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Can't get enough Uni talk? Us either. Some great articles in here, especially from Michael Wilbon.
University of Maryland's new football uniforms are making Terrapins relevant - ESPN
Michael Wilbon hasn't been this readable in years. Fantastic piece about the new unis, the thought process behind them, and what they're doing. I love Kevin Plank. - BB
My Take: Check out the SportsNation poll on the side. 30% think they're the "worst uniforms ever," 37% "love the new look." How's that for disparity?
Maryland's new uniforms covered by Good Morning America - DC Sports Bog
And the buzz keeps buzzing...
Terrapins don't supersize - Washington Examiner
Good piece on the O-Line. They did a pretty good job of keeping DOB upright and it seems like the up tempo style of play we saw Monday will be a staple of this offense.
SLAM releases Top 50 for 2012
McGary receives his highest ranking yet at #2. Shaq is #37. No Layman on the list.
Is Under Armour ready for the big leagues? - Business - Macleans.ca
If you'd like a business perspective on UA vs. Nike... Love this quote from Kevin Plank talking about overtaking Nike.
"I'm 38," he told Bloomberg news. "I've got a long time [to get there]." As for Nike, he said, "those guys are old."
Jerami Grant shows love to MD fans
If you love us, we love you back, Moo Moo. (It's his Twitter handle. I don't give weird nicknames to recruits, I swear.)


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News by Dan Seifert on Thursday July 07, 2011.
apple iphone 4 · at&t · verizon · apple news · ios news · smartphone news · dan seifert
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A new study by Localytics could have AT&T shaking in its boots, as it has revealed that Verizon Wireless is now powering 32 percent of the Apple iPhone 4 smartphones in use in America, despite being 8 months behind AT&T in releasing it.
Localytics has been tracking the iPhone 4 on Verizon since it was launched in February, and has noted significant jumps in market share in the months of May and June, when the Verizon iPhone stole 7 percent of market share from AT&T each month. Localytics surmises that the disappearance of unlimited data plans from Verizon today spurred on people to grab the iPhone with an unlimited data plan while they still could. We find this to be an unlikely cause, however.
The launch of the next iPhone, which is expected to be released at the same time on both AT&T and Verizon Wireless, should give us all a better idea of how strongly Verizon can compete with AT&T when it comes to moving iPhones off of retail shelves. [via TIME]
Dan Seifert
Dan is MobileBurn.com's Editor-in-Chief. Based in Poughkeepsie in New York, Dan can be found on Twitter as @DCSeifert.


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Wedding bells ring while parade goes by
MORE: Read more news from Fredericksburg
John and Emily Henderson's wedding in December 2008 lasted all of 10 minutes.
It was just the two of them and a justice of the peace who was on a lunch break from her full-time job with the FBI Academy.
The couple, both wearing jeans, recited their vows at Lunga Park at Quantico Marine Corps Base. The justice of the peace wished them a wonderful life, and that was it.
"We're like, wow, that's it," recalled John Henderson, 29, a captain in the Marines who lives in Spotsylvania County. "We're married."
The plan all along was to eventually have a traditional wedding with family and friends, after John completed a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.
Five years later, that finally happened on Saturday night at the Inn at Fredericksburg Square on Caroline Street—during the Fredericksburg Jaycees Christmas Parade, no less. The setting had significance, as the two had gotten engaged five years earlier after being part of a military-themed float at the parade in downtown Fredericksburg.
John and Emily met at a uniform shop at Quantico, about half a block from John's barracks.
Emily Camacho was a sales associate, and John found himself buying rank insignia he didn't really need just to talk to her.
They ran into each other at the gym one day and exchanged numbers, but not before Emily admitted she had forgotten his name.
They text messaged for a little bit, and Emily surprised her future husband by asking him on a first date to Starbucks. She was an hour late, but the two ended up talking until the place closed.
John proposed just three months later.
John's original plan was to ask her to marry him at the Fredericksburg Christmas Parade on Dec. 6, 2008.
He would be riding a float sponsored by McLane Mid-Atlantic, where Emily's mom worked. Emily's stepfather, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard Allen, would also be on the float.
The engagement, however, didn't go down quite like John had planned.
He arrived downtown in his dress blues with a box of three-dozen roses. The engagement ring was attached to a white rose.
But Emily, who handed out candy alongside the military float, didn't give John a chance to pop the question. She was ready to leave as soon as the parade ended.
"My hands felt like they were about to fall off" it was so cold, Emily, now 25, recalled.
So John waited until a dinner that night with Emily and her parents at the Log Cabin Restaurant in Stafford County.
Restaurant staff brought out the flowers, but Emily didn't immediately see the ring. Her mom told her to check out the two white roses, to which Emily responded: "The white flowers are just as beautiful as the red flowers."
Then she saw it.
"And I was like, 'Isn't there a question that's supposed to come with this?' "
The couple was legally married by a justice of the peace just 11 days later, shortly before John headed off to California to prepare for his Afghanistan deployment.
"I knew we were going to get married no matter what, so why do we have to wait?" he said in an interview.
An official wedding was eventually scheduled at the National Museum of the Marine Corps for December 2010.
Several months before the big day, while John was still in Afghanistan, Emily's stepfather unexpectedly passed away from a heart condition at age 39. The wedding was put on hold.
A couple years went by before Emily's mother, Shannon Allen, scheduled a trip to New York with her daughter. Their destination was Kleinfeld Bridal.
Emily bought her dress, and "I was like, well, this is happening next year. It just kind of went from there."
The timing worked out well.
Emily, who graduated from UMW in 2012, got a full-time job this past January, putting the couple in a better financial position to schedule a wedding.
They booked Fredericksburg Square for Dec. 7, the day after their engagement anniversary. To top it off, they learned the ceremony would take place the same day as the Christmas parade.
Emily said she wouldn't change a thing.
"I kind of like the way we're doing it because a lot of times the wedding is more important to people than the actual relationship," she said. "We've got that down."
More than 100 relatives and friends attended the formal ceremony on Saturday, with drums and other noise from the parade in the background.
John, who was in uniform, took a deep breath just before Emily walked out in her dress—a far cry from the pink shirt and jeans she wore at their wedding five years ago.
What was actually a renewing of vows had all of the characteristics of a first-time wedding, complete with a pastor, groomsmen and bridesmaids.
Not to mention tears.
"I still feel emotional because I know her dad's been looking down on her," Emily's mom said after the wedding.
For Emily and John, the wait was worth it.
"I still felt like we got married for the first time," Emily said.
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Khaki, Sean Paul wanted by police
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The St Catherine North Police have listed two men as "persons of interest" in connection with a double murder, which took place Monday on St Johns Road.
The men are 34-year-old Errol Miller otherwise called 'Khaki', 'Juky' and 'Clarkie', and Sean Paul otherwise called 'Tnu' both of Angels Farm in the parish.
Miller is of dark complexion, medium build and about 163 centimetres (5-feet-4 inches) tall.
Police are asking both men to immediately turn themselves in at the nearest Police Station.
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By Jumah Nsubuga
Parliament has this afternoon paid tribute to the late Andrew Adimola who past way last week at Lacor hospital in Gulu district.
The motion for a resolution of parliament to pay tribute to the late Adimola was moved by the 3rd deputy prime-minister Moses Ali on behalf of the leader of the government business at parliament Amama Mbabazi and seconded by the leader of the opposition Nandala Mafabi.
The late Adimola was born in 1924 and served as a member of parliament on DP ticket and served as a minister in the late Amin's government. He also served as a permanent secretary in the ministry of education in 1965, 1980 he was the Vice President in Democratic Party under Paul Kawanga Ssemwogerere the leader ship, He was a married man with eight children and 28 grand children.
"The leader of the opposition at parliament Nandala Mafabi revealed that the country has again lost another national pillar after the late Obangolo and George Kakoma who also passed away this year. He had the vision of men and women. He was the first black person in British commission .He was an articulate debate during the late Idi Amin government were he served as the minister" Mafabi noted


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The Grayslake Colts are championship bound.
The Colts Big 10 Heavyweight and the Big 10 Bantam youth football teams will play in Sunday's Chicagoland Youth Football League Super Bowl games.
After winning their division (8-1) and two play-off games, the Big 10 Heavyweight will face off against the Mundelein Stallions at 4 p.m. Sunday at Barrington High School, 616 Main Street, Barrington.
The Big 10 Heavyweight team is lead by Head Coach Ed Pietschmann and Assistant Coaches Jeff West and Greg Milner.
