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Bloomberg Eyes Five More Fronts In The Gun Control War
The state legislature there was forced in July to pull a package of gun measures after state Sen. Betsy Johnson, a Democrat, refused to join her colleagues who were voting for it. Johnson's lack of support meant the package was one vote short of passage.
"We're looking to see whether -- maybe we can get a Republican or maybe we can figure out a way to work with her on something," an official with Bloomberg's group, who spoke on the condition his name not be used, told TPM.
Bloomberg's group has also been talking with the governor's office to try to get Johnson to support the package. The official said the group had already tried pushing Republicans in the legislature, but so far nobody was budging on the issue.
Efforts to pass a new background check bill in Minnesota failed recently, but Bloomberg's group is hopeful that advocates in the state could help usher in new legislation.
"We're sort of building a team up there in the state, lobbyists," the official said, "to maybe get something done this legislative session." The group is looking at the possibility of supporting a bill for universal background checks on gun purchases.
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A gun show loophole bill was making its way through the New Mexico legislature earlier this year before it hit a snag on the Senate floor. New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R), however, has said she would sign the proposal into law if it reached her desk. Martinez is an advocate of gun rights. Mayors Against Illegal Guns is hoping it can possibly work with Martinez and her office to help pass a new gun bill.
Nevada's legislature passed a universal background check bill for firearms purchases but in June, Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) vetoed it.
The bill's sponsor was state Sen. Justin Jones (D), who plans to introduce the proposal again in the next legislative session. Jones could face a recall, and if he does, the official from Bloomberg's group said Mayors Against Illegal Guns could possibly get involved to defend him. The group has also considered targeting other Nevada legislators who were obstinate on the gun bill in their upcoming elections, the official said.
Supporters of stricter gun laws in Washington have introduced a ballot initiative that would add background check requirements for a host of gun sales. Opponents of stricter gun laws have their own initiative as well. The official said Mayors Against Illegal Guns will likely get involved there with money or by helping the get out the vote with the field operation. Technical support has already been provided for drafting the legislation, the official said.


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The Boy with Tape on His Face has reinvented silent comedy for the twenty-first century. But it was all an accident, he tells Time Out
While most stand-ups are busy fiddling with the wording of their latest barbed remark, Sam Wills - aka The Boy with Tape on His Face - is more likely to be found wandering the aisles of his local discount store in search of the perfect plunger.
With a piece of duct tape restricting speech, Wills mixes prop comedy, mime, puppetry, stand-up, music and vaudeville to create an act that is truly unique - and that comedy club audiences certainly aren't used to. 'It's stand-up without talking', he tells me from his Southend home. 'You can feel the initial confusion from an audience as I walk out on stage; they tense up. It's such a good feeling.'
For Wills, overcoming the initial challenge of getting everyone on board is evidently part of the fun. But gaining the audience's trust is also crucial in order for the success of his act. A large part of a BWTOHF show is coercing audience members into becoming the punchline of his next gag. 'I treat them a wee bit like dolls,' he says, which isn't as sinister it sounds. Audience participation at a Tape Face gig is never humiliating. 'If there's too much responsibility on an audience member there's too much pressure for them to fail,' says the 32-year-old New Zealander. 'Whereas if you give them the tiniest amount of responsibility, the moment they achieve it and the audience goes crazy, they feel like a star.' Whether they're forming a makeshift Jackson 5 or being transformed into a human puppet, this gentle approach comes from years of seeing 'audience members treated badly', he says. 'I want them leave the stage a hero.'
This type of audience interaction is similar to that of street-performers and circus acts, which is where Wills's background lies. He studied at a circus school in New Zealand for two years - 'I majored in juggling and minored in acrobatic clowning' - before he discovered the sideshow acts of Coney Island and Jim Rose and became interested in 'sword swallowing and hammering nails up my nose'. In fact, the move into comedy was purely an accident. 'One night I got a phone call from [fellow Kiwi comic] Jarred Christmas,' he explains. 'One of the acts at his comedy club had cancelled at the last minute. He asked if I could come down and do some tricks to fill the slot. I threw together a little suitcase of props, did my odd sideshow things on stage, and it all seemed to go over quite well.'
From there he spent seven years on the New Zealand comedy circuit performing what he describes as 'carni-comedy'. But he grew tired of the repetition. 'Everyone expected me to just learn more tricks and do more talking. So I decided to challenge myself and do a silent character that didn't do any tricks at all.'
Initially, the radical change proved difficult to adjust to. 'At the first gig, within 30 seconds I ruined it by talking to someone in the front row,' he recalls. 'So the next night I went back and put a big hunk of tape across my mouth to completely stop me talking.'
