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Now, if it goes about stock Y-pipe in M54. Put this # 18301733901 into your realoem, and tell me what you got.
Tried it, nothing came up. I googled the part number, and it looks like whatever it is, it came on M52tu equipped cars, and not M54 cars. There is NO CROSSOVER ON M54 cars.
OK, once again about pipe merging. I hope, it will be the final proof to confirm I'm right about my pipe diamater ratito theory.
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Supersprint offers 63,5mm pipes for headers back exhaust. Now, you can also choose something like this:
diameter? 76mm
what do we get than? 76 / 63,5 =
I'm not sure I follow. You posted an image of a SuperSprint Y pipe and measurements compared to a twin pipes. Are we comparing cross sectional area? It's hard to follow your post, and furthermore, what does it prove?
Iceman00, could you explain the relation beetwen stepped headers and merging several pipes into one (creating Y-pipe). I agree that stepped headers work. Stepping helps in cylinder scavenging. But why than, for example, supersprint do not offer whole exhaust stepped, but just the headers? That's because it's only benefical when gases are travelling very fast, which happens just at the cylinder head.
You are arguing in cricles with no real point. I've already established that stepped headers are used to broaded the powercurve by keeping exhaust gas velocity, without to much of a sacrifice to higher rpm power. This is not case with Y back exhaust, and as explained before, there is nothing to be gained with an exhaust after the Y/merger. You can lose power by creating a disruption in flow (backpressure) by sizing the pipe to small, but you can't go to large. (That is how a exhaust cut out works)
Now about the situation farther from the head.
You have a pipe, 10 feet long, 2" dia. Is it going to flow more water if you make one end of the pipe 4" ?
Answer is no. Because you still have a 2" restriction on the other end, which just can't flow more.
So, what is the point of using big pipe diameters at the end of exhaust? None.
Doing so just hurts low end torque, due to no backpressure.
And for now, I dont want to judge anything from AA and BW graphs, unless we have some proper info about dynoed cars.
I'm at work, but I have quite a few that I can post up. Keep in mind, we are arguing theory here. I have supported my theory with opinion and testing of many others who are more experienced and educated on this subject than I am.
That being said, I'm not sure what you're arguing, that a single 3 inch pipe is too large?
For low end torque you need a system with proper backpressure,
For high end torque you need big flowing system,
Back pressure is never good. Exhaust gas velocity might be the term you are looking for.
With stock setup you get nearly optimal balance for wide torque curve. Nearly because they are limited by emissions, noise levels and costs.
The stock exhaust configuration has nothing to do with Emissions, and everthing to do with packaging.
And what AggieE46 has? Definitely a big flowing exhaust. Low end torque is down, but where is his top end? Nowhere, because he is now limited by stock head. Thats why bigger bored throttle didnt help either.
I already told him ahead of time that he wouldn't gain anything meaningful on the ported throttlebody. The intake manifold out flows the head at this point. As for the exhaust, theoretically speaking, his peak power should remain the same unless there is a restriction (Y pipe)
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Overcoming difficulties with Australian Learjet certification
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Australian authorities awarded type certification for the Learjet 20 and 30 series in Mar 1972. Shown in the office of Australian Dept of Civil Aviation Director General Sir Donald Anderson are (L–R) Gates Learjet Pres Harry Combs, Learjet Distributor for Australia Bib Stillwell and Anderson (presenting certification papers). Stillwell would later move to the US and become president of Gates Learjet.
In 1966, with Learjet still under the leadership of Bill Lear, and with Ed Chandler as the overall sales chief, I took a visitor from what was then the Australian Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) to meet Chandler in his office.
Almost the first question this official asked was, "What about stalling a Learjet?" Some rumors were already circulating about a problematic stall characteristic of this particular model of aircraft. Chandler, not being an aviator, spotted an Executive Jet Aviation pilot, Dick Rittiger, in the lobby and called him in. When asked the very same question, Rittiger said, helpfully, "Don't ever try to stall a Learjet—you'll be killed." This was the beginning of our long association with the DCA.
Bib Stillwell was a Ford and Beechcraft dealer in Melbourne, Australia. He was a keen pilot as well as being the Australian racing car champion for 7 consecutive years. He was a good friend from my Beechcraft years. In the late 1960s, while visiting Stillwell in Melbourne, I tried to persuade him to become the Learjet distributor for Australia.
He was hesitant and brought up the rumors about the stalls. Rumors travel fast and had already reached down under. I invited Stillwell to come to Wichita and try the aircraft for himself.
In Wichita, with Bib Stillwell flying and Jim Bir in the right seat, we climbed to 15,000 ft and stalled the beast in every possible configuration. The stick pusher activated, the nose dropped slightly—it was just another normal genteel stall. Stillwell was convinced and immediately on his return home started working on Australian certification with his good friend Sir Donald Anderson, the director general of the DCA.
A couple of years later, I happened to be in Rio de Janeiro when I received a call from Wichita that Learjet Pres Harry Combs and his wife were leaving for Australia on a personal visit, and wanted to meet with Bib Stillwell and Sir Donald while there. And I had to meet them in Melbourne. The following day.
The simplest way would have been to fly back to Los Angeles and on to Melbourne—but this would have taken too much time. The only other possibility was to catch a LAN Chile flight coming in from London that could connect to their once-a-week flight to Easter Island and Tahiti. But the flight from London was 6 hours late, making this impossible.
I called my good friend José Afonso Assumpção, founder and president of Líder Táxi Aéreo and Learjet Brazilian distributor, and soon I was winging my way to Santiago de Chile in a Learjet 36. I did not even clear into Chile (which was then ruled by the socialists under President Salvador Allende) but waited in the international departure lounge.
Somehow, while visiting the washroom, my passport, along with my health certificate, my Australian visa, my travelers checks and my airline ticket, fell out of my pocket. I did not notice this until they called my flight.
I made a quick check, but there was nothing in the washroom, which meant I had to make a quick decision to go or not to go without all these documents. I still had my boarding pass in my breast pocket, so I went ahead and boarded the Chilean 707.
After we were airborne, I went up to the cockpit to discuss my problem with the captain. He happened to be Jorge Jarpa, an old friend. "No problem," he said. He would call ahead to Tahiti and have the US and Australian consuls meet me on arrival. This sounded like a winning idea.
Landing in Tahiti, I quickly discovered that no such consular offices existed in Tahiti. Bingo. But I was met by a most competent Qantas representative. I had 6 hours between flights, during which time he practically adopted me. He took me to the French police, who issued me with a temporary French passport valid for 3 days.
