I often dread going to see romantic comedies such as "Love Happens." 1,000 times burned, 1,001 times shy. Romcoms are usually known for only their lack of originality, convoluted nature, and eagerness to play on overused themes.
As it happens, "Love Happens" isn't a bad film. In fact its a fair bit better than I expected. However, even with two likable stars playing even more likable characters, not to mention a talented supporting cast, the film gets into trouble when it ignores the story it's trying to tell, one worth watching, and instead focuses on giving us pat scenes which could have been taken from any other movie of this genre.
Aaron Eckhart stars as a widower turned self-help guru on the verge of national syndication. Along with his loyal assistant (Dan Fogler), Burke returns to Seattle for a seminar and hoping to close a lucrative deal.
Unexpectedly Burke encounters a flower shop owner (Jennifer Aniston) with a passion for big words. His relationship with Eloise forces Burke to take a hard look at his own life, the loss of his wife, and the pain he still carries around inside him.
There's much about the film that works. First, Eckhart and Aniston are great on screen together. Not only can we see these two together, we want them to get there. Of course the two meet cuter than a basket of puppies, but that's to be expected.
I also liked the choice to make Burke honest and not only in the self-help game for the money. He genuinely wants, even needs, to help others deal with the loss of loved ones. One of the film's best relationships is between Burke and a father (John Carroll Lynch) struggling over the death of his son.
The film struggles, however, with the relationship between Burke and his father-in-law (Martin Sheen) which produces one of the most ludicrous scenes of the movie that involves breaking-and-entering, a parrot, and hiding under a table. Don't ask.
Even more troubling however is the film's need to provide us with a final act confession and "big reveal" about Burke and his struggle to get over the death of his wife. Not only is the revelation not shocking (it's hinted at several times) its inclusion does nothing to improve the story in any way except add a pandering "Awwwwwww" moment which the film not only doesn't need, but made me feel dirty for even watching it. Not only does this twist completely take the film off the rails, but it also creates a myriad of problems and logic holes which aren't even mentioned, let alone discussed.
"Love Happens" is 65% good film, 20% romcom cliche, and 15% off-the-rails disaster. That still puts it well-ahead of the curve giving us a good romantic comedy. It just happens the movie could have been much more.


Over the last ten years, we've talked with more than a thousand people about their health and wellness goals. The thing is, most of these health and wellness goals are really happiness goals. Folks want to get stronger (or fitter, or faster, or bendier) so that they feel better, so that things are easier, so that they can look back at their day's work and feel like they did a pretty good job–for themselves and for the people they love.
That's really the sum of it. The rest is mostly window dressing.
We've also noticed something else, however: like Watts, many of us move through days bearing a secret. 'Secret' is probably not exactly the right word, but it is something we aren't chomping at the bit to talk about at parties. For some, it is that we are too tired at night to be better with our kids; for others, it is that we don't move as well or as painlessly as we once did, and so we don't do some of the things we used to do. These things are real, and they hurt. We feel loss, and we wonder if we have crossed a point of no return.
But where there is a secret, there is also a superpower. There always is. Everyone's got one. Over the years, we've seen countless folks surprise themselves mightily, whether it's a lift they never thought they'd make, a skill they never thought they'd master, or a conditioner they never thought they'd complete as Rx'd. Like they say, success leaves clues, and most often these triumphs emerge organically and in the fullness of time from some place deep inside, some reservoir of grit, or love, or faith, that the athlete is used to manifesting in service of others. It is when they learn to aim that superpower at their own selves that the lightbulb comes on and the barn doors open.


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March 1, 2018 By Graham Seal in ILLICIT ARTEFACTS Tags: illicit artefacts trade, stolen antiquities	Leave a comment
Recent raids on and ongoing investigations of high profile artefact collectors and dealers have highlighted the extensive global trade in illegal antiquities by the many who profit from the past.
Looting humanity's heritage has always been big business. Today, it's even bigger. The global trade is variously estimated to be (depending on whether art is included with artefacts) as between four and six billion dollars a year – and counting. But no-one really knows the extent of the trade and these enormous figures are probably just the tip of the pyramid.
Egyptian mummies and their associated grave goods are what most of us first think of in realtion to stolen artefacts. The romance of 'Egyptism' has long appealed to westerners and has been mythologized by generations of books, movies and often dodgy History Channel documentaries about Tutankamun and resurrected mummies bent on wreaking bandaged havoc. But almost every other ancient – and modern – culture is being plundered right now. Even WW2 shipwrecks are the target of treasure hunters with diving gear and very bad attitudes to war graves.
Until relatively recently, most of this activity was of interest only to a few police units, academics and joiurnalists. The general public heard little about it. The business has always been necessarily clandestine at every level. It is based on alrge number of hard-strapped locals plundering tombs and burial sites. Their swags of figurines and jewellery are sold for a pittance to middleman/women traders who flog them to unscrupulous dealers at enormous markups. The dealers then unload the artefacts at yet more enormous profits to disreputable, dumb or wilfully ignorant collectors, galleries and museums, many funded largely by taxpayers.
All this used to be very hush-hush. But then ISIS began blowing up antiquity and funding their terrorism by flooding the market with 'blood artefacts'. As a result, the trade has suddenly become very visible and a hot number for the media and politicians.
Some very prestigious and otherwise respectable institutions have been blushungly returning artefacts they illegally or otherwise dubiously acquired. In recent years both the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales have diplomatically returned illegal objects to their country of origin. Other 'repatriations' have been made by the J Paul Getty Msueum and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others.
Some returns have been grudging and protracted. They would not have happened but for the investigations of a few academic entities like the Trafficking Culture consortium and the determined digging of journalists associated with the Chasing Aphrodite book and blog, together with patient excavations by one or two concerned legal authorities.
But what drives individuals and cultural instutions to seek and obtain pieces of the past? And to jettison ethics and legalities in the process? It's easy to understand the limited alternative opportunities for local tomb raiders and the greed of traders and some dealers. But why are some people prepared to spend millions of theirs, and sometimes ours, on dusty objects with dubious provenances? Many objects are so 'hot', they can never be seen outside the anonymous vaults of private collectors. Others are purchased for public display and, sometimes, research in otherwise highly respected museums and galleries.
In the process of passing from dusty old junk to priceless antiquity, illegal artefacts become what Polish historian Krzysztof Pomian, author of Collectors and Curiosities: Origins of the Museum, calls 'semiophores' – objects that lose their practical function and gain other value by virtue of where they are located and the meanings we invest in their display. In short, a sow's ear is turned into a silk purse. As we gaze upon the purses on gallery walls and in museums we are supposed to somehow connect with the past and the humans who lived and died in it, the underground population we will all be joining in due course. But in reality, artefacts are simply old objects that, for reasons of our own, we invest with the significance we want them to hold.
