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KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV explained
Call Letters: KCRA-TV
City: Sacramento, California
Station Logo: KCRA logo.svg
Station Branding: KCRA 3
KCRA 3 News
Station Slogan: Where the News Comes First
Digital: 35 (UHF)
Virtual: 3 (PSIP)
Owner: Hearst Television
Licensee: Hearst Stations Inc.
Location: Sacramento–Stockton–Modesto, California
Callsign Meaning: Misspelled call letters for original radio sister; intended to be KRCA
Sister Stations: KQCA
Former Affiliations: DT2:
NBC Weather Plus (2005–2008)
Effective Radiated Power: 1000 kW
Haat: 5790NaN0
Facility Id: 33875
Licensing Authority: FCC
KCRA-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 35), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Sacramento, California, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of Hearst Communications, as part of a duopoly with Stockton-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KQCA (channel 58). The two stations share studios on Television Circle in downtown Sacramento and transmitter facilities in Walnut Grove.
The station first signed on the air on September 3, 1955. It was founded by the Central Valley Broadcasting Company, a partnership of the Kelly and Hansen families of Sacramento. Central Valley Broadcasting also owned KCRA radio (1320 AM, now KIFM, and 96.1 FM, now KYMX); the AM station's call letters were intended to be KRCA, but the middle two letters were erroneously transposed by a typist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) when that station's original license was drafted in 1945 and was never corrected. By the time KCRA-TV went on the air, the KRCA-TV call letters had already been taken the previous year by NBC's owned-and-operated station in Los Angeles (originally KNBH, now KNBC). The station's longtime original studios were located at 310 10th Street in Sacramento. KCRA-TV inherited the NBC affiliation from KCCC-TV (channel 40, channel now occupied by Fox affiliate KTXL), which became the Sacramento market's first television station when it signed on in September 1953, which had also carried affiliations with ABC, CBS and DuMont until other stations debuted in the market. However, it in turn also received the affiliation as a result of KCRA-AM's decade-long affiliation with the NBC Red Network. KCRA was the third of Sacramento's VHF stations to sign on exactly within a year behind KXTV and KOVR—all signing on in six-month increments.
In 1959, under the direction of then chief engineer, William Herbert Hartman, construction began on a new 15490NaN0 transmission tower near Walnut Grove to transmit the signals of KCRA-TV, KXTV and KOVR; the tower was completed in 1961. Upon the death of KCRA co-founder Ewing C. Kelly in 1960, son Bob Kelly (who was KCRA's station manager, commercial manager and film buyer) became president of KCRA, Inc., while son Jon Kelly (who served as its local sales manager) was named general manager.
In January 1962, KCRA-TV began transmitting its signal from the Walnut Grove tower, which became the tallest structure in the state. In April of that year, the FCC approved the sale of the Hansen brothers' 50% share of the KCRA stations to Bob, Jon and their mother Nina Kelly; the company then changed its name to Kelly Broadcasting Company. In September 1968, KCRA-FM's call letters were changed to KCTC. The radio stations were sold to the Tribune Company in September 1977, with the sale being finalized in July 1978; KCRA-AM changed its calls to KGNR in August of that year.
In 1965, the station began using color film for use in its newscasts. A station press release at that time claimed that KCRA was the first station in Sacramento with videotape, the first NBC affiliate with "network color" programming, and the first station to utilize color film, slide and videotape footage. Starting in 1975, it began using remote cameras for live news reports. The station eventually began using helicopters and satellite remotes for newsgathering. On September 10, 1966, Bob Wilkins began hosting a Saturday night horror movie showcase called Seven Arts Theatre; Wilkins later moved his show to KTXL, and then to KTVU in Oakland in the 1970s.
Like other local stations, KCRA developed an in-house production facility, with local children's programming, newsmagazines and talk shows. By the beginning of the 21st century, KCRA became the first station in the Sacramento market to broadcast programming in high-definition. Kelly Broadcasting continued to own and operate KCRA-TV until January 1999, when it was purchased by Hearst-Argyle Television (which was renamed Hearst Television in 2009).[1]
In early 2004, KCRA opened an exhibit, "The KCRA 3 Experience", at the Arden Fair Mall, allowing visitors to see a KCRA newscast be produced live. KCRA's noon newscast was broadcast from the complex until late 2008 when production of the program was moved back to the 3 Television Circle studios.[2]
KCRA, along with Fox affiliate KTXL, are the only Sacramento television stations to have never changed their network affiliations, as they were unaffected by affiliation swaps in 1995 (when KXTV acquired the ABC affiliation from KOVR, which in turn, switched to CBS) and 1998 (when KMAX-TV—channel 31—took UPN from now-sister station KQCA, which switched from UPN to The WB).
Digital television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
PSIP Short Name
Programming[3]
3.1 KCRA-TV Main KCRA-TV programming / NBC
3.2 ME TV MeTV
KCRA 3.2
In early 2005, KCRA debuted a localized version of NBC Weather Plus on digital subchannel 3.2. After NBC Weather Plus shut down in November 2008 (following NBCUniversal's purchase of The Weather Channel), the subchannel continued to use the Weather Plus branding as part of the successor NBC Plus automated weather service until late 2008.
On August 2, 2010, digital subchannel 3.2 was reformatted as "MoreTV Sacramento," a locally programmed channel that featured second-runs of syndicated programs seen locally on KCRA and sister station KQCA; the "MoreTV" branding had previously been used by Tampa sister station WMOR-TV and KCWE in Kansas City during the early and mid-2000s. The channel ran a mix of sitcoms (such as Roseanne, The Cosby Show and That '70s Show), dramas (Law & Order: SVU) and talk shows (Maury, Jerry Springer and The Dr. Oz Show). It also aired select KCRA newscasts, including rebroadcasts KCRA's 6 p.m. newscast at 7 p.m. and KCRA's 10 p.m. and KQCA's 11 p.m. newscasts at midnight; as well as a simulcast of KCRA's noon newscast. Until October 15, 2010, KCRA continued to run Weather Plus programming during the early morning hours[4] (Salinas sister station KSBW also carried a primetime syndicated programming lineup, branded as "KSBW PrimePLUS+", on its second digital subchannel from around the same time as the "MoreTV" launch until February 1, 2011).
On July 24, 2012, Hearst Television renewed its affiliation agreement with MeTV to maintain existing affiliations with eight Hearst-owned stations currently carrying the digital multicast network through 2015. As part of the renewal, Hearst also signed agreements to add the network as digital subchannels of KCRA and four other Hearst stations in Boston, Baltimore, Oklahoma City and Greensboro.[5] Digital subchannel 3.2 assumed the MeTV affiliation on September 3, 2012, replacing the "MoreTV" format.[6]
Analog-to-digital conversion
KCRA-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[7] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35,[8] using PSIP to display KCRA-TV's virtual channel as 3 on digital television receivers.
As part of the SAFER Act, KCRA ran a looping DTV program (also known as "nightlight service") for 30 days after the transition.
Over the years, KCRA has preempted some NBC programming, notably the soap opera Another World. That show would air on the station for a brief time, but was preempted again due to low ratings—this was the case with CBS station KOVR (channel 13), which did not run Guiding Light due to poor ratings, and had not aired at all in the market since KXTV (channel 10) dropped it in the early 1990s when it was a CBS affiliate. Given its format as a news-intensive station, KCRA also preempted the weekend edition of Today and the Saturday morning T-NBC lineup during the 1990s, to run a weekend morning newscast. It also aired a 4:30 p.m. newscast, pushing Days of Our Lives start time back a half-hour earlier than the typical practice; that newscast ended after the station began airing The Oprah Winfrey Show; in September 2002; Days now airs at the network-recommended 1 p.m. timeslot on weekdays. However, despite NBC's historically low tolerance towards program preemptions, the network has been more than satisfied with KCRA, given its near-total ratings dominance in the Sacramento market.
Currently, KCRA airs Today Third Hour on a one-hour delay due to Live with Kelly and Ryan airing in the 9 a.m. timeslot (until 1999, the show aired on KOVR, even back in its days as an ABC station); the fourth hour airs after Last Call with Carson Daly at 2:05 a.m. (when NBC rebroadcasts the fourth hour nationally as part of its late night schedule); sister stations KSBW-TV in Salinas, California, WXII-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina, WBAL-TV in Baltimore and WYFF in Greenville, South Carolina also opt to delay the fourth hour of Today until the late night hours. Other syndicated programming seen on KCRA includes Access and its live counterpart, Steve, Extra and The Dr. Oz Show. The first three are distributed by NBC's parent company.
Occasionally as time permits, sister station KQCA (channel 58) may air NBC network programs whenever KCRA is unable to in the event of extended breaking news coverage or scheduled special programming or run KCRA newscasts in their scheduled airtimes due to overruns or scheduled preemptions resulting from network sports coverage airing on channel 3.
