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==== Compression ====
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The following command allows the user to compress several files on the current directory by marking them and then calling {{ic|:compress ''package name''}}. It supports name suggestions by getting the basename of the current directory and appending several possibilities for the extension.
The following command allows the user to compress several files on the current directory by marking them and then calling {{ic|:compress ''package name''}}. It supports name suggestions by getting the basename of the current directory and appending several possibilities for the extension.
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zh-CN:ranger Template:Article summary start Template:Article summary text Template:Article summary heading Template:Article summary wiki: another text-based file manager with vi-like keybinds. Template:Article summary end
ranger is a text-based file manager written in Python with vi-style key bindings. It has an extensive set of features, and you can accomplish file management tasks with a few keystrokes with no need for the mouse.
- 1 Installing
- 2 Running
- 3 Comparison with other file managers
- 4 Documentation
- 5 Customization
- 6 Useful commands
- 7 See also
ranger can be installed from the official repositories. There is also ranger-gitAUR in AUR.
Optional, for file previews with "scope.sh":
- libcaca (img2txt) for previewing images as ASCII-art
- highlight for syntax highlighting of code
- atool for previews of archives
- lynx, w3m or elinks for previews of html pages
- poppler (pdftotext) for pdf previews
- transmission-show for viewing bit-torrent information
- mediainfo or perl-image-exiftool for viewing information about media files
To start ranger, launch a terminal such as xterm, and type the command
ranger. Or, you can use the command
xterm -e ranger
Comparison with other file managers
Compared to graphical mouse-based file managers, ranger is much more efficient, but still visually appealing. ranger has one pane with multiple columns for different directories in the path, and file previews on the right. Compared to double-pane file managers, ranger shows more directory and file information. You can quickly move between directories using keystrokes, bookmarks or the command history. Previews of files and directory contents automatically show up for the current selection. ranger's features include: vi-style key bindings, bookmarks, selections, tagging, tabs, command history, the ability to make symbolic links, several console modes, and a task view. ranger has customizable commands and key bindings, including bindings to external scripts. The closest competitor is Vifm, which has two panes and vi-style key bindings, but has fewer features overall.
ranger's man page can be opened by typing
?. You can also press
1? for a list of key bindings,
2? for a list of commands and
3? for a list of settings.
After startup, ranger creates a directory
~/.config/ranger/. You can copy the default configuration files to this directory with the following command:
ranger --copy-config=all
They can then be customized. Some basic knowledge of python is useful.
rc.confcontrols startup commands and key bindings
commands.pycontrols the commands which are launched with the ":" key
rifle.confcontrols the applications used when a given type of file is launched.
You can launch files with "l" (ell) or "<Enter>". For
rc.conf, you need only include changes from the default file, since both are loaded. For
commands.py, if you do not include the whole file, put this line at the top:
from ranger.api.commands import *
Binding keys
Use the file
~/.config/ranger/rc.conf to modify key bindings. There are many keybindings already defined, and you can learn the syntax by reading the file.
The following example shows how to use "DD" to move selected files to a directory
~/.Trash/. Put this code in
# move to trash map DD shell mv -t /home/myname/.config/ranger/Trash %s
Defining commands
Continuing the above example, adding the following entry to
~/.config/ranger/commands.py would define a command to empty the trash directory
class empty(Command): """:empty Empties the trash directory ~/.Trash """ def execute(self): self.fm.run("rm -rf /home/myname/.Trash/{*,.[^.]*}")
To use it, you would type ":empty<Enter>", using tab completion if desired.
Opening files with a given application
~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf. Since the beginning lines are executed first, you should put your modifications at the beginning of the file. For example, the following entry will open a tex file with kile.
ext tex = kile "$@"
Syncing path with shell
Starting ranger from a shell or an X session
ranger provides a shell function
you can source or copy into your shell configuration file. Now running
rangercd instead of
ranger will sync the paths, i.e. when quitting ranger the shell will automatically cd to the last browsed folder.
If you launch ranger from a graphical launcher (e.g. using
$TERMCMD -e ranger, TERMCMD being an X terminal), you cannot use rangercd here because it is a shell function. The trick is to create an executable script:
#!/bin/sh export RANGERCD=true # could be any value $TERMCMD
and add this at the very end of your shell configuration:
[ -n "$RANGERCD" ] && unset RANGERCD && rangercd
Note that it is important to unset the variable, otherwise launching a subshell from this terminal will automatically re-launch ranger.
Starting a shell from ranger
With the previous method you can switch to a shell in last browsed path simply by leaving ranger. However you may not want to quit ranger for several reasons (numerous opened tabs, copy in progress, etc.). You can start a shell from ranger (Template:Keypress by default) without losing your ranger session. Unfortunately, the shell will not switch to the current folder automatically. Again, this can be solved with an executable script:
#!/bin/sh export AUTOCD="$(realpath "$1")" $SHELL
and - as before - add this to at the very end of your shell configuration:
cd "$AUTOCD"
Now you can change your shell binding for ranger:
map S shell shellcd %d
Alternatively, you can make use of your shell history file if it has any. For instance, you could do this for zsh:
## Prepend argument to zsh dirstack. BUF="$(realpath "$1") $(grep -v "$(realpath "$1")" "$ZDIRS")" echo "$BUF" > "$ZDIRS" zsh
Change ZDIRS for you dirstack.
New tab in current folder
You may have noticed there is two shortcuts for opening a new tab in home (Template:KeypressTemplate:Keypress and Template:Keypress). Let's rebind Template:Keypress:
map <c-n> eval fm.tab_new('%d')
Useful commands
External Drives
External drives can be automatically mounted with a udev rule or with the help of an automounting Udev wrapper. Drives mounted under
/media can be easily accessed by pressing Template:Keypress (go, media).
Network drives
These commands use atool to perform archive operations.
The following command implements archive extraction by copying (yy) one or more archive files and then executing ":extracthere" on the desired directory.
import os from ranger.core.loader import CommandLoader class extracthere(Command): def execute(self): """ Extract copied files to current directory """ copied_files = tuple(self.fm.env.copy) if not copied_files: return def refresh(_): cwd = self.fm.env.get_directory(original_path) cwd.load_content() one_file = copied_files[0] cwd = self.fm.env.cwd original_path = cwd.path au_flags = ['-X', cwd.path] au_flags += self.line.split()[1:] au_flags += ['-e'] self.fm.env.copy.clear() self.fm.env.cut = False if len(copied_files) == 1: descr = "extracting: " + os.path.basename(one_file.path) else: descr = "extracting files from: " + os.path.basename(one_file.dirname) obj = CommandLoader(args=['aunpack'] + au_flags \ + [f.path for f in copied_files], descr=descr) obj.signal_bind('after', refresh) self.fm.loader.add(obj)
The following command allows the user to compress several files on the current directory by marking them and then calling
:compress package name. It supports name suggestions by getting the basename of the current directory and appending several possibilities for the extension. You need to have atool installed. Otherwise you will see an error message when create the archive.
import os from ranger.core.loader import CommandLoader class compress(Command): def execute(self): """ Compress marked files to current directory """ cwd = self.fm.env.cwd marked_files = cwd.get_selection() if not marked_files: return def refresh(_): cwd = self.fm.env.get_directory(original_path) cwd.load_content() original_path = cwd.path parts = self.line.split() au_flags = parts[1:] descr = "compressing files in: " + os.path.basename(parts[1]) obj = CommandLoader(args=['apack'] + au_flags + \ [os.path.relpath(f.path, cwd.path) for f in marked_files], descr=descr) obj.signal_bind('after', refresh) self.fm.loader.add(obj) def tab(self): """ Complete with current folder name """ extension = ['.zip', '.tar.gz', '.rar', '.7z'] return ['compress ' + os.path.basename(self.fm.env.cwd.path) + ext for ext in extension]
Image mounting
The following command assumes you are using cdemu as your image mounter and some kind of system like autofs which mounts the virtual drive to a specified location ('/media/virtualrom' in this case). Don't forget to change mountpath to reflect your system settings.
To mount an image (or images) to a cdemud virtual drive from ranger you select the image files and then type ':mount' on the console. The mounting may actually take some time depending on your setup (in mine it may take as long as one minute) so the command uses a custom loader that waits until the mount directory is mounted and then opens it on the background in tab 9.
import os, time from ranger.core.loader import Loadable from ranger.ext.signals import SignalDispatcher from ranger.ext.shell_escape import * class MountLoader(Loadable, SignalDispatcher): """ Wait until a directory is mounted """ def __init__(self, path): SignalDispatcher.__init__(self) descr = "Waiting for dir '" + path + "' to be mounted" Loadable.__init__(self, self.generate(), descr) self.path = path def generate(self): available = False while not available: try: if os.path.ismount(self.path): available = True except: pass yield time.sleep(0.03) self.signal_emit('after') class mount(Command): def execute(self): selected_files = self.fm.env.cwd.get_selection() if not selected_files: return space = ' ' self.fm.execute_command("cdemu -b system unload 0") self.fm.execute_command("cdemu -b system load 0 " + \ space.join([shell_escape(f.path) for f in selected_files])) mountpath = "/media/virtualrom/" def mount_finished(path): currenttab = self.fm.current_tab self.fm.tab_open(9, mountpath) self.fm.tab_open(currenttab) obj = MountLoader(mountpath) obj.signal_bind('after', mount_finished) self.fm.loader.add(obj)
See also
- ranger web page.
