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Stocks closed higher Wednesday, their first gain of the week, as bank shares rose and comments by President Barack Obama made investors optimistic that a quick deal could be made to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 82.71 points, or 0.6 percent, to end at 13,034.49. It had been up as much as 137. The Standard and Poor's 500 closed up 2.23 points to 1,409.28. The Nasdaq composite was down 22.99 points to 2,973.70, held back by a slump in Apple.
Citigroup jumped $2.17, or 6.3 percent, to $36.46 after the bank said it plans to eliminate more than 11,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its workforce, to cut expenses and improve efficiency. Travelers surged $3.47, or 4.9 percent, to $74 after it announced plans to resume stock buybacks. Travelers temporarily suspended repurchases following Superstorm Sandy while it assessed its exposure to damage claims.
"We can probably solve this in about a week, it's not that tough," Obama said in lunchtime remarks to the Business Roundtable in Washington. The comments, made just before noon, helped push the market higher, said Quincy Crosby, a market strategist at Prudential Financial.
Stocks have largely traded sideways for two weeks as investors wait for developments from Washington on crucial budget talks to avoid the "fiscal cliff," a series of sharp government spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to start Jan. 1 unless an agreement is reached to cut the budget deficit. Economists say that the measures, if implemented, could push the U.S. back into recession.
Apple was among the decliners, falling $37.05, or 6.4 percent, to $538.79. Stifel Financial analyst Aaron Rakers said the drop was in part due to comments from AT&T Mobility chief executive officer Ralph de La Vega, which suggested that smartphone activations this quarter were lagging the same period a year ago. The stock has now dropped 23 percent since closing at a record $702.10 in September.
Stocks are still up on the year, after the Federal Reserve extended its bond-buying program in September, offsetting concern that the European debt crisis was set to spread. The Dow has gained 7 percent and S&P 500 has advanced 12 percent.
"The market will hold on to its gains for the year. Given the uncertainty I don't see any compelling reasons for an increase," said Brian Gendreau, a market strategist with Cetera Financial Group, a Los Angeles-based broker. "But that could change in a blink. If there's better-than-expected news from these negotiations, the market could pop."
A Chinese government pledge to maintain policies intended to strengthen the world's second-largest economy helped raise optimism about global growth. China's Shanghai Composite Index jumped 2.9 percent to 2,031.91. Hong Kong's Hang Seng ended 2.2 percent higher at 22,270.91.
A private survey showed Wednesday that U.S. businesses added fewer workers in November, in part because Superstorm Sandy shut down factories, retail stores, and other companies. Payroll processor ADP said employers added 118,000 jobs last month. That's below October's total of 157,000, which was revised lower. Investors will also look to the monthly jobs report from the Labor Department Friday for more information about how the economy is doing.
Orders to U.S. factories rose modestly in October, helped by a big gain in demand for equipment that reflects business investment plans. Factory orders edged up 0.8 percent in October, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That followed a 4.5 percent jump in September.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell 1 basis points to 1.59 percent.
Among other stocks making big moves:
—Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold plunged $6.12, or 16 percent, to $32.16 after the mining company said it is buying oil companies Plains Exploration & Production and McMoRan Exploration for about $9 billion.
—Mattress Firm Holding Corp. fell $6.65, or 22 percent, to $23.67 after the mattress retailer said late Tuesday that sales trends were softening.
—Pandora Media, an internet radio company, fell $1.65, or 17.5 percent, to $7.80 after saying it would make a much larger loss in the fourth quarter than analysts had been forecasting.


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These are the things I bitch about the most at work. What else do you monsters want?
A big thanks to Jonathan! Please leave any more questions for him in the comments.

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I gave a presentation to my English class about Riot Grrrl and my teacher said I could read an excerpt from one of these out loud one of these days after we're done with the spoken word unit. Today my group had to think of a metaphor for the moon. We submitted, "the moon is Caillou once he has acne and insomnia."
You may think from these photos that I want to kill you. I do not. It is just my regular face.
Sweater, gift. Jeans sent to me by Proenza Schouler. Pierre Hardy for Gap wedges. Happy Socks from tobi.com. Hairbow from the Olvera Street Market. The headband I'm wearing in the first photo was sent to me by Monsoon Accessorize, and I pinned on the crown, which came from a postcard of a Mexican bingo card.


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When Slow Food President Carlo Petrini arrived in Istanbul on Thursday for the International Council meeting – happening now from June 14-16 – he wrote this comment on the city's recent events and the involvement of local Slow Food members for Italian newspaper La Repubblica. The crisis in Turkey began in Istanbul on May 28, when a small group of environmental activists held a sit-in to protest the Turkish government's plans to raze Taksim Square's Gezi Park and the now widespread involvement is sending a message for: "a new Turkey, able to value simple but important things, like the trees in a park."
From the Galata Bridge to Gezi Park is three and half kilometers. Three minutes on the funicular to reach the top of Istiklal Caddesi, the street that opens into Taksim Square. Down below, towards the Golden Horn, the usual ceaseless human swarm: traffic, open building sites, high-tech trams gliding past the old carts of the street vendors. Above, the main commercial street of modern Istanbul. Three minutes on the underground funicular, symbolizing the distance between two completely separated worlds. On the one side, normal daily life continues. On the other, we face the scenes of urban warfare seen on televisions around the world. We were told not to take the funicular that far, because of the tear gas making the air unbreathable, because of the ongoing clashes.
It seems strange to see Taksim Square "liberated" from the demonstrators and the adjacent Gezi Park, where tents and colored banners still stand out among the trees. Those trees are now the symbol of a rebellion that has become much bigger than anyone expected. There is an air of demobilization, but also an underlying tension. In the middle of the square, an old man in an improbable yellow raincoat is standing still, holding up a large Turkish flag. The stairs that lead from the square up to the park's entrance are still almost completely blocked by barricades, though there is a narrow passageway through which people move freely, amidst the banners and posters of the different factions. Inside, some people are collecting sleeping bags, some are taking down the camps, some are sitting in circles and talking.
Istiklal Caddesi, usually crowded, is slowly starting to come back to life just a few hours after the latest clashes between the police, equipped with helmets, water cannons and tear gas, and the thousands of young people who came here from many of metropolitan Istanbul's neighborhoods, wearing dust masks and hard hats. It feels as though the fire is smoldering under the ashes, and that this day of truce, during which Erdogan has agreed to talks, is just one step along the long journey still to come.
In this context, the movement so recently formed to defend the trees of Gezi Park, threatened by the construction of a gigantic shopping mall (the umpteenth in Istanbul) is something completely new. Even to a tourist without any particular environmental convictions, the idea that this patch of green in the middle of the city center should disappear seems completely illogical. The sharp conflict is not just between two different conceptions of urban planning, but between two philosophies of life, in this Turkey growing at an incredible pace but struggling to find a synthesis between two culturally different worlds. For years, secularity, imposed at times by the army, subdued the religious demands of a mostly Muslim population. Now the parties have switched and a religious-leaning government is stifling the modern secularity of youth who look to Europe and democracy. Certainly Erdogan enjoys a recognized electoral majority, but he can also be highly disrespectful and arrogant towards these young people.
The distance between the two worlds can be seen by looking at the hotbed of Taksim Square on the one hand, and on the other, the humanity immersed in everyday activities in the rest of the city. However, there is one element that seems to unite Istanbul's two spirits in moral support of the protest against the felling of the trees: At 9 pm, and then later on through the evening, in Beyoglu, the huge neighborhood spreading along the shores of the Bosporus, the lights of the houses switch on and off, and in front of their open windows, people hit pots and pans with kitchen utensils, sending up to the sky a constant noisy metallic hammering, similar to the noise of the cicadas that sing all summer in the very trees the government's building project wants to chop down.
In Gezi Park, there was and still is a small contingent of young Slow Food supporters, who planted a food garden during the occupation. Today they have dismantled it, as they prepare for the final clear-out. Defne Koryurek, the leader of Slow Food in Istanbul, tells me: "It was pretty much a spontaneous gesture to create a library and a food garden, based on collaboration and the desire to share. This garden has no father or mother, but is the outcome of the work of an entire community."
