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By Tom Junod
One could imagine her talking dirty -- heck, she was talking dirty, sort of -- and a few minutes later, when one of the women on the panel started saying "Bill" this and "Bill" that, the woman pulled herself up short and, with her hand over her heart, apologized to Hillary for being so informal, for using her husband's first name. Hillary reached out, placed her hand over the woman's wrist, and said with an amused, intimate chuckle, "That's all right. I know who you're talking about."
It is a strange experience, traveling with the Good Hillary, because when one comes upon the hatred inspired by the Bad Hillary, it seems to come without sufficient cause or antecedent. It's just there, waiting for the bus in clusters and lines and slanted little pockets, shrieking and frothing, men and women with rattling signs and assassins' mouths. They were part of the listening tour; they traveled with it, from depressed upstate river town to depressed upstate river town, and so when Hillary was listening, say, to senior citizens inside a senior center in the nearly gutted city of Utica, she also had to listen to people chanting forcefully from outside, Go home Hillary! Go home Hillary! Go home Hillary! They had the place surrounded, these folks, back door to front, spilling down the steps of an old red-brick Catholic church across the street. Some of their signs were pretty good -- hillary listen to this: go home and evita! -- although of course there were the yellow banners emblazoned with pictures of mangled fetuses and the words hillary's choice, as though Hillary's ambition stood in affront to the womb itself. Outside the senior center in Utica, one woman spat and said, "She's not my kind of people. She only has one child. I have three and raised them myself. She's never even owned a house." Another man said, "How can she expect to run a state when she can't even run a marriage?" Although it must be added that his friend interrupted and said, softly and almost chivalrously, "Hey, now, that's not her fault."
I didn't get it -- how personal the opposition, how punitive, how...mean. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it even now, for to contemplate Hillary Clinton is to see a woman who is at least as much a virtuecrat as William Bennett. I mean, isn't she the kind of wife men are supposed to want? Didn't she support her guy? Didn't she forgive him even while acting as an enabler of his, um, excursionary brand of sexuality? Hasn't she rescued his political career on at least three occasions, always at great cost to herself? Sure, conspiracists might say she had to save him, for power and payoff, but one might also argue that she had more power than anyone in the world last year -- she, and as it turned out she alone, had the power to bring down the President of the United States -- and she did not exercise it. Even in the act of running for the Senate she may be announcing her intention to stay with her husband -- for surely it would be too much for anyone to undertake a historic political campaign while at the same time undertaking a historic divorce.
It is indeed because of the probity of her personal example that her political opponents have found it necessary to continue holding her in sexual suspicion and sexual contempt. Even her liberalism has nothing to do with license; rather, it has everything to do with trusting the government as the organ and instrument and very incarnation of her own virtue. She is a liberal fundamentalist. Although girded with her own fatal love of making policy, her politics are so nostalgic that they are almost Proustian, and stop after stop on her listening tour found her looking mistily back to the days when government itself was held in high and uncomplicated regard -- when, rather than in the presumption of private sin, government found its incarnation in the sugar cubes handed out in public-school gymnasiums in the war against polio. She has a taste for government, because for her government has a taste, and it tastes...sweet. "Well, I've actually enjoyed my time in the White House," she said on the first day of the tour, and sure enough, on the last day, when she traveled all the way from Utica to Rome to Syracuse to Albany, she wore around her neck the presidential seal, its avenging eagle interposed between golden globes of chintzy costume jewelry. The seal itself was a cheap-looking thing of stamped gold, but since it allowed her to make one thing perfectly clear -- the fact that by running for the Senate she was not out to repudiate the Clinton legacy but to extend it -- she wore it as innocently as a sophomore wearing her boyfriend's ring and as brazenly as a biker chick sporting her ride's name in filigreed tattoo.
I have said that the best Hillary Clinton ever looked in her life was the day she presented herself to the press on the arm of Daniel Patrick Moynihan. I was wrong. The best she ever looked in her life was the last night of the listening tour, at a fundraiser in Albany, on the arm of a man named Jerry Jennings. Jerry Jennings is the mayor of Albany. He is a big, beefcakey man, shiny on the stump, publicly effulgent, with a thick head of wavy silver hair. In other words: just her type. Everyone has a type, sexually, and if it is certain that the President failed to marry his type when he married Hillary -- his type leaning toward wide, enveloping mouths and brazen, blow-jobby bands of teeth -- it is just as certain that Hillary succeeded in marrying her type when she married the President. Of course, what ensued was both tragedy and comedy in equal measure: tragedy for him in that he will always be perceived as comic; comedy for her in that she will always be perceived as tragic and hence will get the last laugh. She gets to be heroic in a way that will make him look like a clown; she gets to be historic in a way that will mock him throughout history.
As the woman who personifies this country's unresolved sexual tensions, she gets to try to resolve them. As a matter of fact, it may be said that until Hillary Clinton runs for the Senate and wins, until she runs for president and wins, this country will always be in her thrall, and if one wants to calculate how consequential her current political ambitions are, one need only imagine the mad focus of feeling that will attend her Senate campaign come late October 2000 and the insanity that will accompany her presidential campaign come, say, October 2008. The tragedy of the Clintons' marital "arrangement" is that it doomed them both to their own kinds of humiliation -- hers sexual, his political -- and yet because her humiliation forced her to seek a new beginning even as his spoke to him of his end, Hillary Clinton will wind up being more meaningful than Bill Clinton ever was. The President of the United States of America? He will become nothing more and nothing less than Hillary's escort. As she remained at his side, he will remain at hers, as her gilded gigolo, as her sexual foil, as her type, the man who makes her respond, the way she responded in Albany to Jerry Jennings.
Jerry Jennings: Yes, you should have seen her with him. The fundraiser was for a congressman named Michael McNulty, but it was Jennings's show once Hillary came onstage. He introduced her. He testified for her. He wooed her, this slightly tawdry Romeo with the tanning-booth tan. She was tired, talked-out, slightly crushed looking around her exhausted eyes, but when Jennings started extolling her, she looked instantly restored, at once shy and gratified, with a deepened color and a flushed radiance -- she had that glow. She clutched her hands in front of her bodice, and, once or twice, as she actually bent at the waist to accommodate her laughter and feeling, she looked sort of like Donna Reed at the end of It's a Wonderful Life -- the kind of woman actually turned on by the spectacle of goodwill.
