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A federal court said Nov. 22 that the decline of a food source resulting from global warming is sufficient reason to keep animals — in this case Yellowstone grizzlies — protected under the Endangered Species Act.

The ruling not only establishes a legal foothold that could require the government to take action to preserve species facing extinction by climate changes. The ruling could open the door to challenges against the current Endangered Species Act, which currently requires action one species at a time, rather than on behalf of all habitation on the planet. Read on at Christian Science Monitor

Amazon forest loss at lowest in 23 years: Brazil: Science Daily

Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record 10 Billion Tons, Threatening 2 degree target Science Daily

Dave Sanders Gone Rogue

 

When Steve Jobs said “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy”, he wasn’t endorsing Dave Sanders: Fiber-Optics Exec by Day, Defender of Justice at Night.

(Excerpt) U.S. District Court Judge John Mendez didn’t know what to make of the man standing in his courtroom for sentencing on September 7, 2010. Dave Sanders was a successful corporate sales executive—a widower who was raising his three young children in a suburb outside Sacramento, California… the 43-year-old had confessed to operating a bizarre paramilitary vigilante squad that targeted people involved in Ponzi schemes. His team included a 365-pound US postal worker and a woman who looked like a Playboy Playmate; it was equal parts SWAT team and three-ring circus, and it had landed Sanders here, in a Sacramento courthouse, facing up to 11 years in prison. Read on Wired Magazine cover story.

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Obsession: Sienna Miller As Tippi Hedren in ‘The Girl’ AOC Style

Sienna Miller will play acclaimed actress Tippi Hedren opposite Sean Connery in a film ‘The Girl’. The drama claims that Alfred Hitchcock — was was notoriously enchanted with blondes — was obsessed with the actress, who thwarted his advances.

When Hedren refused his advances, Hitchcock set out to ban her from acting, says Hollywood gossip and Donald Spoto’s account of the couple’s relationship in his 2008 book ‘Spellbound By Beauty.’

Tippi Hedren has enjoyed a fulfilling, philanthropic life since her acting days. Read on about her work with animal rights and endangered species — especially big cats — and also Vietnam refugees.

Progressing Beyond Tokenism

A new report “20-first’s Global Gender Balance Scorecard” digs deeper into the world’s top 300 companies, looking at Executive Committee Composition.  While we dig into the details, at a top level, the US leads, but there is no reason for applause. In an analysis of America’s Top 100 companies, only 205 (or 17%) of Executive Committee members are female and the majority (125) are in staff or support positions like HR or legal. Only 60 women in America’s top 100 companies are in Executive Committee line or operational roles.

Elizabeth Taylor Love Affair

Cecil Beaton’s portrait of a bejeweled Taylor, with Richard Burton at the Rothschild Proust Ball, 1972. Photo: Cecil BeatonDiamonds and Pearls: British Vogue looks at Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry auction at Christies.

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Sophie Vlaming | Klaas Jan Kliphuis | Avantgarde December 2011 | ‘Holy Mary’

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Andrea Stancu | Karel Losenicky | Kitten Mag K82 J’Adore

Ming Xi | Daniel Jackson | Vogue China December 2011 | ‘Party Fun’

Cato Van Ee | Alexander Neumann | Vogue Mexico December 2011

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Farah, Jana, Manja, Anhelina, Serena | Walter Chin | Glamour France January 2012

Lisette & Nell | Chris Craymer | Glamour France January 2012 | Oh My Dog

Dovile Virsilaite | Alice Rosati | Forget Them Magazine #1

Kim Mooil | Harper’s Bazaar Korea December 2011 | ‘Black vs White’

Alessandra Ambrosio | Matt Jones | Hugo Boss Orange S/S 2012

Charlotte de Calypso | Hunter & Gatti | Vogue Spain Joyas December 2011

Sigrid Agren | Kerry Hallihan | Muse Winter 2011 | ‘Skyline’

Movin’ on Up for Tavi Gevinson

“I will be begging her for a job,” 44-year-old writer Cintra Wilson, best known for her cutting “Critical Shopper” column at The New York Times, said introducing Tavi Gevinson at The Economist’s World in 2012 Festival, “even though I have shoes older than she is.” Read on via Stylist

Tavi at Economist 2012

Tavi frequently apologized for her speech, admitting, “I’m a better writer than I am a talker…I don’t know why I’m so apologetic. It’s actually super annoying. [Apologizing] is such a stupid thing that girls are supposed to do when they feel bad for talking or taking up space.”

The High Price of Materialism | Tim Kasser for Center for a New American Dream

Anne of Carversville and Anne personally have long supported The Center for a New American Dream, an organization working with individuals, institutions, businesses, and communities to conserve natural resources, counter the absolute commercialization of our culture, support community engagement and promote positive changes in the way goods are produced and consumed.

This video ‘The High Price of Materialism’ covers much of the same research studies noted at AOC. Read on in our happiness tag. This link takes AOC friends to all the studies and resources referenced in this video.

