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"American Idol" lost two stars this week when judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez announced they would not be returning next season, but the hit Fox show could gain itself The Queen.
The company that owns "American Idol" is restructuring in light of the show's ratings drop and developing projects for its other assets, including the creative exploitation of Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, the New York Times reports.
A.J. Hammer speaks with Jermaine Jones about being kicked off "American Idol" for past legal troubles.
Jawn Murray talks about the downfall of "American Idol," Diddy's Oscar tweet and actress Sheridan sues "Housewives."
Welcome to the live shows! We've got an all-new American Idol set featuring a giant spacecraft-y oval that reminds me a little too much of The X Factor, and some wind-machined amber waves of grain behind Ryan to remind us of how easy breezy beautiful representative of America he is. (Noted.)
HLN's A.J. Hammer sits down with Jennifer Lopez to talk about the new season of "American Idol."
The changes to Fox's singing competition shows have only just begun.
How much undiscovered singing talent can America really have left? Enough for Simon Cowell to bring his "American Idol" spinoff "The X Factor", already a hit in Britain, to the States to fill that chilly fall gap in the TV schedule without televised karaoke.
Simon's new show didn't grab as many viewers as Ryan and company
The season 8 contestant sings for his bride, Christina Teich, at their Arizona ceremony
Season 10 is a wrap! Did Scotty McCreery or Lauren Alaina win it all?
"American Idol" is drawing to a close for its 10th season and you don't even care, do you?
"American Idol" is drawing to a close for its 10th season, and you don't even care, do you?
Find out if Lauren Alaina, Scotty McCreery or Haley Reinhart is out of the competition
Tell us which of the top three deserve to perform in next week's finale
After Thursday's elimination, Haley Reinhart, Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina are vying for the top spot
A surprising night of results sends rocker James Durbin away in tears
The soulful singer lands just shy of the top 4 as Idol heads toward its finale
Poll: Do you like the country crooners, the rocker or the blues singer?
It's down to four - find out who didn't make the cut
A favorite of the judges is sent home in a surprising results night
Despite giving one of his best performances this week, the smiling contestant sings for the last time
Does Jennifer Lopez have "American Idol" to thank for her new surge in popularity?
The folk-pop troubadour sang "Maggie May" for Jennifer Lopez on his way out
PEOPLE's TV critic doesn't exactly miss Simon Cowell - but somebody's got to cut through the goo
It's an iconic scene from the the 1983 film "Risky Business."
It would be so easy to blame the teenage girls.
The singer takes the shocking news with calm and dignity as the judges become indignant
The singers show versatility on a night of stellar performances
Find out who was on the bottom three and who (if anyone!) was sent home
The contestants shine singing songs from the year they were born
Find out which - if any! - of season 10's top 13 is the first to go home
The singer - a favorite of season 10 - was missing from Thursday's show
Editors chat about singing, judging and what J.Lo is wearing
The top 13 contestants will pre-tape Wednesday's show on Tuesday night
Six contestants were given a second chance, but did the right three move on?
Meet a strong group of 13 singers with an unusual range of style
Before Thursday's big results are announced, tell us who won Idol's battle of the sexes
The competition heats up ahead of Thursday's big cut
Did your favorite make the cut - or go home after this week's tough round of competition?
The judge sobs after cutting a favorite contestant as the competition moves toward the top 24
Facebook users soon could become the power brokers in who becomes the next Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood.
Jacob Lusk, Casey Abrams, Thia Megia and make the cut and will compete next week in the new Beatles challenge
The breakdowns and showdowns of a tense night of competition
Early favorites Jacee Badeaux, Chris Medina and Chris Medina make it through while others exit in tears
The judges hit a dry spell in their search for talented singers
John Wayne Schulz, lovebirds Nick Fink and Jacqueline Dunford and more are off to Hollywood
Music City shows off the good, the bad and the ones who split the judges' vote
Plus: The American Idol judge answers reader questions about his family, an alternate career and his signature scarves
Can the new the American Idol judges fill Simon Cowell's shoes?
Sure "American Idol" is returning, but is it coming back any better?
At a crossroads for season 10, here's what the show should do to reinvigorate itself
Steven Tyler is in promotion mode, but it's difficult to tell if the Aerosmith singer is promoting "American Idol," where he and Jennifer Lopez are to be the new Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul, or if he is using television's highest-rated show over the last nine seasons running to promote himself.
The season 7 singer plays musician Sally Danville in Fox's Change of Plans
The American Idol star boasts about her new album Farmer's Daughter and the possibility of adding to her family
The top 12 competitors also will live together, as the show makes changes
Lee DeWyze may be the reigning "American Idol" champ, but he's also just a regular guy. In fact, his new single, "Sweet Serendipity," opens with the line, "I ain't got no car, and I've got one pair of jeans."
"American Idol" winner Lee DeWyze talks about his life after the show and living his musical dream.
"I don't think [the top 24] were very good," says producer Nigel Lythgoe
Jennifer Lopez and Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler join Randy Jackson on the "American Idol" panel of judges.
"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest reveals who will join Randy Jackson in this season's new judges panel.
At first glance a reality-TV hosting gig might seem beneath a megawatt star like Jennifer Lopez. But, according to insiders, Lopez needs "American Idol" just as much as it needs her.
Are J.Lo and Steven Tyler a good addition - or do you miss Simon already?
"I'm looking for the next Michael Jackson," Lopez said at a press conference in L.A.
Rocker Steven Tyler, singer-actress Jennifer Lopez and record exec Jimmy Iovine will join "American Idol" for its 10th season, host Ryan Seacrest announced Wednesday.
Fox will reveal Wednesday who will take up the three vacated slots on the judges' panel on "American Idol."
Fantasia Barrino blames Idol criticism, financial issues and health problems for attempting to take her own life
In a major "American Idol" shakeup, Randy Jackson could be the only original judge left. CNN's Brooke Anderson reports.
"American Idol" fans can be demanding when it comes to their favorite show, but their arguments are usually about the contestants.
Ellen DeGeneres is calling it quits after spending one season with the Fox hit "American Idol," according to a statement from the star and the network.
New reports say Jessica Simpson is in talks to join American Idol in place of Simon Cowell. Showbiz Tonight weighs in.
"American Idol" announced Monday that it is lowering the minimum age restriction for contestants from 16 to 15, allowing even younger aspiring pop stars to forgo their hairbrushes and stuffed-animal audiences in exchange for a real microphone and millions of TV viewers.
Lee DeWyze tells CNN's Larry King that being on "American Idol" was an intimidating experience.
When Lee DeWyze woke up Friday morning, it finally hit him. He had won "American Idol."
Diana DeGarmo, David Archuleta and other Idol favorites pay tribute to the departing judge
CNN catches up with the stars at the "American Idol" finale for reaction to Lee DeWyze being named season champ.
