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Dina Lohan Felt 'Ambushed' By Matt Lauer: Friend
"Dina felt ambushed by Matt," a family friend told PopEater after speaking with Lohan. "She was surprised how many tough questions he asked."
According to our source, Lohan wanted to focus the 'Today' chat on Judge Marsha Revel's alleged mishandling of her daughter's case, along with her take on the media's portrayal of Lindsay.
"She didn't understand why [Lauer] kept asking her those other questions -- she knows she's a great mother and Lindsay will get out of rehab soon," the friend insists. "Everyone makes mistakes, it's just that Lindsay makes it into the papers."
Lauer pressed Lohan on her parenting skills in the oft-terse interview, but she rebuffed, saying she had to let the troubled actress go through personal trials in order to emerge a better person.
"As a parent, you have to let them go a little bit," she said during the Friday morning chat. "When she went out to Los Angeles when she was 19, I had to let her live and fall and fail and survive. Without failure, there's no success."
Dina Lohan stressed that she does not condone Lindsay's behavior -- "You can't make your child not go out and go to a club and not get behind the wheel of a car" -- and confirmed reports that Lindsay will be released early from rehab, but declined to say exactly when. In her chat with Lauer, the celebrity mom said her daughter was doing "wonderfully" after 14 days in jail for a DUI probation violation.
Lauer also appeared to trip up Lohan in a discussion of how many times Lindsay has been to rehab. She insisted it had only been twice, but the actress has in fact gone four times. Our source tells us Dina was referring to court-ordered stints (2) and not the pair of times Lindsay sought help of her own volition.
Lohan also raised eyebrows when she told Lauer that she hasn't been with ex-husband Michael Lohan for 15 years, even though their divorce was only finalized in 2007. Again, our source: "Yes, she has spoken to and seen Michael, but he hasn't been a father or a husband for over 15 years."
Lohan canceled her other scheduled interview on Friday -- with PopEater's Naughty But Nice Rob -- citing exhaustion.
Throughout the interview, Dina tried to return the focus to Judge Revel, whom she blasted for going "overboard" with her sentence and rejoiced in her recent recusal of the case.
"The judge played hardball," she told Lauer. "Lindsay was in with alleged murderers and she's become friends with a lot of them. Lindsay rolled with the punches and she's doing wonderfully."
Lauer was pointed with his questions, and Lohan brushed off the notion that many believe Lindsay had her punishment coming to her because of bad behavior.
"I think that's all propaganda and what people are reading," she told him. "As you know, you're in the business of entertainment, so I think a lot of it is pre-orchestrated and you're reading things that are not based on fact."
Just after Dina's 'Today' show appearance, her ex-husband was interviewed on 'The Early Show,' and voiced his disapproval of Lindsay's early release from rehab. "She needs help. If she's not taken off all of the drugs, if she doesn't have therapy, family therapy as well as individual, I feel it's just a Band-Aid and it's not going to get any better," he said.
Michael also expressed his desire to reconnect with Lindsay as she continues along the road to recovery -- "We have to mend fences ... This is not something we can just overlook anymore" -- and lamented his poor relationship with Dina. "I don't understand how she comes out with some of these things she says," Michael said. "But that's on her. That's not on me. This is about our daughter. It's not about being part of her career. It's about being parents."
Lohan also said Lindsay will moving back to New York after finishing her commitments in Los Angeles. California is "a wonderful state," she said, but "it's a different game you play there, the court system is a little different."
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- Friday 13 AugustBy jonzbeach
I cannot stand this orange biatch and her 4 pack a day cigarette voice..and her no talent daughter (being cute in a few kid movies does not make her a GREAT actress...her OWN nicotine voice and demeanor is the SAME in every movie sinc the teenage movies)...need to go back to exit 45 of the LIE and disappear.
- Friday 13 AugustBy B.P. Dumas
of course we all knew it was too good to be true, the big truth about rehab is that unless its a locked down psychiatric facility and I mean a facility with gates, armed gaurds, locked cells, where the patients are in a cell when not in treatment,
its just a joke.
so the little drug addict is gonna beat the rap with just 45 days. then she gets the million dollar payday from the celebrity rags, right. and its right back to where she was before.
- Friday 13 AugustBy Susan
Rehab does no good if the person in rehab thinks they're ok. My now-deceased ex-husband was in rehab 4 times and it never seemed to 'take'. He always came out saying he was never an alcoholic to begin with. That's why he was an ex (7 yrs before he died). I didn't need the energy of delusional, abusive addict in my life. If you don't LEARN from rehab, you won't improve.
Clearly Dina is the cause of this mess, and she continues to be the enabler. Her little meal ticket might make her a few more bucks before she dies of an overdose. Guess that's why she's trying to launch her 'brilliant lacrosse playing son' into the movies now. Geez.
- Friday 13 AugustBy Pattie
Mother like daughter - I guess the apple doesn't fall from the tree in this family
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- Friday 13 AugustBy Sally
All I heard Dina Lohan say was that her daughter's problems were everyone's fault. When Matt Lauer asked her if she would want Lindsey to stay in rehab, her answer was, If you met Lindsey...she is fine...she has no problems...the judge was at fault. We might be suing the state of CA.
Lindsey is going to end up like other celebrities..dead.
- Friday 13 AugustBy pam
And here I thought a good old fashioned spanking would do Lindsay Lohan wonders. It turns out her Mom could use one too!!
- Friday 13 AugustBy Debera
Dina, listen to us your daughter's public, fan base. She is not intitled to anything outside of what is right and what is wrong. Your daughter is not above the law. She did the crime she should do the time like most society if they too break the law goes to jail. You blame it on everything but the truth. Shame on you Dina, wake up smell the coffee. You are such an spoiled women, you lack parenting skills as does your exhusband. Shame on you. You are the type of person who should never have had children. You failed being a Mom the most important job there is your have FAILED.
- Friday 13 August
Sure .... pull her out of rehab, let her hang with the "alleged murder friends" she made in prison, and why don't you just dig her grave for her while you are at it "Mom" (if Mom is even the right word for you Dina.) Her interview was so false and she continued to be extremely rude to Matt, talking in circles, and even lied herself about the age of Lindsay in 2007 when Matt quoted Lindsay with her saying she was destroying herself - Dina said she was 19 and is 24 now ... HELLO - she was 21! Was she just trying to prove her point stating that Lindsay was 'young and naieve'? How can she justify everything she's done? Face it - you are not a Mother, because if you were, you would help your daughter - not blame others. Dina, you are a disgrace to us Mothers out there. Help your daughter or start preparing your memorial speech. And hopefully, when Lindsay self destructs, she doesn't take someone else with her.
- Friday 13 AugustBy Sally
AND...Dina Lohan kept saying that court ordered rehab was not the same...that it wasn't her judgment that put her there.
It certainly was a good chance for Lindsey to get her life back in order, but she was coddled out of believing she had a problem by her self-serving mother!
What a joke...
Like I said, Lindsey is going to end up dead.
- Friday 13 AugustBy Rockin2010
The darn media....Dina must be related to Sarah Palin. Easy to blame the media for YOUR actions and your childrens.
