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BREVARD Joan Yarbrough has been elected president Brevard Philharmonic Orchestras Board of Directors. She steps into her new role after serving as vice president of the organization for two years.
We have a wonderful new board and already theres a flurry of activity, said Yarbrough. For the remainder of the season Maestro Donald Portnoy has given us a wonderful mix of the familiar and the unusual with regard to artists and repertoire, our musicians are better than ever, and people dont have to leave town in order to hear a superb orchestral concert.
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This is an event for the whole family that will feature the best of Broadway with music from A Chorus Line, Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady and more, Yarbrough said. Children under 12 are admitted free and we have a host of activities planned for them and their parents, including an instrument petting zoo, face painting and vendors from our own Tailgate Market.
The Philharmonic plays a five-concert schedule. In the upcoming season the first will be at the Brevard Music Center. The other four will be at the Porter Center at Brevard College.
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Over the course of 32 years, as a member of a duo-piano team, Yarbrough played more than 400 concerts on three continents. She currently serves on the piano faculties of the Brevard Music Center and Brevard College.
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Host Liane Hansen talks with author Jeff Goodell about the use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf oil clean-up effort. Goodell wrote an article about the issue for this month's Rolling Stone magazine, titled, "The Poisoning." He is the author of How to Cool the Planet and Big Coal.
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As BP continues to monitor the plugged Deepwater Horizon well, questions remain about the chemical dispersants the company has been using in the clean up process. Journalist Jeff Goodell characterizes BP's use of dispersants in the Gulf as chemical warfare. Goodell is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. He wrote an article about the dangers of dispersants. It appears in this past week's issue, and it's titled "The Poisoning."
Jeff Goodell joins us from the studios of WGY in Albany, New York. Welcome.
JEFF GOODELL: Thanks for having me.
HANSEN: Before we talk about the effects of the dispersants, briefly, can you tell us why BP chose to use the chemicals as a primary clean up method, given other options that are available?
GOODELL: Well, partly, they use the chemicals because there weren't a lot of other options available. They did not have enough oil skimmers anywhere near the Gulf to clean this up by skimming it. Burning it was not really an option for a large-scale clean up. And so they were really desperate to do something, and chemical dispersants were fairly easy to use. They can drop them in with airplanes. And it also fit into their larger agenda of trying to downplay the severity of the spill.
HANSEN: How do dispersants downplay that?
GOODELL: Well, one of the virtues of dispersants is that they make the oil on the surface disappear. What they do is sort of break up the oil slicks into smaller particles of oil. But it also has big sort of political benefits in that you see less oil coming up onto the shore where it can be seen by television cameras and others.
HANSEN: So, the dispersed oil sinks down from the surface. How do the chemicals affect the sea life under the water?
GOODELL: Well, that's one of the big questions. The real issue is not so much the toxicity of the dispersants, although that is somewhat of an issue. The real problem is that the dispersants break the oil up into much smaller particles that sink down into the water column of the Gulf. And we have to remember that this oil is coming up from a mile deep, and so there's a lot of life in the Gulf there from the bottom to the top. And it's sending this oil out in smaller sort of particles that can be more easily sort of taken up by organisms, from coral reefs all the way up to killer whales, in the Gulf.
And it's going to be much harder to quantify this damage.
HANSEN: Now, the Food and Drug Administration has said that the chemical dispersants used to break up oil in the Gulf have a low potential for accumulating in seafood and do not pose a public health concern. What's your take on that? Is the food chain at risk?
GOODELL: I do think the food chain is at risk. I don't think the food chain is at risk - I don't think it's a question of the public health of, you know, us eating shrimp or something that has dispersants in it. I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is, what effect is this broken up oil going to have on the food chain in the Gulf?
It's the oil that's the toxicity. And there's a big question about how this dispersed oil will impact, for example, shrimp and crab larvae and how it will impact some of the fish eggs and things like that in the life cycle of the Gulf. Because you've essentially injected these small particles of oil much deeper into the food chain and no on really knows what the effects of that will be. And many of the scientists I've talked to are deeply concerned about that.
But it's going to play out in the coming months and years, not in, you know, the next week or two.
