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"The Hunger Games" opens Friday, and while the tea leaves say that it will enjoy a bigger opening weekend than "Twilight," there are still plenty of people out there who may not know what the fuss is about.
Based on the bestselling book by Suzanne Collins, the film stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl who lives in District 12 of Panem, a new totalitarian state formed in the wake of a rebellion that tore apart America. Every year, one boy and one girl from each of the 12 districts are chosen by lottery to be among the 24 contestants to enter an arena for a battle to the death, The Hunger Games.
The story has been unfairly dismissed by some for its superficial similarity to the vampire drama "Twilight" because they each feature heroines from single-parent homes who find themselves in grave danger and have two guys vying for their affections.
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But it's really quite a different story, that appeals for very different reasons. So here is a guide for the uninformed, the doubters and the haters:
Isn't this just another "Twilight"?
"The Hunger Games" is most definitely not "Twilight."
"Twilight" heroine Bella stands around gnawing her lower lip raw as two super cute guys snarl for supremacy. Though she's framed as the star, for much of the series she's largely the prize in a struggle between a vampire and a werewolf.
Katniss Everdeen is a hunter-turned-warrior who's thrown into an arena with 23 other kids for a battle to the death, as author Suzanne Collins delves into matters of the heart, war, politics, voyeurism, vanity and self-determination, among other things.
Meg Rooks is a mother and a middle school librarian living in Portland, Maine, who has read both "Hunger Games" and "Twilight" with her tween daughter, and both agree the former is far superior.
"She [my daughter Janie] and I both read the first ('Twilight') and we both thought it was rubbish," explains Rooks. "'Twilight' is just ridiculous, stupid romance, and I never read that when I was that age, and I still am not a fan. And the heroine is just beyond boring, and kind of useless."
No, Katniss is nothing like Bella. In fact, she's eerily similar to the character that made Jennifer Lawrence famous, Ree Dolly of "Winter's Bone," for which the actress received an Oscar nomination. The girls share an overwhelmed mother, a dead father, needy younger siblings, a love of squirrel, the ability to take a beating, they're from coal country… They would totally be BFFs.
OK, it's not "Twilight," but isn't it a rip-off of that crazy Japanese book "Battle Royale"?
Collins has been accused of lifting her plot from "Battle Royale," the 1999 book by Japanese author Koushun Takami. It's a story in which a totalitarian government forces a group of school kids to fight to the death. But that's about where the similarities end.
"Calling 'The Hunger Games' a rip-off is really just laziness; there are some parallels, but 'The Hunger Games' has its own point, and its own world and characters," declares Den of Geek co-founder Sarah Dobbs. "Maybe the most obvious difference, in the story, is that the Hunger Games are televised – so Katniss has to consider how she's being portrayed constantly, because that actually has a bearing on her survival."
Collins has claimed she knew nothing of "Battle Royale" at the time she turned in her manuscript, but what else is she gonna say? Newton and Leibniz came up with calculus at the same time. "Harry Potter" is basically "Star Wars," so what does it really matter?
Wait—this is a movie about two dozen kids fighting to the death?
Yep—and worse still, they do it while a national audience watches on TV, and it's all arranged by the powers that be in the capital city, who use the Games to remind the citizenry of the horrible destruction they suffered the last time they tried to rebel, some 75 years ago.
But as Rooks notes, the violence isn't gratuitous.
"(The books) are violent, but I think (Collins) is very good at making them violent without making them be super gory… Katniss is not down on her knees stabbing anyone in the neck. The fact that she's skilled with a bow and arrow makes it a little less down and dirty."
And while director Gary Ross faithfully chronicles almost every death without any sugar coating, the violence is shot in a way that isn't particularly gory.
How is it that a nation of young girls got hooked on such a violent book?
Part of Katniss' allure is that there is a dearth of female superheroes in pop culture. As Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, director of the forthcoming documentary "Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines," points out, it's been some time since teen girls have had a pop culture icon this strong.
"There hasn't really been an iconic character, since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for women and girls, and that was over 15 years ago. It's time," says Guevara-Flanagan.
"Katniss is a first for this generation of young women. 'Tomb Raider'? It's been a while, and it's a little bit more of an adult figure, and so I think girls relate to it a little bit less. I think that 'Tomb Raider' while popular and very successful at the box office, she didn't come from a book or a series, so her mythology is pretty thin. She came from a game, so there's just not as much of a narrative or a story there that girls and women can really sink their teeth into and understand and get behind and relate to, it's just a little more lightweight."
Will boys/men enjoy this, too?
"I have a middle school full of boys who love the books just as much as girls—everybody's reading them," says Rooks, whose 10-year-old son will be joining her at the midnight premiere on Thursday. "There is a little element of romance in there, but it's downplayed. It's definitely not the biggest part of the book."
Sarah Blackwood, an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Pace University, says that the story will appeal to boys—and girls—on a primal level.
"I think that 'The Hunger Games' has tapped into this audience by drawing on the dystopian fight-to-the-death genre tradition (that includes 'Lord of the Flies,' 'Battle Royale,' even 'Running Man'), but tweaking it a bit with the female heroine. I really believe Suzanne Collins when she said, in The New York Times Magazine, 'I don't write about adolescence. . . . I write about war. For adolescents.'"
For an action movie, that trailer doesn't have much action.
Fair point, though you can hardly blame them for maybe not letting parents see what their kids have been reading. And if you've already read the books, there's a lot that's implied—the fireballs, the desperate running. But trust us—there's no shortage of action.
Was it racism that got Jennifer Lawrence the lead role?
Hollywood has a long history of whitewashing films, lightening the skin tone of protagonists whose coloring is firmly established by the source material. So there was plenty of outrage when Jennifer Lawrence, with her blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin, landed the role of Katniss, who is described in the books as having long dark hair, olive skin and green eyes.
"When I first heard she was being cast, my eyebrows had to rise, because I didn't see how she was chosen over everybody in Hollywood," admits Chiderah Aalisa, an entertainment writer for The Grio and MSNBC. "But I think she's phenomenal, especially at portraying emotion, something that this character would need. So she grew on me in that regard. Out of all of the cast, she's my favorite, definitely."
Aalisa has been frustrated over the years by several instances of Hollywood whitewashing, but ultimately "The Hunger Games" isn't one of them.
"I can make that argument in so many other movies, but in this one I don't think it's necessarily a battle that we need to have."
What's with all the dopey hair and make-up?
This isn't a case of Hollywood taking liberties; rather it's mostly true to the book's descriptions, which are Collins' critique of the direction towards greater body modification and enhancement—think Katherine Helmond in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil."
The people you see with the most tricked out looks tend to be from society's highest ranks, they live a largely carefree life, free from hunger, and with enough time and resources to waste on dying their skin, crafting elaborate hair and beards or make-up.
Before you dismiss the characterization of future vanity, consider how audiences 60 years ago would've responded to characters with fake giant breasts. Suddenly green skin and pink hair doesn't seem so stupid, does it?


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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Receives Honorary Law Degree From University of Montana [AUDIO]
In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan. On Friday, September 13, 2013, she was conferred an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Montana.
Justice O'Connor spent the day prior to the ceremony meeting with and talking to high school and college students, and sharing her years of experience as an attorney, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and an avid fly-fisherwoman. In remarks from the stage, Montana Governor Steve Bullock personally volunteered to assist Justice O'Connor anytime she wanted to go fly fishing in Big Sky Country.
During her remarks in the George and Jane Dennison Theater on the University of Montana campus, Justice O'Connor highlighted the importance of educating the next generation about our government through civics classes, that are more and more becoming elective, rather than mandatory in public schools.
"Less that one-tenth of eighth-graders can name the three branches of government, much less say what they do," O'Connor said. "Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purposes of the Declaration of Independence, and it's right there in the name," she said to laughter from the audience.
