Kobe Bryant on injury: 'The frustration is unbearable'

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Kobe Bryant clutched his leg after being injured in the second half Friday night." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130413023120-kobe-bryant-story-top.jpg" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant l<a href="http://www.nba.com/games/20130412/GSWLAL/gameinfo.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">eft Friday night's game with a leg injury</a> that could be a ruptured Achilles tendon.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Bryant reacted with disappointement on social media. On <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Kobe" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">his Facebook page</a> he posted a lengthy update:Bryant will have an MRI on Saturday to determine the exact nature of the injury.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This is such BS! All the training and sacrifice just flew out the window with one step that I've done millions of times! The frustration is unbearable. The anger is rage. Why the hell did this happen ?!? Makes no damn sense. Now I'm supposed to come back from this and be the same player Or better at 35?!? How in the world am I supposed to do that??</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I have NO CLUE. Do I have the consistent will to overcome this thing? Maybe I should break out the rocking chair and reminisce on the career that was. Maybe this is how my book ends. Maybe Father Time has defeated me."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Later he added that called the injury the first step in a new challenge.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"One day, the beginning of a new career journey will commence. Today is NOT that day," he wrote.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The post received more than 136,000 likes.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">If the injury turns out to be <a href="http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/achilles-tendon-rupture/DS00160.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a ruptured Achilles</a>, it could have long-term effects for Bryant and the Lakers. That injury could take up to a year to heal, <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1603153-kobe-bryant-feared-to-have-torn-achilles-next-season-in-jeopardy" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to Will Carroll, sports injuries lead writer for Bleacher Report.</a> Bryant has previously said that next season could be his last in the NBA. This is the 16th season in the league for the 34-year-old.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to a tweet from the Lakers, Bryant could tell what the injury was before seeing a doctor.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I was just hoping it wasn't what I thought it was," Bryant said, according to the tweet.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Lakers have two games left in the regular season, both at home. They face the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday and the Houston Rockets on Wednesday.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The team, after beating the Golden State Warriors 118-116 last night, is one game ahead of the Utah Jazz for the final spot in the NBA's Western Conference playoffs.</div></div>

Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant on injury: 'The frustration is unbearable'

(CNN)  -- Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant l eft Friday night's game with a leg injury  that could be a ruptured Achilles tendon. Bry...

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Book Review: The Light Pavilion

<a href="http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/en/the-light-pavilion-by-lebbeus-woods-and-christoph-a-kumpusch-for-the-sliced-porosity-block-in-chengdu-china-2007-2012-published-by-lars-muller"><b><i>The Light Pavilion by Lebbeus Woods and Christoph a. Kumpusch for the Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China 2007-2012</i></b></a><br />Lars Müller Publishers, 2013<br />Hardcover, 88 pages<br /><br /><img alt="woods-light1.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/woods-light1.jpg" title="The Light Pavilion" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?id=98&news=48">Sliced Porosity Block</a>, the five-building mixed-use project designed by Steven Holl Architects, was completed in November 2012, the month after <a href="http://lebbeuswoods.net/">Lebbeus Woods</a> died. The visionary architect and educator, along with New York-based architect <a href="http://kumpusch.com/">Christoph a. Kumpusch</a>, contributed the Light Pavilion (affectionately called Time Light by locals) in a carving in one of Holl's towers. It is Woods's only permanent construction, and its posthumous completion makes this book devoted to the project that much more important. (Woods's passing was also only a few months before a <a href="http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/509">major SFMOMA exhibition</a> on his work.) <br /><br /><img alt="woods-light2.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/woods-light2.jpg" title="The Light Pavilion" /><br /><br />Even though it is a slim volume, the installation's documentation (sketches, construction drawings, construction photos, completed photos) do a good job in establishing something that really has to be experienced to be fully appreciated. The impact of the dense, dynamic construction of light, glass, and color comes across in the photos, especially ones (like above) that capture the larger project rather than just the installation. Most photos are by Iwan Baan, and even when he's positioned the Light Pavilion near the edge of the frame, its concentration of light draws our attention, pulling us closer and inviting us to enter it.<br /><br /><img alt="woods-light3.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/woods-light3.jpg" title="The Light Pavilion" /><br /><br />Woods intended the space formed by bands of light, platforms and stairs, to be unlike anything experienced before. It didn't matter to him if visitors felt calm or anxiety, loved it or hated it, walked through it only once or went a hundred times; it only mattered that they "expand the depth and scope of [their] experiences," per his essay included in the book. Of course, a book cannot replace this experience, but the images and text (by Woods, Kumpusch, Holl, and many others) establish the importance of a project that has the potential to overshadow the larger "host" into which it's inserted.<br /><br /><b>US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3037783095/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=3037783095&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/3037783095/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=3037783095&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3037783095/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=3037783095&link_code=as3&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a></b>