Wills moved to the UK three years ago and took The Boy with Tape on His Face to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 garnering huge critical acclaim and receiving an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for Best Newcomer. He returned to the festival in August, selling out one of the Fringe's biggest venues and he's now embarking on his first UK tour. Did he ever expect the character would take off in the way it has? 'Not at all. It was originally just a little joke, a five-minute sketch because I was bored.' And the success continues. Most recently he found himself accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Comedy Prom. 'How silly is that?!' Wills exclaims as I mention the gig. 'It was incredible. I was looking out at the venue, shaking two horses heads, with a full orchestra behind me, thinking: What am I doing!?'
After such a huge gig, where can he take his vaudeville-for-the-twenty-first-century character from there? 'Well, I'm working on a whole new hour of material for 2012 and I'm always trying to think of ways I can make the show a bigger experience. My influences are things like "The Muppets" and Wile E Coyote, so I think if a cartoon character can make a crossbow fire a plunger 30 feet, why can't I?' That would explain why he's shopping for plungers…


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Apple's Changing Business Model: What Should the World's Richest Company Do with All Those Profits?
Apple Inc. stands out as the world's most famous, and currently richest, company. To the general public, Apple is known for three things: its intriguing CEO Steve Jobs, who has achieved iconic status in death as in life; its amazing iOS products, especially the iPhone and the iPad, and their predecessor the iPod, which have literally placed sophisticated technology in the hands of the masses; and its stratospheric stock price, which even when in March 2013 it had dropped to 63 percent of its September 2012 peak, gave Apple the highest market capitalization of any company in the world. As a result of its phenomenal success, at the end of fiscal 2012 Apple had $121 billion in liquid assets. In April 2013 the company committed to distributing as much as $100 billion to shareholders in stock buybacks and cash dividends by the end of calendar 2015. By employing the theory of innovative enterprise to analyze how over the course of its 37-year history Apple became so profitable, we argue that there is no economic justification from a risk-reward perspective for this distribution to Apple's shareholders. Taxpayers and workers have superior claims on these profits. In analyzing by whom value is created as a basis for considering for whom value should be extracted, we raise the implications of Apple's changing business model for the future of innovation at this heretofore exceptional American company and even in the U.S. economy as a whole.
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This weekend just happens to mark the 20th anniversary of the pivotal Old Trafford occasion when Steve Bruce rose to head home two late goals for a comeback win against Sheffield Wednesday which put Manchester United back on course for their first League title in 26 years.
Two decades on, Sir Alex Ferguson's old faithful of a central defender had reason to be grateful for a different helping hand that steadied his Hull City side on the road to automatic promotion to the top flight.
Last Tuesday, Bruce's charges relinquished three of the four points they had in hand on Watford in second spot in the Championship table, getting stung 1-0 at home by Gianfranco Zola's Hornets.
Yesterday, his pussyfooting Tigers were in danger of suffering another setback, toothless in attack and second best to Tony Mowbray's Middlesbrough side, until the 63rd minute turning point of Robbie Brady's curling free-kick from deep on the right.
Jason Steele, in the visitors' goal, got down to meet it but only succeeded in pushing the ball up into the roof of his net. The relief was palpable but Hull and their manager had to endure a few nervy moments before the precious points were safe. "It wasn't pretty but we hung on," Bruce reflected. "I've heard some nonsense in the dressing room that Robbie watched Ronaldo or Bale take a free-kick like that and make it bounce before the keeper. It looked to me like it hit a divot and the keeper made a mess of it."
And so Middlesbrough's freefalll continues. This was a 12th loss in 16 League games since the turn of the year for Mowbray's charges.
However, Boro settled quicker than their somewhat nervous hosts, Grant Leadbitter dictating operations in central midfield and the roving Sammy Ameobi cutting in from the right to test David Stockdale in the home goal with a low drive from 20 yards.
It took the Tigers until midway through the first half to start digging their claws in, Robert Koren unleashing a thumping shot from distance that Steele did well to push wide and George Boyd firing a shot into the side-netting.
Still, Boro were back on top, with the home crowd getting more than a little restless, when Brady despatched his fateful free-kick and Steele fumbled.
The visitors finished with a threatening flourish too, Scott McDonald's back-heeled effort drawing a fine save from Stockdale, and André Bikey forcing a goal-line clearance from Corry Evans.
Not that Mowbray was remotely consoled. "We need to score goals," the Middlesbrough manager lamented.
Hull City (3-5-2): Stockdale; Bruce (Rosenior, 45), Faye, Chester; Elmohamady, Koren, Evans, Quinn, Brady; Gedo (Simpson, 54), Boyd (Fathi, 79).
Middlesbrough (4-3-2-1): Steele; Hoyte, Williams, Woodgate (Bikey, h-t), Halliday; McEachran, Leadbitter, Carayol (Zemmama, 68); Ameobi (McDonald, 68), Haroun; Miller.
Referee: Simon Hooper.