Then we went to the American Express office where they gave me $250 in checks just on my signature. Next it was on to the hospital to receive the required shots for Australia, and then my new friend issued me a new airline ticket. He called the nearest Australian consul—in New Caledonia—who, after checking with Stillwell by phone, authorized my entry into Australia.
My timely meeting with Combs was now assured—but I was close to a nervous breakdown. A few days later I obtained a new US passport from the US Embassy in Canberra, Australia, with Harry Combs as my witness.
On a subsequent trip to Australia with a Learjet 24, flown by Hank Beaird, our chief test pilot, we took Sir Donald Anderson on a local demonstration flight. Immediately after takeoff, he fell sound asleep. I figured there was no point in just wasting fuel, so we landed back in Melbourne. Sir Donald woke up on landing and thanked us profusely for a wonderful flight.
We sold our demonstrator aircraft to Sir Leslie Thiess in Brisbane—another friend from Beechcraft days. But we could never deliver the aircraft to him without Australian certification, so a few weeks later we had to go back and bring the aircraft home.
This was a rather harrowing flight when the weather closed in on us before we reached Greenland. (The Learjet 24 did not have transpacific range, hence the Atlantic crossing.) After some nervous discussions with ground controllers, we landed at a DEW radar station on Baffin Island, Canada, almost out of fuel. There we could refuel from 5-gal cans.
When Bib Stillwell bought his first Learjet 24 demonstrator, it had to be delivered with a US registration and was actually registered in my name. After more delays, we finally received the Australian certificate of airworthiness and Stillwell could start selling a few airplanes for us.
When Stillwell lost his Australian pilot license following a heart attack, he moved to the US and, eventually, on Harry Combs' retirement, became president of Gates Learjet. Actually, as a foreigner he could not be employed in the US, but he was paid as a consultant and was the only Learjet CEO who parked his personal Learjet 36 on the ramp. Later, in the 1980s, he went back to Australia and died of another heart attack.
The moral of the story is this—hang on to your passport. My lost items never did show up. And if this had happened with today's airport security, I would probably still be in Tahiti.
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Jake Marmer, "Charles Bernstein Makes Lovely Cacophony in his Latest Collection: Secular Avant Garde Poet's Most Jewish Work" in The Jewish Daily Forward
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Mary Weston, Cleaver, #2, Summer 2013
Sean Singer, The Rumpus, Nov. 8, 2013
Adam Fitzgerald, The American Reader, January 2014
"How to Read Charles Bernstein," Poetxt (c. Nov. 2015)
In 1978, Bernstein and fellow avant-gardist Bruce Andrews founded L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine as a place to oppose the "confessional" voice and lyrical verse popular at the time. In dozens of books over the course of nearly 40 years, Bernstein has inspired and puzzled, annoyed and amused readers by rethinking what poetry is and what language can do. While difficult to define, we find a clue to Bernstein's aesthetic in the epigraph to a new poem, which "adapts a line from Judith Malina's 1967 translation of Brecht's 1948 version of Hölderlin's 1804 translation of Sophocles's Antigone." For Bernstein, historical works, interpretation, and adaptation all contribute to the cacophony of contemporary life. This collection contains a characteristically wide range of innovative verse, including formal stanzas with predictable end rhymes, columns of replicated phrases, essays in verse, axiomatic maxims, zen koans, and translations of Baudelaire, Apollinaire, and Catullus. Throughout, Bernstein usurps expectations and even anticipates, jokingly, how skeptical readers might receive his work: "I try to get them to see it as formal, structural, historical, collaborative, and ideological. What a downer!"--Diego Báez
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"Charles Bernstein is on a mission to tear down and build back up everything we know, believe and love about poetry. His first collection in seven years uses translations, homages, and manifestoes to write a new poetry future. Witty and daring. Playful and brilliant. Recalculating will be in the discussion for all the major poetry awards this year." –– Porter Square Books
Eliabeth Burns in conversation with Bernstein on Recalculating, from Summer 2013 Rain Taxi
Recalculating is Charles Bernstein's first full-length collection of new poems in seven years. As a result of this lengthy time under construction, the scope, scale, and stylistic variation of the poems surpasses Bernstein's previous work. Together, the poems of Recalculating take readers on a journey through the history and poetics of the decades since the end of the Cold War as seen through the lens of social and personal turbulence and tragedy.
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"The English word 'calculate' has a double life: in standard English it means to 'reckon' or 'intend' and in dialect it means 'to guess.' These contrary, wayward, definitions—the first so full of certainty, the second so full of ironic doubt—shimmer and clash on every page of Charles Bernstein's obsessive, brilliant new book of poems, Recalculating. Through responses, translations, adaptations, and occasional pieces, through little hymns and tragic litanies, Bernstein measures and dreams a circle: a community of readers and writers who spin within a world built from the living history of words."|
- On-line poems from Recalculating:
"The Truth in Pudding" in Poems & Poetics
"Recalculating" (Conjunctions, 2011)
"Before You Go" (ArtCritical.Com, 2011)
tr. of Khelbnikov's "Incanttion by Laughter" (2009)
tr. Hugo's "Tomorrow, dawn ..." with Rothenberg commentary (2009)
tr. Baudelaire's "Be Drunken"
Three poems in the final issue of Electronic Poetry Review (2008) ("You Say Insipid, I say Inscripsit," "What makes a Poem a Poem?" and "Up High Down Low Too Slow")
"A Theory's Evolution" (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006) and Jewish Journal (2014)
"Great Moments in Taches Blanches" (Reconfigurations, 2007); commentary by Franklin Winslow at Baruch blog
Sane as Tugged Vat, Your Love (homophonic translation of Leevi Lehto's Finish) (from RIF/T 4.1)
"Armed Stasis" in Plume (2013)
"Strike!" in The Baffler 19 (2012)
"On Election Day": video and text
"Breathtails": pdf; Anne LeBarron on the collaboration: pdf
Recalculating launch at Kelly Writers House, April 16, 2013. Intro Al Filreis followed by reading:
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It works in a similar way to the Wolfram Alpha site, using sophisticated programming techniques to throw out useful information — like what planes are going overhead or the movement of planets.
The work is likely to tell us fundamental things about how the human brain works too, its creators claim. We might even find new kinds of classes of things in the world that we haven't recognised before and don't have a name for.
