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ORG Music, 2019
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REVIEW BY: Tom Haugen
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 09/25/2019
An outfit spearheaded by the Brazilian born singer and songwriter Samira Winter, Winter the band was birthed in Boston and didn't waste much time making a dent in the indie pop scene. Now residing in Los Angeles, Winter and company have been quite prolific in their short existence. This five song EP continues their indie rock prowess in all sorts of charming and infectious ways that are nostalgic, sugary sweet, and highly unpredictable.
"Everything" starts the album with a fun mix of acoustic strumming and bright percussion. The breathy vocals from Winter sit well with the adventurous instrumentation that's part indie folk, part modern pop. "Bonsai" then follows and is sung in Portuguese, as the breezy melodies unfold with precision, playfulness, and plenty of contagious hooks. Side A ends on "Always Teenager," an initially sparse tune with a lullaby quality that builds into fuller, fuzzy rocker that will absolutely satiate the alt-rock crowd, too.
Side B offers us the charming yet quirky "Borboletas," another Portuguese sung tune that's full of indie pop friskiness and impossible not to love regardless of what language you speak, and the twinkling, introspective "Disappear" ends the listen with a cat lover's chorus (repeated meowing) and stripped-back quality that fades out into a gentle, wispy exit.
Certainly very much indebted to '80s dream-pop as well as today's version of indie rock, Winter grew up on her dad's punk rock records before developing an affinity for shoegaze while in college. All those influences are evident on these five glorious tunes that are as vivid as the album's cover art. Her Brazilian heritage is, of course, certainly still very much a part of her songwriting formula, giving her a unique and compelling delivery – yet another draw to these flourishing sounds.
If you're like me and late to the party, don't waste anymore time; this is some of the best independent music being made today.
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Radicalized Justice Department Attacks GOP State For This Ridiculous Reason
The lawsuit claims the state violates part of the Voting Rights Act.
It is the first filing challenging a state's maps from the Biden Justice Department during this redistricting cycle. Legal experts anticipate a blizzard of litigation as states redraw their legislative lines.
However, this isn't the first time Biden's Justice Department attempted to interfere with the will of Texas voters.
The lawsuit notes that the vast majority of Texas' population growth over the past decade came from Black, Latino and Asian people, but the new maps that state Republicans drew doesn't give any of these communities new opportunities to choose their own representatives.
"This is not the first time that Texas has acted to minimize the voting rights of its minority citizens," Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said.
Where is her proof of that?
It's almost as if liberals can just blurt out any fallacious statement without the burden of proving these statements factual.
Texas has had to defend their maps in court after every redistricting process since the Voting Rights Act took effect in 1965, but this will be the first since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling said Texas and other states with a history of racial discrimination no longer need to have the Justice Department scrutinize the maps before they are approved.
The lawsuit cites several congressional districts where Republicans supposedly drew tortured lines to lower the share of Black and Latino voters in their party's congressional districts.
The Dept. of Justice is suing Texas over the state's redistricting plan, which the DOJ says is racially discriminatory. Here's the story by @DevlinBarrett and @DavidNakamura, which includes my maps of the current and new TX congressional districts https://t.co/BfseiK9dYq pic.twitter.com/qogfjjZ9mV
— Harry Stevens (@Harry_Stevens) December 6, 2021
Meanwhile, legal experts give absolutely zero credo to the Biden administration's lawsuit, saying each state has a right to redraw congressional district maps however they see fit, granted they aren't discriminatory, which the new Texas map is not.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn't seem worried about the lawsuit either.
The Department of Justice's absurd lawsuit against our state is the Biden Administration's latest ploy to control Texas voters. I am confident that our legislature's redistricting decisions will be proven lawful, and this preposterous attempt to sway democracy will fail.
— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) December 6, 2021
Biden and the Democrats are desperate to make ground wherever they can, knowing their majority for the foreseeable future is questionable, so it makes sense legally to attack Texas knowing their history before the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of the 1960s.
It's difficult for Democrats to believe that actual Republicans exist.
As a matter of fact Latinos are abandoning the Democrat Party in record numbers, especially in Texas, so Biden's entire legal argument makes virtually zero sense.

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At the heart of our practice is a way of looking at architecture that has been developed over the course of our 65 years of practice. We consider 9 Realities of Architecture that guide our reflections and considerations as we design, advance, and critique our work, to ensure that our clients' projects reach their maximum potential.
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Architecture strives to be the perfect embodiment of an idea as free as possible from all flaws or defects. It requires a process of methodical and relentless refinement.
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Architecture doesn't exist in isolation. It is, in effect, like joining an existing conversation. Architecture should be responsive to its context, purpose, and moment in time.
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Architecture is a social art that choreographs human interaction.
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Architecture strives to co-exist with nature's forces including gravity, water, and light.
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A building's function, hierarchy, and navigation should support an intuitive understanding.
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Architecture goes beyond the utilitarian skill of responding to physical and functional requirements. Elevating the spirit through rebellious exploration, it provides new perspectives on the known, allowing others to see things differently.
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Vice President Kembo Mohadi has claimed that the killing of over 20,000 minority Ndebele people during the Gukurahundi genocide in the 1980s was in keeping with how nations are formed.
Mohadi, a Venda tribesman and native of Beitbridge in Matabeleland South, was speaking in Cowdray Park in Bulawayo where Zanu-PF is pulling all stops to capture a council seat in a by-election.
The former Beitbridge East MP, appointed Vice President in 2017 following a military coup that toppled former President Robert Mugabe, also chided Bulawayo residents for what he claimed was their tribal bias which he said was a betrayal of the ideals of the late ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo.
"Since 2000, we have been losing, both general and local authority elections to the opposition. It boggles the mind to see Zanu-PF losing elections to the MDC," Mohadi said at the rally last Friday while canvassing for Kidwell Mujuru in Ward 28 ahead of the vote on March 30.
