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Abstract: Unsharp quantum measurements can be modelled by means of the class $\mathcal{E}(\mathcal{H})$ of positive contractions on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, in brief, quantum effects. For $A,B\in\mathcal{E}(\mathcal{H})$the operation of sequential product $A\circ B=A^{1/2}BA^{1/2}$ was proposed as a model for sequential quantum measurements. We continue these investigations on sequential product and answer positively the following question: the assumption $A\circ B\geq B$implies $AB=BA=B$.

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Here’s the trailer to 2012, a big budget Hollywood film premiering soon. Presumably before 2013. The hook is that the Mayan calendar doesn’t go beyond 2012, hence the assumption that the world ends then.

I don’t know what you noticed in the first 52 seconds of that trailer, but I’ll tell you what I did. The film needlessly destroyed (I wanted to say raped or butchered, but felt that was too hostile) major Christian artistic symbols.

In the trailer, they chose to destroy the statue of Christ the Redeemer, over Rio de Janeiro.

They chose to showcase the destruction of Michelangelo’s classic painting on the roof of the Sistine Chapel.

Do you think for a nanosecond they would have chosen to destroy, on film, Islamic Holy places?

I guess we Christians are too wimpy. Well I’m standing up. This is wrong. I don’t want to see crap like this, edited like this.

Any reader of my blog would, I think, agree that I’ve never played the race card or the religion card. I’ve never done a “oh your argument hurts my faith” post. And I never will. I don’t think I’m playing the religion card now — since most of my readers are atheists — in outlining my sorrow, and, yes, anger, at this.

You’re welcome to see this film. I applaud the right of the producers to make this film. It’s constitutionally protected speech that congress — and state governments — can’t [and shouldn’t!] interfere with. Well as one tiny blogger, I interfere. What they are doing verges on malicious. Don’t like it; don’t intend to pay to see it.

You aren’t persuaded? Now imagine everything translated to Islam. People professing Islamic faith have killed hundreds of thousands, some horrifically. I am enraged at the insult to my faith.

Are you a little more persuaded?

So be it.

For us all. Pluralistic, genuinely tolerant societies matter. Liberals used to believe in this kind of thing.

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  1. wolfe says:

    To non-believers like (I assume) my good friend Sam. You are absolutely welcome to say, “Hey I don’t believe in that old guy who allegedly existed and allegedly rambled round in the desert and allegedly made some comments”. That’s cool.

    I’ve never asked any of you to share my beliefs. I suck, horribly, as an Evangelist.

    But you can understand my sorrow as having my Savior — as I see things — literally ripped apart.

    Torn into pieces.

    Not too subtle, Hollywood.

  2. Danny says:

    It does often seem as if people demanding tolerance only demand it from others and not themselves.

    I guess that production companies do these sorts of things because Christians fail to kill the producers of media mocking their faith. Other faiths tend to succeed. Well just one lately that I can think of. In the long run, societies which hold it acceptable to cast out faiths which are tolerant may find themselves with the less tolerant variety. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen here.

  3. Sam Adams says:

    Personally, I try to have few beliefs and maintain an agnostic attitude about as much as I can about everything I believe no one can adequately explain, because, frankly … well … who the hell am I to say? I don’t know more than anyone else, and vice versa.

    I used to shoot my mouth off quite a lot when I was a young man and needlessly alienated people. I’m happy to keep my opinions to myself these days. I’m absolutely certain that my ignorant opinions of God, man’s existence, the afterlife, etc. etc. etc. is no more or less ignorant than anyone else’s.

    @ wolfe: As an evangelist you’ve done your job. You put the message “out there” and it will attract people on its own merit.

    @ Danny: Amen to your first sentence. As to your second, there are militants of every faith everywhere, even here. I have personally witnessed several times people I know persecuted by righteous Christians for their difference of belief.

    Most religions preach tolerance and peace. But the true believers of any religion live by their faith that we are all one people under God. Or Gods.

    Dang it, I’m getting kind of preachy here. Let’s just say we all agree it’s a good idea to let each other believe whatever crazy thing they want and not throw bricks through their windows or burn their churches down.

  4. Female says:

    Sorry but I’m really not persuaded at all that this is a bad move by Hollywood. I’m sure you’re all so suprised by that.

    Here’s my argument.
    Hollywood is in a Judeo-Christian country.
    The movie is about the end of the entire world….it would seem though that the makers really only think the Judeo-Christian world is what is important to witness the destruction of all, nowhere else really rates in importance.

    Wait, I’m not finished.

    People traditionally from Judeo-Christian countries will see this and get the full impact because important symbols of their very own culture are seen to be destroyed.
    It makes no difference if they are atheists, because those are still major cultural artistic symbols breaking.

    People in Islamic cultures who see this will get a message while watching this film. That message will be. Your religious symbols aren’t even important enough to even bother showing the destruction of during what is arguabley the most important event in mankinds history. Suck on that.

  5. Female says:

    OK I’ll say it a little nicer…ruminate on that hegemony, m’kay.

    and yes I do know that it is against Islam to create religious artworks etc so the producers probably couldn’t find any Islamic art to destroy anyway, but that doesn’t change the fact that this film promotes the ‘world’ as basically just involving Western culture.

  6. Danny says:

    Sam: I certainly agree with you that Christians can persecute people. I’m confident I’m not the only one who sees many churches often as collections of people trying to be more pious than everyone else (including each other at times). Although I don’t necessarily agree with either of the following; I think we could draw a line between killing people because they say something we disagree with and killing people because we believe they are killing others. I think the matter at hand is the first one.

    I think you could make a comparison between the Danish cartoon incident(s) and the publishing of works which mock Christianity. The biggest outrage I can think of was the Monty Python movie “The Life of Brian”. I don’t remember hearing about death threats or bounties being placed on their heads. The movie was banned in some states, many boycotted it…but no one was kidnapped or killed over it (to my knowledge at least).