Jennings escorted her off the stage, and about an hour later, they turned up again on another stage, outdoors, where a local theater was staging a performance of Gypsy under the stars. Hillary was supposed to speak at intermission, but the stars disappeared behind a pulpy skein of clouds, and by the time she reached the microphone, the sky was pouring rain. She spoke anyway, pluckily, and as quickly as she could, with Jennings giving her his coat and shielding her with his umbrella. They both got spattered, then Jennings got soaked; he stood very close to her, in his wet white dress shirt, and, by God, she looked thrilled. Would he have? Would Jerry Jennings have, um, voted for her that night? Sure he would have. Of course he would have. Hell, yes, he would have. She was a woman, after all, and she looked lovely in the rain.
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) denied BCE Inc.'s $3billion takeover of Astral Media Inc. This may be as profound as Paul Martin's decision to deny the merger of Canada's banks. As with the banks, it may push BCE to seek growth beyond Canada.
In 1998 Martin, then Canada's Finance Minister, blocked the merger of the RBC and BMO and of the CIBC and TD Bank. Martin thought the mergers would further concentrate Canada's banking sector, reduce competition, and increase the banks market power. The CRTC has similar concerns with BCE's acquisition of Astral.
The banks had a need to grow, as does BCE. For organizations of BCE's size, Canada presents few opportunities for major growth within their sector. Martin's decision took the banks proposed growth tactic off the table, as does the CRTC's for BCE. Martin's decision caused the banks to seek growth beyond Canada.
Banks Find Growth Opportunities beyond Canada
Subsequent to Martin's decision, TD acquired small USA banks. Today, it has more USA than Canadian branches. Similarly, Scotia accelerated the growth of its global operations. Canadian banks, in the last two years, undertook 50 acquisitions valued at CDN$42billion. These assets are in Mexico, Columbia, China, the Caribbean, Luxembourg, USA, and Canada.
Martin's policy created a stronger and less concentrated banking system, less vulnerable to recent international banking crisis, and more sustainable. His policy brought benefits to Canada. For BCE, the CRTC's Decision presents a comparable opportunity.
Canadian Corporations Go Global, Except BCE
Banks are not alone in exploiting foreign opportunities. Toronto based Alamos Gold Inc. operates mines in Turkey, Mexico, and Canada. Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has USA and overseas operations, as has consulting firm CGI. Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has insurance operations in Canada, USA, UK, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Brazil. Of FP's Top 25 firms, 22 report sales outside Canada. BCE reports none!
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In sharp contrast to BCE, its foreign rivals have exploited global opportunities.
Norway's Telenor Group has cellular enterprises in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and Asia. It has 203 million cellular customers, 27 times BCE's 7.5 million!
U.K.'s Vodafone Group Plc. provides cellular in 30 countries and partners in 40 more. The world's second-largest cellular provider has 439 million subscribers, 58 times BCE's!
South Africa's MTN Group operates in 21 African and Middle Eastern countries. It boasts 183 million cellular customers, 24 times BCE's!
Digicel Group Limited has 12.8 million cellular subscribers in 31 markets, in the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the South Pacific. It built its business in the last 11 years! BCE in the same period added 4.3 million cellular subscribers, 1/3 that of Digicel!
Telenor, Vodafone, MTM, and Digicel found global cellular market opportunities beyond their home market. By contrast, BCE stayed home preferring to remain a very, very, small cellular provider with low ambitions.
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In the cellular market alone, the contrast between BCE, Telenor, MTN, Digicel, and Vodafone is startling. It raises a number of questions.
What prevents BCE from following the example of its rivals? Is it lacking experience in the delivery of cellular services? Why is it content with only 7.5 million cellular customers? Why is it not embracing global opportunities, as is the majority of Canada's Top 25 Corporations?
Is BCE the victim of bureaucratic persecution, as it often suggests? Or has the CRTC and Industry Canada made it so comfortable for BCE that it is content with its low performance?
Has BCE paid too much attention to the limited vision of Bay Street? Why has BCE failed to step up to a grander strategy? Is it so fixated on operations it cannot conceive of a more noble purpose?
Passive Performance
BCE enjoys a favoured position in Canada, a cosy comfortable existence in a well-protected oligopoly market structure. No surprise it has delivered decades of passive performance, at a significant cost to consumers and to our national detriment.
Globally oriented rivals have outplayed BCE. There is no lack of global opportunity to satisfy BCE's desire to grow its business, except its own lethargy.
BCE's challenge is to change its thinking.
The CRTC's Chair, Jean-Pierre Blais, Decision to deny BCE permission to acquire Astral may have the same effect as Martin's bank sector decision. It may shake BCE from its lethargy. Cause it to seek and seize global growth opportunities and create benefits for Canada.
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Wait until the pumpkin shows no green and the skin is hardened, like the ones you would buy in the store. Some people suggest curing them at warm temp with elevated humidity. Then wash with bleach solution and store in cool dry place away from other fruits. I skipped the curing part and just washed with bleach and stuck them in the basement. They are doing fine 2 weeks later. Only two more months to go. google: pumpkin storage for more specifics on the topic. |
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More than 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students will receive their degrees this week. Commencement ceremonies will be held Friday and Saturday on campus.The university-wide fall commencement ceremony is set for 9:00 a.m. Saturday, December 15, at Thompson-Boling Arena. The university will honor alumnus Charles O. "Chad" Holliday, chairman of the board of Bank of America.
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The UT Center for Leadership and Service will award students who do community service work a special medallion to wear when they graduate. Students who log 100 or more community service hours qualify for medallions, which will be available for students to wear at the May 2013 commencement.
McCormick CEO Wilson to Receive Alumnus Award, Address UT College Grads
Alan Wilson, chairman, president and CEO of McCormick & Company Inc., will receive the 2011 Donald G. Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award at the spring commencement ceremony for the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Wilson also will deliver the college's commencement address to graduates and their families at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 12, in Thompson-Boling Arena.
Governor-elect Haslam to Speak at UT Fall Commencement
Governor-elect and Knoxville mayor Bill Haslam will address graduates at the fall commencement ceremony for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The ceremony will take place at 9 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 11, at Thompson-Boling Arena on UT's campus.
UT Knoxville College of Engineering Congratulates Graduates
More than 240 students from the College of Engineering officially became graduates of UT Knoxville last week as about 2,000 parents, friends and relatives watched them walk across the stage inside Thompson-Boling Arena.
Big Names, Big Crowds Mark UT Knoxville Commencement Week
Thousands of graduates, their families and friends converged on UT Knoxville this week to celebrate spring commencement. Individual college commencement ceremonies held over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday featured many notable speakers — from a Nobel laureate to a national championship winning football coach — who offered graduates sound words of wisdom and advice.
