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Downton Abbey and the Crawley family may have weathered the turmoil and tragedy of the first world war, but they have not escaped unscathed. Society is changing — slowly but inevitably — and the privilege and prestige once enjoyed by the upper class is gradually starting to erode. It is the beginning of the Roaring Twenties, and the British aristocracy's lifestyle of lavish parties, servants, and finery may be coming to an end.
The third season of the popular British TV series promises to bring plenty of challenges for the characters that viewers on both sides of the "pond" have fallen in love with. The series follows the rich Earl and Countess of Grantham (Robert and Cora Crawley) and their daughters (Mary, Edith, and Sybil), who occupy an elaborate estate in England called Downton Abbey. The show highlights both the "upstairs" and "downstairs" residents of the abbey, incorporating storylines about the wealthy Crawleys and their servants. PBS has created a fun 5-minute recap of the first two seasons that can be viewed here:
While the third season of "Downton Abbey" won't begin airing in the United States until Jan. 6, some PBS stations across the country will be hosting special "sneak preview" screenings of the first episode in season 3. The PBS station in my area hosted a preview this week, and of course I couldn't pass up an opportunity to take a look at the next season. 😉 "Downton Abbey" is one of my favorite TV shows, and I'm excited about some of the plot developments we could be seeing in the new season of the show.
As season 3 begins, Matthew Crawley and Lady Mary are preparing for their wedding. While I wasn't expecting the wedding to occur as early in the season as it appears to be, I think this is a good narrative choice. Matthew and Mary's relationship has already gone through quite a few ups and downs in the previous seasons, and viewers have been hoping for a happy ending for them for a long time. I'm guessing more drama will occur this season as they try to adapt to their new life together and determine the future of Downton.
Sybil is expecting a child and continues to deal with the fallout of the scandal caused by her decision to marry the former Downton Abbey chauffeur, Tom Branson. Sybil doesn't regret marrying Branson, but I think it is difficult for her to return to Downton and face her family, and try to reconcile her old life with the one she leads now. Branson isn't shy about expressing his feelings about the oppression of the upper class, and tension remains between him and Sybil's family. While Branson now is working as a journalist, he continues to remain interested in politics, and it's possible he could get caught up in the violence surrounding the Irish War of Independence. He also may find an unlikely ally in another family outsider — Cora's outspoken American mother, Martha Levinson. Fans can anticipate many clashes between her and Lord Grantham's equally outspoken mother, the Dowager Countess.
Lady Edith hasn't given up on renewing her relationship with former suitor Sir Anthony Strallan, and while I suspect season 3 will end with their engagement, I don't think show creator Julian Fellowes will let it be a smooth road for them (after all, it just wouldn't be "Downton" without drama). 😉
And the drama likely will continue downstairs, as well. Mr. Bates, who was accused of murdering his ex-wife in season 2, is no longer sentenced to death, but he remains in prison, and Anna continues to work to free him. The mystery of who killed the former Mrs. Bates likely will be solved this season, but no clues were given away in the first episode.
I'm also curious about a new character introduced this season, Alfred Nugent. He is Ms. O'Brien's nephew and is working as a footman in Downton Abbey. He is quiet and reserved in the first episode, but I'm sure we'll be learning more of his backstory. It will be interesting to see what role he will play in this season's storyline (possibly a love interest for Daisy?)
The primary overarching plotline this season is likely to involve Downton Abbey's financial troubles, as well as the increasing prominence of class struggles. While I don't think Julian Fellowes would let the Crawleys lose Downton (the grand mansion is as much a character in the show as the Crawleys themselves), I do anticipate the Crawleys will have to make some difficult decisions about the abbey's future. And Branson likely isn't going to be the only former Downton servant who decides he wants to break free and try to make a better life for himself.
Will we lose any major characters this season? I see no indications of this yet, but several major characters did die last season. Although I love all the characters and don't want to see any of them go, it could be a narrative possibility.
"Downton Abbey" is an excellent period drama, and if you haven't seen it yet, I'd definitely recommend catching the first two seasons, even if it's not the type of show you'd normally watch. While on the surface the plotlines do sound somewhat soapy — i.e. first Matthew and Mary hate each other, then Matthew proposes to Mary, then she rejects him only to decide that she really does love him, Matthew proposes to someone else, he finally proposes to Mary again, etc. — the show runs much deeper than that.
The gossipy drama makes "Downton Abbey" fun to watch, but the series also explores serious social issues such as the fairness of the restrictions society places upon people based upon their class. Julian Fellowes has created complex characters and storylines that draw the viewers in, and he doesn't take the easy way out narratively. Even the characters we love to hate, such as the scheming servants Thomas and O'Brien, have redeeming moments, and no character is perfect. I'm greatly looking forward to season 3 and watching these characters develop even further.


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Many companies that collect data hire spreadsheet operators. These include research organizations, shopping malls that have collected data from customers, hospitals, learning institutions and recruitment agencies that hire on their behalf.
As a spreadsheet entry worker, you must have good computer skills, especially with using spreadsheets. It is also important that you have a good typing speed, including attention to detail. You can begin this work as a high school graduate; however, to advance and apply for higher salaried jobs, you need to train yourself in other skills like transcription, writing, and translation.

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You don't need us to tell you that there are hundreds of thousands of apps on the App Store—it would be impossible to try them all out. Here at Ars Technica's Infinite Loop, we go hands on with new and updated apps that are of the biggest interest to readers, but sometimes, we just don't get the chance to go in-depth with all the coolest apps we see pop up during the week. So, at least this week, we're trying something new by highlighting the best app releases that caught our eye. After trying them out, we think you should check these apps out, too. Let us know what you think, and we may continue doing these when appropriate.
