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Vanish and/or produce this silk streamer from a standard tip in your bare hand just as you would a 6" or 9" silk. But it has much more impact than those little silks!!
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Bill DeMain
Thoreau once said that every writer's duty was to give "first
and last, a simple and sincere account of their own life."
More than his sage words reached 26-year old singer/songwriter
Sarah McLachlan. In preparing the songs for her latest release,
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Arista), the Canadian songstress,
perhaps inspired by Thoreau's Walden experience, retreated
to an isolated cabin in the mountains for nearly seven months
of meditation and soul-searching. "It was just an amazing
time for me," she relates.
The results of her temporary sabbatical are intensely personal,
emotionally rich, dark, moody, stirring songs like "Good Enough,"
"Plenty," "Possession," and "Circle." Listening to these songs,
one can almost hear McLachlan going through cathartic changes,
making discoveries about her self and her life. Indeed, several
times during this interview, Sarah talked about the songwriting
process as a self-therapy. "It's given me so much, as far
as learning about myself," she says.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sarah McLachlan studied guitar
and piano as a child. She remembers being drawn to the sounds
of such seminal folk/rock artists as Cat Stevens, Joan Baez
and Simon & Garfunkel. Later, as she reached her teens, it
was Peter Gabriel's music that touched her most. "The emotional
response you get from his songs, because of the honesty, that
really inspired me to find my own voice and write from that
point of view," she says.
At 19, she signed a recording contract with Nettwerk Records.
The first ten songs she wrote comprised her debut, 1988's
well-received Touch. Her sophomore effort, 1991's Solace announced
McLachlan's talents to the world and brought into focus her
intimate, moving vocal power and evocative songwriting gifts.
Currently on an extensive tour supporting her new release,
Sarah McLachlan recently stopped to share her thoughts on
writing, art and solitude with The Performing Songwriter.
You said that it took about six years to learn how not
to edit yourself and remain open in your music...
(laughs) Hopefully I'll get that back again someday.
What kinds of things can a songwriter do to reach that
place in their writing?
Well, for me on this new record, it was mainly secluding myself,
being away from society and being away from everything. I
locked myself up in a cabin in the mountains and stayed there
for seven months. It was just an amazing time for me to really
focus on a lot of stuff that had sort of been lurking behind
the scenes in my brain, but never had the time to come out.
Or it kept being put aside, because there were so many distractions.
Also I think, I got incredibly in tune with the earth, with
nature, like I hadn't before. I couldn't write a thing for
three months. My brain was eating itself. It was terribly
cold out and I couldn't do anything creative. I was just frozen.
Everything was churning around inside but nothing would come
out. Then spring happened and everything totally opened up.
I was blossoming as well. Most of the songsI had written
four previous to going to the cabinwere written then, about
seven of them, between April and May. The place that I got
to in myself of feeling calm and peaceful and also for the
first time in my life, feeling I'm happy now. Not 'I would
be happy if . . . ' There was always that going on with me.
I finally got to a place where I was totally happy and peaceful
and living in the present tense instead of in the future,
you know and projecting things.
Did you go into that experience with any sort of agenda?
Well, in the process of not being able to write, I kept a
journal, these sort of morning pages. I wrote three pages
before I'd do anything else, just to try and clear my head.
Most of it was totally banal like mmm, coffee smells good,
I have nothing to say, I have nothing to say (laughs) for
ten times. But sure enough, about midway through the second
page, sometimes I'd really open up and all this stuff would
come out. You know, you're not really awake yet and you're
just sort of spewing whatever's on the top of your head sort
of free form. And there was no editing happening there at
all, because no one was going to read this book. I could say
whatever I wanted. I didn't have to hide behind anything,
and I think that really helped me. To be really open and honest
with myself, that was good. I'm pretty good at deceiving myself
or I've known myself to do that in the past (laughs).
Did you listen to music while you were there?
I listened to a lot of Tom Waits, and Talk Talk's Spirit of
Eden, which is one of my favorites.
The opening lines of your songs are always captivating
and they seem to contain the germ of the whole song in just
a few words.
I figure the first two lines usually tell the whole story
of a song (laughs). The first two lines are what comes out
first when I'm writing, and they basically tell which direction,
for me lyrically, the song is going to go. Sometimes those
two lines will sit for months by themselves, until they find
a completion to the story, or a completion to the stage that
I'm in of trying to work through something, until hopefully
I'm somewhere near the other side of it, when I can be a little
more objective and write it down. It's the same with titling
the songs. Most of the song titles come from the last word
in the second line (laughs).
Say you have those two lines and the music wants to continue.
Will you let it go on without words?
Unfortunately, I often try to fill it in. I'm sort of still
a bit stuck to that convention of writing a song with a four-line
verse, the more traditional phrasing of a stanza or whatever.
So if there are only two lines, there usually end being four
lines. I work at making it four before I stop (laughs). But
there's also this thing, when I go in the studio, Pierre (Marchand,
her producer) is great at editing. He'll say, why don't you
just not sing that line, do you really need to say that, you
kind of already said it. He has done that, which is something
that I can't really do, because I'm not as objective about
it. And I don't see things from the same direction that he
does, which is why he's so good to work with.
Do you demo songs before you go into the studio?
Well, I demo them in a very simple way, with acoustic guitar
or piano. Sometimes a drum machine. But my sort of restrictions
on myself for going into the studio are making it strong by
itself in the simplest form. So if you're hiding behind a
lot of production, if you take it away, you can still play
that song and it'll still be strong on its own.
You mentioned a drum machine. Do you ever write with just
a groove?
I have never have before. I'm pretty lazy as far as technology,
and I think it's something I'll probably have to get more
into, because I'm sort of exhausting the instruments that
I'm using, or exhausting the inspiration that they give me.
I can go back and forth, but I don't have a piano, so I end
up doing a lot of stuff on guitar. But when I was in Montreal
I did, so a lot of this record came from piano because it
was such an exciting thing, a new sound, a new instrument.
That happened with electric guitar as well. I started writing
with that, because it was a new sound. So maybe I will get
into the drum machine. I just have to learn how to use the
damn thing first (laughs). I always fight against technology.
I want to be grass roots and I want where it comes from to
be organic.
Well it sounds like you have a good combination with your
producer, because he strikes me as a technically minded guy...
Oh, he's amazing that way, because he's such a techno-head.
But at the same time, he totally comes from the organic sense
of letting the song happen in whatever direction it goes in.
Just following and not pushing the song for any wrong reason,
whatever feels right go with it.
A lot of your songs have an air of mystery and darkness.
Is there something you do during the writing process to conjure
this mood?
(laughs) I just think it's what's in my brain. It's not that
I'm really pessimistic or anythingI'm not. But I sort of
like the effect of two sides of thingsone being really pretty
and one being really ugly, like when you lift up a pretty
rock and there's all these mites and worms underneath it (laughs).
I think that sort of came from this one poem I read in grade
nine. It's funny, the little things that stick with me my
whole life. Wilford Owens, he's a World War I poet and he
wrote about being in the field in the war and all the horrors
that went on. But somehow, without glamorizing or romanticizing
it, he made it incredibly beautiful. In the same breath, he'd
be talking about something horrendously grotesque. I just
really loved that. That's actually where the title of the
record came from too, "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy." It was taken
from a line in one of his poems. "Quick boys, in an ecstasy
of fumbling we fit the masks just in time . . ." and I thought
that was amazing, that "in an ecstasy of fumbling." It was
so beautiful, and since grade nine I've been trying to fit
that into something (laughs). I sort of have a little library
of phrases and words in my head that I like. Like "murmur."
Never been able to use it yet, but it's a beautiful word.
I like words that say so many things. Language is such a beautiful
thing and words are so amazing.
Tell me about writing "Possession." Were you writing from
a male point of view?