Justice O'Connor was instrumental in helping to develop an online civics education program called I-Civics, which she said has become very popular with school children who play video games.
"Research shows that I-Civics really does increase performance on civics assessments," O'Connor said. "What's more, it shows that students are learning and having fun at the same time. In one study, over half of the students who were taught in class using an I-Civics game went home, and without anyone telling them to, played them again. Now, getting students to study by choice is what I call success."
O'Connor also emphasized the importance of community service for citizens of all ages, whether it was in schools, churches, or even just participating in the voting process.
Joining Justice O'Connor on the dais were Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox, and Chairman of the Montana Board of Regents Clayton Christian, along with University of Montana President Royce Engstrom and the outgoing Dean of the University of Montana Law School, Irma Russell.

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|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
|Video game information
Electronic Arts
- "Can You Master the Magic?"
- —Official tagline
The video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released on 8 November, 2005, a few days before the movie release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
The game follows the three main characters of the movie; namely Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley; and there is an entirely new spell-casting system that will allow for collaborative spells. The characters themselves more closely resemble their movie counterparts than in previous games. It also has higher-quality graphics than the previous Harry Potter video games.
Also, players can play the game with friends, and can combine their magic and spells to make them more powerful. Players can also capture moving beans using Accio and increase their power with collector's creature and character cards.
Much to many fans' anger and disappointment (as voiced on such community review sites as Gamespot.com), there is no RPG iteration of the game, unlike with previous titles. Also, it was pointed out that unlike the previous installments, there was not much room to "run around" such as in the second and third game where you were allowed to move freely within the castle and on the grounds.
It also should be noted that anger was raised over the decision not to include a different version for the PC, unlike previous versions. However, it was released a different version for Game Boy Advance.
The game is divided into several nonconsecutive levels, some of which are locked at the beginning of the game until the player collects enough Triwizard Shields to unlock it.
- Harry Potter (voice Daniel Larner): A fourteen-year-old wizard in training. Harry is unexpectedly selected as a fourth champion in the Triwizard Tournament and must battle his way through three difficult tasks for the Tournament. He is a combination of both Ron and Hermione's weaknesses and strengths, but frequently needs help from his friends when danger is very near.
- Ron Weasley (voice Greg Chillin): Harry's best friend. Ron has an obsession on Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans and frequently alerts the team when Beans appear on the screen, He is also an avid runner, but can only perform Double Throw Spells, even when upgraded (unplayable during Triwizard Tournament).
- Hermione Granger (voice Harper Marshall): Harry's other best friend. Hermione is known for her logic and excellent spell-casting. She becomes quite frustrated during the game at Ron's frequent exclamations about finding Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. She is also a great witch capable of throwing Triple Throw Spells when upgraded (unplayable during Triwizard Tournament).
- Arthur Weasley (voice Dominic Coleman): Ron's father. Mr. Weasley accompanies the Weasley family, Harry, and Hermione to the Quidditch World Cup at the beginning of the game. He also helps them out in the fight between the Death Eaters and the Quidditch game's spectators. He regularly makes sure that Harry, Ron and Hermione are safe throughout the journey to find the Portkey.
- Barty Crouch Jr. (voice Sam Hazeldine) (diguised as Mad-Eye Moody (voice Stanley Townsend)): The new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. He provides several challenges to increase Harry, Ron, and Hermione's spellcasting abilities.
- Cedric Diggory (voice Blake Ritson): the first Hogwarts Triwizard champion to be chosen. Cedric tells Harry the secret of the golden egg prior to the second task. In the Third Task, he serves as a loyal friend as he stuns Krum before he could attack Harry. In return, Harry has to save him from the Blast-Ended Skrewts lurking around the hedges. Cedric is Harry's champion card.
- Fleur Delacour (voice Claudia Renton): the Beauxbatons Triwizard champion. She provides no major part to the game. You only see her during a cut-scene in the game and on one of Ron's cards, as she is Ron's champion card. She's also seen in the bonus movie.
- Viktor Krum (Voice Boris Mitkova): the Durmstrang Triwizard champion. Under the influence of the Imperius Curse, he tries to attack Harry and Cedric in the Maze. Viktor Krum is Hermione's champion card.
- The Monsters: Throughout their journey, whether in the castle or outside, Harry and his friends must join forces to eradicate dangerous creatures such as Erklings and Dugbogs. Many advanced creatures, such as Skrewts or a hoard of Vampyr Mosps, require the whole team to unite their strength to destroy them.
- Lord Voldemort (Voice Ralph Fiennes): The most evil wizard of all time. Harry has to fight him in the last level.
- Death Eaters (Voices Duncan Wisbey and Matthew Marsh): The followers and supporters of Lord Voldemort.
PS2, PSP, GCN, Xbox and PC versionsEdit
- Quidditch World Cup Campsite
- Defence Against the Dark Arts, Lesson 1
- Defence Against the Dark Arts, Lesson 2
- Moody's Challenges (5 st)
- Hogwarts Exterior
- Forbidden Forest
- Triwizard Task 1: The Dragon
- Prefects' bathroom (not included on the PSP version)
- Herbology
- Triwizard Task 2: The Lake
- Triwizard Task 3: The Triwizard Maze
- Voldemort (At the graveyard in Little Hangleton)
GBA and NDS versionEdit
- Quidditch World Cup Campsite
- Defence Against the Dark Arts
- Forbidden Forest
- Triwizard Tournament, First Task
- Yule Ball
- Prefects' bathroom
- Care of Magical Creatures
- Triwizard Tournament, Second Task
- Moody's Challenges
- Triwizard Tournament, Third Task
- Riddle Graveyard (At the graveyard in Little Hangleton)
- Charms:
- Accio: Summoning Charm. Used to attract many wizarding goods, such as Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. The strength of Accio can be adjusted depending on the cards you buy.
- Wingardium Leviosa: Levitating Charm. Can pick up many obstacles at ease, but sometimes requires the whole team to levitate a particularly heavy object. It can also be used on creatures, such as Stunned Erklings.
- Carpe Retractum: Seize and Pull Enchantment. Used to pull inanimate objects towards the user. It can also be used to pull drawbridges or other obstacles. Carpe Retractum can also grapple itself on the Erklings' "flutes", or Vampyr Mosps' noses.
- Aqua Eructo: Similar to Aguamenti (used in the sixth book), this spell creates water to put out fires, which may be created by Salamanders, Skrewts and the Hungarian Horntail. It is also used to cool down Fire Circles.
- Herbivicus: Plant Growing Spell. Used especially to make lily pads grow for Harry and his friends so that they can safely cross a pond or other bodies of water. It is also used to grow special flowers that the Mosps adore, temporarily giving you a distraction for a quick getaway.
- Alohomora: Unlocking spell. Blasts open crates and trunks (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Glacius: Instantly freezes water and other liquids (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Reparo: Mending Charm. Restores broken items back to their original state (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Incendio: Charm used to conjure bluebell flames. Used to burn down plants and for herding Skrewts (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Ventus: Used to summon whirlwinds, causing nearby obstacles to be pushed over (GBA/Nintendo DS only).
- Jinxes: Used to defeat monsters (Dugbogs, Erklings, Skrewts, etc.) or to get special surprises from containers.
- Orchideous: Reduces Dugbogs or Vampire Mosps into a bundle of levitating flowers.
- Orbis: Simple blue jinx very similar to the "Flipendo Jinx" used in the previous games. Can be used on leviated Dugbogs and Erklings.
- Inflatus: Makes Salamanders and Vampire Mosps swell up and pop, or transfigure them into a pack of inflated balloons.
- Avifors: Transforms Dugbogs and Skrewts into a flock of ravens.
- Lapifors: Instantly turns Salamanders into innocent little rabbits.
- Ducklifors: Similar to Lapifors, it turns Skrewts into little ducklings.
- Melofors: Useful spell used to replace an Erkling's head with an enormous pumpkin.
