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Raspberry ketone is a molecule marketed as a fat burning compound. Oral doses of this supplement are not effective.
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Raspberry ketone is the compound responsible for many flavoring and aromatic qualities of cosmetics and processed foods.
When present in high doses, raspberry ketone can exert fat burning effects on various areas of the fat cell. These effects may be similar to those of Ephedrine and Synephrine.
It should be noted that all evidence for the effects of raspberry ketone has only been observed in vitro (in a test tube). Though researchers are able to raise the concentrations of ketones in a single cell during studies, these same concentrations cannot be replicated in the human body, particularly through oral supplementation.
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There is no human evidence for the effects of raspberry ketones. Studies on rats have used a dosage range of .545-2.18g/kg, which correlates to a human estimated dose of 80-340mg/kg for humans. This dose is very high compared to other fat burning compounds, so for that reason the standard supplemental dose of raspberry ketones for humans is in the 100-200mg range. There is no solid evidence for the effectiveness of the doses listed below. Rat dosages correlate to the following human doses:
There is no human evidence for the effectiveness of raspberry ketones. Raspberry ketones cannot be concentrated in the human body the same way they are concentrated during studies done outside the body, on single cells.
The concentration which is required to have fat burning effects is astronomically high, and the oral doses used in the rat studies similarly high. Low oral doses of raspberry ketones really need to be tested, but I honestly don't expect much from them.
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The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (excluding animal/petri-dish studies) to tell you what effect Raspberry Ketone has in your body, and how strong these effects are.
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A | Robust research conducted with repeated double blind clinical trials |
B | Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled |
C | Single double blind study or multiple cohort studies |
D | Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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D | Hair Regrowth | Minor | 100% See study | May induce hair growth when topically applied |
Raspberry ketone (also known as 4-(4-hydroxyphenyl) butan-2-one) is a compound extracted from red raspberries that is usually used as a scenting and flavoring agent in foods and cosmetics.[2].
It is found naturally in many foods, most notably raspberries (in which case it is synthesized from coumaroyl-CoA) but also in Rheum officinale.[3] Most raspberry ketone used commercially is synthesized[4] or produced via bacteria[5][6], however, due to its high demand in cosmetics and as a flavoring agent. It has been estimated that dietary intake for an average human is around 0.42mg/kg bodyweight,[7] mostly consumed through processed foods which have raspberry ketone added as a flavoring agent.
Raspberry ketone has a vaguely similar structure to Synephrine and Ephedrine, where the butanone-substituted phenyl group of raspberry ketone replaces ethylamine group of synephrine or ephedrine. There is also some structural similarity to Capsaicin, with para-substituted phenolic and ketone functional groups in common.[8]
After oral ingestion, raspberry ketone is targeted for sulfation and glucuronidation and is also metabolized by the hepatic P450 enzyme system in animal models.[9]
Raspberry ketone (4-(4-hydroxylphenyl)butan-2-one) can be metabolized via ring conjugation (resulting in 4-(4-hydroxylphenyl)butan-1,2-diol) or via side-chain oxidation (resulting in 4-(4-hydroxylphenyl)butan-2,3-diol).[9] Raspberry ketone and its aforementioned oxidized metabolites are excreted in urine, sometimes conjugated to either sulphate or glucuronide.[9]
There is mixed evidence as to whether raspberry ketone can stimulate lipolysis. One study in an adipocyte cell culture model noted that 10µM of the compound tripled glycerol release, an indicator of lipolysis.[8] Another study using primary fat cells from a rodent model failed to show any lipolysis-stimulating effects with raspberry ketone alone. This study did note that concentrations in the range of 1-10mM did stimulate lipolysis in the presence of norepinephrine, however, suggesting that raspberry ketone may augment norepinephrine- mediated lipolysis.[10] There is no detectable binding of raspberry ketone to β-adrenergic receptors.[10]
Increased secretion and cellular levels of adiponectin were also noted after 4 days of incubating fat cells with raspberry ketone.[8] It has been noted to be protective against steatohepatitis in a rat model while also attenuating a rise in leptin levels.[11]
Raspberry ketone appears to increase lipolysis by augmenting the effects of norepinephrine. This occurs at a very high cellular concentration and may not be practically relevant.
Rats fed 0.5-2% raspberry ketone (bringing the total daily intake to 0.545-2.18g/kg) during periods of high fat overfeeding noted dose-dependent anti-obesity actions in preventing body weight gain, although the group fed 2% raspberry ketones still gained more weight than the control group fed a normal diet.[10]
Toxicological studies also noted decreases in body weight associated with raspberry ketones at 1% of the diet.[7]
The one human study to investigate the effects of raspberry ketone found a fat loss of 7.8% relative to the 2.8% in placebo, and weight loss of 2% relative to 0.5% in placebo, without detectable differences in caloric intake. This study was highly confounded, however, as raspberry ketone was co-administered with several other supplements in a "METABO" formulation (raspberry ketone paired with Caffeine, Capsaicin, Garlic, Ginger and Citrus aurantium as a source of Synephrine), so the benefits cannot be traced back to raspberry ketone per se.[1] This study also noted an elevation of serum leptin (but no influence on resistin nor adiponectin) associated with intervention.[1]
Human evidence for the efficacy of raspberry ketones in promoting fat loss is highly confounded. There is no evidence to support the idea that raspberry ketone in isolation can induce fat loss.
In vitro studies with breast cancer cell lines suggest that raspberry ketone can inhibit the androgen receptor, with an IC50 value of 252uM.[12]
Rasberry ketone can block the androgen receptor, but this occurs at high concentrations that may not be physiologically relevant. Oral ingestion of standard (low) doses is unlikely to affect androgen receptor signaling.
A study conducted in rats noted that 1-2% of the diet as raspberry ketone was able to attenuate increases in liver fat associated with a high fat overfeeding diet, with the 2% group not being significantly different than control (control at 10.7+/-1.6mg/g triglycerides in the liver, high fat control at 35.6+/-6.8mg/g, and 2% raspberry ketone at 17.9+/-1.9mg/g).[10] These doses were later tested in another rat model of steatohepatitis,[11] and decreases in liver triglycerides and cholesterol were noted with normalization of serum HDL-C and LDL-C. Liver enzymes were beneficially influenced, although to a minor degree.[11]
It is thought that this is due to a preservation of PPARα and LDL receptors in the livers of rats fed both raspberry ketone and an obesogenic diet.[11]
Rat studies suggest that raspberry ketone may have beneficial effects on liver fat buildup, but there is no evidence to support this effect in humans. Impractically high doses of raspberry ketone were used to achieve these effects in rats.
