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An End to Aging IE Installs

Do you hear that sound? That’s right Johnny, it’s the sound of millions of web professionals breathing a collective sigh of relief.

By Aaron Gustafson | December 15th, 2011

IE9 looks really promising

The IE9 “developer previews” continue to impress. HTML5, CSS3, & speed improvements FTW!

By Aaron Gustafson | June 28th, 2010

IE8 Has Arrived

With a greater focus on standards-compliance, it seems possible that Microsoft’s latest browser may redeem itself in the eyes of standards-savvy designers and developers.

By Aaron Gustafson | March 20th, 2009

Microsoft releases the first IE8 Beta

In other news, the ACID2 test page has become overwhelmed.

By Aaron Gustafson | March 5th, 2008

Microsoft rethinks IE8′s default behavior

Perhaps it was our complaining or perhaps it was a reconsideration of its own interoperability principles, but Microsoft has decided to change its course on IE8 and will opt-in to its new standards mode by default.

By Aaron Gustafson | March 3rd, 2008

WaSP Round Table: IE8′s Default Version Targeting Behavior

One week ago, several WaSP members took the time to have a virtual sit-down with Chris Wilson of Microsoft to talk about IE8′s proposed default behavior of having to opt-in for the browser’s new standards mode.

By Aaron Gustafson | February 24th, 2008

Microsoft’s Version Targeting Proposal

Over at A List Apart today is Aaron Gustafson's article Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8, introducing a controversial proposal from Microsoft that developers should start locking their pages into set browser versions. Although members of the WaSP Microsoft Task Force were very much involved in this proposal, it ...

By Drew McLellan | January 22nd, 2008

Opting-in to standards support

In this week’s issue of A List Apart, I was (finally) able to reveal Microsoft’s new strategy for forward-compatibility, a strategy that was developed hand-in-hand with several of us here at WaSP.

By Aaron Gustafson | January 22nd, 2008

IE8 passes Acid2 test

Blimey. Cor luvvaduck and no mistake. Just after the announcement that Opera are complaining to the European Union about Internet Explorer's dodgy standards support, Chris Wilson reports that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test. This doesn't necessarily mean that IE8 has fixed all its float oddities, ...

By Bruce Lawson | December 19th, 2007

Opera complains to Europe over IE lock-in

Opera Chief Technology Officer and co-inventor of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie has written an open letter to the Web community explaining the reasons that Opera has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer and to unbundle Internet ...

By Bruce Lawson | December 13th, 2007

Bringing standards to Microsoft

WaSP Emeritus (and former fearless leader) Molly Holzschlag is settling into her new position at Microsoft this week and has begun reporting from the trenches with an overview of what she’ll be doing while she’s there.

By Aaron Gustafson | April 2nd, 2007

A Shopping List For Standards?

Molly is heading for Microsoft and wants to know what your hot topics are where standards and Microsoft are concerned.

By Ian Lloyd | March 18th, 2007

Which is better for the web: single vendor homogeneity, or OSS/Web 2.0-style innovation?

Brendan Eich, the principal creator of JavaScript and one of the leading developers for the Mozilla project, follows up his SXSW presentation, which illustrates parallels between historical examples of user-community-driven innovation and the current state of affairs in the web useragent space. (Say that fast ten times.) In today’s post ...

By Ben Henick | March 12th, 2007

You’re looking swell, Molly

All of you reading this post will agree with me that even given our chorus of voices, we can't sing enough praises about Molly for her energy and all the work she undertakes in what she strongly believes in. Nor can we match in harmony with her gift to communicate, ...

By Steph Troeth | January 30th, 2007

You can improve

If you’ve ever wanted the opportunity to tell Microsoft what they should do with IE next, now is the time.

By Aaron Gustafson | November 4th, 2006

Microsoft predicts swift adoption of IE7

Earlier this week, Chris Wilson of the IE team revealed some numbers he feels point to a swifter adoption of IE7 than previously thought.

By Aaron Gustafson | October 28th, 2006

IE7 JavaScript Improvements

The IEBlog recently reported some improvements in IE7’s JavaScript engine.

By Dean Edwards | September 21st, 2006

IE6: the end is (hopefully) near

Hot on the heels of the IE7 Βeta 3 release, Microsoft has announced plans to roll out the final standalone version of IE7 via its Automatic Update service.

By Aaron Gustafson | July 26th, 2006

Microsoft Expression Preview Release

Set to debut in June of 2006 Microsoft has publically released a free trial preview of its newest web authoring tool, Microsoft Expression Web Designer.

By Holly Marie Koltz | May 15th, 2006

Even Scoble Says Nay Nay

No, this isn't a comedy routine with the fabulous John Pinette taking the stage. It's part of an ongoing tragic saga of Web sites that are browser-specific. Nothing new there, as we all know. In this case, they're all Microsoft sites, alas, and even Robert Scoble is just saying no. While ...

By Molly E. Holzschlag | May 8th, 2006

A DOM Scripting Wishlist for Microsoft

Peter Paul Koch has kick-started a discussion called “IE 7 and JavaScript: what needs to be fixed?”

By Jeremy Keith | April 30th, 2006

!important Fixed in Later IE7 Releases

It was brought to my attention today that the IE7 Beta 2 Preview wasn't honoring the role of the !important declaration and as such was causing alternative box model hacks to fail. !important is important for several important reasons. First is the very reason !important exists, which is to ...

By Molly E. Holzschlag | February 3rd, 2006

Star HTML and Microsoft IE7

Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager for IE Platform and Security at Microsoft, and Position is Everything's Big John Gallant have been having a conversation about * html in Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 7 for Windows (IE7). Wilson has been encouraging CSS designers and developers to repair any bug-specific hacks ...

By Molly E. Holzschlag | December 22nd, 2005

Pandora’s Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions

This Thanksgiving I’ve decided it’s about time that I provided some more background and analysis on one of the things I am certainly unintentionally (in)famous for.

By Tantek Çelik | November 27th, 2005

IE7 Conditional Comments

In mid October, the IE Blog urged developers to stop using CSS hacks to workaround IE's problems, and start relying on Microsoft's proprietary conditional comments. I wrote up my thoughts about the new syntax, and it seemed practical enough considering that IE7 is looking to address most of the reasons ...

