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Directed by Ahn Pan-seok (안판석)
Screenplay by Lee Ki-won (이기원)MBC | Airing dates : 2007/01/06~2007/03/11
MBC title : Behind The White Tower
Other title : The Great White Tower
As Korean dramas enter the new millennium, it is impossible to deny that the genre of the mini series is at a crisis. Audiences have long since turned away from TV dramas, jaded by the same old stereotypical characters, farfetched storylines, and the formulaic pairing off of male and female characters. Over the years, the mini series has even devolved to the level of a mere time killer.
This can be seen as a recurrence of the crisis that American TV shows faced in the late eighties for the same reasons. Romantic comedies, increasingly concerned with reproducing the same styles and patterns, were no longer able to captivate audiences. Fortunately, two shows that appeared in the 1990s effectively put an end to this slump: ER and N.Y.P.D. Blue.
These two shows redefined the paradigm for TV dramas. By offering a level of realism reminiscent of documentaries and populating their vividly realistic settings with ensemble casts of true-to-life characters, they succeeded in drawing the masses back in front of the TV. Both shows have amply stood the test of time: they remain on the air to this day, more than ten years after they first debuted. The success and longevity of these shows demonstrate the fact that the public can no longer be won over by fake stories, and at the same time suggest the only alternative for rescuing Korean TV dramas from the mire of mediocrity.
That alternative, in short, is the fusion of a realistic depiction of the professional world and stories about living, breathing people.
Behind The White Tower perfectly satisfies this criterion.
Set in a university hospital, Behind The White Tower follows one brilliant doctors relentless pursuit of his ambition to its conclusion. By microscopically depicting the hidden side of the medical profession, it sheds light on a variegated spectrum of human types. The show recounts the friendship and conflict between two male doctorsone with a brilliant gift for his craft and the other with an innate warmth and a firm devotion to the healing artand tenaciously investigates the lust for power that moves human beings in the white tower that is the university hospital.
Ultimately, Behind The White Tower poses the fundamental question, What is a human being? and provides its viewers with an opportunity for self-reflection.
Jang Jun-hyeok Kim Myeong-min
An assistant professor in the department of general surgery at Myeongin University.
Strikingly tall with a stony demeanor, Jun-hyeok is an ambitious individual with an unrivaled drive for success. He is particularly renowned for his skill in hepatobiliary cancer and pancreas transplant surgeries, and is a celebrated scholar in the field of carcinogenesis. His dexterity with a scalpel is astounding.
Intuitive decision-making, a confident attitude, and a cold personality are his defining characteristics. As a result, he often rubs people the wrong way and, in particular, makes Professor Lee Ju-wan deem him unsuitable to become the head of the department. Still, his talent and ability as a doctor are unsurpassed. What really sets him apart from other doctors is the fact that he obsesses more about his patients diseases than about the patients themselves. In other words, he derives exhilaration from encountering new diseases and conquering them.
This attitude coincides with his lifes goal of becoming the best surgeon in the world. The first step in his journey toward this goal is to become the chief of the department of general surgery. This would make him the best in Korea, and provide the foundation for his intended rise to the top of the world. However, he comes across the first stumbling block in his life when Professor Lee Ju-wan tries to bring in someone from his alma mater as his successor.
Choi Do-yeong Lee Seon-gyoon
An assistant professor in the department of gastrointestinal medicine at Myeongin University, who graduated in the same class as Jang Jun-hyeok.
Although he initially majored in basic medicine and pathology, Do-yeong switched to clinical medicine out of a desire to heal suffering patients with his own hands. He is gentle, kind, and considerate.
His warm nature makes him the kind of a doctor that every patient wants to entrust their health to. Believing that a doctor must be rigorously scientific for his patients, he does not jump to conclusions in his diagnoses but poses question after question until he obtains absolute certainty. This places him in stark contrast to the intuitive Jun-hyeok. For this reason, they are constantly at conflict with each other. That is, as doctors, Do-yeong is idealistic whereas Jun-hyeok is pragmatic. Within the insular world of the university hospital, Do-yeongs humane and idealistic attitude comes up against endless challenges.
Clashing with surgeon Jang Jun-hyeok, with whom he has an organic relationship as a physician, Do-yeong is sometimes wooed and at other times threatened by the hospital, but he firmly stands his ground and defends his beliefs.
Noh Min-guk Cha In-pyo
The candidate for department chief recommended by Lee Ju-wan.
An alumnus from Lee Ju-wans alma mater, Min-guk received his M.D. overseas at Harvard University.
He is introverted and somewhat lacking in social skills, but he has a strong desire to win. Moreover, he is talented enough to rival Jang Jun-hyeok when it comes to surgery. Having published numerous articles in Science and SCI, he is amply qualified to compete against Jun-hyeok for the position of chief in the department of general surgery at Myeongin University. Because he is still single, Do-yeong is also regarded by Lee Ju-wan and his wife as an ideal candidate for a son-in-law as well.
Lee Yun-jin Song Seon-mi
Professor Lee Ju-wans daughter.
Although Yun-jin appears shy and docile, she is in fact strong in character and firm in her convictions. Having observed the life of doctors from an early age, she is jaded by the hospital and rebels against her parents desire to marry her off to a doctor.
However, when she meets Choi Do-yeongan academically-astute doctor with a dedication to healingshe begins to love and admire him. Unfortunately, Do-yeong is a married man with a son in kindergarten. Rationally, she tells herself that her feelings are inappropriate, but the more she tries to convince herself, the deeper her love for Do-yeong gets. Alongside Do-yeong, she begins assisting in the trial of the Kwon Hyeong-geun family, and does everything in her power to put former nurse Yu Mi-ra, a vital witness in the case, on the stand.
Kang Hee-jae Kim Bo-kyeong
Jang Jun-hyeoks beautiful girlfriend.
Because Hee-jae runs a bar near Myeongin University, a frequent haunt for doctors working at the university hospital, she serves as Jun-hyeoks information source and even acts as an invaluable spy for him from time to time.
Because she once attended medical school, she has no problem carrying on a professional conversation with the doctors who visit her bar. She is smart and intellectual, but her situation as an ex-med-student-turned-bar-hostess has made her rather cynical. She loves Jun-hyeok, but does not try to possess him.
This testifies to the extent of her willingness to submit to reality. She regards Jun-hyeok, who single-mindedly follows his ambition, with sympathy rather than envy. When Jun-hyeok is dying of cancer, she wants to remain by his side; Jun-hyeok, in turn, also wants her to stay with him.
Episode guide
< Episode 1 >
Brilliant surgeon Jang Jun-hyeok is an associate professor in the Department of
Surgery at Myeongin University. With his unsurpassed skill and cool judgment, he
saves a patient who had been on the brink of death due to another doctors error.
Still, chief of surgery Professor Lee Ju-wan regards the ever-confident Jun-hyeok
with a disapproving eye.
Jun-hyeoks school friend, Associate Professor Choi Do-yeong, comes across a
rare case of early-stage pancreatic cancer and transfers the patient to Jun-hyeok.
Jun-hyeok becomes excited about performing the unusual procedure, but finds
himself faced with a choice when he discovers that the powerful deputy chief of the
hospital, Wu Yong-gil, has made an incorrect diagnosis...
< Episode 2 >
Jun-hyeok and Do-yeong secretly operate on the patient who was misdiagnosed by
Professor Wu Yong-gil, but is discovered by the wily Wu. Jun-hyeok attempts to
cover up his illicit operation by lying that Wus initial diagnosis was correct, but he
encounters opposition from the honest Do-yeong.
