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George W. Bush's State of the Union address has laid bare his Administration's political strategy. It is to manipulate the grief, anger and patriotism inspired by September 11 to fit the contours of the right-wing Republican agenda of September 10. What that Day of Infamy means to George W. Bush & Co. is more tax cuts for the wealthy, more money for wasteful weapons schemes and the back of their proverbial hand to those who suffer the misfortune of not being rich in Bush's America.
Viewed under any other rubric, Bush's speech--received so rapturously by a well-stroked punditocracy--is entirely incoherent. Does war demand sacrifice? Let's give more tax breaks to the rich. Did stateless terrorists attack us wielding only box cutters? Let's build a nonfunctional $250 billion missile defense system. Does the bond market demand fiscal responsibility for sustained growth? Suppose we spend down the surplus, raid the Social Security trust fund and create deficits of a size unseen since the bad old days of Reagan/Bush. Do we need allies now more than ever in the fight against terrorism? Why not alienate all of them with a unilateral declaration of a global war against an imaginary "Axis of Evil"--nonsensically invoking Hitler and Tojo for good measure? Never mind that Iraq, according to the CIA, has not attempted a terrorist act against us in nearly a decade, or that Iran and Iraq hate each other, or that Iran has democratic elections (and the winner even gets to be president) and that North Korea has nothing to do with any of this. Just to be safe, perhaps we'd better give a pass to friendly terrorists like the Russians, currently engaged in the wholesale rape and pillage of Chechnya, and China, doing a quieter but more effective job in Tibet.
Bush's hyperbolic oration, inspired no doubt by the vanity and indiscipline of his speechwriters, recalls another President's politically inspired scare tactics. In late 1947 Clark Clifford and James Rowe instructed Harry Truman, "The worse matters get, up to a fairly certain point--real danger of imminent war--the more is there a sense of crisis. In times of crisis the American citizen tends to back up his President." The result was the famed war scare of 1948, in which that accidental President started trumpeting "the critical nature of the situation in Europe," the necessity for "speedy action," the "great urgency" of the problem of the Soviet threat. He did this even though, as State Department counselor Charles Bohlen explained in a confidential January 1948 memo, the government considered its position "vis-à-vis the Soviet better now than at any time since the end of the war."
As in 1948, we face a military threat that requires a vigorous, but proportional, response. And the government has no more critical responsibility than the defense of the "homeland." But once again the disjunction between those ends and the eternally expansive means proposed by Bush is so vast as to render transparent the political motivations behind it. Karl Rove nearly admitted as much when he recently advised a group of Republican activists to use the war in Afghanistan to win elections here at home. The Evil Empire has expired, but the Evil Axis is open for praxis.
As Slate reported, the response overseas to Bush's speech was almost uniformly disapproving, with editorialists condemning the "Hate of the Union" (The Guardian); the "distinctly disturbing" message (The Independent); a tone "more martial than ever" (Libération); containing "no hint here that he understands that he is talking of sovereign nations" (the Sydney Morning Herald).
Alas, foreigners don't vote. In fact, Americans don't vote until long after favor-seeking corporations like Enron have decided which candidates to fund in exchange for favors and after pundits have chewed up and spit out the issues and candidates sufficiently to determine who is a serious, responsible candidate and what might be prudently said about the issues on the campaign trail. For the latter reason, it is rather alarming to notice that conservative extremism has become so commonplace that even on allegedly nonpartisan broadcasts, it is treated as conventional wisdom.
Take the minor but emblematic example of CNBC's coverage of the Bush speech. The network's deal with the Wall Street Journal allows genuine reporters to provide viewers with a respite from the constant stream of analysts and CEOs showing up to hawk their portfolios and jack up stock prices. But as everyone but the network's executives seems to know, the Journal is really two newspapers: one with a crack news staff and one with a crackpot editorial staff.
During the Clinton Administration, no nutty rumor or oddball allegation about the President was deemed too goofy to publish by those editors. I have on my shelf six fat volumes containing some 3,000 pages of the Journal's editorial page fulminations regarding an Arkansas land deal called "Whitewater" in which both Clintons were found to be innocent of any criminal conduct by Republican-appointed special prosecutors. And yet following Bush's speech, the editors were invited by CNBC to comment on Bush and the Democratic respondent, Richard Gephardt, with no balance at all. To go as far left as the Journal editors are to the right, CNBC would have to convene a roundtable featuring Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, Vanessa Redgrave and Fidel Castro.
Were any CNBC viewers surprised to hear that Paul Gigot thought Bush gave "a muscular speech, a speech of old-fashioned muscular virtues--justice, honor, courage, responsibility"? Or Susan Lee's view that Bush had been "very polished...very laserlike...extremely intense," with "fantastic" rhetoric she found to be "incredibly manly and muscular"? How generous, too, of Gigot to note that Gephardt had given "a good speech...for one reason. It basically said: I agree with the president." Robert Bartley didn't think it mattered. "You know, Bush is going to win again the next time out." But didn't the sane portion of Bartley's newspaper publish its own poll showing that "a clear majority" of Americans would choose "delaying the already enacted tax cuts for the rich" to protect domestic programs? "That's a loaded question," says Bartley. Planted no doubt by an evil pollster with an axis to grind.
Black Hawk Downer
The New York Times's Martin Arnold calls the success of Bernard Goldberg's Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News "perhaps the most astonishing publishing event in the last 12 months." I concur. A number-one best-seller is indeed an impressive accomplishment for a clumsily written screed whose author never even bothers to prove his thesis, much less attempts to convince anyone who does not already know the conservative secret handshake.
Never mind that in their more genuine moments, conservatives from William Kristol to Pat Buchanan admit that the claim of liberal media bias is bogus, cooked up for political advantage. Conservative book buyers, fortunately for Goldberg, are rather late in getting the news. "Just turn on your TV set and it's there," the author, a twenty-eight-year veteran at CBS News, declares. In doing so, he echoes the line of many a know-nothing conservative before him. "There are certain facts of life so long obvious they would seem beyond dispute. One of these--that there is a liberal tilt in the media...," sayeth the editors of the Wall Street Journal. "The fact is everybody knows that Dan Rather is an egomaniacal liberal. Everybody knows that the major news networks lean to the left," chimes in Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online. Never mind, dear reader, that young Jonah was recently signed up by CNN, where he joins liberal Robert Novak and liberal Tucker Carlson as a regular commentator on what Tom DeLay calls the "Communist News Network." He can expect to compete with liberal lunatic Alan Keyes on MSNBC, who replaces liberal criminal Oliver North and liberal miniskirt model Laura Ingraham, and joins liberal carnival barker Chris Matthews, in being given his own show on that liberal network. Thank goodness for the fairandbalanced folks at Fox.
