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I first met Matt Rowe when he attended his first ALTA conference a few years back as an ALTA fellow. Matt's an interesting guy with, at expense of making a fool of my memory, an interesting history, having started his career in computers, working for, among other companies, Microsoft. Then he abandoned that all (well, sort of, he's still involved heavily in fonts) for Indiana University and the study of translation. He translates from the Italian, gave a great presentation on the "Translator as Fiction" panel (which is a great example of what is so cool about ALTA: a whole, chatty panel about the appearance of translators in fiction and how they were portrayed), and is now living out Port Townsend way batting around a book idea about puzzles (can't say more here lest someone steal his incredible idea) and obsessing over the Oulipo. (There are many worse movements you could obsess over.)
Very recently, like over the weekend type recently, Matt took the step to make himself more visible, launching Local Character a blog that combines his interests in contemporary world fiction, typeface design and typography, voice, community, travel, cognitive science, eccentrics, oddballs, and misunderstood geniuses, and puzzles. In his own words:
Since I'm a translator, writer, and editor, my major focus will be on fiction, translation, and book publishing worldwide. A number of other excellent blogs and web journals already focus on these topics; I'll play nicely and support them as I work to develop my own niche, but Local Character will definitely range into areas those resources don't touch. Exactly what "Local Character" ends up meaning will depend on your encouragement, responses, and participation.
As Local Character (both company and website) develops, this blog will continue to be its center. Here I will review books (and occasional work in other media), report and comment on news and developments, and link to other sources, both web and print. Over the next few months, I'll fill out the links and the rest of the site design, mostly silently as I figure out what works and what doesn't.
Really looking forward to following the development of Local Character . . . and now onto the questions:
Favorite Word from Any Language: Chiaroscuro
A very literary word that's also fun to say: kee-ahr-uh-skyoor-oh.
Best Translation You've Done to Date: "Inviti Superflui" by Dino Buzzati, which became "Unwanted Invitations" in my version
Unfortunately, I can't tell if Matt's translation of this prose poem has been published or not . . . Regardless, Buzzati is a really interesting author, and Godine recently reissued The Tartar Steppe ("Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory") and NYRB brought out Poem Strip which sounds awesome. ("Featuring the Ashen Princess, the Line Inspector, trainloads of Devils, Trudy, Valentina, and the Talking Jacket, Poem Strip — a pathbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s — is a dark and alluring investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by Dino Buzzati, a master of the Italian avant-garde.")
What Book Needs to Be Published in English Translation: Fata Morgana by Gianni Celati
I'm not familiar with Celati, but after reading the brief Wikipedia entry—his first book included an intro by Italo Calvino! he translated Swift, Twain, and Celine into Italian!—I'm hoping Matt has a sample he can send our way . . .
Founded in 1960 by such creative pioneers as George Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, the Oulipo, shorthand for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, came about in when a group of writers and mathematicians sought constraints to find new structures and. . .
There's little to say about a series of prose poems that willfully refuse to identify pronoun antecedents. Or perhaps there are a million things. The poems in Morse, My Deaf Friend— the chapbook by Miloš Djurdjević published by Ugly Duckling. . .
The Crimson Thread of Abandon is the first collection of short fiction available in English by the prolific Japanese writer and all-around avant-garde trickster Terayama Shūji, who died in 1983 at the age of 47. This collection would be important. . .
Last year, NYRB Classics introduced English-language readers to Catalan writer Josep Pla with Peter Bush's translation of The Gray Notebook. In that book, Pla wrote about life in Spain during an influenza outbreak soon after World War I, when. . .
"Your bile is stagnant, you see sorrow in everything, you are drenched in melancholy," my friend the doctor said.
bq. "Isn't melancholy something from previous centuries? Isn't some vaccine against it yet, hasn't medicine taken care of it yet?" I. . .
What to make of Vano and Niko, the English translation of Erlom Akhvlediani's work of the same name, as well as the two other short books that comprise a sort of trilogy? Quick searches will inform the curious reader that. . .
The opening of Jón Gnarr's novel/memoir The Indian is a playful bit of extravagant ego, telling the traditional story of creation, where the "Let there be light!" moment is also the moment of his birth on January 2nd, 1967. Then. . .
Mahasweta Devi is not only one of the most prolific Bengali authors, but she's also an important activist. In fact, for Devi, the two seem to go together. As you can probably tell from the titles, she writes about women. . .
The prolific Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós wrote his short novel, Tristana, during the closing years of the nineteenth century, a time when very few options were available to women of limited financial means who did not want a husband.. . .
Pedro Zarraluki's The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza García) begins with the narrator and his wife, Irene, setting out to write a book about silence, itself called The History of Silence: "This is the story of how. . .


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A vibrator bracket 224 for mounting a vibrator 226 including a motor 228, a shaft 231 controlled by the motor and weight 232. The bracket has members (260, 261) to engage the motor. The bracket has a shaft support, including an opening 275 for receipt of an end of the shaft remote form the motor whereby the shaft is positioned in the opening and deflection of the shaft is limited by the support.
1. A vibrator bracket for mounting a vibrator including a motor and weight carried on a shaft, the shaft having a diameter and being driven by the motor, the bracket comprising:
a plate;
first and second members extending from the plate to hold the motor;
and a shaft support extending from the plate and including an opening larger than the diameter of the shaft for receiving an end of the shaft remote from the motor to allow radial movement of the shaft within the opening and to limit radial deflection of the shaft to a distance across a gap between an outer surface of the shaft and an edge of the opening.
2. The vibrator bracket as defined in claim 1, wherein the opening has a diameter which is larger than the diameter of the shaft.
3. The vibrator bracket as defined in claim 2, wherein the shaft support includes a third member extending from the plate generally parallel to the shaft.
4. The vibrator bracket as defined in claim 3, further including a fourth member extending orthogonal from the third member, the forth member including the opening.
5. In combination:
a vibrator including a motor, a shaft driven by the motor and a weight carried on the shaft; and
a bracket including
a plate,
at least one member extending from the plate to hold the motor,
and a shaft support extending from the plate and including an opening for receiving an end of the shaft remote from the motor, a diameter of the shaft being smaller than the opening to provide a gap between the shaft and the shaft support, wherein the shaft is positioned in the opening to permit rotation and some flexing of the shaft without a surface of the shaft contacting another surface and to limit deflection of the shaft to the gap within the opening to protect against severe deflection of the shaft.
6. The combination as defined in claim 5, wherein the opening has a diameter which is larger than a diameter of the shaft.
7. The combination as defined in claim 6, wherein the shaft support includes a third member extending from the plate generally parallel to the shaft.
8. The combination as defined in claim 6, wherein the opening is in a fourth member extending orthogonally from the third member.
9. A radio telephone comprising:
a circuit board supporting electrical components of the radio telephone;
a vibrator including a motor, a counter weight, and a shaft coupled to the motor and carrying the counter weight thereon; and
a bracket including
at least one member extending from the plate to engage the motor,
and a shaft support extending from the plate and including an opening, an end of the shaft remote from the motor positioned in the opening and spaced from the support to permit rotation of the shaft without contacting the support and allowing some radial deflection of the shaft, the shaft not contacting an edge of the support unless the radiotelephone experiences a severe force transverse to a longitudinal axis of the shaft whereby the support limits radial deflection of the shaft.
