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A self-portrait of his father, Hans, sketched in a German prison in 1943, two years before he was executed.
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A self-portrait his father, Hans, sketched in a German prison in 1943, two years before he was executed.
It's about 850 miles from Berlin to the Russian city of Smolensk, though for Hans von Dohnanyi on March 12, 1943, the distance may have felt infinitely longer. A brilliant lawyer appointed to German military intelligence, Hans was flying to deliver a package so secret he chose to guard it by sitting on top of it: a bomb, intended to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
The next day, Hans's co-conspirators, fellow members of the German resistance, disguised the explosives to look like two bottles of Cointreau and arranged for them to be placed on Hitler's private plane, set to explode 30 minutes after takeoff. The implications of their plot's potential success boggle the mind today.
But the explosion never came. Perhaps due to the extreme cold or a problem with its fuse, the bomb failed to ignite. Hitler's plane landed safely back in Germany two hours later. The path of world history declined to change.
Less than a month later, on April 5, the SS arrested Hans at his office, and that same day a black Mercedes pulled up in front of his home in Sakrow, a suburb between Potsdam and Berlin. Hans's wife, Christine, was inside with their 13-year-old son. A group of SS men entered and politely asked to see her husband's desk. A few minutes later they left with Christine in custody, escorting her to a nearby women's prison. The boy was left home alone.
"They took my mother along," Christoph von Dohnanyi still remembers vividly. "And then she was gone."
In recent decades the eminent German conductor, now 84, has very seldom spoken about his wartime childhood, but a book published in September has focused attention, for the first time in this country, on the story of his father, a key member of the German resistance from the earliest days of Hitler's rise. "No Ordinary Men," by Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern, relates the intertwined sagas of Hans von Dohnanyi and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi pastor and theologian who was also Christine's brother.
On the occasion of the new book, Christoph von Dohnanyi, after recently conducting the BSO in Brahms and Mahler, agreed to sit for an interview. His own name does not appear in the book, but its wrenching chronicle of his parents' story, taken together with his own childhood memories of the period, provide a rare glimpse into a seminal early chapter in the life of one of today's most distinguished conductors. And while Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prolific writings have earned the theologian much posthumous recognition, Hans von Dohnanyi left behind no similar testimony through which his story might have been preserved. One can now hope the new book will help rescue from obscurity the essential contributions he made to the German resistance movement.
On the podium, Dohnanyi, who in recent years has become an anchoring presence both in Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, is known for music-making that weds intellectual rigor with a powerful sense of a work's expressive architecture. He is not a sentimental interpreter or an overtly emotional one, and his attitude toward his family's wartime past is similarly clear-eyed and almost stoic. "Yes the war years were terrible but you cope with them," he said at the outset of the conversation. "I'm always very surprised how strong children can be."
Dohnanyi said his early childhood was in fact a happy one. His father was a swiftly rising jurist and promising legal scholar, a defender of the Weimar Republic, reviled by many Germans as a state born from supposed homefront sabotage during World War I (the notorious "stab-in-the-back" myth) and burdened by Allied hubris at Versailles. After Hitler came to power in 1933, Hans was shocked by the Nazis' contempt for the law in its treatments of political opposition and Jews. He began to secretly chronicle Nazi abuses, anticipating, Sifton and Stern write, that his record could be valuable in legal prosecutions after the regime had been deposed. Meanwhile, he began building connections among a network of fellow resisters holding prominent posts, most notably in intelligence, the Abwehr, where he was appointed in 1939.
In front of his three children, Hans maintained a complete silence about the regime, so much so that the young Christoph wondered why his father never spoke about politics. Then there were the clandestine meetings, an early clue for the Dohnanyi children that all was not as it seemed. The family home was near a river, and Christoph saw people avoiding the street by arriving by boat under cover of darkness for private conversations with his father.
"My father tried to help people," recalled Dohnanyi. "It was not so much a political conviction — of course he hated the Nazis — but more a human approach. He just could not see people suffering because they were Jewish, or because they are against Hitler."
In 1941 Hans learned of the imminent deportation (and probable death) of a group of Jews that included a lawyer named Friedrich Arnold, whom he had pledged to protect before the war. Hans and his colleagues then hatched an extremely daring plan dubbed Operation 7, in which a total of 14 Jews including Arnold were sent abroad nominally as agents of the Abwehr. It worked, and the entire group escaped to Switzerland. Hans even succeeded in wiring funds to support them during the war. They survived.
Christoph being held by his father, Hans, alongside his sister, Barbara, and brother, Klaus, in 1939.
Dohnanyi family
Christoph being held by his father, Hans, alongside his sister, Barbara, and brother, Klaus, in 1939.
Initially, it was partly these related "currency violations," as opposed to knowledge of his involvement with any assassination plots, that first led to Hans's imprisonment, and that of Christine as well. Christine came home one month later. Hans did not.
Sifton and Stern chronicle his month-by-month journey through a series of prisons, military hospitals, and concentration camps, as he battled illness and injury, all the while withstanding Nazi interrogation, as the regime tried to build the case against him and identify more resisters. He never broke. In the early months, he kept himself sane as he awaited trial by teaching himself to sketch, creating a self-portrait and portraits of his family.
In November 1943, his prison cell was hit by an incendiary bomb during an air raid, which he somehow survived. A few months later, in order to avoid further Gestapo interrogation and as part of a desperate bid to outlast the war, he begged Christine to poison the food she brought him in order to infect him with diphtheria. His letters from the cellar of the brutal Prinz Albrecht Street prison, written on the cut-out bottoms of paper cups, have been preserved in a book called "Last Letters of Resistance," alongside letters from Christine to the children. They are almost unbearably poignant in their mixture of details from daily prison life, pessimism about the future, and despite it all, a kind of blind, frenzied hope.
Christine did as she was asked, and the poison plan worked. With diphtheria, Hans was transferred to a hospital in Potsdam, where the young Christoph visited him for the last time. "I was able to go there secretly," Dohnanyi recalled, "and by stepping on my bike I could sit on the window. He was there. He had his fingers taped, so I knew they had tortured him. That was pretty hard. It was then that I started to realize how it really was. . . . But he of course never said anything."
