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There's already the mini-genre of movies adapted from actual advice books-- we've already seen He's Just Not That Into You, and coming whether you like it or not is the rom-com take on What To Expect When You're Expecting. Now it's time to get used to an even more specific and bizarre mini-genre within the mini-genre: movies adapted from parody self-help books. So far it's just one, an adaptation of the satirical bedtime book Go The F*k To Sleep, but you know these things, like deaths, always come in threes.
As for this first effort, Variety reports that Fox 2000 has acquired the rights to Adam Mansbach's book, which "captures the endless bedtime routine that all parents endure." Presumably the title is what you'd rather say to your kid than placating them with blankets, hugs, songs and stories, but like most things about parenthood, there's a gooey heart at the center of the story as well. The studio hasn't hired the writer who has to dig a narrative out of this flimsy material or the director who will tackle it, but presumably they'll both have their hands full-- at the bare minimum, that title is definitely going to have to go. And, though you'll be forgiven for forgetting that movie ever existed, Bedtime Stories is already taken.


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A part of web development is copywriting. Excellent copy means it has to be appealing to both readers and to search engines. This combination will help websites to rank highly. A problem occurs when there are space constraints to a site, page layout requirements or other issues.
Because appealing to both readers and search engines is so important, you don't want to sacrifice one for the other. Adding a big block of copy to the middle of a page may not be the best answer, however, if a page needs content, adding a couple of sentences to the bottom of each section is a good option. Your copy will still be readable and the additional content will appeal to the search engines.
There are some things to remember when writing content for a website.
- Web users are active. One click and they have left your site. If they don't see a reason to stay, they won't. There is a 10 – 15 second window available to capture a visitor's attention.
- The longer the text is, the less likely they are to read it. With long text, they will skim it, if they bother to read it at all.
- Web users don't believe in hype. If you want a web user to believe you and to believe in you, you must back up your claims.
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If your design and navigation isn't obvious, then you need to explain it in the copy. Most visitors will not take the time to figure this information out. If a first time visitor cannot find their way around your site, they will likely never come back.
Unless your visitors are expecting to read something on your page, don't expect that they will read more than one or two lines of copy.
Understanding your copy is as important as length. Don't make the copy so complicated that it is difficult to comprehend or make it so the customer will have to think about it because they won't.
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Escape your cluttered news feed! Wander aimlessly through the interwebs no more. The most compelling food news -- and conversation -- will all be in one place: right here!
You've seen us dipping into food news curation in our weekly Feed52 round-ups. Now, we're thrilled to be rolling out a living, breathing News Section on Food52, powered by the brilliant women behind Food News Journal, Fran Brennan and Shelly Peppel. (We've long been fans -- read our interview with them below and you'll see why.)
Please join us in welcoming Fran and Shelly to the fold -- then head over to the News Section to stir up more of that lively, thoughtful dialogue that abounds on Food52.
Before launching Food News Journal, you came from publishing (Shelly) and journalism (Fran) -- what made you want to shift from producing content toward curating it?Fran Brennan: I can't speak for Shelly here, but I know I needed something to inspire me. She came up with the idea for a food news site; and I jumped on board the minute she asked me. Food was such a shared interest of ours -- we love making it, sharing it, talking about it, reading about it. This seemed like the perfect way to combine work and play.Shelly Peppel: With the sheer volume of food writing on the web, you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find quality reading. Our goal has been to gather only the best of it in one place and present it as our editorial viewpoint. We still love creating original content -- it's just that we also like organizing it. Hopefully we'll continue to do both.
What do you love most about curating food news?Shelly: Discovering hundreds of fantastic food voices out there! Bloggers, chefs, publishers, critics -- we're connected to all these people now and we get to dip into their (often compelling) lives, "visit" their kitchens, farms, and restaurants every day. Armchair cooking and eating at its finest! Fran: I get to read amazing food writing every day -- as a job. I'm still in awe of the seemingly endless stream of food and wine news, not to mention the wonderful feature stories and blog posts. I'm not sure I would have believed two years ago that we could find enough content to fill a site every day; but finding stories has never been a problem. Now many of them even find us.
What's the most interesting story you've ever worked on?Shelly: For me it's been teen bloggers. I spend a good amount of time around teenagers, and it's terrifically inspiring to see the focus and passion coming from these kids. The idea that they can share that passion with people anywhere in the world, and at such a young age, is pretty powerful stuff. Fran: It's a toss up. Getting the first interview with Twitter celeb mashup Ruth Bourdain was fun and energizing and brought me back to my days as a reporter trying to get a scoop. But I've also loved writing the year-end wrap-ups we've published for the past two years. Sifting through my notes (and my brain) to find the most compelling stories of the year -- and pulling them together into a fun narrative -- was a highlight for me.
Fran's in D.C., Shelly's in San Francisco. How does your cross-country workflow work, exactly?Shelly: We skype over coffee. We email each other like banshees. And both of us are up early and work late -- I doubt many people who share office space have as much as daily contact as we do! Fran: It works incredibly well, in fact. Because of the time difference, we manage to cover the news day in a fairly extensive way -- starting at about 6:30 a.m. on the East Coast and wrapping up at around 9:30 p.m. or so on the West Coast. We definitely overutilize our unlimited texting (I'm sure our phone company regrets ever offering us that feature). Still, I have to admit that when I'm up and working early, I find myself watching the clock, wishing for 6:30 a.m. in the Bay Area so I can see that first e-mail from Shelly drop into my in-box.