More immediately, the same technology could be added to different apps and services, meaning that photos and videos can be quickly sorted rather than requiring humans to look through them. Similar tools already exist in Google Plus and Flickr's photo searching apps.
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As Wolfram points out, showing the system unusual pictures often throws out results that are something like a joke. It often identifies the image wrongly but in an understandable way.
"It won't always get it right, but most of the time I think it does remarkably well," Wolfram writes in a blog introducing the feature. "And to me what's particularly fascinating is that when it does get something wrong, the mistakes it makes mostly seem remarkably human."
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Let me state, for the record, that in my opinion, Barak Obama is the worst chief executive elected to office ever. Jimmy Carter now must take second place. Obama's unending list of failed policies continue to destroy and discredit our once great nation.
Our nation is drowning in a sea of debt and the president proposes more borrowing.
On another of his many vacations, this one to Brazil, he made an agreement to allow Brazil to drill in the Gulf of Mexico for our oil in exchange for a promise to honor another loan to us in excess of $2 billion while he denies companies in our nation to drill. Gas prices are projected to hit $5 a gallon by summer with no end in sight.
Obama's solution to lowering our national debt is to tax the rich and corporations while appointing the CEO of General Electric to his debt crisis commission.
By the way, General Electric this year posted profits in excess of $4 billion without paying a penny in taxes due to the many loopholes our government provides. What hypocrisy. Obama stands firm in his unwavering support for our corrupt unions; that have driven most of our industry to China, thus reducing our nation to a nation of buyers and borrowers.
It galls me how so many in our country persist in maintaining a state of denial and unwavering loyalty to this incompetent ideologue that has set a course for chaos for our nation and divided our people as no president ever has. If he is re-elected to four more years, may almighty God have mercy on us all. We will be through as a functionally free people. We have to vote him out in 2012, if for no other reason, our very survival.
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Subject: Re: [TMG] Re:Dave Conover Retiring
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:52:05 -0500
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OK, so I'm a little slow: been out of town.
Not only did Dear Dave get me out of the dreaded GOAPP mess that I
created, and the gremlins that appeared at random in my V5.01 data set,
while he cheerfully worked away at these, he notified me that we are
What a guy! I'm certainly going to miss him. How can Bob plan to replace
him with mere mortals???
>> I suggest a 100 popgun salute as an offer of thanks for the help Dave as
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>> Brian L. Cole
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The sentinel challenged, and Silent went forward and gave the countersign.
Their concluding words had evidently been some form of sign and countersign.
He was stopped and challenged frequently, but having the countersign, had no difficulty in passing the sentries.
We had no countersign, but I immediately ran the boat ashore, and we landed.
He halted old Quicker-nor-that and demanded the countersign.
Advance, friend in a tremendous hurry, and give the countersign.
The party listened attentively, but failed to get the countersign, which was given in a whisper.
If no countersign be used, the rules for challenging are the same.
Then she remembered that by the merest chance in the world she knew the countersign for that night.
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Lake Maggiore - Cabriolet A-Go-Go
Mamma Mia...No Dancing Queens here
We Survived the Storm...
...but the day was grey, clouds of the heavy variety clinging passionately to surrounding hills and valleys. Things looked marginally more hopeful 'up-the-lake', so, armed with maps, umbrellas, sweaters and swimwear (always be prepared) headed South.
Soon after crossing the Swiss/Italian border (take your passport just in case they are interested), our pretty little cabriolet's dashboard lit up like London's Olympic Stadium, with bleep and bong musical accompaniment. NO OIL and NO TYRE PRESSURE. So dear reader...remember back in my Ibiza blog when I said, check your spare tyre, well, it seems anyone renting a car these days requires a mechanic's course.
That sorted, and roof down as a yellow thing in the sky pushed it's way through the gloom, we wound our way along the lake shore hoping to come across a waterside cafe. They don't seem to exist. Traffic going into Cannobio was backed up so we swung off up the hill and meandered through villages, past countless churches and saw hardly a soul. No coffee shops either.
Back down at lake level we stopped in Stresa. I know; hilarious isn't it. I wonder how a name like that affects Real Estate prices? Yes, there are winding cobbled streets and a wide boulevard lakeside but this is definitely a coach party stopover spot. We did spy a larger-than-life Ferrari billboard incongruously propped between a perfumier and a sunglasses shop when we finally had coffee.
It was the only thing I wanted to buy, even though it wasn't for sale.
We stopped a few miles on at the first almost-lakeside restaurant we came to. It was so awful I can't even begin to describe it. I guess visitors to England presume everyone makes perfect Yorkshire Pudding. As we Brits know that's not the case. SO WHY WOULD WE PRESUME ALL ITALIANS KNOW HOW TO MAKE PASTA?? And miserable staff...Mamma Mia. Was it the weather? The economic climate? The end of high season? Whatever it was, Charm School had three perfect students at this place. (Apologies for not naming said restaurant; I've obliterated it from memory)
Underwhelmed and believing in the power of positive thought that Ascona would now be basking in sunshine we headed 'home'. Longing for tea and cake, as much as some of the Italian hospitality we've experienced during every other visit to Italy, we stopped at Cannobio. It was quiet now but Mamma Mia...more potential students for that Charm School.
Oh, Eden Roc, how over-joyed we were to see you nestled in the...gloom. Another storm was brewing. No matter. It was twice as ferocious as last night's. Never mind. Vodka, tonic, ice, lime. Perfect. Ducks clustered concerned on the heated swimming pool. Cute. A covered walkway to dinner at La Marina, which, from the outside, resembled that service station with the Pringle-style sloping roof on the A1, and Shepherd's Bush (revamped) tube station on the inside. Amusing especially as everyone was 'fully blinged'. The food was fabulous AND EVERYONE SMILED.
I'm puzzled. What's going on Italy? Where are those flirty smiles, dishes of Mamma's perfect pasta and bubbling pizza and hot, strong Espresso? Perhaps tomorrow......
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The Australian Shareholders Association has criticised
The Australian Financial Review reported on Friday that
iSelect's prospectus noted the group provided a "secured facility" to NIA Health, but did not state that Mr Webb was a shareholder in NIA. It also made no mention of Mr McCann's ties with Mr Sheats.
"The prospectus for an IPO should be the most detailed and transparent document ever produced by a company, and it should include all fees, related party transactions [and] connections," ASA policy and engagement consultant Stephen Mayne said.
