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Top 10 Strangest Google Maps and Google Street View images
Google Maps is great for visiting places you've never been, driving directions, or searching for strange and usual sightings. We've compiled ten of the strangest for your viewing enjoyment after the break.
10. Some Drunk Dude
When you've had 10 too many beers, and thought the lawn was just a larger, greener version of your bed, the Google Street View car is probably the last thing you want driving by. That's exactly what happened to this drunk Australian dude.
9. House on Fire
You know the local fire department needs to start hiring, when the Google Street View team shows up before they do. This particular house is located on Eagle Point Drive in Sherwood, Arkansas.
8. Earthquake
Capturing an earthquake in-progress will take more than just a camera-equipped car, so Google turned to their satellites for this amazing image. To check it out yourself, use these coordinates: 16 54'09.12"N 99 58'16.07"W.
7. Firefox
Most crop circles look like random shapes, this logo is recognizable to nearly all internet users: Firefox. It may have been just a weekend project for bored geeks, but it's a conversation piece that will be remembered for much longer.
6. Band Promotion
Musicians looking to market themselves should look no further than Google Maps. More specifically, be on the lookout for the Street View car, like the one-man, Canada-based Fear Salesman band.
5. I've Fallen and Haven't Gotten Up Yet
When trying to impress the Google employees driving a Street View car, be sure to watch where you're going, otherwise your fall may end up for the world to see. Yes, from beginning to end.
4. Spider-Man in Plain Clothes
No, the audition for Spider-Man 4 doesn't involve trying to break and enter a home in plain clothes. On the bright side, this person will have something for both the cops and potential casting directors to see.
3. How Dare You Not Open
In case of misplaced keys, don't try kicking the door in when it doesn't respond to "open sesame". Hey, at least the anonymous lady is world famous now.
2. Role Playing
Know role players looking to make it big? Here are two that were caught staging a 17th century sword fight, complete with costumes and weapons.
1. My Imaginary Friend
It's probably not the smartest idea to be riding your own bike while stealing another simultaneously, as the "imaginary friend" joke can only go so far, especially with law enforcement officials.
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Netflix today announced a real with Sony that will allow streaming Netflix movies to PS3 consoles. Support for streaming Netflix has already been implemented in XBox 360, Netflix-branded Roku media player, some TV-sets and some LG and Samsung Blu-Ray players, and recently, TiVo. [...]
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Mysore is a city known for the ancient temples and forts reminiscent of the Mysore kingdoms of yore. This city belongs to the state of Karnataka in India. There are famous temples like Srikanteshwasra Temple and Keshava Temple in the city which attract a lot of followers each year. Tourist spots include Nanjangud, Mysore Palace, Folk Lore Museum and Karanji Lake.
Budget Hotels in Mysore
There are good budget hotels in Mysore. Some of them are Hotel Kings Kastle (Tariff – Rs. 1000), Kings Court Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 1000), Dewans Residency (Tariff – Rs. 1000) and Yahas Residency (Tariff – Rs. 500).
The official language of Mysoreis Kannada. English is spoken too. Other languages include Hindi and Tamil.
Events in Mysore
The important festivals of Mysore are Maha Shivratri (March), Ganesh Chaturthi (August), Vijayadashami (October) and Diwali (November).
Places to See in Mysore
There are several places of tourist attraction around Mysore. Some of them are Nanjangud (23 km), Shrirangapattana (14 km) and Karanji Lake (3 km).
How to Get There
The nearest airport is Mysore Airport, which is one kilometre away from the city.
The adjoining railway station is Mysore Junction Railway Station which is located in the city itself.
Mysore is just 23 km away from Nanjangud. The nearest bus stand is Mysore Bus Station which sits a kilometre away from the city. There are local and private buses that are run by the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and which commute from Mysore to nearby cities like Bangalore and Mandya. Get bus ticket booking offers from Ticketgoose when you book your tickets online.
Krishnapatnam, a coastal town in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district, is known for its sea port. This has highly contributed to the development of Krishnapatnam. Being located along the coast, there are many places to visit in and around the region. This town is a great tourist hotspot offering many amenities for travellers. Some of the nearby cities include Nellore, Gudur, Kavali and Venkatagiri.
Places to Stay
There are no accommodation facilities in Krishnapatnam. Nellore, which is 25 km away, provides good budget hotels. These hotels are Hotel President Inn (Tariff – Rs.569), Saptagiri Lodge (Tariff – Rs.245) and Bhavani Residency (Tariff – Rs.640).
The language spoken by the people here is Telugu.
The most celebrated festivals in Krishnapatnam are Sankranti in January, Ugadi and Sri Rama Navami in March,Vinayaka Chaviti in August-September, Dussehra in September-October and Diwali in October-November.
Places of Interest
Krishnapatnam has many sightseeing destinations in and around the town which draws a large crowd of tourists. Some of these areas are Krishnapatnam Beach (19 km), Sarvepalli Reservoir (20 km), Penubarthi Lake (25 km), Kakaturtirath Jain Temple (31 km) and Indukurpet (32 km) away from Krishnapatnam.
How to Get There
The nearest airport is the Tirupati Airport, which is about 134 km away from Krishnapatnam.
There is no railway station in Krishnapatnam. Kommalapudi Railway Station, which is 31 km away from Krishnapatnam, is the nearest railway station.
There are many state-run and private buses that travel to and fro the surrounding cities and states. Paulo Travels, a private bus operator, runs daily Volvo A/C buses from Mumbai and Pune to Krishnapatnam. Make use of cheap bus tickets online at Ticketgoose.com


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Appease the mountain gods.
The Marmot Thor 3-Person 4-Season Tent has a burly six-pole design to fight off wind and snow during the roughest high-mountain storms. Designed specifically for alpine climbing and mountaineering, the Thor Tent stands strong whether you're taking on Rainer, Denali, or Aconcagua.
Marmot thought ahead to storm-bound days and gave this tent the Knees Pole System to steepen the walls and increase its overall interior space. Coated nylon keeps the tent intact through some of weather's worst offerings, while the pole sleeve/clip combination delivers a strong, sturdy, and well-ventilated tent that's easy to set up. Meanwhile, Marmot made sure that all perimeter floor seams are up and off the ground for incredible waterproof protection when you're battling the elements on high. Two large, D-shaped doors make for easy entry and exit while also opening up its flow, and the pole-support vestibule provides spacious storage for all of your gear at the end of the day.
- Three-person, four-season basecamp-style shelter
- High-denier nylon construction provides waterproof, durability
- Knee-pole design creates steeper sidewalls for added space
- Fully taped fly and bathtub-style floor keep it waterproof
- Pole sleeve/clip combo ensures strength and ventilation
- Interior pockets keep your essentials off the floor
- Two mesh doors with a vestibule open up the space
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Two months ago I bought Thor 3P and last weekend we finally took it with us outdoors. On the very first night (and because of the incident the only night) wind broke three poles and dramatically contorted the rest.
We assembled Tent with entrance directed toward the wind, stretched it to the some degree and added 8 guy lines fixed with MSR blizzard stakes and ice axes assuming possibility of wind conditions to be changed. At the morning the wind strengthened to 20 meters per second. In a ten minutes it broke one of the lateral poles and vestibule pole. Bit later, while we were packing, the third pole went broken.
I assumed it was obvious warranty case, but not. Marmot responded literally "Weather damage generally is not covered under warranty".
My bottom line is - Thor might be considered as comfortable for countryside camping (extremely overpriced), but in any case not for serious weather conditions or for mountaineering.
I bought the old Thor 3 man tent but haven't tested it at anything abovenormal camping. I have bought a lot of Marmont equipment and clothing,but if they are going to hide behind a weather excuse on a mountaineering tent ,they have gotten my last dime, dogs. PS the last shirt I bought from them lost 3 buttons in a month. Crap.


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What To Look For When Buying A Clock Or Clock Movement On eBay
I have been buying and selling clocks and clock parts for many years. Here are some pointers I have learned when buying clocks/movements on eBay.
1.) The seller provides a video of the clock or movement in operation.
2.) The description states that it has bench tested for 8 or 31 days as applicable.
3.) The seller states that it does have power to the escape wheel and hammer.
4.) The seller has good pictures of the front and back pallets. This is so you can see any excessive wear to the pivot holes. You can also see if some wanna be clock repair man has installed Rathburn bushings, soldered around the pivot holes, installed their own idea of a bushing, etc...
5.) The seller has good clear pictures that let you see if a mainspring may be blown, suspension post is intact, etc..
6.) The item description lists any issues (i.e. Time train #2 does show wear), does need cleaning, has not been bench tested, etc...
7.) The seller has good feedback and a reputation for dealing in clocks.
