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Tiny towns in southwest Colorado that are normally flush with tourists this time of year were practically ghost towns, fully or partially evacuated Sunday by a trio of fires called the West Fork complex.
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"None whatsoever," said Penny Bertram, a spokeswoman for the National Incident Management Organization team that is leading the massive deployment against the blaze.
"It looks like it could be just like this for the next few days."
There is no estimate for when residents and tourists might return, she said.
"I can't predict with any specificity," incident commander Pete Blume said when asked about when evacuations might be lifted. "I could say it's going to be five days to a week."
The edge of the fire was about 3½ miles southwest of South Fork, a tourist town of about 600 permanent residents and 300 homes.
The three fires — the West Fork, Windy Pass and Papoose — have forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents from the town of South Fork. Twenty-one miles to the northwest, the town of Creede was on alert Sunday, as the fire moved in that direction.
The complex of fires held steady at a little more than 70,000 acres on the western edge of Colorado's San Luis Valley.
No structures had been lost as of Sunday, but firefighters are setting blazes around cabins that lie in the path of the fire to halt the encroaching flames and protect the structures.
Crews on Sunday established lines they hoped would keep the fire away from the Wolf Creek Ski Area, but fire engines were at or near the resort to provide protection, fire managers said.
The fires have closed numerous roads and trails in or near the 108-square-mile burn area. U.S. 160 is closed near South Fork, and Colorado 149 is closed from South Fork to Creede.
Between 1,000 and 1,500 residents and tourists were evacuated from South Fork on Friday. There were no evacuations in Creede, contrary to reports earlier Sunday, Blume said.
A battalion of more than 400 firefighters, 31 engines, 10 helicopters and other equipment were battling the fire being whipped by 40 mph wind gusts Sunday afternoon. More help is expected to join the fight Monday, Bertram said.
The weather will be an enemy. A critical "red flag" fire danger warning is in effect until 9 p.m. Monday, meaning embers swept away by the gusty winds will find a receptive host in the region's vast acres of spruce beetle-killed trees and drought-parched brush.
"That's just ideal for rapid fire spread," Bertram said.
Hot, dry weather has lingered over the region for five days, and could last until Thursday across most of the state, when some thunderstorms are possible, said Kyle Fredin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.
"There really isn't a cloud from here to California," Fredin said Sunday. "There is little change in the current weather pattern; it favors extreme fire conditions."
Investigators said they believe the fire was initially started by lightning June 5 about 15 miles northeast of Pagosa Springs.
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Why Do Lawyers Acquiesce In Their Clients' Misconduct? – Part III
Posted by Sung Hui Kim on December 24, 2007
This is Part III of my series, exploring the reasons why lawyers acquiesce in their clients' frauds and other misconduct. For background, please access Part I and Part II of this series. In Part II, I had focused mainly on the in-house lawyer and argued that the in-house lawyer is a mere employee to her business superiors in her company and, therefore, will be inclined to countenance the unethical actions of the CEO, CFO, etc. But, in this segment, I will focus on lawyers generally—both in-house and outside lawyers.
Don't think this is an issue? Consider just a few of the many high-profile events in the past year, as we reminisce about 2007:
o SEC Sues Apple General Counsel Nancy Heinen. Remember the over hundred companies under investigation for backdating stock options? In April 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Apple General Counsel Nancy Heinen, claiming that she "caused Apple" to backdate two large option grants to senior executives and that she altered company records to conceal the fraud. Of course, she's innocent until proven guilty.
o Monster Worldwide General Counsel Myron Olesnyckyj Pleads Guilty. In February 2007, Myron admitted that he and others at Monster Worldwide, Inc. prepared grant paperwork with altered dates, changed the names of grant recipients and the number of options granted, and provided false information to Monster's auditors.
o Jury Convicts Hollinger General Counsel Mark Kipnis. In July, after a seven-week trial in Chicago, a jury convicted Mark Kipnis on three counts of mail fraud in connection with a scheme by Hollinger ex-CEO Conrad Black to secretly skim $60 million from sale of the company's newspapers. Although Kipnis was not a beneficiary of the hidden payments, the jury believed that he played a crucial role in structuring the fraudulent deals.
And outside counsel also faced their own problems, which I will not recount here.
Alignment pressures of Faithful Agents. It is banal to say that lawyers are "faithful agents" of their clients. This agency relationship is another crucial feature of the ethical ecology of lawyers. Like all agents, the lawyer has to justify her behavior to her clients, which creates pressures to align her views with her client's.These alignment pressures are powerful psychological forces and can distort the lawyer's judgments. How warped her judgments are depends on how closely aligned she feels with her client.
Who is the Client? As a threshold matter, we should be clear who the client is. Formally, the client is the organization, not its "constituents," such as the Board of Directors, the entity's other employees, or even the shareholders. Of course, the organization is entirely fictitious and can only act through the flesh and blood of its constituents. Therefore, in actual practice, the lawyer must suspend this fiction and interact with senior management (who are vested with the authority to direct her activities) as her de facto client or principal, although they are merely and legally co-agents. This explains why both outside and inside lawyers often, if not always, refer to and think of these co-agents as "clients." (There is one little complication which I will gloss over for purposes of this blog entry: for the outside lawyer, the de facto client is often the inside lawyer whose de facto client, in turn, is the senior manager.) Interestingly and without going into great detail here, the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct strongly support the identification of senior managers as the lawyer's de facto clients.Also, with the exception of independent counsel to the Board of Directors, all lawyers report, either directly or indirectly, to these senior managers. This mismatch between the beneficiary of the lawyer's fiduciary duty (the corporation) and the beneficiary of the lawyer's reporting duty (management) is inherently problematic for the state of professional norms. Putting it bluntly, the lawyer faces an obvious conflict of interest when the senior manager, who acts as the lawyer's de facto client, asks that lawyer to do something that goes against the interest of the de jure client—the corporate entity to whom the lawyer owes a fiduciary duty.
