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Berman & Co., a Washington, DC public affairs firm owned by lobbyist Rick Berman, represents the tobacco industry as well as hotels, beer distributors, taverns, and restaurant chains. Berman & Co. lobbies for companies such as Cracker Barrel, Hooters, International House of Pancakes, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster, Steak & Ale, TGI Friday's, Uno's Restaurants, and Wendy's. It also operates a network of several front groups, web sites, and think tanks that work to keep wages low for restaurants and to block legislation on food safety, secondhand cigarette smoke, and drunk driving.[1]
According to a July 31, 2006, profile of Rick Berman in USA Today, Berman and Co. has 28 employees and takes in $10 million dollars a year, but "only Berman and his bookkeeper wife" know how much of the $10 million ends up in their own pockets.[2]
In a 1999 interview with the Chain Leader, a trade publication for restaurant chains, Berman explained the focus of his lobbying efforts, which mirror his non-profit groups' activities. "In effect, our work is restricted to and focused on issues that affect shareholder value," he said. "These big issues include labor costs as they relate to health insurance and the minimum wage." He also stated that he attacks activists more aggressively than other lobbyists. "We always have a knife in our teeth," he said. Since activists "drive consumer behavior on meat, alcohol, fat, sugar, tobacco and caffeine," his strategy is "to shoot the messenger.... We've got to attack their credibility as spokespersons."[1]
Berman also actively campaigns against any attempts to limit smoking in restaurants and bars. In testimony before the New York City Health Oversight Committee, Berman said, "The level of exposure to secondhand smoke for bartenders, waiters and waitresses is considerably lower than the federal air quality limits established by the federal government."[3]
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Affiliated organizations
- The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) states that its mission is to expose what it calls "the Nanny Culture & the growing fraternity of food cops, health care enforcers, anti-meat activists, and meddling bureaucrats who 'know what's best for you.' "
- The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) calls itself a "non-profit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth." In reality, EPI's mission is to oppose any increases in the minimum wage so that restaurants can continue to pay their workers as little as possible.
- EPI also owns the internet domain names to MinimumWage.com and LivingWage.com, a website that attempts to portray the idea of a living wage for workers as some kind of insidious conspiracy. "Living wage activists want nothing less than a national living wage," it warns.
- Another (now-defunct) Berman front group, the Partnership on Health Care and Employment, was established in 1992 to fight the Clinton administration's plan for national health insurance.
- Berman has also been involved with the Employment Roundtable, an organization whose stated mission is to "study, act on and impact trends and information regarding the optimal employment of the US labor force for mutual benefit and the common good."[4]
- Some of Berman & Co.'s most visible lobbying has been waged against efforts to lower the legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers. It runs the American Beverage Institute, which was organized in 1991 with the stated mission of promoting "responsible alcohol consumption," but actually represents restaurants and retailers that sell alcohol. The ABI's arch-enemy is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
- The Center for Union Facts, an organization that operates a website and publishes op-eds critical of union corruption, the Employee Free Choice Act, and the pay of union bosses.
Rick Berman began his career as an attorney for the steel and automobile industries and became labor law director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce before going to work for the Pillsbury Restaurant Group and Steak & Ale restaurant chain in the 1970s. In 1986, he launched his own public affairs firm, Berman & Co. He has maintained a friendly relationship, however, with Norman Brinker, CEO of Brinker International, Inc. (the former owner of Steak & Ale Restaurants and chairman of Pillsbury). In 1995, these ties figured in a House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations that House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave favorable treatment to Brinker and Berman in exchange for a $25,000 contribution.
In 1990, Berman lobbied on behalf of restaurant chains as they fought against the Pepper Commission, a blue-ribbon panel studying the problem of uninsured Americans which recommended that the federal government oblige restaurateurs and other employers to provide employees with medical insurance. His first front group, the Employment Policies Institute, was launched in 1991, around the time of the economic recession that led to the electoral defeat of then-president George Bush.
Berman continued to fight against mandated insurance in 1992 and 1993, when president-elect Bill Clinton attempted to make health care reform one of his first legislative priorities. Berman created yet another front group, called the "Partnership on Health Care & Employment," representing mostly large companies known for paying low wages and high worker turnover. It sponsored a study claiming that compulsory insurance for business would wipe out nine million jobs. During the health reform debate, Berman's study was cited in TV commercials sponsored by the Republican National Committee. The commercials continued to air even after Berman admitted that his study had actually been produced before the Clinton administration even formulated the details of its health plan.