News operation
KCRA presently broadcasts 42½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours on weekdays, four hours on Saturdays and 3½ hours on Sundays). KCRA also produces 12½ hours a week of local newscasts for sister station KQCA with a two-hour extension of KCRA's weekday morning newscast from 7–9 a.m. and a nightly full-hour primetime broadcast at 10 p.m. The station's longtime slogan, "Where The News Comes First", has become a symbol for its news coverage. KCRA began using the slogan in December 1958 (Kelly filed to trademark the slogan in 1980)[9] and has been used under license by other television stations.
KCRA has dominated the ratings in Sacramento for most of the time since records have been kept. In the May 2010 sweeps period, KCRA had the highest-rated 11 p.m. newscast but trailed KOVR's 10 p.m. newscast in total households.
Harry Geise was hired by KCRA as its main weatherman in the mid-1960s. While he used information coming out of a weather bureau in Suitland, Maryland; his forecasts were accurate enough that almost every farmer in the Sacramento Valley listened to his forecasts. Through his weathercasts, he taught viewers about weather from "upper level devils" to looking out the window. On the scantest of data (weather bureaus, out the window, smell in the air and nut gatherers) but prior to satellite, Doppler weather radar, space weather, home weather stations, and little local information – Giese could look globally and give weather forecasts as far out as six weeks or six months. By the mid-1970s, KCRA established news bureaus throughout the state, began producing its own public affairs programming, and initiated a consumer affairs division to answer the needs of concerned consumers.
From 1991 to 1993, KCRA (later to be joined by KRON-TV and KPIX in San Francisco) participated in an experiment in which primetime programming would air one hour earlier (from 7 to 10 p.m., mirroring typical network scheduling in the Central, Mountain and Hawaii Time Zones, instead of the standard 8 to 11 p.m. slot for Pacific Time Zone stations). The "early prime" idea led to only a slight decrease in KCRA's ratings, and its 10 p.m. newscast remained the highest-rated late local news program on the West Coast. A station survey showed that 63% of viewers thought a 10 p.m. newscast was a good idea. However, pressure from NBC, who threatened to yank the station's affiliation, forced KCRA to end the practice and revert to the time zone's standard primetime scheduling, announcing its demise a week after KRON-TV discontinued the experiment.[10] KOVR (channel 13) would itself switch to an early primetime schedule two years later after switching to CBS.
Under Hearst ownership, KCRA has either hosted or co-hosted many gubernatorial debates within California, often with political reporter Kevin Riggs serving as moderator and one other personality hosting the debate. Many of those debates are simulcasted on sister station KSBW in Salinas. A notable example of such is the debate between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown.[11]
Like many stations that have long dominated their markets, KCRA has tended to take an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach to its news product. From about 1960 until the late 1980s, its logo was an Arabic numeral 3 inside a green square with rounded corners and convex sides (to represent the shape of a TV tube).[12] The current logo, a partially modified version of the original design, was adopted in the late 1980s. Also, it referred to its newscasts as Channel 3 Reports rather than Channel 3 News. The branding was slightly modified after the Hearst purchase to KCRA 3 Reports, even as its newscasts on KQCA began to be titled as KCRA 3 News. However, in August 2009, KCRA retitled its 11 p.m. newscast as the KCRA 3 Night Team. In July 2011, the Reports branding was phased out from the station's news branding, which changed to KCRA 3 News.
In late December 2005, KCRA began using a new "Triple Doppler" system for weather reports. In addition to KCRA's own Doppler weather radar system at Walnut Grove, range and accuracy were increased by adding data from NEXRAD sites operated by the National Weather Service located north of Reno on Virginia Peak, south of San Jose on Mount Umunhum, and at Beale Air Force Base.
On February 12, 2007, KCRA became the first television station in the Sacramento market and the first among Hearst-Argyle's station portfolio to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high-definition (with the exception of its noon newscast until 2008 as it was still broadcasting in standard-definition at Arden Fair Mall); this came with the introduction of a new news set designed by FX Group and upgrades to its news helicopter, LiveCopter 3. Upon the conversion to HD, the KCRA logo was modified to include the NBC peacock logo and an "HD" lettering. Only in-studio cameras record in HD, while the helicopter's camera, field cameras and other station camera feeds are in standard definition and are upconverted to a widescreen format in the control room. In September 2008, KCRA began using a new "Triple Doppler" system with high-definition graphics. As of August 25, 2010, with KSBW upgrading its newscasts to HD, both KCRA and KSBW now share resources in this format when covering news stories from their respective markets.
On December 21, 2015, KCRA announced the addition of a new 4 p.m. newscast, anchored by Lisa Gonzales and Brian Heap. The newscast premiered on January 25, 2016.[13] A Spanish-subtitled simulcast of KCRA's 5 p.m. newscast was added to sister station KQCA's Estrella TV subchannel on September 5, 2017. This newscast is not in direct competition with any other Spanish-language newscast in the market. On April 23, 2018, KCRA began its expanded weekday morning newscast with an extra half-hour starting at 4 a.m.
Notable former on-air staff
Miguel Almaguer – reporter (2003–2006; now Los Angeles-based correspondent for NBC News)
Stan Atkinson – anchor (1959–1963, 1976–1994; later moved to KOVR in Sacramento, now retired)
Maurice DuBois – anchor/reporter (now at WCBS-TV in New York City)
Walt Gray, anchor, 1988-2012, now at KXTV
Jim Finnerty – host of local talk show Finnerty and Company (later renamed Look Who's Talking)
Gary Gerould – sports anchor (now radio play-by-play for the Sacramento Kings)
John Gibson – Bay Area correspondent (now at Fox News Channel)
David Gregory (moderator of Meet the Press from 2008–2014)
Kristine Hanson – sports anchor/weather anchor/entertainment reporter (1980s; former Playboy Playmate)
Lois Hart – 5 and 6:30 p.m. anchor (1990–2008; retired)
Bob Hogue – sports director (early 1980s, former Hawaiian State Senator)
Joe Lizura – meteorologist (1987–1989, moved to WLWT in Cincinnati, then KNSD and KUSI-TV in San Diego, now CEO at Allowance Media Group)
Tom Loffman – meteorologist (1978–1987, moved to KOVR-TV in Sacramento, then to KMAX-TV in Sacramento, now co-owner of Loffman Realty and Property Management in Rocklin, CA)
Joan Lunden (1970s as first television job; she later changed her surname to Lunden, moved to ABC's Good Morning America)
Rob Mayeda – meteorologist/anchor/reporter (1999–2000; now at KNTV in San Jose-San Francisco)
Byron Miranda – Meteorologist (now with WPIX in New York)
Leyna Nguyen – anchor/reporter (now at KCAL in Los Angeles)
Suzanne Phan – reporter (2000-2009; later at KXTV-News10; now at KOMO-TV in Seattle)
Jeff Ranieri – meteorologist (2000–2005; later at MSNBC/NBC Weather Plus, now chief meteorologist at KNTV in San Jose-San Francisco)
Bianca Solorzano – weekend morning anchor/reporter (1999–2003; now a CBS News correspondent in New York City)
Kaity Tong – anchor/reporter (1979–1981; now at WPIX in New York City)
David Walker – 5 and 6:30 p.m. anchor (1990–2008; retired)
Pamela Wu – weekend anchor/reporter (2001–2009; now director of marketing and communications at the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall)
Ryan Yamamoto – reporter (1998-2004; later at KXTV; now morning anchor at KOMO-TV in Seattle)
Abate, Tom. Hearst to Buy KCRA-TV, Affiliates in Sacramento, San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, 1998.
Web site: Where shopping comes first . January 4, 2009 . Sacramento Bee . September 11, 2008.
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KCRA#station RabbitEars TV Query for KCRA
Web site: MOREtv Frequently Asked Questions – KCRA News Story – KCRA Sacramento . Kcra.com . July 23, 2010 . November 14, 2011 . yes . https://web.archive.org/web/20120403030344/http://www.kcra.com/station/24370323/detail.html . April 3, 2012 .
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/60965/metv-adds-five-more-hearst-stations Me-TV Adds Five More Hearst Stations
http://www.modbee.com/2012/07/25/2296315/kcra-digital-channel-to-air-classic.html KCRA digital channel to air classic TV series starting Sept. 3
https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations
Web site: CDBS Print . Fjallfoss.fcc.gov . November 14, 2011.
United States PTO trademark filing, SN 73216228)
Benson, Jim. "KCRA dumps early prime", Variety, August 11, 1993.
Web site: Videos: Watch Brown, Whitman Debate – Politics News Story – KSBW The Central Coast . . September 29, 2010 . November 14, 2011.
Design of KCRA-TV's boxed "3" logo is credited to Bob Miller, the station's first art director. Jessica Goldman, "A Passion for the Past: This Artist Paints Pictures of Sacramento's Bygone Landmarks," Inside East Sacramento newspaper, July 2008 edition, p. 70.