UT Knoxville Awards Former Vice President Al Gore an Honorary Doctorate
UT Knoxville honored former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore with an honorary degree today at the College of Arts and Sciences commencement exercises.
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Feb 17th 2012 10:43PM I'm trying to get enthusiastic. I really am trying to get excited.
But I've always felt that Bliz had two choice when it came to tank rotations and fight mechanics: simple rotation and complex fight (eg adds to pick up, or tank swapping, or lots of movement, etc) or the other choice ... complex rotation and simple fight. Let's face it - not everyone is a great tank. Plenty of us are just good to OK (I include myself in this group, but I flatter myself that I'm more on the good side rather than just OK :D ) and trying to manage a complex roation and a complex fight simulatenously will tend to result in lots of mistakes.
My personal preference will always be a simple rotation to manage while negotiating my way through a complex fight. I really do worry that a complex rotation will result in Blizz bringing back tank-and-spank fights where you pull the boss, turn his/her back to the raid, and everyone stands there running their rotations until it's time to loot.
I know it's too early to draw any such conclusions but the alternative scares me more ... trying to juggle a complex rotation where a mistep can cause a wipe, whilst running all over the room to pick up adds whilst avoiding the fire/void zone/other nasty mechanic.
I'm probably just being paranoid ... but that would definately be too much of a good thing for my taste.
Can I resell Blizzard promotional ampm cups? {WoW}
Feb 10th 2012 6:53PM People are actually now so gunshy that they are now afraid to sell their property (because once they've bought it the cup IS their property) without seeking some sort of legal advice first?
The IP/Copyright crowd refer to people who violate their IP/Copyright as pirates. How ironic that I'm starting to think of the IP/Copyright crowd as organised crime. I'm not belittling the people who've suffered from the predations of 'real' organised crime ... but as the deep pockets of business push harder and harder to buy more and more restrictive laws, and normal people grow to increasingly fear the possibility of legal attack with out of proportion punative results?
Two different types of non-government organisations which both, ultimately, seek to get what they want though fear? They sound very very similar to me.
Shifting Perspectives: Tanks, bribes, and player behavior {WoW}
Apr 12th 2011 6:17PM A good point. and one which sparks a "that reminds me"
I leveled two toons when Cata went live: a Warrior tank and my main, a Paladin tank.
My Paladin is a Blacksmith (both are miners) so I was able to level my smithing fairly quickly. But I was more than a little put out to discover that I while I could craft DPS plate quite early on ... I couldn't make any tank gear of the same ilevel.
So as a tank I had no choice but to enter my first Cata 5 man (a guild run) significantly less geared than my guildies who were wearing crafted gear.
After numerous normal runs with the (to be expected) crappy drops my guildies were all desperate to run Heroics ... so I started LFDing normals to grind JP and faction rep to speed my gearing up.
In other words I had to run the 5 man normals much more often than my DPS mates to end up at the same place they were.
Eventually we got to the point where we started doing heroics - but by that time I was well and truly sick of the content.
At the same time our guild imploded (due to unrelated issues) and after things had settled down I'd discovered a complete lack of interest in the PvE content. So now I'm doing BGs where I can gear as quickly (or slowly) as anyone else and not be penalised by Blizard because I choose to play Prot.


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When he was seventeen, Garcia did something so terrible that a Denver judge gave him two life sentences without hope of parole. Although he pursued his appeals as doggedly as any seasoned convict, he could see the years stretching ahead of him like an endless cage.
"I tell you I would rather be on Death Row than doing life," he wrote in a letter requesting a sentencing review, "because doing life is just a long, slow, miserable death."
Garcia's misery didn't last as long as he thought it would. Locked down for the past five years in the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP), the state's maximum-security prison, he had nothing left to lose but his sorry life. Two months ago he lost that, in a bloody struggle with two other inmates. It happened shortly before seven in the morning on September 24, in the course of six brutal, desperate minutes--while eleven other inmates and nearly as many guards watched and did nothing to stop the killing.
The morning it all went down, Matthew Clark had just sat down to breakfast in Dayhall Two, a common area in the D unit of CSP where prisoners are allowed to mingle briefly outside their cells. Clark was 26, eight years into a ten-year sentence for burglary and on his way out of CSP; in fact, he was up for a parole hearing in a few weeks. But the next six minutes changed everything.
Clark remembers hearing someone shout, "Watch out, Matt!" The next thing he knew, Michael Garcia had stabbed him in the face with something sharp, and Clark was fighting for his life.
Johnny Estrada, 27, was sitting at the same table. Like Clark and Garcia, he was Hispanic, from Denver, and had been in trouble with the law since he was a juvenile; like them, too, he had already served several years of his sentence--in Estrada's case, 36 years for second-degree murder--in lockdown at CSP. According to other prisoners in the dayhall, Garcia lunged at Estrada after stabbing Clark. Soon all three of them were on the floor.
Initial news reports of the incident, relying on information supplied by the Department of Corrections, state that Garcia was stabbed with a sharpened toothbrush. The reports were wrong. He was beaten to death, with exquisite viciousness, over a period of time that eyewitnesses estimate as lasting from six to nine minutes.
Through it all, corrections officers gathered behind a locked door and watched the scene through the glass. One prisoner with a clear view of the dayhall door says that at one point there were at least eight to twelve guards massed there, "akin to people viewing a boxing match." (DOC officials claim that only four officers were present for most of the fight and that ten other staffers arrived "simultaneously" at the end, but incident reports obtained by Westword contradict this version of events.) No CSP staffer entered the dayhall until a shift commander and escort staff had arrived and the prisoners had been ordered back to their cells and locked down, including Estrada and Clark--who, according to official reports, gave their attacker a few final kicks in the head, exchanged high-fives and then voluntarily returned to their cells.
Still breathing but unconscious, Garcia was put on a gurney and taken to a hospital in Pueblo. He was pronounced dead ninety minutes later. The autopsy report lists the likely cause of death as "trauma to the brain." He was 23 years old.
Few people will mourn the passing of Michael Garcia, who was in prison for the horrific 1992 murders of an elderly couple in northwest Denver. To call him a "mad-dog killer" would be a libel on rabid canines everywhere. Those familiar with the details of his crime may even see a crude justice in his dying in a savage fight that he started. But his bad end is also a disturbing sign of administrative confusion and miscalculation at the state's notorious supermax prison, where a single mistake can be a matter of life and death. It's the culmination of a rash of stabbings, fights and other assaults at CSP that official policies have done little to prevent and may even have encouraged.