In the almost 2 years since you started canvassing news for FNJ, what are the top 3 things you've noticed about trends in food news coverage these days? Shelly: The crazy rapid increase in food sites and blogs, the rise of celebrity and shock headlines to drive page views, and the trend of established national news and magazine sites toward aggregating content. The online food world feels like the Wild West right now. We have our own predictions, but it's going to be interesting to see where the online food frenzy goes in the next couple of years. Fran: That there's so much more of it, and from highly respected news sources as well as indie sources and online startups. The politics of food has become big business. Food safety, agribusiness, eating local, childhood obesity -- when I was a kid, these were not the things covered in my local newspaper or talked about at my parents' cocktail parties. Now, I can't go to a news source -- or a dinner party -- without at least one of these topics making an appearance. It's a lot more fun. The rise in locavore eating, artisanal food production, gourmet food trucks -- what's not to like here? There is just so much fun, exciting stuff going on in food right now that it makes reading food media incredibly enjoyable. What's the single most fascinating thing you've read about food this year, from any source?Fran: I loved Christine Muhlke's piece about food communities in last October's New York Times Magazine food issue. She crystallized so many of the thoughts I've had about food since starting FNJ with Shelly: People love to eat; they love to talk about what they eat; they love to share food and recipes. It's just an amazing means of pulling people together, whether for social reasons or even economic ones, like urban farms and community gardens. Unlike politics or religion, food is generally a topic where people -- and their appetites -- can find common ground. Shelly: Fran's interview with Ruth Bourdain. I love the idea that someone clever and anonymous can captivate the food world so completely. We all need a bit more mystery in our lives! What do you hope to do with the News Section on Food52?Fran: I think we're both excited to dive into the Food52 community. At Food News Journal, we got a lot of feedback about stories from our Twitter followers, and readers often commented on features we'd written. But we didn't have the level of interaction with readers that you have on Food52. We're looking forward to having a dialogue about the most compelling -- or sometimes just craziest -- stories. Shelly: Create the 'go to' place online for the best food news, writing, and recipes, and underline it all with lively discussions. Let's all talk about what we're reading and what we think about it. Lucky for us Food52 is the perfect spot to foster a food news community.
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County Permissive Sales and Use Tax Collections for
Calendar Year 2009, by Industrial Classification
Under Ohio law, the Ohio Department of Taxation administers
the sales and use tax of those counties and transit
authorities that impose such a tax. Revenue collected from
the tax is distributed to the counties and transit
authorities in the second month after the month the return is
This table displays county permissive sales and use taxes
collected in calendar year 2009 (CY 2009), by industrial
classification. (Transit authorities are excluded from this
table.) Such amounts were distributed to the counties during
the March 2009 through February 2010 period. The 30
industrial classifications used in this table are based on
the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS);
the table provides the specific NAICS code ranges comprising
each classification.
In CY 2009, all 88 counties imposed a permissive sales and
use tax, with the levies ranging from 0.50 percent to 1.50
percent. CY 2009 receipts from the county permissive sales
and use tax totaled $1,328.4 million. Based on statewide
total county permissive sales tax collections, the Motor
Vehicle and Parts Dealers classification (which includes
taxes collected on the sale of motor vehicles) comprises the
largest category, at $202.9 million, or 15.3 percent of the
total. This is followed by the General Merchandise Stores,
Miscellaneous Store Retailers, and Building Materials and
Garden Equipment & Supplies categories, respectively.
Statewide, the smallest industrial category was Mining, which
accounted for $121,505, or 0.0091 percent of the total. Note
that the counties vary in the degree by which they depend on
the various industrial categories, although Motor Vehicle and
Parts Dealers is the largest category in all but 15
The table includes all types of sales and use tax accounts,
including "direct payment" and "consumer use" accounts in
which the appropriate tax is paid directly by the purchaser,
rather than the seller, to the state. Because such purchasers
are included in this table, many industries not typically
involved in making taxable retail sales (such as
manufacturing) are represented.
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Google Spreadsheets - What you really need to know
I have been working on the next presentation in my Technology Learning for Leaders Series and this session focuses on Google Forms and Sheets to Power Up Data
In my preparation for this session I made five documents that I am quite please with how they turned out. My goal was everything someone would need to know to really work with spreadsheets and data in schools, from basic to advanced, to make sense of data (short of Google Scripts).
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Basic Spreadsheet Terminology
Basic Google Spreadsheet Formulas Everyone Will Want Know
Text Google Spreadsheet Formulas Everyone Will Want Know
Intermediate Google Spreadsheet Formulas Everyone Should Want Know
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FLORIDA — Last month, Fitness Business Pro reported on the four hurricanes that recently battered the Southeast. A month later, we asked the same clubs that we reported on in October how they are faring after the storms.
Eight out of 20 Lifestyle Family Fitness clubs sustained damage, said Geoff Dyer, CEO of Lifestyle Family Fitness. Seven clubs sustained damage to signage, landscaping or roofs. His Orlando and Winter Haven, FL, clubs lost power. The Winter Park, FL, club (mentioned in last month's article) is closed due to extensive damage. Dyer is determining whether to rebuild that club or build an entirely new one in the area. Dyer's biggest challenge is contacting contractors, sign companies and building departments, all of whom are overloaded with work. During the storms clubs that were operational allowed local residents access to their shower facilities.
