Laura Clawson: "Google slaps phishing warning on misleading GOP website" (Daily Kos)
This is probably not what the National Republican Congressional Committee was expecting when they decided to make the contribution page on their websites targeting Democratic candidates mimic the Democrats' websites. First, after public backlash, they had to start offering refunds to donors who'd been misled, and now, Google has put a "reported phishing website" warning on at least the anti-Alex Sink site.
Andrew Tobias: Must-See TV
You know, I could save a lot of time writing these things - and you could save a lot of time reading them - if I were sure you watch Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes on MSNBC every night, and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central. They do this far better than me, and they have crack staffs to back them up. I have Renee come in to clean one day a week.
Steve Rose: "Sandra Bullock: the pain of Gravity" (Guardian)
It was a huge technological leap into the unknown - and a physical and psychological challenge for stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Here, she and director Alfonso Cuarón talk about how they made Gravity an Oscar favourite.
Annalee Nemitz: Knights of Badassdom is a sweet, gory tale of geek social life (io9)
I said earlier that I thought this movie would play best to people in geek subcultures, but honestly I think it's made for anyone with sympathy for outsiders. This is one of those genuinely good-natured comedies that sticks with you, like an old friend. Oh and also - did I mention the musical numbers? Yeah.
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. The subject sees it as a meaningful coincidence, although the events need not be exactly simultaneous in time. The concept of synchronicity was first described by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.
Jung coined the word to describe what he called "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung variously described synchronicity as an "acausal connecting principle", "meaningful coincidence" and "acausal parallelism". Jung introduced the concept as early as the 1920s, but gave a full statement of it only in 1951 in an Eranos lecture and in 1952, published a paper, Synchronizität als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhänge (Synchronicity - An Acausal Connecting Principle), in a volume with a related study by the physicist (and Nobel laureate) Wolfgang Pauli.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Those of us who where buying albums (on vinyl) in1983 won't have to look this up, but I also happen to have, on a bookshelf a few feet to the right of my computer, the 1964 book Man and His Symbols, edited by Jung, so reaching over and consulting the index, we find on page 211, in "Part 3, The process of individuation," written by M.-L. von Franz, and discussing the symbolism of the alchemical stone:
The fact that this highest and most frequent symbol of the Self is an object of inorganic matter points to yet another field of inquiry and speculation: that is, the still unknown relationship between what we call the unconscious psyche and what we call "matter" -- a mystery with which psychosomatic medicine endeavors to grapple. In studying this still undefined and unexplained connection (it may prove to be that "psyche" and "matter" are actually the same phenomenon, one observed from "within" and the other from "without") , Dr. Jung put forward a new concept that he called synchronicity. This term means a "meaningful coincidence" of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word "meaningful."
If an aircraft crashes before my eyes as I am blowing my nose, this is a coincidence of events that has no meaning. It is simply a chance occurrence of a kind that happens all the time. But if I bought a blue frock and, by mistake, the shop delivered a black one on the day one of my dear relatives died, this would be a meaningful coincidence. The two events are not causally related, but they are connected by the symbolic meaning that our society gives to the color black.
Alan J said:
Synchronicity
Lois In The Madhouse Of Oregon wrote:
Huh. I thought synchronicity was an Olympic Sport, but it
appears to be some psychobabble about life not being random
events, but an expression of a Deeper Order, and Archetypes
and The Collective Unconscious or some Crap. Apparently when
you have a couch, and an attractive crazy woman ends up on
your couch, and you boink her, THAT IS NO COINCIDENCE! It is
part of the Grand Plan of That Guy Jung Should Get Laid.
Feh. Freud, Jung, the whole lot of 'em, crazy, self-serving
bastards all. I'll take Chaos anyday!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Synchronicity
Adam answered:
Synchronicity.
Marian responded:
synchronicity
Sally said:
What word did Carl Jung coin to describe what he called "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events?"
Why it was 'synchronicity' of course!
