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Federal regulators say companies that buy and sell consumer data operate largely in the shadows and should be reined in with new privacy laws.
The marketing trade group that speaks for so-called data brokers says that no such laws are necessary and that these companies do a fine job of policing themselves.
As the Joker said in Tim Burton's "Batman," "Who do you trust? Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust?"
"You may not know them, but data brokers know you," said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez. "They know where you live, what you buy, your income, your ethnicity, how old your kids are, your health conditions and your interests and hobbies."
She said data brokers collect and store billions of data points on "nearly every U.S. consumer," then compile "extensive profiles about us" that can be sold to marketers, employers and others.
The industry also lumps people together based on its own conclusions, Ramirez said. Thus, some consumers may be categorized as "financially challenged" or "rural everlasting" — a term used by data brokers to describe people over age 66 with "low educational attainment."
"Will these classifications mean that some consumers will only be shown advertisements for subprime loans while others will see ads for credit cards?" Ramirez asked. "Will some be routinely shunted to inferior customer service?"
Those are exactly the right questions. We are, I'm sure you'd agree, more than the sum of our credit scores and buying habits. Rural everlasting? Why not call people "hicks forever" and be done with it?
Data brokers are represented by the Direct Marketing Assn., an industry group that looks after the interests of companies that make a living intruding on consumers' lives.
Peggy Hudson, the group's senior vice president, said data brokers don't disagree with the FTC about the merit of greater transparency. They just don't see why lawmakers and regulators need to be involved.
The Direct Marketing Assn. "has long supported transparency and choice for its members," Hudson said. She noted that the FTC's calls for more consumer control over personal information "are consistent with existing hallmarks of the ethical standards for our industry."
The organization's members "provide consumer protection through strong self-regulatory practices, specifically outlined in our Guidelines for Ethical Business Practice," Hudson said.
Well, good enough for me.
Except for one teensy-weensy problem.
Left to their own device over the years, data brokers have consistently striven to keep consumers in the dark about the information they collect and what they do with it.
The FTC isn't trying to shut the industry down. It simply wants to give people more say over how their personal info is used.
Among the agency's recommendations is creation of a website that would allow consumers to see what various data brokers know about them and opt out of having their info used in the future.
It also wants retailers and other businesses to notify consumers before sharing information with data brokers and, again, to allow people to opt out of such activities.
If information is especially sensitive, such as medical info, people would have to be asked for their permission before it could be placed in the hands of data brokers.
These are excellent proposals. Will Congress act on them? I wouldn't hold my breath, considering Washington's lousy track record for privacy safeguards since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Hudson observed that the FTC's report cited "no actual harm to consumers," focusing instead on potential abuses of people's information.
Even if that's true, it doesn't mitigate the need for some oversight. Private companies that treat people's personal information as a profit center have no right to operate with impunity.
It's our information, not theirs.
Or does that point never come up in the Guidelines for Ethical Business Practice?
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Larry Scher, 68, of Whittier related an elaborate misadventure involving a questionable $4.98 charge on a recent
The charge ostensibly was for a pair of calls to directory assistance. Trouble was, neither Scher nor his wife had called 411.
On top of that, the calls apparently were made simultaneously on the dedicated line used for Scher's fax machine.
But getting Verizon to help untangle what should have been a minor issue turned into a major headache involving multiple calls to the company and multiple conversations with service reps unable to deal with the matter.
I won't delve into the blow-by-blow details. Suffice it to say that when Scher made a reasonable request to see the detailed call logs for his own line, he got nowhere. "They finally told me that if I wanted to see my call logs, I'd have to get a court order," he said.
Say what?
Jarryd Gonzales, a Verizon spokesman, said customers can indeed access their call logs online or ask for copies to be mailed to them. And it doesn't require a court order.
"In this situation, a simple request to one of our customer service representatives should have resulted in the call log being mailed or faxed to the customer," Gonzales said. "This time we fell short of our own expectation, and we apologize to the customer."
The takeaway for me: Never take no for an answer, especially from a phone company.
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Media General Inc. plans to sell almost all of its newspapers for $142 million in cash to a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the Omaha, Neb.-based company run by legendary investor Warren Buffett.
"In towns and cities where there is a strong sense of community, there is no more important institution than the local paper," Buffett said in a statement. "The many locales served by the newspapers we are acquiring fall firmly in this mold, and we are delighted they have found a permanent home with Berkshire Hathaway."
As part of the deal, Berkshire Hathaway will provide Richmond-based Media General with a $400 million term loan and $45 million revolving credit line. The loan, which will mature in May 2020, has an initial interest rate of 10.5 percent. It will be used to repay Media General's existing bank debt due next March.
The Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, BH Media Group, will buy 63 daily and weekly newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama plus their websites and mobile applications. Not included is The Tampa Tribune, which has seen its daily circulation drop 12 percent in the past year. Media General said it is talking with prospective buyers for the Florida newspaper.
BH Media Group will own eight daily newspapers in Virginia: the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Bristol Herald-Courier, News & Messenger in Manassas, Danville Register & Bee, The News Virginian in Waynesboro and Star-Exponent in Culpeper.
BH Media Group already includes the Omaha World-Herald Co., Buffett's hometown newspaper, which Berkshire Hathaway bought last year. The company also owns the Buffalo News in New York and is the largest owner of Washington Post Co. stock.
The recent purchases reverses a stance Buffett took in 2009 when he said he would not buy newspapers at any price.
The Media General deal is expected to close June 25. Berkshire Hathaway will receive warrants for about 4.6 million Class A shares representing almost 20 percent of Media General's outstanding shares. In addition, Berkshire Hathaway has the option to nominate a director to Media General's board of directors.
After selling its newspapers, Media General's operations will include 18 network-affiliated television stations and their associated websites.
"Selling our newspapers represents a monumental change for us," Marshall N. Morton, president and chief executive officer of Media General, said in a statement. "This single transaction for virtually all of our newspapers accelerates the timing of our strategy to focus on our broadcast television business and its future growth opportunities, including digital content and Mobile DTV."
Morton also said the new credit agreement the company's long-term capital needs and gives it significant financial and operating flexibility.
Media General announced in February it was exploring the possible sale of its newspapers after getting inquiries from several outside parties.
The company started Virginia Business in 1986 and sold it in 2009. The magazine now is a portfolio company of Richmond-based Virginia Capital Partners LLC.

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AutoZone Inc.'s just-ended fiscal third quarter results show why it's a rarity among public companies.
AutoZone Inc. reported net sales were $2.2 billion in the just-ended fiscal third quarter, and profit was up 6.8 percent to $265.6 million.
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The Memphis-based auto parts retailer – the nation's largest in the sector – is an earnings machine. Net sales were $2.2 billion for the quarter, and profit was up 6.8 percent to $265.6 million. The quarter also included AutoZone's 27th straight period of double-digit earnings-per-share quarterly growth.
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"The gloomy present situation" in Iraq.
60 comments:
- Glenn Howes said...
I think the actual document is here.
- Glenn Howes said...
There are two things I find interesting about this document.
One, that the media strategy is the most important thing. Getting news sources to give the impression they would like is most important. All the other stuff, i.e. actual violence is secondary.
Two, that the author doesn't think Iran has WMDs, but that getting the U.S. to believe it does, and getting the U.S. into a shooting war with Iran will lower the crushing pressure on Al Qaeda in Iraq, by moving U.S. troops out of the country and alienating portions of the Shia.
I have the impression from years of news reports that Iran is working feverishly on creating nuclear weapons and will get them sooner or later. (I mean, how hard could it be? We had them in the 1940s.) Why does this Al Qaeda analyst think otherwise? Does he have special knowledge? Does he think the Iranians are doing a Saddam and bluffing? Is this document itself a plant to cause us doubt in our dealings with Iran?
