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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation304
The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom?
Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen explains that high earners are taking ever more advantage of machine intelligence and achieving ever-better results. Meanwhile, nearly every business sector relies less and less on manual labor, and that means a steady, secure life somewhere in the middle—average—is over.
In Average is Over, Cowen lays out how the new economy works and identifies what workers and entrepreneurs young and old must do to thrive in this radically new economic landscape.
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his book is far from all good news. Being young and having no job remains stubbornly common. Wages for young people fortunate enough to get a job have gone down. Inflation-adjusted wages for young high school graduates were 11 percent higher in 2000 than they were more than a decade later, and inflation-adjusted wages of young college graduates (four years only) have fallen by more than 5 percent. Unemployment rates for young college graduates have been running for years now in the neighborhood of 10 percent and underemployment rates near 20 percent. The sorry truth is that a lot of young people are facing diminished job opportunities, even several years after the formal end of the recession in 2009, when the economy began to once again expand after a historic contraction.
Many people are seeing the erosion of their economic futures. The labor market troubles of the young—which you can observe in many countries—are a harbinger of the new world of work to come.
Lacking the right training means being shut out of opportunities like never before.
At the same time, the very top earners, who often have advanced postsecondary degrees, are earning much more. Average is over is the catchphrase of our age, and it is likely to apply all the more to our future.
This maxim will apply to the quality of your job, to your earnings, to where you live, to your education and to the education of your children, and maybe even to your most intimate relationships. Marriages, families, businesses, countries, cities, and regions all will see a greater split in material outcomes; namely, they will either rise to the top in terms of quality or make do with unimpressive results.
These trends stem from some fairly basic and hard-to-reverse forces: the increasing productivity of intelligent machines, economic globalization, and the split of modern economies into both very stagnant sectors and some very dynamic sectors. Consider the iPhone. The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at, indeed great at. Today's iPhone would have been the most powerful computer in the world as recently as 1985. Yet to cite two contrasting sectors, typical air travel doesn't go faster than it did in 1970, and it is not clear our K–12 educational system has much improved.
This imbalance in technological growth will have some surprising implications. For instance, workers more and more will come to be classified into two categories. The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer? Are computers helping people in China and India compete against you?
If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why average is over.
This insight clarifies many key issues, such as how we should reform our education; where new jobs will come from and why (some) wages might start rising again; which regions will see skyrocketing real estate prices and which will empty out; why some companies will get smarter and smarter, while others just try to ship product out the door; which human beings will earn a lot more and which workers will move to low-rent areas to make ends meet; and how shopping, dating, and meeting negotiations will all change.
What lies ahead of us will be a very surprising time, and it is likely that new technologies already emerging will lead us out of what I called in a previous book "the great stagnation." It is true that there has been a persistent slowdown in real economic growth in the Western world and Japan, but this book suggests how that might plausibly change. It is not the new technologies per se; it is how some of us will use them.
The technology of intelligent machines may conjure up science fiction visions of rebellious robots or computers that feel and maybe fall in love or proclaim themselves to be gods. The reality of the progress on the ground is based on an integration of capabilities rather than on any one thing that might be described as "artificial intelligence." What is happening is an increase in the ability of machines to substitute for intelligent human labor, whether we wish to call those machines "AI," "software," "smart phones," "superior hardware and storage," "better integrated systems," or any combination of the above. This is the wave that will lift you or that will dump you.
The fascination with technology and the future of work has inspired some fascinating writings, including Martin Ford's classic The Lights in the Tunnel, the more recent and excellent eBook Race Against the Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, and Ray Kurzweil's futuristic work on how humans will meld with technology. Debates about mechanization periodically resurface, most prominently in the 1930s and in the 1960s but now once again in our new millennium. Average Is Over builds upon these influential works and attempts to go beyond them in terms of detail and breadth. In these pages I paint a vision of a future which at first appears truly strange, but at least to me is also discomfortingly familiar and indeed intuitive. As a blogger and economics writer, I find that the question I receive most often from readers is—by far— something like: "What will the low- and mid-skilled jobs of the future look like?" This question is on everyone's mind with a new urgency but it goes back to David Ricardo and Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century. Ricardo was a leading economist of his time who wrote on "the machinery question," while Babbage was the intellectual father of the modern computer and he—not coincidentally—also wrote on how radical mechanization was going to reshape work.
These questions have reemerged as culturally central because we are at the crux of a technological revolution once again. It's becoming increasingly clear that mechanized intelligence can solve a rapidly expanding repertoire of problems. Solutions began appearing on the margins of the world's interests. Deep Blue, an IBM computer, defeated the then–world champion Garry Kasparov in a chess match in 1997. Watson, a computer program, beat Ken Jennings—the human champion—on Jeopardy! in 2010, surpassing most expectations as to how quickly this would happen. Interesting developments, yes, but the technological news is becoming more central to our concerns.
We're on the verge of having computer systems that understand the entirety of human "natural language," a problem that was considered a very tough one only a few years ago. Just talk to Siri on your iPhone and she is likely to understand your voice, give you the right answer, and help you make an appointment. Siri disappoints with its mistakes and frequently obtuse responses, but it—or its competitors—will improve rapidly with more data and with assistance from crowd-sourced recommendations and improvements. We're close to the point where the available knowledge at the hands of the individual, for questions that can be posed clearly and articulately, is not so far from the knowledge of the entire world. Whether it is through Siri, Google, or Wikipedia, there is now almost always a way to ask and—more importantly—a way to receive the answer in relatively digestible form.
It must be emphasized that every time you use Google you are relying on machine intelligence. Every time Facebook recommends a new friend for you or sends an ad your way. Every time you use GPS to find your way to a party.
