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America's Next Top Model
Exclusive! Nigel Barker Dishes On How He Bitch Slapped Miss J For Talking Smack About His Hair
During Fashion Week, you mentioned that it would be great to see different body shapes on the runway.
What do you believe are the first steps the fashion industry needs to take in order to promote diversity?
First of all, it's definitely a hard step for [designers] to show a whole slew of different shapes, and I'll tell you the reason. Sometimes people get quite confused with what runway shows are all about. Ultimately, a lot of these young designers don't have the money to make a slew of samples in a variety of shapes and sizes, which is one of the things. That's why it's nice to at least see a slew of different skin tones on there. All too often it was just one look, one shade, and mostly white girls who were super skinny on the runway. Back in the day, runway shows were really all about selling clothes and showing a collection, mostly to editors and buyers. Now, certainly in the past few years, the past five particularly, runway shows have become this huge showcase that's open to the public and photographs are everywhere. Everyone is trying to get into the shows, and it's a very public affair. The old school way of doing a fashion show just for this small, exclusive bunch of people is no longer the case. That's really just maybe the front row, but even the front row these days is sort of celebrities and not actually people who are buying or taking note of what's being designed. Some of the bigger designers who sell and market their clothes to everybody, and sell their clothes in all kinds of shapes and sizes, if they really want to be smart – and I think that's really what it is – it's not so much [about] taking a risk. I think whatever designers can afford to make their collection in a variety of shapes and sizes for that very first sample that goes out on the runway, I think they would be received enormously well. I think the press all over the world would talk about it. I'm shocked that no designer has picked up on it. Oh my goodness! If I was a designer, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd be like, "This is great press. It shows that I'm a really good designer because it's not just that I'm designing for someone who looks like a clothes hanger. I can actually design clothes that will look good on a whole slew of shapes and sizes, and here you go to prove it." I think that would be an enormous accolade for any designer.
Are there any model habits that bother you?
(laughs) I definitely think the vanity of it all sometimes can get you down. I think it can be a little much when people are just totally consumed with their looks, which I think is all too often the case. It's a shame. It maybe seems ironic because I live and work in the fashion business, but that's partly the reason. Anyone who knows me and knows what I do, knows that I'm involved in a multitude of different ventures, many of them humanitarian and I see all walks of life. I love the fashion business, but I do find that all too often we're too consumed with the way we look.
You've been known to do quite a bit of charity work. What drives you to get personally involved with a particular cause?
When you have the opportunity to make a difference, you should. I certainly find it very rewarding. [It's] the opportunity to make a difference in my life and in other people's lives, and to be a role model to my children and potentially to Top Model viewers. You only have one life. My motto has always been, "If you live it right, then hopefully one should be enough." When you realize how much you have to give and how easy it is to give, I feel one should be jumping at every opportunity to do so. People often say, "Oh, I haven't got time" or "I haven't got money," but there's always time to do the right thing. Even if it's just being civil to one another, you'd be surprised how nice that can be and what a difference you can make in the world. All too often we ignore everyone and just think of ourselves. All too often the simple things are lost.
With Cycle 16 set to premiere on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 what other projects are you currently working on?
I'm working on a new film that I'm directing. It's a documentary about a day in the life of a child in Haiti. We go out in March to start filming there. It's my second documentary in Haiti. I did one called Haiti: Hunger & Hope in 2008. This will be a very different story altogether, a much simpler, smaller story, but a beautiful story about a [young] girl. The idea is – instead of looking at the big picture, which everyone is always doing, especially with Haiti – to look at a small story and show what it's like just to live a day in Haiti. From getting up and doing the simple things in life, people can really see what a young girl has to go through – how difficult it is, but at the same time how similar she is to you and me. That's the story there. I love telling stories. I'm a photographer and an image maker. Having the ability to shine a light on an issue and use my trade, so to speak, to make a difference is important.
After 16 cycles of America's Next Top Model, judge Nigel Barker decided to let his hair down. The noted fashion photographer sat down with Wetpaint to talk about his new look, Fashion Week, modeling, and more.
How are you handling the public reaction to your new hair style?
It's been funny. It's one of those weird things. Obviously, people are so used to seeing me with a shaved head. I kind of [started to grow my hair out] for a couple of reasons. I didn't really think too much of it, and then once you get into the public eye, people take a couple of pictures of you. Then, sort of a storm came up. Literally, people were constantly coming up to me at Fashion Week: "Oh my God! Your hair! You've got hair!" I thought it was amusing, and then I saw this poll [on Wetpaint], and I'm like, "This is so interesting." It's made such an impression on people. So, here we are!
At Fashion Week, Miss J actually referred to you as completely unrecognizable!
