Scouts • Controversy breaks out in one Utah LDS stake over Friends of Scouting fund drive.
File Photo | The Associated Press The annual Friends of Scouting fund drive in Utah has stirred some controversy in one LDS Stake because a local leader in charge of the effort warned members that the money was not staying with the local troop and was helping fuel big salaries for top officials. This file photo shows Boy Scouts marching in formation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Kenny Thomas says he could not in good conscience lead the annual Friends of Scouting fund drive in his LDS ward in Herriman without first sending an email to members to tell them that the money helps pay high salaries for Boy Scout executives and doesn't stay with their local scout units.
He says that upset his stake president, who persuaded his bishop to release him after four months as president of the ward Young Men organization. The stake president sent him an email saying he was "appalled" at "misinformation" Thomas spread and suggested he did not "follow the prophet."
David C. Roth, president of the LDS Herriman South Stake, told The Tribune that Thomas was "released because of his unwillingness to support scouting in general," which is an activity arm of Young Men in the church, "and not just because of what he did with Friends of Scouting."
Thomas says, meanwhile, "It's pretty clear I was released because of what I did with Friends of Scouting," and says he only distributed what he feels is truthful information from such sources as The Tribune. "I don't think any member of the church should be afraid of standing up for the truth."
The episode comes after The Tribune last month reported about how the LDS Church locally uses higher pressure methods for its Friends of Scouting drives than do other groups nationally, including having stake presidents and bishops ask members for $50 to $100 each, and sending armies of Scouts to knock on every door in their boundaries (including people who are not LDS) to seek money.
The story also noted that money from the drives helps pay big salaries. Local scout councils declined to give the current salaries of executives. But past tax forms showed, for example, that former Great Salt Lake Council executive Paul Moore made $228,000 annually before leaving to head a council in Los Angeles where he is paid $383,500.
Thomas said he had already been looking into — and was upset by — how the Boy Scouts spent Friends of Scouting money and other funds. He said that started a year ago when he saw his ward was paying far more for what he calls "ramshackle" Scout camps than it was for higher-quality girls camps run by the church.
"Facilities were awful, and the latrines were literally unusable," he said. "Friends of Scouting money was supposedly going to help fund the camps, too, but it didn't appear to be percolating down. And anytime a boy wanted to do something there — like shooting or rappelling — they charged an extra fee."
Given that, he said he was shocked at how much Scout executives are paid, and said he found online that some charity-rating groups say the salaries are too high compared with other nonprofits.
Thomas said he told his bishop before he conducted their Friends of Scouting drive that he felt he needed to tell members about that so they could make an educated decision about whether to give.
He sent ward members an email talking about salaries and set up a Facebook page with more detailed information.
He said people at church laughed about it and several gave him a thumbs-up for courage. He said many people told him they always mistakenly thought the money stayed with their local Scouts. He said most donated to the drive anyway.
One member of his ward who was upset, however, was Roth. He acknowledges talking with the bishop about releasing Thomas and said the bishop decided that was the proper thing to do. Roth said it was because of general lack of support of Scouting by Thomas, which he says is not appropriate for a Young Men's president.
Thomas said he sent Roth an email months ago about his concerns, but Roth responded only on the day that he was released by his bishop.
Roth's email said, "I have recently received the Friends of Scouting drive for our stake. I am just going to be direct and to the point. I am appalled with the effect that your misinformed actions have had on this effort for our ward. Our donations are about $1,200 less than the goal of $50 per boy, and is significantly less than the other wards in the stake.
"Even though our family has already made a contribution to this cause, I will not let your efforts negatively affect the program. I will personally make up the difference. Scouting is endorsed by the prophet. He knows more than you and I about the efficacy and worth of scouting. I trust he has received revelation regarding this. For me, it is an easy and straightforward concept. I follow the prophet," the email said.
Thomas said in an interview, "I support Scouting and what it can do for the youth, but am concerned about the administration of the BSA. I think there is a lot of waste, and the salaries are too high. I am not attacking scouting or the church. I would like to see change in BSA administration. I think that most people understand that."
After The Tribune talked to Roth, Thomas said the stake presidency requested a meeting with him, which included asking why he had contacted the news media.
Thomas says he sees the meeting as a positive, however, because it started a dialogue about his concerns and why he acted as he did.
O Kenny Thomas created a Facebook page, available to the public, called Reduce Scouting Costs.


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G'bye Phoebe Snow…
by DJ Whatshisname on Apr.27, 2011, under The Musings
Wow…do you realize a generation of music has been whispering past us the last few years?
Even as a new one steps in to fill in the notes…
This has been on my mind for the last few days. I woke up at some crazy stoopid hour the other morning. Very, very much on the A.M. side of the early clock. Tossed and turned for a while – ended up tuning in some movie channel on TV.
On pops Blues Brothers 2000. This is the 1998 sequel to the Blues Brothers movie. Filmed after the passing of John Belushi (Elwood), the story picks up where Dan Akroyd character, Jake, gets out of jail and discovers he has a (sort of) half brother (played by Joe Morton). He's the son of Jake and Elwood's late surrogate father (played by Cab Calloway) in the first movie. I've never seen this movie so I figured this should knock me back out rather quickly.
Didn't happen. I caught it near the end were the band (who's the kid?) was inside of a revival tent doing a number led by James Brown and Sam Moore (half of the famous duo Sam & Dave). They were so good they brought Joe Morton's character "into the light".
(Side note: If you've never seen Joe Morton in Brother From Another Planet you are deprived. Track it down and see it. Then consider if you could play a lead role in a movie where you never utter a word. Amazing job. Thanks Gene for getting me to check it out…sometimes big brothers are really cool…yanno?)
Right away I thought about how I really missed the "The Godfather of Soul", how I remembered that the first time I heard Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" was also during my first ride in an Alfa Romeo and how that song will forever be tied to that car in my mind (thanks Big Bro'!).
I didn't fall back asleep. It seemed like in every other scene some famous musician turned up. Erykah Badu? I had no clue! In the final musical scene, the Blues Brothers Band is competing in a a battle of the Bands against the Louisiana Gator Boys.