By Dave Shea | November 3rd, 2005

WaSP Microsoft Task Force Update: Upcoming Products, XAML, Acid2, SXSW, and IE7 Revealed

The WaSP Microsoft Task Force held another face-to-face meeting with available members on Tuesday. We met in a Starbucks along the waterfront in rainy Seattle. While the setting might have been a bit predictable, the conversation was unique and at times, very encouraging. WaSPs at the meeting were DL Byron ...

By Molly E. Holzschlag | November 2nd, 2005

The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.

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Our Work Here is Done

By Aaron Gustafson | March 1st, 2013

Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality.

When The Web Standards Project (WaSP) formed in 1998, the web was the battleground in an ever-escalating war between two browser makers—Netscape and Microsoft—who were each taking turns “advancing” HTML to the point of collapse. You see, in an effort to one-up each other, the two browsers introduced new elements and new ways of manipulating web documents; this escalated to the point where their respective 4.0 versions were largely incompatible.

Realizing that this fragmentation would inevitably drive up the cost of building websites and ran the risk of denying users access to content and services they needed, Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded WaSP and rallied an amazing group of web designers and developers to help them push back. The WaSP’s primary goal was getting browser makers to support the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

In 2001, with the browser wars largely over, WaSP began to shift its focus. While some members continued to work with browser vendors on improving their standards support, others began working closely with software makers like Macromedia to improve the quality of code being authored in tools such as Dreamweaver. And others began the hard slog of educating web designers and developers about the importance of using web standards, culminating in the creation of WaSP InterAct, a web curriculum framework which is now overseen by the W3C.

Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality. While there is still work to be done, the sting of the WaSP is no longer necessary. And so it is time for us to close down The Web Standards Project.

Many (if not all) of us are continuing to work in the world of web standards, but our work is now largely outside the umbrella of WaSP. If you are interested in continuing to work on web standards-related projects along with us, we humbly suggest you follow these projects:

  • A List Apart – The magazine “for people who make websites” is run by WaSP founder Jeffrey Zeldman and is a consistent source of forward-thinking articles and tutorials.
  • HTML5 Doctor – A solid resource and discussion forum on all things HTML5, brought to you by Bruce Lawson and his team.
  • W3C Community Groups – If you have a passion for a specific web technology, you can help make it better by participating in one (or more) community groups. In particular, you might be interested in one of these: Core Mobile Web Platform, Responsive Images, Web Education, and Web Media Text Tracks.
  • – A fantastic web standards resource, providing up-to-date documentation, Q&As, tutorials & more. Chris Mills, Doug Schepers, and a number of other standards advocates are involved in this project.
  • Web Standards Sherpa – An educational resource founded by WaSP which continues to operate under the leadership of Chris Casciano, Virginia DeBolt, Aaron Gustafson, and Emily Lewis.
  • Web Standards + Small Business – An outreach project started by WaSP that educates small businesses about why they should care about web standards. This project is overseen by Aaron Gustafson.

The job’s not over, but instead of being the work of a small activist group, it’s a job for tens of thousands of developers who care about ensuring that the web remains a free, open, interoperable, and accessible competitor to native apps and closed eco-systems. It’s your job now, and we look forward to working with you, and wish you much success.

Nota bene: In the near future, we will be making a permanent, static archive of and some of our other resources like WaSP Interact to preserve them as a resource and to provide a record of our 15-year mission to improve the web.

Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth contributed to this post.

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McCain: 'History Will Judge this President’s Leadership with the Scorn and Disdain it Deserves'

11:02 AM, Dec 15, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER
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Sen. John McCain attends an Independence Day ceremony at the Al-Faw Palace in Baghdad, 2007.

Sen. John McCain attends an Independence Day ceremony at the Al-Faw Palace in Baghdad, 2007.

Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain blasted President Barack Obama on the Senate floor yesterday for the commander in chief’s handling of Iraq. “All I will say is that, for three years, the president has been harvesting the successes of the very strategy that he consistently dismissed as a failure,” McCain said referring to the surge which then senator Obama opposed in 2007. “I imagine this irony was not lost on a few of our troops at Fort Bragg today, most of whom deployed and fought as part of the surge.” (Video is here; full text here.)

McCain made the point that Obama’s decision to withdraw all American forces from Iraq has been entirely political, with no consideration from what military commanders have been telling him. “The fact is, the president has consistently called for a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq at the earliest possible date, and he has never deviated from this position as president,” McCain said. “Indeed, he has always reaffirmed his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq and withdraw all of our troops.I continue to believe that this decision represents a failure of leadership, both Iraqi and American … that it was a sad case of political expediency triumphing over military necessity, both in Baghdad and in Washington … and that it will have serious negative consequences for Iraq’s stability and our national security interests. I sincerely hope that I am wrong, but I fear that General Jack Keane, who was one of the main architects of the surge, could be correct again when he said recently: ‘We won the war in Iraq, and we’re now losing the peace.’”

McCain concluded:

“This is a decisive moment in the history of America’s relationship with Iraq, and with all of the countries of the broader Middle East. This is a moment when the substantial influence that we have long enjoyed in that part of the world could be receding -- in fact, is receding. We cannot allow that to be our nation’s future. We must continue to lead. We must not let short-term political gains dictate our longer-term goals. We must continue working to shape a freer, more just, and more secure future both for Iraq and for peoples across the Middle East -- for it is in our own national security interest to do so.

“Over 4,000 brave young Americans gave their lives in this conflict. I pray that their sacrifice is not in vain. I hope that their families will not mourn the day that their sons and daughters went out to fight for freedom for the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, it is clear that this decision of a complete pullout of United States troops from Iraq was dictated by politics, and not our national security interests. I believe that history will judge this president’s leadership with the scorn and disdain it deserves.”

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Nineteenth Century

The Plot to Steal Abe Lincoln’s Corpse

Once upon a time, some crooks thought it would be a good idea to rob the grave of Abe Lincoln and hold the corpse for ransom.

One account here.