1.) The only thing in the "Sellers Notes" field is "As is" or "No Returns".
2.) The seller says it is untested. I have also seen some that state it untested because they have no key. When you pull up thier other items for sale they have 15+ clocks listed. Kind of hard to believe they don't have a key?
3.) Feedback is important, if they have less than 50 I am cautious (also look at thier feedback as a seller). Any negatives and I will move on.
4.) Not having any or poor pictures of the movement.
5.) Statements such as:
I know nothing about clocks.
As Is.
No returns.
Pictures are a part of my description.
I don't have a key to test.
6.) Someone that has limited experience in selling clocks (check their feedback), how would they know if is missing parts/operates correctly?
7.) When a seller has a fixed price of $1.99 on a item and want to charge $78.89 for shipping. There is something shady going on.
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It's that time of the week again. Time to show you what bookish goodies made their way into my home and book closet (to be saved from the evil book eating cat monster named Aria). This is inspired by the various "mailbox" posts out there (eg. In My Mailbox by The Story Siren, and Stacking the Shelves by Tynga's Reviews)
Two exciting additions to my mailbox this week.
Little Wrecks by Meredith Miller (goodreads)
Cheesus Was Here by J.C. Davis (goodreads)
A huge thank you to Harper Collins, and J.C. Davis for the chance to read and review these.
Happy Weekend and Happy Reading!


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IMAX Corporation, in partnership with Indomina Releasing, today announced the release of Bona Film Group's blockbuster Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li, for an exclusive, limited engagement across North America in September in the immersive IMAX® 3D format.
Acquired for North American release by Indomina, the motion picture distribution arm of The Indomina Group, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is the first Chinese-language film to be released in the IMAX® 3D format and the fourth-highest grossing Chinese-language film of all time.
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This is a great little gift that you can easily customize for the recipient. It would be a great Father's Day present, with dad's favorite liquor, or to commemorate a new job, with chocolate for those tough days.
Emergency shadowbox supplies
- Shadowbox frame
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- Silhouette machine
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Use your Silhouette to cut "In case of emergency break glass" sticker from red adhesive vinyl.
(I used Impact font for mine)
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Index to Astronomy in Scientific American Magazine
16 December 2009
Scientific American magazine often presents readable overviews of new ideas and discoveries in astronomy. However, astronomy articles are randomly scattered among the magazine's coverage of all other fields of science and the titles of articles do not always provide a perfect guide to their contents. As a service to the astronomy education community, we have compiled a subject index of astronomy articles in the magazine from the late summer of 1999 to the late summer of 2009, with brief descriptions of their contents.
The index is published in the on-line journal, Astronomy Education Review, at:
Search IYA2009 Updates
National Nodes: 148
Organisational Nodes: 40
Organisational Associates:33
National Websites: 111
Cornerstone Projects: 12
Special Task Groups: 11
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Yesterday everybody who open forum get a Malvare Alarm ...
I checked index and find this code on footer :
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1 : change all password immediately ( ftp + Cpanel )
2 : Reinstall Vbulletin and overwrite clean files and upload clean .htaccess file
But problem still remain .
and then ; i try to find .php files in shared folders ... bud i couldn't find any files .
Try this hack ... this hack show footer template change but i didn't find any iframe in footer templates ... and after run ; problem still remain .
finally i disabled all of my plugins in admincp ...
Strange case !! Problem in half of my styles solve but in other styles remain ...
Now , i disable infected stiles and with other style i haven't any malvare message and forum seems work normal
But i want to ask ; what can i do to find invisible code in footer ?
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Macbeth, Macbeth, Beware Macbeth!
In celebration of World Book Day, children were introduced to William Shakespeare. Born in 1606, Shakespeare remains one of England's most celebrated playwrights with a whopping 37 plays and 154 sonnets to his name. One of his most famous plays, Macbeth, was written over 410 years ago. At the beginning of this play, three old witches cast a spell to see into the future:-
Double, double toil and trouble:
Fire burn and caldron bubble…
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Using this famous spell as our inspiration, we wrote our own gruesome spells.
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As much as people on the left in this country and others rage against Rupert Murdoch and his many creations it is rather remarkable how most American conservatives, even professional political junkies, know or care very little about the man.
Beyond missing out on understanding how Murdoch's life is a textbook case of the power and influence of media on policy, people on the right who aren't very familiar with Murdoch are also missing out on a number of interesting stories.
One person who has spent a lot of time analyzing the life and times of Murdoch is David Folkenflik of National Public Radio. He's just completed a book entitled Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires which takes a look at the media mogul's recent career and also gives a survey of some of the many stories in which Murdoch's primary creation, News Corporation, has played a very important part.
I had a very extensive conversation with Folkenflik this week in which we talked in-depth about Murdoch, his importance, and also some of the misconceptions that people have about him. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows. We didn't always agree on everything which is something that made this a rather interesting discussion.
You can also listen to the audio below as well.
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD: So thanks for joining me, David. Why don't we start off today with talking about what you mean by the "last of the old media empires?"
DAVID FOLKENFLIK: Sure, well thanks for having me, Matthew. I subtitled it that because Murdoch is a guy who has a lot of different investments in a lot of different kinds of media operations. You can think of Fox News, BSkyB in the UK, he's got state-of-the-art satellite sports channels offering soccer matches in Latin America, and Australian rules football in Australia and the like. But he really lives and breathes newspapers, he still loves newspapers and he loves them in the printed form. He's sort of one of these great old media barons in that sense—he's really a newspaper guy. And he's just split his companies in two, severing his newspapers from the television and entertainment side in a way that leaves them much more financially vulnerable. They're now subject to the same pressures as the rest of the newspaper industry across the world and particularly across the English-speaking world and as a result, they're vulnerable.
I don't think we're going to see a singular person and personality so forceful and influential in so many publications and so many old-school types of news organizations. Again, I think we're going to see a rise, as we already have, of certain kinds of newer digital entrepreneurs such as Nick Denton [founder of Gawker Media] and Jonah Peretti [founder of BuzzFeed], Pierre Omidyar, the guy who is the co-founder of eBay who has gone on to say that he's going to invest some magnitude of several hundred millions of dollars in this new online digital investigative news startup. People like Jeff Bezos who just spent a quarter of a billion dollars in personal funds—he's the founder, as you know of Amazon and he just bought the Washington Post and he's going to be really rethinking the model for that once great and once-financially strong newspaper.
Or a guy like Chris Hughes, a young liberal guy who made a ton of money off Facebook, he went and bought the New Republic which not anyone's idea for a big money-maker but which has struggled in recent years. To me, what's interesting about him is not that he has a lot of money and therefore can sustain losses—but if he did that he wouldn't be very different from earlier owners. But what might be interesting is if he says that there's a path to figuring out a way to make such a publications of opinion financially viable. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with his ideology but how it can connect to its audience and convince them that this is something they should find ways to financially support or that advertisers would find ways to support. So I think that there—those are just a small smattering of examples—but I think that you're going to find new figures who are going to pop up who are very different from the newspaper barons of old, of which I think you can look at Murdoch as the last of the great ones in that regard.
SHEFFIELD: And so you would not include Arthur Sulzberger Jr., president of the New York Times Company, in that?
FOLKENFLIK: I think that Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is an incredibly important news leader, probably of the most influential newspaper in the country and one of, if not the most, in the world. But Rupert Murdoch owns, and I could be getting the numbers wrong because I know he just sold off some of his smaller community newspapers. But let's call it over 150, 160 newspapers. That's a lot of newspapers! The Sulzbergers, the family and the Times Company under his leadership has divested itself of other newspapers in places like Florida and North Carolina and other investments in television stations and About.com and they're in the process, most importantly, they sold off the Boston Globe and the paper in Worchester [Massachusetts] I think it's called the Telegram-Gazette if I'm not mistaken. It's just a different kind of company. It is a very important and influential newspaper but Murdoch has had a different influence across the decades and across the world than Sulzberger has had over the practice of journalism and over the business of journalism and the media in a much larger way. Sulzberger himself has inherited what he got and led it and fought to innovate and change it and had some real success in the last couple of years, particularly with their digital pay-wall becoming and increasing part of their financial makeup and has received both criticism and praise for some of what he's done elsewhere. But he's not as defining of a figure for his company or the industry as Murdoch has been.
SHEFFIELD: OK. And I guess on that point, perhaps related to your invocation of Chris Hughes—and this is a two-part question. On the one hand, on the left, there is an enormous amount of interest in Rupert Murdoch and his activities, you see them very widely and frequently reported. Whereas on the right there is almost no interest in Rupert Murdoch whatsoever. He has not inspired even a single imitator or book which is I think an interesting thing. So why don't you talk about why liberals are so interested in him and why are conservatives not?