Which I slapped him for afterwards! I'm like, "You are such a bitch, Miss J!" – just cause I've taken the limelight off his changing hairdos for a split second. I mean, it's a joke. You know, he looked at me, he's [gave] me that evil eye. The irony of it is that, yeah for sure there are a bunch of people who don't recognize you, which actually I kind of relished a little bit. It was rather nice. There's also a bunch of people who it doesn't make any difference to at all. Actually, it also is almost like a… not a challenge, but a process meeting people. Realizing how certain people are very aware of things like your hairstyle and the way you're dressed, and other people absolutely have no idea. In fact, it was mostly women that noted the fact that I had hair. They're like, "Oh my goodness, you've got hair!" Many of my male friends, who I've known for years, would just come up to me, start talking and not say anything. Then, all of a sudden [they] would say, "You look slightly different, have you lost some weight?" and I'm like, "Well, not really, but I've got hair." And they're like, "Oh yeah! That's so funny!" They had been talking for 10 minutes and never noticed.
Why did you decide to grow your hair out?
[There are] a couple of reasons. The main reason, and it's very simple, is that I've got two kids. One of them is a little girl called Jasmine. She's two-and-a-half, and pretty much the first expression out of her mouth, when she could string more than a couple of words together, was "Dada no hair!" She would always tap me on my head – she'd be on my shoulders, and she'd rub my shaved head and say, "Dada no hair! Dada no hair!" She has, on the other hand, extraordinary, beautiful curly locks all over her head. I said to her, "Well no Jas, Dada does have hair. I just shave my head." She'd laugh and giggle and go, "Dada no hair!" Just this morning, when she woke up, she was in the bed playing with my hair and was like, "Dada... nice hair!" I looked at her and was like, "You have no idea the storm I'm in because of me growing my hair out to prove it to you, honey." Whether I keep it or not, I don't know. I doubt in the long run I will because I find that it's just one more thing I need to do.
Why do you prefer shaving your head?
I used to have lots of long hair, and as a model I did many shampoo commercials and hair commercials, and I was known for having quite a thick head of hair. When I started getting into photography, one of the first things I did was shave all my hair off, really to say, "Look, I'm not about that side of my vanity." I love to get up and go. I love to have a very clean and simple look, and I don't have to bother. Of course now, I have to think about hair product and people coming up to me and talking about my hair. I'm like, you know what, I've got really important things to do. I don't need this. We'll see. Maybe I'll keep it until next season of America's Next Top Model and see what Tyra and the folks say there. Who knows? Maybe I'll get a makeover too!
How important do you think hair is to an individual's identity and aesthetic?
Well, I think it is important. Despite how often we take things like [hair] for granted, this is a specific example of you change something just slightly… this is only six weeks growth I have on my head. I decided to not shave my head after I finished shooting Cycle 16 of Top Model. That was in December. It's February and this is what I have, and already people are like, "Oh my God, you look completely unrecognizable" or "Oh, you look so much younger!" It's interesting, especially with men cause men are obviously considered to be – you know when they get older, they're balding or what have you. If you have a full head of hair, that's a good thing. There's a whole bunch of people who were like, "I didn't even know you could grow hair. I thought you were bald!" That's the same reason my daughter thought I was bald. It's interesting that people put a lot of emphasis on the way you look. It's a big deal for people. Going gray is another thing. Now, all of a sudden, you can see I have loads of gray hairs. I look younger cause I have a full head of hair, but at the same time I've got gray hair, so [I] look a little bit older. It's funny. You don't think about it too much when you don't have any, until all of a sudden you grow it back and people talk about it a lot. I know Tyra's hair is constantly being talked about. Miss J is constantly playing with his hair style – that's part of his whole shtick. Jay Manuel has silver hair. So, obviously, this is something which people pay a lot of attention to.


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State Funds Focus on Alternative Assets, Ex-KIC Official Says
Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Sovereign wealth funds are spending more money on alternative investments after stock markets gained and bond yields declined, said Scott Kalb, chief executive officer of KLTI Advisors and former chief investment officer of Korea Investment Corp.
"The large institutional investors are increasing their allocations to alternatives right now," Kalb said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the SALT conference yesterday. "To the extent that you get the capital available for long-term investment, you want to get out of the public markets."
Investors are growing wary of publicly traded securities as interest rate cuts at central banks helped inject liquidity into markets, bolstering bonds and stocks. The MSCI World Index is almost double its March 2009 low, while the U.S. benchmark 10-year yield is near its July record lows.
Kalb, whose three-year term at the South Korean sovereign wealth fund, known as KIC, ended in April, said institutional investors are focusing on hedge funds and private equity, with real estate and infrastructure being the preferred asset classes.
"What continues to look attractive is real estate," he said. "It's bottoming in the U.S. Infrastructure is low, there is a lot of demand out there."
Asia's state-owned investment companies such as China Investment Corp., known as CIC, and Government of Singapore Investment Corp., or GIC, are diversifying assets to offset increased volatility. CIC's alternative investments surged almost 40 percent in 2011, according to the company's annual report, and GIC in July said investments in private equity and infrastructure gained.