More detailed account here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Jul 03, 2015 | Comments (1)
Category: Death, Politics, Stupid Criminals, Nineteenth Century

Insane Happiness

Why do we never hear about such jolly madmen these days? Probably because we don't let people die from syphilis anymore.

Original article here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Jun 18, 2015 | Comments (4)
Category: Sexuality, Nineteenth Century, Brain Damage

Montreal Madness of 1892

People acted weird in familiar NOTW fashion even over a century ago, as this Montreal newspaper reveals.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri May 01, 2015 | Comments (5)
Category: Emotions, Newspapers, Husbands, Wives, Nineteenth Century, Mental Health and Insanity

Seaweed Collecting

Back in the Victorian era, this was apparently a popular hobby. From Collectors Weekly:

Affluent Victorians often spent hours painstakingly collecting, drying, and mounting these underwater plants into decorative scrapbooks... Part of the appeal was what a seaweed collection said about the collector. Anyone could appreciate and collect flowers, but painstakingly obtaining, preserving, and mounting seaweed specimens demonstrated patience, artistic talent, and the refined sensibilities necessary to appreciate the more subtle beauties of nature. Queen Victoria herself made a seaweed album as a young lady.

And yes, the seaweed did smell bad. But Collectors Weekly reminds us that the Victorian era was "a more pungent time."
Posted By: Alex | Date: Sat Apr 18, 2015 | Comments (6)
Category: Hobbies and DIY, Nineteenth Century

Town terrorized by mad cats

This sounds like it could have been the start of a horror movie. The feline version of The Birds perhaps.

Source: San Francisco Call - May 26, 1890. via WSIHN
Posted By: Alex | Date: Sun Apr 05, 2015 | Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Cats, Nineteenth Century

The More Things Change..

...The more they stay the same. A sinkhole developed on a city street in Dublin. The reason being there was a 19th century tunnel running between what was then the building housing Parliament and a brothel. Politicians and sex scandals are timeless.
Posted By: patty | Date: Thu Apr 02, 2015 | Comments (4)
Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Politics, Nineteenth Century, Sex

Bile Beans

One of the less-alluringly named nostrums. Full story here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Feb 28, 2015 | Comments (4)
Category: Drugs, Scams, Cons, Rip-offs, and General Larceny, Advertising, Excrement, Nineteenth Century, Diseases

The Hairy Water Tortoise of China

I cannot figure out if this is a legitimate species, or a freak. This article seems to imply it was a common tortoise with vegetation affixed to its back.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Feb 21, 2015 | Comments (6)
Category: Animals, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Asia, Nineteenth Century

Counterfeit Ferris Wheel Certificates

So popular and prestigious was a ride on the first Ferris Wheel, that riders were given a certificate testifying to their experience.

Naturally enough, this soon lead to a market for counterfeits!

Original article here. (Scroll down.)

Flesh Prices

The purpose of this graphic was to show how high the price of meat was during the 1870 Siege of Paris. But what I find odd about it is the inclusion of elephant and bear meat, which apparently were on sale during the siege and had a set price. So if you wanted an elephant steak, it would have cost you 15 shillings (or $3.60) a pound. Assume that the modern currency equivalent would be a lot higher.

Source: Illustrated World, April 1918.

Posted By: Alex | Date: Tue Jan 27, 2015 | Comments (12)
Category: Food, Nineteenth Century
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Who Killed the Soaps? 7 Culprits, Including THE REAL HOUSEWIVES, Farmville, and James Franco
It's true that soaps don't make as much money as they used to, but why? Are there culprits to blame beyond network executives needing to cut costs? points a finger at several other guilty parties in the death of the serial.

Nielsen: 21,000 Nielsen National People Meter homes in the U.S.
"There are 21,000 Nielsen National People Meter (NPM) homes in the United States. The NPM tracks what people around the country are watching at any given time. We make sure that the NPM is weighted so that it can accurately reflect the entire U.S television-viewing population. For example, we make sure the NPM represents an accurate number of men vs. women, or people at various ages and of different ethnicities."

Comcast to invest additional $300 million for NBCUniversal programming
During a conference call with analysts to discuss Comcast's first-quarter earnings, Burke said the company would spend $200 million more this year on prime-time shows to try to give the cellar-dwelling NBC network a lift in the ratings. The Philadelphia-based cable giant also plans to pump in an additional $100 million on programming for the company's profitable cable networks -- including USA, Syfy, E! and Bravo -- to keep the channels at the top of their game.

John Stamos talks about SVU role and GLEE
“It’s really the farthest thing I’ve ever done on TV and movies from who I am,” Stamos said about SVU during a conference call with reporters earlier this week. “It scared the hell out of me -— he’s a reproductive abuser. He’s really unlike any character I’ve seen or read anywhere.”

GLEE Watch: When Times Go Bad, When Times Go Rough
"It's worth noting that 'Rumours' was at least a partial exception to the rule that Glee is best when it is about the adults as little as possible. Will's various romantic dilemmas have never been too compelling, but last night the show made him interesting by focusing on a conflict that makes sense: namely, whether he's given up too much by devoting himself to his kids and the school."

GLEE's concert tour to become a 3D movie
"Glee Live! In Concert!" will be released in August for a two-week engagement.

5 Web TV Series In the Barrel; Advertisers Just Need to Pull the Trigger
ANYONE BUT ME, DOWNSIZED and LENOX AVENUE are included in the list.

BBC America Launches Comedy Block
BBC America's top U.K. comedy imports will air in a block. Branded Ministry of Laughs, the two-hour block will launch June 18 at 10 p.m. ET. Included in it are THE INBETWEENERS, an all-new season of the BAFTA-winning teen comedy, which is being remade by MTV.

WWE: Stylistically Speaking on the Concept of the Action Soap Opera
Trey Styles writes: "With their recent booking and creative choices the 'E' has truly taken two steps forward and three steps back. Their back to square one approach to many current situations shows a very high level of complacency."

  1. My math sucks but it doesn't seem like 21,000 people can determine what everyone is watching.

  2. Yeah, 21,000 cannot possibly represent a correct number...and AGAIN, SoapNet, dvr, and internet viewing IS NOT COUNTED!These are not accurate numbers.