The Big 10 Bantam will play Carmel High School at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, at Carmel Catholic High School, 1 Carmel Parkway, Mundelein.
The teams are members of The Chicagoland Youth Football League (TCYFL), the largest independent youth tackle football league in the United States. It fields thousands of players on hundreds of teams from 33 member communities based throughout Chicagoland.
Varsity Poms, 7th Grade Varsity Cheer, 8th Grade Varsity Cheer and Pee Wee Cheer will compete in the state competition Nov. 30-Dec. 2 at the Sears Center.
For more information, go to the Grayslake Colts Football and Cheerleading Website.
Submitted by Wendy Andrews, Big 10HW Team Coordinator and the Grayslake Colts.


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Resources for small museums and historic sites
Bylaws are the written rules for daily operations and management enacted by your organization. Bylaws guide the work of the board of directors or trustees. Bylaws do not have to be long, but they should be regarded as a living document, to be revised as organizational needs change. These examples may be useful as you consider writing a new set of bylaws or revising your organization's bylaws.
Bylaws of the Groton Historical Society (PDF). The Groton Historical Society in Groton, MA, is an all-volunteer organization founded in 1894. In 1999, the Board of Trustees passed this set of by-laws, notable for their brevity and their clarity.
Small organizations suffer when their boards of trustees are not effective. Creating job descriptions for board members that define clear expectations for involvement is an important step in developing your small organization's capacity.
Broken boards? Here are some indications that all is not well with board members and tips on how to ameliorate the situation.
The Center for Association Leadership provides Standing Committee, Ad Hoc Committee, Task Force, and Advisory Council samples of committee structures.
Compass Point Nonprofit Services provides a useful template for writing Board Committee Job Descriptions.
A constitution or charter is a founding document. It outlines the mission of your organization, defines the membership, establishes the structure of the board of trustees, its meeting schedule, and the process and schedule for elections. Although no one wants to think about this, the constitution or charter should also outline the process through which the organization would be closed and its assets dispersed.
The website of the New York State Museum offers a brief, clearly written template for the constitution of a historical society.
This Nonprofit Organization Financial Red Flags Checklist from 501 Commons offers an easy way to take the pulse of your procedures for managing money. (PDF)
This document offers a clear explanation of insurance principles, procedures and vocabularies. It was prepared for a talk at the 2009 annual meeting of the New England Museums Association (NEMA), which has many small museums as members. While it focuses on "fine art" in its discussion of collections, the principles are the same no matter what the collections.
NOLO Law for All offers legal information for a variety of institutions. Visit the site to find useful articles, downloadable legal forms, and legal information for nonprofit organizations. NOLO's explanation of 501(c)3 requirements is very well-written and easy to follow.


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PRINCESS ANE, Md. - It's been 7 months since a student was fatally stabbed on University of Maryland Eastern Shore's campus, and still no arrests in the February murder of 21-year-old Edmond Saint Clair.
Maryland State Police tell WMDT that the investigation is ongoing and that at this time they have no one in custody and no identified suspects. The last big break in information came in April, when authorities revealed the murder weapon an orange camouflage Remington Folding knife.
Again, if you have any information about this incident, you are asked to call Maryland State Police at 410-651-3101.


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Email: email@example.com | Twitter: @WWLTV
On Friday afternoon, an announcement was made that Saints owner Tom Benson, former WWL-TV sports director Jim Henderson and Saints fan favorite Deuce McAllister will be inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame in September.
Steve Gleason will also be honored, with a special area at the Hall of Fame, named in his honor, which will feature the previous Joe Gemelli Fleur de Lis Award recipients. Henderson is this year's honoree.
Here were some of Gleason's comments during his acceptance speech:
- "With football, I never fit in quite perfectly. I was the linebacker in high school and college. So I had to find a way to fit in to the NFL. So I suppose it's no surprise that with the Hall of Fame I've had kind of a side entrance."
- "Some thanks goes out to Mickey [Loomis] especially, because I think there were years where he had to think creatively as well..to keep me around…that faith paid off."
- "I dabbled into media after I retired. Just to be able to see him [Jim Henderson] and appreciate his work is very, very special to me. He is a great talent, but even more so, I think a great person. I would see him after games with ice on his knees and gashes on his arm and I'd be like 'Man, Jim's my hero.'"
- "In the end, what we take away from football is more than blocked punts or Super Bowl rings. It's the people we come in contact with."
- "I think Deuce is one of those people that I feel very lucky to have crossed paths with him…although on the practice field, sometimes felt unlucky."
- "I don't think people realize the vision and determination and willingness to let people lead for him [Tom Benson.] Putting faith in Mickey and Sean [Payton]. There's a finesse to what this guy does."
- "This organization has been woven into the fabric of this city. Luckily for me I get to share and enjoy all the beautiful parts of this city."


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The extension Pioli worked out with Flowers last year was a beauty for the Chiefs. It shows exactly why Pioli is so well regarded in the NFL community.
Flowers was a year away from free agency and the promise of top ten corner money (about $10-$11M per year and rising,) and that would have given the Chiefs three top tier players as free agents and only one franchise tag. He would have had all the negotiating power a player can wield, and likely would have cost more in actual money, but definitely cost more in cap dollars.
What Flowers actually got was a five year extension worth $50M. His agent can go brag on getting him, on paper at least, $10M a year and a spot on the top 10 corner salary list. Let's break down the actual deal. He got a $10M signing bonus and a raise in 2011 (the last year of his rookie deal) to $1M in salary. He then gets salaries that bounce around from $5.25-$7.25M per year from 2012-16, along with reporting bonuses of $2M per year in the last three years of the deal (2014-16.) Salaries count the year they are paid, and the bonuses prorate evenly over the remainind years under contract at the time they are paid. Here are the details with cap ramifications...
2011 $10M bonus, $1M salary, $2.7M cap hit
2012 $5.75 salary, $7.45M cap hit
2013 $7.35M salary, $9.95M cap hit
2014 $2M bonus, $5.25M salary, $7.75M cap hit, $5.4M cap hit if traded or released
2015 $2M bonus, $7.25M salary, $10.75M cap hit, $4.9M hit if moved
2016 $2M bonus, $6.5M salary, $12M cap hit $3.5M hit if moved
The first reality of all NFL contracts is evident here. The last couple years are bullshit. See those outragious cap numbers? $10.75M in '15 and $12M in '16... not likely. Both years are set up such that the team can save not only $9.25M in '15 and $8.5M in '16 by getting out of the contract, but $5.85M in '15 and $8.5M in '16 in cap dollars as well. If Flowers begins to lose effectiveness by then, he will simply be released. If he's still playing well, but the Chiefs don't think he's worth the money or a new contract, he will be traded. And if (we hope) he's as good or better than he is now, he'll get another extension in 2014 that will convert some of that salary into a proratable signing bonus and keep him another three or four years. Even if he sees this coming, he's unlikely to hold out to fix it because he loses a $2M check if he's not in camp on time from 2014 on.
Flowers' agent leaves with 5 years, $50M. "I got Flowers $10M per, come sign with me!" But from the Chiefs' view, they have him for four years with a total cash outlay of $30.35M, or about $7.5M per. They only gave up $10M+ once, in 2011. He only has one year at $10M against the cap (actually $9.95M in '13) Just like Charles, DJ, and even Hali, this is a very team friendly contract.
So what does this have to do with Carr? Folks, this really mean he is gone. I wish it didn't but it does. I bet that Carr even got an offer of similar money and commitment from the team this year, and just wants more. He, too, is looking for top 10 corner money. But he wants to use his leverage to get the best deal, so he is waiting for free agency and job offers from other teams. Five years at $50M would probably do the trick. Pioli just isn't going to be the guy to give it to him. Now that there's no contract to extend, there's less magic on the table. If Carr gets paid like that, it would actually mean giving him $30M in three years, so he would get a couple million a year more than Flowers. His cap number would be higher than Flowers' from day one. Are the Chiefs going to make Carr their highest paid corner? How do we think Flowers would react to being the second paid corner on the Chiefs? Are the Chiefs going to commit over 20% of their cap dollars to three players in the secondary? No way. I don't think it will happen. I think the tag goes on Bowe, and Carr walks (I'm not even sure it won't just be a tag and trade with Bowe, but that's another conversation...) The team has known it, that's why they spent picks on Arenas and Brown. The only thing left to find out is what round the compensatory pick we get in '13 comes in.


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Brooks On Capitalism
David Brooks had started down the road to Damascus when he was called back into the fold by Dear Leader. His Op-Ed in today's NYT is the result.