Meanwhile, Professor Lee Ju-wan, who has always been disapproving of Jun-
hyeok, conspires with Professor Wu to send Jun-hyeok to a hospital in the
countryside by using the surgery as a pretext...
< Episode 3 >
Professor Wu declares Jun-hyeoks gift of a painting as an attempt at bribery and
sets out to transfer Jun-hyeok to a rural hospital. If he is transferred, all of Jun-
hyeoks efforts thus far will have been in vain. Alarmed, Jun-hyeok goes to his
father-in-law, Min Chung-sik, for aid.
Meanwhile, Professor Lee tells Jun-hyeok not to worry since the transfer is only a
temporary measure, and instructs him to prepare for the transition as scheduled...
< Episode 4 >
Jun-hyeok discovers the identity of the man Professor Lee is grooming as his
successor: Noh Min-guk. Min-guk is Lee Ju-wans alumnus and a professor at
Johns Hopkins University. Jun-hyeok becomes nervous, sensing that the man he
will be competing against is a formidable opponent.
Even amid his preoccupation with becoming the next chief of surgery, Jun-hyeok
ends up scrubbing in with Professor Lee on an extensive procedure to
simultaneously transplant the liver, pancreas, and kidney...
< Episode 5 >
As a result of Professor Lees scheme, Min-guk ends up taking the older mans
place in the OR. In an atmosphere of breathless tension, Min-guk and Jun-hyeok
begin the surgery. But the two rivals, each of whom considers himself the best in
the field, clashes constantly over the order and method of the procedure.
Professor Lee, who has been watching from the observation room, stresses that he
is in charge of the operation and orders the procedure to be performed according to
Min-guks directions. Jun-hyeok, though shocked, removes his gloves and steps
Meanwhile, Do-yeong, who is doing all he can to save Jin-ju, visits Professor Oh
Gyeong-hwan for a consultation, but is distressed by the fact that the cancer has
already progressed to a dangerous degree.
< Episode 6 >
Pathology professor Oh Gyeong-hwan volunteers to head the election committee in
order to ensure that the election for the next chief of surgery proceeds fairly.
Professor Lee secretly cheers at the development, since Professor Oh disapproves
of Jun-hyeok, but Professor Wu cannot help feeing bitter.
Made uneasy by Professor Ohs appointment to the head of the election committee,
Jun-hyeok pays Do-yeong an unexpected visit. Jun-hyeok asks the surprised Do-
yeong to arrange a meeting with Professor Oh, since he needs the latters help to
become the chief of surgery. But Do-yeong refuses, saying that he cannot help Jun-
hyeok in such a self-serving endeavor...
< Episode 7 >
Jang Jun-hyeok, Noh Min-guk, and Mun Sang-myeong are named as candidates for
the next chief of surgery. With Professor Oh helming the election committee, voting
begins in earnest. At that moment, Professor Lee raises his hand. Declaring that he
cannot choose among two of his students and Noh Min-guk, he gives up his vote
and exits the room. The less knowing of the department heads nod their heads in
admiring approval.
Jun-hyeok, who is in the auditorium busily preparing for the symposium, is
flabbergasted when Professor Lee suddenly appears and declares that he has
waived his vote. Later on, Lee approaches Jun-hyeok as he waits to deliver his
lecture and tells the younger man not to be offended by his decision to give up his
vote. At that very moment, Geon-ha rushes in to deliver the results of the vote...
< Episode 8 >
Jun-hyeok visits Min-guk in his hotel room. Throwing away his pride, he kneels
before Min-guk and entreats his rival to withdraw from the race. At that moment,
Professor Oh Nam-gi comes to Min-guks room, and the startled Jun-hyeok hastily
leaves the scene.
When Professor Lee learns that Jun-hyeok has been to see Min-guk, he informs
Professor Wu Yong-gil, thus exacerbating the situation. Angered by Jun-hyeoks
irresponsible act, Wu turns his back on him.
Meanwhile, Kwon Sun-il comes to see Do-yeong, at the insistence of his wife. Do-
yeong begins to run various tests on Sun-il as if he were any other patient.
< Episode 9 >
Suspecting Sun-il of having pancreatic cancer, Do-yeong refers him to Jun-hyeok,
who remarks that he will operate on Sun-il before the international surgical
conference in Jeju. Do-yeong suggests that Jun-hyeok perform a lung biopsy before
the operation, but Jun-hyeok, who is preoccupied by his preparations for the
conference, does not heed the advice.
Meanwhile, Min-guk, who has lost the election for the chief of surgery, calmly
leaves Korea...
< Episode 10 >
At the international surgical conference in Jeju, Jun-hyeok tries his utmost to perform
successful surgery on the wife of the international surgical associations chairman.
However, due to the unseen machinations of Oh Nam-gi, who had supported Min-
guk, Jun-hyeok finds himself unable to perform the operation.
Meanwhile, Dong-il, who has taken on Jun-hyeoks post-op patient as his very first
patient, begins to grow uneasy when the patient in question begins to display
strange symptoms...
< Episode 11 >
Just as he successfully completes the operation on the wife of the international
surgical associations chairman, Jun-hyeok receives the news that his post-op
patient Kwon Sun-il has died. Sensing the gravity of the situation, Jun-hyeok
requests a detailed inquiry into what happened.
Sun-ils wife, Sun-gi, and other family members wail in grief around the bed on
which Sun-il lies with a white sheet covering his body. Unable to watch the
heartbreaking scene, Dong-il runs down the stairs and bursts into tears.
< Episode 12 >
Sun-ils wife and Jun-hyeok come face to face in the hallway of the courthouse.
Jun-hyeoks attorney, Yun, patronizes the plaintiffs attorney by patting him on the
shoulder, and Sun-ils wife directs an anxious gaze toward Jun-hyeok and
Yun speculates that the plaintiffs side will summon Oh Gyeong-hwan, Yeom Dong-
il, and Choi Do-yeong as witnesses, which plunges Jun-hyeok into nervous
Meanwhile, the plaintiffs attorney, Kim Hun, visits Do-yeong at work...
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UK Military Uses Mini Drones in Afghanistan
Mini-drones are not just a luxury for us civilians. After all, if a technology like this comes to the average Joe, it's often because it already existed in the battlefield. Enter the Black Hornet, a palm-sized spy-copter used by British troops in Afghanistan.
The drone, which weighs about half an ounce and measures just 4 inches, is manufactured by the Norwegian company Proxy Dynamics. It's designed to be used by a single soldier as a reconnaissance and spying device. The drone is equipped with a camera that shoots videos and takes pictures. The soldier flies it with a mouse-like controller and receives its image and video feed on an hand-held device.
"Black Hornet gives our troops the benefits of surveillance in the palm of their hands. It is extremely light and portable whilst out on patrol," Philip Dunne, minister for defence equipment, support and technology, said in a statement.
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Need for second neck surgery 'frustrating' for Reimold
Tests on O's outfielder show spine never fused properly from first procedure
ARLINGTON -- Orioles left fielder Nolan Reimold, who will have season-ending corrective neck surgery on Tuesday, was just looking for a way to get his arm strength back.
Reimold, cleared in January to resume baseball activities following last June's spinal fusion procedure, was still having trouble getting his left arm over the hump, and the 29-year-old had a bunch of tests done over the All-Star break to see if there was a way to help. The results were shocking, with Reimold learning that the spine never fused properly and needed to be redone, ending his season for the second consecutive year.
"I was under the impression everything was fused," said Reimold, who had the initial procedure done by Dr. Ziya Gokaslan, a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was a full-go upon arriving at Orioles camp. "I was released for activity [by Gokaslan] without restrictions, so I thought it was good and healed. From everything I was told and read, it was supposed to be the strongest link in your spine. When that bone fuses together it's supposed to be fused together and be stronger than it was before.