Not long afterward, there was what Christoph von Dohnanyi described as a "Fidelio" moment when Christine reached Hans in the hospital disguised as a nurse, but their plans to escape into hiding with the children were thwarted by two guards posted in front of the house.
In the chaotic final months of the war, the family home was on the front lines of the fighting. Dohnanyi recalled it being searched on successive days by German troops in search of Soviets, and by Soviets in search of Germans. One night a drunken Soviet soldier entered the home and demanded at gunpoint the keys to the family's car, which had not been driven in two years. Dohnanyi managed to escape out a window.
The picture for his father had by then darkened further still, as the Gestapo discovered the trove of documents Hans had prepared early in the war, linking him to the elaborate network of resisters and multiple assassination plots. Some of the documents were shown directly to Hitler, and Hans was accused of being "the spiritual head of the conspiracy" to overthrow the regime.
In April 1945, Hans von Dohnanyi was executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the Flossenbürg camp, only weeks before the final Nazi surrender.
Christoph in Munich in 1950.
Dohnanyi family
Christoph in Munich in 1950.
Sifton and Stern's chronicle is brief but deeply informed. And while Hans's name appears in most academic studies of the resistance, this new book is clearly written with a larger audience in mind. The prose conveys a sense of historical perspective but also, just below the surface, a compassion possibly born of the authors' own long-distance links to these men and their era. Sifton, a veteran editor, is the daughter of Bonhoeffer's mentor, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr; and Stern, a distinguished historian of modern Germany, was born in that country and fled Hitler's regime with his family, who themselves knew the Bonhoeffers. Together, the authors conclude: "the Third Reich had no greater, more courageous, and more admirable enemies" than these two men.
After the war, Christine and the children were flown by American forces out of what had become the Soviet sector and into Munich. To honor their father's example, both Dohnanyi (who wears his father's ring) and his brother Klaus studied law intensively, with an eye toward one day assisting in the rebuilding of their country.
"In those days," Dohnanyi recalled, "we thought even if you are maybe inclining to be an artist or go into music, the most important thing is to build your country up again."
But Dohnanyi, who had stopped playing music during the war, now found himself composing when he should have been studying law. He realized he could also help reconstitute his country's shattered cultural life by participating in a series of Munich concerts known as Musica Viva, which championed the very modern music so reviled by the Nazis.
The tone for both brothers in that postwar period may well have been set by a remarkable letter Christine wrote to them during her own incarceration, cautioning them: "Don't carry any hate in your heart against the power that has done this to us. Don't fill your souls with bitterness; that has its revenge and takes from you the most beautiful thing there is, trust. . . . Believe me, when one has experienced this, then one knows that it is after all only a really small and meager part of the human being that one can put in jail."
Christine lived until 1966. ("She was destroyed, in a way," said Dohnanyi.) His brother became a prominent German politician, his sister married and had a family in Wupperthal, Germany. In 2003, Hans was named a Righteous Gentile by Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, for his work on Operation 7.
In 1952, Dohnanyi came to the United States to study with his grandfather, the Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnanyi, who had been estranged from the family growing up. (When Christoph stepped off the boat in New York, he was greeted by a grateful Friedrich Arnold.) As a conductor, he spent the early decades of his career in Germany until his famously fruitful period at the helm of the Cleveland Orchestra (1984-2002). These days, in addition to the BSO, to which he'll return in March for a survey of Beethoven Piano Concertos, Dohnanyi conducts a short list of distinguished orchestras — "I'm very happy," he says — though he sees his situation as not without irony. "In this country, my father's name is less known than mine," he said. "Which is ridiculous."
It's hard to see that changing anytime soon, but Dohnanyi seemed deeply grateful the book has now made his father's history available to be discovered. "The more I know, the more proud I feel, because he didn't make any kind of compromises," said Dohnanyi. "He just did what he thought was right."
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Although "Breaking Bad" showrunner Vince Gilligan is eager to praise the creative staff around him when it comes to his Emmy-winning cable series, he believes he's speaking for many other showrunners when he says the job "requires someone who's a control freak."
"It's a group effort, and I try to be a benevolent dictator," Gilligan says, "but I want things the way I want them."
Gilligan's efforts have once again brought "Breaking Bad" to the Emmy nominees circle for outstanding drama, a category with its fair share of series — such as "Lost" and "Mad Men" — whose lauded creativity stems directly from a hands-on sense of vision from the top.
Gilligan, in fact, says he can do little else but think about every aspect of the series he created.
"It occupies my thoughts constantly," says Gilligan, who's already in the writers' room cooking up season four, which won't begin shooting until next year.
But could he ever leave it, and pass the reins to someone else?
"Only if I feel I've run out of stories to tell," says Gilligan. "But I'd like to stay till the end."
That's what "Lost" showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse did, taking their show all the way through six seasons to a much-anticipated finale in May. But they might not have stayed with the show past season three if they hadn't negotiated a fixed end date with ABC, an unheard-of arrangement for a popular broadcast series.
For Cuse and Lindelof, respecting the show's storytelling demanded it.
"Had ABC not wanted to make a deal with us, then at that point it would have been hard to stay, with the prospect of the show being open-ended," says Cuse. "Till we had an ending, we didn't know how long we had to stretch our story out. Once they said yes, we could not have been more energized. It was nothing but full commitment."
Says Lindelof: "We didn't know how to continue otherwise. And it was so fulfilling to sit there watching the finale going, 'Wow, we really did this whole thing.' Now I don't know if I'd be capable of stepping away from another show. I think we're much more likely to go in the next time saying, 'We'll do 13 episodes a year for four years, and that's the end.'?"
So far, there's no set end date for "Mad Men," about to air its fourth season, or "True Blood," currently airing its third season but already mapping out season four. But their respective showrunners, Matthew Weiner and Alan Ball, are still committed to overseeing them. Is this the future for showrunners: Single-minded focus from start to finish?
TV historian Tim Brooks cites a creative power shift over the years, from strong networks — when it was just CBS, NBC and ABC, and a certain homogenization ruled — to strong showrunners, who are courted in a now highly competitive, cable-dominated arena to make shows they want.
"I don't see the current fragmented model changing much in years to come," says Brooks. "As long as you have many places where creatives can go, then creatives are going to stay in the driver's seat."