Debris and fallen trees were the biggest damage at the Gainesville Health & Fitness Center in Gainesville, FL, said Debbie Lee, marketing director for the club. After a short power outage, the club was able to provide showers and air conditioning to an estimated 200 local residents who were without power. Although during this time potential new members were not solicited, Lee found that the club's community service resulted in a few new memberships.
Hurricane Jeanne did minor damage to Tony Hopkin's Gold's Gym in Melbourne, FL, said Cathy Peluso, customer service representative. The hurricane knocked a few TVs off the wall and caused some roof damage, but the club was operational two days after the final hurricane hit. Like other clubs, they opened their doors to local residents looking for a hot shower.
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TLC boss Eileen O'Neill has her hands full this year with a full slate of shows including Kate Gosselin's "Twist of Kate" and Sarah Palin's reality show -- but she still has time to dream.
PopcornBiz asked if we could ever see the powerhouses together on the same show.
"That's a good question," O'Neill told us. "I'll have to think about that. You'll have me dreaming now."
In the meantime, advertisers and press received got a view of Sarah Palin's on-camera skills, but not much in the way of content last week during a brief presentation about the show. O'Neill explained that the makers of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" have not started shooting.
"I think she's a little busy," O'Neill says of the former governor. "We haven't gotten into production yet."
Not that it's the former governor holding it up.
"We're waiting for the warmer weather up there," she says. "It's going to get going in the next month or two."
As far as topics for the show, O'Neill says the TLC crew is in intense (and secretive) research and development. "I'm heavily involved," she says. "We're very focused on it. This is a huge opportunity."


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Ok, this is a bit of an older kite to be reviewing in 2013, but I didn't find that many reviews for this kite. So this is for people getting one second hand or bargain basement style.
I found it to be quick turning, but powered through the turns. Good, easy jumps. It felt like a nice blend of old school waroo and 2012 epic screamer, that kinda high aspect fast kite.
It handles gusts well, not lurching or jumping around, rather a smoother acceleration that gives you time to sheet out and edge against.
The bar pressure is perfect, light but firm. It takes a good firm hand to turn, it's not twitchy, but once it turns it is very quick. Hmm, it's hard to describe, if you pull hard, it turns hard. If you are gentle, it turns slowly. The older waroos and C kites were just twitchy and mental. The Obsession is a tamer beast. Or a more refined gentleman.
Build quality is amazing. Each strut end has reflective material sewn into it which is a really nice touch. The rrd pattern is sewn into the canopy and looks neat. The bladder inflation point is encased in a rubbery plastic bit sewn to the leading edge which is cool. The one pump is neat and tidy and is better than the flexifoil ion 4 version (which is actually a really good system,) but the rrd one is more compact.
The bridle is small and has two pullies per side, the kook proof connectors are the opposite to my flexifoil bar which seems stupid. I hope the manufacturers sort out a standard for this.
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I still haven't seen how and why you need an Arduino. All you've done so far can be done with a NE555 for a lot less money and a lot less effort. That is not to mention that the entire 555 circuit can be enclosed in one of those tubes/rods/candles/whatever.Take some time to study the NE555 and you'll see that it might fit your needs a lot better than the Arduino, specially when comparing costs.
I am still not exactly sure what your question is, what you want help/collaboration on.
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Los Angeles attorney Molly Munger made good on her threat Tuesday, launching television ads that draw a sharp contrast between two competing school tax measures on the November ballot.
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Marquette seniors off target in loss to Florida
Marquette's Jae Crowder was the player of the year in the Big East. Florida's Bradley Beal was the player of the night in Phoenix.
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Marquette's Jae Crowder was the player of the year in the Big East. Florida's Bradley Beal was the player of the night in Phoenix.
That simple difference is why the Golden Warriors are going home and the Gators are moving on.
Crowder, a senior, closed his college career Thursday night with a rough one - early foul trouble, 5-for-15 shooting, a couple of key misses during a comeback effort in a 68-58 loss to No. 7 Florida in the West Regional.
"I tried to bring something else to the team other than shooting, other than scoring," said the forward, who finished with 15 points. "That's defense somewhat and rebounding. But it wasn't falling for me tonight."
Same for his fellow senior, Darius Johnson-Odom, who also shot 5 for 15 and finished with 14 points.
Third-seeded Marquette, (27-8) exited the tournament in the round of 16 for the second straight year. Buzz Williams' team shot 31 percent and was held 18 points under its season average.
"Anytime you get beat, it's a bailout to just say you didn't make shots," Williams said. "You always give credit to the opponent, the staff that beat you."
That staff is led by Billy Donovan, who will meet his former coach and mentor, Rick Pitino, on Saturday in the regional final.
"These are hard games, because they're such close relationships," Donovan said. "But I do think the game is really about players playing in the game who are going to be competing on Saturday."
While Crowder was struggling, Beal was feeling it. He led the Gators with 21 points on 8-for-10 shooting and also had six rebounds, four assists, two steals and two blocks.
Erving Walker had 11 for the Gators (26-10), including a 3-pointer that came after Patric Young scrapped for an offensive rebound with 2:05 left. It snapped a 6-0 Marquette run that pulled the Golden Eagles, who trailed by as many as 14, to within six.
