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Our Crisis: Engineer Considers Options for Houston's Transportation Future
Thursday, February 20, 2014
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It's no secret that Houston is going through a growth spurt. The city currently has four central business districts that, if separated, would each be among the country's top 15 employment centers. In the next 30 years, 3.5 million people are projected to move to the 8-county region, with two million of those concentrated in Harris County.
Letter to the Editor> Reimagine the Astrodome Competition Sour Grapes
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
The Editors.
[ Editor's Note: The following is a selection of reader-submitted comments from the online feature about AN's recent Reimagine the Astrodome competition. It appeared as a letter to the editor in a recent print edition, AN01_02.05.2014_SW. Opinions expressed in letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect the opinions or sentiments of the newspaper. AN welcomes reader letters, which could appear in our regional print editions. To share your opinion, please email firstname.lastname@example.com. ]
Three of these are not serious, and the one with merit, the "sky dome" closely resembles a proposal I published over two years ago. Naturally we think that is a great concept, but the devil is in the details.
On View> "Roads of Arabia" Exhibition on Saudi Arabian Archaeology Opens December 19 in Houston
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
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Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
5601 Main Street
Houston, Texas
December 19 through March 9, 2014
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) is hosting an eye-opening exhibition this winter that will uncover the rich history of the ancient trade routes of the Arabian Peninsula. Organized by the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., in association with the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), Roads of Arabia will feature objects recently excavated from more than 10 archaeological sites, and give insight into the culture and economy of this ancient civilization. Recently discovered objects along the trade routes include alabaster bowls and fragile glassware as well as heavy gold earrings and monumental statues. All of the artifacts are testament to the lively exchange between Arabs and their neighbors, including the Egyptians, Syrians, Babylonians, and Greco-Romans.
Houston Voters to Astrodome: Drop Dead (But A Better Plan Is Coming!)
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Alan G. Brake.
Yesterday, Houston voters killed a $200 million ballot initiative to renovate the unused Astrodome. Fifty-three percent opposed the measure and 47 percent supported it. The plan would have turned the stadium—the first domed and air-conditioned professional stadium—into a multi-use event and convention space. Houston's professional sports teams now play in Reliant Stadium next door and Minute Made Park in downtown Houston. Without funding for renovation, the dome appears destined for demolition.
Tomorrow, AN will release the results of the "Re-imagine the Astrodome" competition, which includes both pragmatic and visionary ideas for re-using the Space Age structure. To celebrate, join us for coffee and refreshments at the Texas Society of Architects in the Grand Lobby of Fort Worth Convention Center from 10:00-11:00 a.m. We'll also be launching the inaugural issue of the Southwest edition. Stop by meet AN's new Southwest Aaron Seward.
Saturday> Here's Your Chance to Own a Small Piece of Houston's Astrodome
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Nick Miller.
As Harris County voters prepare to make their decision on the fate of Houston's iconic Astrodome, some lucky locals will have an opportunity to bring home a piece of the historic stadium this Saturday. In preparation for the stadium's pending rebirth as the "New Dome Experience" (or its possible destruction), the building's managers are tearing a page out of Minneapolis' playbook as they put sections of the stadium up for sale.
A limited quantity of seats, genuine sections of AstroTurf, furnishings, concessions equipment, and various memorabilia—including the space helmets worn by the grounds crew for the stadium's opening 48 years ago—are up for sale at the Astrodome Yard Sale and Live Auction at Houston's Reliant Center on November 2.
Two Polls Indicate the Disposition of Harris County Voters Regarding $217 Million Astrodome Bond Fund
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Aaron Seward.
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that two recent polls have given clues as to how the denizens of Harris County will vote in the matter of approving $217 million in bonds to fund the reuse of the Astrodome. Previously, the Harris County Commissioners Court set the matter of the bond fund to a November 5 referendum. If voters approve the fund, the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation will be able to proceed with its plans to create a New Dome Experience in time for Superbowl LI in 2017. Harris County property tax will also experience a slight hike to pay for it all. If voters oppose the issue, the Astrodome will in all likelihood meet the wrecking ball. Either way, entrants to AN and YKK AP's Reimagine The Astrodome competition will be watching with bated breath.
Architecture Assemblages in Texas Create Curious Houses
Monday, September 23, 2013
Elizabeth Fazzare.
Artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck of Havel Ruck Projects have garnered attention for some interesting installation pieces in Houston, blurring the lines between art and architecture. Over the last eight years, the collaboration has constructed temporary artworks using old, wooden homes, bizarre shows of simultaneous deconstruction and reconstruction of architecture.
Inversion from 2005 recreates two wood bungalows, donated to the artists by Art League Houston, into a vortex of white wooden planks. In 2010, the Houston Art Alliance sponsored Havel Ruck Projects's creation of Fifth Ward Jam. A wooden home doomed for refuse in Houston's 5th Ward became an imaginative community stage of vertically spewed boards.
From The Pages Of Texas Architect: Il Duomo
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
The Editors.
[ Editor's Note: The following story, "Il Duomo," first appeared in Texas Architect's May/June 1990 issue. It was written by the late Douglas Pegues Harvey, an architect who graduated from Rice University and worked for Marmon Mok Architecture in San Antonio. It was written on the occasion of the Houston Astrodome's 25th anniversary as a sort of homage as well as a protest for the fact that the building was not chosen for the AIA Twenty-Five Year Award. Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch was. (Incidentally, another Houston project was chosen for the 2013 25-Year Award.) We are rerunning this story, with permission, because today, September 17, is the registration deadline for Reimagine the Astrodome, AN and YKK AP's Astrodome Reuse Design Ideas Competition. Due to the overwhelming enthusiasm surrounding the competition, we've decided to extend the registration dealing to Monday, September 23. So if you were sleeping, wake up! Sign up today! (Also, if you have the chops to write articles like "Il Duomo" and want to contribute to AN Southwest, please contact Aaron Seward, email@example.com.) ]
It's not every building that gets to be known as The Eighth Wonder Of The World. Texas' nominee, the Astrodome, opened 25 years ago as the world's finest interior landscape. On Apr. 9,1965, a time when the hegemony of television and the standing of the Sunbelt in American life were not yet secure, the Astrodome opening struck a telling blow on their behalf. The occasion was a Houston Astro's exhibition baseball game against the New York Yankees. With President Lyndon Johnson watching, Mickey Mantle (naturally) hit the first home run, but the Astro's (necessarily) won.
PAC Formed to Save The Houston Astrodome
Friday, September 13, 2013
Nick Miller.
