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I told you to take Tampa Bay +3 at Carolina, and the Bucs ended up winning it outright, 20-7. That makes my Upset Picks season record 3-0-1.
I'll post my pick for Week 5 on Wednesday (because I'll be off Thursday and Friday).
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Upset Picks Still Undefeated
I told you to take Tampa Bay +3 at Carolina, and the Bucs ended up winning it outright, 20-7. That makes my Upset Picks season record 3-0-1.
In The Shadow Of The Moon
Until now, there were exactly three great movies about the US space program: "The Right Stuff," "Apollo 13," and Tom Hanks' HBO series "From The Earth To The Moon."
Add to that "In The Shadow Of The Moon," a new documentary about the Apollo program that stars the men who actually went to the moon, including those who went around it without setting foot on lunar soil. Chief among the latter is Michael Collins, the command module pilot who orbited the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became known for all eternity as the first men to walk on another world. Collins doesn't hold anything back, nor do Aldrin, Alan Bean, Jim Lovell, Gene Cernan, John Young, and other members of one of the most elite clubs in the world -- the lunar explorers. Neil Armstrong, still notoriously private, didn't sit for the new segments, but he and his colleagues appear in lots of the genuine NASA footage director David Sington has strung together.
They tell the story in their own words, from the earliest days of the space race to JFK's commitment to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s to the Apollo 1 fire that killed 3 astronauts on the pad during a test to that triumphant Apollo 11 mission in July, 1969 and on through the last moon voyage, Apollo 17.
It's hard to believe we haven't been back in 35 years. As a fan of the space effort, I hope we go back again in my lifetime. Until then, "In The Shadow Of The Moon" is more than a history lesson about a great adventure; it's a terrific movie, too.
posted at 7:18 PM
Headline of the Day
In the New York Times, the headline read "Despite Denials, Gays Insist They Exist, If Quietly, In Iran."
When the piece was reprinted in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the paper changed the headline to "There Are Gays Living In Iran, Say Gays Living In Iran."
Friday, September 28, 2007
More Movies You Might Not Know
New additions to my Movies You Might Not Know list:
- "Wait Until Dark" is a 1967 thriller starring Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman who is terrorized by a couple of thugs who think there's some heroin in her apartment. Alan Arkin is wonderfully malevolent as the villain, ably assisted by Richard Crenna. It's as good as any Hitchcock classic.
- "When We Were Kings" is the 1996 documentary about the 1974 heavyweight championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinsasha, Zaire. This was long before Foreman became the cuddly grill salesman, when he was still the menacing Olympic gold medalist who hit harder than anyone in the world. Ali was attempting to regain his glory after going to prison and being stripped of his title over his opposition to the Vietnam War. When the fight was delayed for six weeks by internal African issues, Ali and promoter Don King turned it into a huge public relations opportunity, even bringing in James Brown and The Spinners for a concert. Filmmaker Leon Gast caught all of it in his lens, but the documentary wasn't released for two decades. It was well worth the wait.
posted at 9:58 AM
Categories: movies
Star Wars Holiday Special
In my interview with Bruce Vilanch yesterday, we discussed the "Star Wars Holiday Special" which he co-wrote. I mentioned that I hadn't seen it and thought that George Lucas had bought up every copy to ensure that it never see the light of day after its only TV airing on Thanksgiving weekend, 1978. Vilanch said that he had a copy, and that someone had posted it online, too. Listener Jeff Olsen found the link, and here it is, in its full two-hour glory...
posted at 12:07 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Judge Nap on Patriot Act Ruling
Judge Andrew Napolitano was back on my show this afternoon to talk about US District Judge Ann Aiken's ruling that two provisions of the Patriot Act are unconstitutional.
As Judge Nap pointed out, the government has now lost every single Patriot Act case in court, with federal judge after federal judge ruling against it -- but, in a blatant disregard for the balance of power and the judicial branch, the Bush administration continues to use and abuse it.
Judge Nap explained the case which led to Aiken's ruling, regarding a US citizen whose house and office were searched by the FBI without a search warrant because he had mistakenly been linked to the Madrid train bombing. Those searches, the judge ruled, were a blatant violation of the man's Fourth Amendment rights.
Andrew Napolitano is senior judicial analyst for Fox News Channel and author of "Constitutional Chaos," "Constitution in Exile," and the upcoming book "A Nation of Sheep" (which we'll talk about at length when he returns to my show at the end of October).
posted at 4:28 PM
Categories: podcasts
Bruce Vilanch
Today on my show, I talked with comedy writer Bruce Vilanch, who you may have seen at the Fox Theater in 2004 as Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray," or as one of the celebs on "Hollywood Squares," or as the subject of the documentary "Get Bruce!"
We talked about all of those things and a few from his showbiz past, including the legendarily bad 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special," and the never-produced screenplay he wrote for close friend John Belushi just before his death.
Bruce is one of the go-to comedy writers in Hollywood, having worked on projects for all sorts of people -- some credited, many not -- and has worked often with my friend Jon Macks writing awards shows (he has two Emmys for writing Oscars telecasts).
posted at 3:54 PM
Laws About Kids In Cars
Would the threat of a $200 ticket keep you from leaving your child in your car?
Michelle Struttman thinks so. She's one of the people behind Kids In Cars, and is advocating for a Missouri law to match the one in Illinois that makes it a misdemeanor to leave a child unattended in a motor vehicle.
She'd like the Missouri law to be stricter than Illinois', which makes it a crime only if more than 10 minutes have passed. Struttman says there have been too many cases of someone leaving a car running with a kid in the backseat for a few minutes and then having a carjacker take both the vehicle and the child.
I'm not sure that small a fine would be a deterrent, changing the attitude of people who aren't already concerned about the life of their baby. Some of my callers suggested it would only work if the fine were larger, while others think the whole thing stinks of more nanny state legislation -- but there were supporters, too, who say that if it saves one child's life, then it's a good thing.
Listen, then add your comments below.
posted at 2:56 PM
Categories: podcasts
Upset Pick, Week 4
Season Record: 2-0-1
This week, take Tampa Bay + 3 at Carolina. With Delhomme banged up, the Bucs defense will apply lot of pressure and, on their side of the ball, Cadillac Williams will rack up over 100 yards as Gruden calls his number often.
Highway House
When it came to moving his house from Santa Monica to Santa Clarita, Califonia, Patrick Richardson wanted to save some money by doing it himself. He got the necessary permits and started out on his wide-load adventure.
Unfortunately, he took a turn onto the wrong freeway and the top of the house hit an overpass, where it got stuck. Traffic was backed up for hours until he got the house free and limped a few miles down the road, where he found a spot on the shoulder wide enough to leave the house and its crippled trailer, and that's where it sat. As you can see, vandals moved right in, broke the windows, stole most of the stuff inside, and left graffiti all over the house.
After 10 days, the department of transportation was fed up with the congestion the house was causing, so they hired a mover who picked up the house and put it in some storage location. Richardson will have to reimburse them $20,000 before he gets his home back.
Story here.
posted at 8:09 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Iraq Vets Still Not Getting Care
Paul Rieckhoff returned to my show this afternoon to respond to a GAO report that says that the problems with care for our returning veterans are far from solved. In fact, there's been little progress since Congress and the President used all those photo ops earlier this year to promise that the system would be fixed and our soldiers taken care of.
I also asked Reickhoff for his reaction to the Iraq war status report by General Petraeus a couple of weeks ago. Rieckhoff is executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
posted at 5:10 PM
Categories: podcasts, war/terrorism
Jennifer Joyce vs. John Shelhorse
We had a stunning conversation on my show moments ago. In all my years on the radio, I've never had a prosecutor and defense attorney get into it with each other on the air.
It happened as we continued talking about Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce's decision yesterday not to prosecute the parents of Baby Sophia, because she couldn't prove criminal negligence on the part of the parents. In light of that, I invited her back today to discuss the case of Delea Payne, the daycare center driver who left 3-year-old Ricky Dixon in a van at the St. Louis Science Center for an hour on a hot summer day, August 7th. Joyce explained that she has offered a plea bargain where Payne would plead guilty, get probation and a suspended imposition of sentence, so her record would be purged if she stayed out of trouble.