10. The radio telephone as defined in claim 9, wherein the opening has a diameter which is larger than a diameter of the shaft.
11. The radio telephone as defined in claim 10, wherein the shaft support includes a third member extending from the plate generally parallel to the shaft.
12. The radio telephone as defined in claim 11, further including a fourth member extending orthogonally from the third member, the opening in the fourth member.
13. The radio telephone as defined in claim 12, wherein the bracket includes support elements extending from the plate for mounting the bracket on the printed circuit board.
The present invention relates to vibrators, and more particularly to brackets for mounting vibrators.
Vibrators including a motor and weight (sometimes referred to as a weight) are used in a variety of products. For example, pagers and radio telephones employ vibrators to effect a silent page or incoming call alerting signal. If the device is positioned against the user's body, such as by placement in a shirt pocket or hung from a belt, the vibration alerts the user without others hearing the device. This silent alert is particularly advantageous in meetings or in offices where a lot of people share common space.
Vibrators generally include a motor, a shaft driven by the motor, and a counterweight supported on the shaft. To provide a significant vibration, the shaft radius must be small and the counterweight must be significantly larger. Because of the significant difference between the weight's radius and the shaft's radius, the weight can cause a substantial deflection of the shaft if the device experiences a severe force, such as that experienced when the device is dropped. This severe deflection can result in a permanent deformation of the shaft, which deformation can cause the vibrator weight to hit the device housing, such that, an audible alert is produced. This noise is contrary to the purpose of the vibrator, and therefor undesirable.
Accordingly it is desirable to provide a vibrator that can withstand severe forces experienced by the devices which employ them.
FIG. 1 is a top exploded perspective view illustrating a radio telephone;
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a printed circuit board, bracket, and vibrator in the telephone according to FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an exploded end elevational view illustrating the vibrator and bracket;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view illustrating a vibrator assembly including the vibrator and bracket according to FIG. 2;
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary bottom plan view illustrating a circuit board having a vibrator assembly according to FIG. 3 assembled thereto; and
FIG. 6 is an end cross-sectional view of the vibrator and circuit board taken along plane VI--VI in FIG. 6.
A vibrator bracket includes members to engage a vibrator motor. The bracket also includes mounting feet for positioning the bracket on a support surface. The bracket further includes a shaft deflection stop to limit the movement of the shaft of a vibrator. The shaft deflection stop prevents severe deformation of the shaft to prevent permanent damage thereof.
A radio telephone 100 is illustrated in FIG. 1. The radio telephone includes a front housing 102. The front housing includes a key pad 104, a display lens 106, a speaker opening 107, and a microphone opening 108. The radio telephone further includes a logic printed circuit board 112 which supports circuitry for the radio telephone, including popple switches 114 (only some of which are numbered) actuated by keypad 104, a display source 115, and a speaker 113. A vibrator assembly 116 is also supported on the logic circuit board 112. The radio telephone 100 also includes an ejector 118, for ejecting memory cards, support web 120, and a microphone 121. An RF circuit board 122 is also supported between the housing section 102 and a back housing section 123. Back housing section 123 is assembled to the front housing section 102 to enclose the radio telephone's components.
Although the preferred embodiment is illustrated in a radio telephone, it will be recognized that the vibrator assembly may be advantageously employed in other devices such as pagers, personnel communication devices, or the like. Accordingly, "device" as used herein will refer to all such equipment and their equivalents.
The vibrator assembly 116 (FIG. 2) includes a bracket 224 and a vibrator 226. Vibrator 226 may be any commercially available vibrator. The vibrator includes a cylindrical motor 228 having wires 229 and 230 for connection to a control power source (not shown) on logic circuit board 112. A shaft 231 extends from motor 228. A weight 232 is positioned nonconcentrically on shaft 231 such that it rotates when a DC potential is applied to the motor by circuitry on the logic board 112 via conductors 229 and 230. The nonconcetric positioning of the weight causes the shaft to vibrate. The weight is significantly larger than the shaft, which causes a vibration. However, it also places a significant load on the shaft.
Bracket 224 includes a generally rectangular plate 234. Arms 235 and 236 extend outwardly from plate 234. A hand 237 extends from arm 235 and a hand 239 extends from arm 236 in the illustrated embodiment. Each arm is bowed such that it has a curved profile as best seen in FIG. 3. The bracket also includes a leg 240 and a leg 241.
The legs are terminated in feet 242 and 243 for engaging a surface 590 (FIG. 5) of circuit board 112 on which bracket 224 is mounted. A front positioning tab 245 (FIG. 2) extends orthogonal upwardly from hand 239. A rear positioning tab 246 extends orthogonally upwardly from a foot 242. The front and rear positioning tabs 245 and 246 locate bracket 224 on logic circuit board 112. A vibrator motor engagement member 250 and a rear vibrator positioning member 251 extend orthogonally upwardly from opposite ends of the plate 234. The front and rear vibrator positioning members are used to secure the longitudinal position of the vibrator motor on the plate 234 and hold it securely thereon. A suitable commercially available adhesive or fastener may be used to attach bracket 224 to circuit board 112.
Bracket 224 also includes motor engagement members 260 and 261. The motor engagement members each include curved fingers 262. As best seen in FIG. 3, the fingers curve inwardly toward one another. The end 264 of the each finger extend outwardly from the apex thereof.
The bracket 224 (FIG. 2) includes a shaft support 269 that provides drop protection. The support 269 is integral with plate 234.
Shaft support 269 includes joinders 271 and 272 extending between a horizontal member 273 and plate 234. A vertically extending member 274 projects generally orthogonally to horizontal member 273. The vertically extending member includes an aperture 275 for receipt of the shaft 231 of vibrator 226. The aperture 275 preferably has a diameter that is larger than the diameter of shaft 231, such that the shaft support does not interfere with the movement of shaft 231 unless the shaft is severely deflected by weight 232. If deflection of the shaft is severe enough, shaft 231 contacts edge 276 of aperture 275. The diameter of the aperture 275 is thus larger than the shaft to allow rotational movement of the shaft without a surface of the shaft contacting another surface unless there is a severe radial deflection of the shaft. Radial deflection of the shaft caused by a force transverse to the shaft is limited to the distance across the gap between the outer surface of the shaft and the edge 276 of aperture 275.
Bracket 224 may be constructed any suitable conventional means such as a one piece member which is stamped from a metal material and is bent to the configuration illustrated in FIG. 2. The material is preferably sufficiently resilient that members 260 and 261 spread outwardly in directions B and C when the motor is pressed downwardly in direction A during assembly and return to their original position to hold the vibrator motor securely in position. The material is also significantly strong to limit the deflection of the weight 232 when a severe force is exerted on the housing.
To assemble the vibrator assembly, motor 228 is pressed downwardly in direction A (FIG. 3). Motor 228 contacts ends 264 of members 260 and 261. These members are pressed outwardly in direction B and C by the motor. The end of shaft 231 is then moved into opening 275, while the motor is moved into abutting relationship with plate 234, between member 250 and member 251. The fully assembled position is illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 6. In this position, shaft 231 is inside aperture 275, and doesn't contact edge 276. This allows the shaft to spin and vibrate without contacting edge 276.
