the mighty Mississippi and a performance by Mary Chapin Carpenter. I'm David Greene. This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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ESTES PARK — Authorities were anxious Sunday night about the potentially explosive mix of wind and flames in Rocky Mountain National Park, where the Fern Lake fire had consumed 3,580 acres and a privately owned cabin.
If wind gusts push the fire into the treetops — as it did late Friday night and early Saturday morning — residents connected to about 1,100 phone lines could be forced to flee.
Authorities were concerned about the Marys Lake area, about four miles south of Estes Park.
"I don't really want to kick anybody out of their homes if I don't have to," Sheriff Justin Smith told a community meeting in Estes Park.
Smith said the worst of the winds — with gusts up to 75 mph — would arrive between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. Smith urged residents to have valuables packed and ready.
"If it was me, and I had livestock, I'd have them out and ready to go," Smith said.
Pre-evacuation notices have been sent to phone lines west of Marys Lake Road, from Moraine Avenue and Rock Ridge Road south to Colorado 7 and Fish Creek Road.
He said once the wind dies down, authorities would have a much better idea of when existing evacuees would be able to go home.
Residents of Estes Park were not on alert to evacuate Sunday night, however. The business district of Estes Park was hazy and smelled strongly of smoke Sunday morning.
"You expect it to be hot and smoky in the summer, but in December?" said Larry Airgood, manager of The Wynbrier Ltd., a wildlife gallery in Estes Park.
He speculated wildlife in the fire zone would be OK, unless the fire roared across a great distance in a short time overnight.
"The fire has been burning for a while, so they've already done whatever they're going to do," Airgood said.
As with Colorado wildfires last summer, people with breathing problems should stay indoors and avoid exerting themselves, fire information officer Traci Weaver said at the community meeting.
Early Saturday, wind gusts of up to 75 mph doubled the size of the blaze and pushed it three miles to the east in 35 minutes. At about 1 a.m. Saturday, 583 homes along the Colorado 66 corridor were forced to leave and remained evacuated Sunday.
About 250 firefighters were on scene Sunday, and "more are on the way," the sheriff said.
A Type 1 team of federally trained and funded firefighters took command of the battle from local authorities Sunday evening.
The fire is burning winter-dry grasses and dense lodgepole pines, but the fire primarily has lingered since it started Oct. 9 by consuming beetle-killed trees in abnormally dry conditions. The fire was started by an illegal campfire in the park.
A critical "red flag" fire danger warning is in effect until 6 a.m. Monday over the foothills from Douglas to Larimer counties.
Windy conditions return Monday with gusts up to 45 mph. Breezy conditions could linger in the area until Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
The overnight fire danger warning includes areas above 6,000 feet in elevation in central and southeast Park County, Boulder and Jefferson counties, as well as west Douglas County.
The fire remained at 20 percent containment, as firefighting helicopters and air tankers were grounded because of high winds Sunday afternoon.


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If you cried over the sick Triceratops in Jurassic Park, or just loved this horned dinosaur as a kid, there's one scientific controversy you need to understand right now — it may wind up demonstrating that Triceratops isn't who we thought it was. Recently unearthed evidence has sparked a new debate over the identity of several ceratopsid dinosaurs, including our beloved Tri, who many paleontologists believe is simply the young version of a creature called Torosaurus. But if a Triceratops is just a young Torosaurus, is Nedoceratops what comes in between? Or are they actually three different species? Here's everything you need to know to take a stand on this controversy.
Classifying dinosaurs is difficult under the best circumstances. With the ceratopsids, circumstances are not ideal. Incomplete specimens, damaged bones and small sample sizes plague researchers. For example, it would be a lot easier to assign an age to Torosaurus skulls if we had some complete skeletons to go with them. Worse, many specimens have been reconstructed incorrectly, making their morphology appear misleading. The worst case scenario is when there's only a single specimen for an entire genera, making it impossible to know if it really is a separate animal, a variation in the morphology of other animals, or an aberration caused by disease or injury.
The ceratopsid controversy starts with two similar animals, Triceratops (of three horns and a solid skull frill) and Torosaurus (of three horns and large perforations, or fenestrae, in the skull frill). Paleontologists have found quite a few Triceratops skulls, but only a half-dozen Torosaurus skulls. Then there's Nedoceratops. There's only one existing example of a Nedoceratops (which you can visit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History), and there's some evidence that the specimen might be abnormal – there are some assymetric bone densities in the skull, and the fenestrae appear irregular — Torosaurus' fenestrae are round and quite regular in shape.
The classification of ceratopsids is kind of a mess. When the first specimens were found, paleontologists assigned a new genera or species to pretty much every horned skull that looked a little different from the other horned skulls. There were 16 different species of Triceratops at one point. There's been a trend in the last decade or so to try and consolidate some of those genera and species. Linking previously separate genera would change what we know about biodiversity in the late Cretaceous and reshape our ideas about ceratopsid evolution.