We were joined by Payne's attorney, John Shelhorse, who didn't deny that the boy was left in the van, but claims that his client is not guilty and would not accept the plea bargain.
Joyce said that Shelhorse had just brought her new information about the case, but he responded that the information was not new, and that her office should have discovered it earlier. A heated exchange followed -- part of that disagreement has to do with whether Shelhorse is still Payne's attorney!
After Shelhorse revealed that Payne was not the only one with responsibility for the kids in the van that day, Joyce said that she will review the details and decide how to proceed. Shelhorse says they're both due in front of a judge next Wednesday.
You have to hear this.
Previously on Harris Online...
- Yesterday's interview with Jennifer Joyce about the Knutsen decision.
- My 8/31 interview with John Shelhorse about the Payne case.
posted at 3:36 PM
Categories: podcasts
Robert Reich
Today on my show, I talked with former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich about the broader issues behind the now-ended UAW/GM strike, and whether the paradigm has shifted for American workers when it comes to job security, healthcare benefits, and pensions.
That led us into a discussion of some of the issues in his new book, "Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life." Reich says that we have become more a nation of consumers than citizens, and that capitalism in the US is stronger than ever, but democracy is weaker. To my surprise, he argues that corporate social responsibility is not only a counterproductive distraction, but also against the interests of shareholders.
Full disclosure: my brother Seth was a special assistant to Reich at the Labor Department for several years.
Here's the Robert Reich/Conan O'Brien buddy-cop promo I mentioned in our interview.
posted at 2:57 PM
Categories: podcasts
Dying Professor's Final Lecture
Instead, he decided to do what he does best -- talk to a roomful of students. A few days ago, he gave his final lecture, "How To Live Your Childood Dreams," reviewing some of the things he had wanted to do as a boy and how his life has been about connecting those dreams to reality.
He wanted to be in zero gravity. He wanted to play in the NFL. He wanted to be Captain Kirk. He wanted to be a Disney Imagineer.
Sure, he hit some obstacles along the way, but Pausch says, "Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things."
In watching the video of his final lecture, you can see why Pausch was one of the most popular professors at Carnegie Mellon.
[thanks to John K for the link -- note that this runs over an hour, in 4 parts]
posted at 7:39 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
No Charges In Baby Sophia Case
Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce was on my show today to explain why she isn't prosecuting the parents of Sophia Knutsen, the 7-month-old baby who died when her parents left her in their car on the Washington University Med School campus on August 23rd.
Joyce says it came down to two words, "criminal negligence," which she could not establish beyond a reasonable doubt, because her office couldn't prove that Russell Knutsen "knew his baby was in his care at the time he parked his car." As for the mother, Beth Ann Kozel, Joyce says that she assumed that her husband knew the baby was in the car when they made the switch, so she can't be held criminally responsible, either.
I also asked Joyce how this differs from the case of Delea Payne, the daycare center driver who is being prosecuted for leaving 3-year-old Ricky Dixon on a van during a field trip to the St. Louis Science Center on August 7th.
Here's Jennifer Joyce's press release on her decision.
posted at 3:32 PM
Categories: podcasts
Upset Picks Undefeated
Tennessee's 31-14 win over New Orleans last night moves my Upset Picks record for the season to 2-0-1. This week's pick will be posted Thursday.
Gorilla In The Air Tonight
British TV commercial math: Phil Collins song + Guy in gorilla suit = Chocolate bar.
posted at 8:31 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Monday, September 24, 2007
Dave Barry, Historian
Dave Barry returned to my show this afternoon to talk about his new book, "Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)." We discussed some of the stories that have made this year so much fun, and reached back for classics from 2000 like Elian Gonzalez and the Bush-Gore election, both of which kept Florida at the top of the Knuckleheads In The News leaderboard.
Listen, then click here to subscribe to these podcasts via iTunes!
posted at 3:56 PM
Categories: podcasts
Brothers By The Horns
I missed this one during the Running of the Bulls this summer in Pamplona. This bull not only got two of the idiots runners simultaneously, but it turned out they're brothers. Bull-Butt brothers, as it turns out. [thanks to Jeff Olsen for the link]
posted at 8:42 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Ace In The Hole
New to the Movies You Might Now Know list...
"Ace In The Hole," a 1951 Billy Wilder classic with Kirk Douglas as reporter Chuck Tatum, who stumbles upon the story of Leo Minosa, a man stuck in a cave in a tiny New Mexico town. Seeing this as his opportunity to get back to the bigtime on a newspaper in New York, Tatum orchestrates what we now call a media circus. He not only manipulates the coverage of the story, but Minosa's wife, the sheriff, the rescuers, and the public, too.
When you see it, think of all the stories that get blown out of proportion and exploited for days on end to fill the 24-hour info cycle on all those news networks. The parallels, more than half a century later, are remarkable.
posted at 10:32 PM
Categories: movies
Mark & Marcel
Quick, name the world's greatest living mime. Wrong! Marcel Marceau is dead. Now, who said Shields & Yarnell? While we're on the subject, Mark Evanier has a funny story about how he nearly ruined one of Marceau's TV appearances.
Rams Reality
It's time to be honest about the St. Louis Rams. Those of us here in town see the problems week in and week out, but for some reason, national media and sportscasters calling their games are blind to them. That's why they still refer to the Rams' "high-powered offense." It's a phrase that is not only outdated, but essentially meaningless, too.
As this season's Rams are proving again, the vaunted team that could put up 50+ points a game is a thing of the past, not the present. "High-powered offense" and "Greatest Show Turf" no longer apply -- they refer to the 1999 Rams, when Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt, Isaac Bruce and the rest were putting up so many points that they covered the spread virtually every week. That era lasted for a couple of seasons, but came to a screeching halt when the Rams lost the Super Bowl to the New England Patriots after the 2001 season.
Since then, the Rams offense has struggled to even get in the end zone. It's not good news when your highest-scoring player is your kicker. It means you couldn't convert a drive and had to go for a lot of field goals. This season, the Rams have exactly two touchdowns in three games. Not only do they choke in the red zone, but now Jeff Wilkins, the kicker nicknamed "Money" because he was such a sure thing, is missing from all over the field, too.
Scott Linehan's offense has gotten predictable, and the coach's habit of calling those quick outs on the line of the scrimmage to a wide receiver rarely work for more than a yard or two. Yes, Steven Jackson can still run the ball, and Brian Leonard helps pick up the backfield slack, but where are those 20-30 yard passes downfield that utilize the quickness and receiving ability of Holt and Bruce? Did anyone else notice that Rams castoff Kevin Curtis caught three touchdowns for Philadelphia today?
At least the Rams still have the same level of ability on the defensive side of the ball that they've had for years -- which means they still can't tackle and the pass rush is virtually invisible. That mattered less in the previous era when the offense was putting up so many points that it didn't matter if the defense gave up five touchdowns. But now, when you're making stars of opposition running backs like Carnell Williams and Frank Gore, it's yet another element of a team that's firing on no cylinders.
And yet, week in and week out, the national media and the broadcasters calling the games continue to refer to the Rams' "high-powered offense." It's time to knock it off and come up with a new catch phrase. I suggest "won't get to the post-season, even if they have a ticket."
posted at 4:56 PM
Categories: columns
Friday, September 21, 2007
Jon Macks' Emmy Stories
In addition to writing jokes for Jay Leno's monologue every night, Jon Macks also works on a lot of big award shows. He was one of the writers on last weekend's Emmy Awards telecast and spent the evening in the green room with the various stars and semi-stars assembled there.
Today on my show, he shared stories about some of them, including Jeremy Piven, Leslie Caron, the casts of "Roots" and "The Sopranos," and many more. Listen.
posted at 5:50 PM
Categories: podcasts, television
Seth Gordon "The King Of Kong"
A documentary about two guys competing for the highest Donkey Kong score ever? Sounds boring -- but it's not! It's "The King Of Kong: Fistful Of Quarters," a new documentary by Seth Gordon, which opens today in St. Louis. I saw a preview a few days ago and really enjoyed it.