Without further ado, here are the four apps we saw this week that are probably worth downloading. Three are free and one is paid, and there should be something for everyone.
1Password 4: $7.99 (for limited time)
We Mac users at Ars have always loved 1Password for managing passwords and other personal information on the computer. The mobile version for iOS has been a handy addition since its release in 2008, especially now that we live in a world where we barely know our own Facebook passwords anymore, much less our passwords for Amazon, Gmail, or anything else.
This week, the AgileBits team released version 4 of this amazingly useful password manager for iOS devices. The app has been redesigned to ditch the PIN code, instead asking for a master password similar to that on the Mac. There's a new toolbar option for favorites, so you don't have to keep searching for the handful of logins that you're constantly trying to use on your iPhone. The toolbar also allows for categories and folders so you can organize your logins and other information.
The software can sync with 1Password on your desktop over either iCloud or Dropbox. Owners of the previous app(s) may notice that version 4 is now a universal app that is compatible with iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads—older versions were sold separately per device, so this one is sold as a completely new app that will work on all your devices with one purchase. That means you'll have to buy again (that's bad), but AgileBits is offering the new 1Password for half off "for a limited time" (that's good!). I've been using 1Password on my Mac, iPhone, and iPad for years now and I couldn't go back—especially on my mobile devices—so this is a highly recommended update if you're anything like me and you need easy access to your password info.
Amazon Prime Instant Video for iPhone: free
Amazon's Instant Video service has certainly been making strides over the last year to be a serious contender against Netflix. The company is constantly adding new content and continues to try to bribe Prime subscribers into dipping their toes in the Instant Video pool by offering incentives to take slower shipping in exchange for video credits. Amazon released its app for streaming videos to the iPad in August of this year, and now the iPhone version has landed as well.
For those catching up, Amazon Prime subscribers now have access to Netflix-like movies and TV shows to stream, and you can still rent or purchase videos from Amazon the old fashioned way as well. The iPhone app allows for offline viewing of those rented/purchased show, with an Internet connection required for streaming. The app allows you to browse Amazon's offerings and add things to your watch list, and it can sync your place in a video so you can pick up where you left off on another device.
As noted by MacRumors, this app doesn't support AirPlay, so no streaming to the Apple TV for you. It also doesn't support the use of cellular data for watching videos, so you'll be required to be on a Wi-Fi connection if you want to stream. Still, Instant Video is picking up steam—especially among existing Prime subscribers—so the app is certainly a handy thing to have on your phone if you've begun to shift your watching habits over to Amazon.
Last.fm Scrobbler: free
Yes, there are (now) tons of ways to listen to music on your iOS device without requiring you to use the built-in Music app. Last.fm's new Scrobbler app is one of them, allowing iOS users the ability to "scrobble" listened-to songs to Last.fm's servers so your friends can see what you're listening to and give you access to playlists from people who like the same kind of music.
But the new Scrobbler app isn't just an add-on from the old iTunes plug-in days. It's meant to be an alternative to Apple's music-listening app in every way—you can play your iOS music library in addition to songs that might be stored on iCloud, but the app gives you additional metadata, such as tour dates and artist information.
TheNextWeb took a more in-depth look at this app, explaining why this official release from Last.fm is better than how we've all been doing it up to this point. "Scrobbling from an iPhone has always been easy when using third-party apps like Spotify, but due to the way apps are sandboxed in iOS, scrobbling plays of local files in the Music app required syncing your device with your computer and praying that the Last.fm app there picked up the plays as they synced with iTunes—it rarely worked correctly."
For those of us who have been scrobbling our listening habits to Last.fm for practically a decade, this release has been a long time coming. As TNW notes, it's practically a no-brainer to download if you're a longtime user. But even if you're new to Last.fm, it's worth checking out to see whether it's time to ditch your other music apps.
Flickr: free
OK, so we did write about the new Flickr app earlier this week when Chris Foresman argued that it (plus Twitter's new app) were "too little, too late" when it comes to adding kitschy filters for iPhone users. And that may be true—Instagram was certainly a first mover in the old-timey-iPhone-photo space—but that doesn't mean the entire app should be ignored.
In fact, Flickr's new iPhone app is significant in many ways, not the least of which is that the app is Flickr's first major mobile push in many, many years. Longtime Flickr users (*raises hand*) had sadly abandoned trying to browse, upload, or pretty much do anything on the old Flickr app because it was so limited and outdated, but the new app already has many subscribers excited. Completely made over, the app has a new browsing interface that makes it much more aesthetically pleasing (and usable) to look at photos uploaded by your contacts, and adding a photo as a "favorite" is now as easy as "liking" something on Facebook.
You can, of course, also browse your own photos, sets, groups, and favorites, and while the uploading interface (with its dastardly filters) may be controversial for being so Instagrammy, it's certainly easy-to-use. Overall the app is a huge improvement on what was already becoming an abandoned photo sharing platform. As Anil Dash pointed out on Twitter, the new app also lets you find friends who are on Twitter and Flickr, juicing everyone's enthusiasm for actually participating on the platform again.
If you're an existing Flickr user, it's at least worth a download to check things out. And new users might want to see what's going on too—after all, Flickr could make a grand comeback while Instagram and Facebook might suddenly implode. Stranger things have happened.
Anything else catch your interest this week?
Let us know which other app releases got you excited this week. And feel free to suggest new ideas to the Ars staff and each other; we're always looking for some new apps in our lives, and they may get highlighted in future app roundups!


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public static interface Achievements.LoadAchievementsResult implements Result Releasable
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Result delivered when achievement data has been loaded.
Possible status codes include:
STATUS_OKif data was successfully loaded and is up-to-date.
