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Mission: Impossible
In this exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, The Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, and the Fantastic History of Skateboarding, GQ researcher Cole Louison chronicles the fascinating and dangerous world of competitive skating
GQ researcher Cole Louison gave himself an impossible assignment: to write the complete history of a sport without it reading like a dusty encyclopedia or self-promotional wiki page. And make it interesting to an audience of people who don't really care about that sport (while not losing the millions of potential readers who do). Plus explain what an "ollie" is. With his first book, The Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, and the Fantastic History of Skateboarding, he's accomplished just that.
Calling The Impossible a history of skateboarding somehow reduces it. Even though it's an authoritative look at the sport—a comprehensive translation and codification of a multi-billion dollar global cultural phenomenon (and soon-to-be Olympic event)—the book is more than a simple history. It's a beatifying and gratifying journey that unfolds over a well-paced and deftly woven two-part biography of skateboarding's seminal figures: hyper-minded physical and mental genius, Rodney Mullen, and reigning X Games champ, 21-year old Ryan Sheckler (with a murderer's row of supporting characters like skinny kid technician-turned-media-sensation cum ambassador to the sport, Tony Hawk). Each rider's life could fill its own tome and then some. But the tale of their relationships to and influence upon one another and the general simpatico between the masters of this universe stitches together a much more evolved brand of history.
Much of "their stories" have never before been told, particularly Mullen's, whose adolescent home life is related with harrowing detail and truthfulness. And none of skateboarding's insane and underreported history has ever been told this well (not even in Dogtown and Z-Boys, which Louison more or less takes to task in these pages). The complex narrative is made perceptible through the most disciplined prose possible. The passages unpacking particular tricks are feats of writing akin to the mastery necessary to land on asphalt the maneuvers Louison's describing.
The Impossible proves many things: Skateboarding—like writing—is difficult and important. Doing either one well matters. There's a difference between sticking the landing and not. And Louison has stuck his. See the proof below: The Impossible's first chapter. Out today; for the rest of the book, go to Amazon.—Luke Zaleski
The Impossible:** Chapter 1**
There's This Kid . . .
** July 30, 2010**
Ojai, California. A little before midnight. A big bald moon shines down through hulking conifer trees made lush by the mountain air and the California sun. One hundred miles northeast of Los Angeles, in his home in the valley of the Topatopa Mountains, Rodney Mullen is watching a rerun of the X-Games finals broadcast earlier in the day. Drinking agave-sweetened tea, as per his wake-up routine, John Rodney Mullen, forty-three, remains the greatest skateboarder in the world, the godfather of all modern skateboarding tricks, and, before he quit competing, the longest-reigning "world champion" of a sport that's a little older than he is, which began as a bad-surf-day activity and today is practiced in America by 8 million people.
Mullen doesn't typically follow contests, but has tuned in to watch the finals on ESPN, where Ryan Sheckler is about to take first place in the street skateboarding competition. Mullen's been watching Sheckler since around 2000, when friend and pro Chet Thomas called. "It was: 'There's this kid, there's this kid—and you should watch him,' " Mullen recalls. "I remember Chet saying that, and Chet never says it like that."
At this moment on the TV, Sheckler's at the edge of the street course in downtown LA, where the Games have been held for the last three years and today are broadcast to 382 million homes across the world. One of Sheckler's weirder abilities is that he can drop his skateboard and be standing on it almost simultaneously. He can also do this with a little step, and then be standing facing you while he moves forward like Dracula, with one sneaker centered on the board and the other a millimeter off the ground. He does this now, moving along the perimeter of the course toward his starting point.
In person, Sheckler looks like a pro athlete and a supermodel. He has a chiseled, tanned body, gold-green eyes, soft hair you want to touch, and a face that glistens into the air around him. But he doesn't look like that now. Now he's at the lip of the course's low roll-in, with the look of removed engagement he's watched clocks and start-lights and sponsor-laden scoreboards with ever since he started beating pros at age ten—a look an elder skater once described as neither caring nor uncaring, and his mentor describes as "Get to the matter."
Ryan is in his sponsors' clothes with his signature shoe's right toe on his board's tail. His left, more intact, more tattooed arm is bent to his waist, and his right, more deformed arm is hanging by his side. Save for one, all pros, parents, and members of the press watch the contest from the dark shade of the white tents at the course's edge. Closest to Sheckler is Nyjah Huston, leaning in the shade of the high camera tower that's hung with dark netting and screened with the Games' big X logo. Rail-thin in huge clothes, antenna'd, with dreads down his back and a heavy necklace down his chest, Huston, fifteen, is the one guy currently ahead of Sheckler, and the guy who at age eleven bumped him from the record books as the youngest pro skateboarder in the world.
Sheckler's facing the slight incline leading down to a handrail spanning seven elongated concrete stairs, then another incline down to three freestanding, odd-angled blue walls that resemble a bowled corner of a skatepark that's been picked up and shattered. He's just changed shirts but is otherwise soaked. His backwards hat is saturated down the brim and his face is shining. There are long, fat-headed trails of sweat coming from his sideburns and moving down the skin's slick surface, wetting the huge diamonds in his ears, making their incessant flash warped and colorful.
Ryan Allen Sheckler. Sheckler. Ryan. Young Ryan. shecks, as the big white letters read across the smeared bottom of his wad skateboard. An indisputably accomplished athlete in terms of contests and medals and sponsorship. A child prodigy, reality MTV star, guest on Kimmel and Leno, a producer, businessman, and here, now, a decade-long veteran of professional competing-for-money contests and the most divisive figure in skateboarding, whose historic roster Ryan joined when he was thirteen. A list with names like Davey Hilton and Pat McGee. Alan Gelfand and Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva. Jay Adams. Rodney. Tony. Christian. Cab and Tommy. Natas and Gonz. Danny. Mike V and Mike T and Frankie and Jason. Burnquist. Bucky. Ron Allen. Ronnie and Koston. Daewon Song. P-Rod and P. J. Melch and Richie. Nyjah Huston and Dennis Busenitz. Chris Haslam. Antwuan Dixon. Josiah Gatlyn. Chris Cole. Lizard King. Willow.
When the light turns he pushes once off the platform and then bends and kicks out his right leg and lunges forward, eyes on the red wad rail ahead. Small, muscled, and "made to skate," according to his mentor, Sheckler stays bent as he turns his shoulders 90 degrees and puts his back foot on the board and bends into a Z shape as he lowly roars toward the stairs. Three seconds have passed by the time he clicks down on the board's tail and leaves the ground. An ollie.
A regular-footed skater, he points his toes to the top of the board's right side, toward the rail now just in front of him. Here, though, he's slid his front foot to the board's left to set up for a kickflip. The kickflip—invented by Mullen twenty-five years ago and perfected by Sheckler when he was six—is a staple of modern street skating, and occurs when riders use a toe to flick the board's heel side, spinning it once to then catch it with their feet.