More Infrastructure
Institutional investors may double the proportion of infrastructure investments in their portfolios within the next five to 10 years, Joyce Shapiro, managing director at Franklin Templeton Investments, said last month.
Kalb, who still serves as an adviser to KIC, also said that sovereign wealth funds, being long-term investors, will keep investing in emerging market assets as the prospects for those economies remain strong.
"You are going to have a lot of growth in the emerging world," he said. "These are long-term funds. You are talking about intergenerational capital and so you want to have a long-term plan in place."
Still, when investing in emerging economies, the portfolio should be made up of all major asset classes, Kalb said.
"You are taking advantage of growth there in terms of private equity, in terms of real estate, infrastructure, debt, equity and commodities. You want to have a diversified approach to the asset classes."
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Making the Ferguson Commission Matter
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My Fake Boyfriend Became a Real-Life Crush
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Cajun spleen: It sounds like Michael Renner had a much nicer experience than we did the two times we went to Graham's Grill. The first time they were out of crawfish étouffée. The second time they "lost" our reservations and we were stuck sitting in the area you mentioned -- right next to the musicians. Needless to say, that kept our conversation to a minimum. That night they were out of red beans and rice. Seriously. Both times the service was less than stellar as well. Maybe they knew you were a restaurant critic.
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St. Louis
Tall Tale
High praise: Very nice article by Mike Seely about the Hansbrough brothers ["Tallboys," September 1]. The family background was spot on. I've known Gene since grade school and Tami since junior high. I was at Mizzou with Gene in the mid-'70s. He was a pickup-ball legend at Brewer Fieldhouse before I arrived, while I was at Mizzou and after I left. He is generally recognized as playing more pickup ball than anyone else in Mizzou history, undergrad, med school and residency.
That and the fact that he won the Big Eight indoor high jump in '72 and the outdoor in '73 are the only things you didn't mention. Of course, not many people remember. Extremely good work.
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Poplar Bluff
Burke's Works
Not everybody loves Raymond: I am a survivor! From age nine through age sixteen I was under the absolute control of a homosexual priest [Malcolm Gay, "Immaculate Deception," August 25]. Together we did everything one can imagine that a man and boy can do. After many years of psychosis, I went to the chancery office to tell them my story. That was a waste of time.
Gay Ray is the worst example of an archbishop I can imagine. Burke is such an egomaniac, he is not going to have any priests left to follow him because he is leading them down a path which will destroy the church.
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Wicked ways: For all those "anonymous" priests who are selling their eternal souls to belong to some unnamed American secular "church" and who choose to anonymously persecute good, holy and faithful Archbishop Burke, I have a warning:
Read Ezekiel 3:17-20 -- you may be "anonymous" here on earth, but God will be waiting for you after your deaths.
Darla Meyers
Hudson, Wisconsin
Requiescat in pace: We have no proof but believe my son, who committed suicide in 1984, was one of those abused by Michael McGrath. And of course he was often reassigned. I hope you can publish the names of all the abusers.
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A rare and telling tale: I can't imagine all the research required to put this type of article together. Malcolm Gay's hard work is appreciated. Even though the victims' statements are disturbing to read, they are key to understanding the true scope of the clergy abuse problem. It is rare to read a true and documented account of a bishop's response to victims' allegations, and very telling.
Kim Fischer
Crystal City
Pet Corner
Doing an Elliott Davis: I can't believe what Unreal said about Randy Grim's successful effort to change the city pet ordinances to include the word "guardian" as opposed to just "owner" ["Doggie Style, August 25]. A few years ago, when you were still a true alternative paper, you did a cover story on Grim and his noble Stray Rescue program. Now you're trying to do an Elliott Davis on him?
When I worked for the state of Missouri in the late '80s and we only had one computer for the whole office, I used to joke that 50 percent of government time is spent waiting for Liquid Paper to dry. They waste time anyway, constantly, so why not get them to do something that makes a positive point?
Was it a waste of city time and taxpayer money to change the ordinance? A geology professor I studied under lived out in the country and had a community of feral cats in his barn to keep the mice down. Whenever he found a dead one, he'd just toss it over the fence. This guy taught a great course, stressing how endangered some of the troglodytic species are, but his callous attitude toward other animals made him hard to respect.
This summer, with heat indices of 105 and 110 degrees, I noticed that, as usual, several people in my neighborhood had left their dogs out in the yard, some tied up and some not, and some with no water dishes. Some of these folks are otherwise nice people, and probably treat their kids at least a little better than their pets. Some otherwise well-intentioned but thoughtless humans just need to have their thought processes derailed for long enough to point their eyeballs at a problem and make them focus. Then there are the ones who just don't care, and shouldn't be allowed to "own" pets at all. I once rescued a really cool German shepherd whose feet had been destroyed by frostbite because his "owner" had left him out no matter what the meteorological conditions, for years. We eventually had to do mercy euthanasia for that guy, for other, more severe neglect-precipitated conditions.