"It was a shock when I got the results. I'm lucky, in a way, that I caught it now instead of keep making it worse."
Reimold was still waiting for one more set of tests results when speaking to MLB.com on Saturday, but acknowledged that by all accounts the second procedure is a necessity. That corrective surgery will be done by Dr. Robert Kowalski -- a neurosurgeon he saw over the break -- at the Florida Spine Institute and the timeline is about the same, although the rehab will be a little better.
"I'm not going to even try to push it until I know it's ready to go," said Reimold, who is about a month behind last year's schedule given the different surgery dates. "I thought it was [ready] before, but I'm not going to do anything, push it, I'm going to give it all the time it needs. I don't have the muscle atrophy that I had before. That's a good thing. It's the same rehab. I don't have near as much arm strength that I lost to get back.
"Going into Spring Training, it'd be tough to be a full-go. Even if I was, I'd probably ease into it."
Reimold has played in just 56 games since the start of the 2012 and suffered the neck injury diving into the left-field stands for a ball at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago last April.
Originally called a herniated disk, Reimold -- the team's hottest hitter at the time -- played through that injury before it was discovered that he needed spinal fusion surgery, which is the procedure NFL quarterback Peyton Manning had.
After being cleared in January, Reimold worked hard to be back for Spring Training and made the team's Opening Day roster. With his right side overcompensating for lingering weakness on the left, Reimold was placed on the disabled list May 18 -- retroactive to May 12 -- with a right hamstring strain that nagged him throughout camp. Though he was activated earlier this month, he never looked quite right.
"There's a 95 percent success rate," Reimold said of his surgery. "I couldn't tell you what happened with mine. I saw the X-rays and it looked like it was fused, but it can't be fused and then become unfused. That's not the way it works.
"Mine showed signs that it was fusing, it just apparently wasn't fusing, and when I started putting stress on it something happened."
"I could tell the last couple games something just wasn't firing," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of Reimold, who hit for a .195/.250/.336 slash line in 40 games this season. "It's kind of sad in a way, but you want to get it right. First of all, you just want to get his daily day-to-day activities and just living his life right. And the baseball part of it, I'm told, should come."
Reimold said he never had any neck pain this season, just some discomfort, which he chalked up to a normal part of the recovery process. His greater concern, which prompted the tests, was that his arm strength was still lagging behind.
"It's very frustrating," Reimold said of the whole process. "The injury was pretty tough to swallow, and when you think you're better and going to get over the hump, and you find out you weren't better -- you were just playing without it healed the whole way. And now I have to do this because of it -- it's pretty frustrating. "
So, too, are the whispers of Reimold -- who hasn't played more than 87 big league games in a season since his rookie year in 2009 -- being injury-prone.
"This isn't a new injury, I didn't injure my neck again," he said. "This was out of the blue, this was unexpected. I had a lot of improvement with my arm and everything, it just wasn't getting over the hump, so I wanted to get it checked out. And that's when they found this.
"I definitely was not right. The back of my shoulder and my upper arm healed fine. ... I did it because I wanted to find out if there was a way to get my forearm, bicep over the hump of the weakness that I was still feeling. It was getting a little bit worse -- that's why I wanted to get it checked out. It was a big surprise. I was pretty shocked when I talked to the doctor on the phone and he told me what he saw."


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Raymond James (RJF) said Thursday that Mark W. Teed joined the firm's employee channel from Wells Fargo Advisors, where he managed about $225 million in client assets.
Teed, a 25-year industry veteran who previously was with A.G. Edwards and Wachovia, is now a senior vice president of investments in the Springfield, Mass., office of Raymond James & Associates.
"I am extremely pleased to welcome Mark to our team," said complex manager David Varela, in a statement. "He brings a valuable combination of knowledge, experience and most important, an uncompromising commitment to do what's right for his clients."
"Joining Raymond James is one of the best decisions I've made," said Teed, in a statement. "I was looking for a brokerage-focused firm with a reputation for putting clients first. Raymond James offers me the support and freedom to make recommendations based solely on my clients' best interests."
Raymond James, which announced its most-recent quarterly earnings on Wednesday, is led by Paul Reilly (left). As part of its earnings release, the company said the number of prospective experienced financial advisors visiting the firm's home office in St. Petersburg, Fla., "continues to pick up for both the employee and independent-contractor divisions."
As of Sept. 30, Raymond James has 6,330 advisors vs. 5,350 a year ago and 6,367 in the earlier quarter. It has 5,452 in the United States, while the rest are in Canada and the United Kingdom; this figure is up from 4,504 last year and down 37 reps from about 5,489 in the earlier period.


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Black Hat USA 2012: Owning Firefox's Heap
Continuing our work on jemalloc exploitation, myself and Chariton Karamitas (intern at CENSUS S.A.) are presenting Owning Firefox's Heap at Black Hat USA 2012. This presentation extends our recently published Phrack paper by focusing specifically on the most widely used jemalloc application, namely the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
The abstract of our talk will give you a good preview of the content:
jemalloc is a userland memory allocator that is being increasingly adopted by software projects as a high performance heap manager. It is used in Mozilla Firefox for the Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms, and as the default system allocator on the FreeBSD and NetBSD operating systems. Facebook also uses jemalloc in various components to handle the load of its web services. However, despite such widespread use, there is no work on the exploitation of jemalloc.
Our research addresses this. We will begin by examining the architecture of the jemalloc heap manager and its internal concepts, while focusing on identifying possible attack vectors. jemalloc does not utilize concepts such as 'unlinking' or 'frontlinking' that have been used extensively in the past to undermine the security of other allocators. Therefore, we will develop novel exploitation approaches and primitives that can be used to attack jemalloc heap corruption vulnerabilities. As a case study, we will investigate Mozilla Firefox and demonstrate the impact of our developed exploitation primitives on the browser's heap. In order to aid the researchers willing to continue our work, we will also release our jemalloc debugging tool belt.
For updates on this talk, information on my research and my work at CENSUS S.A. in general you can follow me on Twitter.
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Earth is a strange place for blobs, and after being caged up in a lab it's no wonder they have little respect for our planet. You'll make your way through everything from a secret lab to farm lands, gobbling just about anything in sight. In green fields, take your pick from potatoes, corn, cabbage and fruit - even blobs need their five a day. You might even find the odd cow or bale of hay to snack on, providing you're big enough to handle it.
A more industrial environment awaits you at the power plant, and you'll be verging on obese by the time you get that far. Make your lunch out of workmen, machinery and electrical equipment; they may not taste particularly good but they'll certainly help you pile on the pounds.
Dotted around each level are lost blob friends. You can rescue these little guys by gulping them down too, and they'll earn you extra points.
Available to download from PlayStation Store, Tales from Space: About a Blob houses a charming art style that complements its weird and wonderful concept, coupled with an energetic soundtrack and amusing sound effects. There really is nothing quite like hearing a blob blissfully gobble up a forklift truck.
A ravenous alien blob has mysteriously landed on Earth, and he needs your help. Merely a droplet, he is stuck in a science lab but just isn't strong enough to escape on his own. Take control of the blob and build his strength and size by devouring just about anything you can - snooker balls, corks and pens are all fair game in blob diets.
Once you've gobbled enough laboratory equipment you'll be able to make your way out of there by solving puzzles and eating larger objects. Squeeze through tight spaces, jump onto higher surfaces and keep snacking on tasty treats to hit your size target. You won't be able to pass through to the next level until you're big, strong and scary enough to tackle the surprises that are in store.