Raspberry ketone may have some beneficial influences on liver fat buildup, although this has only been tested in rat models, and may not be true in humans. Also, high, impractical doses of raspberry ketone were used to acheive these effects.
Raspberry ketone, used topically as a 0.01% solution applied once daily for 5 months, has been found to increase IGF-1 production in the dermis (skin) and may lead to increased hair growth.[13] These effects seem to be mediated through vanilloid-receptor 1 (VR1) activation, similar to Capsaicin, a compound with a similar structure but a longer tail.
Raspberry ketone has also been linked to increased skin elasticity when administered topically as a solution of 0.01% in human females.[13]
Raspberry leaf tea is a herbal medicine traditionally recommended to pregnant women, and contains various compounds such as 'gallo- and ellagitannins, flavonoids, Vitamin C, various alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, organic acids, terpenoids, carbohydrates, and glycosides'.[14] The ketones this list refers to are the raspberry ketones, most notably 4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-one.
Raspberry leaf tea is often recommended to pregnant women to shorten labor[15][16] The mechanism of this is not yet elucidated, but does not appear to be mediated by uterine contractility.[17]
Adverse effects are not usually seen at dosages of 1.2-2.4g raspberry leaf daily, but neither are statistically significant benefits on labour length.[18][14][16]
In regards to safety during pregnancy, a recent review suggested that not enough information exists to draw a conclusion due to small sample sizes.[14]
There is not much evidence on the safety threshold for raspberry ketone in humans due to its relatively new status as a supplement.
Fat cells show no cytotoxicity, however, at doses up to five times (100μM) the effective dose noted above.[8] In rats, intake of up to 100mg/kg bodyweight does not cause any short-term alterations in markers of blood health[7], and the LD50 is established at around 1.3-1.4g/kg bodyweight.[7]
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Critics Consensus: Sentimental, slow, schmaltzy, and very satisfying, The Bridges of Madison County finds Clint Eastwood adapting a bestseller with heft, wit, and grace.
Critics Consensus: Sentimental, slow, schmaltzy, and very satisfying, The Bridges of Madison County finds Clint Eastwood adapting a bestseller with heft, wit, and grace.
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The brief, illicit love affair between an Iowa housewife and a post-middle-age free-lance photographer is chronicled in this powerful romance based on the best-selling novella by Robert James Waller. The story begins as globetrotting National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid journeys to Madison County in 1965 to film its lovely covered bridges. Upon his arrival, he stops by an old farmhouse to ask directions. There he encounters housewife, Francesca Johnson, whose spouse and two children … More
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The strength of Eastwood's Bridges is in its patience, and how it lets the love story develop from start to finish, even though the audience knows from the beginning the broad strokes of what's going to happen.
With Eastwood as Kincaid and Meryl Streep as Francesca, this carefully observant love story turns Waller's pop-lit passion into screen art.
Bridges is an admirable achievement, one that probably does more to reposition its maker as someone who can carry a movie without carrying a gun than as the director/star of a Love Story for the Loving Care set.
Those who found Waller's book an outrageously bad read may be gratefully surprised to find less mush in the movie.
Beautifully photographed and directed with an intimate maturity, the film reveals its characters in an unhurried way, thus making the audience accomplices in the unfolding liaison.
The movie, thank goodness, is better than the book. What's more surprising is that The Bridges of Madison County is an accomplished piece of moviemaking.
The emotions evoked by this Bridges are in a minor key compared to the book, but they are honestly earned.
The result, if rather thin and certainly far from a masterpiece, is nevertheless quite lovely. This affecting little film is easily one of Eastwood's best efforts as a director.
The two leads' sly comic rhythm is miles removed from the book's failing solemnity.
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Despite all his craft and sincerity, [Eastwood] and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese can't quite turn Robert James Waller's cardboard best-seller into flesh and bone.
The Bridges of Madison County is as good as it is because of its performances. It's as bad as it is because of its source.
Still one of Hollywood's most assured directors, Clint Eastwood transcends the story's cliches with a classically restrained yet steadily imaginative filmmaking style.
Streep and Eastwood's chemistry makes the film.
Bridges is an old-fashioned "women's film" that pits the heroine's romantic urges against her matriarchal duties. In fact, the film is at its dramatic best when Francesca is finally obliged, like Sophie, to make her choice.
Streep makes her character known in no time flat. Intelligence, humor, blocked ambition, self-irony -- they're all contained in Francesca's quick response when Robert asks if she has any plans for the afternoon.
Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, as Waller's tenderly plaintive heartland lovers, are so visually and spiritually right they seem to have walked right off the page.
The film is good enough; Streep is the X-factor that makes it excellent.
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Madison County is Eastwood's gift to women: to Francesca, to all the girls he's loved before -- and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion.
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Not the quickest moving movie, but worth watching if you can perserve with it. Very sad and has something to say about living the life that makes you happy, and not to please everyone else. The main character does not manage to do this and you see the impact not only on her own life, but on that of her daughter who has been raised to see life in the same way and now also finds herself less than happy in a bad relationship. Sympathy is also there for the husband as it was not his fault he was not the right person for his wife. Nice acting and not a feel good movie, but a good one for anyone who likes to think.
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Fusion of visible and infrared imagery for face recognition
Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 2, Issue 12, pp. 694-697 (2004)
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In recent years face recognition has received substantial attention, but still remained very challenging in real applications. Despite the variety of approaches and tools studied, face recognition is not accurate or robust enough to be used in uncontrolled environments. Infrared (IR) imagery of human faces offers a promising alternative to visible imagery, however, IR has its own limitations. In this paper, a scheme to fuse information from the two modalities is proposed. The scheme is based on eigenfaces and probabilistic neural network (PNN), using fuzzy integral to fuse the objective evidence supplied by each modality. Recognition rate is used to evaluate the fusion scheme. Experimental results show that the scheme improves recognition performance substantially.