- Jacques Cuze said...
You're not one of those people whose heart lifts at bad news from Iraq, are you?
I don't know anyone disgusting enough to cheer for bad news from Iraq. Do you actually know a single person that actually wishes for bad news from Iraq?
Everyone I know wants the war over as soon as possible and a democracy to flourish there.
Okay, I confess, I know of two people that look for bad news in Iraq and the United States:
"I hit the Trifecta!" "I am a war President"
and from Faux news:
"And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."
- chuck b. said...
This gloomy news from Iraq gladdens my heart! Thanks for passing it along.
As a total aside that I don't intend to follow up with any further comment, it just cracks me up that Bill O'Reilly said that about Coit Tower. Coit Tower? I live in San Francisco, and I never think about Coit Tower. It's a beautiful structure that represents a beautiful sentiment and I suppose it has some iconic force, but the destruction of Coit Tower would not strike at the heart. O'Reilly just pulled that out of his ass or something. Too funny.
- Glenn Howes said...
I don't know anyone disgusting enough to cheer for bad news from Iraq.
You should hear the delighted lip smacking way my college-age brother says the word quagmire. But if you asked him, he'd probably deny hoping for bad news.
- TWM said...
There are plenty of people who wish for bad news from Iraq -- almost all of them on the left. Heck, just look at the leftist blogs out there. The writing absolutely soars when something goes wrong. I have two good friends who despise Bush and you should hear the glee in their voices every time something goes wrong over there. They don't hate the troops or wish them harm, but they know what is bad for Iraq is bad for Bush and they can't help themselves.
And sure, the left wants a Democracy to flourish there, but only after Bush is out of office and a Democrat takes over -- then all of a sudden things will be going swell there, and as an added plus, our economy will be great (even though it will not have changed one bit).
- MadisonMan said...
There are plenty of people who wish for bad news from Iraq -- almost all of them on the left. Heck, just look at the leftist blogs out there.
Yes, those dirty leftists. Please continute to paint half the country with the same brush, it is ever so helpful. Of course, the other half of the country is drinking the Coulter Kool-Aid, so what can I expect?
I'm with quxxo -- I know of no one who cheers (or has a lifted heart) when bad news comes out of Iraq. Wince, yes. Moan, yes. Mumble, yes. Cheer, no.
- Abraham said...
Jeez, MM, this is elementary logic.
is not the same as saying
ALL Q ARE P (the claim you disagree with),
only that
So, where "Q" is "leftists" (whom I would dispute make up anything close to "half" the population) and "P" is "people who are encouraged by bad news in Iraq":
ALL [people who are encouraged by bad news in Iraq] ARE [leftists]
is not the same as saying
ALL [leftists] ARE [people who are encouraged by bad news in Iraq] (the claim you disagree with),
only that
SOME [leftists] ARE [people who are encouraged by bad news in Iraq].
- AJ Lynch said...
I don't know anyone who stands up and cheers (in public) BUT I know plenty that did not get elated when Zarquawi was killed.
That tells me a lot cause the next question out of their mouths is what about OBL?
- Mr. Magoo said...
You're not one of those people whose heart lifts at the chance to bait the left and do a Coulter, are you?
Well, uh, apparently you are.
Shame on you, Ann. I mean, Anns.
- John said...
TWM - you nailed it. Not only are there many who revel in bad news related to anything they can stick to this administration, but your second point is even better. We already have potential Democratic candidates 'positioning' themselves for their chance at the helm and realize that an immediate withdrawal would be foolish and -worse - immediately relegate them to a one-term presidency.
As for Al Qaeda not believing Iran has WMD, I think it shows two things: 1) no one has great intelligence; and 2) actually having them isn't their only goal. Making others believe, can be as powerful. What needs to done, as Saddam learned, is receive the consequences for playing that game or show their hand and learn to play nicely with the rest of the world.
- Ann Althouse said...
O'Reilly just pulled Coit Tower out of his ass....
What an image!
I said "You're not one of those people whose heart lifts at bad news from Iraq, are you?" Why are so many people hearing a reference to themselves in that? Guilty conscience? Why did I write it that way? Partly to see who would come forward and feel it was about them, but partly because I've read enough blogs and heard enough talk around Madison that I know some people revel in the bad news from Iraq. Most of them are just people who are overeager to get ammunition to use against Bush and various Republicans, but a few of them actually want to see the U.S. defeated in the war. If that's not you, then you're not one of those people... which is exactly what I said.
- Internet Ronin said...
I wish I could agree with you, MadisonMan, I really do, but I can't. Unfortunately, I do know people who express glee upon receipt of bad news from Iraq, and yes, they are all self-proclaimed leftists living in the Berkeley area. I also believe that they are atypical and that their hatred for George Bush has definitely pushed them over the edge. It seems to me that they take their cues from people like George Galloway and ANSWER. I am surprised you have never run across one in Madison much less the internet.
Does this mean that everyone left of center agrees with them? Of course not. But the heat with which others respond whenever someone mentions people like that makes me think of guilty consciences and that old saying about those who protest a bit too much.
- Palladian said...
"Auntie M.", how many times are you going to change your name? "Reasonator", "Lurketto", a few others I can't remember... are you such a dumbass that you don't notice that even if you change your screen name, your Blogger profile page link stays the same?
- SteveR said...
Can you be defensive about something you claim doesn't happen?
- Sloanasaurus said...
The document is fascinating. I heard that it was found on Zarqawi's flash card that he kept in his pocket. Zarqawi knew is technology.
Here are two nuggets fromt he document: 1) That it points out as its number 1 concern the damage the Iraqi "national Guard" has done to its efforts. Many in this country don't believe the Iraqi army is doing anything.
2) That a leader in the "Sunni" resistance admits that Sunnis are a minority (although the claims 30%). Many sunnis in Iraq believe that they are actually the majorty.
- Pogo said...
The desire to see Bush fail has turned much of our media into a fifth column for the terrorists, and they clearly know it.
- Pogo said...
P.S. Being a fifth column for terrorism does not mean the media want to serve in this capacity. That is, it is not a fifth column in the sense of corrdination, but rather in serving as useful idiots, just as Lenin described them.
- Bissage said...
Pogo: So, in light of your follow-up, by "they," do you mean: (1) the media, (2) the terrorists, or (3) both?
- Jacques Cuze said...
Plutonium-Q36, You are an idiot. Just try following the links and you'll see immediately that you are posting out of your butt.
Ann, I don't see anyone here feeling guilty about what they write, even the ones (like YOU) that should.
Anytime anyone writes anything like, "lefties living in Berkeley", or Madison, or "all those lefties", we know where that comes from. More importantly the folks that will come here from google to understand Ann Althouse knows where that comes from. It's the bigotry of small minds of people that cannot formulate an argument. It is bullying. It is the kind of crap I once thought we had left behind after WWII, or possibly after jr. high school.
Jeez, 65%-70% of America disagrees with Bush. You folks love to make this claim that 30-35% of America LOVES America and the rest of us are Stalinists and Terrorist Sympathizers.
Bush is deeply deeply unpopular. Most people consider him incompetent. Instead of railing at your fellow citizens, all of whom love this country as much if not more than you do, just deal with the fact that you back an incompetent, corrupt, lying fool.
Deal with it, and let's move on.
- Bissage said...
Pogo: What I'm asking is, do you think that a prominent portion of the MSM is a fifth column, knows it, doesn't want it, but carrys on anyway out of self-interest?
That's what I think.
- Bissage said...