Crowder picked up two early fouls and played only 12 minutes in the first half. When he got back on the floor for the second half, he couldn't find his range. He missed two open shots during an 0-for-6 stretch for Marquette midway through the second half.
"We struggled being in rhythm most of the game," Williams said. "Jae has always played more than 12 minutes in a half, but it's dangerous for him to pick up his third, so he sat a lot the half. When you're playing against a team as good as Florida and you're playing without your key guys, it's hard for that rhythm to get established."
In the second half, Beal served up about five perfect examples of what he can do when he steps up a bit. Blanketed by Marquette's Todd Mayo, Beal hesitated, took a stutter step, then breezed past him for a reverse layup that would've made George Gervin proud.
It was the second time he'd blown past Mayo for a layup. He also had a 3-pointer, a couple of free throws and a pretty assist to Young to help the Gators go up 56-44 with less than five minutes left. For cappers, he dunked for the last points of the game, leaving him one short of the high-water scoring mark of his one-year college career.


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(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia may block access to popular Internet messaging applications like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp if telecommunication providers there don't comply with rules and regulatory conditions, according to the country's official news agency, SPA.
A statement from Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission released via SPA read, "The Commission emphasizes that it will take appropriate action regarding these applications and services in the event of failure to meet those conditions."
The statement did not address how the applications in question -- which allow Internet users to communicate with each other via text messages and voice calls -- were violating any rules, but it did highlight the need for service providers in the country to quickly "work with the developers of these applications to meet regulatory requirements."
Sunday's announcement came in response to local media reports last week claiming the CITC, the country's telecommunications regulator, had asked Saudi telecom companies to allow the government to monitor those applications and had given them until Saturday to respond.
Despite repeated attempts, CNN was unable to reach the CITC or any of Saudi Arabia's three mobile providers (Saudi Telecom Co., Zain Group and Mobily) for comment.
Sunday's move was met with derision by many Saudi social media users.
"The sense that I get is weariness," said Eman Al-Nafjan, one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent bloggers, while describing the online reaction she's encountered so far. "A shrugging shoulders -- as if it's typical."
"I'm not angry, just a little surprised that the Saudi government hasn't advanced beyond this type of tactic," added Al-Nafjan, who tweets as Saudiwoman. "I thought that they were better able to do this without resorting to have to threaten banning applications."
Still, Al-Nafjan told CNN she's not surprised by the timing of the announcement.
"I believe a big part of the reason why this is happening ... is because lots of demonstrations that were organized in Saudi Arabia were done through the use of WhatsApp," explained Al-Nafjan, citing recent small-scale demonstrations calling for the release of political prisoners.
In Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, protests are prohibited. Sixty percent of the country's population is under the age of 30 and Internet usage there is soaring.
"A lot of human rights activists that communicate in Saudi Arabia do so using WhatsApp," added Al-Nafjan. "And women's rights movement members are communicating using WhatsApp."
Al-Nafjan said Saudi activists felt safer communicating using applications like WhatsApp and Skype, as they are encrypted.
According to Christopher Davidson, author of the book "After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies," the Saudi government has grown increasingly concerned about the rising tide of dissent being expressed by Saudi online activists of late.
Davidson explained Saudi authorities would be looking for a way to monitor these applications because they are "prime examples of modernizing technologies which cannot be co-opted and controlled by national governments and their security apparatus."
"In the past we've had these voice-to-voice networks being blocked," said Davidson. "Sometimes for economic reasons, trying to protect state telecommunications monopolies. And that's certainly been an issue in the past -- the blocking of Skype in some of the Gulf monarchies. But now I think it's quite clear ... that it's the social and political use of this media that's most alarming."
For Al-Nafjan, the move is a "waste of time."
"People will know it's not safe and move to another application," said Al-Nafjan. "The same thing happened with BlackBerry."
Saudi authorities threatened to ban BlackBerry service in the kingdom in 2010, accusing the company of not complying with regulations. The CITC demanded the company install local servers so the service could be censored. An agreement was eventually reached but it is not known what steps were taken by the manufacturer of the Canadian smartphone in order to do so.
"People who are aware know that it's not that big of a deal even if these applications are blocked," explained Al-Nafjan. "The issue is if they ban the Internet or if they don't provide Internet sevices. As long as the Internet is available, there's no way that they can end freedom of speech -- it's gone beyond the point of no return."


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Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s Sunday columns are usually thought-provoking, but not always in the way he intended. His latest opinion piece laments the vastly expanded entitlement economy — what he calls "a European-style welfare state" ("How the welfare state has grown," April 7). Although few objective observers would describe the U.S. social safety net that way, most people recognize that our current spending on these programs is not sustainable in the long term.
However, like Mitt Romney before him, Mr. Ehrlich seems uninterested in how this state of affairs came to be, other than blaming "big government." We cannot deal with the issues he raises until we come to that understanding.
It is not news that in the past several decades, the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in America has increased. Labor force participation is now the lowest in many years, yet the stock market is through the roof. There are a lot more people now who are either poor or are just scraping by. They are unemployed, under-employed or simply making too little money to uphold a decent standard of living. Apparently, corporate America either doesn't need them or knows they can be easily replaced. These people need help and they're getting it wherever they can.