Sheckler's long been able to flip as high as he can ollie, which is high, and before he's halfway up the rail the board is upside down under his new sneakers, with his head and shoulder and forward-facing left knee aligned over the angled spinning deck—his back leg kicked out of the way, one arm extended over the rest of the rail, and one arm sideways, trying to balance his body as it turns 90 degrees as he looks over his shoulder, since he's going to land backwards on the rail. Land backwards with all his moving weight on the concave board on a long metal wad cylinder a little bit bigger around than a walnut, then slide and fall to the ground. He's bent in the air, with his fingers splayed and his etched arms raised like a soaring ape, and when he lands on the board, he lands centered and slides down the rail for a quarter-second before they both dismount and turn in midair to land rolling forward.
There's the thick squelching sound of all four urethane wheels landing at once, and by the time the crowd erupts, Sheckler's turned and begun pumping toward the waved blue walls ahead. He pumps his foot down and back twice, hard, and on the second kick, turns and tucks and leans back and rolls up the six-foot wall to take flight.
Like a lot of skaters of his generation, Ryan has an ability to stick to the board the way older pros can't—and he's many feet above the wall's jagged lip and turned halfway toward the packed two-mezzanine grandstand when he grabs between his feet and brings the board around. He's now between this wall and another, both curved and odd-angled, moving 10 feet over the concrete, one arm up, his folded shadow stretched down the wall below.
He turns frontside—meaning, the direction opposite the way his toes are pointing. Originally a surf word, frontside is still the term riders use when carving away from the wave they face, a backwards or blind carve. So Ryan turns frontside with his head down, back until the top of the differently angled wall enters his periphery and he can stomp down and land and ride away clean. Which he does.
Eight seconds have passed. Tony Hawk is announcing the event from a well-hidden booth. People in 175 countries are watching on ABC and ESPN and ESPN2, and 30,000 are watching from the stands.
Like all big contests, the X Games are somewhat disdained in the general skateboard community, in part because of the point system used to rank skate runs. Similar to the Dr. J. Evans Pritchard method used in Dead Poets Society, the rating system ranks an overall run by assigning value to each trick, with more points for more complex or difficult maneuvers. Hence, a frontside boardslide gives Ryan a certain trick value from the judges. A backside or regular forward slide gives him few points because it's deemed easier. Despite the vague notion of point systems—Sheckler once told me most pros don't fully understand them—he needs to do something big and hard to score at least a 91.34 if he wants to beat Huston.
He does this. After a few tricks on the transfer ramps and a grind over an arched rail that sounds like a sword being drawn down a water stone, Sheckler pushes back to the starting platform, pops his board into his hand, waits a breath, and starts again.
This time he comes from the other side, so the rail up ahead is to his left. Canadian pro Ryan Decenzo; Sierra Fellers of Whitefish, Montana; and a fifteen-year-old Illini named Chaz Ortiz have come out from the tent to watch Ryan.
Sheckler tucks into his blastoff stance a little differently this time, because he's actually going backwards. He's choked way up on the board's tail—the end closest to the approaching rail—and his back's straight with his arms wound around his torso. Backwards in skateboarding is called "fakie." Whatever he does on the rail, he's going to start fakie.
He snaps and fakie ollies up over the rail, and spins 90 degrees so he's facing the stairs, like before. Except that's not what he's going to do, and when he's facing down the seven concrete points the rail's not even under him, which is the plan, because he keeps turning and rotates another 180 degrees for a 270, or "full cab," to pin the board and land backwards on the rail before sliding off and falling 3 feet to the ground.
He lands and literally bends over backwards and puts his hand back down so he won't slam his head. His right palm drags him around 180 degrees and then he flings both his arms up with his ass just over the concrete.
"That's gonna count," Hawk says automatically.
Before he's even up, Sheckler's pushing again toward the blue walls and the crowd's roar is still full when he rides up the thin concrete wave and vertically plants his back truck (the wheels' axle) over its thick uneven lip. Then, instead of popping the board off the wall and rolling down, Sheckler, perhaps inspired by the sensed blood of victory, ecutes one of his trademark blunt-force-trauma moves. With a back wheel locked over each edge of the wall, Sheckler spins like a bestial unicycler and wings his left arm out and windmills his right deformed arm behind him to rip himself off the wall frontside, or blind, over his shoulder, 180 degrees, and roll back down.
"Oh!" says Hawk. "Didn't! Even! Pop! Out!"
He softly flips off a thin low ramp leading to the roll-in area and steps off his board to bend down and let it roll back into his palm. Then he puts his left hand back on his hip and puts the board's nose to the course floor, leaning hard and facing the screen.
Hawk says he thinks Ryan has it. The other announcer pretends to disagree.
The lights change. The crowd erupts. Ryan's wet head drops as his right arm bends, his face in a smile, his hand in a fist.
Rodney Mullen was watching that night because the 2010 Games were Ryan's first competition since he'd been badly hurt the year before. The top-ranked favorite in 2009, with two previous gold medals, Sheckler had advanced directly to the finals where he flew off a stair set much like the one he dominated at the 2010 course. There he flipped the board, spun his body, and landed with all of his weight—plus the drop's thrust—channeling down his right leg, where he generates his power. When this happened his foot exploded. He was helped from the course, and soon after surgeons screwed his foot back together so it could hopefully start to heal. Throughout his career he's suffered constant injuries, usually hurt ankles and broken elbows, but this was the worst. Ryan was off his board for a full seven months, the longest he'd been away from skating since he'd started at the age of two.
While a common criticism of Sheckler is that he's overexposed, a common complaint about Mullen is that he's so hard to see. His low profile is no accident, but as a result, any recent scrap of his skate footage is immediately uploaded to YouTube—which has become skating's Widener Library—where it's copied, slowed down, looped, or scored by fans who add comments like "Rodney Mullen AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" or "?!?!?!?!?!?!?" This is partly because of Mullen's ultra-ability, but it's also because since 2003 he's shared a minuscule amount of information for a top pro. He's given two taped interviews, released three five-second clips, a few photo sequences, and in 2007, a video with ninety seconds of new skate footage. The video ended with something called a switch one-foot nose, which Mullen, in a fifteen-minute interview with Hawk, said took longer to perfect than anything done in his thirty years of professional skateboarding.
"Switch one-foot nose" means a switch-stance kickflip into a one-footed nose wheelie. And while most everything Rodney does is unique to his ability, this maneuver is especially, unimaginably impossible. The part was shot in black-and-white with a high-res mounted camera at a warehouse near where Mullen lives today.
It's hard to know what you're looking at when the camera fades from black and the glares expand into the lines of the warehouse's interior. The light is dim and the floor, walls, ceiling, and long platform directly ahead are all black. All the stuff set up for effect might be corny if it weren't for Mullen's part. The music is slow, nearly acoustic techno. They've muted the whooshing hiss of urethane wheels on painted concrete, so we don't hear anything as Mullen rolls into the right of the frame.
