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India Hires Accenture to Help Lure Chipmaking Investment
India hired Accenture Plc, the world's second-biggest technology-consulting company, to help attract as much as $10 billion of investment in semiconductor manufacturing.
The government is seeking companies that can offer technology expertise and set up fabrication units, Accenture said in a statement yesterday. India, which has no chip factory, wants to meet growing demand for computer hardware and cut its reliance on imports, said Satya Gupta, the Bangalore-based chairman of the India Semiconductor Association.
The South Asian country, which is home to the chip-design units of Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc., is seeking to replicate the success of countries such as Malaysia, Taiwan and China in semiconductor manufacturing. Sales of electronics and computers may surge 31-fold to $400 billion in eight years, according to estimates provided by the Ministry of Information Technology & Communications in New Delhi.
"Setting up factories is critical to the growth of the Indian economy, because demand for electronic goods is growing exponentially every year," said Gupta. "It's about time India takes that step forward."
India is also trying to boost foreign direct investment to bolster flagging economic growth after gross domestic product expanded 5.3 percent in the quarter ended March 31, the slowest pace in nine years. FDI in the 12 months through March rose 35 percent to $46.8 billion from a year earlier, according to data provided by the government.
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The global chip market is set to grow 7.2 percent to $322 billion in 2013 and 4.4 percent to $336 billion in 2014, World Semiconductor Trade Statistics said in a statement on its website yesterday.
Accenture will help the Indian government assess companies interested in building fabrication units locally and develop business proposals, according to the statement. Ajay Kumar, a top bureaucrat in the ministry, wasn't available to comment as he was traveling.
India's infrastructure, which lags behind those offered by leaders in chip making, may thwart plans by the government, said Kishore Suratkal, a semiconductor analyst with Religare Capital Markets in Hong Kong.
The World Economic Forum ranked the quality of India's infrastructure at 89 last year, below Kazakhstan and Gambia. About one in four Indians don't have access to electricity. Roads in the country are ranked worse than Botswana's by the WEF.
"The biggest shortcoming would be India's lack of infrastructure, though there's no dearth of engineering talent," Suratkal said in a telephone interview. "India has been trying to gain expertise in chip manufacturing for a long time."


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|English- and Chinese-learning infants map novel labels to objects and actions differently.
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|Research based on naturalistic and checklist methods has revealed differences between English and Chinese monolingual children in their trajectories of learning nouns and verbs. However, studies based on controlled laboratory designs (e.g., Imai et al., 2008) have yielded a more mixed picture. Guided by a multidimensional view of word learning (in which different mechanisms are weighted and recruited to different extents over development), we examined English- and Mandarin-learning infants' (n = 128) ability to map novel labels to unfamiliar actions and objects. Findings reveal cross-linguistic variations in the mapping of words to actions versus objects that are consistent with those found previously with naturalistic and checklist methods. Specifically, English learners were able to map novel labels to both actions and objects at 18 months but to neither actions nor objects at 14 months. In an identical experimental paradigm, Mandarin learners at both 14 and 18 months of age were able to map novel labels to actions but not to objects. Similar patterns were found when infants were grouped based on their vocabulary size. Combined results lend support for a dynamic view of word learning that take into account multiple mechanisms interacting across developmental time with important cultural constraints. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).
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A. PAUL Hamlyn editor is
said to have asked the chief executive
of the conglomerate's book division, "Max, when are we going to publish a real book?"
Max Henry is said to have replied, "We can't. We're too busy selling merchandise".
In reporting the story in a special supplement on Australian books recently,
the American trade journal, Publisher's Weekly, said it was really
a joke that Hamlyn people tell against themselves, but to me it sounds too good not to be true.
The same article tells how Hamlyn has sold almost a third of a million copies of 'The Australian and New Zealand Complete Book of Cookery', more than two-thirds of a million copies of 'The Margaret Fulton Cookbook', about a quarter of a million copies of'Instant Metric Reckoner' and 135,000 copies of 'Australia and New Zealand Fishing'.
I suppose you could call the them books — they have, after all, got two covers and pages in between — but if, like the ancients, you think of a books as being a repository of part of our culture, they are viewed more appropriately as merchandise. Not for nothing did Hamlyn's encourage their sales representatives with the slogan "Books Can Sell Like Soap".
Many other publishers have also
found that books can sell like soap. Publishers Weekly tells how Richard Walsh of Angus and Robertson bought the rights to 'Dr Atkins' Super Energy Book', very cheaply, had it publicised with transcontinental
telephone hookups from local disc jockeys, and sold 10,000 hardcover copies and almost 100,000 paperbacks.
Hoi z published 'Elvis Still Lives' veek after Elvis had died and 'Q n Elizabeth II' during the Queen a visit to Australia and each immediately sold 30,000 copies.
I have kept these interesting moral talcs firmly in mind while spending a wet weekend poring over a pile of merchandise that had been littering the literary editor's office. And I found a wet weekend was never
The first product is 'The Country Life Book of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother' by Godfrey Talbot, with a foreword by a gentleman who signs himself'Charles' and claims to be the lady's grandson (Country Life ■ Books, 176pp, $18.95).
When I was six my father told me that the royals were parasites on the backs of the workers and I have never had reason to doubt him. But the gentleman who signs himself Charles gives this view no consideration
in the foreword he writes from Buckingham Palace, although he
does say of the Queen Mother that "she has always been one of those extraordinarily rare people whose touch can turn everything to gold" — a point my father also made when he spoke of parasites.
In his first sentence Godfrey Talbot speaks of the "world's best loved Royal Lady". In his second paragraph he tells us he is a "searching writer" who has "to keep shading his eyes from the person sparkling under the spotlights". Normally I religiously read every page of every book I review, no matter how bad it is, but I gave up at paragraph five of this one, just as Godfrey was saying, "To me, the lady of this book stays 'top of the pops' ". My father, I recall, used to wish that she and her kind would be hits of the Blitz.
I did look through the dozens of photographs, however. One mark of merchandise is that it consists largely
of photographs. And 1 discovered that King George VI — "a shy monarch who shunned publicity", "diligent and brave", "gentle and sensible" — had skinny legs and they were quite noticeable when he was wearing kilts.
Another sign of merchandise is that not only is it decorated with pictures but the pictures these days arc often taken from television series. Such a piece of merchandise is Keith Adam's 'Journey into India' (Australian Broadcasting Commission
and Hodder and Stoughton, 160pp, millions of pictures, $15.95).
I remember enjoying Keith
Adam's television series immensely. At the end of each episode the titles said that he wrote the script, but I couldn't believe there was a script. It all looked too spontaneous. Remember
how he walked down the
Grand Trunk Road spouting enthusiastically
about Kipling's 'Kim' and around Simla in the season?