Yeah, like that!
John I from Hawai`i says,
"synchronicity.'
Dale of Rainy Springs, Norcali, answered:
Synchronicity - the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality -used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung. That's how Webster's defines it. Dale and the voices in Dale's noggin know what Jung is talking about. Do any of you have the same experience with being synchronous when not tripping? I'm off the wall due to clever attempts to be humorous and randy. Does synchronicity seem to ramble and roll without Alky and Drugs for 27 years. I'm still weird and strange and proud of it. I'm in the same office complex with a Shrink. Should I go get in a cognitive analytical groove with him? It's all based on youz perceptive
Perceptions.
MAM wrote:
Synchronicity ~ Example: During production of "The Wizard of Oz", a coat bought from a second-hand store for the costume of
Professor Marvel was later found to have belonged to L. Frank Baum, author of the children's book upon which the film is based.
BttbBob replied:
Carl G Jung - Synchronicity - YouTube A very well done 3 minute narrated video that explains the phenomenon. So much so, I archived it for future reference... Seriously... BTW, I knew the answer only because I looked up its meaning when this came out:
The Police - Synchronicity (1983) Full Album - YouTube
... otherwise, I'd have remained blissfully ignorant, like, you know, "What the heck does THAT mean?"... which is an example of 'Causality'... something that's been happenin' all my dagnab life, dontcha know.
~~~~~
"Genüg!", he cried (he being me)... I-feel-the-need-to-rock...
The Who - I Can See for Miles - YouTube Hoo ha, and that was an eye openin' experience... You try blastin' THAT at 8 in the mornin' an' tell me what it does to yer awareness... I double-dog dare ya...
~~~~~
"Is it just me?" Moment - Is it just me, or does the "Bubble-headed bleach blond that comes on at 5" (Thanks, (Don) seem to be justa itchin' fer somethin' bad to happen in Sochi?
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(72) Nick, Nick, Nick...
Born this day:
(1828-1905) My first foray into Sci-fi happened with this book when I was about 10... or mebbee 11... Dagnabbit, that was a long time ago!
But, I remember reading it and how it influenced me...
(1820-1891) Ol' Smedley (I love that name) said "War is a Racket"...
"Uncle Billy", here, as he was affectionately known to his troops said, "War is Hell" and proved it in Georgia... They're both right... (My great-great grandfather's 12th Michigan Infantry Regiment was in attendance with "Uncle Billy" at the Battle of Shiloh)
And, Joe S said:
responded:
Synchronicity is a word Carl Jung coined to describe "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events."everybody knows that. Or else it's a
music album by the Police.
WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that the Defense Department knows nothing about a Canadian rock band's claim for compensation for the use of its music during interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Vancouver-based band Skinny Puppy says it sent the invoice for $666,000 for "musical services" after learning that its music had been played at extreme volume at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Hmmm... This begs the question: If the band gets the money (improbable) will they keep it, or donate it to some worthy group - say - like Amnesty International?
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 7
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 8
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 5 - Sandgate
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[10:00AM] FLEMING: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE BOND-Episode 1
[11:00AM] FLEMING: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE BOND-Episode 2
[12:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Blink
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 8 - Silence in the Library
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 9 - Forest of the Dead
[3:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Eleventh Hour
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 2 - The Beast Below
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 15 - First Contact
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 16 - Galaxy's Child
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors
[9:00PM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 12 NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 16NEW
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors
[12:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 12
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 16
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 14 - Clues
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 15 - First Contact
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 16 - Galaxy's Child
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 17 - Night Terrors (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Shahs Of Sunset', followed by a movie TBA.
Comedy Central has the movie 'American Pie 2', followed by the movie 'Dumb & Dumber'.