Taking time out from the 200-300 talk-radio programs that regularly feature authors of the conservative publishing house Regnery, which published his book, Goldberg appeared on Jeff Greenfield's Communist CNN program, where he told his host, "I could give you right now, Jeff, about 100 examples of liberal bias in the media that are current." Yet over the course of 230 pages, he manages to string together little more than one idiotic accusation after another. Goldberg reports, "Everyone to the right of Lenin is a 'right-winger' as far as media elites are concerned." He explains that the news bias comes from the same "dark region that produces envy and the unquenchable liberal need to wage class warfare." He insists, "If CBS News were a prison instead of a journalistic enterprise, three-quarters of the producers and 100 per cent of the vice-presidents would be Dan's bitches." Just about the only piece of actual news Goldberg produces is unproven and, I'm guessing, imaginary. According to the author, CBS News president Andrew Heyward once told him: "Look, Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left.... If you repeat any of this, I'll deny it."
Taking the conservative ideology of wealthy white male victimization to new heights, Goldberg pretends he has broken his pledge of omertà and suffered the horrifying consequences. He wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal attacking his colleagues. "So what happened?" he writes. "Well, as Tony Soprano might put it to his old pal Big Pussy Bompensiero in the Bada Bing! Lounge: Bernie G. opened his mouth to the wrong people--and he got whacked."
It's heartbreaking until you discover that while Goldberg admits that Heyward had every right to fire him for violating the terms of his contract, instead the boss whom "Bernie G." is either betraying or libeling in these pages found him a nice cushy job at 60 Minutes II and allowed him to serve out his time to qualify for a higher pension. Call me a liberal, but I believe the term "whack" carries a slightly different connotation among Mafia dons.
As for Dan's "bitches," this is likely a fantasy as well. The anchorman, according to Goldberg, "practically kissed Fidel Castro in front of the whole evening news staff when the dictator showed up at CBS News studios." Did I mention that Goldberg (though he'll probably deny it) "practically" beat my dog, raped my cat and exposed himself to a potted plant in front of the entire Nation staff? He "practically" did all this, by the way, before "practically" admitting that his book was cooked up in a few spare minutes to milk money from ignorant people willing to pay to see their prejudices confirmed. Go ahead, Bernie, "whack" me; baby needs a new pair of shoes.
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Speaking of liberals, George Will offered up yet another example recently of why the word "journalist" is considered so vicious an epithet among social scientists. Will has long been obsessed with education spending, which he finds wasteful and counterproductive. This leads him to twist arguments and statistics so shamelessly that one of his columns actually served as the subject of an article in the Journal of Statistics Education demonstrating how not to analyze SAT data.
Will's most recent foray into the topic is an almost perfect rewrite of a column he wrote a year ago. Writing on the Bear Left website (www.bear-left.com), Tim Francis-Wright notes that the College Board website contains at least three pages of warnings to journalists seeking to use state-level data, which Will ignores. He not only abuses the figures to denigrate the effects of investing in education, he constructs his entire argument on precisely two data points: test scores as reported by North Dakota and the District of Columbia. The divorced pundit distorts the implications of this tiny, intellectually immaterial comparison to support his own biased belief in strong nuclear families as the key determinant of educational success. Surprise, surprise.
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And speaking of the liberals at Enron, I could not follow this story were it not for the energetic reporting of the folks at Media Whores Online (www.mediawhoresonline.com) and the thoughtful analysis at Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo website (www.j-marshall.com/talk). Check 'em out.
There is a value to the much-criticized crawl that zipped along at the bottom of CNN's window during the attack on Afghanistan, beneath clips of dirty traitors and soldier-heroes and starving refugees. As the world's other news ticked blithely by, trivialized by the pictures above it, the ephemeral, superficial crawl reminded us of the worth of words that do not move, and of stories told in columns of type, not in video clips or on film. I don't want to get too sentimental, but isn't the printed page reliable; isn't it familiar; isn't it decent? It feels immutable in a way that other things do not these days. As Walter Isaacson (who is now running CNN) said when he was still at Time: "If the world were based on computers and they told you about magazines, you'd think: 'Wow: what a great technology!'"
Magazines and newspapers (and online versions of these) still often manage to tackle complex stories and say things that have meaning, unlike so much of the media. And meaning, which is so unusual now that content is dead (a friend actually told me that several years ago), meaning generates a ripple of excitement. I found it fun, for example, when Lewis Lapham called the Attorney General "Mullah John Ashcroft" in print, in Harper's, of course. You won't find "Mullah" John Ashcroft doing the crawl on CNN beneath the story about President Bush and his FPS (Failed Pretzel Swallowing). Now that Talk, which had every kind of support behind it, has gone under (in the wake of other recent casualties like Brill's Content, Lingua Franca, Mademoiselle, ON magazine), we can be reasonably sure that the print media is in for further high-temperature shrinking as the economy tightens. This column will check in regularly on the health of content and highlight what's meaningful in print, in general interest and niche publications, and in the little, spirited, idiosyncratic guys one rarely gets to.
What 'The Arab' Thinks
Since the fall of the towers, I've listened to and read so much drivel about "Arab casbah culture" and the "Arabs' nomadic mentality" and about what Arabs think and what really drives "The Arab," that it was good to find Al Jadid, a quarterly published in Los Angeles devoted to Arab culture and arts. The way I found it was unfortunate, however--painful. Suffice it to say that my recent novel (which is about Jerusalem) received from Al Jadid its only English-language notice from an Arab point of view, and the review was not entirely kind. So I was led reluctantly to the magazine, but when I looked into its back issues, I discovered that it contains a wealth of opinion and information that no one else is publishing in English.
I knew Al Jadid was for me when one knowledgeable Arab of my acquaintance told me disdainfully that the magazine was "not influential." I love that; for me, "not influential" means you can read the thing without having to feel you must agree with it. Consider these noninfluential observations, by Elias Khoury, the Lebanese novelist, essayist and editor, on Saddam (yes, the Saddam) Hussein's first novel, Zubayba and the King (2000): For Arab military dictatorships, Khoury writes,
literature became somehow a field associated with the...dictatorship, perhaps because all writing in [such] regimes is like writing intelligence reports. We find a strange mixture between the writer and the intelligence analyst.... Creative writers first become intelligence report writers and then become authors!... The literary world suffered in a terrifying way thanks to this strange combination: Egyptian authors were imprisoned; Iraqi writers lived between exile, prison and assassination; literature in Syria knew a great decline; and in the Gulf regimes, monarchies, emirates and sheikhdoms, the censor is almost the sole author.