The roster of the Gator Boys was like a who's who in music. led by B.B. King, the band was comprised of . Stars of Country, R&B, Jazz, Blues Rock and more. (Okay its been a few days and I can't remember all of the names but here's some of them) Lou Rawls, Koko Taylor, Bo Diddly, Issac Hayes, Paul Schaffer (Letterman Show), Travis Trit, Steve Winwood, Dr. John, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Gary U.S. Bonds, Jack DeJonette. The horn section was Joshua Redmond ,Grover Washington Jr.,Clarence Clemons and Jon Faddis. Look up th emovie to get a list of all of the musicians who performed.
What really sticks out in my mind was that while watching all of these artists together it really hit home how many of these great performers are no longer with us. They kinda just left. One here ..then another…little time goes by and then one more we've not heard from for a minute gets flashed across news screens.
So naturally I rocked back when I saw the email telling me Phoebe Snow went home.
Now I don't have not one of Phoebe's cuts … anymore. Lost the only LP I had of her's when I left Iceland. One thing though, I can still hear her voice in my mind. It's like a snippet of a verse from a song she once sang where her voice simply folds over the note of the moment and flies off to the rest of the lyrics. Amazing.
Her's was a voice that was in that class where Minnie played.
Nooo… one could never be mistaken for the other. They do not sound the same… One was just as pure as the other.. each as rare…just as unique. When you heard Minnie, you knew it. You didn't have to think about it. You simply knew it from the inside out.
That's also how Phoebe hits you too. Once you hear her voice, next time there's no mistaking. It can be gutsy one second and blasting through four octaves the next. Recognition comes subconsciously.
And, you will smile.
Ms. Snow was 60 when she passed yesterday evening. She'd suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2010. It is being reported that it was complications as a result of the hemorrhage that caused her passing.
Phoebe Snow is a Grammy nominated artist who recorded 16 albums, but I suspect many first heard her voice as they watched the Cosby show spin-off "A Different World". I know Aretha – another "classmate of Minnie and Phoebe – also sang the theme song. Phoebe was the first. That was her singing the theme song. Ironically, her first live album was recorded in 2007. It turned out to be her last album.And she was in the process of doing more performances.
So as the latest flash in the pan flames about and then out, remember to look to the horizon and check out those who still got that glow. Those who come before shall always be the truest points of reference.
My deepest condolences to all of the families, friends and fans of Phoebe Snow.
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Describe THESE WITCHES DON'T BURN in ten words or less.
Isabel Sterling: Queer girls in Salem navigating breakups, dating, and Blood Witches.
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Gemma (the best friend): Built for dance (and dreams of performing on broadway), crushes on boys like it's her job, suffers no fools--don't even try to keep a secret from her.
Veronica (the hot ex): high school valedictorian, Elemental Witch in Hannah's coven, kind of the worst but also sometimes you still want her to win Hannah back? She's a conundrum.
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After -- coming out changed my relationship to Hannah's story. It was suddenly much more personal. In the first few months after I came out, I consumed a lot of queer media and often wished I'd had those types of stories when I was younger. Now, I write to create fun, fantastical stories that center queer girls. Because we deserve to be centered in stories in every genre, including ones with magic and mystery.
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What 2019 debuts are you excited for?
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Not to be left behind, Olympus at Photokina announced two new cameras and three new lenses. The first is the E-PL8, an entry-level mirrorless camera with a Four Thirds sensor. This is basically an upgrade to the E-PL7, with a redesign to the body, along with a new grip and top plate. Like its predecessor, it features a 16MP sensor and in-body image stabilisation. The camera will be available at US$549.99 for the body, and US$649.99 for the 14-42 IIR kit.
Like Panasonic, Olympus has also announced the development of a new flagship—the OM-D EM1 II. The new camera has a 20MP sensor and is able to shoot at up to 18fps in RAW with AF, or at up to 60fps in RAW without AF.
Olympus says that they have spent 4 years developing the new flagship camera, and the dynamic range and noise performance have been improved. The EM-1 II has 121 cross-type AF points, spread over a wider area than the predecessor. The AF system is completely new and improved in terms of performance, precision and operation. The camera can shoot 4K DCI video at a bit rate of up to 236Mbps.
Finally, Olympus has announced three new lenses: M.Zuiko Digital ED 25mm f/1.2 Pro, M-Zuiko Digital ED 12-100mm f/4 IS Pro and M.Zuiko Digital ED 30mm f/3.5 Macro.
M.Zuiko Digital ED 25mm f/1.2 Pro
The M.Zuiko Digital ED 25mm f/1.2 Pro gives an equivalent of 50mm, and is splash and dust proof. This is Olympus's attempt at making a "perfect" lens, which promises high resolution wide-open, fast AF and well-controlled chromatic aberration. The lens will be available from October from US$1,199.99.
M-Zuiko Digital ED 12-100mm f/4 IS Pro
The M-Zuiko Digital ED 12-100mm f/4 IS Pro is an all-round zoom, with a 35mm equivalent of 24-200mm. Used with the 5-axis IBIS of supported Olympus bodies, it offers up to 6.5 stops of image stabilisation. Minimum focus distance at the 12mm end is a mere 1.5cm and 27cm at the telephoto end. It is splash, dust and freeze proof, and will be available from November at US$1299.99.
M.Zuiko Digital ED 30mm f/3.5 Macro
Last but not least, the M.Zuiko Digital ED 30mm f/3.5 Macro is an affordable macro lens with a magnification of 1.25x. It will cost US$299.99 from October 2016.
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Tesla just kicked off battery production at its massive Nevada Gigafactory
Tesla just took a big step towards realizing CEO Elon Musk's vision of a sustainable energy future by kicking off the mass production of lithium-ion battery cells at its Gigafactory near Sparks, Nevada. Tesla has set an ambitious target of eventually producing 150 GWh of lithium-ion battery cells annually – enough batteries to support up to 1.5 million electric vehicles. Tesla also plans on manufacturing as many as 500,000 cars per year before 2020. There are more than 400,000 pre-orders for the Model 3 so the demand is certainly there.