With less then 8 weeks remaining before Harris County voters cast their ballots to decide the fate of the "Eighth Wonder of the World," a group of prominent Houstonians has established a political action committee with which they hope to raise public support for the ailing Astrodome. Launched at a press conference on Thursday, The New Dome PAC has begun efforts to raise upwards of $200,000 for a media campaign intended to persuade the public to vote in favor of Proposition 2, the $217 million project that aims to preserve, repurpose, and modernize the historic stadium. While no opposing organization has yet been formed, some worry that many donors may be tapped out at this point in the political season, and polls conducted by local stations KHOU 11 News and KUHF Houston Public Radio show that the public is still split, with younger voters who may have never attended an event at the Astrodome showing less enthusiasm for putting down the cash to save it. Meanwhile, don't forget that the Architect's Newspaper and YKK AP are hosting an Astrodome Reuse Design Ideas Competition: Reimagine The Astrodome. The registration deadline is September 17, so sign up today!
From The Pages of Texas Architect: Astrodome Update by Ben Koush
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
The Editors.
[ Editor's Note: For those of you who are getting excited about The Architect's Newspaper and YKK AP's Reimagine the Astrodome design ideas competition, you have until September 17 to register. Once you've done that, take the time to read the following article, which appeared in the September/October 2013 issue of Texas Architect. Written by Houston-based architect and writer Ben Koush, it covers the current status of the Dome, what it means to Harris County, and Space City's record of not bothering to preserve its architectural heritage. ]
Ever since the Houston Oilers owner Bud Adams, in a snit after being refused a new stadium, took his football team to Nashville in 1997 and renamed it the Tennessee Titans, the fate of the Astrodome has been up in the air. Matters were made worse when, instead of rehabilitating the Astrodome a new, neo-traditionalist baseball stadium, Minute Maid Park, was built down-town for the Astros in 1999, and then in 2002, a hulking new football stadium, Reliant Center, was built uncomfortably close to its predecessor to house the replacement team, the Houston Texans, and the Houston Rodeo.
Pictorial> Library of Congress Documents Houston's Astrodome in 2004
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
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As enthusiasm continues to build for The Architect Newspaper and YKK AP's Reimagine The Astrodome design ideas competition, which accompanies the launch of the forthcoming AN Southwest edition as well as YKK AP's expansion into the region, we thought we'd take the opportunity to share a collection of excellent black and white photographs of the Astrodome from the Library of Congress. These pictures document the dome as it looked in 2004, after its last tenant, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, had moved out in 2003, before it was used to house refugees from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and well before it was declared unfit for occupancy in 2008. Take this opportunity to subscribe to AN Southwest and sign up for the Reimaging The Astrodome competition.
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Dear Mr. President,
I say a very loud no to U.S. military intervention in Syria and have just written my two Vermont senators and single representative, urging them to do the same.
We Americans have in the last half-century compiled a truly awful record of bringing havoc by force of arms and by subversion to one country after another whose indigenous politics and culture we neither respect nor understand. The record is long, from Guatemala and Iran and the Congo in the 1950s, to Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, and to Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade. A cumulative record of body bags without number, and continuing tumult in the countries we leave behind when the game is over.
Based on that record, I would say that we dont have the moral authority or wisdom to correct yet another country, this time Syria, by the application of military force.
Moreover, to bomb or rocket distant Syria as you propose to do would be an outright act of war, to which Syria would have the right, ugly as such rights are, to answer in kind, however and wherever it can.
Its reckless and prideful of you, with your ill-conceived talk of red lines, to incur that risk in the name of the 300 million of us you were elected to serve.
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Photo: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Victory Tour Set?
Twitter user @SJLong15 posted a picture with the caption "Catching Fire set". I was curious to see what picture it was, since we've seen a good amount from the Goat Farm and from the Pullman Yard set. To my surprise it was something I haven't seen before!
You can clearly see the Panem logo and the number 74, as well as "Victory Tour" on the blue flags to the left. Also in the background on the right hand side, you can see the yellow/red flags with the Roman Numerals LXXV which is equivalent to number 75. Not sure if this stage will also serve purpose for the Quarter Quell in some form.
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A national health issue
Sadly, Comer's story is hardly unique.
"Suicide is a national health issue, said Debra Graham, head of the Compassionate Hearts Support Group and chair of the Central New York Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, who lost her son to suicide in 2004. "In the United States, every 16 minutes someone dies by suicide, claiming more than 32,000 lives each year. It is estimated that an attempt is made every minute, with nearly one million people attempting suicide yearly."
According to the New York State Office of Mental Health, more people die from suicide than homicide every year in the U.S. It is the 11th leading cause of death for all Americans and the third leading cause of death for people aged 15 to 24. In 1999, the CDC reported that more teenagers and young adults died from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke and chronic lung disease combined.
It's also a problem in New York state. Approximately 1,300 New Yorkers take their own lives every year; for every death, there are anywhere from eight to 25 attempts, according to the New York State Department of Health. Approximately 150,000 teenagers in the state attempt suicide every year; 70 succeed in taking their own lives.
Comer said Central New Yorkers are especially susceptible.
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Cool workspaces – JWT Amsterdam
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Today we're ogling the amazing new workspace of advertising agency JWT in Amsterdam.
Designed by design director Alrik Koudenburg and design-artist RJW Elsinga, the due created a stunning 2000 square metre, custom designed working wonderland.
JWT Amsterdam aims to 'Seriously Surprise' and it is fitting that their workspace does too.Exciting & beautiful things lie in wait around every corner – be it the upside-down castle at reception, the greenhouse meeting space with huge plants, the architectural tree sculptures, or the drawings from artists such as the Dutch collective Kamp Horst or the Norwegian Anders Rockum. Visitors exploring the space discover funky Skype units, Amsterdam Canal house cabinets and complementing Eames classics and lights by Louis Poulsen.
No doubt this is a workplace with a high creative output and a happy team of employees.
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Eames: The Architect & The Painter
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If you are anything like us you're obsessed by absolutely everything and anything 'Eames'. We don't blame you! They were just so damn cool.
We are super excited about the Australian premiere of Eames: The Architect & The Painter – a film about the husband-and-wife team. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status in American, and international culture. 'Eames: The Architect & The Painter' draws from a treasure trove of archival material, as well as new interviews with friends, colleague, and experts to capture the personal story of Charles and Ray while placing them firmly in the context of their fascinating times.
The film is launching in Melbourne at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) and will run from 1st June – 17th June 2012. More info here.
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Constantly seeking wallpaper inspiration? So are we! Some of our picks with links below. Enjoy!
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REACH Hong Kong 2011 Round Up
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Essential Eames Exhibition + Living Edge wins awards + Highlights
Living Edge staffers recently attended the REACH 2011 Herman Miller Learning Forum in Hong Kong. We share our favourite bits below.
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Design for you
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Herman Miller's Design For You contest is creating a stir in blogworld lately. No wonder, with Eames Hang-it-Alls and an Embody chair among the prizes on offer for the simple task of entering your details.