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The Fab Four sparked the British Invasion when they hit American shores in 1964 and nearly half a century later they're taking over VH1 Classic in "The Beatles Shop On VH1 Classic," set to air August 9 at 9PM EST and August 10 at 3AM and 5PM EST.
This on-air extravaganza will allow fans to pre-order what will surely be two of the year's most coveted releases in music and gaming, including The Beatles: Rock Band and the entire digitally re-mastered Beatles CD catalogue. Both items will be released on Sept. 9 and will most likely fly off of store shelves.
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WASHINGTON — South Carolina native Chubby Checker's 1960s dance hit "The Twist" will join Simon and Garfunkel's song "The Sound of Silence," which was written amid the turmoil following President John F. Kennedy's assassination, as two of 25 recordings selected for preservation at the Library of Congress.
These are just a few sounds of the 20th century being added to the National Recording Registry for long-term preservation due to their cultural, artistic and historic importance.
The library said Checker's rendition of "The Twist" became a symbol for the energy and excitement of the early '60s after "American Bandstand" host Dick Clark chose Checker, a native of Andrews, to record a new version of the song.
Later, the 1966 album "Sounds of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel was a hit in its day but not before the duo struggled and split early on. Their song "The Sound of Silence" from the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination 50 years ago this year had initially flopped, but it became a hit after it was re-edited as a single. That prompted the duo to reunite and record another album under a similar title.
Garfunkel, 71, told The Associated Press he's thrilled and flattered to have his work preserved in the Library of Congress. He said the hit album was a life changer for him and Simon.
"When you look at the little mesh, wire microphone ... and you address people on the other side of the mic, you hope that your performance will be special, and you hope that it will have lasting power," he said.
Their words and their tune have taken on special significance in American culture. Hearing Simon sing "The Sound of Silence" on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, NBC newsman Tom Brokaw briefly struggled for composure. The music, he said, evokes memories.
This is the kind of impact the library was looking to preserve, "to celebrate the richness and variety of our audio heritage," said Librarian of Congress James Billington in announcing the selections.
The recording that received the highest number of public nominations for this year's registry was Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon."
Other selections included the original 1949 cast album for "South Pacific" and the soundtrack to the 1977 movie "Saturday Night Fever," featuring the Bee Gees.
Recordings by Will Rogers, Jimmie Davis and President Dwight D. Eisenhower capture part of the political climate of their eras.
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Picture Day is Monday, October 17th! Wear your dress uniform!
Oak Tree Photography will be at the school on Monday, October 17th. Please make sure that your child is wearing their dress uniform.
Ice Cream Thursdays!! – A variety of ice cream treats, just $1.
Every Thursday, a different variety of ice cream treat will be available at lunch time for $1.00. Proceeds will go toward the hiring of buses when the students need to travel places for school events.
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DMCS Annual Dinner/Auction – Saturday, October 29th
The Annual Dinner and Auction fundraiser for the school is Saturday, October 29th, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church Hall. Come, support our school and enjoy a delicious prime rib buffet and wide array of scrumptious desserts. Tickets are $40 per person (A tax receipt will be issued for $25) Viewing of the items begins at 6:00pm. Dinner starts at 6:30pm.
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By Bob Boilen
Originally published on Fri June 28, 2013 3:47 pm
Sixteen years after collaborating on the Lost Highway soundtrack, David Lynch and Trent Reznor are back together. The always eerie Lynch oversaw the video for Nine Inch Nails' first single in five years, "Came Back Haunted," which was posted early Friday morning.
The new Nine Inch Nails album, Hesitation Marks, will be released September 3, but "Came Back Haunted" is available now as an instant download for those who pre-order the album. For more information, visit nin.com.
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Jam At The Grove Music Festival is coming back to the stage for the fifth time after a six year sabbatical. The event will take place from August 12-14 2011 at Tower Farm in Bucks County Pennsylvania. Tickets are available now.
Produced by Jason Flager and Marc Gallo of Tower Farm, the two hope to bring back an annual tradition for new audiences as well as steadfast fans. "Jam at the Grove was created to introduce new bands to music fans," said Flager, VP of Jam at the Grove. "This is an opportunity for artists, local bands, and national acts to collaborate and celebrate exceptional music and art with awesome fans."
For Tower Farm owner Marc Gallo, this festival strikes a sentimental chord. "It is an honor to organize and host a music and arts festival for my local community on the property I grew up on," said Gallo. "It's a symbiotic relationship at it's finest!"