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(100.5010) Image processing : Pattern recognition
(110.3080) Imaging systems : Infrared imaging
(110.6820) Imaging systems : Thermal imaging
(350.2660) Other areas of optics : Fusion
Xuerong Chen, Zhongliang Jing, Shaoyuan Sun, and Gang Xiao, "Fusion of visible and infrared imagery for face recognition," Chin. Opt. Lett. 2, 694-697 (2004)
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Maybe it's the power of the cartoon, but this has to be the toughest ad yet to target the Koch brothers and their effort to buy the US Senate.
The animated ad shows North Carolina Republican candidate for the Senate, Thom Tillis, performing for the Kochs, taking money from education and seniors and making it "magically" appear in his patrons' pockets. State house speaker Tillis is in a tight race against Democratic senator Kate Hagan; whoever wins may determine which party controls the Senate.
Created by American Bridge, a liberal Super PAC founded by Media Matters' David Brock, the Tillis spot is just the first in a digital-only "Kochville" series that will go after extreme GOP candidates supported by Koch money. And the number of ads that money can buy is mind-boggling. According to the Center for Public Integrity, "The secretive political network of conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch has aired more than 43,900 television ads this election cycle." The brothers' Americans for Prosperity is expected to spend more than $125 million alone. While American Bridge is supported in part by billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros, its ad budget doesn't even come close to that of the oil barons.
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The hard-hitting Tillis spot may be deeply satisfying to those who know and dread the Kochs, but some commenters on The News & Observer site wonder if it will resonate with rural North Carolinians.
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Fresh from finding yet another image proving that Obama hates America—the president gave a "latte salute" when he held a paper coffee cup while saluting two Marines yesterday (more on that raging scandal below)—Fox News has had to try hard to ignore the more hawkish Obama of the last few days. That's the POTUS who's been striking ISIS in Syria and who earlier today gave a robust speech at the UN calling for the world to fight terrorism.
Immediately following what he called "a stunningly abstract" speech, former Bush II UN ambassador John Bolton went on Fox and declared that Obama "doesn't believe in American strength. He believes in the United Nations."
The president, Bolton added, took the "opportunity to slam Israel." (Maybe he meant Obama's clear-eyed observation that "there's a growing recognition within Israel that the occupation of the West Bank is tearing at the democratic fabric of the Jewish state.")
Next up on Fox was Ric Grenell, who has worked for Bolton (and for Mitt Romney during the 2012 campaign, until the right freaked out that he's gay). Grenell homed in on something Obama didn't say: "He said 'extremism,' 'violence, 'violent extremism,' 'religiously motivated,' but never 'Islamic extremism.'" The uncoupling of those words is a paranoid sore point with the right because it fails to insinuate that extremism is built into Islam.
But for the right-wing media, perhaps more telling than Obama's failure to hold "Islamic" next to "extremism" was his holding a cup as he saluted two Marines while disembarking from Marine One in New York City on Tuesday.
"This salute by Obama may serve as a useful metaphor for his entire administration: sloppy, ill thought out, inappropriate, callous, selfish, and disrespectful," a Red State commenter wrote. "Though, in his defense, he may have been running from that thing covered in a red bag that seems to be pursuing him down the stairs." The "thing" the writer was referring to is Michelle Obama, in a red dress, following the president off the plane.
Last night, a "shocked" Sean Hannity asked Karl Rove, "Would President Bush ever do that?" Karl didn't answer—because Bush did do that. Not with a coffee cup but with a dog, when, holding tight onto Barney, he saluted service members at Andrews Air Force Base.
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So Rove avoided the question by letting loose a string of adjectives about POTUS: "We've got a chai-swillin', golf-playin', basketball trash-talkin', lead from behind, I've got no strategy, Osama bin Laden is dead/GM is alive, a community organizing commander-in-chief. How disrespectful was that?" (It's not clear if Rove was referring to Obama or himself.)
Rove also seemed to think that "latte" might not be insulting enough. "It's not a latte salute," he said. "It's a chai salute, because he drinks chai tea." Of course, we don't know what was in that cup. But "chai" sounds more exotic, foreign, and thus effete than even a French coffee.
A commenter on Free Republic one-upped Karl's implication and got to the real point, writing: "It's probably the gayest tea you could imagine like a chai latte. Might as well have been a pink cup."
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Karl Rove has committed felonies—uh, not felonies, I mean smears. To avoid any confusion, I'll repeat: Karl Rove has not been convicted of committing felonies. But he has committed smears (not unlike the one I just committed on him). And, virtually unnoticed by the media, he has smeared again, yesterday on Fox News Sunday.
It was recently revealed that Paul Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor of Kansas, had a most awkward moment sixteen years ago. Police raided a strip club near Coffeyville for drugs and found Davis, then 26 and unmarried, getting a lap dance. He wasn't accused of any wrongdoing, no charges were brought against him, and even in Kansas, lap-dancing isn't illegal.
Still, the lap-dance story is fair game for supporters of Sam Brownback, the embattled Republican governor who's running for re-election. On Meet the Press yesterday, Grover Norquist, for example, interrupted his anti-tax talk to relate the lap-dance incident ("with the naked lady"), which Thomas Frank later shot down as ancient small fry.
But over at Fox, Rove dramatically raised the stakes for Davis, saying that Kansas's possible future governor had been "arrested":
The governor's race in Kansas is close. However, late last week, it was revealed that the Democratic candidate for governor had been arrested—or not arrested, he'd been detained briefly a number of years ago when he was an attorney for a strip joint and the police found him getting a lap dance.
Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace let it slide, presumably because Rove corrected himself. But the "correction" allowed Rove to repeat the word "arrested," a word that, even when used in the negative, Fox viewers can now associate with Davis and repeat until it seems true. No small thing when many diehard Republicans in Kansas are so disgusted with the devastation wreaked by Brownback's tax cuts, that they're actually considering a vote for Davis.
Of course, Rove may have simply made an honest slip of the tongue. But "Bush's Brain" has a long list of such ambiguous slips.
Most recently, he suggested that Hillary Clinton had suffered a "traumatic brain injury." Several months after her December 2012 fall, which caused a blood clot, Rove said, "Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that." She was hospitalized for three days, not thirty, and later that day Rove tried to deny (while simultaneously reinforcing) his innuendo, saying, "Of course she doesn't have brain damage."
"You could believe Rove's denial—but you would have to ignore virtually his entire political career," as George Zornick wrote in The Nation. "For decades Rove has been circulating nasty, personal rumors about political opponents and placing them in the public conversation, all while obscuring his fingerprints, making the rumors become the opponent's problem, not his. It's page one of his playbook."