- Pullus: Jinx used to mutate Erklings into chickens.
- Vermiculus: Enchantment used for Vampire Mosps into a tiny little worm.
- Ebublio: Mutates Salamanders into a cloud of bubbles.
- Confundo: Jinx that causes confusion on the recipient. Used to momentarily stun and confuse wild beasts. (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Verdimillious: A jet of green sparks is emmited from the end of the wand. (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Expelliarmus: Disarming charm in duelling. (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Dugbog - Marsh-dwelling creatures that resemble pieces of dead wood while stationary, though closer examination will reveal finned paws and very sharp teeth, they will bite.
- Salamanders - Fire salamanders are an orangey colour, they will try to breathe fire at you.
- (Bavarian) Erklings - Elfish creatures which are native to Germany. They have pointed faces and a high-pitched cackle, and will try to shoot you with blow darts, the Bavarian kind is slightly more aggressive.
- Bubotubers - Thick, green, slug-like plants that are covered in swellings filled with poisonous pus.
- Blast-Ended Skrewts - Creatures with thick armour and shoot fire out of their blasting ends. (Young [GBA/Nintendo DS only] and Adult [All versions])
- Vampyr Mosp - Fanged wasp-moth hybrid. Giant insects (purple variants are less aggressive than red variants).
- Hungarian Horntail - An extremely aggressive dragon.
- Mushroom - (Possibly Horklumps.) Sending out toxic smoke that blocks the way. Can be destroyed if Bubotubers are thrown at them with the Carpe Retractum Spell.
- Grindylow - A pale green creature that lives in the weed beds on the bottom of lakes in Britain. It is also known as a water demon.
- Bowtruckle - A European tree-guardian. (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Red Cap - Dwarf-like creatures that live in holes on old battlegrounds or wherever human blood has been spilled. (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Fire crab - Resembles a large tortoise with a heavilly jewelled shell. Native of Fiji. (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Niffler - This burrowing creature has a predilection for anything glittery. (GBA/Nintendo DS only)
- Inferi - Voldemort uses 'skeletons' to attack you in the last level.
- Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans - These beans can be found in the game. You can use the beans to buy cards.
- Chocolate Frog Cards - Buy these cards to unlock special abilities.
- Chocolate Frogs - If a human player faints, these will revive him or her. The game starts with 3 chocolate frogs
- Cauldron Cakes and Pumpkin Pasties - They increase Harry, Ron or Hermione's stamina.
- For a complete synopsis see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Harry Potter is unexpectedly chosen as a fourth contender for the title of Triwizard Tournament champion in his fourth year at Hogwarts. Over the course of the school year, he must learn the spells and tricks necessary for him to be able to get through three difficult tasks and, ultimately, escape the clutches of infamous evil wizard Lord Voldemort.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Many plot elements from the film and book do not appear in the game, such as Ron's jealousness of Hermione going out with Viktor Krum.
- Many of the characters from the book and film appear only in cameos or not at all, including Fleur Delacour, Madame Maxime, and Igor Karkaroff.
- The Entrance Hall Antechamber can be seen in cutscenes, despite the fact that in the movie it was replaced by the Entrance Courtyard. The Entrance Courtyard is not featured at all.
- This is the first game to feature a character been voiced by an actor from the actual movie, in this case Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort.
- In this game, the incantation for the Summoning Charm is mispronounced ("ACK-see-oh" as opposed to the correct "ACK-ee-oh"). This is corrected in the following game.
External linksEdit
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at the Internet Movie Database
- [1] - Listen to the game Soundtrack
- [2] - Listen to the Game Soundtrack
See alsoEdit
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (soundtrack)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (character index)


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the Junkie book will remain closed for the coming quarter (May-June-July). If you scroll down a couple of posts you'll find one saying Am Back! And if you wonder sweet bunnies what's happening, well am setting a new paradigm for moving cities! We got to move to a new city and mind ya I still have some unpacked bags since I stepped in this house last July.
Now Jill, was it you who used the phrase "moving house like a warm Indian breeze"?...well, quite literally it's been happening with me! Whoever wrote the line "When was the last time you did something for the first time"? Am by default doing something new, even if it is something as banal as closing one door and entering a new house through another!
There's always excitement in fresh pastures. But at times (or frankly many a time) am exhausted scrambling to pick up my dreams on my way only to see them quickly and forcefully tossed wayside...and am tired of bending my back trying to pick them up again. Lemme see how life pans out for me. For the moment, let's live today.


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The United States Constitution is currently the subject of a heated political debate. Tea Party activists have invoked the constitution as the foundation of their conservative political philosophy. These activists are engaged in "popular originalism," using popular constitutionalism, constitutional interpretation outside of the courts, to invoke originalism as constitutional method. The Tea Party movement thus highlights the relationship between originalism and popular constitutionalism, two prominent trends in constitutional theory. Both fields study legal history to illuminate constitutional meaning, but originalists and popular constitutionalists draw diverging lessons from that history. Originalists look to history to determine fixed original meaning, which they hold to be binding on contemporary interpreters regardless of subsequent historical or political developments. Popular constitutionalists study how constitutional interpretation has been influenced by historical developments, and explore the use of constitutional theory to bolster constitutional arguments. This essay explores the convergence and divergence between originalism and popular constitutionalism, and questions whether popular originalism is feasible given originalists' fidelity to the original text. The essay concludes by asking what popular originalism can teach about us constitutional interpretation and democracy. While modern originalism began as a critique of judicial over-reaching into the political process, it has evolved into a justification for courts to overturn democratic measures. Paradoxically, then, the popular originalism of the Tea Party may achieve its only success, not through the democratic process, but in the federal courts.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Zeitlow on the Tea Party and "Popular Originalism"
2 comments:
- Our Founding Truth said...
Originalists look to history to determine fixed original meaning, which they hold to be binding on contemporary interpreters regardless of subsequent historical or political developments>>>>>
Rather, Originalists look to the text of the Constitution, or the words of the framers, not history.
- August 24, 2011 at 3:15:00 PM EDT
- Shag from Brookline said...
Originalism also looks to the words of the ratifiers who are distinct from the framers, without giving preference to one group over the other, in determining the public meaning/understanding of the text at the time(s) of framing/ratifying. And originalism indeed looks at history as an aid to such determination, as demonstrated on both sides of the Heller Second Amendment 5-4 decision; but this is not to say that originalists do so with the same quality as historians.
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And the best-paid actress in Hollywood is… K-Stew!
"Twilight" and "Snow White and the Huntsman" star Kristen Stewart topped Forbes magazine's list of the best-paid women in Hollywood. She made $34.5 million between May 2011 and May 2012, according to the magazine.
That's quite a haul for a 22-year-old whose low-key sullenness and costar-turned-boyfriend have helped make her a tabloid staple — especially since the next-youngest actress on Forbes' list, Angelina Jolie, is 15 years her senior.
Cameron Diaz, 39, showed Tinseltown longevity with her close second-place finish, earning $34 million thanks to her profit-sharing pay for unexpected hit "Bad Teacher."
Sandra Bullock came in third with $25 million, despite not having any hits in the last year, and bombshell-turned-director Angelina Jolie came in fourth with $20 million, largely from residuals and her Louis Vuitton enforcement deal, Forbes wrote.
Charlize Theron made $18 million — thanks to a big career comeback with "Young Adult," "Snow White" and "Prometheus" — and Julia Roberts, whose own Snow White retelling "Mirror, Mirror" came out this year, made $16 million, according to Forbes.
Rounding out the top of the list were "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, perennial Oscar bait Meryl Streep, "Saturday Night Live" alum and "Bridesmaids" alum Kristen Wiig and, finally, Jennifer Aniston.
K-Stew, Cameron Diaz Top Forbes' Best-Paid Actress List
Kristen Stewart, 22, is 15 years younger than Angelina Jolie, the next-youngest actress on the list
And the best-paid actress in Hollywood is… K-Stew!