The lineup is filled with homecomings, reunions, and first-timers. Bands include: Conspirator, Psychedelphia, Sophistafunk, Roots of Creation, Papadosio, Wyllys, Kung Fu, The Indobox, Jimkata, Kuf Knotz, Jones Street Station, Sonic Spank, Grimace Federation, Somata, The Dirk Quinn Band, Xylos, Flux Capacitor, Pongo's, Groove, FiKus, SpiTune, Wynrise, Trouble City All-Stars, Wineskin, MIXXTAPE.
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But wait there's more! For the first time, there will be a Kid Zone. Entertainment, arts, and crafts will be available in a safe environment for children with complete supervision.
Tickets are available at http://jamatthegrove5.ticketleap.com/jam-at-the-grove-5/. Prices: $50 Early Bird/$60 Advance/$70 at the Gate.
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When President Obama signed the Student Lending and Fiscal Responsibility Act today, it dealt an enormous blow to Wall Street banks. He deserves huge props for that. I'm not sure people know how big a victory it was. Sallie Mae spent $3 million on lobbyists last year, and got none of what they wanted. Zero, zip, nada (largely because lobbyists like Tony Podesta and Jamie Gorelick screwed up, but we'll get to that later). Nonetheless, Sallie Mae's stock soared to a 52 week high upon passage of the bill. His student loan reform package represents, in essence, a "public option" for the student loan system, and demonstrates why proponents were fighting so hard for the same thing in the health care bill.
But it almost didn't happen.
Let's back up for a minute and talk about exactly what did happen, what Obama did and why he deserves credit for it. Glenn Beck and Jim DeMint, so-called libertarian "populists" who are supposed to be against government subsidies, are both pretending that this is a "government takeover" of student lending, and that it shuts down private lenders altogether. As if. (I guess Sallie Mae got their money's worth for the donations they made to DeMint's campaign.)
What Obama put an end to was not "student loans," but a giant corporate welfare scam that subsidized the losses of private lenders like Citigroup, JP Morgan and Sallie Mae, who padded their profits by jacking up fees before unloading them on the federal government. Those fees could easily double the loan amounts that students eventually had to pay off.
The federal government was already subsidizing private student lenders with the guarantee that they would absorb the losses if students went into default — a classic "privatize the profits and socialize the losses" program of dubious value even when the banks were lending their own money. But in 2008, when the secondary market for student loans dried up, the government began propping up the industry with the passage of the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA), which provided $112 billion to buy up the loans of private lenders. The banks were no longer using their own money to make those loans. Jon Walker called it "one of the most corrupt forms of lemon socialism ever created," noting that "the government stepped in to bailout a fundamentally unsound industry that has been for years wasting billions in taxpayers' money."
Meanwhile, the government was also offering direct student loans — as opposed to using Wall Street banks as a pass-through. And in 2006, George Bush's budget report found that for every $100 lent by private lenders like Sallie Mae, the cost to the government was $13.81, whereas through the direct loan program it was $3.85. There is simply no way you can make an honest "fiscal responsibility" argument for the perpetuation of private government subsidized lending, as DeMint and Beck have done. Absolutely none. They retreat in those moments into a philosophical opposition to "big government," but their fantasy utopias require that taxpayers subsidize Wall Street banks at ungodly multiples.
The honest libertarian argument would be that the government shouldn't be underwriting student loans at all, which would mean the end of both private lending subsidies and direct lending. But they aren't making that argument. Through direct student lending, the government estimates that its origination costs are $5.50 per loan. But when the government buys up loans made by private lenders through the ECASLA program, they pay a $75 fee per loan. Masaccio ran the numbers and estimated that in 2009, that represented a $532 million gift to Sallie Mae from the federal government.
President Obama's plan represents a savings of $61 billion over the next ten years, much of which is achieved by cutting out needless layers of bureaucracy at the state level that DeMint and Beck pretend to support. State guarantee agencies occupied an "arcane and largely vestigial role in the loan process," according to the Quick and the Ed. But Beck and DeMint were obviously anxious to see them continue to soak up fat fees for doing almost nothing.
But as I said earlier, it almost didn't happen. . . . In the final days before the House voted on the health care bill, we launched a campaign to include the student lending bill in the reconciliation process because we knew Congress was not planning to. The White House was fearful that if they tried to do both student lending and health care, they might screw up health care. But if they didn't pass student loan reform now through reconciliation, Congress would not be able to pass it until next year, as there weren't 60 "Aye" votes in the Senate, and that would be the next opportunity for passing it with 50 votes.
Fortunately, Obama decided to roll the dice. Whether it was because he didn't want to piss off students at 12,000 community colleges across the country whose institutions badly needed the money, or because he wanted to cannibalize $18.5 billion to pay for the union deal on the excise tax, or because of pressure brought to bear by campaigns like ours, or just because it was the right thing to do, or all of the above — he did exactly what he said he was going to do. There was no "Sallie Mae compromise," something that lobbyists like Podesta and Goraleck were pushing for, which would have allowed the big banks to continue to make loans and then sell them to the government within 100 days — again, at $75 a pop.