Validations for acquiring ancent artefacts, illicitly or otherwise, usually include statements about 'the treasures of antiquity', 'the heritage of humanity', or how ancient art teaches us about our ancestors and so, allegedly, about ourselves. Any or all of these may be valid. But the real motivation is power – the power of acquisition and ownership. The museums of the world's colonizing powers are still stuffed with plundered artefacts and even the bones of colonized indigenous peoples – even those who may have disappeared centuries before European invaders arrived. Nowadays, people want their stuff back. There have been some high profile and low profile returns but they barely diminish the piles of victor trophies. (And don't mention the Elgin Marbles).
Does it matter? So a few overly wealthy relic addicts get stiffed. At least the local grave robbers earn a few crumbs to feed their families.
The trouble is that, for whatever reasons, some very knowledgeable and skilled curators feel the need to attain these objects for their institutions. Their needs, and the expectations and obligations from which they stem, motivate a massive global trade that now even involves mafias peddling the past along with prostitutes, drugs and guns.
It is not just greed. In the end, history thieves and their clients exist because a lot of us want to see the plunder of the past gracing museums and galleries, for our own good or bad reasons. It's not just 'them', it's 'us' as well.
Some more links:
http://illicitculturalproperty.com
https://thearabweekly.com/illicit-antiquities-trade-threatening-cultural-heritage
http://www.dw.com/en/germany-attracts-trade-in-looted-artifacts/a-18019083
http://savingantiquities.org/special-investigative-techniques-contrasting-trafficking-related-offences-cultural-property/
KEYWORDS: Illicit artefacts trade, stolen antiquities
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Facts about Pansy shrub. "Scientific name for pansy plant is Cercis canadensis". Pansy plant is a small tree or a large deciduous shrub with seedpods resembling a weaver shuttle and is usually native to eastern areas of North America including Canada, Southern Ontario, south to northern Florida. However it can also do well in west California. The Pansy plant is commonly known as the eastern redbud and it grows into an understory shrub or tree with multiple trunks and a canopy which extends up to twenty to thirty inches tall with a slightly larger spread upon maturity.
The Pansy shrub develops green foliage with simple, alternately arranged, heart shaped leaves which are broadly ovate and grow up to 2-5 inches long. The leaves have 5 to 7 nerves and are usually truncate at the base and narrow towards the tip. During the early stages of the Pansy shrub, the leaves usually come out in a tawny green color and folded along the mid rib line. However, they become smooth with a dark green color on their outer surface and a lighter color below upon maturity to bright yellow to greenish yellow in fall.
The pansy plant produces pea-like flowers which are rose-purple in color. The flowers usually bloom vigorously in early spring just before the Pansy plants foliage emerges. The blooms are in clusters of four to ten with individual flower growing up to a half an inch wide. The flowers are pollinated to produce leguminous, bean-like seedpods which are flattened and develop to about two to four inches (5 to 10 cm) long with six to twelve seeds in individual seedpods. The seed pods changes color to brown upon maturity and can remain on the Pansy tree into winter.
The plant can do well in medium, average, well-drained soils and in partly shade to full sun. However, the Pansy plant requires partly shade in hot weather conditions
The Pansy plant is a perfect small tree suitable for woodland gardens, lawns or street tree in residential homes. It can be best planted singly or in groups.
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Whitefly management in Arizona cotton - status and needs
Peter C Ellsworth
Maricopa Agriculture Center
It has been less than 6 years since the devastation of the whitefly in Arizona and southern California. Numbers were so dense that windshields were clouded with the bodies of the adults, unprotected cotton fields were 'biologically' defoliated, and fields stood in 'permanent' wilt due to the excessive stress imposed by the immatures. Today our program has evolved from an effective, yet 2-dimensional system of chemical management to a multi-faceted, 3-dimensional and integrated management strategy (Ellsworth et al. 1996a; Ellsworth and Naranjo 1999). Early on the three 'keys' to whitefly management were identified by us and others as 1) Sampling and detection, 2) Effective chemical use, and 3) Avoidance of the problem. Now, this matrix of factors can be represented in the form of a pyramid, an inherently stable structure (Fig. 1). 'Avoidance' is the foundation block upon which 'Effective Chemical Use' and 'Sampling' rest. Confronted with a pest crisis, short term survival depends on the upper two levels of the pyramid. However, sustainable, long-term strategies ultimately must depend on the development of a solid foundation, 'avoidance'. At the same time, a pyramid-strategy developed for one pest must be compatible with like strategies in place for all pests of a system. The building blocks of a successful pest management program can be further subdivided into component parts. Sampling in cotton involves multi-stage and binomial methods of classifying whitefly populations (Ellsworth et al. 1995, 1996c; Diehl et al. 1997a, b, c) and sits at the apex of the pyramid. This represents its overarching importance in the implementation of all insect control tactics. Further, sampling plays a central role in the refinement and understanding of our management strategies. Without well-designed sampling tools, progress in all areas of whitefly management would be hampered. These tools have been adapted for new chemistry as it was developed. Effective chemical use consists principally of the use of action thresholds, availability and understanding of selective and effective chemistry, and a proactive resistance management plan. Action thresholds have been developed that are effective at preventing yield and quality losses (Ellsworth and Meade 1994; Naranjo et al. 1998). These, too, are insect stage-specific and have been optimized for proper deployment of insect growth regulators (IGRs) (Ellsworth et al. 1996c, 1997a,b, 1998a; Ellsworth 1998). The IGRs, Knack® and Applaud®, became available for the first time in this country in 1996 and have had a sensational impact on the selective management of this pest. [However, one cannot understate the importance of concomitant use of Admire® (imidacloprid) in melons and vegetables to the overall, area-wide lowering of pest dynamics.] All chemistry has been organized into a 3-stage program of deployment for resistance management (Ellsworth et al. 1996a). The proactive nature of this program has led to the restriction of use of the new IGRs such that their modes of action may be preserved for as long as possible while providing relief for resistance risk to all products.
Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference, January, 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA
P. Dugger, D. Richter, P. Dugger, D. Richter
Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference - Orlando, United States
Duration: Jan 3 1999 → Jan 7 1999
Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference
Juvenile Hormones
Ellsworth, P. C. (1999). Whitefly management in Arizona cotton - status and needs. In P. Dugger, D. Richter, P. Dugger, & D. Richter (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference, January, 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA (pp. 41-43). National Cotton Council of America.
Whitefly management in Arizona cotton - status and needs. / Ellsworth, Peter C.
Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference, January, 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA. ed. / P. Dugger; D. Richter; P. Dugger; D. Richter. National Cotton Council of America, 1999. p. 41-43.
Ellsworth, PC 1999, Whitefly management in Arizona cotton - status and needs. in P Dugger, D Richter, P Dugger & D Richter (eds), Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference, January, 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA. National Cotton Council of America, pp. 41-43, Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference, Orlando, United States, 1/3/99.
Ellsworth PC. Whitefly management in Arizona cotton - status and needs. In Dugger P, Richter D, Dugger P, Richter D, editors, Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference, January, 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA. National Cotton Council of America. 1999. p. 41-43
Ellsworth, Peter C. / Whitefly management in Arizona cotton - status and needs. Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conference, January, 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA. editor / P. Dugger ; D. Richter ; P. Dugger ; D. Richter. National Cotton Council of America, 1999. pp. 41-43
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Sugar Mill, Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii.