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DENVER (AP) Peyton Manning threw three touchdowns, including one to defensive tackle Mitch Unrein, to help the Denver Broncos wrap up the AFC West with a 31-23 victory Sunday over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Broncos (9-3) won their seventh straight and the Tampa Bay (6-6) loss clinched the NFC South for Atlanta, which won on Thursday.
Manning threw for 242 yards. He now has 29 touchdown passes on the season, moving past Jake Plummer and John Elway for the most by a Denver quarterback in a single year.
Manning threw two of the scores to Demaryius Thomas, who finished with eight catches for 99 yards.
Broncos linebacker Von Miller returned an interception for his first NFL score.
The Broncos held Tampa running back Doug Martin to 56 yards on 18 carries.
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Chicago proposes closing 53 elementary schools, firing staff at another 6By Becky Vevea, Linda Lutton
Chicago proposes closing 53 elementary schools, firing staff at another 6By Becky Vevea, Linda Lutton
Chicago Public Schools has announced the long-awaited list of schools it wants to close.
The district wants to shut down 53 elementary schools—11 percent of all district-run grammar schools. Officials also plan to close a tiny high school currently connected to a grammar school.
If approved, this would be the largest single round of school closings ever undertaken in the country, and quadruple the number of school shake-ups Chicago has tried before in a single year.
The vast majority of the 30,000 impacted students are African American and attend schools on the South or West Sides, or near former public housing developments.
Another six grammar schools will see their staffs completely dismissed, in an effort to address chronic low performance. They are Barton, Chalmers, Dewey, O'Keefe, Carter, and Lewis. The management of those schools will be turned over to the nonprofit Academy for Urban School Leadership, an avowed favorite of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, boosting the group's total number of schools in Chicago to 31. See the complete list of closures and other school shake-ups below.
Some of the proposed closings involve not only closures, but complicated relocations that will feel like closures even for receiving schools. For instance, the district wants to close May and Armstrong schools; their staffs would be laid off. Leland Elementary is named as the receiving school and would take in the May and Armstrong students. But the district is also proposing a relocation for Leland, to the May building. May would legally become "Leland," and house students from all three schools, headed by the Leland principal and staff. The original Armstrong and Leland buildings would be taken off line.
Initially, CPS pitched massive school closings as a savings measure in light of a projected $1 billion deficit. Thursday, district officials used other arguments: "Fundamentally this work is about improving the educational opportunities for our students," said Todd Babbitz, who's overseeing the closings for the district. "We do as a district today have resources that are spread much, much too thin. We are spending way more on buildings that we believe are unnecessary in our footprint."
District officials said they estimate closing the 54 schools will bring a total annual savings of $43 million. That's in a district with an annual budget around $5 billion. They also estimate the district will save $560 million in "avoided" capital costs over the next decade.
But the district is following the recommendation of the independent School Utilization Commission: "spend the money to do it right." Chicago Public Schools is promising big amenities at receiving schools, like air conditioning in every classroom, iPads for all third through eighth graders, libraries for schools that don't have one, and new books. They're also offering schools money for tutoring and mentors. The district is stepping up efforts to create safe passages to school for kids, and providing additional security once they're there. Total one-year pricetag: $223 million.
CPS officials also said they plan to add 18 new programs to the receiving schools. They will add a fine and performing arts program to Haley school, four International Baccalaureate programs at Wells, Mollison, Jenner and De Diego, and 13 new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs at Altgeld, Leland, Nicholson, Wadsworth, Ellington, DePriest, Sumner, Hefferan, Earle, L. Hughes, Tilton, Gompers and Laura Ward.
School closings are being pushed across the country as a cost savings solution, despite studies that show they tend to save little money.
The Chicago Teachers Union is threatening major protests and acts of civil disobedience to oppose the proposed closings, which won't be final until they're approved by the school board, expected to vote on May 22. The union says the underutilization crisis is "manufactured" and is meant to create chaos in the system, opening the door to privatization. Parents and teachers have challenged the district's calculations of what constitutes "underutilization." School officials have not produced any demographic projections, either for the city or the neighborhoods.
In the affected neighborhoods Thursday, parents were reacting with anger about the uncertainty ahead.
Denise White walked her first grader to Overton Elementary in Bronzeville Thursday morning, and talked about her anxiety that her school could close.
"I'm upset," White said. "We live up the street, so if they close the school, I'm going to have to send him to live with his dad. And if they close the school...With all the violence? Then what? What do the kids do then?"
A little later in the day, parents and community residents associated with the group Action Now took their protest over school closings to the homes of three members of the CPS Board of Education: Andrea Zopp, School Board President David Vitale, and outgoing board member Penny Pritzker.
Michelle Young said she'd just found out her children's school, May Elementary, on the city's West Side, is on the list to be closed.
"We need to elect a school board so that we can stop the cycle of rich outcomers coming to exploit low-income people like us," she said. "This is a plan designed to fail, and when you design it to fail, our children will never get educated. They deserve that right!"
District officials said they avoided assigning students to receiving schools that were more than a mile away from their closing school.
Despite that, many parents are worried about the distances their kids will have to travel next year.
In East Garfield Park, a West Side neighborhood, the parents who arrived at John Calhoun North Elementary's dismissal time to bring students home Thursday received a map showing where the district is sending their kids next year: Willa Cather Elementary.
Cather stands less than six blocks from Calhoun but far enough to raise fears about everything from winter temperatures to the neighborhood's gang boundaries.
"How are they supposed to get back and forth?" Ardell Lewis asked, holding the hands of his daughter and grandson, both Calhoun students. "You got a lot of things going on around in the street: People snatching kids. So what do I have to do? Buy a car now?"
Kelly Wormley has five kids at Calhoun. They can walk together without her now, but not next year, she said. "Especially with me working at 5 o'clock in the morning, I'll probably have to get somebody to take them school."
That's unless Wormley gets them into a charter school that opened in 2009 — right across the street from Calhoun.
Some of the district's fiercest critics, including the Chicago Teachers Union, have charged that Chicago is creating its own crisis, aggressively opening charter schools at a time when enrollment has declined by 30,000.
CPS has said for months it faces a "utilization crisis" and has room for more than 100,000 additional students in its current buildings. In December it deemed half of all its schools—330 total—under-enrolled, with 140 of them only half full. School officials say closings are a move to "right size" a shrinking school district and spread resources across fewer schools.
Prior to announcement CPS CEO Barbara Byrd was interviewed on WBEZ's Afternoon Shift
"For too long children in certain parts of Chicago have been cheated out of the resources they need to succeed in the classroom because they are in underutilized, under resourced schools," CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said in a statement e-mailed to reporters Wednesday night, after names of schools on the list began to leak out ahead of the planned release.
Even as it closes schools, the district has a commitment to open 60 new charter schools in the next five years. On Thursday, CPS also announced 11 "co-locations"--an arrangement where two or more schools share the same building. Five of the schools do not even exist yet.
Closures have also been pushed as a reform strategy in urban districts. The idea is to weed out low-performing or under-enrolled schools and seed new ones, often charters. The strategy has netted mixed results in Chicago, where it's been tried for the past dozen years.
That's meant a wrenching annual process of closing schools, which parents and the Chicago Teachers Union have fought bitterly.
Today's list will come on top of more than 100 prior school shakeups and closings since Chicago began the practice in 2001-02, under then CEO Arne Duncan.
It also brings a first: Chicago is closing down some of its original "renaissance" new schools. Williams Elementary and Williams Middle emerged from the ashes of one of Chicago's first "renaissance" school closures (Williams, Terrell and Dodge were the first to be shuttered, amidst mass protests, in 2002). The Dodge Elementary building will also be shuttered; that's where President Obama announced he'd invited Arne Duncan to be his Secretary of Education. Dodge's principal, staff, and presumably students will move further west and share a building with Morton.