DeMint and Beck may think that's some kind of "free market" bargain, but most honest brokers know that paying a company $75 for something you can do for $5.50 is a scam. Sallie Mae and Citigroup can continue to originate student loans until the cows come home–they just can't manufacture profits by jacking up fees and then dumping their losses on the taxpayers.
Even Dick Morris and David Horowitz's Front Page Magazine get it:
Glenn, you're right to be concerned about this stuff but you've got it all backwards. This isn't a government take-over of student loans. Government took over the student loan industry more than 20 years ago when they created a cheaper product subsidized by our tax dollars. (Federally-insured loans now dominate the industry. If you're going to college then you will pick federal loans over private ones because they're cheaper and easy to manage.) This is just a move to make the system more efficient and less corrupt so that less of our tax dollars are wasted on corporate profits.
At the same time that FDL was running our "Students not Banks" campaign (which I believe we ran for a few thousand dollars we raised plus some money left over from health care), the Sallie Mae lobbyists were picking off one Senator at a time to support their "compromise." Don't ask me how it happened, but they simply didn't see the truck coming. While anyone with the ability to dial a telephone could've figured out with a couple quick calls that the Senate HELP Committee was writing a reconciliation-friendly bill with the hope that the House would vote on it when they voted on health care, somehow that missed their attention. They kept bribing urging Senators to add amendments to the original SAFRA bill passed by the House — which had to be rewritten to stand up to the Byrd rule.
I shrugged my shoulders, said "okay whatever," decided I wouldn't bust anyone but scratched my head in wonder that anyone would charge $3 million a year and be that ungodly stupid about the reconciliation process. Because anyone with even a School House Rock knowledge of basic civics could've told them that their plan wasn't going to work unless the Senate took up the bill at a later time outside of reconciliation. And you didn't have to be exceptionally wired-in to know what as going on. The student lending blogs were pretty much talking about it openly.
On March 11, I thought the campaign had failed, as did most other close observers. It looked like Obama wasn't going to risk health care by trying to pass it. It miraculously came back to life for reasons unknown. Kent Conrad and George Miller got into a huge fight because Conrad insisted on using a new CBO score that estimated savings at $61 billion rather than the $87 billion made at the time the House passed its initial version last year, even though its validity was open to debate. Students lost. Conrad won.
We began a campaign in North Dakota to put pressure on Conrad. And one of the more satisfying moments in running this blog came on March 18, when the reconciliation-friendly version of the House bill dropped. At the same time that Jamie Goralick and Tony Podesta were no doubt mouthing "oh shit" and dodging calls from Sallie Mae, Jon Walker read the bill and saw that Kent Conrad had inserted a nice little carve-out for himself — the only banks that got a "Sallie Mae compromise" and the continued ability to lay off their loans on the government were state-owned banks.
"Guess which is the only state-owned bank in the entire country–that's right, it is the Bank of North Dakota," wrote Jon.
Within hours, Conrad's staff called the House and told them to pull his own personal "kickback" from the bill. Behold the power of Jon Walker.
Contrary to the predictions of both the big banks and the conservative pundits who love them, when SAFRA passed, it did not mean the demise of student lenders. Far from it. Sallie Mae's stock soared after the bill passed. Why? Because the government contracts loan servicing out to private companies. Sallie Mae and other private lenders will bid competitively for those contracts. That's the way it should be. Nelnet's servicing business was up 13% last year based on the contract they won to service government loans, and when they made that announcement, their stock got a boost, too. That's the value that private companies add. Being middle men for loans that the government quickly assumes adds no value.
That kind of a dubious business model also makes investors nervous. The other reason Sallie Mae's stock took off is because the company will now be consolidating their operations, and doubts about the ongoing viability of their business model have disappeared. Their profits are no longer derived from rigging the system, but from providing a service that will have to compete in the marketplace based on quality and performance. Wall Street actually trusts that.
The health care public option died for many reasons. The President didn't have confidence in it enough to fight for it, and maybe he just didn't think he could overcome the demagoguery of the Becks and the DeMints who were making the same crap arguments about "socialized medicine" that they were about "socialized student lending." They were able to poison the national dialog and prevent any genuine argument about "fiscal responsibility" from entering the debate.
But Congress has just created a health care system that is every bit as much "lemon socialism" as the student lending system they just ditched. The government will subsidize the same burdensome inefficiencies in the insurance industry that didn't work in student lending, and they'll need to revisit health care reform again. And at that time, we very much hope that President Obama will be able to point to the tangible success of his student lending program to overcome the dipshit faux populists and their amped-up rhetoric about "socialism" to demonstrate how true "fiscal responsibility" works.
N.B.: I don't know how I got through that whole post and didn't congratulate George Miller, Tom Harkin and their staffs for the heroic work they did, but they deserve massive credit. It was an incredible accomplishment.