The electric vehicle maker and clean energy storage company partnered with Panasonic to design, engineer and manufacture the "2170 battery cell" (21 millimeters in diameter and 70 millimeters in length). The 2170 cells that began production Wednesday will be used in Tesla's Powerwall 2 and Powerpack 2 energy products. The batteries for the Model 3 — the company's first affordable EV, which is priced at $35,000 and expected to hit the assembly line this year — are set to start production in the second quarter.
Tesla said that by 2018 the Gigafactory will produce 35 GWh/year of lithium-ion battery cells, "nearly as much as the rest of the entire world's battery production combined." The Gigafactory is being built in phases, with nearly 30 percent completed — a footprint of 1.9 million square feet. When the 10 million square foot structure is completed, Tesla expects it to be the biggest building in the world. A second Gigafactory is planned for Europe, with the location yet to be announced.
While Musk has discussed how increasing automation will likely lead to a universal basic income for displaced workers, he is doing his part to create jobs. Tesla and Panasonic said they will hire several thousand employees this year and at peak production, the Gigafactory will employ 6,500 people and indirectly create another 20,000 to 30,000 jobs in the surrounding area.
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Q: MySQL Authentication & Privileges with PHP server on different box I am separating a PHP web server and moving my MySQL db to another box.  Actually two instances on AWS.
I can connect as the user to the new MySQL box but can not execute any queries.
On MySQL:
CREATE USER 'username'@'ip address' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username'@'ip address' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

** changed to GRANT ALL for testing to make sure there were not problems with limiting
Verified User
mysql> SELECT user, host, password FROM mysql.user;
| username | ip address   | *... |

mysql> show grants for 'username'@'ip address'
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| Grants for username'@'ip address                                                                                |
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| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'username'@'ip address' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*...' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `dbname`.* TO 'username'@'ip address'                                                     |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

When I try to open a PHP page pulling info from db I get
Invalid authorization specification: 1045 Access denied for user
   'username'@'ip address' (using password: YES)

Everything works just fine on the same box and I know that the user is connecting from the web to db server as that didn't work until I opened the ports on the db box.  I understand that MySQL Authentication runs through a process when verifying credentials but I have not been able to track this down.
Is there some other process I need to do also?
UPDATE
This new db box did not have a my.cnf file so I created it, restarted MySQL just fine.  If I add bind-address = ip address then MySQL will not start and I get the error of Starting MySQL... ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (...).

A: After Grant privileges to user you should use FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
you will need to FLUSH privileges in order to complete the process.
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Category: Railroad Accidents
American Railroads and Safety
Railroads have played a long and historically important role in the expansion and construction of America. Although new forms of transportation have replaced some of the need for traveling by railroad, transportation by train remains an inexpensive and convenient alternative that many still use for daily commutes, vacation trips and scenic rides crisscrossing the U.S. Railroads also remain one of the main methods of transporting freight and products throughout the country. One of the most common misconceptions people have is that railroads are safer than other forms of transportation. This couldn't be further from the truth.
The Federal Railroad Administration or FRA, the government agency responsible for enforcing rail safety regulations, reports that approximately 3,000 train accidents occur each year in the US. Many of these accidents injure numerous people and fatality rates near 1,000 people per year. There are many forms of railroad accidents, but some of the most common include train and vehicle collisions at rail crossings, derailments and fires. Some of the causes of train accidents include:
Conductor error
Mechanical or electrical malfunction
Poorly maintained tracks
Rail signal failure
Automobile driver error
In Texas alone, there are more than 60 railroads and multiple agencies and organizations designed to monitor and enforce rail safety regulations. Despite the efforts, railroad accidents are a routine occurrence and a majority of the accidents involve rail and roadway intersections. Be they passenger trains or freight cars, train accidents have a high potential for causing severe and catastrophic injuries and in many cases, these accidents could have been avoided.
Texas Train Safety Agencies
The Texas Department of Transportation participates in the FRA's Rail State Safety Participation program under 49 CFR Part 212 to protect public safety and prevent train accidents. Other rail safety agencies in Texas include the Safety Oversight Agency, The Rail Division and the National Transportation Safety Board. Unfortunately train accidents still regularly occur, and if you have been involved in a railroad accident, you may be eligible to receive compensation by filing a personal injury claim.
Texas law also mandates roadway regulations for driver conduct relating to train crossings. Drivers must always yield to the right of way of rail cars and motor vehicles are prohibited from crossing rail intersections if a train is visible. It is also a traffic violation to avoid crossing gates. As with all traffic violations, these train and vehicle regulations are strictly enforced, but the possibility for error or negligence still remains. For example, overgrown vegetation can obscure signs and signals or gates could malfunction. When this is the case, it is best to have an attorney investigate the specific crossing to see if any rail safety regulations have been violated.
Due to the number of enforcement agencies, you can expect a thorough and exhaustive investigation of your train related accident. These regulatory bodies will do everything in their power to shift blame away from conductors and poor maintenance procedures, especially in cases involving auto accidents. It is highly recommended that you have a competent and experienced personal injury attorney assist you in your claim process. Having legal assistance can help you decipher the intricate and often complicated regulations involved in train safety guidelines and can greatly reduce your risk of being undercompensated.
Working with the Firm
The Ferguson Law Firm, P.C. can be of great benefit to your claim process. We have more than 40 years of combined experience and have recovered compensation for our clients in the tens of millions. If your accident was caused by the negligence of a train conductor or the failure of railroad agencies to maintain rail tracks or road signals, our firm can help determine the extent of negligence as well as who should be held accountable. We take a personal interest in every case and do our best to investigate all aspects of your accident. If you would like to discuss your case with an attorney from our firm, fill out an online case evaluation or contact the firm today.
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This past fall, Bonnie Dobson was working from her home in Mebane, North Carolina. Bonnie was part of Down Home's Deep Canvassing team and was involved in a project that sought to sway voters' allegiances from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. She had picked up the phone and called a woman on her list named Linda. "She was a white woman, very Southern, born and raised in North Carolina," recalls Bonnie. "She was a Trump supporter."
"I told her that my husband had lost his job and that it was really tough because I didn't know how we were going to make ends meet," Bonnie continues. "She explained that [her family] had gone through tough times in the past, so we bonded over that."