Here are the main viewpoints on the subject, summarized:
Triceratops and Torosaurus are the same animal. In 2010, a study suggested that Torosaurus is really the adult version of Triceratops. We reported on that study when it came out, and at the time it made a lot of sense. The two dinosaurs are pretty similar, and loss of bone material is certainly something that can happen to an animal as it ages. There's even precedent for it among other dinosaurs. Sauropods (huge, long-necked herbivores like Apatosaurus) sometimes have bone formations in their skin known as osteoderms. The discovery of hollow osteoderms near mature specimens suggests the bone material may have been reabsorbed during lean years to provide a steady supply of essential minerals. Torosaurus has a massive skull, so it's possible that as it aged, Triceratops reabsorbed the bone and developed fenestrae to reduce the weight of its enlarging frill. Also lending credence to the theory: the geographic distribution of both genera overlap considerably.
Nedoceratops is the same animal as Triceratops and Torosaurus. John B. Scannella and John R. Horner of Montana State University released a study that concludes Nedoceratops is an intermediary step in the transition from young Triceratops to old Torosaurus. Although the holotype (the only known specimen, or the formally recognized exemplar) for Nedoceratops doesn't look much like your average Triceratops at first glance, Scannella and Horner looked at all the examples we have of Triceratops and found some that are fairly close to what Nedoceratops looks like. Nedoceratops is missing that nose horn, but lots of Triceratops had really small nose horns, so it might just be within the range of expected variation, or the nose horn might have been lost to injury. On top of that, the Nedoceratops holotype's fenestrae are smaller than Torosaurus', suggesting they are in the process of growing into the large fenestrae of Torosaurus. Scannella and Horner also found thinning in the frills of some Triceratops skulls in the same area as the fenestrae. As for the difference in horn angle, it might be individual variation, or the orbital horns might shift with age.
Nedoceratops is a separate genus or an abnormal Triceratops. Andrew A. Farke (Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology) disputed Scannella and Horner's claims, noting that the single specimen of Nedoceratops just doesn't give us much to go on. It's been partially reconstructed with plaster, so it's hard to tell if it would have fenestrae on both sides of the frill. A lot of Farke's work is based on bone texture, which is used to estimate the age of the dinosaur when it died. According to his analysis, the existing Nedoceratops appears to be a mature animal – it's unlikely it would "grow up" to be a Torosaurus because it's already grown up.
Triceratops and Torosaurus are not the same animal. The most recent study, by Nicholas R. Longrich and Daniel J. Field of Yale's Department of Geology and Geophysics, attempts to dismantle the Triceratops/Torosaurus theory. Their analysis suggests that Triceratops and Torosaurus specimens show a range of ages, with some possile immature Torosaurus specimens, and a wide range of size and maturity among Triceratops specimens. As for Nedoceratops, Longrich and Field discount it as, "clearly pathological…the opening in the parietal is also irregular in shape, which strongly suggests that it is the result of injury or disease, and not a natural feature." They conclude that all three ceratopsians most likely belong to different genera.
The cool thing about the whole debate is how it shows off science in action. Everyone on all sides agrees that there are some things we can't know for sure due to insufficient evidence. Until we find some more Nedoceratops specimens, more complete Torosaurus specimens, or find some other way to conclusively link (or unlink) the specimens we have, the debate will continue. It's an admittedly friendly debate, with paleontologists geeking out over their shared love of dinosaurs. We've also already learned a lot from the debate – the fact that dinosaurs' morphology could change drastically over the course of a lifetime has been placed under focus, and could seriously change how we look at dinosaurs we know and new ones we haven't discovered yet.
This is also a really good example of open source science. All of the studies mentioned in this article are available to be read in full, for free, at PloS One (see the sources list). Andrew Farke (who writes a blog about open source paleontology) even put all his field notes online under a Creative Commons license, so you can see his sketches and measurements of various specimens.
Farke, AA (2011). "Anatomy and Taxonomic Status of the Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid Nedoceratops hatcheri from the Upper Cretaceous Lance Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A." PLoS ONE 6(1).
Longrich NR, Field DJ (2012). "Torosaurus Is Not Triceratops: Ontogeny in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsids as a Case Study in Dinosaur Taxonomy." PLoS ONE 7(2).
Rogers, Kristina A. Curry & D.Emic. Michael D. "Triumph of the Titans." Scientific American, May 2012.
Scannella JB, Horner JR (2011). "'Nedoceratops': An Example of a Transitional Morphology." PLoS ONE 6(12).
Switek, Brian. "Nedoceratops: To Be, or Not to Be?" Smithsonian.com.
Underwood, Emily. "Nedoceratops hatcheri: Transitional Triceratops or Different Beast?" Earth, March 2012.
Photos: PLoS One, South Dakota Museum of Geology.


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The Montcalm County Sheriff's Office received a report from Montcalm Dispatch of an erratic driver in the area of West Sidney Road and South Berridge Road in Montcalm Township on Sunday, November 20, at about 1 p.m. As deputies searched the area for a Chevy Lumina minivan, they were dispatched to a personal injury accident involving the vehicle.
According to police, the minivan had crossed the center line and struck a red Dodge Durango, occupied by a family of five. Three children, ages 11, 6, and 3, were in the Durango and transported to Spectrum United Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. The 38-year-old driver of the Lumina is suspected of driving under the influence of prescription pain medication at the time of the crash. All passengers in the Durango were wearing a seatbelt, but the driver of the minivan was not.
The report has been sent to the prosecutor's office and charges are pending while the crash remains under investigation.