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Peggy M. McInturff, age 76, 200 Seldom Rest Farm Road, Unicoi, passed away peacefully, Friday July 5, 2013, in the presence of her family.
Peggy was born in Washington County, a daughter of the late Willie and Dessie Sauls Morelock. She went on to spend her entire life in Unicoi County after her marriage.
Peggy was a devoted Christian. She currently attends and is a member of Tacoma Church of God. Her church was her life, and Peggy served as the Tacoma church secretary until her retirement. She enjoyed her additional roles as the church organist, choir member, and singing as part of a group on special occasions. Peggy was an active member, and longtime pianist for Unicoi United Methodist Church.
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Other than her parents, Peggy was preceded in death by her devoted husband, William "Bill" McInturff, in 1991; very special granddaughter, Lindsey McInturff, in 1993; and two sisters: Wanda Phillips and Mary Ruth Vines.
She is survived by one son, Chuck McInturff and wife, Debi, Unicoi; three daughters: Teresa Doty and husband, Lonnie, and Carolyn Hopson and husband, David, both of Unicoi, Kim Carmichel and husband, Matt, Jonesborough; five grandsons: Matthew Doty and wife, Crystal, Kingsport, Samuel Benjamin Doty, William McInturff and Sam McInturff, all of Unicoi, Joshua Hopson, Nashville; two granddaughters: Taylor Carmichel and Bayleigh Carmichel, both of Jonesborough; one sister, Albania Fox and husband, Jimmy, Wilmington, NC. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
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NASCAR: Richard Petty discusses possible move of his team to Toyota
May 19, 2014, 3:20 PM EDT
During an appearance at a function for Dollar General on Monday, seven-time Sprint Cup champion Richard Petty addressed reports that his Richard Petty Motorsports team was considering a move from Ford to Toyota.
A Motorsport.com story from earlier this month reported that Petty met with Toyota representatives during the Toyota Owners 400 weekend at Richmond International Raceway back in April.
Additionally, the site reported over the weekend that Petty visited Ford headquarters in Michigan last week.
In that same story, Ford Racing director Jamie Allison stated that the team's contract with the Blue Oval was not set to expire at the end of this season.
"Obviously, these manufacturer/team contracts are not for public negotiations," Allison said to writer Lee Spencer.
"We're at a good place with the King…We are going through and understanding could be available and what their interests are."
Meanwhile, during his appearance yesterday at DG headquarters in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Petty took a big-picture approach to the subject.
"We've got to look at our team and look at our circumstances," Petty said according to Mike Organ of The Tennessean. "We've got to look and say, 'Okay, what's going to be the best for us right now, what's going to the best for us two years down the road, what's going to be the best for us five years down the road?'"
Petty added: "We're out looking and seeing what all the factories have got laid out for their future to see if we can fit into any of that."
RPM currently fields two Fords for drivers Marcos Ambrose and Aric Almirola in the Sprint Cup series, and each of them have had some solid performances in the opening quarter of the season.
The team has been in the Ford camp since the 2009 season after jumping over from Dodge; that manufacturer would leave NASCAR at the end of 2012.
- techmeister1 - May 19, 2014 at 9:04 PM
Dodge has done such a terrible job in motorsports the past 20 years it's no wonder they are out of CRASHCAR. The next Dodge you see in CRASHCAR is likely to be a Fiat with a Dodge name plate.
As far as RPR is concerned their days in CRASHCAR may be limited as it's tough to compete with the mega-teams.
- bornahawker - May 19, 2014 at 11:48 PM
Who watches the commercials on Sunday while a race is pretending to happen. Jimmie Johnson and Cheat Kanaus ruined the racing part and NASCAR ruined the ability to watch with all the commercials. NFL is also headed in the same firection, fleecing the fans till they leave. Last time I watched a race was 2008. Southern inbreds are all that's left. Too dumb to bail.
- grgstrickland - May 20, 2014 at 9:17 AM
whats next are we going to take down our American flag and put up a frekin jap one.
- don444 - Jun 26, 2014 at 3:27 AM
"Frekin jap one?" LOL Wow, what a monumental idiot YOU are, not to mention a filthy redneck racist.
- fave88 - May 20, 2014 at 2:39 PM
Seriously Richard????? What on earth are you thinking? Or are you thinking!!!! This must be all about money, because it's just plain stupid to leave Ford for the piece of crap Jap Toyota that never should have been brought into Nascar in the first place!!!!!!!!!
- camino409robert1026 - May 20, 2014 at 9:42 PM
Petty has lost what little mind he had. Go ON,SUPPORT THOSE JUNKERS MADE FROM OUR SCRAP! FIRST YOU THINK DANICA CAN NOT DRIVE & THEN YOU THINK OF GOING THE COMMUNIST ROUTE? SOMEONE TAKE HIM IN FOR A DIMENTIA CHECK!!!
- dameslc - May 21, 2014 at 12:49 AM
The Japanese are communists???
