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Fox News' rhetoric echoes Ailes' long history of race-baiting
Research ››› ››› JOCELYN FONG
Under its president, Roger Ailes, Fox News routinely employs racially charged appeals to foment opposition to the Obama administration and other progressive figures, such as Glenn Beck's comments that President Obama is a "racist" and "has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." Before launching the Fox News Channel, Ailes worked as a media consultant for several Republican campaigns where evidence shows he similarly appealed to racial fears and biases for political gain, and as executive producer for Rush Limbaugh's television show, during which Limbaugh made several controversial statements.
Ailes' political and media history is littered with race-based appeals
As Nixon campaign consultant, Ailes reportedly looked for a "Wallaceite cab-driver" to bring up race at televised town hall meetings. As media consultant for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, Ailes directed televised town hall meetings in which Nixon answered questions from a supportive audience. According to Rick Pearlstein, Ailes suggested Nixon take a question from "A good, mean, Wallaceite cab-driver. Wouldn't that be great? Some guy to sit there and say, 'Awright, Mac, what about these niggers?" Pearlstein wrote, "Nixon then could abhor the uncivility of the words, while endorsing a 'moderate' version of the opinion. Ailes walked up and down a nearby taxi stand until he found a cabbie who fit the bill."
From Nixonland by Rick Pearlstein:
The panel questioners were unrehearsed. But they were also an effect of stagecraft. They were like those heterogeneous World War II-picture platoons: here a Jewish physician; there the president of an immigrant advocacy group; an outnumbered newsman or two to show the man in the arena wasn't ducking them; a surburban housewife; a businessman. In Philadelphia they hit a snag with the Jewish physician turned out to be a psychiatrist. "You should have heard Len on the phone when I told him I had one on the panel," one staffer related. "If I've ever heard a guy's voice turn white, that was it." (Garment had remembered his evening with Nixon in Elmer Bobst's Florida pool house: "anything except see a shrink.")
Ailes hit upon an idea for a substitute: "A good, mean, Wallaceite cab-driver. Wouldn't that be great? Some guy to sit there and say, 'Awright, Mac, what about these niggers?'" Nixon then could abhor the uncivility of the words, while endorsing a "moderate" version of the opinion. Ailes walked up and down a nearby taxi stand until he found a cabbie who fit the bill. [Nixonland, p. 331]
Ailes on 1988 strategy against Dukakis: "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it." Ailes was credited, along with Lee Atwater, with helping George H.W. Bush come from behind to beat Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election. Part of that winning strategy included portraying Dukakis as "soft on crime" and connecting him with convicted felon Willie Horton. Horton committed assault, armed robbery, and rape in Maryland during a weekend furlough -- a program granting temporary release to prisoners that Dukakis supported but was created under the previous governor. While the Bush campaign did not produce the Horton ad that was widely criticized as "racist," Ailes did produce the "Revolving Door" ad that similarly attacked Dukakis for the furlough program. The campaign also created "The Risk," a negative ad that referenced "a furlough escapee" who "terrorized a Maryland couple." Ailes has been quoted as saying, "The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it."
Ailes' 1989 attacks on Dinkins for Giuliani "prey[ed] upon the fears of the Jewish community." As media consultant for Rudy Giuliani's first mayoral campaign, Ailes placed an ad in a prominent Yiddish Newspaper, The Algemeiner Journal, that featured an image of Guiliani's opponent David Dinkins -- who would become New York City's first African-American mayor -- alongside Jesse Jackson. The ad also displayed a photo of Giuliani with President George H.W. Bush, and the headline stated, ''Let the people of New York choose their own destiny" [New York Times, 9/30/1989]. Howard Kurtz reported that "Ira Silverman, vice president of the American Jewish Committee, said the Giuliani ad seemed a 'legitimate campaign tactic,' but said that he found it 'troubling' because it 'preys upon the fears of the Jewish community' " [Washington Post, 9/29/1989]. National Public Radio has further reported: "Giuliani also tagged Dinkins as a 'Jesse Jackson Democrat.' That was an appeal to the city's large contingent of Jewish voters, who had despised Jackson ever since he used an anti-Semitic epithet to describe New York City. In this context, Giuliani's signature issue of crime took on racial overtones, says political consultant Norman Adler." One of Giuliani's ads featured a New Yorker stating, "I'm tired of living in New York and being scared." From a November 4, 1989, New York Times article:
A new Giuliani television advertisement, aimed largely at wavering Democrats, features six apparently ordinary New Yorkers, who describe Mr. Dinkins as ''a follower.'' They complain, among other things, about ''the crowd'' around Mr. Dinkins, including Robert (Sonny) Carson, a former campaign functionary who later proclaimed himself to be anti-white. Another person in the commercial says, ''I'm tired of living in New York and being scared.''
Ailes produced Limbaugh's television show. Ailes served as executive producer for Limbaugh's syndicated late-night television show, which ran from 1992 to 1996. Limbaugh made several controversial statements on air, many of them documented by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, including his assertion in response to Spike Lee's recommendation that African-American children be permitted to skip school to view Malcolm X: "Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater and then blow it up on their way out" [Nexis transcript of Limbaugh's show on October 29, 1992]. And after Sen. Strom Thurmond -- who in 1948 ran for president on a States Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrat) platform that advocated racial segregation -- told a gay service member during a 1993 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on gays in the military, "Your lifestyle is not normal," and asked if he had every sought psychiatric help, Limbaugh stated of Thurmond: "He is not encumbered by trying to be politically correct. He's not encumbered by all of the -- the so-called new niceties and proprieties. He just says it, and if you want to know what America used to be -- and a lot of people wish it still were -- then you listen to Strom Thurmond." Limbaugh added, "He got a standing ovation. Now people -- people applauded that. People applaud -- because -- you know, Strom Thurmond can say it because he's 90 years old and people say, Ah, he's just an old coot. He's from the old days,' and so forth. But that's what most people think. They just don't have the guts to say it. That's why they applaud when somebody does say it that directly and that simply" [Nexis transcript of Limbaugh's show, May 11, 1993].
Fox News under Ailes routinely engages in race-baiting
Beck caps off week of race-baiting by calling Obama a "racist." During the week of July 23, Glenn Beck put forth a steady stream of race-baiting and race-based fearmongering on his television show and radio program. Beck's comments culminated in his remarks that President Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" and "is, I believe, a racist," a statement he subsequently claimed to stand by, in spite of growing criticism.
Hannity just can't "get over" his Rev. Wright obsession. Sean Hannity -- who claimed he "broke the story" about Obama's controversial former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, during the 2008 campaign -- mentioned Wright on at least 45 different episodes of his Fox News show between Obama's inauguration and July 31. Indeed, his repeated references to Wright -- most recently in discussions about Obama and race relations in America -- have prompted his own guests to comment, "You always want to bring up Reverend Wright," and "Sean, you need to get over it."
Rev. Wright redux: Media use Jones controversy to revive Wright smear. Conservative media figures used the controversy over former White House adviser Van Jones' past statements as an excuse to again link Obama to Wright. On Fox News, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Charles Krauthammer all invoked Wright while discussing Jones in order to question Obama's associations.
Guest-hosting O'Reilly, Ingraham claims Obama "channeled his best Jeremiah Wright accent" in NAACP speech. While guest-hosting Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, radio host Laura Ingraham stated, "Last night President Obama spoke to the NAACP and channeled his best Jeremiah Wright accent." After airing a clip of Obama's remarks, Ingraham added, "Now, why does the first African-American feel the need to affect an accent that he clearly does not possess? Or is that the way people speak in Honolulu? It's a cheap attempt to pander to an audience that already supports him" [The O'Reilly Factor, 7/17/09].
After asking, "Do the Obamas have a race problem of their own?" Hannity continued to smear Barack and Michelle Obama. Hannity falsely asserted that Wright "honored [Louis] Farrakhan for lifetime achievement, saying, quote, 'He truly epitomized greatness.' " In fact, the managing editor of a magazine founded by the church wrote those words, not the minister. Hannity also stated that Michelle Obama "wrote in her [undergraduate] thesis that we see at Princeton, you know, the belief -- 'because of the belief that blacks must join in solidarity to combat a white oppressor.' " However, as the full context of the passage makes clear, she was discussing views that black students who attended Princeton in the 1970s may have held, not asserting her own views [Hannity's America, 3/5/08].
Ignoring Obama's statement on award, Hannity suggested that Obama "associated" himself with Farrakhan. Hannity suggested that Obama had "associated" himself with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who had received an award from a magazine founded by Obama's church. But Hannity, who described Farrakhan as "an anti-Semite racist," did not note that Obama issued a statement "condemn[ing]" Farrakhan's "anti-Semitic statements" and saying of the award: "[I]t is not a decision with which I agree" [Hannity & Colmes, 1/18/09].
Morris: McCain "doesn't have to" engage in Willie Horton-like campaign because O'Reilly is already doing so. After airing portions of a controversial sermon by Wright, Bill O'Reilly -- who described Wright's comments as "anti-American, to say the least" -- asked Dick Morris , "If you were [Sen. John] McCain, do you use this against Obama?" Morris replied, "He doesn't have to. You just did. And the talk radio people around the country" will. Morris continued: "[T]he other media, the other conservative media can make a big deal of it" [The O'Reilly Factor, 3/13/08].
Hannity smeared Gates as anti-white radical by distorting 1994 interview. Hannity repeatedly misrepresented Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s 1994 interview on C-SPAN's Booknotes to suggest that Gates had recently said he agreed with Malcolm X that the "white man was the devil" and to smear Gates as "extreme" and a "radical." In fact, in that interview, Gates was talking about events in 1959, specifically his witnessing his mother's positive reaction to a documentary they watched together about Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam [Hannity, 7/28/09].
Conservative media figures falsely suggest that Reich proposed excluding white males from stimulus package. Michelle Malkin and Hannity have falsely asserted or suggested that Robert Reich, speaking at a congressional forum, proposed that jobs created by the economic stimulus package should exclude white males. In fact, Reich has repeatedly stated that he favors a stimulus plan that "includ[es] women and minorities, and the long-term unemployed" in addition to skilled professionals and white male construction workers, not one that is solely limited to them.
O'Reilly tease: "[S]hould white Americans be concerned about Judge Sotomayor?" O'Reilly stated, "Next on the rundown: Should white Americans be concerned about Judge Sotomayor? Later, far-left Hispanic group says if you oppose the judge, you could be racist" [The O'Reilly Factor, 7/13/09].
Fox News is just asking about Sotomayor's "wise Latina" remarks: "New Racism?" During On The Record, guest-host Martha MacCallum stated, "The battle over Sonia Sotomayor's nomination intensifies tonight. Some conservatives continue to hammer Sotomayor and they are focused on this comment, which we've seen a lot this week." MacCallum then aired text of Sotomayor's comments under a headline stating, "New Racism?" [On the Record, 5/31/09].
Beck: Sotomayor "sure sounds like a racist here." Beck said Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment "smacks of racism" and is "one of the most outrageous racist remarks I've heard." Beck later added: "I hate the charges and cries of racism. But when I hear this -- I mean, gee. She sure sounds like a racist here" [Glenn Beck, 5/26/09].
Reporting on Sotomayor, "identity politics," and "the immigration debate," Fox shows video of apparent immigrants in detention. Wendell Goler reported, "Many observers saw President Obama's election as a validation of a post-racial campaign, and they see identity politics in Sotomayor's nomination -- an appeal to Hispanic voters, many of whom turned against Republicans in the immigration debate. But [Linda] Chavez, whose group doesn't support Sotomayor, says the Hispanic community doesn't march in lock-step." As he spoke, Fox News showed footage of apparent immigrants in detention [Special Report, 5/29/09].
Tucker Carlson claimed Sotomayor made "racist statement." Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson claimed that Sotomayor had said that "because of your race or gender, you're a better or worse judge, that female Latina judges are likely to render wiser decisions than white male judges." Carlson continued, "That's a racist statement, by any calculation" [The Live Desk, 5/26/09].
Krauthammer declares Sotomayor "a believer in the racial spoils system." Krauthammer stated on Special Report that Sotomayor's dismissal of the Ricci case "tells us that she really is a believer in the racial spoils system" [Special Report, 5/26/09].
Rev. Peterson: Obama was elected "mostly by black racists and white guilty people." Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said, "I think we all agree that Barack Obama was elected by, mostly by black racists and white guilty people" [Hannity, 2/3/09]. Peterson also asserted that Obama is "no different than" Rev. Wright and the NAACP, who he claimed "hate white Americans, and they especially hate the white man" [Glenn Beck, 6/24/09].
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NEW YORK - It's ironic in a city with some of the most expensive hotels and restaurants in the world, but many of New York's best attractions are free.
So many, in fact, that it's hard to narrow them down. Most New Yorkers would probably agree that at least a few of the five free things on this list are must-sees, but there's bound to be debate, which brings us to another famous aspect of life in the Big Apple: Strong opinions.
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Since 1920, the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier has been sheltered underneath the arch. Its eternal flame commemorates the dead of the two world wars. Here, on every Armistice Day (November 11), the President of the Republic lays a ceremonial wreath. On July 14, the French National Day (also known as Bastille Day), a military parade starts at the arch and proceeds down the Champs-Elysees. At the bases of the Arc's pillars are four huge relief sculptures, commemorating The Triumph of 1810 (by Cortot); Resistance, and Peace (both by Etex); and The Departure of the Volunteers, more commonly known as La Marseillaise (by François Rude). On the day the Battle of Verdun started (1916), the sword carried by the figure representing the Republic broke off from La Marseillaise. The relief was immediately hidden to conceal the accident, so that it would not be interpreted as a bad omen. Engraved around the top of the Arch are the names of major victories won during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. The names of less important victories, as well as those of 558 generals, can be found on the inside walls. (Generals whose names are underlined died in action.) Inside the Arch, a small museum documents its history and construction. The price of admission includes access to the top of the Arch. From the roof, one is treated to spectacular views of Paris. Looking eastwards, down the Champs Elysees, toward the Louvre, there is the Place de la Concorde, the Tuileries Gardens, and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. In the opposite direction - westwards - in the distance is its larger and newer cousin, La Grande Arche de la Défense. Before taking the elevator to the top of the Arc to experience the amazing city view, stand by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, added at the Arch's base in 1920. An eternal flame burns here to commemorate fallen soldiers. As visitors stand silent in thought, cars zip madly around the road circling the Arc. Fortunately, there is an underground passage for pedestrians to pass beneath the busy road. To cross it would truly be a life-threatening