He's in a drugstore wolf T-shirt and big jeans and heavy torn sneakers. And while his stance has been regular for the three decades he's dominated professional skateboarding, here he appears goofy-footed with his toes pointing to the board's left. This is the "switch" part of the switch one-foot nose.
By the time he enters the screen, Mullen's already flying out of the familiar X he makes with his arms to give them the most room to build the momentum he'll use to send energy down his body and into the board. He's in the air with the board angled at eleven o'clock before the tail even touches down, and the first sound we hear is the familiar slap of six-layer plywood on concrete.
The board is nearly vertical and a foot from the platform when Rodney flicks its top-right corner with his torn shoe. He's in a position like the board is a stepladder he's trying to climb, though his back foot is an inch over the tail. His wet arms are bent up and out and he's looking at where the board will land instead of at the board. Two seconds have passed.
Before the tail's noise has even carried itself out, Mullen has the board halfway over the platform, a foot from its surface and upside down. He's moved up so his head, knee, and front foot are all directly over the nose. His arms are out like he's trying to hug something huge and he's bent his back leg to keep it out of the way. He's not going to need it here. We're three seconds in.
And before we hit four seconds Rodney brings his front sneaker down fast and traps the nose at the angle he wants, with just enough pressure to keep the back wheels off the ground and give them wiggle room. His body's already in place. He's facing forward with his arms and back leg out for leverage, like a tightrope walker or a flying squirrel. He's still moving forward through the air, and then there's a striking sound when the wheels land on the hollow platform. It's half the usual sound since he's on two wheels, and the sound's got a weird unevenness, because the board's trying to shoot out behind him.
His side leg swings forward up to his front leg as the free tail trembles, and then he swings the free leg back like he's pushing a scooter. The board moves fore and aft under his body, but the whole time Mullen has his shoulders squared and head centered over the front truck, directly over which his sneaker is planted. It's almost like he's roller-skating on a two-wheeled skate with a very wide axle.
And he's got it. The tail does two big nods, and on the second one he has to stick the back leg way out, almost in an arabesque, to correct the balance. But he stays on top of the board, and when he brings the back leg in, his board's at the end of the platform. He gives a little relad lift with his knee so the front wheels just pass over the edge as his back foot finds the tail again, and for the first time, we hear the hard solid clock of all four wheels landing at once, because Rodney always lands everything on all four wheels. In skating it's called landing "bolts."
It's one of four maneuvers in ninety seconds of skating, unique to a man who skates every night, alone, and has reinvented the sport since he took it over at age fourteen. The footage is now four years old and, of course, just footage. I hadn't seen him skate yet. I had only viewed the greatest skater in the world on a 5-by-3-inch screen inside of a Safari window on an old PowerBook, worlds away from Mullen's nocturnal, devout life in California, where he'd fled at age twenty-one, and where skateboarding began around the time he was born.
Reprinted with permission of Lyons Press / © 2011 by Cole Louison


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The Steve Jobs resignation unleashed an avalanche of opinion and commentary when it hit the news last night. While his medical issues and leave status made it somewhat inevitable, many people were still taken by surprise at the announcement. Whatever your opinion of Apple and Jobs' leadership, you can't deny his tremendous influence on the tech industry. But many people are wondering how the Apple brand — and it's success — will be affected by the loss of such a strong presence at the helm.
TR members commenting on the story on TechRepublic's Facebook page last night brought their own speculation and sentiment to the news:
Scot Rutherford: Of course he'll stay as Chairman. It's a natural progression and he is likely pretty damn tired after turning half the planet into early tech adopters.
Gordan Kustic: right, it was his time, and he did a great job. World is not the same without Apple Inc., I have faith that their products will continue to push the limits...
Khamis M. Mustafa: This is inevitable. Though not the perfect replacement, hope Tim will be able to carry them along as one best tech company in the world. Many will see this as apple era coming to an end and yet a chance for MS/Nokia and of course the close competitor Samsung.
Ron Koski: Maybe now some Apple apps. will become compatible with Windows products. I can wish, can't I?
Shamveel Quraishi: Bring back Woz! Tim who?
Having now had a little more time to read about Tim Cook and take a peek at what the business analysts are saying about the move, where do you think Apple goes from here?
See Jason Hiner's take, "Five ways Apple will never be the same without Jobs as CEO," and check out this sampling of the commentary from around CBSInteractive:
- CNET: A look at new CEO Tim Cook
- MoneyWatch: Apple After Steve Jobs: Poised for Years of Success
- CBS News: Apple's new CEO, Tim Cook, a business "maestro"
- ZDNet: Jobs' departure won't diminish Apple's brand
- ZDNet: Thank you, Steve. For all you've done, for all of us.
- ZDNet: Steve Jobs: Thinking through his CEO legacy
- ZDNet: Steve Jobs: Then and Now
- CBS News: Photo Gallery: The life of Jobs
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(Part I of Harry Potter World)
Hogwarts is amazing, both inside and out. Not built to scale, but a good size. You go beneath the hill for the recreated classrooms/halls/offices. I really hope they expand this because it's just great for us fans.
First order of business, though, someone needs to redesign the free lockers where you put all your stuff. You can't bring it with you on this motion-simulated ride. Note: I do NOT do well on motion-simulated rides, but this is one not to be missed. Especially if you've always wondered what it's like to ride a broomstick. The ride was the best part of the day, even though ours stopped for about 2 minutes midway through. I heard stories all week how the ride kept breaking down; let's hope they get that fixed.
Another tip: volunteer to go as a single rider. Have your whole family do it and you'll get on the ride in about 10 minutes instead of the 2 hour wait that we did. (Emily, we have to get you riding by yourself!). The ride contraption you sit in looks like a cross between an upright coffin and a pew. The bar thingy comes down over your head, the sides extend out past your shoulders, so you're lucky if you can see the person's feet next to you, let alone talk to them or hold their hand. So, go for the single rider thing and ride it a few times, and compare notes with family and friends after. They have a singe riders line that moves really quickly.
Tip: put as much of your personal stuff as you can in your pockets and not in the locker, namely your wallet with money to buy water, because you'll need it, a tiny umbrella b/c there is very little shade when you're in the "back lot" walking through the roped off line, and the fans are only blowing hot, sticky air at you and aren't really any help (and someone didn't think to put an awning up over this ungodly hot waiting area, nor is there any place to sit down. They have water fountains, but they're like teasers. By the time you get to them, you're only about 8 minutes from the door. The other 2 hours prior to that, you're looking longingly at the water vendor but you don' t have your wallet b/c nowhere is there any sign at the lockers that you're in for a 2 hour broiling wait. Also, put your camera in your pocket. I owe all these interior shots to Emily b/c she had her camera. Stupid me, stuck mine in the locker. Dumb…
The locker area is a mess. People coming off the ride (and out of the gift shop, convenient how they walk you through that, but, hello? We don't have our wallets…) are trying to get their stuff out of the locker while people coming in are trying to put their stuff in lockers. The biometric locks were a little touchy, so I really wish I hadn't put my cell phone and money in it. This is a good place for a fanny pack, I don't care how touristy it looks.
