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At the end of the day I believe that every citizen should be able to live and work according to their convictions without fear the government will come in and force them to do something contrary to their sincerely held religious beliefs; but the nuance between a valid conscientious objection and an arbitrary refusal of service lies in the difference between material cooperation with an act and the superficial involvement with it such as refusing to dispense abortifacients for example which might actually prevent an abortion from happening. However, refusing to bake a wedding cake on the other hand, is just an unnecessary irritation that makes Christians and Christianity appear bigoted, intolerant, and petty.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence, with his super majority of republicans behind him, signed the Indiana Religious Freedom Act into law on March 26th, saying it ensures that religious liberty is “fully protected under Indiana law.” The legislation declares that state and local governments may not “substantially burden” a person’s right to the exercise of religion unless it is demonstrated that doing so is “essential to further a compelling governmental interest” and uses “the least restrictive” means to further that interest. What does this mean in layman terms? It means that if a business, for example, wants to refuse service to you based on their personal religious beliefs, they can do so with impunity and the government will not do anything about it unless it’s in its best interest to do so. This law is bad for the state of Indiana, bad for Hoosiers, and bad for business, plain and simple.

One of the challenges of living in a liberal society is that you have to be willing to get along with others who may not live according to your moral values or lifestyle. It is an inevitability of an enlightened people that there will be instances where personal or visceral disagreements that are based on ideological, religious, philosophical or academic beliefs will happen. However, a part of the inherent social contract that we all accept and adhere to as citizens of this country is that we agree not to force others to act in accord with our own personal beliefs.

I think it is vitally important to recognize that an individual's right to act according to their conscience should be protected under the law. However, the choice of an individual to have an abortion should not also give them the right to force someone else to participate in a process that another individual believes is tantamount to homicide. This is just one example of what would be a serious violation of an individual’s freedom of religion.

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viable. Put a notice on your door or window in plain sight so all of us can see whom you will or will not serve and see how it works for you. I have been contacted recently by a few mainstream businesses asking how they can demonstrate that they will not discriminate against gays. They want to form a march called “Wewillserveno hate” and they want our support and yet none have ever advertised their businesses with any LGBT publications nor have they ever supported any pride event. To those, I challenge you to demonstrate your solidarity against SB101 by taking action and showing your support in real terms.

The Word, under my leadership will continue to stand up and shine light on those that seek to hide behind closed doors and lurk in the shadows of ignorance and intolerance. We will seek out and expose those who want to turn back the clock on social advances that benefit our society as a whole and we will continue to encourage the fair-minded and good people of Indiana to step out of the background and get off the sidelines and be a part of the process by voting. We all must work hard to ensure that we continue reminding our elected officials that they have been elected to serve and protect ALL of the people of our state.

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The past year has been a stellar one for Hollywood, with something to appeal to just about every taste in movies: action blockbusters (American Sniper, Hunger Games, Guardians of the Galaxy), critical favorites (Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Theory of Everything), and low-key, independent sleepers (Mr. Turner, Whiplash, Boyhood).

While watching and listening to movies in eye-popping 3-D and wrap-around stereo in large, air-conditioned theaters is still the norm for most people in North America, there are so many outlets for movie-watching these days that you no longer need to leave the comfort of your own home to enjoy films. DVDs (especially through 24-hour-a-day vendors like Redbox, often situated outside grocery stores, all-night pharmacies, and shopping malls) are still popular, but you still have to leave the house to get them, sometimes in the rain or snow!

Streaming films online provides you with greater choice, access, and immediacy than multiplexes or vendors like Redbox. If you feel like watching a horror film, hey presto! You can find a ‘70s classic like The Exorcist or the latest gory splatter film. If you want a romance or a musical, you can choose from Hollywood’s Golden Age of Cinema or a brand new LGBT independent film. Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, HBO Go, Hulu, YouTube, and dozens of free online channels provide more films than anyone could possibly see in a lifetime. All at your fingertips—24/7.

The downside, of course, is that you still have to pay for the privilege of watching movies online—one way or another. HBO Go is free as long as you are an HBO cable subscriber; Netflix charges a flat monthly fee for its services; Amazon Prime (which you have to join to access Amazon Instant Video) charges an annual fee, plus add-ons for new releases and popular films. Crackle and other channels are free but run commercials every ten minutes or so, making watching a feature length film painful.

Another drawback to watching films in the comfort of your home is that you are limited by your hardware. If you have a 60” flat screen TV with a surround sound entertainment unit, and you like action films, then great! It’s almost like watching at a multiplex. But, if (like me) you prefer quieter, more reflective movies, size doesn’t matter so much. I am happy watching a comedy on my iPhone. The jokes sound just as funny. And for most movies, a reasonably sized TV screen works just fine.

For example, I saw Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel on the big screen last year, and watching them again recently on my TV screen, using Amazon Instant Video, the experience was just as enjoyable.