  3. Nielsen is antiquated and out of touch. They do NOT represent an accurate view of the ratings yet they prance around claiming to be all knowing and receive millions of dollars for their misrepresentations and lies.We NEED to stand up or our rights. Also according to them we viewers over 49 and under 18 do NOT count or mean anything and in some scenarios they do not count male viewers. Maybe the networks need to ask us and not some ineffectual panel of idiots.We have a voice and a mind of our own and do NOT have to be told what we like...we know!

  4. People
    can decide what they want on the air and what they dont .... you either deal or move onto something else.

  5. People
    can decide what they want on the air and what they dont .... you either deal or move onto something else.

  6. Since "The Talk" took over from "As The World Turns", viewership for that times lot is down by 20% as is the demographic. They might save costs, but they will not gain viewers. People will just go out and not even bother to DVR.

    Since the wife of the Pres. of CBS hosts "The Talk", I doubt anything will be done to rectify taking off a show that had generations of followers(56 years!!).

  7. Soap killers: models who want to act; writers who can't write and haven't ever watched a soap; producers who continue to hire the beautiful but talentless.


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1639, aged 29, had w. Temperance, and ch. Joshua, b. 12 Mar. 1642, d.
young; Job, 1643; Sarah, 19 May 1644; Samuel, 20 Jan. 1647; and
Elizabeth wh. m. 1667, Humphrey Osland, and d. 1723. He liv. at the
village wh. bec. Newton, was freem. 2 May 1649, and d. 12 Sept.
1689. Farmer says he was deac. mean. I suppose, of Hobart's ch. at
New Cambridge, for his name is not in Mitchell's Reg. Six generat. of
descend. have liv. on part of his ld. SAMUEL, Newton, s. of Jonathan
the first of the same, m. 20 Jan. 1674, Hannah, d. of Isaac Stedman,
but no issue is heard of, and he d. 1725; and his wid. d. 1727.
SAMUEL, Norwich, s. of William, m. June 1659, at Saybrook, Jane
Lee, had Elizabeth b. Aug. 1660, the first Eng. ch. in the town; Phebe,
Jan. 1662; Samuel, May 1665; John, Dec. 1667; William, Jan. 1669;
Thomas, July 1672; Sarah, 1675, d. soon; and Jabez, May 1677; and
d. 1677. Descend. are num. TIMOTHY, Wethersfield, s. of George, m.
Elizabeth d. of Thomas Olcott of Hartford, where he resid. some yrs. after
1671, had only ch. Timothy, wh. d. 1710, unm. WILLIAM, Hartford,
an orig. propr. rem. to Saybrook, thence a. 1659 or 60, to Norwich, there
d. 1681. His only ch. kn. to us were Samuel, bef. ment. and Esther, wh.
m. John Post. WILLIAM, Newton, s. of the first Jonathan of the same,
freem. 1690, m. Elizabeth eldest d. of his cous. Job Hyde of the same, had
William, b. 30 Oct. 1690; tw. ds. 1693, d. soon; Ebenezer, 14 May
1694; and Caleb, 8 Oct. 1699, d. next yr. and the f. d. Dec. 1699.
Fourteen of this name had, in 1834, been gr. at the N. E. coll. but
none at Harv.

    HYLAND, GEORGE, Guilford 1662, d. 1694, leav. wid. Hannah,
s. Samuel, and four ds. Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, and Deborah, of wh. two
m. Hulls, and one had s. nam. Highland, as commonly by that fam. it was
spelt, sometimes Hiland, or Hyland. His wid. d. 1697. THOMAS, Scituate 1637,
was from Tenterden, Co. Kent, had Thomas; Samuel, wh. d. in Philip's war;
Deborah, wh. m. 1666, William Ticknor, as sec. w.; Mary, wh. m. 1664,
John Bryant, as third w.; Sarah m. 6 Jan. 1652, Thomas Turner; and
Ruth. Prob. most of these were b. in Eng. THOMAS, Scituate, s. of
the preced. m. 1 Jan. 1661, Elizabeth d. of John Stockbridge, had Thomas,
b. 1662, wh. d. in the wild exped. of Sir William Phips, 1690; Elizabeth
1665; Mary, 1667; John, 1669; and Ruth, 1673.

    IBROOK, RICHARD, Hingham 1635. Lincoln, 43. He had gr. in
1647, of an isl. in the harbor; and d. 14 Nov. 1651. His wid. d. 4
Apr. 1664, as we learn from the Diary of Rev. Peter Hobart, wh. m. his
d. Rebecca for sec. w. A d. Helen, or Ellen, m. Mar. 1638, Joshua
Hobart; and ano. d. Margaret, m. Feb. 1639, or 40, John Tower.

    IDE, NICHOLAS, Rehoboth 1643, m. I presume, a d. of Thomas Bliss,
for in the will of B. he is call. s.-in-law; and prob. he had Mary, Nicholas,
Martha, and John. His w. was bur. 3 Nov. 1676, and s. John, prob.


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Junior Jake Hodel led the Falcons at the WIAA Division 2 State Meet on Friday by taking fifth place in the 100-yard breaststroke with a personal-best 1 minute, 1.28 seconds.

Hodel moved up to the second spot in the breaststroke in Whitnall history, head coach George Guddie said.

Junior diver Nick Bell came in sixth with 350.1 points.

The 200 medley relay team of senior Ben Hinson, Hodel, junior Jack Larson and senior David Monteilh finished ninth (1:43.31). The unit dropped a full second from its sectional time, posted a season best and missed eighth place by .08 of a second.

Hodel, Larson, Monteilh and Hinson also came in 14th in the 200 freestyle relay (season-best 1:32.57) and 16th in the 400 freestyle relay (3:26.33).

The Falcons, who tallied 53 points for 16th place, lose only Hinson and Monteilh off their state squad.

Sam Lustig just missed qualifying for the finals of the diving competition at the WIAA Division 1 State Meet on Saturday, coming in 17th with 236.65 points.

"Sam went up against some tough competition," diving coach Sandy Sikich said. "Sam had a good meet but not great and missed the cut for the finals (top 16) by less than a point."