The vibrator assembly 116 is assembled to logic board 112 at opening 199. Hand 237, hand 239, foot 242, and foot 234, are attached to the bottom surface 590 (FIG. 5) of logic circuit board 112. Members 245 and 246 abut with edges of the printed circuit board longitudinally position the vibrator assembly.
In operation, if radio telephone 100 is dropped in a direction transverse to the shaft 231 longitudinal axis, the shaft 231 will deflect. If the force is sufficiently strong, the shaft 231 will deflect until it contacts edge 276. However, the shaft won't bend further than this edge. This limit of shaft deflection prevents the shaft from deflecting so much that the weight contacts the interior surface of the front housing against which the printed circuit board is held. The vibrator is assembled in the device near the housing such that the vibrations are communicated through the device to a user. This prevents the vibrator from making a thumping sound when it runs. Additionally, by limiting the shaft deflection, permanent harmful deformation is prevented.
Accordingly, it can be seen that a vibrator bracket is disclosed that prevents damaging deflection of a vibrator shaft. This insures that the vibrator will remain operable, and silent, even if the device in which it is mounted is dropped. The apparatus thus provides longer lasting silent operation relative to prior arbitrators.
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We all know the big guy in the red suit who breaks into our homes this time of year, ever year. He parks a team of eight hoven creatures on our roof (probably trenching it with the sleigh rails) and comes down the chimney (whether we have one or not). He bites off the cookie, drinks the milk, and leaves half the cookie and the dirty milk glass for someone else to clean up. I hear he has been caught a time or two kissing the lady of the house. We put up with these antics because he supposedly puts stuff under the tree to make us all have a Merry Christmas.
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E-Commerce Report; Can online ads increase sales of consumer goods, like soft drinks and pet food? Yahoo says yes, and offers to prove it.
By Bob Tedeschi
Published: May 10, 2004
AS good as Internet advertising market has been, there is still a huge hole where consumer goods manufacturers could be. Unlike automakers, banks and movie studios, makers of laundry detergent, soft drinks and toothpaste have proved largely Internet-averse, spending 1.5 percent or less of their total advertising budgets online.
Consumer goods companies represented 7 percent of the $7.3 billion spent on online advertising last year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The auto industry spent 21 percent and retailers spent 41 percent.
Yahoo is trying to change that with Consumer Direct, a new program intended to demonstrate the one thing marketers want to know: how much Internet ads increase sales. Consumer Direct also aims to position Yahoo's advertisers ahead of those in other media or online services by quantifying the sales bump -- something television, newspaper and radio companies can rarely do.
''This is pretty darn cool,'' said Charlene Li, an advertising analyst with Forrester Research, a technology consultancy. ''I think it'll help marketers tremendously in justifying their online spending.''
Intentionally or not, the new program also serves as a reminder that the online advertising market includes pockets of potential not tapped by Google's search-based advertising approach. Consumer goods makers, among other advertisers, have little use for Google's approach because consumers do not flock to search engines to get more information on, say, toilet paper.
Consumer Direct is being run in tandem with ACNielsen's Homescan unit, which records the off-line purchases of roughly 60,000 consumer volunteers. About 19,000 of those have also agreed to let Yahoo track their surfing behavior and offer feedback on purchases to Consumer Direct advertisers.
From late 2002 through early 2003, Yahoo and Homescan tested marketing campaigns for a handful of companies, including Pepsi and Purina, to see if online ads encouraged consumers to choose those brands of soda and pet food. Buoyed by the initial results, the companies sought out more of the top makers of consumer goods late last year and refined the program.
Now, Yahoo says, these campaigns increase off-line sales by 15 to 20 percent among those consumers who saw the ads, and the additional sales bring in more than twice the money companies spent on advertising.
Neither Yahoo nor its advertisers would disclose how much the ads cost, but Blake Chandlee, who oversees consumer goods advertising for Yahoo, said Consumer Direct advertisements cost more than Yahoo ads without off-line sales reports.
''We keep hearing that accountability is a key criteria marketers look at,'' Mr. Chandlee said. ''We've now got enough information back from enough of these programs to bring that forth.''
Mr. Chandlee would not list participating advertisers, other than to say that the top consumer goods companies are involved. (That would include businesses like Procter & Gamble and Unilever, among others.)
For Pepsi, the program offers the company its first chance to view national sales results from ad campaigns, said John W. Vail, director of digital media and marketing for Pepsi-Cola North America. The company has, in the past, used so-called behavior scan studies, in which it runs cable television ads in a small market like Eau Claire, Wis., and then surveys customers to see how many Pepsi products were bought by those who had seen the ads, versus those who had not.
''But with Yahoo, we can get a broader, national footprint,'' Mr. Vail said. ''This has been a terrific win for us.''
Mr. Vail said that Pepsi had completed two Consumer Direct campaigns, was running a third with the company's Mountain Dew brand and would conduct a fourth in June. In the past, the company has tracked total sales and sales of various package sizes, with comparison figures for the overall soft drink category.
In the future, Pepsi will refine its use of the Homescan/Yahoo panel, ''based on more defined consumption patterns and model customers,'' Mr. Vail said. ''So if we want to target customers who are in the diet market versus sugared cola, versus noncarbs, we can.''
Yahoo can offer such targeting even though it does not know what most of its users have bought. That is because it can extrapolate from the behavior of the Homescan/Yahoo panel to predict the behavior of similar nonpanel members based on common surfing habits and demographic information.
''Just having the ability to get a read on sales was a tremendous leap forward,'' Mr. Vail said. ''And in both cases, we did see a sales volume lift.'' (He declined to quantify the sales improvement.)
Pepsi may also use the Consumer Direct program to test ads against each other, Mr. Vail said, ''So this isn't necessarily all about putting out one piece of creative and seeing the result in sales.''
Mr. Vail said it was too early to say whether Yahoo's service would encourage his company to spend more on online marketing, but at least one other Consumer Direct participant said he suspected the program would encourage his company to spend more money online.
Michael Moore, Purina's director of interactive marketing, said three Consumer Direct campaigns had helped show ''that this is a viable medium.''
Mr. Moore would not say which Purina brands were featured in the marketing efforts or which subsets of consumers were targeted. But he said the latest campaign involved ''a brand that was undergoing a fairly significant repositioning effort, and the results we saw were encouraging.''
For Yahoo, which has reported advertising sales last quarter of $438 million, more than triple the amount from the same period last year, the Consumer Direct program has helped the company get the ear -- if not the wallet -- of more consumer goods companies, Mr. Chandlee said. And revenue from the new program has been good, he said.
''This has been a very successful product, and success is defined in a lot of different measures, one of which is revenue,'' he said.
That would be good news for online publishers other than Yahoo, because Yahoo results speak not only to the strength of its advertising approach, but also to the strength of online advertising in general. But consumer goods manufacturers do not appear to have been swayed by the successes of others. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, nearly all industries increased their online ad spending last year, but the number of online ads bought by consumer goods makers actually dropped.
Robert Tomei, Homescan's executive vice president and general manager, said ''the momentum seems to be increasing,'' with regard to consumer goods makers and the Internet. ''But it's hard to tell right now if a fundamental shift is under way.''
Given that these companies have long asked for precisely the kind of data that Homescan and Yahoo now provide, what could derail that momentum? Mr. Tomei said he ''can't see how they'd not be able to justify increasing their online spending.''