Is grooming a successor a dying art, then? Not if you look at Emmy nominee "Dexter," which has seen two handoffs at the top. This fall's fifth season is being steered by showrunner Chip Johannessen ("24," "Moonlight"), taking over for Clyde Phillips. In this case, the usual reasons for a change at the helm don't apply.
"This is the opposite of inheriting a train wreck," says Johannessen. "This is something that's working really well, so it's not about fixing something, it's about understanding what is special about the series."
And yet, when presented with a chance to change things up, being a new set of eyes can be a plus.
"Given the serious cliffhanger I was left with from the end of (season) four, we're going to continue the energy of the previous season in a really big way," says Johannessen. "That was an opportunity to have this season feel new and distinctive. But it's still very much honoring what was there before."
One can't imagine a "Mad Men" without Weiner, though. If David Chase could end "The Sopranos" when he saw fit, should AMC even try to keep a show like "Mad Men" on when Weiner's ready to stop?
"The creative force behind a show is the hardest thing to replace," notes Brooks. "Especially if they're doing it right."


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The Reward is in the Eye of the Beholder
Learn what someone values for the key to motivate them
Posted January 27, 2010
In the early 1970s I was a young teenager who was completely caught up in the Zeitgeist. I admired the long-haired rebels and radicals who were engaged in protesting the establishment and developing the counter-culture. I didn't really know what any of that meant, but to me it was all about empowering youth and declaring our independence from the adults. My parents in particular.
As with any normal teenager, I was trying to grow up as fast as I could. And, because it annoyed my parents, wearing my hair long was its perfect expression. That, and it was de rigueur among all the teenagers who wanted to be cool. So, the longer the better – or in the immortal words from the title song to the 1968 Broadway Musical HAIR, "Oh, say can you see, My eyes if you can... Then my hair's too short!"
It drove my parents completely crazy. They could not understand why any male would want to wear long hair. We fought about it all the time.
Meanwhile, I was in my first year of high school and the transition to a new school was causing my grades to drop dramatically. My parents saw an advantage, and the law was laid down: keep my grades above a certain minimum or cut my hair. It worked. I brought home a dismal report card, and it was off to the barber shop. Not surprisingly, my next report card met the minimum.
The formula is simple: if you can find out what is valuable to someone, then you have the key to motivating them. For me, at age 13, the length of my hair became the coin of the realm.
A year later, I accidentally made the Honor Roll. I say it was an accident because I was only trying to meet the minimum grades required by my parents and I somehow exceeded that. When I received the engraved certificate with the embossed gold seal, I was surprised by the feeling it gave me. I felt important – especially when my teachers praised me. I liked that feeling, and I wanted to experience it again. Suddenly the coin of the realm changed, and it was no longer the length of my hair that was motivating me. It was high grades and the sense of pride they gave me. Oh, my hair continued to grow, but my grades were all about achievement. From that point forward until I graduated, I never failed to make the Honor Roll.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
The Many Moods of Butternuts
I may or may not have been actually perched on top of the bookshelf with my back pressed against the window so as to achieve the best possible combination of light vs. angle. My neighbors across the way probably think of me fondly as That Crazy Lady Who Does Yoga with Her Camera In the Window.
In any case, I was snapping away thinking about the millions of things that I think about while taking what is essentially a very basic and not all that interesting photograph of squashes. Is this light working? What about the background? I need a new camera strap. Is that stubby one in front too stubby? What if I shoot from above? My hair is annoying. Boy, that stubby one really is...stubby.
In the middle of this, I look down at my camera preview window and see this:
And then I realized that in the course of moving about, snapping shots, I had accidentally nudged my camera dial from "Aperture Priority" to "Manual." Which meant that the camera was no longer helping me out by calculating the ideal shutter speed for each shot. Which meant that my shots went from full of sunlight to smoky darkness.
Immediate relief on the non-brokenness of my camera. And hot on its heels, intense curiosity.
I am totally and without question an amateur photographer. One of the unexpected developments of starting along this career of food writing has been a steadily growing side-passion for photography. When I was first hired at The Kitchn, my manager admitted to me that photography was definitely...shall we say...honestly...not my strong point. She was very kind when she said this and I was not at all offended because she was totally right.
But I really badly wanted photography to be, if not my strong point, at least no longer a weakness. Truthfully, I've always really liked photography and felt drawn to it as an art form. The trouble is that I lacked the patience of using up a roll of film, getting it developed, and then finding that maybe two pictures were decent.
Turns out that I just needed to wait for digital cameras to be invented! I love digital cameras. Pro photographers can yearn for the good ol' days of film photography, but as for me, I'm not looking back. I love the immediate feedback. I love being able to take pictures until my battery runs out and never having to worry about scrounging the money to get them developed. I love having neat, organized (ok, mostly organized) files for all my photos instead of a shoe-box. I love being able to work on them right away in Photoshop without resorting to chemicals or dark rooms (see above re: impatience and laziness).
Digital cameras made me love photography.
I've worked at my photo skills doggedly over the past few years. I look back on some of my early photos (like this one and this one and this one), and it's pretty cool to see just how far I've come. Somewhere along the way, photography went from simply being a way to document the things in front of me to being something that felt more like art. I feel the same sense of passion and focus when I'm taking photographs as I do when I sit down to write a story. I like it. I love it.
But back to these squashes. Once I was sure my camera was ok, I got curious about what such a drastic shutter speed difference was really doing. In my photographs, I'm primarily aiming to reproduce what I see. If I see bright light, I want bright light. If I see moody shadows, I want moody shadows. It never really occurred to me that I could manipulate the camera settings to create a totally different feeling than the actual scene before me.
This was a bright sunny fall afternoon. But by slowing down the shutter speed, dropping from 1/800 of a second to 1/250 of a second, I still get a sharp picture but I completely change the way the light enters the camera. Cool.
I kept stepping up the speed to see how the increments changed. I love how spooky and and slightly sinister these innocent butternut squashes become:
P.S. Yes, I totally had to look up the whole "1/250 of a second" thing to make sure I got it right and didn't make myself look silly.