Most of Brooks' offering is a rather transparent attempt to shame congressional Republicans into supporting Pres. Obama's agenda:
The Democratic response to the economic crisis has its problems, but let's face it, the current Republican response is totally misguided. The House minority leader, John Boehner, has called for a federal spending freeze for the rest of the year. In other words, after a decade of profligacy, the Republicans have decided to demand a rigid fiscal straitjacket at the one moment in the past 70 years when it is completely inappropriate.
The G.O.P. leaders have adopted a posture that allows the Democrats to make all the proposals while all the Republicans can say is "no." They've apparently decided that it's easier to repeat the familiar talking points than actually think through a response to the extraordinary crisis at hand.
There are myriad problems with Brooks' line of reasoning, including many in just to two foregoing paragraphs (e.g. How much input did Republicans have into the recent legislation? By "adopted a posture" is he referring to "not having control of either the House or the Senate"?), but I wanted to focus in on a couple of points in particular.
After some platitudinous admonitions, Brooks launches into his prescription for Republicans to save capitalism:
Third, Republicans could offer the public a realistic appraisal of the health of capitalism. Global capitalism is an innovative force, they could argue, but we have been reminded of its shortcomings. When exogenous forces like the rise of China and a flood of easy money hit the global marketplace, they can throw the entire system of out of whack, leading to a cascade of imbalances: higher debt, a grossly enlarged financial sector and unsustainable bubbles.
I really don't know what point Brooks thought he was making, but he failed miserably on any score. First of all, "exogenous forces" cannot be "weaknesses" and/or "shortcomings" with capitalism since, by definition, they come from outside that system. At best, examining such forces can be used to understand better ways of protecting capitalism from them. In the context of the entire Op-Ed piece, however, it appears that Brooks is pitching the tired line that capitalism must be reigned in so that people don't get hurt. That's like diagnosing the problem with house, finding termites, and then thinking of ways to protect the termites from the house.
Furthermore, Brooks cites a "flood of easy money" (which, of course, is caused by government) as an example of an exogenous force, and then lists the following "shortcomings" of capitalism: "higher debt, a grossly enlarged financial sector and unsustainable bubbles." What do any of those things have to do with capitalism? If anything, these are once again a failure of government skewing incentives.
In fact, when the government does its darnedest to make the cost of borrowing money historically low, people would be really stupid not to take advantage of that. We all know that rates fluctuate, and that the cost of money will be more expensive when they go back up. Logically therefore, it only makes sense to borrow when the Fed turns the money spigot on and then to find some sort of an asset to grow that money in. That, of course, is what leads to bubbles as everyone has barrels of money but not as many clear ideas of what makes a good investment. Instead of taking the time to really investigate what opportunities are available, and which ones fit a particular person's portfolio, the herd mentality takes over and we all tend to keep up with the Jones and Smiths whether that means buying tulip bulbs or a run-down house we intend to flip.
The bottom line, however, is that these sorts of scenarios start with government intervention into the market place. In addition to turning on the money spigot, the federal government was also encouraging lenders to make high-risk loans, and for the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to buy them up, securitize them and sell them into the derivatives market. Again, that's all fine and dandy (until it it all goes to hell), but it has nothing to do with "weaknesses" and "shortcomings" of capitalism, and everything to do with government sticking its big fat honker where it doesn't belong.
More Brooks:
If the free market party doesn't offer the public an honest appraisal of capitalism's weaknesses, the public will never trust it to address them.
The "free market party"? Who does he think he's kidding here? The Republicans haven't acted like a free market party since … well … it's been so long I can't remember.
Moreover, I simply can't fathom how Brooks thinks a "free market party" would ever be able to reconcile itself to joining hands with Obama on his completely anti-capitalist agenda.
Power will inevitably slide over to those who believe this crisis is a repudiation of global capitalism as a whole.
Earth to Brooks: that's already happened. Look who the president is for crying out loud, or take the time to read your own newspaper. Each and every day we hear about how the excesses of capitalism caused this crisis, and how the "libertarian" policies of Bush (HA!) have landed us in this awful spot. Capitalism didn't get a trial, Mr. Brooks, it was rounded up, convicted and summarily shot as soon as the latest grand experiment in government do-goodism failed (again).
On Deck: Universal Health Care (Updated)
According to Ezra Klein, the Obama administration intends to finagle universal health care coverage out of its budget proposal, including an individual mandate:
I've now been able to confirm with multiple senior administration sources that the health care proposal in Obama's budget will have a mandate. Sort of.
Here's how it will work, according to the officials I've spoken to. The budget's health care section is not a detailed plan. Rather, it offers financing — though not all — and principles meant to guide the plan that Congress will author. The details will be decided by Congress in consultation with the administration.
One of those details is "universal" health care coverage.
Some of you may recall that Obama, while in campaign mode, consistently denied that he wanted to introduce mandates as part of his health care package. Paul Krugman cited that opposition as the major difference between Obama and Hillary Clinton:
Let's talk about how the plans compare.
Both plans require that private insurers offer policies to everyone, regardless of medical history. Both also allow people to buy into government-offered insurance instead.
And both plans seek to make insurance affordable to lower-income Americans. The Clinton plan is, however, more explicit about affordability, promising to limit insurance costs as a percentage of family income. And it also seems to include more funds for subsidies.
But the big difference is mandates: the Clinton plan requires that everyone have insurance; the Obama plan doesn't.
Mr. Obama claims that people will buy insurance if it becomes affordable. Unfortunately, the evidence says otherwise.
Now that he's been elected it's presto hope'n change-o, and voila! Mandates!
Ezra Klein notes that the difference between the pre- and post-election plans is based on one word in the budget — "universal":
That word is important: The Obama campaign's health care plan was not a universal health care plan. It was close to it. It subsidized coverage for millions of Americans and strengthened the employer-based system. The goal, as Obama described it, was to make coverage "affordable" and "available" to all Americans.
But it did not make coverage universal. Affordability can be achieved through subsidies. But without a mandate for individuals to purchase coverage or for the government to give it to them, there was no mechanism for universal coverage. It could get close, but estimates were that around 15 million Americans would remain uninsured. As Jon Cohn wrote at the time, "without a mandate, a substantial portion of Americans [will] remain uninsured."
In essence, unless everyone is forced to buy insurance, there is no "universality," and the benefits of large participation in the insurance pool cannot be realized. An even shorter version is, if healthier people opt out, then sicker people can't sponge off them.
The budget — and I was cautioned that the wording "is changing hourly" — will direct Congress to "aim for universality." That is a bolder goal than simple affordability, which can be achieved, at least in theory, through subsidies. Universality means everyone has coverage, not just the ability to access it. And that requires a mechanism to ensure that they seek it.
Administration officials have been very clear on what the inclusion of "universality" is meant to communicate to Congress. As one senior member of the health team said to me, "[The plan] will cover everybody. And I don't see how you cover everybody without an individual mandate." That language almost precisely echoes what Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus said in an interview last summer. "I don't see how you can get meaningful universal coverage without a mandate," he told me. Last fall, he included an individual mandate in the first draft of his health care plan.
The administration's strategy brings them into alignment with senators like Max Baucus. Though they're not proposing an individual mandate in the budget, they are asking Congress to fulfill an objective that they expect will result in Congress proposing an individual mandate. And despite the controversy over the individual mandate in the campaign, they will support it. That, after all, is how you cover everybody.
So it looks like you better start scarfing down those cheeseburgers, eating transfats, smoking cigarettes, or whatever it is you do that's not considered healthy, because once the federal government pays for health care (which is what individual mandates essentially works out to), then it also has the power to determine what "healthy" means. After all, since everyone will be pulling from the same health care pot, and since each claim on that pot diminishes what someone else can get, then each claim must be a legitimate one as weighed against all the competing interests. Because the viability of the system depends on healthy people making much fewer claims than sick people against the collective health care resources, the government now has a vested interest in making people healthier, whether they like it or not.
Another way to put it is that we will have entered a Pareto optimal world where no one can change their position for the better (i.e. receive more of the pooled benefits) without hurting someone else. Whereas in a competitive market system, each person can get at least as much health care as he or she wants to buy and can afford, in a Pareto optimal world, we are competing for the same scarce resources (health care dollars), and our claims are granted based on a a third party's (the government') determination of worthiness. No longer can we get what we can afford, we get a predetermined portion of what the government decides to pay for. That, of course, is why there are 6+ month waiting lists for routine health care in places like Canada and the UK.
Possibly the most depressing result of yoking America with universal health care, is that we can pretty much kiss medical and pharmaceutical innovation good bye.
