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I don't know. John F. Kennedy was attacked constantly by the media by right wing for his ineptitude with Castro and the Bay of Pigs and even with what they perceived at the time, his administration's dealings with the Soviet Union. Mostly in print media. Editorial cartoonists were drawing him under a guillotine and with a target on his back. Some even wished upon his death. Which very well, may have helped make it come about.
Most of the policies he brought about were ineffective. Letting communism literally knock on your doorstep isn't going to help your case with the press. Finally while he may have been the first candidate that television helped, I don't think the press understood their power at that time.
I think the vitroil for Reagan was based on the fact that as a person familiar with how presentation works, he was really the first Republican to beat them at their own game. While the media still had a slant, they still wanted to been seen as objective. This means if you managed your message right, they had no choice but to at least give it an airing. I see this the opposite of you. There were fewer media outlets then. CNN was founded and around in the time of Reagan but could not and did not have the effect multiple cable news outlets have now. In short with enough discipline, enough money and with the media leaning but not actively advocating, you could get out your message.
I would say that prime examples of this with regard to Republicans, and part of their learning process related to it were Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The difference between Bork and Thomas showed that media attacks could be overcome.
So again, it works both ways. Yes, the media can be evil, but it can do what is right too. No surprise there.
It doesn't have to be good and evil. The media can simple report the facts. They spend more time spinning and analyzing it than reporting it at this stage.
This morning MTP had Rahm Emanual on. I would rather watch him for an entire hour or have two or three segments with different interviewees. Why do I need half an hour of him being asked questions and then another half hour of the talking heads telling us what to think about it? This trend is getting much worse.
I don't watch FoxNews 24/7. When I go to aggregator sources, I do not see Fox News cited anymore than most news sites. I'm sure since I read conservative blogs, I would see their in depth investigations being used to discredit Democratic politician after Democratic politician. If anything, I would say they have gotten as lazy as the others in that they no longer question, just take the talking points and add their spin and thoughts to them. Journalism is more than reading press releases and talking points, no matter the source.
You are right in that I probably "watch" less of my news than 90% of everyone and even you. The flow of information is just too slow most of the time. I get roughly 95% of my news from reading. I'd say 3% video clips and finally 2% actual watching of news.
That isn't news. Those are gaffes and images used to craft caricatures so that you will ignore the news. He didn't guide himself any better than anyone else. The media simply didn't want to create a caricature of him and so they didn't use his gaffes and their images of him for that purpose. This is part of why Obama still isn't "funny" and why people can't crack a joke about him. The media refuses to touch him. There are no endless jokes about his inability to count 57 states. There is no talking heads going on over and over about how incompetent he must be now that his vetting process has missed issues with two picks. There is no discussion about how he can't kick his smoking habit or any other nonsense. No one has counted his "uh's."
I honestly don't want the news to be about whether Obama has kicked the smoking habit. However why is there no discussion of whether a spending a trillion dollars is "stimulus" or just pigs feeding at a trough. The is just no questioning at all going on.
Works both ways...
Regardless of interviews, there is eventually this thing called reality. You dont have to like her interview but the reality is that her record is good. No record is perfect but hers is good. When I am reading crap like "Oh she raised sales taxes to pay for infrastructure" and doubts are cast about with that, it just comes off ridiculous.
The reason the media left the sidelines and clearly jumped into the game so quickly with her is two-fold. One, she has the same traits Obama has with regard to campaigning. Secondly, the media remember Reagan and knows what a media savvy Republican can do. She clearly wasn't and hasn't been savvy enough, but there is still fear there because like most bubbles, there is a sort of collective waking up and I suspect that soon this will happen after we have spent a few trillion and not watched anything improve.
It's there job. Our job as people is to be educated, but we all know that that has been the problem for many these days to begin with.
We are as educated as we have ever been as a populace. I've noted multiple times that it isn't a coincidence in my view that the closer you are to a major media center, the bluer your politics. The media though is going broke as an institution. Propaganda isn't profitable. People declare it is just newspapers but it is weekly periodicals, network news and several cable channels.
The problem now isn't information, but disinformation. People tune out when they don't have five hours a day to sort out the crap from the news. When a news program promises 60 minutes of news and instead delivers 15 minutes of news with 45 minutes of "analysis." Most people don't have the extra three hours to get the full news because the signal to noise ratio is so bad.
As with the "who elected Obama" bit, people understood every caricature the media created. They were "informed" but not with news.
I'll wait to see that guarantee.
Guess not. That's more pressing to me than a meeting Rahm may have had with an asshole.
Shit this typing is killing me. Done for now...\
Even I can understand why he wasnt asked and wouldn't answer that. The reality though is we had the entire campaign to inform ourselves to how we believe Obama would hande this. If you can't answer that and instead know that Palin is a bimbo with a pregnant daughter, then you are part of the problem because instead of rewarding that, we need to reward who asks the hard questions.