A protégé of the late Lee Atwater, the GOP dirty trickster who once boasted that "states' rights" and "tax cuts" could be used as code words for "nigger," Rove has been associated with whisper campaigns suggesting that his clients' opponents were homosexual (Texas governor Ann Richards in 1994), pedophiles (a Democratic candidate for Alabama Supreme Court, also in '94), or mentally impaired (John McCain in 2000). "Other rumors tied to the Rove-led campaign" in 2000, writes Think Progress, "included allegations that McCain's wife had a drug problem and that his adopted Bangladesh-born daughter was an 'illegitimate black child.'"
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Rove is sparing Davis the "mental" and "homo" tags, but having him "arrested" just might do the dirty trick. (And it might help obscure reports, cited by Davis, that the FBI is investigating the fund-raising and lobbying practices of Brownback associates. Brownback has denied any wrongdoing.)
As for Davis, a Kansas state representative, he released a statement to Politico on Saturday. "When I was 26 years old, I was taken to a club by my boss—the club owner was one of our legal clients," he said in the statement. "While we were in the building, the police showed up. I was never accused of having done anything wrong, but rather I was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
On Fox, Rove was, once again, in the right place at the right time to say the wrong thing.
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Ken Burns's fourteen-hour series The Roosevelts is giving a big ratings boost to PBS. And even with George Will rather gently criticizing FDR, the show makes a persuasive argument for more government involvement in the lives of the nation's citizens.
But PBS is not so sympathetic to New Deal policies that it would ever welcome the hatred of malefactors of great wealth. In fact, it has often caved to the wishes of rich conservatives, most notoriously when it pulled Citizen Koch, a public television documentary that took on the Koch brothers. David Koch sits on the board and helps fund PBS flagship station WGBH in Boston; last year, he noisily resigned from another flagship, WNET in New York, after a different Koch documentary squeaked through and aired.
In her fascinating piece, "PBS Self-Destructs: And what it means for viewers like you" in this month's Harper's (subscription required), Eugenia Williamson finds that PBS has been kowtowing to the right and the powers that be long before Nixon or Newt tried to defund it, or David Koch silenced it by funding it:
In the end, though, it doesn't matter that the Republicans couldn't defund PBS—they didn't really need to. Twenty years on, the liberal bias they bemoaned has evaporated, if it ever existed to begin with. Today, the only special-interest group the network clearly favors is the aging upper class: their tastes, their pet agendas, their centrist politics. This should surprise nobody who has taken a long, hard look at PBS's institutional history. Yes, it's tempting to view the last couple of decades as a discrete epoch of decline, with the network increasingly menaced by a cartoonish G.O.P. hit squad, helmed by Newt Gingrich as Snidely Whiplash. But the present state of PBS was almost an inevitability, the result of structural deficiencies and ideological conflicts built in from the very start.
Much of it started with LBJ, who signed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) into being, but then punted:
Yet this spirit-enriching initiative hit some immediate procedural potholes. Johnson, responsible for choosing the corporation's board members, neglected his task for months. Ostensibly this was due to some unfortunate developments in Vietnam—indeed, it was the height of the Tet Offensive. But John W. Macy Jr., whom Johnson appointed as CPB president, suspected other reasons for LBJ's dithering. "The media and the academic community had increased the volume of their protest against the conduct of the war," he wrote. "Would this extension of the media with federal backing add new sights and sounds of opposition?"
As it happened, it did.
Williamson follows up on the Citizen Koch incident with the grassroots climate-change group Forecast the Facts, which unsuccessfully tried to expel David Koch from the WGBH board:
Refusing to give up, they started a social-media campaign, chipping away at WGBH's Facebook rating. They rented a billboard directly across from the WGBH complex in Boston to denounce David Koch, and projected KOCH FREE on various Boston landmark buildings. When the station hosted a climate-change panel in March, Forecast the Facts submitted questions about Koch's presence on the board; a video of the event shows WGBH's frantic efforts to keep the scientists from answering.
Then came the PBS annual meeting in May. The organization sent several operatives to try to deliver another 300,000 signatures at a WGBH breakfast. Southard was confident that such an enormous number would finally force the station's hand. "They'd be ignoring the people who'd signed the petition," she said. "PBS has a sterling reputation, and that should be important to them."
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But when [Forecast the Facts campaign director Brant] Olson got up onstage to deliver the signatures, wave a banner, and yell into the microphone, the sound was immediately cut. Security chased him down and handcuffed him, even as a PBS staffer held up a notebook to block any photography.
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If you were watching CNN or MSNBC coverage of the Senate ISIS hearing this morning, you probably caught a CodePink protester interrupting the beginning of Defense secretary Chuck Hagel's testimony. She shouted, politely enough, "No more war," "War is not the solution," and so on. Armed Service Committee chair Senator Carl Levin repeatedly asked her leave—telling her, oddly, "You're acting very warlike yourself." She did leave, as other Coders waited to protest later and Hagel resumed his testimony. The hearing promised to cover (and did) some pretty urgent, consequential stuff, including putting US troops on the ground in Iraq and arming Syrian rebels.
Meanwhile, over at Fox, they were covering… Benghazi.
It's as if Fox were staging a caricature of itself. But there was National Review's Rich Lowry and nominal Democrat, pollster Doug Schoen fuming over the latest Benghazi "scandal" with Fox News's Martha MacCallum. When her show finally cut to the ISIS hearing, it did so at first with ragin' John Bolton on a split screen.
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It's a caricature, but not a surprise. Media Matters released a study today showing that Fox ran nearly 1,100 segments in the first twenty months following the Benghazi attack.
Those are big, obsessive numbers—and they include only five Fox News afternoon and primetime programs, none of the morning shows, like MacCallum's—but expect them to soar still higher when the House select committee hearings on Benghazi begin tomorrow.
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"I'm baaack!" With those two words, delivered Arnold-style, Hillary Clinton revealed a lot about what's wrong with her probable candidacy.
"Hello, Iowa!" she beamed from a stage at the Tom Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola over the weekend. Then, raising her arms, she delivered the Terminator's catchphrase, showing herself to be tone deaf to the negative perception of her as an indestructible robot, as "inevitable," the same presumption that hamstringed her campaign in 2008.