    Female: I’m sure they could have blown up a mosque. There are quite a few of them and they are certainly art, even if not considered so by all who visit them. You may be right, they might not have intended for the world outside of the West to watch the movie. It may just be an attempt to show people what the producers believe will sell. There are certainly a lot of folks who use their platforms in movies to mock Christians only here in the states though. Who knows?

  7. Female says:

    Hi Danny, they could have blown up a mosque but then that might have been seen to be going a step too far, because a painting and a statue are not churches. Perhaps I’m wrong and for practicising Christians the statute in Rio and the painting in the Sistine Chapel are considered holy, but in my mind, they’re not.

    I think the producers most definitely do want as many people in as many countries as possible to see the film to get the best return on their investment. I’m equally sure that if they blew up a mosque, not many Islamic people would want to see it or be too happy, and it would probably end up with a million fatwas being placed on their heads. Though it would certainly generate them much media controversy and free promotion. Must have been a hard decision for them to make. Kidding. Have you ever heard of the comic ‘the 99’?

    Kuwait psychologist devised the idea to create Islamic superhereos for Islamic children so they could have heros other than suicide bombers.
    Allah apparently only has 99 powers so each of the heros is based on one of these. They aren’t all male heros, some are female, and they are from all different countries. The comic is put together in New York. The editing is very strict, they have to be so careful with every little thing so as to avoid offence. Female characters in western comics are typically drawn overly curvaceous and sexualised, but in ‘the 99’, even the curve of a character’s back has to be monitered to make sure it’s not too titillating.

    I believe the creator still might have a few fatwas on his head. He is basically trying to influence young people away from extreme fundamentalism (aka death wish religion) and towards normal, civilised human qualities. There is also a theme park in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia based on the comic.

    I don’t think it’s a stupid idea for Hollywood to be careful but my point was that regardless of their motivation for not blowing up a mosque, this is still a movie in which the hegemony of the West is promoted even if western symbols are seen to be destroyed in it.

  8. Danny says:

    Hi Female, missed you :)

    “The 99” seems interesting…never heard of it before.

    I do wonder if the trailer is different for other parts of the world they are releasing it in. Replaying it, there is actually a 1/2 second showing of the Mosque in Mecca. Maybe they destroy it during the movie also? I haven’t seen it yet. I’m pretty sure it will be showing the “hegemony of the west®” as this is the same movie which has humanity escaping from earth on giant colony space-ships. There’s even a website where you can pick up a ticket to escape on them…

    Speaking of movies about escaping from a destroyed earth on a colony ship… Seen Pandorum? I thought it was pretty good but apparently the movie lost 30 million.

  9. Female says:

    Thanks Danny, my trolling commitments have been keeping me busy elsewhere. Another ban hammer comes down and I can’t be bothered reregistering atm.

    this is the same movie which has humanity escaping from earth on giant colony space-ships. There’s even a website where you can pick up a ticket to escape on them…

    lololols well well I wonder if Sir Richard is a major investor of this movie.
    I’d go see it but John Cusack…really?? It fails the eye candy test which is the only incentive to see any Hollywood movie. Yeah, I’m just like a guy like that hahaha

    Speaking of movies about escaping from a destroyed earth on a colony ship… Seen Pandorum?>
    No I haven’t seen it nor heard of it. I don’t watch much Sci-Fi, although two of my fav movies are sci-fi – i,Robot and A.I.

  10. Sam Adams says:

    All right, I finally got around to watching the movie trailer (I can’t watch streaming video at work … they get upset).

    I won’t comment on the quality of the movie, which looks like the sort of supremely stupid yet typical Hollywood CGI idiocy they excel in, precisely the sort of formulaic but highly profitable brainless shlock I never see because it makes me too angry to sit through entirely without loud and abusive comment. (In the past my indulgent family has had to endure my tirades until they tell me, in so many words, if I would kindly stuff my fist in my mouth so they can see the last hour in peace. We agreed to stop watching movies together as a family that feature things blowing up. Or at least not to invite me.)

    I won’t be seeing the movie.

    But I too am interested in the images selected for the trailer. Not offended, mind you, but I think it’s odd.

    This is a world-wide cataclysm, right? So why aren’t there more scenes of world-wide destruction?

    I think Danny is right where he conjectures if the trailer is edited for different parts of the world. This one seems to be exactly targeted to Americans.

    Considering how abysmally ignorant Americans are of geography, or really of anything outside of the United States, including scenes of Sydney, or Kolkata, or Kuala Lumpur, or Jerusalem would have had little emotional impact. They had to show images that had some emotional resonance.

    And knowing how little Americans understand of religions other than Christianity, the destruction of other non-Christian and especially non-Western symbols would have little relevance to them.

  11. Female says:

    Hi Sam,
    The shot of the landmass falling into the ocean is LA yes? Sydney coastline looks a lot like that, I guess because we’re both on the Pacific.
    Sydneysiders and Los Angelians are also very, very, similiar. I put it down to the beach/surf culture and similiar never ending urban sprawl.

    Here, check out my pics of our coastline.

    If you want to see more of what a very tiny part of Sydney looks like, check my Sydney set.

  12. Sam Adams says:

    Hi Female, good to see you here again.

    I honestly can’t tell if that’s LA or not in that scene, and to tell the truth it never occurred to me that it would be only because I never imagine the coast viewed from a perspective looking south as it’s shown in the clip. It *could* be the LA basin, but I can’t tell.

    At first I thought it was Manhattan, but now I don’t think so — I don’t believe either the Hudson or East Rivers are that wide.

    I don’t want to go on a tangent (I’ll leave that to you, Female … you’re much better at it than I am), but when I first considered the possibility that scene could be LA, I immediately thought of this song, popular in 1969-1970 by a band called Shango about California sliding into the sea after an earthquake. It wasn’t very popular after the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. I thought everyone would enjoy this song. For wolfe, it has a nice steel drum bridge.