The district is also recommending closing a turnaround school. Bethune Elementary, in North Lawndale, saw its entire staff fired in 2009. The school was given an infusion of cash, taken over by the private nonprofit Academy for Urban School Leadership, and re-staffed. Now Bethune is slated to close.
—Natalie Moore, Chip Mitchell and Judith Ruiz-Branch contributed reporting.
Elliott Ramos produced graphics, maps and illustrations.
For more updates on school closings, follow education reporters Becky Vevea and Linda Lutton on Twitter.
Affected schools: Closures, turnarounds and receiving schools


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Norway's Telenor won back its telecom operating licences in six of India's most populous states, paying less than markets expected and ending 10 months of uncertainty after courts cancelled its permits.
Telenor, which has over 150 million customers in Europe and Asia, agreed to pay 4.2 billion crowns for the six licences, a relief to investors who feared the firm would go after more permits and could end up paying twice the eventual figure.
"We will stay present in areas that make up over half of India's population and continue to have 34 million customers," Chief Executive John Fredrik Baksaas said.
"This puts us on track to break even in India by the end of next year," Baksaas told Reuters.
India cancelled 122 operating permits awarded in a corruption-tainted licensing round, forcing Telenor and others to reapply and raising the risk of a cost blow out for a venture that has never made a profit.
To cap the risk, Telenor scaled back operations to nine circles from 13 and said it would quit the country altogether if the auction price went too high.
"I didn't expect them to cut back to six circles; it shows they were disciplined," Sparebank 1 Markets analyst Tore Toenseth said. "They look to have paid the minimum price and that's good."
India is the world's second biggest mobile market by customer numbers but margins are low and investors have argued that Telenor could make higher returns elsewhere.
"The cost to re-purchase the original 13 circle holdings would have been around 11.1 billion crowns and for the 9 current circles around 7.9 billion," Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a note.
"In other words, by this measure, the company is scaling back the original exposure to India by around 60 percent and even the revised exposure by about one-half."
The fee raised in the auction was a clear disappointment to India's deficit-constrained government as it raised less than a quarter of its target.
Telenor will pay a third of the spectrum fee within 10 days and the rest in ten equal instalments between 2015 and 2024. However, a fee of 16.58 billion rupees paid for its previous licenses, may be used to reduce its first payment.
Telenor will now operate through a new venture called Telewings, held in 26 percent by Lakshdeep Investments, after buying out property firm Unitech from their previous venture.
The new company will take over the customers, partners and infrastructure of the old business and plans to operate in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh East, Uttar Pradesh West, Bihar, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Most employees would also be taken over, although 300 are set to lose their jobs, Baksaas said.
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A petition to build a Death Star space station has received the 25,000 signatures needed for it to be considered by the White House.
The petition, which calls on the US government to "secure funding and resources" and "begin construction" on a Death Star by 2016 now has more than 27,000 signatures.
The Death Star is the size of the Moon in the Star Wars film franchise and is capable of destroying a planet with a single laser beam.
The campaign's founder, identifying himself only as John D, is based in Longmont, Colorado, and registered the petition on the White House website on Nov 14.
The website claims that any petition gaining the appropriate number of signatures will be guaranteed an assessment by the president's staff, sent to the "appropriate policy experts" and receive an official response.
John D wrote: "By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering and space exploration."
In February, students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania calculated that the cost of steel alone for a Death Star would be 13,000 times the world's gross domestic product, or £541,261 trillion.


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The Office of Student Services has established procedures that comply with both The Sage Colleges and employer requirements.
- Students who receive full or partial reimbursement from employers will need to complete the Sponsorship Agreement Form, obtain employer information, and return it to The Office of Student Services prior to the end of the add/drop period of the semester they are enrolling.
- Students utilizing sponsorship agreements are still required to pay enrollment and/or registration deposits in accordance to college policy.
- The Sponsorship Agreement Form must be filled out each semester the student enrolls.
- Once the Sponsorship Agreement is on file, the student account is coded so that no late fees are placed on the student's account.
- Students will receive monthly email notifications that their statement of account is available.
- The sponsorship agreement allows the student to defer payment of their outstanding charges until four weeks after grades are due for the semester in which the student was enrolled.
- Students are responsible to make sure their account is paid with in the allowed deferment period.
- If the balance is not paid in full, a Student Services hold will be placed on the student account, and a $50.00 late fee will be applied. Future sponsorship agreements will not be honored.
- Questions regarding employer reimbursement can be directed to The Office of Student Accounts 518-244-2205 (Troy) 518-292-1788 (Albany).


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Yellow split peas — or matar dal — are not the most frequently used legume in Indian dal curries, but their rich, earthy taste and hearty, chewy texture balances beautifully in this delicious low fat Indian recipe made with potato, cauliflower and green peas. Rather like an Aloo Gobi Dal all in one, the addition of grated ginger, cumin, chili powder, garam masala and cilantro, make a rich, satisfying and healthy vegetarian curry, which is made creamy with the addition of extra water left over from cooking the split peas. Served with fragrant Basmati rice and crisp papadam, the curry is delicious garnished with a dollop of thick plain yogurt, a few sprigs of cilantro and a little lemon zest for extra zing.
Cauliflower, Potato & Green Pea Matar Dal garnished with cilantro, plain yogurt and lemon zest
Aged Basmati Rice with cilantro and lemon zest garnish
Cauliflower, Potato & Green Pea Matar Dal
Serves 4-6
Recipe adapted from 'Flourishing Foodie'
5 cups water
1 cup dried yellow split peas, rinsed
1 bay leaf
4 tbsp ghee or butter
1/2 yellow onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp fresh ginger, grated
2 cups potatoes, chopped into 1/4-inch size pieces
2 cups cauliflower, separated into small florets
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp cumin
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 cup frozen peas
1/2 cup chopped cilantro, for garnish
1 lemon, zested
6 servings of Basmati rice or naan bread
1 cup plain yogurt, for garnish
Bring 5 cups of water to boil in a large pot. Once boiling, add the split peas and a bay leaf, and reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook until the split peas are soft, mushy, and falling apart, about 70-90 minutes.
While they are simmering, in a large frying pan, heat the ghee or butter, on medium. Add the onions and fry until translucent and soft, about 10-15 minutes. Add the garlic, ginger, potatoes, and cauliflower and fry until soft, about 30-40 minutes.
Add the turmeric, chili powder, garam masala, and salt to the cooked dal — there should still be 1 1/2 cups of water left from split peas in the pot. Add the cauliflower, potatoes, and frozen peas, adding additional water if necessary, so that the sauce has enough moisture to produce ample sauce. Simmer on low for 20-30 minutes until the curry is creamy and cooked through. Season with extra salt or chili powder as needed. Garnish with chopped cilantro, a dollop of yogurt, lemon zest and serve with Basmati rice or naan bread.


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I've always preferred naturally pale skin to (obvious) fake tans all year round. This year, however, the sun has apparently decided to skip the country of Netherlands, which means I'm still as pale as I was back in february and I must say that I miss that elusive sun-kissed glow that usually happens in the summer and which I have apparently taken for granted all these years.
Thanks to Into The Gloss, I have recently discovered the joy of bronzing, contouring and highlighting (it sounds like a lot of work but it basically comes down to a couple of quick swoops with the brush). I'm still a bit squeemish about using it too much, but I love the way it looks when used correctly. My current favourite compact is Givenchy's Le Prismissime. I use it over my moisturizer and that way it's subtle enough to look natural (but better).
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Unless you've been living under a rock this year, you already know that 2014 is the 5oth anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on Ed Sullivan. I begged my parents to let me stay up and watch the show — and they agreed. (Kids went to bed earlier in those days.)