So, now you have nothing with you and off you go to explore the castle. Universal needs to take not only People-Moving lessons from Disney, but also How to Construct a Ride classes. You know how, in the Haunted Mansion in Disney you sit in this little motorized cart and here a ghost talking to you throughout the ride? That's what they should do with the walk through the castle. You could have Ron, Harry, Hermione, Sirius, Dumbledore, etc.
talking to you as you wend through the Dark Arts classroom and Dumbledore's office. They could point out the Mirror of Erised and the pensieve. You could hear the pictures in the hall better than when you walk through. It's a great concept, but they need to up the presentation.
Especially when you hit the back lot out back. I sincerely hope they were just anxious to open the park and have big plans for this waiting line b/c it's a FAIL of EPIC PROPORTIONS. Poor shade, hot air from the fans, no seats, no water to drink, and the decor is sorely lacking. It looks like a back lot of a movie set, and while maybe that'd be cool to see, it's just not cool in bazillion-degree heat.
All this sounds like I hated it, doesn't it? I didn't. I really really didn't. There's magic there. I just wished someone had thought beyond the magic they wanted to create to the reality we all have to deal with waiting in line. Disney knows how to do this – someone please go take their management class or something!
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I guess I shouldn't be particularly surprised, but man, the Honda Passport is pretty good at doing burnouts. But wait! That's not a Honda!
As you may remember, the Honda Passport was a rebadged version of the Isuzu Rodeo. What I personally did not remember is that the Rodeo was called the 'Wizard' in its home market of Japan.
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As one of the Microsoft's launch partners along with Nokia, Samsung and HTC, Huawei has been an awfully mysterious company in the Windows Phone ecosystem. First there was complete silence for a long time, then we had the whole situation in the US.
Just when people are starting to forget about this company, there was a short outburst of rumors and leaked pictures of its Ascend W1. We reported that the Ascend W1 probably won't be available for consumers in 2012, now we're able to relay reports that provide the Windows Phone a more definite launch time: January 2013, at next year's CES.
We also published a number of leaked photos of the Ascend W1, in both white and blue designs. It's believed the white version, an early engineering prototype, won't make it to the market.
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The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the most heroic battles in the annals of military history. Three hundred Spartan soldiers, lead by their king Leonidas, engaged in a mission of "suicidal self-sacrifice" by holding off the mighty Persian army for three days at the pass at Thermopylae which was no more than 20 yards wide. This battle has been made into a Hollywood movie entitled, simply, "300" (2006).
The recent surprise success of the movie 300 and the amount of controversy it engendered once again reminds us of the power of movie-making and history and its impact on modern conceptions of national, ethnic and religious identity. How accurate is Hollywood's retelling of one of the most famous battles of antiquity?
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"Las Vegas loves Halloween¨, announces this week's issue of the Las Vegas free newspaper, Seven, featuring a green bodypaint Bride of Frankenstein in a mummy-bandage bikini. The model, Olivia Lakis, poses in makeup by Natasha Chamberlin, who also created the striking Day of the Dead Princess on the cover.
Of special interest — ahem! — the very blog you are reading gets singled out in Seven as a Site to See by journalist Geoff Carter! And a nice writeup it is, too. The whole issue is available online as a PDF file.
Frankensteinia also gets rated as an Internet Pick of the Week by Johnny Dee in the October 30th issue of the UK's The Guardian! I couldn't be prouder to get a mention in my favorite newspaper. And congratulations to friends and fellow bloggers Jeanette Laredo of Monster Land and Curt Purcell The Groovy Age of Horror for being listed as well!
Halloween time is always good for us horror bloggers and my hits were in record territory all month. A lot of credit for the traffic belongs to John Rozum, Head Pumpkin of the Countdown to Halloween event that saw an astounding 200+ blogs participating this year. Onward and Upwards, John!
I hope you enjoyed the Book Month event on Frankensteinia. A lucky thirteen books were covered here in October, with sincere thanks going out to guest bloggers Craig Yoe, The Vicar of VHS and Martin Powell for their excellent contributions.
I've got plans for more special events and I'm very excited about the posts I have lined up for the coming days and weeks of November. I've got a lot of Frankenstein art to gladden your eyeballs and some great "archeological" posts that will track Frankenstein through its earliest theatrical appearances, and even further back, all the way to Mary Shelley's very inspiration for her masterpiece! I'm looking forward to sharing it all with you.
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There is no disputing that Brazilian fashion really sets the standard for sexy bikinis, Ipanema beachwear and curvy, nature-inspired design. With this weekend marking a high-wattage celebration of swimwear collections at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Miami, we are taking a little time out here in sweltering NYC – to celebrate all things Brazilian – Rosa Cha swimwear, a cool caipirinha drink with organic lime, ethanol made from sugarcane, recycled Melissa Shoes, and what the heck, Gisele Bündchen (she did once date Leonardo DiCaprio)! But not to be overlooked is the latest collection from Creollus designs. We were recently tipped off on their one-of-a-kind, banana fiber bikinis and eco-chic accessories. If going totally organic is truly your M.O. for flaunting what you've got, look no further as crocheted-pieces by Creollus will definitely reveal the real you!
The Candice recycled banana fiber Collection by Creollus is a fair trade enterprise that promotes artisan-made goods and recycled, homespun resourcefulness. Their super-cute bikini, tote, and beach pieces are hand-crocheted by two women artisans from southern Brazil. The founders of Creollus wanted to find a viable use for the banana plant fiber that is often discarded after fruit harvesting. They consequently found an innovative way to sustainably prepare and crochet this strong and biodegradable fiber into stylish cover-ups, bikinis, totes, and brimmed sun hats.
Launched in 2001, Creollus has created an impressive network of Brazilian handcrafters who aid in the protection of the environment when creating these one-of-a-kind garments. The founder states," At Creollus, we are making a real difference by creating a sustainable resource for commonly discarded but highly recyclable materials. Our entire company product inventory is born from techniques that equally value and respect a cleaner and healthier natural environment through the recycling of common commercial and household materials. In creating our company, we are enabling a unique group of sorely underserved artists to form a business cooperative that will significantly improve their standard of living, and give them an appreciative, worldwide audience for their craft."
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A Patchwork Guide to the (Disappearing) Neighborhood
Foreclosure Quilts: Art and Photos by Kathryn Clark
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In the Deep South, where I grew up, quilts are a common sight in most people's homes. Some of the most beautiful quilts were made during times of hardship, using cloth left over from fabric cut to make clothing. There is often an endearing story behind each quilt. They act as a functional memory, a historical record of difficult times.
Today we are facing those difficult times. From 1997 to 2004, I worked as an urban planner designing new urbanist neighborhoods across the United States, and when foreclosures began to occur I was acutely aware of how big an impact it would have on our cities and towns throughout the United States. Entire blocks of homes have been razed in places like Detroit and Cleveland.