HANSEN: What suggestions would you give to the Environmental Protection Agency to better monitor and regulate the use of dispersants in the Gulf?
GOODELL: Well, I think that, you know, the way we regulate toxic substances in America right now is a travesty. And in fact there's legislation moving through Congress right now to try to remedy that. We haven't updated the toxic substances regulations in 30 years in America.
So, I think that the first thing is looking at these dispersants much more closely so that the EPA is prepared when something like this happens to have a much better understanding of the effects of these dispersants.
And then second of all, to set some more clear guidelines about the usage of them and the quantity that is allowed to be dumped into a situation like this. 'Cause that's really the big issue here is the amount, the 1.8 million gallons that was used more or less indiscriminately.
HANSEN: Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. He wrote an article for this past week's issue about BP's use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. He joined us from the studios of WGY in Albany, New York. Thanks a lot.
GOODELL: Thank you for having me.
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WOW! The novella written by Sherrilyn Kenyon was a standout in my mind- it opens with action and twists and turns and fantasy adventure right out of a video game or dark fantasy movie- then wham! We find out the heroine is dreaming....her dark and disquieting nightmares lead her on a journey into a fantasy realm of Greek Gods and mythology and tormented immortals that really captured my imagination. Her hero is a dark soul who wins fair maiden's heart by trickery and is punished for it....
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The rest of the book was ok- the dark sorcerer in Amanda Ashley's novella was a fairy tale with a wolf in wolf's clothing.
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An anthology with two of my favorite authors- Maggie Shayne and Sherrilyn Kenyon! How did things go so wrong?
The anthology kicks off to a less than grand start with Amanda Ashley's Darkfest. I know not to expect much from this author, but I have to wonder why she is writing for an adult market. Her writing style and premises are so girly that it's a wonder the pages aren't written in pink ink with glitter and sugar coming out the pages. The tall dark and dangerous daddy figures who fixate on unextraordinary lolita girls because they are so pure and good quite being a romantic fantasy for me when I was 12. What's worse is that Ashley seems totally unaware of the nasty pedophile overtones that permeate 90% of her books. Darkfest just adds to that with some nasty beastiality undertones.
Okay, Darkfest is a sorcerer dude who lives up on a mountain. He can turn into a wolf. He befriends Channa-Leigh, a blind girl from the village, as a wolf. Channa Leigh is Pure, Pure, Pure. Can't remember if she's blonde. But she's gonna get married! So Darkfest makes her come live in his creepy castle because he loves her so. Channa can see when she touches his wolf form. Darkfest wants Channa to rub his tummy.
Darkfest is basically a lonely, losery geek who lives in his dad's basement and obsesses over the most popular babe in school. He was a male virigin until he lost his virginity to a female wolf. Color me grossed out. It's a shame that while Ashley's writing style continues to evolve and become smoother, her ploting and characterization is still stuck in the 3rd grade.
Next comes Sherrilyn Kenyon's first story about the Dream Hunters, a spin-off of the popular Dark Hunter series. What happened? I'll tell you what. Kenyon has created a complex mythology for the dream hunters, but she does little with it. Instead she tries to cram in all the sex she would put in a full length novel and chops out everything else out of the plot but the bare basics. Okay, so make the story an full-out sexual romp, but don't try to give Erin, the female lead, issues about how fat she is next to the hot-studdly V'aiden.
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Oh, Rhonda Thompson I could kiss you. I almost thought about skipping this one because Kenyon and Shayne bombed so badly. This a historical werewolf tale that is sort of like Susan Krinard's best work. It's a marvelous tale that is forcing me to keep this wreck of an anthology instead of tossing it out. It starts out a bit shakily with Elise hiddening in the circus to escape nasty relative and wandering into the bed of Sterling, the Beast Tamer. It just improves so much as it goes along. My emotions were in engaged. I understood were Sterling and Elise were coming from, and Thompson even found time to flesh out the secondary characters. It's a shame that this story didn't come by itself. Next to Thompson's story, the other three uninspired novellas look like garbage.
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Read something else, not this book. What a sorry group of stories! The first is so simplistic that any adult who reads fiction would be bored within mere pages.