Great 1940s Hawaii linen postcard in very good condition; this card was never posted, it doesn't have any writing, and there is an uncanceled 2 cent John Adams postage stamp on the back (see images).
Nice colorful and collectible vintage scenic view of Old Hawaii, showing a Hawaiian Sugar Mill on the Island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii.
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2018 Connecticut Legislative Changes Impact Income Tax
The Connecticut General Assembly enacted legislative changes during the 2018 regular session that affect the Connecticut Personal Income Tax calculation.
Highlights of the changes include the following:
Modification of IRC § 168(k) Bonus Depreciation
For taxable years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2017, a taxpayer who deducts IRC § 168(k) bonus depreciation on their federal income tax return for property placed in service after Sept. 27, 2017, must add back such deduction when computing Connecticut adjusted gross income.
Where there is an addback of bonus depreciation for a year, the taxpayer may deduct 25% of the disallowed deduction for each of the four succeeding tax years, beginning with the year following the year of the addback.
The foregoing applies to individuals, partnerships, LLCs treated as partnerships for income tax purposes, and S corporations.
Modification of IRC § 179 Deduction
For taxable years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2018, a taxpayer must add back 80% of the IRC § 179 deduction taken for federal income tax purposes.
The 80% added back may be deducted over the four succeeding tax years (25% per year), beginning with the year following the year of the addback.
The foregoing applies to individuals, partnerships, LLCs treated as partnerships, and S corporations.
Subtraction Modification of Bioscience Investment Income
For taxable years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2018, a general partner of a qualified venture capital fund (as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations) can, in calculating Connecticut adjusted gross income, subtract the income generated by investments in eligible Connecticut bioscience businesses that was included in federal adjusted gross income.
For this purpose, a general partner is a partner of a general partnership, a general partner of a limited partnership, and a partner of a limited liability partnership.
A general partner should use Schedule CT-BIO, Bioscience Worksheet, to calculate the amount to be subtracted.
Pass-Through Entities No Longer Required to Make Tax Payment of Behalf of Nonresident Owners
Beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2018, partnerships and S corporations doing business in Connecticut or with Connecticut-source income are no longer required to pay Connecticut Income Tax on behalf of their nonresident partners or shareholders.
Penalty for Failure to Disclose Reportable Transactions
After Jan. 1, 2018, audits of returns where there is a failure to disclose a reportable transaction (as defined in IRC § 6707A), that is also required to be disclosed for federal purposes, will be subject to a 75% penalty. Prior to Jan. 1, 2018, the penalty applied to "listed transactions."
A notice of deficiency assessment with the 75% penalty, in respect to returns that fail to disclose a reportable transaction, may be mailed at any time not later than six years after the subject return was filed.
What Does CohnReznick Think?
The difference in treatment of the bonus depreciation modification and the IRC § 179 modification should be considered by taxpayers when deciding which provision to take advantage of even though there may be no federal income tax difference. Because Connecticut is facing a large budget deficit, we expect additional tax changes this legislative session. Just this week, Connecticut's new governor proposed massive sales and use tax changes that impact most industries. We will keep you apprised of any changes as they develop.
Matt Nick, Director, State and Local Tax Services
matthew.nick@CohnReznick.com
Cindy Galamgam, Senior Manager, State and Local Tax Services
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JVC Victor has announced a new audio system that will work with the iPhone and iPad that will hit Japan first. The new audio system has some really cool features and comes in several colors. The device comes in two versions that share almost all the same features. The UX-VJ5 has a CD player built in and the UX-VJ3 lacks that CD player.
All the other features between the two systems are the same. Those common features include the ability to dock both the iPhone and iPad at the same time for charging. The system will play tunes from those devices and has a FM tuner integrated. The CD payer version hides the CD door behind the iPad.
The system has dual speakers each with 15W of power. Both of the products have audio inputs and video outputs to hook to your TV or larger computer screen. Another cool feature is that the VJ5 has a USB port and can rip your CDs to MP3 and shoot them to an external HDD. Pricing is unknown, but the devices will hit Japan at the end of July or beginning of August.


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12-year prison term looms for young man for creating terror in rival's home
The Crown is seeking a total of 12 years in prison for 21 years old Colin Bernardin-Hebert after he admitted to charges which included invading and causing terror at his rival's home.
Bernardin-Hebert had gone to his rival's home in revenge after he himself became a victim of home invasion. He did not file any charges then because he did not want to cooperate with the police.
Aside from that, he admitted that previous dealings with the rival involved drugs.
Court heard how Bernardin-Hebert and two other men put on masks and armed with firearms, went to the rival's home one night.
They terrified the rival's mother starting from the time they knocked on the door and demanded where her son was. They sprayed her with bear mace, held her on the ground with a shotgun, ransacked the place then stole several items.
Prior to the home invasion, Bernardin-Hebert also pistol-whipped his rival in an earlier incident.
Bernardin-Hebert was accused as the one who have masterminded everything.
Winnipeg criminal lawyer Barry Sinder, defending for Bernardin-Hebert, is countering with an eight-year sentence for his client.
The lawyer also wants the almost two years that Bernardin-Hebert spent in custody to be credited.
Bernardin-Hebert now says he regrets what he has done.
The judge had reserved her decision.
270 days in jail for man in dangerous driving
Posted Sep 22, 2014 on www.winnipegsun.com
Mahmud Ali was meted a nine-month sentence for his conviction on two counts of dangerous driving.
Ali was bound for the south when he ran a red light and hit an SUV heading to the east.
Six lanes had separated Ali's van from the SUV but he never tried to avoid hitting the other vehicle.
The Crown pointed that Ali was distracted because he was on his cellphone while driving the van.
Ali denied this and said that a passenger was the one using the cellphone.
Aside from the SUV, Ali also hit two other people who suffered serious injuries.
Frank Johnson, a defence lawyer in Winnipeg, argued for a three-month sentence to be served during the weekends but the judge said that a lengthier stay in jail show that the community condemns what Ali has done.
Winnipeg immigration lawyer says client will be in danger once deported
Posted Sep 15, 2014 on www.ctvnews.ca
Jamila Bibi will be killed once she goes back to Pakistan, according to Winnipeg immigration lawyer Bashir Khan.
In 2007, Bibi escaped to Canada because she was alleged to have committed adultery.
However, she was denied a refugee status and was ordered to be deported in 2012.
Her lawyer had believed that the deportation order would not be enforced pending the review of her case by the United Nations high commissioner.
But Bibi was arrested and asked to immediately go back to Pakistan because the Canada Border Services Agency did not think that she would adhere to the schedule for her deportation.
Bibi's application to stay the deportation order was also denied by the federal court.
The government of Canada has been urged to rethink Bibi's deportation not only by her supporters but by Amnesty International as well.
Convicted archbishop to know of his fate next month
Posted Jun 18, 2014 on www.winnipegsun.com
Kenneth Storheim, who used to be the archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America, will have to wait for July to know if he will be spending time in jail.
The archbishop was found guilty of sexually molesting an acolyte in the 1980s.