    Very nice pictures BTW. I specifically mentioned Sydney because the Opera House is iconic and unique and beautiful. It would be a shame to see it slide into the sea.

  13. Female says:

    I think it would be cool to see Sydney bust up and slide into the harbour (it’s only a movie) and in fact if there is a movie about the end of the world, then it would be less insulting if the end of mankind in Sydney was shown, as opposed to left out. I am banking on the yoof in Islamic countries to feel the same way, so eventually they’ll realise, “can’t beat ’em, join ’em”.

    While I was in LAX there was an Earthquake tremor. First time (and hopefully last!) I’ve ever experienced something like that. We were about to board one of Sir Richard’s disco planes to JFK. I looked up at the terminal roof and half expected it to start descending towards us. Very scary. I thought this might delay our boarding time, but no, on we got ten minutes later….I don’t understand why they don’t do structural checks on planes after a tremor…

  14. Female says:

    I can’t watch your video link atm, a few intarnet connection issues here. I will do the opposite to you and try and view it from work haha.

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The official website for the Chō Jijigen Game Neptune Re;Birth 1 (Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1) remake began streaming a new promotional video on Friday. The video includes gameplay clips, introduces characters (and enemies), and highlights new features such as new event CG and remade graphics.

The game remakes Compile Heart's original 2010 role-playing game Chō Jigen Game Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia). The game will feature the "unit turn" battle system. In battle, players can move characters around the battlefield during a turn. Depending on weapons and skills, attack range will vary making a character's position important for battle success.

Nao is performing the opening theme song "Miracle! Portable☆Mission." Afilia Saga is performing the game's ending theme song "Mirai Botan" (Future Button). Both songs feature in the promotional video.

The role-playing game will ship for the PlayStation Vita in Japan on October 31. The regular version will cost 6,090 yen (about US$61), while the limited edition will cost 8,190 yen (US$82), and the downloadable version will cost 5,300 yen (US$53). The limited-edition version will bundle the "Bōken de Maru Maru Sarechau CD" drama CD and a Neptunia rubber strap. People who pre-order the game will also receive the "Megumi-tachi ga Soine Shitekurechau CD" drama CD.

Compile Heart released the Kamijigen Idol Neptune PP (Ultradimension Idol Neptune PP) game for the PlayStation Vita on June 20. A release date for Chō Megami Shinkō Noire Gekishin Black Heart game for the PlayStation Vita remains undecided. The company is also working on Re;Birth 2, the tentatively titled PS Vita remake of Chōjigen Game Neptune mk2 (Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2), and a brand new Neptunia work.

NIS America released the Hyperdimension Neptunia and Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 games in North America, and it released Kami Jigen Game Neptune V as Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory in March. The first game anthropomorphizes the game console wars as female role-playing game characters.

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Posted on Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 2:14 p.m.

Virg Bernero picks Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence as gubernatorial running mate

By Ryan J. Stanton

Democratic sources have leaked the news that Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence is Virg Bernero's choice for lieutenant governor.

Bernero, a former state lawmaker and current Lansing mayor, is expected to make the announcement official at a 9:30 a.m. news conference Saturday at Cobo Hall in Detroit, during the first day of the Michigan Democratic Party Nominating Convention.

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Bernero's campaign isn't confirming the choice, but other sources told both the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press that of the five or six candidates Bernero interviewed, Lawrence was the choice.

Lawrence, who grew up in Detroit, has been Southfield’s mayor since 2001. She ran for Oakland County executive against incumbent L. Brooks Patterson and lost by a 58-41 margin.

She served on the Southfield School Board from 1992 through 1996, working her way up to school board president. She is the first black and first female mayor of Southfield.

The addition of a black female brings diversity to Bernero's campaign, along with additional political clout in Southeast Michigan. Bernero previously stated he was considering state Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith, D-Salem Township, another black female who would have brought extensive legislative experience.

Detroit City Council President Pro-Tem Gary Brown and Wayne State University Vice President Harvey Hollins also were among a long list of rumored hopefuls for the job.

Conan Smith, chairman of the Ann Arbor Democratic Party and head of the Ferndale-based Michigan Suburbs Alliance, said Lawrence will make a great lieutenant governor. She served on the board of the Suburbs Alliance up until last year and was one of its founding members.

"She's very dynamic, she's very dedicated — she's a strong black woman in Southeast Michigan," he said. "She's a role model for a lot of this community and, as a mayor, she has been one of those people who likes to be on the cutting edge of important things like regionalism and metropolitan policy."

Conan Smith said he was, of course, disappointed that Bernero did not select his mother, Alma Wheeler Smith. She interviewed for the job in Lansing on Monday.

Conan Smith, a Washtenaw County commissioner, said the only thing he worries about with Lawrence's selection is that she lacks legislative experience, and the lieutenant governor is in charge of presiding over the state Senate. With so much dysfunction in Lansing right now, he said, the state needs experienced hands at the helm.

"So I worry about that a little bit," Conan Smith said, otherwise describing Lawrence as hard-working and policy savvy.

Immediately following this weekend’s convention, Bernero and his lieutenant governor nominee are going to take their “Fighting for Main Street Tour” on the road across the state, the campaign said today.

Bernero is expected to talk about his agenda to put middle-class families first and get Michigan working again.Â The campaign said he also will discuss his record as mayor ofÂ Lansing.

It's likely Lawrence also will talk about her record as mayor of Southfield, a city with a population of over 78,000 residents, a city budget of $143 million and 833 city employees.

The first leg of Bernero's tour next week includes stops in Flint, Bay City, Battle Creek, Grand Rapids, Royal Oak, Detroit and Lansing. Bernero will visit northern Michigan, the Upper Peninsula, and additional lower Michigan locations in the coming weeks, the campaign said.