Garcia's death is the first homicide in the history of the penitentiary, which opened in 1993 and remains one of the most restrictive high-security prisons in the country. But it's also one of eight inmate-on-inmate assaults that have occurred in CSP's PRO (short for Progressive Reintegration Opportunity) Unit since the program began a few months ago.
The PRO Unit is the core of a 252-bed addition to CSP that was completed last January. The unit was intended to be a transitional program for prisoners progressing out of solitary confinement. The basic idea is that men who've been locked in their cells 23 hours a day for months or years need a gradual process of intensely supervised socialization--including the opportunity to "interact" with other prisoners a few hours a day during meals or classes--before being shipped to a less restrictive prison. But the program got off to a rocky start and has been retooled considerably in recent months, resulting in frequent shifts of prisoners from one unit to another, a practice that may have thrown deadly enemies together. The turmoil also contributed to inmate-staff tensions that resulted in a wave of forced-cell extractions at CSP last summer ("Hard Cell," August 20).


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Those of us living in the United States are reminded each Independence Day of the many blessings we enjoy in terms of equality and individual liberty. The level of cultural capital for entrepreneurs is obviously linked to a nation's cultural norms, stigmas and role models – or lack thereof. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of female entrepreneurship where unaddressed challenges allow women's creativity, problem-solving capacity and even key science and technology skills to lay idle in our societies.
The 'world's largest startup' is shining a spotlight on and providing support to a group of promising American startups that have technology as a critical backbone. Last week, the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs announced its first-ever Founders Club 50. The class includes companies from 17 U.S. states that are on the verge of significant growth, collectively receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, while making an impact across various industries, including analytics, healthcare, enterprise solutions, entertainment, IT and mobile computing.
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BAE, which designed and built the $232 million baggage system once heralded by Denver officials as a technological marvel, is afraid of being judged in Denver--so afraid that its attorneys spent much of the summer trying to convince a Texas judge to hear the case in Dallas. For its part, United Airlines has filed voluminous court documents that provide new details on the failings of a system it now describes as an "engineering disaster."
Denver's baggage follies hit bottom in March, when United and BAE sued each other for breach of contract. BAE claimed that United, the only DIA carrier actually using the high-tech baggage system, was unfairly withholding the final $17.5 million payment for the system. United said the newfangled contraption was so unreliable it might have to be junked altogether. The airline is asking to be let out of the $17.5 million payment; BAE wants the money, plus millions of dollars in additional operating costs it claims it was saddled with after United refused to certify the system as complete last November.
The two parties have spent the past few months in pretrial legal skirmishes as Dallas-based BAE has sought to have the trial held in that city. BAE's lawyers argued that the firm has about as much chance of receiving a fair trial in Denver as Timothy McVeigh had in Oklahoma City. United, which wanted the case tried in Denver, submitted an eight-inch stack of press clippings to demonstrate the high level of local interest in the case, including articles from Westword, transcripts of Peter Boyles's radio show, and stories from the Denver dailies, among them an October 28, 1995, article by Rocky Mountain News reporter Kevin Flynn trumpeting the success of the automated system. That story was optimistically headlined "DIA Bags Rolling at Last."
BAE lost the first round of the court fight at the end of June, when a Dallas judge ordered the trial moved to Denver. No trial date has been set, and those involved say the earliest the case could go to trial is late next year.
According to the court documents filed by United, the last straw for Denver's largest carrier came this past February, when the baggage system failed a series of tests during one of the airport's slowest periods. That followed the system's complete collapse during the Christmas holidays. During the ten-day February test, 40 percent of the inbound bags didn't show up on time, and more than 500 bags weren't delivered at all. The system for odd-sized parcels such as skis and backpacks "was so nonfunctional that it could not even be tested," United said in its court filing. The airline added that it is now "saddled with a system that is only one-third operational."
United and BAE were involved in increasingly tense negotiations in March, and the breakdown of those discussions on March 18 set off a semi-comic sprint to the courthouse. BAE filed suit against United in Dallas, and two hours later United did the same in Denver. In its complaint, the airline claimed that BAE brought suit in Dallas to avoid the wrath of the Denver citizenry. "BAE chose Dallas as a venue for only one reason: It is not Denver," asserted the airline's attorneys. "The vast majority of documents, witnesses--including a number of BAE employees involved with the system--reside in Denver, not Dallas. BAE's race to a courthouse nearly 900 miles from Denver reveals how desperately it wants to avoid having this controversy decided in a venue whose citizens and judiciary are affected every single day by BAE's engineering flop of a baggage system."
In its court filings, BAE argued that the trial should be held in Dallas because a single United employee who lives in Houston was involved in the negotiations between the airline and BAE. The company also told the judge it fears a judicial lynch mob in Colorado. "BAE will not likely receive a fair trial in Denver," the company stated. "While the newspaper articles and radio-talk-show transcripts submitted by United are undoubtedly hearsay and not competent evidence of anything, they do demonstrate the bitterness of citizens of Denver due to a number of problems at DIA. United's papers clearly evidence its hope that any blame for the general and historic problems at DIA will be placed on BAE in this dispute. BAE has been and will be held out to the Denver public as a scapegoat, precluding a fair trial of this case on the merits."
The court documents also reveal an all-star lineup of potential witnesses, including Mayor Webb; his chief of staff, Stephanie Foote; City Attorney Dan Muse; aviation director Jim DeLong; and former manager of public works Mike Musgrave, who left office last year to take a high-paying job with one of the private consulting firms he supervised during DIA's construction. Top executives from United and BAE can also be expected to make appearances.


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Apple Found Guilty of Ebook Price Fixing
The title says everything that needs to be said. This is the second strike agaisnt them as last year a judge ruled the Steve Job patent null and void.
1. http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/10/45…k-price-fixing 2. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2…-judges-words/ 3. http://www.todaysiphone.com/2012/12/u-s-patent-office-invalidates-steve-jobs-patent/ Quote:
Ebooks are too expensive, whether it's Amazon or Apple behind the wheels. It is ludicrous that most Kindle ebooks costs as much or more than the paperback. And, if you're a book club member, you can often get hardcover editions for the same price as well.