The Crown wants Storheim to be jailed for a year while Jeff Gindin, a lawyer in Winnipeg, defending for the archbishop, contends his client deserves to be given just a conditional sentence.
The Crown is insisting on jail pointing out that Storheim was in a position of trust which he abused.
Gindin countered that aside from having no previous criminal record, the archbishop held himself in good conduct for the past years.
Gindin added that Storheim's reputation is in ruins following the case.
Another jail sentence for murder convict
Jonathan Diego Young received a sentence of another five years for attacking an inmate.
Young, who is currently serving a life sentence, will be serving his newest sentence in concurrent with the sentences he received earlier.
The newest sentence was a joint submission by the Crown and Winnipeg criminal attorney Amanda Sansregret, who is defending for Young.
Sansregret said that she may long be retired before Young will be free with the string of atrocities that he has been committing even when he is already serving a sentence.
Young was in custody and waiting for the murder trial of Ryan Chartier, for which he is serving a life sentence, when he was arrested the first time he assaulted an inmate.
Fortunately, this recent inmate attack did not have as grave a result as the first one.
Vancouver lawyer overjoyed with decision against marijuana law
Posted Feb 25, 2016 on www.vancouversun.com
Vancouver lawyer Kirk Tousaw is very much pleased with Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan who decided that the law on marijuana is unconstitutional.
In his decision, Phelan said that not allowing medical users in getting marijuana from other than producers who are licensed is a violation of their charter rights.
Tousaw sees the decision as a milestone and a big boost for patients who are using cannabis as medication.
With the decision, the lawyer is urging Canada's Prime Minister to immediately stop criminally sanctioning patients using cannabis as a medicine, as well as those unlicensed providers.
According to Phelan, restricting the access did not lessen the risk to the patients' health nor did it make cannabis more accessible.
The judge, in his decision, called upon the Canadian government to make the marijuana law flexible so as to pave way for patients to grow their own marijuana for medical purposes.
Calgary defence lawyer says client was wrongly accused
Posted Jan 15, 2016 on www.calgarysun.com
Calgary defence lawyer Pawel Milczarek said his client, Jose Sandoval-Barillas, has been wrongly accused.
Sandoval-Barillas is on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a then 16-year-old girl October of 2013 close to the Rundle LRT station. He has also been accused of threatening her with a weapon.
Milczarek told the jury that the victim is accusing his client whom she did see at the LRT Station minutes before the assault happened.
The lawyer further added that because the victim was intoxicated, she had wrongly assumed that it was his client who had assaulted her but that it wasn't him and someone else.
However, the crown prosecutor has contradicted Milczarek's defense of his client and said that Sandoval-Barillas' claim that he had left the station a few minutes after the victim did to get a cab and not to follow and assault her, was not believable.
A video taken by surveillance cameras had the two taking a train at the Whitehorn station.
The case has been submitted to the jury for deliberation.
Custody ends for young murder convict
Posted Mar 27, 2015 on www.therecord.com
A young man, who was convicted for second-degree murder, will soon be integrated back into the community as he starts with the next phase of his sentence which is community supervision.
The youth was sentenced to a little less than two years in jail and a five-year community supervision for the stabbing death of Larry McDonald, 49.
The convict, who is now 21 years old, cannot be named as he was only 16 when he stabbed McDonald several times in the back.
The victim was trying to intervene in an argument between the youth and his older girlfriend.
A report showed how the youth has been making progress in changing for the better by taking part in all rehabilitative programs available for him while in jail.
As soon as he gets out of jail, he will live with his mother and has to abide by various conditions including a curfew.
Kitchener defence lawyer Craig Parry said the youth understands that his return to society will not be easy considering that he had spent about five years of his life in custody. He had previously spent about three years in jail while his case had gone through the court.
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Barbara ran the consumer care division of a global healthcare company with a sterling reputation for high-quality, brand name products. One day, she met with corporate leadership who told her that despite strong performance, Barbara needed to "up the ante" and deliver even better numbers. They were planning to spin off the division, and the sales pipeline looked meager. Barbara announced significant stretch goals to drive growth. Her team had to hit the ground running.
There was just one problem: launching innovative, new products in less than three years demanded breaking with traditional, highly structured processes. A cumbersome product development cycle marked by extensive analysis and internal focus was not going to work. Yet, pivoting to a fast, nimble, start-up inspired approach would not be easy.
To bring exciting, new products to market quickly, Barbara and her R&D head, James, needed to establish a separate structure that combined enough freedom for people to cultivate their ideas with the right amount of pressure to produce. They had to cordon off space for the most passionate innovators to create. And they needed to provide permission to take risks, the access to seasoned mentors and coaches, and the promise of funding for high potential ideas.
Barbara and James turned to us to help them shake up "business as usual", unleash their teams' innovation potential, and guide product development teams through a high-energy process of experimentation and learning.
To tackle these challenges, we applied the Lean Launchpad approach inspired by the lean start-up movement. Schaffer's work began by helping Barbara and James establish an internal "Venture Capital Board" comprised of senior business leaders. These leaders were charged with soliciting new ideas, acting as mentors, and dispensing tough love. We helped orchestrate an innovation challenge for everyone in the division to submit new product concepts. Senior leadership vetted the over 60 ideas that rolled in, selected the top 20 teams to join a pitch meeting, and green lit just three of them.
Schaffer partnered with the Lean Launchpad founders to prep each cross-departmental team on how to move through a 16-week cycle of customer development, starting with a two-day boot camp to crystallize initial ideas. We helped each team leverage the Business Model Canvas to map out hypotheses about how their product concepts could meet pressing customer needs. Then, we assisted them in identifying potential customers to visit and drafting discussion and observation guides. As teams continued to validate their ideas with customers, Schaffer coaches helped them to sharpen their thinking, process learnings, and adapt ideas based on feedback. We also worked with Barbara and James to better understand the cultural shifts underway – a newfound sense of team member empowerment, a higher degree of collaboration with colleagues and customers, and more conscious focus on learning and adaptation.
After eight weeks, we facilitated a mid-point review with the VC Board to gauge progress, capture takeaways, and decide if it was worth continued investment in the teams' search processes. One group received tough news. After numerous customer interviews and reframing their idea a few different ways, leadership deemed the project a "smart, fast fail." Why smart? Finding out the idea had no legs in just eight weeks versus a year or more saved significant resource investment. The other two teams were thrilled to learn that they were still in the game. Both teams were forced more than once to evolve their ideas when customers weren't biting. Their mentors and Schaffer coaches were tough, but supportive. Nothing beat the rush of excitement when prospective customers expressed interest in their roughed out sketches and prototypes, so the teams persevered.
After 16 weeks – a fraction of the time of the traditional product development process – two innovation teams demonstrated true market opportunities. Plus, the never-say-die persistence of a couple of the team members served as major career boosts. The company was indeed sold and both products are now being readied for launch.
Reduction in time to develop high-potential new products hand-in-hand with customers.
Increase in the volume and quality of new business ideas sourced from employees.
Development of an entrepreneurial culture and "we can do it" confidence.