Better news is that there will be an Eames Hang-It-All awarded to one of you good people in December as part of Living with Living Edge on this blog. All you have to do for a chance to hang the prize in your hall is send in a nice pic of a piece of Living Edge furniture in your home. Snap!
Way back when… classic Herman Miller
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Little books
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The miniature has a charm all of its own. Here are two tiny literary masterpieces that have caught our attention recently…
One of the most widely renowned contemporary book designers, Irma Boom's ingenious productions have gained her international fame and led to her work being collected by many museums, notably MoMA in New York.
As part of a major retrospective of her work this year at the Amsterdam Library, Boom, a biography in miniature, has been produced. The 38 x 50mm gem contains a complete overview of her oeuvre, with commentary and more than 450 full colour illustrations.
Little (the book) documents a photographic collaboration between David and Jo-Nell Sieren. Depicting 'quiet moments in small settings', the book contains a series of photographs of miniatures, thoughtfully created and beautifully shot. Escape for a few minutes and browse through the results here…


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@skywise Very good point! Charlie Hunnam as He-Man, I never thought of that, he's a great actor and Bill Nighy as Skeletor would be great, he has an amazing voice and could bring a very creepy voice for the character and him under Skeletor's make-up, is just Great!.
@mr-k Seth Graham-Smith wrote the book and the screenplay for the film, I think the problem of the film was the director, because the cast was very good, as for the serious and dark tone of the book as you say, I would be interested to read it sounds like a lot better than the movie and interesting. Is there any type of continuation at the end of it? because the ending of the film left a chance to Dominic Cooper to return.
@gandoff I agree, Hemsworth as He-Man and Weaving as Skeletor, he has the voice and physicality. If not Hemsworth Another actors for the role of He-man could be Josh Duhamel or Jared Padalecki. As for Skeletor, if not Weaving, maybe Liam Neeson or Ralph Fiennes. I hope they do a good job with this film and go more on the mithology.
@themoviefanatic Yeah, that was the running time for Abe Lincoln: Vamp Hunter, and I thought it was too long, I wanted to see more action than the serious touch they tried to show. Hansel and Gretel is what Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter should have been, action packed and Fun. the question is what will be the title for the second film of hansel and gretel, maybe: Hansel and Gretel: The Quest for Red Riding Hood, hahaha.
So Stark sees his home on tv surrounded by helicopters preparing to shoot? Nice! and why doesn't Shield help, since they monitor everything that happens around the globe? plothole? or they have an explanation in the film? If the White House is attacked, what shield is doing, to not protect the interest of the US? or a they so sure Tony Stark can handeled all by himself? Well I think that only happens is Superhero films.
@thedude-abides Agreed and if not Tom Hardy.
Is Pacific Rim rated R?!!
@themoviefanatic Before watching the film, yes, but after watching it, yes you kinda want to see more, but is appropiate. it goes like this: Introduction of characters, witches killing spree, the two siblings hunting them, a lot of action and humor, ending. That's why I want the sequel to be more story and character driven with the action, humor and fun the first film had, I just think it would be awesome to see. if they do it like this expect at least 1hr 50 mins running time minimum. Renner and Arterton are just Great as Hansel and Gretel.
Love the Oscorp presence in this films, gives the story suspense. Norman Osborn will definitely become The Green Goblin in the third film. Mary Jane has only an introduction to the story in this film, since Woodley finished filming her scenes, but she's a Tomboy by the look of the pics, not the model we all know.
@moviemouse I think that as well, Electro burn footsteps.
@themoviefanatic What I mean was that when you enter the theater to see the movie you don't expect to much of it, but getting out you just go: "That was a Fun movie!", the running time was fair. I hope for the sequel like @corey said, better CGI.
@cheetoboy I was thinking that too, the beginning of the film set in japan with watanabe founding Godzilla or he could be playing a japanese scientist, giving more information about the japanese-born monster.
@themoviefanatic I saw the movie and the running time was okay for the type story and action, is one of those movies that you don't ecpect to much of and at the end is quite a good film. the chemistry between the two leads was good, the story short and understandable, the witches were very impressive, specially Famke Janssen, the action very good, overall, a good saturday night film. As for the sequel I hope they do it a more story driven film, they can do a lot with the sequel, the first film as i said was very good.
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@bryanyentz Agreed man. Jackson had a limited vision to The Lord of the Rings, but Cameron could do anything with the world of Pandora, he has unlimited options. In the first film he introduced us to the Na'vi and there environment and there religion and a love story between two different beings, He could do so much more with the two sequels and he says Jackson had it easy? Cameron your age is noticing, be better than that!
I Thought they were shooting in Japan, but I guess the producers want to show a rebuild Chicago. Like @themoviefanatic you said they need to focus more on the Transformers.
Who could play the villain?, i would suggest Hugo Weaving, but he already played a similar role with Red Skull in Cap. Any One?
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The fall of the Redmond Empire – History lesson not learnt?
The Roman Empire fell for many reasons, one of which is argued that it it extended its military ambitions too far and another was that it became decadent. The stories of the Romans hording art/literature, the opulent lifestyles, the conquest, the military might…are these things that different to the corporate monster that Microsoft has become?
It is decadence that I would like to highlight in this article and it was brought to my attention (kindly) by a Mashable post which to me, shows how out of touch Microsoft has become and how I think Microsoft is completely disconnected from the real world. This decadence may well be the reason why the Kin was released, why the Zune didn't get the favored response of the iPod, why Bing is nowhere near to toppling Google and why if it wasn't for OEM, can we really be sure people would be buying Windows 7? Especially since XP has been given yet another stay of execution, suggesting that people really don't want to upgrade. Or maybe its just the products themselves? or how about a combination of the two?
Need further examples? Look at the Windows 7 party ads. Could you relate to that? Or how about the failed "shoe commercial" that wasn't funny? What about the Kin advert that had complaints?
On top of this creative comparison of a decadent Redmond Empire and Rome, we have Ballmer. Watching over his empire whilst loyal servants stuff in grapes and pour wine down his gullet [1], well not quite grapes – M&M's and take away the wine, it's apparently Milk and OJ.
Before I go any further, let me link the article I refered to above so that you understand where I am going with all this.
Take a look at this article – "Ten Fun Facts about Microsoft" http://mashable.com/2010/07/17/microsoft-facts/ I'm not sure if, in the current climate of recovery from recession, conservative living (and layoffs from Microsoft) is something that could be described as "fun" with what appears to be a rather opulent lifestyle for those at the Redmond campus. Now I wonder, what do the customers of "Kin" or "Zune" or "Vista" have to think when they have issues with their investments. I'm sure they will raise a glass to "good old Microsoft" as the latest Windows exploit which brings down their system is blamed on a third-party. I'm sure they will smile dreamily into space imagining that whilst they may not be have a great time with a Microsoft product, its creators and staff are "shanting" [3] it up with M&M's and free OJ.
