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In the Edit Suite or the Batter's Box, Bosses Are Not Benefactors
Reprinted from the January-February 2013 issue of CineMontage
In late November, soon after the death of Marvin Miller, the longtime executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, I handed an editor a check. These two events — Miller's death and the editor's payment — were unconnected to one another, except to the extent that the editor's remarks upon receipt of the money served to remind me of the lessons we might still learn from the recently deceased union man.
Let us start with the editor, whom I'll call Ray. Ray is a successful picture editor with a lengthy list of unscripted television credits. Months previously, one of Ray's erstwhile employers (the producer of a signatory show) had attempted to dodge its contractual obligations by claiming that the show's editors and assistants were actually the employees of another company. In effect, the company had used deceptive accounting and a sham subcontract to pay assistant editors well below scale, and to avoid paying health and retirement benefits and holiday and vacation pay for the entire crew.
The Guild, of course, sought to remedy this breach of contract. After many months of wrangling, we secured a settlement in which the company made benefit contributions retroactively and surrendered a sum of cash as compensation for its underpayment of wages. (A similar situation on another unscripted TV show last summer was resolved more speedily when that show's entire post crew walked off the job in order to secure their benefits under the contract.) For Ray, his share of the settlement money, amounting to about a day and a half of pay, was a windfall. He had completed the job in question several months prior to our meeting, and he hadn't expected any additional compensation.
Ray was happy to receive the unanticipated check, but he also voiced some unease. He confessed that he felt somewhat guilty accepting his portion of the settlement. After all, he had entered into an agreement with the company to work for a set rate, on a non-union basis, and the company had paid him accordingly. Ray didn't believe that his former employer owed him anything more, and he wondered aloud whether it was honorable to accept additional payment. This employer, for whom Ray had worked off and on over the years, had always done right by him, Ray thought, and he felt it potentially unprincipled and ungrateful for him to take more than what he had individually negotiated.
I explained to Ray that he had no cause for misgivings. His personal deal memo notwithstanding, the company had entered into an agreement with the union to provide certain benefits and working conditions to the entire crew, and then the company engaged in fraud to shirk its commitments. Any dishonor belonged solely to the employer.
Ray eventually came around to seeing the situation as I explained it to him. At any rate, he at least took the money. But the misgivings he initially expressed were not uniquely his; in the course of organizing to win union contracts, and in the course of enforcing contracts where they already exist, I have often heard professional employees fret about whether it is fair to an employer for employees to try to improve upon established terms of employment. Underlying such misgivings is often the implicit idea of one's employer as a benefactor, and of any challenge to such a benefactor as constituting a betrayal. This sentiment can sometimes be so strong that an otherwise sensible and self-respecting editor is reluctant to accept retroactive pay from an employer who had shamelessly cheated him and his colleagues.
I met with Ray only days after the death of MLBPA's Miller. Because labor leaders are seldom widely eulogized in the media, I had been reading a number of articles about Miller's life. Ray's attitude towards his employment reminded me of what I had read about the baseball players' union at the time Miller took charge.
Before going to work for the Players Association in 1966, Miller had extensive experience with more traditional labor unions, most notably the United Steelworkers. The organization Miller encountered when he came to the MLBPA, though, did not much resemble the unions he had previously known. The Association was dominated by the team owners and did not engage in actual collective bargaining. Due to the reserve clause in their contracts, players forever forfeited their right to work for any teams other than those that originally signed them, thus effectively surrendering all bargaining power to their employers.
Miller found an attitude of paternalism shaping the owners' dealings with their players. Many players, competitive on the diamond but docile at the negotiating table, were loathe to challenge that culture. For young men who had spent their boyhoods dreaming of playing in the major leagues, a baseball player's life and salary represented the stuff of fantasies. The team owners, who had given those young men the opportunity to live their dreams, were widely regarded as benevolent father figures worthy of gratitude and obedience.
Years later, Marvin Miller would assert, "Major league players, at the time, were truly brainwashed." A pool of individuals of extraordinary talents that had generated great wealth for their employers had come to feel indebted and indentured to the very organizations for which they amassed extravagant profits. Players thought of their employment not in terms of their economic value to their employers, but instead from a perspective more akin to that of artists in the patronage system, under which talented people depended upon the largess of wealthy benefactors, whose role was to recognize and encourage the exercise of their talents. (Prior to the relatively recent emergence of sophisticated systems for the commodification of mass culture, systems of patronage largely defined the economics of arts and entertainment.)
Malcolm Gladwell, in a New Yorker article about Miller two years ago, wrote, "Miller's goal was to get his ballplayers to think like steelworkers — to persuade members of the professional class to learn from members of the working class." He taught players to regard the relationship of team owners to players not as one of benefactors to beneficiaries, but as one of capital to labor. And he taught them the central, simple lesson of the union movement: In the relationship between labor and capital, employees enjoy much greater bargaining power acting in concert than they do individually.
Not coincidentally, players prospered under Miller's tenure at the MBPLA; average salaries increased more than twelvefold, players won release from the reserve clause, and pensions improved dramatically. I refer interested readers to the wealth of material that has been written about how Miller's MBPLA transformed the sport and the clout of professional athletes more generally.
Of course, the world of professional athletics is not the only professional culture that emphasizes individual talent and allegiance to patrons. Hopefully the example of the MLBPA can help teach us that talented individuals fortunate enough to be working their dream jobs still can — and should — band together and fight to make those jobs better.


Now is a good time to say thank you to the more than 100 photographers with whom I've worked this past year.
Leaving the presumed security of a job a year ago was scary, frankly. But it has turned out to be the right decision. During this year, I've had the pleasure of working with so many people who make pictures with passion, editing bodies of work that are inspiring and giving advice, feedback and direction to photographers who continually strive to make pictures today that are better than those they made yesterday.
This year also marks a new decade. These past 10 years have been so full of experiences – as were the previous few decades. I never would have thought it possible to leave a small town Nebraska upbringing and do what I have done. It has been a privilege to have worked with so many talented people through the years, in settings large and small.
It is at times like these that reminiscing brings a pleasant glow, a good feeling. And high hopes for the year ahead. Let the journey continue with equal voracity.