"For years, as a group, we were opposed to this city's imperious projects," she continues. "The third bridge over the Bosporus, the new airport to the north (the largest in the world, Ed.) and the shopping center that was supposed to take the place of Gezi. We always know what to say when we oppose something. It's harder to come up with virtuous, concrete examples. The Gezi food garden represented our model for development, what we want to do with our land. And we tended it together with our children, planting seeds and seedlings with them, because they will be the ones to harvest the fruits."
Refika Kortun is 18, a generation younger than Defne. She tells us how she joined the demonstrators defending the park. "Gezi is occupied by our dreams. The energy I've experienced in these days is incredible, though I'm also scared. We created a real community here, like I've never experienced before. A community also formed on Twitter and Facebook and it will continue there, even if they drive us out of here."
Looking in the eyes of these young people, seeing their determination and passion, is to look at a new Turkey, able to value simple but important things, like the trees in a park.
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All the oil has been cleaned up or has evaporated from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico—well, nearly all of it—while the spill itself seems to have receded into memory, something that transfixed us for months but which is now little more than grist for an episode of the Newsroom. (Note: the amnesia may not apply to Gulf residents.) The legal mess over the worst oil spill in U.S. history, however, is still far from being cleaned up.
Still, a big step was taken on Nov. 15 towards resolving the legal problems over the spill when BP announced that it would pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments to the government and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges connected to the 2010 accident which resulted nearly 5 million barrels of crude being spilled into the Gulf—as well as the deaths of 11 crewmen aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig. The total amounts to the largest single criminal fine in corporate history.
(MORE: Nearly Two Years On, Did the BP Oil Spill Have to Happen to BP?)
Included in the settlement will be $4 billion related to those criminal charges—which include lying to the public about the size of the spill—and $525 million to security regulators. BP will also plead guilty to 11 felony counts of misconduct or neglect related to the deaths of those 11 crewmen. And there will be real criminal charges against real individuals. The Justice Department also announced that it will file manslaughter charges against the two top BP company men aboard the Deepwater Horizon, as well as charges of obstruction of Congress against David Rainey, BP's former VP of exploration, for making false statements about the rate that oil was leaking out of the blown well.
Robert Dudley, BP's chief executive—who took over for the much-maligned Tony Heyward—tried to spin the settlement as a step forward for the company, which has seen its share price dragged down by legal uncertainty over the spill:
All of us at BP deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident as well as the impact of the spill on the Gulf coast region. From the outset, we stepped up by responding to the spill, paying legitimate claims and funding restoration efforts in the Gulf. We apologize for our role in the accident, and as today's resolution with the U.S. government further reflects, we have accepted responsibility for our actions.
It's true that Thursday's settlement resolves criminal and securities claims against BP, but the company isn't done fighting yet, and may still face billions more in federal civil claims and environmental damages.
(MORE: How Spill Settlement Money from BP May Save the Gulf Coast)
Chief among them are the potential fines from BP's violation of the Clean Water Act, which charges oil companies for every barrel of crude spilled. How much BP could end up paying will depend on how negligent the company is found to have been during the spill. If BP is found to be simply negligent, the company would be charged $1,100 for every barrel spilled. If it is found grossly negligent, however, those fines rise to $4,300 per spilled barrel. That's the difference between $5.4 billion and $21 billion, and it's one the company has already said it will fight over.
BP could also face a massive, multi-billion dollar penalty over a provision of the Oil Pollution Act, which would allow the Justice Department to charge the company ore than $30 billion to fix damages from the spill. A settlement of some sort seems more likely, but there's a twist—Gulf Coast states insist that BP should pay the full fine, and that the bulk of those funds should go to the Gulf states. (Legislation already exists that would send 80% of the fines implemented under the Clean Water Act to the Gulf states.) A settlement, however, might allow the federal government to control where that money ends up.
And make no mistake—this is all about money. BP may have paid the highest criminal fine in corporate history, but considering the company made $5.4 billion last quarter alone, it shouldn't have any trouble paying its bills. Indeed, the company's stock price rose in the wake of the announcement—for investors, the settlement moved BP one step closer to being a normal oil company again. And with Brent crude over $100 a barrel right now, being a normal oil company means being a very profitable oil company. That's not justice—that's just economics.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of drones patrolling U.S. skies?
Predictions that multitudes of unmanned aircraft could be flying here within a decade are raising the specter of a "surveillance society" in which no home or backyard would be off limits to prying eyes overhead. Law enforcement, oil companies, farmers, real estate agents and many others have seen the technology that was pioneered on battlefields, and they are eager to put it to use.
It's not just talk: The government is in the early stages of devising rules for the unmanned aircraft.
So far, civilian use of drones is fairly limited. The Federal Aviation Administration had issued fewer than 300 permits for drones by the end of last year.
Public worries about drones began mostly on the political margins, but there are signs that they're going mainstream.
Jeff Landry, a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana's coastal bayou country, says constituents have stopped him while shopping at Walmart to talk about their concerns.
"There is a distrust amongst the people who have come and discussed this issue with me about our government," Landry said. "It's raising an alarm with the American public."
Fear that some drones may be armed, for example, has been fueled in part by a county sheriff's office in Texas that used a homeland security grant to buy a $300,000, 50-pound ShadowHawk helicopter drone for its SWAT team. The drone can be equipped with a 40mm grenade launcher and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Randy McDaniel, chief deputy with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, told The Associated Press earlier this year his office had no plans to arm the drone, but he left open the possibility the agency might decide to adapt the drone to fire tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
Earlier this year Congress, under pressure from the Defense Department and drone manufacturers, ordered the FAA to give drones greater access to civilian airspace by 2015. Besides the military, the mandate applies to drones operated by private companies or individuals and civilian government agencies, including federal, state and local law enforcement.
The military, which is bringing home unmanned aircraft from Afghanistan, wants room to test and use them.
But the potential civilian market for drones may far eclipse military demand. Power companies want them to monitor transmission lines. Farmers want to fly them over fields to detect which crops need water. Ranchers want them to count cows. Journalists are exploring drones' newsgathering potential. Police departments want them to chase crooks, conduct search and rescue missions and catch speeders.
But concern is spreading. Another GOP freshman, Rep. Austin Scott, said he first learned of the issue when someone shouted out a question about drones at a Republican Party meeting in his Georgia district two months ago.
The level of apprehension is especially high in the conservative blogosphere, where headlines blare, "30,000 Armed Drones to be Used Against Americans" and "Government Drones Set to Spy on Farms in the United States."
When Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, suggested during an interview on Washington radio station WTOP last month that drones be used by police since they've done such a good job on foreign battlefields, the political backlash was swift. NetRightDaily complained: "This seems like something a fascist would do. … McDonnell isn't pro-Big Government, he is pro-HUGE Government."
John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., which provides legal assistance in support of civil liberties and conservative causes, warned the governor, "America is not a battlefield, and the citizens of this nation are not insurgents in need of vanquishing."
There's concern as well among liberal civil liberties advocates that government and private-sector drones will be used to gather information on Americans without their knowledge. Giving drones greater access to U.S. skies moves the nation closer to "a surveillance society in which our every move is monitored, tracked, recorded and scrutinized by the authorities," the American Civil Liberties Union declared in a report last December.
An ACLU lobbyist, Chris Calabrese, said that when he speaks to audiences about privacy issues, drones are what "everybody just perks up over."
"People are interested in the technology, they are interested in the implications and they worry about being under surveillance from the skies," he said.
The anxiety has spilled into Congress, where lawmakers from both parties have been meeting to discuss legislation that would broadly address the civil-liberty issues. A Landry provision in a defense spending bill would prohibit information gathered by military drones without a warrant from being used as evidence in court. A provision that Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., added to another bill would prohibit the Homeland Security Department from arming its drones, including ones used to patrol the border.
Scott and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., have introduced identical bills to prohibit any government agency from using a drone to "gather evidence or other information pertaining to criminal conduct or conduct in violation of a regulation" without a warrant.
"I just don't like the concept of drones flying over barbecues in New York to see whether you have a Big Gulp in your backyard or whether you are separating out your recyclables according to the city mandates," Paul said in an interview, referring to a New York City ban on supersized soft drinks.