Sorry if the typing is killing you but this is much more enjoyable for me than the pictures. Your thoughts are good ones when I get to read them.
We don't know because Palin would never have been given the softballs.
Well, if it had been Palin in the position that Rahm is now, and she had been asked about phone calls, she would have said:
"You know, when it comes to phone calls and candidates and whatever position the voters have entrusted me with, there, I think it's very important to be very clear with the American people with regards to how they communicate, and when there is some question as there is there we've just got to do a better job of avoiding even the appearance of any wrong-doing, there, and I think that's what's happened, so, you know, I have faith that the American people will know what's right and we'll continue to work to put this country back on the right path with job creation and tax cuts, there."
And there would have been no followup question because lingering in the vicinity of such is too depressing, even for reporters.
You are so funny suggesting that Palin would be allowed to speak for several sentences without continual interruption by the interviewer challenging every word out of her mouth.
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The Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) is a dolphin found in the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean. Older members of the species have a very distinctive spotted coloration all over their bodies.
The Atlantic spotted dolphin was first described by Cuvier in 1828. Considerable variation in the physical form of individuals occurs in the species, and specialists have long been uncertain as to the correct taxonomic classification. Currently, just one species is recognised, but a large, particularly spotty variant commonly found near Florida quite possibly may be classified as a formal subspecies or indeed a species in its own right.
Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas have been observed mating with bottlenose dolphins.[3] Rich LeDuc has published data that suggest the Atlantic spotted dolphin may be more closely related to bottlenose dolphin (genus Tursiops) than to other members of the genus Stenella.[3]
The coloring of the Atlantic spotted dolphin varies enormously as they grow. Calves are a fairly uniform grey colour. When the calves are weaned, they then begin to get their spots. Juveniles have some dark spots on their bellies, and white spots on their flanks. Their back and dorsal fins are a darker grey than the rest of the body. As the animal matures, the spots become denser and spread until the body appears black with white spots at full maturation.
The Atlantic spotted dolphin has a three-part coloration: dark gray back, lighter sides, and a white belly.
Measurements at birth:
- Length: about 35–43 in (89–109 cm)
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- Male 2.26 m (7 ft 5 in)
- Female 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in)
- Weight: 310
- Male 140 kg (310 lb)
- Female 130 kg (290 lb)
This is a medium-sized dolphin in both length and weight. At full size, South American spotted dolphins are about 2.2-2.5 m in length. Compared to the much smaller pantropical spotted dolphin, the Atlantic spotted dolphin is more robust. It lives in common waters with the pantropical spotted dolphin and the bottlenose dolphin.
In common with other species in its genus, the Atlantic spotted dolphin is a gregarious creature. It is a fast swimmer and keen bow-rider, and prone to acrobatic aerial displays.
Population and distribution[edit]
The species is endemic to the temperate and tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean. It has been widely observed in the western end of the Gulf Stream, between Florida and Bermuda. Off the Bahamas, tourism industries to swim with dolphins are available.[4] It is also present in the Gulf of Mexico. More infrequent sightings have been made further east, off the Azores and Canary Islands. Northerly sightings have been made as far north as Cape Cod across to the southwestern tip of Spain. They are certainly present further south, too, as far as Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and across to west Africa, but their distribution is poorly understood in these areas.
About 20 years ago, only about 80 dolphins were in the Bahamas. Now, almost 200 dolphins are found there. On account of their similar appearance to other dolphins in their range, it is difficult to be sure of the Atlantic spotted dolphin's population. A conservative estimate is around 100,000 individuals.
Human interaction[edit]
Some Atlantic spotted dolphins, particularly some of those are around the Bahamas, have become habituated to human contact. In these areas, cruises to watch and even swim with the dolphins are common.
Atlantic spotted dolphins are an occasional target of harpoon fishermen, and every year some creatures are trapped and killed in gill nets, but these activities are not currently believed to be threatening the survival of the species. This species lives in the mesopelagic layer of the ocean. These dolphins are not threatened by extinction, however, commercial trade may affect their evolution and sustainability. Sometimes they are killed by harpoons off St. Vincent.
The Atlantic spotted dolphin is included in the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Conservation of the Manatee and Small Cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia.[5]
See also[edit]
- ^ Mead, J.G.; Brownell, R.L., Jr. (2005). "Order Cetacea". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 723–743. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ HammondHammond, P.S., Bearzi, G., Bjørge, A., Forney, K., Karczmarski, L., Kasuya, T., Perrin, W.F., Scott, M.D., Wang, J.Y., Wells, R.S. & Wilson, B. (2008). Stenella frontalis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
- ^ a b Herzing, D. (2011). Dolphin Diaries: My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas. Macmillan. pp. 132–147. ISBN 978-0-312-60896-5.