The adoption of automotive LiDAR solutions has increased owing to increasing advancements in the automotive industry and increasing demand for advanced security features. Further, rise in autonomous vehicles is supplementing the demand for automotive LiDAR globally. The automotive LiDAR market has a presence of significant number of players. Geographically, the market is dominated by Asia-Pacific. The region's growth is rapidly driven by expanding markets such as demand for wireless & connectivity technologies, automotive industry, especially for autonomous and electric vehicles. This trend has fueled the need for advanced solutions to ensure hassle-free driving experience which is possible through adopting LiDAR. Therefore, Asian countries are holding the largest market share across the globe. Further, rise in partnerships with the automobile companies in the US and Europe is opportunistic for the growth of the market. China is witnessing incremental advancements in the market. The country is considered as an ideal economy to develop robo-taxi ride-hailing. For instance, DiDi is also getting involved in the development of autonomous driverless cars. In this, CHJ Auto is a technology partner of DiDi. It is an electric car startup. The alliance aims to develop an all-electric robotaxis for the shuttle passengers throughout the highly crowded megacities of China.
Significant market initiatives have been taken by some of the leading companies by getting involved in R&D activities and by developing advanced LiDAR products and solutions. For instance, recently, XenomatiX launched XenoWare 4.0, a new software that improves remarkably how LiDAR sensors detect and interpret point clouds data. XenoWare processes 3D point clouds data and supports multiple applications such as road mapping, suspension control, free space detection, data recording, etc. In 2018, OMRON developed 3D-LiDAR for front long range with a detection distance of 150 m or more. In addition, Panasonic Corp. showcased "Imaging LiDAR", the solution concept using 3D ToF Image Sensor, at electronica 2018. This Imaging LiDAR is an evaluation device for development that uses 3D ToF Image Sensor based on the concept of ambient information sensing technology for the autonomous control to achieve smart mobility.
The major players operating in the market for automotive LiDAR market include Continental AG, Denso Corporation, Innoviz Technologies, Ltd., Luminar Technologies, Inc., Omron Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Trilumina Corporation, Valeo SA, Velodyne LiDAR, Inc., and Xenomatix N.V. among others.