Without mentioning Gukurahundi by name, he went on: "What crime did Zanu-PF commit? Yes, there're problems. Yes, bulls do fight in the kraal, and they fought. Who has never done harm to another person? Even the men here, they have wronged their wives at some point.
"Bulawayo come back, we want you back in Zanu-PF. It's Zanu-PF which made you who you are; which gave you independence and all the freedoms. It all came through Zanu-PF. What has gone wrong?
"If it's an issue that we hurt each other, and a lot of people disappeared, well, in the history of nations it was always like that. The Ndebele kingdom was composed of many tribes. Did they volunteer to be incorporated? Some of them, their surnames have been bastardised by you, like Mnkandla and Mdlongwa. That's how it was."
Mohadi, a senior military figure for the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) in the 1980s war of independence, appeared to blame Zanu-PF's poor showing in Bulawayo on tribal resistance to rule by Harare and the lack of engagement by national leaders.
Vowing to change that, he said: "Tribalism does not help, stop it. It won't take you anywhere. Politics is a game of numbers. If you don't have the numbers, there's nothing that you can do.
"Kidwell Mujuru, obviously from his name he's not coming from this region, but you have to recognise his works. This election is a turning point."


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I was going to call this blog post "To office or Not to Office" – but the term office can be used to mean where the company is located or whether people sit in little private boxes versus open space, so I changed it to Physical Space. I am a fan of start-ups eliminating offices in their physical space, but I am increasingly NOT a fan of companies being completely virtual and eliminating physical space altogether.
Osage Venture Partners has a couple of companies that truly are virtual. At the seed stage or pre-revenue stage maybe this works while the company is only a handful of people. At the Series A stage when we invest, I am convinced that it doesn't work.
Maybe I am missing the stories that are becoming cultural lore, so I welcome the opportunity to be informed. Stories like: "We founded the company in three different cities and didn't meet until we hired our tenth employee;" "We hire only anti-social people who don't leave their apartments because we find they work 20 hours a day;" "Our culture is one of only using Slack from remote locations so that ideas are valued on their merit, not by how tall, attractive, or funny the person is." I did find some stories online about companies that had a culture of no office but I often get the impression that companies are built this way because the CEO wants to work this way, not because this is the best way to create a sustained culture of success.
The stories I know are the famous and not so famous ones like this: Hewlett and Packard in a garage; Jobs and Wos in a garage; Pied Piper in a rented incubator house (maybe a fictional company, but one with a fictional space); Facebook in that crazy summerhouse in Palo Alto; SevOne behind the comic book store; Verticalnet in that tiny little office located halfway between Hagan and Nults. And so on.
People are inherently social. Culture is about interaction. Loyalty is about relationships. Something is lost in text and email and Slack including irony.
The entrepreneurial community is redefining what an office is. Incubators, accelerators, and co-working spaces are making it easier to have an office, to expand, and even while small to be part of something bigger. We have two companies in WeWorks. One of our investments, Canvas, has always had a co-working space (called Refraction) as part of its overall office model because the founders believe that being part of a broader start-up ecosystem is critical to remaining entrepreneurial. Sidecar (not the ridesharing guys) is moving all of its people back into one office from the two they were forced into due to space constraints because the CEO felt the separation into two offices was killing their culture. What if all of these people worked from home? What is the culture like then?
You can hire the best talent anywhere – not near the office.
Really – do older people or blind people or people with other handicaps place a lower value on social interaction? I don't think so.
Senior experienced executives who have worked together in the past may have established norms that allow them to work together without being in the same place. But when they bring in new people, and younger people, and people who need training and mentoring – how does that happen? Without an office it is a challenge. Entrepreneurs – if you are building something sustainable and large and meaningful, your company needs a home. And if you are pitching us at OVP, have an office in your future.
I hate to say this but if you join a start up, you need to be able to live within your salary. Not salary plus planned bonus. Not salary plus 50% more coming out of savings, justified by the value of future stock options. Live within your salary.
Great logic - except for a couple things. Startups don't give 30% raises even after a Series C – they use this money to hire more people. Bonuses get paid when a company is on plan, but startup CEOs are aggressive, plans are hard to hit, and bonuses at 80% of plan (in the companies where I am on the compensation committee) often equal zero – especially for the leadership team. So now, twenty four months in, you are making $160k and didn't quite hit the bonus threshold; you are having the time of your life; you are learning a ton; you are working with great people but have never worked harder; and you just hit your IRA for the second time, with penalties, to cover the second year of $75k after-tax shortfall. You love your job but your wife or husband doesn't.
What do you do? Most often you try to stick it out for another six months but the pressure gets too much and you start looking back toward the security and paycheck of the kind of job you left two years ago. It is just too hard to dial back a lifestyle and it is impossible to operate in negative cash flow for too long. Maybe your experience in the startup positions you for a new gig and even more money. I hope so.
CEOs need to understand this challenge when they hire experienced people for their executive team or for key management positions. Explain that bonuses are a stretch. Explain that wealth creation is in options not raises or bonuses. Explain that cash is king for the business and the focus of all employees should be on sharing in value created. Explain that this is likely a five year or longer journey and not a get rich quick scheme unless you really get lucky. Try to understand the cost structure of the person being hired. Ask the question and be honest. "Can you live on this salary? Because if you can't, don't take this job." It is the CEOs responsibility to fully explain what should be expected in compensation. Don't paint a picture you can't deliver on because having this great hire join with the wrong expectations is not only bad for her but also bad for the company.