STATUS_NETWORK_ERROR_NO_DATAif the device was unable to retrieve any data from the network and has no data cached locally.
STATUS_NETWORK_ERROR_STALE_DATAif the device was unable to retrieve the latest data from the network, but has some data cached locally.
STATUS_CLIENT_RECONNECT_REQUIREDif the client needs to reconnect to the service to access this data.
STATUS_LICENSE_CHECK_FAILEDif the game is not licensed to the user.
STATUS_INTERNAL_ERRORif an unexpected error occurred in the service.
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Blue Devils rebound, ice Grosse Pointe South
GROSSE POINTE — Sault High bounced back with a 5-4 win over Grosse Pointe South in the consolation of the Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett Invitational Saturday.
Eric Hillock notched a hat trick for the Blue Devils (8-2), who finished 1-1 at the event.
"It was a productive trip," Sault High coach John Ferroni said. "We generated a lot of good pressure on offense and put over 80 shots on goal in two games against good competition."
Hillock scored twice in the first period and once in the second as Sault High led 3-2.
The game was tied early in the third period before the Blue Devils pushed their advantage to 5-3 with goals from Ben Formolo and Kyle TenEyck. Grosse Pointe added one more goal to complete the scoring.
Sault goaltender Jacob Schopp made 12 saves.
The Blue Devils outshot Grosse Pointe South 41-16 for the game.
Blake Mastaw had three assists, while Will Gathier and Chase Gamelin had two assists each. Ryan Dalsky, CJ Wilkins and Ben LaCross also had assists.
Wilkins, Mastaw and TenEyck of Sault High were named to the all-tournament team.
The Blue Devils fell 7-3 against Muskegon Mona Shores Friday in the tournament opener.
Mona Shores (9-0) went on to win the tournament, beating the defending state champion Liggett team 7-4 in the title game.
There will not be much time to rest over the holidays as Sault High, ranked No. 2 in the state in Division 3, is scheduled to travel to the other end of the state this week for two more games.
The Blue Devils are slated to play Hancock in their first game of the John MacInnes Classic at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Houghton.
The MacInnes tournament also includes Houghton vs. Calumet at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The third-place game is set for 6 p.m. Thursday, followed by the championship at 8:15.


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Editorial: Encourage voting
Republicans are racists and Democrats favor criminal acts such as voter fraud. At least that's the impression you get when reading up on the pros and cons of requiring voters to show photo identification cards, as many state legislatures are now doing, with the U.S. Justice Department fighting them every step of the way. From this vantage, it's mostly about doing whatever it takes to win an election.
The Republicans who tend to push these laws say it's all about "preventing fraud" and "protecting the integrity of the ballot box." Democrats call these "voter suppression" tactics and say it's really about stopping poor people and minorities - blacks, Hispanics, both far more likely not to have photo ID - from voting, specifically from voting for Democrats, even more specifically from voting for President Barack Obama.
The curious thing about the GOP's justification is that there hasn't been any voter fraud to speak of in this country, so arguably this is another one of those solutions in search of a problem. Those on the right had to see the comparisons coming between these laws and the nation's Jim Crow era, when many states in the South instituted taxes and literacy tests, to their enduring shame, in a transparent attempt to keep blacks out of the voting booth. Of course the latter would be sensitive to that, and should be. Where the political motivations of the GOP are concerned here, its true agenda is arguably betrayed when the majority leader of the Pennsylvania House tells his followers, "Voter ID - which is going to allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania - done" and it gets leaked to the media.
In short, this is not about fraud.
On the other hand, just because there has not been significant fraud of late does not mean there couldn't be, though the only kind of fraud this would stop - impersonation of another registered voter - seems unlikely to happen on any scale. You need a photo ID to buy booze, to cash a check, to get on an airplane, etc. Are all of those discriminatory practices, too? Should they be eliminated? It's hard to disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld Indiana's voter ID law in 2008, not for the cited reason of fighting fraud but because providing proof that you are whom you say you are just does not constitute that much of a burden.
There is a certain amount of hysteria on this issue on both sides.
What tilts the issue for this page is the coupling of these voter ID measures with other efforts to make it more difficult for certain Americans to vote, such as Ohio and Florida trying to restrict early voting, including on the Sunday before Election Day when black churches traditionally sponsor so-called "souls to the polls" drives. Or fining those who volunteer to register voters if they don't cross every "i" and dot every "t," which actually led to the League of Women Voters - upon whom practically no one paints horns - to get out of that business in Florida. If only certain types of photo ID are acceptable, if people have to pay for them - or for the marriage or birth certificate they need to get them - if they have to travel any significant distance to get the ID (many urban dwellers do not drive, and hence do not have a driver's license, either) at a place with limited hours, well, those behind such will forgive Americans who view these actions with great suspicion.
One appreciates that November promises the tightest of elections, that much is at stake, that the partisans are seeking any and all advantage. But if America is the nation it pretends to be, and with the stated justification for these laws not holding any water, we should err on the side of encouraging citizens to participate in this democracy, not of discouraging them.
-- Journal Star of Peoria, Ill.


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Wanna fight? NHL players dropping gloves early and often as they did in last shortened season
DETROIT - Wanna fight?
If you're an NHL player, you can probably find somebody to drop the gloves.
A lockout-delayed and shortened season has created a spike in fights around the league, just as it did the last time labour woes led to a 48-game season.
There were 58 fights through the first 87 games this year, following play on Tuesday night, an increase from 39 after the same number of games last season, according to STATS. During the 1994-95 season, there were 83 fights over the first 87 games of that lockout-shortened slate, a jump from 58 during the same stretch previous season.