Yes. I tried to put myself into their shoes, into the mind
of someone who is so obsessed with another person that they
could conceive murdering them. It took me awhile to justify
that one. As a woman, living with that fear in the back of
your mind every day with the possibility of being raped. And
so, it's kind of weird for me, but then I save myself in the
third verse by saying I'd never really act on it, except in
my dreams. And maybe that's putting me into a false sense
of reality, but it did help. Not just that, but writing the
whole song, was kind of a cleansing thing for me, because
I had two people in particular who just became incredibly
intense with the fantasy world that they created, and demanded
that that was reality and we had to be together. And they
went to great lengths to make this happen. It became frightening,
but it ticked me off that I had to look over my shoulder every
time I walked out the door. There was one point where I was
told I'd have to have a bodyguard. It was like, screw that,
I don't want to live in fear. It makes me so angry.
When you're writing a relationship song, do you keep a
particular person in mind while you're doing the lyric?
Yeah, I usually do set up a fairly clear image of who I'm
talking about. "Plenty," for example, is definitely aimed
at another individual. I tend to switch people in a lot of
the songs. Sometimes I'll say "you," and sometimes "I" and
I'm not really sure why I do that.
What was the inspiration behind "Good Enough?"
A lot of things. That song has been such an amazing experience
for me because I've learned so much from it. There's so many
different stories that I attach to it now. But it sort of
came from, initially really missing my best girlfriend. It
started out as fiction, about a couple in which the woman
was pretty much alienated by just about everybody, because
her husband was really abusive and domineering, which sort
of somewhat mirrors my mother and father's relationship. And
basically, I am the friend coming in, saying hey, you deserve
more than this, why don't you come with me and I'll take care
of you. The video that I'm going to do for that song is the
first sort of dramatic narrative that I've done. Everything
else has been pretty abstract, trying to find a parallel universe
to describe it differently. But we're going to have a little
girl, a man and woman, and a friend, possibly an imaginary
friend. We're going to look at the relationship between the
little girl and her friends and also between the mother and
the little girl. And there's quite a bit of alienation from
the father, who's been behind the scenes the whole time anyway.
How much input do you have as a songwriter as to how your
songs are interpreted in a video?
A lot. I'm very lucky in that the record company I'm signed
to has given me a 100% creative control, pretty much from
the start. It's been amazing. I've directed a couple of the
videos, and the ones I didn't direct have been my concept,
because I simply don't know the language of film. I've entrusted
my vision to other people, and have been quite well represented.
I'm actually working with one of my best friends on this film
for "Good Enough." Her name is Kharen Hill, and she's done
most of my photos in the past six years. She's amazing. We
talked a lot about what the song meant, and we got this whole
narrative thing going. It's going to look really beautiful,
and it's the first one that's going to be literal.
Love is usually something that's idealized in pop songs
or expressed in a co-dependent, I'll die without you sort
of way. What do you try to do with the concept of love in
your songs?
In the past, I thought it was really a great thing, but it
turned out to be really bad, so what does that mean? I tend
to try to analyze the mistakes, or what went wrong. Why did
this not work? Usually I turn to myself and ask what's wrong
with me, or where did I go wrong? Then I turn to them and
ask where did you go wrong? So I guess I'm trying to show
that hopefullyit depends on the songit's not any one person's
fault. It's like there's two people involved. I'm focusing
more on the emotion of what people go through when love does
go away, or when people break up. The anger, the frustration
of why did it go wrong. I tried so hard, or maybe I tried
too hard (laughs). It depends. On this record, on "Plenty,"
I decided I was in love with somebody. The problem was that
I had projected the image of the perfect man on to them. And
they sort of played up to it as well. Then it sort of crumbled
fairly quickly, and there was a frightened little boy behind
that facade. It was wild for me, because it was the first
time I'd really deceived myself in such a grand manner. I
wanted to believe it, so I forced myself to believe.
Are songs an act of discovery for you?
Yeah, and sometimes long after the fact. Going back to "Good
Enough," one of the things I was focusing on was don't tell
me why he's never been good to you, don't tell me why nothing's
good enough. For a couple years, every time I'd see my mom,
I'd say, you know, you deserve more, you deserve to be happier
than you are. Why are you putting up with this? Basically
telling her that the only thing she knew sucked. So she never
wanted to see me, and I wondered why. I couldn't understand
it, then I wrote that song. Around the same time, I tried
reverse psychology and didn't hassle her anymore and just
accepted that she had accepted. Then she opened up. She completely
changed and she started saying, I'm not going to accept this
anymore, I'm changing this and this and this. It was fantastic,
because I wasn't beating it into her, she was doing it on
her own. That song taught me that. I have a lot of emotional
attachment to that song.
Is it difficult for you to keep emotional connection with
your songs over the course of a tour?
It does fluctuate, but I've found that with these new songs
on Fumbling, it's been really easy to keep the connection.
I don't know if that's because they're fresh and new or if
it's because they're the strongest songs that I have yet.
The good thing is that usually I can remember the places that
they came from when I sing. I don't remember what they're
about so much as the place that they came from, the mood that
I was in, the strong, quiet place that I was in when I was
writing it. And that gives me a lot of happiness. Sometimes
I'm going through emotions, singing the songs and not even
listening to the words, but having some weird memory of sitting
under a tree and feeling happy (laughs). Other times I'm thinking
about my laundry list. The weirdest things go through my head
when I'm singing. I'll think about what I said five minutes
before, like man, that was stupid (laughs). But I'll still
be singing.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about what goes
through their minds when they're singing their songs.
(laughs) All sorts of crazy stuff. Just life, like oh man,
The Canucks lost, what a drag, and you'll be singing very
well and emoting, but little flashes will come in of other
things. Then all of a sudden I'll find myself at the end of
verse. How did I get there? Wow, I guess I got through it,
but I was someplace else. That happens fairly often in certain
Sir Laurence Olivier once said that when he was acting
Hamlet on stage and bringing the audience to tears, he was
sometimes wondering if his shirts would be ready at the cleaners
the next day.
(laughs). It makes sense. You do something like that every
night. One nightand I never ever watch TVbut I've become
involved in hockey, and it's really fun. So I was watching
a game before a show and when I got out there on stage, the
TV had sucked all my memory away. Before every line of every
verse and chorus, I was terrified right up until it came out
that it wasn't coming out, that I'd forgotten it. It just
freaked me out. Not too many people noticed it in the audience
because I'd hit most of the lines. But I asked an actress
friend of mine and she said that it'd happened to her before.
You've just got to trust that it's there. You're just blocking
it because of your fear. You've got to get rid of that fear,
so think about that laundry list, think about mowing the lawn,
and it'll be there.
What would you like to accomplish as a songwriter?
I'd like to keep trying to be able to work through things.
Songwriting is such therapy for me. It's given me so much,
as far as learning about myself. I'd like to be able to keep
doing that and that's it. That's everything to me, just being
able to work through things. I guess an offshoot of that is
other people listening to it and being able to get something
for themselves.
Do you have the sense that what you're doing will last?
Yes, it certainly will last for me. I'd like to think I'll
keep writing and getting better and better. I hope (laughs).
I'm really proud of what I've done so far, and that pride
hasn't diminished in any way.
What advice would you give to someone looking to make music
their career?
I'd tell them to go read Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer
Maria Rilke, because his advice is better than any advice
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FREEPORT — Although ridership on Amtrak's new Downeaster service has been unexpectedly higher in Brunswick than in Freeport, business owners in both communities generally say the new service is meeting their expectations.
"We love it," said Chris Cummings, manager of Mexicali Blues on Bow Street. "It's a great option for people who live in the Boston-metro area to come shop in Freeport."
The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority conservatively estimated an average of 100 passengers a day would ride the train north of Portland starting Nov. 1, for a total of about 30,000 more passengers per year.
Although the official numbers are not available yet and the holiday season gives ridership numbers a spike, Freeport train station manager Sande Updegraph said she estimates as many as 180 passengers are riding to the train to Freeport and Brunswick every day.
Updegraph has been tracking the number of passengers on most of the trains, except for the last train of the day and two repositioning runs. She said the November total was 1,625 passengers in Freeport, or about 54 going in and out on an average day.
"We're seeing a positive impact, particularly on the restaurants and the businesses around Freeport Village Station," she said.
The number of incoming passengers, however, is smaller than Freeport expected, Updegraph said.