Authors need to self-publish (digitally) and get away from these greedy schmucks. |
Recently I found a few self publish sites myself and books go from $1-$8 a book. That's were we should buy the eBooks we want. |
The interesting outcome is that essentially all power has been returned to Amazon … which was what the publishers were trying to avoid … :)
As I said before it's the same problem with all digital goods. Selling goods that save money for them, but never lowering the initial cost to buy. I have been hearing for years digital would be cheaper hasn't happened yet. |
Yesterday I was talking with someone over the quality of paper in books - it clearly feels different.
And that's something eBooks will never be able to deliver. At one point, people might even not care at all - but printed books will never completely die out, imho. |
Ebooks just help me buy or find old out of print books for allot less. They also allow me to read plenty of cheap self published books that will never be printed. Don't worry though I still love having printed books in my hand to read though.:) |
As a Kindle reader I found it quite annoying when the ebook prices went up, due to the Apple and publisher collusion, but I think this whole thing is wrong. If anything the gov should have thanked Apple for breaking up a monopoly. Sure, maybe they could have stepped in on behalf of consumers and sanity itself, to lower the prices, but not to defend Amazon's ability to devour the entire ebook market.
Don't get me wrong, we're all susceptible to the odd bit of emotional attachment to things in the form of nostalgia and/or elitism but that particular premise is so false I'd expect only people who were never into books in the first place fall for it. |
I was never an Apple fan as I was using a Palm smartphone before the iPhone ever came out. Instead of an app store, we called them programs and got them from various websites. Them saying they invented everything always irked me so I went Android when the N1 came out.
I will probably never buy an ebook anyway. Not only are they entirely overpriced, but I much prefer a printed book.
I thought I would hate ebooks myself but after 5 mins reading my first one I was hooked. They are better in every way imo. I even only read them on my phone which I love as I always have multiple books with me.
I don't need to lug around a dozen books when I travel. One or 2 is enough, so I don't see any advantages to ebooks. Also, printed books can be read more easily in sunlight, the opposite is true for ebooks. I like reading outside. :)
True about the sunlight but it really only affects you if the screen is in direct sunlight. I'm sure it depends a bit on the device tho.
I've read an ebook multiple times in my hammock outside long after darkness. |
"Only"? "Depends"? Checkout often?
No clue what you mean.
Holy crap … Is this thread from 1995?
Drive a car? Nothing can ever replace the smell of fresh droppings of riding a horse. |
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Paphos, 8125 , Cyprus
Cyprus, a four-hour flight from London, has long been a favorite vacation spot of sun-seeking Europeans. And since the Greek part of the island joined the European Union, a flurry of stylish new hotels have opened. Among them is the recently revamped Almyra. Located in the western port town of Paphos and within walking distance of two of the most revered archaeological sites in the Mediterranean (the 13th-century Castle of Paphos and the intricately tiled House of Dionysus), the 158-room property has a minimalist décor, a slate-lined freshwater swimming pool, and a Mediterranean-Japanese fusion restaurant run by chef Rob Shipman, who was nabbed from London's Nobu. It's also a great place for families, proffering bedtime milk and cookies, children's books in four languages, a dedicated children's club and swimming pool, and even a selection of organic baby food.
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Rural Cancer Outreach Program
The mission of VCU Massey Cancer Center's Rural Outreach Program is to provide state-of-the-art oncology care in areas of rural Virginia identified by high cancer rates and with limited resources and poor access to oncology care.
The Rural Cancer Outreach Program was founded in response to the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Control Initiative.
In 1988, Massey's cancer researchers determined that people living in rural areas of Virginia did not have adequate access to oncology care. Cancer deaths were much higher than national averages in these areas. Rather than require these patients to travel to VCU Massey Cancer Center in Richmond, the Rural Outreach Program partnered with community hospitals. Today, the program staffs clinics in two sites:
- Rappahannock General Hospital in Kilmarnock, Virginia
- Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center in Emporia, Virginia
Both of these hospitals serve a rural population of about 50,000 that is distinguished by a shortage of health care providers and a high proportion of elderly and minority patients.
One or two oncologists and one nurse travel once per week from Massey to one of the participating community hospitals. These oncologists and nurses evaluate patients with new diagnoses of cancer, provide follow-up to patients on treatment, make referrals for radiation therapy where appropriate and consult with local physicians about the care of their patients.
Rural Cancer Outreach Program
Mary Helen Hackney, M.D., director
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Massey outreach staff at Rappahannock General Hospital:
- Site coordinator, Alison Ryan, A.N.P., (804) 628-1936
- Laurie Lyckholm, M.D., (804) 828-9723
Massey outreach staff at Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center:
- Site coordinator, Kevin Brigle, Ph.D., ANP, (804) 628-1934
- Haidee Waters, Ph.D., ANP, (804) 628-1931
- E. Brent Perkins, M.D., (804) 828-9723
This program is designed to enable the primary doctors to care for their patients when the outreach doctors are back in Richmond. Each outreach clinic operates daily, administering chemotherapy, transfusions and monitoring pain under the supervision of the local physicians and nurses.
The goals of the program are to provide as much care as possible within the rural community; teach physicians and nurses living and serving in these rural communities about the care of cancer patients; bring technologically advanced treatment in the form of NCI-approved protocols; and devise a system that can be generalized to other rural areas.
Success of the program is evident in the following outcomes:
- Breast conservation rate at one of the rural clinics reached 70 percent, twice the national average, a year after the program started.
- 10 percent of patients at each site are registered in NCI clinical trials, whereas previously there were none.
- Results have shown that treating patients in rural settings is less expensive than in urban settings.
Funding support
The Rural Cancer Outreach Program has been supported since its inception by a combination of public funds granted by the Virginia General Assembly and by private donations.


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I wanted to personally thank you for the wonderful program and experience that my daughter had at Directions recently. She made several new friends and is truly excited about heading off to college. We look forward to this new era in her life and appreciate your efforts in helping to make the transition a smooth one. - a parent
Directions is where you learn about yourself, others and make friends that will last throughout your college career. You learn to face your fears and know that they really are not that big. It's an experience that can change your life and open your eyes for opportunities - Sara
Directions is a great opportunity to meet new friends before arriving at Georgetown. It is an experience that will prepare you for college while you learn, grow, and plan for the coming y ear. Some of my best friends in college are students that I met on Directions. Through the ropes course, the leadership activities and all the other fun memories you will make you come to Georgetown with friends people will think you have known for years. My favorite part was the last night when we got back to Georgetown. Me and a few other girls slept on the sidewalk in the quad, after staying up till almost 6 talking. We still to this day remember some of the conversations we had. Directions was a true bonding experience and I would recommend it to anyone! - Cortnehy
Directions was the best decision I made after I decided to go to Georgetown. It made my first week on campus so much easier, it also provided me with some pretty tight friendships that are still strong still last today. - Kellsey
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An account of the Directions experience from Ryan, an incoming Global Scholar
Day 1
We met at the Grille below the Student Center at 1 today. I'm going to admit that at first it is very awkward not knowing a single person. Luckily a guy named Jon (another Global Scholar) stepped out of his comfort zone and we found common ground and I've been comfortable around him and the guys ever since. The ride was awkward because the icebreaker games where you are forced to talk to people aren't the type of things I like. Nevertheless, I have made some new acquaintances and people that may be good friends in a couple days. I'm pretty sure Directions is a required activity for Global Scholars…even so, I was excited to do it anyway. It's amazing to see the differences in people and how they work together.