The by Sherrilyn Kenyon was a major reason I bought this book - and I was totally disappointed. The development of the characters and the story line were just not up to her usual good efforts.
The final story, about the Wulf family -- oh, please!! Fall in love, become a werewolf. Throw this book into a box labeled 'author mistakes' and let it stay there.
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Tales of the Black Freighter is a CG animated short written and directed by Zack Snyder. As superhero Dr. Manhattan abandons Earth, enabling the city to be destroyed, a young boy reads a survival tale about a doomed sailor who goes mad while returning home from being marooned. Also included are three ground breaking bonus features: Under the Hood: A live action docu-style look at the Night Owls autobiography detailing the establishment and disbandment of the group of superheroes known as THE WATCHMEN. Story within a Story: The Books of Watchmen: This feature weaves through the Black Freighter and Under The Hood to explore how the comic-within-a-comic acts as parallel commentary. This piece reveals profound insight into the Watchmen story for new fans who have not read the graphic novel. Watchmen Motion Comic Episode1: A retired costumed crime fighter is murdered, and one of his old sidekicks believes he was on a hit list of superheroes to kill.]]>
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The feature tale is 25 minutes long, looks cool, and has all the brutality of the comic and maybe even more. But God, do I hate me some roaring sharks. Filmmakers, take heed: SHARKS DO NOT ROAR! That aside, the film is good and would have made an amazing bonus feature on the double-disc DVD release of "Watchmen", but packaged by itself, it just isn't enough. Even when thrown together with a 37 minute live-action interview featuring cast members from the film discussing the original Nite Owl's tell-all autobiography "Under The Hood" it's not enough. The contents of "Under The Hood" is mostly just a reiteration of things from the graphic novel and even some redundancy from the film. Again, an outstanding bonus feature, but not worth a lot by itself. It's nice to get more Carla Gugino without that awful aging makeup, though. Also featured is a half-hour documentary about the projects, and a 10 minute preview of the promising "Green Lantern" animated feature. All good, but one more time: it all amounts to nothing more than a disc of bonus features that should have been saved for the "Watchmen" DVD release.Read more ›
The storyline was almost identical with the source material in this animated feature. The only issue I had was the character design. Everything else looked fantastic and was animated beautifully. The sky was incredibly vibrant the entire time and the sea looked almost lifelike at times. The characters were animated rather poorly, in my opinion though. It may just be the design, but their quality looked poor and their animation wasn't up to par in comparison to everything else around them. Reminded me a bit of the character designs in Aeon Flux. All in all, it's well worth seeing. But it's rather short as it only clocks in at around twenty one minutes without the credits.
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The animated feature is voiced by Gerard Butler and tells the story of a captain who is the lone survivor of an assault by a mysterious freighter. Convinced that the freighter is headed to his home, the captain faces a series of ghastly challenges to stay alive and return home. As the obstacles mount, the captain slowly starts to lose his grip on reality which leads to a startling finale.
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2. Economists have identified several consecutive months of falling employment and forecasts for the next few months are for more of the same. At what point in the business cycle is the economy apparently located?
A) recession
B) expansion
C) business cycle peak
D) business cycle trough
3. The onset of the Great Depression:
A) was not a shock to anyone since most economists predicted the "roaring 20s" were bound to end in disaster.
B) created a disagreement between the Hoover administration and conventional economists because Hoover wanted the government to intervene much more quickly than most others.
C) came as a considerable shock to the conventional wisdom of economics at that time and opened the door for critiques of mainstream thought by economists like JM Keynes.
D) was in 1918 at the end of World War I.
4. When economists measure economic growth, they often use:
A) the inflation rate.
B) the unemployment rate.
C) nominal GDP.
D) real GDP.
5. In a typical business cycle, the business cycle peak is immediately followed by the:
A) recession.
B) business cycle trough.
C) expansion.
D) depression.
6. Suppose an economy experiences rising total output accompanied by increasing employment, this is generally known as:
A) stagflation.
B) recession.
C) inflation.
D) expansion.
7. Controlling interest rates is an example of:
A) fiscal policy.
B) tax policy.
C) monetary policy.
D) exchange rate policy.