Sikich added that Lustig put together a fine career for West Allis, qualifying for state twice and winning titles in the Greater Metro Conference Relay Meet and conference meet, plus a WIAA sectional, this season.

The Bulldogs dropped a 38-21 decision to Mukwonago in a WIAA Division 1 team sectional dual Feb. 12.

The Indians took a 6-0 lead with a pin in the first match, but Alan Silva responded by dropping Tommy Kolasinski in 2 minutes, 15 seconds at 138 pounds to tie things at 6-6.

Mukwonago won the next two to go up 15-6, then Dylan Diebitz pulled out a 1-0 decision over Kirk Zylke at 160 pounds to make it 15-9. Jason Alvarez followed with a 6-1 triumph over Alex Winski at 170 to bring Central within 15-12, but the Indians then swept the next three matches to build a 25-12 advantage.

Heavyweight Robert Torres came through with a pin in 5 minutes, 16 seconds over Tom Stingl to give Central some life at 25-18, but Mukwonago again pulled away.

At 126 pounds, Jose Ramos blanked Nate Arquinego, 6-0, to close out Central's scoring.

The team tallied 128.65 points for sixth place in the North Shore Conference Meet on Saturday.

Sydnee Tomczak placed fourth on the uneven parallel bars with 8.925, while Emily Fuchs, in her first meet this season, took fifth in vaulting at 8.95 points. Fuchs was also ninth in the floor exercise (8.85).

Tomczak also captured seventh in the all-around (34.2).

West Allis now competes in a WIAA Division 1 sectional at Hartland Arrowhead at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

Ashley Alvarado tallied 20 points, Bria Brown 11 points and Tyana Turkvan 10 points as the Bulldogs routed Milwaukee Madison, 57-20, for their second victory of the season Friday night.

On Feb. 12, the Bulldogs fell to Brookfield East, 70-30, as Brown scored nine points, Turkvan seven and Alvarado six.

Central begins WIAA Division 1 regional play at 7 p.m. Tuesday at home against Milwaukee Hamilton, which it beat, 36-23, for its other victory this season.

The Bulldogs continued their slow finish to the season with losses of 45-34 to Wauwatosa East on Feb. 14 and 67-42 to Brookfield East on Feb. 12.

Against Tosa East, Brandon Key scored 16 points and Ron Turkvan 10 points.

In the Brookfield East contest, Key tallied 14 points and Turkvan 10, but the next scorer was Jerome Cummings with five points.

The Bulldogs finished the regular season at 4-10 in the Greater Metro Conference and 9-13 overall. They begin WIAA Division 1 regional action at 7 p.m. Friday at Oak Creek, meeting former coach Mike Jossie and former Central player Terrence Garner.

The Huskies slipped below .500 on the season with defeats of 73-34 to Brookfield Central on Feb. 14 and 74-62 to Menomonee Falls on Feb. 12.

Against Greater Metro Conference co-champion Central, Derrick Waller scored 11 points and Pat Heal six points.

Against Falls, Waller collected 21 points and Travis Balcerzak 19.

Hale wound up 3-11 in the GMC and 10-12 overall. The Huskies open WIAA Division 1 regional play at 7 p.m. Friday at Racine Case.

Sarah Mueller tallied 11 points and Katie Liban and Rachel Milani seven each, but the Huskies lost to Menomonee Falls, 62-41, Feb. 12.

Hale fell to 3-10 in the Greater Metro Conference and 4-15 overall. The Huskies begin WIAA Division 1 regional play at 7 p.m. March 1 at Racine Case.

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Answering The Libertarian Indictments On Iraq

I respond to some of their more thoughtful comments

Some Libertarian readers of my June 17 and 18 articles on Iraq, ‘Peace Requires a Permanent Commitment‘ and ‘Our Intolerable Success in Iraq,’ have interpreted them as apologia for George W. Bush’s initial invasion and have taken the occasion to excoriate them on that basis. I stand accused of defending a permanent commitment, not to peace, but to war. I hear of the many Iraqis now nostalgic for at least the stable and predictable times under Saddam Hussein. I am told that our over-extended global adventures must ultimately lead to the collapse of our global empire, as they did with (now not-so) Great Britain. I am asked to consider how people from around the world, in particular South America and the Middle East, feel about our interventions in their countries. They tell me that to be pro-free-market, and to be logically consistent, requires being non-interventionist if not isolationist. And finally, the whole notion of fearing ‘the terrorists’ (their quotation marks) is ridiculed as so much irrationality, comparable to the communist ‘red scares’ of yesteryear that turned out, according to them, to be groundless.

While I do defend the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 as arguably the best that could have been made under the circumstances– with virtually the entire world, including prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton as well as the UN, France, China, and Russia in unanimous agreement on the facts about Saddam Hussein, his crimes, and his intentions–that wasn’t the primary point of my articles. My point was that given the stable status quo of 2008-2011, the decision to withdraw in 2011 and pretend that Barack Obama had masterfully achieved the peace and triumphed over Bush was a short-sighted and politically-motivated blunder of colossal magnitude, if not a crime.

That said, having unleashed the Libertarian furies, so to speak, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that we respond to at least some of their more thoughtful comments.

By “permanent commitment,” I mean keeping the peace that has been won at the cost of blood and treasure in police patrol mode. What city in the United States today decommissions its entire police force once the murder rate (temporarily) drops below some threshold? Would we try that in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Detroit, and then congratulate ourselves, proclaiming that “Our urban war in America’s cities ends this month”?  If the peace is kept more effectively and justly by us than by anyone else, then we are the ones who must do it. This doesn’t mean we charge into any and every unstable country to impose our will. But it certainly means we stay where we find ourselves the only thing standing between relative justice and open kill zones, even if it wasn’t our political party who got us there. The decision to pull out of a former theatre of war is at least as serious as the decision to go in in the first place, perhaps more so if recent experience is any guide. The next Republican president will have to deal with the world as Obama left it, not as he should have or as President Romney would have.

Senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul makes hay out of the acknowledged fact that “Today, the Middle East is less stable than in 2003″.  But what does that really demonstrate? That Bush was wrong to lead us in, or that Obama squandered our success there? The Middle East, Iraq in particular, was more stable in 2008 than it was in 2003. After 5 years of Obama, the entire world is less secure and holds the USA in lower esteem (enemies don’t fear us and friends don’t trust us) than before 9/11.  Far from indicting Bush and neo-conservatism, these facts repudiate the isolationists, anti-Americanism, and the Left–Barack Obama in particular.

After 2008, Iraq had fallen off the radar.  For five years, stories about Iraq rarely made the front page of any American newspaper. The number of U.S. servicemen and women killed dropped two thirds from 904 in 2007 to 304 in 2008, fell by half again in 2009, and by more than half yet again in 2010 to just 60. No news is good news; Joe Biden was ready to take credit on behalf of Obama for this foreign policy success. ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell were partnering with the Iraqi national oil ministry in Business-as-Usual mode. As Fouad Ajami, the Lebanese-born American, put it in his January 9, 2008 article in the Wall Street Journal, ‘Bush of Arabia‘, “There is Shiite primacy, Kurdish autonomy in the north, and a cushion for the Sunni Arabs — in fact a role for that community slightly bigger than its demographic weight.” This is about as close to success as foreign policy ever gets on an imperfect planet Earth as opposed to a Kindergarden of Eden.

As for the Iraqis’ presumed nostalgia for Saddam Hussein’s stable and predictable regime, Iraqi citizens who were suspected of being insufficiently in love with their leader could rely on the stable predictability of their eventual torture and/or extermination. The hundreds of thousands of victims of Saddam Hussein’s genocide and their families do not miss him. If they are unhappy with us, it is because in their estimation, we botched the job.

The Libertarians go far beyond just Iraq or Vietnam to indict the USA and Great Britain for the crime and folly of colonialism.  But was Britain’s ‘intervention’ in Hong Kong for 100 years an abject failure? More broadly, was the entirety of the British Empire’s world dominance a colossal mistake, if not evil? Certainly we can cite many failures and even atrocities committed by the British around the world in the past 300 years. But is that the same as saying that on net balance, the alternatives actually available then would indisputably have been better? Today, 8 of the top 12 most prosperous and free nations in the world are former British colonies and/or English-speaking nations–the heirs of the Magna Carta. Chile is one of the noted exceptions, thanks largely in part to its adoption of free-market principles that originated in the Anglo-Saxon world. More people speak English (or study it at least) in China than the entire population of the United States. Former British colonies have thrived in proportion to how well they have adopted the principles learned from their former overlords. This is not a lost experiment.

The Libertarians  tell me that in foreign policy as in physics, Newton was right when he observed that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction; therefore, all of our interventions are folly in defiance of the Law of Unintended Consequences. But the mechanistic view of political economy and human action as analogous to Newtonian physics is perhaps the weakest pillar of sophomoric libertarianism. Honest Libertarians should re-read Ludwig von Mises and not the inferior pretenders who claim His legacy. Human beings are not inert atoms or asteroids; they have complex cultural, religious, and moral patterns. Was Japan’s emergence as a pillar of peace in East Asia an equal and opposite reaction to Hiroshima? Was Mohammar Khadafi’s abandonment of his nuclear program an equal and opposite reaction to our invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq? Was the escalation of the Palestinian attacks against Israel an equal and opposite reaction to the latter’s surrender of land, presumably in exchange for peace?

Of course there will be unintended consequences and reactions. Hitting someone might make him want to hit back.  Displacing one tyrant might draw even worse elements into the vacuum. Rebelling against a tyrant could bring repression. Declaring Independence from Great Britain might lead to a long and bloody Revolutionary War. Buying an SUV might enrage an environmentalist who then makes it his life’s mission to take away your private property rights and freedom. But this does not mean that we can hide behind our oceans. We are engaged in the world and have to make the best choices that we can and take action with imperfect knowledge, building into the plan the ability to respond to the unexpected. In 2003, that imperfect knowledge included the concurrence of such right-wing warmongers as John Kerry, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Robert Byrd, the bipartisan Robb-Silberman commission, Bill Clinton’s CIA director George Tenet, Keneth Pollack (Persian Gulf expert on the National Security Council  for Bill Clinton)… and the list goes on. It meant coping with the undeniable fact that Saddam Hussein stood in open defiance of  at least 16 United Nations Security Council resolutions. He could have come clean and avoided the invasion, but chose not to.

The free market requires defense. It doesn’t just spring up spontaneously and peacefully. Private property, freedom, and enforcement of private contracts, rule of law etc. all require a benevolent force to restrain the bandits, the thieves, the murderers, and those who deem others unworthy of life due to ethnicity, religion, or other characteristics. It requires someone to prevent and punish murder, assault, robbery, theft, fraud, rape, persecution and conspiracy. It requires protection of the rights of minorities, women, and homosexuals. If no one can do that better in Iraq or anywhere else than we can, AND the bandits threaten us and the wider world besides, then sooner or later we will have to justify not getting involved.

One reader put the word ‘terrorists’ in quotes, apparently to imply that they don’t really exist, that they are just figments of us paranoiacs’ imaginations. We should not fear terrorists because Americans die of heart attacks and traffic accidents? We should not declare war on Japan because on the day of December 7, 1941, more Americans died of natural causes than of the attack on Pearl Harbor (and besides, we had no business being there in the first place)?

We should not fear the terrorists because, like the communists before them, they are weak and ineffectual, not really a threat at all?  Has it escaped the Libertarians’ notice that the anti-liberty, anti-capitalist, and anti-libertarian agenda of the communists is being realized in America today at an accelerating rate, that America has never been less free or less Capitalist in its entire history than it is now? From the local (Los Angeles) city council banning plastic bags and ordering businesses to charge their customers money for a product (paper bags) that they would rather give away for free, to the President issuing executive orders contradicting the letter of his own signature legislation, to job-killing Global Warming taxes, to out-of-control regulatory agencies, to the politicization of the IRS — the encroachments on liberty and prosperity should terrify any sane and informed citizen. Are we supposed to blame all that on Bush’s foreign policy? While we are asking people how they feel, let us ask the former refugees from communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the People’s Republic of China how they feel about creeping communism in America today.