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you go girl! loving these moody squashes in the center of the post... and the fun you are having.ReplyDelete
You have inspired me to (once again!) "go manual" a bit more. Every couple years I have to relearn this stuff b/c I almost never put it into practice. Sad.ReplyDelete
I have had the exact same experience with photography. I used to play around a lot with print photography and even spent some time in dark rooms but it was so expensive and I rarely got the effect I wanted. I was also impatient and it seemed like such a stupid waste to have only a few good pictures on every roll. All the things you said - I resisted digital cameras at first because I didn't see why they'd be any better. Philip got me one anyway and I discovered how wrong I was!! It wasn't until I started blogging that I started really caring about taking better pictures and mine have improved so much over the years as well. I absolutely love taking pictures - I'm rarely without my camera and I completely enjoy trying new things and playing with them in photo-shop. My only dissatisfaction is that neither of my current cameras take a good macro shot. My old point and shoot took amazing macro pictures. Anyway- love this post. I thought you weren't writing here any more so I haven't checked in a long time. Hope you come back from time to time!ReplyDelete


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Splashback: Rhizome's Splash Pages, 1998-2002
Rhizome is pleased to announce the launch of "Splashback: Rhizome's Splash Pages, 1998-2002," an online exhibition featuring the 39 splash pages commissioned over a four-year period.
"Splashback" offers a brief overview of online art and design practices from ten years ago through a nearly obsolete medium, the splash page.
Artists include: Annie Abrahams, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Ben Benjamin, heath bunting, Gregory Chatonsky, Shu Lea Cheang, Andrew Childs, Curt Cloninger, David Crawford, Mark Daggett, Joshua Davis, entropy8zuper, Andrew Forbes, Valery Grancher, Matthew Hoessli, Olia Lialina, David Lindeman, jimpunk, JODI, Yael Kanarek, Lucas Kuzma, Antonio Mendoza, Mouchette, MTAA, Robbin Murphy, Nettmedia, Scott Paterson, Pavu, Waldemar Pranckiewicz, Reinis, Satellite01, Sigma6, Starry Night, Eugene Thacker, Jake Tilson, Maciej Wisniewski, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
"Splashback" is organized by Brian Droitcour, Rhizome Curatorial Fellow. Site built by Elise Roedenbeck, Technology Assistant.
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Bob Barker feted for lifetime of help for animals
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LOS ANGELES - Bob Barker has spent millions of dollars helping elephants, bears, chimps and other animals.
For decades when he was host of "The Price Is Right," he ended every show with a plea to viewers to spay or neuter their pets.
Animal Defenders International will present him with the Lord Houghton Award on Oct. 13 at a West Hollywood ceremony.
ADI President Jan Creamer says Barker was chosen not only for a lifetime of service, but for his generosity and for repeatedly taking the animal message to Congress.
The award brings Barker international recognition, but he says it means so much because of the respect he has for ADI. He says the group is one of the finest animal protection organizations in Europe.


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A reader sent along this article, printed by the Niagara Gazette last October, in which Republican gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver "fit the bill" of the anti-Christ or "a Hitler."
Paladino made the remarks at a meeting of the Niagara County Patriots, just days after Erie County Executive Chris Collins apologized for calling Silver the anti-Christ at a fundraiser. The attack on Silver, an Orthodox Jew from lower Manhattan, was perceived by some as anti-Semitic at worst or insensitive at best.
From the Gazette:
Paladino said he told an aid (sic) to Collins on Tuesday the county executive should instead keep up the pressure on Silver whom he characterized as "probably the most corrupt and incompetent human being to ever serve in state government in the state of New York."
"If I could ever describe a person who would fit the bill of an Antichrist or a Hitler, this guy is it," Paladino said. "I'm sure Chris had no — absolutely no — intention whatsoever of insulting the Jewish faith or the ethnic group or religion."
The remarks contributed to Collins' decision not to run for governor. Paladino entered the race in April, and has attacked Silver and his policies, saying Silver raises taxes and spending in a way that disproportionately favors New York City. Paladino has also suggested that Silver should be sent to Attica Prison after people "beat him up a little bit" along the way.
Collins has since endorsed Paladino, who is running in a GOP primary against Rick Lazio.
UPDATE: Sean Coffey, one of the Democrats running for attorney general, issued a statement repudiating Paladino.
"There are some bright white lines that a serious leader committed to common sense and civility should never approach, much less cross. Carl Paladino crossed one of those lines today when he slandered Speaker Silver – and all persons of Jewish background – by comparing him to Hitler and calling him an Anti-Christ. Adding insult to injury, this follows Paladino's ridiculous question from yesterday regarding the personal hygeine of low-income residents. Carl Paladino's hate-filled rhetoric degrades the public discourse about issues most important to New Yorkers and should disqualify him from consideration for our state's highest office."


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Nov. 28, 2012— -- Most breast cancer patients who decide to have the unaffected breast surgically removed base the decision on fear, not science, according to a survey of more than 2,000 patients.
Approximately 80 percent of women who underwent prophylactic mastectomy did not have clinical indications that would classify them as high risk for recurrence. In the subgroup of patients without clinical indications, concern about cancer recurrence figured more prominently in the decision to have a prophylactic contralateral mastectomy, as compared with patients who did have clinical indications.
Read this story on www.medpagetoday.com.
Women who underwent mastectomy for the primary cancer were almost three times as likely to have the prophylactic procedure compared with the overall group of patients, according to Dr. Sarah Hawley of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
"Clinical indications for developing a new primary breast cancer -- that is, a positive genetic test and/or strong family history -- were significantly associated with receipt of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy," Hawley said during a press briefing prior to the Quality Care Symposium in San Diego. "However, many women who received contralateral prophylactic mastectomy did not have a clinical indication.
"Worry about recurrence had a strong influence on receipt of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, although this procedure has not been associated with reducing recurrence risk," Hawley added.
Several studies have documented a rise in the frequency of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy among breast cancer patients, despite the fact that few women have clinical indications for the procedure. Patient misconceptions about recurrence risk have been implicated in the increase in prophylactic procedures.
In the absence of data to explain the increase, concern has arisen about the potential for overtreatment, particularly given the relative rarity -- about 1 percent -- of contralateral disease as a site of recurrence. In an effort to inform on the issue, Hawley and colleagues surveyed 2,245 women from the Detroit and Los Angeles registries of the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program.
The women were first surveyed following breast cancer diagnosis during 2005 to 2007. Four years later, investigators repeated the survey with 1,525 of the original participants.