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To: Nate Jackson, Jeremy Stahl
If you're a Redskins fan or you own Robert Griffin III in a fantasy league, you knew that what happened Sunday was going to happen at some point. You knew that the Shanahans were exposing RG3 to way too much punishment—like a kid playing with a Christmas toy for 20 straight hours—and that Griffin would slide just a hair too late one Sunday and someone would come along and break his Kung-Fu Grip. And lo and behold, here was Falcons linebacker Sean Weatherspoon, delivering the inevitable blow in the third quarter of Atlanta's 24-17 victory. If it hadn't been Weatherspoon, it would have been someone else. RG3 now has a "mild concussion" and is already confident he'll pass the supposedly rigorous tests the NFL gives concussion victims before they return to the field and we all feel OK about it.
For the second year in a row, Slate and Deadspin are teaming up for a season-long NFL roundtable. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries. And click here to play the latest episode of Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen.
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But if you looked around the NFL yesterday, you saw all kinds of ominous portents for Griffin. The two quarterbacks to whom RG3 is most often compared—Cam Newton and Michael Vick—were bad enough on Sunday that we could start to see what lies ahead for Griffin.
Stage 1: Give everyone a priapism. ZOMG LOOGIT HIM RUN! AND THROW! AND THROW THEN RUN! No one has ever played QB like this before! Five years from now, every NFL QB will play like this and the position will be totally different! IT'S A REVOLUTION! So long as he doesn't get hurt.
Stage 2: Get hurt. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Stage 3: Rack up enough game tape that defensive coordinators start to figure you out. Whoa hey, why isn't the pistol option working this week? It worked against the Saints! Shouldn't it work against everyone in perpetuity? (Note: This is the stage that Newton is currently enjoying)
Stage 4: Sulk. Be sure to express just enough frustration for fans to turn on you and call you a fake.
Stage 5: Remake yourself into a pocket passer. Look at him throw the ball away! HE'S SO DISCIPLINED NOW.
Stage 6: Screw it, let's go back to the awesome scrambling. It's been a whole year since D coordinators have seen this! It's totally working again!
Stage 7: Become a turnover machine. If I hold the ball like I'm passing a beer to a friend across a crowded bar, how could I possibly lose it?
Stage 8: Retire. But everyone will totally remember how awesome you were those first few weeks.
Meanwhile, Andrew Luck—who started the season so meekly in a loss to the Bears—has quickly made the Colts into a nasty little team that's difficult to beat when playing at home. This isn't a black QB vs. white QB issue (and let's all thank Tim Tebow's God that there's now a white guy we can adduce to our point). This is a pocket QB vs. hybrid QB issue. Any QB who starts off as a hybrid QB/RB will hit a wall. Always. The NFL will never allow you to escape unscathed when you play that way (and when coaches are stupid enough to force you to play that way). There are too many Sean Weatherspoons waiting for you just as you turn the corner, ready to knock you onto a career path that's nowhere near as exciting as the one your talent once suggested. And the funny thing is that we always hope there will be one QB who finally arrives who can break the trend, a QB who can survive while doing it all. RGIII looked the part until Sunday, and if he can't pull it off, I promise you no one can.
Drew Magary writes for Deadspin and Gawker. He's also a correspondent for GQ. Follow him on Twitter @drewmagary and email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This message was received last night from the Aunt of missing Mark Degner. Bryan Hayes and Mark Degner were last seen on February 10, 2005 in Jacksonville, Fl.
Tomorrow is Wednesday, February 10, 2010…which seems like a typical
mid week day to most but not for my family along with the Cummings
family and more…it marks the anniversary date that they disappeared
and haven't been seen since.
Tomorrow is my nephew's (Mark Degner) 5th year anniversary date of his
disappearance, we still have no clues, no leads and no answers. If you
all would please circle this email to everyone you know letting them
know that these children are still missing and help us keep there faces
out there I would greatly appreciate it.
Having a missing loved one is the hardest thing a family can face. I
know with God, hope and our communities keeping awareness out there will
be the key to bringing our missing loved ones home. Please keep them in
your prayers that they are safe and return home soon.
*Attached is a updated progression picture of my Nephew (Mark) along
with friend Bryan Hayes missing since February 10, 2005* below is a link
to our story.
Thanks again,
Tanya Nhiev
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An unemployed and intellectual young man, Felipe Montero, finds a job which fulfills his economic needs: an old widow is looking for someone to transcript, make grammar corrections and edit the diaries of her late husband, a military man. Felipe moves to the widow's mansion to live there for a while and he meets a caretaker named Aura. Passions arise between the two as Felipe progresses in his work, and mysterious events (noises, appearances) make Felip...
The Crystal Frontier
In this novel made of nine short stories, the Barroso family dominates commerce along the Mexican border with the US. The leading character, Leonardo Barroso, has made a fortune out of this, and we see how much his doings have affected the life of Mexicans. One character goes looking for a job and suffers harrassment from his employers, another one tries to get into the US with the help of the 'espaldas mojadas' (wet backs) and is killed trying. Finally,...