- ^ "Bimini Dolphin Discovery". Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ Western African Aquatic Mammals MoU, Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Conservation of the Manatee and Small Cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia
- Whales Dolphins and Porpoises, Mark Carwardine, Dorling Kindersley Handbooks, ISBN 0-7513-2781-6
- National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World, Reeves, Stewart, Clapham and Powell,and there is no characteristics for survival. ISBN 0-375-41141-0
- Perrin, William F. (2002). "Stenella frontalis". Mammalian Species (702):1–6.
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[...] had on the other Scott Horton to discuss the ominous Cheney Doctrine still influencing U.S. policy. Gareth Porter traced the evolution of the CIA to its current, post-9/11 incarnation. Jason Ditz explained the [...]
I don't know about Gareth Porter "not knowing about oil" statement. Libya has nearly the largest untapped reservoir of "light sweet crude" on the globe. So that's just one good reason for the TRANS-National Extraction Industry (who basically run US foreign policy) to take down Libya, many more outlined in John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" who described them as "the Jackals". Plus, part of the Libyan "resistance" leaders are "free-market" types who defected from Ghadaffi because they were against his opposition to opening up Libya to the "free-trader" "flat-earth" neo-libs/cons of the Chicago School. With NATO fully in on this it's been brought up that Libya will be the NEW HOME of U.S. AFRICOM, much-maligned and much-rejected by EVERY African nation thus far.
Perhaps Mr. Porter really doesn't understand about how resources (oil in this case) fit into this but he would be remiss in not taking into account this huge motive (resource extraction), which underlies the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. General Wesley Clark said to Democracy Now back on March 2, 2007: ""About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do
about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down
governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer,
every problem has to look like a nail."
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were
bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And
he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" — meaning the Secretary of Defense's office — "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." It seems Gen. Clark was spot on with this four years ago and the Obama Administration and NATO countries are all in too now.
I would like to hear Mr.Porter's analysis of how this ties into a potential new AFRICOM base for the U.S. and The West's motives for ousting the Ghadaffi regime by way of CIA and other covert operatives and its Empire needing to expand its control over global resources especially in the Mid-East.
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KEEP your eyes peeled at this year's Fringe - the biggest stars aren't on the stage - they're in the audience, on the streets and in the supermarkets!
HER appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart attracted rave reviews from the NYT and now the First Minister moves on to the US capital.
ACTOR Alan Cumming will present the Big Yin's Great Scot award on April 8.
A HOST of celebrities raid their wardrobes and gift items to Cahonas Scotland to help raise awareness of testicular cancer.
Edinburgh-based publisher said 2013 year to December was "one of the strongest in the company's history", with sales up 7% to £10.3m
ACTOR returns to Scotland to join Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on campaign trail for Yes vote.
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Our Edinburgh Now columnist Phil MacHugh was in New York City celebrating Tartan Week with a host of stars including Pharell Williams, Scots actor Alan Cumming, singer Nina Nesbitt and group The La Fontaines
FREYA, who is set to star in four-part mini series New Worlds, has become the latest of many artists and entertainers supporting the Yes campaign ahead of September's referendum.
CHECK out today's celebrity gallery of the day to see what some of the world's most famous faces have been up to.
THE 48-year-old from Aberfeldy in Perthshire married his partner, Grant Shaffer in New York last year.
THE 41-year-old Perth actor is gaining support from Alex Salmond and T in the Park's Geoff Ellis for the event.
The building has been transformed from a derelict bingo hall to a state-of-the-art movie house, after dedicated fundraising brought in £1.3million.
THE actress featured in what has become the final series of the long-running Scottish cop show before it was ditched by ITV network bosses.
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ANIMATION film maker Mark Andrews wore one of Jennifer Cantwell's trendy sporrans as he lifted a gong at this year's Academy Awards and stars including Sir Chris Hoy, Lenny Kravitz, and Kevin McKidd have all bought one.
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THE X-MEN actor used to be obsessed with the idea of becoming a dad but says he and his partner are content have no plans to start a family.
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The past week seems to have been a genuine leak spring as far as Dell's upcoming plans are concerned. After its plans to launch the Streak and the 7-inch Looking Glass tablets were uncovered, the company is now devising a pair of new additions to the netbook market, which move away from the Pine Trail platform and lay special emphasis on mobility. The so-called Athens and Sparta will reportedly be powered by the ARM architecture and will weigh as little as under one kilogram.
ARM has been trying to get hold of at least part of the netbook market for quite a while, but it has, so far, been unsuccessful because most such PCs run Windows, which does not support this architecture. Now that Android is becoming widespread, however, Dell sees no reason why it shouldn't at least experiment with such a device, especially considering the significant power efficiency of ARM CPUs.