- Friday 13 AugustBy uklinda123
I watched the interview this morning and can't believe how much denial Dina is in.If you were any kind of good parent you would want your daughter to stay in rehab for as long as it takes to get well. Dina just wants Lindsay out ASAP so she can go parading around town with her. Dina is more media hungry than her daughter.
- Friday 13 AugustBy Beth
can you say E-N-A-B-L-E-R ?
- Friday 13 AugustBy Connie
you are so very correct on this...ENABLER!!!
- Friday 13 AugustBy mark
If the courts want Lindsay to clean up her act, put her parents in jail.
- Friday 13 AugustBy julia
Poor Matt, Dina was a huge waste of his time. BTW, Dina, Ali DOES have her own website -- as her mother you should know that and might want to check it out. And, as Matt said, she calls herself a future superstar.
- Friday 13 August
Thrilled that Lindsey is choosing to go back home, close to her roots. From home you can take a breather and reflect on what really matters.
- Friday 13 AugustBy Mac
You're glad that she is going back home, close to her roots? It is obvious that what would benefit her most would be a root canal. Both of her parents are absolutely toxic for her, and she would be better off they were cut out of her life.
- Friday 13 AugustBy suzan
hey, mom L. goes out drinking with her daughter,,,, how can she help her.. what is she thinking???
therapy for both.... ( if it'll help) geez what a waste of time it seems to me.
- Friday 13 August
YES! Please move back east, Lindsay. To the Far East, away from the U.S.
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CGH Main Clinic Pediatrics Seasonal Awareness
Can you tell the difference between allergy and common cold symptoms in your child? A survey released by the American Lung Association (ALA), funded through an educational grant from Honeywell Consumer Products, reveals that 83 percent of parents in households with allergy sufferers claim to know the difference between symptoms of allergies and the common cold.
Many parents, however, could not tell the difference between three out of five allergy symptoms, including fever, sneezing and duration. When a child has an occasional, low-grade fever, he or she is probably suffering from a cold, not from allergies. Allergy sufferers rarely run a fever, but only 52 percent of the parents surveyed actually knew that. When it comes to sneezing, children that suffer from violent, prolonged spells rather than just as an occasional "ACHOO" are likely suffering from allergies, not a cold. Only 45 percent of the parents polled, however, know the difference in sneezing. Finally, slightly more than half of the parents polled realized that most colds last approximately seven to ten days - a much shorter duration than the weeks or months that allergies tend to linger.
It's important for parents to learn the difference between cold and allergy symptoms. And if you think your child has allergies, see your doctor for proper diagnosis. If your child does have allergies, improving indoor air quality and controlling the home environment are very important parts of allergy care.
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The Family, the secretive Christian group that has gotten so much attention lately, is not all Republicans. There are a few Democrats involved as well, including Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, who lives at the now-infamous C street house. I had the chance to do a press teleconference with the congressman on Thursday morning and asked him some questions about his involvement with the group and wrote about it at the Michigan Messenger.
He denied completely any involvement at all with The Family, saying he didn't know what I was talking about at all and he just rents a room there. On the call, he was clearly caught off guard by the questions and seemed to be rather flustered in trying to answer. He kept repeating "I rent a room there" as he fumbled around for a coherent response.
There is good reason to doubt his claims of ignorance. First of all, Jeff Sharlet, who lived with the Family at their Ivanwald complex in Arlington, Virginia, told me that Stupak was assigned by the group to be a mentor to one of his Ivanwald "brothers" (which is what they called each other there). He also said that Stupak was a regular attendee at the Cedars, another Family owned compound that hosts a weekly prayer breakfast led by Ed Meese.
But even without that, we know that the other legislators who live there are members of the Family. We also know that they have all pledged secrecy, as Rep. Zach Wamp admitted to his local newspaper recently. It seems to strain credulity more than a bit to accept Stupak's flat denials of any involvement or even any knowledge of the group and what it does.
Also on the teleconference call was Deb Price of the Detroit News. She didn't ask anything about this subject but she did rush to publish an article about it after the conference call. In fact, she scooped me on it, getting the article up a couple hours before I did. But only because she didn't bother to do any further research, she just repeated Stupak's denials without taking the time to find out if they are likely to be true or not.
This is a good example of how the new media often does a better job of real journalism than the traditional media (and I say that as someone who has a lot of respect for Deb Price and thinks she's a good journalist).


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It is not too often that we associate solar powered with anything fast and or furious, but perhaps it is time that we start. The Czeers MK1 is a 10-meter vessel covered in photovoltaic cells that is capable of hitting speeds of up to 30 knots (55.5 km/ph to you non-nautical folks out there). While there are certainly faster boats on the water, those tend to use obscene amounts of fuel.
Video after the jump.
The solar-powered Czeers MK1 is naturally going to be a lot quieter than its gas guzzling cousins, which would make it great for sneaking up over fish (though there is limited space to put them if you catch them. I would like to see a similar model with little bit more space for passengers, even if it did mean sacrificing some speed. Speedboats are so limited in what they are able to do, but if this had a little extra space, it could do so much more.
Looking at the images, I am seeing a tremendous amount of what looks to be carbon fiber. That and all of the plush leather are likely to push the price out of this world, but if you have a big bank balance, it would be an exciting boat to own. I think that this is an excellent start for solar boating.


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Via Margutta: the most romantic street in Rome, heart of the Capital's Baroque art. A hidden courtyard. A palace with the highest density of artists ( Picasso, Mascagni, Puccini and Stravinsky) lived and worked in the studios with enormous windows built by a Roman aristocrat who loved the arts.
In this courtyard situated away from the noisy neighboring Piazza di Spagna and Piazza del Popolo, Alberto Moncada di Paternò asked Fabrizio and Andrea Magnaghi, young architects specialized in designing hotels, to create 4 splendid suites which blend modern décor with Oriental decorative accents.


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David Moulton: Murray's fate against Federer may be up to the Queen
What was a big year for our allies across the pond has become magical. The Queen recently celebrated 60 years on the throne. London plays host to the Olympics in less than three weeks.
Yet Sunday morning may be the one moment that most in the empire thought they'd never live to see. When a man from Great Britain will play for the Wimbledon championship.
I know it is not polite to talk about a woman's age, but in this case it is needed for some context.
Her Majesty the Queen is 86 years old. She was not yet a teenager the last time THIS happened.
The year was 1938. That's when Buddy Austin lost in the Wimbledon final. That was the last time a British man made it to the final Sunday of the tournament.
Until now. Andy Murray, after three straight years of losing in the semifinals, has made it to the final. Buddy Austin is now replaced with Fred Perry, the last male Brit to win Wimbledon (1936).
That's the good news.
The bad news is, Murray is from Scotland. Scotland is voting in two years whether to secede from the rest of the United Kingdom. So the Brits better enjoy this moment because he may not be yours to claim in 2014. But that's for another day ...
The other piece of bad news is that Murray, who has never won a Grand Slam title, is playing Roger Federer in the final. Federer has won 16 Slams, including Wimbledon six times.
Of course, the key to Murray winning is not the effectiveness of his serve or whether he has the nerve. The key is Her Majesty. And will she or won't she?
Show up.
The year was 1977. The 100th Championships at the All-England Lawn and Tennis Club when the Queen herself presented Great Britain's Virginia Wade with the championship trophy.
