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Michael Savage is angry. He's angry at the President of the United States. He's angry at Time magazine. He's angry at CNN. And he's super-angry at Congressman Jack Murtha.
The object of the San Francisco-based radio talker's wrath is a fresh report out of Iraq about the U.S. military's detention of several Marines suspected of massacring Iraqi civilians last October. A caller to his nationally syndicated show who purports to be the father of one of the soldiers is convinced his son is being railroaded and claims that he is being held in "shackles" in a U.S. military jail near Baghdad without formal charges brought against him.
Savage is ballistic.
He contemptuously replays a sound bite in which President Bush, after weeks of silence on the issue, can be heard saying that if crimes were committed, those responsible will be brought to justice. To Savage, Bush is "pandering" and "selling out our boys." Tim McGirk, the Timejournalist who first reported the story, "should be arrested," he declares. The same goes for CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who has also covered it, and for Murtha, the "despicable" Pennsylvania Democrat and war critic, who has decried the incident.
"If I were running things, [McGirk] would be in shackles; Wolf Blitzer would be in shackles; Jack Murtha would be in shackles," he bellows. "I'd make them prove that they're not working for the enemy, taking the enemy's word for everything and putting our poor boys behind bars."
As the frenzied monologue nears a close after all, it's time for a commercial Savage concludes that the "traitor" Murtha, a decorated ex-Marine whom he has previously likened to human excrement, is "either a communist or insane, or both."
It's the opening salvo of The Savage Nation, which may be the only radio show in America that comes with a disclaimer: "Warning: This show contains adult language, adult content, psychological nudity. Listener discretion is advised."
No kidding.
Those who dare disagree with Savage on-air are apt to be dismissed as "vermin" and get the treatment reserved for the caller with a Brooklyn accent who rather mildly suggests that maybe the host is being too harsh on Murtha. For that, he's berated as "street slime from the gutters of Brooklyn." Then there is Dejon from San Francisco, whose infraction is having broached a subject that the moody Savage isn't in the mood to talk about. "Dejon Mustard, go put yourself on a hot dog and devour yourself and leave me alone," he intones.
Three years ago, after he was canned by MSNBC for telling a caller to his fledgling cable TV show to "get AIDS and die, you pig," some people were saying that the combative, arch-conservative talk-show host and author of red-meat political diatribes was washed up. But that was four New York Times best-sellers ago. His latest book, The Political Zoo, a kind of walk through the jungle of mostly liberal political animals that this unlikeliest of San Francisco provocateurs loves to hate, hits bookstore shelves in the spring.
Having just re-upped as pontificator-in-chief at KNEW (910 AM), the retooled talk station owned by Clear Channel Communications and his radio home base Savage and his anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-affirmative action, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Democrat, anti-liberal-media message appear never to have enjoyed more street cred among the faithful.
His syndicated show, which has nudged past 400 stations coast-to-coast and claims 8 million listeners, places him in the vanguard of an increasingly crowded field of conservative talkers, behind only Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity (or, in Savage-speak, Hush Bimbo and Sean Vanity).
Unlike them and other "Bushbots," as he calls them, whose stars have dimmed along with Bush's fading poll numbers, Savage can never be accused of toeing the administration line. For one thing, Bush is too liberal for him. Although Limbaugh and Hannity command larger national audiences, Savage cleans their clocks in his hometown market, making him by far the most listened-to not to mention acerbic radio talker in the Bay Area.
It's a neat trick for a once mild-mannered botanist and North Beach hipster who counted none other than Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the late Allen Ginsberg among his pals when he was still using his real name: Michael Weiner.
Few things about Savage's pre-radio past could have presaged his rise as perhaps the far right's most vocal on-air ambassador. Not his adulation of Ginsberg. Not the fact that he once trolled the streets of Greenwich Village and, later, North Beach, in a beret. Or that the staunch anti-abortionist's first wife had two abortions during their marriage. And certainly not the fact that he was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper at the LSD experimenter's farm.
"Love him or hate him, Michael is absolutely at the top of his game," says Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkersmagazine, which chronicles the radio talk-show world.
His daily three-hour program has added dozens of new stations in the last 18 months. His screeds continue to fly off bookstore shelves. Sources say that his unique syndication deal through Talk Radio Network the Oregon outfit that also produces talker Laura Ingraham and a bevy of lesser-known conservatives enables Savage to rake in several millions of dollars annually from the radio show alone.
With all of that going for him, one might conclude that the reclusive and media-suspicious former beatnik lover and author of herbal medicine books would be a happy camper. But Savage, 64, appears to feel too underappreciated to be happy for long.