Innovative ideas are often lurking just beneath the surface at large organizations. Create forums for people to share their best concepts.
Cross-functional teams can deliver extraordinary innovation results with the right level of empowerment and coaching. Provide the right framework for them to astound you.
Even big companies can shift their cultures to be more entrepreneurial. Create the right conditions for team members to tap into their innovation potential.


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A Lima Charlie Review: 'No One's Home' By D.M. Pulley. With a BLAST RADIUS of a MOAB! (8/10)
2019-08-26 2019-08-24 by limacharlieediting, posted in Reviews
Before she was a writer, D.M. Pulley was a professional engineer rehabbing historic structures and conducting forensic investigations of building failures. Her debut novel, The Dead Key (2015) won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Since then, she has penned her second and third novel, The Buried Book (2016). And The Unclaimed Victim (2017). Her next offer, No One's Home is available September 1, 2019.
The year is 2018, we will call this the present time. The Spielman's are trying to set new roots and start a new life, coming across this property, the Rawlingswood, and a real-estate agent eager to make a sale for a mansion that has been sitting idly for two years. Myron, a doctor is excited by the potential this place is, Margot, his wife is a bit freaked out but ultimately gives in. The agent trying her best to remain optimistic, selling the old house as a fixer-upper and grossly neglected as of late. Myron as I mentioned is very excited and knows a property like that would be a couple of million if not more in their current home state of Boston. As they conclude their walk through, the moment of truth comes for the real-estate agent, she is obviously required to disclose any and all information about the past, as she tells them the history, she just as quickly dismisses them as rumors and any discussions regarding past murders, hauntings and misfortunes were quickly diminished as urban legends.
Then all the sudden, without warning, this novel takes you back in time to 1929. Here we meet The Rawlings Family. By the name and time, it's safe to assume these are the home's first owners, first occupants, first victims maybe. Here we get a small glimpse into the times, back when people could be buried in a private grave on your property, we also learn that the nation's financial market is currently in flux, and Walter, the man of the house had built this amazing house on borrowed money and uncertain investments.
Back to present time, the Spielman's hire a contractor to gut the house and almost immediately anything that could go wrong, does. From mold and asbestos, to broken water lines, to certain specialists straight up quitting after seeing the extent of the job they had to do. On top of that, workers were injured and made trips to the ER. The contractor Max, had a saying, "we can get it done fast, or get it done well or get it done cheap but not all three." But Margot was adamant about moving into the house before their son Hunter started school. The construction workers even brought a woman they called a witch but turned out to be a psychic of sorts to cleanse the place, and she stormed off spooked.
The time is 2009, the Martin family is currently living at the Rawlingswood mansion. Ava Martin, the ten-year-old living there is a little different from other kids her age and as she starts to play, she whispers to an imaginary friend named Claudia. For 15 minutes they have a conversation and as her foster dad is watching her play her favorite game of pretend, he can't help but wonder is she's pretending or is she possessed.
The Spielman's moved in and are in awe at the transformation of the place, yet the workers were so rushed that many corners were cut and on a closer inspection many areas missed, including Hunter's closet, their teenage son. As Hunter is noticing notes that haven't been painted over in the wall of his closet, some so small he could barely read them, some so big, he had to take a step back. Majority of the notes were about a dead girl and a boy named Benny.
The time is 1980, the Klaussman Family is living here at this time and we're quickly introduced to their son, Benny. We quickly learn that Mr. and Mrs. Klaussman are having marital issues and are even sleeping in separate bedrooms and Benny, the source of many of their arguments is a special needs child.
Back in the present time, we start to learn more about the Spielman's history, their secrets, their lives they don't want anyone to know about. Issues from the past, loss, secret's they're keeping from each other. Then we jump back to 1929, and Walter Rawlings just learned the stock market crashed, "investors panic." Each family is beginning to feel the affects of this house, driving them further and further apart.
After all the introductions were made, each time span dwelled a bit on each family's current life. Getting to know them a bit. Learning some of their secrets, getting to know them more and more. Some small but initially brushed off instances where something abnormal occurs, a noise in the attic, a light left on, voices heard. Each time early in the book were dismissed, sometime investigated briefly, but ultimately dropped and they moved on. But then, some more unexplainable things start to occur and Hunter, with this being 2018 and him a pretty tech savvy teenager, he placed a camera in his room when he caught his mom going through his stuff. From there, things escalate to the point to where me as the reader started questioning every strange noise I heard in my house. While not a typical type of novel you'd see on Lima Charlie's reading list, it was a fun read, I highly recommend it.
Author: D.M. Pulley
Series: Standalone novel
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Follow D.M. Pulley on Twitter: @DMPulleyAuthor
Lima Charlie Rating: A BLAST RADIUS OF: A MOAB (8/10) – Massive Ordnance Air Blast -AKA- Mother of all Bombs. Largely known as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the US Military inventory. It has a blast radius of one mile, meaning it demolishes everything within 1 square mile.
D.M. Pulley lives in northeast Ohio with her husband, her two children, and a dog named Hobo. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a Professional Engineer rehabbing historic structures and conducting forensic investigations of building failures. Pulley's structural survey of a vacant building in Cleveland inspired her debut novel, The Dead Key, the winner of the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Since then, Pulley has sold over a half a million books worldwide, and her work has been translated into eight different languages.
Pulley's historical mysteries shine a light into the darker side of life in the Midwest during the twentieth century, when cities like Detroit and Cleveland struggled to survive. Her latest novel, No One's Home (due out September 1, 2019), unravels the disturbing history of an old mansion haunted by family secrets, financial ruin, and murder. The abandoned buildings, haunted houses, and buried past of the Rust Belt continue to inspire her work.
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Fair-Trial Concerns Raised in Murder of Iowa Student
A 20-year-old University of Iowa student went for an evening run in her hometown and did not return home. For five weeks the family's desperate search for Mollie Tibbetts drew national attention, but the story took an ugly turn when Tibbetts' lifeless body was found hidden in a cornfield and a Mexican immigrant was accused of her murder.
Rox Laird / August 29, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) – A 20-year-old University of Iowa student went for an evening run in her hometown and did not return home. For five weeks the family's desperate search for Mollie Tibbetts drew national attention, but the story took an ugly turn when Tibbetts' lifeless body was found hidden in a cornfield and a Mexican immigrant was accused of her murder.
Suddenly the focus – in Iowa and the nation – shifted to the immigration debate as politicians from the president of the United States to the governor of Iowa as well as voices on cable news and social media seized the opportunity to connect the dots between the tragic death of a young woman and a sinister threat posed by illegal immigration.
The message: But for this nation's failure to secure its borders, Tibbetts would be alive today. The implication is that Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the 24-year-old dairy-farm worker who immigrated to the United States at the age of 17, is guilty even before he's been given a chance to stand trial.
"The search for Mollie is over, but the demand for justice has just begun," Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said in a statement released after Tibbetts' body was discovered last week.
The question is whether the demand will be for justice or for vengeance.