News reports generally tell this story with words and numbers, but offer few visuals. The only way to see the actual mapped numbers of foreclosures is through paid access to maps on foreclosure websites such as RealtyTrac and Foreclosure.com. But examining the sheer number of foreclosures on these sites makes a much stronger impression than seeing graphs and numbers.
I wanted to create some kind of endearing record to hold our attention on the staggering number of home losses. This is not the first time we've had a foreclosure crisis in the United States, but it seems that we forget the past too easily. I was struck by the enormity of the problem and wanted to help people see what the crisis looks like in a way they could relate to. What better way than a quilt, which reminds people of home?
The quilts in this collection depict neighborhoods with some of the highest foreclosure rates in the United States. They are spread across the country to demonstrate that no region is immune. The quilts are pieced together using the patterns of actual city block layouts of the chosen neighborhood.
I used RealtyTrac to locate foreclosed homes that have existed over a span of nine to 12 months. Within these quilt blocks, foreclosed property lines are marked with thread. I then tear open holes within these lines to reveal the underlying layer of cloth. The more foreclosures in these neighborhoods, the more fragile the quilt.
The random lot locations yield an unexpected beauty when laid out on fabric. These torn holes weaken the protective nature of a quilt. They suggest that the situation is so dire that even a quilt can't provide the security one needs.
The neighborhoods shown are not an anomaly; they are a recurring pattern seen from coast to coast, urban to suburban neighborhoods. The problem has not been solved; it is still occurring, changing shape, and affecting more and more of us.
Closing down banks and holding up families, the fight against unjust foreclosures takes off.
When Corbyn Hightower's financial world fell apart, a ragtag community came together to show how lively neighborhoods grow new livelihoods.
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Treasuries rose for a third day, pushing 10-year note yields close to the lowest level in almost two weeks on concern Cypriot lawmakers may reject a levy on bank deposits required to secure aid, boosting refuge appeal.
The benchmark note's yield dropped as the Federal Reserve started a two-day meeting amid speculation policy makers will decide to keep buying bonds to support economic growth. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said this month "premature" interest- rate increases would stifle the economy. A report showed new U.S. home construction rose in February and building permits climbed to the highest level in almost five years.
"It's strictly just a flight-to-quality bid," said Charles Comiskey, head of Treasury trading in New York at Bank of Nova Scotia, one of 21 primary dealers that trade with the U.S. central bank. "The Fed really has to mention the economy has improved somewhat. The real fear for this market is that they change their tune somewhat and they could, because the data has changed."
The 10-year yield dropped two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 1.93% at 10:14 a.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The yield fell to 1.90% yesterday, the lowest since March 6. It has closed between 1.9% and 2.06% since March 5. The price of the 2% note due February 2023 rose 6/32, or $1.88 per $1,000 face amount, to 100 19/32.
Yields on 30-year bonds decreased two basis points to 3.17% after touching 3.11% yesterday, the lowest level since March 6.
Outside Issues
"The concern is not about Cyprus itself, but the potential for contagion and how it affects the rest of Europe," said Jason Rogan, director of U.S. government trading at Guggenheim Partners LLC, a New York-based brokerage for institutional investors. "We continue to be stuck in the 1.9 to 2.06 range. The market wants to go to higher yields, but because of the issues outside of the U.S. that have gained steam, there continues to be a tug of war within the range."
The 10-year term premium, a model that includes expectations for interest rates, growth and inflation, was at negative 0.7%, the most expensive level since March 5. A negative reading indicates investors are willing to accept yields below what's considered fair value.
Treasuries due in a decade or more are trading at almost the cheapest level since 2011 relative to global peers with comparable maturities, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. Yields on the Treasuries reached 54 basis points higher than those in an index of other sovereign debt on March 14, the most since August 2011, the data showed. The spread was 53 basis points yesterday.
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The Spiritual Ground of Wellbeing - Meditation as an art of healingThis Meditatio seminar will take place in York, England. Laurence Freeman OSB, Professor Peter Gilbert and others from different faith traditions will be addressing the impact of spirituality in general and meditation in particular on mental health issues.For enquiries please contact: email@example.com
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The Bisons went into the ninth inning with a 6-2 lead, but Fresno State, the defending College World Series Champion, came back with five runs to take a 7-6 win Sunday afternoon at Beiden Field in Fresno, Calif.
The Bisons gave Fresno State a 2-0 lead as they gave up one run in each of the first innings.
In the second inning the Bisons tied the game with two runs. Allen Bolden was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. Branden Cadavid singled to left field. Ryan Wilkins put down a sacrifice bunt that moved Bolden to third and Cadavid to second.
Tennyson Dodd fouled out to the first baseman. Logan Hostettler, who had an individual season high three RBI for the game, drove in Bolden and Cadavid with a single to center.
The Bisons took a 3-2 lead in the third inning. M.L. Williams led off with a single to center field and then stole second. Tyler Wilson brought Williams across the plate with a single to center.
Hostettler blasted a home run to left field to start the fifth inning and give the Bisons a 4-2 advantage.
In the sixth the Bisons added two more runs. Justin Sanders singled to left field. Bolden then slammed a home run to center, his second home run of the series.
In the ninth Brennan Gowens led off with a double to left center. Dusty Robinson walked. Danny Muno singled to left field to score Gowens. Tom Mendonca homered to left to bring in Robinson and Nuno to tie the game at 6-6.
Alan Ahmady singled to left. Gavin Hedstrom bunted to pitcher Kyle Tognazzini and was safe. Danny Grubb singled through the left side of the field to score Ahmady with the game-winning run.
Charles Williams made a rare Sunday start for the Bisons. He scattered eight hits and gave up only two runs, one earned, in 6.1 innings. He struck out four and walked four.
Tognazzini, who was credited with the win in game one in the series, came on to pitch and lasted 2.2 innings. Pitching once again in front of friends and relatives from his home state Tognazzini gave up seven hits and five runs, all earned.
Fresno State out-hit the Bisons 15-10.
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KENNEBUNK, Maine — Alexis Wright and Mark Strong decided in October 2010 to set up a prostitution business in Kennebunk, a venture that would last until February 2012, generate more than $150,000 in income and eventually lead to the indictment of Wright and Strong on more than 160 charges, combined, according to court records.
KENNEBUNK, Maine — Alexis Wright and Mark Strong decided in October 2010 to set up a prostitution business in Kennebunk, a venture that would last until February 2012, generate more than $150,000 in income and eventually lead to the indictment of Wright and Strong on more than 160 charges, combined, according to court records.
Records attached to the indictments of both Wright and Strong tell a story of two individuals who for nearly a year and a half allegedly ran an operation in which Wright would have sex with clients, secretly taping them on equipment set up by Strong, all while collecting tens of thousands of dollars in fees.
Wright, 29, of Wells, and Strong, 57, of Thomaston, were both indicted Wednesday by a York County grand jury. Wright is facing 106 charges ranging from engaging in prostitution to tax evasion, while Strong is facing 59 charges, including promotion of prostitution and violation of privacy.