As I discussed with Gordon on my show this afternoon, he managed to find a hero (Steve Wiebe) and a villain (Billy Mitchell) to give his story some conflict. Mitchell in particular seems to relish his role as top dog on the classic arcade game ladder, a position he held for two decades until Wiebe came along to challenge him. By the way, according to Gordon, the rivalry continues to this day.
Whether or not you ever dropped a quarter into a Donkey Kong game (and, like me, never made it past the second screen before Mario died), you'll get caught up in this odd little world of guys -- what a surprise, it's an all-male world -- who make it their life to figure out how to beat the games.
posted at 5:24 PM
Categories: podcasts
Passengers Bill Of Rights Passes!
After months of Kate Hanni pressuring Congress to pass an Airline Passengers Bill Of Rights, we got some good news from Congressman Jerry Costello (D-IL) today on my show. He's the chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, and one of the legislators responsible for including several of those rights in a new bill that passed overwhelmingly yesterday.
Costello explained that there are still obstacles to overcome, including the Senate and a threatened veto by President Bush. Hanni, who was on with us today, promised to keep pushing until this becomes law. But at least we're one step closer to fighting back against the airlines, and their lousy customer service that leaves passengers stranded on the tarmac for hours at a time with no food, water, or bathrooms.
posted at 4:34 PM
Categories: podcasts
Couple Of The Year
Imagine living next to this loving twosome in Evansville, Indiana.
Connie Deweese locked the doors so her drunk ex-boyfriend Alejandro Valencio couldn't get in, but that didn't stop him. He climbed on the roof and tried to get in through the chimney. That didn't work out so well, and firefighters had to come and get him out -- but they had to call the cops because Connie was blocking the fireplace, telling them to leave him in there and let him die. The best part of the story is when a TV news crew videotapes Alejandro going back the next day, only to have Connie pelt him with bottles and a garbage can...
posted at 12:01 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Brett Darrow, Case Dismissed
Brett Darrow, now infamous for his run-in with St. George Police Sgt. James Kuehnlein two weeks ago, was back on my show this afternoon for an update about another police encounter.
This one involved a female officer who accused him of making an illegal u-turn in the city of St. Louis. Brett had his video camera rolling that night, too, and took the evidence to court, ready for trial. Unfortunately, the officer didn't show up to face that (for the second time), so the judge dismissed the case.
I also asked Brett about posts on some online bulletin boards either about him or by him. On at least one CopTalk board, there have been some very ugly things said about Brett, allegedly by members of the law enforcement community (many have been removed by the moderators). On the other hand, some of them claim that Brett has made some very negative comments about certain officers, including the late Norvelle Brown. Brett admits posting on CopWatch.net, but denies saying those things about Officer Brown.
Moments after this conversation, word came down that Sgt. Kuehnlein has been given a letter of termination by the city of St. George.
posted at 5:45 PM
Categories: podcasts
Ken Burns Returns
With his 15-hour documentary series "The War" about to debut Sunday night on PBS, Ken Burns returned to my show today. We discussed the reaction he's had from veterans at early screenings across the country, the difference in media coverage of World War II and the Iraq War,
We also talked about the level of national sacrifice that made up the war effort then, in stark contrast to now, when the war is rarely top-of-mind for most Americans and those of us who don't have family members serving in uniform haven't really been asked by our leaders to sacrifice anything at all.
posted at 4:38 PM
Categories: podcasts, war/terrorism
Upset Pick Week 3
Season-to-date record: 1-0-1. A reminder that I'm only picking underdogs against the spread.
This Monday, take Tennesee +4.5 at New Orleans. After allowing the Colts only one TD last week, the Titans defense will have to step up again and force Drew Brees to hurry his throws behind a weak offensive line.
Don't Tase Me (Remix)
More fun with Andrew Meyer's run-in with the campus cops in Florida...
posted at 12:01 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
More Movies You Might Not Know
New additions to the Movies You Might Not Know list...
"Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington Anymore?" is a well-made documentary about Jeff Smith, a St. Louisan who ran for the congressional seat vacated by Richard Gephardt when he retired. Like "The War Room," this doc takes you behind the scenes with the young candidate and his even-younger campaign staff, as they go door-to-door and day by day in their efforts to win votes and raise money, while taking on a candidate with more name recognition and cash (Russ Carnahan).
"The Astronaut Farmer" is a quiet little Billy Bob Thornton movie about a Texas rancher name Farmer who was once in the astronaut corps, but is now a private citizen who still dreams of going into space. Well, he more than dreams of it. He actually builds a rocket in his barn, but when he tries to buy fuel for it, the FBI and FAA come poking around and try to put a stop to his efforts. Virginia Madsen gives another solid performance as Mrs. Farmer, and Bruce Willis has a small role, too (in his third movie with Thornton). This is a quality family movie, even if it gets a little corny at the end.
posted at 11:51 PM
Categories: movies
Laurel from "Kid Nation"
Just hours before the debut of "Kid Nation" on CBS -- which will be must-see TV in my house, if my daughter has anything to say about it -- I spoke with Laurel, one of the cast members, on my show.
I asked her about the controversy surrounding the show, which put 40 kids in a New Mexico town called Bonanza City to live without adults for 40 days. Laurel explained that, not only did she and the other kids enjoy the experience, she'd love to go back again. Sure, some kids had minor injuries, she says, but nothing worse than they'd get in everyday life.
I asked her what they ate, what jobs they had to do, whether she stays in touch with her co-stars, if she had anything to say about Michael (who will be one of the breakout stars of this show), and more.
Here's a terrific first-person piece by Tammie Womack, the mother of Kennedy, another kid on "Kid Nation":
Sure, kids fell down and went boom. Yes, indeed, kids bickered. Fair enough, they dirtied their hands. All right, my youngun' struggled to make ends meet on her Buffalo Nickel wages. But, haven't we all? Didn't our forefathers? Thus, I stand in judgment for hurling my youngster into the fire. If she got a cactus thorn in her behind, it's my fault. Slap me on the wrist. But, I'd take that whack again in a heartbeat. The kids proved us grownups wrong. Turns out that they don't need our mollycoddling. They can. They will.
posted at 5:31 PM
Categories: podcasts, television
Frank DeFord "The Entitled"
Frank DeFord was on my show this afternoon, discussing his new book "The Entitled," a tale of modern baseball.
As a longtime admirer of DeFord's work (particularly in Sports Illustrated), it was a pleasure to talk with him about baseball battles between managers and millionaire athletes, why the steroids scandal hasn't affected ballpark attendance, whether NFL commissioner Roger Goodell handled the Bill Bellichek spying story correctly, and more.
I also asked DeFord whether he was happy with the movie version of his football novel, "Everybody's All-American," and whether he thought about how his new book would look as a screenplay. And I had DeFord explain why his 1990-91 attempt at a national daily sports newspaper (The National, which I was a fan of) failed, despite being full of really good writing.
That's only about half of what we talked about. For more, listen to our conversation.
posted at 5:06 PM
Categories: podcasts
Don't Taze Me, Bro!
Listener Bob McCarty jumped on the Andrew Meyer story and is already selling "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" t-shirts and other products.
posted at 7:53 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Kathleen Madigan, "Last Comic Standing"
Kathleen Madigan -- one of my favorite standups -- was back on my show today to promote tomorrow night's season finale of "Last Comic Standing." After being one of the comedians competing on the show a couple of years ago, she's been a judge this season.
We talked about the special talent needed to succeed on a show like "LCS," the impact it had on her career, and advice she had for the competing comedians. With her St. Louis roots, we also talked about the Cardinals and Rams.
Listen, then click here to subscribe to these podcasts via iTunes!
posted at 5:07 PM
Categories: comedians, podcasts, television
Jailing Parents For Teen Trouble
One of the recurring themes on my show is parental responsibility. Today, I talked with Bob Shockey, the police chief in Arnold (MO), which just implemented a new ordinance that would make parents legally responsible for criminal actions by their children.
The chief explained that this wouldn't be for first offenders, but for repeat offenders who are causing trouble in spots like the block around the Arnold 14 Cine, where dozens of teenagers are dropped off by parents on Friday and Saturday evenings. Some of those kids aren't going to the movie, but instead hang out and cause trouble for nearby businesses. When the police pick up those kids and call their parents, the response from home is often one of disinterest and certainly no desire to discipline their son or daughter.