The Old Gringo
Ambrose Bierce was a famous American writer who in real life disappeared around the time of the Mexican Revolution. In this novel, he goes as an old man to Mexico, with his ultimate goal of dying there. ("To be a gringo in Mexico, ah, that is euthanasia," he says.) Although he has his writer's credential, he seeks out a revolutionists' encampment in Chihuahua in order to join the army, rather than just reporting the story, like other Americans who went ...


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Apple settles with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over App Store in-app-purchases
Apple CEO Tim Cook informed Apple employees today via email that the company has settled with the United States Federal Trade Commision over an in-app purchases dispute. Cook says that Apple and the FTC have been negotiating for "several months." The issue in the App Store comes down to the controversies surrounding children spending money too easily in the App Store without the consent of their parents.
Cook notes that "protecting children" has been a priority for everyone at Apple, and Cook notes that the App Store has industry leading controls for security and privacy, making the need to deal with the FTC surprising. Cook's email details the safeguards in place for the in-app purchase system. Cook also notes the great lengths that Apple went to in order to appease customers who may have been harmed by in-app purchases:
Last year, we set out to refund any in-app purchase which may have been made without a parent's permission. We wanted to reach every customer who might have been affected, so we sent emails to 28 million App Store customers – anyone who had made an in-app purchase in a game designed for kids. When some emails bounced, we mailed the parents postcards. In all, we received 37,000 claims and we will be reimbursing each one as promised.
Cook also says that it doesn't feel right that the FTC intervened here. Alas, a settlement has been reached:
It doesn't feel right for the FTC to sue over a case that had already been settled. To us, it smacked of double jeopardy. However, the consent decree the FTC proposed does not require us to do anything we weren't already going to do, so we decided to accept it rather than take on a long and distracting legal fight.
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Jan. 1, 2014— -- Federal officials will decided in the "coming weeks" whether to require new cars to include smart technology that would alert drivers of a coming crash, even in vehicles that are two or three cars away.
The vehicle-to-vehicle -- or V2V -- technology has undergone testing in recent years and has already been installed in some cars that are on the road.
A recent study by the Government Accountability Office determined that if the gizmos were widely deployed, "V2V technologies could provide warnings to drivers in as much as 76 percent of potential multi-vehicle collisions."
In 2011, there were 5.3 million car crashes that injured 2.2 million people and killed 32,000, according to the GAO.
"The continued progress of V2V technology development hinges on a decision that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to make in late 2013 on how to proceed. ... One option would be to pursue a rule requiring their inclusion in new vehicles," the GAO wrote in a November study.
The year ended without NHTSA's expected decision, and this week the agency would say only that it expected "to announce a decision in the coming weeks."
Putting smart cars on the road comes with complications beyond cost, which is expected to be "modest relative to the price of a new vehicle," according to the GAO.
What could make cost a factor are the communication system safeguards that would be necessary for the widespread use of these cars.
"Widespread technology depends on other cars having the same system so they can talk to each other," said David Wise, director of the GAO's Physical Infrastructure Team, who wrote the GAO study.
But it also requires that the system be secure.
"Privacy is the real challenge," Wise said. He said the V2V will likely rely on GPS-type data that could track a person's movements.
"Who has access and how do you secure the data?" Wise asked rhetorically. He also raised the specter of someone hacking the system and causing havoc on the road.
"The cost is in the communication security system," he said.
There is also the issue of liability if a car that has the V2V system is involved in a crash, the GAO report said.
If NHTSA decides to require new cars to be smart cars, it could still be a generation before they become commonplace on the road, Wise said.
"It takes 20 years for the country's fleet of cars to turn over," he said.


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Johnny Lewis Murder-Suicide: The Scientology Connection
Scientology officials are apparently rushing to scrub any mention of Sons of Anarchy star Johnny Lewis from the website of their highly controversial drug rehab program Narconon.
The actor, who police believe committed suicide shortly after murdering his landlady and her cat inside a residence in Los Feliz yesterday, had reportedly completed the detoxification program in 2004, and had spoken publicly about its benefits.
A photo of Lewis at a Narconon event was featured on the program's website until TMZ started asking questions and it was subsequently removed.
Though a Scientology official told the gossip site Lewis has not been involved with the Church for quite some time, his father, Michael Lewis, continues to be highly active, and is the co-director of the church's Valley Life Improvement Center.
Lewis had been in and out of jail and court-ordered rehab several times prior to yesterday's incident, including as recently as six days earlier.
TMZ sources say Lewis "dabbled with an undisclosed drug" which "triggered a 'psychotic break,' and he's been on medication ever since.
Despite witness testimony saying Lewis appeared to be under the influence of drugs at the time of the assault, and investigators reportedly looking into the involvement of a "popular new synthetic drug called Smiles," his family allegedly maintains drugs were not a factor, blaming his actions on an unapproved termination of his medication intake.
In a recent report, a probation officer remarked that Lewis was suffering from "some form of chemical dependency, mental health issue and a lack of permanent housing," and said he was becoming "very concerned for the well being" of both Lewis and the community writ large.
A toxicology report is expected shortly.


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AMD has stopped its work on the Personal Internet Communicator project after nearly two years of planning and development. The PIC was announced in late 2004 as a $250 headless computer, sporting a Geode x86 processor, 128MB of RAM and a 10GB hard drive. PIC was designed for "emerging markets" where the cost of computer hardware is seen as prohibitively high.