- don444 - Jun 26, 2014 at 3:31 AM
They're not, that guy is just a redneck imbecile speaking on things he knows NOTHING about. You know, like he always does.
- charger383 - Jun 1, 2014 at 9:03 AM
43 on a toyota and I'm done with NASCAR
- don444 - Jun 26, 2014 at 3:29 AM
Get lost then, moron, no one will miss your useless ass.
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if you can get TBR pack and run it from SD card teh same way as the others, it may work. installing a bugged ios53 or 55 from SD card with cboot2 should also work... i will add these on the guide as soon as i have he time
if you can get TBR pack and run it from SD card teh same way as the others, it may work. installing a bugged ios53 or 55 from SD card with cboot2 should also work... i will add these on the guide as soon as i have he time
when i get up to D3 i followed this -For USB launching, go to USB loader GX, i loaded, and nothing comes up, it just turned into black screen, i followed everything installed cios38rev14, and when i just USB loader GX, it just turned into a black screen
do you load it from HBC?
yeah i did, i didnt install USB_Loader_GX-ULNR-r688.wad oh, and do you need a hard drive plugged in already before running usb loader? or is it because my wii is virgin 4.2?
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O.k. so here's the prob. I'm a noob, and as such I f*#&ked up big. I try to go to bootmii screen and get the screen i described b4. The answer to this was cioscorp. "Install HBC as wad using wadmanager."
Prob is I only know how to run wad manager from HBC
(which I dont have). Anyway since then I have stupidly updated to firmware 4.2u. Wii is not bricked I just cant access bootmii. I got nessesary files to install HBC on wii 4.2 but am unable to do so because of preinstalled cioscorp. So questin is how do I use wad manager to install HBC as wad?
Screen described b4 is: "This installer can NOT continue!"
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Hi all,
This is my first visit, and unfortunately I'm joining up after accidentally updating to 4.2E, my bad luck.. I saw you asking for extra feedback so here you go.
Wii is from original release
WiiKey 1.9s installed
Wii has been upgraded through most official versions, except for 4.1
OK, after updating to 4.2E, I found that only Wii Mario Cart will play fine, no other backups will work. My single aim, is to get to a point where my WiiKey is able to play my backup discs again, so I don't need to bother using a softmod, but if Wiikey doesn't work with the newer titles then perhaps I need to use Homebrew anyway.
So, I've followed the tutorial, and like Dea I'm at the B5 to B9 loop, where I'm unable to uninstall the IOS249. I'm now unclear as to what exactly to do. I'm thinking the latest suggestion is to get a copy of a different IOS from somewhere, and put it on the SD somewhere, and then do something with it.. but I'm grasping.
I see you advised to use TBR pack - so I've followed the instructions from here: http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...ny-wii-69.html
but at end of step 2, it said, "Error ES_AddTitleStart returned -1035" so I can't continue with remaining steps.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Finally, what is a 'Virgin Wii' - is it one that hasn't been hardmodded? And what difference does that make?
Thanks all for your help.
virgin wii means nothing has been done to the wii, not even softmod
Sorry about the delay, but i've just done it. The Wii is fantasticaly open... Thanks guys...


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GRIMES, Iowa (WHO) – An Iowa woman is in the hospital after a dog attacked her, her husband and the couple's dog last Sunday.
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By Sgt. Sara Wood, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2005 Iraqi security forces are increasing in size and capability, and American forces are constantly adapting their tactics to fight the ever-changing tactics of terrorists in Iraq, President Bush said here today.
After being briefed by Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, and Army Gen. George Casey, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, Bush spoke about the war on terror and emphasized the importance of a congressional briefing Abizaid and Casey are scheduled to give today.
"The support of Congress for our troops and our mission is important, and Americans need to know about the gains we've made in recent weeks and months," Bush said. "As members of Congress speak with Generals Abizaid and Casey, I'm confident that they'll see what I see: Our leaders, these two generals, are men of vision and determination, and it is their leadership that is helping bring victory in the war on terror."
Terrorists have a history of escalating their attacks before major political milestones, so the U.S. is preparing for more violence as Iraq's two elections approach, Bush said. Iraqi security forces are continually being trained and are taking on more responsibility for security. Iraqi units are being left in cities that U.S. troops have cleared to prevent terrorists from reentering, he said.
"As Iraqi forces show they're capable of keeping the terrorists out, they're earning the trust and confidence of the Iraqi people, which ensures the success of a free and democratic Iraq," he said.
Through joint efforts, U.S. and Iraqi troops have killed, captured or flushed out hundreds of terrorists and stemmed the flow of terrorists into Iraq through the Syrian border, Bush said, ensuring the democratic process will continue unhindered.
"The terrorists will fail," he said. "See, the Iraqis want to be free. They proved that last January when over 8 million citizens, in the face of violence and threats, voted. And the terrorists are going to fail this time."
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