As she had been trained, Bonnie continued asking questions and carefully listening to Linda's responses. "We talked about race relations, and there's where it got a little tricky. Linda expressed that she was not prejudiced, but she didn't understand why people were looting and rioting after George Floyd was murdered. Prior to that, I had not explained to Linda that I was black. So I told her I was, and what my experience over the years had been being African-American.
Bonnie, a Deep Canvasser with Down Home.
"At that point she kind of got quiet, and tried to tell me that I was 'different.' I said, I'm really not, to be honest with you. We talked about how we're all human, and by the end of the call Linda completely understood where I was coming from. She moved …from being a Trump supporter to being not sure," Bonnie says. "She told her husband, who was sitting next to her, that my husband was out of work and he offered him a job. We ended up friends. It was a great conversation, with a woman I probably would never have talked to on the street, and we ended up caring about one another."
In 2020, Down Home's Deep Canvassing team held thousands of conversations just like this one. In fact, Deep Canvassers and other Down Home volunteers had over 28,800 conversations like Bonnie and Linda's this year.
Deep Canvassing has become a crucial part of Down Home's outreach efforts in rural areas over the last two years, and it became an essential tool in our efforts around the 2020 elections. Pioneered by the Los Angeles LGBT Center in the aftermath of California's passage of Proposition 8, Deep Canvassing hinges on a radical bit of inspiration: What if instead of talking at people in an effort to sway their opinions on a controversial issue, you instead talked with them?
Down Home's Deep Canvassing, often done in concert with People's Action, has been expansively used to interact with North Carolina voters around issues such as universal healthcare, undocumented immigration, and, now, candidate persuasion. The goal is to have honest, face-to-face discussions with people– a method that resonates with how rural North Carolina ticks. Deep Canvassers seek to find the source of voter's feelings about controversial issues and hear the personal stories behind those feelings. In return, canvassers also share their own struggles, creating a sense of human connection that can transcend deep-seated prejudices.
Down Home member Amy Cooper had worked more traditional canvassing jobs before, but found that "no one wanted to talk." Deep canvassing interested her because it is based around storytelling. Amy explains that she would share her personal healthcare story to open up conversations while Deep Canvassing. "If I hadn't qualified for Medicaid, with the pregnancy condition I had, I would've died," she explains. "For them to know that Wow, this person who's talking to me, if they hadn't been covered by insurance, they would've died. That's a real thing."
Amy, a Deep Canvasser at Down Home, at a protest in her hometown.
Studies by researchers David Broockman of UC Berkeley and Josh Kalla of Yale have shown that Deep Canvassing is more effective at changing voters' attitudes than traditional political outreach methods such as advertising and shorter, more transactional canvassing. This makes it promising for organizing in rural communities where people's viewpoints trend towards traditional and conservative.
Part of changing voter's minds is allowing them to talk to those whose life stories have been distorted through cultural stereotypes, such as those who use public assistance or are the victims of police violence, putting a human face on what otherwise could just remain conservative talking points. By telling their own stories, canvassers can change the underlying narratives that candidates and politicians in the rural South play upon when they appeal to people's prejudices.
Forcing voters to acknowledge the contradictions between what they're told about how our economic system is supposed to operate and the real-world experiences of themselves and others is key to how deep canvassing works, says Amy. "Things that are stigmatized really need to be worked on by deep canvassing."
"Deep canvassing can certainly be used for race relations and LGBTQ rights," says Dobson, thinking about the potential of the work in the future and reflecting on the transformative conversations she has been able to have through the project.
"Everyone just wants a chance to share their story and be heard," agrees Amy.
Gabe, a Deep Canvasser with Down Home, going door to door in earl 2020 before our efforts moved to the phones.
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Noah Baumbach makes a moving divorce drama, and Adam Sandler plays a tornado of self-destruction
Photo: Toronto International Film Festival
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"I feel like I'm in a dream," Charlie (Adam Driver) tells Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) the moment after she serves him divorce papers. The papers aren't a surprise—he knew this day was coming, and there's little indication that he believes that their differences are, as they say, reconcilable. For both parties, it's more the how of the moment that's so strange: in someone else's kitchen out in California instead of in their own home in New York, and by her sister (Merritt Wever), because of course the law says that Nicole can't hand Charlie the papers herself. It's not the way either of these soon to be exes imagined this seminal moment in their lives transpiring. Of course, there was a time that neither of them could imagine being in the situation at all. That's the thing about divorce: It's pretty surreal no matter whose kitchen you're standing in.
There's a certain screwball energy to the beats leading up to this stunned interaction, and that, coupled with the specificity of the unease, marks it plainly as a Noah Baumbach scene. Baumbach, writer and director of whip-smart comedies like Frances Ha, Margot At The Wedding, and While We're Young, has over the years become one of our most reliable observers (and provokers!) of human discomfort—a kind of anthropologist of neurosis, particularly of the East Coast variety. Marriage Story (Grade: A-), his woundingly perceptive new movie, finds him applying that expertise to a huge subject: the emotional and legal quagmire of divorce, which he unpacks with an almost procedural exhaustiveness. This is a film, a deeply thoughtful and empathetic one, about how difficult it is—logistically, on top of all the messy feelings—to end a marriage.
We first meet Charlie and Nicole through what may be the most beautiful single passage of Baumbach's career: two consecutive montages, cut with the signature snap and flow of editor Jennifer Lame, that lay out what each of the spouses cherishes about the other. It is, essentially, an ode to their love and what sustained it. It's also, as we find out, something foisted upon them—statements they've been asked to write by the therapist mediating their separation. Charlie, an acclaimed stage director, wants to stay in New York and continue funneling his energy into the theater company the two built together. Nicole, lead performer of the company, wants to return to Los Angeles and re-jump her screen career—she's scored a pilot after years away from Hollywood. The two are at an impasse, though the geographical dispute is really just the most tangible of the issues that have grown between them. That they have a young son of course complicates the matter of where they live.