So simply, if the Queen deems the occasion worthy of her presence, then the Empire will be rejoicing. Federer is not going to be shaking in his shoes by the sight of Andy Murray on the other side of the net. But Her Majesty peering over him from the Royal Box could unnerve even the greatest of champions.
Nevermind how inspired Andy Murray will be! The Queen has come to see me play! How does one not play the match of their life?
He'll be so moved that he will shake his personal demons and will hoist the trophy on behalf of a grateful nation.
But ... if she ends up watching it on the BBC from home, no matter how cozy the surroundings and how good it looks in HD, then she will ensure lucky No. 7 for Federer.
It's your call, Your Majesty. No pressure. Except your country needs you today. Now more than ever.
Your country used to give the world The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Now it's Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan.
Two years ago, your soccer team couldn't beat the United States in the World Cup.
These are desperate times and, forgive me Your Majesty, but you are not getting any younger. There are no guarantees you'll ever have a chance to witness this moment again. An adoring nation needs you. It was a great leader who once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country?"
OK, so he was an American born, Irish-Catholic. These are merely details at this point, Your Majesty.
A tennis nation, your tennis nation, longs for its own man that they can call Wimbledon champion.
At this point they believe your presence, more so than any serve or volley, can assure such a fate.
So whatcha gonna do Liz? Stay or go?
If you do stay home can you at least send Harry and Pipa in your place?
Because William and Kate have already settled in as a prim and proper married couple. But that red-headed grandson of yours and Kate's sister with the great bum, they still know how to party.
And this Wimbledon final, 74 years in the waiting, is at the very least worth celebrating.
Hope you can make it, Your Majesty.
David Moulton is a freelance writer who co-hosts, "Miller and Moulton in the Afternoon", weekdays from 2 to 7 p.m. on WWCN/AM 770 ESPN. His column appears Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Ring Back Tones - part 1
Smart Consumer Knows What is Best for the Pocket
Mobile phone users, SMS text messaging, MMS messaging and even video calling, these are but a few of what most telecom providers offer their consumers.
Are you aware that mobile phone companies offer several things and features these days?
Not only do they offer promotional prices for more calls, text messaging system, and other items that would persuade consumers and non consumers alike to use their services, they are now offering another interesting phone feature, the ring back tones.
Gone are the days of hearing a phone ring on the other end, when you call someone.
Should you avail of the services of a ring back tone, of a telecom provider, you can choose from a variety of song or music that would reflect you.
You do not have to limit customizing to your handset; you can make it reach others. Should someone call you, they would know that they are calling you, because the ring back tone that they hear on the line is a markedly true essence of the type of person you are.
If you are a movie fanatic, having a movie song play if someone contacts you would surely make that person calling, smile, and know that they are definitely making the right call.
Should you be into music and dance genre, the more recent hit, Pussycat Doll's latest hit, Jai Ho, would be your ring back tone.
Whatever suits you, and your personality, this can now be reflected in the ring back tone telecom providers offer their consumers.
Always take note of prices, though. What may sound and seem like a good idea, a reflection of one's self, as you would say, could be a disaster to your pocket.
So, whatever new feature our mobile technology brings to us, as tempting as they seem to be for consumers, always be a smart buyer.


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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House took the first step Thursday to blocking the health care law with a must-pass budget bill, as members of both parties dug in for a fight that could lead to a government shutdown in less than two weeks.
Oklahoma congressmen gear up for vote on defunding Obamacare
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, who has spoken strongly against shutting down the government, guided a resolution through the House setting the parameters for debate on a bill that would fund all government functions except the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
House Republicans are expected to pass that legislation easily on Friday and send it to the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Cole argued Thursday that the bill crafted to defund Obamacare was intended to avoid a government shutdown because it provided money to all other government departments through Dec. 15.
"We have no intent and no desire to shut down the government," Cole said.
Cole's resolution passed 230-192; the five members from Oklahoma, all Republicans, voted for it.
The White House threatened to veto the bill, though President Barack Obama is not likely to see the legislation in its current form.
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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bills itself as an event convened to "crystallize the best of the conservative thought in America" that will showcase "all of the leading conservative organizations and speakers." Media covering CPAC 2013 should know that the conference's speakers, from the most prominent to the lesser-known, have a history of launching smears, pushing conspiracy theories, and hyping myths about the validity of President Obama's birth certificate.
From the March 11 edition of MSNBC's Hardball:
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The bogus story that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had filed for bankruptcy appeared on Boston.com, the sister website of The Boston Globe, through a third-party content provider that posts content without editorial approval and provides such content to more than 200 web outlets.
That provider, meanwhile, took the story from an Austrian-based blog without any editorial review or fact-checking of its own, a practice that is becoming more and more common in the Internet content sharing world. The blog has since deleted its post and all posts from the author appear to have been removed from Boston.com.
The false story, which had its roots in a satire by the website Daily Currant, was subsequently picked up by the conservative site Breitbart.com, a move later criticized by Krugman himself and numerous news outlets from The Atlantic to Politico. Breitbart.com has deleted the post, with its author blaming Boston.com, which he says he "trusted" for the story.
But according to Boston.com, they played no role in the creation of that post, an editorial mechanism which troubles some observers.
Ron Agrella, editor of Boston.com, said the item was placed on his site by the content provider financialcontent.com on March 7, without approval or review from either Boston.com or the Globe.
He said he reached out to financialcontent.com at roughly 9 a.m. EDT today to have the item removed. It was removed at 11:34 a.m. EDT.
"The reason why we partner with them is to provide stock data," Agrella explained Monday, just hours after the item was taken down. "That is why we contract with them. The stories are additional content provided on the side. We have partnered with them for 10 or 12 years."
Financialcontent.com had picked up the item from an Austria-based business blog, Prudent Investor, without any editorial review of its own, according to financialcontent.com CEO Wing Yu.
"We are a technology company, we don't have an editorial desk," Yu explained. "There is an RSS feed that we parse from each content provider. We have categorized [Prudent Investor] as a business content provider and the content is syndicated along with the byline."
YU said Prudent Investor is one of more than 400 content providers that financialcontent.com draws on for news and data, which it then forwards to some 200 news outlets such as Boston.com, as well as others owned by McClatchy, Media News Group and AOL.
The Prudent Investor website is based in Vienna, Austria, and run by Toni Straka, who describes himself on the blog as "an INDEPENDENT Certified Financial Analyst who worked as a financial journalist for 15+ years and now evaluate global market trends."
Breitbart.com ridiculed Paul Krugman for filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection in a since-deleted post whose claims originated with a satire website. Just last month, Breitbart.com castigated a news outlet for running with a story from that same website.
In the March 11 post, Breitbart.com editor at large Larry O'Connor mocked the Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist for his alleged financial mismanagement. Unfortunately for O'Connor, the report that Krugman went bankrupt is clearly a joke and originated from the satirical website The Daily Currant. O'Connor has since deleted the post without explanation. (Update: O'Connor tweeted, saying he "trusted Boston.com as the source for that Krugman piece, but they were duped by Daily Currant, therefore, so was I!")
