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At a press conference on Tuesday, Mr Brown was repeatedly asked whether he would take part in a debate - in an effort to boost voters' interest.
He said there were opportunities to quiz him at prime minister's questions.
But Mr Cameron said this was not possible during election campaigns, when Parliament does not sit.
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In his letter, he says: "It is true, of course, that we have the opportunity to debate matters at prime minister's questions.
"But that is a very different matter to a proper television debate during a general election campaign - when Parliament is not sitting, and when people will be most receptive to engaging in political discussion.
"I am sure, on reflection, that you will want to re-consider your position. I remain ready to hold such a debate, either between the two of us, or including the Liberal Democrat leader, whenever the opportunity arises."
Televised debates between politicians are common practice in the United States, France and elsewhere, but Tony Blair refused to take part in any during his time as prime minister.
Mr Brown said the situation in the US was different as presidents were directly elected by the people - and there was not the same opportunities for the two parties to challenge each other.
"In Britain it has got to the stage where every week there is 30 minutes devoted entirely to this.
"This allows people to ask their questions and put their views and that is exactly how it has been for many years."
He added: "The number of statements I give in the House of Commons allows all the parties to question me very regularly."
"There are plenty of opportunities for people to question me both with statements and question time in the House of Commons."
But Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies said: "David Cameron is a Johnny-come-lately on this issue.
"I wrote to both David Cameron and Gordon Brown challenging them to a TV debate in June this year.
"Gordon Brown's new politics is only skin deep. As the leader of his party he should take part in leaders' debates to discuss the issues facing this country. This is what people want and expect.
"I cannot wait to debate against both Gordon Brown and David Cameron."
Mr Brown, who took over as prime minister in June, has refused to rule out calling an early election - fuelling speculation he may go to the polls as early as October.
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Despite often legitimate complaints by American Christians about anti-Christian bias in the secular media, the fact remains that even when it is blankly uncomprehending of issues of faith, a free press is still one of the best protections of freedom in any society. When freedom of the press is threatened anywhere, along with freedom of conscience, people's lives are at risk.
Nowhere can you grasp this more vividly than in Africa, a continent whose peoples have in recent decades been more brutalized by dictatorship, civil war, corruption and disease than anywhere else on earth.
In mid-November in Nairobi, Kenya, we heard heartrending, firsthand stories of this from 40 journalists, all of them Christian, gathered from 11 African nations. The occasion was the African Regional Conference of Gegrapha, the global fellowship of Christians in journalism founded in Washington, D.C., in 1998. Some of those journalists present had been forced to flee their homes and their countries because their reporting antagonized their governments or, as in northern Nigeria, an aggressive and expansionist branch of Islam.
Clayton Peel, former deputy editor of The Chronicle in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, was fired overnight from the pro-government paper after front-paging the story of a mayoral candidate cleared in court of malicious and politically motivated corruption charges. Until he left Zimbabwe he did not know if he would be jailed, or worse.
"There does come a point," Peel said, "when your Christian conscience provokes you, and in being provoked, you provoke others."
In Nigeria, which returned to democracy two years ago, the most frightening challenge to Christians and journalists is that of efforts by Muslim Nigerians in the country's north to suppress both Christianity and press freedom by imposing the sharia, Islamic religious law. Emmanuel Hasan (not his real name), editor of a northern regional newspaper, had to flee for his life after bravely reporting anti-Christian violence by militant Nigerian Muslims in his state.
After arriving in Lagos, Hasan did something radical--he founded a Christian newspaper, The Envoy. He had three goals: to report instances of Christian persecution, to look at news from a Christian perspective and to be frank in reporting when the church itself slipped up.
But Hasan was shocked by unexpected opposition. "We didn't expect the difficulties to come from the church," he says.
Hasan says many churches became hostile when his paper pointed out wrong-doing or corruption among them. Despite this, Hasan says, the paper became popular with ordinary people because, in his words, "We stood for the truth."
Truth also disturbs authoritarian governments because it challenges the legitimacy of their power. A journalist familiar with Egypt said he had been surprised by how much fear there was in the Egyptian media about reporting basic true facts.
"We need to challenge ourselves to tell the truth," he said, but he added, "We need to understand that it is a real danger to tell the truth."
All the African reporters were aware of the difficulties of press censorship in many of their countries. Some of them also worried about the insidious threat of self-censorship--holding back truth-telling for fear of government violence or some other backlash.
A reporter for an African government news agency repented in public for having often to "slant" the stories she writes. If a government minister has addressed 25 people at a political meeting, she said, almost in tears, she has to write that there was a "mammoth rally" for the government.
Yet the overall mood of the conference was filled with hope. "For all of us in Africa, we can influence our societies if we see ourselves as Christians," Hasan commented. New Gegrapha chapters of Christian journalists will be formed in several African countries, and there was a sense of deep commitment to support and pray for one another.
Next stop for Gegrapha will be at the regional level, with conferences in South Asia and Europe. Please pray for financially successful Christians to help us accomplish all this.
David Aikman, a regular Charisma columnist, is the founder and chairman of Gegrapha, a global fellowship of Christians in journalism (www.gegrapha.org). He can be reached by email at email@example.com.
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The Palestine Government announced today it was omitting the immigration schedule for the three months ending June 30, but would issue a limited number of certificates to replace those unused under previous schedules.
The announcement continues in effect a policy inaugurated for the previous six months, which was attributed to "economic and other factors." A statement published in a special edition of the official Palestine Gazette said:
"The economic and other factors specified in the notice of Dec. 26, 1940, announcing the decision not to prescribe an immigration quota for the six months ending March 31, 1941, while changing circumstances, are still of influence and the High Commissioner, with the Colonial Secretary's approval, has decided not to prescribe an immigration quota for the three months from April 1 to June 30, 1941.
"The position will be reviewed with respect to the succeeding quarter, July to September, in the light of future circumstances. Replacement immigration certificates in strictly limited numbers will continue to be granted during April to June in special cases.
"The figures on Jewish immigration since April 1, 1939, are as follows: Certificates available subject to economic absorptive capacity under the policy declared in Command Paper No. 6019–50,000. Secondly, supplementary refugee certificates–25,000. Total–75,000.
"The immigration authorities have granted from April 1, 1939, to March 30, 1941, certificates numbering 19,601. Secondly, actual arrivals from April, 1939, to March, 1941–legal immigrants, 14,678; illegals deducted from the quota, 16,100; to be deducted from quotas, 2,090; total, 32,868; balance on account on April 1, 1941, is 42,132.
"It is expected that a number of immigrants will continue to enter Palestine on grants of the immigration authorities during the last 12 months."


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S&S to distribute Yilin e-books
Simon & Schuster has partnered with China's Yilin Press to distribute its Mandarin language e-books globally.
The publisher described the deal an "unprecedented distribution and publishing agreement".
The books, including Mandarin translations of both modern and classic works and many classic Chinese titles, will be available through all major e-book retailers working with Simon & Schuster.
A list of approximately 300 titles and notable translations—including Life of Pi by Yann Martel; Air Mail by Tomas Transtromer and Robert Bly; The Foxes Come At Night by Cees Nooteboom; and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen—will be available from November.
In addition, the Simon & Schuster US trade imprint has acquired world English rights to a list of non-fiction titles about Chinese culture and history and popular and acclaimed fiction featuring major Chinese authors including Shen Congwen, Lu Xun, Bing Xin, Ye Zhaoyan and Su Tong, some of whom have never before been translated into English. It will publish the first list of eight titles in Spring 2014.
Carolyn Reidy, president and chief executive officer of Simon & Schuster US, said: "This is an exciting, modern marriage of content and technology that will benefit the many millions of Mandarin readers who live outside China and who will now have easy access to many of the best works of our time, from Chinese and western authors, in Mandarin."
Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of the Simon & Schuster US trade imprint, added: "With the increasing level of interest in Chinese language, literature,and culture in both the United States and around the world, we believe that the time is right to offer these classic works in electronic editions that will appeal to both the general reader and the educational market."
Chen Haiyan, chairman of PPMG, said: "Yilin's cooperation with Simon & Schuster is indeed an innovative project that provides PPMG with a model for the worldwide publishing and distribution of our books. We are eagerly looking forward to the day our books are available on a truly global basis."