Well, all the spontaneity is gone from this item of merchandise put together by a production team whose list of titles reads like one for a television scries. Unfortunately, in his few breif appearances in the pictures, Keith Adam doesn't wear kilts so 1 am unable to say whether or not he has skinny legs.
I can testify however that South Australia's Premier, Don Dunstan, has solid legs because they appear in a very sexy picture of him in his garden in 'Don Dunstan's Australia' (Rigby, 96pp, $9.95). This book seems to have been put together by combining excerpts from his speeches with photographs by Julia Fcatherstone. I found his liberal views on racism, the White Australia Policy, Aborigines, housing, the environment, cities, suburbia, conservation and education quite unexceptionable
and some of Miss Featherstone's photographs, particularly the landscapes and architectural
pictures, quite pleasing. But why anyone should want to buy them as a book I don't know. Perhaps people saw it as a suitable sequel to the author's first offering, 'Don Dunstan's Cookbook'.
His fellow South Australian,
Geoffrey Dutton, gives us an equally solid offering — which is to say as solid as mashed potatoes — in 'A Taste of History: Geoffrey Dutton's South Australia' (Rigby, 95pp, $11.95). This is another book of a television series and in it Geoffrey Dutton speaks in fairly general terms about the geography and morality
of South Australia, the founding
of Adelaide, the 1870s, the role of water in South Australia's history,
and about its farms, factories, and "true character". Personally I prefer reading Mr Dutton's beautiful poems and his incisive biographies,
for when he is not having his work merchandised he reveals himself as a very fine writer.
Having poked through this merchandise — and it is representative
of the bulk of "trade books" published in Australia — 1 knew why a group of Swiss writers once published an austere little anthology for free. Graccd by contributions from 49 writers, it was designed to circumvent the conventional
publishing and distribution channels which editors Thco Ruff and Peter K. Wchrli said were responsible for the increasing degradation of books to the status of consumer
goods. One of the instructions that came with the book was not to use it for "stuffing shoes, covering your head against the rain". It occurred to me that this is an instruction that could be reversed and included in all the merchandise reviewed


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Meeting Minutes
September 19, 2005
Call to order at 2:08 p.m.
Approval of 4/25/05 minutes. Motion made by G. Link. Seconded by Amber Tubré. Unanimously approved.
Chair's Report (S. Egerstrom)
Messages from Chancellor
Professional Development Opportunity Grant Writing Workshops
Representative's Report (K. Gould-Speckman)
Minutes from the 9/14/05 meeting of Academic Staff Representatives are attached and available online
Legislative Update (M. Kinders)
UW-River Falls has 14 employees in limited appointments with back-ups, of whom two are Academic Staff. Regents want back-up appointments for Academic Staff resolved by November.
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Had an experience this morning I wanted to share. Now, first you have to understand Texans love to talk about the weather, so please bear with me. A Texas Blue Norther seems to be blowing in (from our friends up in Canada) this morning, the sky was dark (around zone III), but I could see some Cottonwood trees, with the lighter bark, picking up just a little sunlight. What a great image - did I get a shot, NO! The image was gone in less than 5 minutes. The sky turned a muddy gray, the light left the trees..I realized that if I had grabbed a camera, jumped in the car so I could get a better composition, that I would have missed the best part of the whole scene.
How often do we chase the light, only to miss the best part? For me, it was better to just watch the scene unfold and not capture it. With any luck, it will teach me to be prepared next time - will the light be the same? No way, it may be blaugh (is that really a word) or it may be the 'Best' light ever.
So, I was wondering - does everyone else chase the light at times like these or do most of you just kick back and enjoy and hope that Next time...?
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a State of Emergency Saturday ahead of Isaac's arrival to the mainland.
In a news conference in Plantation Saturday, Scott said he will not participate in any of the Republican National Convention activities in Tampa on Sunday and Monday, and has canceled his scheduled speech at the convention.
Scott said there are already 245 FEMA workers in the state still here after Tropical Storm Debby, and 100 more on standby. For more information, visit FloridaDisaster.org.
"We are a hospitality state. We know how to take care of people and we want to ensure their safety," Scott said.
The Associated Press reported the that the convention will convene Monday, then recess until Tuesday afternoon due to Isaac.


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Surprisingly strong words out of Merrill:
"Merrill Lynch has warned of a global credit crunch as central banks in Europe and Asia tighten monetary policy, advising clients to shun risk and switch to safer assets over the forthcoming months.
Presenting its strategy for 2007, the US bank said the world boom is clearly giving way to a slowdown that will shake up markets and punish smaller equities, industrial metals, and lower-tier assets of almost every kind.
Money can still be made as the cycle turns, chiefly by rotating into short-term cash deposits and quality stocks with good dividend yields such as AstraZeneca, Barratt Developments, Sweden's retailer H&M, or Spain's Banco Popular Espanol – along with a few bars of gold bullion.
The bank said 2007 would be the "year of the dividend", with fear returning as the VIX and VDAX volatility indexes – widely used in option trading – rise from record lows."
One rarely sees such a clearcut warnings from a major asset gatherer . . .
Merrill sounds alarm on global liquidity
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
Telegraph UK 1:22am GMT 06/02/2007
Category: Federal Reserve, Fixed Income/Interest Rates, Investing, Markets, Psychology
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"One rarely sees such a clearcut warnings from a major asset gatherer . . ."
With all due respect, read any of Rich Bernstein's comments over the last 6 years. He was looking for financial Armegeddon.
The more bearish calls like this from the big firms, the longer it makes me think this rally can go on.
It's almost frightening how similar almost every country's index chart looks – from India and Tokyo to Germany and France to the US…
The link in your references is broken.
In fairness, Merrill's isn't really a major asset gatherer any more. Now if BlackRock issues a commentary like this….
"The more bearish calls like this from the big firms, the longer it makes me think this rally can go on."
Not to worry, Michael. As Fred mentioned, Bernstein is a permabear, so this doesn't mark any major shift in sentiment.
Interest rates for home loans and cars in India have soared to 11.75% and 14% respectively in the past few months..
Meanwhile, Indian risk-free CDs can fetch a handsome 9% in interest. There is something to be said for cash is king, atleast in India.
BR: Risk free 9%? I doubt it.
At the very least, overseas investors have currency risk; Then there is the risk of bank failure.
I agree, the cycle really only happens seriously and we only see boom/bust when the major players move to one side of the boat.
The more rational and cautious the are, the smoother things should be. I had been getting concerend by all the bullish sentiment in january, but when I see this sort of thing I get less concerned.
Oh Barry, Don't you know?
It's different THIS time. And India? Isn't India way the hell over on the other side of the world? How could they affect us? 14%? THAT can't happen here! Ask Kudlow! That's just some permabear journalist/bank/small company Goldilocks mauling BS. Clearly there is no end to the liquidity. We will simply go on forever on seas of liquidity driven profits and happiness. Icebergs? Why worry, this economy is unsinkable.
Quit yacking and place yer bets!