FOLKENFLIK: Well I think that's an interesting point. I think, I'm not sure I wholeheartedly agree but this is a book that takes a look at him as a figure in the U.S. but also beyond our borders and it may be that my thinking about him is colored as a result. In this country, if you talk to liberals, they sort of froth at the mouth over Roger Ailes, right?
SHEFFIELD: Who is his [Murdoch's] employee.
FOLKENFLIK: The chairman of Fox News and was, really the visionary of how that could play out, refining it and tweaking it along the way, but always very clear-sighted about what he wanted it to be like.
SHEFFIELD: And yet it was Murdoch's idea though, it was not Ailes's.
FOLKENFLIK: But it was Murdoch's creation. And he had the faith and the understanding with Ailes to make it so. You know, Ailes had played around with earlier thoughts and iterations with this and had been tempted to do this. I've seen conversations that he's had that preceded the creation of Fox News and the conversation with Rupert in which he sketched out a proto or early type of this. In the 70s, again just sort of speaking hypothetically as he was such a successful television executive. In the early 90s he was thinking about some related issues.
But Murdoch, the fascinating thing for me in doing this book, and this may well have been known at the time, but I've been covering the media since 2000 and it was new to me was that this was really something that this [what later became Fox News] was something that Murdoch initially wanted to create as a program. He wanted to create a very conservative, well let's not say very, a clearly conservative counterpart to what he argued was the liberalism of CBS in 60 Minutes. He had just spent a ton of money to steal NFC [football] games from CBS and Rupert said I'm going to overspend for football but it will give us a day in which we have great programming and will reinforce in the public's mind that we are actually going to become a real network. And it was absolutely right.
But he also looked at, correctly I think, 60 Minutes which was then and once again is today almost always a top-ten show. And he said if I could just do something that felt conservative, I could get that kind of audience, too, in following on Sunday nights the games I've just taken from CBS. So he started to do that. He brought in a guy named Andrew Neal who had been for, I think, a dozen years the top editor at the Sunday Times in London which was one of Murdoch's most prestigious publications there in the years. And Neal is sort of a mirthful Scot, a sense of mischief about him, likes a good caper, oversaw some good investigative stuff at the Times but also some fairly controversial stuff but he brought him in and he was actually going to have as a co-host Judith Regan who was—became famous later as this very savvy publisher of confrontational books and then went up in flames when she was going to publish a book by O.J. Simpson called If I Had Done it or something like that.
SHEFFIELD: If I Did It was the name of it.
FOLKENFLIK: If I Did It, right, which pretty much outraged everybody across the spectrum. And she had her own fights with Roger Ailes but what happened was that, as Neal told the story to me, was that as the show became, to his mind, increasingly ideological, he became uncomfortable with it. Which is not to say that Neal isn't conservative but he just wasn't sure that he wanted to do it in quite that way. And Murdoch brought in a consultant to sort of help him think through how the show would look, and the consultant was Ailes. And Ailes started to advocate strongly for the idea that let's devote a cable network instead. And the brilliance of cable is that they really do reach a lot of people but at any one time, it's a relatively small number of people that you have to attract to be a big success. I mean if you get 3 million, slightly over 3 million people to be watching your best-viewed show on a regular basis, and that's The O'Reilly Factor on Fox, that's one percent of the nation as it now stands. So it's a real audience so it's not one of these old-school broadcast audiences.
He [Ailes] said we have to frame our news in a different way and there's going to be an audience which feels alienated and left out by the way in which the major news organizations currently serving the wider public do things. And Ailes and Murdoch were right. Murdoch instinctively felt that to be the case. I mean this is exactly the sensibility of his tabloids in many ways. It's a populist tone most of the time, it tends to be center-right. His tabloids in the UK, with the New York Post and for a while in Chicago and Boston in a sense and San Antonio as well when Murdoch owned those papers as well, particularly Australia.
It's center-right, I think Fox has on its opinion shows more of a center-right sensibility in the stories it picks but nonetheless it identifies heroes, villains, and goads people who should be mocked and people who should be elevated. It knows what it believes and what it stands in and explicitly and implicitly in how stories are selected and how they're pursued—but often in how they're [FNC viewers] explicitly told, conveyed to you that the other guys are leaving things out and are trying to mislead you. The other guys being the rest of the media and other so-called elites in politics or academia or various supposed authorities.
Ailes and Murdoch approach things a little differently. I think Ailes is more personally conservative than Rupert Murdoch is himself but they really have a nice mind-meld in terms of how they view things and it was for the two of them, a glorious and profitable partnership.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah. Well, OK but let me go back to the question.
FOLKENFLIK: Let me, I'm sorry. You're asking why liberals, you asked a double-barreled question, right?
SHEFFIELD: I did, right.
FOLKENFLIK: So I want to make sure that I address that. The part that I haven't addressed yet, forgive me is why liberals and conservatives on the one hand. What I would guess I would say is liberals, it seems to me, and conservatives in this country in the last, call it 16-17 years focus on Roger Ailes, that he has become the face of Murdoch Incorporated in this country to a greater degree whereas in other countries, you see Murdoch more as the figure who is either lionized or vilified by people who like or dislike what he has to offer. In this country, it's going to be more Roger Ailes and some of his personalities I'd guess.
But Murdoch is definitely there. There are people who really just enjoy people sticking it to the rest of the media and they kind of cheer Murdoch on, and there are others who kind of argue and are concerned about the consolidation of media and that tends to be more of a concern on the left among liberals. You can see that concern more on the radical—the far, far right where conspiracy theories lurk but liberals tend to be more concerned about consolidation of ownership and power and issues like that.
SHEFFIELD: And it's also that they don't like Ailes's political philosophy. I mean I think that's obvious.
FOLKENFLIK: Oh no doubt. No doubt they don't like Ailes's political philosophy and to the extent that they're clear on Murdoch's political philosophy, liberals don't like that either. It surprises me that Murdoch is not more closely followed by conservatives in this country. He is enormously important to the cultivation of conservative thought and, I think of the success, in some ways, of conservative figures and movements in this country. I think you have people like Rush Limbaugh who achieved his accomplishments outside of the Murdoch purview—and Ailes was involved for a time in trying to get up and running the Limbaugh television show. But he's been a sort of uneasy ally of Fox News in some ways, he and Bill O'Reilly have had some tensions over the years. And—
SHEFFIELD: So why is it, do you think, that American conservatives don't—I mean I find this a really interesting question to me because for decades, ever since Spiro Agnew, people on the right in America have complained about liberal media bias and here you have somebody like Roger Ailes through Rupert Murdoch who goes off and establishes an alternative to the overwhelmingly dominated liberal—in polls, there's not been one survey that shows journalists are not liberal overwhelmingly at the national level. So you have someone who came in and shakes up the power structure like that you can actually get an audience that way and yet no one has, no one on the right has said, 'Wow, hey that was interesting, what if we did something like that.' Why do you suppose that is?
FOLKENFLIK: Well listen, let me put it a little differently than you might. I would say that certainly that without parsing every single one of those polls, you can certainly say that many conservatives feel that their concerns have not been successfully portrayed or captured by the day-in-day-out coverage offered by what's been come to be called the mainstream press, the legacy news outlets: the major metro newspapers, the big networks, all the things that you guys monitor so closely. And Murdoch in a variety, a bunch of cities in the U.S., he created a cable television network that was simply predicated on the notion that they would present the news in a way that was much more appealing to conservative viewers and that they would have fun doing it.
Murdoch also took over the Wall Street Journal and was convinced that its reporting, even though it was often, prior to Murdoch's arrival, pointed to as one of—probably the most down-the-middle newspaper you could find. That even its news pages were skewed to the left and pulled that paper rightward. And his editors would argue pulled it rightward to dead center to the fairest place it could possibly be. Some of the reporters and editors I talked to said it feels to us as though there's been a thumb put on the scale and taken to the right. But whichever it is, you would think that conservative readers would say we're getting a fairer shake in this.
To me, it's almost incomprehensible that people haven't registered that there's a single figure that has done more than any to kind of pull the discussion rightward and that it has affected the conversation beyond its own walls and newsrooms, right? I mean Fox News has forced a change in the conversation of what cable news means.