Don't write off those robots either, even if they may never pray to God or pass for human beings. In 2011 Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, announced a plan to increase the use of robots in its factories one hundredfold within three years, bringing the total to one million robots. After recent wage increases in China—to levels still low by Western standards—the company doesn't consider its labor so cheap anymore. In the United States as well, the use of industrial robots is booming, and the likely future for North America is that of a coherent economic unit where the United States, Canada, and Mexico band together to make major investments in customized robot production and then use these investments to dominate global manufacturing.
Robot-guided mechanical arms are common in the operating room, and computers spend more time flying our planes than do the pilots. South Korea is experimenting with robotic prison wardens that patrol when the inmates do something wrong and report the misdeeds.
Driverless cars are already operating on the streets of Berlin and Nevada, and Florida and California have passed bills to legalize computer-commanded "driverless cars" on their roads. Google's team has test-driven hundreds of thousands of miles with these cars, so far without an accident or major incident; the one reported five-car pileup happened after a human took over from the computer. Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from The Jetsons; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology works.
There is now a joke that "a modern textile mill employs only a man and a dog—the man to feed the dog, and the dog to keep the man away from the machines."
Software is also encroaching upon journalism. One experiment found that the intelligent mechanized analysis of Narrative Science, a start-up from Illinois, can do a passable job of taking statistics and writing up descriptions of sporting events, company financial reports, and macroeconomic data. These programs won't soon be at the frontier of creative journalism, but they may soon be generating a lot of run-of-the-mill news for purposes of search and storage. They also may take away some jobs: Should the local newspaper really send a reporter down to that minor league baseball game? Software is not only taking a shot at writing essays but also grading them and providing instant feedback on student work in progress, analysis that is well beyond grading multiple-choice quizzes. These programs still need to work out some bugs (a clever student can game them with coherent-sounding nonsense), but they are much further along than we had been expecting five or ten years ago. Writers and teachers need to consider what aspects of their work are better done by intelligent-machine analysis and look closely at the irreplaceable value they do provide.
Date-matching algorithms are steering our love lives and replacing the matchmaker. Match.com recently improved its services, and as of summer 2011 more than half of the emails sent on the service originate from recommended matches, rather than from unaided individual choices. Better algorithms often are seen as the future of the sector, whether or not they really find the best person for us. Arguably the machine recommendations are a way of tricking the user into making a plausible date choice rather than cruising more profiles and postponing a decision; that possibility illustrates our willingness to defer to the machines, even when they aren't necessarily better at the task at hand.
On Netflix, it is now standard for users to consult or follow the system's algorithm for movie choices. We make the choice, but we have a new smart partner when it comes to movie watching.
Some of these developments may end up creeping us out, precisely because they might prove effective. The city of Santa Cruz, California, has already begun using mechanized intelligence to deploy police officers against car and property theft. The program, written by a team of social scientists and two mathematicians, generates predictions about which areas and windows of time are most likely to see property crimes; the model has been published in Journal of the American Statistical Association. As new crimes occur, the predictions are recalibrated daily; it's based on some of the models for predicting aftershocks from earthquakes. The program awaits further study, but this will not be the last attempt to automate crime prevention. The TSA is experimenting with software that tries to detect, by scanning body language, which plane passengers have hostile intentions.
Not each and every one of these innovations will pay off. But let's ask a few questions. First, in which major areas do we see ongoing technological advances exceeding expectations from just a few years ago? Second, in which areas do we see a lot of new and promising technological works in progress? Third, in which areas can we expect the general forces propelling innovation (say globalization or Moore's law that processing power for computers will continue rising at rapid rates) to remain powerful? Finally, can we see evidence that these areas are already influencing economic statistics measuring our nation's well-being? I'll get into more detail on all of these questions, but for now the point is that the areas of the economy identified in the answers to these questions all overlap on one technology: mechanized intelligence. And its effect on economic statistics is trending up.
The next step perhaps is that we will start to see just how well some of these machines can predict our behavior. One of Isaac Asimov's most profound works is his neglected short story Franchise. In this tale democratic elections have become nearly obsolete. Intelligent machines absorb most of the current information about economic and political conditions and estimate which candidate is going to win. (In fact a small number of variables, such as the change in GDP, the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, and the presence of a major war, predict presidential elections pretty well.) In the story, however, the machines can't quite do the job on their own, as there are some ineffable social influences the machines cannot measure and evaluate. The American government thus picks out one "typical" person from the electorate and asks him or her some questions about moods. The answers, combined with the initial computer diagnosis, suffice to settle the election. No one needs to actually vote.
This will sound outrageous to many. It seems to cross a precious line of liberty and freedom. But perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election? The future of technology is likely to illuminate the unsettling implications of how predictable we are and indeed in 2012 political campaigns invested heavily in predicting where to find supporters and important swing districts.
Here is a short paragraph from The New York Times that illustrates where we already have arrived:
As Pole's computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a "pregnancy prediction" score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Tar
get could send coupons timed to very specific stages of
her pregnancy.
The computers crawling over this mountain of records of individual retail sales used an algorithm that recognized pregnant women buying lots of calcium, magnesium, and zinc supplements early in their pregnancies, unscented lotion around the beginning of the second trimester, and hand sanitizer and extra-big bags of cotton balls as they approach the date of delivery.
Whether we like it or not, our sparring partners will use mechanized intelligence during their business contests. When a major negotiation is being conducted, or when potential business partners are being introduced, the interaction will be recorded, processed, and analyzed in real time, just as the genius machine Watson parses a Jeopardy! question. Each party to the communications might receive a real-time report on when the other people are likely lying, what their stress levels are, how detailed their narratives are, who in the group really speaks with authority, and how many first-person pronouns they are using, all based on an analysis of voice data. From this data, and other measurable factors, a program will construct and transmit some kind of "read" on the conversation. The machine doesn't have to reach perfection or even come close, it just has to do better than you.