Auditing vignettes study. How strong are these alignment pressures experienced by faithful agents? Consider recent research on the impact of roles on the judgments of professional auditors. Researchers Don Moore, George Loewenstein, Lloyd Tanlu and Max Bazerman surveyed 139 auditors employed full time by one of the Big Four U.S. accounting firms. Each participant was given five intentionally ambiguous auditing vignettes and asked to judge the accounting for each.Half the participants were asked to assume that they had been retained by the firm they were auditing; the rest were asked to assume that they had been retained by an outside investor which was considering investing money in the firm. The firm's unaudited financial statements needed to be evaluated by all participants.
For all five vignettes, the auditors were on average 30% more likely to find that the accounting behind a company's financial reports complied with GAAP if they were playing the role of auditor for that firm (as opposed to representing the potential investor), demonstrating substantial bias in auditors' judgments when asked to suppose a hypothetical role with a client. If a mere hypothetical relationship with a client could generate such great distortions in auditing judgment, one can only imagine the degree of distortion that might exist in a longstanding relationship between a lawyer (acting in her capacity as zealous advocate) and her de facto client.
Accountability. Why were the judgments of the firm's auditors so grossly distorted in the direction of their client? The authors of the auditing vignettes study explain these results by focusing on the mechanism of "accountability" in the agent-principal relationship. Accountability – having to justify one's views to others – is at the crux of the relationship. Agents are, by definition, accountable to their principals; they must justify their actions and views to their principals.Accountants and lawyers as agents must justify their views and decisions to management in terms that management understands and values.
Accountability can thus produce a chameleon-like shift in behavior in the principal's direction. Other studies have demonstrated that even a weak form of accountability between strangers can bias subjects in adopting public positions that are more closely aligned with the preferences of those to whom they are accountable. If we know we are speaking before a bunch of liberals, we perform more liberal-talk; in front of conservatives, we talk conservative.
If you read current news reports about the ongoing presidential campaigns, notice how well the presidential candidates tailor their messages to their audiences.In the December 17, 2007 issue of The Wall Street Journal, I read that Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee emphasizes his views opposing abortion and same-sex marriage in Iowa, while in New Hampshire he doesn't bring up abortion, marriage or religion unless specifically asked about it. Of course, Huckabee is not alone and most of the tailoring done by presidential hopefuls is conscious and strategic, based on careful focus-group analyses. My less obvious and perhaps more controversial point here is that we also tend to tailor our messages and actions to our respective audiences unconsciously as well. I do suspect that some are naturally more adept at unconscious tailoring or "tuning" than others.
Accountability may produce an even deeper alignment. In a follow-up study, Moore, et. al. found that role manipulation, i.e., whether the subject worked as "auditor" for either the seller or buyer, had a significant effect in aligning private beliefs about the client's accounting in the direction of their hypothetical client.In other words, affiliated agents tend to automatically adopt the principal's perspective of the world, a "partisan point of view." Moreover, once the agent adopts a partisan affiliation with the principal, "it can be difficult, if not impossible, to undo that encoding or to retrieve unbiased information from memory."
Strength of accountability. As explained above, an agent's accountability to her principal produces alignment. It is reasonable to suppose that the stronger the accountability, for whatever reasons, the greater the alignment. What accounts for the strength of accountability? There are multiple binding factors that determine the strength of the agency relationship. For example, stark financial ties to the principal will increase accountability to the principal. Evidence now suggests that social ties also have that effect. Given the day-to-day social interaction between management and inside counsel, this is another reason why accountability to management should be strong. For outside lawyers, the repeat business to be expected from their corporate client's senior managers likewise should produce strong alignment pressures. Just think about the following developments in the past few decades and their possible effect on the alignment of law firm partners with their clients: eat-what-you kill compensation schemes and the erosion of lock-step seniority system, the increased competition in the market for legal services, beauty contests for legal services, etc. I detail the effects of these and other developments in my article, Gatekeepers Inside Out, which is forthcoming in The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
Lawyer as Moral Extension of Client. In addition, the characteristic activities of lawyering may also contribute to the strength of accountability to the de facto client. As Professor Gerald Postema argues, unlike the physician or auto mechanic, the lawyer "act[s] in the place of the client, [which] require[s] the direct involvement of the lawyer's moral faculties — i.e., his capacities to deliberate, reason, argue, and act in the public arena." As the client's agent, the lawyer speaks on behalf of the client and enters into relationships with others in the name of the client. What the lawyer does is typically attributable to the client. As Postema notes, "Thus, at the invitation of the client, the lawyer becomes an extension of the legal, and to an extent the moral, personality of the client." Consistently acting out behavior may have far-reaching consequences. Thus, it is entirely plausible, as the great Karl Llewellyn suggested decades ago, that the most powerful determinant of attitudes and social orientation of lawyers is the work they do.
In my upcoming Part IV, I will argue that lawyers' special status as lawyers will contribute to these alignment pressures. For a more thorough treatment of this topic, please read my more comprehensive works, The Banality of Fraud: Re-Situating the Inside Counsel as Gatekeeper and Gatekeepers Inside Out.