"Arrivals and departures in Brunswick are about double what's happening in Freeport, which is a little surprising to me," she said. "But now that I look at it, it makes some sense, because Brunswick is drawing from all the outlying northern communities who want to ride all the way to Boston."
Debra King, executive director of the Brunswick Downtown Association, said the train has exceeded Brunswick businesses' expectations and that northern riders are making a significant economic impact.
"Talking to businesses right around the track, they're doing extremely well and they relate a lot of that to the Downeaster coming in," King said. "Anecdotally, they're having a better year than last year."
Although the early numbers could drop after the holidays, King said she expects the service to remain steady.
"I think there was an assumption of a honeymoon period, but these folks are regulars now," she said.
What's really made an impact, said Janet Dutson, executive director of Freeport USA, is the collaboration with the Downeaster, which helps promote Freeport and Brunswick businesses in Boston.
Train hosts hand out maps and coupons to riders, and the conductor makes an announcement letting passengers know more coupons are available if they go to the visitor center, Dutson said.
In the future, she said, Freeport USA may try to create partnerships with other businesses along the train's route.
The timing of one of the train's stop in Freeport, just after noon, is working out well for nearby restaurants. But other businesses, outside of close walking distance to the Depot Street station, are hoping to see some form of mass transportation soon to bring the riders to them.
"We're hearing it, we're just not seeing it," said John Soule, manager of Gritty McDuff's Brewpub & Restaurant on U.S. Route 1, south of Freeport village. "Until we get some kind of way to get them down here, we're really not seeing any kind of impact."
Businesses outside the village are hoping new transportation opportunities, like a shuttle that the Hilton Garden Inn and Hampton Inn started operating last month, will bring train riders to them.
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Updegraph said once the holiday season ends, ridership will likely drop, although there are plans to try to keep attracting visitors.
"January and February are really going to tell us how popular this is," she said, noting that early January numbers should still be strong for post-holiday sales and returns. "Probably in the second or third week it'll slow down a bit. But, we've got a couple small conventions that will bring some overnight activity and we have a couple of groups coming in February."
Updegraph said of the few complaints she has heard, most are centered around the same issue: "Why aren't there more trains?"
For now, the train makes two round trips a day, with a third planned after a Brunswick layover facility is available.
The train service has seen dramatic growth since its inception in 2001. Ridership increased by more than 15 percent in 2008 after additional stops were added, to about 530,000 passengers last year, making it the fastest-growing service for Amtrak in the nation, according to the regional rail authority.


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text: Brand MarketingFast Chat: McCann Worldgroup's Luca LindnerSays advertising is about 'risk, tears and smiling'By Noreen O'Leary|February 28, 2013 ShareBy Noreen O'Leary|February 28, 2013 Share Luca Lindner is in his first weeks of living in the U.S., having left sunny Sao Paulo for a recent spell of frigid New York winter as he digs into his expanded role as McCann Worldgroup's president of Americas, Africa and Middle East. Last summer he added responsibility for North America and he's the first leader in the company's history to run both that territory and Latin America, which together represent Worldgroup's largest region by geography and revenue. Lindner and his close colleague, Gustavo Martinez, assumed expanded roles last year during the tenure of former Worldgroup CEO Nick Brien. In addition to broader geographic mandates, the two added full oversight of McCann Erickson advertising. The affable, Italian-born Lindner, who has worked in Milan, Rome, Paris, London and Mexico City, chatted with Adweek about his new gig and life as a workaholic New Yorker. Adweek: How involved have you been at McCann Erickson so far? Lindner: McCann is my top priority, not just for me but for (new McCann Worldgroup CEO) Harris (Diamond) and for Gustavo. It's the largest part of the organization, it's the one with more heritage, is more famous, is the one everyone is looking at. If I get one phone call every three weeks about one of our other Worldgroup operations, I get 10 phone calls a day about McCann. What about clients? Gustavo, Harris and I are very close to the global clients and recently we had important workshops, sessions and meetings with all of our largest clients. They were all positive conversations. When you look at geography, at the top 10 markets, you see we are very strong in some like Brazil, India, the UK, the Middle East and Spain. But we are not where we are supposed to be in at least three of the most important markets in the world: China, Russia and, to a certain extent, here in North America. So, the attention now is to make sure global clients are not just satisfied, but to make sure they're more than satisfied—engaged and happy. Secondly, we're looking at initiatives, decisions and investment to make sure that over the next two years those three or four markets, where we are not sufficiently strong, become stronger. Any more details you can share about those changes and additional investment? When we speak with our clients we see the highest point in our relationships is that they trust our strategic thinking enormously and the investment we made in (McCann Erickson research unit) Truth Central. It has been a very significant investment and has increased our thought leadership in an impressive way. So, it's important to keep doing that. Another area we need to invest more is identifying and attracting a new generation of talent. It can't just be because we win some business and we need to hire someone. We need to have a plan where we become the natural choice of the brightest young people in the business and this will require investment. How is morale at McCann Erickson's headquarters in New York? When we redesigned our offices here we did a survey to find out how happy people were with the new layout. One of the questions we asked was "Would you be happy to show your office to your family?" Something like 80 to 85 percent of people answered with, (the most enthusiastic survey option) "Yeah!" So, if people believe our new office space is so good, that is good morale because space and morale are connected. If I combine the walks I make around the agency and the data from this survey my answer is, morale is significantly better than before. I think it is good but like every agency in the world we need a couple of wins and then this agency will drink champagne. Have you contributed to new-business efforts at McCann Erickson? It's not the main reason I'm here but I've done a number of things. I asked the team to go through our credentials presentation for me as a sounding board and I gave my point of view. When there is a specific pitch I try to help to identify the (Worldgroup) operations in North America that are best suited for it. I'm trying to play a role that is more of a coach than quarterback. But I have not yet been directly involved directly in a pitch. Where I've been involved is in a couple of very important growth projects with our current clients, which are very relevant and would expand our business with them. What have been your other initial priorities since assuming the larger expanded role? I've been getting to know our business, people and clients. I've been to Dallas to see TM; Richmond to see The Martin Agency; Minneapolis to see Campbell Mithun; Detroit to see both our agency and Commonwealth; Atlanta to see Fitzgerald. I'm at 215 San Francisco this week and MacLaren McCann, Toronto next week. That has been probably 50 to 60 percent of my time, and the rest has been meeting clients and taking care of a couple of our largest global clients who are headquartered here, MasterCard and General Motors. In the second half of March, I'm meeting with Momentum, MRM, our healthcare companies and all the other operations we have. Any surprises you've encountered in your travels so far? The most positive thing I'm learning is there is a demand, a thirst for collaboration, knowledge sharing and training. A lot of (Worldgroup) agencies have been working very much on their own and they welcome it when I talk about "do more stuff together" in collaborating for clients. I didn't expect so much willingness and openness to work together and I'm very happy about it. In your former base in Latin America, was there more collaboration within Worldgroup? In Latin America, the degree of collaboration amongst countries and offices is extremely high. There are a couple of reasons. First, the leadership decided to push a collaboration agenda in a very Latin American way which is more about getting people together to know each other, to show the work and to trust each other, rather than have a 200-page presentation about the benefits of collaboration. The other thing is … we started from our client needs. And, by the way, you need to be selective because some clients ask for integration and some don't. When you move north to this market you have MasterCard, American Airlines, the U.S. Army, who are highly-integrated clients and seek McCann Worldgroup to deliver an integrated solution. Other clients like Nestlé and L'Oréal are interested, but it's not on top of their agenda and they might look for integration in a different way which is not to have one company delivering everything. Other changes you'd like to make at Worldgroup? It's still early. We are clearly good to play the McKinsey side, the Boston Consulting side. We are very organized, we are strategically very sharp and we can work with brands in a way clients normally get engaged and involved. So, we have a lot of McKinsey but we should have a bit more of Cirque du Soleil in some of our operations. McCann, the agency, should be a bit more joyful and smiling and irrational. We are so much into understanding our clients' business that sometimes we lose out on the fact that marketing, communications and advertising are also about risk, tears and smiling. I'm not just talking about the creative product. I'm talking about how we live and how we go through everything. We are too serious. A bit more joy and smiles would not be bad. How are you settling into America and New York? The best thing is that we found a school for my kids—my 11-year-old twins—where they are happy and the school is happy with them. My kids were in an English school in Brazil but still it was a big change and for a family, for a father, that's been the best thing that has happened so far. The worst thing is that I am working like a donkey. I'm working 14 hours a day and that's not what I want in my life, but it's what is needed in the beginning. New Yorkers work hard; if you're going to be here you're going to work hard. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2jIljqY copy Adweek Adweek


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Law enforcement officers said two mothers left their young children alone at the beach at Gator Joe's Bar and Grill on Mother's Day while they took a boozy tour on Lake Weir.