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'Good' Patients, 'Bad' Patients - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">He was the kind of patient I went to medical school for.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">By the time I met him, he had had a rough go of it. After learning the previous year that he had lymphoma, he was fortunate enough to receive a bone marrow transplant — only to have his body promptly reject it. On three separate occasions in the past six months, he had deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria coursing through his blood. He was just recovering from a bout of pneumonia when the meningitis struck.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Last night, his nurse saw him crying quietly in the corner of his hospital room. She asked our team to meet with him to evaluate whether antidepressant medications might be helpful to bolster his mood. When I entered his room, he greeted me with a smile — weak and pained in his emaciated body, but warm and genuine. I introduced myself as the medical student on the psychiatry consultation service and asked him how he was holding up.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"I'd be lying if I told you it hasn't been tough," he said. "I get down sometimes, but I have so, so many things going for me."</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">We spoke at length about his family. His twin sons had just graduated from college and had initially planned to work for a nonprofit organization in Nepal, but opted to stay close to home given his medical condition. His daughter ("all grown up now!") was being recruited to play softball at a local college. His wife had been tending to their small restaurant business during his long hospital stay.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"I consider myself to be an incredibly blessed person," he said. "I know I'll get through this."</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">His body was sick, yes, but his spirit was unyielding.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">At the end of our conversation, he expressed his deep gratitude for his caregivers over the past several months: "You guys have made this bearable. Thank you, doctor."</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">I started to correct him — technically I wasn't yet a doctor — but thought, ah, forget it. Our interaction had left me energized. The next evening I donned my white coat and strode into the bustling emergency room with renewed confidence, ready to heal.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">I started my shift with a woman in her mid-20s who sat cross-legged on a stretcher in the hallway, bouncing up and down with a wide-eyed, unhinged look on her face as she vacillated between singing and crying. As I approached to introduce myself, a viscous ball of saliva and mucus left her mouth and landed squarely on my left cheek.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"Be careful: She's a spitter," a nurse advised as he rushed past. "PCP and alcohol. Give her a few minutes to calm down."</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">I moved on to an elderly man who was lying on a nearby stretcher and moaning, and I softly asked what had brought him to the hospital. No response. I shook him gently and asked again, louder this time. He opened his eyes just enough to see my face and muttered something entirely incomprehensible.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Suddenly, behind me, the spitter let me know she wanted to leave. She took off her socks and started flapping them about. "I'm ready to go."</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">I began to feel frustrated and disengaged, a far cry from the feelings I'd had the day before.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Across the room, a thin, disheveled man hunched awkwardly over the edge of his stretcher. He had strange cuts and bruises scattered across his face and arms and had been waiting to be seen for almost an hour. According to the chart, he was 47 years old, but he looked at least 60. He had come to the E.R. in withdrawal from alcohol, as he had once every few months.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">I asked my supervising physician if he had time to accompany me to see the man. Rushing away to see a new patient, he looked over his shoulder and said, "I'm not going to check on a drunk while he's throwing up."</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">I was shocked by how bluntly and callously he spoke. But I wondered whether this was the kind of calculation that busy doctors make all the time. Are we constantly shortchanging patient encounters we find difficult, troublesome or otherwise unrewarding?</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">As I approached the patient, he was calm but tearful. "I don't want to live like this anymore," he whispered. He told me how frustrating it had been for him to struggle with alcohol, how he had tried, time and again, to quit. He had worked in construction but lost his job last year. His girlfriend left him a few months later.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"It seems like you're going through a tough time right now," I offered.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"I've been going through a tough time for 14 years," he responded — ever since his daughter died in a car accident.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Like many of my classmates, I entered medical school with an idealized notion of medicine. But I will leave with the knowledge that the reality is far more complex. There are patients who don't listen, who can't listen; who try, who don't try; who smile, thank and love; who steal, curse and hate. Each of these patients deserves the full extent of our respect and abilities. But too often those most in need of our compassion are least likely to receive it.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The balancing of complex emotions, time constraints and limited resources will only become more difficult with the influx of millions of previously uninsured people into our medical system. As we continue to carry out the Affordable Care Act and enter an era of tremendous change, we must confront our natural tendencies to favor patients we find pleasant — especially when it comes at the expense of those we find less so. We must recognize that sometimes the patients who behave the worst are those who are hurting the most.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><em><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Dhruv Khullar is a student at the Yale School of Medicine and the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is a fellow at the Center for Public Leadership.</font></em></div></div><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/good-patients-bad-patients/?src=recg&pagewanted=print"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/good-patients-bad-patients/?src=recg&pagewanted=print</font></a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/13/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://techpinions.com/the-school-standards-debate-time-for-tech-to-weigh-in/15597">The School Standards Debate: Time for Tech To Weigh In | Tech.pinions - Perspective, Insight, Analysis</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">There are many nations (like Finland) who have national standards but local flexibility. This technologist writes an article supporting Common Core while saying that many don't understand what they contain. Honestly, I see another person who hasn't read some of them. My biggest issue is - who controls the standards and how can they be revised in the future.In a country showing a poor ability to keep politicians from writing standards, by centralizing they become easy target to the whims and sways of the pendulum of politics in the US. That said, I think national standards are likely inevitable.I just hope they put enough different people onto Common Core that group think doesn't send us in a very bad direction. If we have national standards and make it there, they become very important to our future as a country.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/common">common</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/core">core</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/standards">standards</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/09/hangout-with-explorers-of-land-sea-and-sky-on-earth-day/">Hangout With Explorers of Land, Sea, and Sky on Earth Day – News Watch</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Science and elementary teachers CAN'TMISS THIS. Every hour on earthday will mark another hangout by National Geographic with scientists and all kidsof amazing people. Get in on this! This is one of those things to forward!! 'This year National Geographic celebrates its 125th anniversary and a long legacy of exploration, conservation, and research. Every hour of every day, National Geographic explorers take to land, sea, and sky (each frontier represented by a colored band on National Geographic’s historic flag) trying to uncover, understand, or help care for the world around us. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/science">science</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/earthday">earthday</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclassroom">flatclassroom</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.mguhlin.org/2013/04/back-to-your-roots-stepping-away-from.html">Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Break a Few Eggs - Stepping Away from Google</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Miguel Guhlin is doing what many of us are doing after the last straw - Google pulling GoogleReader. He's documenting how he's going to pull his dependence upon Google. For me, my biggest decision caused by Google is that I'll be moving to Wordpress over the summer. I do think Google Sites is next although I've received several heated emails that this isn't accurate - if you look at the market share of google sites, it is far less than that of Google reader. Yes, it is something educators depend upon but you get what you pay for. I think Google would be better served to have a freemium model -- if advertising doesn't pay for it, we'll let you keep the service if you pay. I don't know how I"d move from gmail. I just don't but if I had to, I guess I could. I don't think gmail is going anywhere, but I do have my personal email boxes going into that inbox. I agree wikispaces is far superior to Google sites. It started quite a few years a go with Google Lively and it has just continued every year. Thank you Miguel for your transparency. I hope Google is listening, many of us are still HOT about Google reader going away.As great as Feedly is, it doesn't have Diigo or ifttt.com integration yet which is a problem.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google">google</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/profiles/blogs/aligning-my-project-to-standards">Aligning My Project to Standards - Flat Classrooms</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Yes, you can align your global collaborative projects to standards. The difference between this and a worksheet is that flattening the classroom is a fantastic way to engage, excite, and intrigue students while giving you a teacher-partner in another part of the world and a second set of eyes and inspiration for both of you. Flattening is a fantastic way to teach.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/standards">standards</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://edudemic.com/2013/04/the-current-state-of-education-in-the-u-s-according-to-the-census/">The Current State Of Education In The U.S. (According To The Census)</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">US Census data is out and is being sliced and diced liked done on this edudemic article: 98% of students aged 6-14 are enrolled in school; 93% aged 14-18 are enrolled in school. 60% of 3-5 year olds are enrolled in nursery school; 92% of 5-6 year olds are enrolled in kindergarten. These numbers represent huge increases for the 3-6 year olds compared with 1970. In 1970, 20% of women and 27% of men attended college, compared with 38.6% of men and 47.5% of women in 2010. Generally only about 52% of school expenditures are for instruction. 29.7% go to ‘support services’ (a category that is not clearly defined here) Only four states spend more than $9,000 per pupil per year. 20 states spend $6,000 to $8,999, leaving the vast majority of states spending under $6K per year, per pupil. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/census">census</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://blog.ted.com/2013/04/10/9-documentaries-that-you-need-to-see-this-year/">9 documentaries that you need to see this year | TED Blog</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I haven't seen these and some may not really be something I'd watch, but many of you are thinkers and I want you to know that this list is there and being circulated. Lots of video for thought. As always, screen before you show anything to students and some of these don't look appropriate for them.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/documentaries">documentaries</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://socialtimes.com/google-passes-twitter-to-become-second-largest-social-network-study-finds_b117378">Google+ Passes Twitter to Become Second Largest Social Network, Study Finds - SocialTimes</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">So, people are clicking the plus signs. I've always struggled withGoogle plus and find it clunky but many are using it, and now it is supposedly the second social media website behind facebook, surpassing Twitter. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google">google</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/forum/topics/using-edmodo-and-facetime">Using Edmodo and FaceTime - Flat Classrooms</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Edmodo and Facetime - how interesting. Some of the coolest ideas come from the Flatclassrooms educator ning and this is one of them. Learn more.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclassroom">flatclassroom</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/flatclass">flatclass</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/education/edlife/bard-high-school-early-college-a-second-chance-for-disadvantaged-youth-in-newark.html?_r=0">Bard High School Early College, a Second Chance for Disadvantaged Youth in Newark - NYTimes.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">College / high school is being done in Georgia with the ACCELL program. I think the biggest issue is that it is accelerating classes and perhaps might be ahead of high school, but I promise, it isn't college. I have some concerns but am glad that it is helping people get started towards college. I just think care must be taken to ensure the quality and calibre of teaching and content, particularly if transfer credits are being required in state.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/accell">accell</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/college">college</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/collegeprep">collegeprep</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22119227">BBC News - Google launches tool to determine data use after death</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This is an important issue. Google will be the first to let you designate what happens to your data when you die. This is a great move and something important but can be misused if it isn't handled properly</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/death">death</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/estates">estates</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google">google</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/12/why-your-8-year-old-should-be-coding/">Why your 8-year-old should be coding | VentureBeat</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I totally agree, students should learn programming and be exposed to it. I love Kevin Jarrett's STEM lab and what he's doing. Read this and discuss. It doesn't matter if you don't know how to code or if your teachers are afraid they are going to have to learn. Make it a priority. If you want to add volleyball, you find someone to coach it. If you want to add programming, find someone to teach it, it is that simple. I think this model of "everyone integrates" is great b/c everyone SHOULD integrate but to think or fantasize that technology integration is the same as teaching Computer Science is to think that a kind who can skate is ready to drive a car - not even in the same ballpark.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/computer_science">computer_science</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhorn/2013/03/28/steps-and-leaps-into-next-gen-learning/?WT.tsrc=Twitter">Steps and Leaps Into Next-Gen Learning - Forbes</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Must read article on blended learning (in particular if you're an elementary teacher or principal, you'll want to read about the "Rocketship model" of lab station rotation instead of learning centers. This was written by Michael Horn for Forbes Magazine on March 28, 2013.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/blended">blended</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/learning">learning</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/10-apps-for-more-organized-project-based-learning/">10 Apps For More Organized Project-Based Learning</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">So, you can look at this list but I totally disagree with it. Trello should be on the TOP of the list and secondly dropbox (which links with Trello.) Trello is based on agile. You can look at this list and talk about what it is doing, however, as a teacher, I use a totally different set. I'd put 1) Trello, 2) Dropbox and 3) Screencastomatic (ok, I do post screencastomatic to youtube.)</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/pbl">pbl</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/apps">apps</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/mobile-app-lists/common-sense-media-learning-award-winners?utm_source=032813_parent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly">2013 ON for Learning Award Winners</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Common Sense media is an excellent organization and they've given their 2013 awards to many apps by age. They separate the apps by age and rate it by Learning. This is a credible source of information about the apps that you'll want to look into if you're using apps to help students learn.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edapps">edapps</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipadchat">ipadchat</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.thinkslogans.com/slogans/sports-slogans/">Sports Slogans</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">If you have to order tshirts or come up with theme ideas, I love this website. It has more than sports slogans but slogans for just about anything. People vote them up. Very cool site for organizers of anything and principals. Enjoy!</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/slogans">slogans</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sports">sports</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/clubs">clubs</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/planning">planning</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/13/2013

