Gary David Goldberg: 1944-2013

Gary David Goldberg, the Emmy-winning creator of the iconic ?Must-See TV? sitcom ?Family Ties? who also branched out into directing features, died Sunday of brain cancer in Montecito, Calif. He was 68.

Introduced in 1982, ?Family Ties? became one of the linchpins of NBC?s successful Thursday-night lineup and made Michael J. Fox ? who will return to the network in the fall ? a star. The series ran for seven seasons, earning Goldberg a writing Emmy. He won another during a stint on the ?Mary Tyler Moore Show? spinoff ?Lou Grant.?

?Basically, those parents are me and Diana,? Goldberg explained during an interview with the Archive of American Television regarding the genesis of ?Family Ties,? referring to his wife, Dr. Diana Meehan, and their hippie roots.

Goldberg initially resisted the choice of Fox, as did then-NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff, who famously said he couldn?t picture the actor?s face on a lunchbox. A collection of his papers donated to USC shows Tartikoff holding just such a lunchbox, autographed by Fox.

Although the series is remembered as a huge hit, the ratings didn?t take off until its third season, when NBC introduced ?The Cosby Show.?

Goldberg later reunited with Fox on ?Spin City,? which proved a modest hit for ABC. But the show closest to his heart might have been ?Brooklyn Bridge,? an autobiographical half-hour for CBS, derived from his own youth growing up under the watchful eye of his grandmother in Brooklyn, where he was born in 1944. The show earned critical acclaim, a Golden Globe and a Humanitas prize but garnered tepid ratings and was canceled by the Eye network after two seasons.

?He touched so many with his enormous talent and generous spirit,? Fox said in a statement. ?He changed my life profoundly.?

All of Goldberg?s shows featured the memorable closing credit for his Ubu Prods., ?Sit, Ubu, sit,? named for the producer?s Labrador. It was also the title of his 2008 autobiography.

Beyond his work in television, Goldberg directed such features as ?Dad,? starring Jack Lemmon; ?Bye Bye Love,? with Paul Reiser; and ?Must Love Dogs.?

Goldberg launched his writing career in the mid-1970s on ?The Bob Newhart Show,? working on a series of MTM productions (?The Tony Randall Show,? ?Lou Grant,? ?The Last Resort?) before creating ?Family Ties,? which struck a nerve with its template of counter-culture parents raising a conservative son.

Asked in the archive interview what gave him the most pride about his career, Goldberg said, ?I think it?s the fact that I?m still really close with almost everyone I?ve worked with, and a lot of the young writers I started have gone on to great careers. ? It?s an idea that writers matter.?

Former NBC Entertainment chief Warren Littlefield, who worked as a development exec when ?Family Ties? premiered, recalled shooting the pilot with Goldberg, and the producer finally hurling a chair when they couldn?t get a shot right during a party scene, before looking up and asking, ?You think I overreacted??

?It was at that moment I realized how passionate he was, how much he cared,? Littlefield said. ?But he also had a sense of humor about it. And once ?Family Ties? was a massive hit, nothing changed.?

Goldberg was also surrounded by a media family. His wife, Meehan, is a producer, author, professor and advocate who taught in the UCLA and USC communications studies departments, produced documentaries through Ubu?s non-fiction wing, VU, and is co-founder of the Archer School for Girls. They had two daughters: Shana, a comedy-writer producer who ran ?Friends? with her husband/partner, Scott Silvestri; and Cailin, a freelance writer and Huffington Post contributor.

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Supreme Court makes it harder for workers to win discrimination lawsuits

The Supreme Court issued a pair of 5-to-4 rulings on workers' lawsuits. Justice Ginsburg filed a dissent in both cases calling for Congress to overturn the decisions by passing new legislation.

By Warren Richey,?Staff writer / June 24, 2013

People wait outside the Supreme Court in Washington as key decisions are expected to be announced Monday, June 24. The high court handed down two important decisions Monday that will make it harder for workers to mount and win discrimination lawsuits against their employers.

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In a pair of 5-to-4 decisions, the justices embraced a narrow definition of who qualifies as a supervisor for purposes of federal discrimination law, and the court endorsed a tough standard in cases where a worker claims to be the victim of retaliation after complaining of unlawful discrimination.

The majority justices said the narrow standards would be easier for courts to administer and that other safeguards were available to protect workers.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a dissent in both cases calling for Congress to overturn the decisions by passing new legislation.