But Ms. Li of Forrester Research said she could envision these companies holding tight to their traditional spending patterns -- meaning big TV campaigns -- even if, as she expects, MSN introduces a program similar to Yahoo's in the coming year, and the positive online data continues to flow.
''The only problem with this data is that it doesn't equate to television,'' Ms. Li said of the Consumer Direct service. ''Just because this works, it doesn't mean TV works less. So the missing piece is, 'Can I cut TV and have these campaigns still be effective?'''
Until that question is answered, Ms. Li said, ''Some people could be loath to shift their spending.''
Photo: John W. Vail of Pepsi and Blake Chandlee of Yahoo in Yahoo's Manhattan office. Pepsi is trying a new Yahoo program that measures the effect on sales of online ads. (Photo by Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times) Chart: ''Reluctant to Advertise'' Makers of consumer goods tend not to advertise online, in part because their products do not benefit from search engines. Share of all Internet advertising impressions, by top advertisers, in March. WEB MEDIA: 19.2% FINANCIAL SERVICES: 19.0 RETAIL GOODS & SERVICES: 16.5 TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 9.1 TRAVEL: 6.3 CONSUMER GOODS: 4.6 PUBLIC SERVICES: 4.0 ENTERTAINMENT: 3.8 HEALTH: 3.8 SOFTWARE: 3.8 (Source by Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance)


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The University of Alberta opened Canada's quietest research space when the National Research Council Canada's National Institute of Nanotechnology was officially kickstarted this morning.
This is Canada's flagship nanotechnology institute, costing $53 million to build and with $40 million in the latest technology inside. The institute was designed and engineered to provide optimal conditions for the microscopes and equipment needed for nano-scale research, provisions which make it the quietest space in Canada.
For scientists, quiet space refers to lab space with ultra-low vibration and minimal acoustical noise or elector-magnetic interference.
The building at 11421 Saskatchewan Drive overlooks Edmonton's stunning river valley and the capital city's vibrant downtown core and the Legislature Building on the north bank.
It has 20,000 square metres of space in seven stories. The NRC National Institute of Nanotechnology occupies 15,000 square metres on the first five stories, with the rest allotted for university nanotechnology-related activities.
Exacting specifications make the facility quiet, according to the University of Alberta.
Features of the first floor laboratory include ultra low vibration, minimal acoustical noise and electro-magnetic interference, and constant temperature and humidity.
Nanotechnology is defined as the application of science to developing new materials and processes by manipulating molecular and atomic particles. A nanometre is a billionth of a metre, about 1/80,000th of the diametre of a human hair, or 10 times the diametre of a hydrogen atom.
Nano comes from the Greek word "nanos."
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Gnomon School Offers First ZBrush User Group Meeting and Classes
Gnomon School of Visual Effects and Pixologic will be hosting the first official Pixologic ZBrush User Group meeting, Sept. 30, 2004, at 6:00 pm at Gnomon (1015 N. Cahuenga Bl. Hollywood, CA 90038).
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Thousands of faithful gathered to crown Mary at a parish of the Lahore archdiocese last month, bringing prayers for peace, forgiveness and restored cultural harmony in a region where some churches have suffered violent attacks.
13 June is the celebration of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Join us in saying this prayer of Consecration for this very special feast day:
In this video, Bishop Peter Comensoli from the Diocese of Broken Bay reflects on Our Lady of Guadalupe, under whose loving protection he has placed his ministry. This clip was taken from the Q&A session at "Theology on Tap", a youth event in Sydney, Australia.
In this video, Fr Denis McBride reflects on the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Fr Denis is a Redemptorist priest and current Director of Redemptorist Publications.
Catholics in China have a very uncertain future. Despite the country's cordial exchanges with the Vatican, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that religions in the country should be "Chinese" and cannot have foreign influence. So, for example, the Pope cannot appoint bishops or influence Chinese Catholics.
Since the 16th century Catholics have dedicated each month to a particular devotion. The month of May is dedicated to Mary, Mother of God. Why was May chosen for this devotion? Because May is the peak of spring in the Northern hemisphere, and just as the world around us seems filled with new life, it is only right that we the Mother of new life – Jesus, the "Resurrection and the Life".
Military service members' annual pilgrimage to the Marian shrine of Lourdes can be a time of healing and peace, especially during the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the head of the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services has said.
Do Catholics "pray to Mary". No. Because we are "surrounded by a vast cloud of witnesses" it is best to say we pray "with" the saints. They are our prayer partners, and as the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Queen of that army of prayer warriors she is the primary saint with whom we pray.
May 13 1917 was a beautiful Sunday in Portugal's rugged Serra de Aire uplands. Sunshine bathed the olive groves. The fresh green of Springtime in the meadows and olive groves contrasted with the vivid red of poppy flowers. The happy voices of three children playing as they watched over their families' flocks rang out in the clear air.
In today's world, we are in need of women who model virtue and who embrace the sacrifice & gifts of motherhood. Thankfully, our Church is blessed with many saints and women of the Bible who can inspire us to grow in our vocation, with the first being Mary, the Mother of God.
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Exploring the Spillover Impact on Productivity of World-Wide Manufacturing Firms
This paper analyzes the relationship between R&D activity, spillovers and productivity at the firm level. Particular attention is put on the formalization of technological spillovers. The analysis is based upon a new dataset composed of 625 worldwide R&D-intensive manufacturing firms whose information has been collected for the period 1987-1994. Given the panel data structure of the sample, ad hoc econometric techniques which deal with both firm's unobserved heterogeneity and weak exogeneity of the right hand-side variables are implemented. The empirical results suggest that spillover effects influence significantly firm's productivity. Nevertheless the effects differ substantially among the pillars of the Triad. The United States are mainly sensitive to their national stock of spillovers while Japan appears to draw from the international stock. On its side, Europe shows a tendency to internalize spillovers.
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Vatican City Transportation
One simple way to reach Vatican City is to cross one of the bridges on the Tiber River on foot (perhaps the easiest way to get there is to cross Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II). But depending on where you're staying in Rome, it's good to know that you can also get there by metro. Ottavianio station on the A (red) metro line is located quite close to...more
Walking is an ideal way to exercise your legs, body and mind especially on your vacation in a foreign country! Vatican City has a total area of just around 110 acres which is the smallest country in the world in terms of size and population. Thus all corners of the Vatican City are within walking distance. Of course you may choose to stop and...more
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Bus number 64 is the one we used to go to Vatican. We took it on Termini station and has few stops before arrive. Careful because pickpockets used to go on this bus. El autobus num 64 es el que va al Vaticano desde Termini, nosotras lo cogimos alli. Hay que gastar cuidado porque en este autobus suelen ir bastantes carteristas.more
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Horse-drawn carriage is a popular means of transportation along with the mini trains for local and foreign tourists in the streets of the city of Vatican! Even though Vatican City has a total area of only approximately 110 acres and is the smallest country in the world, you may still relax and take the slow moving horse-drawn carriage to view the...more
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After the metro closes at night, taxis are the only option to get out of the Vatican if you don't want to walk all the way back to Rome at night. A ride from the Vatican to Rome Termini station is about 8 Euros. I shared a cab with someone who also needed a ride to Termini so we paid 4 Euros each.more
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The First Man on the Moon Owned this Corvette
When it comes to a car that speaks to the Corvette's legacy in America in a unique way, this might be one of the coolest I've come across in a while. This one-of-a-kind classic, which was on display at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday, is a 1967 Sting Ray once owned by astronaut Neil Armstrong … you know, the first person to walk on the moon. Yeah, this car is kind of a big deal.