"Obviously, you have a situation where the players are being thrown into the immediate intensity of a shortened season and that certainly may play a role," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly wrote Thursday in an email to The Associated Press. "We monitor these things as well, and the number of fighting majors have decreased significantly and begun to normalize over the last week. I expect that will continue over the balance of the season."
There were, in fact, fewer fighting penalties than games on Monday for the first time since the season started with 12 fights in 13 games. And on Wednesday, there were six fights in four games.
But there were a season-high 16 fights in 10 games on Tuesday, when Detroit Red Wings forward Jordin Tootoo and fought two different players in the opening period against the Dallas Stars.
Tootoo has been a part of two of the four fights that have started within the first three seconds of a game this season. When the gloves drop soon after the puck does, the fights seem orchestrated by World Wrestling Entertainment decision-makers.
"For me personally, nothing is staged," Tootoo insisted. "It's spontaneous. It's all about the eye contact. You kind of say, 'Let's do it,' without saying a word."
Some players say they're unleashing pent-up energy, stored during the four-month lockout.
Others want to give fans what they seem to want.
One 25-year-old player acknowledges he's fighting for his job. Nashville Predators forward Richard Clune has been trying to make it back in the NHL since playing in 14 games with the Los Angeles Kings three years ago. He was in three fights in his first five games.
Clune didn't play in Nashville's opener when star defenceman Shea Weber got into a rare fight with Columbus forward Jared Boll, the first NHL player to five fights this season. Clune, perhaps not coincidently, was in the lineup for the next game and tried to make his presence felt right away by getting penalized for boarding in the opening minutes.
"I play hard and get in the other team's faces and sometimes it results in dropping the gloves," Clune said in a telephone interview before playing on the road against the Kings.
The NHL struggles with its public stance toward fighting.
The league doesn't want to embrace or encourage the most violent part of its fast-paced, heavy-hitting game during a concussion crisis in sports, and with some of its former enforcers dying young and unexpectedly in 2011.
And yet fans seem to stand and cheer each time gloves drop and fists fly.
Red Wings senior vice-president Jim Devellano, who has four decades of NHL front-office experience and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame, said he used to be among the majority of people within the game that accept fighting as simply being a part of the sport.
"I've changed 100 per cent and I'm now in the minority because I personally could do without fighting," Devellano said. "I don't think it brings anything to the game and there's a lot of violence in society that we have to read about all the time.
"I changed my opinion when Scotty Bowman, who wasn't big on fighting, was our coach and I saw how beautiful the game can be when you let the talent and the speed of the game take over. I'm not a crusader to stop fighting, but when I've shared my opinion with hockey people, they're not really happy with what I say."
Toronto Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlye, who has two players—Mike Brown and Colton Orr—among the league leaders in fights—said "fisticuffs" are a part of the game that are here to stay.
"I just think it's a fact of life in the NHL that if you're going go out there and you're going to run around, it's going to force confrontation," Carlye said. "Sometimes people try to take advantage of your more skilled players and you have that deterrent."
Getting players injured, though, might deter teams from wanting key players to mix it up.
New York Rangers captain Ryan Callahan will be out for 10 to 14 days after hurting his left shoulder ion Tuesday night a scuffle with Max Talbot ended with the Philadelphia Flyers forward tugging Talbot's arm and dragging him down.
"Maybe we've been out so long and everyone is on edge," Rangers forward Mike Rupp said.
Washington's Jason Chimera had another theory related to the lockout that shortened the 82-season and hit players in their pocket books.
"Maybe they're mad they missed half a year's pay check," Chimera said.
Boll suggested the spike in fights is a result of players being excited to be back on the ice. He also pointed to a theory that can be seen, heard and felt in arenas throughout North America.
"Definitely, if you're the home team you want to get the crowd into it," Boll said. "It's fun. That's what guys do. That's why guys play is to compete and do their job.
"So far it seems like it's been an exciting start to the season. Maybe we're just trying to get the fans back in it."
AP Sports Writers Ira Podell, Dave Campbell and AP freelance Ian Harrison and Jess Myers contributed to this report.
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Gad is also expensive, roughly $200-$500 a dose, on top of the already pricey MRI. So I only order it when I need it.
A few MRI places (not most, just a few) try to push giving gad, even in cases where it's not needed, just to pad the bill. Annie and I know which ones do that, and generally don't use them. But yesterday, for various reasons, we ended up scheduling a patient at one to have a study there.
So I faxed over an order that said "Brain MRI". That's all.
Annie had to run an errand, so I was covering her calls while she was gone. At one point Mary grabbed me between patients, and said I needed to talk to the staff at the MRI place, who had questions. So I picked up the phone.
Dr. Grumpy: "This is Dr. Grumpy."
Ms. Gouge: "Hi, I'm looking at your order here, and it doesn't specify if you want gad on the study."
Dr. Grumpy: "I didn't write "gad", so therefore, no gad."
Ms. Gouge: "But shouldn't we do it with gad?"
Dr. Grumpy: "Do you have my patient info form in front of you?"
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I am a huge Laurie Halse Anderson fan. Just ask my kids from last year how often I recommended Fever 1793 to them. I loved Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution when I reviewed it back in May, and I can't wait to use it when I introduce our women's history project this year. And I still remember reading Speak for the first time in junior high (and I keep meaning to reread it). As you can imagine, I was thrilled when I heard that Anderson would be publishing a new historical fiction novel this month and even more thrilled when my school librarian tracked down an ARC for me!
Chains did not disappoint.