Government run health centralizes the risks of exploring new technologies, medicines, techniques, etc. Centralized risk translates into (i) observing a very cautious approach to advances, and (ii) the politicization of research … From a purely capitalist point of view, opportunites that might have been pursued otherwise, are foregone since those who accept the risks of pursuing them do not get to maximize their reward, so instead those advances must come from the government. With government as the sole innovator, there are now two types of risk (1) the risk of failure (i.e. spending gobs of money on something that does not deliver as promised, or that costs significantly more than the benefit), and (2) the political risks (i.e. what politicians face for advocating spending on projects that either fail or that don't disproportionately benefit favored voters). The result is that risk is increased overall, and fewer innovations are realized.
America is pretty much the last industrialized nation to still have a (semi) private health care system, which should be understood to include the pharmaceutical industry (as a supplier of that health care system). What would happen to the growth and advances we've realized over the past few decades if (when?) we adopt universal health care? Where will the innovation come from? Who will take the risks? Without the proper incentives, and indeed with some of the worst possible incentives as the only driving force to creation, I fear that the scientific and medical Atlas will shrug.
I don't mean to say that there will be no breakthroughs ever again, but the pace will be slowed dramatically. That's because, one the government is in charge of paying for health care, it will also be in charge of paying for medicines. As we've already seen around the world, drug companies will be forced to sell their wares for much less than the (legal) monopoly prices they charge now. The result, therefore, will be much less risky and expensive research into new drugs that may never come to market, and much more emphasis on improving old drugs so as to continue to pay for further research.
Surely the federal government will pony up money for research into some diseases. But then the government will be in charge of picking winners and losers when it comes to whose diseases will get cures and whose won't. To imagine what this would look like, just think back to how AIDS and breast cancer research dollars were successfully lobbied for, despite neither affecting anywhere near as many people as other deadly diseases.
In the end we will be left with less individual freedom, worse health care, and fewer prospects for any improvement in either. That is not the change I was hoping for.
UPDATE: Tom Maguire helpfully reminds us of how the health care debate progressed during the Democratic primary season:
For folks whose memories have blessedly erased any recollection of the endless Democratic candidates debates, let me toss in a brief reminder. Obama claimed that he would offer health insurance subsidies so generous that most folks would volunteer to sign up. Hillary mocked that, insisting that the young and healthy would decline to subsidize the rest of us, especially since they could not subsequently be denied coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions; her plan included a mandate obliging everyone to buy health insurance, like it or not (as in Massachusetts). Hillary then diligently ducked the "or else" question of what penalties she would inflict on the young, helathy and recalcitrant who would prefer to hold off on buying insurance until they were sick. As a nostalgia piece here is a link to a lefty wondering why his party was so committed to forcing young, healthy members of the working class to subsidize the rest of us on health care; that seems like a good question but I am long resigned to not being smart enough to be a lefty.
Aww, Tom. You're plenty smart enough. Just not angry, bitter or jealous enough.
As for the "or else" question, Obama and the Congress won't be able to duck that one. I can only imagine what sort of sword they intend to dangle of recalcitrant ,
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It looks like Nintendo's legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto will be taking his hands off of the Mario franchise once Super Mario 3D World is out the door.
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Veteran Pride of Detroiters may recognize my "On Paper" previews from last year, but for those that do not, let me provide a quick introduction. The purpose of these previews is to look at Detroit's weekly opponent and compare their prior performances to season averages. For example, let's say its week 6 and I'm scouting the New York Giants' pass defense. I could simply look at how many YPG they are giving up or their opponent's QB rating, but that leaves out an important factor: strength of opponent. So if the Giants give up 270 passing yards against the Colts in week two, that could actually be a positive performance, assuming Peyton Manning is averaging more than that on the season.
After coming to a conclusion of each unit's (pass offense, pass defense, run offense, run defense, etc.) performance on the year, I will analyze what this means for Detroit. Instead of giving a boring, overused and frankly unimportant "who has the better passing offense?" comparison, I match opposing units. So, if the Giants have a good passing defense, what does this mean for Detroit's passing offense? Not exactly rocket science. After concluding which team has the advantage, I also award a point value (range from 1-5) based on how big of an edge that team has, and how likely it is to determine the final result of the game. At the very end of the preview, I add up all the advantages and make a prediction, because you can't have a preview without embarrassing yourself with a prediction.
Obviously, it's the first week of the year and there isn't a lot of data to go through yet. I will try to put only slight emphasis on the preseason, while focusing more on offseason moves and last season. But as the season rolls on and more relevant data becomes available, these posts are going to get longer and longer. Hardcore fans are welcome to read every last word, but the good thing about these previews (pat myself on the back) is that they are easy to skim through.
Anyways, after that not-so-brief introduction, onto the numbers!
Lions Pass Offense (21st) vs. Bears Pass Defense (13th)
(Team Rankings based on 2009 season, yards per game)
Here's how the Bears have fared against starting quarterbacks in the preseason (if the number is in red, the Bears did worse than season averages. If the number is green, the Bears performed better than season averages). All stats are for the first teamers only. The last preseason game was not included because neither the Browns nor the Bears played key starters.
Preseason QB Rating
QB Rating vs. Bears
The first-string Bears gave up touchdowns to all three of their opponents in the preseason, giving up pretty impressive stats to each. This should be taken with a grain of salt, however, because...well, because it's the preseason.
Last year, the Bears ranked 13th in overall pass defense. This year, they introduce Julius Peppers to their defensive line. While Peppers' better days are likely behind him, he has still reached the 10 sack mark four times in the past five seasons. He could definitely be a menace to Jeff Backus, especially when the other linemen are going to have their hands full with Tommie Harris and Mark Anderson (two preseason sacks).
However, Detroit's protection has been fairly consistent over the preseason. Stafford was sacked only once, and it was mostly his fault for holding on too long. In fact, Detroit quarterbacks were only sacked three times during the entire preseason, showing some impressive depth. The Lions are hoping the addition of left guard Rob Sims will solve their previous protection woes. The outlook so far indeed looks promising, but I am not convinced yet. I'm still bloated with all of the Daniel Loper Kool-aid I drank last year and I don't want to get burned again. Still, I feel the Lions offense has looked good enough in protection, that I think they should be able to avoid Peppers for the majority of the game.
The Bears' secondary is very much in question. Gone are the days of Nathan Vasher and Al Afalava. Their corners are still strong with Charles Tillman (2 INTs and 6 FF last year) and Zack Bowman (6 INTs), but their safeties are suspect. Specifically, Chris Harris has been inconsistent, and will likely lose his job to Major Wright by the time the two teams play later in the season.
Of course, the Lions counter with an offense full of new, exciting weapons. Jahvid Best, Tony Scheffler, Nate Burleson and a healthy Brandon Pettigrew are all new weapons likely to make this offense explosive. Add that to the perceived growth that Matthew Stafford has already made, oh man. Watching them in the preseason has been hypnotizing. Stafford must feel like he's in a Willy Wonka-esque factory of talent. Everywhere he looks on the field, there's rivers made of tight ends and trees that are actually 6'5" receivers with freakish hands. Matthew Stafford, if you want to view Paradise, simply look around and view it. Want to change the world? Just convert in the red zone. Lions +3.
Lions Run Offense (24th) vs. Bears Run Defense (23rd)
Opponent's Preseason Avg YPC
YPC vs. Bears
Chargers (Matthews)
Surprisingly, Chicago's run defense has not been all that impressive this preseason. Rookie Ryan Matthews put up 50 yards in nine carries in his NFL debut and Tim Hightower had 62 yards on his eight carries against the Bears.
Though they struggled last season, the Bears run defense promises to be better this year. If Brian Urlacher can stay healthy for a season, this unit could actually return to the glory of five years ago. Also, the addition of Peppers may free up Tommie Harris to create all sorts of trouble for the interior line.
Lions' fans have been abuzz over rookie Jahvid Best. Though we have only been treated to a limited look of him, Best seemed to make the most of every opportunity he was given, averaging a ridiculous 8.6 per carry in the preseason.
Kevin Smith is also likely to see the ball a number of times, and despite the recent negativity towards him, Smith is still a young guy who is getting better and healthier as time progresses. He's certainly not as explosive as Best, but he has enough talent to contribute significantly to this team.
As for this week, I don't see the Lions' run game being a significant factor. This is going to be a pass-first team to open up the running game. Ideally, success through the air would open up lanes on the ground later in the game, but the Bears' front seven are too experienced to let that happen. Bears +1.