Er, fifth column in the broadest sense of the term.
- Pogo said...
The documents found in Zarqawi's hideout clearly show the terrorists are aware of the fifth column: "To use the media for spreading an effective and creative image of the resistance. ".
Are the mainstream media aware of their own role in this? If aware, do they reject it? If aware, do they go along anyway?
I don't pretend to know for sure. I think some are merely useful idiots, as I said. Some are appeasers, falsely believing that helping the terrorists will help us in the long run. In effect, both groups are functioning as a fifth column, yes.
I hope the anti-US faction so virulent in the 1960s and 1970s, many of whom became members of the Establishment, is not actively complicit here. But like the communist spies in the US government in the 1950s, I wouldn't really be surprised to find out it was true.
- dick said...
Jacques Cruze,
Amazing that you want us to deal with what you claim are the statistics of how the country feels but you have spent apparently every waking moment since Kerry lost the election fighting tooth and nail against anything Bush wants to do or that any republican even suggests. I would say that the deal with it is what is missing from the left and that is exactly what would be of assistance to the country right now. Of course, that will not happen but we can deal without the left since we have had to for the past 6 years anyway. They have had no ideas, no plans, no suggestions except pull out but don't pull out, back the troops but don't use them, etc. You have now gone beyond the ludicrous into the delusional!
- Abraham said...
You folks love to make this claim that 30-35% of America LOVES America and the rest of us are Stalinists and Terrorist Sympathizers.
That HAS to win "Strawman of The Day."
- John said...
Abraham. Interesting choice of award.
Strawman at Wickepedia includes this: The straw-man technique is also used as a form of media manipulation.
- Palladian said...
"Plutonium-Q36, You are an idiot. Just try following the links and you'll see immediately that you are posting out of your butt."
You've proven yourself, by your conduct here, to be borderline mentally impaired so I'll spell it out for you: the blogger profile is unavailable, yes (cowards are a dime a dozen!) but there is still a unique id for the account, in this case 18591647. Hover over the link to "Reasonator's" unavailable profile page in this thread and what do you see? Why it's a link to Blogger profile page number 18591647. Same for "Lurketto" in other threads. You, as much as anyone, should know you can change your screen name without changing your Blogger account. I know some people think that the various names used for account 18591647 are your various other personalities but I'm not sure you're clever enough for something like that, though I admit that there's plenty of circumstantial evidence to support the theory (like the fact that you love to quote Reasonator/Lurketto/etc on your pathetic stalker blog).
Anyway, I don't usually choose to acknowledge you, because you're a sociopathic vandal as well as being a crushing bore, but this was a great opportunity to mock you so I bent the rules a little.
- Pogo said...
Palladian: Ouch!
- Bissage said...
Pogo: Thank you.
- Coco said...
"I don't pretend to know for sure. I think some are merely useful idiots, as I said. Some are appeasers, falsely believing that helping the terrorists will help us in the long run. In effect, both groups are functioning as a fifth column, yes."
Genuine question here. WHo are the "some" you are referring to in each of your categories? Which specific media participants are you saying "believe they are helping the terrorists" and upon what actions do you base your statements?
Your statements on their face seem like incredible allegations to me but I'm willing to assume you know some things I don't, which is why I ask.
And specifically who are the "useful idiots" and what is the basis for this conclusion, i.e., what actions make someone a "useful idiot" - and i assume you mean useful to the terrorists? Actually, I'm not even sure what you mean by this part - do you mean that if a terrorist group sets off a series of car bombs in the middle of a populated and guarded area and 10 people are killed that only a "useful idiot" would report that this event actually ocurred? I don't think that's what you mean, so if you can, please elaborate. Thanks
- Jacques Cuze said...
Well then Marvin, I apologize, because my original complaint was because I thought you had thrown quxxo into the list of Lurketto, Reasonater and Auntie M.
On the otherhand, your upset with Auntie M. is really an upset with Blogger.
If Blogger wants to let people change their screen names, why should you care. As you point out, it is trivially easy to detect that. And it is not the same at all as someone running a sock-puppet (though I have never seen you or Maxine Weiss in the same room at the same time).
I don't know why Lurketto is changing his screen name and I don't care. She is enjoying the freedom blogger gives us, so it is really unimportant.
- Pogo said...
We musn't forget that, after Saddam was captured, CNN admitted to covering up the atrocities and lies Saddam had spread while President-for-life, merely to maintain "access". I think this clearly falls into fifth column behavior, of the "knows it, doesn't want it, but carrys on anyway out of self-interest" kind.
And via Instapundit today, WaPo's Richard Morin writres in What's Black and White and Red All Over?:
"More ink equals more blood, claim two economists who say that newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks.
Both the media and terrorists benefit from terrorist incidents," their study contends. Terrorists get free publicity for themselves and their cause. The media, meanwhile, make money "as reports of terror attacks increase newspaper sales and the number of television viewers."
Hence, useful idiots.
- RogerA said...
Ignorning the contretemps on who feels good or bad about bad news from Iraq, I think the alleged al quaeda document shows a fairly high degree of political sophistication for someone (al zarqawi) who was not particularly educated and perceived (by at least me) to be a blood thirsty fantatic. Its genuinely scary to see that blood thirsty fanatics can also be quite sophisticated in their choice of tactics!!
- Coco said...
Thanks Pogo. Is there anything other than the messy CNN incident you mentioned that you are referring to here?
Also - they study discussed in the Morin article is interesting but I don't see how it relates to what I think you are saying. It analyzes the number of terrorist fatalities and the number of times the word "terrorism" appeared in the NYT and a Swiss newspaper. In a nutshell, the authors conclude that there is a very high correlation between the two. This seems rather obvious to me but perhaps I'm missing something. ALso, if it means what you seem to be implying it means then neither the government nor the media - and I mean any media - should report publicly that terrorist acts have ocurred. This is obviously impossible and implausible. The authors admit their study is very rudimentary and indeed, one can easily see that the using the word "terrorism" as your search term would pull-up all types of articles that are not actuallly reporting about terrorism. For example, any story discussing the governments intentions to fight terrorism, etc. would be encompassed. Regardless, the authors suggested possible solutions to the the problems they see is for the media not to attribute any particular terrorist act to a terrorist group, to raise the level of education of readers of newspapers so that they will not be swayed by more sensationalist-types of stories, and raising the educational and business opportunities for potential terrorists so that they don't commit terrorist acts.
And so I ask the question - what is the media supposed to do when a terrorist act occurs? NOt report it? Should the media not report that 9/11 ocurred? Surely this event increased media consumption tremendously. Is anyone who reports the event a "useful idiot" for terrorists? I still don't get it.
- Pogo said...
Re: "And so I ask the question - what is the media supposed to do when a terrorist act occurs? NOt report it?"
I would only ask that you contrast the reporting for this war with that during WW2. The difference is immediate and startling. Information, including bad news, was frequently suppressed.
The mainstream press now takes the "drive-by shooting" approach common to the local news. One is often left wondering if there is a US military response. Did we get any bad guys? Where are we? What are the goals? Are we reaching any of them?
But forget about gathering that knowledge from the NYT today, something they were quite capable of doing in the 1940s. Only when one reads the military blogs does a coherent sense of strategy and progress seem evident.
I make that out to be useful idiocy, although on some days it appears to be outright complicity. The problem is larger than reporting on indiviual car bombs. It's ignoring which side you're on. And if the NYT can't find the stones to be on our side, it also must recognize that such a stance isn't a neutral one.
Do we not report it?
Did we report the true outcomes of D-Day or Guadalcanal when they happened? The answer to the first question is contained in the second.
- dick said...