Unfortunately, rather little is known about the specs of the two netbooks. The exact ARM chip that will be used is still unknown, as is the amount of memory and the graphics solution that will be implemented. What was disclosed by the leak was that the PCs themselves would be very slim and light (Athens will weigh 900 grams) and will have an 11-inch, 1,024 x 768 screen. Sparta's display will even be rotatable, which practically makes it a convertible tablet instead of a netbook. As for connectivity, the two will boast optional WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G.
According to the report, the devices will run either the Android or the Moblin OS, although it is quite possible that the latter will be replaced by the MeeGo. Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing exactly how the products will turn out, or how much they will cost, considering that they won't debut for months. Specifically, the Sparta will arrive in August, whereas the Athens will only show up in October.


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Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody on July 9, 1842 and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. They had three children, Una, Rose, and Julian. The Old Manse, or minister's home, was the place in which Ralph Waldo Emerson lived as a young man. From 1842 to 1845 Nathaniel Hawthorne rented the Old Manse. He wrote about the house and surrounding landscape that later appeared in his American Notebooks and Mosses from an Old Manse.
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Detective Comics #311
"Challenge of the Cat-Man"
Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Dick Dillin
Inker: Jim Mooney
Cover Artist: Sheldon Moldoff
Editor: Jack Schiff
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California Senate Bill 1172 is a morsel of mandate passed by the Golden State's Legislature that is currently tarnishing its weary way through the Circuit Court system. The bill, when enacted into law, will prohibit state-licensed psychiatrists from administering to underage patients "conversion therapy" which purports to change a teen's gender identity from Broadway Showtunes to Western Ballads. If the Circuit judges are searching for precedent in connecting conversion to perversion, they need look no further than the premiere of DC's Cat-Man and the pride of conversions therein.
Secretly-inveterate gambler Tom (as in "tom CAT," y'dig?) Blake (as in...um) is plagued by a problem: his life as a millionaire jungle cat catcher has become sigh-enducingly boring. Since Tom-Tom lives in Gotham City, the cure for all sigh-enducing boredom is to match animal-themed wits with the municipality's pointy-eared, self-appointed protector, Batman. Of course, the Dark Knight doesn't necessarily frown upon millionaire jungle cat catchers, so Tom Blake, in order to attract the Caped Crusader's order-oriented attentions, enacts the most sensible-in-a-codependent-way option, converting himself into a gaudy outlaw.
Blake performs a personal evaluation, critically considering what Tom-O-Centric parachute color he might bring to Caped-Crusader-worthy villainy while feeding calcium phosphate-powdered steaks to a penned-up lion. Sure, Capone possessed oodles of ruthlessness, and Manson possessed scads of crazy, but what will put a villain mask and shoulders over Batman? Tom shares his epiphany with his black-spotted pet leopard: "Imagine what I, with my knowledge of cat lore, can do!" Ah, yes--cat lore, of course. Should have seen that one comin'.
One short week later, the Gotham Museum's Bast-pinioned Egyptian wing unfurls, and the Dynamic Duo appear as honored guests which is just asking for trouble. Sure enough, trouble arrives in the form of Gotham's debuting pheline pharaoh who springs from a sarcophagus wearing yellow and orange bandages that closely resemble a skin tight cat costume.
Snatching the Bast bust from the trust of the upper crust, Cat-Man brushes past the Cowled Crusaders. Robin proves a leetle too big for his scaly, green britches when he reaches for the quipping, receding scoundrel. In response, the Cat-Man perpetrates a demon pimp kick from hell, tearing the Boy Blunder's yellow cape because its elven collar makes it slightly more fab than Cat-Man's uncollared one.
Cat-Man then converts himself into an absence, eventually arriving via Cat Car at his cat-acomb headquarters (because calling his lair the Cat Cave would be one stalactite to far) where the feline felon considers the implications of his puss-in-booty. "Hmm! I wonder if I REALLY turned to crime to escape boredom?" the newly-minted malcontent muses. "Maybe I've been hiding the truth for myself...I secretly WANTED to steal to regain the wealth people still think I have!" Hey, it worked for Eddie Van Halen, so why not?
Cat-Man resolves to convert himself further from a rich super-villain to an even-richer super-villain, and he catches a lucky break toward that end when a clue menagerie sends Batman and Robin to the wrong locale for the Catty Crusader's sophomore effort. Batwoman--think an even-more-bungly version of the Silver Age Lois Lane but with a pointy, red mask to becloud her bungle-oriented blushes--challenges Cat-Man to a duel that will decide which of them is Batman's Most Effective Stalker. Happily, this duel delays he of the yellow tights long enough for Batman and Robin, backtracking from their initial wrong-caped deduction, to re-engage their cat-and-flying-mouse game, but the bad guy slips away again.