Of 1,446 women who were recurrence free at follow-up, 35 percent said they had considered contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, and 7 percent of the patients had opted for removal of the disease-free opposite breast. In the subgroup of 564 women who underwent mastectomy for the primary tumor, 53 percent had considered contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, and 19 percent underwent the procedure.
The Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) recommends consideration of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy for breast cancer patients who have known mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 or who have a family history of breast cancer involving multiple first-degree relatives, Hawley noted. Among women who chose to have a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, about 80 percent did not meet the either of the SSO criteria.
a strong family history of breast cancer or a positive test for a breast cancer-associated gene mutation significantly influenced the decision to undergo contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, according to the study. Neither factor influenced the choice of mastectomy versus breast conservation as initial treatment for the primary tumor.
However, women who had negative mutation tests also were significantly more likely to opt for contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, the study found. Worry about the risk of recurrence increased the odds of having any mastectomy by 69 percent and doubled the odds of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy.
Fear Drives Prophylactic Mastectomy
A higher proportion of women who underwent contralateral prophylactic mastectomy acknowledged being "very worried" about recurrence as compared with women who mastectomy only for the primary tumor, according to the study.
"This analysis of the SEER data suggests that we, as physicians, may not be adequately educating our patients about their risk for recurrent disease, " said Dr. Jyoti Patel, a spokesperson for the American Society for Clinical Oncology. "More unfortunately, many women who overestimate the risk of developing breast cancer in the contralateral breast undergo unnecessary surgery."
"This study suggests that we re-examine how we communicate with our patients regarding how we educate our patients about the decision to undergo prophylactic mastectomy," Patel added.
Public interest in prophylactic mastectomy has been piqued by well-publicized announcements by celebrities.
Television talk-show host Sharon Osbourne said she underwent a double prophylactic mastectomy because of increased genetic risk. Osbourne also has been treated for colorectal cancer.
Miss America contestant Allyn Rose, who will represent the District of Columbia in the pageant, announced her intention to undergo bilateral prophylactic mastectomy because of familial cancer risk. Her mother died of breast cancer when Rose was a teenager.
Both cases involved women with clinical indications for prophylactic mastectomy.


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GOP tax plan lowers rates, repeals popular breaks
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping House Republican plan to overhaul the nation's tax laws would wipe out a slew of popular tax breaks to help pay for lower overall tax rates, a politically risky move in an election year that drew quick opposition Wednesday.
The plan would repeal deductions for state and local taxes, medical expenses and moving expenses. Tax credits for child care, adoption services and energy-efficient upgrades to homes would be gone.
The mortgage interest deduction would be reduced for people buying houses costing more than $500,000. The deduction for charitable giving would be limited to contributions that exceed 2 percent of a taxpayer's income.
In exchange, income tax rates would be cut and the standard deduction, which is used by most taxpayers, would be nearly doubled. The child tax credit would be increased and a complicated series of tax breaks for education expenses would be consolidated and simplified.
The plan would mark the first overhaul of the tax code since 1986. It borrows ideas from President Barack Obama and other Democrats. But here's a reality check: It has almost no chance of becoming law this year. Even House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, distanced himself from the details Wednesday.
Still, it could become an important political document as congressional elections approach in November. Should Republicans embrace the plan, they could use it to highlight their efforts to simplify tax laws and spur economic growth.
"We need to be the party of growth, opportunity, restoring the American dream. And I think this is something Americans have hungered for," said the plan's author, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. "Look, we have an obligation to debate the big issues of the day."
Democrats quickly revealed their election-year strategy, pointing out cherished tax breaks that would be cut.
"Any proposal that eliminates the deduction for state and local taxes, as the Republican plan would do, is dead on arrival," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Boehner, already wary of some of the unpleasant details, would not promise a vote in the House this year. When asked about the details, Boehner said: "Blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen, there's a conversation that needs to begin. This is the beginning of the conversation."
When asked whether the Republican Party stood behind the plan, Boehner said, "You're getting a little bit ahead of yourself."
The White House was more upbeat. Spokesman Josh Earnest said there are "a couple of aspects of congressman Camp's proposal that are encouraging."
Earnest said the White House was concerned about cuts to the Earned Income Tax Credit, one of the federal government's largest anti-poverty programs. Republicans noted that the cut is offset by other provisions that would help the working poor, including a larger standard deduction.
Under the plan, investment managers, big banks and owners of corporate jets would get hit with new or higher taxes, billions would be set aside for public works projects, and some wealthy business partners would no longer be able to avoid Medicare taxes.
Those are ideas championed by Obama, who would direct the new revenue toward more government spending. Republicans, meanwhile, would use it to lower income tax rates for most families and corporations.
The top income tax rate would drop from 39.6 percent to 25 percent, but the plan would impose a new 10 percent surtax on income above $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for married couples. The top corporate income tax rate would fall from 35 percent to 25 percent.
The plan would increase the standard deduction from $12,400 to $22,000 for married couples, essentially exempting families that make less from paying federal income taxes. The child tax credit would be increased from $1,000 to $1,500.
The plan is designed to encourage more taxpayers to take the simpler standard deduction rather than itemizing. As a result, 95 percent of filers would take the standard deduction rather than itemize, according to analysis by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. Currently, about one-third of filers itemize their deductions.
Investment income currently has a top tax rate of 20 percent. Under Camp's plan, capital gains and qualified dividends would be taxed like regular income, but investors could exempt 40 percent of their earnings.
That would result in a 15 percent tax rate for many investors. The superrich would have a top tax rate of 21 percent on their investments.
The plan is designed to raise about the same amount of tax revenue as the current system, though the overhauled system would be much simpler. It also is designed so that different income groups continue to pay about the same as they do today. Individual taxpayers, however, could see big changes, depending on their circumstances.
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Beet greens are a "comfort food" for me; my mom used to buy them when I was a kid because they were so much cheaper than spinach, so in the spring and early summer we had them a lot. She used to select the smallest greens she could find, with barely a trace of a beetroot at the tip, and cook them just like she did with spinach - steaming them or simmering them gently in a very small amount of water.