If you take a look at Instapundit today - start at the top and go down to the section starting with Howard Kurtz - and read that and you just might finally see what people are complaining about with the media - especially pay attention to the letter from the Marine officer when he talks about the reporting from Iraq and how it happens. If you read it with an open mind you just might finally see what is going on. If the reporters read this they should really hand their heads in shame over the job they are doing.
Then take a look at Blackfive and read about how the military think that if the Marines are guilty as charged they should hang but the decision should not be made until the investigation is done. Another story the media has screwed up badly.
Then read about how the mayor of the Iraqi town came all the way to Colorado Springs to thank the army group that protected his town and the media did not report it except in some of the local papers out there.
Or how about when the military guys asked for money to set up media outlets for the Iraqis to run themselves and got millions of dollars in less than a week. They got the equipment and the media reported a car wreck on the freeway rather than the millions of dollars of audio, video and computer equipment that was obtained so that the Iraqis could set up their newspapers and television and radio stations.
That is the media we are getting and it sucks big time.
- Jennifer said...
Coco - I don't think anyone is suggesting the media not run accurate reports on terrorist attacks, etc. I think what people are suggesting is that the media also report on progress made by the US military, etc. While I sometimes wonder if the military is effective in getting positive information into the hands of reporters, I assume the media doesn't hear directly from Al Qaeda. So, it likely comes down to a preference for investigating and reporting the negative.
Its illuminating to note that soldiers (especially milbloggers) are quite frustrated with media coverage while Al Qaeda appears to be satisfied. On the other hand, soldiers (especially milbloggers) are positive about actual progress while Al Qaeda appears to be frustrated.
- knoxgirl said...
quxxo got schooled!
- Jennifer said...
Hee - see, this is why I have a little web crush on Palladian!
- dick said...
Part of the problem is the media gets its information from stringers, not from its own reporters. As for the military getting the info out, they are trying to be careful to check the info out before they release it. By that time the media has stuff from the stringers so they don't bother to report what the military has to say. Oftentimes they don't even show up for the briefings by the military even though they are sitting in the bars of the Green Zone close by the headquarters.
I think that is why we keep hearing quagmire right up until the Iraqis show up in numbers greater than vote here to cast their ballots in the elections. The next day it is right back to quagmire. Broken record there!!
- Jennifer said...
dick - I just looked up stringers - I had no idea the major news outlets operated that way. It explains a lot. Thanks!
- The Drill SGT said...
That's Iraqi stringers, some with questionable ties to the bad guys that seem to get them to terrorist events in time to shoot good film.
oh, and not worry about being shot as a tool of the Americans at the same time.
hard to straddle both circumstances without connections
- PatCA said...
Additional instances of useful idiocy would include the use of stringers in Iraq who seem to be in league with the terrorists, such as the stringer who "happened" to be on Haifa Street at the exact time when terrorists pulled an Iraqi official out of his car and assassinated him. This stringer had many such coincidences and was subsequently arrested.
Also, the men of iraqthemodel.com commented on Bremer's wonderful farewell speech--on the same day that our newspapers reported that Bremer snuck out of Iraq in shame without saying a word.
They wrote too that the papers also recently published an erroneous translation of an Iraq minister's words to imply he was supporting Iran. You may want to start reading their blog.
Newsweek published the Koran flushing incident without an iota of proof.
And on and on. IMO these errors are too numerous to be honest errors. To me, it is a pattern which suggests an agenda, probably not one I would concur with.
- J said...
"do you mean that if a terrorist group sets off a series of car bombs in the middle of a populated and guarded area and 10 people are killed that only a "useful idiot" would report that this event actually ocurred?"
No, but a useful idiot might portray violent events in an area with concentrated enemy activity explicitly for the purpose of influencing the media as representative of an entire country.
My observation has been that reporters are extremely ignorant about things I have some expertise in (and I'll bet that's been your experience to), and I have to assume that ignorance extends to areas I don't know much about. They also tend to spout conventional wisdom without questioning it, and are easily manipulated by people with greater knowledge and an agenda, particularly when that agenda fits the reporter's worldview.
Here's a great, nonpolitical example I've seen. This article (http://www.seacoastonline.com/2005news/11202005/news/74066.htm) contains this statement:
"Part of the stability in air fare comes from nonunion regional airlines, like Southwest and Jet Blue, having competitive rates"
Similar statements have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and The Street.com. I can't speak for JetBlue, but over 80 percent of Southwest employees are in a union. I'm pretty sure SWA is the most heavily unionized air carrier in the US, if not the world. A reporter making this statement relied on conventional wisdom and failed to do any fact checking at all.
I've seen a number of surveys indicating that the vast majority of journalists have political views well to the left of center, and it's hardly surprising that their work generally reflects that worldview. Failure to question their own biases and misconceptions frequently does make them useful idiots.
- Mike said...
I think it's important to make clear that the "useful" part of "useful idiots" in this discussion is from the point of view of the terrorists (i.e. the enemy).
- Jacques Cuze said...
knoxgirl said...
quxxo got schooled!
Yes, I got schooled! I got schooled by SlipperyCheese a few days ago to, when Karl walked.
When quxxo gets schooled, what does quxxo do? Acknowledges it.
When NoxieGirl and the other Ann functionaries get schooled what do they do? "Ban quxxo! Ban quxxo!"
And when Ann gets schooled, rather than acknowledge it, what does she do?
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- Johnny Nucleo said...
It's late where you are, you psychotic bastard. Go to sleep.
- knoxgirl said...
Momxxo never taught little quxxo to lose gracefully.
- knoxgirl said...
plenty of people have answered your questions and provided excellent examples of press bias,useful idiocy, or laziness. I would add this quote from the Baron WSJ article Ann refers to in a post up top:
America's newsrooms are populated largely by liberals who regard the Vietnam and Watergate stories as the great achievements of their profession. The peak of their ambition is to achieve the fame and wealth of great reporters like David Halberstam and Bob Woodward.
A lot of people who go to school in journalism aren't going to do the hard, and often tedious work it takes to cover a story in a straightforward, thorough, just-the-facts manner. They go to "change the world"!!! Instead of realizing that the job of a journalist is to sit quietly on the sidelines and report on the changers....
- knoxgirl said...
To dick, pogo, jennifer, patca, drill sgt, and others who replied to coco:
The innacuracy of the media coverage of the war is a very hard thing to explain, because you're trying to convince people who truly hear no good news that progress is happening. It's very easy to only hear the bad news, as we all know!!
It's like trying to convince someone that there's, I don't know, another person living in their house they've never noticed... why should they believe it!? They never see it... it seems absurd on its face.
- Internet Ronin said...
Knoxgirl: Whenever subjects like this come up, I can't help thinking of Justice Potter Stewart's comments about pornography in 1964: "I know it when I see it . . . "
Yet, some never do and never will.
- al said...
For those that don't read Cox and Forkum they had a cartoon a couple of days ago that put the media bias in America in the proper perspective.
- Mike said...
The episode that that lifted the veil from my eyes occurred in the fall of 2002. I watched Karl Rove give a talk at, I believe, the University of Utah. I watched it on C-Span. He took questions afterword. A young woman, with a No War! t-shirt walks up to the microphone and asks, respectfully, (I'm paraphrasing) "how do you, Karl Rove, suggest that we persuade our government to not go into Iraq. After all, we just had a protest of 200,000 people on the mall in D.C. and it didn't seem to have an impact." Rove, also respectfully, answers with the standard, "contact your elected representatives" and he finishes his answer with "but frankly, I'm more concerned with the 3,000 people who were killed on September 11 than the 200,000 protesters on the mall". The next day, I'm reading a New York Times article on the event. The article has the woman asking "how can we persuade our government when it seems unconcerned about the 200,000 innocent Iraqis who will die in the invasion" and they had Rove responding "... but frankly, I'm more concerned with the 3,000 people who were killed on September 11 than the 200,000 innocent Iraqis who will die in the invasion".