News: KCRA 3 News to launch weekday 4 p.m. newscast. December 24, 2015. KCRA-TV. Hearst Television. December 21, 2015.
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Trailblazing environmental DNA project on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal
We're joining forces with Salford University on a ground-breaking project to test the quality of wildlife habitats and biodiversity of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
The environment project, funded by players of People's Postcode Lottery, is concentrated on a five mile section of the canal between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, which is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
We want to assess the quality and quantity of the fish stocks so we can take measures to improve the wider health of aquatic plants and animals in the canal at this protected site.
Staff and research students from the University of Salford's School of Environment & Life Sciences are employing cutting-edge science to test water samples using environmental DNA (eDNA) profiling. This should allow them to detect all the species of fish, crustaceans and semi-aquatic mammals present in the canal at a particular spot by taking a simple water sample.
The first stage of the survey was carried out before Christmas while the canal was in water and this second phase is timed to coincide with a fish rescue being carried out by MEM Fisheries.
HNC fish survey with Tom and Paul
Lock refurbishment project
This is in support of a separate £185,000 lock refurbishment project, when water around three locks on the canal will be drained to enable vital repair work to be carried out to the lock chambers. A total of five pairs of oak lock gates at Locks 12, 15 and 25, near Mossley, are being replaced, in addition to other repairs to the lock chamber walls.
MEM Fisheries staff will be physically collecting, counting and measuring the fish and this information will then be compared to the non-invasive water sample environmental DNA tests being carried out by Salford University researchers.
Tom King, our ecologist said: "We believe people who spend time by our canals are healthier and happier. Getting closer to nature and wildlife is one of the reasons people visit.
"By linking up with University of Salford on this eDNA survey, we're hoping to get an accurate audit of fish which support all sorts of other wildlife including herons, kingfishers and even otters. The project could have far reaching benefits for everyone involved in managing water spaces."
Dr Chiara Benvenuto and Dr Allan McDevitt, lecturers at the University of Salford, are leading on the project. Dr McDevitt added: "This environmental DNA testing technique has been around for a few years but elements of it are still being refined. This is why we are so pleased to be working with the Canal & River Trust on a real project with tangible outcomes for the health of the canal.
"If we succeed in not only accurately identifying all species of fish, crustaceans and semi-aquatic mammals that are present by taking a simple non-invasive water sample, but also to quantify abundances, it will be a great break-through for aquatic conservation."
Data from the fish surveys will be analysed and assessed by the University of Salford and a final report produced by research students towards the end of the academic year.
This initiative on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal is part of our 12 month project, Making Special Places for Nature, funded by a £350,000 award from players of People's Postcode Lottery. The project involves improving vulnerable wildlife waterway habitats across 10 key sites totalling 400 hectares – a combined area greater than the City of London.
The project spans reservoirs and canals in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Berkshire and mid Wales, and will benefit water shrews, voles, otters, bats, dragonflies and other rare fauna and flora.
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The Episcopal Church today is made up of more than 2.2 million worshippers in over 7,500 congregations across the United States and elsewhere, including Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. We organize ourselves into geographic groupings of congregations called dioceses. Haiti is the largest of our 110 dioceses. We Episcopalians also call ourselves Anglicans, to describe our roots in the Church of England.
Our congregations range from thousands gathering to worship in venerable cathedrals to small groups worshipping in storefronts. We pray with and for each other. We welcome all who come looking for God and a community of love. We work together to make our congregations strong for those who will come after us.
The church's complete name, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, describes our work together. We make Christ's mission our own by working in and sponsoring such ministries as food pantries, homeless shelters, hospitals, nursing homes, mission trips, parish nursing programs, vacation bible schools, church camps, retreat centers, and after-school mentoring programs.
Our ways of worshipping are as varied as our ways of doing mission. Some of us always use incense; others never do. Some of us sing only from The Hymnal 1982; others use music from many sources. Most of us have Holy Eucharist every Sunday, while some have Eucharist less often.
The Book of Common Prayer grounds us all. It explains Christianity, describes the main beliefs of the Episcopal Church, outlines the requirements for the sacraments, gives the patterns of our worship together and serves as the main guideline of the Episcopal life. Just as we hold these prayers and rites in common, we also hold some common beliefs. We look back to the beginnings of the Christian church for statements of those beliefs and we find the Apostles' Creed (formed in the very early years of the church) and the Nicene Creed (written during fourth-century gatherings of church leaders). Both creeds describe the God whom we experience in three ways: as the one who creates us, the one who redeems us, and the one who continually guides us toward holiness.
We sometimes interpret the Bible differently, yet we find common ground in our belief that Holy Scripture is the Word of God. Using the text of the Bible itself and the tradition of what Christians have taught us about it through the ages, Episcopalians believe we must come to an understanding of it as it relates to our own lives. To do this work we use our reason—that is, our God-given intelligence and our experiences. Some people refer to our three-legged stool of Scripture, tradition, and reason.
HistoryThe Episcopal Church began in England in the 1500s, during the reign of King Henry VIII. The old story goes that the Church began because Henry wanted a divorce, but the truth is more complicated. Through prior centuries of war and turmoil, the church in Rome worked to preserve European civilization. It enforced rules of conduct, appointed rulers, and controlled the economy. A monk named Martin Luther and others protested what they saw as the church's excesses and interference with people's faith.
Henry didn't like Luther's reform movement, but he wanted more control of the church in England. He, like many political leaders of his time, wanted his people's undivided loyalty, and he had other uses for the English money that supported the church in Rome. Henry broke from Rome, and England suffered as Roman Catholics and Protestants battled for control of the church and the government.
Henry's daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, devised religious and political arrangements, including the third version of The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) in 1559, that left the English church with both Roman Catholic and Protestant characteristics. Walking this middle way between the traditions makes us a sacramental church that promotes thoughtful debate about what God is calling us to do and to be as followers of Christ.
Thus we began with a question: Could a church change its loyalties in this world and still be loyal to Jesus? The Reformation's answer was yes. It showed that we learn more about God when we ask our questions and listen for answers in prayer and in the words of others in our communities. We began in disagreement and our history tells us that the church survives disagreements when it stays focused on the importance of coming together to give thanks to God and to do God's reconciling work.
Our diocese is comprised of Kings (Brooklyn,) Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. The Cathedral of the Incarnation is located in Garden City. We are shepherded by the Right Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, Bishop of the Diocese of Long Island.
The Episcopal Church USA, having its roots in the Church of England, is also an Anglican Church. Our Presiding Bishop is Katharine Jefferts Schori. Like all Anglican churches, the Episcopal Church is distinguished by its standing in both Protestant and Catholic traditions, its insistence that people be able to worship in their first language, its use of the Book of Common Prayer, and its reliance on scripture, tradition, and reason in interpreting God's Word.
"Episcopal" means "bishop" in Greek, and the Episcopal Church is governed in part by its bishops. The Episcopal Church meets in General Convention every three years. The 76th triennial gathering will be in Anaheim, CA, in July of 2009.


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Journalism Fellows
Aryssa Damron (Fall 2018)
Aryssa Damron is a graduate student at the University of Kentucky. A fall 2018 College Fix fellow, she worked at The Washington Examiner. She graduated from Yale University in 2018. In addition to writing for The College Fix, Aryssa also wrote for Future Female Leaders, Conservative Book Club, and several on-campus publications at Yale.
Sarah George (Spring 2019)
Sarah is a sophomore at Georgetown University majoring in Culture & Politics and minoring in Spanish. A spring 2019 College Fix fellow, Sarah worked at The Daily Caller. She hails from Indianapolis. At Georgetown, she's involved in Chi Alpha's ministry and pro-life, pro-family, and anti-porn advocacy.
Katie Anderson (Spring 2019)
Katie Anderson is a senior studying Political Science, Pre-Law, and Writing at Fort Lewis College. A spring 2019 College Fix fellow, she worked at The Washington Examiner. She also contributes for the Human Defense Initiative and she serves as a PragerU student ambassador.
Brittany Slaughter (Summer 2019)
Brittany Slaughter is a junior at Liberty University. A summer 2019 College Fix fellow, she is working at The Hill. Brittany studies journalism with a minor in criminal justice. A reporter for The Fix, she has former experience as an editor and writer with Odyssey, and has also had work published in The Washington Examiner. She is a member of King's Players traveling drama ministry, serves as secretary of the Liberty University College Republicans, and is vice chairwoman and communications director of her local Republican committee.
Stone Washington (Summer 2019)
Stone Washington attended Clemson University. A summer 2019 College Fix fellow, he is working at The Daily Caller. Stone majored in history and minored in political science. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Clemson magazine Decipher and website administrator/writer for Ellis WashingtonReport. He is a former intern at the Heritage Foundation and also been published by The Schpiel and Red Alert Politics.
