The Eureka College softball team made big strides Tuesday in the race for a St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament bid, sweeping a critical league doubleheader from Webster in Eureka. The Red Devils walked off with a 6-5 win in eight innings in game one and Kali George (East Peoria, Ill./East Peoria H.S.) set a new all-time Eureka record for wins in the nightcap with her 46th career triumph in EC's 4-2 win.
The victories improved the Red Devils to 23-7 overall and 11-5 in the SLIAC. Eureka is in a third-place tie with Fontbonne and both teams own a slim advantage over fifth-place Spalding in the current league standings. Tuesday's victories also marked Eureka's first doubleheader sweep of Webster in 12 seasons as rivals in the SLIAC.
George's win was the 46th of her four-year EC career, breaking Tina Sharp's previous school record of 45 set between 1993 and 1996. George also extended her own all-time school record for innings pitched to 469.2 and has 227 career strikeouts, third-most in program history.
Courtney Kurtz (Minooka, Ill./Minooka H.S.) went 2-for-2 and George drove in two, including a walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth inning. Erin Smith (Dunlap, Ill./Dunlap H.S.) continued her dominant 2018 season, improving to 11-2 in the circle by limiting the Gorloks to three earned runs over 8.0 innings.
Each team plated a run in the second inning. Morgan Mansur pushed the visitors to a 1-0 lead with her solo home run, but Eureka pulled even when Kurtz singled and later scored from first on George's RBI double to the left-field fence.
WU regained a 3-1 cushion in the third inning. Terri Dearth clubbed a solo home run early in the frame and Katlyn Garza tacked on a two-out run-scoring double.
Eureka rallied with a big fourth inning, scoring four times on four hits. Adrianna Zeman (La Salle, Ill./La Salle-Peru H.S.) inched EC within a run with an RBI double down the left field line and Allison Cagley (Fairbury, Ill./Prairie Central H.S.) evened the game at 3-3 three batters later when her single inside the third-base line plated George. Consecutive pinch-hit RBI singles followed from Danielle Brittain (Eureka, Ill./Eureka H.S.) and Klaire Wilmot (La Salle, Ill./La Salle-Peru H.S.) and the Red Devils led 5-3 when the dust finally settled.
The Gorloks were limited to two hits over the next two innings but took advantage of a Eureka error in the seventh to force extra innings with two unearned runs. Tessa Johanning smacked a run-scoring double into the gap for a 5-4 deficit and Abby Burroughs followed with an RBI single to left that scored Johanning for a 5-5 deadlock.
After Webster came up empty in the top of the eighth, Eureka executed perfectly in the bottom of the frame. With Zeman on second base due to the international tiebreaker rule, Kurtz put down a sacrifice bunt to advance Zeman to third for George, who lifted a sacrifice fly to left that allowed Zeman sprint home and score the game winner.
The decision marked Eureka's first walk-off win since a 5-4 triumph over Penn College on March 5 in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. It was the Red Devils' first walk-off win on their home diamond since a 6-5 win over Fontbonne on April 22, 2017.
Eureka had four hits in game two, but none bigger than a third-inning grand slam from Gabby Wood (Bartonville, Ill./Limestone H.S.). George threw 97 pitches and walked none in her historic complete-game win, improving to 10-5 this spring.
The Red Devils loaded the bases in the third inning on a Wilmot single, a Krysten Wallace (Bartonville, Ill./Limestone H.S.) infield single and a Kerrigan Dura (Edwards, Ill./Brimfield H.S.) walk. Wood went on to unload the bases with her fourth home run of the season, an opposite-field bomb that pushed Eureka to a 4-0 advantage.
Webster produced a bases-loaded threat of its own in the fourth, but George limited the damage to a single run when Dearth scored on a wild pitch. Back-to-back fly outs ended the jam with Eureka still in front, 4-1.
Down three in the seventh, WU brought the tying run to the plate with only one out. Amanda Kraus singled to score Brienna Sheperd to cut the deficit to 4-2, but the Red Devils recorded the second out of the inning when George cut Wallace's throw to the infield and quickly threw to Dura at second base to tag out pinch-runner Skiela Martinez as she retreated to the bag. George struck out White moments later for the final out of the game.
Eureka will play its final home games of the regular season, as well as its final non-conference games of 2018, when USCAA Robert Morris-Springfield visits for a 3 p.m. doubleheader Wednesday. The Red Devils and Eagles split a twin bill in Springfield last month.


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Have You Been Discriminated Against Because of Your Ancestry?
The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 (LAD), and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) make clear that employees have the legal right to be free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of their ancestry. Ancestry discrimination or ancestry harassment occurs when workers are treated less favorably because of the country that their ancestors came from. While ancestry discrimination is related to national origin discrimination, the two are not the same. That is because while national origin discrimination refers to targeting employees for less favorable treatment based on their own countries of origin, ancestry discrimination refers to treating them less favorably based on where their ancestors are from. New Jersey's ancestry discrimination attorneys at Lenzo & Reis are experienced in successfully pursuing justice for workers discriminated against on the basis of their ancestry.
What is Ancestry Discrimination?
Although the Law Against Discrimination (LAD) includes ancestry as a characteristic deserving a protection from workplace discrimination and harassment, the law does not define ancestry, ancestry discrimination, or ancestry harassment. Similarly, although Title VII protects against ancestry discrimination, unlike the Law Against Discrimination (LAD), it does not specifically include ancestry as a class deserving of protection from discrimination or harassment. Instead, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has broadly interpreted the protections afforded to the "national origin" protected characteristic to include ancestry. EEOC guidance makes clear that treating employees or job applicants more harshly because of the place of origin of their ancestors constitutes unlawful discrimination and/or harassment. The protections afforded to the characteristic of ancestry is not just limited to workers' ancestors' place of birth or origin. Instead, it extends to workers and people sharing common physical, linguistic (language) or social traits with particular groups.
Employers who treat workers negatively because of an erroneous (wrong) belief that the employees are of a particular ancestry are engaging in unlawful ancestry discrimination even if the employers are completely wrong about their employees' ancestry. That means that if an employer discriminates against or harasses employees because the employer believes that their ancestors are from, for example, India, the employers are violating the law even if the employees are not actually from India but, rather, from Sri Lanka. Discriminating against employees because of their ethnicity, accent, or cultural traditions also violates the law. Chris Lenzo and Claudia Reis recognize how prevalent ancestry discrimination is, know how to pursue and prove ancestry discrimination claims, and regularly obtain justice for their clients subjected to such discrimination and harassment.
What if am not Being Treated Differently Because of my Ancestry but Because of the Ancestry of Someone With Whom I Have a Relationship?
Employees who are targeted for negative treatment because of who they associate with – such as who they are married to, in relationships with, or friends with -- are the victims of unlawful ancestry discrimination. That type of discrimination is referred to as "associational discrimination" by New Jersey employment attorneys. Associational discrimination on the basis of ancestry refers to discrimination that occurs not because employees' ancestry but, instead, because of the ancestry of the people they are friends with, married to, or with whom they otherwise associate.
What Does Unlawful Discrimination on the Basis of Ancestry Look Like?
In a nutshell, ancestry discrimination refers to treating employees less favorably because of their ancestors' country of origin, cultural customs, or even language. Unlawful ancestry discrimination may take on the form of adverse employment actions, which mean tangible actions affecting employment, or a harassment, which is referred to as a hostile work environment if it is either severe or pervasive. Some examples of ancestry discrimination may involve:
refusing to hire people who wear traditional ancestral garments or symbols such as crucifixes worn by Christians or hijabs worn by Muslim women,
transferring workers to undesirable locations,
disciplining employees with a particular ancestry more harshly,
paying a lower salary to employees of a particular ancestry,
terminating the employment of or laying-off workers because they dress in ancestral clothing,
demoting employees because of their ancestry,
denying workers promotions because of their ancestry,
assigning unfavorable or more difficult work to employees because of their ancestry, and
re-directing sales accounts based on ancestry as long as fluency in the language of the country is not a requirement for handling such accounts.