Magazines like Al Jadid, which are concerned with niche obsessions or particular groups, also often speak with unintentional authority to the universal, to the general human experience. One of my favorite examples of this--in the Al Jadid "Editor's Notebook" column by Elie Chalala, in the Winter 2001 issue--is called "Poet and Critic Nouri Jarah Laments Standards of Arab Literary Criticism, Rushing Poetry into Translation."
The first interesting thing you discover in this great piece is that "individuals seeking political asylum" are trying to pass themselves off as Great Poets from their home countries, in order to claim persecution. That's a good ruse. Unfortunately, this is the only eccentric thing you discover about the Arab publishing world. Otherwise, we might as well be in New York or London. Jarah states that "decisions of culture [in the Arab world] are based on exchanges of power and influence" rather than on sheer literary merit. He also points out that "the Arab critic-author relationship is one of enmity rather than amity."
Mmmmmm. Oh yes. Really.
Now I understand where my reviewer was coming from.
Woman on the Go
Working Woman was closed by new management (a bank) last September, on its twenty-fifth anniversary. The magazine went on "hiatus," as the holding company that still owns the name puts it. This leaves Woman's sororal twin, Working Mother, still out there in the market because, as one former employee says, "it's easier for advertisers to understand Working Mother's audience; the demographic is more tangible." Doctors' offices are among Working Mother's largest subscriber groups. (In case you are wondering, Ms. is still published but is not advertiser-supported.)
Working Woman was intended to target CEO-level women, who make about twice as much as, say, the readership of Good Housekeeping (which shows no signs of closing down). But the high-end women were more likely to subscribe to Business Week, Forbes or Fortune. Eventually the advertising community deserted the publication, because it could get at the actual Woman readers better elsewhere: at Family Circle, for example, or in the fashion and beauty and shopper magazines.
In an interesting note, Working Mother, which also changed hands and recruited a new staff in September, will now be put out by an editor in chief and a deputy editor neither of whom have ever had children. It's as if you had a white person editing Ebony.
What if we could see the Afghan dead as we've seen the September 11 victims?
Sure, he's a cartoon character, but it still takes courage to speak out.
Drug companies influence research; they also affect what gets published.
The New Republic strains credibility with its 'Idiocy Watch'—it might want to keep itself in its sights.
Media policy need to change in the digital age—but how?
With developments in the Mumia Abu-Jamal case and Pacifica's re-emergence, the left has a couple of victories under its belt; the Enron scandal develops further.


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This week on Reality Cast, a look at how culture warriors try to take the edge off, and some state battles over who controls women's bodies. Also, an interview with Samhita from Feministing, and the place of imaginary friends in the anti-choice canon.
Sometimes you never know what will take off virally. A few people not that long ago got the idea to start donating money to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin's name, and then email their friends and suggest they do the same thing. The chain took off.
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The estimated amount of money generated by this completely grassroots campaign is estimated to be above $800,000.
Thanks to Lisa Simeone at Cogitamus for pointing me towards a brilliant Slate article by Melinda Henneberger and Dahlia Lithwick about what they call e Harmony voting, where people are more interested in validating candidates for being someone they'd like to have as friends than as someone whose policies and leadership skills fit the qualifications the voter would like to see. Voters of every stripe are guilty of this, from urban liberals who see themselves in the Obamas to soccer moms cozying up to the Palins to grumpy old men who think McCain is clearly the best choice. As the authors note, no where is this attitude more prevalent than in the women who supported Hillary Clinton and can't get over their bitterness that she lost, projecting all their problems onto her candidacy.
But there's another way that the personal above the political is used more and more, and it's a way to soften up the culture wars for the moderates who run far away from the ugliness that invariably springs up in the clash over how much control the government should give your puritanical neighbor over your bedroom and family life. More and more often we're seeing culture warriors make appeals to their own personal charm or tolerance in order to convince skittish moderates that they aren't so far to the right. Mike Huckabee highlighted his sense of humor and his willingness to play some rock music. And now we have Sarah Palin contrasting her political views with her personal charm.
The tactic may have reached a new level of strangeness when it was revealed that Sarah Palin, in order to convince people she's a true believer in "love the sinner hate the sin", claimed in 2006 that even though she's hostile politically to gay rights, she's got gay friends. The problem, as Dan Savage noted, is that these gay friends haven't surfaced. To highlight the absurdity of this strategy, Dan made a video offering to be Palin's gay friend.
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Other submissions immediately came in of people who were facetiously offering to help Palin moderate her image by hanging out and being her friend. This guy's was pretty damn funny.
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But it wasn't just the guys offering. Here's another from Danielle.
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Of course what really matters is not who you are friends with, but what your policies are. I just finished reading "The Nine" by Jeffrey Toobin, and there is one interesting juxtaposition that shows exactly how ridiculous trotting out the gay friend gambit is. Justice Thomas is described as being very affectionate to a former clerk of Justice Stevens who is a lesbian, and he has a picture of her and her partner on his desk. This personal affection for actual gay people in his life didn't stop Thomas from dissenting on Lawrence v. Texas, which extended the basic right to have a private sex life without the threat of jail to gay people.
You're seeing this same level of confusion on the political/personal aspects of choice. In Palin's personal life, there's a lot of choice to bear children going on. And she's getting praised by people who are hostile to choice for her choices. Like talk radio show host Lee Rodgers using Sarah Palin's supposed moral superiority to bash women who don't make choices he agrees with.
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Once again, people are pretending that policy has nothing to do with this. No, there's no way that women could have political disagreements, no siree. We're just all a bunch of cats clawing at each other for personal choices!
Look, contrary to the claims of anti-choicers, making the choice to carry a pregnancy to term after learning the baby will have Down's syndrome isn't a de facto expression of willingness to deprive all women everywhere of choices. Palin was anti-choice before she made her choice, and would be anti-choice even if that never happened. Michael Berube, blogging at Pandagon, mentioned the way this personal choice is getting politicized in relation to his and his wife's choice to have a child with Down's. Quote "But guess what? Janet and I are pro-choice in theory and practice. And if you choose to have a child with Down syndrome, we'll support all the educational, medical, and vocational programs you and your kid will ever need." End quote.
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Now for your semi-regular reminder that activists who claim to be "pro-life" aren't that at all, but mostly interested in using the law to control women's bodies, and sexual and family choices. When it comes to white women, of course, the anti-choice movement stands as one. White women, especially middle class white women, need to have more babies whether they like it or not. And they need to get married young and just generally stop agitating for equality with men. Simple, really. But when you start getting into situations involving lower income women and women of color, it starts to get hairy. Suddenly it's not so obvious that more and more babies are desired, but the urge to control stays strong.