Berman launched the Guest Choice Network in 1995, with funding, funded initially by the Philip Morris tobacco company.
In 1999, Berman continued to combine tobacco flackery with his role as a restaurant lobbyist, as his American Beverage Institute published a study titled "Effects of 1998 California Smoking Ban on Bars, Taverns and Night Clubs." The study surveyed bar owners and managers, asking whether business increased or decreased after January 1, 1998, the date the California bar ban went into effect. It claimed to find that business declined an average of 26.2%, but no hard numbers were used to arrive at this percentage. Rather than look at actual sales receipts, the ABI survey merely surveyed the opinions of bar owners. Numerous other studies have examined the effect of smoking bans on the hospitality industry, and studies that actually look at taxable sales receipts show no significant impact.
In September 1999, Berman launched another group, the Employment Roundtable, to "build on the successes" of the EPI and to "find solutions for problems such as social security and health care."
In May 2000, Berman launched cspinot.com, an attack website aimed at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which Berman accuses of anti-alcohol zealotry that "combines scare tactics and junk science to scold adult college students about alcohol consumption." In February 2003, however, he was forced to surrender the domain name following a successful legal appeal by CSPI. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body charged with regulating the Internet domain name system, ruled that Berman's front group had "attempted to create confusion among Internet users looking for [CSPI's] websites."
ActivistCash.com was launched in November 2001. In January 2002 the Guest Choice Network renamed itself as the Center for Consumer Freedom.
In a speech to the National Pork Forum in Dallas in May 2003, Berman said referring to activists pushing for changes to the meat industry. "People who are on the offense want to win, while people who are on the defense don't want to lose. There's a difference," he said.
Berman said the way for business to win against activist groups was a wage hard counter campaigns "to de-legitimize them in the eyes of the public." Such a campaign he said, delivering his business pitch, would require resources and strategies that "exceed the capabilities of the other side."[5]
In July 2007, presidential candidate John Edwards faced criticism after his campaign paid over $200,000 to a consulting firm with ties to the Center for Union Facts, a Berman front organization. The firm, LUC Media, was incorporated in Georgia and is headed by Christopher M. Werner, who is also CEO of a company called 1-2-1 Interactive Media, which bought advertising time for CUF. Both companies apparently share the same office and address. Werner insisted that "I have an interest from way back, but I don't do any work for [1-2-1 Interactive]." He added, "We're thrilled to be working for Senator Edwards."
As a private company, Berman & Co. is not required to disclose its finances. However, two of its front groups - the Center for Consumer Freedom and the Employment Policies Institute Foundation - are registered as tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, and they are required to disclose some financial information to the Internal Revenue Service which is publicly available by inspecting their IRS Form 990s.
Although Berman refuses to disclose the identity of its anonymous funders, the following companies have been linked to Berman & Co. in news reports and other public documents:
- American Restaurant Group, Inc.
- Anheuser-Busch
- Arby's
- Brinker International, Inc.
- Burger King
- Carson Restaurants Worldwide
- Chili's
- Chi-Chi's
- Cracker Barrel
- El Torito
- Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association
- Hard Rock Café
- Hooters of America, Inc.
- Houston's Restaurants, Inc.
- International House of Pancakes
- Jack-in-the-Box
- KKR Enterprises, Inc.
- Luby's, Inc.
- Marie Callender Pie Shops, Inc.
- Marriott Corp.
- Metromedia Restaurant Group
- Olive Garden
- Outback Steakhouse, Inc.
- Panda Management Company, Inc.
- Perkins Family Restaurants, L.P.
- Philip Morris
- Rare Hospitality International
- Red Lobster
- Shoney's, Inc.
- Sizzler
- Steak & Ale
- TGI Friday's
- Uno Restaurant Corp.
- Vicorp Restaurants, Inc.
- Wendy's
Richard Berman is listed as president and his wife Dixie is listed as secretary/treasurer of Berman & Co.
Rick Berman, Dubbed "Dr. Evil" by 60 Minutes
Although Berman used to fly under the media radar, by now he is well-known and widely regarded as an industry shill, having been the subject of a 60 Minutes piece in 2007[6] that dubbed him "Dr. Evil," a public takedown on the Rachel Maddow Show,[7] and years of research[8] documenting his close ties to industries looking for a well paid hired gun to defend the indefensible.[9] He has attacked respected scientists and scholars, food safety experts, and even Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
Despite this documented lack of credibility, Berman continues to work through a variety of research-for-hire front groups to remain relevant by creating a façade of academic respectability for extreme policies that many mainstream companies, scientists, and voters have rejected.