Batman and Robin deduce Cat-Man's civilian identity, tracing that shredded calcium phosphate--"It's put on meat fed to big cats!" Batman just happens to know--to Gotham's only millionaire jungle cat catcher because they are the world's greatest detectives (man and boy cat-egories). The Dynamic Duo then employ their clever minds to consult an off-panel Yellow Pages, arriving at the sub-suburban address of Blake, Thomas. There they unearth the cat-acomb headquarters but fail to factor in the whole "bad guy wanting to trap intruders" thing. Instead of caging Cat-Man, the Masked Manhunters are penned in by floor-up-pushing, electrified bars--the metal ones, not the Midori-Sour-serving ones.
The good guys escape, only to find themselves confronted by an...unlikely threat. "Great Scott!" the Dark Scoutmaster laments. "The Cat-Man--atop a colossal robot cat!" This isn't some kind of Singaporese sex slang, or anything--he means it all literal-like. The colossal robot cat--the crowning achievement of what must have been a berry busy week for TomCat--tries to make prey out of Flying Mouse Man and Canary Boy who seek sanctuary within Cat-Man's workshop. Batman proves there's such a thing as being too crowning-achievementy when he scoops up a bucket helpfully labeled "Nuts & Bolts," tossing its motley contents into the big pussy's metal manpleaser, foully fouling its feline flywheels and converting it into a humongous heap of a high-tech scarp iron.
The still-slippery sinner manages one more escape, venturing further into the Dante-esque cat-acomb's butt end where awaits secret salvation. "Batman doesn't know that tunnel beyond is a short-cut to my Cat Car!" Cat-Man mentally chortles as he slinks toward a single impediment--a surging rapids. The caped crook performs a rapids-traversing cat-leap, but, perhaps due to a case of cat-aracts developed on the way, Cat-Man chooses as a landing pad a midstream boulder composed of gravel, a decision that ends about as well as inviting super-heroes to be the honored guests at your museum opening.
Cat-Man would return, of course, surviving a number of conversions--from maladjusted misfit to harried has-been to antiquated anti-hero...but what's been consistent in his C-list character has been his attraction to flamboyant thrill...and any "therapy" designed to "convert" him would be as futile and as purposeless as trying to get his pet leopard to change her black spots.
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The reasons for valuing and dismissing the opinions of individuals may vary from situation to situation, but invariably, one common truth will surface.
One of the first things you learn when announcing your intention to marry or share a pending birth is that everyone has an opinion. People will share their own personal secrets for a successful marriage or a happy baby. They will tell you to avoid going to bed angry and how to make sure your child isn't "that kid" who terrorizes everyone else. Everyone has an opinion.
In business, the same is true. Ask ten people what they think and, with no time wasted, you'll get nine answers and one person who doesn't want to be bothered. Of those nine voices, you'll find value with a couple and dismiss the rest. The reasons for valuing and dismissing may vary from situation to situation, but invariably, one common truth will surface.
We are all biased by our own personal experiences and views; in business, there are no agnostics. You can be an atheist, but you cannot opt out of a view. Those without a view are either nonessential to your process because they are not close enough to matter, or they are a deterrent to progress because they have decided to stay away from difficult processing and decision making.
You want people with opinions, but it's imperative you understand what motivates their position. Past experiences and future aspirations play an essential role in individual recommendations. Those empowered to fail and try again may be less reserved in making suggestions than those burned by the past. Likewise, those aiming to keep the status quo because it serves other interests may be more hesitant to push for change than those who are incentivized to deliver business growth, regardless of where it comes from.
As a business leader, it's not enough to just solicit the opinions of others. A true leader must assess people's opinions not only for what they are saying, but also for why those opinions were given by the individuals giving them. If you truly know the people you trust to give you counsel, then you will know their personal bias.
Decision making relies heavily on having all the necessary data at your disposal. One key piece of that is knowing the rationale for opinions offered. Without that, you are making choices based on an imperfect data set.
There's an old adage tossed around in life: "Consider the source." This is sage advice that can be the difference between making the right decision, and making a decision based on bias that exposes you to possible failure.
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Chris was selected to lead GroupM Next after nine years of leading the search marketing practice within GroupM. Among his accomplishments are the development and integration of the global search marketing offering for GroupM agencies, GroupM Search, which managed $1.3 billion in search billings globally and grew to more than 1,000 search marketing strategists serving 40 countries. In 2009, Chris created the research division of GroupM Search and developed research studies that deepened the understanding of consumer behavior across search and social media for leading brands and garnered global traction - most notably: The Influenced: Social Media, Search, and the Interplay of Consideration and Consumption; The Virtuous Circle: The Role of Social Media in the Purchase Pathway;and From Intent to In-Store: Search's Role in the New Retail Shopper Profile.
