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8 DAILY PLANNER Today
Hinckley HEA: Morning unit of the Homemakers Education Association. For meeting time and location, call Sandi at 815-2867191. Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org. Weekly Ladies’ Brunch: 8 a.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Cost for these women-only events is $4 for food and conversation, along with bottomless cups of coffee or tea. Back To Basics AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Feed My Sheep Food Pantry: 10 a.m. to noon at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1915 N. First St. in DeKalb. All are welcome. Open Closet: 5 to 7 p.m. at 300 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. Clothes and shoes for men, women and children. 815-758-1388. Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. weigh-in and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. meeting, Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Call Lydia Johnson, chapter leader, at 815-895-4618. Courage, Attitude, Resources & Encouragement Support Group – CARE: 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Kishwaukee Health Care, 2727 Sycamore Road in DeKalb. CARE is for patients with cancer or other serious illness and for family members. www.kishhospital.org. Keep It Simple AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. One Day Café AA(C): 6 p.m. at Waterman United Methodist Church, 210 W. Garfield St., 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. La Leche League of DeKalb County: 6 p.m. at the Goodwill Industries store Community Room, 1037 S. Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb. All breast-feeding moms can share encouragement and support. Contact: Dawn, 815-517-1067; www.lllusa.org/IL/ WebDeKalbIL.html. Weight Watchers: 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:30 p.m. meeting Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb. DeKalb County Democratic Party: 6:30 p.m. social time and meeting at 7 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 158 N. 4th St., DeKalb. For more information, email Mark Pietrowski Jr., Chair, at markpietrowski@gmail.com, call 815-762-2054 or visit www. dekalbcountydemocrats.org. Homework Help Nights: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Neighbors’ House, Fifth and Pine streets, DeKalb. Free help for DeKalb 4th- to 12thgraders; neighborshouse@tbc.net or 815-787-0600. DeKalb County Amateur Radio Emergency Service: 7 p.m. on 146.73 megahertz. For information, call Bill Itter (N9EWA) at 815-895-2020. DeKalb County Marines Corps League, officers, detachment and auxiliary: 7 p.m. at Sycamore Veterans Home, 121 S. California St. For information, contact Peter May at sneakypete2@hotmail. com or 815-761-7732, or call 815756-6625. www.dekalbcountymarines.com. Sandwich Steppers AA(C): 7 p.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Mothers and More Program Night: 7 p.m. at Ben Gordon Center Community Room, 12 Health Services Drive, DeKalb. All mothers are invited. To RSVP, email mothersandmoredekalbcounty@gmail.com or visit www. mothersandmore.org/chapters/ DekalbCounty. Free Fit Club: 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Sycamore Community Center, 138 Fair St., Sycamore. Featuring rotating cardio or yoga programs from various Beachbody workouts like P90X, Insanity, Turbo Fire, Body Gospel, Turbo Jam, Hip Hop Abs, Rev Abs and many others. Call 815-901-4474 or 815-5663580 for more information. A Friend Of Bill’s AA(C): 8 p.m. at Resource Bank, 310 S. Route 23, Genoa, 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Closed Discussion AA: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.
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8 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT DAILY-CHRONICLE.COM? Yesterday’s most-commented stories:
Yesterday’s most-viewed stories:
1. Obama: Gun control specifics to come within days 2. Letter: Don’t water down Constitutional rights 3. Petition for national gun safety effort gains NIU’s support
1. Officers tour police station construction site in DeKalb 2. Report: 1 in 3 Illinoisans living in or near poverty 3. Sycamore defends fuel tax deal with United Airlines
Yesterday’s Reader Poll results:
Today’s Reader Poll question:
Do you think there are more people living in poverty in your community today than there were five years ago? Yes: 83 percent No, there are less: 4 percent It’s about the same: 13 percent
Vol. 135 No. 15
What do you think of the Bears’ choice of Marc Trestman as their next head coach? • Love it • It’s OK • Hate it • Don’t know yet
Total votes: 188
Vote online at Daily-Chronicle.com
Situations shape feelings about news I read an interesting story this week about the effect the sluggish economy is having on recent college graduates. The story said that although grads are experiencing trouble finding jobs, they have an easier time than job searchers with only a high school diploma. I read this story from my current perspective, as a college graduate seeking an additional degree. Then I remembered back to the time when I wasn’t sure if I would get my bachelor’s degree. I was one of those job-seekers with just a high school diploma. I read the story again. It felt different to me. I had actively framed the story from a different perspective, one I had once had. The information seemed to tell me something else. When I had read the story from the perspective of a college graduate, it made me feel hopeful and secure. When I read it again, pretending to be a high school graduate, it made me feel worried and defensive. As if I had made a bad decision. It is interesting the way information can make different people feel. In fact, much of the information presented by the media affects the public disparately. This is an especially common perceived trait in times when news consumers complain that the media promotes nothing but a gloomy outlook. Did you get a flu shot this season? As waves of reports indicate that
CAMPUS VIEW Lauren Stott this flu season is one of the worst the United States has seen in years, those of us who have gotten the shot are probably feeling confident. The same news story about the severe flu season that makes the vaccinated feel more confident probably is making those people who didn’t get the shot nervous and worried. The story is the same; it is just being read by people whose experiences and perspectives help them frame it differently. Journalists work hard to present news and information effectively to their audience. Local newspapers typically frame news from a geographic perspective, hoping to appeal to readers in a way that is useful for their coverage area. A liberal news organization will frame information in a way very different from the way a conservative outlet will. A story’s angle as determined by the news outlet can make it more interesting, useful and valuable to a reader. But regardless of how stories are carefully framed by the media, readers also frame the stories using their opinions or experiences. The story I read about joblessness
rates of recent college graduates was in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Although many people reading it probably have college degrees, their experiences can change their perspective, also. Someone with a college degree who is employed probably feels satisfied with his choice to go to college. Another reader, who has a degree but no job, might be feeling remorseful or resentful about the state of his career. It is important for readers to recognize not just how a story makes them feel, but why it makes them feel that way. Is there more to be learned about themselves or about the subject? Not only can we recognize our feelings toward information, we can use our attitudes proactively as a catalyst for positive change. Don’t like your chances of getting to spring flu-free? Get the vaccine. Concerned that your educational status isn’t helping with your job search? Research college options, or look at alternative ways of improving your employment outlook. Don’t let what is typically perceived as bad news continue to be a negative. Instead, trade it for a positive change.