The 2010 "American Idol" finale can be summed up in three words that could also be attributed to the entire season: dull, pitchy and off.
This time last year, "American Idol" fans were in a frenzy.
Remember "American Idol"? That talent show with all the water-cooler moments?
CNN's Lisa France and Michelle Wright predict Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze will make it to the "Idol" finale.
For years "American Idol" has been known to its competitors by a moniker meant to express its popularity and immense ratings: "The Death Star."
CNN's Larry King asks the cast how they're enjoying the ninth season of "American Idol."
CKX Inc. confirmed Monday that it is in talks that could lead to the sale of the company that owns the popular television show "American Idol."
While it's the voters ultimately deciding who will win the title of "American Idol" each season, the judges' input can't be ignored.
I thought the whole point of reality TV was for some unknown Joe or Jane Schmo to have their 15 minutes of fame. But it's becoming more and more about celebrities trying to extend or reclaim their 15 minutes. (Hello, Jessica Simpson! And Steven Seagal!) Sure, this can be entertaining from time to time, but usually not in a good way.
The top 12 contestants for "American Idol" walk the "blue" carpet.
The success of "American Idol" hasn't just been about the singing talent.
Over the years, "American Idol" has been a lot of things: a launching pad for undiscovered talent, fodder for national conversation and even a blending of politics and pop culture (remember the "red state-blue state" debate last season during the Kris Allen-Adam Lambert showdown?).
Even before Ellen DeGeneres took her seat on "American Idol," the roar began.
There are many rumors floating around about "American Idol" season three winner Fantasia, but there is one that really, really bugs her.
News that acerbic British judge Simon Cowell is quitting the hugely popular talent show, "American Idol," has led to intense speculation as to whether the show can survive without him.
Celebs react to the news that Simon Cowell is leaving "American Idol" after this season.
Longtime "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell said he'll be leaving the popular Fox talent show at the end of the season, the network announced Monday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California.
There was a time when "American Idol" was unstoppable in the ratings.
Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Daughtry join Adam Lambert at the November show
Word of mouth and Twitter propel orders of his first album to No. 2 on Amazon.com
In the business of music talent shows, there's always room for one more.
Ellen Degeneres' surprise 'Idol' move. Is Ellen the right choice to replace Paula Abdul?
Ellen DeGeneres is excited about joining "American Idol" as a judge, and hopes fans won't see her as the "evil" person who stole Paula Abdul's job.
Randy Jackson says new American Idol judge Ellen Degeneres 'is going to bring the voice of the people.'
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RSVIP: Starry Karl Lagerfeld Relaunch of the Chanel Boutique in Soho
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Also served to celebrities on trays were black cans marked Chanel that looked as if they held spray paint. Instead, the device shot infrared to create graffiti on slick black wall monitors. "All right," said Claire Danes, aiming her can. "We need to do some graffiti!"
Graffiti has never looked quite so elegant.
With a bejeweled, shimmering black jacket over her shoulders, Sarah Jessica Parker mentioned that only her shoes and the bag were not Chanel.
Peter Marino, in head-to-toe black-leather, said that he had designed the new Chanel Boutique with Karl Lagerfeld. He described the interior as "only black-and-white, no beige."
"Beige is the color of Chanel," said Marino. "But this is strikingly youthful. And there is a lot of artwork by up-and-coming artists: works by Robert Green, Gregor Hildebrandt-- he melted old 45 records into cake pans. Richard Woods did the black-and-white faux-brick columns." Up high, fluorescent lights wrapped in rubber were also art.

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A supporter of Oxfam for more than seven years, actress Scarlett Johansson was motivated to become involved by the organization's response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. In 2007, she traveled to India and Sri Lanka and met tsunami survivors who were rebuilding their lives after losing their families and livelihoods. In 2011, Johansson travelled to Kenya to see the devastating impact of the severe drought that has hit parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, putting more than 13 million people at risk.
Actress Scarlett Johansson has fundraised for, advocated alongside, and promoted Oxfam since 2005. Johansson was motivated to become involved by Oxfam's response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
In 2007, Johansson took a life-changing trip to India and Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, she met with tsunami survivors and saw how Oxfam projects such as village irrigation schemes and schools are helping to reconstruct devastated communities. In India, Johansson met girls at an Oxfam-funded school that has enabled more than 1,000 children from the lowest caste to gain a basic education. Johansson made a generous donation, providing three years' funding for the school. "Once you've met amazing people like the Dalit girls I met on my trip, you just can't turn your back," said Johansson, "I was shocked by a lot of what I saw, but seeing the fantastic work Oxfam was doing I also felt that there was hope."
She also met survivors of domestic violence in India who are part of Oxfam's We Can campaign, which aims to dispel attitudes that support violence against women. In meetings with the Indian prime minister, the US ambassador, and the Sri Lankan foreign affairs minister, Johansson pressed for investment in health and education.
In 2008, Johansson joined other Oxfam ambassadors in calling on heads of state at the G8 in Japan to respond urgently to global poverty, reminding them that the world's poorest people are the most vulnerable to increased food prices and the negative impacts of climate change. In the same year, together with global figures including Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Sir David Attenborough, she signed an open letter urging world leaders at the UN meeting in Poland to tackle climate change.
Johansson's appeal to US consumers on behalf of Oxfam Unwrapped generated more than $100,000 in gifts for Mother's Day 2009. She has contributed to online auctions with eBay by donating opportunities to attend the premieres of her films "He's Just Not That Into You" and "Iron Man 2."
In 2010, Johansson supported Oxfam's Haiti response by recording a public service announcement urging people to give and by donating tickets to the opening night of her play "A View From the Bridge" to a fundraising auction. The face of MANGO clothing line, Johansson has also designed an exclusive handbag for MANGO that was sold to raise money for Oxfam's efforts in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
In 2011, Johansson joined Oxfam's GROW campaign, saying: "Sharing food is one of life's pleasures. On a global scale, we don't share fairly. Close to a billion people go to bed hungry every night. The fact is: the global food system is a broken one. All of us, from Kentucky to Kenya, deserve enough to eat."
In September 2011, Johansson travelled to Kenya to see the devastating impact of the severe drought that has hit parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, putting more than 13 million people at risk. She visited Dadaab, the biggest refugee camp in the world. Tens of thousands of Somali refugees have fled to Dadaab to escape drought and famine. She also visited the Turkana region of Northern Kenya, where chronic droughts have destroyed people's lives and livelihoods. Johansson saw how Oxfam is helping people with emergency aid - providing clean, safe water, distributing cash to help people meet their basic needs, as well as investing in long term projects to help build communities' resilience to droughts - for example by supporting pastoralists to retrain as fishermen and farmers.