In 1776, Isabel is a young slave (about 11?). She and her little sister, Ruth, live in Rhode Island and Isabel dreams of the day they will be free. Their master, Miss Finch, has promised them freedom upon her death, but when the time comes her lawyer has fled the sporadic battles between the Loyalists and Patriots. Miss Finch's greedy young nephew quickly sells the girls off to a wealthy Loyalist and his cruel wife. Isabel and Ruth are sent to New York City, ophaned, alone, and at the mercy of the cruel Mrs. Lockton.
When they arrive in New York City, Isabel immediately meets a young slave named Curzon, who convinces her that the quickest way to freedom is to spy on her Loyalist master and report to the Patriots.
Ruth is "simple" and Isabel spends much of her time hiding her sister's episodes from Mrs. Lockton. But when they are discovered, she is thought to be possessed by the devil and Mrs. Lockton immediately sells her off. Thus begins Isabel's moral struggle- who should she support? More importantly, which side will help her become free and find her sister? She has no particularly strong feelings for the Patriots or the Loyalists- she only wants her own freedom. Sadly, both sides fail to take slaves into account, using them as tools rather than people: messengers, spies, soldiers, cooks, and everything in between.
It's difficult to do the plot justice in a brief recap. There is so much going on, yet the reader never feels overwhelmed. I found myself putting the book down after a chapter and going back to it later on. Oh no, no because I wasn't enjoying it! Because I didn't want the book to end. I was digesting it in small pieces, constantly mulling ideas and events over in my mind. Anderson does nothing if she doesn't force you to think, really think about the American Revolutionary War. I frequently found myself torn between the British and the Colonists, for Isabel's sake. I can honestly say I have never really sat down to consider the Revolutionary War. We grow up romanticizing the fight for independence and history books rarely qualify or quantify the people who were chained between the two sides, forced to choose and getting nothing in return. Wow!
Isabel's voice rings true to the times, without being overwhelming. The book reads like a story set in 1776 without being dry or difficult to understand. In historical fiction that is extremely important. If kids feel overwhelmed by dialogue, accents, or vernacular it is that much harder to get them to read and enjoy the book.
What really makes me happy is how kid-friendly Chains is. I already promised my students that we would be using it as a read-aloud later in the year. As a teacher, I know it will push their thinking and I can already foresee the great conversations and debates we will have. But I also know that they will genuinely enjoy the book. Anderson has a gift- she makes history come alive and she makes it fun. Yet I still come away from her historical fiction books knowing more than I did going in. I know the same will be true for my students.
I am sure Chains will be at the top of many Newbery prediction lists and it is certainly on mine. However, it should also begin making its way into school reading lists. It seems like the same old books have been around since I was in elementary school. My Brother Sam Is Dead and Johnny Tremain are both great books but I think Chains is more historically-accurate and kid-friendly. In NJ, the Revolutionary War is taught in 5th grade and I feel like Chains is just that much more kid-friendly and accessible while preserving (and exceeding) historical accuracy needs. So I am starting up the chant, "Here, here! Chains for the curriculum!"
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Thoroughly updated and revised, the third edition of The Gendered Society explores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael S. Kimmel challenges the claim that gender is limited to women's experiences--his compelling and balanced study of gender includes both masculine and feminine perspectives. Part 1 examines the latest work in biology, anthropology, psychology, and sociology; Part 2 provides an original analysis of the gendered worlds of family, education, and work; and Part 3 explores gender interactions, including friendship and love, sexuality, and violence.
Kimmel makes three bold and persuasive statements about gender. First, he demonstrates that gender differences are often extremely exaggerated; in fact, he argues that men and women have much more in common than we think they do. Kimmel also challenges the pop psychologists who suggest that gender difference is the cause of inequality between the sexes; instead, he reveals that the reverse is true--gender inequality itself is the cause of the differences between men and women. Finally, he illustrates that gender is not merely an element of individual identity, but a socially constructed institutional phenomenon.
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Essential reading for both students and scholars, The Gendered Society is an authoritative, incisive, and lively statement about contemporary gender relations from one of the country's foremost thinkers on the subject. Kimmel's companion text,The Gendered Society Reader, Third Edition (OUP, 2008), provides a perfect complement for classroom use.
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Publishers Weekly Even the book's younger readers will understand the distinctive visual code. As the pigs enter the confines of a storybook page, they conform to that book's illustrative style, appearing as nursery-rhyme friezes or comic-book line drawings. When the pigs emerge from the storybook pages into the meta-landscape, they appear photographically clear and crisp, with shadows and three dimensions. Wiesner's (Tuesday) brilliant use of white space and perspective (as the pigs fly to the upper right-hand corner of a spread on their makeshift plane, or as one pig's snout dominates a full page) evokes a feeling that the characters can navigate endless possibilitiesDand that the range of story itself is limitless. Ages 5-up. (Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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School Library Journal K-Gr 6-In Tuesday (Clarion, 1991), Wiesner demonstrated that pigs could fly. Here, he shows what happens when they take control of their story. In an L. Leslie Brooke sort of style (the illustrations are created through a combination of watercolor, gouache, colored inks, and pencils), the wolf comes a-knocking on the straw house. When he puffs, the pig gets blown "right out of the story." (The double spread contains four panels on a white background; the first two follow the familiar story line, but the pig falls out of the third frame, so in the fourth, the wolf looks quite perplexed.) So it goes until the pigs bump the story panels aside, fold one with the wolf on it into a paper airplane, and take to the air. Children will delight in the changing perspectives, the effect of the wolf's folded-paper body, and the whole notion of the interrupted narrative. Wiesner's luxurious use of white space with the textured pigs zooming in and out of view is fresh and funny. They wander through other stories-their bodies changing to take on the new style of illustration as they enter the pages-emerging with a dragon and the cat with a fiddle. The cat draws their attention to a panel with a brick house, and they all sit down to soup, while one of the pigs reconstructs the text. Witty dialogue and physical comedy abound in this inspired retelling of a familiar favorite.-Wendy Lukehart, Dauphin County Library, Harrisburg, PA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Court documents in the $1 billion lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube were unsealed today, finally shedding some light on key questions: did Viacom have "smoking gun" evidence that YouTube was deliberately profiting from 62,637 Viacom clips that were watched more than 507 million times on the site? Was Google aware of the copyright infringement problems when it purchased YouTube in 2006? Were YouTube's own founders involved in uploading unauthorized materials?