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Matt Said, Jay Said LXIX

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScDsAJXZbcYBbUVf9cqJ8ZqVaExpYyCnvpym4HlyD4QyOG1JmlQEI03Q6C8Q1vfujetLwYggArBGti4cmLSyXrQV-v6CUhjhwT_mEn4ZZvhzrWRHk2fwc7LrR6Nbx1UQTBMZm571cPAw/s1600/sarcasm+iws+radio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScDsAJXZbcYBbUVf9cqJ8ZqVaExpYyCnvpym4HlyD4QyOG1JmlQEI03Q6C8Q1vfujetLwYggArBGti4cmLSyXrQV-v6CUhjhwT_mEn4ZZvhzrWRHk2fwc7LrR6Nbx1UQTBMZm571cPAw/s320/sarcasm+iws+radio.jpg" width="320" /></a>Matt speaks sardonically…Jay speaks sardonically…You may or may not understand.<br /><br />Matt:  Hello?  Hellooooooo?<br />Jay:  H--I---wha---t’s----up?<br />Matt:  Dude your phone is making some whacked noises.<br />Jay:  Oh sorry…I’ll call back.<br />Matt:  Okay (click)<br /><br />(ring)<br /><br />Matt:  Yo<br />Jay:  Is that better?<br />Matt: Well somewhat, I guess.<br />Jay:  Hmmmm…maybe I shoul---<br />Matt:  Jay!?  It’s okay.  It’s perfect…sounds as though you are right next to me.<br />Jay:  You’re being sarcastic, aren’t you?<br />Matt:  Why yes, yes I am.<br />Jay:  I knew it!!<br /><br />Matt:  (sneezes) Damn…made it all winter without much of anything and NOW I catch a cold.<br />Jay:  That sucks.  Bless your heart; I feel bad for you.<br />Matt:  You are being sarcastic, aren't you?<br />Jay:  Why yes, yes I am.<br />Matt:  I knew it!!<br /><br />Jay:  Hey…before we get into intense show prep mode, did you get your new fan for the digs?<br />Matt:  Yes.  Got it on the way home tonight.<br />Jay:  How’s it working out? I know a well running fan is very important to you.<br />Matt:  This damn fan is made of awesome sauce!!<br />Jay:  I am so happy for both you and Schmoop.<br />Matt:  Why thank you. I appre----wait…You are being sarcastic again aren’t you?<br />Jay:  Why yes, yes I am.<br />Matt:  I knew it!!<br /><br />Jay:  So this Sunday, following our fourth Numero Uno show in a row, what should we talk about?<br />Matt:  Hmmmmm…Well <i>you</i> and <i>I</i> evidently pick up on the sarcasm of people, but do others?<br />Jay:  Ahhhhhhh, not a bad idea.  Many people on social media just don’t get sarcasm.<br />Matt:  Or satire.<br />Jay:  Or parodies and absurdities.<br />Matt: Ooooooo…such fancy words, you wordsmith you!!<br />Jay:  Why thank----wait…You are being sarcastic again, aren’t you?<br />Matt:  Why yes, yes I am.<br />Jay:  I knew it!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLvhiiQBZwAXF-gKTrjlH94QrD0Xtd5kfW68DTpZmQKlBvcY-pu-bumy6CndzK2Hqb3V5CbKKICwP7YavHzs_0LYykEPIIjKUU0cU4WbcbN_I6l0Jlu0UB4c9zLBNTZRG0rc-cs7AVFs/s1600/Gretchen+Carlson+Stupid+Ugly+FOX+News.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLvhiiQBZwAXF-gKTrjlH94QrD0Xtd5kfW68DTpZmQKlBvcY-pu-bumy6CndzK2Hqb3V5CbKKICwP7YavHzs_0LYykEPIIjKUU0cU4WbcbN_I6l0Jlu0UB4c9zLBNTZRG0rc-cs7AVFs/s400/Gretchen+Carlson+Stupid+Ugly+FOX+News.jpg" width="251" /></a><br />Matt:  Anyhoo…A show on the art of sarcasm, satire, and the like would be way cool.<br />Jay:  For people to understand why our show is regularly #1, they need to know what those things are.<br />Matt:  Exactly.  And I’m sure we can talk about our fave satirists and sarcastic bastards and bitches.<br />Jay:  We could enlist the help of Slyder Balzcock, Paul Piatt, and Carl Paladino.<br />Matt:  I bet Keith Olbermann, our new guy Bob Kraft, and Dixie Ozark have something to say too.<br /><br />Jay:  Yep…well…Dixie Ozark?  I don’t know…She has become something of a Diiiiiiiiva!!<br />Matt:  Ha.  You’re being sarcastic again, aren't you?<br />Jay:  No, not this time…she is really becoming hard to work with.<br />Matt:  Really?<br />Jay:  Oh yeah…She’s become the Gretchen Carlson of Internet Radio.<br /><br />Matt:  Wow…well see if you can coax her in to doing a report.<br />Jay:  I’ll do my best.<br />Matt:  Oh I just know you will.<br />Jay:  Thank yo----wait…are you being sarcastic again or not?<br />Matt:  What?  What?  Jay?  Jay?  Your phone is breaking up again, and I can’t hear you over our new, awesome fan…talk to you tomorrow.<br /><br />So folks…Join Jay, Matt, and the rest of the IWS Radio team as they kick off <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/04/14/sarcasm-awareness-week" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sarcasm Awareness Week</span></a> on Blog Talk Radio.  It will not only be informative and funny as hell, it will be worth 6.5 CEU credits should you hold a license in sarcasm.<br /><br />That’s this Sunday April 14th from Noon-2 PM ET.  So listen LIVE and CALL-IN dammit!!  To catch this Sunday’s show LIVE, click <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/04/14/sarcasm-awareness-week" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE!!</span></a></div>

Matt Said, Jay Said LXIX

Matt speaks sardonically…Jay speaks sardonically…You may or may not understand. Matt:  Hello?  Hellooooooo? Jay:  H--I---wha---t’s----up? Ma...