- ranger mailing list
- Arch Linux Forum thread.
- GitHub-page
- DotShare.it configurations.


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GRANITE FALLS — It's OK to fail in Michael Werner's class.
The Granite Falls High School manufacturing teacher is all about teaching practical skills, which means trying and failing is part of the equation.
"In my class, you can screw up," Werner said. "And I actually enjoy it because when you screw up, you can try it again and apply what you learned the first time."
He wants to prepare students for jobs, especially in Washington's manufacturing industry. In June, his dedication to hands-on learning and real-world projects earned him statewide recognition.
The Center of Excellence for Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing selected Werner as its first Innovative Teacher of the Year, which is expected to become an annual award.
The center is one of 10 across the state, each focused on a different Washington industry. Executive Director Mary Kaye Bredeson said her center is tasked with creating a skilled workforce for aerospace businesses, which is why teachers like Werner are so important.
An advisory board of people working in the industry selected Werner as the first teacher to receive the award.
"I wish we had more teachers like him, with his dedication and passion for teaching," Bredeson said.
She said she is impressed by Werner's efforts to get both girls and boys involved in manufacturing.
Werner, 54, started teaching at Granite Falls High School in 2007. He lives in Stanwood, but grew up in Switzerland. Werner has lived in the United States since 1985.
Growing up in Switzerland, apprenticeships and college degrees have always been viewed by Werner as equally valuable. He's learned to work with metals, wood and other materials through hands-on education and challenging projects, and that's the type of schooling he tries to provide for his students.
In 2009, Werner started the Eco Car program at Granite Falls High School. Each year, students build a car to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas. The contest challenges students to create an extremely fuel efficient vehicle.
Werner coordinated the ShopGirls, an all-girls EcoTeam. He also coaches UrbanAuto, a team for both boys and girls.
"It's really about what project I can reach a kid with," Werner said. "We'll come up with a project that gets them hooked and allows them to explore and learn and fail at some points."
Along with the extracurricular Eco Car team, Werner teaches five classes per day during the school year, with between 20 and 25 students in each. Out of more than 100 total students, he's never taught more than 10 girls per year, he said. That's something he'd like to change, he said, by encouraging more girls to pursue careers in manufacturing.
He'd also like to change the perception that college is the best option for every high school graduate. Experience in the workforce is just as important, he said.
"Sometimes I think the schools push everything toward college. But to me, the students have different ambitions and they're equal," Werner said. "There's a couple of kids we've just kept in school and kept from dropping out."
His next goal in Granite Falls is to expand hands-on technical education to elementary school children. Specifically, he hopes to set up activities that let students take information from math and science lessons and apply it to projects, from creating a small toy in elementary school to building a car engine in high school.
"A big part of it is teaching students to know how to think and not what to think," Werner said. "They give this award to one person, but it takes a village to get this to happen."
Werner tries to do more every year, said EB Holderman, Granite Falls School District spokeswoman. She described him as a leader and innovator.
Werner describes himself as part of a team.
"I'm just a link in the chain, I suppose," Werner said. "But I like being that link."
Kari Bray: 425-339-3439; email@example.com.

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The Tea Party and Catholic social teaching don't mix
Church teaching favors taxes over tea when it comes to promoting the common good.
[Editors' Note: Sounding Boards are one person's take on a many-sided subject and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, it's editors, or the Claretians.]
By John Gehring, senior writer and Catholic outreach coordinator for Faith in Public Life (faithinpubliclife.org).
Tea Party activists elbowed their way into the national media spotlight after the 2008 election with a "Don't Tread on Me" rallying cry that struck familiar themes rooted deep in the American experience. Crowds of flag-waving, self-styled "rugged individualists" told us that they were "Taxed Enough Already" and cast themselves as patriotic defenders of freedom in the revered tradition of Washington, Adams, and Paine.
Despite inflated claims of revolutionary lineage and an undercurrent of racial grievance that has sometimes blemished the Tea Party's image, many political leaders—including GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas—embrace this energized movement with the hope of riding a wave of anti-government backlash into the White House. Many Catholics have embraced the movement as well, as a Hart and Associates study found that 28 percent of Tea Partiers identify as Catholic.
Given the Tea Party's rise to prominence and its political success in pushing Republican leaders farther to the right, it's worth examining how the movement's core priorities—particularly on smaller government and fewer taxes—contrast sharply with Catholic values. How should Catholics groomed in a religious tradition that emphasizes the vital role of government and views taxes as a moral responsibility respond to the Tea Party?
Catholics are encouraged to put moral principles before partisanship, and the U.S. bishops' document "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship" has emphasized a broad range of issues for Catholics to consider before voting. The bishops warn against efforts "to reduce Catholic moral concerns to one or two matters, or to justify choices simply to advance partisan, ideological or personal interests."
Catholic Democrats, Republicans and Tea Partiers will all find aspects of Church teaching that challenge their political views in discomforting ways. However, the Tea Party's anti-government rhetoric and emphasis on individualism chafes against Catholic notions of solidarity and a vision for economic justice that seeks to balance personal rights with social responsibilities.
The Tea Party Patriots, one of the largest factions in this decentralized movement, gets straight to the point in its mission statement. "The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and taxation," the statement reads. While no one relishes paying taxes, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that federal, state and local income taxes consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950.
Jesuit priest Father Fred Kammer, a former president of Catholic Charities USA and current president of the Jesuit Social Research Institute in New Orleans, has written that "some 30 years of anti-tax propaganda whose most vociferous current harbinger is the Tea Party" has given many Americans the false impression that they are overtaxed.
In an article for Just South Quarterly, a publication of the Jesuit Social Research Institute, Kammer noted that the United States is one of the lowest-taxed countries in the developed world. Many states also have regressive tax policies that fall hardest on the working poor. Laws that cap property taxes and other sources of municipal revenue often erode the capacity to fund public schools, transportation and social-safety nets that protect the most vulnerable. These tax policies contribute to "a widening of the gap between rich and poor to its currently morally grotesque levels and the substantial deterioration of the U.S. infrastructure," Kammer wrote.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a widely covered report in October that found the top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation's earnings over the last three decades. The report shows that over the last 30 years a greater tax burden has fallen on middle and working class Americans.
Tax policies that contribute to the most extreme gap between rich and poor since the Great Depression have inspired billionaires like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates to call for higher taxes on the wealthy, a view supported by most Americans according to numerous surveys. The 400 wealthiest Americans now have a greater combined net worth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Buffet and Gates are not the only ones raising alarms. In his 2008 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI denounced the "scandal of glaring inequalities" and called for a more just distribution of wealth.
The Catholic approach to taxes and government often cuts against prevailing political and cultural winds. In Catholic terms, paying taxes is part of our collective responsibility for the common good. "The tax system should be continually evaluated in terms of its impact on the poor," the U.S. Catholic bishops wrote in Economic Justice for All, a 1986 pastoral letter that echoes the teaching of several popes.
The bishops called for a more progressive tax system "so that those with relatively greater financial resources pay a higher rate of taxation." Last October, U.S. bishops wrote a letter to lawmakers noting that "too often the weak and vulnerable are not heard in the tax debate," and urged Congress to preserve the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit that help many low-income Americans avoid falling below the poverty line.
In his encyclical, Mater et Magistra, Pope John XXIII wrote that "as regards taxation, assessment according to the ability to pay is fundamental to a just and equitable system." Pope John Paul II, while embraced by many conservatives, was also a bold critic of unregulated capitalism who warned against an "idolatry of the market" and insisted that private wealth was subject to a "social mortgage."
Compare this insistence on a sound ethical foundation for economic policies with the priorities of some presidential candidates and political leaders who support tax policies that most economists say would cut taxes for the wealthiest one percent of Americans without benefiting struggling workers.
For example, Newt Gingrich, Gov. Rick Perry and former GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain (who still plays a visible role as a political commentator) have all proposed versions of a "flax tax" often embraced by Tea Party supporters. Despite its egalitarian sounding name, this method of taxation falls hardest on the poor and working families, according to most economists and analysis from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.