The Colorado personhood for fertilized eggs amendment that's coming up on the ballot in 2008 is a perfect example. Activists put together a panel explaining how this maudlin concern for "life" doesn't extend to the lives of the most oppressed women in our society, and not to their children's lives either.
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Faced with realities such as this, the anti-choice activist on hand decided to do what they always do with inconvenient facts. Deny them outright. Hey, if you can claim that the Earth is only 4,000 years old and that the birth control pill works how you say it does, instead of how doctors who know what they're talking about says it does, then smaller level lies are no big deal. And that's what we get here.
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I'm sure the extent of his research was asking a bunch of other anti-choice friends what they should tell the press if this comes up. Because it really only takes a little work to find the multitude of ways that the state looks to interfere with basic choices. And yes, so-called pro-life women get mistreated, too. At the National Advocates for Pregnant Women conference, one of the speakers was against abortion rights, but she had tasted the other side of this when she was forced under court order to get a C-section. A quick Google search of "forced c-section" shows many other examples.
It's more than that. There's risks that these laws will be used to harass women, especially women of color, for perceived misuse of their own bodies while they're pregnant. We could see an escalation of putting women in jail for using drugs while pregnant or even not taking prenatal vitamins. And there's no way white, middle class women will be monitored as much.
It gets worse. Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo has decided that the best way to address the images of misery after the non-evacuation of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina would be to try to bribe poor, black women into not reproducing. Ever. Rachel Maddow was on it.
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Let's take bets on where LaBruzzo stands on a woman's right to control her own body? Any guesses? Okay, I won't play with you. LaBruzzo identifies as "pro-life", which clearly means anti-choice, because he's not pro-you making life if you're in the wrong socioeconomic group or race. Once again, the desire to direct and control women trumps any inclination towards life.
And now for the Wisdom of Wingnuts. This American Life League video about a memorial day to mourn women's right to abortion revealed an aspect of anti-choice fantasizing I'd never considered.
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Is this really a powerful argument for anti-choicers? That there's all these people that would have liked them and totally been their friends if it wasn't for reproductive rights? Are they that lonely that they think the only cure is to increase the number of people by force so that maybe someone can be their friend? I'd hate to think so, but then why is he using that argument?

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Review: Situated on the outside of the main station building, we didn't have to go far for our first taste of Zurich's veggie scene. It has a very swanky feel, despite being a serve yourself buffet. We took the offer of (small plate) main and sweet courses for a combined 26 CHF, which seemed expensive, until we started eating elsewhere in this cripplingly pocket-bashing city. At Bona Dea it's a flat rate regardless of whether you eat lightly or pile your plate high. And, having seen someone else put several different items on their sweet plate, we checked and found you really could choose as many different sweets as you fancied. Ironically, we spent more on our meal at Tibits, Hiltl's 'fastfood' stablemate, where you pay for your food by weight and you have no real idea of what it will cost until the (giant) plate hits the scales. Though there wasn't as much choice as at Hiltl or Tibits, everything we had was gorgeous - beautifully presented and as tasty as it looked - while the ambience was cool and relaxed. The sweets were small, but that only made more room on the plate to try several of them. This seemed about as far removed as you could get from the old non-veggies preconception of a veggie restaurant. The only criticism we'd have is it that it's not entirely clear what you have to do when you go in or what the protocol is in terms of how much you can put on a plate - so it can be a little daunting, especially if you don't speak German. But do persevere, the waitress was much friendlier than her cool demeanour makes her look.
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Texas Architect Nov/Dec 2006: Place Making
Texas Architect is the official publication of the Texas Society of Architects, each edition features recently completed projects and other editorial content largely written by AIA members in Texas. That collective participation was the basis of Texas Architect's recognition by the national AIA with a 2010 Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement.
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What an odd little story, but it makes me want to watch the movie again.
The story of Holly Golightly (traveling). This is another of several books for me that features despair and nothing. Holly had no attachments, nothing was permanent. She was an identity she created as she went. She never names her cat. Her life was not permanent. The narrator tells us this story, he is unnamed aspiring author (could it be Truman Capote). The various characters had funny names Trawler, Tomato, Spanella. This novella is a quick and interesting read but more famously known for the movie of the same title starring Audrey Hepburn. It's the third work of the author's that I've read and I've enjoyed them all.
First Words: I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
Last words: Flanked by potted plants and framed by clean lace curtains, he was seated in the window of a warm-looking room: I wondered what his name was, for I was certain he had one now, certain he'd arrived somewhere he belonged. African hut or whatever, I hope Holly has, too.
I loved this book. I loved Holly. She has so much life it makes it possible to forgive her faults. I watched the movie again when I finished the book and was struck by a lot of the changes. The narrator's mistress and the opulence of his flat were quite startling. However, it is still such a great story with New York itself as a glittering character, that I really enjoyed it, I definitely much prefer the book and would love to have seen Audrey Hepburn portray Holly as she was really written.
I'm sure this was really risque back when it was first published. It might still be risque to some groups today. Though to many people now a flighty, promiscuous girl wouldn't be that big of a deal. Still it's very enjoyable. Of the 3 short stories the first seemed to end abruptly and the second was kind of blah. It was the third, A Christmas Memory, that really blew me away. The relationship between the young boy ("Buddy") and the child-like elderly woman who's his cousin is so well-done and heartbreaking.
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Funny, moving, brilliantly written; the characterization is marvellous - you can see, hear and almost smell them all. This edition just has the one novella (I also have a paperback which includes three other short stories) and is attractively illustrated.
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I went there with my mother before my wedding, since she is plus sized. We did have a good experience and she did end up buying a dress, but I have to say that there wasn't much of a selection and the prices were much higher than I expected. I think she ended up with a dress for $200+, but there were many more for $400-500.
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Alonso has struggled with the problem for several weeks and, although he left Portugal with his left foot in a brace, at first Liverpool's medical staff believed his condition was not be serious.
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Galveston Island is on the Move — Literally — and It's Not a Good Thing
By Bill Hanna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas
GALVESTON — This island city is in the midst of a building boom.
The only problem?
Galveston is sinking.
It is sinking so fast that some scientists say the fragile West End of the island, which is not protected by the Galveston seawall, could lose parts of the coastal highway — and blocks of beachfront homes — in the next 60 years.
The debate isn't just an academic exercise being played out by scientists.
The largest development ever proposed for the island has raised questions about whether it's smart to build a large resort in such a vulnerable area.