Illegal ancestry discrimination may also involve more subtle actions that are, nonetheless, hurtful, demoralizing, and harmful such as:
making fun of employees' clothes or cultural customs,
making jokes about employees' ancestral country of origin or because of their ancestry,
displaying pictures, signs, and/or symbols that are offensive based on ancestry,
regularly teasing or negatively commenting on employees' ancestry,
more harshly criticizing employees of a particular ancestry, or
generally treating employees more harshly because of their ancestry.
Is Implicit Bias Illegal?
Yes, implicit bias is illegal. Implicit bias refers to employment decisions that are not motivated by conscious discrimination, but, instead, by unconscious biases that supervisors may not even recognize they have. Existing studies demonstrate the extent to which implicit bias affects all aspects of employment from hiring, promotion, pay, and other benefits' decisions as well as the type of feedback and discipline issued to employees. Our State Supreme Court has stated that employees are not required to show that their employers engaged in intentional discrimination or intentional harassment. Lehmann v. Toys 'R' Us, Inc., 132 N.J. 587 (1993). That said, employers will be liable (responsible) for discriminatory actions even in the absence of an obvious intention to discriminate.
How Do You Prove Unlawful Ancestry Discrimination?
To prove illegal ancestry discrimination, workers must show that they were treated more harshly because of their ancestry or cultural customs or dress, and/or because they associate with people of a particular ancestry. The way that ancestry discrimination is proven depends on whether there is any direct (smoking gun) evidence of discrimination and whether the discrimination involves adverse employment actions or a hostile work environment. Our Supreme Court in, Zive v. Stanley Roberts, Inc., 182 N.J. 436 (2006), made clear that employees do not have to present direct evidence of discrimination to prove discrimination. Such smoking gun evidence of discrimination is not necessary because courts recognize that discriminating employers are not going to leave evidence of their unlawful intent – such as memos explaining that they are discriminating or admitting to others that they are breaking the law. Chipollini v. Spencer Gifts, Inc., 814 F. 2d 893 (3d Cir. 1987); LaMontagne v. American Convenience Products, 750 F. 2d 1405, 1410 (7th Cir. 1984).
In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States established what is known as the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting paradigm to guide workers in proving the existence of discrimination in the absence of direct evidence. McDonnell Douglas Corporation v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973). Through that paradigm, employees claiming, for example, that they were fired or demoted because of their ancestry must show that:
they are members of a protected class (meaning of a particular ancestry),
they were performing their work duties,
they were demoted or fired, and
their employers hired for their jobs after the firing or demotion.
Once established, employers have to explain why the firing or demotion was justified. Once that is accomplished, the employees claiming discrimination must demonstrate that the justifications provided by the employers are either not believable or did not motivate the employment decisions. Bergen Commercial Bank v. Sisler, 157 N.J. 188, 211 (1999); St. Mary's Honor Ctr., 509 U.S. 502 (1993); Romano v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 284 N.J. Super. 543 (App. Div. 1995).
In rare circumstances, direct (smoking gun) evidence exists of ancestry discrimination. In those cases, courts use what is known as the Price Waterhouse framework articulated by the Supreme Court of the United States. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989). Under that framework, the employer must prove that it would have taken the same adverse employment action (the firing or demotion) that it took irrespective of its discriminatory motivation. Starceski v. Westinghouse Electric Corp., 54 F.3d 1089 (3d Cir. 1995).
The mechanism for proving unlawful harassment is different. If employees are forced to endure severe or pervasive harassment because of their ancestry but not fired, demoted, or subjected to any other tangible employment action, they must demonstrate that:
they would not have been harassed if not for their ancestry or association with a person of a particular ancestry,
the harassment was sufficient pervasive (occurring very regularly) or particularly severe (bad), and
any reasonable person of the same ancestry as the employee making the claim would also conclude that the harassment altered the terms and conditions of employment and created a hostile or abusive environment.
While proving ancestry discrimination or ancestry harassment may seem near impossible, the experienced New Jersey employment attorneys at Lenzo & Reis know exactly how to find evidence of ancestry discrimination, put the pieces of evidence together to prove the existence of discrimination, and present that evidence in a compelling manner.
What Should You Do If You are Being Discriminated Against Because of Your National Origin?
If you are being or have been discriminated against or harassed at work because of your ancestry, contact the experienced New Jersey discrimination attorneys at Lenzo & Reis either by phone at 973-845-9922 or by completing our online form by clicking here.
We regularly achieve significant settlements and verdicts for our hardworking clients who are discriminated against or harassed at work. We will help you, too!
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In my last two posts -- Dangerous Categories: Diversity and Stereotypes in the Boardroom and Dangerous Categories II (Wow, Men Are Still From Mars and Women From Venus?) -- I discussed a forthcoming paper with Lissa Broome and John Conley on corporate board diversity. As I noted, all of our interview subjects (with one partial exception) agree with the abstract proposition that board diversity is a good thing. On the more specific question of why it is good, there is broad agreement—a master narrative of sorts--that board diversity results in functional improvements to board or corporate operations—a qualitative "business case" for board diversity. Though the particulars of the functional story vary across respondents, many accounts bear a strong resemblance to Justice Powell's original exposition of diversity in the Bakke case: a diverse group of people will engage in a richer discussion that will be informed by the multiple perspectives for which their demographic diversity is a proxy.
But it has proven difficult to get beyond this very general narrative; our respondents have been able to provide few detailed or substantive examples of this presumed benefit of diversity. Perhaps this reluctance to examine critically the benefits and drawbacks of board diversity results from the dangerousness of the categories associated with diversity--gender, race, and ethnicity. The "different perspectives" argument requires the assumption that people of diverse demographic backgrounds really are different in some meaningful way—but difference is a concept that must be handled with great delicacy. Those who are not members of traditionally unrepresented groups do not want to be accused of stereotyping or essentializing by identifying particular unique contributions of members of those groups; no one wants to say anything like "they are especially good at that." Conversely, those who are members of traditionally unrepresented groups have a vested interest in presenting themselves as not being different: not as token members of a group, but as individuals who have been selected based on their own merit.
Nevertheless, when we pressed our respondents we did find a few concrete examples of how contributions of particular female and minority board members may have benefitted the corporation. Nearly all of these examples, which we excerpt in detail in the article, relate directly or indirectly to employee, community, or customer relations. Perhaps most meaningfully, female and minority board members were credited with positive contributions in improving employee relations, and in causing the corporation to focus more deliberately on the diversity of its workforce as it considered retention, promotion, and succession issues. For reasons we elaborate in the paper, this latter point could well suffice as a business justification for the vigorous pursuit of board diversity. Consequently, we find it somewhat curious that this rationale does not figure more prominently in our respondents' abstract business case (in contrast to the more prominent but less concretely supported Bakke narrative).
As Don Langevoort notes in his commentary to our article, this muddle is surely due in part to the lack of a coherent, over-arching explanation for how boards themselves add to firm value. (A point Larry Ribstein also makes in his excellent blog post about our paper over at Truth on The Market). Moreover, as Langevoort explains, much of the value added by the board is likely to occur in response to some exogenous crisis and, in any event, outside of the formal boardroom setting. If so, then the "real action" of the board will be unobservable by the group and unlikely to display much that is attributable to gender or ethnicity.
In other words, this crisis demanded action rather than introspection about diverse perspectives.
Finally, Langevoort's suggestion that board meetings are routine and ceremonial is also consistent with our respondents' accounts. We note in the paper some of the seemingly "trivial" contributions to board discussion that our respondents cited as evidence of the value of diversity. Perhaps these are the best examples our respondents can offer because so much board discussion is, in fact, largely trivial.
Why our respondents do not offer more meaningful stories of diversity's impact outside of the boardroom we can only speculate. One possibility, of course, is that minority and female board members are not invited to be part of the relevant out-of-meeting conversations. This theory is consistent with the account of an African-American male director who told us that he knew that some board members went out in the evening for meals and did not invite him to join them. Overall, however, other female and minority respondents did not echo this narrative of exclusion. Needless to say, this possibility, if true, does not bode well for the Bakke "richer conversation" rationale for board diversity invoked so frequently by our respondents, and by many researchers as well.
