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Market Recap: Stocks Advance With Retail and Tech
Poor same store sales couldn't bring down the markets.
Retailers were in focus today as many companies reported same-store sales figures for the month of March. Although many of the results were poor with performances coming in below analyst expectations, a few notables such as Wal-Mart (WMT) countered with upside guidance. Although the company reported SSS figures of 0.7% (analysts had expected 1.0%), the world's largest retailer said earnings for the first quarter would be 74 cents to 76 cents per share. Its previous guidance called for profits of 70 cents to 74 cents. WMT touched a new 52 week high to close +0.52% to $54.66.
Other stocks were mixed. Home Depot (HD) gained +2.5% to $28.38. Target (TGT) closed +1.5% to $53.16, and JCPenney (JCP) finished +2.95% to $40.07. Leading to the downside were TJX (TJX) -3.7% to $30.88, and Gap (GPS) -2.22% to $18.47. The broader retail ETF (RTH) closed +1.83% to $93.53. See Professor Jeff Macke's Retail Round-Up: Masters of Their Domain?
Tech stocks also lead the markets higher. Topping the headlines in this sector this morning was news that Yahoo (YHOO) was attempting to thwart Microsoft's (MSFT) $44.6 bln bid by partnering with AOL. Microsoft also had its own strategy as it was in talks with News Corp (NWS) to up their bid.
Professor Sean Udall offered his comments on the Buzz: "Yahoo is testing Google's (GOOG) ad service, talking with AOL, and Microsoft is talking to News Corp. Heck, who needs the day time Soaps. This is as good as it gets. My take is still the same. I would rather own GOOG and MSFT and occasionally Baidu (BIDU) (at lower levels), than mess around with YHOO shares at current levels and still feel good about selling out my YHOO stake back on the deal announcement."
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"On January 29, 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush gave his famous "State of the' Union Address" to the American people wherein he launched the term "The Axis of. Evil". In this speech, he pointed out Iran, Iraq, North Korea "and their allies", as being;.
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This and other speeches, held by Bush and other leaders of the greatest power on the planet, made it clear that the "war on terrorism" following the events of Sept. 11. '2001.
needed to identify nations -not only terrorist-cells -as the enemy,
Without going too far in analysing the reasons behind this new way of fighting an old problem, it is easy to become worried about the fatal results the new doctrine may-create.The stigma that has been attached to the countries pointed out as members of "The Axis of Evil" is just one side of it. The building of enemy-lines and walls, in minds and on the ground between peoples, is another. The fact that it misleads us and covers the real problems in the world is a third.
Lullabies lead us to the deepest and most fundamental way of communication between
human beings. It is where all sharing of ideas and feelings starts. Between mother and child, between father and child. It is a universal culture. And it is amazing to see how many aesthetic similarities, musically and lyrically there are in lullabies from country
to country all over the world. The text-issues are often the same, so are the musical structures. Differences in scales, language, metaphors and religion cannot cover the fact that in the lullabies, the cultures of the earth meet each other. Or rather: from this common starting-point they grow into diversity.
This knowledge made me want to record lullabies from the countries that the U.S.-lead western world now has put on the other side of its enemy-lines. I wanted to record women's voices. It does not mean that I think the act of singing lullabies is something reserved for females. After having raised four children, I am an experienced lullaby-singer myself. It only means that the male voices are far too dominant in the world today, speaking the words of power and warfare. And especially in the oriental world the women are pushed aside. Their voices are hardly heard.
I went to Palestine first. This is where the enemy-lines between east and west, the mistrust and lack of understanding is most striking and obvious. This is also where the international community has faced its most tragic disability of creating peace, in spite of having had the issue on the agenda for decades, and in spite of carrying a big portion of the responsibility for the situation being as it is. The area of The Holy Land, where three major religions in earlier days were able to live in peace for centuries is the area where the double standards of the western world work as a constant injection of fuel to growing extreme fundamentalism in the Muslim world.
JAWAHER SHOFANI. My friend since the early nineties, Suhail Khoury who is the director of the Palestinian Conservatory of Music, drove me in his tiny blue Peugeot from Jerusalem to a small town in upper Galilee, close to the border of Lebanon. Suhail knew that this is where Palestine's most beloved and demanded singer of traditional Arabic folk music lives: Jawaher Shofani.
