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From Skybox to Stateroom:
The Power Behind the Construction of Miami's American Airlines Arena
By Gregory W. Bush
I. Introduction
In 1987, with great press coverage – or fanfare – Miami was granted a franchise for a basketball team owned by showman Zev Bufman, cruise line magnate Ted Arison and basketball star Billy Cunningham. To showcase the team a new Arena was rapidly constructed. The Heat and its Arena were hailed as harbingers of a revitalized downtown, bringing jobs and attention to the largely black Overtown area that had been so devastated when I-95 cut through its heart in the early 1960s. When the $52.5 million Arena opened in 1988, the Miami Herald gushed over the future for job opportunities. (1)
Miami seemed to be coming of age – again- as one of Americas pre-eminent year-long sports and tourist capitals. It was trying to turn around its sordid reputation, formed in the early 1980s as drugs, riots and threatening waves of immigration from Cuba and Haiti associated it with crime, violence and disorder. By the late 1980s, nearby South Beach was beginning to be touted as a nouveau chic area for youthful fashion and upscale advertising trends. "Miami Vice" showcased the regions exotic postmodern architecture while an array of celebrities came to live in the area, from Julio Iglesias, Madonna and Sylvester Stalone, to Gianni Versace.
Bayfront Park in downtown Miami, originally constructed in the mid 1920s as a public place, had become largely moribund by the 1970s- even though Don Johnson was pictured on TV's "Miami Vice" living there on his sailboat with his pet alligator. The bandstand had been torn down in 1981, replaced by the sleek gargantuan Hotel Intercontinental. It peered down on Bayside, a Rouse Company's copy of its waterfront retail outlets in Baltimore and Annapolis, as well as on Imagu Nagouchi's imposing -even if unfunctional and inappropriate- fountain in honor of the late Senator Claude Pepper and his wife Mildred.
Out in the bay on Dodge Island, connected by a bridge, was the Port of Miami, the largest cruise ship port in the world. It was presided over by Director, Carmen Lunetta, one of the most powerful people in South Florida who dispensed port funds to favored political candidates and their causes, while remaining largely unaccountable to public agencies or press scrutiny. Watson Island was derelict, including the abandoned Japanese Gardens, Chalks Airlines, some local businesses on the waterfront, and a favored boat club. (2)
In early 1996, Ted Arison's son Mickey, whose Carnival Cruise Lines was Lunetta's biggest customer, threatened to move his newly consolidated basketball team, the Heat, to nearby Broward County. He would remain in downtown Miami if granted public funds to underwrite a state of the art sports arena on the last remaining "public" land on the bay – even though Miami's old arena was only eight years and still being paid off. Arison demanded that the new Arena be placed on the 32 acre FEC tract, in front of the Freedom Tower, north of Bayside and south of Bicentennial Park and the I-395 flyover that sped people from the airport to Miami Beach. He refused to consider building his sports palace across Biscayne Boulevard in vacant land but wanted it to become Miami's signature building, placed next to the docks where clients would disembark from their staterooms and flow into the Arena and associated retail operations. Lunetta was also seeking downtown waterfront space to dock additional megaships and build retail operations to help fund port operations. So an alliance was forged.
The old Arena, like so much else in modern Miami, had not been built to last. Construction funds had been drastically cut back by local officials. Revenue hadn't been sufficient for the Heat owners. Suburban patrons were often put off about coming to the downtown location at night; many games lacked audiences. The Arena's design was more of an "urban fortress" as the Miami Herald finally admitted in late 1996. It was set near Miami's downtown concrete canyon of high office towers, within the Overtown area that was a major destination for homeless people and an area with alarming poverty rates, that had earlier been so decimated by a highway that had cut through the heart of the African-American community. Miami's downtown was devoid of any coherent plan of revitalization or political leadership strong enough to attract major investors. Few people lived there. And political corruption had gotten so rampant that a referendum would soon take place to abolish the city as a governmental unit.(3)
The 1996 controversy over building a new Arena for the Heat was the backdrop for what some saw to be the final passing of an older era of "passive parks" one associates with such genteel victorians as New York's Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted or Miami's original designers of Bayfront Park. The corporate chiefs and editors of the Miami Herald, located just north of I-395 were strongly in favor of the new Arena project, linked to a nearby Performing Arts Center whose proponents had also wanted a facility on the bay. Most of the male dominated business establishment favored the Heat's position. The Herald had a sizable financial interest in surrounding acres next to the parkland. Internationally renowned planner Alex Cooper was designing a plan that amalgamated the new Arena and the port into the waterfront area. Little opposition had surfaced to either Lunetta or Arison's planned use of the "vacant" land.(4)
Yet two major political stumbling blocks remained. One involved the fact that a 1972 Parks for People Bond Issue had been passed by Dade voters to fund public parks. In subsequent court suits, the city sought to exercise its power of eminent domain to wrest control of the FEC tract in order to create a public park. In 1979, the Court of Appeals finally ruled that the city had "eminent domain right to condemn railroad property located within municipal limits for the purpose of establishing a public park." Though the city finally paid $23 million for the property, no park was ever developed. It remained, as one writer noted, "a concrete slab more closely resembling a tipped-over gravestone than a public park." In 1996, powerful downtown lawyer Dan Paul, a leader of earlier fights for parkland, threatened to gather signatures for a referendum against the Arena project. Another problem facing Arena advocates in 1996 came from the politicization of the issue by a major contender for the newly created "strong" Mayor position in Dade County, Alex Penelas, who vehemently opposed the Arena deal as a waste of taxpayer funds. (4a)
Thus, the controversy over the Arena-Port deal, was only part of a tangled web of political and economic developments taking place that year. Corruption and budget scandals had become a major embarrassment – even for Miami. The devaluation of public parkland, the cynicism of Miami's citizens to be able to effect meaningful change, and the growing power of the sports and entertainment industry all produced a defining moment in the life of South Florida.
This chapter will examine issues involved in this controversy. I am neither a sports historian nor primarily an urban historian but became convinced of the need to place these events in better perspective because of what I saw happening around me. The changing organization of spectacle in the 1980s and 1990s, and conclude by describing those opposed to Miami's Arena-Port deal, several reasons behind their or our ineffectiveness especially as it relates to local news coverage. As I hope to underscore, Miami exhibits the growing dominion of the leisure industry over politics and spokesmanship impacting on evolving notions of the private use of public space. Fueled by sophisticated marketing techniques that blend modern notions of fun and community consensus, the sports industry has become a central focus of the local press and a major force in urban design.
Yet the initiative to redesign and promote the downtown waterfront has involved a bewildering set of promotional, financial and design issues; it has become the province of "experts" using specialized language that intimidates voters from getting involved. The inability of public groups to organize and create alternative visions for parks and other public spaces in the 1990s remained a daunting challenge.
As the value of cultural tourism rises, themed cities under the control of consortiums of private investors, are asserting new modes of attention engineering with which we should become more familiar – even at the risk of being so close to the material one analyzes. Sharon Zukin has written that Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami have shown the way to an economic development strategy based on the "sale and consumption of pleasure" (Mullins 1991, 331), the location of objects in space by a singular, coherent vision." The example of Miami also undercores the contention of Michael Sorkin and Susan Davis that "as cities restructure themselves along touristic principals, the theme park extends outward, undermining older city forms and recasting urban areas as "variations on a theme park." Public meeting spaces become subsumed under private controls. Debate grows dimmer. (5)
Background: Sports
Exotic Attractions and Organized Sports, 1930-1996
Part of the lure of Miami by the 1910s was its attraction as a winter sports capital. People came for the winter sun, the beaches as well as the nightlife, the availability of romance and entertainment.