And as blobs have the nifty, yet disgusting, ability to spit out anything they've munched on, you'll soon be regurgitating drawing pins, candles and dice to attack enemies, weigh down objects to create new paths and push buttons to open doors.
Collect handy special abilities such as magnetism and electricity to attract and repel objects, stick to surfaces and cut off the power supply to dangerous electrical hazards.
It turns out your blob wasn't the only one to have landed on Earth. Tales from Space: About a Blob features a local co-op mode so you and a fellow blob can tackle challenges and stuff your ever-growing faces together.
Having another blob around is not only great company, it's really handy for completing challenges and working your way through levels too. One of you can attack enemies with your edible ammunition while the other jumps over the platforms to scoff food and locate the exit.
Co-op mode is also a great way to solve puzzles that aren't immediately obvious. Trial and error is often the only way to figure out how to get past such obstacles, and is much more fun and less time-consuming when there are two of you on the case.
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Orlando's Words to Live By: "Is Dwight Cool With it?"Orlando Sentinel writer Mike Bianchi points out that several of the "unpopular personnel assessments" made by fired Orlando Magic Coach Brian Hill "are turning out to be frighteningly accurate." For instance, Hill never put J.J. Redick into his playing rotation, did not make Darko Milicic a regular starter and questioned whether Jameer Nelson is truly a championship level point guard; the Redick situation in particular supposedly had a lot to do with Hill being fired but Redick is actually playing even fewer minutes this season than he did as a rookie.
Dwight Howard has emerged as a legitimate MVP level player this season but the Magic are not doing much better so far under the direction of Stan Van Gundy than they were last year; the Magic are currently 22-13, just one game better than they were last season after 35 games. Orlando started out 14-5 in 2006-07 but finished with a 40-42 record, while this season's squad started out 15-4 and has been sliding backwards ever since. It remains to be seen if Van Gundy can prevent this team from going into the full fledged free fall that ultimately cost Hill his job.
Bianchi says that Hill's departure can be explained by five simple words uttered by Howard. Hill has refused to publicly comment on his dismissal but when Howard was asked about it recently he admitted that Orlando management asked his opinion prior to making the move. What did Howard say? "I was cool with it." Howard may as well have declared, "Off with his head!" It is extremely unlikely that the Magic will fire a coach who Howard likes or hire one he does not like. That is just the way of the world in the NBA. Bianchi quotes a famous line by Chuck Daly, the former Pistons and Magic coach: "It's a player's league. The players allow you to coach them or they don't. Once they stop allowing you to coach, you're on your way out."
Here is Howard's take: "You have to like your coach. I think that's very important. It's hard to be around somebody all the time if you don't like them." I don't have a problem with that; it certainly makes sense for a team to try, within reason, to bring in a coach who establishes a good rapport with the franchise player (and, hopefully, with the rest of the roster as well). What I don't get is why some players are considered to be bad guys for greasing the rails for a coach's dismissal while other players get a free pass. Anyone who has followed the NBA closely for the past 25 years or so knows that Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan had a lot to do with the firings of Paul Westhead and Doug Collins respectively. Larry Bird certainly shed no tears about the firing of Bill Fitch. Shaquille O'Neal clearly preferred to be coached by Pat Riley instead of, ironically, Stan Van Gundy. Johnson got a ton of bad press in the wake of Westhead's dismissal, though the negative coverage receded somewhat after Riley replaced Westhead and led the Lakers to titles in 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988. K.C. Jones guided Bird's Celtics to a pair of titles, while Phil Jackson led Jordan's Chicago Bulls to six titles and Riley's Heat won the 2006 championship. It is possible that Howard's palace coup will escape national attention simply because it took place in Orlando, hardly a media mecca. However, if Howard does receive criticism then his best course of action will be to follow in the footsteps of Johnson, Bird, Jordan and O'Neal by winning at least one title with a new coach running the show.
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EXCLUSIVE: How Slash Found Himself 'Living The Dream'
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We are just days away from Living The Dream.
The album is the third outing for Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, continuing to perfect the formula of Slash's searing riffs and Kennedy's soaring vocals.
The LP is out everywhere on Friday, but the band took to the familiar haunt of Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles last week to unwrap some of the new songs. "The Whiskey is definitely, it has a great sort of cachet to it, there's a great history" Slash explained to us. "I just love starting out in a sweaty little club."
Related: Slash and Myles Kennedy Blaze Through "Mind Your Manners" on 'Kimmel'
This collection feels custom-built for the "sweaty little club", and it will fill many of them around the country as the band continues their tour through October. You can check out the full list of dates here.
As for the album, Slash says we've all been taking the title too literally. "It was really just a joke about the current state of global politics" he laughs. "Living The Dream was sort of a sarcastic, snide little rip at that."
Slash sat down with us to share more about Living The Dream and the story behind some of its songs. You can watch the video below.
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Is this your grandma? On the back, below the photographer's imprint, it reads "This is your grandma." I wonder who she is.
This CDV was done by photographer "C. W. Tallman" at 80 & 82 Main Street in Batavia, New York. I suspect "C. W." is Charles, who in 1880 was living in Batavia and listed as a photographer in the census.1
1. 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Batavia, Genessee County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 4, p. 3 (written), 398 (stamped), dwelling 26, family 27, Charles Tallman; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 August 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 835.


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This is as good as it gets in terms of saved or preserved old NewYork. Gorgeous workmanship.
I think I get to see something of what was lost in the old U.S. Army building at 39 Whitehall Street in terms of the skylight and atrium affect on the interior.
This building is of course AAAA compared to that buiilding still standing but "Reclad" serving another function.
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I am enjoying Edgar Schein's "On Dialogue, Culture, and Organizational Learning" (Organizational dynamics 22.2 (1993): 40-51). My summary.
Dialogue in the general parlance means conversation. But dialogue, for Schein, is different. It starts from a change in mental approach–the use of a somewhat unnatural "suspension"–instead of reacting when we hear discomfiting information that triggers us, we pause for a moment, and evaluate what we're thinking. "Is this feeling I have true? Or is it based on a mistaken perception?" we ask ourselves, and wait a bit for additional information before we decide how to act. Dialogue means bringing a kind of mindfulness, or cognitive self-awareness as we talk–"knowing one's thought as one is having it," says Schein. Thinking about a thought rather than being the thought. Leaving the animal-like, mechanical push-and-pull of a conversation, and watching, as it were, partially from above. As Schein says:
I have found repeatedly that if I suspend, I find that further conversation clarifies the issue and that my own interpretation of what may have been going on is validated or changed without my having to actively intervene.
"Not having to intervene" feel unfamiliar? Probably because conversations where people are practicing this at first feel different than other conversations. There is no debate. Instead there's a feeling of a "disjointed . . . random conversation." The point is not to "convince each other" but to "build common experience." People think of the process–at first–as a "detour or slowing down of problem solving," but Schein notes such dialogues are necessary. And he says people come to want them, once they've got the feel.
Why? Why focus on building experience instead of problem solving? Because it heals the miscommunications, misunderstandings, and problems caused by clashing mental models that are a bane of organizational subcultures. For Schein, our continual problem is that we form tacit and private understandings, beliefs, norms, assumptions, languages in our different contexts, teams. or hierarchical levels, and without work at getting these on the table, we won't understand what people in other teams or at other levels are saying. And they won't understand us. We also won't say we don't understand, because we are socialized "to withhold information that would in any way threaten the current 'social order;'" so the misunderstanding remains until the cross-functional project we're working on stalls, and we point fingers.