As is clear after a few minutes talking with him, he believes he gets less respect than the late Rodney Dangerfield. The man who has called ABC News "Always Bolshevik Crud" and who had labeled MSNBC the "More Snotty Nonsense by Creeps" network even before he briefly worked there, is convinced that big media is against him.
"Roger Ailes hates me," he says of the Fox News chief. CNN's Blitzer had him on the air a couple of times after The Savage Nation and The Enemy Within, his first two Savage books, came out. But ever since 2005's Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, neither Larry King (aka "Garlic Breath") nor anyone else at CNN will touch him, he says. He claims that Fox's Bill O'Reilly had his scheduled appearance on fellow host Neil Cavuto's program nixed at the last minute.
But nowhere are his apparent sensibilities over not getting enough love more pronounced than right here in his hometown. Sure, he lambastes San Francisco as "San Fran Sicko," mocks Mayor Gavin Newsom as "Any Twosome Newsom" (a reference to the mayor's gay marriage initiative), and each weekday afternoon spends time on the radio espousing views that are largely anathema to the city's body politic.
Yet, he's clearly sore over not having received the local recognition he feels he deserves.
"I love this place, but there's a lot of provincial jealousy here," Savage says. "In many ways it's like a small town or a gigantic high school. ... There are people here who can't stand that I am who I am and that I've achieved success."
That the archconservative radio icon should be based in America's most famously liberal big city is largely an accident of circumstance. Back in 1994, irked over his inability to find a publisher for a controversial book he had written called Immigrants and Epidemics, which sought to link the spread of infectious diseases to U.S. immigration policy, Savage recorded a mock radio talk show on tape. He sent it to 400 stations nationwide. Of the three that responded, KGO, in San Francisco, offered him a job.
After a brief stint filling in on sparsely listened-to weekend late-nights, management tapped him to do similar fill-in work at sister station KSFO, which, in the infancy of political talk radio nationally, was about to become San Francisco's first full-blown conservative talk station. His first broadcast, in which he slammed affirmative action, was nearly his last, he says. "Incredible anger, incredible hatred," he recalls, describing the audience reaction. "I went home and swore that I would never go on the radio again. I'd had enough."
But before long he had his own show on KSFO that became a big hit, and within a year he was in syndication.
In 2003, the year of the MSNBC debacle, and after concluding that he wasn't being treated with enough deference by executives at Disney-owned ABC, which syndicated the KSFO show, Savage jumped ship to KNEW and Clear Channel. In a huff, and undoubtedly to get under his skin, his old employers programmed conservative titan Sean Hannity against him locally in afternoon drive time and plastered the city with billboards containing pictures of both of them, under which was written, "Out with the old, in with the new."
Savage, however, has had the last laugh.
By all accounts, his radio success and books have made him a wealthy man. He and his wife Janet, whom he met in 1967, live near the water in Marin County, where in his off time Savage is said to delight in tooling around the bay in his 45-foot-long yacht. The couple has two children, a daughter who is a school teacher in Southern California, and a son, Russell Goldencloud Weiner, founder of the company, based in Las Vegas, that makes Rockstar energy drinks. Janet Weiner is the company's chief financial officer.
The intensely private Savage steers questions away from his personal life and declares his family off-limits to interviews.
Indeed, the mercurial radio host is something of a mystery even to the people who work with him. Sources at KNEW who insisted on anonymity say that he rarely comes into the station's state-of-the-art broadcasting studio on Townsend Street in Mission Bay to do his show. In a nod to his star status, he usually broadcasts from one of three "personal studios" in "residential settings," according to a station insider. Savage doesn't divulge their locations, except to say that each offers a window with different views cityscape, bayscape, and rural that he gravitates to "depending on my mood."
His take-no-prisoners style, while occasionally witty, can also be mean-spirited.
And unlike other conservative talkers who often parrot White House talking points, his self-described "independent conservatism" (he claims to have coined the phrase "compassionate conservative" before Bush began using it) makes him an equal-opportunity basher. "He panders to the extreme right of the extreme right," says Cindi Creager of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which has long been at odds with Savage. "He's not shaping the opinions of the moveable middle; he's preaching to the choir."
He also has conservative critics. "He goes too far," says L. Brent Bozell, founder of Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog group. "To me, Michael Savage is to talk radio what Jerry Springer is to talk television."
If such criticisms faze Savage, he doesn't let it show.
"There are people out there who don't like what you say. You don't let it bother you," he says.