Last Corvette Pulled from Sinkhole — Let's Hope the Worst is Behind Us
The last Corvette has been pulled from the sinkhole, but about the only positive thing I can make of it is that we're finally over this dreadful part of the ordeal. Donated by Kevin and Linda Helmintoller of Land O' Lakes, Florida, the Mallett Hammer was valued at about $120,000 at one point, but I can't even begin to imagine how much money it would take to rebuild it.
Workers Lay Asphalt for new Corvette Museum Motorsports Park
Whew! There's a sigh of relief. With all those unbearable photos of the last Corvettes being pulled out of the sinkhole, it's good to finally come across some shots taken in Kentucky that can help lift our spirits.
1.5-Millionth Corvette Comes Up in One Piece
OK, so it looks like it was part of a monster truck stunt gone wrong, but at least it's in once piece. Corvette #1.5 million is the seventh of the "Great Eight" Corvettes to be removed from the sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum.
Video of ZR-1 Spyder Lifted from Sinkhole will cause Uncontrollable Sobbing
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Big Brother 9 winner Adam Jaskinski is out of jail after almost two months, having been granted release with conditions: He "has been released for inpatient substance abuse treatment after posting bail," The AP reports. Adam's "parents also have agreed to be responsible for him as he receives the treatment as a condition of his release. Jasinksi's $200,000 bond was secured by his parents' home and his own three Florida properties."
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The Aussie says 'I'm not a robot' as he turns in a boisterous performance against Milos Raonic
Frenchman admits he doesn't want to face the Scot on grass after Britain set up quarter-final clash with win over USA in Glasgow
The world number two defeated Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to give him, Stan Wawrinka and the Swiss team an unassailable 3-1 lead over France
The Aussie teen is the talk of SW19 after defeating the world No.1 to make the quarter-finals - so what do YOU need to know about him?
Despite video footage to the contrary the Uruguayan striker has tried to plead his innocence, but he's not the first to try and pull the wool over people's eyes
The British No.1 returned to court on Sunday and claimed the decisive fifth set 12-10 after an additional 40 minutes of tense action.
Fading superstar lost his opening match to Novak Djokovic but is still in the mix thanks to 6-4 6-3 victory over French foe
The Brit is already worth around £32million, according to recent figures, but Sunday's win will see it treble in the coming years
The British No.1 was in the royal box on Saturday with fellow Olympic gold medal winners - but now he's got his eyes on another prize
But the British No 1 admitted he will have to raise his game after his 6-3 6-4 7-5 win over the Lithuanian
Murray won 1-6 6-4 6-1 6-2, but the key moments came in the ninth game of the second set when the world No.4 saved two break points
The Brit is expecting a difficult time in Paris as he plays Richard Gasquet in the quarter finals
Kate Middleton joins tennis fans in a Mexican wave at Wimbledon yesterday but Wills wasn't game - at first.
Andy Murray bowed for Wills and Kate - then offered an apology for forgetting to shave.
KATE Middleton joins tennis fans in a Mexican wave at Wimbledon yesterday but Wills wasn't game – at first.
It may be the hottest day of the year but if you are the Duchess of Cambridge making an appearance at Wimbledon, it's no sweat.
Karaoke fan Andy Murray showed his singing skills don't quite match his talent for tennis during a dodgy Michael Jackson impersonation on French TV.
After a miserable few months on tour, it takes a special kind of character to fight back from two sets down in blistering heat against a home-town opponent who has the crowd screaming support.
Band of brothers Andy and Jamie Murray have been to opposite ends of the tennis galaxy - and they are still worlds apart.
Andy's ready to hit ultimate high and win at 'new' SW19
I used my new chat-up line on a girl yesterday. She said she liked my approach, but now could she see my departure.
Andy Murray believes he is playing better now than when he made his run to the final at the US Open last year.
Andy Murray pulled off a thrilling escape act as he came back from two sets down to beat Jurgen Melzer and reach the fourth round of the US Open last night.
Andy Murray last night admitted he was outmuscled and outclassed by baseline beast Rafael Nadal.
Andy Murray is a street scrapper in the mould of Jimmy Connors - and he must now take the fight to Rafael Nadal on Centre Court today.
Andy Murray yesterday recalled the win that made him a national hero and said: "I was just happy to wake up and find it wasn't a dream."
Sushi and Bikram yoga are the secrets behind changing Andy Murray from an injury-prone weakling into a muscle-bound hulk.
Viewing figures on the BBC peaked at 10.4 million during prince of darkness Andy Murray's epic late night fightback against Richard Gasquet.
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Lexington County Sheriff's Department deputies on Wednesday, May 28 arrested a 19-year-old Leesville man on charges that the man vandalized mailboxes outside seven homes on Richmond Farm Circle near Lexington.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said deputies arrested Theodore Wayne Masters, 19, of 2342 Caney Branch Road, Leesville, on a charge of malicious injury to a fixture. Masters was released from the Lexington County Detention Center on Wednesday after Masters posted a $1,230 bond.
At about 1:23 a.m. on Wednesday, deputies responded to a call concerning a motor vehicle that was driven into yards of homes on Richmond Farm Circle in order to hit mailboxes, Metts said. Deputies received information that the vehicle was a white sport utility vehicle.
A deputy who was conducting a directed patrol in the neighborhood in his marked patrol car saw a white sport utility vehicle enter the neighborhood and conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle on Richmond Farm Circle, Metts said. Masters was driving the vehicle.
Deputies determined that Masters drove the sport utility vehicle into yards of homes on Richmond Farm Circle, while Jason Waters leaned out of the vehicle and used his hands and legs to damage mailboxes as Masters drove the vehicle by the mailboxes, Metts said. Deputies issued a citation to Waters, 21, of 147 Shady Grove Road, Gilbert, on a charge of malicious injury to a fixture and released Waters.
Metts asked anyone with information about additional criminal activity involving Masters or Waters to contact the Lexington County Sheriff's Department at (803) 785-8230 or CrimeStoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC. Citizens also can provide information anonymously by accessing the Crime Tip link on the Sheriff's Department web site (www.lexingtonsheriff.com).
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Hillary Clinton faced reporters for 20 minutes this afternoon to answer questions about the personal email account she used while serving as Secretary of State.
Secretary Clinton repeatedly came back to the same talking points: She had operated within the rules of the State Department and opted to use a personal account (and her own server) due to the convenience of carrying one phone instead of two.
But a key question continues to hang in the air, and today's press conference did little to answer it: If Clinton's team decided which emails to keep and which to delete, how can anyone know whether something work-related but embarrassing was deleted?
Clinton answered that, in part, by saying that State Department rules make it incumbent upon the employee to differentiate between personal and professional emails.
But Clinton also said she wouldn't allow an independent investigator to review the content on her server—and that it wouldn't matter anyway, because she recently deleted all of her personal emails on topics such as her daughter's wedding and mother's funeral.