At the end of the day though, it is up to the executive or manager to answer responsibly. "Can I live on this salary for the next several years assuming little to no change in salary and little to no bonus?" If yes then congratulations. This looks like a great job and you are off on a great adventure and the possibility of real value creation down the road. If no, then do yourself a favor and stay where you are and enjoy the benefits of a great health plan and a 401k match. You will be doing everyone a favor – including yourself, your family, and the company you are thinking of joining.
Osage Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, Grotech Ventures, Edison Partners, Safeguard Scientifics, and Ascent Venture Partners are excited to host Quick Pitch: An Online Venture Fair, during which entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to hold one-on-one chat sessions with VCs. The overall concept is relatively simple and analogous to an in-person venture event. Each VC fund will have an online "booth", and entrepreneurs can choose to wait in line in one or multiple booths. Once connected in a chat, entrepreneurs have eight minutes to convince the VC of how exciting their startup is and to secure a follow-up phone call or meeting. There are no plug-ins, downloads, or software requirements; all you need to participate is a computer, tablet, or smartphone with a reliable internet connection and the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, or Chrome.
Earlier this year OVP invested in Brazen, an exciting company based in Arlington, VA led by a great team in Ed Barrientos and Ryan Healy. Brazen offers a real-time messaging platform that helps organizations create better engagement with a range of stakeholders through chat-based online events, proving particularly effective in facilitating interactions between individuals who don't know each other but otherwise have an shared reason to interact. We had tracked Brazen for a while from its origins in the recruiting space providing virtual career fairs, and became excited enough to lead the Series A round as the company broadened use cases to include alumni engagement events for universities, employee engagement events for large enterprises, and marketing and lead generation events for businesses. We are excited about this partnership with Brazen to launch its latest, and what will undoubtedly prove its most lucrative, use case. -.
In 2011, we invested in Pneuron, impressed by a strong and proven leadership team behind Simon Moss and Elizabeth Elkins and a technology that was a bit mind-numbing in terms of its capabilities. While the team at Osage called it "p"-Neuron for a while, we learned soon enough that the "p" is silent and the company is simply pronounced Neuron (though Simon exacts his revenge by still pronouncing Osage incorrectly even four years later). Once we got the name right, the rest of the diligence process came together pretty smoothly.
Pneuron had a core product called the "Pneural Cortex" that managed a distributed network of "pneurons" – mini-applications that performed very specific and narrowly defined functions. By assembling pneurons into different logical sequences through a graphical design studio, Pneuron enabled enterprises to "wrap" an existing application or database or design entirely new products to perform functions ranging from focused actions such as selective data extraction in near-real time to complete application migration. At the time of our investment, this was already a working, though early stage, product that had been tested at enterprise scale inside two financial services leaders. If it hadn't been enterprise tested, we probably would have thought what they were doing was more fiction than fact.
Pneuron was a new and early solution. People tried to categorize it incorrectly – ETL, BI, and Big Data, among others – and more than once Simon was accused of black magic or simply lying while presenting to some big brand CTOs. The company's approach broke the paradigm of the last generation of data management and analysis because it did not require huge data warehouse solutions as a prerequisite for meaningful heterogeneous system analysis. Slowly, companies with seemingly unsolvable problems came to find Pneuron, such as banks with a need for comprehensive anti-money laundering solutions that they needed NOW not in five years and financial institutions looking to create full 360⁰ views of their customers for regulatory and account management reasons. It wasn't clear what exactly the Pneuron technology should be called, but it worked to solve some of the biggest and most urgent challenges enterprise customers were facing. Much marketing angst existed as the company sought to find definitions for what it was versus what it was not.
Fast forward to today. There are now terms for what Pneuron does. The "Pneural Cortex" is a "Container" and a pretty advanced version of one at that. The "Pneurons" are "Microservices", which are combined together in different forms to rapidly build customer solutions at the point of implementation. Both "containers" and '"microservices" are terms best known to forward thinking analysts, bleeding edge CTOs, and of course to VCs. The poster boy for containers is Docker. The poster girl for microservices has yet to be found. Advanced technology teams are using both in places like Facebook and Netflix, but to date no one has demonstrated the ability to commercialize these technologies into products that are justifying enterprise investment. No one, that is, except for Pneuron, which has quietly been doing this for years and which is likely the best example of what is possible in this new product category. Pneuron has an e-book that discusses its perspectives on Microservices and Containers which is quite well done.
Simon and Elizabeth have been joined by an exceptional leadership team including Tom Fountain and Ken Lawrence, and will add another exciting executive in the next week. I am excited for Simon, Elizabeth, Tom, Ken and the Pneuron team, for they finally have the ability to define themselves by what they are versus what they are not. From thought leaders to category creators, to market leaders – what's next?
Mike Phelan was CEO of SevOne from 2006 until 2012. After he stepped down as CEO, we at Osage Venture Partners were lucky enough to have him join us as a venture partner. Mike has proven so valuable for us in assessing infrastructure investments and in connecting with entrepreneurs, though that comes as no surprise – he is one of the best.
Last week, my wife Suzanne and I had the opportunity to go to New York and to experience what one of the next generation of Phelans is doing. We were privileged to be invited as Mike's daughter Amanda Phelan launched her new fashion line in what Vogue described as a bang.
Mike is the behind the scenes advisor and is leveraging some former SevOne finance talent to support the enterprise, but the leadership, vision, and drive is all Amanda. Seeing her come out on stage after the show, seeing her working the crowd of critics and buyers, and, even to this untrained eye, seeing what she produced and the way the show was confidently staged, I was reminded of what it was like back in the board room at SevOne when Mike hold the reins, loosely but in control.
I remain ever in awe of talented entrepreneurs and Amanda is going to be a great one. While we at OVP don't invest in fashion and only in b2b software, after the Phelan show, I wished it wasn't the case. I guess someone in the Lentz family is just going to have to invest in the product versus the business. Clearly an opportunity missed.