I buy the greens more indiscriminately, just grabbing big ol' bundles of leaves, red stems, and baby beets, and cook them long and slow to make them tender and bring out the full flavor:
- Rinse the greens well to remove any traces of sand, then shake them dry
- Heat up a couple of tablespoons of bacon fat in the bottom of a heavy Dutch oven
- Keep the fire high and drop handfuls of the greens into the pot. Stir them around to wilt them, and as each handful wilts, add more.
- When all the greens are in the pot and have had a chance to sizzle and wilt in the hot fat, add a bit of salt and pepper and a small amount of water (usually about a quarter of a cup is enough,) cover the pot, and turn the heat down to low.
- Simmer the greens, covered, for at least half an hour while you prepare the rest of the meal. Don't worry if you take longer to fix supper. The greens just get better as they cook.


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PreventConnect is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The goal of PreventConnect is to advance the primary prevention of sexual assault and relationship violence by building a community of practice among people who are engaged in such efforts. PreventConnect also builds the capacity of local, state, territorial, national and tribal agencies and organizations to develop, implement and evaluate effective prevention initiatives.
To achieve this goal, PreventConnect uses various forms of online media to connect people and ideas. PreventConnect explores issues and highlights efforts to:
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"We know all too well that there is no 'second chance' to redo a live performance," five parties warned the Federal Communications Commission yesterday. "The white spaces proposals being considered by the FCC could turn 'Music City' into a silent city unless they get it right. As it stands, these proposals will not provide critical protection to the wireless microphone systems that are integral to every show."
These protesters include Country Music Television, the County Music Association, the Grand Ole' Opry, and Viacoms' MTV Networks. "Nashville Music Requires Interference-Free Wireless Microphones," they title their comments. Most are new recruits to the broadcasting industry's war against unlicensed "white space" devices. The Opry, however, has had a dog in this fight for a while, repeatedly filing against the technology from early last year onward.
To recap: The FCC is currently testing applications that can access vacant spectrum between TV channels ("white space") to send and receive broadband. The question is not whether this technology will be used—it will. The issue is whether the FCC will allow manufacturers to produce unlicensed devices that consumers can access to broadcast or pick up streaming video, or create so-called "community mesh" systems—essentially the broadband network equivalent of community radio or TV.
No white space for the Opry
A constantly shifting coalition of manufacturers have been submitting unlicensed devices to the Commission for testing. They include Microsoft, Google, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and, most recently Motorola. But the sailing has not gone smoothly so far. Broken components and power problems have marred FCC Office of Engineering Technology (OET) supervised test runs of these applications. The broadcasting industry has all but hailed every setback as proof positive that the unlicensed white space device idea must be stopped in its tracks.
The Nashville group observes that wireless microphones are integral to the famous city's many music operations. "A change in the Commission's technical rules that results in interference to wireless microphone systems would wreak havoc with Nashville's signature entertainment productions," they contend. The filers add that they are "greatly distressed" by various proposals made by Google to ensure that unlicensed devices do not interfere with Nashville's musical programs.
Databases and beacons
As Ars has reported, on March 21st Google outlined its "enhanced protection proposal" for unlicensed devices to the FCC. No TV white space device will access a TV channel unless before picking up an "all clear" message broadcast by a transmitter database, Google proposes. "Any device without geo-location and database access would not transmit at all," Google writes, "unless and until it has successfully received advance permission from such a device."
In addition, any wireless microphone beacon inside a channel would also block a white space device's bid for access. "These beacons should be quite inexpensive," Google adds, "and would be used in conjunction with existing wireless microphones, so there would be no need to replace legacy devices."
The Nashville filing ignores the database assurance and zeros in on the beacon proposal, probably the weaker of the two suggestions. "This is no solution at all," they write. "First, no beacon has been developed for the music and entertainment industry and we are not aware of any plans by any company to do so." The commenters also wonder why they should have to add such technology to their existing mike systems in order to accommodate Google's plans.
And so Nashville joins the many lobby groups who demand that the FCC pronounce this project DOA long before its possibilities have been fully explored. "We urge the Commission not to approve portable white space devices," the filers write. "The prospect of thousands of portable interfering devices being permitted to operate on the same spectrum as wireless microphones without failsafe protections promises a catastrophe for Nashville's entertainment productions."
Meanwhile other parties have alternate plans for white space, and have not been shy about sharing them with the FCC. T-Mobile, Sprint-Nextel, CTIA-The Wireless Association, and several other groups continue to urge the Commission to license unused TV spectrum for backhaul.
This group last met with several FCC Commissioners in late April. "Specifically, the parties discussed the benefits of licensed rather than unlicensed use of the TV white spaces," their April 30th ex parte filing concludes, "including the continued need for licensed spectrum, the exceptional propagation features of the TV white spaces (which are ideal for lower-cost backhaul over much longer distances), the promotion of build-out in rural areas, the benefits to consumers, and the enhanced protection of incumbents through greater certainty and accountability."
Further reading
- The Nashville group filing


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My ideal day consists of walking around NYC, eating oysters, going to museums to see great quantities of art and then finishing with an incredible meal. This is precisely what I did with my family during our trip last month. My boys were fine until about hour 3 at the Met, when they just wanted to leave to grab a hot dog and run wild. They were fed up with all the talk of brush strokes, juxtapositions, impressionists and cubists. Yeah, it was a stretch for them, but I figure someday they will appreciate me for it, or not? We grabbed them a snack to take the edge off and then headed to dinner. I was so excited for this meal because devi is the restaurant owned by my dear friend Suvir and his food always brings me joy. I was also thrilled to be sharing the evening with my family, including my mother and my aunt and uncle. My aunt Sally's mother grew up in India and had introduced me to Indian cuisine when I was a kid, in fact, Sally introduced me to most foods when I was a kid. I knew she would fall quickly in love with devi.
(picture of Suvir by Charlie Burd, picture of devi by Ben Fink)
I met Suvir several years ago at a pastry conference hosted at the CIA. Suvir was one of the presenters. He talked about blending more flavors of the world into the palate of American desserts. He was confident Americans want to experience flavors beyond vanilla and chocolate, and I whole heartedly agree with him. His food at the conference was intense, fresh and clean. You could taste every spice and ingredient. It was unlike any other Indian food I'd ever eaten. I was in awe and have been ever since. He has become a mentor, a brother and a dear friend to me. His skills go way beyond the kitchen. He and his partner Charlie have established a farm where they raise animals and run the American Masala empire. They design kitchen accessories, write cookbooks and Suvir is on a team at Harvard to educate people on how to eat a healthier diet. Now you see why I am in awe. But, the reason I fell in love with this chef was only partly because of his food, it is also his generosity and heart. He and Charlie give back to their community and to society as a whole. They are the epitome of good people!