She is a strong grandmother in her early seventies. People call for her to sing when there is a wedding, a funeral or when a newborn baby is going to be baptized. During the most difficult times in the refugee-camp of Jenin and in Bethlehem she made a lament based on a lullaby, with her own improvised lyrics, which she had sung in publicseveral times. I recorded the song on December 16, 2002. (Track 13)
RIM BANNA. Suhail had more plans for me. On our way back to Jerusalem this dark December night, he manoeuvred his car up the hilly roads to the Arabic dominated town of Nazareth. Here I met Rim Banna for the first time. She is a professional artist and a young mother of three children, of whom two were newborn twins. I told o her about my plans and put up my microphone-stand with two Bruel & Kisr microphones and started my DAT recorder. From the first seconds of her a cappella performance of Ya Lei Ma Atwalak, I was brought to tears without understanding a single word of the song. The very first take is the one that we use on the CD. (Track4). Afterwards she also performed several other songs on tape, among those the beautiful Nami Yd La'aubi, her own composition. (Track 11)
To go to Baghdad in December 2002, in the looming shadow of a threatening war, was not an easy task. Getting a Visa, finding air tickets and getting in contact with singers were all quite demanding challenges. My solution was Lars Sigurd Sunnana, at the time a Middle East-correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company NRK, who was based in Amman. He gave me the recipe, and the most important component appeared to be Mr Hisham Sharaf. This man was a key figure in the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and is still the leader of the Baghdad Symphony Orchestra. With some desperately needed spare-parts for the orchestra in my suitcase and an official invitation from Mr Sharaf, I landed at Saddam International Airport on a humanitarian flight between Amman and Baghdad, organized by the Royal Jordanian Air. This was on the 17th of December.
HALLA BASSAM. Hisham Sharaf met me at the airport and drove me to his house where Halla Bassam waited together with the oud-player Ahmed Sleem. The two of them form a folk-music group. Halla was Hisham's former pupil, and tonight his "delivery" for the lullaby-project. She is an educated musician and singer, around 30 years old. Not married, no children. She presented a number of songs for me. I recorded Iraq's most famous lullaby "Dilelol" (Track 2) and "Peace song" written during the Iran/Iraq war in the '80s. (Track 6) A group of smiling and joking friends of Hisham's from the music scene in Baghdad served as the audience. Imagining what these individuals had gone through over the last 20 years - and what was facing them - made me a humble listener.
AMEL KTHYER. HIsham also introduced me to Amel Kthyer, one of the celebrities of Iraqi vocal folk music, somewhere between 50 and 60 years old. I met her in ' the building of the Ministry of Culture on December 19, and in one of the offices there I made a recording of several songs, among them Amel's intense version of "Dilelol", '.with the sound of the restless city of Baghdad quite present in the background. Both Amel's and Hallo's versions of "Dilelol" is being used on the CD. (Track 2).
Being in Cuba the first week of February for vacation, and exploring some of the tragic results of the U.S. embargo on the island, I decided to include this Caribbean nation in the project.
In the colourful and vibrant city of Santiago in the southeast, I found Mr. Ismael Laborde, a man I once had met in Norway, and whom I had promised to pay a visit. He is a church-leader who works with creating new church music in the Caribbean styles. He listened polite to my praising of the generosity and joyfulness of the Cuban people. When I had finished, he thanked me, and said he disliked destroying my enthu
siasm, but he had to tell me that the truth is slightly less romantic. The poverty and limitations faced by every family make most of the family-life a bitter fight for existence where all potential conflict has to be put under the carpet as a pure strategy of survival. What worries him is the long-term psychological impact this has on the people.
MAJRTHA LORENZO. I asked Ismael if he knew a woman who could sing a traditional Cuban lullaby. He introduced me to Martha Lorenzo and her companions, musicians Rolando Silveira Hiro, ]ulio Carmentas Nunes, and Gjiberto. Marques Diaz-Poez. Ismael even helped me organize a studio. Martha is a teacher, mother and housewife in her forties. She composes and performs music in the church. The song "Aruru" is the "national Cuban lullaby". (Track 7). I recorded it on the 5th of February.
In late February 2003 I went to Kabul, "the city where God comes only to weep". I travelled with a Red Cross flight from Peshawar over the mountains where U.S. soldiers still were searching for Osama Bin Laden.
To get in contact with female singers in a country where the Taliban recently had banned music and put up severe punishments for women singing in public was not an easy task, even if the ban now was lifted, and pupils gradually had been encouraged to sing in schools. There is no professional music-scene in Afghanistan, and any attempt from a western guy who wanted to get in touch with women was met with mistrust.
FANZYA AND RAZA KHAN ALI The Norwegian Church Aid, who runs women projects in and around Kabul, had worked some time to help me find singers. Their plan was to invite me to one of the meetings in a women's group, with Beate and some other female workers from the NCA present during the session. Fanzya and Razya are sisters, both probably in their late twenties or early thirties with no musical education. They brought Fanzya's baby to the meeting this afternoon. The baby lay in a cradle and was rocked to sleep while I made the recording of five songs, among them "Mazar". (Track 1 ). If God wept at that moment, It would have been for joy. It was February 26.