Had to give up my yaking. Couldn't afford to feed the hairy beasts!
Regarding excess liquidity, Vietnam's stock market has appreciated 100% in 3 months and 45% just since the beginning of the year.
Stories about people borrowing money to flip stock and get rich are not confined to Chinese communists. The Vietnamese communists have caught on quite well.
That liquidity stuff everyone keeps talking about is some magical shit. I need to get me some.
Typical Merill econo-garbage. The world continues to be awash in liquidity and as long as it doesn't manifest into inflation, it can continue for longer than Richard Bernstein can keep his job.
This rally has way more to go.
Hey Merill Lynch, give me a call, I'll actually provide you guys some accurate insight.
Central Banks (with rare exceptions) are raising rates, however they are also growing their money supplies rapidly. I have no idea why Merrill is stating one without the other. The world is awash with paper money.
The market will apparently never go down again. 8 days without any kind of downside…
Dow 13000 or 14000 next????
There is no bad news anywhere….. this is really amusing….
unless you count those Iranian missile tests across the Straits of Hormuz…. and the fact that the Russians supplied them against our objections while the Chinese are popping satellites out of lower space… hmmm, sounds like an Entente
Interest rates for home loans and cars in India have soared to 11.75% and 14% respectively in the past few months..
Meanwhile, Indian risk-free CDs can fetch a handsome 9% in interest. There is something to be said for cash is king, atleast in India.
BR: Risk free 9%? I doubt it.
At the very least, overseas investors have currency risk; Then there is the risk of bank failure.
ICICI bank (India's largest private bank) is offering a 9% CD for 3 years.
There is of course the currency risk – although the Rupee has only been appreciating against the dollar in recent months, going up with the Sensex.
This rate is only for Indian residents, but I use it as an example to illustrate that cash has become somewhat more valuable in recent times.
I'm not sure this post is very useful. This what a lot of people have been saying since early 2006.
So which is better? To be right? Or to make money? Because apparently you can't have both!
Well, isn't that ironic. Charles Edward Merrill issued a dire warning in 1929 and noooooobody listened.
"The world is awash in liquidity." Yes indeed. Dumbasses of every ilk driving asset values to never seen and unsustainable levels. But, as John Galbraith said, don't confuse those who are around money with brilliance. ie, Wall Street. Wall Street is always wrong…eventually. Or, as Jimmy Rogers just said, there aren't that many smart 29 year olds.
I wonder if there is a fly in that global liquidity argument? Maybe like, how many consumers are awash in liquidity? Tick tock.
Beware the Black Swan. Real life is more dangerous than Russian Roulette
I had forgotten about Talebs' black swans, good reminder. This is going to end badly..
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So since I didn't see any of these threads, I guess I might as well make one.
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~~He leaned back in his chair, completely relaxed his eyes dancing with amusement. He and I both knew the answer to his question. I didn't need to say anything, but I did anyway.
"No. It wouldn't matter to me." I couldn't believe the words left my lips that easily. There was something about this man that had seeped into my soul forcing me to throw reason and good sense out of the window.
A slow smile crept across his face. He almost looked triumphant.
"Well then, you don't really need to know the answer to that question, do you?" I paused momentarily thinking about what he was saying to me.
"No, I guess I don't." I finally replied looking away from him. Who was I anymore? What happened to my moral compass? Delaney picked up on my inner struggle and reached for my hand.
"Ali, it doesn't make you a bad person to not give a shit that, that fuck is missing. The world is a shitty place baby girl you need to be able to protect yourself and what's yours." I knew he was right the world was shitty. Look at my poor parents. I immediately regretted even asking the question as the mood of the evening had changed.
"Isn't that what I have you for Delaney? I teased trying to revive the earlier playfulness that I was enjoying so much. However, instead on indulging me he became extremely serious, there was not even a hint of a smile on his face anymore.
"You have no idea what lengths I would go to, to keep you safe Alivia. But you can't work against me. You need to be smarter than you were the other night."
"I know, I know. Please don't lecture me again. I was having such a nice time with you." I pleaded, giving him my best pouty face. He grinned a little at my attempt of a pout and nodded, agreeing to drop it. I gave him a thankful smile and squeezed his hand.
We finished our dinner with much lighter chatter. We spoke about school, and my upcoming graduation. I learned that Delaney had gone directly into the Military after high school and had become an Army Ranger. He served for ten years before meeting my dad. I sat entranced listening. Slowly pieces of the Delaney puzzle were falling into place.
I didn't want the evening end, but inevitably he paid the tab and we headed out.
He stood with his arm possessively around my waist as we waited for the attendant to bring the car around. I leaned into him taking in his smell and enjoying the closeness of him. Tilting my head up, I whispered into his ear.
"Delaney, there is something I've wanted to tell you all night"
"Really what's that?" he looked down at me clearly intrigued.
"I'm not wearing any panties." I said as seductively as I could manage. I immediately felt his entire body stiffen as the car pulled up in front of us. He tipped the attendant and helped me into the car himself.
As the car pulled out, Delaney took my hand and placed it onto his crotch. He was rock hard.
"Do you see what you do to me?" He whispered. I unbuckled my seatbelt and hopped up onto my knees, leaning over the center console I began to softly kiss his neck and nibble at his earlobes, while rubbing his cock through his pants.
"You have a similar effect on me Mr. Delaney". I breathed into his ear. I was so amped up already and he hadn't even laid a finger on me. The pure lust that I felt for this man was taking over. The kisses turning more frantic and nibbles into bites I began to unbutton his pants.
He said nothing, keeping his eyes on the road he pushed my dress up over my hips, easily slipping one finger inside of me further igniting the fire that was already raging between my legs. I finally succeeded in undoing his pants and freed his cock. It was remarkable. His skin was so smooth it was beautiful. I had the urge to kiss it, and make love to it with my mouth. I leaned down planting a soft wet kiss on the tip. He inhaled sharply. I looked up at him with a devilish smile on my face.
"I don't really know how to do this" I whispered.
"He smiled. I don't mind you practicing on me". I leaned back down taking the head into my mouth minding to not scrape him with my teeth. I began to slowly swirl my tongue around the head of it, looking up at him to see his reaction. His jaw had tightened as he glanced from the road back down to me. I could hear his breathing was becoming more rapid. I was doing good. I wrapped my hand around the base of his shaft and tried to take as much of him into my mouth as I could. It was too much. He was too big I began to gag. He reached down and moved my hand up from the base of his shaft to the center.
"Okay baby, easy. You can start by just trying to take that." I looked down at the part of his cock that was above my hand, it looked much more manageable and I greedily tried again taking him into my waiting mouth. He placed his hand on the back of my head and began to guide me up and down which I happily did. The fact that I was able to please him in this way drove me crazy. I stopped briefly to run my tongue down the entire length of him, the desire burning between my legs was becoming too much.