The truth of the matter is that the day after Hood #1's birthday, I have a birthday too… I know… too many birthdays in one month and we are not even done yet!!! Now tradition has it that, for a birthday post, I write about se7en + 1 things that I don't normally share. I have an idea that many folk assume one of two things about us… either we have eight kids and our home is in permanent chaos, or we have eight kids and our house runs like a smooth well-oiled machine… of course we are somewhere in-between.
Amidst our organised chaos some crazy, funny, silly things do happen. I have a policy of not ever writing anything untoward about our children on the internet… so mostly you don't hear about the wild things that our kids get up too… but today is the day. I am sharing a few of those stories that would leave the folk who ask, "How do you cope?" falling about in horror. Honestly these are the stories that bring out the funny in my everyday… and I am ever so grateful for the blessing that is our hysterical life.
When Camping Out is Actually Camping In: I have a child so desperate to go camping… desperate… that last week when we had a rain free afternoon he and his partner in crime… hauled out their sleeping bags, backpacks and a library of books and swore that they would go to sleep as soon as darkness set in. I didn't mention that, while they days are getting longer it is still pretty dark by 7:30pm… Off they went, let's just say traveling light was not on the agenda and everything they owned was relocated outdoors… and astonishingly enough they were in bed and after a lot of muttering about the cold and the possibility of snakes, they were asleep by 7:35. Unheard of and honestly I didn't think they would go the distance. They were clearly on their best behaviour. Of course within ten minutes of them being fast asleep, the rain came torrenting down and the father person had to carry them and half the house back indoors… They were soaked… and quite unimpressed when they woke up in the morning in their own beds.
When You Just Can Not Flush: I heard a young person battling to flush the toilet the other day and after a series of kerclunck, kerclunk, kerclunks… It sounded like demolition in progress and I decided that privacy would have to give way to authority… as I dashed from the kitchen to help – so a child arrived at the bathroom door with the entire cistern in his arms… lugging it across the house. He was battling to flush and could I give him a hand with the mechanism… I was sure I could. But who did he think was going to put the entire water tank back on the wall?
When the Roof Fell in: I am a big believer in raising children who are competent and are armed with a series of life-skills… well when one enthusiastic cleaner was asked to sweep the kitchen floor, as one does after every single meal… this enthusiastic sweeper decided to sweep the ceiling as well. Turns out a colony of ants had been eating their way through the skirting board and it was hanging on by a veritable thread… the ants were long gone and so is a rather large patch of the ceiling… Now when it rains it really rains – inside and out!!!
When you Have to call the Father Person at Work: Sometimes I can resolve a situation on my own and sometimes I have to cry out for reinforcements… One time I had to phone the father person and mention that his kids had managed to um… toss the sliding door on our van into the parking lot. While he was gasping for air I managed to slip in that the front gate was way down the road too. And as he was asking, "Just how… " I mentioned that his very helpful children were shutting the gate for me, only I hadn't quite driven through it yet. Needless to say the door on our very unreliable, cranky old van is tied shut and kids all have to clamber over the front seat to get to their seats. And the gate… well the gate will never be the same again!!!
When the Recently Discovered Toy Snake Wasn't: When you are away in the country on holiday and your children ask if they can go for a walk in the countryside… and I am thinking, " I would love to take some of the city out of these children… " What could go wrong, there are no gangsters, chances of abduction… the wide open space and no-one untoward forever and ever. Off they went with enthusiasm armed with the confidence of their mother's free reign. When we met up again there was great excitement, they had spent the afternoon, hiking and clambering and stopped for a quick swim in the river on the way home. Later that evening they were writing in their journals and they all drew the most amazing snake you have ever seen… bright and colourful… fantastic in fact. Turns out they thought is was a toy snake and were photographing it when it scurried away into the bushes… they had on video a harlequin snake. I was recently reminded of another epic snake fail… we live in the world of lots of snakes and we often find whole and beautiful snake skins in our garden, where the snakes have moulted and moved on (thankfully). I don't know if other blogging mothers get gifted with artefacts from life on their keyboard but it is a regular occurrence around here. Recently one of my little naturalists was kind enough to place a snake skin on my keyboard along with a little ambiguity: the snake was still within… and the snake was no longer with us… well it was but not in the living sense. Oh my… heart failure on a keyboard!!! Honestly the things a mother is called to survive!!!
When a Young Scientist Wondered if Children, Like Cats Always Land on their Feet: An experiment followed… The plan was simple enough, the scientist would get a younger sibling to leap from very high and flimsy tree a number of times… and together they would determine how many times the child would land on their feet. A number of times turned out to be once. And the answer a very simple one: children are not like cats and they never land on their feet. Heads are apparently heavier and land first, a couple of stitches later and hopefully the lesson was learnt.
When Small People Feed the Fish: I may have blogged this one before, but is so epic and worth a share… in fact so epic that it was instrumental in our moving house… in the olden days when we had just a couple of small children… one of them, who we shall call nameless… was very carefully helping me while I was busy with a babe in arms. Nameless decided to feed our one and only pet – ever. One and only surviving pet actually. We had a pair of goldfish and one of them had died on arrival… and an entire jar of flaky pet food was emptied almost into the tank… Almost, but not quite. Actually all over the ancient carpet and the more ancient lounge suite… carefully sprinkled, delicately smeared into every nook and cranny. Fish food, you may not know this, is impossible to sweep or vacuum. Just looking at it makes it disintegrate and forget about a damp cloth. Oh the smell… the SMELL… was simply unbearable. Soon afterwards we had the opportunity to move house and we were happy to move… and leave the gentle aroma of fish food behind.
When Small People Are in Charge of the Keys: I know, who on earth would ever let the house keys out of their sight, but it happens from time to time. Anyway, two of our children placed the house keys in a safe place and the one child telling the other that those keys were safe forever… and then they forgot everything they had ever learnt about anything. Searching and searching yielded nothing at all… nothing. Ripping the entire house to pieces, searching in every conceivable place and even in inconceivable places… we looked and looked and looked. Eventually in tearful despair we decided to start dinner and on opening the freezer we discovered the keys.
Honestly life with se7en + 1 kids can be quite daunting from time to time, and if I were the father person I would approach home with trepidation each day… the fact is that we are a regular family with a regular mom… Lot's of things, that our kids get up to leave me wondering if I should run, scream or hide… Often I just don't know. In those situations I have found it good to take a deep breathe and laugh out loud… because almost all of those apparent catastrophes are the things that end up climbing into family lore… the stories that we share and laugh over again and again… and again.
🙂 🙂 🙂 Loved this. And Happy Birthday!
Thanks for sharing! Usually stories like these make the best memories.
Happy Birthday! My daughter turned 13 today, and my husband and I have been married for fourteen years today! Our daughter was born on the day of our one year wedding anniversary.
The picture with the father person and the tiny person on the cliff scares me. Surely it looks more dangerous than it actually was, right?!
Thank you so much Christi… So glad you enjoyed it!!!
Thank you Tammy, I am so thrilled that I could give you something to chuckle about!!! Have a good week!!!
Thank you Tiffany, Exactly!!! Family lore is definitely built on these crazy moments!!! Hope you are having a fabulous week!!!
Hay tcmullinax, So many celebrations – huge congratulations to you!!! And I can assure you that our little one was quite quite safe when we all went out hiking… Hope you are having a wonderful week!!!
Ha ha, enjoyed that a lot! 🙂 I'm pretty sure I know who the two campers were!
Hay Kate, Glad you enjoyed it!!! And I am absolutely sure that you know who is who in almost everyone of those tales!!! Hope you are having a great week!!!
Hay GM, Sounds like you are living my life… someone put the keys in the freezer – who thinks of that!!! Great comment and I hope you have a fantastic week!!!
Life with kids is so much crazier and so much more wonderful than anyone can get across adequately before you have children… then you have them and realise what you got into! Wonderful.
You made me laugh! 🙂 And happy birthday!
Thank you so much Katja!!! So thrilled to give you a laugh!!! Hope you have a fabulous weekend!!!
Hay Vanessa, Universal indeed and how we react is probably pretty universal too!!! Hope you have a fabulous weekend… nearly there!!!


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v. t. 1. To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread.
- 1 Kings xvii. 11.
There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may.
In distillation, the water . . . brings over with it some part of the oil of vitriol.
It seems so preposterous a thing . . . that they do not easily bring themselves to it.
The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them.
to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish.
b - To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner.
(Naut.) to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting.
a - To cause to come down.
b - To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks.
a - To produce, as young fruit.
b - To bring to light; to make manifest.
a - To exhibit; to introduce; to produce to view.
b - To hasten; to promote; to forward.
c - To propose; to adduce; as, to bring forward arguments.
a - To bring to one's house.
b - To prove conclusively; as, to bring home a charge of treason.
c - To cause one to feel or appreciate by personal experience.
d - (Naut.) To lift of its place, as an anchor.
a - To fetch from without; to import.
b - To introduce, as a bill in a deliberative assembly.
c - To return or repot to, or lay before, a court or other body; to render; as, to bring in a verdict or a report.
d - To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object.
e - To produce, as income.
f - To induce to join.
to bear or convey away; to clear from condemnation; to cause to escape.
a - To cause to begin.
b - To originate or cause to exist; as, to bring on a disease.
to accompany, guide, or attend one.
to expose; to detect; to bring to light from concealment.
a - To fetch or bear across.
b - To convert by persuasion or other means; to cause to change sides or an opinion.
a - To resuscitate; to bring back to consciousness or life, as a fainting person.
b - (Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then said to lie to).
c - To cause (a vessel) to lie to, as by firing across her course.
d - To apply a rope to the capstan.
to disclose; to discover; to make clear; to reveal.
(Naut.) to bend it to the yard.
to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience.
a - To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.
b - To cause to stop suddenly.
c - To stop suddenly; to come to a standstill.
to cause (any one) to stop abruptly.
Verb 1. bring - take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"
2. bring - cause to come into a particular state or condition; "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point"
3. bring - cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area"
4. bring - go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"
bear away, bear off, carry away, take away, carry off - remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
5. bring - bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
6. bring - be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?"
7. bring - bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"
8. bring - avance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings"
9. bring - be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
10. bring - attract the attention of; "The noise and the screaming brought the curious"
11. bring - induce or persuade; "The confession of one of the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well"