On all three counts, Viacom says yes—and it offers up a host of e-mails to prove it:
- "In a July 19, 2005 e-mail to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen wrote: 'jawed, please stop putting stolen videos on the site. We're going to have a tough time defending the fact that we're not liable for the copyrighted material on the site because we didn't put it up when one of the co-founders is blatantly stealing content from other sites and trying to get everyone to see it.'"
- "Chen twice wrote that 80 percent of user traffic depended on pirated videos. He opposed removing infringing videos on the ground that 'if you remove the potential copyright infringements... site traffic and virality will drop to maybe 20 percent of what it is.' Karim proposed they 'just remove the obviously copyright infringing stuff.' But Chen again insisted that even if they removed only such obviously infringing clips, site traffic would drop at least 80 percent. ('if [we] remove all that content[,] we go from 100,000 views a day down to about 20,000 views or maybe even lower')."
- "In response to YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley's August 9, 2005 e-mail, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen stated: 'but we should just keep that stuff on the site. I really don't see what will happen. what? someone from cnn sees it? he happens to be someone with power? he happens to want to take it down right away. he get in touch with cnn legal. 2 weeks later, we get a cease & desist letter. we take the video down.'"
- "A true smoking gun is a memorandum personally distributed by founder Karim to YouTube's entire board of directors at a March 22, 2006 board meeting. Its words are pointed, powerful, and unambiguous. Karim told the YouTube board point-blank:
'As of today episodes and clips of the following well-known shows can still be found: Family Guy, South Park, MTV Cribs, Daily Show, Reno 911, Dave Chapelle. This content is an easy target for critics who claim that copyrighted content is entirely responsible for YouTube's popularity. Although YouTube is not legally required to monitor content (as we have explained in the press) and complies with DMCA takedown requests, we would benefit from preemptively removing content that is blatantly illegal and likely to attract criticism.'"
- "A month later, [YouTube manager Maryrose] Dunton told another senior YouTube employee in an instant message that 'the truth of the matter is probably 75-80 percent of our views come from copyrighted material.' She agreed with the other employee that YouTube has some 'good original content' but 'it's just such a small percentage.'"
- "In a September 1, 2005 email to YouTube co-founder Steve Chen and all YouTube employees, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim stated, 'well, we SHOULD take down any: 1) movies 2) TV shows. we should KEEP: 1) news clips 2) comedy clips (Conan, Leno, etc) 3) music videos. In the future, I'd also reject these last three but not yet.'"
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The basic argument here is a simple one. YouTube's founders hoped to build a massive user base as quickly as possible and then sell the site. "Our dirty little secret... is that we actually just want to sell out quickly," said Karim at one point. In an e-mail, Chen talked about "concentrat[ing] all of our efforts in building up our numbers as aggressively as we can through whatever tactics, however evil."
As the e-mails collected in this suit make clear, numerous YouTube employees had direct knowledge of infringing material on the site, and in fact even altered tools like the community "flagging" feature so as to purposely find out about fewer incidents.
The strategy worked. One-and-one-half years after launching, Google purchased YouTube and made all of the founders incredibly wealthy. Given the obvious appeal of unauthorized content on YouTube, Viacom argues that the startup's strategy was, at its core, a decision to profit from copyright infringement. It doesn't matter whether YouTube showed ads on its video pages or not (for years, it did not, apparently concerned about just this issue); to Viacom, the entire business strategy was a way of profiting from infringement.
That's important because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects service providers that engage in "storage at the direction of the user." It has been a huge boon to user-generated content sites, and it is YouTube's key defense. But the DMCA puts limits on the generous safe harbors it provides: operators cannot have actual knowledge of infringement, they must take down infringing materials when asked, and they cannot profit from the infringement.
In the very first sentence of the summary judgment motion, Viacom makes clear it will attack YouTube's safe harbor protection head-on: "Plaintiffs Viacom International Inc. et al. ("Viacom") move for partial summary judgment on Defendants' liability for copyright infringement and concurrently to invalidate Defendants' reliance on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") as a defense to that infringement."
Viacom argues that YouTube did know about infringement on the site, and not just in a general, "surely there's some infringement going on here" sort of way. No, as the e-mails collected in this suit make clear, numerous YouTube employees had direct knowledge of infringing material on the site, and in fact even altered tools like the community "flagging" feature so as to purposely find out about fewer incidents.
Under this argument, YouTube is like Grokster, the P2P site whose case went all the way to the Supreme Court and resulted in a seminal ruling that shut down the site on the grounds that the huge majority of its activity produced infringement.
But there's a second argument. Viacom also claims that YouTube is not covered by the law for a more fundamental reason: it is not engaged in "storage," as a file locker might be, but is in the business of displaying and broadcasting content, which also includes making numerous back-end copies. This behavior involves YouTube in "direct infringement of copyrights."
This appears to be the weakest part of Viacom's case, and it's unclear why the company would bother making it in the wake of a federal court's recent Veoh ruling. That decision noted (correctly, in our view) that automated back-end processes to cache or transcode or display a video did not involve the site operator in such direct infringement.