Michael Weiner (Spring 2019)
Michael Weiner is a sophomore at Yeshiva University. A summer 2019 College Fix fellow, he is working at The American Interest. Michael is majoring in political science. He spent the past year and a half studying Bible and the Talmud at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel. He is currently a writer for the website Patheos.com, an online compendium of blogs featuring diverse perspectives on religion and modern life, where he offers an Orthodox Jewish take on contemporary culture and politics.
Steve Larkin (Summer 2019)
Steve Larkin is a junior at the University of Notre Dame. A summer 2019 College Fix fellow, he is working at The Catholic Herald. Steve is planning to major in classics and mathematics. A native of Maine, he spends much of his free time wandering around outside, listening to Sixties rock and Renaissance polyphony, and wishing he were currently eating clam chowder. He also enjoys scribbling out his thoughts, musings, and opinions.
Jon Brown (Fall 2018)
Jon Brown is night news editor at The Washington Examiner. A spring 2018 College Fix fellow, he worked at The Daily Caller. He subsequently worked at The Caller post-graduation. He earned a degree in journalism at UMass Amherst. Before pursuing journalism, he studied classics and Italian in Rome.
Ryan Everson (Summer 2019)
Ryan Everson attended Arizona State University. A summer 2019 College Fix fellow, he is working at The Washington Examiner. At Arizona State Ryan was an intern for the Equal Rights Institute and the secretary of the campus's chapter of Students for Life. He is also an Alliance Defending Freedom Areté Academy Delegate. Ryan is an editor for Lone Conservative and a contributor to The Washington Examiner, Live Action News, The Catholic Sun and Secular Pro-Life.
Jack Beyrer (Summer 2019)
Jack Beyrer a junior at Wake Forest University. A summer 2019 College Fix fellow, he is working at RealClearPolitics. He majors in history and minors in German and politics. He previously edited The Wake Forest Review, the conservative newspaper and magazine on campus. In addition, he works closely with administrators through student government, while primarily studying early American history with interests in rhetoric, media and the law. This summer, in addition to working for RealClearPolitics, he is doing independent research for a Wake Forest History Department project and studying with the Hertog Foundation.
Madeline Fry (Summer 2018)
Madeline Fry is a commentary writer for The Washington Examiner. A summer 2018 College Fix fellow, she worked at D Magazine in Dallas, Texas. She is a graduate of Hillsdale College, where she studied French and journalism. Her previous experience includes internships at Verily and Philanthropy magazines.
Amelia Irvine (Summer 2018)
Amelia Irvine is a research assistant with the White House Council of Economic Advisors. A summer 2018 College Fix fellow, she worked at USA Today. A graduate of Georgetown University, she was involved with pro-life and pro-family advocacy. Her writing has appeared in National Review, Rare, The Washington Examiner, GlennBeck.com, The American Conservative, and FEE.org. In 2018 she was featured in The Washington Examiner's 30 Under 30 list, which honors "young, right-of-center leaders who are making an exceptional impact in their communities or on their campuses."
Zachery Schmidt (Summer 2018)
Zachery Schmidt is a digital editor at Star News Digital Media, the parent company of The Tennessee Star, The Minnesota Star, and The Ohio Star. A summer 2018 College Fix fellow, he worked at The Daily Caller. He attended Western Washington University, where he majored in political science and public relations. In his free time, Zach enjoys exercising, reading and writing.
Kathryn Hinderaker (Summer 2018)
Kathryn Hinderaker is a 2019 graduate of St. Olaf College. A summer 2018 College Fix fellow, she worked at RealClearPolitics. She majored in Political Science and Media Studies. She was also chair of the Minnesota College Republicans and founded her school's chapter of Turning Point USA. She has been recognized across the county for her activism efforts, including on Fox News and in The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Cole Carnick (Summer 2018)
Cole Carnick works at Spectator USA. A summer 2018 College Fix fellow, he worked at The Washington Examiner. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Michigan, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the campus publication The Michigan Review.
Dylan Croll (Spring 2018)
Dylan Croll is an associate at Keybridge Communications in Washington, D.C. A spring 2018 College Fix fellow, he worked at The Weekly Standard. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College where he studied history and literature. In the past, he has worked as a speechwriter, worked in construction, and volunteered at a maximum security prison.
Dominic Mancini (Fall 2017)
Dominic Mancini is a Republican political consultant. A fall 2017 College Fix journalism fellow, Dominic worked at The Hill. His career goals include journalism, communications, and political commentary. During his spare time, Dominic enjoys playing the piano and heading to the gym. Dominic earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Ashford University. He previously worked as a reporter for The Daily Caller and an editorial intern with The New York Post. He is formerly a grassroots organizer with the Michigan Republican Party.
Amanda Tidwell (Summer 2017)
Amanda Tidwell is a freelance writer living in Virginia. A 2017 summer College Fix fellow, she worked at The Daily Caller. She graduated form The Ohio State University with a degree in economics.
Gabby Muñoz (Fall 2017)
Gabriella Muñoz is a national reporter for The Washington Times. She previously worked for The Washington Examiner. She is a graduate of Georgetown University. where she wrote on campus for The Georgetown Review. She has written for The Hawaii Catholic Herald and Townhall.com.
Jeremy Beaman (Summer 2017)
Jeremy Beaman is a flight attendant. A summer 2017 College Fix fellow, he worked at The Washington Examiner. He studied English and Philosophy at the University of Mobile. He previously wrote for Yellowhammer News, an Alabama news website, and The State, a newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina.
Sophia Buono (Summer 2017)
Sophia Buono is a research assistant in the American Enterprise Institute's Education Policy Department. A 2017 summer College Fix journalism fellow, she worked at USA Today. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame, where she majored in the Program of Liberal Studies and minoring in Education, Schooling, and Society. Throughout her college career, she worked as writer, managing editor, and editor-in-chief for the Irish Rover independent student newspaper.
Hannah Long (Summer 2017)
Hannah Long is an editorial assistant with HarperCollins Publishers. A summer 2017 College Fix fellow, she worked at The Weekly Standard. She studied mass communications at Emory & Henry College in Virginia. She has written TV reviews for The Weekly Standard and news reporting for her college paper, The Whitetopper. Her interests include politics, entertainment, and apologetics.
Jason Chulack
A Spring 2017 College Fix journalism fellow, Jason Chulack worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated from the University of California Merced with a bachelor's degree in political science.
Joe DiSipio
Joe DiSipio is an elementary school teacher in California. A Fall 2016 College Fix journalism fellow, Joe worked at The Hill. He studied economics at Notre Dame University, where he is currently studying for a master's degree in education. He was a member of Notre Dame's Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy. He has worked for the South Bend Tribune and for Ireland's national public broadcaster RTE. He also served as managing editor of Notre Dame's The Scholastic, the country's oldest continuously published collegiate publication.
Kirkland An (Summer 2016)
Kirland An is a designer and editor at Providence Magazine. A 2016 summer College Fix journalism fellow, he worked at USA Today. He graduated from Wheaton College. Previously he served as editor in chief of The Wheaton Recordcampus newspaper and a freelance reporter for The Washington Post. He has also held an editorial position at the Chicago Tribune and was a Collegiate Network fellow at USA Today.
Diana McElfresh (Summer 2016)
Diana McElfresh is a reporter for the Olean Times Herald. A 2016 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Diana worked at The Hill. She attends St. Bonaventure University. She also works as an advisory editor for The Bona Venture and in university advancement at St. Bonaventure.
Jake Henry (Summer 2016)
Jake Henry is the Evening Assistant Producer for KPBS News, a writer for One America News Network and a freelancer for USA Today. A 2016 summer College Fix journalism, Jake worked at the Daily Caller. He attends the University of California, San Diego. He has also held an editorial position at The Victorville Daily Press.
Ellie Potter (Spring 2016)
Ellie Potter is a reporter for S&P Global Market Intelligence. A 2016 spring College Fix journalism fellow, Ellie worked at Real Clear Politics. She graduated from the University of Richmond, where she majored in journalism. She has also interned at the Washington Examiner and WTVR CBS 6 in Richmond, as well as at Richmond Magazine. On campus she served as the Online Lead Writer for Forum Magazine and wrote for the school paper, The Collegian. During the summer of 2016 she interned at Transitions Online as an editorial assistant in Prague, Czech Republic. She previously worked at The Dickinson Press in western North Dakota, covering local government, healthcare and K-12 education, and The Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia, covering politics, local government and schools.
Anthony Gockowski (Fall 2015)
Anthony Gockowski is managing editor of The Minnesota Sun. A 2015 fall College Fix journalism fellow, Anthony worked at the Daily Caller. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2015 with a philosophy degree. His previous editorial experience includes The Intercollegiate Review and The Catholic Spirit. He was previously an investigative reporter for Campus Reform.
David Hookstead (Fall 2015)
David Hookstead is a reporter for The Daily Caller. A 2015 fall College Fix journalism fellow, David worked at the Daily Caller. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2015.