"Pull over Delaney, please. I want you inside of me now." My lust filled eyes pleading with him.
"No need to pull over, come here."
"But"... I began to protest only to have him place his hand on my inner thigh guiding it across him to the other side.
"Your little baby, you can fit" I slowly slid myself over the console and onto his lap. I straddled him my legs spread apart, and squeezed into the space on the side of his seat. I leaned onto his chest keeping my head tilted so I wouldn't block his view of the road. Once positioned I slowly slid him inside of me.
I had been so worked up from pleasing him with my mouth, that finally having contact with him nearly sent me over the edge. I grabbed hold of him and began to rock my hips back and forth grinding myself onto him. There was no race to finish I was enjoying the slow build. He grabbed onto my hips trying lead me and quicken the pace, but I rebelled and stayed with my slow steady motion. He smacked me on my ass.
"Ali, your making me crazy baby. You are going to be in big trouble when this car stops and I can fuck you like I want to."
"I can't wait" I replied in a low whisper as I continued to slowly torture us both. The passing lights and other cars flying by the window made me feel as if we were in our own bubble standing still as the world moved around us. I continued to kiss his neck, grazing his jaw with my teeth. He was so delicious.
He grunted, trying hard to focus on the road and drive. Suddenly the car slowed down. I looked out of the window to see we were home. He quickly shut off the car as I climbed off of him. He pulled me out of the car through his side. I wrapped my legs around him and desperately began kissing him as he picked me up and carried me inside the house.
He entered the foyer and turned immediately into the formal living room. I quickly thought about how I had never even been in that room before. He threw me onto the couch and kissed me roughly before turning me around. I was on my knees on the couch facing the wall. He was behind me pulling my dress up again over my hips as he rammed his cock into my still wet waiting pussy. I spread my legs apart further allowing him to enter more deeply. My body was trembling from the immense pleasure I was feeling.
He grabbed a hold of my hair and wrapped it around his wrist as he began to pound me from the back. He was so much deeper inside of me than he ever had been before. I felt him at the very core of me. It was overwhelmingly amazing. I was completely under his control like this. His free hand gripped onto my hip keeping me in place as he furiously rammed himself in and out of me. The sound of our skin smacking against eachother, and the wetness that was dripping down my inner thigh was too much. I let go and surrendered to him. My inner walls clenching around his throbbing cock pushed him over the edge as well. He finished right after me, both of us collapsing onto each other on the couch.
I laid there wrapped in his arms completely happy, wishing I
could stay here like this with Delaney rather than deal with the
real world.
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What's your background? How did you get into animation?
My intro to animation came from a decision to escape the corporate id I was studying in England by studying illustration in Brussels. Once there I misunderstood the commands of a partially deaf old teacher who didn't speak a word of English, and I wrote and illustrated a children's book (I was meant to construct a brochure for the Olympics). It was called The King Who Loved Apple Pies. It was basically Nietzsche for kids and was dreadful (seriously).
Everyone said how much like a storyboard it looked, and it made me realise that film/animation had always been a passion, but until pretty much that year, the technology just wasn't available to do it for less than a year's wages. So off the back of this epiphany I applied to the Animation MA at the Royal College of Art with no more than 40 seconds of animation and a Flash movie that made sex noises when you roll over it.
Surprisingly, it worked, and I studied there for two years and had a great time getting to know London. In my second year, I made Abigail and have used it as an excuse to travel to various places around the world to see it screened.
Immediately after RCA I was selected for the Creative Pioneer Programme by an organisation called NESTA. Their remit is to promote innovation in the creative industries by selecting promising young artists and teaching them to start a business. I applied with an idea to create interactive animation for the Citizenship curriculum in the UK (It's a brand new subject. It's compulsory to teach and the government is pouring money into it. Also I have a huge chip on my shoulder about political apathy in Britain and wanted to do something about it).
After that I realised I had to get to know the industry a lot better, so I worked for the BBC for nine months as lead designer on an interactive educational cartoon to teach French. It was part of a £150 million project called BBC Jam which was cancelled halfway through after the european Commission complained about it gaining an unfair monopoly on teaching resources (The upper echelons of the BBC, as you may know, are constructed almost entirely by civil servants who's mothers still wash their clothes for them and so they caved in straight away and robbed Britain of an excellent and free teaching resource).
That pretty much takes us up to date!
What was your inspiration for Abigail? How did this piece realize itself to youboth story and style?
Abigail was hard to write because it was a completely open brief. Until then i'd always had an audience, client and product to work with, so I decided the best approach was to collect all of the random ideas that pop into your head while you're brushing your teeth or paying for gas and try and discern a common thread between them.
It wasn't until the thought of the burning airplane popped into my head in a park in London that the film started to structure itself. After that it was a case of holding each tiny idea up against the this plane scenario and seeing which fit the best.
It sounds wishy-washy but this kind of technique comes from the idea of a zeitgeist or memes (Richard Dawkin's word for culturally prevalent ideas that are passed on and mutate like genes). It also relates to something Ed Hooks said about the roots of storytelling. He said that the role of the storyteller essentially hasn't changed since the days of shamanism when stories were told to the tribe to vindicate their beliefs and bolster their reserve in tough times. I think he's got a point. Even with apparently subversive and anarchic art: If it's successful it's a sure sign that it's reflective of the values of some kind of 'tribe' of people who then re-digest it and use it to bolster their reserve in tough times.
That's not to say that Abigail is subversive or even culturally important. For me it was just an experiment to see what kind of memes or cultural ephemera were in my head so that I might find something interesting… It's like rooting through the trashcan of popular culture to try and find it's bank details!
Why publish online?
Because that way more people see it! Abigail is a very computer-centric film. It was made entirely on a computer and designed to be viewed on a computer screen. It's done the festival rounds and it's great/terrifying to watch on a huge screen, but it has a much more interesting life on-line because once it's part of the web it's like a magnet with iron fillings. The oddest patterns emerge from those attracted and repelled by it.
For example it was recently downloaded by a girl in China, stripped of it's audio and re-scored with her favourite Spanish grunge band. the result was horrific but I was flattered. Two weeks later the band found it on YouTube and have since sent me T-Shirts, badges, CDs and god knows what else. They've asked me if I mind them making t-shirts with the burning plane to wear at their gigs. It's very odd, but that's Spain for you.
What's next? Any future projects in the works?
The short answer is I don't know. Right now I'm working on a couple of projects with other people. One is an animated TV series about a council estate of (literally) feral teenagers with cat-nip instead of heroin and all kinds of other anthropomorphic digs at The UK.
Like any filmmaker i'm eternally writing a new film, but actually the medium that inspires me right now is comic books. I recently started reading things like Watchmen by Alan Moore and various stuff by Robert Crumb and Daniel Clowes who did Ghost World. There are so many things about that medium that appeal to me. For example one of the themes in Watchmen is the idea that all of time is a single physical object that we can't discern as such because we're built to travel along it in a straight line. So the book is designed such that when it's closed certain panels line up and reveal themes that are much harder to discern when it's open… completely fucking pointless, but I love it.