I expect a claim will be made that any critic of this opulence is jealousy. I expect a claim will be made that any critic is envious of the gifts alleged to be showered on the Microsoft faithful [2] around the net and maybe even the M&M's of Microsoft employee's. To those people I would say this – I (and many other writers) have made reasonably successful blogs (average 1000 unique readers daily in my case) out of writing about things which we receive no gifts or rewards for.
I am sure if I applied my skill to the products of the companies who do shower gifts, my tech needs would be catered for free of charge. So if I am so envious and want a taste of the opulence alleged to be enjoyed by others, why don't I join the bandwagon?
Firstly (and most importantly) if I don't believe a product or service is fit for purpose, I don't champion it and secondly I really don't need to be gifted a laptop or anything else as I am quite able to purchase them anytime I want. I have this strange view that my opinions should be based on honest held belief and not paid for…call me silly. You may not agree with what I say, but the words are mine alone.
Now thats out of the way lets look at some of these "fun" facts about Microsoft (all taken from the above linked article)
Apparently the top two drinks of choice for Microsoft staffers are milk and OJ. There's also free candy on the Microsoft campus shuttle.
and it goes on:
Each anniversary, a Microsoft employee is expected to provide one pound of M&Ms for every year they've worked.
but its not just confectionary to be enjoyed at Microsoft campus's:
Microsoft is one of the largest corporate collectors of artworks with over 5,000 contemporary pieces including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, ceramics, studio glass, and multimedia works.
And where would we be without Software Patents? Uninhibited? Not at Microsoft!….. its alleged:
Microsoft also rewards its staff members for securing a new patent. Besides a $1,500 bonus, they get a wooden plaque and a decorative black "cube" that features their name, as well as the title and date of the patent.
Happy times are here again? Think up an idea, it doesn't matter if it's not used and slap a Microsoft stamp on it. Win great prizes! It can always be used later when Microsoft sees another company being successful at something they haven't. In today's computing world where software patents can be seen as a hindrance to innovation, this particular "scheme" of Microsoft's disgusts me. Maybe though the future of Microsoft rests in making money from its vast portfolio of patents? Want to see a great example? Check out Microsoft having a Star Trek moment in my article "To Boldly Blow". You can read that here.
So we have hording of art, OJ and Milk on tap? M&M's in abundance…..sounds very much like a modern-day Rome to me. Maybe if Microsoft concentrated on its products instead of its people living this decadent lifestyle, then they may not find themselves killing products such as Kin, weeks after it had been launched – of course Microsoft was not the victim, the poor souls who bought into Microsoft PR are.
Regardless of your take on Microsoft products, if you were a shareholder, would you be happy with this? Like the Roman Empire will Microsoft fall? – I'd say no, its got one hell of a war chest to fall back on and I'm sure if was on its way down, it will bring as many others as it can down with it.
Dr Schestowitz from TechRIGHTS sums it up well in my view, I quote:
Microsoft is not disrespected because it's "successful" (or envied); Microsoft is disrespected, distrusted and also fined heavily because it's corrupt.
In the meantime though, Windows users can be assured, any issues won't be Microsoft's fault, Linux users are zealots and communists, Linux is like a cancer (allegedly said by Steve Ballmer) and Bill Gates seems not to mind piracy of their products since people will "get kind of addicted". Happy times and Im sure Microsoft staff will give a thought to an unhappy customer as they wash down their M&M's with the umpteenth pint of OJ.
And in closing, if the chair throwing allegations in relation to Steve Ballmer are true, maybe he should stay off the M&M's and their sugar content, also looking into the E numbers in the OJ served at Redmond.
There is plenty more material showing what I think is the gradual loosing of control of "territories", one only has to look at any tech forum or blog post where people post about alternatives. Even two years ago, the site Microsoft-watch was renowned as a meeting place for Linux users (in fact I met many online friends there who I am still in contact with.)
All I ask before you donate to the Richmond Empire is to consider alternatives. I don't ask you to buy anything, I don't ask you to install anything. Trying Linux is as simple as booting a LiveCD, who knows you may like it, but even if you don't, what have you lost?
[1] Of course Steve Ballmer doesn't really have people pushing things down his gullet (I hope) it was written to create a mental picture of a comparison between Microsoft & the Roman Empire. In any case I don't think Steve Ballmer would sit on a throne, they are rather heavy and very difficult to throw. ;)
[2] There have been many revelations of gifts received from Microsoft. Some people gave this information openly, others were not so keen to do so. I wonder, what sort of support would Microsoft get if gifts and titles were not showered on its faithful? Since FOSS software doesn't really go in for that sort of thing, ask yourself whose opinion would you trust more, comments from someone who writes for free or someone who writes whilst receiving gifts from the company they write about? I'll let you decide that one.
[3] Shanting it up is a term used to describe enjoying oneself. Its usually in reference to alcohol, but in this instance I'll refer it to E numbers in the free Redmond candy.
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Nice rant. Have you checked on the "decadent" lifestyle at Google, by the way? Or the awful decadence prevalent at Oracle? Your article would be much more convincing if you bothered to research the perks that almost ALL the big software companies give their employees. M&Ms and free orange juice are rather frugal, by comparison. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant.
On your way, then.
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You were very kind, Tim. Did not mention the sea cruiser orgies funded by Micro$oft in Israel…
Seems like one of our favourite MVP`s co-shills is trying out some non MS devices, what will the other MVPs say?….what will MS say?, oh my..
The analogy you have provided between the Roman Empire and Microsoft is an apt one. Although MS run will be much shorter in length. Already the decline and fall of MS is in abundant evidence.
Interesting enough, the Romans almost always had the Senate confirm the Emperors that reigned during the Empire part of its history, and continue to call the "Empire," a Republic. This facade was a tool used to entice citizens to support the Empire. In the end the the Roman Empire was destroyed by a relatively small bands of Barbarians. North African Roman provinces being an example of being overrun by approximately 80,000 Vandal soldiers. Once a country loses the support of its citizens, the end cannot be far off. MS faces greater opposition from its new products getting it's customers to use them. I suggest the forced lock-in off buying an OEM computer with virtually the only choice windows, has in the long term, made MS and Ballmer lazy to improve the product, but also caused resentment in many users.
To carry your analogy further, how about a comparison of Ballmer to the Roman Emperior he most resembles? I would suggest Nero, who was rumored to have vittled while Rome burned. True or not, the rumor help turn popular opinion against him.
Perhaps MS should be sued?….
Yes. Make sure that they're held accountable for software operated outside of their control, on hardware that they didn't choose, for purposes they didn't intend or test for, monitored by people they had no association with, linked to systems they did not know about, running custom software they didn't build, and in an environment they had no input into.