But if we're using dialogue, we're watching ourselves thinking as we simultaneously listen to what people are saying, we're seeing and assessing our built-in assumptions as they pop up, we're thinking about what language means, we're holding multiple possibilities in mind simultaneously. Because we're suspending our reactivity in favor of listening to the modulations of the group thinking, it's less about individuals talking to each other (as happens in traditional feedback, for instance) and more about the group as a kind of network or hive mind. A good group-think, where the group thinks and learns at a higher level than the individuals could on their own, rather than the opposite. Through the meandering dialogue process we form a new understanding of how the group uses language, how it conceives of its work, what mental models it uses, and, perhaps most importantly, we create a psychologically safe space where we can efficiently develop new languages and new models. Not to mention we also get better at using dialogue itself, until it becomes an efficient tool we can put to use whenever we feel the need.
In any event, without dialogue, says Schein–and this is the kicker–you can't do much at all. Dialogue is "at the root of all effective group action," it allows groups to "achieve levels of creative thought that no one would have initially imagined," and, finally, without it, you can't learn, you can't change, and you can't adapt:
Learning across cultural boundaries cannot be created or sustained without initial and periodic dialogue. Dialogue in some form is therefore necessary to any organizational learning that involves going beyond the cultural status quo.


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Witnesses tell police man took a 30-foot section of copper rain gutter from the building
A man was arrested Saturday night for allegedly stealing a copper gutter from the All Hallows Church - while Easter Mass was taking place.
Plainfield police said they received a call at 8:37 p.m. from a parishioner who reported seeing a man remove a 30-foot section of gutter from above the doors leading to the front of the church at 130 Prospect St. The man then folded it up and carried it away.
Witness statements and a successful track by the Plainfield Police Department's K-9 unit resulted in the arrest of Paul Bissonette, 44, of 49 Prospect St.
He was charged with sixth-degree larceny and third-degree criminal mischief. He was freed on a $2,500 non-surety bond and is scheduled to appear in Danielson Superior Court on April 7.


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So, I am very excited to announce that I have become a member of an amazing group of bakers called the "Daring Bakers." Each month, I will be faced with a new challenge...probably something that I've never had the guts to attempt before...case in point - Homemade French Bread. And not just any ole' bread, but Julia Child's French Bread.
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After putting it off for several weeks, I finally decided to put my apron on and start kneading last weekend. After an entire day of mixing, kneading, rising, baking, and re-reading the recipe I finally ended up with somewhat beautiful French bread. I started the process around 12pm, and I bit into my first piece of French bread yummy-ness around 11pm (yes it was late, and no we couldn't wait until the following day to try it!). I was proud of my efforts and the final product. My husband, Brad, usually isn't a bread person. But, he couldn't get enough of this stuff. I am a self-proclaimed bread girl, so I was excited to finally finish the challenge. I will admit that I was nervous though. I was worried that my entire day in the kitchen was going to be wasted if the bread wasn't any good. I anxiously watched as Brad took the first bite. After a few long seconds, he finally plastered a big smile across his face. At that point, I knew my efforts had been a success!


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Which files should be compared via EMF Compare ?
Q : My model is compared as a text-file, how can EMF compare know the files it should handle ?
A : EMF Compare will be triggered for any files that is recognized as an EMF model. There is no specific content-type for EMF Compare; any content-type that has the ecore XMI type as its base will be recognized as a file which comparison should be done with EMF Compare.
You may add your own extension using the Preferences view / General / Content-types and adding your file extension in the "XMI" content-type.
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Q : uml, ecore and emfdiff models are "locked" as model files in the aforementioned "EMF Compare" content-type. I want to compare two uml files as text, is there a way to do so?
A : There is no way to force textual comparison of EMF files. You can, however, switch back to a plain text comparison through the drop-down menu that is diplayed between the two halves of the compare editor :
EMF Compare compatibility?
Q : Which Java/Eclipse versions can EMF Compare run on?
A : EMF Compare is built against JDK 1.5 and makes use of the features it introduced such as foreach and generics. It is therefore incompatible with a JDK < 1.5. EMF Compare can also be used with both JDK 1.6 and JDK 1.7.
We strive to keep the compatibility chart updated so that you can determine which version of EMF Compare can be used in conjunction with your Eclipse of choice.
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Q : Where can I download the latest version of EMF Compare?
A : The Installation instruction present a set of update sites useable to install. The Download page lists more specific update sites if you wish to try one of the latest integration builds.
How can I programmatically add my model file extension in EMF Compare so that it is called automatically ?
Q : How can I programatically add my model file extension to EMF Compare so that it is called automatically ?
A : You can do so using the exore XMI content-type, here is a sample from a plugin.xml:
<extension point="org.eclipse.core.contenttype.contentTypes"> <file-association content-type="org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi" file-extensions="uml" file-names="*"/> </extension>
How can I use EMF Compare programmatically?
Q : How can I use EMF Compare programmatically, to compare either files or "in-memory" objects?
A : Many samples of how to compare objects can be found within the unit tests of EMF Compare (see also how to checkout the source code). Here is a sample that should cover the basic use case (the class with this method should have a dependency towards the org.eclipse.emf.compare plugin) :
public void compare(File model1, File model2) { URI uri1 = URI.createFileURI("path/to/first/model.xmi"); URI uri2 = URI.createFileURI("path/to/second/model.xmi"); Resource.Factory.Registry.INSTANCE.getExtensionToFactoryMap().put("xmi", new XMIResourceFactoryImpl()); ResourceSet resourceSet1 = new ResourceSetImpl(); ResourceSet resourceSet2 = new ResourceSetImpl(); resourceSet1.getResource(uri1, true); resourceSet2.getResource(uri2, true); IComparisonScope scope = EMFCompare.createDefaultScope(resourceSet1, resourceSet2); Comparison comparison = EMFCompare.builder().build().compare(scope); List<Diff> differences = comparison.getDifferences(); for (Diff diff : differences) { // handle the difference } }
Can EMF Compare be used standalone?
Q : Is EMF Compare able to compare "in-memory" objects, and can it be run without Eclipse ?
A: Yes, the core of EMF Compare is developed primarily for standalone, the integration with Eclipse being built on top of that. All of the classes and utilities located in the org.eclipse.emf.compare plugin are pure Java with no dependency towards Eclipse, and can thus safely be used within a Java application running outside of Eclipse.
The following is the minimal set of dependencies you will need for EMF Compare.
* org.eclipse.emf.common 2.5 or higher * org.eclipse.emf.ecore 2.5 or higher * org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi 2.5 or higher * org.eclipse.emf.compare 2.0 or higher * com.google.guava 10.0 (Careful : EMF Compare is not compatible with Guava 11 or higher)
Custom data types are always marked as modified by EMF Compare
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A : The differencing process of EMF Compare is based on equality helpers. For data types, this depends upon the return value of these data types' equals(Object) method. It will thus fail to determine whether two objects match if their equals(Object) methods has not been overriden in the custom data type's instance class. Remember to also override hashCode() when overriding equals(Object).