"This is a long-term and escalating crisis exacerbated by political conflict, famine and drought that can no longer be ignored," said Johansson. "Over half the Somalis that have died are children; an entire generation lost. This is no longer an issue that can only garner some attention, some of the time. Extreme action must be taken by the global community now."
Following her trip, the Huffington Post published video footage and Johansson's own diary entries from Kenya. In addition, CNN will highlight Johansson and her trip with Oxfam in an upcoming segment on Impact Your World during the week of September 25.


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Chapter 1 Why SDI?
1. Robert S. McNamara, excerpts from a speech delivered September 18, 1967, in San Francisco before a meeting of journalists, reprinted in ABM: An Evaluation of the Decision to Deploy an Antiballistic Missile System, ed. Abram Chayes and Jerome B. Wiesner (New York: New American Library, 1969), p. 237. [BACK]
2. For the role of the refugee physicists, see Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson, Jr., A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, vol. 1: The New World, 1939-1946 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962), pp. 14-19; Martin Sherwin, A World Destroyed (New York: Knopf, 1975), pp. 18-30; and J. Stefan Dupré and Sanford A. Lakoff, Science and the Nation: Policy and Politics (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962), pp. 91-93. [BACK]
3. Truman reached his decision after the question had been well aired within the executive branch. The General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission had recommended against a clash program, but the commissioners themselves favored proceeding with it by 3 to 2. Truman asked a subcommittee of the National Security Council, composed of AEC chairman David E. Lilienthal, Secretary of Defensè Louis Johnson, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, to review the matter for him. The subcommittee was in favor by 2 to 1. Truman's decision was supported by prominent nuclear physicists, including Karl T. Compton, Edward Teller, Ernest O. Lawrence, John von Neumann, and Luis Alvarez. See Herbert F. York, The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976). [BACK]
4. Studies of defense policy making provide support for each of these factors. The role of "bureaucratic politics," i.e., the interplay of departments and agencies in the executive branch, acting out of organizational interest and perspective, is often stressed. Thus, in The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), Harvey M. Sapolsky notes that the success of the Polaris project was a result of the skill of its proponents in bureaucratic politics: "Competitors had to be eliminated; reviewing agencies had to be outmaneuvered; congressmen, admirals, newspapermen, and academicians had to be co-opted" (p. 244). In examining the controversy between the army and air force over which service should get responsibility for intermediate-range ballistic missiles, Michael H. Armacost also notes the importance of lobbying by the services and the applicability of the pressure-group model of analysis. He points out, however, that the services found it necessary to build consensus among journalists, members of Congress, analysts in quasi-autonomous "think tanks," and "an extensive network of scientific and technical advisory committees located within the Executive branch," and that this "very pluralism assured the government of a broad base of scientific and technical advice, and, superimposed upon service rivalries, this provided additional insurance that criticism of weapons programs was persistent and far from perfunctory" (The Politics of Weapons Innovation: The Thor-Jupiter Controversy [New York: Columbia University Press, 1969], p. 256).
Ted Greenwood, in a study of the decision to adopt the MIRV principle for warheads, argues persuasively against adoption of any single-factor analysis, noting that the decision to adopt MIRV resulted from "the complex interplay of technological opportunity, bureaucratic politics, strategic and policy preferences of senior decisionmakers, and great uncertainty about Soviet activities" (Making the MIRV: A Study of Defense Decision Making [Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1975], p. xv). Other studies, such as Gordon Adams, The Politics of Defense Contracting: The Iron Triangle (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1982), emphasize the role of the "iron triangle" (the federal bureaucracy, the key committees and members of Congress, and the defense contractors) in promoting military expenditures. Seymour Melman, in Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970), contends that the managers of DOD "sell weapons-improvement programs to Congress and the public" (p. 70). None of these factors played a significant role in the decision to begin SDI, though they may well become important when and if the research phase is succeeded by a commitment to develop and deploy an SDI system, when the stakes will be much higher. [BACK]
5. McNamara, in ABM: An Evaluation, p. 236. Graham T. Allison has suggested, however, that "U.S. research and development has been as much self-generated as Soviet-generated." See his "Questions About the Arms Race: Who's Racing Whom? A Bureaucratic Perspective," in Contrasting Approaches to Strategic Arms Control, ed. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1974), p. 42. [BACK]
6. Herbert F. York, Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970), pp. 238-39. [BACK]
7. Paul B. Stares, The Militarization of Space: U.S. Policy, 1945-84 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 190-92. [BACK]
8. Testimony of Robert S. Cooper before the U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Armed Services, Hearing on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces, 97th Cong., 2d sess., pt. 7, March 16, 1982, pp. 4845-76. [BACK]
9. Reagan's solicitation of advice on SDI from "a highly selective group" that was, in addition, intensely loyal to him has been contrasted with Eisenhower's submission of the proposal for a nuclear test ban to a broadly representative group of scientists in the President's Science Advisory Committee in G. Allen Greb, Science Advice to Presidents: From Test Bans to the Strategic Defense Initiative, Research Paper no. 3 (La Jolla: University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, 1987), p. 15. [BACK]
10. For a detailed account of how Eisenhower reached these decisions, see Samuel P. Huntington, The Common Defense (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), pp. 326-41. [BACK]
11. Interview in Newsweek, March 18, 1985, quoted in Star Wars Quotes (Washington, D.C.: Arms Control Association, 1986), p. 26. [BACK]
12. National Party Platforms of 1980, comp. Donald Bruce Johnson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982), p. 207. Richard V. Allen, who was to become President Reagan's first assistant for national security affairs, was influential in the adoption of the plank, according to his colleague, Martin Anderson, who was responsible for pressing Reagan's views on domestic policy with the platform drafters. See Martin Anderson, Revolution (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), p. 87. [BACK]
13. See Garry Wills, Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987), p. 361, and Michael Paul Rogin, Ronald Reagan, the Movie and Other Episodes in Political Demonology (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 1-2. The finale of the movie recapitulates the classical myth in which Phaeton, claiming to be the son of Apollo, nearly destroys the world by driving Apollo's chariot of the sun erratically until Jupiter rescues the earth by loosing a thunderbolt and arresting the flight. [BACK]