The separation begins amicably, neither Charlie nor Nicole wanting to make the process harder on the other. But then the lawyers get involved, and things get personal. Baumbach applies his incisive laser-pointer focus to the tiny frustrations and absurdities of the process: the challenge of obtaining counsel when one party has already talked to many of the best lawyers in town; the way residency, and when and where a case begins, sets the terms of a custody dispute; the truly bizarre system of negotiation through proxy, two lawyers speaking on behalf of their clients, but not always capturing their tone or intention. What Marriage Story understands is that the whole system can seem designed to make people hate each other, the better to benefit their representation. (Laura Dern and Ray Liotta deliver pitch-perfect supporting performances as the pair's respective attorneys, speaking a combative language that's like a distilled form of Charlie and Nicole's resentment for each other, minus any of the leavening compassion.) At the same time, the film suggests that the pair's desire to slide easily out of their union is a kind of fantasy; they have things they need to say to each other, and not quietly.
Speaking of which, Marriage Story boasts its own addition to the canon of great movie spats, a discussion that escalates with gut-wrenching speed and intensity into a no-feelings-spared showdown. Driver and Johansson, offering some of the most nuanced acting of their careers, expertly chart the arc of flaring emotions during this devastating sequence. But the movie asks much more from them than just vitriol; Baumbach locates a greater understanding of this common ordeal in their layered, grounded performances—in the cocktail of bitterness and lingering affection they both stir up.
Once upon a time, the filmmaker might have made a truly caustic study of romance gone wrong; in fact, he already did that, from a different perspective, in The Squid And The Whale, the film that truly announced him as an artist able to straddle lines of drama and comedy in pursuit of truths about modern society. So confidently made (and so expertly shot in 35mm) that it almost seems to have been pulled from the arthouse renaissance of the 197os—a time when American directors were hustling to compete with the imported visions of Bergman, Fellini, etc.—Marriage Story offers venom in drips and drops instead of drowning us in it, because it knows that no matter how far apart these two drift, the feelings that first brought them together are still there, informing their flawed attempts to move on without destroying each other. The title, as it turns out, isn't ironic. This is the story of a marriage, just one told through its conclusion. It's also Baumbach's most mature and least comic work—though the latter is obviously a relative distinction, given how much inspired humor he still manages to slip into the proceedings, narrative and legal alike.
The director's last movie, The Meyerowitz Stories, also felt like a refinement of his language and technique, albeit one closer in spirit to the fast-talking comedies in which he generally specializes. Its greatest feat, perhaps, was coaxing a truly restrained, touching performance out of Adam Sandler. The Safdie brothers, NYC filmmakers of a much grungier sensibility, get something just as impressive out of the Sandman in their chaotic new Tri-state character study, Uncut Gems (Grade: B+). Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a jeweler who lives his life in a state of constant, self-inflicted chaos, gambling huge sums of money he owes to loan sharks and constantly chasing some new score. When we first see the actor, he looks and sounds a little like his Jack And Jill costar (and Dunkacino spokesman) Al Pacino. But like so many of the SNL alum's good performances, this one doesn't so much break from his signature qualities as amplify and re-contexualize them. Uncut Gems casts him as a tornado of bad judgment—a man so profoundly irritating to almost everyone in his life that he seems on the verge of getting clocked in the face at all times.
Howard, early in the movie, gets his hands on a rock embedded with kaleidoscopically colorful Ethiopian gems. It becomes the catalyst for a caper of pure self-destruction, as this wheeler-and-dealer tries to keep multiple balls in the air (literally, given how the real Kevin Garnett factors into the plot), outrunning creditors and compounding the stakes of a very foolish hustle. In the Sandcanon, Uncut Gems makes that famously nervous passage of Punch Drunk Love look relaxing. It's nearly two and a half hours of pure stress (ours and his), audaciously exacerbated by one of the Safdies' typically abrasive soundscapes: overlapping dialogue, obnoxious noises (like the persistent buzz of a broken automatic door lock), an electronic score that seems intent occasionally on drowning everything else out. But the real source of anxiety is Howard himself, and Sandler somehow manages to make him both totally exasperating and oddly magnetic—we watch his foolhardy flirtation with ruin in a state of shocked disbelief that borders on admiration. It's a performance as live-wire exciting as the one the Safdies got out of Robert Pattinson in Good Time. And the movie itself is exhilarating. Just bring a Xanax.


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Ford's Ubiñas on Universal High-Speed Internet Access
Submitted by Sam duPont on 4/8/10
Luis Ubiñas of the Ford Foundation has an excellent editorial in the current Journal of Philanthropy under the headline "Why Foundations of All Kinds Should Promote Internet Access." He makes the case that promoting internet access cannot be the exclusive domain of media or technology philanthropies, but that high-speed, universal access had to be the objective of any modern foundation. He writes:
Today the Internet is fundamental to every issue we care about. Efficient and low-cost health care, for example, will soon depend on high-speed access to online medical and diagnostic tools. Some 77 percent of Fortune 500 companies accept job applications solely online, according to one study. And digital classrooms that use high-speed Internet are already connecting students with a vast new world of ideas and information.
In brief, he argues that every foundation risks inadvertantly ignoring a substantial "information underclass" if they fail to include universal, high speed web access as a core objective. He goes on to also make a strong case on the need to fight censorship and anti-competitive behavior by ISPs. The Ford Foundation is committing $50 million to support these objectives over the next five years.
It's great to hear this level of support for expanding web access. Monday's ruling by the DC Circuit Court against the FCC put some of the big objectives outlined in the National Broadband Plan-- particularly those aimed at universal access-- into hazy legal territory. This goal is one that nearly everyone can agree on (including Google and Verizon CEOs Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg), and I couldn't agree more with Ubiñas that universal, high-speed internet access needs to be a priority for everyone seeking a better America.
Censorship & China, Technology & Freedom
The NY Times had a great article yesterday on censorship in China. While much of the focus here has been on the relationship between Google and China, the Times smartly distinguishes between China's censorship of unwanted foreign content-- which it does comprehensively and successfully-- and the censorship of domestic content-- which is a heckuva lot harder to do, but a far more pernicious evil. From the article:
Today, China censors everything from the traditional print press to domestic and foreign Internet sites; from cellphone text messages to social networking services; from online chat rooms to blogs, films and e-mail. It even censors online games.