8. The alternation between recessions and expansions is known as the:
A) unemployment rate.
B) long-run economic growth.
C) business cycle.
D) macroeconomy.
9. A recession in America is typically associated with:
A) a falling unemployment rate.
B) a decrease in the number of people living in poverty.
C) a decrease in the percentage of Americans with health insurance.
D) an increase in corporate profits.
10. The purpose of macroeconomic policy is to:
A) bring unemployment closer to the natural rate.
B) reduce the severity of recessions.
C) rein in excessively strong expansions.
D) bring unemployment closer to the natural rate and to reduce the severity of recessions.
11. The trade balance is the difference between the value of the:
A) trade deficit and the budget deficit.
B) goods and services that one country sells to other countries and the value of the goods and services it buys in return.
C) exchange rates of two countries that are engaged in international trade.
D) national debt and the foreign debt.
12. Increasing the total amount of available productive resources is the focus of __________.
A) macroeconomics
B) fiscal policy
C) monetary policy
D) microeconomics
13. The point on a business cycle when real GDP stops rising and begins falling is a(n):
A) peak.
B) trough.
C) expansion.
D) recession.
14. During a recession, one will often observe:
A) aggregate output rising.
B) unemployment rates will be increasing while aggregate output is falling.
C) employment rates will be rising.
D) zero unemployment rates.
15. Monetary policy involves:
A) changes in government spending.
B) changes in government tax receipts.
C) changes in the quantity of money.
D) changes in tax rates.
16. The trough of the business cycle:
A) comes right after the expansion phase.
B) comes before the recession phase.
C) is a temporary maximum level of real GDP.
D) is a temporary minimum level of real GDP.
17. Which one of the following statements about the U.S. economy is not accurate?
A) Since the Second World War, aggregate output grew at a rate lower than the average annual growth rate of population.
B) Since the Second World War, aggregate output grew at a rate higher than the average annual growth rate of population.
C) Since the Second World War, macroeconomic policy has helped make the economy more stable.
D) Long-run growth per capita is the key to higher wages and a rising standard of living.
18. An economic recovery is all of the following except:
A) economic growth of a sustained nature.
B) a short-run increase in aggregate production in an economy.
C) a time of increasing employment.
D) the end of the business cycle.
19. Which of the following would NOT be classified as a macroeconomic question?
A) How many people are employed in the economy as a whole?
B) What determines the overall level of prices in the economy as a whole?
C) What determines the overall trade in goods, services, and financial assets between the United States and the rest of the world?
D) What determines the cost to a university or college of offering a new course?
20. Which of the following statements regarding price level or inflation is correct?
A) Supply and demand can not explain why a particular good or service becomes more expensive relative to other goods and services.
B) Inflation affects only the more advanced countries whereas less advanced countries face deflation.
C) Prices of most goods and services remained stable during the great depression.
D) In general, when the economy is in recession and jobs are hard to find, inflation tends to fall.
21. If wages grew at a 5% rate last year and average prices grew at a 3% rate, then the average worker is:
A) better off.
B) worse off.
C) no better or worse off.
D) unaffected.
22. In an open economy:
A) the exchange rate is determined by the government.
B) specialization in activities with a comparative advantage is not possible.
C) trade is only beneficial to the relatively larger economy.
D) there is trade in goods, services, or assets with other countries.
23. Changes in government spending and taxes in an effort to change overall spending in an economy is:
A) fiscal policy.
B) monetary policy.
C) investment.
D) the stock market.
24. If an economy is open, this means that:
A) anyone can immigrate to the country.
B) trading with other countries makes up a portion of its economy.
C) it does not trade with other countries.
D) it will experience a drop in its real GDP.
25. Inflation is a situation where:
A) the average price level falls.
B) the average price level increases.
C) the average price level becomes negative.
D) the real price level falls.
26. The topics studied in macroeconomics include:
A) the price of a motorcycle.
B) the wages of engineers.
C) the average price level in the economy.
D) how much ice cream consumers buy.
27. A period of rising real GDP is a(n):
A) peak.
B) trough.
C) expansion.
D) recession.
28. The modern tools of macroeconomic policy are:
A) tax policy and antitrust policy.