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Valentine's Day may be a trick for the greeting card industry to make money off of scrambling last-minute men who flock to their local drugstore, but it's still a beautiful holiday worth celebrating. If you're one half of a loving couple, then you should be planning a big celebration for you and your lover. Whether you have known one another for six months or six years, take this one day (or long weekend) and spend it with the one you love and don't be afraid to splurge on special experiences that will never be forgotten.
Have no idea where to take you lover? Check out this list of five destinations with amazing Valentine's deals that you and your boo will fall in love with. Happy WanderLUSTING!
1. Santa Barbara
The name itself, Santa Barbara, The American Riviera, conjures up romantic images. The picturesque city bordered by palm-lined beaches and majestic mountains make Santa Barbara feel like it is in its own little world – just how two people in love feel. It's no wonder why it is consistently chosen as a wedding destination and romantic escape. Horseback riding through the sand, strolling through vineyards in wine country, snuggling up under the stars—Santa Barbara offers all of the traditional romantic activities and goes above and beyond.
Adventurous couples can kayak or stand-up paddle board alongside sea lions and dolphins, sharing amazing views of Santa Barbara from the water. A bouquet of flowers is boring; instead, stroll through the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's exquisite exhibits of California native plants displayed in beautiful landscaped settings. A lunch in the mountains can inspire romance at Cold Springs Tavern, an old stagecoach rest stop from the late 1800s. Or, simply breathe in the salty air and swirl your glasses at Deep Sea Tasting Room on Stearns Wharf, soaking in 360-degree ocean views and sipping delicious wine.
A picnic at the iconic Santa Barbara County Courthouse is always a treat, just be sure to climb up the clock tower and gaze out over the red-roof dotted horizon. The Sunken Gardens are a site to behold all by themselves; it's perfect for a date night.
For romantic digs during a getaway, look no further than Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara. A Hollywood favorite since 1927, the oceanfront resort's secluded twenty-acre property features a blend of botanical gardens, coastal panoramas and world-class amenities. Listening to crashing ocean waves while dining on the patio of Bella Vista restaurant and spotting hummingbirds hopping from flower to flower is the stuff romance is made of! A couple's massage at the spa can end the weekend on a high note – choose from a variety of options and then head home feeling healthy, happy, and more in love than ever before.
The Resort offers a number of packages and experiences specially designed to fan the flames of romance. Enjoy champagne and strawberries then linger over breakfast in bed with the Celebration Package, or spend an extra day exploring or escaping together with a third night free.
2. Turnberry Isle Miami
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by Diane Rufino, July 23, 2017
The question is: Was the Civil War fought over the issue of Slavery? I won't deny that slavery was an issue that inflamed the passions of both sections of the country and put each at odds with one another, but it was NOT the cause of the conflict that I will refer to as the War of Northern Aggression, a war which claimed the lives of over 650,000 young Americans.
At the end of 1860, with the election of Abraham Lincoln as president, the Union was on the verge of dissolution. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated on April 4, seven states had already seceded and a new nation had been formed, the Confederate States of America (complete with a new constitution). Following South Carolina's lead (December 1860), Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and then Texas formally severed political ties with the Union. On April 4, Virginia held a state convention to consider secession but voted it down, 89-45. (North Carolina would do the same). Lincoln could not allow the Union to be split; he could not lose the tariff revenue supplied by the agrarian South which, in 1859, not only supplied approximately 80% of the federal revenue, but was used to enrich the industrialized North. And so, something had to be done to give Lincoln a "pretext" to restore the Southern states to the Union.
On April 12, 1861, Lincoln tricked South Carolina militia forces into firing on the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, even after South Carolina had demanded, and even tried negotiating for, the transfer of the fort to the Confederacy. The attack on Fort Sumter would provide the pretext he needed. He used the incident to characterize the southern states as being in a state of active rebellion and thus ordering troops to subdue them. On April 15, President Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion and to defend the capital. With that proclamation, four more Southern states left the Union. The first was Virginia.
Virginia did not leave the Union because of slavery; same with North Carolina. We should take particular note of this piece of history.
Virginia looked at President's Lincoln's Proclamation and demand for troops, and just as her leaders did when President John Adams passed the Sedition Act, she saw serious constitutional violations and contemplated how she needed to respond.
In reading the responses by Virginia's Governor John Letcher below, you will see that he exercised all the remedies implied in the concept of State Sovereignty, Tenth Amendment, and even the Declaration of Independence: First, he refused to comply with Lincoln's decree – Virginia would not supply troops. That is Nullification and Interposition. And then, because the proclamation evidenced the will of a maniac, a tyrant, and an enemy of the Constitution, and evidenced the transformation of the federal government into something Virginia could no longer trust her sovereignty with and no longer wanted to be associated with, her people decided to sever the bonds which held her in allegiance. Virginia seceded.
On April 16, Virginia's Governor John Letcher made the following dispatch to Lincoln's Secretary of War, Simon Cameron:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.RICHMOND, Va., April 16, 1861.
HON. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War:
SIR: I received your telegram of the 15th, the genuineness of which I doubted. Since that time (have received your communication, mailed the same day, in which I am requested to detach from the militia of the State of Virginia "the quota designated in a table," which you append, "to serve as infantry or riflemen for the period of three months, unless sooner discharged."