That's not all. Not content merely to block dissonant views, the government increasingly employs agents to peddle its views online, in the guise of impartial bloggers and chat-room denizens. And increasingly, it is backing state-friendly clones of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, all Western sites that have been blocked here for roughly a year.
The government's strategy, according to Mr. Bandurski and others, is not just to block unflattering messages, but to overwhelm them with its own positive spin and rebuttals.
The government makes no apologies for what it calls "guiding public opinion." Regulation is crucial, it says, to keep China from sliding into chaos and to preserve the party's monopoly on power.
For anyone wanting to begin learning about China's censorship practices, this article is a great place to start.
And for anyone interested in how connection technologies-- like the internet, mobile phones, social media, etc.-- are both promoting freedom and enabling suppression around the world, I'd encourage you to come to our offices on Monday for a speech from Alec Ross, Secretary Clinton's Senior Adviser on Innovation. Ross has been one of the forces behind State's 21st Century Statecraft Initiative, and has been a leader in State's new focus on internet freedom. On Monday, he'll be giving a talk on the role of connection technologies in open and closed societies. Please RSVP here, click here to watch the webcast, or here for more information.
In 2007, NDN published a paper co-authored by Ross and Simon Rosenberg called A Laptop in Every Backpack, which contained one of the first public calls for universal access to the global communications network to be a major domestic and foreign policy priority of the United States.
For more of our work on internet & information freedom, take a look at this backgrounder, and come back to visit Global Mobile for regular commentary on the role of connection technology in promoting freedom around the world.
Twitter and Us
Social Technology
A few weeks back, I wrote about how we'll share content-- video, music, photo, text, etc.-- as social technology evolves, and I made the point that among our primary validators will be our friends. I'd like to expand that a little, to say that, already, our primary validators-- the people who we let tell us what's worth looking at-- are individuals, rather than institutions.
In the past, for example, newspapers editors were the people who decided what was important, and it was the brand of the newspaper that lent credibility to their recommendations. In the online, socially networked world, in which we all have incredible new capabilities to personalize the content we see, the validators are increasingly individuals, and it's the individual's brand that people are drawn to. You might read Ezra Klein, but not the Washington Post; you might follow Alec Ross on Twitter, rather than reading what's being written about the State Department; and you might hang on Ashton Kutcher's every musing. It's all about individual people.
All this is to say: my Twitter handle, @GlobalMobileNDN, has felt increasingly irrelevant and out of step. So I'm switching exclusively to my personal Twitter handle, @swdp. I've done a little switcheroo, so if you follow @GlobalMobileNDN, you'll now be following @swdp. If not, I hope you'll become a follower!
DC Circuit Court Rules Against FCC in Net Neutrality Case
In a ruling that will seriously limit the Federal Communications Commission's power over broadband providers, the DC Circuit Court ruled today in support of Comcast's claim that the FCC had overstepped its authority by ordering Comcast to treat all internet traffic equally.
The case dates back to an incident in 2007, in which several subscribers to Comcasts's broadband service realized the company was slowing their access to peer-to-peer shared content. The FCC intervened, ordering that the internet service provider had no right to discriminate between the kinds of content users sought over their network. The decision today undermines that intervention, and undermines the FCC's ability to regulate the networks of ISPs including Comcast, AT&T and Verizon.
From the conclusion of the decision issued by Judge Tatum of the DC Circuit Court:
It is true that "Congress gave the [FCC] broad and adaptable jurisdiction so that it can keep pace with rapidly evolving communications technologies." It is also true that "the Internet is such a technology," indeed, "arguably the most important innovation in communications in a generation." Yet notwithstanding the "difficult regulatory problem of rapid technological change" posed by the communications industry, "the allowance of wide latitude in the exercise of delegated powers is not the equivalent of untrammeled freedom to regulate activities over which the statute fails to confer Commission authority." Because the Commission has failed to tie its assertion of ancillary authority over Comcast's Internet service to any "statutorily mandated responsibility," we grant the petition for review and vacate the Order.
So, what's next? The FCC has not yet offered their own next steps, but in a statement today said they remained committed to the principles of a "free and open internet" (an objective everyone seems to agree on), and would base their policies on a solid legal foundation.
According to net neutrality advocates such as Free Press and the Media Access Project, that legal foundation should include reclassifying internet services under the more stringent "Title II" regulation framework, instead of the "Title I" framework that has been in use. This would give the FCC clear, firm control over the ISPs.
Most internet service providers, on the other hand, would probably rather see the question referred to Congress, as Verizon EVP Tom Tauke argued in a speech here at NDN two weeks ago. Congress would be able to either clarify the FCC's role in internet access, or give the authority to another agency.
Just about everyone seems to agree that a clearer regulatory regime is necessary, if we are to achieve the objectives of an open internet and universal access. For now, it's back to the drawing board.
Likes I Link, Links I Like
A Tanzanian political party registering members via text message.
The Boston Globe on several students of my dear alma mater and their work with Ushahidi aiding Haiti's recovery.
The best smartphones for global development. (h/t mevans)
XKCD compares the speeds of seismic waves and Tweets:
Connectivity in Hard-to-Reach Places
Submitted by Sam duPont on 3/30/10
Global Mobile is on vacation this week, but I felt I should share the below:
In 1867, John Wesley Powell became the first white man to explore the Grand Canyon, filling in the last "UNKNOWN" blank spot on the maps of America. A few decades later, in 1935, connectivity came to the bottom of the Canyon, as the CCC constructed the Trans-Canyon Telephone Line. As you can see above, the telephone line covers some pretty hairy terrain, but FDR and the CCC knew the power of connectivity, and knew the value in connecting tourists and rangers to the world outside the Canyon.
Now, of course, we're canyoning in a more high-tech world-- America's forest rangers, for example, are plugging their smartphones into the AnaBat, a small piece of hardware to help them hear, count, and identify the bats that call the Grand Canyon home. Meanwhile, the FCC, rather than the CCC, is working to connect all Americans, bringing broadband to even the most hard-to-reach parts of our country. Plus ça change...