Today we did a couple of group cooperation activities on the low ropes course. I'm not a fan of the spider web but the balancing activity was fun for me b/c I got to be myself and have a good time. People have their own opinions but I just think it's about getting to meet new people and having a good time. It's that simple. That's the main reason I'm here…to meet new people and that's it. Overall, I think the trip will be good b/c I'll be able to make some friends and possibly have classes and be able to communicate with them after camp and when college starts.
Day 2
Today was fun. Woke up at 7 to a very rainy sky. My leader, Dan, who is a sophomore has a similar sense of humor to me. We joke about a lot of things. In the morning we did service projects. My job was staining some staircases with a girl named Kate. I tried to get us to be partners b/c I wanted to get to know her better. We talked the whole time and I think she's really nice. One fun and rewarding feeling at Directions is walking into the air conditioned cabin. I really like hanging out and just playing guitar in there. Met a new camp counselor nicknamed Bacca. He's funny and he was the guy driving my boat while I was on the lake. I'm getting to be more and more comfortable around every person here and it's just really cool to connect to different people. Right now I'm sitting at a camp outside my kayak departure point. Looking forward to eating some dinner. By the way, the food is great.
It's still day 2…it was too rainy to have a campfire on the beach so we had one inside. Everyone's conversing in groups and I'm just going around to each. Two leaders, Bacca and Deuce, played some songs. After… I jammed with Deuce and it was a lot of fun. Everyone's seeming to mesh really good and I'm trying to be very aware of how all of us interact.
Day 3
Last night was great b/c Jon and I slept on the couches in the lobby. Very comfortable. I just got back from the high course tower. Today was really fun b/c I was able to overcome my fear of heights by climbing to the top and zip-lining down. I have to admit, it was rather scary… but like Koeppe says, "Challenge by choice"…and I chose to do something out of my comfort zone. Something this camp has helped me with a lot. Right now, we're packing getting ready to head back to Georgetown. I can't wait for lunch. One thing a Directions camper always loves is a good meal b/c there is never a dull moment and that usually keeps me hungry.
We are in the bus getting ready to head back to Georgetown. Steve is driving. I'm looking forward to getting back the college b/c I really want to get to know the campus better. We have a 'real' campus tour tonight where we are going to learn all the 'important' things about college and campus life. About the bus ride back, we will have activities for a little bit then we may get a chance to SLEEP!
We just ate dinner at Fava's, a locally owned restaurant in Georgetown. I can honestly say this place has one of the best burgers I've ever eaten. Potato chips too. I'm the only guy at an all girls table so that's pretty interesting. I better get used to being outnumbered by girls at Georgetown…it's not so bad!
Tonight was the last night and it was so special and moving. We gave each other encouraging notes and it was so wonderful to see what other people said. I'm really going to miss these people but it's so comforting to know that they'll be at Gtown soon. It's going to be marvelous when we meet again.
At the beginning of the trip, we were all outside the circle and everything was awkward. Now, we are all inside the circle and we trust everyone like we trust great friends. And I can honestly say my guess was right. They are great friends and have become great friends in two days.
I anticipate greatly the day in which I'll see them again.


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Gulf Stream replaces Great Lakes Aviation, which has served the state since 2008. The Montana EAS Task Force recommended the switch after complaints of canceled flights, stranded travelers and late arrivals.
The federal EAS program provides subsidies for commercial airlines to serve small markets.
Gulf Stream's Montana operations are based in Billings. The airline will begin service in Lewistown and Havre on May 1. Service to Wolf Point and Glasgow will begin on May 8, followed by Miles City, Sidney and Glendive on May 15.
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Pecan Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cake
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Oh baby, it is COLD outside!
The Dallas area, and most areas in the Mid-west, are enduring what I am unofficially calling 'Ice-pocalypse 2011′. Around the Evil Shenanigans homestead the temperatures hovering around 15 F, while ice and gusty winds have made travel and work nearly impossible. When I get cooped up indoors during this kind of weather I tend to do some nesting. I clean, putter around the house, read, and bake. Since I am stuck at home, my driveway is a sheet of ice, I have to bake with what is on hand. A well stocked pantry is this girl's best friend, and this time around mine was very good to me.
When I tell you these bars are gooey, I mean they are gooey! The base is buttery and moist, but the topping is soft and very … well … gooey. In terms of flavor, these bars taste very similar to pecan pie with a hint of cheesecake. Just warm from the oven they are beyond words, and so rich you could easily have half a bar and be totally satisfied. I let these bars stand overnight in an airtight container and I think they were better. The flavors had mellowed and the bars set up nicely. You could make the base of these chocolate if you like. Just use the recipe for my Black and White Gooey Butter Cake base but cut it in half.
Pecan Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cake Yield 16 bars
For the base:
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
4 tablespoons butter, softened
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
For the topping:
2 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup crushed pecans
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Heat the oven to 350 F and spray an 8X8-inch pan with non-stick spray. Line the pan with parchment paper, leaving two inches hanging over the sides, and spray the paper with non-stick spray.
In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and brown sugar until well blended. Add in the butter, egg, egg yolk, and vanilla and mix until smooth.
Turn the batter out into the pan and press it evenly into the pan. It will be quite thick.
In the same bowl beat together the cream cheese, corn syrup, vanilla, butter, brown sugar, salt, egg, and flour until smooth and lighter in color. Fold in the pecans and chocolate chips.
Carefully spread the topping over the base and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the filling is puffed and the edges are set, but the center is just a little wobbly. Cool completely in the pan. Use the parchment to remove the bars from the pan and slice.