I'm convinced this was done willfully. I watched the entire event on C-Span. The reporter could not have mixed up two different questions because, not only did the original questioner not use the phrase "200,000 innocent Iraqis who will die in the invasion", but no one else did either. Nothing even close to that was said by anybody. The Times did print a correction a few days later (apparently, they got caught) but, of course, it was buried in the paper.
Independent of what one thinks of the war, how bad is that? What kind of person thinks it's ok to just make up such a vile quote for publication in the New York Times (answer: "a journalist")?
I don't give these people the benefit of the doubt. They aren't useful idiots. They are on the other side.
- Coco said...
rats. I just lost a long post due to putting in the wrong verification. Anyway - thanks to all those who commented in response to my questions and especially those who provided specific links that are brand new to me. I'm highly HIGHLY skeptical of the underlying claim and that it means what people think it means but I will investigate with an open mind becuase I really do want to understand why both the left and right are so convinved that the media is a craven complict machine acting for and against something (we've only beend discussing it from the right's perspective, but this is a constant meme on blogs from the left perspective as well). Thanks again
- PatCA said...
It often is willfull, as you discovered. I was a minor Democrat worker years ago, and when asked by a reporter how I felt about a certain election, I answered in one sentence. Next day, I found my one sentence, changed completely, with the addition of a whole paragraph! What in hell do they do to quotes from important people, I thought?
I recently emailed a reporter questioning a somewhat racist caption on one of the photographs accompanying her story. She wrote back saying her editors put that in, over her objections and tearful argument. The quote IMO was meant to appeal to readers of the Vietnamese paper they own, which is gaining readership, while the circulation of the regular Caucasian paper is dropping.
Coco, thanks for being gracious. I think the left blogs use this meme to avoid answering these rightful charges. The best defense is a good offense.
- dick said...
Just one more example for you to check out. When Sadr was starting to make such trouble in Baghdad we read in the newspaper and heard on TV that the whole city of Baghdad had shut down, shops weren't opening, schools were closed, businesses were shut down. Omar from Iraq the Model went out with his camera and photographed kids on their way to school, stores open, women out shopping, traffic jams of people on their way to work. Same day, same locations. That rather brought home to me the whole thing of the media and what we were hearing vs what was really going on.
One other item. Michael Yon, the blogger/photographer/author, spet a good bit of time with the top enlisted man in Iraq. He traveled all over the country with him and sat in on his meetings, went out with him and troops. That enlisted man has just announced in the past couple of weeks that he is looking for a credentialed reporter to travel around with him, go out on troop actions, sit in while he has meetings, etc. It will be interesting to see if any reporter takes him up on it. He is an interesting man and is really almost as powerful as the generals over there. He goes everywhere from the safest to the most dangerous parts of the country. Maybe when we hear reports from those traveling with him we will finally get some good reporting from the actual reporters rather than the stringers.
- quietnorth said...
"How are things going in Iraq?"
"What can we do that will make things better, and not worse?"
These are the two big questions. I suspect that no thoughtful person has the answer to either of those questions. (That is the position we find ourselves in). We could set a timetable for withdrawal and it could result in a heartened insurgency, more terrorism, and the need for more intervention. Or we could "stay the course", and the opposition could continue to grow, the government could continue to flounder, and the U.S. military could be weakened and our budget destroyed. . Too often, both sides assume that one or the other event could be true. Why can't both be true?
- Mr. Magoo said...
Yep, I change my screename every week or two. I don't see why you care so much. Anonymous is anonymous.
But always better to call names and attack the messenger, isn't it. Beats the heck out of responding to the comment.
Gee, the name calling is charming. The Right is so articulate and civil!
- dick said...
I guess you have to be a leftist like Larry Johnson, the LLL dems go to guy on the CIA. he made the statement in his latest column that Karl Rove's mother committed suicide because she saw what her sone was like. Is that the kind of civil commentary you approve of?
Or take a look at DU and their comments. LGF on its best day could not even approximate the vicious slurs that DU has.
- LoafingOaf said...
Ann Althouse: Most of them are just people who are overeager to get ammunition to use against Bush and various Republicans, but a few of them actually want to see the U.S. defeated in the war.
It really saddens me that this goes on so much. I think there are people in both parties who act this way when the president is from the opposing party. I'm not a member of a political party and I always want my country and the world at large to be doing well and better, so I don't really relate.
With Iraq, there's so many people INVESTED in things turning out terribly that deep down some of them feel they don't wanna be wrong. It's still up in the air how Iraq will turn out, which I think makes this happen even more, but also makes it even more deplorable than some want it to be a failure. I don't dislike all of the Bush haters and some of them have been right about some things. I just dislike the ones who seem to be in bad faith, and they shouldn't act surprised when their bad faith is noticed.


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Nine pitchers made appearances for Morris during the 2013 varsity baseball season as three rotation regulars — Brian Henry, Nick Evola and Tim Smyk — missed time with injuries.
The one constant for the Morris staff — other than senior right-hander Preston Miracle, who made nine starts and 13 total appearances — was the guy on the receiving end of its pitches. Senior catcher Jake Capko appeared in all 34 of the Redskins' games, and coach Todd Kein credits him with helping the team overcome its health issues to go 27-7 and post a team ERA of 2.39.
Morris and its pitchers also benefited from what Capko did offensively. His .579 on-base percentage was an area high, and his .407 batting average and 1.114 on-base plus slugging led the Redskins. Capko was particularly potent in Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference East play, batting .486 and earning conference Player of the Year honors.
For his defensive and offensive contributions to the Redskins, Capko is the 2013 Morris Daily Herald All-Area Baseball Player of the Year.
Behind the plate
Prior to his sophomore year at Morris, Capko was not a full-time catcher. He caught some, but about half the time, he estimates, he was assigned an atypical position for a catcher — middle infielder.
As Capko progressed through high school, he says, it became obvious that there was a hole at catcher for his grade level. It is one he has filled for the past three seasons. Him staying there has been beneficial to the Redskins, and likely to Capko's chances of playing college baseball. He committed to Illinois Wesleyan University during the school year.
"I've always played pretty much wherever the coaches have wanted me," Capko said. "I'm happy to (catch) ... Me and my dad have talked about how it keeps you more involved than any other position, and it's a good position to play to get noticed (by college coaches)."
By the beginning of Capko's junior season, he says, Kein started trusting him to call pitches on his own.
"He calls a heck of a game," Kein said of Capko. "Jake's the kind of catcher we don't have to call pitches for. He knows the pitching staff and calls the right pitch at the right time. Our pitchers get the credit when they execute a pitch, but part of the reason they're able to execute is that he's so in tune with the pitcher."
Only once during Capko's baseball career, he says, did his coach not allow him to call pitches himself, so it is a task with which he is very familiar. This season presented some unique challenges for Capko as he was forced to formulate game-plans for a revolving door of pitchers.
"Depending on where hitters are in the lineup and depending on something I may see in a batter's stance or their batting style. I would actually look at our past games against a team and compare the first game and second game and see what I've been doing with our pitchers," Capko said.
"I also tried to work to their strengths. Like with Nick Evola, our lefty, he doesn't throw very hard, so I would have to pitch him backwards. I would call for curveballs in different situations than I would for most of our pitchers, situations where I would call fastballs for Preston Miracle."