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public works (sewers, snow removal, signage, streets, etc.). The Federal and
State Governments share power in numerous ways (some of which are listed
above), but the Local government must be granted power by their state. The City
councils, mayors, and other members of government in the municipalities, are
directly elected by the people.
Security is an arranged national effort for preventing terrorist attacks on
American soil, reduce our nation's vulnerability for terrorist attacks, and
minimize damages and help communities recover from successful terror plots. The
multi-functional department has many different responsibilities ranging from
different components. Some of their responsibilities involve immigration
enforcements, border security, citizenship and immigration services, emergency
response and recovery, disaster assistance, protecting civil rights and
liberties, combating cybercrime and protection of federal networks, protecting
critical infrastructure, transportation security, and resilience. Some of the
agencies held liable for these includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), Immigration Customs and Enforcements (ICE), Customs and Border
Protection (CBP), United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS), and
the United States Coast Guard. These agencies ensure that the department
accomplishes its five core missions. Here are the five missions of the
Department of Homeland Security: Prevent Terrorism and Enhancing Security,
Secure and Manage our Borders, Enforce and Administer Immigration Laws,
Safeguard and Secure Cyberspace, and Strengthen National Preparedness and
Resilience (page 14, QHSR, 2014). The following context will briefly explain
each mission.
our armed forces conduct Homeland Defense operations, service members will
remain under control of a chain of command. The context of this paragraph will
highlight some of the most important command groups tasked with our nations
defenses (Chapter 2, Joint Publication 3-27). The Secretary of Defense (SecDef),
who exercises direction, control, and authority, is the President's senior
assistant at all matters related to the Department of Defense. As directed by
the President of the SecDef, the Commander, United States North Command
(CDRUSNORTHCOM), is responsible for conducting military offensive operations
within the USNORTHCOM Area of Responsibility by using forces to detect, deter,
or defeat enemy intrusion into United States territories. The USNORTHCOM
Commander has Combat Command (COCOM) over the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force
component commands with a support from the United States Navy component.
Deployment and Executive Orders usually establish command relations when active
duty forces are attached to the command for Homeland Defense operations. In addition,
the National Guard forces may also conduct Homeland Defense operations as state
active duty personnel when approved by the SecDef. While USNORTHCOM is
primarily responsible for the protection of US sovereign territory, the
Commander, United States Pacific Command (CDRPACOM), is responsible for the
local population and critical infrastructure of US territories. These
territories include the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and
Republic of Palao. Other territories under the Compact of Free Association
includes American Samoa, Mariana Islands, Guam, and Jarvis Islands.
Security and Homeland Defense share overlapping responsibilities is protecting
our nation from adversaries at the borders and as far overseas, but also keep
in mind that efforts are also made to protect vital infrastructures and key
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There is ongoing research into the way we learn and retain information, whether it's as children, students or adults. Older methods of rote learning have been replaced by critical thinking models and active engagement between teachers and students is now the norm. But one of the most interesting and engaging ways we can learn (at any stage of life) is through service learning. It gets students outside of the classroom into real-world situations where their problem-solving skills, ideas and traditional beliefs are put to the test.
Combining community service with learning objectives, service learning is a way for students to apply lessons learned in the classroom to a real-world environment while working for positive change in communities. It's a form of experiential education that engages students in activities that address social needs while achieving particular learning outcomes at the same time.
Service learning can include volunteering that is purely altruistic in nature, as well as community service programs that are more structured or may involve a longer-term commitment. But service learning can also encompass internships where students gain experience on a particular career path, as well as field education that complements their formal studies.
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Rather than just relying on traditional means of education, service learning supports new ways of doing things and encourages the development of ideas. Students become active citizens in their communities and experience first-hand the social issues facing them, helping to challenge or even transform the student's previously held views.
Much of the knowledge we retain is through daily life experiences, not just what we read in a text book or is taught to us in the classroom. Through active service learning, students are more likely to be impacted by new ideas than if they are dictated to them. By being involved directly in a project or cause, individuals are motivated to make a difference and may become passionate about pursuing a career in that field.
It's in roles like these that people often discover their place in society and how their actions can make a difference in the lives of those around them. They may be working with people of different ethnicities and socioeconomic statuses, leading to an increase in tolerance or greater awareness of the issues being faced. Students involved in service learning are more likely to become active citizens in their own communities or those around the world.
Service learning is also a great way to connect with professionals in your field of study and may even lead to an internship or job later on. It gives students a glimpse into the reality of a potential career path (and may help to cement their commitment), as well as affirm any urges towards a life in the community services or humanitarian sector.
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While study abroad programs enable students to carry out their academic career in a completely new environment or culture, service learning is a more practical means of learning that involves some element of community service. It's not just about meeting the requirements of a particular course, but gaining hands-on experience in your field while giving something back at the same time.
Study abroad helps to broaden a student's horizon by transferring them to a different country and culture. But service learning abroad takes things one step further, immersing the participant in the issues affecting the society and the challenges of day-to-day life. Rather than just learning curriculum that will be tested during an essay or exam, students are actively putting their knowledge to the test and applying it to real-world situations and issues.
If you're a student at high school or college, check out if your school offers service learning projects or particular courses that include a component of service learning. If your school doesn't offer service learning programs or you're no longer of school age, then volunteer abroad projects are another great option.
Volunteer abroad organizations offer service learning projects in a whole range of different fields, from building to environmental conservation and social issues. It means that anyone at any point in their life can choose to learn new skills while giving something back at the same time. Placements range from week-long projects to immersive internships where you'll spend months abroad dedicated to a particular community. While some projects are purely hands-on, others involve some academic work that enhances the learning objectives and offers a greater insight into the issues being faced. The more time and energy you commit, the greater the benefits are in terms of development and transformation.