That wraps up my series of posts about this draft. Thanks for listening – and feel free to send comments my way.
Substantial Evidence or Substantial Uncertainty? If Gender Diversity on Boards Clearly Adds Value, Then Why Are There So Few Women on Boards?
Sotomayor, Diversity, And Group Dynamics: Why Do We Care? What Do We Know?
Money Is Diversity, Or Diversity Is Money?


Croatia was ranked in 26th place out of 162 nations in the Institute for Economics and Peace's (IEP) 2014 Global Peace Index. The ranking system is based according to 22 indicators that gauge the absence or the fear of violence. Whilst Croatia has improved its ranking, 111 countries have gone backwards since 2008. Europe still is the safest region, with 14 out of the top 20 nations.
Iceland, Denmark and Austria topped the 2014 list, whilst at the bottom Syria replaced Afghanistan as the world's least peaceful country.


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היים / קלענבוטעראָל / Clenbuterol Kick in Time — How Long Does Clenbuterol Take to Work?
It increases your body's temperature, מאַטאַבאַליזאַם, and ultimately its ability to burn fat before turning to other sources of energy, such as your muscles.
אָבער, it has never been approved by the U.S. עסנוואַרג און דראַג אַדמיניסטראַטיאָן, meaning purchasing it online is unregulated and can be unreliable.
If you do choose to do so, you should know the basics of how it works, as well as the other natural alternatives that hold similar fat burning potential. קויפן קלענבוטראָל אָנליין דאָ.
אָבער, in general looking at peoples' testimonials online a timeframe for how long you'll wait to reap its benefits is around a week or two.
If you take a look at pictures of Clenbuterol results, specifically after 2 וואָכן, you'll definitely see some noticeable weight loss in most of them.
There's also liquid Clenbuterol, although given how quickly the effects of this compound manifest in oral form, די liquid Clen kick in time isn't much different and thus isn't as commonly used.
אין אנדערע ווערטער, what's its half-life?
Its half-life is around 36 צו 48 שעה, meaning it will take around four days to be out of your system and for the clen to wear off.
אָבער, it can still be detected up to four to five days after using it.
So what זאָל you invest in?
ווי פון איצט, Clenbutrol is going to give you the closest results to Clenbuterol without taking an actual drug.
With a natural composition of garcinia cambogia extract, סיטרוס אַוראַנטיום, guarana extract, and nicotinamide, Clenbutrol creates thermogenic effects that can slash your fat and increase your cardiovascular performance.
איצט, you might be wondering about that other effect: increased cardiovascular performance.
געזונט, Clenbutrol also increases the flow of oxygen into your body, giving it the boost in performance needed to workout for longer, paving the way to intense workouts.
יאָ, this is longer than Clenbuterol, but remember: this is with no nasty side effects like liver or kidney toxicity.
Take three capsules daily with water around 45 minutes prior to working out. Use if for at least two months, מיט 1.5 weeks off in between.
צוגעגליכן צו how fast Clenbuterol works, this natural product might not compare as favorably, but it can still bring you lean muscle and be a great tool to lose weight, all the while increasing your performance.
זיכער, it must be used in combination with a proper diet and training regimen.
סיי וועלכע וועג, actual results will take longer to manifest, and for this reason we suggest using natural alternatives like Clenbutrol.
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Long Road vs Hills Road: 3-1 WIN
Match report completed by student and player Izaak Darvill.
Kicking off the second half season against Hills Road, Long Road went into the game with familiar faces, but with the additions of defensive player Jack England who returned from injury and promoted goalkeeper Dechlan Linney. Even after the long Christmas break Long Road were able to pick up their usual passing game pretty quickly. However the first half proved to be a competitive half, but with neither team really threatening to take the lead.
With some quick passing play Long did come close at times with Josh Lewis hitting the side netting and Jasper Bridges sending the ball over the bar from close range. On a defensive front both teams were fairly solid, with Hills finding some joy with a long ball over the top forcing the Long Road back four to face their own goal. Whereas, Long were able to pass the ball swiftly from side to side around the 18 yard box trying to create spaces, however the Hills defence remained solid as a unit. After winning the ball back in their half, Hills were able to counter attack, avoiding the first challenge from vice skipper Harry Harding, the Hills player then ran on to the edge of the 18 yard box, only to fouled by Long Road captain Josh Lewis. The free kick came to know prevail. Another fast paced attack after a mix up in the centre of the pitch by Long Road saw Harry Harding again attempt a last ditch challenge, ultimately, leading to a foul and his name in the book, after being shown a yellow card. This would be the last mentionable highlight of the first half, finishing 0-0.
Going into the second half, it again began very equal. However, after Long made progress down the right wing with the ball it was crossed in low, picking out Harry Fowler, who slotted in from close range into the bottom corner. Going 1-0 up gave Long Road some extra confidence that lead to some excellent passing football and a slight edge in control of the game in their favour. This was once again boosted, when Long were awarded a free kick in the middle third of the pitch. The result, Long Road going 2-0 up, after an emphatic ball from right back George Gillies, reached its way to the far post where Harry Harding was able to slide in and send the ball trickling over the line.
The second goal however, seemed to wake Hills up leading them to applying pressure high up the pitch and winning several set pieces. But, a little bit of luck from an aerial ball was to be their way back into the game. After the Long road defence attempted to clear the ball, it bounced off the Hills road striker who managed to get past several players and slot the ball into the top corner of the goal. Making it 2-1, Long Road had to stand strong as a unit for a few minutes as Hills pressed well. However, with under 10 minutes to go, Long road showed off their capabilities, through a quick passing move ending in Jasper Bridges scoring the third of the game. The goal came after a one two between Ben Tait and Harry Fowler, with the latter then sliding the ball through to a wide open Jasper.
The games finished 3-1. Making sure Long Road continued their unbeaten run in the college league and ensuring they still haven't dropped a point all season.


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THIS article says what I believe about the motive for the murder and who the perp was
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Also, my own opinion of T&T and other child pageants are that they promote the wrong ideas for children--- beauty is fleeting and besides the singing, dancing, etc., it would seem that 'looks' are the main thing . Plus, it seems like our world is too dangerous of a place to promote anything like child pageants--- I think these shows attract people you wouldn't want around your kids.
Agreed. Anyone who thinks that perverts don't watch T&T should think again.
BBB167893, Jan 11, 2012
Tadpole12 said: ↑
Dener Post JBR archive:
http://extras.denverpost.com/news/feb.htm
Ex-Miss America consults with police on case, Feb 27, 1997
http://extras.denverpost.com/news/jon37.htm
Van Derbur consulted by police
`In research on survivors, Van Derbur Atler said she found that 68 percent of victims were violated by fathers or stepfathers. The former beauty queen told in 1991 of incest with her father, socialite Francis Van Derbur. The average age of the victim for the first incident is 6. People have a stereotyped image about incest; that it's only a problem in socially unacceptable families, poor families or chaotic families, she said. But, sometimes, those who appear to be the nicest people commit incest, and there is some resistance to accepting that. "We fight against seeing the dark side," Van Derbur Atler said. "My father was just so charming. This happens in the nicest homes." When people who talk to her about the Ramseys say, "It couldn't have happened in this family, in a family so beautiful," she is disheartened about the impact of her work in the last decade.`
Wendy Murphy, a former sex-crimes prosecutor, is in the same boat with Marilyn:
the public is uncomfortable accepting the idea that people who look so nice on the outside can be dastardly on the inside. This feel-good bias makes it harder to conceptualize that a parent could commit a horrific crime against his or her own child.
DeeDee249 Well-Known Member
Sabot said: ↑
Thanks. Where was the housekeeper?