KUILSOOM SYED GHULAM. later the same evening I was introduced to Kulsoom. She is a 30 years old local employee at the NCA office in Kabul and speaks English. I asked her about the traditions in Afghanistan, and if the women sang lullabies for their babies during the Taliban period, even if it was banned. She told me most of them did, and with her tender and frail voice she sang "Lalolalo", one of the songs she had learned from her mother. I recorded it in the residence of Mr. Geir Valle, the head of NCA's work in Afghanistan. (Track 3).
The restrictions the priest-governed state of Iran has forced upon women also include that they are not allowed to sing in public. They may be allowed to do so if a man sings the lead vocal, but never as the main performer, unless all the listeners are women.
It was therefore with a good deal of uncertainty of what result I would be able to bring home that I passed all controls on Tehran airport and looked for Davood Jafarimaram. Being a friend of Javid, an Iranian musician living in Norway, he had promised to try to help me find some women who were willing to break the rules. For a moment I thought about how easy it would have been if I had decided to make a record with men singing the lullabies.
PARI ZANGANEH. On March 1 Jafarimaram drove me through a city that must have some of the worst traffic congestion in the world. The beautiful house of Pari Zanganeh, a former big star in the later years of the kingdom of the Shah of Iran, lies in the hills under snow-covered mountains. The famous diva had pictures from her tours around Europe and the US hanging on her walls. Several years ago she had been
in a car accident that caused her to go blind. Due to the strict regulations for perform
ing women, and her high profile in the Iranian society, she needed one day of thinking before she decided to do the recording. She picked "Gohlelale" (Track 12), a lullaby that is attached to her fame because of previous recordings of the song. Before singing it a cappella to my microphones, she warmed up her rich and beautiful voice, while playing piano.
MAHSAAND MARJAN VAHDAT. Mahsa Vahdat was already mentioned by some people from one of the Norwegian enterprises working in Iran, and we had had some mail correspondence in the weeks before my travel.
She and her sister Marjan met me in the Laleh Hotel lobby, where we shared a cup of tea, planning the recording. They are both ambitious, highly educated musicians. Mahsa (30) is married, Marjan (27) is not. They had no scruples about singing. They have no official access to an audience in Iran, but they tour quite a lot in Europe. I was invited to Mahsa's home the next day. Whereas Pari Zanganeh preferred to wear a scarf when I videotaped her, the two sisters did not care about it. They would hardly dream of unveiling their heads while walking in the city. but at home they felt totally free. Mahsa also plays setar. I recorded "Lalalala gohle laleh " (Track 10) and "Sad sol" (Track 1) among some other songs, and I was totally amazed by the musicality and the virtuosity of both artists. This was on the 2nd of March.
As the "war on terror" proceeded with the attack on Iraq during the spring 2003, it became guite clear which states might be the next targets for the ambitious US plans of changing regimes using its new doctrine of precipitous attacks. It was also when I
decided to go to Syria. Mr Suhnano, the journalist who had helped me into Iraq introduced me to one of his Syrian friends, Mr. George Baghdadi. George is also a journalist, working for the UPI. He met me in the Lobby of my hotel on the day of my arrival to Damascus, the 20th of May. I still had a headache after an exhausting taxi-trip from Amman, with the crossing of the Syrian/Jordan border as the stressful climax. George told me over a cup of tea that he was sure Syria would be the next target. Being a Christian he is afraid of an attempt to force "democracy" on a people, now governed by a president from one of the other minorities, and where the majority is analphabetic Shiite Muslims. "It can only lead to the majority's dictatorship over the minorities", he said. "Democracy is something you have to build gradually, with a campaign to educate the population as the mot important tool".