Carl Fisher sponsored boat races on the bay, polo grounds for the rich, and fishing retreat at Cocolobo in Biscayne Bay.
Early baseball teams developed winter training grounds in the area as early as xxx [Ray Mohl …]
Racetracks in Fulford by the Sea, later at Tropical Park, horse racing at
Rhoddey Burdine helped create the Orange Bowl in the mid 1930s as a successful attraction, along with the national attention on the Orange Bowl parade.
Miami Hurricanes and Miami Dolphins
Other attractions: Parrott Jungle, Monkey Jungle, Tropical
The waterfront, however,
More recently, however, the Miami area reflected the growing power of professional sports within the culture of celebrity, corporate sponsorship and television. "Addicted to Sports Not Drugs," is a prominent motto propounded by the PAL bumper sticker today, epitomizing a prevalent approach to community problems in South Florida. (13)
Being associated with a winning sports team had, of course, long been a powerful political and economic force in cities across the nation. The economics of contemporary sports arenas, however, reflect a host of more novel, complex and interrelated factors: the cost of television rights, pay scales for atheletes, sponsor tie ins, naming rights, parking and retail concessions, and upscale seating. It is a subject covered in some detail in Major League Losers, recently published by Mark Rosenstraub and other accounts. (13b)
The prototype for this development was Judge Roy Hofheinz's Houston Astrodome, built in the 1960s, and largely paid for with Municipal bonds. The judge also built 53 luxury boxes with $ 2 million of his own money. "It was done," his son Fred noted in a 1994 article, "to attract people who used baseball games as a backdrop to sell their products…You can wander around your box with a drink in your hand and sell some guy some insurance. And I promise you," he added, "there are people all over sports now who never look at the sports event. The whole time they're selling." It was created, in fact, after the Judge had visited the Coliseum in Rome. By the 1980s, luxury skyboxes were becoming windowed zones of status provding profits for operators. (14)
Building stadiums also became an index of being a successful local visionary, a modern Horatio Alger, an updated Bruce Barton. The 1989 film "Field of Dreams," starring Kevin Costner, repeated the mythic lure of professional sports, redeeming past sins through the mantra "If you build it, he will come." But the price for the average fan had gone up, with the Heat changing the highest prices in the league by 1997. The public could only hope to come. (14b)
Loopholes in the 1986 Tax Reform law have helped attract promoters to use public money in building new stadiums forcing cities to compete in providing bonds to keep or attract new franchises. Cities have been allowed to sell bonds to build stadiums, with the bond buyers having their interest payments exempt from federal taxes. In 1995(???check) Fitch investor Services estimated that Wall Street was preparing to issue about $7 billion in such bonds over the next five to seven years. Sports magnate H. Wayne Huizenga was bold enough in 1997 to seek (and almost receive) a "second helping of public money" for $60 million to renovate Pro-Player Stadium. Overall within the past decade, state and local governments have "committed $396 million to build six major locations" according to Herald reporter Peter Whoriskey, including $59 million for the Homestead motorsports complex in Homestead for Ralph Sanchez, the man who never fulfilled his earlier obligations to help resussitate Bicentennial Park when he left it.(15)
Overall, television, has been a crucial actor in fostering and defining this economic juggernaut, greatly expanding the audience beyond stadium walls, while reinforcing the attractions of sports through advertising and local news. TV fragmented sports events, notably through Roone Arledge's Wide World of Sports, while privileging them through such popular programs as "Monday Night Football." Sports spectacles have became powerful badges of local identity, amalgamating politics, business and entertainment through increasingly seamless merchandising, promotion, and TV news banter. "Developers have fallen in love with "synergy," the integration of ticket sales with cast albums, baseball caps, posters, dolls and hambergers, formerly and less pretentiously known as tie-ins," noted a Newsweek writer in 1995. That sports promotion has become an important growth industry, has been underscored most recently by the popular film "Jerry McGuire." The "excitement, challenge, and complexity of sport marketing" according to one recent textbook on the subject, has overcome what Theodore Levitt earlier called "marketing myopia" where sports entrepreneurs only saw their business in terms of goods and services instead of broader thematically designed consumer desires.(16)
Local TV news, a relentless booster of area sports teams, seldom provides critical perspectives of the industry. Beginning in the late 1960s, TV news consultants began to place soft news, including sports, on a pedestal while increasing the airtime and allure of local sports personalities as newscasters in Miami as elsewhere. Yet simultaneously, the pressure to sensationalize news evolved alongside the delocalizing of anchors and reporters, leaving TV news with little interest in providing a sense of history, texture, or insightful political awareness of local developments. As longtime Miami TV newsman Michael Putney recently put it,"just as there has been in every part of life…there is a dumming down that goes on [on local TV news]… you can come in and get the quick hit and make a point and move on. That is what attracted alot of these [young reporters] to television." (17)
Public parks have not been able to rival the spectacles produced in stadia or on TV. Recent theorists have been critical of the notion of parks as "counterspace" for zones of freedom, self determination and choice" because they nonetheless remain pervaded by commercial values. Professional sports remain spectacles of action with a local resonance, even if so many of their players are imported from other locales. More demonstratably popular than "passive" parks, their dramatic elements fuse more easily with the sense of contemporaneity. They are better press and melt human elements into grand tabeaux of color and light, action and vast crowds of engaged fan-participants. When combined with exciting architectural forms, and increasing tie ins between television promotion, retail outlets, even the lure of nostalgia, sports spectacles, from Super Bowls down to local games, have come to function as compelling community rituals. (18)
Randy Roberts and James Olson's 1989 history of sports concluded that "for individuals, families, groups, and communities sports had become a new cultural currency, a common ground upon which a diverse people could express their values and needs." It functions to solidify local identity and had become the "secular religion of America." Professional sports have created new modes of intense collective affectivity and, according to such scholars as Maffesoli and Rojeck, "it is because we take this process to be an ordinary, unexceptional feature of daily life that the concentrted spectacles revolving around acting and spectating draw us in with such intensity." As a Miami Herald from page headline reassured locals several weeks ago "Marlins Mania: It's Natural."(19)
Politics, the Public and The Art of the Deal
In early 1996, while Mickey Arison and Carmen Lunetta sought to promote the construction of port facilities and an Arena on the bay, H. Wayne Huyzenga, owner of the Panthers, the Dolphins, the Marlins and part owner of the franchise controlling the old Arena, remained adamantly opposed to using downtown Miami as a sports venue. He had bought Joe Robbie Stadium on the Broward County line, renamed it Pro-Player Stadium, and named his baseball team the Marlins because of his desire to be identified with a regional – even statewide – market rather than with Miami.