In his post, O'Connor jabbed Krugman for supposedly spending "$84,000 in one month" on Portuguese wines and "a dress from the Victorian period," and concluded that "apparently this Keynsian [sic] thing doesn't really work on the micro level." O'Connor sourced the report to a Boston.com post written by "Prudent Investor." The post by "Prudent Investor" sources an Austrian website, which reprinted the original Daily Currant story. (Update: Boston.com appears to have deleted the story.)
Just last month, the Breitbart team laid into the Washington Post when the paper's website adopted a satirical story about Sarah Palin from Daily Currant. In a post about the snafu, Breitbart blogger John Nolte ripped the paper for not letting "facts get in the way of a good Narrative." According to Nolte, if Post blogger Suzi Parker "had a shred of self-awareness, integrity, and dignity, she would have changed the headline to 'Too Good To Check,' and under it posted an essay about how shallow, smug, bitterly angry partisanship can blind you to common sense."
But when his website ran with a too good to check story about Paul Krugman, they merely deleted the post without explanation.
O'Connor is scheduled to participate in the "CPAC 2013 All Star Panel" at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference.
According to court documents obtained by Wonkette, conservative activist James O'Keefe has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed against him by Juan Carlos Vera, a former employee of ACORN. Vera filed the suit against O'Keefe in 2010, alleging O'Keefe had illegally taped their conversation at an ACORN office in California as part of his fraudulent "exposé" of the community activist group.
Vera was one of the ACORN employees portrayed in O'Keefe's videos as offering assistance in setting up a nonexistent child prostitution ring. After his encounter with O'Keefe, Vera contacted the police to report "possible human smuggling," unaware that he had been duped. Vera claims he lost his job as a result of O'Keefe's deception after the conservative's video of their encounter was posted on a Breitbart website.
According to the settlement documents obtained by Wonkette, O'Keefe has agreed to "pay Vera $100,000.00," and that "as part of this settlement O'Keefe states that at the time of the publication of the video of Juan Carlos Vera he was unaware of Vera's claims to have notified a police officer of the incident. O'Keefe regrets any pain suffered by Mr. Vera or his family."
After the ACORN prostitution hoax fell apart, O'Keefe and his Project Veritas group released a series of heavily edited undercover sting videos attempting to document voter fraud, most of which collapsed under scrutiny, sometimes spectacularly so.
In a post at Salon, Brad Friedman reports that O'Keefe's ACORN video partner, Republican activist Hannah Giles, has agreed to pay Vera $50,000.
Last year conservative media decried a Justice Department investigation into Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corp. as a politically-motivated "abuse of power." But now the company itself has admitted they were probably in violation of the law.
Sheldon Adelson is the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., a casino and resort operating firm. He reportedly spent nearly $150 million to influence the 2012 election via donations to a super PAC allied to Mitt Romney and other outside groups (including Karl Rove's American Crossroads).
During the campaign, Adelson reportedly alleged that he was making such large donations in part because he had been unfairly targeted by the Justice Department, which was investigating whether Sands operations in China had violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), an anti-bribery statute. But in its most recent annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Las Vegas Sands Corp. admitted that the company's own audit committee believes there were "likely violations" of that law:
As part of the annual audit of the Company's financial statements, the Audit Committee advised the Company and its independent accountants that it had reached certain preliminary findings, including that there were likely violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA and that in recent years, the Company has improved its practices with respect to books and records and internal controls.
First lady Michelle Obama has responded to conservative criticism over her Academy Awards appearance, saying it was "absolutely not surprising" that her participation in the ceremony set off a national conversation.
On February 24, Obama made a surprise appearance via satellite at the 85th Academy Awards where she helped announce the Best Picture Oscar winner. Academy officials invited the first lady to take part in the presentation.
Following the first lady's appearance, right-wing media falsely suggested that her participation was unprecedented, ignoring that former presidents and former first lady Laura Bush had previously participated in the ceremony. Right-wing media also smeared Obama, calling her appearance "obscene" and claiming she made the ceremony about her.
Obama responded to that criticism on Thursday, saying it was "absolutely not surprising." From the Associated Press:
Michelle Obama says it was "absolutely not surprising" to her that her satellite appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony provoked a national conversation about whether it was appropriate, after some conservative critics accused her of selfishly crashing the event in an attempt to upstage it.
She attributed the chatter to a culture shift that has spawned legions of bloggers, tweeters and others who talk about anything and everything all the time.
"Shoot, my bangs set off a national conversation. My shoes can set off a national conversation. That's just sort of where we are. We've got a lot of talking going on," the first lady said only somewhat jokingly Thursday before an appearance in Chicago, her hometown. "It's like everybody's kitchen-table conversation is now accessible to everybody else so there's a national conversation about anything."
Chuck Hagel's anticlimactic Senate confirmation to become the nation's next Secretary of Defense, passed by a vote of 58 to 41, stood in sharp contrast to the frenzied weeks of partisan fighting, and the often breathless media coverage that surrounded the unprecedented battle over President Obama's pick.
The Washington Post this week tallied up a scorecard to determine whether the furious Republican effort had been worth it. Republicans used up valuable political capital fighting a lost cause, but the Post claimed the party wouldn't suffer politically for its obstructionist ways. Indeed, for Republicans there wasn't "a whole lot of downside " in trying to derail Hagel.
Unfortunately, that's probably true. The Beltway press has made sure Republicans have routinely paid no price for their radical behavior, which means ugly stalling tactics will likely continue under Obama, as Republicans now try to grind the government to a halt on numerous fronts.
During the months-long Hagel debacle, in which the traditionally routine, bipartisan confirmation process was upended by Republicans, we learned some uncomfortable truths about the mainstream press and the right-wing media.
For instance we learned that, thanks to the Friends of Hamas debacle, conservative media sites continue to have much more in common with propaganda than they do journalism. We learned that even the piercing right-wing echo chamber, with conservative outlets working in concert with Republicans in Congress to amplify falsehoods, wasn't enough to sway the Hagel debate.
We learned that the hermetically sealed information bubble is still firmly intact. Reminiscent of the bubble that hyped the Mitt Romney "landslide" that never materialized last November, conservatives in the press assured followers for weeks that Hagel's nomination was doomed, that he'd soon be withdrawing his name, or he'd be rejected outright by angry Democrats.
We learned that non-starter crusades like the Hagel one are perfectly suited for the increasingly obsessive, phony outrage formula that so many right-wing outlets have adopted. (As blogger Charles Johnson noted on Twitter, the day Hagel was easily confirmed by the Senate, Breitbart.com's homepage featured no less than fourteen anti-Hagel headlines.)
Zeb Colter, an anti-immigrant character from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that has recently drawn the ire of right-wing pundits like Glenn Beck, would be right at home in the conservative media. Many of Colter's bigoted and flawed arguments have been the right's stock-in-trade for years.
Beck targeted the Colter character on his radio show, arguing that Colter is "demonizing the Tea Party." Beck also accused the WWE of "mocking me for standing up for the Constitution." Beck's co-host Stu Burguiere complained: "It seems that the villain, the guy you're supposed to hate, is this stereotype of a conservative that I've never met."