Another way around this problem would be to contribute your own equality helper to EMF Compare so that it knows how to compare these kind of data types. That could be done through the EMFCompare builder :
IEqualityHelperFactory helperFactory = new DefaultEqualityHelperFactory() { @Override public org.eclipse.emf.compare.utils.IEqualityHelper createEqualityHelper() { final Cache<EObject, URI> cache = EqualityHelper.createDefaultCache(getCacheBuilder()); return new EqualityHelper(cache) { @Override public boolean matchingValues(Object object1, Object object2) { if (object1 instanceof MyDataType && object2 instanceof MyDataType) { // custom code } return super.matchingValues(object1, object2); } }; } }; IComparisonFactory comparisonFactory = new DefaultComparisonFactory(helperFactory); Comparison comparison = EMFCompare.builder().setMatchEngine(new DefaultMatchEngine(DefaultMatchEngine .createDefaultEObjectMatcher(UseIdentifiers.WHEN_AVAILABLE), comparisonFactory)).build().compare();


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Heather Stoddart, Measured Survey Manager, Architecture and Industry Section and Ali McCaig, Measured Survey Manager, Landscape Section at Historic Environment Scotland
We have chosen an Industrial Archaeological site on the River Clyde called Hyndford Mills, near Lanark, which we are surveying as part of an HES programme called 'Discovering the Clyde' http://discoveringtheclyde.org.uk/
The site sits very close to the river and floods regularly. It consists of a series of roofless buildings and archaeological remains that have been excavated by a local community group the Clydesdale Mills Society.
On our first visit, we explored the site and discussed the general interpretation with Miriam McDonald, Industrial Survey Manager at HES and with representatives from the Clydesdale Mills Society. At that point we agreed on the end product that we wanted to achieve – a detailed plan of the extent of the site which will show the upstanding walls, lades, tail-race and ground works in reasonable detail.
Hyndford Mills is quite a complex site, with multiple phasing. It appears on Pont's map of Glasgow and the County of Lanark (Pont 34, c.1583-96) http://maps.nls.uk/detail.cfm?id=297 and may be much older still. The site has been used for many small-scale industrial and agricultural processes over many generations including grain milling, flax processing and animal bone crushing (for agricultural manure).
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ADHD, And Tango Makes Three, banalization of homosexuality, Bisexuality, Bridge to Terabithia, Bulls On Parade, censorship, child developement, children's fiction, Dav Pilkey, free speech, Freedom, GOP, Grouchy Old People, Harold and George, he Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, heteronormativity, Homosexuality, Literature, Politics, Rage Against the Machine, Reading, Sexual identity, Sexual Rhetoric, Sexuality, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, The Attack of the Talking Toilets, The Gay Agenda, The Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space( and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds), The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, The Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, Twenty One Balloons
I've written this before, but when I was young I was not much of a reader. I aspired to read, and I liked "the idea" of reading, but the actual practice left me too dissatisfied. I mean I had Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros to beat and they weren't going to play themselves after all. The Picture of Dorian Grey could wait and so many of the books on my shelf sat and collected dust, apart of course for my Calvin and Hobbes books, and, of course, my Captain Underpants collection. I'd bought, my parents bought let's be honest here, the first book at the school book fair because the man on the cover was wearing nothing but underwear, and when I opened the pages and saw the book had pictures and a comic book inside I insisted that I buy, that my parents buy me the book. Had it not been for Captain Underpants I might not have sustained any real desire to read in which case I could have focused on science and eventually cured canc…okay I couldn't even finish that sentence, but you arrive at the general idea.
Much like Family Guy and Calvin and Hobbes, I gravitated to Captain Underpants because it was silly. The humor matched a lot of what I considered to be funny and so once I finished the first, aptly named by the author, epic novel, I bought, had my parents buy me, the second book The Attack of the Talking Toilets. Captain Underpants saved me from third grade which was a particularly hellish experience because it became clear after the first month that my teacher really didn't like anyone in the class. Being sensitive as fucking fuck I apparently spent most of the semester scared and crying and looking back, in all seriousness, I don't actually remember my year of the third grade at all. I do remember my grade school coach and one of the administrators chewing me out for using the word "Hell" in a sentence to the point that I was crying and apologizing, but I don't like to remember this much. This experience may be one of the many early instances that taught to me respect yet always distrust authority figures. To this day as I see police officers walking towards me there's a general discomfort and I treat my professors with the utmost respect while always terrified that I've done something to offend or disappoint them.
Despite this pleasant experience Captain Underpants is a recurring image during this period and after the Talking Toilets I read The Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space( and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) and The Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, and the last book of the series I read as a young man was The Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman. Pilkey continued writing and publishing books, but by the time Wedgie Woman was published I had reached the fifth grade and new books were making appearances. Twenty One Balloons and Bridge to Terabithia required more effort and dedication and so Captain Underpants, didn't disappear, but steadily faded into the white noise of childhood. However unlike Bing Bong from Inside Out (Quite possibly the most soul wrenching tragic figure since Othello) Captain Underpants did not fade into oblivion.
While I discovered boobs and the joys of writing novels that nobody but myself would ever read, Captain Underpants continued a journey of silliness and toilet humor that would spark moral outrage from the bored imaginations of parents who forgot that kids need something to laugh at. Captain Underpants has become the most banned book in the United States and when you remember the plot involves two kids hypnotizing their school principle into thinking he's a superhero who wears nothing but underwear, that fact assumes a depressing morbidity.
Americans like to talk a great deal about greatness, that greatness being first and foremost out personal freedoms, yet despite this celebration there is a subtext much in the vein of Orwell. All freedoms are equal, but some freedoms are more equal than others. The right to freedom of speech promises individual expression, but when an individual's expression's challenges authority that voice is subversive or treasonous. It's better to allow only certain types of speeches in certain places, while displaying and carrying guns should not be hindered in anyway, unless you're a twelve year old black boy in a public park. This snark however is cheap and only serves to avoid the real problem in American culture which is that Americans are overly-concerned/obsessed with the idea of purity, or at the very least with comfort in their world view which leads me to the GOP, a.k.a The Grouchy Old People.
For Christmas this year I received a hardback copy of the latest Captain Underpants books The Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot from my parents, and let the record reflect that I did NOT ask my parents to buy it for me. I had seen the book before and read a passage when I was having coffee with my mother, and her being the woman that she was, she knew I needed to have it for Christmas. I sat down and read the book in less than an hour, they used to last longer for some reason, and I was rather shocked to discover that Captain Underpants had become rather political since my last reading.
Take these two pages if you don't believe me:
I was used to Pilkey's style of making slapstick humor and cheap poop jokes, it was part of the initial appeal of the series, and this new soft political humor seemed a little out of place at first….at first. Pilkey's latest novel will most likely never be found on the bookshelves of a conservative household, and it's a wonder that with this not-very-well-hidden-attack on the Republican party that the book wasn't the focus of a day long Pilkey assault on FOX News, which was also a target if you read. Pilkey in recent times hasn't been shy about the fact that he sees hypocrisy in the banning of his books, in fact his entire career has been seemingly dedicated to the dismantling of authority figures. The attack in these passage against the GOP, Grouchy Old People, may be his liberal bias infecting the work, but speaking as a lifelong reader of the series as well as a detached critic, it's clear Pilkey really isn't doing anything he hasn't done before, namely, providing young readers with an outlet for their frustrations with the larger figures of authority that usually make their life a living hell. Which brings me to ADHD.
Pilkey suffered from ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and he takes the time to not only explain the disorder, but also to feature it as the defining strength of his heroes George and Harold. Not only that, but the central villain of the novel, the boys' gym teacher Mr. Meaner who becomes brilliant after eating a shard of Zygo-Gogozizzle 24 (a fragment of an alien planet named Smart Earth) creates a suit that sprays a chemical that effectively contains the disorder making the children compliant and eager to obey authority figures. Meaner's motivations are brilliantly described by Pilkey who says:
Unlike most megalomaniacs, Mr. Meaner had no interest in taking over the planet. He was smarter than that. He knew that the real money and power was in pharmaceuticals. Mr. Meaner had created a formula that transformed children into highly attentive, obedient slaves. All he needed to do was mass market his creation, and he would become the most powerful entity on earth. (59)
Meaner's plan works and the boys recognize that in order to properly fight him they will need to rely on the only two adults they can trust: themselves.