MAYADA KIIAISLY BAGHDADI. "The first woman I want you to meet happens to be my wife," George said with a smile while we drove through the crowded streets of Damascus. It was in the evening on the same day as I arrived to the oldest current capital of the world. I was a bit surprised, but I could not do anything but trust the guy that the lady could sing me a lullaby or two. And sitting in the bedroom of the family's house, hearing the beautiful songs Mayada presented with a newborn baby In her arms, I was fully satisfied, noting that her voice had the soul of a real mother and the ability to deliver authentic and touching renditions. Mayada and George have three sons. Mayada is W years old. I recorded a number of songs that night, of which' ."Luna, luna" was picked for the album. (Track 5)
VIVA KIUISIY CHACHATl. "The next woman I want you to meet happens :
to be the sister of my wife", George said with a laugh the next day. I laughed too, and I knew I would not be disappointed. Viva Killisly Chachati is a little older than her sister (43). She has two children, and she is the owner of two chocolate-shops: One in Dubai, and one in Damascus. But her dream has always been to become a singer. And there is no doubt that she is talented. She performed a number of songs in a small room in the most silent part of her flat. "Nami" was the one we used on the record. (Track 9)
The most difficult country to enter among those mentioned in Bush's famous speech Is North Korea. This would take so much work and diplomacy that I decided to trust the task of recording a North Korean lullaby to Mr. Rune Hersvik. He has been there-many times, and in the winter 2003 he had new plans to go there. Mr. Hersvik is the Secretary General of the human rights organisation Worldview Rights. We have worked together in many projects supporting Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and in August 1999 we shared the joy of being present when the first group of North Koreans met their relatives in Seoul for the first time in nearly 50 years.
SUN JU LEE. Rune returned with two wonderful lullabies, performed by Sun Ju Lee. Shes a 35 years old mother of two children, working as a liberalist in an institute of culture established in the name of the famous composer Un Isang, who spent a lifetime working with reconciliation of the two Koreas. We decided to use "Stars are rising" In the project. (Track 8).
Between the journeys I had periods at home with editing, putting together the best version of each song, and then I delivered a bunch of lullabies from my last expedition to guitarist-arranger-composer-artist Knut Reiersrud. Our common ambition was to create a musical landscape around every lullaby, and I left it to him to choose the songs he wanted to work with, and to compose a comparative melody - possible to sing for a western voice - to be attached to each of the originals. It was amazing to hear how he was able to find the rhythmic element in each of the a cappella sung lullabies and let it appear as though the singers "conduct" a band they never heard. Knut led the work with the band in the studio, and together we worked out a final structure,
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Lenovo is about to take product demonstrations to a whole new height -- about 30,000 feet. A new marketing campaign for its laptops shows one being dropped out of airplanes attached to an unopened parachute. The only way the computer can "save itself" is by booting up in fewer than the 10 seconds it takes to hit the ground.
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The high-flying "Boot or Bust" campaign created by McKinney, Durham, N.C., is an extension of an effort running since May, "Those Who Do," an estimated $100 million campaign from Publicis Group's Saatchi & Saatchi, Lenovo's first "hard push" into the consumer market, Mr. Meredith said. Targeted at 18- to 24-year-old consumers, the campaigns go after a new audience for Lenovo, and one the PC maker is eager to get into its product line. The new effort will run across 11 countries.
The 18- to 24-year-olds are "technology influencers and we think our marketing and advertising will appeal to a generation that 's very interested in using technology to accomplish," said Mr. Meredith . "That's the age demographic, but the mindset demographic is really this 'do' mind-set symbolized by a desire to use technology for achievement."
Jonathan Cude, creative director at McKinney, said he thinks the work will also appeal to a broader audience, but in particular the younger people will appreciate the offbeat demo, "which speaks to doers and doing." Lenovo includes itself as one of those active participants as seen in the parachuting laptop in the 60-second online and cinema ad, but also in a behind-the-scenes "Mythbusters"-like video explaining how they did it that will also run online and along with the cinema ad.
The website, lenovo.com/rapidboot, launches today with online ads beginning next week, and cinema spots in a few weeks, Mr. Meredith said. The campaign will also use mobile and social media marketing built around customers own frustrated boot-up stories.
China-based Lenovo, which bought IBM's consumer division in 2005, has a lot of work to do in the U.S. consumer market. While it has a large market slice in China, the brand in the U.S. is better known for its ThinkPad IBM legacy products.
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"I've also heard tell that OSX is not as stable as Linux generally is (I've certainly never seen a kernel panic in Ubuntu)"
Nor have I, but I've seen it just plain reset. The only time I've seen kernel panics in OS X was in the 10.0.x days and on one machine where I had a bad ram module. Kernel panics are something the majority of OS X users will never see.
"and I also find it hard to believe that OSX has a repository containing thousands of software packages which can be installed with a couple of clicks of a button"
I quote from the Fink package database:
"The database was last updated at 23:08 GMT on Monday, September 18 and currently lists 6937 packages in 23 sections."
If you prefer BSD-style ports there are 3420 packages in DarwinPorts.
Besides that places like versiontracker.com and macupdate.com serve as virtual software repositories that indeed let you install with a couple of clicks.
"Similarly, plug-and-play has never been a problem for me using Ubuntu (even old Ubuntu versions), so why mention OSX's plug-and-play abilities?"