Colter currently appears on WWE programming alongside wrestler Jack Swagger, spouting a lot of heated anti-immigrant rhetoric in the middle of a scripted feud with Mexican-born wrestler Alberto Del Rio. According to WWE, Colter's rhetoric is intended to "to build the Mexican American character Del Rio into a hero given WWE's large Latino base."
WWE explains that in order "to create compelling and relevant content for our audience, it is important to incorporate current events into our storylines."
Talk about lowering the bar to can't-miss depths.
In its Sunday, page-one profile of partisan "provocateur" and Free Beacon founder Michael Goldfarb, the New York Times pointed to a report the right-wing site published this month, which raised questions about a speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2007. Free Beacon claimed Hagel had called the State Department "an adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister's office."
The report represented yet another missile fired by the sprawling, well-funded, far-right smear campaign to obstruct Hagel's nomination as Secretary of Defense. (A campaign that seems destined to fail, by the way.)
Writing up Goldfarb's supposed successes, the Times treated the Hagel report as a singular Free Beacon victory. (Sen. Lindsey Graham mentioned it on the floor of the Senate!) Even though, as the Times itself point out, Hagel denied the quote and no video was ever found to confirm it. Additionally, one professor who was present at the speech adamantly denied Hagel ever made the State Department comment.
But hey, other than that Free Beacon totally nailed the anti-Hagel story.
Also, note that Goldfarb has a long history of making stuff up, calling it news, and then refusing to admit to his published fabrications. The Times, in its puffy profile about how Goldfarb deftly outwits liberals, failed to mention that troubling career trait.
Coming in the wake of last week's Friend of Hamas debacle at Breitbart.com, the Times' toast to the factually challenged Goldfarb raises questions as to how the mainstream media treat disingenuous players inside the GOP Noise Machine. (Historically, the press has played nice with them.)
The good news about Ben Shapiro's colossal Breitbart failure with regards to his bogus claims about the (fictitious) Friends of Hamas group that allegedly had nefarious ties with Hagel? It helped shine a spotlight on the type of dishonest skullduggery that goes on within the conservative blogosphere on a nearly daily basis. The bad news is too many publications analyzed the Breitbart debacle against the backdrop of journalism and fact finding.
It's time for journalists to give up the ghost and stop pretending that lots of players on the far right media spectrum even try to engage in journalism as it's commonly defined. (Thankfully, some exceptions exist.)
It's not journalism. It's not even partisan opinion journalism. It's proud propaganda. More and more, it's the intentional spreading of rumor and misinformation for political gain. (And often done in conjunction with the Republican Party.) For too long, the press has allowed right-wing players to hide behind the shield of journalism, and then acted surprised when they cut egregious ethical corners.
Fox News rewarded Breitbart.com editor at large Ben Shapiro with an appearance less than a week after Shapiro publicly embarrassed himself over a fraudulent story linking Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel to the apparently nonexistent group "Friends of Hamas."
Over the past few weeks, Shapiro has been skewered for attempting to smear Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel by reporting that (according to "Senate sources") he had received money from a shady group called "Friends of Hamas."
After Shapiro's story imploded when it came to light that there's no evidence that "Friends of Hamas" actually exists, some in the conservative media suggested that their movement needed to police its own to maintain credibility. That accountability will not come from Fox News, which hosted him today and did not ask him about his failed smear.
Shapiro appeared for a discussion of the recent exchange between Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and the White House over the sequester - a topic that countless other pundits could have discussed. During the segment, Shapiro attacked the media for allegedly being too soft on the Obama White House. From the February 25 America Live segment, hosted by Megyn Kelly:
Right-wing media are falsely suggesting that First Lady Michelle Obama's Academy Awards appearance is unprecedented, ignoring that former presidents and former First Lady Laura Bush have previously participated in the ceremony.
On Sunday, Obama made a surprise appearance via satellite at the 85th Academy Awards where she helped announce the Best Picture Oscar winner. According to a spokesman for Obama, the Academy contacted the first lady about being part of the ceremony.
Washington Post political blogger Jennifer Rubin, however, accused Obama of "feel[ing] entitled" to "intrude" on the ceremony, arguing that Obama's "celebrity appearance" made her seem "small and grasping":
It is not enough that President Obama pops up at every sporting event in the nation. Now the first lady feels entitled, with military personnel as props, to intrude on other forms of entertaining (this time for the benefit of the Hollywood glitterati who so lavishly paid for her husband's election). I'm sure the left will holler that once again conservatives are being grouchy and have it in for the Obamas. Seriously, if they really had their president's interests at heart, they'd steer away from encouraging these celebrity appearances. It makes both the president and the first lady seem small and grasping. In this case, it was just downright weird.
Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes likewise wrote on his Twitter feed that Obama "probably felt like she was entitled to upstage" the Oscars and accused the first lady of making the ceremony about her. Breitbart.com called her appearance "obscene, and rather frightening in what it suggests about how low we have fallen as a nation."
In fact, former presidents and former First Lady Laura Bush have participated in Academy Awards ceremonies. In 2002, Bush appeared at the Oscars in a taped appearance. From the Chicago Tribune:
The documentary history montage was put together by director Penelope Spheeris, whose remarkable "Decline of Western Civilization" rock documentaries likely have never been even close to nominated.
And the show's marvelous "What do the movies mean to you?" opening segment was done by director Errol Morris, whose groundbreaking work, from "Thin Blue Line" through "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control," has also been criminally neglected.
It was bracing to see people from Laura Bush to Jerry Brown to Mikhail Gorbachev interviewed, and mind-bending to hear film titles such as Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill" and William Castle's "The Tingler" mentioned on usually sacrosanct Oscar airspace.
A widely discredited rumor about Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel could cause headaches for Lou Dobbs, who endorsed that rumor on his Fox Business show.
New York Daily News reporter Dan Friedman wrote on Wednesday that he was the unintentional source of a rumor that Hagel had received funding from a terrorist-friendly group called "Friends of Hamas."
That rumor was spread in right-wing media circles by Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro, who carelessly reported earlier this month that Hagel was paid to speak to a group called "Friends of Hamas." But, as detailed by Slate's Dave Weigel and by the New York Daily News, that organization does not actually exist. Here's Friedman's explanation (emphasis added):
On Feb. 6, I called a Republican aide on Capitol Hill with a question: Did Hagel's Senate critics know of controversial groups that he had addressed?
Hagel was in hot water for alleged hostility to Israel. So, I asked my source, had Hagel given a speech to, say, the "Junior League of Hezbollah, in France"? And: What about "Friends of Hamas"?
The names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear I was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically. No one could take seriously the idea that organizations with those names existed -- let alone that a former senator would speak to them.
This baseless rumor was not confined to the Breitbart.com fringe. On Feb. 11, Lou Dobbs claimed the rumor has "a ring to it" after National Review Online columnist Andrew McCarthy brought it to Dobbs' Fox Business show:
Now that the truth is revealed, will Dobbs tell his audience that he fed them rumors?
This post has been updated for accuracy.