An important step was skipped over in this dot-connecting: The cherished American principle that a person accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
At a political rally in West Virginia the night Tibbetts' death was announced, President Donald Trump said, "You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly, from Mexico and you saw what happened to that incredible, beautiful young woman. Should've never happened."
Governor Reynolds proclaimed that Iowans "are heartbroken, and we are angry. We are angry that a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community, and we will do all we can to bring justice to Mollie's killer."
Two days later, Iowa Congressman Steve King, another Republican, put the immigration angle in perhaps the starkest terms in a Twitter post referring to a video showing Tibbetts and 12 other alleged murder victims: "I know the faces of the parents of half the children pictured below. Every victim below would be alive today if we enforced our immigration laws. Leftists sacrificed thousands, including their own, on the altar of Political Correctness."
This is the politically charged environment in which Rivera's lawyers must seek to give their client a fair trial.
Rivera's first attorney, Allan Richards of Tama, Iowa, initially sought to erect a wall of secrecy around the proceedings, moving to close all hearings related to Rivera's prosecution and impose a gag order preventing government prosecutors from referring to Rivera as an illegal immigrant.
Richards referred to politicians' reaction in his motion, saying, "Sad and sorry Trump has weighed in on this matter in national media which will poison the entire possible pool of jury members."
State Magistrate Judge Diane Crookham-Johnson denied the motion to close Rivera's initial appearance in the Poweshiek County District Courthouse in Montezuma, and Richards subsequently withdrew as Rivera's attorney at the request of Rivera's family in Iowa.
Marshalltown lawyers Jennifer and Chad Frese, a married couple, were retained by the family to replace Richards, and they withdrew the motions for closed hearings and a gag order and waived Rivera's right to make an initial appearance on Aug. 31. The next step will be for the Poweshiek County Attorney to file a charging document called a trial information, which will come within 45 days of the initial appearance.
At that point, Rivera will enter a plea. Meanwhile, he is being held on $5 million cash bond.
According to the criminal complaint filed in state court, Rivera told Poweshiek County authorities he followed Tibbetts as she was running, parked his car and ran behind her. He said Tibbetts threatened to call police on her cell phone, which made him angry. Rivera told authorities he "blocked" his memory of what happened next but that he remembered dragging the body into a cornfield and covering her with corn leaves.
Rivera led authorities to the cornfield where her body was found.
One of his attorneys, Jennifer Frese, told Courthouse News in an interview Tuesday that the intense national media coverage of the Tibbetts' murder will not change the approach to defending her client.
"I do a lot of criminal defense work, so it does not matter what the charge is," she said. "We firmly believe a person accused of a crime deserves a fair trial and due process."
Frese added, "They deserve legal representation, or the whole system falls through, no matter what the charge, whether it's a speeding ticket or a murder charge. That's what Chad and I intend to be for Cristhian in this case."
Her husband and co-counsel, Chad Frese, elaborated on his criminal-defense philosophy in a Facebook post the day Tibbetts' body was found.
"All too often I am asked, 'Chad how do you defend these criminals?' 'Is it because you get paid?' 'You don't like these people certainly?' It's not easy to explain. However, today it's a little simpler," he wrote.
Frese referred to an earlier suspect in the Tibbetts investigation named Wayne Cheney.
"And up until 4:00 pm today almost everyone was convinced he was responsible for the death of Mollie Tibbetts," he said. "Our minds were made up. He must've done it. Everyone was talking about sex trafficking. This guy looked a bit off. He fit the bill. Cops kept going after him. They just needed that one piece of information. Now they had it. We waited until 4:00 pm to hear he was behind bars."
Frese continued, "But wait.... an illegal alien snatched her up and committed this heinous act? He admitted to it? He took the cops to the body? How can that be? They had the killer in custody. It wasn't Wayne Cheney. We were all wrong."
The attorney said at the time, before he represented Rivera, that his future client's arrest illustrated why he does his job.
"Doing what I do protects the Wayne Cheney's and everyone else who could come into the crosshairs from the power of the government and the rush to judgment by the masses," he wrote. "You see lost in the media hype will be the life of a beautiful young woman. Also lost in the mix will be the narrative of a man falsely accused. There will be no more stories about the horrors of sex trafficking committed by US citizens. It'll all be lost in the frenzy of illegal immigration talk."
Frese concluded by emphasizing the right to fair legal proceedings: "It's called the Sixth Amendment. For you bleeding heart liberals it's just as important as the First and for you gun lovers it's as sacred as the Second."
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What's Not in Jane Austen
Posted on March 31, 2015 by Jennifer Petkus • 33 Comments
It can be hard to find the duel in Sense and Sensibility
After reading and watching countless Jane Austen adaptations, it can sometimes be difficult to separate what Austen actually wrote in those six published novels with what we think she wrote. (Full disclosure: I once embarrassed myself by conflating the events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with the original.)
We've populated, expanded and explored the world of those novels so thoroughly that our confusion is understandable. Because of Austen, I've read many histories of the period. I know the Industrial Revolution was beginning to transform Britain, but unless you're a knowledgeable reader and paid attention to John Dashwood enclosing the commons, you'd think it largely absent. I know the Napoleonic Wars were ongoing, but unless you asked yourself why there were all those red coats in Meryton, you'd think Austen had ignored it. Sometimes, though, I could swear there are more explicit references in Austen to these events and I've wasted a lot of time looking for what isn't there. (Yes, there are some references to ship actions in Persuasion and Mansfield Park, but mostly in the context of gentlemanly bragging.)
Let's look at some specific and then some general examples of what we think is in Austen's novels, but isn't.
In the words of Basil Fawlty, "Don't mention the war!" You can find the Napoleonic War in Austen's novels, but you have to look.
One of the easily understandable misconceptions, especially if you're as fond of the Ang Lee/Emma Thompson adaptation of Sense and Sensibility as I am, is the atlas business with Edward Ferrars and Margaret Dashwood. It's such a charming scene and does so much to make us like Edward, that's it's hard to remember it's not in Austen's story. This, of course, goes back to Dr. Joan Ray's talk about Sense and Sensibility as the problem novel, inasmuch as Edward as hero doesn't quite fit the bill. After all, the poor man hardly has a line of dialog in the first 15 chapters of the book, and yet because of various adaptations, we can conjure in our imagination all the conversations that attracted Elinor Dashwood to him. Unfortunately none of those conversations were written down.
Another thing that's not in the book is the duel between Colonel Brandon and Willoughby. Sure there's that line Brandon speaks: "…we met by appointment, he to defend, I to punish his conduct. We returned unwounded, and the meeting, therefore, never got abroad." We can infer they met for the purpose of a duel, but it's hardly clear that it was actually fought. I read Sense and Sensibility the first two times and somehow overlooked the duel and it wasn't until I read an annotated edition that I recognized the five paragraphs that describe it. If you remember reading about the duel in any depth, I'm afraid you're wrong.