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Limbaugh: AIDS "hasn't made that jump to the heterosexual community"
Responding on June 9 to accusations by what he deemed "mainstream journalist Leftists" that former President Ronald Reagan "didn't do enough to stop AIDS ... so he's anti-gay," radio host Rush Limbaugh [1] branded as "propaganda" the claim by "AIDS activists" in the 1980s that it was "only a matter of time before it [AIDS] spreads to the heterosexual community." Limbaugh also claimed that AIDS "hasn't made that jump to the heterosexual community" -- "other than in Africa [where] ... it's promiscuity that ... spreads this."
From the June 9 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: They [mainstream journalist Leftists] have spent their lives since the Reagan Presidency trying to rewrite those eight years, and they have -- they -- they have no choice but then to face full square their failure, by simply witnessing public events this week...Their effort to rewrite the '80s has failed. And they know it. So they're starting all over again. They're continuing it. ... [H]e [Reagan] didn't do enough to stop AIDS. And he did -- he did -- he didn't anything for AIDS, so he's anti-gay.
LIMBAUGH: And remember, back then in the '80s, one of the accompanying -- there -- there -- there -- there was a lot of fear-mongering going on around -- about AIDS, as a lot of people were scared about it. And one of the things that -- that the -- the AIDS activists said regularly back then was, oh, this is only a matter of time before it spreads to the heterosexual community. It's only a matter of time.
And they used that as -- as one of the weapons to try to get people like Reagan to start talking about it from their standpoint. And of course it -- it hasn't. It -- it didn't, and it hasn't, other than in Africa, and in Africa it is -- it is being spread not just by -- it -- it -- it's promiscuity that -- that -- that spreads this, if you want to know the truth. It's promiscuity.
But it -- it hasn't made that jump to the heterosexual community.
And when Reagan would not go to the bully pulpit and say what they wanted said, despite the money he spent, he was allowing people to die from AIDS, because he wasn't spreading the propaganda about it they wanted spread.
According to basic statistics [2] from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, as of December 2002, an estimated 135,628 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS as a result of heterosexual contact, compared with 420,790 from male-to-male sexual contact and with 59,719 from male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use; approximately 9,300 American children under age 13 had been infected with the disease by the end of 2002. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services January 2004 "Facts and Figures [3]" shows that, of new infections in the United States, 15 percent of men and 75 percent of women with AIDS were infected through heterosexual sex.
Limbaugh's comments came one day after the host of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly, distorted [4] a remark by syndicated columnist Robert Scheer that "Reagan allowed AIDS to spread," erroneously accusing Scheer of stating that Reagan is "responsible for the AIDS epidemic" and that "Reagan spread AIDS."
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BBC director general to meet MPs over Savile next week
BBC director general George Entwistle has offered to appear before MPs next week over the Sir Jimmy Savile scandal.
Mr Entwistle's decision to bring forward his appearance surfaced as MPs criticised the BBC.
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman said the Savile abuse claims "cast a stain" on the corporation, but Culture Secretary Maria Miller dismissed calls for an independent inquiry.
Police believe Savile may have sexually abused 60 people since 1959.
Mr Entwistle had been due to appear in front of MPs later this year, but he offered to bring it forward to 23 October, said culture committee chairman John Whittingdale.
Mr Whittingdale said he was "sure" MPs would take Mr Entwistle up on his offer.
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman told MPs that Savile's "exalted" status within the corporation allowed him to act with impunity.
She said: "Everyone has been sickened by the vile abuse perpetrated by Jimmy Savile. It's impossible to overstate the suffering he caused to those he abused.
"What has deepened the revulsion is that this happened at the BBC, an institution so loved and trusted it is known as Auntie. This has cast a stain on the BBC."
Mrs Miller told the Commons she was satisfied the corporation was taking the allegations "very seriously," saying the BBC had launched three reviews.
"The first will look particularly at the allegations with regard to the item on Savile which was inappropriately pulled from Newsnight," she said.
A spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport later clarified that Ms Miller had misread her statement and meant the inquiry would look into allegations the Savile investigation was inappropriately pulled.
Mrs Miller added that the BBC's second review - undertaken when the police advised it was appropriate to do so - would focus on Savile himself.
"And although the BBC's child protection policy was overhauled in 2002, the review will also focus on whether its policy is fit for purpose and what lessons can be learnt. That will be assisted by an independent expert," she added
A third review would look at wider allegations of sexual harassment at the corporation, Mrs Miller said.
"These are undoubtedly very serious matters that have wide-ranging implications for a number of public institutions, not just the BBC. It is now crucial we understand what went wrong and how it can be put right."
Mrs Miller was speaking in response to a question from Tory MP Rob Wilson, who said he had a "number of major concerns that the investigations announced by the BBC will not be sufficiently independent, transparent and robust to give the public confidence."
Mrs Miller said there was no need for a wider inquiry while the police investigation was going on. It was crucial detectives were allowed to continue their investigation "unfettered" by other inquiries, she said.
Meanwhile, Savile's youngest-known victim has spoken, a man who said he was abused after he appeared on his TV show Jim'll Fix It aged nine.
Kevin Cook told the BBC: "He led me off, we went down some corridors, through some doors, we went off to a really dingy dressing room.
"He took me in there and again asked me if I wanted my badge, which I said yes, and that's where it took place. He sat me down in a chair, he stood in front of me, and that's where he assaulted me."
In other developments on Monday:
- A former chairman of the branch of the Prison Officers Association at Broadmoor Special Hospital, Frank Mone, said Savile would not have been left alone with patients there. It follows a claim from a former patient that Savile sexually assaulted him in the early 1970s
- Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis has denied claims he groped two women in BBC studios
Scotland Yard, which is co-ordinating the investigation, said it was following up 340 lines of inquiry on Savile and was in contact with 14 other police forces.
Police said the allegations spanned six decades, with reports up to and including 2006.
Savile, who presented Top of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It in the 1970s and 80s, died in October 2011, aged 84.