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Niladri Kanhar, a Hindu village leader involved in the killing of Christians in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, converted to Christianity after an evangelical pastor prayed for the healing of his daughter.
Kanhar was beaten after his conversion and, together with Pabitra Kata, the evangelical pastor, has been jailed on accusations of proselytism.
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HBO releases True Blood poster (time to stock up on strawberry jam)
HBO's True Blood, starring Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, is set to premiere on Sept. 7 at 9 p.m. Here's the newly released poster for it. Makes you want to dig into a jar of strawberry jam, doesn't it?
Based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novel series, the show follows the world of vampires set in small-town Louisiana. They're able to co-exist with humans by drinking a Japanese-manufactured synthetic blood. (Well, what fun is that?!)
We'll learn more about the show later this week at Comic-Con 2008, where a panel is scheduled. Also, check out the official web site.
And what is up with all the vampires lately? We've still got loyal fans mourning the loss of Moonlight, and on the big screen, vampire devotees everywhere await the release of Twilight, based on the books by Stephenie Meyer, on Dec. 12, 2008.
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Report from Transport Committee urges doublingin number of cyclists and action on 50 per cent rise in casualties since 2006
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London Assembly Members have called on Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TfL) to improve facilities for the capital's cyclists through a massive increase in funding and adoption of Go Dutch principles, as well as setting higher targets for cycling's modal share in his 2020 Vision due to be published next month. The call to action is contained in a hard-hitting report published today, Gearing up – An investigation into safer cycling in London, which highlights that cycling casualties have risen 50 per cent in London since 2006.
With the perceived danger of cycling cited as the biggest deterrent to would-be cyclists turning to two wheels, perhaps most damningly, the report's authors find that while in cities elsewhere in Europe that have seen increases in the number of riders the casualty rate went down, "in London, rising cycle numbers do not appear to be having the same positive impact."
In other words, the so-called 'safety in numbers' effect, through which the rate of casualties goes down the more cyclists there are is not happening in the British capital.
The investigation was launched last June by the cross-party London Assembly Transport Committee, which comprises 12 of the assembly's 25 members and has heard evidence from bodies including the London Cycling Campaign (LCC), Sustrans, CTC, British Cycling and the London Borough Cycling Officers' Group.
"We want to see London become a model for cycling best practice in the UK. Cycling in London could be as safe and popular as other European cities if the Mayor and TfL have the vision and energy to lead a properly resourced cycling revolution," said Liberal Democrat Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon, the committee's chair.
"The Mayor's new vision for cycling must create a genuine step-change about the road space given to cycling. With strong political will and investment, 2012 could be the turning point for cycling in London."
The report calls on Mr Johnson to show see through his 'Cycling Revolution' – a phrase not heard much in the past 12 months as attention has switched from how to get more people cycling to how to improve the safety of those who already do, following several fatalities this time last year.
Those led to the safety of the city's cyclists becoming a key electoral issue in the spring, with The Times newspaper's Cities fit for Cycling campaign elevating the issue to national level and resulting in a House of Commons debate and now a Parliamentary inquiry.
Recent weeks have shown however that lorries in particular remain a threat to cyclists on the streets of the capital, with three riders killed in incidents in which HGVs were involved.
Sofoklis Kostoulas, aged 31, died a week after being struck by a lorry on 29 October in an incident that took place in Bethnal Green at a location first flagged up by LCC two decades ago as presenting unacceptable risks to cyclists.
In mid-October, 66-year-old Hilary Lee died when she was hit by a skip lorry in Barnet, and on Monday the death toll so far during 2012 among London cyclists reached XX when 35-year-old Brian Florey was killed on the A13 in Barking.
The London Assembly report points out that while overall expenditure on cycling in London is at record levels, including on the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, too little has been spent on making the road safer for cyclists.
"In the last four years TfL has spent more money than before on cycling infrastructure and the Mayor has published a Cycle Safety Action Plan.
"However, the majority of this investment has been spent on the Cycle Hire Scheme. TfL's cycling budget has not been spent on the type of cycling facilities used in leading cycling cities that maximise safety for vulnerable road users.
"Furthermore, the Mayor's approach to improving cycling safety relies heavily on cycling becoming safer as more people cycle, but this pattern is not necessarily supported by the evidence in London."
The report's recommendations are, in brief:
1. The mayor's target of 5 per cent modal share by 2026 to be doubled to 10 per cent, with the 5 per cent figure brought forward to 2020. London must also appoint a cycling commissioner.