In its third quarter filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, AMD reported that "revenue from sales of PIC products has not been material and in the third quarter of 2006, we decided to stop manufacturing PIC products." AMD's filing indicates that the company took a loss on unsold PIC inventory.
The death of PIC can almost certainly be attributed to the momentum of the much-hyped One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, which has announced that its first product will cost only $140 per unit. Executives at AMD aren't shaking their fists at the OLPC, however. The Linux-based laptop is a remarkable achievement in low-cost design, and it just so happens to incorporate AMD technology. Manufactured by Chinese hardware company Quanta, the portable computer features a 400mhz AMD Geode processor, as well as 128MB of DRAM, built-in wireless support, and 512MB of flash memory for internal storage. More details of the project's first laptop were covered by Ryan back in August.
Not everyone loves OLPC, however. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt had harsh words for the program, accusing the OLPC project of "work[ing] against the open source community" and engaging in "commercially expedient" activity that is "hurtful" to the open source community. Raadt's objections stem primarily from OLPC's willingness to enter into Non Disclosure Agreements.
AMD's PIC now passes into the world of shadows, as have many "cheap PC" projects before it. It did enjoy brief success in countries such as Mexico, Brazil and China, where telecommunications companies sometimes leased the devices to subscribers. Attempts to market the device as a cheap Internet access solution ultimately failed to gain traction in the US and elsewhere, however.


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Feeding Spoon Set
When it's time for solids, try the OXO Tot Feeding Spoon. Available in sets of two, this Feeding Spoon has a protective food-grade silicone coating which is gentle on baby's gums and mouth. The soft edges of the silicone can be used to scrape the last bit of sweet potato from the bowl or jar, or to gently wipe applesauce from baby's face. The shallow Spoon prevents feeding baby too much food at once. A contoured handle is comfortable to hold and angled for easy feeding.


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2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac - Form Follows Function
Mike Duval's Sport Trac Allies Style And Performance Into One Attractive Package
We don't have a clue as to why enthusiast-modified versions of Ford's Sport Trac aren't seen in large numbers. Based on the Ranger platform, the V-6-powered, crew cab-bodied ultra-shortbed truck is a handsome beast indeed when properly outfitted. Case in point: Mike Duval's functional, flashy '01 'Trac.
Built as a rolling showcase for Duval's company, X-Treme Toyz, the Blue Oval is a past winner of the prestigious Ford Motor Company Design Award, which is a much-coveted honor given to select trucks at the annual SEMA Show.
To impress Ford execs, Duval made use of bolt-on aftermarket accessories along with custom-fabbed goodies to enhance the style and stamina of his Sport Trac. The 4x4's suspension is based on a 4-inch-lift Superlift system, which was installed by the crew at Off Road Unlimited in Burbank, California. The lifted suspension made room within the wheelwells for Weld Racing's Outback wheels, which are wrapped with Parnelli Jones Dirt Grip tires. The rear wheels are hauled to a stop by Stainless Steel Brakes' rear disc conversion kit.
The 4.0L V-6 engine that powers Ford's Sport Trac is a smooth and reliable performer, but every engine can use additional power, so Duval installed an aFe intake system and air filter, a high-flow mass air sensor from Granatelli Motorsports, and a Borla Cat-Back exhaust system. Also found under the hood is an Optima battery.
Performance Accessories supplied a 3-inch body lift for the truck, and the custom front and rear auxiliary tube bumpers (as well as the front skidplate) are the handiwork of Reaper Racing. A Can-Back soft shell covers the bed and is topped with a storage rack from Con-Ferr. The bed's interior is coated with Line-X material, and PIAA lights make after-dusk trail rides a reality. Louie at L&G Enterprises in San Dimas, California, went wild on the Sport Trac's exterior, spraying a flashy mandarin gold over the entire truck, then toping it with white pearl and maroon Chroma-Flair stripes.
Once you set foot on the Warn entry steps and enter the cockpit, you're greeted by a CR Laurence sunroof, carpeting from Nifty Products, and seats equipped with Relaxor heat and massage units. A Clarion audio system featuring Planet Audio amplifiers and Clarion speakers delivers the sounds; Clarion also supplied the ceiling-mounted monitors. Rick Ross of Burbank, California, expertly installed all the audio and video equipment.
As noted, Ford's Sport Trac is an excellent starting point for a custom wheeler. As shown by Mike Duval, the small Ford can be modified to deliver a high degree of style and function; it's just a matter of choosing and using the right components, then hitting the trail with a unique, eye-catching, and capable ride.
Owner:Mike Duval, Burbank, California
'01 Ford Sport Trac 4x4
Wheels and tires:
15x8-inch Weld Racing Outbacks; 33x12.50R15 Parnelli Jones Dirt Grips
4.0L V-6 with aFe intake tube and filter; Granatelli Motorsports mass airflow sensor; Hose Techniques silicone hoses; Borla exhaust; Optima battery
Clarion audio/video entertainment system with Clarion monitors, Planet Audio amplifiers; Clarion speakers and subwoofer; Nifty Products carpet; CR Laurence sunroof; Relaxor heat/massage seats
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by returned EA John.