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The resolutions we make in January are so negative. Too much like giving something up for Lent. So this year I've resolved to feast on flavor – not by eating more, not by eating less, just doing it better. How many ways can I make 2014 the most delicious year?
Let's start with freshness. Stock up on noodles, stock up on steak, but when it comes to produce, seize not the day but the minute. Here's Harold McGee in 'On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen': 'Most vegetables contain only moderate amounts of sugar and acid, and these are quickly used up by the plant cells after harvest. This is why vegetables picked just before cooking are more fulfilling than store bought produce.' I already pick from the garden, but this year I'm going to do more grazing, too. The taste of lettuce or peas nibbled right in the garden is the touchstone against which meals should be measured.
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Friends who have visited India and Southeast Asia always return with flavor-enhancing skills. Slowly and carefully they toast their spices before using them in dishes. Just as with toasting nuts, the warmth magnifies the tastes and the aromas that make us love good food. I plan to do more of that. I'll also roast more root vegetables, which concentrates their flavor.
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Judge denies Poquonnock Bridge firefighters' request for injunction against layoffs
A judge has denied a request by firefighters in the Poquonnock Bridge Fire District of Groton for a temporary injunction to rescind the layoffs of nine firefighters.
Judge Thomas Moukawsher, in a written ruling issued Friday, said with an interim request for relief with the State Board of Labor Relations that is likely to be heard within the next 30 to 60 days, firefighters had not proven an emergency exists to allow the court jurisdiction in the matter.
Firefighters had claimed the danger was too great to wait for a decision, but Moukawsher ruled "because it is not substantially probable that the firefighters will face irreparable harm in the next 60 days, the firefighter's request for a temporary injunction is denied."
The fire district board laid off the nine firefighters on July 29 because of a lack of money.
The Poquonnock Bridge Fire Fighters Association filed a prohibitive practices complaint with the state, asking for an interim decision that would reinstate the firefighters. A hearing date has yet to be scheduled.
Layoffs led to a reduction in manpower from five firefighters to a minimum of three firefighters on duty at any given time. Moukawsher, in his ruling, noted that the department still has four firefighters on almost every shift and if needed can maintain that level because the contract "allows the department leadership to call in additional firefighters as needed to ensure 4 men are on duty."
Moukawsher, in his ruling, also listed key points from a hearing on Wednesday that he said showed "no emergency exists." Among those points was the fact that rescues at the scene of structure fires was "the most dangerous things firefighters face."
"There have been three or four rescues at structure fires in the district within the last 28 years," he wrote. There is also the opportunity for mutual aid from neighboring departments, he said.
Moukawsher acknowledged that firefighting was risky business but took issue with statements from a Hartford deputy fire chief who "refused to acknowledge that a lower risk of fires means lower risks for firefighters."
"To him firefighters who respond to 1 major fire a year have just as much chance of being hurt as those who respond to 100 major fires a year. This is like saying a man playing Russian Roulette faces no greater risk by pulling the trigger 5 times than he does pulling it once," Moukawsher wrote.
Union attorney Eric Chester said he was displeased with the judge's decision and thought it "ironic that the court referred to Russian Roulette in the ruling because it's exactly what they're asking firefighters to do."
"They're putting these people's lives in danger," Chester said. "That's what we continue to do every day they run three firefighters. These are real people, real lives. It's not a game."
F. Jerome O'Malley, a lawyer for the fire district, said Friday he thought the court ruled correctly and that the union had not exhausted other remedies before applying for the injunction.
"We're pleased with the decision but it's fair to say everyone agrees it's not an optimal situation here," O'Malley said.
The injunction request is just one of a host of issues facing the fire district, including a budget adopted at the annual meeting that cannot support current operations of the fire department.
The fire district also awaits a judge's decision on pending litigation against the firefighters union, an attempt to negate the 10-year labor contract that current board members claim is invalid in part because there was never district approval for the funding to pay for it. The contract calls for annual wage increases of 3 percent.
"I think it would be in everyone's interest if the parties could conclude a new bargaining agreement, end litigation and get back to running a fire department," O'Malley said.
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Bo epitomizes spirit of Beacon Awards
Two-sport star honored for triumphant rise, embodying civil rights movement
CHICAGO -- Bo Jackson was a transcendent cultural figure in American society, a star and a compelling figure in two professional sports.
Major League Baseball's Beacon of Life award honors an individual whose life embodies the spirit of the civil rights movement. When Jackson was given that award Saturday, a triumphant rise was fully symbolized.
Jackson is the only man to be both an All-Star in the Major Leagues and a Pro Bowl player in the National Football League. He was an overwhelming combination of power, speed and athleticism in both sports. He hit mammoth home runs and covered great distances of outfield ground in the blink of an eye. He was an electrifying running back, who could both bowl over and outrun tacklers.
Frank Thomas, once a teammate of Jackson with the Chicago White Sox, presented Bo at the Beacon Awards Luncheon on Saturday.
"If you didn't know Bo in the late '80s and '90s, you didn't know anything," Thomas said with a smile.
As a two-sport sensation, Jackson, at the top of his games, was inescapable. He became a commercial hit, too. A serious hip injury ended his football career prematurely and shortened his baseball career. But Jackson had made his one-of-a-kind mark on both American sports and American society.
And he has since put that celebrity status to work in the service of good causes. Jackson now primarily spends time with his Give Me a Chance Foundation that works with underprivileged youth. He also formed the "Bo Bikes 'Bama" annual charity bike ride that raises money for rebuilding efforts and constructing storm shelters in areas of Alabama that have been hit hard by tornados.
The Beacon Award Luncheon was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Magnificent Mile as part of the celebrations surrounding the seventh annual Civil Rights Game, which was held Saturday night at U.S. Cellular Field. Before the Sox played the Texas Rangers, Jackson was honored again in pregame ceremonies, and received a rousing ovation from White Sox fans.