Nathan Courter (Summer 2015)
Nathan Courter is an Ensign in the United States Navy. A summer 2015 College Fix fellow, Nathan worked at National Review as an Agostinelli Fellow. Nathan graduated from Indiana University in May 2014 with a bachelor's degree in political science.
Andrew Desiderio (Summer 2015)
Andrew Desiderio is a congressional reporter for Politico. A 2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Andrew worked at RealClearPolitics. He graduated from the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs after studying journalism and minoring in Italian language and literature at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. He was previously a congressional reporter for The Daily Beast. He has also served internships at BBC, Mediaite and The Daily Beast.
Mairead McArdle (Summer 2015)
Mairead McArdle is a news writer at National Review. A 2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Mairead worked at USA Today. She graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in 2015, where she majored in philosophy with a focus on political science. She previously worked for CNS News and the Washington Examiner. Her previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of The Campus Dirt student newspaper and a staff writer at Fox News Insider.
Ben Parker (Summer 2015)
Ben Parker is the editor of The Bulwark and the associate director of the Defending Democracy Together Institute. A summer 2017 College Fix fellow, he worked at The Weekly Standard. He received degrees in politics, philosophy and economics, and Russian East European Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal for 2016. He also worked for Congressman Frank Wolf in 2013 and Congresswoman Barbara Comstock in 2014.
Brooke A. Rogers (Summer 2015)
Brooke Rogers is the editorial page assistant at the New York Post. A summer 2015 College Fix fellow, Brooke worked at National Review as an Agostinelli Fellow. She is a former co-editor of the Wingspan student newspaper at Laramie County Community College in Wyoming, where she studied mass media. She previously worked at National Review as an assistant to the publisher.
Derek Draplin (Spring 2015)
Derek Draplin is the Colorado News Editor for The Center Square. He is also the weekend editor for The Daily Caller. A 2015 spring College Fix journalism fellow, Derek worked at The Detroit News. He graduated from the University of Michigan. He previously served as a producer for the Forbes Opinion channel, a correspondent for Michigan Capital Confidential and an associate editor at The Daily Caller, and his previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief and publisher of The Michigan Review.
Austin Yack (Summer 2015)
Austin Yack is the founder and CEO of Ascendyn Strategies, a digital marketing firm. A 2015 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Austin worked at The Hill. He is a magna cum laude graduate of University of California-Santa Barbara. He was previously a William F. Buckley Political Journalism Fellow at National Review, after which he was National Review's Senior Content Manger, Social Media. He previously worked as a Managing Partner at Rosetta Consulting, LLC.
Marieke van der Vaart (Spring 2015)
Marieke van der Vaart is a writer for Senator Ben Sasse (R., Nebraska). A 2015 spring College Fix fellow, Marieke worked at USA Today. She graduated from Hillsdale College in 2012. Her previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of The Hillsdale Collegianand interning at The Washington Times.
Aaron Bandler (Summer 2014)
Aaron Bandler is a reporter for The Jewish Journal. A 2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Aaron worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated in 2015 from California Polytechnic State University with a degree in journalism. His previous editorial experience includes contributing to Townhall Media. He was previously a writer for The Daily Wire.
Michael Cipriano (Summer 2014)
Michael Cipriano is a reporter for Pink Sheet, a news website which covers pharmaceutical regulations. A 2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Michael worked at RealClearPolitics. He graduated from American University in 2015. In 2018 he received a graduate degree from that institution in Terrorism and Homeland Security Policy.
Caroline Craddock (Summer 2014)
Caroline Craddock is the Campaign Director (English) for the non-profit international petition platform CitizenGO. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in government at Harvard University. A 2014 summer College Fix fellow, Caroline worked at National Review as an Agostinelli fellow. She graduated from King's College, where she ranked nationally in speech and debate tournaments.
Vivian Jones (Summer 2014)
Vivian Jones is a legislative assistant for Brian Kelsey, the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman in the Tennessee General Assembly. A 2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Vivian worked at The Hill. She is a graduate Hillsdale College, where she edited The Collegian and the Hillsdale Daily News. She previously worked as the communications director for The Philos Project, which promotes Christian engagement in the Middle East
Ben Smith (Summer 2014)
Ben Smith is a digital media specialist who does work for a Washington-based advocacy firm in downtown Washington, D.C. A 2014 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Ben worked at The American Spectator. He graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2014. He previously worked as a digital media specialist for the Washington Examiner.
Nathaniel Botwinick (Summer 2013)
Nathaniel Botwinick works at a law firm in New York City. A 2013 College Fix journalism fellow, Nathaniel worked at National Review as an Agostinelli fellow. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in history in 2011. He is a two-time NCAA All-American in fencing.
Dan Santella (Fall 2013)
Dan Santella works for KELO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A 2013 fall Student Free Press Association fellow, Dan worked at The Monitor. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2008.
Spencer Amaral (Summer 2013)
Spencer Amaral is the co-director of the Windrose Project. A 2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Spencer worked at The American Spectator. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2014. He is currently pursuing a master's degree at Dallas Theological Seminary. His previous editorial experience includes interning for The Daily Caller.
Zenon Evans (Summer 2013)
Zenon Evans works in San Francisco in the tech field and as an entrepreneur. A 2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Zenon worked at Reason. He graduated from Ohio State University in 2013. His previous editorial experience includes as editor-in-chief of The Rubicon.
Noah Glyn (Summer 2013)
Noah Glyn is a Medicaid and hospital-finance analyst at the New Jersey Treasury Department. A 2012 summer College Fix fellow, Noah worked at National Review as an Agostinelli fellow. He graduated from Rutgers University.
Lindsey Grudnicki (Summer 2013)
Lindsey Grudnicki is a Manager of Events Strategy & Management at the Institute for Humane Studies. A 2013 College Fix fellow, Lindsey worked at National Review as an Agostinelli fellow. She graduated from Ashland University in 2013. Her previous editorial experience includes working as an editorial assistant for Minerva Rising, a literary journal that publishes creative writing by women.
Jim Hemphill (Summer 2013)
Jim Hemphill was previously an editorial writer at The Toledo Blade in Ohio. A 2013 summer College Fix fellow, Jim worked at The Washington Examiner. He is a graduate of the College of William & Mary.
Andrew Johnson (Summer 2013)
Andrew is the Communications Director for Congressman Erik Paulsen of Minnesota. A 2013 summer College Fix fellow, Andrew worked at National Review as an Agostinelli fellow. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in journalism in 2012. He previously worked as digital press secretary of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Charles Rollet (Summer 2013)
Charles Rollet is an Overseas Press Club Scholar at NYU's School of Journalism. A 2013 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Charles worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated from Northwestern University in 2014. He previously worked at the Phnom Penh Post. His previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief for the Northwestern Chronicle.
Alexander Sherbany (Summer 2013)
Alexander Sherbany is a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Ciruit. A summer 2013 College Fix fellow, Alexander worked at National Review as an Agostinelli fellow. He is a 2011 graduate of Harvard College, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Political Review, and a 2016 graduate of Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a member of the Yale Law Supreme Court Clinic, and a board member of the Yale Federalist Society.
Laura Byrne (Spring 2013)
Laura Byrne is a deputy director of communications for the city of Mobile, Alabama. A 2013 spring College Fix journalism fellow, Laura worked at Red Alert Politics. She graduated from Tulane University in 2012. Her previous editorial experience includes interning for The Daily Caller.
Samantha Schroeder (Fall 2012)
Samantha Schroeder is the Deputy Diretor of FedSoc Films at the Federalist Society. A 2012 fall College Fix journalism fellow, Samantha worked at The Daily Caller. She graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2012. She was previously director of external affairs at the Foreign Policy Initiative.
Julie Ershadi (Summer 2012)
Julie Ershadi is a PhD student in Iranian Studies at UCLA, focusing on medieval Persian literature. A 2012 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Julie worked at The Hill. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2011. She was previously lifestyle reporter and legislative researcher for CQ Roll Call.
Emily Schrader (Summer 2012)
Emily Schrader is the international digital director of Israeli educational organization StandWithUs. A 2012 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Emily worked at The Weekly Standard. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2012, and Tel Aviv University In 2014 with an MA in political communications. She freelances for various publications such as The Huffington Post, The Jerusalem Post, Ynet News, The Times of Israel and more.
Josh Fatzick (Spring 2012)
Josh Fatzick is a reporter at Voice of America. A 2012 spring College Fix journalism fellow, Josh worked at The Hill. He graduated from Coastal Carolina University in 2014. He previously worked for The Daily Caller and Hhs previous editorial experience includes serving as editor-in-chief of The Chanticleer.
Vishal Ganesan (Fall 2011)
Vishal Ganesan is a junior associate at Latham & Watkins in San Francisco. A 2011 fall College Fix journalism fellow, Vishal worked at The Daily Caller. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 2011 and the University of Virginia School of Law in 2017. His previous editorial experience includes writing and editing for the Desert Lamp.