He acknowledged that was an "extreme example," but he added: "They might just say we'd be safer from muggings if we had constant surveillance crisscrossing the street all the time. But then the question becomes, `What about jaywalking? What about eating too many donuts? What about putting mayonnaise on your hamburger?' Where does it stop?"
Calabrese, the ACLU lobbyist, called Paul's office as soon as he heard about the bill.
"I told them we think they are starting from the right place," Calabrese said. "You should need some kind of basis before you use a drone to spy on someone."
In a Congress noted for its political polarization, legislation to check drone use has the potential to forge "a left-right consensus," he said. "It bothers us for a lot of the same reasons it bothers conservatives."
The backlash has drone makers concerned. The drone market is expected to nearly double over the next 10 years, from current worldwide expenditures of nearly $6 billion annually to more than $11 billion, with police departments accounting for a significant part of that growth.
"We go into this with every expectation that the laws governing public safety and personal privacy will not be administered any differently for (drones) than they are for any other law enforcement tool," said Dan Elwell, vice president of the Aerospace Industries Association.
Discussion of the issue has been colored by exaggerated drone tales spread largely by conservative media and bloggers.
Scott said he was prompted to introduce his bill in part by news reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has been using drones to spy on cattle ranchers in Nebraska. The agency has indeed been searching for illegal dumping of waste into streams, but it is doing it with piloted planes.
In another case, a forecast of 30,000 drones in U.S. skies by 2020 has been widely attributed to the FAA. But FAA spokeswoman Brie Sachse said the agency has no idea where the figure came from. It may be a mangled version of an aerospace industry forecast that there could be nearly 30,000 drones worldwide by 2018, with the United States accounting for half of them.
Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, co-chairs of a congressional privacy caucus, asked the FAA in April how it plans to protect privacy as it develops regulations for integrating drones into airspace now exclusively used by aircraft with human pilots. There's been no response so far, but Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta will probably be asked about it when he testifies at a Senate hearing Thursday.
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As he is wont to do, comedian Jon Stewart struck to the heart the matter regarding my new favorite person, Clippers owner Donald Sterling; favorite because, well, how can you not feel better about yourself and most everyone you know compared to him?
Stewart's best point Monday night was that it no longer matters about TMZ, V. Stiviano, secret recordings and what anyone else says about Sterling. In his CNN interview, which, presuming he understood that with the lights, cameras and the under-prepared Anderson Cooper, was being recorded for the Earth's 7.2 billion people, he established on his own, without a stunt double, that he was an execrable human being.
"Let the crazy fly," Stewart said. That was a point I offered in a recent column about Sterling that suggested we are better served by having clueless bigots such as Sterling in the light, rather than running them out of our collective consciousness to the margins, where vileness festers in the shadows.
But running him out was what happened. And it didn't work very well. The awkwardness for the NBA is now immense.
You may recall that Commissioner Adam Silver responded relatively swiftly to pressure from players, media and a public outraged by Sterling's illegally recorded and published remarks by suspending him for life. Silver also promised to rip the team from Sterling's control.
For that decision, somehow Silver was hailed as courageous, when in fact it was his only course of action to stave off a player boycott of that evening's game between the Clippers and the Warriors. But Silver also lost something in the decision: Control.
Silver unloaded all his ordnance at once, but left Sterling alive.
In making a monumental fool of himself on CNN, Sterling had nothing to lose by savaging Magic Johnson again, generalizing wildly about his views of traits of Jews and blacks, and putting the lie to his claim that he merely made a "mistake," because his broader ignorance unveiled on CNN confirmed the conclusions drawn from the recording.
For the umpteenth time in the history of politicians, jocks and celebrities behaving badly, let's make the point again with this episode:
Adding two and two and getting five is a mistake. A lifetime of denigrating individuals and races is a choice.
That's what Cooper should have said to Sterling. Virtually every person who has a working knowledge of Sterling's tenure as Clippers owner that began in 1981, which includes me, has had the same reaction: Not surprised, except for the fact that it took this long to become exposed.
Paul Silas, a member of the Sonics' 1979 championship team, began his coaching career when the Clippers were in San Diego, becoming Sterling's first head coach. He lasted two seasons before being fired and couldn't wait to get away. Upon his various returns to Seattle when he greeted old friends, he often would offer up a Sterling anecdote whenever the conversation reached a can-you-top-this moment about bizarre happenings in the NBA.
"He was one crazy _______," Silas said. "And I don't mean funny crazy."
What the world saw from Sterling this week wasn't caused from age, dementia or over-medication. It was vintage Sterling, the same guy who was already an owner when David Stern moved from the NBA's lead counsel to commissioner in 1984. It's the same guy to whom Stern provided Chris Paul when Stern nixed a December 2011 trade of the star point guard to the Lakers from New Orleans, when the franchise was temporarily an owner-less ward of the NBA state. Instead, Stern manipulated the deal so that Paul went to the Clippers.
Stern's decision outraged Lakers fans, and as this si.com story points out, infuriated the entire league, because forcing Paul to the Clippers validated Sterling's tenure, which, up until the trade, included losing records in 31 of the previous 32 years.
Stern bailed out the NBA's longest-tenured owner from his own idiocy, and now the Clippers are in the second round, tied with Oklahoma City 2-2 heading into game 5 Tuesday night.
The series thus stands as a touchstone in the dark legacy of Stern: A team manipulated into contention as a favor to a friend, against a team relocated for another friend, Clay Bennett, almost purely out of spite.
Stern did not run a league. He ran a plutocracy among his friends. And now one of them has run amok.
With any luck, Sterling has the phone numbers for the anchors at ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.
I just wish someone would ask a few questions of Stern, his enabler.


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The final product may have been incendiary but Innocence of Muslims seems to have had its origins about five years ago in the hum-drum, unglamorous and often tawdry world of low-budget Hollywood film production—one inhabited by journeyman technicians and two-bit performers eking out livings on the lower rungs of the entertainment feeding chain. A veteran of that industry—who asked not to be identified – answered questions from TIME about his sometime associate, Alan Roberts, the purported director of the controversial film. He also provided new details about the producer—a man he knew as "Sam" and whom many suspect to be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man questioned by federal probation officers in California on Saturday morning.
Innocence, says the veteran, was Sam's brainchild. He was "the driving force behind the whole thing and it was all his idea." Once called The First Terrorist, it was entitled Desert Warrior by the time it was cast. Sam, he says, had been planning the project for at least five years, long before the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt last year. He hired a screenwriter to help flesh out an outline he had written and apparently financed it entirely by himself. That meant there was very little money in it. Says the veteran—who corresponded with TIME over email: "which is why it was all shot on green screen and looks so phony." When Sam started talking up the project, he had less than $100,000 to spend. If true, the detail further debunks earlier claims by "Sam Bacile"—the name reportedly assumed by Nakoula to produce the film—that he had raised $5 million from 100 Jewish donors to make Innocence.
(MORE: A Who's Who of the Innocence of Muslims Film)
Alan Roberts got involved, says the veteran, because it was work. "What I knew about it was simply some filmmakers, like Alan Roberts, doing the next project that was presented to him," the source says. "That is the way low-budget filmmakers, which I am myself, make our living. It is usually far more a business proposition than it is one of art and all that sort of thing." Roberts, who had worked as a film editor and post-production on soft-core adult films in the 1970s and 80s as well as little-known projects such as Street Poet and Cielito Lindo, had no intention of creating an anti-Islamic film.
The industry veteran met Roberts in the 1980s when he was the co-owner of a low-budget movie company and Roberts, whom he has not seen in a couple of years, then worked for him selling a package of his movies for television syndication in the U.S. "Alan is a very nice and very friendly guy," the veteran said. "He works hard and he's usually pretty good at what he does." While Nakoula has a history of bank fraud and other felony charges, the veteran said Roberts doesn't have a criminal background.
(MORE: The Making of Innocence of Muslims: One Actor's Story)
The Hollywood veteran very much doubts that Roberts—who had had "no political axe to grind"—had any idea that there might be an outcry against the film. Actor Tim Dax, who appeared in the film, said in an interview this week that he thought the film was going to be about ancient warriors.