Verizon's Tom Tauke on the Future of Internet Policy
At NDN this morning, Verizon Executive Vice President Tom Tauke delivered a pretty big speech on how the internet should be governed in the years ahead. The speech has gotten some coverage in the Post, the Hill, in some trade publications, and by advocates on the various sides of the issues he addressed.
To very quickly summarize the talk, Tauke argued that the internet has thrived as a competitive marketplace in the past few decades, but that the governance system regulating the net is unclear and based on older, different technologies. A failure to clarify the regulatory system may stifle continued investment and innovation. Tauke called on Congress to clarify which agency has the authority to regulate the internet, but did not specify which agency it should be-- whether the FCC, the FTC, or another.
He proposed building a fresh architecture for governance of the net, and offered four principles to guide the construction of that architecture: First, consumers should be free and empowered to use any legal device to access any legal content. Second, consumers must feel safe under uniform and consistent security laws. Third, consumer access and adoption should be a priority for the government. Fourth, the government's role should be to protect consumers and ensure a smoothly functioning marketplace.
Most analysts agree that the 1996 Telecom act needs to be revised, and a clearer system for regulating the net needs to be adopted. Not everyone agrees with Tauke's ideas, but his recommendations are a serious contribution to a serious debate over how to build the new architecture of internet governance, and well worth everyone's consideration. The full text of his speech can be found here, and you can watch video of the address below.
CTIA, Day One: The Promise and Potential of m2m
If you've ever been to the CTIA conference, you know it can be a little hard to come away with much more than a tote bag full of tote bags and a gambling debt to rival your mortgage. This year, the big news (at least according to Twitter) has centered around the release of a new phone-- the first 4G phone-- from HTC and Sprint. It's pretty, and it'll sure be fast, and it may even serve as a WiFi hotspot for 8 other devices (cool!), but it's basically the next generation phone we knew was coming.
In the sessions/discussions/panels I've attended, and in my wanderings of the Wyoming-sized exhibit floor, a pretty clear theme has arisen around machine-to-machine (m2m) communications. There are a number of companies exhibiting here that are working directly in the m2m space in one capacity or another, whether manufacturing modems that will feed information to a database, writing the software to govern the devices, or building the consumer products that will put it together.
Beyond that, the broader areas that seem to be host to the most activity are facing their greatest challenges-- and seeing their greatest innovation-- in the m2m space. I'm thinking particularly of mHealth and the energy/smart grid spaces, both of which have a lot of people talking out here.
In healthcare, the great promise of wireless in the U.S. is to facilitate remote monitoring of patients, and to collect data-- both on the individual patient level and on the broader, society-wide level. There's a great deal of innovation coming from all the big players and a number of smaller ones to craft devices that will monitor everything from your blood pressure, to your weight, to your heart rate and ECG in real time, wirelessly. These devices then feed the data they gather into a smart database capable of identifying health problems from what it gleans. There are all sorts of issues with this-- backend compatibility, successful business models, and some mondo liability issues to start with-- but there is incredible opportunity here for these devices to do tremedous good, and I'm pleased to report that pretty much everybody is on it.
In energy, NDN/NPI fanatics already know about the potential of the smart grid, thanks to the work we've done on Electricity 2.0. A crucial piece of the smart grid-- part what will make it smart-- is broadband connectivity built-in. Some of this connectivity will come from wireless, which will tie together the devices in our homes, let our smart meters talk to the other nodes on the grid. In this, as in mHealth, there will be great reliance on smooth, secure, reliable m2m connectivity. With an emphasis on the secure-- you don't want your health data getting lost in transit, or your neighborhood losing electricity.
The handheld devices and the hott new apps to run on them might still be what's sexy here at CTIA (so far as anything is really sexy here), but the real innovation to make life-- not just more convenient-- but truly different and better is happening in this machine-to-machine, data-gathering and analysis space.
Freedom in the 21st Century: Alec Ross to Speak on Internet Freedom
In recent years, connection technologies have played an ever-greater role in promoting freedom and openness around the world. In states such as Iran, China, and Egypt, people have been empowered by new tools: social media, mobile phones, the Internet, text messages, online social networks, and others. The Obama Administration has taken a leading role in protecting the exercise of universal freedoms including the freedom to connect, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly on digital media, as outlined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her historic speech on Internet freedom in January. The State Department has been working hard to use connection technologies to advance the causes of human rights and freedom in our increasingly networked and borderless world.
One of the leaders of this initiative is Alec Ross, Senior Adviser on Innovation to the Secretary of State. Before joining the State Department, Ross served as the convener for technology, media, and telecommunications policy for Obama for America and for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team where he focused on technology, innovation, and government reform. In 2000, Ross co-founded One Economy, a non-profit, three-person basement operation which, until 2008, he helped lead and grow to the world's largest digital divide organization that connects low-income people to the tools of the digital age.
On April 12, at 12pm, the Global Mobile Technology Initiative, a joint project of NDN and the New Policy Institute, will host Ross as he delivers a speech on the role of connection technologies in open and closed societies. His address will focus on the tension between societies that are increasingly open by virtue of connection technologies, and societies that are increasingly closed by government suppression and manipulation of connection technologies and communications networks.
Please RSVP if you'll be joining us. If not, a live webcast of the event will begin at 12:15 pm.
Let's Tauke About the Future of Internet Policy
I'm out in Las Vegas this week at CTIA's annual Wireless conference. Really cool stuff going on here. Really cool, geeky stuff. Actually, just really geeky stuff. Anyway, I'm here so you don't have to be, and I'll be Tweeting and blogging up a storm.
Back at home base, NDN and the New Policy Institute are getting ready for a major event tomorrow. We're hosting Tom Tauke, EVP of Verizon for Public Affairs, and he's going to be giving a big (trust me, big) talk on the future of internet policy. More info is here, you can RSVP here, or, if you can't make it in person, you can join me in watching the live webcast here.
Verizon will also be putting out a white paper covering much the same territory as his speech, which you'll be able to find at their public policy blog. I'll be summarizing it and offering my own take here at Global Mobile. If you're into internet policy (and I know you are, don't lie) it'll be an interesting read.