But that doesn't mean he's unaware of the vitriol he generates. "I've had death threats and I try not to let them bother me, either." All the same, he has a license to carry a firearm and concedes that he has packed a pistol since 1998. One of the reasons he doesn't do book tours is because hotels are "too high a security risk." He sometimes travels with a bodyguard. "That's the world we live in," he says.
He wasn't always Michael Savage. A native New Yorker, he was born in the Bronx and grew up in Queens as Michael Alan Weiner, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father, Ben, whom those who knew him describe as gruff and profane and who died of a heart attack in his 50s was a street vendor who worked his way up to owning a small antiques store on Manhattan's Lower East Side and was socially conservative.
"Benny had a chip on his shoulder and was always mad at the world, and he was tough on Michael. There was nothing Michael could ever do to please him," recalls Alan Zaitz, who has known the radio talker since the two of them were in Hebrew school together as second-graders.
Benny Weiner verbally abused his son and didn't hesitate to embarrass him in front of his teenage friends, Zaitz says. "Michael would have on tight black jeans and a boat-necked sweater and his dad would say, 'I don't like the way you're dressed. You look like a fag,' stuff like that," he recalls.
The father would have surely disapproved of Weiner's interest in beatnik culture once he enrolled at Queens College. Zaitz recalls weekends when he and Weiner slipped away to Greenwich Village to hang out in coffee houses, smoke pot, and troll for women. In those days, he says, the future Michael Savage kept a paperback copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road in his pants pocket.
Weiner's fascination with the counterculture scarcely abated after he settled into his first marriage, to Carol Ely, in 1964. The whirlwind union lasted less than four years and was marked by "Michael's incessant dreaming and his impulsiveness," says Ely, a retired advertising copywriter who lives in Florida.
Ely volunteers that she had two abortions during the marriage.
Shortly after the wedding, Weiner decided that they would go to the Bahamas, where he hoped to "strike it rich" working for someone he knew who owned a casino there, she says. He enrolled in medical school in France, an experience that lasted "barely a week" before he concluded that it wasn't for him. Next up was Majorca, where the couple spent the better part of two months after Weiner "talked his way into the compound" of expatriate British poet and novelist Robert von Ranke Graves.
Once, while living in Queens, where he had taken a job as a high school biology teacher, he made a spur-of-the-moment suggestion that they visit Timothy Leary (whom neither of them knew) at the psychedelic drug advocate's farm in upstate New York, Ely says. Leary took a liking to Weiner and made him a "gatekeeper" at the farm "since Michael was maybe the only person there who wasn't into psychedelic drugs." On a trip to Los Angeles, she says, Weiner once left her at a hotel while he made an unannounced visit to the widow of author Aldous Huxley, whose work he admired.
"Michael was unpredictable and could be tyrannical, but the one constant about him was his desire for success and to find fame and fortune," his ex-wife says.
Journalist and author Ira Rifkin, another of the radio host's former pals from his New York days, saw the same ambition, plus something else. "He has a very strong need for public adulation. He wants to be loved," says Rifkin. He recalls the time that Weiner, who was a big admirer of comedian Lenny Bruce, bombed mightily during an "open-mike night" at an East Village club. "It was painful, like watching your son strike out four times in a row. But I could see then how motivated he was for public affection and how determined he was to pursue it."
By his account, the man who became Michael Savage had decided that his future lay in academia when, with new wife Janet, he set out for Hawaii in 1968. Weiner ended up in the botany department at the University of Hawaii. He earned master's degrees in botany and anthropology while traversing the jungles of Tonga and other South Pacific islands collecting exotic plants with medicinal qualities.
Although no one could have known it at the time, the experience, and the knowledge he gained from it, would help launch his career in the '70s and '80s as a successful author of more than a dozen books on herbal medicine.
Hawaii was also a crossroads of a different sort.
Ever fascinated by the counterculture, he began writing letters to Allen Ginsberg, whom he had met briefly while living in New York, cajoling the poet to come to Hawaii for a reading. Weiner offered to make all the arrangements. The correspondence, consisting of 10 letters and three postcards and preserved as part of the Ginsberg collection at Stanford University spans four years. In 1973, after having passed on Weiner's invitations several times, Ginsberg, along with friend and fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, accepted his offer and stopped over in Hawaii on his way to Australia.
The next year, with his wife and young son in tow, Weiner arrived in the Bay Area to take up doctoral studies at UC Berkeley. Having hosted Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti in Hawaii, he enjoyed instant credibility as he burrowed in among the bohemians of the North Beach cafe scene. "He went around showing people a photo of him and Ginsberg swimming in the buff in Hawaii," says Stephen Schwartz, an ex-Chronicle reporter and former leftist-turned-conservative scholar, who was a North Beach regular at the time. "It was like his calling card. He traded on his association with Allen to get a toehold."