Olan Dy was painstakingly writing her open letter to Ms. Salonga, by hand, and handed it to Sisa who was quite shocked at how Olan Dy took the time and effort to craft such a letter, again by hand. So we decided to take a picture of the letter and publish everything in its entirety, just to show you that though JUAN editors may differ from opinions, we respect each others thoughts, ideas, opinions, well, even if Olan Dy was just trying out her new neon green fountain pen cartridge. Hehe.
I used to admire you from many angles. As a theater geek, I applaud your many accomplishments and pay good money to watch you perform. As a woman, I admire the posive role odel you present, writing books, upholding morals. You are a person to look up to. As a Filipino, you used to represent to me one of those shinning example of Filipino talent, brains, beauty and hard work ethic — Broadway is a brutal, criticism filled profession and to survive and achieve in this profession or any profession for that matter takes passion, guts and pride and confidence in one's own ability and capabilities. If I had a daughter, I would have used you as an example to emulate and recreate even — go for your dreams, don't stop trying even if you are rejected time and again. Trust in yourself and above all, trust in God's plan for you. Look at Lea Salonga, look at what she has been able to achieve. Believe and fight, fight for what is right.
But believe in you, I no longer do Ms. Salonga. Since you're a lady, I shall refrain from saying what I really want to say which is along the lines of "you are an entitled b*** who thinks she knows it all but actually knows nothing." Instead I'll just say, oh do shut up Ms. Lea Salonga. Please shut the hell up before you cause more damage to yourself and to other impressionable people who idolize you and would blindly believe in whatever you say just because you are a celebrity.
See what I did there? That's called "freely expressing a personal opinion." It's something that you also just did with your now infamous what-are-we-celebrating-Independence-Day-for? tweet. It is ironic, that the freedom you so wonderfully use to publicly express your opinion to the world is what you don't feel you need to celebrate.
is dictated by the government with an official haircut guideline to choose from? Even Singapore which you've lauded recently as an example that "gets pretty darn close. They're certainly doing something right over there." Ask Singaporeans about their "freedom" and what is the price they pay for their pretty darn close utopia. I think you'll be surprised at the level of nannying and government meddling that goes on in Singapore. Every single thing needs to be cleared and approved and go through government scrutiny. Not very long ago we had a similar level of government enforced discipline — we called it the Marcos dictatorship. If Singapore is such a haven then why is the Singaporean government having such a hard time getting their citizens to procreate and make more Singaporeans? Why are Singaporeans known to be complainers and are the biggest critics of themselves and their government? Why then are they so unhappy that they rank low in Global Happiness Surveys and I know of many Singaporeans who can't wait to get of of Singapore and live or retire elsewhere, far away from their prying government eyes, ears, fingers, thumb and belt. Is that really the kind of society you want to live in? Well, good for you. We have the freedom to renounce our Filipino citizenship and apply for another one. There are many people and nations in the world who can't share the same freedom. Some are even stateless like the Rohingya refugees from Burma.
As many netizens have already remarked — there is no country that is debt-free, poverty-free, crime-free, or corruption-free. And to ask for a country to be so is not only incredibly naive and unrealistic, it is incredibly misinformed about how the world works and screams entitlement. The only place that would be debt-free, poverty-free, crime-free, and corruption free is heaven and hell. The top 3 largest economies — United States, China, Japan — have so much debt that their children's children will still be paying it off for generations. It's public knowledge that the national debt of some first world nations is far beyond their GDP, the average citizen in the top 3 economies have debt in some form and manner to maintain their lifestyle. Let's compare this against the Philippines who actually has enough cash reserves to pay off our national debt to other countries. The criticism by economists is actually the Philippines needs to sped and borrow more to spur the economy further as we're sitting on so much reserves thanks to remittances and investments. Believe it or not, the Philippines is actually in a pretty solid position with regards to how we manage our debt, we are in fact, should be quite happy with how we've been doing so far, everything is positive and on the upswing and things will only get better unless we mess it up.
You're not an economist or a politician so you don't know what that being debt-free isn't the mark of good governance of a country. As for poverty, crime and corruption, are these not all man made issues stemming from morals and ethics than any allusions to independence? If Filipinos were hard working, diligent, vigilant, mindful and guided by strong morals and ethics, then we wouldn't have these social ills. The government and the good people who try to make a difference in the Philippines can only do so much. Your complaint/call to action should be addressed to the Filipino people for are we not those which fill and empower our government?
It's scary that you do not know the degree which we are blessed in the Philippines. Come down from the lofty perches where theater gods and goddesses reign and come see how the common people live. Independence Day is not just about freedom from colonizers. It is about appreciating the freedom we have and take for granted now, which so many Filipino generations before us have fought for. We enjoy our freedom without having to think about any danger of losing it — is that not enough cause to celebrate? Or must we be reminded of its value by losing it again?


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Hope you all enjoy the page and I have been dying to draw worm zombie again so badly!
Well, would you look at that. It's a very special case of "NOPE!". Time to bail, I'd say.
Scary moment time! Zombies are super enhance bio plant fungus things which spread by spores and stuff. This is a mass of tendrils made by what looks to be a worm like substance... Looks like something new has been added to the food chain!
I would normally say, "KILL IT WITH FIRE." But presently that has proven a terrible idea in this universe, so I'll just pray that it starts raining holy water.
His name is Cthulu and all he wants is to be loved for who he is.