?Congress has, in the recent past, intervened to correct this Court?s wayward interpretations of Title VII,? she wrote, referring to the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Act in 2009 overturning a 2007 high court decision.

?The ball is once again in Congress? court to correct the error into which this Court has fallen and to restore the robust protections against workplace harassment the Court weakens today,? she said.

?The winner today, as in most days in the recent past, is business,? Mark Graber, a law professor at the?University of Maryland, said in a statement.

He said the decisions will help insulate businesses from liability in workplace discrimination and retaliation lawsuits.

Both cases were decided by the same 5-to-4 conservative-liberal split among the justices.

The retaliation decision was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy.

It stems from the case of Naiel Nassar, a physician and faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Nassar is of Middle Eastern heritage and complained that one of his supervisors was biased against him because of his religion and ethnic heritage.

He eventually resigned from his teaching position but arranged to keep working at the Medical Center. After resigning, Nassar sent letters to his former supervisors and colleagues stating that he was leaving because of harassment.

Angry at the letter, one of the supervisors contacted the Medical Center, which then withdrew Nassar?s job offer.

Nassar sued, accusing the supervisor of engaging in illegal retaliation tied to his earlier complaints about bias by a different supervisor.

The question in the case was whether the lower courts applied the correct standard for proving a case of illegal retaliation.

The lower courts applied a broad standard that held that Nassar could win his case as long as he could prove that retaliation was a motivating factor [among other factors] for the adverse employment action.

The jury found for Nassar, awarding him $400,000 in back pay and more than $3 million in compensatory damages. The $3 million award was later reduced to $300,000.

An appeals court upheld the lower court?s use of the broader, motivating-factor standard.

In their appeal to the Supreme Court, lawyers for the Medical Center argued that the lower courts should have applied a tougher standard. They said Nassar should have been required to show that he lost his job at the Medical Center because of his supervisor?s illegal retaliation.

On Monday, the high court agreed with the Medical Center that the tougher standard is required.

?The text, structure, and history of Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964] demonstrates that a plaintiff making a retaliation claim under [federal civil rights law] must establish that his or her [allegation of discrimination was the cause] of the alleged adverse action by the employer,? Justice Kennedy wrote.

?The University claims that a fair application of this standard, which is more demanding than the motivating-factor standard adopted by the Court of Appeals, entitles it to judgment as a matter of law,? he said.

Kennedy said that question would be better resolved by the lower courts that handled the case.

The Supreme Court vacated the earlier appeals court decision that upheld the lower court, and remanded the case for further action under the clarified standard.

The case was University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Naiel Nassar (12-484).

The decision in the second case was written by Justice Samuel Alito. The issue in that case was how to determine who qualifies as a supervisor in the workplace for purposes of a federal discrimination lawsuit.

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Tesla's 90 second battery swaps will power EVs faster than gas pumps fill tanks (video)

Tesla founder Elon Musk has mentioned battery swap service stations as an even faster alternative to charging for EV drivers, and tonight the company showed just how efficiently it can be done. In a demonstration at its design studio, it beat what it claims is the fastest gas pump in LA by exchanging a drained car battery pack for a fresh fully charged one in just 90 seconds. When the $500,000 stations start rolling out, owners will stay in the car the whole time then either swap the battery back for their original on a return trip, or get a bill for the difference based on how new their battery is. According to Reuters, the exchange is expected to cost owners between $60 - $80 each time or about the cost of 15 gallons of gas

Of course, failed outfit Better Place proposed a similar service before it shut down, but Tesla is betting that it can make it work this time. The first service stations are coming to busy corridors, with some planned for I5 in California. Still need more proof? Elon Musk tweeted that video of the event will be available in "about an hour," so check back then.

Update: We're still waiting on the official video, but reader Weapon sent in a link to video shot by an event attendee, which can be viewed after the break. Take a peek and see a pair of Tesla's Model S sedans get quick battery service, one after the other in less time than a fuel pump can deliver one tank of gas.

Update 2: The official event video is up, check it out embedded after the break.

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Human brain mapped in 3-D with high resolution

?BigBrain? model, the most detailed atlas yet, could improve brain scanning tools and neurosurgeons? navigation

?BigBrain? model, the most detailed atlas yet, could improve brain scanning tools and neurosurgeons? navigation

By Meghan Rosen

Web edition: June 20, 2013

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A BIG BRAIN PROJECT

By slicing a brain into ultrathin sheets and digitally pasting them together, researchers have created the first 3-D high-resolution map of the human brain.