There is work in progress on using software to detect human lies, based on computer analyses of our voices; Dan Jurafsky of Stanford University and Julia Hirschberg of Columbia University are two leaders in this area. They claim their programs already can detect deception more readily than can human observers; in any case, improvements and refinements stand a good chance of getting us there.
Imagine a vibrating iPhone in one's pocket transmitting signals, based on the computer analysis—a slight vibration indicating each time a lie is told. Or a message could appear in your contact lenses. But it isn't just about the gadgetry. Eventually it will be commonly understood that such analyses are going on in real time. Negotiators will be trained to fool or otherwise throw off the voice-tracking programs. In turn the programs will be improved to keep up with these tactics, setting up a never-ending "arms race" between technologies of deception and detection. And a new kind of sophisticated social interaction will develop. That is bigger news that any new gadget.
Will we see this social interaction prove effective in business negotiations and stop there? Our human curiosity is likely to run its usual courses. There will be new options for calming nerves and doubts on first dates: Does she like me? Is this guy trying to hit on me? Is he actually married? Will she let me kiss her on the cheek? Of course, we won't be able to stop other people from bringing inconspicuous recording and analyzing devices to our face-to-face meetings. Someone will surely try to develop a way to measure the genetic information of the people one is dealing with, as was portrayed in the seminal movie Gattaca.
And then there will be mechanized intelligence in our home. Imagine recording and analyzing scenes from your living room and bedroom. The very idea might be loathsome, and it is probably not useful to see a running prediction on the likelihood of mom and dad staying together as a couple. But could you avoid the temptation to take a peek at that number every now and then?
We may tend to think of mechanized intelligent analysis as primarily useful in judging other people, but it will also have the potential to promote self-knowledge. During a date, a woman might consult a pocket device in the ladies' room that tells her how much she really likes the guy. The machine could register her pulse, breathing, tone of voice, the level of detail in her narrative, or whichever biological features prove to have predictive power.
Self-scrutiny doesn't have to be restricted to matters of the heart. Which products do we really like or really notice? How are we responding to advertisements when we see them? Consult your pocket device. There is currently a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Department of Defense) project called "Cortically Coupled Computer Vision." The initial applications help analysts scan satellite photos or help a soldier-driver navigate dangerous terrain in a Jeep. Basically, the individual wears some headgear and the device measures neural signals whenever the individual experiences a particular kind of subconscious alert (Danger! or, Salt! or, Familiar!). Someday we will be able to dispense with the headgear or otherwise make the device less burdensome and less conspicuous. You will be able to walk down the aisle of a shopping mall or scan a window in a store, and the device will record and note whichever products grabbed your attention. You could program it to prompt you at the time or to store the information, with appropriate tags, for future reference, perhaps combined with a web search for appropriate coupons.
If you're not interested, the store probably will be. Your shopping cart will use GPS to track your moves through the store, including which aisles you visit most often. Or they can track you by video and smart cameras, using face recognition technology to aggregate data across your different store visits. Stores have even started to use cameras on test subjects to track shoppers' retinas, to see how and when they notice products, or to lock on to cell phone signals and track and analyze shoppers' movements. When you enter the store, they will promise you a discount, but only if you run your card through the cart and identify yourself. Many will grab the discount, just as they participate in frequent-shopper programs, even though it means the food company knows what they are buying. They'd rather have the lower prices than the privacy—as indeed would I.
There are already pilot projects along these lines. Companies have discovered that if the first product seems cheaper than expected, the customer is more trusting, and more willing to spend, for the duration of the shopping trip. So if the intelligent machines spot you coming in the door and heading to the gourmet chocolate, maybe there will be a quite temporary sale, communicated by electronic sensors—for your benefit, of course.
It's easy to see how comparable developments, as applied to analyzing human behavior and intentions, could thwart a lot of relationships or business deals in the works. The sorry truth is that if we knew all or even some of the bad things about our prospective partners, we might be so cautious that we never take a romantic leap. As it stands, the world is set up to overreact to negative information, as even a whiff of scandal causes us to lose trust in other individuals. We will need some significant cultural changes to make do with an increase in the "warts and all" coverage that mechanized intelligent analysis will soon be delivering about virtually all notable public figures and many private individuals too. What if a woman's pocket device reported during the bathroom break that her date smiled at the waitress for a little too long? Sometimes the guy is a creep who should be dumped, but, well, in this particular case, maybe not. The positive illusions (all our children are above average) that help get us through everyday life could so easily wither in the face of sangfroid machine critiques. Not this year or next year, but most likely within our lifetimes.
Smart software is already used to ferret out phony web reviews on sites such as Amazon and TripAdvisor. A team of Cornell researchers discovered how to spot phony reviews about 90 percent of the time. The paid-for fake reviews use too many superlatives, too many vague evaluations, and not enough detailed descriptions, and they also use the words "I" and "me" more often, perhaps as a substitute for knowing what they are talking about. In due time the fake reviews will evolve and will be harder to spot by these older methods, and the fake-spotting software will have to catch up— another ongoing arms race.
Similarly, researchers are working on how to spot the liars in online dating, so we can expect software to follow suit. Preliminary results suggest that liar profiles avoid the use of the word "I" (the opposite of liar user reviews), use lots of negation (they write "not sad" rather than "happy"), and they write shorter self-descriptions, presumably to avoid having to manage and keep all the lies consistent. Profile writers who are lying about their age or weight tend to devote more space to boasting about their personal achievements. Expect improvement in our abilities to nail the cheaters.