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From a Somerville Studio to National Infomercials
A local trainer will soon be gracing your television selling his new DVD series.
Andrew Haynes, a six-degree blackbelt and owner and trainer at Somerville's Corpbasics, has been in the fitness industry for more than 20 years, so he's seen his share of awful infomercials. That's why when he was making his new 10-disc DVD series ($125), he left Boston and flew to Antigua for a beautiful backdrop (and a place you can film outdoors in winter). The infomercials for the DVDs will be gracing our television sets starting this week on NESN, WCVB, and other local channels. He also has some 12:30 p.m. spots (on NESN) and Haynes is taking Corpbasics national, because the infomercial will be shown all over the country.
This isn't like your mom's Tae Bo videos, either. The Corpbasics system combines martial arts with dance and other heart-pumping moves, and the infomercial stays away from your typical late-night TV cheese-fest. After watching it, I wanted to buy the series (even though here in Boston we are lucky enough to be able to go to a class taught by Haynes himself).
Haynes says that the DVD series (the six-disc set, plus four bonus DVDs and an app) is a total body workout focusing on cardiovascular endurance and the mind because you have to think about the routines as you do them. The moves are a combination of body mechanics and each routine builds upon the last, so by the end of the first DVD you will have the needed skills to move on to the next. The DVDs combine punching, kicking, squatting, and core work for a total body workout.
We talked to Haynes about the DVDs, his work in Somerville, and what it's like seeing yourself in infomercials.
What do you love most about the system?
I love that I have been able to take martial arts movements and choreograph them to music. There is nothing more amazing to me than to see people come into class, learn the routines and not realize that they are executing martial movements. I also love that over the years I have had many individuals come take my classes and love it so much that it has inspired them to become fitness instructors.
Why did you pick the island location for filming?
I knew that the scenery was going to be amazing and knew that would be one of the eye catchers of the DVD. It's important that the DVD's are entertaining but most importantly, I wanted my audience to be able to put themselves right there with me and the Corpbasics team. There is something about being in the Caribbean that makes everything better even when you are working out.
How did the DVD idea come about?
I have always wanted to do a DVD series, however it was just a matter of time having to figure out how to put music and martial arts together and make it flow and most importantly make sense. I love entertaining people and feel that when I can teach a class that is my center stage. It was important for me to be able to have a product that was not only a good workout, but that people would also have fun doing.
What was it like seeing yourself on television in an infomercial?
It was interesting to see myself on television. We are all critical of ourselves in some ways and there were moments where I would watch with one eye open and the other closed, however I have gotten over that and am proud of myself and the Corpbasics team. It was not easy to do what typically comes very natural to me and my team outside in 90 plus temperatures and a lot of cameras around us. But we pulled it together pretty well and for that I am grateful for the amazing production crew.
Why do you love training people?
I have always loved fitness. Nothing is more amazing when I can help people do things that they never thought they could do and seeing them make that connection with there mind and body. [I love it when] I see people achieving there goals. I feel the easy part is getting them into shape….The hard part is getting them to believe in themselves. There's truly no amount of money that can buy the smile and the glow a person gives you when they achieve that feeling.
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It was a little hard to believe that the York Mighty Ants were still in Sunday afternoon's game with Harrisburg midway through the fourth quarter.
Yet there they were. Down by four points.
But Harrisburg then pulled away for a second time behind the 1-2 punch of Charlie Parker and Anthony Trautman to win a 122-106 Eastern Basketball Alliance Northern Division game at New Hope Academy Charter School.
"We were able to pick it back up in the beginning of the fourth quarter," said York coach Brandon DeShields, who has recently come aboard to assist player-coach Seth Leonard. "We picked it up on defense, and that kind of triggered our offense and got us back into the game, but it took a lot of energy to do that."
With the win, Harrisburg completes a home-and-away sweep of York and remains unbeaten in the EBA this season. York drops to 2-3 on the season with a game at Philadelphia next Saturday.
York trailed by 17 points entering the final 12 minutes, but rallied back with only starter Jerren Harris on the floor. Joining Harris for the comeback were Spring Grove grad Bryce Harbold, William Penn grad Anthony Dorm and two relative newcomers to the team in William Penn grads Derek Wilson and Malachi Leonard.
The 6-foot-5 Wilson is a year removed from William Penn's YAIAA championship and District 3 Class AAAA runner-up team, while the 6-8 Malachi Leonard just finished his senior season at Seton Hill University, where he was a first-team All-PSAC West selection and averaged a team-high 17 points and eight rebounds a game.
"Mal and Derrick have only been on the roster a few weeks," said Seth Leonard. "We really like some of the young players we have. They bring a lot of defense to us. We are still working on that formula, that mix of the young guys and our skill players. I still think we can make a run at the championship if we find the right balance."
The Mighty Ants went on a 17-4 tear over the first half of the final quarter to get to 102-98 after a putback by Malachi Leonard with 6:29 left. Harris added six points in that span.
Parker answered with a dunk off a turnover and connected on 1-of-2 free throws over the next minute of play to stave off the comeback as York never got within seven points the rest of the way.
"The offense can change and get better," DeShields said. "The one thing that can't is the defense. We need that on every possession."
The 6-4 Parker, a Millersville University grad and former NCAA Division II All-American who is second all-time in points with the Marauders, finished with a game-high 30 points while Trautman, a 6-2 guard from Lebanon Valley College, poured in 27 points.
The Mighty Ants were led by 6-10 center Akeem Washington's 19 points while South Western High grad Chad Tipton scored 14 first-half points and Harris, a William Penn grad, added 13 points.
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Anthony Trautman 10 4-4 27, Charlie Parker 10 8-15 30, Kevin Onyeaka 4 5-6 13, Demond Vance 5 4-8 16, Denzel Jackson 7 3-15 17, Cory Boone 4 3-3 11, Richardson 1 0-0 2, Breeden 0 0-2 0, Peay 2 2-2 6, Buie Jr. 0 0-0 0.
Totals — 43 29-55 122.
York (106)
Job Casmir 2 6-10 10, Jerren Harris 6 1-2 13, Quinn Howard 4 0-1 8, Chad Tipton 5 0-0 14, Akeem Washington 9 1-1 19, Dorm 1 2-2 5, Harbold 4 2-2 10, Leonard 3 1-1 7, Leonard 2 0-0 4, Walker 3 1-2 7, Wilson 1 0-0 2, Arnold 1 5-7 7.
Totals — 41 19-28 106.