Representatives of Huizenga and Arison had prolonged discussions in 1995 and 1996 about collaborating on building a new arena to serve both teams, but Huyzenga said through a spokesman that he would "not own a team that plays in downtown Miami." Heat coach Pat Riley, on the other hand, began likening a new arena at the Port of Miami to the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. "I would like to see the Port of Miami just like the statue of Liberty," he remarked…As these boats come in…they see this building there. I really believe that's going to be important in re-establishing a solid base for professional basketball, for professional hockey, for entertainment, for concerts, for other events."(25)
On January 25th, 1996 two men attended a Panther game, Tony Ridder, Chairman of the Miami Herald's parent company and David Weaver, a prominent developer, owner of parcels of downtown land, Vice-Chairman of the University of Miami Board of Trustees and a major proponent of the Performing Arts Center. Weaver sought to have a new Arena built on what he called "Heat Street" near the bay while Ridder was interested in having the arena on the bay built in the FEC tract near the Herald properties. The next month Ridder met in secret with a steering committee involving city and county officials and Heat representatives to examine a variety of issues related to city and county jurisdiction in keeping both the Heat and the Panthers in Miami. Requests from Miami Herld and Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reporters to open the meetings up to public scrutiny were denied. The dramatic intensity of the struggle to keep the Heat in Miami, given prominent coverage by the local news media, featured the jockeying between Arison and Huyzenga for concessions from both Broward and Dade County. Huyzenga was able to extract $183 million in public funds from Broward to construct a stadium in Sunrise. Broward then then gave Arison a deadline to sign an agreement to use the same stadium, forcing Dade to come up with its own offer. Arison decided not to sign with Broward because Huzenga was known to be trying to sell the team and Arison didn't want to commit to a thirty year relationship with an as yet to be determined owner. So much for local loyalty.(26)
The local news media returned again and again to the breathless drama of the negotiations that spring, providing little historical context about the land. The focus remained on whether the team would remain in Miami at the location that Arison demanded. Stories often focused on Heat fan reaction to breaking news developments and only occasionally exhibited questions about the use of public funds for such a project. While local TV news and the Herald promoted that perspective, the smaller weekly papers, such as Miami Today, the New Times and the Miami Daily Business Review, throughout the entire year, remained far more critical of the exploitation of public bayfront land and the steamroller tactics surrounding the issue.(26c)
That spring, after little debate, the County Commission vote in favor of highly lucrative deal to keep the Heat. It provided…
One of the few dissenters, Commissioner Alex Penelas intoned at one point that "the more you look into the details the more you figure out its a bad deal for Dade county. I think its a bad deal for a lot of reasons….It's clearly a very one-sided deal that basically benefits the Heat tremendously…We basically decided to give away the kitchen sink to keep them here. I don't think it says a lot abut our priorities." Funds should be used for other purposes, he asserted, for roads and social services and parks, even though tourist taxes and state development monies were to be used to cover part of the costs.(27)
The Herald's opinion in the matter, severely compromised in public by its financial interest and its part in the negotiations remained unequivocal and intimidating. A June editorial asserted, "there's scant chance that the city of Miami will ever have the wallet or the will to make Bicentennial Park a truly welcoming park, or the FEC tract more than a barren pavement….Miami's government has made a sow's ear of a silk purse. The only realistic hope of reversing the process is to use that public land in a way that will bring the crowds back there, in safety." Paul, who had heard opposition expressed in private by many downtown leaders told the New Times that "average citizens have more guts than these so-called civic leaders who are afraid of offending the almighty Herald. Civic leadership in this community is weak and timid." With the downtown business establishment, Herald and local TV coverage publicly favoring the Heat, it appeared that the story was over. Except that Paul, joined by Commissioners Sorenson, Penalas and others, championed the idea of a referendum to overturn the Arena being built on waterfront public parkland. (29)
The Fall Campaign
Dan Paul was a wealthy 72 year old lawyer possessing a brilliant mind, a sharp tongue and a penchant for open spaces, opera, and big yachts. Born in North Florida, he came to Miami from Harvard Law School in 1949, got involved in writing the charter for Metro government in the 1950s, had represented AT&T, the New York Times, Florida Power and Light and, until 1983, the Miami Herald. Yet Paul had been a strong proponent of public parks on the bay for decades and openly contemptuous of local grafters. A close friend of opera impressario Judy Drucker, he personified high culture in the Miami Area. And he had led the referendum campaign in 1972 that resulted in the creation of Bicentennial Park and the purchase of the FEC tract.(30)
As he grew increasingly angry at the way the Arena deal was being handled that spring, Paul decided to start gathering signatures to place a referendum on the fall ballot aimed at stopping construction in the FEC tract. He eventually paid over $70,000 of his own money to hire National Petititon Management to coordinate the drive. Along with hundreds of volunteers, over 48,000 signatures were collected by early September, more than enough to assure a place on the ballot. But the plot thickened as Heat attorneys were successful in persuading the County Commission to change the language of the referendum, rewriting it to favor the Heat. Should the county be prohibited from buiding on the site? People who opposed the Arena had to vote yes instead of no, reversing the language of Paul's petition. (31)
Results of the runoff for the Dade County Mayor's election were completed by October. The two finalists were Alex Penelas, a Cuban-American, and Arthur Teele, an African-American. Both campaigned against the Arena deal, even though Teele had voted for it as a commissioner in June. A late August ad featured an announcer noting that Penelas was "the only candidate for mayor who has voted against using public money to build a new downtown arena for the Miami Heat." Penelas, pictured by a kids basketball court, then introduced himself: "I'm Alex Penelas. I don't think Dade County should help finance luxury skyboxes for millionaires to watch pro-basketball. Our top priority should be to make it safe for kids to play basketball in neighborhood playgrounds." This quasi-populist approach, convincing across ethnic neighborhoods at the time, was, by most accounts, of considerable help in his eventual election victory over Teele.(32)
Yet the outcome of the Arena referendum remained fluid as the Heat's advertising campaign became an increasingly powerful factor. Eventually, well over $3.5 million was spent by the Heat against $10,000 by Arena opponents. Of crucial importance was the manner in which the terms of the debate were reversed. One Heat ad called on voters to "Save Our Waterfront." Coach Riley told viewers in a 30 second spot that "We can turn this into a fantastic waterfront park. It's a new waterfront with a new message: Miami is world class." Later in the month, a TV ad featured computer generated sailboats whipping by a modestly scaled Arena surrounded by greenspace. A narrator associated opponents with corrupt politicians. "Here's a quiz about the new waterfront. Who pays to build it? Existing hotel taxes on tourists and $50 million from the Miami Heat. There will be no new taxes on Dade residents. How many new jobs created? Sixteen hundred new jobs, according to a study by Price Waterhouse. Who is against it? Politicians, who want to keep the tourist money for their wasteful spending. Help save the new waterfront park. Vote no on question 284." This strategy dovetailed with other ads picturing sleasy bureaucrats, sponsored by the sugar industry, who sought to persuade voters to oppose a referendum requiring them to pay millions to help clean up their chemical run off in the Everglades. (33)
After their earlier success in getting the issue on the ballot, however, the political inexperience and disorganization of Arena opponents became manifest. Dan Paul openly disliked getting involved in any organization. "He works as powerfully as he can as an individual, drafting ordinances, referendums, and engaging people to support him, without spending hardly any time on organizing people…" noted another prominent opponent, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Dean of the University of Miami's School of Architecture and a well known urban planner. Paul, Plater-Zyberk and Jorge Espinel, an architect originally from Columbia, were the leaders of the opposition. Their central argument was not against building another arena but the lack of overall planning of downtown development, consideration of real costs and public involvement involved and the placement of the structure on the waterfront in front of the areas oldest building, the Freedom Tower. These three spoke out at numerous Commission meetings at which public comment was often minimized by arcane procedures as well as by public cynicism about being able to effect the issues involved. (34)
