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Republican Scott Brown Wins Senatorial Election in Massachusetts
Aired January 24, 2010 - 10:00 ET
KURTZ: It wasn't supposed to be much of a race. Most of the media establishment basically ignored it, that is until the final days when the story suddenly became, "Oh, my god, the Republicans could actually win Ted Kennedy's Senate seat and block health care reform and change the course of American politics." And when Scott Brown easily upset Martha Coakley in Massachusetts this week, there was a punditry explosion among the very same commentators who had basically written him off early on. Was this about Bay State politics or Barack Obama, his presidency? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WILLIAMS: All the analysts were saying it was a shoo-in for the Democrats. HANNITY: The sweeping victory by the GOP in the bluest of blue states no doubt has Democrats all across the country extremely worried about their chances for re-election. GERGEN: Brown has turned this into a referendum on what's going on in Washington, especially with health care. BOB SHRUM, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: I mean, you have a candidate who took the election for granted, who waited too long to make a real argument, who said that Curt Schilling was a Yankees fan, Catholics shouldn't work in emergency rooms. JESSICA YELLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: So, she came off as aloof, detached, and voters felt it. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: So, are the meeting overdramatizing the impact of one Senate contest or playing catch-up on the seismic shift they missed? Joining us now in Boston, Margery Eagan, columnist for "The Boston Herald" and co-host of "Jim and Marjorie" on Boston's 96.9 FM radio. And here in Washington, Jonathan Martin, senior political writer for Politico, who was in Massachusetts this week to cover the campaign. And Amy Holmes, guest co-host for "America's Morning News" on the Talk Radio Network. Jonathan Martin, you were up in Boston. Didn't you, like everyone else in the press, initially assume that Martha Coakley would win this without breaking a sweat? JONATHAN MARTIN, SR. POLITICAL WRITER, POLITICO: Howie, I was there in December for her primary. I left Boston then thinking, OK, that's the ballgame. Never thought I'd be back in the state in January. Well, sure enough, Thursday night, got a ticket to Boston. Wednesday, too, by the way. I went up there. I'm not sure what's going to happen here. By Friday afternoon I was staying for the whole time. KURTZ: But, was so that -- why did you underestimate it? MARTIN: Oh, because I think, look, this is a state that has not had a Republican senator elected since '72, so you're talking about 38 years. It's been a very, very long time. There have been governors there in the GOP, but never on the federal level. They just didn't think it was possible. Brown was a total unknown. KURTZ: And, Amy Holmes, Martha Coakley was way ahead in the polls. And journalists love polls. AMY HOLMES, "AMERICAN MORNING NEWS": Way. KURTZ: But were too many journalists blind to the anger and resentment out there that could fuel a Republican candidacy? HOLMES: Well, I think that we have been seeing that. And even as early as May and June, we saw that Independents were moving away from Barack Obama and that there has been this building frustration that then exploded with the Tea Party movement over the summer. But Howie, I might surprise you. I'm not going to bash the media too badly on this one. There were 31 reasons why they weren't covering this, and that was 31 percent percentage points that Martha Coakley was ahead. But I will say that if you read the right-wing blogosphere, if you read "National Review" and "The Corner," or "The Weekly Standard," you started to hear rumblings that there was this Scott Brown guy who seemed to be chipping away at Martha Coakley's lead. KURTZ: But many in the establishment press did not read those rumblings. And polls are ephemeral, especially in a special election, when you don't know who's going to turn out. Margery Eagan, you like Martha Coakley. You asked her in an interview during the campaign how she felt about being called a lackluster, uptight bore. But for all the kicking around that -- for all the ways that she's been kicked around now, it would be hard to blame her defeat on bad press, would it not? MARGERY EAGAN, CO-HOST, "JIM AND MARGERY": Well, she got very good press from "The Boston Globe," not from my paper, "The Boston Herald." But you know something? People don't like -- TV journalists and newspaper journalists do not like to talk about the influence of talk radio. Let me tell you something. There was a nonstop hammering of Martha Coakley on the AM stations here, on the huge sports stations here. She was the evil incarnate and Scott Brown was the next coming. And, you know, the New England Patriots in the playoffs lost early on. It was as if there was this transference from Tom "Terrific" Brady, the quarterback of the Patriots, to Scott "Terrific" Brown. You look at the rallies for Scott Brown, they were very white, they were very suburban, they were Gillette Stadium fans, and there was almost this... KURTZ: But just briefly, did you mean to say earlier that "The Boston Globe" tilted towards Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, and your paper, "The Boston Herald," tilted towards Scott Brown in the news coverage? EAGAN: Well, I would say my paper was pretty much cheerleading for Scott Brown. We're the conservative paper in town, and The Globe, I think, was -- they were evenhanded somewhat, but I think that they were definitely cheerleading for Martha Coakley, absolutely. They're the liberal paper in town. That's the way it always is. But talk radio, I think... KURTZ: Let me get Amy Holmes back in here. EAGAN: ... was huge. HOLMES: Sure. I think more damning of the media than not catching on to this story soon enough was the way the national media mischaracterized these candidates -- "The Boston Globe," you know, the big paper in Boston. Anyway, they described Martha -- sorry, Scott Brown -- as in the mode of the national GOP, which simply isn't true. Scott Brown -- it took a University of Chicago professor to find out that he is a very liberal Republican. He's pro-choice. He actually got very high marks from the Teachers Union in Boston for 2005. When you saw it being discussed on the national stage, this was being discussed as if Scott Brown were a Tea Party representative which he doesn't even describe himself. (CROSSTALK) MARTIN: He's not moderate, though. I actually asked him that question directly, and he wouldn't say if he was a moderate or a conservative. Besides the abortion issue, Amy, on fiscal issues he's pretty traditional conservative. HOLMES: Labor and environmental groups also gave him high marks, teachers unions. That's not your traditional Republican. KURTZ: Let me come back to the coverage, because... MARTIN: Well, for up there he's a pretty conventional conservative. HOLMES: For up there. That, I think, is the key word. KURTZ: It is a northeast state and usually a blue state. Hours after Scott Brown surprises the world and wins the Senate seat, Matt Drudge puts this headline on his Web site -- if we can throw it up there -- and says -- it's coming any second -- "Now Will He Run for President?" And Brown holds a press conference, and one of the first questions is, "Are you presidential timber?" And listen to the way he is then described on the airwaves. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KIRAN CHETRY, CNN: He got a rock star welcome yesterday from the press. BEN STEIN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Scott Brown is a superstar. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's a superstar. RICK SANCHEZ, CNN: It's like he's Elvis. PAT BUCHANAN, MSNBC ANALYST: He's a real possibility for a future national ticket. (END VIDEO CLIP) MARTIN: Well, what's funny about this is that those folks there haven't actually talked to Scott Brown. And I was there on the ground, and I think he's an impressive enough guy. But it just sort of gets at some of the silliness here of having people who have never talked to the guy, interviewed him or seen him campaign say that he's sort of national, presidential material. I'm just baffled by that, actually. KURTZ: You're suggesting that journalists shouldn't think about things unless they actually have done any reporting and spoken to people? MARTIN: It's hard to believe, Howie. KURTZ: You've just undercut the entire basis for cable pundits. MARTIN: Exactly. KURTZ: Isn't this getting a little out of hand, Brown in 2012? He hasn't even been sworn in yet. HOLMES: Right. I think it is getting out of hand. I think this is the media trying to generate a big, exciting story. It is an exciting story just with the elements that we have, which is that a Republican was elected in Massachusetts and beat the Democrat who had a 31-point advantage. I don't think we need to be worrying about 2012 with this guy just yet. KURTZ: Margery Eagan, is the Boston press buying into this Brown for president blather? EAGAN: Oh, I would say that we're worked up into a fever pitch here in Boston. You know, most of us are mere mortals. It's not just Scott Brown, the gorgeous guy that you can't help liking he's so affable. But he's got this wonderful wife, he's got these two gorgeous daughters. Ayla was a star on "American Idol." She's a big Boston College basketball star. They are the central casting family. And I think we're whipped up into a total fever pitch over Scott Brown and the whole Brown family. KURTZ: Well, Brown's wife, of course, Gail Huff, is an anchor on a Boston station. EAGAN: Yes, she is. KURTZ: And his daughter, Ayla, who had been a semifinalist on "American Idol," apparently is going to sing tomorrow on the "CBS Early Show." So it seems like the celebrification of Senator-Elect Scott Brown is fully under way. (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: Go ahead, Margery. EAGAN: You know something else about Boston, though, I think that maybe the national press, because they're not here, has missed? There is such anger at the legislature in Boston. We've had three speakers, Democrats in a row, hauled out practically in handcuffs. We've had three state senators, one of whom was on the front page of my newspaper, stuffing cash into her bra. I mean, and the Democrats -- and they dominate the legislature -- have done nothing about this. So there's a great deal of anger, I think, here at the Democrats in the state house in Boston that got deflected on to Martha Coakley. KURTZ: That's why I love Massachusetts politics. (LAUGHTER) KURTZ: All right. Now, in terms of the impact or lack thereof on the Obama White House, a new "Newsweek" story out. Let's put up the cover. The headline is "The Inspiration Gap." And Jon Meacham, the editor, who last week had Barack Obama on the cover as an author on a piece about Haiti, says that the president has to lead the country emotionally, as well as rationally, and he seems to be running the Brookings Institution. So, has this emerged now as we sort through the political damage as a new narrative about Obama, that he's just too cool, he's not connecting, and all that? MARTIN: I think it was out there last year, Howie, but now it's cemented because... KURTZ: It's on the cover of "Newsweek" now. MARTIN: ... now he's taken some real hits at the polls. Look, you can't spin away three straight losses -- Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts, all three states that President Obama won in 2008. So, obviously, there is something going on there. They know they have a problem, which is why they're tossing out the sort of David Plouffe chum in the water today. KURTZ: He, of course, former campaign manager for Obama who's now said to be taking a larger role, helping the administration on the outside in the 2010 elections. HOLMES: But Howie, I think you're getting to a really important point here, is that the media is still focused on style. So we see Maureen Dowd had her column that Barack Obama is too much like Spock, aloof, detached from the American public. We see Barack Obama himself trying to defend himself with George Stephanopoulos, saying that he was just too caught up in the detailed policy nuances and he didn't explain and connect with the American people. What the press is not covering is that the American people are looking at his policies. What about the substance? And that is what they're rejecting at the polls. KURTZ: All right. I want to play a little sound from the debate that got a little bit heated on some of the cable channels as the Massachusetts race was heading toward its climax. Here's Keith Olbermann on MSNBC talking about -- let's just say he's not a big Scott Brown fan. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KEITH OLBERMANN, MSNBC: In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea- bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Too far? HOLMES: I can't even believe that was allowed on the air, frankly. KURTZ: That's live. HOLMES: It was so irresponsible. It's ugly, it's just completely unfounded. And he's talking about the same voters, by the way, who voted for Barack Obama, 62 percent who elected Deval Patrick, an African- American, for governor. And he's saying in one year they've turned into a racist because they don't support Martha Coakley? That doesn't make sense. KURTZ: The next night, after Jon Stewart made fun of him, Olbermann came back and said he had been a bit over the top lately, point taken, sorry. And Margery Eagan, I've got one for you. Here's the comedy styling of Glenn Beck, actually -- and I don't want to make light of this -- he's invoking the tragedy of the woman who had worked for Gary Condit, whose name... (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: This is what he had to say, Glenn Beck, talking about Scott Brown. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GLENN BECK, FOX NEWS: I want a chastity belt on this man. I want his every move watched in Washington. I don't trust this guy. I'm just telling you. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just a creepy moment. BECK: This one could end with a dead intern. This one could end with a dead intern. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: Margery Eagan, your reaction to that? EAGAN: Listen, I think Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann have both taken leave of their senses. You know, I was a Martha Coakley fan. I thought she was a great D.A. But I know Scott Brown. He's a great guy. You can't help but like the guy. He strikes me as a wonderful family guy. He's out there mowing the lawn. His wife, Gail Huff, has been a great reporter on Channel 5. Racist? A homophobe? Sexist? I mean, this is crazy. His politics are different than mine, but it's sick. MARTIN: Isn't it schtick, Howie? KURTZ: Yes, but at what point does schtick become irresponsible schtick? MARTIN: Fair enough. Yes. HOLMES: I think Keith Olbermann well passed that point with that commentary. KURTZ: All right. The one big winner here, "The Boston Herald." Everybody saw that picture of Scott Brown holding up The Herald with -- there it is. He did it. All right. Thank you very much, Margery Eagan, Amy Holmes, Jonathan Martin. MARTIN: Thanks, Howie. KURTZ: When we come back, double-duty doctors. The networks send their medical specialists to the tragedy in Haiti and they wind up doing triage. Are journalists crossing an ethical line here? We'll ask NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Journalists have one basic mission, to gather the news. Doctors have very different mandates -- to heal the sick. But in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, there are some who have tried to do both. Call it "The Sanjay Syndrome" for the most prominent practitioner, Sanjay Gupta. The television doctors landed in Haiti, covered the tragedy for the networks. And in between their live shots, put on scrubs and got to work. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: She is doing very well after the operation, and then eventually a helicopter flew (INAUDIBLE). So this is just one story. This girl is really a delightful young gal who is going to do very well from this operation, but it is part of a larger issue. (END VIDEO CLIP) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you were actually involved with some of the patients? DR. NANCY SNYDERMAN, NBC: Yes, I saw as many patients as I could. I took off one hat and put on another, everything from a mom who gave birth yesterday and was worried about a child's bellybutton, to fractured jaws, to a young man -- I don't know if he'll make it -- badly broken arm, open wound, gangrene already setting in. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: So, is there a conflict between reporting on a tragedy's victims and trying to help them? I spoke earlier to one network's medical correspondent from her post on the front lines in Haiti. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Nancy Snyderman, welcome. SNYDERMAN: Hi, Howard. KURTZ: Thank you for joining us from Haiti. As a doctor, as a journalist, as a human being, what has it been like to be in the middle of all this death and devastation? SNYDERMAN: I told some people here to me this is Mogadishu plus Katrina, except there aren't as many guns and the people here don't want to kill us. But there's a lot of desperation. It's tough. I've seen things that, frankly, my surgical background didn't quite prepare me for. And I know there's been a lot of controversy of the role of physician journalists here. But you can't help but wear more than one hat. I think one as a humanist and one as a surgeon, and obviously I'm here as a journalist. But all three of those things have come crashing together this week. KURTZ: Well, let's talk about that. As a journalist, obviously you are covering the story. As a doctor you have become part of the story. Do you see those two things at least partially being in conflict? SNYDERMAN: Well, sure. I think, ethnically, I question all of it. And I came here to cover this for NBC. Let's be very clear. I didn't come here to be a heroine of any sort. I came here as a journalist for NBC News. And I was trying to track down this one little place, a Catholic charity, where I thought I had made some connections. And connections -- making connections here is virtually impossible. And when I walked in, the first question that was asked of me is, "Are you a doctor?" And I said yes. And they said, "We need you," and they took me by the hand in the soccer field that was part of this little community house. There were scores of people who needed medical attention. I mean, at that point, the journalist hat went off and the doctor hat went on. And I really had one role, and that was to triage the just dinged and lightly hurt to get out so there could be space for those who were really hurt, to declare who was dead or dying and put them to the side and cover them to keep the flies off of them. And those people where I could make a difference, my job was to tend to them. At the end of that, because there is no end here, I had to go back. So, then, that's the conflict. KURTZ: But there was no question in your mind when they said, "We need you," you're a doctor, that you were going to start tending to patients? SNYDERMAN: Oh, there was no question. I mean, look, before I became a journalist I was a physician. I wanted to be a doctor since I was in third grade. That is, at the end of the day, who I am. So, to walk by somebody who needs me, to not operate on somebody -- but I think we have to underscore something. When you've heard of us all operating here on the field, including Sanjay, this is not like we're home operating on people. This is rudimentary. We may call it surgery, but it is glorified first aid in the field. We don't have the equipment we would normally have. We are tending to people the best that we know how. But as sophisticated as we might be on our home turf, this is not sophisticated, what we've been able to do this week. The sophisticated medicine is happening at the Israeli hospital and at the U.N. hospital and on the Comfort, but we've done the best battlefield medicine we know how. KURTZ: And is it frustrating for you to have to operate under those somewhat primitive-sounding conditions? SNYDERMAN: You know, it's interesting. It's frustrating because you know you could do better, but it takes you back to that skill set of being a very basic healer. You do what you can. I've operated in a lot of countries over the years, and I've realized you can sometimes do with much less. The problem here is we don't even have the basics. I mean, I was using suture kits as surgical instruments. There aren't enough things to set bones with. I'm not an orthopedic surgeon. So I have not diluted myself, but I have lost a lot of sleep here because I have left people in precarious situations. And the problem is there's no way not to do that, because this is not a place where you can come in and cure someone in the field. You can come in and intercede, and I think one of the ethical questions I wrestle with is, when I intercede, am I making someone better or am I prolonging their misery? And I don't know that I have a clear answer for that. KURTZ: That is a very, very difficult question to grapple with. Now, you mentioned CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He was really the first to do this in Iraq, to go there on a reporting trip and end up treating patients. He's doing this in Haiti. CBS' Jennifer Ashton is doing it. You're doing it. SNYDERMAN: And Rich Besser is here from ABC News. KURTZ: And I hear some people say -- I don't necessarily agree with this, but I hear some people say, is this self-promotion? Why are these people doing it in front of the cameras? SNYDERMAN: Well, I think there can be grandstanding. And if there is an element of that, it's appalling. It's not what I came here to do, but I worry. I mean, I have thought about it. I mean, is my job here to treat people and say look at me? I would say the answer is emphatically no. Is my job here to treat people and help people who happen to be in my line of sight? Yes. The answer is emphatically yes. But where I become a journalist and where I meld that with being a doctor, I think that is the juxtaposition that we all have to wrestle with. If I tell the stories through the eyes of a physician, and I tell those stories to millions of people, do I help more people in the long run? I guess at the end of the day I have to believe the answer is yes or I shouldn't be doing this. But there are gray areas every day, Howard, and it's those gray areas that I think all of us who are here wrestle with. KURTZ: I've got about half a minute. You are helping to heal people in this terrible tragedy, trying to help save lives. Does the criticism bother you? SNYDERMAN: No. It makes me think. It gives me pause. Are the critics right? And I guess the best thing I could ask of the critics is come here and walk in my shoes for a day and tell me if you would walk by somebody who has a bone sticking out of his arm. If you would walk by it, then I guess we're just different people. KURTZ: Dr. Nancy Snyderman, thank you so much for joining us from Haiti. SNYDERMAN: Always, Howard. Thanks. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: And we appreciate her taking the time to join us. Coming in the second half hour of RELIABLE SOURCES, PR victory. Jay Leno may have won the battle for "The Tonight Show," but he got clobbered in the PR war. Is that fair? And does the suddenly wealthy Conan have a late-night future?. Plus, belated confession. John Edwards finally stops lying about the baby he fathered. Is it time for journalists to take "The National Enquirer" seriously? The tabloid's editor will be here. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KING: I'm John King and this is STATE OF THE UNION. Here are stories breaking this Sunday morning. In a new audiotape allegedly from Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader claims responsibility for the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner en route to Detroit. Earlier on STATE OF THE UNION, White House senior adviser David Axelrod told me its message contains the same "hollow justification" for the slaughter of innocent people. One day after search efforts were officially called off in Haiti, a remarkable story of survival. Twenty-four-year-old Wizman Jean Pierre (ph) was pulled from the rubble of a four-story building Saturday after being trapped for 11 days. He was severely dehydrated but, amazingly, had no serious injuries. Jean Pierre says he survived on beer, cola and cookies. A looming deadline for General Motors and Chrysler dealerships across the country. Nearly 3,000 dealers got the ax as part of the auto giant's bankruptcy proceedings. They have until tomorrow to appeal their closure. Nine hundred of them already have. Independent arbitrators will take up their cases and decide whether those dealers are profitable enough to stay open. Those are your stop stories here on STATE OF THE UNION. KURTZ: Jay Leno didn't ask to be taken off "The Tonight Show" and moved to 10:00. Leno didn't ask to have his primetime show canceled and returned to 11:30, bumping Conan O'Brien out of the coveted timeslot. But somehow in this late-night soap opera, Conan cast himself as the victim and Jay came to be seen as the bad guy. So, this week, he dropped the jokes -- well, some of them -- and told his side of the story. None of this, said Leno, was his idea. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JAY LENO, "THE JAY LENO SHOW": They said, well, how about prime time? I said, well, that will never work. They said, no, no, we want to put you on at 10:00. We have done focus groups, people will love you at 10:00. KURTZ (voice-over): Four months later it was over. LENO: OK. So they come and they go, "Listen, this show isn't working. We want to let you go." "Can I get out of my contract?" They go, "No, you're still a valuable asset to this company." How valuable can I be? You fired me twice. How valuable can I be? Through all of this, Conan O'Brien has been a gentlemen. He's a good guy. I have no animosity towards him. This is all business. You know, folks, if you don't get the ratings, they take you off the air. KURTZ: Something about Leno's defense ticked off his old rival David Letterman, who lost out on "The Tonight Show" 17 years ago. DAVID LETTERMAN, "THE LATE SHOW": What we're seeing now is kind of vintage Jay, and it's enjoyable for me to see this. It's like, hey, there he is. There's the guy I know. Five years ago, when NBC said to Jay, you know what, Conan is going to take over your job in five years, that's when you say, OK, fine, no hard feelings. You call ABC, you call Fox, you try to get my job, you leave. You don't -- hey, OK. But I'll be in the lobby if you need me. Don't hang around. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Conan, meanwhile, won a huge payoff from NBC before ending his run Friday night, $32 million just to go away and stay off a competing network until September, plus another $12 million for his staff. So, should Leno be blamed for this debacle, and will that hurt him when he returns to the old neighborhood? Joining us now in Los Angeles, Ray Richmond, former reporter for "The Hollywood Reporter" now a contributor to TheWrap.com; Rachel Sklar, editor-at-large for Mediaite.com; and here in Washington, David Zurawik, media and television critic and blogger for "The Baltimore Sun." Ray Richmond, why did Leno feel the need to make that defense that we just saw? How did he become the bad guy in this? RAY RICHMOND, FMR. REPORTER, "THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER": Well, Howard, he was being attacked from all sides, and rightly so. You know, Jay always has to come off as the good cop. It was that way going back to the Helen Kushnick days when he had his manager as the attack woman on everyone. And now, of course, it's always got to be victim Jay. And he's already pandering for the public sentiment for when he comes back on March 1st. But it doesn't mean that what we're seeing is anything close to real. I just love the lack of civility in this whole thing. It's just been a wonderful, juicy soap opera, that these guys have just dropped the gloves and just attacked the crap out of each other. KURTZ: And seeing them bloody each other has been kind of entertaining for the rest of us, David Zurawik, but look, Conan O'Brien tanked, even before Leno's primetime show went on. I mean, he ended up losing nearly half "The Tonight Show" audience. How is that Jay Leno's fault? DAVID ZURAWIK, MEDIA AND TELEVISION CRITIC, "THE BALTIMORE SUN": Well, it's -- well, in a way, we don't know how much Jay's problems at 10:00 -- we know they contributed to the... KURTZ: Oh, sure. ZURAWIK: So, there was a train wreck effect. And that's really what gives Conan some coverage on this. You know, ,you say, well, he only had seven months and he had this train wreck happening in front of him. But I don't think -- you know, Jay Leno, I don't think, is the villain in this piece. He's a tool. You know, that's not a good thing. That's not a good thing. KURTZ: Why is he a tool? ZURAWIK: Because Zucker, the president of NBC, who thought this crazy idea up, should be the villain in it. And he used Leno, and Leno let himself be used, and he was a tool, maybe a worm. OK? KURTZ: OK. ZURAWIK: But I'm not going to say that he's the villain. That's too simple. KURTZ: You decide on the terminology. Here's "New York Observer," this cover, not a very flattering picture of Jay. Inside, the headline is "Leno, the Lonesome Loser." So, Rachel Sklar, there have been rallies around the country for Conan O'Brien. He's the hip, young comic. But look, NBC executives say they were losing tens of millions of dollars with Conan on "The Tonight Show," which is why they were willing to pay him so much money to go away. So, again, it seems to me that Leno is getting unfairly beaten up when these were not his decision. RACHEL SKLAR, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, MEDIAITE.COM: Well, I would hardly call Jay Leno naive. He certainly knew -- he had the biggest range of options of anyone here. He had five years to figure out what he wanted to do. What he decided to do was stay at NBC while Conan took over and have a sort of shadow government set up and wait in the wings until who knows what happened. And in the meantime, he also negotiated a bigger poison pill penalty for his own cancellation. So, I wouldn't call... KURTZ: And by the way, Conan O'Brien had a poison pill penalty. If he was taken off "The Tonight Show," he had to be paid $45 million. SKLAR: The reason he had the poison pill penalty -- the reason he had that penalty was to ensure that NBC would not do this. The whole reason he had that was to give Conan comfort that NBC would actually go through with their promise because NBC wanted to keep Conan from exploring his own range of options. KURTZ: Right. SKLAR: So that's the reason for Conan's poison pill. KURTZ: It seems standard practice to me in the network, because this was just a tough negotiating... RICHMOND: NBC never had any intention of leaving Conan on the air for very long. A year before the thing ever kicked in, you knew they would have gotten out of it if they could. They kept Leno there because they knew that Conan couldn't compete at 11:30 against him in their mind. KURTZ: You're saying they used Jay as an insurance policy. SKLAR: In their mind. KURTZ: All right. ZURAWIK: But Ray, what do you base that on and say they never had any intention of leaving Conan on the air? What do you base that on? RICHMOND: The fact that they had Jay waiting in the wings there at 10:00. They knew that he could never, ever compete at 11:30 against Jay, otherwise they would have let Jay go. (CROSSTALK) ZURAWIK: Then why would you put him on and cause all this misery? KURTZ: Yes. If they knew this was going to happen... RICHMOND: They didn't have the courage of their convictions. SKLAR: At once, NBC was being forward-thinking. ZURAWIK: You guys in Hollywood have these conspiracies. KURTZ: All right. Let me get back there. If that's journalistic malpractice, it's true. But I think that critics tilted toward Leno because most of the critics, they like Conan, he's the hip, edgy comic. They think Jay is inoffensive, bland, middle of the road, and he just lost the PR war here. I do think that Conan O'Brien... SKLAR: I disagree, Howie. KURTZ: OK. Well, we'll come back to you on that in a second. I want to play some sound here. I do think that Conan O'Brien went out with a touch of class on Friday night. He said some nice things about NBC. Let's take a brief look at that. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) O'BRIEN: Every comedian dreams of hosting "The Tonight Show." And for seven months I got to do it. And I did it my way, with people I love. I do not regret one second of anything that we've done here. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: So, Ray Richmond, should anyone feel sorry for Conan O'Brien now with this zillion-dollar settlement which includes keeping his mouth shut about NBC for the next seven months? SKLAR: I don't think anybody feels sorry for him because his position is much better now than he ever was. He's emerged sort of as a leader here, and it's not a matter of money. But I don't think... KURTZ: Well, professional pride is -- let me get Ray in on this. RICHMOND: Let me just say that I'll stay off of RELIABLE SOURCES for far less than that for seven months, Howard. You know, you could give me $3 million and I won't come back for seven months. KURTZ: How about $300? RICHMOND: Let me just give you a readout of why we shouldn't feel sorry for Conan. KURTZ: How about a couple of dinners? RICHMOND: He made $1.75 million a week, $335,000 an hour, $3,900 a minute during his tenure on "Tonight" -- $81.67 a second. ZURAWIK: Howie, I've got a problem with that final thing of NBC. Here's what I didn't like about what Conan did. He stirred. He stuck his hand in and stirred up sort of anti- corporate anger in America. Stupid corporations mess up and then they lay you off. That was really made him almost... KURTZ: But now taking responsibility for the fact... (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: Yes, it happened, but, you know, most people don't even get seven months to prove themselves. They get 13 weeks. David, I want to ask you this -- Letterman, why is he screaming about Leno? What's he got to be mad about? ZURAWIK: I think it's residual hatred. It was devastating. It was devastating. SKLAR: It was a voice of experience. KURTZ: And Rachel Sklar, you've been hanging out at these Hollywood parties. What is the buzz about Leno and whether it's below the belt for him to be making jokes about Letterman's sex scandal and doing the intern and all that? SKLAR: Listen, Letterman's sex scandal is fair game, just like Jay Leno's antics are fair game and NBC is fair game. However, Letterman's wife is not fair game. Taking a shot at her is a really low blow, and that is unfair collateral damage. If anything made Leno made Leno look like not the good guy, that shot at Letterman's wife was the thing. KURTZ: I do think that was very much at odds with Jay's carefully cultivated... RICHMOND: I love the fact that everything was fair game in this. KURTZ: Well, yes, sure. But, I mean, I do thinking talking about -- the joke was, how do you get Dave Letterman not to pay attention to you? Marry him. And I do think that was at odds -- let me finish, Ray. RICHMOND: And there was a time -- like Leno pays attention to his wife. KURTZ: Carefully cultivated nice guy image. Let's not go below the belt here. All right. Jeff Zucker was mentioned earlier, the NBC chief executive. He kind of stayed in the bunker for a while and finally came out to talk about this on "Charlie Rose." (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CHARLIE ROSE, HOST, "CHARLIE ROSE": So it was a mistake to make that decision? JEFF ZUCKER, PRESIDENT AND CEO, NBC UNIVERSAL: Well, you know -- obviously... ROSE: A bit of 20/20 hindsight? ZUCKER: You know -- I was going to say, obviously in hindsight, you know, perfect information leads you to that conclusion, that it was a mistake. And I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say when something is not working, to have the guts to reverse it. (END VIDEO CLIP) ZURAWIK: Only the head of a network could try to spin this, and he's a hero and he's a brave man for stepping up after this debacle. And you know, by the way, Zucker and Ebersol, Dick Ebersol, also a high NBC executive, they really came out this week and went after Conan. And, you know, ,when they said... KURTZ: Ebersol trashed Conan on the record. ZURAWIK: Yes. Yes, this was -- and I think they might have even scared him a little bit and said, this is what we can do to your reputation, man. You're messing with this corporation's brand right now. KURTZ: Ray Richmond, Leno is going on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" this week, he probably made a mistake, in my view, by not speaking out earlier, at least to give his die of the story. Is there a real possibility now that he goes back to the old time slot, takes over "The Tonight Show" at 11:30, that he's going to be tarnished and that some viewers are not going to return? RICHMOND: I think he's going to be tarnished temporarily. I think Rachel and I might have a disagreement on this, as we were in the room earlier talking. I think people have very short memories. I think he's going to come back, and enough people will -- you know, people, when they're falling asleep at night, are not thinking, is this a good person, is this a bad person? All they're thinking is, is that joke going to make me laugh? And I think he's going to probably come back just fine, and he'll keel over in that studio. I mean, the guy is going to -- they're going to have to cart him out on a gurney when he's 85. KURTZ: Rachel? SKLAR: You know, I think that what you saw with the last night of Conan was a lot of goodwill. You had Neil Young come on and thank him for being a supporter of new music. You had all these people coming out for him. I think that those subtle, you know, acts of goodwill will have a reverse effect on Leno. I think he will definitely not see Tom Hanks rushing to sit at his side anytime soon. There's just a feeling of -- you know, that he did the wrong thing here, that he was not a good guy. And I think that certainly the younger generation does not like Leno. KURTZ: OK. All right. Well, we'll see about that. SKLAR: And so when you see the demographics shift... KURTZ: But, you know, Jay did bring in the mass audience. But the thing is -- and Conan's ratings soared, of course, at the very end -- we all sit around saying, oh, this is so terrible. They are really going after each other with knives. But they've never been funnier. Did you hear what he said last night? So, when they talk about something real, where they're really emotionally invested, it's made for great comedy. ZURAWIK: It has. And, you know, the Thursday night, the second last show with Robin Williams, when he came on and really tapped into that corporate resentment, that was the most exciting late-night comedy I've seen. And I was actually mad at Conan. I thought, why didn't you bring this kind of edge and passion to it the last seven months? This is the great... SKLAR: Oh, I don't know. Did you see that montage, the surrender montage? That was, like, some pretty edgy stuff. Conan never didn't put himself out there. KURTZ: I suspect he'll get another shot, probably on Fox. We've got to go. Rachel Sklar, David Zurawik, Ray Richmond, thanks for joining us. After the break, love child journalism. "The National Enquirer" trounced the mainstream media in breaking the John Edwards scandal. Now some are talking Pulitzer? The Enquirer's executive editor is up next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Let's face it, we all knew he was lying. His story just didn't add up. But when John Edwards stopped denying "The National Enquirer" story that he had a affair with a former campaign aide, he did keep denying one part of the story to ABC's Bob Woodruff. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHN EDWARDS (D), FMR. SENATOR: I would welcome participating in a paternity test. I would be happy to participate in one. I know that it's not possible that this child could be mine because of the timing of events. So I know it's not possible. Happy to take a paternity test. (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: But The Enquirer, with that telltale photo, continued to report that the former senator was the father of Rielle Hunter's baby. And Edwards continued to deny it until a report this week by NBC's Lisa Myers. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) LISA MYERS, NBC NEWS: Today, he is publicly embracing that child for the first time. (voice-over): In a written statement provided exclusively to NBC News, Edwards says, "I am Quinn's father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter, and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me." (END VIDEO CLIP) KURTZ: So, did the supermarket tabloid do what the mainstream media should have done? Joining us now from New York is Barry Levine, executive editor of "The National Enquirer." You told me the other day that you were going to enter these John Edwards stories for a Pulitzer Prize. Some media heavyweight saying Pulitzer Board never going to touch this because The Enquirer pays for information. What are the odds of you actually winning this thing? BARRY LEVINE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, "THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER": Well, Mr. Kurtz, I think that, first of all, it is great that we're even talking about "The National Enquirer" and Pulitzer together. There's obviously been a bit of groundswell of support for us from bloggers. We worked very hard for two years to do this story. You know, John Edwards could have ended this thing very early. Instead, he wanted to delay it. You know, we continued on. And this wasn't just paying for a tip and getting some information. This was two years of exhaustive reporting. You know, reviewing financial documents, cultivating sources, doing in-the-field stakeout work. This was the type of reporting that we learned about back in journalism school. Every aspect of journalism came into reporting this story, and I think our reporters, photographers and researchers deserve this moment to be acknowledged by the Pulitzer committee. KURTZ: All right. By the way, Sid Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Board, told me that The Enquirer will not be eligible because you market yourselves as a magazine. But let me move on to John Edwards. For the last two years, roughly, he has denied paternity, he has denied this is his baby. Did you have doubts that you, at The Enquirer, would ever be able to prove this? LEVINE: Well, I think initially, you know, when we first started working on this story, this was a man whose wife was battling cancer. This was a man who, in the polls, showed the public felt he had the best marriage of all the presidential candidates. We really had to work overtime and develop multiple sources before our editors down in Florida allowed us to print this story. This was the type of story that continued to take work and work, and, you know, Edwards continued to deny it. He called it tabloid trash. He said we were making things up. We stayed on the story. We tracked him down to a hotel in Beverly Hills in July 2008. And finally, when we confronted him, he ran into a men's room. He ran from our reporters. It was that moment, I believe, that John Edwards knew that this was up. KURTZ: That will be great scene in the movie. But once Edwards made the confession, or I should say the partial confession, on "Nightline" about the affair in the summer of 2008, do you think the mainstream media then did a more aggressive job in trying to find out about the money that was paid to keep her quiet and all the other elements of this tangled tale? LEVINE: What's amazing to me, Mr. Kurtz, is that we were still alone on the story, for the most part. We still had to continue on. We were looking in the trail of hush money. And over the past year, we developed three significant stories in 2009. One was the fact that a federal grand jury had been convened to investigate this. John Edwards' attorney confirmed that a month later. We then reported that a DNA test had been done in which he learned he was (ph) the child. And most significantly, recently, in December, we revealed the first legal document showing that John Edwards and Rielle Hunter were involved in a financial support battle over the child. KURTZ: OK. Well, some big newspaper, including "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" -- I