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Movie Review: Dan in Real Life (2007)
Romantic comedy with an awkward family focus (7/10)
Dan Burns: What don't I understand, Cara? Please, help me out. What is it? Is it frustrating that you can't be with this person? That there's something keeping you apart? That there's something about this person that you can connect with? And whenever you're near this person, you don't know what to say, and you say everything that's in your mind and in your heart, and you know that if you could just be together, that this person would help you become the best possible version of yourself?
Steve Carell is fast becoming a Hollywood go-to guy, especially for (sort of) original comedies: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Evan Almighty, and Get Smart. But in less-comedic 'real life' roles as well, such as the suicidal, homosexual scholar brother-in-law in Little Miss Sunshine and now this romantic comedy, Dan in Real Life, which starts out with a considerable patch of pathos. As in Sleepless in Seattle, the leading fellow must persevere with children following the death of the wife and mother everyone loves and misses desperately.
Written by Pierce Gardner
Directed by Peter Hedges
Steve Carell … Dan Burns
Juliette Binoche … Marie
Dane Cook … Mitch Burns
Alison Pill … Jane Burns
Brittany Robertson … Cara Burns
Marlene Lawston … Lilly Burns
Dianne Wiest … Nana
John Mahoney … Poppy
Emily Blunt … Ruthie Draper
Dan is of all things a budding advice newspaper columnist who regularly comments on family matters. He has three daughters, a young one Lilly (Marlene Lawston) in the 5-7 range, and two less-young—Jane (Alison Pill) and Cara (Brittany Robertson)—in the 13-16 range. I'm guessing the plainer, more responsible Jane is the older of the two because she's recently acquired her driving learner's permit. Cara is the apparent 13-year-old sexpot wannabe who just knows she's madly in love with Marty (Felipe Dieppa), and can't understand why her father wants to ground her for dissembling in order to see the boy.
The movie begins on the eve of a special, annual long weekend with Dan's family in a large cottage by a quaint Rhode Island seaside town. As Dan and his girls prepare for school on the day of departure, we see clearly and efficiently the nature of the relationships between the father and each of his daughters. Carell does an excellent job of showing, through expression only, just how much he loves his daughters and how truly devastated he is on the inside from the loss of his wife. In fact, that ability to convey quite clearly without words the pain—or the elation or humor or whatever—he is supposed to be feeling is a special quality of Steve Carell's acting.
Anyway, the four of them arrive at the cottage—which as Roger Ebert points out in his review is a sprawling estate that would easily fetch $20 million, seemingly putting it out of the price range of Dan's regular, just-folks parents, played deftly by John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest. On a trip into town, Dan visits a local bookstore where he "meets cute" a woman named Marie (Juliette Binoche). He is obviously smitten. They fall into a long conversation in which Dan basically does a core dump about his unenviable, sad life situation—but he really does so only because Marie exudes an empathy to embrace all empathies.
Definitely a 'moment'… for both of them.
But before he gets the chance to find out anything about her, she realizes she's late for a date and rushes off. And he needs to get back to the "cottage" for the big family dinner.
Then this is the point where a reviewer has to exercise discretion about revealing too much plot. [So potential spoiler alert: this paragraph and the next one give away the foundation of the plot… at least where Dan and Marie's relationship is concerned.] But Ebert lets us know, and it really is simply part of the setup, so here goes: Turns out Dan's brother Mitch (Dane Cook) has a new girl friend, a hottie-keeper. Mitch has a reputation as a lady's man, but this time he appears head over heels in love with, never guess, Marie… who is introduced as Mitch's paramour at that very day's family dinner.
All right, so I'm sure this has happened before in the movies where siblings are attracted to the same person. But the writer and/or director really handle the situation with the right level of awkwardness that we've all been subjected to at one time or another in our family lives. Indeed, Dan's family—all 15 or 20 of the adults, including sisters, brothers, and in-laws—makes you squirm for their overwhelming, suffocating attentiveness to poor old Dan's loneliness. They want so much for him to find romantic happiness, or even just get laid, that his embarrassed anguish leaps off the screen… especially now that he's been crushed even further by learning that Marie, his new hope to end all hopes, has been snatched away.
The story all washes out eventually in typical romantic-comedy fashion. Carell is just about perfect for this kind of role. So good, in fact, that I have a hard time watching much of the movie for its authentic discomfiture. But Juliette Binoche—originally a French actress who hit the big time in English-speaking movies, winning an Oscar for best supporting actress in The English Patient (1997) and being nominated for best actress in Chocolat (2003)—probably saves the film from what else might be a formulaic Hollywood jaunt with brand name actors. (John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest make smaller contributions by turning in performances that in lesser hands might detract.)
And the youngsters do fine. With young actors, one never knows who will climb from an inauspicious child role to the pinnacles of the profession. (I'm thinking Jane Fonda in Barbarella. She wasn't technically a child in that role… but she did win Oscars in Klute (1972) and Coming Home (1979). Plus, she was totally hot in Barbarella, as I recall… but I digress (and show age… and possibly some chauvinism), sigh.)
I do have a sense with a movie such as Dan in Real Life that I'm watching a lot of the underlying moviemaking machinery—from the selection of established actors such as Mahoney and Wiest, the acquiring of the two romantic leads Carell and Binoche, and some of the ancillary characters such as Dane Cook as Mitch and Emily Blunt as Ruthie (a former classmate of Dan's who's a late bloomer), to the Waltonesque surroundings. But it's okay to see 'the man behind the curtain' occasionally. Plus it's nice to set a movie in the cities and seascape of Rhode Island for a change.
Worthy effort, seven stars.
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1.) Between the lines of film festival management, part 94:
2011: the festival opens with The Guard. 2012: the festival opens with Killer Joe. 2013: the festival opens with Breathe In.