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With all those offenses taken together, more than 4 in every 10 commanders at the rank of lieutenant colonel or above who were fired fell as a result of behavioral stumbles since 2005.
The recent series of highly publicized cases led to a review of ethics training across the military. It also prompted Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to conclude that while training is adequate, it may need to start earlier in service members' careers and be reinforced more frequently.
Still, officials struggle to explain why the problem has grown and they acknowledge that solving it is difficult and will take time.
"I think we're on the path. I think the last two defense secretaries have made this a very high priority and have very much held people accountable. But we've got a ways to go," said Michele Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense under President Barack Obama.
She said the military must enforce a "zero tolerance" policy and work to change the culture so service members are held accountable and made to understand that their careers will be over if they commit or tolerate such offenses.
"The policy is in place," she said. "I don't know that it's as evenly and fully enforced as intended."
For top officers, the numbers are startling.
Eighteen generals and admirals, from one star to four stars, were fired in recent years, and 10 of them lost their jobs because of sex-related offenses; two others were done in by alcohol-related problems.
The figures show that 255 commanders were fired since 2005, and that 78 of them were felled by sex-related offenses. A breakdown: 32 in the Army, 25 in the Navy, 11 in the Marine Corps and 10 in the Air Force.
Alcohol and drug-related problems cost the jobs of 27 commanders - 11 in the Navy, eight in the Army, five in the Marine Corp(s and three in the Air Force.
"It's troublesome," said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy's top spokesman. "Navy leadership is taking a look at why personal conduct seems to be a growing reason for why commanding officers are losing their commands. We're trying to get to the root causes. We don't really fully understand it."
He and other military leaders agree that poor leadership, bad judgment, and ethical lapses, rather than operational failures, are growing factors in the firings. But Kirby said it's not clear whether that has anything to do with the strains of the past 10 years at war or simply reflects deteriorating morals among the general population.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered the ethics review in November. He said that "when lapses occur, they have the potential to erode public confidence in our leadership and in our system for the enforcement of our high ethical standards. Worse, they can be detrimental to the execution of our mission to defend the American people."
Anu Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women's Action Network, said there is more focus on this issue now than ever in the past, but that there really is no sufficient deterrent in place. She said a major problem is that military commanders are responsible for deciding what cases should move forward.
She said military lawyers, who are trained and have a greater appearance of impartiality, should make such an important legal decision.
The statistics gathered and analyzed by the AP represent a very conservative estimate of the problem. While the Army, Navy and Marine Corps provided details for all military commanders who were lieutenant colonels or commanders and above for 2005 until now, Air Force officials said they could only provide data for colonels and above from 2008 until today.
Also, the figures reflect only officers who were in command positions. The numbers don't include what could be hundreds of officers fired from other jobs, such as administrative or other military posts. Military officials said they only collect data on officers in command who are fired.
The reasons for the firings are also murky. In some cases, no reason was listed; in other cases, it was vague - such as "ethics" or "leadership" or for fostering a bad command climate.
There also are varying degrees of publicity when such action is taken.
In Sinclair's case, the charges and impending court martial have received extensive coverage. The five pages of allegations, which involve his conduct with five women who were not his wife, include one count of forcible sodomy, two counts of wrongful sexual conduct, six counts of inappropriate sexual relationships, and eight counts of violating regulations. He could receive life in prison if convicted.
But in many other cases, particularly of those below the rank of general, there is little public notice if the senior officer is in the Army or Air Force. The Navy, however, issues a public statement every time a commander is removed from a job.
The figures also highlight the Navy's reputation for being quick to justice. Although it is the second smallest of the four military services, the Navy has relieved the most commanders, 99, over the past eight years. By comparison, it was 83 for the Army, 41 for the Marines and 32 for the Air Force.
Dismissing a commander from a job does not mean that officer is forced out of the military. In some of the more serious cases, officers may be discharged or forced to resign. But in many other cases, service members may go on to another job for some time.
Still, a dismissal often signals the end of an officer's career, and with no chance for promotion, officers will often retire or leave the service.
The Army is the largest of the military services, reaching a peak of about 570,000 active duty soldiers at the height of the Iraq war. It is supposed to cut 80,000 troops by 2017. The Marine Corps is the smallest service, with about 202,000 at its peak during the wars and is set to slim down to about 182,000. The Navy has about 322,000 active duty forces and the Air Force has about 328,000.
The other reasons for dismissals by the services cover a broad range of offenses, from assault and drug and alcohol use to being a poor or abusive leader. There are also instances of fraud as well as a few cases where Navy officers commanding a ship have hit something, such as a buoy or another ship.
Four generals have lost their jobs in recent years as a result of public scandals. All were dismissed while Robert Gates was defense secretary:
-Gen. Michael Moseley, the Air Force Chief of Staff, was dismissed in 2008 for failing to address several nuclear-related mishaps by the service.
- Army Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley and Army Maj. Gen. George Weightman were dismissed because of the poor outpatient treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2007.
-Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal resigned after members of his staff made disparaging remarks about Obama's national security team, including Vice President Joe Biden. A Pentagon investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing.


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WASHINGTON — The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin.
In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year politics trump science, a federal judge ruled Friday that there should be no age restrictions on the sale of emergency contraception without a doctor's prescription.
Today, buyers must prove at the pharmacy that they're 17 or older; everyone else must see a doctor first. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York blasted the government's decision on age limits as "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," and ordered an end to the restrictions within 30 days.