That, more than anything, strikes me as odd. Other than preventing other people from ever being able to see them, why delete those emails? Could she not have reached an agreement with a trusted third-party—such as a reporter or respected former government official—to review the personal emails with a guarantee of confidentiality for all emails that truly contained no work-related content?
It's possible that Clinton's experienced team considered and rejected that idea, calculating that the potential risk of those emails becoming public was greater than the risk of being perceived as secretive.
Several people pointed out to me that her body language—specifically her lack of eye contact—was telling. I noticed her lack of eye contact too, but due to "Othello's Error," am reluctant to speculate on its cause. What seemed obvious, though, is that she didn't exactly forge a warm connection with her interrogators.
Just like Mitt Romney found out after his refusal to release several years' worth of tax returns, narratives can be difficult things to reverse. In 2012, I wrote the following for Politico:
"Mitt Romney has already lost the tax debate. By not releasing additional returns, he has allowed his opposition to paint the worst case scenario onto him — that there are years he failed to pay any taxes whatsoever."
Clinton is fortunate that it's early in the campaign. This story is unlikely to stop her seemingly inevitable march to the Democratic nomination. But she must know that any future stories appearing to confirm a lack of transparency will take hold—and that her Republican opponents will be doing everything possible to exploit that.
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), a possible 2016 presidential candidate, gave an interview to CNBC yesterday that may eliminate his chances of winning the Republican nomination before his campaign even gets under way.
Much of the media coverage about the interview focused on Paul's dangerous insistence that vaccines should remain voluntary because of "freedom." But another part of the interview is the focus of this post. And every male presidential candidate—particularly the Republican nominee who will almost certainly be male and will almost certainly face Hillary Clinton—should watch it to avoid making the same mistake.
During his interview with CNBC's Kelly Evans, Paul "shushed" Ms. Evans, told her to be "quiet" and "calm down a bit," and interrupted her before she could "get going" again.
The questions Ms. Evans asked weren't unusual—it was Paul who reacted peevishly and created a controversy where none existed. He had the right to refute premises he thought were incorrect, of course, but acted surprised by questions that could have been swatted away with ease.
The interview below is an edited "highlights" clip; you can watch the full exchange, which is worth watching, here.
But there's another key issue here: Gender. That Mr. Paul is man and Ms. Evans is a woman changes the political calculus for interviews such as this one. Male politicians who are viewed as condescending to women often pay a political price for their dismissiveness, as the four examples below show.
1. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama (2008)
After winning the Iowa caucus, Senator Barack Obama was widely expected to win the pivotal New Hampshire primary and cruise to an easy nomination. But after taking a gratuitous swipe at Senator Clinton's likeability in a debate held just days before the vote, female voters handed Ms. Clinton an unexpected victory, helping to extend her campaign for months.
2. Hillary Clinton vs. Rick Lazio (2000)
During a New York Senate debate, Republican candidate Rick Lazio approached Ms. Clinton's lectern aggressively. He handed her a paper pledge to refuse any soft money to the campaign – but the move was widely seen as inappropriate and boorish. Mr. Lazio lost the once-close race by double digits.
3. Geraldine Ferraro vs. George H.W. Bush (1984)
During the Vice Presidential debate, Vice President Bush took a patronizing tone with Rep. Ferraro when discussing foreign policy. Ms. Ferraro used her razor sharp tongue to let him know she didn't appreciate it, earning her the applause of the audience and him the enmity of many opinion writers. In the end, it didn't matter – Mr. Bush was part of a winning ticket that won 49 states.
4. Scott Brown vs. Elizabeth Warren (2011)
Then-Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) fell into a predictable gender trap when he slammed Elizabeth Warren's figure. As background, in 1982, Mr. Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine. During a Democratic primary debate, Warren was asked how she paid for college, given that Mr. Brown stripped to pay his tuition.
"I kept my clothes on," Ms. Warren quipped, to the delight of the audience.
During a radio interview shortly thereafter, Sen. Brown responded:
Hosts: "Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?"
Scott Brown, laughing: "Thank God."
With that broadside, Mr. Brown stepped into a gender minefield that threatened to alienate many women voters. To be sure, Ms. Warren's swipe was unnecessary and gratuitous—and the question itself was sophomoric. But regardless of whether or not Ms. Warren opened the door to Mr. Brown's response (she did), the political price was paid almost solely by Mr. Brown.
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Hillary Clinton has been talking about her wealth—or relative lack thereof—a lot lately, and her responses have done more to raise eyebrows and encourage additional follow up questions than to satisfy the questions and put a close to the issue.
The topic came up during an interview with Diane Sawyer earlier this month, and Secretary Clinton fumbled the answer:
DIANE SAWYER: "It has been reported you've made $5 million making speeches, the president's made more than $100 million."
HILLARY CLINTON: "Well, if you — you have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got there and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea's education, you know, it was not easy. Bill has worked really hard and it's been amazing to me. He's worked very hard, first of all, we had to pay off all our debts which was, you know, we had to make double the money because of obviously taxes, and pay you have at debts, and get us houses and take care of family members."
Mrs. Clinton may be right on the facts—but no one is likely to relate the struggle of the average American family to a former U.S. president and first lady exiting the White House with enormous future earning potential.
And did she say houses, plural? That tone-deaf answer is stupefying given that John McCain famously committed the same gaffe (he couldn't remember how many homes he owned) and that Mitt Romney infamously said his wife drives two Cadillacs.
Mrs. Clinton doubled down in an interview with The Guardian this week:
"With her huge personal wealth, how could Clinton possibly hope to be credible on this issue [income inequality] when people see her as part of the problem, not its solution?
"But they don't see me as part of the problem," she protests, "because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off."
Is she saying that with their millions of dollars, the Clintons aren't truly well off? That's a subjective claim. If she's comparing her family to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, she has a point. But I'd guess most Americans are comparing her to themselves, not to the Buffetts of the world.
(In fairness, that quote could also be read another way: that she's saying she is well off, but unlike others in her economic class, her family pays income tax. If that was her intent, the ambiguity of her statement is her responsibility.)
What should Mrs. Clinton say?
She should stop the phony pose of pretending she's just like the average American. She's not, and I can't imagine many potential voters expect her to be. Instead, she should simply say: "My husband and I have done very well financially since Bill left the White House. But I understand firsthand the challenges that families face, and I support policies that will make it easier for them to succeed in this economy." That's it.
She should also look at the tape of her husband's 1992 town hall presidential debate, during which a woman asked: "How has the national debt personally affected each of your lives? And if it hasn't, how can you honestly find a cure for the economic problems of the common people if you have no experience in what's ailing them?"
Mr. Clinton didn't discuss his own financial situation—even though it was presumably much less impressive at the time. Instead, he discussed his personal experience with people who were hurting and described how his policies would help them.
I wouldn't be opposed to Mrs. Clinton describing her modest upbringing. But describing their obvious wealth as anything less is a bad strategy destined to backfire.
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Tags: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, political analysis
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Karl Rove, the former top advisor to President Bush, launched a new smear campaign against Hillary Clinton late last week. Speaking at a conference, Rove brought up Clinton's 2012 health scare, during which she spent several days in a hospital. From The New York Post:
"Thirty days in the hospital?" Rove said, according to Page Six. "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."