FX has the movie 'Hall Pass', followed by the movie 'Crazy, Stupid, Love', then the movie 'Hall Pass'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'The Curse Of Oak Island', another 'The Curse Of Oak Island', and still another 'The Curse Of Oak Island'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] You Kill Me
[8:00AM] The Warriors
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Three Sappy People
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-The Three Troubledoers
[10:50AM] The Three Stooge-Uncivil Warriors
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-Violent Is the Word for Curly
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Wee Wee Monsieur
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-We Want Our Mummy
[12:30PM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Age of the Bastard
[1:00PM] The Spoils of Babylon-So Sweet the Bells
[1:30PM] The Warriors
[3:30PM] Napoleon Dynamite
[5:30PM] Scream
[8:00PM] Silent Hill
[10:45PM] The Shining
[1:45AM] Silent Hill
[4:30AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] An Education
[8:15AM] In the Line of Fire
[11:00AM] JFK
[3:00PM] Law & Order-Nurture
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Doubles
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Old Friends
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Second Opinion
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Coma
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Blue Bamboo
[9:00PM] Frozen River
[11:00PM] Body Heat
[1:30AM] A Single Man
[3:45AM] All Good Things (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Resident Evil: Extinction'.
Model Ireland Baldwin presents a creation by Donna Karan for the The Heart Truth Fall 2014 collection during New York Fashion Week February 6, 2014.
Photo by Joshua Lott
Anyone who watches a medical drama on television and thinks their are learning about medicine may be pleased to know that apparently real doctors do it, too.
Doctors in Germany managed to diagnose a 55-year-old patient with the rare "cobalt intoxication" after remembering what they had seen on an episode of House.
According to an article co-written by Dr. Juergen R. Shaefer, a patient was referred to the clinic in 2012 for severe heart failure. While the man's medical history was fairly basic, he did have two hip replacements.
Doctors excluded coronary artery disease as a possible diagnosis but still couldn't account for the man's symptoms, which included a fever and enlarged lymph nodes. And then someone remembered that the delightfully-acerbic Dr. Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie on the popular medical drama House, once struggled with the same issue.
Cast members Tom Felton (L-R), Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Lange pose at the premiere of "In Secret" in Los Angeles, California February 6, 2014. The film opens in the U.S. on February 21.
Photo by Kevork Djansezian
Kenny Thompson is known as a mentor and tutor to students at Valley Oaks Elementary School in Houston, Texas. But Thompson is also gaining national recognition for going above and beyond the call of duty.
The volunteer learned that more than 60 students with delinquent meal accounts were receiving smaller lunches of cold cheese sandwiches. Upset, he wiped away their negative balances with $465 of his own money.
Thompson has worked with the school for 10 years. He told a local TV station that he would not have thought to check for these negative balances until he read a story about a school in Utah. Uintah Elementary School in Salt Lake City found itself in the headlines last month for throwing away the lunches of students whose meal payments were delinquent. Parents and politicians alike took to the airwaves and social networks in outrage.
"They don't need to be worried about finances," Thompson said to NBC affiliate KPRC TV about the elementary schoolchildren. "They need to be worried about what grade they got in spelling."
Legendary Swedish pop band ABBA on Thursday were among the 12 first artists to join the Swedish Music Hall of Fame, which celebrates the country's rich pop tradition.
"I think it's a nice thing to do, to create a Swedish Music Hall of Fame," 67-year-old former ABBA member Benny Andersson told AFP.
The first 12 artists, including jazz singer Monica Zetterlund (1937-2005) and Dutch-born singer-songwriter Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937-1987), were chosen by a jury of four music experts.
The Swedish Music Hall of Fame will open to the public on March 20 in the same building as the ABBA museum, which has received more than 275,000 visitors since it opened in May 2013.
Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio attend the Hennessy Privilege VIP post-party at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio receiving the Cinema Vanguard Award at the Arlington Theatre on Thursday, February 6, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California
Photo by Todd Williamson
Natural Bridge, a 215-foot-high stone bridge once owned by Thomas Jefferson and a centuries-old tourist attraction, has been sold by its private owner at a fraction of its value to a conservation group and is destined to become part of Virginia's park system.