It was a thrill! Most everybody on my block was already a Beatles fan and the next day, we were utterly devoted. We all started saving up for the next record. Being the 5oth anniversary of what CBS billed as "The Night That Changed America", you've also probably seen lots of Beatles tribute bands playing around. Next Friday (April 25), Top area musicians come together (yes, pun intended) to help raise money for Gloucester's UU Meetinghouse as The Number Nines — but this is no tribute band. Rather, it's three top Gloucester singer/songwriters: 3rian King, Chelsea Berry and Renée Dupuis, joined by Boston‐based multi‐instrumentalist Meff and guitarist Brendan Burns with Gloucester's favorite rhythm section: Dennis Monagle and Joe Cardoza. They'll perform their own originals plus fresh takes on The Beatles, like this soulful interpretation of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" featuring Chelsea Berry on vocals:
So, we can all agree that The Beatles are the greatest rock band ever, right? "Not so fast," quips Vickie. "What about Jimi Hendrix?"
"What about him?" I reply.
"You're always saying he's the greatest rock guitar player, who ever lived."
"Well, of course he is." [Here's one of my Hendrix favorites]
"So how can The Beatles be the best rock band ever?"
"Oh come on. I can't choose between The Beatles and Hendrix!"
So the next night, April 26, our friend Jon Butcher is bringing his powerful new show, The Jon Butcher Axis: Celebrating the Music of Jimi Hendrix to the Larcom Theatre for their Boston area debut. Check out Jon's version of another one of my favorite Hendrix tunes:
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Thursday night will be clear and cold with lows near 30.
Friday will be a carbon copy with sunshine and highs in the low 40s. It's a good day for raking leaves before the last day of curbside collection.
Showers arrive over the weekend with a chilly rain the second half of Saturday. Highs will be in the low 40s, again. Sunday will be cloudy and colder with few leftover raindrops mixing with some snowflakes. Temps will be in the 30s.
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I don't really like American Horror Story thus far, but I'm certainly curious about it. I spend plenty of time thinking about it, and some of the mysteries at the show's core have got me intrigued. I think part of that is just the fact that I like a show with a weird back-story, like this one, and my weird back-story vibe has been sadly empty since Lost went off the air. In fact, as I watched this second episode—which was an improvement over the pilot, but only just—I started thinking that a big reason for the show's success is that it blends a lot of the stuff that made Lost successful, just in a new way.
To wit:
1.) The main character is a location. I'm one of the biggest Lost apologists you'll find, but even I'll admit that though the characters on that show were a lot of fun, the main character we were all invested in was the Island. This isn't so much about the mysteries of the place or anything like that. It's about the sense that it was a place unlike any other on Earth, a supernatural place where just about anything could happen. The Island was God and Devil all rolled up into one, and the characters were powerless to stop the thrall it held over them.
On American Horror Story, the main character is the house. The problem here, I think, is that none of the other characters are nearly as interesting as that spooky structure at the story's center. On Lost, you tuned in to see what the Island would be up to this week, but you also got a good dose of John Locke or Desmond Hume or Ben Linus, and you left satisfied that you'd hung out with some pretty compelling characters. Now, granted, American Horror Story is a young show, so the characters will have time to grow. But already, they're talking about the house (which I should probably start capitalizing) like it's an entity unto itself. The House is causing all of this, and it's calling all of this story into being. It, too, is God and the Devil in this story, and though it skews toward the latter, it's also enormously protective, as when it spares Vivien and Violet from the attacks of the home invaders.
2.) It's a mash-up of roughly a century of a particular genre. On Lost, the center of the series was always an elaborate gumbo of elements from boys' adventure tales, science fiction stories, and weird TV shows. But Lost felt like it had had time to simmer. It was easy to see the influence of, say, Twin Peaks or The Prisoner on the show, but it was also never overtly pointing at the homages it made and leaping up and down to get an extra-credit gold star from astute TV viewers. It was a show that was engaged with the history of American pulp tales, but it wasn't going to stand up and continually say, "Hey, look at how much we like Ray Bradbury!"
The genre American Horror Story is aping is pretty obvious. But at the same time, the show hasn't thoroughly internalized the genre it's working within. Weird tonal shifts bump up right against each other, and in a jarring fashion, not a particularly satisfying one. For instance: I don't mind Jessica Lange's campy act as Constance, unlike some critics, and I kind of enjoy when she's dancing about her house and cooking ipecac-laced cupcakes that will eventually bring down home invaders. But when she's trying to get frisky with a much younger man and is interrupted by her mentally handicapped daughter—who's got image issues—I'm not sure what it adds to the show to have her lock said daughter in a closet full of mirrors, so she can scream and scream. (This seems to me the most poorly judged scene in either episode.) The show is obviously trying to hint at Lange not being particularly on the side of the angels, but we had already gotten that. Instead, it reinforces the scene where Ben says that Addy is a "freak" and Vivien tells him not to call her that. This is evidently a show that wants to have its cake—goofy, campy moments mixed with big scares—and eat it too—by taking these characters dramatically seriously—but it has essentially no idea how to shift gears between those tones.
In addition, the many, many horror elements that get name-checked here aren't blended into the background particularly skillfully. I like that the producers have done more than just comb through famous horror movies for their various scenarios—though the strings from Psycho show up when Maria is stabbed in the opening sequence for no real reason—and I like that they're digging through the annals of other scary stuff from American history (like the story of Richard Speck). But the whole thing just feels so arch and self-congratulatory that it's hard to get lost in the story. A good homage makes you smile with recognition at what you're seeing; a bad one sets aside character development or building a cohesive plot or any of that and simply says, "Look what I've seen before!" And it's okay to do that every once in a while, but it seems to be the only gear American Horror Story knows. The best, scariest moments, like Tate leading the invader through the home, then slicing her in two with an axe, feel like something you've seen before but also feel thoroughly disconnected from that. They're sui generis, and the show doesn't yet have enough of them.
3.) It often seems to be far more about its own mythology than anything else. This is probably why I spend more time thinking about this show than I really should. I am legitimately engaged with some of the questions the show seems to be asking, even as I couldn't care less about the actual episode-by-episode reality of the show. Tonight hints at a "bad man" and at other potential avenues for storytelling, and it gives us the sense that Tate—who might be Constance's "good child," I think—is working with Constance and Moira on some sort of long con of the Harmons. Just about the only mode American Horror Story knows is uncovering its own back-story, and in the scenes where we get teases and hints of it, the show comes alive, as it plays games with us. The kinds of people who loved looking at Lost and trying to puzzle out what was happening would probably love this show. Other than that, it's struggling to find a way to make this play episode-to-episode.
4.) The characters are all broad stereotypes, rather than terribly well-developed. This was something that was more true of Lost in the early going, but it was definitely something the show suffered from in that first season. The characters were all pulp archetypes, and the show took its sweet time in filling them in beyond "The Hero" or "The Pretty Girl" or "The Rogue." On that show, like on this one, the cast was strong enough, for the most part, to fill in the blanks. (I'm not entirely sure what the wooden Dylan McDermott is doing here, but, hey, not everybody can be Connie Britton.) I like watching Vivien, because I like watching Connie Britton do stuff and she seems to be trying to find a reality for this character that makes sense. But the character as written is just the stereotype of the shrill wife who's suffered a devastating betrayal and now can't get over it. Without Britton's acting, the character would utterly fall apart.
There are moments—very brief moments—when the show seems to tap into the kinds of character drama it would like to slide right up against the campy horrors. In the pilot, the "I love you" scene was one, and in this episode, the scene where Ben is running and trying to get away from his own memories of his student lover (now pregnant and played by Kate Mara, who only goes on TV to have abortions, apparently) works well to show how all-pervasive his demons are. But more often than not, the character drama is ham-fisted, with writing that's just not very good. The show also suffers from making all of the female characters—literally, all of them—seem like vindictive shrews, whether they have reason to be or not. Since they're played by Britton and Mara and Lange and Frances Conroy and Taissa Farmiga, it goes down a little more easily, but there's not a woman in this cast who isn't seemingly a little crazy about something someone did to wrong her.