Jackson spoke with ease, grace and humor over his 13-minute acceptance speech.
"I never write a speech," he said. "Coming from a kid who inherited stuttering from his father, you'd think I'd be terrified to be up here right now. But I'm more comfortable up here than I was in the backfield or in the batter's box."
Jackson's early life in Alabama hardly offered the promise of fame and fortune, as he was "raised in a house that was no more than 700 square feet, outdoor plumbing."
Jim Crow was still in force in the South at the time. Jackson described his Alabama upbringing as "right smack dab in the middle of racial America. I experienced racism in life."
At a recent fundraising speech in south Alabama, Jackson said he was responding to questions when a white man asked him, "Have you ever experienced racism and what do you think of racism?'
"I looked at him and I said: 'Believe it or not, I am a racist. Yes, I am a racist. Let me tell you what kind of a racist I am. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white, yellow, green, plaid, striped if you like, I don't care. I am a racist against ignorant people. So in that case, I got some relatives that I don't like.'"
Jackson thanked "all the people who allowed us to get where we are now, all those people who paved the road." That list included Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, Henry Aaron, Frank Robinson and Ernie Banks, among many more.
Jackson also thanked White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and executive vice president Kenny Williams for the work that their organization was doing with inner city youth.
Jackson at one point expressed wonder at finding himself in this position, receiving this award: "I'm the eighth of 10 kids, a nappy-headed kid from Alabama," he said. "In a million years I never could have dreamed that I would be here. I didn't get here by myself. It took at lot of people keeping me on the right path."
After the ceremonies at U.S. Cellular, Jackson had a media question-and-answer session. There were previous Beacon Award winners, he said, who had done far more than he had. But he acknowledged the importance of this award to him.
"My peers have recognized my work off the playing field," he said. "I try to do what I can to give back. I say that from the standpoint that the country supported me in what I was doing 20, 25 years ago. It's only right that I give back in some capacity. ... I do it from the heart."
Looking back, given the hip injury, should he have focused on just one sport? Jackson's answer showed that he had not stopped being his own man.
"If I had to pick one sport I would have been doing what someone else wanted me to do," he said. "You know how they say you've got one life to live, live it to the fullest? That's what I did. Do I have regrets about doing both sports? No. If I had to do it all over again, I'd to it the exact same way, wouldn't change a thing."


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Scandals involving officers have triggered review of ethics training across service branches
By Michael Biesecker
Associated Press
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general brought back from Afghanistan to face court-martial on a series of sexual misconduct charges deferred entering a plea Tuesday.
Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, who served five combat tours, is headed to trial following a spate of highly publicized military sex scandals involving high-ranking officers that has triggered a review of ethics training across the service branches.
Sinclair had an arraignment hearing Tuesday at the Army's Fort Bragg, where he had the opportunity to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. He deferred, and the hearing continued with a defense motion to disqualify prosecutors over emails that were erroneously sent to them.
Though the Army has not yet released the final charges against Sinclair, a preliminary list included forcible sodomy, wrongful sexual conduct, violating orders, engaging in inappropriate relationships and adultery.
A 27-year Army veteran, Sinclair faces life in prison if convicted on the most serious offenses. It's rare for an Army general to face court martial. There have been only two cases in recent years.
More commanders have lost their posts over sex. Of the eighteen generals and admirals, from one star to four stars, fired in recent years, 10 lost their jobs because of sex-related offenses.
That tally does not include retired Army general David Petraeus, who was forced to resign as CIA director in November after he admitted to an affair with the woman who wrote the biography of his military career. The investigation of Petraeus also ensnared Marine Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, over thousands of inappropriate emails he exchanged with a Tampa, Fla., socialite.
At an evidentiary hearing for Sinclair in November, prosecutors presented testimony about his conduct with five women who were not his wife, including officers who served under his direct command. The charges involve activities when he was in Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany and at bases in the United States.
Sinclair was deputy commander in charge of logistics and support for the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan before being relieved in May during the criminal probe. He has been on special assignment since then at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
The female captain at the heart of the case said she carried on a 3-year sexual relationship with Sinclair, who is married with children. Adultery is a crime under military law, and the admission could end her career.
She testified at the evidentiary hearing that she repeatedly tried to break off the affair with Sinclair, who she says threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone about their frequent sexual liaisons in hotels, headquarters and war zones. The woman said she usually wanted to have sex with the general, though she said that on two occasions he exposed himself and physically forced her to perform oral sex, even as she sobbed.
The Associated Press does not publicly identify victims of alleged sexual assaults.
Two female officers who served with Sinclair also testified that they had given the general nude photos at his request.
Sinclair is also accused of possessing alcohol in a war zone and disobeying orders. Maj. Gen. James Huggins, Sinclair's superior officer in Afghanistan, testified he ordered Sinclair to cease contact with the female captain after she reported the affair. Sinclair is alleged to have willfully disobeyed that order by then calling the woman's phone.
Sinclair has not yet spoken publically about the charges against him, but at the pre-trial hearing his defense lawyers tried to paint the female captain as a liar and a scorned lover who was trying to ruin Sinclair's life and military reputation. During the hearings, they characterized her as a manipulative "back-stabber" who blamed others for her mistakes.
The general's wife, Rebecca Sinclair, stayed away from the days long military hearing but later went public with an opinion piece in The Washington Post. In that column, she said she was not condoning her husband's infidelity, but she said that a decade of war had taken a toll on military couples and brought pressure on their marriages.
In an interview with the AP, Rebecca Sinclair said her husband called her last spring to tell her about the affair and allegations, and she said they were trying to mend their relationship.