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text: Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 159 points (1.1%) at 15,200 as of Friday, June 7, 2013, 12:50 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 2,044 issues advancing vs. 871 declining with 122 unchanged. The Basic Materials sector currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is up 1.0%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Goldcorp ( GG), down 4.13, Barrick Gold Corporation ( ABX), down 3.69, Newmont Mining Corporation ( NEM), down 2.24, Petroleo Brasileiro SA Petrobras ( PBR.A), down 2.12 and LyondellBasell Industries ( LYB), down 1.96. Top gainers within the sector include Southwestern Energy Company ( SWN), up 2.9%, Continental Resources ( CLR), up 2.7%, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation ( COG), up 2.6%, Monsanto Company ( MON), up 2.5% and PPG Industries ( PPG), up 2.4%. TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today: 5. Eldorado Gold ( EGO) is one of the companies pushing the Basic Materials sector lower today. As of noon trading, Eldorado Gold is down $0.40 (-4.8%) to $7.86 on average volume Thus far, 3.4 million shares of Eldorado Gold exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.7 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $7.83-$8.04 after having opened the day at $8.02 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $8.26. Eldorado Gold Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, development, mining, and production of gold properties in Turkey, China, Greece, Brazil, and Romania. The company also explores for iron, silver, lead, zinc, and copper ores. Eldorado Gold has a market cap of $5.8 billion and is part of the metals & mining industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 29.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 35.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Eldorado Gold a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Eldorado Gold as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and good cash flow from operations. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, feeble growth in the company's earnings per share and deteriorating net income. Get the full Eldorado Gold Ratings Report now. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more.


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By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – The Wisconsin Retirement System's investments are falling far behind expectations, and that could cost beneficiaries and taxpayers big.
Preliminary figures show the core investment fund returned just 1.4 percent over the fiscal year ending June 30 2012. WRS assumed its investments would earn 7.2 percent.
Over the same time, the S&P 500 returned 3.14 percent.
Even the fund's more recent gains — investments earned 5.9 percent in the half year from January 1, 2012 to June 30 — wasn't enough to make up for the first six months of the fiscal year.
Vicki Hearing, spokeswoman for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, which manages WRS assets, said the final numbers may change, but not much. The difference between preliminary and final results generally runs in the "tenths of a percent," she said, as financials from private markets — private equity, loans and real estate — come in.
She said final numbers will be reported in four weeks.
If the lower than assumed investment returns hold until the end of the 2012 calendar year, WRS will pay out smaller pension checks paid to retirees so that it doesn't fall below established funding ratios.
Beginning May 1, 2012, for example, 96,000 pensioners took a 7 percent decrease in their pension checks due to the fund's actuarial loss in 2011.
"Currently 48 percent of annuitants are now at their core base annuity," Department of Employee Trust Funds Deputy Secretary Rob Marchant previously told Wisconsin Reporter. "Even if we hit our 7.2 percent assumed rate, next year 28,000 more will be reduced to their core annuity.
Although recent earnings are lower than expected, Hearing said SWIB looks at long-term investment trends to judge performance.
"We look at the 10-year average because we're long-term investors," she said. "The 7.1 (percent 10-year return) is very close to the 7.2 (percent assumed rate of return)."
The Department of Employee Trust Funds changed the assumed rate of return to 7.2 percent, from 7.8 percent, in March 2011. The fund's five-year return on investment is 2.1 percent.
Economists in the pension world say a public pension fund's assumed rate of return should reflect the guaranteed nature of pension benefits. That would require public pension operators to assume a rate more in line with a long-term U.S. Treasury bond, currently less than 3 percent.
Moody's Investor Services, the global credit rating agency, recently proposed valuing public pension funds like their private-sector counterparts, which would make the rate equal to that of a high grade corporate bond — currently 5.5 percent.
Using those more conservative rates of return, WRS is underfunded between $30 and $60 billion. It is nearly fully funded using looser pension accounting standards.
The Badger State's public pension system is viewed as a model of high-performance compared to many states with massive unfunded liabilities. Those states would look much worse if examined under market-value standards.


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- The Safest Driver in the State of California
The story of Nell A. Leavitt - by Woody LaBounty
- The Birth of Westwood Park, Part II
More on the creation of San Francisco's first residence park for the middle class. - by Woody LaBounty
- Bicycles West
The ways the bicycle madness of the 1890s reached the west side. - by Woody LaBounty
- Park-Presidio Improvement Association of San Francisco's Richmond District
A report on a twentieth-century neighborhood group. - by Woody LaBounty and Lorri Ungaretti
- Barney Farley, a Character Study
Boxing coach, roadhouse operator, saloon keeper, and Ingleside character for over fifty years. - by Woody LaBounty
- The Jets of Larsen Park
Remembering the Navy jets used as play structures in a park on 19th Avenue. - by Woody LaBounty
- Ocean Beach's Tornado House
How one Sunset District house got turned around in 1930. - by Woody LaBounty
- Aviation in the Ingleside
When land along Ocean Avenue acted as airstrips for early planes and flying machines. - by Woody LaBounty
- Chicken at the Sea
The history of two distinctive Great Highway buildings, both residences that were once restaurants. - by Woody LaBounty
- Mr. Hot Dog Rancho
Memories of a western-themed hot dog and hamburger joint on Geary Boulevard. - by Woody LaBounty
by Woody LaBounty
July 2005
In 2002, an old-timer bought me a beer in Fahey's bar and we got to talking about the older businesses along Taraval street. I asked how long he lived in the Parkside and he gave me a canny sideways squint.
"You grew up out here," he nodded, "otherwise you'd have called it the 'Sunset'. People forget that this is the Parkside."
The Parkside as a neighborhood started in July 1905 when a syndicate led by William Crocker announced they had quietly bought land from the estate of Adolph Sutro and others to create a new million-dollar development. The "park" of Parkside was not Golden Gate Park, but rather the stand of trees and plants around Laguna Puerca (now called Pine Lake, and often called "Mud Lake" by old-timers). The area's remoteness at the time is obvious in this quote from a San Francisco Chronicle article announcing the purchase:
"To most persons the land acquired by the Parkside Realty Company is a terra incognita. It is popularly supposed to consist in part or in whole of sand dunes, whereas as a matter of fact, it is composed of pasturage and wood..." 1
This was some optimistic marketing. Except for the eucalyptus and bunch grass, most of Parkside was sand dunes.
The first homes in the development were built in clumps of four, near today's Stern Grove: cute shingled cottages for "workingmen" that mostly survive today. 2 The first residents felt like pioneers in the wilderness:
"…those who had taken up homes in this beautiful section were compelled to walk to their places of abode from the street cars in utter darkness for there were no street lights to guide them, and scarcely any mark by which one street could be distinguished from another."
—H.H. Dobbin, Sr., 1910. 3
Like other neighborhoods south of Golden Gate Park and west of Twin Peaks, the Parkside is generally lumped into the Sunset District. But where "Sunset Heights," "Parkway Terrace," and "Oceanside" have almost completely faded away, the Parkside name still gets used, and many residents hasten to point out their autonomy from the Sunset.
The early residents of the Parkside—traditionally bounded by 15th Avenue on the east, 33rd Avenue on the west, Ortega on the north and Sloat Boulevard on the south—certainly had to fend for themselves. The Parkside of one hundred years ago was a land without streetlights or sidewalks, with more rabbits than human residents. It was a long walk in the dark across sand dunes to the streetcar line on Lincoln Way. Parksiders learned to band together and speak loudly to get changes.
In the first half-century of Parkside, residents formed the Parkside District Improvement Club and lobbied successfully for new streetcar and sewer lines, fire stations, parks, libraries, and schools. They held festivals, dinners, costume balls, and children's fairs to celebrate their community, and built one of San Francisco's strongest and most admired neighborhoods out of what was formerly an expanse of dune and scrub.
Fahey's bar turned into the "Dragon Lounge" on April 1, 2004, (some old-timers may have thought it was an April Fool's joke). The demographics of the population and the character of the neighborhood businesses keep changing but the priorities of Parkside residents—attractive homes, excellent schools, good public transportation and great parks—haven't changed in a century.