The terrorist threat today is as great as it was on September 10, 2001; and it increases with our weakness abroad and with the infiltration of Sharia law into our American government, education system, and society. Osama bin Laden and his band of merry men were no doubt disappointed that their attack failed to kill 30,000 Americans, as it well could have, instead of a ‘mere’ 3,000. Did they attack us because of our foreign policy? No. There is nothing we could do or not do, short of SUBMISSION (the literal translation of the word ‘Islam’) to the Caliphate, with Dhimmi (second-class non-muslim legal) status at best.  They hate us precisely because of who we are, as embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bible, Liberty, and Capitalism. Libertarians, homosexuals, and single mothers will be the first to be stoned under the Sharia that is creeping into the West.

But, let us concede for the sake of argument that we never should have invaded Iraq in the first place.  That still doesn’t justify the decision to withdraw in 2011. In light of the circumstances of 2008-2011, the pullout borders on qualifying as a high crime: a betrayal of the U.S. servicemen and women who had paid the ultimate price to secure the gains; against Iraqi leaders (official and unofficial) who tempered their own extremist constituencies and tendencies to compromise and cooperate for a greater good; and against the ordinary Iraqis who welcomed us, trusted us, and assisted us in securing the nation against Baathists and terrorists.

Obama may simply have been naive, believing in his own press clippings and the validity of his Nobel Peace prize. Some of his allies certainly had to know better. But they supported the withdrawal anyway because nothing could be worse to them than permitting it to be thought for an instant that Bush might have succeeded after all. The Leftist narrative of America’s — and especially G.W. Bush’s — failure trumped all other considerations, including the lives of our soldiers. The American project in Iraq had to fail, even if by political force from within America.

It pains me to quarrel with Libertarians because we are indispensable allies in the struggle for limited government, liberty, low taxes and reduced regulation domestically. If Republicans (or Libertarians) propose to cut income tax rates, privatize Social Security, or repeal and replace Obamacare, will Libertarians (or Republicans) undermine the other because we disagree about foreign policy?

I hope not. Our freedom, prosperity, and, yes, military strength depend on getting it right at home. Let’s achieve the libertarian dream of limited government so that ordinary Americans can exercise appropriate oversight of our military and foreign policy. Maybe we can agree on that.

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Volleyball: Westminster SAAC Honors Romocean as Titan Athlete of the Week

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The Westminster College Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) today selected volleyball senior Megan Romocean (Ravenna, OH / Southeast) as its SAAC Titan Athlete of the Week for the week of Sept. 23.

Romocean and the Titans went a perfect 4-0 last week, with each of those four victories coming in straight sets. She finished with a team-high 42 kills in her nine sets played (4.7 kills/set) and hit .403. Romocean also handled 19 serve receptions without an error and averaged 1.56 digs per set. For her efforts, Romocean was tabbed the Presidents' Athletics Conference Volleyball Player of the Week.

The Titans will travel to Washington & Jefferson on Thursday with a starting time of 7 p.m.

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Nearly 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students benefit from individualized attention from dedicated faculty while choosing from 41 majors and nearly 100 organizations on the New Wilmington, Pa., campus. Visit to view "Advantage: Westminster" A Strategic Plan 2010-2020.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's in double trouble in The 6th Day.

The biggest wonder about the new Arnold Schwarzenegger ride is not that human cloning has become a reality, nor that the America of the future ("sooner than you think," as an opening caption ominously suggests) very closely resembles present-day Vancouver. It's not even that technological advances appear to have added pleasure, comfort and convenience to people's lives, rather than merely convoluting and cluttering them. Beyond the sleek surface trappings and the well-wrought script by Cormac and Marianne Wibberly, the delight of this awesome thriller is simply that Schwarzenegger -- an old hand at this sort of running-around-shooting-henchmen thing -- could easily sleepwalk through the movie...but he doesn't.

Somewhat like a cross between a mind-bending Philip K. Dick story (without the private dick) and a hopped-up Paul Verhoeven movie (sans bloodlust), The 6th Day is brought to the screen by Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies) as an unlikely and entirely welcome blend of humor, action, moral debate and social satire. It's also one of the best X-Files episodes to come along since that series relocated to shoot among the palm trees of Southern California. Laced with creepiness, yet focused upon humanity, its essence is ultimately pure Arnold: Immersed in true lies, the barbarian destroyer gets a raw deal, losing total recall and becoming the last action hero, and -- as a villain, a commando and a predator all attempt to terminate him -- the running man jingles all the way to a red heat at the end of days. More or less.

Actually, this time around Schwarzenegger plays Adam Gibson, a buff daddy and decorated fighter pilot from the "Rainforest War" (not too far-fetched if one considers Vancouver Island's ravaged Clayoquat Sound). His old-fashioned tendencies -- he shuns the "laser-razor," preferring to nick himself with a blade -- are about to be put to the test. Once a little extreme football (reminiscent of Starship Troopers) and a series of nifty gadgets (bathroom-mirror Internet television) set the scene, we learn that the none-too-subtly named Adam adores his daughter, Clara (Taylor Anne Reid), and smart wife, Natalie (Wendy Crewson), despite the latter's insistence that he visit the Re-Pet company and purchase a tailor-made clone of their beloved family dog. ("No use fighting," cajoles a female associate. "We always win.") Releasing his frustrations by flying wild, jet-propelled "Whispercraft" choppers through snowy canyons with his good-natured partner, Hank (Michael Rapaport), Adam seems to have struck a perfect balance in a brave new world.

But to move a story, things gotta go awry, so once Adam deigns to purchase a grotesque and hilarious "Sim-Pal" doll for Clara, he returns home to a surprise birthday party for which he is already present. Cue the Twilight Zone theme as a punkette named Talia (Sarah Winter) and thugs named Vincent (Terry Crews) and Wiley (Rod Rowland) attempt to erase him, acting on the orders of Marshall (Michael Rooker), their malevolent supervisor. One wrecked classic Cadillac, one literal cliffhanger and countless phaser blasts later, Adam puts his lives in perspective: Somehow, during routine drug-and-alcohol and vision tests, his genes and memories were stolen, and he was cloned. Now his clone is smooching his wife, the assassins on his tail are virtually indestructible (even if he snaps their necks they can be replicated, which could explain pop music's current waves of spiteful youth) and, as smoking has finally become illegal, he can't even pause for a moment of reflection with a comforting stogie.