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Allen Iverson Returns? Top 11 NBA Players From The 1996 Draft
Is Allen Iverson coming back? Well, it seems like the erstwhile superstar is on the verge of a comeback of some sorts. News broke today that Iverson turned down a D-League job, but maintained that he was still interested in an NBA return. And why not? The guy could fall out of bed and score about 28 points (on 30 shots, but still) and plenty of teams could use a little scoring off the bench. Plus, an awful lot of Iverson's draftmates are still in the league.
Wow, take a look at that draft. Iverson was the no. 1 pick in 1996, but it could be argued that he didn't deserve it. A lot of those guys are still kicking around - some bench players, some useful pieces, one super star - and it seems like as good a time as any to rank them up. Who are the top 10 best players from the 1996 draft? Find out!
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The 44th Annual Native Youth Olympics was a great success!
This year on April 24-26, 2014, were the 44th Annual NYO Games Alaska at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Each year, more than 2,000 students from more than 50 communities across the state of Alaska participate in the NYO and JNYO Games. Youth strive for their personal best while competing in traditional contests including the Alaskan High Kick, Seal Hop, Wrist Carry, Eskimo Stick Pull and many more.
NYO is open to youth from all backgrounds, and fosters important values including teamwork, leadership, respect, and healthy lifestyles. This year our 7 communities(Valdez, Seward, Chenega, Tatitlek, Eyak, Port Graham, and Nanwalek) were all represented with strong teams.
Hosting NYO is a team effort, made possible by individuals and businesses who donate their time, talent and financial support to the Games each year. Chugach Alaska Corporation this year sponsored $25,000 to the games under the Alaska State Education Tax Incentive. We want to thank all the athletes, volunteers, and sponsors who make this great event happen every year!
2014 NYO Games Alaska Official Results
Thursday, April 24
1st Apaay Campbell BSSD 53 ¼''
2nd Jordan Kashatok LKSD 50''
3rd Autumn Ridley ANC A 49''
4th Kendall Dray Dillingham 42 ¾''
5th Sophie Poe Bethel 42 ¼''
1st Dylan Magnusen Unalaska 66 ½''
2nd Evan George LKSD 57 ¾''
3rd Jose Casados III West Valley 56 ½''
4th Forest Strick Mat Su A 56''
5th Brandon Van Hatten Lathrop 53''
1st Wynne Kaganak LYSD 298' 7 ½''
2nd Shoney Ridderbush Valdez 293' 2 ½''
3rd Keylene Cathy Esnardo Unalaska 276' 7 ½''
4th Morelle Kinne Mat Su B 250' 11 ½''
5th Leah Demientieff LKSD 245' 11''
1st Joshua Hughes Mat Su A 730' 6'' *
2nd Jacob NcNaulty Mat Su B 581' 9''
3rd Sam Swenning Nanwalek 532' 8 ½''
4th Danny Miller Dillingham 467' 7 ¾''
5th Matthew Morgan Aniak 456' 9''
1st Autumn Ridley ANC A 83'' **
2nd Annmarie Paul LKSD 79''
3rd Jayde Stoffa ANC B 68'' 0 misses
4th Teyah Clark Mat Su A 68'' 1 miss
5th Kendall Dray Dillingham 68'' 2 misses
1st Archie Andrews Galena 90'' 0 misses
2nd Scott Charlie LKSD 87'' 0 misses
3rd Evan Dyment Bethel 87'' 1 miss
4th Nick Devens Valdez 86'' 0 misses
4th Daniel Adams Mat Su A 86'' 0 misses
Friday, April 25
1st Sarah Schroeder Dillingham
2nd Cynthia Drayton Unalaska
3rd Ashley Hogland Mat Su A
4th Taryn White Mt. Edgecumbe
5th Kelsea Wassillie LPSD
1st Lloyd LeFevere LPSD
2nd Ravel Sanford Effie Kokrine
3rd Josh Russell Aniak
4th Leonard Lampe Jr. Trapper School
5th Eric Hartman Mat Su A
1st Jonisha Wilson BSSD 64''
2nd Sydney Dray Dillingham 60'' 0m
3rd Autumn Ridley ANC B 60'' 3m
4th Daisy Billy LKSD 58'' 0m
4th Haley O'Brien Bethel 58'' 0m
1st Steven Ugale Unalaska 99'' **
2nd Cameron Okbaok BSSD 94''
3rd Kevin Horton Mat Su A 90'' 0m
4th Makiyan Ivanoff Mt Edgecumbe 90'' 1m
5th Forest Strick Mat Su B 88'' 2m
1st Brittany Akaran Mt. Edgecumbe 58'' 1m
1st Autumn Ridley ANC A 58'' 1m
3rd Cassie Katchatag ANC B 54'' 0m
3rd Deenaalee Hogdon West Valley 54'' 0m
5th Tara Agwiak Nenana 54'' 1m
1st Ryan Baker ANC B 63''
1st Timothy Ukatish Nanwalek 63''
3rd Moses Peter LKSD 63'' 1m
4th Daniel Adams Mat Su A 62'' 1m/62''
5th Alec Bonn ANC A 62'' 1m/58''
1st Autumn Ridley ANC A 79'' **
2nd Madeline Ko West Valley 76''
3rd Victoria Treder ANC B 70'' 2m/68''
4th Sydney Dray Dillingham 70'' 2m/66''
5th Shoney Ridderbush Valdez 68''
1st Dylan Magnusen Unalaska 90''
2nd Ray Egoak LKSD 88'' 1m
3rd Kristopher Kompkoff Tatitlek 88'' 2m
4th Andrew Kashevarof ANC A 88'' 4m
5th Makiyan Ivanoff Mt. Edgecumbe 88″ 5m
Saturday, April 26
1st Summer Ulroan Chevak
2nd Mercy Alsworth LPSD
3rd Tatiana Ticknor ANC A
4th Alita George Yupiit
5th Debra Hersrud BSSD
1st Charlie Ningeulook BSSD
2nd Jo Bukowski Chevak
3rd Forest Strick Mat Su A
4th Dominic Greene LYSD
5th Kayne Hart Andreafski
1st Autumn Ridley ANC A 91''
2nd Madeline Ko West Valley 90''
3rd Drew Carlos Dillingham 82'' 0m
3rd Julianne Wilson Kenaitze 82'' 0m
4th Lucy Post LKSD 82'' 1m/82''
5th Samantha Ishnook SWRSD 82'' 1m/78''
1st Makiyan Ivanoff Mt. Edgecumbe 107''
2nd Steven Ugale Unalaska 106''
3rd William Cholok LYSD 104'' 2m/100''
4th Cameron Okbaok BSSD 104'' 3m/102''
5th Will Byrd Mat Su A 104'' 3m/100''
1st Amanda Magnusen Unalaska 121' 9 ½"
2nd Annmarie Paul LKSD 118' 10 ¾"
3rd Brittany Dray Dillingham 116' 1 ¾"
4th Lacy Holmes MatSu 108' 5"
5th Regina Tuluk Chevak 108' ½"
1st Derrick Black Galena 152' 9 ½"
2nd Michael Kanuk Nenana 141' 1 ¾"
3rd Jerry Phillip Yupiit 127' 9"
4th Aucha Johnson BSSD 114' 1 3/4"
5th Forest Strick MatSu A 110' 5"
* new state record
** new world record
High Five Academic Excellence Award
First Place: Bering Strait School District 3.6 GPA (cumulative)
Second Place: Bristol Bay Borough School District 3.5 GPA
Third Place: Southwest Region School District 3.3 GPA
Individual Sportsmanship Award
Male: Forest Strick MatSu
Female: Autumn Ridley ANC Team
Gloria Walker Team Sportsmanship Award
Healthy Coach
Karl Clark Dillingham
Best Team Banner
Overall Athlete
Male: Dylan Magnusen Unalaska
Female: Autumn Ridley ANC
Overall Teams
1st LKSD 32 points
2nd Unalaska 31 points
3rd ANC A 29 points
4th MatSu A 28
5th BSSD 24 points