14. Quoted in Anderson, Revolution, p. 83. [BACK]
15. Text of interview in Robert Scheer, With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War (New York: Random House, 1982), pp. 232-33. [BACK]
16. Anderson, Revolution, pp. 85-86. [BACK]
17. The air force's "Space Master Plan" was publicized in July 1983 by Aviation Week & Space Technology. Stares, Militarization of Space, p. 219. [BACK]
18. Quoted in Frank Greve, "Star Wars," San Jose Mercury News, November 17, 1985. [BACK]
19. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, vol. 19, no. 13 (Washington, D.C.: White House, April 4, 1983), p. 453. Reagan had also used the same image years before: "As early as 1976, when he was challenging Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination, he criticized deterrence, comparing the arrangement to two people with guns cocked at each other's head." Michael Mandelbaum and Storbe Talbott, Reagan and Gorbachev (New York: Vintage, 1987), p. 126. [BACK]
20. Daniel O. Graham, "Towards a New U.S. Strategy: Bold Strokes Rather Than Increments," Strategic Review (Spring 1981): 9-16. [BACK]
21. Daniel O. Graham, High Frontier, A New National Strategy (Washington, D.C.: High Frontier, 1982), pp. 9, 18, 20. [BACK]
22. Cooper testimony, Senate Armed Services Committee, p. 4635. [BACK]
23. GAO, "DOD's Space-Based Laser Program—Potential, Progress, and Problems," Report by the Comptroller General of the United States (Washington, D.C.: GAO, February 26, 1982), pp. iii-iv. [BACK]
24. In 1982 DOD established a space laser program, as recommended by DARPA, in cooperation with the air force and the army. The plan called for the expenditure of $800 million over the period from FY1982 through FY1988, under the supervision of the office of the assistant secretary for directed energy weapons. [BACK]
25. Gregg Herken, Cardinal Choices: The President's Science Advisers from Roosevelt to Reagan, draft of chap. 6, p. 21. A substantial part of this chapter has been published as "The Earthly Origins of 'Star Wars,'" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (October 1987), pp. 20-28. [BACK]
26. Pete V. Domenici, "Towards a Decision on Ballistic Missile Defense," Strategic Review (Winter 1982): 22-27. [BACK]
27. William J. Broad, Star Warriors (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), pp. 39-40. [BACK]
28. Edward Teller, "SDI: The Last Best Hope," Insight (October 20, 1985), pp. 75-79. [BACK]
29. Broad, Star Warriors, p. 122. "In all," according to Broad, "Teller met with the President four times over the course of little more than a year." Teller, in a letter to the authors (September 21, 1987) claims to have had little direct influence on the president's decision: "Before the President's announcement of SDI, I had two very brief meetings with the President. I expressed no more than my general support and good hopes." In the September meeting, he recalls, "defense was mentioned but no subject like the X-ray laser was explicitly discussed." With respect to the X-ray laser, Teller's recollection does not jibe with Keyworth's. See Herken, Cardinal Choices, p. 23. [BACK]
30. Quoted in Greve, "Star Wars." [BACK]
31. Quoted by Broad, Star Warriors, p. 73. [BACK]
32. Edward Teller with Allen Brown, The Legacy of Hiroshima (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962), pp. 128-29. [BACK]
33. Edward Teller (Address to the Faculty Seminar on International Security at the University of California, San Diego, December 12, 1983). [BACK]
34. Anderson, Revolution, p. 95. [BACK]
35. Ibid. [BACK]
36. Greve, "Star Wars." [BACK]
37. Statement by the assistant for directed energy weapons to the under secretary of defense for research and engineering before the U.S. Congress, Senate Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, 98th Cong., 1st sess., March 23, 1983. [BACK]
38. Richard DeLauer, quoted in Arms Control Reporter (November 10, 1983). [BACK]
39. Richard DeLauer, interview in Government Executive (July-August 1983), quoted in Star Wars Quotes, p. 34. [BACK]
40. Greve, "Star Wars." [BACK]
41. Ibid. [BACK]
42. Herken, Cardinal Choices, chap. 6, pp. 46-47. [BACK]
43. John Bardeen, letter to the editor, Arms Control Today (July-August 1986), p. 2. [BACK]
44. Greve, "Star Wars." [BACK]
45. Hedrick Smith, The Power Game: How Washington Works (New York: Random House, 1988), pp. 612-14. [BACK]
46. Anderson, Revolution, p. 43. [BACK]
47. Greve, "Star Wars." [BACK]
48. Ibid. [BACK]
49. Anderson, Revolution, p. 97. [BACK]
50. Greve, "Star Wars." [BACK]
51. Testimony of Robert C. McFarlane before the U.S. Congress, Defense Policy Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, May 17, 1988, typescript, pp. 167-68. [BACK]
52. Ronald W. Reagan, interview, U.S. News and World Report (November 18, 1985), p. 30. [BACK]
53. Text of the "Star Wars" speech, New York Times, March 24, 1983. [BACK]
54. McFarlane testimony, Defense Policy Subcommittee, pp. 165-66; Mr. McFarlane's testimony was not altogether clear at this point. We have therefore supplied (in brackets) some punctuation and the subjects of unclear pronoun referents not supplied in the original transcript yet needed for sense. [BACK]
55. The CIA view was presented in the testimony by Robert M. Gates and Lawrence K. Gershwin before a joint session of the Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, June 26, 1985. The Joint Chiefs' view is reported in Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control (New York: Knopf, 1984), p. 224. [BACK]
56. Helmut Sonnenfeldt (Address at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, November 29, 1986). [BACK]
57. Thomas C. Schelling, "What Went Wrong with Arms Control?" Foreign Affairs 64 (Winter 1985-86): 217-33. [BACK]
58. See Michael Novak, "Moral Clarity in the Nuclear Age," National Review (April 1, 1983), pp. 354-62, and "The Bishops Speak Out," National Review (June 10, 1983), pp. 674-81. [BACK]
59. "Star Wars" speech, New York Times. [BACK]
60. Herken, Cardinal Choices, chap. 6, p. 49. [BACK]
61. "Star Wars" speech, New York Times. [BACK]
62. Ibid. [BACK]
63. Excerpt from an interview with Andropov in Pravda, March 27, 1983, quoted in Sidney D. Drell, Philip J. Farley, and David Holloway, The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical, Political, and Arms Control Assessment (Stanford, Calif.: Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, 1984), appendix B, p. 105. [BACK]
64. McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara, and Gerard Smith, "The President's Choice: Star Wars or Arms Control," Foreign Affairs 63 (Winter 1984-85): 270-72. [BACK]
65. Reagan interview with six journalists, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, vol. 19, no. 13 (Washington, D.C.: White House, April 4, 1983), p. 471. [BACK]
66. A 1985 Sindlinger Poll found that 85 percent of the U.S. public favored development of a missile defense "even if it can't protect everyone." Jeffrey Hart, "A Surprising Poll on Star Wars," Washington Times, August 9, 1985. A Gallup Poll in November 1985 found 61 percent in favor of the United States proceeding with SDI. Christian Science Monitor, November 21, 1985. [BACK]
67. Soviet Strategic Defense Program (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Defense and Department of State, October 1985). [BACK]
68. On December 7, 1983, Secretary Weinberger was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying: "I can't imagine a more destabilizing factor for the world than if the Soviets should acquire a thoroughly reliable defense against these missiles before we did." Cited in Star Wars Quotes, p. 52. [BACK]
69. See Colin S. Gray, "Air Defence: A Sceptical View," Queens Quarterly 79 (Spring 1972): 9, where he notes that boost-phase interception of ICBMs "would take the lion's share of the current U.S. defence budget." [BACK]