You go and file that suit, chew. Let's see how far you get.
What line? I'm encouraging him. If he feels strongly about it, let him take it before an unbiased judge or prosecutor who doesn't have any interests, fiscal or otherwise, in the matter. If he gets laughed out of the court system, that means that a totally unbiased person agrees that he should stop smoking his socks and get out of his mom's basement (or, if you're a Paranoid Zealot, it means that Microsoft has bought off every judge and prosecutor in the country). So, let's see how far he gets.
Hmmm, I just posted a link, on the other hand Richard you are the one that seems to feel strongly about it. So strongly in fact that you attacked someone who posted a link, for your information I did not write that article. As I mentioned before why would I need to sue MS? Your replies seem to suggest I need to do that. You know maybe If I did have an oil rig that did explode due to the use of shitty software I would! (who am I kidding, I would`nt use Windows in any important capacity short of entertaining a 7 year old, oops sorry Ricky, that sounds like you). Did I, in posting that link insult your favourite toy? If you feel so strongly about it feel free to comment on the original computerworld article.
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Oh Ricky you`re so fine, you`re so fine you blow my mind, Hey Ricky.
I have no reason to sue, I know better than to use shoddy i`ll conceived products from Microsoft.
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The Financial Stability Board is … is a thing, first of all, did you know that? It's not the Financial Stability Oversight Council, though it is as far as I can tell a global version of that with similar composition (senior regulators! in a room!) and obsessions (shadow banking! money market funds!). It's also not the Systemic Risk Council, which is different, insofar as it's just a thing that Sheila Bair made up. I am going to make up a thing – the "Systemic Stability Oversight Board" seems available – and if you ask me nicely I will invite you to join it and we will make beautiful, beautiful reports together.
Like the FSB did with their report about shadow banking1 released yesterday. "Shadow banking," like "junk bonds," is a term that sort of assumes the panic it sets out to create, and so the report dutifully provides a number that is bigger than another number:
The shadow banking industry has grown to about $67 trillion, $6 trillion bigger than previously thought, leading global regulators to seek more oversight of financial transactions that fall outside traditional oversight. … The FSB, a global financial policy group comprised of regulators and central bankers, found that shadow banking grew by $41 trillion between 2002 and 2011.
Here is that in graphical form:
Holy crap look at that purplish line go! Oh wait that purplish line is just regular banks; shadow banks are the red line. Which also goes up. Just not as fast. If it worries you that shadow banks added $41 trillion in assets in 2002-2011, you might spare a thought for non-shadow banks adding, what, $80 trillion in assets? I submit to you that non-shadow banks have shadowy places of their own; I half-seriously submit to you that the term "shadow banking" functions to make regular banking sound less shadowy, like Disneyland in Baudrillard.2 Here it is in percentage terms:
This is sort of the story of shadow banking being a more or less steady part of the (rapidly growing!) financial system over the last decade, while banks and central banks got more important and pension funds and public finance got less important. That is a story with some intuitive oomph to it; your pension is gone but JPMorgan, and the Fed's balance sheet, are bigger than ever.
Oh but also! There are other parts of the story. Those parts too are told in charts. Here's an important one, breaking down those "other financial institutions" that are shadow banks:
The report explains that "other investment funds" means (1) mutual funds other than money market funds (so, like, your S&P 500 index fund) plus (2) ETFs (so, like, your S&P 500 ETF). One thing to consider here is that systemically scaaaaaaary shadow banks – money market funds, non-bank broker-dealers, structured finance – are only about a quarter of the shadow banking industry as defined by the FSB. Though you'd be within your rights, and the FSB are within their rights, to find aspects of your S&P 500 mutual fund, like its securities lending business for instance, systemically scaaaaary too.3
Last chart:
I do not know what to tell you about Saudi Arabia! But I suppose I could plausibly tell you that (1) Germans finance their things through banks and (2) Americans finance their things through the stock market and their stock market through mutual funds, and I feel like you'd say "yeah, okay, that sounds right."
So some of this is less ooooooh shadow banking and more bank versus market financing. But I guess that's the same thing? Here's how the FSB defines shadow banking:
The "shadow banking system" can broadly be described as "credit intermediation involving entities and activities (fully or partially) outside the regular banking system" or non-bank credit intermediation in short.
So, that's among other things just companies issuing bonds?
Anyway the FSB has some recommendations and they include things like "find out more about shadow banks," "have more regulated and less procyclical repo haircuts," and "stop letting firms rehypothecated client securities for prop trades." Those things are nice!4 The repo stuff is particularly thoughtful; I enjoyed the recommendation that the repo haircut for >5-year corporate debt be 8%5, which is the same as the total capital requirement for banks under Basel III. If you think of banks, archaically, as being in the business of taking deposits to provide medium-term financing to actual companies, then you might like the rough equality there: the folks in Switzerland have decided that banks, shadow or otherwise, should be able to borrow 92 cents of every dollar that they lend to corporate firms, and apply that rule roughly consistently across different degrees of shading. That's … consistent, though I suppose also consistency of arbitrary numbers is not entirely a virtue.
But, yeah, it's good and full of "tough new rules" and it makes sense and I will sleep better at night knowing some regulators in a room are on this shadow banking thing but, also. "Shadow banking" is by definition – see above! – not a list of things, but rather a conceptual description of things united only by the fact that they're not on a list. The list is "regulated banks"; you can make a new list of shadow banks, then regulate that list, but then somebody could find something not on your new list and off they'd go. "Regulate the class of things not previously regulated, in order to prevent dangers from lurking in the unregulated sector" is a dicey proposition, since you can't regulate all the things that there might be. (Can you?) You make Extensively Studied Shadow Bank Subset A safer, and the bad things change their lurking location to Previously Unknown Shadow Bank Subset B.
Or something else. That first chart is sort of cheery actually. Regular banking has been regulated for ages and has only gotten more regulated since 2002. And in that time it's grown by $80 trillion, double the (dollar not CAGR) growth of shadow banking. Perhaps the regulated places are the places to be.
Shadow Banking Grows to $67 Trillion Industry, Regulators Say [Bloomberg]
FSB seeks to tame shadow banking [FT]
FSB Press Release, Overview of Recommendations, Shadow Banking Entities, Securities Lending and Repos, Global Monitoring Report [FSB]
1. Reports! There is this one on the state of shadow banking, this one on what to do about it broadly, this one on oversight of shadow banking entities, and this one on securities lending and repos. Plus a press release.
2. "Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the 'real' country, all of 'real' America that is Disneyland …. Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation."
3. The FSB gets less data-y on how much of this there is and its growth or lack thereof, perhaps in part because data is less good here. The FSB wants to fix that with better reporting of repo and securities lending.
4. Right? Why not? I don't know, I have some residual feeling that rehypothecating client securities to support your own trades is like a human right, or at least a neat trick, but I can't articulate why.