Espinel and Plater-Zyberk were also central characters in trying to form a new organization in 1996 called the Urban Environment League, intended to provide a forum for professional expertise in urban design as well as increased public involvement in local affairs. Yet due to their political inexperience, the UEL's programs, activities and influence remained marginal, including the fact that it was almost totally ignored by the Herald and local television stations. Attempts to get press attention by the UEL were abysmal failures. Other organizations such as the Sierra Club stayed out of the fray. Four UEL members, including Espinel and Plater-Zyberk called a press conference shortly before the vote but only Channel Four and Spanish language Channel 23 showed up, and none of it made the local news. (34b)
Spokespersons for the Heat were Pauline Winick, a local public relations person and Jay Cross, Heat President, who had a background in architecture and sports management. Cross and Paul were featured in a quasi- debate published by the Herald on Sunday October 27, 1996 and in a later discussion on local TV. Cross noted that the new arena would attract more "corporate bigwigs…Companies will want to be part of the action…Public support is appropriate because the arena is a public facility that helps to make Miami a big league city." (35)
Up to November 1, polls showed voters still opposed to
the Arison plan. A Miami Herald poll, published on October 30th, found 48% opposed to the arena deal while 35% were for it. But more significantly, 71% said they would be willing to have the team build an arena on the waterfront provided the arena was built with private money. Only 20% opposed that alternative. (36)
In his inaugural address on October 15, after winning a lopsided victory over Teele, Penelas told area residents that, "It is wrong for taxpayers to foot the bill for hundreds of millions of dollars for a new arena when the average working family can't even afford tickets to a game." Yet Penelas had already been laying the groundwork for a better deal for the County. He had never been much of a champion for the park as a non-commercial area. Penelas knew that his best leverage with Arison was before the referendum vote was completed. So he oversaw a dramatic last minute compromise with Arison without consulting Dade County Commissioners. The Herald reported that one of the elements was a threat to unleash Cuban radio and the hispanic voting bloc against Arison's arena deal if he didn't agree to pay for more of the costs of the Arena. (37)
The final deal extracted by Penelas saw Arison forced to pay for a much larger part of the cost of the Arena itself, while other collateral costs remained the responsibility of the taxpayers. Penelas switched sides and strongly supported the agreement in front of the cameras, noting only the cost factor. Local news programs as well as the Herald greeted this news, with the referendum then considered all but decided in favor of the new agreement. The Herald reported the deal struck by Penelas and Arison, using the language of sports reportage, as if the referendum had become moot. "The Miami Heat and Metro Mayor Alex Penelas have reached a deal to build a privately financed arena on Miami's waterfront, ending months of acrimony between the two sides over a plan that had taxpayers footing most of the bill. ..Their pact comes at the final buzzer, just five days before an Election Day showdown between the team and arena opponents. Both sides had something to lose. The Heat's hopes for a new arena could have been crushed in the election, if voters had approved a referendum to block construction of an arena on the waterfront." The story contained no comment from any other opponent of the deal. (38)
Those who continued to question the deal were given scant opportunity to present their remaining arguments about the Arena in the aftermath of Penelas deal. Dan Paul was quoted only as saying: "Within one month after being elected, he violated his campaign promise by giving up on the waterfront park…It still involves a massive use of public tax funds." One exception was an op ed piece in the Herald, jointly authored by me and Elizabeth-Plater Zyberk on the day before the election. Written out of anger and frustration, we wrote in part that "the Heat, the port, and the Herald are colluding to undermine our democratic values in ways that mirror the obscene power of money in the presidential campaign…Grossly deceptive advertising has tried to lull Dade residents into thinking that arena and port proposals can be transformed into pretty parks. There are no guarantees of public access or quality of design or open space in the arena-port's projected use of the bayfront. We should not be intimidated by the threats of economic demise; fear should not be the driving force of building 21st Century Miami. We can't be a world-class city if it means taking on world-class debt or exhibiting world-class stupidity." Scant good it did.(39)
The previous day, the Herald published a summary history of the arena controversy by its architecture critic Peter Whoriskey. The 1972 Bond issue was never mentioned. Whoriskey quotes Jonathan Barnet, the urban planner, who commented that "the problem with big empty spaces is that they often are taken over by anti-social elements. Once that happens, you can't get anyone else to go there…The way cities are today, a public space has to be energized with people or events to feel safe. If you build a cafe next to a park, for example, that creates a zone of safety because the people in the cafe are keeping an eye on the open space." Opponents were given three out of 33 paragraphs and pictured as archaic advocates of pastoral green land with Paul quoted only as saying "it's not supposed to be `a honky-tonk by the bay.'" (40)
Aside from the tremendous television advertising campaign of the Heat, their use of Heat players as celebrities touring black neighborhoods was probably effective….
The final vote saw proponents of the Arena clobbering the opponents by 59% to 41%. Aided by Penelas' last minute use of spanish language radio, strong support in the African-American communities, the effectiveness and financial clout of the Arison forces, and the facility of using local news media, a majority of voters had repudiated the efforts of Dan Paul and his allies. It was an important episode illustrating how urban political forces, professional sports entrepreneurs and the news media have acted to erode local citizenship by dazzling the public with novel spectacles and a waterfront accentuated as a professional sport venue, retail outlet and industrial zone for the port.
Jay Cross left the Miami Heat to become president of Jet's Development, which in early 2001, released a report regarding a billion dollar development plan on the West side of Manhattan. Cross acknowledged to a New York Times reporter in his new job that "a publicly subsidized stadium produced huge revenues for team owners and players but has relatively little impact on the city's economy. Conversely, he added, convention centers make very little money but have a huge economic effect as thousands of conventioneers spend their money in the city." The only "things that grow next to stadiums are parking lots," he continued. Yet, as the piper for another master, Cross sought to marry a new stadium with a convention center. "By marrying the two, you get the advantage of investing in the convention center, which will have an enormous economic impact, and as a side benefit, we achieve the purpose of putting a sports team in a state-of-the-art facility." His view was questioned by urban tourism expert Mark S. Rosentraub, who said that New York was too expensive for many conventions and way and that Cross was probably overstating the case for the marriage. Few in Miami probably noted the irony of Cross' new argument as the worsening economic fate of the American Airlines Arena was becoming more and more obvious.
[Charles Bagli, "Jets, Citing Benefits to New York City, Detail Plan for Stadium," New York Times January 27, 2001.]
The Heat, in fact, continued to arrogantly demand further concessions from local governments to fund their expanding space and renege on commitments.
[See Jose Luis Jimenez, "The Heat's Hot Air," Miami New Times, April 13, 2000, p. 9-10


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Well, the title says it all, Describe what items/things you have on your computer desk
I'll start, 4 empty coke bottles 2 plates and a glass of water
Well, the title says it all, Describe what items/things you have on your computer desk
I'll start, 4 empty coke bottles 2 plates and a glass of water
A bottle of water, a bunch of receipts, my watch, a remote controller for my television, and a hammer/squeaky toy.
Then he fapped to his own pseudo-intellectualism and no one ever loved him. Ever.
The End
4 folders, notebook, pen, my iPhone, Me to You bear, bottle of water.
2 laptops, 2 printers, monitor, keyboard, a company phone, 2 hard drives, screws, a blank cd, postet notes, CF card, bluetooth dongle, bottle of water and 2 pens.
digital camera, complete conan book collection, jeeves and wooster box set and a mix of about six other books
Lacquer, a ruler, knife, mic, bass pics, sharpies, couple screw drivers
2 cups, mointer, speakers, blackberry, £10, empty monster cans, Blue jeans aftershave, Passport and my national insurance.
about 20 laptops, 3 headsets, my lunch, bottle of water and my cellphone.