Before 1996 and Fox News, cable news meant covering the news and the news was the star and "live" was the new asset and that because you were doing news all the time you could always break in and people would tune in to CNN and it knew what to do. It upended the broadcast news convention by being able to do these things. Well, son of a gun, if Fox News didn't change that entirely. I mean MSNBC didn't even make a dollar until it decided to bank left and not everything on its airwaves is left but it made a conscious decision that there was a formula and that's what it looked like. Roger Ailes and Murdoch redefined what cable news was about and that's important. They took, Murdoch and his editors took The Wall Street Journal, one of the most important news organizations in the country, and changed its formula significantly. It didn't break its pact with readers in a way that some people feared but it also didn't leave it alone. And it didn't leave ideology alone, either. Its editorial pages were already more conservative than Murdoch is, right? But it took its news report and pulled it a little bit rightward with certain kinds of choices and that has affected, in a more subtle way, one of the most important newspapers in the country.
And the fact that people don't register that is a mistake if they're thinking about these issues.
SHEFFIELD: Well you mention the Journal but in your own book you quote people work there or worked there and they said 'well a lot of us are on the left and maybe what is was doing wasn't entirely wrong.' I mean it seems like you're forgetting that.
FOLKENFLIK: I'm not forgetting it at all, I wrote it.
SHEFFIELD: Well, you didn't mention it. No, I'm saying you did not mention that, what I'm saying—
FOLKENFLIK: Well no, I'm just saying what I said was that the people I talked to were essentially trying to explore their own experiences and figure out how to make sense of it and their feeling, the people I talked to were very painstaking, conscientious professionals and they're open to the possibility that there are times—I mean editors are supposed to ask tough questions, that's a good thing, that's not a bad thing, that's a good thing. If Gerry Baker [current managing editor at the Journal] or before him Robert Thomson asked difficult questions about stories, that's fine and sometimes what they're doing is making sure that people aren't reflexively accepting this from any source, let's say it's a liberal source, without challenging it or triple-checking it. These are important questions and conversations to have and those questions become part of the checking process.
Their concern was not that questions had been raised but that all the questions point in a certain direction. So as they are trying to make sense of it, it may be—as I do believe that I said earlier in our conversation—it may be that it actually did pull, did essentially pull the paper to true north, right? Pulled them to a page balance of zero, pulled them to dead center, whatever metaphor you want to use. Or it may be that it pulled them to the right of that. And the editors and the reporters in it said it's hard for us to be able to pinpoint exactly where that ended up, we do know that we felt it, that you can actually feel it occurring and you can feel it occurring in ways where, at times you say to yourself 'hey is that a good question?' or times that you say to yourself, 'hey, gosh I feel like where we're ending up is different than what I expected, and I'm always ending up right of where I started.'
Now I do think it's fair to question does that mean, does that reflect a liberal inclination of the reporter doing the job? But simply because that's possible doesn't mean that that it is automatically reflects negative on what they did before. And as I say, when I talk to reporters for the couple of decades that I've been in the business, the Journal has always been pointed to, even prior to Murdoch as the cleanest, down-the-middle, most scrupulous news pages in the country.
SHEFFIELD: And I don't see people saying that to the contrary.
FOLKENFLIK: It's something to be measured with delicate instruments. It's a complicated thing to assess perfectly.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, and I think overall, though, that it's been a much lighter touch on the Journal, with perhaps the exception dealing with the phone hacking that you talk about [in your book where the paper's top editors are alleged to have tried to stop Journal writers from reporting an exclusive they had developed].
FOLKENFLIK: Sure. I think that's exactly right. Don't forget Murdoch has a good sense of, he plays a very high-low game. And I don't mean that cynically. I mean he has tabloids and he has prestige papers and he does this in all three of these countries, right? In Australia in 1964 he creates the Australian so they have their first national, general-interest newspaper. In the U.K., he bought the News of the World and then the Sun and made them these great financial engines which allowed him to buy the Times of London and the Sunday Times. The Times of London is not a profitable newspaper and it was not when he bought it in 1981. And it's really not been a profitable newspaper. But he plays a very direct hand in that he'll have a very direct hand in what's happening in the tabloids and he has a much lighter touch in the prestige papers.
I can tell you from having interviewed a bunch of people who have edited both kinds of papers that [they think that] regardless of which kind of paper you're doing, you have his voice in your head, pretty much every morning and pretty much every afternoon as you're sort of deciding what stories to put on the front page and the like. But he was much less likely to question certain decisions. Most of the time he didn't dictate things but he would ask questions, often after the fact in ways that informed the decisions that would be subsequently made. But he picked people who understood what he would want to read. It's just that on the tabloids, he'd also pick up the phone and say 'what have you got?' And so therefore he'd be much more likely to influence there. He understood that his readers had different expectations, that readers of tabloids expected a certain kind of thing and that readers of the prestigious papers expected that the news that they would get would be somewhat straighter. Although in the Australian, the one prestige paper that he created out of whole cloth, the Australian is a much openly conservative paper than his other prestige broadsheets.
SHEFFIELD. Yeah. But you certainly would not deny that every poll that has been done of journalists of any size over the recent decades has said that said that national journalists are overwhelmingly more liberal than conservative. I mean that's a fact, it's not an opinion.
FOLKENFLIK: You know, I've seen some surveys that I thought were more convincing along those lines than others. What I would say is that it seems to me is that journalists tend to be more socially liberal on certain kinds of issues, for example, I think they tend to be sympathetic to claims on the environment or gay rights, which they tend to view through the prism of the civil rights movement for African-Americans in this country. And I've done stories on this—as opposed to fully capturing what cultural conservatives might see as more of something that they see as the fabric of marriage and what they see as an important civic institution in that way.
On the other hand, when you see polls on certain kinds of economic questions about taxation or deficit reduction or other things that there are ways in which Washington press corps or political reporters when you see, or at least when I've seen stories done that strongly suggest that they come out more of a—there's more fiscal conservatism, there's more of a sense of that actually the public may be more interested in certain kinds of spending—what I'm not, whether or not it's sustainable than that press corps would be. So I'm just saying it's a, there are big labels to slap on the press corps—
SHEFFIELD: Well just look at—
FOLKENFLIK: There are ways in which I'm not arguing with you and there are ways in which I think there are distinctions that can be drawn. I think, you know, Howie Kurtz [veteran media reporter now employed by Fox News Channel] has talked about this, too. It's a, I don't know, I'm trying to characterize it the best I can for you there.
SHEFFIELD: Well it's not just on the social issues. I mean even Mark Halperin [of Time magazine] recently said a few weeks ago that the media were not sufficiently skeptical in their reporting on Obamacare, especially about the claim that people were going to be able to keep their insurance. I mean the fact of the matter is that if there had been more skeptical reporting when they were formulating this law—Obama basically got caught by the fact that people were not being more skeptical in the beginning so now he got caught flat-footed on it. So it's not just that.
But let's move on. A large portion of your book is focused on a scandal in the U.K. that most Americans have probably have never even heard of and probably don't really even care about. Why did you focus so much on that?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, look, this is about—I work in Bryant Park here, right? So that's in Midtown New York, News Corp. is headquartered about five blocks from where I work here in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. It's an American company led by an American chairman and CEO in Rupert Murdoch although technically he's not the CEO of the smaller News Corp. now. But he's certainly running it. Murdoch is an American citizen and these are titles that are very important to him, they're very important to his personality. There's no newspaper that is more important to Murdoch than the London Sun and the News of the World [the now defunct paper that was at the center of the phone hacking scandal] is what really started him out of Australia. It was his first possession out of it. Those newspapers were the financial springboard which launched him into the U.S. and helped him—he bought the New York Post, he bought New York magazine, he picked up the Village Voice, he used that. He bought the Boston Herald, the Chicago Sun-Times. His first possession here in 1973, I believe, was the San Antonio Light, if I am not mistaken. And he ended up using the money he made to springboard him into television and he ended up using that to create Fox [News] and he ended up using that money to get the Wall Street Journal. I mean this guy controls one of the most popular television networks in the country, he controls the top cable news channel in the country, he controls a cable business channel, a top-ten newspaper in the New York Post, and the top circulation paper in the country by most measures with the Wall Street Journal.
What was revealed in London was what happened where, in a market where you have somebody with as buccaneering a spirit as Murdoch does, but there aren't the counter-weights to him to the same degree. I mean he had, at the time, 40 percent of the national newspaper circulation in what is essentially a national newspaper market, very different from the U.S. Forty percent. And he also controlled the nation's most profitable satellite television provider in the country [BSkyB] which was sort of like a Comcast-like creation that had its own Sky channels as well as a means of distributing stuff. So you had somebody who prime ministers paid exceptional deference to and aspiring prime ministers paid exception to. This was not, this is not a partisan scandal. It wasn't just one party tied to him. Both major parties had deep roots and ties to him over the decades. And part of his political genius in Britain and Australia is that he took his papers and would toggle support back and forth in a way that is very different than how it feels on Fox. Different candidates may be treated with different degrees of sympathy or receptivity by Fox but it's pretty clear that they tend to be from the Republican Party in terms of the major shows and the major figures.