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Kermit Gosnell: The Alleged Mass-Murderer and the Bored Media

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="73076422" src="http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/weigel/2013/04/12/kermit_gosnell_the_alleged_mass_murderer_and_the_bored_media/73076422.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg" /><br /><br /><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UPDATE:</strong> I've added a link and a reference to the piece <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/01/19/crappy_abortion_providers_thrive_in_politically_fraught_environments.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Amanda Marcotte wrote for Slate</a> in January 2011. There's been some blurring of the lines: People are conflating liberals, many of whom wrote about Gosnell when the case was fresh, and the "MSM," which fancies itself unbiased and in-it-for-the-story, but hasn't piled on to cover this story.</em></div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A week ago, I joined a few reporters for a morning coffee klatsch with Newt Gingrich. One of the scribes asked Gingrich about the GOP's branding when it came to social issues; Gingrich, as is his wont, flipped the question back on the questioner.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"There's a question of which side gets to define 'extremism,'" said Gingrich. "I mean, the Planned Parenthood witness in Florida recently who said, gee, if the baby actually survives the abortion, the baby has no standards. Very few Americans believe in taxpayer providing for abortionists killing babies in the ninth month [of a pregnancy], under any circumstances."</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gingrich was referring to a viral-ish video from a Florida legislature hearing on proposed new abortion laws. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had also attempted to <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/03/reince_priebus_wants_the_media_to_rebrand_planned_parenthood_please.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">goad the media into covering that</a>; the starting point for an abortion discussion should be the horrors of the process, not the potential limitations on that process.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I bring this up because a week later—yesterday—Kirsten Powers wrote a column shaming the media for not <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/10/philadelphia-abortion-clinic-horror-column/2072577/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">covering the trial of Kermit Gosnell</a>, a Philadelphia abortionist who is accused of commiting hundreds of gruesome late-term murders.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em auto; padding: 0px 40px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Rush Limbaugh attacked Sandra Fluke, there was non-stop media hysteria. The venerable <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NBC Nightly News'</em> Brian Williams <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2012/03/01/nbc-firestorm-outrage-women-after-crude-tirade-rush-limbaugh" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">intoned,</a> "A firestorm of outrage from women after a crude tirade from Rush Limbaugh," as he teased a segment on the brouhaha. Yet, accusations of babies having their heads severed — a major human rights story if there ever was one — doesn't make the cut.</blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Republicans weren't talking about it either; they were talking about that Planned Parenthood video, because taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood is an active political issue. But Powers' column kicked off a Twitter-driven campaign to shame journalists into covering the Gosnell trial. Mollie Hemingway, a <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christianity Today</em> columnist, burned up the Twittersphere asking journalists like the <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em>'s Sarah Kliff and <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Atlantic</em>'s Garance Franke-Ruta why they hadn't covered Gosnell. Franke-Ruta actually <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">had</em>, but Hemingway argued that her one item wasn't nearly enough. She got more results; before midnight, BuzzFeed <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/four-documents-to-understand-the-kermit-gosnell-trial" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">published a quick list</a> of "four documents to understand the Kermit Gosnell trial." (<strong style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UPDATE:</strong> This wasn't Buzzfeed's <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/house-of-horrors-trial" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first item about the case</a>. It ran a recap of the "House of Horrors" trial earlier.)</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let's just state the obvious: National political reporters are, by and large, socially liberal. We are more likely to know a gay couple than to know someone who owns an "assault weapon." We are, generally, pro-choice. Twice, in D.C., I've caused a friend to literally leave a conversation and freeze me out for a day or so because I suggested that the Stupak Amendment and the Hyde Amendment made sense. There <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</em> a bubble. Horror stories of abortionists are less likely to permeate that bubble than, say, a story about a right-wing pundit attacking an abortionist who then claims to have gotten death threats.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Slate</em> is an exception to this rule. Two years and two months ago, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_back_alley/2011/02/what_happened_to_the_women.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">my colleagues Will Saletan</a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/01/19/crappy_abortion_providers_thrive_in_politically_fraught_environments.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Amanda Marcotte</a>—who've covered abortion issues for years, and in Will's case earned real ire from some liberal readers—wrote about <a href="http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/pdfs/grandjurywomensmedical.pdf" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the grand jury report</a> that detailed Gosnell's possible crimes. I read Will's piece at the time but didn't see a political story to chase. Only when Hemingway started on that tear of tweets did I read the report, and I'm glad she forced the issue, because the report is a catalogue of unspeakable horrors. This is just from the introduction.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em auto; padding: 0px 40px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Furniture and blankets were stained with blood. Instruments were not properly sterilized. Disposable medical supplies were not disposed of; they were reused, over and over again. Medical equipment – such as the defibrillator, the EKG, the pulse oximeter, the blood pressure cuff – was generally broken; even when it worked, it wasn’t used. The emergency exit was padlocked shut. And scattered throughout, in cabinets, in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and bags and plastic jugs, were fetal remains. It was a baby charnel house.</blockquote></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That's the G-rated version. One woman, according to investigators, was "left lying in place for hours after Gosnell tore her cervix and colon while trying, unsuccessfully, to extract the fetus." Another woman was sent home when she "still had fetal parts inside her." Another woman died after untrained and unlicenced aides gave her "unmonitored, unrecorded intravenous injections of Demerol." Gosnell trained those aides to commit fraud, distorting ultrasounds to make the late-term pregnancies look less far advanced. Viable babies—hundreds of them, allegedly—were decapitated with scissors.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So the question, raised by pro-lifers, is this: <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain to us why Gosnell isn't a national story</em>. Somebody else can try. I can't explain it. It's never made sense to me, how a local crime story becomes a national story. Two words: "Poop cruise." CNN ran hours of coverage and grainy video of a stranded Carnival cruise ship, a situation that inconvenienced many and killed none. How does a missing college student or an angry man in a TSA line become part of Our National Conversation? I don't know. I do know that a reporter in the bubble is less likely to be compelled by the news of an arrested abortionist.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But which reporters need to cover the Gosnell story? Last night, keying off Hemingway,<em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Review</em>'s Jim Geraghty <a href="https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tweeted</a> a series of national scandals that started as local news. "Jeffrey Dahmer? Local crime story," he said. "Trayvon Martin? Local crime story."</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I flew down to Florida last year to <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/04/george_zimmerman_killing_trayvon_martin_has_sanford_s_black_community_angry_.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153); color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">cover</a> the Trayvon Martin story; I don't think the comparison is apt. Martin was shot on February 26, 2012. George Zimmerman was questioned by police, but not charged. <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That</em> was what pulled in the national media, what spurred the resignation of the local police chief, and what turned the story into a discussion of "stand your ground" laws. Once Zimmerman was charged, the press largely looked elsewhere for stories.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gosnell <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was</em> charged, and magazines like <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Slate</em> wrote about the charges at the time. He's accused of performing illegal abortions. In Pennsylvania, an abortion after the 24th week of pregnancy is only legal if a physician proves it was necessary to "preserve life of mother or prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of bodily function." Gosnell didn't do that.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But there is a political scandal here. Grand jury investigators were baffled: How did Gosnell's clinic, an infamous place in the tri-state area, go un-inspected for so long? Basically, the regulators blew it. "Even though the first DOH Certificate of Approval for Gosnell’s clinic expired on December 20, 1980," write the investigators, "the next documented site review was not conducted until August 1989." After a 1992 visit, regulators reported that the clinic was wheelchair-accessible, even though it's "multi-leveled and has no elevator." After 1993, the state didn't follow up complaints about the clinic.</div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="border: 0px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you're pro-choice, say, and you worry that the Gosnell story is being promoted only to weaken your cause, you really should read that grand jury report. "DOH could and should have closed down Gosnell’s clinic years before," write the investigators. Why wasn't it? Were state regulators nervous about igniting a political fight about abortion? Is the regulatory system incompetent or under-funded? And are there other states where the same could be said? Social conservatives are largely right about the <em style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gosnell</em> story. Maybe it's not a raw political story. It's just the story of a potential mass murderer who operated for decades as government regulators did nothing.</div></div></div>