The reasons for their situation are many and complex. Some are beyond our control: the globalization of trade, the vast increase in health-care (and health insurance) costs, the change from a manufacturing to an information-based economy, and the modern corporate obsession with quarterly profits which values stockholders over workers.
Some of the causes are the result of policies supported by both political parties, in particular, a corporate tax and regulatory system that fails to discourage the outsourcing of American jobs or protect our retail sector from cheap foreign goods made in abhorrent conditions.
But some of the reasons can be laid right at the door of Mr. Ehrlich's own political party: their opposition to raising the minimum wage, their systematic war against organized labor, their refusal to consider structural changes in our health-care delivery system, their resistance to investing public money in job-creating infrastructure improvements and their objection to meaningful financial-sector regulation, a major factor in the housing market crash of several years ago.
As long as Mr. Ehrlich and people of similar persuasion fail to look beyond the safety net expenditures to the underlying economic issues, the root causes of the problems they claim to care about will remain unaddressed.
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On the Java website it tells me to update Java via apple's software update function, i've run this a few times but it only got up to Java 1.5.0_24 and it now says no more updates are available for my computer
Is there another way to update Java on a Mac?
Is my operating system maybe to old for Java 1.6? i'm not sure what i'm running exactly, and i can't find a list of what mac operating systems run what versions of Java because the java site just suggests using Mac's software update.


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Aaron McGruder, creator of the brilliant and hilarious black animated sitcom The Boondocks, has been the subject of some recent misreporting regarding some comments he made about Barack 'change has come to America' Obama. Now that the 21st of January has been and gone without the crisis predicted by Colin Powell, we can feel safe again to discuss the double standards involved in the coverage of the new President. Though technically Joe Biden's similar prediction may still turn out to be accurate, I don't think we've too much to worry about. McGruder had been reported by pal-item.com, the website of the Richmond Palladium-Item, to have said that Obama wasn't black because he wasn't descended from a slave. Though the article does initially report McGruder's scepticism accurately, this one misrepresented comment has caused quite a stir. In an interview with the Washington Post he noted that:
"Sadly, it no longer matters how carefully you choose your words -- you said what the dumbest person in the audience said you said...this new kind of 'gutter news' from sites ... [is] going to make it extremely difficult to engage in any sort of intelligent discourse." - Washington PostThe saddest thing about this is that the controversy over something McGruder never even said have overshadowed the very important things he was saying.
"It was a simple conversation about the differences between race, ethnicity, nationality, and trying to draw distinctions that most of the media and public seemed to be casually ignoring. That somehow became me calling someone who is obviously black not black." - Washington PostThe majority of the coverage of the new President has made primary reference to his being the first black president. While it is a historical first, and in terms of its symbolism a positive development, this story with McGruder is an allegory for how the issue of his race and what it means has dominated the discussion to the detriment of any genuine attempt to discern what, if anything, Obama can do to alter the course of the world's first and only truly global superpower. This is amusingly illustrated by some commentators who reminded us during the campaign that in 2001 Bill Clinton was honoured as the nation's first black president at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Awards Dinner. It is ultimately policy, not skin colour or blood, that will determine whether or not Obama is black in the same political sense that got Clinton such an honour. Though I'm no great fan of Bill Clinton, I can certainly understand why after twelve years of Reagan and Bush he was considered by some black political circles to be a great improvement.
The author of the article misquoting McGruder, Rachel Sheeley, seems to have no great background in reporting on the subject of Obama, so it's unlikely it was a deliberate ploy to skew the media coverage of the new presidency. However, it does reflect the broader emphasis of that coverage, particular here in Europe. The day after Obama was elected, the BBC's flagship news discussion show Newsnight featured Jeremy Paxman interviewing Dizzee Rascal, something of a joke in music circles let alone on the subject of politics.
Mr Rascal had little of interest to contribute, as one might expect he was full of comments like:
"I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country ... as long as he does right by the people." - Dizzee RascalDespite this, Paxman was criticised by some for his treatment of someone who never should have been on the show in the first place. Singer Estelle accused Paxman of treating Mr Rascal 'like an idiot'. Paul Moody of the Guardian, a music journalist by trade, wrote a lengthy piece slamming Paxman as some sort of 19th century colonialist.
"Could you see this happening in Britain ?" barked Paxo, clearly livid at having Britain's premier MC on the show to add some street-level zing to the debate. - GuardianThe reason why Mr Rascal was on the show was indeed to add 'street level zing'. Not credible opinions from a black commentator, just street level zing. Of course, people on the street are on the street at 10:30 p.m., not at home watching Newsnight. It was a woeful decision by the BBC to even put Dizzee Rascal on the show, so even if Paxman's attitude was dismissive I can sympathise somewhat. Why wasn't Paxman interviewing Trevor Phillips, chief of the Commission for Racial Equality? Or what about the young black MP David Lammy? Or Chuka Umunna, an upcoming hope for the 2010 parliamentary election? Or any number of other writers, academics, commentators, political activists? Or, and this is a radical idea I know, some ordinary people who just happened to have some worthwhile things to say?