When the Oscars came around in February, I was really torn because I loved Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel so much. I wanted both to sweep as many categories as possible. Michael Keaton is fabulous as the embittered former Hollywood actor who tries to resurrect his flagging career with a Broadway production of an obscure play in Birdman. As Riggan Thomson, Keaton is a walking time bomb—neurotic, insomniac, prone to drunken binges and temper tantrums. Ralph Fiennes also gives a tour-de-force master class as the suave and dapper Monsieur Gustave H. in The Grand Budapest Hotel. Both films utilize exceptional ensemble casts, and while Birdman is dark and satirical, Wes Anderson’s film is witty, charming, and just as off-the-wall as all of his previous films.

Birdman is simply a stunning film on every level. The script is razor sharp and understatedly funny. The dialogue sounds like real people talking, even when they are talking pretentiously. The small ensemble cast (Keaton, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough, and Emma Stone) is near flawless, giving the kind of intimate, up-close performances that are usually confined to the theatre. But this IS theater—theatre masquerading as film.

Visually, the film is visceral and energizing. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu planned to shoot Birdman in one single take. While some manipulation has been done in the cutting room, the film has, for the most part, the feeling of one seamless, continuous shot. This gives the film an immediacy and intimacy that is breathtaking. It also captures the emotional and psychological constriction that is suffocating Keaton’s

character.

On one level Birdman is a satire that takes on the superficiality of modern popular culture, skewering our pretensions and petty obsession with trivial things. But as it chronicles Riggan Thomson’s struggle to redefine himself through his work and relationships, to find relevance in an increasingly meaningless world, it becomes a very serious and very important work of art. It tells an emotionally engaging story of redemption, renewal, and hope.

The Grand Budapest Hotel is much lighter in tone than Birdman, but no less artfully constructed. A nod to classic Hollywood filmmaking as well as a hommage to European cinema, it combines elements of the murder-mystery, art-heist, and jailbreak film with political intrigue, insurrection, and war. There is romance and comedy a-plenty, with a more specific tip of the hat to the ever-popular “buddy” movie.

Infused with nostalgia for an age of lost innocence, the film also harks back to a time when people and places seemed more elegant and sophisticated. As in all of Anderson’s previous films, the plot of The Grand Budapest Hotel is loopily convoluted and mannered but the writer-director’s control of his material is steady and self-assured. He leads the audience down dark, comically twisted passages and we are happy to follow. The story is a house of cards of bizarrely interconnected incidents and Anderson is a master of the visual and thematic non sequitur.In its mélange of narrative and visual styles, the film draws comparisons with Bunuel, the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, and Lars von Trier. Like Maddin and von Trier, Anderson’s films often play fast and loose with geography and history, but are very much grounded in actual places and real historical periods.

The film’s ensemble cast almost reads as a Who’s Who of American, British, and international cinema: Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Saoirse Ronan, Tom Wilkinson, and Bob Balaban. There are also cameos by Anderson alumni like Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and George Clooney (in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot).

Even with such a stellar cast enmeshed in a thrillingly entertaining tale, it is the eponymous hotel that steals each and every scene. The Grand Budapest Hotel is simply breathtaking.

If you didn’t get a chance to catch Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel when they were in theaters, and you don’t welcome the idea of trekking to the local video store, you can check out these Oscar-winners and others on Amazon Instant Video, HBO Go, iTunes, and Netflix. Enjoy!

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Summer is on the doorstep. That means a lot of us will be shedding long sleeve gear and diving into shorts. And that means exposing arms, legs, and in some cases, chests which have been covered. It also means showing what’s on those arms, legs and chests. I’m referring to tattoos here and if you have any you regret having done (A dare? A few too many drinks? A service thing? A former lover’s name?) and know how hard they are to ever get totally rid of, you will know what it’s like to get rid of a 15-year-plus e-mail address.

Yes, this column’s about our online ID and not about that ink on your (or your friend’s) leg or arm...but it is about the fact that just as you might regret having that ink but are stuck with it, your online persona may be stuck with an old e-mail for a long, long time.

As regular readers know, I sold my business, including this newspaper, back in the Spring. I thought it would be little bother to turn over the old domain name and e-mails associated to new owners. Fortunately, they have been great at forwarding errant e-mails to me, because now, weeks after they took over, companies are still sending me offers from stores I never shop with and my bank is writing to my old e-mail.

So what happened? And more importantly what to do?

Ah, where to start. I thought I had the right idea when I sent out notice to my whole e-mailing list. That’s the one of friends, companies I do business with and places I need (like that aforementioned bank, health insurance, etc.) weeks before the change was due.

I told them all “Hey this is my new address, it’s turned on and you can use it now.” As is the case with anything, a few “early adopters” changed immediately, but that left at least 20, most days closer to 50, e-mails from all over the place still thinking I was where I have been for way over a decade.

Next step: Print cards with my photo, the new address, and phone. Did I mention the buyers also got the office phone I’ve used for most of my calls for over 20 years? Call it: they will be glad to sell you an ad or have your news!