The Justice Department was evaluating whether to appeal, and spokeswoman Allison Price said there would be a prompt decision.
President Barack Obama had supported the 2011 decision setting age limits, and White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday the president hasn't changed his position. "He believes it was the right common-sense approach to this issue," Carney said.
If the court order stands, Plan B One-Step and its generic versions could move from behind pharmacy counters out to drugstore shelves — ending a decade-plus struggle by women's groups for easier access to these pills, which can prevent pregnancy if taken soon enough after unprotected sex.
Saying the sales restrictions can make it hard for women of any age to buy the pills, Korman described the administration's decision, in the year before the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, as "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified and contrary to agency precedent."
Women's health specialists hailed the ruling.
"It has been clear for a long time that the medical and scientific community think this should be fully over the counter and is safe for women of all ages to use," said Dr. Susan Wood, who resigned as FDA's women's health chief in 2005 to protest Bush administration foot-dragging over Plan B.
Half the nation's pregnancies every year are unintended. Doctors' groups say more access to morning-after pills — by putting them near the condoms and spermicides so people can learn about them and buy them quickly — could cut those numbers. They see little risk in overuse, as the pills cost $40 to $50 apiece.
"The fact that it's over the counter does not make people have sex," said Dr. Angela Diaz, director of New York's Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. "Sixty percent of young people are sexually active by 12th grade, and the more tools we have to help them be responsible, the better."
Social conservatives criticized the ruling.
"There is a real danger that Plan B may be given to young girls, under coercion or without their consent," said Anna Higgins of the Family Research Council. "The involvement of parents and medical professionals acts as a safeguard for these young girls. However, today's ruling removes these common-sense protections."
Deirdre McQuade, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said: "Plan B does not prevent or treat any disease, but makes young adolescent girls more available to sexual predators. The court's action undermines parents' ability to protect their daughters from such exploitation and from the adverse effects of the drug itself."
Absent an appeal or a government request for more time to prepare one, the ruling would take effect in 30 days, meaning that over-the-counter sales could start then.
The Food and Drug Administration actually was preparing to allow over-the-counter sale of Plan B One-Step with no age limits in late 2011 when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in an unprecedented move, overruled her own scientists. Sebelius said some girls as young as 11 are physically capable of bearing children but shouldn't be able to buy the pregnancy-preventing pill on their own.
The federal judge dismissed that argument.
"This case is not about the potential misuse of Plan B by 11-year-olds," said Korman, who called the pills safe for girls but said the number using them "is likely to be minuscule" as less than 3 percent of girls under age 13 are sexually active.
He cited the Administrative Procedure Act as granting a judge the authority to set aside an agency's rulings "if they are 'arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law.'"
Korman said regulation requires that when the FDA allows nonprescription drug sales, "the standards are the same for aspirin and for contraceptives" — and he ultimately determined that the government violated those standards in the case of Plan B.
"The decision that the agency was forced to make, contrary to its own policies and judgment, is not entitled to any deference," Korman concluded. "Indeed, it is hardly clear that the secretary had the power to issue the order, and if she did have that authority, her decision was arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable."
It was the judge's latest ruling in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights and dating back to 2005 that pushed for unfettered over-the-counter access to Plan B.
Korman didn't spare the FDA from criticism, citing "a strong showing of bad faith and improper political influence" going back to the Bush administration, when the center filed a citizen's petition to try to get the agency to act. That was followed by the lawsuit.
"More than twelve years have passed since the citizen petition was filed and eight years since this lawsuit commenced," Korman wrote in a decision dated Thursday and released Friday. "The FDA has engaged in intolerable delays in processing the petition. Indeed, it could accurately be described as an administrative agency filibuster."
The judge said the FDA decided after 11 months, 47,000 public comments and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars spent, that it did not need rulemaking on the subject.
"The plaintiffs should not be forced to endure, nor should the agency's misconduct be rewarded by, an exercise that permits the FDA to engage in further delay and obstruction," he wrote.
Four years ago, Korman was highly critical of the Bush administration's initial handling of the issue when he ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds obtain the medication, instead of setting the age at 18. At the time, he accused the government of letting "political considerations, delays and implausible justifications for decision-making" cloud the approval process.
The morning-after pill contains a higher dose of the female progestin hormone than is in regular birth control pills. Taking it within 72 hours of rape, condom failure or just forgetting regular contraception can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent. But it works best within the first 24 hours.
If a woman already is pregnant, the pill has no effect. It prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. According to the medical definition, pregnancy doesn't begin until a fertilized egg implants itself into the wall of the uterus. Still, some critics say Plan B is the equivalent of an abortion pill because it may also be able to prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus, a contention that many scientists — and Korman, in his ruling — said has been discredited.


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I must admit that when Achtung Baby was released in November of 1991, I did not like it. It was such a departure from The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum, and actually from all of their previous albums. I had to listen to it several times before I fell in love with it, and then AB was the only thing I listened to for the next several months. It had a completely different sound from any of U2's previous albums, but the lyrics were still amazing. And for me, music is all about lyrics – and drums. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses is my favorite song off AB and one of my top five favorite U2 songs. It is a very emotional and angry song. In fact, I made my first love sit down and listen to the lyrics as I read them to him after he had broken up with me. If I could have written a song about us, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses would have been it. Other favorites of mine off AB are One, So Cruel, Acrobat, and Tryin to Throw Your Arms Around the World – but really all the songs are my favorites. AB has become my second favorite U2 album (since I consider The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum one album).