“For too long, leaders at the state capitol have been unwilling or unable to create policies that actually make a difference in the lives of most Michiganders,” Bernero said in a statement. “We need to fight for people and small businesses on Main Street and make their voices heard.Â That's what my Main Street Agenda is all about."

Bernero's opponent in the November election, Republican Rick Snyder, announced state Rep. Brian Calley, R-Portland, as his choice for lieutenant governor earlier this week. The two appeared together during a town hall meeting at Washtenaw Community College on Thursday.

Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for Reach him at or 734-623-2529.

Sun, Aug 29, 2010 : 3:32 p.m.

Wow, the dems have conceded the election.

mike from saline

Sun, Aug 29, 2010 : 12:39 p.m.

@ briegle, once again, what are you talking about? Calley?? Don't know anything about him.....why do you ask?

Sun, Aug 29, 2010 : 7:20 a.m.

why so much emphasis on her race and her "firsts" (real and potential)? she sounds like she has many good qualifications without race/diversity having to be constantly brought up.

David Briegel

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 9:47 p.m.

And those people who are against discrimination only against white people hate that don't they Mike? Equality, indeed!!! Tell us what you "know" about Calley, please!

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 12:42 p.m.

Here is the interview n question: GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of this state give you? PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska. No, she did not say SHE could see Russia from her place, but she did NOT answer the question asked, she quipped. Quipping appears to be her best skill. Comparing a 3 term mayor who received 78% of the vote last run to a 1/2 term governor without policy positions does seem to be akin to comparing apples to wombats. Picking a pro-business mayor looks like a good choice. How does the guy running a "govt out of the way" campaign go against a government that has attracted businesses? Could actually turn into a race. ---- A comment was made that "democrats have had their chance". An interesting comment, considering that in the last 30 years republicans have had more governors of Michigan than the dems, and have controlled congress far more than have dems, including most of the last decade under Granholm. But, again, let us not let stereotypes and myths get in the way of our voting preferences!

David Briegel

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 11:11 a.m.

Good choice and some excellent posts here. I still find it amazing how the people who hate govt want to make choices for women. Who see no difference in the case of incest and rape and who care little for that zygote/fetus/innocent baby once they are born.

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 9:41 a.m.

I agree. Virg Bernero's choice of Mayor Lawrence is excellent. Those comments by Crain's will be helpful in the campaign and Mayor Lawrence will connect with people throughout Michigan. Unfortunately for Snyder, choosing a running mate (a heartbeat away from becoming governor) who wants a rape victim to be punished further for at least nine months and possibly suffer more complications from being a crime victim won't go over well with most in Michigan. Snyder lost his attempt to placate moderate Republicans and independents when he endorsed an extreme position that doesn't allow exceptions for rape and incest. Snyder has told us that it's okay for a 14 year old incest victim to be pregnant with her father's sperm and to have to deal with it even though it's additional child abuse and poses physical harm to the victim. I have no problems with marriage between people of different races. However, I wonder if some conservatives will be annoyed by the specter of a woman being forced to carry the baby of a rapist of another race. Will people who don't support abortion under any conditions also deny quick access to the morning after pill? What is the record of people who deny the morning after pill in adopting unwanted children? It looks like multi-generational child abuse. Snyder has chosen a running mate who makes Snyder look extreme compared to the men he defeated in the primary. I like Virg Bernero's choice.

Ryan J. Stanton

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 9:15 a.m.

For those interested, there's a bio on Brenda Lawrence on Southfield's website.

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 9:06 a.m.

Great choice. Ms Lawrence ha an excellent reputation as a middle of the road opposed to Calley who is an extremist. Sanity prevailed with the Democratic choice....not appeasing the extremists as the Repubs did.

Ryan J. Stanton

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 9:01 a.m.

From a press release this morning from the campaign: Lawrence, currently the mayor of Southfield, joined Bernero at a morning news conference during the first day of the Michigan Democratic Party Nominating Convention at Cobo Center in Detroit. Mayor Lawrence shares my passion for fighting for working people and small business owners on Main Street, said Bernero. Her success creating jobs and balancing budgets has earned praise from across the state and country. Most impressive to me is how well Brenda listens to the people she serves, because thats exactly the type of leadership we need at the State Capitol. Bernero and Lawrence worked together as part of the national Mayors Automotive Coalition (MAC) which Bernero founded and traveled with him to Washington, D.C. to fight to win bridge loans for Michigans auto companies. Ive seen Virg in action fighting for Michigan and Im honored to stand with him now, said Lawrence. We will stand up to the special interests that have held back our businesses and hard-working families for too long. Mayor Bernero and I have brought economic development to our cities and we will do the same for Michigan. Mayor Lawrence, in her third term as the first woman and African American mayor of Southfield, has earned national and regional acclaim for her leadership ability. Esquire Magazine named her one of Americas hardest-working mayors. She was also declared one of Southeast Michigans most influential women by Crains Detroit Business. The Detroit News said Lawrence possesses the sort of thinking that voters should want. Brenda Lawrence has been the mayor of Southfield since 2001, when she defeated 28-year veteran Donald Fracassi. She won her third term last year with 78 percent of the vote. If successful in this election, Mayor Lawrence will be the first African American woman to serve in one of Michigans top two executive positions. Lawrence has been married to her husband McArthur for more than 30 years. She has two grown children and a grandchild.

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 8:58 a.m.

Yes Ghost, it really is amazing what VPs or the candidates say. Joe Biden is incredible. My favorite is this Biden quote: "In Delaware, the largest portion of the population is Indian-Americans," said Biden. "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." Maybe the MI Gov candidates should look for similar candidates, who try to offend and amuse us all!! (Although Biden says this isn't a joke...)

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 8:23 a.m.