The headline of that piece, "Karl Rove: Hillary May Have Brain Damage," was exactly what Rove sought. That headline triggered many others (American Thinker went with "Might Hillary Clinton Have Suffered a Stroke?"), and forced the story into the mainstream media. Suddenly, outlets including The Washington Post, Politico, Fox News, and MSNBC were talking about Mrs. Clinton's health.
Here are some facts: Hillary Clinton was not in the hospital for thirty days; she was in the hospital for four, and physicians anticipated a recovery with "no long-term consequences."
To be clear, there are legitimate questions about Clinton's health and age. Similar questions have been posed about Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, and John McCain (among others), and it isn't sexist or ageist to pose such questions.
But Rove's smear wasn't a genuine attempt to raise questions about Clinton's fitness for office. It was a classic Lee Atwater-like tactic intended to damage his party's most likely opponent. (Atwater, also a former Republican strategist, repented for his brand of scorched-earth politics on his death bed.)
True to the tactic, Rove quickly backed away from his statement and dissembled, claiming he never used the term "brain damage." (That's true; he said "traumatic brain injury," which conveys the same message.) There's no need for the person who launched the gossip cycle to defend it once people are already talking about it; he can walk away, pretending his hands are clean, while others carry the message for him.
Hillary Clinton's Team Did Something Similar
In 2008, Hillary Clinton's Senior Campaign Strategist, Mark Penn, appeared on Hardball and repeatedly mentioned the fact that Barack Obama had used cocaine—and he did it in that sleazy political way of pretending that he wasn't talking about that issue:
"We've made clear that the [unintelligible] related to cocaine use is not something that the campaign was in any way raising."
Catch that? Penn simultaneously raised the issue of cocaine use, which helped it remain a media story, while disingenuously pretending that his campaign didn't want to talk about it. (It wasn't the first time a Clinton confidante employed that strategy; Clinton later apologized.) Joe Trippi, John Edwards's senior strategist who appeared on Hardball next to Penn, confronted Penn for using that tactic.
(Exchange begins at 3:54)
The Smear Cycle
This tactic is used by politicians on both sides of the aisle, and it's often effective. The smear cycle looks something like this:
That cycle is unlikely to change. But at least we can diminish its power by recognizing when it's unfolding before us.
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Some Republicans have hatched a new plan to defeat possible 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — by saying she's too old and "out of touch" for the job.
According to Saturday's New York Times, some Republican politicians, strategists, and media figures are already trying to weaken the former Secretary of State. Here are some of their noteworthy comments:
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): He "ridiculed the 2016 Democratic field as "a rerun of 'The Golden Girls.'"
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA): "The reality is, when you look at the Democrats, they've got old, tired ideas being produced by old, tired candidates."
Rush Limbaugh (Radio host): "Asked his audience in April whether the American people 'want to vote for somebody, a woman, and actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?'"
Now, I may surprise you by saying this, but questioning Hillary Clinton's age is appropriate, and doing so isn't necessarily sexist. (Rush Limbaugh's quote, however, is a good example of going way over the acceptable line.)
Older men have faced identical scrutiny—in fact, Mrs. Clinton's husband used similar attacks to win the presidency against George H.W. Bush in 1992 and to win re-election against Bob Dole in 1996. John McCain's age was also a factor in his campaign, as was his health record (like McCain, Mrs. Clinton recently had a rather serious health scare).
If men's age often becomes a campaign issue, it seems acceptable to make a woman's age a campaign issue as well.
But Is It Smart?
Republicans may be able to credibly defend themselves against charges of sexism for making Mrs. Clinton's age an issue. Nonetheless, I suspect their strategy will backfire, and probably badly. As any smart man should know, few women respond favorably to negative comments about their looks or age. And even though the attacks may be "valid," attacks on a woman's age have a different potency than similar attacks on men; I suspect that even many Republican-leaning independent voters will bristle at them.
There's a history here. Women resent men acting condescendingly toward a female candidate.
In 1984, for example, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro ripped George H.W. Bush, the incumbent Vice President, for his patronizing tone:
During a New York Senate debate, Republican candidate Rick Lazio aggressively approached Ms. Clinton's lectern. He handed her a paper pledge to refuse any soft money to the campaign—but the move was widely seen as inappropriate and boorish. Mr. Lazio lost the once-close race by double digits.
After winning the Iowa caucus, Senator Barack Obama was widely expected to win the pivotal New Hampshire primary and cruise to an easy nomination. But after taking a gratuitous swipe at Senator Clinton's likeability in a debate held just days before the vote, female voters handed Ms. Clinton an unexpected victory, helping to extend her campaign for months.
Playing Into Clinton's Hands
Republicans are playing a dangerous game, and I can't help thinking that the Clinton people will welcome this attack. As the 2008 example shows, Mrs. Clinton is adept at using public sympathy for her personal political gain.
Plus, she has one convenient fact in her back pocket: She'd be 68-years-old when sworn in for her first term. Conservative hero Ronald Reagan was 69.
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Tags: bobby jindal, Election 2016, George H.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, mitch mcconnell, Rick Lazio, Rush Limbaugh
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Guy walks into a bar. He sees a birther, a civil rights activist, a country singer, and a cabinet secretary.
Wait a minute. That would never happen. Where else could all of those people be spotted in the same place? Right here, on the month-end disasters list!
Here are the five worst video media disasters of October 2011:
5. Hillary Clinton Spikes The Football
I know a lot of readers will disagree with me for this choice, but I found U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's on-camera reaction to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's death distasteful. Was Gaddafi a bad man? You bet. Am I sad that he's dead? Not particularly. But I do believe that it diminishes us to, in the words of President Obama, "spike the football" by celebrating the death. Let's do what we have to do, do it professionally, and let the actions speak for themselves.
4. Rick Perry Yuks It Up By Joining The Birthers
Nothing spells funny more than questioning the legitimacy of a duly-elected American president by dredging up discredited rumors about his citizenship status. Gov. Perry quickly walked back his comments, but his comments that it's "fun" to tweak the President about his nation of birth aren't helping to resuscitate his under-performing campaign.
3. Lawrence O'Donnell Attacks Herman Cain's Civil Rights Record
If you're black and old enough to have lived through the Civil Rights era, should you be attacked if you decided not to march? MSNBC Host Lawrence O'Donnell sure thinks so, and went after GOP candidate Herman Cain for choosing not to actively participate as a Civil Rights activist. Which raises another question: Why hasn't Mr. O'Donnell asked white candidates about their choices during that era? (Fast forward to the 6:00 mark to see the fireworks.)
2. Herman Cain Blames The Jobless and The Poor
Herman Cain may have been the victim of bad media behavior this month, but he didn't help his cause by uttering the sound bite below about the unemployed and the poor. His introduction to the clip, "I don't have the facts to back this up," became a fun Internet meme thanks to Jon Stewart. (Another Cain clip, in which he tried to explain his position on abortion, didn't help either).
1. Hank Williams, Jr. Compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler
Country singer Hank Williams, Jr. was fired up during an appearance on Fox and Friends. When reflecting on a golf match between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, Mr. Williams quipped, "It would be like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu." The Fox hosts looked shocked and distanced themselves from his statement, and ESPN promptly dropped him as their Monday Night Football opening act.