B) fiscal policy and monetary policy.
C) monetary policy and exchange rate policy.
D) capital policy and labor policy.
29. A "rubber necking" traffic jam is an example of:
A) microeconomics in action.
B) individual behavior that has a large aggregate impact.
C) the paradox of thrift.
D) an outcome smaller than the sum of its parts.
30. The most painful consequence of a recession is:
A) rising unemployment.
B) increasing inflation.
C) increasing aggregate output.
D) higher interest rates.
31. Per capita economic growth is:
A) economic growth per unit of capital.
B) economic growth per person.
C) economic expansion over the business cycle.
D) sustained increase in aggregate output.
32. Keynesian economics stressed:
A) total spending.
B) the self-regulating power of free markets.
C) the long run.
D) that the Depression should run its course to bring down the high cost of living.
33. When an economy's overall production grows faster than its population, this is referred to as:
A) long-run growth per capita.
B) an increase in nominal GDP.
C) deflation.
D) the paradox of thrift.
34. Fiscal policy attempts to affect the overall level of spending in the economy through:
A) changes in the inflation rate.
B) changes in the quantity of money or the interest rate.
C) changes in tax policy or government spending.
D) discretionary regulation of profits and wages.
35. With regard to the aggregate price level, economists generally believe:
A) price stability is a desirable goal.
B) inflation is worse than deflation.
C) deflation is worse than inflation.
D) inflation actually benefits most retired people.
36. Recessions are periods when:
A) output rises.
B) the aggregate price level rises.
C) the unemployment rate is falling.
D) output and employment are falling.
37. Monetary policy attempts to affect the overall level of spending in the economy by changes in:
A) taxes.
B) taxes and spending.
C) taxes and interest rates.
D) interest rates and the quantity of money.
38. The basic difference between an economic recession and economic depression is that:
A) the latter is a shorter economic downturn than the former.
B) during recessions output falls faster than during depressions.
C) during depressions employment falls faster than during recessions.
D) the former is a longer economic downturn than the latter.
39. The central mission of modern macroeconomics is to prevent _____ from happening again.
A) recessions
B) inflation
C) deflation
D) anything like the Great Depression
40. Fiscal policy refers to:
A) the control of interest rates.
B) the control of government spending and taxations.
C) the control of the quantity of money.
D) the control of interest rates and of government spending.


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Finding Time for Personal Finances
Editor's note: In this installment of our Finding Time series, Terri Cullen writes about finding time to manage personal finances. Ms. Cullen, an assistant managing editor at the Online Journal, writes the Fiscally Fit column each Thursday.
Investing for retirement, saving for college, insuring your family and property, overseeing your estate and comparison shopping for better deals can seem so daunting that it's easy to throw your hands in the air and say, "My life's too hectic, I just don't have time to deal."
A Series of Essays
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• Exercise, by Kevin Helliker
• Reading, by Cynthia Crossen
• Technology, by Lee Gomes
• Networking, by Perri Capell
• Friendships, by Carol Hymowitz
• Housework, by Kara Swisher
• Staying up on the news, by Joseph Schuman
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• Vote: What do you wish you had more time for?
Some cheese with that whine?
Sure, managing money is time-consuming, but technology has increasingly made mundane tasks easier, leaving more time to focus on big-picture planning. In most families, managing finances falls to one spouse or the other, and in our home that's yours truly. I manage money the same way I shop for food: Twice a month I spend a few hours stocking the pantry, once a week take a few minutes to stop at a local store and pick up a carton of milk or a loaf of bread, and on workdays I run out for a few seconds to grab a snack. Occasionally, we order out.
For my finances, that means scheduling a few hours once or twice month to tackle big decisions (researching where to invest for college, comparison shopping for insurance, updating my will), grabbing a half hour each week to take care of at least one routine duty (ordering a free credit report, dealing with paperwork for flex-spending account reimbursements), and grabbing a few minutes every day to fix problems and keep an eye on the books (monitoring accounts online, disputing a credit-account charge). And, thanks things like automatic bill payment, occasionally someone else shoulders the drudgery for me.