Savage's North Beach bohemian period remains a sore spot among his old pals. "I always took him as a pretender, a BS artist," says actor Gary Goodrow, sounding a refrain familiar among those who knew him from the Weiner days. "I think a lot of people felt betrayed as the result of what he became," says poet and writer Neeli Cherkovski.
Part of their chagrin stems from the fact that Weiner didn't merely walk away from his former North Beach friends. Rather, as Michael Savage, he mercilessly repudiates them every chance he gets. For instance, in his book, The Savage Nation, he refers to City Lights, the iconic bookstore that Lawrence Ferlinghetti co-founded, as "San Francisco's once-famous communist bookstore."
Savage recounts walking past it one evening to discover a photo of Ginsberg in the window shortly after the legendary Beat poet's death in 1997. Although not naming Ginsberg directly, he refers to "one of the last reigning beatnik poets" whom he once adored as "latrine slime," and writes, "I clasped my hands together and prayed to God. I said, 'Thank you, God, for answering my prayers. One of the blights of the human race is gone.'"
It's a far cry from his apparent eagerness to impress Ginsberg in the early '70s, when he sent the poet press clippings about his work as a student doing botanical research in the South Pacific, and repeatedly implored him to come and visit. Some of Weiner's purported communications with the openly gay poet, as contained in the Stanford collection, seem strangely homoerotic.
Among them is an undated postcard, signed "Michael Weiner," that says, "Watched a tourist from New Zealand taking pictures of Fijian people in the marketplace [and] thought of inserting my camera's lens in your A-hole to photograph the walls of your rectum. I really do apologize, but the thought did occur."
Savage says he doesn't even recall writing to Ginsberg ("although I may have") and dismisses any document suggesting homoeroticism on his part as a forgery, citing gay detractors who have long sought to smear him. "That's all that's on their minds," he says. "They're obsessed with sex, sex, sex."
Savage's disdain of Ginsberg puzzles those who knew him from the North Beach era.
"It really is a mystery. I have no idea what happened to Michael Weiner," says Ferlinghetti. "We were his friends, and as far as I know we never did anything to him."
Ferlinghetti says the two brief encounters he has had with Savage in the last decade left him "flabbergasted." He says the talk-show host shouted "Dirty beatnik!" when their paths crossed in North Beach in the mid-'90s. About two years ago, as Savage was getting out of a limousine in front of a North Beach restaurant, Ferlinghetti says he tried to say hello but that Savage abruptly turned and walked off.
Savage exhibits irritation when asked about "that beatnik shit, which I hate," but that doesn't keep him from expressing his disdain for the old crowd, even if he is less clear about the reasons for it.
He refers to Ferlinghetti as a "jealous little man," dismissing the octogenarian publisher and bookstore owner as "a nothing even when he was something, if you know what I mean." And he is practically apologetic about his past association with Ginsberg. "He was famous. I was a kid. I thought poetry was wonderful. I got to know him very briefly," he says.
Pressed about the "latrine slime" comment, Savage erupts. He says he "only found out years later" about Ginsberg's "lifelong communism" and his affiliation with the North American Man/Boy Love Association, or NAMBLA (whose controversial credo is to end oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships). "I looked at [Ginsberg] almost like a rabbinic figure. Little did I know that he was the fucking devil."
Even when he was hanging out among the anarchists, communists, and assorted leftists at Caffe Trieste in the heart of North Beach, Savage says that, despite what some may claim, he never had a leftist political point of view. "I was more into having a good time and drinking a lot of wine," he insists. "I didn't go there to meet Copernicus." Two experiences appear to have helped speed along his transformation from counterculture aficionado to ultraconservative radio pontificator. The first was after he earned his Ph.D. (in ethnobotany) from UC Berkeley in 1978 and saw his dream of a professorship go up in smoke after no one would hire him.
"I would have liked nothing better," he says of his one-time academic ambitions. He blames reverse discrimination. "I soon found out just how corrupt the academic world was. It was a case of 'white men need not apply.'"
(Much later, in 1997, he filed a reverse-discrimination lawsuit against his alma mater after being rejected in his quest to become dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. This, despite the fact that at the time, his "journalism" credentials consisted solely of two years as a radio talk-show host. He later dropped the suit. But it didn't keep him from disparaging the winning applicant, China expert Orville Schell, as someone "whose claim to fame was managing an organic cattle farm" and "who was certainly no more qualified than I was.")