3-point goals — Hb 7, (Troutman 3, Vance 2, Parker 2), York 5 (Tipton 4, Dorm)


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|OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of standing with assistance of the tilt table on ventilatory parameters and arterial blood gases in intensive care patients. DESIGN: Consecutive sample. SETTING: Tertiary referral hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Fifteen adult patients who had been intubated and mechanically ventilated for more than 5 days (3 subjects successfully weaned, 12 subjects being weaned). INTERVENTION: Passive tilting to 70 degrees from the horizontal for 5 minutes using a tilt table. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Minute ventilation (VE), tidal volume (VT), respiratory rate, and arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2) and carbon dioxide (PaCO2). RESULTS: Standing in the tilted position for 5 minutes produced significant increases in VE (P <.001) and produced both increases in respiratory rate (P <.001) and VT (P =.016) compared with baseline levels. These changes were maintained during the tilt intervention and immediately posttilt. Twenty minutes after the tilt, there were no significant changes in ventilatory measures of VE, VT, or arterial blood gases PaO2 and PaCO2 compared with initial values. CONCLUSIONS: Standing for 5 minutes with assistance of a tilt table significantly increased ventilation in critical care patients during and immediately after the intervention. There were no improvements in gas exchange posttilt. Using a tilt table provided an effective method to increase ventilation in the short term.
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Cowpokes stroll the Atlantic City boardwalk earlier this week to plug the return of the rodeo.
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The Atlantic City Boardwalk Rodeo returns to Boardwalk Hall on Oct. 5 and 6. It will the third year the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association sanctioned event, presented by Barnes PRCA Rodeo Company, will hit town.
Competition includes: bareback riding, tie-down roping, saddle bronc riding, team roping, barrel racing, steer wrestling, and bull riding.
The 2013 Atlantic City Boardwalk Rodeo will be presented by the Atlantic City Alliance and promoted by all 12 casinos.
"We are very excited to be bringing the rodeo back in 2013," said Rodeo chairperson Janet Markowitz. "The event was a huge success the past two years and I believe that the spectator turnout for this year will be even greater since we have moved the show dates to October. Our hope is that it will become more visible to both locals and visitors over the summer months and that it will entice them to return to Atlantic City in October.
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Man accused of exploiting nude photos from Utah teen to go to trial
A 31-year-old Oregon man accused of receiving nude photos of a 13-year-old Roosevelt girl that were taken by her mother has been ordered to stand trial.
Daniel Dean Divine was charged in 8th District Court with three counts of sexual exploitation, a second-degree felony, and misdemeanor enticing a minor over the Internet. He waived his right to a preliminary hearing Thursday, and will appear in court again in October. A trial date has not been set.
The girl's mother is also facing charges for allegedly helping her daughter take nude photos after the 13-year-old couldn't figure out how to use the iPhone that Divine had sent to her as a gift. The mother is facing three charges of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.
According to charging documents filed in 8th District Court, the 36-year-old mother knew the photos were being sent to Divine.
The teen "realized Daniel was older and wanted to have sex so she took the photos just to keep him happy," a Duchesne County sheriff's deputy wrote in a probable cause statement filed in court.
The mother, who The Tribune is not identifying to protect the child's identity, told police she asked her daughter "if she was sure she wanted to send these photos," the document states, but still took three photos of her daughter after the girl had just taken a shower.
Police say Divine sent the girl the iPhone and a camera, which already had on it photos of the man, shirtless and holding a teddy bear the girl had once given him as a Valentine's Day gift.
Divine requested the nude photos when he sent her the iPhone, court documents state.
The girl's mother told police Divine was a "very good friend of the family" and that he and her daughter "were going to wait until she was 18 years old before they had a sexual relationship," court documents state.
The mother pleaded not guilty to the charges in August. A trial has been for her is set for Dec. 14.
Divine remains in the Duchesne County jail, where he is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.
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This initiative partners with Africa's first ladies, supporting their efforts to become champions of change for the health and education of millions of women and children across the continent.
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As wives of presidents and prime ministers, Africa's first ladies occupy a unique position at the pinnacle of society. Their status and prestige, their role as private counsel to their husbands, as well as their ready access to national policy makers, make them one of their country's most influential figures, and a largely untapped resource for change. Since early 2009, RAND has partnered with Africa's first ladies to support their efforts to become champions for change in health and education across the continent.
Key First Ladies have demonstrated that they are:
- Deeply committed to making a difference
- Focused on women's issues, family health and education issues
- Want to develop their skills as leaders, and to impact greater change
The RAND African First Ladies Fellowship Program, launched in September 2010, introduces first ladies and their staff and advisors to various strategies for establishing and managing an effective first lady's office and to a leadership development and policy-analysis framework for improving executive decision-making. Through presentations, small working groups, Q&A sessions, and individual consultation and mentoring, the course provides attendees with a nuanced discussion of how to:
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Breed Standards : Herding Dog Group : Border Collie
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The goals and purposes of this breed standard include: to furnish guidelines for breeders who wish to maintain the quality of their breed and to improve it; to advance this breed to a state of similarity throughout the world; and to act as a guide for judges.
Breeders and judges have the responsibility to avoid any conditions or exaggerations that are detrimental to the health, welfare, essence and soundness of this breed, and must take the responsibility to see that these are not perpetuated.
Any departure from the following should be considered a fault, and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog and on the dog's ability to perform its traditional work.
The Border Collie's rootstock is of western European origin, with northern England and Scotland being the specific areas of development. People wanting specific herding characteristics isolated individual dogs exhibiting those traits and bred them, thereby developing a "pure breed." The Border Collie breed was established just over 100 years ago.
They are specifically known for their "eye," or almost hypnotic stare, when herding stock. Other specific traits include intelligence, speed, strength and an innate herding instinct. The Border Collie sets the standard in herding, particularly on sheep. This breed was historically bred for working ability rather than type.
The Border Collie was recognized by the United Kennel Club on January 1, 1961.
The Border Collie has good body balance, which enables him to change directions and speed quickly, from a high speed to a creep, a stalk to a steady lift.
The smooth outline should show quality, gracefulness and perfect balance. There should be sufficient substance to convey endurance.
Faults: Any tendency to coarseness or weediness in the general appearance of the dog.
The Border Collie is a fast, alert and intelligent dog that is anxious and able to work livestock under the direction of its master. They should be neither nervous nor aggressive, but keen and responsive.
Essentially an old-fashioned Collie type.
SKULL - Fairly broad, no prominence of occiput. Stop well-defined. No fullness in cheeks.
MUZZLE - Tapering to the nose, moderately short and strong. Approximately the same length as the skull.
TEETH - The Border Collie has a full complement of strong teeth that meet in a scissors bite.
EYES - Set wide apart, moderate in size, and oval in shape. Brown in color, except in merles where one, or both, or a part of one, may be blue. Expression should be mild, keen and intelligent.
EARS - Ears are medium size, broad at the base and taper towards the tip. May be carried drop, semi-erect or prick, and need not be matching. Are sensitive in their use.
NOSE - Black, except in brown dogs where it may be brown; and in blue dogs, where it should be slate. Well developed nostrils.