So what you saw in the U.K. was a CEO [Rebekah Brooks] who Murdoch had described to people as being like a daughter to him, a woman who was one of his most-prized lieutenants, she was the CEO and a former newspaper editor and on her watch, not only as CEO but as editor, there were a string of incidents that appeared to suggest significant criminal activity at his tabloids. These tabloids that were so definitional to Murdoch about who he is and what his record was and were so important to him in terms of building his empire that I wanted to understand and explore more about this guy who's been so important to the American media scene.
But this seemed to me to be a new window through which to look at it. And it showed you a very competitive market and it showed you how he operated but how also people operated in his name—which doesn't mean that necessarily he ordered things up but how they interpreted what he wanted. It shows you the intersections of politics and media and influence and law enforcement and how elites really work behind the scenes. And through a lot of interviews and a lot of looking at documents and other records, you can piece together how decisions really get made, how partnerships get forged, how deals are struck, and how power is wielded sometimes in the media to a much greater degree than you typically think of it being done here in the U.S.
And part of that is simply the economic model. I mean most people don't subscribe to the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal and they have, at least until very recently, tended to read their regional newspapers. And those newspapers have tended to play things more down-the-middle than you would see in British or Australian newspapers because there's only one of them in each city, right? And so they don't want to offend their readers or their advertisers as much. And that's an economic evolution as much as anything else that's driven professional norms. And in Britain, you've seen a much more unvarnished Murdoch presence that nonetheless reveals a lot about, fundamentally, about who he is. Which is not to say he commissioned any of those specific acts proven and alleged but that his character very much influenced the way in which those newspapers evolved.
SHEFFIELD: Yes but there is a real dichotomy between the coverage, and I'm not just saying in your book here since it's about Murdoch, but Mark Thompson, the current head of the New York Times, he was in charge of the BBC during the time it was revealed that they found out about an ongoing, decades-long sexual molestation of children that the British celebrity Jimmy Savile did. I mean that was far worse than anything News of the World ever did and yet Mark Thompson—I mean the BBC knew about that he was doing this and didn't tell the public, didn't tell the police and so as a result, it's almost certain that children were molested because that knowledge was kept from the public.
And yet Mark Thompson, even in your own coverage, you only covered him and his involvement twice. And yet—it seems to me—
FOLKENFLIK: Well some of my colleagues also covered it from London additionally.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah, but you see what I'm saying here, right? Mark Thompson is in charge of the most influential paper, as you put it earlier, in the world perhaps and certainly within the United States and yet he was involved perhaps, and no one knows for sure to what extent he was involved compared to with Murdoch. I mean couldn't you say that Mark Thompson set the culture that led to the suppression of that information about Jimmy Savile? I mean why aren't we hearing about that?
FOLKENFLIK: I think that the Savile story is a black stain on the record of the BBC in two ways. I think it's a stain first and foremost because of the terrible things that occurred by one of its weirdest and most famous personalities, and it seems as though others, both inside and outside the BBC, in some ways participated. Most of the stuff is a long, long time ago but the second blot is that, as you suggest, that that story was—that they killed that story at the time that they were preparing this kind of hagiographic and zany tribute to this guy, to Savile. In late, I want to say it's late 2012, but it's been a long time since I looked up the precise dating on that. He died in November 2012 if I'm not mistaken, right?
SHEFFIELD: Yeah.
FOLKENFLIK: And they were preparing the thing a couple of weeks later in December. And he [Thompson] claims that he was told about it but only in passing, it's a little hard to pin down because there isn't the evidence [i.e. documents]. But Mark Thompson was an important leader at the BBC and he created a culture in terms of their digital stuff and if it can be shown that he was involved in killing or even acquiescing to not allowing its documentary division to put that program, that investigative program, on the air, then that's absolutely rightfully held against Mark Thompson. And it's right that the question be raised even in the absence of proof about what he did. And we certainly as a network have had that question ventilated on the air. I've talked about it on the BBC and other outlets as well.
But you can't say that Mark Thompson created the BBC. Murdoch didn't create News of the World but he utterly changed what it was. He completely changed what the Sun newspaper was. And it's not a comparison because the BBC would be something approximating the BBC whether or not Mark Thompson had ever been born. And I just don't think you can say that about Rupert Murdoch.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah but—
FOLKENFLIK: Murdoch took it from a paper in Adelaide [Australia] and made it something with a market cap in many tens of billions. That's a very different proposition. So I don't want in any way anyone to misconstrue my comments into suggesting that what happened with Mark Thompson wasn't important. The BBC is not an American institution although it has a real presence here. The New York Times Company obviously is an important one. It's a very important newspaper and news organization. And it was important to direct coverage of that but there's been ongoing investigations and there's been some coverage of the results of those investigations and those crimes are horrific as alleged and in some cases acknowledged but I think they're just different stories.
If you want to go do a history of the BBC, I would think this would be an incredibly complex and brutal chapter and I would think it would be an appropriate one to do. And that's not the story I set out to tell.
SHEFFIELD: Well again, your book is not about that. But I'm just saying the media coverage in general of those two scandals within the American press has certainly been disparate.
FOLKENFLIK: Well look, if you think of one that happened lately. I've done a couple of stories on CBS and the Benghazi thing which is something that liberals have been howling about and conservatives found more grist to criticize the Obama Administration with. I was a reporter with the Baltimore Sun and then first started, I believe my first story on the air was about Dan Rather and the botched 60 Minutes report about George Bush's military service record. And I did a ton of stories on both news organizations about that. Because I thought that it merited it. You do the best that you can to calibrate the coverage. The Rather story, I thought was a bigger one. And covered it accordingly. I think you can always look back and say 'Should I have done a story more or a story less' and that's fine but I think absolutely the BBC thing is a story and I think it makes sense that people who are watchdogging [sic] the New York Times would pay particular attention to that. If I were doing a book about the Times now I'm sure I would be looking at that as well. But this is the book I set out to write. There is only so much you can do at once.
SHEFFIELD: And again, I wasn't speaking specifically on the book here.
FOLKENFLIK: Sure, sure.
SHEFFIELD: But going back to the book, you talk about an incident that a lot of people in the states missed and that was a proclamation of Rupert Murdoch in 2007 that he had watched Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth and that he now believed that Al Gore was right about everything and after that, two years later, well, he proclaimed that they were going to make News Corp carbon-neutral and two years later, they made an investment in a so-called "carbon farm." And then he also simultaneously after that proclamation made, at least according to your reporting, made the different News Corp divisions sort of proclaim fealty to carbon neutrality and all that—anthropogenic global warming.
FOLKENFLIK: And a lot of that was taken literally from the corporate website and other things like that. I mean it didn't take, there was no "according," it's just what he did. It was part of the effort to make News Corp green, they sent out press releases at the time about it. It was a concerted corporate effort that involved its various units. If you go to their lots in Los Angeles as I have, they've got all of this biodegradable, carbon-neutral stuff in the cafeteria as well, cups made out of corn instead of plastic, that sort of stuff.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah but was that, I mean you say that he got various publications of his also to sort of comply with that. You mention the New York Post cover saying "Go Green" and you mentioned some public service announcements that were run on the Fox network and then some changes. Isn't that a violation of editorial integrity to force people to do that? It seems like to me that it is.
FOLKENFLIK: You know, I think you could make that argument. The Sun newspaper had its topless girl one day pose painted all in green as a way of indicating that green is good. Different places did it different ways. You'll see networks do this where they decide to build storylines into various programs. It might be, I think some years ago there was the question of child abuse. Another time, I think Salon and others did reporting that showed that office, that the chief federal official charged with overseeing drug policy basically worked with different television studios to get them to incorporate different anti-drug themes. But journalism is different than entertainment. And you can say 'is this wrong in some way?' but there are just different styles of what you do, right? I mean there are publications like Mother Jones or the Weekly Standard that are pretty upfront about what it believes in and then there are publications like the news pages of the Wall Street Journal that you think of as not doing that. Now the Journal wasn't part of this in that way.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah well I mean in your researching that particular point of the book, did you see any critical coverage from the rest of the press about this corporate-driven synergy, to put it nicely?
FOLKENFLIK: Well let's put it this way: there wasn't a ton of coverage and I think people were more surprises by the fact of it. I remember when it happened and I remember thinking 'that's interesting, I want to see if anything actually comes of it and what it means.' And at a certain point, I deferred to my colleagues who covered the environment. So I think we had people on our show Talk of the Nation who talked about it, something that I encouraged. But I also said let's drill down and see what this means. You know, Murdoch was greatly affected by what had happened, I think it was '06, in Australia where they had these extraordinary floods and later on extraordinary brushfires which happen pretty often in Australia these days. And he'd said something to the effect in that first speech that you don't have to be a climate scientist to know that there are exceptionally strong natural events occuring and whether or not its directly linked in a certain way, that it behooves him as a corporate citizen to act responsibly. And for many years, News Corp was rated by these outside ratings agencies very highly both for their actions but particularly the transparency of their actions which are thought among those involved in that stuff to be important to it.