worked on a couple of stories -- did try to at least follow the money trail. In my view, Edwards -- let me get a brief answer from you on this -- was forced to do this, finally make this admission, because ABC's "20/20" is going to interview next week former aide to Edwards, Andrew Young, who came up with this cockamamie story that he was the father of the baby and now has recanted. LEVINE: Yes. I mean, I think that the Andrew Young interview is significant. Andrew Young had to go in front of the grand jury to testify and, of course, he didn't want to perjure himself. So he told the truth and now he's written this book. And what's amazing, in a quick clip the other day on ABC, Young say that John Edwards spent a million dollars as part of this cover-up, which is just an amazing amount of money. KURTZ: Although some of that money coming from wealthy supporters of John Edwards. The Enquirer -- also in the news this week, as you know, the photo of what you said was Tiger Woods coming out of a sex rehab clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. That was played big. That was on the front page of "The New York Post." Now a Web site called X-17 says that wasn't Tiger Woods at all. They published a picture of another guy coming out of that same Mississippi clinic that kind of looks like Tiger Woods. So, were you right on this one? LEVINE: We're absolutely right on this one, Mr. Kurtz. What's going on now is that there is lookalikes coming out of the woodwork. This story of Tiger Woods has just been one amazing revelation to another. And we caught him -- we were the first to report the cheating scandal. The mainstream media followed. Now we were the first to catch him in the clinic that he's in where he's trying to help himself. (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: But who exactly would go to the trouble of making another black man who kind of looks like Tiger Woods and have him coming out of the clinic to try to discredit your photographic scoop? LEVINE: Well, all I can tell you is, we don't know who was responsible for that, whether it was the Tiger Woods camp, whether it was the rehab center. But certainly, you know, the Tiger Woods' people, from the beginning, tried to discourage us greatly from running the first story. And what we realized was it was just the tip of the iceberg. KURTZ: That is the understatement, perhaps, of the century as wee went from one mistress to two mistresses, to 10, 14. And who knows how much the final figure is? Barry Levine, thank you very much for joining us from "The National Enquirer." LEVINE: Thank you so much. KURTZ: And up next, the White House returns to an attack launched right here on RELIABLE SOURCES. Plus, "The New York Times" says the free ride is over. And a personal confession before I become tabloid fodder. Our "Media Minute" straight ahead. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: Remember when Anita Dunn came on this program and ripped Fox News? Of course you do. Now her successor as White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, is firing at the same target. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DAN PFEIFFER, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: I have the same view of Fox that Anita had, which is that Fox is not a traditional news organization. They have a point of view. That point of view pervades the entire network, both the opinion shows like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, but also through the newscaster in the day. We don't feel an obligation to treat them like we would a CNN or an ABC or an NBC or a traditional news agency. KURTZ (voice-over): (INAUDIBLE), and we all remember how well that turned out. As newspapers scramble for a way to stop giving away their content online, "The New York Times" has made a decision. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger says it will start charging readers, if they aren't already subscribers, after a certain number of articles are viewed for free. This metered approach is a big gamble but doesn't take effect until 2011. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Now, I have a confession to make. I didn't want to talk about this, but it will probably leak out. And I just need to get out in front of it. I was in a women's bathroom with Lara Logan. And once I learned that the paparazzi had taken photos, I figured it was only a matter of time before some blog got a hold of it and my reputation would be in tatters, especially since Lara's pregnant. Oh, and there were two other women in there. But never mind. Now, I have a perfectly innocent explanation. I had gone to appear on the "CBS Evening News." Let's show the video so you know this isn't just a cover story. But when I got to the Washington bureau, there was no makeup person around. And trust me, I needed some. So CBS's chief foreign correspondent graciously agreed to powder my face with some of her cosmetics, and we didn't have a mirror, so we slipped into the nearest available space, and only later did I realize this might make it into the tabloids. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. You know, for some reason, the stuff looks a lot better on her. Still to come, pulling the plug on Air America. Why can't the left get traction in a radio market dominated by Rush and the right? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) KURTZ: When Air America Radio launched nearly six years ago, the venture got a good dose of media hype. A bit of it from me. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ (voice-over): Here, after all, was an attempt to gain a liberal foothold in a medium dominated by such hard-charging conservatives as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham. It ended in failure this week when Air America said it is shutting down and filing for bankruptcy. The company made mistakes, beginning with its decision to buy entire stations. In the end, it produced two stars, Al Franken, who used his program as a springboard to win a Senate seat in Minnesota, and Rachel Maddow, who used to appear on this program and became famous after landing her own show on MSNBC. There are still some popular liberal yackers on the radio, such as Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller, but they are way outnumbered in Limbaugh land. (END VIDEOTAPE) KURTZ: Talk radio has long attracted listeners who are dissatisfied with a media establishment they see as liberal. Air America tried to change that, but the market has spoken. Well, that's it for our RELIABLE SOURCES hour. Thank you for watching. We'll turn it back over to John King now for more STATE OF THE UNION. KING: Howie, thanks so much. You have a great Sunday.


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Hey! Just came to say goodbye. And maybe the mole could become a cheaper late night show. It doesnt cost much to produce the show, does it? Or maybe an internet series. Or maybe a daytime series. Or maybe a MOVIE! Well, enjoyed the show. Bye! -MountainsOutOfMoleHills
Jon said that there were buried clues in each episode as to whom the mole was. Some are pretty wishy-washy and actually did not pin point the mole. Such as in ep 2 which only told us that Ali was not the mole. Or in eps 3 and 4 which supposedly told us who the final three were and could have applied to Nicole or Mark also being the mole. The single frame (in very small letters) longitude and latitude for San Diego was even hard to spot going frame by frame. Same for ep 7 when in tiny, tiny letters Rojo Corbata was hidden within the thumb print. And finally the audio clue in ep 9 which was an audio clue being played backwards.We had some better clues such as N2O and wine.But the producers did try to aim toward the RRF detectives this time. But how many of the clues could the average audience detect? Probably only three: CRG, 4 i's, and the fact that Craig's name was never called during the execution exercises. These kinds of hidden clues do not attract a large audience. An audience who is watching the show "on air" and is not reviewing every scene on slo-mo videotape. Yes, it appeals to the sleuths who hang out here, but perhaps a few dozen or so do not an audience build. Sorry to say, I think that the producers did themselves a disservice by making the clues so infintesimal and only detected on frame by frame review of the videotape and so they lost audience as the series progressed (as the downward trend of viewership confirms.)Again, sorry to say, I think we have seen the last of The Mole. Saying that, this is the GMan rounding third and being throwed out at home.
Can someone please remind me about the wine clue? I've forgotten it. Thanks!
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Read: Why Priests? A Failed Tradition
By Garry Wills (Viking, 2013)
One of the church's most noted inside critics, historian Garry Wills, shows no signs of slowing at nearly 80 years old. In fact, his latest thesis in Why Priests? A Failed Tradition is as controversial as he's ever set forth: that the priesthood was a mistaken notion later introduced to Christianity; that it has needlessly separated Catholics from their fellow Christians; and that it has propped up equally wrong doctrines—such as the real presence in the Eucharist and the priesthood of Jesus—that otherwise never would have come into being.
The book is well researched, with Wills drawing on a variety of early Christian sources and New Testament passages to make his case. Wills devotes a lengthy section to debunking a claim in the Letter to the Hebrews that Jesus is a priest in the line of Melchizedek. Learned readers of scripture may chafe at his bluntly literal reading of Hebrews, a book rich in allegory and symbolism. Critics such as Rusty Reno and Father Robert Barron have replied that the church does not derive the whole of its scriptural teaching on Jesus' priesthood from Hebrews. But Wills disappointingly ignores other passages from the gospels that depict Jesus in priestly, sacrificial terms, making his account less than complete.
Still, the questions Wills raises are worth wrestling with for anyone interested in the history of the priesthood, as are the dissenting responses. And the topic's timeliness will provoke dialogue on the increasing responsibility of laypeople in an age in which priests are numerically dwindling.
The things that have for decades made Wills essential reading for the wider public—his provocative questions and historical insights—make him an engaging conversation partner in the church, even if his judgments can be overdrawn. Wills' act as the church's resident agitator may be a bit long in the tooth, but the questions he asks are here to stay.
This article appeared in the July 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 78, No. 7, page 43).


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For those who aren't familiar with it, classic Japanese mech franchise Gundam has a series called Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. Sounds great, but the problem is, there aren't actually any unicorns in it.
Japanese hobbyist crossneko has built himself a Gundam unicorn. Shame he couldn't find a space rainbow to go with it, but I'm not going to look a gift horse - or mechanical unicorn - in the mouth.