The depiction of Muhammad was Sam's vision. "I do believe it was probably the intent of this Sam guy," says the veteran. "He presented the ghostwriter he hired with about 20 pages of outline, detailing everything he wanted to take place in the movie. And I was told he was rather convincing in saying that the way he was portraying Muhammad was factual and could be looked up by anyone who wanted to do the leg work." The Hollywood veteran says he knows nothing linking the project at that early point of its production to anti-Muslim ideologues like Steve Klein and Pam Geller, who have since become associated with it. Says the veteran: "There really was never any trying to make people mad or anything like that." That's not the way it ended up, unfortunately.
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Making Movies with iMovie HD
- iMovie HD at a Glance
- The Essentials of Movie Making
- A Short Lesson in Video Formats
- Importing DV and HDV Video
- Working with Clips
- Timeline Techniques: Adding Clips to a Movie
- Advanced Timeline Techniques
- Creating Cutaways
- Adding Photos to Movies
- Working with the Ken Burns Effect
- Advanced Ken Burns Techniques
- Adding Audio to Movies
- Tips for Recording Better Sound
- Working with Audio Tracks
- Applying Audio Filters and Effects
- More Sound Advice
- Adding Transitions
- Creating Titles
- Adding Effects
- Adding Sizzle and Structure with Themes
- Magic iMovie: Editing on Autopilot
- Working in Other Video Formats
- Its a Wrap: Exporting to Tape
- Creating Chapter Markers
- Go Small: Internet and iPod Movies
- More Ways to Share Movies
- Fun with Freeze Frames
- iMovie HD Tips
- More iMovie HD Tips
- Tips for Making Better Movies
- Creating Time-lapse Movies and Animation
iMovie HD at a Glance
Video can be a powerful vehicle for communicating an idea, setting a mood, selling a product, or recalling a memory. It can also be great way to put people to sleep.
Video editing is the process of assembling video clips, still images, and audio into a finished package that gets your message across and keeps your audience's eyes open. Video editing is what iMovie HD is all about.
With iMovie HD, you can import video from a video camera. iMovie HD stashes incoming clips on its Clips pane. If you're using a miniDV or HDV camera, iMovie HD even controls your camera during the importing process.
Then, you edit clips and sequence them by dragging them to the timeline, optionally adding music from your iTunes music library and creating titles, effects, and scene transitions. When you're finished, a few mouse clicks send your efforts back out to tape or to iDVD.
You can use iMovie HD to edit interminable home movies, but you can also use it to assemble montages of photos from iPhoto, promotional videos, and anything else that belongs on the small screen. iMovie HD supports more video formats than did earlier iMovie versions, and that means more options for you.
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CONTACT, the world's largest festival of photography, opened in May 2010 in Toronto. 2010's theme explores how photography is stimulating the unprecedented change in the way we communicate.
The invention of the photograph saw perceptions of reality and prosperity alter forever. The notion that a moment could be captured in time in such microscopic detail, so true to life with elements remembered that were not even noticed at the time, completely adapted the way we record, report and remember both noteworthy and insignificant events.
Although we are bombarded with images the photograph remains in wait for a pretender to its crown. They say a picture speaks a thousand words and the photograph is still the best way to convey information, tell an instant story, and illustrate a concept because we are inherently visual beings. When a photograph is successful it truly affects us, wrenches at raw emotions and becomes more poetic than the most heartfelt prose. As Marshall McLuhan acknowledged, the advent of the photograph even exponentially altered our perception of the written word and the painting, and forced them to reconsider and to grow – "the painter could no longer depict a world that had been photographed. He turned, instead, to reveal the inner process of creativity."
This year's CONTACT festival in Toronto is the 14th year of events across the city and the director has issued a theme to address the very nature of this pervasive influence. Taking inspiration from Marshall McLuhan's seminal text, Understanding Media: The Extension of Man (1964) and specifically the chapter entitled The Brothel without Walls, the programme of events explores how significantly photography has touched on our lives. Artistic Director Bonnie Rubenstein explains: "As photographic technology evolves it has changed the way we perceive and operate in the world around us. There are many factors that have reshaped photography's influence and the way we've negotiated images during the last 50 years." These factors are both technological and sociological in their scope, and encompass not only how we perceive the photograph itself but also the very world around us. McLuhan discusses how "the tourist who arrives at the Leaning Tower of Pisa can now merely check his reactions against something with which he has long been familiar," in a manner which negates any sense of exoticism in the unfamiliar. Factors such as this, and photography's transference of our primary communication from syntactical to graphic preceptors, are addressed by events and exhibitions across the city.
CONTACT has over 200 venues involved in this year's festival, with the primary exhibitions taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) and the University of Toronto Arts Center; these are supported by feature exhibitions at established venues in response to the announcement of the 2010 theme one year ago, and also by public installations which will pop up across the city. Rubenstein explains: "We take great care to ensure that the images are prominently presented in a relevant and related context, from both an aesthetic and conceptual point of view," and as such the public installations tend towards a reflection of the invasive nature of much of our world today. Last year, São Paulo enforced a complete ban on outdoor advertising in protest to the permeation of aggressive marketing tactics in 21st century existence. In response Hank Willis Thomas has hijacked prime advertising space in downtown Toronto to appropriate the images and language of advertising depicting African Americans. The attraction of turning the medium of the billboard to critique and also enact its primary purpose is clear: "Viewers should not have to rely on background information to understand that these are not typical ads; but we do provide clues for those interested in exploring the work further: subtle placement of our web address, visible from a car, or small descriptive panels for pedestrians." These public installations have now become a hallmark of CONTACT for the assets of approachability that they lend to the festival, "many people are still intimidated by galleries and our public installations are accessible to a wide and diverse audience from all walks of life. We bring the gallery experience directly into the public domain and we're now well known for our ability to enliven the drudgery of sitting in traffic or the monotony of waiting for a flight at the airport."
McLuhan saw photography as unique because it "isolates single moments in time," laying the medium bare and vulnerable to technological changes. More so than writing and the spoken word, photography is most apparently representative of its time, it's so much more obvious what era a photograph has come from than any other form of mass communication. As such it can quickly appear dated but Rubenstein refutes this claim: "Photography's connection with history and memory is fundamental and I certainly don't see this as a disadvantage, but rather as a great source of inspiration on many levels." In describing photography as "the brothel without walls," McLuhan's comparisons are most explicitly referenced in Evan Baden's two dimensionally provocative images of women posing for Internet surfers and in Joachim Schmid's exploration of the spaces used by online sex workers. By capturing these images through the Internet, Baden and Schmid involve themselves further in the complex relationships between medium and communication encountered by our way of life, and the works intentionally "highlight connections, alongside the many relationships that can be found between photography as art form and photography in the mainstream media." Linked so closely to documentary, it makes voyeurs of us all, and just as photography has changed the scope of art, it changes our own levels of acceptability and enables us to challenge what to put in a gallery setting. Nearly two decades on from Jeff Koons publicising his own marital copulations, we continually insist on not only putting sex in the gallery, but on perpetually interrogating the winners and losers (sometimes manifested in the same being) of its implicit relationship to commerce.
Continuing to push the bounds of acceptability, further work explores the subversive sexuality plastered onto pre-teen girls at beauty pageants. This combination of works addresses the ever-increasing overlaps between art and documentary, as both genres seek to comment on the world around us. "The starting point for the theme this year was an interest in the expanding relationships between art and mass media, photography and advertising. While certainly the ubiquity of photography has influenced the way information crosses over from one media to another, digital technology and the Internet has collapsed boundaries between forms of communication." Artists such as Barbara Kruger and writers such as Douglas Coupland have produced works for the exhibitions and further serve to illustrate this reflexivity between media forms. In contrast to the realism and critique of reportage however, photography has also created its own backlash against the over-familiarity of the exotic which itself has produced through the ever-extravagant, ethereal beauty of fashion photography in eschewing the everyday. Rubenstein, however, argues that even this escapism is not immune from the inherent interrelationships that the pervasive influence interrogates: "Beauty is subjective, but it is also very strongly informed by the conventions of advertising, television, film, the Internet etc. Still I think that aesthetic and conceptual considerations must go hand-in-hand, and all of the works we exhibit reinforce this idea – its up to the viewer to decide if they are beautiful."