Kyle Blaine (Summer 2011)
Kyle Blaine is the editor of CNN's KFile. A 2011 summer College Fix fellow, Kyle worked at Reason. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2013. He previously worked for BuzzFeed. His previous editorial experience includes serving as news editor of The Vanderbilt Hustler and with ABC News.
Christopher Goins (Summer 2011)
Christopher Goins is a freelance journalist and court reporter on Capitol Hill. A 2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Christopher worked at The Hill. He is a 2011 graduate of La Salle University. His previous editorial experience includes writing for Baltimore Post-Examiner, MarylandReporter.com, The American Spectator, CNSNews.com and Politic365. He was previously the former assistant managing editor at ASC Services, a transcriber of political events. He is studying to become a copywriter through American Writers and Artists Inc.
Kate Havard (Summer 2011)
Kate Havard is a research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. A 2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Kate worked at The Weekly Standard. She graduated from St. John's College in 2012. She was a Tikvah Fellow at the Wall Street Journal in 2013-2014. Her previous editorial experience includes reporting for The Washington Post.
Amanda Seitz (Summer 2011)
Amanda Seitz is a digital politics and government reporter for WCPO-9 in Cincinnati. A 2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Amanda worked at the Daily Caller. She graduated from Miami University in 2012. Her previous experience includes working for the Dayton Daily News and the Wausau Daily Herald.
Tray Smith (Summer 2011)
A 2011 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Tray Smith worked at The Washington Examiner. He graduated from the University of Alabama. His previous editorial experience includes serving as opinion editor of The Crimson White.
Alicia M. Cohn (Spring 2011)
Alicia M. Cohn is a reporter for The Hill, where she interned in the spring of 2011 as a College Fix journalism fellow. She graduated from Illinois's Wheaton College in 2009. Her previous editorial experience includes working as a staff writer for The Washington Examiner and bylines as a freelancer in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Quartz, 5280 Magazine, The Denver Post and Thrillist. She also worked in communications for the Heritage Foundation, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Claire M. Cousino (Summer 2010)
Claire M. Cousino is a stay-at-home mother. A 2010 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Claire worked at The Washington Times. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Irish Rover. After graduation she worked in communications for Autocam.
Peyton Miller (Summer 2010)
Peyton Miller is a tax associate at Fried Frank LLP in Washington, D.C. A 2010 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Peyton worked at The Weekly Standard. He graduated from Harvard University in 2015 and NYU in 2016. His previous editorial experience includes editing the Harvard Salient and the NYU Tax Law Review and serving on the articles board of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Andrew Stiles (Summer 2010)
Andrew Stiles is a freelance writer in New York City. A 2010 summer College Fix journalism fellow, Andrew worked at The Hill. He graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2009. His previous editorial experience includes reporting for National Review, The Washington Free Beacon, and Heat Street.
Past Editors and Writers
Nathan Rubbelke
Nathan Rubbelke is a reporter for The St. Louis Business Journal. He was previously a staff reporter for The College Fix with a specialty on investigative and enterprise reporting. He has also held editorial positions at The Commercial Review daily newspaper in Portland, Indiana, as well as at The Washington Examiner, Red Alert Politics and St. Louis Public Radio. Rubbelke graduated from Saint Louis University, where he majored in political science and sociology.
Katherine Miller
Katherine Miller is a founding editor of The College Fix. She is currently a political editor at BuzzFeed.
Nathan Harden
Nathan Harden served as editor of The College Fix from 2012 to 2014. He is the author of Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad.
Robby Soave
Robby Soave is an associate editor at Reason.com. Before joining Reason, Soave was a reporter for The Daily Caller and associate editor for The College Fix. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he served as editorial page editor and summer managing editor of The Michigan Daily during his time on campus. He is the author of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, released in 2019.


Nicki Minaj has claimed she was bullied by Grammys producers.
The bullying row that has cast a shadow over the 61st Grammy Awards in Los Angeles has been escalated by Nicki Minaj, who has also claimed that she was a victim.
Award-winning pop star Ariana Grande had previously revealed that she was shunning the ceremony and the chance to perform after interference from the event's producers and now Nicki has said that she was 'bullied' in a similar vein.
In a finger-pointing post on Twitter, the 36-year-old rapper accused Ken Ehrlich of 'bullying her into staying quiet' and that she he had 'lived in fear' for the past seven years over it.
Before the Grammys, there had been ructions over Ariana Grande's decision to pull out of attending and performing, with 'creative differences' being cited.
Nicki Minaj performing with Little Mix.


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Mercedes Bauzá — former member of the Puerto Rico women's national soccer team
Allen Crowder — former UFC fighter
JamesOn Curry — professional basketball player
Don Kernodle — former pro wrestler with the National Wrestling Alliance
Zack Littell — MLB pitcher
Junior Robinson — professional basketball player

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ThoughtWorks bemoans excessive software complexity, advocates small, focused services
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ThoughtWorks has released its latest Technology Radar, an opinionated analysis of software development trends.
Things the folk at ThoughtWorks like include automated build and deployment, essential for Continuous delivery; NOSQL database managers especially Neo4j; mobile-first development; the AppCode IDE for Apple's Objective-C; the Graphite realtime graphing tool for creating dashboards; Clojure and Scala for programming.
I meet some of the ThoughtWorks team at developer conferences from time to time, and generally find them smart and though-provoking to talk to. They must be the despair of the big enterprise software vendors, with a liking for open source and an aversion to heavyweight high-maintenance systems.
This remark particularly caught my eye:
Simple architectures—Simple continues to gain traction, including both techniques for building and composing applications, as well as infrastructure-based techniques to enable simple deployment, failover and recovery. This theme is a recurring one for us, but we have not yet seen the usage shifts we believe are necessary.
I asked consultant James Lewis and practice lead Sam Newman to expand on that. Why do we continue to choose complexity over simplicity?
"A lot of people like to stay inside their big box, and don't understand the complexities that then creates," said Newman. "There's a lack of critical thought given to how services talk to each other. A lot of them are driven by whatever the vendor says you do. Java makes RMI very easy. [Microsoft] .NET makes binding to WSDL [SOAP] schemas very easy. All these tools make bad things very easy to do.
"When you start talking to organisations about smaller services that are focused on doing one thing well, they have the horror associated with now having more than one box to manage and operate. So it's hard to talk about moving from one big monolithic complicated box that is hard to change, to lots of little boxes, without also having conversations with those clients about how they get better at managing multiple services.
"Netflix has 300 services. Each service runs on at least six machines. They are very good at deploying those services. Yet they are not an overly complicated domain compared to some of our clients."
"Amazon were talking about this in 2004," adds Lewis, "the idea that you join up development of these small, simple applications with the operational control, so the same people who build them are also the people who run them. Now that we're seeing both private and public clouds, and the ability to spin up machines becoming more and more prevalent, its starting to become more attractive."
This is a consistent theme from ThoughtWorks. Break up complex solutions into many small services, think about how they talk to each other (with REST and HTTP favoured), and think about the infrastructure and how to automate it as well as the software itself.
"In many organisations these conversations are happening," Newman told me. "I go to clients now, and they talk about the Enterprise Service Bus as being something they'd love to get rid of if they only knew how. Five to ten years ago, to even mention the Enterprise Service Bus as being a problem, they'd look at you with daggers in their eyes."
"It's almost like we're now able to fulfil the promise of service orientation," says Lewis. "It needed these additional practices, around things like automated deployment, automated rollback, and an understanding that people and process are tied intrinsically with it."
Another issue, claims Lewis, is that software architects simply get out of touch with best practice.
"Most architects who build big systems are quite a long way from their codebases. They sit in rooms talking to other architects. They might have last written a line of code five or ten years ago. What they do is to design systems as they would have done ten years ago. People do get divorced from the latest trends and perpetuate less effective ways of doing things."
Finally, here's something for the Microsoft platform people who read this site. ThoughtWorks is not altogether averse to Microsoft and mentions the Azure cloud platform as something which is becoming interesting. But Windows Phone:
Despite a promising start to Windows Phone, a well thought-out user interface, and probably the best development experience of any mobile platform, we have seen several stumbles in the execution of the platform strategy by Microsoft and its partners. This makes us less optimistic about the future of the platform than we were in the last radar.
Translation: nice mobile platform, but nobody's buying it. Then again, on Monday next week Windows Phone 8 will be properly unveiled. Still hope?
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Real-world Microsoft Team Foundation Server: Not very good, says ThoughtWorks
August 8, 2011 onlyconnect	12 Comments
I spoke to Sam Newman, who is European Continuous Delivery Practice Lead at ThoughtWorks, a software development company. Needless to say, we talked extensively about Continuous Delivery and I will be reporting on this separately; but I was also interested in his comments on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS). He told me that ThoughtWorks teams often end up working with it at their .NET clients, but it is problematic. In one case, he said, 6% of productive time was absorbed dealing with TFS.
What was the problem, performance, bugs, features lacking?