"iSelect highlights a gap in Australia's governance laws," Mr Mayne said, arguing that it would have been "best practice" for iSelect to have detailed the connections in prospectus.
One iSelect investor who declined to be named said the lack of disclosure was "something we'd look forward to discussing with the management team".
Corporate governance expert Peter Swan from the University of New South Wales said the disclosure requirements of private companies such as NIA, including details about relations and directors' share holdings in related transactions, were "very negligible". "In general disclosure is like sunshine – it is very beneficial," he said.
iSelect was unavailable for comment on Sunday. Mr McCann would not be drawn on the issue last week, but iSelect does not believe these relationships needed to be disclosed. It believed the group's relationships with NIA and Mr Sheats were no different from its ties with a customer, such as private health insurer nib holdings and its boss,
iSelect founder
In its prospectus, iSelect's board acknowledged Mr Waller "not to be independent". However, the board argued Mr Waller "is able to, and does, bring considered and independent judgment to all relevant issues falling within the scope of the role of chairman and that the company as a whole benefits from his long standing experience of its operations and business relationships". iSelect's shares plunged 12.35 per cent or 20¢ on Friday to close at $1.42.
iSelect reported $118 million in group revenue for 2013, missing its $121 million forecast in the IPO prospectus.
The company posted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $25 million – 0.3 per cent ahead of its forecast. Mr McCann defended iSelect's performance despite failing to meet its revenue target.
"We are really pleased with the EBITDA result, we're really pleased with the key drivers of the business [even though] RPS [revenue per sale] is lower than we anticipated," he said on Thursday.
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John Arne Riise is no longer happy at the number of games he is playing at Liverpool, and he seems to have been marginalized at the Liverpool club this season.
John Arne Riise – would be great at Newcastle United
But that may be great news for Newcastle United and Kevin Keegan, because Riise would be a player who would easily fit into Keegan's attacking style of play next season. We have to think that Newcastle would be really interested if the Norwegian International became available in the summer.
John Arne spoke to the Norwegian media earlier this week
"I am not happy. I am used to playing in 80 per cent of all the games.â€
"But if I don't get to play as much as I want to I have to make a choice this summer as to whether I should stay or not."
Newcastle first objective, as usual, is to strengthen the back four in the summer but Keegan seems ready to offer the £3.5M fee for Riise. That would be an excellent acquisition for the club, and Riise would be guaranteed first-team football either at left back or left wing.
27 year-old Riise, who stands 6'1″ tall, has played 228 times for Liverpool and scored 21 goals. He has also played 68 games for his country, Norway, scoring 7 goals for them.
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In his address this week, President Obama recalls how four years ago this month the financial crisis that was largely caused by irresponsibility in the housing market almost destroyed the US economy. He points out that although four years later the housing market is slowly improving, still more needs to be done. He outlines steps that have been taken to help the housing market, including his proposal to give responsible homeowners a chance to save thousands of dollars every year by refinancing their mortgages -- a plan that has been blocked by Republican lawmakers.
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Transcript of President Barack Obama's Weekly Address, The White House, September 29, 2012:
Hello, everybody. Four years ago this month, a crisis that started out on Wall Street almost brought down our entire economy. The nation's biggest banks were days away from failing. The stock market – and millions of American retirement accounts – were in free-fall. Credit froze. Lending stopped. And businesses large and small didn't even know if they'd be able to make payroll. It was a moment the likes of which few Americans had ever seen.
Today, we know the biggest cause of that crisis was reckless behavior in the housing market.
Millions of Americans who did the right and responsible thing – who shopped for a home, secured a mortgage they could afford, and made their payments on time – were badly hurt by the irresponsible actions of others. By lenders who sold loans to families who couldn't afford them – and buyers who knew they couldn't afford them. By speculators who were looking to make a quick buck. And by banks that packaged and sold those risky mortgages for phony profits.
When the party stopped, and the housing bubble burst, it pushed our entire economy into a historic recession – and left middle-class families holding the bag.
Four years later, the housing market is healing. Home sales and construction are up. Prices are beginning to rise. And more than a million families who began this year owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, are now back above water.
We're moving in the right direction. But we're not there yet. There are still millions of Americans who are struggling with their mortgages, even at a time of historically low rates.
Now, I know there are some who think that the only option for homeowners is to just stand by and hope that the market has hit bottom. I don't agree with that.
That's why my Administration teamed up with state attorneys general to investigate the terrible way many homeowners were treated, and secured a settlement from the nation's biggest banks – banks that were bailed out with taxpayer dollars – to help families stay in their homes.
And that's why we announced new steps to help responsible homeowners refinance their mortgages. Already, hundreds of thousands of Americans who were stuck in high-interest loans have been able to take advantage of lower rates and save thousands of dollars every year.
That's not only good for those families; it's also good for our economy. When folks are spending less on mortgage payments, they're spending more at local businesses. And when those businesses have more customers, they start hiring more workers.
But we can do even more if Congress is willing to do their part.
Back in February I sent Congress a plan to give every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgages by refinancing at lower rates. It's a plan that has the support of independent, nonpartisan economists and leaders across the housing industry. But Republicans in Congress worked to keep it from even getting to a vote. And here we are – seven months later – still waiting on Congress to act.
This makes no sense. Last week, mortgage rates were at historic lows. But instead of helping more and more hardworking families take advantage of those rates, Congress was away on break. Instead of worrying about you, they'd already gone home to worry about their campaigns.
The truth is, it's going to take a while for our housing market to fully recover. But it's going to take a lot more time – and cause a lot more hurt – if Congress keeps standing in the way. If you agree with me, I hope you'll make your voices heard. Call your Representative. Send them an email. Show up at their town hall and tell them that when Congress comes back to Washington, they better come back ready to work. All of you are doing everything you can to meet your responsibilities. It's time Congress did the same. Thanks and have a great weekend.


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Code Commission; responsible for repealing obsolete statutes and Acts of Assembly. Adding § 9-77.10:2.
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Section 4 of Article IV. (Patron-Potts, SJR 316)
Constitutional amendment; minority leader election procedure and duties (first reference). Amending Section 7
of Article IV. (Patron-Griffith, HJR 529)
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expenditures of state agencies. Adding §§ 30-63.1 through 30-63.6. (Patron-McEachin, HB 1973)
General Assembly; adjournment sine die. (Patron-Cranwell, HJR 905; Cranwell, HJR 906)
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Legislative studies; Joint Rules Committee to study cost thereof. (Patron-Cantor, HJR 685)
Legislative study groups; moratorium on funding those created after July 1, 1999. Adding § 30-19.8:1.