It is no accident that we are seeing so many signs of significant progress in mechanized intelligent analysis, albeit in varying stages of maturity. First, Moore's law about ongoing advances in processing speed has continued to pay off, with no immediate end in sight. Second, the machine intelligence sector is largely unregulated. If you compare it to health care as a world-altering, stagnation-ending breakthrough industry, regulatory obstacles are a far greater problem for pharmaceutical companies and for hospitals than for the likes of Google, Amazon, and Apple. Health care, with its physician licensing, Byzantine hospital regulations, and FDA approval process, also makes most of its changes quite slowly, for better or worse. It's not just about the laws, but also because doctors and patients often have very conservative or moralistic views about how health care should be done; just look at the recent controversies over stem cell treatments and genetic engineering. Health care is an ethical minefield and arguably we should be especially cautious when evaluating new medical and institutional breakthroughs. In any case, we can expect slower progress.
When it comes to mechanized intelligent analysis, patent law can be a problem but for the most part the paths forward are relatively free of regulatory obstacles. Some applications, such as driverless cars, do face potential lawsuits; for instance, imagine the first time an out-of-control driverless car runs down a child. The parents would likely sue the deep-pocketed company that made the car, in addition to suing the owner of the car and maybe also the person who programmed the software of the car. Given this likelihood, there may be delays in turning the cars into marketable products. Maybe it will happen first in some part of the world far less litigious than the United States.
Still, very often entrepreneurs and scientists can do the work behind smarter machines, and develop usable products, without needing much special permission from the powers that be. Deep Blue and Watson and Siri were brought to the world without facing many regulatory or legal barriers. Technological progress slows down when there are too many people who have the right to say no, but software in general gets around a lot of the traditional veto points. The key work is done in the individual mind and with relatively small teams and in computer code, and it's hard to hold back the innovations by law or custom.
So how does this new world change what young people should expect from their work lives?
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Table of Contents
Part I Welcome to the Hyper-Meritocracy
1 Work and Wages in iWorld 3
2 The Big Earners and the Big Losers 19
3 Why Are So Many People Out of Work? 45
Part II What Games Are Teaching Us
4 New Work, Old Game 67
5 Our Freestyle Future 77
6 Why Intuition Isn't Helping You Get a Job 95
7 The New Office: Regular, Stupid, and Frustrating 111
8 Win the Turing Game Doesn't Matter 133
Part III The New World of Work
9 The New Geography 161
10 Relearning Education 179
11 The End of Average Science 205
12 A New Social Contract? 229
Notes 261
Acknowledgments 277
Index 279
What People are Saying About This
Praise for Average Is Over:
"A lively and worryingly prophetic read… some of the most talked-about issues in present-day America… observations that are genuinely enlightening, interesting, and underappreciated" —The Daily Beast
"A book that is gripping policy makers in Washington… An engaging and eclectic thinker." —The Sunday Times
"Cowen's book represents a fundamental challenge."—Wall Street Journal
"A buckle-your-seatbelts, swiftly moving tour of the new economic landscape."—Kirkus


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Apple has released the System Requirements for its upcoming new version of OS X, Mountain Lion, and as is usually the case with any operating system release, not all Macs need apply – even some that qualified for the Mac's current operating system, Lion.
The basic System Requirements are rather straightforward, although as 512 Pixels notes, Apple provides a bit more detail than it has in the past:
- OS X version 10.6.8 (Leopard) or later
- 2GB of memory
- 8GB of available disk space
Apple also notes – as if it weren't screamingly obvious – that some Mountain Lion features will require you to be hooked up to an ISP, and that others will require an Apple ID.
The list of supported Macs is a bit more interesting, seeing as how Apple now provides information on specific Macs, as opposed to its published tech specs for OS X 10.7, aka Lion. Here are the Macs that qualify for Mountain Lion:
- iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
- MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
- MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
- Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
For Lion, Apple merely said that you Mac had to have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor, 2GB of memory, and 7GB of available disk space, then left it up to you to determine whether or not your Mac qualified.
If you dig through the specs of the Macs that will be allowed into the Mountain Lion pack, you'll notice that Core 2 Duo–equipped iMacs, MacBooks, MacBooks Pros, MacBooks Airs, and Mac minis still make the cut – but just some of them. If, for example, you have a Core 2 Duo–equipped Mac mini released in mid-2007 or a similarly equipped late-2006 iMac, you appear to be S.O.L.
As Omar Khayyam might have put it, "The moving operating system
middle finger writes; and, having writ, moves on."
If you're thinking of upgrading to Mountain Lion, but you're not sure exactly what vintage your Mac model is, choose About This Mac in the Apple menu, click on the More Info button, and you'll be presented with a dialog that will tell you your Mac's name and release version:
One of your Reg reporter's three Macs is ready for its Mountain Lion upgrade
Knowing that in the past Apple has timed its operating system releases to coincide roughly with its quarterly financial reports, we've assumed that Mountain Lion would be part of Apple's July 24 Q3 FY12 earnings-release party. This Monday, however, Apple released to developers the Golden Master of what will be OS X version 10.8, so there's a chance the big cat may pounce a wee bit earlier than that.
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How a Fiscal Truce Rekindled Republicans' Civil War
GOP leaders on Capitol Hill were looking for a fiscal truce.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2014 -- GOP leaders on Capitol Hill were looking for a fiscal truce. But they closed out the week having spurred another round in the Republican Party's long-running civil war.
House Speaker John Boehner was bearing the scars of the endless budget battles of the past three years when he announced that he would give up trying to get anything in return for an increase to the nation's borrowing limit.
He would be breaking his own "Boehner Rule," which demanded budget cuts equal to the size of any debt-limit increases. He would also be violating the more famous "Hastert Rule," dictating that only bills that have the support of a majority of the ruling party should come to the House floor.
"The fact is we'll let the Democrats put the votes up. We'll put a minimum number of votes up to get it passed," Boehner abruptly announced on Tuesday, after failing to get his conference to agree on something to ask for in return for a higher debt ceiling.