5.) There's no obvious outlet for stories, so the show flails a bit trying to find one. Here's the biggest difference between Lost and AHS. Where Lost immediately settled on the flashback structure as a way to tell episodic stories, AHS isn't quite sure what to do, so it, instead, settles on the horror reenactment of the week. (We're also apparently going to get a moment in the House's history as the teaser every week.) This week's home invasion sequence is both scary and understated, and the scares in this episode are, in general, much more effective than those in the pilot. (My favorite? The ball rolling back across an empty floor, Ben not noticing, in an homage to The Changeling, I'm guessing.) But at the same time, this is going to raise huge plausibility issues. In a horror film, it's easy to wonder why the family doesn't just move out, but it rarely kills the narrative. Here, we're already at the "let's just move out" moment at the end of episode two, and there's no earthly reason these people should stay, just as there's no reason Ben should keep treating Tate. In addition, just how many traumas can one house spur? It seems like it will eventually become so far over-the-top that it will become even more unwieldy than it already is. But who knows? Maybe that's the point.
Stray observations:
- Last week, I identified the sequence of Tate walking through the school's halls as being ripped from Kill Bill for no real reason. A few of you called me on it and said it was likely an homage to Twisted Nerve, which Kill Bill was paying homage to in the first place. And while I think the directly-behind-the-head shot is more of a nod to Tarantino, you're right that it makes more sense story-wise as a Twisted Nerve homage. I don't think any of this ultimately matters, but I probably owe Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk the benefit of the doubt on their knowledge of horror history. My apologies.
- How is Frances Conroy not a regular? I guess we'll find out sooner or later, but she sure seems to be pretty important to the story (and unkillable to boot).
- Unintentional laugh of the week: "Aquarius" begins playing, and we see a bunch of girls in '60s fashions. "1968" blares the title before cutting to two people watching Laugh-In. You don't say?
- Okay, I liked that Violet's nemesis at school was so scared that her hair started to turn white. That's a nice little touch.
- Scene that might as well have had a, "THIS WILL ALL BE IMPORTANT LATER" sign flashing at the bottom: When Constance talks with Vivien about all of her children. (Also, Vivien asks her to smell for other things wrong with her baby? Weird.)
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Some of the nation's top comedians hailed Ellen DeGeneres as a trailblazer Monday night as she received the nation's highest humor prize.
The Kennedy Center is awarding DeGeneres the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The show will be broadcast Oct. 30 on PBS stations.
"Thanks to everyone at PBS. I am so happy to be part of your farewell season," DeGeneres joked in accepting the prize and taking a jab at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's plans to stop funding public broadcasting.
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On the red carpet before the show, DeGeneres said she doesn't see herself as political with her comedy, though, even though she's been a trailblazer.
"I just want to make people happy and make people laugh," she said.
DeGeneres, 54, began her career as a comedy club emcee in her native New Orleans. After a performance on Johnny Carson's show in 1986, he invited her over to his desk to chat. She was the first female comedian to receive that invitation from Carson.
Turning to acting, DeGeneres landed sitcoms on Fox and ABC, eventually starring in "Ellen" from 1994 to 1998. She broke new ground and a taboo in 1997 when she came out publicly as a lesbian and her TV persona then became the first lead character on prime-time TV to reveal she was gay. A record 46 million viewers watched the episode.
Coming out on TV 15 years ago feels like another life, she said Monday night before the show.
"I did it because it was the right thing for me to do," DeGeneres said. "It was the right thing for me to do to not live with shame. I happened to help a lot of people, and it happened to create a ruckus."
Jimmy Kimmel called it a milestone.
"For a lot of people, Ellen is their only homosexual friend," he said. "She's there in their living room every single day."
On stage, he said DeGeneres was his inspiration.
"Because of Ellen, in 1998, I mustered the strength to come out of the closet — despite the fact that I'm not gay," he joked. "Thanks to Ellen, vests aren't just for magicians anymore."
Sean Hayes said DeGeneres made his former show, "Will and Grace," possible. He said her "fearlessness" was her biggest contribution and that she changed America.
"We didn't have a voice, until there was you," he said before breaking into a rendition of "Till There was You."
"Glee" star Jane Lynch said DeGeneres "took one for the team."
"She's the one who went in there with a machete" and cleared the way for other shows with gay characters such as "Glee," she said. "Look where she is today."
Kristin Chenoweth said DeGeneres has always remained kind.
"She's not a mean girl comic," she said.
When DeGeneres first heard she was receiving the same honor that Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell won in recent years, she joked, "Why didn't I get this sooner?"
After DeGeneres came out on TV in 1997, the show began to tank and was canceled a year later. The feeling of rejection was enough to send DeGeneres into a depression. Still, "Ellen" paved the way for future shows to feature gay characters, from "Will and Grace" to "Modern Family."
DeGeneres came back with a CBS sitcom, movie roles and even a stint as an "American Idol" judge. Forbes magazine has ranked her as the 47th most-powerful woman in the world and estimated her earnings at $53 million last year.
Her hit talk show that debuted in 2003 is now in its 10th season. Among other achievements, that's where she eventually persuaded President Barack Obama to dance.
"She's brilliantly shined a light on society, and that's what Mark Twain did," said Cappy McGarr, an executive producer for the Mark Twain Prize show, when the award was announced.
The prize honors comedians in Mark Twain's tradition of satire and social commentary. Past winners include Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg.
John Leguizamo saluted DeGeneres and PBS for planning to air the show.
"How about that? A gay woman on PBS — with public money and the Kennedys," he said. "It's like the tea party's worst nightmare."


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Layar's software lets readers experience augmented-reality magazines simply by pointing their phone at an otherwise normal-looking page. It then matches the camera data to an image of the page supplied by the publisher and determines what content it should display. For example, if you were to hold your phone up to a picture in the magazine, it would recognize that there's also an accompanying video and play that right in the context of the page as if the image were coming to life. Or you could scan a list of product recommendations and get links to where to buy them.
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CUYAHOGA FALLS -- A few dedicated Thanksgiving sales shoppers in northeast Ohio have claimed spots in line more than a week before doors open for holiday specials.
Eager customers started pitching tents outside the Best Buy in Cuyahoga Falls this week, a full 10 days early.
The first was 28-year-old Jonas Allooh of Willowick, who said he and nine friends rotate manning their tent around the clock as required.
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This article surveys references to Islam and Muslims in American court opinions from 1800 to 1960.. It argues that American judges as a group portray an ambivalent attitude toward Muslims, some treating Islam disparagingly or as an exotic and fanciful religion, and others emphasizing the religious equality that Muslims deserve.
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Failinger on Islam in the Mind of American Courts
Marie A. Failinger, Hamline University School of Law, has posted Islam in the Mind of American Courts: 1800-1960, which is forthcoming in the Boston College Third World Law Journal. Here is the abstract:
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(CNN) - Washington will become the first state to offer voter registration via Facebook with a new application to be launched as soon as next week, according to a state election official.
Once online, the app will be accessible on the secretary of state's Facebook page, said Shane Hamlin, co-director of elections for the state.
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Washington, which has approximately 3.7 million registered voters, conducts elections entirely by mail and enacted online registration in 2008. Since online registration started, Hamlin said close to 500,000 voter registrations or address changes have been processed.
Facebook, Washington state and Microsoft have teamed up to create an app that allows users to register on the social media site through the state's new "MyVote" app. The effort came about last fall when Microsoft approached Washington state after Facebook contacted the software giant with the idea.
When Facebook users download the application, they will have to agree to allow Facebook to access their information, including name and date of birth, which is pre-filled into the voter registration form.