Now comes the hard part -- sticking with the program. Again, technology to the rescue. I use the appointment calendar in my office email program to send alerts to remind me which tasks require attention throughout the month. If the chore is critical -- say, paying property taxes or renewing my insurance -- I'll flag the appointment as urgent so I'm not tempted to put it off. For more routine tasks, I choose one day a week and block out the time in my calendar to handle the task. If I simply can't take the time at that moment to get the job done, I make another appointment during the week. If I punt on the task one more time, I reschedule and then flag it as urgent. No urgent task makes it through the end of the week undone. Period.
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• Weekly
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Linking accounts at our bank saves time by allowing us to move money between checking, savings and home-equity credit accounts electronically, rather than having to trot down to a local branch to make a deposit. But it also reaps savings -- the combined account balances get us above the minimum account balance required to qualify us for fee waivers and better deals on credit and CD savings that are typically extended to larger account holders. Using our bank's free online banking service also helps cut down time spent writing checks and mailing bills. Instead, we link our checking account to other important accounts, such as my mortgage company and my son's 529 college-savings plan, and each month the bank automatically transfers a set amount of funds to these accounts. This way, we keep on track with our savings goals without thinking about it, and I never miss a payment deadline.
Tax day is reckoning day in the Cullen household, but not for the reason you'd think. Every year, the day after our taxes are prepared -- when the whack to our wallet is fresh on our minds -- my husband and I sit down and go over where our accounts stand, and discuss whether changes need to be made. So we use an ad-hoc system that works well for us. At tax time, I work up a list of all of our accounts, their current balances, the account numbers, the financial institutions' telephone contact numbers, and our PINs. I store this list in a secure place along with our will. (While I do manage the finances, it's crucial that my husband isn't kept in the dark in the event he ever needs to take the wheel.) Each year, I pull out last year's statement and we compare our finances to this year's statement. Through this system, we create a year-over-year financial report that helps us clearly see whether we're getting ahead, falling behind or simply treading water.
More Reading
Fiscally Fit: Financial-planning help for dealing with complex personal-finance issues.
Getting Going: Advice for getting your finances on track and keeping them going in the right direction.
Terri's To-Do List: Small steps each week that can make a big difference to your finances.
Love & Money: An inside look at how columnist Jeff Opdyke and his family deal with everyday personal-finance challenges.
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Terri is one of the original team of editors who helped launch the Online Journal. In 2002, she won the Medill School of Journalism Financial Writers and Editors Award for best national financial columnist. Terri also is a contributor to the book, "The Wall Street Journal Online's Guide to Online Investing," which was published in 2000.
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Obama said the economy is weaker now than at the beginning of the year. Citing economists' estimates, he said his $447 billion jobs bill would help the economy grow by 2 percent and create 1.9 million jobs.
"At a time when so many people are having such a hard time, we have to have an approach, we have to take action that is big enough to meet the moment," he said.
Obama addressed the disaffection with politics pervasive among the public that's driven down his approval ratings — and even more so, Congress' — as he seeks a second term.
Appearing fed up, Obama blamed it on Republicans who he said refuse to cooperate with him even on issues where he said they once agreed with him. He talked about the ugly debate over raising the government's borrowing limit that consumed Capitol Hill and the White House over the summer, until Obama gave in to Republican demands for deep spending cuts without new taxes.
"They don't get a sense that folks in this town are looking out for their interests," Obama said of Americans in general. "So if they see that over and over again, that cynicism is not going to be reduced until Congress actually proves their cynicism wrong by doing something."
"What the American people saw is that the Congress didn't care."
Obama also said the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators protesting against Wall Street and economic inequality are expressing the frustrations of the American public.
He said he understands the public's concerns about how the nation's financial system works. And he said Americans see Wall Street as an example of the financial industry not always following the rules.
Asked why there hadn't been more prosecutions in the financial sector, Obama said that many of the activities that precipitated the financial crisis in 2008 were not necessarily illegal. He said many financial schemes were probably immoral, inappropriate or reckless and required new regulations.
Obama criticized efforts in Congress, led by Republicans, to roll back some of the financial rules approved last year. He defended the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by that the legislation against GOP efforts to weaken it.