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Retail Sales and Use Tax; legislative consideration of exemptions. Amending § 30-19.05. (Patron-DeBoer, HB
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(Patron-Thomas, HB 1432; Jones, S.C., HB 1437; Moss, HB 1486; Stosch, SB 722)
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through 30-93. (Patron-Colgan, SB 1114)
Secretary of the Commonwealth; to maintain certain information on General Assembly members. Amending
§ 2.1-68. (Patron-Hull, HB 1905)
State-funded buildings and other structures; prohibits naming thereof after sitting members of the General
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- Campbell NewmanPremier of Queensland
Don't Evict Elderly Residents of Eventide Nursing Home
The Queensland Premier has sunk to a new low - his indiscriminate cost cutting will see high care aged care residents of Eventide Nursinghome on Brisbane's north side lose their home.
No one thought before the election to make Campbell Newman promise to not evict elderly people from their nursing homes, who would have thought a government could stoop so low, the staff of Eventide probably felt safe after hearing his promises about protecting workers on the front line, and the residents of Eventide couldn't have known that the new premier was going to kick them out of their homes.
Almost 46% of nursing home residents in the seat of Sandgate voted for
Mr Newman, and this is how he repays them - and what's worse, he outsourced the bad news to the Hospital board instead of being up front with them during the election campaign.
- Premier of Queensland
Campbell Newman
Don't Evict Elderly Residents of Eventide Nursing Home
Please reconsider the decision to kick residents out of the Eventide Nursing Home at Brighton.
There is no compassionate way to kick elderly people out of their home, particularly when the decision to move in is often made in emotionally complicated and distressing times.
The 80 residents and 69 Staff of the Eventide Home deserve better from the State Government.
Almost 46% of nursing home residents in the seat of Sandgate cast a primary vote for your party, Mr Newman, and this is how you repays them - and what's worse, you outsourced the bad news to the Hospital board instead of being up front with them during the election campaign.
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How to teach your kids about money
Managing money is one of the most important skills a person needs in order to effectively participate in society.
It is the major cause of most marital breakdowns and depression in adults. It's sends people into bankruptcy, which has disastrous consequences, not just for the individual, but society.
It's time get over the negative feelings surrounding money and learn to embrace it as a necessity in our lives.
Yes it is. Money is as essential as water, food and shelter now. It can definitely be considered as a basic need.
Without it you cannot survive, or you will have a very low standard of living. It's time to allow our children the opportunity to thrive, like they were born to do.
Here's a few tips to help your child learn the fundamentals of this basic necessity.
Watch your language about money
You are the biggest influencer in your child's life. Your child will naturally adopt what you model to them via your words and actions. Watch statements like Rich people are thieves. Only the wealthy get ahead. Filthy money… and the negative things we unconsciously say. Money won't come to you if you keep attaching evilness to it and keep shutting the door in its face.
Take your arguments about money with your partner to a place they can't hear (better yet, don't argue) If your children hear these arguments, they will develop the belief that money brings pain and destroys relationships. Ouch! Imagine the self-sabotaging that can come later with that subconscious belief.
Speak to your child about money
Don't say to your child "we can't have it because we can't afford it" or "we don't have the money". I know you don't have the money most of the time, but try to turn your no response into a positive response.
For example:
"Right now it's a little challenging to pay for this, but, perhaps in the future. You tell me. What do you think you could do to possibly create the money for it? Maybe we could bake a cake together instead of buying this one, which costs more because someone else baked it. We don't have to pay them for their time then."
Can you see the concepts of money you are teaching them about just from this simple re-framing of "we can't afford it"?
Teach them to save from an early age
Kalyra already has nearly $500 saved for her trip to Disneyland. Every week we allow her to round up our spare change "Usually this is something we waste, so why don't we save it for our dream."
Any holiday or birthday money she gets, she puts into her money box. We count the money in the box together and get all excited about the amazing job she is doing saving for her dream
We have her hand the money box to the teller when it comes time to deposit it. She watches them count it (I patiently answer the why questions) while she eagerly awaits the bank balance.
"What is it Mummy?" I tell her, her eyes widen with delight and she carries that home like it's fragile glass and races in the door to tell her Daddy how smart she is for saving that much money for her dream.
Teach your children what happens to the money in the bank
The bank keeps it safe for us, but they also take our money while it is sitting their doing nothing and they make the money work for them. They go and invest it and help it to grow. When it grows they leave a bit of that growth behind for you as a way of saying thank you.
See if you are clever with money you can make it work for you. You've got to find ways to make your money grow, with as little effort from you as possible
Help them see how money can grow
Set up the right bank account for your child. We just discovered the Bank West Children's bank account and opened an account for the girls so they can earn 8% interest per month. This is a fabulous way to show them how their money can grow.
Let them see the statements and show them what they earned each month for doing nothing. Allow them to decide how much they want to deposit each month and where the money will come from.
Play money games
We all know Monopoly. It's not just a fun game, it also teaches about investing, debt and bankruptcy.
Don't just mindlessly play it, talk with your child as you go. Help them strategize and ask their thought processes in regards to buying. It's not always a great idea to buy the house on Mayfair. Most of the time the train stations or the two cheapest houses on the block, give you a greater return.
Shops, hotels, restaurants all these imaginary play games help develop money concepts. Monitor your language and model right.
Rich Kid Smart Kid is a great resource for games and educational tools.
Allow your children to create mini-businesses
We all know the lemonade stands. Don't get in the way of your children when they create one, help them with it. (Just don't let them start selling things at school, because that will lead to trouble.)
My nephews have started their own neighbourhood lawn mowing business. They have just hit their teens and are already building a lovely little savings account. A couple of lawns a week – they're out in the sun getting active, and earning money.
If your children take on the entrepreneurial spirit, use it as an opportunity to talk about responsibility, saving, and having another cash to cover expenses.
Move from pocket money to salary
Again, it's a terminology thing. But words carry meaning. Children no longer receive pocket money, they earn a salary.
Why? Because you are teaching them from an early age to respect money: that it is something that has to be earned.
Craig and I have been discussing how to do this in our family life recently. Kalyra is old enough to start earning, and whilst Savannah is just a babe, there is no reason we can't expose her to the concept.
You can start with chores. Keep it focused on earning their salary; it is not a reward for doing a chore. I would recommend certain jobs, like keeping their room tidy, be something they just have to do, without earning a salary from it.