On February 7, Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro reported that Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel (according to "Senate sources") received money from a group called "Friends of Hamas." The report spread quickly through the conservative media as damning of Hagel, until Dave Weigel at Slate.com pointed out a salient fact -- there's no evidence that "Friends of Hamas" exists. Now, New York Daily News reporter Dan Friedman is claiming that a joke he shared with a GOP source is the provenance of "Friends of Hamas." In response to their story falling apart, Shapiro and Breitbart.com -- who angrily and self-righteously demand accountability from the rest of the media for every slip-up, real or imagined -- are lashing out and refusing to accept responsibility for publishing a report based on a falsehood.
Before getting into Shapiro's defense of himself for running with the "Friends of Hamas" rumor, it's worth looking at how Breitbart.com treats other media outlets that print stories that end up being untrue. A couple of weeks ago, Washington Post blogger Suzi Parker reported that Sarah Palin, newly free of her Fox News contract, had signed on with Al Jazeera. The story was not true: Parker had picked it up from the Daily Currant, a parody news site, and the Post issued a correction. Breitbart.com's John Nolte ripped into Parker in a February 12 post, letting fly with a barrage of sexist invective ("isn't she precious?") and slamming her journalistic acumen:
But never one to let facts get in the way of a good Narrative, the "we-meant-to-do-that" Post merely added a correction, changed the headline to "Sarah Palin tries to stay relevant," scrubbed the Al-Jazeera references (the original post can be read here), and still ripped Palin for, uhm, being so desperate to stay relevant.
If Parker had a shred of self-awareness, integrity, and dignity, she would have changed the headline to "Too Good To Check," and under it posted an essay about how shallow, smug, bitterly angry partisanship can blind you to common sense.
But that would require having a soul to search.
Nolte was back at it a few days later, demanding that Post media writer Erik Wemple investigate the Parker-Palin screw-up and attacking the Post's "too good to check" mentality:
If Suzi Parker had the power to publish on her own, it's understandable that someone so bitter and joyless could believe what she so desperately wants to believe. But thanks to the Post's own ombudsmen, we now know a Post editor also fell into "too good to check" mode.
Because Parker and this editor obviously didn't know the Daily Currant is a parody site, that means they published a story based on information from a site with which they were unfamiliar. How did that happen? Who was the editor? Has any disciplinary action been taken?
If you want to appreciate how vast the digital divide is that historically separates conservative failures and liberal accomplishments online, and if you want to add some context to the recent New York Times Magazine feature article on how Republicans' chronic online shortcomings dim the party's electoral chances, just look at how the two camps were marking their time in recent days.
Working with Republicans on Capitol Hill trying to block Chuck Hagel's nomination to become Secretary of Defense, Breitbart's Ben Shapiro recently posted a report suggesting Hagel had allegedly received "foreign funding" over the years from a terrorist-friendly group called Friends of Hamas, but that the payments were being kept secret. The allegation served as part of the right wing's relentless campaign to smear Hagel as being anti-Israel.
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, National Review columnist Andrew McCarthy, and AM talker Hugh Hewitt all hyped Breitbart's conspiratorial narrative about Hagel's nefarious connections with Friends of Hamas.
Slight problem. Last week, Slate's David Weigel detailed how Friends of Hamas doesn't actually exist. And as New York Daily News reporter Dan Friedman explained, he unwittingly started the Friends of Hamas rumor when he posed the Hagel question to a GOP aide in the form of "an obvious joke." According to Friedman, he asked about both Friends of Hamas and the "Junior League of Hezbollah," and thought that the "names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear I was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically."
The GOP aide then apparently shared the Friends of Hamas inquiry with other partisans and Friedman posits that from there it found its way to Breitbart, which published it in the form of "news" under Shapiro's byline. Tellingly, the fact that the scary sounding group doesn't exist didn't stop a right-wing site from pushing the tall tale; a tale that quickly ricocheted across the conservative media landscape and was touted as a Deeply Troubling Development.
It was against that backdrop of routine right-wing dysfunction that the Times published its lengthy article. Author Robert Draper argued -- and many Republican operatives agreed -- that the GOP's perennial online failures have made it almost impossible for the party to communicate effectively with younger voters; voters who have developed a deeply hostile perception of the GOP brand. (i.e. "Polarizing," "narrow-minded.") Draper didn't make reference to the Friends of Hamas debacle, but it could have served as a useful example of how routinely unserious online pursuits have become among Republican boosters.


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Signaling between cells is weirder than we used to think it was. There's a hardy perennial, all right - that sentence could have been written whenever you like for the past fifty years or so. But the surprises keep on coming. Some of the most intense communication needs are between neurons, as you'd expect, and it looks like nature has taken advantage of all kinds of things to achieve greater bandwidth.
Everyone now learns about nitric oxide and its effects when they study physiology. The thought of a toxic gas as a neurotransmitter was a tough one to deal with at first, but the evidence was overwhelming. Then in the 1990s, two more oddities were proposed in the same category, and they're even more poisonous: hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide. Comments of the "You have to be kidding" sort greeted the initial work in this field, but the nitric oxide work had opened the door. It now appears that these two are, indeed, important signaling molecules in the brain.
Hydogen sulfide has a number of physiological effects, other than poisoning you (or, in lower concentrations, making you choke on its delightful aroma.) It seems to act on smooth muscle along with nitric oxide (now, there's a combination I would go out of my way to avoid breathing), and it also seems to have a role in laying down long-term memory. Carbon monoxide also seems to have a number of different functions - it's vasoactive, like its gaseous partners, but also seems to be involved in the immune response and in cellular protection and repair.
Taking up in the same way as the nitric oxide research, which has stimulated a huge amount of drug discovery work over the years, people are now trying similar tricks with these new gases. Look for more and more work on these in the drug industry as their mechanisms get fleshed out.
What's next? Well, it's not impossible that some other small-molecule gases have their own pathways, too. These things have properties that aren't shared by any other molecules, and perhaps they're being put to use. Ammonia, sulfur dioxide, and nitrous oxide have all been proposed as candidates. Thinking along those lines, I have to wonder about the small alkyl derivatives like methylamine and dimethyl sufide, too. Why not? But if someone gets around to claiming chlorine or the other halogens, I'm going to start to wonder. And if there turns out to be a physiological role for the noble gases, I'd start to suspect that Einstein was wrong: maybe God's approach to scientific laws is malicious after all. It would explain a lot, now that I think about it. . .
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VALENCIENNES, France — To long-time automotive journalists, this inauguration ceremony in early June looks like just another flawless startup of a Toyota Motor Corp. plant: The assembly line is humming, there are no half-built cars stacked up in the aisles for repair, and demand for the product — the Yaris subcompact — is soaring.
Ho hum, same story, different day when it comes to Toyota, the world's third largest automaker. But hold on, this is France, where the government mandated a 35-hour work week in January. Shouldn't workers be stopping to have a glass of wine and a little brie after every car build?
In a word, no. OEMs and suppliers alike admit the new 35-hour mandate is a huge headache, but so far it's been more or less business as usual, with the exception that workers now have 10 more days off per year. That sounds like a lot of time off, and it is. The French now work about 1,575 hours per year compared to about 1,800 in the U.S. Even so, economic development officials argue that French workers still put in more hours than the Germans, (about 1,550 hours per year), and French wages are lower while their productivity is higher.