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CISAC, the worldwide body that represents collection societies, held a two-day conference in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to tackle a thorny question: how do artists get paid in a digital world?
CISAC is the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies, a meta-collection society that has the distinction of having booted Russia's ROMS out of the group after ROMS isued a blanket music license to AllOfMP3.com several years ago. The various collection societies that make up CISAC patrol the globe, collecting payments from restaurants and retail stores that play music while shoppers shop and diners eat (among other things; it's quite a varied group). That money is collected and then distributed to artists—but CISAC is concerned that digital technology and file-sharing are eviscerating revenues.
These societies administer licenses under which users who pay the appropriate license fee can play as much music as they want for their customers. A restaurant, for instance, might pay an annual fee to play recorded music; that money is then distributed to individual performers based on a set of byzantine formulas, market sampling statistics, and the sacrifice of a goat.
In an interview with the Register, CISAC's director general expressed strong opposition to extending this licensing scheme to home computer users. The proposal is that all broadband users in a country might pay a yearly fee as part of their broadband bill and then could download as much music as they like, from whatever source they like. The revenue would be then be parceled out to artists, who might stand to make plenty if everyone paid a small(ish) fee. It's not a new idea: Barenaked Ladies guitarist Steven Page thinks this is the right approach, and it's been suggested by others who see it as the solution to the file-sharing problem.
Eric Baptiste of CISAC believes that this proposal is utterly unworkable, though, and in the interview called for strengthening the current system under which each home user pays for each product (a song or album) at a price set by that song's owner. The great disadvantage of the current system is that it requires a massive enforcement regime to keep people from trading music without paying each time they do so, and enforcement isn't working so well. Baptiste believes that more technology and more DRM could solve the problem.
Perhaps he should have listened to some of the other speakers at the conference, like British Telecom's CEO Ben Verwaayen. "Regardless of your moral outrage, people will continue to download on peer-to-peer networks," Verwaayen said in his speech, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mark Selby of Nokia said that "the current situation is a nonsense. It is like arguing over the color of your stable lock long after the horse has bolted. If anyone believes that technology can offer total protection, they are living on another planet."
The Italian delegation to the meeting had its own idea about ways to raise public awareness of artists' contribution to society: strike. The idea would be to stop licensing all public performance rights for a single week in June to show shoppers and pub-crawlers what a world without ambient music would be like. This could backfire, though; some people might decide that it's nice.