"This is a lost opportunity," Boehner added. "So I am disappointed to say the least."
With that, and with a fairly minimal amount of grumbling inside his own ranks, Boehner let Democrats provide the vast majority of the votes on the new debt limit.
The same formula would have worked more easily in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Not a single Republican would have to vote to authorize more debt.
That is, until Sen. Ted Cruz spoke up.
"I intend to insist that it be a 60-vote threshold instead," Cruz, R-Texas, told ABC News' Jeff Zeleny. "I think it's an irresponsible course of conduct, to keep giving President Obama a blank check."
With that, an attempt at buying budget peace -- allowing Republicans to focus on more politically fertile ground, like the Obama health care law -- blew up into a new round of open internal party warfare.
The impact will begin to be felt in the Republican primary season, just weeks away, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., among those directly impacted.
Cruz's threatened filibuster set up an extraordinary scene in the Senate. With lawmakers rushing to skip town before snowstorms descended on Washington, the vote had to be held open for 59 minutes as Republicans struggled to provide enough votes to join Democrats -- to give President Obama what he wanted all along.
In a break with tradition, Senate leaders cut off the microphones on the floor and didn't read the vote results until all was resolved.
Sixty-seven senators wound up voting to move forward on the bill. Only after the fact, when the roll-call sheet was released, would it become obvious that GOP senators including John McCain, Orrin Hatch, and John Cornyn flipped their "no" votes to join Democrats. McConnell also voted yes, to move the debt ceiling bill forward.
Republican lawmakers were steaming. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said the entire exercise was an attempt by two senators -- presumably Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah -- to "raise a lot of money for their PACs and their campaigns."
"That's what this was all about, and everyone understood that," Corker told CNBC. "What is the endgame? And there was no endgame. … It's unfortunate that things are the way they are."
The Wall Street Journal editorial page was even harsher. It labeled Cruz "the minority maker," suggesting that he was trying to unseat colleagues by putting them in untenable political positions. (The editorial was tweeted out by, among others, Sen. McCain.)
"Mr. Cruz claims to be neutral in Senate primaries, but he knew exactly what he was doing," the editorial read. "Democrats beat the odds and retained their Senate majority in 2010 and 2012 in part because they stuck together. If Republicans fail again this November, a big reason will be their rump kamikaze caucus."
But the tea party movement is just as fired up. McConnell's tea party challenger, Matt Bevin, called it "financially reckless behavior."
Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of the tea party group FreedomWorks, called it a "defining vote" that will energize attempts to unseat McConnell and other Republicans who voted for a higher debt ceiling.
"This was a big deal," Kibbe told ABC News. "It fires up the base, it fires up activists, it fires up challengers who want to come to Washington and do the right thing."
Cruz himself seems to agree. He told conservative radio host Mark Levin that his colleagues were only angry at him because his maneuver stymied their attempts to tell "what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it."
"It's like they think the American people are just a bunch of rubes. That we don't remember what they say," Cruz said of his fellow Republican senators.
McConnell fired back on Friday, blaming the House's actions for limiting his choices to "a clean debt ceiling in the Senate, or default." He touted his own leadership in navigating the multiple fiscal confrontations of the past few years.
"I believe I have to act in the best interests of the country," McConnell told ABC News Louisville affiliate WHAS-TV. "And every time we've been confronted with a potential crisis, the guy you're looking at is the one who's stepped up to solve the problem."
That's not flying among tea partiers, though. To his donors and volunteers, Kibbe said, the vote "separated the good guys from the bad guys."
He said the fallout will carry beyond the primaries and even the general election. Pressure will build on members of the House and Senate to replace leaders -- such as Boehner and McConnell -- who caved on their initial demands, he said.
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Before Saturday's attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, members of Congress had been attacked at the Capitol and elsewhere at least three times. The attacks include the deadly assault on Rep. Leo Ryan in Guyana.
May 22, 1856: Sen. Charles Sumner, R-Mass., was assaulted by Rep. Preston Brooks, D-S.C., while in his seat in the Senate. Brook used a cane to beat Sumner after Sumner's two-day anti-slavery "Crime Against Kansas" speech, in which he derided three pro-slavery colleagues, including South Carolina's Sen. Andrew Butler, Brooks' cousin. Due to his injuries, Sumner didn't return to the Senate until December 1859.
March 1, 1954: Five congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists entered the U.S. Capitol with automatic pistols and opened fire from an upstairs spectators' gallery onto the crowded floor of the House. They fired nearly 30 shots, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and shouted, "Viva Puerto Rico libre!" The injured included Alvin M. Bentley, R-Mich.; Clifford Davis, D-Tenn.; Ben F. Jensen, R-Iowa; George Hyde Fallon, D-Md.; and Kenneth A. Roberts, D-Ala. Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and Andres Figueroa Cordero received lengthy prison sentences. President Jimmy Carter granted them clemency in 1979.
Nov. 18, 1978: Leo Ryan, D-Calif., and four others were killed at a Guyana airstrip after cutting short a trip to investigate alleged brainwashing at Jonestown, the People's Temple cult run by Jim Jones. The People's Temple was founded in 1955 and had relocated to California before moving to Guyana. Ryan offered to take some Jonestown residents back to the U.S. Jones' guards fired on the group as they were boarding Ryan's plane. Also killed were NBC cameraman Bob Brown, correspondent Don Harris, San Francisco Chronicle photographer Greg Robinson and Jonestown defector Patricia Parks. Eleven others were wounded. After the shooting, 912 of Jones' followers died en masse after drinking a poisonous concoction. Jones was believed to have shot himself in the head.