Besides being a great album, AB is significant to me because the ZooTv tour (in support of AB) was my first U2 tour and it was during this time between the release of AB and the ZooTv tour, that I was transformed from a U2 fan into a U2 fanatic. This was the start of my 'On the Road with U2.' I was almost 20 and drove around the East Coast going to eight shows on the ZooTv tour: Hampton VA, Philadelphia, Hershey PA, two shows at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, two shows in Washginton DC, and back to Philadelphia again. AB was also the start of "it's all about drums" – one of my favorite quotes that I have repeated constantly over the past 20 years. The first time I ever heard it was on the Achtung Baby documentary when Larry said, "I don't think the lyrics are worth a shit to be honest if you ask me, I think it's all about drums."
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
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Well you stole it 'cos I needed the cash
And you killed it 'cos I needed revenge.
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Baby, can we still be friends?
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How Mindy Project's Mindy Kaling Celebrates the Strength of Weak Female Characters
Strong female characters are rarely allowed to be nuanced on TV. They don't get to be brilliant, vain or funny. They get to be strong (and maybe sexy, if they're lucky). They kick a--, overcome obstacles and rarely display any signs of feminine vulnerability. Often times, their strength is framed as the result of some "issue," (SVU's Olivia Benson troubled childhood, Sonya Cross' Asperger's on The Bridge), as though the women are only strong because a catalyst forced them to be this way.
But Mindy Lahiri doesn't have issues (well, she has issues, but not in that sense). She's a strong, well-developed comedic antihero on par with Michael Scott. But many Mindy Projectviewers didn't warm to Mindy as quickly as they took to the equally offensive Officeboss. "I think that [Mindy] is very resilient and very confident and until you see her display kindness or show rapport with other people, it's hard for an audience just to decide they love her," Mindy Kaling tells TVGuide.com, recalling the initial reaction to the character.
One main difference between Mindy and Michael is that key Y chromosome. While audiences are used to seeing male protagonists push the boundaries of sympathy (Curb'sLarry David, All in the Family'sArchie Bunker, Eastbound & Down'sKenny Powers), it's far more rare to see a similarly flawed female anchor a series. But Mindy's insecurities, her superficial tendencies, the way she tries too hard to impress others - these weaknesses are Mindy's biggest strengths. They elevate her beyond an archetype and create a believability so many female characters lack.
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That doesn't mean we necessarily have to support everything Mindy does. Sometimes she can be a totally narcissistic, rude and abrasive pain in the a--. But Mindy is also smart, considerate, and an incredibly capable doctor. Like any real person, she has her good moments and her bad. Yet even when Mindy's acting her worst, she's always entertaining to watch and isn't that what's really important in a comedy?
In recent years, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have come to epitomize the idea of funny, flawed females thanks to their roles as 30 Rock's Liz Lemon and Parks and Recreation's Leslie Knope, respectively. Both characters are successful, neurotic and outspoken feminists who constantly put their political issues at the forefront. And while many people relate to Liz and Leslie for various reasons (who doesn't enjoy a good night cheese?), politics are the last thing on Mindy's mind. The same is somewhat true for Kaling, who admits these aspects "aren't always so important to me" as they are for others. "I have such a complicated relationship with it, with dividing the politics of me and the show. And I don't get to spend as much thinking about it because I'm too busy creating and writing the show and running this production ... but I do think it's important," Kaling explains, though she "[wonders] how useful it is to always be thinking about it."
Instead of trying to craft a politically progressive female character, Kaling did what far too few writers do - treat women like human beings. "I just think the character should be funny," Kaling explains. "And I think that a lot of times female characters are scrutinized for all their political ramifications and not so much for how entertaining or relatable they are. We're not a political think tank. We're a group of comedy writers who are kind and sensible and funny, so that's what we're trying to do, is show a character that's funny and relatable."
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While both 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation feature progressive, strong female characters, Liz and Leslie remain generally sexless. Mindy's active sex life, on the other hand, provides the inspiration for a large portion of the show's story lines, yet her sexuality is never an issue or even commented on. Though Mindy dates and sleeps around far more than other characters, it's generally accepted as normal behavior for a single person, irrelevant of gender. "I really have liked that the show has a sexually active character without putting a lot of judgment or importance on the number of sexual partners or how much she's having sex and things like that, because I think that's just such a conservative and non-modern way of thinking about sex and love," Kaling says. "I don't even necessarily want that to be an issue that comes up on the show. And that's been really nice, and I've liked that people have really embraced that."
Sadly, this isn't always the case with female characters who challenge social expectations of women. Many are met with fierce unease and often hatred by viewers. Though Anna Gunn won an Emmy in September for her role as Skyler White on Breaking Bad, she received such vitriolic backlash from viewers who reduced her character's strength to nothing more than symptoms of a "shrieking, hypocritical" nagging wife. "If you watch the show regularly, you loved Walter White ... So when anyone gave him a hard time like Skyler did or didn't toe the line of just standing by Walter White, it's a struggle to love the character a little bit. And I thought that was great," Kaling says, "I loved her." In fact, Kaling will show off her Skyler love when Gunn appears as Mindy's OBG-YN idol in this season's 13th episode.
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Thankfully, Kaling has never yet had to face criticism on the level Gunn experienced, but she has suffered from mislabeling simply because she's different from the typical TV heroine. "It's funny. I wouldn't say there's anything all that quirky about me, but the term quirky is used for me because I'm Indian ... so I have to kind of not listen to a lot of that stuff because it doesn't really have a lot of meaning," Kaling says.