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Master Data Services (MDS) is a new component in the R2 release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 that allows organisations to centrally manage data from multiple sources in order to produce a single view of cleaned and trustworthy master data.
The heart of this session will be an end-to-end technical demo that will show the role of MDS in extracting master data from source systems, before demonstrating how data is fed via MDS to subscribing downstream systems. Whilst the focus of the session will be on MDS, other parts of the Microsoft BI stack will be shown, in order to demonstrate how a Microsoft MDM solution complements existing parts of SQL Server.
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Devon Energy Corporation is a leading independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Devon's operations are focused onshore in the United States and Canada.
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Starting to play the trumpet at the tender age of nine, he was in Bathgate and Whitburn Brass Band right up until he went to College. Mark studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, under Bob Jenner, Trevor Green and John Gracie, and this was then followed by a post-graduate year at the National Centre of Orchestra Studies in London.
For the first thirteen years of his career Mark held the position of First Trumpet with both the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and also the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Having also extensive freelance experience with most British orchestras, he joined the Philharmonia Orchestra as Second Trumpet in 1999.
Mark particularly enjoys touring with the Orchestra, especially Japan and Germany (for the beer!). Mark is married, with two children, and holidays in Scotland each summer.


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Scott Dunlap's blog of trail running, ultrarunning, triathlon, and other life adventures. I enjoy the physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of outdoor events and the chance to meet cool people. This blog contains interviews, research, original fiction, new product ideas, and all things trail running.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
A 50-mile Run, Without The Scotch (The Connecticut Day)
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Pam's article is great. The race was a good time. Also want to point out a correction that the race is the Stone Cat 50 Miler and not the Virginia Massanuttten. I enjoy your site.ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting Pam's article, Scott. The only thing I can't undertand about her race is why she passed up the scotch. I had a Jack and Coke on both laps 2 and 3 and they ure made my day a whole lot more enjoyable. :-)ReplyDelete
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Jack and Coke on laps 2 and 3, you're crazy! I'll have to give that a shot. (ha, ha)
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Craig Lindley is a degreed hardware engineer who, until recently, had been writing large-scale Java applications. Now in retirement, he designs, builds and writes about the projects he wants to. He can be contacted at [email protected]
We programmers usually strive to write deterministic code that has predictable, repeatable behavior. Behavior that is not predictable and repeatable usually indicates a bug that must be found and fixed. Sometimes, however, the introduction of controlled randomness may be exactly what is needed to make our presentations more dynamic or to better test software we have already written.
In my case I was writing a ray tracing application for the iPhone/iPod Touch called Art Rays Lite. This app generates unique, one of a kind, ray-traced images in real time. Initially I used unconstrained randomness to select which geometric shapes (spheres, cones, cylinders, boxes, planes) to use within a scene, where these shapes would be placed in the 3D space, what their surface characteristics were (dull, shiny, reflective, etc.) and what colors would be used for these objects and for the scene light sources.
While the images produced were almost always interesting in some aspect the random selection of colors produced images that were sometimes jarring and not altogether pleasant. Since I actually wanted to sell this app it was important that most of the generated images were interesting and pleasant to look at.
This led me to the concept of using palettes for color selection instead of randomly generating colors. In this context a palette is a collection of 256 related colors. I decided to define numerous palettes because I wanted a lot of variation in the generated images. To this end I came up with the set of palettes in Table 1 for use in my ray tracer.
I started to formulate the problem as follows: I would like to use the R_GRAYSCALE palette approximately X percent of the time, the R_COLOR palette approximately Y percent of the time, the R_COLOR_FROM_IMAGE palette Z percent of the time and so on. The ProbabilitySelector class was developed to encapsulate this probability selection process.
From its initial use for palette selection within the Art Rays Lite app, ProbabilitySelectors are now being used in three other areas of the code to constrain randomness and hopefully create more pleasing images. ProbabilitySelectors might be useful in your code if you can formulate the problem to be solved like I did above.
Other possible uses might be in picking directories of digital photographs for display in a digital picture frame. You might want to select pictures from a family directory 60% of the time. Pictures from your pets directory 30% of the time. Pictures from your sports car directory 10% of the time.
ProbabilitySelectors might also come in handy for software testing. You might use a ProbabilitySelector for picking suites of tests to run and then use another ProbabilitySelector to pick which tests within a suite to run. Executing test suites and test cases in an unpredictable order might point out bugs in the code you might not have seen otherwise.


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Yesterday's Result: BROWSING ($9.80) won 6th race.
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Crime Stoppers of Onslow County is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information in a possible arson case.
Crime Stoppers of Onslow County is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information in a possible arson case.
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a blaze that destroyed a home at 4166 Richlands Highway at around 8:30 a.m. Monday, said Onslow County Fire Marshal Brian Kelly.
He asked anyone who knows anything about the cause of the fire or may have witnessed it to contact him.
�No one was home at the time,� he said, adding the fire started in one of the home's main living spaces.
He said the family was able to salvage some of their belongings, but the house is unlivable.
�If you see it from the road, it doesn't look that bad, but inside, it's totally destroyed,� he said, adding that the family who lived there are staying with other family members.
Crews from Rhodestown, Richlands, Southwest, and Backswamp volunteer fire departments responded to the call.
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From the first time you saw the flash of light and that hum, way back in 1977, in Obi-Wan Kenobi's bungalow, you knew you wanted one. At first, you weren't quite sure what they were, but they were powerful and wonderful. And even now, after over 30 years, you still want one. The time has come, friends, to join the ranks of the Jedi (or Sith). Time to arm yourself with one of the most beloved weapons of all time: the Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber!
The "Force FX" part means these sabers are packed with bajillions of technologies from a galaxy far, far away - giving them movie accurate lights and sounds. The blades light from the bottom up (with sound, of course) and fade from the top down (again, with sound). And as you wait to strike, you hear that hum you've come to know and love. Each wave will trigger its own sound effect and each crash of saber on saber (or any other object) will also deliver an explosion of sound.
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text: Think you might be related to one of our American Presidents? Of course, you will have to research your own family to establish a link, but Ancestors of American Presidents, published in 2009, provides ancestral tables for each President, lines of descent from royalty to Presidents and First Ladies, and charts outlining relationships between various Presidents. The 1993 American Presidential Families also provides essays on the life of the family in the White House, pedigree charts, and descendants.