Parkside Articles
- 1201 Vicente street
1201 Vicente Street, former Pinelake Market
- 1945 Planning Bulletin
PDF of a San Francisco Planning Department bulletin, April 1945 (3.5 mb). Mentions Sunset and Parkside districts. - San Francisco Planning Department
- 20th & Taraval street
20th Avenue and Taraval Street - Then and Now
- 22nd & Taraval Market
22nd & Taraval Market
- 555 Taraval Street
The Former 16th Avenue Foods
- Abraham Lincoln High School
Built in 1940 as the high school serving the Sunset and Parkside districts. - by Lorri Ungaretti
- An Ode to Parkside
Mrs. F.W. Alsing waxes poetic in 1911.
- Banking in the Parkside
Amusing memories of working at a Parkside District branch bank in the late 1960s. - by Stephen E. Jordan
- Carl Larsen: The Gentle Dane
Sunset District pioneer and benefactor. - by Lorri Ungaretti
- Edgewood Center
Formerly the San Francisco Protestant Orphanage - by Woody LaBounty
- L-Taraval Extension, September 15, 1937
70 years ago the Parkside celebrated public transporation to the zoo.
- Mary Ada and Charles Williams
A wife preserves a husband's love of the Parkside district.
- Memories: George R. Stanton
Early twentieth century stories of Parkside sand dunes and rabbit hunts. - by George R. Stanton
- Musical Culture in the 1930s
Advertisements for 1930s music teachers.
- Ocean Beach Archaeology
Beneath the sands of Ocean Beach near the end of Taraval lie remnants of former civilzation - SF West history Minute
- Parkside Branch Library
Architects Appleton and Wolfard designed eight modern libraries in the 1950s and '60s for the San Francisco Public Library. - by Richard Brandi
- Parkside District Improvement Club Scrapbooks
WNP saves 25 years of Parkside History
- Parkside District Photos
Historical Photos of the Parkside
- Parkside Memories: Oh, those windows!
Before television, the front window provided news and entertainment. - by Mimi Couper Loupe
- Parkside Primary School
Parkside's first school, dedicated September 1909.
- Parkside School
History of the (now demolished) John Reid-designed school - by Roy H. Jarl
- Parkside School May Day, 1938
Remembering the Parkside School May King and Queen. - by Mimi Couper Loupe
- Parkside Theatre
Movie theater that operated at Taraval Street near 19th Avenue from 1928-1988.
- Pine Lake's Many Names
An SF West History Minute on the different names for Pine Lake. - SF West History Minute
- Remembering the 1957 Earthquake
Former St. Cecilia's student remember San Francisco's 1957 earthquake. - Compiled by Jo Anne Quinn
- San Francisco's Parkside District 1905-1957
A 60-page illustrated document on Parkside history, architecture, and development. - by Richard Brandi and Woody LaBounty
- St. Cecilia's Parish
History and memories of St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in the Parkside District. - by Jo Anne Quinn
- Streetwise - A Chip Off the Old Block
One block of 18th Avenue in the Parkside makes for decades-long connections. - by Frank Dunnigan
- Streetwise - Good Neighbor Sam
Remembering Parkside Pharmacy and the good man who ran it. - By Frank Dunnigan
- Streetwise - Sweet Memories
Remembering the tastes and aromas of a well-loved Taraval Street bakery. - By Frank Dunnigan
- Streetwise - The Taraval Trail
A walk down Taraval Street and Memory Lane - by Frank Dunnigan
- Streetwise: Parkside and the Graft Trials
Downtown politics helped build the Parkside - by Woody LaBounty
- Streetwise: When I'm 64
Returning to St. Cecilia School for 50th eighth grade class reunion. - by Frank Dunnigan
- The 1930s and Our Little Town Called Parkside
Parkside District memories from 1939-1941 - by Mimi Couper Loupe
- The Jets of Larsen Park
Remembering the Navy jets used as play structures in a park on 19th Avenue. - by Woody LaBounty
- The Parkside and the Characters from Long Ago
Remembering three interesting men from the Parkside District of the 1930s and 1940s. - by Mimi Couper Loupe
- The Sunset Developers
Gellerts, Doelgers, and the Stoneson Brothers turned sand dunes into housing. - By Ken Zinns
- WNP Open House
People come from all over to meet in the Westen Neighborhoods - SF West History Minute
1. "New Residence Sites for South of Park", San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 1905, pg. 16, col. 1.
2. "Parkside has Made Good", San Francisco Bulletin, June 6, 1908, pg. 11, col. 1.
3. H.H. Dobbin, Sr., "Parkside Improvement Club", Sunset Journal, January 28, 1910. This article clipping can be viewed in Parkside District Improvement Club scrapbooks, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.


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The big event was our launch of the Future of Capitalism series. It has got off to a cracking start, underlined by strong web traffic.
Martin Wolf's introductory analysis piece on day one was a brilliant tour de force and we also had the perfect day one front page story – an exclusive Ed Luce and Chrystia Freeland interview with Larry Summers in which he stirred up a transatlantic hornet's nest by calling for a greater co-ordinated global stimulus.
The analysis pages throughout the week were of a very high standard and thought-provoking, so a big thanks to Gillian Tett and Krishna Guha, Chrystia Freeland and John Thornhill, Francesco Guerrera and Richard Milne – and to everyone who contributed ideas/profiles to the "50 most influential people" page. The expanded online, interactive version of the 50 influentials, by Steve Bernard and Jeremy Lemer, was a smart piece of work.
On the opinion page we had a stellar cast of guest writers, attracting a lot of online comments.
For his analysis piece, Francesco Guerrera secured an interview with Jack Welch. Mr Welch, the godfather of shareholder value, told Francesco it was "dumb" for corporate leaders to pay so much attention to quarterly results. The statement marked the end of an era.
Other outstanding scoops included: Peggy Hollinger on Paris trying to open Areva's share capital to Middle East investment funds; an interview with Peter Mandelson in which he expressed admiration for French industrial policy; Brian Groom's front page CBI warning that the G20 summit was in danger of focussing on red herrings; some other strong G20 interviews (Mure Dickie with the Japanese finance minister, Ralph Atkins and Ben Hall with Christian Noyer, Richard Lapper with Trevor Manuel) and a great online graphic on participating countries wishlists by Steve Bernard, Helen Warrell, Cynthia O'Murchu and Shyamantha Asokan.
Jenn Hughes revealed the long hand of US audit liability rules; Salamander Davoudi and Kate Burgess ITV taking rights issue soundings and Martin Arnold and Adrian Cox revealed the private equity house emerging from the Lehman wreckage.
Henny Sender and Javier Blas remained on our most-clicked list for days with their piece on how hedge funds that bet against big banks are now betting against central banks by buying gold. Greg Farrell delivered another scoop about Merrill Lynch on possible trading book markdowns and Deborah Brewster wrote a good story on companies suspending their contributions to defined contribution pension plans.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson charted the spread of the recession to Sesame Street with a story that was among our most popular online. And in an online video scoop star fund manager Anthony Bolton told FTfm's Pauline Skypala that this really was the bottom of the market. Well, maybe- according to Mike Mackenzie's good Saturday equity rally round-up and Neil Hume's London column.
George Parker revealed that the foreign office had divided G20 nations into first and second divisions, Andrea Felsted revealed why the FSA is looking at Resolution and Shari Daneshkhu had a good, early interview with the new boss of Carrefour. Jonathan Guthrie's front pager on the disappearing Midlands ruby was a bizarre tale beautifully reported.
We also had some fine coverage of the continuing bank crisis: George Parker and Peter Thal Larsen had a strong UK front page story on the government and Barclays tussling over use of toxic waste insurance, and the same team produced details of the Lloyds rescue. Jo Chung and Brooke Masters provided strong curtain raising and on-the-day coverage of Madoff's plea bargain, with a nice colour piece by John Gapper.
Jean Eaglesham provided a very good checklist of just what Tory policy is – or isn't – while Ed Crooks explained the risk of a gas glut. Chris Giles and David Oakley gave strong coverage through the week of quantitative easing and its impact on the gilts markets. Brooke Masters, Anousha Sakoui and Kate Burgess explained the novel ways UK companies are using to raise money – useful, micro recession reporting - while Tom Burgis reported colourfully on how hard times are hitting the Botswana diamond mining industry.