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Q: IE9 blocks download of cross-origin web font This is driving me crazy.
Just testing a site on IE9 and discovered that the 'live' version is rendering a web font I am using smaller than on the dev version.
Here is a selection of screen grabs:

I am using the Font Squirrel @font-face kit. As you can see, it is fine on Firefox, Chrome and even IE9 when viewing a local version of the site.
The only difference between the local and live versions is that the font is being loaded from a different domain on the live site (I have set up the cross-domain policy correctly, as illustrated by the fact it works on Firefox and Chrome).
I can't remember what it looked like in IE8 (Microsoft, yet again, haven't thought of developers and have installed IE9 over the top of IE8 with no option to run them simultaneously)
The site is at http://enplanner.com so you can view the source.
Any help on this would be most appreciated - thank you in advance.
Edit: I have removed IE9 and discovered that is looks exactly the same on both local and live in IE8. It appears IE8 has a superior rendering engine that is closer to FF/Chrome than IE9. This is quite a depressing discovery.

A: Regarding the answer of meanstreakuk above, I'd like to complement.
We had the same problem and we searched what Google Web Font does.
So, we put in our htaccess, this:
        Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
instead of our domain.
If the asterisc, as Google does, it works all the time.

A: For IIS Add the lines below....works like a charm

<system.webServer>
          <httpProtocol>
          <customHeaders>
              <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
              <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Methods" value="GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,OPTIONS" />
              <add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
          </customHeaders>
      </httpProtocol>
  </system.webServer>

A: IE9 supports .WOFF; IE8 does not, and supports only .EOT fonts.
Open the IE9 F12 Developer Tools and you see the following messages:
CSS3117: @font-face failed cross-origin request. Resource access is restricted.
Neuton-webfont.woff

CSS3117: @font-face failed cross-origin request. Resource access is restricted.
YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular-webfont.woff

CSS3114: @font-face failed OpenType embedding permission check. Permission must be Installable.
Neuton-webfont.ttf

CSS3114: @font-face failed OpenType embedding permission check. Permission must be Installable.
YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular-webfont.ttf

Examining your HTTP headers, it's clear that your cross-domain access is not configured properly, as there is no Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header on your WOFF files. They're also delivered with the wrong MIME type (text/plain) although that's not causing your problem. However, failure to map woff to the correct MIME type can cause problems as some servers will not serve files with "undefined" extensions and will instead return a HTTP/404 error.

A: OK, here's what worked. Place the following section in your Apache config for the host you're serving the fonts from:
<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$">
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://mydomain.example"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

Replace mydomain.example with either your own domain or * (but be careful using * as this means anyone can use your CDN)
The |woff was what I'd forgotten. Doh!

A: I found one workaround. Added this to htaccess.
BrowserMatch MSIE best-standards-support
Header set X-UA-Compatible IE=8 env=best-standards-support

A: Check if you can open in IE the file (your-web.example/your-font.woff), If you receive error 404 go to IIS, double-click the "MIME Types" configuration option while having IIS root node selected in the left panel and click "Add..." link in the Actions panel on the right. This will bring up the following dialog. Add .woff file extension and specify application/x-font-woff as the corresponding MIME type.
I use this instructions in this site (Robòtica educativa), I convert my original .ttf font on (http://www.font2web.com/)

A: An alternative solution to using the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is to embed the font in your CSS using data:.

A: It's also worth noting that if your assets are hosted on Amazon AWS S3 that you won't be able to set the headers that the server sends. Instead, you will need to configure the CORS settings on your bucket, as per these instructions:

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*http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/UG/EditingBucketPermissions.html

*http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/cors.html

A: Don't forget to include .svg -- this can be necessary in some instances. Adding it solved the problem in IE 11
<FilesMatch "\.(eot|otf|svg|woff|ttf)$">
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

A: To implement in ASP.Net you can use this syntax
Response.AppendHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");

A: I tried everything from modifying my apache config, and .htaccess files with no luck. In the IE development tools I stumbled upon "Document Mode" and the default was IE7. So after some research I found this meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9">

Now IE 10, and 9 format my website correctly and display all Font Awesome icons correctly.
Hope that helps...

A: NOT TESTED!
Nginx site file bit for allowing just origin access to font files if your CDN is not public :-) Happy coding
location ~ \.(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$ {
    Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
}

A: After noticing this error in the console (F12): @font-face failed cross-origin request. Resource access is restricted I discovered that my browser (IE11, emulation: IE9) "blocked content to help protect my privacy". By unblocking the content - click the sign next to the url - it worked like it should.

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Q: Wireless router suddenly has no internet connection Have a Buffalo wireless router running DD-WRT. It was working fine but suddenly today I can't get any internet through it. There is no internet connection if I connect via wireless or even the LAN port. This is what I see if I try to go to any website:

This webpage is not available
  The server at www.baidu.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.
  Here are some suggestions:
  Reload this webpage later. […]

I've reset the modem, I've tried two different laptops and both have same problem in that they can't connect through the router. Any ideas?
P.S: the wireless adapter in each laptop is set to automatic DNS.
EDIT:
I have Internet if I connect directly to the FTTH modem.  Also, another wireless router I have works.

A: First step in EVERY connection outage should be to bypass your router and connect your computer directly to your ISP device. Can you ping your DNS server? If the answer is no, try 74.125.226.240. If that still doesn't work, call your ISP. If it does work, then ping google.com, does it work now? If no, change your DNS servers and retest. If yes, your internet connection is fine and it is something with your router (since you have already ruled out a single computer).
Plug your router back in and log into it. Do you get an IP? Is your DNS set correctly? Try the above tests again from the router interface. Check your DHCP configuration. What do your computers get when they type ipconfig or ifconfig? Does that match what your router is set to hand out? Have you tried swapping cables between the router and the modem?
tcpdump can also be a friend here, especially if you can run it on the router's WAN (not sure if ddwrt is capable of this or not). It would be helpful to see what the router is actually sending out. I could also help to see what is being sent between the router and a computer.
Basically, you need to work on narrowing down the problem to a specific point on your network or you can do all the resetting and reconfiguring you want and it is just stabs in the dark.