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How did our moon come to be? The dominant theory holds that it broke off of the Earth when another planet collided with ours, about 4.5 billion years ago. But
For the first time since the woolly mammoth went extinct, its genes are working again, Popular Science reports. Sure, it's only in a lab; woolly mammoths haven't wandered the planet
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Here are a few pictures from our forest stroll last week. We have made Thursdays our 'day out' day. Bertie goes to pre-school each other morning, so we are trying to make the effort to get out and do something each week, somewhere out of the city if we can. Of course it helps if you have a dry, sunny day - particularly lucky on this day as you can see. It was so nice to be amidst the trees, blowing away the cobwebs and enjoying that feeling of freshness a new year brings.
In other news, I'm having a sale in both of my shops. Enter the code WINTERSALE and get 25% off your purchases.
See you soon.


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This discussion evaluates the power of why in your business.
One of my favorite places to go for new ideas and perspectives is TED.com. TED talks are addictive, 18-minute-long presentations by the world's foremost thought leaders in all areas. There are over 1000 TED talks available, all free to watch. Of all the talks, my favorite is by Simon Sinek on "How Great Leaders Inspire Action." I have watched this particular presentation at least 30 times, and each time I watch it, I find more.
The underlying concept is so inspiring. Sinek talks about the way businesses see themselves and talk about themselves. They tell the world about what they do and how they do it. We're conditioned to it. Think about it. When you meet someone for the first time, after you are introduced, the first thing you're asked is, "What do you do?"
He goes on to explain that the what and how are logical concepts, processed by the neocortex—the modern, logical part of our brain. It only makes up 10% of our active brain processing. This is the specification-driven processor we are all so familiar with. Unfortunately, specifications are easily substituted with less-expensive alternatives that still satisfy the requirements. This is the trap we fall into when positioning ourselves with a what and how model.
The other 90% of mental activity takes place in the limbic mind—the lizard brain. This is the ancient part of our brain that processes and controls everything about how our bodies and subconscious work. It cannot communicate directly with us, but modern neuroscience has determined it records and stores everything in our lives from the minute we are born. This is the part of the brain that leads to feelings and intuition.
Intuition is that gut feeling that something just doesn't feel right about a deal. You can't explain it, but the more experienced you become, the more you trust your intuition. That's because your intuition is sending you a message, via a feeling, that is based on countless experiences, sensations, and cues. These are largely subconscious, and we are most often unaware of them happening.
So what does all this have to do with you? The limbic brain controls the why part of our existence. Why is about the passion of what we do. Sinek elaborates: "People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it."
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While eating lunch, I noticed something. People really don't like change. They pretty much always do whatever they've always done no matter if the circumstances change. As I ate lunch the above rope, rat maze to funnel people to where they order was empty. I was surprised to notice as almost everyone came in they went out of their way to go through the maze instead of just walking up to the man waiting to take their order.
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's OfficeNews Media Release
|News Release Number 2012-032H
|Information: Homicide Investigation-(Katrina Smith)
|Date: November 13, 2012
|Time: 10:30 A.M.
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NARRATIVE:Katrina Smith was reported missing on Tuesday, October 23, 2012. Since that time an exhaustive search has been conducted for Ms. Smith both by Law Enforcement and citizen volunteers. The searches had not been successful. On October 9, 2012, the body of an unidentified female was discovered in the river in Ogle County. The Ogle County Sheriff's Department responded and recovered the female body. On November 10, 2012, an autopsy was conducted by the Ogle County Coroner's Office. Detectives from the Ogle County and Winnebago County Sheriff's Departments attended the autopsy. Based on dental records, the female was positively identified as Katrina Smith. The results of the autopsy showed Ms. Smith suffered blunt force trauma, and the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department is classifying this as a homicide investigation. Anyone who may have information concerning this investigation is asked to call the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department at 815-319-6400 or Rockford Area CrimeStoppers at 815-963-7867.


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dubious (comparative more dubious, superlative most dubious)
- Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
- After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him.
- 2011, Nigel Jones, "A Tale of Two Scandals", History Today, February 2011, Vol. 61 Issue 2, pages 10–17
- Evasive, womanising, boastful, malicious, untrustworthy, an inveterate gambler who combined his mediocre military career with running a high-class brothel, permanently cash strapped and viciously quarrelsome, his character is as dubious as his unsavoury appearance.
- In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.
- She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.
- 2010, John M. Broder, "Global Climate-Change Talks Begin in Cancun With More Modest Expectations", New York Times, November 30, Section A, Column 0, Foreign Desk, page 12
- Last year, President Obama had large majorities in Congress and hopes of passing a comprehensive climate and energy bill. Next year, he faces a new Congress much more dubious about the reality of climate change and considerably more hostile to international efforts to deal with it.
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arousing doubt
in disbelief, uncertain
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Frog Prince loves Philly Cheese Steaks. My original recipe also uses the crockpot, but requires the oven to make the herby rolls. It's been too hot for the oven, so we improvised.
We made the meat in the crockpot. Sauteed the veggies so they remained crunchy. And, toasted the sandwiches in the toaster oven using yummy wheat bread we had made earlier in the bread machine.
It was a "keep the kitchen cool day" substitute for the real thing, and we both enjoyed it very much!
Philly Cheese Melts - Finding Joy in My Kitchen
{Print Recipe}
1 lb. steak, cut into strips
1/2 C beef broth
1 yellow, green, and red bell pepper, sliced thin
4 oz. Monterrey Jack Cheese, sliced
Wheat Oatmeal Bread
Place the sliced steak and beef broth into a crockpot. Cook on low for 4-6 hours, until beef is tender and done.
When beef is ready, slice up the bell peppers and saute them in 1 tsp. olive oil.
Then, slice some bread.
Using a slotted spoon, top the bread with beef.
Add peppers and cheese.
Toast in the toaster oven until the cheese melts.


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PHOENIX (Wednesday, February 08, 2012) -- A bill which would have the effect of replacing law enforcement in Colorado City with the Mohave County Sheriff's Office this morning passed the Senate Government Reform Committee unanimously.
Attorney General Tom Horne testified that, of 17 bills he has suggested to the legislature, this one has the highest priority in terms of the safety and well being of Arizona citizens.
Young women trapped in polygamist arrangements with much older men, who had escaped from Colorado City, have stated that other women trying to escape were caught by the local police (referred to as "Marshalls") and forcefully returned to their husbands. In one case, the husband threatened "blood atonement" if the woman tried again escape, which involves execution by a method too horrible to describe here.
Attorney General Horne has organized a task force of federal, state, and county law enforcement officers, to deal with the Colorado City problem. They all agree that the first priority for dealing with that problem is replacement of local law enforcement, because existing law enforcement has expressly committed itself to following the dictates of Warren Jeffs, rather than enforcing the laws of the state, as they are sworn to do.
Numerous cases have been documented where the "Marshalls" refuse to investigate serious crimes against the property and persons of "apostates" or other non followers of Warren Jeffs, when the perpetrators were followers of Mr. Jeffs. The "Marshalls" have also prevented enforcement of court orders with respect who can occupy land. When a court appointed official came to Colorado City to enforce court orders, the Chief of Police pulled him over and threatened to arrest him for criminal trespass if he attempted to enforce court orders, as opposed to the desires of the FLDS Church.
AG Horne, in his testimony cited other examples of local police following the desires of Mr. Jeffs, rather than their sworn duty to follow the law.
The law provides that a local police agency can be decertified if more than half of its individual police officers had their licenses taken away in the previous 8 years. This would include Colorado City, and may apply in other cases as well. However, decertification of the law enforcement agency would not occur unless the Attorney General determined that the problem was systemic, and the County Board of Supervisors would have to vote to have the Sheriff takeover local law enforcement duties. Mohave County officials have indicated their willingness to do that in this case. The Sheriff's office would be paid by the city for law enforcement duties.
A copy of the bill is attached.
Link to the bill: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/bills/sb1433p.pdf
Link to the amendment: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/proposed/s.1433244.pdf
Link to the fact sheet: http://www.azleg.gov//FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/50leg/2r/summary/s.1433gr.doc.htm&Session_ID=107
Link to the agenda the bill was heard in this morning: http://www.azleg.gov/agendas/02080161107.pdf