2. The 'Cycling Revolution' to be built into the mayor and TfL's new business plan, including £145 million – 2 per cent of TfL's 2012/13 budget – to be allocated to cycling in 2013/14 and £100 million to fund the ongoing Junction Review.
3. Commitment to "fundamental cycle safety improvements" as part of the Junction Review including "substantial and innovative changes to the space and protection given to cyclists at junctions."
4. The mayor and TfL to reassess space given to cyclists at junctions in accordance with LCC's Go Dutch principles.
5. The Department of Transport to amend traffic regulations so that measures to improve cycle safety can be implemented.
6. The mayor's Road Safety Action Plan to be revised to improve the safety of cyclists with regard to lorries.
7. Greater enforcement of traffic laws by the Metropolitan Police and improved driver education in relation to cycle awareness.
Inevitably, comparisons are drawn in the report with Amsterdam and Copenhagen – the proposed funding and modal share targets, it's worth noting, fall way short of the figures in either of those cities – but perhaps more surprisingly with New York where the report highlights how investment in infrastructure has helped reduce the risk of cycling while encouraging more people to take to two wheels.
"We recognise that improving the safety of cyclists presents significant political and financial challenges to the Mayor and TfL," the committee says in its report.
"Nonetheless, the Mayor must prioritise cycling if it is to become a viable choice for all Londoners.
"London could be safer and a more pleasant place to cycle if the Mayor and TfL took action to reduce the potential for conflict between cyclists and other road users.
"They could do this by building Dutch-style infrastructure, piloting innovative safety solutions, mandating HGV safety training and working with the Metropolitan police to improve enforcement."
However, it cautioned that "this will require political will and it will involve difficult financial decisions.
"TfL will need to set aside more resources for continental-style infrastructure.
"Some space will need to be reallocated away from motor traffic to ensure cyclists are protected on roads and at junctions. But it can be done.
"Apart from anything else, this was demonstrated by the successful reallocation of road space during the Olympic and Paralympic Games."
Chris Peck, Policy Coordinator at national cyclists' organisation CTC, said: "The Mayor's 'Cycling Revolution' has stagnated and needs to get radical, but this report makes an excellent set of recommendations to help reboot London's faltering cycling infrastructure plans.
"It's time that the Mayor takes on board this advice and fully commits to making London safe for everyone to cycle."
Ashok Sinha, chief executive of LCC, commented: "We applaud the GLA's call for the Mayor to keep his Go Dutch election promises, and to show the political leadership necessary to introduce continental standards of best practice for cycling and walking across Greater London."
"It's disappointing that recent proposals for redesigning Lambeth Bridge and Waterloo Roundabout put forward by the Better Junctions review fail to provide the safe and inviting conditions for cycling the Mayor promised," he added.
While Mr Johnson has hinted that some of the measures urged in the report will become reality – he has made noises about the appointment of a Cycling Tsar, for example, as well as urging the DfT to make it easier to introduce safety features – Assembly Members and cycle campaigners alike will be watching closely to see how far he is prepared to go to meet the report's recommendations when he publishes his 2020 Vision next month.
Before the mayoral election in May, Boris signed up to the LCC's 'Love London, Go Dutch' campaign. He has said since that he wants to apply Dutch principles to London's roads yet again and again, nothing is being done: all the latest TfL redesigns of junctions will do nothing but make them worse for pedestrians and cyclists.
Again, the LA are asking for Dutch principles to be applied.
This sham has gone on long enough. Its now time for action.
The gently tactile touchy-feely approach that the LCC, BC, CTC and influential bloggers have taken has to end immediately.
posted by zanf [726 posts]
21st November 2012 - 12:01
The challenge the elected members face is overcoming the inertia of highways engineers. They have been indoctrinated with a mantra of maximising (motorised) vehicle flows, which is why cycling is so marginalised. It's very difficult for them to adapt to a different way of thinking – centred on viewing cycling as a serious mode of transport and designing the road network to be more hospitable to cycling.
To be fair, there is a huge opportunity for improving cycling conditions on the roads which are the responsibility of the London boroughs (i.e. not controlled directly by TfL) which also needs to be addressed.
posted by Campag_10 [153 posts]
21st November 2012 - 13:17
Talk of re-allocating road space is very positive. This seems to be some sort of taboo that has been broken.
However, 10% modal share target. 2% of transport budget. Doesn't seem that aligned. And also we'll have some of that spent on things like cycle training and promoting cycling, which aren't to help much at all.
posted by SpamSpamSpam [20 posts]
21st November 2012 - 13:51
posted by Chrisc [146 posts]
21st November 2012 - 16:36
The Dutch still spend about 10% of the transport budget on cycle facilities, or about £25 per person a year¹, but get up to 50% modal share. Money well spent! The more people cycle, the less congestion, so everyone benefits.