Under this new ordinance, those parents could be cited and fined up to $500 or jailed for up to 90 days. The question is whether punishing the parents will have any impact on the actions of their offspring. Listen.
posted at 4:32 PM
Categories: podcasts
Secret Cop Shopper
My wife had an interesting point about Brett Darrow, the guy who videotaped his encounter with St. George Police Sgt. James Kuehnlein on September 7th. She wonders why some smart police department hasn't asked Brett to be their equivalent of a secret shopper.
Many retail outlets hire secret shoppers to come in, browse the items in the store, interact with the clerks, maybe buy something or return something, ask some typical and atypical questions, and take notes on how the staff responds and how well they do their job. Several restaurant chains use the same approach to make sure that their wait staff are at the top of their game. When the secret shopper reports get back to the boss, they can act on them and either reward or reprimand employees for how they're doing their jobs and how well they're keeping the customers satisfied.
Sunday night, my colleague Don Wolff asked St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa how he feels about citizens videotaping his officers on the job, and the Chief said he welcomed it. Jerry Lee, Chief of Police in St. Louis County, agreed and added that when police encounters are captured on video by cameras in patrol cars, the number of complaints has decreased by 40%. That could mean that officers are more aware that their actions are being scrutinized, or it means that the chances to fake a complaint are reduced when you know the video camera is there. Either way, both chiefs see the presence of the equipment as a positive, not a negative.
That's where someone like Brett comes in. As long as he doesn't break the law -- which St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig admits he did not do on that Friday night -- you can use him as a secret shopper to evaluate how officers are doing in the field. Do they lose their temper too quickly? Do they respect the rights of the person they've stopped? Did they handle the always-dangerous possibilities of a traffic stop in a way that ensured their own safety? Are they pulling people over based on race? Did they read Miranda rights to a suspect? Did the suspect confess and provide information useful to a further investigation? And on and on and on.
If it's good enough for a store like Nordstrom's and a restaurant like Bandana's, surely the secret shopper concept is good enough for law enforcement.
posted at 11:15 AM
Categories: columns
During her life, Barbara Sue Manire was known for her sense of humor. When she died, her family wanted her to be remembered with a smile. So, next to her headstone in Highland Cemetary (in Okemah, Oklahoma), they installed a parking meter with the "time expired" tag sticking up...
[thanks to Michael Nichols for the contribution]
posted at 9:02 AM
Categories: picture of the day
Monday, September 17, 2007
Passengers Bill of Rights update
Kate Hanni of the Coalition for an Airline Passengers Bill of Rights was back on my show this afternoon to promote the Strand-In she's planning for Wednesday on the US Capitol lawn. She has set up a 28-foot long mockup of an airplane interior and invited all the members of Congress to experience how bad it can get onboard airplanes that are stranded on the tarmac for hours. Listen.
posted at 5:36 PM
Categories: podcasts
Jack Goldsmith "The Terror Presidency"
This afternoon on my show, I talked with Jack Goldsmith, former Assistant Attorney General in the Bush Administration, about his book "The Terror Presidency."
As head of the Office Of Legal Counsel, Goldsmith got into heated debates with Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, and others regarding the surveillance program, the FISA court, torture policies, and more. We discussed all of that, and the famous encounter with Gonzales and Andrew Card (then White House Chief Of Staff) in John Ashcroft's hospital room over re-authorizing a secret program.
I asked Goldsmith whether the Bush administration used fear as a weapon internally, as it has so often publicly, to scare people into getting what it wants. As an example, Goldsmith says that when he questioned one Bush decision, David Addington (then legal counsel to Dick Cheney) told him, "If you rule that way, the blood of the hundred thousand people who die in the next attack will be on your hands."
Goldsmith, a conservative attorney and law professor, found himself torn between protecting the nation and following the law and the Constitution. Although at the time he told people he left his position "to spend more time with his family," it's clear that the legal schism in the White House -- and the administration's unwillingness to respect the balance of power with Congress and the courts -- eventually drove him out.
posted at 3:11 PM
Categories: podcasts, war/terrorism
Proposal Prank
Two co-workers had been pranking each other back and forth, raising the bar each time. The topper was when one of them arranged for a marriage proposal for the other's girlfriend -- on the big screen at Yankee Stadium...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Upset Picks Winner
Chalk up a winner in week two. I picked Arizona +3 vs Seattle, and the Cardinals not only beat the spread, but won the game 23-20. My record thus far: 1-0-1. Next pick on Thursday.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Richard Davis, Murdered Soldier
Richard Davis was an American soldier who came back to the US, only to be murdered by some of the men he went to war with in Iraq. It's the basis of the new movie, "In The Valley of Elah," a fictionalized account of Richard's story, starring Tommy Lee Jones as his father, an Army veteran who takes it upon himself to investigate what really happened to his son.
Today on my show, Richard's real father, Lanny Davis, told his son's story and revealed why he thinks his son was brutally killed, and how his disappearance was covered up by the military. This took place in the first year of the war, at a time when negative stories like the not-so-friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman were buried for public relations reasons. It's a tough, fascinating story, which will also be told in the book "Murder In Baker Company" early in 2008.
The Davis family has a website here.
"In The Valley Of Elah" has quite a pedigree, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon -- and it's directed by Paul Haggis, who did "Crash." Here's the trailer...
posted at 3:22 PM
Categories: podcasts, war/terrorism
Finnish YMCA
I needed something silly to end the week, and a listener named Rick provided it. This is a band from Finland performing "YMCA" in Finnish.
Just when you thought you'd seen and heard every cheesy version of the already-cheesy Village People original, take a look at Gregorius. From the high school gym uniform the lead singer is wearing to the four dancers in the background (who look as though they may have just been picked up at the YMCA), this is a giant ball of cheese. The only disappointing thing is that, even with the song title translated to "NMKY" in Finnish, no one is spelling it out with their arms.
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Good News For Fat Dad
Finally, some good news for Gary Stocklaufer. He's the Missouri man who was told his weight (560+ lbs) was an obstacle to his adopting Baby Max, his cousin's son. With the state's family services department deciding that he was too fat for fatherhood, a judge not only ruled against him, but initially denied him a new hearing.
On my show today, Gary happily announced that the judge has changed his mind and agreed to a new hearing on November 29th, because circumstances have changed -- Gary had gastric bypass surgery and has lost 100 pounds already. He also has a new attorney who knows what he's doing.
But there's more. Gary explained that they've uncovered a money angle behind the state's decisions. Turns out there's federal money that goes to the state adoption agency if it places Baby Max with someone else (under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which set state incentives for increasing adoption). In other words, Missouri will get thousands of dollars if it denies Gary the right to adopt his own blood relative!
How's that for having the system stacked against you? Makes me wonder whether the weight issue is just a bogus excuse being used by DFS.
posted at 5:52 PM
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Upset Pick, Week 2
Last week's pick (Miami +3 vs. Washington) was a push when the Redskins kicked a field goal to win 16-31.
This week, my upset pick is Arizona +3 vs. Seattle. They're just good enough to beat the spread as a home underdog.
No Flowers For You
Melissa Morin looks just fine in this photo, but her high school won't publish it in their yearbook. Why? Because she's holding that flower.
The school has a "no props in yearbook photos" rule. The principal imposed the rule after an incident in another New Hampshire school where a student posed for his yearbook picture with a gun.
In today's zero tolerance world, you can understand where the same rule that applies to a gun would also apply to a flower, right? Ah, no.
More on the story here.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Cop Gone Wild Follow-Up
Brett Darrow was back on my show this afternoon to describe his meeting with St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig and the formal complaint he filed about his encounter last Friday with Sgt. James Kuehnlein.
It turns out that while Darrow has video of the incident, the video shot from the officer's patrol car seems to be lost -- what a surprise! Chief Uhrig admits that his officers have access to the tapes in their vehicles, and could erase or edit out any footage which shows them in a negative light. That's a scenario that's ripe for abuse, particularly in situations like this one.