Debates over taxes and size of government have also been influenced by a network of Washington "think tanks" and prominent figures on Capitol Hill. Washington anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, has long been a powerful force in conservative politics with a "starve the beast" approach to defunding government. Most Republican members of Congress (and 3 Democrats) have endorsed his "Tax Payer Protection" pledge, which according to Norquist's lobbying organization prohibits lawmakers from supporting "any and all tax increases." Norquist once remarked that it was his goal to reduce the size of the federal government to the point where it could be "drowned in a bathtub."
While Republicans have led the charge for lower taxes on the wealthy in recent decades, leading Democrats have also fought hard to keep capital gains taxes low even as they criticize the GOP for tax policies that coddle the rich. Seeking to find compromises with a Republican controlled-Congress in the 1990s, Bill Clinton cut the capital gains tax rate, which disproportionately benefits a small minority of elite investors.
President Barack Obama, pressured by Republicans during debt negotiations, agreed to maintain Bush-era tax cuts for the rich in exchange for an extension of unemployment benefits conservatives wanted to end. When President Obama last fall proposed a deficit reduction plan funded in part by closing tax loopholes for corporations and ending Bush tax cuts for those making more than $200,000 a year, conservative political leaders, including Catholic Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, accused him of engaging in "class warfare."
Ryan appears to draw the wrong lessons from his Church's teachings on economic justice and failed to mention that the 400 richest Americans now own more wealth than the bottom half of Americans combined.
The principles of just taxation encouraged by the Catholic social tradition are rooted in a positive vision for government and a healthy skepticism of unbridled markets. The radical individualism and anti-government ideology espoused by the Tea Party simply don't fit with Catholic communitarian values and Gospel commands to care for our neighbors, especially the poor and vulnerable.
Church officials are unlikely to show up at a rally any time soon, but if they do, it's safe to say you're more likely to find Pope Benedict XVI standing in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street protestors than Tea Party activists.


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September 28, 2019
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More details to come.
For more information and directions, click here.
John Perilloux demonstrated how to craft tenons with a guillotine tool at October's meeting. To read more and view videos of the demonstration, click here.
GCBA has adopted the ABANA Forging Fundamentals Controlled Hand Forging Lessons as our guide in teaching the science and art of blacksmithing to our members.
Our experienced members will serve as volunteer instructors for each of the 26 lesson plans, and we hope to teach one lesson at each meeting.
Glen Wesley, a longtime member of the Gulf Coast Blacksmith Association, has been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS).
As the disease progressed he began having difficulty feeding himself. He asked Sid Gale to help him design a device that would enable him to continue feeding himself without assistance.
They discussed it, made a few sketches and headed out to the shop. Discover how they designed and developed an Assisted Eating Device.
The 2012 Brian Brazeal Tool Workshop in October was a huge success. Watch as he makes tooling and forges a hammer head from round stock.
Ross was the Master Blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg from 1979 to 2004.
See our coverage of Fire in the Swamp 2012, a one-stop shop for demos on forging, iron and pewter casting, and pottery crafts.
Did this creature crawl out of the bayou behind Buddy's shop? See Sid Gale's Gator, featured at our February meeting.
GCBA provided demonstrations at the 2012 Arboretum Day.
A leaf key ring begins at the end of a bar.
Watch Brian Brazeal show us how it's done at our January meeting.
See Phil Love demonstrate the craft at Colonial Day, an annual event at St. Edward the Confessor School in Metairie.
Students dressed in period costume and took part in various events reminiscent of early America life.
This excerpt from his upcoming book is an excellent primer on adding Repoussé and Chased items to your work.
Then enjoy a lesson on How to Shoot an Anvil 200 Feet in the Air
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A new study published in the medical journal 'Lancet' shows that nearly half of Irish citizens polled are not receiving adequate amounts of weekly exercise. Ireland currently sits lazily in 7th place as most inactive population among the 36 countries polled.
Some 53.2 percent of Irish people don't do enough exercise, compared to 40.5 percent in America
The Irish Independent reports on the new study that is published just days before the world will turn its eyes to London to watch the height of athleticism at the Olympics - presumably from the comfort of their couches. The 'Lancet' journal warns that a sedentary lifestyle is a "global pandemic," causing about 1 in 10 deaths making it comparable with smoking.
The report states "Worldwide, around a third of adults (about 1.5 billion people) and four out of five adolescents are failing to do the recommended amounts of physical activity. It places them at 20--30pc greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer."
While it is recommended that the average adult should in the very least partake in a modest 15-30 brisk walk everyday, most do not.
European countries that topped to list as most inactive were Malta with 71 percent, Serbia with 68 percent and the UK with 63 percent. Greece, Estonia and the Netherlands were found to be the most active.
While Ireland has nothing to brag about in terms of its seventh place spot on the list, it does inch out past the UK. 58.5 percent of Irish women and 47.8 percent of Irish men were found to not be achieving adequate amounts of exercise. In the UK, however, 68.6 percent of women are inactive compared to 58 percent of men.
While conducting research for the study, 100 different measures were analyzed in order to determine statistics. "Successful examples included promoting exercise and community events through mass media campaigns. Social support networks such as buddy systems and walking clubs were also important, as were free exercise classes in public places," says the report.
Interestingly, "New evidence also suggests that some people might be genetically predisposed to being physically active while evolutionary factors and obesity might also add to the propensity to be inactive."


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Cable Providers Revolt Over Sports Costs
Cable, Satellite-TV Firms Push Back on Rising Cost of Sports Programming
When the Houston Astros and Rockets decided to launch their own cable network last year, their owners hoped to reap a sports-television bonanza. It hasn't worked out that way.
Comcast Corp. , one of the region's biggest cable-TV providers, took a 22% stake in the network and now carries the games. But AT&T Inc. and DirecTV have refused to carry the new network, saying it was demanding too much money for programming that their research shows viewers aren't all that interested in. Today, CSN Houston is available in only 40% of area households.
Cable and satellite-TV providers have complained for years about the rising cost of sports programming. Now, armed with detailed new viewing data that they claim show most subscribers aren't big fans, they are beginning to fight back. Houston, the 10th-largest television market in the nation, is the latest battlefield.
It is a well-kept secret of sports on television: Aside from the National Football League and the biggest games of the year in a handful of other sports, such as Tuesday night's Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the TV audience for sports is tiny, amounting to about 4% or less of households on average, according to media-research firm Nielsen's data provided by a major media company. Less than 3% of households with television in any given market, on average, will tune in to watch their hometown National Basketball Association teams play, and less than 2% will watch their National Hockey League teams.
Yet in the average market, sports channels such as ESPN and regional sports networks account for 19.5% of fees paid by cable and satellite operators, according to media-research firm SNL Kagan. The average monthly cable bill in the U.S., before taxes, is now $73.44, Kagan estimates.
Some industry veterans contend the rising cost of sports programming is throwing the entire TV ecosystem out of whack. Leo Hindery, one of the few executives to have run both a cable company (Tele-Communications Inc.) and a major regional sports network (YES Network), says the question being asked is whether sports viewership numbers justify the fees being charged. "I expect every operator and programmer is going to be thrust into this debate sooner rather than later," he says.
By some measures, sports programming is a better bet for network broadcasters than almost anything else. The rise of online video outlets such as Netflix and the growing use of digital recording devices are giving viewers unprecedented choice about what they watch and when they watch it. In the television season that finished in May, ratings for most major TV networks fell sharply.
Sports, so far, has been unaffected by those trends. According to a Nielsen study, viewers watched 97% of sports programming live last year, down slightly from 98% in 2008. They watched just 75% of nonsports programming live, down sharply from 93% in 2008. Advertisers like it when viewers watch live because they are less likely to skip commercials.
The size of the audiences for prime-time sports, while smaller than those for prime-time network entertainment, has remained consistent during the past 10 years, even as audiences on the four major broadcast networks have diminished.
Nevertheless, over the past 18 months, cable and satellite TV operators have started looking more closely at sports-viewing habits, using data collected from set-top boxes.
The data have given them a better sense for how often individual customers tune in to home-team games, and for how long. They have created algorithms to gauge this level of "engagement," and are now using the findings to make decisions about whether to add sports networks and pass on the fees to all subscribers.
AT&T says it used such data in deciding not to carry the new Houston sports network, although it declined to disclose details about the data.
"We'd like to make the channel available to our customers, but the proposed cost is not fair to pass to all of our customers across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, especially based upon our subscribers' historical lack of viewership of Rockets and Astros games," the company said in a statement. "We've offered to make CSN Houston available on an a la carte basis for those fans that want to watch." The new network wants the channel to be part of all digital basic cable.
Tad Brown, chief executive of the Rockets, predicts the network eventually will gain full distribution. "Any metrics that suggest a market as vibrant and wealthy and passionate as Houston isn't engaged with its teams—I would say those metrics are wrong," he says.