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Nicotine, computer+related stuff, phones, snickers, microphone, glass of water, contacts, external sound card, external harddrive, mp3 player, cup of coffee, more phones, bunch of pencils, calculators, random books in mathematical theory, a windrider cub, some dvds, ps2, some post-its, magnetic balls. And ofc, a lot of stuff under/behind this stuff that i can't see atm.
If anyone would clean my desk they would probably find an old Viking settlement or something equally strange.
Thats correct, i can barley see my monitor
Laptop, a bunch of CDs, my sweet sound system that I'm still setting up, notebook, cell phone and some cat hair sprinkled on my mouse pad as a nice suprise.
Bowl o candy, cup o tea. Computer stuff. Tissues (lovely being ill). Remote for TV, cellphone and some movies.
depends which desk.
This one, keyboard mouse ect . jug of water cell phone cup full of pens and some paper and truck payment.
other desk, 40k Minis, paints and brushes. And my HK .45, was at the range and just finished cleaning it.
Orks, Space Marines, Rift (<---- Links for pics BTW)
My screen, speakers, my glasses, a lamp, my smokes my lighter and ashtray, mug of coffee, authenticator, a random alan key and a hand sanitiser pump dispenser thingy...
My Tablet,
My Painkillers, you can thank mah wisdom teeth for these.
My Dental Floss,
My Toothpicks,
My Empty Can(s) of Monster or Water every now and then Coca Cola
Every now and then an Empty Plate,
My Little machiene to be able to use Ideal.
And... And.... And... My book.. for when Im very bored.
ooh ooh My wallet and my Glasses and my Samsung Galaxy Phone <3
Pridemane - Argent Dawn EU (resto), Pridepaw - Defias Brotherhood EU (Windwalker PvP, Mistweaver PvE)
League of legends EU-W - Phixxey (lvl 30)
Computer, 2 monitors, peripherals. Wallet. Book. Nintendo DSi in 'Clock' mode.
Macbook Pro, MicroKorg, Fireface, lots and lots of cables, iPhone, 4 cans of Red Bull, headphones, 2 stompboxes, lots of wire and random parts for modifying them 2 stompboxes, notation block, nintendo 64 controller laptop bag, scarf, some pencils, ashtray, smokes and a lighter.
sauce pan full of ketchup, chair, 19" flaccid flashbackpenis resting there, computer, trollface mask, a van gogh painting, skärm
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MacBook Pro
Bottle of water (almost empty)
My computer mouse
Deutch/Danish Danish/Deutch dictionary
iPhone 3GS
Controller to my macbook
An extern monitor
Lots of cables
"The winter king" by Bernard Corwell
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Picture yourself happily on an excursion to Barnes and Noble, running hither and yon perusing the romance novel section. Your hair cascades in waves of shimmering gold down your back. The soft glow of the overhead fluorescent lights weaves buttery shafts of light through your thick tousled mane and caresses your milky white skin, like a lovers touch. A familiar name catches the interest of your wide, thickly fringed, emerald green eyes. A throaty moan escapes, uninhibited, from your lush, soft, red lips. You bend with catlike grace, swooping down on your prey, long slender thighs encased in unyielding blue jeans tremble with expectation. Your favorite romance author has a new book out! This mistress of the written word who takes you to heights unknown and makes your spirit soar!
Excitement races through your veins; a hot rush of literary desire floods your pounding heart! Shaky hands wrap around the smooth, shiny surface of this leather bound treasure destined to be yours! Slender fingers thumb hastily to the back cover, seeking ANY tidbit of information on your beloved romance wizard.
Your hand clutches your creamy throat in dismay, your eyes fly open in wide surprise; whats this you read? Your Love Guru currently resides on a horse ranch in Texas with HIS wife and two children!
Its more common than you think, and while women continue to dominate the genre, more and more frequently those lusty men we love to read about are now writing about women, giving voice to a whole new age of romance!
For many years now Leigh Greenwood has hidden, cloak-and-dagger like, behind his very gender-neutral name! Well not quite that deceptively, but I might never have questioned HIS gender, had I not begun to research this article. Leigh, to his credit, has 29 published novels and began writing because he heard women made good money writing historical romance. He must be doing something right, if the awards hes received for his writing have anything to say about it!
Jennifer Wildes Love's Tender Fury published by Warner Books in 1983 was an enormous success, but Jennifer had a secret. Jennifer was Tom E. Huff, along with a few other pseudonyms thrown into the mix. Though deceased now, Tom began to write when the popularity of Bertrice Small and her contemporaries began to rise. Die-hard romantics at Amazon.com revere his novels. If you read a review of his youll see that the reviewers think hes a she too!
I began to wonder if women might view their favorite author differently if they knew she was really a man. Are the heroines more abrasive and less nurturing? Can you as the reader tell the difference? Can a man accurately depict a womans deepest desires or express her innermost thoughts? How the heck does he know what women are thinking anyway? When a woman writes the hero of her book, creating a strong, sexy, yet sensitive man, shes molding a character that she, as the author, thinks we, as the reader, want to see in a hero. Are men secretly doing the same, creating women who are every mans dream? Is this the ultimate payback for writing heroes who are by-and-large non-existent? Are they laughing behind our backs, because theyve turned the tables on us? Cleverly disguising themselves as women, writing about women, and then claiming they just dont understand us? Probably not. It seems most men just happened upon the genre of romance, following in the footsteps of some of the greats.
Take for example Michael Little - not only is he the President of the Aloha Chapter of Romance Writers of America, but he pens womens 'cowboy' lit. His new book Queen of the Rodeo (available at Triple Tree Publishing) is about a big haired rodeo queen, and a hero who just wants his little woman to stay home and cook for him! Michael even includes recipes in his romances. Hes firmly out of the closet about his romance writing, and has a prequel to this book in the making. Little claims he didnt set out to write a romance, he just wanted to tell a good story.
Men are entering the arena left and right, especially in the field of romantic erotica. James Miller and S.L. Carpenter, authors from Elloras Cave are men who have found a cozy niche in the field, along with J.W. McKenna and Chris Tanglen. Each has several e-books to their credit, and more on the way. Dont men prefer alien entities, espionage and gun-toting cowboys?
Apparently not all men! Some have found writing romances to be their calling in life, and they're here to stay! So ladies, the next time you catch your hubby sneaking a peek at your latest subscription to Harlequin, ask yourself what all those long nights spent in the garage supposedly fixing the car, are really about!


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The Dunning-Kruger effect (which is a scientific elaboration on a famous quote by Charles Darwin that "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge") simply states that ignorance results fairly frequently with over confidence and self certainty, even in the face of evidence and body of knowledge suggesting otherwise.
This effect can explain the explosion of media releases and blog articles relating to industry-generated buzz words and ideas that have no logical / rational / scientific evidence behind them, as illustrated in the chart below.
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AARP Needs To Accept What It Asked For
by Big Dog on May 21, 2011 at 04:15 Political
I keep getting recruitment requests from AARP and I keep shredding them because I will never join that organization. It claims to represent the elderly (supposedly those retired but they take people at 50) but it is a liberal organization that is only interested in making money. Years ago when the discussion was about privatizing Social Security AARP came out against that and claimed that Social Security was adequate and that it was not necessary for it to be private. Then at its website AARP offered a retirement investment plan so people would not have to rely on Social Security when they retired. They are more worried about making money than they are to looking out for the people they claim to be advocates of.