Kermit Gosnell Kermit Gosnell: The Alleged Mass-Murderer and the Bored Media

UPDATE:  I've added a link and a reference to the piece  Amanda Marcotte wrote for Slate  in January 2011. There's been some blurrin...

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Five things to like about ’42,’ the movie about Jackie Robinson

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/GDfC04kryElJaTdTOTUWgw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusmlbexperts/42041213a.jpg" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">It's hard not to like "42," the new Jackie Robinson biopic that hit theaters Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Hollywood knows what resonates with viewers, and has a knack for making everything — the music, that one great line, that slow-motion moment — wrap up neatly to trigger the exact emotional response it thinks you should have. So unless you're heartless, being purposely obtuse or just way too cool for a movie version of <a href="http://www.jackierobinson.com/" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Jackie Robinson</a>, "42" is going to leave you feeling good about baseball, cheering Robinson and booing racism. In about the most paint-by-numbers way possible. That's not bad, it's just Hollywood.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">And Hollywood comes with its limitations. It boils down a complex story of race, history and baseball into two hours worth of important moments. It scratches the surface on how Robinson (played by Chadwick Boseman) deals with venomous attacks, how he bonds with his teammates and what Dodgers general manager <a href="http://baseballhall.org/hof/rickey-branch" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Branch Rickey</a> (Harrison Ford) is hoping to accomplish by making Robinson baseball's first black player. "42" doesn't do much to develop the rest of the Brooklyn Dodgers, save for a <a href="http://www.peeweereese.com/" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Pee Wee Reese</a> (Lucas Black) scene here and an anti-Jackie petition there. But if you wanted depth, you'd read a book, right? Not sit and eat popcorn while Han Solo saves the galaxy ... err, intergrates baseball.<span id="more-73989"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="338" scrolling="auto" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z9TJz-vMJq8" width="600"></iframe></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Ah yes, baseball, that's what we're about here. So we'll cut the movie review (not our specialty anyway) and say this: Despite all the flaws pointed out above, "42" still matters. It's an important movie, even if it's not a great one.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Here are five things I liked about the film:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">• <strong>Hey, it's a baseball movie</strong>. Let's skip all the historical significance for a moment and just be happy that there's a baseball movie in theaters. It's not the '90s anymore, so we're not being treated to the golden era of baseball flicks. The last major motion picture worth mentioning? "Moneyball," which came out in 2011. Maybe 2012's "Trouble With the Curve" counts. Maybe not. But "42," is tried-and-true baseball, 100 percent. The baseball scenes are exciting and well portrayed. It'll make you want to pick up a glove or a bat.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-right" style="clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 310px;"><a href="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Hf2TcNSrcQ1tCwgGOnQfqA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusmlbexperts/ford42041213.jpg" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-74063" height="331" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Fse5DftEL8gwTdRkbOsRZw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusmlbexperts/ford42041213.jpg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="(AP)" width="310" /></a><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">(AP)</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">• <strong>That Jay-Z song isn't in the movie</strong>. Personally, my No. 1 hope going into "42" was that the<em class="ywp-page-play-pause ywp-page-video ywp-link-hover" style="outline: none !important;"><em class="ywp-page-btn ywp-page-btn-play" style="background-image: url(http://l.yimg.com/pb/webplayer/0.9.75/img/themes/black-theme.png); background-position: -26px -1561px; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-right: 6px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 14px;" title="Play Video"></em><a class="yltnofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoRsR0dv8w" id="yui_3_8_1_22_1365823564730_441" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;"> "Brooklyn Go Hard"</a></em> song by Jay-Z and Santigold that's been annoying me in the commercials was not in the movie. Fine song, no place in a movie set in the 1940s. There were a few moments during the film where I feared the song was going to dope in and there'd be a montage of Jackie Robinson plays and my heart would break a little. But I'm happy to report that was not the case. Thank you, "42."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">• <strong>Harrison Ford, hero of baseball</strong>: We've seen Ford as Han Solo in the <a href="http://starwars.com/" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">"Star Wars"</a> movies and as<a href="http://www.indianajones.com/" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;"> Indiana Jones</a> in that series. He's a legit cinema hero. Now he's playing the hero role here, as Dodgers GM Branch Rickey, who viewers see as a one-man, cigar-toting crusader for Jackie Robinson. Ford is far more grumbly than Han Solo and less nimble than Indy, but he gives a strong performance.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">• <strong>Red Barber FTW!</strong> The best of the small-role characters is <a href="http://www.radiohof.org/sportscasters/redbarber.html" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">Red Barber</a>, the broadcast legend who called Brooklyn Dodger games on the radio in those days. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001525/" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">John C. McGinley</a>, who many of us know best as Dr. Cox on "Scrubs" or from his long acting <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001525/#Actor" style="color: #a1abb2; text-decoration: none;">résumé</a>, magically channels Barber, signature catch-phrases and all. Having an old-time announcer gives the movie a bit more of an authentic baseball soul.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">• <strong>It's a good introduction to Jackie Robinson, and for some people, a reason to care about baseball</strong>: If you're a baseball fan, you know the story of Jackie Robinson. Heck, you've probably read a book about him or watched a documentary. But let's consider, for a second, the people who aren't really baseball fans. The moviegoer, for example. There's a good chance this will be a popular movie, one that extends beyond baseball fans. So let's be real: Baseball could use all the new fans it can pick up. And while it's tough to say whether you should bring kids to see "42" — it's rated PG-13 and the racism is nasty at some points — it's the kind of movie that could get the younger audience more interested in the game.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Too Hollywood or not, we can all agree that's a good thing.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><em>Baseball is back. Don't miss anything. </em></div></div>