Dan H believes that I am female because he thinks only women are concerned about defending women's rights. I hope that he is wrong because the preservation of women's rights effects every man's wife and daughters. Women's rights include access to contraceptives and broad-base sex education which effects society in general by, for instance, preventing unwanted pregnancies especially among teenagers. STDs, particularly AIDS, can be devastating and is preventable with education. Abstinence works, of course, for the few who are disciplined enough to adhere but has not effectively reduced the frequency of unwanted pregnancies and STDs. As a retired MALE physician unwanted pregnancies and STDs were, unfortunately, part of my practice (though I never sent a patient for an abortion). I have seen too many lives disrupted and sometimes destroyed to remain dispassionate when women's rights are threatened.

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 8:22 a.m.

David: Just for the record, Sarah Palin did not say she could she Russia from her house, Tina Fey did. Many people mix up the comedienne with the politician. Sarah Palin said about Russia: "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." It is hard to believe that Bernero picked a Mayor who lost so badly in her most recent race.

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 7:35 a.m.

@STUNSHIF- Who, never heard of her. Had you ever heard of Rep Calley prior to Tuesday? If so, what did you know about his record?

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 7:23 a.m.

@DANH- she thinks it should be illegal for pro-choicers to vote for Rick, which is typical liberal thinking. Can you back up this claim? ONe: that she really thinks it should be "illegal"...Two: that this is "typical liberal thinking"? See, I have been called a "typical" liberal on these pages, but I would never say it should be illegal for anyone to vote for whom they wish. Or, are just projecting your narrow views onto a large group of people in order to make yourself "feel" better about political opponents? I have noticed a large segment of posters here, and on other blogs, making grandiose statements about liberals that have little relation to reality or the views held by opponents of the posters. Don't you think our republic would run better if we worried about reality instead of making things up in order to make ourselves hate each other? Don't you think it would work better if we didn't have "death camps", "anchor babies" and "socialist dictators" and other fear mongering myths running the airwaves and instead we actually addressed REAL problems? Don't you think stereotypes make for poor political results?

David Cahill

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 : 7:07 a.m.

What Speechless said. A good choice!

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 11:20 p.m.

@ David Breigel, "This woman has more and better experience than Palin even though she can't see Russia". First off, you don't even know her name( This women) or you would quote it. And secondly, why do you always have to bring up Sarah Palin?

Dan H

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 10:21 p.m.

Don't take Virg's loss for granted no matter how far the polls say he's trailing. Make sure you actually vote for Rick in Nov. I'm going to round up everyone I know and carpool them myself if I have to get some Rick votes in. I'll throw in some pro-choice people for good measure just for big liberal Veracity since she thinks it should be illegal for pro-choicers to vote for Rick, which is typical liberal thinking.

David Briegel

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 8:57 p.m.

Speechless and Ghost are correct. ' This woman has more and better experience than Palin even though she can't see Russia. Oakland County has a larger population than Alaska!! She works well with others and demonstrates leadership skills. And she didn't quit after half a term!!

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 8:19 p.m.

As mentioned in the article, Brenda Lawrence hasn't previously been an elected official in the state legislature, unlike Alma Wheeler Smith. What she does have is close to 20 years combined experience in Southfield as a school board member, city council member, and mayor. Two years ago she ran for Oakland County Executive, where challenging the long-time incumbent, L. Brooks Patterson, is roughly the political equivalent of taking on John Hieftje here in tree town, except over a much larger area. What's also well worth noting is that prior to her current nine-year stint as mayor, she quickly rose to leadership positions during her time on both city council and the school board. While mayor, Lawrence has represented her city, as well as other mayors, on the regional level and in Washington before Congress, where she testified about the mortgage and auto industry crises. My armchair guess is that, compared to other potential running mates, Lawrence is a skilled, experienced civic manager and political campaigner who's long accustomed to public appearances and talking with the media. At this, she should do better than Granholm did years back. It would also seem possible that she and Virg Bernero previously worked together in the context of city coalitions and conferences within the southeast region of the state.

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 4:48 p.m.

Come on Ed at least gives us a Sarah Palin comparison. And we'll leave the light on for ya.

Top Cat

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 3:30 p.m.

Mr. Bernero really needed a Hail Mary and Ms. Lawrence is not it.

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 3:25 p.m.

Who, never heard of her. I think the democrat party picked her for Virg. They know they are going to lose, so lose big! These two are the "sacraficial lambs" given up by the party to die at the alter. Virg should have chosen Ron Gettelfinger, at least he would have had some name recognition and a "one-two" punch to grab all the union vote. Gonna love watching them get their behind kicked in a couple months. Poll today has em down 22% to the Rickster. As Gleason used to say, " how sweet it is"!

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 : 1:58 p.m.

This choice will not go over well with the Starbucks crowd at State & Liberty.


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Ypsilanti woman, daughter featured on 'Katie Couric Show' to discuss rare syndrome

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Cristina Trapani-Scott and her daughter Kiki Peck appeared on the "Katie Couric Show" on Jan. 8.

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An Ypsilanti woman and her daughter appeared on the "Katie Couric Show" Tuesday to discuss children with health conditions that can be difficult to comprehend, MLive reports.

Adrian College adjunct professor Cristina Trapani-Scott's daughter Kiki Peck has Kniest syndrome, a rare form of dwarfism.

The episode was about a book written by Andrew Solomon, titled “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."

Peck, 14, has difficulty with range of motion and walking. She was born without type II collagen in her cartilage, making her bones thinner and weaker than average, according to MLive. The mother and daughter talked about how their relationship has been strengthened due to the syndrome.

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Sun, Jan 13, 2013 : 10:18 a.m.

Great article. Great story. Kiki is a beautiful young woman and strong individual. Any time people can serve as role models and inspiration to others, whether they have special needs or not, it is a worthy effort. For parents of babies, or young children, who have special needs and are facing so much uncertainty, seeing positive outcomes is extremely comforting. I think since not all outcomes are as satisfying as others, for parents of older special needs kids who are still struggling in a severe manner, these stories can be bittersweet. The stories are no less valuable, however; that "can do" spirit can be inspirational to anybody. Thanks Kiki!