The 3,900-unit project — known as The Preserve — would bring high-rise towers, a golf course and a marina. Not only do residents worry that it will change the character of that part of the island, but there is also concern that it will harm beaches and wetlands even though the development would include a nature preserve.
Galveston isn't alone in grappling with such issues
Just across San Luis Pass in the Treasure Island subdivision on Follets Island, one house has literally gone out to sea, with waves breaking beneath its support beams. Farther west in Surfside, homes that were once part of a subdivision are now standing on the beach and are being demolished.
The entire upper Texas coast will become more vulnerable as some sections continue to subside and, if scientists are correct, the seas begin to rise faster as a result of the melting polar ice caps.
"The upper Texas and Louisiana coasts are sinking at a rate faster than anywhere else in the United States," said John Anderson, a Rice University oceanographer and author of The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast.
"The coasts in those areas will feel the effect of rising seas at an even greater level than places on the East Coast," he said. "Even if you ignore the global-warming component, we have the tidal records to show that the relative sea rise on portions of Galveston Island has been about 2 feet during the last century. If the island continues to sink at that rate, many areas of beachfront and bay-front areas will feel the effects in the next 50 to 100 years."
The University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, at the request of the city of Galveston, created a geohazards map that shows that many wetlands, beaches and tidal flats are under imminent threat. The map also shows that a significant part of the island faces a critical threat in the next 60 years if the relative sea-level rise — the combination of subsidence and rising sea level — continues at historical rates of the last century.
Political debate
Some critics say the city is ignoring the warnings in favor of expanding the tax base.
"We cannot rely on our politicians to protect our interests, to protect what made Galveston unique," said Galveston environmental attorney Robert Moore, who has threatened to sue if the city approves the development.
"All they are looking for is a way to get tourists over that causeway and take as many of their dollars as possible."
Galveston officials insist that it isn't true.
City Councilwoman Dianna Puccetti, who represents the West End, said the geohazards map will be used to evaluate future developments. As for The Preserve, she has not decided whether to vote for that project, which has already been approved by the planning commission.
"I think the council would want more information before making a decision," Puccetti said. "There are both pros and cons to the project. In terms of how I would vote, I think it's premature until we work through some of the issues."
Last week, the city recommended hiring outside lawyers to study the developer's offer to enter into a binding agreement on the property. City officials are expected to vote on the project in late August or early September, well before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will say whether the development's plat would harm wetlands.
Beachfront problems
The developer, Darren Sloniger of Marquette Land Investments of Illinois, says 361 acres would be set aside as a preserve, though he concedes that 67 acres of wetlands would be lost in the development.
"The irony is because we're avoiding some areas and setting aside a preserve, it actually forces us to go into the wetlands because the significance of the land is not just the wetlands but habitat," Sloniger said. "The goal is a contiguous preserve that has wetlands and uplands."
Anderson, who owns a vacation home in Jamaica Beach on the West End, argues that developments impede the migration of beaches and wetlands.
The Pointe West Development, built by Centex Homes on the far western edge of Galveston Island, is an example of what can happen, Anderson said.
"They actually did a pretty good job with setbacks on their beachfront condos to allow the beaches to migrate," Anderson said. "The problem is on bay side, where they didn't allow enough room for the wetlands to migrate. That is the problem with these properties. The most desirable real estate is by the beaches or the bays, which need room to move as the island migrates."
Washing away
James Gibeaut, a research associate in UT's Bureau of Economic Geology who helped design the geohazards map, said the island will look significantly different in the future.
"The island will become skinnier," Gibeaut said. "The Gulf shoreline will continue to erode at 5 to 10 feet per year. Bay shorelines are also eroding, putting the island into a squeeze play. On the Gulf side, there are development subdivisions now in danger just from ongoing shoreline retreat caused by waves and a lack of sediment and a lack of sand. That problem will increase because there are a lot of developments that have gone in."
City officials insist that the problems can be mitigated by beach renourishment and other methods.
The Army Corps of Engineers is doing a study to search for more sand resources and it should be final in 12 to 18 months, said Wendy O'Donohoe, director of planning and community development. The total cost of the project will be around $100 million.
"The geohazards map is based on nothing happening, no mitigation, no change in conditions," Puccetti said. "It is basically a time snapshot of what is happening right now. We know the study is going to change. … The geology of the island isn't going to change, but we can certainly manage that process in certain respects."
Looking ahead
Jerry Mohn, president of the West Galveston Island Property Owners Association, which represents 35 neighborhoods, said his organization hasn't taken a stand on the development. He remains optimistic that a man-made solution to coastal erosion will be found.
"There is a solution out there," Mohn said. "I think some kind of underwater stabilization that breaks the wave energy so sand can move onshore. It may be five to 10 years away, but I think it's out there."
But the scientists argue that the island will move inland regardless of what government officials do.
"There is this perception that this is a relatively new phenomenon and something can be done to stop it," Anderson said. "But this has been going on for thousands of years and the island will keep moving."
500 feet: The amount the beach has retreated just west of the Galveston seawall since it was completed in 1962.
3 feet: The average annual rate that Galveston Island has been retreating for the last 1,200 years.
2.2 feet: The rise in the water level (combination of subsidence and rising sea level) over the past 100 years at Galveston's Pier 21.
Sources: The Formation and Future of the Upper Texas Coast and Pier 21 tidal records
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Kilimanjaro is far and away the highest and most famous volcano in Africa, a splendid solitary snowcapped giant rising above the plains near the border of Tanzania and Kenya. The huge mountain massif, about 50 miles (80 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, is made up of three overlapping volcanoes.
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Hailed as a find for the ages, a rare skull of a 1.8-million-year-old human relative could provide answers to longstanding questions about the lineage of our species. It also fuels debate over what differentiates one hominin species from another, and could mean that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and other early bipedal hominins may all be members of Homo erectus, rather than distinct species.
Figuring out when modern humans left Africa and migrated throughout the world is a complicated task. For example, some evidence suggests modern humans may have migrated out of Africa and into Asia as early as 120,000 years ago. Further evidence puts modern humans in India and other parts of South Asia prior to the super-eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra, which took place 74,000 years ago.
When Lucy and other Australopithecines were walking around Ethiopia 3.4 million years ago, they may have encountered another hominin species that still climbed trees and also walked, but with a gait more like an ape than their bipedal neighbors. The tantalizing new discovery of a few fossil foot bones shows that at least one species retained an opposable big toe, one million years after the grasping feature was thought to have disappeared.