Not to mention the annoying factor. "I'm baaack!" is the greeting from people whose return is at best tiresome.
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Maybe Clinton used the phrase to evince a get-back-up-on-your-feet gumption. That's what it seemed to mean to her many fans, who cheered wildly at her return to Iowa, where she came in third place in the '08 Democratic primary in a defeat she's called "excruciating."
But for the rest of us, quoting a cyborg is yet another sign (like her disingenuous comments about her wealth) that she'd make a poor candidate who can't help but step on her own feet.
Most of the press didn't mention this awkward moment. They were abuzz instead with their usual, insufferable will-she-won't-she game, marveling at how adept she was at teasing them.
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"I've got a few things on my mind these days," Hillary told the Iowa crowd, bringing up Chelsea's pregnancy and adding slyly, "Then, of course, there's that other thing."
But voters also have other things on their minds. When NBC's Andrea Mitchell asked some twentysomethings at a Des Moines coffeehouse the rah-rah question—"When you look at Hillary Clinton, what do you see first—a politician, a woman, a president?"—they didn't respond in kind.
"I think people see kind of the cronyism on Wall Street," a woman named Carla told Mitchell.
"I'd love to see the first woman president, but it doesn't matter more to me than my progressive values."
UPDATE: After a movie-quote geek-out in the comments section below--was Hillary channeling The Terminator or Poltergeist II or maybe even The Shining?--The Colbert Report nailed an absolute doppelganger Monday night. It's in the first two minutes:
Pop phrases migrate and mutate over time, as they're used and re-used, and fused. The Schwarzenegger catchphrase "I'll be back" was born in the first Terminator, in 1984; when "Poltergeist II" came out two years later, there was some sense even then that "They're baaack!" was conversing not only with the 1982 Poltergeist's "They're heeeere!" but with "I'll be back." Randy Quaid's tauntingly defiant "I'm baaack!" in 1996's Independence Day was likely a child of both by-then classic movie catchphrases. Schwarzenegger's cyborg clipped it to "I'm back" in Terminator III (2003), and variations of the "[pronoun] [verb] back" formula have been interchangeable in popular usage ever since.
But all this misses the larger point. For years, Hillary has been called, charitably, too studied, or, as Joe Scarborough said Monday, "a robot." Many people cringed when she reached for "I'm back" even without pegging it to a specific movie. That's because, whether the reference was to Arnold, a little girl in a ghost movie, or a guy seriously pissed-off at his alien abduction, the phrase suggests horror, revenge, and/or a threat. Jon Stewart picked up on that Tuesday night, showing Hillary's arm-raised "I'm back!" and finishing the thought for her: "...even though you fucked me over!"
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"Homeland" is back. Not just the Showtime drama, which is returning in October, but the word, with all its totalitarian-lite implications. As if they flipped a collective switch, pundits, politicians and President Obama transformed America overnight into "the Homeland," a place both pastoral and martial, where fearsome invaders are always heaving at the gate.
And the word has Chris Matthews hopping mad. "I am very uncomfortable with the phrase 'homeland.' It strikes me as totalitarian," he said in a long rant on Hardball earlier this week:
It's a term used by the neocons, they love it. It suggests something strange to me. Like who else are we defending except America? Why don't you just say 'America'? Why doesn't [Obama] say we defended against attacks against this country? As if we're facing some existential Armageddon threat from these people. Do you buy the phrase 'homeland'? I never heard it growing up, never heard it in my adulthood. It's a new word. Why are we using it? Is there some other place we're defending? What are we talking about when we say 'homeland'? What's it about?
Actually, it's not a new word at all. When used to refer to America (and not the "homelands" of other people, as in "the Palestinian homeland"), "homeland" first hit these shores in 2001 just weeks after 9/11, when George W. Bush formed the Department of Homeland Security. The word became an overnight sensation as media figures—though few real people—robotically substituted it for "America." In his 2002 book Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, Chris Matthews himself solemnly invoked the term.
But today Matthews is right: "Homeland" gives off an authoritarian vibe. It evokes the Russian Motherland, the German Fatherland and, worse, the Nazi's "Heimat," or homeland.
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Matthews can be unintentionally hilarious when he chews on a bone, which he does like no one else in the press. But his emotional overreactions to what seem like mere pet peeves can be a mood ring for the national psyche. Whether it's a tingling up his leg over the charismatic 2008 Obama (which in all honesty had other people's limbs tingling, too), or a fury at Republicans clipping the adjective Democratic to the rodent-like DemocRAT, the man is often on to something.
And now he's a human thermometer taking measure of war fever. This time around, he doesn't want to be played like a chump, as he was when he initially supported the invasion of Iraq and said, in 2003, "We're all neo-cons now."
Now he's not. "WMD. Homeland. It's the language of the neocons," he says. "It's the language to get us further into wars."
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"Homeland" immediately puts us on a warlike footing, but with extra goodness built in. (In 2001 I wrote, "If at worst 'homeland' sounds a bit totalitarian, at best it sounds like a new line of Campbell's soups.") It has all the easy and shallow patriotism of "USA! USA!" but with loads of gravitas.
"Homeland" is more specific than "America"—it encourages us to visualize ourselves getting bombed or buried under debris from falling office towers, to see America as a fortress that can and will be breached.
And the heightened ability to visualize horror is what's driving us now toward war (or, as John Kerry puts it, "a very significant counter-terrorism operation"). Americans' big shift toward supporting air strikes in Iraq and Syria came only came after seeing the beheadings of two Americans on video. Visuals, or "optics," rule. (See "Has The World Been Bamboozled By The ISIS PR Machine?")
In the first episode of the coming Homeland, agent Carrie Mathison is dubbed "the Drone Queen," and she doesn't seem to mind. Maybe that's because she can't visualize the people she's blowing up as more than stick figures. In Season 2, Homeland was one of Obama's favorite shows. Will he still be a fan?
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As the whole world watches President Obama's address on combating ISIS tonight, you can depend on the US media to obsess over the "optics." Is he coming across tough enough, Putin-y enough? Will his demeanor please the Republicans and frighten the terrorists (or vice versa)? And what does his suit have to say about all of this?