Sat, Jan 12, 2013 : 3:48 a.m.

You have a special need child. We know about all sorts of problems our special needs children have. Why display it on television unless you are asking for money? Sorry but this is not news. Just another way for parents to vent.

Sat, Jan 12, 2013 : 4:30 p.m.

This is an article which broadens my view of the world. It also serves as a reminder that we don't have support in place, emotional as well as financial, for families who need it. News - noun  ( usually used with a sing. v. ) 1. a report of a recent event; intelligence; information: His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months. 2. the presentation of a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television. 3. such reports taken collectively; information reported: There's good news tonight. 4. a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material.

Sat, Jan 12, 2013 : 2:02 p.m.

Negative me away. But it is so true. With all the cuts and increase in medical costs, nobama care is going to cut into their budget as well. Special needs children cost a lot of money and it is money the state and feds do not have. Again debt ceiling? Whats that? There is no more money in the coffers.

Sat, Jan 12, 2013 : 1:56 p.m.

Where does the story mention asking for money? It wasn't a way to vent, simply an explanation of a rare disorder, and how the family dealt with it. GEE!

Sat, Jan 12, 2013 : 1:35 p.m.

I know what jns131 is talking about. They're not a miserable human being, just another struggling family struggling to do the right thing in a society that offers little in the way of support.

Sat, Jan 12, 2013 : 1 p.m.

Seriously, is that the only thing you got from this story? Wow! How did you become such a miserable human being? Maybe someone needs to remind you of the old adage, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"

Tara Neil Gabel

Fri, Jan 11, 2013 : 11 p.m.

Hi! What an inspiration Cristina and her mother are! My 11 month old baby girl has Kniest (the same form of Dwarfism as Kiki) listening to her sing and share her hopes and dreams was so nice to hear from a 14 year old's point of view:)

Cristina Trapani-Scott

Sun, Jan 13, 2013 : 12:26 a.m.

Tara! This is Cristina and I just wanted to say that your response is extra special, because our whole reason for even allowing Andrew Solomon to interview us, and consequently Katie Couric, was that we hoped that it would offer a little comfort and reassurance to other families. When Kiki was born all I found was a small paragraph telling me what her medical needs might be. There were no books to reassure me that things would be okay. We did meet others with Kniest a bit later. Anway, I just wanted you to know that of all the responses we have had in this Far From the Tree journey this is the one that makes me feel the most that the journey was worthwhile.

Fri, Jan 11, 2013 : 10:02 p.m.

I thought Christina was from Tecumseh? I think she lived there when she worked for the Tecumseh Herald......

Fri, Jan 11, 2013 : 8:41 p.m.

Well tat will humble you. Good for them.


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Pampered Pooches

Looking at the state of our bedroom behind me in this picture, I'm kind of ashamed I even posted it...ha ha ha! But what can I say, that's life! I don't always have a perfectly made bed even if this was taken at about midday! This morning I had some free time to catch up on some work as Jonathan kindly took the kids out to do some grocery shopping. So I managed to film a video, get back to a few emails, tick some things off my to-do list and quickly clean the house/do some laundry before they all got back. Phew! My outfit was pretty simple today but I love this top...I wish I had picked up more when I was in New York! It's from J.Crew and the neckline is very flattering. The arms are a little tight on this as they only had XXS left in this colour but I got everything else in XS (which fits nicer in my opinion). My jeans are the black Ted Bakers with rips in the knees and my scarf is old but a favourite of mine from Zara.

Emilia & Eduardo are still recovering from being sick so we kept Emilia from preschool today. But they are doing much better...thank you for all your well wishes <3 They played outside in their new car (I know...spoiled, spoiled kids but it was a very generous gift from Range Rover!) while I edited. Meanwhile our pampered pooches spent the day at the salon! Lucky for some, they have a more glamorous life than me! They even get massages and listen to classical music...ha ha ha! I love when they all smell beautiful and have fresh new bows in. If only it lasted! Other than that we had a pretty normal Friday night. We ordered pizza (of course) and chilled as a family. But to me those evenings are the best!

If you'd like to check out my video you can watch it here! It's a Q&A where I answered your questions from Snapchat (my Snapchat is asacconejoly by the way. I try to post everyday). I really loved getting to see your sweet faces and it felt like a much more personal Q&A so I will definitely do this again soon! And thank you to everyone who sent me a snap - you are all so lovely and I wish I could give you a big hug!

  1. What a lovely video. Your hair looks lovely too. I think I need to get involved with Snapchat!! X

  2. I love your outfit today's show how you work on your body and how fit you've became. .
    I'm from suadi Arabia I'm watching you since am ilia was four month I discovered your chanel by its just time vlog when they video you with Julian. .since then I can't stop watching you..I knew that I don't post comments alot but I relly like your channel it's inspired me through hard time..because I see how it's ok to be messy some's ok to's ok when life make you upset. .spicaly your videos with Jonathan about meeting each other..I got divorce couple years ago I felt sad for a while but when I see videos I said it's gonna be ok.. I want a healthy relationship based on love and respect like yours
    IHOP you have a happy live and all your dreams come true. .keep sharing this moments it's what make you spical and not fake..
    love you anna ...

  3. You look lovely Anna :) Tell me you have magical power, how do you make the pooches sit like that and pose like that :D

  4. Love your posts Anna:) Quiet family nights are always the best in my opinion:)

  5. I hope Emilia and Eduardo get well very soon! :( <3
    And the pooches look so cute, aww!

    Melanie | Lilies Beauty

  6. I can't get over how cute your little pooches are! xox

  7. Anna, you look so fit, healthy and happy in this post's picture! Your dedication to fitness has clearly paid off, and you have inspired me to step up my game and do the same. Also, congratulations on your jewelry line! It looks beautiful, and the fact that it was borne out of such a sentimental connection with your father makes it truly special. He would be so proud of you! Wishing you much success with it!