What is it, exactly, that distinguishes us from other species? The definition of humankind has perplexed scientists, philosophers and theorists for centuries. DNA composition differentiates species in a technical sense, but that definition is hardly satisfying. Certainly there must be something more ethereal that separates us from "lower" forms of creatures. Over the centuries, several definitions have emerged — from using tools to speaking — but have then been proven insufficient in some heuristic way. So I propose another option: manipulating energy.
Mapping out how one species of early hominin branches to another has always been complicated by the rarity of complete specimens and lack of precise dating methods for fossils more than 50,000 years old. Now researchers studying the braincase, pelvis, hands and feet of a primitive hominin — which lived about the same time early Homo species were evolving — are taking full advantage of a rare, nearly complete assemblage of fossils and a new highly accurate dating method to once again redraw humankind's ancient lineage.
In the Great Rift Valley in northern Kenya, researchers have discovered a cluster of footprints that look almost exactly like those you or I might leave on a sandy beach. These prints, however, were left by early hominins more than 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known evidence of fully modern bipedalism.
Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has long been the poster child for early human evolution. But now she'll have to share the spotlight with an even older hominid. After spending the last 15 years studying an ancient hominid species about the size of a chimpanzee, scientists revealed details about the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus in a press conference today.
Though counterintuitive, scientists have turned their attention away from the feet and to the wrist and forearm to better understand how humans evolved upright walking, or bipedalism. African apes are humans' closest living relatives, and because these apes knuckle-walk, some paleoanthropologists have suggested that African apes and humans share a knuckle-walking ancestor. A new study, however, reveals that lumping the locomotion of all African apes together is a mistake: Knuckle-walking may have evolved more than once in the ape lineage.
Ardipithecus ramidus was a hominid that lived in Ethiopia's Afar region 4.4 million years ago. After spending more than a decade studying the species, scientists can now provide a sketch of what the hominid looked like:
Brain: Ardipithecus had a brain size similar to that of a female chimpanzee, about 300 to 350 cubic centimeters.
Stature: Standing 120 centimeters tall and weighing 50 kilograms, Ardipithecus was about the size of a chimpanzee.
Modern humans and Neanderthals lived side by side on the Eurasian landscape for tens of thousands of years — but it turns out they weren't alone, much to researchers' surprise. A team of researchers has found a hominin bone in a Siberian cave containing DNA that doesn't match up with either known hominin species at that time, the researchers reported in Nature today, indicating that these humans shared the continent with a third, unknown hominin.
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The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013, which were published in August 2013 clarify and strengthen the general duties and roles of all of the key duty-holders including the client, Project Supervisors (both PSDP and PSCS), designers, contractors and employees. The Regulations introduce some new duties or modify some of the existing duties of project supervisors and contractors.
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These Regulations apply to all construction projects including the alteration, decoration, maintenance and repair of buildings and the installation, maintenance and removal of mechanical and other systems fixed within or to structures. They place obligations on clients and designers to ensure that safety and health is taken into account before any construction work begins. Contractors must ensure that the work on site is properly co-ordinated and carried out in a safe manner.
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Fourth, additional thought should be given to the delivery of PSM programs and courses. KGI has just now established a program for students who are working full time. The program takes three years instead of two because the students participate in the program on a part-time basis. Moreover, to address the needs of students who are already busy professionals, KGI is formulating plans to deliver the courses online or, if campus based, in the evenings or weekends. PSM programs could potentially make greater use of online course delivery. Institutions like the University of Maryland University College have pioneered the development of a successful model of distance education that is now technology driven and delivers course content to students globally.33 This model could possibly be adapted for certain courses or programs for PSM degrees as well.


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Agency: Wieden & Kennedy
Rating: 5.0
By Sara Kimberley, campaignlive.co.uk, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:23AM
Clouder will report to Paul Hamilton, managing director, and Martin Delamere, brand strategy director, and will be responsible for strategic planning, brand strategy and client development for clients including Isme, Krispy Kreme and Remington.
He will work across Addiction Innovation and Addiction Content.
Clouder has previously worked for agencies including M&C Saatchi, AMV BBDO and St Lukes. More recently, he has been a freelance planner, working on award-winning campaigns for the British Heart Foundation, COI, Cancer Research and Waitrose.
Hamilton said: "Justin brings a wealth of experience, having worked across some of the biggest brands in the UK. I'm sure he will help accelerate our ambitious growth plans."
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Many rivers in State in spate; Srikakulam town virtually marooned
HYDERABAD: The flood situation in Andhra Pradesh turned grim on Friday as torrential rains in the wake of the weakening depression left a trail of death and destruction in North Coastal Andhra and later inundated large areas in North Telangana.
Srikakulam, the town with a population of over one lakh, was virtually marooned as water gushed into habitations from the Nagavali after the swollen river breached an embankment. Several localities in the town were under neck-deep water. However, the National Highway to Visakhapatnam was open.
At least 40 persons died in rain and floods in hundreds of villages in Srikakulam (toll three), Vizianagaram (14) Visakhapatnam (12), East Godavari (nine), Khammam (one) and Adilabad (one) districts. The toll may mount since the exact number of deaths in a massive landslip in Vizianagaram are not yet known. An alarming situation prevailed in Khammam district as the Godavari crossed the third danger level of 53 ft in the evening at Bhadrachalam. The authorities fear that the rapid rate at which the mighty river is rising, its level may touch the 63-feet mark, the highest in two decades, at this famous temple town by Saturday morning. In this event, hundreds of villages downstream are likely to be inundated.
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Flights were suspended from Visakhapatnam for the second day as the tarmac as well as the approach roads leading to the airport were water- logged. Train services were dislocated on the Visakhapatnam-Koraput and Visakhapatnam-Kirandul sections due to landslips. In Hyderabad, normal life was affected by intermittent rain.
Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy is leaving on a two-day tour of the flood-affected areas in North Coastal Andhra on Saturday morning. After making an aerial survey of Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam districts, he will visit the scene of the landslide in Vizianagaram and go to East Godavari on Sunday.
Earlier, reviewing the flood situation at a high-level meeting, Dr. Reddy announced a relief package consisting of ex gratia of Rs. 50,000 to families of those who died, 20 kg of rice and five litres of kerosene to each affected family, Rs. 2,000 for each damaged house and Rs. 500 for purchase of utensils and clothes. Disaster Management Commissioner Debabrata Kanta said about 20,000 people had so far been shifted to 50 relief camps.
In the worst incident, 11 girijans, including seven children, were crushed to death by a massive boulder that slid from a hillside and rammed into huts in Vankavadi village in Gummalakshmipuram village of Vizianagaram district. The bodies lay trapped under the boulder as no crane could be taken to the interior village. A similar landslip in Araku Valley left six persons dead and 21 injured.