To his former North Beach pals, he had begun to change. Cherkovski recalls that in the mid-'80s, during the first wave of the AIDS epidemic, Weiner went around passing out leaflets that bemoaned sex in the city's gay bathhouses. He had staked a name for himself in the '70s with such titles as Earth Medicine Earth Foods and Weiner's Herbal, both of which remain well-regarded contributions to the literature of herbal healing. But with his 1986 book Maximum Immunity, in which Weiner called on the gay community to accept the blame for the AIDS crisis, both his interests and his tone had shifted.
Stephen Schwartz, another of his old colleagues, contends that Weiner's behavior became "increasingly bizarre," and believes that his resentment over his being rejected in academia had a profound affect. By the time his Immigrants and Epidemics tome was turned down for publication the other catalyst in Weiner's transformation his ex-associates say he was a different person.
"I remember one day sitting in the Caffe Trieste and him screaming at me from out on the sidewalk about how I was nothing and he was something. I had to call the police," Schwartz says.
Once he landed on the radio, word spread quickly in North Beach circles that Michael Weiner had become Michael Savage.
Cherkovski recalls one of the first times he heard Savage. "I was driving home from Sonoma, flipping through the dial, and what he was saying was so utterly shocking, and sad, that I actually had to pull over to the side of the road to compose myself," he says.
Savage delights in aggravating the chums from his beret-wearing days.
After bolting KSFO for Clear Channel's KNEW three years ago, a huge likeness of him sprang up on a billboard on a building at Vallejo Street and Columbus Avenue, a few steps from his old hangout at Caffe Trieste, where it remained until recently.
"I told them [the Clear Channel advertising people] to put it there," he confides, with typical in-your-face impishness. "I thought that would make a great spot for my picture."
He is just as willing to throw barbs at "San Fran Sicko," a city whose streets he frequently walks in the evenings to decompress from high-octane hours at the microphone. "I really do love this city," he insists. "I just can't stand the vermin who are prominent here. The left-wing scumbags are the only forces you ever hear about." They most assuredly include the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, whose members he chides as "a bunch of narcissistic egomaniacs who think they're bigger than they are." Their antics, he says, are why "much of the country" thinks of San Francisco "as a relatively sick place." Yet he claims such disdain isn't personal. Even after deriding "Any Twosome Newsom," he confesses that he likes the mayor "on a personal level."
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Setting up Fourth of July fireworks in Garden City
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Despite the fact that it only lasts about 15 minutes, setting up for Garden City's fireworks display is an all-day affair.
Chad Roush, Wichita, along with Travis Webster, Wichita, and Charles Hobbs, Wellington, work with Western Enterprises, Carrier, Okla., and began setting up for Thursday night's fireworks display at the Finney County Fairgrounds early Thursday morning.
"We've been at since about 8 o'clock this morning dropping shells. Came out yesterday morning from about 7 till 1 setting the sandboxes and tubes up," Roush said.
The tubes hold almost 500 fireworks shells that are detonated during the show.
"We've got anywhere from three-inch to six-inch shells to about 340 effects in the finale — 400 some shells for the main part of the show, 460 or so between the three- and six-inch shells," Roush said.
He said that the size of the shells determine the altitude the shell will reach and the diameter of the break, which is the effect seen when a shell reaches its maximum altitude.
"Rule of thumb, for each inch of shell, it goes up 100 feet and can have about 100 feet of break, so three-inch shells go 300 feet, and have up to a 300-foot break and a six-inch shell goes 600 feet (in altitude) and has a 600-foot break," Roush said.
The breaks are named for whatever they most resemble.
"We've got all sorts of different effects. You've got the regular chrysanthemums, you've got some of the fancy patterns, the circles and fish — just random shapes. There are some called octopus. They're called whatever they resemble when they break," Roush said.
Western Enterprises supplies all the necessary equipment and fireworks, including what Roush referred to as a rail that holds 15 queues on it.
"The queue can be a single shot, it can be a chain of shells, just however we wire it up. We just go through each rail and flip the switches then switch over to the next rail," he said, adding that the shells are electronically fired.
He said one of their main focuses is safety.
"We make sure we're not wearing anything that can generate static, since we're dealing with electronically-fired shells and black powder," Roush said. "(During the show), we'll be back about 300 feet, just in case there's ever a mishap."
Roush said they have done a Veterans Day show the last couple of years, and that he has been doing the Fourth of July show in Garden City for several years.