Geoff Dyer was prolific and insightful from China. He produced excellent coverage of the economic slowdown, including a sharper-than-expected drop in exports and Wen Jiabao's warning to Washington to keep its US Treasuries safe through responsible fiscal behaviour. He also travelled to Tibetan areas of China for the 50th anniversary of Tibet's uprising, making a virtue of the fact he could not get access by writing a colourful and cogent analysis of how Beijing had blocked all roads to the region. He rounded off the week with a thoughtful Dalai Lama profile.
Alan Beattie wrote a wonderfully fluent and readable Saturday analysis piece on the US-European divide ahead of the G20. Nick Timmins explained the reinvention of the British teaching hospital. Peter Garnham did very well on the Swiss franc devaluation story.
Vanessa Friedman gave us stylish coverage of Paris fashion week, both in the paper and online, while Greg Farrell and Henny Sender provided a forensic account of the fall of John Thain at Merrill Lynch, John Lloyd wrote magisterially on Northern Ireland, David Pilling had an interesting lunch with writer David Peace and Robin Lane Fox wrote beautifully on Yves Saint Laurent's Moroccan garden.


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Today marks the official beginning of summer for most Ohio State students, while championship season continues for many of Ohio State's spring sports teams. This week we have updates on the lacrosse teams, which just concluded their regular seasons, the softball team, which nearly doubled its conference wins this week, and the men's tennis team, which gears up for an NCAA Tournament run.
Both lacrosse teams wrapped up regular season play with tough losses to top-25 opponents. The men fell at No. 14 Fairfield 7-5 and the women dropped an 8-7 decision to No. 22 Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
In men's action, goalie Scott Spencer was again strong with nine saves. Jesse King, Chris Mahoney, Ryan Hunter and John Kellyall scored goals in the loss. Next up for the men is the ECAC tournament in Columbus this weekend. The Buckeyes are the No. 2 seed in the tournament and will face Air Force on Thursday. If the Buckeyes advance to Saturday's final, they will take on the winner of Fairfield and Michigan. The winner of the tournament will earn an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.
Sophomore Cian Dabrowski carried the offensive load with three goals and an assist, her fifth hat trick of the season. Jennifer Porretto chipped in with a pair of goals and an assist, while Cara Facchina had a goal and an assist. Tori DeScenza was again excellent in net with 12 saves. The Lady Buckeyes now gear up for the ALC tournament, where they are the No. 2 seed and will face seventh-seeded Michigan in the first round.
The softball team had an excellent week, going 5-0 in sweeps of Penn State and No. 25 Northwestern. Coming into the week, the Lady Buckeyes were 6-9 in Big Ten play: they now sit at 11-9 and sixth in the conference.
Against Penn State the story was pitching. Starting pitchers Shelby Hursh and Olivia O'Reilly each held Penn State to one run in a pair of 3-1 victories. O'Reilly continued the strong effort against Northwestern, leading the Buckeyes to knock off the Wildcats 3-1 last Friday. Cammi Prantl's two-run homer turned out to be the eventual game-winner.
In the final two games of the series Ohio State's bats came to life. In game one, the Buckeyes rallied from a 7-6 deficit in the bottom of the sixth inning with a two-run double by Prantl before O'Reilly recorded a save in the seventh for the 8-7 win.
In the series finale, a pair of seniors carried the Bucks in their last home game. Leesa Graham and Evelyn Carrillo combined for five hits and five RBI in the 7-4 victory. Shelby Hursh earned the victory on the mound.
Next up for Ohio State is a three-game series at Iowa to close out the regular season this weekend, before traveling to Chicago for the B1G Tournament next Thursday.
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The men's tennis team captured their eighth Big Ten Tournament Championship in nine years this past weekend, defeating Michigan State (4-2), Northwestern (4-0) and Illinois (4-2) en route to victory.
The Buckeyes were announced as the No. 3 overall seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament, so they will serve as hosts for first and second round games. Ohio State opens up with Bryant on May 9 and would face the winner of Wake Forest and Louisville on May 10 in the second round. The winner of the Columbus regional will move on to Athens, Georgia for the NCAA Championships that will take place May 15-20.
Is this the year the Buckeyes finally capture the NCAA Outdoor Championship? It remains to be seen, but they figure to have as good of a chance as anyone.


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Congratulations are in order for Australian Olympic gold medalist Cathy Freeman and husband James Murch!
The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Ruby Anne Susie Murch on Friday (July 8), Herald Sun reports.
"Catherine, baby Ruby and beaming father, James, are all doing very well," her rep stated. "Catherine and James are grateful to their parents and many friends who have been providing tremendous support throughout the pregnancy journey. The proud parents are looking forward to returning home and enjoying the exciting first stages of parenthood."
Cathy became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.


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How to Use Stock Photography Successfully
Using stock photography can greatly improve your website or project, but if used improperly, stock images can ruin the message you're trying to convey. There is a fine balance in using stock photography, and it's important to know the potential pitfalls you can stumble into.
When to Use Stock Photography
Using professional and unique photographs, like the one above, can instantly make your website look credible, and stock images are a way to achieve this look without breaking the bank. Don't sacrifice quality if you can't afford to hire a professional photographer; using poor photos will instantly deter potential viewers form your website.
Stock images can be purchased at a fraction of the cost of professionally commissioned photos; Shutterstock has various pricing models, but one of the most popular is 25 image downloads per day for a 3 month period for $709. If you only need a couple of images, you can purchase five photos for $49. Paying $49 for five professional photos is definitely worth the return if it means attracting more respectable viewers.
Potential Pitfalls
We've all seen terribly used stock images before, and it's important to know what to avoid, so your website doesn't end up looking cliché and poorly designed.
Avoid cliché and overused images
Unfortunately, there are loads of overused stock photos, and your website can instantly look corny and impersonal if you use these images. Below are three of the most commonly used images you need to avoid:
The Handshake
The common handshake image is usually used to communicate teamwork and cooperation, which is a great value to represent on your website; however, using such a cliché image will only make your website look stale and impersonal.
If you're interested in communicating the teamwork you value in your business, consider using a less conventional image, like the one below.
The On-Call Businessperson
This image appears on countless websites and advertisements, but it's very easy to tell the photo is stock. The image is overly posed, and very generic looking, but is meant to communicate friendly service.
If you want to show your website viewers that you have friendly service, try going for a more creative route, like the photo below.
The Seedling
This stock photo is all over the internet, and is used to represent growth and success, but unless you're specifically discussing the growth of a tree, you should not use this image.
If you want to show your website viewers that you're interested in personal development and growth, try using an image that shows a more of a creative aspect. The image below combines a human figure with a tree, which is a more unique spin on the seedling image.
Irrelevant Images
One of the greatest stock photo pitfalls people fall into is using irrelevant images. Of course adding images to your website is the best way to add visual appeal and visual interest, but using irrelevant images will look like you did a sloppy job putting your site together. Images will only help your website if they are relevant and high quality. You always want your photos to represent your business, values, and goals as closely as possible.
Stock photography can be a huge help to small businesses or new website creators, as it can add visual interest without a high cost, but it's important to tread carefully when using stock images. Don't overly use stock images, and think carefully about what you want each image to communicate.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt has so much to offer
Jennifer Love Hewitt and her fiancé Ross McCall were spotted heading to Morton's Steak House in Burbank for a Christmas party. So much attention has been paid to Jennifer's increased weight lately that we've lost sight of what really matters: Her huge breasts. I'm not even going to talk about the barely passable job her dress does of masking her expanding hips. Instead I'm going to think happy thoughts and stare into Jennifer Love Hewitt's ample bosom. Someone should put that in a Hallmark card and send it to shut-in's. You know, to help them capture that warm Christmas spirit.
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U.S. Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the "fiscal cliff" facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach agreement on a comprehensive deficit reduction deal rather than a short-term solution.
In one possible plan being floated by lawmakers and aides, senators would come to an agreement on a deficit reduction target — likely to be approx. $4 trillion over 10 years — to be reached through revenue raised by an overhaul of the tax code, savings from changes to social programs like Medicare and Social Security, and cuts to federal programs. Once the framework is approved, lawmakers would vote on expedited instructions to relevant congressional committees to draft the details over six months to a year.