"God has broken the dividing walls (Ephesians 2:14)"
The reading from Ephesians 2:11-22 is concerned with building a new community where Jews and Gentiles are united in peace. There are no longer insiders and outsiders, rather God's grace extends to all. Christ is the cornerstone of a new temple (or community) marked by unity and reconciliation.


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AFIA hosts record-setting purchasing and ingredient suppliers conference
ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Feed Industry Association hosted a record setting Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference in Las Vegas, Nev., March 11-13. There were more than 625 industry representatives in attendance, up from last year's 535 conference participants.
The two-day conference represents one of the best opportunities to learn about the current state of the animal feed industry, providing market analyses, perspectives, hot topics and a host of other valuable tools and information. This year's topics focused on feeding the world's growing population by 2050, the importance of engaging in sustainable practices, biosecurity measures to protect feed ingredients and also highlighted the timely issue of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
"AFIA is proud to offer a conference to industry representatives that not only provides an outlet for networking but provides attendees with up-to-date information on topics at the forefront of the agriculture industry," said AFIA President and CEO Joel G. Newman. "This year's attendance was not only record breaking, but conference goers were also an engaged crowd eager to learn more from the speakers and each other."
The conference opened with Elanco's Animal Health's Rob Aukerman, who addressed the serious issue of feeding the growing population, which is predicted to rise to 9 billion people by 2050. He presented three solutions to solving global hunger—choice, innovation and trade—stating that 95 percent of consumers make their food choices based on taste, cost and nutrition and only 4 percent shop with local or organic foods in mind.
Dr. Marty Vanier, Kansas State University, discussed "Biosecurity: Protecting the Feed Ingredient Supply Chain." She advised the audience to develop a crisis management plan, encouraging them to meet with local emergency response personnel in case a disaster should strike. Vanier also led into the "the hot topic of the week," PEDv, in preparation for National Pork Producers Council's Dr. Liz Wagstrom presentation on the virus. Wagstrom explained the difference about this PEDv strain "is we have an entire pig population who's never seen this virus before," which, in turn, means there is zero immunity built up.
Dr. Ronald Plain, University of Missouri, Richard Brock, Brock Associates and Dr. Jay Lehr all presented outlooks and reports relevant to the industry—animal economics report, grain outlook and world food supply outlook, respectively.
There was reiteration of the importance of producing enough food by 2050. Lehr said after studying biotechnology issues for three decades "there are no downsides" to their use.
The audience was entertained by comedian Damian Mason in his "Human for the Heart of Agriculture" presentation and the speaker sessions concluded with a talk about "The Truth About Sustainability" by Dr. Frank Mitloehner, University of California, Davis. Mitloehner stressed the importance of emissions control not only on a local or regional level, but also globally by our industry. He said all production methods have an environmental footprint, and the more efficient companies and individuals are, the lower their footprint becomes.
During the conference, the Institute for Feed Education and Research, or IFEEDER, hosted its fourth annual silent auction. The auction raised $21,260 (up from last year's total) for the foundation, which aims to address the future of food and feed production through education and research.
The event attracts livestock, feed and pet food purchasers and suppliers on an international level and offers informational and networking sessions as well as an annual golf tournament Friday, March 14. New to the agenda this year, the AFIA PISC Committee organized a clay shooting event following the conference. Attendees also enjoyed the annual Welcome Reception and Grand Reception, and new members attended an additional reception for networking.
The Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference has been approved for five continuing education units by the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists. The 2015 Spring Committee Meetings, Nutrition Symposium and Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference will be hosted March 9-13 in Orlando, Fla.


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Three Rock Books Bouldering Essentials
Bouldering Essentials is packed with clear, practical advice for everyone interested in bouldering whether a complete beginner looking to learn the basics, an indoor climber keen to start bouldering outdoors or an experienced boulderer who wants to explore advanced topics such as dynamics, strategy, tactics, training and highballing.
With a foreword by renowned climber Johnny Dawes, the book features over 200 stunning photos from the best bouldering areas in the world including Bishop, Castle Hill, Fontainebleau, Hueco Tanks and Rocklands. Bouldering Essentials will provide all the inspiration and information you need to reach your full potential as a boulderer.


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These are so gorgeous in real life - even nicer than in the photos where Jimin wears them! And they look great there!
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This part will continue on with the new Web Part project we just created with VS 2008 and VSeWSS 1.3. The original plan was to implement a custom security access policy so that we could safely run our Web Part and read from an XML file. But like all good plans... For the purposes of this sample, we can simply up the trust level in the config file until we are confident that we have our Web Part functioning correctly. I may come back to the topic of CAS customization.
I recently created some Web Parts using version 1.2 of the extensions in combination with the command line. Typically, I would use the GAC for development. My testing cycle would then consist of building, uninstalling old version from GAC, deploying Feature, installing new version in GAC, and running IIS reset. This time around, I was unfamiliar with the extent to which 1.3 was going to automate things. For example, while creating this project, I did not have to use the command line once. The ultimate goal for this part is to actually get a Web Part working, using the new version of VSeWSS 1.3.