The housekeeper did not live with the Rs. She lived in her own home with her husband and daughter (a few years older than JB). She also had older kids. LHP and her husband each gave DNA and writing samples to police. There was never any fiber or DNA evidence linking them to the crime, and both were completely exonerated from having written the ransom note.
I was actually being sarcastic with my answer.
It was JR who made that "inside job" statement to Detective Arndt within seconds of placing his dead daughter on the floor. JR was intending to cast suspicion on the housekeeper or a disgruntled employee or friend with his comment. However, the only "insider" I see as responsible are one of the three family members who were in the house with JB as this crime was committed.
DeeDee249, Jan 11, 2012
Sabot New Member
DeeDee249 said: ↑
That's what I thought you meant. A very odd remark to make under the circumstances. This would leave me to wonder if he did suspect Patsy.
He certainly wouldn't have said it if he had been involved, or if he thought his son was. On the latter, I would have thought he would have waited until he had time to evaluate any suspicions about the boy. Parents don't normally instinctively throw their children to the wolves without some sort of proof.
But how could he have excused Patsy? And continued to live with her?
Sabot, Jan 12, 2012
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Damn skippy it is!
If you don't by now, you don't know me very well!
I mentioned that case specifically because it illustrates the fallacy of IDI's claim about what "type" of parents would do this. God knows I'm not trying to blame the victims here, but if all you knew about the Van Dams and the Ramseys were their backgrounds and that they each had a dead daughter, who would YOU think was more likely to be guilty?
God forgive me for saying that.
I've been waiting for the day that you would call me "skippy"!:rocker:
As to your other point, you are unfortunately 100% correct.
Squishified, Jan 12, 2012
In my opinion, he stayed because he felt guilt himself. I don't believe he participated in the actual killing, but he probably blamed himself for it happening. Since he was at work a lot he may have felt that it was his fault for putting PR through so much stress at home. He may have felt some guilt for not being around more when Patsy was sick with cancer. I dunno, these are just a few of my thoughts.
I've said this once before (and God I hate saying this), but when I was young, if my mom had accidentally beat me or one of my brothers to death, I think my dad would cover for her. He was at work most of the time and I think he would feel some guilt if something happened.
Anyway, that's just my :twocents:
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It's not YOU who needs to realize that, Squishified.
(And I was not calling you "skippy." That's just an expression my dad used.)
The way I see it, that's one of two possibilities. In fact, you worded it pretty much the way I would have done. You hear that a lot from spouses of child-killers. "I should have seen that something was wrong." "If only I'd been there." It's classic.
Either that, or he WAS involved and Patsy had something on him. At which point, it's MAD--Mutually Assured Destruction.
No worse than me! I ASKED my mother flat-out: "Old Mum, if you had mistakenly killed (name of my younger brother), do you think Dad would have stuck by you?"
She thought for a moment, and said, "Yes, I do think he would have."
Tessa2009 New Member
respectfully snipped by me
Yikes, reading that gave me chills....and not good ones....
I still think JR was complicate in the murder - Lisa Erwin's father reminds me of someone that would/has "cover/covered" the death of his daughter...He's not a mouth piece for his missing daughter like JR was for JBR. I hope that made sense.
Tessa2009, Jan 12, 2012
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I'm NOT proud of it, Tessa. I felt like a heel to ask her that, especially with Dad gone and not able to speak for himself. But I knew him well. He'd try to keep what was left of his family together.
I still think JR was complicit in the murder - Lisa Irwin's father reminds me of someone that would/has "cover/covered" the death of his daughter...He's not a mouth piece for his missing daughter like JR was for JBR. I hope that made sense.
I understood it right well.
Some people do what they should do. Other people do what they have to do.
I so not feel JR's "inside job" comment was him throwing his son (or wife) to te wolves. He wasn't referring to Patsy or BR. He was most likely referring to LHP or former Access Graphics employee John Merrick, two innocent people with NO links to the crime scene that he tried early on to implicate. As a matter of fact, I would bet he and Patsy spent some time discussing who would make a perfect "patsy" (no pun intended).
You could be right. On reflection I have the same suspicions about my Father.
dodie20 New Member
I don't have to ask my father...he would not only have stayed with my mother, but he would have lied, covered for her, and done what she told him to do. But, JR doesn't strike me as that kind of man. Them getting separate lawyers, kind of made me think that 1 was guilty, and the other one, was willing to go along, up to a point... but if push came to shove, he/she, was going to look out for him/herself. My dad, for instance, would have either shared the same lawyer, or not got 1 at all. MOO
dodie20, Jan 13, 2012
dodie20 said: ↑
I do have to say that it isn't unusual for members of the same family who may be suspects in a crime to have separate lawyers. A defense team will usually suggest it. Defense lawyers are not obligated to actually ASK a client if they are guilty, though some obviously do. If they KNOW their client is guilty (or think they are), they can plan a defense based on either outright lies (illegal but still done) or try to defect blame on an innocent person without actually making an accusation. Casey Anthony's lawyers did this very thing when they made the "allegations" that her father abused her and may have also abused Caylee. They can also try to cloud the issue the way OJ's lawyers did. They knew he did it. EVERYONE knew that, even the jury. But they clouded the issue with the gloves, and basically you had a jury who was never going to convict him anyway.
In this case, the separate lawyers would be a necessity if there was any possibility that one R may have testified against another in return for immunity from prosecution.
One of the MOST suspicious thing to me was that JR got a lawyer for his ex-wife, who was not in Boulder and was not a suspect. This was done for one reason, IMO. To keep LE from asking her questions about whether her son JAR was with her Christmas Day in Georgia and being asked to provide photographic proof (Christmas photos or videos). It also would prevent LE from asking about JR's relationships with his two older daughters. There is simply no INNOCENT reason why she needed her own lawyer.
I just meant I was waiting for the day that you would use that expression with me. You've used it with just about every other member of the JBR forum and I thought it would never be my turn. I'm flattered--I feel like one of the gang now! :blushing:
What about me? I wallaby,.........sorry,....... wannabe Skippy too.
UKGuy Well-Known Member
And Kemo Sabe and trigger, how about thing from the Adam's Family, or does that date me?
UKGuy, Jan 16, 2012
UKGuy said: ↑
I cannot begin to imagine who you could be talking about. :innocent:
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Google's self-driving car: How many Googlers are driving this thing?
Google says its self-driving cars can make driving safer because they pay better attention to the road than humans do—though there have been dings along the way.
While smartphones and other in-car distractions can fatally hinder a driver's concentration, "a self-driving car has people beat on this dimension of road safety," says Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car program. With 360-degree visibility, the newest sensors in Google's fleet can keep track of other vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians to a distance of nearly two football fields, he wrote in a post on Medium on Monday.
Still, Google's cars have been involved in 11 accidents in the six years the company has been testing them, Urmson reported. The fleet of 20-plus cars has covered 1.7 million miles of autonomous and manual driving in that time.
In all cases, there was only light damage and no injuries. And not once did a Google car cause the accident, he wrote.
Urmson's post appeared after the Associated Press reported on Monday that Google's cars had been involved in three accidents just since September. The post lays out some of what Google has learned so far in testing its cars, including observations on drivers' actions that can lead to collisions.
The post also highlights an issue that Google and other autonomous driving hopefuls must address before self-driving cars go mainstream: how to recognize and respond to the wacky driving habits of humans.
Take intersections: To account for the possibility of another driver running a red light, Google has programmed its cars to pause briefly after a light turns green before proceeding into the intersection.
With their software and sensors, Google's cars can take action earlier and faster than an alert human driver, he wrote. But sometimes they can't overcome the realities of speed and distance, and they get hit just waiting for a light to change.
Out of the 11 reported accidents, Google's cars have been hit from behind seven times, according to the post. That happened mainly at traffic lights but also on the freeway.
The company's cars have also been side-swiped a couple of times and hit by a car rolling through a stop sign, the post said.
Google's cars now average 10,000 miles of autonomous driving a week, mostly on city streets near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.
The post also illustrates some of the ways in which Google's cars have successfully reacted to human drivers' erratic actions. Google says it has observed drivers making right turns from the lane to the left of its self-driving cars, cutting sharply across the Google car's path.