News: Will Meryl Streep Play Hillary Clinton? | Newt Gingrich Is Fundamentally . . . | Russian Rebuke | Editorials 12/4

Meryl Streep was joined by her three daughters and husband Don Gummer at the Performing Arts for the Kennedy Center Honours gala in Washington DC. AP photos via Daily Mail

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The Obamas hosted the Kennedy Center Honors reception at the White House Sunday evening. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Reuters via Mrs-OMeryl Streep, pictured above husband Don Gummer and three incredibly gorgeous daughters, was honored with four other artists Neil Diamond, Barbara Cook, Yo-Yo Ma and Sonny Rollins, at the Kennedy Center Honors awards last night. Entertainment Weekly writes:

Writer Nora Ephron said Streep’s talent, versatility and resemblance to Clinton made it “inevitable” that she would one day play the secretary of state and former first lady. Clinton, who flew home for 36 hours to celebrate the honorees over the weekend, just laughed, while Streep stood up for a better look at the nation’s top diplomat.

CBS will broadcast the show on Dec. 27.

2011 Culture Club

New York Magazine’s new issue is devoted to a ‘culturati caucus’ on the best books, exhibitions, performances, films, theater and lots more from 2011.

Russian Rebuke

Members of Nashi, a pro-Kremlin youth movement, held a victory rally in Moscow on Sunday night.James Hill for The NYTimes Russian Election Results. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has suffered surprisingly large losses in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Three minority parties — the Communist Party, the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party and Just Russia, a social democratic party — all made unexpectedly strong gains, rendering Vladmir Putin not quite as powerful as he was days ago. Given Putin’s intention to return to the presidency for another six-year term — if not two terms — Russian voters have said “not so fast”. Read on at the NYTimes.

WSJ writes that organizations monitoring the vote this weekend call it marred by apparent manipulations and “serious indications of ballot box stuffing.”

“To me, this election was like a game in which only some players are allowed to compete,” said mission head Heidi Tagliavini at a news conference. “And the game was tilted in favor of one of the players.”

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Fundamentally for fundamentalists

In 2009, Lazar Stankov published “Conservatism and Cognitive Ability” in the peer-reviewed journal Intelligence. The article’s abstract confirmed:

Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated … At the individual level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, vocabulary, and analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with measures of education … and performance on mathematics and reading assessments.

Clarifying that Stankov wasn’t referring to economic conservatives but social conservatives, Jason Richwine wrote in The American, online magazine of the American Enterprise Institute:

The Conservative syndrome describes a person who attaches particular importance to the respect of tradition, humility, devoutness and moderation; as well as to obedience, self-discipline and politeness, social order, family, and national security; and has a sense of belonging to and a pride in a group with which he or she identifies. A Conservative person also subscribes to conventional religious beliefs and accepts the mystical, including paranormal, experiences.

Recent brain scan tests indicate that conservative and liberal brains do actually work differently. Taking up the topic of social conservatives and intelligence is really “asking for it” but we say the future of America is at stake.

Within this context, we find NYMagazine’s article Fundamentally: Newt Gingrich’s Favorite Word to be hilarious — and also very sad. Talk about playing to your audience. Dan Amira writes:

I started in the present day, and made it all the way to the beginning of 2007 before I had to stop, for my own health and sanity, which, according to my editors, was beginning to suffer in noticeable ways. The list below contains only unique usages — for example, if he said the phrase “fundamental change” five different times, we only included it once — and, obviously, we only included remarks that were public and recorded in some way. Scroll onward, if you dare, to behold all loosely alphabetized 418 entries. Read on at NYMag

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Denisa Dvorakova | Tina Luther | Harper’s Bazaar Hong Kong November 2011 | ‘Elegant Naughty’

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Eniko Mihalik | Jeff Burton | Numéro #129 December 2011 | Incognito

Magdalena Frackowiak | David Roemer | Vogue Mexico December 2011

Sophie Vlaming | Raphael Delorme & Thierno Sy | Vogue Portugal December 2011 | ‘Jogos de Sombra’

Svetlana Kuznetsova | Andoni & Arantxa | View of the Times Fall 2011 | Paria Sera Toujours Paris!

Ava Smith | Takashi Osato | Bambi Magazine Issue 8

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Karlie Kloss | Greg Kadel | Numéro #129 December 2011 | Magic Karlie

Kristina Romanova | Blossom Berkofsky | Crash Magazine December 2011 | No Place Like Home

Bar Refaeli | Simon Emmett | GQ UK January 2012 | Belle Aviv

Han Hye Jin | Hong Jang Hyun | Vogue Korea November 2011 | Fetish

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Réka Ebergényi | Gregory Derkenne | Citizen K Fall 2011 | ‘Midnight in Paris’ NSFW

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Meryl Streep’s New York Film Critics Award

In addition to her Kennedy Center Honors award this weekend, Meryl Streep has also received the best actress New York Film Critics Awards, making her a frontrunner for an Oscar as The Iron Lady in which she portrays an aged Baroness Thatcher looking back at her 11-year career as Britain’s Prime Minister.

Carl Kleiner: Flour Power

Photographer and filmmaker Carl Kleiner’s elegant, geometrically composed still lifes portray the delectable ingredients and sumptuous produce of French-born chef Sebastien Boudet’s celebrated Stockholm patisserie-café-bistro, Petite France. Today NOWNESS interviews the famous chef.