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In this article we will shortly go thru PHP's concept of setters and getters. This is common method to make private class variables accessible outside the class and anywhere from the rest of the program.
To make this happen, we need to create two "utility" functions called a setter and a getter, within the class itself. The purpose of the setter is to set the value of the private variable whereas the getter will release the value outside the class.
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We will create a very simple page, which will contain both HTML and PHP embedded. What it does is only that it sets and gets the private function value and echoes the result on screen for demonstration purposes.
Example code
To make this happen, we will need to first create a new object called "playerObject". This object further accesses the "Users" class for its private variable.The example code lines are commented below, step by step.
On the first time, running the getter function for the class will return the variable but it is empty. so nothing will be echoed. After that the setter function will be used and the variable will be set to contain a value.
The second echo attempt then will display the content of the variable, this was achieved by the getter function. We will repeat this a couple of times for demo purposes.
01 <?php
02 class Users{
03 private $userName;
04 public function setUserName($x) {
05 $this -> userName = $x;
06 public function getUserName() {
07 return $this-> userName;
08 ?>
09 <html>
10 <head><title>PHP - Setters and Getters</title></head>
11 <body>
12 <?php
13 $playerNameObject = new Player();
14 echo $playerNameObject->getUserName();
15 $playerNameObject -> setUserName("Michelle");
16 echo $playerNameObject->getUserName();
17 $playerNameObject -> setUserName("Lena");
18 echo $playerNameObject->getUserName();
19 ?>
20 </body>
21 </html>
Code explanation
Line number | Description |
01 | Start PHP code section (You can use <?php or <? to start php section. The <? will work only if the "short open tag" is enabled in php.ini file. |
02 | Start the Users class declaration. |
03 | Create class private function. This is not accessible from outside.To make this working, we need to create two utility functions; a setter and a getter. Setter takes a private variable and allow to change them. Getter functions take private variable and retrieve it. |
04 | Create a public function to be usable from anywhere the code. The code convention standard is to write these functions starting with a small letter and then using capital letter for the rest of the words included. |
05 | We will pass in variable "$x" and will set the variable content equal to that name. |
06 | Define the getter function as public |
07 | Define the return value to be the contents of the private variable "userName" |
08 | Close the "PHP" code section |
09 | Start the "HTML" code section |
10 | Set the title of the html page |
11 | Start the "<body>" section of the code |
12 | Start the "PHP" code section |
13 | Create new object "playerObject"based on "userObject |
14 | Use the getUserName public function to display the content of the private $userName. However, at first echo this will display empty, since we have not yet set any content for this private variable. |
15 | Here we use the setter function to put the value "Michelle" into the class private variable. |
16 | Because we had used the setter, now the echo will display the content of the variable, thus we will see "Michelle" onscreen. |
17 | We further change the variable name with the setter function, this time to "Lena". |
18 | The getter function is called and echo will display "Lena" |
19 | Close "PHP" code section |
20 | Close "<body>" section |
21 | Close the "HTML" code section |
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text: | Blog your way to healthFebruary 11, 2008 - Kathie EvanoffFitness centers are well aware that after the new year begins, their memberships will explode. But by February, attendance begins to drop off and by summer, it is time to break out the sales campaigns to attract new customers. All those New Year's resolutions, all good intentions, become increasingly difficult to keep, especially when it comes to eating healthy and losing weight. The New Year gets us motivated. It is a time to make a fresh start and many people, myself included, need a bit of motivation in order to change our lives for the better. Motivation can come from many different sources. Perhaps your doctor told you if you don't do something soon, your life could be shortened. Perhaps you have a wedding, an upcoming beach vacation or other event that propels you to stick to a diet, eating program, lifestyle change – whatever you want to call it. But when the wedding or event is over; when the bathing suit is put away for the season and when the doctor's voice seems so faint and long ago, those old habits creep right back into our lives. I knew mine wasn't the only food blog on the Internet, but I was happy to see another this morning that was inspiring. In an article from CNN, a woman was able to lose more than 160 pounds by keeping an Internet food blog. Blog, short for Web log, has long been a way for people to journal about their lives, their travels or their hobbies. But many people, mostly women, have found blogging a way to hold themselves accountable for their food choices. When you are putting photos of everything you eat out there for the world to see, you tend to make better choices. There have been times since I began this blog that I have been offered doughnuts, cakes, cookies and other highly processed treats, but turned them down simply because I didn't want to have to take a photo of it and post it here. Nutritionists, doctors and weight control clinics have been telling people to log their meals for a long, long time. Weight Watchers, one of the most successful diet programs, ask their patrons to keep intricate food journals of every morsel that enters their mouths. Go to any bookstore and you will find shelf upon shelf of calorie-fat gram-fiber-carbohydrate counter you can imagine. Last fall I found a book created simply for logging food for 90 days, complete with calorie counter and tips for figuring fat and fiber grams. But if the thought of all those numbers and calculations have your head spinning, simply stick a pocket camera in your bag and start taking photos of everything you eat. You may be surprised at how much you turn down, simply because you don't want to bother taking a photo and being held accountable. And don't be embarrassed if you have to snap that shot in the middle of a crowded restaurant, because no one cares. I do it all the time. Saturday wasn't a busy day but there was still a lot to do. I enjoyed a breakfast of whole wheat waffles and an fresh orange. I heated about a quarter cup of maple syrup to dip my waffle into and ended up using only half for both waffles. I probably would have eaten a lot more if I had just poured it over the top. It was all topped off with a mug of hot tea. For lunch I needed to use up some sliced turkey, so I had a sandwich with the turkey, sliced onion and spinach leaves on a crispy chiabatta roll. I also hit the fruit bowl again and had an apple to go with it. Dinner was going to be late because my husband had some things he wanted to do first after he got home from work. I held off my appetite with a whole wheat bagel, peanut butter and all-fruit spread. I took a photo, but won't post it here because I need to show you Sunday as well and there isn't enough space for every photo. By the time dinner rolled around, my son had stopped over and he and my husband wanted tacos. I made ground beef for them but on my own whole-wheat tortilla, I put a quarter cup of refried beans and vegetables. Because I was so good that day, I allowed myself a small dollop of sour cream on top, about a teaspoon. The whole grains and beans kept me full the rest of the night. You won't see the photo of Sunday's breakfast, once again, due to space constraints, but I can tell you it was my usual cereal with banana, walnuts and fat-free milk. I need to use up the last of the Kashi Heart to Heart quickly because it is starting to get a bit stale. I bought another type of cereal to take its place and I am anxious to try something new. I was in a cooking mood Sunday, so I made turkey burgers with ground turkey, chopped onion, garlic salt and onion powder for lunch. The package of ground turkey made about five burgers. I ate one and froze the rest. To top off the burger, I had a slice of Farmer cheese and some grilled onions. You can probably tell that I like onions. Dinner was a little more creative. During a trip to upstate New York last fall, a friend's husband grilled a wonderful meal that included sweet onions and peppers in a teriyaki marinade served over rice. I was trying to duplicate his recipe, or at least create something that tasted equally as good. My version was equal parts orange juice, olive oil and soy sauce mixed with a few teaspoons of minced garlic and ginger. Besides the onions and peppers, I tossed some mushrooms into the mix and let the flavors mingle in the refrigerator most of the day. I served mine over brown rice. My anti-vegetable husband had oven baked fries and breaded lean pork chops that were also baked. I gave myself a small serving of a chop, but would have been just as happy without it. The marinade was good, but still not as good as my friend's. Next time I make this, I'm going to try the outdoor grill instead of the stove-top griddle. Article CommentsNo comments posted for this article. 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Monday's the last day to register to vote in the November 6th presidential election. And Los Angeles County registrar workers will be staffing registration tables at more than a dozen locations to encourage people to sign up.