The same is true with Obamacare. The AARP endorsed Obamacare and did not care what impact it had on the elderly or Medicare as long as AARP was able to please its masters in the Democrat Party. During the Obamacare debate the AARP was all in favor of the elimination or radical change to Medicare Advantage, an insurance policy seniors purchase to cover costs not covered by Medicare. The so called being taken care of for life government medical program requires supplemental insurance or seniors go bankrupt.
Why does this matter? Because AARP sells Medigap insurance, that's why. AARP wanted its competitor to be unduly burdened and now it looks like that has happened.
The Obama regime is rewarding AARP for its support by granting one of those Obamacare waivers to the rip-off organization. AARP will not be subject to rate review rules so it will not have to publicly release its information or explain health care payment increases. This is an unfair advantage given by the Obama regime to help out a supporter. This is how it works in this regime. A trillion dollars in stimulus money went to pay Obama supporters off. The use of taxpayer money to reward supporters is all that the stimulus was and the Obamacare waiver process is nothing different. Obama is using the waiver process to exempt his supporters from legislation that he knows is bad.
The legislation will not do what they claim and is designed solely to take more control of our lives. The special people who Obama exempts will not have such intrusions. AARP is one of those organizations.
AARP supported Obamacare with absolutely no regard for how it would affect the country or even the seniors it claims to support. Now that the law has passed and there are things that affect AARP adversely it decided that it needed a waiver and, unlike all of us, it was able to get one.
AARP is worthless and should be shut down and the only way for that to happen is for you seniors out there to cancel your membership. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU.
If the seniors quit that organization en masse it would change its tune. Seniors, there is an alternative. Quit AARP and join the American Seniors Association.
Then again, AARP's buddy Barack Obama bin Lyin thinks he can force people to buy a product (the linchpin in Obamacare) so I imagine it would not be long before Obama forced us to join AARP and buy their Medigap insurance.
And perhaps, on that day, the tree of liberty would thirst no more.
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|haiku by Alan Summers, artwork by Angelee Deodhar
each of us born
with a number of breaths-
swallow flight
Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine (inaugural haiku, October 2013)
bleu roi
a thousand flying foxes
quarter the moon
Alan Summers
Publications credits:
Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac ed. William Higginson (Kodansha International 1996); The Heron's Nest Volume X, Number 4 (December, 2008 Celebrating Bill Higginson)
down side streets -
gulls turning the sky
in and out
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Presence 10 (1999); The New Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002); seagull haiku blog collection ed. laryalee fraser (2006); The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku by Richard Gilbert (Red Moon Press 2012) [Elemental Animism p80]; Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. Ed. Jim Kacian, Allan Burns & Philip Rowland (W. W. Norton & Company 2013)
Award Credit: Haiku Presence webpage Editor's Choice 5
in the river reflection
he watches himself
watch the sunset
Alan Summers
Publications credits: paper wasp (spring/oct 1997); Haiku Enlightenment, Gabriel Rosenstock (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) ISBN (10): 1-4438-0521-1, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0521-6
Page 54: There is a relaxed feeling of lightness – karumi – in the above haiku, employing everyday syntax and easily recognised imagery. Karumi became Basho's ideal in the final phase of his development. Gabriel Rosenstock
into his overcoat
the winter sky
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Still (1998)
Award credits: Runner up, still magazine haiku competition (1998)
malibu sunset -
a disposable camera
lifted to the birds
Alan Summers
Publications credits: In Buddha's Temple (March 2002)
Award credits: 2nd Place, In Buddha's Temple (2002)
misted over river
the Humber Bridge
links to Heaven
Alan Summers
Publications credits: haijinx volume IV, issue 1 (2011)
hard-blue sky
the ghost touch of rain
on sloe-eyed horses
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text: The Monk Chats in Chiang Mai have been going on for quite a few years. I took this picture at Wat Chedi Luang, but the monk chats take place in other temples these days. Basically, this is an opportunity for novice monks and young monks to practice their English with foreign tourists. At the same time, foreigners can learn a little about life in a Thai temple and what it's like to be a Buddhist. If you go, please dress respectfully and maybe leave a donation in the box afterwards. For ladies, you shouldn't touch or be alone with a monk.


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The compound faces the ocean and boasts of powder soft sands and turquoise waters in front. The compound is surrounded by lush vegetation and offers panoramic views of the surrounding islands. The compound features two four bedroom villas boasting of three bedroom suites and a master bedroom on the second floor. Both the villas have their own infinity edge pool. Designed by Singapore-based architect Cheong Yew Kuan, the villas boast of a chef's kitchen and yoga studio. New York's Bonetti/Kozerski Studio has built the structures and done the interiors. They have gone to great lengths to give it the exclusive and luxurious look and feel. It has cedar and coral stone walls, European walnut floors, lightly filled raw travertine baths, teak furniture and eclectic works of art from Bali to Africa.
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HIMYM: Time to retire Robin Sparkles
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The first Robin Sparkles appearance on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" was genius. The idea that one of the main characters, the relatively sane Robin, had a secret life as Canada's answer to Debbie Boone, was a riot. "Let's Go to the Mall" is an insanely catchy comic number.
But HIMYM couldn't let go of a good idea, and last night, we were subjected to our fourth appearance of Robin. For a so-called one-hit wonder, she had quite a career - but then the show has in previous episodes retconned her life - and now we were introduced to a Goth Robin, Robin Daggers, and her allegedly show-stopping moment when she lost it all for the man she was stalking. The song: "P.S. I Love You" gave you all the hints you needed.
Who didn't guess last night that the PS actually stood for Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer?
To be fair, the show had some funny moments. "Full House" star Dave Coulier wondered, "Why does everyone always think it's me?" We found out Lily was Marshall's Dahmer. Ted's Dahmer is a beautiful blonde who has stalked him for a couple years. Ted seemed ready to run out of her apartment when he realized the depths of her crazy. Then older Ted (Bob Saget) narrated, "Before a man meets the woman he's going to marry, he'll make one final horrible mistake. For me, that was Jeanette."
Middling episode. "How I Met Your Mother" wraps its run next year. It's time
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Give excitable San Francisco 49ers president Jed York credit for being supportive of his team in the face of its 0-5 start. Niners are starting to lose patience.
York made news Sunday when he declared that the 49ers will still win the NFC West. Good luck with that.
However, if the 49ers should pull off a miracle comeback this season, it probably won't save coach Mike Singletary's job. According to a team source, Singletary will need to do some extraordinary things over the final 11 games to have any hope of coming back as coach. That extraordinary thing would be something like winning all of the remaining games and even a playoff contest or two.
While York also said this weekend that he's "absolutely" staying with Singletary for the remainder of the year, the decision to stand pat is partly based on the belief that there's no one on staff that the organization feels it can entrust with the job.
dad-gum Yahoo Sports Jason Cole
not to be overly negagive but we zoners get all excited when change occurs. Answer me this question. Do the niners get better next year with a new coack considering the current managing team does the hiring? Let me answer it for you. NO! THis owner(jeb) who everyone says doesnt live in daddys shadows is way to inexperienced for this job. He should have already put a strong gm in place. This team is so clueless. This is a go with the flow owner who flies by the seat of his pants. There is absolutely no reason for me to believe he will hire anyone that will turn this team around. NOONE.