Law enforcement officers said two mothers left their young children alone at the beach at Gator Joe's Bar and Grill on Mother's Day while they took a boozy tour on Lake Weir.
Billie Jean Williams, 27, and Mary Joyce Daffron, 28, were arrested and accused of leaving their children, 8 and 6 respectively, at Gator Joe's, at 12431 SE 135th Ave., Ocklawaha. The children approached staff of the restaurant and told them they could not find their mothers and suspected they had left them, according to Marion County Sheriff's Office reports.
After a deputy arrived, the children said they were playing on the beach when they noticed their mothers were missing. The women's chairs and belongings were found undisturbed on the beach, reports state.
A man, who only gave his name as "John," told deputies he knew one of the women from high school and had run into her Sunday. He said he had seen her and the other woman get on a boat at least an hour before, according to reports.
The boat on which the women left was eventually spotted approaching the beach. As the vessel neared Gator Joe's, both women, who were highly intoxicated, fell into the water as they tried to get off the boat, reports state.
Williams began yelling at her 8-year-old due to having law enforcement called, reports state. The women said they had been gone only 10 minutes and the children were left under the supervision of the 8-year-old's "godfather."
Officers later discovered the "godfather" was, in fact, the man named John, whose last name neither woman knew. The 8-year-old said Sunday was the first time they had ever met John, reports state.
It was determined the children were left alone for almost an hour while the women went drinking on the boat, according to reports.
The women were both arrested just before 5 p.m. Daffron tried to pull away from officers and was thrown to the ground and handcuffed, reports said.
The children were placed in the care of relatives.
Williams and Daffron were booked into the Marion County Jail on one count each of child neglect. Daffron was additionally charged with resisting arrest without violence.
Williams was released Sunday night after posting $5,000 bond. Daffron remained at the jail Monday evening with bail set at $5,500.


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Basic TurboGears
New Features
- NewFeaturesPtNine : What is new to .9
- WhatAdditionalProblems? : Solutions to problems
- ConfigPy? : Using the new Python Config File
- MochiKitFieldValidation? : How to use Mochikit to validate fields
- MochiKitFieldBleedingEdge? : How to use the latest Mochikit instead of TG recommended version
- JsonWithTemplates? : How to use JSON with templates
- TemplateSearchPath? : How does Kid find templates
- TemplateSearchAddition : How do you add templates to be found?
- FasterKidTemplates? : How to write faster templates?
- UsingCherrypySessions? : Using CherryPy? Sessions
- AddingCherrypyFilter? : Adding a Filter to Cherrypy
- SqlObjectGotchas : What are the limitations of SQLObject
- SqlObjectPerformance? : How to improve performance
- SqlObjectQjoins? : How to use Q magic to dynamically join tables
- SqlObjectDirectSql : How to use SQL directly, when SQLObject will not do
- SqlObjectDebug : How to find out what SQLobject is trying to do
- SqlObjectDate : Date Operations in SQLObject
- WhatQuestionsAreThere : Answers
- VisitFeature? : How the visited feature works
- AjaxIdenttity? : How to use Identity with Ajax
- ExtendingIdentity?: How to extend Identity with your own model
- SimpleWidgetForm : An introduction to 0.9 features in tutorial form
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Voting Member Organizations
The voting members of the Secular Coalition for America are national 501(c)3 organizations cooperating within the Coalition for the greater good of all nontheistic citizens.
[Founding members in red]
American Atheists
American Atheists, Inc., fights on the front lines of the battle for separation of religion and government, laboring for the civil liberties of atheists. Since 1963, American Atheists has challenged the intrusion of religion and religious tradition in schools, work, and public policy while educating millions about what it means to be an atheist.
American Ethical Union
The American Union is a national federation of Ethical Culture/Ethical Humanist Societies. Founded in 1876, Ethical Societies are congregational, religious humanist fellowships that meet regularly to explore ethical issues and ideals and to foster ethical relationships between individuals and groups. Ethical Societies are actively engaged in social justice activities such as civil and human rights and protecting the secular nature of government.
American Humanist Association
The American Humanist Association advocates for progressive values and equality for humanists, atheists, and freethinkers. Promoting the idea that you can be good without a god since 1941, and today headquartered in Washington, DC, the American Humanist Association litigates, lobbies, advertises, publishes, organizes and speaks out to promote the positive philosophy of humanism and further humanist causes.
Atheist Alliance of America
Atheist Alliance of America (AAA) is a non-profit umbrella organization in support of democratic local Affiliates to project a positive voice for atheism through community activism. The organization began in 1991 as Atheist Alliance and evolved into 2 separate organizations over time—AAA with a U.S. focus, and a global Atheist Alliance International.
Black Nonbelievers, Inc.
Black Nonbelievers is based in the Atlanta area and seeks to provide a safe and caring environment for members of the Black community and their allies who may have been cast out or shunned by their other family and friends. Their goal is to create a "secular fellowship" where members can gather to discuss truth and morality through reason and evidence as opposed to faith.
Camp Quest
Camp Quest provides an educational adventure shaped by fun, friends and freethought, featuring science, natural wonder and humanist values. Started in 1996, Camp Quest supports a network of summer camps for children and teens that encourage critical thinking and skepticism. Aimed at campers from atheist, agnostic, and other secular families, Camp Quest is open to campers from all worldview backgrounds.
Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a nonprofit educational, advocacy, and research organization headquartered in Amherst, New York, with executive offices in Washington, D.C. The mission of CFI is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. Its programs include the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and the Council for Secular Humanism, and publishes the magazines Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry.
Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations
The mission of the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (CSJO) is to promote and support a secular Jewish identity and way of life. The CSJO is composed of independent organizations and individuals whose unity of purpose is a secular expression of their Jewish heritage, with particular emphasis on the cultural and ethical aspects of Jewish learning. For the CSJO, the continuity and survival of the Jewish people are paramount; our prophetic tradition of social justice and humanism is the foundation upon which our continuity is built. It provides us with standards for the conduct of our lives and those of succeeding generations.
Ex-Muslims of North America
The Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and helping those who used to follow Islam or identify as Muslim, and who no longer do so. EXMNA advocates for acceptance of religious dissent, promotes secular values, and aims to reduce discrimination faced by those who leave Islam.
Foundation Beyond Belief
The Foundation Beyond Belief is a humanist charity that promotes secular volunteering and responsible charitable giving. Guided by the principles of secular humanism, the mission of Foundation Beyond Belief is to unite the humanist community in charitable efforts and advocate for compassionate action throughout the world.
Freethought Society
The Freethought Society is an educational, non-profit, national forum where Freethinkers can meet, socialize and exchange ideas.
Freedom From Religion Foundation
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is a nonprofit, working to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism, and to promote the constitutional principle of separation between church and state. Since 1978, the Foundation has acted on countless violations of the separation of state and church, and has taken and won many significant complaints and important lawsuits to end state/church entanglements.
Hispanic American Freethinkers
Founded in 2010, the Hispanic American Freethinkers (HAFree) is a non-profit organization that works to provide a voice for many Hispanic voices both in the U.S. and beyond and provide them with the tools and resources to further explore freethought and secular ideas. HAFree has chapters all over the nation, releases podcasts, and works to promote science education and the separation of church and state.
Institute for Humanist Studies
The Institute for Humanist Studies is a think tank, committed to gathering information and practices within Humanism, to address the socio-political, economic and cultural challenges facing communities within the United States and within a global context. Such information and practices will include sponsored research to address questions and concerns within Humanism and non-theism, as well as published books and colloquiums and articles to articulate our determinations. The Institute for Humanist Studies views humanism as having the moral imperative to extend the circle of justice, caring and concern to all.
Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers
The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers builds community for atheists and humanists in the military and fights discrimination against nontheists in the military. Established as a 501c3 charitable organization in 2006, the Military Association connects service members in need with the national secular community and shows America that we support the troops.
Recovering From Religion
Recovering From Religion is a nonprofit supporting those who have "given faith their best shot" but cannot accept the answers religion provides over science, logic and reason. Recovering From Religion have chapters throughout the country, and many other programs aimed at supporting those who leave religion, including a telephone hotline.
Secular Student Alliance
The Secular Student Alliance organizes, unites, educates, and serves students and student communities that promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism, and human-based ethics. Founded in 2000, the Secular Student Alliance supports a rapidly growing network of over 350 atheist, agnostic, and humanist groups on high school and college campuses.
Society for Humanistic Judaism
Embracing a human-centered philosophy that combines the celebration of Jewish culture and identity with an adherence to humanistic values and ideas, the Society for Humanistic Judaism offers a nontheistic alternative within Judaism. The Society organizes and supports inclusive congregations and communities, creates celebrations for Shabbat, Jewish holidays and life cycles, publishes resources and educational materials, and offers adult and children's programs in communities and on campuses.
Unitarian Universalist Humanists
The Unitarian Universalist (UU) Humanists strives to promote and extend the use of rational inquiry without supernatural considerations, followed by compassionate action in all human interactions. For over fifty years, UU Humanists and its precursor organizations have celebrated the Humanist Manifesto's vision of a religion without gods through scholarship, teaching, promotion and advocacy - both within Unitarian Universalism and in the wider world.
Historical Note: In January 2009, the Internet Infidels, a founding organization, submitted a "friendly" resignation citing their Board's decision to focus exclusively on their primary mission as an Internet library. They continue to link to the Coalition on the front page of their heavily-trafficked Web site, and the Coalition remains indebted to the Infidels for donating our domain name, www.secular.org.


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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Charley Hoffman's quick start gave him a two-shot lead over U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson after three rounds of the RBC Heritage on Saturday.
Hoffman had four birdies on his first five holes to shoot a bogey-free 5-under 66 and keep out front at 11 under on a windy, cool day at Harbour Town Golf Links. Simpson also didn't make a bogey on the way to a 65, tying the lowest round of the tournament.
Kevin Streelman shot a 69 and was alone in third at 8 under.
The round started with 91 players making the cut, tying the tour high set in 1981 at the Travelers Championship. Jesper Parnevik moved the cut line Saturday morning to 2 over as he missed a 5-footer to complete his rain-delayed second round and opened the door for 21 players to keep playing.
Brendon de Jonge and Graeme McDowell were tied at 7-under par, four shots off the lead. De Jonge shot a 67, and McDowell had a 68.
The last of Hoffman's two career PGA Tour victories came at the 2010 Deutsche Bank Championship. And early on, he threatened to turn the RBC Heritage into a runaway.
He made a 30-footer for birdie at the first to break from a three-way tie with Kevin Streelman and Steve LeBrun, then followed that by getting up and down from about 30 feet on the par-5 second hole. Hoffman was pin high, 12 feet away on the par-3 fourth to move to 9 under and closed his hot start with another up-and-down birdie -- this one from 65 feet -- on the par-5 fifth.
Hoffman played steadily the rest of the way to maintain his lead -- even though he appeared on the verge of cracking several times.
Hoffman saved par from a front bunker on the par-3 seventh hole, then punched a shot between two trees no more than 5 feet apart to make another par on the eighth hole.
Hoffman chipped to 2 feet for another par on the 11th. He rolled in a 12-foot par putt on the next hole to stay out front during Simpson's charge.
Hoffman's final birdie -- on the par-5 15th -- gave him the two-stroke edge. He made a testy, 12-footer to save par one last time at the famed lighthouse hole, No. 18.
Simpson started three shots out of the lead, birdied three of his first six holes. Two more birdies on the 10th and 11th holes moved him within two shots of Hoffman. Simpson's 15-foot birdie putt on the 15th -- Simpson made birdie on all three of Harbour Town's par 5s -- drew him closer still. Simpson's 65 matched the lowest round of the tournament, accomplished Thursday by opening-round leader Brian Davis.
Streelman, tied with Hoffman and rookie LeBrun through 36-holes, had consecutive birdies on the 13th and 14th holes to stay in contention. LeBrun held steady with a 71 and was in a group of eight five strokes behind that included Bill Haas.
Hoffman's steady play capped an odd Saturday at Harbour Town that featured an early start time to conclude round two, a super-sized field of competitors and a quick turnaround to get the third round in.
Parnevik was about to putt out on the closing lighthouse hole Friday evening when the horn sounded, stopping all play. Soon after his missed putt Saturday morning, Parnevik joked on Twitter, "Everybody in the field at plus-2, put your envelopes in my locker ..."
One of those was Brandt Snedeker, at No. 5 in the world the highest ranked golfer here and on the verge of missing the weekend after shooting 73-71. Snedeker, who contended for the Masters' title last Sunday, was not spectacular in his bonus round, but did enough with an even-par 71 to hang around Sunday.
One of those who didn't make the tournament's second cut was Parnevik after a 73.
The tournament sent players out in groups of three on the first and 10th tees and that briefly created a backlog -- and a scene duplicated at nearly every public course in the country -- when the early starters on one side met the late starters on the other. Bo Van Pelt munched on a sandwich as he waited on No. 10 for the final competitors, Nicolas Colsaerts and Casey Wittenberg, to tee off before his group could continue.
DIVOTS: The final round will have 70 players at 2 over par or better -- which would've been the number Saturday if not for Parnevik's miss. ... The PGA Tour's records on the cut only go back to 1970, so it's unknown if a tournament before then ever had more than the 91 players at the RBC Heritage make it past a 36-hole cut. ... Former Masters champ Trevor Immelman needed Parnevik's miss to play the third round, then shot a 5-under 66 to move to 3 under. ... James Driscoll had two birdies Saturday and nine for the week, good for a $9,000 donation for One Fund Boston. The Massachusetts native has pledged $1,000 per birdie he makes at the RBC Heritage and the Zurich Classic of New Orleans go to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. He missed the cut after third-round play.


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Batman Family Car Decal Set
To the Batmobile!
- A sadly-funny car decal set - featuring Batman's family.
- Two gravestones and one sad Batman.
- Perfect for YOUR Batmobile!
To the Batmobile!
Gotham Showers
The rain beats down.
It floods the filth into the streets
But doesn't cleanse the city.
I stood in the rain waiting for my parents.
No one came, and my dreams were washed away.
-B. Wayne, age 9
That poem was written by Master Bruce many years ago. I've tried everything to make him smile: from finding him new Robins when the old ones get boring (or too old or too dead), to getting him the latest in tech gear, to adding marshmallows to his cocoa. Nothing seemed to work. Until I got him this Batman Family Car Decal Set, that is. Then he smiled, but I suspect it was a sadly ironic smile. Oh well - can't have everything.
-Alfred Pennyworth
And though you can't have everything that Batman can, you still can show your love for the caped crusader's angst by sticking the Batman Family Car Decal Set on your car. One gravestone for Dr. Thomas Wayne, one gravestone for Martha Wayne, and one sad little Batman for . . . um . . . Batman. One of the funniest vinyl "family" car sticker sets we've ever seen. Funny, but sad.
Batman Family Car Decal Set
- Family member decals based on the Batman universe.
- Includes 3 decals (two gravestones and one sad Batman).
- Officially licensed DC Comics collectible.
- Sticks to any clean, flat surface (best on windows).
- Dimensions: approx. 3.5" to 5.5" tall.


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Women's Kiteboarding Association Kicks off 2006 with Cabarete Camp
Hi Gals!
The Women's Kiteboarding Association (WKA) has announced its' 2006 Camps & Clinics schedule, kicking off the season with Beginner Camps for women and girls in the tropical paradise of Cabarete, Dominican Republic in April.