"A couple of years ago, we banned it for the Fourth of July for the drought. It was way too dry. We came back and shot for Veterans Day weekend instead, and that was so popular we turned around and did it again last year, did the Fourth of July and the Veterans Day show," he said. Despite gusty winds Thursday afternoon, Roush said the show would go on.
"Usually by evening it dies down anyway," he said.
The show began at about 9:45 p.m. at the Finney County Fairgrounds.
Prior to that, the Municipal Band played from 8 to 9 p.m. at the West Green of Finnup Park, where people gathered in lawn chairs and at picnic tables to both listen to the band and watch the fireworks display. The band played patriotic marches and Americana music, such as Kansas' state song, Home on the Range. The band also played music from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

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As I mentioned in a recent post, hubless wheel concept bikes have been appearing on the web in droves lately. Fast Company recently featured a few of those recent concept bikes (and one really old one) in their "Almost Genius" category, reserved for designs that don't quite work. On the Core77 discussion boards, slippyfish recently started, "The Official Hubless Wheel Hater Thread". One of the posts on that thread even points a pretty entertaining gallery of late 19th century hubless monocycles. Of course, BSNYC's "save the hubs" campaign gets a mention too. All in all, it seems that everyone is kind of tired of seeing new hubless wheel concepts on the web every week.
What better time to revisit a couple of old posts about a hubless wheel, which (I believe) actually went into production for a short time in the mid 90s. The picture you see above is an early prototype of the Black Hole hubless wheel system from "Wear and Tear". According to the company, this assembly weighed about a pound less than a conventional fork and wheel. Sounds great…why didn't it catch on?
To the left, you can see a later prototype of the Black Hole. Obviously, the designers were a little too optimistic with that large opening in the previous prototype. I am not sure what happened to Wear and Tear, but I have my doubts that this later prototype was lighter than the average conventional fork and wheel that was available at the time.
Update 3/17/10: Damon Rinard has better pictures of the Black Hole in his Flickr photostream.
On an unrelated note, the Taipei International Cycle Show opens tomorrow. As he did last year, Eric Stoddard will be writing a guest post or two from the show. I'm looking forward to reading what he has to say.


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Panel of experts examine how mobile technology can accelerate entrepreneurship and successfully connect innovators worldwide.
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Panel of experts examine how mobile technology can accelerate entrepreneurship and successfully connect innovators worldwide.
Nowhere has the mobile revolution had a bigger impact on people's lives than in developing countries.
At Qualcomm, we live and breathe mobile technology. We are acutely aware that it has transformed the way we live our lives and connect to the world around us. That is why we were thrilled to learn that TIME was devoting a special issue to wireless technology and bringing together industry experts to further examine the transformative power of mobile.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asked a group of health care industry experts, academics and senior executives from the health and technology industries to examine the challenges faced by wireless health technology and develop recommendations to accelerate the adoption of mHealth solutions.
Democrats and Republicans move forward together to alleviate shortage of tech workers.
Recently, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) – an advisory group of leading scientists and engineers – released a report...
If you're interested in advancing the industrial-era educational system into one that is more appropriate for the 21st century, the International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology 2012 (iCTLT) held in late March in Singapore was the place to be.
Should spectrum legislation be included in the payroll tax cut extension? Or should it be used as an offset for an extension of unemployment insurance and the so-called "medicare doc fix?" Or maybe it should be enacted as a stand alone bill. Or how about yes to all the above?
At Qualcomm, we believe that America's students should have the same 24/7 access to their learning communities that we have in our work lives. Today, the FCC and the U.S. Department of Education took a big step towards making that a reality with the release of the Digital Textbook Playbook.
Over the past week, I attended the U.S.-hosted Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii. President Obama and the leaders from the other 20 APEC member economies advanced a number of ambitious and visionary initiatives to promote growth, competitiveness, innovation and prosperity across the Asia-Pacific region.
India is considered to be one of the key emerging markets in the world. While the rest of the world has concerns about an aging population, the Indian Census Bureau reports that 40 percent of the populace in India is below the age of 18, and by 2015, 55 percent will be under 20. In order to convert this opportunity into a strength, education of young Indians has become an imperative - beginning with pre-school age education.
Chances are you know someone who has suffered a heart attack or stroke – often, the first warnings of cardiovascular disease (CVD). But did you know that CVDs are the leading cause of death globally? And, that more than 80 percent of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries where people with CVDs have less access to effective health care services?