Because so many have questioned Darrow's motives in having his own camcorder (plus radar detector and police scanner) in his car, I asked him to explain again why he installed the equipment and about his previous run-ins with police. I also asked him if he's contacted a lawyer and plans any legal action against Sgt. Kuehnlein or the city of St. George, and whether he thinks the officer -- who is currently on unpaid leave -- should be fired.
I've been laughing at the commenters who refer to Darrow as a "young punk." His age and his non-aggressive actions should not be a factor in how he was treated. The bottom line here is that Darrow did nothing illegal, which Chief Uhrig acknowledges. Even if Darrow was trying to "catch a cop," that doesn't justify Sgt. Kuehnlein's reaction. If it's okay for police departments and "Dateline NBC" to "Catch A Predator," what's wrong with what Darrow did? If he had caught a sex offender instead of an abusive cop, he'd be universally hailed as a hero.
We have all been in situations where someone abused their power. It may have been a police officer, it may have been a teacher, it may have been a boss, it may have been a politician (!). That doesn't mean that everyone in those positions is bad, but every profession has a few megalomaniacs who don't know when they're stepping over the line. When that happens, they need to be dragged back to the right side, and sometimes it takes a whistle blower like Darrow to bring it out into the open.
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Randy Larsen on Homeland Security
This afternoon on my show, I talked with Colonel Randy Larsen, our homeland security consultant, about his new book, "Our Own Worst Enemy."
Randy knows more about this subject than anyone I know, and I like his approach, which is based entirely on keeping things in perspective. He says we're asking the wrong questions about how to keep America safe (like "is our city ready for evacuation in an emergency?"), and that our politicians waste tens of millions of dollars chasing the wrong answers to those wrong questions.
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Your Rights In A Traffic Stop
In light of the Brett Darrow police encounter, what are your rights when a cop pulls you over? I invited Scott Morgan of FlexYourRights.org onto my show this afternoon to explain what information you must provide, what you should and shouldn't say, what to do when the officer asks for permission to search your car, and on and on.
Of course, all this advice comes with the caveat that even if you do everything you're constitutionally permitted to do, the cop could still go ballistic on you or even take you off to jail -- a situation you'll have to deal with later, or a decision you should weigh at the time, because even if you're proven to be in the right later on, it may still be a lot more hassle than you want. That doesn't mean you should always be willing to give up your rights, just so you're aware of what you're facing, right or wrong.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Cop Gone Wild
This afternoon on my show, Brett Darrow talked about his encounter with St. George Police Sgt. James Kuehnlein last week, in which the officer lost his temper and screamed at Brett while the whole thing was caught on video.
Once you've watched the video, draw your own conclusions on whether Darrow was baiting the cop -- and even if he was, should Sgt. Kuehnlein have taken the bait and gone over the top? You also have to wonder how much Darrow's age (20) had to do with this, whether his previous encounters with the law left him pre-disposed to situations like this, and whether the officer (who is on suspension) really knows the law, as he claims. What's most disturbing about this is Sgt. Kuehnlein's implication that he'll make up reasons to take Darrow to jail.
I also asked criminal defense attorney Chet Pleban -- who is not involved in this matter -- to offer some legal expertise on what information you have to provide if you're stopped by a cop and asked to provide ID and explain what you're doing in a parking lot in the middle of the night. Chet added a few questions for Brett, who provided a few answers.
There's a transcript of the St. George incident here. Darrow was involved in another incident caught on tape on December 30, 2006 -- that video and transcript are here.
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Pool On The Road
What do you do when you don't have room in the garage for both your VW bus and your pool table? Combine them, of course...
No word on whether you use your cue stick to change gears, but there are more pix of it here.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Michael Isikoff on the Petraeus Report
Today I called upon Newsweek's Michael Isikoff for some analysis of the congressional testimony by General David Petraeus on how The Surge is working. Isikoff says there was no major news other than the number of troops he wants to bring home by next July. That may not be fast enough for some, and it probably has more to do with the troops who will be completing their rotations at that point, and not enough left to replace them.
Either way, you can pick anyone at any spot on the political spectrum, and they'll turn the report into "told you so!" Democrats will frame it as "we're losing, let's get the troops home now" and Republicans will frame it as "we're winning, we can get the troops home now."
With a majority of Americans telling Gallup today that they wouldn't believe the report regardless, and a presidential election year just months away, you have to wonder if this isn't more about US politics than how the war is really going. Incidentally, nowhere in Petraeus' report does he claim that we're "kicking ass," Mr. President.
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Stop Something
In 1933, MIT engineer Harold Edgerton invented the high-speed photo strobe. Over the next six decades, he did some experimenting with a camera to create stop-action photography of high-speed events. One of his classic shots was the bullet through the apple...
There's a wonderful compilation of Edgerton's work in the book "Stopping Time." It never ceases to get attention from visitors whenever they see it on my coffee table and become fascinated with his stunning photos.
In 2007, with high-speed video, a similar image is being used as part of an anti-gun commercial from the UK. Whether you agree with their agenda or not, you'll have to admit that this slo-mo video of a bullet destroying various objects is very, very cool.
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
Corkology Revealed
As promised, here's the reveal on how Richard Wiseman did "Corkology"...
Friday, September 07, 2007
Rick Ankiel and HGH
With the Rick Ankiel story hitting this morning, lots of people were speculating about human growth hormone and its effect on performance. Not me. I admit to knowing nothing about the stuff, so I called upon an expert, endocrinologist Dr. George Griffing.
I was surprised to hear that there's no evidence that HGH would help batters hit the ball further or enhance performance in any way. He also says that there is no reliable way to test for HGH, so even if it's now against MLB's rules, there's no way to verify that players are or aren't using it.
It amuses me that Cardinal fans are rallying around Ankiel without question. Take "Rick Ankiel" out of the story and put "Barry Bonds" in. What's the reaction then? Or if the name was "Alfonso Soriano" or another dreaded Cubs player?
Ankiel's alleged use of HGH doesn't bother me any more than Bonds' use of whatever he allegedly used. If you're willing to sacrifice your body for my entertainment, go right ahead. I just want to see the ball go over the wall.
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Inches From Disaster
In Utah, a driver lost control of his pickup on Highway 59. He hit the guardrail, the truck went airborne, flipped over a culvert, did a 180, and landed on all four tires. Pretty remarkable, as you can see...
But that's nothing compared to the long view of the accident scene, which shows that the truck was literally inches from disaster...
This looks like a photoshop job, but it's an actual accident, as both Snopes and CNN have confirmed.
posted at 8:17 AM
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Thursday, September 06, 2007
Worth A Link
James Poniewozik of Time magazine echoes my words from earlier this week and puts the hype and criticism about "Kid Nation" in perspective:
I don't want to minimize the charges against it--reportedly, kids accidentally drank bleach during filming (though they reportedly ended up fine) and one was splattered by hot grease in a kitchen. But I also don't want to join the rush to maximize them. The controversy seems to be much more about the context than the actual hazards. Kids getting injured, having accidents, trying things and getting hurt--sounds kinda like summer camp. The kids' parents also had to sign a long contract, reproduced at The Smoking Gun, releasing CBS from responsibility for injuries, illness or death--again, not unlike the boilerplate liability waiver for adult reality shows or amusement parks. But once a reality show is involved, the moral outrage is ratcheted up, because we all know that reality TV is the Official Most Evil Example of Whatever You Personally Believe Is Wrong With the World.Read the whole thing here.
Eliminating Drunk Driving
Chuck Hurley, CEO of MADD, thinks drunk driving can be eliminated within 10 years.
Today on my show, he explained the steps that need to be taken to achieve that goal. One of them is something I've advocated for years, and I'm glad to see MADD has made it a priority of their agenda. When a first-time offender is convicted of DUI, they should have to install an ignition interlock on their vehicle, at their own expense. The interlock is essentially a breathalyzer that the driver must blow into, and if it detects too high a level of alcohol, the car will not start. The driver must then blow into it at various intervals during the trip, or the car will turn itself off. It should remain on the vehicle for at least 90 days for a first offense, and much longer for repeat offenses.
That's really the only way to make sure you can't drive when you've had too much to drink. Taking away someone's license after a DUI conviction doesn't get it done, because it doesn't prevent that driver from getting behind the wheel again.