Sit down and discuss with what they would like to do and come up with a salary plan. As we run a business from home, there are certain business related tasks Kalyra could help with to earn a salary. This only needs to be $1 or $2 a week.
Once your child gets older, you can present the ideas of taxation and giving back. So once they receive their salary, they have to give 10% back to you in taxes. You can even go a step further and instruct them to donate 5% and save 10%.
You have the obligation to pay them on time. As they get older stretch payment to every fortnight or month, so they understand how the real world works. Once they turn 15, if they have not yet made millions from selling lemonade, encourage them to find a real job.
Allow them to make purchase decisions
Kalyra was pushing for me to purchase a doll for her recently. We spoke about how many she already had, and didn't play and so it wouldn't be a wise spend of money. She persisted, so I gave her the option. "You can, but you must use your money in your bank."
"That's okay Mummy, I don't want the doll anyway."
Talk to them about their saved money and good ways in which to spend it. Let them buy their treats every now and then, and if you have to teach a lesson, let them blow the lot and suffer the consequences of having nothing left. Talk to them about this. How did it feel? Was what you brought worth it? What did it bring your really? How long did that benefit last for? What could you do next time?
Help them create a money plan. They will be torn between hating seeing their money disappearing and wanting to buy things they think bring them happiness. Help them by devising a plan that caters to both.
Let them help with your financial planning and money management
This is probably a scary thought, but one that can teach your child some valuable lessons. They are earning a salary of $3 a week and then they see your electricity bill is $100.
"Wow Mum, things cost a lot of money. You have to work hard to live right?"
Let them help you write up your shopping list, set budgets, participate in the planning of how you spend money.
If they are older, you can even let them write the cheques out for you.
How do you teach your children about money?


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Hillary Clinton made statements criticizing the Bush Administration's secrecy in regard to the 9/11 Commission's investigation during a 2003 conference titled 'New American Strategies for Security and Peace,' alongside top Democratic public policy advisors including Madeline Albright, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gen. Wesley Clark, Richard Holbrooke, Sandy Berger and many others.
Her key statement purported that the Bush Administration was behaving as though it had "something to hide":
"By withholding information from the 9/11 Commission and the American public, the administration unnecessarily raises the suspicion that they have something to hide. Americans will be more likely to accept what is "going right" in Iraq, if the administration is honest about what is "going wrong."
Hillary's 2003 statements also criticized the Bush Administration for keeping secret a 28-page report on "the involvements of foreign governments with the highjackers." She even advocated the citizens know the full truth about 9/11.
"I feel absolutely without doubt that our citizens, particularly my constituents, deserve to know all the facts of how the government was prepared or not." [SEE TRANSCIPT AT BOTTOM FOR FULL CONTEXT]
Despite Hillary's hopeful sounding rhetoric on 9/11, she is far from a truther and has now recruited Sandy Berger, a former staff member from her husband's administration, into her campaign and likely her administration.
Berger, who was also present at the 2003 New American Strategies meeting, was convicted for stealing classified documents from the national security archives pertaining to pre-9/11 Al-Qaeda intelligence, though he was only punished with a $50,000 fine and 100 hours of community service.
The document theft took place between September 2 and October 2, 2003, with 9/11 Commission investigation underway, according to the charges, and less than a month before the October 28 New American Strategies conference.
Thus Hillary's criticism of 'suspicious' behavior in the Bush Administration clearly stands in hypocrisy, as it is horrifyingly clear that both administrations were "hiding something" about 9/11.
Sandy Berger-- a top national security advisor-- claimed the incident was an "honest mistake" and that he had only been reviewing the documents for the 9/11 Commission and that the destroyed documents were "duplicates."
As RealClearPolitics explains, the classified documents pertained to 9/11-Al Qaeda Intelligence:
Hillary's statements-- publicly available but not publicized-- came during a policy discussion on topics related to Homeland Security and the restructuring of intelligence operations during the new era of terrorism.
The 2003 rhetoric reflected plans for a continuation of 9/11-era fear of terrorism, further integration, new intelligence structures and regional integration:
"The lost opportunity of 9/11 is that the President did not rise to the position of educator."
Samuel R. Berger "We've been spending money on homeland security since 1996, but we do not have a strategy."
Randall Larsen "We need economic security, new levels of public-private partnerships, a balance between homeland security and civil liberties, and collaboration among all levels of government.
"We should be working to strengthen and use international institutions, beginning with the United Nations and NATO." General Wesley K. Clark, USA (Ret.) "The distinction between domestic and foreign intelligence no longer makes any sense... Today, our intelligence assets are as likely to be a public health official or a cop on the street, as an FBI or CIA agent." James Steinberg "In Bosnia, we achieved our objective at an acceptable cost....that is nationbuilding...It isn't perfect, but it worked. In Afghanistan, the administration did the exact opposite of nation building." Richard Holbrooke "The day after a nuclear or other attack, we will ask ourselves, what is it that we wished we had done?" Margaret A. Hamburg
To their credit, the New American Strategies for Security and Peace did claim this notable objective:
"We can collect vital information without compromising civil liberties."
Much of this rhetoric matches a number of Hillary's policy outlines recently published in the Council on Foreign Relations' Foreign Affairs, in which she calls for greater integration with third world countries and an integrated approach to security, amongst other issues.
More of Hillary Clinton's statements on the Bush Administration withholding information on 9/11 appears below:
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT from Hillary Clinton's 2003 Speech at the New American Strategies for Security and Peace Conference:
"I believe, having had a lot of experience now in watching and listening to the American people, that they are far more willing to accept the administration's statements about what is going right in Iraq if they believe that the administration is more forthright about what is going wrong....
One is in the administration's approach to the investigations surrounding 9/11. Not only as a Senator from New York, but as an American, I don't think there is any more searing event in my personal experience than what happened to us on September 11th.
I feel absolutely without doubt that our citizens, particularly my constituents, deserve to know all the facts of how the government was prepared or not. Yet, over this weekend, we learned that the 9/11 commission, an independent commission, charged with the important task of investigating how 9/11 happened, complains that it is not getting access to all the documents it needs.
This is a hugely important issue. And it's not just important for this commission, but for these larger questions about access to information and how this government maintains the trust of the American people.
The lack of transparency on the part of the Bush administration has forced Governor King, former Republican Governor of New Jersey, to threaten subpoenas. This should not be happening.