According to Kein, with Capko behind the plate, not only were the Redskins' opponents unable to even attempt to steal many bases, but they were also forced to be cautious with secondary leads on the basepaths.
"He has a great ability to snap off a throw," Kein said of Capko. "He's fearless about it. He'll snap one to second, he'll snap one to first and he'll snap one to third, really in any situation. He's more than capable of executing those throws at any time. People seeing him do those types of things kept opposing runners at bay, to a large extent, and that's to his credit."
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Capko was a .233 hitter as a junior. The same qualities that allowed him to draw an area-high 36 walks this spring may have supressed his numbers the year prior.
"I've always tried to be a patient hitter and tried to wait for my pitch. At times, I've had a hard time with being too patient," Capko said.
"(Kein) wants you to be aggressive. I know at times last year I would get a first-pitch fastball and I would take it, and it would be called a strike. I would look down to third base and he'd be giving me an angry look because he'd want me to swing at that pitch. Obviously, this year it worked out for me. Sometimes last year I struggled with strikeouts and it didn't work out.
"This year, I learned to lay off pitches if got down in the count and they weren't in the strike zone. That's what happened this year, was I was a patient hitter at the right times. With close pitches when I was down in the strike zone, I would fight 'em off, and then I'd take the pitches that were out of the zone."
Going into this season, Capko says he did not expect to have a .407 batting average. And according to him, early in the year, such an average would have seemed out of reach.
I started off hitting OK this year," Capko said. "Then, probably a third of the way through the season, I said to myself, 'I need to turn it up if I want to play college baseball.' I told myself that, and from there, things went great. I was able to help my team by hitting the ball."
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The Colleges of Arts & Sciences of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa continues its Downtown Speakers Program with a special lecture on Thursday, February 12, by Dr. Ruth Dawson, Professor of Women's Studies and author, lecturer, and researcher. This free talk will be held from Noon to 1 p.m. at the American Savings Bank Tower (formerly the Pacific Tower, Bishop Square corner of S. King & Alakea), 180 S. King Street, 8th Floor, Room 807. It is a brown-bag event so attendees are invited to bring their lunches.
Dr. Dawson's lecture titled "Princess Di of the North: Rethinking Catherine the Great" contends that Catherine II was a person of no importance until she conducted a spectacular and bloodless coup against her husband that brought her to the Russian throne for 35 years. The world followed the tale of the princess in St. Petersburg with a degree of awe that turned the new tsarina into a celebrity on the scale of Princess Diana. How and why could that happen in the 18th centurywithout CNN or People? What have the consequences been for the reputation of the richest and most powerful woman in history? What does it mean for our understanding of celebrity today?
For more information, please call the Office of Community and Alumni Relations, Colleges of Arts & Sciences, at 956-5790.
Upcoming Downtown Speakers Program Schedule:
Members of the community are invited to attend a series of FREE presentations especially planned for the downtown business community. These are sponsored by the Colleges of Arts & Sciences of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. All talks will be held from Noon to 1 p.m. at the American Savings Bank Tower (formerly the Pacific Tower), 180 S. King Street, 8th Floor.
March 11, 2004 — Angkor Wat: The World's Largest Temple and UH Adventures in the Kingdom of Cambodia by Dr. P. Bion Griffin, Associate Dean and Professor of Anthropology
April 8, 2004 — Mummy Talks: The Egyptian Mummy Project by Dr. Robert Littman, Professor of Classics and teacher of ancient Egyptian language
May 13, 2004 — Neutrino Studies at UH: From Uncovering Secrets of the Universe to Use in National Defense by Dr. John G. Learned, Professor of Physics and Astronomy


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Arsenal's win over Swansea City in their FA Cup third round replay on Wednesday night sparked much excitement over the man of the match and match-winner Jack Wilshere.
It was a terrific display from the young international and one that led many to declare him as a world-class talent and one of the best playmakers in the Premier League.
It was a chorus of exultation that caused GMF's brain cells to tingle and spark a question: Who are the best young playmakers in the Premier League?
There are a number of candidates, but the term 'playmaker', GMF feels, gets used far too easily for unsuitable players.
In GMF's opinion a playmaker is the one that is on the ball throughout a game, the one that makes his team tick and will dictate the shape as well as the pace of a game.
Another debate to spring up was the question of how young is 'young'. Well, 'young', it seems, is any player that is 24 and under. There is no particular scientific reasoning to this, just the age the GMF felt you needed to be before you ceased to be young in football terms.
After some serious thought, and not a little disagreeing, GMF came up with five of the best young playmakers currently operating within the confines of the Premier League.
Here they are…
Jack Wilshere – Arsenal
GMF weren't being totally honest when we said we observed the chorus of hallelujahs over Wilshere, we were perhaps involved in those a tiny bit. Can you blame us? He was magnificent as the game wore on Wednesday night and gave a glimpse of what the future may hold.
The ability to beat a man, calm in possession, the vision to pick out a dangerous through ball and a combative nature – it sounds like the perfect blend of technique and grit that Arsenal are looking for. Just add a few more goals to that and you have what Arsene Wenger described as a complete midfielder.
Juan Mata – Chelsea
The Spaniard does not have the same penchant for battling with opponents as Wilshere, but he is second to none when it comes to the ability to create dangerous opportunities. Players of similar stature to Mata would often traditionally be written off as too small for the rigours of the Premier League but, thankfully, that period appears to be behind us.
Mata's movement around the opposition penalty area is exemplary and he scores a good amount of goals for a midfielder and, at 24 years of age, he just makes it into the hotly disputed 'young' bracket.
Tom Cleverley – Manchester United
Cleverley is beginning to assume the status of a regular starter in Sir Alex Ferguson's side this season, as Paul Scholes' involvement is scaled down to allow some space for the 23-year-old to blossom into the player many think he can be.
He has started to form a familiarity with Michael Carrick in the centre of midfield and has shown a willingness to work up and down the pitch. Cleverley's passing is varied and accurate but his goals tally could be improved upon, though he has found the net a couple of times recently and is clearly working on getting into the box more.
Cleverley is a very raw talent but is showing the progression and development you would hope if he is to become one of England's leading midfielders over the next few years.
Eden Hazard – Chelsea
For a player that is playing only his first season in the Premier League playmakers, Hazard really has adapted well. You would expect the Belgian to have a few games where he gets overrun, and he has, but they have been few and far between. The former Lille star has shown he has pace, excellent dribbling ability, exquisite passing and a knack for scoring beautiful goals.
He was not cheap at £32million but few could deny his quality after seeing his progress in the first half of the season. Chelsea may be going through some rough times under Rafael Benitez at the moment, but their huge investment in the summer looks as though it could pay off, if the promise shown so far is converted into something more cohesive.
Adam Lallana – Southampton
Players playing for so-called 'smaller' clubs can often be overlooked in these kinds of lists, but Lallana has really stood out so far this season as a player of supreme quality. One must admire his determination to stay with the club he joined as a youth, which is beginning to bear fruit in the form of an invitation to train with the senior England squad.
A brilliant passer, Lallana can operate anywhere across the midfield or on wing and has good technique for finding space when pressed by opposition defenders. His loyalty has been rewarded with the captain's armband this season and Southampton manager Nigel Adkins will be pleased to have him back from injury in the next few weeks. Lallana could well be a late developer, but that should not be held against him when it comes to England caps being handed out; he plays with heart, determination and possess great quality.
Special Mention
Lewis Holtby – Tottenham Hotspur
Signing the young German international was quite a coup for Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, and GMF is sure the decision to tie him down to a pre-contract agreement will be proved a shrewd one.