Funny you should mention that after I've spent several hours today (in vein but even if I had been successful it would have been quite an operation) to get a USB DVB-T receiver working. Needless to say it's entirely plug'n'play on OS X. That said Linux is certainly improving in this area and out of the box more of my hardware is supported (and properly set up) than with an XP SP 2 install.
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Besides that places like versiontracker.com and macupdate.com serve as virtual software repositories that indeed let you install with a couple of clicks.
They aren't like the real thing though. I don't get alerts on every single update available, get them automatically downloaded for me, and every single one installed with just one click. With macupdate, I would have to manually compare the version numbers. Then, I need to manually download each file. Then, I need to manually install each package. Thats a whole lot harder then having it do everything for me, like Ubuntu would.


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In the category of "Mixed Feelings" comes news that Kristin Chenoweth will star in David E. Kelley's new NBC drama, Legally Mad.
That means that I actually have to accept the fact that Pushing Daisies is no more. I will miss you dearly, Pie Hole gang.
Legally Mad is, well, a legal drama about a woman who joins her father's Chicago law practice. Chenoweth plays Skippy Pylon, "a brilliant but not entirely well attorney who is relentlessly cheerful with flashes of psychosis and often is mistaken for a teenager." I think I dated her.
Kelley promises that his new show will feature a "cauldron of eccentric characters," with more comedy than his previous shows. Eccentric is a Kelley specialty; quirky characters abound in Kelley creations Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, Picket Fences and L.A. Law. Beauty apparently is another specialty; it abounds in his lovely wife, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Chenoweth has not exactly been taking it easy, even without Pushing Daisies. She just released a holiday CD, performed in TNT's Christmas in Washington, will appear on CBS's Home for the Holidays tonight and is making the rounds to promote her movie Four Christmases.
Of course, the more Kristin Chenoweth we see, the better. I think she will make a very cute psychotic lawyer, don't you? Let's just hope her character is prone to breaking out in song now and then.
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THE identity of the person who bid £90m to buy Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" at a New York auction has been revealed.
In November last year the three-panelled painting set a new world record by becoming the most expensive work of art ever to be sold at auction.
The painting, created in 1969, fetched over $142,000,000 in just six frantic minutes at a sale at Christie's auction house in New York City.
And now the person behind that eye-watering bid has been revealed to be casino tycoon Elaine Wynn.
Ms Wynn is the former wife of well-known art collected Stephen Wynn, and co-founded a Las Vegas casino empire worth an estimated £1.5bn.
"The painting, created in 1969, fetched over $142,000,000 in just six frantic minutes at a sale in New York"
The New York Times has reported that sources close to the 70-year-old confirmed that Bacon is one of her favourite artists.
The triptych is currently on display at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon where they will remain until March 30.
Previous billionaires linked to the record-breaking painting include Qatari royal family member Sheikha Mayassa and Russian oligarch and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.


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Bees, I need help! We are going to DH's Christmas party for the first time in 3 years (we've always been Out of Town.) The last time I bought a dress for a party (which is still in good shape) was YEARS ago but it's too big.
The party is always over the top and usually held at a fancy European casino and last year, Heidi Klum made an appearance at the party. It's not a cheap night out so I need something that WOWS!
I'm overseas so I need to buy something online and need to order it quick…I'm wanting black, preferably long and sexy/elegant.


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- Labs won't end the game and can be captured. Players/AI can't build Neotanks or Atom Bombs (Basically a moveable missile that does 5 damage) without a lab.
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The first thing you need to do when you pick up Chris Mooney's The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality is get over whatever initial reaction you have to the title.
Partisan labels are so loaded that it's easy for liberals and conservatives alike to mistake Mooney's nuanced overview of psychological research for a jeremiad about "stupid conservatives."
And, in fact, that reaction has typified many conservative and some liberal responses to the book.
Which sort of proves Mooney's point.
Thinking is more important than information
Decades ago, social scientists started tearing down the Enlightenment view that human beings rationally and methodically process information. In the old view, our brains were like filing cabinets into which we inserted new information to synthesize. In reality, we are motivated reasoners: we use facts and information to justify what we want to believe.
In many cases, the more educated or "smarter" someone is, the more able they are to seek out information that justifies their views. There's a fundamental difference, one of the researchers in Mooney's book points out, between being stupid and being misinformed.
And Mooney's book is all about misinformation, the brains it lands in, and how it gets there.
What's the difference between dominant liberalism and dominant conservatism?