The Astros referred questions about the network to Comcast.
In an interview this spring, Jeff Weber, president of content and advertising sales for AT&T, says the company determines not just whether customers watch a specific team, but whether they are watching only high-profile games, and for how long they tuned in. "You start to think about not just viewership, but a broader phrase—viewership intensity."
Michael Nathanson, a veteran media analyst formerly with Nomura Securities who plans to join an independent firm in September, says some pay TV operators believe access to sports networks drives new subscriptions. But recent data on cable and satellite TV subscriptions, he says, suggests that sports may not be the magic bullet many consider it to be.
Data showing that more Americans are shifting viewing habits and going without cable or satellite television altogether further complicates the picture. In the past three years, the percentage of households subscribing to pay television has stagnated at about 90%, or about 100 million households, after years of steady growth, according to Nielsen.
Last year there were 213,000 new pay-television households, although 997,000 new households were formed, according to Nomura Securities. As recently as 2007, new pay-television customers were outpacing new households at a rate of 3.2 to 1, according to Nomura. There are now five million "zero-TV" households in the U.S., compared with two million in 2007, according to Nielsen.
A younger generation is starting to treat cable and satellite television the way they treat landline phones. All major sports leagues allow fans to subscribe to services that stream games online, and security systems to prevent fans from watching pirated sports streams sometimes don't work.
Some sports and media executives, though, contend that forcing fans and nonfans alike to bear the cost of TV programming isn't a viable long-term strategy. They worry that because consumers have so many entertainment options, they will turn away from sports that aren't readily available online.
"Eventually we are going to have to figure out a way to get to a world where, if a fan wants to watch a game on whatever device that is that they want to watch it on, we have to be able to provide that to them," says Chris Schlosser, vice president of digital media for Major League Soccer.
Some sports-media executives say that the consistent audience for prime-time sports programming shows that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the current model. Media companies have been willing to pay more and more for that consistent audience.
The most recent deals for rights to national telecasts of Major League Baseball, the U.S. Open tennis tournament, the National Football League, as well as regional deals for the Texas Rangers and the Los Angeles Lakers and Pac-12 college football and basketball, require broadcasters to pay anywhere from 30% to 70% more than under prior deals.
The networks hope to cover those higher costs by collecting higher monthly fees from cable companies. The fees cable operators pay to carry sports networks have risen 113% since 2002, according to Kagan. Last year cable operators paid regional sports networks on average $2.47 per subscriber to carry their channels as part of their digital basic programming, up from $1.12 in 2002. Fees for ESPN and ESPN2 jumped to a combined $5.71 in 2012, from $1.84 in 2002, according to Kagan.
Jeff Krolik, an executive vice president at Fox Sports Networks, says failed sports networks and deals under which broadcasters overpaid for rights aren't evidence that the sports media landscape is about to be significantly disrupted. "We don't think there is a bubble. But we think you can pay too much for something," he says. "Our world is filled with cautionary tales and deals that don't work."
Over the past decade, several regional sports networks launched by professional teams have collapsed after failing to gain traction. The Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins and Charlotte Bobcats all launched networks that weren't picked up by enough local providers, prompting the teams to give up and sell the broadcast rights to other networks.
But Mr. Krolik says the failures are exceptions, and the basic delivery model is sound. "Five years from now, it's going to be more of the same," he says. Fox Sports, which controls the television rights to 45 major U.S. sports teams, is a unit of 21st Century Fox, which until late June was part of the same company as Wall Street Journal owner News Corp.
When Houston's Astros and Rockets launched their own cable network last October, they were following the lead of other professional-sports teams that have given up guaranteed rights payments from broadcasters for equity in a potentially valuable asset. The new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers, for example, have a similar plan to launch their own sports network next year.
Texas entrepreneur James Crane had bought the Astros for more than $600 million in 2011 and began a major rebuilding program. After dumping high-price talent, the team currently has the worst record in baseball. Mr. Crane didn't respond to requests for comment.
Basketball's Rockets, which are owned by investor Leslie Alexander, were a middling 45-37 last season and recently signed all-star center Dwight Howard to try to make the team better.
People with knowledge of the television negotiations say the Astros and Rockets turned down deals from longtime broadcaster Fox Sports Southwest valued at about $60 million per year for the Astros and $25 million per year for the Rockets.
By forming a partnership with Comcast, the biggest pay-TV operator in the U.S., the two teams hoped their network would become part of the basic programming offered by Texas' television providers. The network asked providers to pay a monthly fee of $3.40 for each of their subscribers, making it one of the most expensive cable sports networks in the country.
Partner Comcast has made CSN Houston available to its customers in the region, but AT&T and DirecTV, which together control more than one-third of the Houston market, has so far refused, as have various smaller providers.
Mr. Brown, president of the Rockets, says CSN Houston deserves the same distribution and fees that other top regional sports networks in the country's biggest markets receive and will eventually be available to all subscribers in the region. "This is all part of the growing pains of establishing a new network," he says of the current stalemate.
Jon Litner, president of the Comcast-owned NBC Sports Group, which oversees Comcast's cable sports networks, says regardless of what is happening in Houston, sports have proven to be valuable programming that consumers want to have, especially when their home teams are playing well. "For pennies a day, we provide a terrific service," he says.
It remains to be seen whether cable and satellite-TV providers can use new types of data on sports viewership to pressure networks to either reduce the fees they charge or to allow only the fans who want the channels to purchase them.
Fox Sports has lately been touting the affordability of its channels. It plans to launch FoxSports1, a new national sports cable network next month, and plans to charge distributors less than $1 per month for each subscriber.
The company used to charge cable distributors about $2.85 per subscriber for Fox Sports Southwest when it carried the Astros and Rockets, as well as baseball's Texas Rangers, basketball's Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs, and hockey's Stars. That is roughly 16% less than what CSN Houston has asked for the Astros and Rockets.
For the Houston Astros, failing to get picked up by more TV providers could affect how much money Mr. Crane, the owner, has to spend on his team and could depress the value of the franchise.
The more vexing potential problem for the Astros and the Rockets isn't cable-company pricing, but trends in how people want to consume media moving forward.
"Right now you can basically get anything you want online except HBO, Showtime and sports," says Mr. Nathanson.
—Shalini Ramachandran contributed to this article.
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Jeff Krolik is an executive vice president at Fox Sports Networks. An earlier version of this article incorrectly gave his title as president.
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ASA Electronics has expanded its partnership with Calgary, Alberta-based Atlas Trailer Coach Products, according to a news release. Atlas is now stocking service inventory of ASA's Jensen audio, video and Voyager observation products to better support the ASA "Hassle-Free Warranty" program.
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Tiger Woods Gets Eyes And Ayes (Although Not A Win) In Return At The Masters
By Barry Janoff, Executive Editor
April 12, 2010: Marketers who stood their ground and supported Tiger Woods, and those who might be considering joining his roster, received good news during The Masters: Woods still has his competitive edge and still draws major attention both on and off the golf course.
That means such companies as Chrysler, Coca-Cola's Powerade, Verizon, Visa that may be harboring intentions of signing Woods to endorsement deals would go into any such alliance knowing that there is a significant upside in attracting consumers and in building trust.
Woods struggled but finished a solid fourth in The Masters behind Phil Mickelson. But Woods' first appearance on the pro golf circuit since mid-November and his then personal upheaval that engulfed his life drew record numbers on ESPN and had near-record numbers on CBS. ESPN reached 4.94 million viewers on April 8 with its first day of coverage, a 3.6 household rating, That was up 50% from coverage in 2009 and up 80% from 2008, and was the biggest audience a cable network has ever gotten for golf. ESPN continued to roll on April 9, attracting about four million viewers, according to industry analysts, and finished third all-time on cable behind Thursday's coverage and U.S. Open coverage in 2008.
On CBS, which took over third-round coverage on April 10, numbers indicated that ratings were 7.6, about 33% higher than comparable overage in 2009, its highest Saturday numbers since 2001. However, ratings on CBS were higher for its Saturday Masters coverage in 1997 and 2001 (Woods won the event both times).
ESPN made the most of its coverage on Thursday, with commercials that included K-Swiss, ESPN's coverage of the World Cup, New Era with Evan Longoria, the Avatar DVD release, iPad, Michelin, Wrangler with Brett Favre, DirecTV, Jack Daniels, Quaker State and Nike's new Tiger Woods spot. EA Sports also last week broke an online effort to support Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online.
Still, Tiger Woods is half the man he used to be, and (with apologies to Nirvana), he certainly is far from finding a personal nirvana.