For decades the most potent use of photography is undoubtedly in the exploitation of the constant desire for new objects through advertising campaigns across magazines, billboards, televison and newspapers as well as plastered over the Internet, encrypted in downloads. McLuhan's work retains its centrality in the MOCCA's offering, The Mechanical Bride (1951), addressing the "widely occurring cluster of sex, technology, and death which constitutes the mystery of the mechanical bride." Rubenstein says: "Works by Josephine Meckseper and Dana Claxton explore the social and cultural role of images and their political implications," while Jennifer Greenburg's series blurs the distinctions between fiction and reality, creating a visual narrative. Further explorations from Ryan McGinley and Car Girls by Jacqueline Hassink overtly interrogate the female construct of the marketer's imagination.
McLuhan's The Mechanical Bride dissociates the notion of sex from humanity, as it is usurped as a promotional tool, so that "there is very little stress on understanding as compared with the bang of history in the making," in a macabre manner which has reached unprecedented levels in increasingly fervent hunger for celebrity 'news'. As helicopters hovered over the mansion of Britney Spears in 2008 awaiting the moment the singer was stretchered off in an involuntary psychiatric hold it became apparent that McLuhan's generation's "aura of pseudo-values" associated with "difficulty of access" had been eradicated. The professor was prescient in describing how "the movie stars and matinee idols are put in the public domain by photography. They become the dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and hugged and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes." But as illustrated above, this obsession has reached terrifying new levels and Jessica Dimmock's work refreshingly turns the notion on its head, following paparazzi in the USA and documenting the insanity of the chase and a livelihood based around someone else's every move.
Despite being lucrative outlets for photography (and high rollers in invading our consciousness), these worlds of fashion and entertainment also arouse the most cynicism over the legitimacy of the photographic image. Photoshop recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and with it we are all familiar with the boundless opportunities for photographic manipulation, so have these technological advances undermined the photograph's authority? Rubenstein acknowledges: "There are many cases where the technology is too heavily relied upon and the integrity of the image is shattered," but maintains, "for the time being, our trust in the "truth" depicted in photographs remains quite strong. Although this may not be the case for much longer, public demand for vast quantities of photographs is a very strong indicator of the importance of the photographic image throughout society."
As the photograph colonises Toronto this May, the primary attraction of CONTACT is its ability to curate such a wealth of material into a coherent whole precisely by embracing the sporadic nature of how we encounter the image. Its pervasiveness is at the centre of the festival's ideas with so many opportunities to stumble across the work. In spite of his death 30 years ago, McLuhan's theories are as pertinent as ever because they rely on the constantly evolving inter-relation between media. Rubenstein asserts: "McLuhan has taught us that we can't consider the effect of the medium of photography in isolation from other media and its very clear that television and now the Internet has had an enormous effect upon the ways in which images affect the viewer." In spite of its critics, its deceptions and its ubiquity, photography has a secure case in our consciousness because it is so adaptable to both new media and old. This is why the programming of CONTACT throughout the urban environment is so apt, allowing us to remember McLuhan's acknowledgement that "to the student of media structures, every detail of the total mosaic of the contemporary is vivid with meaningful life."
CONTACT ran from 1 to 31 May 2010. www.contactphoto.com.
Ruby Beesley


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What's West Nile Virus?
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What exactly is the West Nile virus? And why is everyone talking about mosquitoes?
Even though it was discovered all the way back in 1937 in Africa, the West Nile virus probably didn't make its way to the United States until 1999. But since then, it has been a cause of concern all over the country during the summer months.
West Nile virus is caused by a bite from an infected mosquito that's already carrying the virus, but it's important to remember that not all mosquitoes are infected. In many parts of the United States, the risk of being bitten by an infected mosquito is greatest from July to early September. But in some parts of the country, mosquito bites can be a risk all year long.
Not everyone who gets bitten by an infected mosquito will get the virus. And although kids can get West Nile virus, it's rare for them to become very sick from it.
Symptoms of West Nile virus really depend on the person who becomes infected. Kids with normal immune systems (say: ih-MYOON), the system of the body that fights off disease and infection, usually get just a mild "flu-like" illness and may not feel bad at all with the infection.
People over 50 years old and those with weakened immune systems due to HIV/AIDS, cancer, or organ transplants are most at risk for the infection.
West Nile Symptoms
Most of the time, symptoms of West Nile virus are similar to the flu and include:
- fever
- headache
- neck and back stiffness
- muscle ache
- tiredness
- joint pain
- swollen glands
- rash
In the most rare and extreme cases, West Nile virus can cause a condition called encephalitis (say: en-sef-uh-LY-tis), which is irritation and swelling of the brain.
West Nile virus is not spread from person to person. That means if your friend next door just got it, and you played together the day before, you won't get the virus. And though pets can get the virus, they can't spread it to people. The only way to get it is from the bite of an infected mosquito.
So, what's being done to stop the spread of West Nile virus? Health officials in each state do their best to find out where mosquitoes live and kill the eggs of mosquitoes that might carry the virus.
You can do your best to prevent coming in contact with West Nile virus. You'll want to avoid mosquitoes as much as you can. Watch out for mosquitoes in the early morning and in the early evening since that's when they're often very active. Mosquitoes also like standing water, like in wading pools and creeks.
You also can:
- Wear insect repellent. Repellents that include one of these ingredients are best: DEET, picaridin, or some containing lemon eucalyptus. Ask a parent to help you apply it.
- When possible, wear socks, long sleeves, and long pants when you're playing outside.
- If you see a dead bird, don't touch it — it could be infected. Tell an adult so it can be removed safely.
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while "simulating the sound of gunfire," as one school official put it.
Kids with active imaginations—or potential threats to school safety?
Some school officials are taking the latter view, suspending or threatening to suspend small children over behavior their parents consider perfectly normal and age-appropriate—even now, with schools in a state of heightened sensitivity following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December.
The extent to which the Newtown, Conn., shooting might influence educators' disciplinary decisions is unclear. But parents contend administrators are projecting adult fears onto children who know little about the massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators, and who certainly pose no threat to anyone.
"It's horrible what they're doing to these kids," said Kelly Guarna, whose 5-year-old daughter, Madison, was suspended by Mount Carmel Area School District in eastern Pennsylvania last month for making a "terroristic threat" with the bubble gun. "They're treating them as mini-adults, making them grow up too fast, and robbing them of their imaginations."
Mary Czajkowski, superintendent of Barnstable Public Schools in Hyannis, Mass., acknowledged that Sandy Hook has teachers and parents on edge. But she defended Hyannis West Elementary School's warning to a 5-year-old boy who chased his classmates with a gun he'd made from plastic building blocks, saying the student didn't listen to the teacher when she told him repeatedly to stop.
The school told his mother if it happened again, he'd face a two-week suspension.
"Given the heightened awareness and sensitivity, we must do all that we can to ensure that all students and adults both remain safe and feel safe in schools," Czajkowski said in a statement. "To dismiss or overlook an incident that results in any member of our school community feeling unsafe or threatened would be irresponsible and negligent."
The boy's mother, Sheila Cruz-Cardosa, said school officials are responding irrationally in the wake of Sandy Hook. She said they should be concentrating on "high school kids or kids who are more of a threat, not an innocent 5-year-old who's playing with Legos."
Though Newtown introduces a wrinkle to the debate, the slew of recent high-profile suspensions over perceived threats or weapons infractions has renewed old questions about the wisdom of "zero tolerance" policies.
Conceived as a way to improve school security and maintain consistent discipline and order, zero tolerance was enshrined by a 1994 federal law that required states to mandate a minimum one-year expulsion of any student caught with a firearm on school property. Over the years, many states and school districts expanded zero tolerance to include offenses as varied as fighting, skipping school or arguing with a teacher.