April 13, 2009: Rep. Donald M. Payne, D-N.J., chairman of the House subcommittee on Africa, narrowly escaped a mortar attack as he was ending a visit to Mogadishu, Somalia's bullet-ridden capital, that he undertook against the advice of the Obama administration. Just a day after American military snipers killed three Somali pirates and freed a kidnapped sea captain, several mortar rounds exploded near Mr. Payne's plane as it was taking off from Mogadishu for Nairobi, Kenya. At least 10 civilians were wounded in the explosions, The New York Times reported at the time.
Mar. 22, 2010: Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., said a bullet was shot through the window of his Richmond campaign office and that he had received "threatening e-mails." Vandalism at homes and offices was reported by other members of Congress around the same time.


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'Remember your alma mater: Glasgow University!" Thus perorated the vice-principal to his students, at the climax of a speech to mark our 1990 graduation, in the university's magnificent Bute hall. I wonder if Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy leader of the SNP, was there at the same time, maybe sat a few rows away from me? We were born a few miles apart in north Ayrshire, in the same year, and both attended the institution (Glasgow is the country's fourth-oldest university, founded in 1451.)
It was a stirring speech, marking our transition from undergraduate to graduate – from student to adult, really; a speech, if I remember well – down the tunnel of 23 years' history – that had started low and quiet, congratulating the students on their achievement, before building to a crescendo of something not far from anger. He wanted to fire us up, to remind us that our undergraduate years had been a privilege, and that not to put our degrees to good use "out there" would be a disgrace, nearly a moral failing. The university would be watching us.
Even if our finals year didn't overlap, I doubt Ms Sturgeon will be forgetting her alma mater anytime soon: the campus this week delivered an elegant Hillhead version of a Glasgow kiss to the pretensions of the separatists who currently control the Scottish Parliament. When faced by the same question which Alex Salmond plans to use in the real referendum on Scotland's future next year, the student body voted overwhelmingly against his nationalist vision, despite determined campaigning by alumna Ms Sturgeon. The writing's on that 15th-century wall. (Actually, the university moved to its current position in the 19th century, but still.)
Talking of unions: the vote was organised by the competing student unions on campus, the Queen Margaret Union being one of them. Despite its, ah, anarchic quality, the QMU elected me to its board of management in the year before I left. I thought that qualified me for life membership. Where's my student union diary, guys?
It's as unlikely to arrive, I suspect, as my voting papers for the real poll on the future of Britain: Scots who live in England will not be permitted to take part in Mr Salmond's forthcoming plebiscite. But I was born in Scotland, part of Britain. I thought that qualified me for life membership? Where's my birthright, guys?
In Europe, apparently. Fresh from her humiliation at the hands of Glasgow's students, Ms Sturgeon headed off to speak to some august body of European policy experts in Brussels. The newly Independent Scots will be "proud and constructive partners in the European family," she said, along the way repeating the old canard that Scots are more European than the English. She suggested a newly liberated Scotland would have rejoined the EU within 16 months of the vote. This, despite a succession of EU heads of government pointing out that special quick-steps to admission don't exist for countries which happen to be governed by the SNP.
"Independence in Europe" was the SNP's favourite campaign slogan in the late 1980s. You'd have thought Mr Salmond would have quietly shelved it, along with his famous pre-crash "arc of prosperity", the one which linked Scotland with Iceland and Ireland. There's no guarantee that a separated Scotland would ever be able (or want) to rejoin the European Union, and were it to do so, it would not be done to the beat of Ms Sturgeon's fictional timetable.
Actually, I'm sure – that "arc of prosperity" is a phrase which lingers – the SNP would love never to mention "Europe" and "Scotland" in the same sentence again. But resolving those small matters – whether or not Scotland will be able to join the EU, whether or not the euro or the pound sterling can be adopted as national currency, and just why the Bank of England in a post-UK set-up would give a damn about the effect of sterling interest rates on the economy north of the border (since, back in the real world, Scotland will never join the euro) – are all questions Ms Sturgeon and Mr Salmond have spent a political lifetime not answering.
Remember, Nicola, your alma mater: Glasgow University! Remember it when the final votes in the real referendum are cast, and the students this week are revealed to have been intelligently predictive of the outcome. Remember Glasgow University, when you and Alex are sat avoiding one another's eyes, in the wreckage of the washed-out SNP "victory" party, glumly facing one another over a sea of untouched chicken vol-au-vent, mayonnaise-y meaty chunks slowly discolouring, acting as glue to catch the gently deflating balloons.
Remember the message we were charged to take into the world by our university: do something worthwhile with your degree. After the nationalist fixation with ripping apart the government of a tiny, island nation is revealed to be the political dead-end it was always destined to be: what will you do then, Nicola?
Perhaps the Scots are, on average, less Eurosceptic than the English (I doubt it); we're certainly more British than will ever suit the nationalist fervour of the SNP.


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FACETIME- Animal attraction: Brindley brings wildlife to Belmont
Hal Brindley sits smiling in the back of the brick-walled Creature Gallery, having just received a call from HGTV. The cable favorite of do-it-yourselfers had received a tip suggesting it give airtime to Brindley's self-built bar, which features thousands of his wildlife slides, lit from beneath and arranged like a mosaic across its expanse.
HGTV is not quite what Brindley had in mind, but any publicity is good publicity for the 35-year-old photographer, who opened the gallery– and soon a restaurant– in order to draw attention to wildlife conservation issues.
"I have been interested in animals my whole life," says Brindley, who recalls that as a child, "I was always collecting specimens and was interested in biology." In addition to birthday trips to the zoo, he remembers his mother gamely helping him to dissect road kill.
Nevertheless, pursuing his animal fascination as a career has been a fairly recent endeavor. Since he'd been a business major with an interest in studio art, Brindley first forayed into custom-printing t-shirts while a student at William & Mary. Later, he turned his craze for BMX bike riding into a moneymaker by founding the sportswear company Play Clothes.