50 fishermen missing
In East Godavari, three members of a family were killed when a tree fell on a tea shop. About 50 fishermen from Kakinada, reported missing in the sea since Wednesday, were untraceable despite search by Coast Guard.
Koheda in Khammam district recorded an unprecedented 360 mm, Kaleswaram 290 mm, Eturunagaram and Ranasthalam 260 mm each. The rainfall in the last two days in several districts has surpassed the normal quantity for the entire month of August. All reservoirs across the Krishna as well as 14 medium irrigation projects are full. An enormous quantity of five lakh cusecs was released into the sea from Prakasam Barrage in Vijayawada leading to inundation of some low-lying areas in the city.


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At a historic conference in Toronto in October 1993, developmental researchers and clinicians came together for the first time to explore the implications of current knowledge of attachment. This volume is the outcome of their labors. It offers innovative approaches to the understanding of such...
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It's all about the journey as we hit this famous highway from Chicago to L.A. Known as the Main Street of America, the stops on this 'bucket list' experience reveal classic Americana.
It's Insider moments like... racing to make the best barbecue sauce from the spices on your picnic table before two local families, real barbecue championship winners, vote which is best. A true American 'pit master' serves downhome dishes, from pulled pork to St Louis-style ribs. It's also visiting The Hill in St Louis, where our Midwest friend shows you his Italian neighbourhood and teaches you bocce. And it's meeting first responders and survivors from the 1995 Oklahoma tragedy, who recount stories of that fateful day.


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Cheap hotels near Gare Montparnasse in Paris, France
Located in Paris' 14th arrondissement on the Left Bank, the Gare Montparnasse is a modern train station servicing destinations in the west and southwest of France. (See a partial list of destinations served by the Gare Montparnasse.)
Although it opened in 1840, not much of the original station remains today. Instead of a romantic Belle Epoque station, the all-business Gare Montparnasse is tucked under the city's largest (and many would say "ugliest") office tower. Throw in a rather depressing indoor mall and you've got one sight you should feel free to skip!
Hotels near the Gare Montparnasse: At least the station is quite central. Affordable hotel options can be found just off Boulevard Montparnasse, near the Eiffel Tower, and in the Latin Quarter.
Address 33, rue Delambre (St. Germain des Prés (6th))
EuroCheapo Review: With lovingly appointed rooms in a quiet corner of Montparnasse just minutes from the train station, The Hotel des Bains is a good value for those willing to pay a little more.... read review
Address 5 rue du Montparnasse (St. Germain des Prés (6th))
EuroCheapo Review: A good choice for no-frills budget travelers. Hotel Stanislas rests between the Luxembourg gardens and the Montparnasse tower.... read review
Address 24, rue Cels (Place d'Italie / Chinatown (13th))
EuroCheapo Review: With an extra-quiet location one block from the Cimetière du Montparnasse, the Hôtel Mistral is a lovely boutique hotel that offers a romantic history and modern pizzazz. Unfortunately for Cheapos, its budget hotel days are (mostly) history.... read review
Address 225 boulevard Raspail (St. Germain des Prés (6th))
EuroCheapo Review: The Hotel de la Paix is a three-star boutique hotel located near the brasseries of Montparnasse where rates sometimes dip into cheapo territory.... read review
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EuroCheapo Review: Located literally across the street from the Jardin du Luxembourg, the Résidence du Palais offers cheapo rooms with old-fashioned style. ... read review


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SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (Reuters) – Three executive
assistants are suing venture firm CMEA and one of its former
partners for harassment and retaliation, marking the third
lawsuit in less than a year alleging unfair treatment of women
in Silicon Valley's clubby world of venture capital.
The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court of
California last month, alleges then operating partner John Haag
repeatedly made inappropriate sexual comments to the women,
sometimes in front of other partners who mostly did nothing to
stop his behavior.
Sandberg's hot-button book rings true for Silicon Valley women
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8 (Reuters) – Facebook executive
Sheryl Sandberg is taking a drubbing for prescribing from a
privileged perch the keys to female success in her upcoming book
"Lean In," but she's struck a chord among many in her backyard.
In her own technology sector, women remain woefully
underrepresented in leadership roles, even more so than in
fields generally considered heavily male-dominated like
financial services. Sandberg's willingness to tackle the issue
of women and leadership is drawing plaudits from many in Silicon
Venture capital firm Matrix nabs young star from Square
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 (Reuters) – Venture capital firm
Matrix Partners said it had hired 28-year-old Jared Fliesler, an
executive at the mobile-payments company Square, as general
Matrix had been talking to Fliesler for about the last year,
said general partner Dana Stadler, who believes Fliesler will be
able to give good advice to early-stage companies, Matrix's
focus area.
Venture capital kingpin Kleiner Perkins acknowledges weak results
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 (Reuters) – Blue-chip venture-capital
firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers expressed frustration with
poor fund performance and promised to do better at gatherings
for investors last month, according to people familiar with the
The firm, which has lost some of its shine recently due in
part to hefty bets on green energy technology and a lack of
home-run Internet investments, said it would be more careful
with capital and redouble its efforts to boost performance.
Several investors who received invitations to the meetings said
it was unusual for Kleiner Perkins to hold such gatherings when
it was not raising new funds.
Yahoo telecommute ban is much ado about nothing -Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Yahoo Chief
Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to ban telecommuting sparked
outrage around the country, but left many in Silicon Valley
wondering what the fuss was all about.
Working from home is common enough in the Valley, but that
is in addition to – not instead of – the 40-plus hours spent
working in the office. Despite the area's image as a
freewheeling space that makes much of the technology that allows
people to work remotely, Bay Area workers tend to head into the
office, especially at start-ups.
Most new US businesses founded by people 40 and older -survey
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The word "startup" might
convey a technology-oriented company founded by a 20-something,
but the reality is very different, according to a report from
the Kauffman Foundation and the online service LegalZoom
Most new businesses are founded by people aged 40 and older,
and consulting is the single biggest business category,
according to the report issued on Thursday, which was based on a
survey of new business owners.
Former Square executive Rabois to join Khosla Ventures
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Keith Rabois, the
executive whose sudden exit from mobile payments company Square
became the talk of Silicon Valley, will join Khosla Ventures in
March, the firm said on Tuesday.
Speculation has swirled around where Rabois would ultimately
land. He left Square last month, citing legal threats from a
young colleague with whom he had maintained a two-year
relationship. He had served as Square's chief operating officer
since 2010.