Berman has raised millions of dollars from companies, trade associations and individuals[10], but refuses to name them. According to the National Journal, the Employment Policies Institute was started "by a group of restaurant companies" that at the time (1995) got "95% of its budget from corporate sources—primarily restaurateurs and retailers."[11] Several years ago an unnamed former Berman employee revealed a list of Berman's 2001-2002 corporate funders, including Coca-Cola, Cargill, Monsanto, Tyson Foods, Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse and Applebee's.
"We always have a knife in our teeth," Berman has said[12], and his approach is "to shoot the messenger." Restaurant industry spokespeople have praised his "outstanding work as an industry Doberman."[13] 60 Minutes called him "the booze and food industries' weapon of mass destruction."[14]
Before striking out in 1986 with his own consulting company, Berman worked as a lawyer for Bethlehem Steel and Dana Corporation (1967-72), as labor law director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (1972-74), and for the late Norman Brinker's restaurant empire (Steak and Ale and the Pillsbury Restaurant Group, 1975-86). Berman & Company now has about 30 employees and runs the Employment Policies Institute and a number of other industry-backed secretive front groups such as the Center for Consumer Freedom, Center for Union Facts, and American Beverage Institute.
Berman has had a long association with the National Restaurant Association[15], and frequently worked together with its former lobbyist Lee Culpepper in the 1990s.[16]
Other Personnel
A number of employees and associates of Berman & Co. also double as representatives of its various front groups:
- Restaurant magnate Norman Brinker has served as chairman of EPI. Brinker is the chairman and CEO of Brinker International. He is also the founder of the Steak and Ale restaurant chain, a former chairman of Burger King, and past President of the Pillsbury restaurant group (all of which are either former employers of Rick Berman or clients of Berman & Co.).
- Mike Burita has worked for a variety of conservative causes, including Republican election campaigns, Phyllis Schlafly, Frontiers of Freedom, and Brent Bozell's Media Research Center.
- Paul Carson
- David Martosko has been described in news stories as CCN's director of research.
- J.P. Freire has been described as a conservatarian mercenary.
Other individuals who have worked with Berman & Co. include lobbyist Ann Eppard (formerly a top aide to House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster); Kevin Lang of Boston University (who has authored a study sponsored by EPI); and Mark Gorman of the National Restaurant Association. John Doyle was communications director for Berman & Co., and also served as a spokesman for the Center for Consumer Freedom, the Employment Policies Institute and the American Beverage Institute. In late 2006 he joined the Washington D.C. office of the PR firm, Ruder Finn.
In 1994 Berman scored a coup when he managed to hire Candy Lightner to lobby on behalf of the American Beverage Institute. Lightner was best known as the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving but was fired as the group's executive director in 1985 over disagreements including her request for a $10,000 bonus on top of her $76,000 annual salary. As an ABI lobbyist, Lightner fought MADD's call for lowering the legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers from 0.10 percent to 0.08 percent. Criticized as a traitor to the movement she helped launch, Lightner left her job with Berman after less than a year.
The Center for Consumer Freedom, ActivistCash.com, the Employment Policies Institute and the American Beverage Institute all share office space with Berman & Co., at the following address:
Berman & Co.
1775 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 463-7110
Email: email@example.com
Website: http://www.bermanco.com/
Berman Websites:
- http://www.abionline.org
- http://www.activistcash.com
- http://www.consumerfreedom.com
- http://www.cspinot.org
- http://www.epionline.org
- http://www.guestchoice.com
- http://www.livingwage.com
- http://www.minimumwage.com
- http://www.bermanco.com
- http://mercuryfacts.org
- http://www.unionfacts.org
Articles and Resources
SourceWatch articles
- Rick Berman
- David Berman
- Center for Consumer Freedom
- ActivistCash.com
- A Visit to the ActivistCash.Com Web Site
- Richard Berman cares about animals: clients exposed
- Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- American Beverage Institute
- Employment Policies Institute
- Employment Roundtable
External resources
- The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library and the Philip Morris documents web site have additional correspondence and company memos related to Berman & Co. To search them yourself, use the following keywords: "Guest Choice"; "American Beverage Institute"; "Berman, R"; and "Berman, RB."
- IRS tax forms for the Guest Choice Network, Center for Consumer Freedom and the Employment Policies Institute can be found by searching the GuideStar web site.
- ConsumerDeception.com has compiled a detailed dossier on Berman's activities and funding.
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)'s web site, www.BermanExposed.org
External articles
- Richard Berman, "Disability Act Threatens to Cripple Hospitality Industry," Nation's Restaurant News, October 9, 1989, p. F4.