No one who caught sight of the expressions on the faces of sponsors and committee members in 2012 can be too surprised; the gentleman who this year asked Chris Fujiwara in a public Q&A why Frances Ha couldn't have been on that list had perhaps not got the memo.
2.) If Frances Ha had been on that list, I wouldn't have complained. You could spend a happy hour or two reading reviews by people trying to express why they loved Greta Gerwig in this film when those same reviewers would apparently have set her on fire after *Damsels In Distress". It's not her, folks; it's you.
3.) Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is indeed Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Audible, prising anecdotes and commentary out of the man one molecule at a time. Director Sophie Huber has known the actor for years, so maybe this is him in exuberant party mood. People seeing it for free sang its praises; people who had paid for it were restive and unhappy. One of these is nearer reality than the other.
4.) Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell will need further analysis down the line, but clearly gets straight to heart of how documentaries go about their story-telling and supposedly truth-clarifying business, especially the ones from the scripted and staged end of the spectrum.
5.) Magic Magic made a lot of people very angry.
6.) The Complex made a lot of people very aware of other J-horror films they had watched in the past, including me.
7.) I'm on course for seeing two-thirds of the nominees for the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature, and am as mystified by the selection criteria as ever.
Helter skelter Coverage of this year's Edinburgh Film Festival should be along shortly. A preview of the festival was commissioned by a commercial website and
The erotic exploits of Maciste Autopsying the Edinburgh International Film Festival is a short route to an unproductive week; but yes, this year seemed a characterless affair. Two


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China on Tuesday launched Gaofen-11, an optical remote sensing satellite, as part of the country's high-resolution Earth observation project.
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Brian Bajzek Alterity, Similarity, and Dialectic: Methodological Reflections on the Turn to the Other
This paper builds upon John Dadosky's recent writings advocating a "turn to the Other" in Lonergan studies. Using a Levinas/Lonergan dialogue on intersubjectivity as a test case, I address potential difficulties accompanying an exchange between Lonergan and philosophers who emphasize alterity. It is my contention that despite various differences regarding relationality, their projects are surprisingly complementary. Lonergan accentuates interconnectedness while Levinas emphasizes the encounter with radical otherness. In order to arrive at this conclusion, I argue for a re-assessment of the relationship between alterity and similarity by dialectically reframing them as linked but opposed principles held in creative tension. Lastly, I suggest ways in which this approach might offer a foundation for further forays into the fourth stage of meaning.
Michiel Meijer Human-Related, Not Human-Controlled: Charles Taylor on Ethics and Ontology
This essay critically discusses Charles Taylor's distinctive mode of argumentation regarding ethics, phenomenology, and ontology. It also examines the meaning of Taylor's ontological claims by putting a spotlight on the underappreciated significance of Heidegger and Murdoch for Taylor's ontology. I argue that Taylor's hybrid position is best understood as a phenomenological attempt to connect Heideggerian ontology and Murdochean ethics. The paper is divided in five sections: (1) Taylor's engagement with Murdoch and his tendency towards non-anthropocentrism in ethics; (2) his unusual interwoven mode of thought; (3) his debt to Heidegger; (4) his hesitant interpretations of Heidegger and Murdoch; and (5) how these hesitations affect Taylor's ethical view in general and its underlying ontology in particular.
Vladimir Dukić Individuation of Finite Modes in Spinoza's Ethics
Spinoza's rejection of Aristotelian final causation seems to create a difficulty for his account of individuation. If causation is indeed blind, how do finite modes come to assume complex, differentiated forms? And why do we find in nature a great regularity of such forms? Several recent commentators have proposed that Spinoza maintains something of the Aristotelian conception of causation where the formal essences of individuals guide the process of individuation toward certain desirable outcomes. But this sort of approach introduces other difficulties that threaten to undermine Spinoza's naturalistic framework and his ontology of immanence. This paper outlines a mechanistic and probabilistic account of individuation whereby modes are individuated by entering into relations that increase their mutual power of enduring. Together with conatus as the principle of individuation, this mechanistic account suffices to explain the individuation of finite bodies without introducing additional kinds of causation into Spinoza's philosophy.
Steven Barbone Not Just "An Unmitigated and Seemingly Unmotivated Disaster": What Could Spinoza Mean by "Sentimus Experimurque, Nos Æternos Esse"?
Much ink has been spilled over the so-called problem of the "eternity of the mind" in Spinoza's Ethics, where he writes: "Nevertheless, we feel and experience that we are eternal." The line is striking by what it seems to assert, namely, that we are eternal, but it is yet more striking if we are attentive to Spinoza's word choices. If Spinoza had written instead that we know or understand (even if by experience) that we are eternal, the issue might be more easily resolved. But what can it mean to feel and to experience that we are eternal? After reviewing several commentators' interpretations, this study suggests that we simply take Spinoza at his word. The best interpretation of this troubling passage is actually not to interpret it but to take it literally.
John J. Tilley Francis Hutcheson and John Clarke: Self-Interest, Desire, and Divine Impassibility
In this article I address a puzzle about one of Francis Hutcheson's objections to psychological egoism. The puzzle concerns his premise that God receives no benefit from rewarding the virtuous. Why, in the early editions of his Inquiry Concerning Virtue (1725, 1726), does Hutcheson leave this premise undefended? And why, in the later editions (1729, 1738), does he continue to do so, knowing that in 1726 John Clarke of Hull had subjected the premise to plausible criticism, geared to the very audience (mainly Christian) for whom Hutcheson's objection to egoism was written? This puzzle is not negligible. Some might claim that Hutcheson ruins his objection by ignoring Clarke's criticism. To answer the puzzle we must consider not only Hutcheson's philosophy but also some theological assumptions of Hutcheson's time.