State and county officials say with the launch of online registration, there's no excuse not to register to vote. But there are a lot of folks who haven't. In Los Angeles county alone, about 3 million eligible county residents aren't registered.
County officials will set up registration tables at more than a dozen locations Monday afternoon and evening, to make it easier for people to register. Some locations will be open as early as 5 pm Monday and some will close as late as midnight.
Anyone who is not registered, has recently moved or changed his or her name needs to register.
People who are unsure if they are registered can check at www.lavote.net. And there, you can find operating hours for those registration locations.
The registration locations will be at:
– East L.A. Civic Center, 4801 E. Third St.;
– Starbucks, 9028 Flair Drive, El Monte;
– Starbucks at Montebello Town Center;
– NALEO Educational Fund, 1122 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles;
– Magic Johnson Starbucks, 5301 W. Centinela Ave., Los Angeles;
– The Korea Daily, 690 Wilshire Plaza, Los Angeles;
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– Florence/Firestone Branch Office, 7807 S. Compton Ave., Los Angeles;
– Starbucks, 8595 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood;
– Starbucks, 7258 Canoga Ave., Canoga Park;
– Wendy's, 17684 Sherman Way, Van Nuys;
– Starbucks, 11739 Rosecrans Ave., Norwalk;
– Home Depot Center, 18400 Avalon Blvd., Carson;
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Feb 22 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
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Feb 25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
Feb 26 Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern
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Moonves gave Couric a vote of confidence of sorts last December, the LAT reported :
"I think our product's as good as anyone's," Moonves said as recently as December, speaking at a media conference. He added about Couric: "I still believe in her. Hardest worker in town."
See, but it just seems to us up here at the Columbia Journalism Review—and really, when's the last time we rode around in a black Town Car making important strategic decisions about far-flung media properties? It's been years, if ever—that the "product" that CBS Evening News produces is, like, um, news, you know, in the, ah, evening.
And—again, just blue-skying it here, L.M.; stay with me—that perhaps additional news reporters, or "producers," or "product producers," or whatever they're called in TV—anyway, additional journalists—might actually produce a journalistic product that is, um, qualitatively of, ah, a higher, err what's the word?… quality, you know, product-wise, productivity-wise, as measured by focus groups, and, um, page-views, and "hits" and whatnot and so forth. But again, we don't know high finance or any damned thing up here, let alone TV.
But let's get down to brass tacks, L.M. Your spokeswoman won't comment, but a person familiar with situation tells us that the so-called "newsgathering budget" for all of CBS News, including salaries, travel, camera people, technicians—not including 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, which have separate budgets, for some reason—is about $300 million. CBS News employs around 1,100 people, this person says.
But remember, those figures include the whole ball of wax. An increase in the news budget of $15 million, $10 million, or even $5 million is not a marginal number. It means more boots on the ground, more reach, more foreign-based reporting, more travel, and especially, more time—time for thought, for the extra calls, for investigations, and, importantly, time for stories to fall through if the facts don't really support them, as they didn't for a half-baked 60 Minutes piece on supposedly marauding hedge funds that were actually in the right .
All this, to me, makes the news more authoritative, credible, powerful, and relevant.
I understand, by the way, that Couric's salary probably didn't all come from the Evening News budget and that, indeed, the news budget probably grew to accommodate her pay and the revamping of the show.
But this is about emphasis: Spend less on the star system, less on gimmicks. Spend more on building up the newsroom.
Don't like that idea? Okay, but Moonves's anchor-focused strategy clearly didn't work. I don't mean to downplay the anchor's job; it's clearly important. Couric may not have seemed entirely comfortable in the role, but she's obviously a big talent. It's pretty clear that CBS's biggest mistake was attempting to reinvent the evening news around her, as the Journal's Rebecca Dana reported in the scoop that started all this:
When she started on the show in September 2006, Ms. Couric incorporated longer interviews, occasionally conducted in front of a fireplace, and chatty asides into the broadcast. For the first few days, curiosity drove more than 10 million viewers to tune in, but in the months that followed, Ms. Couric's ratings plummeted to a low for the broadcast, bottoming out to around five million in the spring of 2007—well below the seven million viewers the show was drawing before Ms. Couric's arrival.Since then, the network has scaled back its ambitions drastically, returning to a traditional format. Ratings have ticked up modestly, but Ms. Couric's show is still placing a distant third.
It strikes me as a significant data point that Couric's show never made it to the levels achieved by Bob Schieffer, who took over after Dan Rather's ouster.
Is Schieffer better than Couric? No.
Media competitors and analysts have been baffled by growing circulation and revenue at the Economist and the Financial Times, while the rest of the print industry is falling apart. Sure, those are financial publications, and the economy is of interest right now. And yes, I have problems with both of them, journalistically, for reasons I'll get into in another post.
But think of it this way: they both offer information readers find relevant in a straightforward manner. They don't rely on gimmicks. They're not reinventing anything. They don't talk down to readers. Both offer a lot of international coverage, too, come to think of it.
I believe that a straightforward approach to news reporting and presentation is the way to go. Report. Write. Do the work.
Will that make the CBS Evening News more popular and therefore profitable? Well, to put it in Moonves's terms, you've got to believe in the product. The product is the news.