Users will still need to enter information from a driver's license or state ID card number to verify their identities in real-time through a state database. Once you "like" the app you can recommend your friends to like it and download it too.
When asked about concerns on whether Facebook will have access to voters' information, Hamlin reassured voters that "Washington state is collecting the voter information, not Facebook"
Besides registering to vote on Facebook, Washington residents will be able to update personal information, access customized voter guides with candidate info and ballot measures, as well as access replacement ballots.
When asked about who the state was targeting for this app, Hamlin said the state didn't create this partnership to only target young people, but wanted to use Facebook's social media platform for all voters to access crucial voter/election information.
Washington residents aged 18-29 only accounted for 10% of voters during the 2008 presidential election according to CNN election results. President Barack Obama defeated Sen. John McCain 58-41% in Washington state four years ago.
Announced earlier this month, CNN and Facebook have partnered to offer an interactive and uniquely social experience for the upcoming presidential election for CNN's on-air, mobile and online audiences and Facebook's more than 160 million U.S. users.
The digital election partnership will measure social buzz, conduct voter surveys and also include the real-time 'I'm Voting' app to track voter commitments, endorse specific candidates and issues.
facebook will be a grand way of verifying your citizenship – along with voting.
Everyone should use facebook to make all their banking transactions and access to the social security system...
Out-Fricking-Standing Washington! Way to go! Now we need to make sure that republicans are not allowed to vote because it should be mandatory that you have common sense and a measurable amount of intelligence, which republicans do not possess. We need to SHUT down the GOP and their zombie ignorant Tear Pity Tea Party freaks.
In Jesus name, AMEN.
Massive voter fraud made easy. If you can't beat 'em, cheat 'em.
Facebook, too much information online. What if facebook is bought by those buying the election? It fails to get those disenfranchised by voter suppression. If it did it might be worth it.
"Users will still need to enter information from a driver's license or state ID card number to verify their identities in real-time through a state database."
Why not just go to a regular site and register. I hate Facebook.
Sounds to me like Washington State is will ing to let anyone vote whether they are citizens, non citizens, aliens or dead people. Just as long as they vote dumocrat. Sounds typical for that state.
god i hate facebook
Unreal! Libs attempt to facilitate voter fraud knows no bounds!!
Have to keep that voter Fraud alive for the Democrat Party. Man they must be getting desperate!
There is no low bar to measure how stupid this idea is. Facebook is where Luco Rotten Mcnatta (the serial killer) had 75 facebook accounts.
great, now we will have nilly willies from all over the planet registering to vote. How's that going to work? Register at normal places like voter registration areas.
The last thing this country needs is more people voting! We have enough out there now who vote for a living and are nothing but leaches. If you are not a tax payer, you should have no say.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."- Alexander Fraser Tytler
A Blue, Blue state. Making a mockery of our most scared right – that of the vote for all of our eligible citizens. How surprising (not).
Let the election fraud begin!
I mean what could possibly go wrong????
OMG, is about all one can say. Talk about the chance for voter fraud. Why don't we just declare Obama the king, get it over with, hand over our entire check to the government and get our food stamps and let the government turn our utilities on and off as they see fit, or as which party we voted for. If you do not think it can happen, vote for him again..
Well, this will keep Washington Democratic. vote early, vote ofter
Someone needs to tell Eric Holder and the Department of Justice (DoJ) about this! Washington state is requiring a state issued ID (driver's lisence or ID card with a traceable number to the applicant) to register to vote and this is a very deap "blue" state. I wonder if the DoJ will file suite against the state because they are disenfanchising voters by using this method to register to vote. Also, since all voting is done by mail, does the state require an address?
Oh yea , no chance of voter fraud there huh ? The Democrats will have a field day scamming the voting in Washington.
Meanwhile the Democrats are still fighting picture IDs in order to vote..more proof they want to scam the system..AS THEY ALWAYS DO
Why no! No possiblity of fraud here... lets offer this everywhere!


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Kent State University to Receive State Funding to Support Student Intern Programs
Kent State University was selected to receive $724,553 of state funding to support workforce development strategies and enhance student success through internship and co-op programs linked to key industries targeted for growth in Ohio. The funding will support up to 200 student interns and improve the intern tracking system to discover new opportunities and to develop a strong feedback loop between the university and area companies, contingent upon Controlling Board approval in January. The university also will create an Intern Advisory Board to help improve internship experiences.
In September, the Ohio Board of Regents announced that $11 million in state funds would be shared among colleges and universities through a competitive process that required universities, in partnership with business and industry, to submit proposals to enhance experiential learning and career opportunities for students. The grants are part of Gov. John Kasich's workforce development strategy to align Ohio's higher education curriculum with skills that are in demand by Ohio's businesses.
The purpose of the grant is not only to provide opportunities for students and encourage them to stay in Ohio after graduation, but also to give Ohio businesses access to high-quality talent to help increase competitiveness while decreasing the cost of finding new talent in the communities where they do business.
"I am optimistic we can help more students complete credentials and expand the human capital talent pipeline for Ohio businesses," says Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro.
The colleges and universities that participate in this program must provide matching dollars from private sources. Undergraduate programs are required to match 100 percent, and graduate programs are required to match 150 percent of the awarded grant. For Kent State, the matching target industries will include advanced manufacturing, aerospace and aviation, biohealth, energy, financial services, information technology and polymers.
Letters of commitment from 17 companies supported Kent State's proposal, along with support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE).
Participating companies include: Akron Polymer Systems, AlphaMicron, Assurance Investment Management, AtNetPlus, Crystal Diagnostics, Echogen Power Systems, Explorys, First Energy Corp., GraphSQL, Kent Displays, Melin Tool Company, Price Builders & Developers, Summa Health System, Telerik Inc., The Timken Company, Tribute Inc. and True Wealth Advisors.
The total budget for this program, called Integrating Kent State University Learning Experiences and Business Work Experiences, is nearly $1.5 million, which includes the state funding.
"In conjunction with increasing the number of Kent State students in internship positions, we also hope to improve our methods for helping students prepare for, find and make the most of internships," says Austin Melton, Ph.D., professor of computer science and mathematics, who will coordinate the internship program at Kent State University.
To help students have better and more effective internships, the university will work with NOCHE to develop materials and programs to assist companies in beginning and improving internship opportunities and to assist students in preparing for internships.
"We are forming much closer relationships with industry that help inform our research and educational programs to the extent that we can provide an educated, trained workforce for companies in the region," says Grant McGimpsey, Ph.D., vice president for research at Kent State University. "In that way, we'll drive economic development in the region. One way for us to be more responsive to industrial needs — particularly on the workforce training side— is through an active and aggressive internship program."
The program is a cost-effective, economic development tool for the state, according to McGimpsey.
"They've taken a relatively small amount of money and leveraged it very effectively," he says. "It will have a great impact."
For more information about internships at Kent State, visit www.kent.edu/career/jobs.


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Wale's assistant goes on homophobic Twitter rant about Tiara Thomas
Twitter Files: Wale's Friend Goes On Violent, Angry Bird, Gay-Bashing Rant Airing Out "Triflin' Beyotch" Tiara "I'm That Girl Singing That Song" Thomas!
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For the record, we spoke to Wale and he says he neither ordered, nor condones, the actions of his friend and wants it to be known that she is speaking out on her own behalf.
In case you hadn't heard, Wale's former artist Tiara Thomas (the broad singing on "Bad") ditched him and ran off to sign a deal with producer/songwriter Rico Love.
Wale has been pretty tight-lipped about the whole thing, but suffice to say the "Bad" remix featured Rihanna for a reason, and it's not because the Bajan banger has a beautiful voice…
From what we can tell Tiara didn't leave Wale's camp amicably, because his assistant took to Twitter to let Tiara know exactly how she feels about her in no uncertain terms.
Oh but it didn't stop there, this chick went into full iGangsta mode and threatened to lay hands on Tiara on sight!
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