The stereotype of the French work ethic isn't positive in the U.S., but it doesn't ring true here in gritty northern France, where they know more about mining coal and producing steel than making wine and cheese. Between towns the landscape resembles Northern Ohio, with high-tension power lines criss-crossing rolling farmland. The only mountains visible here in the Nord — Pas de Calais region, a few miles from the Belgian border, turn out to be giant piles of mine tailings.
But once you roll into any of the region's cities, from Valenciennes to the local capital of Lille, the area once again seems very French, loaded with historic buildings. And the food, well, it's a bit better than what you find along the Ohio Turnpike.
Despite the differences, Nord — Pas de Calais suffers from the same ills that plague all older industrial areas. Since the mining, steel and ship repair industries started declining in the late '60s, unemployment has soared and the area has been struggling to attract new development.
It now has turned itself into a major automotive center, with three other major vehicle assembly plants (two Renault SA and one PSA Peugeot Citroen plant besides Toyota) and more than 150 suppliers in the region. But even with the new Toyota plant, unemployment is 17% (down from 20%).
Some competitive regions complain that Valenciennes won the Toyota plant with excessive grants and economic incentives, but Northern France economic development officials say the region offered incentives equal to about 10% of Toyota's FF5 billion ($685 million) investment, considerably less than what was given some other major facilities in France, such as DaimlerChrysler's Smart car plant.
Economic development officials say Toyota chose the region because of the area's established infrastructure and proximity to suppliers as well as access to major European markets. They also point out that the region has the lowest unionization rate in Europe, and hourly labor costs rank well below Germany, Belgium, the U.S., Japan, The Netherlands and the U.K.
Absenteeism averages between 2% and 2.5% including sick leaves and — counter to the common American misperception — strikes are rare. The general manager of Valeo's big plant near Calais, which makes 6 million alternators a year, reports that the plant has lost two days of work to strikes in the past 25 years of operation.
Even though local and national development organizations fought hard to win the new factory, the road to this inauguration ceremony on a drizzly day in June has not been an easy one, even though Toyota Motor Mfg. France SAS officials brag they've managed the fastest production ramp-up in Toyota history.
If you aren't French, building and selling a new small car here is difficult, even if you are Toyota. France may be in the heart of one the world's most competitive vehicle markets, but Renault and Peugeot dominate the landscape, controlling 60% of domestic sales. More than a dozen other automakers, including Volkswagen AG and the Fiat Group, fight for the scraps. Nationalistic feelings are strong, and — much as it was in the U.S. 20 years ago — Toyota's announcement in December 1997 that it was going to build Yaris subcompacts in a high-volume factory in Northern France wasn't well received in many quarters.
Despite its manufacturing prowess and sterling reputation for quality, Toyota is a small player in Western Europe. Last year, sales reached 656,000 units, making it the ninth largest automaker. Its goal is 800,000 units by 2005.
Initially, the French automotive press was openly hostile to Toyota's manufacturing iniative: Writers could not believe a Japanese automaker could make a car that would be popular on the streets of Paris.
A lot of attitudes have changed since then. For one, imported versions of the Yaris, which was actually designed at Toyota's European Design Center, won good reviews when it was introduced in 1999. Through April of this year it has sold more than 220,000 units throughout Europe, winning praise even in tough markets such as Italy. The Yaris also won the European Car of the Year award in 1999. First-quarter sales are up 9% in Europe and 33% in France.
Sales are so strong that TMMF announced in May that it would add a second shift and increase production capacity from 150,000 units a year to 180,000 by the beginning of 2003, creating an additional 400 jobs.
But, as usual, Toyota is going its own way in designing the most lean and efficient plant possible. Didier Leroy, TMMF's vice-president of manufacturing, says this new facility isn't just another cookie-cutter plant being transplanted from somewhere else, as is the fashion among many automakers today. Mr. Leroy also says Toyota isn't using a manufacturing strategy that emphasizes the use of big supplier-built modules, like DaimlerChrysler is doing with its SMART minicar plant, also located in France.
Instead, Mr. Leroy says, Toyota started with a clean sheet of paper to develop the leanest, most compact auto plant ever, with almost negligible in-process inventories and sometimes no repair areas. "Compactness" was the word of the day during the inauguration, with some gushing "Très (very) compact."
The factory itself is designed in what Toyota terms a star shape. The assembly shop is more or less in the middle, with plastic injection molding, engine assembly, welding, metal stamping and paint operations surrounding it. The layout is designed to optimize the flow of parts, vehicles and information and to keep the consumption of water and different forms of energy, ventilation and movement to a minimum, Toyota says.
No suppliers are involved with assembling components inside the plant, nor are paint suppliers involved with the operation of the paint shop, as is the case with many assembly plants.
TMMF currently is working with 12 suppliers in the area, 41 in France, and 70 from other European countries. However, Mr. Leroy says TMMF isn't pressuring suppliers to locate facilities adjacent to the factory to facilitate just-in-time parts delivery.
Production began just 22 months after plant construction started. Job 1 was officially Jan. 31, and the plant has been ramping up production since then at a record pace. The first shift hit target production of 215 units per day in just 2.5 months, and Mr. Leroy predicts he will hit full capacity on the newly announced second shift by September, or 430 cars per day. Tac time — the time it takes for a car to move through each assembly station — will be reduced from roughly 108 seconds now to 72 seconds next year to achieve TMMF's near-term production goal of 150,000 units per year, which will rise to 180,000 units by 2003.
Oddly, he didn't mention breaks for wine and cheese.


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Investment Banks And The Market
August 19, 2007
Well, everybody was surprised by the market turmoil, even the smartest of the players. Not quite. The IPOs of Blackstone and KKR should have been a signal to all of us that the really smart (and slick) players wanted out, or at least part way out. Which is what they are, and with Blackstone just in time. Why didn't Goldman or Morgan or the hedgers figure this one out?
Fevered Pitch
November 12, 2001
ON THE AFTERNOON of September 26, George W. Bush gathered 15 prominent Muslim- and Arab-Americans at the White House. With cameras rolling, the president proclaimed that "the teachings of Islam are teachings of peace and good." It was a critically important moment, a statement to the world that America's Muslim leaders unambiguously reject the terror committed in Islam's name. Unfortunately, many of the leaders present hadn't unambiguously rejected it. To the president's left sat Dr.
Dollar Foolish
December 09, 1996
After Richard Nixon's re-election in 1972, Democrats accused Arthur Burns, whom Nixon had appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve in 1970, of rigging the election by overstimulating the economy. Burns, they charged, had produced a temporary reprieve from recession, but had also built up inflationary pressures that would burst forth later and produce an even sharper recession. In coming years, Republicans may make similar charges against Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's secretary of the Treasury.