After becoming a vegetarian over a decade ago (more recently vegan), I started reading more about the welfare of animals and the abuse that happens in the factories and farms that produce our food and goods. The more I read about the fashion trade and the atrocities that happen to living beings, I started making more conscious decisions to swap out all that I could to cruelty free. I started with food then went onto cruelty free beauty, hygiene and household products. Then I started making efforts to purchase clothing and fashion accessories more consciously. Why should I be able to end or cause pain in the life of a helpless animal for vanity's sake.
..the same goes for laboratories and fashion farms. I want to use my blog as a platform to remind others where our leather handbags or fur vests come from. I also want to show you that glamorous options DO exist in the world of cruelty free fashion. That is why I am putting together this post of cruelty free dupes of high end fashion handbags. I am a handbag lover, so I understand that we all want the accessories that make us feel fab.. but buying consciously hasn't limited my ability to express myself through fashion. I think these days there are more and more cruelty free options which give you the option to vote with your wallet.
So here we go.. Here are some of the most coveted handbags from well known designers and their cruelty free (no genuine leather, fur or suede) dupes.
Creating awareness of the cruelty that goes on behind the beautiful pieces you see going down the runways or in stores is the start to ending this unnecessary practice. I will be sharing more dupes of animal friendly options when it comes to fashion and hope that this will be my small part in helping out the little guys. Many of us don't know that there is such cruelty hiding behind these bags, so my goal is certainly not to point the finger but instead to bring awareness and alternatives.
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Within the framework of the IPA Adriatic funded DeFishGear project, MIO-ECSDE launched beach litter surveys in Thesprotia, Greece, 10-14 November 2014. Based on the beach monitoring methodology (read more here) prepared by MIO-ECSDE in collaboration with other DeFishGear partners, six sites were selected taking into consideration their location (vicinity to ports, river mouths, tourist destinations, coastal urban areas, remote areas) and other features related to morphology, accessibility, etc.
The results of the one-year-long beach litter survey will contribute to the identification of risks in the area related to litter that ends up in the marine environment originating from different on- and off-shore human activities (e.g. inadequate urban solid waste management at all stages, discharge of untreated municipal sewage, commercial fishing, etc.) and subsequently facilitate the work of the Management Body, as well as of the local authorities to identify prevention and mitigation actions to tackle marine litter.
It should be noted that MIO-ECSDE will also perform floating litter surveys in the area, while the other Greek DeFishGear partner, the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, is carrying out marine litter monitoring activities on beaches, seafloor and biota in the area of Corfu.


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Sidewalks: Will the Real GOP Stand Up?
Mike Pence may be a Republican congressman from Indiana, but his roots are firmly in the Irish Catholic Democratic tradition. Pence's father was the son of an Irish immigrant who came of age in fifties and sixties America. Naturally, it was a big deal when John F. Kennedy became the first Irish Catholic president. In fact, according to one profile of Pence, he still has a boxful of JFK memorabilia. Of course, since the days of Camelot, the Pence family has changed and Irish America has changed. Pence, for one, became an evangelical Christian. He also abandoned his family's Democratic roots and, as so many Irish Americans did, supported Ronald Reagan and joined the GOP. Today, Pence, is the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives. And today, Pence's party has some tough choices to make, specifically when it comes to immigration. This will surely be a hot issue come 2010, when Peter King or another Republican must articulate a Republican immigration policy when they run against Kirsten Gillibrand for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. For now, there are signs that the Republicans may remain a party with no clear message for immigrants, their children or even their grandchildren, who have settled in the heavily ethnic Catholic enclaves of New York and New Jersey as well as crucial swing states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania. This was evident in a long analysis of the Republican Party and former GOP leader Newt Gingrich that appeared in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine. The article basically said that there is a significant group in the Republican Party that believes the GOP has failed not because it is too harsh, but too "soft on immigration" and other issues conservatives hold dear. "This intramural disagreement raises basic questions for Republicans about what kind of party they actually want to be in the 21st century. Is the Republican future going to continue to rely on country-club denizens and the rural bloc, or should it aim more for working-class Catholics or recent immigrants?" Perhaps the most disturbing thing about this article, though, is that a towering figure such as Gingrich "seems to have decided not to choose sides in this debate." Pence, on the other hand, has become an interesting voice on the immigration debate. Initially, he was one of those Irish Americans comfortable evoking his immigrant roots even as he argued that we should have a more restrictive immigration policy. In 2005, while debating an immigration measure, Pence said, "As the grandson of an Irish immigrant, I believe in the ideals that are enshrined on the Statue of Liberty in New York City Harbor. America has always and will always be a welcoming nation, welcoming under the law any and all with courage enough to come to this shining City on a Hill." Then came the inevitable "but." "But a nation without borders is not a nation." Pence then went on to discuss the litany of problems which immigrants, legal or not, supposedly cause. This, of course, put Pence squarely in the mainstream of the Republican Party. At the time, in the wake of George W. Bush's 2004 victory over John Kerry, this seemed a safe place to be. But Pence's voice became an important one in the debate over immigration. He spoke to many groups (including the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform) and tried to carve out a more moderate compromise position on an emotional topic. In this sense, again, Pence's journey as an Irish American is an important one. Pence has since become the House chairman of the Republican Conference, making him essentially the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, after Eric Cantor (minority whip) and John Boehner (minority leader). So assessing where Pence stands on the issue of immigration is an important gauge of where the Republicans will be going on this issue. Last week, Congressional Quarterly noted that Pence is "urging the GOP to move away from its strict opposition to granting eventual legal status to undocumented workers." Pence himself said, "I broke from House conservatives to promote a compromise bill on immigration. I still hope we can find middle ground." In the wake of Barack Obama's historic presidential win, the Republican Party must continue soul searching if it is to emerge as a stronger national party. It took a step forward in naming African American Michael Steele as party chairman. Of course, what did Steele do this week? Apologize to radio firebrand Rush Limbaugh. That's probably a step back. (Contact Sidewalks at tomdeignan@verizon.net)
Tom Deignan