Holtby is extremely adaptable and can play anywhere in the midfield; he has terrific technique and will be a boon to Andre Villas-Boas' strikers and wingers. With him being signed ion a free transfer, GMF can envisage him being labelled bargain of the season next term.
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If you are an teacher, student, parent, or administrator, you should be following education blogs. Why? Simply because blogs are an ever-increasing way to spark ideas, creativity, and innovation. The following list is a compilation of blogs for those interested in education.
Written by parents, administrators, businessmen, teachers, and administrators, these blogs stand out with their unique style and excellent content.
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johannacw writes "Would you house a data center in a diamond mine or an old chapel? These organizations did, with great success; many of these facilities offer the latest in cooling and energy technology, among other advances. 'If you want an even more hardened environment for your data, you might look at the aptly named InfoBunker in Boone, Iowa, about an hour outside Des Moines. [...] The 65,000-square-foot, five-story site is dug deep into the ground. No one gets in without passing though the 4.5-ton steel door and then a three-step process. A scanner uses radio frequency to read the would-be entrant's skin as a biometric identifier. He then needs to use a keycard and enter a code on the keypad. This three-tier security is standard for high-level military installations, McGinnis explains.'"


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TROY >> Police say they have no new news to report in Tuesday's brutal homicide during which a Lansingburgh couple in their 50s were beaten to death.
City Council President Rodney Wiltshire and Councilman Jim Gordon both said they are offering $500 rewards for information which leads to an arrest and conviction in the case.
Michael Allen Lockrow and his wife, Maria, were found early Tuesday morning severely beaten in their home at 709 First Avenue, where neighbors say Michael Allen had lived for most of his life.
Maria Lockrow's brother, Tad Pietrak, told local media outlets he was a suspect in the case and police had questioned him, but said he did not commit the crime.
Pietrack told WNYT that he and his sister had a falling out in 2012 and that he was arrested for assaulting her. An order of protection between the two was on file.
According to a 2005 report on Time Warner Cable News, Pietrack was charged with attempted murder, assault, unlawful imprisonment and harassment for attempting on two occasions to choke his mother.
In multiple media reports, Pietrak criticized the Troy Police Department for the way it's handled the investigation, and said he hoped State Police or the FBI would step in.
"This early in the investigation, everyone is a suspect," said Police Chief John Tedesco.
Police are still searching for the couple's vehicle, a blue 2013 Ford Escape, which they believe was stolen by their killers.
Michael Allen Lockrow was a city employee, and worked as a landscaper at the Frear Park Golf Course. Neighbors said he was always ready to help people around him, and would often mow lawns or shovel snow without being asked.
Maria Lockrow was a nurse and worked for the county.
Funeral services will take place at the John J. Sanvidge Funeral Home, located at 115th Street and Fourth Avenue in Lansingburgh, and at St. Augustine's Church in Lansingburgh. Dates and times are still being finalized.
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The Indians, according to a Major League Baseball source, have reached agreement on a one-year big-league deal with free agent Orlando Cabrera. He has spent the previous 14 years playing mostly shortstop, but he will be competing for the vacant second base job because the Indians want to keep Asdrubal Cabrera at shortstop.
Indians GM Chris Antonetti would neither confirm nor deny the signing.
The well-traveled Cabrera, 36, has played for seven teams in the past seven years. He has gone to the postseason six times in that stretch.
The Indians signed Asdrubal Cabrera to a one-year, $2.025 million contract to avoid arbitration in January. He broke his left forearm in a collision with former Indian Jhonny Peralta last year and did not play good defense when he returned from the surgery. He made his big-league debut in 2007 at second base, but the Indians are committed to playing him at short.
Perhaps they see Orlando Cabrera as a one-year player until a prospect such as Jason Kipnis is ready to play second base in the big leagues. The Indians don't have a shortstop prospect who is close to replacing Asdrubal Cabrera.
Orlando Cabrera played 121 games at shortstop last year for Cincinnati. He hit .263 (130-for-494) with 33 doubles, four homers and 42 RBI. He stole 11 bases in 15 attempts and scored 64 runs.
He spent the 2009 season with Oakland and Minnesota. He hit a combined .284 (186-for-656), helping the Twins reach the postseason after a midseason trade. In 2008, he spent the full season with the White Sox and hit .281 (186-for-661). He's a .274 (1,948-for-7,112) career hitter with 443 doubles, 118 homers, 803 RBI, 946 runs and 208 steals.
Cabrera has spent almost his entire career at shortstop. Baseball-reference.com says he has played only 33 games at second.
The Indians open spring training Tuesday with two big questions -- who will play second and third base. Orlando Cabrera could answer one of those questions if he beats out Jason Donald, Jayson Nix, Luis Valbuena, Kipnis and others at second.
He can also rest Asdrubal Cabrera at short. The Indians had no suitable replacement last season when Cabrera went on the disabled list with his forearm injury. Now they have two in Orlando Cabrera and Adam Everett, who will be in camp on a minor league deal.
Indians shortstops made 25 errors last year, ranking 24th in the big leagues.
Along with Cabrera, Valbuena, Donald, Angel Hernandez and Drew Sutton played short. Orlando Cabrera made 11 errors last year.
Orlando Cabrera made $2.02 million last year. His brother, Jolbert, played for the Indians from 1993 through 2002.
The Indians have signed two free agents to big-league deals this off-season: Cabrera and Austin Kearns (one-year, $1.3 million).
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New Book About Toms River Cancer Cluster Released [AUDIO]
A 60-year battle to identify the sources of a cancer cluster affecting children in an Ocean County community is now the topic of a new book.
NYU Science Journalism Professor Dan Fagin is coming to Toms River this Thursday to discuss his book titled, 'Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation'.
Fagin says he chose to write about Toms River for several reasons.
One reason, he says, is because it's a human story that came to light because of concerned citizens.
"The only reason it eventually did come out was because at key moments people spoke up and the other really important reason is that there are very few places where the science has really been done."
Fagin says a scientific study demanded by the public and political leaders showed that there was indeed a connection to girls with leukemia and exposure to two different kinds of pollution in town, air pollution from the old CIBA Plant and water contamination through the Parkway Wells which had been contaminated by the Reich Farm Dumping.
Fagin says Toms River is a part of a much bigger story about the slow progress we've made in understanding the relationship between environmental pollution and cancer.
Fagin says he interviewed 140 people in Ocean County on the record and dozens more off the record. He says he also had hundreds of documents available for his research. Fagin says a lot of people were uncomfortable in talking about the sensational public health crises of the past but still found many to be receptive.
"On the other hand, I was really struck by the number of people who understood what I wanted to do, to tell the story in all its complexity and believe that the lessons of Toms River were important."
Fagin will be at the Toms River Branch of the Ocean County Library on Thursday, April 4th at 7 p.m.


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Jones Wrote:I asked, because it's always been a dream of mine to make a simple OS. Just something that would boot and print out "Hello, World!".
Any tutorials you know of?
There aren't any I don't think. However, I've done what you say :-). After countless hours I have to say that you won't get anything more than the most basic input and and output in your OS so it's really not worth the trouble.
If you want to do it, look at BootX in the Darwin source. It's all written in C. It does stuff like putting characters on the screen by using OpenFirmware (The bios, as it were). Once you have stripped down the BootX code to a basic set of stuff you'll need to compile it like this:
gcc -arch ppc -O0 -Wmost -Wno-format -force_cpusubtype_ALL -fasm-blocks -fno-common -static -c -o all.o *.c
gcc -arch ppc -nostdlib -std=c99 -e _StartTVector -seg1addr 05600000 -o bootfile.macho all.o -lcc_kext
(Those two calls can be combined i think but they aren't combined in my build script for some reason and I can't be bothered to do it now)
That makes sure it doesn't use relative addressing amongst a lot of other stuff.