70. Colin S. Gray, American Military Space Policy: Information Systems, Weapons Systems, and Arms Control (Cambridge, Mass.: Abt Books, 1982), pp. 15-16. [BACK]
71. "The low incremental costs per kill ... could make lasers effective against other targets, such as bombers and cruise missiles. Given the ability to detect them, either could be attacked from space for the incremental cost of the fuel required. Space lasers could engage tactical aircraft at cost advantages of about 100:1." Gregory H. Canavan, "Defense Technologies for Europe," in Strategic Defense and the Western Alliance, ed. Sanford Lakoff and Randy Willoughby (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1987), p. 49. [BACK]
72. "A defended America could more reasonably make security guarantees to NATO-Europe because it would face fewer risks in doing so. A U.S. deterrent threat on behalf of its allies would be much more credible if that threat did not enable the potential destruction of the U.S." Keith B. Payne, Strategic Defense: "Star Wars" in Perspective (Lanham, Md.: Hamilton, 1986), p. 214. [BACK]
73. See William D. Hartung et al., in The Strategic Defense Initiative: Costs, Contractors, and Consequences, ed. Alice Tepper Marlin and Paula Lippin (New York: Council on Economic Priorities, 1985); John P. Holdren and F. Bailey Green, "Military Spending, the SDI, and Government Support of Research and Development: Effects on the Economy and the Health of American Science," F.A.S. Public Interest Report 39 (September 1986); and Daniel S. Greenberg, "Civilian Research Spinoffs from SDI Are a Delusion," Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1986. [BACK]
74. The potential economic benefits were stressed in Graham, High Frontier, pp. 89-98, and more recently in SDIO, Report to Congress on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Washington, D.C.: SDIO, April 1987), pp. viii, 2-5. [BACK]
75. "You know, we only have a military-industrial complex until a time of danger, and then it becomes the arsenal of democracy. Spending for defense is investing in things that are priceless—peace and freedom." President Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, February 6, 1985, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, vol. 21, no. 6 (Washington, D.C.: White House, February 11, 1985), p. 143. [BACK]
76. For a presentation of this conservative view, see Norman Podhoretz, The Present Danger (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980), pp. 56-57. [BACK]
77. Ibid. [BACK]
78. For an exposition of the "Reagan doctrine" see Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, "The Reagan Doctrine and U.S. Foreign Policy" (Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 1983) and "Implementing the Reagan Doctrine," National Security Record no. 82 (Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, August 1985). The doctrine is examined critically in Stephen S. Rosenfeld, "The Guns of July," Foreign Affairs 64 (Spring 1986): 698-714. [BACK]
79. Garry Wills, Reagan, p. 360. The broad appeal of SDI is noted in Kevin Phillips, "Defense Beyond Thin Air: Space Holds the Audience," Los Angeles Times, March 10, 1985. [BACK]
80. Fred S. Hoffman, study director, Ballistic Missile Defenses and U.S. National Security (Summary report prepared for the Future Security Strategy Group, October 1983). [BACK]
81. "Given the drastically changed strategic balance and the developments in offensive arms control and BMD technology since the signing of the ABM Treaty, an important question is whether it serves a useful purpose." Payne, Strategic Defense, p. 161. [BACK]
82. "We would see the transition period as a cooperative endeavor with the Soviets. Arms control would play a critical role. We would, for example, envisage continued reductions in offensive nuclear arms." Paul H. Nitze, "On the Road to a More Stable Peace" (address to the Philadelphia World Affairs Council, February 20, 1985); published as Current Policy no. 657 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs). [BACK]
83. Ibid. [BACK]
84. Alvin M. Weinberg and Jack N. Barkenbus, "Stabilizing Star Wars," Foreign Policy 54 (Spring 1984): 164-70, and Weinberg and Barkenbus, eds., Strategic Defenses and Arms Control (New York: Paragon House, 1987). [BACK]
85. "To achieve agreements drastically reducing numbers of offensive weapons, and to provide assurance against clandestine violations of such agreements, some deployment of missile defenses may be helpful. In the long run, the transition from a world of assured destruction to a world of live-and-let-live must be accompanied by a transfer of emphasis from offensive to defensive weapons." Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope (New York: Harper and Row, 1984), p. 281. [BACK]
86. Reagan, quoted in New York Times, October 15, 1986. [BACK]
87. See Thomas K. Longstreth, John E. Pike, and John B. Rhinelander, The Impact of U.S. and Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense Programs on the ABM Treaty (Washington, D.C.: National Campaign to Save the ABM Treaty, March 1985), pp. 42-51, and Peter A. Clausen, "Transition Improbable: Arms Control and SDI," in Empty Promise: The Growing Case Against Star Wars, ed. John Tirman, Union of Concerned Scientists (Boston: Beacon, 1986), pp. 191—92. [BACK]
88. Robert C. McFarlane, in a television interview, quoted in Arms Control Reporter (October 1985). [BACK]
89. Ambassador Smith made this comment on October 6, 1985; quoted in Arms Control Reporter (October 1985). [BACK]
90. Gerard C. Smith, letter to the editor, New York Times, October 23, 1985. [BACK]
91. George P. Shultz (Address to the North Atlantic Assembly, San Francisco, October 14, 1985), quoted in Arms Control Reporter (October 1985). [BACK]
92. Report to Congress on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Washington, D.C.: SDIO, June 1986), appendix C. [BACK]
93. Thus, Sidney D. Drell has called for "a prudent, deliberate, and high-quality research program ... within ABM Treaty limits" at a level of roughly $2 billion per year. "Prudence and the 'Star Wars' Effort: Research Within the Bounds of ABM Treaty Can Aid Safer World," Los Angeles Times, March 10, 1985. [BACK]
94. See especially Yevgeni Velikhov, Roald Sagdeyev, and Andrei Kokoshin, eds., Weaponry in Space: The Dilemma of Security (Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1986), chap. 4, pp. 69-77, chap. 7, pp. 106-27. [BACK]
95. "The Department of Defense Directed Energy Program and Its Relevance to Strategic Defense," statement by the assistant for directed energy weapons to the under secretary of defense for research and engineering before the Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, 98th Cong., 1st sess., March 23, 1983, p. 3. [BACK]


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Volume 26 - Article 22 | Pages 593-632
Point process models for household distributions within small areal units
Date received: | 10 Sep 2011 |
Date published: | 13 Jun 2012 |
Word count: | 5744 |
Keywords: | areal units, household distribution, point processes, simulation, spatial demography |
DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2012.26.22 |
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Spatio-demographic data sets are increasingly available worldwide, permitting ever more realistic modeling and analysis of social processes ranging from mobility to disease transmission. The information provided by these data sets is typically aggregated by areal unit, for reasons of both privacy and administrative cost. Unfortunately, such aggregation does not permit fine-grained assessment of geography at the level of individual households. In this paper, we propose to partially address this problem via the development of point process models that can be used to effectively simulate the location of individual households within small areal units.