The WKA "Spring Chicken Kiteboarding Camp" will be held April 18-22, in partnership with The Laurel Eastman Kiteboarding Center, with a possible second camp to follow, April 25-29. Camps will cater to very beginners to intermediate beginners, focusing on personalized instruction for everyone. Professional kiteboarder Laurel Eastman, Kite Chicks Director Petra Schaefer, and WKA Directors, Tonia Farman and Stacy Lowery, will be leading kiteboarding instruction, clinics, and group events for the 5-day retreat.
The Spring Chicken Camp has only ten slots available, and includes 5 nights beachfront accommodations at Hotel Caracol, breakfasts, all kiteboarding instruction & clinics, pilates, a group dinner, and all hotel transfers. In addition to kiteboarding, participants have a variety of island activities to sample including surfing, mountain biking, diving, horseback riding and touring the beaches and Septentrional Mountains that surround Cabarete.
To book and receive more information on the WKA "Spring Chicken Kiteboarding Camp," go to http://www.womenskiteboarding.com.
WKA Sponsors include Dakine, SBC Media, and Laurel Eastman Kiteboarding.


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|Voss, Kenneth
|Riley, Ronald
|Sharma, R
|Corton, J
|Miller, J
|Bacon, Charles
Submitted to: US-Japan Coop Pgm on Dev and Util of Natural Products Abstracts Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/15/2003
Publication Date: 1/30/2004
Citation: Voss, K.A., Riley, R.T., Sharma, R.P., Corton, J.C., Miller, J.D., Bacon, C.W. 2004. THE USE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICE FOR STUDYING THE IN VIVO MODE OF ACTION OF FUMONISINS: STUDIES ON TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA AND THE PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA.. US-Japan Coop Pgm on Dev and Util of Natural Products Abstracts Proceedings. November 9 - 14, 2003. Tokyo, Japan.
Interpretive Summary: Abstract of presentation for UJNR - no summary required.
Technical Abstract: Fumonisins are mycotoxins that are found worldwide in corn and in corn-based foods. They are suspected human carcinogens and are the subject of ongoing risk assessments. Rodent feeding studies of fumonisin B1 (FB1) have been important for characterizing the toxicological effects of these mycotoxins for risk assessment. Important findings include: identifying the liver and kidney as target organs; characterizing FB1 induced lesions and the sequence of events during lesion development; proving that FB1 is hepato- and nephrocarcinogenic; and determining dose-response for these effects. Coordinated biochemical and toxicological investigations showed that FB1 inhibits the enzyme ceramide synthase and disrupts sphingolipid metabolism. Sphingolipids mediate cell growth and apoptosis and disrupted sphingolipid metabolism and apoptosis have been repeatedly correlated in vivo. Thus, ceramide synthase inhibition is a key step in the nongeno-toxic mode of action of fumonisins. Exposure assessments and understanding the fate of fumonisins during food production are also important for evaluating risk. The fate of FB1 during the production of masa and tortilla chips from corn was studied. Cooking and rinsing the corn in water, the first steps in masa production, led to significantly reduced fumonisin concentrations in the masa and tortilla chips. Baking and frying the masa to make the chips had little effect. Together, these toxicology and other data have contributed to risk assessments of fumonisins and the development of scientifically sound guidelines for their allowable concen-trations in corn used for food products.


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"Homeland" swept the two lead acting drama categories last year. Could another first-year series be poised to duplicate the feat? Let's look at the four drama acting races to see if it might be in the cards.
Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Damian Lewis, "Homeland"
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"
Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
Prime contenders: Hugh Bonneville, "Downton Abbey"; Timothy Olyphant, "Justified"; Kevin Bacon, "The Following"; Matthew Rhys, "The Americans"; Andrew Lincoln, "The Walking Dead"; Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"
Bubbling under: Aden Young, "Rectify"; Jonny Lee Miller, "Elementary"; William H. Macy, "Shameless"; Jeremy Irons, "The Borgias"; Jeremy Piven, "Mr. Selfridge"; Tom Selleck, "Blue Bloods"; Gabriel Byrne, "Vikings"; Travis Fimmel, "Vikings"
For your consideration: Timothy Olyphant, "Justified." If a series regular hasn't been nominated by the show's fourth season, odds are it won't ever happen. And, in Olyphant's case, that would be a shame. "Justified's" beautifully constructed procedural arc this season took Olyphant's marshal to some deep, dark places that tested his serene-cool charm. Olyphant's laconic work must look too easy to some, but it's mighty tough to pull it off this convincingly. It's not too late to nominate him.
Analysis: The arrival of Spacey and Daniels, along with Rhys and Bacon, could bring seismic changes to the category, though you'd have to believe that vets Cranston, Lewis and Hamm aren't going anywhere. Of last year's class, five-time nominee Hall would seem ready to step aside, as "Dexter" has seen better days. And though Bonneville's a fine actor, nobody really watches "Downton" for Robert Crawley, do they? Even though "The Newsroom" had an army of detractors, few found fault with Daniels' turn as the show's truth-telling anchorman. Count him in.
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
Kerry Washington, "Scandal"
Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"
Keri Russell, "The Americans"
Prime contenders: Elisabeth Moss, "Mad Men"; Connie Britton, "Nashville"; Vera Farmiga, "Bates Motel"; Glenn Close, "Damages"
Bubbling under: Mariska Hargitay, "Law & Order: SVU"; Lucy Liu, "Elementary"; Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"; Anna Paquin, "True Blood"; Frances O'Connor, "Mr. Selfridge"; Emmy Rossum, "Shameless"; Tatiana Maslany, "Orphan Black"
For your consideration: Tatiana Maslany, "Orphan Black." The marvel of her work in BBC America's sci-fi thriller is that you could put Maslany here and in supporting actress for the fully realized way she brought her many different characters to life on the show. It's brilliant work, arguably the best of the year, and hopefully enough voters caught this show after "Doctor Who" to put her on the ballot.
Analysis: Danes won last year, and she, Margulies and Dockery seem safe bets to return as nominees. We're less sold on past stalwarts Close (too small an audience) and Moss (too small a role), mostly because the challengers this year are so strong. Wright wowed as the regal wife in "House of Cards," while Russell reinvented herself as the steely Soviet spy in "The Americans." As for Washington, her work in "Scandal" has caught fire in such a way that she could well be the likely victor. Hey, if Barbara Bel Geddes could win for "Dallas," why not?
Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland"
Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad"
Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"
Jonathan Banks, "Breaking Bad"
Sam Waterston, "The Newsroom"
Corey Stoll, "House of Cards"
Prime contenders: Alan Cumming, "The Good Wife"; Jim Carter, "Downton Abbey"; Noah Emmerich, "The Americans"; David Morrissey, "The Walking Dead"; Walton Goggins, "Justified"
Bubbling under: Larry Hagman, "Dallas"; Guillermo Diaz, "Scandal"; John Slattery, "Mad Men"; Bobby Cannavale, "Boardwalk Empire"; Josh Charles, "The Good Wife"; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, "Game of Thrones"; James Purefoy, "The Following"
For your consideration: David Morrissey, "The Walking Dead." Fans of the graphic novel had long been waiting for the Governor to turn up on the show. Morrissey fulfilled everyone's expectations and then some, bringing a moving complexity to one of the year's best villains.
Analysis: Remarkably, Patinkin was not even nominated last year. He's a sure bet now — he might have been the best thing about "Homeland" this season. Newcomers this season Stoll and Waterston should find their way in too, as should Banks, "Breaking Bad's" supernaturally calm tough guy. It's a deep category, and several deserving candidates (how do you leave out Goggins?) won't make the final cut.