Illinois will become one of the first states with such a law, already signed by Gov. Blagojevich, which goes into effect in January, 2009. The law has been proposed in Missouri, but hasn't made it out of committee yet. Since my advocacy of tougher drunk driving laws has seemed to have an impact on the state's legislators in the past, we'll continue to press them, on behalf of our listeners and ourselves, to ignition interlock legislation this session.
For more of MADD's four-point plan to eliminate drunk driving in the US, listen to my conversation with Chuck Hurley. Then visit the MADD website.
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Continuing Fire Department Controversy
The controversy over personnel continues in the St. Louis Fire Department, and it may cost the Chief his job.
Sam Simon, the city's public safety director, has sent a letter to Chief Sherman George, ordering him to make all the promotions necessary to fill the more than 30 positions in the department which have remained vacant for at least three years because of a legal battle over the promotions test.
Today on my show, I asked Mayor Slay's chief of staff Jeff Rainford if this order really came from the mayor, what would happen to Chief George if he did not comply, whether this was a coordinated effort to push the chief out, and whether the Mayor's actions are the result of pressure from Local 73 of the firefighter's union.
We also discussed the appalling number of applicants who failed the fire department entrance exam this summer -- nearly 1,000 out of 1,350 -- and whether the city's withdrawal of that exam and cancellation of its results are because it fears litigation. If it turns out that the majority of those applicants are graduates of the St. Louis public schools, this is a harsh condemnation of a system that failed to teach the basic skills of reading, writing, and math.
In response to the city's letter, Chief George's attorney Tom Blumenthal spoke with my colleague Carol Daniel to rebut the city's claims, explain what the Chief will do now, and whether the order from Sam Simon is legal in the first place.
posted at 4:52 PM
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Shadow Puppets
2 hands + 1 projector = A Wonderful World.
[thanks to Gary Wallner for the contribution]
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Richard Wiseman "Quirkology"
Richard Wiseman's book "Quirkology" has just been published in the US, so he was back on my show today to talk about some of the curious psychology experiments he has conducted.
Many of them include studying lies, deception, and paranormal nonsense. In one, he pitted a "financial astrologer" against a stock broker against a 4-year-old girl to see who could pick winning companies. Guess who won.
Wiseman has also studied visual perception. In May, his Total Recall experiment put two subjects into a room and exposed them to 10,000 images over the course of two days, then tested them to see how many they could recall correctly, with surprising results. In another, he investigated the importance of how you look, whether you're running for political office or you're the defendant in a criminal trial.
If you've enjoyed Wiseman's videos (like the color-changing card trick), or similar books like "Freakonomics," I highly recommend you get a copy of "Quirkology: How We Discover The Big Truths In Small Things."
Here's the reveal on how "Corkology" was done.
posted at 4:14 PM
Categories: podcasts, skepticism
The Baby Borrowers
If you think CBS' "Kid Nation" is sparking some controversy, take a look at this BBC show.
With England's high teen pregnancy rate, "The Baby Borrowers" follows several teenage couples as they are given a suburban house to live in and a baby to take care of for three days. If critics are concerned about the parents of the "Kid Nation" participants giving reality show producers responsibility for their children, how about the real parents of these babies allowing them to be taken care of by these teenagers? We're not talking about babysitting for a few hours while you're out to dinner, we're talking about complete control of the tots for 72 hours.
But that's not all. After three days with babies, the teen couples are given a toddler. Then they move on to a tween, then a teenage of their own, and finally, they have to take care of a senior citizen who lives with them.
If all of this seems alarming or strangely British, wait for the American version -- NBC has signed a deal to bring "The Baby Borrowers" here. And don't fool yourself. There will be plenty of teens who want to participate, and plenty of parents willing to give up their kids just to be part of a TV show.
Warning: strong language
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Steve Fossett
With adventurer Steve Fossett missing somewhere in western Nevada -- and his longtime connections to St. Louis -- take a listen to my interview with him from last fall when we talked about why he does what he does, despite the risks.
Weird Beards
Two entrants from the World Beard and Mustache Championships this weekend in Brighton, England.
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The Fibonacci sequence is NOT a geometric sequence.
Suppose the Fibonacci sequence is a geometric sequence (since the differences of the first few terms repeats the sequence), how to show the proof that it has a common ratio that would give an approximate solution to find the nth term of the sequence?
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The Fibonacci sequence obeys to the difference equation...
... with the 'initial conditions' and . The general solution of (1) is...
... and the constants and are found from the 'initial constants'. Properly speacking the Fibonacci sequence is the sum of two geometric sequences...
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Hello, meow91006!
I can't find a way to use Geometric Sequences on this problem.
So I solved the old-fashioned way.
Suppose the Fibonacci sequence is a geometric sequence.
How to prove that it has a common ratio that would give an approximate
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Thank you! My paper has shown me a bit of this but i don't really get it because it stopped at the middle and assumed that i know the conclusion. Thank you very much, this will help me understand my paper.
Thank you! Do you mean i have to read a book on differential equations? What is difference equation anyway? Is that different from differential equations? Well, i believe, the theory of recurrence relations will help.
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Difference equations are different from differential equations, but a lot of the solution methods are analogous. You even have an analogy of the Laplace transform in the Z transform.
There's even another, tighter, relationship between the two: if you discretize a differential equation, you get a difference equation.
Recurrence relation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Effectively the precise general term is recurrence relation , even if the term difference equation is more 'traditional' and widely used again...
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A report in the Huffinghton Post on August 10, 2010 revealed that Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg had ordered a lockdownof the company in order to strategize and contain the aftermath of the expected launch of a rival social networking site from Google. In what seemed to be a reaction to that development Google CEO Eric Schmidt in an interview he gave to the Wall Street Journal on September 24 2010, dismissed any notions that Facebook was an immediate threat to Mountain View. Mr. Schmidt suggested that the company's immediate threat was Microsoft Bing and that it was too early to tell how strong a competitor Facebook would be. Evidently, Eric Schmidt seems to think that Facebook is not an immediate threat to Google but there is some evidence to the contrary. A report in the widely respected technology blog Techcrunch revealed on September 1,2010 that many Google employees are leaving the company and some have gone to Facebook. Some of the most prominent employees to have left the company include Omar Hamoui, the founder of AdMob; Lars Rasmussen, who along with three others developed Google map and wave left to team up with Facebook in November 2010. The exit of some of Google's best engineers to Facebook is a threat that may have motivated Mountain View to announce on Friday November 10 2010 a 10% pay increase for all staff while senior Executives received a 30% pay raise. These recent personnel movements suggests that Facebook is proving to be a formidable internet company that has witnessed astonishing growth. However, there have been several comparisons or suggestions as to how Facebook will become a viable alternative to Google or become more powerful than Google. Evidently, Google just like other internet properties like Myspace and Yahoo are seeking to challenge the dominance of Facebook in the social networking space. Google however has huge resources and continues to make acquisitions at a pace that is designed to dominate any segment they play in. Google especially sees Facebook as a threat because its huge user base of 500 million could well double in five years using the last five years as a yardstick. Obviously with more users Facebook becomes more powerful; takes in more revenue; generates more traffic and takes market share from Google. Technology analysts have noted that when it comes to competition Google takes on all comers. For example, Google outbid Viacom to buy Youtube for billion; Google outbid Apple to buy Admob for 0 million; Google outplayed Microsoft and tied up with Yahoo Japan; Google acquired ITA for 0 million a company that that provides travel information to visitors on the web. In addition, Google's acquisition of Android in 2005 has positioned it as a one of the leaders in the smart phone market today. The wide adoption of Android will ensure that Google will likely continue to dominate search on the mobile space. There is no doubt that Google is seeking to become a key player in the social networking space. This is why Google launched Buzz and as Facebook threatens to unseat Google as the most visited website in the world, Google is set to launch a challenge to keep its number one position. It is clear that by developing a social networking platform based on the idea of integrating various aspects of Google social networking elements into one platform Google is pursuing what Marketing strategists regard as a master brand strategy. A master brand strategy suggests that Google is building most of its other offerings or sub brand names under the master brand name -Google. Evidently, from a Marketing perspective all Google products that are developed and carry the Google brand name benefit from the strong brand equity of the main brand and therefore would likely enjoy a positive Market off-take. Clearly, Google is seeking to enhance its social networking offerings because it seems that Facebook would soon overtake the technology giant as the most dominant site on the web. As