Fox News, they did a, if I recall, one sort of hour-long treatment of global warming that was very measured but would give you the belief that it's occurring and that it's a concern. And I think another guy six months apart did one which was a lot more skeptical take. I don't think you saw a ton of coverage as a result of this emanating from this decree. I don't think there was a lot of news coverage as a result. It was more that the tabloids would just do a little promotional here and there.
Again, I think that if one wants to see this as corporate interference with its publications, one's entitled to but you'd think it was a little weird if, all of a sudden, all of the Tribune papers suddenly decided to go after transfats. At times, newspapers make a crusade of things and sometimes they're being explicit in terms of how they want it resolved and at times they're not. I remember, I think, Newsday and the Chicago Tribune at various points decided to do stories every time somebody was shot dead. And I think implicit in that was a notion that gun violence had to be addressed. I think in the case of one of the two papers, it was only children shot dead but it meant that they did a lot of stories and it was heart-breaking but there was no way to read that and not think that "we've got to address gun violence." Now it didn't say here's a solution but it certainly said, to me as a reader, that this is a problem and at times newspapers do that.
It's more of a British or an Australian thing to do and it's more of an old-school thing to do in the U.S., something you would have seen some decades ago. I don't think that he [Murdoch] fully committed his news organizations to pursue it in a way that you sometimes see. You know when you see the Sun or the New York Post commit to a story as a crusade, you're not in any doubt about the subtleties of it. This was something where it was really just a little light mention here or there and it was kind of, to be honest, a pretty perfunctory way to show people at the home office that they were in line and moved on. I think that one way you can really see that they moved on is that his publications as a whole have been very receptive to arguments that are quite skeptical about the existence of and concerns about climate change and that therefore it doesn't feel as though his publications have been exactly brainwashed on the topic in Al Gore's direction.
SHEFFIELD: Yeah well I'll give you perhaps, and it's not Murdoch related, there is a definite case of corporate interference that received almost zero coverage in the journalism trade papers and writers and that is that NBC Universal when it was owned by GE launched their campaign "Green Is Universal" which deeply permeated the entire organization and was designed to—well given the fact that GE had massive, massive billion-dollar investments in alternative energy, you could argue that this was a flagrant campaign to promote the interests of the corporate parent. And yet I didn't see any coverage about that.
FOLKENFLIK: Well I think that's an absolutely legitimate story to cover—
SHEFFIELD: So where was that coverage?
FOLKENFLIK: —including the angle that you did that you mentioned. Yeah. I think you could also argue that GE had been cited in certain times over the years and it may be more distant for corporate pollution and it may have been a way of sort of cleansing any sort of reputational issues that they had attached to them on that as well. So it can be on both sides of that as well. But I think that's totally legitimate.
SHEFFIELD: So where was the coverage on that? I didn't really see it. Why do you think that wasn't covered?
FOLKENFLIK: It's a fair question. I feel that I read a few stories about it and I feel that if I had time, I should have done one to. But it's oftentimes these corporate campaigns aren't taken seriously by the people who are looking at it and that may be a mistake. I think that's a legitimate topic of coverage.
SHEFFIELD: Just going into some of the other stuff here, let's talk about Murdoch and some of his political allegiances. You wrote something earlier in the Washington Post in which you called it a "myth," and correctly so, that Murdoch is some sort of hard-line partisan conservative when the facts just do not support that assertion. Why don't you talk about that?
FOLKENFLIK: I think that Murdoch is definitely a figure on the political right but he is not a doctrinaire partisan and he's flexible and pliant. He wants to have political influence over certain kinds of issues and that's more important to him than having a particular party in power. You know Roger Ailes is a much more of a conservative Republican figure than Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch supported Tony Blair three times, Tony Blair being a centrist Labour Party figure who reinvented that party away from its socialist, its more socialist roots.
In 2006, Murdoch had the New York Post endorse Hillary Clinton when she was running for Senate in this state knowing that she was a winner in terms of how her prospects looked in November and knowing that she was likely to run for president. And he likes people who have the smell of victory around them. And she also, even though in '92 she was seen as an incredibly liberal, wild-eyed figure by a lot of her conservative critics, by that point she was seen as a relatively centrist Democrat on a lot of issues, hawkish on foreign affairs, a supporter of the war in Iraq for example when it was happening. So that she was somebody, a very practical figure politically, so she was somebody he could do business with. He had essentially elevated Ed Koch from a huge field of candidates a few decades ago when he was a not very well-known congressman to be the person he would champion for mayor of New York, a centrist Democrat who he felt he could do business with. And Koch did well by him. But he also obviously he has endorsed a ton of Republicans over the years as well.
But in Australia, in the UK, and here in the US he has found figures in both major parties to do business with that has served him well in terms of being able to get influence and served him well in terms of, at times, being able to secure, if not all that he wants, certain kinds of concessions on the part of government regulators and other kinds of agencies that need his business interests. So he genuinely has political beliefs. He very much was a champion of the war in Iraq as much of the Democratic establishment was in 2003 but he rallied Tony Blair constantly to do that both in print and by phone. And strongly encouraged and pushed John Howard, a strong supporter of President Bush in Australia, pushed him through papers down there to do the same. And Howard unflinchingly did so.
But on things like the carbon-neutral maneuver, it's true that he did so as a corporate actor but he did so at the urging of more centrist figures including Al Gore (well certainly Al Gore a more liberal figure) but Tony Blair encouraged it and [Arnold] Schwarzenegger, who was then governor, who was more liberal than Murdoch himself is, he listened to those guys and he made his decision to take News Corp carbon-neutral as a result of that and as a result of the urging of his son James who is a more politically moderate than he is. You know, Roger Ailes was very afraid that the Murdoch kids would encourage Rupert to endorse Obama in '08. And, in fact, the New York Post did endorse Obama in the primaries against Hillary Clinton and then reverted to form and then endorsed Senator John McCain, who is probably a better fit for that newspaper anyway, in the general election. But the fact that Ailes was even concerned about it because of Murdoch's kids, particularly Elisabeth and James, and because of his [then] wife Wendi who likes palling around with Hollywood types. The fact that it was even a source of concern tells you how willing Murdoch has been to toggle over the years to try to maintain influence over policies and also over his own businesses' fates.
SHEFFIELD: OK, well I appreciate you joining me today, David. The book is Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires.
FOLKENFLIK: Thank you so much for having me, I appreciate your interest.


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The cover art of Blues at Thirty-Five depicts an eerie Edward Hopper Nighthawks-like scene. A corner jazz club, street light shining over an empty sidewalk, nobody around. Based on what's so magnificently offered up in the US Army Blues Jazz Ensemble's 2CD set Blues at Thirty-Five, it can only be assumed that everyone is inside the club and thoroughly enjoying the incredible individual and collective talents of this terrific jazz ensemble. Awesome is such a trite and overused description today, but whatever the next level of big band performance excellence is, this is definitely it.
Track Listing: Disc 1: Cochise; Azure Te; Lester Thinks Twice; Farewell (For My Father); Hmmm...; NOLA's Lament/NOLA's Return (For the People of New Orleans and South Louisiana; Freedom Jazz Dance; Black Sugar; Skylark; What It's Called. Disc 2: Last of the Soul Brothers; Hindustan; West Coast Blues; Time to Leave; Waltz New; Up A Lazy River; Mantis; Verificatin' Blues a la carte; Birdlike; You Are My Sunshine
Personnel: CW5 Charles H. Vollherbst, Director; SSG Antonio L. Orta, SSG Bill E. Linney, SFC Joseph D. Henson, MSG John W. DeSalme, SFC David T. Brown, saxophones; SSG Liesl M. Whitaker, SFC Graham E. Breedlove, SFC Mark A. Wood, SFC Kenneth R. Rittenhouse, SGM Craig C. Fraedrich, trumpets; MSG Matthew F. Niess, SFC Harry F. Watters, MSG William L. Holmes, SFC Jeffrey J. Cortazzo, trombones; SGM Anthony W. Nalker, piano; MSG James F. Roberts, guitar; SSG Regan J. Brough, bass; MSG Steve Fidyk, drums.