Anyway, I figured handing the cards out would solve a lot of the problem — but it didn’t. I was still getting ads for discount bicycles, bras and stuff I won’t describe in a family newspaper — though I was getting fewer. The issue here is that while I shop at their local stores, the e-mail lists are often kept in some far-off places like Albany, India or Frackville (Yes, it’s a real town in Pennsylvania. Look it up!) That meant the well-meaning locals knew where I was but not the folks keeping the lists, despite notifying them.

Next step: Go through all the errant e-mails and see where they are coming from. Places (like the bike shop, where I bought a friend a Fuji mountain bike for Christmas in 2012 and got added to their list) I never go to or need ads from all have an “unsub-scribe” button on every ad. Look for it. It’s usually in TINY type at the VERY bottom of their e-mail or web pages. Click it and you should be unsubscribed. Yeah! No more ads for mountain bikes!

Doing that got rid of half of what was left, but what about the ones I am still (as of this writing) getting? Those — like that tattoo — are the real challenges. And like telling someone the name of their boyfriend in 1997 or their ship when they served in 2000 in tats are pretty irrelevant to most of us, trying to tell a best friend in Louisville or my Aunt Doris in Tulsa that the old address is no longer valid is a tough sell.

One old friend who sent some photos (of us in the 1960s as we do go back that far) got genuinely upset when I reminded him again of the change and told me “I’m trying to survive cancer. I apologise...” I did not have a reply for that and know if it takes a few more weeks the great new friends who bought the paper will continue to send along his letters.

But this being 2015 it’s not ONLY about e-mails from friends or ads. Your e-mail address is everything from your discount card for the grocery or drugstore to your boarding pass to fly and the way you get into iTunes and Netflix. That’s a lot of places you need to change, correct and re-do. When it came to my iTunes it was particularly difficult as I have accounts and credits in several different iTunes stores. There’s one for most every nation on earth and some apps (free and pay) are only in certain ones. For instance, if you wanna watch ABC (Australian Broadcasting Co.) shows or BBC iPlayer from the UK you’ll need their respective apps and a VPN (virtual Private Net-work) which we have talked about many times here and which “fools” their server into thinking you are in Melbourne or Perth or Glasgow while you actually are in Portland or Dayton. This bypasses “geographic restrictions” but creates a lot of places you will need to tell you are “moving”.

Each iTunes store demands a unique e-mail. And then there’s the matter of passwords. My iTunes U.S. account was so early that I had only six digits in it...but these days they (like most sites) have a demand for eight or more with “special characters”, upper and lower case and on and on. Suffice to say changing it once was a hassle, but changing it multiple times was a Xanax moment!

But wait...I am still not done. If you Tweet, Facebook or otherwise use social networks you will need to inform them, too. And I’ll still bet Aunt Doris won’t quite get it for awhile since she’s past 80 now.

So how do you make a possible change less painful? First, do not use your company or work e-mail to sign up for anything but legit work stuff. That way if you quit, retire, get fired or leave you won’t be locked out of all the items you need and want. Chang-ing your e-mail with things you want to keep usually means every contact will send a confirmation e-mail to the old and new address. These all ask if you REALLY did want the change and some have a link you will need to click to verify that yes, it’s really you and yes, you really do mean to switch.

If that link is sent to an address you have no access to, you won’t get it. That means no Netflix, iTunes or other sites until you start over or hassle with a lot of folks for a long time. Luckily, I did not have that take place thanks to the kind folks who bought my business, but in most cases it may not be near as friendly. Now, weeks on am still seeing four or five daily e-mails forwarded to me from my sold account. If you lose a job or get downsized, you might well find yourself locked out of that company e-mail within minutes, so do not use it for your personal stuff. The boss will like that and you will, too. And do not think this can’t or won’t happen. Right now, while you can access everything is the time to spend a few hours changing. Like insurance it’s just good common sense.

So where to go? What address to use that’s truly yours? Well, most providers (like U-Verse, at&t, your cable company, etc.) usually give you a free address or two with your plan. Not many of us actually use those (and you can lose that, too, if you change pro-viders causing issues as above). Or you can buy a domain name. Why not be [email protected]? If that’s taken try annlouisville.com or ann.(and your college name).com or .net or something cute or memorable. Doing this costs anywhere from $5 to $25 depending what you pick and where you buy your domain. We use bigrock.com but godaddy.com and many others exist and all know what’s available and what’s taken. Give ‘em a look.

Or get a free Yahoo, Outlook.com or Gmail account. Those cost nothing and while they are just the “big three” there are hundreds of other free e-mail spots out there so do a search. But however you do it, get one (or two) addresses which are all your own and cannot be taken at the whim of a boss or by a corporate sale (or corporate name change) or anyone else easily. If you do that now and change the things (and people) you really need or want to find you all you will need to give up “if and when” will be the real work stuff.

Trust me. I know. And now if you will excuse me, I’ll tell you I need to call my bank again and see if I can get hold of Aunt Doris since I’m sure she’s trying to text me on my land line. But that is an entirely different topic for another column.


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