- The Chain Letter, a magazine for restaurant chains, published a profile of Rick Berman in its December 1999 issue.
- PR Watch first exposed the shenanigans of Berman & Co. in its First Quarter 2001 issue, including details of his lobbying activities to keep wages low and drivers drinking, as well as the cash-for-favors scandal involving Berman, Norman Brinker and Newt Gingrich
- "Bogus 'Consumer' Group Stripped Of Domain Names," Center for Science in the Public Interest news release, February 20, 2003.
- Richard Berman, "Animal Groups Callous, Not Cute," USA Today, April 15, 2003.
- Rod Smith, "Activists winning public opinion in battle on food", Feedstuffs, Issue 21 Volume 75, May 26, 2003.
- Greg Sargent, "Berman's Battle," The American Prospect, January 3, 2004.
- John N. Frank, "ABL ups efforts slamming GM for its support of MADD", PR Week, February 28, 2005. (Sub req'd).
- Nancy Goldstein, "Biting the Hand that Spins You," PageOne, March 17, 2005.
- Caroline E. Mayer and Amy Joyce, "Nonprofit's Tactics, Funding Sources Spark Controversy", Washington Post, April 27, 2005.
- Melanie Warner, "Striking Back at the Food Police", New York Times, June 12, 2005.
- Seth Lubove, "Food Fight," Forbes, September 23, 2005.
- Aina Hunter, "Mercury in Fish? Baloney!: Lobbyist tells pregnant women to eat more tuna", Village Voice, January 17th, 2006.
- Harold Meyerson, "Our Pious Babylon", Washington Post, April 6, 2006; A29.
- Mark Matthews, Lobbyists Hide Behind Non-Profit Fronts, KGO TV, San Francisco, CA, May 3, 2006.
- Jayne O'Donnell, Got a nasty fight? Here's your man, USA Today, July 31, 2006.
- "Edwards Consultant Tied to Anti-Union Ads," The Washington Post, July 20, 2007.
- Michael P., "Metro Center Advertising - Front Groups ," blog "Infosnack Headquarters," September 24, 2008.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Berman & Co.: "Nonprofit" Hustlers for the Food & Booze Biz, PRWatch, First Quarter 2001, Volume 8, No. 1.
- ↑ Jayne O'Donnell, [usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/2006-07-31-lobbyist-usat_x.htm Got a nasty fight? Here's your man], USA Today, July 31, 2006.
- ↑ Tobacco Library, Secondhand Smoke in Bars and Restaurants Falls Well Below OSHA Standards, ABI Testifies Group Cites New Research from Oak Ridge National Labs, PR Newswire, February 23, 2003, accessed May 24, 2013.
- ↑ Peter Hillman with David Madison, Ph.D., Supreme Court Rulings on Race and Retribution: Implications for the Workplace, The Five O'Clock Club, November 2003, accessed May 28, 2013.
- ↑ Feedstuffs Daily Update, Feedstuffs, May 21, 2003.
- ↑ 60 Minutes, Meet Dr. Evil, CBS News, September 19, 2007.
- ↑ The Rachel Maddow Show, Confronting Rick Berman, MSNBC, accessed April 2, 2013.
- ↑ Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Berman Exposed, organizational website, accessed April 2, 2013.
- ↑ Ian T. Shearn, Investigative Report: CCF's Richard Berman, The Humane Society of the United States, accessed April 2, 2013.
- ↑ Anti-Union Group's Ads Attack Organized Labor, Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2006.
- ↑ Louis Jacobson, "Tanks on the Roll," National Journal, July 8, 1995, p. 1767.
- ↑ Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Berman & Co.: "Nonprofit" Hustlers for the Food and Booze Biz, PRWatch, first quarter 2001, Volume 8, No. 1.
- ↑ Foodservice Blog, Who's gonna make us?, Nation's Restaurant News, September 16, 2007.
- ↑ Elizabeth Flock, PETA and Humane Society attacked by reports - are they real?, The Washington Post, February 27, 2012.
- ↑ Campaign for a Healthy Denver and Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, The National Restaurant Association: Behind the Fight Against Working Families and an Economy that Works for All, organizational report, October 2011.
- ↑ Marcus Kabel, Wal-Mart denies critics' claim that retail giant backs anti-union group, The Seattle Times, March 26, 2006.
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Obama, meanwhile, rejected the GOP attack line, saying the benefits of the health care reforms -- particularly for people previously unable to get health coverage or afford high-cost policies -- were too important to halt progress because of temporary problems such as website difficulties.