Hasse Hämäläinen Aristotle and the Dilemma of Kantian Autonomy
Autonomy was an important political concept in ancient Greece. Kant made it the ground of morality: only acting motivated by autonomous reason is moral. But he admits that reason does not have a power to motivate us: desires can always override it. Thus it seems that human reason is not autonomous. The principle of autonomy, however, is an intrinsic part of Kant's "Copernican Revolution" and his rationalism about the grounding of morality. Questioning the former would lead to fideism or to skepticism while rejecting the latter to reductionism. Neither course is less problematic for grounding morality than the principle of autonomy is. I suggest that Aristotle can help us to see how this dilemma can be avoided. Unlike Kant and many others, he does not seek to ground morality beyond our experience. The Aristotelian understanding of human beings as capable of evaluating one another's actions with the language of purposefulness can explain which actions are moral without falling into the dilemma implied by the Kantian principle of autonomy.
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After graduation, I attended SPJC and Pinellas County Technical Institute (top of class in electronics technology) and worked a year for General Electric Neutron Devices in St. Pete and 3 years aboard a missile tracking ship in the Pacific, the USNS Vandenberg, which was sunk in 2010 a few miles off Key West as an artificial reef and diving attraction. I moved to Hollywood, California in 1970 and started working toward my dream career ... I began designing large mixing consoles for recording studios in 1972, became chief engineer for Laserium (laser light shows) in 1975, and became head of electronic engineering for Capitol Records from 1981 to 1988. From 1989 to 2014, I was owner & chief engineer of Jensen Transformers, Inc., (see website) ... it's founder and friend had committed suicide. I moved up the coast to Oxnard, CA in 2000 and now spend most of my time writing technical articles for magazines and teaching seminars on grounding of audio and video systems (how to eliminate hum and buzz) at industry trade shows. I've also lectured at a number of universities, including MIT and the technical university in Buenos Aires. I have a reputation for solving problems that stymie other engineers, including a long-standing one at Seahawk Stadium and another that affected many American Airlines planes. I now hold five US patents ... several became successful products!
I came out as a gay man shortly after moving to California in 1970. Eventually, I met my husband Art in 2004 and we were legally married in 2014. He has a son from a previous marriage, who will be graduating high school soon and is proud to have two dads.
Since selling my business (on my 70th birthday) and semi-retiring, I'm able to concentrate on what I love best, technical writing and teaching. Most recently I taught my 4-hour seminar in Indianapolis September 1, 2021. I've been writing chapters in other books for many years, but I intend to start writing my own technical book next year.
Many will remember me as a "nerd" at Northeast (AV assistant, science club, radio club, ... you know the stereotype). I wore very thick glasses, was overweight, and had horrible acne, making me pretty much a social outcast ... but I had a few good friends. Perhaps my best friend was Kenny Fielder, class of '61, and we had great conversations on our daily school bus rides. Anyway, I was a deeply closeted gay ... but in those days (and especially in conservative Florida), I didn't even know what gay was, let alone know anyone like me. I remained a "closet case" until I moved to California, where I learned there were lots of people like me, that I wasn't "sick," and that I could stop pretending to be someone I wasn't.
I've always wondered what became of the popular kids at Northeast and I'm happy to have found this website! I feel very fortunate that - a bit like Bill Gates - my passion/hobby turned into a career that took me farther than I would have ever dreamed possible. I was chief electronics engineer for Capitol Records from 1981 to 1988 and then, for the next 25 years, I owned my own company with 15 employees designing and manufacturing professional audio products. I lived in a big house at the edge of a golf course on the California coast, and have no chronic health problems (knock on wood) except glaucoma. My brother Bob and his wife Nancy, truly wonderful people, still live in St. Pete and I visit them every few years.
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Sean McVay to take a couple days to decide his future as Rams head coach
McVay might be stepping away from the game.
By Chinmay Vaidya Updated Jan 9, 2023, 12:39pm PST
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Head coach Sean McVay of the Los Angeles Rams looks on during the second quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium on January 01, 2023 in Inglewood, California.
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Monday, Jan. 9 update — McVay told reporters on Monday that he will take a couple days to decide whether he will return to the Rams in 2023, per Gilbert Manzano. The fact that he's even discussing a possible departure with the media isn't a great sign for his future with the Rams.
Sunday, Jan. 8 update: The drumbeat for Sean McVay to be doing something other than coaching the Rams next season is getting louder. Jay Glazer reports that McVay will make his decision sooner than later and that people within the Rams organization would be more surprised than not if McVay ended up staying.
Woooah Jay Glazer on Sean McVay:
- Don't think he'll take long to make his decision
- There are people in the building who'd be more surprised if he came back than not
Sheeeesh. This escalated so quickly.
— Sosa Kremenjas (@QBsMVP) January 8, 2023
Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay might not return for the 2023 season, according to Adam Schefter. McVay was reportedly flirting with retirement last season and TV networks were looking to add him as an announcer on their broadcasts. The Super Bowl champion eventually decided to return to LA and attempt to defend the title, but this has been a rough season for the Rams.
Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp and Aaron Donald have all been banged up, which hasn't helped McVay's team find its usual form. The coach has dealt with some things off the field as well, such as his wife's home country Ukraine being invaded and his grandfather passing away. When you're not winning, those pains can become even bigger. The networks will always be there for McVay, so there's a possibility he could walk away after the conclusion of this season and still be welcomed into a broadcast team.
McVay's offensive coordinator Liam Coen is also set to depart, going back to Kentucky for the same position per Chris Mortensen. The Rams also don't have a first-round pick in 2023 and are up against the salary cap. The situation isn't exactly ideal, especially if your key players are getting hurt.