Conversations between men
Most Janeites know that Austen never wrote conservations that happened solely among men. But we can take that further and say that even though Austen wrote in the third person, she rarely wrote of things outside the immediate experience of her protagonist, once that protagonist has been introduced. The conversation between Fanny and John Dashwood, when Fanny shortchanges her poor relations, happens before we meet Elinor. From that point on, we learn things at the same time as Elinor (although Austen often does draw back from the characters in the final chapter).
I'm pretty sure this is why the duel never gets written down in any detail. It would have happened outside the experience of Elinor and would have involved actions solely among men.
There's no kissing in baseball or Jane Austen, which goes against the expectations of those familiar with filmed adaptations (witness the recent poll in Austen Authors). Most of us feel rewarded when at the end of an Austen adaptation Elizabeth or Anne or Elinor have that one kiss that reminds us of William Goldman's line from The Princess Bride: "Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind." Good luck finding that in Austen. Kisses are for babies or locks of hair; they're not the stuff of passion. (By the way, I think Sharon Lathan will have a more in-depth exploration of kissing in Austen in an upcoming post.)
For all the clergymen in Austen's life and all the clergymen in the novels, I cannot recall any church service that occurs in the novels and the only services that I can recall from any filmed adaptation would be the marriage service. Yes, there are conversations in Mansfield Park about Edmund Bertram's first sermon, but we don't get to hear it. I swear I've seen or read of shy glances exchanged as the congregation turns to the Book of Common Prayer or sings praise to God, but it's all in my imagination. Touring the chapel at Sotherton is the only time I can recall her characters being in a place of worship.
Although so much of Austen's novels are propelled by death and inheritance, there are no examples of major characters dying "on screen." Despite all the speculation of Mr. Bennet's impending death, he survives hale and hearty in Pride and Prejudice. A Mr. Dashwood dies at the beginning of Sense and Sensibility, and his death puts in motion the entire story, but we are not invested in him. Similarly, the death of Mrs. Churchill in Emma saddens no one (her husband finally gets to visit a friend!) and certainly not the reader. Mr. Woodhouse, who we do care about, also makes it to the end, despite his fear of chills and cake. Consider what the body count would be had Elizabeth Gaskell written Pride and Prejudice (although again my perceptions are colored by filmed adaptations of Gaskell's novels).
Fanny Price's Portsmouth family provides a rare glimpse of children
Children don't play much of a role in the novels. Margaret Dashwood only has a few lines of dialog in Sense and Sensibility. She does propel the plot, however, when she mentions the lock of hair. Most children are stage props, something for Emma to dandle on her knee.
The Price children in Mansfield Park do have important roles in making Fanny realize just how different she is from her Portsmouth relatives, but except for Susan, I put them on a par with the unnamed Cratchit children. Considering the large number of children in Austen's life, this is pretty odd and perhaps may be a reaction to the large number of children in her life. Austen may have practiced family planning in her novels, with the Bennets and the Prices being the only sizable families I can recall. None of these families come close to the progeny of the Austen clan.
There are few plot tropes in Austen as we modern-day readers might define them. In Northanger Abbey, you will recall, she makes fun of tropes like ruined castles and the mysterious death of the first Mrs. De Winter, I mean Tilney. There are no McGuffins, like letters of transit, a second will or missing family jewels.
There are a number of misconceptions and some false accusations, but I never get the sense that Austen is trying to put something over on the reader. Austen's plots are not complicated. Only Emma, I think, is somewhat complicated, which is why it is sometimes compared to mysteries or detective fiction.
Character generally rise above, ignore or flout the few tropes that do exist. Henry Tilney ignores his father's wishes. Edward Ferrars forgoes his status as first born son. The Bennet entail still looms and seems regarded as moot by the end of the book.
Comeuppance
There's little consequence to being evil (or just plain mean) in Austen's novels. Her, in my opinion, worst villain, Fanny Dashwood, is untouched by the events of Sense and Sensibility, except perhaps in her disappointment that she has Elinor Dashwood as a sister-in-law — again. Lucy Steele makes out like a bandit. General Tilney is not harmed when he casts Catherine Morland from Northanger Abbey. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is definitely pissed off not to marry her daughter to her nephew, but let's face it, that's probably a good thing for the gene pool and it puts her daughter into play for so many adaptations. William Elliot in Persuasion is thwarted when Anne reunites with Captain Wentworth, but we suspect he has a backup scheme.
The one exception to this might be John Willoughby, who seems to genuinely pine for Marianne Dashwood — just before he returns to his rich wife and no doubt current mistress. Compare this to Charles Dickens, who often gives his villains their just deserts. Austen is amazingly non judgmental.
Do these omissions matter to the story?
No, of course not. Austen's genius is that she gives us so much, without having to hit the reader over the head. We don't care that she really gives only the barest description of any character. Somehow, "fine eyes" is all we need to recognize Elizabeth Bennet.
Recognizing these omissions, however, does give us an idea what is important to her. As much as the church was part of the warp and woof of her life, she was no moralizer. As much as her fortunes were affected by her father's death, she doesn't really employ it as plot device. (Yes, Dickens, I'm looking at you.) As much as she must have feared for her nautical brothers and would have prayed for her safety, she doesn't dwell on the war with France. Fanny Price, after all, is most worried about her brother William's prospects, even though I'm sure Austen knew her heroine would also have prayed for brother's safety.
She was a remarkably canny author. She knew her limitations and she knew what she was good at. She knew to reveal Edward Ferrars to the reader only through the conversations between Elinor and Margaret.And that's why what's not there is sometimes as important as what is.
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Lauren Gilbert says:
Most interesting. The only point I'm not sure about is the one about children. In Persuasion, children are not involved throughout the novel, but do have some significant action at Upper Cross (especially the nephew that Captain Wentworth pulls off Anne's back as she is caring for the other one). The duel we don't actually see is one of the things I love about Colonel Brandon, a true hero under that flannel waistcoat.
JanisB says:
Wonderfully insightful piece. When I first started reading JAFF, and esp after seeing the video versions of the various stories, I used to re-read the original stories periodically just to make sure I could separate the JAFF from the canon. Haven't re-read them in some time now and probably should. This will surely spur me on to do so. Many thanks.
The men's conversation is often brought up, because Austen rarely had men alone. But there was a conversation between Edmund Bertram and Sir Thomas in Mansfield Park. On the other hand, hedgerows, dowries and bewitched were never mentioned in P&P.
Jennifer Petkus says:
Ha! Yes, an exception for every rule.
April Fool says:
Bewitched is mentioned in P&P, though not in dialogue. "Darcy had never beed so bewitched by any woman as her"
Should read "been" . . .
Oh, sorry about that! Good catch, April Fool!
junewilliams7 says:
In the 'Comeuppance' section, you don't mention Mrs Norris and Henry Crawford. Henry presumably pays a penalty when Rushworth sues for divorce, but other than that, Henry doesn't seem to suffer. Mrs Norris – for all her cruelty to Fanny – gets her dream, to live with her favorite niece Maria. What do you think Jane Austen would make of us – her readers – wanting bloodshed and retribution on her nasty characters?