"The essence of the law, the health insurance that's available to people, is working just fine," he said. "In some cases, actually, it's exceeding expectations. The prices are lower than expected, and the choice is greater than we expected. But the problem has been that the website that's supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody. There's no sugarcoating it. The website has been too slow. People are getting stuck during the application process."
The application portion of the website was brought down this weekend for overnight maintenance, as it has been on previous weekends and some weeknights.
An administration official confirmed to CNN that additional government and private technology experts will be brought on to help solve the problems but did not provide any details.
"To ensure that we make swift progress, and that the consumer experience continues to improve, our team has called in additional help to solve some of the more complex technical issues we are encountering," the Health and Human Services department said in a blog post Sunday. "Our team is bringing in some of the best and brightest from both inside and outside government to scrub in with the team and help improve HealthCare.gov."
Two officials said that staffing at call centers has been increased by about 50 percent to help people phoning in, and officials are emphasizing that now, as an alternative, one can enroll over the phone. About 1.2 million calls have been processed from those seeking information.
The administration is still not releasing the numbers on how many people have taken the next step of enrolling: choosing a specific health care plan. The administration has said it will do that only on a monthly basis, so the first tally of enrollment numbers will come in November.
The Congressional Budget Office has said it expects 7 million people to enroll by April 1.
Although the administration tally of applications did not break down how many of the applications came through state-run exchanges, a CNN survey of officials with those exchanges found that at least 257,000 people had signed up for new insurance plans as of Friday afternoon.
Not all of them had made a payment, and not every state responded to the CNN request.
A ConsumerReports.org article last week offered tips for people trying to sign up, but had the following advice for those overwhelmed by the difficulties:
"If all this is too much for you to absorb, follow our previous advice: Stay away from Healthcare.gov for at least another month if you can. Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess they've made."


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DePauw Finishes Second at SCAC Baseball Championship
April 25, 2010
April 25, 2010, Millington, Tenn. — Trinity scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth to break a 1-1 tie and captured the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball championship with a 3-1 victory over DePauw.
Trinity improved to 32-7 with the win, while DePauw dropped to 24-17 and finished second in the league for its best finish since winning the title in 2001.
DePauw struck first with one run in the opening frame as Taylor Hoffman singled and Rob McPike followed with a double. Jason Cohen's sacrifice fly plated Hoffman with the Tigers' only run of the game.
Trinity countered in the sixth as Jonathan Hall hit a solo homer to center. In the eighth, Patrick Frasier drew a one-out walk an John Paillet entered as a pinch-runner. Dylan Early followed with a single which advanced Pallet to third. Hall then singled to left scoring Paillet. Kevin Jackson singled to load the bases and Nick Pappas walked driving in Early.
The Tigers totaled nine hits and left nine on base. Hoffman and Cohen had two hits apiece. Trinity totaled eight hits paced by two each from Hall and Chris Walden.
Trinity's Ryan Lucero improved to 5-1 with the win, while Ben Klimesh pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save. Elliott Ross dropped to 8-2 with the loss.
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Analysts, fans, and coaches are allowed their own opinions. The ranking, roughly, reflect where a team should be. Are there mistakes, of course. There are probably about 50 teams in the country that could be ranked anywhere from 11th to 60th, depending on their success in their last 10 games. There is not that much difference between being ranked 20th or 30th. It is the difference between the 94th and the 91st percentiles. Our recent success has been impressive. We have the nation's second longest win streak and the longest road winning streak. As the coach of Butler said Saturday, winning in conference on the road is hard. That is true regardless of the conference.
The various computer rankings have us anywhere from 15th to 35th. I think it is safe to say we are in the top 35 teams. Where, who knows? 15th at best, 35th at worst. The point is we are playing well and we have been winning by more than we are projected to every game. By every measure this is a strong, talented team, playing very well.
CJP has done a much better job this year of having the team ready to play. He is growing, by the game, as a coach.
The team is fun to watch and the players are having fun. The coach is a great guy and a good motivator. We are capable of beating any team in the country on a good night. Life is good, let us enjoy it!!!!!!
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MADRID: Spain's economic woes deepened alarmingly Friday as the government revealed that unemployment rose to nearly 25 percent, the highest in almost two decades, a day after a credit ratings agency downgraded the country's debt and warned it faces an uphill battle to get a grip on its finances.
Investors sold off Spanish bonds in a show of jitters.