One of the chief values that underpins liberalism, Mooney argues, is "Openness." Liberals are more likely to be open to new experiences, new cultures, and new ideas. They embrace uncertainty, ambiguity and messiness. Conservatives are more likely to exhibit Conscientiousness: a need for order, stability, clarity and cleanliness. As he puts it, people who rate high on conscientiousness are, "highly goal oriented, competent, and organized—and, on average, politically conservative."
But the other side of the Conscientious coin is a need for "closure" and definitive answers. Often, science doesn't provide them. And whenever science appears to conflict with the values of someone with a strong need for closure, they're more likely to reject the science.
We are all liberals, we are all conservatives
At various points in the book, Mooney weaves in a more nuanced view of the liberal-conservative divide. Many social scientists rely on four variables, not two, to describe how people view society: a predilection toward hierarchical structures that justify those who succeed vs. an egalitarian view that emphasizes fairness to all and a view of the world that emphasizes individual rights vs. one that tends toward community needs. Ultimately, American political movements have aligned along these four variables in different combinations over the years, but today extreme conservatives happen to be hierarchical individualists while extreme liberals tends to be communitarian egalitarians. While cumbersome, these terms get to deeper truths about how people think about the world.
There are several points in the book where Mooney compliments conservatives for their decisiveness and ability to bring order to the world. For instance, conservatives are more likely to work in hierarchical organizations like police forces and the military. And thank goodness for that. A country full of anti-authoritarians would probably be pretty ripe for invasion. And he suggests that societies are "balanced" by cooperation among conservatives and liberals.
A personal detour
Reading the opening chapters, I found I identified with both Openness and Conscientiousness. I took an OCEAN test online, which measures Openness, Conscientiousness and three other "Big Five" personality measurements. And, indeed, I rated high on both openness and conscientiousness. Certainly, I'm open to new ideas. And the uncertainties and probabilities inherent in life are something I'm happy to take as a given. I assume everyone I meet has a unique and valid life perspective worth learning about. But a look at my office or home will reveal my high levels of Conscientiousness. I like things clean, simple and organized. And if anyone I know ever does anything I consider unethical, they're kind of dead to me.
Maybe that's why I like playing poker. I'm happy to operate in a world of probability and uncertainty, but at the end of each hand, there is closure. And over time, you are either a winner or loser.
How these personality traits play out in the real world
Mooney's psychological primer — which is full of fascinating summaries of clever, thought-provoking studies — provides a base layer of understanding as he moves into the changes in American politics and media that have made it easier for misinformation to find a willing home in many Americans' brains, particularly the most extreme hierarchical individualists that have aligned into the conservative movement.
He covers the assimilation of Southern Democrats into the Republican Party and the resulting polarization in American politics as the country sorted itself along party lines. And he talks about the fascinating political journey Phyllis Schlafley took to illustrate how the conservative movement has changed over her lifetime. He chronicles the rise of the intellectual right and the expanded universe of think tanks that sprang up in the 1970s to provide analysis that justifies conservative ideology and policy.
He also covers the dominance of Fox News, talk radio and partisan blogs as information sources for conservatives. Their combined power and links to think tanks and the Republican Party can create an information bubble that can easily turn into a misinformation bubble.
From death panels to revisionist histories of America's founding, the misinformation machine is an equal-opportunity weapon against reality. As Shawn Lawrence Otto ably demonstrates in Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America, we happen to be living in a time when scientists have discovered problems such as climate change that can hit a lot of ideological buttons and become ready targets for hierarchical / individualist oriented think tanks that feed misinformation into the bubble.
But aren't liberals guilty of the same biases?
Not really, Mooney argues. And certainly, I laugh whenever anyone equates Fox to MSNBC or NPR. Fox is so much more entertaining and delivers a coherent narrative to its viewers. MSNBC and NPR simply have different missions.
Mooney argues that liberals can certainly slip into anti-science and assimilate misinformation. But those anti-scientific views aren't allowed to dominate the liberal extremes or cross over into the mainstream.
Take the vaccine-autism "debate" for instance. It's a natural for extreme liberals who fear any possibility of environmental harm to believe misinformation linking vaccine use to autism, Mooney says. But leaders of that movement, including celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, have found their claims rejected by opinion elites on the left. So anti-vaccination attitudes have only gained a tenuous foothold in communities Mooney calls "granola" like Ashland, Oregon and Boulder, Colorado.
Mooney credits liberals' Openness with their faculty for criticizing one another and reining in their extremists. And he points to other examples from nuclear power to natural gas fracking to prove his point. The bad claims and the extremists' craziest arguments get weeded out of the system. There is, he says, "a psychology of disobedience and anti-authoritarianism on the left that ensures that those making these claims will be challenged, sometimes quite vigorously or even viciously."