Unfortunately, other than Mindy, The Mindy Project has yet to present another well-developed, strong female perspective. Though the show does feature various engaging and progressive male leads. Since Jeremy (Ed Weeks) packed on the pounds, we've seen the insecuritiesthat helped construct his caddish veneer. Danny (Chris Messina) has become a mirror into what defines modern masculinity. And even Morgan (Ike Barinholtz), who originally seemed like a creepy one-trick caricature, has grown into a lovable doofus a la Parks and Rec'sAndy Dwyer.
Kaling promises we'll get to know The Mindy Project'sfemale regulars more this season, though she continues to insist the series doesn't have a male-heavy cast. "I feel like that's something I've read before, but I'm not sure how accurate that is," she says. "I think it's because my character dates a lot that people think that, but I'm not sure it's accurate."
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Last month, we wrote about the unhappiness and unhealthiness associated with commuting by car. Today we bring you a more positive take on the situation of driving: how cars facilitate family discussions. Alison Roberts of the Modesto Bee has the story, and we excerpt portions of it below.
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According to the 2005 American Time Use Survey from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans in households where the youngest kid is 6 to 17 spend more time engaged in "travel related to care of household children" (to the doctor, school, sports or other activities) than any other childcare activity. The SC Johnson Family Taxi Survey conducted by Opinion Research Corp. found that 80 percent of parents reported spending in the neighborhood of 10 hours a week in the car with kids under 18.
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The car is often an easier place to talk than at home, because driving tends to put the brakes on the multitasking that distracts us from one another elsewhere.
"When you're in the house, there's always something to do," says Susan Newman, a social psychologist who has written many parenting books, including "Little Things Long Remembered: Making Your Children Feel Special Every Day."
"When you're in the car, there's nothing you can be doing. Given the way most of us live, the sanctuary of the car is the ideal place to talk," Newman says, speaking from New York.
For families with more than one child, the car can provide rare one-on-one time. It's a great place to offer up praise without siblings overhearing and feeling that favoritism is at play, Newman says.
When more than one kid is in the car, it can be a great place to engage in a little constructive collective bargaining — over what music to listen to, what stops to make and what to eat for dinner.
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Driving in the car is strangely conducive to tackling tough topics. Staring out the front window, not having to look each other in the eye, can make it easier — for kids and parents alike. Don't be surprised if kids ask questions about the facts of life in the car, when you can't see them blushing.
"It becomes less personal when you're not having that eye contact, and it's less threatening; it's Mom talking to the windshield," Newman says.
When you're having those touchy-topic conversations, especially with older kids, it's crucial to stay matter-of-fact and on the road, advises Susan Smith Kuczmarski, a professor of education who writes extensively about family life, including the book "The Sacred Flight of the Teenager: A Parent's Guide To Stepping Back and Letting Go."
"To be direct and open and to the point, I think the car facilitates that. And teenagers love you to be very direct," she says, speaking from Chicago, where she lives.
Kuczmarski says driving muffles parental drama in a way that helps keep the conversation two-way. It's hard to do a lot of finger-waving, and the lecturing that goes with it, when you're steering.
"I'm a real believer in not having any fear of bringing up certain topics," she says.
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DORAL, Fla. — Rory McIlroy offered another apology, a straightforward explanation and a pledge Wednesday that he will never again quit in middle of a round. | ALSO: Jill Painter column — Rory McIlroy's explanation on Honda Classic withdrawal will need more teeth
McIlroy faced the media for the first time since he abruptly walked off the golf course in the second round of the Honda Classic, telling reporters that his head was not in the right place and then issuing a statement that his sore wisdom tooth made it difficult to concentrate.
Turns out the wisdom tooth wasn't the whole truth, and the world's No. 1 player said, "It will never happen again."
"I think it was a buildup of everything," McIlroy said at the Cadillac Championship. "I've been putting a lot of pressure on myself to perform, and I've been working so hard and not really getting much out of it. That's just been the frustrating thing, and that's what happened.
"I just sort of let it all get to me."
McIlroy attributed his frustration to wanting to improve on his breakthrough season, when he won his second major at the PGA Championship, five tournaments around the world, money titles on the two biggest tours and established himself as the best player in golf.
But he dismissed suggestions that his new equipment deal added to the pressure.
The 23-year-old from Northern Ireland signed with Nike for what is said to be upward of $20 million a year. He was introduced as Nike's latest global star with a glitzy laser show in Abu Dhabi, but his game fell apart quickly. He has missed the cut, lost in the opening round of the Match Play Championship and quit after 26 holes of the Honda Classic. That led to speculation that he can't adjust to the new clubs.
"It doesn't make a difference what deal or what clubs I play. That's irrelevant," McIlroy said. "It's about me on the golf course, and the expectations and the pressure that I put myself under."
He also said his poor play has nothing to do with his relationship with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
"Just because I have a bad day on the golf course and Caroline loses a match in Malaysia, it doesn't mean that we're breaking up," he said with a laugh. "It's sport. And look, I'd rather keep my private life as private as possible. Everything on that front is great, and I'm looking forward to seeing her next week when she goes to Miami."
It was the first time McIlroy has been criticized, not only for quitting in the middle of the round but trying to disguise the reason as a sore wisdom tooth. He did say his lower right tooth has been bothering him, and that he would see his dentist in Belfast later this year.
"It wasn't bothering me enough to quit," he said.