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Dear Neighbors,
The Green DC Agenda, Mayor Fenty's government-wide initiative for a more sustainable nation's capital, is officially live and online. In the next few days, you'll also be receiving a postcard at home directing you to our website. The Agenda is a list of green action items your District Government has underway, or will undertake soon.We want to hear from you! Please visit the Agenda website, give us your feedback, and take the Green Pledge today to demonstrate your commitment to a greener District of Columbia. In the coming weeks, we will be reaching out to the community to seek feedback and identify green initiatives and opportunities to include in future updates of the Agenda.
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Miss Etiquette Iowa Dr. Patricia Tice shows us how to mind our manners. Dr. Eric Novak says ObamaCare is a bad used car. Are any Des Moines sewers historical sites? And did Obama recover the high ground on the cop story?
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The Farmer's Cow is now producing a line of refreshing summer-time beverages. The Farmers' Daughters' Summer Beverages include the company's own original recipes of Iced Tea, Lemonade, Strawberry Lemonade and "Mixed Together"(half lemonade and half iced tea). All recipes are blended and bottled in Connecticut with all-natural ingredients and no high fructose corn syrup or preservatives. They come in half-gallon plastic jugs and single-serve 14-ounce plastic bottles. These popular seasonal drinks are sold at grocery stores, local farm stands and farmers markets throughout Connecticut.


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Chinese policymakers have for a while been trying to deflate the nation's property bubble.
While its housing market has been correcting, and prices are deflating at a moderate speed, it hasn't bottomed yet, according to Societe Generale analyst Wei Yao.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that new apartment prices have declined under 1.5 percent in average terms since their peak in the second half of 2011.
The strong balance sheets of Chinese households are supporting property prices, according to Yao, since few homeowners are in a rush to sell their homes and in turn pressure property prices in the primary market.
Developers on the other hand are slowly lowering the expectations and most of the correction so far has been in the form of sales contraction.
Sales are declining but prices are still high across major cities
Residential sales have contracted on a year-over-year (YoY) basis for eight straight months in terms of both volume and value.
While NBS reported recent surges in sales, rising 137 percent month-over-month (MoM) in March, and 16 percent MoM in May, the trend is heading down when you exclude seasonal factors.
While affordability has improved because of income growth, home prices in major cities are still among the highest in the world. It still takes more than 15 years' annual disposable income for Beijing residents to buy one property there, according to Yao.
Housing still weighs on the economy
Recent relaxing measures will help ease the pace of the decline, but the economy will continue to feel the drag from the housing sector as long as there isn't a significant improvement in developers' access to credit.
The slump in land sales - down 18 percent YoY in volume terms and 10 percent in value terms in the first five months - shows the tight liquidity conditions that private developers face. But local governments still refuse to lower land prices:
"This stalemate has started to exert pressure on the financial situation of local governments, which is one of the reasons we expect less rebound in infrastructure investment than the market. In extreme cases, as reported by local media, some local governments are now even unable to pay the salaries of public sector employees. The housing market correction is still sending shockwaves through the economy."


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I had the pleasure of interviewing Sharon Portnoy, an architect featured on the A.I.A.S.F. House Tour in Marin County. When I asked her about her inspirations, she mentioned MacKay Lyons Sweetapple Architects so I immediately searched for their work on the internet. Ah yes, I spent another hour away from working and browsed their entire portfolio. In addition to designing beautiful buildings and showing them via spectacular photography, they include models and sketches as simple as this one, sketches that portray just how much they have thought about site planning and space:
I'll tempt you with a few images here (it's really hard to choose just one; at last count I had swiped twelve), but I'll highly recommend you check out their website. Also, if you just feel like "I want to go to there!", they have designed some cottages in Nova Scotia that you can rent. I am not sure I've seen a more sublime spot than the one they are situated upon. For more information about staying there, visit The Shobac Cottage and Studio Rentals site. Here's a peek at their setting:
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St. Paul City Council votes on asking state for money to build ballpark
The city council votes today to apply for $27 million in state money to help build a new ballpark for the St. Paul Saints.
The city says the project will create hundreds of jobs, and provide a catalyst for economic growth. But it would also drain more than half the money in an experimental fund designed to spur business development around the state.
Marcus Lattimer's never been to a Saints game before, but watching the Saints play the Sioux Falls Fighting Pheasants at Midway Stadium in St. Paul, he's already acting like a super-fan.
"That's what I kind of hear you got to do, "Lattimer said.
Lattimer supports public funding for a new stadium, but another game attendee, Dan Horning, also came out to watch and he is opposed.
"I just don't think the taxpayers ought to pay for it, he said.
Horning is sore about the public money that will go into the new Minnesota Vikings stadium. Before that, the Minnesota Twins got a new ballpark. And before that, St. Paul built an arena to lure professional hockey back to the state.
That's precisely the problem, said Saints owner Mike Veeck. Having grown accustomed to state-of-the-art amenities at Target Field and the Xcel Energy Center, Minnesotans won't put up with the port-a-potties at Midway Stadium.
"People don't use them anymore, because they've been spoiled by these two buildings within seven miles of us either way."
The Saints have pledged $10 million toward building a new ballpark. That would cover less than a quarter of its $54-million price tag. Asked why taxpayers should cover the rest, Veeck responds with characteristic frankness.
"It will certainly line the greedy owner's pockets, but we're also the only team that has pledged already to leave the prices exactly the same as Midway when we go into the new building."
The new building, if the plan becomes reality, would be located in downtown St. Paul next to the farmer's market in Lowertown.
Port Authority President Louie Jambois speaks from in front of the disused factory that stands there today.
"It was used as a manufacturing building for Gillette razor blades, Suave shampoo, a wide variety of products," Jambois said. "It employed a lot of [people] here in St. Paul, but it's been abandoned now for 10 years."
The Port Authority has agreed to buy the building for about $2.3 million. Assuming the rest of the money for the ballpark becomes available, the Port Authority would give the property to the city and redevelop the land where Midway stadium stands today. Jambois says the Midway site is a much better place for a factory.
"That site should be home to at least 300 new jobs, whereas this site is home to zero jobs. So, we think this swap makes perfect sense," he said.
Creating jobs is the key to this proposal. St. Paul is applying for $27 million dollars from a new state grant program intended to stimulate job growth. The ballpark request would devour more than half the money in that fund.
Numerous studies have shown publicly financed stadiums have negligible economic impact. But a study published last year showed a correlation between minor league ballparks and modest income increases.
University of San Francisco Professor Nola Agha, who conducted the research, said while minor league baseball is associated with small economic gains, it doesn't necessarily mean public subsidies make sense.
"There's almost never a complete return on investment. Minor league stadiums can easily cost $50 million and when you think about the new spending that's generated, it's going to be incredibly small."
In addition to funding from the state, the city of St. Paul has pledged another $17 million to the project. It's unclear how the city will raise the money.
In response to a public records request, St. Paul gave MPR News a one-page financing draft to show where the city's share might come from. It includes the land swap, plus $8.5 million in borrowing, $1.5 million from a neighborhood improvement program and another $4 million in unspecified city funds. Mayor Chris Coleman said the proposal would have little or no effect on property taxes, although he stresses the details are still being worked out.
"By the time, hopefully, the commissioner makes his final decision about whether or not the state will support this, we'll have a clear package in mind of exactly how this will be," Coleman said. "But obviously we're always mindful of property tax impacts and we'll minimize them as much as possible."
Even though the local financing plan remains sketchy, today's city council vote to apply for the state grant will likely be unanimous.


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Training the Mind
What is Meditation?
Meditation is a simple yet profound method to improve the quality of our lives and develop inner peace. Through following very simple, practical instructions we can learn how to let go of the causes of our pain and dissatisfaction and to gain the happiness and clarity we seek.The meditation practices that we teach are ways to control our mind and to develop a deep and lasting peace from within.
The following explanation of meditation is extracted from The New Meditation Handbook by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso:
"Meditation is a mind that concentrates on a virtuous object, and which is the main cause of mental peace. The practice of meditation is a method for acquainting our mind with virtue. The more familiar our mind is with virtue, the calmer and more peaceful it becomes. When our mind is peaceful, we are free from worries and mental discomfort, and we experience true happiness.
If we train our mind to become more peaceful we shall be happy all the time, even in the most adverse conditions; but if our mind is not peaceful, then even if we have the most pleasant external conditions we shall not be happy. Therefore, it is important to train our mind though meditation.
Whenever we meditate, we are performing an action that causes us to experience inner peace in the future. Day and night, throughout our life, we usually experience delusions, which are the opposite to mental peace. However, sometimes we naturally experience inner peace. This is because in our previous lives we concentrated on virtuous objects. A virtuous object is one that causes us to develop a peaceful mind when concentrating on it.
If we concentrate on an object that causes us to develop and unpeaceful mind, such as anger or attachment, this indicates that for us the object is non-virtuous. There are also many neutral objects that are neither virtuous nor non-virtuous.
Contemplation and meditation
There are two types of meditation: analytical meditation and placement meditation.
Analytical meditation involves contemplating the meaning of a spiritual instruction that we have heard or read. By contemplating such instructions deeply, eventually we reach a definite conclusion or cause a specific virtuous mind to arise. This is the object of placement meditation. We the concentrate single-pointedly on this conclusion or virtuous mind for as long as possible to become deeply acquainted with it. This single pointed concentration is placement meditation.