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Audrie Pott, Rehtaeh Parsons suicides show sexual cyber-bulling is "pervasive" and "getting worse," expert says

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2013/04/12/Audrie-Pott_Rehtaeh-Parsons_244x183.jpg" /><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(CBS) - For 21-year-old Texas college student Anna Combrink, the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, the Canadian teen who hung herself after allegedly being raped and cyber-bullied, hit very close to home.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-504083_162-10016411.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PICTURES: Mom blames rape, bullying for teen's suicide</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At age 15, Combrink was raped by a boy she'd known since middle school, and when she told her friends what had happened, she says they turned on her, posting ugly messages online and sending texts accusing her of lying about the assault.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I never actually attempted suicide, but there was a time when I considered it," Combrink told Crimesider. "I was so depressed and felt so hopeless. I felt like a zombie walking down the halls at school, with everyone staring at me, and judging me."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In just the last five days reports have surfaced of two teen girls - <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57579292-504083/rehtaeh-parsons-update-nova-scotia-officials-reviewing-alleged-rape-case-report-says/" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rehtaeh Parsons</a> and  <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57579263-504083/audrie-pott-suicide-three-teens-arrested-for-alleged-sexual-assault-of-calif-girl-who-committed-suicide/" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Audrie Pott</a> - who both committed suicide after allegedly being raped and then having pictures of the sexual assault distributed electronically among their peers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Their cases echo the recent <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57574728-504083/steubenville-rape-trial-verdict-judge-finds-both-teens-guilty-of-raping-16-year-old-girl/" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steubenville</a> rape case, where two Ohio teen boys were convicted of rape after photos of the victim on the night of the assault went viral, with hashtags like #rape and #drunkgirl accompanying the shared images.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Thursday, three teen boys were arrested for sexual battery against Pott, a California 15-year-old who was allegedly raped in September 2012, and then subjected to further shame and humiliation when photos of the assault reportedly went viral. She killed herself eight days later.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will the teens also be charged for sending photos of the alleged assault? Sexual cyber-stalking expert Danielle Citron doubts it.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Law enforcement is behind the times on this," says Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law and the author of the upcoming book "Hate 3.0: The Rise of Discriminatory Online Harassment and How to Stop It."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In an interview with Crimesider, Citron said that as it becomes easier to post or text or comment on a photo, sexual cyber-bulling and cyber-stalking is becoming "more pervasive, more common, and more acceptable."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's not getting better, it's getting worse," she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York City high school junior Temitayo Fagbenle told Crimesider that when she and her friends talked about the social media postings that the Steubenville victim was subjected to after her assault, they said they were glad the case was getting attention because "things like this happen all the time."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fagbenle is a member of WNYC's Radio Rookies and late last year produced a segment entitled "<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/rookies/articles/radio-rookies/2012/dec/28/sexual-cyberbullying-modern-day-letter/" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sexual Cyberbullying: The Modern Day Letter A</a>."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's so easy to just click and share on Facebook," says Fagbenle, 17. "People don't understand their part as a bystander. People think, 'I'll just comment but I'm not involved.' But in that interaction, you're becoming a bully."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Citron says that she believes law enforcement generally lacks understanding and training about the realities of how the old problem of so-called "slut-shaming" and blaming rape victims for things like how they dress or what they drank has evolved in the digital age.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That may, however, be changing. Trent Mays, one of the two teens convicted of rape in the Steubenville case, was also convicted of using a minor in nudity oriented materials and sentenced to an extra year in juvenile detention because he sent the photo of the victim in various states of undress.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Calling it 'bullying' almost trivializes it," says Citron. "What happened to Audrie Pott is a profoundly serious crime."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anna Combrink agrees. After her rape, she says she was depressed and struggled to rebuild her sense of self, and being attacked online made it so much worse.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It broke my heart when I heard about Rehtaeh," she says. "I know exactly what she was feeling. It's such a dark hole to climb out of."</div></div>