Strong and muscular; of good length. Slightly arched at the crest and broadening as it merges with the shoulders.
Shoulders are well laid back, and the elbows are held close to the body.
FORELEGS - Straight and parallel when viewed from the front, from the side the pasterns are slightly sloping. Bone is strong, but not coarse.
Slightly longer than tall. Athletic in appearance, with well-sprung ribs and a deep, rather broad chest. The loin is deep and muscular, not tucked up. The croup slopes gently to the set on of the tail.
Strong and muscular.
HINDLEGS - Thighs are long and deep, stifles and hocks are well turned. Rear pasterns are well boned and parallel when viewed from the rear.
Oval in shape, with deep pads and tight, well arched toes. Nails are short and strong.
Moderately long, reaching at least to the hock joint. Set on low, well furnished with hair, and with an upward sweep at the end which completes the graceful appearance of the dog. The tail may be raised in excitement, but never carried over the back.
Varied lengths: long, medium or smooth. May be straight or wavy. The long-coated dog will have well-feathered forelegs, breeches and tail, and an abundant mane.
The top coat is dense and of medium texture. The undercoat is soft, short and dense to provide adequate weather resistance.
Black and red. Less predominant colors include gray, blue merle, red merle, lemon and sable. May have white trim only, or may be accompanied by tan points.
Disqualification: Albinism.
Ideal height at the withers for males is 21 inches, slightly less for females.
Free, smooth and tireless, keeping the feet close to the ground. Gait conveys the impression of being able to move with great stealth and speed.
(A dog with a Disqualification must not be considered for placement in a conformation event, and must be reported to UKC.)
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Paul Steed, Artist on Wing Commander and Quake Series, Dies
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Asked about evidence of partisan bias, fact checkers struggle to defend themselves.
1:19 PM, Sep 27, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAY
Yesterday, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. the heads of all of the major media "fact checking" organizations convened for a panel discussion. On the panel were PolitiFact editor Bill Adair, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, the Associated Press's Jim Drinkard, and it was moderated by Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org. The title of the panel was, "Deception Alert: Fact Checkers Forecast Deceptions in 2012 Presidential Debates." Aside from the rather bizarre notion of fact checking events that have yet to take place, you can probably gather from the title of the panel that the discussion leaned toward self-congratulatory, and away from measured and reflective. Here's a sample of the kind of brazen deception we can expect in the debates, courtesy of FactCheck.org's Jackson*:
So Mitt Romney is making a claim that is "literally true," but it doesn't seem that way if you measure Obama's track record on gas prices against Bush, who by the way, is not running against him for president. Further, Jackson is happy to pile on debatable macroeconomic context that is favorable to Obama on gas prices, but offers no context supporting the underlying critique of Romney's "literally true" claim, which is that Barack "energy prices will necessarily skyrocket" Obama has done a number of things that could be said to have significantly upped the price of gas. For instance, why isn't Jackson pointing out that Obama's got a pretty lengthy track record of impeding offshore drilling? What about holding up the Keystone XL pipeline? Couldn't that be said to raise the price of gas? And that's just the tip of the iceberg—there have been many extensive and legitimate critiques of Obama's energy policies and their contribution to increased gas and other energy prices that could be mentioned here.
Obviously, there's a difference between fact checking and saying someone is being deceptive because, well, here's some highly selective context. But media fact checkers remain obdurately unwilling to make a distinction between what is "literally true" and passing off a one-sided argument as "fact checking." There's a distinct lack of self-awareness here.
And this lack of self-awareness could not be more evident when you confront fact checkers with evidence of their partisan bias. At the panel discussion today, Time's Michael Scherer asked if the fact checkers thought that one presidential campaign was being more deceptive than the other and why. Everyone on the panel respectfully declined to single out a campaign, and most were at pains to reassure that they believed all politicians lie and they don't play favorites. With that in mind, I asked the panel a question:
Ok, a mea culpa here. I was speaking extemporaneously here and Adair is right, the George Mason study did find that PolitiFact only checked the statements of Republicans slightly more than Democrats. "PolitiFact checked the assertions of Democrats slightly more often than those of Republicans (54% vs. 46% of all statements)," according to the study. But that makes what PolitiFact is doing even worse! If you're fact checking a roughly equal a number of statements by each party, and you find one party lies twice as often, wouldn't that be revealing? To be more specific, here's what the George Mason study, which tabulated PolitiFact rulings between June 1 and September 11, concluded:
And yet, Adair just refused to answer the question of why his organization overwhelmingly finds Republican statements false. It's not just the George Mason study, either. Again, the University of Minnesota analyzed "more than 500 PolitiFact stories from January 2010 through January 2011 finds that current and former Republican officeholders have been assigned substantially harsher grades by the news organization than their Democratic counterparts. In total, 74 of the 98 statements by political figures judged 'false' or 'pants on fire' over the last 13 months were given to Republicans, or 76 percent, compared to just 22 statements for Democrats (22 percent)."
So why does Adair have no explanation for this? Confronted with actual data, a.k.a. "facts," is he really dismissing the critique PolitiFact disproportionately rules against Republicans because Democrats come up to him at parties and complain? Sure looks that way.
If he's confident in his organization's evaluations why not just say, "We strive to be fair, but the results seem to show Republicans tell falsehoods more often"? I suspect that the reason he doesn't stand behind the aggregate results of the PolitiFact rulings is because he knows that it looks bad. It would cause people to start taking a closer look at the specifics of PolitiFact rulings to see whether this remarkable result is warranted.
Which brings me to my final point regarding Adair. When he says, "what I'd like to talk about are if you have substantive questions about something we've done we're happy to talk about it." That's not my sense of it at all. I've written several articles citing chapter and verse of why PolitiFact rulings are either tendentious or flat out erroneous, and PolitiFact is downright unresponsive beyond dismissive references to "partisans" at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
For instance, Adair began his presentation today with a video of Jon Stewart confronting Herman Cain with the PolitiFact's charge that Mitt Romney's welfare reform ads are deceptive—after confronting Cain, Stewart actually does a victory dance to drive home the point that he's caught Cain in a lie.
Yet, this is an issue that PolitiFact has not only gotten wrong, but been thunderously wrong about it. Indeed, I just wrote four thousand words unpacking the Obama administration's recent waivers to the work requirements in welfare reform, relevant statistical analysis, and the anti-welfare reform statements of the top welfare policy makers in the Department of Health and Human Services. It turns out that the Romney campaign is making a pretty credible argument, and PolitiFact is most certainly not. And not only that, PolitiFact's rulings on the matter are wrong to the point that PolitiFact is now in direct conflict with a ruling one one of the key issues made by Adair's fellow panelist Glenn Kessler. (Compare here and here.) PolitiFact has now given two "Pants on Fire!" rulings to the Romney campaign—and a related "true" rating to Bill Clinton—based on dubious sources and little understanding of welfare policy. I haven't seen PolitiFact respond to myself, the Washington Post, or Heritage Foundation policy expert Robert Rector—the "intellectual godfather of welfare reform" who wrote the law's original work requirements. Rector has repeatedly and quite publicly called out fact checkers on the issue.