When we've looked at the problems we've had, a lot of it unfortunately comes down to the version control system. It's not very good. It's slow, you can't do rollbacks, sometimes things go missing, you get locks. When we talked about 6% of time, they were things like waiting for a solution to expand in Visual Studio. A lot of those issues are in the version control system.
A frustration is that you cannot use TFS with any version control system other than its own.
Every other build server in the world, from Anthill to Go to Cruise Control to Hudson, you can put in at least 10 version control systems. In TFS they are all coupled. So you can't take the version control and point it at Subversion. That might resolve a lot of the issues.
Why is TFS so widely used? It is because it comes in the box, says Newman.
I can't think of a single client that wanted a tool, went out into the marketplace, and selected TFS because it is the right tool for them. Most clients use TFS because it comes with their Enterprise MSDN licence.
I have tried TFS myself and found it pretty good; but then I am just testing it on small projects as a solo developer, so it is hard for me to replicate the experience of a real-world team. You would have thought that performance issues, such as waiting ages for a solution to expand in Visual Studio, could be solved by tracing the reason for the delay; but apparently this is not easy.
This is anecdotal evidence, and of course there may be plenty of TFS installations out there that work very well; I would be interested in hearing of counter examples. I am also not sure to what extent the problems apply to all versions of TFS, or whether there is improvement in TFS 2010.
Newman recognizes that anecdotal evidence is not much use: he says ThoughtWorks is trying to collect some solid data that can be used both to discuss with clients making version control and build system choices, and with Microsoft.
Performance is a feature, and makes a large contribution to user satisfaction. The first release of Outlook 2007 was extraordinarily slow in some setups, and I remember the pain of clicking on a folder and then waiting tapping my fingers while it thought about expanding. It sounds like some TFS users are having a similar experience but in Visual Studio.
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Martin Fowler on the ethics of software development – QCon report
March 12, 2010 onlyconnect	7 Comments
Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks gave what seemed an important session at QCon London, exploring the ethical dimension of software development with a talk called What are we programming for?. The room was small, since the organisers figured that a track on IT with a a conscience would be a minority interest; but Fowler always attracts a large audience and the result was a predictable crush.
The topic itself has many facets, perhaps awkwardly commingled. Should you walk away if your customer or employer asks you to code the wrong thing – maybe enforcing poor practice, or creating algorithms to fleece your customer's customers? What about coding for proprietary platforms owned by vendors with questionable business practices? Fowler mentioned that around 50% of ThoughtWorks solutions are built on Microsoft .NET; and that the efforts of Bill Gates to combat malaria was something that helped him make sense of that relationship.
Fowler also echoed some of Robert Martin's theme from the day before: if you build poor software, you are in effect stealing from the future revenue of your customer.
Finally, he talked about the male/female imbalance in software development, rejecting the idea that it is the consequence of natural differences in aptitude or inclination. Rather, he said, we can't pretend to have the best people for the job while the imbalance continues. I'd add that since communication is a major theme of Agile methodology, and that females seem to have communication skills that males lack, fixing the imbalance could improve the development process in other ways.
Big questions; and Fowler had few answers. When asked for the takeaway, he said the main one is to discuss these issues more.
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Technology trends: Silverlight, Flex little use says Thoughtworks as it Goes Google
January 11, 2010 onlyconnect	1 Comment
Today Martin Fowler at Thoughtworks tweeted a link to the just-published Thoughtworks Technology Radar [pdf] paper, which aims to "help decision makers understand emerging technologies and trends that affect the market today".
It is a good read, as you would expect from Thoughtworks, a software development company with a bias towards Agile methodology and a formidable reputation.
The authors divide technology into four segments, from Hold – which means steer clear for the time being – to Adopt, ready for prime time. In between are Assess and Trial.
I was interested to see that Thoughtworks is ready to stop supporting IE6 and that ASP.NET MVC is regarded as ready to use now. So is Apple iPhone as a client platform, with Android not far behind (Trial).
Thoughtworks is also now contemplating Java language end of life (Assess), but remains enthusiastic about the JVM as a platform (Adopt), and about Javascript as a first class language (also Adopt). C# 4.0 wins praise for its new dynamic features and pace of development in general.
Losers? I was struck by how cool Thoughtworks is towards Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight):
Our position on Rich Internet Applications has changed over the past year. Experience has shown that platforms such as Silverlight, Flex and JavaFX may be useful for rich visualizations of data but provide few benefits over simpler web applications.
The team has even less interest in Microsoft's Internet Explorer – even IE8 is a concern with regard to web standards – whereas Firefox lies at the heart of the Adopt bullet.
In the tools area, Thoughtworks is moving away from Subversion and towards distributed version control systems (Git, Mercurial).
Finally, Thoughtworks is Going Google:
At the start of October, ThoughtWorks became a customer of Google Apps. Although we have heard a wide range of opinions about the user experience offered by Google Mail, Calendar and Documents, the general consensus is that our largely consultant workforce is happy with the move. The next step that we as a company are looking to embrace is Google as a corporate platform beyond the standard Google Apps; in particular we are evaluating the use of Google App Engine for a number of internal systems initiatives.
A thought-provoking paper which makes more sense to me than the innumerable Gartner Magic Quadrants; I'd encourage you to read the whole paper (only 8 pages) and not to be content with my highlights.
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"India has extremely strict gun control laws, but who did it succeed in disarming?"
EXACTLY!! I was raised on the principal that if you outlaw something, the outlaws are the ones who benefit. This makes absolute sense, and all the data backs it up (just look at Chicago...there are so many laws that EVERYONE is a criminal). The liberal media and the politicians conveniently ignore any facts that don't meet their agenda, which I hope everyone reading this already knew; but this begs the question: why does ANYONE trust the government?
Of course, these are just "commonsense", "reasonable" gun laws.
Garbage. There are no "commonsense", "reasonable" gun laws. There are laws that punish for using a firearms irresponsibly but laws that pretend to give one a right already granted by the Creator are simply bogus. Concealed carry is one of these. It is not the government's place to "allow" one to have a firearm and it is not the government's place to "allow" you to carry concealed. Provide one "commonsense", "reasonable" reason for governmental control over a God given Right. Once the government takes over doling out rights, they are no longer rights, they are privileges. Why is it commonsensical, more like nonsensical? Ipse dixit!
Maybe this is another one of the reasons that the left hates Israel. They trust their citizens. They put up walls to keep the crazies out.
"In India, victims watched as armed police cowered and didn't fire back at the terrorists..."
Anyone want to bet on how many of those "armed police" actually had ammo?
Would not be the first time LEO's or the military had empty firearms.
This is a great article folks, and leave it to the Jews to show us how to get ready for the onslaught. You see Israel has had to deal with these bastards for quite a while, and if the rest of the world would just learn from what works for them, we might benefit on this. I see the authorities at the Boston Airport have learned and now patrol with MP5's and in groups. I'm sure there other things we could learn from Israel about how to defer damage from these animals.


Earlier this week I wrote about using TV's in lobby spaces to communicate and to create a better environment… because environments matter. I got a couple of good ideas to run with, I'm still seeking some more solutions though.
However, I need to move on to the next topic. Audio in your environment. We do have a CD player in our main lobby that we use to play music of speakers in the ceiling which is great. However, it's old tech. When the CD ends, the music stops and someone has to remember to start it over or change disks. How long have mp3 players been out? Trust me, I know it wouldn't be hard or cost much to swap out the CD player with an mp3 player, but I'm thinking bigger than that. Here's what I mean.
I have very specific music that I want playing in my lobby. However, when a parent leaves the lobby and goes into the nursery or preschool space, I'd really like different music that adds to that specific environment. When a family walks up the stairs to elementary, I want something different.
I know that it wouldn't be that hard to install speakers and audio players throughout the building, but I'd prefer to have an audio "control center." One place where all the audio feeds originate. I'm fine for each environment having audio control, but I'd like for one person to be able to control what is going out. I'm curious though about what this system looks like? Is it a computer that sends out multiple feeds at once? Is it a device? Certainly it doesn't have to be 4/5 separate music players. Someone tell me you've done this and can point me to the right software/hardware.


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Before thinking out of the box, how about thinking in the box?
This weekend, my wife and I were out shopping for a crib for my five month old son. And we visited the Burlington Coat Factory, Appleton, WI to get one. We also decided to get some beddings for the crib. All in all a successful trip.
So, here's what happened. The bedding was originally at $159.90 and it gets on wife's nerves no end that if asked about the price, I would invariably reply $159 or $159.90 whereupon she would round up the value to $160. Nevertheless, it was marked down to $139.98 which made it a great buy. It was further discounted at a 25% off as well. Ofcourse, that made it a great must buy. So far so good.
Only having driven all the way back to Green Bay, did we discover that the 25% was applied to the original price (that of $159.98). And that's where the fun begins.