According to Schefter, McVay will take his time before deciding his future. That decision could loom well into the summer but the Rams will need an answer before training camp. If he doesn't return, current defensive coordinator Raheem Morris could be a potential immediate candidate for the job. There's a possibility other top head coaching candidates will already be scooped up by other teams prior to McVay's decision.


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For many investors, a lengthy record of dividend payments is a trusted indicator of a company's financial health and corporate governance. The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index is a list that keeps track of those companies that have increased dividends every year for the last 25 consecutive years.
Learn how the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index works and how it can impact individual investors.
It's a positive sign when a company increases its dividend payment from one year to the next. It means that a company is capable of maintaining growth and profitability in the future. If a company increases its dividend each year over a long period—say 25 years—all the better. The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index provides investors a comprehensive list of companies that have done just that.
S&P Dow Jones Indices, which owns the S&P 500 index, reviews and updates the list of qualifying companies every January. The index is rebalanced quarterly too, in January, April, July and October, meaning the amount of shares of each constituent is reset so that each holding makes up an equal percentage of the index.
A company is removed from the index if it fails to increase its dividend from one year to the next.
As of July 27, 2021, there are currently 65 constituents on the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. Among the top 10 by index weight include Target Corp (TGT), Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM), and T Rowe Price Group Inc (TROW).
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Lower volatility compared to broader market: Because the index is made up of large-cap, blue-chip companies, it has lower volatility than the broader market. The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index has outperformed the S&P 500 about 71% of the time in down months (when the market is not performing well) and 44% of the time in up months.
Reliable income from dividends: According to the S&P Dow Jones Indices, since 1926, dividends have contributed nearly a third of total equity return while capital gains have contributed two-thirds. Income investors appreciate the reliability of dividends.
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Equal weighting does not allow winners to keep winning: Because the index is reset each quarter to create equal weighting among all companies, companies with the highest share value cannot remain at the top. If a stock goes on a run, it will become outweighed and shares will be sold at the end of the quarter to rebalance the portfolio. Therefore, investors who like to incest in strong performers that continue to outperform are precluded from doing so.
The Dividend Aristocrats Index is a solid option for investors seeking low volatility and steady income through high-yield stock. Due to their sustainable dividend growth, an investment in companies within this index can provide investors with augmented total returns and a growing income stream. Historically, dividend-growth-oriented companies have helped to lessen risk during periods of heightened volatility and down markets.
A number of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the index are available to investors, including versions of the index that incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.
The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index lists companies that have increased dividend payments every year for the last 25 consecutive years.
As of July 2021, there are 65 companies in the index.
Index companies are reviewed annually and companies can be added or dropped from the list.
The Dividend Aristocrats Index is an attractive option for investors seeking low volatility and steady income through high-yield stock.
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A POLAR BEAR CONTROVERSY
LE WWF RUSSIE S'OPPOSE AU PASSAGE DE L'OURS POLAIRE EN ANNEXE I. LE REMEDE POURRAIT ETRE PIRE QUE LE MAL (WWF RUSSIA, CE JOUR, suite à "SENSATIONS FORTES", sur ce blog, le 7 mars).
Now the polar bear is included in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Endangered Species (CITES). This means that international trade in these animals and their parts is permitted, but only by special permission of CITES.
A group of Russian experts has taken the initiative to transfer the polar bear from Appendix II to Appendix I of CITES, to make it impossible for any movement between the countries of polar bears and their skins, their derivatives or other commercial purposes. According to them, after the ban on international trade, poachers in Russia will kill fewer polar bears.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) does not support this initiative for several reasons. The fact that Russian poachers killing the polar bears, working mainly on the domestic market, rather than the illegal exports. In any case, attempts to export the skins of polar bears from Russia is not fixed, unlike the cases of sales of the domestic market. Unfortunately, our country - one of the leaders in the domestic demand for polar bear hides. . Accordingly, the change in status of the polar bear in the international conventions do not reduce poaching in our country. Moreover, some consumers are buying legitimate products of animal skins - from Canada, where indigenous people allowed limited hunting of polar bears and selling their skins. If the supply of skins from Canada to cease, the demand for Russian - illegal - the skins will rise, and the poaching of polar bears in Russia may also grow.
Here in Canada, production is reduced, as with fishing polar bears is closely related to financial well-being of indigenous peoples in Canada. Local residents not only have the right to own a limited production and sale of polar bear skins, but they can sell their "Right shot" trophy hunter - the representative of non-indigenous nation. As a result, for example, when the U.S. imposed a ban on the importation of polar bear hides from Canada, the price of skins fell in Canada, and production quotas for indigenous peoples of the animal had to be increased in order to avoid conflict. Moreover, Canada's federal structure gives the right areas, including the autonomous territory of Nunavut (Inuit Canadian public education as part of Canada) to establish their own additional quotas for certain animals, including polar bears. Thus, it is possible if and export to other countries to hide will be denied, then the skin even more worthless, and the quota will grow even more.
In addition, it should be noted that in accordance with the provisions of CITES movement across borders of any trophies is not a form of commercial use and, thus, the translation of the polar bear from Appendix I to Appendix II does not affect the transport of trophy hunting and trophy hunters .
In addition, CITES requires certain formal conditions for the transfer of species from one application to another. The grounds for transfer are: a threat to the existence of species originating from the massive use of his commercially and critically low numbers, a very limited area and the likelihood of significant downsizing in the near future. At the moment the population of polar bears is really under threat, but its numbers, though not precisely known, a rough estimate of about 20,000 individuals and covers the entire Arctic area (ie not restricted).
Thus, according to the WWF, you must first conduct research on the state population, especially in Russia, where the data on the number of species there is little. П After that, you can already make a decision about what the status of polar bears in CITES will most contribute to its preservation. It is also essential to effective control of illegal harvest of polar bears, including the study and control of markets, demand is dictating. It was on these problems need to focus, to really help the polar bear.
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