As a country, we see education as an important business. Educated minds are more informed, more discerning and more involved in government and foreign affairs. This is especially true at Qualcomm, a company rooted in education not only by the investments we make in this area but also by the principles that we hold true—after all, several of Qualcomm's founders began their careers as educators.
Tomio Hasegawa needs advanced health services to keep his blood pressure under control. The fact that he lives in a remote region of Japan where access to these services is lacking doesn't prevent him from getting the daily care he needs. That's because Tomio uses 3G wireless technology to measure his blood pressure at home, send the data in real time to doctors and nurses located hundreds of miles away and get their timely feedback.
Since the inception of our pilot project in Palembang, Indonesia, I have witnessed the power that opportunity can have in people's lives, and more specifically, the influence of wireless connectivity. In May 2010, we completed a project with SRA International, Inc., that offered 1,000 prepaid tuition vouchers (all of which were redeemed) to economically disadvantaged students. The goal of the voucher program was to build awareness and interest in new wireless technology services within middle-mile communities – communities that connect a small town to a larger metropolitan area, where it then interconnects with major Internet carriers, providers and services.
On August 3, I joined over 300 interns at summer school. You may be wondering why anyone would be excited about school in the summer, but POLITICO Summer School was hardly your typical academic program. The event, hosted by POLITICO's Mike Allen and Emily Schultheis, featured introductory remarks by Qualcomm's very own Bill Bold, Senior Vice President of Global Government Affairs and a former Congressional intern, followed by a panel of famous former interns: NBC's Chuck Todd, White House Deputy Communications Director Jen Psaki, and Sergio Rodriguera, chief speechwriter to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
Do you believe in giving people second chances? We do. We also value education. That's why Qualcomm, through our Wireless Reach™ initiative, is collaborating with Renaissance Academy, a private correspondence high school in Japan, on a pioneering project that leverages 3G technologies to help high school dropouts re-engage in learning and earn their diplomas.
As a milestone marking the success and growth of the Wireless Reach Application Laboratory (AppLab) project, Bakrie Telecom invited me to participate in the launch of a new mobile phone that has a unique application package called "Usahaku."
It may have gotten lost in the shuffle amidst all the turmoil this week on the debt ceiling, so I think it's worth highlighting the hearing on highly skilled immigration reform in Senator Schumer's Immigration Subcommittee on Tuesday.
Recently, Wireless Reach sponsored a conference in Cape Town, South Africa that aimed to revolutionize the health care industry by addressing critical barriers and helping to create best practices for the emerging mobile health ecosystem. As an attendee at the event, I was able to observe the influence of mobility on health care worldwide.
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June 7 Friday's jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics looked good at first glance, but closer inspection revealed more concern for the speed and possibly the direction of the recovery of the U.S. economy.
U.S. employers added 431,000 jobs in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary workers hired for the U.S. Census. That left a net gain of only 41,000 jobs in May, well below expectations.
Wall Street reacted badly to the news. The Dow dropped more than 300 points.
Jobs in non-residential construction fell by 4,200 in May, according to an analysis by the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). The number of construction jobs had gained across the board in April.
Since May 2009, non-residential employment has fallen by 55,400 jobs, or 7.5% of the total, ABC said.
Residential construction employment slipped by 3,300 jobs last month. The sector has lost 66,400 jobs, 10.3% of its total employment in the last 12 months, ABC added.
"Nothing could be more disappointing," said Anirban Basu, ABC chief economist, about the jobs report.
"Undoubtedly, a combination of factors, including still tight credit and high commercial vacancy rates, conspired to reverse what had been growing construction employment momentum," said Basu. "In addition, the lower unemployment rate for the industry tells us that more people have given up trying to find construction jobs."
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The outrage was visceral last spring when ESPN aired the damning video showing Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice shoving his players, hurling gay slurs and throwing basketballs at their heads. He was fired as a result, along with Rutgers's athletic director, faulted for not responding more forcefully when first presented with the footage.
By all accounts, Rice was an outlier - "an animal," in the words of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie - and his coaching tactics were widely condemned as having no place in college sports.
But rare is the college coach who has never lost his composure or raised his voice to drive home a point. And as the 2013-14 college basketball season prepares to tip off, coaches, conferences and college administrators alike are grappling with the boundaries of the often-harsh language of the job.
On this topic - what exactly crosses the line in reprimanding, disciplining or dishing out what's known as "tough love" to players - the terrain is rapidly shifting. And when extreme measures are captured on video or audio, what's the likely fallout from fans, as well as bosses, who clamor for victories yet cringe over the methods?
The consequences of getting it wrong can be profound.