Woods' professional career has been defined as much by his marketing endorsements as his victories. In both cases, the numbers are huge. In 2008, Woods earned in excess of $100 million from endorsements, more than twice that of fellow golfer Mickelson, who ranked second among all pro athletes with about $45 million in marketing deals and could see a boost following his showing at the 2010 Masters.
But General Motors, under pressure to restore its shattered economic situation, ended its contract with Woods, taking about $10 million off the table for 2009. When Woods' life-changing Thanksgiving Day accident opened a Pandora's box of marital infidelities and, as Woods himself put it, "lies and deceit," that led to broken alliances with Accenture ($15-20 million), AT&T ($10 million) and PepsiCo's Gatorade ($1-2 million). That took about as much off his sponsorship roster as LeBron James, the leader among NBA players, earns in annual endorsements ($28-33 million), more than Nascar endorsement leader Dale Earnhardt Jr. ($22-25 million) takes in and more than twice as much as Peyton Manning, who leads all NFL players ($13-15 million) sees in endorsement income.
"Do I understand why they dropped me?" Woods said during his press conference at The Masters in Augusta on April 5. "Of course. I made a lot of mistakes in my life and I totally understand why they would do that."
Ironically, among the companies that could see a significant bump due to their alliance with The Masters is AT&T, which is just one of three major corporate sponsors along with IBM and ExxonMobil.
Although companies can adjust the current deals they have with him, Woods still could earn close to $60 million in endorsements in 2010, the majority from a pact with Nike that pays him an estimated $25-30 million annually. EA Sports ($8-10 million) has not only stood behind him but unveiled two titles since December. Gillette ($15 million) and Tag Heuer ($5 million) pulled ad campaigns with Woods but remain aligned with him, along with such marketers as Upper Deck, NetJets and TLC Vision.
"Tiger has admitted and accepted responsibility for his actions. More importantly, he is taking action to restore the faith and trust of his family, friends and fans," said Mike Norton, Communications Director, Male Grooming at P&G's Gillette, which has used Woods in a range of advertising for the Gillette Champions program since 2007. Gillette would not comment on upcoming campaigns, but it seems unlikely Woods will appear alongside such other Gillette spokesmen as Derek Jeter and Roger Federer in the near future. "As a matter of practice, we don't discuss our future advertising plans," said Norton.
Woods said that he and his representatives have been in touch with his sponsors during the months since his accident. "Hopefully I can prove to [them] going forward that I am a worthy investment, that I can help their company grow and represent them well."
However, given the circumstances of infidelity that anchored his downfall, in which his wife Elin and kids were seen as the the ultimate victims, Woods' situation in reclaiming the vital female consumer demographic is more akin to that of Kobe Bryant than other athletes who have recently had ups and downs on Madison Avenue, led by Michael Phelps. In 2003, Bryant topped $55 million in annual endorsements. But when he was charged in Colorado with sexual assault, many of his sponsorship deals were terminated. The case was settled out of court in 2004, but it took years for Bryant to reclaim his marketing status. In 2010, Bryant's endorsements are expected to come in at about $20-25 million, most notably from Nike.
"Women make most of the purchasing decisions in the household, . . . He's toxic right now, especially with the female consumer."— Sue Rodin, WISE
"It's about the power of the purse: Women make most of the purchasing decisions in the household," said Sue Rodin, founder and president of the national organization, Women in Sports and Events, and president of New York-based marketing firm Stars & Strategies. "There is a definite gender divide regarding Woods. Many more women than men are turned off to him as a person and as someone from whom they would buy a product. He's toxic right now, especially with the female consumer."
Indeed, Woods' marketability is hurting across all demographics. According to the Davie Brown Index, which uses national consumer panels to track more than 2,000 celebrities regarding their ability to influence brand affinity and consumer purchase intent, Woods has a lot of work ahead of him. His appeal dropped from 82.3 (out of 100) in January 2009 to 57.2 in March 2010, trust among consumers plummeted from 68.8 to 42.9 during that period and his power as an endorser fell from 77.7 to 51.3, per DBI, which is an independent division of Los Angeles-based Davie Brown Entertainment.
"It is possible that brands with a heavily male demo will be the first to consider using Woods as an endorser again, as they might face somewhat less scrutiny than brands with more of a 50/50 demographic split," said Howard K. Brodwin, Managing Director at sports marketing and brand strategy firm Team Marketing Systems, Los Angeles. "For example, while Gillette did drop him [from marketing] early on during the crisis, I would not be surprised to see them return if their sales have significantly declined since the relationship was terminated."
Nike has remained loyal to the man who presence helped establish the Nike Golf division, and vice versa. (Nike declined to comment for this article.) Woods was wearing Nike golf shirts and hats during practice rounds and on the course for The Masters. The only other visible logo was Woods' personal TW, which appears on his hat and golf bag.
"Those quick to get in the cart with the new Tiger will enjoy loyalty pricing while stealing the brand equity from the former sponsors that left him," said John Meindl, President and CEO at sports marketing and production company SportsBrandedMedia, New York. "The chorus of 'it's the American way, everyone deserves a second chance' will be the mantra of brands such as Chrysler, Powerade, Verizon, Visa and others." (Woods appeared to be drinking Cola-Cola's Powerade during his press conference on April 5.)
EA Sports decision to not back away from its alliance with the beleaguered golfer is less altruistic than financial: The company said that since the launch of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99, the franchise has sold more than 25 million units worldwide. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 is due for release in June) and Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, which had its official release last week.
"Our focus is on Tiger Woods the golfer, and we have supported him all along," said Peter Moore, president at EA Sports. "We're excited to see how he does."
Moore confirmed Woods' assessment that marketing partners have been in contact with Woods and his management team, led by Leigh Steinberg of marketing powerhouse IMG, since the incident last November. "We talk to his management people every day, in particular with the development of the games," said Moore. "It has been very important to us that we are in full communication with them. And they have been very forthcoming with details. This relationship is much more than a sponsorship deal. His name is on our product and he is in our product." (See full Q&A with Peter Moore.)
TV ratings for golf thus far this year without Woods have been down about 50%, according to industry analysts. That tracks in line with a TV ratings decline in 2008 when Woods had knee surgery. "The game is much more exciting when he's in it than when he's not," said Moore.
As for Woods' future on Madison Avenue, perhaps marketing nirvana is not that far away.
"Once Tiger starts winning that will be the best medicine for restoring his image and rebuilding confidence amongst consumers," said Terry Melia, spokesman for Upper Deck, which has had an exclusive autograph deal with Woods since 2001. "People can't get enough of him when he's out on the links, and when he wins, we can't keep his autographed memorabilia in stock."


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Nineteen different airlines fly to and from Tampa International Airport (TPA), serving 75 non-stop destinations. The airline transporting the most TPA passengers is Southwest Airlines,* with an average of 97 daily flights to over 30 destination cities. Tampa is a hub for Silver Airways, which offers cheap flights in and out of Northeast, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic destinations as well as the Bahamas. Delta is another option, and, as a bonus, Delta has a Sky Club in TPA, complete with private carrels with desks, a bar, and plentiful power outlets for recharging.
Regardless of the carrier you choose, a few simple tricks can help you minimize the cost of your tickets to Tampa. First, studies show that airfares are cheapest on Tuesday at 3 PM EST, so buy then. Similarly, Wednesdays are historically the cheapest day to fly because domestic flights are the emptiest. Finally, the Airlines Reporting Corporation found that passengers save an average of six percent on airfares if they book 42 days in advance.
If Tampa is your ultimate destination, Tampa International is the fastest and most convenient airport through which to fly. Other nearby international airports include Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Feather Sound. However, the Tampa airport has much more affordable fares and will save you money on ground transportation as well since it's closest. Ground transportation options at TPA include taxi and limo services, regional transit, and rental cars offered by companies like Avis, Hertz, and National.
Tampa has fun-filled, culture-packed events going on year-round, and Florida weather is enjoyable in almost any season, so the right time to visit depends mostly on your travel budget and interests. If low-cost flights and hotels are your main concern, consider booking your trip for late summer or early fall, as the peak summer travel season will have ended. The key is to book before the winter visitors flood in and before spring break madness begins.
In terms of events, if you visit in the early winter, you can catch events like the Outback Bowl (a New Year's Day college football game) and the Florida State Fair in February. In the fall, you can look forward to Guavaween, a Latin-themed Halloween celebration that takes place in Tampa's Ybor City as well as the free Latin Fest to honor Hispanic Heritage Month. You can also catch a Tampa Bay Buccaneers game at Raymond James Stadium in the fall.
The ways to experience Tampa are endless. Classic tourist attractions include Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Lowry Park Zoo, and the Florida Aquarium. You can also learn more about Tampa's heritage at the Tampa Bay History Center, which offers three floors of exhibitions covering 12,000 years of Florida history. Art enthusiasts won't want to miss the Tampa Museum of Art, which opened its new building in 2010 and is the largest museum of its kind in the region. Last but not least, sports nuts will appreciate the fact that Tampa almost always has a professional game going on--baseball from March to October, football from September to January, and hockey from October to April.