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Carter T. Butts - University of California, Irvine, United States of America
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The message of Crash is simple and direct: Racism not only still exists, but it perniciously affects -- both directly and indirectly -- the everyday experiences of people from all walks of life. To make this point and drive it home, first-time director Paul Haggis (who wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby and coscreenwriter Bobby Moresco (who was one of that film's producers) have cooked up an interlocking set of stories featuring more than a dozen principal characters set during an unusually cold 24 hours in Los Angeles, that American hotbed of racial and cultural tensions.
Although at the opposite end of the temperature spectrum, the chill in the air, visually evoked by the film's cool blue palette and occasional sprinkling of snow, has a similar effect as the heat did in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) by both symbolizing and intensifying the racial emotions and conflicts. In his film, Lee saw racism as a constant boil just waiting to explode, while 15 years later Haggis sees it as a chill that has settled into the bones of society, with the occasional flare-ups acting as reminders of its unseemly permanence.
Crash is also similar to Do the Right Thing in that its characters do some terrible things, but we always understand why they do them. We may not agree with what they do, but we always have a sense of their reasoning, even if that reasoning is buried on a deep, subconscious level. Much of the film is about action and reaction, but at its heart it is about communication - or, more precisely, the lack thereof. So much of the conflict in Crash is the direct result of miscommunication, which is as prevalent among strangers who don't speak the same first language as it is among husbands, wives, lovers, and partners.
Haggis and Moresco's screenplay is an interesting study in contrivance masked by expertly drawn characters and excellent dialogue. All of the characters cross each others' paths at some point, and in some way they are all bound to crash into other, both physically and emotionally. Haggis and Moresco have to work in some amazing coincidences in order to get all the characters in the right place at the right time, for example Matt Dillon's racist police officer just happening to be in a position to save a wealthy black woman (Thandie Newton) who he happened to sexually harass the night before when he stopped her and husband, a successful black TV director (Terence Howard). Similarly, a younger police officer played by Ryan Philippe, who was on hand to witness Dillon's grotesque behavior and asked for a reassignment as a result, just happens to be nearby when the TV director husband, after being accused of being an Uncle Tom one too many times, goes off the deep end and threatens to make good on every racist stereotype about black male behavior imaginable.
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Think about what kind of people gravitate toward organizations where the prey is available. Again, I unfortunately researched a lot of this in the past, but one of the warnings the authorities point out is that the underground network of pedophilia is a thriving and efficient one. It's rife with men who volunteer to be cub scout leaders, volunteers, etc where young boys are present and sports is number one. A guy like Sandusky, who's connected to the Second Mile, hell he started it, surely was/is connected to that underground network. College football attracts all types of boosters, 99% of which are probably normal alumni who just love their school.
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Turned out the guy was OK, but those are the warning signs you need to look for. The orgs like NAMBLA encourage their "members" to seek out positions as coaching. As parents get busier, people let their guard down when someone else will donate their time. They tell their members this is the last frontier for finding new blood.
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The small business perspective on the fiscal cliff
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-- -- That's small business and today -- Lawrence -- at eight back.
NIC thank you so much for joining us and -- -- at Cincinnati Lauren and on FaceBook.
-- -- -- A couple of small business who is actually sacrificing a lot just to get her products in your -- this is -- ladies.
While that may be some times for the benefit men it's not so we're doing great now nice fancy it's -- The founder and discover peak which is pantyhose tights stockings leggings you name it and your mission is so lady never wears pants again I was so relay -- that you hate pants now I actually like -- And I found that when I wears tight it's our candy has our stockings -- my confidence is just elevated it's taken to the next level and my plans and I found that it gives us the confidence to go exact science a couple of it gives us the confidence to ask that raise it's what -- kinda supermodel facts it's basically in the same equipment.
Plastic -- you just feel better you stand a little taller.
Got yeah I would agree yeah.
But as any woman knows it's hard to find any of comfortable pair of tight stockings misery whatever you want to call it.
-- -- It doesn't hurt -- ways you don't see the lines and -- -- don't care rifts accidentally and many wanted to look nice son your leg and that usually comes at a at a price.
Absolutely so I had -- source incredible products around the world I -- this incredible journey and -- And products that are high a high end and feel comfortable -- don't have the lines are seeing -- they have skills that are -- in.
They don't have the tags in the back they feel comfortable they're not gonna hold you fat friend being that person you want to be like that -- sorry to be better.
Well and let's face it when you're going shopping for -- Macy's has a huge hosiery sections of the Bloomingdale's.
But you don't you know look at the the little.
Clearly laying on the -- yeah see initiator of the fabric you don't really touch -- -- play with that you don't really know what.
-- department now is going to be like seat tested -- -- bringing everyone the best stuff that you found around the world that you can't necessarily.
I hear and I personally test every product that goes into marsh Arabs every month -- -- -- -- -- -- -- High -- anywhere between eight to twenty different products and I get so excited by every single product because.
Everything I try so it's not like you're gonna get something that I haven't personally walked around New York City and and tested for quality in Paris at sentencing.
-- -- -- -- -- -- Probably around a hundred and something right now and I'm constantly -- and and trying new things always down relinquish on them money and and is going to very -- right now stockings and write some -- she can do a whole bunch of things with them.
-- -- comes at a price so I tell us your pricing.
So I decided to have two different pricing structures one's 25 wins 48 a month a month per month.
And the 48 seems expensive but once you try on the stockings you realize the different quality.
And -- you that you feel in them so.
25 gets you one pair of forty dollars gets you one to two -- it's depending on which products you just.
Icon we were talking before this segment and how to convince me a little that I could have 38 dollars -- a lot to spend on aid pair of tights and a and you said it is but they lasts -- they look good.
And you are sometimes buying them from more than 48 dollars and selling them a sense at a loss to get awareness out there that stockings are the way to Jack.
You know I really believe in the products and I think that once women are discovering these types of products -- high -- The luxurious the ones that make you feel -- I mean when you when you do spend that type of money you do get higher quality and different design quality as well.
And so once you try -- you are -- you won't want to get anything else anything else we'll just feel cheap and it I mean not not as fun.
As a business owner and a small business on our new business how difficult -- this to get up and pack -- -- -- -- As a small business he faced obstacles all that time.
My business mentors Marie Foleo and she has this -- Everything is figure out a ball.
And every day that I have an obstacle which.
Always happens and get my big girl takes on.
And I show up and I think that's most important thing we need to have obstacles just to show up and remember everything is figure out apple you can figure out anything that you need to figure out.