Leading national law practice Colin Biggers & Paisley has welcomed new partner Sara McRostie to its Brisbane Employment and Safety team.
The appointment further bolsters the position of the team, recognised in the Legal 500 for its 'speedy, knowledgeable and commercial' practice and for the handling of a wide range of employment work, including transactional matters, employee restraint and compensation as well as workplace investigations.
Sara has a particular practice focus advising on workplace issues including workplace restructuring, executive terminations, employee entitlements, workplace investigations and managing long term ill and injured employees.
She has extensive experience in enterprise bargaining, providing support to employers throughout the enterprise bargaining and appearing before the Fair Work Commission.
Sara said she was delighted to be joining Colin Biggers & Paisley.
"I am very much looking forward to working with the growing employment and safety team," she said.
"Particularly one that is so passionate about employment and industrial relations law."
"Over the past two years the practice has grown considerably, across all our offices and particularly in Brisbane," Jon said.
"The team is going from strength to strength and we're pleased to continue to attract lawyers of Sara's calibre. Her expertise, particularly in enterprise bargaining will further complement our offering to the market."
The announcement follows the appointment of Insurance partner Michelle Taylor and the practice's largest round of promotions in July.


I'm going on vacation for a few days. Alexandra Usher is going to be guest-blogging in my absence. Alexandra is a Research Assistant at the Center on Education Policy in Washington, D.C., where she has authored reports on the original federal land grants for education, adequate yearly progress, and will soon be co-authoring a review of voucher research. She began her career in education by spending a year as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in Nuremberg, Germany and earned her B.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She received an outstanding public school education in Chicago's northern suburbs and hopes to one day ensure that children in all parts of the city have the same opportunity.


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Q: How to deal with bad versioned software as SCM I have been asked to be the SCM (Software Configuration Manager) in my company. I've read online documentation to learn what SCM is, what SCM does, etc.
Currently, the company works with a version control system (Bazaar), so the software is versioned correctly, but there are old programs that are not well versioned (some of them not versioned at all), some of them are in CVS, the old version control system used at first, but they are not updated.
I'm asking for your help, based on experience more than theoretical information, to know how to deal with this, how to be a good SCM even with all these issues.

A: You have a big task in front of you, and the details behind all of this could fill books.  Broadly speaking, here are the things you need to consider.

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*Decide on a versioning scheme

Have a look at the Wikipedia article on versioning to identify what versioning scheme you want to use.

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*Version (or freeze) everything

Apply a version (and version control) on everything within your realm otherwise you won't be able to get a handle on what is in and what needs to be in the system.

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*Build a dependency matrix

Next up is building a dependency matrix that shows what applications rely upon what versions of what components.  In a large application environment this will get messy due to the number of components to cover as well as the high number of individual or one-off components you'll find.

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*Build a deployment matrix

Following that, you need to get a handle on what is actually out "in the wild" and deployed across your enterprise.  Challenges here will include tracking applications that haven't been versioned as well as the multitude of versions of an app that have been deployed.

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*Establish a governance model

Once you have quantified the problem, you need to get technical and management buy-in so that everyone agrees there is a problem and that changes must be made in order to resolve the problem.  Decide how future versions will be identified and how dependent applications will be notified of updates.  Don't forget to include the Test / QA organization at this stage!

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*Migrate all existing deployments to builds that have a version number

Remember all those unversioned and down-level applications that made your matrices a complete mess?  Time to start getting rid of them so you can simplify what you have to manage and the resulting governance overhead.

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*Reduce the dependency and deployment matrices dimensions

Remember all those one-off dependency components?  Now it's time to merge and eliminate those for the same reasons that you migrated everyone to current levels.  Reducing the scope of what you have to manage is critical to establishing a successful program.

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*(Optional) Reduce the number of source code repositories

There are bonus points at this stage if you can get the development teams to converge onto one code repository.  This will make the system administrators happy as there is less to maintain, and it should make the developers happy as they will be able to find the odd-ball dependent components more easily.


Born in Hiroshima, he moved to Osaka in 1873 and studied ukio-e painting under Suzuki Toshimoto (dates unknown) and sculpture under his father Nakatani Shyōko (d. 1912). In 1893 he moved to Tokyo and entered the artistic circle of Takeuchi Kyūichi (1857-1916) and exhibited his work at the Chicago International Expo in the same year.
He exhibited regularly throughout his career at Teiten (the Imperial Fine Art Exhibition), Nihon Bijutsu Kyōkai (Japan Art Association) and Kyoto Bijutsu Kyōkai (Kyoto Art Association) winning numerous prizes. He was also a member of both the Tokyo and Kyoto Chyōkōkai (Sculpture Association).
Nakatani was best known for his painted wood sculptures of bijin (beauties) and his use of mineral pigments for their elaborately decorated robes.
This piece is illustrated in a retrospective catalogue entitled Nakatani Ganko Sakuhinsyu (the Concise Works of Nakatani Ganko), 1971, pl. 29.
SKU: 7064. Categories: Objects, Works of Art.


This ended up being my favorite project of the quarter because I had fun doing it. I love to draw animals, and it was nice to just let my creativity flow. I started by doing the bear. I added some off-line watercolor to add a pop to the lines. The elk was a bit more difficult but I tried not to think about it too much. I added the same pops of color to make them more of a series. If I were to change anything about this project, I would have made more!