5. Page 14 here. That oversimplifies a more nuanced discussion on how to (1) make market participants actually think about appropriate repo haircuts rather than just relying on a blunt regulatory chart and (2) stop repo haircuts from being procyclical, as they rather notoriously have been. It's worth reading.


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- Milestones for SaaS Companies — "Getting from $0-1m is impossible. Getting from $1-10m is unlikely. And getting from $10-100m is inevitable." —Jason Lemkin, ex-CEO of Echosign. The article proposes some significant milestones, and they ring true. Making money is generally hard. The nature of the hard changes with the amount of money you have and the amount you're trying to make, but if it were easy, then we'd structure our society on something else.
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- Thoughts on the Alibaba Bubble — Alibaba is an offering that encourages the kind of negative Wall Street behavior none of us really want to see happen again. (via Tim O'Reilly)
- Reactive Manifesto — We believe that a coherent approach to systems architecture is needed, and we believe that all necessary aspects are already recognised individually: we want systems that are Responsive, Resilient, Elastic and Message Driven. We call these Reactive Systems.
- The Log: What Every Software Engineer Should Know About Real-time Data's Unifying Abstraction (LinkedIn) — You can reduce the problem of making multiple machines all do the same thing to the problem of implementing a distributed consistent log to feed these processes input. The purpose of the log here is to squeeze all the non-determinism out of the input stream to ensure that each replica processing this input stays in sync.
- Method of Action — a collection of tools, games and articles to help you learn design.
Four short links: 10 September 2014
Dandelion Dispersal, Future Weights, Networked Docker, and How Apple Pay Works
- BERG Closing — may open source their Little Printer server and IoT middleware. A shame, as Warren Ellis says, because they pulled bits of the future into the present. They were optimistic, not dystopic. I have a feeling BERG grads are going to be like BBC grads, where a certain crop from ~2003 or so went on to be influential at many different places. Dispersing dandelions of delight.
- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow — beating our minds' misweighting of future events. This: When being invited to do things months in advance, the diary usually looks pretty clear and it's tempting to say "yes". But whenever a new invitation arrives, ask yourself not, "should I accept the invitation in March?" but, "would I accept the invitation if it was for this week?" (via BoingBoing)
- Weave — build a network of Docker containers running on different hosts. Weave can traverse firewalls and operate in partially connected networks. Traffic can be encrypted, allowing hosts to be connected across an untrusted network. With weave you can easily construct applications consisting of multiple containers, running anywhere.
- How Apple Pay Works And Why It Matters — for some reason this was the right level of explanation for me. Hope it helps. The end result is a token that can be used across merchants and both online (In-App) and offline (NFC, In-Person). Disaggregate and micropay for ALL THE THINGS.
Four short links: 3 June 2014
Machine Learning Mistakes, Recommendation Bandits, Droplet Robots, and Plain English
- Machine Learning Done Wrong — [M]ost practitioners pick the modeling algorithm they are most familiar with rather than pick the one which best suits the data. In this post, I would like to share some common mistakes (the don't-s).
- Bandits for Recommendations — A common problem for internet-based companies is: which piece of content should we display? Google has this problem (which ad to show), Facebook has this problem (which friend's post to show), and RichRelevance has this problem (which product recommendation to show). Many of the promising solutions come from the study of the multi-armed bandit problem.
- Droplets — the Droplet is almost spherical, can self-right after being poured out of a bucket, and has the hardware capabilities to organize into complex shapes with its neighbors due to accurate range and bearing. Droplets are available open-source and use cheap vibration motors and a 3D printed shell. (via Robohub)
- Apple's App Store Approval Guidelines — some of the plainest English I've seen, especially the Introduction. I can only aspire to that clarity. If your App looks like it was cobbled together in a few days, or you're trying to get your first practice App into the store to impress your friends, please brace yourself for rejection. We have lots of serious developers who don't want their quality Apps to be surrounded by amateur hour.
Four short links: 30 May 2014
Video Transparency, Software Traffic, Distributed Database, and Open Source Sustainability
- Video Quality Report — transparency is a great way to indirectly exert leverage.
- Control Your Traffic Flows with Software — using BGP to balance traffic. Will be interesting to see how the more extreme traffic managers deploy SDN in the data center.
- Cockroach — a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability, hence the name. Cockroach aims to tolerate disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention. Cockroach nodes are symmetric; a design goal is one binary with minimal configuration and no required auxiliary services.
- Linux Foundation Providing for Core Infrastructure Projects — press release, but interested in how they're tackling sustainability—they're taking on identifying worthies (glad I'm not the one who says "you're not worthy" to a project) and being the non-profit conduit for the dosh. Interesting: implies they think the reason companies weren't supporting necessary open source projects was some combination of being unsure who to support (projects you use, surely?) and how to get them money (ask?). (Sustainability of open source projects is a pet interest of mine)
Four short links: 3 March 2014
Vanishing Money, Car Hackery, Data Literacy Course, and Cheaper CI
- The Programming Error That Cost Mt Gox 2609 Bitcoins — in the unforgiving world of crypto-currency, it's easy to miscode and vanish your money.
- Ford Invites Open-Source Community to Tinker Away — One example: Nelson has re-tasked the motor from a Microsoft Xbox 360 game controller to create an OpenXC shift knob that vibrates to signal gear shifts in a standard-transmission Mustang. The 3D-printed prototype shift knob uses Ford's OpenXC research platform to link devices to the car via Bluetooth, and shares vehicle data from the on-board diagnostics port. Nelson has tested his prototype in a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 that vibrates at the optimal time to shift.
- Making Sense of Data — Google online course on data literacy.
- Cost-Efficient Continuous Integration at Mozilla — CI on a big project can imply hundreds if not thousands of VMs on Amazon spinning up to handle compiles and tests. This blog post talks about Mozilla's efforts to reduce its CI-induced spend without reducing the effectiveness of its CI practices.
Four short links: 5 December 2013
R GUI, Drone Regulations, Bitcoin Stats, and Android/iOS Money Shootout
- Deducer — An R Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Everyone.
- Integration of Civil Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS) Roadmap (PDF, FAA) — first pass at regulatory framework for drones. (via Anil Dash)
- Bitcoin Stats — $21MM traded, $15MM of electricity spent mining. Goodness. (via Steve Klabnik)
- iOS vs Android Numbers (Luke Wroblewski) — roundup comparing Android to iOS in recent commerce writeups. More Android handsets, but less revenue per download/impression/etc.


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Conservative media attacked House Republicans for dropping plans to vote on a bill that included a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and attacked the female members, led by Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), who objected to the bill.
Right-wing media mourned Rep. John Boehner's (R-OH) re-election to a third term as House Speaker by comparing his opponents to the American revolutionaries, the hero David from the biblical story of David and Goliath, and lobbing accusations of election rigging.