Life in the Stone Age
January 14, 1991
Louis Menand: Checks, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
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text: Kristin Linklater | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season Kristin Linklater Performer, Dialect Coach, Vocal Coach ( b. Apr 22, 1936 SCOTLAND ) Female Relations: Mother of Hamish Linklater Productions ProductionsDate of ProductionsInto the Woods[Musical, Comedy, Drama, Original] Vocal Coach: Kristin Linklater Nov 05, 1987 - Sep 03, 1989Sunday in the Park with George[Musical, Original] Speech Consultant: Kristin Linklater May 02, 1984 - Oct 13, 1985The Real Thing[Play, Drama, Original] Speech Consultant: Kristin Linklater - ReplacementJan 05, 1984 - May 12, 1985The Corn Is Green[Play, Drama, Revival] Performer: Kristin Linklater [A Mother, Member of "Ash Grove Quartet", Member of "Welsh Chorus"] Standby: Kristin Linklater [Miss Moffat] Understudy: Kristin Linklater [Sarah Pugh] Speech Consultant: Kristin Linklater Aug 22, 1983 - Sep 18, 1983Slab Boys[Play, Original] Language Consultant: Kristin Linklater Mar 07, 1983 - Apr 17, 1983 Find out where Kristin Linklater and are credited together © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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Nicalis discusses its decision to cancel La-Mulana for WiiWare
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Valve has found loads of success with their digitally-focused platform Steam, so why shouldn't Microsoft go after a piece of that pie? Read More
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COVERAGE> Japanese Classic Car Show in LBC
CARSPOTTING> Crashing A Vintage Porsche Event
Needless to say, I was beyond excited when I attended this gathering of Porsches in Woodland Hills, CA. There were several gorgeous cars from different model years in attendance, but none of the cars truly captured my attention like these retro race-themed 911s. Read more...
OH SNAP> Shakotan S30 Street Scraper Returns!
The past few days have been super hectic! I've basically been shooting photos every single day since Friday! I decided not to post up our Formula D and JCCS stories just yet, because I wanted to focus my very limited time on linking up with good friends from out of town and doing some photo shoots with their cars while I was chillin out with them.
I suppose that's the difference between MotorMavens and other websites. Some of the other sites go to the shows just to grab as many pics as they can and then leave quickly so they can post them before anyone else. MotorMavens has a different way of thinking, and a different agenda altogether. Instead of racing to get photos up before the other websites, MotorMavens values quality when it comes to the things published on the site. Posting photos quickly is important to me, but I also make it a priority to spend my valuable time with my good friends in the car scene – after all, I know that without the support of our loyal friends (this includes YOU, our awesome readers!), MotorMavens would not have come as far as it has today.
So here's a teaser photo; this will give you a taste of what I've been up to over the past few days. This is Yuta Akaishi's shakotan S30 240Z from Northern California's Heartbreaker crew. He just got back from spending summer in Japan a few days before the Japanese Classic Car Show. He refreshed the car really quickly, and then scraped pavement all the way from San Jose to Long Beach for JCCS! (more…)
VIDEO> Wangan Midnight Tokyo Highway
Mannnnn… following up on the cool video that 0-60 Magazine's Alex Bernstein shot of Nakai san's Rauh Welt Porsches cruising through the highways of Japan, one of the friends of the MotorMavens Crew, fellow Japanophile Edwin Reyes from NYC sent me this video through our Facebook page.
For those who haven't heard of the Wangan Midnight comic book in Japan, it stars a certain S30 240Z and tells exciting stories of Japanese highway (wangan) battles with other high speed streetcars. I think the Wangan Midnight live action movie looks pretty cool – in fact, I can't wait to see the entire thing. Hopefully someone has a torrent of it somewhere that they'd like to share? If you have it, let me know please!
It's too bad NBC Universal didn't make their Fast&Furious movies into something more like this. Movies like this would be off the hook! In fact, watching this makes me want to drive a black JZA70 or JZA80 Supra on the highway right nowwwwww!!! Or a Porsche GT3RS! Or an R34 Skyline GT-R V-Spec… Or… (What else?)
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COVERAGE> Wekfest Weekend in J-Town SF, Pt.1
Anyway, the Weksos Wekfest event was pretty crazy... TONS of cars, TONS of people in attendance, and a line of impatient people that stretched around the block. Seriously... that was a pretty long line! Read more...
CENTER STAGE> Shakotan S30 240Z
There were so many cars from Datsun/Nissan lineage represented at this year's JCCS, it was hard to focus on them all. Everything from Japanese style G-nose S30s to US market 240Zs were in abundance at the event this year, but there was one Z in particular that had a certain combination of presence and shock value. I just knew I had to feature it on our site... but there was just one problem. The car (and its owner) live in San Jose, California. And they would both be returning to the Bay Area on the morning after the show.
I had to figure out how (and where) to somehow shoot the car before it went back to San Jose - and I knew I didn't want to do one of those "on the grass" photo shoots after the show, because I think photos of cars on the grass are cliche, unimaginative and overdone... especially since there were 236790 photographers from different magazines doing the same photo shoot on different spots on the grass after JCCS.
The owner of this shakotan (super low down) boogiemonster is Yuta Akaishi. Let's pronounce it together. His first name is Yuta, pronounced like "Utah" and his last name is pronounced "Aka-ishi." I was first drawn to this amazing 240Z because it is just so damn low... it's mind boggling, seriously! The car may be showing its age with the presence of surface rust and dents here and there, but hell... to me, it's just a sign that this car lived a full life. It's kind of like battlescars on a seasoned fighter - they actually ADD to the look. Read more...
WEBMINING> Japanese Nostalgic Car Chase!
Our good friends at Japanese Nostalgic Car Magazine posted this on their site yesterday – it's a super cool 1980s car chase sequence from Japan, with a lady cop in a TE71 Corolla Levin chasing down the bad guy, who is driving an S30 Fairlady Z. Lots of great action in this video clip; we're just sad to see the cars get smashed up!
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The Next Obamacare Glitch
August 06, 2014
Auto-renewal is supposed to make life easier for people getting insurance through healthcare.gov. But it could cause serious trouble, too.
Why Are Conservative Health Journalists Covering for Halbig Truthers?
July 29, 2014
Conservative health writers are repudiating their own reporting to back this ridiculous Obamacare lawsuit argument.
The Latest Obamacare Glitch and Why It's (Probably) No Big Deal
June 03, 2014
Hey, we didn't say they'd fixed everything.
The Sebelius Legacy: One Epic Tech Failure, Millions of Newly Insured Americans
April 10, 2014
If she deserves some blame, she also deserves some credit.
Last-Minute Shoppers Push Obamacare Sign-Ups Past 6 Million
March 27, 2014
The experts predicted lots of people would sign up at the last minute. Looks like those experts were right.
Obamacare in Red and Blue America: Two Charts Tell the Story
January 19, 2014
Two graphs show how differently the Affordable Care Act is playing out in more conservative parts of the country.
We Don't Know if Obamacare Is Working Well. But We Know It's Working.
December 29, 2013
Almost 1 million people enrolled at healthcare.gov in the last few weeks. Here's what that tells us—and what it doesn't.
If the Private Sector Is So Great, Why Did UPS Botch Christmas?
December 26, 2013
Obamacare haters insisted only the government could botch a website like healthcare.gov. Then Christmas came around.
Those Media Hysterics Who Said Obama's Presidency Was Dead Were Wrong. Again.
December 06, 2013
Obama has had a good week. And another set of premature Washington obits can safely be ignored.
Healthcare.gov Is Not Amazon.com. Should We Care?
December 04, 2013
Everybody agrees that healthcare.gov is working much better than before. Everybody also agrees that it's not working as well as it should. So what's a fair way to evaluate its progress? One way is to compare its performance to commercial websites.