Some experts say there's little evidence that zero tolerance—in which certain infractions compel automatic discipline, usually suspension or expulsion—makes schools safer, and contend the policies leads to increased rates of dropouts and involvement with the juvenile justice system. Supporters respond that zero tolerance is a useful and necessary tool for removing disruptive kids from the classroom, and say any problems stem from its misapplication.
The original 1994 federal law, and most state and local zero tolerance policies, give school administrators the flexibility to tailor punishments to fit the circumstances, noted school safety expert Kenneth Trump.
"Contrary to the myth of zero tolerance, most school board policies provide options and flexibility for administrators. What you see is poor decision-making and poor implementation of the policies, rather than the fact school administrators are handcuffed in terms of their discretion," he said.
Trump said most school officials bend over backwards to be fair. But he added there's no question that Sandy Hook weighs heavily.
"It's a normal occurrence to have a heightened sensitivity after a high-profile tragedy, but that does not negate the need for common sense," he said.
Maryland father Stephen Grafton said common sense was in short supply in a case involving his 6-year-old son, who he said was suspended from White Marsh Elementary School in Trappe, along with a second 6-year-old, for using their hands as "guns" during recess.
Grafton, a staff sergeant in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, said administrators were criminalizing play. He said he told his son he shouldn't shoot pretend guns because it makes some children upset, "but it was a difficult conversation to have because he didn't do anything wrong."
The school lifted the suspension after a day and removed it from his record, Grafton said.
"It's a very hypersensitive time," he said. "But, still, common sense has to apply for something like this, and it looks like common sense just went completely out the window."
The school principal did not respond to messages.
Zero tolerance traces its philosophical roots to the "broken windows" theory of policing, which argues that if petty crime is held in check, more serious crime and disorder are prevented. So it's no accident that students are often harshly punished over relatively minor misbehavior, said Russell Skiba, a zero tolerance expert at Indiana University's Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.
"We've seen literally thousands of these kinds of episodes of zero tolerance since the early 1990s," said Skiba, who co-authored a 2006 study for the American Psychological Association that concluded zero tolerance has not improved school security.
In the Pennsylvania case, Guarna, a former police officer, said she was summoned to her daughter's school last month and told that 5-year-old Madison had talked about shooting her pink bubble gun.
The kindergartener was initially suspended for 10 days and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation, according to documents supplied by Guarna's attorney. The suspension was later reduced to two days, and the incident was reclassified as "threat to harm others."
But Guarna wasn't satisfied. The counselor who evaluated Madison indicated she was a "typical 5-year-old in temperament and interest." Guarna and her attorney, Robin Ficker, demanded the district expunge Madison's record, apologize and make policy changes.
The parties met recently and Guarna went away happy, though she said she was asked not to reveal the terms of her agreement with the district. The district's attorney declined to comment, citing privacy law.
Guarna said she intends to push for changes in state law.
"My daughter had to suffer. I don't want to see other kids suffering," Guarna said.
Mark Terry, a Texas principal and president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, said most principals he knows are "not big supporters" of zero tolerance policies because they discount professional judgment.
But when discipline policies do provide leeway, he said, "I would hope that principals would, number one, use discretion and common sense. And if you do make a mistake, apologize and say, 'Hey, that was a boneheaded move.' Our sensitivities are just too high and we need to back off a little bit and take a look at what our real safety plan is."
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On Saturday, February 5th, Anderson Silva defends his middleweight crown against Vitor Belfort in the main event of UFC 126 in Las Vegas. Michael DiSanto breaks down this long-awaited battle...
Say what you will about Anderson Silva's recent run of lackluster performances. It is tough to argue with the numbers. Twelve UFC bouts. Twelve wins. The streak stands alone in the UFC record books for most consecutive wins, whether to start a career or at any other time.
Of course, that isn't the end of the story.
Silva's run of seven consecutive successful title defenses stands two clear of Matt Hughes, Tito Ortiz and Georges St-Pierre, the trio who share second place in the UFC record books. His record should actually be eight. Silva defeated Travis Lutter at UFC 67 for what should have been his first successful defense of the middleweight title, but Lutter could not make weight, so the belt was not on the line that night.
It suffices to say that this Silva guy is pretty good. Most believe he is the very best in the world, pound for pound. But Chael Sonnen proved back in August that he is anything but unbeatable.
Sonnen almost pulled off the upset of 2010 when he dominated the champion for almost 23 minutes. Winning by a comfortable margin on all three cards, Sonnen made a costly mistake by over extending himself during his ground-and-pound attack, while Silva's hips were high on his chest. That opened the door for "The Spider" to slap on a triangle choke, and the fight was suddenly over. Sonnen tapped with 110 seconds remaining in what should have been a career-defining moment for the Team Quest standout.
All it took was that one mistake by the challenger, and Silva was able to bring the bout to an abrupt halt. That is what is so beautiful about mixed martial arts. One false move, one slip, one unnecessarily aggressive punch, a telegraphed takedown or thousands of other scenarios can result in an instant loss, regardless of what was happening up to that moment. That is particularly true when facing a fighter like Silva, who is close to a perfect offensive fighter, minus wrestling ability.
Silva's fight with Sonnen showed his resolve as a champion, but it also highlighted another fact, one that has to be a bit unnerving for his followers. For the second straight time in his 12 UFC bouts, he looked remarkably human. He was repeatedly taken down and beaten up on the ground. Luckily for the champion, Sonnen is not the type of fighter who can quickly end a fight with a single punch or a slick submission hold. He is grinder, so Silva had plenty of opportunities to try and come back from the dead.
Silva's next opponent is anything but a grinder. He is arguably the most explosive fighter in the division. Make a mistake against Vitor Belfort and one punch will forever alter the course of history. Just ask Rich Franklin, Matt Lindland, Wanderlei Silva, Tank Abbott, Terry Martin or any of the other victims who fell prey to "The Phenom" by way of knockout.
Some would actually argue that Belfort is one of the most complete fighters in the sport. He has no glaring gap in his skills. I can tell Belfort stories for days. Everybody knows that he is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and has been for years. One former UFC champion who is known for his submission excellence once told me that Belfort was one of the toughest guys he ever rolled with.
"The Phenom" has ridiculous physical strength. Since I'm telling stories, Ricco Rodriguez, following his 2001 loss to Belfort in the quarterfinals of the Abu Dhabi Submission Grappling Championships (absolute division), said that Belfort was physically the strongest person he had ever grappled with. That is a pretty bold statement.
Belfort's explosiveness is unquestioned. Watch his bouts against Wanderlei Silva or Franklin, if you need a reminder. He also possesses surprisingly good straight wrestling. He is one of only a handful of fighters to successfully take down Liddell, and he seemed to reverse Dan Henderson at will in their PRIDE bout.
Of course, Belfort is not perfect. He has a history of running out of gas in fights that last beyond the first six or seven minutes. Maybe that was due to carrying unnecessary muscle at heavyweight and light heavy. Maybe it was a case of not properly preparing. Who knows?
He also seems lackadaisical at times, almost as if he is just going through the motions during fights, rather than competing against another man in a sport where he can get badly injured if he isn't fully prepared.
So far, those shortcomings haven't reared their ugly head in a bout south of 205 pounds. Three fights. Three wins by knockout. Only one of those fights lasted beyond a single round. In that fight, he scored one of the most savage knockouts of his career 8:12 into the fight.
Has a drop to middleweight turned "The Phenom" into the fighter everyone thought he would be when he first blazed through the UFC as a cocky 19-year-old, winning two fights in the same night in a total of 120 seconds? Toss in the fights that bookended those two, and Belfort started his career 4-0 after only 182 seconds of competition.
Silva will ask Belfort that very question on the eve of Super Bowl XLV. How will Belfort respond?
Some of that depends on how the fight unfolds. I have a feeling that the first several minutes will be nothing more than a feeling out process, with both men circling and feinting, but not doing much more. Both men are countersrtikers to the extreme. Neither is comfortable taking the lead. That presents a quandary because someone has to take the lead at some point.
Many experts, including living legend Randy Couture, believe that Belfort should put extreme pressure on Silva. Both Sonnen and Demian Maia experienced a lot of success when they pressured the champion. Then again, Chris Leben and Forrest Griffin experienced very different fates when they tried to attack Silva.