This was about the frustration of not finding his swing and being exposed on the golf course with high scores.
And it led to a decision he wishes he could take back.
"No matter how bad I was playing, I should have stayed out there," he said. "I should have tried to shoot the best score possible even though it probably wasn't going to be good enough to make the cut. At that point in time, I was just all over the place. I saw red … and it was a mistake and everyone makes mistakes and I'm learning from them. I guess for me, some people have the pleasure of making mistakes in private. Most of my mistakes are in the public eye.
"I regret what I did."
The good news for McIlroy is that he is assured of playing all four rounds at Doral, where there is no cut. McIlroy is scheduled to play this week and at the Houston Open at the end of the month before going to the Masters. He did not indicate that he would add another tournament despite having played only 80 holes this year.
And while he walked off the golf course last week, McIlroy said he worked for 10 hours at The Bear's Club on Saturday, and almost as much on Sunday. He practiced Monday before going to Seminole for a club event. He said he realized his swing was not the same as it was last year, and the frustration comes from not being able to fix it.
"You just have to get to the root of the problem — no pun intended," he said. "I know if I can get my takeaway fixed, the rest of the swing will follow. I've worked my (tail) off over the last four or five days to really try and get this right. Still, it's a work in progress. As I said, there's no quick fixes in golf but I'm going to go out there this week and all I care about is my swing. And I know if I can get my swing back on track that the results will follow."
McIlroy will play the opening two rounds of this World Golf Championship with Tiger Woods and Luke Donald, a group featuring the top three players in the world. They figure to command all the attention around the Blue Monster.
McIlroy isn't concerned his walkoff will cost him fans.
"Everyone makes mistakes," he said. "I'm 23 years old. I'm still learning."


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I know Kirby thinks it's a big deal, but when I see the occasional poll of recruits about what factors are important in choosing a football program, there are all kinds of things cited, like education, proximity to home, bonding with staff, opportunity to win championships, preparation for a pro career, etc. But one thing I've never seen on a list is fan turnout at a spring game.
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True Poets dodge the falseness of fame,
they allow praise to fall from their thoughts.
Old Poets understand the beauty of the sun rising from the east,
allowing opportunity for new dreams and new places to come alive.
They enjoy watching the sun falling into the western sea,
allowing the night to overcome the excitement of the day.
A wise Poet behold the beauty of the woman.
Tried to describe the softness of her skin and the feel
of her warm sweet kisses.
The Poet must feel the burden of war.
A writer must taste and know death, poverty and suffering.
An empty journey leave nothing for the pen and the paper.
Writers are neither revolutionist nor a martyr.
Just observers.
Great Poets left us with real description of war,
many died in combat in the old wars.
Their poetry was longing for home and the beautiful valleys of youth.
Best honor for a writer,
have more Poesy written because of their words.
This poem is for my favorite Poet Dryden.
His words will never be forgotten.
"War, our consumption, was their gainful trade."
"What peace can be, where both to one pretend."
(Dryden words.)
I tell the young writers,
honor the old words.
Never be a naysayer to an up and coming writer.
We need more word-man and word-woman.
A real Poet love the word,
written with skill or not,
words written from the heart.
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Portland, OR -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/30/2017 -- Research Beam has added a report on "Global IT Services Sales Market Research Report 2017". The report entails the qualitative and quantitative analysis of current and future market estimations. It also divulges details about the mode of research methodology used for the study. It includes data from primary as well as secondary resources. The report is a useful resource for industry players, new entrants in the marketplace, and investors as it helps them plan their business to gain fruitful and meaningful outcomes. It makes them aware of the production, capacity, revenue, supply, consumption, export, import, the challenges and risks associated with the industry, and much more. The report has a mention of the market drivers and opportunities. Key players are profiled in the report and their developments in recent years are mentioned, which helps in understanding the competitive outlook of the global IT Services Sales market.
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On Friday President Barack Obama met with congressional leaders once again to try negotiating a budget deal. Obama said he walked away from the meeting 'optimistic.'
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The end game at hand, the White House and Senate leaders took a final stab at compromise Friday night to prevent middle-class tax increases from taking effect at the turn of the new year and possibly prevent sweeping spending cuts as well.
"I'm optimistic we may still be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time," President Barack Obama said at the White House after meeting for more than an hour with congressional leaders.
Surprisingly, after weeks of postelection gridlock, Senate leaders sounded even more bullish.
The Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said he was "hopeful and optimistic" of a deal, adding he hoped a compromise could be presented to rank-and-file lawmakers as early as Sunday, a little more than 24 hours before the year-end deadline.
Said Majority Leader Harry Reid: "I'm going to do everything I can" to prevent the tax increases and spending cuts that threaten to send the economy into recession. He cautioned, "Whatever we come up with is going to be imperfect."
Officials said there was a general understanding that any agreement would block scheduled income tax increases for middle class earners while letting rates rise at upper income levels.
Democrats said Obama was sticking to his campaign call for increases above $250,000 in annual income, even though in recent negotiations he said he could accept $400,000.
The two sides also confronted a divide over estate taxes.
Obama favors a higher tax than is currently in effect, but one senior Republican, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, said he's "totally dead set" against it. Speaking of fellow GOP lawmakers, he said they harbor more opposition to an increase in the estate tax than to letting taxes on income and investments rise at upper levels.
Also likely to be included in the negotiations are taxes on dividends and capital gains, both of which are scheduled to rise with the new year. Also the alternative minimum tax, which, if left unchanged, could hit millions of middle- and upper-income taxpayers for the first time.