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Story highlights
- Studies have shown people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's
- Scholar: "It's much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice"
- In Germany, some BMW drivers refused to take GPS directions from a woman
- Tech companies may avoid male computer voices because of HAL from the move "2001"
To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual "assistant" who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby pizza or tell you if it's going to rain.
She's also a she.
Siri answers questions in a part-human, part-robot voice that's deep, briskly efficient and distinctly female. (At least in the U.S. and four other countries. In France and the UK, Siri is male.)
People describe the app using female pronouns. Her gender has even prompted some users to flood blogs and online forums with sexually suggestive questions for Siri such as "What are you wearing?" (Siri's baffled response: "Why do people keep asking me this?")
The fuss over Siri's sex also raises a larger question: From voice-mail systems to GPS devices to Siri and beyond, why are so many computerized voices female?
One answer may lie in biology. Scientific studies have shown that people generally find women's voices more pleasing than men's.
"It's much easier to find a female voice that everyone likes than a male voice that everyone likes," said Stanford University Professor Clifford Nass, author of "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships." "It's a well-established phenomenon that the human brain is developed to like female voices."
Research suggests this preference starts as early as the womb, Nass said. He cites a study in which fetuses were found to react to the sound of their mother's voice but not to other female voices. The fetuses showed no distinct reaction to their father's voice, however.
Another answer lies in history. According to some sources, the use of female voices in navigation devices dates back to World War II, when women's voices were employed in airplane cockpits because they stood out among the male pilots. And telephone operators have traditionally been female, making people accustomed to getting assistance from a disembodied woman's voice.
When automakers were first installing automated voice prompts in cars ("your door is ajar") decades ago, their consumer research found that people overwhelmingly preferred female voices to male ones, said Tim Bajarin, a Silicon Valley analyst and president of Creative Strategies Inc.
This may explain why in almost all GPS navigation systems on the market, the default voice is female. One notable exception has been Germany, where BMW was forced to recall a female-voiced navigation system on its 5 Series cars in the late 1990s after being flooded with calls from German men saying they refused to take directions from a woman.
"Cultural stereotypes run deep," said Nass, who details the BMW episode in his book.
Voice casting
Most companies that produce automated voices hold auditions for voice actors and collect recordings of them speaking. Then they invite focus groups to listen to the recordings and rate the voices on how well they convey certain attributes: warmth, friendliness, competence and so on.
"It's casting," Nass said. "It's something Hollywood has known for a long, long time."
Look no further than examples of automated or artificial-intelligence voices in sci-fi movies and TV shows. Voices of authority or menace tend to be male: the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey," the computer program in "WarGames," or Auto, the spaceship's autopilot function in "Wall-E." More subservient talking machines, such as the onboard computer from the "Star Trek" TV series, skew female.
Bajarin, the Silicon Valley analyst, believes that more computerized voices would be masculine if not for the associations with HAL, whose malicious intent in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film was made even creepier by his soothing tone.
"A lot of tech companies stayed away from the male voice because of HAL," he said. "I've heard that theory tossed around multiple times." (One prominent exception: The chipper "You've got mail!" voice from AOL's dial-up days.)
When it comes to consumer applications of computerized voices, the sex of the voice is usually determined by what service or product is employing it. For example, transit systems such as the San Francisco Area's BART often use higher-pitched voices because they are easier to hear over the clatter of the train cars.
Nuance, a Massachusetts-based company that develops speech technologies for Ford vehicles' SYNC system, Amazon e-readers and other clients, creates both male and female voices. It's then up to the client to choose which voice, and gender, best fits their product, said chief creative officer Gary Clayton.
"As these products become part of our everyday lives, there's a huge opportunity for personalization," added Brant Ward, the company's director of advanced speech design. "I could have an approximation of my wife's voice read me a text message in my car."
Siri: Brilliant or sexist?
Siri, the iPhone 4S's voice, grew from a five-year research project that was funded by military agency DARPA and led by SRI International, a Bay Area research institute. The project spawned a company, also called Siri, that launched an iPhone app in February 2010 and was acquired by Apple two months later.
That original Siri voice-to-text app -- powered in part by Nuance's technology -- also worked by people speaking commands into their phones, although it didn't talk back. And it had no gender. In fact, the app was originally conceived to speak in a gender-neutral voice, said Norman Winarsky, vice president of SRI and a co-founder of Siri.
"What Apple did is absolutely brilliant," said Winarsky, who calls speech "the most natural of all human interfaces."
"They took Siri and gave it more of a personality," he said. "It's the first real artificial intelligence working in millions of people's hands."
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on why the company gave Siri a female voice in the U.S. Nor would she say why Siri speaks like a man in the UK, where iPhone 4S owners have swarmed online forums to request a female voice instead. "Eww!! Hope UK gets female voice soon," wrote one commenter. "I don't think anyone in the US cares about male voice option."
Many GPS devices and computer text-to-speech programs now offer multiple voice options. And someday soon, voice-technology experts say, Siri will probably speak in a variety of voices, too.
Until then, some bloggers have wondered: Are computerized female "assistants" sexist?
Not necessarily, said Rebecca Zorach, director of the Social Media Project at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
"I think they have to be understood in a broader context in which they're one small piece," she wrote in an e-mail to CNN. "Voices intended to convey authority (such as voice-over narration in films) tend to be male. So yes, probably these compliant female robot voices reinforce gender stereotypes, not just because they serve the user but because the technology itself is about communication and relationships (areas that women are presumed to be good at).
"I wouldn't automatically claim any sexism in individual companies' choices, though. Most such decisions are probably the result of market research, so they may be reflecting gender stereotypes that already exist in the general public."
Zorach listened to some sound clips of Siri online, then e-mailed back again.
"What's interesting to me is how they seem to intentionally make her speech sound artificial -- they could choose to make her speech more seamless and human-like, but they choose instead to highlight the technology," she said. "That makes you aware of how high-tech your gadget is."