Once you've done that you need to do:
macho-to-xcoff bootfile.macho bootfile.xcoff
You'll find the macho-to-xcoff tool in the BootX source.
Once you've done that, write down the path of the .xcoff file (or move it to a place you can remember easily) and restart your computer while holding Apple-Alt-O-F (So that's hold Apple, Alt, O and F :-)) until a prompt looking thing appears. This is OpenFirmware and is what runs before the OS does. Then type:
boot hd:\path-to-xcoff-file
And it should boot your OS! (If you can call it an OS :-))
It will do what your OS does and then either give you an error or just stop (Depending on whether you put an infinite loop at the end or not) and you'll need to restart.
After I got a hello worldy sort of thing working I looked in to:
- Multitasking (At which point I realised I needed Memory Management First)
- Memory Management (Which I decided was so stupidly difficult it's untrue :-))
- Doing stuff without OpenFirmware (like graphics) which is again, so stupidely difficult...
When I was doing multitasking I needed to use Assembly so I could use the Decrementer. Assembly is by no means easy on the PPC, but it's not hard either. Just think what you want to do and look for the best instruction that does it.
Oh, an instruction list along with descriptions of the instructions and what parameters they have and stuff is in Shark.app which is somewhere in the Developer Applications folder. Look in the help(iirc) menu and there is an item called "PPC ISA Reference". And if you want to do something really complicated then write what you want to do in a C function and look at the assembly for it, it's much easier that way :-).
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Jones Wrote:If you wrote an os in c, how the heck would the OS run? An empty machine has no c frameworks installed... How would the computer understand "itself"?
On a standard machine, a C app links to dynamic libraries that have the basic "frameworks" (e.g. strcmp, printf, etc). When you're building an OS, you have to link in an embedded libc statically, like newlib. Check out the Linux kernel source sometime, it's kinda cool. There's a mini libc built into it. It doesn't have to link to any system libraries; the final step of the process is to take the standard OS executable file and strip out its data/code sections into a standalone binary with a fixed runtime address (which is put where it goes by the boot loader).
Something that was a real brain-f*** for me the first time I realized it is that OSes are just another app that runs on the raw hardware instead of under the main OS. It dynamically loads and unloads modules at runtime that have more functionality (user apps). Even multitask isn't that interesting, it's just swapping out the call stack when some piece of code calls into the OS.
ggadwa Wrote:C is not turned into assembly, it's turned into machine code. Assembly is machine code in human readable form, but is equivalent. When you ask XCode to show the assembly, it's just showing you the mnemonics (plus some convient labels which represent addresses.) There are not two steps.
GCC is very modular. A lot of compilers (like MSVC++) will go straight from multiple CPP files to multiple OBJ files, or at least that seems to be what it's doing. In GCC if you sit there with a very fast updating top or whatever, you can see it separately invoke cpp (pre-process the C), cc1 (compile from C to assembly), as (compile from assembly to .o) and ld (compile from .o to executable). C++ involves another step or two. So yeah, those flags on gcc like -S or -E are actually giving you something it really generates while compiling in Xcode, but you usually don't see them due to pipes between the processes or just really quick compilation.
Unless they changed something in GCC 4.x anyway.. that's how it's always been before that.
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While your mac has the hardwired firmware ( unless you find a way to overwrite it ), you can use an emulator like qemu if you want to write your own BIOS/Firmware/ROM/etc. You will have to recompile it though because it has its own which you can see at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm for reference.
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truth is that programming itself lies on an incredibly complex structure you will never really know: in the end you are controlling electrons, you will never be able to do that yourself: we use instruments made by other instruments made by other instruments in a process 40 years long, with tons of geniuses working on the soulders of their predecessors.
Programmers are almost at the end of the chain as common users
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Najdorf Wrote:truth is that programming itself lies on an incredibly complex structure you will never really know: in the end you are controlling electrons, you will never be able to do that yourself: we use instruments made by other instruments made by other instruments in a process 40 years long, with tons of geniuses working on the soulders of their predecessors.
Programmers are almost at the end of the chain as common users
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Ingemar Wrote:...68000 quite OK. ...Go for 68000, pick up an old 68k Mac, find some assembler, or C compiler that supports inline assebly, and have fun! (Or if you like, run the 68k programs on a PPC Mac, even under Classic under OSX. After all, 68k emulation is built-in.) Brian Barnes wrote his first games in 68000 assembler, so he might have a comment on this.
I stumbled across this thread in my occasional search for resources to learn assembly. I picked up a Mac SE a few years ago, with the intent to learn how to write assembly code with it, and made some little progress, only of the altering example code sucessfully, and of reading books that I'd found, giving me some understanding of the concepts. I'm fairly stuck when it comes to that project, though, as I can't seem to find any documentation or forum/s that explain how to use the Mac OS resources. I think that two books out of the half dozen or so I found have any code that actually runs on my machine, and none of it is code that contains even one resource created with Rez, or ResEdit. I eventually picked up an Apple I replica, that I was more able to bend to my will and understanding (though I can't think of much that I want to do with it yet (I'd like to add some sensors, but that'll take more hardware understanding)).
So! Basically I'd just like to know if anyone knows of any resources that would get me started on using resources on old school Mac OS (6.0.8) on a Mac SE 68000 machine. Thanks for all/any help.


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Most people know Yale is off to a 5-0 start in the Ivy League, but now everyone can learn a little more about each Bulldog by watching their brief bio video. The videos were produced by Kevin Laseau, the team's associate head coach.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Riley County police have arrested two men in connection with an armed robbery at a Manhattan convenience store.
On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, around 1:20 AM, officers responded to a holdup at the Dara's Fast Lane on Claflin Road, located across the street from Kansas State University's campus and one of the dormitories.
According to a press release from the Riley County Police Department, a man wearing a black mask robbed the business at gunpoint and got away.
RCPD officials say a separate investigation into a Criminal Damage to Property case led them to search the suspects' apartment on Anderson Avenue where officers ended up finding evidence relating to the Dara's incident.
One of the suspects, Dennis Denzien, 20, of Manhattan, was arrested for Aggravated Robbery Wednesday. He was also arrested for Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. His bond was set at $55,000.
The suspected gunman in the armed robbery at Dara's, 22-year-old Frank Joseph Hanson III, was arrested Thursday in Grandview Plaza for Aggravated Robbery. RCPD officers along with the Junction City Police Department and Grandview Plaza Police Department located Hanson and took him into custody. His bond was set at $100,000.
Patrick Martin, 20, of Manhattan, was arrested in the unrelated Criminal Damage to Property investigation for Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute, Possession of Mushrooms with Intent to Distribute, Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute, Felony Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Criminal Possession of a Firearm. His bond was set at $20,000. Officials say his arrest is not connected to the robbery at Dara's.
Police list the same home address for all three men.


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Nintendo has promised that there will be lots of fantastic Wii U games to play in 2013 as the company look to follow up a "strong Q1" with another great show at E3.
I hope Retro will be releasing something this year. I don't want to wait for an amazing AAA Nintendo game. I also am wondering what Miyamoto is working on. He has done some different stuff, Mario, Starfox, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pikmin. I really hope its a new platform franchise and not something like Pikmin. I like Pikmin, but we get part 3 soon, so I am hoping for a new Platform with new characters.
When The Wonderful 101 and Beyonetta 2 get releases dates, I'll buy a Wii-u.
we shall see what they have incoming thats so great.. Rayman & Bayonetta is all i can think of thats been announced so far..