Bears Pass Offense (17th) vs. Lions Pass Defense (32nd)
Opponent's QB rating allowed
(against starters)
Cutler's QB rating
Fans in Chicago are already equipped with their pitchforks and torches after how bad this offense has performed in the preseason. Cutler has been sacked 10 times, threw two interceptions against Arizona and has only completed 51% of his passes. His one impressive game against the Chargers was actually only a 2/2 for 47 yards performance.
But I'm not buying it. Lions' fans should know firsthand that Mike Martz has the potential to make a less-talented offense quite explosive. Remember in 2006 when Jon Kitna threw for 4200 yards (4th in the league)? Point is, Cutler and the Bears will eventually start moving the ball with some serious success. With a pack of speedy young receivers, comparisons to the Rams' "Greatest Show on Turf" are inevitable.
Of course with Martz, you have to take the bad with the good. Although Kitna was in the top 10 each year in passing yards under Martz, he also was 1st and 2nd in interceptions in 2006 and 2007 respectively. Kitna was also sacked the most of any quarterback each of those years. Unfortunately for Bears fans, Cutler seems to be prone to throw a lot of interceptions as is (led the league last year without Martz's help), and Chicago's offensive line is shaky with Orlando Pace now on his way to retirement.
This is easily the key matchup of the game for the Lions. For the billionth season in a row, the secondary is a major concern, and for the second season in a row it has gone through some major retooling. Louis Delmas returns as the only member of the 2009 secondary. Everyone else is a question mark. Chris Houston and Jonathan Wade have big upsides, but their inconsistencies deny any real reason to be optimistic. In the past two seasons, Detroit has easily had the least amount of interceptions of any team in the NFL with a measly 13. Also, Detroit has had only two games in which they've recorded more than one interception since 2007. I don't really see those numbers skyrocketing this year.
I fear that the biggest strength of this Lions defense (DL, obviously) can be easily circumvented with Martz's offense. Though pass-protection is key in this style of offense, quick receivers (see: Devin Hester, Johnny Knox) can exploit poor linebacker and secondary play with plenty of yards after the catch. It will take some adjustments from Martz's typical 5/7-step drops, but I don't think it will be all that difficult with the roster he has.
Overall, there isn't a doubt in my mind that the Bears move the ball through the air. I would be shocked if Cutler doesn't have at least 250 yards. But the key here for the Lions isn't limiting yards. The Lions basically need to do three things: create turnovers, limit Chicago to field goals and get sacks to stall drives. Their ability to do all three will determine this game. Bears +2.
Bears Run Offense (29th) vs. Lions Run Defense (25th)
Opponent's Avg YPC Allowed (against starters)
YPC Allowed vs. Bears
Matt Forte hopes to improve on what fantasy football players would call a disappointing season, but normal football fans would call a pretty decent one. Though his yards per carry took a dip to 3.6, he still managed 1400 yards from scrimmage and was a big part of the Chicago offense. His role will likely be diminished a bit with Martz at the helm, but Forte is still a threat. This preseason, he hasn't shown too much outside of one 89-yard touchdown run against the Raiders. But that's exactly the point. Forte won't do much on the majority of his carries, but he can still be a threat to break a long one or catch a pass out of the backfield.
Still, with how improved the Lions' defensive line is and how shaky the Bears' offensive line is, I don't expect much out of Forte this week. The one thing that scares me is our linebackers. It'll be their responsibility to jump into the holes that the line creates and make one-on-one tackles. Outside of Julian Peterson, Detroit's linebackers have literally no experience at their positions as starters. Still, I have blind faith that the d-line will put the linebackers in situations where they can't fail. The Bears' addition of Chester Taylor is worth mentioning, but he shouldn't be a game-changer. I don't see this matchup favoring either team. Push.
I was afraid this was going to happen. Tallying up all the points leaves us with a dead tie. Not surprisingly, this is the conundrum I've been dealing with all offseason. Since the schedule came out in April, I've been mulling over who was going to win this game. It's often overstated how important the first game of the season is for a team, but with Philadelphia, Green Bay, and Minnesota waiting for them, Detroit really needs this game.
Given that I see these two teams so evenly, I was pretty shocked to see that Chicago is favored by 7. But seeing as I think this will be a shootout type of game, a high margin of victory isn't all that improbable. I'm actually leaning a bit towards picking the Bears in this game, but since it is still the offseason, I'm allowed to be irrationally optimistic. Also, by adding that disclaimer, I technically picked both teams to win this game, so I'm bound to be right. Lions 31 Bears 30.


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True Life: Fake It Till You Make It
As a 21–year old senior woman, I have had a decent amount of sexual experience. I have dealt with virgins, sexual aficionados, Lotharios, rough lovers and quick comers. I am not looking for chocolate, roses or dinner at a Steven Starr, all I am asking for is good sex. After countless unsatisfied nights of lying awake post–coitus I have finally decided to take a stand: I refuse to continue faking orgasms.
How often do I "fake it," you ask? Well, if you poll any woman she will tell you she has faked it at least once. I have faked an orgasm so frequently during sex that I fear I have become proficient. I don't go for the Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally, all–out screaming orgasm — the Penn Band does not come marching through my room. I choose to start with taking deep breaths that have a hitch on the inhale, followed by soft but audible moans until my partner comes and conveniently rolls off me.
How do I know that I haven't actually experienced an orgasm with these gentlemen's valiant efforts? Because I have had a real live one (or two) and thus have a point of reference. My all–time best orgasm came at the hands — or, rather, the tongue—of a former fling that was an expert at cunnilingus. My entire body got chills and broke into a cold sweat, and my mind went absolutely blank. I couldn't speak or think and it was incredible. This is what they mean by "mind–blowing."
So my message to men — especially those seniors who only have one semester of learning left — is to do a little research. There is a wealth of literature out there. I'll make it easy for you; here's a call number: DVD 016 564. If you are uncomfortable with that then just listen to what your partner is telling you, with her body and with what she actually says. Don't be afraid to take charge of the situation. I can only speak for myself but if anything makes me uncomfortable, I will let you know. And remember, practice makes perfect.
As for my ladies: be kind to yourselves and don't let your partners have all the pleasure in the bedroom. Knowing what you want is sexy. And to my next conquest, I have a list of places to consecrate — namely, the VP stacks — before I graduate.
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Women pretend to orgasm because guys pretend to care.
Maybe if you tried using sex for something other than an amusement park ride it might become more fulfilling? Or has feminism and the sexual revolution ruined it for you?
Plus, getting off is kind of your responsibility. You'll be amazed at what your partner, assuming its someone that actually cares about you (which is not a good assumption with you), will do for you if you communicate. Communication is often limited under the influence or in bar parking lots or the backseat of a car.


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The itinerary was the usual Western Med' but despite our numerous visits we had never been to Gibraltar or Cadiz. I am sure some people will tell me that they love Gibraltar and so I apologise to those but frankly I won't be in a rush to go back. Cadiz I researched on the internet before the cruise and discovered that there was nothing there. That is not true. We enjoyed a lovely walk around the town, through a beautiful park and explored the cathedral and a large market complex. It reminded us very much of Cartagena in Columbia.
Back to the ship....
The food was very good as it always has been. You can always find a reasonably priced bottle of wine. The waiter service is always second to none and we have never had a bad experience at getting a table for two if there are just the two of us. The ships are beautiful, the accommodation and the beds are very comfortable. You might get the impression that I think these ships are great........... and you would be right.
The reason I was tempted to write a review was because I think the cruise companies need a wake up call.
The entertainment has slowly deteriorated over the last few years. The 'production shows' are basically the same theme with a different set and a new title. Do they not realise that we who cruise regularly have seen most of them before. Surely they pay enough money to have some innovation from their producers. Their singers do not have strong enough voices. There are exceptions but the standard is low. The dancers are good and work very hard. The 'cut backs' on spending are reflected in the numbers of dancers. I remember shows where the finale was truly spectacular with all the dancers and singers but there were at least fifteen or twenty of them altogether.
The supporting entertainment is a bit of pot luck. Sometimes you are fortunate and you will have a couple of good singers and all round entertainers. At another time you will end up with an English comedian who the Americans do not find even slightly amusing or, worse still, an American comedian who thinks he can 'span the Atlantic' and successfully offends all the English.
I find it very frustrating. I have written to Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, P & O and Princess but to no avail. I guess we will just have to grin and bear it. Unless, of course, you have other ideas? !


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Dozens came out to the Buffalo Gap Historic Village Saturday morning and afternoon for a zombie run.