From Obama"s refusal to cut short his vacation after the Malaysian plane was shot down over Ukraine, to golfing after commenting on the beheading of journalist James Foley, to his wearing a beige suit (which the press mistakenly called "tan," a bad habit of white folks, as people of color know), the media has lately been speeding up its favorite game—spitting out millions of words about image (the old word for "optics") instead of substance.
I'm torn: I write about the nuances of imagery all the time. It holds tremendous power, public figures must know how to advertise themselves, the medium is the message and all that. But today we have so many layers of media interpreting imagery, from cable pundits to billions of tweets, that it's getting harder for people to see for themselves.
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We don't know how much optics scolds like Maureen Dowd and Fox News have played into Obama's decision to strike in Syria. But Eric Boehlert reminds us of what happens to journalists when they continually opt for optics: it weakens their already compromised ability to analyze issues, much less reality. Compared to optics babble, he says, analysis "is more difficult, more rigorous, and it's much needed."
And Boehlert chronicles how journalists have actually agreed at times with this or that policy but decide to harp anyway over this or that vocal inflection:
The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus recently agreed that the country's current immigration failures were the "fault of House Republicans." She then proceeded to pen an entire column attacking Obama's "erratic" style because he "looks weak" and he "looks political" in his decision-making.
The same went for Post colleague Dana Milbank: Obama's comments about the threat Islamic State posed to the United States were "probably true," but unnerving nonetheless. Why? Obama wasn't projecting enough panic, apparently. New York Times columnist Frank Bruni argued that while Obama's recent foreign policy commentary "reflects a prudent disinclination to repeat past mistakes and overreach," he non[e]theless failed to deliver "savvy, constructive P.R."
"Worrying about image projection and the degree of savviness in the Administration's P.R.," noted media critic Jay Rosen, represents "signs of a press corps that can be deeply unserious about international politics."
You can read more on the Media Matters blog.
If you want to put your finger on the problem confronting Chuck Todd, who made his much-ballyhooed debut as moderator of NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, you don't have to look much farther than the two "fun new features" introduced on the first show.
Todd said the recurring segment called "Who Needs Washington?" will explore politics beyond the Beltway, which this week meant interviews with mayors of cities that are "going it on their own with little of Washington's help or dysfunction." The second new feature is "What everyone in Washington knows but is afraid to say." This week the thought that dare not speak its insight was "what Hillary Clinton's really up to."
But maybe what everyone on Meet the Press is really afraid to say is that Todd's mission is at best inherently self-contradictory: although his new show desperately wants some outsider cred to boost the ratings, it's not willing to risk its insider status to do so.
Talking to America's big-city mayors is hardly new—Sunday shows have always been bringing on local pols who claim to be better at governing than the national leaders. And while the very existence of a Sunday Beltway talk show would seem to hinge on telling you what "everyone in Washington knows" and you don't, as it turned out, neither Chuck nor his panelists had anything new to say about "what Hillary's up to." (And since when was anyone in the media afraid to speculate about that? The only fear you smell is their fear of admitting, "I don't know.")
As MTP fell from first to third place during David Gregory's misbegotten reign, NBC brass realized that something was wrong beyond Gregory, but they weren't sure what. "The show needs more edge," NBC News President Deborah Turness recently declared. Format changes, she suggested, will include a panel of journalists questioning guests, as the show did in its earlier, better days. "The one-on-one conversation belongs to a decade ago," she said. "We need more of a coffeehouse conversation."
So just how edgy or coffeehouse was yesterday's show? It stuck to a one-on-one interview, of President Obama, but it usefully tweaked the format so that the panel discussion was interspersed with the interview.
But only one panelist conceivably had "edge," or his visibly tattooed armed did, anyway: Buzzfeed reporter John Stanton, who's been a guest on Chris Hayes's and then Steve Karnaki's Up—a show that's edgy enough to not broadcast its need for that quality.
But the other panelists included the usual inside-DC suspects and MSNBC stalwarts: Andrea Mitchell, who has her own MSNBC show and is married to former Fed chair Alan Greenspan; The Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson, who pops up on MSNBC to convey the most conventional wisdom in the most conventional way; and Joe Scarborough, now promoted to an "NBC News senior political analyst." It's possible that Joe could bring the edge of his sarcastic annoyance as well as coffeehouse demeanor from Morning Joe. But on Todd's show, Joe wasn't allowed to play the alpha male, and he was on his best network TV behavior; he even had only nice things to say about Obama.
Try as he might—and he only might—Todd may not be able to escape the safe blandness endemic to network Sunday shows.
The shadow all the NBC anchors are trying to outgrow is Tim Russert's, who was MTP host until he unexpectedly died in 2008. Russert had a reputation for "gotcha" journalism, in a good way. He'd use the technology of his era—tapes from the archives—to confront a guest: back then you said that, but now you say this. Some guests were rattled, but the show soon acquired a chummy atmosphere—seasoned pols would lean in and say, "You sure are good with those clips, Tim," and then chuckle through an analysis of spin. "Meet the talking points," critic Jay Rosen calls the show.
After all, the hosts and producers didn't want to alienate the guests they'd need to book down the road. Even more, of course, they didn't want to alienate the corporate sponsors. Corporations advertised on the Sunday shows to influence policy legislated by the target audience of "thought leaders." The shows were dominated by companies like GE, Northrup Grumman and Archer Daniels Midland, who helped determine what policies and scandal were not talked about on Sunday shows. Yesterday on MTP, Koch Industries ran its big national ad that says, in so many words, they're so powerful you're better off working for them than boycotting them.
The idea is that these corporations are above right/left politics, a delusion the news media helps perpetuate by repeating the false equivalency canard that both political sides are equally guilty of any wrong. This Sunday, Todd kept suggesting that it won't make any difference if the midterm elections result in a Republican or a Democratic senate majority, because gridlock will rule the day. (Obama gave a decent explanation for why that's crazy.)
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In trying to brand the show and himself, Todd has been repeating his own slogan of sorts: "It's not politics that people hate, it's that they hate the politicians that don't know how to practice the art of it." That sounds plausible, but it also sounds like a reluctance to examine underlying structural issues to focus instead on the personalities of the moment.
In fact, you might say, it's not Sunday shows audiences hate, it's Sunday show hosts.