A profane rant can be cause for a formal complaint to an athletic director or fodder for the evening news, as it was last month at Georgetown, where women's basketball coach Keith Brown was forced to resign following complaints by some of his players of unprofessional conduct and inappropriate language.
Peppered with demeaning personal slurs, a pattern of verbal abuse can also be cause for firing - even grounds for a lawsuit. A former Holy Cross women's basketball player recently sued Coach Bill Gibbons and the school, claiming he was physically and emotionally abusive and that the school covered up the behavior.
They are but two examples of a significant, emerging trend of holding abusive coaches accountable, according to Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, lawyer and director of advocacy for the Women's Sports Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit.
While federal law covers issues such as sexual abuse, Hogshead-Makar stresses what's new here is protecting athletes from emotional abuse or bullying, which is a matter of morality. At the moment, the definition of emotionally abusive coaching is as murky as college basketball's new rule about hand-checking on defense, if not moreso.
Said John Thompson III, who is entering his 10th season as men's basketball coach at Georgetown: "At what point when I'm correcting a player does he decide, 'I'm being harassed. I'm being bullied,' or that he's in a threatening environment? If I tell him five times in a row, 'Hey kid, you're not rebounding! Hey kid, you're not rebounding! Hey key, you're not rebounding!' is he being bullied? By some definitions, possibly."
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Coaches grapple with line between discipline and abuse
The outrage was visceral last spring when ESPN aired the damning video showing Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice shoving his players, hurling gay slurs and throwing basketballs at their heads. He was fired as a result, along with Rutgers's athletic director, faulted for not responding more forcefully when first presented with the footage.
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Arizona's prolonged lethal injection is fourth in U.S. this year
Arizona's execution of double-murderer Joseph Wood marked the fourth time this year that a state failed to dispatch a convict efficiently, according to the Constitution Project, a bipartisan legal group.3
Technology plays key part in battling police brutality (VIDEO)
Allegations of police brutality are nothing new -- as long as there has been law enforcement, citizens have registered claims that some officers cross the line. But in the last few years, the claims of excessive force are being corroborated with new technology from cell phone cameras, police dash-cams and surveillance videos.
Facebook continues moneymaking trend
Facebook seems to have figured out - for now at least - the holy grail for all media right now: how to make money selling mobile ads.
- Has the ipad lost its swag?
Almost half of America's obese youth don't know they're obese
The good news is that after decades of furious growth, obesity rates finally seem to be leveling off in the U.S.. The bad news is that America's youth still appear to be dangerously unaware of the problem.
Darth Vader is polling higher than all potential 2016 presidential candidates
On the other hand, with a net favorability of -8, Jar Jar is considerably more popular than the U.S. Congress, which currently enjoys a net favorability rating of -65.
Llama on the loose corralled in Missouri town
A llama on the lam cruised Main Street Tuesday before it mistook a resident's fenced backyard for a place to grab a meal and freshen up.
An oncologist uses scorpion venom to locate cancer cells
Olson, a pediatric oncologist and research scientist in Seattle, has developed a compound he calls Tumor Paint. When injected into a cancer patient, it seems to light up all the malignant cells so surgeons can easily locate and excise them.
VIDEO: Train collides with semi truck carrying lighter fluid
A truck driver from Washington is fortunate to be alive after driving his semi onto a set of tracks near Somerset, Ky., and being struck by a locomotive, which ignited his load of charcoal lighter fluid.
What we get wrong about millennials living at home
If the media is to be believed, America is facing a major crisis. "Kids," some age 25, 26, or even 30 years old, are living out of their childhood bedrooms and basements at alarmingly high numbers. The hand-wringing overlooks one problem: It's all overblown.
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Mike Barwis and American Muscle were kind enough to share this video of Pat White working on his throwing motion.
An award given to the West Virginia sports writer that most embodies the moral character of John Raese.
There's some silliness and a little sad stuff, but if I convince just one more of you to go to the spring game I'll consider that a win.
With Rutgers' impending move to the Big Ten, a hated rival returns to the schedule. It's time to roll out the welcome mat for "the team from pennsylvania" as only Jersey can.
Sweet Jesus do we really have to wait 12 more days? If you want to see a bigger version of the picture, click here.
Listen in as Doug Marrone expresses his apathy for cold weather bowls and Greg Robinson. While Dana Holgorsen has a Sports Center moment. All leading up to the Pinstripe Bowl.
What's the best play of the 2012 Mountaineer football season? JD Woods one handed grab? Darwin Cook's forced fumble against Iowa State? Tavon Austin's three yard touchdown run against Oklahoma? You...
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