For a preview of how Indiana's 2008 gubernatorial election will play out, look no further than the emerging tussle over entrepreneur Scott Jones' $4 million in awards from the state's 21st Century Research & Technology Fund.
In September, Jones' automatic-lawn-mower business, Precise Path Robotics, landed $2 million from the fund, which doles out awards to spur high-tech job growth. On Nov. 14, Jones announced his human-assisted Internet search engine startup ChaCha had attracted $2 million of its own from the program.
In between, on Oct. 9, Jones held a highly publicized political fund-raiser at his Carmel mansion for Gov. Mitch Daniels, generating more than $1 million in contributions for the Republican's re-election war chest.
Indiana Democratic Party spokeswoman Jennifer Wagner is making political hay out of the time line. Her blog, www.takingdownwords.com, has hosted a scathing public discussion, questioning whether there's a connection between Daniels' campaign cash and Jones' 21st Century Fund awards.
She also questioned whether a wealthy businessman like Jones needs this type of help, or if it should be reserved for entrepreneurs who lack his financial firepower.
Thus an election issue was born. And now it's being test-marketed online.
"Isn't it just a bit too convenient that Jones raised a million smackers for the Guv and then got twice as much in return?" she wrote in a typical Nov. 14 post titled, "Double the Fun: A Million Bucks for the Guv, Two Million for ChaCha."
Indiana Secretary of Commerce Nathan Feltman, whose Indiana Economic Development Corp. oversees the 21st Century Fund, bristled at Wagner's suggestion of political favoratism.
Every applicant--including Jones--has to go through the same rigorous process, one with numerous checks and balances, Feltman said. He called the idea of quid pro quo between Daniels and Jones impossible.
"From day one, we've operated this place as a business and never have or would make any decisions based on campaign contributions," he said.
Since its inception in 1999, the 21st Century Fund has used a selection process modeled after one in place at the federal government's National Science Foundation.
To help ensure that only the best ideas get money, applicants are first considered by panels of independent scientists from other states. Karl Kohler, the 21st Century Fund's deputy director--and a holdover from the O'Bannon-Kernan administration--still oversees the makeup of the panels.
Under Daniels, IEDC introduced a new layer of scrutiny: a business case analysis. Applications that survive the technical litmus test then are assessed internally by IEDC for commercialization prospects.
The state weighs such factors as job potential, market risk, existing competition and strength of management. IEDC's Entrepreneurship Committee, a subset of its board of directors, makes the final call, then forwards picks to the Indiana General Assembly for ratification.
"We look not only at the idea, but also at the management team," said Sally Rushmore Byrn, one of the four members of the Entrepreneurship Committee.
The "bottom line" is an applicant's potential to create lots of high-paying jobs, said Byrn, CEO of West Lafayette-based contract research firm SSCI Inc. "And that comes back over and over again."
Campaign finance watchdogs disagree whether the awards to Daniels' highest-profile supporter in the business community are cause for concern.
Stefanie Miller, executive director of Common Cause Indiana, called the situation "fishy."
And she noted that the awards aren't the only way the Daniels administration has supported Jones' efforts. The ChaCha search engine this year was embedded into the state's Web site, www.in.gov.
"He who pays the piper calls the tune," Miller said. "This is a perfect example of why our campaign funding system should be changed. Big money buys access and influence. It makes citizens cynical that the government is all about favors for big campaign donors."
But Edwin Bender, executive director of the Montana-based National Institute on Money in State Politics, said the selection process appears sound.
"It seems like [Jones is] a guy that's just offering some good businesses. He does have political connections, but that's not against the law," Bender said.
"I don't see any major evidence of a quid pro quo here. There's just too many in-betweens. I think someone's trying to make something where there's maybe not a whole lot. But that's politics."
Jones, 47, is best known as the co-inventor of voice mail. In a recent Forbes Small Business magazine article, he estimated his net worth at $150 million. In Indiana, his businesses have included investment fund Gazelle TechVentures and consumer electronics firm Escient Technologies.
Jones said the idea that ChaCha and Precise Path's awards were payback for his Daniels fund-raiser is "bordering on ridiculous."
"I don't know how anyone would make a correlation," Jones said. "It's like a, 'Have you beat your wife lately?' allegation."
The 21st Century Fund awards to Jones represent about 6 percent of the $66 million the program has doled out since Daniels became governor in 2005. The average size of the 52 awards under his administration has been $1.26 million.
IEDC requires recipients to pay back awards, plus a portion of their financial gains, if they successfully reach an "exit event," such as an initial public offering or change in ownership. If the companies fail, the 21st Century Fund's loss is forgiven.
The 21st Century Fund is far from alone in identifying Jones as worthy of substantial financial backing.
Including his own money, Jones now has raised $14.5 million in equity capital for ChaCha. Precise Path has attracted about $1 million from investors.
Jones' track record of entrepreneurial success gave him a boost during IEDC's due diligence, which he called "grueling."
But now Wagner is using it as ammunition against him.
"ChaCha already has attracted some big-name investors, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com and Rod Canion of Compaq, and Jones supposedly has tons of money," she wrote in her original Nov. 14 blog post.
"Should we be spending 21st Century funds on that kind of heavily backed project when other new companies might need the money more?"
Jones said he sought 21st Century Fund awards because startups often need lots of outside cash before they're profitable. He said he could have raised more from outside investors, but doing so would have meant giving outsiders larger ownership stakes.
Give up too much, and it won't be long before outside investors begin pushing ChaCha and Precise Path to move elsewhere, Feltman said.
"A big function of the [21st Century] Fund is to ensure that our best innovations and opportunities don't leave the state," he said. "Lots of venture capital funds require innovations to move."
The dustup over Jones' awards disgusts angel investor Bob Compton, a Memphis resident who co-hosted the Daniels fund-raiser at Jones' mansion.
"It is damn hard to build a company in the first place without having political peons shooting at you," said Compton, who has invested in some of Indiana's most successful high-tech firms but is not involved with either ChaCha or Precise Path. "People on both sides of the aisle ought to be cheering every day for people like Scott Jones, entrepreneurs who put at risk their money, blood, sweat and tears."
Such comments might further fan the political fires. Democrats' general strategy for the governor's race is to cast Daniels as an isolated autocrat, in the pocket of big business and out of touch with everyday people.
The leading contenders for the Democratic nomination are Jim Schellinger, an Indianapolis architect, and Jill Long Thompson, a former congresswoman from northern Indiana.
Wagner, of course, hopes the controversy helps put one of them in office. She said her role is to be the "loyal opposition," raising provocative questions, even if she doesn't always prove the answers.
"I work in politics. I don't know if there is any connection. But this is an area that is all about perception," Wagner said. "I pretty much just posted it to throw it out there: 'Doesn't this look a little bit cozy?'"