Under a complex deal sealed Thursday, Washington, D.C., real estate developer Angelo A. Puglisi accepted $8.6 million for the 1,500-plus-acre property in southwest Virginia and tossed in the 90-foot-long limestone bridge for free in return for tax credits. The bridge alone is valued at $21 million.
The Shenandoah Valley property, which includes 35 parcels, caverns, a 150-room hotel and cabins, has an estimated value of more than $40 million.
Once the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund repays the loan it used to pay Puglisi, the attraction will be transferred to Virginia as a state park. That could occur as early as 2015.
The sale adds a new chapter in Natural Bridge's history - from a sacred site for Indians before Europeans arrived, to Jefferson's purchase from King George II for 20 shillings in 1774, to what was considered one of the natural wonders of the world in the centuries that followed. It even had a mention in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," which describes a whale's arched body rising from the water "like Virginia's Natural Bridge."
China's best-known film director Zhang Yimou has paid 7.5 million yuan ($1.2 million) for violating the one-child policy, officials said Friday, closing a case that had attracted widespread attention.
Following months of rumours that he had fathered up to seven children with different women, Zhang admitted in December he has two sons and a daughter with his current wife, Chen Ting, all from before they were married. He also has a daughter with a previous wife.
The case took nine teams more than six months to investigate and the couple's unwillingness to cooperate was said to have hampered the probes, Binhu authorities said earlier.
The fine far exceeded most of those handed to violators of the one-child policy, but fell far below the 160 million yuan speculated in previous Chinese media reports.
Actor Christian Bale and Sibi Blazic arrive for the red carpet screening of the film American Hustle during the International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.
Photo by Axel Schmidt
No one enjoys having their phones tapped: The U.S. National Security Agency knows this and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. found this out, as well. The media conglomerate's United Kingdom branch has been forced to settle hundreds of lawsuits over the past three years thanks to a 2011 phone hacking scandal. And while the lawsuits themselves are nothing new for the News Corp.-owned News of the World, new hacking-related lawsuits keep cropping up. Already in 2014, 32 have filed lawsuits seeking to participate in a June civil trial, according to Bloomberg, and a hearing took place Friday in London to discuss the new claims.
Over the course of three years, investigations uncovered both bribery and phone hacking at two of News Corp.'s tabloid publications. In 2006, reporters at the News of the World used private investigators to illegally gain access to the voicemails of hundreds of individuals who were of interest to the publication. The most recent string of lawsuits included claims from singer Craig David; designer Kelly Hoppen, who is the stepmother of actress Sienna Miller; and former soccer player John Fashanu. Previous civil trials were avoided by last-minute settlements.
Meanwhile, revenue dropped 4 percent to $2.24 billion from the $2.32 in sales generated a year ago. More specifically, circulation and subscription revenue declined 7 percent primarily because of problems at the Dow Jones institutional unit, although the declines were partially covered by an increase in subscription prices for the Wall Street Journal and WSJ.com, plus a higher cover price for Britain's The Sun. New Corp.'s fledgling educational materials business experienced declines, but revenue at HarperCollins increased 4 percent on the back of a 39 percent jump in electronic book sales.
Martin Scorsese toasts with Paradis Imperial at the Hennessy Privilege VIP post-party at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio receiving the Cinema Vanguard Award at the Arlington Theatre on Thursday, February 6, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California
Photo by Todd Williamson
A painting in the Guggenheim collection initially attributed to French modern artist Fernand Léger has languished out of view for decades after it was suspected to be a fake.
Now scientists have confirmed that the artwork is a indeed forgery; in a first, they detected faint signatures of Cold War-era nuclear bombs in the canvas that reveal the painting was created after Léger's death.