Credit: Courtesy of Amunts, Zilles, Evans et al

A new 3-D map of the brain is the best thing since sliced cold cuts, at least to some neuroscientists.

?It?s a remarkable tour-de-force to reconstruct an entire human brain with such accuracy,? says David Van Essen, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis.

Using a high-tech deli slicer and about 100,000 computer processors, researchers shaved a human brain into thousands of thin slivers and then digitally glued them together. The result is the most detailed brain atlas ever published. Dubbed BigBrain, the digital model has a resolution 50 times greater in each of the three spatial dimensions than currently available maps, researchers report in the June 21 Science.

The difference is like zooming from a satellite view of a city down to the street level, says coauthor Alan Evans, a neuroimaging scientist at McGill University in Montreal.

BigBrain allows researchers to navigate the landscape of the human cortex, the rugged outer layer of the brain. And unlike previous maps, the tool also lets scientists burrow beneath the surface, tunnel through the brain?s hemispheres and step slice-by-slice through high-res structural data.

Around 100 years ago, neuroscientists relied on thick slabs of brain tissue to crudely chart out neural regions. More recently, imaging tools such as MRI have let researchers take a more detailed look. But even the very best MRI maps are still a little fuzzy, says Hanchuan Peng, a computational biologist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

In 2010, a team of Chinese researchers constructed a digital map of the mouse brain using techniques similar to the ones that produced BigBrain. But until now, no one had done it in humans. Because the human brain is thousands of times bigger than the mouse brain, Evans and colleagues had to massively scale up slicing and computing methods. First, Katrin Amunts and colleagues at the J?lich Research Center in Germany carved the donated brain of a 65-year-old woman into 7,404 ultrathin sheets, each about the thickness of plastic wrap.

Next, researchers stained the sheets to boost contrast, took pictures of each sheet with a flatbed scanner, and then harnessed the processing power from seven supercomputing facilities across Canada to digitally stitch together the images. In all, the researchers analyzed about one terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of image data. That?s about the same amount of data as 250,000 MP3 songs.

?Your laptop would choke if it tried to run a typical image-processing program to look at this dataset,? Evans says.

His team designed a software program that lets researchers dig into BigBrain?s data. Users will be able to pick up the brain, rotate it in any direction and cut through any plane they want. ?It?s like a video game,? he says.

?Evans hopes BigBrain will provide a digital scaffold for other researchers to layer on different kinds of brain data. Scientists could stack on information about chemical concentrations or electrophysical signals, just as climate and traffic data can be layered onto a geographical map.

The 3-D map could also help researchers interpret data from lower-resolution brain-scanning techniques such as MRI and PET, study coauthor Karl Zilles of the J?lich Research Center said during a press briefing June 19. Overlaying images from these scans onto BigBrain might give neuroimagers a better idea of where exactly damaged tissue lies in diseased brains.

And neurosurgeons might use BigBrain to guide placement of electrodes during deep-brain stimulation for Alzheimer?s or Parkinson?s diseases, he said.

Though all human brains have largely similar architecture, Evans says, every person has subtle shape variations. As a result, he?d like to make maps of more brains for comparison.

Now that the teams have ironed out BigBrain?s technical kinks, the researchers think they can compile a second brain?s map in about a year. ?The computational tools are all largely in place now,? Evans says.

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Trump: 'Modern Family' is 'written by a moron'

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Let's get ready to rumble ... again!

Wednesday night saw yet another round of Twitter feuding between Donald Trump and "Modern Family" executive producer/writer Danny Zuker. Trump, who's disliked Zuker ever since he mocked the ratings of Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" back in March, decided it was about time he took another jab at his nemesis.

Of course Zuker, who has won three Emmys for his work on the show, didn't take Trump's insults lightly. He quickly fired off a retort, telling Trump that his insults "need work," beginning a second round of unpleasant banter between the men.

Zuker also took the opportunity to attack Trump for producing his signature Macy's clothing line in China, even though Trump has been very outspoken about his disdain for the country, which he has said is destroying the U.S. economy.

The Twitter war raged on throughout Wednesday night, before Zuker finally bailed out.

This isn't the first time Trump has taken to Twitter to share his opinions. He's used the social media network to blast everyone from President Barack Obama to baseball player Alex Rodriguez, and frequently uses it to talk politics with his more than 2 million followers.

The day after his latest Twitter battle with Zuker, Trump tweeted some advice to his followers.

Unless, of course, someone attacks you on Twitter, that is!