Title: The United States Army Blues Jazz Ensemble: Blues at Thirty-Five | Year Released: 2008
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After a long day of meandering or conferencing, unwind in front of an open fire in the bar or on the patio while watching Reedbuck and Duiker frolic on the open lawns. The bar was used in the first Spud movie as John Cleese's office.
Then move into our restaurant where the Table d'hote menus are drawn up daily by our head chef, Vusi Mkhwanazi. It is seldom that one gets the opportunity these days to relax, slow down and enjoy special company, while enjoying a 5 course dinner. Through redesigning the menu daily, Vusi can ensure the freshest and best quality produce from around the Midlands.
The setting of the restaurant is as varied as the cuisine Vusi offers. The restaurant staff will often take the restaurant outside where dinner can be enjoyed under an ancient oak tree and the twinkling stars of the night sky. The restaurant is always open to guests staying at Lythwood Lodge. Non-residents are welcome to come and enjoy Vusi's great fare but bookings are essential.
Head Chef - Vusi Mkhwanazi
A tempting example of one of Vusi's menus:
Amuse Bouche
Duck Carpaccio
Pan seared and thinly sliced Breast of Duck served on a bed of garden greens
and drizzled with a Van Der Hum and Orange reduction
Chicken & Prawn Laksa
Thai style chicken, sautéed prawns & julienne vegetables
in curried coconut topped with freshly baked herb bread sticks
Spinach & Feta Chicken stack
Spinach & feta stuffed chicken breast served with herb potato puree, honey glazed butternut
& steamed seasonal baby vegetables accompanied with a roasted red pepper & coriander sauce
Beef Medallion
Grilled fillet of beef served with herb potato puree, honey glazed butternut
& steamed seasonal baby vegetables finished off with a creamy mushroom & green peppercorn sauce
Malva pudding
Traditional malva pudding in a pool of Amarula crème anglaise & vanilla ice cream
French Pavlova
An individual crispy meringue cake filled with seasonal fresh fruits,
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According to a recent New York Times health article on push-ups, a 40-year-old woman should be able to do 16 FULL push-ups in a row without rest, and a man of the same age should be able to knock out 27 push-ups.
I don't know about you, but I doubt that most of the women I know who are my age (33) or even younger could reach 16 good reps without dropping to their knees. And even then, their kneelies might be as sad as the ones being performed by the women in this accompanying video. In fact, I remember BEING one of those headbobbers myself at age 21 when I entered basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and was told by my drill sergeant that only 9 of the 11 or so reps that I performed at my first diagnostic PT test were good enough to be counted.
Women are at a particular disadvantage because they start off with about 20 percent less muscle than men. Many women bend their knees to lower the amount of weight they must support. And while anybody can do a push-up, the exercise has typically been part of the male fitness culture. "It's sort of a gender-specific symbol of vitality,†said R. Scott Kretchmar, a professor of exercise and sports science at Penn State. "I don't see women saying: 'I'm in good health. Watch me drop down and do some push-ups.' â€
But back to the topic — the article states that push-ups are an excellent measure of fitness because they work so many parts of the body at once, not just the back, chest, arms, and shoulders as some people think. Your core, glutes, and leg muscles must also be held rigid while you perform the exercise with only your hands and toes on the floor. The ability to perform multiple push-ups is an indicator of an individual's strength and endurance, measurable factors which may help them as they age since up to 30% of a person's muscular strength (read: muscle fiber!) can be lost between the ages of 20 and 70. Someone who strength trains enough to retain the ability to drop down and knock out 20 push-ups is far more likely to be able to save themselves from a forward fall, too, both as a result of greater strength and because muscle memory might just kick in to break their forward momentum before they faceplant into the kitchen tile.
So ladies, hop on the push-up train today if you haven't already. There's no reason that women can't do just as many push-ups as men if they are properly trained (if not more, since many of us are pears with lower centers of gravity than our male counterparts, and therefore don't have to push as much weight), and honestly, how pathetic are the chicks in the NY Times video bouncing away with barely an elbow bend while doing so-called push-ups from their knees? If you look anything like that when performing this mother of all bodyweight exercises, then you really need to get with the program.
Here are two good ones:
– Mistressing the Push-Up at Stumptuous.com
– The GrrlAthlete 4 Step Process to Becoming an Expert at Push-ups
If a formerly overweight, completely sedentary geek girl like me could go from 9 push-ups in two minutes to 34 in the space of 8 weeks with regular practice, anyone can.
And now? Well, let's just say that my husband burns out before I do, and when fully-rested I can usually hit 50-60 reps or more without pausing. I'm currently working on diamonds and then I want to give one-handed push-ups a go after catching G.I. Jane on cable this past weekend. And Jack LaLanne's cool modification is on my workout schedule for tomorrow:
Mr. LaLanne, who once set a world record by doing 1,000 push-ups in 23 minutes, still does push-ups as part of his daily workout. Now he balances his feet and each hand on three chairs.


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Last month I had the chance to work with colleagues from Pathmakers, the independent charity arm of the Norfolk Local Access Forum, on a really interesting piece of work. We were asked to pitch for funding for The Ordnance Survey's 'open innovation' project, through the annual Geovation Challenge. This year's challenge was around 'Building Greener, Smarter Communities', and teams with an idea first compete for a place on a two day 'Geovation Camp' in London – which Pathmakers won - and then intensively work up their project in a boot camp environment, supported by facilitators and resources from the Geovation team. At the end of the camp a Geovation Conference takes place, where the ideas are pitched and voted on by an expert panel, and we were delighted to be awarded £10,000 of funding to develop our project!
Pathmakers invited me to join the team because the project idea, which is accompanied walking for people with low activity levels, could potentially be piloted on Marriott's Way during our project. Called Community Friends Walks, it will involve building links with organisations who work with people experiencing ill health and isolation. We are looking at starting on the outer Norwich section of Marriott's Way, so watch this space for new events and activities.
Sophie Cabot - Marriott's Way Heritage Trail Senior Project Officer.
The way marking and signage for six new circular walks will soon be appearing over the upcoming spring months in villages and towns along the length of Marriott's Way. These will be in Aylsham, Cawston, Reepham, Whitwell and Costessey. I have been out with the Norfolk trails team to install the first set of posts for the brand new Costessey circular, and they are standing proud! So keep an eye out for the new signage if you're in the area and the rest of the walk will soon be completed in time for our walking events beginning in April. Information about the walking events will be made available online in the 'What's On' section of the Marriott's Way website. Information booklets about they will also be made available as soon as the walks have been fully installed, in time for everyone to walk and enjoy over the summer.
The 'What's On' page on our website is filling up as the 2018 walking season is nearly upon us.
Our first event is on 14th April, kicking off with a guided walk around the newly signed Costessey Circular. This walk will take in the sites of the old Hellesdon Station, followed by a short stop at a pub half way around for lunch will help refuel, before finishing the 5 mile walk.
We are holding a birdsong I.D. training course in Reepham in May in partnership with Norfolk Wildlife Trust. This event, led by Norfolk Wildlife Trust's David North, will explore how to identify birds by listening to their song. An early start (7am) will allow participants to make the most of the morning's roundelay, and the group will begin in the Bircham Centre before venturing out onto nearby Marriott's Way.
I have been out with the Norfolk Trails team carrying out access improvements to The Norfolk Coast Path on a much loved local landmark, Beeston Bump, in Sheringham. Working on the project has allowed me to gain valuable knowledge about the processes involved in putting together a high profile project like this one. I have also learnt many new practical skills and resurfacing methods and I'm now well equipped to carry out similar resurfacing works on other trails such as Marriott's Way!
I also recently attended an outdoor learning seminar and workshop at the Natural History Museum in London, with our Education Officer, Maddy. The workshop was very inspiring and gave us some new ideas for ways to get children into the outdoors and learning in green spaces like Marriott's Way.
Ella Meecham – Marriott's Way Heritage Trail Infrastructure Trainee.
Do you have an interest in Norfolk's railway history and a desire to increase your skills and knowledge through volunteering? We're putting on a series of hands-on training days for volunteers on Norfolk's disused railway lines, with sessions ranging from heritage restoration, to route maintenance and biodiversity improvement. With the help of local railway heritage groups, these sessions will tie in with physical conservation projects along Marriott's Way, including at the old City and Hellesdon Station sites, as well as providing an introduction to supporting the wildlife that has flourished along these disused lines. To register an interest or find out more, please contact Maddy Goodall on 01603 224287 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
We are involved with the organising of NWCF18, hosting events along the length of the trail throughout October this year.
We are currently in the process of gathering together walk leaders, so if you would like to be involved by leading an event for 2018's festival, please let us know.
Take a look at the information found at www.norfolkwalkingfestival.co.uk.