"It got to be a big successful business, with international distribution and six employees," Brindley recalls, "and it just wasn't fun anymore. I got burnt out on it. So I decided to sell the business and do something that was meaningful to me."
Striving to combine his three "main loves"– animals, travel, and artistic expression– seven years ago, Brindley bought a camera and began trekking around the world taking pictures of wildlife.
As his photographic expertise grew, so did his awareness of the need to protect animals and their habitats. Last year, Brindley bought a brick storefront on Hinton Avenue to give the Creature Gallery's a habitat of its own.
"One of my main goals with this place is to help further conservation," he says. "I wanted to do something good with my art to help these animals."
During March, Brindley showcased images of endangered species and partnered with Defenders of Wildlife to urge people to write letters discouraging Congress from weakening the Endangered Species Act.
"He's a thoughtful person who has a wonderful gift for being able to capture the wonder and the comedy of earth's creatures," says Catey Ritchie of The Nature Conservancy, where Brindley often volunteers. "But he also has a knack for capturing the heartbreak."
For the moment, Brindley has put aside photographing orcas and polar bears to build the Creature Gallery's kitchen and restaurant. The new business hurdles are daunting, but he's optimistic. "I think if I was wildly successful at something I didn't give a crap about," Brindley says, "I wouldn't be happy."
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Saturday, June 23 at 2PM
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— Come join us to celebrate the reissue of Tia Blake's classic record Folksongs and Ballads (1971). The Tia Blake Collection is part of the Southern Folklife Collection. Transfers from the original master tapes were conducted in the SFC studios. —
In the early spring of 2011, SFC curator Steve Weiss asked me to create an inventory of a small collection he had recently accessioned. Water Music, a record label based in California, was planning a reissue of Folksongs and Ballads by Tia Blake and her Folk Group. The producer was searching for photographs and other media to include as part of the release. The box of materials included few photographs, some open reel tapes, a flier for the group's single performance (see below), some business correspondence, a copy of her LP, released in 1971 by the tiny French label SFP (Societe Francaise de Productions Phonographiques).
After some initial research, Tia Blake remained a mystery to me. She recorded just the one album in 1970 as a teenager living in France, had one performance (above photo), and left France never to perform publicly again. Blissfully unaware the the album I held is considered a lost gem of psych folk music–a rare collaboration between a young American woman living in France and European musicians enamored with American traditional music–and highly sought after by collectors, I was struck by Tia Blake's warm, deep and and powerful vocals. The arrangements are sparse and very skillfully arranged, accentuating the intimate sadness of Blake's voice. Made up entirely of traditional tunes in the public domain, the album feels familiar but the casual grace of Blake's vocals and the acoustic accompaniment make for a remarkable and lovely listening experience.
Along with a copy of the album were two open reel tapes: one including outtakes and rehearsal demos from the initial recording session, and another with three tracks performed by Tia Blake solo and recorded at a CBC studio in Montreal in 1976. All of these tracks are included on the CD reissue. A composition about her father (with whom she lived in the Amazon in 1975) remains one of our favorites."My Father is a Lonely Man" by Tia Blake, CBC recording 1976
Ms. Blake became a writer and eventually settled in North Carolina. The Southern Folklife Collection is honored to be the repository for the Tia Blake Collection and very pleased to have contributed to reintroduce her music to the world. Please join us on Saturday, June 23 at All Day Records in Carrboro to celebrate the release of the album.
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1. The reissue is CD-only at this time, there will be CDs for sale
2. Tia Blake will be present, but will not be performing


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Vail Daily columnist Richard Carnes: Either way, the love is there
You gotta love the Republicans.
They lose the game (in this case an election), and then act as if the gridiron contest is not over, insisting overtime is deserved even though the opposing team scored a winning touchdown as time expired.
They get the majority of their information from government-regulated airwaves while driving cars and trucks from government-bailed-out companies on government-built roads with their government-educated kids drinking bottled H2O from government-regulated water systems while vacationing in government-run national parks, all the while screaming incessantly about what they have been sold as the apocalyptic pit known as socialism.
They think their beliefs in magical beings make them a better person in spite of their behavior when actually it is their behavior that defines them.
On the other hand (most of us have two), you gotta love the Democrats.
They win an election, and then act as if the world as we know it should now cater to their every whim.
They get the majority of their information from the same places, drive the same roads in the same cars and trucks, their kids go to the same schools and drink the same bottled water while vacationing in the same parks, all the while wondering what's next in the government supply pipeline to keep them happy.
It's all so goddamn silly and repetitive, blaming one another for each others' woes and refusing to realize the actual problem resides in a mirror.
There, I said it.
Does it make you angry when I generalize the snot out of both parties? It should, and except for those cases where I mean it, I don't really mean any of it. Except for maybe a couple of things.
So here we sit, only a few weeks from this silly "fiscal cliff," and we are actually debating which side is drawing the bigger line in the sand? Really?
McConnell, Boehner and Cantor are just as shallow, self-serving and predictable as Reid, Pelosi and Geithner, none caring any more for their constituents than Hostess execs cared about their employees.
The donkeys are trying to prove they have a mandate, while the elephants are positioning themselves for the 2014 midterms, neither learning a thing from the election, both as stubborn as ever with each public speech reading like a typical piece from The Onion.
Go off the damn cliff already. Let's all jump head first together. We created it, let's at least do something to kill the beast.
Let the Bush tax cuts expire. Let all of the spending cuts occur, including defense. Lower corporate tax rates, cut entitlements and then let's move forward.
Grow a pair.
But the real reason I say we "gotta love 'em" is simple, as even though they are donkeys, elephants, independents, black, white, brown, theists, non-theists, homos, heteros, etc., the one trait they all share is American citizenry (I'm talking voters, of course). Hopefully someday we'll realize that we're all on the same friggin' team.