So we drove back again the next day, Sunday, to settle the matter and we line up at the returns center. Since, I was looking for some dress shirts, I proceeded to the aisle leaving my wife to settle the matter. The matter is rather simple, as far as we can see it, apply the discount to the marked down price of $139.98 which should cost us a grand total of $104.98 instead of the $119.92 that we had been charged the previous day.
Five minutes later, my wife searches me out and says – No go. The returns clerk had informed her that the original price of bedding was $159.90 to which the discount had been applied and so the charged price was $119.92. This even though, she had shown him the marked down tag of $139.98. Said I, "This is silly," and so took the bedding back to the returns center.
This time round, the line at the returns center was rather long and so I did the next best thing which was take the adjacent line and in due time I was waited upon by a teenager (a girl who could be in my estimate about 12-13 years of age). That's when the fun really begins. I explain the situation to her, show her the tag, prove further that there is a 25% discount and on and on. She scans the bar code and the price reflected in the register is the original price of $159.90 and so apparently there's nothing that she can do. I show her the tag on the item itself which reads – $139.98 but the system retrieved only the original price.
And that is when the fun really begins.
The returns clerk (a guy about 25-ish) leans over and tries to convince me that if I applied 25% to the original price of $159.90 or the marked down price of $139.98, I would obtain the same price. In fact, he walked over and tried to convince me about that – "Its all percentages – you'll get the same value." I'm not kidding. By this time, I should have spent about 5 mins in this entire process growing quite incredulous.
Ofcourse, the checkout girl is getting a little confused with all these numbers flying about especially with the percentages. So she does the next best thing rather than trusting a customer (Is the customer still king?), which is turning to a co-worker – another teenaged boy (of the same age or close enough).
Now, he thinks for awhile about the conundrum – what is 25% of $139.98 which should then be subtracted from $139.98 to obtain the right price? So he writes down dutifully on a scrap of paper and instructs his co-worker (and friend, I must say) to multiply out $139.98 * 0.25. Ofcourse, all this is flabbergasting to me. No, not the fact that they don't have a calculator but as I tried to explain to both these teenagers that all you have to do is divide $139.98 by 4 (which I hope you'd agree is a far easier prospect than straight out multiplying $139.98 * 0.25 on a scrap of paper) and then subtract that value from $139.98 to get the right amount.
So the checkout girl ignores me and sets about the task of multiplying out the values. She doesn't finish the task though – a lot of numbers here and there but no result. So her manager appears on the scene and proceeds to ascertain what the situation is. And so starts the process all over again. I explain my situation as clearly as I can.
NO GO! Even with the manager.
The manager (a woman of about 40 years of age) is befuddled by the system though. Not with the math. But ofcourse, we all get to the math sooner or later. The manager however wanted to find a calculator as I was trying to explain to her that the right value was $104.98 and how to obtain it rather simply. Meanwhile, the returns clerk comes over once more to explain his version of math to the manager.
Alright, you shouldn't take a customer at his word. So not being able to find a calculator, she gets the manager of the Baby department after a few bell buzzes. So here I am having to explain the situation a third time to the second manager. She goes through the process of scanning the bar code, looking at the tag and declares that she will have to override the system which she proceeds to do. Long story short, I get my discount. The whole affair took a good half an hour of my life which I won't get back but my wife and I could not help but talk about it on the drive back to Green Bay.
You're free to draw your own conclusions about this episode and what it says about the acquisition of the most basic skills through education and a dependence on technology and how clueless that can leave you. Here's my conclusion – "If you don't do the numbers when you have to, the numbers will do you in when you don't want them to." There are enough characters promoting the importance of thinking out of the box but the need of the hour is to first teach people to know that there is a box – A REAL UNDENIABLE BOX – which needs to be thought about first before thinking out of it.


>>>>>>> would work with multinode jobs.
>>>>>> file for non-containerized deployments & and also the pingtest file.
>>>>>> Just for the record, if we can have it before the job moves in gate.
>>>>> can create a noop one for now if you'd like?
>>>> Please create a basic pingtest with common things we have in other scenarios.
>>>>> Is the non-containerized deployments a requirement?
>>>> Until we stop supporting non-containerized deployments, I would say yes.
>>>> progress to have OVN coverage as well.
>>> conflict right now and open questions.
>>> Derek, Flavio - let's solve this one this week if we can.
>> last week so wasn't looking at it.
creation. So it continues to test a ceph backed glance.


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Sleeping With Other People
Director Leslye Headland
Starring Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Jason Mantzoukas, Amanda Peet, Adam Scott
Release 1 JAN (UK) Certificate 15
Matt Looker
A brilliant thing happened while I was watching Sleeping With Other People. It's not something that occurred onscreen, of course - this film is a lazy, offensively written sex comedy produced by people who think that two characters candidly talking about "fingering" is funny enough to build a movie around it. No, the brilliant thing that happened is this: about halfway through the film, the guy sat directly in front of me stood up, loudly declared to everyone that "This is the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life" and just walked out.
This captured my attention for many reasons, not least because he stood up right in my line of sight and made a big fuss as he clambered out past everyone else in his row of seats. And, as galling as it is, let's forget for the moment that this man was probably a professional critic, being paid to enjoy the hospitality of a press screening and then not bothering to stay until the end of the film he's reviewing. It doesn't help that his journey to the exit was interrupted only to drop off the now-empty glass of free wine he had been offered on entry.
Instead, I am more interested in who this guy is. What makes a man not only walk out of a film after an hour (with about 40 minutes still to go), but deliberately disturb everyone else as he is doing so? Was it bad form to do that? Or was it a brave, principled stance against terrible cinema that should be applauded?
At this point, I'm already going with the latter.
Perhaps we should take his claim at face value and believe that this film really is the worst he has ever seen in his life? There's obviously no way of me knowing what his control group consists of, but if, for example, the only other films he has ever seen are The Godfather, Fellini's 8 1/2 and, oh let's say, Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams, then I would say that he was correct in his claim and Sleeping With Other People really is the worst film he has ever seen in his life. If, however, he has seen anything Adam Sandler has made in the last nine years, then I would have reason to question it.
Most importantly though, what was it specifically that made this man walk out with such assurance and disgust? Was it the film as a whole, a particular theme or the scene playing at that exact moment, in which Alison Brie was having sex with her new, boring lover Marc Blucas and instructed him to "be rude" to her clitoris?
Either way, ironically, this righteous renegade actually missed out on what was easily the worst part of the film: an ending that had no faith in either fulfilling its predictable rom-com set-up or boldly defying it, opting instead to do both. I can only imagine the noise of disgruntlement the cinema escapee would have made had he sat through the final, anti-climactic scenes in which both lead characters descend into dickish behaviour and all investment in their relationship is lost.
In a way, we were all similarly violated.
Thankfully for me, I didn't mind sitting through this last act because our mystery man gave me plenty on which to ruminate, providing a distraction as I wondered just what faults he found in the first majority of the movie to send him headed toward the exit.
Was he a sensitive prude, outraged at the explicit and frank manner in which the lead characters discussed all things rumpy, and indeed, pumpy? Was his old traditional values rocked to the core as Sudeikis and Brie made crude fun of the beautiful art of lovemaking?
Or was he a staunch feminist, disgusted at the way that Alison Brie's character devolves from sexually liberated woman to woefully inexperienced girl sabotaging her own life by being "addicted to love" with dull men? Did he take particular offence at the scene in which it is revealed that she doesn't know how to effectively masturbate and it takes a man - proud player Jason Sudeikis – to teach her? Because of course only a man knows how to sexually satisfy a woman even more than she knows how to do it herself.
Perhaps he was left in disbelief because, despite attempting to portray Alison Brie's character as a strong, independent woman, the film had her needlessly swanning around in revealing underwear at every opportunity, just for the benefit of the viewer? Did he throw his head in his hands when she revealed that she liked to mooch around her apartment by herself while wearing next to nothing? Or when she took Sudeikis' character for a chat that involved her going shopping and trying on sexy lingerie for no reason?
This takes place at a child's birthday party, because 'funny' but mostly because 'boobs'.
Or maybe he was just feeling tired of the Apatow/McKay style of semi-improvisational acting, particularly considering that, in this film, it seems that the first, least funny take has been chosen for each scene.
Most likely, it was a combination of all the above and much more. It's a shame that he didn't apparently share in the few chuckles that the film does offer: the occasional moment when the riffing dialogue works, or when the odd brilliant outburst (mostly from 'best mate' Jason Mantzoukas) hits home. But it's also understandable if he didn't think that it was worth sitting through the dire sexism and half-cocked plotting for the sake of a few gags.
Either way, the film may be terrible, but it's not a complete abomination. I haven't experienced many walk-outs in my time attending screenings, but while it is easy to take this man's showy exit as a sign that the film isn't worth anyone's time, maybe we should instead remember that there were 50 or so other people in that room who chose to stay in their seats and see the film through to the end.
But then that's kind of what film critics should do anyway, right?
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