Since the platform clearance at Hellesdon Station last autumn, there hasn't been much work done at the old platform, except for the grinding out of tree stumps and some minor maintenance work.
Plans have been created to resurface the platform, repoint the brickwork, install a replica station sign, and reinstall the concrete milepost, among other things. This will all be made possible by working with contractors, Friends of Norwich City Station, and The Norwich Conservation Volunteers.
We have just taken delivery of the brand new replica M&GN bridge plates, so look out for them soon on a bridge near you!


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John G. Coy farmed most of his life, however, as a young man he followed the gold rush to California where he did some mining and split shingles for a living. Apparently he failed to make it as a miner and returned to his native New York state.
He married Emily Adams in 1862 and within months, started west on their wedding trip.
Highwaymen stole their only form of defense, a small shotgun. In Nebraska, thieves stole some of the oxen used to pull their covered wagon and a cow. They searched for over a week for their livestock.
Homestead: The Coy homestead.
Where: City of Fort Collins, Larimer County. Barn can be seen from Lemay Avenue just south of Lincoln Avenue.
What: Barn is only remaining structure; no public access.
They managed to make it to the Cache la Poudre Valley as winter approached. The couple decided to remain until spring, and fell in love with the area.
In about 1863-64, they homesteaded near the river and began to farm with little thought to continuing west. Emily Adams Coy was the first married Anglo-American woman in the area.
John Coy soon became involved in local affairs, and in 1867, he served as a judge at an election followed by service on a grand jury. Coy was also selected as a director of the County Fair Association in 1880 and president a year later.
To protest price-fixing by local four mills, Coy helped organize the Farmer's Protective Association in 1884. It was this association that built the Harmony Mill, which still stands today.
Coy's next job was as a county commissioner serving from 1874 to 1877 then again from 1893 to 1896. He also ran for governor, but lost.
With such accomplishments, it may not be surprising that Coy was among the founders of what is now Colorado State University. Before Colorado became a state, the Territorial Legislature granted permission to build a college in Fort Collins, but provided no funding. A building was erected to lay claim to the land for the future college, and Coy was part of this project.
Coy was a charter member of the Larimer County Stock Growers Association and knew how important the local watershed was to raising livestock and to farming.
Mining in Colorado had taken its toll on forests through contamination and soil erosion. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison established the first national forest reserve. Just a year later, Coy and one other farmer petitioned to have three of the drainages of the South Platte River included in a forest reserve that eventually became Roosevelt National Forest.
John Hoffman married one of Coy's daughters and constructed a flour and feed mill on Riverside across the river from the Coy farm. The Hoffman family eventually took over the operation of the farm and continued to raise potatoes and onions as well as cattle up until the late 1980s. The land was then sold for use as a golf course.
The barn is the only surviving structure dating back to the homestead, and it is completely surrounded by the Link-N-Greens golf course.
It is the oldest barn in northern Colorado and a familiar sight to those who ride or walk the bike trail and to golfers.
The barn is on the State Register of Historic Properties.
Kenneth Jessen has been a Loveland resident since 1965. He is an author of 18 books and more than 1,300 articles. He was an engineer for Hewlett-Packard for 33 years and now works as a full-time author, lecturer and guide.


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Fans of this blog – of whom there are at least six (see mum? 100% up on last year, despite the lack of official updates) – will know that I hold a special place in my heart for October, or as the cool kids like to call it, ROCKtober.
Why does October Rock this year?
Well, I'll give you one good reason that rhymes with "Pron Heck Gob Ham Ray Thing Bore" – PGR4, baby! (well can you think of words that rhyme with Project Gotham Racing, without cheating? Nor could I. So just drop it, okay? Please? Hug?). I can't wait! But I must…
It's out October 2 according to the US site, so shortly thereafter Down Here would be my bet… Rocktober's off to a rockin' start, and it's only late August. Now that's Value™).


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Make a Yarn-wrapped Wreathcomments (2) December 2nd, 2009
by Katie Runnels
excerpted from Holiday Decorating Ideas, p. 61
This soft, fluffy wreath makes a great statement in any home. Wrap the yarn, secure it, and then have fun decorating it however you like.
What You'll Need:
1. Wrap the batting. Wrap long strips of the batting around the wreath form, and secure it with florist pins. Eyeball your work to ensure that the fluffiness is distributed evenly. Try to secure the pins on the same side each time.
2. Add the ribbon. Wrap the batting with wide, tulle ribbon or other sheer ribbon, and secure it with pins. Remember
to secure the pins to the side you pinned in step 1.
3. Wrap the first yarn. Begin wrapping the thicker yarn by tying one end to the wreath and securing it with a knot on the same side as your pins. Continue to wrap as uniformly and tightly as possible. Knot the end, and cut or tuck the tail under to hide it.
4. Create a stripe. Wrap another yarn around the wreath, and tie it off. Space your wrapping about an inch apart on the inner edge and a little wider on the outer edge of the wreath, circling the wreath three times to create each 3-yarn-thick, somewhat uniform stripe (you can always nudge your stripes around a little when you've finished). When finished with the last stripe, cut the yarn, and tie it off to the yarn below—again, on the back of the wreath. Trim the excess, or tuck it under.
5. Add the hook. Insert the wreath hook into the back of your wreath. Add some glue (I use a hot glue gun) to the area where the wreath meets the hook for extra security.
6. Embellish as you wish. Tie a floppy yarn bow by joining about 2 1⁄2 feet of the yarns you've used with ribbon. Or, add other embellishments into the wreath surrounding the bow. Secure the items by wiring each piece, using the stems to pierce the wreath, and/or use glue.
Tip: You can add a little fluff by wrapping some white mohair yarn on your wreath and securing it to the back where the pins are located.
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MSc Building Services Engineering
If you've completed an undergraduate engineering degree and want to continue expanding your knowledge and enhancing your skills, GCU's MSc Building Services Engineering is for you. Master this vibrant, essential discipline and achieve eligibility for Chartered Engineer status.
Chartered building services engineers with the broad skillsets to tackle complex technical challenges are in high demand. Their work brings together expertise in both construction and engineering, offering excellent career opportunities. With the advanced post-graduate study offered by GCU's MSc Building Services Engineering, you'll be prepared for a successful career in this important field.
The programme is approved by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). Together with an accredited BEng Honours degree, the MSc provides an educational foundation for you to achieve full CEng status.
- Broaden your knowledge of all technical aspects of building services design
- Gain more experience tackling a variety of diverse technical challenges
- Learn about building management
- Progress toward full CEng status
At GCU, you'll find a welcoming community of career-focused professionals who are dedicated to the common good. While you develop your skills and increase your expertise to make a positive impact through your work, your welcoming classmates, colleagues and teachers at GCU will both challenge and support you.
Graduate prospects
The MSc Building Services Engineering will give you the preparation you need for a successful career.
Graduates of this programme have many options, both within the UK and with firms across the globe. They design mechanical and electrical services for buildings of all kinds, work as consultants or become members of a design-and-build construction team. They manage building or shipping facilities. They also work on either the technical or management side of installing and commissioning equipment and systems.
The building services engineering profession is a vibrant and important component of both the construction and engineering sectors of industry. The MSc Building Services Engineering is aimed at engineering graduates to enable them to progress towards full chartered (CEng) status.
There is a strong demand for good quality chartered building services engineers who have the wide and multi-disciplinary knowledge that enables them to operate effectively on projects involving diverse technical challenges. Engineers now require a period of postgraduate study after achieving an Honours degree on an accredited BEng programme before they can become eligible for chartered (CEng) status. The MSc Building Services Engineering programme has been designed primarily as a period of further learning to follow an honours degree in building services engineering or environmental engineering.
The programme offers you the opportunity to broaden your knowledge and experience of all technical aspects of building services design as well as providing an understanding of building management.
Download the Programme Specification for a detailed breakdown of its structure, what you will learn and other useful information.
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All entry requirements listed here should be used as a guide and represent the minimum required to be considered for entry. Applicants who are made a conditional offer of a place may be asked to achieve more than is stated.
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We provide high-quality education for a fair price; as the University for the Common Good, we are committed to offering accessible higher education for talented students by keeping our tuition fees low and providing a generous scholarship package of over £2.5 million per year.
For new international students, particular care is taken around our induction events which begin on 13 September 2019 to welcome you to the UK and GCU prior to the start of teaching. There will be a whole host of fun and informative activities taking place during this period, including campus tours, city tours and social events where you can meet other international students. Where possible, we encourage you to arrange travel to allow you to arrive in time to enjoy these.
In partnership with HM Forces, GCU has identified this programme is being particularly suited to military and ex-military men and women. Visit the HM Forces Careers Zone for more information on the services we provide.
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