Right-wing media are using the Paris terrorist attack to falsely claim Hillary Clinton has encouraged empathizing with terrorists like the ones who carried out the attack. But conservatives' attacks on Clinton are badly distorting remarks she made during a December speech in which she emphasized the value of understanding one's enemy, and she has repeatedly stated her opposition to negotiating with violent ideological groups.
Right-wing media quickly offered Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) glowing praise and endorsements after they announced plans to challenge Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for the Speaker of the House position.
Right-wing media lobbed harsh criticism and conspiracy theories at Jeb Bush in response to his decision to "actively explore" a 2016 presidential bid, even urging more conservative Republicans to run against him.
Responding to the decision by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of un-armed African-American teenager Michael Brown, President Obama spoke to both the anger and frustration that has manifested in Ferguson and around the country, as well as a larger American context, saying, "there are still problems and communities of color aren't just making these problems up."
Despite the conservative media narrative that racism against minorities is a thing of the past, race, racism, and inherent biases on all sides are a part of what's happening in Ferguson and communities across America -- as are systemic and institutional factors spanning several generations, from the Watts riots in 1965 to the riots in various cities in 1967 and '68, to Los Angeles in 1992. While an inciting incident -- usually involving the police and communities of color -- sparked the violence, a tinderbox of underlying frustrations awaited that spark.
After each of these incidents, reports issued by government commissions seeking answers cited hauntingly identical findings. Police brutality, poor relations between the police and the community, a sense of hopelessness fueled by a lack of jobs, economic inequality, inadequate schools, discriminatory housing practices, an unresponsive political system many felt shut out of, along with policies that created segregated neighborhoods which further isolate communities of color were highlighted again and again. Again and again the recommendations included expanding community policing strategies and social programs, making them more consistent with the extent of the problems.
Not surprisingly, similar frustrations have been expressed in Ferguson and from activists in other cities. One Ferguson man told the New York Times that the killing of Brown "broke the camel's back," He added that "the people in North County [the northern part of St. Louis County] -- not just African Americans, some of the white people too -- they are tired of the police harassment." While violence is an unacceptable response to the underlying frustrations, understanding the deeper issues play a role in preventing it in the future and moving forward.
Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King eloquently put these issues into context, providing insight into why the shooting of an unarmed young black man by a white police officer can be such a potent catalyst.
It reminds many of the way in which authority is exercised, especially in communities where the central relationship between blacks and whites is the police.
In places like Ferguson, police represent white authority. Authority empowered to enter the community backed by the extralegal support of white sentiment. Authority whose word is taken against the word of an accused African American. Authority that not only arrests, but punishes, too.
Too much of the media coverage hasn't examined these larger issues about the sources of anger, frustration, and why history continues to repeat.
Conservative media has been working overtime to deny their very existence, dismissing their relevance by accusing anyone who raises them as making trouble, "race-baiting", or being a "race hustler". As usual, a core message in the narrative is that it's all Obama's fault.
Right-wing media's outrage over President Obama's upcoming speech outlining plans to improve enforcement of the immigration system included accusations that Obama is engaging in "home-grown tyranny," calls for his impeachment, and even a Hitler comparison.
Breitbart.com editor-at-large Ben Shapiro accused the Supreme Court of engaging in judicial activism in order to promote marriage equality and gay rights, suggesting that the Court wrongly struck down laws criminalizing "anal penetration" in its 2003 decision Lawrence v. Texas.
In an October 6 article for Breitbart.com, Shapiro condemned the Supreme Court's refusal to take on the appeal of several cases challenging state bans on same-sex marriage. He suggested that the Court's refusal encourages "low-level courts to continue knocking down traditional marriage laws across the country."
Shapiro compared the Supreme Court's handling of marriage equality to its handling of state laws criminalizing gay sex, including its 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down state anti-sodomy laws across the country:
The Court clearly wants to wait until a majority of states have been forced to embrace same-sex marriage by lower-level appeals courts. Then they can determine that a "trend-line" has been established, suggest that society has "evolved," and declare that a new standard must be enshrined. That, of course, was the logic of Lawrence v. Texas (2003), in which the Court waited 17 years to overrule Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), stating that anal penetration was a hard-fought Constitutional right; the Court in that case stated that Bowers no longer applied because of "an emerging awareness that liberty gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in matters pertaining to sex." Justice Scalia rightly pointed out that the Court's statement was false - the state, he explained, still regulates "prostitution, adult incest, adultery, obscenity, and child pornography." And Scalia also pointed out that "Constitutional entitlements do not spring into existence because some States choose to lessen or eliminate criminal sanctions on certain behavior." [emphasis added]
Right-wing media are using President Obama's plan to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as another opportunity to attack him. Conservatives are calling the president a "hypocrite" because he's sending "more soldiers to fight Ebola than we are sending to fight ISIS"; labeling the plan "arrogant" because of problems with HealthCare.gov; and accusing him of trying to "change the subject" by "fighting a really bad flu bug."
The White House announced on September 16 that the United States would send 3,000 troops to Africa to help combat the Ebola threat. The U.S. military and broader uniformed services effort will "entail command and control, logistics expertise, training, and engineering support."
President Obama said in a speech that "[m]ore than 2,400 men, women and children are known to have died -- and we strongly suspect that the actual death toll is higher than that ... In West Africa, Ebola is now an epidemic of the likes that we have not seen before. It's spiraling out of control. It is getting worse. It's spreading faster and exponentially. Today, thousands of people in West Africa are infected. That number could rapidly grow to tens of thousands. And if the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people infected, with profound political and economic."
Conservatives responded to the plan by mocking the president and his policies:
In response to the protests following the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the right-wing media have unleashed an array of race-baiting tropes. From "lynch mobs" to "race pimps," here are some of the worst examples.
In the wake of the tragic shooting death of unarmed Missouri teenager Michael Brown, right-wing media outlets attacked President Obama's uncontroversial statement of condolences and suggested the president was to blame for the state of race relations in the United States.
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Right-wing media greeted news of the release of the only U.S. soldier held captive in Afghanistan with claims that his freedom was timed to distract from the controversy plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
For years, conservative media figures have attacked marriage equality by citing "religious liberty" concerns, baselessly warning that churches might be forced to perform same-sex weddings against their will. But a new lawsuit in North Carolina challenges the right-wing media's commitment to religious freedom when it's not being used as an excuse for anti-gay discrimination.
On April 28, the United Church of Christ (UCC), a progressive Protestant denomination that supports marriage equality, filed suit in Federal District Court challenging North Carolina's ban on clergy blessings of same-sex unions. Under the state's 2012 same-sex marriage ban, it's a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to 45 days in jail, to perform a ceremony for any couple lacking a valid marriage license. The UCC argues that the ban infringes on clergy members' First Amendment right to free exercise of religion:
"We didn't bring this lawsuit to make others conform to our beliefs, but to vindicate the right of all faiths to freely exercise their religious practices," said Donald C. Clark Jr., general counsel of the United Church of Christ.