Okay and do you plan on designing -- on -- I naming -- and absolutely.
Next fall you'll definitely see a collection had discovered -- types -- and taking an all lists over the past.
Couple months we've been learning from our clients and that's actually where the instructional video that let's take a look at it lets you -- the caption that it would.
Boom boom boom boom and its.
-- -- question comes from -- California Claire asked.
And other colors and that's happening and I'm sure how to incorporate color into my courtroom.
Larry we are also -- the -- every now and hope it's not passing fashion -- easiest way to -- your adamant.
It's -- together every different floods that anyone can -- -- any -- some cool.
And easy -- -- can be achieved my swing keys is that all the remaining Holler abstinence only -- spirits often you can select colors from that next.
But complements it with another -- remember not to be matching -- matching.
-- teaching women how embrace their -- history it seems like if you're taking questions from your audience yes you'd be -- -- social -- Absolutely.
And I love social media.
But it's easy is it for business to get confused with social media outlet to use.
And as a business you have to identify which one is useful to you sentence -- I started using YouTube because they start getting questions from plans on how to -- our products so instead -- focusing my energy across all media outlets I focus on YouTube and it's been pretty six sorry on Twitter or FaceBook.
I and a yes we used -- Is your best outlet it and that's outlet you have -- -- -- Or up look.
We FaceBook update your status with the YouTube -- is that some of them now have yet you know we do a lot of segments especially on Wednesday's -- launches its.
On how to best use social media and the response from different people businesses there's always interest and -- -- different -- -- -- it but I guess as being any.
And see it right now I need to be on every thing you -- just like mass information all the time on the so I'm assuming this is expensive traveling to Europe and all the other places you don't find your products.
On the and then running business.
How are you how are you doing.
And -- currently I do it myself -- Worked and save my money to -- my business everything happens for my own pocket.
But it's.
We've had such a great following of women who believe in our business and we discontinued wrapped -- singer who are you making a profit.
Right now breaking -- then and he hit considering he started one exactly recently we recently we officially launch in September.
-- -- every every month we continue to -- We've tripled in the number of employees.
And come in and actually mean we use I would ask.
Which is a great platform for freelancers.
So I'm constantly bringing in new great talent for freelance it's been like -- you would you for us to do anything so if I need video edited -- speaking at MI video as if I need to need to do some graphic design -- they can be some graphic design -- and it's a really great online resource already causing a task desk and -- and you can find anybody from around the world at any price to do the quality work that you need.
And I found a collection of amazing people to do the work that I need.
Yeah that's really good point it's testing begins at -- even think that if you are doing these great.
He needed someone to shoot it down and to -- someone to go through -- maybe to help you had a best address the camera to accessorize everything they -- it's it's a lot -- out the last couple that I know.
These small business owner is I give a lot of people a lot of credit for that.
OK so you're -- you get into your own flying CNN.
Yeah maybe yeah.
And I can definitely bring in our own designed -- and also continue to bring in these fabulous -- There's so many small brands are doing incredible things so it's going to be incorporating them with our -- Renaissance -- trying to.
I love pattern and I actually think that pattern our.
You get noticed me walking so far the -- different differentiate yourself from everybody else is to Wear something that's different thoughts and as a female walking into a bar job interview and wearing something that's difference we'll get you noticed.
Lessening many people senate doesn't -- you maybe just.
He knew it or black tie it might be the way to go but it is 2012 absolutely -- a couple of ads and you know a year your unique and you should show you and uniqueness through.
I mean right now I'm thinking candy has -- where would you sell airline exclusively on your side I would -- exclusively on our side of the terrorist yeah I mean.
I when I'm not saying it's retailers but I think right now that.
Online is such a strong it's such a strong presence for us that you continue to do the -- where would you make them.
After I would love to you make -- in -- -- that is my number one goal.
-- a business that supports women and also supports made in the US act so -- I don't he would sit.
How do you go about constructing.
I think it's incredible.
So North Carolina there's a ton of mills that does hosiery and there's -- YouTube video on how to -- -- and you have to watch it I think I have -- on my website somewhere and that.
Your Millon that that I get an honor a paycheck isn't anything that's what it is the president makes hasn't -- Anheuser it has.
I happen because -- -- there you know really aren't going to break right now they do so much for coming home where let's say.
On the -- right now set to its -- the founder and discover peak.
Dot com I believe that -- it.
It's difficult to engage and rational negotiations.
-- one side holds well known facts and proven truth in such lowest thing.
Hopefully compromises not battery.
-- the president doesn't agree.
With our proposal and are outlined.
I think he's got an obligation.
To send one to the congress.
And a plan that can pass both chambers of congress.
I and I.
About before or not.
This book club are you clipped out I certainly am welcome back to the show.
Let's talk about how this this booklet is affecting small businesses out -- the backbone of the US economy.
Who better to bring in men the -- two gentlemen we have Steve called -- president and CEO the international franchise association joining us.
From DC and next he always -- fox the president and CEO fire house something.
I gentlemen thanks for joining us.
Thank you thank you for having us.
Crucial timer coming down to the wire right now just a couple of days left before we potentially go over that -- -- last -- we go over it.
-- money taken -- -- I hope not yeah.
I I don't think there's any any any good outcome by going over the fiscal cliff clearly it would not be.
His confidence that they -- windy -- for the financial markets and I can tell you that our small business owners.
80% of which -- else -- Partnerships -- passive -- through their business.
Are already holding back until they know what tax rates are going to be -- all this clip there is no good scenario.
Like going into that ditch.
From our perspective in the franchise.
Yeah and let's talk about how it affects franchises.
-- he sent a letter that 51 CEOs signs to the president.
Will pull -- part of it right now you -- raising taxes.
On those individual filers who aren't 250000.
Dollars you will further deep -- franchise development.
In the coming years.
Considering the average franchise including franchise fees and development costs is more than 500000 dollars congress must carefully weigh the consequences.
Of raising taxes on these jobs.
Well you know small.
Businesses create 65% of the jobs in this country according to the Department of Labor.
Two years ago the president supported an extension of the bush -- tax cuts.
In two years ago the unemployment rate was still around 8% it's all around 8% we're dealing with 23 million fun and play people underemployed people want you let you know looking for work.
Yeah I don't see how anything has changed so why in this environment to raise taxes on anyone especially -- job -- in this country.
And here's the other thing mark now the president keeps talking about 2% 3%.
Those 2% 3%.
I'm American.
Taxpayers' -- and 941000.
Businesses and if we jump over this -- That pitch immediately according to -- -- onward and only seven and 141000 jobs I think every job this economy is critical right now.
You know doing more and I would added I don't think anybody can put together a plan that -- us out of this fiscal mess that doesn't include growth.
Growth is just a mandatory part of the equation over the short term in the long term.