Not surprisingly, the routes to and from Tampa tend to pass through large east-coast cities. The busiest domestic route from TPA is Atlanta, flying almost one million passengers annually on the 1.5-hour flight. Other popular domestic routes include Charlotte, NC (1.5 hours); Dallas, TX (2.5 hours); and New York, NY (2.75 hours). TPA offers the quickest access to the city, as it is just six miles from downtown. Affordable lodging near TPA includes the Tampa Airport Marriott and Tampa Airport DoubleTree.
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In July, two Greenpeace founders – Jim Bohlen, 84, and Dorothy Stowe, 89 – passed away. Both lived full lives as agents of social change, that leave us much to ponder and to emulate.
Social change often ignites on the fringe, in hybrid cultures, where the status quo loses its grip on perception. This is the case with Greenpeace, which evolved from a grassroots peace and ecology movement in Vancouver, Canada between 1968 and 1972. The movement began innocently enough on the streets, in private kitchens, coffee shops, and pubs, where two distinct cultures and generations mixed.War played a role in creating this hybrid culture. In the 1960s, over one million people fled the United States in protest against nuclear weapons, militarism, and the Vietnam war. Some 150,000 – including the Stowes, the Bohlens, and others in the Greenpeace movement – immigrated into Canada, the largest single political exodus in US history. The U.S. immigrants brought ideas and progressive enthusiasm from civil rights and peace movements. Meanwhile, Canada possessed deeply seeded, broad-based peace and ecology movements, which influenced the new immigrants. Canada was naturally multicultural, with a grounded French community, and Asian and European communities that had retained their cultural roots. Canadians were more introspective than the Americans and tended to possess a more self-effacing sense of humour. Canadians could laugh at themselves. The mixture of these cultures gave Greenpeace an international quality from the very beginning. Secondly, two distinct generations of activists merged to create Greenpeace. On the one hand, in the 1960s and 1970s, a creative youth culture emerged globally, linked by television and radio, with shared values (peace, ecology, natural living) and shared culture (rock and jazz music, film, activist art, and personal liberation). This radicalized youth culture influenced Greenpeace but was balanced by an older generation of committed peace activists represented by the Stowes and Bohlens.
The young activists were willing to take risks, perform wild stunts, and get arrested, but the older activists – influenced by the Quakers and Gandhi – contributed experience, political awareness, thoughtful strategy, and a sense of calm. Looking back now, I believe this mix of generations and cultures helped make Greenpeace stronger in the beginning. Another defining quality of Greenpeace at that time, was an awareness of social media, changing society by telling stories that would move on existing media networks. Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan – who introduced the idea of the "global village" and who warned that "Television does more educating than all the schools" -- influenced our perception of media's power to change society. Three experienced Canadian journalists – Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe and Bob Hunter – inculcated these media ideas within Greenpeace. All three had grown up in Winnipeg, on the Canadian prairies, worked at the Winnipeg Tribune, and had traveled in Europe as writers and correspondents. On the first Greenpeace campaign, Hunter and Ben Metcalf filed stories to the media from the boat and Dorothy Metcalfe converted her home into a radio room, relaying audio reports from the boat to the world media. It might seem like normal practice now, but in 1971, these media practices for activists were pioneering. Ben Metcalfe passed away in 2003, Hunter in 2005, and we've lost Jim Bohlen and Dorothy Stowe this year. Many people contributed to the creation of Greenpeace, but four couples were consistently at the core of early Greenpeace actions: Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Dorothy and Ben Metcalfe, and Bob and Zoe Hunter. Zoe was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in London, where she met Bob, and remains active today in Amnesty Interntional. Others can be mentioned among the founders – noteabley Paul Cote, who served on the board of the original Don't Make a Wave committee that became Greenpeace; Bill Darnell, who coined the world "greenpeace" to add ecology to the original peace initiative; Rod Maringing, a creative street-theatre activist; Bobbi Hunter, who organized the first public office in Vancouver; Paul Spong, who introduced the whale campaign; and many others. Nevertheless, the four founding couples – the Stowes, Bohlens, Hunters, and Metcalfes – hold a special place in the history of Greenpeace.Jim Bohlen, the engineer farmer Jim Bohlen, who passed away on July 5, served in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II, and witnessed the destruction of Hiroshima, which influenced his life-long commitment to pacifism. He met Marie at a Quaker peace march in Pennsylvania in 1958; they married and immigrated to Canada in 1967 to keep Marie's son Paul out of the Vietnam War.
In Vancouver, Jim helped form the Committee to Aid War Objectors. When I arrived in Vancouver in 1972, as a draft resister from the U.S., my wife and I slept in a shelter provided by this group. Jim and Marie Bohlen attended an End the Arms Race rally in Vancouver, where they first met Irving and Dorothy Stowe. After the U.S. announced a series of nuclear tests on Amchitka Island in Alaska, the Bohlen's and Stowes wanted to do something to stop these tests. Meanwhile, Bob Hunter wrote in his newspaper column that the underground nuclear tests could cause a tsunami. For a demonstration at the U.S. embassy, Hunter made a placard that read: "Don't Make a Wave," in reference to the tsunami threat. The Bohlen's and Stowes used this image to name their new organization "The Don't Make a Wave Committee."Jim Bohlen told Marie that he felt frustrated because the group had no plan to disrupt the bomb tests, and Marie, borrowing an idea from the Quakers, said, "Why not sail a boat up there?" By happenstance, a reporter phoned that day and asked what the group might be planning, and Jim Bohlen said, "We hope to sail a boat to Amchitka Island." The story ran the next day, although the group had no boat and no money to charter one. The momentum of the idea, however, would not be stopped, and a year later, the group launched the first "Greenpeace" campaign, a seagoing voyage that set the tone for later Greenpeace campagins. Dorothy Stowe: A pillar of courageDorothy Stowe passed away on July 23, at the age of 89. She was born Dorothy Anne Rabinowitz in Providence, Rhode Island on December 22, 1920, from Jewish immigrant parents from Russia and Galicia. She fondly recalled that her father Jacob "cared about justice not only for Jewish people, but for everyone." Dorothy's mother, Rebecca Miller, taught Hebrew and inspired Dorothy to pursue an education. Dorothy became a psychiatric social worker, and served as the first president of her local civic employees union. During the repressive McCarthy era in the U.S., when she threated a strike, the state governor called her a "communist," but Dorothy was not intimidated. She stood up to the bullies and won a pay raise for her union. In 1953 Dorothy married civil rights lawyer Irving Strasmich. They celebrated their wedding dinner at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the organization that launched the U.S. civil rights movement.They changed their family name to Stowe in honour of Harriet Beecher Stowe – pioneering feminist and abolitionist, who helped end slavery in the U.S. The Stowes had two children, Robert, born in 1955 and Barbara in 1956, both now living in Vancouver. In the 1950s, Dorothy and Irving Stowe began campaigning against nuclear weapons, adopting the Quaker ideas of "bearing witness" to wrong-doing and "speaking truth to power." In 1961, to avoid supporting the Vietnam War with their taxes, Dorothy and Irving immigrated to New Zealand. However, when New Zealand sent troops to Vietnam in 1965, the Stowes moved their family to Canada. In Vancouver, Dorothy worked as a family therapist, supporting Irving's full time peace activism. When the Stowes formed the "Don't Make a Wave Committee," Dorothy Stowe recruited social workers and women's groups to boycott US products until the nuclear tests were cancelled. While the men – Ben Metcalfe, Bob Hunter, Jim Bohlen, and Irving Stowe – made headlines, Dorothy Stowe quietly worked behind the scenes, supporting her family, hosting meetings in her home, answering correspondence, keeping the files, and creating a broad coalition with churches, unions, feminist groups, and other activists. Over the years since, Dorothy has hosted hundreds of of young activists, who made the pilgrimage to her home for inspiration. When the band U2 visited Vancouver in 2005, singer Bono made a special effort to meet Dorothy Stowe. Dorothy never rested on past success or stopped working for social change. A month before she passed away, Dorothy hosted a brunch for new Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo. This was her last public act, and she summoned every ounce of energy to host the Greenpeace contingent in her home where many of the first Greenpeace meetings were held forty years ago. She was thrilled that Kumi, with a background in civil rights, had taken this leadership role in Greenpeace. The most fitting memorial for Dorothy Stowe, Jim Bohlen, and the others who have passed away, is that we simply get up each morning and go back to work in the service of peace, justice, and the living Earth. This is all they would have asked of us.
--Rex Weyler, July 2010
Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Deep Green is Rex's column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.