Runners could choose between one mile or five mile runs. The zombies chased them to keep them up speed.
The zombie run was nicknamed a "survival fest."
Each group who ran was tasked with the mission of leaving teh safety of the "compound," also known as the Buffalo Gap Historic Village, and racing out of town to pick up "anti-viral serum." They then had to run back into town. There were many obstacles included.
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(The Italian short version appeared in l'Unita, November 7, 2012, and here is the full version, in English /geert)
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Teresa Numerico: One of the most interesting ideas that you suggest in your book, and I completely agree with you, is that the virtual is becoming more and more real, in the sense of a steady colonization of the virtual from the point of view of real lives. Can you discuss this colonization effect and its consequences (data mining etc.)?
Geert Lovink: Let's start with saying that I am not a Deleuzian. In our context of the internet the virtual is not a general philosophical category. The virtual is not becoming. It is real, and it is often boring too. It crashes and breaks down. In short, it is the not all too romantic, post-Fordist sphere of labour. There is nothing potential about it. Maybe this is the biggest difference between these days and the roaring mid-nineties. There is no alternative in the virtual, it is not a place for escape, even though in the Italian context, at the time of the media monopoly of Berlusconi, internet culture was seen as a promised land. The cyber counterculture was always taken more serious here than in other countries. It is a question if we can at all speak about the virtual as a space of collective imagination. For me the virtual is first and foremost a military-corporate battle ground, an abstract information space which is in the making, where large political-economic interests and concepts are clashing. It is exciting to take part in debates over protocols, software, interfaces and network cultures but, to be honest, there is not much utopia to be found out there. But yes, it is an interesting question if the everyday lives are being colonized by smart phones, wifi etc. as this also implies a possible anti-colonial struggle for liberation.
TN: In your book you hypothesize that "an important aspect of media literacy is the ability to walk away from the screen" and the "slow communication" ideal. Can you explain how is it possible to teach people to understand when it is time to walk away, and why do you think that this is a crucial capability?
GL: Where are our bodily and mental limits in this virtual place? We don't always know thus and each of us will have to found out about it by experience. We all have to learn it the hard way that you have work on your posture, weight, eyes and so on if you spend longer periods of time on the computer. In that sense there is a revenge of the body on all this unearthly clicking and typing, in particular when you add stress and age. Walking away is also good to create distance from what you just created (a text, image, service). Distance is essential for reflection; this is what Paul Virilio has always taught me. You also interrupt the speed regime. However, it is not always possible to walk away from the jobs. A friend of mine just quit working at a call centre, after having worked there for two weeks. He couldn't deal with it much longer. He said the people were nice but he could not deal with the constant typing and talking you have to do. He is my age and we all know that Asian young women with smaller hands can do this type of work much better. The older Western male is anyway written off, there is so much evidence for that.
TN: You affirm that "what we need to defend is the very principle of decentralized, distributed networks", but do you really think that the Internet is founded on this 'democratic' principle? And even if this were the case at the beginning, (but you remind us the political origin of the computer and of the networks, that shows the lack of innocence of the device) how do you think is it possible to defend it now, considering the neo-liberal subjectivity at work within the network?
GL: I do not equalize decentralized, federated networks with democracy, which to me is a political decision model. Decentralization is specific network architecture and in fact there are many of them. Distributed systems are precisely not focused on a central point where it eventually all comes together when a decision is made. This is, in a way, one of the key problems of internet culture: there is no visible centre. Networks potentially dissolve centralized power (and along the way create new forms of power, of course). Networks could be called anti-democratic as they shift the attention away from the Collective Moment of Decision Making towards the noise on the fringes. We all know that networked processes destroy attention. They fragment tidily organized discourses and conversations. What happens with Google, Facebook and Twitter is that they recentralized power behind the back of the users through software and data capture. But this new centre remains invisible and empty. We feel it is there but cannot really grasp its political program. These companies create filters, structure search outcomes and manipulate users to by suggesting products they can buy, new friends they can add etc. with the overall aim to rebuild the centre (which is them). The technical potential of networks to create social structure and to collaborate and the centralized social media reality inside the walled garden is getting bigger by the day. Where will this take us?
TN: At the beginning of the book you discuss the necessity that the internet should not be medicalized or moralized, and you position yourself against the Frankfurt Critical school, however you still underline a critical attitude towards the networks studies. Can you explain us your critical positioning?
GL: Sure, this position goes back to 1994-1995 when Pit Schultz and I founded the nettime list, an international 'net criticism' movement of artists, activists, programmer, researchers and designers. We demanded a knowledgeable critique from inside. This was, and still is, our main objection to the Frankfurt School type of complaints, mainly voiced by 1968-generation public intellectuals with little or no internet expertise itself. They mainly appear on TV and in daily newspapers. The academic equivalent is the scholar who only publishes in peer-review journals that no one reads and no one can access anyway. This is not the way to go if we want to build up an engaged and critical networked discourse. We expect that critic has read the book and seen the concert or theatre play, and that this person is an expert in literature etc. The same should be the case with new media (internet, smart phones, games). We should not delegate that to the business pages (even though there is a huge economic component to the networks, which I do not want to neglect at all). What is needed is a new 'virtual intellectual' with technical knowledge and a humanities background. This is more than knowing how to operate the iPad. We're working on it and the signs are good that a new generation is growing up that looks down on Google and Apple and circumvents the traps of cool gadgets and apps. This is a new form of critique which Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht already foresaw and practiced in which the critical users becomes a producer. Critical is not merely a point of view; it is first and foremost an (informed) activity.
TN: In your book you often talk about the necessity of creating a new field of study dedicated to the network culture. Why do you think that this object of research should be considered different from the general media study field? This is very interesting because in Italy we still lack a media study field.
GL: Perhaps one day it will all fit together into one overall Digital Media Discipline, but we're not there yet. Before we start to synthesize and bring together all platforms and historical broadcast and print media with one method and history, it is important to give some autonomy to digital culture research and network theory because it is really a different paradigm in comparison to the top-down broadcast logic. It is too easy for me to say it is all 'cross-media' because that's again a top-down approach coming from the PR and communication business that wants to push its products through these new channels. It remains important to make a hard cut with the broadcasting paradigm (and related industries) and emphasize the user approach (the community approach, emphasis on feedback and comments, public interface issues, free software and open source principles, using peer-to-peer architectures). We need first of all get a better understanding of the history of cybernetics and the computer. We all carry a computer on our body, spend years on end with these machines but how much do we know where they come from?
TN: Can you describe the objective of the Network Cultures Institute that you founded in Amsterdam in 2004? In particular I am interested in your definition according to which network culture will produce a redefinition of power itself and it could be a "resonating concept that can be used for research and action".
GL: I have chosen not to work in the direction of a general network theory or a society approach a la Manuel Castells. Our institute is based inside a large polytechnic university of applied sciences (HvA). It is neither pure academic nor an art school for that matter. The approach needs to focused and pragmatic. It is very Dutch in that sense (not German). So far the school has given us a lot of freedom to develop what we call 'decentralized research networks that work on emerging topics': aesthetics of online video, critique of creative industries, net porn research, cultures of search, Wikipedia and now, of course, social media.
TN: Your book resonates with a deep critic on the academic culture relative to the network, but I would suggest that the whole academic culture seems to fall short in understanding the present. You incite us "to open up collective imagination". Do you think that the academic culture is, or can be open to the fertilization of the outside world? and if yes, how?
GL: I have worked outside of academia fro 20 years and that more or less ruined my academic career in terms of grants etc. I was 44 when I received my PhD. The last years I tried a few things but none have been successful. I am an activist outsider, new media is a new and unstable discipline in the process of both growing and disappearing. And on top of that I am a theorist and critic with an interest in art and design, dedicated to the essay form of writing, which, in the current so-called peer review culture of journals are not appreciated. Maybe I am not the right person to ask what ordinary academics should or should not do. To young people I always say: don't do what I have done, and do not listen to me.
TN: In the English title of your book you paraphrase the title of a very famous American movie, Rebels without a cause, to discuss about the effects of the time-consuming networks that catch us inside, however your position on the networks role in counter-power activities doesn't seem to be so negative. Can you explain the possible paradoxical effects of social networks for a reassessment of an antagonist political what strategy?