I disagree. Belfort is not an aggressive, press-forward fighter. Couture claims that Belfort has taken to an attacking style like a "duck to water." The gym is one thing. Belfort has always been a monster in the gym regardless of the style he uses. Leaving one's comfort zone in an actual fight is a completely different situation, one that Belfort should forget about for now.
To complicate matters, I don't think that Silva should aggressively attack, either. I'm sure UFC President Dana White wants to club me with a very large baseball bat after reading that. He isn't that type of fighter, and a guy with Belfort's power and speed is the wrong opponent to try something new against.
Granted, these guys cannot come out and just circle each other for five rounds. Someone has to take the lead at some point. I get that. Still, I think it should be a tactical chess match of feints and range-finding strikes, until someone makes a mistake.
If that happens, I think Belfort has the advantage. He is at his best when he circles while feinting and throwing lone strikes in order to entice his opponent to throw a reckless strike. He is extremely patient during that process, always focused on finding that one opening to attack. Once that happens, he explodes with a savagery that is rare, even in MMA. His highlight reel of knockouts doesn't take a backseat to anybody's. That is why Belfort is one of the most famous athletes in the sport.
Silva hates it when fighters look to counter. He is completely lost in that scenario and becomes remarkably passive and impatient. Go back and watch his fights with Patrick Cote, Thales Leites or Maia. He prances and clowns more than he fights in those instances.
That is precisely what Belfort wants Silva to do in their bout. He wants Silva to start dancing or engaging in crazy feints. Why? Because Belfort is the faster, more explosive fighter, and he can take full advantage of those moments by striking as soon as the champion begins those ridiculous movements.
If Belfort instead attacks with reckless abandon, he is likely to get knocked out. Remember when he faced Chuck Liddell back at UFC 37.5? Belfort was winning in what was largely a technical kickboxing contest with the then-future Hall of Famer. It was close, but Belfort was definitely winning in my opinion before making the silly mistake of recklessly rushing in against Liddell, who is a counterstriker similar in style to Silva. The result was a flash knockdown that sealed the win for Liddell.
If Belfort rushes in foolishly against Silva, the result will be at least that bad, probably worse.
Silva's key to winning is to remain patient. He needs to forget the jeers of the crowd, if the action starts off slowly. Stay focused because Belfort will eventually attack. Opportunities will present themselves for him to counter. But patience is the order of the day.
If Silva remains focused on the task at hand, then this becomes a tossup, in my opinion. To quote Joe Rogan, it is a "ballet of violence" when Silva fights. Look, when this guy is focused, properly prepared and fully motivated, watching him fight is a special event. No different than watching Michael Jordan play basketball or Tiger Woods hit a golf ball at Augusta. But he absolutely must match their focus in this fight; otherwise his record run will end on February 5.
A big question on everyone's mind heading into this fight is whether Belfort will be sharp enough after being on the sidelines for the longest period of his career to put together the near-perfect effort required to unseat the greatest champion the sport has ever known.
Come fight night, Belfort will end a 504-day streak of inactivity. That is a ridiculously long layoff heading into any fight and the longest in history leading up to a UFC championship bout. That simple fact alone would be enough for me to completely discount a fighter's chance at victory, particularly against an elite assassin like Silva. Not in this case. I actually don't think the layoff will play any part in the outcome because Belfort has a history of stellar performances following lengthy absences from competition.
To wit, the former champion has endured layoffs of at least 240 days five other times in his career. Belfort is 4-1 in those bouts, with single-round annihilations of Rich Franklin, Wanderlei Silva, and Marvin Eastman, as well as a hard-fought unanimous decision over heavyweight monster Gilbert Yvel in a fight after a 402-day absence (the second longest layoff of his career to date). His only loss was the razor-thin unanimous decision dropped to Liddell at UFC 37.5.
Ring rust won't play a factor on Saturday night. I'm confident of that statement. Belfort will win or lose based on his ability to rise to the occasion, not his inactivity.
Who am I picking? I have no idea if this fight will end in 30 seconds or last the distance. I don't know if it will end by knockout or submission, though the former seems more likely. A decision is possible. And I can see either man getting his hand raised in any of the aforementioned scenarios.
I know that isn't very decisive. I don't know how anybody can definitively pick one guy to win. If pressed, I would pick Belfort because I just don't see where Silva has any clear advantage over him. Ask me again tomorrow and my answer might be different. That is why this is a great matchup.
Anderson Silva
• 35 years old
• 6'2, 185 lbs
• 77-inch reach
• 27-4 overall (12-0 UFC)
• 12 consecutive UFC wins is most in history
• 10 UFC wins inside the distance (7 by KO/TKO and 3 by submission)
• 50% of those wins were in the first round
• Hasn't lost since January 20, 2006 (DQ loss to Yushin Okami outside of UFC)
• 8-0 in championship fights (8 championship fights is 7th all time)
• 8 championship wins ties Georges St-Pierre for 3rd all time
• 7 successful consecutive defenses is the most in UFC history
• Current layoff is 182 days (SUB5 over Chael Sonnen on August 7, 2010)
• Longest layoff of UFC career is 245 days (KO1 over Forrest Griffin on August 8, 2009, to UD5 over Demian Maia on April 10, 2010)
• Submission of the Night twice (SUB2 over Dan Henderson by rear naked choke on March 1, 2008, and SUB5 by triangle choke over Chael Sonnen on August 7, 2010)
• Knockout of the Night twice (TKO2 over Rich Franklin on October 20, 2007, and KO1 over Forrest Griffin at August 8, 2009)
• Fight of the Night three times (SUB2 over Dan Henderson on March 1, 2008, KO1 over Forrest Griffin on August 8, 2009, and SUB5 over Chael Sonnen on August 7, 2010)
Vitor Belfort
• 33 years old
• 6'0, 185 lbs
• 74-inch reach
• 19-8 overall (8-4 UFC)
• 3-0, 3 KOs at 195 lbs or less
• All 8 UFC wins inside the distance (7 by KO/TKO and 2 by submission)
• 8-1 in UFC bouts that ended inside the distance (lone loss to Randy Couture on October 17, 1997)
• Current layoff of 504 days is the longest of his career (TKO1 over Rich Franklin on September 19, 2009)
• Knockout of the Night (TKO1 over Rich Franklin on September 19, 2009)


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House votes to end NSA phone activities
By Ken Dilanian for The Associated Press
News Public Sector NSAThe House has moved the U.S. closer to ending the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records, the most significant demonstration to date of leaker Edward Snowden's impact on the debate over privacy versus security.
But the final version of the legislation, "watered down" in the words of one supporter, also showed the limits of that impact. The bill was severely weakened to mollify U.S. intelligence agencies, which insisted that the surveillance programs that shocked many Americans are a critical bulwark against terror plots.
The bill was approved 303-121, which means that most House members can now say they voted to end what many critics consider the most troubling practice Snowden disclosed – the collection and storage of U.S. calling data by the secretive intelligence agency. But almost no other major provision designed to restrict NSA surveillance, including limits on the secret court that grants warrants to search the data, survived the negotiations to get the bill to the House floor.
And even the prohibition on bulk collection of Americans' communications records has been called into question by some activists who say a last-minute change in wording diminished what was sold as a ban.
"People will say, 'We did something, and isn't something enough,'" said Steven Aftergood, who tracks intelligence issues for the Federation of American Scientists. "But this bill doesn't fundamentally resolve the uncertainties that generated the whole controversy."
Though some privacy activists continued to back the bill, others withdrew support, as did technology companies such as Google and Facebook.
Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said, "I believe this is a workable compromise that protects the core function of a counterterrorism program we know has saved lives around the world."
The measure now heads to the Senate, where Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Thursday that "we must do something."
The USA Freedom Act would codify a proposal made in January by President Barack Obama, who said he wanted to end the NSA's practice of collecting and storing the "to and from" records of nearly every American landline telephone call under a program that searched the data for connections to terrorist plots abroad.
The phone records program was revealed though the leaks last year by Snowden, who used his job as a computer network administrator to remove tens of thousands of secret documents from an NSA facility in Hawaii. Snowden fled first to China, then Russia where he is avoiding an extradition order to face criminal charges for revealing classified information.