The indictment documents state Strong would assist Wright with investigating patrons and "controlling, managing, supervising or otherwise operating" the business.
The indictment also states Strong agreed with Wright to set up video recorders and/or Internet connections to record clients without their knowledge or their consent, allowing Strong to view the videos of the clients engaging in sexual acts with Wright. The document states Strong installed or used a device in a private place on more than one occasion for "observing, photographing, recording, amplifying or broadcasting sounds or events."
Those records indicate that, while this was going on, Wright was receiving thousands of dollars in public assistance from the state, claiming to be making as little as $6,000 a year.
Attorney Sarah Churchill, who is representing Wright, said Thursday that she had seen the indictment and associated paperwork, but had no comment at this time.
DHHS says it was duped
Court records indicate Wright received more than $10,000 in food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families between Jan. 1, 2008, and Feb. 29, yet told the Department of Health and Human Services that her only income was from her work as a Zumba instructor and that she had only $225 in the bank.
According to copies of DHHS paperwork attached to the indictment records, Wright, then living in an apartment on Day Street in Kennebunk, claimed in February 2010 that she was working at UNUM as a fitness instructor for $180 every two weeks, at Quest Fitness in Kennebunk for $72 a week and for the Kennebunk Parks and Recreation Department for $1,500 each quarter. Lines indicating former employment by the town of Yarmouth and University Southern Maine are crossed out.
DHHS said she also claimed to be receiving $97 weekly for child support for her son.
As far as assets go, Wright listed in the DHHS paperwork her 2006 Toyota 4Runner and $225 spread over two bank accounts. She claimed to be paying $285 in rent and $37 in utilities.
In May 2010, Wright claimed that both she and her son were receiving MaineCare and that her only income was $1,500 paid quarterly by the Kennebunk Parks and Recreation Department and $97 paid weekly for child support.
She crossed out previous income she had listed for her work as a self-employed fitness instructor for UNUM in Portland and Quest Fitness in Kennebunk.
As far as assets go, Wright again listed her 2006 Toyota 4Runner and $225 spread over two bank accounts. She claimed to be paying $285 in rent and $37 in utilities.
In March 2011, Wright's DHHS paperwork shows she and her son were both receiving food stamps, MaineCare and other assistance and living at Pleasant Street in Kennebunk. Wright claimed her rent was $309 a month and she was paying $40 in utilities. Her income once again included the weekly $97 in child support, in addition to $9,450 in semi-annual income as a self-employed dance teacher. Her assets were listed as the same.
By November 2011, Wright claimed in her DHHS paperwork that she had moved to Loop Road in Wells, where she was renting a house from her mother for $750 a month plus utilities. Under income, she listed the same $97 in child support payments, but crossed out the line noting she made $8,232 a year from her dance studio. Below, she wrote, "Going out of business," and drew an unhappy face.
Again, she claimed to have $225 in two bank accounts. She also noted that her son's father was five weeks behind on child support payments. Another note in the file, possibly from a DHHS worker, reads, "She went to DHHS in Bidd. To sign up for non-welfare support."
One of the indictment charges notes Wright "failed to disclose a TD Bank account(s) and/or other assets" on or about May 3, 2011.
Another notes that, on Nov. 16, 2011, Wright told DHHS she was going out of business and had no other income, which officials say was untrue.
Classes were being held at Wright's studio as late as this summer, and police have said her alleged prostitution business was active through February 2012, generating income in excess of $150,000.
Photos show Strong, Wright knew each other for years
Strong's attorney, Daniel Lilley of Portland, said in August that evidence will show Strong was hired to investigate Wright's complaints that she was being harassed by the Kennebunk Police Department. Lilley said Strong and Wright also shared a mutual interest in private investigation.
Strong also invested in Wright's Zumba studio and loaned her money, Lilley said, which he said his client believed was a good business investment.
Lilley did not return numerous requests for comment.
Photographs posted on the Web page for Strong Photography, as well as a modeling site created by Wright, reveal that the two knew each other as far back as 2008. The photographs of a woman who appears to be Wright date back to 2008 and carry Strong's signature watermark — "Photo by MWStrong." In many of the photos, the woman is nude or nearly nude.
Photos of the woman who appears to be Wright carrying Strong's watermark also appear under a modeling profile for "Lexi" online. While the profile was created in 2009, some photos on the site are copyright dated in 2008. A click through to Lexi's full profile reveals her name as Alexis Wright and contains an additional photograph, this one also bearing the "MWStrong" watermark.
Dozens of photos (some the same from the modeling site) of the woman who appears to be Wright, carrying Strong's watermark, are listed for sale at a Web site claiming to promote pornography stars. A profile for "Lexilove," on whose page the photos are posted, has been active since 2010 and says the woman is 28 years old, single and from Maine.
The woman states she is a single mother going to medical school to become a doctor and that buying the photos — which can be downloaded for $2 each — will help pay her way through school.
"Who knows," the woman purportedly writes, "maybe I will be treating you someday!"


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A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
FreshFortune.com will be a blog and potentially a podcast that focuses on investing and personal finance.
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A Spirited, Connected Community
Catch the spirit! Students take their academic pursuits seriously, but they'll be the first to tell you that they are passionate about life outside of the lectures and labs.
RIT is alive with energy and excitement—24/7. It won't take long for you to find your niche in this community because there are so many ways to be involved. Take advantage of the opportunities for recreation and personal growth, leadership, and entertainment that are out there. Try something new. Stretch your mind and body—and grow.
Multiple perspectives
The backgrounds and interests of RIT students contribute in many ways to the quality of campus life. RIT attracts students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries, providing a learning environment rich in diversity in classrooms, residence halls, and everywhere else on campus. A number of campus organizations and student services focus on the unique needs and interests of minority, deaf, and international students at RIT. You'll have plenty of opportunity to interact with a mind-expanding mix of people.
Housing Options
Lifestyle Floors
- Co-ed Floors
- Honors Housing
- Living-Learning Communities
- Mainstream Floors (with both deaf/hard-of-hearing and hearing students)
- Single-Sex Floors and Suites
- Wellness Lifestyle Option
- Gender Inclusive
Special Interest Houses
- Art House
- Computer Science House
- Engineering House
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- International House (American and international students)
- Photo House
- Unity House (promotes cultural awareness and diversity)
Greek Housing
- 4 Fraternities
- 5 Sororities
Living on campus
More than one-half of our full-time students live on campus in residence halls, suites, and apartments, and our self-contained, suburban location creates a safe and secure environment. Just about anything you need is available and accessible, including athletics facilities, dining halls with cuisines from around the world, a post office, a health center, and even a convenience store in the residence halls. Our student housing is among the safest, most comfortable, and technologically advanced you'll find anywhere. Find out more on the Center for Residence Life site.
Clubs and organizations
What are your interests? What do you do for fun? Whether you're into art, gaming, music, literature, politics, science, or sports, you'll almost certainly find others at RIT who share your enthusiasm. The diverse interests of our student body are reflected in the variety of activities and programs that take place on campus. More than 300 student clubs and organizations provide an incredible array of options. More information can be found on the Center for Campus Life site.