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Organization denounces judicial harassment against Colombian journalist and columnist Daniel Coronell
By Silvia Higuera
The Press Freedom Foundation (FLIP, for its initials in Spanish) denounced what it considered judicial harassment against Colombian journalist and columnist Daniel Coronell by the former president and current senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
According to FLIP, this "judicial harassment" against Coronell allegedly began after the journalist published a column with information about the former president in his weekly space in the magazine Semana. As a result of that column, Uribe Vélez decided to sue the journalist in the United States, it added, the country where Coronell currently lives. The organization did not specify which column it was.
It was the journalist himself who unveiled this civil lawsuit in his column on April 7, entitled '¿Por qué quieren silenciarme?' (Why do they want to silence me?). In that column, according to FLIP, the journalist reported having evidence about how Uribe Vélez allegedly gave instructions on June 23, 2018 to "proceed with that guy very drastically" in reference to the journalist and the judicial process against him.
"It's a new and sophisticated form of censorship. They want to strangle me financially with the cost of defense in the United States and thus to persuade me to keep quiet is a good business. I will continue to do my duty," Coronell told the Knight Center.
"Since FLIP has monitored judicial cases against the press, this is the first time that evidence is registered about a public official's instruction to carry out this type of action against a journalist," the organization wrote in its statement. "In that sense, it is important to remember that organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have classified judicial harassment as a mechanism of indirect censorship."
In the past, Coronell was a victim of "stigmatizing reactions" that have already put him at risk, according to FLIP. The organization also noted as worrisome "the extent of censorship" that this judicial process may have and that these actions not only "may inhibit public debate," but also restrict journalistic work in the country.
"What is sought with this type of aggression, more than a conviction against journalists, is to intimidate them and subject them to the erosion of years of judicial defense," FLIP said in its statement. "In this case, in particular, it is also worrisome that judicial actions are triggered in other countries about public controversies relevant to Colombian democracy."
According to the organization, legal actions against journalists or media in retaliation for their work is known as 'strategic litigation against public participation.'
On his Twitter account, Coronell also said he was being victimized by a campaign with the aim of silencing him.
"As always, when a campaign of moral destruction is near, Twitter accounts begin to appear with 0, or very few followers, insulting. Deceitful polls that try to settle the truth and tricky papers to sully me. Nothing is new. #PorQueQuierenSilenciarme (#WhyDoTheyWantToSilenceMe)," the journalist wrote.
Senator Uribe's relationship with some journalists has been marked by scandal. In the past, FLIP noted cases of stigmatization against some columnists, including Coronell. In March 2018, a Bogotá court ordered Uribe to rectify accusations against Coronell.
The Knight Center tried to contact Senator Uribe through Twitter, but did not get a response as of publication of this post.
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The Pursuit of Perfection
"Nothing endures but change."
From Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
In the summer of 1970 -- prehistoric times for many of you -- I had a chance to wander through the Smithsonian Institution, in our nation's capitol. A few weeks from turning 20, I was nearing the half-way point of a ten week tour of the country on a motorcycle (my own personal homage to Easy Rider), following a meandering path from the San Francisco Bay Area through Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico, across Kansas and Oklahoma, down through New Orleans to the tip of Florida, and on up the eastern seaboard. After exploring Washington D.C., I planned to ride north to Maine, then take the Trans Canadian Highway all the way to Vancouver before turning left and heading for home.
That's pretty much how it worked out, with a few adventures in between.
But first came the Smithsonian, and its many thousands of fascinating exhibits, most of which I've forgotten now, nearly 40 years later. A few stuck in my brain, though, and continue to resonate today -- including a huge gleaming red and chrome piston-driven aircraft engine designed and built by Rolls Royce to power civilian airliners in the 1950's. The technical details have faded into the mist, but as I recall, it was a sixteen cylinder turbocharged engine, tuned to deliver a huge quantity of reliable power. At the time, it was considered to be the ultimate refinement of the piston aircraft engine, based on decades of hard-earned knowledge and experience gained in peacetime and the life-or-death crucible of war -- the sum total of a legendary engine manufacturer's engineering skill distilled and tightly focused on a single mechanical device. At the time, it was the very best humans could do.
This engine was a product of the pursuit of perfection, and to a certain extent, represented perfection achieved -- but what should have been a moment of crowning glory turned to ashes when the introduction of the Boeing 707 jetliner instantly rendered the piston-engine airliner obsolete. Much faster, quieter, and more reliable, the jet engine turned the airplane industry on its head, and in the process, relegated that beautiful Rolls Royce engine to the history books.
I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, while working on an episodic crime drama. After filming exteriors all morning, we moved inside to shoot the interiors, using two cameras whenever possible. Once the set was lit, we stood by our lamps to make any final adjustments, then began to crank out the coverage. That's when it hit me what was strange about all this: we were actually shooting film, with a complete Panavision package. Nearly every show I've worked on for the past couple of years has used digital cameras, which means I hadn't even seen a film camera up close for quite a while. I watched the familiar rituals as if for the first time – the 2nd A.C. running in with a case of freshly reloaded 1000 foot mags, handing them off to the two 1st A.C.'s in return for the exposed mags. While the 1st A.C.'s opened their cameras, mounted the fresh mags, then threaded the film through the sprockets, the 2nd A.C. was breaking the film on the exposed mags and shoving them back into empty case to be downloaded later for the lab.
A reload is all business for the camera assistants, but for the rest of the crew, it means a few minutes to relax, trade jokes, or sneak outside for a cigarette or phone call. The actors get a chance to regroup, while the director thinks about the next scene. This familiar, comfortable routine has been the rule since long before I started my Industry career -- it's all part of what comes with shooting film. At this point, Panavision and Arriflex cameras are miraculous devices, having evolved and been refined over the past 80 years to a point approaching technological perfection. In the hands of a good cameraman, there isn't much a properly equipped modern film camera can't do when it comes to delivering the most sumptuously gorgeous images -- but just as this level of near-perfection has been achieved, the digital revolution comes along to jerk the rug out from under the Way Things Are.
It's deja-vu all over again.
Such is the price of progress, I suppose. Personally, I don't much care for the new digital cameras. Where film cameras are all precision-machined metal, gears, and glass, digital is nothing but plastic and wires -- digital cameras look like cheap props from some lousy Roger Corman movie. Instead of the well-choreographed dance of the film reload after every ten minutes of shooting, digital cameras hold something like 45 minutes of tape, which means much less reloading – and when the time finally does come to re-load, it's a simple matter of snapping a fresh cassette in place. What used to take several minutes can now be done in seconds. Maybe the producers think this is progress, but I don't. Besides, each digital camera comes trailing an inch-thick cable all the way back to the digi-tech tent, further cluttering up the set while offering ample opportunity for the rest of us to slip, trip, and fall.
Hey, I'm a juicer – it's my job to lay cables right where everybody else will trip on them...
As I watched the well-practiced ballet of the camera re-load that day, it occurred to me to look close, because I won't be seeing it much longer. None of us will. Film is on its way out, slipping into the past as digital takes over. This isn't the first big change I've seen, and it probably won't be the last -- I used an upright Moviola editing machine to make a documentary in college, but that awkward, clattering machine soon gave way to fast, quiet flatbeds, which in turn disappeared when digital computer editing came of age. The old DC carbon arcs in common use when I first started were supplanted by an ever-evolving flow of modern HMI lamps, which may in turn be phased out if LED lighting -- or some other energy-saving technology -- can do the same job more efficiently.
I don't know that digital looks quite as good on the big screen as the best of film yet, but in time it probably will. Besides, visual quality was never the selling point for digital in the first place -- that argument was lost the moment the economics tipped in favor of digital. In one form or another, digital is here to stay.
That episodic I was working on? I'm told the show will be coming back next season, but with digital cameras instead of film. In the relentless pursuit of perfection – or something like it -- the only constant is change.
Yep, it's a pink apple box.