If those efforts fail, another plan would take effect, which could be something similar to last year's Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission's plan. The recommendations included changes to Social Security, broad cuts in federal programs, and actions that would lower tax rates overall but eliminate or pare enough deductions and credits to yield as much as $2 trillion in additional revenue.
Finally, they would vote to put off the automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, and tax increases scheduled to hit all at once in January — but with some deficit reduction down-payment to signal how serious Congress is.
Outside groups are weighing in with solutions to, and predictions of, sequestrations effects. The watchdog group Tax Payers for Common Sense says that the government could cut programs identified as "inefficient, ineffective, or wasteful" and save more than $2 trillion. Meanwhile, a report from the Urban Institute and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center released Oct. 1 says that taxes on the average household would increase nearly $3,500 if the sequester was allowed to occur.
With both political parties awaiting the outcome of the election, negotiators will not even try to determine how much money would come from the three components until after the voting when, presumably, the victorious side would emerge with new leverage.
After so many false starts, even those involved in the talks are reluctant to express much optimism.
Senate minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and other Republicans said only the president could make a deal happen.
"I encourage all these discussions," he said. "They're all good. But we need the president, whoever that is, to not be a bystander like this president, to step up to the plate, and do three things: make the deal, deliver the members of his party, and sign the bill."


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No. 32: Barbara Mandrell, 'I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool' – Top 100 Country Songs
Barbara Mandrell scored her fourth No. 1 country single in 1981 with 'I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool' — often referred to as her signature song. No. 32 on our Top 100 Country Songs countdown helped the singer earn her second-consecutive CMA Entertainer of the Year trophy that the same year, a first for a female country vocalist.
This song was the first release from Mandrell's album 'Barbara Mandrell Live,' although the track was recorded in the studio with audience applause digitally added. Country legend George Jones was a featured vocalist on the song, but wasn't officially credited. Mandrell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
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United Breaks Heads...and Guitars; Three Lessons about News Judgment
Anybody who has been close to a news story knows that "news judgments" are often wrong. Making news judgments more explicit might be a step toward making them better. The April 9th incident Dr. David Dao being dragged off a full United flight holds key lessons about news judgment.
Conclusion First: Bottom Line Up-Front
Current norms of journalism leave news consumers guessing whether outright omissions and varying weightings of facts are deliberate and motivated by reason, deliberate and motivated by an interest in spin, or not deliberate and simply reflecting ignorance. This problem is especially evident when big stories like "United Breaks Heads" are breaking. Consumers could be better served by journalism that tells them the reporter's conclusion up-front followed by supporting details and links to the depth of the journalist's background work.
Lesson One:
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Coding "IRL" (In Real Life); Democratic Design for Civic Tech and Civic Media
"People in civic tech didn't go through the hurdles of face-to-face civic life…We need to think about design," said Tiago Carneiro Peixoto, Team Lead, World Bank's Digital Engagement Unit, during a recent panel discussion entitled The Ethics of Democracy Entrepreneurship. The event was hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard.
Serious Thinking about Democratic Design
Peixoto wasn't talking about design details – he was talking about fundamental institutional design in its full political-economic context. The term democratic design crystalized the topic of the panel. Such thinking represents important progress in the development of civic tech and civic media.Read more
Is Persuasion Science Getting Dangerously Ahead of Political Science?
Sad fact: the wrong politics can get you killed in many places in the world. Sam Ford, Vice President at Univison's Fusion Media Group and Head of the Group's Center for Innovation and Engagement mentioned at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology presentation recently that he was surprised to find that so many of the reporters at Univision and Fusion had been personally threatened with guns. Ford seemed confident that the unabashedly political agenda of his company will produce good outcomes but I left the presentation wondering whether academic media studies are looking at the political applications of their work through too rosy a lens.
"Innovation" and "Engagement": Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice was the title of the colloquium held under the auspices of the Comparative Media Studies|Writing program at MIT of which Ford is an alum (link to podcast). Univision's Fusion Media Group (not the Saudi mall branding company with the same name) is a portfolio of media companies which includes Fusion, Univision Digital, Univision Music, The Root, Flama, The Onion, A.V. Club, Clickhole, Starwipe, El Rey and as of August 2016, what is left of Gawker Media.Read more
Blank Lives Matter! D'you Got a Problem with That?
Are you willing to test yourself? Before you read any further, perform the following thought experiment: Relax. Take a deep breath. Now gently and slowly, in your mind, substitute a series of ethnic groups for the "blank" in "Blank Lives Matter." For example, "Irish Lives Matter, Italian Lives Matter, Puerto Rican Lives Matter, Mexican Lives Matter, African-American Lives Matter," etc.
Feel your emotional response to your words representing each ethnic group as you do this. If you are like me, you experience at least a slight variation with each substitution. Don't judge or explain – just observe.
Now try religions and denominations, "Christian Lives Matter, Catholic Lives Matter, Jewish Lives Matter, Hindu Lives Matter, Muslim Lives Matter," etc." Try sexual orientation, "Gay Lives Matter, Straight Lives Matter, Lesbian Lives Matter," etc. Try colors and shades, "White Lives Matter, Red Lives Matter, Yellow Lives Matter, Light Lives Matter, Dark Lives Matter," etc. You can try it with any categorical series that might relate to having a life.Read more
Why We Need "NOVpartisan" Instead of "Nonpartisan" Civic Media
The truth is not getting play in our media according to New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg. An increasingly partisan press is the culprit, he charges in an Independence Day column. Dangerous political outcomes are afoot. But do we really think conventional "nonpartisan" journalism can shift the balance toward truth?
If truth is losing out to falsehood we need stronger stuff on the side of truth. That is why I assert we need "novpartisan" journalism produced on a new kind of media platform. The need is urgent. Some of the same technologies that make a new platform possible can be deployed to promote falsehood.
I coin the term novpartisan to signify a novel, alternative way of producing civic content but also novel way of being part of a party. Novpartisan is "partisan" not by blindly adhering to an external party, faction, cause, or person. Novpartisan is partisan in the sense that it develops and cultivates common interests in civic action among its participating audience members. The audience itself becomes a party or a better informed faction of a larger party.Read more
Peter Thiel is Wasting His "Washingtons"
So…I am not saying that Hulk Hogan didn't have a case against Gawker but there are much better uses of the 10 million "Washingtons" Peter Thiel invested to punish Gawker. More generally, Thiel and other Tech Billionaires are getting poor returns on the millions they are putting into philanthropic, social, and political investments because they are nibbling around the edges of the biggest problem.
The biggest problem is that it sucks to be an active citizen. You can focus in one area for a lifetime and with a little luck and talent make a real difference but meanwhile twenty other things you really care about are going to hell. Reliable civic information is incredibly hard to come by, organizing is the task of Sisyphus, and meanwhile you've got a life to lead, family, a job, and many other things to do in your waking hours besides go to fruitless meetings.
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The Use of Technology for the Public Good
A little blue birdie told me about a very worthwhile post by Matt Stempeck, Director of Civic Technology on Microsofts' Technology and Civic Engagement Team. The post, Towards a Taxonomy of Civic Technology attempts to define the field, categorize its functions, discuss ways participants in the field may work together, and finally looks at ways to view the true meaning of the field. He invites thoughts, reactions and contributions, which I offer below with deep appreciation.
Civic Tech is Taking Off
"The field of civic technology is poised to take off," Stempeck writes. He sees a convergence of trends bringing the field to "an inflection point." He and and his collaborators Micah Sifry, co-founder the long-running Personal Democracy Forum conference and Civic Hall, and Erin Simpson, Program Director of Civic Hall Labs, organized the taxonomy to attract more participation to the field move resources in productive directions and crucially, to understand impacts. He published the post on the day of their joint presentation at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference.
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Three Quick Lessons from the Facebook Trending Flap
While you've been taking a short breather from all-Trump-all-the-Time, Facebook's trending bias has become "news." Apparently Facebook's contract workers responsible for "curating" (a word I've always thought sounded more appropriate for meat preservation) the Facebook trending feature have been accused of deliberately or unconsciously favoring "liberal" over "conservative" content. Senator Thune of South Dakota has called for an investigation. You can take three lessons from the flap. The third, about the freedom of the press, is most vital.Read more
The Future of Civic Tech is in…(Guesswhat)…Civics
If Civic Tech excites you, you would have loved the recent Roundtable on the Future of Technology and Democracy. The Roundtable took place at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
The Roundtable was an indication that Civic Tech is becoming more citizen-centric and less tech-centric. Civic means "relating to citizenship or being a citizen." The dictionary definition of civics is "the study of the rights and duties of citizens and of how government works."