School spirit: orange and brown
Every Friday is Spirit Day, when students, faculty, and staff wear orange and brown, RIT's school colors. But it's not just in the clothes—spirit is in everything we do, from supporting our athletic teams to decorating the campus for the Brick City Homecoming Festival to welcoming new students at Orientation.
… and green
Green is a color you'll see more of here as the campus focuses on environmental concerns. Our comprehensive and interdisciplinary commitment is spearheaded by President Bill Destler, who signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment in 2008. Signed by several hundred colleges nationwide, the Presidents Climate Commitment provides support and a framework for colleges and universities to go carbon neutral.
RIT recognizes the need for wellness education in today's society. To meet this need, RIT offers an exceptional program of specifically designed courses to help students develop and maintain a well-balanced, active lifestyle. Our programs involve optimal development of the physical self, the constructive use of stress energy, and effectiveness in communicating and dealing with emotions. Consistent application of the above concepts plus other aspects of the body-mind connection assist students to enhance their health. The Wellness Education Program offers more than 550 classes. The Wellness education requirement is designed to assist students in making healthy decisions and choices to support their academic and social interactions in college and beyond. The learning experiences provided throughout the wellness curriculum are an integral part of the total educational experience at RIT.
Varsity sports
- Men's Cross Country
- Women's Cross Country
- Men's Soccer
- Women's Soccer
- Women's Tennis
- Women's Volleyball
- Men's Basketball
- Women's Basketball
- Men's Ice Hockey (NCAA Division I)
- Women's Ice Hockey (NCAA Division I)
- Men's Swimming
- Women's Swimming
- Men's Indoor Track
- Women's Indoor Track
- Men's Wrestling
- Men's Baseball
- Men's Crew
- Women's Crew
- Men's Lacrosse
- Women's Lacrosse
- Women's Softball
- Men's Tennis
- Men's Track and Field
- Women's Track and Field
More information on varsity sports can be found on the RIT Athletics site.
Recreation and intramurals
With recreational interests at an all-time high, our extensive program includes co-ed teams in everything from basketball and flag football to inner-tube water polo and golf. Tournaments help to keep the competition interesting. Join the action, give it your best— and celebrate your victories. Find out more on the Center for Recreational Sports site.
A winning tradition
RIT's intercollegiate teams have a history of excellence, recording many impressive seasons and capturing a number of conference and national championships. RIT teams are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the Atlantic Hockey Association, the Liberty League, and the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association.
RIT's Student Government supports bowling, equestrian, fencing, roller hockey, field hockey, men's lacrosse, alpine skiing, men's volleyball, water polo, and Ultimate Frisbee club-level teams, among others. Most club teams compete on an intercollegiate level, although some are solely for recreational purposes. Several have competed in national championship tournaments.
Unwind, relax
With the exception of your college and residence hall, you'll probably find yourself in the Student Alumni Union and Campus Center more than any other building on campus.
There are plenty of other spots on campus to grab a coffee, snack, or meal—a coffeehouse in the library, a café and market, and custom wrap and pizza outlets, among others.
Park Point at RIT, which offers a combination of apartment-style housing for approximately 850 students, also has 80,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, including Barnes & Noble@RIT, the campus store.


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On the subject of the Iran earthquake, Glenn Reynolds linked to this piece by David Aaronovitch in the Guardian, but it's too good to pass up:
"[Iran's President Mohammad] Khamenei had words of dubious comfort for survivors when he told them that 'we will rebuild Bam stronger than before'. Given the collapse of 80% of the buildings, from the old fortress to the new hospitals, the Iranian government could hardly make the new Bam as weak as the old one.
"Some will see this as simply a natural disaster of the kind to which Iran, according to Khatami, is 'prone'. Four days earlier, however, there had been another earthquake of about the same intensity, this time in California. In which about 0.000001% of the buildings suffered serious structural damage and two people were killed when an old clocktower collapsed. So why the polar disparity between Bam and Paso Robles?
"This is not a silly question. True, the Californians are much richer than the Iranians. But if you believed everything you read in the works of M Moore and others, you would anticipate a culture of corporate greed in which safety and regulation came way behind the desire to turn the quick buck. Instead you discover a society in which the protection of citizens from falling masonry seems to be regarded as enormously important.
"Whereas in Iran – for all its spiritual solidarity – the authorities don't appear to give a toss. The report in this paper from Teheran yesterday was revealing. It was one thing for the old, mud-walled citadel to fall down, but why the new hospitals? An accountant waiting to give blood at a clinic in the capital told our correspondent that it was a 'disgrace that a rich country like ours with all the revenue from oil and other natural resources is not prepared to deal with an earthquake'.
"[A]fter a quarter of a century, Iran is still being ruled by a useless, incompetent semi-theocracy, which is fatalistic, complacent, unresponsive and often brutal. And such a system does not deliver to its citizens one fraction of what the Great Satan, for all its manifest faults, manages to guarantee to ordinary Americans.
"What, I wonder, has Arundhati Roy to say now about the superiority of traditional building methods over globalised ones? Some Iranians might think that it's a shame there wasn't a McDonald's in Bam. It would have been the safest place in town."
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REPORT: Economists Shut Out Of Debt-Ceiling Debate
Only 4.1 Percent Of Cable Guests Were Actual Economists
Research ››› ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
A Media Matters analysis of evening cable news programs reveals that just 4.1 percent of guests who discussed the debt-ceiling debate were actual economists. This lack of credible economic experts helped create a media environment in which political and media figures could spread misinformation.
On August 2, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act, a controversial compromise bill that raised the nation's debt ceiling in order to avoid default while also cutting government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
Many economists criticized the deal, saying that budget cuts would only weaken the economy and further drive up unemployment. But their voices were largely absent from CNN's, Fox News', and MSNBC's coverage of the debt-ceiling negotiations.
Of the 1,258 guest appearances during segments that discussed the issue in the month leading up to the debt deal, only 52 -- or 4.1 percent -- were made by economists.
View a larger chart here.
The definition of "economist" used in this study is broad -- it includes any guest with an advanced degree in economics or who has served as an economics professor at the college or university level. It also includes guests who have worked as government economists (such as Ben Stein, who formerly "worked as an economist at The Department of Commerce").
These results are similar to a February 2009 Media Matters report showing that only 6 percent of guest appearances discussing the stimulus bill on cable news programs and network Sunday shows were made by economists. At the time, the lack of economic expertise on television helped lead to massive amounts of conservative misinformation, including the widely repeated falsehood that government spending wouldn't stimulate economic growth and employment.
During the 2011 debt-ceiling debate, hundreds of non-economists appeared on cable news. Some suggested that fiscal austerity would somehow create jobs and spur economic growth. While criticizing Speaker of the House John Boehner on the July 12 edition of MSNBC Live, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips said: "I'd like to see him do the job that the American people actually put him in that office to do -- cut spending, cut taxes, stimulate the economy. Get us out of the Obama depression." On the July 14 episode of On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Republican Representative Paul Ryan proposed to "cut more than a dollar's worth of spending" for "every dollar you want to raise the debt limit." Ryan added, "The debt is hurting the economy today. It's hurting job creation today."