Please be nice...the world could use some positivity! :)

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Come enjoy this Fall Festival highlighting the Michigan BBQ, farm fresh apples of Oceana County, and much more. Festival is held in the business district of Silver Lake Sand Dunes located six miles west of US-31 at the Hart/Mears exit 149.

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Lee F. Mindel Visits the Spectacular Musée Nissim de Camondo

The AD100 architect tours one of Paris’s most beautiful and little-known museums

Paris, everyone knows, is home to some of the world’s finest museums—the Louvre, the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée Picasso Paris, and the Centre Georges Pompidou being just a few. But perhaps the City of Light’s most intimate and haunting collection resides at the Musée Nissim de Camondo. Located in the 8th arrondissement, the museum was the brainchild of Count Moïses de Camondo, who had amassed a magnificent trove of 18th-century French decorative arts, furniture, porcelain, and paintings.

Sephardic Jews who fled Spain in 1492 during the Inquisition, the Camondos were a banking family who established themselves in Venice and Constantinople. In the late 19th century they moved to Paris, where the Count grew up, and the family became renowned for their philanthropy and civic pride—they were referred to as “the Rothschilds of the East.”

Upon his death in 1935, Camondo bequeathed his residence and collection to the French government as a museum bearing the name of his son, who had been killed while fighting for the French in World War I. The only proviso was that every piece of furniture and art be left intact, which it remains to this day.

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Guest Speaker Revisited: William Styron

Children of a Brief Sunshine

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Novelists generally have a special feeling for house and home, since that's where they spend most of their working days. William Styron was a classic example of this. To me, and I think to most people who knew him, he was either writing in Connecticut or else sitting in a rocking chair on his Vineyard porch reading a book. He was sometimes a traveler, but he was most of all a man who loved being home.

In this piece, first published in Architectural Digest* in March 1984, Styron speaks of "the humanity and wit" of the design of a southern mansion. This, and his easy grace in his sentences, some of them orotund, are characteristic of an unusual man and a great American writer, whose death just a few months ago was accompanied by many tributes. He was also mentioned as having been a hell-raiser in his youth, a participant in literary feuds, criticized by some for daring to write the memoir of a slave, howled at by others for daring to write about the holocaust, seemingly living in a vortex of vilification.*

Yet the books that emerged from his meditations—Lie Down in Darkness (1951),The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), Sophie's Choice (1979)* andDarkness Visible (1990) among them—gave him moral authority. Though he experienced, and wrote about, infernalities, he could be a thoughtful and reassuring presence, someone who liked a joke and could do funny accents. If he showed up at a party, he tended to leave early. He loved dogs, and what he liked best was to take them for walks on his favorite routes. His Vineyard house was simple, even stark, dwarfed by enormous trees, set on a beautiful lawn that reached to the water.*

He was one of the last of a generation of writers who were mighty and romantic, because they were mostly hidden. (And because of this they bewitched the imaginations of those of us who wished to be writers ourselves.) If Styron seemed reclusive, it was because he needed peace of mind to work. He was one of the many writers I have known who epitomized the need to live in a serene, even bourgeois household. Rose Styron, whose care for his well-being exceeded almost anything I have ever witnessed in wifely devotion, assured him of this serenity.

A mythology grows around people who keep themselves out of the public eye. Styron was celebrated for being combative and prickly, but really he was a man who set out to make sense of his life and his experiences of the most traumatic episodes in the world—the war, slavery, the holocaust, his own suicidal depression and, as this piece shows, the complex glories of the American South.

If the accident of birth caused you to spend most of your early life, as I did, on what is known as the Virginia historic peninsula, you were apt to grow up with a ponderous sense of the American past. As a boy I was made constantly aware of the trinity of national shrines—Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg—which even then, in the 1930s, brought tourists flocking to that 70-mile oblong of somnolent Tidewater lowland that juts southeastward from Richmond between two of the country's most venerable rivers, the York and the James. But at that age, proximity and familiarity breed, if not contempt, then a certain callow indifference, and I don't recall being at all thrilled by the greater part of my admittedly august surroundings.

Jamestown was merely a boring landing on the river, heavy with melancholy and ancient, illegible tombstones. Yorktown, for me, possessed no glamour, none of the allure of a world-class battleground on the order of Waterloo or Hastings, but was simply a river beach where we went to gorge ourselves on hot dogs and to swim in the soupy tidal water thick with jellyfish. For some reason verging on the heretical, Colonial Williamsburg never captured my fancy; it seemed even then a place largely contrived and artificial, and it left me cold. But part of my spirit was always mysteriously drawn to the James River mansions. They spoke to me in a secret, exciting way that the other landmarks could never speak, and I still consider them among the state's truly captivating attractions.

Westover and Brandon. Shirley and Carter's Grove. There are other fine Colonial structures in the Tidewater, but these four remain the exemplars of the noble species of dwelling that the early planters built on the banks of the James, creating, from native brick and timber, likenesses of the country houses of England they had left behind, but in each case, out of some quirky genius, imparting to the whole an individuality that remains arrestingly American. The mansions have of course undergone much restoration since the mid-18th century, when they were built. (William Byrd's Westover, perhaps the most splendid of the group, was badly mutilated by fire during the Civil War.) But one of the remarkable things about these houses is the way they have escaped the look of having been prettified by the embalmer's hand. Although they are linked in spirit by their obviously Georgian origins, part of the charm of each lies in its almost defiant distinctiveness—Shirley, with its absence of wings, having a lofty solidity, in contrast, say, to the dignified horizontal expansiveness of Brandon and its rectangular wings attached to the center by connecting passageways. Each is unique, and a surprise.