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Why Are We Listening to Political "Flat Earthers?"
One-dimensional left-right views of politics are no more accurate or useful to navigation than a map of the flat earth surrounded by angels. The main purpose of common political labels is to claim "us vs. them" which is why simple labels are so often used.
Today, we use Einstein's multi-dimensional physics to derive physical position in GPS systems but persist in the one-dimensional political classifications arising from the habitual seating choices of members of the French National Assembly of 1789. Even then, observers noted a second dimension, front and back which denoted a degree of engagement with prevailing views on either side.Read more
You Do Believe In Democracy, Don't You?
Acquiescence to the candidacy of Donald Trump in the name of "democracy" is sloppy thinking.
Simplistic and unrealistic beliefs in democracy can get people killed. Bad things can happen when well-meaning people misapply good ideas. Ross Douthat says, in a recent op-ed in the New York Times that Americans, including our "officially neutral press…speak and think in the language of Democracy without appreciating the deeper wisdom of the American system."
"You do believe in democracy, don't you?" was a question Paul Wolfowitz, then US Deputy Secretary of Defense, posed to Paul Bremer, before he became head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq according to Neil Swidey's recent Boston Globe profile of Bremer. Bremer later concluded that Wolfowitz wanted to be sure Bremer was not "infected" by the State Department's "defeatist" thinking that democracy is not possible in the Middle East. Wolfowitz's slack triumphalism turned out to be more dangerous.Read more
People are (Political) Party Animals
Political parties are in constant flux because people are political-economic beasts, seemingly genetically encoded to seek advantageous allies in their "pursuit of happiness." The combinations are endless. Our powers of social intuition seem highly evolved toward political-economic ends. Our brains may have evolved to handle the constantly changing possibilities of social cooperation.
The equilibrium of political-economics is momentary, like that of prices within economics. Our economic tendencies toward cycles of boom and bust, are mirrored by our political tendencies, with often more deeply disastrous results in the political realm since destructive force is a factor in political economics.Read more
Your Ground Game: Leadership Lessons from an "Epic Fail"
The recent "epic fail" of the Boston Globe's ground game holds valuable leadership lessons. Apparently, nobody at the Globe verified the readiness of the replacement distribution vendor ACI Media Group before ditching the old vendor, Publishers Circulation Fulfillment on December 27.
ACI did not have enough drivers and did not have efficient delivery routes mapped out. The route problem discouraged drivers, paid by the piece. When the drivers found the routes didn't pay much, some quit, deepening the crisis. Despite the efforts of Globe employees, who rallied to help deliver papers, many readers did not get papers or got them late. Finally, the Globe rehired Publishers Circulation Fulfillment for distribution in about half the territory. PCF, which also delivers The Boston Herald, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other papers in the area, will restart with the Globe January 11 and is undoubtedly scrambling to unscramble the mess in their own operation, caused by loss of drivers and reconfiguration of routes that came with the Globe's departure.
The Globe's owner, billionaire owner John Henry, issued an apology to readers, January 6. Henry appears to be disciplined, systematic manager. He made his money in formulaic commodity trading. He adopted Bill James' "Moneyball" tactics to help improve the performance of the Boston Red Sox, one of several sports teams which he owns or has interests in. He is probably studying what he can learn from this fiasco.
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How to Beat Moral Fanaticism: Fight from Higher Ground
David Brooks sounded the alarm, in a NYT editorial about The Age of Small Terror yesterday. He writes about the creeping specter of "small terror" nibbling away at the classical, enlightenment liberal foundations of our civilization. But he does not rally us to our most powerful belief.
Brooks calls for an "intellectual counter attack." He cautions that, "This can't be done by repeating bromides about free choice and the natural harmony among peoples."
"You can't beat moral fanaticism with weak tea moral relativism," he insists, "You can only beat it with commitment pluralism." Committed involvement in multiple civic groups and a variety of personal pursuits, results, according to Brooks, in a balancing and moderating effect.Read more
Why We Need to Watch Our Words
Words have consequences. Words are important because they influence beliefs. Beliefs are a primary force in political economics. Beliefs influence action. People act according to their understanding of what has been; what should have been; what is; what can be; and what should be; and why in each instance.
People act according to their interests; not in the narrow sense of economic interest and certainly not in the even narrower sense of rationally determined economic interest but in the broad sense of what they are interested in, consciously and unconsciously.Read more
Homeland Hack
A great little "Homeland Hack" made the NYT this morning. Arabic readers watching an episode of Showtime's "Homeland," might have been able to discern criticism of the show in the graffiti decorating a set that was supposed to look like a Syrian refugee camp. "Homeland is a joke, and it didn't make us laugh," "Homeland is NOT a series," "Homeland is racist" and "#blacklivesmatter" were among the spray painted slogans behind the actors.Read more
Simple Steps to Diversify Your Support
If you want broad social change, you have to gain broad support. At the "New England Bike-Walk Summit" I attended recently, Karen Jenkins, board chair of the League of American Bicyclists, offered advice to bike advocates about how to attract support from people not like themselves. The audience, as far as I could see, was entirely Caucasian. Ms. Jenkins, a person of color who likes to bike, has long been active in bicycle clubs and bicycle advocacy.
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Why Media Can't Keep The Wolff From Their Door
Cheap advertising is really what is killing old-model media businesses not "free content on the Internet" as so many claim. Media maven Michael Wolff understands that the best way to track the industry is to follow the money.
"Advertising Is Dead, It's Not Coming Back..." was the subject line in an email from Linked -in Pulse that pulled me into the Wolff pack. "Ya and pigs fly," I thought as I (predictably) took the bait. What I found was Wolff's more innocuously titled but powerful article: The End of Advertising As We Know It.
Wolff been everywhere recently, feeding click bait and sound bites to hungry reporters and commentators. He has made himselfRead more
News Start-ups Flaming Out; The Business of Moving Minds
"1 of 4 news start-ups flamed out" was the subject line of one my three daily emails from Bo Sacks, which turned out to be a Newsosaur blog by Alan Mutter. Mutter found that one of every four of the 141 news ventures listed in an online directory published by the Columbia Journalism Review since 2010 appear to have failed. He searched for every site listed in the CJR list and counted the number that either were defunct or had not posted any new content since 2014.
The failure count looks low, given the utter naïveté of many of these enterprises. Even the ones that are touted as "successful" such as the Texas Tribune look like a very modest factor or passing stage in the evolution of civic media, although they offer important lessons.Read more
Who Is a Scientist?
"I am not a scientist." is the inane refrain of politicians who want to dodge evidence of human influence on global warming. But how do we tell who is a scientist? Those who claim to be scientists and get their papers published in Science aren't necessarily any more scientific than our pandering politicians, as the case of Micheal LaCour and his published research on gay marriage opinion seems to indicate. The case became a national story when the New York Times put it on the front page and stirred up a discussion about the making a splash in academia, also reported as front page news by the NYT.Read more


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Hola, SE'rs! You're by no doubt familiar with the Culinary Ambassadors posts on Serious Eats. Those posts introduce the cuisines and food cultures of the world to the SE community.
Well, we've had a number of U.S.-based SE'rs inquire about getting in on the action. So now we're starting the "State Reps" ... or maybe the "City Councilors" program (honestly, we're not sure what to call it yet).
Anyway, if you're interested in representing your city, region, or state for this upcoming series of posts, let us know.
What kind of topics will we be asked to cover, you ask? Good question. Right now, we're thinking along the lines of ...
- Favorite locals-only restaurant
- Best doughnuts
- Great farmers' market(s)
- Local food festivals
- Favorite local grocery store
- Best area kitchenware stores
- Etc., etc., etc.
Like Culinary Ambassadors, posts will cover a given topic and would be pretty short. We're not looking for novel-length treatises, just novel new places for treats.