GL: I am an autonomous anarchist with organizational inspirations. I read enough Lenin, Bakunin (and also Gramsci) and have confronted myself with the harsh realities of actual communism in Eastern Europe ever since the late 1970s. I believe in the power of social movements and I have been part of many (squatting, anti-nuclear, no borders) but also understand how wasteful the energies can be once a movement goes downhill. In potential social media can become incredible powerful tools for mobilization but right now the movements are simply not there to make a long lasting sustainable use of them. Just try to imagine what the 1930s would have been with social media. You think it was dark and messy then? Then prepare for worse in the decades to come. Italy is the perfect example of messy politics but can still learn a lot from other places where the mélange of left and right and no wing is even more pronounced. What Italy is lacking yet the pragmatics of the post-ideological, but that's coming.
TN: You seem to be very interested in the relationships between networked technologies and political and cultural practices. But how can you reconcile the observation according to which "no social movement or cultural practice, however radical can escape the commodity logic" and your positive attitude toward the effect of technologies on political empowerment of dissent?
GL: Thousands of anarcho-communistic programmers educating the people in the use of save crypto p2p phones? Why not? Can we imagine a social media arms race? These days we have Tor, Wikileaks, Anonymous, but also IndyMedia, Global Voices and now perhaps Twitter. The problem here it is that we cannot walk into the trap to believe that technology will do the dirty job for us to organize people. We need to do that. At the same time we know that the tools that we use, shape us. That's why Ned Rossiter and I have emphasized to find out more how 'organized networks' could look like. We need to design and test future forms of political organization that are, for instance, both local and global (but not at the same level). What do you make of the semi-autonomous cells as a model? How would you orchestrate today's strategic debates? Occupy Wall Street experimented will the model of the Greek chorus that collectively repeat the argument in a move to slow down, and embody the rhetoric of the Other. Could we translate that into this relentlessly real-time environment of the net? As far as we have been able to figure out social media only made an impact on the dozens of OWS camps that existed late 2011 in an indirect way.
TN: Why do you think that organization should have a new central role in a new start of political practice? Are you really convinced that the commons by Negri and Hardt that you suggested is the science of revolution can be supported with the new forms of organization? My feeling is that their approach is completely based on a spontaneous movement of the multitude, while I agree with your emphasis on the centrality of organization.
GL: Will the big change come in response to make events such as war or crises, natural catastrophes or will it be a result of decades of preparation and hard work of many small groups, individuals and campaigns? Right now we lots of revolts with a lot disastrous use of social media as people are simply not prepared. They are drawn into the Event. Think of the London riots. The question that we have not yet touched is how we will eventually scale up from the grassroots level of networks and small groups. In the past this was clearly more different. That's why there was a need for organizational forms such as the political party, trade union and the church. Creative individuals can make amazing experiences with sudden shocks of media attention and fame (only to disappear soon after). The meme is the cultural form of the day. On a campaign level this works very well but in order to prepare for a political takeover we need a large social network that we can trust. Global media all the time draw us away from that laborious task.
TN: You suggest that networking logic is at odd with present democratic mechanisms and that networks starts from a post-representational positioning. If this is the case how can you discuss the new forms of organization of dissent within the Internet network culture?
GL: There is clearly a democratic deficit in the networking paradigm and we need to address that problem. Networks are neither flat nor hierarchical; they are vague. It is a cloud and it is a real challenge to theorize a cloud! What does it mean to disperse? The answer to the democratic issue will, most likely, not be a technical one. We have to be open for that. The famous Dutch hacker Rop Grongrijp always inspires me. I met him for the first time in 1989. He is the founder of the ISP xs4all, is involved in the Berlin Chaos Computer Club and at some point worked together with Julian Assange on the Collatoral Murder video, early 2010. At some point Rop started a campaign against electronic voting machines. He has proved time and again that they are not safe and he is still working in many countries across the globe to support local campaign. Did you hear that Mitt Romney owns the voting machines in Ohio? I like the idea that technology assists us in on the informal level so that we can push the technology aside at the moment supreme, switch off the smart phones and have real life encounters. This requires a lot of training and wisdom
TN: You end the book with a very suggestive discussion on the Wikileaks effect, stating that it is the end of the content/carrier debate and that it is the end also of the debate between traditional journalism and hacker-citizen journalism. Croudsourced analysis does not happen automatically and Assange needed the help of well-known newspapers to obtain the great success. Do you think that Western democracies are ready for the transparency and openness that the Wikileaks model suggests or will they rebel against it?
GL: Wikileaks is a drama, an ongoing techno-activist disaster that I have been following on a daily basis since 2009. We can, of course, also look at it from the artistic-absurdist perspective and call it a Brechtian Lehrstück. There is a lot to be learned from this case study. First of all it tells us a lot what happens when you leave behind the NGO model of incorporation, do not set up national chapters (as Indymedia, Wikipedia and Global Voices have done) and try to do global politics from your laptop in a room with a bunch of friends who are most of time elsewhere. The dialectics between Assange and the mainstream press have never interested me. In that issue I am on his side. OK, you try and work with journalists and outlet to get the story out, giving others the possibility to do research on the vast material, but in the end the documents should be out there, in the public access, for everyone to read. The exclusivity aspect of news is there, but annoys me as well, as a net activist.


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By Barbara Smalley
Four years ago, Foxboro, Massachusetts competitive strongman Justin Sulham was in the midst of a dead lifting event at the Massachusetts State Championship when the nerves in his back exploded. He was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery, and then spent almost a year recovering—relying on a wheelchair and a walker to get around—and feeling sorry for himself.
His pity party ended, however, when he did a Google search for the words "inspire me," and found a link to the documentary, Darius Goes West: The Roll of his Life, which stars Athens' own Darius Weems. "That film was my wake-up call," says Sulham. "Watching Darius's story taught me what it really means to be 'strong,' and I learned so many valuable lessons about bouncing back from adversity."
In fact, Sulham vowed that, once fully recovered, he would start using his brute strength to raise awareness of/funds for muscular dystrophy research and other disability-related causes. And he would do this by pulling large objects in front of big crowds. To date, he has raised over $20,000 by pulling semis, airplanes, fire trucks and more—for causes running the gamut from muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, to heart disease and wheelchair-accessible playgrounds.
But those events were just a warm-up, says Sulham, whose dream has been to meet the Athenian who inspired him, Darius Weems, face-to-face—and raise money for the Darius Goes West Foundation.
That dream will come true when Sulham and his crew visit Athens on Friday, August 23 as part of the Ninth Annual Darius Goes West Day(s). That evening, the Foundation will host a drive-in movie night, combined with a mini-carnival, BBQ and auction at Epting Events (1430 N. Chase St.), beginning at 6pm. Before The Goonies plays on the big outdoor screen, Sulham plans to wow the crowd by pulling a fire truck across the parking lot. Another of his (female) crew will do the same with the Darius Goes West van.
Donations of $10 per carload or $5 per walk-in are requested to attend the event, with proceeds benefitting Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) research. DMD is the number one genetic killer of children in the world, the disease that took the life of Darius' older brother Mario at age 19, and the disease that Darius continues to defy. Every attendee at this event will receive a complimentary DVD of Darius Goes West.
This multi-award-winning film tells the story of Weems, who accompanied by 11 of his best friends (mostly young Athenians) left home for the first time in his life at age 15. He and his rowdy crew set a course for California, where they hoped to convince MTV to customize Darius' wheelchair on its (then) hit show, "Pimp My Ride." This band of brothers recorded their 3,000-mile journey on camera, and the resulting documentary subsequently captured 28 film festival awards. Darius and director Logan Smalley have since appeared on ABC Nightline (twice), Ellen DeGeneres, The Today Show, The CBS Early Show and CNN (four times). Darius and his crew have also toured the country three times, logging over 100,000 miles to host screenings and visit middle/high schools and colleges nationwide.
When Darius and his crew first left the Athens courthouse steps in 2005, then Mayor Heidi Davison declared it "Darius Goes West Day." Every year since, the Darius Goes West Foundation has been celebrating that anniversary. According to Smalley, "Every year, we try to outdo the previous year, and this year, we want the celebration to be larger than life. We think one way we're accomplishing that is by having Justin Sulham come to town to put on a great show—that will not only make jaws drop but that also symbolizes Darius' strength and ability to inspire others."
For more information about this and other events planned for the Ninth Annual Darius Goes West Day(s), visit www.dariusgoeswest.com.


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On Sunday, the Raiders beat the 1-4 Jags with a win so ugly the NFL will probably look at making ugly games ties in the next round of CBAs so that the involved players can take salary hits.. It took the "tuck rule" to bail us out along with some other veteran calls by Palmer. This is a team that had the offensive talent to easily beat the Jags and we were down by 11 at the half. Knapp apparently threw a fit. While the second half included many of the mistakes of the first half, it also included more inspired playing from the players. In fact, it was those plays that won the game.