Neighborhood network Nextdoor raises $21.3 million
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Neighborhood social network start-up Nextdoor has raised another $21.3 million, even as many investors shy away from the sector in the wake of troubled Facebook initial public offering last year.
The new funding includes $15 million from Greylock Partners, whose partner David Sze will be joining Nextdoor's board. Sze, known for his involvement in networks LinkedIn and Facebook in their earliest days, said he has never before invested so much in a single investment round.
Square scandal highlights growing pains at tech start-ups
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – When Square Chief Operating Officer Keith Rabois left his job last month, citing legal threats from a young colleague with whom he had a two-year relationship, he threw a spotlight on the risks associated with the freewheeling startup culture that many entrepreneurs cherish.
Startups often thrive on a lack of rules and boundaries. But experts say that as they make the transition from a handful of people in a room to sizeable businesses, the hazards of operating without manual – including lawsuits, reputational hits, and waning employee morale – grow exponentially.
University must disclose venture capital returns-court
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The University of
California must make public the closely guarded performance of
some top-tier venture capital funds in which it has invested a
portion of its $10.65 billion endowment, a judge said on Monday.
No information on the funds, managed by Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, will come out immediately.
The court is giving the university a stay until March 11 to
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The Ethnographic Turn in the visual arts describes a practice in which artists approach other cultures or realities through their research and documentation activities.... more
Joachim Radkau has written a monumental biography of Max Weber, the father of sociology. Relying heavily on private letters, he draws close parallels between Weber's intellectual and erotic life - which was at first unfulfilled and then both uninhibitied and extra-marital. All very interesting, but does it help us understand Weber's work? By Robert Leicht
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Computer Programming Computer Programming finds a New Gleeful Audience. In Five Year-Olds? When some people hear about the new computer programming language aimed at children called Scratch here's the question that comes to mind: "Really, does society need to be inflicted with one more programming language for beginners?" About 50 years ago, when we first began to see these mysterious machines running spools of tape with precise motions on James Bond or Mission Impossible, names of programming languages like Fortran, Basic, LISP or Algol seemed really cool in an aliens sort of way. And these were the beginner languages back in the day. While we still have some of these hanging around, the creative geeks of the world constantly come up with new and improved ideas on how best to approach a subject that can drive most people nuts. We've seen C and Smalltalk in the 80s, C++ in the 90s, and C# and Java for today's generation. As much choice as we've had, professors of computer languages and experts have always felt that something has been missing. No one really would see C# to be a beginner's language; the world is famously full of people who just can't get computers; who expect the average five-year-old to start learning Java and make any sense of it? The more evolved something gets, the simpler it is supposed to become. So here we go, with two important computer programming languages aimed at kids, and people who hate computers. Are our computer programming languages more evolved today that they once used to be? Let's see now, shall we? In the world of children's computer programming languages, Scratch is all the rage. The idea for Scratch was born when MIT was engaged by and Lego, to create a Lego Mindtorm. Scratch is a full-blown language today that allows children to play at programming, to make games, cartoons, interactive videos and so on. Scratch also helps children learn famously unfriendly school subjects such as math and computers. What Scratch does is, it helps the child visualize a programming idea he or she has in mind, with a visual construct, and with basic building blocks that help her see how all the logic goes together. All a child would do to make a new program, would be to put the right programming blocks together, like you do with Lego. And the child gets stacks of program blocks to play around with too. A child playing with Scratch learns about scary-sounding programming concepts like events, loops, conditionals and all of that stuff - withut even knowing it. Alice is another good one - you know there's something special about it going in, because they named it after the heroine of Alice in Wonderland. Children will love this one, because right away, it's a 3-D environment, and children do their computer programming work by dragging and dropping three-dimensional programming tiles into place. It works something like the way Scratch does, because it is building block-based. Children use Alice to create cartoons, games and so on. Everything usually works right off the bat; and the children who really like going in with the experimentation, will find the going gentle and playful. And it's a great way to introduce children to the way logic and object oriented programming works in Java and C. So do children actually like them? You bet, they do. The very idea that they have so many innovative tiles and blocks to play around with, usually means a certain amount of creativity is a given. And the things they quickly come up with can be as amazig as a little character all their own in a maze or something. You need to try it for your child to know what a great step ahead in children's education this is. Some Of My Books On DocStoc Search For Interesting Articles Click Here To Search For Items With Discount Male Breast Reduction: Get Rid Of Man Boobs The Muscle Gaining Report Flatten Your Abs Sleep Report Meditation Made Easy Remedy For Ringing Ears
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Hide Ya Kids: Celebs Who Are Notoriously Private About Their Precious Seeds- By Bossip Staff Categories: Multi, News, Originals
Smile for the camera. We wanna see ya kids!
Celebrity Parents Who Keep Their Kids Out Of The Limelight
We love the precious celebrity seeds, but some stars aren't so keen on sharing shots of their little ones with the rest of the world. And with celebrity stalkers poppin' up left and right these days it's not hard to understand why.
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The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence 445
from the new-din-standard-called-for dept.
This is a completely new phenomenon with smart phones. At least I'll always have my 8-track player.
Seriously. Just give me a Bash shell. I'll alias some useful stuff to short commands. Voice dictation can reduce the safety issues with keyboard use. And when the car is out of warranty, the dealer has to add me to the wheel group for sudo.
Why do you want to send data to your car? A car is for transport.
There's a 12AU7 burned out in my radio, so I can't use it for anything right now.
But I've now got a completely running GNU/Car. Just one quick question: my lawyer just got back to me on the license terms. Do I really have to let my neighbor use the car whenever he wants? Because that sounds wrong.
Now that's funny. But better than Kelvin.
Should have bought the ejector seat.
I see you've met my wife.
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TORONTO, ON - NOVEMBER 07: Brad May #24 of the Detroit Red Wings skates against the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Air Canada Centre on November 7, 2009 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Only one week after Brad May and Annabelle Langlois were eliminated but earned a second chance through the judges' save, the couple was officially and irreversibly bounced from Battle of the Blades Monday night. It was a bed of their own making. A night after committing a number of slips that earned them the bottom spot on the leaderboard, Canada agreed that Brad and Annabelle sucked way hard, and sentenced them to the Monday night skateoff. There, the couple made yet another mistake, botching the throw that was central to their performance, and earning their tickets home. In other words, last week's judges' save accomplished absolutely nothing apart from needlessly prolonging this dreadful competition by one week. Was this to torture me? I wondered. I was briefly concerned that Brad and Annabelle were somehow going to get saved again, only to be eliminated next week, then saved again, and on and on until I realized I had been dead for a year and this was my Hell. Monday night was l...
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