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"
Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad"
Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men"
Christine Baranski, "The Good Wife"
Monica Potter, "Parenthood"
Morena Baccarin, "Homeland"
Prime contenders: Archie Panjabi, "The Good Wife"; Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"; Elizabeth McGovern, "Downton Abbey"; Emily Mortimer, "The Newsroom"
Bubbling under: Jessica Pare, "Mad Men"; Hayden Panettiere, "Nashville"; Kate Mara, "House of Cards"; Kelly Macdonald, "Boardwalk Empire"; Abigail Spencer, "Rectify"; January Jones, "Mad Men"; Jennifer Carpenter, "Dexter"; Emilia Clarke, Michelle Fairley and Lena Headey, "Game of Thrones"
For your consideration: Abigail Spencer, "Rectify." In a series distinguished by fantastic acting, Spencer stood out, if only because her firecracker energy was such a marked contrast to the show's languid pacing. (The way she rocked those cowboy boots didn't hurt, either.) Equally convincing playing headstrong and vulnerable, Spencer stands as one of the year's rising stars.
Analysis: Of the four drama acting categories, this could be the most stable with all six of last year's nominees conceivably returning. But that would be dullsville, right? Sub in Potter for her moving work as a mother and wife battling breast cancer on "Parenthood" along with Baccarin, who had to deal with just about everything but cancer on "Homeland."


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Canadian Cop Puts On An Impromptu Clinic On How To Deal With Critics And Cameras
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When I call out law enforcement officers for brutality, excessive force, moral turpitude and a general contempt for citizens' rights, it's not because I think all cops are bad. In fact, I know the job is often thankless and unpleasant. Many officers only deal with the kind of people we all hope we'll never run into, and they do it day after day. Even when a cop does his or her job well, there's a chance he or she will be criticized for any perceived missteps. (Quite possibly by me...)
When I cover stories of police misconduct, it's not because I believe that the mindset and actions on display are present in a majority of law enforcement officers. I don't think it is. The problem is that it's still far too prevalent and will only increase as long as cops are shielded by other officers, supervisors and friends in the judicial system. Law enforcement members wield a great deal of power with very little accountability.
But not all cops are bad cops, just like all cops aren't saints. But underneath it all, they're all human beings dealing with the day-to-day rigors of a job most people would never take.
Via Photography Is Not A Crime comes this video of a Canadian cop, Mark Morelli, who makes the best of what could easily have become a bad situation -- an arrest featuring several onlookers with cameras and one very uncooperative suspect. How does he keep this from becoming something more in line with the stories I usually cover? Watch. (The first 4:30 is the arrest. What follows after that is worth sticking around for.)
There's nothing more powerful than using your position and experience to inform, and to do so patiently in the face of vocal critics. The only one who comes off as a jerk is the cameraman, who is so "disturbed" by what he's seeing that he wants to go back inside where it's warmer.
The suspect knows there's an audience and that fact undoubtedly colors her performance. (And it is a performance -- at 3:07 she adjusts her hair with her handcuffed hands, almost unleashes a smile and then returns to making a whole lot of noise.)
Morelli should be held up as an example for other officers all over his nation and ours (meaning the US in this case, but feel free to apply it to your own). Rather than view onlookers "armed" with cameras as an enemy, he treats them as a simple fact of life. The job of policing is no longer private or purely subject to opinionated eyewitness accounts.
Cameras can be a cop's best friend, even when wielded by antagonistic onlookers. Morelli seizes the opportunity afforded by this recording to explain what he's done, why he did it and all without tossing out threats or condescension. He exits the situation gracefully, having gained the respect of most of the viewers. That's how you "win" at being a cop. Communication -- communication that asserts authority without using it as a weapon. "These are the facts." "This is what I do." It's professionalism at its best.
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Sept. 5, 2003, is a day that I will carry with me forever. It was the day my mother passed away.
Every year since her death, I start to change as the anniversary of her passing comes closer. I get depressed and angry, and other emotions come into play. I have gotten better at dealing with them as time as passed, but nevertheless they still come.
"Lancaster Police Chief Scott Grant strolls past the numbered doors of Carriage Inn rooms, sniffing for marijuana fumes escaping through the air-conditioning vents."
This beginning to the story on Sunday's front page is a complete disgrace. For one thing, the article had nothing to do with The Carriage Inn, so your reporter started the article without any evidence that the police chief had any cause or warrant to come onto the hotel property to "search" for marijuana.
Your front-page Sunday article about the Marion Sims monument highlights the new Democratic war on the South and their statue hysteria over history. I do not think this will work out well for them.
It is becoming more obvious every day that we must continue to remove Democrats from public office at every level, along with from our courts, our schools, our borders… and our wallets.
Might as well call this the return of the flag bullies. We have all seen how pandering and removing the flags has "reduced" hate, violence and crime.
Athena Redmond's column in the Aug. 18 paper is just more of the left's trash thrown at President Trump because they can't get over their corrupt, perjuring candidate losing the election.
The "Unite the Right" protest in Charlottesville had a permit, but the leftist Antifa didn't. They and other leftists, along with the racist white supremacists, caused the melee that ensued. The police failed to do their job as well.
President Trump blamed all, and he was correct in doing so.
Our president was correct in condemning hatred coming from all sides.
No violent acts should be condoned toward anyone for their beliefs. We all have the right to peaceful assembly under our Constitution. Freedom of speech is an inherent right to all.
Equal rights means equal rights for all. Not just one side of the coin. We may not agree with the other side, but they do have the right to express their opinion, as long as it is done with no disruption toward anyone's normal paths of travel or business hours.
It sickened me to read the article in your July 28 paper about the nauseating details of the death of the poor dog that was found in Keon Gladden's yard in Great Falls. The total disregard of any care or thought for this dog was just mind-boggling.
Ronald Hopkins
I am writing in response to Dr. L. Brooks Walker's opinion column in Sunday's paper, headlined "President is getting a raw deal."
Sorry, Dr. Walker, but he is getting just what he dished out.
Let's go back to the '60s. The Black Panthers were labeled "militant," but the KKK marched, recruited, burned crosses and did whatever they wanted to do.
I am writing because I cannot keep silent any longer.
What has happened to our news media? I thought they were to report and not be biased. Can't they see they are alienating a large part of the population?
Many Americans put President Trump in office. Whether you agree with them or not, he is our president. I did not like Obama, nor did I vote for him. I learned to live with those eight years and remain respectful to the office he held.
Scott Edgar, the newly hired county engineer, will speak to Indian Land Action Council at 7 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Del Webb Library, 7641 Charlotte Highway (U.S. 521).
Lancaster County Council will hear second reading on a tax ordinance for a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) on Aug. 14. This tax money will support about four staff members to oversee the Panhandle's stormwater.
Three years ago, Indian Land resident Jerry Holt ran for county probate judge, barely losing to a long-time incumbent from Lancaster.
While Jerry's candidacy was one of the few times an Indian Land resident has run for a courthouse office, election results show Indian Land residents failed to unite behind Jerry in that race.
Do you think that sent a message to the current "good ol' boy" leadership of the Lancaster County Council about how Indian Land residents won't stand together and work to shake things up in county government?
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An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer (Harper; 342 pages; $24.99).
Coming of age novels are so popular as of late. They are everywhere. Just within the last few months, I have read Jennifer Miller's The Year of the Gadfly, Morgan Callan Rogers's Ruby Red Heart in a Deep Blue Sea, Amber Dermont's The Starboard Sea, and others. The new novel An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer can now take its place beside these favorites. In some ways, Percer's book stands head and shoulders above the others. I think it all has to do with the main character. In this case, her name is Naomi, and she is a rare breed indeed.
One phrase Percer repeats throughout this novel is "she could fly." No, Naomi cannot literally fly. "She could fly" is a metaphor and refers to how this tale allows both Naomi and Percer to soar. Although she cannot fly, there is something interesting that Naomi can do instead: she just might save your life.
Perhaps it is Naomi's uncommon education that compels her into believing she can save those around her. But the first thing she saves is not a person, but an object. Maybe "steals" is the better word.
Naomi's father, Sol, holds Rose Kennedy in the highest esteem. He may even have a crush on her. As Naomi explains, "My father developed heroic crushes, as my mother called them, where he'd dwell on a person from history exhaustively, or for however long we'd listen to him." Sol, though, takes "special care to nurse" his attraction to Rose. Naomi is uncertain "if his adoration was pure or a front for talking about her as a role model."
Sol has an underlying motive for building up Rose Kennedy to his daughter. He wants Naomi to have the best education she can have. For him, that means Wellesley College.