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/donald-trump-modern-family-written-moron-6C10315938

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Fox Finishes Upfronts With Slightly Lower Take

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ACLU files suit over NSA surveillance, citing 'chilling effect'

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a complaint in a New York district court this afternoon that says the US government's practice of obtaining secret warrants to trawl through vast amounts of American phone records ? what it calls "dragnet acquisition" ? "is akin to snatching every American?s address book ? with annotations detailing whom we spoke to, when we talked, for how long, and from where."

The ACLU named five defendants, who are some of the most powerful people in the US intelligence community and the Obama administration: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; Director of the NSA Keith Alexander; Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel; Attorney General Eric Holder; and FBI Director Robert Mueller.

The organization says that since the US government confirmed an order issued by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court six weeks ago requiring phone carrier Verizon to turn over metadata relating to the calls made by all of its subscribers to the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI, and that since the ACLU is a Verizon customer, that it has standing to contest the legality of the government's behavior.

"Government officials have indicated that the [Verizon] order is part of a program that has been in place for seven years and that collects records of all telephone communications of every customer of a major phone company, including Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint," the ACLU writes in its complaint, which is also supported by the New York Civil Liberties Union. "The government?s surveillance of their communications ... allows the government to learn sensitive and privileged information about their work and clients, and it is likely to have a chilling effect on whistle blowers and others who would otherwise contact Plaintiffs for legal assistance."

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The ACLU says the practice violates the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech and assembly, and the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. They also say it violates Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which the government says has made its searches legal.

From the moment that the Verizon warrant was reported in a scoop by The Guardian of the UK earlier this week, challenges over government surveillance practices on constitutional grounds seemed inevitable. The ACLU suit today makes no mention of the PRISM program, in which the government has been accessing the online habits of customers of companies like Microsoft and Google.

The ACLU complains that Section 215 of the Patriot Act has made it too easy for the US government to go on fishing expeditions through Americans' phone records, while also shielding the government from effective external review of its actions.

"Section 215 also relaxed the standard that the FBI is required to meet to obtain an order to seize these records. Previously, FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] required the FBI to present to the FISC 'specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that the person to whom the records pertain [was] a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power.' In its current form, Section 215 requires only that the records or things sought be 'relevant' to an authorized investigation 'to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a United States person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities,? the organization writes.

The ACLU also complains that orders issued under the section are accompanied by gag orders and that while companies (Verizon, say) have the right to appeal the gag, "the FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] must treat the government?s claim 'that disclosure may endanger the national security of the United States or interfere with diplomatic relations ... as conclusive.' " The ACLU says that at any rate, the government has exceeded the limitations of Section 215 with its mass order to Verizon and perhaps other companies.

In addition to asking the court to declare the surveillance a violation of Section 215 and unconstitutional, the ACLU is also seeking a court order requiring the "defendants to purge from their possession all of the call records of Plaintiffs' communications in their possession collected pursuant to the Mass Call Tracking."

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Naomi Watts gets royal treatment in 'Diana' trailer

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Randee Dawn TODAY contributor

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Princess Diana fans, bow down: Your "Diana" feature film movie trailer is ready for viewing. It's lush and all-too-brief, but it does set the stage for telling the tale of the late princess, who died in 1997 in a car accident while fleeing paparazzi.

The real question the trailer poses, however, is whether Naomi Watts can carry off the unique, enigmatic portrayal of the "people's princess."

The minute-long trailer does her no favors: She's not even seen head-on until halfway through. Until then, Diana is seen from nearly every other angle -- back, above, partially shot while sliding into a car. Her hair is appropriately period-fluffy, her dresses regal and tailored. She's on the red carpet, she's thronged by crowds and photographers, she's wearing a helmet with a Red Cross symbol on it, she's running.

Then that familiar head turns -- and it's Naomi Watts, not Diana. Watts is a solid actress with two Oscar nominations, but there's not much physical resemblance other than hair and eye color. But does that matter?

Audiences will be able to decide for themselves in September about the film, which focuses on the last two years of Diana's life -- her post-Buckingham palace, European jet-setter, privacy-seeking final years.

Meanwhile, let us know what you think in the survey below!

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Palestinian president appoints new prime minister

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ? The Palestinian president Abbas on Sunday picked a little-known academic as his new prime minister, according to the official government news agency, following the resignation of his chief rival.

Mahmoud Abbas appointed Rami Hamdallah to replace Salam Fayyad, a respected U.S.-educated economist. Fayyad frequently clashed with Abbas and was seen as being too independent.