The problem with the offense is unquestionably the line and the play calling. 3 of our first 5 plays were runs with a net of 5 yards. Our 3rd pass was a 59 yard strike to DHB. The run sure as hell didn't set up the pass because we had rushed 3 times for +5 yards and it was 3rd and 6. We'd need at least 4 carries to get 6 yards rushing. The Jags knew that and that's the significance of not having a running game. We don't have a red zone threat now. If you don't believe me, look at the film. We used to look at anything under 5 yards as automatic. But struggled between 5 and 20. Our red zone offense now is to hope we don't have to use our red zone offense. Hope someone breaks a long run or picks up 60 YAC. If they're tackled inside the 20, the defender just cost us 4 points. It's that simple. That's the state of the offense.
If this is supposed to be signs of growing pains during a rebuild, we need more evidence that we're growing or even rebuilding for that matter. Allen suggested on Monday, that the problems with the offensive line were related to getting some of the young guys up to speed. If they've mistaken Carlisle for a 22 year old rookie, we've moved problem solving into the field of optometry. As it is, a couple of the young guys made a name for themselves last year which happened to be the same year DMC was getting a lot more than 6 yards in 4 carries. If the intent of the rebuild was that we field a competitive team during the rebuild, we are failing on offense. The offensive line is locked into a philosophy they cannot embrace with the current personnel. While I'm certain there are many advantages to ZBS, I'm just as certain that one of the advantages is not that it's the only way to get rushing yards or that it makes the yards look better. Yards don't care how you run them. A ZBS rushing TD is not worth more than a PBS TD.
We can't expect to save our face, our butt and our season. We're going to have to concede something. ZBS is not working. We don't have the personnel and we're creating more of a problem as other linemen are forced to compensate for inferior play. And it is certainly insane to give up on DMC unless we see him in PBS a few games. Knapp's ceiling, in play calling here the first time was 16 points a game. That was the most he got calling plays. This was the time between Kiffin being fired and Knapp being demoted. Three different people called plays that year (Kiffin, Knapp and Cable) and only Knapp had 16 as the ceiling. The others were able to get 20 or more out of the same personnel. He was demoted after we had just 77 yards of offense against Atlanta (a team he was OC for 2 years before). There is no indication that this ceiling has changed. All of the points have come from last second heroics from the QB and the first half play calling is as ineffective now as it was in 2007.
So, in order to find out whether Knapp's vision is correct, we are going to have to replace 2-3 linemen, give up on DMC and get another back and then wait a year while the new linemen are acclimated. This apparently must occur before the play calling improves as little as been said of the atrocious play calling. That's a heavy request for any coach to make, especially a rookie coach, without providing evidence that things will improve.


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Just read an article that said Snoop Dog can't wait to show his kids the proper way to smoke weed #thankyoujesus😂👍👍👍—
foreverkush (@foreverkush_) January 03, 2013
'It's not that I would ever push weed on our kids,but if they wanted to, I would love to show them how, the right way' – @SnoopDogg—
Ol` Mucky Terrahawk (@Eddiiii) January 03, 2013
This is crazy to me snoop dogg smoking weed with his kids. Whoa parent of the year. Pass it dad lol—
Mac Okeke (@mac_maine82) December 29, 2012
Lighters Up. @DrewMagary spends a day with @SnoopLion: gqm.ag/S6O2nP @SnoopDogg—
GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) January 03, 2013
The latest edition of GQ Magazine includes a haze-covered interview with marijuana-promoting gangsta rapper Snoop Dogg/Snoop Lion/whatever, who wins the Hollyweird Dad of the Year award hands-down. And yes, we know the year just started.
As regular followers of Snoop's Twitter feed know, he spends as much time peddling his drug habits online as he does everywhere else:
Lighters Up! Get high with me youtu.be/pqevv-4DAJw—
Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) December 29, 2012
Who smokn ?—
Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) December 29, 2012
The vocal Obama supporter, father of three children (ages 12-18) and TV-famous peewee football coach (the team is made up of 8- and 9-year-old children) goes even further in his GQ interview by advocating marijuana instruction for his children and the young athletes under his care:
So in Snoop's Narnia, it's perfectly normal to smoke weed everywhere, all the time, at any hour of the day. In Snoop's Narnia, it's perfectly acceptable to look forward to teaching your kids how to pick seeds out of your stash or how to roll a blunt. "It's not that I would ever push weed on our kids," says Snoop, who has three children, ranging in age from 12 to 18, "but if they wanted to, I would love to show them how, the right way, so that way they won't get nothing put in their shit or overdose or trying some shit that ain't clean."
It doesn't even seem so crazy—or at least not as crazy as it should seem—when Snoop tells me he's thinking of reading a book called It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana, to the 8- and 9-year-olds on the peewee football team he coaches. "Believe it or not," he says, "they need to know." (The book is about a little girl whose parents teach her about the awesomeness of weed…)
@allhiphopcom lmao, Snoop Dogg done lost his mind that last trip 2 Jamaica must'a did sum justice! LOL—
Mr_Donny (@908donnysworld) January 03, 2013
and father of the year goes to…. not him – Snoop Dogg: "I Would Love" to Show My Kids How to Smoke Weed usm.ag/Ur0FqT via @usweekly—
メοメο (@Loyal_Belieber) January 03, 2013
At least we don't have to guess what health advice Snoop's giving to kids:
#20SongsThatILike Smoke Weed Every Day – Snoop Dog (Dog?Lion?) youtube.com/watch?v=Klujiz…—
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TOLEDO, OH (TOLEDO NEWS NOW) - Honor Flight Northwest Ohio will conclude its 2012 flying season on Wednesday by taking 49 Korean War veterans to Washington, D.C. to see the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, and several other military memorials.
This will be the first time that a sizeable number of Korean War veterans have been taken on a Northwest Ohio Honor Flight.
Additionally, 35 World War II veterans will also be on board.
Honor Flight has taken more than 1,100 veterans to Washington on 27 flights since 2008.
The community is always invited to meet veterans at the airport. They departed in the morning around 7:30 a.m. The return time on Wednesday is between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. All that is needed to gain access to the Grand Aire hangar is a current/valid picture ID. Children under age 18 do not need an ID if they are accompanied by a parent, a guardian, or another adult.
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Here's trailer #2 for Marlon Wayans' A Haunted House sequel - A Haunted House 2 - which was also co-written by Wayans and Rick Alvarez (like the first film), who stars in it as well, with Mike Tiddes returning to direct.
Joining Wayans in the sequel are Gabriel Iglesias, Jaime Pressly, and Ashley Rickards, as well as returning cast members Essence Atkins, Affion Crockett and Dave Sheridan.
What to expect from the sequel, backed and to be released by Open Road Films:
Crossing new lines and breaking old barriers, A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 is the sequel to the hilarious box-office hit starring Marlon Wayans as Malcolm who, after exorcising the demons of his ex, is starting fresh with his new girlfriend and her two children. After moving into their dream home, Malcolm is once again plagued by bizarre paranormal events. With spine-tingling tension and hilarious punch-lines A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 is inspired by the latest supernatural horror movie franchises and shows that this time… it's not just the house that's haunted!
Said Wayans: "We are putting together an incredible cast of comedy veterans and new faces that fit perfectly with the returning cast. It's our goal to broaden and enhance the audience experience with even bigger comedy and fresh points of view."
Open Road Films' CEO Tom Ortenberg stated, "We are thrilled to be on board with IM Global again for U.S. Distribution of A HAUNTED HOUSE 2. Marlon Wayans and Rick Alvarez are a force of nature and we are excited to work with them on yet another one of their hilarious adventures."
Expect a similar kind of R-rated brand of humor as the first film, which made $40 million on a $2.5 million budget (not including P&A costs).
The sequel is set for release on March 28, 2014.
In the meantime, Open Road has released the sequel's second full trailer today, embedded below, followed by the film's poster:
ChgoSista | January 30, 2014 9:02 AM
I covered the premiere of the first one here in Chicago--even with Wayans in attendance, I couldn't muster up a laugh...
NoMoBuffoons | January 29, 2014 1:36 PM
When isn't this guy's mouth NOT open?
jeff | January 28, 2014 10:04 PM
buffoons making money
scripttease | January 28, 2014 1:32 PM
Something I have no desire to watch. Was not impressed with the first one, and believe me when I say, I love corny comedy, but this isht right here was not it. However, I love me some Cedric the Entertainer.