No. Instead we get actors and rappers. Not that actors and rappers never had anything interesting to say, but it speaks volumes about the prejudices of the media that when discussing a historic day in the development of African Americans they seek out only people who fit conventional black stereotypes for success. The only thing missing was a few basketballers. Oh, hang on, here's Charles Barkley endorsing Obama. Though it's amusing to read that DMX wasn't even aware that there was a presidential election or a black candidate, the absence of credible, interesting, articulate black people talking about what this might mean is doubly frustrating when just such a person, McGruder, is misquoted and consequently the significance of his comments is lost. Likewise when even a relatively respected interviewer like Paxman shows some discomfort at having to interview people who are largely clueless regarding the issues at hand he is criticised for stepping out of the accepted boundaries of this discussion.
Obama's race (though ambiguous, since technically he is mixed race) is key to what marketers call his brand image, as this Fast Company magazine article shows. Not only does it refer to him initially as a 'black man', it goes on to say:
"Barack Obama is three things you want in a brand," says Keith Reinhard, chairman emeritus of DDB Worldwide. "New, different, and attractive. That's as good as it gets." Obama has his greatest strength among the young, roughly 18 to 29 years old, that advertisers covet, the cohort known as millennials -- who will outnumber the baby boomers by 2010. They are black, white, yellow, and various shades of brown, but what they share -- new media, online social networks, a distaste for top-down sales pitches -- connects them more than traditional barriers, such as ethnicity, divide them." - Fast Company magazineNew, different and attractive. Certainly, anything other than a white upper middle class male makes him new. Different? Basically the same as 'new'. Attractive? Indeed, in that he's black enough that African Americans will see him as one of their own, but not so black that tacitly racist white liberals will have any problem feeling good about themselves for supporting him. Or arranging for rappers to be seen endorsing him, and so on.
Not that his race is the only aspect to the Obama brand that succeeded. As noted by Newsweek:
"Obama is the first presidential candidate to be marketed like a high-end consumer brand." - NewsweekWhile it's certainly true that marketing techniques have long been used to sell presidents as products, the Obama campaign set a new standard, even using chain-letter style e-mail strategies. As shown in this 1970s feature by John Pilger, we can go back at least as far as Kennedy in the use of advertising to further political careers.
huge range of merchandise, from t-shirt and medallions to barbecue sauce and action figures, and Ben n Jerry's ice-cream have launched a new flavour, deliciously named 'Yes Pecan'. Even heroin dealers have got in on the act.
As amusing as all this might be, it is a brutal indication of how politics by consent in the world's wealthiest democracy is nothing more than a nice sounding idea, and the reality is that even the candidates representing change are as carefully packaged and marketed to us as high fashion or a blockbuster movie. The election itself is more like the Superbowl, in that it primarily consists of adverts and there's no discernible competition.
TERRY: The "War On Terror" is nothing more than the act of declaring war on an abstract noun. Now you could say, "No, we're declaring war on terrorists, not on abstract nouns," but a terrorist doesn't even exist until he's committed a terrorist act. Just substitute something else for the word "terror" to make you see how ludicrous this is. Let's say you declared war on "murder." "Now we've declared war on murder and we're not going to rest until ever murderer and every would-be murderer has been caught and brought to justice." This is completely ridiculous! You can't catch every one! Besides, they're not even murderers until they've actually murdered someone! You can't stop something happening before it happens! It's a very dangerous situation that we're now in and the people behind Bush, with his concepts of pre-emptive strikes around the world. They are a recipe for permanent warfare, disaster, chaos and I'm sorry to say, more terrorism. - HerecomethewilddogsThe name 'war on terror' was officially dropped by the US in July 2005, rebranding it then as the 'struggle against violent extremism'. The aim was not to clarify the situation, but to downplay the ongoing military aspects of the war. It was officially dropped in Britain in December 2007, though as the BBC notes the British and European media never took the phrase, often employing quotation marks when using it. Around this same period the portrayal of Al Qaeda changed, from being a hierarchical network to a 'brand', as MI5 head Jonathan Evans called it. The importance of this is that even those with no connection to Bin Laden, Zawahiri or any other leading Al Qaeda figure could still be considered a target in this war. As the Boston Globe pointed out:
Though distinguishing between groups that are officially part of Al Qaeda and those that are not may seem like splitting hairs, recognizing that not all jihadist groups or individuals are members of Al Qaeda helps us to understand that the "war on terror" is not just a war on Al Qaeda or groups affiliated with it. Rather, the war on terror is a war on a global jihadist movement of which Al Qaeda is only a part, albeit extremely influential. The common thread between all jihadist groups is that they share a similar ideology. Because this ideology does not derive its legitimacy from Al Qaeda or bin Laden, the jihadist movement will continue to exist whether there is a group called Al Qaeda or not. - Boston GlobeIn August 2008 an internal British government document 'obtained' by the press revealed that it has become official policy to spread propaganda, both online and in more mainstream media, to 'taint the Al Qaeda brand':
The campaign aims to "channel messages" through internet bloggers and chatroom members as well as major media outlets such as the BBC.
It will seek to persuade people that the terrorist group is "in decline", and its operatives are "not heroes".
The strategy has been drawn up by the Research Information and Communication Unit (RICU) - which was set up by former Home Secretary John Reid and is staffed by officials from several Whitehall departments...