The influential American art patron Peggy Guggenheim bought the painting, believing it to be part of Léger's "Contraste de Formes" (Contrasts of Forms), an abstract series created between 1913 and 1914 that breaks up figures into schematic units. (Léger was a contemporary of Pablo Picasso.) In the 1970s, Léger scholar Douglas Cooper voiced serious skepticism about its authenticity. Without any consensus from experts, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the current steward of the painting, has never exhibited nor catalogued the artwork.
To solve this art historical enigma, scientists from the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) took a tiny piece of the canvas from an unpainted edge of the work. The team used a particle accelerator to measure the concentration of carbon 14 (an isotope of carbon that has more neutrons than normal carbon 12) in the fabric, which would in turn allow them to determine when the canvas was produced, or more specifically, when the cotton was cut to make the canvas.
Actor John Lithgow and director Ira Sachs pose for photographers at the photo call for the film Love Is Strange during the 64th Berlinale International Film Festival, on Friday Feb. 7, 2014, in Berlin.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Cargill, one of the nation's largest meatpackers, has added wording to its labels on ground beef packages that indicates whether the meat inside includes a product that's been called "pink slime."
Since Jan. 20, all of Cargill's U.S.-produced, fresh, 100 percent ground beef products that contain what it calls "finely textured beef" will say so on a label, whether sold in bulk or in chubs directly to consumers, the company announced this week. Cargill had said in November that it would add the labeling, the Lincoln Journal Star said.
Cargill also said it has developed a website to answer questions about finely textured beef.
Another company that makes the textured beef product, Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based Beef Products Inc., sued ABC News in September 2012 after the organization aired a story that used the phrase "pink slime." The company said the story mentioned only Beef Products Inc. and its product and misled consumers into believing the product is unhealthy and unsafe.
Director Volker Schloendorff poses with Hanna Schygulla (R) and Margarethe von Trotta as they arrive for the screening of the movie "Baal" in Berlin February 7, 2014. The festival runs from February 6 until 16 in the German capital.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
A proposal to lift federal protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. suffered a significant setback Friday as an independent review panel said the government is relying on unsettled science to make its case.
Federal wildlife officials want to remove the animals from the endangered species list across the Lower 48 states, except for a small population in the Southwest.
The five-member U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service peer-review panel was tasked with reviewing the government's claim that the Northeast and Midwest were home to a separate species, the eastern wolf.
If the government were right, that would make gray wolf recovery unnecessary in those areas.
But the peer reviewers concluded unanimously that the scientific research cited by the government was insufficient.
An ethnic Dong Minority villager in traditional costume carries a child on her back during a performance to celebrate the traditional Dong Minority festival "Tai Guan Ren", in Huanggang village of Liping county, Guizhou province February 6, 2014. Tai Guan Ren, which means "carry the peace and luck envoy", is an annual Dong Minority festival usually celebrated during the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Participants carry people on sedan chairs to march around the village as they sing and dance to pray for good fortune and a good harvest year, according to local media. Picture taken February 6, 2014.
Longtime Oscars sponsors Coca-Cola and Hyundai Motor have dropped their support of the event, their places taken by PepsiCo and General Motors, ABC disclosed Thursday.
The Walt Disney network said J.C. Penney, another veteran Oscars advertiser, remained on the roster of advertisers for the event. Other advertisers who will appear during the March 2, 2014, telecast are Johnson & Johnson, AARP, American Express, Chattem, Coldwell Banker, Johnson & Johnson, Mars, McDonald's. Samsung, Sprint, Sunovion, and Unilever,which will advertise two products: Dove and Lipton.
Hyundai had been the event's exclusive auto advertiser since 2009, part of an aggressive ad strategy that had the Korean automaker taking over many ad perches previously held by U.S. automakers. In 2012, Hyundai spent about $11.3 million on Oscars advertising, according to Kantar, a tracker of ad spending, about three minutes and 30 seconds' worth of advertising. Coca-Cola. meanwhile, spent around $8.1 million on about two minutes and 30 seconds' worth of commercials.