Actually that's a good point about Mrs Norris and Maria. Sir Thomas does banish them from Mansfield Park, although it's hardly living on the street. I always like to compare this to Pride and Prejudice, when Mr. Bennet wants to take a heavy hand to Lydia and ultimately doesn't. I wonder if Mr. Bennet is more forgiving or just too lazy to dish out the punishment.
Meredith (Austenesque Reviews) says:
Super helpful! Thank you, Jennifer! Great idea to highlight these!
connieweis says:
Funny you should mention this…As I've been reading the JAFF novels, I've reflected back on how little character development and details Jane really gave us in her classic works. So much was left to the imagination and our own prejudices. Perhaps that is the genius of her work. Everyone reading her writings puts so much of their on persona on the characters that they feel closer to the story themselves. Just a thought as I start another new book to treat myself to some Jane Time this Saturday morning. Happy Easter to all and may you all be exceedingly blessed.
Susan Heim says:
This is such a fascinating article. I think a little more kissing in the books would have been welcome, but I can understand how that just wasn't done during that time (nor does it appear to be a subject that Jane was very familiar with considering her nonmarried status). But it's fun to use our imaginations when reading the books!
Danielle C says:
This was really insightful, thank you so much! I am going to go back and reread my annotated Persuasion to see what I thought was there but wasn't. That will be my excuse for reading it yet again anyway, purely for research purposes and not for fun. 🙂
Jenni James says:
Even though we were living overseas during the time my ex was in the military and was deployed more than once, daily life still reigned in our thoughts. I think it is how it is now. There are wars our country is involved in, but they pale in comparison to all the drama happening in the news around us.
this was a very fun post! I do the same thing. It's actually one of my favorite "games" to see all the licensing other writers and directors have added to the original works. It's fascinating to see the different takes on it as I'm watching them for the first time. 🙂
Yes, it's important to remember that even during the Blitz, I'm sure many were still going to theaters and restaurants. Life does go on.
Diana Oaks says:
Very insightful post! When I first saw the scene in a S&S adaptation with the duel, I thought they were injecting something in the story that wasn't there, and had to track down whether or not it was there. The mention of it is so subtle as to constitute not much more than a hint.
The only other church scene in an Austen adaptation I can recall is in the 2005 P&P, when Elizabeth is sitting next to Colonel Fitzwilliam in the pew and he drops the bomb about Darcy "helping his friend" on her, while Collins is pontificating from the pulpit and makes a Freudian slip by referring to "intercourse" and hastily amending it to "social intercourse". I have my suspicions about that – there were several scenes in that film where they injected hints that Collins was a bit of a pervert.
Sharon Lathan says:
Yes! Kissing in Jane Austen! Bring it on!!! Indeed I shall have to write a post on the topic, especially once we finish with the "Best Movie Kiss" polls. LOL!
One of the great things about movie adaptations of books is the chance to SEE the action, see the characters come to life. Even if not exactly as a reader imagines, it is always cool (I think) to enjoy a live action vision of a beloved book. But the flip side is having those vivid images interfere with what is written on the page. I've read The Lord of the Rings more times than I can count, yet now after watching the movies so often, I have to consciously remember what wasn't in the novels!
Fun post, Jennifer.
Brenda Webb says:
Wonderful insight Jennifer. I have to say that Jane's forte was saying so much with so few words. 🙂 My favorite authors do not explain everything.
Cecilia Gray says:
Love this! I hadn't even thought about the lack of comeuppance before, and considering it now makes me rethink some of my previous semi-academic thoughts about Austen…hmmmmmmmmm :):)
Jennifer Redlarczyk says:
Well like they say "LESS IS MORE." But hey, why not? It leaves more to our imagination and gets our detective hats on. Thanks for a fun post. ~Jen Red~
pemberlypebbles says:
Very informative with plenty of humour…I got a real kick out of thIs! Love the post!
Elizabeth Ann West says:
A great post! And it serves to remind authors they can have entire scenes happen "off-stage" and the reader will accept that. 🙂 We readers are a smart bunch, our minds are brimming with imagination, too! Mention a duel, and our minds see it. No need to worry about the duel, then have the duel, then talk about the duel later. 🙂 I think this is one of the reasons Jane Austen's books endure to this day . . . they never annoy the reader with too much, too much.
Ellie James says:
The only church service I can think of is in the Romola Garai version of Emma, when Mrs. Elton first walks in and Mr. Elton makes a speech pointedly directed towards Emma.
Sheila L. M. says:
And how he pointedly delayed the start of the service to allow his wife to make her grand entrance!…in that movie version.
reginajeffers says:
This was excellent, Jennifer…very insightful. I think it quite ironic that Austen chooses very "Whig"-like names for many of her characters (Fitzwilliam, Wentworth, Willoughby, etc.) when she was very much a Tory daughter. Politics of the time are avoided at all costs in her stories. Many criticize "Persuasion" for ignoring the slave trade prominent at the time.
Thanks, Regina. Very good point. We've seen what happens when someone tries to shoehorn addressing the slave trade into Austen with that Rozema version of Mansfield Park. It just doesn't work. I think Austen did her bit do improve the world by writing believable, intelligent people who acted in thoughtful, loving ways. It's like criticizing J.K. Rowling for not addressing the issue of blood diamonds or child sex trafficking in the Harry Potter books.
Rose Fairbanks says:
Lovely post! You're a fun, clever writer! How did I miss the (possible) duel between Colonel Brandon and Willoughby? Admittedly, I've not read S&S anywhere near as many times as P&P but I'm surprised I missed it. I recall being rather scandalized at the situation of the Elizas when I first read it. I'll add that the Morlands had 10 kids *and* the mother lived. Austen even has a clever line about it, avoiding the trope of the mother dying in childbirth or as a means of effecting the "heroine in training's" character. Additionally, Catherine even bemoans having so many siblings who are then educated by her mother, and presumably she helps some, and therefore what we know of them is not exactly the best.
Thanks, Rose, I forgot about the Morland troop. It did look like an orphanage on screen. I probably ignored it because it didn't quite fit in with my argument. The Morlands seem like a happy family and not suffering from the burden of so many children, despite their relative poverty. And you're right, it would have been a trope to have the mother die in childbirth.
I think the Morland bunch is pretty forgettable. I've just recently read NA and watched the latest adaptation again is all. But I think it does fit in with your argument. Austen does list they have a big family but we don't get their names. I don't recall in the book Catherine having an actual scene with any of them but James until the end when Henry shows up and one of them says that Catherine doesn't need to show Henry how to get to the Allens' house. I think they had more "screen" time in the adaptation than they do in the book. I hope this makes sense. All I can think about now is JJ Field as Henry Tilney, LOL!
chatty1082 says:
Awesome post Jennifer. Love this!
Kwithey says:
I should reread the actual books again. No doubt my recollection of these stories is really a combination of adaptations and what ifs.
Debbie Fortin says:
Thank you. That was an interesting and fun read. She shows us things without really saying anything. 🙂
barbsilkstone says:
Jennifer, Thank you. This looks to be really fun. I am going to grab my coffee and start my day the Jane way!
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None of us can forget the ghoulish hologram of Kim Kardashian's late dad that Kanye West conjured up for her birthday.
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