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Gottfried: Jonathan Winters was mad brilliant

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="<a href='http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/showbiz/jonthan-winters-death/index.html'>Comedian Jonathan Winters</a> died on Thursday, April 11, at his Montecito, California, home, a business associate told CNN. He was 87. Winters appears here on "The Jonathan Winters Show" in 1956. Click to see more pictures of the man known for his comic irreverence:" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130412133839-08-jonathan-winters-horizontal-gallery.gif" /><strong style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (CNN)</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">-- Jonathan Winters was not always in his right mind. I don't mean that only in the showbiz sense, but in the mental health sense. Jonathan, who</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/showbiz/jonthan-winters-death/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">died Thursday</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">, was a nut as a comic, but also manic depressive and was institutionalized at least once in his life. He was also brilliantly talented. And the combination of his mental troubles and amazing talent made him the legendary performer that he was. He recognized this himself,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=138822853&m=138850829" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">telling an NPR reporter in 2011</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">, "I need that pain — whatever it is — to call upon it from time to time, no matter how bad it was."</span><br /><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">That's a common concern for performers when they go into therapy or other treatment; ditto performers who give up drugs and alcohol. They worry: If I don't have that pain, where do I draw my creativity from?</div><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr cnn_strylccimg214" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 3px 27px 14px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 214px;"><img alt="Gilbert Gottfried" border="0" class="box-image" height="122" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120715024401-gottfried-hedshot-left-tease.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gilbert Gottfried</div></div></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan needn't have worried. He was a bottomless well of creativity. He was someone who could pick up a paper clip and do three hours of impromptu comedy on it.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was always a fan of the way he could work without a net. There was a fearless, just crazy attitude about him--of not caring, not being afraid -- that always appealed to me. He influenced me and many other comics.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters. He insisted that Jonathan be written in as a regular on "Mork and Mindy." They wrote him in as an overgrown child, which was perfect casting.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was natural that Jonathan would get into comedy. He was an only child with divorced parents, a father he said was alcoholic, and he had lots of time alone to make up voices and characters in his room. When Jonathan met his future wife, he had just lost his wristwatch, the story goes. He was upset about this. But then, his wife saw an ad for a talent contest where the first prize was, believe it or not, a wristwatch. She was certain he would win and he did. His career in comedy followed.</div><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr cnn_stryfactbox" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 166px;"><div class="cnn_strycorrheader" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Become a fan of CNNOpinion</b></div>Stay up to date on the latest opinion, analysis and conversations through social media. 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We welcome your ideas and comments. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div class="cnn_pad20top" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">I've also heard that when his future wife, Eileen, told her father that she and Jonathan would get married, he gave them an ultimatum: that after a certain period, if Jonathan didn't make it in showbiz, he would have to get a real job to support her. Luckily, he went on to work in radio and later as a stand-up comedian in New York. He made it onto TV, appearing on Jack Paar and Steve Allen's shows and later was in films, like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">He made comedy albums that won Grammys and eventually also won an Emmy for a sitcom, in 1991. One bit he did was "Jonathan's Attic" where he was put in a room with a bunch of odds and ends, props, wigs, etc., and he was left to his own devices. He always could pick up anything and turn it into comedy.</div><a href="" name="em3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand19" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand19" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130412131400-01-jonathan-winters-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Comedian Jonathan Winters dies</span></cite></div><a href="" name="em4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand29" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand29" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130412184255-lkl-sot-jonathan-winters-goodnight-00004721-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">1989: Jonathan Winters says 'goodnight'</span></cite></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once I was appearing on a television show that Jonathan was appearing on, too. That was the first and only time, sadly, that I met him. He saw me, recognized me and invited me to come into his dressing room and sit down. He then started talking, no rhyme nor reason to any of it, but it was all funny. He would tell sad stories about his life and you'd start laughing. He told me, for example, that his father drilled it into his head to save his money and not fool around with women. "And now," he said, pointing to himself, "I have no money,"-- and then, pointing downward toward his crotch, "and Mr. Pencil doesn't work."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every now and then, I would get tired and start drifting off. Jonathan would snap his fingers at me and go, "Come back Gilbert. Are you zoning out there?" And then immediately, he'd have me laughing again.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a TV interview I saw not long ago, Cheech Marin spoke about how he lived near Jonathan Winters and would always see him in the supermarket. He'd be walking up and down the aisles, doing voices, shtick and talking to himself. Cheech would wait a little while, then go over to him and say, "Jonathan, I think it's time to just buy something and leave."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">I found out about Jonathan Winters' death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashian's divorce before she did. But Jonathan seems to have been forgotten. Well, I can only speak for myself, but I certainly will never forget him.</div></div>

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