Often, analytical meditation is called "contemplation" and placement meditation is called "meditation". Placement meditation depends upon analytical meditation, and analytical meditation depends upon listening to or reading spiritual instructions.
The Benefits of Meditation
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful we shall be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we shall experience true happiness; but if our mind is not peaceful, we shall find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
If we train in meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we shall experience a purer and purer form of happiness. Eventually we shall be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances.
Usually we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind – blown here and there by external circumstances. If things go well, our mind is happy, but if they go badly, it immediately becomes unhappy. For example, if we get what we want, such as a new possession, a new position, or a new partner, we become excited and cling to it tightly. However, since we cannot have everything we want, and since we shall inevitably be separated from the friends, position, and possessions we currently enjoy, this mental stickiness, or attachment, serves only to cause us pain.
On the other hand, if we do not get what we want, or if we lose something that we like, we become despondent or irritated. For example, if we are forced to work with a colleague whom we dislike, we shall probably become irritated and feel aggrieved, with the result that we shall be unable to work with him or her efficiently and our time at work will become stressful and unrewarding.
Such fluctuations of mood arise because we are too closely involved in the external situation. We are like a child making a sandcastle who is excited when it is first made, but who becomes upset when it is destroyed by the incoming tide.
Inner space and clarity
By training in meditation we create an inner space and clarity that enables us to control our mind regardless of the external circumstances. Gradually we develop mental equilibrium, a balanced mind that is happy all the time, rather than an unbalanced mind that oscillates between the extremes of excitement and despondency.
If we train in meditation systematically, eventually we shall be able to eradicate from our mind the delusions that are the causes of all our problems and suffering. In this way, we shall come to experience permanent inner peace. Then, day and night in life after life, we shall experience only peace and happiness.
At the beginning, even if our meditation does not seem to be going well, we should remember that simply by applying effort to training in meditation, we are creating the mental karma to experience inner peace in the future.
The happiness of this life and of our future lives depends upon the experience of inner peace, which in turn depends upon the mental action of meditation. Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is."
A Simple Breathing Meditation
The first stage of meditation is to stop distractions and make our mind clearer and more lucid. This can be accomplished by practicing a simple breathing meditation.
We choose a quiet place to meditate and sit in a comfortable position. We can sit in the traditional cross-legged posture or in any other position that is comfortable. If we wish, we can sit in a chair. The most important thing is to keep our back straight to prevent our mind from becoming sluggish or sleepy.
We sit with our eyes partially closed and turn our attention to our breathing. We breathe naturally, preferably through the nostrils, without attempting to control our breath, and we try to become aware of the sensation of the breath as it enters and leaves the nostrils. This sensation is our object of meditation. We should try to concentrate on it to the exclusion of everything else.
At first, our mind will be very busy, and we might even feel that the meditation is making our mind busier; but in reality we are just becoming more aware of how busy our mind actually is. There will be a great temptation to follow the different thoughts as they arise, but we should resist this and remain focused single-pointedly on the sensation of the breath.
If we discover that our mind has wandered and is following our thoughts, we should immediately return it to the breath. We should repeat this as many times as necessary until the mind settles on the breath.
We should train in this preliminary meditation until we gain some experience of it. However, if we want to attain permanent, unchanging inner peace, and if we want to become completely free from problems and suffering, we need to advance beyond simple breathing meditation to more practical forms of meditation, such as the cycle of twenty-one Lamrim meditations explained in The New Meditation Handbook."
Quoted from New Meditation Handbook, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and the New Kadampa Tradition.
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ERIC Number: ED561130
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 35
Abstractor: As Provided
Delaware: Taking Stock and Pushing Forward. 2014 State Progress Report on the Challenge to Lead 2020, Goals for Education
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB)
"Taking Stock and Pushing Forward" (2014) reports states' progress toward the Challenge to Lead 2020 Goals for Education. State-specific documents report on student achievement as well as essential state policies to improve it. Among the many metrics: how states are improving achievement on NAEP [National Assessment of Educational Progress], high school graduation rates, and access to postsecondary education for black and Hispanic students. [This report was developed by a team of Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) staff members led by Jeff Gagne. Key team members included Michaela de Groot, Matthew Smith, Jenny Hite, Alex Camardelle, and Joan Lord.]
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, State Standards, State Policy, National Competency Tests, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Lifelong Learning, Career Education, Technical Education, College Readiness, Public Schools, Racial Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Enrollment Trends, Poverty, Grade 4, Grade 8, Educational Technology, Teacher Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Accountability, Scores, Standardized Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Graduation Rate, Educational Finance, Academic Persistence, Adult Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Educational Attainment
Southern Regional Education Board. 592 10th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30318-5790. Tel: 404-875-9211; Fax: 404-872-1477; e-mail: email@example.com; Web site: http://www.sreb.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; High Schools; Postsecondary Education; Higher Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 8; Adult Education; High School Equivalency Programs
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Southern Regional Education Board
Identifiers - Location: Delaware
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In a controversial move, SCAF forced Egypt's Supreme Universal Court to declare the current Legislator void of power, automatically transferring the laws of the universe into SCAF's grip. Activists have criticized the move as a "soft coup d'univers" though many analysts claim SCAF actually usurped the cosmic throne as far back as 1952.
With the judiciary in its pocket, the SCAF-god can now combine universal legislative and executive powers to formally become all-powerful and all-knowing, shaping the fundamental laws of the cosmos into whatever form it wishes. Already it has promised to maintain order in the universe by recently endowing its angels – affectionately known as the "military intelligence" – with emergency-like powers to spread peace among citizens while transgressing natural laws.
In a continuation of the good and evil mythology, the SCAF-god has allowed for a boogeyman to spawn itself into existence, making it seem as though the "demonic" Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy could actually wield real power and lead the universe into veiling darkness.
As with the purpose of the previous, classic devil, it is hoped Morsy will make doubters pray to SCAF for continued rule and protection from carnal temptations such as growing beards.
Many so-called liberals have sighed in relief over SCAF's coup, though only tentatively. Unlike God, SCAF is not known to be a benevolent force. Nevertheless, some have pointed out that while God is reputed to controversially torture millions of people for an eternity using actual hellfire just because they disbelieved in His cosmic rule, SCAF comparatively only plans to imprison disbelievers just for the duration of this lifetime alone.
Prior to the coup d'univers, the SCAF-god was in direct contact with the people via heavenly communiqués that were sent down immaculately to Facebook. Celestially written on black backgrounds suspiciously reminiscent of the Kaaba's black cloth, these scriptures have repeatedly warned against demonic "infiltrators" that seek to revolt against the stability of the universe. If all goes according to the SCAF-god's plan, a great smiting against the devil, as well as other rebelling forces, is impending.
*To our foreign readers: yes, Egypt is the center of the universe, not the US.
Well, at least SCAF are actually visible, and their existence can be proven, so I'm overall satisfied with this turn of events.
Loved the God and SCAF comparison, hellfire in the afterlife vs torture here on earth, Hilarious!
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Well, I'm finished with the illustration for the Tennis magazine commission. I'm just waiting until tomorrow morning when they get into work to get the final approval. Tonight I have John McEnroe for you. I put a lot of detail work into this one, so be sure and view it at full resolution. I worked for a good while painting the hair. Extremely fine detail on the hair down to the tiny hairs on his ears. I even did a little subtle dental work on him. Hope you like it.
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France — The early-season successes of the Argos-Shimano team did not go unnoticed by Tour de France organizers, who on Friday granted the Felt-sponsored team an invitation to the world's most prestigious grand tour. Argos-Shimano was one of four teams granted a wildcard invitation to the three-week stage race in July.
"It is a great reward for the hard work of all the cyclists and the entire staff, as well as for our partners' faith in this ambitious cycling project," said the team's general manager Iwan Spekenbrink.
The team started the season under the name 1t4i and just last week introduced Argos Oil as a new title sponsor. The momentum continued on Wednesday, when German sprinter Marcel Kittel powered his Felt F1 team bike to a win at the 100th edition of the Scheldeprijs race in Belgium.
Kittel, just 23, scored a stage win at last year's Vuelta a España, and will be considered a top threat at any sprinting stage of this year's Tour.


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Cantor confounded on compromise
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) appeared on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, where he was asked about the possibility of budget crises in the fall. The Republican leader replied that lawmakers should be "focused on trying to deal with the ultimate problem, which is this growing deficit."
The comment was a striking reminder that Cantor is too often confused about the basics of current events. The deficit, in reality, isn't "growing"; it's shrinking. In fact, it's shrinking with remarkable speed – in the Obama era, we're seeing the fastest deficit reduction than at any point since World War II. How exactly are policymakers going to have a budget debate if the House Majority Leader doesn't even understand this simple detail?
What's more, host Chris Wallace asked Cantor about the brutal automatic spending cuts known as the sequester. Some of the media coverage yesterday said the GOP leader "hinted" at a possible "compromise," but take a look at the exchange.
CANTOR: Here is the problem. What we need to have happen is leadership on the part of this president and White House to come to the table finally and say, we're going to fix the underlying problem that's driving our deficit. We know that is the entitlement programs and unfunded liability that they are leaving on this generation and the next.