...However, the document stresses that the West should "avoid suggesting that AQ is no longer a threat". - Daily Mail
Indeed, this leaked document came in between Home Secretary Jacqui's Smith's warning in April that the threat was 'growing and severe', and Security Minister Lord West's claim in October that the security services are monitoring a 'great plot' by Al Qaeda. Strangely, Lord West was criticised for revealing such sensitive information, but hardly anyone said a word when two heads of MI5 and the Home Secretary essentially did the same thing. Moreover, a clearer example of official doublespeak you will not find - a counterterrorism unit is out spreading the news that Al Qaeda is weakened but all the while we're being warned that the threat is real and menacing. Al Qaeda really does show incredible flexibility as a brand, in that it seems to mean whatever the various vested interests require it to mean at different times.More consolidated is the Obama brand, though in McGruder's response to being misquoted he showed great brevity and honesty in illustrating that there are cracks in the new president's carefully manufactured image. Initially he posted a brief message on his myspace:
Hey guys, never said Barack wasn't Black... please don't bother me with that bullshit. - myspaceHowever, he felt the need to clarify things further, and I for one am glad he did because his comments are right on the money not only regarding how his words have been treated by the media, but also on the corruption of the American democratic process and how little power the president has in the face of elite corporate-governmental institutions like the Federal Reserve.
For a long time now, I have tried to keep my opinions on the election and Barack Obama to myself. I occasionally do speaking engagements, which are not open to the press, and unfortunately some of my comments have been twisted around in a silly manner. The claim that I asserted our new President was not Black is categorically false. I have seen an endless stream of Black pundits on TV pontificating about the significance of President Obama's election - many of them making reference to the 3/5th's clause in the constitution regarding slaves. The point I was making is that this is not an accurate comparison. Barack is the son of an immigrant, not the descendant of slaves. It's like comparing a half-Japanese man to the oppressed Chinese who built the American railroads. Yes, they are both Asian, but it is not an honest or accurate comparison. We all share the common experiences of being Black in America today - we do not all share a common history. A history that in part makes us who we are - and in some cases (as with the psychological damage that still lingers from slavery) holds us back. These are not, I believe, insignificant distinctions. I did say I was cautiously pessimistic about Obama's Presidency - but this is simply acknowledging the reality of an American Empire that is out of control and on the verge of collapse. Let us not forget that on the eve of the election, we witnessed a near trillion dollar robbery of the US treasury. That robbery is still taking place. I do not blame President Obama, but I do not believe the financial and corporate interests that own and control this country will fold so easily. I do not question the integrity of the man as much as the power of his office - which I believe has greatly diminished over the years. I believe the Federal Reserve Bank, the Military Industrial Complex, and the massive corporate interests that run this country have more power than our new President. I hope I am wrong. After 9/11, I witnessed most of this country become obsessed with squashing dissent and silencing critics. I hope this election does not turn Black America towards this same, fascist mind state; but already I am starting to see it, and it saddens me greatly. I absolutely wish our new President and his family success and safety. But after all I have witnessed in my lifetime, and especially in the last eight years, I am not ready to lay down my skepticism or my outrage for this government. To do so would be unwise and, ironically enough, anti-American. - McGruder statement in full, DailycartoonistI have a feeling it will be some time before the mainstream press manages anything as intelligent and succinct as this on the subject of high and deep politics. In the meantime, enjoy one of the best episodes of the Boondocks, where Huey and the rest go to see Soul Plane 2.


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BALTIMORE – The UMBC baseball teams finishes up its five-game road swing this week, as well as away non-conference games for the 2014 campaign, as the team travels around the beltway to take on Towson on Tuesday afternoon, and then heads south to face Georgetown on Wednesday evening at Shirley Povich Field. Game time on Tuesday against the Tigers is set for 3:30 p.m. while the Retrievers and Hoyas will meet at 7:00 p.m.
UMBC (13-24) was swept at Hartford this past weekend and has now dropped six games in a row after winning seven straight previously. Sophomore Joe Vanderplas (Fairfax, Va./Fairfax/Tennessee) pitched six strong innings, striking out a career-high six on Sunday, but the Hawks scored on a double steal in the bottom of the seventh for a 4-3 win.
Towson (20-22) was swept in its three-game CAA series at William and Mary, despite averaging 6.33 runs per game. The Tigers made a late charge in the finale, scoring two runs in the top of the ninth and brought the tying run to the plate, but fell short, 9-7.
Georgetown (17-26) won the first two games of its weekend series with Villanova at home over the weekend to stop a three-game losing streak, but dropped the finale, 13-2, to the Wildcats. The Hoyas scratched out a 2-1 victory in the opener behind eight shutout innings from Matt Smith and then got seven innings of quality work from Matt Hollenback for a 6-4 win in the middle game.
Senior Shane Vlasic (Ashburn, Va./Broad Run) will start the first game of the week at Towson. Vlasic (3-1, 4.94 ERA) has tossed at least six innings of three of his last four starts and defeated George Washington in his last start, surrendering just two runs while striking out three.
On Wednesday, senior Stephen Chrzanowski (Frederick, Md./Tuscarora/Hagerstown CC) will throw for the Retrievers. Chrzanowski (0-1, 4.72 ERA) has made three other starts this season, throwing a season-high 5.1 innings in UMBC's win over Coppin State on April 23.
Neither Towson nor Georgetown has named a starter for the respective games.