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When you think about it, the symbolism of the Irish Claddagh ring- Love, Loyalty and Friendship- is pretty perfect for a bed, wouldn't you say?
Chocolate/Red or Gray/Purple are your choices, lovebirds.
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United States radio giant Clear Channel Communications said today it was dumping nationally syndicated shock jock Howard Stern from its stations under a new "zero tolerance" policy on indecency.
In dropping Stern from its six radio outlets that carry his show, Clear Channel cited his interview yesterday with Rick Salomon, the man filmed having sex with hotel heiress and television reality star Paris Hilton in a video distributed on Internet porn sites.
According to a transcript of the show released by Texas-based Clear Channel, Stern asked Salomon if he engaged in anal sex and referred to the size of his penis. Using a racist term, a caller to the show asked Solomon if he had ever had sex with any famous black women.
The action against Stern came a day after Clear Channel fired Florida radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge, after federal regulators accused him of airing sexually graphic material on Tampa's WXTB-FM and three other Florida stations.
Stern's New York-based show is syndicated by Infinity Broadcasting, a unit of Viacom, which also owns television networks CBS and MTV.
A spokesman for Infinity was not available for comment and a Viacom spokesman declined comment.
Neither Stern's agent nor producers of his show were available for comment.
Viacom president Mel Karmazin reportedly has imposed a crackdown on sexually explicit material on Infinity stations, declaring in a recent company-wide conference call: "This company won't be a poster child for indecency."
The action against Stern came after Clear Channel announced what chief operating officer Mark Mays called a "zero tolerance" policy on material deemed in violation of federal decency standards for broadcasting.
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Media begins noticing 'Project Gunwalker'
David Codrea
Despite balking by some reporters that they are still unwilling to report on "Project Gunwalker" allegations based solely on what has been disclosed to date both at Gun Rights Examiner and Sipsey Street Irregulars, including the corroborating letters from Senator Chuck Grassley to BATFE Acting Director Melson, some media outlets are sharing that development with their readership.
Here is what I have been able to locate so far:
From Politico: Grassley warns ATF on whistleblowers
From The Arizona Republic: Phoenix-area gun store, ATF sting may be linked to border shootout
From The Associated Press: Senator examines gun claim in border shootout
The same AP source is also appearing at:
The Los Angeles Times
CBS News
Actually, it's now gone viral.
A common thread? No acknowledgment that this story has been reported in increments for almost a month here and at Sipsey Street Irregulars, and no mention of the original allegations at CleanUpATF.org. Forget who it was who got the whistleblowers to Sen. Grassley in the first place and who has been screaming for any media outlet to notice. Ah, well. We're mere "bloggers," not "Authorized Journalists," and it's not about us anyway.
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Kelly Sparks is the undisputed gadget champ at Danville School. Then Albert Einstein Jones, an alumnus of Young Inventor's Camp, joins her class. Kelly could give up the gadget crown gracefully -but she'd much rather let the spitballs and smelly goo fly!
Kelly Sparks is the gadget whiz of her third-grade class--and already has 43 inventions under her belt to prove it. Then Albert Einstein Jones walks into Kelly's class. Albert's determined to prove who the real gadget whiz is. It's sure to be a mastermind fight to the finish.
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Curtis HS Youth Spread The Love
For Self Harm Awareness month in March, student health ambassadors at Curtis High School, a Children's Aid Society community school in Staten Island, organized a "Self-Love Day." Student volunteers handed out surveys that youth completed anonymously and led activities like "Fears vs Dreams" from the "To Write Love on Her Arms" movement. Students wrote their biggest fears on bricks and greatest dreams on footprints. The bricks will make a path in the Health Center with the dream footprints stepping over the fears and along the path. A makeshift photo booth was set up for students to take "Love Thy Selfies", complete with positive body image quotes for them to hold up. Because these issues are so prevalent amongst adolescents, students wrote "LOVE" on their arms with sharpies to support those who are struggling with depression, self harm and thoughts of suicide.
After school in the library, students watched the movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." The movie depicts the story of a 15 year old struggling with a friend's suicide and his own mental health issues all the while trying to find his place in high school.
All throughout the day, ambassadors and staff connected these issues to resources offered right inside the school at the school based health center. Out of 188 surveys collected, 49 students admitted to self-harming. Information like this will be essential to the Mental Health staff at Curtis High School in their efforts in creating a health center that students feel comforatble going to for help.


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Patti L. Davies, age 49, of Joplin, MO, died Thursday, February 19, 2009 at her home. She was born December 17, 1959 to Marion Davies and the late Louise Davies. She graduated from Galena High School in 1977. Since graduating she has lived in Kansas City, Joplin and Galena. She is survived by her father, Marion Davies, of Webb City, MO; her brother, Mike Davies and his son Gage Davies (whom she dearly loved); her uncle Gene Davies and his wife Cindy, of Caldwell, KS; her aunt, Imogene Mishler, of Riverton, KS; and her childhood friend of many years, Roxanne Smith, of rural Galena. Graveside memorial services will be held Friday, February 27, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. at Osborne Memorial Cemetery, Joplin. Pastor Randy Baldridge will officiate. In lieu of flowers, the family request that memorial contributions be made to Sixth Street Baptist Church, Galena, KS.


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The Newman government needs to urgently review the way ministerial and family appointments are made to Queensland government jobs, one of the state's leading political ethicists believes.
Professor Charles Sampford also warned that ministerial staff handling Right to Information inquiries was simply wrong and a bad political mistake.
It comes as political voting expert Clive Bean warned voters would be "concerned, but not alarmed" by the Liberal National Party's actions in State Parliament this week.
Professor Sampford, director of the Institute of Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith University, said the incoming Hawke and Howard governments publicly advertised ministerial staff positions before vetting candidates and finally appointed staff.
"I think generally Queensland, not just the new government, should look at its processes," Professor Sampford said.
"There are a lot of issues about ministerial staffers and it is really worthwhile thinking through them."
Professor Sampford said the biggest problem with the increase in the number of ministerial staff was their "accountability and what they say to public servants."
Senior LNP and Labor figures approached by Fairfax said ministerial staff positions were advertised in the Hawke and Howard governments, although not all positions were filled in that way.
However a spokeswoman for Premier Campbell Newman said his government had publicly advertised ministerial staff positions on the internet after winning the election.
Professor Sampford said he was concerned at emerging evidence that ministerial staffers were handling Right to Information requests.
Former Housing and Public Works minister Bruce Flegg sacked his chief of staff Fraser Stephen last week and his media adviser Graeme Hallett on Monday, telling reporters their administrative work was "sloppy".
This week, there was direct evidence that Dr Flegg's junior media officer, Martin Kennedy, had been appointed the portfolio's RTI officer, despite Premier Campbell Newman insisting department offices handle these inquiries.
Professor Sampford said these inquiries should never be handled by ministerial staff.
"I think it is a classic example of when you think about it, you should just say 'no', these are the decisions that should not be handled by political staffers," he said.
Mr Newman then presented evidence to Parliament showing he had ordered ministers earlier this year to ensure departmental officials assessed RTI applications. The Premier agreed "political apparatchiks" should not make such decisions.
Ministerial staff and public servants
In December 2010, the Crime and Misconduct Commission reported on the influence of then-ministerial staffer, Simon Tutt, on senior sport department public servants when a $4.2 million grant was awarded to Queensland Rugby Union in 2008.
The QRU subsequently made two $100,000 payments to the University of Queensland Rugby Academy, part-owned by the UQ Rugby Club of which Mr Tutt was a committee member.
The CMC recommended no charges be laid against Mr Tutt, nor the former chief executive of Queensland Rugby Union, Ken Freer.
The issue, first reported by Fairfax Media in August 2009, eventually led to amendments to the ministerial code of conduct for ministerial staff.
Mr Newman only last month issued new guidelines for ministerial staff and the CMC has been asked how many times a ministerial staff member has ben investigated.
Family and friends
The government has been criticised for the actions of one director-general, Transport and Main Roads' Michael Caltabiano, and the appointment and actions of two children of government ministers, former Housing Minister Bruce Flegg and Arts Minister Ros Bates.
Dr Flegg resigned as Housing and Public Works Minister on Wednesday, after scrutiny of emails between himself and his son, lobbyist Jonathon Flegg.