Official figures showed that unemployment has jumped to 24.4 percent in the first quarter of 2012 — the highest rate in the 17-country eurozone — from 22.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011. The data showed that another 365,900 people lost their jobs in the first three months of the year, taking the total unemployed to 5.6 million. The rate for people under 25 year is now 52 percent, up from 48.5 percent in the previous quarter.
"The figures are terrible for everyone and terrible for the government," Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told Spanish National Radio. "Spain is in a crisis of enormous magnitude."
A figure of 24 percent unemployment was expected but not so early in the year. The country is now in its second technical recession in three years.
To prepare for such a steep economic downturn, businesses have been laying people off at a faster rate than expected, said IESE Business School economics professor Antonio Argandona.
Argandona said Spain is not now at risk of needing a bailout because its government is still solvent, but it and other countries are indirectly being helped over the short term by cheap loans from the European Central Bank. Spanish banks are taking the money and using it to buy the government's high-yield bonds.
But even if the economy returns to growth next year as forecast, the jobless rate will lag behind and unemployment could hit 26 percent, he added.
The current rate is the highest since 1994, when it reached 24.55 percent.
The total number of unemployed increased by 729,400 compared with the first quarter of 2011. The National Statistics Institute said Spain now has 1.7 million households in which no one has work.
The figures were another blow to the conservative government after Standard & Poor's late Thursday became the first of the three leading credit rating agencies to strip Spain of an A rating. It cited a worsening budget deficit, worries over the banking system and poor economic prospects for its decision to reduce the rating by two notches from A to BBB+.
S&P even warned that a further downgrade is possible as it left its outlook assessment on Spain at "negative."
Spain, the eurozone's fourth-largest economy, is just now just three notches above so-called junk status. Earlier this week, the Bank of Spain confirmed that the country had entered a technical recession — two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
The country's economic problems have become the epicenter Europe's debt crisis in recent weeks as investors worry over Spain's ability to push through austerity measures and reforms at a time of recession and mass unemployment.
The cuts are aimed principally at slashing the government's deficit from 8.5 percent of economic output to the maximum level set by the European Union of 3 percent by 2013. For this year the goal is 5.3 percent.
With the economy shrinking and the population restless, there are concerns that the government will not meet its targets and will be forced into seeking a financial rescue as Greece, Ireland and Portugal have done before.
The difference is that Spain's economy is double the size of the combined economies of the three countries that have already been bailed out. The other eurozone countries would struggle to muster enough money to rescue it.
Even if the eurozone finds the financial capacity to bail out Spain, economists warn the crisis could then envelop Italy, the eurozone's third-largest economy, which owes around €1.9 trillion ($2.5 trillion), more than double Spain's €734 billion.
The Spanish government acknowledges that labor reforms enacted to loosen up rigid laws on hiring and firing will not make a dent in the jobless rate until next year.
The mood among Spanish people out on the streets Friday was downcast.
"The situation is very bad. There's no work," said Enrique Sebastian,a 48-year-old unemployed surgery room assistant as he left one of Madrid's unemployment offices.
"The only future I see is one with wages of €400 ($530) a month for eight-hour days. And that's if you can find it," said Sebastian.
Graphic artist Fernando Garcia, 41, said he had just been laid off again.
"I've been on short-term contracts for a long time without any type of stability," he said. "I work a few months and then I have to go on the dole. But I have to be optimistic. I have no choice."
Markets in Spain initially reacted negatively to the twin news but soon recovered their poise alongside the rest of Europe as the downgrade was largely viewed as a belated acknowledgment of the market realities.
The main IBEX index, having fallen more than 1 percent earlier, recovered and was up 1.8 percent at midday. The yield on the country's ten-year bond was up 0.14 of a percentage point to 5.93 percent, having touched 6 percent earlier.
Though the yield is below the 7 percent rate widely considered unsustainable in the long-run, it's edged up over the past month from below 5 percent in a clear sign investors are fidgety over its economic prospects.
"Some will blame the downgrade for causing market unrest; instead it is merely a symptom of much deeper problems endemic in the Spanish economy and banking system," said Sony Kapoor, managing director of Re-Define, an economic think-tank. "More than anything else, this is the result of the deeply flawed and self-defeating approach to the euro crisis that EU leaders have embarked on."


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I have a few things that I want to see discussed. I don't think that there's enough talk on how to get your name out there other than passively. Is it something that is taught in art schools?
I would very much like to hear what it was like when you were first starting out and began to advertise. Was it you doing all of the work? Did you get an agent? How about now? What have you changed? What is usually overlooked? What will you never do? What will you always do?