Of Rose Kennedy, Sol muses, "'Now there is an example of a woman with untold potential.'" Rose was the "matriarch of a nation," even after her own "early dreams had been squelched." Rose wanted to attend Wellesley, but her father, the famous John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald put a stop to any such notions. His political aspirations did not allow "his Catholic daughter entering a progressive college during an election year." And that was that. Instead of becoming "uncommon" herself, Rose would have to settle for being a wife and mother.
Naomi and her father are frequent visitors to the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site near their home in Boston. She finds a letter written by Rosemary to her father in 1939 one day. Accompanying the letter is a signed and inscribed photograph of Amelia Earhart to Rosemary. On the back, in the middle of the photo, Rosemary wrote" "She could fly." Because she feels the urge to save this memento, Naomi takes it.
On this same visit, her father suffers a heart attack. As Naomi waits for the paramedics to arrive, she frantically makes promises and bargains. She thinks of ways to "lure him back, of how badly he wanted to see" her "become something he had never been." Naomi also thinks of Rose and promises to live her life with no regrets, although she does not understand what that means. She is only nine, after all.
The experience with her father makes Naomi want to be a surgeon. She knows she wants to save lives. On her father's heart attack, she thinks: "And I thought, maybe, that there was a way I could have stopped it. That maybe there was a way I could learn to stop such things." Her desire grows stronger over time and stays with Naomi as she grows up.
In one of the strongest parts of the novel, Naomi becomes inseparable from the boy next door, Teddy. Neither child makes friends easily, and their bond is seemingly unbreakable until tragedy strikes. Percer writes some heart-wrenching scenes here, especially when Naomi realizes how difficult it can be sometimes to save someone you love, no matter how much you might want to. I actually hated to see Naomi grow up; the reader, in a sense, grows up with Naomi, too. My fear was that this coming of age story would fall apart once Naomi got older. Percer's tale does not break down, but it does change.
Just as Rose Kennedy and Sol dreamed, Naomi gets accepted to Wellesley. There is a definite lag in the story here. The decline was so steep I cringed. However, Percer reclaims the novel's early promise when Naomi begins her sophomore year at Wellesley.
During that time, Naomi sees a fellow student fall into the frigid, freezing waters of a lake on campus. She risks her life to aid the young woman. By then, she has "gotten into quite the habit of saving people." The rescued student and her friend introduce Naomi to the school's Shakespeare Society. Percer's Shakespearean club lacks mystery, although it is clandestine. There are no life-threatening or earth-shattering initiation rites or club rituals. Percer's decision not to portray the group in those ways was quite refreshing actually. Some things do not require great mysteries.
Since Teddy's withdrawal from her life, Naomi has had no friends. But that changes with her membership in the Shakespeare Society. She finally makes real, lasting friendships with other young women who have bright futures ahead of them. Naomi's bonds with these women prompt her to save them, too, whether from things that endanger their lives or from outside forces that jeopardize their futures. Naomi does not care what the threats are; she only has a kind of tunnel vision where those closest to her are concerned. If they are in trouble, Naomi will save them.
However, there are some perils even Naomi is powerless to thwart. She comes face to face with this fact when her mother becomes ill. This realization is difficult for Naomi to accept. Yet, she must; Naomi cannot save everyone. But, "…by not allowing herself to be saved," her mother saves Naomi.
Naomi finally comes of age in this moment. Sometimes being an adult is knowing you cannot save everyone.
Percer's tale is an unforgettable one, all because of Naomi. She is the glue that holds together this uncommon, graceful, and elegiac story.


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Based on everything I've learned in the last month or two, 2003 won't be the turnaround year in construction everyone was hoping for. Yes, there might be a few pockets of growth here and there, but the overall value of new construction won't see an increase in the coming year. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but take a look at what these experts have to say.
As reported by the Dodge division of McGraw-Hill in its Construction Outlook 2003 report, a 1% decline in new construction starts is projected for 2003. The electric utilities market is set to suffer the worst losses with a projected 24% decline, down from its record high two years ago. Public works construction is expected to decline by 3% and single-family housing will be flat. The only positive news comes from the income property, institutional, and manufacturing market segments. The need for multifamily housing will push income property dollar volumes up by 2%. Institutional building will be up 1%, even though overall square footage is expected to be down. The surprising leader is manufacturing, which is expected to rise 6%. However, this is still well below its peak level of 1997.
The U.S. Department of Commerce predicts overall construction in 2003 will decline for a second consecutive year. The agency's forecast calls for a 1.2% decline in total construction put-in-place, following an estimated 1.7% projected decline for 2002. It goes on to report that office, hotel, and commercial building markets will see declines for a second consecutive year.
In a presentation at CMD's North American Construction Forecast Conference in October, Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America, offered attendees a mixed bag of predictions. He expects construction related to consumer activity to remain strong and business-related construction to pick up gradually in 2003 if the economy keeps strengthening. Government-funded projects, however, are likely to diminish once current jobs are completed.
Even the guys on the front lines are pragmatic about next year's business climate. Here's what a few seasoned contractors had to say when EC&M staff writer Amy Florence Fischbach interviewed them for her report on the market (see page 38) and posed the question, How do you view the construction outlook for 2003?
"The downturn will last into 2004." — Tony Mann, president of E-J Electric Installation Co., Long Island City, N.Y.
"A very slow recovery out of recession, particularly if uncertainty remains on war, terrorist activity, and big business bookkeeping." — Steven Witz, vice president of Continental Electrical Construction Co., Skokie, Ill.
"Depressed, but slowly improving." — Todd Grasle, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Oregon Electric Group, Portland, Ore.
So sharpen that pencil and keep a close eye on your expenditures because it looks like the industry could be in for another tough year.
For additional forecast information on the 2003 electrical market, visit www.ewweb.com and read what Electrical Wholesaling reported in its 2003 Market Planning Guide.


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Luxury Worcestershire care home welcomes BBC sports presenter
One of the BBC's best known sports presenters is taking to the stage at luxury Worcestershire care home Fernhill House in the autumn – to entertain residents and members of the public free of charge.
Garry Richardson, who has a 40 year pedigree with the Beeb, including a regular slot on Radio 4's Today programme and Five Live's Sportsweek, has reported on seven Olympic Games and interviewed some of the world's most famous names including Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali, David Beckham, Tiger Woods, John McEnroe, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eddie Murphy.
He has also shared an after dinner speaking platform with legendary showbiz names such as Steven Fry, Dame Diana Rigg, Bob Monkhouse and Ken Dodd, has been on stage with Jasper Carrot and Alistair McGowan and appeared in a comedy show with Miranda Hart and Alan Carr.
He will be speaking on Thursday September 21st between 6pm and 8pm – with the added lure of free drinks and nibbles for all guests. Garry is one of the regular celebrities and special guests invited to speak at the home to encourage a greater link between the home's residents, friends and family and the wider community.
On Thursday July 27th author and broadcaster Gervaise Phinn, best known for his autobiographical memoirs set in the Yorkshire Dales, will be recounting humorous tales of his life working in education.
And on Thursday August 17th former Irish hotelier Frank Flaherty talks about his world travels with a comic approach. To book a free place at any of the events contact email@example.com or call 01905 679300.


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Minnesota Vikings Receiver Greg Jennings Now Says His Aaron Rodgers Comments Were Just a 'Joke'
Almost as soon as Greg Jennings started running down passes at Vikings training camp in Mankato this week, he began running down his former quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, of the Green Bay Packers.
But now, Jennings says, never mind, he was just kidding. He told the Star Tribune:
I don't really recall saying anything negative about Aaron or anyone over there, but, hey, I apologize.
Seriously, those guys across that state line, I had an outstanding time with those guys.
Everything I say, I'm joking. I'm messing. I'm pulling Aaron's arm.
I mean if he doesn't know that or you guys don't know that, I played with the guy for seven years.
I think he knows that.
So has Jennings really been hiding this incredible sense of humor from all of us, or did his abrupt about-face have anything to do with a meeting with his new head coach, Leslie Frazier, essentially telling him to can the trash talk.
One thing is certain: Frazier wasn't kidding!