Although not necessary for the purposes of this tutorial, it helps to understand the development cycle of Web Part created as a Feature. If you were doing this manually, you would typically build it, deploy (copy) it, install it, activate the feature, and recycle the application pool. When updating code and redeploying, don't forget to deactivate the Feature first. Note also, that when we deactivate and uninstall a Feature, files such as CSS, images and the like, still remain on the file system. If you need to make changes to these with version 1.2, you may need to hand copy them. There is a config attribute for overwriting a file if it already exists, but I could never get this to work.
Back to business. Take a look at the XML below. Add the Addresses.xml file to the TestWebPart folder in Solution Explorer. We want to display some of this data in our Custom Web Part.
<addresses> <address> <name>John Doe</name> <street>123 Some Street</street> <city>Some City</city> <state>CA</state> <zip>12345</zip> </address> <address> <name>Jane Doe</name> <street>456 Another Street</street> <city>Some Other City</city> <state>CA</state> <zip>56789</zip> </address> </addresses>
Here's the complete code from my Web Part. Note the use of the RunWithElevatedPrivileges delegate here. Without this, the code would run under the current user's permissions. This allows the code to run with the same permissions as SHAREPOINT\System.I also hand copied the Addresses xml file to the wpresources folder in my virtual directory as I had difficulty in correctly configuring my Feature to do this for me. Does anyone know the proper way to do this?
using System; using System.Data; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Text; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; namespace TestWebPart { [Guid("5bc61f3f-62cf-49b5-8ffb-0f6081f87e64")] public class TestWebPart : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart { DataSet ds; Label testLabel; public TestWebPart() { } protected override void CreateChildControls() { Controls.Clear(); base.CreateChildControls(); // This following anonymous method allows a specified block of // code to run in the context of the SharePoint System Account SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate() { // You must create a new SPSite object inside the delegate // because SPSite objects created outside do not have Full // Control even when referenced inside the delegate. using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://" + System.Environment.MachineName)) { string sUri = site.WebApplication.IisSettings[SPUrlZone.Default].Path.FullName + "\\wpresources\\Addresses.xml"; ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml(sUri); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.Append(ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["name"].ToString() + "," + "
"); sb.Append(ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["street"].ToString() + "," + "
"); sb.Append(ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["city"].ToString() + "," + "
"); sb.Append(ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["state"].ToString() + " " + ds.Tables[0].Rows[0]["zip"].ToString() + "."); testLabel = new Label(); testLabel.Text = sb.ToString(); } }); this.Controls.Add(testLabel); } } }
VS 2008 Tip: If like me, you often end up with a list of 'using' statements as long as your arm, try the following: Highlight all your 'using' statements, then, select Edit -> Intellisense -> Organize Usings -> Remove and Sort :-)
When you have your Web Part building successfully, do the following:
* Select Build -> Package Solution * If you have already deployed, select Build -> Retract Solution * Deploy Web Part
You may get the following error:
To get around this, you need to open your AssemblyInfo.cs file (in the Properties folder) and add a System.Security.AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers assembly attribute. The framework will not by default allow an assembly that is not fully trusted to call another assembly that is not fully trusted. However, by adding this attribute we are telling the framework that it is okay to call other assemblies from this one. See below.
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("TestWebPart")] [assembly: AssemblyDescription("")] [assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")] [assembly: AssemblyCompany("")] [assembly: AssemblyProduct("TestWebPart")] [assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © 2009")] [assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")] [assembly: AssemblyCulture("")] [assembly: System.Security.AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers]
Upon redeployment, you may get the unexpected error page. If you check the event viewer Windows application log file, it should contain the following:
Request for the permission of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.SharePointPermission, Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' failed.
If you check the web.config file located in $Drive:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80, and you will notice that VSeWSS had indeed added a safe entry for the Web Part:
</SafeControls> ... <SafeControl Assembly="TestWebPart, Version=220.127.116.11, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6bbd0bdca0a0fd9e" Namespace="TestWebPart" TypeName="TestWebPart" Safe="True" /> </SafeControls>
It seems that when opting to deploy to the bin folder when creating the project, VSeWSS does just that and nothing more. VSeWSS still leaves the security options to us, which is the correct behaviour one would expect. By default, SharePoint Web applications are only allowed to run with a very restrictive trust level of WSS_Minimal. If we want to have our Web Part deployed to the bin folder, then in order for it to run we must do one of two things: either set the trust level to WSS_Medium or WSS_Full in the web.config, or create a custom CAS policy that will allow this assembly's managed code to run. We will up the level to WSS_Full here. In a production environment, you will need to make an informed decision on this yourself.
With the trust level updated, bear in mind that there may be other errors waiting for us. To view meaningful error messages in the browser rather than the unhelpful 'unexpected error' page, update the following in the web.config file:
* customErrors=off * Enable Stack Traces by adding CallStack="true" to the SafeMode tag * Set the compilation debug attribute to "true"
You should now be able to view the Web Part. If you can't, I take no responsibility ;-)
If you decide to implement your own code access security policy, then this should be of help.
Update - 06-19-2007: The following code from above does not play nice when deployed to a different machine: using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://" + System.Environment.MachineName)) { ... } Change it to the following: using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://" + HttpContext.Current.Server.MachineName.Trim().ToLower())) { ... }
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Hi Anthony,
I wanted to let you know that we added some default permissions to the BIN deployed project templates. So you can now F5 debug the web part BIN deployed project as soon as it is created. Try it out in the March 2009 CTP for VSeWSS v1.3
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the heads-up; looking forward to trying it out.