As bad as it was for Vice President Cheney to keep secret how the administration developed its energy policy, this is far worse. The 9/11 commission is not trying to embarrass this president or any former president or anyone else. It is trying to learn what happened, what went wrong. In hopes that we can be better prepared to protect ourselves from any future attacks.
In taking their action to evade or avoid providing information, the administration unnecessarily raises the suspicion that it has something to hide, that it might use the claim of national security to hide mistakes that are literally questions of life and death for Americans.
Similarly, with respect to the prior report about intelligence and the administration's continuing refusal to release to the American public the 28 pages that concern the involvements of foreign governments with the highjackers, the administration is drawing a line that should not be drawing. There is no legitimate basis for denying the American public this information."


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Maqbool Salman is the new member from Mammootty's family to enter into limelight. He grabbed the lead role in the movie Medulla Oblongata, which was meant for Nivin Pauly. But, Nivin had stepped out due to date clashes. Now, reports claim that the actor has been roped in for yet another movie with a strange title!
Maqbool's new movie is titled Taka Taka Tanka. Now, if reports are to be believed, Maqbool plays the main role in this movie, which refers to something that plays a key role in everyone's life.
Taka Taka Tanka is directed by Muhammed Rafi. Marina is said to play the female lead in this movie. Kalabhavan Mani and Indrans are also seen playing pivotal roles in this movie. The shooting of the movie will begin this month. The locations of Taka Taka Tanka include Kochi and Nagercoil.
Meanwhile, Maqbool's Medulla Oblongata is the Malayalam remake of the Tamil movie Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom, which was released in 2012. Directed by debutant Balaji Tharaneetharan, the movie was a comedy-thriller. Vijay Sethupathi did the leading role in this movie.
Medulla Oblongata will be produced by Vendhar Movies. His other upcoming movie is Oru Korean Padam.


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Yeah, I'm currently reading this.
For those of you who's read it, how would you describe the prose? I'm trying to describe it myself, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a fitting description. It's... too "writerly", it's like a parody of how a writer writes. It's film noir narration mixed with a failed attempt at being cool. It's too cool. So it turns cheesy and parodic.
I think that's actually the most accurate I can describe it, almost every sentence in the book feels like it's taken right out of some film-noir parody.
There's some hardboiled in there too, but that's a given because of the film-noir influence.
Especially sentences like these, are what I'm referring to:
Opening line of book, "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
"Under bright ghosts burning through a blue haze of cigarette smoke, holograms of Wizard's Castle, Tank War Europa, the New York skyline... And now he remembered her that way, her face bathed in restless laser light, features reduced to a code: her cheekbones flaring scarlet as Wizard's Castle burned, forehead drenched with azure when Munich fell to the Tank War, mouth touched with hot gold as a gliding cursor struck sparks from the wall of a skyscraper canyon."
Laughable right? I'd like to hear Chuck's comments if anyone were to submit writing like that.
"He looked back as the plastic door swung shut behind him, saw her eyes reflected in a cage of red neon."
Character is looking at shurikens:
"They caught the street's neon and twisted it, and it came to Case that these were the stars under which he voyaged, his destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome."
The whole book is like that. Just horrible.


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Update December 2011: The listing location module now has a release candidate. The Listing Premium module is now in place to create paid listings of different levels for different periods of time in conjunction with node checkout, node checkout scheduler and scheduler.
The listing module enables listings of all kinds such as jobs, online courses, real estate, hotels, restaurants, classifieds and any kind of business or sales listing, especially those which involve location. It is being developed as a modular system comprising a core listing module upon which different components can be added. The following modules are included.
This module provides the glue that holds together content types, views and other drupal systems to enable:
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listing_job.module - this enables some listing content types to be used as jobs so that people can apply to them. Applications are stored as nodes and *new* recruiters can communicate with applicants via the privatemsg module.
listing_location.module - this provides search using categories and the location module with either proximity search or city search. Data is required in the location zipcodes table. This can be used in conjunction with the geoip module to enable auto IP detection for showing the current user location (provided their location is valid for your site settings). Also included is a featured listings block. This module is now compatible with taxonomy_menu.
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Why, oh why
: Jon Stewart talks with Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek about the Middle East and asks: "Explain to me, why did God put all our fuel under there?"
Why, oh why
: Jon Stewart talks with Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek about the Middle East and asks: "Explain to me, why did God put all our fuel under there?"
America on trial
: Oh, gawd, the Michael Jackson trial begins. We watch him going to lunch. We watch him coming back from lunch. We watch the poor guy whose job it is to hold an umbrella over the poster boy for the dangers of fame. We watch MJ being wanded — no pat-downs here. We watch reporters fill time. And it's just the first day. We're sentenced to months of this.
They said on TV today that 1,000 journalists had applied for credentials to cover the trial. Why, lord, why?
I'm going to bet that the trial will not be the subject of much talk in blogs — unless something amazing happens — but, of course, it will explode in big-media's coverage. If that's the case, what does that indicate about news judgement? You tell me.
: Folks are coming up with excuses to get off this jury. Who can blame them?
On TV
: I try to be jaded about media but I have to say it was cool to spend another day at MSNBC covering Iraqi blogs on Sunday — so cool that I brought my son along for my afternoon session so he could watch TV being made.
I got there at 6a, knowing what Howard Stern feels like working his hours. They set me up at a new desk, which looks like a kitchen island in the galley of the Starship Enterprise. It has a computer and screen — only problem is, Will, who preceded me, had to turn away from the anchor and the camera to use the machine: a TV problem. So I wheedled to get my laptop hooked up so I could look at it, the anchor, and the camera at once and feed the image of my screen onto the air. Meanwhile, a floor director sat down at the anchor's chair and I learned a new TV term: "belly mark." She moved tape on the edge of the desk dictating where the anchor's belly should be, assuring that she would be in the light and in the shot. They said the belly marks were already set up for the Imus crew. And it was then that I learned that this desk is intended for Imus when he comes to MSNBC's studios in Jersey. Sure enough, I looked down at the dashboard and there were Imus buttons for him and Chuck and guests. I took a picture with my phone as proof. I was not stupid enough to leave a Bababooey note for the I-man; I want to come back to MSNBC. I didn't go to HowardStern.com on the PC. I didn't make any jokes about cowboy hats. I behaved. But it was tempting.