Pile drivers work with pile-driving rigs--those big machines that look like cranes, but shake the ground as they drive metal, concrete or wood piling into the earth during the early stages of construction. Usually, pile drivers are the first workers at the construction site. They drive metal sheet piling to hold back the dirt during excavations. They drive concrete and metal piling as part of the foundation system upon which skyscrapers are built, and they drive wood and concrete piling to hold up docks, wharfs and bridges. In some cases they work on off-shore oil rigs and as commercial divers involved in underwater construction. Pile drivers are also required to install heavy timbers and weld or cut large metal beams. If you like working outside with large equipment, heavy materials, and sometimes under extreme weather conditions, then you'll like the hearty occupation of the pile driver!
The Apprenticeship Training Program for Pile Drivers is a four-year program. The apprentice must furnish his/her own tools and register in and be working as an indentured apprentice. Employment within the trade depends upon available work in the industry and a willingness to work.
Apprentices are also required to attend daytime college credit related and supplemental instruction for two weeks, 40 hours per week, every six months.
Successful completion of the apprenticeship program (1) leads to journeyworker status with the State of California, (2) satisfies major requirements for an associate degree through Santiago Canyon College, and (3) satisfies requirements for a Certificate of Achievement through Santiago Canyon College.
Be at least seventeen (17) years of age. There is no upper age limit.
Have a job offer with an approved contractor. Applicants may wish to contact a Local Union or Training Center (see list below) in advance for information regarding the availability of jobs and prospective contractors who may be in need of an apprentice.
Complete a written application seeking entry into the program.
Obtain a "Letter of Subscription" signed by an approved contractor. A "Letter of Intent" on company letterhead will also suffice in lieu of the "Letter of Subscription."
Return the completed "Letter of Subscription" or "Letter of Intent" to one of the above locations.
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American Horror Story - Season 7, Episode 08: Winter of Our Discontent
Different characters and locations are shown in this anthology of series, including a house with a murderous past, a witch coven, a hotel, an asylum, a freak show, a cult and a farmhouse in Roanoke
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Cheyenne Jackson, Billie Lourd, Alison Pill, Chaz Bono, Frances Conroy, Billy Eichner, Leslie Grossman, Colton Haynes, Adelia Horton, ...»
Director: Bradley Buecker
Episode 01: Election Night
Episode 02: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Episode 03: Neighbors from Hell
Episode 04: 11/9
Episode 05: Holes
Episode 06: Mid-Western Assassin
Episode 07: Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag
Episode 08: Winter of Our Discontent
Episode 09: Drink the Kool-Aid
Episode 10: Charles (Manson) in Charge
Episode 11: Great Again
American Horror Story S07E11
Keywords: #American Horror Story - Season 7 #Angela Bassett #Bradley Buecker #Kathy Bates #Lady Gaga
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The Walking Dead - Season 7
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Lost - Season 6
True Blood - Season 7
Shameless - Season 7
Actors Of "American Horror Story - Season 7"
17 December 1974, Tampa, Florida, USA
20 January 1987, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
12 July 1975, Newport, Washington, USA
17 July 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 November 1985, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4 March 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 November 1953, Monroe, Georgia, USA
18 September 1978, New York City, New York, USA
25 October 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 July 1988, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Adelia Horton
Dalia Kaissi
29 June 1982, New York, New York, USA
10 February 1991, Rhinebeck, New York, USA
Tayla Schaffner
16 May 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Kaia Cowart
Derek Johnson
20 September 1982, Concord, Michigan, USA
Alexander Neher
Annette Azcuy
Jasper Cole
Michael Delgado
Heather Olt
Bill Parks
Chris Guzzi
Jorga Caye
17 December 1948, Upland, California, USA
Ryan Alvarez
24 November 1971, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
Tisha French
Characters Of "American Horror Story - Season 7"
Ally Mayfair-Richards
Played by: Sarah Paulson
Kai Anderson
Played by: Evan Peters
Dr. Rudy Vincent
Played by: Cheyenne Jackson
Winter Anderson
Played by: Billie Lourd
Ivy Mayfair-Richards
Played by: Alison Pill
Harrison Wilton
Played by: Billy Eichner
Detective Samuels
Played by: Colton Haynes
Serina Belinda
Played by: Emma Roberts
Played by: Derek Johnson
Played by: Chris Guzzi
Creators of "American Horror Story - Season 7"
Critics Of "American Horror Story - Season 7"
October 25, 2017 The episode makes clear how people selfishly enable maniacal individuals out of a profound sense of weakness.
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October 25, 2017 The shocking episode ... delved into Winter's steadfast loyalty to her brother who seems to be unraveling with each passing week.
October 25, 2017 This week there was a do-over of sorts, a beginning that again involves the shadier side of the internet
October 25, 2017 Anytime Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters share a scene, magic happens.
October 25, 2017 While late-night hosts and facile sitcoms like Will & Grace go for the easy Cheeto-faced joke, AHS cuts a lot deeper.
October 25, 2017 With three hours left before the Episode 11 finale, it's hard to imagine what kind of ending we're hurtling toward. Some superfans may be happy about that-but it also feels like a reflection of the season's general lack of focus.
October 25, 2017 Kai's getting less and less predictable the longer time goes on, and that doesn't bode well even for the people close to him in the cult.
October 25, 2017 Cult offered up a cool new take on Ally this week, but the rest of it buckled under the burden of this season's trend of never showing us the truth right away.
October 25, 2017 Show of hands: Who agrees that Tuesday's American Horror Story: Cult might have been the anthology series' most gratuitously sickening hour yet?
October 25, 2017 Is there anyone left to root for? Is there anyone we care about anymore? Is that even the point of this?
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