Appointing Hamdallah is likely to shore up the president's power, because he is seen as being more pliant. The new prime minister was tasked with forming a new government of technocrats, not politicians.

Hamdallah is a member of the Fatah Party led by Abbas. He has no prior political or government experience.

Like Fayyad, Hamdallah is widely respected.

He is a British-educated English professor and has been dean of the Palestinian al-Najah University in the West Bank for the past 15 years. He has served as the secretary general of the Palestinian central elections commission since 2002. He has also held a series of prominent roles in university associations, according to his curriculum vitae, published on the al-Najah University website.

It was not clear how the move would affect the international standing of Abbas. Fayyad enjoyed wide support of the international community, particularly the United States, for moving to clean up the Palestinians' unwieldy bureaucracy and clamping down on corruption during his six years in power.

The move comes as the U.S. tries to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

As part of the effort, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hopes to win Israeli approval for Palestinian economic projects in the West Bank. Fayyad, a respected economist, was considered key to overseeing the projects.

The appointment meant that Palestinians are unlikely to head to elections any time soon, keeping Abbas in power as head of the Palestinian Authority, the Western-backed government has a measure of self-rule over Palestinians in the West Bank. His term was supposed to end in 2009.

Palestinians have faced political stagnation since the Islamic militant Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip five years ago. Efforts to heal the rift and hold elections in both territories have repeatedly failed.

Hamas officials swiftly condemned the appointment a new prime minister without their consultation and said the move had no legal standing.

"This Cabinet does not represent the Palestinian people," said Hamas government spokesman Taher al-Nunu. "The status of the new Cabinet is illegal."

Israel had no comment.

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On the web: www.najah.edu/page/934

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Pacers' Hibbert fined for comments

MIAMI (AP) ? Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert was fined $75,000 on Sunday by the NBA for using a gay slur and cursing during his news conference after Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals.

Hibbert also apologized for the comments.

"While Roy has issued an apology, which is no doubt sincere, a fine is necessary to reinforce that such offensive comments will not be tolerated by the NBA," Commissioner David Stern said in a statement.

Earlier Sunday, the team issued a statement from Hibbert in which he said he was sorry for his "insensitive remarks."

"They were disrespectful and offensive and not a reflection of my personal views," he said in the statement. "I used a slang term that is not appropriate in any setting, private or public, and the language I used definitely has no place in a public forum, especially over live television."

After Saturday night's win, Hibbert ended a response to a question about his defense on Miami's LeBron James with "no homo," a phrase that implies fear of appearing gay. He also called reporters an offensive term.

Before departing for Miami, where Game 7 will be played Monday night, Pacers coach Frank Vogel told reporters he had already spoken with Hibbert and described the 2012 All-Star center as "contrite." Players were not available Sunday.

With the series tied at three games apiece and a trip to the NBA Finals at stake Monday, distractions are the last thing this young Pacers squad needs as it tries to prevent the Heat from making what many expected to be a stroll into their third straight NBA Finals. The Pacers have appeared in the finals only once, in 2000, when they lost in six games to the Los Angeles Lakers.

So Vogel did what he could to calm down the brewing controversy while still backing the big man who has given Indiana this chance by routinely beating up the defending NBA champions inside.

"It's simple. I support him. I know he's not that person and that it was a mistake," Vogel said. "He knows he's wrong. I didn't have to tell him that and we all love and support him."

Hibbert said Saturday night that he didn't care if he got fined. In his statement Sunday, he said, "I sincerely have deep regret over my choice of words last night."

Hibbert had drawn a key charge on James in Indiana's 91-77 victory that evened the series and lamented not providing enough help defensively to teammate Paul George on James in Game 3.

Hibbert was later asked why he finished so low in voting for Defensive Player of the Year, telling reporters that it was "because y'all (expletives) don't watch us play throughout the year, to tell you the truth."

There was some irony in that Hibbert was sharing the dais with George when he said those words. George was the NBA's Most Improved Player this season, as selected earlier this spring by a voting panel of writers and broadcasters who cover the league.

The 7-foot-2 Hibbert's star turn has been a major reason Indiana has pushed the defending champion Heat to a Game 7. He has averaged 22.8 points and 10.8 rebounds in the series, up from 11.9 points and 8.3 rebounds in the regular season.

But now, suddenly, the Pacers' big man who has been the talk of the series has become the center of attention for a different reason.

"Obviously, he made a great mistake. He feels horribly about it," Vogel said. "I told him, basically, that we've got to move on from it."

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