Nope, I've never seen one before...
The Milky Way seen from Hawaii
Back on the home planet a few months ago, I stepped outside late one night and looked up into a wide open sky that was dark as sin, yet full of light. The pale ghost of the Milky Way floated high overhead: our own galaxy made up of a hundred billion stars bound together by the gravitational flux of a monstrous Black Hole, forming an unthinkably vast luminous swirl stretching out into infinity. It was a breathtaking, humbling vista that pulled me one giant step back from my daily self to contemplate mankind's grain-of-sand existence here in the great cosmic whole.
Yeah, I know -- that and five bucks will buy a nice triple-half-caf-no-caf-soy-latte-frappamochino topped with cinnamon-dusted whipped cream -- but still, it was pretty damned impressive.
Not once in thirty-plus years have I witnessed such a magnificent sight here in the Doomed City of the Future, where the megawattage of light blazing up from nocturnal Los Angeles overwhelms all but the biggest and brightest of stars. On a good night you can make out Orion, the Big Dipper, and maybe the Seven Sisters, but not much else. Blinded by the garish glare of our man-made incandescence, we've lost the celestial light-show that enthralled and mystified our ancestors, embedding so many myths and legends deep in our shared cultural DNA. Having traded all that for the Golden Calf of modern technology, we look inward now rather than out, staring slack-jawed into the flickering blue glow of the Cathode Ray Gun, mesmerized by the pale reflections of our own fantasies, fears, and vanity.
I don't mean to sound overly critical here, nor bite the hand that feeds me. Not only do I watch the Toob like everybody else, I help make the stuff, which means my ability to pay the rent now and into the foreseeable future hinges on the continued popularity of television. Still, anyone trying to sum up the rat-race insanity of modern urban life – our disconnect from whence we came, loss of sense of place in the universe, and our all-too-human inability to see beyond the dull haze of our daily existence – would be hard-pressed to find a more apt metaphor. Over the long history of mankind, the stars have served as a nightly reminder of exactly where we stand in the universe. They guided us across the vast emptiness of uncharted oceans, seemingly endless deserts, and immense open plains. In a very real way, those stars grounded us – but now, for most urban dwellers, those stars are gone.
The best opportunity anybody has had to see the stars from the urban core of LA in the last thirty years came in the immediate aftermath of the Northridge earthquake, when the violent shaking abruptly knocked out the power and extinguished the city lights two hours before dawn. In that sudden overwhelming darkness, every star in the firmament blazed bright in the primordial darkness above.
It was an astonishing, overwhelmingly magnificent sight.... which I completely missed. Instead of staring skyward, I was busy running around my apartment picking things up, checking for gas leaks, cracks in the walls/ceiling, and any other damage to the building infrastructure. In my own barely-controlled panic, it never occurred to me to step outside and look up -- and by the time things had calmed down, the sun was rising in the east. Only later, after talking to friends who commented on those amazingly starry skies, did I realize what an opportunity I'd lost.
The other form of earth-bound star gazing has always been going strong here in LA, of course. Brittney and Paris and Lindsay, Brad and Angelina, and more recently, Mathew and the Surf Thugs battling the Malibu paparazzi. Ooh, there goes Nicholas Cage in the Mayfair Market! Hey, it's Keanu Reeves at Honda of Hollywood! Sammy Davis Junior at Gelson's! Crispin Glover down on Larchmont! And look over there in the granola aisle at Erewhon -- it's Kramer from "Seinfeld," a year before his legendary racist-rant comedy club meltdown.
OMG! Who can I text???
It's pretty much impossible to avoid running into the celestial beings of Hollywood, since here They Walk Amongst Us, but you'd be surprised how different most of them look without the aid of camera-ready wardrobe and makeup. The only reason I noticed those listed above is because Sammy shamelessly mugged his way up and down every single aisle in the store for a good twenty minutes, Keanu Reeves happened to be right in my way as I headed for the racks of motorcycle oil, and Michael Richards has such a distinctively loony appearance that he couldn't hide if he wanted to... which at the time, he didn't. Nicholas Cage happened to be coming through the automatic doors to buy some groceries as I was heading out -- and even someone as oblivious as me can't help recognizing an actor who bears such a strong resemblance to a lovesick goat, especially when he's become one the most overexposed actors of modern times, with a new and cheesier movie coming out every other month.
Yo, Nick! A word of advice: I appreciate that a guy's gotta put food on the table, but dude, give it rest. In your case, absence might not make the heart grow fonder, but it could help cool the smoldering fires of contempt fuelled by such an overabundance of on-screen familiarity. I'm just saying...
As for Crispin Glover – believe me, a guy that weird stands out in any crowd, even amid the human zoo that is Hollywood.
I used to date a woman who had an almost supernatural ability to pick celebrities out of the crowd. With the night vision of a big cat, she could spot even a minor movie star at three hundred yards. At close range -- in a theater, bar, or restaurant -- it was no contest: any celebrities present would light up her star-seeking radar like a Christmas tree. We'd be sitting over drinks and appetizers, talking about something-or-other, when her gaze would suddenly freeze as she locked-on a human target over my shoulder.
"Who is it this time?" I'd sigh.
"Rosie O'Donnell" she'd reply -- then get up to interrupt Rosie's dinner and tell her how wonderful she'd been in "A League of Their Own."
It was hard to believe this woman hadn't just rolled off a hay truck from Palookaville, but actually grew up here in LA. What at first seemed like her charmingly star-struck naivete got old in a hurry, though, and a few years later, she married some guy with a lot more patience than I could muster. Hey, good for her and good for him -- I hope their kids grow up to watch lots of television, and thus help keep me employed.
There are at least two schools of thought on the matter of celebrity recognition in public.
1): Celebrities desperately want to be recognized, which is why they were driven to do whatever it took (and it usually takes a lot) to become "celebrities" in the first place. According to this theory, gushing over them in public is a symbiotic indulgence feeding the needs of fans and stars alike -- it's a win/win situation, so go for it.
2): Like Greta Garbo, film and television stars want to be left alone. Famous people can't go anywhere in public without being harassed by swarms of paparazzi, fawned over by clueless idiots, and having their lives/drinks/meals/haircuts interrupted by rabid, mindlessly mewling fans clawing for a piece of something they can't have. To interrupt their privacy in public is rude and unseemly -- so show a little class for a change, sit tight, shut the fuck up, and be content with stealing little sideways glances.
I suspect there's truth on both sides. Celebrities are caught in the push-pull dynamic of need-it/hate-it/can't-live-without it, and like the rest of us, they want to have their cake and eat it too – but we can't, and neither can they. Life just doesn't work that way.
Truth be told, I don't pay much attention to my fellow Angelinos as I fight through the herd in this ever-more-crowded urban labyrinth. I spot the attractive women, of course, but probably wouldn't recognize Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet, or even the lovely Scarlet Johansson if I bumped into her on the sidewalk. It might dawn on me a day or two later who I'd collided with, but in real-time, I'm pretty much clueless about such things -- which is just fine, since those of us who work in the biz see plenty of actors every day at work. With a few notable* exceptions, the stars overhead are a lot more elusive and impressive than those working under the hot lamps on set.
And on that note: the best night of real star gazing I ever experienced here in LA was close to twenty years ago, during the Persiod meteor shower that hits every August. Late one Saturday night, I drove my dusty old Camaro way out into Soledad Canyon, then lay on the warm hood and leaned back against the windshield to watch the fireworks. It was a great show, too, with a brilliant streak of celestial lightning ripping across the dark heavens every two or three minutes. Every so often, really big one would light up the entire sky, trailing iridescent smoke from one horizon to the other.
It was an amazing night, and all in all, considerably more dazzling than anything -- or anyone -- to be seen back down on the grimy, broken dream-encrusted sidewalks of Hollywood.
*I'd walk a long country mile for the chance to talk to Nancy Travis, one the nicest, warmest, and most appealing actresses I've ever had the pleasure to meet...
Nothing quite sells "tragedy" like blood on the snow...