But wait! We're just getting warmed up! All of the panelists responded to me. Glenn Kessler was perfectly reasonable throughout the whole panel, even mentioning that welfare reform was more complicated than other fact checkers on the panel were making it out to be. Kessler wisely steered clear of the PolitiFact wreckage, only proffering that he gets a roughly equal amount of criticism from all sides of the political spectrum. He did, however, make this unintentionally illuminating observation:
Huh. If Democrats believe the "myth" of the liberal media and Republicans have been on record for years as believing the media are liberal, at what point does this cease to be a myth?
For his part, Drinkard began the inevitable circling of the wagons by accusing me of overlooking relevant facts:
I responded:
According to the timing, neither study would have really been impacted by the primary. Oh and the George Mason study on PolitiFact also found the following result. It is revealing and also goes a long way toward ruling out the presidential primary affecting the results:
Again, why can't any of these professional fact checkers offer up a plausible excuse for why PolitiFact finds Republicans tell falsehoods at two to three times the rate of Democrats? I think it's fair to say that FactCheck.org's Brooks Jackson seemed mildly annoyed with my impertinence on this point, and basically came around to the only conclusion that is both face-saving and obvious. Unfortunately, even Jackson seemed to have difficulty believing this conclusion isn't improbable:
So then, Jackson raises the possibility that the disproportionate "false" rulings for Republicans accurately reflect that they lie more than Democrats. But pressed on this, he suddenly feels the need to clarify that his organization, unlike PolitiFact, isn't fact checking Republicans as false over Democrats at indefensible rates. This is not exactly a vote of confidence in PolitiFact.
I guess the results here are as predictable as they are ironic. Try and talk to fact checkers about facts involving their own work, and the result is trying to nail Jello to a wall. The panel wrapped up shortly after my question, and a gentlemen who's name I wish I'd caught came up to me and said, "Did you notice they answered your question the way that they complained political campaigns responded to them?" Oddly enough, I did.
I also noticed that last week, Gallup reported "U.S. Distrust in Media Hits New High." But don't worry, Adair informed everyone at the panel this morning that this is going to be the year that everyone notes that fact checking took hold in the public consciousness. I wouldn't want to suggest a correlation between these two things, lest I again be accused of "false logic." But after yesterday's performance at the press club, perhaps you'll agree that more "fact checking" may not be what we need to restore faith in the fourth estate.
*Correction: I originally identified the Associated Press's Drinkard as the source of this quote.
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TR: Some people think young technologists need to spend more time learning how to market their ideas.
MEAD: Science is not just about self-expression; you have to be able to explain what you're doing. Dick Feynman was one of the best marketers I have ever met. He never wanted to admit it – in his day, anything entrepreneurial was socially unacceptable for an academic – but he was able to position physics as something exciting, in a way that has survived to this day.
TR: You and Feynman were behind a big neuromorphic-computing project launched at Caltech in the '80s. What happened?
MEAD: Part of the problem was the refusal of the CS [computer science] community to have a new thought – the fact that there might be inherently more powerful ways to do computing. People said, "Everything's a Turing machine, and that's that." No matter that we already have a working example of a massively parallel machine – the animal brain. And meanwhile, now, the quantum computing guys have come along and showed yet another alternative model – one that in theory will solve problems that are exponentially unsolvable by a Turing machine. I'm making no statement about the realization of quantum computers – we still don't know about that. I'm just talking about our understanding of computing in the abstract. You need a fundamentally new conception of that if you want to try to make a better machine.
TR: Another neurally inspired company you've been involved with makes advanced hearing aids, Sonic Innovations.
MEAD: The thought process there came from thinking about how human hearing works, but again the actual device is just a little digital signal processor. The same thing happened with the idea of neural networks, by the way. They became just another algorithm for existing computers.
TR: What about Foveon, the camera company you founded in 1997? Most people probably don't realize that its roots are in studies of the eye.
MEAD: We started out making models of the retina, which by itself might make a big difference to a few people, but it's not enough of a commercial opportunity to justify big investment. What we realized was that if you took what we were doing and strip out the retina part, that's a really good image sensor – so let's do that. Foveon technology captures light directly, consuming less power and requiring far less processing than the file captured by a conventional digital camera. But when we explain it today, we don't have any reference to anything neural.
TR: So we're still at square one with neuromorphic computing?
MEAD: Actually, quite a lot of progress has been made. One of the exciting things that grew out of neuromorphic thinking is Lloyd Watts's company Audience. They've got a working cochlear model that builds a significant portion of the auditory pathway – including precision signal recovery and sophisticated analysis – into a chip-level component. It's more than just a better microphone; think of it as the auditory front end for any device that wants to use sound as an input.
TR: Voice recognition lives!
MEAD: Voice recognition as we know it is really brain dead. I shouldn't say brain dead – a lot of smart people have worked on it for many years. But it's an old paradigm. It's advancing logarithmically with processing power; that's about it. And yet we have these incredible working models right here – our own eyes and ears. That's where we want to be looking.
TR: Hearing, vision – the same problems you picked out nearly 20 years ago are still interesting problems.
MEAD: They're even more interesting, because we're starting to know enough about them to make some progress. It's taken this long to get the engineering-oriented people talking to the physiology people. Lawyers talk about "Chinese walls" in organizations; well, the barriers between scientific disciplines have been fierce.
TR: Is it the inherent difficulty of adapting digital technologies to our mostly analog human world?
MEAD: Digital abstraction is a wonderful thing. It substitutes a very simple set of logic operations – "and," "or," and "not" – for an infinite set of physical things. Working in analog is much harder, because there are essentially countless ways for the thing to go wrong. You're working with the physics itself, rather than with some very small set of circuits that have been crafted to show digital behavior.
TR: We can't let you get away without asking about Moore's Law. You get a lot of credit for its formulation.
MEAD: Gordon had observed what was happening and asked me how far things could go, how small you could make the transistors. We did some work in the lab, and the answer turned out to be .15 microns [150 nanometers], maybe smaller. That was shocking at the time, but it turns out to have been conservative.
TR: So how far can it go?
MEAD: I looked at things again a few years ago, and if you don't do anything differently, you can get down to 30 nanometers – a factor of five from what we originally said was going to be easy, and still a long ways from where things are today. So it's certainly not going to stop.
And at the same time, we don't have to keep doing things exactly the way we are doing them today. I for one certainly hope we don't.
Salisbury, CT-based writer Spencer Reiss likes to interview people smarter than he is. The last time he did it for TR was with venture capitalist Michael Moritz, the man behind Google (April 2004).