• Lauren Stott is a Maple Park native and a graduate student at Northern Illinois University in the master of public administration program. She can be reached at lauren_stott@yahoo. com.
8 TODAY’S TALKER
Will torture scenes hurt ‘ZDT’ Oscar chances? By CHRISTY LEMIRE The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – A few weeks ago, “Zero Dark Thirty” seemed well on its way to capturing the Academy Award for best picture. It was winning early critic awards and gaining the kind of momentum a movie needs to win Hollywood’s biggest prize. Much was made about the authenticity of the film by director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who used insider access to tell the sweeping, meticulously detailed story of the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. Then last week, “Zero Dark Thirty” won five Academy Award nominations, including for best picture, and this past weekend, it was No. 1 at the domestic box office with a gross of nearly $25 million. Yet what may be the film’s biggest challenge in the pursuit of Oscar glory is playing out from Hollywood to Washington as debate mounts over the film’s accuracy in its depiction of torture and whether the movie itself endorses the use of torture. Lawmakers are also investigating whether the CIA gave Bigelow and Boal false information as to whether enhanced interrogation tactics led directly to the 2011 capture and killing of the al-
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Jessica Chastain plays a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives stationed in a covert base overseas who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama bin Laden in Columbia Pictures’ new thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty.” Qaida leader in Pakistan. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to nominate Bigelow for director, and on Sunday night, “Zero Dark Thirty” received only one Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association – for best actress Jessica Chastain’s portrayal of a driven CIA operative. Could congressional scrutiny over such an emotionally charged issue as
torture be affecting “Zero Dark Thirty’s” awards momentum? Will the bicoastal backlash ultimately prevent the film from winning the best picture award when the Oscars are presented on Feb. 24? At least one member of the motion picture academy, David Clennon, has said he will not vote for “Zero Dark Thirty” in any category because of the way it depicts torture.
Conrad Bain of ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ dies at 89 By FRAZIER MOORE The Associated Press
NEW YORK – Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young AfricanAmerican brothers in the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” has died. Bain died Monday of natural causes in his hometown of Livermore, Calif., according to his daughter, Jennifer Bain. He was 89. The show that made him famous debuted on NBC in 1978, an era when television comedies tackled relevant social issues. “Diff’rent Strokes” touched on serious themes but was known better as a family comedy that drew most of its laughs from its standout child actor, Gary Coleman. Bain played wealthy Manhattan widower Philip Drummond, who prom-
ised his dying housekeeper he would raise her sons, played by Coleman and Todd Bridges. Race and class relations became topics on the show as much as the typical trials of growing up. Coleman, with his sparkling eyes and perfect comic timing, became an immediate star, and Bain, with his long training as a theater actor, proved an ideal straight man. The series Conrad Bain lasted six seasons on NBC and two on ABC. In the show’s heyday, Bain didn’t mind being overshadowed by the focus on the show’s children. He praised Coleman and Bridges as natural talents without egos. But “Diff’rent Strokes” is remembered mostly for its child stars’ adult
troubles. Coleman, who died in 2010, had financial and legal problems in addition to continuing ill health from the kidney disease that stunted his growth and required transplants. Bridges and Dana Plato, who played Bain’s teenage daughter, both had arrest records and drug problems, and Plato died of an overdose in 1999 at age 34. Bain said in interviews later that he struggled to talk about his TV children’s troubled lives because of his love for them. After Bridges started to put his drug troubles behind him in the early 1990s, he told Jet magazine that Bain had become like a real father to him. Bain went directly into “Diff’rent Strokes” from another comedy, “Maude,” which aired on CBS from 1972 to 1978.
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8CORRECTIONS
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