The CMC is still investigating whether Ms Bates's son, Ben Gommers, won his $103,000 ministerial liaison appointment in the Transport and Main Roads portfolio on merit or based on his links with Mr Caltabiano at lobby firm, Entree Vous.
Mr Gommers also worked at the lobby group.
Ms Bates's daughter and Ben Gommer's sister, Jill Gommers, worked in the office of Child Safety Minister Tracy Davis, but now works as the assistant to the electoral officer for Burleigh MP, Michael Hart.
Alexandra Davis, Tracy Davis's daughter, previously worked in Ms Bates's office, but resigned after she was charged with drug possession after an apparent overdose in the state government's executive building.
Professor Charles Sampford said family appointments were unwise.
"If a family member has a senior government position then it is common sense, it is prudential for them for family members to not work directly with the family member in the senior position," he said.
"It doesn't necessarily mean it is illegal, or actually unethical, but it is unwise. It is better that they exercise their talents elsewhere."
Professor Sampford said the role of Greg Withers as a senior public servant before his wife Anna Bligh became premier was a good example.
"The classic example is Anna Bligh and her husband. I agree with the Premier, that just because a relative has a high position in government, it doesn't mean that they should be banned from working in government," he said.
"However normally, it is best that they employ their talents elsewhere."
Is the politics influencing voters?
Professor Bean, a political and voting trends expert from the Queensland University of Technology, said he believed voters would say Mr Newman acted quickly after questions about ministerial staff and lobbyists began this week.
However, he had concerns about the increasing role of ministerial staff in the political process.
"I think the main issue with ministerial staffers is the politicisation of those appointments is something that needs to be monitored very carefully," he said.
"It is not something that is not really in the spirit of the Westminster tradition and there is an issue with the kind of advice that ministers might get and also the kind of dealings that those staffers might have with other parts of the public service.
"So it is something that gives some cause for concern, though perhaps not alarm at this stage."
However, Professor Bean said voters did not react well to stories about lobbyists repeatedly visiting ministers.
"They don't play well – if anything, they will play badly," he said.
"But unless a major scandal erupts they are not the sort of things that are top of voters' minds."
Professor Bean said lobbyists had their place, but ran the risk of building bad perceptions in the community.
"The biggest concern is that lobbyists often earn their place because of a connection they have with the government," he said.
"That is clearly where things can be problematic if a lobbyist is representing an outside interest has too close an association and perhaps too much influence with the government, and that is where perhaps perceptions of deals that are done with less than full integrity and the sniff of corruption."


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Propel schools' performance profile scores vary
State School Performance Profiles vary widely for the nine Propel charter schools, including seven that draw Mon-Yough area students.
The revised list released last week by the Pennsylvania Department of Education gave an 82.8 to Propel McKeesport and a 78.5 to Propel East in Turtle Creek.
"Their scores have been pretty consistent," said first-year Propel Superintendent Tina Chekan, who formerly was principal at the McKeesport charter school.
The scores involve a 0-100 scale. The department said last week that 2,181, or nearly 73 percent of the state's public schools, scored 70 or higher.
Propel McKeesport edged out the 80.4 of Propel Montour west of Pittsburgh and both it and East were "comparable with some of the more affluent districts" in Allegheny County, Chekan said.
On the other end of the spectrum is a 58.7 for Propel Homestead, a figure that takes in both an elementary school in Homestead and Andrew Street High School in Munhall.
"There is a lot of room for improvement," Chekan conceded. "Their PVAAS showed growth in performance."
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, PVAAS, or Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System, is a statistical analysis of the state assessment data, meant to provide districts and schools with growth data to add to achievement data.
In-between are 61.9 for the Propel school on Pittsburgh's North Side, 62.5 for Propel Braddock Hills (which also is a combined score for elementary and secondary schools) and 65.5 for Propel Pitcairn.
Chekan conceded there is room for improvement for Braddock Hills. Pitcairn was in its first year.
"It was a great starting point," the Propel superintendent said. "It was a baseline year."
Propel fell in among scores of 10 Mon-Yough public school districts. Profiles in those districts ranged from 49.3 for Duquesne Elementary School to 94.3 for Gill Hall Elementary School in West Jefferson Hills.
Braddock Hills, East and Pitcairn schools are in communities near or bordering on the East Allegheny district.
Propel East tops all East Allegheny schools but Braddock Hills and Pitcairn each fell in behind Green Valley Primary (76), Logan Middle (70.8) and East Allegheny High (67.7).
Nonprofit Propel calls itself "a regional asset and a national model, providing measurable evidence of how innovative public schools can expand opportunity for children and families, and can revitalize communities."
Propel McKeesport was honored twice in recent years as a top performing school by a national consortium of charter schools.
Breaking down by categories the state education department profile issued last week for its kindergarten through grade 8, Propel McKeesport scored 88.93 in math and algebra, 73.61 in writing, 72.15 in science and biology and 69.56 in reading and literature.
Propel McKeesport had a 94.57 score for attendance.
The total profile for Propel McKeesport topped that for all McKeesport Area public schools, whose totals ranged from 51.1 at Francis McClure Intermediate School to 65 at White Oak Elementary School.
Propel's first school opened in Homestead a decade ago with 180 students.
The state education department combined K-8 Homestead and 9-12 Andrew Street results. The scores can be broken down to 61.87 for math and algebra, 55.42 for writing, 48.99 for reading and literature and 24.79 for science and biology.
Propel Homestead's score for attendance was 94.01.
Propel Homestead's total profile edged out Steel Valley's K-8 Barrett Elementary School, which had a 54. That district's high school had 62.3, the middle school 73.4 and Park Elementary a 79.8.
Pennsylvania School Boards Association spokesman Steve Robinson said the results released by the education department "further illustrate the need for all schools to be held to the same financial and academic accountability requirements as their traditional public school counterparts, especially as the General Assembly discusses the need for charter school reform."
Robinson said the average profile score for a traditional public school was 77.1, for brick-and-mortar charter schools 66.4 and for cyber charter schools 46.8.
"While there is room for improvement for all schools, it is clear charter schools, especially cyber charter schools, need to be held to the same accountability standards as traditional public schools so all students receive a quality education," Robinson said.
The school board association represents public school districts across Pennsylvania.
"The dream was to build an organization with the capacity to transform public education so that all children would have access to high performing public schools," Chekan wrote to parents in August. "Nine schools and 3,200 students later, on behalf of Propel staff and faculty, I can promise you that we are just as dedicated and passionate in the pursuit of our mission."
Patrick Cloonan is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1967, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Financial Services
For every one fully engaged banking customer in Mexico, another three are indifferent or disengaged.
Struggles with indifferent B2B and banking customers were major business challenges Gallup.com covered in 2016.
Customers in China most want financial advice from banks. Digital expansion is not the solution to engaging customers.
Banks should implement five strategies to deliver seamless channel experiences for customers.
Customer engagement strategies should be well-rounded -- but ultimately revolve around providing perfect channel experiences.
Top-quartile business units have 50% higher revenue/sales than those in the bottom quartile.
Financial leaders need to find digital-ready customers and then increase their adoption of digital channels.
Aggressive channel expansion does not enhance engagement. Satisfying customers in every channel interaction does.
Only 28% of Malaysian banking customers are fully engaged
Malaysian banks are doomed to stagnant growth if they fail to appeal to millennial consumers.
Banks in Thailand are struggling to engage customers -- especially millennials -- amid rapid economic and technological changes.
61% of Thai banking customers are indifferent to their primary bank
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The relationship between B2C customer engagement and organizational outcomes
U.S. investors split into two camps in the method they prefer for interacting with the financial services firm that handles their investments. Fifty percent rely on digital options, while 47% say the branch or telephone is most important.
Millennials are the least-engaged generation of consumers. Brands are not delivering on this group's ideal customer experience.
Customers love credit unions and community banks -- but still end up taking their most significant business to bigger banks.
How Bank Central Asia grew into one of Southeast Asia's largest and most profitable banks after the crisis of 1997.
Marketers faced many challenges in 2015, and Gallup covered some of the most significant ones, such as Volkswagen's emissions scandal.
To engage millennials, financial leaders need first to understand what is -- and isn't -- true about their banking behaviors.