This is where the book, and the universe of Captain Underpants permanently changed and I knew I would have to review this book. George and Harold find their older selves and explain their situation. The reader may wonder what is so spectacular about that. Well in fact there is nothing so fantastic in the act, so much as in a crucial detail that was revealed in the narration.:
An interracial couple in a children's book is surely the most shocking element that I, okay, fine, I can't fake it.
I was surprised to discover that Harold, the short white kid with the crazy hair, was gay and that Pilkey presented that fact so matter-of-factly without any commentary. Before the reader says, "Is it really that surprising?" it was for me. For all of the education I've had, for all of the events and organizations I've participated in that dealt with LGBT rights, and for all the gay men and women and in-between people I have encountered, worked with, and occasionally gotten drunk with, there is still a lingering heteronormativity that was shocked and said "Wow, Harold never seemed gay to me." This sensation though, I am proud to say, fizzled out quickly as I continued to read, and once the book was finished I was able to really consider the implication of this.
The immediate concern is clarifying the issue of Harold's identity. Many are automatically assuming that Harold is gay, myself included, not taking into account that the man could be bisexual or pansexual. Obviously it's not going to matter to many kids, they're going to recognize the same-sex relationship while the parents scream it out at PTA meetings, but much of the hubbub around this coupling is that this represents a push for the most dreaded ideology since Civil Rights or Communism combined: The GAY AGENDA (Que dramatic organ music followed by a single lightning strike).
Anyone who has discussed this issue with actual gay people will know that this ideology is the first rule of gay fight club and not to be talked about, the second rule of gay fight club is, you do not…anyway the point is Harold being listed as purely gay demonstrates the larger problems of lack of understanding of what it means to be gay, bisexual, and everything in between. I recognize however that getting bogged down in a bracket of sexuality types will spin this essay in a different direction, so for the time being I'll refer to Harold's sexuality as gay. If you take offense to this please draw an illustration of me and videotape yourself burning it, you'll feel better and I won't hate you…I'll hate you a little.
Looking at lists of banned books over the last ten years, it becomes clear that the books that are frequently being censored are not the novels written by adults for adults, but rather children's books. In the last ten years one of the most banned books was And Tango Makes Three, a story about two male penguins raising an abandoned chick together. Correct. The children's book about homosexual penguins was banned because there were fears that children reading such a book would encourage or condone homosexuality and challenge the traditional model of the "family."
The reader should remember that often appeals to "the family," that great force of moral purity that is so lacking in resiliency and strength against corruption yet is somehow vulnerable to the scourge of homosexuality, is the appeal most often from "concerned parties" in conversations dealing with what constitutes real art. "The family" is an idea, but more often a rhetorical strategy to distract the common listener from the real issue of censorship. When something threatens "the family" it by extension means a corruption of children and parents leading to drug use, violence, civil disobedience, social deviancy, and culminating finally in the overthrow of the republic as we know it. The reader has mst likely witnessed or observed this appeal, and I'm reminded of Rage Against The Machine's song Bulls On Parade:
I walk tha corner to tha rubble that used to be a library
Line up to tha mind cemetary now
What we don't know keeps tha contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells
Rally round tha family, pockets full of shells.
Now The Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot did not produce much of a public outrage, no more so than the other books in the past,* and the issue of homosexuality in a book designed for kids actually leads me to a cautious optimism. Pilkey's novel offers a glimpse of what is most likely the future: the banalization of homosexuality (fancy pants way of saying people treating homosexuality as commonplace rather than exceptional or odd). Harold being gay does nothing to change to plot, in fact the boys don't even notice it, Harold doesn't discuss it, and nobody bothers to sit down and explain how two men could be attracted to one another. The only disruption from the novel was on my own part. Like Harry Potter, Harold and George were kids when I was a kid myself and seeing them grown up allowed for an opportunity for reflection.
I am almost thirty, bisexual, married, and about to start teaching full time. The boy who read every Captain Underpants book as soon as it came out is part of who I was, and I hope to pass these books along to my own children when I have them, and when they read Sir Stinks-a-Lot I hope they don't have the reaction that I do. With any luck, and if I'm worth any salt as a parent, the fact that Harold's gay will only be a minor detail in the story, rather than a bold and careful statement by an artist who has meant so much in my own life.
The Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot promises hope for more than older readers like myself who read the series now mostly for nostalgia. Young homosexual boys and girls trying to understand their thoughts and feelings will find this series, and when they discover that Harold is gay they will able to see that their understanding of their sexuality is not an isolated eccentricity or vice. Gay parents will have an example of how monogamous homosexual married people pose no real threat, as if they ever did, to the institution of marriage and that dreaded fragile membranous tissue, "the family." The novel writes gay parents into the discourse of children's fiction and that alone makes this novel worth your time…that, and the reference to Jim Belushi and Jeff Goldblum that you'll have to find for yourself.
Captain Underpants and the Saga of Sir Stinks-a-lot is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and wherever books are sold.
*Writer's Note*
There have been some instances of book fairs pulling the book out of "concern for parents" who wish to discuss issues like sexuality to their children before their children buy without their knowing. There are also some reviews online by parents wishing they "had been warned" about the matter-of-fact same-sex relationships. The best reactions though are the one star reviews the reader can find on Amazon. The most priceless one being of course: Don't let you precious children read this book!
**Writer's Note**
Here below are several websites relating to the banning of Captain Underpants, the reaction to Harold's sexuality, and a few interviews and essays with and by Dav Pilkey himself. Hope you enjoy.


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It CANNOT be May already! I am in shock! April FLEW by, apparently so fast that I didn't have time to take many pictures! :) But here are a few nonetheless...
Eli has been playing soccer again this spring and doing great. An interesting side note is that one of the kids on his team (#21 below) was in the Baylor NICU at the same time as Eli was almost 8 years ago! His mom and I happened to figure that out- what a coincidence, and what a BLESSING it is to watch both of these little boys playing so happily and healthily after having pretty scary beginnings!
Eli and our sweet friend CJ.
Eli has been super into mowing the lawn lately, despite the fact that the mower handle is taller than he is. :) But he sticks with it and is a big help to Eric!
Eric, Eli, Phil, Timothy, Charlie, and my dad all went to Beaver's Bend for a boys' camping trip. They had a blast, and took very few photos. :) But I love this one of the three of them. I'm SO thankful for the friendships these three have with each other and the close relationships they have with their dads/uncles/Pop-Pop.
We got to spend time with our friends the Wilkes celebrating Andy's birthday.
And last week we went to a Rough Riders game, our tradition to kick off Eli's birthday celebration. It was a beautiful night, and we had a great time.
Eli was very happy to get a ball- clearly. :)


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Ricciardo confident he can clinch first in 2013 F1 season
AUSTRALIAN Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo has set his sights firmly on a first podium finish in 2013 - and believes a win may not be completely out of reach.
The 23-year-old Toro Rosso driver has had 31 starts in F1 after debuting in 2011.
He finished 18th in the drivers' championship in 2012.
Speaking with Spanish newspaper AS, the Perth-born Ricciardo said he was "positive" about the team's new STR8 chassis, which had performed well in testing.
"Last year, our car was not competitive enough, but we'll see what we can do this time," he said.
"I think our goal should be to become the best team after the big fight, so (competing with) Williams, Force India, Sauber."
"For me, it's to be in the points regularly and if possible get some podiums."
Ricciardo, who has been talked about as a possible replacement for compatriot Mark Webber at Red Bull should the two part ways at the end of 2013, said even a win was "not impossible", but would need conditions such as rain to help.
The 2013 F1 season starts on March 17 in Melbourne.