a result, Google has renewed interest in building a formidable social networking platform designed to beat back the challenge posed by Facebook. Facebook is also aligned with Microsoft -a company seeking to dethrone Google as the search king on the web. In addition, Google could be jittery because Facebook contains a huge human database that could provide a search platform that is human driven as opposed to Google's robot centered algorithmic search. Obviously, the growth of a human driven search platform could reduce the relevance of Google's robot based algorithmic search. In addition, the emergence of iAd advertising and search platform being developed by Apple and the growth in the use of Apps, which Facebook has benefited from, could mean that the browser based search on which Google built its platform may loose relevance and diminish Google's influence as the search king and biggest internet company. As Facebook's revenue is set to reach an estimated .2 billion dollars and as the company currently controls 17%, display of advertising on the internet, which is higher that Google's 6%. Facebook's dominance of display advertising is a good reason for Google to be worried. Also the fact that 96% of Google's revenue comes from search makes it very vulnerable to serious contenders trying to take away its leadership in search. On the surface however, Facebook is not really a match for Google. For example of the top ten sites in the world based on Alexa traffic rank three of them are sites owned by Google: Google, Youtube & Blogger. The top ten sites listed in order of their rank are: Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, Windows Live, Baidu, Wikipedia, Blogger, QQ.com, and Twitter. Also other global Google sites feature prominently in the top twenty. Furthermore, Google has far more internet properties than Facebook. For example, Google has Gmail, Buzz, Orkut, Google Map, Google Earth, Google Books, Web Search and More. Google has also developed applications like web browser- chrome and netbook operating system and the very successful Android Operating system. In addition, Google has a Market capitalization of about 6 billion dollars, which is six times higher than Facebook has projected market capitalization or valuation of billion dollars. Interestingly Google's annual revenue is billion dollars while that of Facebook is approximately .2 billion.Technology analysts believe that Facebook has an uphill task in its bid to unseat Google as the number one web company by revenue but could unseat Google as the most visited site in the world. this article on the batttle between Google and Facebook over dominance on the web was written by Henry Aladiume, the CEO/President of Elnegy, a consumer electronics technology company based in Houston, Texas,USA. You can visit the website http://www.elnegy.com for home stereo systems, car stereo systems, home theater and updated content on technology.
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Computer Problems and Down Time
Sometimes working through computer problems can be a pain. My viao notebook had picked up a virus from some malware and this was one bit of virus that took me a good while to eliminate. I'll walk you through my process and give you the full story. Recently I started learning the ukulele. I was online learning some of my ukulele lessons when my browser shut down on me. I was like, 'what the heck'. I reopened the browser and everything seemed to be running well. So I pulled back up my ukulele lessons site and started learning a bit more. Then it crashed on me again. This time I decided to run a malware checker and nothing came up. I ran a different program and found a corrupted file called exec.isp.aclu.1.41.90210. This little doozy came from a mini game I had played and it downloaded in the background. Tricky little guy was trying to offer me up a fake browser with its own advertisements. Something was malfunctioning and that is why my browser was crashing. Anywho. I ran a cleaner, found the file and deleted that sucker. Problem fixed, and I was able to get back to my uke lessons.
DJ Computer Problems -Spyware Remover
Some products you have to take your time with, and evaluating spyware programs for 2012 is one of these times. Now you know why review sites are so popular with consumers, and you can make good use of them as well. The best and most powerful remover programs will not be free, but there are capable programs that are free. We have written about three such spyware removers found in 2012, and find out more because this isn't all there is on the market.
At the very least each of these types of programs you can read about have to fulfill the promise of removing the threats they're designed to deal with. This is about telling people about a feature or function and expecting them to believe it. What you have to do is read reviews, feedback from users, and any testing results. The only way to find out about sub-par performance is to mine the data in the various review sites. Think about what this can do for you and what spyware can do to you, and then make the right decision. Hopefully you're a smart and experienced online shopper, and if so then that will help you with this.
It is impressive to have a solid and positive reputation like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. If you want something that does a good job, according to reviews, and will not cost you one thin dime, then this could be for you. Malwarebytes did an excellent programming job with making it very user friendly even if you've never used this kind of program. All spyware remover programs have to keep their internal storage of threat profiles current, so this is standard and Malwarebytes does a good job at it. The scan is fast and you can apply settings to query you before deleting any detected files that are infected. You get a positive history of operation and it's deserving of your short list.
You can take a look at NOD32 Antivirus, ESET, but the reviews and results are not very encouraging. It's not so much that it's a bad program, it's just that there's nothing standout about it.
You have to be aware that their removal capabilities of various malware is not in the upper levels of quality anti-spyware applications. Testing labs have shown that NOD32 is not a winner either with repairing your computer from threats. If email threats are frequent for you, then you should know that NOD32 can scan emails.
I discovered some of these solutions when I got a virus trying to find out information about going to the zoo. I was going to take my kids to the Fort Worth zoo, I was checking for coupons and I ended up on a site that pre downloaded something on my system secretively. My computer started offering me all this 'software' I had to buy in order to remove the virus. It was a mess. Anyway… I didn't even get to go to the zoo because I was trying to fix my machine. I thought I'd share with you what I found so maybe you could deal with the issue faster.
At least you can piggyback off the hard efforts of others and find the goods on any spyware remover program on the market. So be sure you choose a program that has a strong process for real time updates to their database of known threats. Technological innovation is always in play, and in this case it's cloud technology – so look for it.
CDC 3800 Computer
CDC 3800 Computer
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CDC 3800 Computer
CDC 3800 Computer
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Mainframe computer optimized for handling problems that required a lot of numeric processing.
Taken at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: James S. McDonnell Space Hangar in Dulles, VA.
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Question by misslilly: How can a person get computer problems fixed?
Aproximately 90% of the answers to my questions have been wrong or too complicated for me to be brave enough for me to try. This includes many so called Help Sites, people in Best Buy Customer Service, self proclaimed geeks, etc. Is there anyone who actually knows about problem solving who is really interested in helping people? I wouldn't mind paying for help if I could be sure that I was not being decieved. With all the people using computers these days you would think that there would be at least a small percentage of honest, kind people out there somewhere.
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That's duct tape above the worm. I happened to be on the verge of getting a new laptop, due to mounting problems with my HP Pavilion DV9000, when I discovered this worm! Now it definitely has to go!
Problem Solved
Problem Solved
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The problem with the stupid table was that that bolt thing lying on the rug in this picture was too fat to fit through the little holes. It would fit through the hole on the white part but not through the hole on the silver part. And without going into that second hole, it simply would not hold the table leg in place. So I found these little screw things in my garage that fit through the holes. I went to the hardware store and got nuts to hold them steady, though they would probably have worked ok anyway. The only bad thing was that in my excitement over having found a solution to the problem of the sliding table, I forgot to measure one of the sides and ended up putting everything back in place only to discover that one end of the table was about three inches higher than the other — not as bad as earlier (see previous picture in photostream) but not good. So I had to disconnect stuff again, redo the screwing operation, put the table back in place, and put everything back together. But IT IS FINISHED! And I am happy!
Computer problems at the bar
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Bearcats men's basketball coach Tommy Dempsey spoke a little about the task of changing attitudes and raising expectations following Sunday's home-opening loss to Brown University in the Events Center.
"Winning is contagious, losing is contagious," Dempsey said. "I think that good programs — you can look at any level, football, basketball, anything — they find a way to win the close one. The teams that struggle, they don't win the close one. I think that's something we're going to have to battle through until we can get some Ws.
"But we have to get that taste in our mouth, and it's got to taste good. There has got to be an expectation that when we take the court we can win the game, and there's got to be an expectation that when it's a close game late that we're the ones that are going to win. That's a very difficult process to go through, but I do think if we get a couple wins you might see a little bit of change. I feel like our bench, our fans, we're nervous down the stretch. We're afraid to lose. I think when we start to win more (and) when we're going down the stretch, everybody in the building will expect us to win. Right now, we're not there. Right now, people are expecting us to lose. We're going to have to change that one practice at a time, one game at a time, and hopefully it will be sooner than later."