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Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder go back-to-back in Tigers' win
BOSTON -- Detroit manager Jim Leyland knows that if his offense needs a jump-start he has the perfect players to do it.
Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder homered on consecutive pitches to cap a five-run fifth inning Wednesday night, and the Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox 7-5 to avoid a three-game sweep.
"Those guys are awfully good right in the middle. They're pretty good at what they do and they did what they do tonight," he said. "When we get rolling pretty good that's a good three-four combination, probably as good as anybody in baseball. They're fun to watch."
Cabrera and Fielder helped sparked a Tigers' squad that had trouble scoring runs on a just-completed nine-game road trip. In losing six of its first eight on the trip before Wednesday, Detroit was held to 2.38 runs per game.
Cabrera, just 1 for 6 against the Red Sox in the first two games, was offended about the recent talk about the lack of offense.
"We're one of the top teams hitting in the American League. I don't know why people talk about our hitting," he said. "We're one of the top teams hitting. I guess we need to just win some more games, that's it."
One season ago, the Tigers had a similar record and wound up winning the AL Central with 95 wins.
It's something Cabrera hopes the team can do again.
"I wish," he said, breaking into a wide smile.
Cabrera has been on a torrid pace since early May, hitting .347 with 19 homers and 65 RBIs.
"The biggest problem was hanging a breaking ball to one of the best hitters in the game," Boston starter Aaron Cook said. "He had a long at bat and I tried to do something a little different."
Delmon Young added a solo homer for Detroit, which won for just the second time in seven games.
Carl Crawford hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, who had a four-game winning streak halted.
Cody Ross, Will Middlebrooks and Pedro Ciriaco had RBI singles for Boston.
"We keep winning series and we're going to be just fine," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said.
The Tigers finished 2-5 in Fenway Park and were 5-5 overall in the season series against the Red Sox.
Rick Porcello (8-6) pitched 5 2/3 innings, giving up four runs on eight hits for the win. He was 0-2 with a 10.80 ERA in three career starts against Boston.
Cook (2-5) was hit hard for the second straight start, allowing six runs on nine hits, including two homers, in 4 2/3 innings. He felt his sinker let him down.
"If I'm still down in the zone, they're hitting balls on the ground and I think the outcome of the game is totally different," he said.
Craig Breslow, acquired from Arizona in a non-waiver trade deadline deal, made his Red Sox debut, allowing a hit in 1 1/3 scoreless innings.
Octavio Dotel and Joaquin Benoit each worked a scoreless inning before Jose Valverde pitched a perfect ninth for his 21st save in 25 chances.
Detroit chased Cook and broke a 1-all game with the big fifth. Alex Avila and Jhonny Peralta opened with singles and advanced on Ramon Santiago's sacrifice. Austin Jackson followed with an RBI single and Quintin Berry had a run-scoring ground out.
Cabrera then hit a towering fly ball completely out of Fenway over the Green Monster seats and Fielder hit a shot into first row of the center field bleachers, making it 6-1.
In the sixth, the Red Sox cut it to 6-4. Boston had loaded the bases with no outs, but Jarrod Saltalamacchia bounced into a double play that scored a run and Middlebrooks had an RBI single. Phil Coke relieved and allowed Ciriaco's RBI single before he struck out Jacoby Ellsbury.
Crawford homered off Coke in the seventh, but Young homered in the eighth to restore Detroit's two-run edge.
The Red Sox had jumped ahead 1-0 in the first when Ross had a two-out RBI single after Ellsbury doubled leading off.
The Tigers tied it in the fourth on Brennan Boesch's RBI single on an eight-pitch at-bat. But Ellsbury saved a run with a running over-the-shoulder catch to end the inning, stumbling and falling forward into the side of Boston's bullpen as he came to the ground. He went into the 'pen with his right shoulder, the same one that caused him to miss 79 games after he dislocated it in Boston's home opener.
Game notes
Cabrera and Fielder have hit consecutive homers three times this season. ... Boston DH David Ortiz, on the 15-day DL with a strained right Achilles, was eligible to come off Wednesday, but Valentine said he hadn't done any running yet so it would likely be a few days. ... Fielder was hit on the right side of his helmet diving back to second on a pickoff play. The helmet came flying off, and he was checked by the team's trainer, but stayed in the game. ... Valentine said RHP Josh Beckett, who left Tuesday's game in the third inning with a back spasm, is not expected to go on the DL and is scheduled to start Sunday against Texas, but LHP Franklin Morales is ready just in case. ... RHP Scott Atchison, out with an ulnar ligament injury, is expected to see Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion. ... RF Ryan Kalish also made a nice running catch, sliding on one knee as he came to a stop on the warning track near the Pesky Pole. ... Fielder walked over and gave the infield practice ball to a young boy before the bottom of the ninth.
BOS Wins 2-1
Game Information
- Umpires:
- Home Plate Umpire - Jerry Layne
- First Base Umpire - Vic Carapazza
- Second Base Umpire - Larry Vanover
- Third Base Umpire - Angel Campos
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