ABC sold out of ad inventory for the show in October. The network had been seeking between $1.8 million and $1.9 million for a 30-second spot, a new benchmark for Oscars ad coin.
Images in the likeness of U.S. director Woody Allen hang at an art exhibit titled "Queremos tanto a Woody," or "We so love Woody" by Argentine artist Hugo Echarri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. The exhibit in honor of Allen was inaugurated just days after the artist faced renewed accusations that he molested Dylan Farrow, his then-7-year-old adopted daughter in 1992.
Photo by Rodrigo Abd
A team of archaeologists has made an amazing discovery. Footprints uncovered by the pounding surf of England's Norfolk coast are at least 800,000 years old - the oldest ever found in Europe.
The footprints are already gone from where they were discovered, unfortunately. They were kept safe for millennia by the layers of earth that the North Sea has been eroding away. Once they were uncovered, though, it was only a matter of time before they were also erased by the waves. Fortunately, since the local area - Happisburgh (pronounced Haysborough) - has been known as a rich archaeological site for years now, researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the Natural History Museum were on hand to discover the prints.
Now, after taking numerous pictures of the site, these researchers were able to reconstruct it as a highly accurate 3D computer model. This not only allowed them to confirm that they were footprints, but also that they were human footprints, rather than just some kind of ancient animal. The size and shape of the prints showed that it was a group of adults and children - possibly a family group. Digging down into the sediment layers further from shore allowed them to date the prints, to sometime between 850,000 to 950,000 years ago. According to the Natural History Museum, there are only three sets of footprints that are older than this, and they were all found in Africa.
The scientists who made the discovery talk about it in this short video.
Maxine Kumin, a prolific New England poet and U.S. poet laureate who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for her work "Up Country," has died. She was 88.
Kumin, who wrote more than three dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and children's literature, died Thursday at her home in Warner after a year of failing health, said the Bennett Funeral Home in Concord.
Kumin was an advocate for women writers, social justice and animal rights. Her final work, "And Short the Season," is scheduled to be released later this year.
Born in Philadelphia, she graduated from Radcliffe College and lived for a while in Newton, Mass.
Kumin's work has been recognized with numerous other awards, including the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Harvard Medal, the Levinson Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Poetry Award.
Kumin also was a prominent teacher of writing, occupying graduate or undergraduate visiting chairs or fellowships at Boston University, Brandeis, Columbia, MIT, Princeton and other institutions. At New England College in Henniker, N.H., she helped establish a new poetry master of fine arts program.
Kumin's work and life were linked to those of poet Anne Sexton, a close friend and collaborator who committed suicide in 1974.
In a 2010 interview with the Greater Brockton (Mass.) Library Poetry Series, Kumin said one of her early motivations to become a poet was reading "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson. She said many of those poems, which were read to her, were locked in her brain because of their melody. She said her life raising horses also motivated her work.
Ann Carter, who was a tiny Veronica Lake lookalike, with similarly flowing blonde hair, when she appeared in two prominent supernatural-themed films of the 1940s, "Cat People" sequel "Curse of the Cat People" and Lake starrer "I Married a Witch," before polio ended her career, died Jan. 27 in North Bend, Wash., after long bout with ovarian cancer. She was 77.
Carter made 18 films, beginning with a trio of roles, the first two uncredited, in 1941 and 1942: "Last of the Duanes"; "I Married a Witch," the delightful comedic fantasy in which she briefly played the daughter of Lake and Fredric March; and Norway-set WWII pic "Commandos Strike at Dawn," starring Paul Muni, for which she was appropriately Nordic-looking.
The 1944 Val Lewton horror film "Curse of the Cat People" was essentially focused on Carter's character, and she had a substantial role as a child who befriends the dead first wife of her father.
Female Sumatra orangutan Matra holds her newborn cub at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. The cub was born on Jan. 31, 2014 and is yet unnamed.
Photo by Sven Hoppe
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