Bonus #1: Sean Penn Says Tea Party Wants to "Lynch" Obama
Bonus #2: Herman Cain's Awesome Ad
This is one of the nuttiest political ads I've ever seen. I'm not sure whether the best moment is the puff of smoke or the slow-mo smile – but either way, I can't stop watching it.
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Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) fell into a predictable gender trap earlier today when he slammed the body of a female competitor for his Senate seat.
Here's the background: In 1982, long before he became a U.S. Senator, Mr. Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine. During a Democratic primary debate earlier this week, Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was asked how she paid for college, given that Mr. Brown stripped to pay his tuition.
"I kept my clothes on," Ms. Warren quipped, to the delight of the audience. (Video here, about 15:15 in).
During a radio interview earlier today, Sen. Brown responded:
Hosts: "Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?"
Scott Brown, laughing: "Thank God."
With that broadside, Mr. Brown stepped into a gender minefield that threatens to alienate many female voters. To be sure, Ms. Warren's swipe was unnecessary and gratuitous – and the question itself was sophomoric. But regardless of whether or not Ms. Warren opened the door to Mr. Brown's response (she did), the political price will be paid almost solely by Mr. Brown.
The list of male politicians who lost support by mistreating a female competitor is long. Here are three examples:
1. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama (2008): After winning the Iowa caucus, Senator Barack Obama was widely expected to win the pivotal New Hampshire primary and cruise to an easy nomination. But after taking a gratuitous swipe at Senator Clinton's likeability in a debate held just days before the vote, female voters handed Ms. Clinton an unexpected victory, helping to extend her campaign for months.
2. Hillary Clinton vs. Rick Lazio (2000): During a New York Senate debate, Republican candidate Rick Lazio aggressively approached Ms. Clinton's lectern. He handed her a paper pledge to refuse any soft money to the campaign – but the move was widely seen as inappropriate and boorish. Mr. Lazio lost the once-close race by double digits.
3. Geraldine Ferraro vs. George H.W. Bush (1984): During the Vice Presidential debate, Vice President Bush took a patronizing tone with Rep. Ferraro when discussing foreign policy. Ms. Ferraro used her razor sharp tongue to let him know she didn't appreciate it, earning her the applause of the audience and him the enmity of many opinion writers. In the end, it didn't matter – Mr. Bush was part of a winning ticket that won 49 states.
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Last year, President Obama signed into law a health care plan that requires citizens to maintain health insurance. In conservative and Tea Party circles, that "individual mandate" – which gives the government the power to fine Americans who don't purchase insurance – may be the single most unpopular decision Mr. Obama has made as president.
Mr. Obama wasn't first to pass an individual mandate. In 2006, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney passed a law that required his state's citizens to purchase health care insurance.
And that presents Mr. Romney with the single biggest challenge of his likely run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.
Mr. Romney has three choices. He can:
1. Defend Unequivocally: Mr. Romney can defend his state's 2006 health care bill without making any excuses for the bill.
2. Defend Partially: He can defend pieces of his legislation while attempting to distance himself from the more controversial parts.
3. Admit He Was Wrong: Mr. Romney can admit he was wrong regarding the individual mandate and say he has learned from the mistake. Problematically for Mr. Romney, this option opens him up to the recurring charge that he is a "flip-flopper."
Mr. Romney's approach so far has been to partially defend his bill. He's made the case that his law in Massachusetts is different than President Obama's, since states have the right to enact a mandate whereas the Federal Government doesn't. He's said, "Our experiment wasn't perfect – some things worked, some didn't, and some things I'd change."
But positioning himself in the middle leaves him vulnerable to attacks from both sides. His likely 2012 rivals, including Haley Barbour and Mike Huckabee, have denounced "RomneyCare." And President Obama has offered purposefully unhelpful compliments about Romney's approach to health care.
So What Should Romney Do?
The 2008 primary bids of John McCain and Hillary Clinton offer some guidance for Mr. Romney.
In June 2007, John McCain was polling in single digits in Iowa. His candidacy was largely regarded as dead, mostly as a result of his support for immigration reform – which was wildly unpopular among the GOP base. McCain dropped his support for the bill bearing his name, and the immigration issue receded in importance as primary voters went to the polls. He went on to win the Republican nomination.
During her failed attempt to win the 2008 Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton rejected several opportunities to apologize for her vote to authorize the war in Iraq. Her position was counter to views of the Democratic base, and the issue remained a top priority for Democratic primary voters. She lost her bid for the Democratic nomination.
Mr. Romney has two choices, both fraught with risks.
He can continue defending his health care law in the hopes that the issue becomes less important to primary voters. But barring a big international or domestic event, that seems unlikely.
His better choice is to disown his Massachusetts plan, calling it well-intentioned but wrong. Like John McCain, he should do it early in the campaign cycle (now) to take some of the charge out of the issue. Both 2008 examples (McCain and Hillary) suggest that ideological purity – even in the face of a position change – is more important than ideological consistency.
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Ryan Cabrera Announces Additional Tour Dates
After an incredibly successful tour this past January, selling numerous sold-out shows, Ryan Cabrera is getting ready to go back on tour with Tyler Hilton and Teddy Geiger due to high demand. The three enjoyed touring with each other almost as much as all the screaming girls around the nation did. Feeling that their last tour was too short lived; the singer/songwriters will embark on another nationwide tour starting in Illinois on May 3rd.
When not touring, the platinum-selling "I See Love" singer/songwriter is working on his next album which will be out later this year. Cabrera will be embarking on another tour this summer with American Idol album, Jason Castro, and heartthrob Mikey Deleasa. The tour will begin in June, covering most of the Northeast part of the nation.
Ryan and Friends will be performing in the following cities:
With Teddy Geiger and Tyler Hilton:
5/3/13- Dekalb, IL @ The Egyptian Theatre
5/4/13- Joliet, IL @ Mojoes
5/5/13- Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
5/7/13- Columbus, OH@ The Bluestone
5/8/13- Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig
5/9/13-Toronto, Canada @ The Opera House
5/10/13-Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
5/11/13- Syracuse, NY@ Westcott Theatre
5/13/13- Boston, MA @ The Cavern Club at Hard Rock Café Boston
With Jason Castro and Mikey Deleasa:
6/1/13 -Canton, OH @ The Auricle
6/2/13 - Buffalo, NY @ The Forvm
6/4/13 -Albany, NY @ The Bayou
6/5/13 - Northhampton, ME @ Iron Horse
6/6/13 - Portland, ME @ The Asylum
6/7/13 - Salisbury, MA @ Blue Ocean Music Hall
6/8/13 - Hamden, CT @ The Space
6/9/13 - Teaneck, NJ @ Mexicali Live (With Ryan Cabrera & Jason Castro)
6/10/13 - New York, NY @ Studio at Webster Hall (With Ryan Cabrera & Jason Castro)
6/11/13 - Wilmington, DE @ World Café Live
6/12/13 - Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java
6/14/13 - Richmond, VA @ Kingdom
6/15/13 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Shakas
6/18/13 - Charlotte, NC @ Evening Muse
6/19/13 - Decatur, GA @ Eddie's Attic
6/20/13 - Birmingham, AL @ Workplay
6/22/ 13 - Dallas, TX @ Hat Tricks (With Ryan Cabrera & Jason Castro)
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