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Obama, G7 leaders meet without Russia as Ukraine exits Crimea
U.S. President Barack Obama conferred with major industrialized allies in the Group of Seven on Monday on how to pressure Russia over its seizure of Crimea after Ukraine told its remaining troops to leave the region for their own safety, Reuters reported.
Obama, who has imposed tougher sanctions on Moscow than European leaders over its takeover of the Black Sea peninsula, sought backing for his firm line at a meeting deliberately called to exclude Russia, which joined in 1998 to form the G8.
"As long as the political environment for the G8 is not at hand, as is the case at the moment, there is no G8 - neither as a concrete summit meeting or even as a format for meetings," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said before the talks.
She said she did not expect the hour-long session of leaders of the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Britain and Italy, plus the European Union, to decide on new sanctions, although the leaders would discuss possible further measures to be taken if the situation escalates.
Since the emergency meeting held on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in The Hague was announced last week, President Vladimir Putin has signed laws completing Russia's annexation of the region.
Russian troops forced their way into a Ukrainian marine base in the port of Feodosia early on Monday, overrunning one of the last remaining symbols of resistance.
In Kiev, acting president Oleksander Turchinov told parliament the remaining Ukrainian troops and their families would be pulled out of the region in the face of "threats to the lives and health of our service personnel".
That effectively ends any Ukrainian resistance, less than a month since Putin claimed Russia's right to intervene militarily on its neighbor's territory.
White House officials accompanying Obama expressed concern on Monday at what they said was a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine and warned that any further military intervention would trigger wider sanctions than the measures taken so far.
In what has become the biggest East-West confrontation since the Cold War, the United States and the European Union have imposed visa bans and asset freezes on some of Putin's closest political and business allies. But they have held back so far from measures designed to hit Russia's wider economy.
"Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people," Obama said after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. "We're united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far."
He also discussed the crisis at a meeting in The Hague with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has voiced support for Ukraine's sovereignty but refrained from criticizing Russia. The West wants Beijing's diplomatic support in an effort to restrain Putin.
Moscow formally annexed Crimea on March 21, five days after newly-installed pro-Moscow regional leaders held a referendum that yielded an overwhelming vote to join Russia. Kiev and the West denounced the annexation as illegal.
In one sign of a possible easing of tension, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed to hold a first meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andriy Deshchytsya on the sidelines of the nuclear security summit, a Russian diplomatic source said.
The first 50 out of 100 observers dispatched by the pan-European OSCE security watchdog arrived in Ukraine on Monday to monitor potential trouble spots and report back to the 54-nation organization. Russia relented late last week and agreed on a mandate after prolonged wrangling, but the monitors will not be allowed to enter Crimea.
Western officials are now focused less on persuading Putin to relinquish Crimea - a goal that seems beyond reach - than on deterring him from seizing other parts of Ukraine.
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters Obama hoped the G7 leaders would foreshadow "what economic sanctions Russia would be faced with if it continues down this road".
Another G7 official said the main point of the G7 meeting was "to show the isolation of Putin". The leaders were also expected to cancel plans for a G8 meeting at the Russian Olympics site in Sochi, for which preparations were frozen after Moscow seized Crimea, he said.
Persuading Europeans to sign on to tougher sanctions could be difficult for Obama. The EU does 10 times as much trade with Russia as the United States, and is the biggest customer for Russian oil and gas. The EU's 28 members include countries with widely varying relationships to Moscow.
Central and east European countries that were once under Moscow's domination and have joined the EU in the last decade are mostly urging caution due to the risk to their economies.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the EU's most powerful leader, has taken a tough line with Putin and supported EU moves to reduce the bloc's long-term dependence on Russian energy.
The seizure of Crimea has been largely bloodless, apart from one Ukrainian soldier and one pro-Moscow militia member killed in a shootout last Tuesday. Ukraine's troops left behind in Crimea have been besieged inside bases while offering little resistance.
In Feodosia, Ukrainian troops hugged each other in farewell after their base was overrun. Some chanted "Hurra! Hurra!" in defiance. One marine in full uniform who declined to identify himself wept and blamed the government in Kiev for the chaotic end to the standoff.
"Yesterday we had an agreement: we would lower our flag and the Russians would raise theirs. And this morning the Russians attacked, firing live ammunition. We had no weapons. We did not fire a round," said one marine, Ruslan, who was with his wife Katya and 9-month-old son.
Although Russian forces have not entered other parts of Ukraine, NATO says they have built up at the border. The Western military alliance also fears Putin may have designs on a part of another former Soviet republic, Moldova.
Despite the disruption to East-West relations, Washington wants other diplomatic business with Moscow to continue.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also held talks with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, after meeting the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The OPCW is overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic stockpile in action sponsored jointly by Washington and Moscow.
Russia hit back symbolically at Canada, announcing personal sanctions against 13 Canadian officials in retaliation for Ottawa's role in Western sanctions so far. It has already taken similar measures against senior U.S. Congress members but not yet European officials.
Western governments are struggling to find a balance between putting pressure on Putin, protecting their own economies and avoiding triggering a vicious cycle of sanctions and reprisals.
Rutte, who is making his residence available to Obama and the other G7 leaders for the talks on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, said the West might want to move slowly.
"Russia has an economy that is highly focused on oil and gas," Rutte told Reuters. "If it came to putting in place sanctions, that would hurt Russia considerably. So in my view we should do everything to prevent that."
U.S. officials say any further sanctions will need to be carefully calibrated to avoid bans on entire sectors, such as oil or metals, that could affect the global economy.


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"Help us win a new playground for our school," said former Mayor Bret Schundler, as he and Mayor Steven Fulop joined teachers and students handing out flyers during the morning rush to the PATH at Journal Square.
Somewhat reminiscent of political campaigning, the two mayors tried to get people to take a flyer that would help BelovED Community Charter School win a regional competition funding a new playground.
Some people recognized Fulop, even pausing to say they had voted for him in 2013, but many just passed by. Fulop, who had done this before in campaigns, joked that he's used to it.
"They didn't take the flyer from me [meaning back when he did this to get elected], but it's harder for them not to take the flyers from the kids," he said.
Although Schundler has been out of office for more than a decade, some people recognized him as he handed out the flyer. Some even remembered him from the days when he played sports in Hudson County, and in the midst of the morning hubbub traded old sports stories with him.
"We're using sweat equity here to get free money for residents of Jersey City." – Steven Fulop
"One of our teachers found this contest being run by a company that makes recycled products," Schundler said. "I'm sure the company wants to get its name out, but the school that wins gets a $50,000 playground for free."
The school, located at 508 Grand St. in Jersey City, currently doesn't have a playground, and if the school wins, the playground would be constructed on the school property out of recycled tooth paste tubes.
Jersey City school leads in votes
BelovED is competing with a number of schools throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. The winner will be the school that gets the most online votes by June 30 – and BelovED is currently in the lead.
"We're 6,000 votes ahead of a school in the Mid-Jersey," Schundler said. "But we're not taking it for granted."
Schundler, who is considered the father of charter schools in New Jersey, found himself confronted with questions about the charter school concept.
BelovED has a five star rating from the national organization, GreatSchools.com.
"Our school is doing well," he told one commuter. "Those that don't do well, close."
Fulop said he supported the campaign to win the playground because it brought in money to Jersey City to provide a resource for students.
"We're using sweat equity here to get free money for residents of Jersey City," he said. "And since this is something built out of recycled materials, it is also a good lesson for our students about the environment."
Schundler said people can vote once a day for the school, and won't be hassled by commercial emails by voting. Anyone wishing to vote should go to http://www.belovedccs.org/playground.
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