But as Jason Linkins wrote, "A New Host On 'Meet The Press' Isn't Going To Solve Its Problems." He made a great case for why John Oliver's Last Week Tonight "beats 'Meet The Press' coming and going. The show literally wandered right onto 'Meet The Press' Beltway turf and delivered a report [on the nutritional supplement industry] with a sophistication that no Sunday show has pulled off in years." It wasn't just the jokes that made it work, but "the show wanted to have a point" and demonstrated a "real respect and genuine concern for their audience, instead of trying to get over by posing as an 'insider' operating under a veil of savviness."
Todd is smart enough to recognize the problem, but to really shake off that toxic insider status, he might consider Jay Rosen's advice:
I think it would be wise for Chuck Todd to see himself and his colleagues, Washington journalists, as part of the class that has screwed up politics.
And maybe, in taking over "Meet the Press," he can begin to address some of how that happened.
"Leadership, thy name is Ron Johnson." So announced Mike Huckabee yesterday on Fox's Outnumbered. Even as the image of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen killed by a Ferguson, Missouri, policeman, was being tarnished by a video allegedly showing him stealing from a convenience store, the media had already found the hero of their story. He was Ron S. Johnson, the State Highway Patrol captain now in charge of law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb.
He's just what most media want—someone who seems to transcend the left/right and black/white divides and can bring people together. Thursday night, the bald, buff African-American state officer banished the militarized St. Louis County police force and walked with protesters to oversee a peaceful, almost joyous demonstration. Johnson, who was raised in the area, hugged demonstrators, told several young men with tattoos that his son has tats too, and, most important, listened to people.
Johnson also instantly grasped how the surveillance video threatened the perception of Brown's character and, by extension, the character of all black victims of police violence in the news. And he was subtly critical of Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson for releasing the tape. "I think [the robbery and the shooting] are two separate issues. People in our country commit crimes every day," Johnson said in an interview with KSDK on Friday. "I don't want to mix the two. I'm not going to say that one justifies the other, OK? And I think if we're going to give answers, we need to not give hints. We need to say it."
The "liberal media" saw his appeal right away. His photo ran above the fold on the New York Times front page two days in a row. Wonkette headlined a story "A Snark-Free Welcome to Captain Ron Johnson, New King of Ferguson," and went on to say, "Speaking on behalf of the liberal media cabal, we're behind you, Ron Johnson…"
At the same time, Johnson urged responsible moderation and respect for private property. "In our anger, we have to make sure that we don't burn down our own house," Johnson said in a Friday news conference that he turned into a community meeting. Conservatives in particular liked that he said, "This is not a black-and-white issue" (which is not exactly true). And, like Huckabee, they loved his story about his daughter asking him if he was scared in his new role: "I said, 'Just a little.' She said, 'Daddy, I want you to remember when Jesus asked Peter to walk with him in the water. When Peter got scared Jesus picked him up and said have faith.'" "Today," he told the crowd Friday, "we need to be just like Peter, because I know we're scared."
Such a charismatic black male was not around in the aftermath of previous police and would-be police shootings of young black men, not for Trayvon Martin or Jordan Davis, when their deaths became potential teaching moments. Those stories ended up as yet another nasty excuse to battle publicly over the nature of black men—are they choir boys or thugs? The schism has become such a media trope that after Brown's killing, African-Americans started posting side-by-side photos of themselves at #iftheygunnedmedown, one that seems to confirm a "gangsta" stereotype and one that doesn't, and speculating on which one the press would feature if a cop shot them.
By the weekend, Johnson had all but replaced Brown as the central figure in Ferguson's drama, a protagonist both sides were eager to celebrate. Of course, it's slippery at the top, and you never know how long media approval will last or how events will change. Last night, according to NBC News' Mark Potter in Ferguson, a few rocks and bottles were thrown during the demo, and police threw "some" tear gas. After midnight, he said, looting started again, but protesters tried to stop it.
But there's no denying the service Johnson has done for his community by defusing an apparent police riot that had gone on for most of a week. He doesn't walk on water, but he acted bravely in the eye of a national media storm. And not everyone can do that.
Nowhere was that made clearer than when Johnson stood next to the nervous and evasive Governor Jay Nixon. Nixon is a cautious Democrat who nonetheless found the courage last month to veto a critical anti-abortion bill. Interviewing both of them on Friday, CNN's Jake Tapper said the St. Louis County police apparently hadn't bothered to contact some eyewitnesses. Was the governor concerned about the quality of the investigations? Nixon, deferring to other law enforcement agencies, wouldn't quite answer.
But Johnson stepped up and, speaking directly to any eyewitnesses, said, If you know something, find me here "tonight, and give me your name and number" and I'll make sure it gets done. "I'll do that."
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I have about driven myself crazy looking at different restaurants. The concierge at the hotel recommended for restaurants Ocean Avenue Seafood, BOA and Sushi Roku. For some reason I am not convinced that this is the taste of california we are looking for.
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THIS is National Library Week, so it seems appropriate to call attention to four concerts this afternoon and two others later in the week being held at libraries. At 1:30, ''Cinderella'' loses her slipper and finds true love in a musical for children at the North Castle Library in Armonk. The Open Stage production is said to update the story as a hip musical with live accompaniment.
At 2 Friends of the Eastchester Library present a free family program devoted to American folk tales and theater songs, with stories spun by the author Joan French Baumel and music played by her husband, Herbert Baumel, the original solo violinist for Broadway's ''Fiddler on the Roof.''
At 2:30 the concert series at the Warner Public Library in Tarrytown concludes with a free recital by the flutist Donna Elaine, who teaches at the Hoff-Barthelson School, and the pianist Steven Sosatka. The program includes pieces by Anton-Bernard Fuerstenau, Antonio Lora, Lee Hoiby and Robert Muczynski.
At 4 the third annual Berenice Bramson Memorial Concert takes place at the Katonah Village Library. The concert not only honors the memory of the much loved Mount Kisco soprano but also raises funds through donations for the young artists series at the library. The flute-piano duo of Lisa Johnson and Angela Laba will play works by Telemann, Gluck, Faure, Saint-Saens and Claude Bolling.
A free family concert of singing and dancing, titled ''The Corner Store,'' on Friday at 4 P.M. is sponsored by the three libraries of the town of Bedford, but it is being held at the Bedford Hills Community House. Call 232-3508 for more information.
The Male Glee Club of Yonkers is offering a Spring Serenade at the Will Library in Yonkers next Sunday at 2 P.M. Andrew Randall conducts the free program, which ranges from classical pieces to show tunes and barbershop quartet favorites. For driving directions, call 337-1500.