There are perhaps few habitations anywhere that ever so successfully fused aesthetic delightfulness with unabashed commerce. The plantation houses were really the headquarters for complex business enterprises. Their situation on the river happened not primarily because of the ingratiating view, but because the James was the means whereby each estate's golden harvest of tobacco was shipped back to the insatiable pipe smokers and snuff dippers of England and the Continent. What strikes one, then, is that the homes—created by gentlemen for whom profit was a paramount concern—are so fastidious yet so sensuous in their elegance, so satisfying in terms of all those components that make up the nearly perfect human abode. And all of this took place on the breast of a raw and primitive continent whose often violent settlement began not many years before.

How easy the temptation must have been to erect something tacky and utilitarian and to make one's getaway; the banks of the waterways of the earth have been littered by exploiters' shameless eyesores. But Virginia planters like William Byrd and his fellow proprietors, entrepreneurial though they were, made up a rare breed whose sense of environment was subtle and demanding. We know from the records they left that they responded with passion to the music of Purcell and Lully, to the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil; why should they not be determined that their surroundings be imbued with equal serenity and refinement?

Among other things, these fog-dampened Britons were plainly intoxicated with the flowering of Virginia's lush and sun-drenched countryside. And so what impressed me as a boy, perhaps unconsciously, impresses me now with logic and force; the harmonious connection between the mansions and their natural surroundings, each of them seeming to grow like an essential ornament in a landscape of huge, hovering shade trees, boxwood-and-rose-scented gardens, and a sumptuous lawn undulating to the river's edge. Two hundred and fifty years later this mingling of elements has a flowing integrity and authenticity. Also, humanity and wit.

Look for humanity and wit almost everywhere in one of the James River mansions. In the great downstairs hall, the visitor will see how two doors facing each other allowed guests to arrive from opposite directions: by way of a tree-lined carriage road or, for people coming by barge or boat, across the lawn from the bank of the river. In the solitude of that barely civilized wilderness, guests were welcome and fussed over, and they came incessantly. Isolation made hospitality more than a ritual: It was part of a hungry need for communion, and the splendidly paneled rooms that give off the main hall saw manic activity: dancing and reading aloud; parlor games; music played on spinet and mandolin and harpsichord; gossip, flirtation and seduction; card games; much drinking of local applejack and fine Bordeaux wine around fireplaces that were everywhere and fueled from inexhaustible sources of Tidewater timber. Early on, Virginia developed a serious cuisine. At tables in the big dining room, the food—usually supplied from outside cookhouses—was served to the household and to the endless stream of visitors in orgiastic plenty that stillmakes one marvel.

No time or place is without its woes and discomforts, and surely the planters often worked hard and were besieged by problems, but a nimbus of hedonism surrounds our vision of the James River mansions in their heyday. Both the inhabitants and the crowd of callers must have had a lot of fun. Set down as they were in a delectable backwater where their only excuse for being was to supply their countrymen with a mildly euphoric weed they extracted from the fat land with absurd ease, the planters were among the favored few in history for whom the circumstances of life had produced a vast amount of enjoyment and relatively little adversity. Although the American Revolution would eventually produce friction and discontent, the proprietors appeared blissfully free of political anxieties. The pestilences that had decimated Jamestown had subsided. War—both European and domestic—was many comfortable miles away. The local Indians had been pacified years before. The low-church Episcopal God whom the planters sometimes worshipped was forgiving and tolerant of their voluptuous pleasures, leaving the burden of sin to be suffered by the Puritans, far north in icy New England. In the long and disorderly chronicle of the West, with its chiaroscuro of serenity and dark agony, they were children of a brief sunshine.

One discordant presence was usually forgotten, or overlooked, even then. As the present-day visitor looks out across the tidy beds of flowers bordered by boxwood and traversed by brick walls, his gaze may linger on the outbuildings (or the spot where they once stood), and they too will seem to fall symmetrically into place. These smaller buildings—servants' quarters, cookhouse, tannery and smokehouse, carpenter's shop, all decently contrived of honest and workmanlike construction—were, of course, the demesne of the black slaves, whose toil had been essential to the creation and success of the mansions, and continued to assure their perpetuation. The "people," as they were so often called, had been generally treated with care and kindness, so it is understandable that the planters suffered vexation over their common plight and cursed heaven for their predicament. However, not knowing what else to do, they allowed the problem to pass into the hands of later generations, who resolved the matter in one of the most murderous wars ever fought. Meanwhile, the beautiful mansions endured, and still endure.


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Information and Accommodation around Argyll, Scotland

Kilmartin, Ford and South Lochaweside is a sparsely populated area and as such there are not many restaurants to choose from.

Crinan Hotel

Crinan Hotel
Crinan (15min from KilM)
PA34 5QD
01546 830261
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The Crinan Hotel is situated in Crinan at the western sea lock of the Crinan Canal. There are breathtaking views out to the local islands. The hotel boasts two eateries by way of the Seafood Bar and the Westward Restaurant.

The Crinan Hotel is about 15 minutes south of Kilmartin offering a picturesque place to eat.

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The National Museum of Women in the Arts seeks applications for our Dettre Graduate Archival Internship and for our regular unpaid internship program.

Dettre Graduate Archival Internship

The Dettre Graduate Archival Internship is a part-time (20 hours) paid position for one year that begins each fall to help support our Archives of Women Artists.

The recipient receives a $10,000 stipend over 12 months to put into practice what they are learning in their graduate program.

Under the direction and supervision of the Director of the Library and Research Center, the Dettre Archival Intern is responsible for performing various tasks related to the National Museum of Women in the Arts Archives. The recipient of the internship will process records, assist in the inventory and appraisal of records, arrange and re-house records, and describe records using standardized procedures.

To apply, please review

Unpaid Internships

Unpaid internships are also available for the Fall. The deadline to apply is June 15th. To apply, please review

If you are interested in doing something shorter term as an intern, you are welcome to email Heather Slania, Director of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, separately. There are projects that are acceptable for practicum, independent study classes, and general library and archival hands on training.