I think the topic interests most everyone. Especially people like myself. I know I have enough skills to be making some kind of living, but there's just nobody out there that knows I exist. So life is pretty rough. Seclusion is pretty easy to achieve in suburbs that are far from any social hubs.
I would like those posting (if they are able to) to perhaps lend thoughts as to high/pro advertising techniques and experience as well as an economic alternative or the "poor man's" techniques.
I plan to use anything that I can which is posted here. So I will also be posting updates as to the results.
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City as Studio: EXB 10.03 --- Open Day ---
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The artists are ready to share again.
The process of EXB 10.03 is reaching a closure.
The Ghummakad Baja has been made and aired, the Pink Mountain has been wiped, the camera looks different, the city casts a shadow of its spectacle, and there's some more poetry.
Please join us this Friday (09-07-2010) at 18:30 hrs for another look at EXB 10.03
Artists: Prayas Abhinav, Shamsher Ali, Love Anand, Hemant Babu, Konrad Bayer, Ram Bhat, Nabina Das, Neelofer, Gaigongmei Gangmei, Goutam Ghosh, Deepankar Gohain, Niha Masih, Suraj Rai, Ish S, Nishant Sharma
Realised by Iram Ghufran, Amitabh Kumar
Produced at Sarai Media Lab, Sarai- CSDS, Delhi
April 2010
Nabina Das + Gaigongmei Gangmei + Niha Masih
Writer and poet Nabina Das responds to photographs by Niha Masih and Gaigongmei Gangmei. This collaboration emerges from their previous work 'Thousands of words' first shown in EXB 10.02
Images can evoke thousands of work and thousands of words can conjure an image. It is to see this interplay between poetry and photographs that we bring forth this collaborative venture. Reading the poems might create an image beyond the accompanying photograph and the single image in itself might provoke thoughts not explored in the poem.
Both forms are evocative and by blending the two we wanted to recreate a differential experience for the viewer and the reader.
Nabina is an Associate fellow with the City as Studio process.
Niha Masih and Gaigongmei Gangmei are graduate students at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia.
Prayas Abhinav + Hemant Babu + Ram Bhat + Nishant Sharma
We plan to use an amplified and meshed version of 2.4 ghz (Wi-fi) transmission, through high powered 4 Watt ERP transmitter-antennas, at city scale, to make unregulated open-to-air audio broadcasting. We are also developing a low-cost device which can receive these audio broadcasts on the move. Leveraging the potential of an open community of content creators, existing professionals, we will be populating multiple channels of community, local and entertainment content on this infrastructure.
India has a heavily regulated and censored radio-spectrum use policy for broadcasters. There are no ways for people to create and share audio content in a widely-accessible way. Internet-radio is not localized due to bandwidth access. Community radio is very restrictive, low power and does not allow news and political content.
The radio industry is dominated by commercial music syndicates and public bodies which restricts the kind of content possibilities. In comparison, other media (like TV, print, Internet) has much more diversity to offer. Audio platforms have remained mostly one-way, and have not exploited opportunities of p2p broadcasting networks.
A meshed Wi-fi local network (wireless ethernet) offering audio content on a low cost device, so that news, local content and entertainment in audio form can be accessed widely. The use of amplified wi-fi bandwidth delivers high speed, interactive audio content city-wide.
Our solution will provide a platform much like satellite TV, but on audio and in a on-the-move, outdoor-friendly format. The solution will inherently be capable of being used for p2p data exchange and audio streaming. This will enable people to be active broadcasters and not just passive consumers.
Installation, performance
Goutam Ghosh
Material: Face massage cream, vaseline petroleum jelly, transparent thread, black plastic sheet,transparent pipe, nylon cosmetic hair, soot, shaving foam, drip syringe and drainage pipe, fog, shaving spray, printer, paper, umbrella
The Pink Mountain is a skin that has been hung to dry.
Sandwiched between layers of mist, and fluctuating shadows, this skin is opaque and transparent.
It forms a diagram of restlessness: some dissolving, some drying, increasing, decreasing.
Acknowledgement: Bhagwati Prasad, Agat Sharma
// Ish S + Konrad Bayer//
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'In Between Days' 2010 is a post-modern sonic+visual interpretation of Delhi. The video's composition style has a Dadaist approach to it. Here a split screen reflective effect is used to bring out other hidden spaces and activities of the city which are basically over looked in plain video and perception. The video generates a life of it's own while bringing to light objects that fill city spaces.