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Indianapolis Colts: 5 Reasons Why the Colts Will Lose to the Ravens
Posted By Andy Konty On January 5, 2013 @ 3:44 pm In Colts News | No Comments
I am a fan of the Indianapolis Colts [1], and I am not enjoying making this prediction. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Colts reload and serve notice on their NFL [2] competition that the organization is more than just a one Manning show.
I want the Colts to beat the Baltimore Ravens [3] and take their chaotic show on the road one more week. I want the Colts to wipe the smirk off Ray Lewis [4]' face. I want my nice comfy seat on the Indianapolis Colts' bandwagon. [5]
But I'm afraid I am going to have to bail.
I tried to hang on, buoyed by the persistent claim that the Colts have momentum and the Ravens do not. But it doesn't matter; a team's performance at the end of the regular season has very little effect on their playoff success. [6]
The Colts' thumping of the slumping Texans [7] filled the room with fresh hope that these Colts are for real. They are, or more precisely, they will be.
On Sunday, the favorable winds that have propelled the Colts sails all season will change directions. The Colts' inspiring season comes to end in Baltimore.
Here's why.
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Wonkbook: Jobs bill fails again; DISCLOSE Act passes House; Reid's climate strategy
Rough day yesterday for Senate Democrats' -- and for the unemployed -- as the $100 billion bill extending unemployment insurance and supporting state budgets once again failed in the Senate. The bill, though mostly paid for, would've added about $30 billion to the deficit, which gave Republicans all the excuse they needed to block it. Looking forward to other legislation that Republicans would like to avoid voting for, Harry Reid is expected to try and pass a climate bill by wrapping it in legislation meant to address the BP oil spill.
Meanwhile, the House did its normal thing and continued to pass legislation: Yesterday, the compromise version of the DISCLOSE Act squeaked through, complete with the NRA-exemption. Watch also for a final deal on financial reform today, and a GDP revision from the Commerce Department.
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Republicans and Ben Nelson successfully filibustered the latest version of the Senate jobs bill, reports Lori Montgomery: "Emergency jobless benefits, which provide up to 99 weeks of income support, expired June 2. Since then, more than 1.2 million people have had their checks cut off, according to estimates by the Labor Department. That number is expected to rise to more than 2 million people by the time Congress returns from its week-long break. Unless Congress acts, the program would phase out entirely by the end of October."
John Kerry: "This is one of the worst moments I've seen in 25 years in the United States Senate. In times of economic trouble, our country expects Democrats and Republicans to pull together and do the basics. Now, after eight weeks of debate and after every effort to make changes and find common ground, the Minority Leader has again found a way to unify his caucus to block legislation that extends unemployment benefits, creates jobs and provides hundreds of millions of dollars in desperately needed assistance for states...The Senate has to do better than this."
Scott Brown: "Increasing the deficit and raising taxes is not what Americans are looking for from their elected leaders in Washington. I cannot support the debt extenders bill because it still includes tens of billions in tax increases and still includes tens of billions in deficit spending."
The House voted 219-206 for the NRA-exempting version of the DISCLOSE Act, with three dozen Dems voting no: http://bit.ly/dzbi38
Harry Reid will tack the climate bill onto bipartisan legislation overhauling offshore drilling oversight, report Coral Davenport and Darren Samuelsohn: "Reid plans to build the floor package around a bill fast-tracked for approval next week in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that would impose new safety and environmental rules and increase oversight of oil companies doing offshore exploration. Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman and ranking member on the committee, respectively, introduced the legislation together on Monday, with plans to amend it next week with more oil spill ideas from Sens. Menendez, Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.)."
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Noam Scheiber says the race to replace Peter Orszag is down to Gene Sperling and Laura Tyson: http://bit.ly/bEq6mq
Music tinkering interlude: An app to give any song a swing tempo.
Still to come: Halliburton and Transocean try to squirm away from BP; some Senators want to jack up estate tax rates; an immigration reform backer throws in the towel; and a bear chills in a hot tub. Oh, and Wonkbook has a new section!Energy
No one knows Lindsey Graham's real reason for pulling support for a climate bill, reports Darren Samuelsohn: "Some see GOP leadership pulling Graham's strings, essentially yanking him back just days before he planned to introduce a bill with Kerry, Lieberman and a large coalition of energy companies, environmentalists, retired military brass and religious leaders. Others see tea party politics back in South Carolina, where incumbent Republicans are losing their jobs and Sarah Palin is anointing a new face for the party in gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley."
Non-BP participants in the oil spill are trying to limit their liability, report David Hilzenrath and Kimberly Kindy: "Halliburton, a project contractor, says it followed instructions from the well owner, a group led by BP. Transocean, which leased the rig to BP, says it was liable only for surface spills -- not those emanating from the sea bottom. Anadarko Petroleum, a venture partner, implies that it may be off the hook because BP likely engaged in 'gross negligence or willful misconduct.'"
BP's Bob Dudley is taking on the task of repairing the company's image: http://bit.ly/dtCTSl
The administration is citing a study purporting to show that climate skeptics aren't respected in their fields. It shows no such thing, writes Michael Levi: "The authors of the paper are right that the world is running dangerous risks with the climate system. They are right to be angry at those who claim that climate change is a hoax, and at those in the media who give them a platform to confuse the public. But the way to confront those skeptics is to show that they're wrong-as many dedicated climate scientists have done, again and again. Hyping this paper, instead, simply reinforces the dangerous perception that climate activists will credulously push any news that might further their case."
Muppets interlude: OK Go has a staring contest with Animal, while Zach Galifianakis and Ira Glass watch.
Bernie Sanders, along with Tom Harkin, Sherrod Brown, and Sheldon Whitehouse, is proposing a more steeply progressive estate tax, reports Laura Sanders: "Under the proposal, as in 2009, the exemption would be $3.5 million for an individual, or as much as $7 million for a couple, with a tax rate of 45%. But estates with taxable assets between $10 million and $50 million would pay a 50% rate, and estates valued above $50 million would pay 55%. A further 10% surtax would apply to assets above $500 million."
Obama's economic policy team runs on conflict, reports Caren Bohan: "Blunt, brash, brainy and occasionally self-mocking. Larry Summers, the White House economic adviser, is all of these things. In a career spanning academia, government and finance, he has rubbed some people the wrong way and infuriated others. So when President Barack Obama named him director of the National Economic Council, skeptics could be forgiven for wondering how Summers would fit in with the 'No Drama Obama' management style. Eighteen months later, the question persists."
Housing experts are denouncing Fannie Mae's new rules on mortgage defaults as needlessly cruel: http://nyti.ms/awcZjZ
Even before FinReg passes, new state and federal laws are upping consumer financial protections, reports Sudeep Reddy: "On July 1, Arizona will force changes on the state's 595 payday-loan stores-outfits that make high-interest loans against future paychecks-that could effectively put them out of business. Wisconsin banned small loans backed by car titles that led many people to lose their vehicles. Arkansas, Maine and New York joined other states in putting curbs on tax preparers who offer costly loans against expected tax refunds. The federal government, meanwhile, is for the first time requiring that lenders verify a borrower's income and assets before issuing a home loan."