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I already knew most of this story, but thanks for writing about it again. This is very moving.
It's always good to remember where we come from, to find purpose again.
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The Australian Federal Police and the federal department of finance have declined to confirm whether former speaker Peter Slipper offered to refund car-hire payments that are now subject to court action.
Investigative reporter Margo Kingston has reported online that Mr Slipper made the offer several months ago, before the AFP issued a summons for the Queensland federal MP to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court next month.
The summons document alleges that on three occasions in 2010, Mr Slipper took a hire car to visit wineries and restaurants as well as make trips within Canberra, to a value of $1194.
A source told AAP it would have been highly unusual for Mr Slipper not to have been given the chance to respond under the so-called "Minchin protocol".
The protocol, named after former minister Nick Minchin, requires that whenever an allegation is raised - whether through media or other sources - of misuse of parliamentary entitlements, the finance department considers it to ascertain if it is credible.
The member is sought for a response and the department may then recommend the MP repay any money they were not entitled to.
In the event of a serious allegation, the matter may be referred to a high-level departmental committee which can also seek an explanation from the MP.
If warranted, and on the advice of the secretary of the attorney-general's department, the matter may then be referred to the AFP.
When asked on Thursday by AAP to confirm whether Mr Slipper had offered to repay the money, the AFP declined to comment and referred the matter to the finance department.
A finance department spokesman said: "The department does not publicly comment on interactions between it and individual senators and members in relation to their entitlements."
However, the Minchin protocol did not apply where an allegation was referred directly to the AFP, the spokesman said.
Mr Slipper has yet to comment publicly on the matter but has hired prominent Brisbane lawyer Peter Russo, who made a name for himself representing Muhamed Haneef, the Indian doctor wrongly accused and charged by the AFP in 2007 for terrorist-related offences.
The veteran MP faces being stripped of his seat if convicted of any of the three charges.
The Australian constitution provides for an MP to be dismissed if they are convicted of "an offence punishable by imprisonment for one year or longer under a state or commonwealth law".
A senior source familiar with the rule told AAP that, given the maximum penalty for each breach of the Criminal Code Act is five years' jail, any penalty given to the MP would disqualify him from sitting in parliament.
Mr Slipper also faces losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement benefits if convicted.
Currently he can expect a lifetime annual pension of about $157,000, but if convicted he could merely get a refund of his superannuation contributions without interest.
A resignation before the court action is concluded could protect his pension.
Mr Slipper has yet to say whether he will recontest his seat, which is expected to fall to Liberal National Party candidate and former Howard government minister Mal Brough.
A poll taken in mid-December by ReachTel gave Mr Slipper 2.7 per cent support, to Mr Brough's 48.4 per cent.
Ms Kingston wrote in an article posted on the Independent Australia news website on Thursday afternoon that sources had confirmed Mr Slipper had "immediately offered to repay the excess" when he was made aware of the overpayment.
"But sources say Finance refused to allow him to do this. Instead, they said that because the AFP was interested, they would not follow the (Minchin) protocol," Ms Kingston wrote.


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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Kindred Spirits: Four Decades of Chez Panisse and Steely Dan
As Chez Panisse celebrates its 37th anniversary, its cuisine feels as timely as ever, much like Steely Dan's four-decade old brand of melodic sarcasm. Panisse's once revolutionary philosophy has endured by continuing to utilize impeccably fresh, local ingredients for its deceptively simple preparations. Chez Panisse has sustained its reputation as the most influential restaurant in the U.S. in part through its ability to attract young talent drawn to the training, résumé enhancement, and dreams of grandeur associated with the matchless list of alumni. The larger names include Mark Peel and Suzanne Goin here in the 'wood (our peeps), Jeremiah Tower (albeit controversially), Zuni's Judy Rodgers, Mark Miller, Paul Bertolli, Joyce Goldstein, Cowgirl Creamery founder Peggy Smith—maker of the Red Hawk cheese, a veritable first cousin to our favorite, Époisses—and Fress-maligned but elsewhere acclaimed Michael Tusk. Prominent recent alumni include Russell Moore and Allison Hopelain of Camino who have already garnered praise in the Times and the Chronicle. It is no surprise that under Ms. Waters's auspices, Chez Panisse's coterie of young chefs displays peerless technical competence, or at least fluency in the Panisse lexicon. Of major restaurants with kitchens visible to the diner, only the chefs at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Paris appear younger.
While the list is Northern California-centric, Los Angeles—at least between La Cienega and La Brea—is catching up, though at a glacial pace. Waters's ideas have obviously found a home in feisty Portland where its chefs and obsessive foodies, having ditched the pretension, are trying to out-San Francisco San Francisco. (On the coffee front, the Portlanders have arguably out-Seattled Seattle.)
What about the provincial East Coast? With the ascendancy of Dan Barber and Blue Hill and the cute "Greenmarket" phenomenon (not to mention that French Laundry spinoff in the Columbus Circle mall), formerly rough-and-tumble New York has succumbed to the idealism of Berkeley's Alice Waters, just four decades after the fact. The Gray Lady even lauded the Finger Lakes agricultural region of "central New York," which is supposedly somewhere between Rochester and Syracuse, whatever that means. What ever happened to the New York of Steinberg's "A View of the World from Ninth Avenue?" Apparently, that's pre-Waters New York. The new New York reads the United States of Arugula and might as well be called New Munich.
The Chez Panisse Café sits on the building's second floor, and has an extensive à la carte menu that changes everyday. At a leisurely afternoon lunch at the Café before the concert, a few items stood out. The California Kid and the Ever Sagacious Gravida both ordered the heirloom tomato salad with "hand-pulled" mozzarella, basil, and a lively olive oil. While the dish was visually beautiful and abounded with flavor, it distinguished itself as a model of control and refinement. In a certain sense, the dish was a lesson, at once remedial or advanced, about how tomatoes, mozzarella, and olive oil are supposed to taste and why their flavors are harmonious.
If the salad was a showcase for the state's summer produce, the pan-fried California sea bass was a revelation. Chez Panisse sautés a grayish hued fish so that it takes on the coarser texture of swordfish while still retaining its moisture. The lean fish has a natural richness, yet the preparation is the embodiment of restraint. There are no superfluous sauces; the only accompaniments were halved cherry tomatoes, small spherical potatoes, and a handful of ridiculously good green beans. The California Kid pronounced the bass the finest he ever tried. Strictly speaking, the "California sea bass" is not a bass at all, but a member of the croaker family of fishes. If Panisse were more faithful to its sustainability principles, its menu would use the fish's true and much less marketable name, not the euphemism.
While The Kid was enthralled with Panisse, he was still reeling from the peculiar genius of the Cheeseboard pizza where we noshed before lunch. The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective makes only one type of pizza a day and is operated by the 12 most rugged kibbutznick-pizzaiolos in the East Bay, who make fine companions to the laboratory workers of Forno Campo de' Fiori. (To be fair to the employees of the famed Roman bakery, it may take a dose of alchemy to create pizza that divinely good.) How this Collective coaxed so much great and interesting flavor out of July 26's improbable combination—zucchini slices, cilantro pesto, olive oil, feta and mozzarella on a vibrant pizza dough— is beyond me. All these old school and New Wave pizzerias in more traditional pizza locales can just step aside, with the exceptions of Una Pizza Napoletana and Geraci's.
We finished with an exquisite Ruby Grand nectarine tart and vanilla bean ice cream. Nectarine and peach tarts were ubiquitous in the Bay Area all weekend long. It's a shame that Los Angeles chefs aren't featuring them, a disappointment exacerbated by the superiority of the stone fruit available at the Hollywood farmer's market. Waters sends her people even further south to the cultish Chino Farms market in Rancho Santa Fe. The Hatfields also make the schlep, which makes for great Wednesday dinners at their eponymous restaurant.
Later that evening, Steely Dan's sly and pristine musicianship was on full display. Waters and Fagen/Becker showed that they are in many ways kindred spirits. Both Steely Dan and Chez Panisse demonstrate a great commitment to technical acumen, the effective and prolific use of young musicians and chefs, and, through food and music, social critiques as relevant as ever. (Steely Dan may have sets its sights too high with its rendition of Godwhacker, which is clever, but not as funny as Hitchens' God Is Not Great. Also Becker cannot sing.) Ultimately, Steely Dan and Chez Panisse, from their respective perches of East Coast irony and West Coast idealism, offer up refined and thoughtful sensibilities for the ears, mouth, and brain.
Chez Panisse Café
1517 Shattuck Ave.
(510) 548-5049
The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective
1512 Shattuck Ave.
(510) 549-3055
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No offense, but as a superficial tourist, you clearly don't know berkeley as you assume you do. You summed it all up by comparing the gourmet ghetto and telegraph ave? That's why we bay area folks can't stand people from LA!