Put another way, when Ann Coulter says something provocative, conservatives share it on Facebook and say "Right on!" When Michael Moore says something provocative, his fellow liberals pounce on him for not being nuanced or accurate enough. If pressed, they will say they pretty much agree with what he says, but they don't like how he says it.
Mooney puts a finer point on it by telling stories about David Frum and other conservatives who were booted from their movement by being "too open" to new ideas and too willing to criticize their brethren. Meanwhile, Democrats rarely boot apostates from their ranks.
Ultimately, I found the shifting power dynamics of political movements and the media environments in which they operate a stronger explanation for where we stand today than the psychological research. And Mooney acknowledges that some of the most interesting and startling findings from social science research come with a healthy dose of uncertainty themselves.
So what do we do about it?
Mooney's closing chapter contains some concrete suggestions for how to address anti-science. This is a step up from Unscientific America, which he coauthored with Sheril Kirshenbaum. Like many readers, I enjoyed the book, but wanted a lot more discussion about what to do about the sorry state of our public discourse around scientific topics.
First, Mooney argues, we need to come to grips with the fact that more facts won't win the day if people are predisposed to rejecting or ignoring them. Mooney argues that listening to people and helping them see how their worldview is affirmed – not threatened – by scientific findings is one way to overcome these challenges.
He also encourages journalists to become more conversant in how liberals and conservatives view the world and to communicate that to their audiences. So don't just tell us there's a budget disagreement tell us why liberals' egalitarian values and conservatives' personal responsibility values are in conflict over spending and debt. In other words, stop letting politicians simply talk past each other.
He says liberals should learn to be more decisive and cites the Occupy Wall Street movement and the ongoing European debt crisis as typical liberal discussion-fests lacking clear leadership, focus or a willingness to make decisions. Heck, the occupiers designed their movement to avoid classic leadership. Sometimes one plan, any plan, is much better than endless debate.
Mooney's book offers a combination of detail, breeziness and narrative that should satisfy anyone who is frustrated by the prevalence of misinformation in America's political debates, particularly scientific misinformation.
And he offers some tantalizing suggestions for how this might be effectively addressed.
But more importantly, like any good science fan, he calls for more research. And he acknowledges his own uncertainty about his conclusions.
But, overall, the weight of the evidence Mooney presents for the simple idea that liberals and conservatives process information differently is incontrovertible. And in the current political context, those differences are ever more apparent.
And that's a fact we should all accept if we're interested in making our democracy stronger.


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Since the plight of Vietnamese boat people made headline news almost 20 years ago, St. Matthew's Anglican parish in downtown Winnipeg has been involved in sponsoring refugees to Canada.
They have been brought here from more than a dozen nations in Central America, South America, Southeast Asia and Africa.
The vast majority of them have turned out to be friends and valued contributors to the community, said parish rector Rev. Peter Flynn.
"What sustains us is the richness of the relationships that have developed," Canon Flynn said. "That and a concern for the conditions that create refugees in the first place and a sense that it is important for someone to do something."
St. Matthew's refugee program recently co-sponsored Thacienne Karuhije and her five children, a refugee family from Rwanda.
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I own a 2000 Civic EX-G 5 speed with 365000 km (225k miles).
Love everything about it, and it's everything I could ever want in a car, but it saddens me seeing that rust is getting to it (leaks oil and gas). Manoeuvrability, visibility, fit and finish and economy are top notch. I think when I have the money to replace it, I will go with a 2013 Honda Fit Sport, as it appears to be the last modern day Honda with true Honda DNA.
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The 2013 Honda is a good choice. Now that the Fit is built down in Mexico, it is having a few teething problems at the Mexican plant down there. But look for more cars to be built down there. Mexican wages including benefits are 129 pesos per hour, which is $8.00 per hour. Compare that with $58.00 per hour in Detroit with benefits, and $38.00 per hour with benefits at the VW plant down south in the USA.
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That makes sense, and you raise a good point.
But as I notice, it looks like all 2012-2014 Honda Fits sold in Canada were made in China...
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India is facing an electricity crisis. This year, five states have declared power holidays and another eight say they intend to ration power at peak times. Nationwide, there is a peak shortage of around 12%.
This isn't exactly a new problem for India since it's faced such shortages in the past few decades, but this time there is a difference. Voters earlier may have countenanced blackouts, but the increasing living standards of the past decade have now made them unwilling to do so. Some state governments are summoning the will for change, and one in particular has even developed solutions that open the door for more policy innovation and reform.
For decades, the political wisdom was to provide electricity at very low cost to consumers, and often at no cost to farmers. So while one set of users paid little or nothing, another set usually comprising primarily of the commercial and industrial users, often paid three to four times higher. These so-called cross subsidies couldn't keep up with politicians' promises though. The result was a big financial hole for the power generator or distributor—these days the latter—which eventually left it unable to supply power.