Mortgage rates are at an all-time low, with no lending bump to show for it: http://bit.ly/cTP1SI
Blanche Lincoln is blocking attempts at a compromise on derivatives, report Meredith Shiner and Carrie Budoff Brown: "At a leadership meeting, top Democrats told her the language was causing vote problems in the House, but she had no plans to budge, Lincoln told POLITICO Wednesday night. 'I like what we got,' Lincoln said. 'I'm always open to listening to people in terms of what their concerns are and suggestions are, but I do want to see a strong bill.'"
Grassley is backing Lincoln on derivatives reform, reports Victoria McGrane: http://bit.ly/azjTn5
Bears, bears, bears interlude: A bear hangs out in a hot tub.
Domestic Policy
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a major backer of immigration reform, has conceded the votes aren't there this Congress, reports Molly Hooper: "'There are an insufficient number of Democratic votes to pass this in the Senate or in the House. I've said it. There are an insufficient number. We are 102 strong, we are 102 commitment, but we are insufficient,' Gutierrez said."
Michael Bloomberg is leading a group of mayors and businesspeople pushing for immigration reform: http://bit.ly/9OwhNk
Utah is moving forward with health care reform even as it sues to stop it, reports Anna Wilde Mathews: "Yet, on Thursday, Gov. Gary R. Herbert announced a step towards its implementation: Utah will join 29 other states and the District of Columbia in running its own insurance pool to cover high-risk people. Other states let the federal government handle the program, concerned they would have to pay for it if they exhausted their federal funding."
The House has sent the "doc fix" to the White House: http://politi.co/ac15DG
Tom Harkin is hinting card check legislation may come up for a vote during the lame duck session of Congress: http://bit.ly/bnlUZy
Analysis and Opinion
Noah Feldman argues that the Supreme Court needs a new liberal philosophy that takes economic changes seriously: "The great economic and political challenges of our present decade - salvaging and fixing financial institutions, delivering health care, protecting the environment - have major constitutional dimensions. They require us to determine the limits of government power and the extent to which the state can impinge on collective and individual freedoms. Progressive constitutional thinkers, so skilled in arguing about social and civil rights, are out of practice in addressing such structural economic questions."
Howard Gleckman writes that the home buyer's tax credit failed exactly as it was predicted to fail: "The hardest bit to swallow is not so much that the homebuyer tax credit is a boondoggle. It is that it was a totally predictable waste of money. Economists warned Congress in 2008 that the credit would do little more than shift timing decisions by a few months. But lawmakers ignored the advice again and again. Remarkably, the Senate may be about to give buyers still more time to close on homes they put contracts on before April 30. That way, they can squeeze the last few dollars out of a failed credit."
Daniel Gross wonders why Ben Bernanke doesn't seem to care about unemployment: "First, it could be that Bernanke and the Fed are simply exhausted.…The Fed used up all its resources saving the system. Now it's time for the political system and the private sector to do their thing. Second, it could be a failure of imagination. In recent years, Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have proved themselves to be poor predictors of how big macroeconomic trends-low interest rates, unregulated subprime lending, the rampant use of derivatives-can have negative social, economic, and political impacts."
Health care reform will change the health care you have - and that's okay, writes Kate Pickert: The new regulations, after all, are designed to protect consumers. If job-based plans have to change - and are not dropped by employers - they will do so in ways that limit what workers have to pay out of pocket and what insurers can refuse to cover.…Plus, it's not as though the employer-based insurance market is reliable and stable in its current form. Most employees don't have any control over the structure of their health insurance."
Ethanol may not have much environmental benefits, reports Erica Gies: "Corn farming is the biggest source of pollution associated with ethanol production. Corn requires vastly more fertilizer and pesticides than soybeans or other potential biofuel feedstocks, such as perennial grasses, according to a 2007 report from the National Academy of Sciences. 'Per unit of energy gained, biodiesel from soy requires just 2 percent of the nitrogen and 8 percent of the phosphorous needed for corn ethanol,' and the differentials in pesticide use are similar, the report said."
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Samsung's new CEO Kwon Oh-Hyun has identified the firm's notoriously weak software as the missing piece of the puzzle on its path to world domination.
While the various facets of Samsung's hardware business grow at a staggering pace, brushing aside the competition, its software offerings have often been less than breathtaking.
However, in his first speech following his appointment earlier this month, new chief exec Kwon Oh-Hyun targeted improvement with the firm's software as the key area for change.
He called for renewed vigour in building "unique platforms and ecosystems" with a strengthening of capabilities in "software, user experience, design and solutions", according to AFP. Success here will have Samsung stake a claim for an "absolute lead" in the market, Kwon said.
Kwon feels that to really stake a claim for the top spot, Samsung needs to wrest the crown from Apple in fast changing and highly competitive markets.
Sparring-partner Apple's approach forms the blueprint of a successful ecosystem based on strong software. But, while Samsung saw roaring success with the Galaxy S2 outpip sales of the iPhone in some quarters, its success has in part been down to relying on Google's Android OS.
Samsung's own attempts have been less successful. Bada is not quite a household name.
Samsung did recently throw $500,000 at ensuring membership at the top table of the Linux Foundation, showing the Korean giant's commitment to developing its own software in the future. Still, there is a long way to go in convincing the world that it has the ability to take on the likes of Apple in software.
Rumours of Samsung further developing its Family Story – which allows smart TVs, tablets and smartphones to share photos and other files – have been quashed. Samsung officially stamping out claims it had its eyes on a full on social network.
Samsung may have the resources to invest in a developing its relatively weak software arm, but if it is to match the might of its hardware divisions it has some way to go to beat the current ecosystem leaders.


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St. Patrick's Day 2017
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Mar 17 2017 - Ireland has produced a lot of amazing things over its history: arguably some of the world's greatest writers, the greatest stout, the greatest crystal. Cars? Mmmmm…not so much. For St. Patrick's Day, BestRide presents the handful of cars ever produced in Ireland. Drivin'O'The Green: 4 Cars Built in Irlenad, Mar 17 2015
Panoz Roadster
The TMC Costin was an attempt to build an Irish-built rival to race cars for the street. As a car, the TMC Costin was a failure, selling only 39 units before the company went bankrupt. The chassis was spectacular, though, and American sports car builder Dan Panoz bought the rights to its design, which became the underpinning for the Panoz Roadster (above).
1981 DeLorean DMC-12
DeLorean was an American company, based in Detroit, but the car was built entirely in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, a suburb of strife-ridden Belfast.
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Photos: Randy Berg
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Anderson Signs as Free Agent with Expos
Posted: July 1, 2002 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
Patriot senior catcher and first baseman Brian Anderson has signed a free agent baseball contract with the Montreal Expos. He has been assigned to the Vermont Expos of the short-season Class A New York-Penn League.
Anderson is the first George Mason player to sign his initial contract with Montreal and the second to play in the organization. Former Patriot standout Chris Widger played in the major leagues with the Expos from 1997 to 2000 before being traded back to the Seattle Mariners, his original organization. Widger currently is at Class AAA Columbus with the New York Yankees.
For his career, Anderson ranks fifth in Patriot history with 127 RBI and 24 times hit by pitch. He is tied for fifth with eight triples, sixth with 194 games played and 328 total bases, eighth with 676 at bats and 198 hits, ninth with 175 games started, ninth with 25 home runs, and 11th with 39 doubles. He concludes his George Mason career with a .293 overall batting average. He set a Patriot freshman record with six triples in 1999.
George Mason finished the 2002 season with a 28-29 overall record and a 12-7 mark in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA). The Patriots placed second in the Colonial Division of the CAA with a 7-4 record.