This misdirection apparently had consequences. An August Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 49 percent of respondents supported cutting government spending as a means to stimulate the economy -- far more than those who supported actual stimulative policies like extending unemployment benefits and extending the payroll tax cut.
On the rare occasions when the media gave credible economists a voice in the debate, the public heard a very different analysis. Asked about the effects of spending cuts on the U.S. economy, PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian (who holds a Ph. D. in economics) said on the July 31 broadcast of ABC's This Week, "We have a very weak economy, so withdrawing more spending at this stage will make it even weaker." Two days later on CNN, El-Erian provided a grim assessment of the final debt deal: "We're worse off in terms of economic outlook. Growth will be lower. Unemployment will be higher. And ironically, we're worse off in terms of medium term fiscal solvency because we haven't done much to the debt but we're undermining our ability to grow out of the debt."
On July 31, The New York Times reported that economists were warning that the spending cuts in the debt deal might result in "the reversal of a faltering recovery." The Times noted that "some conservative economists argue ... the immediate impact" of the debt deal "could be positive," but the Times also added:
Economists who have examined the historical record, however, say the evidence is clear that the immediate impact of spending cuts outweighs any short-term benefits to confidence.
"When you look at the history of these things, the finding is that we shouldn't be kidding ourselves," said Paolo Mauro, chief of the fiscal affairs department at the International Monetary Fund and the editor of a book of case studies, "Chipping Away at Public Debt." "When you do fiscal adjustment in the near term, it does have an adverse impact on economic growth."
Economist Roberton Williams, senior fellow for the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, told the Los Angeles Times, "By itself, [the debt deal] doesn't do anything to solve the problems down the road." The Times also quoted an economist warning that the spending cuts beginning in 2012 would hinder the economic recovery:
The budget deal shaves just $25 billion in federal discretionary spending in 2012, leaving most of the cuts in later years. But even that relatively modest amount "would certainly create another headwind for the economy," said Gary Schlossberg, senior economist at Wells Capital Management in San Francisco.
Unfortunately, out of 1,258 total guest appearances by individuals who discussed the debt issue on the 16 shows we analyzed, only 4.1 percent (52) were economists.
Individually, each network performed poorly in this measure: Economists accounted for 5.4 percent of guest appearances on CNN, 2.3 percent on Fox News, and 5.3 percent on MSNBC. Most of the economist appearances on Fox occurred on Your World with Neil Cavuto.
A list of economists who appeared on cable shows can be found here.
In contrast, cable news gave plenty of time to politicians, administration officials, political party officials, and political strategists. Overall, 47.3 percent (595) of the 1,258 total guest appearances by individuals discussing debt issues were made by political figures. By network, 47.7 percent of CNN's, 46.9 percent of Fox's, and 47.3 percent of MSNBC's guest appearances were made by political figures.
View a larger chart here.
Media Matters conducted a Nexis search of transcripts of evening (defined as 5 p.m. through 11 p.m.) programs on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC from July 2 (the beginning of talks on a "Grand Bargain" between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner) through August 2 (when Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011). We identified and reviewed all segments that included any of the following keywords: debt, deficit, budget, spending, cuts, or recession. When transcripts were incomplete, we reviewed video.
The following programs were included in the data: The Situation Room, John King USA, In the Arena, Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper 360, The Five, Special Report with Bret Baier, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Hardball with Chris Matthews, the 6 p.m. broadcast of MSNBC Live, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, The Rachel Maddow Show, and The Ed Show with Ed Schultz. Under the assumption that Your World with Neil Cavuto -- which airs at 4 p.m. -- would likely feature more economists than other Fox News shows, we also included that program in the study. Media Matters did not include the 7 p.m. rerun of MSNBC's Hardball. We also did not include Fox News' Fox Report with Shepard Smith, which is not available in the Nexis database.
Media Matters counted all guest appearances during segments that offered substantial discussion of the debt-ceiling debate. We did not include news packages, teasers, clips of news events, or straight reporting about the debt deal.
We used bios, profiles, resumes, and news stories available online to determine as best we could each guest's educational background and professional experience.
We defined an economist as someone who either holds an advanced degree in economics or has served as an economics professor at the college or university level. We counted Ben Stein (who formerly "worked as an economist at The Department of Commerce") and Gene Sperling (who is the "National Economic Advisor and Director of the National Economic Council") as economists. We did not count Fox Business host Stuart Varney, who appeared six times on Fox to discuss the debt ceiling, as an economist. Varney's bio states that he "graduated from the London School of Economics," and he has sometimes been described as an "economist." Because it was unclear whether Varney holds an advanced degree in economics, we emailed him. He did not respond prior to publication.
Media Matters defined a political guest as any former or current elected government official or political appointee, any political strategist, or any former or current political party official (such as former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele).
For economists who also fell under the definition of a political guest (such as former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich), Media Matters coded those guests only as economists.
A complete list of all data can be found here.
Media Matters researcher Marcus Feldman and interns Jessica Torres and Rebecca Weinstein contributed to this report.
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SPATIAL_REFERENCE_INFORMATIONHorizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: .000001 Longitude_Resolution: .000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal Degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927 Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257223563 Top
ENTITY_AND_ATTRIBUTE_INFORMATIONOverview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: The DCW used a product-specific attribute coding system that is composed of TYPE and STATUS designators for area, line, and point features; and LEVEL and SYMBOL designators for text features. The TYPE attribute specifies what the feature is, while the STATUS attribute specifies the current condition of the feature. Some features require both a TYPE and STATUS code to uniquely identify their characteristics. In order to uniquely identify each geographic attribute in the DCW, the TYPE and STATUS attribute code names are preceeded by the two letter coverage abbreviation and a two letter abbreviation for the type of graphic primitive present. VMap-0 data is attribute coded in accordance with Feature and Attribute Coding Catalog (FACC). The DCW Type/Status codes were mapped into the FACC coding scheme. A full description of FACC may be found in Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard Edition 1.2, January 1994. Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: Entities (features) and Attributes for DCW are fully described in: Department of Defense, 1992, Military Specification Digital Chart of the World (MIL-D-89009): Philidelphia, Department of Defense, Defense Printing Service Detachment Office. VMap-0 is described in: Department of Defense, Military Specification, Vector Map (VMap) Level 0 (MIL-V-89039), 9 Feb 1995. Top
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METADATA_REFERENCE_INFORMATIONMetadata_Date: 19970110 Metadata_Review_Date: Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: National Imagery and Mapping Agency Contact_Person: Contact_Position: ATTN Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and physical address Address: 8613 Lee Highway City: Fairfax State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 22031 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-264-3003 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Hours_of_Service: Metadata_Standard_Name: Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Metadata_Standard_Version: 19940608 Top