Voter agitation about these shortages, as well as recent state election victories for parties that talk about reforming public services, have gotten politicians to rethink their tack. The southern state of Tamil Nadu, in the face of rolling blackouts for 2-6 hours every day, agreed to hike tariffs for the first time in a decade this year. The enormity of the situation can perhaps be best appreciated from the fact that the two major parties in the state haven't opposed the construction of the Kundakulam nuclear power plant, despite NGO protests over it since last year's Fukushima meltdown in Japan.
Next, consider Gujarat, which has summoned the political will for a new creative idea. In the past decade, it has built a parallel distribution grid, particularly in rural areas, and offered consumers a unique choice. If farmers opt for the new grid, separating domestic and agricultural connections, they are assured electricity for 8 hours a day, but at higher tariffs (they can still access the old grid). Or they could remain on just the old supply network, without any assurance of supply of electricity, but at the lower price. To the surprise of many observers, farmers have opted for the former. At the same time there has been an aggressive steps to curb theft of electricity.
Tamil Nadu and Gujarat's examples clearly show that people prefer stable supply of power over its price. The ideal next step is complete deregulation of distribution, but let's be realistic: Few politicians will abandon control so quickly; nor will they be brave enough to immediately take this radical solution to voters. Meantime, though, state governments can take their innovations to the next level.
Gujarat's case demonstrates that farmers could do with the irregular supply for some needs such as running household appliances, but for larger requirements like tending to their fields, they specifically want a premium supply. Yet, right now, this comes in the form of a second distribution network, which is expensive to build and maintain. Increasingly, however, rural households too are beginning to realise the benefit of assured electric supply, and many are opting for the new three phase supply, at a higher rates, which allows them to start small household businesses too. Despite all these changes, those who want to retain their old connections based on size of their electric motors, at fixed but low tariff, without assured supply, are allowed to do so too. This option has been a very important element in diffusing the political opposition to increase in tariff.
Vernon Smith, the Nobel laureate economist had suggested differential pricing as an economic strategy to overcome political opposition to increase in tariff using the same grid. One way forward is for consumers to pay a below-market price for 'x' units of electricity—or, for the poorest households, even make consumption of these 'x' units free. But above 'x', electricity should be priced competitively. The 'x' could be calculated in a variety of ways. For instance, on the basis of monthly average household electricity consumption in the past three or five years. Or it could be politically agreed upon to make a certain minimum amount of electricity as a "right" available to all households at a nominal or no cost. And all new connections would, of course, pay at the market rate.
Today, per capita consumption of electricity in India is one-twentieth of that in the United States. As India's economy grows, more people will begin to enjoy the benefits of many modern appliances, and consume more electricity, this big marginal increase in consumption would be paid at market prices. After some years, most of electricity consumption will be at competitive prices.
Such a transition will change the landscape of the power industry and make it more economically viable. It will reduce the incentive for political interference in pricing, since consumers would be willingly hiking their electricity consumption and enjoy assured supply, without expecting to be subsidized. Meanwhile, politicians can still claim to be pro-poor. Losses incurred by state-owned distribution companies, which currently runs to over 1 trillion rupees ($ 20 billion) all over India, would dramatically come down.
As a result, this system would stop skewing price signals. Today's distribution network involves below-market prices nearly across the board, which means that few producers have incentives to set up power plants. Even in Gujarat, the incentive isn't fully in place since one distribution grid still operates on subsidies.
This plan for a single-grid premium system still involves some distortions, but that distortion itself dwindles once most electricity consumption takes place above 'x'. And this is, anyway, an intermediate solution to convince voters of the idea of paying competitive prices for quality supply from utilities they took for granted a decade ago. A grid that is financially viable will also allow large consumers and generators to directly negotiate the price of electricity, and this increased capacity to trade in electricity which will dramatically improve the financial health of the generators and assure quality supply to consumers.
Clearly, innovations like these will not occur overnight, and not across all states at the same time. But voters are realising that the price of being powerless without electricity, which may be free yet not available at all, can be quite high. And politicians too are becoming aware of the high political price for promising electric power and then failing to meet the growing demand. So the political trend in favor of competition is clear, and in a federal setup such as India, the onus will fall on the states to explore and experiment with such ideas. When political leaders feel confident that voters are behind them, these governments will surely begin to take the small steps leading to bigger reforms in the electricity sector.
Note: A shorter version of this article has been published in the Asian Wall Street Journal on 26 July 2012, under the title "Power to India's People".


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