Obama also said that some banks are now using new regulations as an excuse to charge consumers more. It was a reference to a fee some banks are imposing to make up for restrictions on debit card fees they charge retailers.
"It's not necessarily fair to consumers," he said.
Obama also said the European Union has to act fast to deal with its debt crisis, but he said he is confident that European leaders are ready to take the necessary steps.
He said he hopes that European leaders have a "very clear, concrete plan of action that is sufficient to the task" by next month's meeting of the Group of 20 rich and developing nations. Obama said the European debt crisis had already affected the U.S. economy.
On other topics, Obama:
—Said he was concerned by the Pakistani military and intelligence community's ties to "unsavory characters." But he said he is not inclined to cut off U.S. aid to Pakistan because he has a great desire to help the Pakistani people.
The president's comments follow just-retired Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen's claim that the Haqqani insurgent network acts as "a veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence agency. While Obama did not endorse Mullen's assertion, he did acknowledge that Pakistan engages with individuals the U.S. finds troubling. However, Obama said Pakistan has been a valuable partner in U.S. efforts to go after al-Qaida.
—Criticized China for "gaming" the trading system by keeping its currency undervalued but expressed concern that bipartisan Senate legislation to penalize China could conflict with international agreements. Still, he did not say whether he would veto the legislation.
—Defended his administration over two brewing controversies. One concerns a multimillion-dollar federal loan guarantee to a California solar company, Solyndra, that has declared bankruptcy and that Obama's administration supported despite warnings over its solvency. The other involves a Justice Department program aimed at building cases against major weapons traffickers in Mexico that lost track of numerous guns.
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On the gun program, called Operation Fast and Furious, Obama said he has confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, who's come under criticism from Republicans. The president said both he and Holder would be "very unhappy" if guns were allowed to pass through to Mexico in a way that could have been prevented.
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[Ed.'s Note: Last week, Rick Reilly wrote about the recent ban on signs in the stands at University of Virginia sporting events. This report, from UVA senior Zach Rowen—part of The Mag.com's student-journalist brigade—details the student body's creative protest of the new regulation at the Cavaliers home game against Richmond last Saturday.]
At the five- and ten-minute marks in the first and second quarters of Virginia's 16-0 win over Richmond this Saturday, nearly five-thousand students held up 11'' x 17'' sheets of blank, white paper in hopes of sending a message to the UVA Athletics Department: lift the newly-instated sign ban.
The protest came in the wake of an email from the Athletics Department, which went out to all students, stating that signs were no longer permitted in the stands of any UVA athletic event. The email did not state a reason for the change in policy.
In response, a small group of UVA seniors sent out thousands of messages of their own leading up to Saturday's game, informing students as to how they could take part in the protest. Upon arrival at predetermined pick-up locations, students were given instructions on when to hold up their sheets of paper—not signs per se, thus exploiting a loophole in the university's policy—as well as a little inspiration from Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University:
" … A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing … " read the instruction sheet, quoting Jefferson in a letter to James Madison.
"The message was clear," senior Alex Mackay—a participant in the protest—said. "The students demonstrated nearly unanimous disapproval of the 'no sign' policy."
Whether on not the Athletics Department will listen is another matter. To that end, Student Council president Matt Schrimper, as well as the leaders of the protest, are hoping to meet with Director of Athletics Craig Littlepage to discuss the possibility of lifting the sign ban before Virginia's next home game on October 4th.
At the very least, Virginia supporters would like for the Athletics Department to explain its reasoning for banning all signs. Fans speculate it is part of the Athletics Department's push to create what they see as a "positive game-day environment," but many students, including athletes, suggest that a ban on signs has the opposite effect.
"If I see a fan who is into my sport enough to make a sign, that means something to me," says Andrew Carraway, a senior pitcher on the school's baseball team. "University of Virginia fans are energetic, creative and passionate about our school and about our sports. By making a sign, our fans are able to effectively express that creative energy in support of our student-athletes."
Carraway, Mackay, Schrimper and the rest of the student body will have to wait and see if the protest will lead to any changes.
If none are forthcoming, there is still one thing students can hang their hats on: Jefferson would have been proud.