From "The Waiting," by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Another day, another dead blonde. It was a young mother this time, stabbed and left to bleed to death in a snowdrift by our brooding psycho-killer. She was very attractive, of course, this being episodic television, where beauty is so often a fatal affliction. There she lay in her own backyard, next to a little snowman she'd helped her young son make.
That's how it read in the script, anyway, but in reality, the art department built the snowman after special effects sprayed a mysteriously fine white powder all over the set, then brought in an industrial-strength chipper to blow nearly a foot of freshly chipped ice into the back yard. The resulting "snow" was cold, wet, and slippery, just like the real thing.
The "backyard" looked real too, but was actually just a wide driveway enclosed by a couple of fences built for the occasion, then dressed with patio furniture to compete the illusion. It all looked very convincing on camera, though; the lovely blonde lying there, eyes closed in the stillness of simulated death, her crimson movie blood staining the cold white snow.
Sometimes I wonder about this business, but working on a crime drama inevitably means depicting Bad Things happening to Good People. Still, there's no denying it's a bit weird to see all these dead bodies in the course of a day's work.
At least they're not real. If I'd somehow ended up an LA cop instead of a juicer (fat chance of that happening), I'd be dealing with seriously authentic bloody mayhem every week rather than the cruelty-free cinematic variety. I'd also have a much more lucrative retirement to look forward to, but I'm not sure the haunting memories of all that human carnage would be worth it.
There's a reason cops suffer such a high rate of suicide.
We shot the snowy exteriors during the cool of the morning, then went inside. By the time we'd lit the tiny, cramped duplex, then shoehorned the camera, DP, camera crew, gaffer, first AD and the boom man inside – oh, and the actors – the only place left for a juicer to remain out of the shot (and ready to make any necessary adjustments to the lighting) was the bathroom shower.
I left that task for one of the core crew, escaping back outside to stay by two HMI par lights blowing in through the windows and front door. With no apple boxes handy, I turned one of the par's lens cases on its side (sitting on the handle is quite literally a pain in ass), and sat down to wait.
And wait...
We do a lot of waiting in this business, but it's not the tap-your-toe-and-sigh experience of standing in line the Post Office, DMV, or the Laundromat, wishing the spin cycle would wring the excess rinse water from your soggy wash a little faster. The clock doesn't really matter in episodic television, where crews are doomed to work at least 12 hours every day no matter what -- and those are the short days. The longer days can stretch out from 14 to 18 hours, depending on the budget, the contract you happen to be working under, the director, and the actors. The only meaningful way to measure each day's progress is by the scheduled pages left on the call sheet, which means you don't allow yourself to get caught up in watching the seconds/minutes/hours tick away. That way lies madness. To cope with the long hours, I gear down into an odd sort of emotional four-wheel drive, an I'm-here-to-work-endurance mode that dulls the tedium of grinding out the day one shot at a time.
Never having been locked up, I can't say for sure, but episodic television always feels a bit like serving a jail sentence – taking each day as it comes, and never allowing yourself to look too far ahead. The money and food are a lot better in Hollywood than in prison, though, and you don't have to worry about getting raped on set – a real plus, that. Besides, if you really hate the job, you can always quit, an option not open to those in the Big House.
Working on first unit requires you to exist in a strange state of tense limbo, quietly vigilant between rapid bursts of highly-focused physical activity. As a juicer, I have to remain alert to anything involving electrical power or lighting the set. We keep an eye on the light cast by our lamps, looking for any flickering or inconsistency that might indicate a problem with the generator, ballast, or head. When we detect the distinctive reek of something "cooking", we inspect all the cables and ballasts until the problem is identified, then decide whether this constitutes an emergency requiring immediate action (which means making the director and cast wait while we replace the damaged piece of equipment), or if the slowly melting cable or connector can last until that shot is done. All the while we're monitoring the walkie-talkies, ready for any changes the gaffer or DP might suddenly demand. Some DP's will shoot five takes, then decide to make a slight adjustment to a lamp – add a single, make it a double, take it up, drop it down, pan it right a hair, tilt it up or down an RCH -- then lock it off.
So I sit on that hard little lens case and wait, listening to the radio chatter. The sun is high now, beating down on all that gradually melting ice on the other side of the fence. As the resulting water seeps under the fence, a small but steadily-growing pool forms. After hour or so, it's six feet long, three feet across, and four inches deep, the water tinged red from all that movie blood.
Whenever my civilian friends happen upon a film crew in public, they invariably report how boring it all looks. "Nothing was happening," they complain. "Everybody just stood around doing nothing."
Welcome to Hollywood, where something's always happening, even if the untrained civilian eye can't detect it. In a way, a film crew is like a football team, except where each gridiron club has two basic units within the team – offense and defense – a film crew has several. Long before first unit arrives, the set decorators show up with truckloads of furniture to turn the location into whatever it's supposed to be for the given show – a doctor's office, body shop, strip club, whatever. If we're filming in someone's home, a layout board guy/crew will come in to put down a protective layer of heavy cardboard over the hardwood floors and rugs.
First on location is usually the location manager or his/her assistant, followed by an armada of teamsters driving the equipment trucks. At this point, the actors are usually dressed in the appropriate wardrobe and sitting in the hair/makeup chairs, being buffed, puffed, and teased to a state of cinematic perfection. Meanwhile, the grip and electric crews are unloading and staging their equipment for the first shot of the day.
With any luck (and a fat enough budget), a set-lighting rigging crew has already put in the main cable run from the location set to the power source – usually a generator that may or may not have arrived yet. If the production won't spring for a rigging crew, the first-unit juicers have to lay the cable, raising the first serious sweat of the day.
It won't be the last.
The camera crew is now assembling their cameras for whatever mode is needed: a steadicam, dolly, crane, sticks, or hand-held. Second assistants load film into the appropriate magazines (thousand footers, generally, or 400 foot mags for steadicam or hand-held use) – and if the production has left the 20th Century chemical-based world of film to go digital, they're busy patching together the hi-def cameras and running thick cables from each cameras back to the digi-tech tent, where the $20,000+ high-def monitor will live.
Meanwhile, the director is on set planning exactly how he wants to shoot the scene so he can block and rehearse the first shot. Once he's happy, we light the shot using stand-ins, as the grips follow along with the appropriate diffusion and flags to soften and cut the light.
Finally, the call goes out for "last looks" – making sure the actors are perfectly coiffed, costumed, and propped for the scene – and only then are we ready to shoot. A small army of people has done a lot of fast, precise work to reach this moment of readiness, when the director can finally call "action."
Civilians rarely see any of this. They generally come along in late morning or early afternoon, well after the great frenzy of getting The Machine up and rolling is over and done -- and at that point, we're deep into hurry-up-and wait mode. On this day, we'll do dozens of shots from dawn until well after dark. To make it work, and stay on schedule, each "team" – set decorators, grips, electric, camera, wardrobe, makeup, hair, and production -- has to stay a step or two ahead of the game, always preparing for the next shot.
Until this particular shot is in the can, I have to stick close to my lamps. Much as I dislike wearing a walkie-talkie, it does allow me to wander as far as the craft service table around the back of the duplex. When Nature calls and I need to visit the "honeywagon" (a three minute walk down the street), I announce a "ten-one" on the radio (short for "10-100") and wait for a response – that way, the rest of the outside crew will know to cover me should one of my lamps need adjusting. Once I hear an acknowledgement, it's on them to cover me -- and meanwhile, I've covered my own ass.
Much of this business comes down to just that: covering your ass – not as a bureaucratic maneuver to shift the blame on someone else, but simply to make sure our crew's responsibilities are carried out in a prompt and efficient manner. Were I to head for the honeywagon without informing the rest of the crew, the gaffer would look bad inside when his orders to adjust the aim of a lamp didn't get an immediate response. If the gaffer looks bad, the rest of us look bad -- and that is definitely not good.
To keep our gaffer – and thus the rest of the crew – looking good, we always make sure our collective ass is covered. This constant vigilance on the part of each department is the grease that keeps the wheels of The Machine running smoothly.