And it comes to small business others use our own a brand is an example firehouse solved -- have 300 franchisees trying to develop additional restaurants.
With my existing operators are looking to add an additional restaurant.
They have to save earnings to go for to be able to get the next loan.
So every dollar and it's that's taken from them in the added taxation or -- no no matter no matter of -- destination.
He puts them one dollar further away from having in our case the next 80000 dollars they need to go to the bank.
And get the next loans so.
It's it's indisputable that it at the very least it's going to slow down the pace of growth slowdown the creation of jobs and that's not just jobs in our restaurants that's jobs for the equipment manufacturers that.
But it that we spend 7080000 dollars on equipment package over a 100000 dollars in construction buildup that has take place.
And that's just all -- at the very least slow down and we can't afford it.
Have that.
Slowed it's a huge triple down effect I believe each -- franchise creates forty jobs -- On average estimate franchise in history -- arm and had any idea when any warnings well we just that a member survey.
-- we asked our memories here.
In fact we went over the fiscal -- what would that meet your business 79% of our members said that they would completely.
A halt growth plans and you look at.
The franchise model and a lot of our franchisees have development agreements with their franchise and work then they have two or three or four establishments right now -- may have an agreement.
For ten or twelve or fifteen.
And so without tax certainty.
Or we raise taxes on small businesses that is not a prescription for growth in our industry.
My son how many -- franchises is firehouse subs half.
Currently we have over 350 we have 293.
Of those.
Our existing operators anywhere from single unit operator -- -- is twelve units and virtually all of them.
Are trying to develop their next restaurant -- the norm model we -- operator and owner operators are gonna develop multiple locations.
Right and what it wasn't number one thing that those owners of this franchise this city.
I'm sorry can you beat -- what is the number one thing that the owners of those specific franchises say AT.
In that they need certainty.
But they certainly don't want to see taxes increase that are -- -- take disposable income away from their consumers.
And and they don't want to be put further.
They don't wanna have their next investment opportunity taken further out of batted out of reach they're working too hard.
You know there's I think there's a a bit of misperception and even about.
Fold since small business that lets say are making 300000 dollars a year and Andy and the tax increases -- impact that that additional 50000 -- think -- That's enough to really come in in my situation that might be a four restaurant owner.
That has taxable income of 300000 dollars.
But in those four restaurants they also have four loans.
And probably all blended.
I've heard about the midpoint of those loans so they have been total about a 120000.
Dollars of principal payments they have to make during the year -- comes after after tax income.
So there you're nowhere close to in terms of real income for themselves personally anywhere close to that margin so.
So they're being penalized taxed and much higher rate in the in that situation.
Then other folks who -- in actually a lower income brackets real income brackets from compared to -- -- -- Hello -- my dad and went quite well one more point you know the president -- -- during the campaign as well as governor Romney talked about the importance of small.
This -- to the growth of the US economy.
He's right.
And today he's you know he's not a charm offensive with the corporate CEO's many in which are done.
The jobs council which -- up by most accounts was only.
And effective impact right now he's talking to a group of CEOs and business roundtable.
And course we think corporate tax reform is important for us as an industry in the country any more competitive.
And a global conflict cannot come on the backs of the small business community again that create two thirds of the jobs -- -- jobs in this country which.
Why he had been pushing so hard.
For comprehensive tax reform and so if the corporate CEOs can't see that people many of which an argument here for corporate tax form that you gotta have small business at that.
Look we talk about the impending -- in the fiscal cliff and tax rates and.
Yeah not to mention health care and that's gonna take a bite out hiring to lead those cost a -- them -- dying you.
You hear the others healthcare expenses from many of the usually -- well it's not only the -- costs and health care and implementation.
-- it's also -- dealing with a lack of access to capital especially that's fine I'm from north.
What else in the aggravate it again it's not a.
Description that we -- -- and -- had.
-- -- I was gonna add -- game.
Our firehouse subs is -- in 2011 we were the fifth fastest growing restaurant.
Brand in the country.
We will develop even under the trying circumstances that we have now a hundred restaurants this year we're growing at 562 our plan is to involve more than that next year.
But the more barriers that are thrown away the tougher it is going to be -- to contribute to growth.
Administration -- congress just doesn't seem to understand what businesses need to hear thank you so much you made my job really easy.
But your perspective at hand as he gets him any questions I think out there and done -- have a great dating for coming -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- website of the international franchise association now franchising dust or.
And are we gonna break -- heading to are going to go to break we'll be back right after this.
Welcome back well -- very young onto the norm in Mississippi inspired by 9/11 then.
Is the subject of our next story foxnews.com.
Reporter Gary tiny joining us with more on that hi there.
Hey -- are you doing your head to head we don't have much time so we want we want to hear about everything someone elected taken away.
-- this young girl -- is now seventeen years old Emily Wald an issue is the president and CEO of her company.
Flag pole express here's your story.
Far from Manhattan Pennsylvania and Washington DC -- -- Mississippi six year old girls patriotism after 9/11.
Has grown into a thriving business.
Really how funny even though the deficit Stalin and can't I'd like many let's.
Let's -- -- Americans.
-- -- in her dad built the flag -- to hand the stars and stripes in their own free -- -- -- -- life and I as a little I didn't let it -- ever almost immediately neighbors and friends started asking for flag poles in their homes as well in eleven years later business is booming -- your.
All we want is for people to have bibles and be able to happen in the front yard because as American -- we need to -- that we're proud.
-- company flag pole express has no built delivered and installed more than 400 flag poles at homes and businesses all throughout northern Mississippi Memphis and imports of Arkansas -- -- -- The best the people get each flag -- sells for a couple hundred dollars and eleven years she's made more than 100000 dollars in profit.
This is -- country that the American dream as possible and really.
That's what occurred -- this with her little business.
Italy's flag poles are made of heavy duty -- so each one -- between fifty and eighty pounds now that's a lot of weight for a teenage girl so her dad helped chart would most of the installations.
But other than that she pretty much does it all I don't look like one of those hard -- cell Spartan family plans to study international business at college after next year and says wherever she goes flag pole express this coming winter undoubtedly get a -- -- -- as long as I possibly can play -- and a black kids.
Now this last year has been the best year of business for flag pole express.
In from last year to this year business has grown by 47%.
Lower case what.
-- like all of that money 100000 dollars in profit for girl like seventeen.
When needed.
As -- makes about eight to 101000 dollars a year for you know a young kid that's like winning the lottery I.
I'll yield similar things that people with a lot of your review she bought her car kicker -- to Disneyland.
Over Europe now she's saving up for -- -- tuition.
Said he she's enjoying life to the fullest York international business -- to tell you where Johnson out.
She's not sure yet but she's a really Smart girl as you can tell straight a student 31 on the ACT not to mention her own business so.
You know she's not gonna have a hard time picking where she wants ago.
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