The lawsuit represents the inverse of a long-standing (and entirely baseless) conservative horror story about marriage equality - that churches will be forced to perform same-sex weddings against their will.
This myth has been perpetuated by conservative media personalities like Fox's Todd Starnes, who in 2012 warned that a Kansas non-discrimination ordinance "would force churches to host gay weddings":
When the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Breitbart News' Ben Shapiro claimed that churches would lose their tax exempt status if they failed to perform same-sex weddings. Fox contributor Erick Erickson has gone so far as to claim "gay marriage and religious freedom are incompatible." And Fox News' longstanding campaign to depict marriage equality and anti-discrimination laws as burdens on religious liberty inspired a rash of so-called "religious freedom" bills across the country earlier this year.
Given social conservatives' self-appointed role as guardians of religious freedom, the North Carolina case would seem ripe for their attention.
But now that religious liberty is being invoked to oppose a gay marriage ban, will right-wing media rush to tout the cause of a pro-equality church?
Conservatives who rushed to defend "religious liberty" legislation like Arizona SB 1062 have so far been silent on the case. The New York Times' Ross Douthat, who penned a column supporting Arizona's bill on religious liberty grounds, has yet to comment on the UCC case on his blog. A TV Eyes search shows that Fox News - which regularly features segments titled "The Fight for Faith" - hasn't taken up the UCC's mantle. The same goes for anti-gay conservatives like Starnes, Shapiro, and Erickson.
While civil marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples would have no bearing on churches' doctrines and practices, laws like North Carolina's actively restrict religious denominations' right to freely exercise their faith. If serving a cake to a same-sex couple constitutes an unconscionable violation of religious liberty, then surely a law telling churches which unions they can and can't bless does. But the right's crusade against LGBT equality has almost nothing to do with genuine, intellectually consistent support for religious liberty, and everything to do with keeping discrimination enshrined in law.
Too often in conservative media, religious liberty becomes a shield to deflect accusations of bigotry, even while justifying blatant anti-LGBT discrimination. UCC's lawsuit, and conservative media's interest in taking it up as a cause célèbre, will test whether the right's interest in religious liberty is anything more than a shallow excuse for homophobia.
Equality Matters searched TV Eyes for the terms "gay," "United Church of Christ," and "North Carolina" for Fox's programming on April 28 and the morning of April 29, 2014.
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To hear conservative media tell it, the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich following an outcry over Eich's support for the 2008 referendum that banned same-sex marriage in California is merely the latest sign that a new era of anti-conservative persecution has arrived. That narrative undergirds the right's campaign against LGBT equality and is essential to understanding conservative support for measures that would enshrine anti-LGBT discrimination into law.
On April 3, just two weeks into his tenure, Eich announced his decision to step down as Mozilla's CEO. The revelation that Eich had contributed $1,000 to the anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 campaign had triggered fierce criticism from Mozilla employees, companies like OkCupid, and gay rights activists. As Slate's Mark Joseph Stern noted, the campaign for Proposition 8 was about far more than a simple disagreement over the definition of marriage. Supporters ran stridently homophobic ads accusing gay people of wanting to turn children gay, "mess up" children by introducing gay marriage into the curriculum, and conceal the truth about marriage and reproduction.
The virulently anti-gay propaganda behind the Prop 8 campaign - and the measure's subsequent passage -served to compound the sense of vulnerability among the gay community, which faces discrimination in housing, healthcare, public accommodations, and earnings, and is disproportionately targeted by hate crimes. Given the vitriol that motivated the Prop 8 fight, many supporters of LGBT equality objected to Eich's appointment to Mozilla CEO.
In the right-wing universe, however, it's conservative Christians whose rights are under assault. While Eich's decision to resign was an example of the free market at work - precisely the solution many libertarians and conservatives have long prescribed for anti-gay bigotry - conservative media figures greeted his departure with cries of totalitarianism and bigotry, condemning the "intolerant" LGBT movement for its role in the controversy.
Rush Limbaugh wasted no time in comparing Eich's critics with Nazis, declaring on his April 4 program that "'[f]ascist' is probably the closest way" to describe them (emphasis added):
When it was discovered that Brendan Eich had donated a $100 [sic] to Proposition 8 four years ago, the literal... What is the proper name for people who engage in this kind of behavior? "Fascist" is probably the closest way. You can call 'em Nazis, but nevertheless they went into gear, and immediately Brendan Eich was described as "filled with hatred" and anti-gay bigotry all over the tech media.
Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro sounded a similar note, launching an anti-Mozilla campaign on his website TruthRevolt.org to protest the company's "fascistic crackdown":


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Terry Lamb Feeling Bitter.
WESTS Tigers coach Terry Lamb says he's been driven out of rugby league by people with "forked tongues".
Players Coming and Going.
FORMER test lock Jason Smith is expected to resist overtures from the National Rugby League and sign a new deal with English Super League club Hull.
Warriors Denied.
THE National Rugby League has decided against granting the New Zealand Warriors' request for a 10 year licence.
Lote ponders his future.
BRISBANE winger Lote Tuqiri is believed to be only days away from making a decision which could spell the end of his international rugby league career.
Odell Manuel coming home to roost.
ODELL Manuel, the biggest winger in the National Rugby League (NRL), has walked out of the Canberra Raiders and is heading home to Auckland to try to work his way back into the New Zealand Warriors. Manuel, 24, said he realised the day he landed in Canberra before the 2001 season that he had done the wrong thing in deserting the Warriors when they were in disarray.
Players want microphones turned off
NATIONAL Rugby League (NRL) players have called for an end to the public broadcasting of their on-field conversations with referees. Players claim their image and that of the game is suffering after dozens of them have been caught out using foul language on live broadcasts this season.
Bartercard Cup-Round 10
ROUND 10 of the Bartercard Cup sees Glenora host Marist Richmond at Harold Moody Park, Northcote at home to the Central Falcons and Eastern Tornadoes play Manurewa Marlins at Moyle Park, all on Saturday.
Tooks to stay a Warrior for 2 more years
HARD-HITTING New Zealand Warriors rugby league prop Mark Tookey was feeling confident about his future and that of his club yesterday. Despite keen interest from several other clubs, Tookey had just signed a contract for another two seasons with the Auckland-based franchise.
Bartercard Cup. Round 9 - Results
THE results from this weekend's Bartercard Cup matches.
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BLACKBURN Rovers's Ewood Park will host a rugby league international for the first time since 1911 when New Zealand tour Britain later this year, the British Rugby Football League (RFL) said on Sunday.


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