The Retriever offence has proven effective in non-conference play this season, starting with junior outfielder Jake Barnes (Annandale, Va./Annandale) who is hitting .343 in out-of-league games. Barnes went 4-for-4 at George Washington on April 22 in an 8-2 UMBC victory, connecting for two RBI doubles, as well as his first homerun of the season. Freshman Hunter Dolshun (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley) has also delivered against non-America East pitching, compiling a .340 batting average with eight RBI and eight runs scored in 14 games.
The bottom of the Towson batting order kept the Tigers in the game on Sunday with No. 6 and 7 batters, Brendan Butler and Hunter Bennett, combining to go 7-for-8 with three RBI and four runs scored. Peter Bowles leads the Towson offense with a .298 average and 30 RBI while Kurt Wertz has smashed eight homers this season.
Nick Collins is hitting at a .357 clip for the Hoyas and has knocked in 36 runs this season. Steve Anderson has also provided offense for Georgetown, ripping four round-trippers and driving in a team-best 40 RBI.
- UMBC and Towson were scheduled to play at Alumni Field on April 29, and then May 1, but both games were cancelled due to rain.
- The Tigers have won each of the last three meetings between the two clubs and leads the all-time series, 47-35-1. The Retrievers won the first-ever matchup between the beltway rivals, 5-1, back in 1970, the fourth season in UMBC program history.
- The Retrievers are 4-2 against in-state opponents this season (2-0 vs. Coppin State; 0-1 vs. Maryland; 1-0 vs. UMES; 1-1 vs. Navy).
- UMBC and Georgetown split the season series last year, with each club winning on its home field. After the Hoyas won 7-4 at home on March 13, the Retrievers returned the favor with a 6-5 win at Alumni Field to stop a five-game losing skid in the series. UMBC leads the all-time series 28-16.


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RICHVALE — The green rice that delayed rice harvest this fall was most likely caused by consecutively cold night temperatures.
Farm Adviser Cass Mutters of UC Cooperative Extension crunched a bunch of weather numbers this winter and came up with the continuous chill as the most plausible explanation.
Mutters gave his explanation Monday morning during the annual Rice Growers Meeting in Richvale, put on by Cooperative Extension.
About 70 people attended the session, which is one of four for Sacramento Valley growers.
In September, most rice farmers would have normally been harvesting their crops. But the crop was "green."
Because the problem was "so ubiquitous across the valley," it couldn't have been anything done on an individual farm, Mutters said.
Narrowing it down to weather, Mutters looked at humidity and temperatures. Nothing stood out. This year the highs were comparable to 2009, which was a bumper crop.
Also, the dates when the rice kernels begin to emerge from the plant sheaths (known has heading) was similar in recent years.
"But something happened between heading and dry down that delayed harvest," Mutters said.
Average temperatures were also similar over 2012 and previous years.
After comparing more temperature data, he realized there were a greater number of consecutive nights below 55 degrees in September 2012. From Aug. 24 to Sept. 12, there were 18 days in a row where night temperatures were less than 55 degrees.
He said his guess is that's why harvest was delayed.
As for harvest overall, complete numbers have not been tabulated for the 2012 rice growing season. But Mutters said the statewide average seems to be 81 100-pound sacks of rice per acre. In the local area, the numbers were closer to 90 sacks per acre, due to the warmer weather.
Other tidbits from the meeting:
Recent reports have been in the media about arsenic in rice and rice products. Many soils contain organic arsenic. Inorganic arsenic has been introduced through previous use as a pesticide and treatment of wood, among other things.
In some parts of California, including southern and western parts of Yuba City, groundwater levels have reached a point where people have been forced to abandon wells and tap into city water, said Chris Greer of the University of California.
For drinking water, the standard is 10 micrograms per liter, or 10 parts per billion.
But there are no standards for food, Greer explained.
Rice isn't the only food containing arsenic. Arsenic is also present in beer, vegetables, bread, poultry and fruit, he said.
Speakers said the industry will likely be working on this issue over the next 5-7 years, to show that rice levels are safe.
Tim Johnson of the California Rice Commission said growers are waiting to hear about the federal Farm Bill. An extension was made this year of existing programs from last year.
Johnson said a couple of plans that would affect rice growers are being considered for the future. The Rice Commission has been busy trying to remind lawmakers that California medium-grain rice is priced differently than the more predominant long-grain rice grown elsewhere.
For the 2013 growing year, Johnson said it will be business as usual. But growers should expect direct payments for growing rice to be eliminated in the future. Instead, something similar to an insurance for rice losses or price drops will likely be put into place.
Also in the works is a system to monitor groundwater quality, similar to rules for surface water that leaves farms and enters waterways.
The rice industry has been working to explain about Sacramento Valley soil, and how the compact soil means fewer groundwater quality problems.
Of particular interest is nitrates, which are a problem in more sandy soil.
Regional water managers have seen these studies and agreed that monitoring rice growing areas will not need to be as intensive as other areas of the state.
Each new monitoring well could cost $300,000, Johnson explained. Right now there are five monitoring wells, and it looks like only one new monitoring site will need to be established under the new rules, he said.
Under the new rules, farmers will also need to produce a nitrogen management plan, updated annually.
Other rice growers' meetings will be held Feb. 5, one at 8:30 a.m. at 100 Sunrise Blvd. in Colusa and the other at 1 p.m. at 1522 Highway 45 in Glenn.
Staff writer Heather Hacking can be reached at 896-7758, firstname.lastname@example.com, and followed on Twitter @HeatherHacking.