The phone companies create and store those billing records, and the legislation still would give the NSA authority to request batches of data from the companies to search in terrorism investigations in response to a judicial order. Law enforcement agents routinely obtain such records in criminal investigations.
The USA Freedom Act started its life as the idea of those who wanted to clamp down on NSA surveillance, but it was "watered down," as Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, acknowledged, shedding a series of provisions favoured by civil liberties activists. Some activists continued to back the bill, including the American Civil Liberties Union, whose Washington legislative director, Laura Murphy, called it an imperfect but "unambiguous statement of congressional intent to rein in the out-of-control NSA."
Technology companies such as Google and Facebook said they were most concerned with a last-minute definition change that they fear will allow the government to collect huge volumes of records – including, for example, records of all the phone calls made from a particular U.S. city during a certain period, or all the internet data associated with a particular commercial router.
The bill's original text limited the government's data requests to those associated with specific people, entities or accounts. The approved version says the government may use any "specific selection term" to set the parameters of its search, including a type of device or an address. The new language appears to allow much broader data requests.
"The new version deliberately contains ambiguity in a very critical area," said Harley Geiger, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology. "We've learned about the government track record of exploiting ambiguity in the law to broaden its surveillance activity."
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the vagueness was designed to protect the government's surveillance methods, not to facilitate secret bulk collection.
Other provisions that were dropped from the bill included requirements to estimate the number of Americans whose records were captured under the program, and the creation of a public advocate to challenge the government's legal arguments before the secret surveillance court.
NSA officials were pleased with the bill for another reason: The new arrangement will give them access to mobile calling records they did not have under the old program.
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Stephens, 19, tops Serena in quarters
Serena Williams was only thinking out loud when she muttered that this Australian Open had been ''the worst two weeks.''
Not long after a courtside microphone picked up those comments during her quarterfinal with 19-year-old American Sloane Stephens, things got a whole lot worse.
Stephens outplayed Williams, whose movement and serves had been slowed by a back injury, and beat the 15-time Grand Slam champion 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. It was Williams' first loss since Aug. 17, and her first defeat at a Grand Slam tournament since last year's French Open.
Four-time Australian Open winner Roger Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam champion, looked for a while like he might join Williams on the sidelines. But Federer eked out a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3 win over 2008 finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a match that lasted 3 hours, 34 minutes.
Federer, who broke Tsonga in the fourth game of the deciding set, converted his fifth match point while serving after Tsonga saved four in the previous game. Federer, who advanced to the semifinals for the 10th consecutive year at Melbourne Park, will play U.S. Open champion Andy Murray on Friday.
''I thought he played very aggressive,'' Federer said of Tsonga. ''I love those four-set or five-set thrillers and I was part of one tonight.''
Murray advanced earlier Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 victory over Jeremy Chardy. The other men's semifinal has defending champion Novak Djokovic playing David Ferrer on Thursday
Williams' downer of a Grand Slam Down Under started badly when she turned her right ankle in her opening match at Melbourne Park.
''I've had a tough two weeks between the ankle ... and my back, which started hurting,'' Williams said. ''A lot of stuff.''
While Williams packed for home - she and sister Venus have also lost in doubles - Stephens advanced to a semifinal Thursday against defending champion Victoria Azarenka.
The top-seeded Azarenka beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-1 in the early quarterfinal at Rod Laver Arena. Maria Sharapova, who has lost only nine games in five matches, plays Li Na in the other semifinal Thursday.
Williams hurt her back in the eighth game of the second set and things got progressively worse. She yelled at herself on several occasions, and smashed a racket into the court, earning a $1,500 fine from tournament officials.
''I was running to the net for a drop shot,'' Williams said, describing the lead up to her injury. ''As I went to hit it, it was on the backhand. I even screamed on the court. I totally locked up after that.''
She reiterated after the match that her injuries had made this Australian Open difficult for her.
''Absolutely, I'm almost relieved that it's over because there's only so much I felt I could do,'' she said. ''I've been thrown a lot of (curve) balls these two weeks.''
Stephens has been, too, but has coped well, and the magnitude of her accomplishment only hit her while she was warming down after the match.
''I was stretching, and I was like, `I'm in the semis of a Grand Slam.' I was like, `Whoa. It wasn't as hard as I thought,''' she said. ''To be in the semis of a Grand Slam is definitely a good accomplishment. A lot of hard work.''
The No. 29-seeded Stephens hadn't been given much of a chance of beating Williams, who lost only four matches in 2012 and was in contention to regain the No. 1 ranking at the age of 31.
Williams' latest winning streak included a straight-set win over Stephens at the Brisbane International this month.
Stephens wasn't even sure that she could beat Williams until she woke up Wednesday.
''When I got up, I was like, `Look, Dude, like, you can do this.' Like, `Go out and play and do your best,'' she said.
Williams walked around the net to congratulate Stephens, who then clapped her hand on her racket and waved to the crowd, a look of disbelief on her face.
Stephens has said she had a photo of Williams in her room when she was a child, and had long admired the Williams sisters.
''This is so crazy. Oh my goodness,'' Stephens said, wiping away tears in her post-match TV interview. ''I think I'll put a poster of myself (up) now.''
Azarenka, with her most famous fan sitting in the crowd wearing a shirt reminding her to keep calm, overcame some early jitters to beat Kuznetsova.
After dropping serve in a long fourth game that went to deuce 10 times, Azarenka recovered to dominate the rest of the match against Kuznetsova, a two-time major winner who was floating dangerously in the draw with a No. 75 ranking as she recovers from a knee injury.
Azarenka's American rapper friend, Redfoo, returned from a concert in Malaysia to attend Wednesday's quarterfinal match.
Wearing a red sleeveless T-shirt that read ''Keep Calm and Bring Out the Bottles,'' the name of his next single, Redfoo stood, clapped and yelled ''Come on, Vika!'' during the tight first set.
Williams' loss was a boost for Azarenka, who lost all five head-to-heads against the American in 2012 and is 1-11 in their career meetings.
Tsonga said he was in a ''bad mood'' because he lost despite playing a good match against Federer.
''I was solid. I was there every time,'' he said. ''I just gave my best today, so I'm proud of that.''
The 25-year-old Murray had his service broken for only the second time while serving for the match. But he broke back immediately to clinch a quarterfinal victory.
Murray discounted comments in the British media that he was upset with an almost full schedule of day matches while Federer was given featured cooler night slots on Rod Laver Arena.
''The scheduling for me is part and parcel of playing in really any tennis tournament,'' Murray said. ''It's tough to make the schedule perfect for every single player.''


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Where were you on March 31, 1965? If you lived in Los Angeles and loved the arts, there's a good chance you were here in the Miracle Mile, on the opening day of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
…er, Los Angeles County Art Museum. LACAM? Truth be told it took a while before the museum settled on the acronym LACMA. In the beginning most people seemed to refer to it as the County Museum of Art—as differentiated from the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, which opened back in 1913 and from which this museum would secede (leaving its original institution to become the Natural History Museum).
The new museum was dedicated on March 30, 1965, and debuted to the public the following day. The above image came from a small book developed by the museum and inserted into the March 28 issue of the Los Angeles Times. Here are a few more pages from that book, showing off some well-heeled patrons posing for the cameras.
Today that wide-open atrium is filled by Tony Smith's "Smoke"
Today those stairs are gone, replaced by a new grand staircase.
We're considering reinstating a dress code for visiting the museum. No fur, no admission.
The painting is by Stuart Davis, the sculpture by Pegot Waring, the chair by Mies van der Rohe, the dress by Galanos… but who did the hair?
I also dug up a few photos from the museum's inaugural year that really show off how open and airy the campus felt. When the museum's original campus opened, its three William Pereira-designed buildings seemed to float above water. Unfortunately that water proved unsustainable as the legendary tar beneath our foundations seeped through no matter what protective measures were taken. Eventually the fountains were removed, literally paving the way for the Anderson Building, now known as the Art of the Americas Building, which was built in the 1980s. Here are a few shots to give you some sense of how open the campus felt when it was first created.


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