In addition, Obama and Democrats want to prevent the expiration of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, and there is widespread sentiment in both parties to shelter doctors from a cut in Medicare fees.
The White House has shown increased concern about a possible spike in milk prices if a farm bill is not passed in the next few days, although it is not clear whether that issue, too, might be included in the talks.
One Republican who was briefed on the White House meeting said Boehner made it clear he would leave in place spending cuts scheduled to take effect unless alternative savings were found to offset them. If he prevails, that would defer politically difficult decisions on government benefit programs like Medicare until 2013.
Success was far from guaranteed in an atmosphere of political mistrust — even on a slimmed-down deal that postponed hard decisions about spending cuts into 2013 — in a Capitol where lawmakers grumbled about the likelihood of spending the new year holiday working.
In a brief appearance in the White House briefing room, Obama referred to "dysfunction in Washington," and said the American public is "not going to have any patience for a politically self-inflicted wound to our economy. Not right now."
If there is no compromise, he said he expects Reid to put legislation on the floor to prevent tax increases on the middle class and extend unemployment benefits — an implicit challenge to Republicans to dare to vote against what polls show is popular.
The guest list for the White House meeting included Reid, McConnell, Boehner and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
The same group last met more than a month ago and emerged expressing optimism they could strike a deal that avoided the fiscal cliff. At that point, Boehner had already said he was willing to let tax revenues rise as part of an agreement, and the president and his Democratic allies said they were ready to accept spending cuts.
Since then, though, talks between Obama and Boehner faltered, the speaker struggled to control his rebellious rank and file, and Reid and McConnell sparred almost daily in speeches on the Senate floor. Through it all, Wall Street has paid close attention, and in the moments before the meeting, stocks were trading lower for the fifth day in a row.
The core issue is the same as it has been for more than a year, Obama's demand for tax rates to rise on upper incomes while remaining at current levels for most Americans. He made the proposal central to his successful campaign for re-election, when he said incomes above $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples should rise to 39.6 percent from the current 35 percent.
Boehner refused for weeks to accept any rate increases, and simultaneously accused Obama of skimping on the spending cuts he would support as part of a balanced deal to reduce deficits, remove the threat of spending cuts and prevent the across-the-board tax cuts.
Last week, the Ohio Republican pivoted and presented a Plan B measure that would have let rates rise on million-dollar earners. That was well above Obama's latest offer, which called for a $400,000 threshold, but more than the speaker's rank and file were willing to accept.
Facing defeat, Boehner scrapped plans for a vote, leaving the economy on track for the cliff that political leaders in both parties had said they could avoid. In the aftermath, Democrats said they doubted any compromise was possible until Boehner has been elected to a second term as speaker when the new Congress convenes on Jan. 3.
Further compounding the year-end maneuvering, there are warnings that the price of milk could virtually double beginning next year.
Congressional officials said that under current law, the federal government is obligated to maintain prices so that fluid milk sells for about $20 per hundredweight. If the law lapses, the Department of Agriculture would be required to maintain a price closer to $36 of $38 per hundredweight, they said. It is unclear when price increases might be felt by consumers.
Associated Press writers Alan Fram and Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.


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At the New York Times blog Opinionator on July 22, John Kaag and Sarah Kreps wrote a post titled The Moral Hazard of Drones. Using a passage from Plato's Republic they concluded: "To say that we can target individuals without incurring troop casualties does not imply that, we ought to." Meanwhile, this jumped out of the piece.
… the impressive expediency and accuracy in drone targeting may also allow policymakers and strategists to become lax in their moral decision-making about who exactly should be targeted. Consider the stark contrast between the ambiguous language used to define legitimate targets and the specific technical means a military uses to neutralize these targets. The terms "terrorist," "enemy combatant," and "contingent threat" are extremely vague and do very little to articulate the legitimacy of military targets. In contrast, the technical capabilities of weapon systems define and "paint" these targets with ever-greater definition. As weaponry becomes more precise, the language of warfare has become more ambiguous.
Then, of course, as first publicized by Daniel Klaidman at Newsweek, there's the signature strike*: "the targeting of groups of men who bear characteristics associated with terrorism, but whose identities aren't known." In other words, while drone strikes grow more accurate, defining a target is relegated to the realm of inexact science. It's as if a zero sum relationship exists between the accuracy of targeting and those targeted.
*In this context, "signature" is an unfortunate choice or words: it suggests that ill-defined targeting is the defining strike of the drone force.


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Intel HD Graphics 620: Integrated GPU (GT2) found on some Kaby-Lake CPU models (15 W ULV series).
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Above all, this display size is used for subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles. For all three types, this size is quite large. The biggest variety of subnotebooks is represented with this size.
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Lenovo: Lenovo ( "Le" as in the English word legend and "novo" (Latin) for new) was founded in 1984 as a Chinese computer trading company. From 2004, the company has been the largest laptop manufacturer in China and got the fourth largest manufacturer worldwide after the acquisition of IBM's PC division in 2005. In addition to desktops and notebooks, the company also produces monitors, projectors, servers, etc.
In 2011, Lenovo acquired the majority of Medion AG, a European computer hardware manufacturer. In 2014, Lenovo took over Motorola Mobility, which gave them a boost in the smartphone market.
From 2014 to 2016 Lenovo's market share in the global notebook market was 20-21%, ranking second behind HP. However, the distance decreased gradually. In the smartphone market, Lenovo did not belong to the Top 5 global manufacturers in 2016.
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