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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! You want an insane project limo, right? Sure you do!
Last time, we had a momentous upset in the Choose Your Eternity poll, with a Detroit car somehow managing to beat two French cars! Granted, no Citroëns were involved, but we're sure there's some weeping and gnashing of teeth in Paris right now. Not like France loses its PCH SuperAwesomeMegaPower rank, of course, but for now that turbocharged Falcon has brought a bit of the pride back to the reeling Motor City (and we're going to have a Detroit-on-Detroit matchup in honor of that accomplishment). Today we're returning to a level of the underworld we haven't visited since the Octo-Door '57 Chrysler took on the Stretch Ferrari 400: Hell Limousines!
Chrysler never built a Hexa-Door Dodge Dart station wagon- which we think was a terrible miscalculation- but when the Vatican demands such a machine for nunly transportation, American free enterprise leaps into action! Such is the story behind this 1962 Dodge Dart stretch wagon, and maybe it's even true! The seller states right off that it's "in poor shape," and that's definitely the truth, but who cares? In addition to his distressing honesty, he seller also violates all the eBay traditions concerning grammar, spelling, and capitalization, but we'll overlook that because this thing is a Hexa-Door Dart Wagon Alleged Nunmobile! How could you pass it up? There's rust. It's been sitting since 1979, most of that time outdoors in rural Kentucky. The engine is a poly 318, which is sort of like the LA block 318, only way heavier. The good news is that you'll be able to find every possible mechanical component without half trying, for cheap, and along the way you'll discover that you might as well upgrade to a 500-horsepower 360. You might not want to invest too much time and money into the running gear, however, until you've vanquished the Rust Monster, and that might take
decades some time, plus a few million Hail Marys. Thanks to ArmyOfChuckness for the tip!
A Pope-approved 6-door Dart wagon limo from Butcher Holler would be quite a daily driver, sure, but what if you must kick up the mud whilst blasting beer cans out the window with a shotgun? For that, you want a genuine, built-by-crazy-Minnesotans 4x4 Monster Cadillac Limo. Now, at this point you might be saying to yourself (in your best Upper Midwest accent) "OK, but where could I find such a car, then?" Hey, this is Project Car Hell, where eternal torment is conveniently located, and we've managed to find this 1981 Cadillac stretch limo mud truck (go here if the ad disappears), built on a Suburban chassis. You get your 36" swampers, you betcha, and your hoon-proof 350 engine, and it even runs and drives! The seller admits that it "Needs TLC," which you're free to interpret as you choose (we choose to believe it means you'll be ready to take on the gnarliest swamps of the Amazon Delta with little more than a tuneup). The seller wants $3,000, but if there ever was a price that screamed "negotiable," this is it!


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Bubble Trouble: Volume IPosted by Connor Pelton on February 4th, 2012
In this weekly piece we will be comparing blind tournament résumés. Each week we will take three Pac-12 teams that are on the bubble and compare them to three national teams that are facing the same fate. Since the Pac-12 is in such a down year, we realize that we are going to run out of NCAA Tournament bubble teams pretty quickly. That's why in the coming weeks you will see some NIT and even CBI bubble predictions. We know that we aren't the only Pac-12 basketball degenerates around here, and we understand that most of you could easily guess the Pac-12 team by seeing their good wins, record, etc. That's why we're putting a new twist to these résumés; You won't see any records or team names, instead, those will be replaced by winning percentage and the RPI rank of their opponents. If you're confused, read on anyway. We'll give you all the answers after revealing to whom the résumés really belong to.
*All numbers and rankings as of February 3
|Team 1
|Team 2
|Winning Percentage: .727
|Winning Percentage: .760
|Quality Wins (Opponents' RPI Rank): 18, 59, 81
|Quality Wins (Opponents' RPI Rank): 20
|Bad Losses (Opponents' RPI Rank): 127, 144
|Bad Losses (Opponents' RPI Rank): 141, 110
Take a quick glance at both résumés and it appears that team two is the logical choice here. Their winning percentage is only slightly better, but the key lies in the RPI and SOS numbers. Team two boasts an RPI ranking that is 47 spots ahead of their counterpart, and their SOS is 94 spots better. The lack of quality wins is the only thing I have reservations about. Click the jump to see whom the résumés really belong to.


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Todd Harrell admits to drinking, taking drugs before wreck
Bassist Todd Harrell of the band 3 Doors Down was behind bars Sunday on suspicion of vehicular homicide after allegedly causing a fatal crash while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Harrell, one of the band's three founding members, was speeding on I-40 in Nashville Friday night when his Cadillac clipped a pickup truck driven by Paul Howard Shoulders, Jr., 47, of Nashville, according to Nashville police.
The pickup truck swerved out of control, struck a guardrail, careened down an embankment and overturned, police say.
Shoulders, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was thrown from the truck and ejected, and later pronounced dead at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Harrell's Cadillac struck the retaining wall and stopped about a quarter mile away.
Police say Harrell seemed intoxicated during a field sobriety test and admitted consuming hard cider and taking the prescription drugs Lortab and Xanax. The police obtained a search warrant to take a blood sample andtook Harrell into custody.
During a search at the booking room, Davidson County Sheriff's deputies discovered a plastic bag concealed in his sock with 8 Xanax pills, 24 Oxycodone pills and 4 Oxymorphone pills, authorities say.
Harrell, who is also charged with bringing controlled substances into jail, was still being held Sunday morning in lieu of $100,000 bond.
A statement on the band's Web site says: "We are deeply saddened by the passing of Paul Howard Shoulders, Jr. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family and friends at this difficult time."
The band has a greatest hits tour planned for Europe and the U.S. this summer.


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Harris - Besecker
- Written by Woodinville Weekly Staff
Ashley Harris, daughter of Tim and Kathy Harris of Woodinville, and Tyler Besecker, son of Dana and Jill Besecker of Bellevue, were engaged on May 1, 2010, in Lake Chelan.
Ashley is a 2002 graduate of Woodinville High School and a 2006 graduate of Pepperdine University.
She completed her residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and currently works as a registered dietitian at her private practice, Crave Health, in Kirkland, Wash.
Tyler is a 1999 graduate of Mercer Island High School and a 2004 graduate and 4-year basketball letterman at Stanford University.
He is currently the vice president of the Dana F. Besecker seafood company.
The couple have dated since 2009 and currently own a home together on Mercer Island.
They will be married on July 9 2011 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Seattle with a reception to follow at the Bell Harbor Pier.


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Sometimes I just don't take my own advice. Or, rather it just takes me longer these days to actually do it.
My ggrandmother Georgia Harris' line has always been problematic for me. Awhile ago, I made some headway in tracing her roots not in Jacksonville (Duval County) Florida, as oral history said, but in Madison County, over 100 miles west of Jacksonville. I was able to find her in a previous marriage and discover she had other children. I also found Georgia's mother, Matilda, her stepfather, Perry Davis, and sister Ruth also in Madison. After that, the trail ran dry. I really wanted to find out whatever happened to Georgia's mother, Matilda.
I decided one day last week to research Georgia's only known sibling, Ruth Harris. Familysearch (don't you just love them?) listed a marriage between Ruth Harris and a man named "Nish Torence" in 1910. Hmm. A search for his (thankfully) odd name in the 1920 census found the couple living in…drum roll…Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!
The names are mangled, but I've been around enough to know its them. And who is living with them? Drum roll #2…Ruth (and Georgia's) mother Matilda!
In 1930, they had moved yet again and were living in Camden, New Jersey. By then, Nish was remarried to a woman named Mary (Baity), and had several more children.
A couple of thoughts. I am still surprised that so many of my ancestors moved around as much as they did. They are all over the place. And that's a major reason many of us lose the trail. I see Nish worked on the railroad, so perhaps that was the reason behind their move. I get extra happy when they move to a big city from a rural area, because that usually means more and better records. I am now focusing in on Philadelphia, between 1920-1930, and *hoping* to be able to find death certificates for Ruth Harris and Matilda Davis.
From the SSDI, it appears that Nish lived in Camden until he died in 1970. Another online gift for me was his World War II Draft, which confirmed this is the right family:
Since I had the address, I went on Google Maps and found a picture of the home–it's the one in the center:
I am *hoping" also to try to find some Torrence descendants that may still live in Camden. This would be phenomenal since I've never met anyone even remotely associated with this line. To have some new cousins would be very cool.
I'm still wondering why I didn't find this sooner–as many times as I have told my students, "when you get stuck, search sideways, search the siblings!". I am still thrilled. One of my favorite roommates in college was from Camden. Anybody out there in Philly or Camden want to do some research for me in those city directories, let me know.