- October 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM
- Steve said...
What is with uninformed comments and anonymity?
So Anonymous, if you can't discern that many of today's Berkeley "leftists" who congregate on Telegraph and wherever else are a complete fraud and nothing but fodder for the Colbert Report, then you do not deserve to live in your precious Bay Area.
- October 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM
- Marisa said...
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- October 25, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Marisa said...
Superficial tourist? Let it be known that, in fact, half of the Infinite Fress team lived in the Bay Area for several years. The other half is there several times a year. Superficial tourist? Don't you know not to mess with the Fress? Also, I'm nine months pregnant and have a LOT of rage. You can totally go suck it.
The ESG
- October 25, 2008 at 4:05 PM


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Syria poses new economic risks
NEW YORK — Automobile sales are hitting fresh highs. Unemployment claims are dropping. The United States appears poised for a period of stronger economic growth. And once again, crisis in Washington could blow it all up.
The latest culprit: an increasingly ugly battle over authorizing President Barack Obama to fire missiles at Syria.
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Should votes in the Senate or House to support strikes fail, an already difficult fall legislative calendar could crumble into total partisan chaos, dramatically increasing threats of a government shutdown or a far more damaging debt default. And an intervention in Syria, especially if it goes badly, could have unpredictable consequences for an economy still struggling to gain significant traction. Stocks sank sharply early Friday on fears of a Syria strike after Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to continue arms sales to Syria no matter what the U.S. does.
( PHOTOS: Syria: Where politicians stand)
In fact, when you pile up the Syria fight, the government funding debate, the debt ceiling, the Federal Reserve's plans to dial back stimulus and a potential fight over the next Fed chairman, some analysts say the odds of Washington knocking the economy back off track are much higher than markets and the general public seem to realize.
"People are very much underestimating the risk of a train wreck," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. "We could end up driving down confidence a fairly long way and quashing the kind of stronger growth that people really want to see."
The Syria debate this week has largely eclipsed — and could ultimately help undermine — an economy showing fresh signs of solid growth.
( VIDEO: VandeHei, Allen analysis on Syria situation)
U.S. autos sales have returned to levels not seen since before the financial crisis. New claims for unemployment insurance are at 5-year lows, indicating a healing labor market. The August jobs report out Friday morning showed a gain of 169,000, consistent with the recent trend. The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.3 percent. Surveys of small business owners suggest they are prepared to begin hiring at a faster pace next year. Forecasts for European growth are also once again rising, helping to boost the global outlook.
Much of this could be lost — or at least delayed — if the Syrian crisis spins out of control and Washington blows up in partisan acrimony. Such an outcome could drive consumers to curtail spending and businesses to cancel hiring plans, freezing the economy once again. The jobs report underscored the risks to a soft economy as the dip in the jobless rate was due to 312,000 people leaving the labor force.
In the most benign Syria scenario, congressionally sanctioned surgical strikes would have little global economic impact beyond an inconsequential increase in oil prices and would succeed in discouraging Syria's Bashar Assad from further use of chemical weapons. That could happen, and the U.S. economy could continue to improve.
( Also on POLITICO: President Obama could lose big on Syria in House)
But the strikes could also cause Assad to escalate his attacks on rebel forces, leaving the U.S. with even more difficult and costly choices, blowing out Obama's oft-stated hope to end a decade of war and "do some nation building here at home." Or they could lead to the installation of another hostile regime in Syria, an outcome that could prove more destabilizing to the Middle East, causing a bigger rise in oil prices. U.S. strikes could also drive Russia, Syria's top ally, to respond in an unpredictable fashion. The Chinese, another Syrian ally, could seek to retaliate through economic channels.
In any of these negative scenarios, Congress could get locked into a long, nasty debate that could blow up any chance for confidence-boosting fiscal deals. This in turn could slam the stock market and send business and consumer sentiment tumbling back down, a rerun of the Washington movie of 2011 when a near miss on the debt ceiling set the recovery back by many months.
"The market has priced in limited strikes of limited duration, so that eventuality will have no market impact if it comes," said James Rickards of Tangent Capital, an expert on geopolitical market risk. "But if the vote fails, it casts a large cloud over the future of U.S. foreign policy. If the U.S. is not in charge, no one is."
( Also on POLITICO: Nancy Pelosi enforcers wobble on Syria)
Rickards added that if a strike does happen, there will eventually be blowback on the U.S., though it may not be immediately obvious or come in ways people expect. "Retaliation for a strike will come, but it will not be symmetric, but asymmetric. This means cyber-warfare, financial warfare and terror. The market has considered the next move, but is not thinking three moves ahead."
The future actions and leadership of the Federal Reserve are also made more complicated by the unfolding situation in Syria and Washington.
The Fed is widely expected to begin pulling back its stimulative asset purchases starting later this month if economic data continue to come in strong. A messy Syria conflict and ugly debate in Congress could cause the Fed to rethink this plan. That might tend to further boost the economy. Or at least do no harm. But the Fed could also wind up cutting stimulus just as Washington is descending into Syria-related chaos, adding another level of risk to a fragile economy prone to slipping back into stagnation.


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'Levy enjoys sacking managers'
Jamie Redknapp has hit out at Daniel Levy's treatment of Tim Sherwood and claimed the Tottenham chairman's trigger-happy approach could scare off reputable replacements.
The club's former midfielder is a close friend of Sherwood after the pair played together for Spurs and is angry that the head coach is facing a summer exit just four months after being appointed.
It's been like this at Spurs for 30 years
- Lofty ambitions and diminishing returns have long been the nature of matters at White Hart Lane and Tim Sherwood is just the latest victim in the managerial hotseat.
- John Brewin explains why the club's former player and coach has accepted his time is almost up at Spurs here
"I don't know how many managers Levy has gone through in his time there but he does enjoy sacking managers," Redknapp said. "Because no one came out and said anything, I always felt Tim was a dead man walking there.
"Sometimes you've got to look at the people close to you, it's not always the managers that are making the mistakes. Sometimes the recruitment could have been better.
"Franco Baldini and Levy have to take some responsibility because which players have really come in after the sale of Gareth Bale and made an impact? Maybe you could say Christian Eriksen but apart from that there haven't been too many.
"If Tim Sherwood does leave at the end of the season, how can a Director of Football like Baldini keep his job? I find that amazing.
"The young managers get the sack and the people that bring the players in don't have any responsibility. The club looks like it is in disarray again. The fans deserve a lot more than they are getting."
Sherwood is facing what Tottenham have called a "review" at the end of the season but they issued a statement before Monday's 5-1 win against Sunderland which failed to give any indication they want to keep him on next season.
He was only appointed as Andre Villas-Boas's successor last December and was given an 18-month contract but a bright start has tailed off; the likelihood of missing out on a Champions League place and the impact of a 4-0 thrashing by Liverpool last month appears to have sealed his fate.
If he is stood down from his post Sherwood, the eighth manager to be appointed by Levy in 13 years, could be asked to take up a different role. However, he has made it clear that he would refuse to work as a No.2 to any replacement should the club decide to name a ninth.
"Tim was put into a position that wasn't easy," Redknapp told Sky Sports News. "A lot of the players that came in at the start of the season just haven't been good enough; the managers take the brunt of this. They've gone through two managers already.
"They've got ideas of grandeur there, that's the problem. They think they have a divine right to be in the top four and the players aren't good enough. They've done it twice in the last 20-odd years, so all of a sudden they start thinking this is going to happen every year.
"They are miles off and until they get that [player recruitment] right it doesn't matter what manager they bring in - because Levy will keep sacking every manager they bring in.
"[Louis] van Gaal, [Mauricio] Pochettino - they're good managers; they're not silly.That's not the sort of club that gives a manager a great deal of time and your reputation could be as high as kite and then go to Tottenham, lose a couple of games, get sacked and all of a sudden you're scrapping around for another job."
Van Gaal heads a long list of well-regarded managers who have been linked with a move to Tottenham. He claims to have held talks with Levy already and, with his contract to coach the Netherlands expiring after the World Cup, has made it clear he is keen on a move to the Premier League.
But Redknapp warned it may not be the opportunity the Dutchman has said he hopes for. "It's not really working for Tottenham," he said. "Levy enjoys buying the players and I think that's the problem. He's an owner and a fantastic shrewd businessman but when it comes to knowing footballers, I don't think that's really his game.
"They were doing brilliantly a couple of years ago and now you look at clubs like Everton who are going past them quickly and that isn't Tim Sherwood's fault, that isn't Villas-Boas' fault; that's because of the players they are bringing in who aren't quite good enough to play for Tottenham.
"You can bring in anyone to work with that group of players and they would struggle to get the top four."


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