One of my favorite scenes is watching the analysts who stick around all day finish a segment, for that is when the sound guy comes over to turn off their wireless mikes to save on batteries. The guests turn their backs to the sound man, bend over just a bit, and flip up their jackets. It's not a dignified pose. It's these little moments that puncture the facade of big-time TV.
Later on, when my son and I were standing at the edge of the big studio, one of the nice sound guys explained to Jake: You think the anchors are really smart but you don't see that they read the Teleprompter and people talk into their ear. It's show biz. And then I get a speaker in my ear and bend over and hike up my jacket. I thought my son might be impressed I was on TV. Instead, he sees me assume the position of analyst submission.
In this space, I rant and rave about exploding TV and how low-priced competitors are coming. Still, I admit it's impressive to watch TV sausage being made all day. Even at its greatest efficiency, it still takes a lot of work to put out a two- or three-minute segment: The booker books the guests. The producer figures out what the segment will try to convey; for my last segment of the day, on the Monica Crowley and Ron Reagan show, I worked with the prodcer to prepare pictures and video and words to put on the screen. The producer preps the anchor. The anchor interviews. Now ring the room with camera operators — three big cameras plus a boom camera (that's how they get those high-altitude whooping shots) plus a SteadiCam — and floor directors and that sound guy and lots of folks in the control room: all to convey a few sentences of news to you and make it interesting. TV's great to watch on either side of the camera.
This was the second time I did a segment with Ron/Mon and this time my counterpart was Jeralyn Merritt of TalkLeft. It was civilized TV. We had our says; we disagreed; but we didn't shout. Yes, it is possible.
Before we were on, Ron/Mon interviewed Natan Sharansky because he wrote Bush's favorite book (yes, he has one): The Case for Democracy. They're talking with the smart man and suddenly Sharansky yelps, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" and it looks as if he got a shock. Ron gets a puzzled look; it sounded as if Sharansky was reacting to something Ron had said but he hadn't said anything yet. They couldn't investigate because they lost the satellite. Then they get it back. They talk again. And again: "Oh, my God!" Ron now realizes this is what Sharansky says when he loses the satellite. But he recovers and asks Monica the quetion he was going to ask Sharansky and she recovers, too, and answers. This is TV. It's all about staying in control. That's the hardest lesson to learn.
Today, they called back asking whether I could dash in for another blog segment. I was too far away and suggested a couple of other bloggers but will admit that I wish I could have gone in. Sure, it's show biz. And there's an hour of hanging for two minutes on the air. But I'll admit it: TV is fun.
: Just now I see that Howard Kurtz wrote about changes and improvements at MSNBC.
: Lots of folks are gushing over A9's photos of storefronts automatically associated with yellow page listings. I go in an ask about my favorite sandwich joint, Cosi, and for reasons I can't figure, the photo associated with it is of a woman wearing a burkha.
I've seen years go online-yellow-page triumphalism. It was going to take over the yellow pages and destroy businesses… but it ended up destroying the destroyers first. I'm unimpressed. Show me why I'm wrong. Leave a search that works in the comments.
Denton, the brand
: Nick Denton launched two new blogs today: Lifehacker (the software response to the hardware Gizmodo) and Gridskipper (a travel blog from the edges). But that's not news. Heck, Dave Sifry told me he's now tracking 40,000 new blogs a day (up from 15k only about a year ago).
What's news is that Nick (a friend and business colleague of mine) signed up Sony for Lifehacker just as he signed up Audi for Jalopnik.
And here's what's newsworthy about that:
Since the internet started, many big-time publishers have struggled to convince big-time advertisers that this new medium is not just about direct response (click-through) but also about branding (that is, the value of associating your brand and product with a media brand — the reason to advertise in a glossy magazine with a classy audience, for example). That is why the Online Publishers Association was created.
But note what Denton has done twice: He got big-time advertisers to sign onto a product that didn't even exist yet. Take it from a guy who started a magazine; that doesn't happen. So why did they do it? Clearly, they wanted to be associated — branded — with the next, new, cool thing. Just being the first in equals branding. That is a value of this new medium: its newness.
Now that won't last forever. One of my mentors in the magazine business said she never wanted to be what a famous creative director called hot models — the hot thing. For you don't stay hot. But it's clear that this new medium, executed cooly, has heat, has whuffie. And the fact that it comes from the people and is promoted by the people may be enough to keep its heat, its whuffieness, its branding power forever. We'll see.
: The American right and left are analyzing the Iraq vote on the wrong basis: It's not about George Bush, pro or con. It's not about America, pro or con. It's not even about the war, pro or con. It's about the Iraqi people and democracy and their future, for which there is only a pro, not a con.
But Hoder has a proper question in his post from the Iranian perspective:
On the one hand I'm really excited that Iraqi people have been able to start the path to a potentially democratic political system, on the other hand I'm really upset that this will embolden neoconservatives and will be seen as a confirmation of their dangerous plans for the world.
If the goal is democracy and freedom and human rights — and I do believe that is the goal that with which there is no good argument — then the proper question is: How? How are these goals achieved for fellow citizens of the world who do not enjoy enjoy these fundamental right? Is diplomacy sufficient? Is war justified? Are there alternatives? Does this first step toward democracy in Iraq put pressure on the rest of the Middle East? These are all the right questions to ask. It's not about us, folks, it's about the rest of the world.
Mission underway
: Finally heard Bush's remarks on the Iraqi elections. How much better it would have been if he had given that after the fall of Baghdad instead of standing under a "mission accomplished" banner in a flight suit.
There's a lot of hard work ahead.
To the eeyores whose party line today is that a vote does not a democracy make, I say that that a journey begins with one step. Of course, it was not a perfect election. Well, duh. Our elections aren't perfect.
It was a miraculous election. And the message of it is obvious — or should be obvious: These people hunger for the opportunity to govern there nation. What people would not? The fact of the election is a powerful message to the rest of the Middle East (and they're hearing it); it is a message to those who said that Iraq is not ready for democracy; it is a message to the terrorists and murderers there who would try to stop the democratic inevitability.
But yes, of course, there is a tremendous amount of work to do.
Hell, democracy in America still requires work.
More = merrier
: MediaBistro launches new blogs to go along with the redesigned (thank you) TVNewser on design and books and the media scenes in NY, Washington, and LA. I got to gander at them last week (and it's so embarrassing when you get insider access to the beta and have no brilliant suggestions to make). Good work to Elizabeth Spiers and Laurel Touby.
: Denton is launching new blogs today; I'll link when they go up.