We need to get serious to correct decades of neglect -- but we are still spending hundreds of millions on more road projects, as the Prime Minister was boasting just two days ago². See, for example, ...
And what is Parliament doing? Yes, another talking shop, with some professor to produce another report next April³. How about action?
¹,²,³ - the links are being moderated. Posted without as temporary measure.
posted by arowland [126 posts]
21st November 2012 - 19:38
Disappointing to see the comment above by SpamSpamSpam:
"also we'll have some of that [2%] spent on things like cycle training and promoting cycling, which aren't to help much at all."
What do you think would be the effect on standards of driving (not that great anyway) if people didn't have to have driver training before getting a car licence? A large part of the problem is that while a high proportion of cyclists are also drivers, a lot of drivers don't cycle. What is needed is a change in driver behaviour, and while cycling infrastructure can help, particularly at major junctions, this can't be extended to every road in the country. Licensing cyclists isn't the answer, but linking on-road cycle training to the driving test would have a huge, and hugely beneficial effect. Cycling is like sex. Very few people have received formal practical training, but everyone likes to think that they are good at it.
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posted by utility_cyclist [17 posts]
21st November 2012 - 20:15
UtilityCyclist, I was referring to campaigns where a celeb (prob in a helmet) rides along for a few hundred metres, and we're told that cycling is fun, healthy and good for the environment.
I would love to see a TV campaign explaining primary position, overtaking and filtering to people.
posted by SpamSpamSpam [20 posts]
22nd November 2012 - 11:41
Ah, I understand now, and fully agree. Slebs attract a lot of attention, but don't always (?) know what they are talking about. I would add that as far as helmets go, it's how you ride, not what you wear, but that would start off the usual helmet comment firestorm.
Utility Cyclist
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23rd November 2012 - 23:43


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From the mid-1920s until his death in 1946, Timothy L. Pflueger was a leading Bay Area architect and patron of the arts who was often consulted on major city planning issues. In 1928, capitalizing on San Francisco's standing as a major port, developers sought to make the city the leading West Coast transportation hub. Pflueger proposed a centralized transportation system that would make use of the existing ports and railway and include a new airport sited at China Basin, an undeveloped waterfront area south of the proposed Bay Bridge.
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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- The completion of women's groups in the 35 villages of the City of San Fernando on March 31 this year will boost "women power" here.
This was disclosed Monday by Gender and Development focal person Amy Catacutan, who disclosed during the kick-off ceremony and press conference of the Women's Month celebration in San Fernando themed "Fernandina, King Tetagan at Sikanan Mu, Sumulung ya ing Siyudad San Fernando," that thousands of Fernandinas have been enrolled in and are now members of various federated women's groups.
"Currently, we already have 24 women's groups with concrete plans and programs. On March 31, we expect that all our 35 barangays will have women's groups, which will join that day the mother women's federation and the 'Natatanging Fernandina Award' in the afternoon," Catacutan said.
She told Sun.Star Pampanga that "women power" in the City of San Fernando is already on its second stage, now strengthened with the support of government agencies like the departments of Education, Health and Trade and industry, including the private sector described as a "first" in gender development.
"We are on the second stage of empowering women in the city. Ang una, iyung pag-gising at pagbangon. Ito na ngayon ang pagsulong as women power rises in San Fernando to protect our rights, privileges and attain gender equality," said Catacutan.
So far, Women's Month Celebration chairman Dr. Leticia Yap said programs and projects for Fernandinas have been sustained with the help of the City Government and its partners.
"We are the only city celebrating women twice a year, that is, every March and in September during Women's Week in honor of our heroin Doña Nicolasa Dayrit. Our many projects for women like birthing stations and programs like breastfeeding and healthcare have been sustained. Malaking bagay ang Women's Month at ito ay year-round na sa City of San Fernando because of the city government's support," she said.
Aside from Purple Day every Friday, the month-long women empowerment celebration will be highlighted by the new livelihood-oriented Roving Academy of the DTI, the DepEd's "Usapang Kababaihan para sa Kalakihan," Zumba Festival, All Women's March, business opportunity seminars, first aid training, breastfeeding and "buntis" summit among an array of activities women.
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Honorary woman Mayor Edwin Santiago, meanwhile, expressed his support to women in the city, noting that they are behind the success of men and leaders.
"We are supporting women power in this city. Sila ay gumising, bumangon at ngayon ay susulong na. Women play an important role in society. Our history is filled with women who went beyond their limitations so as to add life to humanity. It is through them that life springs forth and continues to flourish. Kaya say namin mga kalalakihan sa San Fernando, sulong Fernandina," said Santiago.
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"We envision to promote their holistic development that includes physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological, social and environmental aspects through laws, programs and projects especially designed for and to empower them," said Santiago. (With JTD)
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