The Bearcats are coming off a 2-29 season that included a 26-game losing streak (27 going back to the 2010-11 season) and a season in which they finished ranked 344 and last in Division I.


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Lenora A. Kellison, 92 of Massena
Lenora A. Kellison, 92 of State Highway 56 passed away on April 5,
2013 at St. Regis Nursing Home surrounded by her loving family.
Nora as she was fondly known by was born on May 22, 1920 in Massena the daughter of Jesse A. and Edna (Gaines) Tyo. She graduated from Massena High School in 1938. A marriage to Hubert Kellison ended in divorce after 38 years.
Nora was employed with Cornell's Dry Cleaners as a delivery driver for over 10 years. She was a long time communicant of St. Raymond's Church, member of the Altar and Rosary Society, member of VFW Auxiliary where she was past president. Nora enjoyed bowling in two different bowling leagues; she also enjoyed her vegetable garden and liked to do crafts and crocheting.
Nora's survivors include five sons and three daughter, Loren of Norfolk with whom she had resided with, Gerald of GA.; Michael (Gae) of Long Island; Patrick of Norfolk, Timothy (Melissa) Ellenville, NY: Kathleen (Emmett) Fleury of Massena; Mary Donalda Beauboin of Massena, Theresa (Joe) LaBaff of Massena, many grandchildren, several great and great great grandchildren, a brother Charles Tyo of Massena.
Memorial contributions may be made in Nora's memory to a charity of one's choice. Mass of Resurrection will be held on April 9, 2013 at St. Raymond's Church at 3:00 pm with Msgr. John R. Murphy presiding.
Interment will be in Visitation Cemetery.
Friends and family may be received on Monday, April 8, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 pm at Phillips Memorial Home in Massena.
Online condolences may be made to www.phillipsmemorial.com
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RUSH: Nashville, Tennessee, this is Tim. I'm glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey! How are you doing?
RUSH: Very well, sir, thank you.
CALLER: All right. My wife had a hard time trying to understand why Obama's plan to "spread the wealth" was unfair. She couldn't see (sigh), you know, what was wrong with taking from those who have and giving to those who don't have so what I did was I simplified it for her. She's a woman that prides herself on education. She's working on a PhD at Vanderbilt and she makes excellent grades.
RUSH: Oh, no.
CALLER: Now, I told her, I said --
RUSH: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You are depressing me. Your wife's a PhD, working on a PhD, she makes excellent grades.
CALLER: Yes, and we have four kids.
RUSH: No, it makes total sense that she would think what she thinks because the culture she's immersed herself in, academia, is teaching her this stuff.
CALLER: (laughing) Well, let me finish. Let me show you what I did.
RUSH: Yes. Sorry for the interruption.
CALLER: That's okay. Let me just show you what I did to bring her around. I said, "You know, what if you made a hundred on a test and another guy in your class made a 60? This guy has a failing mark and you have a high passing mark. Would it be fair to say 20 of your points, bring you down to an 80, give the 20 to the guy that made the 60 and bring him up to 80 and everything is equal?" She said, "No." I said, "Why?" She said, "Because I earned that grade." I said, "Don't you think rich people earned the money that they get?" And so she was speechless. She couldn't say anything. She'd said, "No, I earned it." I said, "Think about it, Baby. "You're bringing a guy up from a failing grade to a passing grade, and we gonna bring you down to his level." I said, "Now you apply that type of example with everybody in the classroom, everybody being the dumper. Nobody would ever get out of your class because everybody would have a failing grade." So she then understood the point I was trying to make. Sometimes you have to use other examples to get other people to think, you know, to try to get the point across of what you're trying to say. That's all I wanted to say.
RUSH: Well, you did a great job out there. I don't know how much you made her "think" as you made her "realize."
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: But I need to ask you something, Tim.
CALLER: Go ahead.
RUSH: Has this conversion held? Does she still get it now that you've explained it to her.
CALLER: She gets it but she hates it.
RUSH: Well, I tell you, if she goes back to class where she's studying for her PhD and she runs this story either by a fellow student -- or even worse, a professor -- the professor will say, "Well, here's what you shoulda said when your husband posed this question: 'The people who have a lot of money didn't earn it. They have stolen it.'" This is Obama's belief. This is why they've stolen it. They have unfairly taken what's not theirs. They haven't earned it. That's the whole point, they cheated and steal and had lied to get it and that's why he's going to take it from them and give the money to like these poor people lining up at Cobo Hall in Detroit for it. That's what he believes. You gotta stay on this, my man, because a professor's going to tell her that if she dares tell this story, and the professor is going to say, "Well, you can't compare wealth to grades because there isn't anybody else... You can't take somebody else's grade but you could take somebody else's money from them while they weren't looking. You could cheat 'em, you could steal." They'll work on them like this. This is going to be an ongoing thing. You did a great thing here, a great thing. You've taken a big, giant step here.
CALLER: Oh, yeah. Well, I just appreciate that. She doesn't like to listen to you because every time I turn on the radio, especially in the car, she says, "Turn it off! Turn it off! Turn it off. He makes my heart start rushing." I'm like, "Oh, my God." I said, "It's just a voice, a person that's talking on this radio." She said, "I can't stand it. He talks too loud." I'm like, "Whatever." I think sometimes she just don't want to listen because people are realists.
RUSH: Well, look, she's like a lot of people. Her worldview is safely wrapped inside a cocoon in which she lives, and if anything penetrates it that upsets this security blanket she's living in, you're right, she doesn't want it.
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: She does not want to be challenged with anything that would question her beliefs.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: You have a huge challenge out there, my man.
CALLER: Well, I'm teaching the four kids, bringing them up in the right way, teaching them.
RUSH: God bless you.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: God less you. This is a great call. I appreciate the fact that you're doing this, and I appreciate the fact that you called to tell us.
CALLER: All right, have a good one, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, Tim, very much. Well, sometimes it's just a simple little explanation like that is all it takes when you make it personal.


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Home List of Titles A history of equity in higher education in Australia: making universities more accessible for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/86761
- Title
- A history of equity in higher education in Australia: making universities more accessible for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Author(s)
- Carson, Tanya
- Abstract
- In Australia's short history, the Australian Government has had a long tradition of providing support to enable disadvantaged students to participate in higher education. This article offers a brief history of the provision of equitable access and opportunities to widen participation to higher education in Australia over more than a century up to the present day. Three key factors causing disadvantage to students and making university inaccessible to students are addressed, as well as an analysis of the social justice theories of Pierre Bourdieu within an educational policy framework. This article also provides a critical analysis of two key Australian Governments that have had an immense impact on higher education in Australia over the past century. With a change of government in November 2007, there is a new wave of commitment and enthusiasm for what the Government is labelling an 'education revolution'.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, Vol. 11, no. 1 (Apr 2009), article no. 1
- Publication year
- 2009
- FOR Code(s)
- 1301 Education Systems
- Keyword(s)
- Access to knowledge; Australia; Disadvantaged students; Education policy; Government policy; Higher education
- Publisher
- The Open University
- 1466-6529
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 The Open University.
- Peer reviewed


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MapPlan du terrain sur le cap appartenant à la paroise de cette uille 1756. Scale ca. 1:550. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. The original manuscript plot of the top of the cape at Quebec, on which the Chateau St. Louis stood, where the Chateau Frontenac now stands, as well as the Wolfe-Montcalm monument; shows the amount of land occupied by each of those French Canadians then residing upon what is now the most aristocratic part of Quebec. "No. 45." ...
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The centerpiece of Mirbeau Inn & Spa, the award-winning Spa Mirbeau, is a 14,000-square-foot facility. The state-of-the-art facility features:
Rounding out Spa Mirbeau's health and wellness offerings are the Mirbeau Fitness facilities, featuring a full-service gym with state-of-the-art fitness equipment and separate motion studio. The Mirbeau Fitness staff are certified exercise and wellness professionals who lead a wide range of daily fitness and wellness classes including: yoga, spin, tabata, Pilates, zumba, and more.