What's nice about The 6th Day is that it's not ashamed of its blatant reassembly of familiar elements, mostly lifted from Verhoeven's Robocop and Total Recall, with a dash of Cronenberg and some Blue Thunder thrown in for spice. Because the script is confident -- barring the somewhat sluggish final showdown -- it weaves its elements together to create an inventive movie that stands on its own. The writers also understand the scientific arguments they're juggling; as veteran sci-fi producer Jon Davison has put it: "This is a cautionary tale not of evil science, but of the evil uses of science." In a world where the cheapest, easiest, quickest fix is often what people crave, this level-headed approach affords the film a mature sensibility to accompany its mind-bending concepts. Think of it as The Matrix for adults.

Not that the story is without its share of horror. Once Adam infiltrates the organization responsible for cloning humans (chillingly, part of their plan is to warm the general populace to the idea with the pet clones), the evil takes human form (sort of) as multimillionaire misanthrope Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn). Unmoved by the misery of his top scientist, Griffin Weir (Robert Duvall), Drucker is such a strong proponent of cloning that he keeps a tank full of gruesome "blanks" on hand, ready to clone anyone he chooses, even against their will. Unmoved by the preciousness of life, by the sweet sadness of mortality, this swine is a perfect foil for Adam's unwavering support of the "6th Day Law," named after the Creator's big experiment with us mostly hairless bipeds.

Wisely sidestepping theology and sermonizing (apart from Drucker's delusions of immortalizing Mozart and Martin Luther King), the story unspools like a contemporary Frankenstein: Here we have the monster; man made the monster; now what's man planning to do about it? A very entertaining spectrum of technological advancements make this near future instantly recognizable and, in a world possibly enhanced by virtual lovers, yet still festering with Hummers, SUVs and minivans, the themes cut very close to home. The movie's science is basically a flip through Omni, but its heart has more to do with the Constitution, which is why it works so well.

It's easy to complain that there's just no way Schwarzenegger could come across as a regular Joe, but look again; his comedy movies have given him a surprisingly jocular edge. While this role is a far cry from the badly dubbed debut of "Arnold Strong" in Hercules in New York thirty years ago, it is, in its way, equally charming.

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Mike Coffman, repeat Shmuck, wants to make it harder for Spanish speakers to vote

U.S. Representative Mike Coffman is no stranger to voter suppression. In fact, the 6th District Republican lawmaker has a long history of tinkering with elections.

His latest campaign would make it more difficult for people who don't speak English well to vote across the country. In Colorado, that mostly means Spanish speakers -- Spanish speakers who are U.S. citizens, by the way.

The right to vote, of course, is one of the most precious, fundamental rights that Americans have, one that certain groups of people -- blacks, women -- had to fight for decades to achieve, and one that immigrants line up at our borders to gain.

Here are the specifics: Coffman plans to introduce a bill that would repeal a portion of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Implemented in 1975, this portion requires counties and other jurisdictions with large groups of non-proficient English speakers to print dual-language ballots so that those people can better understand them. You'll remember that the point of the Voting Rights Act was to keep states -- and lawmakers -- from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color."

Why did it have to be put into effect? Because racist and manipulative politics have been around for a long time -- and apparently they still are.

Coffman, a previous Westword Shmuck of the Week in 2008 and 2010, has called the requirement an unfunded federal mandate that counties have to pay for on their own. In Colorado, ten counties currently print bilingual ballots, while another sixteen may have to do the same thing for the 2012 elections.

But is it really about money? Of course not. In 2008, when he was still Colorado Secretary of State, Coffman had to be ordered by a judge to stop deleting names from Colorado's voting rolls, and he would gladly keep Spanish speakers -- who, again, are U.S. citizens -- from voting as well, especially since they tend to lean Democratic.

Is it unfunded federal mandate? No. If you live in a county where it snows a lot, the county government plows the roads. If you live in a county with a lot of crime, the government hires more police officers. And if you live in a county where a lot of citizens speak another language, you print ballots in that language.

Elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents, to respond to their needs and to allocate funding in a way that serves those people.

Coffman plans to do the opposite.

Which part of the Voting Rights Act will he go after next?

More from our Shmuck archive: "William Loomis, our shmuck of the week, would like you to get a job."

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Fifty Shades of Grey Casting: Alex Pettyfer Films Scene as Christian!

Is the Fifty Shades of Grey film close to finding its director and its Christian Grey?

Famed Hollywood director Gus Van Sant has filmed a sexy scene from the Fifty Shades of Grey book with Magic Mike's Alex Pettyfer playing Christian, according to The Wrap.

Gus reportedly filmed the scene as a way of auditioning to direct the highly anticipated film. Apparently, Gus was not asked by film studio Universal to send in the test tape, so Gus must really want to direct this movie.

According to insiders, the fact that Alex starred in the scene does not mean that he has been cast in the film. It is not yet clear which actress played Anastasia Steele in Gus's test tape.

The scene that they filmed was the one in which Anastasia loses her virginity to Christian. We're starting to sweat just thinking about it.

So does this mean Alex is a frontrunner to play Christian?

He does have a relationship with Universal, as he is currently filming another film for the studio, Endless Love.

Granted, Alex — who also starred in I Am Number Four is only 23, while Christian is 27. But Alex looks older than he is and he certainly has the dashing good looks that would be a requisite for the role. Not to mention the abs.

As for Gus Van Sant, this movie would be a bit sexier than anything he's previously done. Gus has been nominated twice for a directing Oscar, for Good Will Hunting and Milk.

Exciting times! So are you rooting for Gus and Alex? Or do you have a different actor-director pairing in mind?

Source: The Wrap

04.24.2013 / 01:10 AM EDT by Ryan Gajewski
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