Yet for some reason I'm not holding my breath.
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Charl Schwartzel wins the Alfred Dunhill Championship
Schwartzel won by 12 strokes to record third largest margin of victory in history of European Tour
South African has now won twice at Leopard Creek Estate
Sweden's Kristoffer Broberg finished in second place
South Africa's Charl Schwartzel ensured the locals went home happy after recording an impressive victory at the Alfred Dunhill Championship.
The home favorite triumphed by 12 strokes at the Leopard Creek Estate after hitting a three-under-par 69 on the final day.
Schwartzel finished the tournament with a 24-under-par total of 264 to build upon last week's win at the Thai Championship.
Hole-in-one repeat earns golfer a Christmas bonus
The 2011 Masters champion saw his 10-stroke lead reduced to eight when heavy rain forced play to be suspended for two hours.
But after hitting birdies at the 12th and 13th as well as the tricky 18th, Schwartzel was finally able to celebrate his second win at Leopard Creek after winning there back in 2005.
It is the third largest margin of victory in the European Tour's 40-year history and the achievement was not lost on Schwartzel.
"I've come a long way," he told reporters. "This has always been a special place for me.
"This is where my career started. This was the first win I got and it will always stay close to my heart.
"Last week I got that win by a big margin, and normally when you come back the next week it's hard to put up the same show.
"To me that's the most satisfying – to continue the form that I had up in Bangkok after the flight and the jetlag and come here and play the same sort of golf."
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The victory marks a successful end to a largely frustrating year for Schwartzel.
He added: "A month and a half ago it had been a pretty disappointing year for me. It's turned out to be a pretty good year now."
Sweden's Kristoffer Broberg claimed second place thanks to a two-under-par 70.


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There is a new buffet restaurant By the Bay in the MOA grounds. It is called Vikings and we got to try it about two weeks ago.
From the SMX Convention Center, we had to ride the car again to get to that other side of the MOA grounds. Yes it was that far, too far for walking under the torturous sun and heat! We find the pricing too steep but since it is cheaper during weekdays, Ane said we could afford it. :) They said it is more complete during weekends and I wonder what the difference is. But since the rate is p1088/pax on weekends, we'll just wait until someone (aka Mommy or FIL, LOL!) treats us there ;p
Even if they say the food offering is not complete on weekdays, we still died and went to buffet heaven hehe. Ane was speechless towards the end of our three-hour lunch that I think he literally fell into food coma. Funny guy, my husband is.
Anyway, I haven't had the chance to fix the food photos but I will try to share them here once I'm done with them. Stay tuned! :)


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and remmett i was thinking after until dusk mabey gabriel and not jasper
12.change my name to something great<--and no matter how much remmett complains i will not change it back
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San Jose Earthquakes 1, Colorado Rapids 1 | MLS Match Recap
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Colorado Rapids probably wish MLS commissioner Don Garber hadn't looked so favorably on the appeal of San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Marvin Chavez.
Chavez drilled a knuckling free kick from 30 yards out in the 78th minute to beat Colorado goalkeeper Clint Irwin as the Quakes pulled out a 1-1 tie with the Rapids on Saturday. The Honduran international was only available because Garber upheld an appeal of Chavez's two-game suspension Wednesday.
Colorado played a man down from the 90th minute after defender Shane O'Neill brought Chris Wondolowski down just outside the penalty area, but San Jose couldn't find a game-winning goal despite the presence of four forwards – Wondolowski, Alan Gordon, Adam Jahn and Steven Lenhart – on the field.
OPTA Chalkboard: Rapids play it smart in San Jose
Nathan Sturgis put Colorado ahead in the 26th minute by neatly turning home a Martin Rivero corner kick at the near post. The shot squirted between San Jose midfielder Rafael Baca, who was manning the post, and goalkeeper Jon Busch.
San Jose (3-4-6) extended their unbeaten streak at Buck Shaw Stadium to seven straight matches, although that might be cold comfort as the Quakes play six of their next seven on the road.
The Rapids (4-4-4), who dropped all three matches against the Quakes last season, improved to four games without a loss to keep pace in the middle of the Western Conference pack.
Atiba Harris almost doubled the Rapids' lead in first-half injury time when he fielded a long free kick in the Earthquakes' penalty area, spun free of defender Justin Morrow and clanged a shot off the near post.
Colorado would be denied by the woodwork again in the latter stages, as Sturgis' header from an 84th-minute corner bounced off the crossbar. Four minutes later, Busch came off his line to deflect Deshorn Brown's breakaway attempt.
Quakes midfielder Walter Martinez seemed destined to find his first MLS goal in the 49th minute, ripping a half-volley from 27 yards, but Irwin climbed the ladder to push it over the crossbar, one of several spectacular saves from the youngster.
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The core objective of the Centre for Maritime Economics and Industries (MEI) is to undertake policy research on topical issues and recent developments in maritime economics and industries with a view to provide policy advisory to relevant Government agencies to promote and safeguard Malaysia's maritime economic interests. The centre also publishes articles and papers in various publications; deliver talks and presentations; and organise seminars, workshops, stakeholder meetings and training courses on various areas in maritime economics.
The work at MEI is not exclusively Malaysia-centric. Being in a field as dynamic as maritime economics and researching on subjects such as global as maritime trade, ports, shipping, shipbuilding, freight logistics and offshore energy activities, MEI researchers need to develop an expansive and comprehensive worldview of the field of their research. The centre keenly monitors global events, developments and issues directly and indirectly affecting maritime economic activities to ensure that its research outputs are informed by the latest happenings in the fast-moving maritime industry, while always being mindful of the need to help safeguard Malaysia's economic interests at sea.
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