For the aural landscape sounds like car horns and construction sounds to compose the tracks have been used, as these tracks in some way represent the urban utopia/distopia of materialism hitting a brick wall. On the track 'Blue Hour' car horns which are the most common sound/noise in urban Delhi's soundscape are carefully manipulated to create a trumpet like sound which is juxtaposed with a piano and drums with glitchy highs which are always going in and out of equilibrium. This in turn reflects on a personal unbalanced experience of excessive cars and traffic jams in Delhi.
SO THAT AFFECTION FOR THE CITY ENDURES (Ver 1.3)
Shamsher Ali + Love Anand + Neelofer + Suraj Rai
Material: Circuit boards (Mother boards, Switches, Computer Cards, Key Boards, LAN cards, RAMs, SMPS), CPU fans, wires, speakers, microphone, adapters, props, lights, cycle rim, Fan motor, Rim stand, miscellaneous objects.
Year: 2010
A world gives a glimpse of its existence through symbols that it creates. When these symbols come to form a cluster, they come in contact with other such clusters. It is then that an imagination for a new world begins.
The city is being pulled towards a force as if its wants to get enchanted and then get lost. It almost feels like the entire city is waiting in anticipation and something is about to unfold .
Deepankar Gohain
Material: Tires, ply boards, canvas and oil paints, mirrors, papers, Cloth, wires, bulbs, electronic gadgets
Year: 2010
The idea behind the making of this larger-than-life mobile camera is to indulge in an interactive space in the public arena, to understand the binary between the inner and outer landscape of everyday things and life, the banal and the bizarre—all in a more scientific manner. This camera, entitled Sense Lens, comes from the senselessness and the sensitivity of modern senses. Sense Lens, which is a work in progress, will have a vivid display inside depicting the artist's perception of the modern cityscape. It will endeavor to portray the dichotomy associated with the evolution of modern day machines that have made it possible to move across time, but at the same time created new anxieties.
The concept of the camera as a spectacle, an entity with a life of its own that distorts perception, is explored in this piece of art. However, this is only a generalized idea of the work as a whole. It has a wider frame of interpretation and understanding and possibilities.
Acknowledgements: Bhagwati Prasad, Agat Sharma
The City as Studio exhibition platform is an artist run space for emerging and experimental contemporary art in the heart of Delhi. Rife with curious energy, open to new practices, sharp and finely tuned to the frequencies of a rapidly changing world and a transforming city.
City as Studio is a space hospitable to all those who are willing to re-define art and life, speculate, fantasize, play and take the pulse of a critical time. The platform is closely associated with the 'City as Studio' programme for artists and practitioners at Sarai and committed to showcasing new work and processes on a regular basis.
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Intimidation: The Tactics of the Weak!
Without a doubt people that are secure in their lives and positions, don't need to intimidate, right? In working with great teams across the world, I run into this topic a lot. Power being obtained and maintained by intimidation. That is wrong and unnecessary. The strongest and most influential individuals don't intimidate. Intimidation is a strong sign of weakness.
First of all, when it happens to you, remember this 'laugh it off'! Don't respond with withdrawal and silence.
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And remember, it happens to all of us! Recently I had the experience that I needed to contact someone on the phone. Granted, we had yet not met, but in the few minutes which followed, this person attempted to be so intimidating that I had to discontinue the call! It was clear that he needed to prove that he was powerful and strong. Instead, he goes on my 'never call this dude' list!
Intimidation occurs when people are insecure or too much in awe of their position. Some of the most fascinating people I have met share a common characteristic: they are extremely humble and easy to talk to. Others are not as pleasant and especially in the tech industry, they often attempt to intimidate.
If you can avoid such people, that is great. Avoid them. If you need to interact with such people, then set the record straight from the start and don't allow such behavior to continue.
How? Generally, if you are equally forceful, these folks back off and become nice. Sometimes depending on the circumstance you need to bring up the topic and explain that their behavior is counter-productive which can help as well.
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I have not found any reason to intimidate and no reason to use power as a weapon! Have you? I want to make sure you are armed with the ability to not be intimidated. There is a strong difference between being determined, focused and driven versus intimidating. Intimidation turns people off, reduces influence and is of no value. Instead folks, find people who enrich your lives, from whom you learn and can be inspired by. Have you ever seen someone who is intimidating and can inspire?
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Essential reading for any IT professional looking to deliver change, ITIL Service Transition provides best-practice guidance on managing service change in a timely, cost-effective manner with minimal disruption to operations, customers, users and the business.
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Demonstrates how well-planned, effective service transition can deliver significant business benefits, including improved cost-effectiveness, higher transition success rates and greater accuracy with cost, time and resource estimations
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