In reply to this communication, I have only to say that the militia of Virginia will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object — an object, in my judgment, not within the purview of the Constitution or the act of 1795 — will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate civil war, and having done so, we will meet it in a spirit as determined as the Administration has exhibited towards the South. Respectfully,
The following day, Governor Letcher issued the following proclamation, which was published for the people of Virginia to read:
Whereas, Seven of the States formerly composing a part of the United States have, by authority of their people, solemnly resumed the powers granted by them to the United States, and have framed a Constitution and organized a Government for themselves, to which the people of those States are yielding willing obedience, and have so notified the President of the United States by all the formalities incident to such action, and thereby become to the United States a separate, independent and foreign power; and whereas, the Constitution of the United States has invested Congress with the sole power "to declare war," and until such declaration is made, the President has no authority to call for an extraordinary force to wage offensive war against any foreign Power: and whereas, on the 15th inst., the President of the United States, in plain violation of the Constitution, issued a proclamation calling for a force of seventy-five thousand men, to cause the laws of the United states to be duly executed over a people who are no longer a part of the Union, and in said proclamation threatens to exert this unusual force to compel obedience to his mandates; and whereas, the General Assembly of Virginia, by a majority approaching to entire unanimity, declared at its last session that the State of Virginia would consider such an exertion of force as a virtual declaration of war, to be resisted by all the power at the command of Virginia; and subsequently the Convention now in session, representing the sovereignty of this State, has reaffirmed in substance the same policy, with almost equal unanimity; and whereas, the State of Virginia deeply sympathizes with the Southern States in the wrongs they have suffered, and in the position they have assumed; and having made earnest efforts peaceably to compose the differences which have severed the Union, and having failed in that attempt, through this unwarranted act on the part of the President; and it is believed that the influences which operate to produce this proclamation against the seceded States will be brought to bear upon this commonwealth, if she should exercise her undoubted right to resume the powers granted by her people, and it is due to the honor of Virginia that an improper exercise of force against her people should be repelled.
Therefore I, JOHN LETCHER, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, have thought proper to order all armed volunteer regiments or companies within this State forthwith to hold themselves in readiness for immediate orders, and upon the reception of this proclamation to report to the Adjutant-General of the State their organization and numbers, and prepare themselves for efficient service. Such companies as are not armed and equipped will report that fact, that they may be properly supplied.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed, this 17th day of April, 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of the Commonwealth.
On April 17, in a newly-called convention, Virginia, the traditional leader of the South, made the decision to secede – 88 to 55, on the condition of ratification by a statewide referendum. Neither Virginia nor any of the other later-seceding states understood the federal government to authorize violence against member states.
Virginia's ordinance of secession was ratified in a referendum by a vote of 132,201 to 37,451 on May 23.
On April 4, Virginia decided to remain in the Union. How did that decision preserve or extend slavery? Virginians had been willing to endure a crushing protective tariff under President Lincoln, the likes of the Tariff of Abominations (1828). And they understood that remaining in the Union would mean that slavery would continue to be under attack by his administration. Virginia was loyal to the Union even when the government was antagonistic to her. No, slavery wasn't the reason the Southern states of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina (and probably others), left the Union. It would be Lincoln's demand for troops that would change their minds. To these states, remaining in the Union was to abandon every principle of confederation that they valued. Continued loyalty to a Union that would attack member states and being forced to take up arms against her neighbors was inconceivable and intolerable.
Slavery was the issue that caused the North to become aggressively hostile to the states of the South and to cause the South to question whether the two regions could ever have enough of a common interest to remain joined together with a government that was to serve each equally and fairly. But the independent ambitions of the federal government and the schemes and twisted ideology of its president were the direct cause of its violent course the division would take.
"Governor Letcher's Proclamation: His Reply to Secretary Cameron – State of Affairs Norfolk," New York Times, April 22, 1861. Referenced at: http://www.nytimes.com/1861/04/22/news/gov-letcher-s-proclamation-his-reply-secretary-cameron-state-affairs-norfolk.html


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RAWLINS, Wyo.—The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is looking for ways to hide a major transmission line project in southern Wyoming.
Sharon Knowlton is the BLM's manager of the TransWest project. She told Carbon County commissioners on Tuesday that the agency is looking at placing the line behind a natural "uplift" in the landscape to keep it out of view.
The Rawlins Daily Times ( http://bit.ly/XvvldL) reported that Knowlton has gotten 60 letters from people from the area opposing the project.
A subsidiary of the Anschutz Corp. has proposed building the 725-mile line through Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Nevada to deliver wind-generated power to southern California, Arizona and Nevada. The primary source of the power would be the 1,000-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project near Rawlins.
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Hey! ...Listen! Cracked.com, "America's Only Humor & Video Site Since 1958", has taken it upon themselves to put together a list of the 15 most annoying game characters from games that were otherwise excellent. It's the kind of article you read while nodding your head sympathetically, hopefully in between sentences because it's hard to read and nod at the same time. My personal most annoying character - Waluigi - comes in at number 3:
Sure, maybe the concept of an evil counterpart to Luigi actually had potential at some point, like maybe if they didn't just take the Luigi model, turn it purple, then stretch him out and give him a mustache like a silent film-era villain. It also doesn't help that you're debuting him in a damned tennis game. Seriously, if this is the first time we've seen him, how do we know he's evil? Because of his backhand?
Everyone is represented, from Tingle to John "Tough-Actin' Tinactin" Madden. I'd say they hit the nail on the head, but all of our nails have been borrowed to seal shut HD DVD's coffin.
The 15 Most Annoying Video Game Characters [Cracked.com - Thanks DeadEyeReborn!]


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(CNN) - It was just a joke.
That's what Hillary Clinton's spokesman tells CNN about a tweet from the former Secretary of State that's been re-tweeted more than 53,000 times as of Monday morning.
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"It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked! #SuperBowl," Clinton tweeted Sunday evening during FOX's coverage of the Super Bowl.
The tweet from the likely 2016 Democratic presidential contender came just a few hours after President Barack Obama and Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly battled in a contentious interview on the FOX broadcast network's pre-Super Bowl show over many issues, including the September 2012 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans in an attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Obama defends against GOP criticism in testy interview
Many Republicans, including some conservative commentators on Fox News, have criticized Clinton heavily over the attack and its aftermath, which came during her watch as secretary of state.
But Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told CNN that the tweet was "100% humor."
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
Fox really gets under Obama and Hilary's skin. How embarrassing. One is the president, and one wants to be. They're not made of much if a news organization can ruffle them that much.
Well Obama looked calm and attempted to address questions during the O'Reilly inquest. And Ms.Clinton is relaxed and joking. They don't seem ruffled to me. I know you want that but back here on Earth, it is not happening.
You failed to mention that all of congress had access to the data and the democrats still voted WITH the Bush administration! I'm sure you really didn't intend to forget that part!