John Cuk leads the Manhattanville Women's Glee Club and Men's Chorale today at 4 P.M. in Reid Hall at Manhattanville College in Purchase. The program includes music by Thomas Arne, Poulenc, Persichetti and Vaughan Williams, among others.
The Sphere Ensemble offers a sample of 20th-century music for flute, guitar and piano on Wednesday at 12:35 P.M. in the Noonday Getaway series at Grace Episcopal Church in White Plains.
The church is also presenting Britten's parable opera ''Noye's Fludde'' with two New York City Opera regulars, Thomas Jamerson and Eunice Hill, as Mr. and Mrs. Noah, and a cast that includes about 30 Westchester children. Performances are scheduled next Saturday at 8 P.M. and next Sunday at 4 P.M. For tickets, call 949-0384.
Three Asian pianists are appearing in Westchester. Tomorrow at 2 P.M., Korean-born Eun-Kyung Lee plays Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Rachmaninoff for the Westchester Symphony Guild at a private home in Harrison. Rie Matsumoto, who came to the United States from Japan to study at the Juilliard School of Music and now teaches at the Hoff-Barthelson School in Scarsdale, joins a faculty colleague, the violinist Frances Magnes, on Friday at 8 P.M. in Sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Faure. Nari Matsuura, a Canadian of Japanese and Korean origin, has chosen Mozart, Schumann and Liszt for her Performers of Westchester recitals on Friday at 8:30 P.M. and next Sunday at 4 P.M., both in Ardsley. The information numbers are 592-6599 (Guild), 723-1169 (Hoff-Barthelson) and 693-9658 (Performers).
There will be a piano-plus recital on Wednesday at 8 P.M. in the Music Building (not the Performing Arts Center) at Purchase College. Robert Fertitta will not only play works by Mozart, Chopin and Mendelssohn but will also switch to the organ for several Brahms Chorale Preludes, then return to the piano to join the clarinetist Lisa Johnson -- a 1981 Purchase graduate who is now assistant dean at Mannes College of Music in Manhattan -- in the F minor Brahms Sonata. Call 251-6700 for more details.
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Next Saturday at 8 P.M., the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet plays Haydn, Smetana and ''Four Moods'' by Alan Shulman to close the season for the Concert Society of Putnam and Northern Westchester at St. Luke's Church in Somers. For reservations, call 277-8613.
The final Friends of Music concert takes place next Saturday at 8 P.M. at Ossining High School. The Hagen Quartet of Salzburg will play works by Mozart and Shostakovich. The reservation number is 271-8598.
Fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin will be part of the symphonic equation when the Westchester Chamber Orchestra winds up its first season next Saturday at 8:30 P.M. as resident ensemble at Iona College in New Rochelle. Guest soloists are Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, who are planning ''a musical travelogue exploring the connection between folk and classical music,'' while the music director, Barry Charles Hoffman, conducts Copland's ''Appalachian Spring.'' For more information, call 235-6528.
To conclude its season at Purchase College, the Westchester Symphony Orchestra is throwing a Broadway Pops party next Saturday at 8:30 P.M. The music director, Anthony Aibel, will conduct hits from ''Fiddler on the Roof,'' ''Kismet,'' ''Annie'' and ''Showboat,'' among others. Adding lyrics to the familiar tunes will be the soprano Joy Hermalyn and the tenor Michael Galanter. To charge tickets, call 631-4313.


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Was it Colonel Mustard in the Library? Mrs. Peacock with a candlestick? General Motors using political pressure to covertly sabotage a cleaner future?
Set back in the early 90's, this doc is a fast and furious tale about the heroic group of civic-minded auto manufacturers who wanted to save a hemorrhaging planet. In 1990, California's smog-busing Air Resources Board adopted the "Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate," which forced auto companies to produce exhaust-free vehicles.
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Tapping his A-list Hollywood chums for interviews, director Chris Paine outlines our country's orgy with gasoline-thirsty transportation and the subsequent outrage of Californians when they discovered that automobile emissions were poisoning their families. In response, G.M. creates the EV1 in 1996, the first mass-produced electric car, costing $34,000 with a range of 100 miles.
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why is the C in the middle bonded to two Hs at first and only one later?
I don't think it has two Hs at first. it wouldn't work with valence either —Preceding unsigned comment added by FelixP (talk • contribs)
- You are right, there seem to be some mistakes in the picture. But I think there should be two (the activator is diethylaluminiumchloride, ethyl groups on aluminum), the binding to the metal center is an agostic bond (electrons of the bond between C and H are donated into empty metal centre bonds). --Dirk Beetstra T C 13:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
I am not so sure if there are mistakes here - anyway its a proposed mechanism. I suspect that the Ti-CR3-Al interactions are like those in the Al-CH3-Al interactions in trimethyl aluminium. BTW: we now have agostic complex started.--Smokefoot 22:08, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Under the topic -Heterogeneous catalysts the line that states -"The preferred carrier is microporous spheres of amorphous silica with a diameter of 30–40 mm." Seems to be incorrect. As a size of 30-40mm would be quite large in the terms of chemistry. A reference supporting this size would be needed as most literature gives sizes in the nm range. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 18:54, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Is this the "Ziegler Process"?[edit]
I am curious if this catalyst is what makes the "Ziegler Process"? Maury 16:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Truly a C-grade Wikipedia Article[edit]
This is perhaps the first article I have come to with a "C" grade, and it is richly deserved. Those who have posted this material should themselves look for colleagues able to write the broad introduction present in better articles and missing here. I would suggest separating treatment of 50 year old Ziegler-Natta liquid-and-metal catalysts, which began by breaking carbon double-bonds to get molecule chaining (polymerization) started, from later developments. Deal separately with metallocene catalysts having engineered shapes that controlled isotactic and syndiotactic sequencing of the growing chain. That separation gives us a chance for a simpler treatment of polymer chain basics -- getting them started -- in an introduction that comes to isotactic and syndiotactic issues separately, explicitly, and later on. Mentioning milestone historic developments in the field would organize the intro and aid the entry overall; mention John A. Ewen and metallocene advances in the early 1990s. Exxon's attempt to crush him, and the lawsuit and conviction he won against Exxon in 1995 would add some spice and illustrate the high stakes here, wouldn't they?
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