WALLACE: So, are you're saying you are willing to get – you're willing, if you could get a compromise on entitlements, then you would give up on the sequestration?
CANTOR: What we have said in the House as Republicans, leadership and members alike, is that we want to fix the real problem. The real problem is entitlements. We've also said sequester is not the best way to go about spending reductions. It was, as you know, a default mechanism because Congress couldn't do the job it was supposed to a couple of years ago. We've always said that. But, in fact –
WALLACE: You're willing to give up on sequestration?
CANTOR: But, in fact, Chris, we've always said, president, come join us.
In the larger context, this was a pretty important exchange, so let's not brush past it too quickly.
Sequestration cuts have been condemned by House Republicans. They've been condemned by Senate Republicans. The cuts are hurting the economy, and by some accounts, they're hurting our national security.
Cantor's comments yesterday suggest he's willing to replace the policy that's deliberately harming the United States, but only if President Obama cuts Social Security and Medicare.
In other words, we're once again looking at extortion politics at its most ridiculous – either the White House cuts social-insurance programs to Republicans' satisfaction, or Republicans will continue to embrace a policy that hurts Americans on purpose.
And Cantor sees this as responsible because, in his mind, the deficit is "growing," despite reality that tells us the exact opposite is true.
Do you ever get the feeling Eric Cantor isn't quite cut out for a leadership role in Congress?
For the record, while the Majority Leader insisted during the Fox Interview that House Republicans are the policymakers who've been serious about entitlement "reforms," let's also remind Mr. Cantor that the Obama administration has already proposed changes to entitlement programs – including the chained-CPI policy Republicans demanded – as part of a balanced compromise. Cantor, so far, has refused to even consider the idea, because any proposal that asks Republicans to accept any concessions is, in his mind, necessarily a non-starter.
So where does that leave us? Right back where we started: with a Republican sequestration policy that's causing deliberate harm to the country, a budget fight in which the GOP will not compromise, ridiculous demands that Obama cut Social Security and Medicare because Republicans say so, and looming GOP-imposed disasters on the horizon, including a possible government shutdown and a debt-ceiling crisis.


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Documentation Evaluation Model for Social Science Data
Jinfang Niu and Margaret Hedstrom
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
Information technology and data sharing policies have made more and more social science data available for secondary analysis. In secondary data analysis, documentation plays a critical role in transferring knowledge about data from data producers to secondary users. Despite its importance, documentation of social science data has rarely been the focus of existing studies. In this paper, based on an introduction of the concept of documentation and its role in secondary data analysis, the authors proposed the Quality Evaluation Model for Documentation (QEMD) of social science data. In the model, two indicators are used to evaluate the quality of documentation for social science data: sufficiency and ease of use. Then the authors review the sufficiency problems of documentation, identify three factors that affect the sufficiency of documentation: users, data and the ease-of-use of documentation, and formulate hypotheses about how those factors affect the sufficiency of documentation. In future research, a survey instrument will be created based on QEMD and the factors affecting the sufficiency of documentation. The survey instrument will then be applied to the secondary users of social science data. Hypotheses will be tested based on the survey data.
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It always amazes me how many Christians I meet who don't know what the Bible teaches. The Bible is the manual for the Christian life and is the revelation of God Himself, who we must love more than anything in order to be saved in the end. Matthew 10:37 Do we read the instructions for a new electronic device, which will wear out in three years or less and need replaced? How much more crucial it is to read and understand the information that will determine our eternal salvation or damnation and that of those we love.
It is dangerous to simply believe everything you hear from another person, even a preacher. We are all imperfect humans and make mistakes. God tells us to "work out your salvation with fear and trembling". Philippians 2:12 We alone are accountable to God for what we believe and how we live. We need to know what He has told us, so we can obey Him and will know when we are hearing lies.
Many people think the Bible is difficult to understand, so they don't try. Actually, it was written on a 6th grade level. Sure there are topics that are open to differing opinions, but the majority is easily understood, especially when you ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you as you study. The Rabbis of old said that scripture has 70 layers of meanings, so after we learn the obvious meaning of a passage, there is still a wealth of knowledge to be gained from further study, with His help.
I am going to "demystify" how to study the Bible in a few short, easy lessons in the hopes of encouraging you to explore the riches it holds for you. Look in the label cloud under "Christianity 101" for lessons you have missed and God bless your efforts! I'm always available to you in e-mail and I pray for everyone who visits here.
CHRISTIANITY 101 - Using Your Bible Lesson 9
The Bible Is A Manual To Be Used
It's cliché, but true…
BIBLE = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
This is God's manual for human life on earth.
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away." Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33
Use your Bible with reverence as it is the Eternal, Inerrant, Living Word of God, but do use it in any way that will assist your learning it thoroughly.
It is perfectly fine to underline or highlight passages and make important notes in the margins. This will help you immensely in your studies. I use different colors when underlining or highlighting to categorize the subject matter. Red is for all scriptures pertaining to salvation (the blood of Jesus), silver, gold, etc.
Many people find it more comfortable to share the gospel of salvation with those who are not yet saved if they have written a list of salvation scriptures on a blank page in their Bible for quick easy reference. It's written in the order they want to present each part of the plan of salvation, so even if they get nervous, it's right there for them and it can't fall out and be lost. In the next lesson I will offer a list of scriptures you can use if you wish. "Always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence". 1 Peter 3:15
If you have a leather bound Bible, it's better not to use a Bible cover with it as it needs the oils in your skin to keep it from cracking. It's also good to occasionally rub it with a good leather treatment to make it last.
Once you have studied many hours in your Bible, underlined and made it your own, you will find it is a terrible loss when you loose it. You might be surprised how often they get lost! It's always a good idea to write your name and contact information in your Bible for just such a time.
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ROM Hacking Discussion / Re: Trying to make a table for Suikoden I and II (PSP)« on: January 22, 2010, 07:36:00 pm »
:/ I'm not completely sure what's wrong with the default implementation, but as long as it decompresses from buffers it should be fine, especially for this kind of rearchivation programs.It says so on the page.
"For example, we needed to full access to zlib to add the packet compression support to pure Java SSH system, but they are useless for our requirements." There's a bug in Java's zlib implementation that won't let them do this, so they made their own version. :p


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Ford Super Duty Death Wobble CurePosted in How To: Transmission Drivetrain on December 1, 2009
The dreaded death wobble has been a problem on 4x4s for ages. The warning sign is a shudder or shimmy in the front axle while on the road. This can develop into a violent shaking and near loss of control. While many factors contribute to death wobble, some are primary culprits from the get-go. Other than whacked-out tires and rims, the track bar on many vehicles with coil-spring front suspension is often worn out, at the wrong angle, or damaged. Add to this a lift kit, big tires and wheels, and a few hard miles, and you have a recipe for sure disaster.
To combat this issue on the '05-'09 Ford F-250-550 Super Duty trucks with coils, WC Motorsports of Walpole, Massachusetts, has devised a replacement track bar that cures the shakes and wobbles associated with a bad bar. Instead of the spindly factory bar with stock ball joint and bushing ends, the WC bar is made of 1/2-inch 0.25-wall DOM tubing with 7/8-inch chromoly ends that are Teflon lined. The bar bungs are CNC-milled out of 4130 stock, and the bar is powdercoated metallic gray. The mounting points allow the bar to be used in the stock location for up to 4-inch lifts, and on top of the axle mount for 6-inch and taller mounts. The new design is not only stronger, but because the mounting axis has been moved, the bar is parallel with the drag link, reducing bumpsteer and helping to prevent the death wobble. A few more tricks like an adjustable ball joint alignment shim and special alignment specs make this kit one nice addition to your Ford.
We went to Off Road Unlimited in Burbank, California, for the easy install. Owner Maurice Rozzo had us in and out in a couple hours while using a customer's lifted F-250. The customer had thought of selling his truck as the death wobble was just too intense, but after the new bar he even went and bought a boat to tow, since the truck was so stable! Follow along as we install the WC Motorsports bar and see how simple a fix this can be.


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ROME, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The trial of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi seems like a "media trial," Mara Carfagna, a former member of his Cabinet, said Monday.
Carfagna, the former equal opportunities minister, made the comment after testifying in Berlusconi's trial on charges he had sex with an underage prostitute and abused his power, the Italian news service ANSA reported.
After leaving court, Carfagna said she was not "aware of the facts" of the case. "We have to simply wait for the judges' decision," she said.
The proceedings were like a "media trial," she said.
Maria Stella Gelmini, minister of education under Berlusconi's administration, also testified. She said she had been to the prime minister's home several times for work and had never seen "young girls" there.
Berlusconi is accused of paying Karima el-Mahroug, a Moroccan runaway and nightclub dancer, for sex when she was younger than 18. Both have denied the allegations.
El-Mahroug has said Carfagna and Gelmini were both present at Berlusconi's villa when she was there on Feb. 14, 2010.
Berlusconi is accused of abuse of power for allegedly convincing police to release el-Mahroug after she was arrested for theft. He has said he believed she was a relative of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and wanted to avoid a diplomatic incident.