And so it goes, cranking out shot after shot until mid-afternoon, when we finally break for lunch, nearly two hours late. After lunch, we start prepping for the night exterior scene, pulling all the tungsten lamps off the truck and deploying them around the front yard and out into the street. It's not a complicated sequence, but at night, it's up to us to supply all the illumination, and that takes just about every tungsten lamp we've got.
It's the old bitter joke about "shooting available light," which normally refers to filming with daylight only, using no movie lamps at all -- but in this case, it means shooting with every light available.
In other words, empty the truck.
We finally get it all done sometime after ten, then wrap as fast as possible, piling into the last van back to base camp around 11:30. It's been a long two days, but at least I'll get to sleep in. The company will shoot on stage the following day, and won't need any extra hands until Friday. That's the good news: I'll get a day to rest up, then one more work day this week to pad my paycheck. The bad news is that Friday is a night shoot -- movies-'til dawn -- way down at one of those big theme parks on Beach Boulevard, deep behind the Orange Curtain.
That'll be fun.
Not...
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Rob Long, again...
Anyone familiar with this blog knows I'm a big fan of Rob Long's weekly "Martini Shot" commentaries on KCRW.* These commentaries are smart and pithy, and delivered in a wonderfully droll manner light-years from the usual overheated Hollywood hype. As a veteran television writer/producer, he's been around long enough to accumulate a wealth of great stories to illustrate his commentaries.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'm compelled to point the way once again. Rob's offering last week ("Positive Rob") was another gem. Cick here to enjoy what may be the best four minutes of your day...
*Current shows and extensive archives can be accessed via the link on the sidebar.
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Day of the Locust: Part Three
Attack of the Octo-Mom
Just say no...
I was spinning my wheels trying to come up with a post for this Sunday, when it dawned on me that I'm way overdue for a hiatus week. Having been pretty busy working the past month (and very grateful for this little run of work), it's time I wandered off the reservation and let someone else do the heavy lifting -- in this case, the ever-reliable LA Times.
As a society, we readily proscribe all sorts of behavior -- don't smoke here, don't drink there, and don't kill anybody unless the government hands you a gun and says "go." But when it comes to the indiscriminate pumping out of babies by parents hopelessly ill-equipped to provide the long term support critical to raising a sane, well-rounded human being, we seem to have a hard time knowing when to say "no."
Sometimes I wonder if maybe Nancy Reagan was right after all – not about drugs, necessarily, but concerning our shared lack of common sense when it comes to anything having to do with children.
I can understand why a couple trying to scratch out a living in an impoverished agrarian society might consider having fourteen children a good idea. Without the aid of modern farming technology, many hands are required to coax a living from the stubborn earth, and when faced with a murderous infant mortality rate, the logic of sheer numbers is compelling. Pumping out fourteen babies over the course of ten years might be a bit rough on mom, but life outside the Garden of Eden can be very harsh indeed.
The stakes are high, their choices limited.
Given the pervasive nature and unknown duration of the current global economic collapse, it's no longer unthinkable that life for us all could devolve to that level over time*, but at the moment, to feed, clothe, care for, and educate fourteen children would be a horrendous strain on any family. The notion that an unemployed single mother -- a woman whose only apparent skill in life is convincing doctors to help her give birth to enormous litters of human babies -- can somehow marshal the resources required to take proper care of eight brand new babies (in addition to her six other children), is ludicrous.
Maybe children number seven through fourteen will grow to up win multiple Nobel Prizes for curing cancer, heart disease, and herpes. Maybe they'll find a way to free Rush Limbaugh from his angry, bloated addiction to Oxycontin, soothe the painful burning itch of hemorrhoids, and alleviate the heartbreak of psoriasis for all mankind.
Or maybe they'll all end up as serial killers.
We'll find out in the years to come, I suppose, but as the increasingly surreal saga of the Octo-Mom unfolds in the press – and whatever your feelings toward this disturbed young woman, you've got to love that comic book moniker – I can't help wishing that Nathanael West, H.L. Mencken, and Mark Twain were still around to offer their own unique brands of caustic social commentary. But they're long gone, and when it comes to describing the beyond-the-pale absurdity that so often results when human desire teams up with a modern technology lacking any governing filter of common sense, words pretty much fail me. Add in the 24/7 media frenzy freak-show, and you've got another only-in-Southern-California tale of reality gone wild.
Although there have doubtless been further developments in this bizarre drama during the past week (any story strong enough to attract culture-vulture/media whores like Oprah, Dr. Phil, and Gloria Allred has some serious legs), the LA Times summed up the whole sordid story rather nicely here.
"What fools these mortals be," wrote William Shakespeare, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" -- and the man had a point. I think we'd all be better off if people like the fertility doctor who "helped" Nadya Suleman had the good sense to just say no.
* Even if we recover from these self-inflicted wounds, an infinitely worse crisis looms in the not-too-distant future when we finally run out of cheap oil – and that one really could take us back to the horse-and-buggy era in a very big way...
It's with some reluctance that I recommend you catch or TIVO the Season Two premiere of "Breaking Bad" tonight (Sunday) on AMC -- here in LA, it airs at 10 pm, but check your local listings. Prompted by SF Chronicle TV critic Tim Goodman, I took a flyer on "Breaking Bad" last season, and was hooked right from the first nightmarishly hallucinatory scene. Season One was simply brilliant, and from all indications, Season Two continues the roller coaster ride in style.
So why the reluctance to recommend such a terrific show? Because this is the kind of series you really should watch right from the very beginning. So many layers of character and plot are gradually revealed over those first seven episodes, that coming in at this point just seems all wrong. But that's up to you -- you can always TIVO Season Two as it comes, then hoard it until you've had a chance to watch Season One on DVD's from Netflix or your local video emporium. Whatever you do, check this show out. As of tonight, it's the New Best Thing on TV.
To read an excellent review from the inspired keyboard of Mary McNamara, click here.
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In like a lion, dazed and confused...
A funny thing happened to this week's post – rather than going on-line Sunday, as planned, it somehow appeared in this space on Friday. Those of you familiar with Blogger (or any of the other popular blog hosting services, I imagine) know it's easy enough to schedule a post to appear at a predetermined date/time in the future. I do this fairly frequently, writing a post during the week, then clicking "post options" to publish the post at 12:00 noon the following Sunday. This leaves me time to go over the post, correct typos, and make any edits in a relatively leisurely manner.
Things didn't quite work out this week. I followed the usual procedure with what was supposed to be today's post, but rather than following orders, "Back to the Grind" went rogue, breaking out of its digital holding cell and posting sometime Friday, laden with misspellings, typos, and -- as Strunk and White would say -- "needless words."
My first impulse was to point the finger of blame somewhere else, in this case, aiming my scorn at Blogger, which does have a tendency to go sideways with some regularity. But this time, the problem came from a most unexpected source -- my wall calendar, which lured me into believing that today would be February 29. I dutifully entered that date on the schedule, which apparently confused the Blogger software so much that it immediately published the post.
Thus the shame and heartbreak of premature blog-jaculation... Live and learn.
Despite this – and my currently work-flattened, utterly inert brain – I have not come to this Sunday morning empty-handed. Here are the two most recent "Martini Shot" commentaries on life above-the-line from Rob Long, at his pithy best, along with an astonishing Youtube performance that really must be watched/listened to, rather than described by mere words on a screen.
All in all, these three little gems will occupy less than 13 minutes of your busy day. Check 'em out -- you won't be disappointed.
Utoob
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Yep, it's a pink apple box. ...


Ambrish leads web and mobile product management at Jabong.com. Prior to that, he worked with Paytm where he worked in both mobile marketing as well as product management roles as Paytm evolved to be India's largest mobile payment and recharge company. He has worked on startups in the past- one of them is a ride sharing website named Easy2commute.com, started in 2009, and is a leading site to enable users to find carpools. The other venture he co-started was iApply.in, a SAAS based education marketing company in 2011.